Alesander Florent

Ser Alesander Florent is the fraternal twin of Renata Redwyne and second born son of Ser Imry Florent with his wife, Loreza of Braavos. While his brother toiled in King’s Landing, and his sister enchanted a scion of House Redwyne, Alesander lived the life of a wanderer. His upbringing was an ambiguous and unconventional one by Westerosi standards, particularly given the standing of the fading House Florent as well as the interests of his Braavosi mother.

Having come to be known as the Black Fox, Alesander is an up and coming knight sometimes to be found in the service of House Hightower.

Appearance and Character
As a boy, Alesander was considered a gangly, long and lanky youth. His features were too sharp by half, and his bony frame was not what one would hope if a parent nursed ambitions of rearing a great knight to display to all the realm. To say he had been off-color, and awkward would have been the most succinct of understatements. Where his sister was exotic, he seemed malformed. Age, however, proved to be his greatest bounty as he grew into the body he had been given by birth. Adulthood finds the Black Fox as tall and lanky as ever, but where once there had been awkwardness, there was now grace. His chiseled features present a unique visage, with all the lines and edges giving him an almost statuesque demeanor.

Like so many of House Florent, the young man dons the dark red hair akin to the fox. His eyes are a dark, green that sometimes appear as if they might even be hazel. In his manner of dress, Alesander tends to darker colors in varied shades of black and of blue. Upon the matter of armor, he has always preferred chainmail and leather to plate, feeling that the traditional garb of Westerosi knights were too limiting for his preferred forms.

Though he has been knighted in the seven oils, Alesander cares little for the traditional codes and honors upheld by the knights of the realm. He maintains as pristine a façade as he is able, and despite his genteel manner, there are few whom have crossed his path that might describe Alesander as a kind man. He is ambitious, ruthless and willing to do whatever he must to see the fading fortunes of his family restored. His sister, Renata, is regarded by some as a great artist, and so too is he. Only of a decidedly more visceral cast.

Early Life
Alesander Florent was born mere seconds before his twin sister, Renata, in the Fourth Moon of 392 A.C.  Their birth was not an easy one, and all the complications that arose would see Loreza of Braavos, their mother, unable to again become thick with child. The twins, however, entered the world both hale and whole. They were smaller than their brother Auguste had been, but according to the maester who delivered them into the world they were as healthy as any could be.

They were energetic, and mischievous children. The two were often inseparable and displayed a certain cunning for children their age. Given the sigil of their fallen house, some within Oldtown had taken to calling them the Black Foxes. As a boy Alesander would often watch the knights that often flocked to Oldtown for tourney, and it was then that he hatched grand plans to join their number. His father was a mercantile man, and had never earned the title of Ser, and as he grew older this shamed the young Alesander, if only because it was yet another mark of how low the Florents had been given to dwell.

In 414 A.C., at the age of twelve, a certain knight caught Alesander’s eye. He was a young, virile man by the of House Costayne named Ser Pellinore. He was a cousin to the Lord of Three Towers, but at that point of his career in the tourney circuit he was rather more well-known. After sufficient begging, Imry Florent approached the knight and at first Ser Pellinore rejected the notion. Alesander had become surly with this rejection but was resolved to have his own way. Some moons later he approached Ser Pellinore himself in what seemed a chance encounter, and thereafter the knight agreed to take him on as his squire.

Family
Alester Florent d. 300 AC, m. Melara Crane
 * Alekyne Florent b. ~285-290 AC, m. Merrill Hightower
 * Rylene Florent b. ~315 AC
 * Axell Florent b. ~320 AC, m --
 * Gyles Florent b. ~340 AC, m Melissa Peake
 * Imry Florent b. 366 A.C., m. Loreza of Braavos
 * Auguste Florent, Keeper of the Queen's Purse 386 A.C.
 * Alesander Florent, the Black Fox 392 A.C.
 * Renata Redwyne née Florent, Lady of the Arbor b. 392 A.C., m. Ryam Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor
 * Florys Redwyne   413 A.C
 * Rossart Redwyne 416 A.C
 * Meryn Florent