Paxter Redwyne

Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor and master of one of the three great fleets of Westeros — some two hundred warships, backed by five times as many merchant vessels — married his cousin Mina Tyrell, sister to his liege lord Mace, binding the Arbor's wealth and sails to Highgarden's ambitions. Their children, the twins Ser Horas and Ser Hobber and a daughter, Desmera, round out a house whose wine and warships matter rather more to the war than its personalities do.

He was kept out of the early fighting for Renly Baratheon's cause largely because his own sons were held hostage in King's Landing by Cersei Lannister, a leverage that worked exactly as intended and kept the Redwyne fleet neutral through the war's opening moves.

He deployed his fleet against the ironborn later in the war, helping relieve the western coast around Lannisport from Balon Greyjoy's raiders — one of the few unambiguous naval successes the crown's side can claim. That success left the Arbor itself thinly defended when Euron Greyjoy's Iron Fleet later struck the Shield Islands and the Redwynes' own home waters, sinking or seizing what few warships had been left behind to guard them.