Lynesse Hightower

Lynesse was born in 272 AC, the youngest of Lord Leyton Hightower's daughters. Nothing survives of her childhood in Oldtown; the first solid trace of her comes only once she is grown, at a tourney.

At the Tourney of Lannisport, Ser Jorah Mormont won the joust and crowned her Queen of Love and Beauty. He asked for her hand soon after, and they married in the same city. Years later he would recall that first sight of her: «The first time I saw her I thought she was a goddess made flesh, as if the Maiden herself had come down to earth».

On Bear Island, Lynesse never adjusted to the north's austerity, and her husband began breaking the law to keep her in the style she was used to. Dacey Mormont judged her bluntly: «She had soft hands, no good for holding an axe».

Jorah eventually tried to sell some criminals to a Tyroshi slaver, and when Lord Eddard Stark found out, he convicted him of slave trading. The couple fled to the Free Cities, and there she left him for Tregar Ormollen, a wealthy Lyseni merchant prince.

In Lys, Lynesse became Tregar Ormollen's foremost concubine, a place so high in his household that even the prince's own wife fears her.

When Ser Humfrey Hightower sailed to Lys to hire sellswords against the ironborn ravaging the Reach, he counted on Lynesse to help him secure the best fleet available.