Seline Piper

Seline Piper is the daughter of two members of House Piper making her a member of House Piper. Aven would come to marry Seline Piper of which was a marriage that he put a lot of effort into as he did with most of his female relationships throughout his life and he would towards the present of the book keep Seline hidden within Deepdown as he became more paranoid. Aven Crowl would have two children with Seline Piper in the form of Elleria, and Avon Crowl of which his first born Elleria was the light of his life and squired underneath him for nearly fifteen years until the time of the conflict with Bolten she would be leading nearly five hundred men from Deepdown and her defeat and capture by the Lannisters would cause Aven to change his entire battle plan, while his son Avon attempted his entire life to make his father proud and despite his skill he was ignored for much of the time due to his father's obsession with Elleria Crowl.

Seline Piper would be born the third child, and second daughter of her father Hanns Piper and her birth would lead to the death of her mother forcing her father to remarry and during her youth she would be known for her permiscious behavior of which caused her a lot of problems within the house but it was kept secret enough that when she came of age she was able to be married to Aven Cowl. House Piper would be a major part of the Ironborn Raid on Rigen where they would refuse to assist their lord in House Oakheart of the Riverlands and led to the destruction of significant lands in southern Maidenshore, with only Niclas Piper positvely influencing any of the Ironborn attacks when he took a cavalry force from Pinkmaiden southward to assist.

History

Early History

Seline Piper would be born the third child, and second daughter of her father Hanns Piper and her birth would lead to the death of her mother forcing her father to remarry and during her youth she would be known for her permiscious behavior of which caused her a lot of problems within the house but it was kept secret enough that when she came of age she was able to be married to Aven Cowl.

Ironborn Invasion of the Riverlands

Main Article : Ironborn Invasion of the Riverlands

The Raid on Rigen The Ironborn had overstepped their place, and would pay.

“The Ironborn came out of nowhere. It had been so long since we had been actually assaulted that we had grown soft. That softness got a lot of people killed.” — Orrys Lancer Following the rise of Euron Greyjoy the Ironborn begin reaving the western lands again as Euron was attempting to sow chaos amongst the Lucernian allies and try to stop the flow of reinforcements into Bolten. Seeing the Riverlands as the great reserve yet untapped by the Kingdom of Lucerne Euron would send three large Reaving fleets to the Riverlands of which one was meant to feign an attack on Pinkmaiden, while the other two would divide into two fleets and with their large fleet they would reave the lands of House Justman, and House Lancer of whom were on the island of Rigen. On the island of Rigen the forces of House Lancer, and House Justman were the supreme powers of the island and both of them had spent generations not remembering the threat that the Ironborn poised to them, and thus their fleets remained anchored, and their military forces were lax in much of their preparation. In this state the Ironborn would move under the command of Stygg Tawney of whom led some two hundred ships against the port of Weldenvale, while his second in command Tom Tidewood would lead sixty ships against Castle Lancer, and the lands surrounding the castle. The plan was for Tom Tidewood to move south and attack the richer Lancer lands, while Stygg Tawney waited nearly three days before making his presence known, and then once he had he would delay any relief from the Justman's and thus allow Tom to escape with all the loot he could. “They were greenlanders and that immediatly made me think poorly of them. Pathetic Greenlanders thought there walls would protect them, and we would show them how wrong that feeling was.” — Stygg Tawney Stygg Tawney had brought some sixty of his ships as large Cogs, as they were planning to haul away a lot of goods, and materials from the island of Rigen. The mines of Lancer were one of the first places that Tom Tidewood would plan to hit, and Tom knew that the Lancer's had a relatively weakly defended hold fast near the mines that defended them, but he knew that he would be able to take it quite easily. Moving to land near Castle Lancer, he moved ashore with half his force, while the other half moved around the island to the site of the mines of Lancer where they would rush the small holdfast of Sturren Hold, and then from there take as much loot from the mines as they could. Tom Tidewood would quickly move ashore and lying before Sturren Hold the Ironborn would sack the town of Sturrenia of which they hung hundreds of bodies in the town square and looted everything they could get their hands on. Amongst the dead was the heir to House Stur in Wallen Stur of whom had attempted to bargain his son Gorold Stur back from the Ironborn who had taken him, but was instead murdered and hung before the Keep of which was one of the few places that didn't fall. Emly Stur (Emly Lancer) and her daughter Bethany Stur would be taken hostage alongside several other high nobles as the Ironborn sent these slaves back to the boats while they moved to attack Sturren Hold. “They had taken things from us that they had no place to take. Who will give me back my son I say. Who will avenge his death if not me.” — Orrys Lancer Following the sack of Sturrenia the Ironborn would assault Sturren Hold of which had also not been alerted to the danger and was taken completely unaware. Fighting at the Hold would be bloody, and the defenders were able to close the gate briefly before it was retaken again, and the Ironborn flooded inside killing every man inside the Hold including the heir to House Lancer in the form of Arnell Lancer, and following his murder his wife Leven would become enraged and killed two Ironborn before she was shot through with a crossbow bolt. With the hold taken the Ironborn would ransack everything of value including using hundreds of prisoners to push carts of minerals to the cogs offshore, and taking hundreds of slaves from around the Hold. At this point Castle Lancer came under assault, but by complete luck the guards on the main gatehouse were able to close the gate, and set off the alarm, and following this the battle devolved into a siege of which the Ironborn could no win, as they didn't have the required tools to take the castle. After two days of the seige it became clear that the Ironborn couldn't assault them, and thus realizing that the Ironborn were simply delaying them, Arwood Lancer would lead a force of some three hundred cavalry out of the castle and move around the rear of the Ironborn forces, and seeing this the Ironborn pulled back and were harassed for hours as they retreated back to the boats. Arwood would stop the chase as he regrouped with some three hundred men at arms from the region who had arrived outside of Sturrenia where they entered the town to find much of it burned to the ground, and hundreds dead. Arwood would find his sister's husband and child hung outside of the main keep, and from survivors he learned that his sister and her one daughter had been taken captive by the Ironborn and had escaped by the boats with the rest of them. “They saw me and thought the main attack was there, but I was the diversion, and they were too stupid to see that.” — Stygg Tawney With the attack on the Lancer lands underway the second and smaller force led by the overall leader Stygg Tawney would move the fleet outside of Weldenvale in order to alert the Justman forces they were there. Having heard of the attack on the Lancers from ravens they had been preparing to assist the Lancers, but seeing the Ironborn fleet and watching several Longships moving into the rivers they would end that plan, and instead prepare to attack the Ironborn fleet. Armory Justman would lead the Weldenvale Fleet that was some forty ships strong so was weaker then the Ironborn, but the Ironborn were less capable of fighting fleet actions, and thus the Weldenvale fleet spent two days attempting to draw them into battle, but the Ironborn continued to flee, and then on the third day they received word of the extent of the reaving in the south, and the fact that the Ironborn there had been able to escape, thus realizing reinforcements were coming the Weldenvale fleet returned to port and went into defensive action. Believing the assault would happen the next day the entire garrison was under high alert, but two days passed and nothing happened, and it was only when they received a raven from Lorderon saying the Ironborn had slipped through the Lorderon Pass that they realized they had been tricked the entire time. Raid on Pinkmaiden “My family had been fighting the Pipers for long I had forgotten there were real enemies out there.” — Padme Oakheart As the three Ironborn fleets moved through the Lorderon Pass the first fleet moved furthern north of Rigen and against the Island of Maidenshore where the forces of House Piper, and formally House Goodbrooke but following its near demise it would be dominated by House Oakheart of the Riverlands.

Family Members

Hanns Piper II. - Father

Grendlia Piper - Mother