Manfred Lannister

### Holdings

Fomerly; several manors and estates in the Pentoshi FlatlandsLordship of the Flatlands

### Affiliation

House LannisterManfred's Riding Troupe

Mace's Merry Men

## Relations

### Siblings

Loren Lannister, b, 359 ACCedric Lannister, b. 361 AC

Lyonel Lannister b, 363 AC

Myrande Lannister, b. 366 AC

## META

### Alternative Characters

Florian Mallister

Ser Manfred Lannister, also known as the Lord of the Flatlands, is a Knight of House Lannister and a renowned war hero from the War of the Last Dragon, long believed dead. He ruled a petty fiefdom in the Pentoshi Flatlands, only returning a week before the turn of the year.

## Appearance and Character

Manfred Lannister is a tall man with broad shoulders and clear skin. His short hair is Lannister blond and his eyes are like emerald sockets. His body is toned, strong and experienced. His face is clean shaved and has a smirk on it more often than not. He wears heavy plate with red gaunlets and cloak. He wears a black and red doublet with a fur cap from Essos when he is not armored.

## History

Manfred Lannister was born in 355 AC, the eldest son of Tommen Lannister and is a cousin to Lord Jason Lannister and the true power behind him, Lady Eleyna Lannister.

As a babe, one word could be used to describe Manfred. Willful. He was loud, cried and had a temperament. As a boy, he was reckless, nearly getting himself killed twice at the age of six and eight respectively at Casterly Rock. These were the first sparks of something greater in him.

Manfred was joined by three brothers, Loren, Cedric and Lyonel, born in 359, 361 and 363 respectively and a younger sister named Myranda in 366 AC. Of his siblings, Manfred never showed much interest in them bar his youngest sister whom he was always kind and patient with.

At the age of ten, Manfred was made a page to a knight but was quickly sent away to the Eyrie where he fostered with Lord Arryn and his sons as a squire, though was brought back home much earlier than he should have, causing a point of anger and contention between young Manfred and his father.

Already by the age of six and ten he had earned himself a reputation. A natural talent with horses, Manfred had participated in multiple horse races in the West and Vale, winning many of them. His boldness earned him much praise. Manfred never refused a challenge and often took daring, risky and often rewarding actions, especially in the Vale when he took a bunch of his mates, fellow squires, and decided to protect a hamlet from the remnants of the mountain clans by attacking them directly.

Because of this he was knighted at the very young age of seventeen for his bravery and boldness, personally leading his attack and taking no prisoners.

Returning to the Westerlands from his time in the Vale, Ser Manfred Lannister was the very charm of the West. He partook in several jousts and won many of them too. Manfred was an expert with his polearms, favoring a poleaxe in his heavy ironclad armor and heavy horse.

At the age of eight and ten, Manfred had fathered his first bastard, though did not care for the girl nor her mother, a repeating pattern that would continue through the years. In 377 AC, Ser Manfred Lannister was the victor of the grand Tourney of Gulltown where he defeated all foes in a realm wide joust and crowned his cousin Eleyna Lannister as Queen of Love and Beauty.

Then the world changed.

In 378 AC, the War of the Last Dragon erupted. Bursting from the Southlands came Daena Targaryen and her dragon.

Always daring and always bold, Ser Manfred took command of part of the might of the Lion. Ser Manfred Lannister took what would later be called ‘Manfred’s Riding Troupe’ into battle, a cavalry regiment one thousand strong. His forces served as both skirmishes and heavy cavalry both, causing Essosi to turn tail and run before him.

Manfred first saw combat at the Battle of the Goldvein, where he led spirited charge after charge into the Golden Company lines, making bold maneuvers and like in the Vale, the Red Lion (as he was being called now) took no prisoners. The man had a low opinion on his foes as both combatants and as people, personally ordering and taking part in the execution of captured prisoners.

Ser Manfred faced dragonfire eventually, escaping unscathed, though his men took heavy losses. Afterwards, they resumed their skirmishes, taking on various different survivors and men at arms from different houses of the West and Reach, their colorful banners mingling together like a mummers troupe. Manfred’s Riding Troupe was thus born.

As the war dragged on, Ser Manfred was approached by an relative, Lancel Lannister. He’d introduced him to Mace Wildflowers, who came to him with an offer he couldn’t refuse. A dashing, bold, reckless and most likely suicidal attempt to end the war by causing chaos in Daena’s empire?

He’d be a fool to refuse.

Traveling to the Three Daughters with a band of patriots, fools, bastards and adventurers(like himself), the Red Lion spent time in Myr, Lys and Tyrosh, committing murders and later on inciting riots. Later, he had managed to sail over what was left of his Riding Troupe and took command and departed from Myr under his own initiative to destroy local towns and villages, before breaking out north towards Pentos.

A few weeks after Manfred’s Riding Troupe had arrived in the Pentoshi Flatlands the war had ended. Many that came with Mace returned home, but to the shock of many, Ser Manfred did not return with them.

Conflicting reports existed on how exactly Ser Manfred Lannister was said to have died. Some say one of his ‘cleaning’ jobs (as he called them) went awry and he was killed fighting in Lys. Others say he was killed in battle in the Disputed Lands. All accounts agree he was killed in the waning weeks of the war, a tragic loss of a renowned war hero and a leading commander of House Lannister.

None of these were true however. Without knowledge of his presumed death, Ser Manfred had arrived in Pentos with the belief the war had not ended and that he would continue the fight, which he did for the next three years.

From 380 to 382-83 AC, Ser Manfred Lannister was a thorn in the side of the Pentoshi.

The first year was spent being little more than mounted raiders and bandits, burning and stealing crops on the edges of the Flatlands. Manfred utilized the internal chaos of Pentos and a series of skirmishing hit and run tactics to keep local militia and the Golden Company from destroying his remaining five hundred men. The next year however things changed. In late 380 AC, Ser Manfred declared himself Lord of the Flatlands, a title created out of thin air as he escalated his fighting.

The Lordship of course was never on any map nor recognized by the other Free Cities. It’s territory was nebulous and based more off where his army was camped then any concrete borders. In 381 AC things stabilized as Ser Manfred led a daring attack and seized several estates and manors from Pentoshi Magisters and created an actual foothold for himself, a small fiefdom in big waters.

During this time, Ser Manfred went back and forth between fighting Pentos and fighting for Pentos.

During a Dothraki raid, Ser Manfred led his Riding Troupe to defend the very villages and estates he has been terrorizing, taking heavy losses but saving many Pentoshi lives in the process. For a while, Manfred and his fiefdom served as a useful buffer state between Pentos and its foes during its troubling times.

Everything came to a crashing end in 382 AC when, after several desertions and heavy losses, Manfred began raiding the Flatlands again. Once more an enemy of the Golden Company, Lady Lia Cole was sent to end the Lordship of the Flatlands for good.

Ser Manfred met Lady Lia in battle, despite having most of his once mighty cavalry reduced to fifty mounted knights and men at arms and another fifty seven heavy infantry. The trained and experienced Westerosi made short work of many Golden Company men, but their numbers were too great. After losing his horse and helm, Manfred met Lady Lia Cole in the fight and found himself outclassed. She defeated him and personally broke his jaw during the fight. The battle ended quickly after Manfred left the field, wounded but alive. The survivors that managed to escape melted into the Free Cities or returned home. Those that surrendered or were too wounded and had been left behind were given no quarter. Just as the Red Lion had once to Golden Company men during the Last Dragon.

From that day on, Ser Manfred had what could be classified as a growing, angry obsession with Lia Cole, for the only woman to have ever beaten him was her.

Fleeing to Westeros with a broken jaw, Ser Manfred Lannister the former Red Lion, self styled Lord of the Flatlands, had been made a penniless beggar. Landing in the Stormlands he tried to seek shelter at Griffon’s Roost but was threatened for impersonating a noble. He finally learned that he had been dead to the world for three years.

He departed thereafter, spending weeks trying to find work as a hedge knight to earn some coin to try and return to the West. Eventually he did, almost being arrested at Casterly Rock if not for his sister Myranda recognizing him.

Ser Manfred Lannister returned to Casterly Rock a week before 383 AC. The same week, his manor in the Flatlands was torched by Lia Cole, ending his Lordship.

Now Ser Manfred has been thrust into a family that had not seen him for five to six years. His brother who had always hated him was incensed, a husband now. His cousin Jason was now the weak and ineffectual Lord of Casterly Rock while his cousin Eleyna served as the true power.

Worst of all, Ser Manfred has to contend with the fact he is no longer famous or popular. Almost thirty, the women that once swooned for him had moved onto newer more younger knights. Men who fought for him moved onto new commanders. Worst of all, the most premier knight was now the Dragonslayer.

So Ser Manfred travels to the capital to try and regain his former glory by trying his hand at winning the tourney joust and perhaps even finding the coin to reclaim his lost Lordship, the spirit of adventure and his bold nature burning with fire again.

## Meta

Attribute: Brilliant

Skill Points: 20

Skills: Riding, Weapon Proficiency (Polearms and Swords), Raiding, Skirmishing

Mastery: Ironclad