Mycal

Mycal is the current castellan of White Harbor, where he served for the entirety of his adult life.

## Appearance and Character

Mycal's age has caught up to him in force despite having a soft and protected job for all of his life. His hair has greyed and lost all vibrant brown it once had in his younger years, and his eyes may lack the youthful energy but have all the sage and wisdom from his many years of serving White Harbor. He walks with a slight limp, and no doubt his slouching demeanor is from spending so much time hunched over scrolls and parchments.

He dresses simply, preferring to wear comfortable clothing over that of extravagance, especially in his older age.

Mycal is obsessive to a fault over every minute detail of any plan he is involved with. Regardless of who he is speaking to, Mycal voices his opinions when dealing with any matters of state or coin. The man takes on a different demeanor outside of his typical work space; whenever there is no talk of money or governing, Mycal is in fact a quiet, completely unimposing man. One would not be surprised to think no more of the slouching old man as just yet another forgettable lowborn peasant.

## History

Mycal was born to a poor fisherman and his wife, a tavern wench working at the infamous Lazy Eel tavern. He found much entertainment as a young lad spending his time at his mother's work, watching men and women of all stations in life drink and jape and spill secrets. Mycal learned quickly how to sneak and hide in the shadows to listen in when men spoke, and soon enough found himself thoroughly interested listening in when people spoke of their finances.

### A Lucky Break

When Lord Medrick Manderly began revisiting the tavern to carry out his plans to revitalize and repair the crumbling embarrassment of an inn, Mycal was there. Throughout the days, the young boy watched Lord Manderly with a star-strucken daze, and soon enough Medrick began to notice the little Mycal's constant presence. Medrick found the young boy, now 9 years old, to be quite the positive and entertaining follower, and began allowing Mycal to sit with him as he pondered over the costs and plans of the inn's remodel.

Mycal surprised Medrick with his quick learning and seemingly natural grasp of Medrick's plans and ideals. Even without "proper" education, Mycal was able to understand what thoughts and plans swirled within Lord Manderly's mind, much more than even those of higher stations than him. It was to no surprise, then, that Medrick kept little Mycal around, even if nothing more than to voice thoughts outloud to the boy as he pondered over every small responsibility as the Winter's Bounty.

Despite his lower than low birth, Mycal was able to not only witness but actually *live* within the famous Newcastle and Winterfell, and lived a quality of life those born like him could only dream of.

### A Quick Learner

As Medrick's shadow, Mycal pushed himself to learn all he could from the brilliant elder man. Whenever not serving his Lord, Mycal scoured the libraries of Winterfell to teach himself all manners of subjects that he had no way of learning as the son of a fisherman. As Mycal grew older, he began spreading out from under the wings of Lord Medrick and eventually traveled back to White Harbor to serve under the young Warrick and Kyra Manderly.

Though officially serving as junior steward, if only but to save face for the Manderly family for having such a lowborn man serving in such a high position as steward, Mycal's help was invaluable to Kyra as the lady ran the city in Medrick's continued absence. Though by now quite the learned and self-educated man, Mycal still learned an incredible amount about the small and significant details of running such a massive city from Kyra Manderly.

### White Harbor's Woes

With the rest of the North facing down the Bad Years, Mycal struggled alongside Kyra to keep their beloved city from falling into ruin as it seemed the Gods themselves threw everything they could to bring down the Kingdom of Winter. Despite the threat of starvation, pirates, and even plague once again, reaching White Harbor, Mycal was almost permanently locked inside Newcastle as he worked day and night to keep all the work and progress Kyra and Medrick achieved from being undone.

With the horrible and unfortunate spree of Manderly deaths, Mycal now found himself serving under the young and new Lord of White Harbor, Marlon Manderly.

## Meta

Attribute: Diligent

Social Status: Commonfolk

Allotted Points: 14

Skills: STA: Commerce, Fortification EDU: Finances