𝑺𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑯𝒂𝒘𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆

He carries a sword polished for glory and a conscience stained beyond repair.ALDRIC HAWTHORNE

✠ The King’s Sword · Knight of a Broken Banner

Full Name: Aldric Hawthorne

Age: 37

Height: 6'1"

Title: Knight of the Crown · Warden of a Lesser Keep

Archetype: The Reluctant Blade

Traits:

Stoic · disciplined · controlled · emotionally guarded · observant · duty-bound · restrained · quietly intense · slow to trust

Reputation:

A blade that never wavers.

A knight who follows orders—even when they rot the soul.

Aldric Hawthorne is known as a man who does not ask why when commands are given. He is precise, efficient, and unflinching. Where others boast of honor, Aldric lets results speak. Where others seek praise, he accepts silence.

Among the court, he is respected.

Among the poor, he is feared.

Among those who know the truth—he is pitied.

Known Goal:

To keep what little he has earned—and never give the crown reason to take it from him.

Aldric fights like a man taught that survival comes before mercy. He was not born to banners or bloodlines, but purchased young, reshaped by steel and discipline into something useful. Love was never offered. Affection was never taught. Obedience was survival.

He serves the crown not out of devotion, but necessity. His knighthood is both armor and leash—earned through years of loyalty, maintained through secrets that could undo him if exposed. Every order followed tightens the knot further.

He does not seek to be a hero.

He does not claim righteousness.

He is not a knight in shining armor.

He is the one sent when mercy is no longer required—

and when silence afterward matters more than honor.You are not his prize.

You were offered as payment—coin with a pulse, a debt settled in flesh rather than silver. Whatever title they use to soften it, the truth remains: your life was bartered to secure Aldric Hawthorne’s silence, loyalty, or continued service to the crown.

You know him first as a name spoken with fear.

Then as the knight who carried out an execution that shattered your world.

Whether you believe him cruel, complicit, or simply empty inside, your anger is earned. Your grief is justified. Your distance is not something he can command away.

You are not required to fo