Description: Candido is on the taller side for a man, with a naturally angular, long-limbed build that martial training has beaten away from awkwardness and given definition and grace. He's closer to thirty than twenty, though there's a boyishness to his features and lightness to his brown eyes that can make him seem younger. His brown skin is tanned dark still from a good deal of time outdoors, and he has dark hair given to fly-aways and stray curls whenever it gets longer than strict military tidiness. His face is open and expression, with high cheekbones, a prominent nose that's clearly been broken a time or two, and a short, dark beard that he plainly takes care to trim regularly. When he speaks, his accent marks him plainly as a son of the Lyceum, with a drawl specific the commons in Lenosia for those who know such things.

Personality: There's a push-and-pull of conflicting passions in Candido's nature that, somehow, the Faith and knighthood have helped him reconcile. Kind of. He's excited by the change afoot in this age of Arvum but has seen the tragic cost of it, and longs to protect Gild's best old works while being a part of new ones. He seeks joy in all corners of life that he can, including indulging arguably dumb cheap thrills sometimes, but longs to live in a way that serves something more than hollow pleasures. He does his best, even when that best is highly imperfect. He tries to make it work.

Background: Candido was born the middle of three children in a more-stable-than-not commoner family in the city-state of Lenosia. His mother, a city guard, was the primary backbone of the household (and the person who first taught him to fight). His father was a bard in a struggling mummer's troupe that toured the Lyceum and Crownlands and was largely absent, if well-meaning when he was around. His parents never married, but it was a decent collection of relations and Candido never went hungry or felt unloved.

The turning point in his life came when the Pirate King called the Gyre descended on Setarco. Candido wasn't old enough to go to war himself (and may not have anyhow, his life had limited direction), but his older sister Eugenia had joined Velenosa's army and was sent to fight. Though the Compact ultimately carried the day, Eugenia was among the slain.

This was the biggest tragedy in his life up to that point and, when the dust settled, Candido felt the urge to throw himself into something vaguely meaningful. To give his mother one less thing to worry about if nothing else. He started volunteering with the Faith's rebuilding efforts, which led to him becoming a disciple of Gild, which led to him taking his vows as a godsworn brother when he was 19. Growing up he'd been an inattentive adherent (at best) to the Pantheon, but the work crystallized his view of the Faith as a way to both do something that mattered externally and get right with himself internally. And a way to make his own path in the world. The Faith as a social force offered opportunities to a common boy with both martial and interpersonal skills that few other vocations could.

He squired to a Knight of Solace not long after taking his vows and acquitted himself well enough to earn a knighthood a couple years later. His personal convictions are heavily Lycene Liberal, though he's learned how to go along to get along with the Orthodox that make up so much of the Faith Militant, and he's served with general competence for the last several years. His latest assignment has taken him to Arx. What he'll make of it remains to be seen.