Halaster 'Rose-Thorn' Keldorn

[Note:I'm not the best with lore and the knights and stuff.]

Born in Rickshire, Halaster "Rose Thorn" Keldorn was well enough to do. His father was a merchant of a moderate standing and his mother was a florist. The home he lived in could have easily been described as an "oasis of the city" with its many flowers. All this was gone when his father died however; Hal, only seven, was now a bastard child.

Hal's mother, crushed by the loss, was barely getting by on the goods left to her by her late husband. With what money she could get from the goods, she had the shop they owned converted to suit her needs as a florist. Not even two months after the husband had died, the notable Baron Piter Baratha decided to court her. She was obligated to, and with the financial problems of being a widow, she consented. After being officially adopted into his barony, she became baroness of a small castle with a garrison of knights and guards.


When Hal's mother was able to, she would often tend to the gardens, as she had always done. However, Hal did not have such a chance. Instantly regarded as a bastard child by the baron, he was estranged. He was even subject to the ridicule of the local children, which he often fought with. When he would return from a fight, the baron slapped him for being such a nuisance and dishonoring the baron's name.

Hal began hanging out with the often rowdy, but more accepting knights under the baron's command. He spent the next three years with them, growing in favor of them, at least until the baroness begat a son with which the baron prided himself. Hal had also taken to learning his mother's favorite past-time of gardening.

At the age of 12 Hal started to train to become a knight with the garrison his step father hired.
He became dedicated to become a famous knight just to get his father to shut the hell up.
Instead of spending all day fighting with his fists he spent all day sparring with wooden swords with no Armour.
No man to spar with? Didn't matter, find a training dummy and beat the hell out of it.
His brother watched from a balcony, reading, drinking tea ,and chatting with father, surprised at how long he would spar.

When he became 15, he became a hedge knight with some old battered armour and weapons.
Though his father did not approve of it, try to beat the living shit out of him, tried to kill him.
He was fed up with it and decided it was over.
Halaster went through the Baron's documents and found a contract in a hidden part of the floor.
A contract to one of the Baron's garrison men to kill Halaster, the reason not stated. The payment being a significant rise in pay.

Halaster waited until late at night, when his father was drinking and was about to come beat him.
He was met with sword and shield, though, they were wooden. He pushed him off the balcony with the sword and shield.
The baron met the ground head first. When the guards came by, Halaster went to their armoury and got him self an iron sword and scabbard.

When he came to the scene he brandished his sword and stabbed the would be Assassin in the gut.
When the others came by he showed the contract to them, acknowledging the handwriting and signatures.
Halaster handed the contract to his little brother and went onto spar some more.

His mother assumed control of the administration that came with the title and eventually remarried to a good man.
His brother shocked by the sudden arrival of this event but not surprised.

Halaster eventually got concentrated as a knight by the Office of the Knights Errant.
He was assigned to a small company of knights, who were to roam around southern Sanctimonia and receive quests near by.
When he got his first quests, it was bad.
They took casualties and had one green knight die.

More quests he'd partake in the number of casualties rose.
The other knights were concerned and fearful, they thought he was cursed or something, they started to receive more casualties ever since Halaster joined. Halaster, would get hurt but would always survive while the others knights would die.
Eventually the leader of the company had Halaster removed from the company and removed of his rank, the reason stated was mental instability.

That became the end of his knight career, seeing it fall down because of some "Curse"
With being removed of his title, he came to a small town where he opened a florist shop.
He spent a decade and a couple years in that town.
He married a girl, she died of a disease.
Widowed, he later eventually almost married another girl, caught her cheating.
Another girl, she had said no to the proposal.
The last one he was turned out to be crazy, burned his shop down to have more time with him.

With his shop burned he became a gardener for a Church. Occasionally some knights would come by, taunt him about how things turned out about his career.
He tended to the hedge, shrub and briar patches, trimming the rose bushes all day.

He did get girlfriend at that time to only break up because she joined the clergy as a nun.
With such a shit streak, he decided he'd do something new.
Mercenary work.
Fight for good, kill for money, it was a great idea, was.
He eventually joined a band of mercs, with the little gear he had.
They did okay at the start, one casualty.
Then things started to get worse the more contracts they would get.
It didn't even matter if it was guard duty, those chairs were out to stub their toes and make them trip and break their necks.
They loosed some men and replaced them and the new men hated him.

They eventually got fed up and tried to kill him off though, during a contract so the pay per man would get paid.
One of the other mercs died in the attempt. He simply wouldn't just die. He can get hurt but he wouldn't just die.

The last contract they did together was to take out a bandit camp.
the idea was use Halaster as bait to lure out some bandits.
6 bandits versus Halaster, would be easy but no he took them all out, receiving some wounds while his friends sneaked in and tried to get them while they were attacking the bait.

And it worked like a Cha- Captured.
His merc mates got caught and captured. Halaster with his wounds surrendered.
They were soon healed in captivity then later tortured, one by one tortured till they died.
Halaster survived and held out until he was 9/10th the way to death.

A raid happened, Guardsmen from the near by town raided the camp and found Halaster only barely alive.
He was healed and recovered in town at the local temple.
The guard returned his armaments only to find parts of it missing.
Half way in his recovery he started to get nightmares.
Of a dark cloud that would cover the realm and strip the life out of everything.
He heard that the famous sword of Jack, Kryindal was gone from the guardmen stationed at the temple.
The more he stayed at the temple, the more the priests would stub their toe, prick them selves or someone would succumb to death and ill.

He decided it'd be best to not have friends, or relations anymore.
After all, this "curse" has hurt people around him.
He got his gear and left town.

He moved north, having more nightmares about the dark cloud though it would get more clearer.
A small cloud that hovers over the trade town Surna. When it became clear it was Surna Halaster decided to travel there.
He soon had nightmares of shades, demons, werebeasts, wererat trying to crawl out of a small hole,a werebear shitting in the woods shitting his half digested skull.

Maybe coming to Surna and defending it from dark enemies will stop these tormenting nightmares.

Shitty childhood after Dad died.
Trained to become a knight.
After he joins, the company assigned to starts to get more casualties.
They have him removed for "Mental instability" because they were scared he was cursed as well as stripped of knighthood.
Becomes a florist in a small town and have shitty streak of relationships that resulted in his shop burned down.
He becomes a gardener at a church, get a relationship that gets nunblocked.
Becomes Merc, casualties increase sinced he joined. They get captured, tortured trying to take down a bandit camp.
Watchmen take the bandit camp down and rescue him.
Nightmares about a Darkcloud over Surna.
Goes to Surna to do something about it, mostly to stop the nightmares.