Daven Farrow

Daven Farrow is the only son of Pate Farrow, the harbourmaster at Fair Isle. He is the captain of the smuggling ship known as the Windless.

## **Appearance and Character**

For a lowborn, Daven certainly looks like a Lord. His wavy black hair, and nicely cut beard and mustache helps. He has tiny scars on his face, left from the battles he fought, along with his three missing fingers.

Daven is an enjoyable person, to say the least. He's always cheerful, and doesn't let anyone near him stay sad. He's very loyal to his friends, would almost sacrifice anything for them.

## **History**

### **Early Life**

Daven was born on 71 AC, to Pate Farrow and his wife, an unknown lowborn lady, who died during childbirth. Daven grew up with his father who worked as the harbormaster at Fair Isle. While he was growing up, he learned a lot about ships from his father. Daven dreamed of becoming a captain one day.

#### **Joining the Windcatcher**

When Ser Aubrey Farman was returning to Fair Isle for his marriage to Valery Yew, Lord Adrian Farman tasked Pate and young Daven to take care of the ship, Windcatcher, which was the ship Adrian was intending to give Aubrey as a wedding gift. After the wedding ceremony, Daven followed Aubrey into a bar, where Aubrey was trying to gather up a crew for his ship. When Daven, a young boy of three and ten offered to join, the whole bar laughed at him, but Aubrey, knowing he was the son of the harbormaster, thought he could be of use on the ship with them. So he took him in.

#### **Pirates of Fair Isle**

During his time on the ship, Aubrey witnessed many things, including the birth of Aubreys first son, Randyll. But while returning to Fair Isle with the child, they were ambushed by pirates, who cut down most of the drew. Davens first instinct was to grab the child, taking him in his arms and rushing to the rowboat. Daven, Valery, little Randyll, and a few other people who couldn't find left for land on the rowboat, leaving some hedgeknights and Aubrey on the ship. Luckily, Aubrey managed to jump off the ship and swim back to land. Fearing for his family, he took the survivors and left for Greengrove. He paid all the people who were on board for their troubles and sent them on their way, but Daven insisted on staying with Aubrey, stating he had no place to go, other than to work with his father. Aubrey then decided to take young Daven as a squire.

### **Squiring for Aubrey Farman**

During his time on Greengrove, Daven squired for Ser Aubrey, who taught him the basics of combat. Since Aubrey was no good with a sword himself, Ser Barneby Yew instead trained with Daven. Aubrey on the other hand, taught Daven how to manage a ship, how to navigate the sea, and even how to read. When Aubrey decided to sail again, he took young Daven and took him to Fair Isle, to request a new ship from his brother, Adrian.

#### **Joining the Red River**

Aubreys new ship was the Red River, a bigger and better ship that the Windcatcher. Aubrey, didn't want the trading life he once had., so he turned to more illegal ways. Specifically, smuggling. The business boomed, with much more customers. The large amount of supplies on his ship also attracted more pirates, so Aubrey had more warriors in his ship, occasionally even hiring the pirates who surrendered after their failed attacks. He taught Daven everything he knew about captaining a ship, grooming him to be a captain someday. Eventually, one ship wasn't enough to fit all the supplies, so Aubrey purchased another one.

### **Captain of the Windless**

To Davens shock, Aubrey gave the ships command to his squire, Daven, who was only six-and-ten at the time. Daven proved he was a good learner when a group of pirates attacked them once again. The two ships surrounded the pirate ship, ironically becoming the pirates themselves, and they raided the pirates instead.

Daven proved his captainship once again, when a group of heavily armed pirates raided the two ships. The pirates were reasonable and Aubrey knew they would lose, allowing the pirates to take all the cargo without bloodshed. Daven on the other hand, challenged the captain of the ship to one-on-one combat for the loot of both ships. The captain, amused by the young captain of six-and-ten, accepted the challenge. He was not amused when Daven cut his throat open. Some of the pirates tried to attack the two ships, taking the loot by force, but the other pirates tried to stop them. Taking advantage of this, Daven and Aubreys crew both joined the fight as well, leading to to the pirates losing. Aubrey allowed the pirates who surrendered to join his crew. He gave the heavily armed pirate ship to Daven, and Davens old ship to some of the members of the crew, who decided to leave to start a safer trading business.

### **The Rosegold Rebellion**

**Battle of Kings Landing**

When the Westerlands and the The Reach, rebelled against the throne, Aubrey was called to war by his brother, and Devan went with him to battle. Adrian had sent Aubrey to Kings Landing to fight along the other Westermen. Aubrey and his brother Damion marched with the others into the city walls. Aubrey and Damion split when Damion went to the Dragonpit to kill the dragon, but when the dragon roared and smoke starting coming out of the Dragonpit, Daven knew Damion had died. Aubrey realized this as well, and with the sudden rage, he rushed into battle, slashing his way through with his battleaxe, with Daven running behind him. In the heat of the battle, the knight turned to Daven, and knighted him, to the shock of Daven.

The assault led all the way to the Red Keep, where the battle was fierce. Aubrey and Daven cut through Valemen, one by one. During the heated battle, Aubrey spotted a young knight from House Royce. He rushed at the young knight with his battleaxe, but the young knight easily blocked his blow. The two clashed for several minutes, and it look like the duel was in the favor of the young knight, who had already wounded Aubrey severely. When Daven noticed Aubrey losing, he tried to kill the opponent in front of him as quickly as possible, but with the rush came clumsiness, and he lost three fingers to his opponent, but killed him eventually. He then rushed to Aubreys aid, sticking his sword through the knights leg. The knight begged for mercy, but Daven saw the rage in Aubreys eyes. Daven turned away as Aubrey cut the young knights head in half with his battleaxe. Eventually the forces were forced to retreat, and Aubrey and Daven both survived the battle, but Daven lost 3 fingers on his left hand and Aubrey was severely wound.

### **The Nest**

After the war, Daven and Aubrey continued his smuggling business. Unbeknownst to them, Aubrey caught the interest of a criminal guild. He and Daven were tasked by people acting as customers to several challenges, which got harder every time. Harder places to navigate in the sea, docks with harder security, and deliberately setting pirates onto him. Aubrey realized something was off, but he never said a word, as he was earning good money. Eventually, he was approached by a shady being, demanding a meeting. Aubrey left to meet the man, leaving Daven in wonder. When he returned, the told daven that the shady man had introduced himself as a member of a "criminal guild" called The Nest. He told Daven that they were watching them for a while, and they wanted them to join them on specific jobs. Daven wanted to refuse, but Aubrey told him it could be dangerous if they did.