Ashira Yronwood

Yorick Yronwood

Gwyn Yronwood

**Ashira Yronwood** is the second child of Lord Ormond Yronwood and his wife, Ysilla Dayne. The previous Lady of Yronwood, she currently died in a coma, and the rule of her house has come in the hands of her son, Quentyn.

## Appearance and Character

Ashira was every bit the picture of beauty and grace, inheriting from her mother, Ysilla Dayne, a mop of honey-gold hair that falls in wide curls about her shoulders, full crimson lips, and tired blue eyes. Curves were emphasized primarily about the waist, but she seemed to lack for a bosom - though that rarely stops her.

Standing just short of her brother at 5’10, Ashira was graceful in her stride, preferring lighter colors that emphasize the pale of her skin, or her neck. She was confident in her beauty, as it was one of the few things that Ashira was certain of.

Ashira was demure and shy, spiteful despite her outward melancholy. She held a great respect for Eliane Martell, but had come to revile the names of many Dornish Houses.

She kept to herself, sharing fewer and fewer details of her past. She could be hostile when pressed, and had a small ring of friends.

## History

Born in the year 390 AC, the second child
of the impetuous Lord Ormond Yronwood and his wife, Ysilla Dayne, Ashira
Yronwood might’ve been an aside were it not for the insistence of her mother to
properly educate her daughter, and offer her the best that Dorne had. Lord
Ormond was a legendary man, but none disliked him more than his own wife, the
Lady Ysilla, who herself had borne the bastard of another man.

Though her connections with the man had all but evaporated, Lady Ysilla would regale her daughter in
sleepless nights in Yronwood, speaking of his valor, of his determination and
speed, but she would never relent his name. So too would she speak of a brother of hers, far away, hidden from the
world. In this, Ysilla made her promise to keep a secret, and though Ashira
could not have been any younger than seven at the time, she would hold it until
the words were pried from her tongue.

Afforded the best and most luxurious
Yronwood and House Dayne had to offer, Ashira was taught the ways of High
Valyrian; a Lysene tutor taught her to dance, a Pentoshi magister taught her
the ways of commerce. Ashira was nothing if not bright, and this shone in her
texts from her youth, writing down the events of each day in a book she called,
*The Chronicles of Yronwood.*

Her father proved to be less than
enthused on all the money being spent on their daughter. *We have a child,* he was reported to have said to his wife. *Let us not waste our money on a second.*

Ashira’s relationship with her brother,
Nymor, was strained at best. Though Ashira strove to be much and more than her
brother, Nymor proved a capable fighter, a capable man, with charismatic
tendencies and a particular knack for deflowering Ashira’s favorite serving
girls. This only proved to deepen the enmity between Ashira and her sibling,
but Nymor seemed not to care.

It was for these reasons that Ysilla
returned briefly to Starfall with her daughter. With child at the time, Ysilla
would fall into childbed three months later. An especially difficult birth,
especially for a child so meek and small, Ysilla would never truly recover from
such, despite her living to present day. The child, named *Trebor,* and taking greatly after his mother, would not survive the
week.

This event proved to shape the young
Ashira as the years grew old, holding a bitter resentment for her father, and
an extreme dislike for Nymor. After her father’s death in 401 AC, Ashira
returned to Yronwood, leaving her mother in Starfall to be carefully tended to
by the Maesters there. She had taken to a wheelchair, her back in excruciating
agony after the birth. It’d proved a tumultuous affair, snapping her spine, and
in such a terrible stroke of events, she would never learn to walk again.

Though her relationship with her brother
was far from grand, the two would spend time with one another at Yronwood after
their father’s passing. With Lord Ormond gone, it seemed almost a balm to their
relationship, but it proved short-lived.

## Recent Events

### 407 - 418

#### Conflagration

The year 407 AC proved to be one of the
worst years for House Yronwood in living history. Nymor Yronwood, having taken
to bride Lysa Lannister, was returning from Casterly Rock when their uncle, Ser
Brynden, worked against the interests of Dorne. In a feast where he summoned
all the lords of Dorne, he suggested that they rebel, and was rebuffed immediately.

The Lords of Dorne all answered with a
strong no, and Laenor Targaryen even more. Recently wed to the Princess of
Dorne, Meria, the Prince-Consort sent a threatening letter to Yronwood
detailing his plans for dealing with his treason.

Though Nymor had Ser Brynden executed,
the wroth of dragons is not so easily quenched. In the tenth moon of 407 AC,
Laenor Targaryen arrived on dragonback to bring Fire and Blood to House
Yronwood. Ashira was present during the battle, hiding in some far-flung corner
of the castle with Lysa Lannister.

Her brother was slain during the battle,
his remains scorched and never to be found again. Laenor departed the castle,
leaving a scorching ruin behind, and only few alive. Ashira, amongst the survivors,
quickly found herself starving, without a place to go, when Lord Wyl arrived at
the back of a thousand men.

Him and his armies escorted her and the
Lady Lysa to Sunspear to await judgement for her brother’s treasons. Though
Meria was merciful, granting her the titles of Bloodroyal and Lady of Yronwood,
she would remain at Sunspear until the Prince-Consort and Princess found that
she was ready to take up her brother’s old position.

#### Escalation

There were few in Sunspear who did not
understand nor know what it was Ashira Yronwood was subject to during the
durations of her stay in Sunspear. Under the watchful eyes of Meria, Nymeria
Uller, and Laenor, Ashira became a favorite at court, made to dress
scandalously, and dance alongside the other girls at feasts. It was behind
closed doors that these most cruel of fates were subjected upon her, however.

Not only was she made to dance, but she
was made to dance in the nude for the pleasure of the three onlookers. Laenor
once took to a comment of her Lysene dancing teacher, suggesting that her
mother, Ysilla, knew she might be more a *whore*
*than a* lady, *in her age. Though*
this infuriated Ashira, Laenor seemed content to delight in her embarrassment
and suffering. She was made to watch them couple; made to perform and to serve.
Sometimes, they forgot she was there, but others, they made certain she *was* there.

Had it not been for the Lady Nymeria
Uller, if truth be told, there Ashira might not have lived to see the year 410.
Her steady, calm hand, and kind nature, proved just enough to keep Ashira from
teetering to the brink. Ashira had few friends, but among those few she did
possess were the Lady Eliane of House Martell.

#### The Spectre of Sunspear

As the months passed, and Ashira grew
more accustomed to her position in Sunspear, she began to learn how to s

lip in
and out of the shadows as if a mouse. Melding into the background was her
forte, her capabilities at stealth surprising for one so tall. Ashira would
host late-night meetings with Eliane as she snuck around the palace, avoiding
the detection of both guards and servants.

Those meetings – though initially
friendly – turned to plotting and intrigue as Ashira and Eliane both continued
to grow discontent with their positions. When the woman left for the Free
Cities, Ashira was afforded naught but free time, when not occupied by the man
and women that so wished for her company.

Meria Martell died in 411 AC, three years
after Ashira arrived at Sunspear. It left Laenor a darkened, harder man, and he
would take to Ashira more as the months continued on. She would dance, dance,
and dance, and when she was tired, she would dance some more, all at his
command.

When Eliane returned in 412 AC, the two
continued their evening bouts, but Laenor would have none of it. He took Eliane
to bride late the year, and would get a child with her shortly before he
himself departed to Essos in 413. Laenor would return with something akin to a sickness
sometime later.

Though his fever looked mild at first, it
only got worse as the days continued on. Eliane and Ashira met in secret often,
discussing what might happen should he die. They devised a plan, and set about
making sure everything that needed happen *did*
*happen.*

Laenor’s struggles ended in the Seventh
Moon of 413 AC. His sickness took him, and for the first time in over five
years, Ashira was free. With the end of his struggles so too would Eliane's, who passed from the mortal coil just four months after her husband in childbed. It seemed that the Gods had played a cruel trick, and ruined her all the more.

#### Run Girl Run

Ashira returned home to Yronwood in 414
AC. Few efforts had been made to repay it; reparations had been made to Lord
Uller of Hellhot, who amongst many Dornish nobility demanded payment for the
crimes of her uncle, Brynden. It wasn’t until 416 that these payments were made
in full, and when they were cleared, House Yronwood was once again on the path
to rise up in Dorne once again.

This was not the end of her struggles,
however. Ashira experienced frequent nightmares of her time in Sunspear. Though
a friendship between her and House Martell had begun, and a fierce sense of loyalty
had instilled instead in the Bloodroyal, the crimes of the eldest sister were never
forgotten upon her.

She avoided balls and feasts from there
on, remembering that there were many a Dornish lord who had seen her displayed
in such a vulgar manner. Meeting once again with her mother in Starfall, who
had become fat in her age, the beauty of years all but gone, the woman
instilled grand advice in her, and told her of the path she now must walk.

Despite being the last trueborn Yronwood,
Ashira elected not to take a husband. Laenor had reminded her of the cruelty of
man, and Ashira had taken to the company of women instead, enjoying her time amidst
the company of handmaids, daughters of her old friends of youth.

Ashira rarely avoided visits from the
Lady Nymeria Uller as well, though their relationship was strained at best, and
with her new-found independence, began the reconstruction of Yronwood.

It would prove a long process – longer than
the span of a decade, or so some said. Since the beginning of such
construction, Ashira has been between Sunspear and Yronwood frequently,
visiting with Lord Morgan. Though, if truth be told, those visits might yet
be inciting those vicious nightmares that Ashira so terribly hates.

### 418 - today

As of 418 AC, Ysilla Dayne has once again
taken ill. She has come to Yronwood to live out the remainder of her years, and
with her has come a new vigor to restore House Yronwood to it’s former, shining
glory. With him comes the bastard of old, a man Ysilla has told her will help her reclaim her seat.

Ashira visited the Free City of Lys for the Festival of Lights in 416 AC, where she met her husband, Lysono Drahar, a Myrman from a cousin branch of t great Myrish family Drahar. While she fell in love with him, she had her misgivings until he begged her for forgiveness after an argument. She married him in Myr, and after a week of lingering there, she returned to Yronwood with her husband and his brother Craghan Drahar, who was of an age with her.

Afterwards, she began ruling Yronwood as a true Lady, leading the house to prosperity and greatness like few other Yronwoods in living memory. She gave birth to her twin sons Quentyn and Myles in 416 AC, who was followed by two younger siblings Yorick and Gwyn in 424 and 426 AC, respectively. Once again, the fortunes of House Yronwood looked up. Only the passing of her mother at Starfall interrupted this, where Lady Ashira attended her burial.

During the War of Stone and Sky, Lady Ashira joined the rebellion of Tommen Blackmont after feeling pressured into it, but sent her children away to Myr with her good-brother lest they suffer the Dragon's Wroth as she had. However, her host's biggest action during the war was the Siege of the Tor, which was an uneventful happening. After the Vulture King was defeated and fled to Yronwood, she made a secret deal with Prince Trystane Martell for a full pardon and no retribution, if she would help kill the Vulture King. Entrusting her husband with this task, she did as bid, letting her husband lead the forces, but he was killed while betraying the Vulture King by Tommen Blackmont himself. She would later be consoled by Prince Trystane Martell himself, who brought the body to Yronwood and attended the funeral.

After her children returned, she had a quarrel with Quentyn over the death of his father, but they reconciled after a week of not talking to each other. She continued to rule Yronwood unopposed, as the only rebel house who did not suffer retribution after the War of Stone and Sky. It was said that the death of her husband was retribution enough.

After a hawking accident during which she was thrown from her horse, Lady Ashira slipped into a coma, in a state between life and death, until finally passing in 439 AC. Her son Quentyn now rules in her stead.

## Family

* Lord Ormond Yronwood, b. 362 AC, d. 401 AC,
* m. Ysilla Dayne, b. 382 AC, d. 427 AC,
	+ Lord Nymor Yronwood b. 386 AC, d. 407 AC,
	+ Lady **Ashira Yronwood**, b. 390 AC,
	+ m. Lysono Drahar, b. 388 AC, d. 435 AC,
		- Quentyn Yronwood, b. 416 AC,
		- Myles Yronwood, b. 416 AC
		- Yorick Yronwood, b. 424 AC,
		- Gwyn Yronwood, b. 426 AC

### Past Members

* Lord Anders Yronwood b. 268 AC, d. 305 AC,

* Lord Mors Yronwood, b. 287 AC, d. 315 AC, acting Master of Law from 305-312, nephew of Lord Anders, died to a stroke in Yronwood.

* Lord Yoren Yronwood, b. 305 AC, d. 357 AC, son of the youngest brother of Lord Anders, cousin of Lord Mors, died of old age in Yronwood
	+ Lord Edgar b. 338 AC, d. 368 AC, eldest son of Lord Yoren, died to shock in Yronwood
	+ Lord Yorick, b. 340 AC, d. 399 AC, second son of Lord Yoren, died of old age in Yronwood, married to Lady Tylla Redwyn
	+ Ser Clayton Yronwood, youngest son of Lord Yoren, half-mad, d. 420 AC