Member
Name: Lyall Bookchild
Age - 22
Race - Elven
Personality - Loyal to the point of fanaticism, Lyall is a headstrong youth with an indomitable will to serve his King. His loyalty runs deep through his core and views the royal family with an almost unhealthy admiration. Despite his humble upbringings, he makes up for his lack of education with a very rapt perception of the world around him. He is a youth however and is still prone to childish folly. He has a very honest heart however and would follow his King through the fire if that is what His Majesty truly desired.
When it comes to dealing with others, Lyall’s faith in the goodwill of others is borderline gullibility. He has been sheltered his entire life and it shows when others talk to him. He speaks boldly about subjects he has no knowledge of and brashly about subjects he has no experience in. He has a tendency to ramble when he speaks and comes off as a good natured young man to most that talk to him.
In Experience, Lyall has not yet shed a drop of blood. In Wisdom, he is an infant. In Courage however, his heart holds no bounds.
Background – Raised in an orphanage, it is said that Lyall landed onto the building’s doorstep swaddled in blue satin without any warning as if he was carried by a specter. Laying in an worn yet sturdy fruit basket, the young man’s only inheritance in the world was his name. Carved in a delicate yet regal calligraphy onto the side of the basket, the only note that came with the abandoned child was the word ‘Lyall’. Thus that is how Lyall Bookchild came into the world.
His life at the orphanage was troubled to say the best. He was always a small statured child and frequently the subject of both verbal and physical abuse by the other students. His only true friend throughout his brief yet strenuous schooling was the orphanage’s nurse who acted as both a motherly and sisterly figure to the young man. Forming a rather peculiar relationship with the young woman, Lyall would spend much of his time with her instead of his peers and even began to learn the nurse's trade.
Unfortunately a nurse’s trade wasn't seen as particularly masculine and it only worsened the bullying. Determined to believe in the best of people however, Lyall would watch as agents of the King came and went, picking out young orphans to be the next generations of the King’s soldiers. Each time the agents came however, they would always pass over the small statured man and Lyall would watch all of his classmates eventually leave the orphanage behind. Feeling as if he had no other option, Lyall one day fled into the night. Away from the orphanage and the world that had rejected him. Before he left however, he placed a note on the young nurses desk to thank her for the kindness that she had showed him throughout the years and promised that he would return as a great knight one day. He promised that he would work hard enough that the King would be forced to recognize his stout heart and that he would become the most loyal and famous knight that the world had ever known.
He said that when that day came, he would personally return to her and build her the new orphanage that she always dreamt of. As a way of giving back to her for her years of kindness. Thus with promises to keep and the night’s chilly gusts at his back, he delved into the world. Landing a spot in the King’s castle as a lowly cleaner, he vowed to work his way up to a knight one day. Practicing his Kendo every night with his broom acting as his sword, he prepared tirelessly for the day that His Majesty would need his services.
Thus when he heard of the tragedy that struck the Queen and the misfortune that happened upon the original armed guard, he leapt upon the opportunity to serve His Majesty finally with all of the judgment and passion of a man jumping upon a live grenade. Determined that this is his chance to finally return to his nurse as the prestigious knight he promised to come back as, Lyall is ready to do anything to protect the royalty he is sworn to.