Name:
Goron Greene


Age:
Twenty-seven years of age, by Her Majesty's calender.


Race:
Human


Affiliation:
Having long sworn his life in fealty and homage to the Lord and Queen years ago, he is, and shall remain, their loyal vassal. He may have his doubts about some of their colder or more sadistic attributes or mannerisms, but he follows the code of chivalry with borderline fanaticism, and will follow their orders to the end.


Appearance:
Washed, polished, and otherwise maintained by his hand alone, Sir Goron in full armor is truly a sight to behold, the light shining off of him at the slightest provocation. Standing at an even six feet tall, with even with his impeccable posture, he not the tallest of the Queen's knights, but he is also not the shortest. He is about average in terms of build, at least for a man of his height, though he is obviously quite fit due to the physically strenuous life of a knight, not to mention the strain of lugging around seventy-plus pounds of armor all the time.

Though he rarely removes his armor, aside from when it becomes necessary to maintain it, sleep, or bathe, after all, it is his formal as well as battle attire, he will occasionally remove his helmet. Underneath, he is a man of fair skin and hair, the former perhaps related to how often the sunlight shines upon him directly. Goron's eyes, while a rather dull shade of blue, often gleam with a righteous conviction. Seeing as he rarely removes his helmet in battle, he hasn't the need to keep his hair short, but it has yet to reach his shoulders. Finally, it has been said by some that he has a surprisingly boyish face, and there are those who speculate that this is why he rarely removes his helmet unless asked.






Personality:
Honorable before reasonable, and chivalrous to the end, Sir Goron is in many ways the ultimate example of knighthood. He is kind, respectful, gallant, polite, and humble, quick to leap to aid those who cannot protect themselves, and never letting injustice go unpunished. Unfortunately, he is also, in many ways, the oaths of fealty and homage taken to their logical extremes. Under a perfect monarchy, a knight that adheres precisely to the vows he has taken need never concern himself with such matters as the inherent conflict that can arise in the knights' code when a King decides that his castle is more worthy of protection than his countrymen. But, as it is however, no thinking creature on this world is perfect, and the man and woman to whom Goron gives his life are no exception to this rule, and occasionally their orders do conflict with what he himself believes to be right.

Despite his position and combat ability, Goron is very much an idealist at heart, and, while he no longer views himself, the other knights, and the kingdom in quite the same the magical fairytale way he used to, he is still much like a wide-eyed child in many respects. It is still his belief that the Queen and Lord are doing right in the end, and that it his duty, as it is that of all knights, to stand by them no matter what may come. He rarely even has much, if any, animosity towards those he fights to this end.

That is not, however, to say he is a fool. Being the Queen's general, Sir Goron has lead troops many times before, from both on and off the front lines, though he prefers the former to the latter, and he understands battlefield tactics from experience. From this same experience, he has gained a keen eye for potential, and simply cannot stand to see it squandered. Not everyone is blessed with the makings of a knight, and to waste such an opportunity that others would do anything for is almost unimaginable to him. As a final note, as part of his vows of knighthood, Goron is honest to a fault, and absolutely refuses to lie unless directly ordered to do so. He may withhold information, but will do so by openly stating that he will not share it.



Like:
+ Battle fought with glory and just cause
+ Tales of old
+ His horse, Tempest
+ Leading his fellow knights
+ The occasional cup of ale, preferably with the company of his brothers in arms


Dislikes:
- The more dubious orders he is sometimes given
- Contradictions between his Lord or Lady and the codes of chivalry
- Rudeness
- People who prey upon those who can't defend themselves
- When knights disobey the code


Hobbies:
Goron's hobbies relate primarily to his knightly duties, or those as general: cleaning and maintaining his equipment, studying battlefield reports, training, training others or training with them, et cetera. He also enjoys taking Tempest for rides around the city when he has the time, during which he almost invariably ends up giving an orphan food, defending the honor of some waitress, or preforming some other act of do-goodery.


Fears:
His largest fear would definitely be losing his place as a knight, or, to a slightly lesser extent, dishonoring it.


Secrets:
Nope. Mr. Clean here actually is pretty much an open book. It is true that he sometimes has doubts about how good a knight he'd be without his sword, but he'd tell that to anyone who asked.


Weapons:


Draíochtagarda: The Mythslayer
(Dree-oct-a-gard-a)
Found by Goron as a boy, it is arguably this sword alone that propelled him to the position he now occupies. While it is extraordinarily sharp, enough so to cut granite if enough force is applied, the weapon is not magic in the traditional sense. Quite the opposite actually; the blade and its sheath are possessed of what some call anti-magic, in that it negates other forms of magic. To be more specific about its qualities, the longsword and its scabbard protect its wielder from magic, whether offensive or for his benefit seems not to matter to it, by reducing or even eliminating their effects entirely. A stream of fire is unable to pass the blade, mental communications are heard only as faint whispers, and the magically concealed is suddenly revealed.

In addition to its defensive capabilities, Draíochtagarda is of great value when fighting mystical entities for offensive reasons as well. Magical protections usually dissipate instantly upon making contact with the blade, and any wound inflicted by it cannot be healed any faster through magical means, making it to de facto weapon against a foe with a regenerative ability, like those possessed by some trolls, though the effectiveness of proper medical attention will be unaffected. The blade can even do harm to incorporeal beings, although usually not much, seeing as the metal does no damage, and any harm inflicted comes exclusively from the anti-magic burning their essence.

In addition to his legendary sword, Sir Goron is known to use a lance for mounted combat, and he keeps a long dagger at his belt, in case his sword is lost.


Equipment
Aside from his armor and his weaponry, Sir Goron carries little on his person aside from the supplies he may need for any given situation. That is, he is unlikely to have anything additional while walking around the castle, but he carries the same supplies as any other knight onto the field, such as a shield. The mare he rides into combat, Tempest, may also count.


Abilities:
As a human, Goron possesses no supernatural abilities, beside which his sword would negate them even if he did. He does, however, possess strengths fully achievable by the rest of mankind, should they take the time to practice them. He is firstly stronger than your average person, and far fasted and more graceful in his armor than one would initially think possible. That said, he is still an human being wearing full-plate, so he still isn't as fast as the quicker of the lightly armored rogues, and he isn't going to be doing back-flips, at least not deliberately. He's also an astonishingly durable guy, again though, for a human. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, he has years of combat experience, filling a number of roles, both leading and following.


Bio:
Goron Greene was born with no chance of becoming a knight. He did not come from a noble family, nor even a moderately successful merchant one. His father, and his father, and his father before him, were farmers, and so too was young Goron to be, or so said his mother. Goron's father, however, had, at one point in his youth, desperately wanted to escape his lot in life, and now, having failed that, tried his very best to provide that opportunity to his son.

He told Goron tales of wondrous things, of castles and kings, princesses and the trails men faced to win their hand, heroic knights and solemn vows of loyalty, and told the boy that, while he lacked the birth of a knight, and their situation looked a stagnant and unchangeable one, he had faith that Goron could achieve whatever he set out to. He taught the boy to read, showed him with knives how to keep a blade sharp and durable, as well as told him in as much detail as he could how to maintain armor, and entertained the child's imagination, sparing with him with sticks and helping him conquer the insidious wheat wizard. So charming and jovial was Daniel Greene that even his doubting, though ever-loving, don't misunderstand, wife joined them.

But it was not to last. When he was seven years old, a nearby battle spilled over into their farm. The side of Purplexia won, as it always seems to do, but the losses were heavy, both for the Purplexian military and for the Greene family. The farm had been reduced by flaming arrows to little more than a collapsed farmhouse and a burning scarecrow. Goron's parents did not survive.

In a horribly ironic twist of fate, he was taken under the wing of Sir Graham, one of the knights as a page. after around a year had passed, and, perhaps more importantly, after revealing his knowledge of caring for weapons and armor, his position was instead changed to squire. Ordinarily, there would have been some dispute over this, but, with many squires lost in the battle from which Goron was found, and the leader of this particular field army stated that they needed competent squires more than they needed to adhere to tradition. And so, Goron, despite being of common birth, was able to become a squire, also known as an apprentice knight. Of course, the general assumption at the time was that he wouldn't survive long enough for his possible ascension into knighthood to be an issue.

This assumption, while not accurate, did not turn out to be entirely unjustified, as, after only five years of working as a squire, their company was sent to kill a beast that had been stealing large animals from a rural village. Unfortunately, what had been thought of as a pack of wolves or at most a massive serpent by those who'd collected the eyewitness accounts, ended up being a fully-grown dragon. Unprepared for a fight with a creature thought not to exist outside children's stories, they had no strategy for combat, and their ranks were quickly thrown into chaos and disorder. In the confusion Goron was accidentally pushed into a nearby well, unnoticed by either man or beast. While wells weren't ordinarily too deep in this area, water often being close to the surface, it was still surprising that Goron landed not only alive but relatively unharmed.

Looking back on that day, the one that truly set his path, it seems fate truly was on his side, not only because the well had been fortuitously shallow, but also for the sheathed sword leaning inconspicuously against the lower wall of the well, only a few inches to his left, not that there was much room for it to have been farther. Overlooking the sword's decorativeness, the teenage Goron thought the weapon his own, grabbing it and affixing it to his belt, before climbing out of the well.

He arrived at the surface just in time to witness the beast lunging at an injured Sir Graham. To the man's eternal credit, he was holding out quite well all things considered, and had even dealt a number of scratches to the dragon's snout. Goron, seeing his mentor and surrogate father in danger, fulfilled his duty as squire in what was quite possibly the stupidest things he has done before or since: he ran screaming forward and thrust his newly acquired weapon through the flesh in front of the dragon's back leg. To Goron's surprise as much as the dragon's, the blade did not scrape against the scale, leaving a mild slash that could easily be shrugged off. Instead, with his full force of momentum behind it, the blade had pierced through almost to the hilt.

What happened next went by very quickly, only taking a little over ten seconds in all. The creature spun very quickly to face him, ramming its shoulder, or hip or whatever it had into him in the process, sending Goron flying a few feet onto his back. Luckily for him, he managed to keep hold of the sword, which slid out of the beast's side haphazardly as a result, enlarging the wound further, and causing something to pop painfully in his chest. He had no time to worry about that, however, as the thing was now upon him, snapping him, and being held back only by fear of the sword that was swung at it when it tried. Changing tactics, the dragon first reared back, then snapping forward to breathe forth an infernal stream of flame. While the grass on either side of him withered in the blaze, the flames seemed unable to touch the blade, moving in other directions instead as if repelled by an invisible force. Were the concept ever taught to him, Goron would compare it to magnetism. Seeing as the dragon had already been so obliging as to move its snout so close to him, while keeping it open mo less, Goron did what he saw as the logical thing to do, by stabbing blindly into the mouth from which the fire was coming. He burnt himself of course. There are still scars on his forearms to this day. The dragon, however, came out of it a bit worse than that. Heavily injured and possibly blinded in one eye, it reared back one final time, allowing Goron to spring to his feet and run it through

What happened after that took fourteen years, but feels in retrospect to Sir Goron to be such a short time. For slaying the dragon and finding a legendary sword, identified by its markings as Draíochtagarda, he was hailed as a hero. The nobility loved him for his deeds, the common folk loved him for his origins as one of them, and his single-handed rescue of an entire company even earned him a royal commendation. He maintains to this day that anyone with as little brains as he had at the time and access to magical (anti-magical, whatever) weaponry could have done the same.

In light of this, he took the injured Sir Graham's place in their squadron of knights, and showed great promise in subsequent battles and formal occasions alike, and, after a several years, he had become the most valuable knight at his lord's disposal. Finally, when he was twenty, his lord, an elderly man now not far from death, gifted the royal family with his service in an attempt to earn some influence for the family he would leave behind.

Over time, Sir Goron grew and learned, while proving his worth time and again, until eventually he was given the position of general, where he now remains. While he was and is admittedly disappointed at the marked reduction in the frequency of quests he has time for, he does enjoy the involvement he can have in training the newer knights. In recent times there have been some concerning developments, that much cannot be denied by even the most unwilling to see it, but Sir Goron Greene is certain that so long as he continues to abide by the oaths of fealty homage and chivalry that he holds so dear and have taken hims so far, all will end well, just as they always would in those stories his father told so long ago.