[Eorl of Rohan]

Er, Kath, obviously our perceptions are different. My faults. I did mention that the mother died soon after birth, methinks. Anyway, here is how I view our history -

Ferethor hit the streets when his father died, at the age of twelve. He didn't miss him, a cruel and brutal man who couldn't afford his own whisky, let alone feed and clothe his son decently. He was picked up by a gondorian guard, who adopted him into his household. Ferethor was not a model son, he drank, he swore, he habitually left home. Then he fell in love with the eldest girl of the household and ran away and got married despite the foster's parents immense disapproval. They had a son, but the girl died soon after childbirth, and when Ferethor disappeared, your character were left in the grandfather's care - the very one that were against his daughter being married to such a vagabond as that (despite the honor and rank he earned in the military profession, he still thinks that) and thinks that his daughter's death was due to Ferethor's neglect. Actually it was one of the indirect causes, but anyway. The grandfather would be viciously against you ever finding your father or be a military man, and under him you would still be.

But then, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, you don't have to follow my way of thinking. If you don't like it, if it does not fit in with your character, it would be easy enough for me to change. Okay?