Addam Hightower

Addam Hightower is one of seven current Knights of the Kingsguard. Named to the Kingsguard at a mere eighteen years of age, he is thoroughly renowned as one of the greatest warriors in the Seven Kingdoms. As result of his being born the second son of Lord Leyton Hightower and Lady Aelora Velaryon, Addam was never truly able to focus his attentions for the future on Oldtown, even though for most of his upbringing his elder brother, Arthur was completely absent from his life.

Appearance and Character
Much akin to his siblings with his golden blonde hair and blue eyes, Addam is a remarkable sight even from afar. The very image of knighthood and nobility, Addam Hightower possesses an attractiveness of which none can contest. Alongside such, his well-built and incredibly tall figure set him outside of the bounds of the rest of his siblings, and leave him a towering individual.

Addam, unlike most children, always took to all things with an incredible wit, taking far less time to learn the things that took both his siblings, and other children, far longer, soon earning himself quite a bit of envy from those he grew up with. To further compliment such, Addam's unique physical strength served to make him even more of a weapon on the field of battle, and fast became the passion of his life. Where Arthur turned his eyes away from battle and war, Addam would do no such, instead turning such a thorough focus to it that he would soon become one of the greatest knights of the realm in his day.

Yet, while Addam is a truly remarkable man in his own right, having earnt a place on the Kingsguard at the mere age eightteen, he has always found it troublesome to bond with others, and has naturally seemed to push people away from himself. With his gifts as they are, Addam has always held himself in a higher position in comparison to his companions, and such was only furthered by the very fact that for most of his life he was the eldest of the late Lord Leyton's sons present in the Hightower and Oldtown.

Alas, while Addam has consistently struggled with making connections throughout his life, such is not solely his blame to bare, although he would never consider such. Rather strikingly, considering the countless women he bedded during his youth in Oldtown, Addam derives no pleasure or enjoyment from such. For Addam, there was never question as to his preference, but in the world he was born into, he fast found himself forced to repress his true colours and hid them behind layer after layer of lies and falsehoods. Somewhere deep inside Addam hope for a brighter day does no doubt linger, but alas, in his current state, he is as he is.

While Addam's disdain of others and in certain cases, authority, make for a troublesome time, his lack of sociability is most certainly in part derived from his feeling that he must be someone, something, that he is not. And so, it is this feeling that has left him quite a troubled and suffering young man, and part of what led him to the Kingsguard.

Family

 * Liana Hightower, b. 353 A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * m. Gareth Tyrell, b. --- A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * House Tyrell


 * Lucifer Hightower, Lord of the Hightower, b. 356 A.C. d. 417 A.C.
 * m. Lynora Lannister, Lady of the Hightower, b. 370 A.C. d. 424 A.C.
 * Leyton Hightower, Lord of the Hightower, b. 387 A.C. d. 418 A.C.
 * m. Aelora Velaryon, Lady of the Hightower, b. 394 A.C.
 * Alys Hightower, b. 413 A.C.
 * Arthur Hightower, Lord of the Hightower, b. 415 A.C.
 * Addam Hightower, Knight of the Kingsguard, b. 417 A.C.
 * Leyton Hightower, b. 419 A.C.
 * Alicent Hightower, b. 388 A.C. d. 399 A.C.
 * Elinor Hightower, b. 404 A.C.
 * m. Errec Baratheon, b. --- A.C.
 * Erron Hightower, b. 363 A.C. d. 433 A.C.
 * m. Dacey Vyrwell, b. 366 A.C. 417 A.C.
 * Cassana Hightower, b. 391 A.C.
 * Cissa Hightower, b. --- A.C.
 * m. Alan Tarly, b. --- A.C.
 * House Tarly
 * Leysel Hightower, Lady of Runestone, b. 367 A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * m. Reynard Royce, b. --- A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * House Royce
 * Bryndon Hightower, b. --- A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * m. Denyse Hewett, b. --- A.C. d. --- A.C.
 * Dorian Hightower, b. 389 A.C. d. 433 A.C.
 * m. Arianne Dayne, b. 396 A.C. d. 418 A.C.
 * Olyvar Hightower, b. 412 A.C.
 * m. Ellara Roxton, b. 412 A.C.
 * Manfred Hightower, b. 430 A.C.
 * Lynesse Hightower, b.432 A.C.
 * Gerold Hightower, b. 435 A.C.
 * Samwell Hightower, b. 415 A.C.
 * Triston Hightower, b. 418 A.C. d. 418 A.C.