Legacy of the Holy Knights: Honor, Excellence, and Courage

	Honor, excellence, and courage. These three virtues guided the Holy Knights' Order, a clan of devout men and women inspired by the tales of Gaol and the Thirteen Knights of Aisen. Though starting humbly, in time, the Order would make a small name of sorts for itself in Ordallia.
	However, such fame would come to pass when the outcome of the Order's final battle together, known to few as the Battle at Camlann, came to light: Their victory came at a price- That is, the life of their beloved leader, Arturia. After the revelation, the clan began to slowly disband with time, every man and every woman taking their own different paths, some settling into villages, others seeking further glory.
	It was upon a cloudy night, then, that the former Holy Knight Morgause gave birth to her son. Though a good few locals were joyed for the existence of new life, many more mourned for the loss of old life, when she fell ill six years later, and eventually died. His father having vanished long before he was even born, the son had no choice but to be taken in by the local orphanage.
	Here, Morgause's son encountered a... curiosity, of sorts: A grizzled old man in near-all-encasing armor painted ashen-black, and a heavy sword on his back that bore a noble air, of sorts. After their first few meetings, the boy learned his name to be Gaffgarion. It would take much more and constant insistence, until the man relented to his requests for Gaffgarion to teach him his ways.
	In time, the boy learned the way of the sword, eschewing shields and such in place of heavy armor and sheer tenacity, and, eventually, some basic Black Magic. However, it seemed that the closer he got to his mentor and to becoming a knight like him, the further the locals distanced away from him. This eventually led to the town bully, along with his "friends," coming up to the boy when he was at the age of 15, and "having a talk with him". In self-defense, the boy poisoned the town bully, and as he and the other boys observed the life helplessly draining from his body, the boy realized that he had committed a grievous crime: Taking a life.
	With the assistance of Gaffgarion and some Gil he had saved on the side, the boy managed to run away from the village, and take an airship far from Ordallia, where he could seek out a chance for redemption. However, he could not do so in his old name, so he chose another one, one that would bear all the mystery, elegance, and brutal strength in just one word.
	Medraut.