[b]Name and Title:[/b] Field Marshal His Grace Jacques Barthet the Duke of Carmachié [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/45/72/554572e62bfde09f2d0ee6eb7c0534a6.jpg[/img] [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 47 [b]Married:[/b] Never had the time. [b]Bio:[/b] Jacques was always a wild child. Playing games of war and violence with the boys in his family’s household. He paid little attention to his lessons in philosophy and literature but he loved those in riding and fencing. As he grew older he took less and less to violent games and more to women and alcohol. His parents, of course, did not approve of this so they sent him of to the military academy so that he could learn some discipline. And this he did. He learned every skill a military man might need. Strategy, illustration (to create sketch maps and diagrams), surveying, horsemanship and weapon handling. But he was also instilled with patriotic ideals of fighting for one's king and country. When his education was done a more disciplined, yet still young and naive, Jacques left for the wars. Ready to fight and die for his country. He was commissioned as an officer of a cavalry regiment and things went very well for him. He won many victories. However, the horrors of war soon became apparent to him and his romanticised view of it slowly faded away. As he rose up the ranks he became more and more bitter. One of his greatest victories was at the battle of Carmachié where Jacques was severely out numbered. He won by feigning a retreat and luring the enemy into a nearby village where he ambushed and destroyed them. This gained him the title of duke of Carmachié and the position of field marshal. [b]Personality:[/b] Stern, bitter and strict. Jacques is a military man through and through. He values strength and discipline above everything else. He is a stoic man who shows little emotion and rarely smiles. [b]Opinion of the King and the other Nobles:[/b] He had great respect for Horhest II. Less so for his son. Jacques is not a very cultured man and sees the king as weak. He sees no benefit to the kingdom in building museums and opera houses and thinks that more resources should be spent on ending the war. [b]Trivia:[/b] None