Post by Lord Rycherd Hightower on Oct 28, 2016 2:04:20 GMT
Character's Name: Lord Rycherd Hightower
Character's Age: 30 (b. 381)
Character's Nationality: The Reach
Character's Skills:
500 points available (100 points in skill to give 50 to subsets): 500 spent
Fighting
---Swords: 90 Vigilance: This Valyrian Steel sword gives a bonus of +10 to rolling and ignores any damage reduction.
---Lance: 80 (+ 75 Horsemanship = 155 Jousting)
-Armour
--Shield (20)
--Plate (40)
Leadership
Land Battle (100)
---Scouting 60 (+10)
---Ambush 60 (+10)
---Command 75 (+25)
--Charm 20
--Intimidation 20
Physical abilities
--Athletics
---Horsemanship 75
---Unarmed 10
Character's Personal History:
Rycherd Hightower was the second son of Lord Willem Hightower and his wife and second cousin once removed Elbeth Hightower, the heiress of Oldtown. Rycherd's father Ser Willem Hightower, had been a famous knight errant for many years, being the fourth son of a junior branch of the Hightowers, but had found fortune and fame when the old Lord Caradoc 'Short-Arm' Hightower had married his grand-daughter and heiress Elbeth Hightower to Willem. The marriage had caused great angst amongst the other suitors of much higher birth, but Caradoc, fearing the loss of independence of his house was insistent. It little concerned Lord Caradoc that Willem was twenty years older than his bride, confident that the thirty-eight year old soldier could preserve the fortunes of House Hightower.
Despite the twenty year age difference, Willem and Elbeth's marriage was a relatively happy one with ten children the result. Rycherd's elder brother Willas was born a year after his parent's marriage, with Rycherd's own birth following just over two years later. When Rycherd was three, his grandfather Lord Caradoc died, and his father Willem, now 42, became the new Lord Hightower. The same year Lord Theon Whent died in a hunting accident and his son Harren became the lord of the combined Riverlands and Iron Islands, much to the chagrin of many Reach lords, including the new Lord Willem who feared increasing attacks by the Ironborn upon their coastal holdings. When Rycherd was nine, his father Willem took his two eldest sons Willas and Rycherd to Kings Landing to the Great Tourney celebrating the marriage of King Aemon VI to Alysanne Dayne of Dorne. Rycherd was enthralled by the splendor of the occasion and combined with the tales of his father in his younger days, determined that he too would be the equal or better of his father and the knights he observed. Plus he reasoned he would never be the Lord of Oldtown and thus would need to make his own way in the world. Rycherd showed such promise as a knight, that in 395 when Aemon named his only daughter as his heir and summoned all the lords to swear fealty to her, that he was moved to himself personally knight the 14 year old Rycherd and his 16 year old elder brother Willas by his own hand in Kings Landing. The knighting spurred Rycherd to train even harder and as he grew he became a junior version of his father in his younge days - an extremely dangerous swordsman and a skilled jouster who could hold his own against most.
Four years later in 399, Rycherd's elder brother the heir Willas married the 14 year old Alyce Beesbury immediately embroiling the Hightowers in a dispute between Alyce and her father's mistress (some say wife) who wished to pass Honeyholt along to her own son Balon Flowers and were supported by Lord Quentyn Tyrell of Highgarden. With Alyce's old father in his dotage, it was Alyce as her father's heiress who governed Honeyholt, along with Willas. Rycherd was forced to remain in and around the Hightower and Oldtown where his father began to teach him the art of command.
The following year to Rycherd's great grief, his mother died in childbirth. The child, his youngest sister Joanna, survived. His father Lord Willem descended into his own grief relying more and more on his heir Ser Willis to govern Oldtown and his other holdings in his stead.
Willas Hightower, encouraged by his wife, was not as amenable to Tyrell overlordship as his father Lord Willem; the younger Hightower being very conscious of the fact that the Hightowers are among the oldest and proudest of the Great Houses - even intermarrying with the Targaryen royals - and that the Tyrells were little more than up-jumped stewards. After several disputes between Willas and Lord Quentyn Tyrell which included the Honeyholt dispute and an attempt by Willas to betroth Rycherd to the eleven year old Princess Daenarys, Lord Quentyn moved to make peace with Lord Willem.
Fearing that the Targaryens were going to set up the Hightowers as Lords of the Reach, Lord Quentyn moved to finally make peace with the Hightowers. Lord Willem and Ser Willas met to discuss an alliance. It was settled that as Willas was already married, Rycherd himself would marry the eldest daughter of Lord Quentyn. Prepared to dislike the girl, as he was marrying against his will, Rycherd was taken with Alyssa's beauty and poise and at the very least went to his nuptials willingly. A daughter born a year later in 402, followed by a son the following year, seemed to bring Lord Willem out of his grief-stricken stupor.
In 404, Willas' wife, the pregnant Alyce was ambushed and murdered near Honeyholt by bandits. While there were rumors that the bandits were in the pay of her stepmother and half-brother, nothing could ever be proven. With her, died Willas' unborn child. Devastated, Willas despite his father's urgings to marry and beget an heir, did not do so for five years, finally marrying the fifteen year old daughter of Lord Peake.
Shortly after at the beginning of 410 Rycherd's father Lord Willem, together with his son Willas led an expedition to assist his new good son Gerold Cuy against Volantene invaders from Dorne who were seeking stone from Lord Cuy's quarries for their buildings in Sunspear. The Hightower force was defeated and Lord Willem was killed by a lance. While the Volantenes did not pursue the retreating Hightower force, Lord Willem's body was recovered and borne north to Oldtown. The new Lord Willas himself was wounded in the same ambush, being taken back to Oldtown where as the new Lord Hightower, he lingered for a month before succumbing to his wounds, leaving his new wife (now widow) childless.
His younger brother Rycherd now found himself as - somewhat unexpectedly - the new Lord Hightower.
Character's Physical Description: Rycherd is tall and has dark blonde, shoulder length hair. He sports a close cropped beard
Reputation: A very dangerous swordsman, perhaps one of the best in Westeros when he wields Vigilance, as well as an excellent horseman and jouster, Rycherd is also a competent commander, underrated by some. He has a sense of charm mainly manifested in his sense of humor.
Character's Special Ability: Sword
Genealogy
{Lord Leyton Hightower}
his fourth wife {Rhea Florent}
- Lord Leyton's eldest son {Lord Baelor Hightower} b. 258 d. 320
++ his wife {Rhonda Rowan}
-- their elder son {Lord Vortimer Hightower} b. 300 d. 325
-- their younger son {Lord Caradoc' Short-arm' Hightower} b. 305 d. 384
++ his wife {Tegan Estren of Wyndhall}
--- their son {Ser Cador Hightower} b. 335 d. 362
+++ his wife {Gwyneth Brax} b. 340 d. 374
---- their only daughter and heiress {Lady Elbeth Hightower} b. 360 d. 400 (died in childbirth)
- Lord Leyton's second son {Ser Garth 'Greysteel' Hightower} b. 262
+ his wife {Margot Ashford}
-- their son {Ser Jon 'One Eye' Hightower} b. 300 d. 360
++ Ser Jon's first wife {Aline Piper} b. 310 d. 332
--- their eldest son {Ser Gylbert Hightower} b. 330 d. 361
--- their second son {Ser Waltyr Hightower} b. 332 d. 358
++ Ser Jon's second wife {Sylva Redwyne} b. 322 d. 361
--- his third son and her eldest son {Ser Jonarth Hightower} b. 338 d. 394 (killed in battle)
+++ his wife {Jeyne Blackbar}
---- Ser Jonarth's bastard son Ser Jared Flowers b. 368 (aged 43) Castellan of Oldtown
--- his fourth son and her second son {Lord Willem Hightower} b. 340 d. 410. Lord of Oldtown in 384.
+++ {his wife and cousin {Elbeth Hightower, heiress to Oldtown} b. 360 d. 400 (died in childbirth)
---- their eldest son Lord Willas Hightower b. 379 d. 410 (died of his wounds - a month after his father)
++++ his first wife {Alyce Beesbury} b. 385 d. 404 (murdered while pregnant with Willas' child)
++++ his second wife Alianore Peake b. 395 aged 17
---- their second son Lord Rycherd Hightower b. 381 (aged 30) (PC)
++++ his wife Alyssa Tyrell b. 383 aged 28
----- their elder daughter Elicent Hightower b. 402 (aged 10)
----- their eldest son Abelar Hightower b. 403 (aged 8)
----- their younger daughter Margaery Hightower b. 405 (aged 6)
----- their second son Jon Hightower b. 407 (aged 4)
----- their youngest son Lyonel Hightower b. 409 (aged 2)
---- Melessa Hightower b. 384 (aged 27)
++++ her husband Lord Harlan Bulwer of Blackcrown (sworn to House Hightower)
----- their elder son Roger Bulwer b. 404 (aged 7)
----- their younger son Hugh Bulwer b. 407 (aged 4)
---- Ser Gylbert Hightower b. 387 (aged 24)
---- Ser Waltyr Hightower b. 389 (aged 22)
---- Yseult Hightower b. 390 (aged 21)
++++ her husband Lord Gerold Cuy of Sunhouse (sworn to House Hightower) - no children as yet
---- Sybelle Hightower b. 392 (aged 19) - unmarried
---- Eoife Hightower b. 394 (aged 17) - unmarried
---- Ancel Hightower b. 398 (aged 13) - a squire to his elder brother
---- Joanna Hightower b. 400 (aged 11) - unmarried
--- his daughter Marared Hightower b. 346 aged 65
--- his fourth son and her third son, Septon Humfrey Hightower. b. 350 (aged 61) (PC)
--- his youngest son and her fourth son {Ser Ansel Hightower} b. 355 d. 392
The Hightower
The largest structure in the city of Oldtown, and also the tallest structure in Westeros, is the Hightower, a massive stepped lighthouse which extends some 800 feet into the sky and is topped by a huge beacon which can be seen for many miles out to sea. The foundation of the Hightower is a labyrinthine fortress of unadorned black stone of uncertain origin on Battle Isle. While some believe it to be Valyrian in origin, Archmaester Quillion suggests it was made by the mazemakers. The early members of House Hightower lived amidst the gloomy halls, vaults, and chambers of the black stone fortress. It was only with the construction of the fifth tower, the first made entirely of stone, that the Hightower became a seat worthy of a great house. It rose two hundred feet above Whispering Sound. Since then it has risen to over 800 feet, taller than The Wall.
Character's Age: 30 (b. 381)
Character's Nationality: The Reach
Character's Skills:
- Each First gets 500 points to delegate among the various abilities. You may have one skill at 90 and one at 80, with the rest at 75 or below.
- Seconds will get 350 points to spend, with one skill at 80, two at 75 and the rest at 70 or below.
- Thirds will get 250 points to spend, with one skill at 75, the rest at 70 or below.
500 points available (100 points in skill to give 50 to subsets): 500 spent
Fighting
---Swords: 90 Vigilance: This Valyrian Steel sword gives a bonus of +10 to rolling and ignores any damage reduction.
---Lance: 80 (+ 75 Horsemanship = 155 Jousting)
-Armour
--Shield (20)
--Plate (40)
Leadership
Land Battle (100)
---Scouting 60 (+10)
---Ambush 60 (+10)
---Command 75 (+25)
--Charm 20
--Intimidation 20
Physical abilities
--Athletics
---Horsemanship 75
---Unarmed 10
Character's Personal History:
Rycherd Hightower was the second son of Lord Willem Hightower and his wife and second cousin once removed Elbeth Hightower, the heiress of Oldtown. Rycherd's father Ser Willem Hightower, had been a famous knight errant for many years, being the fourth son of a junior branch of the Hightowers, but had found fortune and fame when the old Lord Caradoc 'Short-Arm' Hightower had married his grand-daughter and heiress Elbeth Hightower to Willem. The marriage had caused great angst amongst the other suitors of much higher birth, but Caradoc, fearing the loss of independence of his house was insistent. It little concerned Lord Caradoc that Willem was twenty years older than his bride, confident that the thirty-eight year old soldier could preserve the fortunes of House Hightower.
Despite the twenty year age difference, Willem and Elbeth's marriage was a relatively happy one with ten children the result. Rycherd's elder brother Willas was born a year after his parent's marriage, with Rycherd's own birth following just over two years later. When Rycherd was three, his grandfather Lord Caradoc died, and his father Willem, now 42, became the new Lord Hightower. The same year Lord Theon Whent died in a hunting accident and his son Harren became the lord of the combined Riverlands and Iron Islands, much to the chagrin of many Reach lords, including the new Lord Willem who feared increasing attacks by the Ironborn upon their coastal holdings. When Rycherd was nine, his father Willem took his two eldest sons Willas and Rycherd to Kings Landing to the Great Tourney celebrating the marriage of King Aemon VI to Alysanne Dayne of Dorne. Rycherd was enthralled by the splendor of the occasion and combined with the tales of his father in his younger days, determined that he too would be the equal or better of his father and the knights he observed. Plus he reasoned he would never be the Lord of Oldtown and thus would need to make his own way in the world. Rycherd showed such promise as a knight, that in 395 when Aemon named his only daughter as his heir and summoned all the lords to swear fealty to her, that he was moved to himself personally knight the 14 year old Rycherd and his 16 year old elder brother Willas by his own hand in Kings Landing. The knighting spurred Rycherd to train even harder and as he grew he became a junior version of his father in his younge days - an extremely dangerous swordsman and a skilled jouster who could hold his own against most.
Four years later in 399, Rycherd's elder brother the heir Willas married the 14 year old Alyce Beesbury immediately embroiling the Hightowers in a dispute between Alyce and her father's mistress (some say wife) who wished to pass Honeyholt along to her own son Balon Flowers and were supported by Lord Quentyn Tyrell of Highgarden. With Alyce's old father in his dotage, it was Alyce as her father's heiress who governed Honeyholt, along with Willas. Rycherd was forced to remain in and around the Hightower and Oldtown where his father began to teach him the art of command.
The following year to Rycherd's great grief, his mother died in childbirth. The child, his youngest sister Joanna, survived. His father Lord Willem descended into his own grief relying more and more on his heir Ser Willis to govern Oldtown and his other holdings in his stead.
Willas Hightower, encouraged by his wife, was not as amenable to Tyrell overlordship as his father Lord Willem; the younger Hightower being very conscious of the fact that the Hightowers are among the oldest and proudest of the Great Houses - even intermarrying with the Targaryen royals - and that the Tyrells were little more than up-jumped stewards. After several disputes between Willas and Lord Quentyn Tyrell which included the Honeyholt dispute and an attempt by Willas to betroth Rycherd to the eleven year old Princess Daenarys, Lord Quentyn moved to make peace with Lord Willem.
Fearing that the Targaryens were going to set up the Hightowers as Lords of the Reach, Lord Quentyn moved to finally make peace with the Hightowers. Lord Willem and Ser Willas met to discuss an alliance. It was settled that as Willas was already married, Rycherd himself would marry the eldest daughter of Lord Quentyn. Prepared to dislike the girl, as he was marrying against his will, Rycherd was taken with Alyssa's beauty and poise and at the very least went to his nuptials willingly. A daughter born a year later in 402, followed by a son the following year, seemed to bring Lord Willem out of his grief-stricken stupor.
In 404, Willas' wife, the pregnant Alyce was ambushed and murdered near Honeyholt by bandits. While there were rumors that the bandits were in the pay of her stepmother and half-brother, nothing could ever be proven. With her, died Willas' unborn child. Devastated, Willas despite his father's urgings to marry and beget an heir, did not do so for five years, finally marrying the fifteen year old daughter of Lord Peake.
Shortly after at the beginning of 410 Rycherd's father Lord Willem, together with his son Willas led an expedition to assist his new good son Gerold Cuy against Volantene invaders from Dorne who were seeking stone from Lord Cuy's quarries for their buildings in Sunspear. The Hightower force was defeated and Lord Willem was killed by a lance. While the Volantenes did not pursue the retreating Hightower force, Lord Willem's body was recovered and borne north to Oldtown. The new Lord Willas himself was wounded in the same ambush, being taken back to Oldtown where as the new Lord Hightower, he lingered for a month before succumbing to his wounds, leaving his new wife (now widow) childless.
His younger brother Rycherd now found himself as - somewhat unexpectedly - the new Lord Hightower.
Character's Physical Description: Rycherd is tall and has dark blonde, shoulder length hair. He sports a close cropped beard
Reputation: A very dangerous swordsman, perhaps one of the best in Westeros when he wields Vigilance, as well as an excellent horseman and jouster, Rycherd is also a competent commander, underrated by some. He has a sense of charm mainly manifested in his sense of humor.
Character's Special Ability: Sword
Genealogy
{Lord Leyton Hightower}
his fourth wife {Rhea Florent}
- Lord Leyton's eldest son {Lord Baelor Hightower} b. 258 d. 320
++ his wife {Rhonda Rowan}
-- their elder son {Lord Vortimer Hightower} b. 300 d. 325
-- their younger son {Lord Caradoc' Short-arm' Hightower} b. 305 d. 384
++ his wife {Tegan Estren of Wyndhall}
--- their son {Ser Cador Hightower} b. 335 d. 362
+++ his wife {Gwyneth Brax} b. 340 d. 374
---- their only daughter and heiress {Lady Elbeth Hightower} b. 360 d. 400 (died in childbirth)
- Lord Leyton's second son {Ser Garth 'Greysteel' Hightower} b. 262
+ his wife {Margot Ashford}
-- their son {Ser Jon 'One Eye' Hightower} b. 300 d. 360
++ Ser Jon's first wife {Aline Piper} b. 310 d. 332
--- their eldest son {Ser Gylbert Hightower} b. 330 d. 361
--- their second son {Ser Waltyr Hightower} b. 332 d. 358
++ Ser Jon's second wife {Sylva Redwyne} b. 322 d. 361
--- his third son and her eldest son {Ser Jonarth Hightower} b. 338 d. 394 (killed in battle)
+++ his wife {Jeyne Blackbar}
---- Ser Jonarth's bastard son Ser Jared Flowers b. 368 (aged 43) Castellan of Oldtown
--- his fourth son and her second son {Lord Willem Hightower} b. 340 d. 410. Lord of Oldtown in 384.
+++ {his wife and cousin {Elbeth Hightower, heiress to Oldtown} b. 360 d. 400 (died in childbirth)
---- their eldest son Lord Willas Hightower b. 379 d. 410 (died of his wounds - a month after his father)
++++ his first wife {Alyce Beesbury} b. 385 d. 404 (murdered while pregnant with Willas' child)
++++ his second wife Alianore Peake b. 395 aged 17
---- their second son Lord Rycherd Hightower b. 381 (aged 30) (PC)
++++ his wife Alyssa Tyrell b. 383 aged 28
----- their elder daughter Elicent Hightower b. 402 (aged 10)
----- their eldest son Abelar Hightower b. 403 (aged 8)
----- their younger daughter Margaery Hightower b. 405 (aged 6)
----- their second son Jon Hightower b. 407 (aged 4)
----- their youngest son Lyonel Hightower b. 409 (aged 2)
---- Melessa Hightower b. 384 (aged 27)
++++ her husband Lord Harlan Bulwer of Blackcrown (sworn to House Hightower)
----- their elder son Roger Bulwer b. 404 (aged 7)
----- their younger son Hugh Bulwer b. 407 (aged 4)
---- Ser Gylbert Hightower b. 387 (aged 24)
---- Ser Waltyr Hightower b. 389 (aged 22)
---- Yseult Hightower b. 390 (aged 21)
++++ her husband Lord Gerold Cuy of Sunhouse (sworn to House Hightower) - no children as yet
---- Sybelle Hightower b. 392 (aged 19) - unmarried
---- Eoife Hightower b. 394 (aged 17) - unmarried
---- Ancel Hightower b. 398 (aged 13) - a squire to his elder brother
---- Joanna Hightower b. 400 (aged 11) - unmarried
--- his daughter Marared Hightower b. 346 aged 65
--- his fourth son and her third son, Septon Humfrey Hightower. b. 350 (aged 61) (PC)
--- his youngest son and her fourth son {Ser Ansel Hightower} b. 355 d. 392
The Hightower
The largest structure in the city of Oldtown, and also the tallest structure in Westeros, is the Hightower, a massive stepped lighthouse which extends some 800 feet into the sky and is topped by a huge beacon which can be seen for many miles out to sea. The foundation of the Hightower is a labyrinthine fortress of unadorned black stone of uncertain origin on Battle Isle. While some believe it to be Valyrian in origin, Archmaester Quillion suggests it was made by the mazemakers. The early members of House Hightower lived amidst the gloomy halls, vaults, and chambers of the black stone fortress. It was only with the construction of the fifth tower, the first made entirely of stone, that the Hightower became a seat worthy of a great house. It rose two hundred feet above Whispering Sound. Since then it has risen to over 800 feet, taller than The Wall.
