Percival Hyraksos

 Age 20:
Backstory:
Percival was born in 1000 and is the oldest grandson of the current Minister of War, Admiral Lucius Hyraksos. From the time he was a child, the Hyraksos family sought great things from their first born child. Percival was put through rigorous training and studies in order to groom him to one day replace his grandfather as the Mister of War, so that Lucius could ultimately retire. During his early years this pressure did not seem to show any kind of negative effect on Percival, for he showed great talent and intelligence when it came to learning the art of war. He would spend whole days in the libraries of Specularum studying old Thyatian battles and tactics in order to further his understanding of this grisly art. The Hyraksos family also spared no expensive getting Percival the best tutors to help train him to be a great soldier and gentlemen in preparation for his future. Lucius himself would even helped tutor Percival when he could spared the time, helping to give him the ins and outs of how the Karameikos military worked. Under this rigorous education the Hyraksos family believed that Percival would blossom into a great leader like his grandfather, and would lead the fledgling nation to further glory. The family where so sure of this that they even approached the Vorloi family with the proposition of arranging a marriage between the young Alexandra and Percival to strengthen the ties between the two families. However, things didn’t exactly go as planned for the Hyraksos family and their golden boy.
As Percival became a teenager, the years of his rigorous studying started to weigh heavily on his mental health. The once bright eyed boy who would find great excitement in studying with his tutors and grandfather turned into a moody slugabed who couldn’t properly deal with the pressure of what his family desired from him. Percival started to ditch his lessons, instead seeking to sneak out with his friends to wander the streets of Specularum engaging in trickery and mischief befitting a boy his age. This caused the Hyraksos family great strife due to the bad reputation that their eldest started to gain within the city. Time and time again they would have to bail Percival out of trouble with the city guard due to some prank he and his friends would play at the Duke’s Place, Bricktop or The Hill. This great strife eventually started to create a rift between Percival and his family, due to the resentment he had towards them. Percival hated the fact that his family had basically planned out his entire life for him. He didn’t want to become the next Minister of War anymore or even to get married to Alexandra Vorloi simply to further his family’s place in society. What Percival desired more than anything was the freedom to create his own path in life, without having his family constantly breathing down his neck and making outlandish demands of him. Percival’s behavior reflected poorly on the Hyraksos reputation in the social circles of Specularum, with many nobles shaking their heads and stating that he was nothing more than a failure not worthy of his family’s name. Percival’s father became furious as the years went on, ultimately leading to an accident when he was sparring with Percival in which his son lost his left eye. The accident only served to worsen Percival’s mood and resentment towards his family, causing him to take up drinking to deal with the mess that was his life.
One night while drinking Percival’s friends dared him to sneak into the great cathedral belonging to the Church of Karameikos in order to disrupt one of the sermons currently in process. The drunk Percival blindly accepted this challenge and handed towards the great church at once. He only managed to make it to the stairs of the great building before he vomited and passed out. A group of novices found him and put the task of looking after the drunk boy in the hands of the youngest and shyest of their group Deirdre. Thought frightened at first, Deirdre took the up this charge and looked after the poor boy until he wake up the next day with a horrible headache. Upon waking up with a bad handover Percival mistook Deidre for an angle to which she smiled and simply replied that she wasn’t. Over the next few months Percival began to spend more and more time with Deirdre, learning more about her faith and life story. She was from a lesser Thyatian noble family who had traveled to Karameikos to make gain mark. Although Deirdre’s family never gained as much wealth as the Vorlois or Kelvins, they had done modestly well for themselves. Deidre was the youngest and had been sent off to become a Priestess of the Church of Karameikos as a result. In time Percival began to develop feelings for Deidre. She was the first person who had made Percival feel truly alive in years. One day, several months after meeting Deirdre, Percival proposed to her out of the blue. While Deirdre was shocked and didn’t know what to say, her family quickly jumped on the offer seeing the Percival was from a wealthy, titled family. Why the Hyraksos family ultimately allowed Percival to marry Deidre to up to speculation. Some say it was because the family show that Percival’s mood seemed to get better when he was around Deidre and nobody else. Others say it was out of a sense of remorse due to the accident that had left Percival with only one eye. Either way Percival and Deirdre where soon married and Percival’s years of stumbling in the dark seemed to finally have ended. However, even with this union Percival still bore so animosity towards his family because their desire for him to become Minister of War had still not changed. Due to this, when he heard that one of Count William’s Entourage, Roseanna, was going to start building a church-fortress in Highreach, he took this opportunity to leave Specularum with his new wife in order to start a new life. Maybe this opportunity could finally give him a chance to figure things out and allow him to start forging his own path in life.