Elton of Cornfield

"*When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach you something*." - **Ser Elton of Cornfield**

## Elton of Cornfield

### Relatives

Daena of Dorean; wife (deceased)Digory Cornfield; younger brother

Jonothor Cornfield; first son

Daeron Cornfield; second son

Garfield Cornfield; third son

Grace Cornfield; elder daughter

Eustace Cornfield; third son

Miranda Cornfield; younger daughter

### Affiliation

House Cornfield, House Blount of Eastshire

## Physical description

### Eye color

Misty Grey

**Lord Elton of Cornfield** is the **Lord of Newtown** as well as the Head and Founder of **House Cornfield**. He is a **Knight of Cornfield**, and a loyal bannermen of House Blount of Eastshire and **Lady Mary Blount**.

## History

### Background

During 148 CE, a young sellsword settled along the East River. The young lad offered his services to noblemen and traders alike as their bodyguard, until the Summer of 151 CE, when he accompanied a nobleman to a **Tourney** in **East Minor**. During the tourney festivals, the sellsword saved the life of a lady, who returned the favor by hiring him as her bodyguard and escort. Sometime in end of 152 CE, the sellsword took the alias of a fallen hedge knight whom he fought alongside once.

### Knighthood

In 153 CE, during a rebel skirmish, the hedge knight saved the life of lord, **Lord Mace Woodville** in battle and become target to injury himself, to which he was rewarded with knighthood and given a towerhouse in the countryside known as '**Cornfield**', to which the hedge knight took on the formal name, "***Ser Elton of Cornfield***". Ser Elton pledged his sword to **Lady Mary Blount**, the one who blessed with fame and honor, and subsequently entered her service as her personal bodyguard and enforcer.

## Rise to Power

### Taking Command

In 154 CE, during a rebel campaign in **Brown Hills**, Ser Elton yet again saved the life of another member of **House Woodville**, his liege lady, to which the **Lady Mary Blount** nicknamed him, "***Ser Elton the Defender***" and rewarded him with lands east of the newly castle being constructed called '**Saint Mary's Keep'**, giving him lordship of the newly constructed and populating settlement called **Newtown**, raising his rank from a landed knight to a lesser lord.

### Guard Captain

In 155 CE, following the construction of **Saint Mary's Keep**, a castle built on the crossing of **East Gate** and **Townsville**, and Lady Mary becoming **Lady of the Castle**, Ser Elton became a member of her guard, and served first as **Guard Captain of Newtown** from 155 CE to 156 CE, and later as her **Guard Captain** from 156 CE to 158 CE, until his relief from duty. During this time, Ser Elton participated alongside Lady Mary in countless skirmishes and adventures along the **East River**, the **Brown Hills**, and **Riverside**, and to voyages across the sea.

### Lordship

Sometime later, during the Fall of 158 CE, Ser Elton was relieved off his duty as **Guard Captain** of **Lady Mary Blount**, and returned to **Newtown** to continue his duty as its lord. During his early time in Newtown, Lord Elton found and took residence in a bailey fort in an uphill, standing tall to Newtown, above the land, and nicknamed it, '**Elton's Keep**', following which he founded **House Cornfield**, a vassal of House Blount of Eastshire and loyal banner of **Lady Mary Blount**.

In 160 CE, after House Cornfield became a well settled house, Lord Elton returned to **Altmore**, and brought back his brother, a young knight of **Greenlands** to **Eastshire**, where he resided along with Lord Elton and his family in **Elton's Keep**.

## Marriage

Sometime during 154 CE, Ser Elton ventured east to the **Free City of Dorean** during his stay in Tyrinia on a royal wedding, such being the **Kingdoms of Easternlands** and **Vale** in strong ties to the **Kingdom of Tyrinia**, where all noble and lesser houses voyaged for a royal wedding, considering how less weddings took place in Sternlands with all of the battles, rebellion, and politics.

During his venture to the City of Dorean, Ser Elton acquainted with nobles and knights alike after championing in a tourney festival. During this festival, Ser Elton saved the honor of a young maiden, for which he cut deep with the relations of the nobles of Dorean. On their return to Sternlands, Lady Daena of Dorean fled with Ser Elton in the ship that arrived in **Eastshire**. In April of 155 CE, following the completion of the construction of Saint Mary's Keep, Ser Elton's wedding to Lady Daena of Dorean was held in the castle by Lady Mary.