Terrence Peake

The Black Rose

Terrence Peake is the son of Ser Desmond Peake, and his wife lady Jeyne Tarly. While not the immediate heir to Starpike, Whitegrove, and Dustonbury, he is second in line after his father.

Further so, while his father stands before him in the succession, Ser Desmond has never been a bold man, nor a strong-willed man, a fact which has given Terrence much room for rise during more recent years.

## Appearance and Character

Despite his being a future Lord of House Peake, Terrence is not black of hair as are the Black Roses from which their faction draws their name. Rather, Terrence is brown of hair, and blue of eyes, the latter much akin to his Lord grandsire and a number of other members of the House Peake.

Terrence Peake further stands at rather a respectable height, and so has the body expected of one so trained in the combative arts. Suffice to say, Terrence is musclar and well-built.

Character wise, Terrence is not his grandsire, nor his father. Where his grandsire plots in the shadows and uses information in roundabout ways to his advantage, Terrence would rather approach the situation head on and face it with strength and heart. Where his father so too schemes like his grandsire, and spends days counting coppers and balancing books, Terrence leaves such to the men of lesser birth. Terrence's field of performance, is that of the sparring ring, the battlefield, the realm itself.

Terrence Peake is a man of action and determination, which is not just a statement written in ink, but one he himself wholly believes. Addtionally, Terrence is not one to fast forget an insult, or a perceived insult, but will rather brew on it as a matter of honor, until the situation is so resolved.

## History

### 78 - 93 AC

Even with the Fourth Dornish War in 83 AC, Terrence's youth proved a prosperous and peaceful one. While at first, at the outbreak of the war, Terrence had been residing at Starpike with his family, upon the orders of his grandsire, Lord Uther Peake, he and the other women and children of House Peake were fast sent on to Dustonbury on the far side of the Mander for safekeeping in the event that the Dornish did gain some minor success. Save this instance of war, with it lasting not even a year, Terrence's childhood was characterized so by the typical pursuits of a highborn boy.

Though, most distinctly, Terrence proved to have quite the talent for combat, with Starpike's master-at-arms remarking upon how Terrence was, "an absolute menace!", with a blade in hand, and much the same with other such weapons. Additionally, Terrence further proved to have a skilled and thorough understanding of warfare and how best to prepare and lead men into battle.

In addition to such traits that made him into the man he would become, and one with a true talent for combat and warfare, Terrence so too had proven throughout his youth to never forget an insult, no matter how small it may seem to others. For Terrence, an insult, whether levelled at he, or any other member of his House, was personal, and demanded resolution in the name of honor and justice, and as Terrence was quite so skilled with a blade, this led to the young Peake engaging in a number of duels as a youth.

Further still, during his youth, Terrence grew rather close with his cousins Tyrell, even so coming to view them as further, most especially so as his own siblings and he had quite a gap in age, and those Tyrells born of his aunt Samantha Peake were ever present it seemed.

### 93 AC

Alas, peace was not to last forever. Come 93 AC, the King on the Iron Throne, Viserys Targaryen proved a drunken fool. Managing to insult nearly every House in the realm, much of the realm rebelled against this young Valyrian King, this foreigner in a land of First Men and Andals, and so, at the age of ten and six, Terrence took the knee before his Lord grandsire and readily claimed his knighthood, a thing which he still holds the greatest pride in to this day.

And so, riding alongside his Lord grandsire, his own father, his uncle Ser Arlan, his cousin Ser Mychel, and a number other Peakes, Terrence felt as high as the Eyrie. Though that would fast change. In a slew of battles, from the Fall of Grassy Vale, to the Battle of Blueburn, and onto Longtable where Terrence did see his first real fighting, and the Reach found real success for the first time, and then onto the Slaughter of Bitterbridge, in which Terrence saw both his uncle, and so too his close friend, his cousin, Ser Mychel, cut down by the loyalist forces. Yet, further still, at Bitterbridge Terrence did so too learn what it was to go to war, and what it was to be wounded in battle, for in the midst of the bloody and vicious fighting on the walls and on the sixth day of fighting, a stray arrow did so knock itself deep through the chainmail of Terrence's armour and into the muscle just above his right pec where his arm joined his shoulder.

To this day, Terrence still recalls vividly the pain he had felt, and how he thought himself about to die as a royalist charged him as he found himself having fallen to his knees against the walls of Bitterbridge, meekly holding his sword up in a frail defence in what he thought a final attempt to save his life. But alas, in those final moments, as the pain overtook Terrence's mind, somehow, by some miracle, Terrence did later awake inside the castle of Bitterbridge with wrappings about his shoulder, with a maester watching over him. It would be nigh on a week, five days to be precise, before Terrence would wake from anything more than a momentary pause in his sleep after he received his injury. The maester present told him of the stalemate that had continued after his injury, and of the Battle at King's Landing, and of how the King Viserys Targaryen had marched back north to deal with the Westermen, and so, Terrence was forced to spend a few weeks at Bitterbridge before he was deemed ready to travel, though, thankfully, despite the wound, suffered no permanant damage to his arm, save a scar.

### 93 - 98 AC

In the years after the Rosegold Rebellion, as it came to be known, Terrence rather spent his time in a distinct similarity to how he had before the war. Though, there were too notable differences now. Mychel was dead, women were beginning to take an interest in this someday Lord of Starpike, Whitegrove, and Dustonbury, and the revelation that his betrothel to the Velaryon girl, Naerys, which had been made when he was ten and four, and she ten and two, was drawing ever near. Though still, more notable for Terrence was how his Lord grandsire was about promoting the interests of House Peake within the royal sphere. Terrence saw his sister sent to be a Lady-in-waiting to Princess Jaehaera Targaryen, and so too saw his grandsire named High Justiciar of the Reach, which, as his grandsire had told him, would benefit their House against the overly ambitious Lord Gwayne Tyrell in his many follies.