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[center][color=BlanchedAlmond][h1]House Stane of Skagos[/h1][/color]
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[center][h2][color=BlanchedAlmond]Torwynd Crowsbane[/color][/h2]
[h3][color=BlanchedAlmond]Snow King of the Stoneborn, Last of the True First Men[/color][/h3]
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[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Age:[/b][/color] 46 (born 156 AC)
 
[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Appearance:[/b][/color]

[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Description & biography:[/b][/color]
[indent]Torwynd had been born to a young serving woman at Karhold; his father, a Karstark boy of barely 17. While The babe was not quite raised as one of the family, he was recognized as a bastard and became Torwynd Snow. Nearing his sixth nameday, he was made a page to the household and began his martial training. He showed promise, a quick study. Even as an awkward child, there also seemed a darkness that plagued the boy, The Karstark master-of-arms was certain that could be beaten out and routinely employed the rod.  

The darkness and anger would not be beaten out, only forged into a weapon. It started when the boy formed a small gang of castle urchins at just 9 years old. At first they committed just petty crimes. Eventually they escalated to poaching on the castle grounds. Though the Karstark family was aware that something was awry, Torwynd was skilled at deflecting and covering his tracks. Things ended a few years later when one of the boys was found beaten to death in a stable. Torwynd had become a squire by that time, and he gave gods-sworn testimony that it was another of his group that had beaten the boy - a dispute over a small bit of coin that ended in death. The other boy, son of a blacksmith, was put to the sword. Torwynd's gang however was splintered over what had occurred. As the bastard boy excelled in his studies and was given greater notice by the Lord, their lot would see no improvement. 

Torwynd, now outcast from the group he had formed yet also spurned by those of his station, lost the bit of control he had maintained over his true nature. He lashed out, his half-sister the target. The girl was just fourteen, her broken body was found in the godswood, the weirwood stained with her blood. 

A bastard. A kinslayer. The depravity of the crime and kinship had Lord Karstark send notice to Winterfell to pass judgement. Rather than risk any taint of additional kinslaying, Torwynd was sent to the Wall. Originally assigned to the Rangers, he was transferred within a few months to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. 

According to the Night's Watch, a ship was lost at sea; Torwynd Snow among those whose watch had ended. There had been many dead, but Torwynd was not one of them. Nor had the ship been lost. Not all of the crew had agreed to his plan, but enough had for the mutiny to be a success. They sailed on to Skagos. A few years later stories began to spread of the crows who lived amongst the cannibals. Whispers of a Skagos clan raiding and trading with the wildings of Hardhome began to spread. 

Torwynd took a wilding woman as a bed warmer. Fire-haired, she was supposed to be bring him luck. She grew heavy with child, and died in childbirth. The woman gave him a daughter and stillborn son. The Skagos said the daughter was blessed - having killed her brother in the womb as well as her mother. From the daughter's birth, Torwynd's reputation grew. Though he could be rash and violent, he could also mold men to his will. 

By 199 AC he had unified a majority of the three Skagossi houses beneath the Stane banner. Those who resisted, the splintered houses, were hunted. Torywnd sought revenge and he frenzied the Stoneborn to his cause. They would sail to the mainland, they would teach the Starks - all of them - what it meant to be men of the north.[/indent]
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[center][h2][color=BlanchedAlmond]YrsaCrowsbane[/color][/h2]
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[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Age:[/b][/color] 22 (born 190 AC)
 
[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Appearance:[/b][/color]
Strawberry hair, knotted and adorned with bone beads, she has a willowy strength. Prefers layers of tanned leathers and furs, wears a large horn - a unicorn talisman - around her neck. She carries an obsidian axe into battle. 

[color=BlanchedAlmond][b]Description & biography:[/b][/color]
[indent]Yrsa is said to have two souls, a rare thing and rarer still to be born as a woman. But the shamans on Skagos read the signs and saw her birth. There could be no doubt to what she was. From the time she came shrieking into the world, she was destined for greatness. 

Her status offered no respite from the harshness of the island or its inhabitants. The Stoneborn saw need to test her all the more, to prove her continued worth. Her father used her to his own ends, and though she knew it, she knew no other way of life. She did not rebel, she reveled in their way of life. Yrsa would earn her place over and over again. She joined her father in his war to unite the houses of Skagos, and has taken her place at his side in leading them across the Bay of Seals. The men worship her and fear her. But it is a tenuous thing, and the Skagossi are not a people dispositioned to unity.[/indent]
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