[center][color=f26522][h2]Ryswald Fenmoor[/h2]
[h3]Viscount of Kirkwall[/h3]
"Viscount, the thankless job of trying to impede a city's desire to self-destroy."[/color][/center]

[b][color=f26522]Race:[/color][/b] Human
[color=f26522][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male
[color=f26522][b]Age:[/b][/color] Thirty-Nine
[color=f26522][b]Birthdate:[/b][/color] 29th Cloudreach, 9:08 Dragon
[color=f26522][b]Birthplace:[/b][/color] Hightown, Kirkwall
[color=f26522][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] 
[indent]Ryswald wears his age well. Tall, and with the strength still to match it, his chest and shoulders are broad, warrior-like, though the man only ever received training in such arts and never saw a battlefield himself. His face is wide with hard angles, prominent cheekbones and jawline. Thin lines showing his age are drawn across his face, most prominent around his brown eyes and mouth. His hair, once thick and darkly brown, has thinned out some and is now speckled with gray. He keeps it cropped close, and is dutiful to keeping clean shaven.[/indent]


The Fenmoor family can trace its existence in Kirkwall to sometime shortly after the end of the Fourth Blight. As a lineage, it has seen its ups and downs in rank and prosperity. Ryswald's father, the late Viscount Armond, rebuilt the family after a string of rather scandalous affairs rocked his grandfather's time as Lord of the Fenmoor estates. Though it is not spoken of in polite society, whispers of such things still exist. The man was said to have had an affair with one of the Circle's mages, an elf no less. He was also a well known gambler who frequently indebted the estate. 

Armond though, had a sharp mind for trade and for remaining unblemished. Ryswald was ever the dutiful son in following his father's path. He was raised in Kirkwall and inherited his father's mind for commerce. He avoided scandal, even in his more rebellious phases as a youth. It was an uneventful childhood and adolescence. The Fenmoors were respected, even if considered to be a rather dull lot. When he was a young man of twenty-two his father sent him to tend to business in Orlais. The Fifth Blight began shortly after his arrival in Orlais, and Ryswald would only receive letters from home for the next decade. He read the details his father was able to send of the increasing troubles in his home city. 

In Orlais, though, he flourished, softening somewhat from his Kirkwall sensibilities, as his group of acquaintances would refer to it. He had arrived with a disdain for the flamboyant Orlesians, but came to appreciate the beauty it could produce. Politics though only mattered in what it did to trade, and tough times were only beginning as Kirkwall imploded upon itself and then spread through Thedas. 

The formation of the Inquisition and their sealing of the breach brought with it peace and profits. It was with great surprise that Ryswald learned of his father's selection to Viscount, and heartbreak when just a short time later he was informed of his father's demise. It had been over a decade since he had seen his father. He had been a different man when he left, and now he returned changed - likely not to the tastes of his city. His recent marriage to Lady Alysanne de Fontaine had seemed a fortuitous event at the time, but would not be received kindly by Kirkwall nobility. The Game may not have held great interest for Ryswald, or other Kirkwallers, but it did have the benefit of teaching him of politicking. 

His wife, though, would need to remain behind on his journey home to Kirkwall. She had little interest in the city, nor the arduous travel it would require even as peace returned to Thedas. With great trepidation, Ryswald would make the journey, unsure whether he hoped the city would still welcome his return. It would mar his family once again to lose the Viscount so soon after being raised to it, yet a part of him hoped that to be the case.