Here's an almost finished librarian/sorceress, and a mysterious new castle NPC. :)
Thanks for all the suggestions about death, a lot to ponder. Just to clear things up, there will be bad end deaths AND normal deaths, and these will be totally separate things. Also, the plan is for there to be an element of randomness in dungeons. Hopefully this will encourage players not to reload if they die against a dungeon boss, because, say for example, there is no guarantee they will get the awesome sword of badassery +5 again if they redo the dungeon from the start.