Vorian Gargalen

Vorian Gargalen is the current Lord of Salt Shore.

Appearance and Character
Vorian is a lithe man with eyes of the ocean depths and combed but not overly styled shoulder length brown hair. He typically dresses in light cloth breeches and vest while in Dorne. Despite his intelligence he tends to want to entertain others with stories of fact or fiction of far away lands of fancy.

Early Childhood
Born in 417AC to Tynara Sands who was a bastard from Lemonwood and his father's paramour and Vaithin Gargalen who was until 437AC the Lord of Salt shore. He spent the majority of his childhood up till twelve fostering at the water gardens. He was recalled to begin tutoring under his father and his maester. It was quickly found that he was a very smart boy with a flair for numbers and economy. With help of he maester he was given access to any books that caught his attention.

Teenage Years
Vorian's voracious devouring of books never seemed to end as he grew until while riding with his father his horse was spooked by a snake and it threw him on the ground face to face with the snake. His father and their guards hurried to Vorian's aid but he was between them and the serpent. Then during the War of Stone and Sky while his father was away Vorian was given temporary control of Salt Shore with a retainer acting as castellen as regent. To the shock and amusement of the regent the young Vorian took his post seriously, being there for every meeting convincing the council to import poultry as a way to supplement their diet while most of the fishermen were at war and overland supply lines were cut off, for little extra cost to them. While Vorian was out inspecting the farms he found himself and a snake staring at each for several heartbeats until Vorian started to humm the song a snake charmer played on his flute in the Water Garden. Mimicking the entertainer he was able to catch the snake. Beginning a hobby of the otherwise smart boy collecting the poisonous beasts of Dorne.

Adulthood
On his 20th name day his father presented him a choice he could let his father chose a bride for him for alliance purposes or he could complete a challenge to choose his own bride when ready. The challenge was to convince enough people to buy the two of them drinks while they visited the other cities of Dorne while being anonymous and that Vorian would have the same amount of coin in his purse. To win the challenge Vorian presented himself as a bard by the name of Salt and his aging father, asking for a simple meal and drink for the two of them as he would entertain for the night with song and stories. Donations from some of the drunkards kept their wallets full and Salt the bard's taverns full. Sadly it also brought negative attention, traveling incognito meant none of the normal guards and the two were assaulted by bandits. His father fought valiantly but was mortally wounded saving Vorian who wasn't as skilled with sword or spear. His father was able to make it back home to Salt Shore but died near the end of that year leaving Vorian the new lord of Salt Shore.