Pell Marchbank

Squire to Sir Lambert Dacre, a farm boy who left home to follow a knight and has not regretted it yet. He is learning more than he expected.

Marchbank was a farm boy in a village that Dacre defended. He followed the knight out of the village the next morning and refused to go home.

He has learned to care for armour and horses, to cook on a campfire and to stand his ground. He has not learned to share his master's confidence in honour.

This year he is helping Dacre hunt a thing on a Marches road. He is frightened and has told nobody.

In person

19. Young, sturdy and freckled, with tousled brown hair and wide honest eyes. He wears a padded gambeson, a steel cap, a short sword, and leads a packhorse.