Lucifer Hightower

Lucifer Hightower is the Lord of the Hightower and Oldtown. His other titles and styles include the Lord of the Port, Voice of Oldtown, Defender of the Citadel, Beacon of the South, and Son of the Morning.

Appearance
A handsome man of powerful build in his early fifties, Lucifer Hightower looks little like the skinny young man of his youth. Known for his piercing blue eyes and their unsettlingly cold gaze, he is often accompanied about his business by his nephew and personal secretary, Dorian Hightower.

Early Youth
Born in the harvest moon of 356 AC, the eldest son of Dorian Hightower and his Dayne wife was a sickly child, born early, who few expected to survive the first night, let alone the first year.

However, the child survived, and spoke his first complete sentence at the tender age of eighteen months. Yet despite the best efforts of his nursemaids and maesters, he would not speak again until the age of six, despite being observed as being able to read from the age of two. For almost four years, the eldest son of Oldtown's heir remained mute. To some in the Hightower, this was remarked upon as a source of concern. But to the boy's father and grandfather, this was treated as merely a phase that would pass.

And pass it did.

When he did speak, it was to an Archmaester of the Citadel during a history lesson, for his grandsire, the Lord Morgan, had ordered the boy tutored nonetheless by the Citadel's brightest. To this day, no-one knows exactly what it was young Lucifer said, but it is know that Arch-maester Norbert called off the publishing of a script that had been whispered to be his life's work.

Young Lucifer Hightower proceeded to take the Citadel by storm, attending lectures by the foremost authorities on alchemy, history, the natural philosophies, and mathematics from an early age.