Brynden Fell

Ser Brynden Fell is a knight of House Fell, sword sword in servce of Alessander Wylde. He is also the secret lover of his liege's brother, Erryk, a man 15 years his junior.

He is married to Jeyne Fell, a commoner, and has four children by her.

Family
Ser Ormund Fell (b.372,d.430)

m. Perianne Fell née Kelington (b.372,d.424) m. Jeyne Fell (b.395)
 * Elisa Peasebury née Fell (b.390)
 * Carellen Gower née Fell (b.393)
 * Ser Brynden Fell (b.395)
 * Sarya Wylde née Fell (b.414)
 * Malora Wylde née Fell (b.416)
 * Lothar Fell (b.418)
 * Sebastion Fell (b.421)

Appearance
Tall, strong, even in his 40s, Bryn shows what his father had always wanted him to be - a manly, masculine image of a Stormlands warrior one might recognise anywhere. His face is long and sharp, his cheekbones high and his nose straight. He has sandy brown hair he keeps up to his shoulders, though it is more often than not simply pulled in a low ponytail to avoid getting in the way. He keeps a beard neat and tidy, and his eyes are a steel grey.

Domestic tyrant
Brynden was born to Ser Ormund Fell, a member of a side branch of House Fell, and his wife Perianne as their only son and third child. Before him, the couple had two daughters, Elisa and Carellen, and as soon as they were born, Ormund, who was the head of his family with a tight fist and had to make sure everyone was doing their Gods-assigned roles in life, left their care to Perianne, to train them in how to be proper wives once they came of age.

Bryn, however, was assigned to be a warrior, a knight, and from an early age, Ormund forced the boy in the yard, pushed him to practice with the other squires in Felwood, all under his watchful eye, so that the boy couldn't stray away from that. Bryn doesn't recall ever seeing his father show anything other than merciless discipline to each of his family, including his wife, who was reprimanded when she spoke out of turn or failed to leave when the men set to work.

Much of Bryn's life has been spent in Ormund's tight grasp on them all. When it even occured to him to disobey, he was punished without exception; his mother stood aside it all, not protesting at all, and instead sewing despite her child's pleading. His sisters didn't fare any better, though they learned soon where their place was, but for a moment, Ormund's attention wasn't on Bryn, but on Elisa or Carellen. There was no liberty in Ormund's portion of the Felwood, the few rooms he and his family shared, nor was there any other will but his. All this made Bryn resent his father deeply, even moreso when his sisters married and left Felwood, and Ormund's sole object of attention was on him again.

This included the sensitive period where one would usually start noticing members of the opposite sex, but Bryn didn't. Instead, he noticed boys, the squires in the yard, but his father's zealous beliefs, which he had to grin and bear for much of his life, made him much ashamed of such thoughts. To push them away, he spent his entire days in the yard, sword in hand, and for a while, nobody noticed.