Samwell Tarly

The third child and only son of Brus Tarly and Arwyn Tyrell, Samwell became the heir of House Tarly.

## Appearance and Character

Standing at 6'0 and weighing 200 pounds, Samwell isn't the largest man to exist, but he isn't tiny either. His love of combat and constant training in swordsmanship has granted him an athletic and muscular body. He has slightly tanned skin due to him being outdoors all of the time. He has a fairly light shade of brown as his eye color with his hair being slightly darker brown than his eyes.

Personality wise, Samwell is fairly smug and sly, winning some friends over with his witty remarks and comments. Though he usually doesn't insult people, he sometimes pokes fun without any intended malice however the recipient may feel about it. Despite poking fun, Samwell is well natured and nice, at least to those on the outside, only making his jokes with close friends. He is a close embodiment of a summer knight, untested on the field and living during a period of peace where he has grown up in a softer environment and learned chivalric behaviors. Samwell enjoys the life of nobility, taking to the fun and carefree mannerisms that he could enjoy due to his social status.

## History

Born in early 109 AC, Samwell was the first son, third child, heir of Horn Hill as well as the last child to come from his mother and father. As a child Samwell would spend hardly any time at Horn Hill as he would soon be sent off to Highgarden in order to serve as a ward to foster an even closer relationship with their Liege Lord. Despite his Mother being and Tyrell and his father being a good friend of the lord at the time, Samwell would be sent to their castle anyway, further deepening the bond between houses Tarly and Tyrell. Spending his adolescence at Highgarden rather than Horn Hill would have an effect on his bond with both his siblings and cousins: With the large gap between age and lack of time spent with his sisters compared to his cousins from his mother's side, Samwell would, ironically, view his sisters as cousins and cousins of House Tyrell as brothers and sisters.
While he grew up in Highgarden, Samwell would become fond of his cousins, having a close relationship with Renly specifically because of their common interest and pursuits. With Renly as an older brother figure, Samwell would somewhat be shaped with his time being spent with his favorite cousin. As Renly started drifting away from Lucien, so did Samwell though the young Tarly would try his best to keep on good terms with his future liege. Unlike Renly, Samwell would try his best to keep up with his lessons, though he wasn't perfect at many of them save for the martial skills of which had been picked up by watching Renly and training with him.

Given the lack of most leadership traits, some people around Highgarden would joke around by saying that he was more fit to be a hedge knight than a lord. Though the jokes usually got to him, Renly showed him to ignore them, causing Samwell to adopt the young Tyrell's joking mannerisms as a defense mechanism against the jokes as he would only brush them off and spew them back at those who insulted him. The malice, however, wouldn't last long as jokes about him eventually became further in between and Samwell had no reason to insult anyone anymore. The cause of the lessening of jokes may have been Samwell biting back, but he thinks that it might have had something to do with Renly threatening some of the tormentors as it rarely happened with the Tyrells around him.

Around the time that Renly became Captain of the Guard to House Tyrell, Samwell's father would pass away and the fairly young Tarly was now the lord of his house. After a fair well to his cousins, Samwell would depart Highgarden and return to Horn Hill. Though the beginning of his lordship was difficult, Samwell found a good castellan among his bannerman in House Hunt.

## Meta

Attribute: Strong

Skills: Silver Tongue, Romance, Riding, Precision

Mastery: Champion