Jasper Arryn

* 125 AC
* 99 AC

Lord Protector

High Steward of the Vale

Arwen Arryn

Desmara Arryn

Alester Arryn

Roslin Stone

Jasper Arryn was the firstborn son and eldest child of Ser Symond Arryn and his Lady wife, Sharra Upcliff. He was Lady Ysilla Arryn's late husband, the father of her heir Rodrik Arryn, and her High Steward.

## Appearance and Character

Jasper was a young handsome man with blue eyes and short blonde hair. He stands at roughly six feet and has a muscular body, showing years of devotion to his arms training. The young Arryns face was often clean-shaven revealing his strong and defined jawline.

He was a fearless young man known for his arrogance and charming demeanor, seen as friendly and open by most people who interact with him. Yet even for a kind man he had a temper that ran as hot as fire. As time went on he'd grown a tendency to swing his sword first and ask questions later, sometimes he'd forgo asking questions at all.

Yet above his temper, he still held the wellbeing of his people first and foremost. Even in his last years he strived to better their standing. He saw the Poor Fellows as a threat not just to nobles but to the smallfolk they'd harrassed, and for that he saw no need in giving them any leeway and that led to his death at their hands.

## History

### 77 - 88 AC Sheltered Years

Born on the 4th moon of 77 AC to Ser Symond Arryn and Lady Sharra Upcliff, Ser Jasper spent most of his earlier years in the Eyrie. Many of his earliest memories revolve around him running throughout the mighty castle’s halls with countless other young Valemen sent to be fostered with the Arryns.

He quickly showed great promise as a knight at a rather young age, much of which was thanks to his father pushing him to be the best version of himself. It laid down the foundation for the man he’d one day become.

Yet it wasn’t until 85 AC that he truly began to realize what his father’s lessons meant. Just when he was barely eight, Ser Corwyn Arryn was murdered by Clansmen. And then quickly following Ser Arthor Arryn’s death. Two men whom he’d grown up around taken by the harsh world around them. At the time Jasper didn’t fully comprehend it but seeing everything going on around him, hearing about what happened engraved itself into the young boy's mind.

And as an Arryn he knew he had to be the sort of man they both were. Ser Corwyn and Ser Arthor died for the Vale. The following years were bloody yet Jasper never knew what was happening outside of the Eyrie or the Gates of the Moon.

### 89 - 99 Under Gunthors Wing

By the time he became a teenager, the Vale was already at peace. With his father living in the Eyrie out of harm's way, the young Jasper found himself worrying less and embracing his joyous and often over-excited attitude.

It was shortly after his 14th name day that he began to tour throughout the Vale and meet the various Lords and Ladies. He truly enjoyed meeting new people and seeing all that the Vale had to offer, from mountains to plains and rivers. Yet shortly after he returned to the Eyrie, roughly two years later. Jasper found himself marching in what would be known as The Rosegold Rebellion. He marched alongside Lord Gunthor Arryn and ten thousand men towards King's Landing. They joined forces with retreating Riverlanders along the way, many of whom were in bad shape.

Hearing Jasper speak of what they'd gone through honestly scared the young man. But it wasn't just their words that caused that fear. But the look in their eyes as they explained how they barely escaped death. In the coming days, Jasper feared the inevitable and upon reaching King's Landing, prepared for his first battle.

And two days after their arrival, The Westermen host was at the walls. He thankfully wasn't placed on the wall itself but he took part in the bleeding that followed until they fully retreated into the Red Keep. The battle, however, didn't end there, soon the Dragonpit was breached by a handful of Westermen leaving a chunk of their forces burnt or demoralized.

Once the smoke was in the air and news of the chaos was realized. The Loyalist Forces charged out, Jasper Arryn being amongst them. The young falcon fought valiantly and slew more Westermen than he could count and by nightfall, he'd earned himself his Knighthood. While Jasper doesn't speak highly of what he had to do, he's proud that he survived and that he fought to protect his kinswoman, the Queen. Sometime later, Jasper returned to the Vale and as time went by found himself trying to prove his worth to the Lord Gunthor Arryn.

### 98 - 99 AC Finally Where He Belonged

In Late 98 AC, Jasper marched into the Reach during The White Rose Rebellion during which he was poisoned by Lucion Corbray during the Battle of Bitterbridge. Shortly after a witness informed Lord Gunthor that he'd seen the Corbray poison the son of his cousin, to which Gunthor ordered Lucions imprisonment. Up until after the peace agreement at Oldtown, Lucion was kept under lock and key. Once the men began to march home, however, Jasper was ordered to behead Lucion by his Lord of which he did gladly.

Shortly after he rushed home to hunt Lord Hunter and Belmore after they'd deserted the army at Oldtown as they prepared to sail for the Arbor. Once Jasper returned home, he moved between the Gates of the Moon and the Eyrie as he sent men out through the Vale to hunt and find his enemies. It took him some time but eventually Ser Dustan Belmore, the Knight of the Bloody Gate informed him that they'd come past on a rush to fight bandits that plagued Strongsong following the armies departure. Little did Dustan know, but Jasper sent out nearly a hundred men to find the bandits or any evidence of them. There he found nothing and quickly returned with the High Justicar, Gerold Royce, his brother in law to arrest the Belmore.

Shortly after news arrived from the Capital informing him that Gunthor had been harmed and killed, to which he and Ysilla's raised the entirety of the Vales levies, in which Jasper hoped they'd march out to retaliate. More so once Aegon claimed that if the men didn't disband, he'd leave their mountains and valleys awash with blood.

Instead, it would be Jasper who spilled blood in the coming moon, first Gerold Royce under orders of the hand attempted to arrest Jasper for not disbanding the army. Both men wielded Valyrian Steel weapons, Jasper, and the confiscated Lady Forlorn and Gerold and his Lamentation. Though in the end, Jasper won the battle and put his brother in law and friend in house arrest for daring to swing a sword at him. In the days that followed true blood was shed when Lord Yohn Hunter, the man Jasper had grown to despise more so than any other arrived at the Bloody Gate as nearly thirty thousand men gathered. Thereafter a heated argument, Yohn demanded a trial by combat, to which Jasper simply replied by ordering his crossbowmen to open fire upon the man, who quickly sought to charge him. Sadly, he died before he could get close to Jasper.

After that, Jasper received a letter informing him to march for Harrenhal where a wedding would be held. It seemed Ysilla and the King had come to an agreement, of which she'd not yet told him. There he met Valerion Targaryen and Aegon Targaryen, the younger boy was decent enough but his elder brother would quickly become a replacement for Yohn in the years to come.

But that wasn't all that would happen in two short years. After marching on Riverrun and returning home, Jasper would marry Ysilla at her request and less than a year later their firstborn, Myranda would enter this world.

### 100 - 114 AC What is a Marriage without Love?

In the years that followed Ysilla moved the Vale into a more isolated region, to which Jasper began serving as her voice outside of the Vale and if needed her sword within it. As the years went on, the pair lived in a rather loveless marriage, one of simple political and professional needs. Though of course, the lust both shared aided them in continuing to try and create more children, and in 104 AC, Ysilla birthed Jasper a son, Rodrik Arryn, a boy who was his fathers spitting image. Much of the Vale, they seemed as though a well-functioning couple, capable of creating children and certainly able to rule over their bannermen effectively.

As time went on they continued to birth more children, Arwen in 105, Desmara in 106, and Alester in 107. It seemed to be almost every year or so that another child would be born. Yet in 108 AC, Jasper made way for King's Landing once more as he often did. There he and his lover, Elinor Waters spent some time, and as expected he fathered a bastard, his first and only. Ysilla wouldn't have cared had he kept the child away, yet Jasper brought Roslin Stone with him in 109 AC, to be raised alongside her siblings.

As expected this created a conflict. One which resulted in nearly constant shouting matches, many of which would leave even their knights acting as though they'd not heard nor seen a thing when the two came to blows. The two went from their effective partnership back into their old rivalries. By the time winter began to roll in, it became an open secret that the Lady and her Lord Consort were at one another throats and even rumored amongst their bannermen that both taken others into their beds during their stay at the Gates of the Moon.

### 115 - 120 AC Lord Regent of the Vale

Shortly after they settled into the Gates, an illness took over Ysilla Arryn leaving her unable to rule. Jasper and a handful of loyal Valemen formed a regency council to which he served as Lord Regent of. At the Gates of the Moon, Jasper began as if he were Lord of the Eyrie, taking full control of the Vale as he'd always wished. Though some lords stood against this, they were unable to gather enough power to actually pressure him into being replaced. Instead with each house who'd pushed against him, the council which was packed loyalists give some leeway to the houses in hopes of gaining their loyalty.

### 120 - 125 AC The Fall of the Blood Hawk

By 120 AC, as winter came to an end, there few incidents that the 'Lord Protector' Jasper Arryn, as he'd called himself dealt with through diplomatic means with the underlying threat of violence should they press the matter. It was also the same year that Rodrik Arryn was introduced into the regency council, as a means to appease others who'd stood against Jasper.

A few years later however, petitions from Lords and the anger Ysilla held for Jasper finally resulted in his resignation and he did so gracefully with the sole demand that his son replaced him. Following that, Jasper began to take a step away from politics leaving his young son to finally step up and grow into a man.

In 125 AC, after the Poor Fellows had proven to be too big a pest to ignore, Lord Jasper Arryn, Lord Rodrik Arryn, and Prince Baelor Targaryen alongside countless others made way for Gulltown. There they
arranged a meeting with their leader Benedar, not much is openly said about the meeting but by the end of it, Jasper Arryn ordered the man arrested and left Gulltown with his head on a pike. Mere months later, Jasper and other Lords of the Vale are ambushed and brutally murdered by Poor Fellows.

## House Arryn

###### *The Lineage of House Arryn*

* Hubert Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, b. 96 BC, d. 50 AC
* m. Ysilla Royce, Lady of the Eyrie, b. 98 BC, d. 52 AC
	+ Darnold Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, b. 18 AC, d. 54 AC
	+ Ser Rymond Arryn, b. 23 AC, d. 54 AC
	+ m. Teora Hunter, b. 26 AC, d. 89 AC
		- Gunthor Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, b. 46 AC
		- m. Ryella Grafton, Lady of the Eyrie, b. 46 AC, d. 86 AC
			* Ser Corwyn Arryn, b. 64 AC, d. 85 AC
			* Arthor Arryn, b. 67 AC, d. 85 AC
			* Ysilla Arryn, Lady of the Eyrie, b. 73 AC d. 125 AC
			* m. Balman Belmore, Heir to Strongsong, b. 70 AC, d. 97 AC
				+ Amanda Belmore, b. 93 AC
			* m. Jasper Arryn, Lord Consort, b. 77 AC d. 125 AC
				+ Myranda Arryn, b. 100 AC
				+ Rodrik Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, b. 104 AC
				+ Arwen Arryn, b. 105 AC
				+ Desmara Arryn, b. 106 AC
				+ Alester Arryn, b. 107 AC
			* Queen Myranda Arryn, b. 75 AC, d. 97 AC.
			* m. King Viserys I Targaryen, b. 77 AC.
				+ House Targaryen
			* Queen Zhoe Arryn, b. 79 AC
			* m. King Viserys I Targaryen b. 77 AC
		- m. Anya Coldwater, Lady of the Eyrie, b. 70 AC, d. 95 AC
			* Carolei Arryn, b. 90 AC.
			* Teora Arryn, b. 91 AC.
			* Rowena Arryn, b. 95 AC.
		- w. Nella of the Milk Snakes, b. 59 AC
			* Willum Stone, b. 88 AC
		- Melantha Arryn, Lady of the Three Sisters, b. 50 AC
		- m. Cecil Sunderland, Lord of the Three Sisters, b. 42 AC
			* House Sunderland
	+ Ser Ronnel Arryn, b. 24 AC, d. 67 AC
	+ m. Lorra Melcolm, b. 28 AC, d. 56 AC
		- Gella Arryn, Lady of Longwake, b. 56 AC
		- m. Eldric Egen, Lord of Longwake, b. 57 AC
			* House Egen
	+ Denys Arryn, Maester, b. 27 AC, d. 90 AC
	+ Ser Jasper Arryn, b. 29 AC, d. 86 AC
	+ m. Janyce Lynderly, b. 26 AC, d. 69 AC
		- Steffon Arryn, b. 46 AC, d. 59 AC
		- Samwell Arryn, b. 50 AC
		- m. Marla Waxley, b. 54 AC
		- Symond Arryn, b. 53 AC
		- m. Sharra Upcliff, b. 58 AC
			* Jasper Arryn, Lord Consort, b. 77 AC d. 125 AC
			* m. Ysilla Arryn, Lady of the Eyrie, b. 73 AC d. 125 AC
				+ Myranda Arryn, b. 100 AC
				+ Rodrik Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, b. 104 AC
				+ Arwen Arryn, b. 105 AC
				+ Desmara Arryn, b. 106 AC
				+ Alester Arryn, b. 107 AC
			* Perianne Arryn, Lady of Runestone, b. 79 AC
			* m. Gerold Royce, Lord of Runestone, b. 76 AC
				+ House Royce
			* Roland Arryn, b. 83 AC
			* m. Maege Hunter
				+ Harrold Arryn, b. 105 AC
				+ Catelyn Arryn, b. 106 AC
				+ Rhea Arryn, b. 109 AC
	+ Ser Jon Arryn, b. 31 AC, d. 49 AC