Name: James Conrad
Age: 34
House/Affiliation: City Watch of King’s Landing/Visery’s Targarayen
Appearance: James stands at an average 5 foot 7 inches. With his brown hair kept short and sleek to march his hazelnut eyes. James is a shyish man and often not looking at people directly and has a soft voice.
Biography: James Conrad was born 121 after Aegon’s conquest. He grew poor in Flea Bottom with his mother and two younger siblings. Without a father and his mother old and sickly. James was often the main provider and with little work to be found he turned to being a thief just to survive.
When the Dance of Dragons began most of the poor folk joined the military leaving places and good unattended which made them easy pickings. However with the control over Kings Landing having changed so many times poor folk died and the rich kept rolling. That was until the attack on the dragonpit. James wasn’t old enough nor brave enough to venture up with them. Yet from his house in Flea Bottom he could see the bursts of fire from the dragons, hear the screams of people. When the night was over the people had prevailed but at what cost.
At 15 James had already learned how to fight. Especially being a thief he had to deal with boys much bigger then him. However wanting to amount to something better then being a common thief and actually serve an honest work he joined the city watch, it was also the same year the Regency of Aegon the 3rd of his name ended. As they removed officers of the gold cloaks as well as other council members meant room for advancement. While he was beaten down early by his superiors as they feared their removal it taught James to keep silent and out of higher affairs.
Yet as time when on James was able to keep the arrests of thieves higher than average especially in his own neck of the woods of Flea Bottom. Thus he was noticed by the hand of the King Visery’s Targaryen. He was promoted promptly to the captain of the River Gate as well as oversaw the trading vessels from the harbor. He was able to cut smuggling into the port by half and was able to remove those from the watch who accepted bribes. Once again James was noticed by the Hand of the King and in return for his good services was made the Commander of the city watch 2 years ago. In that time the watch has been cleaner from bribes as well as more effective on crime yet there are some that slip through though often not without notice nor without care.
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