Name: RaynaltAge: 29
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Description:Raynalt is a decent enough fighter, able to stand his own in personal combat but preferring not to. In battle he wields a horseman’s pick or hatchet. Though he does not lack courage, he sees his mind as his most powerful weapon. Unlike his kinsmen Guymon and Mervyn, he is no frontline fighter but has instead specialised in the practical aspects of warfare. On several accounts, Raynalt has displayed an aptitude for tactics and planning, relying on knowledge, surprise, timing and opportunism to gain victory.
He has a mind for organisation and politics, and always tries to gain the advantage and negotiate or strike from a position of strength. Cunning, Ray uses his strengths in a versatile way, carefully guards his weaknesses and exploits those of his enemies. The game is always being played, he believes, and it is just a matter of playing your cards right.
Growing up in the Reach meant growing up among a host of ruthlessly ambitious family members. As the firstborn to the late Lord Unwin Peake, Raynalt was groomed from an early age to inherit the family lands and become the head of the powerful Peake clan. With that responsibility came the duty to be ever vigilant of the enemies of House Peake, and they are many.
Up until the age of ten, Ray spent his time travelling between the Peake holdings, studying history and literature mostly. When he went away as a ward to Oldtown and later Highgarden, his studies turned to more practical fields, the eldest Peake taking an interest in engineering and logistics. It is said he devoured the Oldtown library within the year.
Though Raynalt spent sufficient time practicing his skills with weapons, he is not particularly a prodigy, unlike his younger brother Guymon or his half-uncle Mervyn Flowers of the Kingsguard. While he displayed reasonable aptitude for swinging a sword, Ray’s weapon of choice is a single-handed war hammer, better known as a horseman’s pick.
Ray squired first for Ser Luthor Peake, a position he later passed on to his youngest brother. Raynalt himself then served a Crownlands knight, but it became clear that this was not a beneficial position, for while he may have been a knight of some fame in his heyday, the Crownlander washed up in the capital, with Ray in tow and quickly had turned to the drink. The youth handed the knight more pitchers, sacks, bottles and other containers than lances. Raynalt condemned him for a useless half-wit, and wrote to his father that he would choose and negotiate his own commission. After being turned down by a Tyrell knight of renown, in a rather humiliating exchange, young Raynalt Peake began to see the world for what is really was, putting behind him the ideas and fancies he had obsessed about in his childhood years. All fantasies surrounding knighthood were shed as he instead focused on his ambitions.
After all, being the firstborn of the ambitious Lord Unwin Peake saw Raynalt bombarded with a sense of duty from an early age. Lord Peake visited all of his own ambitions on the young lad, and while Ray acted out during his youth he had grown into himself and adopted a mature disposition, recognising the importance of the House. After earning his knighthood, Ray travelled around the Reach and even visited the Free Cities in an attempt to escape his overbearing father. It was Caspar who found him in Pentos to bring him home again and try to reconcile his father and brother. The true turn-around only came with Guymon’s capture and the death of their uncle at the hand of Dornish bandits, even though Raynalt lost an eye in the skirmish that saw Guy freed.
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