Name: Ser Silvain Valmont
Age: 26 (586 - )
Appearance:
Silvain is about 1.71 metres tall.
Skills:
Swordplay: Silvain has 9 years of sword-fighting experience.
Magic?: Silvain, while technically born with magic, has kept her skills hidden. Her magical power exists, but she doesn't know how to use it beyond creating small flames and making lights.
Tactician: Silvain is generally competent in leading small groups of mercenaries, soldiers or mages.
Brief History: A former knight from the Kingdom of Valois, Silvain was at the front-lines of the wars that characterised the disastrous 'Era of 5 Emperors'. The only daughter of a count who thought that having a knight 'son' would help further his ambitions in the short-lived kingdom of Valois. Silvain, already quite a masculine girl to begin with, was pressed into joining the armies of Valois and fast-tracked to become a knight at the age of 17. She made herself known as a capable tactical commander, but her long-term strategies failed to see Valois through the dark times of the Era of the 5 Emperors.
Valois fell during the time that Emperor Jonathan was in charge (when she was about 20), and Silvain took the opportunity to escape from her father. She took up work as a mercenary, joining the 'Black Iron' company. Without knowing how to act like a lady, she took the only other choice and acted like a man and a soldier. For 6 years, she made herself quite famous even within Black Iron. Her real gender was revealed to some by accident, though just about the entirety of Black Iron members who knew considered her too competent to be sexist against. She partnered with a few mages, some of whom suspected that Silvain had magical talent, but none of them had anything solid to cling onto such beliefs.
When she left the Black Iron on amicable terms, she decided to look to create her own group. And the first person to find would be a mage.
Personality: Silvain's intense and dislikes nonsense. The job, to her, is everything, and she tolerates very little tomfoolery. Though she's actually quite decent to her mage partners, most of them call her a 'fair person, though a slave-driver'. However, when outside of the job, Silvain relaxes and becomes more amicable, friendly and perhaps even a little flirtatious to the girls.
Misc: Silvain likes guys. And girls.
