Beren Bythwell

Beren Bythewell was a reformed bandit, ex-city guard, and member of the Wildecards. He was an honest, loyal, and otherwise decent man.
== Personality and Traits ==
Beren was, above all else, a loyal man. He showed undying loyalty to the people who rescued him at the least opportune time in his life. He was a simple man thrust into a world that wasn't his. His skills included animal husbandry, expert ranching/farming knowledge, and a brief but firm grasp of job of a city guard. He wielded a guard's set of armour, a Saítórra (a wooden t-shaped tonfa or riot baton) which was a traditional Accipitan weapon, as well as a King Mazander Over-Under flintlock pistol. 
== Early Life ==
Beren was born Beren Treiärren la'Vonta in Jarren's Well in 227 C (his surname Lavonta means 'by-the-Well'), to Branco and Lfina Lavonta. He was the middle of four children. The family lived on a decently large ranch owned by Lfina's sister Likadana Lavonta; it was a sizeable ranch on the south prairie of the town which was about thirty acres; it employed around fifty ranch-hands. Growing up, Beren did not receive a formal education and never learnt to read, but learnt to ride, farm, fight, and mend things. 
== Adventures ==
=== Petty Crime ===
When he was in his twenties, Beren fell in with a bad crowd. Jarren's Well was a small ranching town, with not much to do. He soon became mates with several crooks, including Fat Ernie and Lavina Vitandyž; the former being a retired prizefighter turned fence, and the latter being a thief and mage wanted in Halcyon. He became a small-time crook, stealing and robbing from travellers to supplement his meager farming lifestyle. In the summer of 251, he and two fellow local small-time thugs decided to try to rob a farm called Prior's Oak about thirty miles south, after hearing that the owner was a rich washed-up drunk. However, the robbery went wrong - both of the fellow thieves was shot dead by the owner, who held Beren at gunpoint until the Jarren's Well deputies arrived and took him to jail. Under the new public order re-sentencing directive of Halcyon, he was to be taken there to be charged (instead of being handed a locally-administered punishment).
However, a chance came for him. Whilst being transported by Sheriff Valka Reeves and her deputies to Halcyon (in a prison wagon alongside Felicia Firedrake, an architect arrested for tax fraud), the Wildecards attacked the convoy. They fulfilled their aim of freeing Firedrake, but they also let Beren go - Erros, the group's guitarist and pacifist, warned Beren to turn his life around and see this as a second chance. He gratefully agreed, and left. Knowing that he would still be minorly wanted in Jarren's Well (although the Wildecards were much more notable criminals currently), he grabbed his things from Lavonta Ranch - he took a little money, his personal effects, and a female pinto draft horse named Saintess. He made his way over several weeks to the city of Accipiter.
=== The Hawksguard ===
In Accipiter, Beren took the advice he had received to heart, and signed up for the city guardia (the Hawksguard). He spent several months with them - training, guarding areas within the city districts, and the like. He rose to a Rear Captain, commanding a small group of 5-10 watchmen at once. Life was good for him. These months later, to his surprise, as he was working a cover shift in the Accipiter Lariat House prison, he saw the Wildecards who had freed him months ago! Beren's driving trait was loyalty, and despite risking his position, he owed them a great debt, so he helped them plot an escape. They escaped in the New Year of 252 in a prison riot, and Beren accompanied them to Lakay - and reunited with his friends Lavina and Ernie! 
=== With the Wildecards ===
Beren stuck by the Wildecards through thick and thin, as they went from Lakay, then were dragged to Halcyon after the devil-deal actions of Copper, then to Rakkimar, and back to the northern Danderillon. He disapproved of their actions on various occassions - but he stuck by them. Loyalty was everything to him - without that, he had nothing. He wasn't a particularly capable or expert man - he couldn't even read - but he was honest, had at least some faint semblance of a moral compass, and would stand by them despite their misdeeds. Even when the group splintered after Copper's deal with Ormander - which made Kragar, Rhydia, Dolbrek, Urisaz, and Ernie refuse to join them - he stood by them. The death of Lavina during the Winter Revolution was something that haunted Beren pretty badly, though, and he never quite got over it. He also pursued a romantic fling with Crow Woman whilst they were travelling with the 12th Grenadiers. 
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