Reynaldo Eduardo Francisco Piccolomini del Corazon ("Ren")<br/><br/>Born to an engaged-but-never-married couple, Ren has grown up in the shadow of illegitimacy: raised by his father's kin on his grandfather's estate in Vodacce, and treated well enough for all that he might otherwise be seen as a mark of shame, he longed to seek his fortune in the wider world.  Very recently, that chance arrived...but in a way that he neither sought nor enjoyed.<br/><br/>His Castillian mother and paternal grandmother both having died some years before, he had watched the estate dwindle in spite of all that his grandfather could do.  Finally, not long after his seventeenth birthday, his grandsire took him on a long walk around the grounds to explain certain matters--how the many enemies of their family gathered at court to turn the Don's ear and heart against them, the treacherous and cruel nature of his mother's kinfolk, the slender protection granted to them due to the affection of the Don’s dying mother...and his own regrets at having kept his only grandson at such length, the better to spare his life when the long-delayed reckoning came.  Now that their protector had died, and seeing the inevitable collision and the forces arrayed against him, the elderly nobleman knew the moment to act had come.  Belatedly recognizing the boy as his true heir, he gave Ren his blessing to depart.<br/><br/>Thus both enlightened and partly reconciled to the older man, Ren took his leave that very evening, bearing with him a sternly worded order to repair the family's honor by his actions rather than squandering his years on mere revenge.  His grandfather's last coins burdened his purse, a well-used blade hung on one hip, and the horse he had chosen from the stable was sure-footed, if not swift.  Thus he made his way forth into the world, and to the nearest port where he sold the horse and sought passage on the first well-reputed ship that offered him a berth, intent on finding a place to begin his search.<br/><br/>He ended up in Montaigne, where he fell in with the Knighthood of the Rose and Cross after a series of unpleasant and improbable events too long to relate here.  His patron in the society, the Chevalier de X---------, seems glad enough to have the young man around, especially since Ren makes a passable valet.  His talent for patient observation, combined with an innocent and almost pretty appearance, has already been of benefit when he suffers to be mistaken for a mere servant.  This stings his pride, of course, but so far he has borne up well.<br/><br/>(Remaining family--because his mother was to have been his father's second wife, Ren has a couple of older half-sisters, both married in varying degrees of happiness.  He may have nieces and nephews that he has not met.  There are also his mother's kin about whom he knows nothing save that they are treacherous and cruel, and his mother was deeply afraid of what they might do if they found her.  Should he find that they had anything to do with her death, or that of his father, he will likely decide that a little revenge is in order...)<br/><br/>Ren is short and slight, dark of hair and eye, with olive skin, combining the most comely features of his twin heritage.  To his dismay, he is far more likely to be called ‘pretty’ than ‘handsome’, even as he exploits this seeming innocence to best effect.<br/><br/>Swordsman: School of Ambrogia<br/>Grants: Fencing, Dirty Fighting, Adv:Left Handed (only when Fighting)<br/>Knacks: Feint, Pommel Strike, Riposte, Exploit Weakness (Ambrogia)<br/>Membership: Swordsman’s Guild<br/>Cost: 25<br/><br/>Brawn 2<br/>Finesse 3<br/>Resolve 2<br/>Wits 3<br/>Panache 2<br/>Cost: 32<br/><br/>Destiny Draw (Vodacce)<br/>Past: Ten of Cups (grants Foul Weather Jack at no cost)<br/>Present: Ace of Coins (grants two skills of choice at no cost)<br/>Future: Three of Coins (Romance 2, to be determined...requesting 2 at 1 point apiece, because polygons)<br/><br/>Combat Reflexes<br/>Dangerous Beauty<br/>Small<br/>Cost: 8<br/><br/><strong>Fencing</strong><br/>Attack 3, Parry 3, Feint 2 (Adv), Riposte 2 (Adv)<br/><strong>Dirty Fighting</strong><br/>Attack 2, Parry (Improvised Weapon) 1 (Adv)<br/><strong>Doctor</strong><br/><strong>Scholar</strong><br/>Philosophy 2, Research 2<br/><strong>Servant</strong><br/>Etiquette 3, Unobtrusive 2<br/><strong>Spy</strong>(free)<br/>Shadowing 2, Stealth 2<br/><strong>Athlete</strong><br/>Footwork 3, Climbing 2, Sprinting 2<br/><strong>Ride</strong>(free)<br/>Ride 2<br/>Cost: 26<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Languages</span><br/>Vodacce (literate)<br/>Montaignese (Literate)<br/>Castillian (Literate)<br/>Thean (Literate)<br/>Cost: 7<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Backgrounds</span><br/>Foul Weather Jack (4)<br/>Romance (1)<br/>Romance (1)<br/>Cost: 2<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Freebies</span><br/>Membership, Knights of the Rose and Cross<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">XP spends</span><br/>10 to increase Brawn to 2<br/>15 to increase Finesse to 3<br/>10 to add Doctor<br/>5 remaining<br/><em>Needs...<br/>Leaping 3, Surgery 3</em><br/>