Cordovan Gravesalve likes to tell people he had been a cavalry soldier before becoming a robber. And he became a leader of his own bandit groups, when the previous leader Morena fled before him to Honeyngton with some of her loyalists.
In truth Cordovan just has a passion for riding and managed to "find" a cavalry horse and sword before he came to the area around Honeyngton just at the right time when Morenas group of bandits had become leaderless by her move into the city and the remaining bandits quickly subordinated themselves to Cordovan, especially since he appeared competent.
