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Hector De Mares is the paternal half brother of Lancelot DuLac. After his father King Lot was forced out of Alsatia, he retreated across the sea to unite with his ally and friend King Uther, however, when he landed on the shores of Albion he was met by the man who introduced them to each other, the Druid Emrys. The Wizard told him that Uther had been killed by Duke Gorlois, and that it was dangerous for him and his family to enter Britania. Lot gave his only child, the infant Lancelot to Emrys for protection, and he went further west until he came to the Castle of Bors the elder. It was there that Lot fell in love with Bors’ sister in law, Catelyn De Mares. Lot took his wife’s name, and became the heir to her father, becoming a proper lord of Albion. When Arthur Queis began his crusade, he threw his lot in with him, but his son Hector was too young to join in the war. This upset Hector, as he missed a chance to prove himself to the man who would one day be his king. As Hector grew older, he trained harder and harder to be a great warrior, and when it was revealed that Lancelot was his half brother, he became even more desperate to prove himself. Since most of his life they were in an age of peace, he did this by entering tournament after tournament, but he was always outclassed by the knights of the round table, and in one instance, he was even beaten by his own cousin Bors the younger. Still, he continued to push himself, and finally received is chance when the Uncrowned King’s rebellion made its way to the border of Camelot. Hector immediately volunteered to march south, and was placed into Ser Kay’s vanguard. Hector was ecstatic, knowing that there was more than enough battle for him to engage in up at the front, but once again his hopes were dashed. His brother’s cavalry made it to the battle force, and after barely entering the battle himself, it was ended. The Uncrowned King had surrendered to Arthur, with several conditions, but those didn’t matter to Hector, he had missed his chance at glory. Again when the Green Knight came to Camelot he had a chance to prove his courage, but Gawain, who became a knight at the same time as him, took his chance once again by decapitating the Knight, who somehow survived and told Gawain to meet him at his castle in a years time. Hector grew to resent Gawain and his brothers, and when Gawain brought Tom Lincoln back who was knighted and brought into the king’s inner circle almost immediately, he was enraged. Lancelot and Galehaut tried calmed him down, explaining why he was so trusted, and that he had been serving the kingdom from afar without any request for compensation. This calmed Hector a little, but he still grew more distant from his fellow knights. When Lancelot’s affair with Queen Guinevere was discovered, Hector and several other knights devised a scheme to save the two of them from the dungeons, and Hector himself was the one responsible for killing Camelot’s head of house Lucan Bedrydant, as well as several other knights on his way out. He became his half brother’s Seneschal when they arrived at Joyous Gard and began setting up their defenses for Arthur’s inevitable assault. Ready for his chance at glory once again, Hector made sure he was at the front gate, at the front of the defense against Arthur’s siege. When the gate was forced open, the man at the front of the charge was not Arthur, but Kay. Hector, furious that the King of Knights would dare insult him like this, he charged Kay. The two men dueled, Kay taking several hits to his left side, clearly wounded and about to fall when he grabbed Hector’s armor, the gorget around his neck heating to a point that Hector ripped it off his neck, and as he was reeling back, he felt the cold falchion against his neck, looked up to Kay, fear in his eyes, begging for his life. Kay shook his head, raised his sword, and decapitated the younger knight, Hector failing at achieving glory one more time.