House Dustin

[House Dustin]

Name: House Dustin
Region: The North
Size: Major
Description: House Dustin controls a large swath of land that borders on the Kingsroad in the east and The Rills on the west. The holding is further bound by the Saltspear in the south and the edge of the Barrowlands in the north. The holdings include both forks of the Old King's Barb river upon the eastern fork of which the house seat Barrowton lies. The Barrowroad runs west from the Kingsroad at the foot of the Barrowlands to Barrowton, and then on to The Rills before terminating at the Stoney Shore. House Dustin has two notable bannerhouses: Stout and Waterman. House Stout holds land in on the west bank of Old King's Barb just southwest of Barrowton. House Waterman holds land on the east bank of the Old King's Barb and the coast of the Saltspear.

Defense: 60
Small Castle - Barrowton Castle (30)
Hall - Feverwatch (20)
Tower - Saltyawn Lighthouse (10)

Influence: 25
Extra Skill for Maester Robelar
Extra Skill for Bowen Dustin
Extra Skill for Bowen Dustin
Extra Skill for Jory Snow
Extra Skill for Daryn Dustin

Land: 64
Hills (7)
Small Town - Barrowton (20)
Hamlet - Barrowcross (10)
Hamlet - Saltyawn (10)
Road - Kingsroad (5)
Road - Barrowroad (5)
River - Barb o' the Old Kings (3)
Coast (3)
Grassland (1)

Law: 30

Population: 35

Power: 60
Bannerhouse - Stout of Goldgrass (20)
Bannerhouse - Waterman (10)
200 Infantry (8)
200 Archers (6)
40 Cavalry (10)
60 Scouts (6)

Wealth: 36
Godswood (5)
Maester (10)
Market (10)

First Tier Characters:

Lord Mors Dustin - Aged 34 (b. 476)
Combat - 50 (Fighting)
Cunning - 25 (Persuasion)
Survival - 54
Will - 30 (Leadership)
Knowledge - 35
Warfare - 60 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 46 (Business)

Hallis Dustin (heir to Mors)
Combat - 60 (Fighting)
Cunning - 25
Survival - 54 (Animal Handling)
Will - 35 (Leadership)
Knowledge - 40 (Learning)
Warfare - 50 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 36

Owen Dustin (brother to Mors, holds Feverwatch)
Combat - 75 (Fighting, Athletics)
Cunning - 15
Survival - 64 (Animal Handling, Wilderness Lore)
Will - 30
Knowledge - 25
Warfare - 50 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 36

Secondary Characters:
Lady Bethany Dustin (nee Blackwood)
Will - 20
Knowledge - 25
Stewardship - 46 (Bargaining)

Jory Snow (Owen's bastard son)
Combat - 50
Cunning - 35 (Deception)
Survival - 54 (Stealth)

Maester Robelar
Knowledge - 45 (Healing, Learning)
Warfare - 50
Stewardship - 26

Bowen Dustin (Mors' brother, Master at Arms of Barrowton Castle)
Combat - 65 (Fighting)
Survival - 54 (Animal Handling)
Warfare - 60 (Strategy)

Daryn Dustin (Mors' Uncle, acts as his Castellan)
Combat - 50 (Fighting)
Cunning - 35 (Persuasion)
Warfare - 50

Tertiary Characters:
TBD.

Family Tree
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Detailed character descriptions and if I end up as ambitious as I feel, a map of the holding.

[House Dustin]

Lord Mors Dustin - Aged 34 (b. 476)
Combat - 50 (Fighting)
Cunning - 25 (Persuasion)
Survival - 54
Will - 30 (Leadership)
Knowledge - 35
Warfare - 60 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 46 (Business)
Description - Lord Mors Dustin is a man with a regular Northern appearance, dark haired and pale. He's neither particularly tall nor short. He does carry a strong build due to his long hours in the training yard.

Background - He was born in 476 along with his twin sister Dacey Dustin. His mother was Tia Brax of Hornvale in the Westerlands. She was a fair haired beauty, and from a house many would consider well above the status of Lord Ondrew Dustin, Mors' father. Deeply in love with his Andal wife, Ondrew didn't object when she brought some of her Southron courtliness and tradition with her. Mors' older brother, Daryn, heir to Barrowton, took strongly to these traditions and became a follower of The Faith and sought to become a knight, annointed in the seven oils.

488 should have been a year of joy for House Dustin as Daryn took his vows and stood vigil to emerge Ser Daryn Dustin, however it was not meant to be, with young Mors to follow. Just a few days after Ser Daryn was knighted a fever swept through House Dustin and claimed Lord Ondrew, Ser Daryn, and Mors' beloved twin sister Dacey. This made Mors the Lord of Barrowton just before his thirteenth name day. The impressionable Lord Mors came to the belief that it was the disfavor of the Northern gods that led to this outcome and he ordered the sept in Barrowton pulled down, and he banished the septa and septon from Dustin lands.

Mors' two mentors, Uncle Daryn (Ondrew's younger brother) and Maester Robelar, did what they could to impart an education on the young lord while still trying to moderate his newfound prejudices. They were generally successful as Lord Mors has been a decent ruler to his smallfolk and not outwardly offensive to those Andals he comes across. They could not protect him from all trouble when he fathered a bastard daughter, Sara, with a Dornish whore named Paella at Hornvale while he was visiting his cousin Tito Brax at the young age. When he came home he brought the pregnant Paella back to Barrowton where she still lives in modest accomodations that Mors pays for. Soon after the birth of Sara, he took a Southron wife at his mentors' request, he waited until he found one that was blood of the First Men, Bethany of House Blackwood (eldest daughter of a cadet branch of the great house, and so a lowly match for the Lord of Barrowton).

Paradoxically, Mors has never blamed his mother, who lives on today, and indeed Mors keeps close relations with his Westerman cousin, Lord Tito Brax. Also somewhat paradoxically, the court at Barrowton is quite Andal in feeling, with the changes Lady Tia brought to the atmosphere there still somewhat softened from the Northern ideal by her influence-- even if any self-respecting southerner would think it quaint. Lord Mors busies himself mostly with the duties he believes are the center of lordship: loyalty to one's liegelord, warfare, personal combat, and the management of his lands and accounts.

[House Dustin]

Hallis Dustin (heir to Mors)
Combat - 60 (Fighting)
Cunning - 25
Survival - 54 (Animal Handling)
Will - 35 (Leadership)
Knowledge - 40 (Learning)
Warfare - 50 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 36

Description - Nearly fully grown he is the spitting image of his father, with few of his mothers features showing through. He is slightly larger than Lord Mors, and quicker with a sword.

Background - Most of his story is as yet unwritten. Lord Mors preferred to keep his family home, so he hasn't seen much outside of the Barrowlands. For all of that he is somewhat sophisticated via the teachings of Maester Robelar and his Andal grandmother. He has shown strong talent in both the handling of animals and the handling of weapons, but lacks experience in the wider world. He is as yet unmarried.

[House Dustin]

Owen Dustin (brother to Mors, holds Feverwatch)
Combat - 75 (Fighting, Athletics)
Cunning - 15
Survival - 64 (Animal Handling, Wilderness Lore)
Will - 30
Knowledge - 25
Warfare - 50 (Strategy)
Stewardship - 36

Description - The only fair-haired offspring of the Ondrew Dustin/Tia Brax marriage, his hair a kind of dusty blond. Owen is slightly below average in height, with an athletic build. He is considered desirable by most members of the fairer sex.

Background - Owen is an impetuous man who often acts well before he even thinks about thinking. He also often comes off as abrasive or overly direct. This has left him a history of scandal that makes him generally unpopular in the staid North. Among his many scandals there is one that far outshines all the others. At 15, while a ward at the Karhold, he impregnated the great Lord Karstark's 16 year-old eldest daughter, Lara. She would give birth to Jory Snow a year later and be rendered largely useless to her Lord Father forever. This was a great scandal throughout the North and has led to years of enmity between House Dustin and the much more influential House Karstark. Jory lives now at the Feverwatch, the holdfast that Owen keeps in Lord Mors' name. Owen did eventually marry a Jonella Lightfoot, the eldest daughter of a minor Northern house, with whom he has two young daughters and an infant son.

For all his bad reputation, Owen is well respected by his brother, Lord Mors, who keeps him in all his counsel and entrusts management of the southeastern extremes of the House Dustin lands. Owen is well talented in the pursuit of warfare and in surviving in the wilds. In fact, he would prefer to live in the field and spends a large amount of his personal time doing so.