Name: Ser Maelys Blackfyre the Honorable, last of the Blackfyre's
Age: 24
Affiliation: House Blackfyre, The Band of Seven (Maelys as its leader, a group of seven knights all hailing from dishonored houses who seek to redeem themselves in the eyes of the Realm and the Faith of the Seven.)
Appearance:
In stark contrast to the typical looks of his Targaryen and Blackfyre ancestors, Maelys keeps his hair shorn short, liking to have less that could get in his way during combat, and general day to day activities. He has a close cropped beard and the tell tale purple eyes of a Valyrian. He stands six foot two, with a athletic build. He has a scar across his left cheek, where he was grazed by a sickle a few years back.
Profession: Formerly a sellsword, Ser Maelys Blackfyre chose to seek better fortunes back in the ancestral home of he family and forbears, he is an anointed knight by a septon, and lays claim to House Blackfyre, as its sole remaining Patriarch.
Equipment: Wields the Valyrian Steel sword "Truth". A suit of well worn Plate mail, having seen many years, if not many previous owners, use. A custom made kettle helm with a single black dragon upon its top.
Skills:
Skilled Commander/Fighter - Having fought under the ragged banners of a few sellsword companies, and having been trained under an exiled Westerosi knight, Maelys earned his keep, and over the course of fourteen years, became respected enough to lead his own detachment of light infantry and archers. He has been particularly active in the Stepstones, being employed by local lords to suppress peasant rebellions.
Attractive - None can deny the tell-tale signs of ancestral Valyrain beauty that grace Maelys. Unlike his predecessor of the same name, Maelys II is not malformed nor overly large.
Quick - Maelys is said to be quick to learn, always hungry for more knowledge and understanding of the greater world around him. He has a deft understanding of combat and the tactics around it, can balance a ledger, and perhaps more importantly, how to stay out of trouble.
Biography: Maelys Blackfyre the Honorable traces his ancestory back through the female line of House Blackfyre. With the death of the last male heir, Maelys Blackfyre I, in 260 AC, his great grandmother, Rhalle Blackfyre, chose a matrilineal marriage with an unnamed knight from the Golden Company. They say he was from house Whent, but who really knows. Over the course of the next eighty some-odd years, House Blackfyre continued on, though much diminished from the height of their power. Maelys grandfather and grandmother, Daemon and Visenya respectively, were born twins, and subsequently married, giving issue to his mother, Rhaena Blackfyre. Again, faced with the imminent demise of House Blackfyre, Rhaena matrilineal married a Lyseni third born son, who is said to have hailed from the tarnished House Rogare. At last, another male was born, and thus Maelys was born into the world in 301 AC.
His childhood was comparable to any other disgraced noble family living in exile. Not great, but not bad by any means. By ten, he became a squire to one of the knights who chose to remain in the Stepstones. He was trained hard but fair, and was developed into the man he is today. Maelys earned his knighthood in 322 AC, after a particularly hard fought battle at Sunstone. It was here that he not only earned his spurs, but where he earned the title "Honorable". Maelys chose to not to raise to an undefended settlement, even though he was ordered to, sparing the lives of a few hundred women and children, and rather, met the enemy on the field of battle, and defeating the peasant rebellion's leader in single combat. He defeated their army with that blow, and at his own behest, the survivors were given a choice, serve in the Night's Watch, or face the gallows. A great many chose the Night's Watch.
Maelys is a driven and determined man, who seeks to erase, or at least mend some of the taint left behind by his family so many years ago. He practices his swordplay often, choosing to remain ever vigilant. And above all, he seeks to remain honorable to the very end, for a man without honor, as his father told him, is no man at all. Those words have reverberated within him for eighteen years, and remain a constant sense of duty and purpose within Maelys. With his mother and father having succumb to an ill-fated fire, Maelys gathered those few like-minded individuals like himself, and set sail for Westeros proper.
Maelys and his comrades in arms, the Band of Seven, sail upon a battered merchant vessel, carrying not riches or troops, but rather the remains of the families, the coffins of all those that came before them, with the intent upon burying them at home, on true Westerosi soil, whatever the consequences may be. But for Maelys, there is another purpose as well, and one that he has to see through to the end. Currently, the sit a few hundred meters from the docks of King's Landing, preparing to make port, and begin their journey for the next chapter in their lives.
Notes: Currently holds the deed to the "Grouchy Seagull", a large merchant vessel that holds the remains of several generations of exiled Westerosi nobles and the like. Most of the ship holds the scattered Blackfyre remains, and the hope of a better tomorrow.
