Chambers of Lord Alan Tarly
Here resides Lord Alan Tarly, so called the Quarreller and the Red Giant of Tarly. For his support to the Blacks and her Grace, Queen Rhaenyra I, he was named Warden of the South and appointed as Master of Laws. Now he serves in that quality in the Small Council and as one of the regents to his Grace, King Aegon III. His quarters are wide and lavishly furbished, as fitting for such a highborn and influential Lord. Tarly's men stand watch and guard their lord's chambers. Ocasionally also reside here his eldest son, Garlan Tarly, and his wife, Alerie Rowan.
LORD ALAN “THE QUARRELER” TARLY
Born 84 AC (45)
Titles: Lord of Horn Hill, High Lord of Westmarch, Warden of the South, Master of Laws.
Status: Married, to Lady Gwynesse Florent (1) (Born 86 AC, died during childbirth in 212 AC) and Lady Alerie Rowan (2) (second and current wife, born in 87 AC, married in 214 AC)
Children: Ser Garlan Tarly (born 203 AC), Selyse Tarly (born 204 AC), Raymund Tarly (205 AC), Olenna Tarly (born 212 AC), Hostella Tarly (born 218 AC), Lia Tarly (born 221 AC), Samwell Tarly (born 228 AC)
Traits and biographyTraits (11):
+3 Duels (+8, wielder of Heartsbane)
+4 Survival
+2 Battles
+2 Jousting
+1 Charisma
BIOGRAPHY:
Lord Alan Tarly is a temperamental mal. He wasn’t a sweet child either, always involved in endless fights and quarrels with grooms, squires and servants. Alyn was always covered in scabs and bruises and running through Horn Hill’s halls wooden sword in hand. A large child, he was used to fight and win and he only grew taller and wilder later in life. He squired at young age and was knighted early, when he was merely four-and-ten and given Heartsbane, the ancestral sword of his House, one year later.
More than six feet and seven inches tall, Alan is one of the tallest men in the realm. His frame, wide, muscular and robust, is always clad in scarlet robes, from head to toe. A mountain of a man, with impressive strength, Lord Tarly is always excessive; hot-blooded, gluttonous, lustful, wrathful, prideful, ambitious, voraciously thirsty, open-handed to the point of being a wastrel and incredibly stubborn. A phenomenal duelist, warrior and jouster there are few who can face in the tourney fields or in battle. Clad in an impressive scarlet armor, as red as his blood, Tarly towers in the battlefield and few can resist his charge. Tarly is also an avid hunter skilled both with a longbow and a spear, but he’s surpassed by his eldest son, Ser Garlan.
However, Alan is no fool but a clever and astute man, deceitful and cunning. To make his foes yield he either uses his sheer strength or the sharpness of his mind. He shows little respect for the Faith and its servants and is known to dress his buffoon, a dwarf called Jellyfish, in septon’s robes.
He married twice, first to the educated, cultured and shy Lady Gwynesse Florent, despite his mother’s complains about her fragility and narrow hips. She proved strong enough to bear four living children (a pair of twins were stillborn), but finally died in childbirth. Secondly, he married the gluttonous, plump and not-that-pretty (he married her because her large dowry) Lady Alerie Rowan, sister of Lord Thaddeus Rowan, who bore him four more children one of whom died of greyscale still on the cradle.
He raised his banners in support of Queen Rhaenyra, and after her victory was rewarded with the Wardenship over the South and the Master of Laws office.
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