Editing Sir Lohenmark (section)

== Background == 
The third son of a landed knight, it was only chance that saw Lohenmark earn his spurs when a ship bearing lumber foundered off-shore from his father's village. Even with the Baron taking two of three parts of the salvage, the windfall was enough that young Lohenmark escaped a future in the service to the divine and was sent to be squired and the arms and armour of a knight were commissioned for him. At the age of eight, until his eighteenth year he studied war and arms in the Baron's court.

Knighted, but with no land to hold, Sir Lohenmark wandered from Free Company to Free Company, gathering a Lance of men to him, mounted sergeants and a brace of archers. In distant lands they fought for a deposed king. The battle was won, but the king died. His mercenary army scattered back into free companies, and began the long voyage back home with every hand turned against them. The fought running skirmishes by day and by night, and one by one Lohemark's men fell.

In a bloody field of rye Lohenmark was struck by an enemy lance as the two forces charged. Lohenmark lay near death, face down in the soil, but the tall rye hid his form from the raiders and they moved on.

Near midnight he was rescued by his young squire, a shifty local Lohenmark had sworn to his service when the previous lad was struck by an arrow. The lad wrestled him into a rickety cart he had stolen, and with a trained warhorse between the poles and the knight hidden in the hay continued their escape.

Lohemark is haunted by his helplessness during his long recovery. If it was not for the guile of his sworn man he would have been captured with no hope of ransom, or worse. He dreams each night of laying in that field of rye while raiders, his family, even the divine and infernal powers discuss his fate, while he is mute.

Not a religious man, in his youth, Lohenmark credits his rescue not just to his squire's ingenuity but to the grace of the divine. He has recently taken a young woman of the Church, a Vestal, into his service. Sister Mary the Confessor is a sister of battle, pious and unrelenting. The divine has not seen fit to grant her the miracles of faith yet, but Lohenmark is sure it is only a matter of time.

Now returned to his homeland, with body healed and armour repaired, Sir Lohenmark has answered the call of Count Regar Ivaris. For glory. For titles! And to prove to all that his rescue from the bloody field was no error.