Tremond Uller

Tremond Uller is the Lord of Hellholt and current patriarch of House Uller. Born in 411 AC, fortune had it that he was born before Trebor, his twin, fating him for Lordship and title in the process. At the age of twenty and two he wed Myriah Vaith, with whom he now has two children, Qoren and Elia.

Appearance and Character
Tremond Uller is of the Sandy Dornish look. His twin brother, Trebor, is much the same. Skin kissed by the sun in a deep embrace, he resonates a light brown, with his eyes and hair being even deeper of the browns. Tremond Uller keeps his hair and beard well-kempt and short, not liking them to grow ragged and wild, for he is no dog.

Standing at 5'11', he is of a respectable height, but nothing so insane as to be called 'the Mountain reborn'. He is a man of some muscle, having trained with sword and the relevant arms as one would expect, but nothing too wild.

In character he is a man of a staunch determination and harsh conviction. Tremond holds few opinions so staunchly as those on the Targaryens and his late father, but those two are of great conviction. For the most part, Tremond prefers to remain within the sands of Dorne, his home, but with the call of the realm, things do change.

Having been raised by a father filled with a greedy joy to have seen the death of his niece, Tremond's cousin, Nymeria Uller, Tremond was always raised to rule, to lead, and so has garnered a great talent for the ways of leading men into battle, while also being a talented orator. But that is not the sole make of this man of Hellholt, for none could mention the name Uller without mentioning their more fiery side. Tremond is not without his. The dungeons know it so.

Finally, despite having indulged quite heavily on the joys of women before he was wed, Tremond has of yet to be unfaithful to his wife, but that is not to say he has not thought about it.

Invitation 411 - 420 AC
Tremond Uller was born alongside his twin brother, Trebor, in 411 AC to Ulwyck Uller and his second wife, Teora Allyrion. Despite Ulwyck not being the Lord of Hellholt, and only the heir due to his niece, Nymeria Uller's lack of legitimate offspring, that did not hinder his ambitions. Already had Nymeria proven herself a ready concubine and whore to the Dragon in Ulwyck's eyes, and so he readily raised his eldest son to rule. It would be the first step in an almost decade long endeavour.

While Laenor would eventually perish in 414 AC, Ulwyck's ambition-filled hopes and dreams would not. Feigning understanding and a desire to assist, Ulwyck seemingly did all he could for Nymeria in the rough years to come, bidding his time and ever conveniently finding ways and means by which to turn Nymeria back into her black depression and sour her against any suitor who might come her way, for the soul purpose of keeping the only whelps to claw their way out of her womb illegitimate and unable to inherit.

All the while, Ulwyck kept up a rigorous focus on his two sons, and in 415 AC and 419 AC, his two daughters Jynessa and Casella respectively. Ulwyck was never a loving father. If anything he was a diligent taskmaster, but in practice he was more like a Lord issuing commands at every turn. At least, that was how he was to Tremond, Trebor, and Casella. Jynessa always had his eye, and she knew it all too well, and as consequence it is the result of the rift between Tremond and Jynessa to this day, a rift shared by Trebor and Casella.

The Doors Lock 420 AC
The death of Visaera I came with much apprehension in Dorne, as her reign had seen many a number claimants to the Iron Chair lost to the dirt, while also seeing rather an iron fist settle over the realm. Many expected the violence to begin immediately, and at least in Hellholt, it did. Long had Ulwyck Uller awaited his chance to be rid of his niece and her litter, and now, the perfect chance had presented itself. In the death of a monarch, none would look to what House Uller was doing in the middle of the desert, and so, one fateful night, when Nymeria Uller thought the castle asleep, and her children much the same, guards stormed into her chambers and dragged her from her bed, kicking and screaming and barely clothed. Much the same had been the fate for her three bastards.

All four, Nymeria, Dagon, Aegis, and Rohanne would be reunited in the depths of Hellholt's cells. Soon enough they would be joined by Nymeria's three siblings, illegitimate, of course. And so ushered into a small cell with stone walls they were. Nymeria, her three children, Dagon, Aegis, Rohanne, and her three siblings, Edon, Venris, and Trys. Then the fire was lit. Only burnt bones would be left in their wake, and the realm would only know of it that bandits had taken their lives on the road to Sunspear, a grave misfortune.

All the while Tremond played, trained, learnt, and slept.

The Flames Begin 420 - 427 AC
With Ulwyck's ploy remaining unquestioned, and the guards involved either having been hansomely compensated or removed, the world came only to know of the bandits and the unfortunate fate of Nymeria Uller. For Tremond, this meant only one thing of any true importance; he was now the heir to Hellholt. But in Tremond's mind, there was loss, for the cousins, be they bastards, he had played with and grown up with for the first nine years of his life were now gone, dead, and they had not even graves. His father had told him that their bodies had not been recovered, and what they had recovered was not fit for the eyes of children.

On it went. The lie grew strong, and in time, became the truth. It was a truth that only Ulwyck and a select few guards knew as anything other, and throughout the next half decade, those guards died or moved on, one by one, every so often.

Tremond, meanwhile, grew to possess quite the talent for solving complex military issues that were presented to him by his tutors, and grew rather fond of cracking a castle open, often remarking it was like "cracking an egg, it just had to be done right". But even while he learnt the ways of war, swordplay never truly came to him, and so fell to the side as his focus went elsewhere. By the age of six and ten, Tremond and Trebor had become quite the identifiable pair. It was true that for their childhood they had been inseparable, but now, as young men as they saw it, they were even more so. Both boys grew to have quite the appetite, with Tremond prefering girls, and Trebor, both. It was Dorne after all.

Rather often Ulwyck remarked to his commanders and advisors about how Tremond was becoming too much a menace with that tongue of his, and that something had to be done.

But the Gods, as some would put it, had other things in mind. Just before Ulwyck Uller could call for wives for his sons, for if one were to wed, then both were to wed, Teora Allyrion, Ulwyck's wife, and Tremond and Trebor's mother, perished in the Blue Winter. She had always been a weaker woman, it was a sheer feat she had survived four births, but this winter, this night chill, it was too much.

The Screams Are Heard 428 - 435 AC
Unsurprisingly, Teora's passing, after the rest of that wicked winter had been given, hardened Ulwyck's resolve on the prospect of his sons' marriages. Tremond was betrothed to a Vaith girl named Myriah, whom he would later come to wed in 433 AC, alongside Trebor and his own bride, Arianne Toland. Yet time together for both newly wed couples would be short-lived, as later the next year in 434 AC, the Blackmonts under Tommen Blackmont, a supposed 'Vulture King', along with the Fowlers and Manwoodys named themselves foe to House Uller. With the unjust execution of Lord Ulwyck's sister, the Lady Blackmont, there would be fire and brimstone for all Dorne. Then came the news that this 'Vulture King' was marching on Hellholt, with a host of whipped dogs in tow. It is said Ulwyck Uller spat upon the ground beneath where he stood and proclaimed loudly to his court, "if they want her, they'll have to fucking slaughter every last one of us", luckily, for House Uller, when the time came, and once they could hold out no longer, Tremond was able to convince his father that retreat was the only option open to them, and so they did, leaving Qorgyle scum to take up residence in their home. Yet even with their retreat, a short time later they were forced into surrender at Vaith, along with the Vaiths of Vaith.

But despite the zeal of the 'Vulture King' in enforcing the surrender and defeat of the Houses Uller and Vaith, he would prove unsuccessful in capturing the entirety of House Uller, with the twins, Tremond and Trebor making off toward Sunspear in search of the Martell host. Luckily for them, they would indeed find the Martell host, upon which time they joined with the man who would later become their good-brother, Trystane Martell, and eventually went into battle. It would be during this great battle that the twins would lay eyes upon a dragon for the first time, an event that has definitely remained present in their minds in the years since. The stench of burning flesh, the screams of their countrymen filling the air, albeit that they were traitors, was the kind of scene that neither twin will soon forget. But it brought an end to the war, returned Hellholt to the Ullers, and freed the Uller host and their father from imprisonment.

Then soon after the close of the war, Ulwyck Uller managed to negotiate the marriage of his eldest daughter, his prize daughter, his favourite child, Jynessa Uller, to Trystane Martell. It was a small ceremony, but even so, both Tremond and Trebor would attend alongside their father and youngest sister, Casella, all of whom had now been through some variation of tough period during the war that would come to be known as the War of Stone and Sky.

The Smell Permeates 436 AC
In the year after the War of Stone and Sky, the Ullers returned home to Hellholt to repair any damage done by the Vultures and their supposed King and the treacherous Qorgyles. If Tremond was honest, he could in most part let those treacherous Houses be forgiven, for the Blackmonts had been executed appropriately, along with the Fowlers, and even the Yronwoods seemed diminished in status, but the Qorgyles, they angered him thoroughly, for they had escaped unscathed.

It was a slight Ulwyck shared with Tremond. His brief imprisonment had worked a number on the aged Lord of Hellholt, and his mind had very clearly started to go. Some moons later, Ulwyck Uller choked on a chicken bone and passed on from this life. Tremond Uller was risen up alongside his wife, Myriah Vaith, and took claim of the title of Lord of Hellholt, and the truth of Nymeria Uller's fate was lost to the ages.

Silence Comes 437 - 439 AC
The next few years were relatively peaceful for Tremond and his newly acquired household. In 435 AC, a son had been born to him, whom he'd named Qoren Uller. Tremond had long ago vowed not to be the father his had been unto him, and so took great pride in the boy's growth, and then later, in 438 AC, Myriah would give birth again, this time to a girl they would name Elia Uller. But in 439 AC, the follies of their actual King, Aegon VII Targaryen, would force such a peace to end. He had gone and gotten himself killed beyond the Wall, and now there was only one fate, and it was just as bloody as Aegon's.

Family and Household

 * Lord Maron Uller (347 - 389)
 * m. Sarella Gargalen (347 - 385)
 * Lord Damien Uller (368 - 410)
 * m. Aliandra Santagar (370 - 405)
 * Lady Nymeria Uller (388 - 420)
 * Lord Ulwyck Uller (376 - 436)
 * m. Deria Dalt (377 - 407)
 * m. Teora Allyrion (391 - 426)
 * Lord Tremond Uller (b. 411)
 * m. Myriah Vaith (b. 417)
 * Qoren Uller (b. 435)
 * Elia Uller (b. 438)
 * Trebor Uller (b. 411)
 * m. Arianne Toland (b. 414)
 * Jynessa Uller (b. 415)
 * m. Trystane Martell (b. 413)
 * House Martell
 * Casella Uller (b. 419)
 * Loreza Uller (tbd - 434)
 * m. Lord Owen Blackmont (tbd - 434)