Background: Joseph Le'rec was born and raised in Manetheren while the army was recovering from a minor war, in need of soldiers and so he was drafted nearly by the time he just turned ten. Trained for about three years alongside his brother, they were both just like the rest of the boys their age tossed in as recruits, and given the front line command with the standard ten-foot pikes. He and his brother Michael were raised as soldiers, visiting their aging parents maybe once or twice a year, in which they were both raised mostly by the older officers, along with the hundreds of other young trainees. When finally armed with the licensed twelve-foot pikes of the true soldiers. With their armor and badges, they were officially enrolled in the Manetheren castle, each on one side of one of the many doors of the noble people. Mostly a very boring job, they just mostly hung around, learning to be able to stand for many many hours on end, energizing their stamina to great amount!
After about three years on the force, they were in their early twenties and were shipped off to Tar Valon after a request for more men in the Shining Walls, the mighty Manetheren already having enough men as it was. They now guard the minor public study in the lower quarters of the White Palace, though are often sent to different locations around the place, different officers sending them wherever. Mostly they are always guarding some sort of empty palce where no other guards really are, whether it be the back door to the Novice Garden or cellar C52 in block 8blue. But they are always friends, and really are quite good pikemen, having been holding those weapons for about 10 years, and earlier when boys on the farm learned to use the quarter staff, and so have much education in the matter.
Name: Joseph Le'rec
Age: 23 (or somewhere around there, he's not really sure, but he does know when his birthday is)
Hair: Brown, dark and chopped short
Eyes: Brown, dark
Height: About 6' or a little more
Skills: Master of the pike, specialized in the light frame pike, evenly balanced with a metal stud at the end to counterwieght the tip, able to twirl, thrust and perform the difficult maneuvers of the ten-hit combination of the pike, a feat that is too much for most with such a long weapon, and so can act in any other combination with a lower hit count than that. Knows very little of the Old Tongue, and is quite uneducated, he can read, but not very well at all, his brother can do that for him. He is also of fair ability in the matters of hand-to-hand combat, in the use of long daggers and other such things to do when the enemy closes in. He can somewhat use the Manetheren long bow to a decent ability, as any boy can in the land, but isn't quite the best at all. All in all, he is the average pikeman except that he and his brother might have a bit more dedication to their duty because of their friendship, which is why they have the skills to avert the ten-hit. But he nor Michael have the real education of war or actual battle, only a small bandit skirmish on their way to the city.