Aegor "Littlesteel"

== Personality ==
=== Personality Description ===
Aegor is a quiet, repressed man who hardly talks. Sporting a heavy Volantine accent, his speech is like a commoner’s. He’s ruthlessly efficient, and patiently ambitious. 
Littlesteel’s command and demeanor are similar: Aegor instigates, finds shortcuts, and aggressively pushes any flaw he finds. Left in a room too long, Aegor paces. Left commanding an ambush that hasn’t sprung when it was supposed to, he tries to reassess and make a new plan. 
Fitting for an ex-slave, Littlesteel sees authority as natural and the way of thing. Those who find themselves below him should possess discipline and excel, and gain a higher station like he did.
Littlesteel has few friends in the Golden Company, and those who are find him curt and closed off. He hardly drinks, has seemingly no interest in women, and is only seen laughing when berating a subordinate. Even still, he is admired and respected immensely, seen as a battle hardened veteran and an incredible commander.
It’s reported that at the hour of the wolf, from his tent can be heard a whore reading chronicles and memoirs about great commanders. 
Littelsteel wholeheartedly embraces Bittersteel’s vision. While he may have never visited Westeros, Littlesteel sees returning to Westeros and pushing his claim as his destiny. In fact, when one commander made mention that Aegon Blackfyre was soft and that they could remain in Essos and stay as wealthy mercenaries, three men had to hold Littlesteel back from beating him there and then.
=== Goals and Motivation ===
Seeing the Blackfyres on the Iron Throne, glorifying Bittersteel, gaining his own seat of power, and seeing through a damn big war.
=== Reputation ===
An incredibly capable Golden Company commander. He’s best known for his speed at deployment/movement, and is noted as the heir to Bittersteel’s personality.
== Backstory ==
Aegor was born to a Volantene whore. His mother named him after his supposed father Bittersteel, and filled Aegor with stories about Aegor and how it was his destiny to return to the seven kingdoms. This was supported by the pleasure house, filling Aegor up with stories.
At the age of 12, already a hulking boy, Aegor murdered a group of Cartwrights for an unkown reason. Following this, he was enslaved and conscripted as a soldier, being given green Tigermarks on his face to denote it.
In one campaign at the age of 17, the Volantene slave army came up against the Golden Company. Aegor defected, telling his story and begging them to let him join. Bittersteel didn’t believe the boy, but he allowed the boy to join if he could cut out his slave tattoos. Aegor did it right there and then, only succeeding to cut out one on his right before passing out. He woke up, a full (if rookie) member of the Golden Company.
Aegor (now called Littlesteel on account of his claimed heritage by the captain) was mercilessly disciplined in his early days at the Golden Company, but soon came to be renowned and one of the best soldiers. Popular and capable of independent command, he quickly rose ranks and broke bread with exiled lords. 
A few of his notable military moments:
At 17 (224 AC), shortly after joining the Golden Company, he distinguished himself by being the first off the riverboat in an attack north of Volantis. Considered an incredibly brave move, he immediately was shot twice in the arm.
At 19 (226 AC, Commits a suicidal blunder while drunk, quit drinking), during a drawn out siege of Myr, Littlesteel drank with a fellow soldier and they kept boasting of their own prowess. Soon enough, the two alone stood before the gates of Myr, yelling that they would conquer Myr themselves.
As they got shot, their battalion reinforced them, and the Myrish sallied out and attacked the battalion. The fighting was brief, and the Golden Company weren’t able to take advantage of the sally.
The fellow soldier had died in the incident, and Littlesteel was brutally reprimanded. During day three of being bound and given no water, Littlesteel swore to all the gods he’d never drink again.
At 23 (229 AC, Avenged Lord Ambrose against Dothraki, nicknamed ‘Bloodrider’), during a skirmish with Dothraki, chaos reigned as Littlesteel’s commander (the exiled Lord Ambrose) had been killed by a Khalasar. Devastated and with arrows raining, many began to flee: but Littlesteel started screaming nonsense in a mix of Volantene and Common. Barely keeping cohesion, Littlesteel lead a nightmarishly scary charge against a Khalasar contingent harassing the other end of the company line.
The charge worked, discipline somewhat restored, and the Dothraki ended the skirmish and rode away. Many soldiers swear they saw Littlesteel avenge Lord Ambrose, and at camp that night he was hailed a “Bloodrider”. Those who’ve survived being in the Golden Company since then still joke Littlesteel needs to cut out his throat soon.
At 29 (235 AC, Got his first official command, quashing a peasant rebellion), the Golden Company gained a contract by Pentos to quell a nearby peasant rebellion. This was seen as a simple if annoying task, so Littlesteel was given command over general operation. By then, Littlesteel had taken on many minor command responsibilities (thanks to his notoriety as a soldier and his convenient claimed heritage).
The leader of this rebellion was a supposed andal claimed to be the warrior reborn, and demanded a Trial by Seven with Littlesteel. Littlesteel refused. Instead, to combat the entrenched peasants he utilized the newly purchased war elephants to scare the peasants, and take the village at a flank with his troops.
None of the Golden Company died, and Littlesteel became considerably richer from the subsequent sacking. Generally considered a dull affair.
At 30 (236 AC, Sensed a diversion, relieved a battalion during fourth Blackfyre rebellion. Spoke to Bittersteel properly, finally met Aegon Blackfyre and others) came his actual command claim to fame. . While fighting loyalists in Massey’s Hook, Littlesteel (who had been temporarily assigned a battalion of 1000) successfully repelled a Targareyen skirmish. But afterwards, despite everyone ready to take a nap or make camp, Littlesteel sensed something was wrong: the skirmish had been costly for the Targareyen, reinforcements from other battalions still weren’t arriving, and there were no birds in the sky.
Sensing the skirmish was a diversion, Littlesteel force marched to the nearest company camp: sure enough, the main body of the Tyroshi military were there, nearly encircling another Golden Company battalion. Littlesteel gave a short speech to the exhausted army, and soon enough they were relieving the other battalion with lightning speed and shock.
Littlesteel was commended for this move, and for the first time properly spoke to Bittersteel. This is likely the first time he saw (but not officially spoke to) the Blackfyres and Aegor’s trueborns.
By 34 (240 AC Littlesteel is a legendary commander and de facto deputy to Bittersteel),  Bittersteel makes the comment “If you need cunt fucked, Littlesteel already has that cunt popping out babies” (in refrence to his military speed). Other commanders actively seek Littlesteel’s advice, and his camp is noted for being capable of marching in a moment’s notice. 
By the time the Golden Company fight the war between Myr and Tyrosh, strategic planning was done mostly by Bittersteel and Littlesteel. While Bittersteel had a better mind for strategy, Littlesteel knew exactly how capable the company was at any given task: and would order harsh drills in preparation of operations.
At 35 (241 AC), Following Bittersteel’s death, despite only serving for 12 years he gained the support of the Golden Company's commanders to become Captain. Citing that Bittersteel had essentially used Littlesteel as a deputy for the last years, but also because Bittersteel's trueborn children by Calla Blackfyre were deemed undesirable for command*. 
Following this, Littlesteel was quite critical of the Blackfyre’s move to Yronwood: believing if they wanted to return they should’ve by sword.
At 38 (244 AC), Littlesteel wins a campaign for Lys in the disputed land. He does so by attacking a succession of 4 fortresses: the first he took before they knew they were at war, the second he took by slowing communication from the first fortress and taking them by surprise. The third he took because they had deserted the fortress to join up with the fourth, and the fourth he took by cutting off the reinforcing army and climbing the walls before they could muster.
An extremely clean victory, Myr did not pay with gold, but in ships. Now Littlesteel looks west, eyeing the stepstones.
But it should be noted Littlesteel is not all victories: like any good mercenary, he’s escaped and hidden his failures.
*can be retconned as necessary. I imagine either because they were “soft”, or because Bittersteel only had surviving daughters (sons died in operations/didn’t have sons).
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