Lady Theresa Alyn

Basic Speed: 6.0  fPD: 8 rPD: 4 DR:5  Move: 4  Dodge: 3  Block: 7  
Sword Damage: 1d imp/1d+3 cut Parry: 7 Shield Damage: 1d-1 crush
HTH Damage: 1d-2 crush  Parry: 9 Kick: 1d cr Parry: 6   
Height: 5'8"  Weight: 136  Eyes: Brown  Hair: Brown 

ATTRIBUTES                  ADVANTAGES     
ST: 12 (20 pts)             Attractive Appearance (5 pts) 
                            Legal Enforcement Powers (15 pts)
DX: 14 (45 pts)             High Pain Threshold (10 pts)
                            Rapid Healing (5 pts)
IQ: 10 (0 pts)              Status 2 [Knight Errant] (10 pts)
                            Wealth [x 5] (20 pts)
HT: 10 (0 pts)               total Advantages: 65 points
 total Attributes: 65 points                             

                          SKILLS                            
Area Knowledge: Eadloch 10- (1 pt); Axe/Mace 12- (1/2 
pt); Brawling 13- (1/2 pt); Broadsword 14- (2 pts); 
Dancing 12- (1/2 pt); Fast Draw: Shield 14- (1/2 pt);      
Fast Draw: Sword 14- (1/2 pt); First Aid 8- (1/2 pt); 
Heraldry 10- (2 pts); Lance 12- (1/2 pt); Law [+4 
specialiation bonus to criminal law] 12- (1 pt); Politics 
9- (1 pt); Ride Horse 14- (2 pts); Running 8- (1 pt); 
Savoir-Faire 12- (0 pts); Shield 14- (1 pt); Tactics 8- 
(1/2 pt);  
 total Skills: 15 points       
          
DISADVANTAGES                            QUIRKS
Overconfidence (-10 pts)                 Aggressive Fighter (-1 pt) 
Duty 15-  (-15 pts)                      Has a nervous laugh (-1 pt)   
Vow: Fight Injustice (-10 pts)           Gloats over bested foes (-1 pt)
Bad Reputation [Female Knight] (-5 pts)  Protective of children (-1 pt) 
 total Disadvantages: -40 points         Likes Snowy weather (-1 pt) 
                                          total Quirks: -5 points

                            TOTAL COST: 100 points 

                                   EQUIPMENT 
Half Plate Armor; Thrusting Broadsword; Large Shield; Backpack; Personal 

Basics; 1 wks rations; Wineskin & Wine; $869 in cash;  
Weight of Equipment: 108 lbs 

Riding Horse, Saddle Bit & Bridle, Saddlebags  
Movement penalty: -3 (factored in already)  

     Background: Theresa was one of few survivors from 
the massacre at Greenford town in the principality of 
Eadloch.  The ogreish raiders who sacked the town were      
exceptionally vicious.  It helped that the man sharing 
the parapet they defended was a knight commander, but her 
own raw fury at the ogres as they tried to scale their 
tower proved nearly as effective as the knight's skill at 
arms.  When relief troops drove the ogres off, they were 
part of slightly more than a dozen survivors, who'd 
generally managed to hide, play dead, or as in one other 
case, fight continously and hold them off.  

     She had no surviving family.  Sir Neal arranged to 
have her made his ward.  He continously bragged about how 
well she'd fought.  This was done as much to make the 
knights under his command to show as much perserverance 
as it was to praise her.  He further encouraged her to 
take up training at arms.  It gave him more time to be 
with her for one thing.  And it certainly would help the 
girl defend herself if she needed to. 

     Theresa learned quite well.  She proved as fit a 
warrior as any squire her age & size, perhaps more so.  
Somewhere during her training, probably early on, it'd 
ceased being a game to her.  Theresa was well on her way 
to becoming a knight.  Sir Neal was probably the last to 
realize how serious a matter it was.  At first he balked 
at the idea.  But he couldn't fault her abilities, nor 
could he deny that she'd been battle tested, something 
many squires couldn't say.  

     Reluctantly, he agreed.  Despite considerable 
difficulties due to her gender, she won her spurs.  
Legally, she is no different from male knights of the 
realm.  Realistically, the gender bias still worked 
against her.  A  knight has several primary duties to a 
liege lord, warrior, messenger, envoy, and agent of that 
lord's justice.  She drew the least popular assignment:  
Bandit hunter.  A fact unlikely to change until and 
unless the soldiers, both horse and infantry accept her.