Alexandra Tully

Alexandra is the fifth and final daughter of Byron Tully and his first wife, Kyra Tully. Due to a combination of anger at her father for her mother's banishment from the family and the uncertainty of her lineage, Alexandra abandoned House Tully at the age of sixteen. She eventually joined up with a group of sellswords making a profit off of the various conflicts around the Riverlands. She currently leads a contingent of the River's Company.

Appearance
Alexandra is a young woman of noble descent and shows it by her fair looks. While not a beauty of great renown she's pleasant enough on the eyes that more than a few would like to see what she looks like out of her armour.

Alexandra keeps her shoulder length hair in a severe ponytail, tucking it beneath the collar of her armour when she's expecting a fight to prevent it from being grabbed.

Her face is relatively soft, with thin lips and a moderate brow surrounding her narrow nose. Her hazel eyes pair nicely with her fair skin.

She stands in at a respectable 1.79 meters, being equal in height with her male counterparts. There is very little fat in her seventy-three kilograms of weight, and she is toned from the last seven years of work she's put in as a mercenary. A few scars cross her body, relics of close calls during her career. Her bust is modest at best, but trends towards the small side due to her fitness.

When not in her armour, Alexandra wears clothing you'd more likely find on a man, wearing trousers and a loose fitting shirt underneath a leather jerkin. Soft shoes round out her dress.

Her armour, on the other hand, is a dark green affair, padded gambeson that covers her entire body. It's paired with a felt cloak to allow her to creep through forests more easily.

Biography
Alexandra was born to Byron Tully and his first wife Kyra Tully, the last child from that union. She was raised in Riverrun Keep, the castle owned by House Tully, with the rest of her siblings. Her childhood was normal for the first five years, as she played with her four older sisters and ran around the castle like any normal girl. However about a month after her fifth birthday, a scandal struck the castle and House of Tully. Alexandra's father had found out about a long-running affair between his wife and a man known as Heron the Horse, a travelling minstrel known for bedding many a noblewoman. This affair had been going on for at least as long as Alexandra had been alive, which left her parentage in doubt.

Furious, he banished Kyra from Riverrun, sending her back to her family in House Bracken. He did not send Alexandra with her, treating her as his child since he knew none of this was her fault. He married his second wife, Tayla Tully, several months afterwards.

The banishment of her mother hit Alexandra hard, especially once she realized that many of the servants, and several of her family members, questioned if she even belonged in the house.

Alexandra began to grow more distant to her family and began spending time around the man-at-arms in the castle. She learned the basics of fighting from them, much to her father's chagrin. By the time she was twelve, it was obvious that she wasn't going to be content to be the wife for some nobleman with her interests in the art of war. While he never gave her his public approval, he arranged for her to find a proper tutor on how to fight.

While her father tacitly supported her learning how to fight, she was routinely shown disdain by her siblings for her attempts to for all intents and purposes become a man. So Alexandra stayed the course, drifting farther and farther away from her family.

At the age of sixteen, she left home, taking nothing but a sword, a set of light armour from the guard room, and a weirwood bow that had been a gift from her father.

She wandered about, looking for a purpose before she ended up in a tavern in Maidenport. There she ended up talking to some soldiers, mercenaries from the River's Company, that had just come back from a job. One misunderstanding and a bar fight later, she had laid two of them on the ground. Their commander ended up offering her a job through his laughter, and she joined up with the company.

The company became the family that she lost when her mother actions came to life, and Alexandra has proven very loyal to them. She's fought in over a dozen combat actions between the squabbling Riverlords, and eventually ended up as the commander of one of the scout teams, which she runs to this day.

Abilities
As a member of the River's Company, Alexandra can count upon her companions and fellow soldiers for backup when needed, and she personally leads one of the company's detachments.

Fighting Prowess
Alexandra has been training with a blade since she was very young, using the thrill of a fight as a replacement for the loss of a family. As such, she's become a proficient user of her weapons. She's a fast combatant, keeping agile and quick to take down much more heavily armoured enemies.

Alexandra is a crack shot with a bow and prefers to fight at range whenever possible. She's practised incessantly with her bow, and as such almost always hits what she wants. She rarely wastes ammunition and is the one generally called upon by the company when they need someone far away brought down.

When she fights in melee, Alexandra uses her paired swords as tools of precision, dancing around her opponent as she targets the soft spots in their armour. She rolls under and over attacks, using her light armour to retain full mobility. She will occasionally toss knives around during combat, using them to create openings in a fight.

Equipment
Alexandra job in the River's Company is that of a skirmisher, leaving her as more of a scout than a front line combatant. Her equipment reflects this in its light and fast nature. She carries both the equipment of an archer and that of a melee fighter, allowing her to enter combat at any range.

Weapons
Alexandra's weapons reflect her method of combat to be light and agile, flitting around the battlefield instead of getting into a slugging match with a heavily armoured brute.

Her primary weapon is a Longbow made out of Weirwood, an item she took with her when she ran away from House Tully. Weirwood longbows are some of the best in the world, as the material is tough, powerful, and near unbreakable. This allows her to sling it around her body if she has to go into melee suddenly, and has been a reliable tool. She keeps twenty-four Yew arrows in a quiver on her back, giving her ample ammunition for most jobs.

If she is forced to melee range, Alexandra wields a pair of short swords, each about the length of her fingertips to her elbows. She holds one in each hand, allowing her to block and strike in the same motion. Each is made of River-steel, a type of steel native to the Riverlands. Both are dulled on one side, allowing her to use her forearms as a brace if she is forced to block something like a great sword. Both swords are about an inch thicker than normal, giving them slightly more heft but a lot of durability.

Alexandra also carries twelve throwing knives on her person, for places where her swords are unneeded or to create an opening during a fight.

Armour
Due to her relatively weak strength compared to some of her male counterparts, Alexandra doesn't utilize heavy armour while on the battlefield. Speed and flexibility more important than protection to her, and her armour shows it. Alexandra can generally be seen wearing a 24 layer Gambeson over a long sleeved chained shirt. While the gambeson doesn't provide as much protection as a set of plate, it will still block sword blows and arrows from killing the user. That being said, it doesn't last near as long due to each blow it stops damaging the armour. To supplement her normal body armour, she wears a set of steel vambraces and greaves, leaving the protection of her hands to a set of mail gauntlets.

Misc.
Alexandra carries the general ranger loadout of five days of supplies on a backpack, as well as a heavy wool cloak to help hide within the forest. She generally sheds the backpack and the cloak when in a scuffle, to better retain her mobility.

Trivia

 * Alexandra is a reference to one of the author's DnD characters.