Giordano Nicola d'Arzenta

Giordano Nicola d'Arzenta was a mortal Dark Age Knight who joined the Red Order.

Biography

Brother Giordano was the first member of his family to take Holy Orders in three generations, principally because he comes from a long line of unapologetic heretics. The son of a knight in service to the Viscount of Carcassonne, Giordano was born the year Innocent III took the papal tiara and was eleven years of age when the Albigensian Crusade came to his homeland. Judged too young to fight by his father, he and his mother and younger siblings were sent to live with sympathetic relatives in Arzenta. By the time they were finally summoned home in 1218, Giordano was a grown man, knighted in his own right, intelligent, curious and even-tempered.

Had his life taken any other course, he might have dedicated himself more closely to the faith of his youth and concentrated on rebuilding his shattered homeland. It was not to be: A brush with the supernatural left his family devasted and Giordano himself badly injured in body and soul. Only the efforts of the Poor Knight Fantino di Milano saved him from death and worse, and turned him onto the path he now walks. He made a genuine and heartfelt conversion to the one Church, accepted baptism and was taken into the Red Order on the weight of his personal experience with the minions of the Enemy more than any other factor.

His appointment to the Damburrow expedition was his first real taste of command responsibility, an experiment that Abbot Albert d'Aquitaine appears to consider an unqualified failure. The personality conflicts between the two have thus far severely impaired their ability to work together effectively. After weeks of confrontations, Giordano decided to surrender the field to his superior and pursue his own researches with the aid of a few trusted allies. Damburrow is a place with many secrets and he is intent on ferreting all of them out, even in the face of not inconsiderable local hostility. After all, if they want to run you out of town, you're usually on the right track.

Stats

Nature: Dreamer
Demeanor: Perfectionist
Order: Red Order

References

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