Shaydrin Skagerlly

Ser Shaydrin Skagerlly is a member of House Skagerlly and the fifth trueborn child of Lord Radgore Skagerlly, one of the two children he sired by the late Lady Liona Edminside, the other being his sister Kelsafyr.
== Appearance ==
Shaydrin is a slender young man, even short-looking compared to some of his brothers. He has silky brown hair, usually parted, and a fine, clean-shaven face with soft hazel eyes.
Shaydrin is fond of long, dark tunics, long moleskin gloves, and all manner of rings, torcs, and chokers, about as close to a peacock as any Skagerlly man could get away with. In battle, he wears a mail hauberk over a layered crimson tunic, a curaiss of polished, snow-white alligator hide, a mail coff with a ventail, and a conical helmet with a point from which sprouts a shock of horse hair. He rides a lithe, darke courser named Blackjon.
== Personality ==
Shaydrin is cold, cynical, and strategic. Unlike the brutes that make up the rest of the house's chief fighting men, he has a mind for the big picture and the longer run of time, knowing how to bend and break enemies through careful planning and goading. His skill at the negotiation table, equal to his prowess on the battlefield, has kept him at the forefront of the house's diplomatic missions, and in high esteem of his father. 
He has a taste for foes who can offer a good intellectual challenge, whether in repartee or in warfare, savouring conflicts that the likes of his brothers would otherwise bring as quick and bloody an end to as possible. Shaydrin rarely takes any pleasure in killing and maiming, and refrains from the wanton savagery that his kin are infamous for. He has little love for anything other than fine pleasures and his twin sister.
== Biography ==
Shaydrin was born in 378, as the sixth-born son of Radgore Skagerlly, the Lord of the Weeping Pit, and his wife, Lady Leona. Shaydrin was born less than a minute before his twin sister Kelsafyr. Leona died shortly after their birth, allegedly from the labour itself, though Kelsafyr has long suspected that their elder brother Mallsrek was responsible.
== Quotes ==
The Pit could burn. All of Reaper's Skull could burn. That place was never home to him; 'home' was embracing him in that very moment.
—thoughts of Shaydrin as he is reunited with Kelsafyr
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