Galad *** A giant stands here, one hand resting on the long hilt of his sword. *** . . His clothes are a dark grayish green that would have faded into . . . . leaf or shadow, and his cloak swirls through shades of gray and green. . . . and brown as it shifts in the wind. It almost seems to disappear . . --- at times, that cloak, fading into whatever lies beyond. Galad is ----- ||| tall and hard, broad-shouldered, with blue eyes like frozen mountain ||| ||| lakes, and he moves with the deadly grace that makes to sword at ||| ||| his hip seem a part of him. It is not that he seems capable of ||| ||| violence and death; this man has tamed violence and death and keep ||| ||| them in his mind, ready to be loosed in a heartbeat, or embraced. ||| ||| There is a touch of gray in the Rangers long hair, held back by a ||| ||| woven leather cord around his forehead, but younger men would step ||| ||| back from Galad - If they were wise. ||| ||| ||| ||| Rising from the ranks of the Crusades, Galad has shown his true ||| ||| Warrior spirit as he bears the Crusades upon his shoulders. On his ||| ||| bared forearms are diving falcons, talons stretched. And those ||| ||| who would steal the magics from the heavens, will feel the Glory of ||| ||| the Crusaders of Valor! ||| ****************************************************************************