Sir Dyron Helmscarr, Grand Chaplain
Physical Appearance
Grand Chaplain Dyron Helmscarr is a strongly built, steel-haired 50-year-old spiritualist with a ruddy complexion, rugged features, and piercing blue eyes that have witnessed the horrors of war over innumerable conflicts. His close-cropped grey hair pate and scar-notched head and ears reflect involvement in bloody conflicts in the past.
Background
Dyron’s parents were chaplains stationed at a remote mission in Skara Brae. When he was 12 years old, orc marauders descended on the settlement and slaughtered many individuals, including his family. His sanity was shaken by the horrific deaths of his parents and neighbors. Despite mortal miseries, Dyron had a profound spiritual insight in the ashes that confirmed the purpose of virtue. The Silver Serpent order’s emerging paladins discovered the stoic youngster still praying over the massacred dead and brought him back to their citadel for rehabilitation. Dyron’s remarkable maturity and natural affinity to magic, demonstrated by one so young, qualified him for admission to the order’s seminary. Over the years, his remarkable bravery and convictions awed the chaplain command. Dyron climbed quickly in the chaplain ranks over the decades as a personification of sacred obligation. His decades of exceptional leadership, strategic insight, and spiritually transformative influence on embattled soldiers and innocents alike qualified him for a move as grand chaplain to the newly established Green Company Charter in New Magincia.
Personality Traits
Dyron possesses a deep baritone voice and talks minimally, but his actions speak volumes, sustaining the valued principles he instills by example. Despite generally following rules, Dyron analyzes regulations contextually, guided by moral goals rather than mindless obedience. He tends to weigh pity against pragmatic harshness when confronted with irredeemable evil.
Behaviors & Relationships
Dyron moves with purpose and embraces isolation in his behaviors and relationships. While demonstrating integrity in front of troops and counseling individuals seeking wisdom, he avoids familiarity, which could jeopardize his balance in sustaining moral order. Dyron analyzes hearts rather than worldly qualifications, joyfully tolerating fools for the sake of their occasional brilliance while sharply rebuking pompous professionals too engulfed in ego.
Motivations & Goals
Dyron seeks to build moral character within the order by exemplifying the virtues while opposing evil with steel, spell, and conviction. He sets out to scour the blights that despoil Britannia. Every exorcism or converted soul brings the world a little closer to glorious order.
Complexity
A bone-deep tiredness shadows Dyron’s sense of joy after hard-won wins, mindful that peace is ephemeral, and the lasting impacts of victory are often short-term.
He also avoids vanity by focusing on the spiritual rather than the temporal conflict between light and darkness. For example, when Knights earn recognition and acclaim for valorous exploits in battle, Dyson may advise them to avoid vanity and conceit by focusing on their order’s higher, spiritual purpose. He guides the knights in prayer and meditation, emphasizing spiritual preparedness over worldly glory. Dyson tends to the bodily wounds of combat but also prioritizes spiritual wellness.
By shifting focus to the spiritual sphere, Dyson avoids his own narcissism and self-importance. He is not distracted by worldly affairs and politics but rather by the eternal conflict between good and evil, light and darkness, which is central to the mission of his order. His elevated position allows him to serve that end rather than bolster vanity.
Secrets
Dyron has never entirely recovered from survivor’s guilt due to haunted visions of family, and childhood friends devoured by orcs. He fears that pacifism ignores innocent blood being shed by uncontested evil, yet even justified violence runs the risk of perpetuating cruelty’s cycles. Dyron’s lifelong struggle has been to walk such fine boundaries between revenge and the necessity of justice.