Josian Flint

Josian Flint is the current heir to Widow’s Watch, son of Alys Flint, the current lady - and Rowland Flint née Forrester, her husband, Josian Flint is acting lord in all but name, representing his family and now taking direct decisions for the future of Widow’s Watch. An active member for the movement for the restoration of the Kingdom of Winter, Josian is a reactionary who seeks an independent North and has quickly attached himself to the cause.

## Appearance and Personality

Standing at around 5’10”, Josian is a black haired and blue eyed individual with short hair and a scruffy beard, he has no prominent marks on his face, and overall has taken after his grandfather’s look. Most of the time he’s to be found wearing a mix between dark blue, gray or black tunics along with overcoats, leather shoes and a cape as well - but his choice of clothing all ultimately depends on the climate he finds himself in.

A charismatic individual, the man is known for his skill in regards to words, being superficially friendly and outgoing, he can and does know how to rile people up with words. Since an early age, Josian has been known both for his skill in speech and his outgoing personality - while he is not the best looking out of the Flints, he is the most likely to strike up a conversation and make new friends. Overall, Josian is also a rather prominent follower of the Faith of the Seven - being a new convert in the North, he tends to be rather zealous about the Seven and has embarked on a campaign of quiet conversion in his lands.

Yet if any one single word can describe Josian is that he’s reactionary, the man tends to make goals but they can get muddied by his almost instinctive nature to oppose and assert his own authority. As such, Josian has become a rather fervent supporter of an independent North - a product of his own making if more then anything else. Seeking an independent North ties with his desire to reduce authority in the lands, in order to allow smaller houses greater control and power over a more lightly ruled region, houses such as his own.

Because of this, it should be noted that the man has been rather frustrated by his failure to marry - even more so with the fact his sister is likely to follow him as heir, and being of the nature that he is, he does not deem that as a suitable future for his house, which has brought conflict within his family.

## History

Born in 95 AC, Sixth Moon - Josian Flint was the second out of three children as well as the only boy to Alys Flint and her line as a whole. Being the son of a Forrester, much of early life was spent both being tutored and being taught with the sword - as he honed his skills at Widow’s Watch and eventually became a squire to a traveling knight, Ser John of the God’s Eye, a man whom arrived to Widow’s Watch around 102 AC, and one whom quickly became a favorite of the Flint family when it came to courtiers and members of their little court.

He spent some 11 years as a squire to the man, but surprisingly he didn’t leave the North - while Ser John proved to be a good teacher, once he got himself comfy and well situated in the lands of Widow’s Watch, he began to prove himself a lazy individual but in the end the man still fulfilled his role, properly knighting Josian Flint in 113 AC - it should be noted though that Ser John and his squire did join the Northern forces in the struggle against the Wildlings, with Ser John personally fighting in the Battle of the Lone Tower, at which Josian was also present. Thought while the man would become a proper knight and a proper man around 113 AC, it wouldn’t be until another decade that he got anywhere close to power - in that time, he was forced to watch the North rejoin the Seven Kingdoms, and with Lady Alys Flint being a rather inactive individual in regards to this change, he could do nothing about it.

Yet as if the Targaryen encroachment in the future was not enough of a worry, a series of pirate raids around the lands of Widow’s Watch forced Josian to muster the men of House Flint as he attempted to fight them off from the nightly raids conducted upon his family’s lands. In the end this came with mixed success, and it would take the effort of the rest of the houses in the area along with the defeat of the pirates at the Bite to bring the nightly raids and the pirates to an end.

Amidst the end of the pirate problem, around 118 AC, Josian Flint would take up the task of teaching a squire of his own, Edderion Manderly, as the man dedicated himself to his work of bringing the Manderly up to proper knightly standards. This was a 6 year process that ultimately ended in 124 AC, when Josian Flint was able to finally knight the Manderly at the Sept of the Snows in White Harbor.

Finally, around 125 AC, the man would finally come to the point where he finds himself today - after a rather close bout with death due to fever, Alys Flint ultimately elected to at last hand over most of the responsibility of running Widow’s Watch to her heir. Josian as such became the active head of Widow’s Watch, only lacking the title, in 126 AC. Yet when he became the head of Widow’s Watch he didn’t join the Northern rebellion - viewing such a move as a little too late, and has instead elected to wait for an opportunity for a new rebellion to emerge, one that can secure the North quickly and can guarantee the victory and emergence of an independent kingdom.

## Family

• Alys Flint [b. 74 AC]: Mother of Josian Flint, Lady of Widow’s Watch

• Rowland Flint née Forrester [b. 73 AC]: Father of Josian Flint, Mayra Flint and Sophey Flint.

• Mayra Flint [b. 93 AC]: Married to Lord Thoren Moss, older sister of Josian Flint, and mother of Eddard and Alia Moss.

- Eddard Moss [b. 113 AC]

- Alia Moss [b. 115 AC]

• Sophey Flint [b. 106 AC]: Younger sister of Josian Flint

### Cadet Branch:

• Rodrik Flint [b. 80 AC]: Relative of Josian Flint, married to Shyra Flint née Manderly, and father of Ronard, Orwen and Esthis Flint as well as Castellan of Widow’s Watch.

• Shyra Flint née Manderly [b. 83 AC]: Wife of Rodrik Flint.

- Ronard Flint [b. 106 AC]

- Orwen Flint [b. 108 AC]

- Esthis Flint [b. 111 AC]

## Household members/NPC’s

• Ser John of the God’s Eye [b. 60 AC]: Former teacher of Josian Flint and current member of the Flint court at Widow’s Watch.

• Septa Anna [b. 90 AC]: Septa of Widow’s Watch

• Maester Kevan [b. 80 AC]: Maester of Widow’s Watch, dedicated his study to medicine.

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