List of Well Known Characters

The world is a big place and in it are big people. This is a list of people who are well known from all corners of the globe.

Duke Finneas Strout, aka Black Strout
''"You don't make it to be his age in his line of work without being a strong man, a talented man, or a clever man." - Marshall Colrick, Commander of The King's Army ''

64 years of age, an accomplished soldier and fighter, survivor of countless battles and acts of bravery. House Strout’s banner is a red Phoenix on a black sun, his armor is black with red trimming with a simple closed helm. He is of average height and build, extraordinarily good shape for a man of his age, training every morning with his soldiers and teaching his grandchildren in the arts of combat. He is bald on top, with white hair around the sides and a large white beard that covers his scarred face. Knighted at age 12, killed his first man earlier that same year as a squire protecting his sire, Sir Arthur Fyres, a well known hero in his own right. Became the Duke of Melenar at the age of 55 and has done quite well at his job. He is not one for tournaments, only ever competed in two jousting competitions in his life, winning both. A simple man who does not relish in his wealth or title, uses his status to keep Melenar safe from bandits and train proud soldiers for the King’s Army.

Sir Tarick Junter, aka The Mammoth
''"He is as big as a fuckin' elephant and probably as hard to kill. I wouldn't want to take him on unless I had thirty men at my back." - Jamry Fletch''

25 years old, tournament knight and acclaimed duelist, oldest male member of the Junter house, making him the liege lord. A large, tanned man, towering at 6'8" and over 350 pounds, clean shaven with a warrior’s mohawk, as the preferred style of warriors from Lochmoore. House Junter’s banner are crossed purple spears over a white cross. He wields a spear and tower shield, full plate armor of polished white gold. Knighted after his heroics during the Sack of Gakoshka, where he single handedly captured 15 Agralish soldiers. It was not found out until well after the fact that Sir Avery Junter was only 10 years old at the time, having lied about his age to join the King’s Army and was believed because of his size. He commands a small group of elite troops called Junter’s Few.

Instrumental during the war of the Creeping North, The Mammoth assisted Sir Isaac Grant along with Dame Cara Ahari and Sir Beckett Drent on his way from the North to assist the capital Cortesia during The Godking's attack. Now a man of 40, The Mammoth has taken up his mantle of Lord in Roselake and has committed himself to supplying the Provinces with the best troops possible.

Sir Caldron Barrows, aka the Wall
''"Doubtful you'll find a better man at stabbing in the entire Provinces but the next best would probably have half the ego." Sir Loren Warther, Fencing Master and teacher of Barrows.''

30 years old, fencing master and tournament winner. House Barrows’ banner is a gray hawk over brown and black vertical stripes. A tall and slender man with short, cropped hair and a hooked nose, pale complexion. Second son of Duke Phillip Barrows, Caldron was a soldier during the Overreaching War. He made it sergeant after the war and left the military after gaining renown as a fencer. He won his first Sapphire Tournament at 20 and each consecutive year for four years before retiring undefeated. He currently holds his own fencing tournament once a year where the winner is taught by him for an entire year until the next tournament. He is most known for his defensive style of fighting which he has dubbed "Steel Walls", where constant flourishes and vertical swipes create an illusion of a metal wall between him and his opponent.

Jamry Fletch, aka The Stygian
''"If you could trust Fletch then that would kind of defeat his purpose, wouldn't it?" - Garret Korse''

36 year old officer in the Smiling Men, one of the founding members. Originally hailing from the Hydra Isles where he worked as a mercenary with his father’s group, The Crowned Dozen, until they disbanded and he went west to the Midderlands looking for work, taking up odd-jobs as hired muscle or cutthroat for the Cor’a’tai for five years before working for Garret Korse, who saw potential in Jamry. The two of them gathered a few of their own contacts and formed The Smiling Men, which started as a mercenary group of no more than two dozen individuals but has since ballooned to over five thousand. He is a well known name as he routinely offers up his position to any member of The Smiling Men if they can beat him in a one-on-one duel. He has had hundreds of challengers and has never lost. He is well known for his brutality and tendency to use dirty tactics in combat. He is is considered guilty of war crimes against several important houses in Grasturm.

Jamry was arrested by the Inquisition in Gakoshka right before the Godking tipped his hand and assaulted the city during The War of Creeping Ice. He had the bottoms of his feet flayed by the head Inquisitor but managed to disappear during the subsequent bombardment of the city. His whereabouts are still unknown but sightings of him are reported around the globe, the most current belief that he fled deep into Agralan.

Gaster Volense, aka Bloody Eye
''"Volense is just violence without an I." - Common saying.''

45 year old soldier, veteran of several campaigns. House Volense is a rather prominent house in Dourland and has yellow three-headed boar over a black background. He is one of the top Axioms in the King’s Justice, not content to stay in Cortesia alone; he travels the Midderlands and has even been rumored to have gone to the North, South, and Hydra Isles in search of his quarry. A tall, strong man with a thick white mustache and long ponytail, he is missing one eye, which he covers with an eyepatch with his house’s sigil on it. He has agents all over The Provinces and is a top notch swordsman as well as "decorated" torturer.

During the purge of the Inquisition after their treachery was revealed, many Inquisitors were imprisoned and/or executed, Gaster Volense was surprisingly found not guilty of treason and actually had no idea that any sort of plot was being entertained. Once light was shown on the Inquisitions corruption, Gaster took it upon himself to round up any and all conspirators that he found wanting and presented himself before the Council to pass judgement. He currently in Cortesia, working under the new law system.

Habbid Ah-Hazar, aka Farshooter
''"You want someone dead? Hire any prick with a knife. You want someone real fuckin' dead? Hire me. You want someone so dead their name dies with 'em? Hire Habbid." - Warwick Deepknife''

A former fighting slave of unknown age, Habbid Ah-Hazar escaped from his masters in the south and fled north to the Midderlands, clutching to the side of a trade ship for two days. Habbid used his skills as a gladiator to find work in the Cor’a’tai, brutality and seediness something he was used to from his former life. He has quickly become a well known assassin, specializing in long distance killing with his bow. He also is willing to make a scene of the murder, stringing up his victim in displays to make messages. Rather than keep this man on the streets, the Cortesian government has employed him as their own personal killer, but some say you can still hire him out if the price is right.

Dame Cara Ahari, aka the Dented
''"I'd try to outrun bloody hounds before her." - Scrape, sellsword from the Hydra Isles''

Dame Cara Ahari is a tournament knight and a well known bandit hunter in Odein from where she is born. House Ahari’s banner is a blue hand over a white shield. A red-haired woman in her early twenties, Cara Ahari was inducted into the King’s Army at 15 years of age as per her family’s custom. She served for 5 years and earned her knighthood after successfully leading her squadron of soldiers out of an ambush after their officer had received an arrow to the throat and she was forced from her horse by a hammer blow to the breast plate, denting it inward and nearly suffocating her to death. After leaving the military she took up under Duke L’Beaux in Odein as the leader of The Manhunters, a bandit hunting crew that has been widely successful. She attends tournaments when her schedule permits and it quite good at jousting.

Dame Cara Ahari was instrumental, along with The Mammoth and The Jewel, in helping Sir Isaac Grant return from The North and assist the capital of Cortesia during the Godking's attack. She survived the assault but was grievously injured in an explosion caused by the Ashes of The Godking. Now, missing her left arm just above the elbow, Dame Cara Ahari still roams her country side as bandit hunter now with a crossbow attached to her stump.

Capitan Alderic Briser, aka Soaked-Sleeves, aka The Dipper
''"I met Captain Briser once in a tavern in Prell, once. He bought me a beer and I helped him get rid of a body. Nice guy, he was." - Cargan Rife''

A notorious pirate and smuggler, known for his preferred execution style of drowning his victim in water from their homeland. A short and stocky man from The Hydra Isles in his 30's, curly blonde hair and blue eyes, a nose that has been broken and reset several times and a minor hair-lip, Capitan Briser’s ship, “The Widow Wail”, sports his flag of a black cloud over a red background. Started out as a merchant who was attacked by an unknown pirateship, Briser rallied his crew, fought off the pirates, commandeered their vessel and once finding out how much loot they had acquired from stealing he decided that was the life for him. He works closely with the Cor’a’tai out of Theem and is known across almost every port.

Cargan Rife and Stoak Barren
Rife and Barren are two brothers from a village in The North called Groates. Rife is the eldest at 30 and Barren is four years his junior. They came down into Dourland on a trading vessel looking for honest work after doing dark work up in the North for too long. They tried their hands at several different jobs: fishermen, dockworkers, carpenters, but trouble seemed to follow them. They went back to their old habits not too long after and have since made names for themselves as men who get things done that need doing. The two of them are widely known for opposing the Cor’a’tai and only working solo. They have survived countless quiet attempts on their lives and several loud open ones.

''"Rife spews a bunch of bullshit but he uses flowery words to make it smell better." - Umfre Tongs, Cor'a'tai thug''

Rife is a physically fit man, just above average height and weight with a buzzed head and thick red muttonchops. A handsome man or would have been had his face not been scarred with various cuts and gouges. A smooth talker, speaking both Northern and common he got his name from his overuse of pretty words in the North. He speaks for both him and his brother and is often times very charming, but is fiercely protective of his little brother and has been known to go into a berserker rage at the smallest slight towards him.

''"You'd think he was a dumb man but then you'd also think bears can't climb rocks. Believe me, neither are true." - Lord Veet, conman and hired thug''

Barren is a tall, thickly muscled man with long and shaggy dark brown hair and a clean shaven face. His jaw is absurdly square and etched with scars, the most distinctive of which is a sideways slash across the bridge of his nose that swoops up on the right just below his eye. Barren, contrary to popular believe, does speak both Northern and common just chooses to let his brother do most of the conversing. His name comes from the fact that his face is almost always unreadable, “barren” of any emotion.

Sir Beckett Drent, aka The Jewel
''"Never a nobler man has walked, makes it hard to trust a man that is so trustworthy." - Sir Barrows''

Born in Cortesia, Beckett Drent is the eldest son of Count Drent and knight in The King’s Army. House Drent’s banner is a blue gemstone over an orange and yellow zigzags. Sir Drent’s armor is blue plate with gold etchings across the breast plate and helm. Sir Drent 26 years old, devilishly handsome with bright green eyes and short black hair. He is famous for his actions during The Farmer’s Rebellion on the island duchy of Carleon where he met with the ringleader, Wharf Goss, and came to a deal on King Rewnan’s behalf that ended the rebellion with zero bloodshed. Considered the people’s champion, Sir Drent has been a crusader for the small folk since his knighthood at 16 which often times makes him despised by the nobility and has made him a target by the Inquisition on several occasions. He is active in the tournament scene, going to all small and large and always donating any winnings he makes to the poorest in the city he is in.

Sir Beckett Drent was instrumental, along with The Mammoth and The Dented, during Sir Isaac Grant's journey from The North to assist Cortesia during the Godking's attack. Unfortunately, The Jewel was slain and then impersonated by a Fang of the Godking, who in turn was killed by Sir Grant.

Wayland Goss, aka Wharf Goss
''"It is a damned shame that one needs royal blood to be king; there are some out there that would do a fine job at it." - Sir Drent''

40 year old former soldier, fought in The Overreaching War and returned to his home duchy of Carleon and saw the plight of the common man. Farms had been ransacked by the government to support the war effort and the farmers had no been reimbursed properly, many facing starvation and poverty. Already a decorated war hero, Goss used his name to drum up support from the commoners and rallied a movement for change in the government so that their voices would be heard as well as proper payment for damages and theft. A grand oratory master, Goss managed to convince several important families of Carleon (including two of the Counts) to back him. In the end, when it looked like his “army” of farmers and merchants was at it’s peak (12k strong), the king sent several contingents of his own army to squash the rebellion. Sir Drent took it upon himself to ride to speak with Goss, fair terms were made and violence never erupted. The crown agreed to return 50k gold pieces to the commoners of Carleon and no repercussions would be dealt to the ringleaders. Wharf Goss was given a position on The King’s Council as Councilor of the People.

Cuenza Hacatto, aka the Mangler of Musticar, aka The Hero of Crandesh Fields
''"Isn't it interesting the different effect hearing a name can have on separate people?" - King August Daetr''

Cuenza Hacatto is a woman in her early 30's with short brown hair, brown eyes and an overly average face and build. She is seen as a hero to some and a butcher to others, Cuenza Hacatto is a mercenary leader of the Pit Lords, a fairly famous group well known in the Hydra Isles. Her fame came from a particular battle during the current civil war that plagues Grastrum at Musticar where she was sieging the city on behalf of King August. Apparently her mercenary group took hold of the city after it surrendered and then went inside and slaughtered the inhabitants and looted the city for riches. Subjects under King August dubbed her a hero and she was hailed across his lands as such, where his enemies see her as a brutal warlord and callous killer. Two sides to every coin.

High-Exarch Solomon VIII
"The Fangs at his throat and the peasantry at his heels, Solomon tries to keep the balance between people and state. Sometimes he tries a little too hard" - Ramblings amongst the Tayandah Nobility

The 68 year old Religious Leader of Agralan, Solomon followed the Godking for over 40 years. Originally a priest under the old regime, he spends time aiding the poor which earns him much criticisim amongst the nobility. The Fangs of the Godking prefer that he spends his time preaching, while the poor go to him as a voice for them, some have even gone as far as to question his loyalty to Agralan, but despite all the noise not once has his position been in jeopardy.

Solomon suddenly became the De Facto leader of Tayandah after the fall of the Godking. With the Janissaries protecting the city from the Warring Sultan, Solomon is free to do as he pleases In the city, which is spent tending to the poor and needy. This has angered the nobility, however with the unexpected protection of the Janissary Army and several other legions of the Godkings troops, there's nothing anyone can do until Agralan gains a new leader.

Warlord Aldor Blackeye
''"The Chain of Command of the Northern Forces is rather strange, they have a quartermaster leading forces for some odd reason..." - ''Cortesian Spymaster Malthin Korthis

57 year old Aldor Blackeye received his name when he was 14, as a joke, after being punched by the Previous Chieftain of Irondrop. An hour Later the Chieftain was found dead with both his eyes ripped out, and bruises beaten across his body. Aldor Blackeye kept his name, and claimed the title of chieftain for his own, killing any challengers to his new sovereignty.

Among his first orders, Blackeye demanded for an increase in Iron output from the rich Iron Mines that sat under the city of Irondrop, enticing some of the finest smiths of the North to join his Clan. Irondrop's fortunes increased tenfold under his rule trading weapons and armor across the other clans of the North. When the The Cabal Wars began, Blackeye begun reinforcing Irondrop's defenses erecting a massive wall around the city, preventing against any Cabal Attack.

When The Prince of Peaks began recruiting to retake the Dourlands, Blackeye was among the first to volunteer, seeking the rich resources of the Dourlands to further sate his greed.

After the fall of the Prince of Peaks Aldor joined with Ashen Grizzlyfire in the battle of Cortesia where his clan successfully defended the main gate of the city from the bulk of the Southern Forces. After the war he returned to Irondrop, with many weapons stolen from the corpses of fallen soliders to understand non-northern blacksmithing.

The Steelstone clan joined with High-Warlord Nightslayer with Aldor as his left hand, providing the Arms for the newly united North.

Stitch
"Have you ever seen a man survive an execution? Neither have I, but it apparently changed Stitch. Now the man's completely insane and has somehow amassed a small army in the sewers" - Truffles Irondick

There are only rumors and speculation about Stitch. No one knows his original identity because his face is covered in scars, many of them self inflicted. Regardless, he leads a small army of roughly 20 young men in a small fortified fortress in the sewers of Cortesia. Despite his seedy dealings, there is no actual warrant or bounty out on him.

As for his origins, there are many stories that go around, but the most commonly held belief is that he was a former member of the King's Truth