Darcy de Winter

Darcy de Winter is the eldest son of Earl Rufus de Winter and the half brother of Quenelda de Winter. His mother is either desceased of estranged from the family, she is of noble birth and her name is Desdemona de Winter.

Royal Household Cavalry and the SDS
Darcy is part of the Royal Household Cavalry ( the II Unicorn Regiment). He did not join the SDS until after an incident with a battlegriff in The Dragon Whisperer, where his father forced him to enter as a lowly cadet. He was due to become a Captain in the Royal Household Cavalry, but this did not happen due to him being forced to join the SDS.

Lord Hugo Mandrake promised Darcy one of his prize golden unicorn stallions to celebrate Darcy's ceremony of knighthood (in The Dragon Whisperer). This offer may have been withdrawn because Darcy was forced to join the SDS.

He is very afraid of heights, and is a bit of a coward, which is probably why he did not join the SDS in the first place.

In The Dragon Whisperer
As of The Dragon Whisperer, Darcy is seventeen, almost eighteen years old.

His father originally banned him from dragons after he killed a dragon called Highland Moonshine at the midwinter races.

He is tall and slim, with emerald eyes. His sister has blonde hair, so it can be assumed that he dos as well.

In The Dragon Whisperer, he was the leader of a gang called "Darcy's Devils". The other people in the gang were Guy de Bessert, Rupert Grime and Simon Woodville. They were notoriuos for racing, drinking and outrageous behaviour.

In an attempt to impress his friends, Darcy tries to ride a wild battlegriff, Ride the Rising Wind, he doesn't succeed, and had to rescued by Quenelda and Two Gulps. The battlegriff maims Guy de Bessert and kills an apprentice, Grouse.

In The Dragon Whisperer, his sweetheart Lady Armelia de Burgh, the duaghter of the Duke of Cawdor (the Queen's treaserer).

He despises his half sister, and openly mocks her, but at the end of The Dragon Whisperer he comes to bitterly respect her for what she did for their father.