Auguste Florent

The Queens Abacus

Auguste Florent is the eldest of Imry Florents children, scion to the house. He currently apprentices directly under Lucerys Velaryon, the Master of Coin. Auguste is additively one of the four Keeper of the Keys, bearing the Key to The Queens personal spending account.

Though House Florent has taken a fall from grace, Auguste proves resilient to the tide, holding a position of prominence within King's Landing.

## Appearance & Character

Oily auburn hair winds around his neck in a loose ponytail, framing a sickly face with fatigue-bruised green eyes. The hair on his face is often unkept to a post-shave shadow, with sideburns perfectly frayed by nervously picking fingers. Half full lips rest under a slightly crooked nose, creating a portrait of what could have been handsome - if not for neglect and strain.

At five ten, Auguste appears even lower with poor posture, pacing in a jilted pose with hands often wringing behind his back. Rarely seen out of a specific set of neutral earthen-toned jackets, a small pin upon his breast shines bearing a dwarfed sigil of the Queen's Coin.

Choosing function over form, Auguste's attire has little to offer in fetching baubles or gaudy jewelry. Instead, a belt sits heavy with pouches, bearing charcoal sticks and diminuitive tools of his trade. Upon his hip, a barbute looking letter opener is pommeled in a smoothed river-stone. The only sign of representation for his house is borne by the foxes claws which encircle his collar in a sentimental chain.

## Then & Now

#### **386 A.C. - 401 A.C**

The first of the foxes litter, Auguste Florent was born under a waning moon, entering the World a fitful child. Sullen and shy would be the words the courtiers would use in gossip, speaking of how the boy was prone only to fits and clinging to his mothers skirt. The response was to bury the son in intense tutelage, eroding the time he would have to worry those already beginning to become uninvested in the House.

By the time his younger brother and sister were born, he had evolved into an incredibly serious child, rarely speaking or smiling alike. He would spend long hours looking into the cribs of his siblings, muttering and holding conversations with those who could not speak in return. By the time the two were in the height of their own childhoods, Auguste would isolate himself within his quarters, watching them play and prosper from a distant vantage.

#### **402 A.C. - 407 A.C.**

With the loss of Brightwater Keep came a slow fall, shaking the families foundation within the Great Game. The avarice and cruelty of their rivals stifled their father, suffocating his ambition by fear of losing all he had left. Thus began the stalemate of House Florent, which Auguste observed with emotions undisclosed.

His education reached a fever pitch, where hours without books became rare. Soon the childs talents began to unfold, as he turned to a maid and proclaimed how many stones had been used to build their home in Oldtown. By his incensed insistance, the number was confirmed with old records, pushing Irmy to allow Auguste to focus in economic mathematics.

This would prove a fateful move, as his eccentric ability soon caught ears within the capital, where he was requested to become a scribe within the Coinkeeper's of the Crown.

#### 408 A.C. - 417 A.C.

This would be the last many would hear of Auguste Florent, if they were not within the coinkeeper's sect or doting by visitation (as Loreza, his mother, was prone to do when the months allowed.). Auguste was already short of words in person, with nothing to say from afar by letter. Joining the many aspirant scholars, he took to counting, correcting and cataloging the expenditures of the Crown and its tethered subjects. Years would pass here, where the boy slowly matured to manhood within an unyielding bridge of intense study and near-silent politics.

By the later years, he knew every name within the scribehood, from regal auditors to book-carrying serfs. This knowing was mutual, along with a twisted form of respect, given to the young mans incredible ability for accounting and raw arithmetic. They whispered of how he knew of every page within their halls. However unsociable the eldest son still was, there was no denying him as one of the better coinsmen to cross through their halls.

This would earn him eventual attention from higher eyes - earning him recommendation to serve as Apprentice to the Master of Coin.

#### 417-418 A.C.

Auguste Florent was now deeply ensnared within the web of the Crown, still squirming under the weight of his new title. This all came with little consent of his own, earning him curious eyes and ears to all who may find vested interest in the latest addition to the Queen's network.

He'd barely time to breathe, before the right was bestowed to become one of the four Keepers of the Keys. For Auguste, he was now keybearer to the Queen's personal spending account, a role in which he has yet to comment upon still.

One thing was for certain, the counters neurosis and paranoia now bore an acceptable weight.

## Family

* Alester Florent d. 300 AC, m. Melara Crane
	+ Alekyne Florent b. ~285-290 AC, m. Merrill Hightower
		- Rylene Florent b. ~315 AC
		- Axell Florent b. ~320 AC , m ----------
	+ Gyles Florent b. ~340 AC, m Melissa Peake
		- Imry Florent b. 366 A.C. , m. Loreza of Braavos
			* *****Auguste Florent***** 386 A.C.
			* Alesander Florent 392 A.C.
			* Renata Florent 392 A.C., m. Ryam Redwyne
				+ Florys Redwyne 413 A.C
				+ Rossart Redwyne 416 A.C
		- Meryn Florent
		- Selyse Florent