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Baris would have preferred to live his life as a maester, something he views out of reach because he is the first born son. That didn’t stop him in his pursuit of knowledge however, the boy quickly surpassed whatever teachers his parents could find until he eventually turned his studies to medicine. He found the study of medicine rather easy to the bafflement of his tutors. His uncle, Lord Valerius, encouraged his studies, even giving him a library on which Baris would collect rare books on science and philosophy and even write books of his own.

Malora is unsure what her feelings are for Lord Valerius. It's not quite friendship or love, but she doesn’t hate him and she isn’t ambilient either. She would choose him over any of her suitors, even if there were never that many to choose from in the first place, and while his face scared her at first she has come to find comfort in it. A face that she knows will protect her on the fact that she is his wife alone. More than anything he believes her about her visions, tolerates her nightly terrors and screaming fits, and has helped her learn to better control her magic bringing a sense of stability and security she has never known before. Malora is well aware that Valerius will never love her, his attention solely on his secret lover that even she doesn’t know the name of and she doesn’t know if she should take comfort in that or feel jealousy over it. But she knows that one way or another she will support him and his rise to power in any way she can because whatever her feelings are towards him they demand as much.

The Lord is the only living man to know the secret of House Draven. The secret that their founder, whose name has long been forgotten but has since been called Bhaal, succeeded in his mad quest to become a god. A god that would eventually carve out his own flesh to create Valerius, Varkas, and Vaelin centuries after his disappearance, though for what purpose Valerius isn’t certain.

When the king came North, Ned and his family were brought to Winterfell at King Robert's request, the young girl climbed the broken tower and fell... or was it that she was pushed. Pushed after seeing something she shouldn't. The Lord of Winterfell couldn’t say for certain and in that uncertainty an investigation is opened.

Though Arthur is every bit as honorable as his father and older siblings, he is known for his unconventional methods which often leads to him catching his enemies off guard.

Ashara and Ned's 2nd daughter is Alys, a young girl born to be a knight like her late uncle; Ser Arthur Dayne of the King's Guard. She does her duties with efficiency, precision, and most importantly honor.

After Robert's Rebellion, they would have four children, the oldest of which being Rickon Stark. Though the boy has his mother's looks he is the splitting image of his father in personality. An honorable young man who would prove to be a prodigy in the ways of battle strategy during the War of Five Kings.

Scales and without scales