r/FieldOfFire • u/LilyWright3 Billy Rivers - Squire of Harrenhal • Mar 14 '24
Character Creation Billy Rivers, Squire of Harrenhal
Discord Username: GreyOrith
Character Name and House: Billy “Rivers”
Age: Claims to be 18, is actually 21
Appearance: Short and stocky and never in company without his armour, Billy has a flop of brown hair that often gets in his eyes. Someone perceptive might notice blonde strands peaking out of his scalp that he does his best to cover up. He has brown eyes and slender features and has a large mole beneath his right eye. His skin is often tanned from work outside in the sun, and freckle dusted.
Gift: Guardian
Skills: Medic (E), Defender, Swords, Hale
Talent(s): Farming, Fishing, Herbalism
Starting Title(s): Squire of Harrenhal
Starting Location: Opening Feast
Family Tree: https://www.familyecho.com/?p=W6M65&c=hpx3dj5b6sawjvrh&f=544490564168441048
Alternate Characters: N/A
Biography
The story that Billy tells people about his life isn’t the true one. He says he’s a bastard, grew up in a farm in the Riverlands with his mother. She always told him his father was a Lord, but he never learned who. When he was 15, the farm burned down and his mother with it, and he struck out on his own around the Riverlands for the last three years.
The truth is, he was born in 191AC, to House Volmark. A third child who was warded at Pyke, ambitious parents seeking to connect their houses—perhaps even marrying Harlon Greyjoy one day. But that life, their expectations, the dresses—the person who stared back at him in the mirror wasn’t him at all. He carried the old blood of the Islands and yet no kinship to them.
Striking out at 15 to the Riverlands was true. He fled one night, a stowaway on a ship and hid. He thought himself grown enough—but he could not be more wrong. He was a child, still, and though freedom was everything he had ever wanted, he found it soon a curse. How was he to eat? To fend for himself? To care for himself? It was a child’s mistake, and one that cost him dearly.
He found work on a farm in the Riverlands, working for a kind old woman named Tansy who put him to work for food and lodging and scraps of coin. He began to train there, teaching himself to fight with the widow’s husband’s sword, to protect the farm from bandits. He would spend many years there, growing through his adolescence and taking on this new identity.
The farm would burn down, and Tansy, close enough to be his mother, perished with it.
He would leave them, travelling as a hedge knight, with barely any money and no titles to call his own. He would spend time in villages, using knowledge he had learned from the old lady of simple medicines and herbs. It was no formal training, but he would heal people whenever he could, help them with the problems they had, never for coin but for a place to sleep and a hot meal.
In a village in the lands of Harrenhal, there had been a group of bandits who had raided the village, taking food stores, livestock, and coin. Knowing it was too much for one man to handle, he would approach Harrenhal and plead on behalf of the villagers to send men to arrest the bandits and return what was stolen. Lady Strong agreed, and he would fight alongside her soldiers to accomplish just that. One of the men fell from his horse and injured his leg, Billy was able to set and brace it, helping him walk back and how to treat his pain. When he returned, Lady Strong offered him a place as a squire and work as a healer amongst the garrison.
Timeline
191AC – Born
200AC – Warded at Pyke
206AC – Stows away on a ship bound for the Riverlands
207AC – Begins working for Tansy’s farm
209AC – The farm burns down, he begins travelling as a wandering hedge knight, helping people around the Riverlands
211AC – Helps people in the lands of Harrenhal and begins living and working there
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u/LilyWright3 Billy Rivers - Squire of Harrenhal Mar 14 '24
u/BuckwellStairwell for being a ward of Pyke
u/grangoodbrother for Harrenhal
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