Alyssa Alester

Alyssa Alester is a comely, raven-haired young woman with green eyes (unusual for an Alester). She is somewhat rebellious and has always bucked the authority of the House's maester and her other educators.

As she grew older Alyssa's beauty made her an attractive marriage prospect. She rebelled against the maester educating her and took an interest in the actions of the Shore Scouts, but was forced into completing her studies, abandoning her passion for the wilderness and marrying early.

The Danes are one of the largest minor houses of the North, and marriages with the family are typically lucrative. Eberhart Dane was unmarried and his status as a third son made the Danes comfortable with marrying him to the beautiful Alyssa Alester. Eberhart, however, is a notorious womanizer, and according to some thirsts for violence and battle. The marriage is brutally unhappy and Eberhart is known almost openly to  have several bastards in Danehold. The two have had two daughters: the first lived for two years before dying of a sudden sickness which nearly killed Alyssa, and the second, Tarah Dane, was born healthy in 288 AL.