Editing Lysaria Styrian (section)

=Background=

Goals: Power
Motivations: Stability, Duty
Virtues: Devoted
Vices: Scheming

The second child of Lord and Lady Styrian, and a girl, Lyss has always known who and what she is to her House. A useful tool, a single opportunity for a favorable marriage, at best a means of improving her struggling House's lot by binding its fate to one of greater status. That is not to say she has docile sat in the castle, awaiting her fate. The Stormlands do not breed passive women.

When she was young, and the disastrous storm wracked the harbor and left her family's power teetering on the edge, Lysaria was sent to spend time in the service of a noblewoman who had been a one-time friend of her mother's, both to broaden her world view, and to ensure she was elsewhere should House Styrian's enemies attempt to capitalize on their misfortune. While she was there, she was blessed to travel as part of the noblewoman's entourage to a tournament at Riverrun. While the knights were impressive - and their occasional attention flattering to an impressionable young girl - she found herself drawn more to the subtle games and intrigues that took place.

Once she returned home, she put what she learned to use, practicing her skills by inventing household games of subterfuge, or embarking on plots to smooth out her uncle's occasionally rough edges. Lysaria is an earnest girl, quick, clever, and fiercely loyal to her family. She views the upcoming years with seriousness, for while her brother might have a dozen battles before him to improve House Styrian's standing, she has but one wedding. She views her brother and her uncles with fond affection and endless patience for the coarser aspects of their personalities. Her half-sister Alessandra with a peculiar mixture of awe, admiration and sisterly affection. That she was born to a different mother seems to matter very little to Lyss, as it simply means Alessandra presents new angles from which to subtly position whatever it is she is currently amusing herself with.

Somewhat insecure about her ability to read and write, she has taken the news a new Maester will be arriving at the castle with uncharacteristically girlish excitement.