Edmund Florent

**Edmund Florent** is the current Lord of Brightwater Keep. He is the only son and secondborn of three children to be sired from the marriage of the late Lord Ryam Florent and Lady Ceryse Florent.

At current, as he is unwed, his heir is his older sister, the widowed Lady Alicent Florent.

## Appearance and Character

The Reach can be defined by two things; wealth, and warmth. It is these that the appearance of Lord Edmund Florent most conveys. From head to toe, Edmund's attire is so clearly of an undeniably exquisite quality. Whether it be armour for joust or battle, cloaks for riding, or tunics for whatever else the Lord of Brightwater Keep may be about, his attire would never be mistaken for anything as sad and dour as that worn by the Lords to the north. Further so, with hair of a fiery red, eyes of an emerld green, and skin bearing a kind lick of the sun, Edmund's appearance marks the warmth that is so known to the Reach, most especially so the south.

Much in the same vein speaking of warmth, Edmund does try his best to convey a warm persona to others, though has been known to tire fairly easily of those he considers boring and lacking in worth to hold his time and focus. As one would expect, Edmund has rather a streak of self-importance, and has been known to be somewhat of a menace with the serving girls within Brightwater Keep, rather causing conflict with his religious upbringing. Though, such said, he is not without merit and worth of his own.

Over the years Edmund has proved himself quite a spectacular combatant, and has even so too built for himself quite the military mind. Additionally so, Edmund has been known to hold his family close, having not once pressured his older sister, Alicent, to remarry since her husband's untimely departure from the world.

Moreover, a warm and entitled exterior, while truthful, does not speak to the extent of the man that is Edmund Florent. For whatever the reason, be it from birth or by chance of upbringing, Edmund has rather a wicked streak that lingers beneath the surface. Yet, such is not to say the Lord of Brightwater Keep possesses an unwieldly rage so base and unrefined, no, Edmund Florent is a man with a refined sense, with a cool calm that brings the storm, and a wicked smile to enjoy the rains.

## History

### 78 - 93 AC

The youth of Edmund Florent would not be one defined by external factors, but rather by the simplicity of nobility. Lessons, wealth, luxury, excess, companions, women, name it, Edmund had it. His earliest years were peaceful, as one would expect, and saw a strong sense of Faith instilled in the boy at the hands of his dear mother, as she herself was rather the pious woman. From his father, well . . Edmund loved his father, there is no denying that. This was not a relationship of hate, of want and envy, of broken feelings, no, it was simply just that, well . . Lord Ryam wasn't particularly astute at anything. And so, Edmund's great skills and talents in life would be nurtured by others, by the master-at-arms of Brightwater Keep, Ser Rycherd Reddings, while his keen military mind would come from his own curiousities, though he never spent much time reading, and so too from the castle maester, Osbert.

Yet, as Edmund grew, less pious parts of his personality began to shine through. Where he had once practiced combat solely for the purpose of betterment, it had become now by his mid-teens that he was skilled enough so that he duelled other boys his age, and even a few years his senior, for the simple sport of it, and for the fun of beating them down, of striking his opponent, it was a hunger, undeniably so, but one that went uncommented on, for none wished to unsettle the delicate balance that was a highborn ego and temperament. Further still, Edmund was caught with his first girl at the age of ten and five, not abed with her, but near to, which saw rather a larger number of eyes on him for a time, though in time, those eyes waned, and proved able to be fooled, and so did Edmund find his fun.

### 93 AC

93 AC. The Tyrell had named himself King. Edmund, in truth, had thought it all rather a bit of fun. His was not an opinion of judgement, either way. Neither against it, nor for it, Edmund served alongside his father as his squire and earned his knighthood at the age of ten and five in the wake of the Battle of Longtable, not for any service in particular, for rather out of pride for his lone son, and heir.

The remaining fighting proved incredibly fierce, with Bitterbridge coming to be a black mark on Edmund's mind and memories, with it not often being a thought he enjoys, for as much as he had enjoyed the battle, he did not enjoy the mass slaughter he experienced all around him, with a great many of his childhood companions dying in the slaughter. Ultimately, when the war would come to an end, it was the Slaughter at Bitterbridge that most came to define Edmund Florent, for never since has he had friends like he once did, but rather he has had serving girls, the daughters of passing merchants, farmers' wives, and whomever else he desired within the Florent lands. And while there is no denying Edmund has an immense.. Appetite, there is so too no denying that the Slaughter at Bitterbridge left a mark, and changed the young lordling.

### 93 - 99 AC

The years after the war saw little from the heir to Brightwater Keep outside of the Reach. It was now so that Edmund Florent found himself harbouring a stern hatred of the Stormlords, and a similar dislike of the Crown and the King that wore it, but in truth, his immediate interests kept him otherwise engaged within Brightwater Keep and the lands of House Florent. Such was, at least, until the recent misfortunes, with his older sister returning home, widowed, in the wake of her husband's untimely passing, and the subsequent passing of his Lord father due to illness, and consequently, Edmund's own ascension to the title of Lord of Brightwater Keep.

Now, the Lord of Brightwater Keep travels to Storm's End, an opportunity, it may be, or at least, his mother has so convinced him.