Dontos Sarwyck

Dontos 97 AC after ennobled

His crest

## Appearance and Character

Dontos is a lanky man of slender build, barely educated, and more smallfolk than knight. He has grown up fairly alone with his series of tragedies and now recently ennobled must delve through the politics and webs of the social scene. Veteran of the Rosegold m, he is however still touched by the carnage before and prefers the quiet of his forest over the cityscapes and castles of the realm

## History

### **A rise from nothing**

Dontos was born in 76 AC to a woodsmen named Samwell and a mother Denys. They had no means being smallfolk by the river near Nunn’s Deep. He remembers little of his childhood as it was tough and his father was a cold man. His mother was taken before he was ten by the blight and he recalls that the forest lost its music then.

He was a small and sickly kid, often in fights just because he was angry or in trouble because he had nothing.

His father died when he was eleven. A lot of boys from the area lost families around then, a local septon organized places for them to stay and work for them in the sept. Reading and writing came hard to Dontos, he could manage, but it strained his mind to fix words to shapes. This hampered his social ability as well as he was a loner and there was nothing special.

### **Rosegold and the Archer**

The heir to Golden Tooth led a company of men during the rebellion and Dontos couldn’t remember if he volunteered or was drafted, but since he was a lanky lad at this time he was placed with the longbowmen of the Tooth. He learned much as he was a sponge. Trusted to relay orders cause his ability to read at first he was just a meager courier.

Here he met Tygs, a decade older than Dontos who had a brother around his age who fell to the blight. He took him under his wing and taught him the art of the Bow. He taught him to sneak and go unnoticed, but Dontos has spent a lifetime using those skills and was soon teaching Tygs and his squad how to move through the woods and plains unseen.

### **The Death and the Birth**

Tygs fell during the battle of Tumblers fallthat came and Dontos was heartbroken to lose really his only friend. Yet Tygs left behind a son, who Dontos took as his ward, sending him money and wages.

### **The City of Kings, the Graveyard of Man**

Death. Death and Ash, the dragons chains had been loosed and it had crushed their advance. They were cut off from the main host, two dozen peasants and archers against knights and men at arms. Dontos has led them here, his soot stained face, his broken blade and empty quiver.

Bloodied and beaten they prepared a counter charge driving them back, fate intervened as the heir to House Lefford, Lorent led a charge into their flank at that time, saving the men and providing them an avenue back safely to regroup with the Western Host.

A strange bond formed between the two as Dontos was recognized as a skilled archer and scout by the remnants of his men and Lorent honored him with a seat in his attaché as commander of his scouts and archers. When they returned, he was honored more with Knighthood and a parcel of lands near the river including a sizeable farmstead and his beloved forests.

Now with Tion as his apprentice he guards the Northern border of the Tumblestone river as it snakes out of the mountains as a banner man of House Lefford, he has no real wealth, no men at arms, but he has a place and like any good archer has already found his aim at another goal.

## Tion

Left to be raised by his mother after the death of his father Tygs, they almost starved until the wages of Dontos came through to them he is a kind and chubby young man. Often talking Dontos out of a kill as he prefers to take and domesticate the creatures rather than eat. He is a bit touched and luckily sheltered as he is a well liked youth who enjoys the finer things of being raised as Dontos’ ward.

## Family

Father and Mother dead leaving him orphaned as he is first of his house.