Okay, here's my space holder for something I will eventually get around to making. Still have more than a few things to work out.
Name: Mistral Chastain
Ethnicity: French
Allegiance: The Holy-Emperor Charlemagne
Profession: Hedge Knight
Age: 32
Height: 5'4
Weight: 154 lbs
Appearance: Mistral has the look of someone noble born, finely featured and with naturally pale skin, but it is often rough or tanned from travelling on the road and working on her equipment. Her hair is a light chestnut like many in her family and her eyes are dark green and wide. Her armour is well kept but nothing particularly unique. She wears heavy fabric skirting around her hips and legs as extra protection for her legs, which are not as heavily armour to allow her flexibility to mount and ride her horse with less trouble.
Skill-at-Arms: 4. Mistral learned the bulk of her fighting skills from formal training. Her practical experiences with combat are focused on small skirmishes and one on one battles she has encountered in her wanderings since gaining her knighthood.
Wisdom: 3. Mistral was given a basic education as a child in her home, focused on literature and domestic arts, in preparation to marry. In her knight training she learned horsemanship, etiquette, peerage and heraldry, and basic knowledge of laws and customs.
Magic: 3. In exchange for the enchantment on her blade, Mistral must follow the rules set by Gadriel, which include never attacking an innocent or an unarmed opponent and never using the blade frivolously, such as in a bar brawl.
Vitality: 4. Mistral is very hardy, which serves her well with the time she spends out of doors and sleeping wherever she can find suitable ground.
Wealth: 2. Typically has only enough at any given time to feed herself and her horse and maintain the minimum of supplies needed to ensure the upkeep of her gear.
Other Notable Attributes: speaks and reads French and English.
Possessions: Vaillance (longsword enchanted by Gadriel), plate armour in French style with close helmet, Claude (dapple grey heavy horse), high backed saddle, face plate and leather protective barding for his chest, rondel, crossbow and quarrels, horseman's mace, items for basic armour/weapon upkeep (oils, whetstone, leather strips...), heavy bedroll, travel food (dried meats and fruits, nuts, bread if not far from a city or town).
Relationships: Lady Mary Chastain (mother, English). Seigneur Jean-Luc Chastain (father, French). Marie, Sophie and Michelle (twins), Pascale (sisters). Guillame de Marechal (knight and mentor).
Social Rank: Knighted. Landless.
Honor: Devout Christian, and holds the code of Chivalry equally high. Always tries to do right by people she meets, but is not afraid to meet violence with violence, especially if she feel's she's justified.
Biography: An active imagination, and indulgent father, and too many older sisters to marry off meant that Mistral grew up with more freedom than one would expect for a noble daughter, after she made it clear she was more interested in climbing trees and sparing with sticks than learning to be a housewife. Allowing her to act as she would also helped to silence the complaints from her tutors who were just as happy to let her be and focus on turning her sisters into ideal young women.
As a young girl, Mistral was always enamored of knights and swordplay, begging to go to tournaments and sneaking away to watch groups of passing knights and their squires. Months of hinting, arguing, debate, and straight out insistence finally wore her father down enough that he would allow her to attend an academy for knightly training, provided she could find one that would accept her.
Whether her father intended her to or not, Mistral found herself in training at a school run by the famed English knight Guillame de Marechal. Sir Guillame’s favour spared Mistral from harsh bullying by the other squires, but even so, as the only girl present, Mistral ended up on the receiving end of insults and bruises more often than not. As determined as the next individual, perhaps more so, Mistral persevered.
Mistral has removed herself from succession in her family line, and so only has a fraction of the wealth she was born with. She spends nearly all of it maintaining her gear, horse, and health, sleeping outside or in a thoughtful person’s stable in order to save what money she has.
Since gaining her knighthood, Mistral has been wandering the country regions of France, sometimes acting as escort of bodyguard as needed or requested, sometimes defending the peasantry from brigands other landless knights. As such, her combat experience is highest in smaller skirmishes or one on one combat. Her only large scale battle experience to date was at Crecy, helping to repel the invading English. It was not a battle she rightly should have survived, but if she were asked, she would say that a friend of God must have been preserving her. Just for what reason, she has yet to decide.
Personality: Mistral’s definitive trait is the diehard determination that saw her through training to become a knight. Somewhat idealistic from the romanticized views of knights that she held as a child, she still insists on remaining optimistic even when faced with the harsh realities of the world.