Lyanna Stark | 20 | Married to William Stark | TAKEN | Grace Phipps
As the youngest child of Maege Mormont and an unknown father, she has always lived an unconventional life. She has four older sisters: Dacey, Alysane, Lyra, and Jorelle. Like all the women of Bear Island, Lyanna was taught how to use various weapons from the time she was very young. Most girls were given dolls but the Mormont daughters were given morningstars and axes. It was a different life, forged by years and years of raids along the shores of Bear Island. In order to defend their homes they had to fight while the men were away. Even when things were safe, those skills were not to be forgotten by any women of any age.
All through her childhood Lyanna trained and fought with her sisters. She wanted to be a great warrior and idolized her older sisters in that way. She is close with her niece, Lily, who was only three years her junior and the pair were near inseparable for most of their childhood. However, everything started changing all too quickly. She couldn’t remember a time before her mother was Lady Mormont so her eldest sister, Dacey’s, marriage to Benjen Stark before the outbreak of the Winter Rebellions was the first real change in her family life that she could truly remember. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the only change.
Lyanna was eleven when the Ironborn rebelled and the North rose up to defend their home from the krakens rising from the sea. As a child Dacey had told stories of the Ironborn raiders to scare Lyanna and their sisters, but now those fears could very easily become reality. Lyanna begged her mother to allow her to go off to fight, but Maege insisted that Lyanna was too young. She was forced to remain on Bear Island with Dacey, who had just given birth to her first child, while her other three sisters rode off to war. In Lyanna’s eyes it wasn’t fair that she was stuck helping Dacey run the island and take care of her new baby when she could have been off fighting. More than once she was caught trying to slip off the island to go join the ranks of the Northern forces, but each time she was brought back to Bear Hall.
By the end of the war, Lyanna was itching for adventure and excitement. She wanted to fight. She wanted to see battle and in some ways she was disappointed the war ended when it did. If it had gone on for one more year she would have been old enough to fight. Dacey reassured her that someday she would see a real fight, but reminded her to pray that war would never come to their doorstep again. Too many people could be lost and they were lucky that their family remained unscathed.
As she learned more about the world outside Bear Island and Westeros as a whole, Lyanna’s thirst for adventure grew. At the same time, she started getting to know William Stark, her recently betrothed, and shared her dreams of adventure with him. She lost her mother in the War Against the Night but, despite her grief, refuses to give up on the future she’s building for herself.
Before her marriage to William, the two traveled Westeros together, and when they returned, they were wed. They traveled again, this time to Essos, where Lyanna came across her banished cousin, Jorah Mormont. She became close with him in their limited time together and was sad to have to leave him behind in Essos instead of bring him back with them. Having found their adventure, Lyanna and William are beginning to be ready to settle down and have a quiet life together.