High Septon Manfryd

While having devoted his life to the Faith of the Seven since he was only fifteen years old, Manfryd has only very recently ascended to the post of High Septon. From a young age, Manfryd was adamant that the only way he would ever be able to achieve anything of great worth in this life, was to take to the Faith, as both the family he was born to, and his position within it, were thoroughly insignificant.

## Appearance and Character

Manfryd oft dresses in simple robes, although they do regularly take up a colour. It is his custom to don different coloured robes every now and then, as he enjoys a little flair in his appearance. As Manfryd has aged, as have his nose and ears grown, notably so his nose. His eyes are a deep blue, while his hair is an average and plain brown, yet his beard is scattered with white hairs, especially about the chain.

Manfryd's figure is by no means daunting, as he is a rather average individual, although he has been noted to be rather slender at times, hence his moniker as *'the Slender one'*.

Outwardly, Manfryd possesses an aura of simplicity and piety, and while such is true in a number of ways, he is a vastly more complex man that such does portray. As all do, Manfryd holds to a few select sins of choice, and a dream of power, a dream that was born along with him, all those years ago in Crackclaw Point.

## History

### 384 A.C. The Faith Beckons

While never having lived the life of the commoner, Manfryd certainly never lived that of the wealthy individual either. Born into House Pyne, as the youngest of three sons, Manfryd stood no chance of inheriting, especially as his eldest brother, Jon, began to produce heirs of his own. Soon enough, with his chance at real status dwindling further than it had at his birth, he found ambition and gaze turning elsewhere, to the Faith, as he aged and came into his later childhood years, and then, early teenage years.

Although Manfryd was never a particularly religious individual, he saw the Faith as a means to an end, a means to obtaining power and relevancy in this life. Early on it became clear to Manfryd, the Crownlands were where the ambitions of nobles went to die, unless they found a means to greater power, and so, for Manfryd, he spied the Faith, and the highest and most holiest post it possessed; the High Septon.

### 387 A.C. The Faith Consumes

On Manfryd's fifteenth nameday, without permission from his father, he headed to the Capital. Soon enough, Manfryd had sworn his vows, forsaken his family name, and any claim to land and title he may have once held. The Holy Oils were thrown upon the youth's flesh, and the Holy Words spoken as he swore his life away to the serve Seven Gods of a realm divided by some sixteen Gods at least.

Manfryd's early days within the Faith were spent mainly at learning the greater intricacies of which he had not taken note of as a younger individual, and while part of him screamed for fthe freedom of nobility, and for a woman's warmth, the latter was never far frokm available.

While Manfryd exercised the Holy Articles of Faith, and preached to others, and swore countless vows as a Septon, there were so many sins that would prove to never be pushed from his mind and desire.

### 388 A.C. The Faith Remains Stalwart

When the Hammer Uprising came, Manfryd paid it no mind whatsoever. Instead, he simply carried on with his duties, after all, he was still only a newly minted Septon. Manfryd continued to the read the Holy Tomes, and preach the Holy Word, and provide council to those both lowborn and highborn, as was his duty as a Septon in King's Landing, the city of sin.

The next few years of Manfryd's time as a Septon proved rather uneventful compared to the years to come, as he remained within the walls of the city, rarely venturing outside of them, as he very much had to establish himself within the ranks of the Faith. Yet, eventually, by the year 392 A.C., Manfryd had spent enough time doing so, and was able to further establish himself within the Capital, and amongst its people. He was their Shephard, and they were his Flock.

### 392 A.C. The Faith Feeds

When the Great Famine struck Westeros, few places were hit harder than King's Landing. Over a million people, all packed so tightly within such a small space, and so very lacking of food and sustenance. It did not take long for the people to go awry, and for the less than savoury eating practices to commence. But alas, unlike many of his fellow Septons, whom cowered in the Great Sept of Baelor, and hid behind guards and walls, Manfryd saw opportunity.

Amidst the starving masses, Manfryd took to walk, to preach, and to pray with. For days at a time, Manfryd would lead commonfolk in prayer, numbering at first from less than the digits on a single hand, and eventually growing steadily into the low hundreds. As the peasants were without, so was Manfryd. Where they had no food, he too would go for days on end, sitting with them, and praying, and reassuring, and comforting. His time as a Septon, and his general nature left him most disposed to the simple contemplation with these folk, especially as it was all in the process of working toward the power and status he had left his family's lands for.

Alas, when the Great Famine finally broke in 394 A.C., Manfryd was notably thinner, with barely anything on his bones but a shroud of skin. All excess had been stripped from him, and when he was without a Septon's robes, he was visibly deprived of near everything a body should possess in order to remain healthy. It was here, in this, that Manfryd earned the moniker of the *'the Slender Septon'*.

## Recent Events

* After the death of the previous High Septon Lucias, Manfryd ascended to the post while the realm was away and busy at Summerhall.