Post by Stranger on Jun 15, 2014 23:29:36 GMT
Name: Lady Braya Kytley
Age: 29
Role: Schemer
Background
If the Freys are stoatish, than Lady Braya is an ermine; pale, lithe, and so different as to seem at first glance unrelated. Her heart is an open book, and her eagerness to be an individual apart from the crowd of House Frey has given her cause to embrace her life in House Kytley. She revels in the ability to partake fully in the pomp and celebration of a noble house, and is the first to step out for a dance, whether a stately pavanne or low-born reel.
Woe, however, to those who assume that her free spirit assumes a lack of wit. Her rule over the smallfolk of the House is absolute, and she is her husband’s match at numbers and figures; no groat stays unaccounted long in the House’s registry. Her skill at thrift is the source of jest and amusement among the smallfolk—it is said she could fund a wedding feast with two silver stags and a basket of hay. Such jokes are carefully kept out of her hearing, for her rage is as legendary as her tightfistedness.
She understands that Lord Ambrose married her out of need for her father’s protection, and at first feared that her husband to be would carry the same madness that afflicted Lord Jamys. In the nine years since their marriage, she has instead found him to be patient and affectionate towards her, if a little bookish.
Lady Braya resents her family’s hold over her husband, and would love nothing so much as to see House Kytley eclipse House Frey in the Riverlands. She also knows that such an event would be unlikely given her husband’s honor-bound life, and so has shared everything she could with Maester Thomnas instead and hopes that he can find something useful in her childhood memories of Frey’s inner workings.
The loss of her first-born, Robert, to House Mallister’s “protection” bothers her less than Lady Braya expected. More importantly, her “clumsy threat” towards Seagard has given her husband the motivation and drive that even Jamys’ disgraceful behavior could not. Of her other children, she spends the most time with young Walder, more at peace with his unpredictability than she is with wide-eyed and quiet Merild. She is content to let her husband plan for the future of House Kytley, and works instead to undermine her former family. Well aware of her nephew Ryman’s taste for drink and women, Lady Braya has groomed a lady-in-waiting to serve as a lure for him. Her hopes hang on the Late Lord Frey outliving her brother Stevron, and plans to have her claws in Ryman well set should he be made heir.
Age: 29
Role: Schemer
Background
If the Freys are stoatish, than Lady Braya is an ermine; pale, lithe, and so different as to seem at first glance unrelated. Her heart is an open book, and her eagerness to be an individual apart from the crowd of House Frey has given her cause to embrace her life in House Kytley. She revels in the ability to partake fully in the pomp and celebration of a noble house, and is the first to step out for a dance, whether a stately pavanne or low-born reel.
Woe, however, to those who assume that her free spirit assumes a lack of wit. Her rule over the smallfolk of the House is absolute, and she is her husband’s match at numbers and figures; no groat stays unaccounted long in the House’s registry. Her skill at thrift is the source of jest and amusement among the smallfolk—it is said she could fund a wedding feast with two silver stags and a basket of hay. Such jokes are carefully kept out of her hearing, for her rage is as legendary as her tightfistedness.
She understands that Lord Ambrose married her out of need for her father’s protection, and at first feared that her husband to be would carry the same madness that afflicted Lord Jamys. In the nine years since their marriage, she has instead found him to be patient and affectionate towards her, if a little bookish.
Lady Braya resents her family’s hold over her husband, and would love nothing so much as to see House Kytley eclipse House Frey in the Riverlands. She also knows that such an event would be unlikely given her husband’s honor-bound life, and so has shared everything she could with Maester Thomnas instead and hopes that he can find something useful in her childhood memories of Frey’s inner workings.
The loss of her first-born, Robert, to House Mallister’s “protection” bothers her less than Lady Braya expected. More importantly, her “clumsy threat” towards Seagard has given her husband the motivation and drive that even Jamys’ disgraceful behavior could not. Of her other children, she spends the most time with young Walder, more at peace with his unpredictability than she is with wide-eyed and quiet Merild. She is content to let her husband plan for the future of House Kytley, and works instead to undermine her former family. Well aware of her nephew Ryman’s taste for drink and women, Lady Braya has groomed a lady-in-waiting to serve as a lure for him. Her hopes hang on the Late Lord Frey outliving her brother Stevron, and plans to have her claws in Ryman well set should he be made heir.
It's set just before the historic Blacks v Greens period