Tom of Jared's Town

Elliot Seaborn; kin (deceased)

Paulo Seaborn; kin

Leah of Jared's Town; wife (deceased)

Michael of Jared's Town; father-by-law

Justus Eastborn; son

Lena-Auden; daughter

Paulo Eastborn; son

**Ser Tom**, popular as "**The Limp Squire**" was a knight of Jared's Town and Captain of the Townsguard.

sworn sword to Lord Christian Pole.

### Origins

Parentage unknown, only that his grandfather was a sellsword from Antos who ousted his from heritage and wealth after he married a woman of his liking, his mother. After his father's death at the hands of bribed guards, he was sold into slavery by the guard captain as a runaway and bought by a **brothel owner**, whereupon he worked as a Chapman in Antos, growing up on the **Streets of the Free Cities**. He was nicknamed '**Tom**' by the girls at the brothel. At the age of sixteen, **Tom** ran away with a pouch of coppers after killing his master and the brothel owner, a tyrant man who nearly killed one of his brothel girls for pleasure, becoming wanted in **Antos**, and once more a runaway. He jumped aboard a merchant ship sailing to Bill's Town where he adopted the name **Tom Rivers**.

### A Sellsword's Life

In **Bill's Town**, Tom encountered the mistreatment of a merchant's daughter whereupon he jumped in and nearly killed one man to death while his men ran away for which he was arrested and imprisoned. In Prison, Tom befriended two young lads, Elliot Seaborn and Jonah Easternling, imprisoned for killing a rapist and sleeping with the wives of merchant noblemen, respectively. In prison, Tom trained and learned rough fighting to cope with his skinny build for a fight with the help of Elliot and Jonah, both sword fighters.

When bailed out after two months in prison by the merchant whose daughter Tom had saved from mistreatment, as a reward Tom was hired by the merchant as his daughter's bodyguard. He was given a room to live in and two servants for his bath with the upfront payment of 200 Coppers. After some time, Tom bailed out **Jonah** from prison and the two friends became bodyguards, both for the merchant's same daughter, while **Elliot** was bailed out early by his uncles and taken to Oston Castle in **Midland Tyrinia**.

After spending two years with **Merchant Lord Jacob**, the rich sellswords Tom and Jonah moved to Antos which was in dire need of assistance following its war with pirate mercenaries as well as rogue Andal knights led by **Ser Justin Biel**. Arriving in Antos, Tom and Jonah with their men joined the cause for a good price.

### Knighthood

From 108 to 112 CE, **Free Cities** like Antos, Andrea, Seville, and Rogare formed an alliance which became known as The Hazel Quartet. Together with an army of free companies and sellswords, **Antos** and **Andrea** stood a chance for battle. After eighteen skirmishes with six on sea and twelve on land, The Quartet pushed back the invading armies and maintained dominion of their respective holds. For their service for **The Quartet**, the Company of Sellswords led by **Tom Rivers** and **Jonah Easternling** were knighted with Jonah and Tom given wealth and fine positions in the rebuilding government of Antos.

Occupying wealth and fine positions, soon the duo became one of the richest sellswords in Antos, with **Ser Tom** serving as the Sergeant Officer of the City Guard of **Antos**, protecting the city and **Ser Jonah** serving as the Sergeant Officer of the Townsguard Captain of Port Flavius, defending the waters.

### Designation

In 114 CE, a rebel war began in the **Eastern Shores of Valmont**, Ser Tom with his men joined the **Call of Battle** while Ser Jonah with the remaining knightly sellswords remained in Antos. He sailed with Captain Jared and his crew, who were joined at sea by Privateer Captains Allison and Norman with their crews.

Following the **Death of King Edgar in battle along with the Crown Princes Osmund and Egan**, the king's nephew, **Prince Zared** took command of the battle preparations leading the men to victory at the forefronts of **Greenfield**, **Eastshire**, and the **Green River**, securing the control of the power of the crown. Following the crown's control of the **Eastern Shores** and **Land Revolts**, King Edgar's grandson, **Prince Olson** ascended the throne ahead of King Edgar's surviving two sons, and with **Prince Zared** (the king's nephew) and **Prince Olto** (the king's brother), most of the military commanded supported Prince Olson's claim to the throne, leaving in revolt the king's younger brother and youngest son, who was defeated following Prince Zared's campaign against them. During the two campaigns led by Prince Zared, and the prior ones, Ser Tom and his company of knightly sellswords joined the three causes and in their bravery at the **Eastern Front of East River**, they were granted sacks of silver with Ser Tom granted a stead and a patch of farmland in the outskirts of **Elltown**, that acted as a military outpost, Jared's Town, a recently constructed town by Lord Jared Easternling.

Following the **Death of Crown Princes Osmund and Egan**, and the **Death of King Zared II**, the kingdom fell in ruin with

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