Nycolas

"The Order? The Order died after the war." - Nycolas

Nycolas commonly referred to as 'The Eagle' due to his eagle shoulder plate on his right shoulder was a member of the Order of the Crest serving as one of their most prominent warriors during the realm wars where he eventually left the Order to become a mercenary as a way of grieving trying to distance himself from the Order however he would eventually rejoin under High King Eorrin where he served as a senior member of the Order.

Learning to Fight
Before joining the Order of the Crest Nycolas lived in a small farming village where his father often taught him how to fight with a wooden sword his father had made him, within the small village Nycolas' father worked as the smithy for the village forging new farming tools for the local people and had also used the same smithy to forge his own sword with eagle markings on the hilt. During his time as a child Nycolas dedicated most of his spare time to training with his wooden sword to which he would do until he became a young adult, it would be around this time that his village became a target for the Grey Hammers to raid and pillage. When the raid occurred only a few amount of people from the village including Nycolas and his father would go to protect their home, with the lack of soldiers the village would quickly succumb to the barbarians until Akrasil would reach the village and single handedly defeated the raiding party, however during the raid Nycolas' father was killed and Akrasil would take Nycolas with him to train him and induct him eventually into the Order of the Crest.

Serving the Order
After being trained to fight Nycolas was inducted into the Order of the Crest where he then went on to protect Oggoria, during his time within the Order he would return to his father's home to retrieve his father's sword which he would then proceed to use for the rest of his life, alongside grabbing his father's sword he also forged his own armour placing a eagle-like head on his right shoulder plate which then by other members of the Order donned his title of 'The Eagle'. Now being a fully fledged member of the Order Nycolas would proceed to participate in many battles against the barbaric clans that were the Grey Hammers and with more and more experience mounting for him even helped in some of the training for some of the newer members of the Order.

Realm War
Just before the realm war had began with the invasion of Oggoria, Akrasil would travel across the realm to gather all of the Order members however Nycolas was already at Angarth Fortress during this time and instead helped Akrasil with gathering the group together. Eventually with the group gathered the Order of the Crest would stand ready for the dark forces belonging to Fedos to enter their realm that each member swore an oath to protect, with the massive army emerging Nycolas lost a lot of hope in terms of even winning the battle and instead knew that he was going to his death but this did not upset him instead it gave him relief and he thought he would be able to see his father once again. With Akrasil giving the order to charge Nycolas would immediately begin to run at the enemy prepared to die for his home that he had lived in all those years, seeing many of his brothers and sisters being killed in the conflict it shook his confidence of being able to happily die to be reunited with his father and instead he began to value his life a lot more. The Order would be saved with Galton Buckley and his fleet coming to protect them and this would conclude the Battle of Angarth.

During the 10 year realm war Nycolas was seen by many of the Order as a veteran having seen a lot more conflicts and bloodshed than any of them, with the war now being in full effect Nycolas once again witnessed a lot more casualties within the Order of the Crest and with every death his confidence and faith within the Order began to decay.

Leaving and Rejoining the Order
After the war Nycolas left the Order to get away from seeing the many names and bodies of people he once knew and would land in Tepexus to which he would do mercenary work as a way to disappear from the Order, now being a mercenary within Tepexus Nycolas would work around many areas within the realm making his name known to local gangs and other groups looking for mercenaries to hire. One of the jobs that Nycolas took would lead him to protecting cargo that was headed to Oggoria for a lot of money, upon entering the realm Nycolas would hear rumours of a former member of the Order of the Crest who had recently been crowned the High King named Eorrin, Nycolas would seek out this new protector out of curiosity to which the two met where he would find out that Eorrin was reforming the Order and had already found some members to help reform it. Nycolas was originally reluctant to join however he would then hear about that Angarth Fortress was taken over by the Grey Hammers and so he would rejoin the Order quite quickly to help them take back the fortress, after taking back the fortress he contemplated leaving again however the feeling of accomplishment he felt as they retook the fort reignited the fire that Nycolas had felt about the Order before and his faith towards it. Upon rejoining the Order Nycolas was made a senior member where he mainly acted as a trainer for the newer members of the Order.