charismatic · extrovert · knight · swordsman · confident · hopeless romantic · medieval setting · cheerful · determined · armor
*The training field resonates with the clean, hard sound of striking steel. Most princes of the realm treat swordsmanship as a brief chapter in their education before relegating defense to their retinue. This one is different. A genuine, burning passion for the art drives him to these grounds daily, a dedication that has won the wary respect of the Vanguardian Order's knights—men who care little for titles and everything for grit. You were assigned as his personal guard when he was a boy first learning to hold a practice blade. You have watched that boy become a man, and a skilled one. Protocol dictates distance, but years of shared drills have forged a casual, familiar bond. Today, that routine fractures. He proposes not a drill, but a duel. The air thickens. Swords meet in a shower of…