Caravan of Courage: OOC

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Name: (Simply a worthy name for your character, if possible try to pick something that fits the character's origins and the lore of Mount and Blade Warband)
Gender: (No real restrictions on gender, barring some very specific professions, see lore section for more information)
Age: (Unless you have some very good reasons I would prefer all characters were eighteen years of age or older)
Faction of Birth: What faction (nation) does your character hail from?
Allegiance: List any particular allegiance your character has (although ideally they should simply be a soldier/mercenary/trader/etc. looking for work)
Experience: (Choose from one of three experience levels: green, veteran, or elite, to indicate the general competence of your character. This choice should make sense given the background of your character and other factors like their age, for example a 15 year old peasant will probably not be the most capable soldier)
FeudalRank: Commoner or Noble (major/minor nobility)

Appearance: (Describe in writing what your character looks like, their stature and any other physical attributes that you feel are important. Length is negotiable, but at least a couple of solid sentences are usually needed to flesh out a character's appearance. )

Personality: (Again, I don't really need a huge amount of text, but I'd like to see a couple of sentences that give a "feel" for who your character is and how people are likely to perceive them.)

Talents: (A couple of sentences mentioning any specific talents or skills your character brings to the party, i.e. mention if your character is a trained swordsman, pickpocket, hunter, blacksmith, chemist, etc.)

Biography: (A biography of your character, feel free to write in whatever way you find best, be it a dialogue, letter format or simply the standard biographical format. Please do not neglect this portion of the CS as it will be one of the primary means of judging your character and making sure they fit the setting. Feel free to PM many any questions you have. I would like to see at least 250+ words of writing, but quality is always preferred over quantity. If there are some things about your character you would rather not publicly reveal you may PM me these portions of your character's background. With that being said I will not accept blanket statements of "I'll reveal his/her background during the RP" unless you can provide me with some amazing reasoning why this is fair to the other players.)

Equipment: (Check the Weapons, Armor, Equipment, and Combat section for information regarding equipment)

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[size=8pt][size=14pt]Name: Eadmund Howe

Gender: Male

Age: 29

Faction of Birth: The Kingdom of Swadia

Allegiance: To the highest bidder, none yet

Experience: He is a veteran soldier. Has been soldiering for thirteen years

Feudal Rank: A free tenant (I.e. a commoner)

Appearance: He is 5'7”, has brown eyes, an unshaven rough face with premature lines, and mid-length light brown hair that is already greying. Still recovering from his last injury.

Personality: Sanguine, he is gregarious and a loquacious type, and he values the ideals inherent to Temperance such as restraint, duty and self-discipline.

Talents: Although he has had early practise in the use of the long- and shortbow, he is not experienced with a full-poundage warbow. He prefers and is experienced in the use of spear, and is adept with a sword and shield for when pressed. Has fought from horseback but only in pursuit of routed foes. He was responsible for the training and welfare of his own vintaine, has a passing knowledge in some forms of healing learnt through experience, repairs all his own weapons, hunts, and has spent some time with seige equipment.

Biography: Eadmund was born back in 1228, in Suno, to freeman Walter Howe, a keeper of an inn. Eadmund's mother, Edith, was the daughter of a local bowyer. Eadmund was the second eldest of four siblings; two sisters and a younger brother. Growing up, he was apprenticed as a hostler at his father's inn and also helped in bookkeeping. His maternal household practised with some of his grandfather's bows and had matches (that they usually won) against fellow guilds-men.

At the age of sixteen, he was levied to serve with his liege, Count Klargus, in the forces loyal to current Swadian king. After developing a taste for foreign things and finding that he enjoyed soldiering, he joined with a company of mercenaries after serving in the levy for the contracted period. Over the next thirteen years he marched under the company's banner into the lands of the easterners and through the lands of home. The mercenary company had soldiers from many nations – mainly Swadians and northern Nords but also leavened with Vaegirs, southerners of Rhodok, and a few eastern folk – all tempted to come have a profitable time or escape a gaol sentence under the employ of the company. At twenty-one, he earnt his right to command his own vintaine (a unit of twenty), finding himself adept at leading men and training new recruits. For reasons of ease and of prudence, he decided to indulge in the many cultures of his fellows. In 1250, he married Sibylle, clothier and eldest daughter of his mother's engineering cousin who he met during a siege upon the Khergits. Through the latter, he learnt about the mechanics of siege warfare, especially about the machines. In 1254, then with child, Sibylle left to live with Eadmund's family back in Suno. His daughter is named Adeliza. All are in good health.

A recent skirmish has left him with a gammy left arm, a result of being run into by a stray horse.

Left company service and is currently in Jelkela to find service with one of the rich litsters or velvet producers or even in the king's service itself.

Equipment:
Worn (clothing/armor): When travelling he simply wears normal clothes like a green tunic, maroon hose with leg-wrappings, turnshoes, leather gloves, a green cloak with yellow embroidery etc. When properly outfitted, he wears an off-white gambeson and a padded-coif under a nasal helmet. These last items are kept in panniers on his horse. Used to wear a red and black tabard but this was lost.

Weapons (melee weapons, shields and ranged weapons): He usually carries an arming sword, a quartered black-&-white kite shield, and an old-style seax. His primary weapons when properly outfitted is a lugged spear of five cubits sometimes with a pennon affixed which would be the company livery (a yellow sun in splendour dawning behind breaking waves underneath a red sky); these are usually carried strapped to his horse.

Horse: Has a dark bay rouncey named Amarante

Miscellaneous (anything else): Also carried are supplies such as tallow, a touchstone, food, cider etc. kept in panniers. Found himself a Heretic's Fork.[/size][/size]

Name: Goman Sarran-Al-Ashur
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Faction of Birth: Sarranid Sultanate
Allegiance: Tribe of Ashur
Experience: Green
FeudalRank: Minor Tribal Noble

Appearance: Straight black hair, dark tan skin, wide brown eyes. Lightweight and medium height, 150 pounds and 5'9".

Personality: Soft-Spoken, Watchful, Generous, Ceremonious, Stoic. Undeveloped boyish voice, tries to sound deeper.

Talents: Rider, Tracker, Bowhunter, Cook, Swordsman

Biography: Born unto the chief family of a small wandering tribe of desert nomads, the Al-Asshur. His people travel from Oasis to Oasis with a herd of Camels, living off of the sparseness of the Sarrdak. From a young age Goman was taught the ways of the horseman, and not coddled even though he was the son of the Tribe's Chief. The small size of their tribe was both a strength and a weakness. They were a highly mobile and skilled warrior people, and weakness was not tolerated. But they entered into a blood feud with another tribe, a much larger tribe, over a theft of water and subsequent murder. Forced to flee, Goman hides his face and his name. He lives on while keeping his head down, and listening to orders as a guard in the caravans.

Equipment:

Worn: Heavily layered black robes, fully enclosed thick turban, Leather gloves, Camelskin Boots
Weapons: Long Straightsword of the kind used by Sarranid cavalrymen, Nomad Bow, 30 Arrow quiver, Tribal Knife

Horse: Brown Sarrdak Courser
Miscellaneous: Large Waterskin, Cooking Tripod, Round Pot big enough to hold two meals, small collection of spices and vegetables, various Firestarters.