Violet Blackfort

[Tim of Raventree]

Name:  Lady Violet Blackfort

Age: 17

Relation to Lord:  Sister

Position at Harrenhal:

Religion:  The Faith of the Seven





Skills:  


Fighting
One Handed Weapons
-Small Blades 86

Political:

Social

--Seduction 55
--Persuasion  81
--Charm 88
--Taunt/Incite 35

Intrigue
-Forgery 30
-Observation 45


Physical abilities
-Horsemanship 23
-Swimming 20
-Agility 20

Art
-Singing 30
-Dancing 20
-Writing 40

Languages 
-Common Tongue 20


Character History:

Violet was born in Lord Harroway's Town to Ser Bruce Blackfort, the Knight of the Black Gate, and his wife,  Diane.  As a little girl she played with the other local children while her mother taught her something of household duties such as sewing and cookery. However, her mother soon began to worry about the difficulty of finding husbands for all three daughters. Since Violet had an engaging personality and was quick to learn, her parents had no trouble convincing the motherhouse of Bechester to take the eleven year old girl as a novice.

At f irst Violet loved her time at the motherhouse. She was away from home, she had other girls to play with and she was taught to read. As time passed, she learned her lessons well but fell into company with a group of older, wilder girls, some of whom had been fostered at the motherhouse for educational purposes before marriage. These girls introduced her to risque songs and hinted that her life might be more than service and scholarship. The girls indulged in secret midnight feasts, played pranks on their tutors and even, to Violet's shocked delight, boasted of the boys they'd kissed on their rare outings outside the motherhouse. It was then, aged fourteen, that she began to doubt her future. In the next two years she experienced a few stolen kisses of her own.

By the time of Violet's sixteenth nameday, her older friends had already departed the motherhouse and the chief Septa was putting pressure on Violet to take her final vows. By this time, however, Violet had become passionately jealous of the fine gowns worn by visiting ladies seeking sanctuary, or dropping off their daughter for tuition or a life among the godsworn. She had grown curious about men too, and her brother's heroics during the war made her believe that she might be able to catch herself a noble husband.  After procrastinating a little while, she returned to the family home in Lord Harroway's Town where she began at once to lord it over the locals. When her brother was granted the lordship of Harrenhal, it felt like all her namedays had come at once.

Violet is now on the bring of marrying Lord Roote of Harroway's Town.  She owns the Valyrian Steel dagger, Sorrow, a "gift" from a certain mysterious knight she encountered in company with her brother Edmure when he was sentenced to the Wall.  Violet killed Edmure with the dagger in order to save her own life.

Reputation: Known mostly as the girl who was sent to the Faith but returned as a woman grown filled with airs and graces. Her exaggerated accent is famous in Harroway's Town.


Boon: 
Dancing Queen, Young and Sweet, Only Seventeen-Violet gains +10 to all social rolls against unwed male nobles and a +5% to fertility. In addition, due to her writing proficiency and social graces, she may attempt social rolls via letters which are rolled at half the social skill+half her writing skill. (So a seductive letter would be rolled at 45 skill)

Curse: 
Forgot The Shitbucket She Crawled Out Of-Due to Violet's newly acquired noble mannerisms, she starts two disposition levels lower with individuals of lower status than her and suffers -10 to all social rolls against them

Bloodline Trait: None

Nameday: 16th day of the 6th moon

[Tim of Raventree]

Name: Septon Jared.  Formerly known as Ser Jared of Sallydance.

Age: 34

Position at Harrenhal: Septon

Religion: The Faith of the Seven







Fighting

One Handed Weapons

-Swords 82

Armor

-Chain 
-Shield


Political:

Social

--Charm 40
--Intimidation 40 

Physical abilities

-Horsemanship 20
-Swimming  20
-Strength 32

Knowledge:

-Animal Training and Domestication  40
-Survival 30

Languages

-Common Tongue  20


Character History:

Jared was born the son of a common woman in the small village of Sallydance. His mother, Sal, claimed that his father was Lord Lychester's bastard son. The Bastard of Lychester was a tall and dour man who visited occasionally during the first years of Jared's life, but served only to make the boy nervous. Years later, Jared would say that the only kindness his father ever did him was sending him the gift of a wooden sword and shield upon his fourth nameday. He used these to good effect whilst playing with the village boys. Jared rarely thought about his father until his ninth nameday when the Bastard of Lychester unexpectedly announced that he was taking the boy for a squire. Jared wept at first, hating to be taken away from the mother he loved, but he soon became busy with his squire's duties and his lessons.

Years passed but the relationship between Jared and his father remained cool and dutiful (Jared was not allowed to refer to the Bastard as Father). The true test of his education came when Jared was seventeen. Accompanying a hunt party, Jared was first to act when young Marianne Lychester fell from her horse after the animal was bitten by a snake. Running towards the girl, he pulled her away from the thrashing hooves and cut off the snake's head. Lord Lychester, grateful for the rescue of his favourite granddaughter, raised Jared to knighthood.

Jared stayed at Lychester for a few years more, but left when his grandsire died, since the new Lord Lychester was not fond of the bastard kin. Thereafter, Jared became a hedge knight, fighting in the cause of this lord and that lord, earning his meat and mead and often coin as well.

When Daemon Blackfyre raised his banners, Jared was in service at Saltpans. He fought for Daemon during the Blackfyre War.


 Jared's most notable contribution to the Battle of Redgrass Field was a duel with on of Prince Maekar's knights, during which he glimpsed Maekar himself before slaying the knight. He never learned the knight's name but kept the man's "lucky charm" as a keepsake, a tiny bronze statuette of a horse. The man's shield bore an unfamiliar sigil, a shadowcat on a green field.
 He was badly wounded in the battle a tall man with a ẁhite skull on a black shield.  Jared was left for dead, until Septon Harys, a man in service to Daemon Blackfyre, spotted that he was still alive. Jared spent three weeks alone with his rescuer while his wounds healed and, when he was well enough, gave thanks to the Warrior for his deliverance and vowed that, if House Blackfyre won the war, he would dedicate his life to the Faith as a septon.

Once he was fit to travel, Jared bid farewell to Septon Harys and once again swore his sword to House Blackfyre, distinguishing hijmself on several occasions, most notably during the Third Siege of King's Landing, during which he slew Bloody Jon Tully and Ser Bryan Sarwyck.

With the war over, Jared has kept his vow to become a septon, dedicating himself particuarly to the Warrior and wearing the sword amulet of his devotion. He is hardly a typical septon, however, since he loves drinking and talks often of the battlefield and the hunt.


Reputation: Known largely for his prowess as a knight.

[The Gambler]

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[Tim of Raventree]

Dead pool winnings - +5. Added to Small Blades (Violet).

[Tim of Raventree]

Christmas gift
Agility 20 (Violet)