Garlan Tyrell

Ser Garlan Tyrell (born 409 AC) is the eldest son of Lord Gareth Tyrell and heir apparent to Highgarden. He served as a commander in his father's army during the Second Hammer Uprising and distinguished himself as a competent knight and tactician.

Appearance and Character
Garlan, having been groomed for lordship from a young age, has a stately bearing accentuated by an opulent wardrobe and manicured appearance. Possessing many of his mother's features, well-trimmed locks of dark brown hair and chestnut eyes give the man the staple Tyrell look that is common for members of the noble house. Like his father, Garlan has an athletic build built up over years of training and physical conditioning.

While both his parents were known for their modesty and traditional wardrobes, Garlan embraces the trending styles of the day with attire that displays the wealth and power of his house. This mentality is further displayed with the man's armor which is equally as decorated and intended as a status symbol.

Garlan possesses an even temperament and is publicly gregarious and outgoing. In private, the man is reserved and will often spend time with his children or digging through an ancient tome from Highgarden's library. Despite this, there is an intensity to the man seeded in a frustration and desire to succeed his father who he is forced to conduct the day to day administration of the realm in place of.

Early Life
Garlan was born in 409 AC to Lord Gareth Tyrell and Lady Leona Tyrell within the walls of Highgarden. From an early age, Garlan was tutored and groomed to one day succeed his father as Lord of Highgarden and Warden of the South.

A thin boy in his youth, Garlan struggled at first with the physical demands of training for knighthood, first as a page and later as a squire for his lord father. It was only with an intense training regimen and a desire to not disappoint his demanding and critical father that he was able to improve his strength and fitness. Like most of his brothers, he trained with two-handed swords in the hope that he would one day also inherit the ancestral Valyrian steel sword of House Gardener, Ivy, from his father.

As a young boy and during his early teenage years, Garlan trained alongside his brothers and his father's other squire, Jaime Rosby, with whom he had a friendly rivalry with that would later develop into a lasting friendship.

The Blue Winter
During the Blue Winter, Garlan felt for the first time the effects of famine and what a long winter could do to a realm. Growing up he had been tutored on past winters of legend and note but no amount of study had prepared him for the reality of what he experienced.

Despite diligent preparation by his lord father and the lords of the realm to outlast the winter, Garlan still witnessed entire villages wiped out either by starvation or extreme cold. Banditry became a pressing issue and during his seventeenth year, Garlan was tasked by his lord father to root out a particularly brutal band of brigands that had been raiding villages to the south of Highgarden.

With a small band of soldiers at his side, including his brother Alester Tyrell, he was able to use wit to flush out the bandits from the cave they were hiding in and, upon drawing them out into an open field, killing them all with volleys of arrows and a brief melee to finish off any survivors. The stolen provisions were returned to the villages and in recognition of the successful mission, Garlan was knighted by his father.

While many lords struggled to feed even their own households, Highgarden itself was well-stocked and could feed its inhabitants for several years. Despite this, and as a precaution, Highgarden rationed its meals and Garlan ate simply for three years until the land began to thaw and winter came to an end.

Family Matters
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The Second Hammer Uprising
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Four Year Winter
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Present Day
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Family
See: House Tyrell