Lyanna Forrester neé Mormont

Lyanna in 99 A.C

Lyanna in 130 A.C

House Forrester

Ironrath

Edric Forrester

Cregan Forrester

Jory Mormont

Bethany Stark nee Mormont

Dacey Mormont (twin, deceased)

Jon Mormont (deceased)

Jorah Mormont

Jonah Mormont

Lyanna Mormont is the youngest living daughter of the deceased Maege and Joer Mormont. She spent most of her young life on Bear island, and Lyanna feels a heavy commitment to her childhood home and people. Although she is no great fighter, Lyanna still has the talent and strength to bring most men to their knees. She is married to Jorah Forrester with whom she has four children, and serves as Spymaster of Ironrath.

## Appearance and Character

Age has treated Lyanna well. Her beauty from her young days has little been hidden behind wrinkles and graying hair, and if anything it has blossomed in her elder years. Her light brown hair has grayed and her piercing icy blue eyes have faded to a calming bluish-green.

In Mormont fashion Lyanna has the fighting skill and vigour to trump many lesser fighters, but she is still no great warrior and prefers quieter or even clandestine activities. She bears the brilliant and sharp mind of her mother, and from a young age she could sneak into a crowd or wander out of sight at will. She tends to use these abilities to find quiet locations where few can find or would think she’d reach to spend some good moments alone. Her clever demeanour and cunning remarks make some think of her as the brain behind Dacey’s brawn, though Lyanna still has some violent tendencies.

To Lyanna there are three things that matter above all else: her family, her home, and her independence. Anything that seems to oppose any of these three is seen as a dire threat.

## History

Lyanna Mormont was born in 75 A.C alongside her twin Dacey Mormont. She spent most of her infancy and early life with her mother and sister. Even as early as her third year of life Lyanna fought a struggle to escape her mother, running off to escape her mother’s clingy reach, attempting to keep away by methods as bland as running or as large as climbing away. Where Dacey and her siblings developed an admiring relationship with their mother, Lyanna gained a tense resentment.

Lyanna’s quick feet proved valuable later in her life, where she shared a room with her industrious twin. The two scarcely got along that young, and even a slight bump on Dacey’s buildings that littered the floor would awaken the angry bear inside her. Complaining to her mother only lead to Dacey receiving encouragement for her building, and it is likely Lyanna’s fault Dacey has the skills there she currently has, so Lyanna learned to avoid Dacey’s constructions, making the least noise on the ground to avoid a potentially destructive rumble. Eventually Lyanna could slip between their shared bed and the entrance with little a sound, later using this new skill to her further advantage. From sneaking sweets from the kitchens and slipping out of sight as people noticed her, to sneaking into places she never should be, Lyanna became quite the clandestine hider in her young childhood.

There was one day that Lyanna found a route all the way to the top of the towers of the Mormont castle. No one could notice her on her way, knowing when to enter and when to leave, and the night only gave her a cover to make it easier. This place would become Lyanna’s main quiet place throughout her childhood, where she would look out from the heights of the towers and watch the view. Soon Lyanna would begin to notice faults in her home’s fortifications, whether a simple design flaw related to terrain or a weak spot in the construction, and she, wooed by stories of powerful fortresses and mighty castles and dreaming of her own home to be strong in that way, speculated about ways to fix these issues she found. The issues culminated into a mental list that, when the girl was seven years old, she brought to her mother, along with a few suggestions for improvement. The issues weren’t much, more so how a particular blind spot gave just enough space for a spy to slip through, or a certain construction blocked the line of site of a particular sentry, but her mother Maege Mormont, noticing her daughter’s naturally keen eye for fortifications, informed the maester to put a heavier emphasis on her education in that regard, and sometimes the two would spend time examining the castle together as they both discussed faults and fixes among other friendly topics.

When her younger brother Jon caught the sweating sickness, Lyanna was heavily distraught. Losing her younger brother that she and her twin had seen as their purpose as sisters to protect hurt them both, and was the first time the two were on amicable terms. The next day, Lyanna asked the maester about medicine, which was followed by several weeks of intense study and lessons, as Lyanna worked to master the field of medicine, if only to prevent another lost sibling to sickness. It proved useless when her older brother Alaric drowned with friends only two years later, the grief only worsening, and compelling Lyanna to try harder to do her part to keep her family safe.

Lyanna took to sparring with her brothers and sister by the time she was eleven, and noticed that she would often absentmindedly switch sword hands. She had never noticed it in her studies and writing, but when her brothers pointed it out Lyanna’s newfound ability, it was a tool she would use valuably. Her ambidexterity offers her flexibility in fights and made multitasking much easier for the woman.

When the Riverlands invaded Flint's finger, with her mother and father arranging a marriage for her brother Jory, Lyanna was left behind to serve as regent. It was the first time Lyanna felt alone on the island and, despite what some may think, she enjoyed it.

### A Whole New World

Lyanna's world changed the day Jorah Forrester arrived at Bear Island. She did not know it then, but after that day her life was to be much different than the last 24 years. She had received a letter from her mother roughly a week in advance, telling Lyanna that she was now betrothed to Jorah Forrester and responsible for keeping up relations with the house. Lyanna, unable to comprehend being tied to a man and away from her home, tearily wrote a reply, pleading her mother to end the betrothal, but Maege Mormont comforted her daughter over a letter and promised that leaving her home for Ironrath would not be as bad as she thought, but instead a whole new world of opportunity for her.

Despite her mother’s comfort, Lyanna still despised the idea, and greeted Jorah at the gates to the keep with two swords in hand. She handed one to her betrothed and challenged him to a duel, figuring she could solve her problem simpler, with a method that might be used by her sister even. Lyanna won in the end, grabbing Jorah’s sword arm with her free hand and tripping him up, but circling back for a final downward strike she cut a deep gash along his leg

A horrified Lyanna immediately fell to her knees, apologizing for hurting Jorah, and tending to the Forrester's wounds. Jorah, however, comforted Lyanna, in telling her that there was no ill will in her actions, and that it was a simple accident. The two would spend the rest of the day getting to know one another, and the next week they went together as Jorah recovered. By the time her 'betrothed' left, Lyanna and Jorah had grown a mutual affection of each other, and Lyanna's reason to refuse him shifted to a personal desire to remain outside of her mother's dominion. However, Jorah promised Lyanna that he would not force her to marry her, and once Jorah was recovered, the two amicably separated.

When Maege Mormont returned to Bear Island, she was surprised to learn of her daughter’s refusal to abide by the betrothal. Lyanna’s mother advised her daughter to travel to Ironrath to get to know him there. A stubborn Lyanna refuses, stating that her mother was trying to control her, but Maege compromised that she would spend a month at Ironrath, getting to know the family and understanding the House’s needs, and then if she still didn’t want to marry Maege would cancel the betrothal.

Lyanna arrived a few days later to Ironrath, determined to prove to her mother and Lord Forrester that she not Jorah would ever marry. Of course, fate turned that idea on it's head.

Throughout the next month, Lyanna would grow to consider Ironrath a comfortable substitute for home. Lord Forrester offered her great hospitality and commendations, but Lyanna refused anything that would tie her closer to Jorah, a condition Lord Forrester begrudgingly agreed to. The Mormont tried her best to remain distant from Ironrath, often sitting in her room or whatever private tower she could sneak into to stay away from everyone, but somehow she found herself spending more and more time with Jorah, whether by her own choice or seeming accident.

Nonetheless, Jorah and Lyanna one day went on a walk around the local town. It was a tame walk, the two talked about their families, their parents, and their lives, slowly growing mutual affection. However, it was interrupted by a particularly xenophobic and superstitious peasant, who called Lyanna a 'wildling' among other insults. guards of House Forrester quickly responded to the threats, but Lyanna took the matter seriously, and into her own hands.

The next day, the same smallfolk was found tied and gagged under a bridge, his forehead soaked in water and his eyes pierced with horror and worry. When he was untited, the man told of a 'woman in a thick bear cloak' tying him up and asking if Wildlings were so smart to do so. The experience possibly scarred the man for life, and the people of Ironrath have since little dared speak a word of displeasure about Lyanna Mormont.

## Family

Lyanna is very close to her family. She inherited her mother's motherly care, and cares deeply for her brothers and sisters, as well as her own children.

* Howland Mormont (d. 66 AC)

* (m.) Margaret Karstark (d. 70 AC)
	+ Jory Mormont (d. 54 AC)
	+ Maege Mormont(b. 47 AC)
		- (m.) Jeor Mormont
			* (stillborn boy)
			* Alaric Mormont (b. 71 AC, d. 85 AC)
			* (boy, died in infancy)
			* Jory Mormont (b. 72 AC)
			* Bethany Stark (nee Mormont) (b. 73 AC)
			* **Lyanna Mormont** (b. 75 AC)
				+ Lyra Forrester (b. 104 AC)
				+ Dacey Forrester (b. 106 AC)
				+ Edric Forrester (b. 108 AC)
				+ Cregan Forrester (b. 110 AC)
			* Dacey Mormont (b. 75 AC)
				+ Torrhen Snow (b. 112 AC)
			* Jon Mormont (b. 78 AC, d. 83 AC)
			* Jorah Mormont (b. 82 AC)
			* Jonah Mormont (b. 82 AC)
	+ Maisie Mormont
	+ Lyarra Mormont (d. 90 AC)
	+ Dacey Mormont

## Meta

Attribute: Clever

Skills: Ambidexterity (COM), Concealment (STE), Fortification (STA), Healing (EDU)