Ryan

Appearance
Ryan, secretly an acknowledged bastard born of the late King Bernard, served as a freerider under the elven assassin Sly and childhood companion Byron. Unbeknown to their master, he was claimant to the throne, serving as a common hired blade to hone his skill as combatant and gain the experience of the world behind him, along with acquiring new contacts.

After completing at least a dozen contracts with his employer and comrade Byron, the assassin Sly finally left them at Ashborne for lack of a better task. There, he and his friend finally came to the conclusion to declare a war against the King Wislaw Arnfield, Ryan's uncle by blood; the conflict for the throne was favored by the ongoing conflict of the Craven's War, between the nations of Icritha and Rekreania.

In a short amount of time, the mage Cassius, friend of the assassin Sly, and many times a witness to the two's (Ryan's and Byron's) combat prowess, arrived back to Ashborne to start his new business. Still unknowing of Ryan's origins, he set out to collect the two 'freeriders', only to be told the truth by Byron, under heavy company of hired sellswords. Despite the mage's many warmed reproaches and attempts to soften the meeting with a friendship he thought he had made with the two, Byron remained blankly formal and told him either to join their cause, or stay neutral. Cassius, indifferent at heart, decided to stay out of their way.

Shortly after, he spied many a banner flying in his war camp, one of which was the cracked boulder on dark orange, the heraldry device of Lord Robert Oswine.