Serafina Swann's NPCs

[Tristy]

Celona Toland:

A young Dornish woman with only a distant relation to the Tolands of Toland. Though Celona did grow up in Dorne at a small, unimpressive holdfast somewhere in the vast space between Sunspear and Ghost Hill, she no longer resides in Dorne, instead living in King's Landing. Her father had relocated the family during the war time--he later claimed that his leaving was based on the indignation of a Dorne without the Martells, though close sources will confirm that the small family had departed the Kingdom long before the fall of the desert Kingdom.

Their family was poor, and her father was utterly insane but her mother had always been an excellent seemstress, and was able to make a living from that in their new hom of King's Landing. Their father ceased in his endless burden to them only a year after their relocation, dying abruptly at a bar in a shabby corner of the city.

Lona's only immediate living relations are her mother Rima, and her younger sister Yollie. Lona is not well versed in weaponry without a competant father to have taught her. Though he needlework is exquisite, it never called to her, and she has become a scholar, quite well versed in languages, and extremely logical and resourceful. She is small, and generally plainly dressed, and can be found just about anywhere on the continent at any given time, having become a victim of wanderlust when she reached a suitable age to leave home--her mother really could not afford to keep her.

[Tristy]

Aleza Payne:

Aleza Payne was born the youngest of three children, the oldest, her brother Alder, and the middle child, her sister, Alyce. They were collectively, the children of Brydget and Alexander Payne. Her mother was a simple woman, with a decent intellect and little ambition, and her father, a man of appalling decency in the face of any controversy. He was always honest, except when a lie could save a person’s feelings, and deeply loyal.

His malfortunes never altered his loyalty, though he was continually passed over for positions for which he was more than aptly suited, and ignored by his peers, whose avarice brought them higher and higher on the precarious ladder which was the political court. Though Alder had taken after their father, and become a knight of some renown, and Alyce had taken after their mother, (she had married very young, to a distant cousin of the Lannisters, and was very content with her small keep, and the care of her children), Aleza took after no-one in the living memory of their branch of the Paynes.

She was overtly studious and spent hours by night pouring over histories of battle and politics, as well as athletic, though she participated in sport more for the competition than for the commradery for which others prized it. At the age of twelve, she had requested that her father higher her a trainer, to improve her skills in combat. He consented, as he always did; everyone in her family eventually bent to her will. They were not the sort to spoil a child, but few children were as manipulative as Aleza from an early age. She was a social chameleon, so to speak, who remained reticent in any situation until she had determined exactly what the other party wanted to hear and see, and feel.

When she made that determination, she made them feel however they wanted, and was almost always rewarded. At the age of nineteen, she was rewarded with the opportunity to join the court at King’s Landing.