White Bluff wrote:House Name: Whent
Accepted, good luck with Harrenhal.
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by Antimersia » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:02 am
by Revlona » Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:56 pm
Nuxipal wrote:Sounds like a good time. I can pick a house in a little bit, let a few more people join with their favorites first.
To be rennovated into an OP info post soonTM
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Great Houses:
Renly Baratheon - Arlye Austros
Stannis Baratheon - Open
Joffery Baratheon - Open
House Tyrell - Of the Quendi
House Martell - Open
House Lannister - Ovstylap
House Greyjoy - Open
House Stark - Nuxipal
House Tully - Dentali
Vassal Houses/Mercenaries:
Orianna Qarlarys - White Bluff
House Fysher - Ormata
The Sandstorm Company - Dragos Bee
House Seasmoke - Nuxipal
by White Bluff » Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:39 am
Revlona wrote:Nuxipal wrote:Sounds like a good time. I can pick a house in a little bit, let a few more people join with their favorites first.
To be rennovated into an OP info post soonTM
IC
Great Houses:
Renly Baratheon - Arlye Austros
Stannis Baratheon - Open
Joffery Baratheon - Open
House Tyrell - Of the Quendi
House Martell - Open
House Lannister - Ovstylap
House Greyjoy - Open
House Stark - Nuxipal
House Tully - Dentali
Vassal Houses/Mercenaries:
Orianna Qarlarys - White Bluff
House Fysher - Ormata
The Sandstorm Company - Dragos Bee
House Seasmoke - Nuxipal
I see the little shit Joffrey is open. I think I’ll pick him up for the fun of it.
by Revlona » Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:46 pm
by Nuxipal » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:09 pm
by Nuxipal » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:29 pm
Antimersia wrote:Hey there, wanted to ask a question considering one of the rules about characters east of the free cities. Would playing Euron Greyjoy be acceptable? I don't believe it is stated exactly where he is in 298AC, but he returns to Pyke as early as A Clash of Kings. So just wanted to see if he was an option considering he is likely well east of the free cities at the point of 298AC in the original lore.
by Nea Videssos » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:57 pm
by Nuxipal » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:34 pm
by Antimersia » Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:40 am
by Countesia » Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:09 am
House Name: House Farman
Sigil: Three silver ships on a blue field with a border of crimson and goldWords: The Wind Our Steed.
House Culture: (ie. Riverlander, Northerner, Dornish etc.) Westerlands
House Head: Lord Sebaston Farman
Titles: Lord of Fair Isle
Holdings/Lands: Faircastle, all of the lands of Fair Isle that aren't in the possession of minor houses and landed knights.
Allegiance: (ie. who you are sworn to, such as Yronwood->Martell->Baratheon of Kingslanding) House Lannister of Casterly Rock
Military Strength:
In accordance with their history, House Farman possesses a navy of thirty galleys which often works in tandem with the Lannister fleet to keep the trading routes of the Westerlands free from piracy.
During peacetime, the Farmans are able to comfortably fund a standing force of 500 men at arms. Their vassals, which include minor houses and landed knights, are able to maintain a further 200 men between them. The Farmans themselves field forty knights sworn into their service, an additional sixty cavalrymen, three hundred spearmen and one hundred archers.
During wartime, the Farmans and their vassals are able to raise an additional 2,000 levies. Whilst the islands nobility can afford to equip such a force with with weapons and armour of a decent quality, to do so for long periods of time puts a heavy strain on the islands economy and its treasury.
House History:
House Farman of Fair Isle is an ancient bloodline, dating well back to the time of the first men and long before the arrival of the Andals. Throughout almost the entirety of their history, the Farmans have been a considerable naval power, largely out of necessity owing to their bitter rivalry with the Driftwood Kings of the Iron Islands who have long sought to add Fair Isle to their ever expanding list of conquests. Their dominion over the western coast made the Farmans one of the more more influential of the petty kingdoms in the Westerlands, as their longboats were counted on to protect the seas and shorelines of much of the Westerlands, including the Kingdom of the Rock, from Ironborn raiders.
After centuries of resisting the Iron Islands, Fair Isles would eventually fall to Ironborn raiders, and much of the islands wealth was pillaged and a large portion of their population enslaved as thralls. The Farmans were allowed to retain a small fraction of their holdings in exchange for regular tribute, but their prestige and power was all but extinguished. This would change almost a decade later as Gylbert Farman, seeing for himself the waning influence of the Ironborn in the face of the rising strength of House Lannister, would incite a smallfolk uprising and expel the ironborn from their island and reestablish themselves as the ruling house of Fair Isle.
Despite securing their independence once more, House Farman would never regain the same power it once held over the westerlands as much of its population had been sent to the Iron Islands and its holdings in the Riverlands in slave ships to work as slaves. After a second but much shorter occupation from the Ironborn under King Erich V Harlaw, the Farmans would remain a kingdom of minor influence until the eventual coming of the Andals, where the last of the Farman Kings allowed their daughter and heir to wed Tommen I Lannister, merging their kingdoms to ensure their survival against the threat of the Andals, who had begun to arriving in Westeros in ever increasing numbers to flee the expansion of the Valryian Freehold.
Under the rule of the Lannisters, the Farmans and the Fair Isle itself enjoyed a relatively peaceful and prosperous way of life, and would regain a considerable amount of their old wealth. Although by then, their wealth was eclipsed by the vast sums of gold that filled the Lannisters treasuries, but nonetheless had rebuilt themselves a respectable fleet that they used to ward off Ironborn pirates. By then, the Kingdom of the Rock had also expanded to include most of the Westerlands.
During Aegon's Conquest, the Farmans would send most of their able bodied men to fight the Targaryens under the combined banners of Loren Lannister and Mern IX Gardener in what was referred to the Host of Two Kings. Inevitably, this host would be decimated by Aegon I and his sister wives and their three dragons, Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes, which would leave the population of the Fair Isles with very few able bodied men. Fortunately for the islands inhabitants this did not leave them open to another invasion from the Iron Islands, as the Ironborn King Harren Hoare and most of his army would be killed by Aegon I and his dragons in the burning of Harrenhal. The nobility of the Iron Islands would descend into chaos and infighting until finally submitting to Aegon I after he personally led an invasion of the Iron Islands with the assistance of warfleets from the Lannisters, Redwynes and the Mormonts.
During the reign of the Targaryens, the Ironborn would cease raiding entirely. This allowed the islands to recover quickly from the loss of most of its male population. It was only during the Dance of the Dragons almost a hundred years later that the Ironborn would take to the seas and begin raiding once more. Dalton Greyjoy, known as the Red Kraken, would capture Fair Isle in what was the islands third occupation from the Ironborn, where he would use the island as his base of operations to raid the coastlines of the Westerlands. It was only after Dalton Greyjoy was murdered by his salt wife, Tess, a native Fair Islander, did the smallfolk once again rise up and put all of its occupiers to the sword and restore House Farman to power.
List of House Characters:
Sebaston Farman - Lord of the Fair Isles
Gareth Clifton - Lord of House Clifton, sworn vassal to House Farman.
Jeyne Clifton - Lady of House Clifton, sister to Sebaston Farman
by Arlye Austros » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:32 am
Character Name: Edric Storm
Age: Born in 287 A.C.
Culture: Stormlander
Appearance: Edric is resembling of his father, King Robert Baratheon, with the typical Baratheon traits such as the jet-black hair and his prominent cheekbones. He also has blue eyes and large ears.
Personality: Edric could be considered a mixture of Renly and Robert. Said to be courteous and charming while keeping his father’s pride and ferocity.
Skills: Edric has been educated by the maesters at Storm’s End and the Castellan Cortney Penrose. He has started to gain some knowledge on fencing, but seems more keen on learning the details of strategy and tactics that the Castellan is wised on.
Religion: Faith of the Seven
Character Biography: Having been born a natural child of the King and Delena Florent, Edric had the privilege his class is seldom given of being recognized as such by his father. Conceived in his uncle’s wedding night, he is also aware of the animity that Lord Stannis has towards his very existence. The boy was sent to live under the care of his other uncle, Renly, and has come to consider him as much of a father figure as his near-unknown father.
Edric Storm has been educated as a small lordling, but has taken his own interest in Cortnay Penrose’s experience in battle command, and spends his spare time playing with models of troops and castles, recreating the campaigns of Aegon and his father.
by Antimersia » Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:48 pm
Antimersia wrote:House Name: House Greyjoy
Sigil: A golden kraken on black
Words: We do not sow
House Culture: Iron Islander
House Head: Balon Greyjoy
Titles: Lord and Great Reaper of the Iron Islands
Holdings/Lands: Pyke
Allegiance: Baratheon of King's Landing (enforced by conquest and wardship over his heir Theon Greyjoy, no true allegiance)
Military Strength: One hundred ships armed with scorpions and spitfyres forming the Iron Fleet.
House History:
House Greyjoy was formed is ages past, during the age of heroes by the Grey King. Well, before Aegon's conquest the Iron Islands chose kings through the rite of Kingsmoot. The Greyjoys produced some of the most High Kings, bested only by the families Greyiron and Goodbrother. It was in fact, a Greyiron, Rognar II that ruled during the invasion of the Andals. Seeing an opportunity to remove a rival, the Greyjoys aligned with the Andals in the invasion of the Iron Islands. Removing Rognar II Greyiron and instilling Harras Hoare. The first of house Hoare who would rule as kings of the Iron Islands for over a century.
Then came the days of Aegon's Conquest. Harren Hoare, grandson of Harwyn Hoare the High King who conquered the riverlands, had completed his massive castle known today as the cursed Harrenhal. This castle would be the doom of house Hoare, and with his death the riverlands were granted to house Tully. The Iron Islands fell into disarray in the wake of the loss. Allowing Aegon the conqueror to easily subdue the islands. Once they bent the knee, Aegon was kind and just, allowing them to choose whom among them would rise to supremacy within the Isles. So long as they remained loyal to him. Lord Vickon Greyjoy, of Pyke, was selected. Since that day in 2 AC, the Greyjoys have maintained control as lords of the Iron Islands.
House Greyjoy follows the Drowned God. Going so far as to expel priests and worshippers of other faiths from their Isles. The exception came early in the reign of Aegon I. Being a follower of the Faith of the Seven, Vickon Greyjoy lifted this ban and allowed septons and septas into the Islands to preach the faith. This caused several rebellions within the Islands. One such rebellion, led by Lodos the Twice Drowned, was stomped out by Vickon's own son and successor, Geron Greyjoy in 37 AC. For his bravery and valor in quelling this rebellion, Aenys I granted Geron a boon of anything he desired that was within the power of the crown. Geron asked for the Islands to be allowed to expel the Faith of the Seven once more. A boon which Aenys I begrudgingly accepted.
Lord Dalton Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands during the time of the Dance of Dragons, chose to lend his allegiance to the "Blacks". Supporting Rhaenyra Targaryen's claim for the Iron Throne. Dalton and the Iron Islanders raided the coasts of Westeros throughout the Targaryen civil war and beyond. Even refusing to stop their raiding after the ascension of Aegon III and the end of the Dance. This led to a battle with the Velaryon fleet. Thought Lord Dalton's rebellious actions were ended, not by the crown or by Lord Alyn Velaryon's fleet. But rather, by his own Salt Wife, a woman by the name Tess. Dalton's Heir Toron succeeded amid a struggle for power among the many lower Ironborn houses.
In the Wake of Robert's Rebellion, Lord Balon Greyjoy declared independence from the seven kingdoms. Building the Iron Fleet to its current glory. He declared himself High King of the Iron Islands in a return to the old ways. The rebellion began in earnest with his brothers, Euron and Victarion, leading the burning of the Lannister fleet while at anchor at Lannisport. Balon Greyjoy's first son, Rodrik, led a seige on Seagard within the riverlands to reclaim lands claimed by the Iron Islands in the days of house Hoare. Rodrik died in this seige as House Mallister victoriously drove off the assault. Meanwhile, the brother to King Robert, Stannis Baratheon battled Victarion Greyjoy in an open sea battle off the coast of Fair Isle. With the fleet occupied, King Robert himself led the storming of Pyke. Where Balons second son Malon was killed. Balon bent the knee, begrudgingly. Swearing fealty to the crown once more. As penance for his rebellion, Balon's last surviving son Theon was taken to become a ward and steward to Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell.
In Theon's absence, Balon began to raise his daughter and only remaining child Asha to become his chosen heir. Aeron Greyjoy, also known as Damphair, dedicated himself to worship of the drowned god after a near death experience. Victarion continues to lead the Iron Fleet. Though Euron, after raping and impregnating Victarion's Salt Wife, was exiled from the Iron Islands by Lord Balon in 296 AC.
List of House Characters: Balon Greyjoy [m/43]
Asha Greyjoy [f/22]
Theon Greyjoy [m/19]
Victarion Greyjoy [m/29]
Euron Greyjoy [m/32]
Alannys Harlaw (Wife of Balon) [f/41]
Aeron Greyjoy [m/26]
Character Name: Euron Greyjoy
Titles: The Crow's Eye, Captain of The Silence
Age: 30
Culture: Iron Islander
Appearance: Pale and handsome, with long black hair and a dark beard. An eye patch overs his left eye. His visible right eye is glimmering blue. And his lips are pale blue stained by shade of the evening. Typically seen wearing black scale armor adorned with glyphs and runes. Thought to be forged of Valyrian steel.
Personality: Wildly unpredictable, prone to waging psycholigical warfare and playing mind games on anyone and everyone. Ruthless, cunning, and shrewd.
Skills: Expert sailor, manipulator, skilled fighter especially on the seas. Rumored to be versed in many forms of magic.
Religion: None
Character Biography:
Euron was always a precocious strategist and manipulator. He was always one to pick and side and do whatever it took to help that side, and by extension himself, come out on top. He along with his brothers Balon and Victarion convinced their father Quellon to join Robert Baratheon in his rebellion against the Targaryen dynasty. Notably only choosing to do so late in the war when Robert's victory was all but assured. He participated in the raiding of the Reach, greatly enriching himself and his family in the process. The raiding was so successful, that Euron even played a role in convincing Balon that a rebellion of his own could be successful. He further convinced his brother of this plan by describing his idea of burning the Lannister fleet. One that was carried out and marked the beginning of Balon's rebellion. He and Victarion led the Iron Fleet to Lannisport, setting the entire Lannister fleet ablaze while it lay anchored.
The following battle off Fair Isle did not go so fortuitously. The Iron Fleet was commanded by Victarion Greyjoy. Who failed to defeat Stannis baratheon in an open sea battle. Something that dismayed Euron greatly. Being the older of the two, Euron felt himself more skilled. And failing to defeat Stannis made Euron lose all respect for his brother Victarion. Then, when his other brother, and lord, Balon bent the knee rather than die fighting, Euron lost respect for him as well. He grew callous and careless. Believing himself to be rampantly superior to both of his brothers. This lack of care came to a head when he forced himself on the Salt Wife of his broth Victarion. Raping her and leaving her with child. Victarion slew his wife to restore his honor. And Balon banished Euron from the Iron Islands. Euron left without a care. Believing himself destined for greater things.
Euron has since sailed across the narrow sea, throughout the Summer Sea, as far east as the black city of Asshai. His ship, the Silence, has raped and raided throughout all the known world. Sailed the Smoking Sea, and even walked through the ruins of old Valyria. Or, at least so he says. The truth can be however he speaks it. As the only others with him during these journeys are the crewmembers of the Silence. None of whom bare tongues with which to verify his claims. These travels have made him lose his faith in the Drowned God. Or any god for that matter. Believing there are only men and their actions. But now, having seen the world and many of its wonders, Euron has set his path back on the Iron Islands. Hell bent on proving that it is he who should stand proudly as the High King of the Iron Islands.
RP Example: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=505287&p=38672479#p38672479
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