Rise of Maltraxis · Executed · Defied the king
The human wall who joked about death until the king finally made the joke stop.
The person behind the legend
Wilfred guarded important people because danger followed them and he suspected danger would eventually win. He counted his kills without pride and joked about his own death as a way to blunt its weight. He claimed to hate fighting, trained obsessively, and kept walking away from battles that should have ended him—until he refused King Maltraxis directly.
Signature methods
Magic & stranger talents
What people remember
Heroism, poor judgment, private grief, public embarrassment—usually in combinations nobody planned.
Nearly fell during the Gauntlet’s pillar crossing and built himself a small earthen foothold.
Accepted Rish Rash’s Jump spell and bypassed the next obstacles in one enormous leap.
Refused to kill the starving prisoners and used his halberd non-lethally.
Spoke openly against Maltraxis and was thrown into a vat of molten lava.
From the road
Reconstructed from the surviving campaign record—not verbatim transcripts, but faithful to the person revealed at the table.
Lysander’s newest verse“He rhymed ‘door’ with ‘boor’ again. Weak craftsmanship. Excellent rhythm. I requested a chorus.”
The prisoners“They were beaten before they reached us. I used the flat of the blade. I was ordered to call that mercy a failure.”
Final record“A guard who obeys every order is only a weapon someone else is holding.”
People in their orbit
A bard who wrote mocking songs about Wilfred. Wilfred loved them, sang them on watch, and requested new verses.
The other Kingsguard recruits who refused Svetlana’s execution order.
The ruler Wilfred finally judged unworthy of obedience.
Where the record stands
Dead. Maltraxis ordered his execution after Wilfred refused to kill prisoners and denounced the king. Lucien Dorian later replaced him.
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