Celwyn of Fishmonger's Square

Celwyn during the four-year winter (art by toerning).

A youth, barely at the cusp of adulthood. Inheriting two fisheries after his father's death, Celwyn plans on making the most of his inheritance and expanding the business. Known to be charming and resourceful, Celwyn stands ready to face the world.

## Appearance and Character

Lanky, thin, dirty blond hair and big-eared, Celwyn isn't the definition of attractive, but what he lacks in looks he makes up in smarts.

Though still quite young, Celwyn is known for his gregarious nature and his intelligence, learning High Valyrian from Essosi refugees who came to King's Landing.

Known to also be quite industrious, Celwyn would often be seen alongside his father, Wyl, checking the various logbooks and accounts of the fisheries, making sure that the business was making enough income to keep his family afloat.

While Celwyn might appear to be an innocent enough lad, it isn't uncommon to hear rumors from his neighbors that he is quite fond of a drink, especially if it is in his favorite brothel.

## History

### Early Life

Celwyn was born in 422 AC, to a family of fishermen. His father had acquired a fishery before his birth and made some capital from it.

As a youth Celwyn enjoyed a slightly more privileged life than other smallfolk, due to his father being a man of trade he was able to learn how to read, write and count. It was in his education that Celwyn found most of his interest.

Celwyn never found it hard to be with other children his age, being amicable and generally gregarious. Unlike his countrymen, this gregarious nature did not cease when encountering those of other lands. He particularly enjoyed the company of the Essosi, so much so that he began to learn and become proficient in their language.

### The Blue Winter

The Blue Winter marked Celwyn gravely. As the waters of the Black Water froze, his father's fisheries began producing less and less fish. The cold winter was so brutal that it even led to his father losing a few fingers due to frostbite.

During that terrible winter, the worst of it was his mother's multiple miscarriages. Being smallfolk, Wyl had married his wife out of love instead of duty, it pained him seeing his wife bear miss born after miss born.

Perhaps the Gods fancied themselves merciful because nearing the end of the Blue Winter the babe in his mother's belly stayed there. As the months rolled on and the winter grew less harsh, however, his mother fell with a fever sickness, taking her and the babe.

This made his father melancholic, and even after the dreadful winter became summer his father was never the same. Their relationship soured and Celwyn began looking less at his father for guidance and more towards his peers and friends.

### Teenage years

As Celwyn grew into the cusp of adulthood he began experimenting with the seedier parts of King's Landing. The growth into manhood often leads to lechery and a want for the forbidden. Disregarding the Septon's words about the Seven Hells that would await him if he did not seek the Mother's Mercy, he and his friends would often seek brothels and gambling houses to the displeasure of his father.

In this new environment that he found himself in he learned how to fake documentation, copying signatures and wax seals to almost perfection. Though for fear of dooming his family business if he used it while working on official documents for the fisheries, he would often use his skills to make some coin on the side, aiding some less respectable merchants.

### Four Year Winter

Another foul winter would happen during Celwyn's lifetime. This one was worse than the last, while the Blue Winter had made his family's accounts plummet, this four-year long winter saw them almost drained. His father almost sold one of his fisheries, if Celwyn had not talked him out of it.

Gods only know how Celwyn survived this winter. He and his father had to chop much of their house's furniture and doors for firewood by the end of the winter. They were left with bare essentials: a study desk, a hearth, a stool, and two hay mattresses.

### Aftermath

After the ground finally thawed and the Black Water began flowing once more, his family had to rebuild. Perhaps the Mother had pity on them, or maybe it was the mere guiding hand of the market, but after such a harsh winter the price for food had risen.

The family began a good profit once more, and for the last months of 438 and the start of 439, his economic conditions had improved and were roughly at what they were pre-winter.

However, it appeared that the Stranger knocked on their door once more. The cold winter had given Celwyn's father a cough that would not leave, and it appears that on the 4th month of 439 AC the cough got worse and worse. On the 5th month his father, Wyl, finally succumbed to the sickness that held him.

## Family

* Wyl, of Fishmonger's Square
* Tarla, of the Hook
	+ Celwyn, of Fishmonger's Square.