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Name: Stelsa Lashton
Title: Lady Stelsa of Ash Falls
Age: 15

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Appearance: Stelsa is considered pretty, and she is taller then your average 15 year old girl. She has the typical brown hair and green eyes of a Lashton, but her other feature are practically a carbon copy of her late mother. Her long wavy hair reaches all the way to her tailbone. If she is not wearing her hair just plainly down, she is most likely sporting the popular braided styling from King's Landing. Her most prominent feature are her eyes, which are a magnificent mossy green color, that meld into a dark blue rim around her iris. She has a dainty nose, pink lips, and a pretty smile.

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Personality: Stelsa is a clever, optimistic, and quick-witted girl. She has a sharp tongue and a direct way of approaching things, thus she is not afraid to speak her mind. Her mouth has gotten her in trouble on more then one occasion. She is only just learning to think before she speaks. As a child she was an energetic, and tenacious girl filled with life and humor. She’s never been a fan of people who treat her like a child or think they're better then her. She wants to be strongly independent, but being so young that's not always possible. She likes to appear afraid of nothing, and knows how to put on a brave front. Her Septa raised her with a strong moral background, so Stelsa values fairness and charity quite a bit. But she is also a very unforgiving person in certain aspects. She knows how to hold a grudge, and she has turned payback into an art form. She is extremely loyal and protective of those she loves and puts her trust in. Overall Stelsa is a bright young lady, and a tad impulsive.

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Bio: Stelsa was born in Ash Falls castle, to Lord Renault and Lady Lucia Lashton. As a little toddler she was soft-spoken, sweet, and always full of smiles. Her brother Radford was 5 years older, but he quickly became her protector who she absolutely adored. Her early years were spent in the gardens together with her siblings and mother. Lady Lucia would read her children poems, and tell them stories as they giggled and played. She loved watching her brothers practice their sword fighting, and archery. Stelsa spent most of her time barefoot and following her brothers around like a little shadow. When she wasn't following them around, she was either in her mothers lap, or playing dolls with the cook's daughter Perra, who would later become her best friend.

Around six years old, the once sweet little Stelsa quickly turned into a sassy spitfire. An inordinate amount of her time was spent flinging mud at the blacksmith's boys, chasing chickens with Perra, pranking her siblings, and making her Septa's life hell. For the next year she was basically an irritating little hellion, who refused to listen to anyone but Radford. Thankfully that phase ended when she was seven years old, just after her older sister Bryna was married off to Ser Marwyn Belmore of the Vale. Stelsa was her father's daughter, and though she looked like her mother, her personality was more similar to her father in his youth. She would always remain impulsive, and aggravatingly plain-spoken, the complete opposite of her sister goody-two-shoes Bryna.

Stelsa and Perra spent quite a bit of time adventuring around the waterfalls, and playing pretend in the woods around the grounds. The blacksmiths youngest son Jeems always seemed to join them in their shenanigans, and so did her brothers on occasion. But the little trio were mighty good at making trouble. Sadly the news of Bryna's passing came a year later. She had died from complications after a miscarriage, and the family didn't take it well. She and Bryna had never gotten along, and the nine year age difference didn't help make them close. But her death still crushed Bryna, and it took its tole on her parents. Loosing their first born changed them a bit, at least from what Stelsa observed.

Unfortunately the hits kept coming and two years later when Stelsa was ten, her mother become deathly ill and quickly passed away. She hadn't been able to say goodbye to her mother before she died. The Maester had made sure to keep everyone away for fear of others catching the disease too. The understanding that her mother was gone forever devastated her, and life seemed to change inside the castle after her death. Everything was more somber and serious. Stelsa spent the next few months with red rimmed eyes, and tear soaked sleeves. She tried hard not to cry in front of anyone, but it was clearly visible to everyone that Stelsa was hurting.

Growing into a young woman without her mother was difficult to say the least. From her perspective everything seemed to be changing, not just her body. Her friend Jeems started acting differently towards her. Septa started going on and on about how Stelsa needed to start acting more like a demure highborn lady. Even Perra started spending more time with a boy from the village. Apparently there was no more time to play with dolls, or run around pretending to be dragons in the woods. According to the world it was now inappropriate for her to swim in the falls in her undergarments. The time between girlhood and blossoming into a woman was full of frustration, confusion, and to much change.

Now she is fifteen years old, and though Westeros is in chaos, it hasn't really hit home yet for her. Possibly because everyone tends to shield her from the big bad world. Her fathers remarriage to lady _____, a woman only ___ years older then herself was not taken happily by Stelsa. She knew her father loved her mother, and he already had more then one possible heir, so why take another wife? In her eyes her father had betrayed her mother's memory by marrying again. And Stelsa has made sure her option is abundantly clear. The idea of Radford also marrying is something she finds annoying. The stress of the realm issues can be felt through her father, brothers, and all the adults in the castle. Stelsa is quickly finding out that she hates change. And thankfully no one has brought up the fact that she is of marriageable age.

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Thoughts on the current situation of the realm: She has no expertise to give an educated option with, but she believe that rumors of King Joffrey legitimacy are just rumors until proven otherwise. And if proven otherwise, she knows that by right the throne is Stannis's, but if she could have her pick of Kings it would be Renly because he is handsome and charming.

Name: Marvyn Kayne
Title: Ser, Master at arms, Captain of Lashton house guard, “The Vulture Knight”
Age: 61
Appearance: Marvyn proudly bears the sigil of house Lashton, having it engraved into his armor and shield, and Lashton colored garments under his armor. He walks the castle often in light set of armor, with only a breastplate and gauntlets. His face is that of an old warrior, sullen and scarred. His messy gray hair and bear somewhat cover many of the small scars on the man’s face, and his clothing and armor often conceal the countless others all over his body. He has dark green eyes, and a rather large pointed nose that has begun to look similar to a beak. His long neck, coupled with his aforementioned ‘beak nose’ and somewhat pigeon toed walk, Marvyn has become the center of a lot bird jokes by his subordinates and friends (though only his friends get away with saying it to his face), and gave way to his nickname, earned many years ago.


Personality: Marvyn has two main attitudes. His commander’s attitude and his social attitude. Most only know Marvyn as ‘Ser Kayne, Captain of the Guard’ rather than just Marvyn. He is really only himself around the Lashton’s and his son. To his men, and those he protects, he maintains a cool, calm, collected, and rather imposing demeanor, having perfected his intimidation tactic long ago. Around friend and family, Marvyn is all smiles, and often loves to have a good time, though only to a certain extent, never wanting to be caught to off guard.

Bio: Marvyn’s father served the former Lord Lashton as a member of his personal guard, his grandfather as well. His father died serving Lord Lashton when their caravan was attacked by bandits while travelling back home from King’s landing. The attacking crew of bandits was held off, and the Lord was unharmed, but a handful of his guard, marvyn’s father included, were fatally wounded. Following in his father’s footsteps, Marvyn enlisted in the guard shortly after his father’s death, continuing on family’s vow to protect and honor house Lashton. Years into his service for the house, Marvyn wed young and quickly as to avoid his first son to be born a bastard. His young tavern wench wife did not survive the birth, luckily his son, Martyn did, and has grown into a respected warrior of his own, and has recently joined the guard like his forefathers.

Marvyn fought with the Lashton family during Robert’s rebellion was with Reynault when he was forced to bend the knee. Though he is not a man to surrender, he choose to follow his lord, choosing to honor his fallen lord by continuing to protect his kin. Reynault had grown up with Marvyn around. the two having already somewhat started to form a bond between the young lord to be and the future captain of the guard, friendship was an easy and quick progression. Nowadays, the two men are a not only bound by honor, but a friendship built on trust and shared bloodshed on the battlefield.

Thoughts on the realm: Loyal to his lord, Marvyn will unquestioningly follow orders from Reynault without second thought. That being said, he does have separate opinions from his lord. He sees the Lannisters as the greatest threat and best possible ally, and urges his lord to side with lord Tywin. Though Marvyn is not against the Stark rebellion he does hold a distaste for Riverlanders, having come to blows with their forces many times in his tenure. He holds no issue or preferences with the remaining realms.

Name: Lord Radford Lashton, third of his name

Title/Position/Alias:
Lord Radford, Heir to Ash Falls, The Young Hawk

Age: 20

Appearance:
Radford stands 6’2” tall, weighing just over 200 Lbs. He has dark Chestnut brown hair with green eyes. There are small flecks of purple mixed into his green eyes. Radford wears the clothing of nobility, immaculately attired. He prefers to remain clean shaven, removing the stubble from his chin on a daily basis.

The Young Hawk wears brown leather trousers and silk or cotton shirts. He wears brown, green and white shirts for various occasions; all of which have the house sigil embroidered upon the left breast. For special occasions, he wears a green and brown silk doublet over the undershirt with the right half of the shirt being predominantly brown, but covered in a decorative flower pattern accented in yellow thread. The left side of the shirt is predominantly green with a gold threaded pattern of one-inch squares. Overlain upon the left side is a large hawk, the sigil of House Lashton. When on the road, Radford wears a padded brown Jerkin over a long sleeved green or white undershirt. The Jerkin also contains the house sigil. The Young Hawk has a dark green cape he wears over his leather armor, which also attaches to the set of mail he had specially made on the Street of Steel. He spent a large sum on the armor, but is very proud of it. He has worn it to tournament on several occasions, including Prince Joffrey’s name day. The last time he wore the armor was when Eddard Stark was named Hand of the King.

Radford’s set of mail armor is crafted of steel with a green tabard. The tabard has the brown sigil of House Lashton emblazoned upon it. He wears brown leather straps on his armor to carry leather bags and weapons. His helm has a closed face and visor with a large green and brown plume exploding above his head. The armor was on the expensive side, admired by many for its detail. His father, Lord Rennault views it with some contempt due to the loss to the family’s coin. Radford hopes his armor will not become a motive for his lord father to choose sides in order to offset its cost.



Personality: Radford is an impetuous young man, quick to action, slow to restraint; yearning for a fight. He has heard the stories from his sword master, Ser Kayne and his father; hanging on each word. He desires to experience battle for himself. His temper can be tempestuous at times swinging from calm, cool and collected one minute to fiery, combative and hostile the next. He is always respectful to his elders; will do anything Lord Renault or Ser Marvyn instruct him to do regardless of his personal feelings. His one saving grace is discipline.

Bio: Radford has spent all summer training for battle under the tutelage of the Vulture, Ser Marvyn Kayne. The Master Swordsman has been very patient with the Young Hawk in the use of all sundry of weapons including a bastard sword, Radford favors. Although he is skilled in the use of sword and shield, he does prefer the longer two-handed sword. His sword of choice is Talon an old Valyrian steel sword measuring at four and a half feet long. It is believed Radford Lashton, second of his name used this same sword over a hundred years ago. It was forged in Dragon’s Fire.

Too young for the Ironborne Insurrection, Radford relishes stories concerning battle. He yearns to see action. The current conflagration weighs heavily on his mind. He has much at stake. He wants to fight to prove himself worthy, but he is concerned for how the outcome of the war will affect his personal life and position within the realm. Doing nothing would be disgraceful in his mind. He is aware of the history, believing Robert Baratheon’s son to be the true heir giving credence to Tywin Lannister’s position on the battlefield. He has heard the rumor and even read a scroll from Lord Stannis claiming Joffrey to be the incestuous offspring of Queen Cersei and her brother Ser Jaime Lannister. It is possible Lord Stannis fabricated the story in order to create a justification for his claim to the Iron Throne. If this rumor is true, then Joffrey is truly a usurper. But the Young Hawk does not believe the rumor.

Radford also understands the connection between his father and the Starks of Winterfell. Lord Rennault followed Lord Eddard into Pyke when he was young. That loyalty weighs heavy on his lord father’s mind. Radford appreciates his father’s position, torn between an aged loyalty to the Starks and the rightful heir to the Throne. Radford does not know which side to choose and feels comforted in knowing he need not make this decision.

Radford has his fair bevy of beauties awaiting his favor. He admires Erena Glover of the Deepwood Motte, but fears that if his father sides with the Lannisters her hand may make things uncomfortable for House Lashton. But the lass does suit his needs. For this reason alone, he favors allying with the Young Wolf, Robb Stark. Merrin Varner who is connected to the Tyrrells of Highgarden is the daughter of Steffon Varner. At age 16 she is very demure and almost to the point of being boring to Radford. Radford is mildly taken in by the Lady Merrin, but this would give the family connection to Renly Baratheon. Evelyn Risley, 17 is a granddaughter to Eden Risley. She is not an unattractive lass, but prefers the labors of men. She would rather fight with sword in hand than learn to stitch or embroidery. She does have a fiery personality, much like The Young Hawk. In one aspect, Radford is intrigued by the woman and would love to learn more about her, but he just cannot take her swordplay serious. Lady Evelyn is someone whom Radford enjoys her company but may not settle down with. She is from a minor house that was loyal to the Targaryens alongside the Lashtons. Penelope Grafton, 15 is a lovely young woman, daughter of Gerold Grafton, Lord of Gulltown. She is a Vale woman and on the homely side. But her father’s connections could be of great political benefit to the Lashton family. Penelope’s father, Lord Grafton is connected to House Baelish and in with Lord Petyr Baelish, Master of coin on King Joffrey’s small council. Finally, there is Beatha Kenning of House Kenning of Kayce. Her father is Lord of Kayce and a faithful bannerman to House Lannister. Beatha is a beautiful lass of 15 with a surprisingly quick wit. She has an airy lilt about her demeanor and would make a suitable mate to the Young Hawk. These are all tough decisions for the Young Hawk, but ultimately it depends on who his father aligns himself with in the current war erupting in Westeros.

Radford mourns the loss of his mother immensely. He does feel a twinge of abandonment for her passing. He was only 15 at the time. He was very close to her; believed that he was her favorite. Lord Radford idolized his mother in every way possible and she defended him time and time again. Her eldest son reminded her of her husband Rennault on too many occasions. Much of his angst is built-up pain from the loss of his mother.

He loves his little sister, Stelsa, going out of his way to protect her. He views the young lady has one of his treasures to protect. He would allow no harm to befall this sweet princess. He enjoys having long playful discussions with his sister about many topics in Westeros. He loved listening to the old maiden Tess who cared for the Lashton children for many years. Stelsa and Radford chat about the many crazy beasts old Tess would claim exist north of the wall like Giants, white walkers, and dire wolves.

Radford has a love-hate relationship with his brother, (Name TBD). The two get along very well, but are in and out with fighting over sibling rivalries constantly. When the chips are down, Radford knows his brother will have his back and the same goes for Radford. He secretly admires and respects his younger brother, but he would never admit it to him. He is constantly making derogatory comments about him, but he considers it all in good fun; playful banter.

There is no doubt in the respect the Young Hawk has for the Vulture. He views the sword master like an elder uncle who knows all. He would follow the man to hell and back. He trusts his instruction and believes he is the best man to guide his father on military matters. Radford has paid very close attention to Marvyn Kayne’s tutelage honing his skills with each lesson. The man’s son is at least ten years older than Radford, but he has always viewed Martyn like an older brother. The older Kayne is a fine warrior in his own right and has become Radford’s sparring partner since the younger Lashton turned 15. There is much respect for both father and son.

Thoughts on the current situation of the realm:
Radford has a raging turmoil in his mind over this issue. On the one hand, he wishes nothing more than to fight in this war. But which side to fight for? The one Lady he feels he could fall in love with is aligned with the Young Wolf, Robb Stark. He also has feelings for other ladies who would make wonderful political ties for his father with House Lannister. He trusts his father’s decisions and listens to the Vulture’s ideas on the subject. Due to Ser Kayne’s influence, Radford is leaning toward allying with Tywin Lannister.