Martya Rivers

Martya Rivers is the bastard daughter of a whore and Manfryd Tully. She was raised by Ser Jon the Bard, believing herself to be the bastard daughter of Ser Marq the Cobbler. She serves as Ser Jon’s squire, and second in command to the Bards. Raised on the ideals of the cobbler rebellion, she sees nobility of all kinds as her natural enemy.

## Appearance and Personality

Martya has light reddish brown hair with fierce thin eyebrows and dark eyes. She has a demeanour of force about her, not at all a betrayal of her true character. She may lack the looks and prettiness of mosat decently well-known ladies, but she has several times the daring, and takes being treated as lesser than as an insult by those she doesn’t respect.

She is quite aggressive, at best reckless and at worst merciless. Martya would take a small slight against her and turn it into a full scale duel. Despite her mentor’s best efforts, this raw aggression runs free in her, only controlled by those she respects the most.

While some may call her life banditry, Martya prefers to call it ‘justice’. Stubborn in her ideology, except with those she respects the very most, she has always been the doer in the two-person inside circle of the bards, regardless of any other underground members. However, the young woman still has much to learn as Ser Jon will teach, whether he succeeds or not.

## History

Martya was born in 114 A.C, amidst the Cobbler Rebellion, to a tavern wench and Manfryd Tully. She would know neither parent, as only two years later her mother would give her off to Ser Jon the Bard for safekeeping, the man who would serve as her surrogate father throughout her life.

Martya never grew up in any one place. Travelling around between camps and villages, and even some towns or castles. Her life with Ser Jon was a life constantly moving, sometimes to familiar places but otherwise completely unfamiliar locations. Ser Jon ensured his young adoptive daughter saw the worst of ‘noble tyranny’ wherever they went, and Martya developed a distrust of highborns that, mixed with her temper, could easily turn militant. Her hate also expanded to mercenaries, whom she believed dishonoured their conscience in the way they fought, and even simple bystanders or supporters of the nobility, believing them traitors to their people.

When she saw her eleventh name day, Ser Jon took on his adopted daughter as a squire. On that day, their relationship underwent a significant change. Where before Martya would be the clear child compared to Jon, learning about the world and what she required to know from him but ultimately an underling. Now they were clear equals.

Martya learned the important facets of laying ambushes in the forests that they spent their camps in, laying traps of sort for Hedge knights that reached their ‘territory’. She sparred with Ser Jon and even surpassed him in skill, choosing to use her skills against the occasional Hedge Knight that she ambushed in the woods, sometimes killing them in the end but still increasing her skill as she secured a larger purse.

## Meta

Attribute: Bellicose

Skills: Ambuscade (MAR), Skirmishing (MAR), Weapon proficiency: Swords and Shields (COM), Endurance (COM)