Andros Mallister

## Introduction

Andros Mallister is the 2nd cousin to Lady Augusta Mallister of Seagard, and 2nd cousin to Ladies Margaery and Lysa Brax, Lady and Regent of Hornvale respectively. Andros has worked with his father and the city guard of Seagard since he was old enough to shine armour, eventually becoming a young guardsman at the age of 14. He was knighted at 15 after the local wargames in Seagard, where he demonstrated his ability to rally men, and lead a cavalry charge, achieving victory for the guardsmen of the city, over their castle counterparts. Now 16 and full of a need to explore and see the wider Riverlands, he and his twin brother Anders have taken it upon themselves to try their hand at being tourney knights.

## Appearance and Character

Andros and his twin, Anders, are identical in appearance, with the exception of a few freckles which they do not care to point out to people. They each stand about five-nine and have firm, but lithe builds of young men raised in training to be knights. Andros though, compared to his younger twin, is considered more attractive but there seems no explicable reason for this. Together they share hair styles, well kept and curling at the ends as it hangs just on the ear and collar; in the sunlight it’s the colour of warm honey, and in the shade, dirty bronze. They have green eyes the colour of the Sunset Sea after a hail storm, not at all hard or menacing, instead having a gaze that is rolling, and enticing.

The boys have the voice of their father, low bells that make maiden’s think of knights from the Age of Heroes, but experienced men at arms know them for unblooded boys. While they have trained with the Seagard city guard most of their lives and are known to walked taller thanks to their last name, almost too tall some would say. There is an air of confidence about them that is hard to ignore when they are together, but it shrinks when true nobility is around. They are distant nobles and while that may hold something in the smaller parts of Seagard and Hornvale, they believe it carries little weight in true noble circles.

Andros is of the two boys the more passionate of the two, he has a heart that burns hot and fierce, everything he does is done with vigour and determination. In contrast, his brother Anders is the more considered, he takes things slow, calculates the chances, and assesses the benefits and drawbacks. Where Andros was schooled in the ways of generals and noble guard-captains, learning stratagem and troop movement on the field of battle, Anders was taught to read the stars, and practice the selling of wares for his mothers’ business. This sets them apart far more than their appearance ever could.

## History

### Early life

Andros was born in the year 423 in Hornvale at the express wishes of his grandmother who was able to use her position as a Brax to be seen by the keep Maester, Septa’s, and midwives for his mother. If he had been born a bastard he would have been a Hill, but he was not, he was born the rightful son of Owen Mallister and Jenny of Seagard, along with his twin Anders. They spent the first few years in Hornvale living off their grandmother, Darlessa Brax’s, affection and generosity, here she doted on them as only a noble grandmother could. As babes and toddlers there was much for them to enjoy, yet there was always a small tension between their grandmother, and mother. Jenny desperately wanted to return to Seagard to her family business, and Darlessa wished to remain in Hornvale; Seagard had too many painful memories for her.

In the end Owen and Jenny won out, and returned to Seagard for Jenny’s family business, and Owen’s career as a city guardsman. At the age of 5 Andros and Anders were moved with their parents to live new lives away from a noble court, instead they took up positions helping their father and mother respectively.

### Middle Years

Owen Mallister retook up his place as a member of the Seagard city watch, Andros joined him, learning to polish armour, fix a stirrup, hold a spear, and the operations of the under city. He also learned how to drill men, how to move men across a city for urban warfare and where crime was like to start when a city was besieged. His twin by contrast was trained to read the stars and guide the sailors of the port, he was also taught his mother’s trade of merchant craft. Anders learned how to count coin, haggle for the best price, and trade up with wares. Only in his downtime did he learn the spear when he was able.

As the boys grew older Andros took on more responsibility with the city watch, becoming the page for the city watch commander, a knight, and then his squire. He learned from the commander how to recruit men to the watch, and watched him be a champion of law and order in the town. At home his father and mother began to bicker, Owen was getting older and he wished to return to Hornvale to visit his mother, his wife Jenny did not like the idea of leaving her business yet again. In the waning years of his squireship, Andros and Anders were taken by the father to visit their grandmother in Hornvale, the first time since their birth.

The arrival of the Mallister men was not the celebrated homecoming that Owen had wished; instead he arrived to the planning of the funeral for Alyn Brax in the year 435. Hornvale was a sombre place and while Andros and Anders were permitted guest rooms with their father and grandmother, there was little joy to be shared with them. Instead of leaving immediately, their father elected to send a courier to Seagard to advise their mother they were to remain and learn the ways of the Westermen. Owen joined the guards of Hornvale, using his veterancy from Seagard to impress and gain both his sons entry as guardsmen also.

### Later Years

Spending a year in Hornvale the boys learned more about horse riding and mounted warfare then they ever could have in Seagard. Hornvale’s sigil being the unicorn, there was a proud tradition of mounted combat amongst the guards and men-at-arms alike. Andros and Anders were natural horse riders, each of them taking to mounted warfare better than either ever had sailing in Seagard. The year in Hornvale was brief and fast, a quick spring following a winter of their parents arguing. Andros and Anders each came to love Hornvale and it was at the machinations of their grandmother they their Brax name more in their sigil; a means to honour their western heritage, as much as their Seagard uprising. With this novel notion Darlessa also came up with a new sigil for the twins, a winged, silver horse, forcené, on a dark purple field;  She had for each of them a shield made with this new sigil, and a tabard to match and wear proudly.

With their parting gifts received on their name day, the boys and their father left the day after and returned to Seagard. In the years that followed the boys participated in Second Hammer Uprising occurred, they rejoined with the Seagard city watch on their return to finish their squireship and defend the city where they held themselves admirably. Though they were too young to receive their knighthoods at the conclusion of the war they were each well regarded and permitted to join as full watchmen.

It was not long after in the year 438 that the city guardsmen challenged the keep guardsmen of Seagard to a mock battle. Ostensibly to keep the keep guards alert and well oiled, but also to give the city guards some pride and bragging rights, a battle was organised, blunted weapons all around. It was in this mock battle, as the city guard were overrun by the skill of the keep guards, that Andros and Anders rallied the remaining mounted guardsmen and broke the lines of the keep guards. The crowd cheered impossibly loud as the young pegasus squires fought valiantly to aid their brothers in arms - and it was after this battle both were knighted for their years of service to the watch.

With their knighthoods achieved, and simple armour acquired for their years of service and dedication to the city. Andros and Anders have taken the gifts of their grandmother, the money of their coming of age from their mother, and the armour of their grandfather’s heritage and struck out now to begin a new chapter of their lives. Away from guard duty and civic service, both young men, seek to become famous tourney knights and they have their eyes set on making their names at Harrenhal.

## **Recent Events**

439 - Rode from Seagard to Harrenhal to register for participation in the Harrenhal tourney.

## Family

* Michael Mallister b. 351 d. 379

* Darlessa Brax b. 359
	+ Owen Mallister b. 380
	+ Jenny of Seagard b. 401
		- Andros Mallister b. 423
		- Anders Mallister b. 423