Roose Ryswell

Roose Ryswell is the Lord of The Rills and the head of House Ryswell. He is a widower and has three children.

Appearance and Character
A man standing a couple of inches taller than six feet, Roose Ryswell is a man with long and loose, wavy black hair and a closely trimmed beard of the same color. He usually dresses in black. Rodrik has a leaner build, being neither fat or well muscled.

History
Born in the second moon of 401AC at The Rills, Roose Ryswell was treated by his father as an heir to a Lord should be, though the father was a hard man. From his earliest days his father instilled a loyalty to House Stark. Roose was tutored by the castle maester in a wide variety of subjects as befitted a great lord’s son but he had a great thirst for war and fighting from a young age. He loved and devoured writings on warfare and accounts of battles in northern history. He eventually graduated from studying about tactics and battles to actually having mock battles with carved wooden figures with his maester and his father. He showed to have a natural ability to command and lead men and to have a natural grasp of warfare.

But he did not just dedicate himself to learning warcraft and learning how to command men but spent much time in the training yard as well, training in a variety of weapons, but he particularly took to the sword.

His mother died of a fever when he was twelve and soon after his father sent him to foster at the Hornwood. He continued his studies and training there though and eventually befriended the heir to the Hornwood, Brandon, though he was a few years older than Roose. His years at the Hornwood were by and large good ones. But they soon turned sour.

When he was the age of seven and ten,