Ruland von Bern

Sir Roland von Bern is a 16th Landsknecht Ritter. He is an officer in a war company called Die Fahnlein von Stockschmerz or more commonly known as the Company of Stickpain. He is the third son of a Swiss nobleman from the city of Bern. Shortly after Roland was sent off to serve as a squire to Sir William Percival, Roland's father died and left every all titles and land to the oldest brother, the second brother joined the clergy to serve the Cardnal at Worms. Roland was left in the care of Sir William, who sank in to an unexplained deep depression, which caused him to take up the cross and crusade in the Holy land in search of his salvation. This left Roland a scavenging street thug, who one day heard the drums of war, and fell into the service of a noble swiss family that had been displaced by the Helvetic confederacy. The House von Langental took to the landsknecht way of life in the servioce of the Holy Roman Empire.