LORD RAYMUN FOSSOWAY
Hand of the King
[ Born 248 AC
Status: Widower, to Lady Delena Darklyn (died 274 AC, during childbirth).
Children: Garlan Fossoway (born 272 AC), Garth Fossoway (born 274 AC).
Traits (7):
+2 Survival.
+1 Charisma.
+2 Duels.
+2 Battles.
BIOGRAPHY:
When Aerys unleashed his wrath over the Reach it fell harder over Cider Hall. House Fossoway was exterminated by royal decree, like Maegor the Cruel had executed the Harroways centuries before. Few managed to escape from the imminent doom: some cousins too distant to be remembered, Derrick, of the Band of Nine, who was far away across the Narrow Sea and Raymun himself. He was merely a boy back then, forcefully spirited away by his parents to prevent his death at the hands of Aerys’ executioners. Timid, red-haired, thin and average in every sense of the word, he found himself at the mercy of the devious and cruel Derrick. The member of the Band of Nine became his warden and Raymun had to suffer abuse, humiliation and the Bad Apple’s legendary moodiness.
Raymun hardened himself under Derrick’s watchful gaze, who trained him brutally in order to become an accomplished rider and duellist. Raymun followed Derrick on their way to King’s Landing and served as his squire during the pitched-battle against Baratheon. With a little relief he watched as the Bad Apple finally met his end at the blades of several Dondarrion men-at-arms. Raymun, in that very moment suddenly realized that finally it was time to restore his house. Cider Hall was his to claim... There wasn’t anyone else to lay such claim after all. Mace Tyrell restored House Fossoway in 268 AC and most unexpectedly one year later Raymun was named as Hand of the King, by Daemon Blackfyre. Totally unambitious and feeling unworthy for such an office, Raymun was determined to do whatever he posibly could to serve the realm and hiss King most efficiently. In 271 AC he married Lady Delena Darklyn.
Possessions:
- Full Plate (+20 hp, +1 Battles, +6 Survival, +5 post-battle condition rolls) - Covering oneself from head to toe in the best plate available brings significant advantages and drawbacks. You become near-impossible to kill but also don't move much yourself. Favoured by knights taking to the battlefield, knowing their main role in such an event will be to present the heaviest possible mass atop a horse to plough through enemy troops in a formation of massed heavy horse, this is a set of armour for surviving a major battle rather than a set for everyday wear or single combat.
- A bastard sword (+4 Duels, +4 Survival), the most common name for large single-handed weapons, are typically used without shields but are lighter and thus more mobile than greatswords, giving the user the ability to position themselves faster and exploit the situation with more agility, at the cost of reduced reach and less power than a greatsword, but superior reach and power to a single handed weapon.
Retainers:
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Tower of the Hand
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