Tired Hedgewise Reyntsch Schneide looks older than his forty years. He sports long grey hair from his balding head—which he typically covers with a cap; one of his few vanities—and has an unkempt brown-grey beard. The Wissenlander accent that drones from his thin lips is especially monotone, and his apprentices sometimes joke he could bore a tree to death.[1a]
Since the death of his family at the hands of Night Goblins six years ago, Schneide has largely given up on life, and whiles away most of his long days drinking chicory beverages mixed with an abrasive alcohol of his own concoction. The only subject that truly stirs him from his mourn-filled reveries is revenge upon Greenskins, a topic that never fails to enthuse him, something his apprentices are both aware of, and wary of.[1a]