Uther Drumm

Sylas Drumm

Harwyn Drumm

Syella Drumm

**Uther Drumm** is the oldest son of Urragon Drumm and Lyanna Greyjoy. Once the heir apparent of the Iron Islands, he is now but the Lord of Old Wyk. He is married to Frenya Blacktyde.

## Appearance and Character

Uther took more after his mother than his father; he shares her thick, dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Standing shorter and thinner than his younger brothers at just 5'11 and 170 lbs, Uther does not make for a particularly imposing figure, having preferred the Maester's chambers to the training yard, but his wit is sharp.

## History

### Early Life

Uther was born to Urragon, heir to Old Wyk, and his wife, Lyanna, on the 5th Day of the 1st Moon of 77 AC. He was a quiet, sickly child, spending his first few years moving from one ailment to the next, at times scarcely clinging to life. Nevertheless, he survived.

Though he was born the son of a lord, his first memories are as *Prince* Uther. When he was just two years old, his grandfather, Lodos Drumm, rose up in rebellion against King Torgon Greyjoy. While the war was hard-fought, with the Drumms and their allies almost failing at several points, it was ultimately a success, and when Lodos donned his new crown, his grandson became Prince.

Similarly, Uther can scarce remember a time in his life where he wasn't betrothed. Only a few days after he became Prince, he was betrothed to the second daughter of Boremund Blacktyde, Wynafryd. The pair would meet several times throughout their childhood and adolescence, though they displayed no great affinity for each other.

Where his father and his brothers would prove virtually inseparable from the Drowned Priest Cromm Kingmaker, Uther's relationship with the man was shallow at best. He attended the man's lessons as a boy, as Urragon commanded, but he had little more than a passing interest in the subject. He knows the rites of the Drowned God (what Ironborn doesn't), but their hold on him is tenuous at best. When it came time to give the boy to the Drowned God so he could become a man, Urragon, now King, *insisted* on a drowning, and *insisted* it be done by Cromm. With little ability to protest, Uther acquiesced, and was drowned at the age of sixteen.

His father's efforts to instill a martial ethos in his son and heir were marginally more successful. Uther demonstrated some small prowess with the blade, but he had little patience for it; he made visits to the training yard only when forced to, and as such, both of his brothers quickly surpassed him.

Uther much preferred intellectual pursuits. With the guidance of the Maester of Old Wyk, he studied the great military campaigns of Westeros. As a teenager, he also developed a love of cyvasse, a game introduced to him by one of the castle's Essosi thralls.

These preferences eventually spawned a series of disagreements between Uther and his betrothed, who was displeased by her future husband's disdain for more physical pursuits (a fact aided along by her own proficiency in such things). Things eventually came to a head in 95 AC, by which point the pair could barely tolerate each other's presence. Uther pleaded with his father to break the betrothal, but Urragon had little time for it.

Fortunately, the universe seemed to smile upon him. When the failed reaving to Volantis returned, sans Sigrun, her brother, the newly-minted Lord Falki, became acutely aware of the fact that, should he have no children before his death, Uther's marriage to Wynafryd would give a Drumm a claim on the Lordship of Blacktyde. After a long series of negotiations, aided along by Uther's insistence that he did *not* want to marry Wynafryd, the betrothal was broken, and a new one between him and the youngest Blacktyde daughter, Frenya, was drawn up instead.

### Young Adulthood

Though he was old enough to go on the raids to Essos, Uther never went, owing to illness on some expeditions and important duties at home for others. At twenty-one, some of his detractors have taken to claiming that Uther is *unfit* to rule the Ironborn, for how can a man who has not been reaving lead them? Eager to prove them wrong, Uther joined his father in his raid on the Arbor - and subsequently bore witness to his suicide, following their crushing defeat against the hand of the Greenlanders.

Since his father's death, Uther has grown increasingly erratic and withdrawn, seemingly grieving in his own way.

## Family Tree

### House Drumm

* Dagon Drumm, Lord of Old Wyk b. 17 AC d. 54 AC
* m. Alannys Stonehouse b. 19 AC d. 75 AC
	+ Lodos Drumm, High King of the Iron Islands b. 38 AC d. 89 AC
	+ m. Sarra Goodbrother b. 40 AC d. 68 AC
		- Urragon Drumm, High King of the Iron Islands b. 58 AC
		- m. Lyanna Greyjoy, Queen of the Iron Islands b. 59 AC
			* **Uther Drumm, ~~Heir to the Iron Islands~~ Lord of Old Wyk b. 77 AC**
			* Asha Drumm b. 79 AC
			* Dagon Drumm b. 80 AC
			* Harwyn Drumm b. 81 AC
			* Syella Drumm b. 91 AC
		- Vickon Drumm b. 60 AC d. 79 AC
		- Esgred Drumm b. 61 AC
		- m. Aeron Harlaw, Lord of Harlaw b. 53 AC
			* House Harlaw
		- Erena Drumm b. 63 AC
		- Dagmar Drumm, Master of Arms of Castle Drumm b. 64 AC
		- Dacey Drumm b. 66 AC d. 74 AC
		- Raya Drumm b. 67 AC d. 74 AC
		- Syella Drumm b. 68 AC d. 68 AC
	+ m. Helya Wynch b. 59 AC
		- Harras Drumm b. 80 AC
		- Qhorin Drumm b. 82 AC
		- Mara Drumm b. 85 AC
	+ Gysella Drumm b. 42 AC
	+ Goremond Drumm b. 44 AC d. 79 AC
	+ m. Kyra Rivers b. 45 ac
		- Rickon Drumm b. 64 AC
		- Loren Drumm b. 71 AC
	+ m. Rhea of the Shields b. 48 AC d. 74 AC
		- Alannys Drumm b. 67 AC
		- Yara Drumm b. 70 AC
	+ w. unidentified ironborn woman
		- Wex Salt b. 65 AC
	+ Wulfgar Drumm, steward of Castle Drumm b. 48 AC
	+ m. Erena Stonehouse b. 51 AC
		- Lyra Drumm b. 70 AC
		- Artos Drumm b. 73 AC
		- Maege Drumm b. 75 AC
		- Halleck Drumm b. 78 AC