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Post by The Flint on Aug 24, 2008 16:10:30 GMT -5
If you want to stoop to Infanticide you can still be Lord Frey. Might make for an exciting start.
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Post by House Lefford on Aug 24, 2008 16:14:42 GMT -5
And piss off Tallahar
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Post by Tytos on Aug 24, 2008 16:16:48 GMT -5
Hah, it would be exciting while it lasted.
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Post by Tytos on Aug 24, 2008 20:40:20 GMT -5
What wounds inflicted by the Ironborn? Wounds inflicted on the Ironborn, more like. You guys tried to take over the Riverlands, and forced us to fight against each other.
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Post by Lord Gaspard Yronwood on Aug 24, 2008 22:01:05 GMT -5
1) Character Name: Meraxes Frey
2) Character Age: 31
3) Character Nationality (Stormlands, The Reach, etc): Riverlands
4) Character Byname: ‘Freaky Frey’
5) Character Skills (Choose 2 beginner skills, 2 novice skills, 2 apprentice skills, and 2 noteworthy skills and 1 expert skill): beginner horsemanship, beginner unarmed fighting, novice herbs, novice stealth, apprentice finances, apprentice dagger, noteworthy forgery, Noteworthy languages, Expert deception
6) Character's Second (Choose 2 beginner skills, 2 novice skills, 2 apprentice skills, and 2 noteworthy skills):
7) Character Personal History: Lady Blythe Frey was once viewed as the prize of the Crossing. Beautiful, intelligent, and blessed with a remarkable singing voice, there was many a lad who fancied stealing the hand of Goldfinger’s favorite cousin.
When she was but 17 and the Freys entering their more unpopular periods, the Lord of Lonely Light visited the Lord Frey, desiring an audience for some unknown slight. Men would say that Walder Frey had hatched some new scheme to fill his coffers by making amends with reavers, but only the pair knew the truth of the matter. Whatever was spoken between the two, the old reaver (his name forgotten from shame and typical Southron bewilderment at his strange habits) was the next night allowed to spirit young Blythe from her room. The only notable fact of her last day in the Crossing was that she had spent it removing weeds from the gods wood. It was only months before idle servants were whispering of how portentous it may or may not have been, but by then, Blythe had been returned, just as beautiful and intelligent but her beauty marred by a lump in her belly and her wit no longer simply sharp, but cold. Only three years after giving birth, she leapt into the raging river that splits the crossing.
Meraxes Frey was as unwieldy as his name. Pale green eyes, long tawny black hair and a face not even a mother could love, the hunchbacked child of Blythe Frey has been limping in the background of family meetings for years. A kindly sept once said that his face reflected the suffering of the world around him, but Meraxes has long suspected that it was mere flattery to lure him from the Godswood. Silent faces of gnarled wood were as fine a guiding force as any in the young outcast’s world.
8) Character Physical Description: Meraxes likes to imagine he is as draconian as his name, but few in the Crossing can bear the sight without resorting to condescension.
9) Character Reputation: Virtually none outside the Riverlands, but still the subject of several rumours.
10) Your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ or email address (so other players may have the opportunity to contact you).
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Post by Fel on Sept 5, 2008 15:24:52 GMT -5
Hey Baelor Waters, you should know that the bastard surnames (i.e. Waters, Rivers, Stone) were only given to people who were children of nobility who had acknowledged them.
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Post by Ollie on Sept 5, 2008 15:29:14 GMT -5
Then why was Mya Stone named Stone? I'm pretty sure she didn't know who her father was... right?
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Post by Lord Howland Royce on Sept 5, 2008 16:31:34 GMT -5
Ollie is right, we don't see many bastards that's not a noble bastard, but well they're out there. Besides smallfolk bastards wouldn't use their last name, since hardly anyone else of the commoners does.
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Post by Fel on Sept 5, 2008 16:47:16 GMT -5
None of Robert's other children received a bastard name however (except for Edric, who was Robert's only acknowledged bastard), which likely means Mya's mother was nobility, and that's how she received a bastard name.
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Post by The Flint on Sept 5, 2008 18:45:25 GMT -5
Agree. As a rule smallfolk do not have last names, so there isn't much to distinguish between a bastard or not a bastard. I suppose you could have a byname, "Jan, the Bastard of Bronzegate," for example.
Additionally, it is probable that rates of "marriage" among small folk are very low. There aren't any great ceremonies necessary, and they can't afford it anyway. Many small villages don't even have a septon to perform the ceremony. They probably recognize something akin to "common law" marriage, in that, all their village neighbors know who someone's wife is, its the one they've been living with for 15 years and have six kids with, etc.
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Post by Tallahar on Sept 5, 2008 22:58:46 GMT -5
Or if a Traveling Septon comes into town.
As we saw in AFFC.
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Post by The Flint on Sept 5, 2008 23:11:50 GMT -5
If they're lucky. Marriages are about alliances between families at this day and age. If your both small folk without property or purpose, you don't really need anything to fancy. Have the village elder or local septon mutter some mumbo jumbo and get back to work.
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Post by Imry Willfyre on Sept 8, 2008 9:56:09 GMT -5
This is admittedly a pretty small detail, but Felix there's almost no way you could've been Syd Stark's captain of the guard if you're 36. You'd have to have been 14 when made Captain and I don't think that's very likely
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Post by The Flint on Sept 10, 2008 18:01:28 GMT -5
Garin, I hate to be a spoil sport, but uh... I think you're dead? Garin Tyrell died at the Battle of King's Landing leading the Gold Cloaks. Round 1: The Crown: Character Name Battle Roll/Combat Roll Aemon Webber: 151/97 Benfry Smith: 0/163 Jarmen Buckwell: 0/114 Brynden Royce: 75/86 Osney Santagar: 0/105 Scot Royce: 0/160 Vardis Pryor: 0/96 Ser Petyr of Coldwater: 0/155 Ser Templeton: 0/137 Lancel Farman: 0/140 Garin Tyrell 123/88Remaining Men: 4,250 The Enemy: Character Name Battle Roll/Combat Roll The First Envoy: 135/120 The Second Envoy: 112/ 190 The Champion of the East: 101/182 The Champion of the West: 109/142 The Champion of the North:119/148 The Champion of the South:148/142 Remaining Men: 52,000 The Iron Born: Character Name Battle Roll/Combat Roll Freken Volmark: 136/171 Meevis Humble 150/ 111 Kyrn Sunderly 0/106 Nors Netly 0/117 Remaining Men: 6,400 The Enemy showers the walls and gatehouses with arrows, but the men of the Crown are well protected. They answer with crossbows, scorpions and trebuchets, and the Enemy pays a heavy price for its advance. Unfortunately, Garin Tyrell takes an arrow through the eye in one of the many many volleys.
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Post by Tallahar on Sept 10, 2008 18:36:08 GMT -5
Oh yea.
Shit I forget about all my cousins.
Sorry man.
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