Bennard Wrencrest

Bennard Wrencrest is the Lord of Wrencrest Hall and the City of Wrencrest, and head of House Wrencrest. He is married to Adelheid Torck, with whom he has two children, Hulward and Ivagneth. 
Bennard may be recognisable to anyone who was present in Sol between the years 378 and 384, especially if they were involved in the university, visual-artistic, or architectural scene. 
== Biography ==
Bennard was born at Wrencrest Hall in 361 as the secondborn child of Lord Harald Wrencrest and Lady Ivagneth Cobner, after his stillborn older brother, Manward. Four years later, his brother Lackner was born.
Bennard showed a talent for visual art from a young age. While Lackner was a rowdy youth who spent his time wrestling and racing with his friends, Bennard spent time with his mother learning to sew, and would even help the servants with household maintenance and decoration. He was always jumping to speak to merchants and other travellers from the south so he could hear about the relatively fantastical art and architecture of places like Terresol and Araedia.
In his adolescence, he started spending more and more time with Lackner and his friends. In particular, Lackner was being fostered by House Barrmount and had befriended Jarys Barrmount. The boys would drink, engage in dangerous sport, and, as they grew older, even whore. Lord Harald was a fairly easygoing man, but he began to grow fearful of the kind of life his heir was leading and decided to send him to Sol for a university education, hoping it would both appease and refine him. Despite being pulled away from his friends and family, Bennard was overjoyed at the chance to see Terresol and immerse himself in Southern culture and society.
Bennard started his studies at the age of sixteen and stayed for six years until he'd earned a Master of Arts degree. He returned with dreams of making Wrencrest an architectural wonder to rival the cities further south. This fire was soon extinguished by the cold reality of the Iron Plaines. Bennard inherited the fiefdom upon the passing of his father in 385. During the Brother's Rebellion, he led his house to fight alongside Yaron Barrmount as loyalists, in opposition to his liege lord Jarys Barrmount. Hulward, however, had ended up on the other side due to his squireship to Jarys when the war began, and after the war ended, Bennard and his wife had to plead with Yaron Barrmount for clemency for their son.
== Personality ==
Bennard is known for being a friendly man, if shy around new faces. He is very mild-mannered; some even call him meek. As a ruler, he is very involved with the affairs of his city, and greatly values the welfare of his land and its people, though the extent of his aspirations fluctuates with the ebb and flow of the family's prosperity. Lately, Bennard has become a thinner, irritable, tired-looking man, far from his usual self, as he struggles to deal with the Plague, which has crept into his land.
== Appearance ==
Bennard is a typical Wrencrest in appearance: his billowing, brushed-back hair is platinum-blond and starting to grey subtly; his skin is bone-white, his, in particular, having a rosy undertone; his gentle eyes are sky-blue; and, of course, he has quite a bad case of the naturally crooked "Wrencrest nose", a consequence of severe inbreeding in previous generations. Also typical for a Wrencrest, he is slightly short for a man of the Witherlands, and barely has enough strength to serve as a decent soldier for his lord.Category:Characters
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