Alysanne Blackwood

Alysanne Blackwood is the Lady of Raventree Hall, wife to Lord Dorian Blackwood. Born to Celia, and Tommard Blackwood in 371 A.C., and raised alongside her cousin Dorian at Raventree Hall. Alysanne is a driven woman, focusing most of her attentions on the control of both her holding, and her husband. There is little she would not do to keep both within her grasp.

Appearance and Character
Of average height, and slender build, the Lady of Raventree Hall was a beauty since her maiden years. Time has taken little from her looks, leaving her appearing younger than her thirty-six years. Alysanne is said to be the image of the late Melissa Blackwood, a beauty whose figure had been carved to be forever displayed in the Godswood of her home.

Lady Alysanne is ever dressed in blacks, and shadowy tones, her style as hauntingly beautiful as the looks gifted her by the Gods. Lengthy black hair hangs wavy from her head, her pale face emphasized by the framing of her locks. Her eyes are a striking icy grey, cold and unreadable.

Prone to swings in mood, the Lady of Raventree Hall runs her holding with little regard for those who live there, her family aside. While ever obedient, her servants often tread lightly when she is within earshot. Rumours of the lady’s wroth have filled the cavernous halls on more than one occasion.

Youth
Born in the Eighth Moon of 371 A.C., Alysanne was welcomed into the world in a bed of blood. Her mother, Celia Blackwood, did not live through the birth, dying before her only child had taken her first crying breath. Tommard Blackwood did not live much longer, running off into battle weeks after the death of his lady, his heart too sorrowful to keep him out of danger, his mind too clouded by grief to think of the daughter he left behind.

Alysanne was cared for by her uncle, and raised alongside her cousin Dorian. The two were only a year apart in age, and quite a convenient pairing.

She was an unpredictable girl from the start, her moods shifting more suddenly than any storm had ever hit Raventree Hall. Even as a child she often went from playfulness, to fury, her cousin Dorian being at her side to see much of her episodes. Despite her outbursts being frequently aimed at him, the two stayed close for the entirety of their youth.

Their age, and bond had them together more often than not, and Alysanne grew bookish at his side. There was little for her to do but join as she watched Dorian dive into his quests for knowledge. She craved the closeness it brought, and the stories they would share together. She found herself keeping up with him, sitting in on his lessons as heir, and doing what she could to be an intellectual match with the boy had she already grown to love.

Adolescence
When Dorian had informed her of his desire to leave for the Citadel, Alysanne was furious. In her mind it was but a way for him to leave her, and nothing he could say was able to change that thinking. It was his first betrayal, and one she would never forgive him for.

Her cousin gone, she was left alone with what little she had at Raventree Hall. Her anger with him did not fade quickly, and she refused to write him for an entire year. Alysanne kept to herself, held up in her room for most of her time, and losing herself in the library when her mood was light enough to make the journey. When her year of silence was at and end, she finally wrote the boy who had wronged her.

As Dorian began to send his replies, Alysanne learned how far she had fallen behind. Without the limits of the family library, and a year of vengeful depression, her cousin had been hard at his studies and had far surpassed what knowledge they could claim to share. The distance between them felt larger than ever, and the young Alysanne could do little but throw herself back into her own education.

Alysanne began to fill the void Dorian had left in House Blackwood. The young lady started to take on what schooling had been meant for her cousin, and learned what it meant to be heir to the Blackwood name. Though her position was unofficial at first, she was eventually named Castellan when the then Lord Blackwood fell ill. With his true heir off becoming a maester, and not but married women, and bastards to choose from, Alysanne took on the weight that should have been Dorian's.

Their relationship patched, though not as well as she wished, Alysanne continued writing him. The ravens flew steady between the Citadel, and Raventree Hall, and they did not stop until Dorian was finally back at her side. Even then, she knew there would always be ravens between them.

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