Qhorwyn Goodbrother

Qhorwyn Goodbrother is the firstborn son and eldest child of Lord Galon Goodbrother of Hammerhorn. Qhorwyn was born a triplet, along with brothers; Theon and Gormond. In recent years, as consequence of his Father's ailing status, Qhorwyn has all but ascended to the title he so covets.

Appearance and Character
Qhorwyn was never a monster of a man. His physical figure alone would never be a sight to scare men in the way that so many Ironborn come before him had. As a youth, he grew alongside other boys and never grew to tower above all the rest. Atop his head, rests a crown of short and messy brown hair, which is oft left unwashed, coarse, and smelling of the sea. Qhorwyn's eyes appear holes into the very depths of the Drowned God's watery halls itself, with some having likened them to the black of the midnight sky.

The Heir to Hammerhorn had always been one to staunchly favour the Old Ways, with reaping and raiding having ever proved two of the Heir's passions in life. Qhorwyn, in stark contrast to his Father, is a man whom unwaveringly practices the Iron Price and despises the more peaceful route the current Lord of Greyjoy has taken.

While his fellow Ironborn whom hold true to their culture and faith have no reason to name Qhorwyn a harsh and unforgiving man, both those whom have betrayed their ancestors and forsaken the watery halls of the Drowned God stand alongside Greenlanders in the Heir to Hammerhorn's eyes.

392 - 402 A.C. The Horn Sounds
392 A.C. was a hard and trying year for the main line of the House of Goodbrother. During the First Moon of the year, the Lady Harra Merlyn, Wife to Lord Galon Goodbrother found herself waking the Castle of Hammerhorn deep into the night's slumber with her cries of childpain. For her eldest, for Qhorwyn, she laboured a day and a half day, after which Theon would come a quarter day later, and finally, the birth of the two elder boys gave way to the birth of Gormond.

Triplets, a characteristic of the Goodbrothers as old as the Grey King himself, as old as their House words, "Answer the Call", as old as the Drowned God and his Watery Halls. While the Goodbrothers prided themselves upon their direct descent from the eldest loyal brother of the Grey King, loyalty was a trait inherent to all for eternal time to come. As the triplets aged, they found themselves accompanied in this world by a Sister some years later, for it had taken their Mother quite some years to recover from their birth.

In 397 A.C., Sansa was born. While she would possess no bonds of triplet or twin, her birth was one of great toll, taking the life of their Mother, Harra Merlyn in the process. As had happened with so many thousands of women before, Harra Merlyn was torn apart and left to bleed out as she held her baby girl in her arms, her fourth child, her second pregnany concluded.

Of the triplets, Qhorwyn and Theon had never been a greater representation of the Grey King and his Goodbrother. They were thick as thieves, close as two knives in the night, and as tight as a knot. Yet, Gormond never truly managed to find himself amongst their ranks. Where Qhorwyn and Theon played and practiced and parleyed with servants for more treats, Gormond watched on with a fire to his eye, a glare alight, and a negative disposition toward his Brothers. Yet, the divide between the two eldest Brothers and Gormond would not come to be truly illustrated and yield consequence of any significant note until 402 A.C., when Gormond placed the blame of their Mother's untimely death at Sansa's feet.

Qhorwyn and Theon missed their Mother, yes, as all children in their position would, but alas, it had never occurred to them to blame their Sister, she was such a darling compared to them after all, and they felt nothing but love for the girl five years their junior. Yet, midway through the first year of the Scarlet Winter, Gormond came to prove himself nothing more than the badbrother his Brothers had always thought him. A mockery of Sansa came alongside a comment that she should be their supper one night, so that they might extend the time before they needed make use of their winter rations. The Brothers two, Qhorwyn and Theon never meant to do what came next, they were just boys after all, and were not whollly aware of the strength they held when combined as one.

A few days later, they watched on as the Drowned Priest pushed their Brother's body out to sea, atop a wooden raft. Their Father had refused to believe what they had done, his Greenland indulgences had made him soft, had made him weak, and had broken the Ironborn spirit of Goodbrother. Yet while the Brothers cried and mourned the loss of their lesser third, they were finally able to stand content in the knowledge that their sweet Sister Sansa would never again be so threatened by one of her flesh and blood, by one of salt and steel.