dreamshell

Wild-west vampire hunters.... a serious vampire RP.

Hmm, a very impressive outline for what could be a pretty schlocky idea if done poorly. I commend you. Definitely calls to mind several things; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Vampire: The Masquerade, 30 Days of Night, Mike Mignola's Baltimore and the Fright Night remake, maybe? Hopefully a bit of Red Dead Redemption, Deadwood and/or Hell on Wheels, too.

I'm definitely interested. \m/

Altaea: The Age of Revolution -=]- Late Middle Ages - Early Renaissance Fantasy Story -[=-

This sounds like a ball. :D I'm a fan of pretty much everything you mentioned/linked to: The Three Musketeers, A Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed, Empire: Total War, the various historical eras and cultures—everything! The prospect of playing in a world inspired by it all is very enticing indeed, so I pretty much can't pass this up.

I would echo FernStone's question about the permissibility of multiple characters; if approved, this would make arranging deaths more feasible and we could tell the story from many different fronts and wildly varying viewpoints.

Since the issue of patriarchy was brought up, would it be possible to play a female character who poses as a man in order to enter the army (or what-have-you)? Historically, this has happened many times over and has also occurred frequently in fiction, such as in Shakespeare. Relatedly, this has also gone the other way: Take 'Le Chevalier d'Eon,' who was a real person, as well as the name of a very good anime set in a magical French Revolution. ;)

Also, could you give us some idea as to the culture & relations of the other nations (Vectis, etc.)?

Just FYI, my availability over the next several weekends is highly mutable, so best to assume I'll be unable to participate during those times (though I may occasionally luck out). Otherwise, I'm free.

Fortune by Land & Sea (Dreamshell & Kate)

Dr. Gabriel Sharpe

Name: Dr. Gabriel Sharpe | Age: 35 | Gender: Male | Occupation: Pirate/Ship's physick/First mate
Personality: Dr. Sharpe is a pragmatist, bordering on a pessimist. He is seldom in the moment, caught up with identifying & solving problems at hand & anticipating others forthcoming. He is prone to sarcasm & gallows humor. He has learnt hard lessons of the differences between goodliness & lawfulness & generally disdains authority for its narrow & short-sighted views, intrusive bureaucracy & willingness to sacrifice innocent lives for vain endeavors & facesaving.
Expertise: Gabriel is a learned man, so knows his marks & numbers well & is a powerhouse of information on a wide range of subject matters. He is a surgical prodigy & a resourceful amateur chemist, able to concoct helpful remedies from sparing ingredients as well as more weaponizable solutions. His stint in the service has given him a modestly competent shooting hand & with the help of his former captain, he possesses at least a crude command of basic swordsmanship & knowledge of naval jargon & maritime warfare. As a merchant's son, he is also adept in speechcraft & haggling.
Background: Gabriel was born into a well-to-do merchant family in Amberdon, the capital of Leona. As the second son, he was thankfully less obligated to fawn & truckle to the Leonard Peerage for the sake of the family business than was his elder brother, though he did help out by managing its books & coffers.
Always fascinated by the function of things, Gabriel took a quick interest in anatomy, biology & medicine, studying all the old scholars & philosophers of those fields. This pleased his father, who paid for his entry into medical school, figuring the next best thing to a businessman for a son was a doctor (who could provide healthcare to nobles & other businessmen). Gabriel proved a brilliant student & a talented surgeon, but chaffed under the confines of the academic board, whom he offended & irritated many a time with the more outlandish & outdated ideas inherited from his esoteric self-education. After an incident involving the "illegal appropriation & unsanctioned experimentation of cadavers," Gabriel was threatened with expulsion, even imprisonment or hanging. His father made ample use of his purse to smooth things over, but Gabriel left the school anyway, fed up with their rigid & unimaginative policies. For this, he was summarily disowned & disinherited.
As it happened, war broke out with the Aquillan colonies across the sea around this time & Gabriel enlisted in the Royal Corps of Chirurgions, falsifying a doctorate. "Doctor" Sharpe was soon after given the post of ship's physick aboard the Spitfire, an 18-gun Brig Sloop-of-War. The ship regularly reconnoitered for the larger ships-of-the-line, delivered messages & personnel & evacuated injured or sinking seamen. It was here Gabriel first witnessed the tremendous waste of life so commonly caused by foolhardy naval commanders or the administrative muck-ups of their superiors, a thing which discouraged & disgusted him to no end. The breaking point came when his sloop was given part of the clean-up detail of the HMS Malburmont, a mammoth first-rate of 104 guns that had been utterly annihilated in battle with the Aquillans. Even after years of tending the sick & the dying, the sight of the officers aboard made him balk. When he learned offhand of the (surviving) captain's mulish refusal to withdraw during the hopeless firefight, no doubt costing many men their lives unnecessarily, he tracked down & nearly cuffed the officer himself, held back only by his own captain. He was transferred to a port of call for his own good, finishing out the war as a member of the island's hospital staff & staying on even after.
In light of their defeat to Aquilla, the Leonards began to throw their weight around on the island & other colonies on the pretense of curbing any more future dissent. Gabriel watched as its natives, many of whom he had come to call friends, were subjected to oppressive restrictions & petty humiliations by the very same navy he had worked to heal. The port became a police state & a mass gallows for roving pirates, the Empire's newest enemies & scapegoats. When rumors spread that the hospital was harboring some of these outlaws, the local authority responded with excess force, resulting in a violent engagement & the deaths of several patients, including widows & expectant mothers, the elderly & children. Because none of these casualties were Leonards, the whole thing was written off as collateral damage & quietly censored when reported to the powers back home.
Disillusioned, Dr. Sharpe sought solace in the bottle & considered returning to Amberdon to plead at his father's feet for mercy. But when drinking one night in a local pub, he spied one of the officers involved in the slaughter at the hospital, a man with whom he'd had words several times before. In his cups & feeling especially nihilistic, he confronted the man & things came to blows. Gabriel wasted little time; after he'd taken as many hits as he could suffer, he removed his pistol & shot the officer point-blank through the eye (an enormity he'd seen the man perform on one of the sickly children in his care). He would have been arrested & hanged the very same day but for the pugnacious intervention of William DeMarco, an infamous pirate captain who had stolen into port to rescue members of his crew from certain death.
Sharpe made a hasty departure with the pirates to save himself from the rope, earning his passage by mending their wounds & giving them insight into the navy's protocols. Originally expecting him to be a vicious cutthroat, Gabriel soon recognized Captain DeMarco to be a man of integrity (of a sort) & fervently loyal to his men. The two of them spent many an evening in the captain's cabin, discussing over fine food & drink such things as politics, religion, literature, science & philosophy & yet more of life's grand mysteries. Though the captain gave him the choice of any port from which he might debark, the fraudulent doctor resolved to remain aboard, becoming a right-hand to the pirate-king.
With his passing, Dr. Sharpe now endeavors to fill the same role for the captain's young daughter & successor, Andrea, a rather more willful & unruly commander...

William "Lucky Bill" Dodd

Name: William "Lucky Bill" Dodd | Age: 50s | Gender: Male | Occupation: Pirate/Ship's quartermaster & master-at-arms
Personality: So-called "Lucky Bill" has a long of history of stumbling into or attracting trouble, something he has come to view with a fatalistic humor. Unperturbed, he is a firm, but rollicksome & protective big brother figure to his crew. If a man fails to carry his weight or steps out of line, he's quicker to give a good lashing with his tongue than his whip as past experiences disincline him toward's corporal punishment & he knows embarrassing a man a bit in front of his mates shapes him up far better. Otherwise, Bill slakes his thirst on life any way he can; drinking, dicing, whoring, singing, brawling & then some. He is loyal to his bones & will see an order carried out come hell or high water once given.
Expertise: Lucky Bill has lived more of his life on sea than land & knows the moody ocean as good as any man can. He has toiled at nigh every menial job aboard a ship & has an eye for half-arsers. He knows what his ship can take, as well as his men. Just don't expect him to have such mastery of the intricacies of shore life; he's as blue as they come & could offend the sensibilities of the vulgarest of slatterns.
Background: Served aboard various ships since he was a lad. Captured & sold into bondage as a young man, living several years slaving under the blistering tropical sun as a "redleg." Later broke free with some others, scraping by in the service of outlaws & pariahs he held little love for until falling in with pirate captain William DeMarco.

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

-Added the character sheets of my POVs
-Added Ser Osseon, my Lothston Kingsguard, as a posthumous character
-Added Ser Emrys Rivers, who's serving Phoebas' house

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

I don't want to overreach and I'm going to leave the rest of the houses alone, but if there turn out to be any minor positions, say, in King's Landing that need filling before we start, I'll happily volunteer.

I'm also looking for any ideas about what family to make the late Lord Manfred's wife hail from, as I'm considering the possibility their children are now wards of that house in light of Manfred's earlier support of the Blackfyres. That said, the rebellion happened long enough ago that such a situation might no longer be necessary. Then again, Theon Greyjoy makes a different case. Just mulling over my options. Lothston wards seem like a good potential way of A) getting a(nother) POV somewhere outside of Harrenhal and B) starting conflict.

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

This is what A Wiki of Ice and Fire says about the Starks around this time;

"Around 213AC, House Stark faced a difficult succession. Several Lords of Winterfell had perished fighting wars in the North against rebellious Skagosi, the wildling king Raymun Redbeard and other threats, leaving Beron Stark as the lord of the house. As he too lay slowly succumbing to wounds he received fighting Dagon Greyjoy and his ironborn, his wife and four other recent Stark widows struggled over who would succeed him. There were a number of potential heirs, with some ten Stark children about."

So if we're playing a few years prior, it seems the Starks are probably in the thick of some Skagosi-stompin' and dealing with another King-Beyond-the-Wall. But with ten or more potential heirs to Lord Beron, it's certainly possible a few are spread out.

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

House Lothston of Harrenhal
"On Wings Of Night"


"Ah, and what a castle it is. Cavernous halls and ruined towers, ghosts and draughts, ruinous to heat, impossible to garrison . . . and there’s that small matter of a curse.” - Petyr Baelish

Harrenhal is the largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms and is the seat of House Lothston in the Riverlands, on the north shore of the Gods Eye lake. Since the War of Conquest, however, it has become a dark and ruinous place.

The castle has five towers of dizzying size, with equally monstrous curtain walls. The walls are incredibly thick and its rooms are built on a scale that would be more comfortable for giants than humans. The castle's holdings are some of the richest in Westeros, claiming vast tracts of green fertile land.

Harrenhal covers three times as much ground as Winterfell and its buildings are so much larger that they can scarcely be compared. Its stables can house a thousand horses, its godswood covers twenty acres, and its kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall. When it was built it could have potentially garrisoned a million men.

However, much of Harrenhal has far gone into decay and many places in the castle have not been entered in decades. Bats infest the tops of some of the towers.

Walls, Towers & Gates

Harrenhal is built on a gigantic scale; its colossal curtain walls are sheer and high as mountain cliffs while atop the battlements the wood-and-iron scorpions seem as small as their namesakes when seen from the ground. Harrenhal's gatehouse is as large as Winterfell's great keep, and its stone is discolored and fissured. From outside the gatehouse, only the tops of five immense towers can be seen because the height of the walls obscure the view of them.

Of the castle's five towers, the shortest is half again as high as the tallest one in Winterfell, yet none of the towers are proper, being bent, lumped, and cracked from the melting of the stone by the Targaryen dragons centuries earlier. Their original names were lost with the death of Harren the Black.

The Five Towers:

The Tower of Dread

The Widow's Tower connects to the Kingspyre Tower via a stone bridge. Underneath there is a great cell that is used to keep prisoners.

The Wailing Tower contains storerooms on the ground floor and cavernous vaults beneath.

The Tower of Ghosts is near the postern gate and the ruined sept.

Kingspyre Tower contains the castellan's chambers. It connects to the Widow's Tower via a stone bridge.

Known Gates:

The Main Gate has walls so thick that no less than a dozen murder holes are passed before one reaches the yard on the other side.

The East Gate is smaller than the Main Gate and is located near the Tower of Ghosts.

Miscellaneous

The Hall of the Hundred Hearths is the castle's great hall. It has only thirty-four or thirty-five hearths, but is said to be able to entertain an army. Its floors are smooth slate and there are steps to two galleries above.

The Kitchens are located in a round stone building with a domed roof containing nothing but kitchens. The kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall.

The Barracks Hall above the armory is where the men-at-arms take their meals.

The Armory is located below the Barracks Hall and contains the forge.

The Godswood is walled over twenty acres. It has a small stream running through it. The heart tree appears to have a terrible visage full of hatred, with a twisted mouth and flaring eyes. It is located across the ward from where the Barracks Hall and the Armory are. The heart tree has 13 deep marks carved into it dating to 130AC when Daemon battled Aemond in the Dance of the Dragons. These marks still bleed every spring.

Flowstone Yard is where men-at-arms exercise and drill and squires clean arms and armor. It has a lumpy surface and is located near the Wailing Tower. There is a covered gallery above the Flowstone Yard with arches looking towards it.

The Bear Pit is ten yards across and five yards across, walled in stone, floored with sand, and encircled by six tiers of marble benches. It is located in the middle ward.

The Bathhouse is a low-ceilinged room filled with great stone tubs large enough to hold six or seven after the fashion of the Free Cities. The Bathhouse is made of stone and timber, with only one entrance to the room.

History:
The Lothstons acquired Harrenhal when House Strong became extinct. They have cultivated a bad reputation over the years; Lucas Lothston and his son Manfryd were renowned for their black deeds, while the late Lord Manfred Lothston betrayed Daemon Blackfyre in the recently quashed Blackfyre Rebellion. Lady Danelle, sometimes called "the Mad," acts as the head of Harrenhal since his death and it is whispered by some smallfolk that she sends giant bats out to capture children for her cookpots, as well that she bathes in blood and feasts on flesh. Jon Lothston spends his days at sea, engaged in dubious business aboard his merchantman, the Sea-Bat, or else pursuing comely new brides, who seem to mysteriously die or vanish with alarming frequency. Ser Osseon, the thirdborn son, lived most of his life in King's Landing, becoming a knight of the Kingsguard until his elder brother's support of the Blackfyres earned him a beheading. Jeyne, the youngest of Manfred's siblings, is largely unremarkable save that she was the eighth of King Aegon IV Targaryen's mistresses. Since his death, she has kept herself confined to the Widow's Tower.

Sworn Houses:
House Lychester
House Whent
House Wode

Members of the House:

• {Lord Manfred Lothston, killed following the Blackfyre Rebellion}

• {Lady Alyce of House Arryn, his wife, died of a summer fever}

• Benfred & Janyce Lothston, their children of ten & eight years, heirs of Harrenhal & wards of the Eyrie

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• Lady Danelle Lothston, Lady of Harrenhal

• Jon Lothston, her elder but footloose brother, captain of the merchantman Sea-Bat & man of infamous repute

• {Lady Darla of House Frey, his previous wife, fell from her horse}

• Domeric Lothston, their son, a tender pageboy of five years

• Lady Aelinor of House Whent, Jon's new bride

• {Ser Osseon Lothston, a knight of the Kingsguard, lost his head at King's Landing during the Blackfyre Rebellion}

• Jeyne Lothston, youngest of the Lothston siblings, a former mistress of Aegon IV & mother of Byron, now a recluse

• Byron Rivers, called Crookback, unknown bastard of Aegon IV & sellsail captain of the ??? (TBD)

The household of Harrenhal

-Deykon Stone, Vale clansman raised by House Arryn & servant of the late Lady Alyce, now guardian & protector of the Lothston heirs in the Eyrie
-Ser Emrys Rivers, the Flying Fox, a hedge knight & alleged sellsword, eldest of the bastards of Bloody Jon & commander of a gang of River Bats in service to House Tully
-Maester Olyvar, counselor, healer & tutor
-Ser Batty, actually Ser Baelor Gully, a hedge knight whose mind quit him at Harrenhal, since become the Lothstons' fool & mascot
-Gwayne the Ghastly, a singer & storyteller with a penchant for the macabre
-Stony Lew, captain of guards
-Guardsmen Wyot, Hoddard, Fulk & others
-Ser Theomore Hale, called the Shadowcat, master-at-arms & his men
-"Boy," his squire
-Servingwomen Tansy, Vara & Old Serra; servingmen Pock & Joseth
-Bill the Singer, smith & armorer
-Kester, head groom; Kedge & Kyra, his children & stablehands

Sellsails & pirates

-Qassario, the Coral Blade, a former bandit & bravo, now Byron's right-hand
-Jhaga the Giant, a philanderous former pit-fighter originally from the Summer Isles

(Character sheets:)

Danelle Lothston

Lady of Harrenhal, "The Mad Lady"
Age: A lady never tells.
Personality: Danelle is used to being the voice of reason and authority, and woe to those who challenge her. Even as a young maid, she was always doling out orders to the servants, preserving truces between relatives and doing her best to advise her brother Manfred away from his more foolhardy and bloody-minded impulses. As such, her role of den mother has translated well to that of de facto head of House Lothston.
But the deaths of so many of her family in recent years has made her feel its burden all the more, especially as she works to maintain her family's legacy through Manfred's heirs from afar. Plagued regularly by insomnia, she strolls the haunted halls of her castle at night, sometimes overheard in conversation with people who are not there...
History:
From the time she was a girl, Lady Danelle has been preoccupied with perpetuating the family, a task charged to her by her father, Lord Luceon, who came to rule Harrenhal unexpectedly after all his elder brothers were slain for their purported enormities. As the eldest daughter, this meant marriage to a powerful house and the bearing of many children. She was wed to the Darklyn heir in her youth, but suffered only miscarriages and a stillbirth. Finally, the Darklyns had the union annulled by the Faith of the Seven. Yet Danelle had no lack of suitors and simply married once more and tried for children anew. But still her womb refused to bear fruit and she desperately sought the counsel of any who might help her; first the septons and septas, then midwives and hedge wizards and, so it was said, even maegi from across the Narrow Sea. But it was all to naught and so she relented her plans and instead took to indulging in men for the pleasure of it, discreetly like a child stealing sweets in the night. To her surprise, she had success with a natural-born child, but this too sadly met an early death.
After this loss, she became bolder in her dalliances, which hurt her chances at a favorable pairing and her marriage offers dwindled almost to nil as her sister Jeyne came into blossom. She resigned herself to serving as glorified wetnurse to her siblings' children and counsel to her father and then brother, but with her legitimate niece and nephew held as wards of the Eyrie following Manfred's death, she has returned to her original endeavors, resolved to leave nothing to chance. Though no spring chicken, the Lady Lothston has done well to preserve her beauty and poise over the years and now seeks to tactfully elicit another engagement as insurance. But even with Harrenhal as a consolation to taking her hand, Danelle knows she cannot afford to be too fussy; her best hope is to find a suitably tractable husband or, failing that, one with capable seed and few who would bemoan his demise...

Byron Rivers

"The Crookback Corsair"
Age: 32
Personality: Sullen and tetchy, Byron largely prefers his own company or that of dead figures and storybook people to most living, real ones. Resigned to his status as a freak and bastard, Byron knows the world expects his villainy and so seeks merely to carry on with it without hassle. A precocious child, he has never suffered fools gladly or at length and will rarely mince words, thus leaving much of the interpersonal details of his operation to those under him. Yet there exists a sort of chivalry despite his livelihood that has endured after countless boyhood hours lost in the tales of heroes and the histories of great men. Dispensing steel justice and an open hand in equal measure, those who can tolerate him find that he is more worthy a leader than most born into the role.
History:
A wailing winter child, Byron is the only son of Jeyne Lothston, one of the numerous mistresses of Aegon the Unworthy. Naturally born and malformed besides, he was neglected by his lovelorn and fragile-minded mother, loathed by his aunt Danelle and fearfully handled by the superstitious servants of Harrenhal. He dwelt in the Wailing Tower since he was a boy, escaping its gloom through the books given him by the Maester Olyvar and his uncle. To the surprise of many, Jon Lothston adored his nephew, even as he ignored his own bastard children, and regularly visited him with stories of his travels to the various ports of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond the Narrow Sea.
When Byron was two-and-ten, his uncle stole him out of Harrenhal unbeknownst to his hateful aunt and took him on a journey south to King's Landing, Highgarden, Oldtown and Dorne on their way back by the Summer Sea. At the capital, Byron made the acquaintance of old Lord Gawen Swann's daughter, Genna, who did not gawk or shy away from him due to his hunch. She was kind and liked all the same stories he did and gave him one of her father's ravens traveling with them so that he might write her from Harrenhal. They wrote to each other for several years, a rare solace for Byron back in his tower, and discussed at length their plans to meet again in the flesh. He even went so far as to write her poetry and confess his love for her, proposing to marry her as soon as they were of age.
Shortly thereafter came the Blackfyre Rebellion, a conflict his uncle Manfred avidly threw his support behind. A staunch loyalist, Lord Gawen found any further connections between his house and House Lothston untoward and ended his daughter's contact with Byron. Heartbroken, he languished over it in a deep depression for a time before finally shrinking back into the safety of his books and studies.
When he was almost a man grown, Byron found himself overwhelmed by the romance and nostalgia of a newly blossomed spring and asked his uncle Jon to take him to King's Landing once more. A tourney was to be held there he felt sure House Swann would attend and Byron dared hope to treat for Genna's hand as he'd promised. Jon, a self-proclaimed romantic, happily consented and Byron was delighted when he discovered Genna among the noble guests. He was less pleased when Lord Gawen made a formal declaration of the union between his house and some other Crownlander's - through his daughter. He would've confronted Lord Swann over the matter, but his uncle counseled against it; he was only a bastard and the Lothstons were little loved in the capital of late besides. Even so, he made a final midnight declaration of his love to Genna, who confessed she had fallen for her intended and gently, sadly turned him down.
Back home, Byron brooded in bitter rejection as life there became more unbearable as his aunt Danelle rose to head of the house in the wake of Lord Manfred's curious death. After an especially heated argument following Danelle's attempts to coax his mother again into marriage, Byron had had enough. He begged his uncle to take him on as part of his ship's crew so might be spared from one more moment beneath the black pall of Harrenhal. Seeming to have anticipated this all along, Jon agreed and Byron worked for a time alongside some of the River Bats, a rowdy gang of bastards, some his uncle's, obliquely in the service of House Lothston.
It didn't take long for Byron to show he possessed more of a knack for the management of such a crew than partaking in the toil at which they labored. Jon, aging and infamous and intent on a new bride, passed on the reins to his nephew. Since then, Byron has bore the brunt of the workload involved in his uncle's less-than-legal trade and transport, acquiring for himself a new ship and crew and seldom straying from the Free Cities save for business.

Deykon Stone

"The Silent Brother"
Age: 40s
Personality: Deykon's self-affliction has made him naturally stoic. He has learned well how to be a proper servant, but still possesses the wild abandon of his clansmen ancestors in the thick of battle. A kind and pious man, he is protective towards his wards just as much out of affection as duty. He loved their mother greatly and still mourns her.
History:
Originally born Deykon, son of Heykon, a child member of the Burned Men who was orphaned following a battle with the knights of the Vale and taken back to be raised in the Eyrie by its captain of guards. He was quarrelsome and difficult his first year, cutting out his tongue and burning it as part of his clan's coming-of-age rite, thus making himself forever dumb and unable to forswear his clan or gods. But with time and patience from the old Lord Arryn and his captain, Deykon found a place for himself and has been a loyal and mild-mannered servant to House Arryn ever since, with a keen talent for combat no doubt due to his savage heritage. He has come to be jestingly known as "the Silent Brother" for his muteness and dedication to the old gods, to whom he regularly prayed in the Eyrie's godswood despite the absence of a heart tree.
Years ago, he was tasked as escort to the Lady Alyce Arryn on her journey to Harrenhal for her wedding to Lord Manfred Lothston. In his more-than-dutiful devotion, he remained in her service thereafter as one of Ser Theomore Hale's men-at-arms. Following her lamentable death, he has returned to the Vale as the guardian and protector of the Lothston heirs.

Aelinor of House Whent

"The Bride of Bloody Jon"
Age: 19
Personality: Quiet and demure, Aelinor holds tightly to etiquette in her new environment. Grown up rather sheltered in the humble hold of House Whent, she lives a life devout and earnest, cherishing simple and goodly things. She is uncertain of her new husband, older than her own lord father, and a little afraid of him, too. But she holds her head high and puts on a brave face, for she is nothing if not a lady and ladies do their duty.
History:
If Lady Aelinor's life were a fairy story, it would have as yet few words but ones pleasant to read. Her father, Lord Lucamore, is a somewhat dim, if loving man named for an old Lothston. He is an adamant advocate of chivalry and lordly comportment, as well a loyal servant to his liege, almost to an embarrassing degree. Aelinor is his only daughter, on whom he dotes, and beloved of her many brothers, each as gallant and upright as their father.
When Jon Lothston saw her on one of his visits to House Whent, he proposed to marry her on the spot. Lord Lucamore was beside himself with joy, both to provide a wife for his lord and diminish if but a little the burden on his own scanty coffers. Aelinor has since relocated to Harrenhal, which she finds a dark and forboding place, with the single handmaid her father could spare. She does not know how the rest of House Lothston will take to her, but she is well-armed will all the graces a proper lady could possess.

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

Not sure how exactly I'll make them interact with the rest of Westeros to any degree, but I've taken quite a liking to the Lothstons of Harrenhal. Like every Gothic horror story you can think of in one family! >=D

I imagine the house will be run by Lady Danelle and I'm considering a wayward brother inspired by both Blackbeard and Bluebeard, as well as an unknown additional bastard of Aegon the Unworthy's by Jeyne Lothston who takes after his uncle and went a-sailin' to Essos and lands beyond.

A Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

Definitely interested. I've wanted to play this a couple times over whenever I saw it on the old forums, but things always looked so far along. Maybe now I can get in on it from the ground floor. ;)

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@AlienBastard

Well, you sort of answered one element of what I was asking about, but I'm afraid I still have no concrete idea of what's going on and what I should be expecting/writing for a PC. =\