Victor Tyrell

Lord of Highgarden

Lord Paramount of the Mander

Defender of the Marches

High Marshal of the Reach

Warden of the South

**Victor Tyrell**, also known as the **Tourney Rose**, is Lord of Highgarden and Warden of the South. Like his grandmother and sister, Victor is as very much a social animal, considered to be the embodiment of knightly virtues: He is regarded as being honourable, chivalrous and courtly amongst most of the southern kingdoms.

## Appearance

> *"There had never been a prettier man to breathe the sun-baked air of the Reach. A golden rose, indeed, who had thrived in the adoration of his father's court.*" - Elinor Tyrell's thoughts.
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Victor Tyrell is considered beautiful in a typical Tyrell fashion: A mess of lazy, tawny brown curls that tumble down his back, his brown eyes bright and lively. His face appears as if it were sculpted, with notable features such as an aquiline nose, cleft chin and bow-shaped lips. He is lithe, fit, and tall for his age. His arms are described as being as strong as his jaw, and has the frame "*of a man who has tilted a lance every day of his life*."

## Biography

### Background

Victor Tyrell led an early life of great privilege and splendour within the lavish halls of Highgarden. Even as a child, Victor was unruly and rowdy, terrorizing his mother's handmaids as he bounded down the halls, trying to outrun an exasperated Maester Olyvar.

As he grew older, Victor came to excel before his master-at-arms, though he was still an incorrigible troublemaker with his academic instructors. Indeed, most athletic activities came naturally to him, with swordplay and horsemanship being the mere tip of the iceberg.

Yet, while he all too eager to spar in the training yard until he could barely lift his arms, he disdained stewardship and other such clerical duties. And so, he would often engineer plans which would allow him to escape the unending boredom.

Victor always loved tourneys: the wonderous displays of chivalry and gallantry that are rarely found outside the Southern Kingdoms, especially the Reach. He similarly grew to adore hunting trips, although in his youth, he was barely old enough to ride along and so would instead watch while the older men speared the harts or boars. Finally, Victor loved celebrations: name days, weddings - he never failed to delight in the food, songs, dancing, guests, and general merrymaking.

#### A Wilted Rose

When Victor was a young boy of seven, his dear Lady Mother was taken by a sickness, leaving only his father and grandmother to care for him and his younger sibling. Still being young, Victor was inconsolable for many days afterwards, and it was months before he'd even remotely returned to acting like his old self. Losing his mother was one of several reasons that he would soon grow so attached to his father, as he was the only parent Victor had left.

#### Life as a Squire

Serving as squire to his father, Garth, Victor gained his first taste of blood against the bands of brigands and outlaws who would dare to terrorize their realm every now and again. While ambivalent to shedding the blood of such knaves, Victor was fonder of tracking them down, favouring the hunt and the excitement it entailed.

His pursuits saw him knighted at the age of sixteen, only two days after his name-day, marking what was perhaps one of the proudest moments of Victor's young life. He would soon enter into his first tourney and won himself much acclaim by climbing fairly high up the lists. Victor became a common sight at many such events, often appearing alongside his father, who similarly took great joy in testing his skills against the honourable knights of Westeros, both from the Reach and from neighbouring kingdoms.

#### The Tourney at Gulltown

A year later, when he was seventeen, Victor gained greater glory still at the Tourney at Gulltown, held to celebrate the birthday of Lord Rowan Arryn, winning the melee. Sadly, it was also during this tourney that Garth tilted against Grover Mooton, and was eventually killed by a lance lodged in his arm. Durran Baratheon had scooped up Garth and carried him to the maester's table, but before they could even begin surgery, Garth had already died from a loss of blood. After witnessing his father get cut down by one of the very things they'd both loved, Victor has never again been seen in any tiltyard since that fateful day.

Six months after that fateful day, Victor's reign has been as peaceable and prosperous as that of his late father, according to public knowledge. In private however, he remains largely apathetic to the more mind-numbing aspects of successfully running the Reach. Nowadays, he is apt to disappear from the premises and leave his assignment untouched, to be discovered hours later.
Though Victor may have been educated in strategy, he lacked much of the know-how which could only be garnered by experience. Despite his capabilities, Victor knows startlingly little about the horrors of war.

Now alone in the world save for his sister and grandmother, Victor began acting out even more brazenly than he had prior, showing an utter disregard for who might catch him doing something untoward for a young man of his station. Consequently, his reputation with some was not as great as it was once, and in a few cases, was never too grand to begin with: Farmers, hunters, simple butchers or millers, not to mention the young maidens of the court and his fellow knights, that was where his support was strongest. However, amongst the minor Lords of the Reach, and especially the various armed hosts of the Reach who are supposedly meant to march for war at his summons, it seems Victor is not as popular. From what they'd seen and heard, he was little more than a drunkard who'd never known true conflict outside of the tiltyard.

### *The Reign of Dragons*

Victor Tyrell is seen after a hunt, making merry with his friend and cousin, Rawen Hightower, and Alyssa Tyrell's handmaids. Upon talking to his grandmother, Elinor, he learns that he has been put forth as a bridegroom to Torrha Stark, much to his annoyance. After being found abed with Denyse Redwyne by his sister, he's summoned to a family meeting. There, he is informed that he's to host several members of House Targaryen and, in preparation for the arrival of his bride, put an end to his relations with Denyse. Later on, Victor is indeed present for the arrival of King Aeric as well as Prince Vaegon and Princess Daelaena. Victor and Vaegon quickly strike up a rapport on the following day, discussing both family and marriage in equal parts. When Victor requests some advice from him on who he should consider matching his sister with, Vaegon is unable to help him much, but does say Victor would do well not to make her the bride of someone in House Targaryen.

## Personality

Six or so months after his father's passing, it was evident that Victor had not come to terms with it. Furthermore, it seemed closure was unlikely to come to him anytime soon, as rather than face his sorrow, Victor has spent most of the recent past trying to run away from it in any way he possibly can. His favourite method of doing so was to just continue on as though nothing happened and pretend everything he knew was the same as it had always been, with all that entails. His reluctance to reconcile his past with the present has led to the worsening of some of his lesser traits while also formulating a few new ones.

By far, Victor's greatest weakness was his irresponsibility, which was a recurring problem for him as far back as childhood. Always eager to enjoy himself, he has often put amusement, whether it be his own or that of others, over the troublesome burdens which constantly plague those in positions of power. Often citing the need for a change of scenery to help him with administrative duties, Victor openly flouts and shirks his responsibilities as Lord Paramount of the Reach.

Victor also demonstrates reckless and impulsive behaviour. Guided by the heat of the moment without regard to what could happen immediately after the fact, he does not stop to ponder overly much before he acts. Bold as he is, it's often to the point of audaciousness, which in turn will see him overstep himself quite considerably. Try as he might, Victor's presumptuousness leaves him notably vulnerable to this pitfall, seeing him press his luck in the hopes that his latest venture will pay off even when the odds are not in his favour.

Moreover, Victor's sense of honesty means that he can occasionally be a bit impetuous, the cutting disposition of his remarks closely resembling those of none other than his dear grandmother. Alyssa might be the brains, but if anyone can replicate Elinor's verbal wit within the family, it's undoubtedly Victor. The problem is that while he's learned to hold his tongue before the Tyrell matriarch, just about everyone else (including his sister) is fair game.

In recent months, Victor has become much more prone to aggression. Victor feels an injustice has been done to him and his family that they did not deserve. Worse, there is no specific person he can condemn, as most accidents tend to be blameless, leaving him with plenty of bellicosity but nowhere to rightfully focus it.