Alton Orkwood

Born in 412, Alton Orkwood is the second son of Harlon Orkwood and the current Lord of Orkmont, having been so since so since the year 435 following the end of the civil war that engulfed the Iron Islands and resulted in the deaths of his father and older brother.

Appearance and Character
A little over six feet, broad shoulders, strong from years spent at sea, but tired from the same. His face bears the faintest lines of an old anger put half to rest years ago. Beneath the thin, faded mask of a decade's worth of reaver's scars, hunter's scars, there remains a lightness of youth.

Childhood
Born to Harlon Orkwood and Helya Tawney in early 412. His mother died in childbirth. How different would it have been if she'd lived? Alton's father was a fair man, and not incapable of love, but he raised Ironborn sons. Alton was taught how to fight, how to row, how to read the waves and the stars better even than he could read letters on a page.

As a young boy he would spend whole days at the shipyard, watching as longships were built from the keel up, the planks joined stern to stern, one overlapping the next, and from the second he was old enough, he worked in those shipyards himself, learning to use the tools that any Ironborn worth his salt could use.