Lancel Merryweather

"***Would you like you, if you met you?***" - **Ser Lancel Merryweather**.

Carrying a Long Sword

Lord Brandon Merryweather; brother

Ser Alyn Merryweather; brother

Lady Alys Merryweather; sister

Maiden Lily of Cornfield; lover

Ser Hansel Merryweather; brother

Ser Gwen Merryweather; brother

Ser Donnel Merryweather; son

Ser Davos Merryweather; son

Lady Jeyne Merryweather; daughter

Ser Osney Merryweather; son

**Ser Lancel Merryweather** is a knight of **House Merryweather** and the son of **Lord Duncan Merryweather**. He is a landed knight of Cornfield, popular for his fighting style and valor.

## History

### Origins

Born in 122 CE as **Lancel Waters**, he was brought up in **Fork Town**, located in **North-East Hills**. His father was a blacksmith and cruel man, and his mother's origins were unknown.

### Background

Sometime in 128 CE, Lancel, still a boy was sold slave to a nobleman by his father, only to be adopted by the man who raised Lancel alongside his own children. Growing up, Lancel learned dueling and horse riding, as well as the art of smith. By age 12, Lancel became a local blacksmith in his hometown of **Toyne**. Lancel often travelled among the company of merchants, offering services as a bodyguard. Lancel also adopted the passion of swordsmanship and statesmanship, often traveling with his father to merchant travels and diplomacy travels.

By the age of 18, Lancel was a known swordsman and womanizer of Toyne.

### Knighthood

In 140 CE, Lancel's father, Lord Duncan of Toyne raised men to fight as the banners of war were declared by **House Ivanstar** following the defeat of **House Stanley** against a large southeastern army raised by **House Stafford**, **House Clayford**, and **House Cayne**, also known as the **East River Campaign**.

The Campaign lasted nearly six years, by the end of the war, **Lord Duncan of Toyne** was rewarded with lands and a small holding. Lord Duncan of Toyne married **Lady Anna Merryweather**, altering the bloodline of House Merryweather. For his valor in battle, Lancel became an anointed knight, alongside his brothers, Ser Brandon and Ser Alyn.

Following the East River Campaign, Ser Lancel traveled south to serve in **Eastshire** under the alias of '**Ser Lancelot**'. Championing in Tourneys and Jousts, Ser Lancel came under the service of **Lord Tomwell Pyne** as his bodyguard and enforcer. During his service, Ser Lancel participated in rebel skirmishes and southern revolts, quickly earning up the fame of his valor, to the point that Lord Tomwell Pyne rewarded Ser Lancel's services to himself and his family with lands in the region of Cornfield, earning him the title, **Ser Lancelot of Cornfield**.

### Growing Strong

In 147 CE, Ser Lancel traveled back to his hometown of Toyne, where he reunited with his family. Following his reunion, a conflict raised in the Fall of 147 CE, where North-East Hills faced an internal revolt, Houses **Byrch**, **Greenfield**, **Potter**, and **Fork** raised in rebellion to overthrow House Ivanstar, and name themselves as **Lord-Protectors of North-East Hills**. In the Conflict, House Ivanstar raised 12 banners against the rebels, and after countless skirmishes, the rebel army was badly defeated in the **Battle of Saint Porter**, where three thousand men died, and Houses Fork and Byrch were bannished, while their heads were executed. House Potter was exiled and all its land and wealth was taken. Although House Greenfield was banished, it maintained its power when given homeage in the **Kingdom of Greenlands**, when they marched on the eve of battle with their riches and men.

Loyal Houses to North-East Hills were given lands formerly owned by House Byrch, Fork, and Greenfield, including **House Merryweather** being rewarded with lands along the **Green River**, bordering with '**Eastshire Region of Cornfield**'. Ser Lancel for his formidable valor in battle and aid of his allies by sea was rewarded with small holding by the Green River, occupying one of many castles owned by House Greenfield, **Castle Helmworth**, and being raised from an anointed knight to a landed knight.

After becoming a landed knight, Ser Lancel along with close allies remained in Castle Helmworth and served as the banners of **House Blount of Eastshire**.

### Family

#### Love Affair

In the later 145 CE, following the Victory at the **East River Campaign**, earning his knighthood, Ser Lancel travelled south to serve in **Eastshire** under the alias of a hedge knight, '**Ser Lancelot**'. During one of the tourneys where he championed, he acquainted himself with **Lord Tomwell Pyne** as his bodyguard and enforcer. During this time, Ser Lancelot also acquainted himself with countless skirmishes spreading the fame of his valor and becoming a landed knight of Cornfield, Ser Lancelot became closely acquainted with a maiden of Cornfield, daughter of a nobleman, **Lily of Cornfield**, after he saved her virtue during a rebel encounter that came into conflict with a company of merchants.

After the nobleman learned of the matter, he challenged Ser Lancelot to a duel to death, to which Ser Lancel quickly unarmed and defeated the lord, sparing his life, only to leave in self-exile to his hometown of Toyne.

#### Marriage

After becoming a landed knight of Green River, Ser Lancel returned to Pyne, after learning of the **Sack of Pyne**, subsequently after the **Revolt Conflict of 147 CE**, when the south-eastern houses plundered as revenge for the north-eastern exiled and banished houses.

Following the Funeral of **Lord Tomwell Pyne**, Ser Lancel reacquainted with **Lord Olyvar of Pyne**, and both friends left to find the whereabouts of Maiden Lily of Cornfield, who was kicked out from her house after learning she was with child, and sailing for the Free Cities, where they found her residing under the protection of her cousin, a brothel owner. After weeks of conflict, the company returned to Cornfield, where a wedding ceremony took place in **Castle Helmworth** in witness of Ser Lancel's close friends, his family, and noble lords of the region.

#### Children

After reuniting with his former lover, **Lily of Cornfield** in 149 CE in the Free Cities, Ser Lancel returned to his residence of Castle Helmworth in Cornfield along with Lord Olyvar, his lover, and his two-year-old son, **Dan Waters**. After his marriage, he legitimized his son, renaming him **Donnel Merryweather**, after his namesake grandfather.

In 149 CE, Lady Lily gave birth to **Davos Merryweather**.

Following her declining health, Lady Lily died giving birth to twins, **Jeyne Merryweather** and **Osney Merryweather**.

## Appearance and Character

Lancel is tall, and broad across the chest, arms thick with muscle. He is considered bold and handsome. He tenders to have modest outlook with grace and substance. He is valiant, shrewd, and quick with his feet. He is considered a deadly swordsman with his longsword and short daggers, as well as an exceptional equestrian. He is a master at the skills of womanizing, statesmanship, poetry, singing, dancing, and fluency of languages.