Hubert Lipton

The former Lieutenant General of Helman's Second Army and son of Thoma Lipton, one of the strongest people who ever lived. Hubert is the best friend of Patton Misnarge and a major character in the Rance series.

Personal history
Hubert was born toward the Gi Era to Thoma Lipton and an unknown mother. Due to Thoma's promise to protect Patton after the death of Paelina Misnarge, Patton and Hubert were raised together essentially as brothers and formed a lasting, unbreakable friendship. During this time, Hubert also met and befriended Hunty Kalar, Patton's guardian, and Aristoles Calm, a young archery prodigy who was taken under Thoma's wing. Throughout his childhood, Hubert sported a rather massive complex about not living up to his father's legacy. As a result, he devoted himself to training and achieved knighthood at the incredibly young age of 13, but was still dissatisfied with himself as his friends continued to outperform him. As a present for becoming a knight, Hubert was given the sword Shiranui by his father, which he had found while exploring a dungeon in JAPAN. Though he was honored to receive the weapon, Hubert felt that he was unfit to wield something of its caliber. By his twenties, Hubert had rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and served under Aristoles at the Helman/Monster Realm Border in the Second Army. During this time, the succession war between Patton and his younger half sister Sheila Helman had been going on for some time. Though Hubert supported Patton as the rightful heir, the pressure brought on from the conflict, along with the manipulations of recently appointed Prime Minister Stessel Romanov, led to Patton losing all the ambition he previously had, causing him to become a delinquent and distancing himself from Hubert. When news spread that both Patton and Thoma had died during an ill-fated invasion of Leazas, Hubert was saddened by his father and friend's supposed deaths but also felt conflicted over their rash decision.

Appearances
In Rance IV he is a member of the Helman exploration platoon lead by "Bitch", a helman high rank officer and aristocrat. Even though Bitch is his superior, Hubert doesn't like to follow his orders since he knows that Bitch is horrible human being. He aids Shizuka when she was captured by them and after Bitch activates Toshi Ipsilon he joins Rance's troops permanently.

In Rance IX he is a member of Patton's rebellion troops under the command of Rance. He uses the magic katana Shiranui and wears a japanese armor in battle. Both these items were found in his father's weapon collection, Shiranui being given as a present to him by his father when he was much younger. Due to his inferiority complex Hubert tries to give Shiranui to other members of the rebellion troops such as Rick Adison, but he's constantly told to have more confidence in himself and keep the sword.

After Freak's death at hands of the Toshi Bustat he's able to unleash the katana's true form and use it's power.

Trivia
In Rance IX he wears a fake mustache as a "disguise" while traveling around Helman.

Hubert's katana Shiranui is mentioned in Sengoku Rance. It is the Katana that was supposedly taken by a huge, red-haired foreigner years before Rance arrived to JAPAN. This foreigner was Hubert's father, Toma.