Stannis and Robert were both present at Storm's End when Steffon and Cassana were expected to return from their voyage, looking on from the parapets of the castle. Maester Cressen remembers how Lord Steffon had written to him a fortnight before his return, stating that he had found a splendid fool in Volantis who would delight Robert and who might even teach Stannis how to laugh, in time. In 278 AC, Stannis's parents were sent on a mission by King Aerys II to Volantis to find a bride for Rhaegar Targaryen, Stannis's cousin and the crown prince, but they were unsuccessful. Even in his youth, Stannis had been an introverted child, who was mature beyond his years, solemn and joyless. Cressen, the maester at Storm's End, came to care deeply for Stannis, moreso than for his brothers, as he felt Stannis was the one who needed him the most, as the most unloved of the three. Whatever Stannis did, Robert had done first and better. Growing up, Stannis always stood in the shadow of his older brother. Eventually, Stannis's great-uncle, Harbert, convinced him to abandon the bird, stating that Stannis was making a fool of himself with it. (Robert himself owned a gyrfalcon named Thunderclap, who never missed a strike). ![]() He named the bird Proudwing, but his brother Robert called it Weakwing, as it would never fly higher than the treetops, and never soared. Īs a lad, Stannis found an injured goshawk, and nursed it back to health. It was years later that Steffon told him that it had been the Hand of the King, Lord Tywin Lannister, whom they had seen, as King Aerys had cut himself on the throne earlier that day and Tywin had taken over for him. Stannis was impressed, and he and Robert agreed that the king had been as noble as the dragons were fearsome. There, Stannis believed he saw King Aerys II Targaryen on the Iron Throne, holding court. When Stannis was no more than four years old, his father took him and his brother Robert to court. He had an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Renly. Young Stannis and Maester Cressen, art by Lupotterdrawsīorn in 264 AC, Stannis was the second son of Lady Cassana Estermont and Steffon Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End and head of House Baratheon. Stannis's squires are Devan Seaworth and Bryen Farring, and Ser Andrew Estermont served as his squire years ago. Other armor includes wool and boiled leather or grey plate inlaid with a flaming heart. On campaign he wears a studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun, and a belt studded with garnets and yellow topaz. He sometimes wears a grey wool tunic, a dark red mantle, and a plain black leather belt from which hang his sword and dagger. Unlike many of his noble peers, Stannis dresses plainly. Influenced by Melisandre, Stannis adopts a new sigil which depicts the Baratheon stag enclosed within a red heart surrounded by orange flame. Though he once hoped for sons, he has only had a daughter, Shireen. His visits were even fewer, and he did his duty in the marriage bed only once or twice a year, and took no joy in it. During the years he served on the small council in King's Landing, he left his wife on Dragonstone. Stannis is not a man for easy courtesies, and has always been uncomfortable around women, even his own wife, Lady Selyse of House Florent. In his adult life, Stannis is increasingly embittered by the lack of affection he receives from Robert, even though he serves the king as well as he can. He has never had the affection of nobles or smallfolk. ![]() Stannis is an accomplished commander, sailor, and warrior with no thirst for battle, instead commanding from the rear. Stannis is a serious, stubborn, rarely-forgiving, hard man with a strong sense of duty and justice. His face has a tightness to it like cured leather, and he has hollow cheeks, and thin, pale lips. His head has only a fringe of black hair "like the shadow of a crown", and he has a close-cropped beard across his large jaw. Stannis has dark blue eyes and a heavy brow. Jon Snow notes that Stannis towers over him. Like his brothers, Robert and Renly, Stannis is a large man - tall, broad-shouldered, and sinewy.
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