Theon Stark

Theon Stark is the firstborn son and heir of his mother, Lady Alysanne Stark of the Dreadfort, and the thirdborn son of his detached father, the late Lord Jon of the North. Born many years after his three elder half-siblings, when they were long passed adults grown, Theon, while very much a Stark of Winterfell, was also a Stark of the Dreadfort. Such was a separation that for all the benefits of inheritance, only compounded upon their difference in age, as well as that of the other Starks of Winterfell. His unique place in Northern society saw him often moving between the two Castles, with him coming to name them both 'home'. It was this lack of a proper and constant home that saw him develop a personal inward identity as 'the Wolf of Two Coats'.

Appearance and Character
Theon has always been a lean individual, even as a child, and so, has never taken to fat or anything of the like. He has also from birth possssed the hallmarks of his mother, brown hair and grey eyes, unlike his late father's black hair and brown eyes. Resting atop his head is a mess of short brown hair, with a long and lean Stark visage resting beneath. Further so, while Theon is a lean youth, he has never suffered from an inability to put on muscle unlike others of the realm. While being no true image of gigantism, Theon does posses the figure that would be expected of one who so actively trains with sword, bow, axe, and mace.

While known as quite the archer to those within both Winterfell and the Dreadfort, he is more commonly known by a simple fact of his existence; his scar.

Yet, to those select parties within the Dreadfort, it is known that despite his martial prowess, the heir does have an inclination toward the methods and means of interrogation and torture. Such is an interest Theon has actively engaged in since his permanent return to the Dreadfort after his father's passing in 434 A.C.

While Theon does certainly have a set of more merciless tendencies, he is by no means an outwardly repugnant individual. Having been raised closely by his mother, he is well aware of how to present himself in public and within the upper eschelons of society, even if they are at times few and far between this far North.

For Theon, while there will always exist laws of the land, he does at time take an arbitrary approach to them, seeing what he refers to as 'the Lord's decision' taking paramount importance. While no incidents have been reported, there is indeed a select circle of individuals who know of what exactly does occur at times.

Further building on Theon's feelings of freedom is that of his unwed status. While he has always been aware that marriage is truthfully an impending part of his life, he has never let that stop him before. The heir to the Dreadfort has been known within the walls of Winterfell and the Dreadfort to have had a few bedwarmers so far.

419 - 424 A.C. The Pup of Two Coats
Theon Stark was born worlds apart from his elder half-siblings and most of his kin. Where Eon, Dacey, and Edderion were Starks of Winterfell, Theon was the heir to the Dreadfort, and seen as having no chance at Winterfell, or even proper place within its walls. Even as a babe, and a toddler, Theon's father proved distant at best, and a mere name and title at worst.

Theon's earliest years would be largely spent close to his over-bearing mother and younger siblings, with whom he shared two parents instead of one. For the pup of Winterfell, and the Dreadfort, these years were a peace he would never again know, for they were a peace of innocence, something that would soon be lost with the coming of the Blue Winter and its harsh judgement.

425 - 428 A.C. The Snows Come in Earnest
The North was prepared. It always was. Theon's father, for all the distance he had placed between them, had indeed readied the North for the time ahead. The winter was harsh, none could doubt that, and the realm did greatly suffer under its tidings, but the Starks of Winterfell, and the Starks of the Dreadfort, would do as they had always done. They gathered the harvest, filled their food stores to the limit, closed their doors to the cold, and simply, as they had done hundreds, if not thousands of times over, waited.

Yet, in 427 A.C., the Black Draft came a-knocking. Their benevolent and just Lord Paramount called for all the second sons of the North to be sent to the Wall and join the Night's Watch, not for any crime other than that of being secondborn. And so, Theon was forced to say goodbye to his younger brother and close playmate, Cregard Stark, a boy of only seven years.

Four years they waited. By the time winter ended, Theon was nine years grown, and had been left a newborn baby sister to replace his lost brother. Theon would never come to consider it an equal and fair trade. His father treated him with distance, but his mother, no, the line was important enough to draw his focus, but not his thirdborn son, not the heir of the Dreadfort.

Recent Events
438 A.C.
 * Theon travels with his mother, Lady Alysanne Stark, and his notably older niece and liege, Lady Berena Stark, to Fairmarket, to see his niece, Gilliane Stark wed to Lord Androw Tully.
 * Within the Dreadfort there have been whispers of a possible match for Theon himself.

The Lineage of both House Stark of Winterfell, and House Stark of the Dreadfort.

 * Jon Stark, b. 371 A.C. d. 434 A.C.
 * m. Sarra Mormont, b. 375 A.C. d. 404 A.C.
 * Eon Stark, b. 389 A.C. d. 419 A.C.
 * m. Alys Arryn, b. 390 A.C.
 * Berena Stark, b. 411 A.C.
 * m. Domeric Umber, b. 406 A.C.
 * Artos Stark, b. 430 A.C.
 * Alaric Stark, b. 430 A.C.
 * Eddara Stark, b. 436 A.C.
 * Ellard Stark, b. 414 A.C. d. 427 A.C.
 * Rodwell Stark, b. 416 A.C. d. 418 A.C.
 * Jocelyn Stark, b. 417 A.C.
 * m. Jareth Manderly, b. 402 A.C.
 * House Manderly
 * Dacey Stark, b. 391 A.C.
 * m. Damion Blackwood, b. 388 A.C. d. 426 A.C.
 * Lucas Blackwood, b. 411 A.C. d. 426 A.C.
 * Sybelle Blackwood, b. 414 A.C. d. 426 A.C.
 * m. Lord Glover, b. --- A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * House Glover
 * Edderion Stark, b. 403 A.C.
 * m. Arya Tallhart, b. 402 A.C. d. 421 A.C.
 * Arsa Stark, b. 418 A.C.
 * m. Lord Wull, b. --- A.C.
 * House Wull
 * Mariah Stark, b. 419 A.C.
 * m. Heir Dustin, b. --- A.C.
 * House Dustin
 * Gilliane Stark, b. 421 A.C.
 * m. Meera Hornwood, b. 405 A.C.
 * Lyra Stark, b. 423 A.C.
 * Jojen Stark, b. 425 A.C.
 * m. Alysanne Stark, b. 391 A.C.
 * Theon Stark, b. 419 A.C.
 * Cregard Stark, b. 420 A.C.
 * Sybelle Stark, b. 422 A.C.
 * Eddara Stark, b. 426 A.C. d. 426 A.C.
 * Torrhen Stark, b. 430 A.C. d. 436 A.C.
 * Serena Stark, b. 434 A.C.