Miranda Dayne

"As my mentor used to say, You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - **Lady Miranda Dayne** to **Lord Daron of Pyne**, **Ser Arys Hills**, **Ser Wuan Rivers**, **Lord Roland Blount**, **Ser Digory Cornfield**, and **Lord Otto Dayne**.

## Miranda Dayne (née Cornfield)

### Aliases

Lady Yara of Andreas (formerly)Lady Miranda of Toyne

### Relatives

Lord Elton of Cornfield; fatherSer Digory of Cornfield; uncle

Ser Jonothor Cornfield; elder brother

Lord Bates Cornfield; elder brother

Ser Daeron Cornfield; elder brother

Ser Eustace Cornfield; younger brother

Ser Doran of Andal; lover

Ser Preston Dayne; fiancé

Duchess of Dorean; mentor

Ser Wuan Rivers; blood brother

## Physical description

### Eye color

Hazel Yellow

**Lady Miranda Dayne (née Cornfield)** is the daughter of Lord Elton of Cornfield and the Lady of House Cornfield. She is a Noble Lady of Eastshire, engaged to Ser Preston Dayne.

## Background

### Origins

In 158 CE, 4 years after the foundation of **House Cornfield**, she was born as **Miranda Cornfield** to Lord Elton of Cornfield and **Lady Daena of Dorean** in **Newtown**.

### Childhood

Raised and bred in **Toyne**, her uncle and **Lord of Toyne** were close friends. She grew up alongside the sons and daughters of Lord of Toyne, **Eddie Merryweather**, **Annabel Merryweather**, **Sean Merryweather**, and **Robb Merryweather**.

At the age of 12, Miranda traveled west with her uncle to **West Ford** for the southwestern campaign, where allies of **House Westernling** participated including Eastern Houses like **House Merryweather**, **House Cornfield**, **House Blount**, **House Ivanstar**, **House Torbel**, **House Byrch**, **House Tungsten**, **House Macewood**, **House Potter**, **House Landerman**, and **House Clayford**. In the campaign, Miranda worked in House Cornfield's Military Camp as a battle nurse during the two-year period of the campaign, as the eastern borders faced a naval threat.

At the age of 15, Miranda returned to Toyne to learn the ways of a lady. In 174 CE, Miranda accompanied her uncle, **Ser Digory Cornfield** to the Free Cities, where she remained for the coming years.

### Sea Life

Sometime during her stay in the Free Cities, she became acquainted with **Ser Wuan Rivers**, a ***sellsword*** from **Sternlands**, and alongside him, Miranda joined the **White Treader** by the end of 179 CE.

From 179 CE to 181 CE, Miranda serving at sea, returned to **Elton's Keep**, her childhood home and the ancestral seat of her family, only to be exiled in a year later in the Fall of 182 CE and return to the ***Crew of the White Treader***, sailing under the ***Flags of Tyrinia*** and becoming a ***privateer***.

## Rise to Power

### Ladyship

Sometime in 184 CE, Miranda returned home to **Toyne** on the death of her niece, and remained subsequently in Toyne until the wedding of her cousin, after which she returned to her life privateering, only to return a year after her uncle fell victim to the ***black pox***, and remained in Toyne, taking care after him.

In Toyne, Miranda adopted the name **Lady Miranda of Toyne**, where she served as a **Smith Apprentice**, and later opened her own forge. During her time in Toyne, she also mastered the art of archery, courtship, and alluring. By the December of 185 CE, Lady Miranda acquainted herself with notable men and women of the region, including **Lord Otto Dayne**, **Lord Daron of Pyne**, **Lord Phillip Barrister**, **Ser Donnel Isenwood**, **Ser Ivan of Appleton**, **Lady Bella Stockwell**, and **Lady Adaline Ivanstar**.

### Royal Affairs

In 186 CE with the growing recovery of Ser Digory Cornfield, he was appointed as the **Vice-Roy of the East Bank**. During which, he appointed Lady Miranda of Toyne as **Lady of East Town**, giving her royal command of the portside. Being an efficient sailing master and privateer, Lady Miranda strengthened the ports, with the construction of various wharves along the Eastern Portside, building a new trade route to the Green River, securing successive short river pathways defensed to the Green River. East Town became a Jewel of Trade, Riches, and Brothels, welcoming more privateers and sellswords to the kingdom.

Following her rise to power, Lady Miranda constructed a large fort that acted as **East River's Garrison**, northeast to East Town, where she appointed notable knights and lords, as well as her family members to maintain control among the loyalty of men, while the fort took three years to be constructed. It possessed great power to the one who controlled the garrison.

In Early 188 CE, Lady Miranda appointed **Ser Wuan Rivers**, an old friend and notable knight to the **City Guard** of **East Town**, giving him command as **Guard Captain**, securing **East Town's Supremacy**, and her rise in wealth and influence.

In the **Tourney of the Silver Queen**, Lady Miranda courted various noblemen, lords, and knights, including **Lord Daron of Pyne**, **Lord Phillip Barrister**, **Ser Donnel Isenwood**, **Ser Ivan of Appleton**, **Lord Eddard of Toyne**, **Lord Farlon Stockwell**, Ser Preston Dayne, **Ser Anders of Toyne**, **Ser Daeron of Cornfield**, **Lord Osmund of Cravenhall**, and **Ser Eddmund of Greentown**.

Towards the End of the First Century, **Ser Digory Cornfield** and **Lady Miranda of Toyne** brokered an alliance with **House Dayne** and **House Stockwell** with matrimony, with her betrothal to **Ser Preston Dayne**. Earning support of House Dayne and House Stockwell, Lady Miranda occupied a vast fort by the eastern coastal regions, that once belonged to **House Broom**, renaming it **Fort Broomstone** and expanded the portside, docking pirate, privateer, and merchant ships, eventually building an eastern A*rmada*, called **The White Flags**, and appointed an old ally of hers, **Captain Rogers** as third-in-command of the Armada.

## Love Affair

In Late 174 CE, during her time with the **Midnight Girls**, she became acquainted with a young man, a knight travelling with the ***company of merchants***. During an encounter in a voyage, Miranda and the knight, **Ser Doran of Andal** came as close as starting an affair. In Early 175 CE, Ser Doran went off to war, and disappearing. Rumors were he died in battle during the **War of North Isles** between the **Kingdom of Tyrinia** and the **South Islanders**, others said he was captured and sold into slavery. But one thing was certain, Ser Doran had disappeared among the faces of the world.

In Late 175 CE, while Miranda became an ***apprentice*** of the **Madam of Seville**, she became acquainted with a young **pirate knight** and a ***sellsword*** from the **Sternlands**, **Ser Wuan Rivers**. After countless visits of Ser Wuan Rivers at the **Ports of Seville**, where he remained after as a sellsword for hire and became acquainted with the **Red Rivers**, ultimately Ser Wuan started an affair with Lady Yara as she was known by. Once, after caught in bed in **Madam Joulie's** ***quarters***, she was kicked out with her stuff alongside Ser Wuan. The two hired a ship and sailed to the **North Isles**, now under the **Flagship of Tyrinia**.

In 176 CE, Lady Yara and Ser Wuan River occupied the ruins of a former manor, and rebuilt it into a brothel. Lady Yara became known as **Lady Yara of Andrea**, and with Ser Wuan who formed a company of sellswords to protect the brothels by the ports of the **Town of Polo**, and merchant ships from capture on sea by pirates and on land by bandits. Together, the two lovers became fame couple of the town, earning fame and riches along the way.

In Late 178 CE, the North Isles came fell under attack by a fleet of hundred ships of both, **South Islanders** and **Pacific Pirates** led by a Sea Lord, **Captain Leo the Umber**. This led to '***Bad Business***', and subsequently the Town of Polo came under heavy attack. Lady Yara and Ser Wuan had already built high walls surrounding the Town of Polo, and constructing a small castle in the center that acted as the **Townhall**, where a council of six elders sat, including Lady Yara and Ser Wuan. The Kingdom of Tyrinia sent twenty ships to aid in the battle, while the neighboring **Kingdom of Pentos** offered one hundred men to fight the attack. Captain Leo waged a battle with the North Isles Southern Regions that lasted nearly a year, leaving the North Isles more than destroyed, and Captain Leo signing a ceasefire that would give Captain Leo dominance over the Pacific Seas, forging an alliance with the Kingdom of Pentos and Tyrinia. Following which, in August 179 CE, Lady Yara and Ser Wuan relocated to the **Seville**, where they moved into a small manor by the shores, uphill the **Silver Forrests**. Near the End of 179 CE, the two lovers joined the White Treader.

Following a naval skirmish in 181 CE between the **Pacific Pirates**, the **Royal Tyrinian Navy**, the **White Treader**, and the **Royal Estonian Navy**, Lady Yara was captured along most of the crew of the White Treader and the pirates, where it was revealed that Lady Yara was a lost noble lady of Sternlands, and subsequently returned to her home, ending her affair with Ser Wuan Rivers.

## Household

* Lord {Elton of Cornfield}, her father.
* Ser {**Digory Cornfield**}, her uncle.
* Lord {**Dustin of of Toyne**}, her uncle.
* Lady {**Anna Ketch**}, her aunt.
* Lady {**Lysa Ketch**}, her aunt.
* Ser {**Jonothor Cornfield**}, her elder brother.
* Ser {**Daeron Cornfield**}, her elder brother.
* Ser {**Eustace Cornfield**}, her younger brother.
* Ser {**Wuan Rivers**}, her closest kin.
* Ser {**Doran of Andal**}, her lover and kin.
* Ser {Preston Dayne}, her betrothed.
* Ser {**Bernard Dayne**}, her kin.
* Ser {**Rhydian of Toyne**}, her cousin.
* Ser {**Terrence of Toyne**}, her cousin.
* {**Madam of Seville**}, her mentor and friend.
* Captain {**Rogers of Seville**}, her mentor and friend.
* Master {**Davos of Umber**}, her mentor and friend.

## Retainers

* Ser {**Wuan Rivers**}, **Guard Captain** of **East Town City Guard**.
* Ser {**Rhydian of Toyne**}, **Knight Captain** of **East River Garrison**.
* Ser {**Bernard Dayne**}, **Knight Commander** of East River Garrison.
* Captain {**Rogers of Seville**}, **Master of Fleet** of the **White Flag Armada**.
* Ser {**Davis of Andrea**}, Guard of Lady Miranda Toyne.
* Ser {**Leon of Polo**}, Guard of Lady Miranda Toyne.
* Lord {**Davos of Umber**}, **Commandant** of **Fort Broomstone**.
* Captain {**Lucien**}, **Guard Captain** of Fort Broomstone.
* Ser {**Olto**}, **Chamberlain** at East River Garrison.
* {**Fin**}, Scout of Lady Miranda of Toyne.
* {**Gin**}, Cupbearer of Lady Miranda of Toyne.
* {**Leo**}, Scout of Lady Miranda of Toyne.

## Appearance & Character

Miranda Dayne is an attractive woman with hazel yellow eyes, reddish-brown hair, and a cunning look. She is skinny with a fine figure. Miranda is a close friend of **Lady Bella Stockwell**, **Lady Adaline Ivanstar**, **Lady Jeyne Barrister**, and **Lady Ellaria Stanner**. She is a master swordswoman, equestrian,, and archer, as well as an expert blacksmith, navigator, diplomat, and huntress.