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• Name: Rhydsar di Lothe [+]

  
• Age: 17
• Gender: Male
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Rhydsar has an athletic build, but the lanky build of a swimmer or runner, as opposed to the bulky build common to warriors. When it comes to weight or stature ergo, he has nothing on other soldiers. Rhydsar's features could be called boyish or feminine still, too. He hasn't grown a beard; nor has the softness in his face yet faded. He has a sharp pointed jaw and, cascading down his back, long white hair. In a word he is handsome, although this is only because his face has been spared the horrors of scars and his body not been forced to adapt to wrestling orcs. Perhaps soon this youthful innocence will fall by the wayside.
• Personality: Rhydsar in his natural state is quiet and reserved, more prone to curl up inside his quarters and read a book than to lead a party in a toast. However he also goes to great pains to make sure that people do not see him in this state. He tries to be polite when it comes to letting his elders speak, but when his turn arrives to speak he steals the crowd and has no purpose other than to steal away with their attention; and perhaps, their admiration.
• Brief Backstory: As the third son of a Marquis the boy would want for nothing and have few arduous responsibilities. If ever someone was privileged, it was this boy.
  
  In his tutelage he easily overtook his brothers. His spare time was spent adventuring around the demesne and reading heroic sagas. In adolescence boredom gave way to troublemaking. After being caught committing a petty crime, the Marquis, Rhydsar's father, decided the boy's punishment would be to tour with him on the coming campaign. Always eager for battle, and extraordinarily proficient at it, the boy soon found that the men took a liking to him. The Marquis, not only seeing his sons potential, but also wanting to keep him safe, decided to bribe Rhydsar's way through a squireship and into knighthood, before sending the boy to the Order of the Iron Rose. The declining Order, the nobleman thought, clearly wouldn't put him in danger. Meanwhile Rhydsar can continue to kill goblins and fight his little bandit wars without risking the health of the March in the process; for he had taken a great liking to leadership and to the chessboards of the battlefield, and the lord would not see this bloodthirst strip the land of its peaceful prosperity.
  Skills: Strategical and Tactical Foresight, Horse Riding, Swordsmanship, Etiquette.
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• Skills: Combat (mêlée; armed battle, dueling, and pugilism), drinking, gambling (cards and dice), riding, falconry. He throws knives and practices archery, but only for fun, carrying neither into war. He has a sharp eye for counterfeit coins versus genuine mints. Although he only barely knows how to read, his handwriting is exquisite and he has taken to calligraphy as a hobby. He possesses the skills and tools of a barber, cutting his own hair, shaving his own face, and even performing minor surgeries like lancing boils and excavating shrapnel wounds.
  
  He wants to learn magic, even if only minor spells of convenience (e.g. starting fires more easily) are within his grasp; nevertheless the Arcane eludes him.

• Skills: Strategical and Tactical Foresight, Horse Riding, Swordsmanship, Etiquette.

"The declining Order, the nobleman thought,..." Is a character allowed to believe the Order is declining even if it isn't?

delusional

<Snipped quote by Raineh Daze>
This is acknowledged earlier in Mercenary5's app: "Perhaps soon this youthful innocence [a body spared of scars and ugliness due to a soft and easy lifestyle] will fall by the wayside."

The word "perhaps" is used because this clause is contingent on situations the GM throws at him. He himself will not decide who attacks him when, neither as an OOC player nor an IC character.

Now you're talking about a completely separate person to the one that things this is a perfectly safe place.

@pugbutter: Okay, I missed the skills section.

The Iron Roses are the most famous order in the country, however, and have repeatedly been sent out to deal with dangerous threats.

However, aside from that he looks pretty much fine honestly?

Though... I have to say, the other character tied to him... this is not the place to make money or anything like that. And sociopathy won't endear him to the rest of the order at all. ^^;