Lancel Templeton

Lancel Templeton is the current Knight of Ninestars, and the head of House Templeton. He is known as an avid horseman and devout follower of the Faith. He is known for his seeming fondness of moonstones..

History
Born in 385 AC to Lord Orys Templeton and Lady Jeyne Arryn, Lancel enjoyed the benefits of being raised by one of the most powerful knightly houses in the realm.

For the Vale has always been an isolated kingdom, a fortress against which the armies of many a foe have broken as if they were naught but waves on the sand. And House Templeton can be found back to the days of the Conquest, sword in hand, leading that defense.

Born as a set of twins, Lancel and his sister were spared from the horrors of the Hammer Uprisings, and from the famines which followed. This rather shielded life led to an idyllic, if not naive existence for the Templeton Children, who were oblivious to many of the problems roaring and raging in the world around them.

Often Lancel would be found in the library or in the Sept, and though he took his time to practice his skill with a sword, it was always in theory rather than practice in which he excelled. Indeed, he was always closer to his books than anything else, apart from his sister perhaps.

The War of the Three Thieves
But no one in Westeros can long be spared the horrors of the real world, and when war came to the Seven Kingdoms, the Templetons found this out all too well.

Though still young when they began, Lancel soon found himself serving as a squire to his father upon the ships of House Grafton. While there, Lancel found himself serving more as a navigator and advisor to the Lord Grafton's Captains than as a squire to his father, for he had learnt the ways of sailing well enough, and the theoretical methods he learned quickly became easily enough applied to the practical it seemed. Indeed, Lancel was a quick learner as long as he could learn whatever it was from the pages of a book.

Yet knowledge of a youth ill-experienced in war cannot be of too much help in the end. For in one of the many engagements against the Pirate King's fleet, the ship Lancel was on sunk. Much was lost that day for House Templeton, including his father. Lancel himself caught an illness, water in the lungs the Maesters said. Even to this day, he finds himself not yet fully recovered from his near drowning, though he'll joke he'd now make a proper Ironborn on occasion.

The Making of a Lord
Excused due to his injury and illness from any pressure of rejoining the war, which even now was beginning to end, Lancel was able for the first time to turn his attentions towards the duties of being Lord. It was perhaps the worst time for a young fellow to assume a Lordship...

...For almost at once came the Scarlet Winter.

Buried in snow and buffeted by mountain winds, Ninestars barely made it through the cold winter years, and it was more due to the fact that the family had multiple small towers and keeps across the land than anything else that they were able to avoid being trapped or stuck in one place too long. Thus it was that Lancel never got the proper introduction to Lording that he needed, and instead still has the frugal mindset of a Lord faced with famine. He's been known to collect a rather high tax from his people, and to spend very little apart from what is needed.

The Emergence of Ninestars
But finally, in 406, it seemed that Lancel began to loosen the bonds the Scarlet Winter had placed upon his management. Taxes were lowered, money began to be spent. Balls were held, and tourneys too for those in the nearby areas. Lancel proved himself to be an excellent jouster, as long as the tourneys didn't run on too long, for he was still easily winded from his illness.

Known for a rather cheery and outgoing disposition, some have marked that something still does not seem entirely right about the Knight of Ninestars, 'nor with the long-sleeved, high-necked tunics he always insisted on wearing, even in the most casual of circumstances.

Family

 * Ser Orys Templeton, 54, the Knight of Ninestars
 * Deceased, Lancel's Father
 * Lady Jeyne Templeton nee Arryn, 41
 * Lancel's Mother
 * Lady Tilla Templeton, 22
 * Lancel's Twin
 * Ser Triston Templeton, 18
 * Lancel's younger brother


 * Tytos Templeton, 48
 * Lancel's Uncle, a merchant.
 * Priscilla Templeton, 45
 * Lancel's Aunt, a noblewoman.
 * Septa Arya Templeton, 30
 * Lancel's Aunt, a Septa

Household

 * Septon Terrence
 * Ninestar's Septon


 * Maester Whyven of Dorne
 * Ninestar's Maester
 * Septon Aldaric of Quiet Isle
 * Lancel's Confessor
 * Ser Baldrick
 * Lancel's Guard
 * Ser Edmund
 * Lancel's Master of the Cavalry
 * Ser Allister
 * Master-At-Arms of Ninestars