Bastard Knights

Sir Glendower (Glen) Stonehollow: The natural son and eldest child of Korenth Iridni, Greater Landowner and Freeknight of Trollsfoot, a low (rural) district of the Yeomanry, located in the southern Little Hills. The Iridni are a family of middling if not great renown, with a handful of ancestors having served as Freecaptains of Battle and other high positions, though no Iridni has ever been a Freeholder yet. Glen spent his early years in his father's household and as a teenager was fostered to Hanse Sigelsul, a fellow Greater Landowner and Freeknight of Spitalvale, where he served as a page and squire. At the age of 15 Glen earned his spurs and the right to armorial bearing fighting against rebellious Flan hill clans in the uprising known as the Midfell Pilgrimage. His father's marriage had failed to produce any living children, and with Glen's knighting, despite his status as a bastard, his father began grooming him as heir. When Glen was 17 his step-mother died of a fever following a failed childbirth, and Iridni remarried to Sigelsul's daughter; shortly producing a male heir. Rather than face the life of a second son, serving his legitimate step-brother, Glen left home, taking up the life of an adventurer in Keoland, in the Viscounty of Salinmoor.His arms are azure a bend sinister sable over all a melusine argent crowned with a scallop of the same.

Dame Nerisgwenn (Gwenn) Woodhill: The natural daughter of Lord  Luschan Orlysse, a banner knight holding the manor of Woodhill from Karn Drysdale, Baron of Norwatch, the northeastern-most fief of Sterich. Her mother was unknown to her, having died when Gwenn was only two in an abbey of the Blessed Sisters of Rao in Bissel where they both lived. Her father came from his home in Sterich to claim her when she was five, having recently come into his inheritance of Woodhill. Growing up, she found ill-favor with her step-mother and half-sisters, although she and her half-brother were close companions, training in arms together. When she was 16 she caused a stir, and embarrassed her family by competing in disguise in the Tournament of Golden Leaves in Flen. She broke with her father soon after when he expressed his desire (at the prompting of her step-mother) to marry her to the son of a merchant in Gorna that the family owed a considerable debt to. On her own, she competed in the tournament circuit in the warmer months and rode guard on caravans in winter, then fell in with the group of adventurers who came to be known as the Company of the Owlbear Coats. There, in western Sterich she gained fame, coming into the service of Lord Peridin Drysdale of Restwell, then that of Resbin Drin Emondav, Marchioness Dowager of Sterich, where she and her fellows were knighted. It was in this service that she came to the acquaintance of Alitta Elgarin, Countess of Flen, who revealed to her that her mother had been Nerisgwenn Skogend, the daughter of Walger Skogend, Margrave of Bissel. Her mother had been exiled by her father to the abbey where Gwenn spent her early years, after becoming pregnant during a liaison with the young Luschan Orlysse, a knight from Sterich serving in one of the frequent campaigning seasons against Ket. With this revelation came the knowledge that Gwenn was a cousin to the Countess of Flen, and the late Marquess of Sterich, as well as the granddaughter of the Margrave of Bissel. Her arms are vert, a bend sinister argent a linden tree eradicated counterchanged.