Born with the silver hair and violet eyes of Old Valyria, Alyn and his older brother
Adam were the bastard sons of Marilda, Captain of the trading ship Mouse, and the grandsons
of a shipwright in the village Hull on the isle of Driftmark.
Marilda claimed their father was the deceased nobleman Ser Laenor Velaryon, son to the Lord
of Driftmark, and first husband of Rhaenyra Targaryen when she was heir to the Iron Throne.
Yet Laenor was known to prefer the company of men, and so some suspected their true parentage
came from Laenor’s father Lord Corlys Velaryon, who may have asked Marilda to lie, in order
to avoid the wrath of his wife Rhaenys Targaryen, cousin of the king.
During the Dance of the Dragons civil war in 129 AC, the Black Faction of Rhaenyra Targaryen
put forth a call to find anyone who might have traces of Valyrian blood, so they might
attempt to claim a dragon and if successful serve in the Queen’s army.
Seeking to better their lives, Alyn and Addam made the attempt, resulting on the older boy
successfully bonding the dragon Seasmoke, while Alyn was unable to locate his first
choice Grey Ghost, leading him to try and fail mounting Sheepstealer who set his cloak
aflame.
Though Addam helped put out the fire, Alyn was left with permanent scars.
Though Alyn failed, Addam’s new position as a dragonrider raised the standing of their
entire family, causing Lord Corlys Velaryon to publicly embrace them as grandsons, arranging
for Addam and Alyn of Hull to be legitimized by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen.
This then allowed Corlys to name Addam Velaryon as heir to Driftmark.
Unfortunately, as the war between Rhaenyra and her younger brother Aegon II intensified,
two the dragonseed commoners who claimed dragons for the Black Faction, betrayed their Queen
at the First Battle of Tumbleton and went over the Greens.
Enraged by their actions, Rhaenyra ordered all the Dragonseeds arrested, but her Hand
of the Queen Corlys Velaryon warned his grandson, allowing him to escape on Seasmoke.
Yet Addam could not rest knowing that his name was disgraced and set out to prove his
loyalty by descending upon enemy forces in the Second Battle of Tumbleton.
Though he helped the blacks achieve victory, Addam and Seasmoke were killed in a threeway
battle with the dragon Vermithor and Daeron Targaryen upon Tessarion.
Years later, when his bones were finally entombed on Driftmark, his brother Alyn wrote only
one word on his epitaph, Loyal.
With Addam dead and Corlys arrested in King’s Landing for helping his heir escape, 15 years
old Alyn was left in command of the large Velaryon fleet.
When he learned Queen Rhaenyra was executed on Dragonstone by Aegon II, he prepared to
invade the island.
However Corlys was soon released from prison by the Greens and negotiated a deal to join
their side, causing Alyn to cancel his plans and instead ferry King Aegon to the Capital.
But the war was not yet over, as the loyal Black Faction Lord Cregan Stark descended
upon King’s Landing with a massive army to avenge their Queen.
When Aegon II refused abdication to avoid further bloodshed, Corlys and others poisoned
him, naming Rhaenyra’s son Aegon III as King.
Though the Northmen were hesitant to end the fighting, peace eventually came to Westeros,
and when Corlys Velryon died in 132 AC, Alyn was his successor, having earned the loyalty
of their fleet during the war.
Yet his illegitimate birth led his trueborn cousins to dispute the inheritance, taking
their grievance to King’s Landing.
King Aegon III chose to confirm Alyn Velaryon as Lord of Driftmark, with 2 of his cousins
given other lands and titles to win their loyalty, while another 2 refused to accept
the decision and attempted to assassinate their new liege.
They failed, resulting in one killed and the other sent to the night’s watch.
A dashing, newly made Lord, in command of one of the richest houses and most powerful
fleets in the Seven Kingdoms, Alyn’s ascent continued by marrying Lady Baela Targaryen,
an older sister of the King, and was named Lord Admiral of the Royal Fleet in 133 AC.
Despite this, Lord Unwin Peake, the Hand of the King, despised young Alyn and so passed
him over to instead name his uncle Gedmund as Commander of the royal fleet during a mission
to attack the pirate king Racallio Ryndoon and establish a Westerosi presence on the
Stepstones.
Though Alyn was ordered to provide support and council to Ser Gedmund, he instead attacked
the Braavosi ships guarding the islands, won the battle on his own, was knighted by the
Lord Commander of the King’s guard and returned to King’s Landing a conquering hero, with
the nickname Oakenfist.
Lord Unwin Peake was furious not only because Alyn disobeyed orders, but because his victory
upon the sea did little accomplish their actual objective of securing territory on the stepstones.
Nevertheless, Alyn was treated as a hero by most, and so Unwin sent him on another mission,
this one far more dangerous and likely to get him killed.
Therefore Alyn Velaryon set off on the first of 6 great voyages, ordered to defeat the
Red Kraken Dalton Greyjoy, who was ravaging the western coast of the continent.
In no great hurry to arrive, Oakenfist stopped by the Stepstones to spend time with Racallio
Ryndoon, then Aliandra Martell in Dorne, as well as Lord Lyonel Hightower and the High
Septon in Old Town.
When finished with his meetings, he finally arrived in the Sunset Sea where he learned
the Red Kraken was murdered in bed by a salt wife, leaving the Ironborn to fight amongst
themselves for power.
Hailed a hero simply for his presence in the area, Alyn was awarded a golden seahorse.
He then left 1/3 of his Fleet to protect the Westerlands before returning home, once again
stopping in Dorne to visit his friend Aliandra, as rumors suggesting they were lovers.
In Dorne, Alyn was visited by a member of the Rogare banking family, who claimed the
King’s younger brother Viserys, thought to be killed in the civil war, was alive and
living in the city of Lys.
Making his way to the island, Alyn agreed to the demands of the Rogare family, which
included a payment of 100 000 golden dragons, and once again returned to King’s Landing
as a conquering hero.
Not only did he accomplish his mission of ending the Ironborn raids in the west, but
he also brought back the lost Prince Viserys Targaryen, to the delight and gratitude of
the king and court.
Enhancing this moment of glory even further, upon Alyn’s return his wife Baela presented
him their first born child Laena Velaryon.
Firmly entrenched as one of the most prominent and powerful nobles on the continent, Alyn
Oakenfist gained even more combat experience during a war of succession in the vale, serving
with the royal fleet until finally given command to bring them victory.
Unfortunately House Velaryon also suffered a severe financial setback under Oakenfist,
as much of their wealth was lost when the Rogare Bank of Lys collapsed.
Thus Alyn set out on great trade missions like his grandfather, far into the east, restoring
the wealth of their family.
Later in life, Alyn fell in love with Elaena Targaryen, the daughter of King Aegon III,
and together had 2 natural children Jeyne and Jon Waters.
Though he was born a bastard living among common folk, Alyn Oakenfist Velaryon rose
to become one of the most powerful noble Lords in the continent.
And while he disappeared at sea in 175 AC, he was remembered as one of the greatest heroes
of the age.