Archbishop
Character Chart
Character’s full name: Duc Henri Bayard of Artois, Lord of Thorne, Champion of Ignis, Defender of Haven, and Knight of Lavoyard, Turia, Anhald, and Artois.
Reason or meaning of name:
Duc of Artois: One of the two Ducs of Artois. Power is jointly shared.
Lord of Thorne: His city, his new home. He owns the city.
Champion of Ignis: A devout follower of the Light. He champions the cause of Ignis.
Defender of Haven: His older home. Also known as Le Havre. He took the rubble of the destroyed city and built the Fortress of Haven; the gateway into Anhald and the Bulk-ward against the undead. Not to be confused with the new city of Haven built upon the rubble of Marienburg by Maceo BoredBrit
Knight of Lavoyard: Given to him for his service in the Lavoyard Civil War. He was also granted Nord Foret with his title.
Knight of Turia: Inherited with the transformation of Lavoyard into Turia
Knight of Anhald: Adopted with his accepted service into Anhald by Charles I.
Knight of Artois: As a knight, and a Duc of Artois, he fashions himself a knight of the realm, although it's more de facto than de jur.
Character’s nickname: the Badger
Reason for nickname: Badgers have always represented the Bayard family. Badgers being ferocious animals that fight to the bitter end against unstoppable odds.
Birth date: 2216
Languages: Common (F - Native), Rede (Acquired, speaks it with an accent), Lavoyard (F - Native Lavoyardian). Elven (gutteral - best avoid - knows a few words).
Physical Appearance
Gender: Male
Race: Lavoyardian Human
Age: 55
How old does he/she appear: Mid-fifties
Weight: 12 stone 12lbs
Height: 6' 0"
Body build: Muscular
Shape of face: Square chin with angular face
Eye color: Oxford Blue
Glasses or type of aid for the eyes: None
Skin tone: Caucasian
Distinguishing marks: None
Predominant features: bow-legged (caused by many years in the saddle)
Hair color: Black, spots of grey in the temples.
Type of hair: Wavy
Hairstyle: Reserved
Voice: Backwater Lavish. Acquired higher lexicon with age and experience
Overall attractiveness: Rugged, but not gorgeous
Physical disabilities: Bow-legged
Usual fashion of dress: Reserved, military regalia is standard
Example of Jacket: (Add lapels)
Riding Boots
Favorite outfit: Blue overcoat, white satin shirt, grey linen pants, black riding boots
Jewelry or accessories: silver-accented lapels, golden buttons, silver boot buckles
Personality
Good personality traits:
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Courageous 000000X000
Faithful 00000000X0
Industrious 000000000X
Bad personality traits:
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Workaholic 00000000X0
ISTJ: The Examiner
Defined by their honor and duty. Take any task seriously and give it more than their best. Somewhat reserved and prefer to work alone, but can make great team members if the need arises. Deeply value traditions and loyalty and often put duty before pleasure.
Mood character is most often in: Contemplative
Sense of humor: Dry, but straightforward
Character’s greatest joy in life: Growth and Learning.
Character’s greatest fear: Failure
Why?: Failure is not simply the act of failing, and it is not a singular, solitary event. Rather, failure, to Henri, represents collective failure. The failure to do his duty. To support his family. To support god. The failure to protect those under him. Failure in the ultimate meaning.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: Loss of title and land.
Character is most at ease when: Building
Most ill at ease when: Confronting heresy. He does not feel that belief in a particular Angeli necessitates inquisitory actions.
Enraged when: Those who claim to represent honor, besmirch it.
Depressed or sad when: People don't understand the nobility and purpose behind the drives of Artois.
Priorities: Building Thorne and making it a force to be reckoned with, as well as expanding Artois and doing the will of Ignis.
Life philosophy: While the world exists in shades of grey, it is the gentleman's duty to remove those divisions and make them black and white. For honor and service, these lines are fine, and the divisions many. However, his certainty and life events have shaken this mantra.He is facing new shades of grey every day...
If granted one wish, it would be:To cease being lonely
Why?:Relationships were never his strong suit.
Character’s soft spot: Women and children on the battlefield. He couldn't bring himself to kill a barbarian woman and her devilish child in the siege of Rambar Motte.
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: Not always. A visor covers many emotions, some of them unwanted.
Greatest strength: Wielding a blade, and his carpentry. Fighting is like breathing to a soldier of Artois. Henri also picked up constructive carpentry throughout the years, lending a hand in designing and building the homes and fortresses of both Haven and Thorne. Keeping a stiff upper lip.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: His knees. Henri has spent so much time in the saddle that his knees are a tad swayback. The sign of a longtime rider.
Biggest regret: Not being able to defend that one Moor Elf during the battle at Storm's Landing (solus )
Minor regret: Not being able to defend Haven before being forced to leave the old lands.
Biggest accomplishment: Surviving a grueling series of wars and conflicts and blights against humanity.
Minor accomplishment: Building two cities
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: His cowardice at the Battle of Breakwater.
Why?: Henri found himself locked inside the castle at Breakwater and was forced to flee, protecting the King. While most would say that he was doing his duty (he was ordered to do so), he felt like he was denied the honor and privilege of fighting. However, he felt relieved at leaving the carnage. It would later come to haunt his pride, and fill him with shame. Others say that what he did was a necessity. 'The King must be protected'. But that does not stop Henri from feeling like he was a coward for fleeing.
Character’s darkest secret: See above.
Does anyone else know?: No one knows.
Goals
Drives and motivations: Rebuild in Eastmere, and turn Thorne into a prosperous and peaceful town that Henri never knew.
Immediate goals: Find an heir.
Long term goals: Consolidate power. Move on and gain honor, renown, and strengthen Thorne. Strengthen Artois. Ensure the succession.
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Continue building Thorne.
How other characters will be affected: Ignis save Artois!
Past
Hometown: A peasant village with no name in the shadow of the once-great capital of Lavoyard, Knight's Haven.
Type of childhood: ordinary, if poor.
Pets: Currently, he has a small stable of horses, but no house pets.
First memory: Hard to pinpoint, likely playing outside, or helping his mother or father with some menial task.
Most important childhood memory: Village festivals
Why?: What child doesn't remember the good times they had?
Childhood hero: The knights in the castle keep within Knight's Haven.
Dream job: A knight.
Education: Originally limited, however he is an autodidact, and as such has taught himself much of what he knows.
Religion: Limited knowledge of Ignis in the past.
Finances: Varied. From next to nothing in his early life, to a splendid bank account now. Build-up is expensive, but it's primarily construction now.
Present
Current location: Thorne
Currently living with: Himself.
Pets: None, besides the cohort of horses mentioned above.
Religion: While anyone who is a part of Artois better praise and recognize the dominance of Ignis. Henri is not the most devout man, but he is working on it. It is not that he is an atheist or agnostic, but rather that he doesn't have time to devote to his Faith. He knows the tenets and creeds, and can recite them.
Occupation: Statesman, Knight, Noble, Landowner
Finances: He never has a large storage of coin, mostly because he spends it on updates and building. When he is finished building, perhaps he'll acquire a decent respectable sum. Most of his wealth is tied up in his lands.
Family
Mother: He remembers her fondly, especially her smile and her lovely humming voice. Her long black hair and the way she worked hard in the fields. He doesn't know what happened to her. He was never able to find out before being forced to leave. He regrets never being able to visit or say goodbye to her...
Relationship with her: Fond memories. Unknown where she is now, if she is currently living. Henri can only hope that she died a peaceful death in the Northern Kingdom before the undead blight ravaged the world. The thought of her wandering for eternity as a rotten husk of humanity sends a shiver down his spine that he'd never admit.
Father: A gruff man, but fair. Worked hard, and instilled in Henri a work ethic he uses to this day. Much of Henri's personality comes from his father: Rather impassioned on matters of fairness, but emotionally removed in matters of work.
Relationship with him: Same as his mother. He is unsure of what happened to him following the weakening of the wards.
Siblings: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Spouse: None.
Relationship with him/her: N/A
Children: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Other important family members: None ;n;
Favorites
Color: Blue
Least favorite color: He doesn't hate colors
Music: Jaunty. Music that gets the bones moving. Something to lift the spirits. Usually warcamp or tavern music. He has a soft spot for a good war march song.
Food: He has a love of all things salty. This usually manifests itself in his love of spit-roasted game or seafood.
Literature: He doesn't usually read for enjoyment, however, he has the ability to read, and as such uses it often for work-related purposes.
Form of entertainment: Training, riding, and tending to his plants. He finds gardening relaxing. This can be seen in the various horticultural designs around Thorne. One only needs to look at the Palace gardens to see his love of all things green. It's his largest stress-reliever.
Mode of transportation: Riding. Hates wagons and their bumpy, nauseating wheels.
Most prized possession: His steel sword.
Habits
Hobbies: Riding, Training, and Gardening
Plays a musical instrument?: None.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Drawing up blueprints and reading memos and notes about the Dukedom.
Spending habits: Thrifty and likes to haggle, given the necessity of buying many supplies
Smokes: Would not turn down a pipe, but often finds smoking to get in the way of clear thinking, despite how relaxing it can be.
Drinks: Occasionally.
Other drugs: None.
What does he/she do too much of?: Thinking
What does he/she do too little of?: Speaking
Extremely skilled at: Fighting, Riding, and Building
Extremely unskilled at: Socializing, Leadership
Nervous tics: Zoning out
Usual body posture: Stately
Mannerisms: Polite and to the point, often blunt to the disregard of formality
Peculiarities: He tends to sequester himself in social situations. Feels more at home on a battlefield.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: Realist. He doesn't see the glass half full or half empty, rather he sees 'the container as twice as large as necessary to contain set liquid.'
He is determined, more than ever to regain his previous paradigm.
Introvert or extrovert?: Introvert
Daredevil or cautious?: Cautious
Logical or emotional?: Logical
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: In the heat of the moment, messy, but otherwise neat and methodical.
Prefers working or relaxing?: Working
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: An odd mix.
Animal lover?: Yes, however, he hasn't had time for pets.
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: Recent near-death experiences, and his confrontations with authority have finally fixed his nobility in his mind. He is no longer the peasant that he thought he was. He has to behave ever bit the lord that he now is.
One word the character would use to describe self: Dedicated
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: Henri is very much an individual 'in flux'. He tends to sideline himself, but rather because of a lack of interest in engaging others, rather than because of his own ineptitude. He finds that life is easier after the moral grey areas of life have been wrestled into submission and forced to produce a black and white world with which he may make sound moral judgement. However, when confronted with moral hazards, he often finds himself doubting. At heart, Henri knows that he is a trumped up peasant, living well beyond his station, or what fate had designed for him. It is for this reason that he works so hard, so that people will only see a hardworking man, rather than a lazy peasant who got lucky.
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: His ability to reason out situations
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: His way with women.
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: He has stayed in phenomenal shape over the years.
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: His knees are starting to bow.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: Henri isn't quite sure what others think of him. He believes that most people dismiss him, and ignore him. Most of his station would take this as a slight, but he sees it as an advantage. If no one is paying attention to you, then no one is paying attention to your actions. You are able to act with near-impunity.
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: His warmness. He wishes he could be more personable.
Character’s full name: Duc Henri Bayard of Artois, Lord of Thorne, Champion of Ignis, Defender of Haven, and Knight of Lavoyard, Turia, Anhald, and Artois.
Reason or meaning of name:
Duc of Artois: One of the two Ducs of Artois. Power is jointly shared.
Lord of Thorne: His city, his new home. He owns the city.
Champion of Ignis: A devout follower of the Light. He champions the cause of Ignis.
Defender of Haven: His older home. Also known as Le Havre. He took the rubble of the destroyed city and built the Fortress of Haven; the gateway into Anhald and the Bulk-ward against the undead. Not to be confused with the new city of Haven built upon the rubble of Marienburg by Maceo BoredBrit
Knight of Lavoyard: Given to him for his service in the Lavoyard Civil War. He was also granted Nord Foret with his title.
Knight of Turia: Inherited with the transformation of Lavoyard into Turia
Knight of Anhald: Adopted with his accepted service into Anhald by Charles I.
Knight of Artois: As a knight, and a Duc of Artois, he fashions himself a knight of the realm, although it's more de facto than de jur.
Character’s nickname: the Badger
Reason for nickname: Badgers have always represented the Bayard family. Badgers being ferocious animals that fight to the bitter end against unstoppable odds.
Birth date: 2216
Languages: Common (F - Native), Rede (Acquired, speaks it with an accent), Lavoyard (F - Native Lavoyardian). Elven (gutteral - best avoid - knows a few words).
Physical Appearance
Gender: Male
Race: Lavoyardian Human
Age: 55
How old does he/she appear: Mid-fifties
Weight: 12 stone 12lbs
Height: 6' 0"
Body build: Muscular
Shape of face: Square chin with angular face
Eye color: Oxford Blue
Glasses or type of aid for the eyes: None
Skin tone: Caucasian
Distinguishing marks: None
Predominant features: bow-legged (caused by many years in the saddle)
Hair color: Black, spots of grey in the temples.
Type of hair: Wavy
Hairstyle: Reserved
Voice: Backwater Lavish. Acquired higher lexicon with age and experience
Overall attractiveness: Rugged, but not gorgeous
Physical disabilities: Bow-legged
Usual fashion of dress: Reserved, military regalia is standard
Example of Jacket: (Add lapels)
Favorite outfit: Blue overcoat, white satin shirt, grey linen pants, black riding boots
Jewelry or accessories: silver-accented lapels, golden buttons, silver boot buckles
Personality
Good personality traits:
Loyalty 000000X000
Courageous 000000X000
Faithful 00000000X0
Industrious 000000000X
Bad personality traits:
Obsessed 00000X0000
Workaholic 00000000X0
ISTJ: The Examiner
Defined by their honor and duty. Take any task seriously and give it more than their best. Somewhat reserved and prefer to work alone, but can make great team members if the need arises. Deeply value traditions and loyalty and often put duty before pleasure.
Mood character is most often in: Contemplative
Sense of humor: Dry, but straightforward
Character’s greatest joy in life: Growth and Learning.
Character’s greatest fear: Failure
Why?: Failure is not simply the act of failing, and it is not a singular, solitary event. Rather, failure, to Henri, represents collective failure. The failure to do his duty. To support his family. To support god. The failure to protect those under him. Failure in the ultimate meaning.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: Loss of title and land.
Character is most at ease when: Building
Most ill at ease when: Confronting heresy. He does not feel that belief in a particular Angeli necessitates inquisitory actions.
Enraged when: Those who claim to represent honor, besmirch it.
Depressed or sad when: People don't understand the nobility and purpose behind the drives of Artois.
Priorities: Building Thorne and making it a force to be reckoned with, as well as expanding Artois and doing the will of Ignis.
Life philosophy: While the world exists in shades of grey, it is the gentleman's duty to remove those divisions and make them black and white. For honor and service, these lines are fine, and the divisions many. However, his certainty and life events have shaken this mantra.He is facing new shades of grey every day...
If granted one wish, it would be:To cease being lonely
Why?:Relationships were never his strong suit.
Character’s soft spot: Women and children on the battlefield. He couldn't bring himself to kill a barbarian woman and her devilish child in the siege of Rambar Motte.
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: Not always. A visor covers many emotions, some of them unwanted.
Greatest strength: Wielding a blade, and his carpentry. Fighting is like breathing to a soldier of Artois. Henri also picked up constructive carpentry throughout the years, lending a hand in designing and building the homes and fortresses of both Haven and Thorne. Keeping a stiff upper lip.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: His knees. Henri has spent so much time in the saddle that his knees are a tad swayback. The sign of a longtime rider.
Biggest regret: Not being able to defend that one Moor Elf during the battle at Storm's Landing (solus )
Minor regret: Not being able to defend Haven before being forced to leave the old lands.
Biggest accomplishment: Surviving a grueling series of wars and conflicts and blights against humanity.
Minor accomplishment: Building two cities
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: His cowardice at the Battle of Breakwater.
Why?: Henri found himself locked inside the castle at Breakwater and was forced to flee, protecting the King. While most would say that he was doing his duty (he was ordered to do so), he felt like he was denied the honor and privilege of fighting. However, he felt relieved at leaving the carnage. It would later come to haunt his pride, and fill him with shame. Others say that what he did was a necessity. 'The King must be protected'. But that does not stop Henri from feeling like he was a coward for fleeing.
Character’s darkest secret: See above.
Does anyone else know?: No one knows.
Goals
Drives and motivations: Rebuild in Eastmere, and turn Thorne into a prosperous and peaceful town that Henri never knew.
Immediate goals: Find an heir.
Long term goals: Consolidate power. Move on and gain honor, renown, and strengthen Thorne. Strengthen Artois. Ensure the succession.
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Continue building Thorne.
How other characters will be affected: Ignis save Artois!
Past
Hometown: A peasant village with no name in the shadow of the once-great capital of Lavoyard, Knight's Haven.
Type of childhood: ordinary, if poor.
Pets: Currently, he has a small stable of horses, but no house pets.
First memory: Hard to pinpoint, likely playing outside, or helping his mother or father with some menial task.
Most important childhood memory: Village festivals
Why?: What child doesn't remember the good times they had?
Childhood hero: The knights in the castle keep within Knight's Haven.
Dream job: A knight.
Education: Originally limited, however he is an autodidact, and as such has taught himself much of what he knows.
Religion: Limited knowledge of Ignis in the past.
Finances: Varied. From next to nothing in his early life, to a splendid bank account now. Build-up is expensive, but it's primarily construction now.
Present
Current location: Thorne
Currently living with: Himself.
Pets: None, besides the cohort of horses mentioned above.
Religion: While anyone who is a part of Artois better praise and recognize the dominance of Ignis. Henri is not the most devout man, but he is working on it. It is not that he is an atheist or agnostic, but rather that he doesn't have time to devote to his Faith. He knows the tenets and creeds, and can recite them.
Occupation: Statesman, Knight, Noble, Landowner
Finances: He never has a large storage of coin, mostly because he spends it on updates and building. When he is finished building, perhaps he'll acquire a decent respectable sum. Most of his wealth is tied up in his lands.
Family
Mother: He remembers her fondly, especially her smile and her lovely humming voice. Her long black hair and the way she worked hard in the fields. He doesn't know what happened to her. He was never able to find out before being forced to leave. He regrets never being able to visit or say goodbye to her...
Relationship with her: Fond memories. Unknown where she is now, if she is currently living. Henri can only hope that she died a peaceful death in the Northern Kingdom before the undead blight ravaged the world. The thought of her wandering for eternity as a rotten husk of humanity sends a shiver down his spine that he'd never admit.
Father: A gruff man, but fair. Worked hard, and instilled in Henri a work ethic he uses to this day. Much of Henri's personality comes from his father: Rather impassioned on matters of fairness, but emotionally removed in matters of work.
Relationship with him: Same as his mother. He is unsure of what happened to him following the weakening of the wards.
Siblings: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Spouse: None.
Relationship with him/her: N/A
Children: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Other important family members: None ;n;
Favorites
Color: Blue
Least favorite color: He doesn't hate colors
Music: Jaunty. Music that gets the bones moving. Something to lift the spirits. Usually warcamp or tavern music. He has a soft spot for a good war march song.
Food: He has a love of all things salty. This usually manifests itself in his love of spit-roasted game or seafood.
Literature: He doesn't usually read for enjoyment, however, he has the ability to read, and as such uses it often for work-related purposes.
Form of entertainment: Training, riding, and tending to his plants. He finds gardening relaxing. This can be seen in the various horticultural designs around Thorne. One only needs to look at the Palace gardens to see his love of all things green. It's his largest stress-reliever.
Mode of transportation: Riding. Hates wagons and their bumpy, nauseating wheels.
Most prized possession: His steel sword.
Habits
Hobbies: Riding, Training, and Gardening
Plays a musical instrument?: None.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Drawing up blueprints and reading memos and notes about the Dukedom.
Spending habits: Thrifty and likes to haggle, given the necessity of buying many supplies
Smokes: Would not turn down a pipe, but often finds smoking to get in the way of clear thinking, despite how relaxing it can be.
Drinks: Occasionally.
Other drugs: None.
What does he/she do too much of?: Thinking
What does he/she do too little of?: Speaking
Extremely skilled at: Fighting, Riding, and Building
Extremely unskilled at: Socializing, Leadership
Nervous tics: Zoning out
Usual body posture: Stately
Mannerisms: Polite and to the point, often blunt to the disregard of formality
Peculiarities: He tends to sequester himself in social situations. Feels more at home on a battlefield.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: Realist. He doesn't see the glass half full or half empty, rather he sees 'the container as twice as large as necessary to contain set liquid.'
He is determined, more than ever to regain his previous paradigm.
Introvert or extrovert?: Introvert
Daredevil or cautious?: Cautious
Logical or emotional?: Logical
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: In the heat of the moment, messy, but otherwise neat and methodical.
Prefers working or relaxing?: Working
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: An odd mix.
Animal lover?: Yes, however, he hasn't had time for pets.
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: Recent near-death experiences, and his confrontations with authority have finally fixed his nobility in his mind. He is no longer the peasant that he thought he was. He has to behave ever bit the lord that he now is.
One word the character would use to describe self: Dedicated
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: Henri is very much an individual 'in flux'. He tends to sideline himself, but rather because of a lack of interest in engaging others, rather than because of his own ineptitude. He finds that life is easier after the moral grey areas of life have been wrestled into submission and forced to produce a black and white world with which he may make sound moral judgement. However, when confronted with moral hazards, he often finds himself doubting. At heart, Henri knows that he is a trumped up peasant, living well beyond his station, or what fate had designed for him. It is for this reason that he works so hard, so that people will only see a hardworking man, rather than a lazy peasant who got lucky.
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: His ability to reason out situations
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: His way with women.
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: He has stayed in phenomenal shape over the years.
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: His knees are starting to bow.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: Henri isn't quite sure what others think of him. He believes that most people dismiss him, and ignore him. Most of his station would take this as a slight, but he sees it as an advantage. If no one is paying attention to you, then no one is paying attention to your actions. You are able to act with near-impunity.
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: His warmness. He wishes he could be more personable.
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