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Changing it up again with Pen Dragon because my brain cannot shut up about my eccentric lad;

Calhoun Vornfel of House Vornfel, youngest of the brothers, and Highlord of the Dreadfort!

Context: this game is set in Game of Thrones land, and we began just before Lord Sevenstar was going to cross the Narrow Sea and attack the North. We four players are playing as four brothers of a teeny tiny Andal house.

Mors, the eldest was born out of wedlock, he is huge and unattractive to the point of being genuinely terrifying, follows The Warrior most closely, and started the game married. We have semi-seriously joked Calhoun had the most hand in arranging the wedding.

Stephas, the head of house, fairly attractive and a bit full of himself but he means well and does want the best for the family, the most well-rounded of all the brothers, and follows The Warrior closest.

Petros, Calhoun's identical twin, wears his hair longer than Calhoun does to help differentiate the two, has devoted his life to learning administration and religion, follows The Father closest.

Calhoun, the absolute youngest, a fantastic orator, really needs to polish up his court manners as he's been a bit eccentric in the paths he's tread to learn never expecting to be of any import at all, follows The Crone closest.

In all of our sessions thus far, we have:

- Accidentally ended the life of Lord Sevenstar's nephew in a duel [Petros] and only survived because Sevenstar crit his Mercy check

- Enraged the man further when Mors stole the entirety of his fleet to get the rest of the refugees with us across the Narrow Sea. The rest of us and half the people had already started the journey and had no awareness of this plan.

- Landed at Widow's Watch

- Got very confused about our plans to find a land to settle down in and went three separate ways, Mors training troops, Stephas looking for an eligible local woman, and Calhoun and Petros going to the Starks.

- Stephas got intercepted by a Deadfort hunting party and taken to the Dreadfort, Mors was approached by the youngest son of the Dreadfort to help rid the land of his dad, and Calhoun swore fealty to the Starks that should he and his take the Dreadfort, he will become Highlord. And Stephas got engaged [married?] to the eldest daughter of the Dreadfort [Why can I not remember the family name?!?] while Petros began courting the eldest daughter of house Umber.

- Calhoun and Petros set off with the armies of the North to take the Dreadfort only to find Mors had already accomplished this with a surprise attack, and meeting to catch up with Mors and a very begrudging Stephas was interrupted by noticing sails off the shore in the distance.

- We waited at the beach, our army and the Northmen, and crashed into Sevenstar's men as they scrambled to land on the beach. In the chaos Calhoun was smacked hard in the brow with a sword and knocked unconscious, but the Valerian ally of one of the leaders we'd recruited before crossing whisked him behind our lines to a surgeon who was able to get him back on his feet.

- Calhoun charged back in since we had them scattering and as the final push, the GM let us encounter Lord Sevenstar himself on his boat. The enraged man knocked Mors' blow aside with his shield, parried Petros' strike, but that left an opening Calhoun took advantage of to lay the final blow.

- After the battle was over an impromptu court was held, naming Calhoun Highlord of the Dreadfort and his brothers as lords under him.

The next session was book keeping after we'd divided all the duchies as equally as possible amongst everyone, and when we next get back to it I believe we're time-skipping a couple months forward to when Lord Stark begins formulating a counter-strike on Andalos but we shall see. I hope I have time to find at least a person to court before becoming embroiled in a war because as we have seen first hand, this system kills all easy and you want to try and play through your generations. I want to see who Calhoun's kids become.

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