Xan Cruize (KnightlyRoutine)

Alex, Xander, or Knight, is a young Harbinger of Chivalry who recently found OMO.

## Overview

An inexperienced Practitioner whose power was passed down along his father's line to him. He tends to be brash and impulsive, especially when people are in danger, but he recognizes when it's pointed out to him.

## Appearance

Being a Harbinger, Xander's appearance is on a sliding scale depending on how much of his Patron he's tapped into at the moment. His baseline form is a 5'7 16-year-old male with shoulder-length black hair, pale blue eyes, a slight frame, and pale skin. He wears comfortable, practical clothing, and always has a denim jacket that is festooned with pins and buttons of various types. On the center of his left breast is his Token, a silver sword pin that is usually sat within a red embroidered circle.

When transformed, Xander tends to manifest shining armor. His hair grows longer (shoulder-blades or mid-back rather than shoulder length), his jaw firms up, and he gets taller. Fully transformed, he looks like the Incarnation of Chivalry that he houses. In this form, he stands fully 6'6, with broad shoulders, decked head to toe in armor and wielding a deadly arming sword. His face is usually hidden by his helmet, but with the helmet removed he looks like more traditionally masculine, though his hair and eye colors remain the same.

## Powers and Practice

Being a Harbinger of Chivalry, Xander taps into his patron's well of power to manifest various effects. Most obviously is his transformation, which gives him heightened combat skills, but he is also able to manifest his pin into a sword on its own.

Additionally, he is always surrounded by the Storm, the essence of his Patron radiating off of him to infect those nearby. Unlike other Harbinger storms, Chivalry's is very focused. Any individual who interacts with Xander is compelled to be more straightforward and direct about their intentions, words, and actions. Xander has not yet figured this out.

He has not done much practicing except to bind his Token so it doesn't run rampant over him.

## History

### Pre-OMO

Xander was Awakened two weeks before his father died. He did a lot of studying in that time, preparing to take on the burden of being Chivalry's Harbinger. After his father died he spent a month holed up getting things in order. While taking a break from his duties, he went on a walk and encountered three men accosting a girl his age. He stepped in and used subtle tricks of Practice to drive the men away. Only once they were gone did he learn that all four of the strangers were Faeries, and he had just stepped into their plot as the protagonist.

He took the Fae woman, Sylvaine, home on her insistence and immediately began looking for a way out of the plot.

### OMO

He created a thread seeking advice and got many pieces of useful and conflicting advice. When one person told him to flip the script for a hope of survival, he latched onto it. With the help of Landis II via private messages, he decided to try and turn the plot into that of a Saturday morning cartoon.

For some fucking reason, this worked. He made a compact with the Fae to try and help them circumvent their exile by letting the three male Fae come challenge him out of town once a week, and for Sylvaine to possibly become his Familiar.

Realizing he was still inexperienced, he reached out again about taking a Fae as his Familiar. Luckily Silver was there to tell him how bad of an idea it was. After briefly panicking, he realized that he had a way to escape certain demise. He cancelled his contract with the Fae, giving him seven days to pack and leave without their interference. He loaded all of his father's books, his clothes, and a few precious belongings into his car and drove away from home to try and make the grand opening of Sanctuary.

### Sanctuary

This is the ongoing event in the timeline.

## Relationships

**Silver**: Knows she's part-Fae, heeds her advice when she says not to trust Fae. Ain't that a fun little paradox?

**viceVersailes**: Learned some interesting bit of Self Practice from someone who co-authored a book. Looks up to this person.

**Justin/Landis II**: Helped Landis figure out a diagram to bind an incorporeal Other to a video camera in exchange for ideas about his own situation. So far, seems friendly.