Harys Plumm

Lord Harys Plumm is the Lord of Pitfall and an anointed knight, having ruled his keep for over forty years. Despite his age he is still hale, having spent much of his life as a knight in service, doing whatever the Westerlands requires. He has been married to his wife for nearly fifty years, and has six children, along with a number of grand-children and great-grandchildren.

Appearance and Character
Harys Plumm is a tall man, with dirty blonde hair turned almost completely grey and blue eyes that can still see clear across a battlefield, though at short distances they fade. He has an average build, once lean but grown slightly plump in his old age, as most men do. Still, he has enough strength in his tired old limbs to carry his blade into one last campaign.

His character is blunt and straightforward, a man for whom life is simple. A knight's duty above all else is to obey orders, no matter how objectionable they may be. He has seen far too many winters to be anything other than blunt and crude, especially when he considers something intolerable. However, he does love his wife Lyla despite her dottiness, as well as his six children and many grandchildren.

History
Harys Plumm was born in 372 AC, a time so far removed from the present that it exists only in books, and the minds of those who were still children at the time. There were still a few who remembered the days before the Conquest, still those who remembered the first days when dragons rained over the skies. Daryn Plumm and his wife Marissa were themselves in their late thirties, having tried for years to have a son. Harys would be their only child, born happy and healthy with the hair and eyes that most children of the West shared.

As their only child, his status as heir was assured, though with no spares his parents gave him a feather-light touch. From his youngest days however, Harys was not one for such things. He was a child who loved the sword, enjoying his hours in the training yard far more than time spent in studies.