Lyn Lyberr

Lord Lyn Lyberr is the current Lord of the Whiskers, and the eldest trueborn son of Lord Jon Lyberr.

Appearance and Character
Standing at six feet and three, with raven black hair and eerie green-gold eyes, Lyn doesn't look anything like the average Reachman, with a thick beard doing even more to distinguish him from his peers. His build is thin, but well-muscled, strong in spite of its litheness. He speaks with an unusually high-pitched voice for a man with his appearance, with a high lilt that does not suit his dour, stately attitude at all.

Unlike most other Reachmen, Lyn prefers less garish armor and armaments, usually wearing black garments when on official business, or nondescript banded armor with a black finish, and a notable flower motif on the bracers and chestpiece. The armor is very light, designed more as an emergency fallback than a first line of defense, fitting for a man who prefers to let his offense be his best defense.

Early life
Lyn was born to Jon and Elyn Lyberr only a short year after the conclusion of the Mummer's War, where his father had broke faith with Leo Tyrell and instead marched for Gareth. The first of the pair's children, almost all who saw Lyn at his birth were convinced the child would die- he was born ashen-pale, with hardly a heartbeat and already possessing a deathly fever.

Somehow, the child survived, the first of many incidences in which Lyn's sheer mettle was tested. Although he was ill intermittently through most of his childhood years, Lyn still went through every effort to be an active, studious young man. Even from an early age he showed a proclivity towards warfare, with a particular interest in the feats of valor and daring of the knights and heroes of old. Although many attempted to discourage the sickly boy from such strenuous interests, Lyn would not be discouraged, and took to learning the sword with the help of his father's knights by the time he was 8 years old. He showed a great proficiency with the broadsword, and by his late teens was holding his own in duels with even some of the more skilled among the Lyberr men-at-arms.

However, Lyn was not solely focused on fighting. Even at a young age Lyn showed a very strong sense of right and wrong, with one particularly memorable and oft-joked about incidence where, when his brothers and he were all young, he marched to his father's study and proceeded to indict himself for multiple instances of sneaking out of the keep to play with the smallfolk children, stealing toys from his brothers, and knocking over a cow. Although it was once more concerned with such childish things, as he grew he took a great interest in legal code and arbitration, with a particular interest in reading on the practices and policies of the various Masters of Laws in the past. In his twenties, Lyn even wrote a small treatise on the subject, though he never published it.

As he grew older, Lyn's straightforward and honest nature served him well. He was well thought of in court, and often served as a mediator in disputes between the other lower nobles. While not the romantic knight that his brother presented himself as, or the cunning schemer his younger brother would become, Lyn built a reputation for himself as an honest, steadfast, and loyal servant of the realm, a fair arbitrator, and a skilled swordsman.

Lordship
In the year of 427 A.C., when Lyn was 19 years of age, Jon Lyberr passed away, and Lyn was named Lord Lyberr. Though Lyn had always been groomed for such an eventuality, the news came suddenly and laid the entire family low. Lyn would take over the affairs of the House to the best of his ability, consulting his mother, the Maester, and other trusted officials on matters outside of his expertise- as his brothers grew older, he would even seek their counsel on some things. One of the many such issues was the matter of extending the bloodline- with Jon gone, and Lyn now at prime marriageable age, it was time for him to be wed.

Jeyne Fossaway of Cider Hall wasn't the Lyberr family's first choice. In fact, she hadn't even been considered a choice at all, considering the notable gap in status between the Red Apple Fossaways and the Lyberrs. Regardless, upon meeting at court during a summons at Highgarden, Jeyne and Lyn were immediately smitten with each other, and though a marriage seemed almost sacrosanct, after a short period of courtship, in which Lyn managed to win over the Fossaways with his sheer bullheaded dedication to wedding Jeyne, the two were wed in 429 A.C.

Lyn, for all his skill with the blade, had never taken the field until the Second Hammer Uprising, in the year 432 A.C. Leaving his wife in The Whiskers, Lyn and his men marched under the banner of House Tyrell during Lord Gareth's altogether successful campaign in the Northmarches, and fought on the front lines during the final battles against the Warsmiths.

Shortly after Lyn's departure for war, Lady Jeyne had come to be with child, but suffered through a tumultuous and troubled pregnancy that would claim both her life and that of the child, a baby girl. In perhaps one of the few black marks on his otherwise respectable reputation, Lyn refused to return home and see to her rites while Lord Garlan still had need of him, and thus, he was not present to oversee their rites. This was a cause of contention between him and the Fossaways, one that remains to this day.

Following the Rebellion, Lyn returned to The Whiskers and began setting about the affairs of state. Naming his brother as heir to the House, he seemed insistent on forsaking another marriage, instead beseeching Gareth to find his own wife and continue the family name. Lyn has spent his spare time instead focusing on the continuing chaos on the Seven Kingdoms, and awaiting a clear path of action forward and a just cause to fight for.

Recent Events
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Family

 * Lord Jon "Long Jon" Lyberr
 * Lady Elyn Lyberr
 * Lyn Lyberr
 * Gareth Lyberr
 * Robert Lyberr
 * Ryger Flowers (mother unknown)

Household Members
Gareth Lyberr: The second of the Lyberr boys, Gareth is a picture of chivalry and knightly valor, and shows a propensity for governance quite unlike his brother, though he wishes to be more like Lyn.

Robert Lyberr: The youngest of the Lyberr boys, Robert tends to stick to the shadows, learning the affairs of house and state in an attempt to advance House Lyberr's station, since his brother seems to show no such ambitions. Very few like Robert, but fewer deny his intellect.

Ser Robin Lywinn of the Fallen Timbers: Lyn's first and closest friend. The son of a now-landed hedge knight, Ser Robin now serves as Lyn's right hand man and bodyguard, ensuring his childhood friend's safety in the face of a turbulent world.

Ser Damon Lywinn of the Fallen Timbers: Lyn's tutor in the art of swordplay and a longtime servant of House Lyberr. A taciturn, prickly man, it's hard to believe that this man is Ser Robin's father at times.

Ser Ryger Flowers: The only illegitimate child of Jon Lyberr, Ser Ryger is even larger than Lyn, standing at six feet and ten. He serves alongside Robin as Lyn's bodyguard.

Maester Lewyn: The court Maester at the Lyberr keep. He earned his chain shortly before Lyn's grandfather passed, and has served House Lyberr faithfully ever since. He was Lyn's tutor in scholarly matters, and fostered the young man's interest in the law.