Wyndylyn Manderly

### Character and Personality

Wyndylyn is the youngest son of Hallis and Sara Manderly nee Slate, and has risen to the position of head of House Manderly's household guard despite his age. Taking from the blood of his father, Wyndylyn always stuck out from the crowd even as a child. Because of this, his father would drunkenly brag to others in the family about how his youngest was going to become the greatest soldier that White Harbor had ever seen. This type of mindset established who Wyndylyn would eventually become and continue to toil with. Continuing on the path that his father set him on or to find his true passion of simply protecting his family at White Harbor.

Wyndylyn takes after both of his mentors, the late Lord of Hornwood, Halys Hornwood as well as Medric Manderly. In his own way, he uses the somewhat brusque style of command that both Halys and Hallis were known for, but attempts to add jokes and comedy in order to ease the burden of his harshness. Interestingly enough, this method was the only way he himself was able to cope with two brash and abrasive men training him.

### History

Born in 80 AC, the youngest was initially doted on by his older mother, who had long grieved the thought that she'd have another child. The first few years of Wyndylyn's life were full of visiting family either in White Harbor or in Blackpool to visit his mother's side of the family. As Hallis was often away, he usually found himself chasing after his cousins and attempting to impress them with new tricks he had learned from the other children. Even early in life, he always found satisfaction in bringing laughter to another.

His peaceful childhood ended around 89 AC when his father forbid him to play anymore with the commonfolk kids that he had secretly made friends with and confined him to their manse in White Harbor. His everyday became a tortuous regiment of training and studying battles in the library. Whereas he used to love discussing all sorts of topics with the Maester, he had now become solely allowed to discuss battles, the mistakes made, and how to achieve victory. It was during this ardent time in his life that the plague hit the North, with White Harbor the epicenter of its impact. Chaos and panic gripped the entire city and Wyndylyn was sent off to Hornwood in order to try and escape the turmoil as well as continue his training under Lord Halys Hornwood. It was only a month later that he would be sent a raven informing him that his brother, Brandon, had not been as lucky and had passed away. Lord Hornwood himself told the young Wyndylyn, and it would be the last time that Halys would ever be seen by the boy with an ounce of empathy.

Despite his initial hopes of being able to see an exciting new place, Hornwood became more of a prison than White Harbor did. At least there he had his cousins that he could talk with at feasts and some of his old friends that he could sneak off to visit with. In the Hornwood, he had no one, at least until he was allowed to train alongside the older Torrhen Hornwood. The son of Halys was a peculiar boy who would grow to be a brash and incordial lord in his own right, but Wyndylyn never held these traits against him. In some strange way, it felt that they had both experienced such hardships under their fathers that it only seemed natural to have Torrhen act out in outbursts of anger. With Wyndylyn dedicated to make a friend of him, they found a common interest in tales of the Old Gods and ended up spending nights discussing them in hushed whispers in between duels.

After spending several years under the care of House Hornwood, Wyndylyn Manderly came back a different person than when he had left White Harbor three years ago. The incessant training had left his already imposing figure rippling with added muscle. Luckily, Hallis saw this as his boy finally *becoming a man* and began to treat him as his favored son, especially after the death of Brandon was accepted by the old commander. After years of working his way up the ranks, Wyndylyn got to know his cousins again and became good friends with Warrick especially. Also, with his father's newfound respect, he was able to go freely around White Harbor and establish connections with old friends that he had thought had long forgotten about him. Making an effort to establish as many friendships with commonfolk as possible, Wyndylyn proved himself to be as almost as apt at management as he did for leading men in arms and only recently was rewarded with the title of Captain of the Sword Swords of House Manderly. A title that he cherishes deeply and takes care to excel in.

While Wyndylyn proved invaluable in leading Manderly men for his cousin, Warrick, he struggled at times fighting his own personal ambitions vs his loyalties to his family name. Still, he became well renown within the household and the city of White Harbor for his abilities in leading men at arms.

In 109 AC, in an incredibly rare and unusual slip of honor, Wyndylyn conceived a bastard with a lowborn tavern wench. After his death in the Battle of Westwatch-by-the-Bridge, Warrick brought his bastard daughter, Jessamyn Snow, back to White Harbor in honor of his beloved cousin.

### Family Tree

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