Olaff Blackspeare

Olaff Blackspeare, also referred to as the "The Young Falcon" in poems and songs, is the First Heir of House of Blackspeare and the Rivoc Isles. He is the son of High-Lord Myre Blackspeare and is the father of Laurelle, Arther, Willhem and Martiss Blackspeare. Olaff is not a man to have many friends, and only considers Sir Rikar Falk as his only true friend outside of his family.

Appearance and Character
Olaff is in his early thirties when the series debuts. He is tall, broad and handsome and has long thick dark hair, very much like his fathers, only his hair is shaved on the sides, with the top braided and tied back, like a traditional Rivocian warrior does. His beard is long enough so that it is an inch off of the end of his chin. He has the stern blue eyes of The Blackspeares, although his eyes are said to be very perceiving as if they have lived longer than a human lifespan.

Olaff is renowned fierce warrior and gifted fighter, though a lover of lore and adventure. He loves his wife fiercely - a love that developed over time - and is very protective over his children, though he has not seen them for a while, as he is the Ambassador of the Crown. He thoroughly enjoys his role as ambassador for he has always had a keen interest on adventure, ever since he was a child, and with this title he gets travel a lot. However he often expresses how much he misses his family. He is also very close with his brothers, out of them he is described as the looks, his brother Taibalte the brawl, and his youngest brother Kevān, the brain.

History
Olaff was born to High-Lord Myre Blackspeare and his wife Lyann Blackspeare (Née Norby) in 479 NE at Fort Irendale. He was not born into the direct line of succession in the Blackspeare Line, for his father, Myre, was the younger brother of High-Lord Willhem. However in the year 485NE, his uncle was named High-Minister of Armerle for King Henri IV, Willhem had no children to take up the title, and so it was given to his father. They then moved to take up residence in the grand Castle of Falconsreach, as befitted the High-Lord. Here Olaff now had access to a proper education, for he was now the First Heir of Blackspeare. Thus, from the age of Six, he was tutored in the arts of Politics, Geography and Literature, by the Court-Wizard at Falconsreach, Old Nik. He was also trained in the arts of Chivalry and fighting by the Master-at-arms, Sir Jak Monton, alongside the Stewards son, Rikar Falk, whom he quickly befriended.

Now that he was the First-heir to The Rivoc-Isles he wanted to represent his house and enter a Royal-Tourney and thats exactly what he did, on the 10th of Bluesky 495 at the age of 15 he entered his first Royal-Tourney at Alderstone Castle. There he struck down Sir Jame Hamar, Sir Garon Blackwood, Sir Charl Horte and Prince Victar Fortaine until he was struck down by Sir Korvus Ljonherte in the final joust. It was at this tournament that Yaron was given his knight-hood, along with Prince Victar by King Henri Fortaine, which he considered an honour despite his fathers hatred for the King.

The Obsidian War
A year after Yaron was knighted Jasper Goodyere started his rebellion against the crown. For a year the Blackspeare's remained neutral and took no sides until Jasper Goodyere was executed by the King after the Battle of Blackforest. Yaron and his father sailed south to Vyre to rescue Jasper's son and future King Tysopher from the Royal Armies trying to break through the Wall of Vyre. They then sailed back to The Fork where they would meet up with his fathers close friend Willen Reyd at the Castle of Redvale, where they cemented an alliance by marrying Tysopher to Willen's daughter Aelyn Reyd, and Yaron to marry Kristel Reyd, Willen's niece. Once Yaron had consumated his marriage with Kristel and Tysopher with Aelyn, Yaron sailed back to the Rivoc Isles with his newly wed wife and father. There his father called his men to arms and they mustered 11,000 men to Tysopher's cause. He and his father won their first victory at The Battle of The Great Fortaine, where they captured King Henri's wife-to-be Helena Delacoure. That night Yaron walked into Helena's tent to find Korvus Ljonherte raping Her, Yaron kicked him off and threatened to have him beheaded. Korvus managed to muscle him off and they had full fledged sword fight just outside of her tent, for fighting his High-Lords heir Myre had all the fingers on Korvus' left hand removed and then had him sent back to Ljonforte. Four months after his fight with Korvus Yaron's first child Laurelle was born, soon after the news reached him he sailed back to The Rivoc Isles to meet his new daughter, he left three months later, some time in that period his son Arther was consumed. At the Battle of Alderstone Bridge Yaron rode down Prince Lyonel Fortaine but refused to kill him as he was the son of an anointed King, so Myre had him executed at the end of the battle. It is said that his son Arther was born the very second the last man was killed in the Battle of Alderstone Bridge. Soon after Tysopher was crowned Yaron sailed back to the Rivoc Isles with his father to see his new-born son.

Children
Yaron loves all of his children dearly and is very proud of every single one of them. He only ever witnessed Willhem's birth as he was away fighting in the Obsidian War when Laurelle and Arther were born and was fighting the Blair rebellion when Martiss was born. He makes sure that you every single one of his children understand their roles in the family however he is not as strict as his father was. He is apparently a very good father and all of his children adore him and look up to him, especially his son Arther.

The Blair Rebellion
36th of Leafbare 406, Yaron's wife Kristel is heavily pregnant with his fourth child and third son Martiss and Blair troups begin their rebellion by burning small villages loyal to The Blackspeares along the Southern coast of Stormgard. Myre sends a small troup of 50 men to deal with the rebellion, who he believes to be a small Peasant Uprising. The Blackspeare troops are massacred, Lord Aingar Blair writes a letter in the blood of their commander Arvus and sends it to Myre on the back of Arvus' horse, along with his head. Myre reads the letter, upon finding out that this is Lord Aingar's hand he is enraged that he has accused him of ridding the isles of its Rivocian Culture. Since the letter had been sent Lord Aingar had taken over the towns Rivoporte and Rivoforste and was looking to be a threat to Myre's Rule over the Rivoc Isles, in order to avoid being made to look a fool Myre sent a letter to his childhood friend Makar Thorn, asking him to be eyes and ears on the inside of the Blair rebellion. Not being a fan of the way Aingar is handling things Makar was happy to oblige. After learning that the Blairs intend to take the mining town of Irendale, knowing that Irendale is an important strategic position Myre sends Yaron and Cederik out with 2000 troops each to destroy the rebellion. They clashed with the Blair force (7000 men) in the fields just outside of Irendale in a place which is now known as "the Red-Rivoc Field" because of the amount of blood that seeped into the ground and supposedly into the Rivoc mines below Irendale. That day Yaron and his brother destroyed the Blair forces and established their fathers absolute authority over the Rivoc Isles. His son Martiss was born one week before the Battle on the 2nd of Deadleaf 406.