Alerie Tyrell

Alerie Tyrell is the second born child and only daughter of the late Galladon Tyrell and his wife, Margaery Fossoway. As a daughter of a Tyrell far back in the line of succession, there was little expectation that either Alerie or her brothers would ever rule Highgarden. Still, as a Tyrell, she received the best education available, learning all that was expected of a young noblewoman. She would even take up an interest in botany, becoming proficient in both healing and gardening. While she holds these interests genuinely it is often used as a front to hide her more underhanded dealings. Her information networks spreads far and wide, gathering what she can on all the important people around her. Being personally connected to many of these people help as well, sometimes using fake friendships to weed out what she can from the unsuspecting.

## Character and Appearance

Alerie is a truly beautiful young woman, possessing long, curly brown hair that reaches halfway down her back. Her flawless face is made up of full lips, a small nose, and soft blue eyes with thin brown lashes and eyebrows. Her long neck leads to curvaceous body free of any marks that would be deemed “unwomanly”. Her soft hands are perhaps the only part of her body that deviates from the ideal “pristie from”. While soft and manicured her hands are dotted with small cuts and pricks, a result of her botany pursuits. Truth be told her frequent visits to manicurists are often a result of dirt from the gardens worming its way under her nails.

She often fits herself with the colors of her house, green and white, wearing finely sown dresses of cloth or silk. In order to keep her thick head of hair in order she wears a hair braid decorated with small white pearls.

Alerie Tyrell is the second born child and only daughter of the late Galladon Tyrell and his wife, Margaery Fossoway. As a daughter of a Tyrell far back in the line of succession there was little expectation that either Alerie or her brothers would ever rule Highgarden. Still, as a Tyrell, she received the best education available, learning all that was expected of a young noblewoman. She would even take up an interest in botany, becoming proficient in both healing and gardening. While she holds these interests genuinely it is often used as a front to hide her more underhanded dealings. Her information networks spread far and wide, gathering what she can on all the important people around her. Being personally connected to many of these people help as well, sometimes using fake friendships to weed out what she can from the unsuspecting.

## History

### Future Imperfect (72-85 AC)

Despite being born a Tyrell there was little expected of her. The added fact of being born to a cousin branch with a father several steps out of succession and, most of all, being a woman, made it so that the most that could be expected of her was being wed to another large house, most likely, whether she wanted to be or not.

For a time Alerie had a normal childhood with her twin brother, the two being happily raised within what felt like the safe walls of Highgarden. This would all change when her father, Galladon Tyrell, was brutally murdered by her own uncle, Gerold Tyrell. There mother wasn’t long for the world either, dying in birth five months later, though out of a small kindness from the gods her child would survive giving Alerie a second brother, Lucius.

The now orphaned children would be taken in by their Tyrell cousins and remained in Highgarden. Despite being raised alongside the other Tyrell branches, there was always feeling a separation between Alerie and the rest, Alerie, like her brothers would only feel truly safe and at home in the company of each other. Still, she would take her studies well learning all the arts and mannerisms expected of a woman of her standing.

One of her favorite activities as a young girl was to walk the gardens. They felt like a peaceful retreat, a respite from the conflicts and intrigues of High Garden. She would even make friends with the head gardener at the time, an old lady named Alicia. It was through her that Alerie would first learn of the multiple uses of plants, besides just growing them. This would be the start or more than just experiments into the uses of plants, this would be the start of one of many friendly relationships Alerie would form with those considered beneath her standing.

As Alerie reached her early teenage years she fully began to consider the implications of her status in life. She realized that despite her name and theoretical standing she was, in fact, powerless. She had no father to defend her rights, no lands or personal wealth to protect herself with, all she had was her brothers who themselves were hardly more than she. Perhaps this didn't have to be an issue, but she had observed the attitudes of the other members of House Tyrell. How they plotted and schemed all for their own benefit. How could she trust in their judgemen

t for her, how could she trust her family and friends would stay safe. How could she even have her own life? After all, it was another Tyrell that killed her father, and all on the suspicion of an affair...

### Blooming Rose (85-93 AC)

As maturity began to take hold so would Alerie’s philosophy on life. In her current state, she was powerless and as a woman there was little hope for her in her own combat ability or any other defense deemed “manly”. What she could do, however, was just as powerful, if not more so. She could cultivate friendships and learn about other people. Few would see her as a threat to them after all, and she was charming enough to earn the trust of people. She found this task to be surprisingly easy and was quickly learning secrets on those around her, even if they were just gossip tier. For a while she was content in this, while it wasn’t much to go off of it was at least something. It would come as a surprise to her when things began escalating.

Throughout her time at Highgarden Alerie would befriend some of the common folk children present at the castle. While she would try to avoid publically being with them out of fear of the reactions of the other Tyrells, she would never the less continue these friendships even past her teenage years. She had come to expect many surprises from her lowborn friends, the autonomy given to them allowed them to get up to things that Alerie could only dream of, even if it often came at its own source of costs. One surprise, however, was beyond what she expected. The stable hands, rat catchers, and kitchen hands had ears of their own, and they too learned secrets of the people within Highgarden. What had been just her own efforts became an informal network of information from all sources. With Highgarden becoming more and more open to her, Alerie felt strangely safe. She felt as though now she could have some impact and protecting her family, her real family, Harlen and Lucius.

As Alerie grew into her later teenage years something new would begin to happen, she would begin to attract suitors both high and low. Despite all her social grace, she was paralyzed in how to deal with the new attention. She could at least be thankful that all her noble suitors were turned down or left wishing by Lord Gwyane who

, according to what she learned through her sources, was waiting for a high enough ranked match. Still, there always seemed to be one interested party or another especially as many of the other female Tyrells had already been married off. Yet, Alerie was never as comfortable with the attention she received, especially when compared to Harlen. One in particular, a young stable hand named Roy. Despite being lowborn he would be by far the most of all suitors. It didn't seem like anything wrong, at first. Roy had long been one of Alerie’s closet lowborn friends and had served as what was essentially her personal stablehand. Alerie, uncomfortable with this, would quickly reject it, not that it mattered in the end.

He would continue his advances, as time went on, even becoming more aggressive. Despite it she never cut relations with him, wanting to maintain her oldest friendship despite the mounting problems. It would culminate one late night while Alerie was in the gardens. Roy would approach her, asking her to leave with him. She refused, but Roy couldn't quite accept that. He would beg her to come with him. When that failed he would begin trying to force her to come with him. Luckily this didn't go far. Harlen, who had long been suspicious of Roy’s actions came in and pushed the stablehand back. Harlen demanded Roy leave and never return. He did, whether it was from guilt over his actions or fear of Harlen’s rage is unknown, but he never returned. While she would maintain her other low born relations, this event did only further her growing idea that she could only put her full trust in her brothers.

### Blood on the Fields (93 - 97 AC)

After the flight of Roy life would return to normalcy, while less trusting than ever she would still continue her courteous ways. For a short time Alerie would tone down her spying, focusing heavily on gardening and knitting. Whenever the market she would buy tomes on herbal books as well as journals, so that she could write down as she learned too. As had become an unfortunate theme in her life just as all looked good it fell apart. The ascension of the young King Viserys had given the more ambitious Lords of the Realm and opportunity to revolt, an opportunity her proud uncle took in spades. Soon the Kingdom was at war and House Tyrell would need every able bodied man to fight, including her own brother, Harlen. He would ride off to war following the main Tyrell host wishing both her and their younger brother goodbye before they left.

Watching her brother march off to war, possibly to never return, was a horrifying thought. She cared little about who won this war, none of the benefits would be felt by her family anyway and to think of her brother dying for nothing? This kicked her back into action, not only reconnecting with her previous information networks but connecting with new, further-reaching ones. She wanted to be able to watch over and help her brother over the war, if he was injured she would ensure he gets helped, if captured she would see him rescued, she would fight for the family that really mattered in the one way she could. It was through this that she first came in with the intelligence networks that dotted Westeros, especially the Nightingale Inn. Throughout the war she would tap into these networks, ensuring that she could always keep track of her twin, even when direct ravens were not coming in.

With the war at an end things calmed, even began looking up. Both Harlen and Lucius would marry women of high repute, Harlen would even have a son a year into the marriage. The thought of a growing family was exciting to all of them, and with such advantageous marriages the siblings were more secure than ever. Yet the marriage of her siblings along with her own advancing age highlighted the fact that she was still a maiden, unmarried, and childless. As a woman ,she would be married off soon, and as a Tyrell ,there was no avoiding it, whether she wanted to or not.

## Family Tree

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