Name: Argyros Nikostratos
Race/Nationality: Argive (from Argos)
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Height and Build: 5' 9" and well-built
Hair: Black hair cut mid-length/short
Eyes: Sea blue
Career and Skills: Argian noble and warrior, raised as part of the elite Argive Epilektoi and well versed in all forms of warfare. Being a leader of Argos' semi-professional military has given him great swiftness of body and mind, tactics and strategy widely known by him, as well as how to kill a man a hundred different ways.
Weapons: A doru (hoplite spear) and xiphos.
Armour/Attire: Being a warrior and a noble it would make sense that Argyros was clad most of the time in his armour, very rarely at ease, if ever, his equipment and protection of the highest quality available to him. His upper body is safe behind a muscled bronze cuirass while his lower is guarded by a pair of greaves and his head fully enclosed by a black-and-white crested Corinthian helmet. All this, from knee to shoulder, is protected by the aspis (hoplon) shield originally invented in his home polis of Argos, the face decorated with a black hydra on a white background.
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Physical Description: At an average height but of well-built stock Argyros is not the most imposing man in the Argive forces but then again it is his training and skill that make him dangerous, not his appearance. The Argive noble has a hard face, crags appearing well away from his elder years, the smooth skin leathery and hard from years of training, marching and fighting. It is so all over his body, pink scars running grooves into parts of his body, the training of the most fearsome Argive hoplites not that much easier than their Spartan adversaries. Years of training have hardened him and built his body into a muscular but lithe adult, his outer appearance extremely deceptive since he moves with such fluidity. Give the blue-eyed warrior a weapon however, or just an opponent and he will bring them down.
Mental Description: Argyros shares two major traits with all his Argive brethren, his devotion to his ancestors and polis and his hatred of Sparta and her people. Not entirely adverse to them he, like others, cannot easily forgot past wrongs done to them by the Dorian descendants after leaving Mycenae. These feelings are deeply ingrained into him but usually his mind is more focused on training. He is a quick thinker, a survivor some might say, able to work his way out of tight spots as much with his mind as with his weapon-arm and thus diffuse situations. Being the son of a city noble and servant of the king means he is well educated inside and outside of war, able to speak a number of regional dialects and engage in a number of crafts when he is not fighting. When in battle, however, he is cool and calm but full of rage beneath the surface. Gods help those who face him.
Background/History:
Argyros was born in the city or polis of Argos itself, a city of culture and military renown, under the benevolent rulership of their king, Pheidon. Under the patronage of the king his family prospered and the 'silver child' was born into a line made of both warriors and educated men, in Argos being both one and the same. His childhood was harsh and filled with blood and sweat as he was taught the skills needed for war, taught doubly because he was the son of a noble, he was flogged and beaten by other boys as well as being beaten by his teachers.
Oh they were not Spartans by any feat but they were solid enough to hold a line when other part-time soldiers would scatter and flee. When he was eighteen, a man, Argyros fought his first battle against Spartan forces and eventually won through sheer grit. Over the years he fought numberless skirmishes and a good number of battles against rival city-states and their forces.
Presently he has been given a task by his king, a task that will require old grudges to be set aside, all Hellenes to unite and for him to set out to sea on a journey that could take him anywhere in the known world.
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Originally Posted by McScottish
I definitely want mythology here, and while I'm not sure if Perry would agree I say that if we're going mythological, it's irrelevant what time period our armor comes from.
