Perenelle Tyrell

Arwyn Tyrell

Bethany Tyrell

Theodore Tyrell

Thaddeus Tyrell

Meredyth Tyrell

Margot Tyrell

**Perenelle Tyrell** is the third daughter and child of Lord Gwayne Tyrell, the current Lord Paramount of the Mander, Lord of Highgarden, and Warden of the South, and his first wife, Lady Rohanne Florent, the wife of Lord Urrathon Redwyne, the mother of Vanessa and Victaria Redwyne, and the Lady of the Arbor. Raised and warded at the Arbor, she wed her childhood friend and lover, Urrathon, after it was revealed that she was pregnant with his child, an arrangement that also helped bridge the gap between House Tyrell and House Redwyne. They have a quiet, happy marriage.

## **Appearance**

Perenelle has often grown up thinking of herself as the runt of the fox's litter, primarily for her dramatic, unique appearance. Born with a rounded heart shaped face and glittering green eyes that sit just too far apart, and slightly aquiline nose, alongside an oddly strong jawline and neck, and prominent ears often hidden behind her fire-red locks streaked with black, she was often the subject of much ridicule and cruelty from her siblings as a girl. And while their own jesting about her appearance died down with age, the lasting impression it left on her did not; Perenelle grew up knowing she looked different than her siblings, many of which grew to be infamous beauties in their own right.

Preferring modest but fashionable dress, Perenelle wears long sleeved gowns and over-cloaks most often, and is rarely seen with any jewelry, having a general distaste for finery and other extravagant outward expressions of wealth, preferring a simple lifestyle and appearance.

## **Personality and Character**

Growing up largely in the shadow of her infinitely more influential and famous sister, Alysanne, Perenelle learned to march to the beat of her own drum from a very early age, having to look out for herself. The knowledge that her family, despite caring for her, wouldn't lift a finger for her in regards to the same sorts of privileges and attention that naturally fell on her elder sisters, she has had to learn to cope with her quieter role in the background of House Tyrell, as well as to seek out whatever it is she wants for herself.

She is very self-reliant and independent, and has the gift of being able to shoulder her own self worth, not having to depend on the validation from anyone else, a trait that quite possibly saved her from mental collapse during her teenage years, when she slowly began to find that she was going to have to fend for herself as far as her life's direction was concerned. As a result, everything she has is at least in part due to her own decisions, to her own choice in deciding her future, something that has made her an even more decisive and resolute person as she matured. Perenelle is headstrong and knows what she wants from life, which allows her an almost ruthless approach to completing her goals efficiently and effectively, whether they be simple things like learning a new hobby or skill, or something more impactful, like convincing her father to marry the love of her life, her current husband, Urrathon.

At the head of her free-spirit attitude is a pleasant, naturally cheerful nature. An optimist, she tends to see the good in people before the bad, and has come into trouble in the past when she has allowed the good to wash out the bad in her own mind, influencing her decisions in ways that can tend to lead down regrettable paths later on. Nevertheless, she always learns from her mistakes, and seldom makes the same mistake twice. She is compassionate, outspoken and outgoing, and levelheaded above all else.

Her most obvious characteristic, outside looking in, is her insatiable desire for knowledge. Ever the bookworm, when she isn't scouring over ancient manuscripts and musty tomes, where she feels most at ease, Perenelle is exploring her surroundings, venturing out into the wilds and romping around in the brush, or attempting to find secret passageways in obscure cupboards and serving closets. She has a strong desire to learn and acquire knowledge and experience, and despite her love of reading and of books and storytelling, she is not averse to hitting the trails in the outdoors, or even blazing her own, her love of exploration and discovery paramount in her daily life. She considers a day when she hasn't learned or found something new a day wasted.

Her escapades have largely been contained indoors, in recent years, as she is now a mother. Despite the great amount of love she feels for her two daughters, she feels incredibly lost in the face of motherhood, something she was never really prepared for or informed about by any female role models in her early life. The closest she has had to any formal education on the topic are the secondhand lessons she's received from Alysanne and Florence through their correspondence by ravenscroll, as the sisters all keep constant contact with one another no matter where they are. Despite this feeling of being lost, she is incredibly grateful to have Urrathon beside her, and would never change a thing as far as their relationship is concerned.

Due to the nature of her father and her husband's relationship, her own relationship with her father has grown increasingly strained over the past few years. Never one to stay close to home to begin with, she has grown more and more distant from Gwayne, something she quietly feels guilty about, although she is still unsure how to go about fixing it.

Having grown up fostered on the Arbor, Perenelle loves the sea and seafaring, navigating in particular, and has a great interest in astronomy and ocean exploration, having delved deep into the stories of Lomas Longstrider and has recently taken a great interest in the exploits of Corlys Velaryon's expeditions into the east.

## **Background**

### **Early Life**

Perenelle Tyrell was born in 71 AC to Gwayne Tyrell and Rohanne Florent, his first wife, and the then Lady of Highgarden. From birth, she was an average child in every way. She cried, laughed, fussed and explored as much as any babe has right to, and lived a quiet three years for the beginning of her life, a trend that would come to dictate large swaths of her life in the future.

At the tender age of three, however, the dynamic in Highgarden shifted to one of mourning when her mother died, shortly after giving birth to her younger sister, Arwyn, whom she remains closest with. Although her memories of her mother are quite fuzzy, and almost dreamlike, in a sense, leading her to believe some of them to be less accurate than most memories, Perenelle feels a great deal of regret that she never got to know her mother, having been just old enough to miss the idea of a mother when she passed. And though she was not as affected as Florence or Alysanne, she keeps a hidden journal of letters she has written to her mother of the years locked away in a crate deep within the vaults of the Arbor, a coping mechanism that helped her deal with the grief that came in her later teen years.

### **Fostering At The Arbor**

Shortly after turning twelve years of age, Perenelle was sent to the Arbor to serve as a handmaiden and future lady-in-waiting to Lynesse Rhysling, the Lady of the Arbor and wife of Lord Victor Redwyne. While there, she grew ingratiated with the Redwyne Family similarly to the way Alysanne did with the Hightowers of Oldtown, growing into fast friends with Selyse, Rhea, and Falia, but particularly Urrathon and his youngest sister, Meredyth, and spent any and all of her free time with the two siblings.

While there, Lady Lynesse became something of a foster-mother to her, in a way. Whereas her own mother was no longer around to teach her the intricacies of a woman blossoming into adulthood, Lynesse was, and the two formed an extremely tight bond. As critical as her presence as a female role model was to Perenelle's development, however, Perenelle still felt somewhat unprepared for womanhood and adulthood, and still yearned to know her own mother.

As she grew older and older, however, she noticed that her friendship with Urrathon began changing tempo. While they still remained close in many ways, they grew distant in others, and even closer in some, and before she knew it, the two had fallen headfirst into a romantic relationship.

Though the constant cheery atmosphere of the Arbor was slightly soured by the premature death of Lord Victor's death in 88 AC, and tensions in the Reach were at an all time high with the birth of her half-brothers some ten years prior, Perenelle ultimately had a quiet youth, able to easily withstand the few occasions when her world might've changed for the worse.

### **The Rosegold Rebellion**

*Main Article: The Rosegold Rebellion*

Gwayne Tyrell's decision to rise in rebellion against House Targaryen affected everyone in Westeros, and the Reach, in particular, with no exception. Even when Perenelle heard the news on the island citadel of the Arbor, which to this day remains the most detatched from the rebellion's consequences and outcomes, found it affecting her life in an irreversible way. Doubly so when her childhood friend and lover sent ships to blockade Oldtown, officially declaring for King Viserys and against her father. Though many outside looking in saw her as little more than a captive in gilded feathers, her father included, the notion was far from the truth. In fact, very little changed in her life immediately, living on the Arbor with the rest of the Redwynes as she had. The days came and went, and though many in the villages and settlements around the island viewed her as the daughter of a traitor and sharing her father's intentions, the only thing that meaningfully differed from before was her ability to leave the castle without an armed escort, to ensure her safety during any outgoings she might make, though the fact of her having to bring a regiment of guards armed to the teeth wherever she went greatly deterred her will to go out at all.

It was during this time that Perenelle was forced to come to grips with a truth that had evaded her life for a long time until then; the true meaning of adulthood, and even womanhood, to an extent. Previously naive to her own role in the lordly household and the world at large, the war and the way it affected her were eye opening, in a sense; they showed her that as a woman in Westeros, her destiny was not truly hers to decide. her life was not entirely her own, and what little agency she had was at the mercy of the men in her life, something that troubled her upbeat, free-spirited mind constantly, indignant and enraged at the thought of having to bow to the whims of men who were clearly no better or worse than she was by virtue of their manhood alone. The realization forced her to shove that part of herself down deeper, so that she might not feel so angry all the time, so dejected and worthless, knowing that fixating on it would accomplish nothing ultimately, as she brooded at the Arbor, over her loss of childhood, loss of security, and the fact that her love was away fighting a pointless war against other men in pointless positions fighting for pointless arguments over pointless lands and titles for a pointless idea of familial legacy, to extend their own ultimately pointless domain and power and prestige.

And when Urrathon returned from war, now a member of the Small Council, Perenelle knew she had to make a decision; she could either let that which she loved and had loved and known her entire life slip through her fingers, or she could use what little she had to finally get something that *she* had wanted, regardless of her role as a woman, relegated to the sidelines of her own life.

Forced to return to Highgarden after the war, as Gwayne refused to keep her in the household of a traitor, Perenelle successfully convinced her father to allow her to become a lady-in-waiting to Alysanne, and that she might be able to find a suitable husband of her status in King's Landing, allowing the future heir to Highgarden to decide her sister's fate. Gwayne begrudgingly accepted her request, and she moved to King's Landing with Alysanne and Lucien and their children late in 93 AC

### **Planned Surprises and Deliberate Mistakes**

The two years that followed became some of the most liberating in the whole of her life. As Urrathon bounced between King's Landing and the Arbor, busy with his new duties both as Lord of the Arbor *and* a man of the king's Small Council, and busy with her, when in the capital. Their relationship had escalated significantly over the span of those days, between the distance forcing their hearts to grow fonder, and Perenelle's own determination to make a decision for herself, for once, their passion grew and grew over time.

Their affair eventually came to a head late in 94 AC, when Perenelle found she was pregnant with the first child, who could potentially be born a bastard. In order to prevent that, she took action in the only way she could; she went to Alysanne. Though the two had a familial love for one another, they were never great friends or close sisters like Alysanne and Florence were. But Alysanne understood what Perenelle was just coming to grips with; that a woman's only power was between her legs, and she understood just how much her younger sister resented that. It was very clear that she was acting out, and Alysanne told her she'd handle it. Though none know what conversation went on between Alysanne and Gwayne in those raven scrolls, Gwayne begrudgingly submitted to his stubborn daughters once more, allowing Perenelle permission to wed Urrathon, so that their child might have a name and an inheritance, as well as solving the question of her own future, having gone so long into her majority without being wed. The two were wed at the Arbor shortly after, with their daughter, Vanessa, born the following year in 95 AC, and her younger sister afterward in 98 AC. Happy to live in her girlhood home once more, Perenelle, only returns to King's Landing for ceremonial appearances, and has only visited Highgarden once since her marriage to Urrathon, where she had a legendarily stormy row with her father, Gwayne, that still provokes rumors and whispers to this day.

## **Timeline**

* **71 AC** - Perenelle Tyrell born third child of the Lord and Lady of Highgarden, Gwayne Tyrell and Rohanne Florent.
* **74 AC** - Arwyn Tyrell is born to Gwayne Tyrell and Rohanne Florent. Moons after, a plague strikes the Reach in force, killing Rohanne, and nearly killing Arwyn and Gwayne. Josephine Mullendore is discovered to have had an affair with Galladon Tyrell, and the two are killed by Gerold Tyrell, who then flees the Seven Kingdoms for the Disputed Lands, where he joins up with the Sellsword Companies there.
* **77 AC** - Early in the year, Gwayne remarries, taking Perianne Caswell for a wife. Two days before the end of the year she gives birth, and dies of complications that night, though the sickly girl she left behind survived; Bethany.
* **78** **AC** - Wedding of Black and White. After a decade of study, Gyles returns to Highgarden, deciding against becoming a fully-fledged Maester.
* **83 AC** - Perenelle sent to foster at the Arbor, and serve as a handmaiden and eventual Lady-in-Waiting to Victor Redwyne's lady wife, Lynesse Rhysling.
* **93 AC** - Rosegold Rebellion. Urrathon made Master of Coin after the Golden Truce. Perenelle sent to King's Landing as a handmaiden to her elder sister, Alysanne, who's husband Lucien also joined the Small Council as Viserys' Master of Laws. ~~(See also: Perenelle's first sexual awakening)~~
* **94 AC** - Perenelle hastily wed to Lord Urrathon Redwyne in a rushed ceremony at the Arbor to cover up their extramarital relationship, first daughter, Vanessa, born the following year.
* **95 AC** - First daughter, Vanessa Redwyne, born.
* **98 AC** - Second daughter, Victaria Redwyne, born.

## **Family Tree**

*Foreword: **Bolded**names indicate those that were lord of their respective house at some point or another. Italicized names indicate that the character is now deceased. (m.) denotes a marriage into the family.*

* ***Leo Tyrell, the late Lord of Highgarden, b. 12 AC - d. 59 AC***
* *(m.)* *Barba Tarly, the late Lady of Highgarden, b. 9 AC - d. 59 AC*
	+ **Gwayne Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, b. 44 AC**
	+ *(m.)* (*Rohanne Florent, the late Lady of Highgarden, b. 45 AC - d. 74 AC*
		- Alysanne Tyrell, the Heir to Highgarden, b. 66 AC
		- (m.)Lucien Hightower, Knight of House Hightower, b. 67 AC
			* Dorian Tyrell, Heir to Highgarden, b. 82 AC
			* Damon Tyrell, son of Alysanne, b. 84 AC
			* Danelle Tyrell, daughter of Alysanne, b. 89 AC
		- Florence Tyrell, daughter of Gwayne, b. 69 AC
		- *(m.) Osbert Osgrey,*
		- *(m.) Lucamore Crane,*
			* Alesander Crane, son of Lucamore, b.
			* Alys Crane, daughter of Lucamore, b.
		- *(m.) Leo Oakheart,*
		- Perenelle Tyrell, Lady of the Arbor, b. 71 AC
		- **(m.)****Urrathon Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor, b. 72 AC**
			* Vanessa Redwyne, daughter of Urrathon, b. 95 AC
			* Victaria Redwyne, daughter of Urrathon, b. 97 AC
		- Arwyn Tyrell, Lady of Horn Hill, b. 74 AC
		- **(m.)****Brus Tarly, Lord of Horn Hill, b. 61 AC**
			* Robin Tarly, Heir to Horn Hill, b. 93 AC
			* Jon Tarly, son of Brus, b. 95 AC
			* Margaery Tarly, twin sister of Jon, b. 95 AC
	+ *(m.) Perianne Caswell, the late Lady of Highgarden, b. 50 AC - d. 75 AC*
		- Bethany Tyrell, daughter of Gwayne, b. 75 AC
	+ *(m.)* Samantha Peake, Lady of Highgarden, b. 60 AC
		- Theodore Tyrell, son of Gwayne, b. 77 AC
		- Thaddeus Tyrell, son of Gwayne, b. 79 AC
		- Meredyth Tyrell, daughter of Gwayne, b. 81 AC
		- Margot Tyrell, twin sister of Meredyth, b. 81 AC
	+ Gyles Tyrell, son of Leo, b. 47 AC
	+ Gareth Tyrell, Master-at-Arms of Highgarden, b. 50 AC
	+ (m.) Ellyn Lannister, daughter of Tommen, b. 48 AC
		- Gwynesse Tyrell, daughter of Gareth, b. 70 AC
		- *Lyonel Tyrell, son of Gareth, b. 65 AC - d. 74 AC*
	+ Galladon Tyrell, son of Leo, b. 54 AC
	+ Gerold Tyrell, Lieutenant of the Stormbreakers, b. 57 AC
	+ *(m.) Josephine Mullendore, wife of Gerold, b. 57 AC - d. 74 AC*

## **Additional Notes**

* Perenelle's personality is largely based around the fictional character from Cinda Williams Chima's "Seven Realms" young adult fantasy series (In part inspired by George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire"), Princess Raise ana'Marianna. She is also very similar to Princess Alyssa Targaryen, wife of the Baelon "The Spring Prince" Targaryen, historical characters from "A Song of Ice and Fire."
* Sailing, swimming, dancing and singing are counted among Perenelle's favorite passtimes, dancing in particular, although she is naturally quite clumsy. She is easily most skilled at singing, and has been known to perform at feasts on occasion.