Ellesandra Hayford

Ellesandra Hayford is the daughter of Trevor, and Lessa Hayford making her a member of and the current Lady of House Hayford. Ellesandra has six siblings in the form of Kaven, Christoph, Mathew, Leeta, Sarah, and Jaelline of which her brother Kaven was a gentle young man unfit for war who went to the Battle of Jeutenburg and was killed during the siege, her brother Christoph would be injured during the siege of Efford Hold a castle west of Hayford and died of infection at Hayford, her brother Mathew was slain during a fever that spread throughout Hayford, her sister Leeta was slain during the same fever that spread throughout Hayford.

Ellesandra Hayford was born the fourth child of Trevor, and Lessa Hayford and when she was four she was bethrothed into House Bolten member Domeric Bolten, and it was waited four more years before they met. During this time waiting she watched her mother, and two siblings die of a fever that spread throughout the castle. At eleven she was finally to meet Domeric and the two greatly disliked eachother of which caused the ending of the Bethrothel and much laughter at Domeric who was rejected by a lower house. When she was twelve she watched her father die of foolishness after he taunted Gregor Brobane of whom slaughtered him in front of nearly all the remaining Hayford`s and it was only after the intervention of Sandor Brobane that Christoph was stopped from fighting Gregor. When the Conflict in Bolten arose her brother Kaven was Lord of Hayford and alongside Christoph would lead the forces of House Hayford to the east. During these battles both brothers would eventually die with Christoph returning to Hayford nearly dead, and despite Ellesandra and others best efforts he died. Made the Lady of House Hayford only a week later she was forced to deal with attacking forces of House Lannister, and after a two week siege she surrendered the city to them.

History

Early History

Ellesandra Hayford was born the fourth child of Trevor, and Lessa Hayford and when she was four she was bethrothed into House Bolten member Domeric Bolten, and it was waited four more years before they met. During this time waiting she watched her mother, and two siblings die of a fever that spread throughout the castle. At eleven she was finally to meet Domeric and the two greatly disliked eachother of which caused the ending of the Bethrothel and much laughter at Domeric who was rejected by a lower house. When she was twelve she watched her father die of foolishness after he taunted Gregor Brobane of whom slaughtered him in front of nearly all the remaining Hayford`s and it was only after the intervention of Sandor Brobane that Christoph was stopped from fighting Gregor. When the Conflict in Bolten arose her brother Kaven was Lord of Hayford and alongside Christoph would lead the forces of House Hayford to the east. During these battles both brothers would eventually die with Christoph returning to Hayford nearly dead, and despite Ellesandra and others best efforts he died.

Fall of Hayford

Ellesandra had spent her childhood watching her family die, and the threat of continued death was too much for her to handle.

``I was honest enought to admit that I was afraid. I didn`t want to watch anymore of my family die, and I was so scared that this time it would be me that led them to their deaths. I love my family. I love my family.``

-Ellesandra Hayford

Hayford and by extension House Hayford would enter the realm of great importance after Jamie Lannister and the army of House Lannister were able to defeat the forces sent against them, and would besiege the castle. Hayford`s defences were led by Lady Ellesandra`s bastard uncle of whom had married her aunt and thus ruined her aunts place in the line of succession. Her Aunt pushed young Ellesandra to fight to the death, but each night of the siege she returned to her room where her two younger siblings slept and became more and more afraid of their deaths. After a week the lines allowing the entry of ravens into the castle were cut as the Lannisters and their forces completely surrounded the castle, and thus although the Lannister scouts knew the forces of Cerwyn were incoming this news was not known by the Hayford`s. Hayford`s small forces were weakened further when the cowardly Davon Hayford her bastard uncle would abandon the walls with thirty men where he would be captured and executed in sight of the walls. Losing her husband led Natasha Hayford to spend the next few days screaming in her room in one of the taller towers which even further weaknened the moral of the defenders. When two weeks into the siege the walls were approached by the forces of House Lannister of whom offered her a safe surrender and the ability for House Hayford to continue controlling the castle with a garrison of Lannister men keeping their loyalty in check. During the meeting her aunt had to be restrained in the dungeon beneath the castle for fear she would derail the arrangement, and thus Ellesandra would surrender Hayford and leave the route into Dreadfort open to Lucerne, and relief from the north now closed.

``With the castle in our hands it would be a simple matter to further fortify the spot and the we had Dreadfort cut off and open for the taking. I left Tyrek in charge not only because of his injury but because he was someone when I looked at I believed I could trust for the job of holding the castle.``

-Jamie Lannister

As the Lannisters passed the castle it was Tyrek Lannister that was left in charge along with a hundred and fifty men to hold the castle, as Tyrek had suffered an arrow to the leg and needed time to heal anyway. As he finally was allowed to rest for the first time and have a healer look at his wound, they were shocked to see how bad the wound had become. Nearing infection he became delirious, and the command of the castle was handed briefly over to his second in command Baelon Jolly. As his sickness worsened he was visited by Ellesandra Hayford of whom had heard his screams and had watched her older brother die of infection from a wound he had suffered, and thus brought herbs that she had somewhat helped her brother but it had been too late for him. Ellesandra prepared to leave after delivering the herbs but as she neared him and saw the tears on his face from fear, she moved closer and briefly held his hand. When she tried to move away his hand remained clasped to hers and he held her tight not wanting her to leave in his delerious state. Staying with him throughout the night she kept waiting for his hand to go limp as he died, but he only clamped on harder, and when the morning came the healer came and the wound had somewhat gone down in infection. 

Getting Better

``Getting Better was the only thing I wanted him too do. This was some invader from a long away land that I had never heard speak, and I was crying at night for fear the infection would stop improving. He could have been a monster, or a killer, but I didn`t care in that moment. I just wanted him to be alright. See what beautiful eyes lay behind the eye lids that never opened. Hear the lyrical voice that I had built into my mind that he would sound like.``

-Ellesandra Hayford