Walter Yronwood

## Knight of House Yronwood

Once a knight of great esteem, the **Knight of Vultures** has long been washed up and away from much public light. An exile from his home of Yronwood, he dutifully serves his close friend Rhaenys Rivers as a retainer.

## Appearance

Ser Walter is light of skin and blonde of hair with deep blue eyes. His shoulders are broad and long, with short mated hair that is often rife with sweat. A shade of a beard crops across his face. Walter often looks tired and beaten, but keeps his spirits up whenever Rhaenys is present. He looks much much older than he really is, years of pain, toil and suffering building upon him.

## History

Born in **382 AC** in Yronwood to Lord Cletus Yronwood, the Bloodroyal. He was the second of four sons and three daughters.

In **390 AC**, he was squired with Ser Mors Manwoody, and was made a knight in 399 AC on his 17th Name day.

In **400 AC**, Ser Walter began to hunt the Vulture King for three years

Finally in **404 AC**, Ser Walter Yronwood and one hundred mounted knights along two hundred footmen, cornered the Vulture King and destroyed his host. Ser Walter took the moniker and prestige as the Knight of Vultures. Here he humiliated Ser Colin Fowler, his up and coming rival.

In early **405 AC**, Ser Walter threatened to revolt with his men after returning from the Vulture Hunt, demanding a holdfast from his father as compensation. He was victorious and was given a small holdfast near Yronwood with farmlands and incomes.

In **405 AC**, Ser Colin Fowler attempted the same but met different results when Ser Walter defeated his three hundred man host with his own. Ser Colin relented after that and paid the Vulture Knight a small indemnity.

The War of the Green Hills \* At the turn of **406 AC**, Ser Walter left his holdfast to crush another possible Vulture King before he grew to dangerous strength. During this time he hunted the would be king into the Stormlands, catching his paltry men and cutting them to ribbons with the help of Lord Dondarrion, who was told of their coming. Once again, Ser Colin Fowler is late to the battle. \* Upon his return, his eldest brother died and left his young son as the heir to Yronwood. On his fathers deathbed, Ser Walter was named regent. When his father died, Ser Walter ruled Yronwood as regent. \* However two months into his rule, his younger brother and Lord Gerald Drinkwater rallied the late Lord Yronwoods councilors and revoked the title of Regent from Walter and transferred it to his younger brother Anders. In late 407, Ser Walter rose an army of five hundred men, with some 200 knights. However without pay and his men at arms eager for plunder, Ser Walter disbanded his men when a larger force of seven hundred men came from Yronwood \* In 408 AC, the war broke out again when Lord Gerald Drinkwater revoked the title of Regent from Anders Yronwood.

Traveling to Wyl to find his brother, the two raised another army and faced Lord Gerald in the field, beating him soundly. For the rest of the year the brothers ruled tenuously. Anders Yronwood married Jennelyn Fowler to Walters great annoyance. Upon her arrival she began making outrageous demands of the council as well as the Regents. However Anders was quick to oblige her. Lady Jennelyn even postulated her husband and their children as the heirs to Yronwood over the still childless and unmarried Walter. \* When Lady Jennelyn convinced Anders to remove Ser Edgar Yronwood, their cousin, from the position of Steward on the council, Walter had enough. Presenting to his brother a petition from himself, the council and the petty nobility surrounding Yronwood demanding Lady Jennelyn removed from court. The following day Anders has Walter removed as Co-Regent and the Knight of Vultures fled. \* Seeking to rectify his mistake, Ser Walter sought Lord Gerald Drinkwater to help raise yer another army to fight his brother. Together they marched some six hundred and fifty men from Drinkwater to Yronwood, where Ser Walter defeated his brother in battle. Unable to pursue and maintain a siege, the third phase of the war ended for the year with Ser Walter camping at Drinkwater. \* In 409 AC, the final year of the war came. This time Anders decided to claim the lordship of Yronwood at the urging of his wife.

However, the young lord of Yronwood was smuggled out and given to the rebels, who marched now to restore the rightful Lord of Yronwood. Marching together Ser Walter and Lord Gerald met with Anders in the field and defeated him in battle and finally driving him from Yronwood. Restoring the young lord to his seat, Ser Walter was restored the title of Regent with Lord Gerald ruling jointly as Co-Regent. However Anders fled to Skyreach to gain his goodfathers support in raising another army. By this time the war had been raging for four years and the people of Yronwood and it’s nobility were tired. They pleaded Martell to abrogate and so they did. However in the meanwhile, Lord Gerald sought to remove Ser Walter again. However, a great sickness claimed Gerald’s life. By the time Martell arrived, Walter was at Wyl, preparing to marry Lord Wyls daughter to combat Lord Fowler, a full blown civil war in the Red Mountains preparing to be unleashed. \* A peace settlement was reached in late 409 AC, where Ser Walter met his brother Anders. The two made a deal wherein Walter would serve as Regent, but Anders would be the heir to Yronwood. \* However, lacking the support of either House Wyl or House Drinkwater, Ser Walter was once again ousted as Regent by his brother. This time however, he garnered no support from anyone. He agreed to abandon his title of Regent and any claim to Yronwood in exchange for self-imposed exile. However this would be for his benefit, when he finally would meet his closest friend...

In **409 AC**, Ser Walter took to stay in Kings Landing in a drunken, whoring exile, where he tried to drink himself into an early grave. Herr he first met his friend and benefactor, Rhaenys Rivers. To this day Walter never knew why she took pity on him, letting him into her service.

In **410 AC**, Ser Walter jumped at the chance to humiliate Ser Colin again in the War of the Four Daughters, fighting in many battles and winning many victories, while Ser Colin lagged behind. Ser Colin resorted to falsified tales of his own superiority. During the war, Ser Walter tightened his close friendship with Rhaenys Rivers.

In **414 AC**, Ser Walter joined his Lady, having taken up sword and service with his best friend, Rhaenys Rivers. During the year, the Knight of Vultures finally faced Ser Colin Fowler in a duel after hearing about him boasting how Walter was laying with the dragon-rider Rhaenys, how she was a harlot beckoning to take men’s purity, and such other despicable lies. Ser Walter challenged Ser Colin to a duel to the death, and the Fowler knight accepted.

In **417 AC**, before traveling with Rhaenys to her next destination, the rivalry between Ser Walter and Ser Colin ended with Ser Colin Fowler’s death at the Vulture Knights hands.

## Possessions

### Animal Companions

* A fine horse named *Sunshine*, with heavy armor, heraldry, lance and plate mail with him when needed.

### Weapons

* A longsword that he never lets leave his side, used to protect his charge Rhaenys.

### Other

* His own private journal, titled *The Thoughts of Ser Walter Yronwood, Knight of Lady Rivers.*

## Connections

* Rhaenys Rivers - Walter serves as her sworn sword, friend and confidant, as well as in his own words, helpful old washed up guide trying to keep her free and happy.

## Rumours

* Ser Colin Fowler spread a rumor that he was Lady Rivers paramour, amongst others. Ser Colin paid for this with his life, mostly burning out such gossip. Ser Walter has threatened to kill any man who utters such words again.

## Quotes

* *“She is the storm, the fire in the sky. Her heart is her companion that she flies upon. I try to keep her on good path, but she doesn’t need an old-timer like me for that. She is married to the sky, and gods help you if you try and take it from her.”*

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