[center][h2]The Brave Companions & House Wyl[/h2] [img]https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/2/24/Brave_Companions.svg/300px-Brave_Companions.svg.png[/img] [/center] [hr][hr] [u][b]A Brief Description and Recent History:[/b][/u] Nycarro Qosaerys, famed sellsword and adventurer, veteran of a half dozen sieges, survivor of a half hundred field battles, and occasional pirate, now found himself to also be the most recently deposed captain-general of the Maiden's Men during the sack of Tolhorys. Tyrosh and Myr's most recent conflict in the Disputed Lands led to the siege of the Tyroshi-held town, and Captain-General Qosaerys's brothers in arms, sellswords of honor matched only by their courage, resolved themselves against dying in defense of the town by whatever means necessary. As such, they made to unceremoniously dispose of their fearless leader by murder and open the gates to the enemy in exchange for their lives. They were successful in the second part of that plan, but Qosaerys proved a wily victim of attempted murder, and evaded not only poison and dagger but the Myrish-employed sellswords who were, in short order, on the definitively wrong side of the town's walls (from the perspective of a local resident, anyway). Evading capture and/or death with admirable aplomb, Nycarro Qosaerys reached Pentos with the assistance of no companion save for a goat he affectionately named Racallio. There, he secured for himself a paper of engagement, signed by the Prince of Pentos himself, authorizing the recruitment of sellswords and -sails for a new mercenary company. This collection of brave companions, flying under a newly commissioned banner bearing the likeness of the aforementioned goat, would engage in honorable mercenary work across the Free Cities and the Narrow Sea, and mayhaps some revenge against that traitorous bitch Lysandra Dagareon, the usurping Captain-General of the Maiden's Men. And so Captain-General Nycarro Qosaerys came to seek new employment, and so he entered into certain Dornish entanglements. House Wyl is one of the noble houses of Dorne, but they are not known for their status as a major house in that region. Rather, they are best known for their bitter, long-standing enmity against the marcher lords of the Stormlands. The Lord of Wyl, an elderly and ornery man, is the inheritor of this vicious feud and has stewed for long years under the yoke of the Iron Throne. The last clashes between House Wyl and the Marcher Lords of the Stormlands saw the death of his eldest son and heir in the field, and he has long dreamed of revenge against them. As the realm trends toward a divide as to the future of the Iron Throne and the crown, he has reached out and, through guile and cunning, constructed a web of contacts and alliances in the pursuit of vengeance. To that end, Nycarro Qosaerys now sails east from Pentos in the company of one Arron Sand, a bastard of House Wyl. Arron Sand, having recently set out for Essos at the suggestion of his friends and family to win fame and influence in the Free Cities, finds himself riding the boisterous Captain-General's coattails and more, rapidly ascending to head a Dornish arm of the Brave Companions. The young Dornish warrior, no anointed knight but a skilled and deadly warrior all the same, may soon find himself a pawn in a greater game. [hr] [b][u]Key Members of the Brave Companions:[/u][/b] Nycarro Qosaerys, famed Braavosi sellsword and Captain-General of the Brave Companions. Racallio, Nycarro's goat. Black Drazenka, Lyseni bedslave turned pit fighter turned sellsail, currently Captain-Admiral of the Brave Companions. [url=https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/things-you-never-noticed-in-vikings-first-episode/intro-1593967754.jpg]Arron Sand[/url], a bastard of House Wyl and a newly recruited sellsword to the Brave Companions. Ryon Sand, called the White Hawk of Skyreach, a Dornish freerider. Ser Gerold Manwoody, a Dornish knight and freerider. Ser Ulrick Uller, a Dornish knight and freerider. [hider=Nycarro Qosaerys, Captain-General of the Brave Companions] [hr] [b]Nycarro Qosaerys[/b] [u][b]Age:[/b][/u] Six and Forty. [b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b] In his younger days, [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/5c/63/055c634862778c3f0b155dd6757d15ca.jpg]Qosaerys[/url] may have cut quite the image of the dashing bravo. The slender water dancer's blade, the Myrish stiletto, the waxed and dyed moustache and beard, the colorful garb, the feathered hat, and the sharp, cutting grin all make for the picture, but the man himself is twenty years too old and more than sufficiently battered by life's wanton hardships and meanness. His eyes are tired, his skin is weathered by long years in the sun, his hair is thinning, and his teeth are not as a white or entirely present as they used to be. [b][u]Description & biography:[/u][/b] Captain-General Nycarro Qosaerys was not always Captain-General of the Maiden's Men. Before that, he joined the Company of the Cat as a crossbowman, led men as a junior captain in the Free Company, took to the seas as a sellsail on a Lyseni galley, went back to land shortly thereafter as a captain with the Men of Valor, betrayed the Men of Valor to join the Maiden's Men, and fought for years all along the way with those and other employers and companies unmentioned. Ultimately, there is not a Free City Nycarro Qosaerys has not fought for, and only a handful he has not not betrayed in the course of his employment. [/hider] [hider=Arron Sand, Captain of the Brave Companions] [hr] [b]Arron Sand[/b] [u][b]Age:[/b][/u] Twenty [b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b] [url=https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/things-you-never-noticed-in-vikings-first-episode/intro-1593967754.jpg]Arron Sand[/url] is a tall man, standing an inch or two shy of six and a half feet in height, and with a lean frame that speaks to an uncanny agility. Pale green eyes, fair skin and sandy blonde hair mark him as a Stony Dornishman of strong Andal heritage. Arron rarely wears the colors of his mother's house, but he bears a ring the shape of a silver serpent on his finger, a black pearl held in its mouth. [b][u]Description & biography:[/u][/b] Arron Sand was born to Dorea Wyl, a cousin of the main house, and a son of House Yronwood, an anointed knight of that house. When he just a boy his father was killed in the Dornish Marches, fighting side by side with the heir to Wyl in one of the last border conflicts before Dorne was brought into the Seven Kingdoms. Arron spent much of his youth at Wyl, where he learned the use of spear and shield alongside Lord Wyl's sons from Lord Wyl's household guard and master-at-arms, where he dined at Lord Wyl's table and where he learned to kiss from Lord Wyl's two daughters. He relocated to the Port of Wyl when his mother married in earnest after long years grieving the death of Arron's father, and Arron found a role as a sworn sword to his relations there. Even then, though, he did not evade notice as one of Lord Wyl's best men-at-arms. He had a great talent for sword and spear, moreso than any of his cohort save Ryon Sand, who men had come to call the White Hawk after winning duel after duel. Arron was less ambitious, less interested in fame and notoriety than Ryon Sand, but at the urging of Qyle Wyl, his childhood friend and now a knight of his lord father's court, he took it upon himself to travel to the Free City of Pentos and sign on with a newly formed sellsword company, the Brave Companions. [/hider] [b][u]Key Members of House Wyl:[/u][/b] Lord Wyl, the aged lord of Wyl, a cunning and guileful man nursing a long-held grudge against the Stormlands' Marcher Lords. Ser Wyland Wyl, firstborn son of Lord Wyl, killed in a skirmish in the Dornish Marches near twenty years ago. Ser Lewyn Wyl, second son of Lord Wyl and heir to the house. Married to Carolei Dayne of House Dayne. Ser Qyle Wyl, third son of Lord Wyl and knight, pledged to the company of the Brave Companions. Dorea Wyl, a cousin to the main line of House Wyl and Arron's mother. [hr][hr] [center] [img]https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/1/1f/WylCoA.png/375px-WylCoA.png[/img][/center]