Alysanne Stark

Lady Alysanne Stark is the disputed lady of the Dreadfort. She is Lord Torrhen Stark and Lady Dawn Reed’s eldest daughter and their next eldest child after Lord Cregard Stark.

Appearance and Character
Alysanne has brown hair, thick eyebrows, grey-blue eyes, and a slender physique. She wears gowns from both the Dreadfort and Greywater Watch, and maintains to the best of her ability a proper lady’s appearance.

When conversing with others, she is exceedingly polite, having been raised by her father to one day facilitate the ambitions of a future husband. Following the deaths of her kin and the usurpation of her titles, she now employs these skills in pursuit of her own desires.

Infancy
Lord Torrhen Stark and Lady Dawn Reed brought Alysanne into the world in 391 AC. From her first breath, she was calm and well-tempered. She slept peacefully, rarely burst into a fit, and giggled more than she had cried. As a newborn, she was the delight of the otherwise maliced Starks of the Dreadfort, who seemed always to suffer.

Childhood
With two elder brothers and a younger sister on her heels, Alysanne was groomed by her parents for marriage and diplomacy. Unlike her next eldest sibling, Cregard, she complied with her predetermined fate, committing fully to the educational regimen her father had prescribed her. She stayed out of trouble, remained honest with her parents, and often aided her eldest brother, Eddard, when trying to mediate between Cregard and Torrhen. The unsung hero of her family even as a child, she rarely took credit for keeping the peace, settling instead for the personal satisfaction produced by her efforts.

Adolescence
Alysanne’s penchant for honesty fostered in her a vigilance against deception and a desire to discover the truth. She often snoopted on the handmaidens and ladies-in-waiting at the Dreadfort, if only to uncover their true and honest opinions about her. For her inner circle of friends, she chose only the most blunt or transparent of girls, and was decisive in ousting those who crossed her.

Though she always presented herself as a contented individual, the majority of her adolescence was marked by repeated tragedy. She lost Eddard to frostbite in 405 AC, Torrhen to scurvy in 407 AC, Cregard to Lord Mormont’s blade in the same year, and all of her rightful titles to Benjen, her undeserving cousin, in 408 AC. Forced out of her own home, she escpaed with her mother, Dawn, and her sister, Arra, to Greywater Watch, where she would remain in hiding for over a decade.

Adulthood
Though Lord Jon Stark had granted Alysanne’s titles to Benjen following Eyron’s execution, the disputed Lady of the Dreadfort refused to relinquish her rightful claims. She was, however, unable to pursue them at first. For years, her uncle, Lord Errold Reed, barred her from leaving the security of Greywater Watch, citing dangers from the Dreadfort and the surrounding bogs - it had been thanks to her mother’s knowledge of the landscape that Alysanne was able to find the mythical castle in the first place. The majority of a decade for her was thus spent in tutelage. From survival off the land to starless navigation, she adopted some of the Crannogmen’s ways while also staying loyal to her more proper, Northern upbringing.

In her physical absence, she regularly wrote letters to the lords of the North, reminding them of her claim, though she rarely received a reply that was not a threat of reprisal. She knew her words persuaded no one when they written down on parchment, and she yearned every day to use them in person.

Of the thirteen witnesses to Cregard’s will that had followed her to Greywater Watch, only five remained after a decade. Dawn, Arra, Harrion Whitehill, and three former Dreadfort retainers. On the first day of the sixth moon, they set out with Alysanne to reclaim what ought to be hers.

6th Moon

 * With her kin and close companions in tow, Alysanne sets out from Greywater Watch to reclaim her disputed titles.

Family

 * Dorren Stark †
 * Lord Eyron Stark (367 - 407)
 * m. Evelyne Mormont
 * Lord Benjen Stark (b. 393)
 * Lord Torrhen Stark (369 - 407)
 * m. Lady Dawn Reed (b. 370)
 * Eddard Stark (386 - 405)
 * m. Leona Ryswell
 * Lyanna Stark (b. 405)
 * Lord Cregard Stark (388 - 407)
 * Rickon Stark (b. 392)
 * Lady Alysanne Stark (b. 391)
 * Arra Stark (b. 396)


 * Edwyn Stark
 * Osric Stark
 * m. Falyse Brax
 * Brandon Snow

Household

 * Dawn Reed, mother and stalwart ally
 * Arra Stark, sister and crannogwoman to the bone
 * Harrion Whitehill, a former dreadwolf and once Cregard’s closest companion
 * Ondrew, a former Dreadfort sentinel and serial sloth
 * Cayn, a former Dreadfort guardsman and restless inquisitor of the mundane