Sir Malcolm Sollinger was dead.
He is a younger brother of the Late Bethany Sollinger, and like all men, spent his time between the sea and the land. And like all of the Trident Lords, he was trained in a mixture of riding and sailing, spending many of his early years at sea.
Where as Callen older than him by a few months was more at home commanding ships, Malcolm's prowess showed in his fighting spirit and his love of combat. As far as brothers and siblings go, Malcolm was relatively close with them all. Before the "Hard Times", he made sure to work on actually seeing that bowmen were trained, and that the sailors that would find their feet on the decks of Sollinger boats could fight.
Like all men of Sollinger, Malcolm was born into to his family's call-and earned himself a reputation as a cool killer of men, enough to cause Corsair ships to turn sail if they came upon his boat. And in the years that brought on assassinations and murders within the small House, Malcolm was keen to find someone responsible and exact retribution. If there was someone suspected of carrying out a deed, Malcolm's reprisal would target them, or whomever associated to them that would make them hurt.
Before the attack on his sister, Bethany, enemies conspired to bring down the attack dog of the family, knowing that such a bold attempt on the head of house would only spark more vengeance and an unrelentless hunt. the Corsairs feared that if Malcolm was not killed then there would be no way to put him back on a leash.
As it was, when he was docked in an allied port, men attacked him openly in the market square. Malcolm did not seek to flee, but rather pulled out his own Dirk and fought madly back, while his crew was alerted. In the end, he would recieve more than enough stab wounds to end a man, and have part of his left ear lopped free, while earning scars along his face and body. And was left for dead in the market- as his crew came to his aid.
But that did not kill him. Somehow, the man had enough blood and fortitude to survive what was to be a public display of power. Corsair Captains slept uneasily, and another trap was laid-to which Malcolm brought his ship into. This time, after losing a comitted ship the Corsairs were able to overpower the Sollinger Lord and Captain and they did the only thing they could think to. The drowned him before his surrendered crew and then threw his body over the boat.
You see Malcolm Sollinger was dead.
However that did not kill Malcolm either. His body would be found by a fishing crew a day later from the ordeal and somehow the bastard held on and was brought back from what was believed to have been certain death. As it was Malcolm earned the moniker as the Drowned knight-or simply the Drowned. However in the time it took him to recover Bethany had already been stricken down-and her Daughter Helena took over.
Malcolm was never the same after- an almost distant or touched man he kept mainly to himself and his kin that he was the closest with. Helena soon enough died from illness and with it came Nimue. The Corsairs were repelled, and in the peacetime prosperity the older knight was married off to the Lohstrens and entered service with their family as part of his bonds in matrimony. It pulled Malcolm from the sea- but there is some rumor that the young Moirae has begun to give him his life back.