Roland Baelish

Brienne Storm

Targon Pyke

Luceon Baelish

Prince Roland Baelish is the younger twin of Edmund I Baelish, current Lord Paramount of the Trident and Heir to the Seven Kingdoms. He was named Lord Paramount of the Trident in 384 after the Battle of Harrenhal, and became Heir apparent after the death of Prince Petyr and disinherting of Prince Tristan in 385 during the Dornish-Triarchy War.

## History

### Early Life

Born only a few seconds after his
older brother Edmund to Petyr II ‘The Pious’ and his wife Ysilla Royce, Roland was already the noisiest of the two. It was a trend set to continue for the rest of their lives. He spent some of his early childhood at the Red Keep with his brother, and with his kinsman Brynden before he was sent off to be warded at Casterly Rock later, which would later create the deeper trust between Edmund and Brynden. Also at Casterly Rock were Andar Royce, Heir to the Vale and the son of the Lord Ashford, two boys who would quickly become Roland’s childhood friends, for the time he got to know them.

His
 time at Casterly Rock was mostly uneventful, and joyless when he had to
 actually listen to Lord Lannister, who seemed to the young Roland like a
 ruthless and harsh disciplinarian, whether he was or not. He would
often sneak off to get into trouble or spy on nearby girls, often
influencing the young Ashford to join in with him when he could. Things
remained mostly the same until Andar got into a fight with Tyrion
Lannister, the Lord’s son. Roland could hardly remember what it was even
 about, only trying to restrain the young Royce to make sure he didn’t
do any lasting damage. That, and telling Lord Lannister that Tyrion had
actually hurt himself in an accident.

Thankfully,
 the rest of his time in the West passed quickly for Roland, and once he
 was a man, he was to be sent back to King’s Landing. He decided against
 the idea, and instead opted to travel the Seven Kingdoms, knowing that
he was unlikely to be King. After a time in the West, he began
travelling the Reach. Already known for his charm and his ability to
garner women’s attention with only a few words, he quickly became even
more popular with the Ladies both baseborn and noble in the region.

### The Vagabond Prince

It
 wasn’t realised perhaps how powerful his charm actually was - while
staying at Highgarden, and meeting Lord Loras Tyrell’s newborn heir,
Leo, the wife of one of Lord Tyrell’s brothers caught his eye. It wasn’t
 long before he had spent a couple of nights in her company while her
husband attended to other business. Before he could even return, Roland
had resumed his journeys, heading to Oldtown before he got on a boat. He
 would not know until much later that he had given the future Lady of
Oldtown a son - the bastard Harold Flowers, his firstborn.

Roland
 continued his merry travels, fathering another bastard son in The
North. In his young days he was strong and not half bad with a sword in
hand, and was considered a reputable knight for most of his glory years.
 He made the eight, attended every feast and wedding he could and made a
 good name for himself amongst the nobles of Westeros for how he was
willing to treat anyone as a friend, despite what differences they may
have had. However, his jolly peace would not last long.

His
 father, even though he had never been particularly fond of him, was
killed by the Ironborn when he was 25 years of age. He immediately
marched to King’s Landing, to be with Edmund. Despite how the brothers
were often apart, their relationship always seemed to tie back together
like they’d never been without each other. Though he never cared for
war, he joined Edmund in the subjugation of the Islands, and he was one
of the men to recommend he allow them to keep their God, and perhaps
some of their ways. The Ironborn would respect one who respected them,
he argued.

It was after the war
that Roland and Edmund bickered the most. About many subjects of course,
 but the most common was that Roland seemingly refused to marry. Having
never even tried to tie himself down to a woman in particular, and the
only thing he had that was close to a long-term relationship with a
single person was his closeness to Edmund, Roland had no idea what he
would do other than go stir crazy, and simply refused outright. After
every argument, the two simply returned to normal, like they had never
had it.

Taking it upon himself to
treat with the Ironborn, having seen the Gravehand’s crushing defeat in
the Subjugation of their islands, he took the time to visit House
Drumm’s home island of Old Wyk in particular in 372AC. There, he met
Ravos Drumm, a young boy of eight at the time. Seeing that he had a
certain spark of intelligence, Roland treated the boy with respect and
taught him about intrigue, as he would later do with others. He also
took a liking to his aunt Gisella, and soon he fathered a third bastard
son, Targon Pyke. This son he would later take with him, and raise
himself.

Still going on his
journeys, Roland would often visit his bastard sons, and often on his
visits to Highgarden, he would take the time to speak with the young Leo
 Tyrell and Jon Stark, who warded there with the Lords of the Mander.
They, and when he visited Targon, Ravos Drumm, would often receive
advice about women, the courts, how rulership often really went and
about how to handle themselves with confidence. Though Jon seemed
disinterested in those lessons in particular, he would often share about
 how intrigues and schemes were carried out in those courts, and what to
 be careful of for their own sakes.

### Brynden's Rebellion and the Dornish-Triarchy War

As
 the years passed and he became more experienced, Roland would host more
 than a couple of squires. One of the most notable was Lothar Baratheon,
 who he took on shortly before the rebellion in 381AC. When rebellion
did occur, the Prince could scarcely believe it, that the kinsman he saw
 as being so close to Edmund would betray him in the way that he did. As
 the rebellion began, Roland stuck close to his twin brother, until the
defeat they suffered at Darry. Instead, he was sent with a detachment of
 royal troops to join Lord Lannister, already someone he knew enough to
work well with, and Lord Blackwood at the Siege of Riverrun. At the
siege, he soon got to know and enjoyed the company of Lord Blackwood,
one of the few loyalist Riverlords, along with his son and his daughter,
 Melony.

Roland was intrigued by
Melony’s talent for medicine and her seemingly genuine interest in
helping others, which surprised him. After Riverrun eventually fell,
Roland marched with the rest of the army to Harrenhal. There, their
combined forces met the full force of the rebellion, in a battle heaving
 with over thirty thousand men. Roland, now older and not the warrior he
 once was, was caught in battle by Lord Lynderly. The Valeman outclassed
 him utterly in swordplay, and if it were not for Lothar’s quick
interference along with Malegorn Clegane, the Prince would have been
dead, rather than just seriously wounded after the battle’s end.

After
 the battle, and now the ended rebellion, Roland was made Lord of
Harrenhal and Lord Paramount of the Trident. Still needing time to
recover, he would only bring Riverman reinforcements into the conflict
with the Triarchy later on, from a combination of Lothar’s requests and
the Prince of Dorne sending his second son, Edric, to squire with Roland
 as well in return for his aid. Eventually, the Prince agreed, joining
his battle despite how tired he already was of the blood and death.

Roland
 would join his family for the siege of Myr, sticking to Edmund as he
always had. He was not as involved with the siege as his nephews, and
would join the King in marching north as Prince Tristan carried out his
plan. He heard the rumours moments before King Edmund, and did all he
could to prevent his older twin from harming anyone around him,
executing his own son or anything drastic, knowing that grief would
twist his mind.

Soon, the war was
over, but not in the way that was hoped. Their forces were surrounded
and soon, they were forced to surrender to the Archon. With the war over
 in a crushing defeat and the loss of both of his nephews, Roland was
now heir apparent. For once, he did not argue with Edmund. He agreed to
marry, and was told to seek it out amongst the Riverlords. Knowing that
she would now be of age and he would need to secure strong, loyalist
allies in the Trident, Roland approached Lord Blackwood for his daughter
 Melony’s hand in marriage.

Roland
 and Melony were married in 385AC at his new seat of Harrenhal, and the
Prince of Dragonstone for once, did not lecher or debauch. For once, he
had to consider being King, the heir to a childless brother. Soon, he
would have a son of his own. In 386, Luceon Baelish would be born. For
once, it seemed like things had calmed down, and Roland focused on
administering the Trident, trying his best to figure out what a ruler
should be, or at least he should be as one. In 390AC, he found out about
 his brother’s illness, and rode to King’s Landing, hoping to spend as
much time as he could with him, before the inevitable end.