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[hider=A Lannister]
[b]Name:[/b] Felix Lannister
[b]Age:[/b] 31
[b]House/Affiliation:[/b] Himself

[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[b]Biography:[/b]
Felix’ career had been a struggle against the circumstances of his upbringing. Despite his noble birth, his parents had died young, leaving him virtually penniless. His father being a rather unpopular member of the Lannisport branch, a distant cousin such as Felix was of little interest to the mighty occupants of the Rock. Having exhausted his conventional contacts soon, Felix was left to fend for himself. Being a poor Lannister was an irony Felix was unable to appreciate. Throughout his youth, therefore, his means had been humiliatingly disproportionate to his pretentions.

Gradually, Felix had sunk into a world of seedy lodgings and even seedier companions – comedians, artists, prostitutes and drag queens – most of which he could not decide whether to hate or hold dear. This was a scandal to his peers, and so Felix was set adrift, leaving for the cosmopolitan and vibrantly gaudy Free Cities. He relished the [i]demi-monde[/i] even as he wished to escape from it. Still he has a taste for slumming.

Looking for a fortune, Felix enlisted with several free companies to little avail. For a while he travelled and served with the Bright Banners on the staff of their captain-general. Though he could – and did – fight, Felix decided he had not as much glee as when enjoying the spoils of war, rolling the dice or drinking wine. The life of a mercenary had sounded more appealing than it actually had been.

Hard-drinking and wisecracking, he combined the aptitudes of a barfly with the natural talents of a gigolo, being as physically striking as he was charming with piercing green eyes and hair so golden that it was almost shining red. Ultimately, indeed, it had been sex appeal that had redeemed him from the ranks of the déclassé, as one of Pentos’ wealthiest magisters had grown so obsessed with him that in her will she had left him everything she owned. Only at thirty, an age when most nobles had spent years climbing the slippery pole of advancement, had Felix at last found himself with the funds to support his lifestyle.

Sufficiently financially solvable, Felix invested in the trade routes of the Narrow Sea, securing for himself a more reliable – albeit dubious – source of income. Having the capital to create an insurance company hardly made him a good person. Baleful cynic that he was, Felix did not let his past experiences keep him from exacting terrible vengeance in demanding payments. He had strongarmed his way past the competition, and made a name for himself of a great moneylender. After all, what sort of a Lannister would he be if he would not be paid his debts?[/hider]