Sir Aegor ("Bittersteel") Rivers

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    Ser Aegor Rivers, often called Bittersteel, was a renowned warrior and Great Bastard, fathered by Aegon IV. His mother was Barba of House Bracken. In his arms, he combined the the coat-of-arms of his parents: a red stallion for House Bracken, with black dragon wings for House Targaryen, on a golden field.
    
    Aegor was tall and well-made, but also lean and lithe. He had purple eyes, black hair and a close-cropped beard.  Aegor was angry his whole life, but he reserved particular loathing for Bloodraven, whose mother had replaced his as their father's favourite.
    
    In the Blackfyre Rebellion he sided with his other half-brother Daemon Blackfyre. During the Battle of the Redgrass Field, Aegor commanded the right of Daemon's host.  Upon Daemon's death, Aegor rallied his troops and charged Bloodraven's archers, taking out his half-brother's eye in the process.
    
    Managing to recover Blackfyre, the Targaryen family sword, Bittersteel fled Westeros at the end of the Rebellion, to the Free City of Tyrosh with Daemon's remaining sons.[4] Here, he founded the famous mercenary organization The Golden Company. Despite the notorious unreliability of sellswords, the Golden Company is reputed to have never broken a contract, and reference to their founder can be seen in their words; "Beneath the gold, the bitter steel."