Lysarus Rogare

Lysarus Rogare was the Head of the Rogare Bank, and the First Magister of Lys from 422 AC to 435 AC. A famous soldier and adventurer in his youth, he was put in charge of his family's finances by her cousin, Nohia, and seized power over the Free City of Lys after Prince Aeryn Targaryen's failed attempt at reclaiming the Leviathan's conquest. He died from fever, and left the legacy he had built to his daughter, Daena Rogare.

Appearance and Character
A dashing rogue, the patriarch of Lys' most illustrious bloodline is more mercenary than money-lender.

Some call him a brute through and through. They would not be completely wrong.

Others call him a banker at heart, always watching the tip of the scales. They would not be completely wrong, either.

To that, there are those who would shake their heads, and name him Nohia Rogare's mad dog. And there is truth to that as well.

A closely-guarded man, Lysarus is well aware of the many rumors that circle him like a cloud of flies about a Sathmantes slave. He would have it no other way.

History
Fostered in Braavos at the manse of a prominent Iron Bank official, Lysarus Rogare courted infamy at an early age, running away from an apprenticeship at the world's foremost banking institution to learn the water-dancer's craft at the feet of a notorious rogue. Most of his youth was spent accompanying Orbelo Reyaan on his misadventures across the taverns and battlefields of Slaver's Bay, Yi Ti, and the Free City, always a mere step ahead of the scandal that followed the Braavosi swordmaster like an over-eager pupil. Together, the two would enjoy memorable, if short stints in most, if not all, of the continents's most illustrious sellsword companies--by the age of nineteen, young Lysarus had served with eight Free Companies in nine years of travel.

One day, Orbelo Reyaan awoke to find an exorbitant sum placed on his head by a consortium of disgruntled former employers and enemies, great men of the Free Cities disinclined towards a sellsword whose toxicity had finally outstripped his talent. He bid his young charge good-bye, and boarded a ship to Westeros, where he had received a letter from a great lord of the Reach retaining him to teach a promising young squire the bravo's dance.

Lysarus went on to enjoy a storied career in the Free Companies, rising to command no less a company than the Second Sons before disappearing abruptly. When he resurfaced a year later, it was at his family's palaces in Lys.

Given a seemingly minor role intended as a sinecure, Lysarus made a name for himself and carved out a fief for himself leading the Rogare Bank's money-lending efforts to foreign potentates. When a Rogare-backed prince elected in Lorath turned his back on his obligations to his sponsors, Lysarus himself led a small group of sellswords up North to deal with the issue. Lured out of the city to deal with what was thought to be a small pack of reavers ravaging his family's richest holdings, the fickle Lorathi prince was ambushed quietly and was eventually found by his family blind and begging for alms in Braavos. By then, Lysarus Rogare had returned to Lys, his ships laden with furs seized from the delinquent's family storehouses that the Rogares would go on to sell at an enormous profit that more than recouped their investment.

This, and other stories like it, established Lysarus Rogare as a man to watch--a banker who was more steel than silk, a Rogare who kept company with Sathmantes scions and smugglers alike.

Immediate Family

 * Laena Rogare b. 355 AC d. 408 AC
 * m. Hadras Dagareon b. 354 AC d. 397 AC
 * Lysarus Rogare b. 383 AC d. 435 AC
 * m. Saera Lohar d. 409 AC
 * Cerion Rogare b. 406 AC d. 427 AC
 * Aelyx Rogare b. 408 AC
 * m. Nesora Rogare b. 396 AC d. 423 AC
 * Daena Rogare b. 416 AC
 * w. Serala Maar b. 407 AC
 * Fredo Rogare b. 430 AC

Extended Family
See the page of House Rogare.