Valerion of Lys

Valerion was the bastard son of Halaena Zyran and an unknown Lyseni noble man from a prestigious house. Valerion was not legitimized as a way to punish her rebellious mother, who had run away from the family home at 15 with Valerion's father to live adventures across Essos. When Halaena was pregnant with Valerion, his father left them and never again wanted to know from them. Halaena also refuse to ever speak of him ever again ever since. Valerion thus grew without meeting his father or knowing anything about them, and that seemingly created a wound in his heart that was hard to heal. Valerion had an older bastard sister just one an a half year older than him, known as Dalysanne of Lys.

As his mother came back when she was still pregnant, Valerion was born in the fortress of Rockbone in the city of Lys. He was raised by her mother with the help of Tarsya and the help of her aunt, Miella. Since a very young age, Valerion was always bearing the mark of illegitimacy on him and thus was forced to develloppe a strong personality. He turn to religion to cope with the rejection and became a religious devotee. This made him clash with his uncle Maekar, and both avoided each other. He also hide his situation under a very talkative personality and he was always in parties and social events, and was describe as a very charismatic man. Very much a party animal, he was consider to be the soul of every single party and knew had to have fun, havinf some of the beast feasts.

Hiding behind this facade, he liked however to actually wage war and seemingly purr his own frustrations into raiding and plundering others offering frequenly his services as mercenary to earn some money of his own. He even managed to torture others and be good at it. In fact, he was given the job by the House Zyran as none in the household wanted to deal with.

He finally met lady Daenaera Velaryon, a lesser daughter of the Velaryons. She was of Valyrian blood and had no other to valyrian to meet and thus at the time, Valerion was seen as a match, still not good enough for the Velaryons but they finally accepted. Daenaera and Valerion however, instantly felt in love for each other as both were religious zealots of the old Valyrian religion, which brought them together. Daenaera however was known to be more chaste and to be extremely generous gifting food, clothes and others to the poorest of society. But just as her husband, she had a terrible taste for looting and was skilled in tactics of war, often serving her husband.

Valerion, finally took lad of his own in Essos and ended up founding his own house in the city of Myr, known as House Kirkwall.