A RPG based in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
Once again, the introduction...
King’s Landing is a bubbling cauldron. The Hand of the King Eddard Stark takes a grievous wound and his northmen are cut down as he battles Jamie Lannister openly in the streets. Tension between Stark and the Queen, Cersei Lannister, grows ever higher when a recovering Eddard demands that her brother Jamie faces the King’s justice.
The situation in the Riverlands is just as dire. Rumours of brigands raiding villages and holdfasts sworn to Riverrun are beginning to reach the capital. These rumours are confirmed when the knights Piper, Vance, and Darry along with a number of raid survivors reach King’s Landing and present themselves to the King’s Hand. The truth is worse than expected. The knights and survivors hold Ser Gregor Clegane, a Lannister bannerman, responsible for the attacks.
The realm sits on the edge of war. With the King, Robert Baratheon, away hunting in the Kingswood, Eddard Stark is left responsible for passing the King’s judgement. Stark decides that Clegane should face the King’s justice and sends Lord Beric Dondarrion to retrieve him. The realm slides closer to the brink.
Meanwhile in Tumbleton, just seventy-five leagues southwest of King’s Landing, Lord Bandon Footly hosts a tournament for his youngest daughter Enna's coming of age, blissfully unaware of the turmoil beginning to grip the Seven Kingdoms. The turnout is lower than expected, as many noblemen and their retinues remained in King’s Landing following the Hand’s tournament. While a number of landed and hedge knights that have entered the tournament for a chance of glory, only a few noblemen have chosen to rest in Tumbleton as they return to their holdings throughout the Reach.
Though the lists failed to drawn any knights of renown, a sizable crowd of spectators and merchants descended upon Tumbleton from many corners of the realm. In the end, Ser Hugh Beesbury of Honeyholt emerges victorious, unhorsing Lord Footly’s eldest son Ser Gaston in the final. Ser Beesbury then names Enna the Queen of Love and Beauty and the tournament is considered a minor success.
However, as the celebration following the tournament’s conclusion extends deep into the late summer night disaster occurs. The ancestral weapon of House Footly, a longsword of Valyrian steel is taken during the night. The weapon’s owner, Ser Gaston Footly is found murdered in his bed with his young wife Therese vanished.
The next morning as many of the visitors begin to trickle out of Tumbleton, Lord Footly furiously demands for vengeance for his son and daughter-in-law and the return of his House’s ancestral longsword. The steward of Tumbleton puts out the word to those who still remain in the city. A party is being formed to bring the killer to justice and seek out the missing sword.
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A Song of Ice and Fire RPG Codex:
Player Characters:
One-eared Ruppe (Volghar)
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Size: 6'5 ft / 210 lbs
House Affiliation: None
Physical Description: He is an oak of a man, big and broad. He has thin, grayish hair crowns a head that is slightly too small for his hulking body. His face is adorned with sharp features, a buckled nose, thin lips, and a heavy brow above his eye. His eyes are two dark-green emeralds that deeply glimmer and are filled with pain, terror, and death. His beard is long and soft. His hands are battered and weathered from work. His right ear is missing.
Equipment & Gear: He armors himself with a chainmail hauberk and leather jacket and helm. Underneath he wears a coarse, linen shirt and a pair of leather gloves. His thick, woolen trousers held up by a belt and a pair of heavy, leather boots. He also carries 10 meters of rope, 2 days rations, and a goatskin flask full of cheap wine.
Weapons: He uses a heavy, broadsword and a round, wooden shield. He also carries crossbow with bolts and a dagger.
Current Status: Healthy
Current Location: Cavorting Colt, Tumbleton
Ralf Terry (Jester)
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Size: 5’11 ft / 183 lbs
House Affiliation: Footly
Physical Description: He has a strong jaw and a solid build. His face is relatively plain as far as most women are concerned, but his soft, brown eyes make him seem a bit less stony. He wears a beard most days and a mop of shaggy dark hair sits atop his head. More often than not he sports clothing in Lord Footly’s colours, grey and black.
Equipment & Gear: He has the basic chainmail and steel helm of a House Footly man-at-arms. As one of the household’s guardsmen he was also assigned a rouncey, a general purpose horse, with a saddle and necessary riding equipment by House Footly. He also carries a multipurpose knife that could be wielded as a weapon if necessary.
Weapons: He carries a longsword, bow and quiver full of arrows, and a round wooden shield painted with the official heraldry of House Footly, silver caltrops on a black background.
Current Status: Presumed Dead
Current Location: Woods near Footly Castle, near Tumbleton
Melchom Slayer (Lord Azazel)
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Size: 6’1 ft / 200 lbs
House Affiliation: Slayer (sworn to the House Footly of Tumbleton)
Physical Description: He his handsome, despite a body and face that have obviously seen some beatings. His frame is tall and muscular from years of hard training. He has hazel eyes that appear mostly brown and long black hair that is rarely cut. He is usually clad in his armor.
Equipment & Gear: He wears a full steel chainmail suit, overtop of which he wears simple black linen over-clothing. Underneath he wears padded leathers and light wool underclothing. His head is protected by a steel helm and he wears leather gloves and boots. He rides a reliable rouncey, a general purpose horse, with a saddle and necessary riding equipment.
Weapons: He carries two lighter longswords across his back and he can wield one in each had while in combat, as well as a bow with a quiver full of arrows.
Current Status: Presumed dead
Current Location: Slayer Keep, near Tumbleton
Nayrin (Lenaya)
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Size: 5’5 ft / 125 lbs
House Affiliation: None
Physical Description: Semi-pale skin, green-silver eyes, and silvery hair that resembles a mixture of silver and platinum blond and reaches her mid-back. She commonly wears a simple outfit of leather and hides, often a maroon-stained dress with a single shoulder strap that holds it onto her lanky, yet muscular frame. She has three red bands tattooed onto her right forearm and adorns her neck with a bear tooth necklace and her wrist with a bone-made bracelet. Her teeth have been filed into sharp points to resemble a wolf’s teeth.
Equipment & Gear: She wears a white direwolf cape with the tail still attached and a hood that can be pulled over her head to provide camouflage in certain situations. She also wears a simple leather-skinned boots and a small satchel.
Weapons: She wields a bone-crafted dagger with a bear leather grip.
Current Status: Healthy
Current Location: Footly Castle, near Tumbleton
Emberlynn “Ember” Ashford (OriginOfAbsolution)
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Size: 5’7 / 140 lbs
House Affiliation: Ashford
Physical Description: She has gently waving deep brown hair that is almost black and falls just past her shoulders. Her skin is slightly tanned. She has a strong jaw line and large, deep green eyes.
Equipment & Gear: She came to Tumbleton with a small wardrobe befitting a lady of noble birth.
Weapons: None
Current Status: Healthy
Current Location: Footly Castle, near Tumbleton
Salyne Sand (Vanquished)
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Size: 5’6 / 140 lbs
House Affiliation: Ladybright (sworn to House Martell of Sunspear)
Physical Description: She has dark olive skin with black hair that is cut short and braided back and doe-like honey coloured eyes that seem out of place. Her face is square with a wide chin and cheekbones. Her body is toned, but not shaped with typical feminine curve. She has a boyish shape to her body featuring a small chest and no distinct waist or hips. She has very defined four inch scars across the top of each breast that are easily noticed even when she wears the dress of a proper noblewoman.
Equipment & Gear: She wears a light vest of supple leather that decorated with the sigil of House Ladybright and a wide riding skirt of light linen.
Weapons: She carries a four foot long spear of carefully carved wood and a good steel head.
Current Status: Healthy
Current Location: Footly Castle, near Tumbleton
Cassandra Hill (LittleLion)
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Size: 5’3 ft / 105 lbs
House Affiliation: Prester (sworn to House Lannister of Casterly Rock)
Physical Description: Her thick, curly hair is rusty brown in hue and hangs down to her shoulders when worn loose. She has piercing blue eyes and pale skin that suggests a noble birth, but for a scattering of freckles along her cheekbones and nose. Although her frame is slight, she is moderately toned. Typically she wears gowns and dress made from the least expensive fabrics, but she dresses more practically while on the road.
Equipment & Gear: While travelling she wears a wool skirt, linen shirt, riding gloves, leather booths, and an armored vest of soft leather. She rides a light-grey palfrey named soot. In a pack she carries two gowns, both linen, and matching accessories. She also carries a simple wineskin and a knife thrust in her belt when travelling, although it is more suited for skinning animals than combat.
Weapons: She carries a light hunting bow and quiver of arrows.
Current Status: Healthy
Current Location: Footly Castle, near Tumbleton
NPCs “Encountered”:
Lord Bandon Footly, Lord of Tumbleton
Age: 51
Physical Description: He is slightly overweight; it shows particularly in his face. He has large, often rosy cheeks, a double chin, and prominent nose. His hair is black and kept fairly short. He dresses somewhat shabbily for a man of his station.
Personality: He is usually generous and jovial, but he can be emotional and quick to anger at times.
Other information: Hosted the tournament at Tumbleton; following the tournament his eldest son was murdered and daughter-in-law disappeared.
Family: Wife – Elise Shermer; Son - Ser Gaston Footly (Deceased), {Daughter-in-law - Therese Ashford (Missing)}; Daughter – Teyn Footly; Daughter - Enna Footly; Son - Brenn Footly; and Cousin - Ser Kurt Goodlow.
Lady Elise Footly née Shermer, Lady of Tumbleton
Age: 45
Physical Description: A rather plump lady, though she still bears some of the features that made her pretty in her youth. Her auburn hair is beginning to show grey, but her eyes still shine green.
Personality: Very friendly; speaks with a glimmer in her eyes and a smile on her face; known to chatter incessantly and dominate conversation without allowing others to speak.
Other information: Hosted the tournament at Tumbleton with her lord husband; visited the pavilions following the joust; following the tournament his eldest son was murdered and daughter-in-law disappeared.
Family: Husband –Lord Bandon Footly; Son - Ser Gaston Footly (Deceased), {Daughter-in-law - Therese Ashford (Missing)}; Daughter – Teyn Footly; Daughter - Enna Footly; and Son - Brenn Footly;.
Brenn Footly, Heir of Tumbleton
Age: 15
Physical Description: Wears ill-fitting plate armor and a large overcoat over a slender, lanky frame; Wavy black hair that falls past his neck; naive green eyes that betrayed his innocence.
Personality: A young squire with strong morals and beliefs in regards to how knights should act; speaks with the wisdom of a man many years older; clear-headed and calm.
Other information: Squired for his brother Ser Gaston Footly at the tournament in Tumbleton.
Family: Father –Lord Bandon Footly; Mother; Lady Elise Shermer; Brother - Ser Gaston Footly (Deceased), {Sister-in-law - Therese Ashford (Missing)}; Sister – Teyn Footly; and Sister - Enna Footly.
Ser Gaston Footly, Heir of Tumbleton (DECEASED)
Age: 24
Physical Description: He was tall and considered rather dashing in his knightly armor. Strong and muscular
Personality: He was fiery and emotional, similar to his father. He was open and friendly and considered a man of many friends, but quick to anger and held grudges easily.
Other information: Finished second in the tournament at Tumbleton; found stabbed to death in his bed later that night with his wife missing.
Family: Wife - Therese Ashford (Missing); Father - Lord Bandon Footly; Mother – Elise Shermer; Sister - Teyn Footly; Sister - Enna Footly; and Brother - Brenn Footly.
Lady Therese Footly née Ashford (MISSING)
Age: 19
Physical Description: She is considered rather lovely, largely from her striking blue eyes and gentle facial features. Her wavy blond hair falls well past her shoulder; she has recently begun wearing it as a bun tied at the back of her head. Her build is fairly typical of a lady of the Reach and her skin is lightly tanned.
Personality: Dignified, eloquent, and well-spoken, she is a good example of a proper lady of the Reach. In private, Therese is outgoing, flirtatious, and will happily engage in lighthearted verbal sparring.
Other information: Disappeared following her husband’s murder, potentially a victim of kidnapping.
Family: Husband - Ser Gaston Footly (Deceased); Father - Ser Nelson Ashford (Deceased); Mother - Claire Westbrook; Elder Brother - Eryk Ashford (Deceased); Great Uncle - Lord Edmund Ashford; and Second Cousin - Emberlynn Ashford.
Eamon Hill “The Bastard of Fair Isle”
Age: 29
Physical Description: He walks with noticeably awkward gait, favouring his right leg, as a result of a wound received ten years earlier. A thick, full brown beard covers the lower half of his face, hiding his facial features, while his head is covered by a slightly darker mop of curly brown hair. He has dark green eyes and when he smiles his teeth are noticeably yellow. At one time his body was powerful and muscular, and while some remnants of that body type remain, the years have been hard on him and his body has somewhat deteriorated.
Personality: Charming; seems very cunning and intelligent.
Other information: The bastard son of the former Lord of Fair Isle.
Family: Elder Half Brother - Lord Sebaston Farman; Elder Half Sister - Jeyne Farman, {Half Brother-in-law - Ser Gareth Clifton}; and Elder Half-Sister - Gennifer Farman.
Ser Kurt Goodlow, Bannerman of House Footly
Age: 44
Physical Description: Tall and dark; black facial hair was trimmed neatly, leaving his cheeks bare. The black head on his head was kept short as well; hard blue eyes; wears a somewhat used steel breastplate with black trimming with ringmail covering his limbs.
Personality: Enjoys intimidating people; is loud and rude; gives commands rather than speaking in conversation, especially to those of a lower social standing; prone to violence, which he enjoys partaking in.
Other information: Veteran of a number of military actions including the action against the Kingswood Brotherhood, Robert’s Rebellion, and the Greyjoy Rebellion; has his own keep near Tumbleton where he employs at least a dozen men-at-arms; used by Lord Footly whenever violence is required to solve a problem.
Family: Cousin – Lord Bandon Footly.
Rahir of Tumbleton
Age: 29
Physical Description: Wears a large shawl and hood that shrouds his body, including much of his face; skin was a dark shade of olive; long limbs; curly black hair falls over dark eyes; has a sly smile.
Personality: Habitually swirls his drinks, usually hippocras; cautious with those he doesn’t know; maintains a blank expression during conversation, often leaves a long silence before answering others; more open and generous when doing business with somebody he connects with.
Other information: Involved in illegal activities in the northeastern Reach; usually found at the Cavorting Colt in a dark booth; negative relationship with the Footly’s; from one of the Free Cities of Essos,
Family: Unknown.
Murder/Theft Suspects:
Lady Therese Footly
Locations Visited:
Tumbleton, The Reach
Description: The town has a population of approximately 4,000 and acts a regional support centre for the agriculturally-focused surrounding area. The area around Tumbleton specializes in growing a variety of cereals. Livestock is another major industry in the region. The town is not a major commercial center, most major trade in the area occurs in Bitterbridge as shallows downriver prevent larger vessels from reaching Tumbleton. The town centre sits a few miles away from the shores of the Mander, which flows fast and fairly deep near Tumbleton. The town has spread largely away from the shoreline, which is somewhat marshy, into the foothills.
Points of Interest: The Town Center - Roughly situated in the middle of the town, which has spread out fairly evenly around the centre. It is a large, cobbled square with room for hundreds of visitors. One end of the square has a raised wooden platform used for speeches and hangings; Footly Castle - A modestly-sized castle with four stone walls that are raised 20 feet into the air, with a single iron gate, and small towers at all four corners. Inside the walls are a small barracks for the household’s servants and guard, a small stable, and living quarters for the Footly’s which is not a traditional keep, but more similar to a very large country house. All the structures are made largely of wood. The castle is a few miles into the foothills above the town and thus has a commanding view of the region. Festival Grounds - The festival grounds are located on a wide, flat meadow alongside the road that runs between Tumbleton and Footly Castle. During tournaments the field is covered with pavilions and temporary jousting facilities are erected.
Originally Posted by MULTIMEDIAMAN
My character is a boring weakling next to you guys XD I didn't anticipate being the only person to make a non-combative character
), I mean, it would be a disaster to let my character speak for the group with other nobles, trying to get something useful out of them. I can scare the souls out of them but usually that doesn't end well, when standind before a lord with his guardsmen all around.
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