Jonothor Darvell of Toyne

Lord Jonothor Darvell is a landed knight of Toyne and Assyria. He served as the bannerman of House Merryweather under Lord Riccardo Merryweather. He was also appointed as the Captain of the City Guard of Toyne and the Guard Captain of Lord Aldo Potter.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Born as Elio in 74 CE, his birth place is unknown. He spent his early childhood in Merci until its attack by pirates where his father died protecting the family, after which he along with his mother and sister towards Emirate of Masceranhas but were caught mid way by pirates who captured and enslaved them, taking them along with other captured slaves to be sold in the Free Cities. During their travels, the pirate ship was encircled by privateers transporting frank knights from a peace treaty, when they engaged in naval skirmish, during which the franks killed most of the pirates, eventually enslaving them and rescuing the former pirate slaves to be taken as laborers, among them were Elio, his sister, and his mother (Giovanna of Astore). They were saved and freed by one of the frank knights, Ser Jacob the Frank, his uncle, his mother's brother.
Taken to Astore, a stronghold distrcit of Imperial Tyrinia, Elio grew up alongside his uncles and cousins, and soon after his mother gave birth to his younger sister, who was named Rita. (Although the family knew that their mother only had relations with Elio's father, who died only 6 months before Rita's birth who was born a healthy child, she was nonetheless defamed as a slut in an act of sexual relations during her captivity under pirates) and Elio was also popular as Elio Seaborn in Astore, even defamed by his cousins.
=== Childhood ===
In light of recent defaming, Elio and his family was visited by his estranged paternal-grandfather (father of Elio's father), a man named Riccardo who took with him on his sea voyage to the Free Cities.
Under care of his grandfather, Elio learned reading, writing, riding, sailing, hunting, and craftsmanship. His grandfather was a Sea Captain who worked in the Free Cities of Antos and Andrea as trade merchant of iron, wood, cloth, and animal fur belts (Hareskin, Foxskin, Goatskin, Red Squirrel-skin, and boots (Hareskin, Merci and Northern Steppe Elk-skin, Goatskin, Red Squirrel-skin, Muskox-skin, Zorse-skin), which earned him his wealth and riches, and soon young Elio also learned this skill of hunting, sailing, and craftsmanship.
=== Young Adulthood ===
By tha age of 16, while Elio's grandfather became one of the finest trade merchants and craftsmen of Antos, Andrea, and Vanilla, Elio became a known womanizer, and a skilled and rich trade merchant of iron and animal fur belts and scabbards (made from Assyrian Foxskin, Andal Sheepskin, Assyrian Sheepskin, Egyxosian Goatskin, Red Squirrel-skin, Muskox-skin, Zorse-skin), earning riches of his own and paying back his grandfather for all the many gifts and skills he earned from him.
Elio also graduated from the Vanilla Military Academy in 89 CE as a skilled swordsman and craftsman. He also earned himself the Star of the Academy (given to the Champion Student of the Academy).
=== Knighthood ===
At the age of 17, Elio traveled to Assyria where he took up work as a mercenary, sword for hire. Assyria was located on a strategical land bordering the Northeast Sea and Gulf of Aden, the land of Egyxos, Dorean, and the Free Cities, facing constant threat and war.
As a sellsword, Elio became a fine warrior and was appointed as the Captain of the Township Fort of Darvell (named for its spirit of fearsome warriors), and later helped in reconstruction of the township fort into a garrison fort renamed Fort Darvell, and appointed Garrison Commander and given ownership of the fort, title of knighthood and landed knight, taking up the name, Ser Jonothor of Assyria (making the name up from that of his father, Jocard). After which he returned his homeland of Astore, where he constructed a small holding for himself and his family by the ports of Astore, and purchasing three wharves, taking up the name of Ser Darvell of Astore, and bring his mother and sister in his new home, who began their new life as Giovanna of Astore, Guilia of Astore, and Rita of Astore.
=== Marriage of Rita of Astore ===
As Ser Darvell of Astore, he was appointed the Captain of the Coastal Guard of the Port Township of Belladora, where he lived with his sisters and mother, often visited by his uncle, a frank knight and his son, a scholar and tax collector of the Township of Rivera.
In 94, just two years after settling in the region, Ser Darvell gained a fine name for himself and his family located in the port township. In the third month of the year, a young sailor and son of a trade merchant arrived in the port township with his father to ask for the hand in marriage of Ser Darvell's sister, Rita of Astore. The marriage proposal was immediately discarded by Ser Darvell's mother and elder sister, and the young man was kicked out of the house along with his father. However, the proposal had the support of Ser Darvell and was liked very much by his younger sister Rita who was in love with sailing the seas. Eventually, Ser Darvell managed to convince his mother and elder sister and in the Summer of 94 CE, his sister Rita got married in the Town Hall Square of Belladora, in the presence and support of his grandfather, uncle, elder two cousins, his two step-siblings, his brothers-in-arms from Assyria, Vanilla, and Andrea, and his distant cousins of Andrea and Merci.
It was only a few months after that Ser Darvell found out the marriage was a ruse by pirates who had captured the young sailor's beautiful wife and children, and killed his mother. It was a ruse by pirates to ravage, rape, and eventually behead his sister in revenge of the killing of their captain, the pirate captain who killed Ser Darvell's father during the raid in Merci when he was just a child.
Ser Darvell after hearing the anger and cries of his family left his holding, destroying one third of it in pure anger, and sailed to Andrea and called his companions to kill the group of pirates who captured his sister and bring her home. Around four-hundred men gathered from Assyria, Vanilla, Andrea, Merci, Olton, Portagus, Lanpur, and Belladora to fight for Ser Darvell, better known as Ser Jonothor of Assyria.
In Mid-Winter of 94 CE, Ser Darvell along with hundred ships sailed to the Pirate Holding of Yjdan,
=== Life in Sternlands ===
== Family ==
* Lord {Riccardo of Vanilla}, his paternal grandfather.
** Captain {Jocard the Seafarer of Merci}, his father.
*** Lady {Giovanna of Astore}, his mother.
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* Lord {Jacob the Frank}, his paternal maternal uncle.
* Lord {Mason the Frank}, his maternal younger uncle.