Percival de Taranto

"A Francian soldier, so far from home? These are not common, especially not now, what with the succession war being waged in Francian lands"

-Charles VI

Bio:
Percival was born to an upper class peasant family; while he had grown up working in the fields of his family's stead, herding sheep and sowing fields with his father, he had always wished to be a soldier. Thus, when the merciful Sky Lord and noble Earth Lord blessed his family's farms with a bumper harvest to bring in extra crops, and the Mother Goddess had made their sheep extra fertile, Percival's family had enough money saved to hire extra hands, and Percival was enrolled in the Francian military. Not one mission into his journey, though, was this young cavalier with his affinity for horses sent with a battalion to stop the invading northerners, and his battalion was absolutely destroyed by the invaders, who then took more and more of Francia. His family takes residence in the south, thank the Gods, where the Dauphin had established his residence, and thus they were safe, for now. Percival was left without a company, however, and unable to safely travel through the lost lands of his kingdom, travels eastward; the knight-errant he always dreamed of being; awaiting the day he may return home to his family.

Description:
Percival de Taranto is a young cavalry soldier from the Francian Kingdom. Percival is a blonde haired, blue eyed, fair skinned Francian, who seeks to do good in the world, who closely follows the tenants of chivalry.

Quotes:
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 * "The sun will always rise the next day, no matter how dark the night before may have been."
 * "Sir Percival's Sword is yours."
 * "We all must be noble in our own right."
 * "It is a noble job, if so a dangerous one."
 * "Mother, and my sisters... I fight for them, too."
 * "I want to give her a worthy name; she's done a lot for me."
 * "I can always be better..."
 * "I am nothing, and I'm content with that."