Yssa Greyjoy

## Lady of Pyke

380 AC

Jayne Sunderly

Aeron Greyjoy

Andrik Greyjoy

Balon Greyjoy

Jayne Greyjoy

Yssa Greyjoy nee Sunderly is the Lady of Pyke and rock wife to Lord Reaper Vickon Greyjoy. She is the eldest of four children and grew up a salt daughter of Lord Yron Sunderly and his salt wife Marya on the island of Saltcliffe. A seasoned reaver in her own right with a penchant for talking her way out of trouble, she is well-known in the Iron Isles as the more personable facet of House Greyjoy. Yssa is protective of her friends and family, and following a series of events through their lives that ultimately led to their marriage, she and her husband Vickon are considered an inseparable duo.

## Appearance

Yssa may tower over many in her presence, but this phenomenon is mainly the effect of her personality; the woman is short and lithe, standing at just over five feet of compact muscle and fire. Her skin tans in the days after being badly burnt in the sun from working the deck of a ship, highlighting the many scars covering her body from various battles won and lost. Callouses dot her hands from years of handling lines and wielding blades. She laughs easily and smiles even easier, her voice the perfect pitch for telling animated tales around the ale-stained galley table of a ship.

Her charcoal hair is often braided and elaborate plaits that no Ironborn should rightly know how to do, to keep the heavy strands off the back of her neck in strong sea winds. A rough-hewn beauty when she was younger, Yssa has aged like the strong wine she drinks, but her pale grey eyes have lost none of their sharpness and vigor, often catching the moonlight on particularly clear nights with an unnatural glow.

She is mostly seen wearing her mother’s sailing coat: a weathered thing of smoky black wool, warm and slightly oversized, frequently mended by a skilled hand, with wide cuffs and antiqued brass buttons bearing the kraken sigil of House Greyjoy (they were once tarnished silver, embossed with the drowned man of House Sunderly, but have since been replaced due to age and disrepair). It is rare to see her without this coat, and is thought to be one of her most prized possessions — alongside the slim, beaten silver cuff she wears on her left wrist stamped with a kraken and made from the melted blade steel that once belonged to a few ghosts of her past.

## History

380 AC - Yssa Greyjoy is born Yssa Sunderly, first daughter and child to Lord Yron Sunderly and his first (and favored) salt wife, Marya. Unfortunately, Marya dies in childbirth, leaving Lord Yron distraught and hateful of his daughter. Her brother Yrel, born to Yron’s rock wife Cimbre, is born a few moons later.

383 AC - Yssa’s younger sister Jocasta is born to Yron’s second salt wife, Lyra. Yssa is instantly enamored with her, and becomes unnecessarily protective.

385 AC - Yrel is far larger and stronger than his elder sister, and doesn’t let her forget it. She often returns home bloody and bruised, but despite her mother’s insistence she never gives names; instead she harbors them close to her heart, where all the best grudges are nursed.

388 AC - During Lord Yron’s nameday feast, Yssa meets Vickon Greyjoy, the heir to Pyke. Unwilling to participate in her neglectful father’s celebration, she hides away within the hull of the Scavenger, one of House Sunderly’s ships — in which she soon discovers Vickon has retreated to as well. The two spend most of the night sipping on a stolen flask of wine and exchanging secrets until it remains too cold to stay.

391 AC - Yssa is found half-dead by some other children, seemingly drowned, and is barely revived by the Drowned Priest Galon. She spends half-a-moon recovering and emerges from her chambers with renewed sharpness in her eyes. While she has always been cold with her brother, her attitude towards him turns positively frigid. She spends more and more time away from Saltcliffe, most notably on Pyke with Vickon, who has quickly become her best friend.

392 AC - After several years of childish flirting, Yssa kisses Vickon when he is granted his own ship. He names it on her suggestion — the Drowned Havoc — and the two grow closer as she accompanies him on both day-long sails and short raids.

394 AC - Lusting after his sister and jealous of her relationship with Vickon, Yrel attempts to overpower Yssa; to his shame she turns the tables on him and beats him into a bloody pulp. Lord Yron forces Vickon away from his daughter, insisting on his bad influence for her behavior. It is all for naught, however, when Yrel departs on a raid and does not return, presumed dead.

396 AC - Yssa finds comfort and solace in a new blossoming connection with Carron Botley on his ship, the Iron Stallion. Later that year they come across the wreckage of a ship and pick up the sole survivor: none other than Vickon. Their reunion is bittersweet, however, ruined by her new relationship with Carron.

397 AC - Vickon uncovers a painful truth: that Carron had attempted to rape Yssa’s younger sister, Jocasta. Yssa plans a trap with him to take Carron on a raid upon which the Drowned Havoc emerged unannounced. Carron’s crimes were presented to both crews, and he is executed. The Iron Stallion is sunk, along with any crew member still loyal to Carron. Yssa marries Vickon, and their first child is born later that year — Urrigon.

398 AC - Vickon and Yssa’s second son, Aeron, is born mid-year, in the calm following a particularly terrible summer storm. He is a beautiful child, meant to break hearts.

399 AC - Vickon and Yssa’s first daughter and third child, Jocasta (named after her aunt), is born early and on the sea. She has a difficult struggle in the days until the Drowned Havoc returns to harbor, but survives far stronger than the mid-wives imagined she would.

400 AC - Vickon and Yssa’s third son, Andrik, is born. He is the calmest of their children as a babe, and his mother loves him instantly.

401 AC - Vickon and Yssa’s fourth son, Balon, is born. He is fussy but strong, often causing trouble for whoever was charged to watch him.

404 AC - Yssa experiences a particularly painful and traumatizing miscarriage; overwhelmed with guilt, she attempts to push Vickon away, causing a minor falling out between two who had previously been inseparable. Vickon insists on remaining, however, and helps his wife heal from the loss. In the last moon of the year, their second daughter is born: Jayne, in honor of Yssa’s second sister.

407 AC - Vickon ascends his father to become the Lord-Reaper of Pyke and Lord of the Iron Islands. It is then that Yssa informs him of why Carron’s crime had been especially heinous: less than a year prior Jocasta had already been raped by their father. Vickon sentences Lord Yron Sunderly to death, and Jocasta becomes the Lady of House Sunderly.

410-415 AC - Yssa joins Vickon and their Iron Fleet to fight against the Braavosi as they raid up and down the Narrow Sea. She loves the fight and the travel, but longs for home and her children. After one too many close-calls to death, Yssa insists they return home for a time to replenish their Fleet and reunite the family. They take an extended route back home, reaving Essos on the way, before finally settling back in the Iron Isles.

## Possessions

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### Weapons

* Her handaxe, Maelstrom, gifted to her by her friend Rona as a wedding present.

### Trinkets

* A small compass of Myrish make attached to a chain around her neck, gifted to her by her husband Lord Vickon Greyjoy, upon their engagement.
* A silver cuff, shaped right on to her wrist so it can never be taken off, crafted from the melted steel of the blades of Yron Sunderly and Carron Botley.

### Other

* Her sailing coat, once owned by her mother Marya.

## Connections

* Vickon Greyjoy - Husband and childhood friend; having been married for almost two decades, their bond of trust and loyalty runs deep.
* Lady Jocasta & Jayne Sunderly (& House Sunderly) - Her sisters, and the only family she has left in the world; she would do anything for them.
* Victaria Drumm - A close childhood friend and confidante.

## Rumours

* Beloved by most of the Isles, it is told that she can weave a story so intricate, the shadows come to life with her tales.
* Some say she is actually a sea witch changeling who took Lord Yron’s true daughter in order to steal into the Lord-Reaper’s bed.

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