For most of his life Don Simon was an unimportant and uninfluential member of the nobility who ruled fairly and efficiently over a quiet little rural village in the kingdom of Astoria. He was a great lover of literature and had a large library in which he used to read for many hours each day. He especially enjoyed reading chivalric novels about noble Bretonnian knights who traveled the world righting wrongs.
Unfortunately, over the years, Don Simon's mind deteriorated and he began to have delusions, believing himself to be a noble night who had to undertake the search for the lady until one day at the age of 59 he got hold of some weapons and armor of dubious quality and an old and skinny horse and fled from his home in search of adventures accompanied by one of his servants known as ancho Juanma who, finding himself unable to stop the crazy old man, decided to accompany him to avoid him harm as much as possible.
For the next 12 years they traveled throughout Estalia and beyond, experiencing all kinds of adventures, performing chivalric deeds, gaining fame, and miraculously not dying along the way.
Some of their most famous deeds are when they helped the basajaun of the Piña Nueva forest to defeat the bray shaman Ghurkun Rothorn herd his lackeys (although people do not know that while Don simon charged the shaman he cast a spell having a terrible magical dysfunction that ended his life and that of most of his followers while the rest fled in terror). Also famous is the time he defeated a giant in single combat in the valley of mills (although little do the bards who tell this story know that in reality the the giant was so drunk that while he was raising his club to crush Don Simon and his horse he collided with the blade of a windmill, losing his balance and falling against a large rock on the ground that split open his head, killing him instantly. ). And its hard to forget when he joined an army to face a horde of skaven and after the death of his general Don Simon heroically assumed command charging against the skaven weapons teams that have taken so many lives.He inspired the rest of the knights to continue fighting breaking the skaven morale and turning the situation around, achieving victory (despite the fact that while Don Simon, ancho Juanma and the few remaining knights charged head-on against a regiment of ratling gunners due to what seemed like divine intervention, these jammed, others exploded and some overheated, allowing the knights to break the heart of the skaven formation and massacre their weapons teams and artillery, causing their withdrawal.).
Since his departure, his fame spread throughout Estalia like wildfire. Wherever they go people recognize the venerable knight of more than 70 years who, time and time again, has achieved impossible victories and many generals and lords try to hire him or even convince him to lead their forces, because the mere fact of having him as an ally considerably increases morale while scaring enemies to the point of defection.