Delos Dayne

Ser Unwyn Dayne

Ser Delos Dayne is the current knight of High Hermitage, and patriarch of House Dayne of High Hermitage. Once a renowned knight, now crippled by age and woe, Ser Delos' sole remaining wish is to live out the few years remaining to him in peace.

## Appearance and Character

Delos possesses the fair skin and light hair typical of stony Dornish, with deep blue eyes the color of a twilight sky. His hair, once a pale blond, has turned snow-white with age, and a thin stubble of the same color coats his jaw oft as not. His limbs, once powerful and lithe, are now thin and spider-webbed with old scars and varicose veins.

In his youth, Delos was renowned as a duelist and a tourney fighter. Though only an average rider, he excelled in the melee, where he was one of the few knights in Dorne to boast peerage with his distant cousins - the Swords of the Morning, of House Dayne of Starfall. Honorable and chivalrous but quick to quarrel, Delos was well-known for accepting any duel - so long as the cause was just - and responding to any slight with a challenge to a contest of arms - contests he often won.

With age however came temperance, wisdom, and eventually a deep-set and crushing depression. As an old man, Delos is soft-spoken, respectful, and prone to rambling when he does speak. His once-powerful voice has become thin and reedy, and though he still maintains most of his faculties, he is prone to despondency and prolonged episodes of severe melancholy.

## Biography

Delos was born the elder of two sons of Ser Lorrimas Dayne, and thus was set to inherit his family's seat from birth. He trained at arms from a young age and excelled with the longsword, and along with his brother quickly earned a reputation as a skilled duelist. After squiring for his distant cousin, the Sword of the Morning, he was knighted at age 18.

He would have the chance to test his skills in the third Dornish War. The Prince of Dorne at the time forbade Dornish houses from intervening in the conflict between the Vulture King and the Stormlords (and eventually the Iron Throne as well). However, a number of Dornish houses in the Red Mountains viewed the Vulture King as a threat not just to foreign interests, but domestic ones as well. Delos was among those who offered their services to the Stormlanders as guides, scouts, and warriors accustomed to fighting in the Red Mountains.

After returning from the war, Delos Married Andrya Blackmont, whose brother and father he had fought alongside in the conflict. The two had three children, all sons: Andrey, Edwyn, and Unwyn. Sadly, they would also come to outlive all three.

The first to pass was Edwyn: carried off by a fever at only seven years of age. A few years after, Delos' brother Mandon also passed at only 34, bitten by a viper while hunting in the mountains. Delos devoted himself wholeheartedly to raising his remaining sons, as well as his orphaned nephew Ryon. Especially close were Ryon and Unwyn, Delos' youngest.

In 75 AC, Andrey and his grandfather Lord Blackmont set out on an expedition to purge a clan of bandits that had settled near the headwaters of the Torrentine. After a brief and bloody skirmish, in which Andrey slew the bandits' chieftain, he was knighted by his grandfather. Two days later, whilst riding back to Blackmont, they were ambushed by a group of bandits who had been out hunting at the time of the previous day's battle: Andrey was shot through the eye with an arrow, and killed instantly.

Yet even this was not to be the end of Delos' misfortune. In 83 AC, Lord Yronwood initiated the Fourth Dornish War. Forces of High Hermitage joined those of Starfall in defending the Prince's Pass against invading Reachmen: among them, Ser Delos, his nephew Ser Ryon, and his sole remaining son Ser Unwyn. During the course of one battle, Ryon and Unwyn led a group of archers on a maneuver to flank the advancing Andal forces, and fell directly into a trap. Both were killed alongside all of their men. When Delos heard this news, it was said his sword fell limply from his grasp, and he vowed he would never take it up again so long as he lived.

The death of her third son proved too much for Lady Andrya. In 89 AC, after years of worsening depression, she died of a stroke. Ryon's bastard son Myles was taken in as Delos' ward, as were his three legitimate children: Meria, Delia, and Cameron - the youngest of whom was born a fortnight after his father's death on the battlefield.

For the last fifteen years, Delos has been a changed man. True to his word, he has disdained to even touch his once-famed longsword or don his shining maille. He sits in High Hermitage's halls, listening to music with failing ears or reading with failing eyes. His wards - once the subject of every ounce of his dedication - still gather around him, but it is clear even to them that the old knight's spark has gone out of him. With the patience of a man who knows his days are numbered, Ser Delos sits in his lofty repose and awaits the inevitable.

## Family

* Ser Lorrimas Dayne (10 - 66 AC)

* m. Sarella Qorgyle (13 - 69 AC)
	+ **Ser Delos Dayne (b. 32 AC)**
	+ m. Andrya Blackmont (34 - 89 AC)
		- Ser Andrey Dayne (56 - 75 AC)
		- Edwyn Dayne (58 - 65 AC)
		- Ser Unwyn Dayne (61 - 83 AC)
	+ Ser Mandon Dayne (36 - 70 AC)
	+ m. Nymella Wells (35 - 59 AC)
		- Ser Ryon Dayne (57 - 83 AC)
			* Selwyn Sand (b. 77 AC)
		- m. Elia Gargalen (58 - 94 AC)
			* **Meria Dayne (b. 78 AC)**
			* Delia Dayne (b. 80 AC)
			* Cameron Dayne (b. 83 AC)
		- Gysella Dayne (b/d. 59 AC)