Aln of White Harbor

Aln of White Harbor is a low-born son of a porter. Aln serves King Rickon Stark as apart of the King's Justice while hunting outlaws and criminals.

Appearance and Character
Aln is a lean adult of medium height with dark hair and eyes. He gives little account to trimming his hair, and can look like a scraggly Wildling with hair to his shoulders and a beard to his sternum, yet appear the next day in the King's court shorn and smooth-faced like a monk, or any combination or gradient in between. He doesn't bother to hide his lowborn manners, but mostly keeps quiet and enjoys being able to eat and drink in the King's Hall as long as no one gives him a reason to be coarse towards them.

History
Aln is a low-born son of a porter in White Harbor, one of many children. As a child, Aln dreamed of becoming both a knight and a sailor. However, having no connections, he fell in with a band of cutpurses and robbers. Strangely enough, he loved it, oddly fulfilling the desire to joust and swashbuckle in the down and dirty knigfe fights outside the Lazy Eel. In time, he began to bring more money home than his father, and those who didn't know his reputation in the streets and alleys still felt that they were in the presence of a young man to be feared. Aln's father resented being outdone by his son, but an unfortunate accident on the dock led to his father being crushed by a cask of wine when the rope being used to hoist it onshore broke. Those who remember it often wonder if Aln was involved.

However, Aln grew bored of life in White Harbor. He had heard of battles against the Boltons and the Wolf King, and a savior with a flaming sword. When he did present himself, it was with a small wagon of corpses in various conditions. All were men whom King Rickon had declared outlaws, traitors, or enemies. King Rickon saw in the coarse, feral supplicant someone who could serve him.

Aln serves as an extension of the King's Justice. Not in the sense of a righteous knight, or a wise magister. Rather, he is the promise that the North remembers, and those who act against Winterfell will get what they are owed.

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