Eleyna Lannister

- Myles Lannister (b. 362AC, d. 377AC)

- Briony Lannister (b. 364AC)

- Rosamund Lannister (b. 366AC)

Eleyna Lannister is the eldest daughter of the late Lord Jon Lannister and his most shrewd child. While she is not Lady Regnant, she is generally regarded as the true rule behind the Lordship of her brother, Jason Lannister.

## **Appearance and Character**

Eleyna has a commanding presence and an aloof manner. She is of middling height, with a slight figure, and the signature flaxen hair and Lannister green eyes. While she is capable and efficient, she struggles with the charm and niceties that come easily to many women. She is studious, intelligent, stern, and disdainful. That said, she is also proactive in bettering her region, and despises her twin brother and his weak rule. Eleyna bullies him into doing what she wants, and does it without remorse.

## History

Eleyna was the first in a set of twins born in 359AC to Lord Jon Lannister and his wife, Gwenys Rowan. The second twin, Jason, was named heir to Casterly Rock, something that Eleyna always held a resentment for, though rarely spoke of it. Their upbringing was fairly typical, with Lord Jon being a fair and effective ruler of the West, but an almost absentee father. This was to be expected, and was fairly common, and the twins were brought up with the highest education that money could buy. Lord Jon employed not one, but four maesters from the Citadel, not only as a status symbol for the Rock, but also to assign one maester for his daughters and one for his sons. And both sons and daughters, he had. Jason and Eleyna were soon joined by another three sisters and a brother in quick succession - Lynora, Myles, Briony, and Rosamund. All the Lannister children were educated well - there was little room for excuse when it came to Lord Jon pursuing his offspring’s education.

It quickly became clear that Jason was not a very studious child, while Eleyna shined at her studies. Jason would be forced to work harder, to practice longer, to study more, while Eleyna picked up the information with apparent ease. This did not mean she was a wonderful child by any means. She was indifferent, disdainful, and aloof with her septa, her nursemaids, and her maester, and made their lives difficult. “*A sullen, argumentative little whelp*” was a description used by her septa in a rare fit of exasperation. That septa was not employed for a day after her outburst. Lord Lannister dismissed the woman once he heard, and employed new ones to take her place.

Still, while Eleyna lacked the charm and charisma and social graces that ran abundant in her other sisters, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind as she entered her teens that the Lannister was intelligent. She was perceptive and focused, and had a singular mind once her goal had been set. Lord Jon would never admit it, but he admired it in his eldest daughter. It became apparent when she began to turn up to his meetings or take the seat next to him most nights in the dining hall, at first feigning to pour refreshments or fetch things for him, then later simply taking a seat and listening intently, before sharing her thoughts with him afterward. She absorbed all wisdom he had to share, and showed a surprising pragmatism and ability to see the larger picture when it came to disputes, discrepancies, and other problems within the West.

### Sibling Rivalry

Eleyna despised Jason with her whole heart, from a very early age. As far back as she could remember, the young girl could recall only disdain, resentment and scorn for the boy who shared a womb with her for nine moons. She could hardly see any semblance of relation, aside from outward looks. While they both shared blonde hair and green eyes, Eleyna was hard working where Jason was lazy, she was quiet where he would whine, she was intelligent where he was illiterate, she was strong while he would feign sickliness, and she was ambitious where her brother was content to be utterly mediocre. It drove her mad. That her twin shared her blood, their father’s blood, amazed her. None of their other siblings were as lazy or as mundane as Jason, and she liked to think that all of the best traits had been passed to her in the womb. And yet, Jason would be the one to inherit Casterly Rock. Though Eleyna wished for it herself, of course, she would even be happy with their younger brother Myles being named heir instead of Jason. Anyone but the pathetic disgrace for a man that her twin was about to become.

That would not happen, unfortunately. The winter years grew too much, and in 376AC, Casterly Rock was ravaged not by famine or cold, but by sickness. *The Shaking Sickness* swept through Lannisport and Casterly Rock, and in many keeps throughout the West, the quick-working disease took many lives - including Lord Jon Lannister, and his second son Myles just a few moons later in 377AC. Eleyna herself became ill, along with sisters Briony and Rosamund, though all three recovered after several weeks in bed with fevers. Eleyna’s feeble brother Jason became Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, and the Shield of Lannisport, titles that Eleyna finds laughable, though Jason seemed to thoroughly enjoy having something to lord over Eleyna. Years of bullying her weaker brother soon came to the fore, as she began a campaign to remind him that in fact, he had nothing without her. As usual, he would bend to her will, only increasing Eleyna’s scorn for him, while she picked up the legacy her father had carried for them, building on what he had left behind, using Jason as her ruling puppet.

When the so-called Last Dragon invaded Westeros, the region called their banners at Eleyna’s call, and after a heated argument for many nights with Jason, she turned to their oldest living male relative - Lord Lyonel Lannister of Castamere - to lead the Westerlands army against the Targaryen invasion. Trusting her uncle Lyonel and his sons to carry the Lannister standard, and cursing her own inability to do so, she went head to head with Jason and her mother, arguing and shouting until Jason cowed to her and rode out with the men of the West. Once out of Eleyna’s iron grip, the Lord of Casterly Rock showed his belly, and refused to join the Westermen in the ranks, instead informing his commanders that he would stay in the army camps and ‘strategise’. When word of this would eventually reach Eleyna, she would be furious beyond measure, that generations of brave Lions would be brought so low by the actions of her pathetic excuse for a brother, but she was helpless to do anything about it.

The Ironborn soon took advantage of the weakened position of the West once again, when the region’s forces were marching southward to lift the siege of Crakehall. A raven arrived from Fair Isle, and another from Kayce, warning the Rock of the impending attack from the Iron Fleet, a thousand ships en route to Lannisport. Eleyna barely hesitated, and began to act before fear or doubt could overcome her. Confident that her cousin, Lady Theodora Lannister, would have received the same letter in Lannisport, Eleyna dispatched a hundred men from the Rock’s household guard to fetch her Lannisport cousins and announced the doors to Casterly Rock open for any highborn in the city who were evacuating the city in the wake of the oncoming onslaught.

The next 24 hours were only the beginning of the horror. Eleyna had the small port at Casterly Rock closed, entire chambers and halls emptied out, and the wartime highborn evacuees flooded into the Rock in droves. Lords and Ladies, shipwrights and merchants, all followed Lady Theodora in taking refuge within the impenetrable mountain of Casterly. The smallfolk of the city fled into the countryside, escaping the invasion on foot, with only what they could carry, while the City Watch of Lannisport made hasty barricades and manned the walls. Those who had chosen to stay in the city stood very little chance one the fury of the Ironborn was unleashed on the barely-guarded city. For two days, the Lannisters could do nothing but watch from a distance as Lannisport burned and the reavers took what they would. One even draped a Targaryen banner from the city gate in some sick attempt at humor, hanging limply between the heads of the men who had defended their shining jewel of a city so bravely. Eleyna had never felt such fury before, and could do nothing at all about it, until the Iron Fleet had had its fill, and departed.

The next months were only about rebuilding. Theodora, Eleyna’s cousin, had taken the fall of Lannisport poorly, and lashed out at Eleyna initially for doing nothing from within Casterly Rock. Eleyna had silently taken the verbal attacks, waiting until she had spent herself with exhaustion before almost coldly pointing out that there was nothing to be done. Their fleet was gone, their levies gone, their commanders gone, and only the women and children left behind. All they could do, was rebuild, and demand justice from the Crown when the war was done. Eleyna herself wrote for days, putting quill to parchment and sending ravens flying thick and fast, denouncing Lord Greyjoy and his Iron Reavers for their actions. Ravens flew to Highgarden, Hightower, The Arbor, The Shields, Riverrun, Harrenhal, Storms End, Pyke and Kings Landing, as well as every house in the West, documenting the crimes of the Ironborn and the dead they had left behind, numbering in their thousands. Lord Greyjoy responded, denying involvement and reporting that he had sent the head of his Fleet captain to King Landing as proof that he was making amends for the actions of his vassals. While this quieted the Lannisters enough for the interim, it was not nearly enough to quash the fury, and it remains slow burning to this day.

### Recent History

Eleyna now continues her shadow ruling of Casterly Rock through her brother, and has been betrothed for over a year now, to Leo Lannister of Castamere. The match was made at the end of the War of The Last Dragon, as acknowledgement of Lord Lyonel’s sacrifice for the West, and his son Leo’s heroics in the war after taking his father’s command. No date has been set as yet for their union, and Eleyna is delaying it as much as possible, until she can try to work her way around the problem of her brother’s rule.

## Meta

Attribute: Brilliant

Skill Points: 20

Skills: Entertainment (CHA), Silver Tongue (CHA), Networking (STA), History & Law (STA)

Mastery: Steward

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