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Cassella Allyrion is the eldest of the Allyrion household, and the ruling lady of House Allyrion of Godsgrace. She is a mother to one son, two year old Edric, the heir to Godsgrace, and the wife of Trystane of house Vaith, her lord Consort. They have been married for eight years.

Appearance and Character Edit

Casella is exotically pretty, even at the age of two and thirty. Her eyes stand out in her dark features, being a light green and framed by black lashes. Her figure is toned, though she wished she were slender and willowy like both of her sisters. Instead, she took after her late mother and has a more hourglass body. She keeps this figure by swimming regularly, along with riding in the nearby region.

As far as character goes, Cassella is charismatic and well-liked by her household and her people, and she excels at delegating and general leadership. She has few words - but when she does speak, she does very well and is worth listening to. She works hard, and is never above doing what needs to be done herself. She leans on her castellan and her lord consort for the running of her household and lands, as she does not have great skill in administration. Casella also has a vast network of contacts, whom she keeps in touch with regularly, who keep her updated of news in exchange for favors of money, influence, or the right word in the ear of the right person, when the time comes. She is also a loving and devoted mother, and likes to spend at least a short part of each day with her offspring, and keeps constant track of his progress. Lady Allyrion is fiercely protective of all she loves, and is not above playing dirty to ensure this.

Biography Edit

Early life Edit

Cassella was born in 66AC, the firstborn of Lord Andrey Allyrion and his foreign wife, Leya of Myr. While he had been happy in his marriage, it was not to last, as Cassella was born early in the year, with complications during the birthing. Leya passed away nearly five months later, as she had never quite recovered from the internal trauma and had been almost bedridden since. Cassella took after her mother, with olive skin and dark hair, and piercing bright green eyes that captivated her father. Some men might blame their offspring for the death of their beloved spouse, but Lord Anders did not. He took it fairly well, for a widower, and in 67AC, the twenty nine year old Lord of Godsgrace married again, this time in his home region, to Desmera of House Blackmont. Andrey and his new wife quickly had three more children in quick succession - Teora in 67AC, Anders in 71AC, and Mariah in 73AC. Cassella's siblings took after their mother, with taller, more slender builds, and lighter skin and hair.

Cassella's stepmother was distant, but not unkind, to the young child that came along with her new husband, and Cassella was close with her younger siblings. She was a quiet and aloof child, studious but not gifted, and she had a lot of trouble with learning sums and keeping ledgers, something that her septa and maesters would chastise her for constantly. She spent large amounts of time with her grandmother, her father's mother. The slightly stooped and wiry old woman would walk with Cassella, often saying nothing for hours on end as they traipsed about the surrounding countryside or the vast gardens within Godsgrace, and Cassella would be endlessly happy keeping company without talking. Her grandmother would point out different herbs and their uses, and Cassella would listen half heartedly, finding this only slightly more interesting than her lessons. Still, when her grandmother passed away in her sleep in 73AC at the age of eighty four, Cassella was distraught, and went selectively mute for four months, until her youngest sister was born. Cassella then spoke, naming her sister Mariah, after their grandmother. Lady Desmera allowed it, and Mariah it remained.

During the Third Dornish War, Lord Andrey Allyrion suffered an injury at the Battle of Starfall that left him infirm until his early death in 74AC, just a year after his youngest daughter was born. He was only six and thirty at the time of his passing, and eight year old Cassella was found to be the new Lady of Godsgrace. Being so young, the keep and lands were overseen by her mother-by-law as regent, and the castellan of Godgrace, Albin, brother to the late Lord Andrey and Cassella's uncle. Albin still serves as the castellan and steward of the house to this day, and is Cassella's most trusted advisor, beside her husband.

Adulthood Edit

Cassella tried her hardest to learn how to become a competent Lady of her house, spending more time with the maester and septas in lessons, though not progressing overmuch. She was able to do sums and costings and keep ledgers, but it was never going to be something that would come to her easily, something that her mother-by-law was halfway worried about as Cassella entered her teens. The young girl overheard a conversation between Desmera and Albin, of Albin assuring her that Cassella would be fine, if she surrounded herself with the right people to help her succeed. At age fourteen, this conversation stuck with Cassella forever. Most mothers would try to remove their incompetent gooddaughters and place their more gifted children in power instead - something that was undeniably true, as Teora was proven to be incredibly intelligent, and Anders already showed promise to be a competent soldier and martial leader. Cassella never forgot this, and gave her stepmother esteemed respect until the woman passed away in 84AC.

It was shortly after the overheard conversation that Trystane Vaith arrived on the scene. Her uncle, Albin, had reached out to House Vaith and offered a wardship, and eleven year old Trystane became Godsgrace's newest resident, much to fifteen year old Cassella's suspicion. Still, Trystane was a precocious child, clever and charming and easygoing, and a talented young swordsman, who trained with Anders in the yard and attended lessons with all four Allyrion children. Albin carefully cultivated the tenuous friendship between the young Vaith and his eldest niece, and the friendship did grow. Trystane and Cassella found a mutual pasttime swimming across the River Vaith on the hotter afternoons, or fishing along its banks. She would also walk with him, treading the same paths she had with her grandmother half a lifetime ago. Cassella awkwardly tried to explain why it was so special to her, and explained badly, she was sure. But, Trystane seemed to understand, and so they would walk, and she would be utterly content being silent while he chattered to her, being the more talkative of the pair. After a long time, the dynamic of their friendship began to change as they both matured, and it was entirely normal for the two of them to be almost inseparable.

Possibly a factor in the drastic change that occured shortly afterward, was the marriage of Cassella's eighteen year old sister Teora to Prince Nymor Martell, after the royal visited Godsgrace in 85AC. Almost a year afterward, Trystane was now almost seventeen, Cassella twenty, and when Trystane shared his romantic sentiments for her, Cassella immediately withdrew, her introverted suspicion and fear of ruining something that was already good getting the better of her. She did not return his advances that day, and by doing so she created a rift in their friendship with her awkward behaviour. And so after several years together, Trystane departed Godsgrace to study at the Citadel, and Cassella found she was genuinely sad. Trystane was one of very few friends that Cassella had, aside from her own siblings, and Trystane was missed greatly by the young lady Allyrion, and regret abounded. She kept contact with him through letters while he was gone, as correspondence was something she really did excel at. When he received his first link of gold, Cassella was one of the first to know, and was delighted for him. She made no mention of their rift, and it seemed over the next three years that perhaps it could be forgotten, given distance and time. She was surprised when Trystane wrote after several months of silence, abruptly saying that he was leaving the citadel, and returning to Vaith. She wrote back immediately, asking why he was abandoning his studies, but received no reply. Months later, her uncle Albin received a letter addressed to her, from Lord Vaith, searching for a match between the Lady of Godsgrace and his second born son, Trystane.

So it was that in 90AC, Trystane and Cassella were wed in the sept at Godsgrace, and Trystane took up residence as the lord consort to Cassella Allyrion. They fell back into old habits, and developed new ones, too. They still swim across the river Vaith as often as they can, and walk or ride for miles, though it is not quite the same. It took the new couple over five years to conceive, but in 96AC their son Edric was born, with both mother and child healthy. Since then Cassella has not conceived, though the couple wish to extend their family. She now allows the running of the House to her husband for the majority, with her uncle Albin still in residence as the castellan, steward and advisor to the couple. Cassella keeps close contact with her sister in Sunspear, and has several other contacts whom she does not consider friends, but certainly close aquaintances, and she keeps correspondence with them all, finding that socializing via raven messages to be a lot less stressful than the pressure of having to be charismatic in person for long periods of time.

Family Edit

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