Well, to be truthful, I’ve had a couple similar concepts kicking around for a while, but they didn’t quite grab me enough to try and apply them for a game with the passion I’ve been made aware of behind it (I’m sure you caught me stopping by to take a look) like this. 

To get them onto paper, they were either a more domestic noble son similar to the one pitched, returning from abroad and largely accepting the new regime (overlaps with Callum, never put enough thought into what became of the rest of the family) 

or a tough member of Captain Thorne’s band from some sort of Iberian-flavored nation, sellswording to feed a similar bloodlust but also running afoul of an all-timer of a bender just before his entrance, putting him roughly on the wrong end of a caravan trail and needing to sell his services to try and quickly report back in and cleanse himself of the stain on his honor that was a presumed desertion (the foreign element now overlapping with my man up here, goal seemed flimsy to me)

If Squirtle’s game, this offers a really fun synthesis of those two and sets him up perfectly to have Plot Happen To Him, which would doubtless cover certain holes in his youthful malaise.