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Rhaegar Targaryen


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    "Fortune and Love favor the Brave."


    Name: Prince Rhaegar Targaryen
    House: House Targaryen; “Fire and Blood”
    Age: 20

    Hair: Silver; falls a bit past his shoulders, straight.
    Eyes: Indigo
    Height: 6’2”
    Body Type: Muscular, strong arms and legs, and long fingers. Pale skin, without flaw.

    General Attire: Wears the black and red of his family, and has black armor encrusted with rubies, as well as a sword with a black hilt and rubies. He tends to favor black over red, with red usually being the highlighting or accent color to what he wears. Occasionally seen in light creams, blues, or whites.

    Rhaegar was the first-born son of Rhaella and Aerys, and was the only one until Viserys was born. His mother had frequent miscarriages, which seemed to be a part of the reason that Aerys went mad. He was not so mad in Rhaegar’s youth, and so he is quite bothered to see what his father has started to become. Of course, he also tended to keep his nose in books when he was young, and was obsessive about reading and practicing new things. He became a grand harpist as a youth, can speak High Valyrian fluently, and tends to be a jack-of-many-talents when pushed.

    For a while, it was thought he would never be a knight, but one day he was inspired to it. He realized that he was only honing his mind and letting his body waste away – if he was to be good for his people, he should be holistic good. No part of him should go to waste, and so he quickly began to train with the Kingsguard, eventually being knighted at the age of 17. He was never a fan of the violence, but he felt the need to stay in shape.

    He still preferred his harp, and had a habit of sneaking out of the palace to go play, disguising himself by covering his hair or using a temporary dye on it, to play out in the streets and see his kingdom. Barristan was never far. Selmy caught on to these habits, and let him go about it. It was good for Rhaegar to see his people, after all.

    Barristan also followed him to Summerhall whenever he paid a visit, and was frequently in his shadow, when Arthur Dayne was not. The two kept tabs on their adventurous prince, and Rhaegar allowed them both, liked them both well enough, and was glad to have the freedom to move as he saw his mother lose more and more of her freedom over time, until it seemed that he was not even able to see her. When Viserys was born, she was not able to go to the tourney where he competed, and was defeated by Arthur Dayne, but not after taking down Selmy, Gerion and Tygett Lannister, and many others.

    It was there that he learned Tywin tried to arrange his marriage to Cersei, and that the arrangement was not permitted. She was not near enough to his own blood for it to happen. Since then, Rhaegar has noticed more tension between Tywin and his father.

    It was also at that Tourney that Melara Hetherspoon died. A tragedy, only truly recalled to him because of the woman, Aemilia Hetherspoon, who started to come into the picture then. He hadn’t heard of or seen the woman until after that moment, and he would not meet her until years later.

    His father became obsessed with finding him a suitable bride after that, though Rhaegar was not all that interested. The Lord Baratheon went to look, and died in the process when his ship wrecked. His mother began to correspond with Princess Martell, who arranged for Elia to marry Rhaegar. After all, the Dornish had married into the Seven Kingdoms before. Rhaegar is aware that his father is no fan of this, but with his paranoia increasing around Tywin, he apparently thought this was a smart move.

    Never mind that the Princess Martell once tried to have her children married to Cersei or Jaime. Rhaegar can’t help but wonder if spite is involved in this, but he has tried to be optimistic about the matter, and ignore it. He has to play his part as Prince, and Future King, and that means to guarantee heirs for his family. Like so many others, he is not allowed to choose who he will marry, and he only hopes he will grow to love Elia Martell.

    What he wasn’t expecting was that she would be a Martell of frail health, far unlike others. Nor was he expecting that she would come with a half-sibling, a bastard named Saige.

 


Aemilia Reyne


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    "In all my Dreams, I Drown."

    Name: Lady Aemilia Reyne
    Presumed Name: Lady Aemilia Hetherspoon/Hill
    House: House Reyne; “Beneath Still Waters”.
    Presumed House: House Hetherspoon; “We Will Persevere”.
    Age: 25

    Hair: Red, straight unless loose from braids, goes a bit beyond mid-back when loose.
    Eyes: Green
    Height: 5’10”
    Body Type: Feline lithe, clear curves to her form, soft but not fragile; dancer’s form. Fair skin.

    General Attire: Tends to wear styles of the Westerlands, Dorne, or some of the Essosi styles. Generally seen in Westerland attire unless actually in Dorne, and then she favors a multiplicity of colors – she never belonged anywhere as a bastard and was discouraged from wearing red or silver. Her dresses almost always have some cut or slit to them to allow better movement.

    Aemilia was the only daughter of Roger Reyne, but not his only child. With Sybelle Reyne, nee Farman, he also bore two sons: Roland and Elias Reyne. She was the youngest of his children, and spoiled for it, as well as being a girl. Always his princess, and he always promised to see her become such, eying the Tagaryens, eying power. Power was always in his mind, and he did have good leadership qualities. He was known for both his strategy and his temper – he took the lead of the Ninepenny War after Jason Lannister fell in battle and gained many followers, but Tywin Lannister was not among them.

    He and Tywin clashed frequently. The Red Lion wouldn’t acknowledge the Young Lion and saw him as naught but an upstart, and Tytos seemed to agree, sending Tywin off for a while…but when Tywin returned, Roger laughed at his demands. Pay the debt or send a hostage. Roger promised them all, he’d send no hostage. A Reyne would never be seen in chains.

    He was arrogant to the end, but also known for his generosity. He didn’t frighten people into liking him, he bribed them…with money he borrowed from the Lannisters, perhaps. He threw grand balls, and he was known for his musical talents and beautiful voice. Until the end….

    Aemilia saw him return after he rushed off to Tarbeck Hall to try and save Ellyn. He failed to save his sister, and was struck by an arrow for it. He was already feverish when he returned, and was shouting that he wanted to challenge Tywin to a duel, but Reynard shoved him in the mines with everyone else. He complained so bitterly of his pain, of his fever, and Aemilia kept asking how she could help. The maester said something about milk of the poppy, but it was left in his chambers.

    Before her mother could grab her, Aemilia ran from the mines and went to get milk of the poppy, narrowly escaping certain death. She heard the steps when she was in the maester’s chambers. She heard the screams. She heard the fire, and she closed herself in the room for as long as she could, but eventually the smoke started to pour through the door and the heat was unbearable.

    Aemilia escaped, with the damn milk of the poppy that would do her no good, hidden by smoke and lazy soldiers who figured all were dead, she managed to find the road and she bought passage to the Fern Valley with every jewel she wore, until she stood before Tybolt Hetherspoon, who had been a friend of Roger Reyne, and had even thought to back him against Tywin.

    The first few days were tumultuous, as Aemilia had to accept a new role if she wanted to live, not truly understanding all that had happened until a couple of weeks later she was taken to the ruins of her home. It was then she truly became ‘Aemilia Hill’, though it shamed Tybolt’s wife. She never resented her, although her daughter would.

    Melara Hetherspoon should have been as a sister to Aemilia, but not at first. Aemilia was jealous of her being a Lady, and Melara was jealous of her being a bastard. As a bastard – or rather, because of Tybolt’s guilt over not saving his friend – Aemilia got away with anything. She learned much, but ended up sticking to a few things – music, dance, and medicine…or poison. She learned the normal lady courtesies alongside Melara, but she wasn’t forced to sew, and she didn’t have to stay in so much.

    It all came to a head when Melara was twelve, and Tybolt had to send her off to be a companion for Cersei Lannister. Aemilia was against it, but Melara wanted to go, desperately, and lashed out at the bastard for having every other freedom, and for jealousy, noting how Aemilia always spoke of wanting to go to Casterly Rock, always spoke of Tywin like a lovestruck woman when she’d never seen him – she had at least seen Jaime, whom she had fallen for. Aemilia got to go everywhere else – Dorne, Essos, the North, and she didn’t get to go anywhere.

    Aemilia let it drop, but advised Melara to be wary. Melara was not…and Melara died for it, in a well. Drowned. Aemilia was in King’s Landing at the time, and through sheer luck happened to meet the Queen when she was out with a handmaiden, though neither were supposed to be. It seemed safe while Aerys was away, and Aemilia helped the Queen and handmaiden find what would help the newborn Viserys.

    Then Aemilia got the raven, and went back home to see Melara’s corpse, before it would be buried. That was when Tybolt stopped trying to shield Aemilia and keep her from Tywin and Casterly Rock. Broken and bitter, he got permission to legitimize Aemilia, and Aemilia began to play the game then.

    She met Ser Pyke on a trip to Essos, in Essos. Not accepted on the Isles as a bastard, or as a knight, and not trusted in most households because he was Iron, he thought to become a sellsword with the Second Sons. They spoke frequently while she was there, continuously running into each other, and eventually Aemilia offered him to serve her instead – not her house, and they negotiated price, after she confessed why she needed a personal guard. Tywin Lannister. Revenge.

    She’s never told him the full story, and he’s never asked. He’s served faithfully, and she uses the money she makes on the side for healing or for acting as a minstrel to pay him, rather than the Hetherspoon sums. She intends to continue paying him from what she’ll make as Rhaella’s handmaiden, as well.

    Because she did, at last, find her way into the Queen’s service through their continued correspondence by letter, which means she’s at last found her way to get closer to Tywin. She isn’t sure if she’ll ever get closure for why he had to commit genocide, but she figures while she’s there ingratiating herself to the nobility…she may as well try.
 
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Saige Sand



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    Name: Saige Sand
    House: House Martell; “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”
    Age: 21

    Hair: Black. Naturally thick and wavy. Very long, flowing down to her hips. Often times worn with braids woven in some fashion, creating various waves and curls in her hair at one time.
    Eyes: Black
    Height: 5’10
    Body Type: Long and toned with noticeable, womanly curves to her. Decidedly thicker, more supple when compared to her half-sister. Olive skinned.

    General Attire: Predominantly Dornish fashion with the occasional mix of Essos styles. Thin, breezy fabrics. Silks. Usually in the colors of House Martell. Shades of yellow, orange, red, and purples. Her dresses are often risqué with a mixture of high slits, cut outs, plunging necklines, and low backs. She likes jewelry, having a large collection. She only wears a few pieces at a time, and one of them always a silver cuff bracelet, made into the shape of a serpent. A gift from her brother, Oberyn.​


    Saige is the bastard daughter of a Lyseni prostitute and the Princess of Dorne’s husband and the last of his children to be born. All she knows of her mother is that she was supposedly beautiful and that she died giving birth to her. Apparently, her father, Casillas, had fallen in love with her during a stay in Lys.

    Casillas brought Saige to Dorne only a few months after the birth of his son Oberyn. At first, the Princess, Amara Martell, despised the baby girl, but soon realized that her pain was no fault of the baby’s. Even if it was common in Dorne to have various partners, Amara was still affected by her husband’s infidelity. Amara accepted the baby, though didn’t allow her to be legitimized, and became a mother figure for the girl. The relationship with Casillas was rebuilt over time.

    As a child, she was close to her half-siblings, Elia and Oberyn. Her relationship with Doran wasn’t bad, but she was simply closer in age to Elia and Oberyn. She was rarely ever jealous of either of them, being treated equally. The one thing she longed for as she grew older was to go north, to the rest of Westeros as her siblings were going to do in search for suitors. However, Amara warned her that she would not be allowed the same freedoms as she was in Dorne, as the Princess did not want to offend any of the families they visited. And Saige was shocked by how harshly she was treated by those who knew she was a bastard.

    At one point along the way, a lowborn stable attendant snuck into her bed and stole her maidenhead. Claimed he wished she was Elia, but wouldn't dare actually touch the Princess. Saige spoke of it to no one and they left for the next city the following day. She didn’t let it ruin her sexuality following the experience, though she always made sure she had a way to maintain control and she never let a man inside her. She frequently uses her apparent sex appeal to manipulate and get things that she wants.

    After the failed expedition, she returned to Dorne and didn’t venture north again, and wouldn’t until years later.

    She did, however, venture with her brother to Essos following their return. There she learned the various forms of low or more fittingly, bastard Valyrian. She returned to Dorne before her brother.

    When Amara Martell announced that Elia would marry Rhaegar Targaryen and that the oldest sister would travel to King’s Landing, Elia begged for her sister to come, another woman to join her. Someone familiar. Initially, the request was denied, but Elia and Saige, with a few words from Oberyn, finally convinced the parent Martell’s and Saige was allowed to join her sister.

    And so the youngest Martells traveled north, Saige’s only intention to look after her sister until she was no longer needed.

 

Tywin Lanniser



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    Name: Tywin Lannister
    House: House Lannister; “Hear Me Roar!” and unofficially, “A Lannister always pays his debts.”
    Age: 37

    Hair: Golden blonde, a signature of House Lannister, being taken over by gray. What was once full is starting to thin out.
    Eyes: Green eyes with dots of a golden color, another signature trait of the Lannister’s
    Height: 6’3
    Body Type: Tall and slim, broad-shouldered. Despite his age, he’s maintained a healthy physique, muscular but not overly so.

    General Attire: Often simply dressed in dark colors. Grays, blacks, deep reds. Tywin’s Hand of the King badge clasped on the chest of whatever attire he wears. His armor consists of a dark red with golden accents, with a cape of gold.

    Tywin Lannister is the first born son of Tytos Lannister and Jeyne Marbrand. His early childhood years certainly shaped the man he’d become, as he was forced to watch his amiable, weak-willed father destroy their House.

    As a boy, he was sent to be a royal cupbearer for King Aegon’s court. There he would meet and befriend Aerys Targaryen as well as Steffon Baratheon. His cousin and future wife was also a lady-in-waiting to then-Princess Rhaella during that time. Tywin would later become a knight and during the War of the Ninepenny Kings, he would have the honor of knighting his friend and future king, Aerys.

    Following the war, Tywin took it upon himself to restore his family’s name after his father gracelessly destroyed it. He gave those who owed and laughed at the Lannisters an ultimatum repay the Lannisters or suffer the consequences. Those who could not pay immediately, he told them to send a hostage. While Harys Swyft surrendered, the Reynes and the Tarbecks defied him.

    He sent a raven unbeknownst to his father and demanded the houses come to Casterly Rock. He anticipated their denial, having gathered his army beforehand. He rode to destroy the vassal houses and destroy he did. Tywin and his army crushed them, drowning them in their own mines and burning their castles to the ground. What remained of their castles was left to serve as a reminder. That and the song made based on the brutality, ‘The Rains of Castamere’.

    Tywin believed he had ended the lineage of both houses. He was unaware of the single child that managed to escape and still believes he obliterated House Reyne.

    Following the event, Aerys became King and appointed his friend Tywin his hand.Tywin began running Westeros as Aerys began to descend into madness. In the beginning, the two worked well together. Tywin married his cousin, Joanne Lannister. The marriage was a very happy one, Tywin having been greatly in love with Joanna. She bore him twins, a daughter and a son whom he loved very much. Meanwhile, his relationship with Aerys began failing. And then his wife died giving birth to his second son, Tyrion. It was that day that any happiness he had left him.

    It is said he hasn’t smiled since his wife died.

    Shortly following the death of his wife, Amara Martell and her family came, suggesting a marriage between her children and his, which he denied. His daughter was to marry Rhaegar Targaryen. He offered his imp son instead.

    Not long later he’d suggest the marriage between Cersei and Rhaegar to Aerys, only for it to be rejected. That the pairing was beneath Rhaegar. It was then that their relationship further spiraled downward.

    As fate would have it, a few short years later Elia Martell would be betrothed to the crown prince. Tywin knew Aerys’s decision wasn’t directly to spite him, but the man couldn’t help but feel as though it were.

    Tywin expected the arrival of the Martell’s. He expected the arrival of Rhaella’s new handmaiden. Yet, he didn’t expect what her identity would end up being.

 
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Arlyn Pyke


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    "My skin has turned from iron to steel."

    Name: Ser Arlyn Pyke
    House: Bastard of House Tawney
    Age: 22

    Hair: Black, sides short, the rest is usually pushed back or an ungodly mess, but not too long.
    Eyes: Dark Gray
    Height: 6'
    Body Type: Lean muscle, despite being a knight. Well-tanned skin, naturally darker of hue as well.

    General Attire: Generally wears some sort of leather armor, or leather armor mixed with clothe, sometimes with the addition of chainmail in places. He was never rich so a lot of it is all pieced together over time and doesn’t match. Currently though, he’s a Gold Cloak….

    Arlan Pyke was born to Galyeon Tawney and Izzy, a woman of the mainland who was never made a salt-wife, nor anything at all. For most of his life, Arlyn didn’t even know his father, only his mother, until she finally got gold enough to sail to the Iron Isles and show Galyeon his son, in order to force him to try and offer some support and acknowledgment of his son. Galyeon did…barely. Arlan was able to take on the surname Pyke, and his mother was allowed to live then on the Iron Isles, and be supported.

    They still never married, and Galyeon seemed quite annoyed with the both of them. Izzy passed when Arlan was ten, it was all he needed. He continued on with the business of shipmaking, but only until he turned 13. Then he went to his father and demanded money, and to be made a ward of a Noble house on the mainland. He didn’t want to be anything like his father, so he sought to just go back ‘home’. His father managed it with the Dayne household, and off went Arlan.

    He ended up learning how to be a knight, squiring for Ser Arthur Dayne. It was through this connection he ended up becoming a Gold Cloak for the first time, but he found he detested it, in the end. The people of King’s Landing hated bastards and made every point to let him know what he was. If it wasn’t that, it was because he was Ironborn, and he snapped a few too many times and ended up leaving for Essos to find his calling as a mercenary instead. He thought to employ his sword with the Iron Bank – they always need collectors – but instead became freelance. He considered going on to the Second Sons, but that didn’t pan out, either.

    No, he met the Bastard of Hetherspoon, instead.

    There are times he regrets this. Over the course of a few months, they kept running into each other, until eventually she asked him to work for her. Just her. Not her father, not her household – her. She promised he’d be well compensated, and she seemed to be well-enough, playing the minstrel and medic. He wasn’t sure what she wanted, not until she hired him, and even then he remains uncertain.

    She wants to kill Tywin Lannister. Revenge. He’d think it for Melara, and usually, that’s what he tells himself, but there are times when it seems much deeper than that. There are times when she does not seem a Spoon at all, and he’s heard it a few times – Lion’s Eyes. Dragons have purple eyes, and the Tully’s are known for a certain deep blue – river eyes. Green and blue aren’t uncommon shades, but there is something more to those shades. Her looks don’t match Tybolt, but she says nothing of her mother, ‘Cassandra’. She always seems to stop talking then, but he knows that Cassandra drowned. Melara drowned. Everyone drowned.

    He understands enough to know not to ask more. He understands when he’s looking at ‘dangerous information’ and ‘better not to know shit’, and he knows that whatever the reasons for wanting Tywin Lannister dead, they move into this past before Tybolt Hetherspoon entered her life. He also knows better than to ever accept food from her.

    Especially drinks.

 
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