Cerenna Marbrand

Cerenna Marbrand is the thirdborn child and secondborn daughter of the current Lord of Ashemark, Cerion Marbrand. Now, in lieu of Lord Tytos’ treachery in The War of Three Banners, Cerenna has been risen in status beyond what she ever imagined possible, not that she ever wanted such.

Appearance and Character
Cerenna Marbrand is lithe of build, standing at the rather average height of 5’7’, with long flowing red hair crowning her head, and green eyes to match. Spotted across her person are a number of faint freckles, although they grow more notable around her nose. As is expected of a Lady of House Marbrand, Cerenna dresses appropriately and has never been one to not do so.

In nature, Cerenna is a modest youth who understands the weight of the sadness and loss surrounding her more immediate family’s rise within the past half-decade. Cerenna is oft defined by her kind and caring nature, although does have a ‘fiery’ side when needed, but many would hesitate to call it fiery.

Youth 419 - 431
Born to Ser Cerion Marbrand and his lady wife, Sybell Yarwyck, Cerenna was a distant relation to Lordly branch of her House, but that was not to say she was distant from them. In the same year as her birth, and only a few moons earlier, had a third son been born to Lord Tytos and his wife Lady Jocasta. While this son, whom would be named Harrold Marbrand, but known as Harry, already had two older brothers to play with and spar with, he and Cerenna seemed to find a special closeness, the kind of friendship that cannot be broken with spilt milk and a lost toy.

Cerenna too had her own siblings, but her older brother was cruel in a childish way and only cared for swordplay and little more, and her sister’s pomposity rivalled even that of the worst kind of Lannister, dare she say it. And so, in the twelve years of peace before The War of the Three Banners, Cerenna lived her life as any normal noble girl within the walls of Ashemark would, happy and care free, with Harry by her side, much the same.

Tytos’ Treachery, Cerion’s Chance 432 - 435
Cerenna was still only a girl when war broke out, yet such would not stop her world from drastically changing. By some turn of luck mayhaps, or maneuvering, for Cerenna does not know, her father Ser Cerion managed to convince his cousin, Lord Tytos to allow him remain  at Ashemark as Castellan. And so, upon the outbreak of war, and against all his Lady wife’s impassioned pleas, Lord Tytos marched off for war, with all four of his sons. Three would never see Ashemark again.

They had little information inside Ashemark, save for the occasional raven or rider from Lord Tytos, yet even those were sparse in detail so as to safeguard the Marbrand host should be the bird be shot down or the rider captured. But four pieces of news did reach Ashemark most hastily throughout the war. The first, was the death of Lord Tytos’ second son, Jason, a lad of six and ten, the Battle of the Three Banners had taken his life, and in the chaos that was the routing of the Marbrand host, Lord Tytos’ fourth son, a lad who had only been acting as a page and squire, little Willem Marbrand, was captured by Lannister forces and later hung by Lady Tya Lannister in retribution for her daughter the Lady Tysane’s kidnapping.

It was Lady Jocasta who was struck hardest by this news. None could comfort her, and Cerion had not made to deliver the news lightly either.

Cerenna was helpless as she watched her family being torn apart, and she hated it. Her inability to affect events stuck in her gut like a bloodied sword, and still, there was no word of Harry.

The next year, in 434 AC, the year that was the real year of finality for the war, albeit that some hostilities carried over in 435 AC, the war grew ever more vicious. With the death toll already high, the impact upon the West was most notable to Cerenna. Rare it was that she was allowed out of the castle, but on the odd occasion when her father travelled to inspect the Marbrand mines or to hear out the qualms of the remaining peasants, Cerenna glanced a brief view of the countryside. Homes, farmsteads, and so much more was abandoned, fields overgrown, and mines working not even half as fast and efficiently as they used to.

Then late in the year, news of Lannisport came. It was the day her father had been waiting for. Lord Tytos and his eldest son and heir, Lyonel Marbrand, they were both dead. Everyone agreed Lyonel died fighting some highborn lad on the Lannister side, but reports differed violently as to how Lord Tytos was felled. Some said his own men, some said whores, Cerenna had not a clue, and Cerion cared not, for all he cared was that the man was dead.

But in his haste to place the Lordship upon his head, he had forgotten one man. Harrold Marbrand. When his late Lord father had taken him off to war, he’d just been a boy of two and ten, but now, if he were still alive, he’d be five and ten, a much more respectable age for a Lord. But when Cerenna pointed it out to her father that her cousin may yet still live, Cerion grew to a rage and almost struck her, only managing to stop himself at the last and final second.

Sometime later, the Lannisters would name Ser Cerion Marbrand the Lord of Ashemark, and still, there was no word of Harry.

Word would not come until 435 AC when a letter arrived from the Rock stating that Harry would stay at the Rock as a ward of House Lannister. Cerion was furious, but there was nothing he could do, and secretly, Cerenna was beyond happy, she was ecstatic, but she dared not show it around her now Lord father.

This is Not Mine 436 - 439
In the years after the war, as Cerenna grew into a young woman, she came to witness the wedding of her sister to a son of Lord Swyft in early 435 AC, as their father rushed to secure his position as Lord of Ashemark by aligning with a vassal of Lannister whom had remained faithful and true to their liege throughout the war, and on from there she soon became forced to endure the suffocating spewage that came out of her older brother Philip’s mouth as it seemed he was courting half the ladies of the West if you heard him tell the tale, but Cerenna only ever saw two or three visit Ashemark, and none were too pretty, nor too highborn.

Yet for Cerenna, there was no match or talk of one as of yet. For that, she was grateful. Instead she focused herself on her studies, likely going overboard compared to what was appropriate for most highborn women, but then again, their Warden was a woman, why shouldn’t Cerenna too be able to calculate arithmetic and effectively manage a keep and its surrounding lands if she so wanted.

But even with her studies and her focus elsewhere, Harry was never too far from her thoughts. She hadn’t heard from him in years, during the war letters had only been factual, reports, movements, that kind of business. It would not be until late 435 AC when a letter would arrive. From then on, the two would trade letters semi-regularly.

Family

 * Lord Cadwyn Marbrand (347 - 401)
 * m. Name Name (348 - 389)
 * Lord Rupert Marbrand (368 - 417)
 * m. Name Name (378 - 405)
 * Lord Tytos Marbrand (398 - 434)
 * m. Jocasta Westerling (b. 399)
 * Lyonel Marbrand (415 - 434)
 * Jason Marbrand (417 - 434)
 * Harrold Marbrand (b. 419)
 * Willem Marbrand (422 - 433)
 * Margot Marbrand (397 - 412)
 * Eleyna Marbrand (b. 405)
 * Forley Marbrand (370 - 403)
 * m. Leila Lydden (367 - 412)
 * Lord Cerion Marbrand (b. 388)
 * m. Sybell Yarwyck (b. 398)
 * Philip Marbrand (b. 415)
 * Lucinda Marbrand (b. 418)
 * m. House Swyft
 * House Swyft
 * Cerenna Marbrand (b. 419)
 * Rolph Marbrand (b. 395)
 * Tyshara Marbrand (b. 399)
 * m. House Peckledon
 * House Peckledon

Skills and Stats
Attribute: Brilliant.