Quinn Hardy

== Overview== Quinn Hardy is a renegade Imperial Guard Captain, once the pride of Burthorpe, now counted as scum amongst their ranks.

Although Quinn is still an honourable man, he is still seen as a traitor. The reasons for his turn from faith began with his early childhood...

Appearence and personality
Quinn Hardy often displays a hard and unforgiving exterior, partly due to his soldiering career and partly because of his experiences, most of which he would rather forget. He is an excellent sharpshooter, and claims never to have missed a target in his life.

Quinn has gingery-blonde, messy hair, and mutton chops to cover the sides of a scarred, but not unhandsome, face. He wears a normal soldiers leggings and chainmail, covered by a red tunic with white sleeves. He carries a specially converted turret crossbow with six rotating barrels, meaning he can fire up to six shots without having to reload, and even then he only needs to change the turret for another and he has another six shots at his disposal.

Childhood
Quinn was the youngest of three brothers and two sisters, born and raised in Witchaven. His two eldest brothers went off to work on the fishing platform, with intentions of returning once every six months for three weeks, Quinn never saw either of them again.

Quinn's father was the local drunkard, a fisherman by trade but one who had not fished in a long time. He often beat his children, those who were left, and dwelt solely off their labour. Quinn and his remaining brother, Hugh, both of which were thirteen at the time, were fish-gutters, and worked at the local fishmongers, whilst their eldest sister, Alex, sold her body for money.

Quinn's father failed to pay for Alex's funeral after one of her clients stabbed and and beat her to death one day. Quinn and Hugh decided to bury Alex by themselves, and kept her body under a blanket whilst they tioled for hours digging her grave. A small black wooden cross marks her grave, which stands on a small hill above the beech.

The only sibling who managed to escape the grasp of Quinn's father was the only woman left in the family, and the only one who provided a proper motherly figure for Quinn, his sister, Lily. Lily had managed to escape the clutches of their father when she was fifteen and Quinn was merely five, she met a Temple Knight who was undercover, operating in Witchaven. He provided her with a weapon and money and she ran off to join the Falador Militia.

Lily returned several times, without fail, once every month, not for her father's sake, but for the sake of Quinn and Hugh. She would come once every month without fail. Every time she returned she was a little wiser, stronger, and more majestic. Eventually she became a Temple Knight, and returned one day when Quinn was fifteen to find Hugh dead and her father mercilessly assailing Quinn with a butcher's knife. Lily slew the father she never loved before revealing to Quinn she was adopted, and was in fact half elf. She offered Quinn the chance to come with her to Falador, and he accepted.