Gerrold Lefford

Introduction
Gerrold Lefford is the Lord of the Golden Tooth, and a man who remained loyal to the Lannisters during the recent conflict.

Appearance and Character
Gerrold is a large man, who has clearly enjoyed the excesses that his station allows. His blonde hair has begun to lighten and gray in his middle age. He is a shrewd man, who takes few actions that do not have certain benefit to him. In the company of others, however, he is an accomplished speaker and diplomat. His skill has been used to bend situations to his favor before, and there are those that have come to distrust the man.

Youth
Born at the end of the Great Famine, he was raised in a time of recovery and rising prosperity in the West. This was to be short lived, as the Scarlet Winter closed around Westeros. It proved to be a formative experience for Gerrold, as many died around the Golden Tooth.

War of the Three Banners
Gerrold Lefford was conspicuous in his absence from the War of the Three Banners. Nominally, House Lefford had remained with the Baelorian obediences during the schism, though Gerrold was not fervent in his belief. After the fire in Lannisport, he was caught off guard buy the quick response of the rebel party, having expected Lord Spicer to be quickly captured by the Lannister forces.

As the rebels besieged Lannisport, he received the ravens from Banefort; Lady Bellenna called for aid, to attack the rebels’ holdings from the rear. Those ravens remained unanswered, as Lord Gerrold wished to keep his forces to protect his own lands around the Golden Tooth, and to guard the road from the Riverlands. In truth, there was as much pragmatism to this as their was Gerrold’s distrust for the the “Lady Misery”, whose reputation was not one to induce cooperation. Only when the fighting was brought into his lands did his forces march, being part of the defeat at the Battle of the Golden Pass.

This defeat, as well as the execution of Lady Banefort at the walls of Castamere further convinced Lord Gerrold that to send his forces far afield would only lead to destruction. In his estimation, the new faction of the Starry schismatics were a far greater threat to him than Lord Spicer. The increasingly bleak news coming from Lannisport and Casterly Rock did not serve to increase Lord Lefford's confidence through the second year of the war, and his men remained close to the Golden Tooth, only occasionally venturing out to deal raids against nearby enemies. An attack on Ashmark from the rear he deemed too risky, for no force would come to his aid or be able to relieve him.

Family Members and Household
He is married to (wife TBD). They wed in (TBD).

He has three children: Caspor Lefford (born 414AC), and the twins Jeyne Lefford and Reynard Lefford (born 416AC)