Fralegg Flint

Torrhen Flint

Lyarra Flint

Fralegg Flint is the aged lord of Flint's Finger, and a bannerman of House Stark of Winterfell.

## Appearance and Character

Fralegg is an old man, and suffers an old man's maladies of the body. His body, once powerful and lithe, is now thin and stooped from years in the yard and in the saddle. What hair remains to him is gone to the colour of silver, and his skin is creased by decades of wear and cares.

Despite this, age has done nothing to dull the old Flint's mind, and his clear blue eyes flash sharp as ever. A famously erudite man, Fralegg is also an exceptional commander, with a mind of mathematics and logic that allows him to excel in warfare, though it taxes his personal relationships. Distant and aloof, a long life full of troubles has taken its toll on the dour old lord.

## Biography

### **Early Life**

Born the second son of Lord Ondrew Flint and his wife Lady Bethany Condon, Fralegg was a quiet and studious child who nonetheless excelled in nearly every arena he was pushed into as the progeny of a noble house. Hunting, riding, and archery were his preferred pastimes, though he was also skilled with a blade and a talented wrestler despite his lithe physique.

Beyond the public eye though, Fralegg truly excelled. In long hours spent in cloistered study with his grandfather's maester, he took readily to the essential skills of a learned man: arithmetic, grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, and history. He had a talent for sketchwork, and would often tour the grounds of any keep or village he visited with a scrap of parchment and a piece of charcoal in his hand, notating with great attention to detail the design and function of buildings and infrastructural features.

In light of his academic pursuits, there were many who wondered if perhaps the boy - when he came of age - would ask his father's permission to travel to the Citadel and become a maester himself. Sadly, fate intervened against such dreams: when he was himself only nine years old, Fralegg's older brother Errold took ill and died after a brief sickness. Now the heir to Flint's Finger, Fralegg's responsibilities increased manifold, and those that knew him as a child would remark in later years that Fralegg never again seemed quite so carefree or happy as he had once been.

### **Regency and Lordship**

Tragedy would prove a frequent companion to the young heir to Flint's Finger. Only four years after his brother's death, Lord Ondrew would follow his eldest son into the grave, and thirteen- year-old Fralegg found himself Lord of Flint's Finger.

For the first three years of his rule, Fralegg was closely advised by his maester, his mother, and most of all his father's old master-at-arms Hyle Slate. Slate was a transparent puppetmaster, ham-fistedly exercising his will over the young lord and using threats and blackmail to back down those who stood opposed to him. Upon finally ascending to manhood after three years of such ill-rule, Slate proposed a marriage between his daughter and Fralegg: an arrangement which would allow the old master-at-arms to indirectly rule Flint's Finger in perpetuity - or, at the very least, until the marriage bore a child and Slate stood free to remove Fralegg from the picture permanently. Preempting such an outcome, Fralegg had his old regent clapped in irons and shipped to the Wall.

And thus the boy with the mind of numbers and letters came to be the man who would rule Flint's Finger for the next five decades. During the crisis of the Wildling Invasion of 53 AC, Fralegg led the men of the North and the Night's Watch against the Wildlings and was present at the battle where Lord Osric Stark was killed. After leading the Northern forces to a final crushing victory over the Harbinger and his savage hordes, Fralegg was part of the procession that accompanied Lord Osric's body back to Winterfell, and there he paid due homage to Lord Alaric Stark as the new Lord Paramount of the North.

### **A Free North**

When Lord Alaric declared that the North would no longer bow to the will of a foreign throne and a king who did not respect their customs nor come to their aid in times of need, Fralegg was among the first to raise his hold's banner in support of the renewed Kingdom of Winter. Though bloodshed was ultimately averted (if by nothing more than the overwhelming number of other issues pressing the Targaryens at the time, preventing any effort to reign the North in) Fralegg was tasked with the defense and fortification of Moat Cailin in the face of possible invasion via the Neck - a task to which he was not only well-suited, but which he undertook with aplomb.

Though he was excluded from the Winter's Council and the inner circle of the Starks' most powerful bannermen, Fralegg was nothing but loyal towards King Alaric, even insofar as marching against his fellow Northern lords along with Lord Glover in the so-called "Winter of a Hundred Kings", when many Northern houses rebelled against the Starks following the particularly harsh winter that gave that crisis its name.

### **Private Life**

In the midst of the upheaval and change that defined much of his rule, Fralegg married Marna Glover in 46 AC, and the two enjoyed a brief but apparently happy marriage cut short by Marna's death in childbirth in 50 AC. Grief-stricken, Fralegg never remarried, and though he never blamed his son for his wife's death, relations between Lord Flint and his heir were never particularly warm. The two were different in many different ways: young Rodrik was bold where his father was cautious, bellicose where his father was temperate, and martial where his father was erudite.

Nonetheless, Fralegg successfully oversaw what he saw as the securing of his legacy: in 72 AC he arranged the marriage of Rodrik to Dacey Mormont, and in 74 Dacey gave birth to twins: Frenya and Jonelle. Yet tragic, ironic fate - that ever-present companion of Fralegg's - intervened once again. Rodrik would never meet either of his daughters, dying in a skirmish with a band of bandits that had been harassing the countryside around his father's holdings. Suddenly, the fate of House Flint lay on the shoulders of two infant girls, the younger of whom - due to complications during the birth - emerged with severe mental handicaps that effectively rendered her incapable.

Never an especially pious man, Fralegg - now well into middle-age - could nonetheless not help but view the tragedy that had shadowed him his entire life as a kind of divine punishment. Rodrik's death especially struck him, and though he had never been close with his son Fralegg took a much more active hand in the rearing of his granddaughters, especially Frenya, who was now his heir-presumptive. Though still a difficult man to get along with under the best of circumstances - prone to moodiness, arrogance, and stubbornness to name a few faults - he softened, it seemed, only for his granddaughters.

## Recent Events

After managing to arrange a political marriage between Frenya and Beren Stark - which would have resulted in the latter's effective lordship of Flint's Finger after Fralegg's death - Fralegg's plans were stymied when Beren died after five years of marriage which yielded no heirs of the blood. Now, he has traveled to Oldcastle with his granddaughter in a rare departure from his home in order to meet with the king and his fellow lords, and to plan for the future that is rapidly coming upon them all.

## Skills and Aptitudes

**Attributes:** Brilliant, Diligent

**Aptitude:** Erudite

**Skills:** Logistics, Siegecraft, Warcraft (free from Erudite), One-handed Weapons, Civil Engineering, Fortification, Engineering, Geography

**Social Status:** Bannerman, Lord of a House