Lady Celia HardyIndex | HomePage | Non-PlayerCharacters | HouseHardyNPCs | Celia  Lady Celia Hardy is Oswain’s second wife, part of an arranged marriage from House Tollet, an impoverished house of the Vale of Arryn. Though the houses of the Vale and the North are more-or-less allied through the ties of Stark, Tully, and Arryn, Tollet is a poor house, with meagre holdings, and they are united in the desire to climb socially through marriage and alliance. Lady Celia has known hardship as a young girl, and she would do all she may to remain in a position of relative wealth and influence. Her first marriage was to a young, rising knight, Ser Martyn. He died valiantly in a fight against wildlings, earning much honour but leaving her a widow with a newborn. Her father was able to arrange an auspicious match with the widower, Lord Oswain Hardy, and insisted that Hardy take Celia’s newborn into the family proper. Celia’s marriage to Oswain has not been marked with a great deal of love from the children of Oswain’s prior marriage. As a result, she has taken on an “us versus them” attitude with her brood, secretly cultivating a desire to be the true power behind the house. Should House Hardy’s lordship pass to an heir not of her blood, Lady Celia fears that her influence at Holdfast Castle will be marginalised, or even that she will be sent into exile. Almost two decades her Lord’s junior, she is still beautiful, though her features have taken on a colder, harsher element as a result of the desperation and stress she feels. Her long blonde hair has been woven into several thick braids, which she wears according to the fashions she hears are popular in the south. She is fiercely protective of the children she has mothered, and favours them completely over the offspring of Oswain’s first wife. |
