Lyarra Stark

Lyarra Stark is the second child and only daughter of Lord Jon Stark of Winterfell and Sarra Stark née Mormont. As a Scion of House Stark Lyarra has lived her life in the family's ancestral home of Winterfell where her father sits as Warden of the North.

Now sixteen, it is expected that her Father will soon arrange a suitable match for his daughter.

## Appearance

The youthful Scion of House Stark has been blessed with her mother's looks. Deep sable brown hair falls to around her mid back and frames her pretty pale features. Her eyes, though, are the cold grey of her father's and her dark brows assuredly recall his features. Slender and graceful in her movements, the young woman stands around five and a half feet although it is possible that she may still grow a little taller yet. In company, the scion's smile comes easily and her talent for singing is often remarked upon in Northern circles.

## History

Lyarra Stark, born late in the 11th moon of 391AC, the second child of then Heir to Winterfell Jon Stark and his wife Sarra. The birth had not been a simple one and left both mother and child weak. Lyarra would recover quickly, though it took far longer for her mother's strength to return to her.

The years that followed were unkind to the Seven Kingdoms, as famine struck Westeros and the people of the North were hard pressed to find adequate supplies to survive. Merely a babe at the time, Lyarra knew little of the hardship, her parents baring the brunt of any rationing of portions on their children's behalf.

It was during these dark years that her Grandfather, Lord Rickard Stark, was injured and killed whilst leading a party to purge the banditry besetting the Kingsroad. In his passing, her father Lord Jon Stark took up the mantle of Warden of the North and Lord of Winterfell.

During these early years, Lyarra is noted as a precocious child, speech came to her quickly and early evidence suggested that the young lady might have a talent for singing. One of her earliest memories as a child recall walking in the snow-covered woodland, stretching to keep her hand enclosed in her father's grip whilst straining to pull the man onward, and later falling face first into the deep snow at the foot of a lonely tree. Her Father laughs in those times before he lifts the infant and carries her home.

In 396AC War erupts in the south, and soon the fighting Men of the North are called upon by Lord Jon, it will be several years before Lyarra comes to understand the absence of her father. She learns at her mother's side and at the beneath the watching gaze of the castles ageing Maester, though Lyarra finds little affection for the old man or his books. In the absence of her father figure the girl becomes bolder straying from her guards on occasion and convinced that she should be allowed to roam further from the safety of home.

At eight, the young scion disappeared for a whole day, found late in the evening hidden behind the bough of an ageing tree in the Godswood. It's suggested that the grim defiance on the girl's features as she was chided and punished mirrored the youthful looks of her stubborn Father. Following her disobedience, Lyarra's activities and movements are far more strictly monitored. Eventually, the girl's wanderlust seems to subside.

By the end of her ninth year, the young wolf has returned to the more ladylike pursuits expected of a scion of a great house. Her training for society life progressed quickly. It was openly noted that the girl had acquired her mothers share of charm and looks, though her mood and headstrong nature belonged to her long-absent patriarch.

In 402AC the men of the North finally returned for a prolonged war in the name of the Targaryens. Her Father returned, and despite the fondness both had shared the pair were almost strangers again. It was a time of many mixed emotions. Her Uncle, the beloved brother of Lord Jon, had died over the course of the war, and Jon had returned with his sibling's bones in tow. Many men of the North had fallen in the years of conflict and questions rose on hushed lips of some as to whether the conflict had achieved anything for the North but further hardship.

Such thoughts were meant to merely fester, however, because the oldest of threats had returned to the Westeros. As the earliest snows began to fall in earnest once again the House words of Stark were proven true. Winter was coming.

The Scarlet Winter claimed thousands of Northern lives. From noblemen to smallfolk, none remained unaffected by the terrible cold and the heavy cloak of snow smothering the lands. In the midst of this, when the fifth moon of the year 403AC was at its most full, Lady Sarra gave birth to her third child, a precious son named Edderion. Again, the birth left Sarra drained and weakened, though Edderion appeared mostly untroubled. To the surprise of most around her, Lyarra was enthralled by her new baby brother, spending much time with her Mother and Brother over the first six months.

It was assumed by all that Sarra would recover given time, much as she had after Lyarra's birth. However, toward the turn of the year, a marked decline had been noted in the health of the Lady of Winterfell. Eventually, Lyarra's mother's condition declined to the point that she was bedridden, shortly after she began to suffer signs of hysteria and it was necessary that Edderion was cared for by wet-nurse's and other family members.

Late in 404AC Lady Sarra Stark passed, she was entombed in the family crypt only days before Lyarra's name-day.

Following her Mother's passing life around Winterfell has been more sombre than Lyarra has ever known in her short life, though the worst of the snows retreated by 405AC the cold around her Father has never quite seemed to have thawed. Lyarra took up many of the duty's of her Mother since her passing, learning more of statecraft than many noble daughters her age, she has also developed a maternal devotion to her young sibling Edderion. Though her training in the life of noble ladies has continued under the dutiful guidance of her Aunt Raya, Lyarra still displays the same stubbornness of her father.

407 - As Lyarra approaches her 16th name-day she accompanies her family to the tourney at Harrenhal, whilst in attendance, her father arranges her betrothal to Landon Tully, a legitimized bastard who was made Lord of Riverrun. With arrangements for their wedding still to be set the Winterfell party returned to the north.

## Family

* Lord Jon Stark (b. 371 AC)

* Lady Sarra Stark (née Mormont) (375AC - 404AC)
	+ Eon Stark (b. 389AC)
	+ Lyarra Stark (b. 391AC)
	+ Edderion Stark (b. 403AC)

* Robb Stark (374AC - 396AC)

* Raya Stark (b. 385AC)

## Household

* Maester Didion
* Mark Condon, Castellan
* William Ryswell, Master-at-Arms
* Desmond, Captain-of-the-Guard