Sir Edmund Reynalt

Age: 33 [currently]

Personality: Stoic at points, quick to anger at others. Calculating and with a dark sneer about him. At times feels the ends justify the means and there are little obstacles he is not willing to pass.

Appearance: Tall and imposing with dark silvery almost-blue fur, along with being violet eyed. Missing left eye while using a black bandanna to cover this. Dressed from head to foot in black armor along with emerald and silver [like an opposite of Sir Vulpes], while using a sophisticated uniform when in other circumstances.

Height: 6 feet.

Species: Anthro silver fox.

Status: Former member of the Order Of The Knights Templar and now leader of his own rogue Order of knights.

Background:
The silver fox Edmundt Reynalt was born in France, but his family moved to Ireland to escape the upheavals going on during that period. He would lose his family as they are robbed by highwaymen, dampening his look on the world, and would be adopted by the Templar Order in Britain. He would stay with them until his early twenties due to attitude/judgement related breaches of conduct.

Edmund was transferred from London to Dublin for disciplinary training where he would eventually run into Connor Vulpes. The two seemingly hit it off well with Edmund takes an interest in the younger initiate with the former impressing the vulpine with his own charisma and bombastic persona and the latter impressing the silver vulpine with his knowledge and skill. Through his training and his own education (which included learning the language and ways of the land of Ireland), he becomes more unruly in the field of duty, albeit restrained in some other instances, in other ways and has dreams of one day being the grandmaster. Eventually, he becomes tasked to be Vulpes’ secondary instructor outside of the Irish grandmaster.

During all of this, you see, he had taken an interest in the younger vulpine seeing him as one who understood him and his desire to see his own brand of justice done. Edmund grew to see Connor like family and even took to calling him ‘little brother’ at times, they were getting that close. Though there was always that subtle friction that would only grow as their personalities gained experience through the hurdles of training. Yet in spite of all of this, Reynalt had hoped deep down that Vulpes, being a fellow fox initiate and one of the few among the division there would embrace his ideals and support his rise to power among the Templars. Life had other plans though……

As time went on, Connor would come to be repulsed at his new mentor's near totalitarian-like methods, though Edmund would maintained that his iron-fisted dominance was necessary to protect the people. Eventually, he becomes tasked to be Connor’s secondary instructor outside of the Irish grandmaster, and yes, it would go such a route. As Connor gets older and Edmund becomes more open in the field of duty, he starts to see his ways are not the right one and even talks to the grandmaster about his doubts. Grandmaster Lupous, is not pleased and has him reprimanded, leading to a confrontation and Edmund Reynalt running away from the order vowing revenge. Connor Vulpes intervenes in the confrontation when the silver-fox is using an underhanded move to attempt to kill the grandmaster, ending with Lupous losing his left hand/paw, and Connor takes his grandmaster’s sword and gashes Edmund’s face. Leaving him scarred and half-blinded, but a couple follow him leaving the Order compound in what is now Dublin to join him feeling he was in the right. Immediately after the silver fox escapes through a window and would retreat into the forest outside the Temple seconds after vowing revenge with his loss. It was there in the Irish woods Reynalt began his journey to build himself his own Order as he now saw the Templars as an impediment to his advance.

The Irish Templars sent a search party over the course of three days, but found nothing. The silver fox had covered his tracks too well. Turns out he had been secretly stockpiling some of the Order’s riches and even a suit of armor which he would fashion for himself. He and what small amount of Templar recruits would support him would leave Ireland and into the English territories, going through the city of London, and then crossing the English Channel. Basically, the rogue knight and his crew re-traced the same path he had taken with his late parents as a child back to his homeland of France where he would start anew with his new rogue order. All along the way slaughtering any highwaymen that crossed their path, in memory of what happened to him all those years ago.

All that happened only served to harden the young knight’s ambition of becoming like a twisted vigilante who wanted to be the law in his own way and to his own ends. This desire for power and prestige would eventually lead Sir Edmund Reynalt to cross swords with Sir Connor Vulpes again………

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Originally from on 12/30/2020.

Here is bio page to my fox knight OC's nemesis Sir Reynalt, a silver fox whom started out like a big brother to Vulpes, only to lose himself to a darker path. The major confrontation in the past with his former closest friend and his master led to him becoming half-blind only furthering his drive.

Once again keep in mind this is just the general outline. Future projects expanding on this could be well down the line so any of this could change at a given time, just so you know……

It is worth noting that various knight orders did practice many forms of physical combat including wrestling in the Middle Ages and onward [https://www.thearma.org/essays/G&WinRF.htm#.YjK1LurMK3B, http://www.lordsandladies.org/knighthood-training.htm, & https://www.freelanceacademypress.com/medievalwrestling.aspx] though there is nothing on the Templars, from recorded incidents to even opinions on wrestling from them, so I had to embellish here a little bit, and besides, this is a world of Anthro animals anyway so an inch of artistic license is to be expected. ;)

On a side note, major inspirations for my character include the films Kingdom Of Heaven (2005), Arn-The Knight Templar (2007-2008), and History Channel’s series Knightfall (2017-2019), which I have talked about in various uploads throughout my gallery and page.

I hope you enjoyed this and other character backgrounds are in the works.

Enjoy