The Blind Knight

The Blind Knight
also known as Caelion; the Hedge Knight
Role	Wandering knight
Age	~80
Faith	Knightess
Status	Active
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-a#95]

The Blind Knight is a wandering knight, once of Valleria, chosen by the goddess Knightess after losing his sight in a political conspiracy. ^{[heralds-a#95]} In play, the party has come to know him by the name Caelion. ^{[heralds-a#103]}

Overview

He was once an honorable and dutiful knight of the Valleria Regency, a region famed for its courtly politics and knights, and served protecting its counts and dukes. ^{[heralds-a#95]} A political scheme cost him his eyes and left him disfigured; he survived the attempt on his life but was banished into what he calls eternal darkness. ^{[heralds-a#95]} He found a way out of that exile and went on living by the vow he had once sworn, becoming a hedge knight in the wilderness. ^{[heralds-a#95]} There the goddess Knightess reached out to him and made him her chosen. ^{[heralds-a#95]} He now travels the empire helping people, protecting the innocent, and slaying evil, and was present in Altia for the killing of the Gnoll cults of Yeenoghu. ^{[heralds-a#95]}

Abilities

He is roughly 80 years old and does not die of old age. ^{[heralds-a#95]} He can wield two longswords without error, though he prefers to begin a fight with only one. ^{[heralds-a#95]} Gifts bestowed on him by his goddess grant him haste-like and misty-step-like abilities and a blindsight range of 120 feet. ^{[heralds-a#95]}

Personality

Despite his ordeal he is described as a very funny man with a great deal of energy, and very faithful to his goddess. ^{[heralds-a#95]}

Current path

His present business in the world is not something players should read here.

Players, stop here. What is hidden behind this point is game-master material. The full detail is on GM:The Blind Knight.

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for The Blind Knight that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:The Blind Knight so they cannot be mistaken for canon.

Related pages

• Knightess — the goddess who chose him after his blinding
• Valleria — the region whose courts he once served
• Regency — the political structure of the land he once served
• Altia — where he fought and killed the Gnoll cults of Yeenoghu
• Gnoll cults of Yeenoghu — the cult he wiped out in Altia
• Gnoll — the creatures who made up that cult
• Yeenoghu — the demon lord the cult worshipped