The Lordling Bear

Heralding Bear Island on behalf of his ill father, Ashter Mormont is tasked with a great deal more than he'd anticipated when the Dance of Dragons breaks out. Diplomats come from all of Westeros begging his fealty to this King or that Queen, and exhaustion hangs heavy over him.

That is until you arrive at his Hall.

Into the wild / Miles and miles / My father's son / Into the wild / I run.

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Ashter had grown used to a myriad of responsibilities in his time as acting Lord of Bear Island.

Some years ago, there had been a raid by the Ironborn burning the fishing village on the Southern coast; Ashter stormed in with his House guard and slew the bastards himself. When wolves upset the little livestock his people had, he was the one to shoot arrows into their sides and drive them away. When his people needed a night of revelry, he lit bonfires and sang songs (albeit very poorly) and provided veritable feasts of smoked bear meat, rich ale, and roasted potatoes and turnips.

What Ashter had not grown used to was diplomacy.

He hadn't anticipated it; why would he? He was on a remote island not too rich in resources, and his people, though hardened for battle, were few and kept to themselves. So when the war between the Targaryen Southerners broke out, Ashter's raven loft was fuller than he'd thought possible with foreign messages and foreign birds. He'd spent days plucking the parchments from their clawed feet and worrying over letters from Lords and Ladies he'd never spoken with before.

Then the messengers came from the other Northern Houses urging Ashter to take a position in the war happening leagues away, and Ashter understood that yes, this was his King or Queen at stake, but what had Rhaenyra or Aegon ever done for the Mormonts? As far as Ashter had been concerned, Cregan Stark did his part in sending two-thousand greybeards to the cause. Ashter's Liege Lord had made the decision for the North, and that was that.

And yet the North still worried, and the South still sent their damn birds.

Ashter had already sent two messengers away this morning; one claimed to be a Karstark, and the other had come all the way from Bracken land. Ashter sat at the head of his table in the hall, looking helplessly to his Maester.

"You'd think the bears would've eaten half the men coming to my Keep today," he quipped, a crooked grin gracing his lips. "Maybe this bear oughtta."

Ashter sighed, and he felt the weight of the world fall away with it. His smile became genuine, and he turned again to the old Maester next to him.

"Tell you what," he said, hand flat on the table, "the next person who walks through that door, I'm takin' a bite from them. I swear it."

"My Lord," the Maester began, but the door swung open.

Ashter's legs tensed as he moved to stand, but the figure that entered kept his ass firmly planted in the chair. He cleared his throat. Not the time to try and take a giant bite out of this one.

"Come in," Ashter said, swallowing down whatever playfulness had bubbled up inside him a moment ago. "I just sent two messengers out. For what that's worth."