Adventurers and knights could be two very different things, depending on who you asked. Sometimes they could overlap if their objectives coincided upon exploration in the dungeon. You could argue one would be for the thrill of the call itself, and the other would be tasked to clear out monsters close to the surface for the safety of Courserkind, to keep peace on that vertical border, or to retrieve forgotten riches for their kingdoms.

For Icarus, the call meant an escape. As the youngest of his noble's blood family, there were few patches of light between the shadows his elder siblings, parents, and family cast upon the tapestry of destiny. They were well-learned, court doctors, advisors, librarians and keepers of royal secrets. Far too busy to concern themselves with what old things are buried underground when the world above demanded more than a fickle pull towards certain death. His family was not one of action; they called for it, never enacting it themselves. Their influence meant others beneath them would do the work on their behalf as they supervised, in their world of lovely trinkets and expensive maps of neighboring kingdoms, names of those they should befriend to ensure their hooves remained polished and their manes free of icky tangles of hardship.

An adventurer's life would have never gone over well with his family, no. So Icarus decided he would become a knight. A hero who braved the depths of the dungeon below to save those unwittingly waltzing into booby traps, those lost with tattered maps, and one who came out the other end, a savior with extravagant spoils and even grander rewards of glory and fawning eyes. Sure, Icarus's start is a tad rough. He's had to lick his own wounds after failures and whip up faux treasures to appease his family's badgering into his profession, but what knight didn't start in the mud to claim victory?

Soon, this knight could call himself a Courser's hero, for all the fears, thrills, and.. surprisingly, friends, the dungeon has brought him. It was only a bonus that he had no need to meet with his family more than once a moon due to his incredibly busy schedule, being a knight and all.