Ser Alyn Crane Titles Ser Date Of Birth 75 Location Red Lake (Reach) Occupation Sworn Sword to Lord Uther Peake Physical Information Eye Color Pale blue Hair Color Light blonde Build Sinewy, muscular Height 174 cm Relations Father Alliser Crane Lover(s) Margot Tyrell Siblings Lyman and Merrell Crane META Player Username MMorrigen Name on Discord Morrigen Auxiliary Character Merrell Crane

Alyn Crane is the second born son of the heir to House Crane, and brother to the recent Lord Lyman Crane. He has left his home and family at the age of 15 to live an independent life. Since then, facing injuries and continuing setbacks, Alyn’s prime qualities proved to be his social intelligence, his tactical and strategical cunning as well as his never-fading high degree of will power. To solve whatever problem, remain independent and to finally succeed.

To the outside world, with his days of military command gone, most people nowadays perceive Alyn as calm and of a moderate appearance. Dressed in dark Reach elegance, behaving in a courtly fashion. Nothing outstanding. With not even his inherent androgynous natural beauty overly emphasized.

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Biography Edit

Black Sheep of the Family Edit

Alyn Crane was born as second born son in 75 AC to the heir of House Crane and his lady wife. Ever since he had been known as a very intelligent and healthy child. Even when his mother died from weakness after giving birth to his younger brother, the boy remained composed and would not show any signs of being struck by the sad event. Instead, he took over looking after his little brother and would often spend time with the toddler, carry him around, laugh and play with the sickly child. Also his relationship to his older brother Lyman was one of trust and mutual understanding.

At the age of ca. nine years, things changed, however. A process had started that Alyn would not be able to see through until his late teenager years. And even to the present day, he finds it very hard to grasp all of what has happened to him in various subtle ways. For it was first his Lord Grandfather who decided to disapprove of nearly everything the boy was doing or saying. His sharp mind – a keen ability for analysis and observation, fast learning and a high degree of emotional intelligence – became more and more interpreted as a calculating and sly. Up to the present day, Alyn cannot remember to have done or said anything to his family or anybody else to have set this process in motion. Instead, he clearly recalls being highly interested and ambitious about the concept of chivalry, weaponry and warcraft. Maybe, he has often been told, he was *too* good at them. For all the following bullying, harassing and targeted devaluation, that increased at such a subtly rate that a nine year old could not see through the process, might have been aimed at reducing his skills for his first born brother to find it easier to take the lead.

At first, Alyn kept being very ambitious, trying even harder to please his family. But ever more of them became convinced of Alyn’s shortcomings and deficiencies. When even his father and brother more and more suspected Alyn of fundamental character flaws unappreciated in an ancient honourable militaristic family, things got worse and worse. Being accused of lying when he was saying the truth, Alyn quickly became an actual liar in order to cover up any real (additional) mistakes that he had done. Even his versed fighting and military skills were criticized by not only his relatives but also his trainers until Alyn was so confused his level really started to decrease. He was told to be insufficient until the day he in fact had become insufficient. Fits of rage, false friends, excesses in the realms of money, dogs and horses, hunting, alcohol and sex marked his early teenager years.

At the age of 14, he was sent to squire for Ser Denys of Dosk. The ancient captain of the Osgrey house guard was a knight of definitely too low a rank for a second born son of a House like Crane. And though Alyn already complained about that, things got terribly worse when Ser Denys turned out to be a drunkard and a person from whom Alyn knew held little potential to teach and educate him. For his thirst for knowledge was still remarkable.

Alyn asked to be sent to another knight. But his family, seeing it as yet another sign of disobedience and insubordination, refused. Until the day when 15 year old Alyn ran away. And has never seen his family since.

An adventurous journey, acting as squire to several hedge knights he met on the road, confronted with yet unknown problems and dangers, the noble youth somehow made it as far as Starpike. Where Lord Uther Peake accepted him as his squire.

Gaining Independence Edit

Up to the present day, Uther Peake was one of those people Alyn learned the most from. Training the talented youth in all the fields that the Lord was himself so versed in, Alyn quickly turned out not only an able strategist and future commander, but also the study of other people and how to interpret and influence their behaviour ranked high among the things he quickly took to.

He followed his Lord into the Rosegold Rebellion.

And it was also at Starpike that Alyn got to know young Margot Tyrell. But it was not before her 16th year when she and Alyn were able to arrange to meet at the court where Margot has been sent as a handmaiden that the two fell in love. Yet were bound to keep their relationship an exhausting, energy-sapping secret – for few steps of a daughter of Lord Tyrell would go unnoticed.

During the years, Alyn has served several Lords and other employers. Despite of many setbacks (often owing to his strange social status as some kind of hedge knight hailing from one of the greatest Houses of the Reach), Alyn kept an extreme and never-fading level of ambition. Some months were even spent in Essos as a mercenary. He rose through the ranks in the conflicts of this time and found it a good investment to raise a credit in order to finance armour, horses, equipment, servants and clothes to prepare for his rise in rank and status. However, close to promotion, Alyn got heavily wounded in combat. With several muscles and sinews of his right arm cut, his armour stolen, several of his horses killed, and most of his new equipment either stolen or lost during the following hasty retreat, Alyn’s career had met a sudden end.

Due to not being able to use his right arm, and advised to also treat his left arm with care from now on, Alyn dropped out of military service not only during the ongoing conflict, but also in the years after. Used to earning his living as a self-reliant man working in martial pursuits, he started receiving more and more rejections when trying to apply for a position in household guards, garrisons, watches or other private units. Addiction to painkillers and the increasing debt load drove him to nearly end up in the gutters of Flea Bottom.

It was mainly owing to Lady Margot Tyrell, his brother Merrell Crane and Lord Uther Peake – as well as Alyn’s rekindling spirits – that Alyn found his way back into employment again. And though his arm is currently healing well, Alyn is now focusing on more subtle businesses. Nowadays, he is serving House Peake again as a sworn sword.

Family Edit

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