Oswald Knox

Lord Oswald Knox is the incumbent patriarch of the ancient and powerful Knox family. At 90 years of age, Oswald prides himself as the oldest living Knox lord in recorded memory. In his youth he was a fierce and unmatched fighter, serving as a Crusader for the Temple, and was a contender for the hand of Isabella Karhall in marriage. Her union with Giacomo Blackthorne infuriated him. As if to add insult to injury, the children of his rival's marriage grew to be heroes--Oswald's wife, Una Corcoran, yielded only deformed and stillborn children. After she caught the pox from a sailor she was having an affair with, Una passed away and Oswald replaced her with his second wife, an elven woman named Ginevra. This also proved fruitless--a slight thing, the elf died in the delivery of a daughter, her baby following her not long after. With no heirs, it seemed the Knox line was under threat. When Oswald threw his back out in a joust and retired from combat duties at the age of 47, he became determined to sire a child and became convinced that his previous wives had failed him due to "impure breeding." He thus married his far-younger cousin, Vivian. The union was frowned upon at the time by even the allies of House Knox. They were soon silenced, however, when the union produced a series of healthy sons. Vivian died when delivering her fourth child, and Oswald turned his attention to raising his children--imparting upon them, upon many other things, his burning hatred of House Blackthorne...
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