Selyse Florent

Selyse of House Florent married Stannis Baratheon around 287 AC in a match arranged for the alliance it secured rather than any affection between them, and the coldness that followed became one of the more open secrets of Stannis's household. She lost several children to stillbirth before Shireen survived, a private grief that hardened her further and that Stannis, characteristically, has never once mentioned aloud — though the text lets other tongues do the counting for him.

Sharp-featured and marked by the Florent family's unfortunate mustache, Selyse was pious well before Melisandre ever set foot on Dragonstone; once the red priestess arrived and turned Stannis's court to the worship of R'hllor, Selyse became her most fervent and least critical convert, burning the Seven's statues with an enthusiasm that embarrassed even some of her husband's own men.

Left in effective charge of Stannis's rear household while he campaigns, Selyse eventually leads Shireen and the royal retinue north to Castle Black and then the reclaimed Nightfort, her devotion to Melisandre's faith by then closer to zealotry than belief — a fervor that unsettles the Night's Watch's more practical men even as she remains, on paper, queen of whatever throne her husband manages to hold.