Action, adventure, intrigue, conflict, and warfare scenarios in Fantasy / High Fantasy / Historical genres only. Para to novella styles are greatly preferred, though all I ask is that you make an effort. Unfortunately, this seems to disqualify about 90% of this website.

In-room RP only. public posts are fair game

I do not PM RP, nor do I engage in romance or smut of any Kind,  Please refrain from PMing me for anything not related to the RP. Ping "Hugo" to get my attention, If I ignore you, I most likely have you blocked for being annoying, Idiotic, and/or cringy.

Sir Hugo von Schwarzburg is a man of his time — and that time is long dead. He is unwavering in his Lawful alignment, though whether that law serves Good or Evil is for the reader to reckon with. His code is iron, but iron rusts, and his world has no polish left to offer.

By modern standards, Hugo is an arrogant chauvinist, a classist, xenophobic killer with no patience for softness or sentiment. He holds the underclass in contempt and views weakness — physical, moral, or social — as a rot to be cauterized. Those of traditionally reviled bloodlines or professions are afforded no quarter. He is not a kind man. He is not a good man. But he is a necessary man — in an age where fire and blade are more honest than parchment and prayer.

This character was forged for strife — not tavern banter, not soft-focus romance, and certainly not the tedium of domestic bliss. There is no “slice-of-life” here, only the slice of steel through spine and sinew.

 

Mary Sues, demigods, omniscient ancients, and overpowered soft-handed sorcerers need not apply. He does not seek aid. He does not want saving. He does not believe in destiny.

The beauty is in the struggle. And a battle without pain is a lie told by cowards.

 

Face/Voice Claim: 1980s-era Arnold Schwarzenegger, at his most grim, gaunt, and murderous

There was an exiled knight named Sir Hugo
Who refused charity due to his huge ego
But with no coins to his name,
How could he his home reclaim
And right the injustices suffered years ago - Minstrel

"There is glory in this life, mayhaps.. but little honor."

 

 

"Sir Hugo the Homeless" is the fourth-born son of a petty Northern lord. House Schwarzburg, ancient bannermen of House Falgon — the Lords Paramount of the West — held the ancestral seat of Blackcastle in Ardyn. Though rich in legacy, they were poor in coin. As a youth, Hugo served as page and squire to his father's liege before earning his spurs at seventeen, knighted for saving his mentor’s life on the field.

In his early years, he showed promise in the tourneys of joust and melee, but fate turned at the outbreak of rebellion. His liege, Lord Falgon, sided with Edgard of Alberton — the bastard brother of weak-willed Kaiser Karl Gustav XI — in a bid for the throne. When the pretender’s forces were shattered at the Battle of Lockshire, Blackcastle's sons perished to a man. Hugo, spared only because he was left to defend the keep, became the sole surviving male of House Schwarzburg.

Branded a traitor, his lands seized, his sister and betrothed married off to Loyalist houses, Hugo fled in the dead of night with nothing but arms and armor. His name blackened, his castle lost, he became a noble in exile — an outlaw under pain of death should he return.

He took up arms with eastern free companies, where his knightly training and ruthless discipline won him renown. He became a hardened blade-for-hire, fighting for coin, not cause. Though once bred for tourney fields and royal courts, he now roamed as an errant killer — guarding caravans, hunting monsters, and spilling blood in foreign wars.

Even now, in disgrace, he still clings to the code of chivalry — aiding those he deems worthy, and turning away from no just cause, though few trust him. Among nobility, he's shunned; among commoners, he’s alien. A foreign hedge-knight, homeless and hated — yet the name "Sir Hugo the Homeless," once an insult, he now wears with defiant pride.

In a final act of hubris, he donned the Cuirass of the Blood Prince — the cursed armor of a fallen death knight — and bound himself to it forever. Now, he wages a war not just of steel and bone, but for the tattered remnants of his soul.

⚔ ARMOR & REGALIA

 

Cuirass of the Blood Prince
Trophy of war, claimed from the undead King Aldwen beneath Brokenstone Keep. Emits a green glow in darkness; bears an iridescent sheen in light. Vastly enhances strength, speed, endurance, and reflexes. Side effects include increased rage, violence, and bloodthirst. Inhabited by a wraith whose whispers protect against mental intrusion but erode sanity. Weightless to the wearer. Cannot be removed for any length of time.

 

Master-Forged Gothic Plate
Commissioned upon knighting as Princess Andromeda’s sworn shield. Gothic full plate with lighter greaves for foot mobility. Tinted to match the cursed cuirass. Inlaid with baroque engravings. Helm (rarely worn) is a spiked skull-shaped sallet worn over chainmail coif.

Cloaks:

• Cloth-of-Gold: Gift from the Witch-Queen of Neyuwyth.

• Roughspun Campaign Cloak: Dark green, stitched with Schwarzburg sigil.

• Cloak of Furs: Used in colder provinces or harsh terrain.
  
  

Signet Ring of House Schwarzburg
Gold, with castle sigil in emerald and onyx. Proof of noble lineage. Used for sealing writs and decrees.

🗡 WEAPONS

“Freundlichkeit” (Kindness)
Six-foot Zweihänder. Steel, leather-wrapped hilt, brass pommel concealing a dirk. Heirloom of House Schwarzburg. Etched with forgotten runes. Always worn sheathed on his back. Most cherished relic, his family's sole legacy.

“Windsong”
Three-foot silver scimitar, ruby-studded hilt. Taken in battle in Tahan. Preferred against supernatural foes.

 

"MILDE" (Benevolence)

Morningstar with hollow haft hiding a chain-linked extension. Brutal, favored in crushing infantry lines and fighting armored foes. Worn at the left hip.

Swordbreaker Main-Gauche
Reinforced dagger worn at lower back. Designed to trap and snap enemy blades.

“Gnade” (Mercy)
Sixteen-inch poignard dagger hidden in right greave. Armor-piercing. Last-resort weapon.

War Lance & Heater Shield
Used when mounted. Displays Schwarzburg heraldry: black rook on green. Rarely used since his youth. Hugo now favors foot combat.

🎗 TOKENS

Faded Golden Ribbon
Intertwined around left arm. Token of favor from Lady Andromeda, imperial princess and lost love. Never removed.

🐎 MOUNTS

“Butterblume”
Nineteen-hand black Friesian warhorse. Trained for warfare. Clad in full barding bearing House Schwarzburg’s crest. His steed in war.

“Edelweiss”
Fourteen-hand white palfrey. Trophy of the Zahadi campaign. Ridden during rare times of peace and pageantry.