Visaera Blackwood

Visaera Blackwood is the youngest child of the late Lord Symond Frey and Lady Cassana Vance. She is the youngest sister of the late Jeyne Frey. Her uncle is the current Hand of the King, Perceon Vance. She acted as a Lady-in-Waiting to Berena Tully following the death of Berena's mother, Bethany Blackwood. She is married to Ambrose Blackwood, with whom she cofounded the Raven Company. She is the mother of Imogen and Benjen.

Appearance and Character
Due to her most formative years occurring in winter, Visaera was smaller than some of her Frey ancestors as a youth. Her hair is a curly, fiery red, and her eyes are brown as is recently common in the Frey line. Visaera's wardrobe is less opulent than her sister's, owing to their contrasting spirit and lifestyles. Childbearing has left its scar on Visaera's body, which has become curvaceous as she entered adulthood, and scarred thoroughly by her mercenary escapades. While she was born as fair as her sister, her skin is typically tanned.

Years of service to the ladies of Riverrun saw her become proficient at her duties as a girl, although Visaera has a mischievous heart. She cares little for the traditional role of women, and spent two hours practicing in the courtyard for every one spent at her lady's side. In her spare time, Visaera enjoyed sneaking and climbing around Riverrun, which saw her become quite stealthy. The loss Visaera has witnessed affects her more than she tries to let on.

The traumas of the past decade wear heavily on Visaera, though she tries to hide it. If not for her company, then her children.

Early Life
Visaera Frey was born in 393 AC, the youngest child of Lord Symond Frey and his wife, Lady Cassana Vance. Jeyne's youngest sister was placed in her mother's arms and, perhaps distracted by the chaos, none removed Jeyne from the room as her mother bled to death. Whatever anger Jeyne harbored towards the babe from that day forward, she would conceal it well. This marked Visaera's first brush with death, moments after her birth. Memories of a woman with tears down her cheeks and her lover's name on her lips would haunt Jeyne's dreams for many years, but Visaera retained no such memory. Visaera's uncle, Whalon, used Lord Symond's grief to his advantage; as his broken brother wept at night, Whalon made moves to cement his own reign. Whalon, though ruthless, was effective in recovering Frey lands from the famine. Thankfully, they barely had a reputation to keep intact. Uncle Whalon produced more than a sizable harvest- he sired a number of bastards. Symond was too buried in melancholy to reprimand his brother for his shameful actions, for a time. The baby Visaera was seldom handled by anyone save for her nursemaid. That is, until Jeyne grew older and fulfilled the motherly role in her younger siblings' lives. In 398 AC, five-year-old Visaera cries for a day when Jeyne leaves to serve Princess Visaera Targaryen following a botched plot by Uncle Whalon to marry himself to Jeyne.

Visaera witnessed the violence leading up to her father's death, noting a number of distant family and servants who vanished, including her nursemaid. Symond never invited his younger brother back to the Twins, but he was a touch too dead to stop him, and none of his children saw their uncle for what he was. Jeyne resumed her role as a motherly figure to her siblings, though her youngest sister Visaera was sent to serve Lady Bethany Blackwood in Riverrun during 400 AC.

Lady-in-Waiting
The companion of a mother she never knew, Bethany Blackwood, became Visaera's new surrogate mother. Though Visaera's quietly rebellious side began to make itself apparent around this time, it was never in the company of her Lady; she took Lady Bethany's disappointment as if it were coming from her real mother. From Lady Bethany, Visaera learned to trust, to survive courtly life, and to serve. In 401 AC, Visaera and the Tully entourage attended the wedding of her sister Jeyne to their Uncle Whalon. Hearing the news of Whalon's death on their wedding night was like honey to little Visaera's ears.

Lady Blackwood's suicide created an aura of death around Visaera that the girl never felt fully able to shake.

She took up service to Lady Bethany's daughter, Berena Tully, soon after.

While present during the events of Taming of the Lady, Visaera remained in the dark about the bastard Landon's true nature until told by Jeyne at Harrenhal in 407 AC.

Recent Events
Visaera departed Riverrun with Berena Tully in 407 AC to attend the Tourney at Harrenhal in 407 AC. She is reunited with her sisters, intending to return to the Twins following the celebration's end. After a failed betrothal to Eon Stark to secure Northern complacency, newly-betrothed Jeyne conspires to marry Visaera to Loreon Lannister. Jeyne is murdered by her betrothed, Prince Jacaerys Targaryen in 407 AC, leaving Visaera's remaining sister Elana Frey to become Lady of the Crossing.

Current Members

 * Elana Frey, Lady of the Crossing b. 392
 * m. Preston Vance
 * Petyr Vance (†)
 * Cassana Vance
 * Visaera Frey, b. 393
 * m. Ambrose Blackwood
 * Bowen Blackwood (†)
 * Imogen Blackwood
 * Benjen Blackwood

Past Members

 * "Black" Walder Frey b. 260 d. 325


 * Tywin Frey, Lord of the Crossing b. 287 d. 339
 * Walda Frey, Lady of the Crossing b. 290 d. 366
 * Walder Frey, Lord of the Crossing b. 300 d. 369
 * Emmon Frey, Lord of the Crossing b. 325 d. 390
 * Symond Frey, Lord of the Crossing b. 360 d. 400
 * Donnel Frey, Lord of the Crossing b. 390 d. 401
 * Jeyne Frey, Lady of the Crossing b. 388 AC d. 407