Post by Ulfric Harlaw on Oct 5, 2012 19:53:18 GMT -5
Character's Age: 46 (b. 332)
Character's Ethnicity: Rhoynar
Character's Titles: the Bloodroyal, Lord of Yronwood and Warden of the Stone Way
Character's Skills: 820 Total Points
Fighting Abilities: (180 Points)
-Weapons
--One Handed: 50 (100)
---Axes: 50
---Maces: 50
---Spears: 82 (30)
---Swords: 50
-Armor
--Chain mail: 25 (25)
--Shields: 25 (25)
Leadership Abilities: (385 Points)
-Battle
--Land: 50 (100)
---Ambush: 75 (25)
---Cavalry: 50
---Command: 76 (25)
---Raiding: 70 (20)
---Scouting: 76 (25)
---Siege: 50
--Logistics: 50 (50)
--Rallying: 90 (90)
--Routing: 50 (50)
Political Abilities: (140 Points)
-Persuasion
--Diplomacy: 50 (50)
--Intimidation: 25 (25)
-Intrigue
--Spy Network
---Dorne: 25 (25)
---Goldlands: 20 (20)
---Kingsland: 20 (20)
Physical Abilities: (115 Points)
---Observation: 45 (45)
--Athletics: 20 (40)
---Horsemanship: 50 (30)
---Sprinting: 20
---Swimming: 20
---Unarmed combat: 20
Character's Personal History:
Oberyn of House Yronwood was born in the year 332 after Aegon's Landing, into a tumultuous world of five kingdoms barely contained form constant warfare. In his second year, Dorne and the Kingslands invaded the Reach; then Lord of Yronwood, Oberyn's grandfather, was slain in battle, making his father the new Warden of the Stone Way. In the subsequent years, there was peace along the northern border, but constant raiding across the Marches to the west. Lord Cletus Yronwood was a skilled diplomat, negotiating alliances with the neighboring Fowlers and Wyls and even the Ullers to the south. Oberyn married Elayne Fowler in his eighteenth year, and she bore his first son the following year, and three more children since; three sons and a daughter in all.
In the year 367 after Aegon's Landing, Queen Faylynn Baratheon, who was the youngest sister of Prince Hector Martell of Sunspear, was killed mysteriously in Storm's End and no explanation was given by her husband, the King. The Prince of Dorne called his banners, and the passes filled with spears and men. Every lord in Dorne contributed troops to the army, led by the brilliant Lord Bryce Dayne of Starfall. Lord Cletus marched with 3,500 of Yronwood's best men, joining the other lords in the Prince's Pass, and pushing deep into the Kingsland. The Dornish army in the west achieved its aims, and seized Nightsong, but while the lords fought the forces of the Kingslanders in the west, another army marched down the Stone Way after sacking Castle Wyl at its northern entrance.
Eight thousand Kingslanders marched down the pass with no warning preceding them, practically appearing out of thin air outside the walls of Yronwood, where Ser Oberyn, at five and thirty, commanded the garrison of 1,500. Yronwood is a formidable fortress, built at the point where the mountain pass narrows to a few hundred yards before the mountains drop away into the rolling hills of northwestern Dorne. It is nearly impossible to enter the Stone Way from either direction, without passing through Yronwood's black iron gates, there being an incredibly treacherous path around the east side of the fortress, which Yronwoods over the years have rigged with pitfalls and traps to prevent it from being traversed. However the closest harbor to Yronwood is accessed by a mountain road on the north side of the fortress, and thus when the defenders awoke to find an army at the north gate, they were already cut off from the major route of supply; few traders wanted to travel overland across the sandy wastes to the south.
Leading the enemy army was the Lord of Blackhaven, and many other stormlords besides, and the first assault came three days after their arrival when Ser Oberyn declined the terms of surrender. Catapults throwing fire, ladders and grapnels and a ram against the walls, but they were forced back after fierce fighting and losses to both sides; two of Ser Oberyn's brothers were slain in battle when they led a counter attack out of a sally port to try and destroy the ram battering at the gates. They succeeded in setting the machine on fire, but Oberyn watched from the gatehouse with horror, as a 16 year old boy wearing the purple lighting on black of House Dondarrion cut them both down with a massive axe. Their spears dealt him several wounds but they both fell all the same, and the battle settled into a siege. Minimal resources could be imported from the south, and slowly the garrison went through the stores of food; a mountain spring beneath the castle supplied them with enough water. After six months of repulsing an assault every three or four weeks, they were eating the few horses that remained and by seven months there was not an animal left in the castle.
When the army flying the Sun and Spear of the Martells arrived at the south gate one night, half the garrison was dead and those remaining could barely fight from hunger. The next morning, however, they all charged out the north gate, routing the Kingslanders and harrying them up the pass until word came in that peace had been made between Storm's End and Sunspear. A tenuous peace, at least, with gains for the Dornish but the threat of an invasion from the Reach to the west checked their advance and they settled for Nightsong as the only conquest of the war.
Oberyn inherited Yronwood's Lordship a year later, when the young Lord Trebor Jordayne challenged Lord Cletus to a duel over a supposed insult during a standard trade negotiation. They were to fight to first blood, but when the younger and stronger Lord of the Tor triumphed over his older opponent, he cut him deeply across the chest and pierced one of his lungs, causing him to die despite the Maester's best ministrations. Thus, at 36, he became Lord Oberyn of Yronwood, the Bloodroyal and Warden of the Stone Way. He is whispered to have sworn blood oaths to the Stranger, swearing to kill both Trebor Jordayne and Raymund Dondarrion with his own hands, nursing deep blood feuds with both of their families, awaiting only the right moment to strike.
Character's Physical Description:
Tall and wiry, the Lord of Yronwood looks the part of a true Rhoynish Lord despite being one of the 'Mountain Dornish.' He has a much darker complexion than many of his neighbors in the Marches, growing darker in the sun rather than freckling. He bears a dark beard, but neatly kept, which has not begun to lighten with age, though the hair at his temples has begun to do so. His eyes are a smoky dark grey and he moves with the light agility of a practiced fighter; a man utterly sure of his own ability regardless of the situation. He prefers chain mail to plate, moving quickly with a spear and shield, lightly armored and quick on his feet; he is not often defeated in combat given his experience and skill.
Character's Reputation:
Well known as a man who is as hard as the mountains that he calls home, Lord Oberyn Yronwood is not to be fucked with. He is widely regarded as a strong tactician and commander and, though his skills have slightly begun to rust with age, he is a skilled and experienced fighter, preferring the spear but being proficient in several weapons. Oberyn Yronwood is an often spoken name in Dorne, generally due to his actions during what is called Faylynn's War by the Dornish. He held Yronwood with 1,500 men against five times his number, for nine months, preventing the enemy from entering Dorne proper until an army from Sunspear arrived and raised the siege.
Character's Special Ability:
The Immovable Object: While defending a castle under siege with an army, Lord Yronwood may add one quarter his siege score to his battle command.
Killed in battle by Lord Naran Rykker
Character's Skill Increases:
The Hunt for Ser Ilyn Lordsbane, Dec. 378
The Five Kingdoms Tournament, Dec. 378
Maneuvering for Battle, Feb. 379
The Battle of Three Mountains, Mar. 379