Sarya Greyjoy

Sarya Greyjoy is the thirdborn daughter and labour of the marriage of the late Lord Dagon Greyjoy and the late Lady Alannys Harlaw. Born in 417 AC, Sarya was raised much under the guidance of both parents, leading to rather an independence about her. At twenty and two, she remains unwed.

Appearance and Character
By the standards of Westerosi nobility, Sarya's height at 5'8' is nothing remarkable. From her father she inherited her deep blue eyes, and from her mother her dark brown hair, and from both she takes her figure, yet after so, aside from her naval and martial prowess, she has taken little else from them.

Usually found in leathers or armour, Sarya has not been spotted in a dress since she was a girl, having reputedly lit all her dresses on fire when she was six. Her parents didn't waste more coin on dresses for her after that, they would be Victaria's garb, not her's. Further so, Sarya is nigh always seen with a single earring hanging from her left ear, for which she paid the Iron Price during the Black Prophet's Rebellion.

Through years of enjoyment with engaging in combat, Sarya has gained quite the fit and toned physique, rather being noted for the muscle in her figure rather than the shape of her hips and breasts.

In personality, Sarya regards the laws and changes of her late parents as having been necessary in ensuring the survival of the Ironborn and their culture, but does not see such a heavily reformist future as the way forward. In that vein of thought, she quite disdains how obviously mainland the names of her older brother, Theon Harlaw's, children are, seeing them as an insult to Ironborn culture.

Yet to say Sarya rejects progress would be foolish, for if there one thing else she inherited from her parents it would be a marginal acceptance of some change. For while she agrees that progress must be maintained, most especially in forms of the iron mines on the Isles and other trade, she sees it foolish and brash as to reject old traditions and not to utilise them when a neighbour needs be taught a lesson or more.

But if there were one thing Sarya could change, it would be the Ironborn's attitude toward women. That is not to say she envies after her baby brother's throne, but more that she sees it as an unfairness that women are passed over and misplaced simply for their lack of a cock.

Even so, a lack of a cock has not stopped Sarya Greyjoy. By means of both her birth and her own character, Sarya has both forced and wiled her way into the Iron Fleet throughout her years, notably having gained the Captaincy of the warship, the Red Kraken.

A Girl Plays in the Shallows 417 - 425 AC
Setting her dresses aflame at age six was not the only act Sarya Greyjoy did which unsettled others. Much to the dismay of her elder sisters, Victaria, and Arwyn, Sarya seemed to have little interest in spending time with them, instead finding her entertainment elsewhere, most especially with any sort of trouble or oddity she could find.

Sarya was, as one might put it, an uncontrollably rambunctious child.

A Girl Dances with the Tides 426 - 431 AC
The Blue Winter thought it proved an immense tribulation for the rest of the realm, proved little for Sarya Greyjoy and the Iron Islands. For Sarya, the Blue Winter was marked by little more than an odd sniffle and runny nose, much unakin to many throughout the Kingdoms. The Greyjoys remained untouched by this harshest of winters, and so in time, after many a fire lit had burnt out, so too did the strength of this winter run its course.

It was after the Blue Winter that Sarya truly found herself exploring Pyke more fully, as well as the other Isles on occassion. Although such was not to say Sarya were a foreigner to the sea, for as Ironborn, and a Greyjoy, she had been aboard ships since she had been a young girl, and had hardly been the most restricted of children. In 430 AC it came to be that Sarya found her people. First being introduced to a lad three moons her senior, by the name of Dykk Pyke, at the port of Lordsport on Pyke, she and this Dykk Pyke became fast companions. He would be the first to form the motley band she would later name her 'Motley Crew of Bastards and Lost Ones'.

Some two moons later came Gelmarr of Saltcliffe, a boy of raven black hair, and a few too many teeth already missing. Sarya took to him in nigh an instant, 'a brawler', she'd thought to herself, 'perfect for my crew'. Soon after would come Otter the Old, nicknamed so for the streak of white hair atop his head, and finally, Todric, and his younger brother Torwold the Tall. It was with these five lads of similar age that Sarya began to spend her hours with, ignoring her older sisters and baby brother quite regularly in favour of her motley crew, and so as it seemed that when Sarya was not within the walls of Pyke, which was quite often, she was either aboard a ship or at Lordsport.

In late 431 AC, Sarya Greyjoy would have her first real experience with outsiders. A trading cog from Oldtown arrived in port at Lordsport, and from it's decks spilled five lads with gold and fire for hair, they bared not the names of Great Houses, nor the names of Minor Houses, they were simply merchants' sons and deck-hands, but they had a pomposity about them, and soon after the largest and thickest of them began to mock the Ironborn and speak as to how their men should be made to slaves and their women to whores, well, what came next, it did not happen there on the docks, but it did come.

Later that eve, axe in hand, at the tender age of four and ten, Sarya Greyjoy spilled her first blood. Dykk Pyke so ended the lives of another two of the lads from the Reach, while Gelmarr of Saltcliffe and Otter the Old took the fourth, and the brothers Todric and Torwold the Tall beat down the fifth. By right of conquest, Sarya claimed her first prize that day, a shiny golden ring that had been around one of the finger's of the lad whose skull was now made resting place for her axe.

A Girl Becomes a Kraken 432 - 434 AC
It was not until late in the year of 432 AC that all went amuck, but even so, it is a year Sarya Greyjoy will never forget, nor will the name 'Blacktyde' ever be washed from her mind, no matter how many winters come and go. Sarya had been present when it had happened, when the traitor Urron Blacktyde had been dragged forth and sentenced to Drowning, and when Urron's treacherous father, the Lord Aeron Blacktyde had acted fast and imbedded his steel in her Lord father's belly.

Her first response had been a scream of horror, but it did not last long, for soon enough she had found herself reaching for her own steel, but much to her dismay still to this day, her Uncle, and soon enough proven traitor, Loren Greyjoy, acted faster still, splitting the Blacktyde Lord's skull in two. Alas, unakin to the rest of her family, she spent not her father's final hours staring down at his bloody wound and alabaster skin, but instead at the corpse of the late Lord Aeron Blacktyde.

A girl Sarya Greyjoy was at the time, only of five and ten years, but it was this war, the Black Prophet's Rebellion that would forge her into a Kraken.

Yet to say Sarya was forged into such a beast in the mere days following her Lord father's murder, that would be a falsity. Much to her discontent and annoyance, Sarya Greyjoy was forced to sit out the first weeks of the war, first to sit and wait within the safety of Pyke by her younger brother's side. It was anything but fair to the young Greyjoy, but alas, with the black stench of murder still thick in the air, soon too would the death of her mother, the Lady Alannys Harlaw, come about at the hands of the would-be-Usurper.

When news of the death of Alannys Harlaw reached Pyke, Sarya had no more screams to give, no more tears to weep, for all those had gone to her father. Now she was without parents, and as she had been an unruly child, she was determined to prove herself a capable Kraken. The first night after hearing the news of her mother's passing, she slept soundly for the first time in weeks, and the next morning when she awoke with the dawn sun to greet her, she took the time to silently sharpen her tools, to prepare for the next stage, for it would be most bloody, and most formative indeed.

And so, while her eldest sister managed the few matters of state that were able to pass through the fog of war and chaos of a relatively self-imposed isolation and somewhat siege, and Aeron wiled away over maps and battle plans and the like, Sarya spent her days with the men, ensuring morale stayed high, and that all were ready should the time come. For despite her young age, she was a Kraken, and she had a responsibility to the war, a responsibility to her parents, even as they were now with the Drowned God.

That same year, in 433 AC, a dragon and the Prince Baelor Targaryen had come to Pyke to aid in the war against the self-proclaimed King of Salt and Rock, Loren Greyjoy, and just as her elder sister had argued against the use of the dragon in the war, so too did Sarya, for it was not Ironborn, and it was not their way. Yet ultimately, the complaints of her and her sister would stop them not, but somehow, even with the use of a dragon, the war still came to Lordsport and to the island of Pyke. This was a fight that Sarya would not sit out. Donning her armour and hefting up a mighty two-handed axe, the young Kraken marched down to the city with the Greyjoy men, and so it was there that they made their stand. It was a long day, and a bloody one, and by the Drowned God, there were a few times they almost had her, a few times she almost fell, but by some mercy, Sarya Greyjoy prevailed on that day, despite seeing so many she had known for years fall just to her flanks, her front, and all around.

Yet the battle for Lordsport would not be the final fight of the war. No, that honour would go to a more fitting ending, a battle between two fleets, an image of ships smashed asunder, of men screaming for aid as they too went asunder, and by the end, the picture of the so-called King of Salt and Rock bound and forced to his knees before his nephew and nieces. It was a good day, and the so-called 'Black Prophet's Rebellion', was ended.

A Kraken's Domain is All Seven 435 - 439 AC
Since the Black Prophet's Rebellion, Sarya's years have not fallen ill to the sickness of dull days. In those years since, she has undoubtedly come to quite hone the art of leading men upon the seas, having sailed so far south as the Summer Isles for a raid in celebration of her twentieth nameday in 437 AC, where she took quite the prize, bringing back a number of thralls to work the lands and bring prestige to her name. But since then, since that time, Westeros has moved back toward the knife's edge, coming to an uneasy position of which it not currently teeters, where war only seems all the more likely day by day, especially with word of musters from both the Westerlands and the Reach.

Family

 * Beron Greyjoy b. 354 AC d. 405 AC
 * m. Leona of Gulltown (salt wife)
 * Dagon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands b. 385 AC d. 432 AC
 * Gillian Pyke b. 404 AC
 * m. Alannys Harlaw, Lady of Harlaw b. 388 AC d. 433 AC
 * Victaria Greyjoy b. 412 AC
 * Arwyn Greyjoy b. 415 AC
 * Sarya Greyjoy b. 417 AC
 * Aeron Greyjoy b. 419 AC
 * Megga Greyjoy b. 387 AC
 * m. Rolfe Sunderly b. 386 AC
 * Beron Sunderly b. 407 AC
 * Ser Emmon Greyjoy b. 389 AC
 * m. Arianne Costayne b. 398 AC
 * Alannys Costayne b. 419 AC
 * Axel Costayne b. 421 AC
 * Loren Greyjoy b. 392 AC
 * Illegitimate Traitors

Stats and Skills
Attributes: Brave, Bellicose.