Gunyr Tully

## Family

* **Melara Tully** † (Wife)
* **Edmyn Tully** (Son)
* **Lucinda Tully** (Daughter)
* **Celia Tully** (Daughter)
* **Melony Tully** (Daughter)

**Gunyr Tully** is the **Lord Paramount of the Trident**, **Lord of Riverrun**, and Lord of House Tully. In his youth he was known as a fierce fighter, whose stalwart heart was burning with chivalry. Before becoming a lord, Gunyr gathered together seven of the strongest, and most devout, warriors within the Riverlands. He dubbed them the **Seven Swords of Mercy**. Their nature gained ire from the **Kingsguard**, seeing the Swords as a poor reflection of their own consecrated duties. Over the years, however, tales of their valor could be heard even in the acropolis of the Red Keep. This gained them a mutual respect from their devout brothers, although it would not last for long.

## History

After becoming the Lord of Riverrun following his father's passing, Gunyr had already begun a budding family with his dearly beloved, Lady **Melara**. She was beautiful, an unabashed vixen to all but Gunyr himself. She was originally from **House Reyne**, and their meeting was a mere coincidence when they both found themselves within an inn just west of Golden Tooth. Despite their young age, Melara would frequently travel back to Castamere with the children in turns, never letting her Gunyr suffer without their company. On her last trip she took their eldest son, **Axel**, to Castamere. Within weeks of their stay, the **Reyne Massacre** began.

The news came to Riverrun faster than it did anywhere else, and immediately Gunyr marshalled his forces. Once they were at full force, they were further joined by a small host gathered by Lord Rogar Baratheon. Together, they rode straight for Casterly Rock. More than half of Lord Tywald's forces had abandoned him following the massacre that would later be known as the **Reyne Conspiracy**. Gunyr detached from the main host temporarily with a mounted escort to reach Castamere. With him were his Swords, a small detachment of barber surgeons, the **Silent Sisters**, and a traveling bard that had been one of the Swords' companions for quite some time.

What they discovered was a ravaged ruin of man's creation, and destruction. Bodies littered the grounds, mostly unprepared soldiers. Then they found the servants, the smallfolk, the septa, and finally: A broken barricade. Within were the fallen of House Reyne, rotting from the bone. And among them all huddled amongst her immediate family, his dearly beloved, Melara. His grief ravaged him so that his very wails of agony and stream of tears were said to be the very inspiration for the **Rains of Castamere**. Melara and her family were given proper burials by the Silent Sisters, but Gunyr could linger no longer. Rage consumed him, like the sun-kissed mane of his, riding to Casterly Rock for vengeance.

By the time Gunyr had arrived, the Rock was starving and Lord Rogar's and his host had surrounded the mighty mountain. Within days, Lord **Tywald** and the last of his men charged out with war cries. He nearly slew Lord Tywald, and several of his most loyal knights, including Ser Brannon Clegane. Gunyr damn near lost his life from the explosive, insane grief of Brannon's own son: Conor. If it weren't for Lord Rogar, Gunyr would've surely died when he was blindsided by the boy's gargantuan figure. What ensued after was a quick, but costly battle. Dozens of Westerland lords died horrendously that night, but all with honor to their captured Warden.

Following this, Gunyr and Lord Rogar brought the disgraced Tywald back to King's Landing, where he would answer for the senseless massacre he had committed. During Tywald's stay in the dungeons of King's Landing, it is said he was murdered by Gunyr's own hands before a trial could be held. Due to his grief, and the Milk of the Poppy he was on, his actions were given amnesty by King Aerius. Following his return to Riverrun, Gunyr fell into a deep depression. He was broken, his life shattered. Even the brightest stars remaining in his life, his dutiful children, couldn't pick up the pieces of his broken self. Not until a wandering Red Priest joined the company of House Tully, who gave Gunyr a new reason to live. That day, Gunyr's righteousness was rekindled in a new light. The light of **R'hllor**. While most began to regard him and his converted people as worshippers of a demon-god, most within the Riverlands maintained that he was their true, and righteous leader.

## Personality

At his heart, Gunyr is a warrior. Even in the height of Westeros' golden age, he was always known for fighting people. His rebellious and defiant nature from his youth slowly transfigured into an authoritative, dogmatic principle shaped by the faith his father, and his father before him, had learned since before the Tully's ruled the Riverlands. The Faith of the Seven taught him to be kind, benevolent, chivalrous, and merciful even to the worst of foes. It wasn't until the Reyne Conspiracy when these ideals drastically changed following his anointment as a warrior in the light of R'hllor. Afterward he learned that mercy was a privilege, not one earned by those who embraced the cold, ethereal nature of evil. Chivalry was a given, to those who deserved it. Benevolence was meant for those with a lesser will, the people he had been raised to protect. Kindness. It was something that wouldn't help this harsh world, but this was something he learned of his own accord.

While not outwardly intolerant of the Faith of the Seven, he will not allow any idols or even talk of it be mentioned within his halls. Those trinkets that are found within his halls, and especially within his refurbished temple, will be burnt and melted down to create idols for the one true god. Those that openly defy his beliefs are confronted and dealt with diplomacy. However, second offenders will find a worse fate waiting for them in the dark, intoxicating dungeons of Riverrun. Where there is no sunlight, not even a torch to give sight to those who so desperately seek it. Not until they confess that R'hllor is the one true god of Westeros before sacrificing something of religious importance to them so that they forever forsake their previous gods.