Vickon Greyjoy

Son of the Sea Wind

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Meera

Jocasta Greyjoy

Jayne Greyjoy

Quellon Greyjoy

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Vickon 'The Kingfish' Greyjoy is the Lord of the Iron Islands and the Lord Reaper of Pyke as well as the head of House Greyjoy. He wields the Valyrian steel sword Nightfall, which he took from a corsair in his youth.

## Appearance

The Lord-Reaper of Pyke has the stern look of the sea in his eyes. Vickon’s hair is short and dark black, with a cropped beard across his face. His skin is light of color and his brows of medium thickness. His shoulders are thin and his arms are of near equal slimness. While he is not toned, he is slim and does fashion some muscle to his bones. Vickon Greyjoy is 6’0. Vickon wears a long black leather coat over his black tunic. It is salt stained. His wife Yssa has a similar black long-coat.

## History

Vickon Greyjoy was born in the dark of night on Pyke in the year 100 AC, at the the turn of the century, to Jeyne Farring. Even his birth was mired in conflict. His father Rodrik Greyjoy was not present when he was born, for he was out preparing to fight for his seat as Lord of the Iron Islands. At the age of three, he was betrothed to Yssa of House Sunderly as a result of the Ironborn Civil War.

His father was of course victorious, leaving Vickon to be raised in the brooding years of the Isles. He was exclusively taught by his father, whenever he had time to teach. While their relationship was not particularly warm, there was mutual respect between father and son.

For the first ten years of his life, Vickon saw brothers and sisters born, learned how to sail and maintain a ship at sea, and on larger scale, and learned how to navigate expertly on the seas.

However in 114 AC, he got the chance of a lifetime. The peasants in the Riverlands had risen up under the banner of Marq the Cobbler. The Ironborn utilized this opportunity to reave and raid with a free hand under the blank check of their corrupt High Justicar. Vickon’s father used this opportunity to appease his more hungry lords, those desperate to raid. With their restrictions on shipbuilding having ended years ago, the Ironborn descended. Vickon was put in command of his own vessel, his future flagship \*The Drowned Havoc\* and was let loose on the Riverlands. The revolt itself spread to the Westerlands giving the Ironborn a whole new target. For three years the Ironborn feasted on the Riverlands and Westerlands, using their bought out Justicar to label any village they came across as filled with rebels.

His men spent three years plundering alongside the other Ironborn, leading terrifying longships up and down the coast.

Vickon Greyjoy was an accomplished reaver by the age of seven and ten, but the man that would be known as ‘The Kingfish’ would be born in the Stepstones and Essos.

After the Cobblist Revolt ended. The Ironborn were unable to raid with a free hand. Being forbidden by Lord Rodrik from reaving the North, and outside of a brief conflict in Oldtown, there was but one place left to go.

### **Essos.**

Leading any man who would come, the young heir to Pyke took his ships and his men and set off to Essos. This is the tale of those four years from 116 to 119 AC, and how the Valyrian steel sword known Nightfall fell into possession of Vickon Greyjoy.

For a while, the Ironborn raided trade vessels going to and from Essos, seizing them of their plunder. Occasionally they’d have Tyroshi ships trying to stop them, which they would send running. As months passed, Vickon sought greater and greater prizes. There were various pirate lords scattering the Stepstones, all with a varying degree of wealth. On his seventeenth Name day, Vickon and his friend, Arryk Harlaw and his brother Victarion, led a surprise assault on Grey Gallows and took the Pirate Lord utterly unawares. After killing him and taking his men as thralls or recruits and looting his treasures, Vickon moved on to his next target.

Vickon and his enriched men had been tipped off by one of the pirates of a Braavosi treasure fleet off the coast of Tyrosh, meant to be the massive dowry between one of the noble houses of Tyrosh and the Prestayn’s of Braavos. Using this opportunity to bag the score of a lifetime, the three men thus devised a scheme to rid the Braavosi of their treasure and take it for themselves.

Vickon and his mates decided on dividing the fleet. Victarion would take a portion of the fleet and attack the protection vessels surrounding the treasure ship. They would bog them down and lead them away while the remaining ships would strike the now less defended treasure ship.

The plan worked like a charm. Victarion not only managed to draw away the majority of the enemy fleet, but broke their ranks. Vickon used his innate knowledge of naval warfare and Arryk set the rest to route and took the treasure ship and all it’s riches. When all was said and done, even the most common of their fleet was enriched. The men named him “King of all the fishes”, referring to the fact that all men of the Isles that came with him were rich with plunder, even the “little fishes”

There were thralls and Salt wives to take for all alongside the gold, but the finest of them was for the Heir to Pyke. Bellanora Prestayn was taken as one of Vickon’s salt wive’s. Bellanora Prestayne was thus stolen from her betrothed in Tyrosh.

Alongside all their wealth and all their treasure, Lady Prestayn sought to try and win her freedom. She devised a plot to get the Ironborn, who to her were naught but Pirates, to free herself. Whispering into Vickon’s ear, she told him about the Pirate Lord of Bloodstone, the most powerful pirate of all the Stepstones.

At first Vickon was unsure, but then she told him about the stories of his magical sword, one that glimmered and cut through anything. Assuming incorrectly that these ‘pirates’ would believe it truly was magic and not Valyrian steel, they would fall into her trap.

Bellanora knew that the Pirate Lord of Bloodstone, the Nameless Corsair as they called him, was allied to Tyrosh, a privateer against their rivals in Lys and Myr. Lady Prestayn hoped that the Nameless Corsair would negotiate her release or slay the pirates. She was in for a surprise.

Heading out to Bloodstone, the Ironborn were hungry for even more wealth, and Vickon the prestige of a Valyrian steel blade. Arriving at Bloodstone was Vickon’s fleet, and they prepared their assault. Bellanora soon discovered these were more than mere pirates. Leading a second surprise attack, the Ironborn landed on Bloodstone and carved a bloody path through the pirates and corsairs of the Nameless Corsair. Finally, Vickon met his foe. As the battle raged, the two found one another and dueled for hours with their weapons, proficient in the art of sword fighting. Vickon lost three swords, each worn down against Nightfall.

Finally, the two reached a crescendo. Vickon was wounded, but managed to tackle his foe off balance, with one knocking the two down into the fray of battle, at risk of being trampled.

No one truly knows what happened, as they fighting went further inland, both the Nameless Corsair and Vickon had gone missing. Night came and went and as morning arrived, the Ironborn had soundly defeated their foes and taken much of the island and its treasures. Victarion and Arryk went out to find their leader, only to discover him covered head to toe in blood, wounded and weak but wielding Nightfall. It was said one blow of pure precision ended their duel.

He met his men, declaring victory and proclaiming the Iron price, his men hailed him as “KING OF THE FISHES! KING OF THE FISHES! KING OF FISH!”

“KINGFISH! KINGFISH KINGFISH!”

It was then he ordered the sacrifice of all those captured to the Drowned God as a thanks for their victory. Some say that so much blood was spilt that the water ran red even in Tyrosh.

There was news of his father’s failing health and rumblings of a Pentoshi-Myrish fleet being gathered to drive them out. The Kingfish, with his wealth and his new sword in hand, returned home to the Iron Islands where he would take the title of Lord of the Iron Islands and Lord Reaper of Pyke. He would then marry Yssa Sunderly, his betrothed and on and off lover for many years who had sailed with him to the Stepstones.

There are many tales told of the Bloody Battle of Bloodstone, with some even questioning if Vickon did slay the Nameless Corsair. The Lord Reaper never spoke about his fight with the Pirate Lord after they went missing, nor was his body ever found. Some detractors of Lord Vickon in the Greenlands claim that Vickon took the sword from the pirate in exchange for his life, while others say that he bought it with the gold price. While unknown if true, what is known is that the Ironborn left Bloodstone with less gold and treasure than they arrived with.

Some say this is proof of their claims, but others contest that some Ironborn ships carrying treasure were sunk or lost during or after the battle.

The world may never know, as the only man who lived it is Vickon, who has never told another what occurred. Perhaps his wife but that is unknown.

### **The Cult of the Gift**

Since 115 AC, Vickon had been involved personally with a Drowned priest named Dalton the Gifted. He and his band of priests were preaching a new form of the faith of the Drowned God, or rather a different form. The ‘Gifted’ they were called. They believed that the ‘gift’ that the Drowned God gives every man was the most paramount aspect of faith, and Vickon was drawn in.

Having steadily grown more and more obsessed with the concept of the ‘gift’, even before he met Dalton, Vickon fit right in with this cult that began exploding in popularity after the Cobblist Uprising ended and after the spread of dragonblight in the Isles during the early 120’s.

Religious tensions also came to a head in 118 AC. A group of radical Septons and Septa's from the Westerlands arrived at Pyke. Vickon was informed through his \*\*espionage\*\* rings of fellow cultists on Pyke and hurried back to deal with them. His father was already ill of health and had grown more soft as he declined, so he recommended to him definite action should be taken. Wanting to remain firmly in control of the Isles, his father agreed. They would have the septon’s and septa’s killed as a strong warning to those that dared to spread their false faith on the Isles.

A mob of Drowned priests, Gifted and not, murdered the septon’s and septa’s (after defiling them) before delivering their corpses and displaying them at Lannisport.

The High Justicar of the Iron Islands at the time, the corrupt Ser Brynden Blount, who was living a lavish lifestyle on Pyke in Greyjoy's pocket, protested the killings of the septon’s. He was beaten to death by a group of thugs with clubs soon after, and a letter written to the King exposing his corruption, but framed as embezzlement of the Greyjoy’s. The thugs were then executed for the murder of a High Justicar. Thus swiftly removing two birds with one stone. Rodrik’s son was behind this plot.

After his adventures in the Stepstones concluded, Vickon returned to Pyke before his father died in 119 AC. Rodrik Greyjoy, the man who won the Isles, lived a miserable, short and stressful life. He loved his children but rarely showed it. Vickon would remember his teachings but swore on that day to be a better father to his own children.

So then did Vickon ascend as Lord of the Iron Islands and Lord-Reaper of Pyke, celebrating with a ritual drowning, saltwater blessing and a sacrifice of thralls. His on and off lover and betrothed, Yssa Sunderly, was finally married to him in 119 AC. Many children followed soon after, and men do speak of how different the Kingfish is with his wife, children and family.

His first true test as Lord of the Iron Islands came with the onset of Dragonblight from the North. Much of the wealth plundered from the Cobblist revolt was used here, to feed and care for those afflicted. As Lord, Vickon openly patronized the Cult of the Gift and utilized their priests to provide food to those in need. His priests too served as spies on the other islands in order to detect and snuff out any hint of treachery. His lord father taught him to be distrustful of the houses such as Blacktyde and Drumm, even Harlaw.

The spread of the cult continued even as the disease mostly subsided by 122 AC. Vickon largely spent these years ruling his lands and raising his sons and daughter. He and his wife had a brief falling out after she miscarried, but reunited in 125 AC. Vickon had to take up the mantle of \*\*Shipbuilding\*\* as has father had to maintain the Iron Fleet as well has his personal one.

In 126 AC, a council at Pyke was summoned, and decided to launch a Great Reaving in 126 AC into Essos once more. This time, lords, scions, heirs and commonborn alike came along. Even Greenlanders came along, those looking for adventure. A massive fleet set sail under the commander of their Iron \*\*Admiral\*\* Vickon and began Reaving up and down the coast of Essos for a year.

This went unanswered for a while until a Braavosi and Pentoshi arrived with a massive warfleet and crushed a portion of the Iron Fleet, the first defeat Vickon had tasted in years. Salvaging the remains of their treasure, the Ironborn retreated southward towards the Summer Isles and recuperated and reaved there for the rest of the year before returning home. Despite a major defeat against the Braavosi, the Ironborn generally found the endeavor worthwhile, barring those that suffered wounded pride and lost loved ones. Treasure is well and good until it costs one personally. Still, not even they can claim they did not gain wealth.

### **Current Day**

Lord Vickon spent the remaining years up to 130 AC rebuilding part of his lost fleet, brooding over his defeat. The Kingfish set sail at once to King’s Landing when Viserys died, to pay homage and swear fealty to his heir, King Baelor. His childhood friend and ally Arryk Harlaw has served as his eyes and ears and representative in King’s Landing until his arrival now, having only been there once before. All the lords of the realm come.

And he will most certainly be watching.

### **Possessions**

\* A locket bearing the portrait of his beloved wife Yssa, when they were forced to be separated.  He never let it off his person, and does not do so to this day.

## Family

* Vickon Greyjoy, b. 100 AC
* m. Yssa Sunderly, b. 101 AC
	+ Andrik Greyjoy, b. 119 AC
	+ Aeron Greyjoy, b. 121 AC
	+ Jocasta Greyjoy, b. 121 AC
	+ Jayne Greyjoy, b. 125 AC
	+ Quellon Greyjoy, b. 130 AC

## Meta

\*\*Skills:\*\* Naval Warfare(MAR) Navigation(MAR) Precision(COM) Weapon Proficiency(COM), Footwork(COM)

\*\*Mastery:\*\* Admiral(MAR)