Malcolm Brune

Malcolm Brune is the young, orphaned Lord of Dyre Den, and the head of House Brune therein. He was born in the 383rd year since the First Conquest, and has lived his entire life on Crackclaw Point. For two years he has ruled Dyre Den a lord, and has struggled to earn the respect and cooperation of his vassals and neighbors.

## Appearance and Character

Malcolm is tall and strapping, coming from hardy stock on both sides of the family. He sports the fair blue-eyes of his father, with the lush chestnut hair of his mother.

Malcolm is compulsive and voracious, often to the point of gluttony and greed. He indulges himself with food, drink, women, and wealth. His lifestyle has endeared him to many of his vassal lords, who find a man respectable if he can drink and wench with them, but it has denied him a hardened form and disciplined demeanor. He was, however, well educated by his father and maester in matters of lordship and war, and has already shown a talent at command, beyond personal fighting prowess. With his natural strength forever at odds with his lifestyle, he is likely to be a far more capable captain than warrior.

Finding himself a young lord ruling over a proud, hardy people, Malcolm seeks to gain prestige for himself. Whether that is within his own lands amidst his own people, or in the wider world amongst outsiders.

## History

Malcolm was born in the second month of the year 383, the firstborn son of Lord Janos Brune and his wife, Lady Sylvia Brune nee Crabb. He would become the eldest of eight children, and one of the three to survive to the age of majority. From a young age, the importance of firm and wise leadership was imparted to Malcolm, and he was often compelled to command his brothers and sisters both at play and courtly affairs. The former proved far more rewarding and enjoyable than the later, as Malcolm led brother and sister alike on raids against the kitchens and larders, or pursuits of imagined brigands in the forests and caverns around Dyre Den. All that he lacked in the courtesies and scholarly pursuits which Maester Gavin tried to impose upon him, he made up for as a warlord.

In 396, Lord Janos joined King Aenar's forces assembling to fight in what would come to be known as The War of the Three Thieves. Despite his pleading, Malcolm was left behind and took no part in the fighting. When his father returned in the year 402, he proved a changed man who Malcolm found to be unrecognizable in spirit after nearly six years away from home.

Whatever joy might've been felt by the Lord of Dyre Den's return was cut short with the coming of the Scarlet Winter, the same year as his return. In 404, after two years of the worst winter in living memory, Malcolm's mother, Lady Sylvia, fell ill and died. Within a few months, near the start of the year 405 and as the winter was beginning to subside, his father met a similar fate, leaving Malcolm as Lord of Dyre Den with the coming of spring, at the age of two and twenty years. Since then, Malcolm has attempted to consolidate his position, and find the talent for courtly and scholarly matters which he has never possessed.

## Family

Mellara Brune - Malcolm's sister, age 19. One of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen's dragonmaids. Auburn hair and blue eyes. Tall for a woman, lean and lithe.

Osmund Brune - Malcolm's brother, age 15. Heir apparent to Dyre Den. Brown hair and brown eyes. Stout and short.

## Household Members/NPCs

Maester Gavin - Maester of Dyre Den since 380, age 54. Tutored all of Lord Janos and Lady Sylvia's chidren.