Vahir

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

I think so. He said his CS is changeable depending on who makes what character. Though I would have to rethink my character plotline. lol Go for it.

@Emma

This.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

@Kassarock

So my thought is that Leoric left Ser Raymun to be castellan at Castle Tarrow while he was gone. Thoughts on that?

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

Nice sheet, I like the formatting. You can put that into the character tab. One detail I'm unsure about is the recent marriage. Leoric's been off fighting in the war for a few months now; the RP will kick off with him coming back to Castle Tarrow for the first time in a while. If you want them to have been recently married, how about that they haven't been wed yet? She could have arrived for the marriage not long ago, while Leoric was away, and she meets him for the first time at the start of the RP? That or they've been married for at least a year.

By the by, can I just say that you guys have done a bang up job in character creation? Yes, yes I can, because I'm the GM. Internet cookies for everyone.

All Done ! Check it out! @Vahir

Also if you're looking for more players, I'd try posting a new fresh Interest Check.

@Emma

Well, I'll take the suggestion halfway and refresh the IC, but I don't want to make a new one just for the fresh tag. That feels like a scummy thing to do.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

For newcomers: This is still going on, and we haven't started yet. There's still time for more joiners.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

Sorry for the late response, tuesdays are nuts for me.

Ok so lord Leoric has no daughters or wife. But it does say - [SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON PLAYER CHARACTERS].

So @Vahir how do you feel about a daughter? Or a new wife? It's up to you. I have other ideas but these are my top two.

@Emma

Yup, feel free to play as any relative, daughter or wife included. The idea really is for us to collaboratively build up the House. I'll edit his sheet as needed.

Is this happening though? Now that I look at it Vahir has not been on for 24 hours and his last post in this thread was 5 days ago?

@Emma

Mea culpa. Time's a precious commodity; I usually try to get back to people in 24 hours.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

I'm working on the opening of the IC. I think I'll wait for a few more people to join before putting it up, however.

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@Kalleth@Kassarock

Looking great guys! You can post those on the character tab.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

Absolutely not!

Here's that new fangled OOC I was referring to

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

LORD LEORIC CADE

Age: 44

Station: Nobility, the head of House Cade. Lord of Castle Tarrow.

Family: Though the only member of House Cade proper, Lord Leoric has several relatives. He has a bastard younger brother, Ser Raymun. Their relationship is not particularily warm: Raymun reminds Leoric too much of their father, and he considers the bastard to be ungovernable. The two do not often meet, as Raymun spent many years serving Lord Frey as a household knight. Despite his personal dislike for the man, however, Leoric respects and trusts his brother, enough to name him Castellan in his absence.

He is betrothed to Lady Sarisa Swann, the daughter of an important stormlord, a last attempt to produce an heir on his part. He befriended her father during Robert's Rebellion and the subsequent war against the iron islands, in spite of the geographic divide, but he has never met Sarisa herself. Finally, there is Adelinde, the daughter of his dead uncle Alder. Her identity has not been verified, and all he knows of her is that she appeared at Castle Tarrow suddenly, claiming to be someone nobody knew existed.

Description:
Lord Cade is a visibly aging man, long past his prime. Never a big man, being rather short and slender, he is hardly an intimidating figure. Once upon a time, he would distinguish himself in the lists, and with a blade in hand, but his strength is not what it was, and he relies mostly on experience during the skirmishes of the War of Five Kings. He is very dour; his face is made for frowns and scowls, and he is pessimistic to a fault. He has dark brown hair and a small beard, both cut short.

He tends to expect the worse of any given situation, and plans accordingly. That is not to say that he is miserable, or that he judges others for being happier than himself. Though he is not often openly merry, he relaxes his guard around those he knows and trusts, being cold to strangers and warm to friends, though his friends are few and far between. He is merely worn down by four decades of Westerosi politics, desiring no more than to return to Castle Tarrow in peace.

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Biography: Born in the fall of the year 255, Leoric Cade, son of Lord Edwyle Cade and Lady Merall Boor, Leoric did not have a particularily happy childhood. Few children lived in Castle Tarrow at that time, and none were of equal rank to himself; he was friendless and isolated. Nor did he have his parents to turn to. Lady Merall had no love for him, and used him as a weapon with which to spite his father. Lord Edwyle, meanwhile, had no love for anybody at all, least of all his son. The elder Lord Cade was a cruel man of sinister repute, whose dark moods were feared throughout the region.

Leoric found himself to be happiest when left alone, exploring the tunnels below Castle Tarrow, the relics of a dozen older fortresses. He was of a bookish demeanor, and took to the lessons of his maester eagerly. Never robust, he was quite sickly in his youth, much to his father's disgust. At the age of ten, his uncle Alder Cade, barely a man himself, eloped to marry a daughter of petty nobility, despite Edwyle expressiley forbidding it. His father's rage was savage, and it was understood that there would be no more mention of the errant uncle in the castle.

He learned the use of the sword, of course, and he did not disgrace the family name on the lists or, during the War of Ninepenny Kings, on the battlefield. He was knighted during that conflict, among many other nobles. He even made a name for himself in tourneys as he grew more boisterous with manhood and knighthood. His life thereafter was much the same as any other Westerosi nobleman, a series of tourneys and feasts interrupted only by his marriage to his first wife, forced upon him by his father.

Things changed when he was 30, when the John Arryn raised his banner in defiance of the king, and the realm exploded into war. He and his father led the Cade forces to the Twins, intent on marching in support of Riverrun, but were held back by Walder Frey. By the time they arrived at the Trident, the war was already all but won. Lord Edwyle was furious, slipping first into a rage, and then when that subsided into a melancholy. He grew more and more detached with their march south as the days went on. Only when he could not be roused from his sleep did his retainers suspect something was amiss. A maester deduced that the lord had contracted an illness during the march. The sickness burned through him quickly. His corpse was sent back to Castle Tarrow within the fortnight. It was whispered that the Lord had died too quickly, and that he had been poisoned by one of his many enemies. He had certainly not had lack for those in his wicked life.

Leoric, now Lord Cade, spent the rest of the war marching from one place to another, from King's Landing to Storm's End. He returned to Castle Tarrow a different man, more restrained by the responsibilities now on his shoulders. He abandoned the lists, and began to spend more and more time locked away in his study, ruling as best as he could.

When word came south that the Lannisters were burning the Riverlands, Lord Frey called his banners, and Leoric marched once more, leading his men to the Twins. There they waited once more at Lord Walder's pleasure, receiving the shocking news of the horrific defeat at the Golden Tooth. He only marched south when Robb Stark arrived from the North, leaving under the command of Stevron Frey, his overlord having thrown his lot with the wolf. At the Whispering Woods and Oxcross he fought under the wolf's banner, and he was among those who scaled the walls of the Crag.

The Annals of House Cade [Game of Thrones / ASoIaF RP]

THE ANNALS OF HOUSE CADE

A Song of Ice and Fire RP

"Leoric Cade, lord of Castle Tarrow, shivered in the cold autumn chill of the night alongside his men. Though he wore leather, and chain atop of that, the cold seemed to seep into his bones. Perhaps it was the anticipation, not the weather, that chilled him so. The anticipation of battle. The anticipation of slaughter.

The night was pitch black: they dare not light torches for fear of being spotted, and the moon was considerate enough to hide behind thick clouds, so they could see almost nothing from the edge of the forest. He could hear breathing, however; the breathing of thousands of men in tense anticipation. He could only pray to the Seven above that the westernmen would not hear it as well, deafening as it seemed to his own ears. Atop the hill, he could see the glow of the enemy camp, as the ruckus of their own host feasting carelessly. Minutes seemed to stretch to hours.

Then, he finally heard the sound he'd been straining his ears to catch: The screams of men, dogs, and horses. All at once, the camp seemed to become frenzied, like a disturbed hive. This was it, it had to be! It was the hour of the wolf. The Young Wolf.

From duty runs rivers of gold, he reminded himself, echoing the words of his house to reassure himself. He could hear the shouts of his fellow lords ordering their men forward. "It is time," he shouted to those surrounding him. "Time to butcher these Lannister pigs. Onward, for Castle Tarrow, for Riverrun, and for Winterfell!" As the others took up the shout, he hurried forward into the darkness, among a line of men of shadows. They raced as fast as they dared in the darkness, towards the camp and battle... to claim Oxcross for the King in the North."
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Premise

Welcome to yet another A Song of Ice and Fire (Or Game of Thrones for you show types) RP. This one will be set during the later end of the War of Five Kings, well after the Battle of the Blackwater. Specifically, it will be set a few days after the capture of the Crag, the seat of House Westerling, by northern forces. Unlike many of these kinds of RPs, you (yes, you) will not be creating your own major houses. Instead, we will create characters belonging to, or pledged to, House Cade, a Riverlander house sworn to the Freys of the Twins.

From how I see it, there are four categories of characters you can create:
1. A member of House Cade (ex: Brother to Lord Leoric, wife, son, cousin, and so on)
2. A petty lordling pledged to the Cades (You'd make your own house, but they'd be little more than landed knights, no big castles or anything)
3. A knight in the service of the Cades (Household knight or hedge knight, whichever you please)
4. A commoner (ex: a farmer, a guardsman, a cook, a messenger, and so on...)

Essentially, the House will start as a blank slate, which we'll fill up with our own characters as we make them. They'd all be involved in the goings on in Castle Tarrow. The big driving force of the story in the RP will be the War, of course. Being sworn to the Freys, we'll have to chose between loyalty to House Tully, or loyalty to the Twins.

Map of the location

House Cade

From Duty runs Rivers of Gold

The Cades are, by Westerosi standards, a very young house. Having served the Twins for generations as household knights, they were granted the ruined holding of Castle Tarrow not long after the Targaryen Conquest. Lord Ondrew, the first Cade Lord of Castle Tarrow, took the bee as his personal sigil after finding hives thriving within the ruined walls of the ancient keep, and the banner has since overtaken the old sword-and-shield crest that the house had previously sported.

Through patience, leal service to the Freys, and enough good luck, the Cades have succeeded in restoring much of Castle Tarrow to a respectable state. Though some towers remain in poor condition, and an expanse of underground ruins remain wild and uncharted, the Cades now hold a strong fortress, and are foremost among the bannermen of House Frey.

The house words, From Duty runs Rivers of Gold, stresses the importance of diligence and obedience to one's lord. Taking the example of the hives that are kept in the castle courtyard, many Cades stress the symbiotic relationship between bees and beekeeper, between lord and vassal. Service rendered well and true brings success to the family.

A note on Castle Tarrow

Map of Castle Tarrow

The Palisade: Outside of Castle Tarrow proper, there is a rough wooden pallisade which surrounds the hilltop. Low, without a gate, and in poor condition, it nevertheless serves to funnel incomers into an easily visible path.

The Outer Walls: A relatively new construction, the outer walls were built by Leoric's great grandfather. Though smaller than the inner walls, they are thicker, and it is on the outer wall that any theoretical defense would take place. The gate has two components, an iron grate and barred, wooden doors.

The Inner Walls: Built some thirty feet high, these walls are the highest and most impressive part of the fortress. They surround the Keep, and from the top one can see miles around in every direction. The inner gate is made of thick studded oak, and kept in good condition at all times.

The Keep: The heart of the castle, it is older than the rest of the fortress, having been build some two hundred years ago by the first Cades. A small, stout building, it is nevertheless solidly built, a squat mass of stone overshadowed by the surrounding walls. Contained within is a relatively modestly sized hall, which can feast guests and hold audiences of no more than 50; some kitchens; and sleeping quarters. There is a single flat-topped tower protruding from its roof, in which resides maester Illric. Even from there, the outlying region is not visible behind the high inner walls. Finally, the keep has an entrance to the cave network beneath the castle, which has never been fully explored.

Pictured above, Castle Tarrow, despite mostly being of new construction, sits on a site that has been fortified since man first walked the Riverlands. The First Men ruled petty kingdoms from hillforts there, and the Andals likewise after their coming. Many castles were raised and fell over thousands of years, and their remains can still be found in the sunken caves beneath Castle Tarrow, more cave than stone after the passage of so much time.

There are around thirty permanent servants in Castle Cade, counting the cooks, the stablehands and the blacksmith, and the various other jobs required. Outside of planting and harvesting seasons, there are frequently influxes of more servants as outlying farmers find employment in the Castle during slow times, but since the war started all these idle hands have left to fight in the war instead. A dozen or so beehives are kept in the yard, a testament to the traditions of House Cade, as well as a sourcee of revenue.

The original Castle Tarrow was raised and held held by a minor Andal house which nonetheless held great sway over the region between the Twins and Seaguard. They resisted the Stormlords tooth and nail, rebelling at every possible chance. Harwyn Hoare, having snatched the Riverlands after trouncing the Stormlanders at Fairmarket, found them equally vexing. His humor being black, and his army strong, he tore Castle Tarrow to pieces, torching its buildings and wiping out its house.

The borderlands between the Mallister and Frey holdings remained lordless and disputed for two generations. When Aegon the Conqueror took his throne, however, he adjudicated the matter among his tour to reforge the Riverlands, dividing the land between the two competing houses. The Freys granted their portion- and the shredded remains of Castle Tarrow- to House Cade, who have since rebuilt the fortress into a formidable redoubt.

List of approved players

• Kassarock
• Kalleth
• Emma
• alexfangtalon

Character Sheet

The following sheet contains everything you are REQUIRED to have. Of course, you're free to reformat it and add in additional things if you so desire. Please post your app in the OOC or PM me for my approval before putting it in the character tab.

Name:
Age:
Station: What is the social standing of your character? Can vary between a commoner and a member of House Cade itself.
Family: Who shares your blood? Alternatively, put close relationships here. This section should be added onto as other players create characters and the web of relationships grows.
Description: A physical and psychological description of your character. Pictures are welcome, but you are still required to write verbal descriptions.
Biography: Describe the life of your character up until the point of the start of the RP.