Lyonel Wylde

**Lyonel Wylde** is the Lord of Rain House, the firstborn son and third child of Willem Wylde and Myra Mertyns. Like his father, he was the fourthborn child but his elder siblings were all sisters. After him a brother, Robin, as born.

## Appearance and Character

Lyonel is a brawny man, with curly brown hair and striking blue eyes. He stands taller than most men, though is of a height with his heir Guyard. He's a gregarious man, well known throughout his lands as personable and evenhanded-- lessons learned from tales of his grandsire, Ronnel Wylde, being an arbitrary and wroth man.

## History

### Youth

Born on a rare sunny day in 98 AC to Lady Myra Mertyns and Lord Willem Wylde, the squalling babe Lyonel was doted on by his sisters Jeyne, Elenda, and Corenna. They came to love their baby brother swiftly and became large influences on their brother as he grew up-- some suggest that it was this influence that softened the edges that dogged his father, and gave him the potential to be a greater lord.

A childhood spent socializing was not ill spent at all, and the experiences at court were well put to use by Lyonel as he came up. Lord Willem struck a deal with Lord Estermont for his young son to squire for a knight of the latter's house, and shortly after his sixth name day young Lyonel took ship for Greenstone on the Isle of Estermont.

### Greenstone

Lyonel did not have to struggle too hard to learn to live as a page. In good time he could clean armor, hone the edge of swords, and learned much of how to behave at court-- though this was easily his strongest suit. After achieving the rank of squire he began to learn how to fight-- he swiftly became an able fighter.

At older ages he became extremely skilled at mobile fighting, between footwork and general skill with a blade. His achievements included besting the master-of-arms of Greenstone, a male scion of House Estermont, and finally his knight.

In a pivotal moment, he beat the male scion of House Estermont well enough the boy required attention from the maester. Lyonel went to pay a visit to his fallen peer, and there encountered Alynne Estermont. At the time he was fifteen, and he became smitten by her. In his free time he began composing poems that he sent to her, and in one memorable exchange went riding out into the interior of the island to pick a bouquet of wild flowers. Upon arriving to present it to her, he encountered a stern male member of House Estermont instead and had a lengthy conversation. By the end of it, he had managed to convince this male member of House Estermont to contact his father regarding a marriage between himself and Alynne.

### Rain House

After ten years at Greenstone, Lyonel Wylde earned his knighthood in a ceremony at the island keep's sept. He returned to the mainland Ser Lyonel Wylde in 114 AC. He was received by his father, impressed and somewhat perturbed by his son's willfulness. Lord Willem was less than enthused about his son's going over his head, but Ser Lyonel spent long hours convincing his father of the benefits of an alliance with one of the Stormlands' two premier naval powers. After near to a week, he'd convinced his father to agree to the betrothal that had been haggled over for moons now.

Preparations were underway for the wedding later in 114 AC. In the intervening time, Ser Lyonel became reacquainted with his household knights, and more importantly with his sister-- the one that remained in Rain House, namely Corenna. Jeyne had since been wed to a man of Amberly, and Elenda to a Toyne. Through this, Ser Lyonel grew much closer with his youngest sister than the other two.

He and his father's men rode out frequently, and in the depths of the Rainwood the knights took him out on many hunts and rangings. He learned the finer points of seeing through forests, scouting, and reconaissance-- the Rainwood was among the best places to practice that, as dense and dark as it was. As time progressed the young knight became skilled indeed in the art of forest fighting-- using felled trees to fortify a position against cavalry or using his own light cavalry to ride out and find the enemy.

Late in 114 AC Ser Lyonel wed Alynne Estermont in the sept at Rain House, and within the year his first son, Guyard, was born. Over the next half-decade three more children would be born to him-- Raya, Joy, and Royland. It would be two years before his fifth and final child, Roger, was born in 120 AC.

### Lordship

In 116 AC Lord Willem Wylde took a chill and grew grievously ill. For six moons he struggled on against the illness, coughing at all hours of the night and growing weaker and weaker until Maester Lorimar announced that he was almost certainly not going to pull through. In the wee hours of the morning late in 116 AC, Lord Willem passed. Sun rose on the lordship of Lyonel Wylde.

His father had done good work to rehabilitate the image of House Wylde, from repairing relations with House Toyne to expanding the influence of the Wyldes in the region of Cape Wrath. Lyonel resolved to continue this-- he would continue to strengthen their position wherever he might, and set about it.

Fortunately the following decade in the Stormlands proved relatively quite, at least in his corner of it. The reestablishment of the Poor Fellows did not impact the Rainwood as much as the Riverlands, and whatever whispers of them emanated from the woods meant little to him. He ruled ably and well.

## Recent Events

In 130 AC, while preparing for the journey to King's Landing, Lord Lyonel himself took ill with fever. He was not well enough to travel to the capital, and he remained behind. Lyonel himself feared dying like his father, and oftentimes took pains to stand and walk around, proving to himself he was not as week as Lord Willem had been. Against Maester Lorimar's advice he forced himself to eat and drink, though seldom did the food stay down when he did.

In the end the fever did break, and he awoke in a cold sweat for once.

## Meta

### Skills

Attribute: Gregarious

Skills: Silver Tongue (CHA), Reconnaissance (MAR), Weapon Proficiency (COM) - Swords and Shields, Footwork (COM), Fortification (STA)