Fan Casting Will Stutely in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

A veteran Sergeant-Major who survived the Third Crusade only to find a new war at home. He is the only living man who witnessed Robin’s "death" at Acre and the only one to see the face behind the shroud. Stutely serves as the insurgency's public voice, standing in the torchlight to deliver orders from a "Hood" that many recruits suspect is a ghost. He is the pragmatic stage manager of the revolution, handling recruitment and military discipline with a soldier's weariness. He acts as the vital bridge between Robin’s cold, high-born strategy and the visceral needs of the outlaws in the mud. By shielding the Revenant's identity, Stutely allows the myth to grow into a legend, while he handles the heavy burden of keeping a dead man’s secret.