Sir Xande of Eastwood was knighted on Day 1 of King's Week in 268 RP.
His vows:
- Answer any challenge, but never escalate.
- Always maintain decorum. Rudeness is an admission of fear.
- Refrain from giving offense or insult, brook no insult from an equal or lessor.
- Respect the defeated, and accept their service if offered.
- Never run from an enemy, never spare a deserter.
- Spare no traitor’s life, and defend the truthsayer.
- Speak the truth without hesitation or reservation.
- In all matters, finish what was started.
Sir Xande has loved racing and riding since boyhood. He is a younger cousin of Sir Lucan Eastwood. Having never much cared for religion or politics, he has always trained with an eye toward joining the Household Heavy Household Cavalry of Bedivere. After a traveller from Altonbrun bested him on a massive Kroke, he became enamored of the creatures and toured the western steppes for several seasons, eventually returning astride a kroke of his own. He still maintains a correspondence with an innkeeper's assistant named Goff in Brimladum, who happens to be a Canidaur.
Now he is attended by Squire Aglovale of Blackfield, a pious follower of Karna with a surprisingly boundless love of whoring.