Sansa Ryswell

Sansa Ryswell is the second born child and first and only daughter of Lord Jon Ryswell and Princess Leona Stark.

## Appearance and Personality

Much in contrast to her brothers, Sansa takes much more heavily after her Stark mother. Sansa’s hair is a long, silky black, while her eyes are like blue ice. Physically she is closer to her younger brother, Domeric, having a slender frame. In short, Sansa is the epitome of the phrase “Winter Rose.”

All who knows Sansa will know her as a kind and diplomatic daughter of a great lord. Sansa is a natural master of the game of words. She is also very protective of those close to her, especially Domeric who she has helped get over some of his worst anxieties. This is not to say that she is flawless, however. Sansa often shrinks back inside when out of her comfort zone and greatly suffers from not being able to fully stand up for herself or others around her, a product of her father’s views of the “traditional roles of women.”

## History

### Early Life (72-88 A.C.)

Much of Sansa’s early life was truthfully rather boring. She learned to talk as a remarkably young age and only grew from there. Fashion sense and diplomacy was her natural strength, greatly accelerating her growing into a young woman. Perhaps all that was missing in her life was something else. Her father, Jon, gave her little wiggle room outside of her expected womanly duties, leaving her behind on hunts, giving her little duties of importance much of anything really. When her mother died shortly after giving birth to her younger brother, Domeric, she was heartbroken. Though in the darkness of her death she at least found a little ray of hope. Though she was still a child herself she filled the “big sister” role that Domeric desperately needed, finally giving her some purpose in an otherwise monotonous life. When Domeric later wanted to go to Oldtown she volunteered to follow him without question.

### Bleeding Heart (88-90 A.C.)

As Sansa reached her teenage years she decided she did want more from life after all. In an act of rebellion that she kept hidden from her father, she would go out and practice archery whenever she had the opportunity. Alas, progress was slow without a teacher, the fear of her father discovering her only added to her difficulty in learning the art of the bow. That would change, however when she met her bastard cousin, Rodrik, though neither would realize their familial relation until later.

After the death of his parents, Rodrik had lived as the adopted son of his mother’s extended family who was hunters by trade. Rodrik. The two would become close with Rodrik becoming her informal archery teacher and eventually after a long night of drinking they would become lovers.

All would be well for some time after that with her father none the wiser. Life even began looking up. Her father would find out about her archery practice, though not Rodrik. Though he was hostile to it at first, he quickly changed his mind after witnessing her skill.

Unfortunately, this bliss would not last. After a long night of drinking, she would find herself in the embrace of a young servant boy. Though they would spend a happy night together the morning shed light on their activities. Jon flew in a rage and lashed out at everyone around him, cursing, and hitting everything in sight. She never saw the servant again, Domeric might have been killed in Jon’s rage too if not for Wylis’ protection. After days of raging, Jon would calm and never speak of what happened again.

Sansa was overwhelmed by fear and guilt, thoroughly terrified to ever step so far out of bounds again. The fire within her calmed and she sought to fill the ideal of womanhood that her father held in order to appease him, though she would continue practicing archers, albeit without Rodrik.

### Present (91-Now)

With the death of Wylis, Sansa would become the new protector of Domeric from their father’s abuse. Fortunately, nothing was ever as bad as that day oh so many years ago. Jon was becoming too old to do much, Domeric appeared at least to be happy in his new role, and Sansa. She never reignited her previous fire but she was content at least.

## Family

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