Vanlan Vass

Vanlan Vass is the current Lord of Aysgarth and councilmember on the Vraeseon Council having served Prizdean Chilia and Gerys Aryon. He has served as Lord for the past 54 years, since the age of 12. During this time, he has proven to be a wise, just, and capable ruler.
== Appearance and Character ==
Vanlan was born in Aysgarth, the second son of Lord Willam Vass and Lady Melantha Vass. He was raised alongside his brothers and sisters in Aysgarth. As a boy, Vanlan obsessed over war especially against the Rowan family, playing at it with his siblings and dreaming of a day when he would wield a sword in battle.
He lived a somewhat normal, happy life until the age of 11, when his father, Willam Vass, and elder brother, Ewyn Vass, were viciously killed by a barbarian tribe, Raymun, in the battle of Long Lake. With their deaths, Vanlan rose to the rank of Lord of Aysgarth.
Although his uncle Artos Vass helped serve him as Lord Regent, Vanlan was forced to grow up quickly due to being forced into power at an early age. Despite his youth, by the age of fifteen Vanlan had proven to be a capable and authoritative ruler, one who had an open hand and stern fist when necessary.
Still, he dreamed of vengeance against the barbarians for killing his father and elder brother, and at the age of 18 he volunteered to join a group of knights in a ranging to the barbarian camps. Everyone around him told him that it was folly, but one did not refuse the Lord of Aysgarth, and eventually they gathered a team of elite rangers along with warriors from Aysgarth who would join Vanlan in his journey North.
No one knows what happened on that far-north ranging, save for Vanlan himself. He returned after over three months half-starved, covered in wounds inflicted by both beast and man, and alone. He would not say why he had been gone so long, nor what had happened to the rest of his party, and still has not told a living soul to this day.
At the age of 20 Vanlan was married to his first wife, Jeyne Seronyth. They lived happily together for two years before she died giving birth to their first son, Rickar Vass. Rickar was a sickly boy, and almost didn't live past 13 but managed to tough it out and is now the Acting Lord of Aysgarth.
Vanlan mourned his wife deeply, and refused to be remarried for a few years. That is, until he met Lorelah Amber, a young Northern beauty who caught his eye when she visited Aysgarth with her father. At the age of 40 he married the then 20 year old scion, and their first child Barrian Vass was born a year later.
Once again, Vanlan had happiness in his life. He lived in peace and harmony with his family for many years, and his wife gave birth to another son and two more daughters.