Sir William of House Talvas

Sir William is a Half-Sun Elf Cavalier who is the loyal Retainer of Princess Faelys of Bethana.

Description
Sir William is 6'2" and relatively buff. He has pale skin with freckles and a bit of natural blush. His hair is shoulder length, dark ginger, and usually tied into a half-ponytail (especially when he's riding). He has pale aqua eyes and eyelashes that curl upwards. The relaxed position for his ears is upturned (they move slightly with his emotions). Sir Williams favourite colour is lavender, and as such wears it a lot. He is generally never seen without his cravat on and owns several of them. His armour is silver and lavender with many intricate patterns decorating it, most notibly his family Coat of Arms on the left, and the symbol of Varienna on the right (added after Faelys became a champion and Sir William decided to walk down the path of a paladin in solidarity). He enjoys wearing poofy sleeved shirts as well. He has 3 piercings in each ear. Sir William is a very high strung person and worries constantly about everything. He's also pompous and very proud of his rank.

History
Sir William is the 3rd child of Lord Zachariah (Human man with freckled pale skin, dark brown hair, and blue eyes) and Lady Ulana of House Talvas (Sun Elf woman with freckled tanned skin, ginger hair, and golden eyes. She was originally born into House Ailbrer). His eldest sibling is Lady Eliana (freckled tanned skin, brown hair, and golden eyes), followed by Sir Felicity (freckled pale skin, ginger hair, and golden eyes), and the youngest is Sir Rohan (freckled tanned skin, auburn hair, and aqua eyes).

House Talvas is known for their Knights and their loyalty to the Bethanian throne.

You should really give him a backstory huh.

Princess Faelys of Bethana
Sir William loves Lady Faelys and is loyal to her to a fault. He considers her a daughter of sorts.

He is extremely protective of her but will ultimately let her do what she wants, as long as he's there to supervise. He's gotten very used to making excuses on her behalf because of this.

He would die for her.

Sir Cecyl Arby
Sir William met Sir Cecyl (then just Cecyl) when he was hired by Lady Faelys to hunt down a Kraken. This adventure of course turned out differently and Lady Faelys was captured instead. Sir William was at first skeptical of Cecyl (and the rest of the the group) but begrudgingly had to trust them when his liege was kidnapped. Afterwards Lady Faelys knighted Sir Cecyl and Sir William took it upon himself to teach him how to be a proper Knight (though somewhat bitter that Sir Cecyl was not nobility prior to this).

Eventually Sir Cecyl wore him down enough and the two became friends, then lovers. The two are the proud fathers of 3 cats, a horse, and a princess.

Sir Steve "Sparkles" the Horse
Sir Sparkles is Sir Williams loyal horse companion. He is a dapple grey Percheron who is about 18 hands high.

Sir Sparkles was given this nickname by a young Lady Faelys and it stuck.

Sir William loves him very much and the two fight as one unit in battle. Sir William makes sure he never gets hurt, putting himself in harms way for his beloved horse time and time again.

Feats
Mounted Compatant

While you are mounted and aren't incapacitated, you have advantage on melee attack rolls against any unmounted creature that is smaller than your mount. You can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead. If your mount is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a DEX saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Polearm Master

When you take the Attack action with only a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon that uses the same ability modifier as the primary attack and has a damage die of d4 (bludgeoning). While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.

Notable Items

 * Chain Mail +2
 * +2 Glaive
 * Horseshoes of Speed
 * Ring of Protection

Trivia

 * In the oneshot I had a full in character panic attack and that was an experience
 * Sir William is quite good at knitting, and everyone whom he considers a good friend has at least a sweater knitted by him (yes this includes Sir Sparkles).
 * He's sort of based on Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening and used his crit quote "Pick a God and pray" in the one shot.