Baldwin

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Player: Amerason

Character Full Name: Sir Baldwin Ivo Blacksmith

Character In-Game Name: Baldwin

Association(s): Kingdom of Stormwind

Race: Human

Class: Knight (Warrior)

Age: 51

Sex: Male

Hair: Light-blond, graying.

Eyes: Blue

Weight: 164 lbs

Height: 6'0"

Appearance

Usual Garments: As a Knight of the Kingdom of Stormwind and once owning a Manor in Stromgarde; Sir Baldwin holds many fine clothes of various threads. Dress to what you can properly afford, after all.

Armor: With money to afford and properly maintain expensive plate of his choice, Sir Baldwin maintains the armor he was gifted when he pledged homage first to the King of Stromgarde, as such, he maintains a well-suited set of plate. The tabard that he now dons is that of Stormwind, however.

Other: His hands and other parts of his body hold notable scars from past burns and past wounds. It is clear that this was a man whom has a history of war behind him.

Personality:

Sir Baldwin holds true to the tenants of a Knight in almost all that he can. He came from a past of a Blacksmith and as such has kept the humility from his time of peasantry. He follows a Code of Chivalry and as such strives to be an honest, humble, hard-working, loyal, and courageous man. Although he possesses certain qualities of wrath, he is slow to anger.

History:

Baldwin was born in Grand Hamlet prior to the opening of the Dark Portal at Medivh's hands. His father was Baldrick and his mother Tiara, Baldwin was an only child. He learned the craft of his Father's smithy until he was around the age of sixteen when the Orcs began to spill from the Portal and invade. He found himself drafted into the militia at a young age to help fight back the Orcish Hordes. Two years before the Kingdom of Azeroth would fall, Baldwin became Squire to Sir Cal, the Cunning, a Knight of the Brotherhood of the Horse. His parents were evacuated onto the ships bound for the North when the Exodus was called.

The Second War came and Baldwin tended to his Knight's orders, this often included fighting in the War. After completing his years necessary to learn the rights of a Knight. He was Knighted and swore homage to the King of Stromgarde and given a Manor and small plot of land in Stromgarde. Eventually, as the Third War came near and the Scourge began their march through Lordaeron. Sir Baldwin became stranded from Stromgarde during a mission sent Northbound to battle the Scourge. When he finally returned and found the the city in ruins and in control of the Syndicate, Baldwin fled south to his former homeland. Once in Stormwind, he would swear homage and vassalage to the Throne of Stormwind as Knight.