<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Maester Owell</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatright">(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29500000/Maester-Murenmure-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-29542626-591-493.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Maester Owell<br/><strong>House</strong>: Greystark<br/><strong>Role</strong>: Expert (Maester)<br/><strong>Age</strong>: 36 (Middle Age)<br/><strong>Gender</strong>: Male<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong>: Heterosexual<br/><strong>Occupation</strong>: Maester<br/><strong>Wealth</strong>: 67 stags and 25 coppers<br/><br/><strong>Goal</strong>: Knowledge (Astronomy), Security (Greystarks)<br/><strong>Motivation</strong>: Stability<br/><strong>Virtue</strong>: Humble<br/><strong>Vice</strong>: Cowardly<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: Tall, scrawny, almost emaciated.  A long, narrow face with a tall forehead, dark eyes, and shoulder length black hair.  He prefers loose fitting robes, and his chain is smaller than the average Maester's.  He looks young for his age.<br/><strong>Skin</strong>: Pale<br/><strong>Hair</strong>: Black, shoulder length.  No beard.<br/><strong>Eye Color</strong>: Hazel<br/><strong>Height</strong>: 195 cm<br/><strong>Weight</strong>: 70 kg<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>: Maester Owell was born Owell Rolfson on the northern end of the isle Greenstone, off the coast of the Stormlands.  His father had been a carpenter, his mother a maid at the local inn in their small village.  When he was five, Owell's mother stabbed his father to death during an argument.  After she was hanged, a hedge knight brought Owell south to a sept in the town of Greenstone.  Here he resided for the next eleven years, earning his keep by cleaning the sept, collecting donations, repairing torn robes, and other minor duties.  In return, the septons fed and clothed him and, most importantly, taught him to read and write.  Inspired by a volume on the stars written by a long dead Maester, Owell left Greenstone at the age of 16 to join the Citadel.<br/><br/>His studies progressed quickly, and Owell forged his first link (bronze, for astronomy) when he was 18.  While he was ultimately interested in observing the stars and planets, Owell felt a need to earn the rank of Maester.  Without a chain of his own, he wondered, would anyone take his ideas seriously?  Over the next four years, Owell moved from one subject to another, forging links for ravenlore, lenscrafting, warcraft, healing, anatomy, alchemy, weatherlore, and history.  However, Owell grew bored before he could finish his chain, and returned to astronomical pursuits, three links short.<br/><br/>When he was 22, Owell began observing the motion of the stars, wondering if they moved from year to year.  The Archmaester of astronomy, Vaellyn, had stated that they did not, but Owell had recently learned of another observatory in Norvos that was twice as old as the one in Oldtown.  Perhaps they're measurements, contrasted with the Citadel's, could reveal the answer.  Curious, Owell stayed in Norvos for two years, poring over their observatory's precise records of star positions, and discovered that the stars had indeed drifted slightly over the centuries.  Triumphant, he returned to Oldtown and presented his evidence, inadvertently shaming the prideful Archmaester Vaellyn.  Out of spite, he granted Owell three additional bronze links and made him a full Maester.  Unaware that Vaellyn was only doing this to deny him access to an observatory, Owell happily accepted and was promptly forced to accept an assignment to Greyhold.<br/><br/>Although this would make his research much more difficult, Owell resolved to fulfill his duties as best he could.  He would not be a burden upon the Greystarks.  Shortly after arriving in 283 AL, Owell proved himself when he cured Erik Greystark of a persistent cough that had nearly killed the boy.  As a reward, Lord Lewys allowed Owell to convert part of the rookery into a makeshift observatory and granted him free reign to pursue his scholarly interests, so long as he always placed his duties as a Maester first.  Owell happily agreed, and has faithfully served House Greystark since.<br/><br/><strong>Family</strong>: Being a Maester, Owell forsook his family name when he forged his chain.  He is currently serving the House Greystark.<br/><br/><strong>Friends and Allies</strong>: Maesters Cristoff and Codwell, who share his fascination with telescopy and astronomy.  The three men frequently exchange their research, discoveries, and lengthy arguments via ravens.  In addition, Maester Owell's calm and friendly, albeit withdrawn, demeanor has earned him several friends amongst House Greystark, such as Lord Lewys' youngest daughter Elise, who frequently helps him in his makeshift observatory in the rookery.  While many look down their nose at a nobly born girl engaging in what are considered the pursuits of a Maester, he finds the intelligent and quick-minded Elise to be an invaluable assistant.<br/><strong>Rivals and Enemies</strong>: Being a quiet and gentle man, Maester Owell has made very few enemies.  However, an academic dispute in Oldtown pitted his evidence against the theories of the Archmaester Vaellyn, the stargazer known for his sharp tongue.  After years of study, he had demonstrated that the stars had moved from their locations in the sky over the past four hundred years, contradicting Vaellyn's theory that they were immobile.  Although the matter was not considered important by many members of the Citadel, Archmaester Vaellyn took it as a personal insult to his pride.  The issue escalated quickly and precipitated with Maester Owell being assigned to Greyhold to deny him access to the Citadel's observatory.