The Laughing Cavalier (novel) of Sir Percy Blakeney, known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel." EMMUSKA ORCZY <br>Haarlem, 1913 The Laughing Cavalier (novel) The Laughing Cavalier is a 1913 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, which revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story takes place in Holland in 1623/1624 and is partly inspired by Frans Hals' painting "The Laughing Cavalier": in the novel, Blake is Frans Hals' adopted son and the man who poses for the painting of the Laughing Cavalier. The sequel to this book, continuing the story of Percy Blake, is "The
Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons) Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons) The cavalier is a playable character class in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, and the related "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game". It is a mounted warrior mostly in the service of good. The cavalier was introduced by Gary Gygax in "Dragon" #72 (April 1983). The cavalier later appears in the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" supplement, "Unearthed Arcana" in 1985, which also made the paladin a sub-class of the cavalier class. The Samurai from Oriental Adventures and Knights of Solamnia from Dragonlance Adventures were also subclasses of cavalier. The cavalier (along with the barbarian) was revised in