[center][color=688E23][h1]House Drahar of Myr[/h1][/color][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ws8Tcxr.jpg[/img][/center] House Drahar is an ancient family from the Free City of Myr, their blood distilled from the adventuring conquerors of the Valyrian Freehold and the Rhoynars both. While in time they too would make sizeable fortunes as merchants -- as any proper Myrish family of note should -- they prospered, firstly, as pirate hunters of great skill and renown. During Aegon I’s reign there was Vaeqaro Drahar, ‘Dancing Flame of the Sea’, and in more recent times, Craghas Drahar, ’Crabfeeder’, whose staking of over a hundred pirates upon the Stepstones’ beaches was a feat as worthy of the family name as any other. Currently, the House Drahar sails through dire straits. The defeat and death of Prince-Admiral Craghas Crabfeeder by Daemon Targaryen’s blade has vastly lowered the Drahar name in the estimation of the Triarchy’s Magisters, and a name is no small matter. House Drahar’s good fortune relies not only on a favorable outcome in the conflicts against Daemon Targaryen but, indeed, that the victory is leveraged in no small part by their deeds. Craghas Drahar was first among them, but fresher blood must prove the stronger if House Drahar is to thrive or, rather, survive. [h3][color=688E23]House Members:[/color][/h3] [list] [*]Magister Dareon Drahar (57), patriarch of House Drahar and a Magister of the Triarchy. Last in esteem amongst the conclave, often mocked. Married to Taena Ostel. [list][*]Taena Ostel (49), first -- and only -- wife of Dareon Drahar. A pleasure-dancer who became something more than a bedwarming companion with honeyed words, clever tongue and a shrewd mind. Her body has grown bloated and plodding, but her tongue remains nimble, and her mind possessed of a muscular prowess. [list][*]Craghas Drahar (29, Deceased). Crabfeeder. Eldest son. Former Prince-Admiral. Commanded the armies of the Triarchy. Brutally defeated and humiliated many times in battle by the likes of Daemon Targaryen and Corlys Velaryon before meeting his end at the hands of the former. Feeding the crabs. [*]Aeraro Drahar (28). Failure. Eldest (living) son and heir. Captains the war galley ‘Moonglow Maiden’ -- formerly named ‘Crab, Upturned’ and ‘Ship’ -- with questionable efficacy. Bachelor. [*]Nila Drahar (25). Artisan. Eldest daughter. Found a certain fame carving immaculate figures of the seven. Moved onto more abstract creations with middling success. Married to her craft, and not much else. [*]Lererah Drahar (24). Hedonist. Daughter. An outspoken drunk (and outspoken sober) and glutton gifted in her ability to commune with merchants. Does her best to sell Nila’s more… unpalatable creations. Married to Jaqono Bahin, eldest son of Magister Baresso Bahin, and Prince-Admiral of Myr. [*]Adarano Drahar (18). Clever. Youngest son, and favorite of Taena. Aspiring sellsword of some promise, constantly manipulated by Dareon and Taena into comfortable houseguard duties. Finessed his way onto the crew of the Moonglow Maiden, unbeknownst to father and mother, in a questionable demonstration of his cleverness. Bachelor.[/list][/list] [list][*]Joresso (34). Formerly an Unsullied of some ill-wrought name before given a new one. Has grown quite fat in his capacity as captain of the house guard. May still be the finest spearman in Myr.[/list][/list] [h3][color=688E23]Crew of the Moonglow Maiden:[/color][/h3] [list][*]Doniphos the Quarrel, first of the three foremost warriors aboard the Moonglow Maiden. Has grown complacent in his martial prowess, preferring instead to tinker with his Myrish crossbow. Lunatic. [*]Waera Reyaan, second of three. Braavosi, exiled. Lover of courtesans, water-dancer, and prolific duelist in the nighttime. Sadist. [*]Varan, third of three. First mate. Wields an arakh and boasts of the braids held at his satchel, which he claims belongs to a group of khals easily defeated. Liar. [*]Horos. Hapless deckhand. Mistreated.[/list] [h3][color=688E23]Character Sheets:[/color][/h3] [hider=Prince Aeraro Drahar] [h3][color=688E23]Age:[/color][/h3] 28, born 83 AC. [h3][color=688E23]Appearance:[/color][/h3] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/otLWRNe.jpg?1[/img][/center] [h3][color=688E23]Biography:[/color][/h3] Aeraro was born in the shadow of his brother, and for this Aeraro has always been thankful. Craghas had grown, from an early age, to be strong and possessed of a certain brutal cunning, rendering him a suitable candidate to carry out the pirate hunting legacy of the Drahar’s. Aeraro, on the other hand, was passing skilled at the glib jab of the tongue, and at the very least Dareon believed this was indicative of a merchant’s cleverness. Craghas and Aeraro were thus two children intertwined, each entrusted to be exemplars of the twin pillars that held the family aloft in Myrish society. Craghas was deployed as a young man to exact justice upon fledgeling pirates, and Aeraro was given a sizable amount of coin and wares to fund a mercantile excursion throughout the Free Cities. Where Craghas proved to hold promise in both his zeal and capability, Aeraro demonstrated a slothfulness in approach, an active tendency towards wastefulness, and a tongue fit only for stirring wroth and creating enemies. He made it through Tyrosh, Lys, and Pentos before the loss and debt he incurred rendered the excursion unsustainable. As the oft told story of Dareon’s sons go, Craghas became a noted warrior and leader early into his days, while Aeraro had journeyed three cities to come away merely with an appreciation for fine rugs. Quickly, the second son of Dareon Drahar became the subject of unstifled laughter and ridicule. Aeraro’s lack of mercantile talent, a stubborn unwillingness to enter into marriage, and his sister Nila’s rise as a renowned artisan left the second son as something decidedly unnecessary -- a burden, perhaps, given his reputation. As such, Dareon gifted him with as grand a vessel the magister could spare the unfavoured son, with the hope that he would sail away from the Free Cities and bring his folly elsewhere. Instead, he brought it to the war for the Stepstones, serving beneath his brother the Prince-Admiral. The second son was perhaps more passingly… passable a captain than any of the Myrmen could have expected, and his loyal brother proved himself keen to provide Aeraro opportunities to prove as much. Though he was capable of both foolhardy impulsiveness and cowardly inaction, the performance of his crew was largely buoyed by three talented sellswords Dareon had saw fit to hire for his sake. Indeed, the crew of the war galley named ‘Ship’ was a prominent fixture in what small victories the Triarchy wrought. In the end, however, it was Aeraro’s inaction and inability to cover his brother’s flank that led to Daemon Targaryen engaging the Crabfeeder on the day of his death. Aeraro accepts the role he played in the death of his brother, and while he is resentful of a family that has long-scorned him, also acknowledges his duty to ensure his house rises once more. To that end, his ship once again sets sail into battle. All the same, he is still a slothful coward with an acrid tongue, and it seems unlikely that the newly-named ‘Moonglow Maiden’ will force Daemon Targaryen from the Stepstones. But if it could… if he could be the one to… All would be forgotten, all would be forgiven.[/hider]