Ned of the Forest was a serfcatcher-turned-famous cavalryman of the Detinan Civil War. Almost everybody knew of him as he was tactically talented and ferocious. His career as a serfcatcher and his massacre of Blonds at Fort Cushion inspired fear in every Blond. King Geoffrey tasked him with the job of capturing Fort Cushion, which happened to have many blond soldiers supplementing the southron garrison. After the fort fell, nobody knew exactly what happened, but many blond soldiers were killed while the same number of ordinary Detinan southrons survived.