Albus I Seaborn

"The Winds Blow, the Waves Pass, and Time Flies." - Captain Albus Seaborn

Lucius Rodney (son)

Elia Rodney (daughter)

Arryn Rodney (son)

Alysa Rodney (daughter)

Alysa of Lynch (lover)

**Albus Seaborn** is a Sea Captain from the **Free States**. His birth and parentage is unknown, only but a distant relative, **Captain Rodney of Sogut**. During the **Third Assyrian Invasion**, Albus joined arms with the **Kingdom of Tymeria**, and later joined as a **Privateer**.

In 102 CE, Captain Albus travelled across the Western Shores to the land known as '**Sternlands**', where he participated in the **Battle of East Hills**, following the victory, he was named **Lord of Greystone**.

## History

### Background

#### Childhood

Albus Seaborn was raised on the sea, and grew up in the **Free States** among thieves and spice merchants. His birth and parentage is unknown, only but a distant relative, **Captain Rodney of Sogut**.

#### Third Assyrian Invasion

In 92 CE, the Free Cities were attacked by the Assyrians after their recent demise, and the Free Cities fell into serious threat, during which the **Kingdoms of Tymeria** and **Illyria**, and the **Holy Kingdom of Roma**. During the Third Assyrian Invasion, the young sailor and sword fighter by the name of Olly Seaborn raised up arms alongside the Kingdom of Tymeria, joining the small army of sworn swords trained by Tymeria's Soldiers. The invasion lasted three years, until a peace pact between the Kingdoms of Tymeria, Illyria, Assyria, and the Free States. Following the three-year war, Olly Seaborn a young man by now joined the Tymerian Flags as a privateer when he occupied a cog ship during the battle.

#### Rebellion of Lanpur

In 97 CE, the **Southern Free State of Lanpur** faced a rebellion and seeked protection from the Kingdom of Tymeria and the Holy Kingdom of Roma, upon which Tymeria sent its privateers to aid the Free State of Lanpur. Among the privateers sent for Lanpur's Aid was **Captain Albus**, also known as "***Captain Seaborn***". Captain Albus fought during the First and Second Naval Skirmishes of Lanpur, and voyaged to the neighboring **Kingdom of Ulrich** to broker an alliance with the Kingdom of Lanpur by marriage. Captain Albus was part of the treaty envoy. During his time in the Kingdom of Ulrich, Captain Albus stayed there with various noblemen, women and royal and state personnel in the **City of Lynch**, where Captain Albus reunited with an old ally and acquainted with a woman of remarkable taste. He returned to Lanpur with a naval fleet of 20 ships carrying royal soldiers of Ulrich to fight against the rebellion.

In 98 CE, the marriage between the Prince of Ulrich and the Princess of Lanpur to which Captain Albus called by invitation to the Kingdom of Ulrich where he attended the wedding and re-acquainted with the Fleet Leader of Lynch who were to accompany Prince of Ulrich with 100 ships to Lanpur, **Captain Alysa of Lynch**.

#### Battle of East Hills

In Summer of 100 CE, Lanpur came under attack of the sea mercenaries led by a **Neo-Assyrian Warlord**. The Siege of Lanpur lasted a year and ten months to the beheading of its king, **King Olton Batson II**. Following the Siege of Lanpur, war spread over the lands to the Kingdoms of **Southern Tymeria** and **Eastern Ulrich**, Captain Albus sailed across the western shores to the **Sternlands** with a fleet of 20 remaining ships, and was charted as a convict of the **Tymerian Empire**.

In February of 102 CE, Captain Albus settled in the southern port town of East Hills, **Heather's Port**, docking 20 galleon ships and befriended the **Lord of Heather's Port**, **Lord Caron Marshall**. Sometime during the End of Summer of 102 CE, East Hills raised arms in rebellion against the **Kingdom of Basilius** for the Independence of East Hills, where many vassal houses including **House Valmont**, **House Ivanstar**, **House Isenwood**, **House Marshall**, **House Goodworth**, **House of Pyne**, **House Stanley of Queensgrace**, and **House Simpleton** raised banners. Captain Albus Seaborn joined arms with the Rebel Houses of East Hills on the invitation of House Marshall and laid waste to the Portside of the East Hills fronting Greenlands with a fleet of 20 ships, while 10 ships docked in Ivan's Keep and 10 ships in Heather's Port protecting one of the major houses among four who rebelled against the crown. The Battle of East Hills lasted five months until the death of Prince Weston in combat and death of combined three thousand men in battle, ending in the Pact of Greenlands, where East Hills was declared a separate kingdom with House Valmont elected as the Royal House of **Easternlands** while Houses Ivanstar, Pyne, Stanley, and Simpleton became noble houses, and Captain Albus Seaborn was given **Lordship of Greystone**, a small region on the **Pink River** and **Pyne** crossing, connecting with the **Eastern Watch**.

#### Lordship of Greystone

In Winter of 102 CE, Captain Albus Seaborn became **Lord of Greystone**, a small region on the crossing of Pink River and Pyne, connecting a river pathway to the Eastern Watch. Following the Lordship of Greystone, Captain Albus Seaborn took on the formal name '**Lord Albus Rodney**' and founded **House of Greystone** in 103 CE.

In 105 CE, following the settlement and growth of his house, he travelled with 20 ships east to the **Balkan States**, leaving Greystone in charge of his brother-in-arms and uncle, **Lord Rodney Seaborn**. After arriving at **Port of Elk**, under the newly formed **Kingdom of Tyrinia**, Lord Albus was arrested by royal fleet on orders of crown. Lord Rodney aclaimed Lord of Greystone, under the Kingdom of East Hills and the Eastern Watch came to an agreement with King of Tyrinia, King Justin I, and returned to the former State of Lanpur, that now acted as Vassal Province to the **Holy Kingdom of Roma**. Lord Albus reunited with his lover, Fleet Leader of Lanpur and right-hand of the Governor of Lanpur, Duke Lucius, grandson of the **Last King of Lanpur**. Lord Albus offered an alliance between the two kingdoms of the Vassal Kingdom of Lanpur and the Kingdom of East Hills and Eastern Watch with the marriage of himself with the Fleet Leader of Lanpur. And the following Spring, the Wedding Ceremony that would unite the two kingdoms took place in Lanpur, in the City of Lynch.

### Love Affair & Marriage

In 97 CE, Captain Albus Seaborn went on a diplomacy envoy to the Kingdom of Ulrich by the Kingdom of Lanpur during Lanpur's Rebellion as peace treaty by marriage. In Ulrich, Captain Albus reunited with his uncle, Captain Rodney of Sogut, and became acquainted with a woman of remarkable taste in war, music, literature, statesmanship, and swordsmanship in a masquerade by the name of **Alysa of Lynch**. Following the peace treaty between the two kingdoms, Captain Albus returned to Lanpur with aid of 20 ships.

In 98 CE, during the marriage between the Prince of Ulrich and the Princess of Lanpur, Captain Albus invited by the Royal Scroll of Ulrich attended the wedding and reacquainted with Fleet Leader of Lynch, **Commodore Lady Alysa of Lynch**, who accompanied him back with the Prince of Ulrich and 100 ships to Lanpur.

Following the Siege and Fall of Lanpur, Captain Albus sailed across the western shores to Sternlands, from which he returned to Lanpur three years later, and reunited with his former lover and also after a heavy beating both in a duel and fist skirmish while Lord Albus ran for his life in the entire City of Lynch. In 105 CE, Lady Alysa of Lynch and Lord Albus Rodney were married off.

### Children

In 101 CE, during the Siege of Lynch, Commodore Alysa of Lynch and Captain Albus Seaborn made love between war councils and battle, to which the Commodore Alysa bore a son, the result of an intimate and licentious affair. The boy was named Jon. Following the Fall of Lanpur, Little Jon and Commodore Alysa disappeared and acclaimed dead to which Captain Albus sailed across the western shores to the Sternlands. After reuniting with his wife and son, Lord Albus took Jon and Lady Alysa to Greystone where they lived under the formal names of **Jon Rodney** and **Lady Alysa Rodney**, **Lady of Greystone**.

In 107 CE, Lady Alysa bore Lord Albus another son who was named after her dear friend and king, **Duke Lucius of Lanpur**, named **Lucius Rodney**. And a year later, Lord and Lady of Greystone were blessed with a daughter, named **Elia Rodney**.

In 114 CE, Lady Alysa and Lord Albus were blessed with a third son who was named after the King, **Arryn Rodney**.

Lady Alysa suffering from black pox died in 119 CE while giving birth to healthy girl, named after herself, **Alysa II Rodney**.