Create your own Westerosi house!

[Is he a ham?]

The rules are simple, create your own house. Try to include these details:

-House name along with (optional) origin (meta or in universe)

-Sigil

-House Words

-Brief History

-Region

-Liege Lord

-Seat Name

-Heirloom Weapon

-Heirloom Armor and Cloak (Armor can't really be an heirloom because different people have different sizes and proportions. However, you could still have a basic blueprint of the type, shape and ornamentation that the smiths could use to make the armor for each new generation.)

-Brief description of military force

-Anything else you can think of

 

My idea:

House name:

-Chrysaetos (Latin Valyrian for golden eagle)

Sigil:

-Golden eagles (Actually looks more brass and copper than gold) enaging in the "death spiral" courtship dance on an azure sky background (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAwcoFoAk_k)

Side note: I couldn't fine any pictures or clips of golden eagles doing that badass courtship dance but I like their coloration more than bald eagles.

House words:

-Dare to win!

History:

-Exiled Valyrian sellsword raised to lordship for saving an Arryn many generations ago (before conquest).

Region:

-Vale of Arryn

Liege lord:

-Bronze Yohn Royce

Seat:

-Eagle's Nest

Weapon:

-A Valyrian steel bastard sword named Brave Bird with brass wings for crossguard, a brass eagle head pommel completed with amber eyes and a hilt tightly wrapped in blue leather.

Armor:

- Burnished dark blue steel full plate armor with brass outlines, featuring a detailed inlay of a pair of golden eagles with brass, bronze and copper feathers, golden beak and feet, amber eyes with jet pupil, and interlocking talons of onyx, engaging in a "death spiral" courtship dance on the blue breastplate.

- Blue steel enclosed helm with small holes and a slit on the visor for breathing and vision respectively. Ornamented with inlaid brass outlines and scrollworks, and framed on either side by great crests of golden eagle feathers attached to small, strong brass frames.

-Cloak of golden eagle feathers clasped with a single brass eagle brooch with spread wings.

Military:

-Heavy shock cavalry division called "Gale Wings" with more or less 500 mounted knights and 1000 mounted men at arms. (I have no clue about the total number of knights or soldiers in the Vale so this number might be a bit too extreme.)

- Cavalry are armed with kite shields and 15 feet hollowed lances adorned with golden eagle and raven feathers for knights and men at arms respectively. Backup weapons include arming sword, war hammer, war pick and dagger.

-Knights have full plate armor, mail, feather crested helms and surcoat bearing the sigil. Men at arms have coats of plates, mail,gorgets, pauldrons, vambraces, greaves, halfhelm and surcoat.

-Coursers have chainmail and a small amount of plate on the head, neck, chest and rear.

-Large wings made of wicker or wood with raven, crow, falcon or eagle feathers are attached to the armor or saddle for extra shock and intimidation and because of the rule of cool.

-Approximately 1000 men at arms on foot armed with chainmail, vambraces, greaves, helms, surcoat and halberds.

Bonus:Kingsguard armor (Because of Jaime, we know that members of the Kingsguard can have unique armor based on their houses):

-Brass colored steel plate, featuring a single eagle with spread wings inlaid in gold on the breastplate, on top of a gilded scale hauberk. (Kingsguards are celibate so the courting eagles are inappropriate)

-Brass colored steel helmet shaped like a shrieking eagle head with a pronounced golden beak, amber eyes, and framed by two surrounding crests of gilded feathers.

-White Cloak clasped on by two great golden feet with onyx talons clutching both shoulders.

 

[honeyed chicken]

I love all the thought and time you put into this. Ideally, I would follow suit, but my brain is too crisp these days to contemplate such a task.

[Is he a ham?]

My second idea:

House:

-Longfang

Sigil:

-Orange serpent coiled around a spear with its yellow venom dripping down on the white spear head with black flying crows surrounding it on a red background.

House words:

- "Our victory is always certain"

History:

-The founder was a Dornish landed knight who had a snake farmer living on his land. The night before he rode forth to join forces against Aegon the Conqueror, the farmer handed him a jar of venom and adviced him to apply it to his spear and his men's arrows on the day of the fight. He joined with a small band of other Martell men and took a high rank officer of Aegon unaware. A skirmish broke out and the knight came into contact with the officer but their duel was interrupted by news of a supporting Targaeryen host and the Martell forces retreated. However, many of the injured men on the Targaeryen side soon passed away as the flesh around their arrow wounds mortified terribly and according to tales, though the officer lasted longest, carrion crows would soon surround him and he passed away from a festering spear wound. The death of this officer was one of the main contributing factor to Aegon's retreat from Dorne. The landed knight was raised to lordship for his contribution.

Region:

-Dorne

Liege Lord:

-Doran Martell

Seat name:

-Viper's Den

Heirloom Weapon:

-The spearhead used to kill the Targaeryen officer.

-Jar used to contain and preserve viper venom.

-Valyrian steel bastard sword looted from a Targaeryen follower. New hilt made from dragonbone wrapped in dried viper skin dyed red with a pommel fashioned into the shape of a viper head bearing ruby eyes.

Heirloom Armor:

-Burnished scarlet steel plate armor outlined with copper, with a breastplate featuring a detailed inlay of the serpent coiling around a long brown spear shaft, with bronze scales, thin lines of jet separating each individual scales, red ruby eyes with slits of jet for pupils, long white marble fangs dripping goblets of yellow topaz venom onto the metallic spearhead and a long, split tongue of black onyx, surrounded by onyx flying carrion crows. The gorget and pauldrons are each adorned with a single onyx crow with spread wings.

-A hauberk of thin red mail is worn underneath the plates and assists in covering the gaps.

-Simple open copper colored steel helm with cheek protection and a conical top, with a dried piece of viper skin painted red stretched out to envelop the helm.

-Large cloak of red silk clasped by a single bronze brooch in the shape of a coiling serpent. Offers some protection against the harsh Dornish sun.

Military:

-200 mounted knights, 600 mounted men at arms and 600 mounted archers trained in light cavalry and guerilla warfare, specializing in scouting, skirmishing, and raiding.

-Knights and men at arms are armed with 8 feet lances, curved swords adopted from Essos, bastard swords ,war hammers, and shields with daggers as backup weapons. Archers carry yew recurve bow, compact enough to use effectively on horseback. All of them carry jars of viper venom and cloths which they use to apply said venom to their weapons before battle or if they suspect a battle.

-Knights are armored with breastplate, pauldrons, greaves, vambraces, mail gorgets, open helms, scail hauberk and padded gambeson. men at arms have scale hauberks, pauldrons, vambraces, greaves, halfhelms and padded gambeson. Archers only have mail hauberks, vambraces, greaves, padded gambeson and no pauldrons so as to maximize arm strength and flexibility. All of them have scarlet silk cloaks or coats to protect them against the Dornish sun.

-Dornish sand steeds are lightly armored in chain mail.

-1000 men at arms on foot armed with mail hauberks, pauldrons, vambraces, greaves, halfhelms, gambeson, spears and shields, and trained in phalanx warfare though they are also competent guards. They have orange silk coats and cloaks. Those on guard duties are armed with venom jars and cloths which they use to reapply the venom every two hours. They have orange silk cloaks and coats.

-1000 longbow archers armed with mail hauberks, vambraces, greaves, gambeson, and yew longbows. They are armed with venom jars which they dip their arrows in. They have yellow silk cloaks and coats.

Bonus:

-The current lord, 16 year old Gerold Longfang is leading some of his "Scarlet Cloaks" to assist in the hunt for his namesake, Gerold Dayne at the command of prince Doran Martell.

[rocksniffer]

just saying...

 

[Prince Jon Targaryen]

-House name: House Aldarion

-Sigil: On alternating waves of blue and green a hand clasping a sword in pale

-House Words: Always Loyal

-Brief History: After the Dance, a knight in service to the blacks and then Aegon III organized the removal of Aemond’s bones and the skulls of Vhagar and Caraxes from the waters of the God’s Eye, along with the sword of Dark Sister. He formed a group of twenty leal men and transported the bones of Aemond, the dragon skulls, and Dark Sister to the capital. 13 of his number were slain by broken men along the way, as these brigands fought to capture what was rightfully property of the Targaryen family. In recognition for his leal service to the Throne, the knight was raised to lordship and granted land and a castle close to the God’s Eye, which he christened Steadfast.

-Region: Riverlands

-Liege Lord: Tully

-Seat Name: Steadfast

-Heirloom Weapon: A longsword made in the image of Dark Sister, but not of Valyrian steel

-Heirloom Armor and Cloak: plate armor gifted from His Grace Aegon III, that once belonged to Prince Daemon.

-Brief description of military force: 20 knights and 200 men at arms. The number of the knights at Godsguard is always set at 20 so to honor the original 20 that set out to King’s Landing.

- Bonus: supported both Daeron II Targaryen and Aerys II Targaryen. Fought on the Trident for Rhaegar Targaryen, and pardoned by Robert Baratheon. Supports Stannis Baratheon in the War of the Five Kings.