Lysara Stark

## Personality

### Personality Description

Lysara is a kind, caring and compassionate person that wants to help people in need whenever she encounters them. Usually she acts friendly if she is treated the same. She loves riding and archery, as well as animals and nature and spending time in the woods or with her few close friends and family. Lysara has a clever and fast mind that is not overly intelligent but also not simple, but is lacking in wisdom and life experience.

The girl has the wolfsblood, making her stubborn with a fiery temper, often resulting back to arguing needlessly. She is blunt, often saying what she thinks and speaking without thinking and is very independent, hating to be ordered around and often not accepting help.

### Goals and Motivation

Her main motivation is to be free and see the world. She wants to get even better at riding and archery and wants to marry for love if she ever marries at all. If the opportunity arises she also always wants to help others.

### Reputation

Lysara is rumored to be the most beautiful woman in the North, but outmatched by the ladies of the south. It is said that she spends more time with the animals in the woods than with her family at Winterfell and that she is a very skilled horse rider.

## Backstory

It was a cold but clear night as Meliana Cerwyn strode through the godswood. Heavily pregnant with her fourth child, the woman found that the weirwood tree of Winterfell gave her an odd sense of comfort. Only accompanied by a guard that had stopped a few yards away from her, Meliana knelt down in front of the weirwood and started to pray, for the happiness of the family and a healthy babe, a girl, since her last daughter had been born 14 years ago. When she wanted to stand up however, a pain shot through her lower body and she knew that the babe was no longer gonna wait. After quickly sending her guard to fetch her husband and the maester, Meliana was completely aware that she would not be able to get back into the castle in time. That night, a daughter, small but healthy, was born beneath the moon and night sky next to the weirwood tree, setting the foundation for her seemingly fitting personality.

During the early years of her childhood, Lysara was a cheery babe, but her wolfsblood already showed, since the child was already annoyingly stubborn, much to the dislike of her mother and the maester. As soon as she could walk, Lysara would ride out with her father into the woods and would get her own horse at the age of 8, which is also the time around which the wolf girl would start practicing how to shoot with bow and arrow. A few years later she attempted to learn more melee combat skills, but quickly abandoned the idea and didn’t keep anything in her mind besides the basic defense skills. Around the time she was 10, Lysara would start to notice the sociopathic side of her brother. He was narcissistic and selfish and would regularly shout at her. For the time being, Lysara would just try and avoid her brother but a few years later it would turn to proper verbal tormenting from Farlen against his siblings.

As Lysara grew into her teens she predominantly was in the godswood or the woods around Winterfell, since Farlen would often make empty threats to her after he had turned 18 and she did not feel safe in his presence anymore. The wolf girl spent most of her time riding her horse, training her archery skills or just basking in the beauty of nature. There she learned many new skills, such as climbing trees, swimming in rivers and lakes, starting a fire and cooking meat on it or orienting herself in the wilderness. Freshly turned 17, Lysara now seeks to explore the world and make new acquaintances.