Josuè

Josuè was a bastard born to Rickard Karstark, the Lord of Karhold and head of House Karstark. His mother was Chéri Sand, a beautiful dornish woman, Lord Rickard took a liking to in his travels during the War of the Usurper. Lord Rickard was so fond of her, he took her back with him before the war's end. The Lord of Karhold hired her as a wet nurse to explain her presence to his family and she soon bore him a bastard son, whom she named Elias. Many servants of Karhold said that from the moment Lord Rickard laid eyes on his new dornish son, he fell in love with the child. However Rickard's wife was not as pleased and began to despise her husband's lover, plotting several times in secret to have her poisoned. Two years later Lord Rickard's beloved would once again become pregnant with his child after several miscarriages, in response to her
pregnancy, Rickard's wife would yet again try to kill her, although in a less discrete manner. She ordered several of her personal guards to kill her husband's “Prized Whore” in the dead of night, commanding them to stab her in the stomach and slit her throat as she slept. Fortunately the commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, Cotter Pyke, was at Karhold, at the behest of Lord Rickard, and heard the assassination plot against, Chéri, who had been nothing but kind to him in his visit. Commander Pyke raced to Chéri's abode, outside the castle, and slew her attackers. Feeling that neither she nor her child would be safe in Karhold, Pyke took Chéri to the Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, forcibly making her leave Elias.