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Name: Jamas (Pronouced JAY-MASS) Ashalda
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Weapons: A five foot long spear with a half-an-inch thick ironwood shaft that is capped on the bottom with iron. The blade is half a foot long, thin and sharpened to a point, it has a limited capacity for cutting, but is mostly a stabbing weapon. Additionally, he carries a standard-issue dual-edged shortsword at his belt and several knives. His armor is made up of a battered iron breastplate over his chest, with similar plates strapped over his thighs and forearms. He also wears an iron cap on his head, with a sliver of metal protruding down to protect his nose.
Style: Having some talent for the quarter-staff as a child, the spear always seemed to be the natural weapon for him. He has since learned to incorporate his quarterstaff strategies to some extent with his spear fighting, making him skilled at the melee. He prefers fast, direct and relentless tactics when fighting, stabbing an enemy and quickly overwhelming him before he can recover, though he is not so foolish as to not understand the wisdom of a retreat now and then.
Just a brief history: The child of a small-town blacksmith, Jamas was known for his adventurous, though occasionally troublesome, antics. He had little interest or talent in his father's profession, and in keeping with his nature, ran off to the city as soon as he was old enough. Realizing that there was no place in the city - or the world, for that matter - for an unwashed, unskilled hoodlum, he decided to join the army when he was nearly seventeen, reasoning that fighting was at least better then starving. Quickly becoming a skilled spearman, he eventually rose to the command of his platoon as Bannerman, and was well on his way to a battlefield commission when his platoon was sacrificed during a battle without having been given even the slightest warning of what they were up against. Bitter over what he saw as a betrayal, he deserted, signing on with a group called the Hedge Knights since fighting was his only real profession.
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