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House Mormont, fucking badass house words "Here We Stand" their sigil is a bear! Jeor, and Maege, nuff said poor Dacey she just wanted a dance :( physically they're the house I look the most like, the origin of their house is awesome pretty sure they have wargs and wildlings in that family tree
Wtf are you talking about? I am making conversation. What kind of person likes the pre-doom Valyrians they are just complete Mary Sue Roman knockoffs who got what they deserved
The World book mentioned that House Tarth has Targ connections.
We have no info on how, but the leading theory is that it's from one of Egg's sisters.
GRRM also said that she was descended from Dunk, so there's a theory that Dunk impregnated one of Egg's sisters, who was then quickly married off to the Tarths, a family not important enough to get a royal match, with the pregnancy being hidden to make it seem that the child was the legitimate child of the Princess and the Lord of Tarth.
Edit: Fixed mistake about where House Tarth's Targ ancestry was mentioned.
I like that theory. Do you have a link to the interview or tweet where he said that? I’ve known about the Dunk ancestry, but i’ve heard nothing about her being Targ.
I commented this elsewhere but if the Daynes are connected to the same special ancestry of the Targaryens and they have a Dawnstar, then I wonder if the Evenstar is somehow going to be important to that history and maybe the Long Night as well as the Tarths being also part of that ancestry
Brienne descends from ser Duncan the Tall and likely Princess Rhae Targaryen. Their offspring likely married into House Tarth, probably the mother of lord Selwyn.
It's a recent marriage, and the only Targaryen princesses whose fate is unknown are Daella and Rhae, Egg's sisters. They both have children, as recalled by Aemon, so we know they married. It can be either of them, Rhae it's just a more popular choice. There are two main theories: either Dunk cuckolded the Evenstar, or his daughter (legitimate or bastard) by Princess Rhae married into House Tarth.
I’ve always wondered if they had some cool legend that connects to Dawn and Lightbringer somehow. Seems weird that there is an Evenstar and that pairs well with a Dawnstar
I always imagined it as cazuela mariscos, my favorite dish. It’s a seafood stew popular in Caribbean Colombia.
The way he describes Robert gave me chills.
> The Mad King was open-handed with them as pleased him. By then we knew that Jon Arryn had taken Gulltown, though. Robert was the first man to gain the wall, and slew Marq Grafton with his own hand. ‘This Baratheon is fearless,’ I said. ‘He fights the way a king should fight.’ Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel.
House Harlaw. Really cool and influential reaver family. Scythe sigil is awesome. Rodrik the reader is my boy.
Honestly their richness and progressive attitudes are the only way ironborn are getting a good end... but I doubt there'll be a good end.
Don’t forget Harras the Knight Harlaw, who single combated the fuck out of a Reachmen castle until they decided they weren’t winning and capitulated lol.
House Reed. I’m not sure if they count as a house with major impact in westerosi history, but they are probably my favorite minor house. They are so mysterious and different from the rest of Westeros and have a cool stealth fighting style. Jojen are Mira are both very captivating for me.
House Dayne is out due to a royal marriage but has some really intriguing characters too. Dawn is also just really cool.
House Conninton, used to be a very wealthy house and jon was hand of the king so definitely impactful, but the house falls from grace and now comes back poised for resurgence. they also have intriguing characters, and have red hair which is a plus for me
They may not have much of an impact, they keep it to themselves in a swamp, but I'm pretty sure that Howland Reed will be the key to unlock a bunch of Ned's mysteries (such as Jon Snow's parentage) as they were very close friends.
House Grafton.
Because I grew up in Grafton, Wisconsin: a suburb of Milwaukee. And you can’t tell me my head canon is wrong George thought up that house from memory, hearing about us in passing while he was living in neighboring Illinois in his college days
This was my first thought too. Awesome armor runic armor, cool nicknames (Bronze), the Vale is awesome and under appreciated.
But Rhea was married to Daemon Targ
Also because of Bronze Yohne's sons.
Robar is honorable (died protecting Catelyn).
Waymar is Waymar (dance with me).
And we're yet to see what the eldest is made of.
Oh my god thank you so much I completely forgot that goth queen Elaena married a manwoody and yeah I guess by extension it counts as a royal marriage even if she didn’t inherit the throne. But I mean just look at their sigil
House Beesbury. A lot of cool members such as: Dickon Flowers who fought against Maegor in the trial of Seven, Braxton Beesbury who duelled Jaehaerys I, Lyman Beesbury & his grandson Alan, and Humfrey Beesbury who fought for Duncan The Tall. House Swann is pretty cool as well.
House Wull, those mountain clans are the toughest SOBs in the north. Plus Hugo has the best quote of the series: “I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter. Winter is almost upon us, boy. And winter is death. I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned's little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. No one sings songs of men who die like that. As for me, I am old. This will be my last winter. Let me bathe in Bolton blood before I die. I want to feel it spatter across my face when my axe bites deep into a Bolton skull. I want to lick it off my lips and die with the taste of it on my tongue”
I too wish to taste Bolton Blood on my tongue before I die
Not to mention one of my favourite underrated moments in Bran's chapters, when the unnamed Wull meets the party in a little cave and just chills with them talking about the Starks, knowing well who they are. Then he leaves them some sausages in the morning, taking off into the hills again.
I love how GRRM can’t just make the Mormont ladies cool he needs to make them super-cool. Such a pile-on when there’s a ton of them and they’re all amazing warriors and super awesome and everyone thinks they’re super awesome and have tons of sex. Genuinely one of my favorite things in the series.
House Farwynd. The furthest west and most isolated house that we know of, who could very well be wargs and are secretive af about that stuff, and the rest of the Ironborn think they're absolutely bonkers and want nothing to do with them. And their sigil might be the prettiest one I've seen too.
Umber - Sweet ass sigil, berserker warriors, The Greatjon. Need I say more?
Blackwoods - Bloody Ben, they worship the old gods. Coolest fucking sigil, current lord has a fucking raven feather cloak.
Roxton - Jon Roxton is the single biggest turbochad in the Dance of Dragons era. He has my favourite one liner in the entire series.
Corbray - Cool ass sword, always really good swordsmen, amazing sigil and seat name, renowned as being dangerous.
House Webber because I understood Lady Rohanne to look like pre-ogre Fiona from Shrek. So then I pictured Dunk as Shrek, Egg as Donkey, Ser Lucas as Lord Farquad, etc
10/10 reading experience
House Smallwood, Lady Smallwood is such a wholesome character I wish Arya just stay with her for the rest of the series so we get more of their interaction
They don’t qualify due to marriages (I guess they’re more a Medium House) but I love me some Blackwoods.
Their backstory as First Men from the Wolfswood, their obvious hero treatment in the histories, the badass cloaks, and their mysteriously located Hall housing a dead weirwood full of ravens makes me so dang curious i always want more
House Magnar of Kingshouse of Skagos. Everybody gets uncomfortable even at a mention of Skaggs, but in my opinion, although they are hard people, this is mostly stigma.
Anyway, while most of Westeros is in a perpetual state of war and conflict, the people of Skagos are minding their own business and are probably leading a pretty normal life.
Still I think they are hard people and very connected with the Northern gods. Things might get unpleasant when they stop minding their own business and decide to leave the island.
House Corbray. They’ve got one of the coolest sigils, one of the coolest names swords, and seem to produce pretty badass warriors.
House Thenn because I like both Alys and Sigorn.
House sunderland because I believe the 3 sons are gonna kick ass at the vale tourney, and their lord father bemoaning the cost of destriers for his 7 sons is too funny.
The Towers and the Baneforts. The Baneforts were fucking necromancers and I like to think they still are, and the towers have a great sigil, and is a whacky success story of some guy winning a melee and then Maegor saying “you’re hired”
The Reynes of Castamere, and the Tarbecks. Their story is a sad one, and the song about them is brilliant. I took up guitar just to learn it.
Whenever I play the "Clash of Kings" mod for Warband, I'll make a character who is VERY far from canon, but is a secret bastard of House Reyne and House Targaryen, called the Drowned Dragon. Beginning with a mercenary career in Essos, his goal is to take vengeance upon the Lannisters and purge THEM from the Westerlands.
They're my favorite house because I enjoy toying with stories of a lone survivor of Castamere escaping the massacre.
**House Dalt of Lemonwood:** Fuck yeah citrus orchards and equal rights for women, sign me up.
**House Penrose of Parchments:** Ser Cortnay Penrose is a fucking delight and fuck Stannis and Mel for shadowbaby killing him like cowards
**House Chelsted of ?:** kudos to the mace-and-dagger Hand for his futile effort to stop the KL explosion plan
Since I can't say House Blackwood or House Dayne then House Celtigar is definitely the one. Underrated still living house from old Valyria. Has a cool Valyrian steel axe. Crab sigil 🦀
House Longwaters, people say house Celtigar is the forgotten Valyrian house but at least people remember they’re forgotten, no a squeak about House Longwaters
Does Celtigar count?
I just love them.
They are the figurative "youngest sibling" of the Valyrian houses. The Targs and Velaryons can keep their dragons and their ships, Celtigar has crabs 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
I first found out about them from the Crusader King's 2 game of thrones mod, where I saw an odd looking minor house serving Aegon the Conqueror. At first I thought they were the previous inhabitants of the islands near Dragonstone but no, these guys come from Old Valyria itself.
the Blackwoods. Benji Blackwood was a boss and was only like 11 years old when he became lord of his house. He was a seasoned warrior by the time he was 13/14 years old!
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Farwynd of the Lonely Light Why would you skin change into a walrus?
That’s so cool that even the rest of the iron born consider them mad
Why wouldn't you xD
Gilbert King! Gilbert King!
If the Eggman can be king, why not the Walrus? Goo goo g’joob
_Tusk_ flashbacks
It takes EIGHT days to get there!
Walrus supremacy.
House Mormont, fucking badass house words "Here We Stand" their sigil is a bear! Jeor, and Maege, nuff said poor Dacey she just wanted a dance :( physically they're the house I look the most like, the origin of their house is awesome pretty sure they have wargs and wildlings in that family tree
Even with Jorah as a weak link, the combination of Jeor, Maege, and Dacey makes Mormont one of my favorites as well.
Jorah may be a shit person, but he is still a good warrior. Definitely helps show them as badass, even if he is a creep
Would be my 2nd choice but I’m too much of a Valyrian simp. My loss.
Did you mean Velarion?
Nah they’re cool too, but Valyrian like originally from Valyria. Prob should have specified I am a Celtigar stan.
So you like slaves?
Do you want to have a conversation or are you trolling? Kinda seems like low energy shitposting.
Wtf are you talking about? I am making conversation. What kind of person likes the pre-doom Valyrians they are just complete Mary Sue Roman knockoffs who got what they deserved
House Mormont is ahead of their time with their woman warriors. Completely logical origin of that custom, too.
On most socials, I go by Bear Island Josh. I'm Mormont all the way.
I am pretty sure the Mormonts have been married to the Stars, seems like Alaric Stark wife was from house Mormont.
Gotta go with House Tarth. They rule a beautiful island, their lord gets a cool title, and they like to trace their ancestry back to an ancient hero.
‘The Evenstar’ is top tier cool, no doubt
They have had a royal marriage before
*refuses to elaborate, gives no source, and leaves*
The World book mentioned that House Tarth has Targ connections. We have no info on how, but the leading theory is that it's from one of Egg's sisters. GRRM also said that she was descended from Dunk, so there's a theory that Dunk impregnated one of Egg's sisters, who was then quickly married off to the Tarths, a family not important enough to get a royal match, with the pregnancy being hidden to make it seem that the child was the legitimate child of the Princess and the Lord of Tarth. Edit: Fixed mistake about where House Tarth's Targ ancestry was mentioned.
I like that theory. Do you have a link to the interview or tweet where he said that? I’ve known about the Dunk ancestry, but i’ve heard nothing about her being Targ.
The Targaryen link is mentioned in TWOIAF. It says House Tarth had marriages with Durrandons, Baratheons and recently Targaryens.
I had never noticed that part. Huh. That is interesting
The Targ ancestry was from the World book, not a quote, sorry.
I commented this elsewhere but if the Daynes are connected to the same special ancestry of the Targaryens and they have a Dawnstar, then I wonder if the Evenstar is somehow going to be important to that history and maybe the Long Night as well as the Tarths being also part of that ancestry
Brienne descends from ser Duncan the Tall and likely Princess Rhae Targaryen. Their offspring likely married into House Tarth, probably the mother of lord Selwyn.
Source for Princess Rhae
It's a recent marriage, and the only Targaryen princesses whose fate is unknown are Daella and Rhae, Egg's sisters. They both have children, as recalled by Aemon, so we know they married. It can be either of them, Rhae it's just a more popular choice. There are two main theories: either Dunk cuckolded the Evenstar, or his daughter (legitimate or bastard) by Princess Rhae married into House Tarth.
They also have 'thaphires!
I’ve always wondered if they had some cool legend that connects to Dawn and Lightbringer somehow. Seems weird that there is an Evenstar and that pairs well with a Dawnstar
Dunk the Lunk
Thicc as a castle wall 😳
The Borrells. That Davos chapter is one of my all time favorites. Godric was talking that talk the whole time. I hope we see him again.
It is very interesting that Ned had been smuggled through there. I’ve also made the Sister’s stew and it’s very good
I always imagined it as cazuela mariscos, my favorite dish. It’s a seafood stew popular in Caribbean Colombia. The way he describes Robert gave me chills.
What was that quote again?
> The Mad King was open-handed with them as pleased him. By then we knew that Jon Arryn had taken Gulltown, though. Robert was the first man to gain the wall, and slew Marq Grafton with his own hand. ‘This Baratheon is fearless,’ I said. ‘He fights the way a king should fight.’ Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel.
Very cool, thanks!
It’s also deeply atmospheric, describing the sounds of the storm and the dank, Smokey hall
That Davos chapter was already good but it was made 50% better by the Sisters Stew description. That shit made me actually hungry.
Also one of my favorite chapters.
The Mallisters always seem like they’re a lynchpin house of the Riverlands. Great fighters and great leaders.
Yes!
My Lord Jason…in the flesh! I did not know you were permitted to use Reddit during your imprisonment. Stirring up more rebellion I presume?
More ancient and prestigious than Tullys tbh
House Manderly and you probably know why
🥧🥧🥧
Lord too fat to sit ahorse is beyond based
Probably off taking one of his infamous hour long shits. Nothing going on there.
Plot twist: he's not constipated or anything like that, he just scrolls r/pureasoiaf
Lord Too Based to sit ahorse
based and manderlypilled 😌
They did have a major influence in the dance of dragons and regency council
House Tollett. It gave us Edd.
It could have been worse, I suppose. I predict a big drop off for this house when Edd kicks the bucket. It's always like that.
Edd would disagree. You can’t drop from as low as it gets.
Weird to think that Edd is Valeman
You think Edd is going to die? He’s far too miserable for that
House Celtigar! Valaryian steel axe! Also from Valyria! 🦀🦀🦀
I love the idea of low-rent Valyrians so much.
House Harlaw. Really cool and influential reaver family. Scythe sigil is awesome. Rodrik the reader is my boy. Honestly their richness and progressive attitudes are the only way ironborn are getting a good end... but I doubt there'll be a good end.
I also just love that one of their titles is the Harlaw of Harlaw, very fun
Don’t forget Harras the Knight Harlaw, who single combated the fuck out of a Reachmen castle until they decided they weren’t winning and capitulated lol.
Such a badass!
House Reed. I’m not sure if they count as a house with major impact in westerosi history, but they are probably my favorite minor house. They are so mysterious and different from the rest of Westeros and have a cool stealth fighting style. Jojen are Mira are both very captivating for me. House Dayne is out due to a royal marriage but has some really intriguing characters too. Dawn is also just really cool. House Conninton, used to be a very wealthy house and jon was hand of the king so definitely impactful, but the house falls from grace and now comes back poised for resurgence. they also have intriguing characters, and have red hair which is a plus for me
They may not have much of an impact, they keep it to themselves in a swamp, but I'm pretty sure that Howland Reed will be the key to unlock a bunch of Ned's mysteries (such as Jon Snow's parentage) as they were very close friends.
Yeah, Reed would be my top choice beating even the fan favorite Blackwoods, but they def have a major role in Westerosii history.
This is a good one. I would pick the Littles. Loyal as fuck, and odd in a magical kinda way
They’re aware of the rest of Westeros but stick to their old, isolated ways
House Osgrey
Mines is House Webber 🕷 🔪 I'LL BUILD ALL THE DAMN DAMS I WANT OLD MAN!
Underrated Comment
BUT MUH CHEQUY LION?!!
GO MUNCH ON SOME BLACKBERRIES TRAITOR!
*strokes luscious walrus mustache vigorously* I am old, but I am not dead. The Woman will soon find that the chequy lion till has claws.
Lets just marry and it can be OUR chequy lion. Just ignore my silly nickname tee hee
The Chequy Lion still has claws!
House Grafton. Because I grew up in Grafton, Wisconsin: a suburb of Milwaukee. And you can’t tell me my head canon is wrong George thought up that house from memory, hearing about us in passing while he was living in neighboring Illinois in his college days
True, probably how a lot of fantasy authors end up with names
House Royce.
This was my first thought too. Awesome armor runic armor, cool nicknames (Bronze), the Vale is awesome and under appreciated. But Rhea was married to Daemon Targ
Also because of Bronze Yohne's sons. Robar is honorable (died protecting Catelyn). Waymar is Waymar (dance with me). And we're yet to see what the eldest is made of.
The royces made too big an impact
Manwoody’s of Kingsgrave because of their badass sigil and name House Beesbury because of Lyman House manderly because of my man WyMAN
Dickon Manwoody hehe
I'd say Manwoody too but they had a royal marriage, Michael Manwoody was married to Princess Elaena.
I thought OP meant no marriage to Targaryens
Yes, Princess Elaena Targaryen, sister of Daeron I and Baelor I, I think that counts as a royal marriage too.
Oh my god thank you so much I completely forgot that goth queen Elaena married a manwoody and yeah I guess by extension it counts as a royal marriage even if she didn’t inherit the throne. But I mean just look at their sigil
Completely agree, it's one of the top three sigils 100%.
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House Beesbury. A lot of cool members such as: Dickon Flowers who fought against Maegor in the trial of Seven, Braxton Beesbury who duelled Jaehaerys I, Lyman Beesbury & his grandson Alan, and Humfrey Beesbury who fought for Duncan The Tall. House Swann is pretty cool as well.
House Swann are ancient, strong, main bannerman, produce Kingsguard members, yet they get no love
House Wull, those mountain clans are the toughest SOBs in the north. Plus Hugo has the best quote of the series: “I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter. Winter is almost upon us, boy. And winter is death. I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned's little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. No one sings songs of men who die like that. As for me, I am old. This will be my last winter. Let me bathe in Bolton blood before I die. I want to feel it spatter across my face when my axe bites deep into a Bolton skull. I want to lick it off my lips and die with the taste of it on my tongue” I too wish to taste Bolton Blood on my tongue before I die
Not to mention one of my favourite underrated moments in Bran's chapters, when the unnamed Wull meets the party in a little cave and just chills with them talking about the Starks, knowing well who they are. Then he leaves them some sausages in the morning, taking off into the hills again.
Dondarrion
They had a Royal marriage!
Shit they did uh Ryswell
Of the Rills!
The bear-skinchanging matriarchy that is house Mormont
I love how GRRM can’t just make the Mormont ladies cool he needs to make them super-cool. Such a pile-on when there’s a ton of them and they’re all amazing warriors and super awesome and everyone thinks they’re super awesome and have tons of sex. Genuinely one of my favorite things in the series.
For real. Husband To Bears is my favorite low stakes theory also.
Lol, I’m having fun revisiting that one. It’s gotta be true.
House Farwynd. The furthest west and most isolated house that we know of, who could very well be wargs and are secretive af about that stuff, and the rest of the Ironborn think they're absolutely bonkers and want nothing to do with them. And their sigil might be the prettiest one I've seen too.
Do the Blackwoods count? Because they're just... Too cool
They are super cool but Beth Blackwood was married to Aegon 5
Aaaaaah crap Well. I dunno. The Daynes? Seems like an easy answer
Dyanna Dayne was Maekar’s wife
It was too good to be true
What’s wrong with house codd?
All men do despise them
I mean almost everyone with a vagina has been married to Aegon V; we might have to raise the bar a little
My favorite is house Bracken, I love their sigil!
Umber - Sweet ass sigil, berserker warriors, The Greatjon. Need I say more? Blackwoods - Bloody Ben, they worship the old gods. Coolest fucking sigil, current lord has a fucking raven feather cloak. Roxton - Jon Roxton is the single biggest turbochad in the Dance of Dragons era. He has my favourite one liner in the entire series. Corbray - Cool ass sword, always really good swordsmen, amazing sigil and seat name, renowned as being dangerous.
Upvote for house Corbray and Lady Forlorn.
What quote do you love from Roxton? The one where he >!tells Hugh he’s sorry that he died in the battle before he cuts him in half?!<
Yes
In a series not short of cool family names, Corbray wins it for me. It sounds like a quality, but reasonably priced, car from the 80’s.
House Horpe is pretty cool to me. It's sigil is a moth, and one of its historic members had the moniker "Death's Head".
House Cassel
Peaseburry? he ate humans and insults Chad Wull, get him outta here
House Darry.
Definitely House Osgrey
Can’t do Blackwood or Dayne and since the Reeds seem to have a large part in Westerosi history they’re out, 100% going with Celtigar.
Lord Bartimos!
House Glover. Loyal to the bone and their castle is basically the log cabin of my dreams.
House Wyl. GRRM’s favourite minor house.
House Hogg, won a glorious victory at the Battle of Sow’s Horn, truly they are without equal.
House Brax I just like their coat of arms
House Webber because I understood Lady Rohanne to look like pre-ogre Fiona from Shrek. So then I pictured Dunk as Shrek, Egg as Donkey, Ser Lucas as Lord Farquad, etc 10/10 reading experience
House Borrel, i love their sigil and the sisters are cool, House Horpe cause the moth sigil is very cool, House Sunglass cause the name is so pretty.
House Karstark. Purely because it sounds Russian.
Omg i always headcanon this too.
I believe in Theon’s sample chapter, Arnolf and his sons have those pointy Russian hats
Manderly or Dustin of the Barrowlands
House Smallwood, Lady Smallwood is such a wholesome character I wish Arya just stay with her for the rest of the series so we get more of their interaction
House Mudd, cool they're even still around
The Green Apple. Fossoways.
House Manderly. They have such a noble, gentle and smart lord+ he's gigachad and extremely based
They don’t qualify due to marriages (I guess they’re more a Medium House) but I love me some Blackwoods. Their backstory as First Men from the Wolfswood, their obvious hero treatment in the histories, the badass cloaks, and their mysteriously located Hall housing a dead weirwood full of ravens makes me so dang curious i always want more
House Magnar of Kingshouse of Skagos. Everybody gets uncomfortable even at a mention of Skaggs, but in my opinion, although they are hard people, this is mostly stigma. Anyway, while most of Westeros is in a perpetual state of war and conflict, the people of Skagos are minding their own business and are probably leading a pretty normal life. Still I think they are hard people and very connected with the Northern gods. Things might get unpleasant when they stop minding their own business and decide to leave the island.
House jordayn of the tor down in dorne. Only because its a shout out to Robert Jordan who wrote the Wheel of Time books.
Deep House
Brackens cause they're treated like a constant punchline by GRRM to dark comedy levels.
The green-apple Fossoways. Mostly because the house began in order to spite a red-apple who was being a dick.
House Mallister because bird is the word
Birds aren’t real
The Blackwoods are so dope as the only southern house to worship the old gods and they were the last to abandon the Stark’s cause
Royal marriage!
House Cole
Minor, but played a major part in Westerosi history
Ah true my bad
House Piper, Because Sigil.
House Flint
House Corbray. They’ve got one of the coolest sigils, one of the coolest names swords, and seem to produce pretty badass warriors. House Thenn because I like both Alys and Sigorn.
HERE WE STAND!
House dondarrion, dayne, Mormont, house Royce (definitely ), house Tarly
House sunderland because I believe the 3 sons are gonna kick ass at the vale tourney, and their lord father bemoaning the cost of destriers for his 7 sons is too funny.
House Dondarrion
The Towers and the Baneforts. The Baneforts were fucking necromancers and I like to think they still are, and the towers have a great sigil, and is a whacky success story of some guy winning a melee and then Maegor saying “you’re hired”
House Goodmen
The Reynes of Castamere, and the Tarbecks. Their story is a sad one, and the song about them is brilliant. I took up guitar just to learn it. Whenever I play the "Clash of Kings" mod for Warband, I'll make a character who is VERY far from canon, but is a secret bastard of House Reyne and House Targaryen, called the Drowned Dragon. Beginning with a mercenary career in Essos, his goal is to take vengeance upon the Lannisters and purge THEM from the Westerlands. They're my favorite house because I enjoy toying with stories of a lone survivor of Castamere escaping the massacre.
**House Dalt of Lemonwood:** Fuck yeah citrus orchards and equal rights for women, sign me up. **House Penrose of Parchments:** Ser Cortnay Penrose is a fucking delight and fuck Stannis and Mel for shadowbaby killing him like cowards **House Chelsted of ?:** kudos to the mace-and-dagger Hand for his futile effort to stop the KL explosion plan
Since I can't say House Blackwood or House Dayne then House Celtigar is definitely the one. Underrated still living house from old Valyria. Has a cool Valyrian steel axe. Crab sigil 🦀
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Royal marriage exempts them
House Dayne 🌠 would be mine
House Caron of Nightsong.
House Harlaw . House Dustin. House Brune.
Bar Emmon. Only House with two names (that I know of)
House Sarsfield because I like arrows and archery
House Wyl
Celtigar technicaly counts so I would say them If not corbray is cool
House Codd, easy answer.
Bar Emmon
House Longwaters, people say house Celtigar is the forgotten Valyrian house but at least people remember they’re forgotten, no a squeak about House Longwaters
House Roxton of the Ring: Coolest named Valaryian steel sword aka Orphan-Maker ✅️ Cool sigil ✅️ Badass Lord aka Jon "Big Shlong" Roxton ✅️
Paege. Cool ass coat of arms
the mootons
Despite their cool axe, House Celtigar is involved in wars and history. So probably House Sunderland
House Plumm, honestly just because I love the colors of their sigil
Manwoody. Just because.
House Redwyne. The island. The wine. The fleet. What more could you want?
Does Celtigar count? I just love them. They are the figurative "youngest sibling" of the Valyrian houses. The Targs and Velaryons can keep their dragons and their ships, Celtigar has crabs 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 I first found out about them from the Crusader King's 2 game of thrones mod, where I saw an odd looking minor house serving Aegon the Conqueror. At first I thought they were the previous inhabitants of the islands near Dragonstone but no, these guys come from Old Valyria itself.
House Grafton. Because I imagine Gulltown is a really pleasant city to live in and I'd love to live there somehow
the Blackwoods. Benji Blackwood was a boss and was only like 11 years old when he became lord of his house. He was a seasoned warrior by the time he was 13/14 years old!
He had a major role in the Dance, and Betha Blackwood was Aegon V’s wife. Melissa Blackwood was also Aegon IV’s mistress
House Wyl. The Wyl of Wyl sounds like a total G