"A gentle soul, forever out of step with the world in which he lived, Sir Fistache mal Arthreign had a talent for taking the wrong turn in life. A genuine concern for the well-being of others led him to join the almost legendary Knights of the Implicate Order, despite being entirely unsuited to the heroic lifestyle. Spectacularly failing to be recorded in the Order's Book of Significant Actions, Sir Fistache was, for a time, the Champion of Holboom, one of the Twelve Kings of Fernlaith. It appears he was stripped of this position when he failed to save Kathryn of Arden from being eaten by the dragon Orjart, and seems afterwards to have slipped from the history books."

from "Significant Actions: A History of the Knights of the Implicate Order" by Professor Stephanie Cromber

"There is a woodcutting in the African Museum in Tervuren, near Brussels, dating from the Eighteenth Century detailing what is said to be a wishhobbler attack upon a small settlement. The image is based on the account of a missionary who claims to have witnessed the attack. In his account, he speaks of a small man, apparently the creature's companion, who wept at the carnage. You can quite clearly see him, in the background, wearing the insignia of a Knight of the Implicate Order. But as the Order had, by that time, been disbanded for some several centuries, I find the whole tale dubious in the extreme."

from "In Search of the Lazy Pagoda: Europe in a Fortnight" by Haggis Tweed

"Someone claiming to actually be Sir Fistache mal Arthreign turned up in the area of Porkskreach known as the Songs just prior to the twenty seventh Wearypenn Race. But as he would have to have been several hundreds of years old, his claim wasn't taken too seriously."

from "Colourful Characters: Portraits of Life in the Great City" by Brian Grovenor