Maria von Hohenzollern
Maria was definitely an odd individual within the confines of the Royal Knights of Lugnica. One who was both dedicated to the cause of knightly ideals and standoffish actions towards those she disliked from a principle means. Someone who followed their own ideals and never was afraid to chastise someone for their actions or attitudes, even if they tended towards a higher position than that of herself.
However, those of a “higher position” tended to be a bit more rare than one would imagine. After all, Maria von Hohenzollern, heiress to the House of Hohenzollern, a house of incredible Knights which had lasted since most could remember, and was able to secure a position, with both consideration for her skill and consideration for her father’s everlasting pull in the knights, as the Commander of the Iron Bell Knights. But even someone who follows the Knightly codes to a tee would make enemies within the knight, though even her opponents would state that she was at the very least a competent Commander and a skilled warrior.
That wasn’t the primary issue which people took offense to. The first offense happened to be through her brash and bold statements which never seemed to carry any sort of lies within them, oftem “too truthful”, and the truth can hurt. The other would be one of the titles from her youth, the “Hohenzollern Child of the Reeds”. Maria was not a Hohenzollern by blood, but instead was adopted to the house during a hunting trip which Georgius von Hohenzollern, then heir to the title, found an infant abandoned by its mother in the forest. Georgius adopted the child and declared her the heiress to his lineage due to his wife not being able to produce an off-spring.
Maria stood at her desk within her post, reading a book she enjoyed from her youth, The story of a people’s struggle to survive and their inevitable fate at the hands of the army. A tragic story but one also full of hope of a people she could hardly understand.
“Madam Commander,” one of the Knights of the Iron Bell stated to her in a salute as he entered her office of sorts. “One of our Knights had an accident during his routine sweep. Might you commission a replacement for him?”
Maria, taken out of her book, took only a few moments to respond to the request of her subordinate.
“There will be no need. I will take position on his watch. We are already scraped for men as is, and I cannot say I am doing much within my office as it is.” “Yes madam, but let me arrange an escort for y-.”
“There will be no need,” Maria interrupted.
“I have told you before, we need all the men we can get with the royal selection date approaching and the increased ferocity of the Mabeast attacks. Besides, I can handle myself.” “Y-yes madam. I shall give word to the men about your absence.”
Well, despite the admirable offering to take patrol as a Commander, Maria truly was a bit bored of her studies and decided it would be best to take a break from what appeared to simply be a monotony of sitting and doing almost nothing. She was a Knight, after all. Someone who wished to protect the people. And even if the desire to leave her post on boredom was a bit on the selfish side, she had always wished to assist those unable to fend for themselves. After all, to Maria, the sword was something used to protect the people, not to enslave them.
Walking the streets of Lugnica, Maria could not say she was stricken with childish awe. The last time she remembers she could freely walk these streets was with her father some odd years ago. She had only really done such patrols and the like. Her occupation was a bit too important for her to lollygag idly, and her only true freetime came at night, which she wasn’t much for the night scene. Her men had invited her to a few taverns at times, but she had always rejected their offers.
“Now, where to start patrolling first?” Maria wondered. She could most likely just walk the streets to see any sort of individuals who required help or who were in trouble. There was a bit of an issue with crime that she wished to see eradicated. But there was also the issue of wanting to go seeing the sights of Lugnica once again like she had when she was younger with her father, but she quickly repressed such thoughts. She was on duty. Any such ideas could wait until she had more free time to herself.
Dressed in the shining armor and armed with her sword, Maria took to the streets to ensure peace and prosperity in the land, and to search for any would-be troublemakers or those who needed the help of a knight on her calibre.
[Or random people who have just arrived in the city from another world. Whichever one works out] 
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