[center][b][u]House Sunderland of the Sisters[/b][/u]

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"Come What May"[/center]

[B]Seat:[/B] Castle Wetwalls

[b]House history:[/b]
House Sunderland once ruled the Sister isles as petty kings, in truth the island was no more than a nest for pirates, the Sunderlands being chief among them, intercepting vessels travelling the narrow sea. Things changed when the sistermen drew the ire of the king in the North and the Starks soon launched an invasion to the outmatched islands in what would become known as the rape of the sisters. As a desperate measure of survival the Sunderlands bent the knee to the Arryn king, after which the Falcon and the Wolf spent many hundreds of years fighting for control of the Sisters leaving it bereft of any wealth it once may of had and in the demesne of the Vale.

In more recent times House Sunderland and the other sisterlords have turned from pirating to smuggling and harbouring of criminals, across the Seven Kingdoms and the free-cities it is known as a den where only the most unpleasant reside, a lawless group of islands whom the Arryns have tenuous control at best. They sided with Daemon Blackfyre during the rebellion, a move which cost them dearly, with the current lord Sunderland's sister being taken as ward while still but a babe and the previous lord losing his head.

[B]Members:[/B]

[Hider=Lord Jonos Sunderland]
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[i]"Being the lord of scum makes you no less scum."[/i]

[B]Age:[/B] 30

[b]Biography[/b]
Ambition has always been the downfall of the Sunderlands. Jonos grew up believing himself to be a true lord's son and that Wetwalls was the finest castle there was, oblivious to how the rest of the world viewed the Sisters and the damp infested stones he called home. He lived in this ignorant fantasy for a most of his childhood until his humbling came at the hands of the Blackfyre rebellion.

Only 14 when the black dragon arose, Jonos had been squiring for his father for a number of years and the pair of them had both been taken in by the larger than life figure of Daemon Blackfyre. Jonos had never been ashore beyond visiting various ports and was taken aback by the riches and splendor he saw not to mention how easily disregarded their house was, something his father promised would change once they won. As it happened rebellion failed and when it did the Sisters were brought down with it, Jonos' father was executed and his younger sister taken as ward by house Templeton, not to mention hefty financial loses.

Young Jonos, now lord of the Sisters, was left to rule surrounded by a growing group of advisors who in truth were a selection of the worst smugglers, thieves and pirates from Westeros and beyond, it was from them he received his true education and moral values, they took him in like a gaggle of uncles. The Sisters quickly became a haven for all kinds of illicit activity, more so than it was beforehand. 

Jonos revelled in his new lawless life, a 15 year old with no-one to tell him what to do. He became involved with the various smuggling operations on the islands, helping organise and even charging tolls for safe-passage. He opened several brothels on the island and sired a bastard in one soon after. Before long Jonos became the mastermind behind many of the illicit operations going on in the narrow sea, using the various smugglers that came into port as an expansive spy-network, bringing him word from across the world. 

[b]Personality[/b]
A rogue at heart but doubts have entered Jonos' mind of late. He's lived a life without limits, king of his own little world; but as he turns from a boy to a man and soon a father he finds he craves something else in life. A cunning man by nature, soft spoken but with a knack for leadership. The lord of the Sisters is an a-moral man but he is not cruel and will only harm others if there's something in it for himself.

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Lady Felice Sunderland (Borell) 

[Hider=Mace Stone]
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[B]Age:[/B] 15

[B]Personality:[/B]
A fierce young boy, proud and sullen. Mace grew up in the roughest areas of the Sisters before he moved to Wetwalls to be with his father and has the human attitude of a stray dog. Like many bastards he seeks the approval of his father and though the pair get along Jonos has always been quite oblivious to Mace, if anything treating him more like a younger brother than acting as a father figure.

[B]Biography:[/B]
It's said that lord Jonos Sunderland opened a brothel and fathered a bastard in it all in the same night, that was the start of Mace Stone's life and it went downhill from their. His mother treated him with contempt more of a dead-weight than a son and he soon learned to fend for himself in the bustling docks of Sisterton. It wasn't until his mother died from a pox that things changed for him.

Having no family at the time Lord Jonos allowed Mace into his household, a dream come true for the young bastard and while a world away from the life he had left he could only be disappointed with what he found in life at Wetwalls. Pirates and smugglers consisted of the majority of the household, one of the worst was Lord Sunderland himself. Mace soon found himself on various smuggling expeditions as ships monkey he once dreamt of becoming a knight but that hope has long ago started to fade.

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