Here is Mike's description of Bertrand, Captain of the Baron's Guard.
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Bertrand
	Captain of the Baron's Guard.  Fifty years old if a day, and
all muscle.  Bald as a billiard ball, with a gaze designed to strike
fear into the heart of the most impudent recruit.  Insists on proper
deference to nobility; probably gets along with them better.  Rumors
among the draftees say that he eats babies for breakfast.  The nobles
recognize him as a capable, dependable captain who takes his duties in
protecting the keep and town very seriously.

The Guard
	A combination of castle guard and town police; they wear the
Baron's livery and are nominally responsible for keeping peace and
order in the Baron's capital and keep.  It's made up of a mixture of
volunteer and career soldiers, draftees from the nearby barony, and
whatever mercenaries the Baron or his Captain may care to hire to
augment its number.  Generally, the draftees end up ranked lower than
the career soldiers, and would be the first to go on the lines in an
actual battle.  This provokes some amount of resentment, but aside
from extreme cases (like Greg) this doesn't usually amount to anything
because of the Captain's rather harsh sense of discipline.  However,
despite this, the lower ranks are usually somewhat lax in their
duties, provoking no end of annoyance for the Captain.

The Forest
	The keep is surrounded by farmland on 3 sides, and
oak-and-deciduous forest on the 4th.  About half of this is paritioned
off as the Baron's Wood, and the guard is sometimes called in to deal
with poachers.  Various brigand groups have also been known to take
their shelter there.  Rumors of elves living in the forest and
abducting children abound, but nobody has ever proved this one way or
the other.
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Here's what Mike didn't write.

Some ten years ago, after several long tours along the southern
borders of [sorry, kingdom name's not online], Bertrand started
looking for someplace to retire.  Someplace where he doesn't have to
deal with so many layers of authority above him, where he'll have some
autonomy, but where there is still someplace to pass the buck when
things get political.  Someplace where it won't get political quite as
often as when commanding troops protecting the borders of various
baronies.  Something with occasional excitement to keep him on his
toes, but without the constant skirmishes with the monsters across the
border.  ("non-human" = "monster".  You've never met a monster you
liked, except some of the dead ones roasted over a fire.  This outlook
is fairly typical of people living here, although only the ones with a
lot of military background might possibly have had to try eating
them.)

You finally started looking after the incident with Baron Erudin.
Somebody accused him of having one of his mages magically alter the
personality of one of his prisoners.  This was an extremely serious
accusation - even if it were found baseless, his reputation would have
been tarnished.  Apparently there was enough suspicion that the King
ordered the troops in.  He knew you were coming (_politics_ again),
and claimed innocence from atop a well-guarded wall.  Your troops
surrounded the keep and, while waiting for the royal so-called
"experts" (mages), constructed the engines which would enable you to
breach the walls.

The experts arrived.  At their direction, your men stormed the keep.
Baron Erudin's men died or, eventually, surrendered.  You don't know
all of what the experts found.  Some of the people in the dungeons
weren't quite sane, but that's normal.  However, the final verdict was
well publicized.  "Banned research and experimentation has been
conducted by mages in Baron Erudin's employ."  On their orders, you
executed the one mage who survived the attack and your men razed the
keep (the grapevine claims that Baron Erudin wept as the keep was
destroyed).  The Baron was taken, along with a couple sealed chests of
"evidence", to the capitol by the royal experts and their guards.  The
Baron was executed, and the barony split up among its neighbors.

Fairly quickly, you started hearing rumors that perhaps all was not as
it seemed.  They varied from speculation that the evidence was
tampered with, to claims that some evidence disappeared, to claims
that the evidence was conclusive and the Baron was guilty as sin.  The
whole thing stank of Politics, especially when you learned that the
evidence was sealed away.

When you started making retirement noises, friends of friends of
people in your unit discovered that the Baron Montague [check name]
was looking for a Captain for the local guard.  You met him, and he
seemed perfectly reasonable for a noble.  His barony is in the middle
of nowhere, in the northern portion of the kingdom.  Ideal - you can
bump political decisions to the Baron, and all he wants is for you to
keep law, order, and a secure barony.  Best of all, it's so far away
that most of the hicks don't know about Baron Erudin.

It was about as you expected.  There's a forest nearby, with rumors of
elves, but you've never seen any of the little buggers.  Occasionally
you have to take the Guard into it, to clear it of bandits.  Can't be
that many mosters in the forest, if the bandits live there, unless
they're somehow in league.

The Baron's youngest daughter, Lady Hyacinth, is a bit of a problem.
Fortunately, most of it isn't your problem, it is the Baron's.  She's
a klutz who can't manage to do anything right, and absolutely
terrorizes the servants.  Your portion of the problem began when she
started getting lost.  The first time, you raised the Guard and
started searching; you searched for the better part of a day before a
pesant boy (completely on his own) brought her back.  "If a 'Lady' is
going to have a tryst, she should at least let someone discrete know
so that I don't have to turn the keep upside down looking for her."

The second time, when she came back with the same boy, you
investigated the boy and brought it up with the Lord Montague.  Upon
hearing that the boy had no family, survived on odd jobs at a
disreputable inn, and generally hung out with the unsavory people.
The Lord's orders were that "if it were to happen again you should
teach the boy a lesson."

You thought a while about how to deal with this order.  The
implications of the order were clear -- Lord Montague did not want
Lady Hyacinth stealing away to hang out with this riff-raff.  You
didn't blame him, either.  The boy had a sharp tongue and no respect
for authority.  You decided upon an unofficial visit to the Six
Fingers, followed by a forceful discussion outside which would result
in the boy having enough bruises to make the point.  Distasteful, but
better than what would happen if Lord Montague officially took notice
of the affair.

As you were leaving the keep, seeing the guard snap to attention gave
you an inspiration.  A solution which would make the boy productive
and useful, not give him enough time to sneak away with Hyacinth,
should fix a few of his character flaws, and might eventually make him
respectful enough....  Later that day, a boy named Gregory was
forcibly removed from the Six Fingers Inn and inducted into the palace
guard.  You had to subject him to fairly harsh discipline, and he
spent a disappointingly large amount of time in the cells for
disobeying orders and running away.

Lady Hyacinth disappeared again.  Gregory, as a member of the guard,
was turned out to help find her... and did.  "Look, if I didn't find
her, she'd've been lost, okay?  Deal."  Sometime around then, he
seemed to start developing a sense of responsibility and, while still
sharp-tongued and somewhat insubordinate, began spending less time in
the cells.

A couple months ago, Lady Hyacinth disappeared yet again.  For the
first time, she reappeared without Gregory -- and Gregory failed to
return.  Soon after that, Lord Montague managed to marry off his
oldest daughter, and his wife elected to go to the capitol to attend a
festival.  Montague fell ill, and Hyacinth began to take charge (this
seemed slightly out of character to you, but people change).

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For the PC,
Bertrand is a 5th level fighter (he has the experience to be somebody
important in the army, but he's a bit burned out) (note that this is
approximately character retirement level, too. :> ).  I'd expect
strength around 17, average charisma.  Reasonable int.  2 WP slots in
bastard sword; frobbed for 2/round with it.  I'll generate a character
sheet, but if you'd rather feel free (I'll keep mine for later, in
that case).