Yes, as far as I've noticed, Alain is the first iconic to be given a last name. Weird. His backstory is a study in the envy of gamma writers, who tried really hard to not make him too unlikeable, but just barely. Born into privilege and arrogance, and still possessed of it even after running away from home eventually to become a mercenary captain, or "rogue knight", he's described as little more than a charming sociopath. Which is what I believe most gammas believe alphas truly are.
Whatever. He's fine, although reading between the lines makes him seem.. eye-roll-worthy. Cavaliers are kind of like knights, and they belong to specific orders. Naturally, wokesters and other people of low social status and questionable moral outlook struggle with the very idea of the paladin, so they need a secular and less good alternative, and that's kind of what Alain and the Cavalier class represent. Maybe it's good that they made him lawful neutral, even as they described his behavior as mostly evil, just to separate him from the paladin. Of course, given that the iconic paladin is an African girlboss, it's also unfortunate that the Cavalier is a caricature of an alpha written by a gamma.
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