Dragon Age/PC:Sir Jean-Phillipe Lafayette
Sir Jean-Phillipe Lafayette is a scion of the Lafayette family, once known for its martial might during Drakon's war against the Darkspawn and his family having received their title during that era. Once a proud family with manors and lands that stretched across Orlais, they have fallen on hard times do to a series of scandals that have afflicted the family. Jean's father, Marcon, was caught in an affair with a rogue mage and was rumored to have engaged in pagan rights that have brought shame upon his household. Now the youngest of six children, he knows that when there comes time to inherit the family's meager fortunes will not stretch onto him so he stayed enlisted in the Orlesian Chevaliers for over 10 years, which during times of peace saw him sheperding merchant caravans across the mountains. (An insulting task for someone of his birth, but without a strong family name to help him rise through the ranks, it was all he could do.)
Discharged after loyal service to the Chevaliers, Jean-Phillipe has been forced to sell his services as a sell sword to those who could afford his services. Once used to sleeping in expensive hotels and manors, he has had to spend many nights under the stars, his armor kept wrapped in wool blankets while he ate meals of field rabbit and road apples to survive.
Still believing in the power of the nobility, Jean travels the land helping out those he can. At first he did so to try to build up the prestige of his family name again, but now he finds he is starting to like helping the peasants, and though he prefers nights of bourbon, cards, and dining on Orlesian pheasant he finds it is not too bad a thing to eat at a farmer's table, slowly chewing pouridge while he looks forward to sleeping in a barn that night.
His most notable physical characteristics are a slight graying of his hair at his temples, a scar on his chin from when a jousting match led to his helm being knocked off, and a scar on his neck from a former dalliance with a blacksmith's daughter and her father tried to kill him with a piping hot pair of tongs. Personality: A firm believer that nobility and peasants are two classes of people, Jean struggles with his current humble lifestyle compared to his view of the nobility being Andraste's Gift to the people. He sits proud upon his horse, and often his regal demeanor forces those who look upon him to ignore the shoddy and hastily patched look of his armor.
His horse's name is Charmagne, named after a childhood pony he once had. He treats her as dear to him as a fellow man-at-arms, and always makes sure she has the best carrots and apples to eat, even when he has none.
