Yann Fleetway

Linda Santonio (sister)

Papi Santonio (father)

**Leandro Santonio**, also known as **Fleetway**, infamous for his theft and swordsmanship is a sellsword from **Antos**, a township of **Slaver's City**. He is a Nobleman in **East Town**.

Initially a skilled fighter and an exile from the **Free Cities**. He comes to prominence when he champions for Lord **Frank Abbottshire** in a trial by combat in East Town, Leandro subsequently enters Lord Frank's service as his personal bodyguard and enforcer.

His fortunes continue to rise during his service in **Ivan's Hill**, briefly when he serves as Captain of **Fort Moore**'s City Guard during a rebellion and minor conflicts. He is rewarded with a small holding in East Town, where he becomes a nobleman and known sellsword of the **Eastshire** by the name of **Yann Fleetway**.

## History

### Background

Born in **Antos**, a township of **Slaver's City**, he is a descendant of **Mark Antonio**. He is the son of a sailor and a maiden.

Throughout his childhood, he is known as a notorious sword fighter and thief all over Antos, and its neighboring townships of **Andreas**, **San Rico**, and **Pillar's City**. At the age of 12, he was caught by sea mercenaries and taken a slave, only to be freed after killing his slave master and running away. At the age of 14, he slept with a noble's daughter and was outcasted from Antos, only to return after two years, by which time he became a known sword fighter and thief, by the name "**Fleetway**".

After sleeping with the daughter of a nobleman of Antos, **Mercury Smith**, he fought off the son of the nobleman in a trial by combat, only to kill him, and got exiled out from the **Free Cities**. He sailed with his best friend, **Joe**, on a merchant ship to the far lands, beyond the **Great Stern**.

### Beyond the Great Stern

During his time as an exile, Leandro traveled to **East Hills**, **Portlands**, and the **Juvenile Islands** along with the merchants, where he learned the trade of spice, and moved to a settlement in **Eastshire**, near the township of **East Town**, bidding farewell to the company he once traveled with.

As a spice merchant, he was accompanied by a man from the company of merchants. The man was a skilled fighter and trained Leandro in his way, in exchange for housing. Together, Leandro and the man became rich pretty quickly, but in 213 CE, during a conflict between two lords, the regions came into a small skirmish, where the man died. Upon his death, Leandro inherited an antique ring and the man's name, **Yanovan**, shortening it to Yann, becoming known from that day on as **Yann Fleetway**.

### Rise to Power

In 217 CE, Yann came into prominence when he championed for a lesser lord in East Town, one who was wrongly accused by the noblemen of Eastshire. Yann championed for the lord and fought off against two knights, one of whom was a younger brother to the noble lord. For his reward, Yann became the **sworn sword** of Master Frank and served as his personal bodyguard from then on.

In 219 CE, towards the end of a two-decade conflict, the kingdoms unified under the crown of King Harold II, and the **United Kingdom** was formed. In this unification, the heads of the **Abbottshire Family** were killed in battle, leaving young **Frank Abbottshire** as Lord of East Town, and Head of the Abbottshire Family. When Lord Frank became a notable lord in Eastshire, Yann became one of his closest companions and his most important enforcer.

In 221 CE, the **First Southern Conflict** took place, also known as the **Battle of Tarain**, where Yann fought vigorously and defeated a notable knight and local lord by the borders of the southern region, earning him a knighthood and he became known as "**Yann the Swift**", because of his lethal fighting style. He was also known as "**Ser Yann of East River**".

During the formation of the **Royal Council** of the United Kingdom, **House Abbottshire** was founded by Lord **Frank Abbottshire**, with **Ser Yann** as his most notable bannermen and ally. During his later years in the kingdom, Yann became a notable knight of the United Kingdom and a strong nobleman of East Town, earning small holdings and land by the East River.

### Marriage

Following the End of the **First Southern Conflict**, Ser Yann, a notable knight became a loyal supporter of the Abbottshire Family and the closest ally of Lord Frank Abbottshire. In 223 CE, to strengthen their ties, Lord Frank Abbottshire joined hands with **House Hunter of Redrrow** by matrimony. In the Fall of 223 CE, Ser Yann wed the second daughter of **Lord Austin Hunter**.

### Lordship

In 225 CE, with the sudden death of Lady Anne Hunter, the heir of House Hunter of Redrrow and the eldest daughter of Lord Austin Hunter, his second daughter, Lady **Lollys Hunter** ascended the throne, making **Ser Yann Fleetway** the Head of House Hunter after the death of Lord Austin.

In 228 CE, Lord Austin Hunter died of pox at the age of 63, making Lady Lollys Hunter and Ser Yann Fleetway, Head of House Hunter of Redrrow, and the eventually the extinction of the house. In 229 CE, Ser Yann built a strong castle by the East River, bordering the Southern and Western Regions, **Fort Ambrose**, which became the seat of **House Hunter of Eastshire**.

In 232 CE, after the foundation of the Eastshire Province, Ser Yann became Lord of East River, and Vice-Roy of East Town, with Lord Frank Abbottshire becoming the Governor of Eastshire. After becoming Lord of East River, Ser Yann reunited with his lost siblings, and kept them with him safe in the strong and vast castle of Fort Ambrose.