Lysarus Rogare

Lysarus Rogare is a powerful oligarch of the Free City of Lys, and the current head of the Bank of Rogare.

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

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 woke one day, 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.