Mace Wildflowers

**Mace Wildflower** is the current Master of Whisperers and closest advisor to the Queen Myrcella II Tyrell. He's the bastard son of the late Prince Lyonel Tyrell and his lover Rylene Florent born just a year prior to his father's death in the War of White and Gold. The young boy was taking in by King Alester I Tyrell and raised as though he were a trueborn Prince in King's Landing alongside the future King Garlan I Tyrell and Queen Myrcella II Tyrell.

As he grew into a man in his own right, Mace would propel into the skies as he used diplomacy and guile to take a band of young hungry warriors into the heartland of the Dragon where he'd birth a revolt during the War of the Last Dragon.

## Appearance and Character

The White Rose's Bastard is a tall man standing at 6'1 ft with a rather slender figure. With light brown hair and pale grey eyes that resemble his father, the great Prince Lyonel Tyrell, and grandmother, Queen Dacey Stark before him. It’s said that if not for his large ears, one would have never guessed that he was anything but the spitting image of Prince Lyonel Tyrell. It's said that the bastard's eyes hold the same softness of the White Rose as well, but behind them, there is quite a different story.

Amongst the roses, Mace is their thorns. He’s a man willing to work within the shadows and do whatever is required of him to secure victory, no matter how horrible or cruel it might seem. Since he was a young boy, Mace was often troublesome given the circumstance of his birth and the loss of both his parents. But as he grew that rough and prickly attitude flourished into a more refined and calculated one. With age, he's turned into a quiet man who is often watching, listening, and thinking about all that is unfolding around him so he can begin to plan ahead of his peers.

His shadowy nature has brought him great fortunes, and even greater fears as he's begun to truly understand the weight that comes with his lineage and the crown which sat upon his greatest friend and now his cousin, Myrcella. It first took the War of the Last Dragon for the young bastard to grasp just what he could do and what he was willing to do for the crown, for his kin, and himself. There will forever be a portion of Mace that never left the streets of Myr, and it will serve to drive the new Master of Whisperers to great lengths as he strives to further himself in the dark and dangerous field he now occupies.

## History

The circumstances of Mace’s birth are at the top of a long list of reasons as to why the White Rose’s Bastard is the man he is today. In the middle of the War of White and Gold, as brother fought brother, Brightwater Keep, the home of the Florents was surrounded by White Rose supporters in the form of Tarlys and other houses that inhabited the Lower Mander. Inside the keep was Lady Rylene Florent, the young fox who had fallen to Prince Lyonel’s charm just under a year ago. She carried in her belly, the bastard child of Prince Lyonel, the potential heir to the White Rose. For months, the siege dragged on and sadly distraught by the quarrel between her dear Prince and her kinsmen, Rylene Florent gave birth to a son but died during labor.

The War of White and Gold would not just take his mother however, moons later, the Prince of Dorne would lead a charge of spearmen that would kill Lyonel Tyrell. Leaving the newborn Mace an orphan only a few moons after he was born. Were it not for King Alester taking pity in the young boy and taking him in, Gods know what would have come of the White Rose Bastard. Instead, he was taken to King’s Landing, where he was to be raised alongside his cousin, the boy whose birth had sparked the war that had left his parents dead and him with little but a bastard’s name. Little did anyone know the heir to the Iron Throne and the illegitimate son of a rebel would become the greatest of friends, even from a young age. Mace’s upbringing in the Red Keep would bring a sentiment of distaste at worse or general ignorance about the little Flower boy who ran amuck in the Red Keep.

Though with every instance of trouble he brewed, constantly at his side was none other than Prince Garlan. Both were in the care of an absentee father, or uncle in Mace’s eyes and with no true guidance from the King. In their shared chivalric tale, where Garlan was the good and heroic King, Mace was the dark shadow who ensured he was just that. Though the pair often did their best to save one another from beatings, it would often be Mace’s wit and temper that would drive them into trouble in the first place, often convincing his elder cousin to follow through the hidden passages of the Red Keep that he’d found and mastered.

It would begin to sharpen as they grew into teenage boys, Mace would begin to dive into his lineage. He carried the blood of Tywin Lannister, Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, and so many other great men, and yet he was viewed as nothing but a bastard in the eyes of the masses. It only truly began to affect him at the age of thirteen when a girl he’d fancied called him nothing but a rebel’s bastard when he brought up that he might one day wish to court her. Enraged by the insult, the young Mace threw a fit and repeated all he’d learned of his lineage, before of course being pulled away by his cousin Garlan, to calm down and direct himself into something more productive. That slight would be the first of many to come, and as they grew more frequent as he became a teen. Mace turned from being an extroverted young boy into a quiet and often shut in teen, who’d moved to sharpen his mind into a tool to one day correct the stain upon his name.

He’d spend his early adult years refining himself as he traveled through Westeros and the Free Cities, laying down the foundations for the man he’d one day become. It took others looking down on him or simply not giving the royal bastard a time of day, but that all changed when his uncle, King Alester perished after finally succumbing to the toll the War of White and Gold took on him.

It would be the years following that Mace would truly flourish into a man. With Daena’s invasion of Westeros and her giant dragon, it was said that all was lost for the Tyrell dynasty. That the ruling house was born from a union with the children of Robert Baratheon and of Mace Tyrell, would burn just as others had at the hands of the Mad King who’d propelled their ancestor into power. The Dragon Queen and her heir had studied all the failed invasions before them, they’d prepared for everything and moved from one region to the next with calculated precision as if they’d planned for everything to come. But little did they know that while they could plan for knights and nobles, they could never plan for the unorthodox mind of an ambitious bastard.

With their home now besieged after the failure that was the Battle of Duskendale, the Small Council and King Garlan retreated to King’s Landing, where they all but admitted they had no clue of how to proceed. Daena had burned through the Westerlands and would likely be on her way to the Trident to repeat the same. Were it not for Mace Tyrell, they’d have no clue of what to do next. He offered to put his own life in danger for a plan that many would have considered a path to certain death, but Mace had another idea. He told King Garlan of how he’d grown familiar enough with the people of Essos during his travels to work out a plan to bring the fight to her homeland, where he and any man who’d follow him would do everything in their power to bring death and destruction upon the Three Daugther’s heads.

Mace and his men snuck out from the besieged city with the help of smugglers. They’d make the long trip to Weeping Town and then onward to Myr. Where Mace had made a few friends with magisterial families during his trip to the Free Cities. Once he’d made his way into the city and found a safe location to settle in, Mace was informed that not only had the Myrmen grown displeased with the loss of trade, Tyrosh and Lys had also grown to dislike the current war effort. But their ruling class had stood firmly with the Dragons as they’d been promised great things to come and were certain the fire breathing beast could bring them all they’d ever wanted. Instead, they’d find themselves up against a man who’d made his way into Essos to wage all-out war. Thugs, ruffians, cartel members, and poor men were all willing to side with Mace so long as he ensured their pockets were lined and their stomachs full.

The war was the first time he’d truly put his mind and morals to the test. Mace utilized every tool at his disposal, from sabotage, manipulation, and assassination. It had all been second nature to the ambitious and cunning young man. His thugs carried out hits on a near regular basis, one of which was the targeted assassination of the Prince-Admiral of Myr’s wife and sisters. Thugs employed by Mace were ordered to butcher them and their guards during an attack in the market early one morning, leaving behind “Valar Morghulis” etched in the blood of his family. The murders were the last straw of the Prince-Admiral, soon after he’d bring the city into a full lockdown, to which Mace and his men did their best to hide in a rather seedy portion of the city.

Though as Myr grew closer to the bring, it would soon become known that it was not the only city that happened to be targeted by the Wildflower. In Tyrosh and Lys, his agents worked to do just as they’d done in Myr. Murdering elites and their families as a means to birth chaos and disrupt their daily lives, while also pushing the poor, guilds and the like to take up arms against the ruling class.

Eventually, as the murders continued to grow bolder and frequent, the Prince Admiral turned his eyes towards the people he’d never trusted. The merchants who’d suffered not just under Daena’s rule but also during his lockdown. It did not help that the sellswords who’d been under his employ and were awaiting their orders to sail for Westeros, would have been mistreated during his lockdown and spiral downward. All the while Mace continued to use his men to further the divide, even going so far as to plant false evidence of crimes against the Sellswords as a means to push the Prince-Admiral.

But as he’d moved to target the Merchants, they elected to not wait for him to strike first. Horonno Hothar, a Glassmaker was the first of many to strike out and order his sellswords to attack the City Watch of Myr. Mace would do all he could to continue the downward spiral and push other Merchants to join the fighting and they would.

The White Rose’s Bastard and his merry band of misfits, nobles, and thugs were said to have been in the epicenter of the fighting as Myr fell. This would forever be marked down as one of the bloodiest periods within Myr, as the merchants sought to finally retake control of their city. Elsewhere, Lys and Tyrosh would feel the effects and do just as Mace had hoped. They too would rebel and declare themselves free of the Dragon Queen.

In Essos, Mace had won his war and sought to return home with his surviving forces. But it would be just as he prepared they’d heard news that King’s Landing had followed into the hands of the Targaryens, which only hastened his return home. But just as he’d try to leave, a messenger from the Iron Throne’s friends had given him blueprints to a weapon never quite seen before.

One way or another, it seemed the Gods had truly wanted the bastard to be the man who’d driven the final dagger into the heart of the Targaryens. The final words he heard were but simple ones, “Valar Dohaeris”. All Men Must Serve.

And for his King, Mace had endured horrible things during his stay in Myr, only now to return home to do the same. After docking at Weeping Town, Mace rushed forth for Harrenhal where he’d show his cousin and all who’d listen of the blueprints.

That would be his final true effort during the war, following that Mace would simply take the role of a commander within the forces who’d move onward to skirmish with the Golden Company. But it would all come to a swift end when Drogon was finally shot down by the scorpions and the Slayer of the Last Dragon took Daena’s life.

All in all, Mace had taken great pride in what he’d done. If not for him, the war would have been all but lost. Each honorable knight, kind lord, sweet noblewoman had him to thank for preventing the Dragon’s from ruling Westeros once more. Instead of being seen as a hero, Mace simply moved onward to Braavos, where just months after the war he’d become the Crowns Representative to the Iron Bank.

His time in Essos would prove to be an interesting one, but one that would be cut short not too long after King Garlan’s death. It had truly broken the young man to receive word that his greatest friend had perished but it hurt more to realize that he would miss his funeral, but he’d return home in time to go with his cousin, Queen Myrcella on her royal progress.

Shortly after he’d become the Master of Whisperers and as he’d already held a great life long bond with his cousin, one of her closest advisors and greatest allies both as a friend and as a member of her court.

## Family tree

The Interesting Bloodline of a Bastard

*Myrcella I Baratheon, Queen on the Iron Throne*, b.290, d.346 AC

* m. *Willas Tyrell, Prince-Consort*, b.276, d.
	+ Princess Rosamund Tyrell, b.309 AC
	+ *Tommen II Tyrell, King on the Iron Throne,* b.312, d.351 AC
	+ m. *Dacey Stark, Queen Consort*, b.315, d.358 AC
		- *Alester I Tyrell, King on the Iron Throne*, b.334, d.375 AC
		- m. Leona Hightower, Queen Consort, b.335
			* *Garlan I Tyrell, King on the Iron Throne*, b.357, d.382 AC
			* *Prince Ormund Tyrell*, b.362, d.378
			* Myrcella II Tyrell, Queen on the Iron Throne, b.363 AC
			* Princess Elinor Tyrell, b.365 AC
		- *Lyonel Tyrell*, Prince of Highgarden, b.338, d.360 AC
		- w. Rylene Florent
			* **Mace Wildflowers**, Master of Whisperers, b.359 AC
	+ Princess Alerie Tyrell, b.316 AC
	+ *Prince Victor Tyrell,* b.319, d.368 AC
	+ m. Aemma Arryn, b.322 AC
		- *Prince Eldon Tyrell*, b.340, d.380 AC
		- m. Lianna Velaryon, b.343 AC
			* Princess Lyanna Tyrell, b.363 AC
			* Princess Serise Tyrell, b.364 AC
		- w. Someone
			* Bryan Waters, b.367 AC