Here's another character, one who's going to be pretty important throughout the story.

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[b]Father Creid, "The Brave Man's Fear"
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Main Instructor of Warband Phoenix, Father Creid has been a constant presence in the lives of the young class for the past 12 years. The masked Inquisitor, who's hobbled form bears the wounds of some mysterious accident, led the young class through hell, and managed to come out the other side with all of his pupils surviving. Indeed, somehow, Father Creid has never lost a student during training.

Known for his sardonic wit and unconventional training methods, Creid is a maverick among the seminary's faculty. He cares little for faith-based training, encourages his students to pursue independent research outside of the school's curriculum, and routinely brings in soldiers from the Secular Army as well as non-military men and women to teach seminars on combat and survival to his students. 

Creid's past, and his actions during the Lanostran War, are shrouded in secrecy. The only thing known about his etheric abilities is that they grant him some measure of control over time and space-- as he once demonstrated his ability to appear in three different places at once to his class as an example of higher-level sorcery. The mysteries behind his etheric magic are fathomless and the masked Inquisitor isn't interested in disclosing what his actual powers are. His secrecy has caused many legends about him to crop up throughout the years, the most popular claiming Creid capable of simply erasing his foes from existence without so much as lifting a finger. Father Creid, always good-humored, laughs at this, and calls it "a ridiculous myth". Still, the fact that inquisitors and soldiers alike throughout the empire know him as "The Brave Man's Fear" does little to quell these rumors.

Months before Warband Phoenix's Culmination, Creid was called to the Elurian front, like most other members of the Red Seminary's faculty. It is known that he was granted command of the warship Durandal, one of the invasion fleet's most powerful steam arks, and is currently on the mysterious continent, conquering in the name of Lord Varya.