Jenny Waters

Jenny Waters is the current Master of Whispers of the Iron Throne, and also half-sister of Queen Rhaella Celtigar.

## Appearance and Personality

Jenny is silver-haired like many Valyrians, but lacks the pale blue or violet eyes in favor of emerald green, the one sign of her common heritage. In addition, her eyebrows are a strong brown, leading some to believe that the Mistress of Whispers bleaches her hair to promote her Valyrian heritage. Jenny is lean and willowy, standing at a tall five feet and ten, overlooking many women of court and more than a few of the men as well.

## Biography

Jenny was a natural daughter of Lord Celtigar and a daughter of one of the minor lords of Claw Isle. She was the one proof of her father's dalliances with other women- if he had other bastards he made no point in acknowledging them. Perhaps Jenny was legitimized out of some fondness for her mother, or she was simply his first bastard. She was named after Jenny of Oldstones, the commoner who had married a prince- perhaps a fitting name for her birth.

Green of eye and silver of hair, she could fit in well with her trueborn siblings without close inspection. While she was raised for half her life at Claw Isle, she never quite received the same attention and love as her siblings. Jenny was left to her own devices for the majority of her days, either running about with smallfolk. She lived in between her two worlds, playing both sides of the social ladder to her benefit. Had she been born in modern times, Jenny could have been diagnosed a sociopath from an early age.

At the tender age of eleven she snuck out of bed to play with a kitchen maid. The two of them thought it best to play in the dungeons, since they usually went unused in Claw Isle. Jenny and the kitchen maid were caught off guard to see the men at arms of Claw Isle surrounding a man on the rack, his screams echoing through the chamber. The kitchen maid ran at once, but Jenny sat and watched through the small window until the sun had nearly rose, listening to the screams of the tortured man. This became a habit of hers, whenever there was a man in the cells she would listen- until one day at the age of seventeen she entered after the men had left, approaching the prisoner. Her first attempt was clumsy, causing more pain than extracting any information, but on the second night she managed to discern the man's crime- he was a thief of a jewelrymaker, and they wanted to discern the hiding place of the stolen goods.

Jenny returned to bed that night afraid that the man would tell her father, that she might be reprimanded, and most of all that she might be barred from the dungeon. Punishment never came, and strangely enough the torturer's men left earlier than usual, nearly leaving the door open for her access. Jenny worked on the prisoner near every night until he gave up the location of the cache. Jenny didn't know where it was, but her smallfolk friends would, and so she turned to them, travelling across the island until they excavated the stash of jewelry together. The cache was left in the main hall of her father's keep to be discovered in the morning, and Jenny was sound asleep by the time her father opened it. She was never publicly thanked for it, but her father gave her just a little bit more freedom after that, and she never stopped visiting the prisoners to hone her talents on.

Later in her life, her half-sister would marry the Targaryen king. It didn't affect the bastard woman much- she remained at Claw Isle, her "friends" turned informants scattered across Blackwater Bay, keeping her informed of all the gossip. If there was money to be blackmailed off of some noble lady for an affair, or a bandit trove to be plundered, Jenny Waters had her hand in that pot.

It came as a surprise to her when her half-sister recommended her to the King for Master of Whispers. Through her sister's influence, she rose from a mere bastard to one of the most dangerous women in the Iron Throne, if not all of Westeros. Currently 29, Jenny's work is still just starting.