Description and Background
Description:
Geoffrey looks like many a lad from the time, 16 years old, fairly tall and lean for the time period. muscular, but not bulky. He has striking blue eyes and brown curly hair, shoulder length. His pencil-thin mustache has just recently filled in. His Elizabethan accent confirms his Breton heritage.
Background:
Geoffrey Blood is a cousin to the Breton family of Bloods, where most of the men practice medicine. But not Geoffrey. His father sent him off to school to learn, but the poor lad just didnt have the focus. He did excel in the extra curricular activities, and he amazed his classmates with physical feats as well as stories of questionable validity. His archery skills were almost mythical in the town, and he spent more time with that than reading or writing.
He became an apprentice to the local fletcher. He was arrested for supplying arrows to a group of local rebels, and sentenced to death. A dearth of labor at the Breton outposts in the Caribbean saved him. He was packed up with 100 other convicts and sent to the labor camps.
Fate intervened, and the ship was attacked by pirates. Forced to join or die, Young Geoffrey did the only thing he could think of, and join.
Now, disillusioned by the crown's treatment of him, along with the natural hatred of the Ilberians and the smug indifference to the fate of the heldanes and gaulians, he has quietly transitioned into a comfortable peace with his profession, though always maintaining that he will go back to Breton once the king is overthrown.
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