Erena Drumm is the second eldest sister of King Urragon X Drumm. Because both he and their father, Lodos, have been kings, she enjoys the title of Princess of the Iron Islands. She is a senior member of the Revenants, an elite group of warriors and assassins that serve the king, and a mother, having given the late Cotter Saltcliffe a son, Harren Saltcliffe.

At the Tournament of White Harbour in 98 AC, Erena came second in both the axe-throwing and archery contests.

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Appearance and Character Edit

Erena has chest-length, dark brown hair, hooded brown eyes, prominent cheekbones, and a square jaw. She has a mother's chest but a lean body type, having trained most of her life to kill.

She is one of the very few Ironborn women who has survived being drowned, and the only Ironborn woman to have ever survived being drowned thrice. Her place among the Revenants has been as praiseworthy as it has been controversial. Despite the status of her gender, she has proved to be as lethal as her brothers and nephews.

She is diligent, playful, compliant, and calculated. Her approach to murder has been one steeped in fascination as opposed to excitement or fetishization. She refuses to murder mothers and children, and imposes the same restrictions on her son and her crew. Though pious in her faith, she has shown mercy to Greenlanders who have, in their final moments, prayed to their faith's Mother for salvation.

History Edit

Erena was born in 62 AC to Lord Lodos Drumm and Lady Sarra Goodbrother as their fourth child. She was a curious, well-behaved infant, and grew up in the shadow of her older siblings. As opposed to acting out in envy of her siblings, she consistently complied with her parents' and mentors' instructions. Her sober demeanour at such a young age earned her her parents' trust and convinced them to allow her to pursue her own interests.

She took up small blades and longbows at the age of ten and two, and practiced with her siblings, her father's servants, and her father's captured thralls, whom she regularly killed. Entertained and intrigued by her propensity to kill, Lodos brought his daughter with him on numerous raids, baptizing her in the traditions of the Old Way. Indeed, before he gave her leadership over her first raid, he had Cromm, Old Wyk's Drowned Priest, fully drown her. She was revived with the kiss of life just under two minutes later.

Erena fought alongside her father in the War for the Seadragon Throne, captaining the Drowned Maiden, a longship in his fleet. She partook in the fateful Battle off Old Wyk, and captured one of the Greyjoys' warships in a daring boarding attempt timed with the Blacktydes' betrayal. Lodos, who seized the crown after executing the captured King Torgon Greyjoy, allowed Erena to keep the dead man's ship. She named it the Drowned Princess after herself.

To seal House Saltcliffe's allegiance to her ascendant family, she married Cotter Saltcliffe, Lord Baelor Saltcliffe's brother, on her father's request. She and Cotter had a son, Harren, in 82 AC. Her love for raiding became a point of severe tension between her and Cotter, who wished that she would remain at Saltcliffe to help rear their son. As she continued to raid over the years and defy his wishes, a brief window of domestic violence erupted between them in 88 AC. The violence only lasted a week, whereby on the last day Erena drew her sword on Cotter and killed him.

Lord Baelor Saltcliffe was furious at Erena for his brother's killing, though he was not outraged, given the circumstances. However much he wanted to punish her, her status as a princess was sufficient to sway him otherwise. She promised Baelor that she would take Harren with her to Old Wyk and make amends for her actions by undergoing a second drowning. In 89 AC, Cromm fully drowned her a second time in Baelor, Lodos, and Urragon's presence. She returned from the Drowned God's halls after three minutes and a half.

Erena remained at Old Wyk after her father had passed and her brother, Urragon, ascended. When Urragon founded the Revenants, she joined as one of its first members, for she had earned a reputation as a fierce reaver and fearless fighter. To join, she had to be drowned a third time. Cromm performed the ritual again, and brought her back after four minutes.

Erena has since carried out numerous important tasks for her brother and the Salt Council, such as smuggling her uncle, Wulfgar, into King's Landing and assassinating a seditious drowned priest. Like her father before her, she took her son with her on her assignments once he had grown old enough. But unlike her, Harren developed a passion for sailing over slaughtering. He has since become her helmsman as she navigates the sea in the name of the Seadragon Throne.

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Harren Saltcliffe, son and helmsman