Lucifer Stark

Lord Lucifer Stark, also known as "Lucifer Steelstring", is the Lord of Winterfell and King in the North, being raised from a lowborn hedge knight by the scattered people of the North when he was able to pull Longclaw from the rock it was stuck in.
==Appearance and Character==
===Fears===
==History==
Born in 380 AC in the village of Wendish Town, as one of five children, to Olyvar, a lowborn fisherman and his wife Darla, Lucifer grew up helping his father to catch fish along the Blue Fork while constantly dreaming of being a knight and going on adventures across the Seven Kingdoms, seeing sites far grander than the small village he grew up in and the banks and waters of the Blue Fork. The most exciting thing he would ever see during his childhood was the Mallister knights travelling to and from Riverrun, causing the boy to pick up sticks and play knight with his younger brothers. Though his family was always content with fish for dinner as they believed since the river provided for them, they must live by it, Lucifer didn’t share their point of view. From an early age he began hunting in the nearby woods for deer and rabbit for his mother to cook, providing more variety to their meals. At first Lucifer caught nothing and was stuck with fish but as time went on, he began to hone his skills and would hit his mark more and more, being able to bring home more food.
As a lowborn riverlander, Lucifer and his family were hit hard whenever conflict arose along the trident which caused the boy to go out looking for someone to help him learn how to protect them at the age of fourteen where he stumbled onto a hedge knight’s camp late at night, the fire drawing him in. The knight, who went by Ser Jyck Hammerhand due to him killing a man with a punch or so he claims, took Lucifer under his wing since he wanted a squire to help him along his travels. For years they travelled Westeros, serving this lord and that lord, all the while Lucifer kept training. While he took to the sword quickly, he still preferred the bow as he had grown up with that weapon and he spent just as much time training his archery as he did training with sword and shield.
Sometime while in the Westerlands during the year 400 AC, a month before Lucifer’s twentieth nameday, while visiting the graves of Ser Jyck’s wife and son, a landed knight approached the ageing knight to hire their services in ridding their land of a band of outlaws. With a pouch of silver stags in hand, Ser Jyck and Lucifer accompanied a handful of men sent by the landed knight to a nearby woodland, where the outlaws were said to be hiding. For days they hunted and found nothing, until they stopped at a waterfall in the middle of the woods to water their horses and eat. While resting, the outlaws appeared from the trees and slew three of the men who accompanied Ser Jyck and Lucifer. The remaining group quickly gathered their weapons and met the outlaws in combat, where Lucifer found a raised patch of earth, gaining the high ground where he rained arrows until he had emptied his quiver. Drawing his sword, Lucifer joined Ser Jyck and fought side by side with his knightly tutor. When all the outlaws had been slain, the group counted their dead and burned the corpses of the outlaws while gathering up the bodies of their comrades to take back to their families. During the fight, Lucifer sustained an injury to his foot, fracturing it slightly and due to his life being on the road and not having a set place to rest, it did not heal properly which he soon found out will affect his mobility if he does not rest after a few hours of walking/standing.
Ser Jyck and Lucifer travelled back to collect their coins and two months later, in a Riverland inn while enjoying a few “well earned” drinks, Jyck began the story of Ser Jyck Hammerhand and Lucifer Steelstring against a hundred outlaws. He praised Lucifer’s ability with a bow, dubbing him “Steelstring” as in Jyck’s exaggerated words “he loosed a hundred arrows and his old bow did not falter”. While this story was almost entirely fictional, being only loosely based on the events of their skirmish with the small band of outlaws alongside other men, though Jyck conveniently left those details out. While laughing at his tutor, Lucifer was caught by surprise when Jyck commanded him to lower himself onto one knee. In that moment, surrounded by the inn’s patrons and the inn keep, Ser Jyck knighted Lucifer with his blade and the boy swore his oath, missing out any oaths to the king.
Two months after his knighting, Lucifer, a lowborn fisherman’s son from the riverlands, rose Ser Lucifer “Steelstring”, a knight of the Westeros. Though he was now a knight himself, the riverlander kept Jyck’s company as he trusted only the ageing hedge knight. Later that same year while travelling along the kingsroad, a band of broken men ambushed the two knights and slew Ser Jyck before Lucifer could save him, causing the boy to flee with his arms, armour and horse and the little provisions he had kept on the steed. So passed Ser Jyck “Hammerhand”, Lucifer’s tutor and only friend.
Since the death of his old tutor, Lucifer wandered the Seven Kingdoms as a new Hedge Knight, staying clear of both the North and Dorne due to their changing nature and the Vale due to his fear of heights. He worked for this lord and that, making money and keeping food in his belly. Though he became a knight for his family, he hasn’t visited his old village nor has he seen his family since the day he left. The life of adventure had become intoxicating and an addiction for Lucifer, one he could not give up for anyone, not even the siblings he had grown up with. During his solo adventures, Lucifer met two fellow hedge knights, Ser Uthor, known as the Red, and Ser Triston of the Wendwater. It took a long while for the boy to warm up to the two, though when he eventually did, the trio formed an unbreakable bond, one that shall not be broken by distance or sides of conflict. Ever since Longclaw was rediscovered and the tales began to spread, Lucifer has been trying to listen to all the tales told in the inns he visits, wondering who would be worthy enough to pull it from the stone, even going so far as to think he was a possibility. Though that test would have to wait due to Ser Lucifer being in the Riverlands, close to the border of the Westerlands.
==Recent Events==
==Family==
==Relationships==
===Love interests===
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===Friends===
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Lucifer's former knightly tutor, Ser Jyck Hammerhand was surprised by a young Lucifer as the boy came upon him during the night. After some conversation, the knight decided to take Lucifer on as a squire due to needing one.
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===Companions===
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===Rivals===
==Abilities and Tools==
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*Longclaw: Words the once ancestral bastard sword of House Mormont, made of Valyrian steel. Given to Jon Snow by Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Jon used it during his time at the Wall and during the War for the Dawn until his death during the final battle, where the sword was lost. It was rediscovered in 400 AC lodged in a stone near Winterfell. Many chieftains attempted to dislodge the sword with no luck, causing the more superstitious sorts to believe that the weapon will only be freed by one worthy of the fabled blade. Lucifer was the chosen warrior to dislodge the sword, causing the scattered people of the North to follow him, at first naming him King of Winter though he calmed them down enough to name him Lord of Winterfell, Lord Paramount and Warden of the North.
*Swiftwind: The bow Lucifer made from the Weirwood tree of Raventree Hall after forgoing payment for services he performed for House Blackwood early into his time as Ser Jyck's squire. He used it in his fight with the outlaw band in the woods near Cornfield which earned him the name "Steelstring".
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*Dagger:
*Stark Shield: A wooden shield covered in a thin layer of steel. It has the head of House Stark's direwolf sigil on it.
*Stark Armour:
*Hedge Knight Shield: A wooden shield with Lucifer's personal sigil painted on it.
*Hedge Knight Armour: During his time as a Hedge Knight, Lucifer wore a steel helmet, a chainmail shirt that reaches just above his knees and steel pauldrons with four lames (plate layers) each. After being given permission via Northern vote (and confirmation of his family coming from a bastard of Brandon Stark) to take on the name Stark, Lucifer used the same designs for his Stark armour.
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==Gallery==
File:Swiftwind.png|Legendary bow of Lucifer Stark
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