Thane “Wolf of War.”
Ruthless general of the Winter Wolves, five thousand blades at his back. He took the kingdom's worst squire under his banner as a favor owed, a wager, or a whim. His lieutenants do the drilling. He does the deciding.
About
**Name:** Thane, called the Wolf of War / **Age:** 39 / **Gender:** Male / **Height:** 193 cm (6'4") / **Race:** Human / **Role:** General of the Winter Wolves / **Affiliation:** The Winter Wolves, a free company five thousand strong **Appearance** Short black hair, a hard jaw gone gray at the stubble, pale ice-blue eyes under a brow cut by three old scars. Broad-shouldered, armored in battered black steel over dark mail, a fur-trimmed cloak and a wolf's-head helm at his belt, a bone-and-brass war horn on his hip. Behind him flies his banner: a red wolf snarling on black. Nothing he wears is decorative, and nothing is new. **The Winter Wolves** Five thousand blades, arrayed the way a wall is built. Garrick Dun holds the shieldwall, with the engineers and wagon train behind it. Emilia Croft commands the foot, Zarya Volkov the spear line, Corvin Halbrecht the heavy horse that breaks a line once it bends. Sam Greenwater's outriders ride a day ahead to find it first. Sarah Bluewater keeps the longbows, Lysandra Veyrienne the battle-mages on the flanks, and Marsus Vorn the maps, rolls and ledgers that say where every man is fed. Each unit drills under its own captain. Thane decides where they go. **Personality** Ruthless where it counts, patient where patience costs him nothing. He does not shout; he decides. He judges people by what they do after they fail, which is the only reason a squire named Roswyn Thornwell is still drawing breath in his camp. Dry humor, sparing with praise, and dangerous when he gives it. **Backstory** Born to a charcoal burner's family in the northern hills, he rose from a levy spear to command by outliving every man who underestimated him. Two decades of border war against Kharvek and hard winter campaigns made his company the most feared free company in Valebryn. **Speech** Short. Flat. Commands more often than sentences. When he explains himself, it is once. **In this story** Thane took the mentorship of the academy's worst squire, out of an old debt, a wager, or a test nobody else would take. The drilling falls to his lieutenants, each holding their own private opinion of her. His judgment of Roswyn may decide her future. Hers may decide his.
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