"Free as the Waves"
High Lords of the Three Sisters
High Lords of the Fingers (under Lord Marq's rulership)
Lord Marq Sunderland
Born in 201 AC
Marital Status: married to Corenna Sunderland nee. Longthorpe, born in 219 AC ;
First wife: Minisa Sunderland nee. Templeton, born in 197 AC, died in 233 AC
Children: Lothar Sunderland, Liane Sunderland, Roger Sunderland, Ormun Sunderland, Oswell 'The Younger' Sunderland
Temperaments:
Melancholic:
- Haggler: This character is obsessed with getting the best possible deal for themselves, and ever watchful (even paranoid) for anyone trying to rip them off. This sort of fellow is rarely the sort others like, but none can deny their ability to sniff for gold. +7.5% income and improves loot from raids, -2 Charisma.
- Pessimistic: This character is always looking at the negative side of things. They may be right in some cases - when you suspect every man you meet to be a bad guy, you're probably right at least one out of ten times - but it doesn't exactly make them endearing. +1 to survival rolls, -1 Charisma.
Supine:
- Amiable: This character is a pleasant person who tries very hard to get along with everyone s/he meets. Indeed, perhaps too hard, at that...they also tend to excessively seek validation from others, and at worst can be described as clingy ticks. +1 Charisma, -1 to duel rolls.
Traits: Survival+2 Personal Combat+1 Wealth+1 Charisma +2
(+1 Survival +7,5% income
-2 Charisma -1 duel rolls)
Biography: Born on Sweetsister as a member of the High Lord family Sunderland, Marq was raised under partly lordly circumstances, while discovering soonly enough that unlike in the rest of the Vale honor is hardly being respected by the Sistermen.
Faced by intrique and false promises, which were partly common among the nobility of the Three Sisters, it wasn't hard for the young lord to learn that it was wealth and the right political attitude to actually keep the vassals of his uncle and the minor lords under controll.
When the Sunderlands joined the Blackfyres during the first rebellion, Lord Sunderland and his two sons were slain at the Redgrassfield, thus causing his brother Lord Oswell Sunderland to inherit the High Lordship. While things seemed benevolent under Lord Oswell's rulership and corruption was slightly diminished, the Lord nontheless decided to participate in a meeting at Whitewalls, where the supporters of House Blackfyre attempted to start a second rebellion.
By command of Lord Brynden Rivers, Lord Oswell was executed, while Lord Marq and his siblings were summoned to King's Landing to witness the process.
At this moment the newly appointed Lord Marq Sunderland learnt at the age of 10 years that treason against the Crown and superior authorities could end more than just deadly.
Over the years, Lord Sunderland grew into a calculating man, who spent the majority of the time to get the High Lordship under controll. When he got the chance to marry a woman of House Templeton, her took her immidiately to his wife, while producing over the years as many children as there were possible to secure his blood line. While members of the Sunderland family perished either a natural or rarely a more suspicious death, Lord Sunderland kept as well in mind, that he probably couldn't change the way of the Sistermen, but only could keep the balance between corruption and legal activities as much in balance as long as he wouldn't anger his overlords.
While rumors were spreading that Lord Marq was secretly a friend of criminals among the Three Sisters despite the ammount of hanged pirates by his judgement and thus the credibility of the Sister's High Lord wasn't necessarily as trustworthy as in times of the former overlords, the prosperity of the Three Sisters rose during the reign of Lord Sunderland.
What the ambitious lord so lacked, but what he was certain to eventually gain some day was the increase of the Three Sisters' influence in terms of politics. Time would tell if these ideals would be fulfilled under his gouvernment or under another Sunderland from his blood line.
Roger Sunderland
Born in 226 AC
Marital Status: Unmarried
Children: None
Temperaments:
Phlegmatic:
- Austere: This character disdains pomp and pageantry, instead preferring a plain & simple (the uncharitable might say 'rigidly spartan') lifestyle. +5% income, -1 Charisma.
- Empathic: This character is strongly attuned to the emotions of others and cares for them, making them great friends or kinsmen to have - but poor warriors and generals. +2 Charisma, -1 to battle/joust/duel rolls.
Sanguine:
- Sociable: This character is an extroverted social butterfly, capable of making friends left and right. However, they have little time for 'boring' matters like finances, and are more interested in buying flashy things to show off to their friends than managing their wealth. +1 Charisma, -2% income.
Traits: Survival +2 Personal Combat +1 Wealth +2 Charisma +1
(+ 2 Charisma + 3% income
-1 to Battle/joust/duel rolls)
Biography: Originally the secondborn son of Lord Marq, Roger was more or less involved into courtly buiseness, where he learnt more or less many things, which his father tended to preach, while kindly disagreeing on these views of world. In his youth, Roger spent a long time of his life along the townsmen of Sweetsister and the neighboured town Sisterton, gouverned by the Borrels with whom Roger is related due to his grandmother.
While seeing partly the corruption on and outside the streets of the Sisters, Roger eyes it from a more optimistic perspective that these problems can be changed at some day, if the merchant buiseness into which his father is involved would grow more while piracy, which tends to threaten these perilous waters is fought back actively in order to make the Sisters more trustworthy allies for the Vale and thus for the Crown. While his father welcomes the forsight of his secondborn, Roger isn't too convinced that he agrees with him, when it comes to the solution of the piracy problem. He himself isn't either sure whether to belief the rumors which are spread about his father, as it could be intrique from the minor lordly Houses in order to destroy the reputation of the Sunderlands after two lost Blackfyre rebellions completely.
Things tended to escalate though when his elder brother Lothar was found dead in a sideway alley of Sisterton, obviously robbed by a beggar.
While a culprit for the murder was found soon enough, Roger suddenly became the direct heir of the Sunderlands. With the current situation being barely safe for his secondborn son, Lord Sunderland eventually considers to send him as a ward towards the Eyrie.
Liane Sunderland
Born in 224 AC
Marital Status: unmarried
Children: none
Temperaments:
Sanguine:
- Sociable: This character is an extroverted social butterfly, capable of making friends left and right. However, they have little time for 'boring' matters like finances, and are more interested in buying flashy things to show off to their friends than managing their wealth. +1 Charisma, -2% income.
- Upbeat: Nothing seems to get this character down. They're perpetually smiling and looking on the bright side of even the darkest developments, truly the kind of optimism that can be infectious...or delusional, if the situation is bad enough. +1 to surviving non-battle death rolls, -1 to post-battle rolls (captivity, death, wounding).
Supine:
- Submissive: This character is the sort of person others can easily walk all over. On the other hand, they're generally regarded as beneath suspicion, and if they ever find their spine they could easily strike back without their foes seeing it coming. -1 to Charisma, -1 Battles, +1 to assassination & escape rolls.
Traits: Survival +2 Charisma +1 Assassin +1
(+1 surviving non-battle death rolls,
+1 to assassination & escape
-1 Battles
-1 post battle rolls -2% income)
Biography: As the older sister of Roger and his brothers, Liane grew up in a household, which was most of the time dominated by men. Thus the girl quickly learnt that it was sometimes helpful to listen at court whom to actually trust, when it came to matters, which concerned her family and the current situation of the Sisters. Especially her aunt, Gwynesse Sunderland, had always an open ear for the young girl, while teaching her in the subtle ways of how to survive in a society, mostly ruled by men and especially in a society ruled by men, who daily tend to make their deals with more untrustworthy fellows. While Liane lacks the financial knowledge, which both her father and her brother possess, she nontheless knows how a young woman in her position is supposed to act at court or within the streets of the Three Sisters.
Sweetsister
Regional Boni
Minor Castle
Minor Castles have the following attributes:
- If an invading army is known to be in the area before it arrives at the Minor Castle, it will last for 6 months (3.5 RL days) in a siege. Otherwise, it will last 1.5 RL days (~2.5 months). The enemy army is known to be in the area ifa friendly army has been defeated in the area ("the area" meaning anywhere up to 2 provinces away) or if a scout roll has found that army in the area.
- Have a +4 roll to any Siege assault undertaken against them.
- Can hold their entire garrison plus 100% of the base Land Levy points of their province.
Minor Castles can be upgraded to Castles (and gain the bonuses and attributes of them) if a player builds a Tier II Siege Defence building in that Minor Castle.
- The Sistermen's Sea: The people of the Three Sisters are masters of the sea and have long defended their islands from attack. If a battle is fought around the Sisters , then they are granted +2 to naval rolls. in addition, character's here gain +1 naval battles.
- The Sisters' Wealth: Due to their position of controlling some of the waterways between Essos and Braavos and the many less than legal ships that venture from the Three Sisters, the Sisters gain an additional +10% land income.
Military of Sweetsister
Sweetsister (3,500 points):
2,625 Light Infantry
1,200 Archers
250 Heavy Infantry
464 Polearm Infantry
71 Light Cavalry
40 Heavy Cavalry
50 Household Knights
Total: 4,700 men
Additional forces (Barracks, Rescources, Edicts, other):
none
Garrison of Sweetsister:
100 Heavy Infantry (200 points)
200 Light Infantry (200 points)
100 Polearm Infantry (150 points)
150 Archers (150 points)
Total: 550 men
Naval forces of Sweetsister
Sweetsister
24 Dromonds
12 Heavy Galleys
6 Sisterton Pirate Ships
2 Grand Warships
Additinal naval forces (Edicts, Buildings, Rescource, etc.):
none
Trade and Rescources
Current Trade deals: None
Produced Rescources: Flax (+2 Charisma for the Lord, +20% faster ships) is grown for use in the production of linen, an important cloth both in domestic and industrial uses, being used extensively for clothing, sewing, upholstry and sailcloth. Due to the great importance and prestige of the textile industries in this time, it allows superior ships to be built and elevates the Lord among mercantile circles.