Sid Blackwood

“A soldier knows but one truth, and that truth is, without faith, you are already as good as dead. Faith in the soldier at your side. But even more important – and no matter how delusional it is in truth – there is the faith that you cannot be killed. Those two and those two alone – they are the legs holding up every army.”
-Sid Blackwood
== History ==
The warrior Sid Blackwood was a compatriot of the other two preeminent warriors of Stormhold, Sceledrus Kane and Duvark Greysteel. While Kane commanded troops in the capital, and Greysteel became bodyguard and chief military adviser to King Rainer, Blackwood became a general on the kingdom's frontier. He fought many victorious battles against the orcs and goblinoids of Ziril Zimkel, and as a reward was granted mayorship of the border city of Harkinhill. Blackwood's military duties did not end here. Harkinhill was drawn into Sceledrus' rebellion, when Sceledrus Kane, fleeing from his failed attack on Stormhold, tried to win Blackwood to his side by persuasion and threats. Blackwood stood firm against the rebel leader, and upon learning of King Rainer's sickness, sent to the capital to investigate what was going on. He was ejected by the king's adviser, Adyra Alderstar, after which he rounded up a company of knights and departed. He was drawn into conflict again during the orc attack on the Northern Spine. He and his men launched a series of daring raids into enemy territory, gathering valuable intelligence, but ended up being captured. He was rescued by the Steel Jackals, and accompanied them to Stormhold in order to heal the king and cast out his treacherous adviser, Alderstar. Blackwood was able to convince his old friend, the king's bodyguard Duvark Greysteel, to stand aside, but was killed when Alderstar revealed herself to be a dragon in disguise. He was incinerated in the fight that followed. 
== Personality ==
Sid Blackwood was was a direct, honorable, and decisive man who, being confronted with problems, took immediate action at the expense of caution. He stood by his friends, but was not afraid to confront them when they were in the wrong. Though he had retired from active duty, he had a military frame of mind and enjoyed leading his men in battle, and sometimes even striking out on his own. Like much of Stormhold's top brass, he had a low opinion of easterners, considering them to have a mercenary nature. 
Category:Lands of Löthur
Category:Dead
Category:Kingdom of Stormhold
Category:Chaotic Good