Sumner Flowers

Bonifer Flowers †

Robin Flowers

Florence Flowers

Ser **Sumner Flowers** the youngest son of the late Lord Normund Meadows, and a close confidante of his successor, Jocelyn.

## Appearance and Character

Sumner Flowers is a fit if somewhat slender man, standing just shy of six feet. He keeps his comely features well-groomed, sporting a perfectly trim mustache and a smooth mane of wavy dark hair.

Despite his clean-cut appearance, the youngest Bastard of Grassfield best exemplifies the notion of bastardy. He wears his vices as badges of pride and defiantly embraces the expectations that the trueborn have for the illegitimate. Nevertheless, those better acquainted with the man understand Ser Sumner to be a reasonably consistent man with his own peculiar code of honor.

## History

Lord Normund Meadows' bastards might not have been sired nor raised by their father, had his wife not been rendered infertile after the birth of his only two legitimate children. His four bastard children therefore enjoyed a relatively secure status at his court - if only because of his insistence. Many in the Meadows household held stringent expectations for their liege's illegitimate children, and as the youngest and most neglected of the four, Sumner Flowers was often at their mercy.

He grew closest with one of his eldest two brothers, Triston Meadows, two decades his senior. When Sumner reached his adolescence, it was only Triston who was willing to take him on as a squire - though this tutelage was short-lived. The two participated in the Fourth Dornish War, during which Triston perished in battle. Sumner was not assigned a new mentor; all of his knightly training thereafter was informal, and largely owed to the examples set by his other brothers.

His early adulthood was primarily spent indulging in every delight his house's market town had to offer, and soon enough the confines of Grassy Vale proved too restrictive for the energetic youth. With a few of the companions he'd made among the town's smallfolk, he began regularly wandering between the towns and cities of southern Westeros, wasting away the unnecessarily generous stipend he received from his lord father.

A pivotal experience came during the Rosegold Rebellion. At its onset, Sumner joined his brother Timoth on a hurried ride south, and together they offered their swords to the main Tyrell host. Sumner subsequently participated in nearly every major engagement of the war, including the infamous Slaughter at Bitterbridge - where Timoth perished amidst the bloodbath. His own conduct, however, did not go without recognition, and at the battle's conclusion another knight of the Reach anointed him.

The war took both his last living trueborn brother and his nephew Russell, leaving Lord Meadows with the young Jocelyn as his heir. Sumner and Jocelyn shortly thereafter grew close, spending much of the next few years at Grassy Vale. He tasked himself with preparing the heir to Grassfield to handle the unsavory aspects of rule that his legitimate kinsmen would never dare acknowledge. He further assisted her in a power struggle with his brother Bonifer, who had assumed authority at Grassfield while Lord Meadows grew ill and infirm. A plot to disinherit Jocelyn was thwarted when Bonifer died of the dragonblight, a disease he had contracted under unusual circumstances.

Sumner subsequently joined Jocelyn, her mother Sybell, and his brother Robin Flowers in an informal regency council that managed House Meadows' affairs in the final few years of Lord Normund's life.

## Recent Events

Sumner refrained from any close involvement with the White Rose Rebellion in 98 AC, remaining at home as he tended to his father on his deathbed. Lord Meadows perished in the first moon of the next year, and he has since stayed by Jocelyn's side as her most trusted assistant.

## Family

* Normund Meadows, Lord of Grassfield Keep b. 29 AC d. 99 AC
* m. Maris Cafferen b. 30 AC d. 91 AC
	+ Timoth Meadows b. 51 AC d. 93 AC
	+ m. Sybell Lyberr b. 55 AC
		- Russell Meadows b. 75 AC d. 93 AC
		- Jocelyn Meadows, Lady of Grassfield Keep b. 78 AC
		- Perianne Meadows, Heir to Grassfield Keep b. 80 AC
	+ Triston Meadows b. 51 AC d. 83 AC
	+ m. Arwyn Hasty b. 53 AC
		- Branston Meadows, Ranger of the Night's Watch b. 72 AC
		- Selwyn Meadows b. 74 AC
		- Margot Meadows b. 77 AC
* w. Tysane of Tumbleton
	+ Bonifer Flowers b. 58 AC d. 96 AC
* w. Alyce of Ashford
	+ Robin Flowers b. 61 AC
* w. Gwenys of Grassy Vale
	+ Florence Flowers b. 63 AC
* w. Olenna of Oldtown
	+ **Sumner Flowers** b. 69 AC

## Skills

* Tough, Knight
	+ Two-Handed Weapons, Precision (COM)
	+ Interrogation (INT)