High Marshal Reiner Faron

Reiner Faron is the oldest surviving male descendant of the ruling house of Highmarch, a village destroyed by a conflagration of fire in mysterious circumstances some hundred years ago. He was chosen to be the Marshal of the Army of God and Holy Church, leader of the Fifth Crusade. He has chosen the old Crusader's Castle to be his headquarters and has called the local farmers to build a village in honor of his old house's name. Although he is an older man, Reiner is known to be one of the most deadly swordsmen in all of the Shrinelands. When the sack of Hambor, the death of Matthew Averill, and the establishment of the Iron Regency of highwaymen shook the Hinterlands, the High Marshal hurried to Agrawel to formally accuse the killers of the baron's son of petty treason. Reiner wields Caledfwlch, the most famous sword in the land, which his ancestor of the same name won in battle from the dread knight Ultan in 1415. After numerous meetings with the Dawn's Heralds, Reiner eventually agreed to an arrangement that would vindicate the Crusade and villainize Matthew Averill. Later, at the Holy Tourney, Reiner was crippled by Lord Henry Malvern and then seemingly killed, restored to full vitality moments later both times. After the Dawn's Herald were acquitted of his accusation of treason, Reiner met with the party, revealing that he was in fact his ancestor: the immortal son of Baron Finnian Faron, who made a contract with the Phoenix for eternal life when he was cast into the void by the reaction of Caledfwlch with the spell of Ammon the Ninth. Reiner asked Lemuel to transfer his power to Calanthe, while Edmund assisted. With Edmund's connection to the Weave, he was able to perfect Lemuel's ritual so that Calanthe would only be restored to health, not made immortal as Reiner was. Nonetheless, the ritual ate away Reiner's life force, and he dissolved into ash and smoke, while Calanthe finally awoke.