House Tyrell of Highgarden.

House Tyrell of Highgarden

Delano Tyrell
deceased six years
"Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth." - Ackerman.

Former Lord of Highgarden, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach, and Warden of the South. Called the Lord of Summer. Eldest grandson of Harlan Tyrell, hereditary high steward of the Reach, who was granted Highgarden and dominion of the Reach by Aegon Targaryen upon the death of King Mern at the Field of Fire. The Tyrells claim descent from the Gardener king of the Age of Heroes through the female line (indicating their origin among the Andal invaders thousands of years before). Oldest son of Hadley Tyrell, the only son of Harlan the Steward. Delano met his death on the eve of his announcement to name an heir in the midst of the Beesbury Uprising. Blame for this murder was laid at the feet of the Beesburys and avenged by the combined forces of Highgarden, Hightower, Florent, Bulwer, and Ambrose in the Battle of the Black Bloom.

Celyn Tyrell
aged thirty-two years
"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. " - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Widow of Delano Tyrell and a daughter of House Florent of Brightwater. She was wedded at a young age to the heir of Highgarden and though she bore him no children he never set her aside. She has not left Highgarden since her husband's untimely demise and all attempts made by her father's house to wed her aknew have been thwarted by Highgarden's new lord.

Harlan Flowers
aged twenty years
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?" - T.S. Elliot.

Bastard son of Delano Tyrell and twin of Olivia Flowers. Knight of the Reach. Called Thornrider. Raised in the household of Highgarden's new lord. Mother unknown. Neither he or his twin has ever been presented to the nobility of the land or often glimpsed.

Olivia Flowers
aged twenty years
"I know that no one will ever know where the flowers go when they are gone." - VAST.

Bastard daughter of Delano Tyrell and twin of Harlan Flowers. Called the Autumn Rose. Raised in the household of Highgarden's new lord. Mother unknown. Neither she or her twin has ever been presented to the nobility of the land or often glimpsed.

Coriander Tyrell
aged fourty-seven years
"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares." - Heywood.

Lord of Highgarden, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach, and Warden of the South. Called the Flower Lord. Second eldest grandson of Harlan the Steward, second son of Hadley Tyrell, and younger brother of Delano Tyrell. He ascended to his titles upon the death of his brother Delano on the eve of the Battle of the Black Bloom during the Beesbury Uprising.

Aster Tyrell
aged fourty-two years
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. " - Henry Ward Beecher.

Lady of Highgarden, wife of Coriander Tyrell, and daughter of the House Rhysling. Lady Aster is close companions with the Hightower daughters of Oldtown.

Wyatt Tyrell
aged twenty-four years
"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours." - Pam Brown.

Heir of Highgarden and oldest son of Coriander Tyrell. Knight of the Reach and already hailed within the Southron lands as Blossom of the Tyrell garden.

Valcour Tyrell
aged twenty-two years
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Camus.

Second son of Coriander Tyrell. Called Knight of the Black Bloom and the Flowers' Thorn. Beyond the Reach, Valcour is known for being a jackanape and lazy, and is rumored to have only been granted his knighthood for bearing his father's name. Those within the Reach could tell a somewhat different tale, however, if only they could ever be offered so high a bribe for it's breath. He is easily bespied by his choice of black clothing that would mark him a man of the Night's Watch were it not for the flower ever pinned to his sleeve and colors of his house lended in embroidery.

Camellia Tyrell Bulwer
aged fourty-three years
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe." - John Berger.

Eldest daughter of Hadley Tyrell, younger sister of Delano and Coriander Tyrell, and wife of Lord Dale Bulwer. Death Before Dishonor.

Alastriste Bulwer
aged twenty six years
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." - Francis Bacon.

Second son of Dale Bulwer and Camellia Tyrell Bulwer, nephew of Coriander Tyrell, and Captain of the Flower Guard of Highgarden. He has been called the Backbone of the Vine.

Evangeline Tyrell Ambrose
aged thirty-four years
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Second eldest daughter of Hadley Tyrell, younger sister of Delano and Coriander Tyrell, and wife of Lord Sylven Ambrose, the Never Resting.

Thaddeus Ambrose
aged fifteen years
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats.

Eldest son and heir of Lord Sylven Ambrose and Evangeline Tyrell Ambose. Nephew of Coriander Tyrell and squire to Wyatt Tyrell.

Calla Tyrell Tully
deceased five years
"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory with desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." - T.S. Elliot.

Youngest granddaughter of Harlan of the Steward, third daughter of Hadley Tyrell, and sister of Delano and Coriander Tyrell. Wedded to Edword Tully in continuance of the two houses good relations only to perish in childbirth.

Kyra Tully
aged five years
"Curiousity is the one thing invincible in nature." - James Stephens.

Daughter of Edword Tully, heir of Riverrun, and Calla Tyrell Tully. Niece of Coriander Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden.

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