[House will have plenty of chances later when he can regain his speech! But until then, pantomiming will just have to do.]

I am the Azure Dragoon of the Holy See of Ishgard. As such, I am head of the Knights Dragoon: Ishgard's special infantry forces uniquely trained for aerial combat against our dravanian enemies.

However, I fight not for the coin.

[Doesn't mean he turns down the sum he gets, of course, but for the most part, it's been left neglected and accumulating over all this time since he's hardly a man with frivolous needs or wants.]