Gaston the Giant

Sir Gaston D'Rhys

Gaston, known as "The Giant", was an unaffiliated Cavalier of Amnish descent, who achieved his title after winning the honor in a tournament. His nickname was purely based on his large size, standing a head taller than most men, and being unusually strong. Perhaps unfairly, Gaston was known for having an ill temper and being a war-mongering bloodthirsty bandit-knight, but this wasn't true - Gaston was blunt, honest and ruthless, but he was a true Cavalier, following the code of Chivalry even when it wasn't convenient.
Gaston preferred working with mercenaries when it came to warfare, because he found that he was, too often, otherwise put in charge of peasant levies that did not choose to enlist into the war, and he did not care to waste the lives of those who hadn't the bravery to enter the fray - while mercenaries had a bad reputation in general, Gaston found that their desire to earn glory and gold wasn't in anyway different from the primary reasons why people fought in wars, and he found that, more often than not, mercenaries would not succumb to political schemes, but remained loyal to their employers, as they tended to follow a strict code of conduct.
Gaston spent most of his time traveling around, taking small contracts to fight off the odd Goblin infestation or act as security against perceived threats - but when there was a tournament to attend, he was there. Gaston was a master of the sword and the lance, but in warfare, he dressed in heavy armor and used a pollaxe, because he found that his enormous sword was often too difficult to use in heavy armor.
Gaston acknowledged the rise of swift and light weaponry, which was gaining grounds in the tourneys, but he bashed them aside, firmly believing that these weapons were weapons of convenient self-defense and of fancy duelists, and not weapons of war, and would challenge the users of such weapons to try to penetrate his heavy armor with their light weapons, claiming that on the battlefield, there was no room for fancy footwork or flashy swordplay, and that ultimately, the tourneys remained a reenactment of the challenges that men-at-arms faced on the battlefield, which is why it was pointless for a man such as himself to entertain the notion of learning to use these new weapons - he did, however, approve of these weapons gaining popularity with civilians.

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East March