Roderick Lhantun

Roderick Lhantun (611 - 672) was the head of House Lhantun and Baron of Pantmawr, a small town on the Packmoor. He was a minor commander during the Scanbroughan Secession, and earned fame and glory during the Battle of Shepsted Hill as a commander of archers and men-at-arms.
After the Secession, Lhantun stayed loyal to his liege's liegelord, the Duke of Armel, and seceded to become part of the new Kingdom of Dunfleasel. He served as the commander of Armel's forces during the Sultan's War.
== Personality ==
Roderick was known by his friends as being soft-spoken and peaceful. He was a patron of the arts, such as they are in the backwater of Pantmawr.
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Roderick was born in 611 to Baron Herd of Pantmawr and his wife Jeanne. He was an only child, and was tutored by his father's personal friend Count Seachan of the Packmoor. It was here that his tactical genius was realised through countless games of chess played against Seachan's household guard. Roderick inherited his father's lands in 630 when his father died due to a local outbreak of cholera.
=== Scanbroughan Secession ===
Roderick was tested early. In 634, the Scanbroughan Secession took place and Roderick was nominated by Count Seachan to command several dozen men-at-arms and archers during the conflict. By the end of the two-year war, this command had swelled to two thousand - all of Packmoor's levies, as well as many men pledged to the Counties of Limebridge and Greenal as well. He acquitted himself particularly well during the Battle of Shepsted Hill, and was appointed Aide-Marshal of the Packmoor.
=== Later Life ===
From here until his later years, Roderick had a peaceful life. He married and had children, then promised those children in marriage, as was tradition in the are, to strengthen familial ties between himself and the other local lords.
=== Sultan's War ===
In 659, Roderick was again called to war. Dunfleasel was invaded by Falsil, and with the capital under siege and the King trapped, it fell - somwhow - to Roderick to command all of Dunfleasel's forces - a modest seven thousand men or so. He was supported by the King of Faramond and his men, and spent the war poking at the numerically superior Falsili forces. He did, in December 660, take the city of Takalmas. The King of Faramond, acting on 'Roderick's orders', put the city to the torch and massacred the local noblemen to get revenge for the death of the Dunn royal family at the Sack of Berham the year before.
=== Abdication and Death ===
Roderick never really lived down that last action. He was so disgusted by the Sack of Takalmas that, immediately after the war, he lay down his sword and stepped down as Aide-Marshal. The next year, he abdicated in favour of his son Folster. He died in 672, in a bed which had been carried out into the orchards of Pantmawr, surrounded by his wife and children.Category:People
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