Victaria Drumm

## High Steward of Old Wyk

The Sunset Sea

Victaria Drumm, or Lady Vic as her elder brother’s teasing once insisted, is the youngest child and only daughter of the late Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet, Roryn Drumm, and his rock wife, Engrid Harlaw of the Tower Glimmering. She is the captain of the *Iron Maiden,* a ship manned entirely by thralls hand-picked as the sole surviving member of their former crews, which were afterwards put to the sword.
A respected leader in her own right, Victaria is cunning, shrewd and ruthless not only on the waves but in matters concerning her brother’s court as well and exceedingly wise beyond her years. She is a skilled warrior, notorious for leaving very few of her adversaries alive, yet more than warring and battle it is freedom upon the sea that she craves most.

Her personal coat of arms is a pale merwoman with golden hair and tail wearing a silver crown, over a crimson field.

## Appearance

 Though written accounts will tell otherwise, it is not the grim landscape dominated by cliffs of black basalt that forge the native Iron Islanders into the ferocious seafaring warlords of legend, but rather the blood-soaked shores of the Summer Islands, the Stepstones and all the lands beyond where the price of living is steeped in iron. Beneath the endless sky above those fourteen seas, nothing manages to keep its color, not even Victaria.

The prodigal daughter of the late Lord Captain is, at first glance, the sunrise reflected in the Narrow Sea, a flaxen haired shieldmaiden with ocean eyes and a mind as sharp as her sword. A closer look reveals that the innocence of her gaze has been undone and replaced with cold flint, the honey-gold of her hair unthreaded and sewn up in the wan paleness of moonlight and the fairness of her skin unwoven and mended back rough and calloused. Where there are mistakes, they have been stitched up in scars of silver.

The only thing time has left untouched is the one thing she wishes it hadn't: a devilish smile that threatens to sack entire cities when curved the right way, and a candid tongue to match.

## History

386 AC: Victaria comes into the world a blue and silent babe aboard the flagship of House Drumm, barely clinging to life. Her father, sensing weakness, commands that she be given to the sea but her mother refuses and, through much tender nurturing and care, the infant grows stronger with each breath.

390 AC: A sickly child, weaker and slower than her elder brother, Victaria is determined nonetheless to follow in his footsteps. It is this determination that nearly costs her life when she is swept away in an undertow and rescued only by the grace of a salt wife who had been mending nets on the beach below Nagga’s Reach.

391 AC: Following the near-death incident of the year prior, Engrid teachers her daughter how to survive the rough currents around their island home (swimming). Once she masters the hang of it, Victaria is found to be a natural and can thereafter be found in or around the water that had once tried to claim her life.

393 AC: It is only in her seventh year, after the threat of succumbing to illness or poor constitution has passed that Roryn Drumm spends more than a few minutes with his daughter. She spends an entire week circumnavigating the island with him, foraging tide pools for food and learning the paths in the sky mapped out by the stars.

394 AC: Victaria is allowed to practice with the throwing hatchet and the one-handed axe and the short swords (arms) favored by the Ironborn. Her brother has years of experience under his belt by then and relishes in every bruised and battered defeat he sends her home with.

397 AC: Defeats have eventually become victories and on her eleventh nameday, Victaria is allowed aboard her father’s ship for the first time. She spends a season scrubbing the deck, patching sails and learning to tie knots among a crew of hardened men (reaving), who eventually become like family.

400 AC: Yssa Greyjoy is already married and with her third child when Victaria meets her acquaintance. The pair become fast friends over shared tales of their adventures thus far, and she often brings little gifts pilfered from the Summer Isles and beyond to Pyke between reavings.

402 AC: For her coming of age, Roryn commissions a longship which Victaria calls the Iron Maiden. A beautiful vessel of ebony wood, the Maiden is outfitted with scarlet sails that bear the personal coat of arms of her mistress and a double deck manned by fifty strong rowers.

403 AC: A whirlwind affair with Auron Harlaw results in a pregnancy that forces Victaria to leave an entire year for the distant shores of Essos under the guise of seeking out larger spoils, for she knows her father will not suffer an unwed daughter with a bastard.

404 AC: A month before her twentieth nameday, Victaria gives birth to a perfect baby boy with a shock of dark hair and a strong pair of lungs. She carries him out into the warm blue waters of the Narrow Sea and does what her mother could not all those long years ago, giving him up in offering to the Drowned God.

405 AC: Departing the Stepstones, Victaria sets sail on a voyage in search of something she cannot name that takes her along the Orange Shore to the Black Walls of Volantis, through the Smoking Sea and past Slaver’s Bay all the way to New Ghis and as far as Sothoryos.

411 AC: The Lord of Old Wyk is slain in naval warfare at the Battle at the Point and his ship sent to the bottom of the Narrow Sea. Svanrige comes into his seat but does not immediately return to the Iron Islands as his hunger for vengeance drives him to remain in Essos.

414 AC: Svanrige Drumm does not return from his wartime reaving even when news of an unsteady end to the conflict in the East spreads throughout Westeros. Still, his absence is not yet cause for immediate alarm and the Dowager Lady of Old Wyk makes preparations for his inevitable return.

415 AC: Victaria is heralded as a hero upon her return to the Iron Islands after 12 long years. She names herself the High Steward of Old Wyk, citing her mother's failing health and Svanrige’s absence, and declares that upon his coming of age her brother's eldest son will be named the Bone Hand.

417 AC: A portion of the vast amount of riches accumulated during her travels is used to build more ships, repair Nagga’s Reach, Greyhearth and even Shatterstone, and properly outfit and equip the fortress garrison. With this wealth comes a prosperity the inhabitants of Old Wyk have not known for some time.

418 AC: Victaria and her crew did not travel to King’s Landing with the Lord Reaper and his escort. She has not been seen or heard from for a few months, though that is hardly unusual for someone who claims to be married to the sea.

## Possessions

List anything valuable or of sentimental worth to your character.

### Animal Companions

* Tiegs - a rodent from the Basilisk Isles who can often be found draped over Victaria’s shoulders; it's best to watch your valuables around the little critter, for after a choice encounter with the captain one might find themselves without later.

### Weapons

* A nameless sword pilfered from the corpse of a pirate lord who once attempted to take Victaria to wife. An outrageously flamboyant thing, the blade is forged of the finest Qohorik steel and the hilt crafted of the same with an inlay of pure gold, encrusted with precious gems.
* Lightweight scale mail armor made of darksteel over which is work a form-fitting jerkin of black leather with the Bone Hand burned into the chest. The ensemble is usually paired with leather leggings, knee high boots and, on occasion, a fur-lined cloak of crimson.

### Trinkets

* A ring forged of Valyrian steel and set with a flawless ruby that seems to breathe with an unnatural sort of energy from within. It serves as a memento from her harrowing ordeal in crossing the Smoking Sea, of which she nor her crew have spoken ever since.

## Connections

* Vickon Greyjoy - The Lord Reaper of Pyke; liege.
* Yssa Sunderly - A childhood friend and close confidant.
* Ruadh Goodbrother - One of many lovers that Victaria keeps, and the one she just can’t shake.
* Auron Harlaw - A once-lover and now little more than a distant memory.
* Svanrige Drumm - Older brother and the Lord of Old Wyk; he went missing while reaving in Essos during the War of the Four Daughters, though his family continues to hold out hope for his safe return.
* Gwyneth Drumm (Stonehouse) - Sister-in-law; Svanrige’s beloved rock wife.
* Quenton Drumm - Nephew; Svanrige’s oldest trueborn child and heir to Old Wyk.

## Rumours

* Victaria made a pact while on her travels with a sorceress who used great and terrible magic to have both her father and brother slain so that she could assume control of her house.

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