Alon Sweetflowers

Alon Sweetflowers is a retainer in the service of Leyton Hightower, Lord of House Hightower. An acknowledged bastard, the result of an affair between a married scion of House Beesbury and a beekeeper employed at the house's keep, Honeyholt, Alon was promptly acknowledged and then forgotten by his father, the Beesbury noble having used his connections to find Alon, then fifteen years old, a position within House Hightower's household so as to keep the product of his extramarital affair out of sight of his wife back home in Honeyholt. Alon serves as both executioner and muscle for the Beacon of the South.

Appearance and Character
Standing at 6'8'', it's clear that the Bastard of Beesbury missed no meals growing up: his broad shoulders matched by a bloated frame, a thick layer of fat on top of a muscular core. His sand-brown hair sits close-cropped next to his face, never growing more than a few inches from his scalp before being cut. Despite his imposing appearance, Alon is rather jovial: he took the surname "Sweetflowers" largely as a joke, a combination of his father's pet name for his mother, "Sweetie", and the "Flowers" surname that many bastards in the Reach possess, claiming that "only the sweetest flower could have made his noble father forget his holy vows." Though far from a maester, Alon has made an attempt to self-educate, and can often be found in various libraries or book shops that dot the famed city of Oldtown. The bastard takes neither joy nor finds remorse in his line of work, instead possessing a reserved pride for a job well done, even if the job is one as brutish as killing.

History
Entering the service of House Hightower at the age of 15 at the request of his nobleman father, Alon initially served as a cupbearer, though not for long. Even at his young age, Alon's natural-born gifts were evident, with him towering over most in the training yard, and was put to training by his new employers to become the future head of the household guard (though eventually this position was filled by another.) It was there where he trained in swordplay and, with the aid of Hightower's master-at-arms, began to learn how to use his gods-given gifts in earnest.

From the age of 17 and onward, Alon served as an enforcer: leading small contingents of Hightower men to enforce the Beacon of the South's will across his holdings, both in scrupulous and unscrupulous ways. To have the Bastard of Beesbury at your doorstep demanding your debts to the Hightowers be paid is a situation many lords would like to avoid: Alon's natural strength along with nearly a decade's experience of being Hightower's attack dog has made him into quite the undesirable foe.

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Family

 * Lyra, mother. Formerly a beekeeper in the service of House Beesbury of Honeyholt.
 * Unnamed scion of House Beesbury, father. (sorry again for leaving this vague, but I don't want to establish a branch of the Beesbury family tree only to have it clash with any plans a future player might have for the house.)
 * Potentially half-siblings, though Alon has never met any of them.

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