Tommard Tully is the oldest son of Lady Agnes Tully and her heir to the Lordship of Riverrun, as well as to the Trident. Since 93 AC, he performs the duties of the Warden of the North for his mother.

He currently serves as Master of Laws.

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Appearance and Character Edit

Possessing the typical red hair of House Tully, Tommard is easily recognisable as a member of the house and as a Riverlander overall. His build is regular, representing his functions inbetween those of a knight and an administrator.

Similarly, his personality is a determined one, serious when need arises, befitting both his duties in the administration of Riverrun and his role as leader of armies, both early on as a young knight and more recently as Warden of the North, dealing directly with the bannermen of the Riverlands. All of House Tully’s virtues of Family, Duty, and Honour are of importance to Tommard, and he never places one over the other, seeing them all as equals, while ever anew on which to rest his specific decision is wisest.

History Edit

Tommard Tully was born in 58 AC as the first child from the union of Lady Agnes Tully and her husband Lucas Tully, a kinsman of hers. At the time of his birth, his parents shared the duties that came with his mother’s position in the family, Agnes bearing the title of Lady Paramount, while Lucas discharged the duties of the Warden of the North, which had fallen to House Tully after the North’s independence not long before.

With Tommard’s birth, Lady Agnes also became more of a mother than a ruler, for a time, and her husband took to ruling Riverrun to an even greater extent. Tommard, however, noticed little of that, as he was only three years old when his father died in 61 AC, after having given Lady Agnes two more sons, Tommard’s younger brothers Ambrose and Manfrey.

In 65 AC, Lady Agnes remarried to Ser Garibald Hawthorne, a lowly Westerlander knight, who, like his predecessor as Lord Consort, took up the title of Warden of the North. Under him, Tommard learned his first lessons in rulership, receiving insights into the management of levies as well as into the fortifications that defended Riverrun specifically. In time, Tommard became Garibald’s squire, to ensure both his combat training in general and a trusting relationship with his stepfather in particular.

Throughout his squireship, Tommard diligently followed his lessons and managed to gain some degree of skill in swordfighting, although he never excelled in it. In 76 AC, Tommard was knighted by his step-father, while at the same time, his youngest sister Elinor Tully was born. Not long after, it was arranged that Tommard would marry Lord Benedict Bracken’s sister Hariette Bracken, a match made chiefly to appease both sides in the most ancient feud of the Riverlands, after Tommard’s aunt had been wed to a Blackwood. Soon after the wedding, Lady Hariette became pregnant and in 77 AC gave birth to Tommard’s first son Edmyn Tully.

Newly a knight and a father, Tommard remained in Riverrun henceforth, and turned his focus onto his position as his mother’s heir, concerning himself more with the field of Administration, and it was there where he found his true aptitude. While he had acquired some knowledge of military leadership, it was the management of a holding and its surrounding lands that he ended up mastering over time. Much he learned about the history and laws of Westeros, as well, while he took over the duties related to economics, and turned his focus towards the levies of House Tully towards the organisation of the troops in order to reduce or make up for casualties.

Over the years, as Tommard occupied himself with Riverrun’s stewardship, three more children were born, two more sons named Raymund and Roland, as well as a daughter named Celia.

Having gained much experience through administering Riverrun, Tommard was named to King Rhaegar I Targaryen’s Small Council as Master of Coin in 90 AC, and thus moved from Riverrun to King’s Landing with his wife and three younger children, while his son Edwyn went off squiring. There, he served for three years until 93 AC, when in his absence, his step-father Garibald Hawthorne died at Riverrun, and thus it was decreed that in his stead, Tommard should become the new Warden of the North.

While not as a threat from the North, a challenge for Tommard’s new function as military leader came soon after, when within the year, the Rosegold Rebellion broke out, and House Tully had to tread carefully with its movements. Not wishing to endanger his sister’s safety, who was wed into the rebellious House Lannister, House Tully itself was unable to raise its forces in defence of the Crown. Thus, Tommard called a council of the Riverlords, encouraging to join the war on their own, which many of them did and raised a host to support House Targaryen.

After the war ended, with Tommard’s skill in leadership only having been tested away from the battlefield, a more peaceful occasion occurred, when the bond between House Tully and the Royal Family was tightened again, through the Wedding by the River, in which Tommard’s eldest son Edmyn married Princess Jaehaera Targaryen.

Recent Events Edit

More years passed, spent predominantly with the administration of Riverrun in both civilian and military matters, with one major event being another wedding in 98 AC, between Raymund Tully, Tommard’s second son, and Victaria Serrett, after Raymund, by then a tourney knight travelling the Riverlands from keep to keep, had met the Westerlander lady on his journey one year before at the Nightingale Inn.

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