Jonn Hightower

Jonn Hightower, known to smallfolk as “Young Jonn”, inherited Oldtown’s beacon and burdens at only twelve years of age after his father’s sudden death.

Appearance

A small boy with a round face. Jonn has a mop of tight sandy-blond curls and keen grey eyes that study every caller.

Personality

Curious yet willful, Young Jonn balances a child’s eagerness to explore with a lord’s prickly pride. He yearns to prove himself but is quick to bristle when advisers speak down to him. Impressionable by nature, he can swing between bold resolve and doubt, depending on which counselor last bent his ear.

History

The elder Lord Hightower was hailed throughout the Reach as a brilliant general and administrator, poised to direct the realm’s defence against Andal war-bands. His untimely death, choking on an apple, left the keys of Oldtown, the Beacon of the South, in the untested hands of his first-born son Jonn.

While barely past boyhood, Young Jonn confronts a storm of perils. Andal adventurers cast hungry eyes on the fertile lands of the Reach; rival courtiers, bannermen, and even kin swarm his court, each eager to mould the child-lord to their own designs. Too young for tourneys and councils yet old enough to bear a lords weight.

Nevertheless Jon grow up and became a learned man.

Quotes by Jonn Hightower

“Council again? Fine—let’s get it done so I can play again.” — Lord Jonn Hightower, dragged to yet another meeting.

Quotes about Jonn Hightower

"A whelp runs Oldtown. The Hightowers have gone mad.” — Lord Marlon Manderly

“It’s his lady mother pulling the strings. Best we ask what game she’s playing.” — Lord Olyvar Florent on the situation in Oldtown.