IUSSUF THE TURCOPOLE ==================== Int - - Per - - Str - - Sta +1 +1 Healthy Pre - - Com -1 -1 Outsider Dex +3 +6 Agile Qik +1 +1 Prompt Virtues ------- Knack: Riding +1 +1 Good Armaments (Composite Bow) +1 Flaws ----- Hired Sword -1 Outsider -1 (Levantine) -1 Age 24 (48 eps.) Abilities --------- Brawl-1 (Dodge) Free Single Weapon-2 (Shortsword) 3 Shield and Weapon-3 (Mounted Spear) 6 Longshaft Weapon-1 (Spear) 1 Thrown Weapon-1 (Javelin) 1 Bows-5 (Composite) 15 Awareness-1 (Keeping Watch) 1 Carouse-1 (Staying Sober) Free Ride-5 (+Knack) (Tricks) 15 Speak Aramaic-4 (Antioch Dialect) Free Speak Breton-3 (Military Slang) 6 Background ---------- Iussuf is the offspring of the Third Crusade - specifically, of a marriage between a French soldier (Sergo's old sergeant) and a Syrian Christian woman. Iussuf is therefore a Christian by birth on both sides, and quite firm on the fact ("I was baptised in the great church in Antioch") - although his upbringing makes him more Eastern Orthodox than Catholic. As the child of a soldier, he was brought up to arms; local stereotyping directed him into the role of light cavalry, wherein he proved competent, and he has seen action in the running conflicts and guard duties of Outremer. However, before his father died last year, the old man warned his son that Outremer was not like to be a safe place for Christians forever - and reports of the Fifth Crusade have made Iussuf think that the old man's pessimism may have been justified. Recalling that his father told tales of family friends and contacts back in the West, Iussuf set out to seek his fortune in true Christian lands. In France, he was lucky enough to make contact with Sergo (if surprised to find him still fighting). The old man warned him that his foreign ways might cause him problems in seeking employ - except, perhaps, among those infamous crazy wizards...