Rhea Lannister

Rhea Lannister is a princess of the Eight Kingdoms and the second child of King Gerald Lannister and the late Queen Evelyn Mask. Rhea was born
blind and with an earth elemental. Her abilities as an earth elemental
allow her to see the world through her feet by feeling the vibrations inthe earth. She is the last child to have been born from the late Queen Evelyn Mask.

## Biography

The youngest of King
Gerald's daughters, Rhea was born blind yet defiant. Her mother died
shortly after, becoming ill after giving birth to the baby. Unlike her
siblings, the child’s birth was not celebrated nor announced throughout
the kingdom. King Gerald felt shameful of her disability and blamed her
for his wife’s death, believing the gods had cursed him with the girl as
 punishment for his many misdeeds. He knowingly neglected her. Leaving
her in the care of her siblings and many cautious maids, Rhea grew up
despising her father.

At the age of seven
Rhea was already becoming trouble. Her constant curios adventures in the
 castle were seen as a nuisance by the king and his nobles. On summer
night after one of her many disturbing escapades Gerald became so
aggravated with the blind princess he publicly hit her across the face,
which later became a dark bruise. In tears she ran from him, wishing for
 nothing but escape. Rushing past surprised maids and guards the
princess did not stop until she felt soft grass under her feet. In the
depths of the dangerous woods that stood close to the castle, Rhea was
hopelessly lost and petrified. She called out to anyone who could hear
her meek voice under the night’s suffocating darkness.

An aging Earth
Elemental, Galina, lived in a rotting hut hidden in the woods as a
widowed-hag. Hearing the poor princess’s cries for help Galina easily
found her and led her back to her lonely home. Feeding the girl and
offering her shelter during the dark night, Rhea began to take a liking
to the old woman. When Galina attempted to return her to the castle the
next morning, Rhea struggled and argued against her. The hag reluctantly
 allowed her to stay, but, fearing punishment from Gerald, she informed
the child that she could stay for no longer than two nights.

The princess viewed
Galina as her true mother, and called her such. Despite having known
each other for little time it felt like ages to them. The elemental
pitied the girl’s blindness and, in return for her pleasant company,
taught her how to ‘see with her feet’. Teaching Rhea to feel the
vibrations through the earth, Galina was able to open many doors for the
 blind child.

The two days turned
into two weeks before Rhea reluctantly agreed to return to her home in
the castle. Upon returning, she came to learn her father had hardly
noticed her absence nor cared much. Her hatred toward him only grew, and
 the doting maids did little to substitute for her absent parents.
Though she had close relationship with her older sister, Freya, she
still felt a gap in her heart. Often sneaking out of the castle at
night, which was much easier with her new ‘sight’, she visited Galina
constantly. Sadly, this would not last.

On the princess’s
twelfth birthday, she rushed to Galina’s hut in the night to celebrate.
Her calls to the woman in the forest were met with silence, as was her
dilapidated hut-home. It took only seconds later for Rhea to find the
elder woman’s lifeless body against the dirt floor. Presumably dying of
old age, the princess was destroyed. She cried for hours and, after
venturing home, sobbed for another three days. The hole in her heart
widening, she felt as though there was no way to recover from her loss.

As time went on,
Rhea slowly recovered from the death of her only friend. She became
accustomed to the life of a princess, only sneaking out every so often,
yet causing as much havoc as she could. Rhea will take any chance she
has to leave the palace walls and travel the realm.