Mary Valorheart

Summary
Mary is a small, thin woman, with a clear muscular definition to her body from her dedication to her training. She possesses attractive features, exuberant youth, full lips, gently weathered tanning on her exposed skin and flowing blonde hair. Mary's dress, a long flowing gown, flaunting grey and white colouring, with blue trim along the hemming, with a slit to hip height for manoeuvrability in combat.

Potential opponents need wary of the likelihood of concealed weaponry strapped beneath the long flowing dress. She has a soft voice but brandishes a vocabulary sharp enough to cleave mountains to twine. Mary is a proud Acolyte of Dawn crusader and frequently observed amongst monks making the pilgrimage to the imposing Monastery of Dawn.

History
Mary Valorheart, who was born Mary Smith, is the daughter of Grace Jameson and Joesph Smith. She was raised by a poor peasant family, owning little than their farm. Mary, an adventurous and stubborn child, dreamed of purpose, commitment and honour, although not that of a wife. Due to her poor background, Mary had never received the indulgences of noble children, who brandished dolls or education. Mary instead preferred swordplay, using carved sticks as if they were swords, a delicacy she proceeded to enjoy lasting into her adulthood.

As a young adult of 22, Mary was innocent, seeing the world as nothing but village life, desiring more from life. Mary would frequently assist her parents in the fields on their farm. This portrayal of life appeared dull to Mary, daring to dream of a world with more meaning and purpose. Mary resented the notion of settling with a nice peasant husband and tending the farms for the entirety of her life, although with few choices, Mary had decided to succumb fate.

At 24, Mary had married her husband one Robert Valorheart. Robert was a traditional peasant, aspiring little further in life than working in the fields growing pulses and grains. The thought of settling down and having children was repulsive to naive Mary.

The ensuing two years threw her draining life into catastrophic chaos; infamous bandits ransacked struggling hamlet. Burning the fields while slaughtering the livestock. The bandits tore their way through the village like a hurricane to paper. In search of treasure and fueled by pure testosterone, the bandits tortured the males, binding them to horses then forcing the horses to run, they raped some of the women in the village, but not before igniting the settlement. By the time the last ember burned out, the vast majority of the village dwellers were nothing but scorched corpses, including her parents and her lover.

Rather than dealing with the forever fueled nightmares emanating from her former home, Mary decided to sell her land rights to the regional Lord. It was this gold, combined with her widower's endowment funded by the Central Government, that Mary began a rancorous crusade for herself; undergoing years of extensive and rigorous combat training, utilising her funds to afford her adequate gear.

After unearthing her faith from travelling monks, out to disseminate their belief, Mary concluded her ambition was to ascend into the Acolytes of Dawn. She yearned to decimate the land of monsters, villainous scum and eventually none-believers. She started small, with the expectation to rise within the faith, and gain recognition for her crusade. Renounced was her former name. Mary conveyed upon herself the title of 'The Valorist'.