Damon Farman

Ser Damon Farman (formerly Stackspear) is the son of Lord Tion Stackspear and his wife Alysanne. He is the fourth youngest boy of the family out of five boys. Damon is incredibly talented at horseback riding, rivaling even a Knight of the Vale or Red Antler Knight.

Appearance and Character
Damon was always the largest of his brothers, even with an age disadvantage. Taller than most other men, Damon's figure is as imposing as any other, being well muscled from a lifetime of training with a spear and lance. His medium long blonde hair remains unruly and wavy although he never attempts to groom it outside of washes. Damon almost always wears muted colored, plain clothes, favoring comfort well over fashion unlike the rest of his family. In battle, Damon's already bulky frame is further enlarged when he dons his favored heavy plated armor, colored red and black as the typical westerner armor.

While he may not be much of a talker, Damon's voice is powerful and booming. Thanks to an upbringing of being nearly ignored, he learned the loudest talkers are the ones who get the most attention, it doesn't even matter what was said. He has a fierce temper that runs on an incredibly short fuse; Damon is a firm follower of act now-think later, especially if he feels he's being insulted.

Childhood
Damon's birth was dangerously rough for his mother, only the quick and expert actions of the house's maester saved the lady's life post-birth. Since his birth, his father has blamed him for almost killing Alysanne. Damon was treated as an outcast of the family, the unwanted black sheep. Originally it only began with Tion, his father doted heavily on all of his other children, even his daughters and younger son, while barely giving Damon the time of day. Eventually, the Lord's attitude towards Damon infected the rest of the family; soon enough even Alysanne began acting coldly towards the boy. His brothers would always gang up to pick on and abuse him, while his sisters would stop playing whatever game they may be playing to isolate themselves from him. His father would beat him whenever Damon spoke out of line, which to Tion was whenever the boy said anything without being spoken to first.

The young Damon began lashing out in response to his abusive treatment. It was near impossible to keep Damon inside for any kind of studies. The only solace the young lad could find was in the training grounds with the men-at-arms of his house. As soon as he was tall enough to reach a saddle, Damon spent every day skipping out from his schooling to steal a horse, finally feeling some kind of happiness with the wind rushing through his hair, slamming sticks into posts as if he were jousting. Any time he didn't spend running away on horseback, he'd be daydreaming that he was a famous knight, somebody his family would finally be open to accepting.

Adolescence
When Damon turned 9, he got a chance to take a step towards his dreams. His father yearned for any way to ship the young boy out of his castle, though it proved increasingly difficult: not even the Gods themselves could seem to wrangle Damon to keep to any kind of studies outside of warfare, so shipping off to the Citadel to become a maester would only embarrass the family name, and despite Tion's innate dislike of his son, he wasn't willing to send Damon to the Wall to take the Black.

The opportunity arose when Lord Endrew Farman of Fair Isle agreed to take Damon under his wing as a squire. At first, Damon was nervous as a child and scared of what the future held for him outside the walls of his home castle. His family had become particularly emotionally abusive once the pairing became official. His sisters would pretend to let up on their hatred enough to lure him into thinking they'd finally accepted him, sometimes going on with the lure for days at a time, before suddenly revealing their true intentions to pummel his spirits with insults and jeers until he'd snap and isolate himself once more. His brothers would bribe the house's servants to ruin all of what little belongings and clothes he'd had multiple times, their favorite was to make the servants empty chamber pots into his miniature room when he was away. Tion, of course, did nothing despite Damon's pleas and begs, and before long he'd completely secluded himself; he could be heard crying himself to a miserable sleep nearly every night.

The abuse and torture got to such a level, Damon had a nearly impossible time trusting anyone he'd meet; to the poor boy, all people were good for was to lie and torture. Even at age 9, Damon grew large enough from his physical childhood to ward off any more physical assaults from his father and brothers, so instead they resorted to relentless insults and countless threats should Damon embarrass the family name.

Damon departed from Stackspear Keep with merely the clothes on his back, rushing to his both hopeful and fearful future in Fair Isle.

His squiring with Lord Farman quickly became everything the young boy could ever dream of. Endrew was known already as a kind and fair man throughout the Westerlands so his treatment of Damon should have come with no surprise, yet to the young squire, he finally experienced what it felt like to be treated with respect, like an actual human being for the first time in his young miserable life. Damon's squiring quickly became the best thing to happen to the young man, for once Damon found his sleep with a smile and he woke every morning excited and eager to do any and everything his new Lord commanded.

Endrew's past as a traveling knight provided Damon intoxicating knowledge of knighthood that he yearned for his whole life. Damon spent every waking moment practicing his horseback riding and spear work with vigor that would make any jealous, while also finally putting an effort to become the studying bookworm that his family tried unsuccessfully to make him, though ultimately, he'd never come to be much of a literate man.

Within the first year of becoming Lord Farman's squire, he grew to love the man deeply as the father he wished he had.

Adulthood
With Damon's eighteenth name day, it became time for the squire to become knighted. Unfortunately, Damon hadn't been in contact with his family since the day he left for Fair Isle so he had no way to financially support his own knighthood. Once again, Endrew showed his kind heart, willing to dig in his own large pockets to support Damon finalizing his dreams of becoming a knight of the realm.

Now a fully anointed knight with brand new excellently forged armor and weapons, Damon traveled the Westerlands as an unlanded knight, refusing to return to his childhood home of Stackspear Keep. Damon finally had the chance to put everything he learned under Endrew's tutelage to the test in the real world. The young knight found himself enjoying life beyond any amount he'd ever think to dream of when he was growing up.

During the beginning of Damon's travels, he befriended an elder knight by the name of Bedevar Crakehall and found himself side by side with the Crakehall knight as companions as the two traveled together throughout the Westerlands. Bedevar was a constant source of wisdom and security to the young Damon, prone to emotional outbursts during the worst of times. More times than Damon would like to count, Bedevar's stern and stoic approach saved his hide.

The next two years felt like they lasted merely days for Damon, before the end of the second year he had traveled all along the Westerlands and even found himself in various parts of the Riverlands and the Reach.

Just after Damon's twentieth name day, the knight received horrible news: Lord Endrew's health had begun deteriorating at an even worse rate than before. Damon dropped everything, every adventure or plan, and rushed back to Faircastle with incredible haste.

Upon arriving at his former master's home, he was immediately recognized and greeted by Endrew during one of his increasingly rare moments of good health. Damon was almost immediately offered the position to be captain of Farman's household guard. Without even a second thought Damon accepted, permanently ending his travels and adventures to once again serve the man that gave him everything in life. There wasn't another man in the Seven Kingdoms that Damon would be willing to so eagerly pledge his life and sword to.

For the next three years Damon served the Farman family dutifully and to the best of his ability as the new captain of the house guard. In an unexpected turn of events Damon found himself spending what time he had outside of his work with one of Lord Endrew's daughters, Melara. The relationship between the two began blossoming quickly, and rumors spread across the castle just how serious their friendship really was.

In the Fifth moon of the year 439 AC, Damon became betrothed to Melara Farman and within the next week of betrothal the two became married under the light of the Seven. After taking the Farman name, Damon finally unshackled himself of his horrible past and was able to look towards a bright future with his beautiful wife and new loving family.

Unfortunately, the newly wedded couple had barely any time to enjoy their newfound freedom together, as the unease of royal events at King's Landing finally drew Damon away from his new happy home. Though miserable due to the prospect of leaving Melara behind, Damon answered Criston Lannister's call to arms and joined with the Champion of the West at his warcamp.

Damon, in a clear surprise, found himself the captain of two thousand heavily armed and armoured cavalry overlooking the parlay of regents just outside the capital's walls. At Criston's command, Damon led the cavalry charge against the parlay, now known as the infamous Crimson Parlay, and Baelor's raging dragon. Despite losing a large number of his own men, Damon successfully captured two regents and saved Criston himself before retreating back to the protection of their camp.

For his deeds, Criston dubbed Damon a hero of King's Landing and offered the young knight temporary leave to return home to Faircastle and Melara.

Meta
Skills: Polearm, Mounted Combat, Warcraft, Organization, Champion, Berserker

Family

 * Tion Stackspear
 * Alysanne Stackspear
 * Robert Stackspear
 * Tybolt Stackspear
 * Lyonel Stackspear
 * Alyn Stackspear
 * Damon Stackspear
 * m. Melara Farman
 * Joffrey Stackspear
 * Lucinda Stackspear