Augusta Mallister

Lady Augusta Mallister (415 AC - Current) is the Lady of Seagard and head of House Mallister. She's the firstborn child of Lord Harren Mallister and Lady Eleanor Mallister, and the last surviving Mallister of the main family branch.

Appearance and Character
Lady Augusta has a fair skin and long dark brown hair. She has pink heart-shaped lips, a defined thin face with deep set eyes of a indigo and green color and strong eyebrows. She's rather tall, specially for her age and for a woman and her body has lean defined muscles. She has small blade scars scattered along her legs, arms and torso.

She is a stubborn, rebellious, and defiant person, although she is also brave, courageous, kind, adventurous, free-spirited, compassionate, and loyal to those she loves the most.

History
Augusta was born the firstborn child of Lord Mallister and Lady Mallister in 415 AC. When she was still a baby, a tragedy befell her house when a large fire, started by unknown reasons, took over the Booming Tower during a festivity happening there, which led to the death of several dozen people, including her uncle Lord Jonos Mallister and his children. This episode was later known as the Tragedy of the Booming Tower. This made her father, Harren Mallister the new Lord of Seagard. As a child, she was tutored by Maester Ambrose, learning how to read and write, the history of the Great Houses of Westeros and of the proud, ancient House Mallister, as well as the etiquette and habits of true fair lady. She, however, never bothered to actually learn much about etiquette, weaving or good manners, as she would often escape her lessons to venture into the woods or the docks, playing with the common children. She always had a fascination and a natural talent for fighting as well, learning positions and footwork from merely watching the knights fight at the yard of the castle. She had the equivalent of a knight's training by a master-at-arms, Ser Didymus.

Augusta was always a rebellious youth – she would brawl and duel in the courtyard, ride alone into the forest, finding new ways to raise her father’s ire. Augusta was apalled by the idea of becoming a lord's wife. She developed a sharp wit and is fond of humor, constantly making jokes and ironic remarks. She had no problem with holding her own against other boys, both in a verbal battle and in a physical fight. She would often duel young squires and knights, both to improve her skills and to prove herself (and take banter upon them). Lady Eleanor would time and time again try to find her a bretrothal for her, but she would manage to escape her pretenders and send them back away. With his daughter's preference for the martial instead of the marital, Lord Harren eventually started to get her familiarized with naval affairs, such as sailing, naval construction, navigation and naval warfare. He hoped to make her an admiral of the Mallister fleet one day.

When she turned 16 in 431 AC, she gained permission and started leading trade missions and escorts to several ports, such as Lannisport, Fair Isle, Ten Towers, the Arbor and Oldtown. Her respect amongst the seaman grew fast, as she would often partake in drinking and playing games with her crew, making good friends of them. She convinced her father to give her permission to take a small fleet of 3 ships to hunt down some Ironborn bandit raiders who were harassing the coastal villages of the Cape of Eagles during the Ironborn Civil War.

While she was away, a plague of unknown origin or name stroke Seagard, killing several dozens of townsfolk. Her two younger brothers contracted it as well and, due to the chaos of war, medicine was scarce. Maester Ambrose tried to treat the boys, but he knew not the cure to such disease. Several weeks of agony and failed treatment later, both boys died on the same day. Lady Eleanor, her mother, grieved profoundly, becoming deeply depressed and despaired. She would not eat nor sleep, eventually starting to panic that Augusta would never come home again, thinking that she had died at sea. She would end up jumping off a cliff at the Cape of Eagles. When Augusta did return home, laughing and cheering over the defeat of the Ironborn raiders, she found Seagard a dark place, stinking of burned corpses. When she was told by her father about the death of her mother and brothers, she was desolated by these news. She, once a merry and joker character, would become dark and quiet, not leaving her room except when forced to. Her father too became moody and quiet, getting out of touch with his daughter.

From henceforth, Augusta got a historical of violence and vindictive behavior. Most of these incidences were triggered by attacks either to herself, or to the few people she cares for. She proved to be uncooperative, disdainful of most authority figures, and frequently fought with others. After a particularly violent altercation with a man that attacked her, the court Maester felt she would be safer sent away to a septa, although her father dismissed the notion after several arguments. Another time she was beaten by a bully, a squire boy, but she refused to back down even though she was no match for him. After licking her wounds, Augusta returned with a metal rod and slugged the bully around the ear. Her father forbid her from fighting or sparring again.

During the Second Hammer Uprising, her father Lord Harren Mallister declared his support to the crown and led a force of his men to the call of banners of Lord Damion Tully, but after the Defiance of Fairmarket and the leave of Lord Mallister, several zealot uprisings in Mallister lands erupted, culminating into a rebellion led by a septon named "Denys the Pious" by the smallfolk. He'd lead his peasant mob into a pillage frenzy, expelling any lesser lords and landed knights they passed through, taking over their lands and gold. The peasant mob soon armed themselves enough to pose a threat to Seagard itself. Augusta, in the absence of her Lord father, took upon herself to organise the defense of the city at the Battle of Seagard. She led her men to a close victory, holding off the zealots with the castle walls at her back, at the end of the narrow passage that led to the gates, baiting them into the ramparts range where archers and crossbowmen could rain bolt and arrow upon their lightly armored troops, which rapidly retreated, being chased down on the beach. Soon after her heroic victory, Lord Harren Mallister was wounded at a battle upon the banks of the Trident, under Lord Damion Tully, which led Augusta to leave Seagard and take command of the troops of House Mallister at the battlefield, much to Lord Harren's protests. She would follow Lord Damion Tully to Oldstones, where she led the Mallister host and fought the last remnants of the Warsmiths.

Her father, upon her return, tried to ammend past bittery and get along with his daughter again, trying to teach her about leadership and duty in order to make her succeed him. He let her fight, hunt and lead ships as a bargain to make her study statecraft. Over the course of the years, they got very close as the last remaining of their immediate family. When her father died, in 438 AC, she fulfilled her promise to him and succeeded him as Lady of Seagard. She threw a grand funeral for him, with a large pyre boat.

Family

 * Lady Carolei the Salt Eagle b. 318 d. 387 (Natural)
 * m. Lord Consort Dickon Frey, b. 320 d. 385 (Natural)
 * Lord Cedrick Mallister, b. 339 d. 394 (Natural)
 * m. Lady Celia Frey b. 349 d. 404 (Natural)
 * Lord Jonos Mallister b. 371 d. 418 (Burned in a fire)
 * m. Lady Kyra Mallister neé Haigh b. 372 d. 399 (Died in childbirth)
 * Humfrey Mallister b. 390 d. 418 (Burned in a fire)
 * Myranda Mallister b. 392 d. 418 (Burned in a fire)
 * Lucas Mallister b. 396 d. 418 (Burned in a fire)
 * Jeyne Mallister b. 399 d. 401 (Disease)
 * Lord Harren Mallister b. 372 d. 438 (Natural)
 * m. Lady Eleanor Mallister neé ? b. 384 d. 432 (Threw herself off a cliff into the sea)
 * Lady Augusta Mallister b. 415
 * Jon Mallister b. 417 d. 432 (Disease)
 * Ambrose Mallister b. 418 d. 432 (Disease)
 * Donnel Mallister b. 373 d. 398 (War of the Three Thieves)
 * Robyn Mallister b. 379
 * Alys Mallister b. 382
 * Andros Mallister, b. 345 d. 366 (Half-blood incursion)
 * Michael Mallister, b. 351 d. 379 (Kingswood Tournament)

Distant Family Members

 * Ser Justin Mallister of the Queensguard b. 383

Household Members

 * Uncle Lysaro Rogare (brother of Eleanor Mallister)
 * Maester Ambrose
 * Septa Darla
 * Master-at-Arms Ser Didymus Bracken