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Location Details |
Address: | The Stormlands |
Coordinates: | East by Southeast Westeros |
Owner: | House Baratheon |
Type: | Kingdom Region |
Wealth: | Destitute - Opulent |
The Stormlands are one of the constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms on the continent of Westeros. The Kingdom of the Storm was a sovereign nation until the War of Conquest, in which the last Storm King was slain. The region is so-named for the savage and frequent autumn storms that batter the coast after beginning in the Summer Sea.
The Stormlands are ruled from the castle of Storm's End by House Baratheon. Notable bannermen of the region include Buckler, Caron, Connington, Dondarrion, Errol, Estermont, Penrose, Selmy, Staedmon, Swann, Tarth, and Wylde.
Locations of Importance
The Stormlands are bordered to the north by the crownlands, west by the Reach, south by Dorne and the Sea of Dorne, and east by Shipbreaker Bay and the narrow sea. They are one of the smaller regions of Westeros, a land of harsh mountains, stony shores, and verdant forests, including the Kingswood and the Rainwood along Cape Wrath. Major rivers include the Slayne and part of the Wendwater.
The Dornish Marches, located in the south-west in a long salient along the Red Mountains, serve as an effective buffer zone between the Stormlands and their old enemies of the Reach and Dorne. For centuries it has been a regular battleground, changing hands more than once.
A few islands, including Tarth and Estermont, are also considered part of the Stormlands. Ships coming across the narrow sea avoid the notorious Shipbreaker Bay and its storms, though the seas along the Stormlands can be clear and blue. The waters around Tarth are particularly famed for their clear blue color, earning Tarth the name "Sapphire Isle."
- Felwood: To the south of the Kingswood there is a small break between it and a small wood called Felwood. A few locations within this wood is the Castle of House Fell, the Black Bog and in the bog's center: The Howling Hill.
- White Port: One of the Stormlands most important ports. ((It is not yet known as Weeping Town.))
People of the Stormlands
Great Ruling House of the Stormlands
Major Houses of the Stormlands
Caron •Dondarrion • Estermont • Swann • Trant
Minor Houses of the Stormlands
Buckler • Cafferen • Connington • Errol • Fell • Grandison • Hasty • Kellington • Lonmouth • Mertyns • Morrigen • Peasbury • Penrose • Rogers • Staedmon • Swygert • Tudbury • Wagstaff • Whitehead • Wylde
Landed Houses of the Stormlands
Extinct Houses
Bartheld • Blackberry • Bolling • Cole • Farrow • Herston • Horpe • Lonmouth • Musgood • Potter • Sawyer • Suggs • Sweet • Tarth • Toyne • Wensington
The Stormlands may be the smaller region but its harsher terrain creates a stronger more bold people who live for the moment. They are strong in their beliefs and stand for themselves and their kin. Family is everything in the sense that blood is thicker than water.
The mountains afford for good mining and many of the smallfolk are in villages that support such a trade and export from the region. Fishing is also a lucrative for those who know how to navigate the rougher waters along some of the coastline. What the Stormlands lack in size they make up for in precious gems and ore that the rest of the Kingdom seeks.
Noble bastards born and raised in the Stormlands are given the surname Storm.
House Baratheon
The Baratheons have ruled over the Stormlands since Orys Baratheon killed the last Storm King and took his lands, daughter, motto, and titles. While much of the rest of the Seven Kingdoms came to know a time of peace, the Stormlands continued to fight against the Dornishmen, both defending their own lands and seeking to take those of Dornish nobles. Though the land has never been a greatly prosperous one, the strong military traditions and fortifications of the Stormlands made it difficult for any to take what wealth it did have. As a result, the Baratheons came to be very proud of their newly forged heritage.
As with any family, the Baratheons vary in temperament, but they have a general tendency toward extremes of emotion and behavior. They are raised to proudly hold what is theirs, from lands to opinions, and defend it. Wrongs are not easily forgotten, friends are valued so long as they prove loyal, and disagreements are often taken seriously even when meant in jest. Those familiar with the family know the signs of the famous Baratheon wrath, but to others, their anger often seems capricious and unpredictable.
The House was thought to be wiped out with the death of Stannis and Renly. King Robert's bastard son, Gendry Baratheon was made the new High Lord of the Stormlands.
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House Blackberry
Their sigil is a green and purple blackberry branch on black.
The house went extinct supposedly at the Battle of Blackwater.
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- Jate Blackberry, captain of the gate at Dragonstone, possibly deceased.
- Omer Blackberry, one of the king's men.
House Bolling
Their sigil is vairy orange and blue, upon a black canton, a golden stag beneath an orange bend sinister. Which suggest illegitimate descent from a Baratheon sire.
The House Bolling went extinct at the Battle of Blackwater.
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- Ser Herbert Bolling, a knight who fought and died at the Battle of the Blackwater.
House Buckler
Lord Buckler rules Bronzegate, a castle on the Kingsroad northwest of Storm’s End. Their sigil is three brass buckles on blue.
Lord Ralph Buckler sided with Stannis and was one of the Queen's Men at the end.
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- Lord Ralph Buckler, Lord of Bronzegate.
- Ser Brus Buckler, his cousin.
House Cafferen
Their sigil is two white fawns counter salient on green.
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House Caron
House Caron is an old and powerful family ruling from their hereditary seat of Nightsong, a castle located in the center of the Dornish Marches, north of the Prince’s Pass. The Lord of Nightsong is also titled Lord of the Marches and is given the defense of the Marches against Dornish invasion. Nightsong is the westernmost castle of the Stormlands, making it a natural target for any attack coming from Dorne or the Reach. Their sigil is a field of black nightingales on yellow.
This house's lands are located in or very close to the Dornish Marches of the Red Mountains that separate the Stormlands from Dorne. Dornish culture is one of raiding to prove worthy to the nobility, so it is these houses that have hostile interactions with Dorne the most frequently.
At the onset of the War of the Five King House Caron declared for Renly Baratheon. Lord Bryce Caron was even a member of the Kingsguard of Renly Baratheon. After Renly's assasination, House Caron followed Stannis but all of the true-born were lost leaving Bryen Caron's bastard son, Rolland Storm to take control.
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- Lord Bryen Caron, the late Lord of the Marches.
- His unnamed wife, second son and daughters, died of a chill in 289 AC
- Lord Bryce Caron, Bryen's first son. Slain during the Battle of the Blackwater.
- Ser Rolland Storm, Bryen's bastard son. Called the Bastard of Nightsong. The current leader of Caron.
House Cole
The Steward of Blackhaven is a Cole and is Criston Cole's father. Criston Cole is the last of the Cole line, as he is a Kingsguard, so he may not marry. But he is renowned to be one of the finest knight and fighter in Westeros. There is a bit of a rivalry between him and Daemon Targaryen as they often are matched in tournaments. Criston is the only man known to have bested Daemon.
House Cole was caught up in the War of the Five Kings and the remainder were lost in the Battle of Blackwater.
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- Will Cole, an exile serving with the Golden Company.
- Dick Cole, an exile serving with the Golden Company.
House Connington
House Connington is a wealthy and powerful noble house of the Stormlands, seated in Griffin’s Roost. They have close ties to the Targaryen royal line, including many prestigious appointments over the centuries, such as Hand of the King or Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Their sigil is two griffins combatant countercharged on red and white.
Red Ronnet declared for Renly but eventually Connington fought for Stannis at the Battle of Blackwater. Connington eventually had to bend the knee to Joffrey. The House was lucky to not be present for the battle at King's Landing.
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- Lord Jon Connington, Lord of Griffin's Roost and Hand of the King to Aerys II Targaryen. Rumored to die in exile, but turned to be alive.
- Ser Ronnet Connington, Jon Connington's cousin's son. Knight of Griffin's Roost. Called "Red Ronnet".
- Ronald Storm, Ronnet's bastard son.
- Raymund Connington, Ronnet's younger brother.
- Alynne Connington, Ronnet's younger sister.
House Dondarrion
House Dondarrion was established by one of the Storm Kings as a reward to a vassal. The first Lord Dondarrion carried a warning of a Dornish invasion to the Storm King during a stormy night. Two Dornish warriors attacked him, and he fell from his horse and broke his sword. He believed himself to be doomed, but then a forked bolt of purple lightning killed the two Dornishmen. Dondarrion was able to bring word of the invading army and enabled the Storm King to win a great victory. The bolt has been the sigil of the house since the day the Storm King ennobled the first of the line. The seat of House Dondarrion is Blackhaven, a forbidding mountain fortress located to control the middle of the Boneway Pass through the Red Mountains. It also covers the mountains from any invasion from the Marches. As brigands and criminals often try to hide in the Red Mountains, there is a long history of the lords of Dondarrion riding out to track down the more notable and dangerous of these outlaws. Even when the rest of the Stormlands are enjoying relative peace, there is likely to be fighting of this type for the men of the Dondarrion line. Their sigil is a forked purple lightning on a black field speckled with four-pointed stars.
This house's lands are located in or very close to the Dornish Marches of the Red Mountains that separate the Stormlands from Dorne. Dornish culture is one of raiding to prove worthy to the nobility, so it is these houses that have hostile interactions with Dorne the most frequently.
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House Errol
Their sigilis a yellow haystack on orange.
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House Estermont
House Estermont is seated in Greenstone, a small castle on the isle of Estermont. There are close family ties between them and House Baratheon. Their sigil is a dark green sea turtle on a sea-green background.
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House Farrow
Their sigil is pink piglets and their sow on a brown field.
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House Fell
Their sigil is per fess, a white crescent moon in the first on black above a green field, with a spruce tree line between.
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House Grandison
House Grandison is an old but minor house of the Stormlands. Their sigil is a black lion sleeping on a yellow field.
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House Hasty
House Hasty is a very small house, til recently, they did not have a maester or sept. Their holding is one large tower along the road into King's Landing from the southwest. In the Eighth Turn of 121 A.C., after a very harsh winter that killed all of the household but a few servants and the (then) 10 year old heir of the house, Sowyer, there was a smallfolk rebellion. They were starving and turned to robbery to feed themselves and their family. Relief was provided in that 8th Turn by House Hightower of the Reach when they were robbed on the road. House Hightower used their pull to make sure that the smallfolk were provided for and that Sowyer would get the support he needed from House Baratheon. They even arranged for a Maester to be sent, on their coin to House Hasty. Their sigil is a white bend cottised (three bars, center thick, side thin, diagonal nw to se) on purple.
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House Herston
Thier sigil is a yellow rooster’s head with red comb, within a white escutcheon, on a red background.
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House Horpe
Thier sigil is per chevron engrailed grey and bone, three deaths head moths countercharged.
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House Kellington
Thier sigil is a black book bound in bronze, locked, upon a pale blue field.
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House Lonmouth
Thier sigil is Quartered of six - red lips strewn on yellow, yellow skulls strewn on black
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House Mertyns
Thier sigil is a white great horned owl on grey.
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House Morrigen
House Morrigen is seated in Crow’s Nest, located in the mountains west of the Rainwood. It serves to guard the route between the Marches and the rest of the Stormlands. The House has a long and noble history of service to the Baratheons and the Storm Kings before them. Their sigil is a black crow in flight on storm-green.
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House Musgood
Their sigil is quarterly - A golden pavilion on blue, a green laurel crown on white
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House Peasbury
Their sigil is a pea pod burst open, green on white, bordered by three rows of green peas.
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House Penrose
Their sigil is white crossed quills on russet.
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House Potter
Their sigil is a copper potter's trivet on purple.
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House Rogers
Their sigil is nine unicorns around a maze, silver on black.
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House Sawyer
Their sigil is fretty blue on gold.
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House Selmy
House Selmy is seated in Harvest Hall, a minor castle located on the eastern edge of the Reach. Harvest Hall is surrounded by arable land, and it produces significantly more crops than most strongholds in the Stormlands. It is otherwise unremarkable, though certainly a sturdy fortress. Their sigil is three stalks of yellow wheat on brown.
This house's lands are located in or very close to the Dornish Marches of the Red Mountains that separate the Stormlands from Dorne. Dornish culture is one of raiding to prove worthy to the nobility, so it is these houses that have hostile interactions with Dorne the most frequently.
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House Staedmon
Their sigil is a black dagger piercing a red heart on white de sang within an undulating border.
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House Suggs
Their sigil is a flying pig on brown.
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House Swann
Next to House Baratheon, House Swann is probably the most powerful and influential family in the Stormlands. They rule from Stonehelm, a castle situated on Cape Wrath and built to oversee a major river route inland to the Stormlands, and have governed these lands for as long as any can remember. Their wealth and power make even the Baratheons consider a situation carefully before angering the Swann family. Their sigil is battling swans black and white, with beaks and feet of gold, on per pale white and black.
This house's lands are located in or very close to the Dornish Marches of the Red Mountains that separate the Stormlands from Dorne. Dornish culture is one of raiding to prove worthy to the nobility, so it is these houses that have hostile interactions with Dorne the most frequently.
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House Sweet
Their sigil is a black and gold diamond checked escutcheon on a cyan field, a border of green rayonne.
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House Swygert
Their sigil is a white scroll with gold knobs on purple, a white tressure.
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House Tarth
House Tarth is seated in Evenfall Hall, on the island of Tarth. Also known as the Sapphire Island, waters of clear, deep blue surround Tarth. The island itself is among the most beautiful places in the Stormlands. Though mountainous, it has numerous clear waterfalls running into surprisingly cold streams, high meadows, and deep vales. Though the land is not rich in ore or gemstones, it has resources aplenty to support its native population. Their sigil is quartered - yellow suns and white crescents on rose and azure.
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House Toyne
Their sigil is a winged heart, black on gold, within a black bordure embattled.
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House Trant
Their sigil is a hanged man, black on blue.
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House Tudbury
Their sigil is a brown tortoise within a yellow lozenge on green.
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House Wagstaff
Thier sigil is five yellow mascles (empty diamond borders) on green.
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House Wensington
Their sigil is two golden trumpets crossed on blue, a gold chief with three black stags.
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House Whitehead
The White Port is a market town in the Stormlands. Lying on the southern shore of Cape Wrath, along the shores of the Sea of Dorne, it has a thriving port which handles much of the Stormlands' trade. It contains a seat, known as the White Tower. Both the town, house sigil, their name, and tower are all named and or representative of the bright white cliffs surrounding the town and the head-shaped stone precipice the families tower is built on. The town has stout wooden walls, peaked roofs, and crooked alleys. It is large enough to support three inns: the Broken Shield, the Loon, and the Drunken Dornishman. Their sigil is a white helm on a wavy blue background.
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House Wylde
House Wylde is a minor house of the Stormlands, with holdings in the Rainwood. Their sigil is a blue-green maelstrom on gold.
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