Laenor Longwaters

Ser Laenor Longwaters is Ser Vance Longwater’s only son and the head of House Longwaters. He serves as a sworn sword to Queen Visaera I Targaryen.

Appearance
Laenor has wavy, brown hair; deep set, brown eyes; a wide, previously broken nose; and a square chin and jaw. He has an extremely wiry and sinewy physique, his every vein and muscle seemingly prominent to the eye.

Laenor seldom keeps his face clean-shaven.

History
Laenor was born on the 1st day of the 3rd moon in 385 AC to Ser Vance and Jeyne Longwaters. From the day he could walk, he aspired to become a career knight like his father, touring the realm, fighting in tournaments, and dispensing justice on behalf of the downtrodden. Being forced to stay behind at home all the time only bolstered these ambiions more in Laenor. He would often steal his father’s retired swords to practice with them, or slip under the radar of his mother’s supervision to play knights and castles with his Kingslander friends. As the tallest and strongest amongst his peers, he very rarely lost a game, or much of anything. He only ever lost to men, and it was to conniving and malicious men that Laenor, at the age of ten, would lose his father.

It was Laenor who had run away to fetch the gold cloaks after the malicious group of hedge knights descended upon his father, and it was Laenor who would first discover his father’s corpse upon returning. In a fit of rage and tears, he swore that day he would never flee from a fight again, vowing to protect anyone who might come under his care to his dying breath. He also vowed revenge on his father’s killers, and promised to live twice the life he otherwise would have.

For years, day in and day out, Laenor honed his body and his sword hand. From his family’s new home on the south side of Rhaenys Hill, he ventured out into the Street of Silk and Flea Bottom, distributing justice as he saw fit against thugs, pickpockets, and murderers alike.