Richard Silvos

Richard Silvos was the former King of Leapador and father of Mathias and Juliet Silvos.

War to Reclaim the Throne
Sometime prior to his birth, Richard's family was forced from rule of the country by a rival clan. By the time Richard reached adulthood, he had gathered support for his family and began a crusade to take back the throne. It was a hard fought war which lasted for over a year. Richard's forces were at the point of failure when Adam Evans appeared in Leapador and sided with the revolution. His skills on the battlefield helped Richard sieze victory in two weeks.

After taking back the throne, he initially appointed Adam as the Captain of the Guard of Wensfell Keep, which Adam refused as it was too dull a position. Richard appointed Duncan Cairn to the position instead, sending Adam to the border fortress of Fortinbras.

Later Life and Murder
As an age of peace came about in Leapador, Richard settled into his role as king and started a family. He fathered two children, Mathias and Juliet. When Mathias was ten years old, an assassin snuck into the castle and killed Richard as he walked through the halls. The killer abducted Juliet and held her hostage as he fled, but ended up slitting her throat in front of Mathias. Enraged, Mathias blinded the assassin with a slingshot and used the murder weapon to stab him to death before fleeing the castle.

Philosophy
From a young age, Richard found that theft was the most deplorable action that anyone could commit, a belief that stemmed from the theft of his family's position in rule. As he grew, he expanded his definition of theft to include the taking of more abstract things, such as a murderer stealing a life. While he held these convictions, he was forced to take lives himself in the effort to take back the crown, acts he never forgave himself for. He confesses to Adam at the end of the war that he had become a thief, but he did so for the sake of a better future for his children so that they would never have to become "thieves" themselves. When Mathias is a young boy, he passes on his beliefs about theft to him, hoping to ensure Mathias never takes a life. Ironically, it is this belief that inspires Mathias to become a bounty hunter after killing his father's assassin, since he is already guilty of the greatest crime.