Arthur Crakehall

Arthur Crakehall, circa 98 AC

Titus Crakehall - 21

Liliana Hill - 20

Loras Crakehall - 18

Willas Hill - 14

Talia Hill - 14

Wilbert Crakehall †

Arthur Crakehall was born in the year 48 AC to his father, Lord Tytos Crakehall and his lady mother, Cerrisa Lefford. Arthur through his life had always been a quiet and astute man who disliked feasts and tournaments, and instead took pleasure in drilling his men, or being on the campaign field. Not particularly cruel, Arthur has been described as a man more prudent, or to stick to the books - though, in the past, he has been involved in matters of intrigue, including alleged involvement in the killing of the Lord Consort of Sweetport Sound, Selwyn Sunglass.

His marriage with Victaria Brax was not said to be an affair of love, and like most things in Arthur's life, pragmatic and calculated.

## Appearance and Character

No one can quite describe Arthur as cold, for to his family, and those who matter to him most, Arthur is a true father. Who had wanted naught but the best for his children, and the Crakehall dynasty, yet to some, he is known as a cold-hearted ruler. Choosing to rule through fear, with an iron-fist that crushes dissent - most notably, he is known to be a source of some of the anti Valyrian rhetoric spreading throughout the Westerlands, refusing to wed any of his children to anybody of any Valyrian descent, as well as spreading hateful propaganda about the Valyrian race and the Targaryen dynasty to the smallfolk amongst his lands.

Before the Rosegold Rebellion, Arthur had only visited the Westerlands and the Reach.

## History

Spending almost the entirety of his young life beneath the thick walls of the Crakehall castle, avoiding the capital city - as his growing fear of the Targaryen dynasty and their heretical ways. Whereas holdfasts around the Targaryen kingdom celebrated in the name of their king, it was only the Golden Lion that joined the boar upon the walls of the Crakehall castle. His father had shared similar views on the Targaryen dynasty, preferring the company of his fellow Westerlanders or mayhaps, their Reachman neighbors, who he deemed inferior but true to the cause, especially following the Rebellion in which the two realms rose up together.

In his youth, he was tasked with putting down a rebellion in their lands when an armed group of bandits seized an important farm within the Crakehall lands and demanded a large sum of gold. Rather than meet them on their terms, Arthur instead led a force of troops into the farm come night-fall and killed without discrimination. There could be no second chances or half measures, he had declared. And this remained one of the worst kept secrets amongst his midst. The farm was seized and distributed.

When his liege, Tytos Lannister called upon the Westerlands to rise up in revolt, Arthur was delighted - viewing the Targaryen dynasty as the sick man of Westeros. On the campaign trail, under suspicious circumstance, Arthur Crakehall executed one of his prisoners, a Hayford, though some whisper that this was a dark deal between the Lord of Crakehall and the Lady of Hayford, who wished to rid herself of her consort.

Though House Crakehall had notably lost life in the war, Arthur licks at his wounds and builds ties. Above all else, however, one goal remains. Freedom and independence, power and unity.

## Family Tree

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