So e have the magical knight, the foreign knight, I would like to try and play the straight-man knight. Fairly straightforward but just enough to make him stand out from an NPC.
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[list][*][u][b]Name[/b][/u]:
Gregory Gardener
[*][u][b]Age[/b][/u]:
34
[*][u][b]Gender[/b][/u]:
Male
[*][u][b]Race[/b][/u]: 
Human
[*][u][b]Appearance[/b][/u]:
[img]http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/5774/50749/DAOrigins2010-06-2715-14-55-05.jpg[/img]
[*][u][b]Personality[/b][/u]:
Honest, Loyal and Brave. The paragon's of the ideal of any knight. 
Honesty to a fault, He's sometimes earned other's ire by not looking the other way. 
Loyalty to the oath and measure, he struggles to an ideal higher than himself.
Bravery...within reason. He will stand fast and defend others in need of his aid. But he will not throw away his life against needless odds.
[*][u][b]Brief Backstory[/b][/u]:
Fourth born Gardner of the rose nights. His great grandfather earned his lordship during a great siege against an enemy force. Whilst only truly a landskeeper, when they were trapped between the outer wall and the castle proper. It was his intimate knowledge of the hedgemazes that allowed the true knights to route around the invading forces and take them out, saving the castle.
For this, he was not only knighted for actions worthy of a knight, but he was gifted with the enemy leaders weapon, a broken dwarven claymore. That was the start of the Gardener noble line of lordship.
Gregory's grand-father Was the first to start an odd family history, some attributing to the sword itself being cursed. Just as the great-grandfather had been given half of a broken sword, so to did Gregory's grandfather fall when the blade he was using as a broadsword broke again, this time to a duelist who actually had a type of dagger called a 'sword breaker' before his brachia artery was opened and he fell. 
His father had taken the broken greatsword and reforged it into two short-swords, hoping to break the bad luck. One was lost in the last great battle, disarmed and trampled into the mud before he met a similar fate.
Now gregory has only the blade he had made into an elegant knife. A century later and the blade had never tasted dwarven blood until the day Gregory was on patrol when he was attacked by bandits. He had planned to run, but when he turned his dagger plunged into the shortest of the thieves and whatever fell magic activated. 
The sword was indeed at one time a dwarven greatsword, an executioner's sword. All watched with horror as the blade drained out every drop of blood from the bearded bandit and left a dessicated husk with a thrumming blade and a gaping hole. The other bandits ran away in terror just as fast as Gregory did with the knife floating after him. Eventually he collapsed and was met with the 'ghost' of the blade. 
Delvar Deeps was a paladin to the stonegods who did his duty, decapitating over one hundred criminals with his blade, but when the blade took an innocent's life, it had broken and the victim son took the blade before running for his life, keeping the sword with him to defend himself on the surface. Eventually it passed hands time and again to Gregory great-grandfather and down the line of good knights who had done great services. 
The spirit of justice wanted to reward the Gargeners, but it hadn't the energy to do so having starved for so long without dwarven blood to fuel it. Now that it had 'feasted' on a wicked dwarf, it could make the pact with him in the name of justice. When the blade is drawn and the word spoken, a 'spiritual blade' will envelop the knife and allow him to strike with all the length and weight of a greatsword. He can only perform such a feat once a day and for only an hour a day in one duration.
[*][u][b]Equipment[/b][/u]:
He prefer's splint-mail to full plate-mail, enjoying a modicum of agility over walking tanks.
[img]http://www.herbst.co.za/images/portfolio/carved_damascus/carved_damascus_1.jpg[/img]
He carries his great-grandfather's sword broken down to a dagger on his hip with a square shield to protect others. He carries a heavy crossbow on his back.
[*][u][b]Skills[/b][/u]:[/list]