Luco Ryndoon

Courtly

Artist

**Luco Ryndoon**, also known by his stage name **Trombo**,is a Tyroshi mummer who specializes in singing and playing the lute. A talented actor and entertainer, he travels and performs with a troupe of mummers called the Everymen.

## Profile

**Discord:** Peltsy

**Name and House:** Luco Ryndoon

**Age:** 27

**Cultural Group:** Tyroshi

**Appearance:** Luco is a moderately tall man with a lanky, unimposing physique. He has slender and sharp facial features and a pair of sapphire blue eyes. His light brown hair extends over his ears. Luco prefers expensive and fancy attire despite his frequent lack of wealth.

**Gift:** Diplomat

**Skill(s):** Archery, Covert, Courtly

**Talents:** Singing, Gambling, Drinking

**Negative Trait:** None

**Starting Title(s):** Trombo of the Everymen

**Starting Location:** King's Landing

**Alternate Characters:** None

## Appearance and Character

Luco could be considered taller than most men, but his build is light and slender, leaving the mummer's appearance quite unimposing. He has long, light brown hair that he sometimes paints in vibrant colors for his performances. Luco's eyes have a color similar to that of sapphires.

Despite the fact that Luco's tall and slender build is hideous to some, he has an outgoing and jolly personality. He comes across as a lively and highly emotional person, attributes that are not uncommon in mummers and artists. Capable of a wide range of emotions from heart-wrenching sorrow to uncontrolled happiness, Luco has learned to use his emotional outbursts to influence his audience as well as his peers.

## Biography

Luco's family descended from the infamous Racallio Ryndoon, a Tyroshi captain-general who waged many wars against the neighboring Free Cities. Since then members of the family prospered as merchants, slavers and explorers, and sometimes rose to high positions in the Archon's court. Luco's branch of the family were among the more modest Ryndoons, dealing mostly in exporting cheese.

Luco's father owned several cheesemaker's shops in the city of Tyrosh and had a total of eight children. He had plans to leave Luco as the manager of one of these cheese shops when he came of age, but the boy seemed disinterested. He did, however, make many friends even when he was a mere child. A popular figure among the children of his neighborhood, Luco would spend many days out in the streets honing his skills as a natural **diplomat**.

Glad to let a hopeless wastrel of a son go, Luco's father kicked him out of the house when he was one-and-three years old. He quickly wound up in the service of local merchants as an errand boy. One of them allowed him to play a lute, and Luco showed promise in playing the instrument. The merchant decided to fund Luco's musical education, and the boy began his tutelage in the **courtly** arts under a maestro.

A merchant's good will had to run out at some point, and after a few years Luco was back out on the streets. To avoid unnecessary attention from his unusual name, he adopted the stage name Trombo and began plying his trade as a singer and lute-player. His frequent troubles with drinking and gambling eventually caught up with him, and his debtors, an unfortunately tough group of sellswords, decided to enslave him. He was dragged from Tyrosh to Myr and Pentos, and in their travels the silver-tongued mummer managed to convince his captors of his harmless, friendly nature. The swords-for-hire seemed to forget about the debt as Luco entertained and drank with them every night, and instead of slave labor, they taught him how to shoot a **bow**. Quite soon they also offered him the chance to help them in scouting out a contractor's enemy patrol. This granted Luco valuable knowledge and experience in leading **covert** operations and staying hidden from an enemy.

As with so many sellswords, the small company was eventually slaughtered by a rival group of mercenaries while resting in the city of Norvos. Luco managed to avoid this altercation and join a merchant caravan headed to Pentos. There he continued singing and playing his lute in various taverns and plays, until the Everymen, a wandering troupe of actors, dancers and musicians, promised him decent pay if he joined them. Luco signed up and started expanding his artistic repertoire to poetry, literature and acting.

Soon the Everymen crossed the narrow sea to make a tour of the Seven Kingdoms. Beginning in Sunspear and headed north, the troupe decided to stay a longer while in the capital city of King's Landing, in order to take part in the celebrations there.

## Timeline

282 AC: Luco Ryndoon is born in Tyrosh

295 AC: Kicked out of the house by his father after years of disinterest towards the cheese trade; Luco winds up roaming the streets as an errand boy for local merchants

296 AC: Luco picks up the lute and receives a musical education from a benevolent merchant

300 AC: Forced into slavery after failing to pay a debt to a group of sellswords; travels with his masters and fortunately manages to make a good enough impression on them to be welcomed into their ranks

303 AC: The sellswords disband in Norvos, and Luco is free to travel to Pentos, where he gains a moderate reputation as a singer and lute-player under the alias "Trombo the Troubadour"

305 AC: Luco is recruited into a troupe of mummers called the Everymen

309 AC: The Everymen arrive in King's Landing during their tour of the Seven Kingdoms

## Supporting Characters

Belandra, a Braavosi actress, notably proficient in water-dancing

* Warrior (Water-dancing)

Elia, a Dornish singer and actress, formerly a healer's apprentice

* Medic

Fornio, a Pentoshi quill-wielder, writes most of Trombo's songs and poems

* Scholar

Lotho, a Tyroshi dwarf performer

Kiera, a Lyseni actress, former prostitute

Maris, a Stormlander singer and harp player in training