Samantha Peake

Lady Samantha Peake

The Black Rose

- Meredyth Tyrell (17)

- Margot Tyrell (17)

- Arlen Peake (b.69 d.93)

Cyrenna Penrose

Samantha Peake, or Samantha Tyrell, is the second daughter of Lord Uther and Lady Prunella Peake, the lord and lady of Starpike. She is the current lady of Highgarden and third wife of Lord Gwayne Tyrell. Samantha has four children by Gwayne - Theodore, Thaddeus, Margot, and Meredyth - and several good-daugthers from Gwaynes previous marriages, that Samantha has little to do with. She currently resides at Highgarden, and is aiming to have her sons - the only sons in the Tyrell line - named as successors to the lordship of Highgarden.

## Appearance and Character

Samantha is of middling height and weight, with dark hair and eyes, striking eyebrows and a heart shaped mouth. She has aged well for her 38 years, with her shape still mostly toned, and her hair still dark and lustrous, though on closer inspection the occasional strand of grey is seen. Samantha dresses well, in exquisite clothing made by the finest tailors who use the most expensive fabrics. She does not dress revealingly, or ostentatiously, preferring garments that flatter her figure perfectly and disguise any imperfections in her form instead.

She is clever and charismatic, and strongwilled and stubborn. This being said, she often knows how to balance the two, except when arguing with her husband, who seems to rile the worst in her. She loves her children, and her main goal is to further them and their futures. She especially focuses on her sons, Thaddeus and Theodore, as she sees them the most hard done by with their lot in life. Her twin daughters, while close to their mother, have often been left to their own devices, leaving them to run wild.

## Biography

### Early Years

Samantha was born in the year 61AC, to Lord Uther Peake of Starpike, and his wife Prunella Celtigar. Samantha was their third child and second daughter, with Catelyn and Desmond preceeding her in 57 and 59AC respectively. The Third Dornish War broke out just months after her birth, and her father marched off to war under the banners of Lord Leo Tyrell, and not returning until Samantha was over two years old. The youngest of the Peake children, Arlen, was born a few years later, in 69AC.

Samantha's childhood was fairly typical - privilege, education, travel etc - and Samantha was close to her mother for most of it. She found her mother fascinating, and would demand she tell her stories of her ancestors and the dragons the Valyrians had dominion over. Samantha would often lament that she had dark hair, and not the beautiful silver of her mother. She and her elder sister were, while not close, exactly, still typical siblings and shared most things, including several lesser house ladies in waiting, companions and playmates who would ward with House Peake for a year or two under the liege lord.

When Samantha was ten, her sister departed Starpike, the fourteen year old wed to Arthur Oakheart. Samantha took it in stride. Their father had long prepared them to further their house through marriage. Desmond would also be wed just four years later, after naming Samantha the Queen of Love and Beauty at the Tourney of Unveiling, at Casterly Rock, in which Desmond, a young knight of sixteen years, emerged victorious in 75AC. He was wed to Jeyne Tarly not long afterward.

### Wedding to Tyrell (78AC)

The renown appointed to her from the Tourney of Unveiling was well worth it, at the time, as three years later, in 78AC after a very short betrothal*,* Samantha was wed to Gwayne Tyrell, the lord of Highgarden. Samantha was unhappy with the match, having her husband to be almost twice her age, twice widowed, and with a gaggle of daughters about her own age. She also saw the pragmacy of it though, with houses Peake and Tyrell having been at odds for years, and went ahead with the arrangements made between her father and Lord Gwayne, with the comfort that at least she was the Lady of Highgarden now. Her wedding - a double wedding between her and Gwayne and his daughter Alysanne and Lucien Hightower - was called the The Wedding of Black and White, in which Samantha wore a black gown during the ceremony at her betrothed's request. She obliged reluctantly, in a gesture of goodwill and an attempt to please her husband to be. This would be the only time she would ever do such a thing, as she found out far too late that he wanted black as a symbol of mourning for his late second wife, and compounded by his antics at the subsequent feast.

At the wedding feast, her new husband, on an apparent whim, announced that he was making his new good-son and his daughter Alysanne the heirs to Highgarden and named them successors. Gwayne's brother, the heir apparent until that moment, departed Highgarden the same day and would not be seen for years. Samantha wondered why she was wed to Gwayne at all on the back of such an announcement, when he had seemingly implied he did not need to, nor needed heirs from her. Her first impression of her husband was that he was a bumbling, stubborn idiot, an impression that would stay with her for the duration of their marriage, earning him only her scorn.

### Children and Exile (78AC - 97AC)

By the end of the same year, a son was born to Samantha and Gwayne, followed by another healthy boy a year later. Theodore and Thaddeus were the sole focus to the miserable Samantha, who found a small joy in looking after her offspring despite who their father was. She began to push for him to correct his horrendous error, to make things right and to name Theodore his rightful heir, as his firstborn son. Gwayne refused, too stubborn to go back and admit his mistake, and Samantha was further mired in the opinion that her husband was a fool. In 81AC, the twins Margot and Meredyth were born to the lord and lady of Highgarden, and by then Gwayne had heard enough of the arguments in naming her sons as successors. Gwayne then ordered his wife to return to Starpike, the house of her father, which Samantha did with bad grace, though with relief to be rid of her husband. She and the children would reside at Starpike for the next two years, and only return to Highgarden when summoned by Lord Gwayne to show herself at court. This relationship would continue over the next fifteen years, with Samantha intermittently moving herself and her children between Starpike and Highgarden, often up to a year at a time.

In 93AC, the Rosegold Rebellion began when, in Samantha's eyes, Gwayne once again made a foolish move, and decided to crown himself a king. The pragmatic Samantha took no chances with the lives of her children, and once again relocated to Starpike. The rebellion lasted less than a year, and nothing came of any worthy note for it, though Gwayne used the truce to further his daughters position, having Alysanne's husband named as Master of Laws, and their young son betrothed to a Targaryen princess, ensuring the crown would back her claim over the rightful heir - his son Theodore. Samantha countered this by brokering her twin daughters, Margot and Meredyth, to serve as Ladies in waiting to the young princess Alysella Targaryen. The fifteen year old Tyrell twins spent over a year in Kings Landing, and forged a strong bond with the dragon, from 95AC to 96AC.

### Recent Events (97AC - Present)

Samantha and her four children now reside once again at Highgarden. Why they are there or what they will do, is anyone's guess.

## 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.*

* **Uther Peake, Lord of Whitegrove, Dustonbury, and Starpike, b. 33 AC**
* (m.) Prunella Celtigar, Lady of Whitegrove, Dustonbury, and Starpike b.35 AC
	+ Catelyn Peake, Lady of Old Oak, b. 57 AC
	+ **(m.) Arthur Oakheart b. 51**
	+ Desmond Peake, Heir to House Peake, b. 59 AC
	+ (m.) Jeyne Tarly, daughter of Lord Tarly, b. 59 AC
		- Addison Peake, son of Desmond, b. 78 AC
		- Jocelyn Peake, daughter of Desmond, b. 83 AC
		- Joanna Peake, daughter of Desmond, b. 89 AC
	+ Samantha Peake, Lady of Highgarden, b. 61 AC
	+ **(m.) Gwayne Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, b. 44 AC**
		- **Theodore Tyrell****, son of Gwayne, b. 78 AC**
		- Thaddeus Tyrell, son of Gwayne, b. 79 AC
		- Margot Tyrell, twin daughter of Gwayne, b. 81 AC
		- Meredyth Tyrell, twin daughter of Gwayne, b. 81 AC
	+ *Arlen Peake, son of Uther, b.69 AC - d. 93 AC*
	+ (m.) Berena Farring, wife of Arlan, b. 80 AC