IT IS SAID that heroes don’t have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.
It is this type of humility, and even meekness, that Cobb Gilroy radiates as he goes about his mundane day-to-day life. It is only his sense of adventure and desire to make something of himself that made him use his modest inheritance to purchase a sword and suit of mail before he joined Bort's caravan to see the world.
This modest inheritance is a result of the passing of his father after a long, happy life as a militiaman and farmer. Cobb grew up as the youngest sibling on his successful farm. Now his older brothers and sisters bicker over the fields, pastures, and humble manor left by the elder Gilroy. Along with daily goat milking and help with the yearly harvest, Cobb remained content to take on odd jobs around his hometown, including helping lumberjack crews just outside of town.
It was on one of these jaunts into the forest on a lumberjack crew where Cobb first overcame his fears and began to figure out what it means to serve, and what it means to be brave. The aggressive boar actually never had a chance. Cobb's arrow found it's mark, and the clean kill meant a feast later that evening where Cobb was toasted multiple times.
Someday Cobb will return to the farm. But today he finds himself a humble caravan guard with a sense of adventure much like his father had many years ago.
