Joffrey Lannister

## Family

* Tywald Lannister † (Father)
* Tya Lannister (Mother)
* Tyrion Lannister (Brother)
* Lancel Lannister (Brother)

**Joffrey Lannister** is the brother of Tyrion Lannister, and direct heir of the house in the event of his brother's death. That was the way it had always been for Joffrey, in the shadow of his older brother. Even from a young age, it was the only person that their father seemed to focus on. Such was the way of noble life however, something Joffrey never took offense to in his youth. His brother would one day rule the Rock, and Joffrey would be his most loyal servant. Whereas his brother learned to play the part of a lord, Joffrey instead undertook the test to become a knight. As peaceful as Westeros had been in Joffrey's earlier years, the need for those to preserve the chivalry of the land was ever-needed. Joffrey never dreamed that one day, he would have to hone in those years of training to defend the honor of the Westerlands.

Three years ago to this day was when the Reyne Conspiracy began. Everyone on the Rock knew something was wrong, with the way that Lord Tywald was acting. He simply wasn't his normal self. Where there had once been a strict sense of discipline, it turned into mere aggression and almost into violence. The exception was only for those dearest to him, strictly speaking: His family. Within weeks, he had rallied the banners against the Reynes. For all Joffrey knew, they had committed some kind of crime and were to answer for it. All of the Westerlands had come together, while the Reynes and Tarbecks cowered in their castles of old. While the rest of the family attempted to settle, Joffrey argued with his lord father every day and every night. To come with his father, and act as a knight of the realm as he had intended to be. Tywald vehemently refused this however, and left Casterly Rock with a garrison detachment to specifically watch after Joffrey.

It felt like they had waited for weeks, when Lord Tywald returned. From the highest point of the Rock, it was obvious to any fool that the army was almost abysmal in size compared to the proud thing it had been before. What happened? Surely the two houses couldn't have devastated the host on their own, it was damned-near impossible. Fearing the worst, Joffrey ran from the highest point, took a horse and met his father in the open field. It was a solemn madness, his father seemed bewildered and rugged from when they had last met. It was like a part of Tywald had died during that trip, and Joffrey would never understood, even when the circumstance was laid before him. There were whispers among the soldiers as Lord Baratheon and Tully were not too far behind. Only held back by minor skirmishes of those outriders brave enough to try holding back the gargantuan host.

With what little of the Lannister host remained, they all holed up within Casterly Rock in preparation of a coming siege. Days after, the Iron Throne's army arrived en masse. Joffrey remembered when their siege was entirely ruined, no terms were made, when their stores of food had been sabotaged by some unknown assailant. The next two months were a null state. People survived off what they could, but what little remained was soon gone. Fighting began, the worst offenders were usually hanged. In the last month, people were starving and even Joffrey and his brothers could feel themselves waning with each passing day. Tywald and what remained of his host gathered, and stormed down Casterly Rock to meet the Throne's host head-on. Each man fought valiantly, but their courage did not make them any stronger. Within an hour, the half of the Westerlands had suffered heavily from losses as lords died by the dozens. In a spiteful rage against his father, Joffrey rode into battle with his sword forward and cut his way through the battlefield to reach his father's side.

Lord Tywald had already suffered a terrible injury, Rogar's hammer had nearly blown apart Tywald's right arm. Completely disabling the Mad Lion, while others that would defend him were kept at bay by the swarming might of the Stormlands. Without hesitation, Joffrey threw himself from his horse and drew close to fighting Rogar himself. However, before he could land a decisive blow, he was torn away from the fight by Morcant Banefort. An older, stern man that had been the boy's mentor since he was just a child. Dozens of swords closed in on their position, and both mentor and student were surrounded. Even after the battle was finished, the two fought like demons trying to cut their way through the crowd. But it was impossible, and there were plenty either more experienced from the Bartos Conflict, or simply more developed or younger than the old man. At the end of the fight however, they managed to slay a few men and inspire enough concern that soon they were surrounded by crossbows. Before their bodies could be littered with quarrels, Lord Rogar intervened and spared the two for their obscene bravery in such a bleak situation. Although Joffrey had to be held down, it was there that he was knighted by Lord Rogar himself. The process was a nightmare that Joffrey still has, his own screams and thrashing haunt him to this day while everyone he loved was dragged away in shackles.

His gung ho attitude earned him merit across the Seven Kingdoms, while his father was damned to death. He was painted as just an innocent youth who had such love for his father that he was willing to put his own life on the line to save his father's. This earned him the name of Lionsteel, the sharp and unyielding claw of the Lannister's that would rip and tear until the head of the lion was taken off.

It has been near three years since this has happened, and since then his father was put to death without trial. While his older brother was stuck in the past, Joffrey did his best to move on. Even if that meant dragging some of the past into the present day. Relations between the family degraded to such a point that Joffrey could never be found at the Rock, always searching for a new fight. Looking for something, something to give him purpose and reason so that he could just move on from the steel that he had become. His constant companion on the road, despite his seeming brutality, is Conor Clegane. The two make a team, one that speaks of a true bond from their shared experience on the battlefield and afterward. The two, when fighting, are like two sides of the same coin. One that fights with virtue, and the other with sheer brutality.

## Personality

Although Joffrey has only ever experienced one true battle within his lifetime, that one battle was enough to change him. Before he had been someone in the light of the world, a care-free lad that held a certain naivety of how his world worked. Ever since the Reyne Conspiracy, he sits betwixt the light and shadow. To almost everyone who meets him, he is brusque but polite enough. He does not hesitate to put his strengths to use, even if that comes at the detriment of others. He hates hearing the stories that people weave about him, especially the misunderstood spring youth that everyone seems to pine him for. Even when people simply ask for his side of the ordeal, it's not uncommon that he reprimands them callously. There is a part of him that hates the way he's become however, tormented by the way the world has shaped him. There is no pity, just anger. Although few have known him long enough to truly see this side of him.

## Attributes

 Investigation
 Medicine
 Animal Handling
 Perception
 Nature
 Religion