Rickar Vass

== Appearance and Character ==
Rickar Vass is current Acting Lord of Aysgarth. He is also an written advisor to Lord Denzin Thulum of Sarilt.
By the time he was eight, Rickar had developed a ruthless streak manipulating other children who made fun of his dead mother, and getting into fights and physically abusing the household at the Aysgarth Keep when they talked about his slight abnormality on his hands.
Vanlan Vass, Rickar’s father, realized that Rickar was at a cross-roads, if he was to take a wrong turn he could walk down a path towards being a sadistic tyrant and ruin the Vass name. The other path led towards being a ruthless but efficient lord. He tutored his son closely, teaching him self-control over his darker urges. His father taught him how use his ruthless streak to his advantage, like a puppet master, using intelligence and calculated decisions to get what he wanted, to play the political game correctly you must always outmaunever your enemies. They would spend hours every day reading through the stories of the most renown masters of espionage and intelligent commanders who favored their wits over their brawn, even some stories of his own.
There comes a time in every Northern boy’s life when they must learn to wield a sword. Rickar was a natural with a blade, but he was often overly enthusiastic in training. When Rickar was 16, he found himself in a heated sparring match with Daryn Obern that ended with an axe slicing down his face, narrowly missing his eye. Rickar was not one to hold a grudge with Daryn, as he was a loyal friend and had given him his own fair share of scars. The two continued to train on a regular basis and Rickar became an outstanding warrior in his own right even if he does not adhere to violence as he did when he was younger.
In 1,315 AC, House Vass and House Vrinian joined families when Rickar and Cemri were married. They conceived a child months later but the child was stillborn when delivered in 1,316 AC. 
Rickar Vass tried twice to produce an heir and continue the Vass line; each time the child being delivered stillborn. If the loss of a child isn’t cruel enough, the days that followed marked constant hallucinations around himself until eventually they ended. After his stillborn children were born, the majority of the Northern lords believed him to be cursed and were unwilling to join their house to most of his siblings although many seem to not care.