Carlomax was just another Peasant until the day he saw his brother hanged for smiling at the Lord's daughter and his mother beaten until she was crippled for crying at the execution. Two weeks later, more by luck than ability, Carlomax had kidnapped the lord's daughter and fled into the forests. His initial plan had been to do unspeakable things to her in revenge, but when it came to it, he found that he didn't have the heart to deliberately torture another Human.[1a]
He took her to the road, let her go, and disappeared back into the forest. There, he was approached by a Faceless and invited to join the Herrimaults; the Faceless said he had already proved he had the necessary skill and moral character. Carlomax eagerly agreed, as he had nowhere else to go.[1a]
Carlomax fit in perfectly and quickly proved to be a talented Herrimault. He rose through the ranks and became a Faceless himself. Oppressive Nobles were his particular target, and so it was that he became involved in the uprising at Derrevin Libre. He hoped to be able to kill the nobleman and then escape before the counterattack. The delay in the counterattack caught him by surprise, and he formed a grand, wild plan: maybe he could liberate the whole of Bretonnia from oppression![1a]
Carlomax is now a revolutionary idealist with enough experience of guerrilla warfare to be a real problem for the nobility. He is also only too aware that a concerted attack by the nobility would crush his fledgling republic, and he is keen to hire agents to keep the nobles distracted, ideally fighting each other.[1a]