Name of Creator: Niamh McNamara
Name of Character: Sir Anrai McNamara
Relation to Other Site Characters:


Sir Ciaran McNamara, 18, son
Father Eamonn McNamara, 17, son
Lady Niamh McNamara, 16, daughter
Lady Aoife McNamara, 13, daughter

Brief Outline of Personality, History, and Appearance:

Personality: Grasping and cruel, Anrai has rushed to the top simply because of his ability to get rid of baggage and pile on the goods (literally since he is a merchant). He can be utterly ruthless, especially with dealing with his two disappointments in life: his daughters. Anrai also has a large amount of pride and it is easily deflated by mundane things (such as a passing commet) and, more easily, by things between mundane and the most important (such as the birth of his daughters which were, to him, an attack on his masculinity.)

Still, Anrai is affectionate if only to his son, Ciaran. Ever since Eamonn went into the priesthood, he sees his son as a good-for-nothing and someone who took food off the table of the McNamara household and doesn't plan on paying for it.

Bitter and angry, Anrai can't help but be a bit proud of the fact that some small part of himself is in his eldest daughter. She is manipulative, conniving and absolutely ambitious. Being around her, as he has noted, is a constant game of chess and it's something he almost despises for the fact that he is always nearly losing (he won't admit to actually losing, you'll note) and he must stay on the tips of his toes at all times around her. Still, he'll get to conquer her one day and since seeing her at the wedding, he knows exactly how.

Appearance: The forty five year old Anrai has already gone prematurely white. Nonetheless, he still has a younger face that his hair suggests. His eyes are a light blue color (something he failed to pass onto anyone but his last daughter) and, before he went white, his hair was a light blonde. Still, he carries himself proudly and steps solidly where ever he goes. To be sure, he has long years ahead of him and during those years of his vitality he plans on making sure he retains his spot by the king and keeps his body strong for the sake of appearances.

After all, if you look weak, your enemies will take advantage of you.

History: Anrai was born in 273 M.E. to a knight and his lady wife in Scalia. Raised to be a knight himself, Anrai differed from his parents' planning when, instead of fighting wars and so on, he chose to become a merchant knight and go to Thiasa. He brought along his new bride, Maeve, and set about amassing his fortune, quickly rising to the post of Trade Advisor when King Aedan came to the throne five years ago. He had set himself up for it before the old king had died and with the new king there came new positions. In his new spot, Anrai has quickly become an important member of court. Even if he is not exactly nobility, he is still on the verge of it and plans to marry most, if not all, of his children into high spots so that they might further his plans.

Ah, his children...

Maeve proved a fertile wife indeed and after a year or so of marriage, she gave him the much desired son. Bolstered by his success in the bedchamber, he quickly fathered another son on her. Both his sons were beloved by their father and all he could think of was having another precious boy to further his ambitions at court and on the battlefield. After all, the first son was to be a merchant knight, the second to earn his spurs on the battlefield as well as some rewards for valour...and the third?

The third turned out not to be a boy at all but a disgusting, sniveling girl. Disgusted with his wife and loathing himself, Anrai took a trip to Scalia and then to various other countries for three years. He slept with other women while he was (possibly fathering other children who might come back to haunt him...) and then finally came back home, arms and ships full of goods for the king and for himself.

Once more, he took to trying for that third son who would most assuredly become a lord in his own right through being an advisor to the king himself. However, once more, he failed and was delivered a girl. Thoroughly decided that he had lost that which truly made him a man (the ability to sire sons on his wife), he has slept apart from Maeve for the last thirteen years, taking his pleasures elsewhere and turning his attentions to furthering his family at court. Not to mention getting rid of that pesky first daughter and downtrodding the second son.