Donnor Hornwood

Donnor Hornwood is the firstborn son of Lyarra Hornwood and Ser Willam Snow. Due to the complicated nature of the Hornwood family tree, the succession of House Hornwood and the Hornwood has been a growing issue for many a year.

Ultimately, in 98 AC, with Lady Argelle Hornwood bedridden and infirm, Eddard Hornwood and his sons made a play for the Hornwood, managing to kill both Donnor's mother, Lyarra, and brother, Larence, while he escaped.

## Appearance and Character

Donnor Hornwood is of a tall and well-made physique. Possessing of a body with no inherent physical restrictions nor inflictions, Donnor has always been able to exert himself to the fullest extent, and train himself to be of a fine form. Through years of training, Donnor has come to be of rather a fine physique.

Further so, Donnor is of reddish-brown hair, of which he inherited from his late father, and so too possesses a fine moustache of the same colouring. Meanwhile, his eyes are of a chocolate brown, and his skin of a northern white.

As for dress, Donnor oft dresses himself in a combination of armour, some plate, and other parts chainmail or gambeson, while accompanying such with furs or coats.

In character, Donnor Hornwood is a complexity. Despite his birth being legitimate, and his mother a legitimate and trueborn Hornwood, his father was a bastard. A single blemish on his breeding, though a notable one it remains, by simple virtue of the man's name having been Snow and not of the same as his father, Donnor's grandfather, of Hornwood. As such, Donnor oft tries to compensate for this shame of bastardy, attempting to avoid any such actions that could align him with accusations of lust, lies, wanton behaviour, and treachery to boot.

Alas, life has not proven to be of terrible ease in the way of avoiding the presumed nature of bastards. In a cruel irony, where Donnor's father, the bastard himself, was loyal in body, Donnor has oft found himself not so. Yet, unakin to lesser men, Donnor does not simply plough through a half dozen whores and call it a day. Only will Donnor take a whore's time when he finds himself truly in need of release, much instead preferring to find for himself a paramour of sorts, rather liking the Dornish ideal.

Additionally, as has enraged Donnor is the appearance that he now thinks himself to be presenting; one of treachery and disloyalty. For where he must go, what he must do, he does to secure Hornwood and his inheritance, his rightful inheritance, as was told to him by his mother, his father, and his grandmother Manderly. Yet, with his uncle Eddard now in control of Hornwood, he, Donnor, will be the outsider attempting to strike in upon the lands.

Furthermore, Donnor so too attempts to hold his words to a higher standard, to a more intelligent remark, and highly values his knighthood and what it stands for, though that is not to say he finds it easy to uphold. An inherent rage resting within, as a bear slumbering, though suddenly and rudely awoken, can oft be drawn out, and when so, it is as if Donnor Hornwood changes entirely from a man of noble cause to one of bloodied charge.

## History

### 76 - 92 AC

Born in the depths of the great winter known as Maegor's Breath, Donnor Hornwood was not expected by many to survive such a peroid of struggle, for many a babe did not. Alas, Donnor proved a resilient babe, and the curse of the Targaryen yoke upon these kingdoms did not claim another life. And so, with the winter's eventual conclusion, and Donnor's growing in age, this Hornwood found life increasingly pleasant.

Over the course of his minority, those first sixteen years of his life, Donnor Hornwood grew into a rather skilled horseman and warrior with polearms, most especially spears and lances, while so too demonstrating a prowess for the ways of warfare and an intricate knowledge of how it was waged, and would go on to prove himself rather a skilled commander during the Failed Pirate Incursion of 98 AC.

Further still, Donnor also proved to be rather a naturally charismatic individual, though this was at times hindered by his issues with his anger and beliefs that at times conflicted with much of the North.

### 92 - 98 AC

Donnor's earliest years of majority came fast to define the young Hornwood. With his father, Ser Willam Snow, falling to the heretics under the command of the Dustin dog, Donnor was left but ten and six, and without a father. As such, he was forced to rise to a position he had not expected to come upon him so soon. Having to now protect his younger brother, sister, and mother from the barbarity of Eddard Hornwood and his sons in the face of Lady Argelle's ever-weakening body, Donnor had a great task ahead of him, little did he know it would some day reach the bloody murder it did.

Further so, it was in this time that Donnor cemented his reputation within Hornwood as a skilled warrior and horseman, and so too one with a most keen military mind. Further so, in early 98 AC, Donnor would prove himself commanding the men of Hornwood against the Essosi pirate incursion.

### 98 AC

Though, late in 98 AC, violence came to Hornwood and its family. After years a plenty of building tensions and conflict rising between the two branches of the family, after fights and risings with Donnor and Larence against their cousins, Ondrew and Benton, despite Ondrew and Benton being years older. And so, one night after feast had been had and all were set to slumber, Eddard Hornwood, and his sons Ondrew and Benton, struck. Moving fast and hard, and with strong support within the walls of Hornwood, as the Lady Argelle slept, the two branches clashed.

The assault did not find Donnor asleep this night, for the Old Gods had other plans. Having been forewarned minutes before, Donnor had had time enough to dress and gather basic arms, making his way to his brother, Larence, and waking him from his slumber. Though, while Donnor was able to get to Larence, he was not able to get to his mother in time, only just breaching the doors to her chambers moments before her skull was caved in by cousin Benton's axe, her clothes torn, her person already bloodied, and screams a plenty. Nor were Donnor and Larence able to reach their younger sister Argelle, though her fate remains unknown.

Alas, while making to flee from Hornwood upon horseback with some thirty odd leal men, Larence and a third of the men were killed, most due to arrows loosed from the walls of Hornwood, from those loyal to Eddard and his sons. Everwhile, Lady Argelle Hornwood slept, consumed by her infirmity and old age.