Lucion Corbray

**Lucion Corbray**is the Lord of Heart's Home, and the head of House Corbray. Counted amongst the deadliest of knights, yet admired as the soul of honor and courtesy, the High Justiciar of the Vale is seen by many as the epitome of chivalry in the Vale.

## Appearance and Character

Elegant as a bird of prey, the Lord of Heart's Home is tall, slender as a sword, fair of hair with sea-green eyes set above features chiseled from the finest stone.

In the light of day, Corbray is the very ideal of Andal knighthood. His smile is bright as silvered steel; his eyes convey nothing but a courtly friendliness. Closer, Lord Corbray's mouth is hard and cruel, and his smile is wicked and achill with danger. The eyes are restless, alert, taking it all in... and sparkle bright with something sad, something deadly, and something not entirely friendly.

## Birth and Education (72 - 80 A.C.)

Lucion Corbray was born to Gerold Corbray, Lord of Heart's Home, and his lady wife, Alyssa of House Hunter on a cold day in 72 A.C.

His father, a man of letters, was preoccupied with matters more important than a son's rearing. Aside from sending across the Narrow Sea to Braavos for a master-at-arms, Gerold Corbray remained cold and distant throughout Lucion's childhood, watching his heir from afar.

The bulk of Lucion Corbray's childhood was accomplished by a septa, Loreza, and his Braavosi master-at-arms, Bylo Reyaan. Coming from a long lineage of vaunted warriors, Lucion Corbray showed preternatural aptitude for the knightly arts, proving particularly precocious with the longsword.

Other salient figures included his uncle Ser Artos Corbray, who bore Lady Forlorn, and Lucion's cousin, twice over, Yohn Hunter.

A knight of great renown, Ser Artos took to his nephew and joined Bylo Reyaan in seeing to it that the young heir to Heart's Home and the Corbray lands was given the bracing upbringing befitting the future of House Corbray.

Young Yohn Hunter was the brother Lucion truly had. His cousin by way of Lucion's mother, and by way of his paternal aunt Berena, the two were inseparable from a young age.

Despite the best efforts of his mother and Septa Loreza, Lucion Corbray developed into a haughty if talented youth. On turning eight, Heart's Home's young heir was sent away to ward at Runestone, where it had been arranged for him to squire for his uncle Robar, Lord of Runestone.

## The War in the Mountains (80 - 88 A.C.)

Soon joined by young Yohn Hunter, Lucion found a home at Runestone. His master, its ruling lord, was a storied captain and though stern, well-loved by his subjects, and as his cupbearer and squire, Lucion Corbray learned much of lordship and statecraft. From Lord Robar, he learned much of the traditions held dear in the Vale by First Man and Andal alike.

When war erupted with the Mountain Clans, Lucion Corbray and Yohn Hunter rode to war at Lord Royce's side, attending him at table and council, and caring for his arms, kit, and horses.

As squire to Lord Robar, he came into contact with the great lords and knights of the Vale. Among them, Terrence Templeton, the future Knight of Ninestars, and Artys Upcliff, Lord Arryn's captain of the guard.

Lucion Corbray was knighted by his master on the field on his sixteenth nameday at the close of the conflict in 88 A.C., after slaying four Burned Men, a chieftain among them. Tall and broad of shoulder for his age, it was noted that Lucion Corbray had distinguished himself in battle during the hard-fought campaign before.

## Knighthood (88 - 89 A.C.)

On his return to Runestone, it was noted by the castlefolk that young Corbray had come home changed by what he saw in the Mountains of the Moon. The brashness of youth had been replaced by a gallantry carried with an icy reserve not unlike that of his former knight-master. Previously, Lucion Corbray had been considered proud and aloof by the smallfolk, but now, he was ever the friend and champion to the smallfolk. Corbray continued on at Runestone as Lord Royce's secretary and cupbearer until his seventeenth name-day, when he took leave to return to Heart's Home.

In the year after his departure, it was noted that two daughters of knights in service at keeps near Runestone each gave birth to fair-haired boys with Ser Lucion's blue-green eyes. While no writ came from Heart's Home claiming the babes for baseborn Corbrays, it was noted that the girls soon disappeared, and their fathers spoke no more of the matter. Rumors that one of the missing girls and her son were spotted running a mill near a Corbray hunting lodge were never substantiated.

After a few months at Heart's Home, Ser Lucion called on Lord Gunthor Arryn at the Eyrie, before setting out on a year-long journey through the Kingdoms with a retinue of household knights and men-at-arms, Yohn Hunter among them.

## The Grand Tour (89 - 90 A.C.)

The first stop outside the Bloody Gate was a fortnight of feasts and hunts at the ancestral seat of the Darrys. The Lords Corbray and Darry had mutual interests, political and economic, and had long maintained a correspondence, but young Ser Lucion's visit had greater purpose than the delivery of a letter. Promised to Lord Darry's daughter Elissa by their fathers since they were children, Lucion's visit to Darry was his first proper introduction to his betrothed. He left Darry, a fortnight later than planned , with the writ of a knight-justiciar.

Lucion Corbray then made his way south, to participate and win a series of small tourneys and melees held at King's Landing and the Northern Reach, where he stayed for a month at the Nightingale Inn, and became a feature at court for two more.

Next, Ser Lucion and his entourage journeyed north, into the lands of the Trident. He called at Stone Hedge, where he was entertained by the Lady Alicent Bracken, and then at Raventree Hall, where he encountered the Lady Miriam Blackwood. His journeys eventually took him to the Cape of Eagles and Ironman's Bay, and Seagard, where he tilted with Ser Lymond Mallister.

After a year of travel, Ser Lucion and his entourage returned to the Vale where he called once more briefly at the Eyrie before returning to Heart's Home. In the months thereafter, a triple wedding was held for three of Lord Corbray's household knights, their brides being the daughters of knights and petty lords from without the Vale.

## The Darry Marriage (90 - 93 A.C.)

Lucion Corbray's next few years were spent quietly. At times, he was found at his lord father's right hand at Heart's Home, at others, he rode the Vale as a knight-justiciar, dutifully mis-enforcing the king's edicts on his fellow noblemen.

In 93 A.C., he wed Elissa Darry with all pomp and circumstance before the eyes of all the power in the Vale and the riverlands, in a lavish ceremony at Heart's Home. The match, and the wedding itself, were politically motivated displays of status and power for House Corbray by a lord whose ambitions reached beyond the Mountains of the Moon. But the marriage itself was a happy one, and in it, his sister Alys Corbray noted that for the first time, Lucion Corbray's smile reached his eyes.

Soon after, the newlyweds journeyed to KIng's Landing to do homage to the Iron Throne at the coronation of King Viserys I Targaryen, where they were witness to the intoxicated King's famously destructive remarks.

## The Battle of King's Landing (93 A.C.)

In 93 A.C., Lucion Corbray marched at his lord father's side in the lordly host of the Arryns south to defend the capital against the approaching Lannister. Arriving a day and half ahead of a force that outnumbered them greatly, the Corbray and Hunter knights would play a critical role in the battle to follow.

Lucion Corbray's part that day is well-known, the subject of myriad songs and ballads.

At the walls, he and Yohn Hunter held the Lion's Gate, the only gate unbreached by Western arms, repelling assaults by Lannister men with four times their number, and leading a sortie that set a ram alight, before retreating in good order as the Valemen fell back into the city.

In the brutal street-fighting that followed, his father the Lord Corbray was badly wounded. In the confusion that followed, Lucion distinguished himself by rallying a party of routed longbowmen and leading a charge headlong into the western ranks, cutting down Ser Joffrey Lannister and slaying Ser Michael Farman.

Before the walls of the Red Keep, Ser Lucion planted the battle-standard of the Corbrays and slew half a dozen great knights of the West in single-combat, Lord Otho Serrett and Ser Wilbert Crakehall most notable among them.

As the tide turned in favor of the King's men, Lucion Corbray and Yohn Hunter led the remaining Corbray and Hunter knights in laying a deadly ambush near the Guild-hall of Alchemists. When the trap was sprung, Lucion Corbray, with Yohn Hunter at his back, cut their way through half a hundred Yew men-at-arms, slaying Ser Morgen Hill, the Bastard of Greengrove, before being forced to retire by an arrow loosed by Ser Barneby Yew.

The glory came at a cost. In the fighting, Lord Gerold Corbray took a mortal wound that would eventually cost him his life.

In the weeks after, Ser Lucion stayed to witness his cousin Alyn's investiture into the Kingsguard. After the ceremony, he was presented with Lady Forlorn by Ser Alyn's father, his favorite uncle Artys. His uncle claimed he had won it with his deeds in battle, but others whispered that it was meant as a snub to the son who had disappointed him.

The death of the previous High-Justiciar of the Vale, a knight of House Egen, in the fighting saw the badge of office passed by Lord Harry Darry to his goodson.

## The Happy Years (93 - 95 A.C.)

The years immediately following that fateful day at King's Landing were idyllic.

In 94 A.C., Elissa Darry gave birth to a strong son with his father's blonde hair and blue eyes, who Lucion named Corwyn for his House's legendary founder. The ailing Lord Gerold doted on his grandson with all the affection he withheld from his own children.

Later that year, on his father's death from wounds sustained at the Battle of King's Landing, Lucion Corbray ascended to the high seat of the Corbrays. He and his lady wife would split their time between the Eyrie and Heart's Home, journeying to tourneys in the Vale, Riverlands, and Crownlands.

In 95 A.C., Lord Lucion Corbray and his lady journeyed to the wedding of Guncer bar Emmon and his kinswoman Catelyn Royce. In the tournament held to honor the nuptials, he wore his lady wife's favor on his arm to win high honors in the joust, and cut his way through half the Realm to win the melee.

The tournament was the end of an era. On returning to Heart's Home, Lucion Corbray left for the Eyrie on the King's business. A day after he left, a wildling woman stumbled in from the woods to make supplication before the Corbray of Heart's Home, pregnant and feverish. The hillmen had not been seen in almost a decade, and curious, Lady Elissa commanded for her to be given care. Under the maester's care, they identified the woman's ailment as an Essosi malady, passed on by a caravan of lost Pentoshi spicers, but the patient sickened quickly and died, infecting half the folk of the castle. Among the fallen were the maester who had handled her care, and the Lady Elissa.

## Recent Events

Something woke within Lucion Corbray the day his lady wife died.

Those who knew him little saw the great sadness of a man bereaved, and the gallantry of Lucion Corbray, so beloved by the Vale, took on a sad note.

Those who knew him well always knew him for a proud and cruel lord, arrogant and untouchable in martial genius and high birth, hiding behind the artifice of chivalric mien and impeccable manners.

But the day Elissa Darry died, Lucion, Lord Corbray, rode into the woods with only Yohn Hunter and the sole survivor of the Pentoshi caravaneers. They returned, a day later, alone.

Ever after, Lord Lucion Corbray of Heart's Home was noted by those close to him to avoid his family's ancestral seat when possible, spending much time at the Eyrie, Longbow Hall, and even visiting Runestone and Darry on occasion. Like his own father, he has left his young son for others to raise.

## Family

* Qarl Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home, Lord Commander of the City Watch of King’s Landing (b. 10 A.C., d. 59 A.C.)
	+ Gerold Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home (b. 40 A.C.)
		- M. Elinor Hunter, Lady of Heart’s Home
			* Lucion Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home and High Justiciar of the Vale (b. 72 A.C.)
				+ M. Elissa Darry (d. 93 A.C.)
				+ Corwyn Corbray (b. 92 A.C.)
			* Alys Corbray, lady in waiting at the Eyrie
	+ Lyanna Corbray, Lady of Runestone
		- M. Robar Royce, Lord of Runestone
	+ Artos Corbray, Knight of Heart's Home (b. 46 A.C.)
		- M. Jeyne Royce (b. 51 A.C)
		- Jonelle Corbray (b. 71 A.C.)
		- Alyn Corbray, Knight of the Kingsguard (b. 74 A.C.)
	+ Damon Corbray, Knight of Heart’s Home (b. 45 A.C)
		- Lythene Stone, natural born daughter of Damon Corbray (b. 73 A.C.)

See the House Corbray page for further detail on the Corbray bloodline beyond the line of Lord Qarl Corbray.