Stannis Baratheon (The King in the Narrow Sea)

Middle of Lord Steffon's three sons, the dutiful one, neither beloved nor charming, the brother nobody asked for but who held Storm's End through a year of starvation during the Rebellion while Robert won the field battles. Awarded Dragonstone instead of his ancestral seat once his brother took the throne, a slight he has never forgotten. By the events of A Game of Thrones he rules the island from its old Targaryen halls with his wife Selyse and his only child Shireen.