Axell Waters

Ser Axell Waters is the Sworn Shield to Gael Celtigar. The bastard son of a noble of House Crabb and a fishmonger's daughter, Axell has spent many years traveling the Free Cities, but now finds himself in service to a house he once spurned.

## Appearance and Character

Axell's weathered, craggy face serves as evidence of his travels and travails across the Narrow Sea. His short golden curls sit above sharp green eyes, and prominent aquiline nose. Standing roughly six feet tall, he prefers to garb his wiry strong build in garish patterns and colors.

Good-natured, and quick to laugh, Axell has seen much in his travels, and few things surprise him. Age has sapped some of the strength of his youth, so prefers the tip of his tongue, rather his sword to wrangle his way out of trouble. Not that he seeks trouble out, but there are just too many fair women in the world, and too many jealous husbands.

## History

Born in a fishing village along the Bay of Crabs, Axell was presented to Ser Duncan Crabb, a scion of the noble house, and acknowledged as a noble bastard. This allowed for a noble education, martial training, and all other perks of high birth; an upbringing he took to quite well.

In 79 AC, Axell would finally earn his spurs by proving his valor in the Hook Uprising. The knighthood he had dreamed of in his youth, was soured, for he had earned it cutting down his neighbors of House Brune and Pyne - boys he had feasted and trained with.

Not long after his promotion, Axell was assigned to serve in the household of House Celtigar. However, with the distaste for Westeros politics fresh in his mind, he boarded a vessel not bound for Claw Isle, but instead for Tyrosh.

For a nearly two decades, Axell spent roaming the Free Cities, earning coin fighting for the various sellsword companies that littered Essos. Away from the rigid discipline of Westeros knightly training, he learned quite a few less than honorable means of surviving on the battlefield.

Never one with a good head for money, Axell spent his coin faster than he acquired it, and he left a trail of debts and bastards from Free City to Free City, until the time came when his face was no longer welcomed in the marketplaces. Taking that as his cue to return home, he spent his last silver on passage to Crackclaw Point. As a parting gift, the Narrow Sea sent pirates to raid the merchant vessel he boarded - vicious pirates, who practiced a barbaric policy of leaving no survivors. But the Gods were not finished with him just yet, for a patrol of House Celtigar arrived just in time to rescue the trading galley from massacre.

Grateful for a second chance in life, Axell pledged his service to House Celtigar - the noble house he had been assigned to so long ago. Indeed the Gods were not without irony. Proving himself more than capable among the household guard, he found himself assigned as personal guard to the young daughters of the late Damon Celtigar. He took a paternal shine to the young noblewomen, in particular, the sharp wit of the precocious Gael Celtigar. Serving as her guard during her frequent trips to the Red Keep, Axell soon found himself gladly serving as Gael's Sworn Shield once she secured a position as Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

## Recent Events

Axell accompanies Gael as she travels to Storm's End with the royal family, to the wedding of Prince Daeron Targaryen and Serra Baratheon.

## Family

Duncan Crabb b.38 d.78

Anya Fisher b. 40 d.75

* **Axell Waters** b. 58