Agnese Fowler

Lady Agnese Fowler was the first daughter of Lord Lewyn Fowler of Skyreach and Lady Myra Wylde. A pious young girl, she had more interest in listening to the Septon of Skyreach and reading about holy heroes than any raunchy love novels. After her brother's sudden death in the Scarlet Winter, Agnese was named heir. Her father was lost at sea not too long after- his ship attacked by pirates in the Stepstones.

Agnese took on the mantle of Lady of Skyreach and Warden of the Prince's Pass in the Eighth Moon of 405.

Appearance and Character
Agnese does not have the look of her Fowler cousins- instead having darker hair and eyes that she inherited from her Wylde mother. She has the pale skin of the Stone Dornish, and has maintained this despite frequently being under the harsh sun of the South. Agnese is also unusually tiny, even for a girl her age. She weighs far less than what would be considered healthy, and looks younger for it. Some have mistaken her brother Belicho to be older than her, even though he is two years her junior. Her emaciated form comes from ritual starving in the name of penance. She also has heavy eyebags and upon closer inspection her hands tremble slightly at all hours of the day.

Despite her youth, Agnese is incredibly zealous. She turned to faith during her early years as a way of balancing her perfectionism- the gods were immaculate and so she wished to emulate that. Agnese follows the Starry Sept rigourously, dressing only in plain clothes that would be more befitting for a matron or a peasant than a Lady of Skyreach. There are faded scars across her back from where she has self-flagellated to atone for her sins of excess. Temperance is her virtue. Agnese also has no time to suffer any sinners- the locals of Baelorian rites and the Red Faith know to hide any identifying marks when her guard passes through lest they be burned at the stake in the courtyard of Skyreach.

Agnese has an aversion to any sort of germs, dirt, or diseases. Her servants know to keep a basin of water at the ready for their lady at any given moment of the day for her to wash her hands and wrists lest she become anxious over a percieved fault. During meals she often wears fingerless gloves as a way to counteract this so that she doesn't have to wash her hands at every moment. Her nails are bitten down in what Agnese fears might be unattractive to those she likes- and Agnese likes few. She only has true affection for her younger siblings- Belicho and Cersei, and those that she deems to be of equal morals to her, which are far and few in between.

History
Agnese Fowler was born in the first moon of 390 to Lewyn Fowler and Myra Wylde. She was not her parents' first child- her brother Myles had been born three years prior to her and Myra Wylde had given birth to a bastard son six years prior to Myles. A spare in case Myles died was more than welcome, but their three-year-old son demanded the majority of her parent's attention. Agnese was placed in the care of septas who tended to the girl through her earliest years.

Her biggest influence was Septa Tyene, a Salty Dornishwoman who had spent her entire life in service to the Seven, and had been hired specifically to tutor Agnese. The small girl grew to view Septa Tyene as more of a mother figure than the woman who had birthed her. It was Septa Tyene who taught her the Starry Rites, but as she grew older Agnese took her mentor's teachings to an extreme. During these years her two younger siblings would be born.

A Hawk at Summerhall
At the age of twelve, Agnese was sent to live at Summerhall as a lady-in-waiting to Leona Tyrell. Agnese did not have to go far, but the change in her life was abrupt. Even though the Prince and Princess of Summerhall were pious she had never gone outside of the Fowler lands. It was her first time in her memory that she had gone without Septa Tyene. Her first nights in Summerhall were filled of tears and homesickness, and she would write home to her father nearly every night begging to go home. Whether Lewyn Fowler ever recieved these letters was never known to Agnese (her mother had been secretly intercepting all correspondence in order to get Agnese out of the coop as it were). Despite her initial misery, Agnese became used to living at Summerhall.

As she grew up in the ward of Prince Maekar and Princess Leona, her religious piety only grew. When her mentors weren't looking she would refuse to partake in meals, scourging herself for what she considered to be impure thoughts. She found it difficult to compound how people like Maekar and Leona who were so pious and caring still indulged in excess from time to time, as she had been taught that it was wrong and sinful to do such things. However, the more time she spent in Summerhall the more she began to think that the Prince of Summerhall could do no wrong.

However, all good things must come to an end. The Scarlet Winter had only just begun when Agnese was sent to Summerhall, and by the time she was fourteen it had reached it's full swing. Even though Skyreach was in Dorne, the chill of the mountains worked against the people who lived there. The ponds and wells around the town froze over.

Heir Apparent
Agnese recieved the tragic news one morning that her brother Myles had fallen into deep water with his horse on a hunt, and had frozen to death before anyone could fish him out. She was now the heir to Skyreach. Her father called her home from Summerhall despite her protests, so that she might recieve extra education in managing the keep. Her brother had been so healthy that no one had thought it necessary to give Agnese education in finances and stewardship.

Upon returning to Skyreach, Agnese immediately began to clash with her mother and her entourage. The opinionated young girl disagreed with any show of excess. Her zealotry was directed at all of the court of Skyreach, but it impacted her mother the most as the woman had been raised in the Baelorian fashion. The two strongest female presences clashed in the halls of Skyreach, with many a guest comparing the rivalry to the Greens and the Blacks.

It was during this time at the end of the Scarlet Winter that she would go out into the wilderness on the mountainside to pray, living only off of nature with only a handful of guards charged to protect their lady. If her father had not insisted, she would not have brought the guards at all.

It was during these two brief months as heir apparent that she encountered her first true heretic- a travelling Red Priest who had the audacity to critique her religion. Agnese ordered the man siezed, and upon returning to Skyreach had a pyre constructed without her father's knowledge. The girl was certain that her father would be pleased with this act of piety. However, as Lewyn Fowler stormed out onto his balcony to see a Red Priest burning, Agnese knew that she had made a mistake. The Lord Fowler took his daughter aside to explain to her that there was a large number of Dornish that practiced the Red Faith. Agnese was scandalized by this fact- she had grown up thinking that the populace at least shared in the beliefs that would bring them closer to their gods.

Upon seeing that Agnese didn't seem repentant, Lewyn became irate with his daughter, sending ministers to teach her of foreign faiths so that she might be better equipped as a ruler. Agnese refused their teachings, instead becoming more fastidious in her prayer and penance. By the time Lewyn made up his mind to travel to Volantis Agnese spoke only to her septon and septa and her two younger siblings. All others in the court were either dominated by her mother's teaching of gluttony and excess or agreed with her father that these foreign and heretical faiths had to be accepted.

Lady of Skyreach, Warden of the Prince's Pass
Lewyn Fowler set out on his voyage not a week before Agnese's sixteenth nameday as tensions only grew in court between mother and daughter. While Myra Wylde assumed the regency, Agnese had created her own small faction of loyal guards and pious men and women who would support the heir to Skyreach. The two clashed on matters of state as Myra wished to hold feasts every fortnight and spend funds on dresses, while Agnese advocated for giving more to charity and improving the living conditions for those who had proved themselves to be devout followers of the Starry Rites.

Fires burned in the kitchens and courtyards of Skyreach as peacocks and heretics were burned in the flames. Agnese would oversee the burning of Rhllor iconography and followers as often as she would exile those who followed the Baelorian rites from the land.

And then came the bad news- Lewyn Fowler's ship had been overtaken by pirates in the Stepstones looking for loot on his way home. His head had been brought back to Skyreach in a jar of brine, maimed by a sword's stab, a vicious mockery of the strong lord that Agnese had known her father to be. The messenger claimed that his body had been desecrated along with the rest of his men. Agnese mourned, to be sure, but she felt little sorrow for her father. Even as the falcons of Skyreach's roost picked away at what little remained of her father (as had been tradition since the days that the Fowlers were King of Stone and Sky) she could only recall how he had criticized her piety and made her a fool in front of the court.

Agnese immediately assumed the mantle of her father at the youthful age of sixteen, and the Prince's Pass became a no man's land for any person who might share different spiritual beliefs than the young lady.

Recent Events
Agnese Fowler notably did not attend the tourney of Harrenhal, claiming that it would be improper for her to partake in such an event.

Family

 * Arthur Fowler
 * (m.) Nysterica Fowler
 * Lewyn Fowler
 * (m.) Myra Wylde
 * Myles Fowler
 * Agnese Fowler
 * Belicho Fowler
 * Cersei Fowler

Household NPCs
Septa Ashara

Septa Tyene

Septon Lancel

Castellan Aron Manwoody

Steward Baldric Cabrol

Master-at-Arms Joffrey of Lemonwood