Rhord
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Player: zenethen
Character Full Name: Rhord Richardson
Character In-Game Name: Rhord
Nickname(s): Carl
Association(s): The Church of Stormwind, the Knights of Darkfall
Race: Human
Class: Crusader (Paladin)
Skills and Abilities: No special abilities outside of experience, devotion, and zealotry.
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Hair: Copper, neck-length
Eyes: Light blue
Weight: 201 lbs
Height: 5’ 11”
Appearence
Usual Garments/Armor: A suit of embossed crimson plate with a tabard bearing his family’s coat of arms. He can otherwise be found in a simple crimson-colored suit. His crimson plate armor has gained him the nickname ‘Carl the Crimson Crusader’ by a jesting man.
Other: N/A
Personality
Alignment: Lawful Good
Rhord is an honorable, if often sarcastic and demeaning, man who is loyal to the crown and church of Stormwind with fierceness that is rivaled by few. He abhors the Horde races, and even finds bigotry for the Alliance races outside of dwarves, gnomes, and his own race of humans. He is zealously loyal to the church, and often follows orders without question so long as they are given by someone from the church. Due to his devotion to the church, he does not often find time to treat others as they might expect to be treated by a Paladin, although at times he may soften and have casual, honest, and nice conversations with those he considers his friends.
History
Rhord was born around the first days of the First War to a knight of Stormwind and his maiden wife. When the Orcish Horde attacked Stormwind Keep itself, Rhord’s father Richard was among those told to guard the refugees that would later flee with the ships in Stormwind Harbor. In the confusion of the retreat from Stormwind, Rhord’s mother was left within the city when it was attacked, where she died to the orcish attackers. Rhord’s father watched over the barely year-old on the voyage northward.
For the next seven years, Rhord’s father raised him in the background of the furious battles of the Second War. He taught him honor, justice, devotion to the crown, and gave Rhord an education fitted for a proper knight. When the Second War’s horrors took a turn to the southern lands, and Stormwind was eventually reclaimed, Rhord and his father made the voyage south and reconciled to their charred kingdom, once the greatest of all.
During the rebuilding, Rhord’s father was often off helping the reconstruction effort, leaving Rhord to wander the ruined streets errantly. He found himself meeting one of the Clerics of Northshire, returned from their evacuation to Lordaeron. The cleric told him of the legendary paladins and their heroic deeds, and Rhord swore to someday become one. The cleric took Rhord under him as a student of the faith of the Light, and Rhord’s childhood rolled out under his feet as he learned more and more of the Light.
When the reconstruction was finished, Rhord’s father gave him proper martial training fit for his son to someday be granted the title of Paladin. When Rhord was eighteen, he was well-versed in both martial and priestly manners, and was granted the preliminary title of esquire of Stormwind. He studied and served for three more years before he was officially given the title of paladin and granted the titles due to a knight.
Rhord’s service to Stormwind expanded beyond just the city as he began to do the duties of his titles, slowly gaining a strong connection to the church. When the horrors of the Third War raged in the north, Rhord was assigned as a knight in the war effort against the Blackrock orcs in Redridge. His father’s teachings paid off when his battalion was ambushed in Render’s Valley and he took command of the scattered forces in the face of his officers being slain, successfully bringing his comrades out alive.
From there, Rhord’s position with his superiors only grew in the conflict with the Blackrocks. He continued his service against the orcs, growing a select hatred for the race due to their brutality to his comrades, and in an amount of four years easily earned his title that many called merely a family heirloom; a knight of the Kingdom of Stormwind. Having led his comrades to many a victory in the key conflict against the Blackrocks, he finally retired from the war effort for a more welcoming position within the rebuilt Cathedral of Stormwind.
Within the bounds of the Church’s graces, Rhord’s knighthood was officially recognized, and he was granted an appropriate rank within the church’s hierarchy. Later that same year, Rhord was approached by a priestess calling herself the Pure Maiden. She led the Knights of Darkfall, a secret organization of demon-, undead-, and evil-hunters. She offered him a position as one of Darkfall’s leaders, and he accepted.
In the position of the Knights of Darkfall, he was taught further devotion to the Light and church, and his devotion eventually transformed to zealotry as he became deathly loyal to his cause. Rhord remained in this position of switching between services to the church and aiding the Knights of Darkfall, where he remains today, and his zealous actions under Darkfall’s leadership affecting his duties under the church of Stormwind at times.
