Post by Riley Ventai on Mar 5, 2013 21:02:51 GMT
Name: Riley Ventai
Age: 20
Place of Birth: Ashford
Current Place of Residence: Ashford
House: Ventai
Family:
Father: Victor Ventai (52/ Deceased)
Mother: Jane Ventai (54/ Alive)
Younger Sister: Margret Ventai (17/ Alive)
2nd Cousin: Lord Alistair Creyon, on Alistair's mother side, Riley's fathers (22/ Alive)
Appearance:
Character image
Armour
Riley has short dark hair and brown eyes. He is slightly below average high but well muscled and clearly a warrior. He is clean shaven. He has a small horizontal scar above his right eye, and old battle wound, from a previous knights tourney.
In battle he wares heavy armor, of painted gold/brass color with a red plume. His shield carries the crest of his house.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 195
Personality: Riley is perhaps your typical young nobleman. Arrogant, power hungry and seeking to make his house more powerful during this time of war. He is not so much clever as he is sneaky and manipulative, always trying to find a opportunity for gain. In this respect he is politically quite savy.
He maintains the army of Ashford in a good state, with his reputation as a warrior well enforced by many tourney and duel victories. In fact anyone that offends his family will certainly end up being challenged to a duel, at the slightest provocation.
He does however have something of a weakness for money. He is not greedy, quite the opposite. He simply has trouble keeping it. He spends more gold than he had afford on his military and knights and is often in debt. Fortunately his tourney earnings usually can cover this.
Likes:
Playing the deadly game of politics
Dueling
Traveling and making friends with skilled knights
Dislikes:
Having to deal with anything financial
Debt collectors
Being black mailed
Weapons: Knights Long sword, lance and concealed dagger (in left boot)
Skills: Riley is an excellent duelist, perhaps one of the most feared westeroise knights in a one v one duels. He is also fairly skills at fighting in battles, but not anywhere near so much as he is it when it comes to dueling. It is this in fact that made his house famous. He also is something of a political creature, trying to move his house up in the world. His dueling in fact is often uses to eliminate enemies of his house and advance his political career.
History: Riley was born the eldest and only son of his house, house Ventai of Ashford. Vassals to Mace Tyrell lord of high Garden. A man and family that the Ventai's have been jealous of for centuries. This dates back to ancient times when the founder of house Ventai....one Janos Ventai was promised the castle at High Garden by Ageon the conquer. A promise that was never kept due to political problems at the time.
In more recent times his house has allied threw marriage to house Creyon in the Stormlands. As a result when growing up Riley spent many summers in Bronzegate. The two houses are not staunch allies.
Even from a young age, Riley showed an intense interest in dueling. He would always play solider instead of doing his written work and it took hours for his father to get him to do that as well. In the end his father paid a private teacher to train his son in the ways of the knight. By age 12 Riley entered his first tourney and by age 15 he was a winner. Eventually he became a squire to Mace Tyrell and at the age of only 18 he was knighted. At this age dueling was seemingly his only love.
However months later his father died, shoving Riley into the worlds of politics as well. Needing to protect his house he had since spent many weeks at court. He is still learning the way of politics but he enjoys the thrill and challenge of it as much as dueling. He has however worried his family by spending much of their fortune on soldiers in increase the size of his private army. Whether or not that is wise remains to be seen.
OOC Info
Name/Cbox Name: Vorodor
Other characters played: Rhaegar Targaryen
Age: 20
Place of Birth: Ashford
Current Place of Residence: Ashford
House: Ventai
Family:
Father: Victor Ventai (52/ Deceased)
Mother: Jane Ventai (54/ Alive)
Younger Sister: Margret Ventai (17/ Alive)
2nd Cousin: Lord Alistair Creyon, on Alistair's mother side, Riley's fathers (22/ Alive)
Appearance:
Character image
Armour
Riley has short dark hair and brown eyes. He is slightly below average high but well muscled and clearly a warrior. He is clean shaven. He has a small horizontal scar above his right eye, and old battle wound, from a previous knights tourney.
In battle he wares heavy armor, of painted gold/brass color with a red plume. His shield carries the crest of his house.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 195
Personality: Riley is perhaps your typical young nobleman. Arrogant, power hungry and seeking to make his house more powerful during this time of war. He is not so much clever as he is sneaky and manipulative, always trying to find a opportunity for gain. In this respect he is politically quite savy.
He maintains the army of Ashford in a good state, with his reputation as a warrior well enforced by many tourney and duel victories. In fact anyone that offends his family will certainly end up being challenged to a duel, at the slightest provocation.
He does however have something of a weakness for money. He is not greedy, quite the opposite. He simply has trouble keeping it. He spends more gold than he had afford on his military and knights and is often in debt. Fortunately his tourney earnings usually can cover this.
Likes:
Playing the deadly game of politics
Dueling
Traveling and making friends with skilled knights
Dislikes:
Having to deal with anything financial
Debt collectors
Being black mailed
Weapons: Knights Long sword, lance and concealed dagger (in left boot)
Skills: Riley is an excellent duelist, perhaps one of the most feared westeroise knights in a one v one duels. He is also fairly skills at fighting in battles, but not anywhere near so much as he is it when it comes to dueling. It is this in fact that made his house famous. He also is something of a political creature, trying to move his house up in the world. His dueling in fact is often uses to eliminate enemies of his house and advance his political career.
History: Riley was born the eldest and only son of his house, house Ventai of Ashford. Vassals to Mace Tyrell lord of high Garden. A man and family that the Ventai's have been jealous of for centuries. This dates back to ancient times when the founder of house Ventai....one Janos Ventai was promised the castle at High Garden by Ageon the conquer. A promise that was never kept due to political problems at the time.
In more recent times his house has allied threw marriage to house Creyon in the Stormlands. As a result when growing up Riley spent many summers in Bronzegate. The two houses are not staunch allies.
Even from a young age, Riley showed an intense interest in dueling. He would always play solider instead of doing his written work and it took hours for his father to get him to do that as well. In the end his father paid a private teacher to train his son in the ways of the knight. By age 12 Riley entered his first tourney and by age 15 he was a winner. Eventually he became a squire to Mace Tyrell and at the age of only 18 he was knighted. At this age dueling was seemingly his only love.
However months later his father died, shoving Riley into the worlds of politics as well. Needing to protect his house he had since spent many weeks at court. He is still learning the way of politics but he enjoys the thrill and challenge of it as much as dueling. He has however worried his family by spending much of their fortune on soldiers in increase the size of his private army. Whether or not that is wise remains to be seen.
OOC Info
Name/Cbox Name: Vorodor
Other characters played: Rhaegar Targaryen