William Bennett

William Bennett is a human knight who fought to save, protect, and eventually lead a nation of people amidst the onslaught of several destructive forces. He was bestowed with an artifact of the gods in order to do this, and when his task was finished, he returned the artifact to a chapel of the gods. Future problems would plague his descendants, and that artifact would be needed once again, and with it, his spirit would help guide his descendants in continuing to preserve and protect their home and people.

## Personal Backstory

My name comes from a more recent part of my role-play history. In 2011, I started writing a story of a kingdom called Verdania in the north-east of a very lush, forested continent. There was a surge of undead all across the continent, and while some matters were discovered and dealt with, news of these things happening all over the continent sent panic throughout a lot of people and places. Eventually, William Bennet found an abandoned town and was chased out of it by the Undead that had either killed or chased off the former inhabitants. Verdania eventually became just like those other places, abandoned from the undead attacks. The king was slain, the people were scattered, and William and his brother soon found themselves sheltered with a bunch of other refugees in an old, deserted chapel. They found books written in a language they should not have been able to read, but then William started chanting passages from it.

He and his brother discovered two swords secreted away in the chapel and with them went back out of the chapel in time to face a hoard of undead coming their way. With the power of the swords and the magical, mystical words William was speaking, the undead were struck down. They built a new town and a new kingdom outside of the forest this chapel was in, in close proximity. William became the King of this new territory and before he died, had the sword and book returned to the chapel. His daughter became the Queen after he passed on. His younger brother passed his sword down among his descendants, but his side of the family never came to power as king's of their new haven of a kingdom.

### How the Story Continues...

I never really delved much deeper into their story, though I'm sure I could at some point, but they have become more background story to other characters and other things. This was literally backstory to the story I wrote in 2011, as that story dealt with descendants of William and his Brother several hundred years later. However, their descendants also had their own stories woven into the backstory of that writing. I have never, however, attempted to play either of the brothers in a D&D setting.

## Continuity

I was in my early teens when I came I came up with William. It was not a lot of thought that went into his creation. All I can remember, honestly, is wanting a character with a magical sword and the idea of an impactful meaning and compulsion towards great deeds because of that sword. What that impactful meaning was... I have no idea, I hadn't come up with one at the time. I wasn't a very intelligent teen. If I had come up with anything more, I cannot remember it now. He was posed to just be in a magical medieval setting.

#### AOL/Rhy'din

I originally came up with this character in AOL chat room role-play, where I simply came up with a character who was a warrior of justice and bore an artifact called The Sword of Wisdom. I did not know of the Sword of Truth book series at the time, but someone else in the chat posed the idea that his character was a brother, and he claimed to have The Sword of Truth. I went with it, and loved every moment of it. It was short-lived, but it was fun while it lasted. I did not do much else with William after this, and served really as a means of informing me of how to better make a character and to have fun with completely random encounters/chance.

#### NaNoWriMo

In 2011, I took my first stab at trying this challenge. For those that do not know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writer's Month, which is in November. It is a completely voluntary challenge to writers to write 50,000 words in the span of the month. There's no prize other than the satisfaction in having done it, but there's a website for the challenge with other challenges and events that play out in the rest of the year. I barely managed to succeed in my first attempt, but it was in my first attempt that I posed a world where a bunch of my characters were brought into coexistence. Not necessarily related, but nevertheless part of the same world, and in some cases are aware of and know each other. William Bennett became a figure in the history of a kingdom I was writing about and is a hero of the past. I took part of the role-play from AOL as inspiration for it, and from such, made William the older brother, instead of the younger, and wrote up a new younger brother for the story as well.

#### Video Game Renditions

Not much here, either. While William is the second oldest character I've ever made, he is not as consistently played. I never really developed much of his backstory because he was just a concept more than an actual character idea. Nevertheless, I played him, and the new younger brother, in World of Warcraft, where they were made as citizens of the kingdom of Gilneas. In the Cataclysm expansion, this meant he was a Gilnean turned Worgen, while the younger brother was not. They lost track of each other in the events that led to the conversion of so many Gilneans, and William was working like so many others to change the world's purview of them so they could be seen as more than the curse that affected them.

## Appearance

Name: William Bennett

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 199 lbs

Age: ? (I mean, he's technically dead from old age)

Known aliases: None

Build: Having been a fighter and a knight, he was built to be strong and durable. He wore heavy armor, carried a sword and shield, so he was muscled.

Scars: ? I'm sure he had some.

Tattoos: None

Piercings: None

Sadly, I have no pictures of him, just a vague idea in my head of what he looks like.

## Family

I made an "extensive" family tree for him in the sense that I came up with the idea that he had hundreds of years of descendants, but there were really only a select few that were named and had any story of their own.

He had a younger brother named Daniel, who was created only for the purposes of the story I began writing and then eventually morphed into a character that I had developed more, and played more, than his elder brother.

His only child was a daughter, named Elizabeth. As such, any descendants of his, directly, are mixed amidst other families. The royal family quickly moved away from the Bennett line as his daughter had children, and she was eventually succeeded by other Queens, who married into other families. By the time of the story I was writing, the royal line was far seperated from the Bennett line, and the only remnants of Bennett descent are from his younger brother's line.