Graham Rivers of Rook

Ser Graham of Rook served as the Captain of Lady Renna Fry's Guard and the Fort Guard Sergeant of Fort Harlet.
== Personality ==
Ser Graham was a man of lean figure who was six-foot tall and had early growth of grey hair from his late 30s. He was a skilled swordsman who could fight dual-handedly with longswords. He used to wear a light-blue colored armor and helmet, representing Lady's Renna's colors.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Born as Graham Rivers to a blacksmith. He grew up at Fort Tao on the western borders of the Kingdom of Ulrich until 125 CE, when the fort was attacked by pirates and the fort was taken hostage upon which a large army comprising of Franks, Free Company of Andrea and Vanilla, allies of the Lordship of Fort Tao. After merciless killing the pirates, the franks and the free company of Vanilla took up camp in the fort, while the free company led by the military leaders of Andrea returned and took with them slaves, women, and adopted children from the fort, among them was the five-year-old Graham Rivers who was taken in by a sellsword named Tyrek of Andrea, who was in fact his uncle, his deceased mother's brother.
=== Childhood ===
Graham grew up on the streets of Andrea alongside his cousins Torres of Andrea and Teddmund of Andrea.
At the age of fourteen, Graham was caught in bed with a nobleman's daughter and tried to execution after he killed the nobleman in a trial by combat while his cousin Torres one year older than him was tried for killing a guard who tried to rape his lover. Both brothers escaped on their journey to execution, and fled to Antos to their aunt who ran a brothel. Under her care, both brothers learned and honed the art of negotiating, womanizing, sailing, and swordsmanship.
=== Knighthood ===
By the age of eighteen, both brothers were skilled sellsword and sailors who joined a privateer crew of Lys under the protection of the Decree of the Free Cities and the Royal Navy of Icarus.
During one of the crew's voyages, they unknowingly sail nearby the Tyrinian Seas, where they become part of the crossfire between the Tyrinian Navy, the Yjdan Navy, and the Ulrich Navy, playing both sides for the Dukedom of Ulrich and the Imperial Duchy of Tyrinia.
After the naval battle, through the privateer crew, Icarus brokered a deal with Ulrich for trade and naval strength with two matrimonial alliances. After which, the two brothers parted ways with Torres remaining with the privateer crew and Graham joined a company of sellswords, "The River Knights" named after the group of seventeen knights with surnames 'Rivers' who created the company as swords for hire after the increase in guard recruitment in cities, garrisons, and most regions of the Imperial Duchy of Tyrinia.
In 139 CE, the Vassal County of Mytos under protection of the Imperial Duchy faced a military coup after the death of its late ruler, Count Otto the Strong. During this time, the River Knights were hired by the Sheriff of Mytos to increase support for the Royal Family's Kingship. In Late 139 CE, the Count of Mytos, Lord Perius, elder bastard son of late Lord Otto ascended as Count of Mytos with the recent death of the his father and his brother, the Crown Lord of Mytos, Lord Pedro Angelius, leading to rebellion between three factions, a military coup led by the loyalists of Count Otto and Crown Lord Pedro, loyalists of Count Perius, and a military faction led by Marshall General Amadeus aiming for a coup to take Mytos for its own. 
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