Terms and Phrases to Help Describe a Character’s Ancestry & Family

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Wellborn

Gently bred

“Traced their roots back to this golden age”

“Traced their descent/could trace his descent way back to”

Could trace his lineage (“all the way back to Alexander”)

Of ignoble birth

Freeborn

Masterless

Clanless

Low birth (“his low birth would cost him respect”)

Born to wealth

“Without a drop of royal blood in him”

“A bit full of himself, but that would be his Lannister blood.”

Blessed with (phys/ment attribute)

Parentage (immediate ancestry)

Ancestry

Blood ties

“Let’s hope you’re forged from the same iron as your father.”

A chip off the old block

Cast from the same mold as _

Rowing’s in the blood

The brains of the family | “You’re obviously the brains of the family”)

Well-heeled (well-off; rich)

A born soldier

Childless

Fosterling

Lastborn

By-blow (illegitimate child | “He was some knight’s by-blow, people said

Firstborn/secondborn/thirdborn

Baby sister

Da

Grand-dam (grandmother/old woman/female ancestor)

Brother-by-law (Peter McLean)

Brother-in-claim (Maurice Druon)

The intended of his nephew.

My father the Duke

An off-relation

Progeny

Offspring

Firstborn

Next-of-kin

Kinfolk

Grandfolk

Eldest

Sister-dear

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