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Gird Your Loins... This is going to be a long one. I have always wanted to do this and now I can


House: House Slater



Sigil: A Wierwood with a Seven-Pointed Star in the center



Motto: Words are Words



Seat: Wierwither Hall, a castle in the Western Wolfswood. Now ruined after Ironmen invasion (Before Andals) Storm Point, a great castle in the northern Stormlands (After Andals)



Religion: Old Gods (Male Line) the Seven (Female Line)



Blood: Old Men, Andals, Rhoynar and Valyrian



Location: The North (Wierwither) and the Stormlands (Storm Point)



House Weapon: An ancient axe known as the Cold Cleaver and a Valyrian Steel Greatsword known as varkeltum, which in the old tongue means Ice Storm. (Totally made that up :))



Sworn to: House Baratheon and Durrandon(while in the Stormlands) and before them House Hightower and before them House Stark



Backstory: The history of House Slater is a long one, usually overlooked by historians and maesters and our house is regarded as one that cannot find a place where we belong. I'm Aron Slater and this is the History of House Slater...


In the Dawn Age of Westeros, House Slater was founded by Lord Bryden Slater a nephew of Brandon the Builder, who's mother absolutely adored hence the similarities in the name. He was a lieutenant of King Brandon and was granted a keep that's godswood had an old and sagging Wierwood Tree, Bryden named it the Wierwither as a joke, but King Brandon thought it rude to insult the gods and renamed the keep, it's original name has been lost to time, Wierwither Hall.


Thousands of years later when the Andals arrived Lord Ameron Slater lead a van against the Andals in the Riverlands and was captured. He was held prisoner at the fortress of Storm's Beginning in the far north of the Stormlands, a seat of a minor branch of House Durrandon. He was never returned after the North's victory and was transported to Oldtown. Lord Hightower was kind to the Lord after he served years in the dungeons, when he learned Ameron's wife and commited suicide when their child had died. He granted Lord Ameron a keep on the banks of the Whispering Sounds and gave him a daughter of his and named him a Protector of Oldtown, a practice with surrounding lords not used today. For years he lived but he always missed the Wolfswood. When he died his brother, for he was a second son, had his body moved and buried at Wierwither Hall.


Thousands of years past till Lord Selern Hightower disbanded the Protectors of Oldtown and robbed the Slaters of their keep because their heritage. On their way back to Wierwither Hall, the party stopped in at Storm's End, for they were following a series of road King Jaeherys would eventually connect to create the kingsroad. Lord Aerion Durrandon, offer them Storm's Beginning, where the minor house of Durrandon had just died out. The Slater excepted the honor and renamed the castle Storm Point.


At this time we are about 1500 years before the coming of Aegon and Valyria was still at it's height and trade with Westeros was blooming. Young Aerion Slater, a teen of six-and-ten, seduced a Valyrian woman by the name of Danalya, which produced a son. When Aerion's older brother was slain in a war against the Kings of Crackclaw Point and the old House of Crabb, Aerion was named Lord of Storm Point and watcher of the Storm Road. His son he legitimized and took the Valyrian Danalya to wife. Danalya brought a host of 1,000 Valyrians, an old dragon that didn't survive the journey (Danalya's house of Valania was poor and even less reviered than the Targaryens) and her family. For years the Slaters mixed with Valyrians till the Valanias died out. The Valanias died in the closing years of the Targaryen Dynasty, historians who recognize that the Slaters did mix with Valyrians say it might of had something to do with the destruction of the Targaryen and poisonings, for many Valanias were found dead in their beds in the morning, when that evening they had seemed fine. Slater's still possess qualities of Valyrians from the rare silver-white hair to the purple and indigo eyes, which are quite common. I possess them myself.


The Slater's saying of Words are Words, is merely stating we don't care where you come from or who your parents are. If you cross us we'll pay our debts (see what I did there you filthy Lannisters).


The Slaters, much like the Tullys, fight many of their battles with marriages, which means they have cousins and distant relatives in many of the major houses. I even believe there may be some closer ties to Daenerys Targaryen then many of my family believes.



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House: Alderion



Sigil: A thrice pronged spear with dragons wings.



Motto: The Sands bury our foes



Seat: Dragon's Grave, a red fortress built in central dorne, noted for being surronded by enormous sand dunes, said to be the grave markers of ancient slain dragons



History: Said to be descendant from Varageon The Scalebreaker, a legendary Dornish hero said to have slain 6 dragons in 6 days. They have had a long and sordid history with House Martell, sometimes warring for years at a time, others marrying into them multiple times.



House Weapon: A Valyrian steel three pronged spear named Scalebreaker, after the aforementioned hero.

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House: Wolvendrake
Sigil: A dragon with two heads, one of which is a wolf's head.
Motto: (not very original, but) Ice and fire.
Seat: (Castle name) The Lair
Relgion: Lord of Light
Blood: Descended from a Stark-Targaryen bastard
Location: Some island in the northeast
House Weapon: Coldflame
Sworn to: No one. We want the Iron Throne for ourselves.
Backstory: See Blood. Who knows; might be we are descended from R and L (depending on how long after SOIAF we are). Needless to say, we're wargs.

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House Wayne



Sigil: A black Bat on a gray field


Motto: We are the Night


Seat: Castle Wayne, aswell as another well defended keep known only as "the Cave"


Religion: Old Gods


Blood: descendants of the first men


Location: the North


Sword: The Nightblade


Sworn to: House Stark

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House: Southwell
Sigil: Three Red Flowers
Motto: Live by Strategem
Seat: Southwells
Relgion: The Seven
Blood: Andal
Location: Southernmost point of the Arbour
House Weapon: Valyrian Greatsword 'Secret Strategem'
Sworn to: Redwyne
Backstory:

House Southwell

Our family seat is on the southern most point of the isle called The Arbour. Our modest but strong castle is called Southwells. This name comes from the three freshwater wells on our lands. We are the southernmost house in all the Seven Kingdoms.

Our sigil is three red flowers. They represent our springs, and the blood that has been shed many times by our family defending them from enemies. The flowers represent the fact that our strength and growth are tied to our wells.

Our words are 'Live by Strategem' The reason for this is closely tied to our ancestral blade 'Secret Strategem'

We are a relatively young house. Lord Redwyne granted what is now our lands to one of his most courageous and cunning sea captains when he retired, Ser Alan Southwake, who changed his name to Southwell after the wells were dug and our first hall built. Ever since we have grown stronger, but always ever loyal to our liege (bar one incident described below). Many of the Lord Redwynes best captains in their fleets have been Southwells and we boast a strong maritime heritage.

The story of our ancestral bade is thus.

It was one of the last to come out of Valyria before the Doom. Ser Robert Southwell, eager to bring prestige to our young house sailed from the Arbour raiding Hellholt, the Salt Shore and amongst the Stepstones to amass enough loot to purchase us our sword. Arriving in Valaryia he found the Master Blacksmith Layriem Steeleyes, a master in the arts of forging Valyrian steel.

Unfortunately, Ser Robert found he had only half enough gold for Steeleyes services. However, Ser Robert observed that the Blacksmith, whilst being burly and hard as all are, considered himself a thinker and was mad for a new diversion that had just arrived from Volantis, a game called cyvasse. Ser Robert wagered all his gold on an all or nothing game for a sword against his gold. Ser Robert had never played cyvasse before and after Steeleyes explained the rules the game began. Steeleyes was a formidable player, but he underestimated a Southwell (as many of our foes have been wont to do). Young Ser Robert set his pieces in a classic 'inexperienced player' set up, but it was all a ruse to get Steeleyes to commit his dragon too quickly. The dragon fell into the trap and Ser Robert ended it soon after. Thus our family sword is named Secret Stratagem, for that is how our sword was bought. Not with gold, not with iron, but with stratagem.

To inherit Secret Strategem, the heir must beat his father in a game of cyvasse to prove he is worthy of it.

The one dark blot on our history is the tale of another Ser Robert Southwell. The youngest son of Ser Lyle Southwell, Ser Robert was lost at sea fighting Ironborn reavers. Many days later he washed up on the shores of Saltcliffe. He had been carried thousands of leagues from the Arbour and against the ocean currents, but was still somehow alive. A drowned priest found him and hearing his tale proclaimed him blessed by the drowned god. Over the course of a year he was indoctrinated into that false religion and became obsessed with what he saw as his divine mission: to bring the religion of the drowned god to The Arbour, and destroy the worship of The Seven here. Coming back to the Arbour he hid his new faith from his family, whilst secretly plotting with the Greyjoys and Harlaws for the eradication of the Redwynes and establishment of a new House Southwell, sworn to Pyke. He plotted to eliminate the Redwynes by using magical fire powder from Yi Ti, and planted it in barrels under the sept where a wedding between his elder brother Ser Emery Southwell, Lord of Southwells (Ser Lyle his father, and Ser Murry his eldest brother had not shared as lucky a fate as he during that sea battle and had been fully lost) and Joella Redwyne. However, his plot was discovered by the Lady Joella and so Ser Robert Southwell, priest of the Drowned God, was hung, drawn and quartered, his ambitions never coming into fruition.

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