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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until the ruling family, the Martells, joined the Targaryens through marriage, nearly a century before the War of the Five Kings. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until the ruling family, the Martells, joined the Targaryens through marriage, nearly a century before the War of the Five Kings. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, Prince or Princess, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Dorne is considerably more liberal when it comes to sexuality. Their bastard children, given the surname Sand, are not treated with the same stigma as they are in the rest of Westeros.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Dorne is considerably more liberal when it comes to sexuality. Their bastard children, given the surname Sand, are not treated with the same stigma as they are in the rest of Westeros. In addition, a woman can lead a house in Dorne, unlike the rest of Westeros where women may not inherit.
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall). There are more than ninety tribes of Wildlings, including the Thenns, the Hornfoots, and even giants. Occasionally, a great number of tribes rally behind a lone figure who calls himself the King-Beyond-The-Wall, but otherwise, they attempt to slip through the wall and raid the North in small numbers.
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the Wildlings, who are the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall).wall. There are more than ninety tribes of Wildlings, including the Thenns, the Hornfoots, and even giants. Occasionally, a great number of tribes rally behind a lone figure who calls himself the King-Beyond-The-Wall, but otherwise, they attempt to slip through the wall Wall and raid the North in small numbers.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The renewed threat of the White Walkers is pushing the Night's Watch and the Wildlings to work together.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The renewed threat of the White Walkers is pushing the Night's Watch and the Wildlings to work together. Also applies to the Wildlings themselves, as they are barely able to refrain from killing each other and only join a King-Beyond-The-Wall in times of great peril.
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Little of the Crownlands, apart from King's Landing itself, has appeared in the TV series. Generally in the novels they are also thought of as more of an extension of King's Landing, though local politics often involve these lords in subplots at the royal court. Dragonstone is also technically part of the Crownlands. Otherwise, the first Crownlander seen on the show was Ser Dontos Hollard in Seasons 2 and 4, though his House is not significant. The first major Crownlands House that was introduced, separate from the royal families (holding King's Landing and Dragonstone), was House Stokeworth in Season 5.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Westerlands bears a small resemblance to South Africa: lots of gold, lions, a huge mountain behind the main port city.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Westerlands bears a small resemblance to South Africa: lots They're kind of gold, lions, a huge mountain behind the main port city.England to the North's Scotland.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of Normandy, Brittany, and northern France in general.
** They are a region with no natural defenses, surrounded on all sides by antagonistic regions and will ''always'' be drawn to the fight when there is political turmoil in the land. Several countries could be described that way, but the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) come first to mind.
** They are a region with no natural defenses, surrounded on all sides by antagonistic regions and will ''always'' be drawn to the fight when there is political turmoil in the land. Several countries could be described that way, but the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) come first to mind.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of Normandy, Brittany, and northern France in general.
**They are a region with no natural defenses, surrounded on all sides by antagonistic regions and will ''always'' be drawn to the fight when there is political turmoil in the land. Several countries could be described that way, but the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) come first to mind.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: As the heartland of chivalry, with refined court culture, and the most fertile of the Seven Kingdoms, basically medieval France. Like France, they have a larger population and resources than their neighbors - but they also have twice as many hostile borders, which evens out any potential advantage.
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I think that is taking it too far. They aren\'t commiting ethnic genocide and respect their enemies if they are worthy.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around]] and generally being [[TheBrute bullies sanctioned the established regime]]. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or TheWave ("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or TheWave ("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: How Brynden "Blackfish" Tully describes the Riverlands, they have no geographic defenses and are bordered by the Westerlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Reach and the North. It almost always ends up being a major battlefield in most Westerosi conflicts and House Tully have to ensure peace with their rivals through marriage alliances.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: How Brynden "Blackfish" Tully describes the Riverlands, they have no geographic defenses and are bordered by the Westerlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Reach Reach, the Crownlands and the North. It almost always ends up being a major battlefield in most Westerosi conflicts and House Tully have to ensure peace with their rivals through marriage alliances.
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* BubblegloopSwamp: The Neck is this, and it also serves as a natural barrier into the North proper. Only the Crannogmen of The Neck and House Reed can properly navigate its treacherous landscape and fierce creatures, and many have died trying to find their way through it unaided.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The North as a whole draws inspiration from Northern England and Scotland. In turn, The First Men, of whom the Northmen descend, are this to the Picts.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The North as a whole draws inspiration from Northern England and Scotland. In turn, The First Men, of whom the Northmen descend, are this to the Picts.
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* BubblegloopSwamp: The Neck is this, and it also serves as a natural barrier into the North proper. Only the Crannogmen crannogmen of The the Neck and House Reed can properly navigate its treacherous landscape and fierce creatures, and many have died trying to find their way through it unaided.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The North as a whole draws inspiration from Northern England and Scotland. In turn,The the First Men, of whom the Northmen descend, are this to the Picts.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The North as a whole draws inspiration from Northern England and Scotland. In turn,
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* OopNorth: Most Northmen have a much thicker accent than those in The South, as evidenced by Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, and various other Northern characters.
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The North is a cold, blasted region and largest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, able to potentially house the other six inside of it by its sheer size alone. The people of the North have a bit of an idiosyncratic culture compared to those south of The Neck, as they still worship the Old Gods that the First Men adopted from the Children of the Forest and pray (or take their vows, for Northborn Night's Watch members) underneath the weirwood trees that dot the land. They also place a high value on honor, and still hold the belief that the man who passes sentence should be the one to swing the executing sword. They are also the only region that still hold the tales of the Long Night and the White Walkers as truth(however distant), as evidenced by the words of House Stark; Winter Is Coming. While formerly ruled over by House Stark, the current Lord Paramount and Warden of the North is Roose Bolton, the title awarded to him by Tywin Lannister after the fall of House Stark.
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The North is a cold, blasted region and largest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, able to potentially house the other six inside of it by its sheer size alone. The people of the North have a bit of an idiosyncratic culture compared to those south of The Neck, as they still worship the Old Gods that the First Men adopted from the Children of the Forest and pray (or take their vows, for Northborn Night's Watch members) underneath the weirwood trees that dot the land. They also place a high value on honor, and still hold the belief that the man who passes sentence should be the one to swing the executing sword. They are also the only region that still hold the tales of the Long Night and the White Walkers as truth(however truth (however distant), as evidenced by the words of House Stark; Winter Is Coming. While formerly ruled over by House Stark, the current Lord Paramount and Warden of the North is Roose Bolton, the title awarded to him by Tywin Lannister after the fall of House Stark.
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* Undying loyalty: The people of the north, both the high lords and the smallfolk have this for their stark overlords. So much that they will refuse to fallow anyone else even on pain of death. This is a bit of a deconstruction as no one in the north will ally themselves with one of the few people who can and is willing help them since he is of the south. Even if its in their best interest. This dates back to even Robert's rebellion as Stannis Baratheon notes that even with the much loved Ned stark the future and charismatic king Robert had trouble controlling them.
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* RagsToRiches: A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lan the Clever, patriarch to House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock.
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* RagsToRiches: A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lan Lann the Clever, patriarch to House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock.
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*Undying loyalty: The people of the north, both the high lords and the smallfolk have this for their stark overlords. So much that they will refuse to fallow anyone else even on pain of death. This is a bit of a deconstruction as no one in the north will ally themselves with one of the few people who can and is willing help them since he is of the south. Even if its in their best interest. This dates back to even Robert's rebellion as Stannis Baratheon notes that even with the much loved Ned stark the future and charismatic king Robert had trouble controlling them.
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* TheProfessor: The Reach is also home to the Citadel, which is the headquarters of the Order of Maesters. These learned men serve as advisors for each of the Great Houses of Westeros.
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** Much like real-life France (which they're sort of an expy for) the Reach has twice the numbers as the next largest kingdom, but they've also got twice as many hostile borders, facing the Westerlands, the Stormlands, Dorne, and a close ocean border with the Iron Islands (most other kingdoms only border two other major ones, i.e. the Stormlands border the Reach and Dorne). So the advantage events out. Moreover, they don't have many major defensive boundaries with their neighbors: the mountains of the Westerlands, and the Red Mountains of Dorne, are a barrier to invasion by the Reach but not the other way around. The Mander River runs east-west instead of north-south, so it does not present a strong defense against invasion from the Stormlands.
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** Much like real-life France (which they're sort of an expy for) the Reach has twice the numbers as the next largest kingdom, but they've also got twice as many hostile borders, facing the Westerlands, the Stormlands, Dorne, and a close ocean border with the Iron Islands (most other kingdoms only border two other major ones, i.e. the Stormlands border the Reach and Dorne). So the advantage events evens out. Moreover, they don't have many major defensive boundaries with their neighbors: the mountains of the Westerlands, and the Red Mountains of Dorne, are a barrier to invasion by the Reach but not the other way around. The Mander River runs east-west instead of north-south, so it does not present a strong defense against invasion from the Stormlands.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, as Dorne then joined through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until the ruling family, the Martells, joined the Targaryens through marriage, nearly a century prior to before the War of the Five Kings, as Dorne then joined through marriage.Kings. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
* TeamSwitzerland: Much like the Vale, Dorne is geographically isolated from the rest of Westeros, and their autonomy means they can afford to not take sides in the War of the Five Kings.
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall).
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall). There are more than ninety tribes of Wildlings, including the Thenns, the Hornfoots, and even giants. Occasionally, a great number of tribes rally behind a lone figure who calls himself the King-Beyond-The-Wall, but otherwise, they attempt to slip through the wall and raid the North in small numbers.
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: Well, more like outright snarking rather than bickering, really. However, with one Mad King, followers by one supremely uninterested king and then one brat king as the supposed head of government... is it all that surprising the ruling council is a divided, unsupervised mess?
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: Well, more like outright snarking rather than bickering, really. However, with one Mad King, followers followed by one supremely uninterested king and then one brat king as the supposed head of government... is it all that surprising the ruling council is a divided, unsupervised mess?mess?
* WretchedHive: Quite a lot of King's Landing can be said to be this underneath some lovely architecture. Flea Bottom, however, doesn't try masking what it is, at all.
* WretchedHive: Quite a lot of King's Landing can be said to be this underneath some lovely architecture. Flea Bottom, however, doesn't try masking what it is, at all.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around] and generally being [[TheBrute bullies sanctioned the established regime]]. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around] around]] and generally being [[TheBrute bullies sanctioned the established regime]]. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around and generally being [[TheBrute bullies]] sanctioned the established regime. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around around] and generally being [[TheBrute bullies]] bullies sanctioned the established regime.regime]]. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses LastSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around and generally being [[TheBrute bullies]] sanctioned the established regime. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or The Wave("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or The Wave("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses LastSolution FinalSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around and generally being [[TheBrute bullies]] sanctioned the established regime. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") orThe Wave("Strength TheWave ("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Out of the other kingdoms, the Westerlands seem to be the codifier for AristocratsAreEvil, with a heavy dose of fascist, Nazi-esque traits. Tywin wants to create a ThousandYearReign OneWorldOrder under Lannister control, is [[TheSocialDarwinist extremely elitist]], [[HeirClubForMen old]]-[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain fashioned]] and basically [[EvilOverlord commands the other houses]] [[MightMakesRight with an iron fist and sword]] and a CultOfPersonality around [[ControlFreak himself]]. He uses LastSolution as his go-to answer to any uprising. The other houses in the Westerlands simply act as his Gestapo and SS, [[TheBully abusing and slaughtering anyone who defies them, flaunting their power and nobility around and generally being [[TheBrute bullies]] sanctioned the established regime. [[spoiler: And like in real life, it all starts falling apart when they waste all their wealth and can't keep the war machine going, and their leader dies. The only difference is that Tywin is, at very least, a good administrator and commander, while his substitute(i.e. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] [[SmugSnake Lannister]]) is NOT.]]
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or The Wave("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
** Just look at Tywin's quote above. You can see similar quotes used by other fascist/nazi-esque groups in fiction and real life, such as [[VForVendetta Norsefire]] ("Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith") or The Wave("Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action!"). All that's missing are his soldiers crying out the last part of his quote above.
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: Well, more like outright snarking rather than bickering, really. However, with one Mad King, followers by one supremely uninterested king and then one brat king as the supposed head of government... is it all that surprising the ruling council is a divided, unsupervised mess?
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* BarbarianTribe: The Wildlings in a nutshell. The only time they prove a significant threat to the realm is when they band together behind a King-Beyond-The-Wall. The rest of the time, they're more of a nuisance south of the Wall, occasionally raiding towns and farms in the Gift (a stretch of land meant to help sustain the Night's Watch).
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The renewed threat of the White Walkers is pushing the Night's Watch and the Wildlings to work together.
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* BadassDecay: The Night's Watch was once a highly-regarded order on par with the Order of Maesters, attracting the best and most elite of Westeros. In recent centuries, the Wall has essentially become a dumping ground for the bastard or unfit sons of Lords, along with various criminals, rapists, or those who fought on the wrong side in a war, who join in order to receive a full pardon.
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* BadassDecay: In-universe. The Night's Watch was once a highly-regarded order on par with the Order of Maesters, attracting the best and most elite of Westeros. In recent centuries, the Wall has essentially become a dumping ground for the bastard or unfit sons of Lords, along with various criminals, rapists, or those who fought on the wrong side in a war, who join in order to receive a full pardon.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, in which Dorne was integrated through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, in which as Dorne was integrated then joined through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more autonomous than the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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* TheProfessor: The Reach is also home to the Citadel, which is the headquarters of the Order of Maesters. These learned men serve as advisors for each of the Great Houses of Westeros.
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* TheSmartGuy: The Reach is also home to the Citadel, which is the headquarters of the Order of Maesters. These learned men serve as advisors for each of the Great Houses of Westeros.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Wall is based on Hadrian's Wall, a fortification in northern England that the Romans built to keep out the Celtic and Pictish tribes. The Wildlings themselves are based on those tribes, coming from an inhospitable area of the land with pale skin and red hair being a common trait.
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The breadbasket of Westeros, The Reach is the second-most spacious after The North and the primary food provider for the Seven Kingdoms. Historically they were ruled by House Gardner, but when the last Gardner King died to Aegon the Conqueror on the Field of Flames House Tyrell (who had been their faithful stewards for thousands of years) yielded the castle of Highgarden to Aegon and were awarded Lord Paramountship of The Reach and Wardenship of The South. The Reach is often heavily tied to the Corwnlands because of this, and they stood beside Aerys II Targaryen when Robert Baratheon raised up The North, Stormlands, Vale, and Riverlands against him. Robert allowed the Tyrells to keep their titles at the cost of food and paying off the war debt after the Rebellion, and now The Reach is seeing an influx of political power due to the marriage of Margery Tyrell to King Joffrey Baratheon.
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The breadbasket of Westeros, The Reach is the second-most spacious after The North and the primary food provider for the Seven Kingdoms. Historically they were ruled by House Gardner, but when the last Gardner King died to Aegon the Conqueror on the Field of Flames House Tyrell (who had been their faithful stewards for thousands of years) yielded the castle of Highgarden to Aegon and were awarded Lord Paramountship of The Reach and Wardenship of The South. The Reach is often heavily tied to the Corwnlands because of this, and they stood beside Aerys II Targaryen when Robert Baratheon raised up The North, Stormlands, Vale, and Riverlands against him. During the war, the Tyrells and their Tarly vassals inflicted Robert's only defeat and lay siege to the Stormlands until Prince Rhaegar's death at the Battle of the Trident. Robert allowed the Tyrells to keep their titles at the cost of food and paying off the war debt after the Rebellion, and now The Reach is seeing an influx of political power due to the marriage of Margery Tyrell to King Joffrey Baratheon.
* TheSmartGuy: The Reach is also home to the Citadel, which is the headquarters of the Order of Maesters. These learned men serve as advisors for each of the Great Houses of Westeros.
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The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, in which Dorne was integrated through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more independent autonomous than their the other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall).
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* BadassDecay: The Night's Watch was once a highly-regarded order on par with the Order of Maesters, attracting the best and most elite of Westeros. In recent centuries, the Wall has essentially become a dumping ground for the bastard or unfit sons of Lords, along with various criminals, rapists, or those who fought on the wrong side in a war, who join in order to receive a full pardon.
* CassandraTruth: When the Night's Watch receives proof that the White Walkers are returning, Stannis Baratheon is the only southern Lord who marches to the Wall to provide assistance.
* GrimUpNorth: Even worse than ''the'' North. Beyond the Wall, there is little vegetation or arable land, along with a number of dangerous animals. Even ''further'' north is the Land of Always Winter, which is just as treacherous as it sounds and is the home of the White Walkers.
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Though technically not part of the Seven Kingdoms, the northern border is defined by the Wall, a massive fortification of ice seven hundred feet tall which stretches across the continent. The northern frontier is manned by the Night's Watch, an order that protects the realm from the Wildlings (the non-aligned clans which live beyond the wall).
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* BadassDecay: The Night's Watch was once a highly-regarded order on par with the Order of Maesters, attracting the best and most elite of Westeros. In recent centuries, the Wall has essentially become a dumping ground for the bastard or unfit sons of Lords, along with various criminals, rapists, or those who fought on the wrong side in a war, who join in order to receive a full pardon.
* CassandraTruth: When the Night's Watch receives proof that the White Walkers are returning, Stannis Baratheon is the only southern Lord who marches to the Wall to provide assistance.
* GrimUpNorth: Even worse than ''the'' North. Beyond the Wall, there is little vegetation or arable land, along with a number of dangerous animals. Even ''further'' north is the Land of Always Winter, which is just as treacherous as it sounds and is the home of the White Walkers.
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* AerithAndBob: Denizens of the Vale tend to have common sounding names for a fantasy setting, with pronunciations and spellings slightly altered - Jon, Lysa, Petyr, Anya and Yohn - alongside names like Ser Vardis and Ser Waymar.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: As noted by Harry Lloyd in the DVD audio commentary. The Vale being the most mountainous part of Westeros and its ethnic division between fortress-dwelling Andals (i.e. Anglo-Saxons) and restive mountain tribes that descend from the First Men (i.e. Celts) likens it to Wales. Coincidentally, Ser Vardis Egen speaks with a Welsh accent in the show.
** On the other hand, the fact that the Vale is located high in the mountains with narrow bottlenecks makes it very similar to the real-life Switzerland which is notoriously hard to invade.
** On the other hand, the fact that the Vale is located high in the mountains with narrow bottlenecks makes it very similar to the real-life Switzerland which is notoriously hard to invade.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: In the History and Lore videos on The Vale, Petyr Baelish, admittedly biased, regards this as the chief failing of the Vale, noting that their geographical defenses have kept themselves isolated from matters of real concern, like making peace or destroying the Hill Tribes and it feeds them an unjustified sense of security and superiority.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: How Brynden "Blackfish" Tully describes the Riverlands, they have no geographic defenses and are bordered by the Westerlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Reach and the North. It almost always ends up being a major battlefield in most Westerosi conflicts and House Tully have to ensure peace with their rivals through marriage alliances.
** Even both the Iron Islands and the Stormlands once occupied the Riverlands and fought a war over dominion of its territory. Dorne is basically the only region that's not bordering on the Riverlands or used to be in direct conflict with them. Despite this, a host of Dornishmen (reluctantly) fought at the Trident on the opposing side.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of Normandy, Brittany, and northern France in general.
** They are a region with no natural defenses, surrounded on all sides by antagonistic regions and will ''always'' be drawn to the fight when there is political turmoil in the land. Several countries could be described that way, but the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) come first to mind.
** The fact that the Riverlands used to be ruled by the Ironborn prior to the Targaryen conquest and their location within Westeros also likens them to the English Danelaw, and[=/=]or post-Viking Russia. Though, unlike both of those regions, the Riverlands don't seem to have held on to much, if any, Ironborn culture beyond (possibly) the VikingFuneral.
* SceneryGorn: Especially after the Red Wedding when the Freys take over the Riverlands. Arya and Sandor Clegane trudge through the countryside on their way to the Vale and the landscape is a desiccated wasteland.
** Even both the Iron Islands and the Stormlands once occupied the Riverlands and fought a war over dominion of its territory. Dorne is basically the only region that's not bordering on the Riverlands or used to be in direct conflict with them. Despite this, a host of Dornishmen (reluctantly) fought at the Trident on the opposing side.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of Normandy, Brittany, and northern France in general.
** They are a region with no natural defenses, surrounded on all sides by antagonistic regions and will ''always'' be drawn to the fight when there is political turmoil in the land. Several countries could be described that way, but the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) come first to mind.
** The fact that the Riverlands used to be ruled by the Ironborn prior to the Targaryen conquest and their location within Westeros also likens them to the English Danelaw, and[=/=]or post-Viking Russia. Though, unlike both of those regions, the Riverlands don't seem to have held on to much, if any, Ironborn culture beyond (possibly) the VikingFuneral.
* SceneryGorn: Especially after the Red Wedding when the Freys take over the Riverlands. Arya and Sandor Clegane trudge through the countryside on their way to the Vale and the landscape is a desiccated wasteland.
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* ChivalricRomance: The Tyrells and other houses of the Reach put a lot of effort into making the Reach at least seem like the stereotypical Chivalric Romance setting. Chivalry is very SeriousBusiness in the Reach, and Catelyn even calls its soldiers "the knights of summer." Highgarden is reputed to be one of the most beautiful cities on the continent, providing leisurely entertainment such as a grand MasqueradeBall on the night of the harvest moon and pleasure barges on the river Mander. Loras and Margaery work very hard on their respective KnightInShiningArmor and PrincessClassic[=/=]TheHighQueen persona, and they were once in a three-way marriage to Renly Baratheon, who saw himself as TheGoodKing.
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* WeHaveReserves: While power is measurable by many standards, no other family can match House Tyrell for sheer numbers. The Reach is the breadbasket of Westeros, so it can sustain a large population of people and animals (like horses). The Tyrells, ''by themselves'', can muster about 15,000 men, cavalry and infantry, meaning that (given feudal economies), they probably hold personal fief (i.e. have no other vassals between them) over at least 100,000 peasants. And then you throw their bannermen into the mix...
** Much like real-life France (which they're sort of an expy for) the Reach has twice the numbers as the next largest kingdom, but they've also got twice as many hostile borders, facing the Westerlands, the Stormlands, Dorne, and a close ocean border with the Iron Islands (most other kingdoms only border two other major ones, i.e. the Stormlands border the Reach and Dorne). So the advantage events out. Moreover, they don't have many major defensive boundaries with their neighbors: the mountains of the Westerlands, and the Red Mountains of Dorne, are a barrier to invasion by the Reach but not the other way around. The Mander River runs east-west instead of north-south, so it does not present a strong defense against invasion from the Stormlands.
** Much like real-life France (which they're sort of an expy for) the Reach has twice the numbers as the next largest kingdom, but they've also got twice as many hostile borders, facing the Westerlands, the Stormlands, Dorne, and a close ocean border with the Iron Islands (most other kingdoms only border two other major ones, i.e. the Stormlands border the Reach and Dorne). So the advantage events out. Moreover, they don't have many major defensive boundaries with their neighbors: the mountains of the Westerlands, and the Red Mountains of Dorne, are a barrier to invasion by the Reach but not the other way around. The Mander River runs east-west instead of north-south, so it does not present a strong defense against invasion from the Stormlands.
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** To Spain. The Dornish speak with a vaguely Hispanic accent (as opposed to the ubiquitous English and Irish accents everywhere else in Westeros) and are traditionally HotBlooded and [[LatinLover sexually adventurous]]. More specifically, as the only part of Westeros with Rhoynar (an Essosi river culture) influence in their culture, Dorne has parallels to Moorish Spain, the largest and longest-surviving Arab-Islamic state in medieval Europe, and the only one to achieve a majority Muslim population. [[labelnote:From the Books...]]In the books, there are three different types of Dornishmen: Salt, Sand, and Stone Dornish. Salt Dornish have the most Rhoynar blood, and live along the peninsular coast and are analogous to Arab settlers (who formed the ruling class in Muslim Spain); House Martell are Salt Dornish. Sand Dornish live in the interior deserts, and are essentially Berber settlers. Stone Dornish live in the mountains that separate Dorne from the Stormlands and the Reach, and their Rhoynar blood is heavily mixed with that of the Andals and the First Men, meaning that they are analogous to native Spaniards (Visigoths, really) who lived under Muslim rule.[[/labelnote]]
** Dorne is also similar to Wales. Both used to be separate countries, both have "Marches" at their edge, both still see themselves as culturally different from the rest of the kingdom, and both are ruled by Princes, rather than by Lords.
* FragileSpeedster: Their overall battle doctrine, though not to the extent of the Dothraki (who wear no armor at all). A knight would cook inside of heavy steel plate armor in the hot deserts of Dorne, so Dornish tactics opt for lighter leather or copper armor, and rely more on speed and agility. This is a real-life principle about armies fighting in arid regions: Saladin's armies in the Crusades similarly had lighter armor and similarly had to rely more on speed and agility.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny: Most of Westeros frown upon Dorne's openly tolerant attitude towards non-heterosexual relations, as demonstrated in "Two Swords" by Bronn's and the two Lannister soldiers' offensive joke about Dornishmen fucking goats, and Tyrion mentions Oberyn's notorious reputation for having sex with half of the continent.
* TheSavageSouth: How the middle of Westeros sees them, they are regarded as different and less civilized. Not unlike the North, weirdly enough. The fact that they have a different skin tone and have more relaxed cultural norms in terms of sexuality and class doesn't help matters. When Tywin and Cersei try to invoke this to Oberyn though, the latter quickly points out the hypocrisy of the Lannisters, whose fame and power comes from vicious atrocities, calling other people savage, especially since the Queen's daughter is living in Dorne and engaged to the Martells' youngest son.
* ThirstyDesert: Dorne's otherwise inhospitable geography played a key role in its maintaining a measure of autonomy.
** To Spain. The Dornish speak with a vaguely Hispanic accent (as opposed to the ubiquitous English and Irish accents everywhere else in Westeros) and are traditionally HotBlooded and [[LatinLover sexually adventurous]]. More specifically, as the only part of Westeros with Rhoynar (an Essosi river culture) influence in their culture, Dorne has parallels to Moorish Spain, the largest and longest-surviving Arab-Islamic state in medieval Europe, and the only one to achieve a majority Muslim population. [[labelnote:From the Books...]]In the books, there are three different types of Dornishmen: Salt, Sand, and Stone Dornish. Salt Dornish have the most Rhoynar blood, and live along the peninsular coast and are analogous to Arab settlers (who formed the ruling class in Muslim Spain); House Martell are Salt Dornish. Sand Dornish live in the interior deserts, and are essentially Berber settlers. Stone Dornish live in the mountains that separate Dorne from the Stormlands and the Reach, and their Rhoynar blood is heavily mixed with that of the Andals and the First Men, meaning that they are analogous to native Spaniards (Visigoths, really) who lived under Muslim rule.[[/labelnote]]
** Dorne is also similar to Wales. Both used to be separate countries, both have "Marches" at their edge, both still see themselves as culturally different from the rest of the kingdom, and both are ruled by Princes, rather than by Lords.
* FragileSpeedster: Their overall battle doctrine, though not to the extent of the Dothraki (who wear no armor at all). A knight would cook inside of heavy steel plate armor in the hot deserts of Dorne, so Dornish tactics opt for lighter leather or copper armor, and rely more on speed and agility. This is a real-life principle about armies fighting in arid regions: Saladin's armies in the Crusades similarly had lighter armor and similarly had to rely more on speed and agility.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny: Most of Westeros frown upon Dorne's openly tolerant attitude towards non-heterosexual relations, as demonstrated in "Two Swords" by Bronn's and the two Lannister soldiers' offensive joke about Dornishmen fucking goats, and Tyrion mentions Oberyn's notorious reputation for having sex with half of the continent.
* TheSavageSouth: How the middle of Westeros sees them, they are regarded as different and less civilized. Not unlike the North, weirdly enough. The fact that they have a different skin tone and have more relaxed cultural norms in terms of sexuality and class doesn't help matters. When Tywin and Cersei try to invoke this to Oberyn though, the latter quickly points out the hypocrisy of the Lannisters, whose fame and power comes from vicious atrocities, calling other people savage, especially since the Queen's daughter is living in Dorne and engaged to the Martells' youngest son.
* ThirstyDesert: Dorne's otherwise inhospitable geography played a key role in its maintaining a measure of autonomy.
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* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]AdaptationalWimp: The Ironborn in the series are less competent and rougher and dumber than their book counterparts. For instance, Dagmer Cleftjaw is an ObviouslyEvil [[EvilMentor Mentor]] rather than the more avuncular figure in the books. He goads Theon into doing evil actions like killing children (in the books, this is done by [[spoiler:Ramsay Bolton acting as the first "Reek"]]) and they openly sell him out to the Boltons in a CavalryBetrayal which was again part of a gambit undertaken by [[spoiler:Reek/Ramsay]]. The [[spoiler:death of Ralf Kenning comes from poisoning by crannogmen from the Neck and not an axe to the head and the fall of Moat Cailin happens because of a series of political factors depriving the fort of their main force, leaving only a smaller garrison reduced to straits]]. It's like they have become the {{Flanderization}} of the usual insults given to them in the books.
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-->'''Theon Greyjoy:''' You're not a man in the Iron Islands 'till you've killed your first enemy!
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Ironborn in general are this to the Vikings, and Viking domains in the smaller British Isles (Man and the Orkneys) in particular. Their different religion, restive nature and the fact that they and the mainlanders mutually despise each other also likens them to the Irish. The show's costumes and props, however, tend to de-emphasize the more obvious Viking-like aspects that they have in the books.
-->'''Theon Greyjoy:''' You're not a man in the Iron Islands 'till you've killed your first enemy!
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Ironborn in general are this to the Vikings, and Viking domains in the smaller British Isles (Man and the Orkneys) in particular. Their different religion, restive nature and the fact that they and the mainlanders mutually despise each other also likens them to the Irish. The show's costumes and props, however, tend to de-emphasize the more obvious Viking-like aspects that they have in the books.
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* HornyVikings: Less so than in the books, but they still bear more than a passing similarity.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The North as a whole draws inspiration from Northern England and Scotland. In turn, The First Men, of whom the Northmen descend, are this to the Picts.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Westerlands bears a small resemblance to South Africa: lots of gold, lions, a huge mountain behind the main port city.
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* DecadentCourt: This region houses the royal court in the city of King's Landing.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Though ''much'' less pronounced than any of the other regions, the Stormlands as a whole are loosely like medieval Germany, though there’s a mish-mash of other factors. Like Germany, the Stormlands are the most densely forested part of the Seven Kingdoms (of the three major forests, two are located in the Stormlands, the third in the North…but while the North is vast, those two forests take up most of the Stormlands). Similarly, medieval Germany was densely forested. The other similarities have more to do with their history, which is a lot like the Holy Roman Empire. [[labelnote:From the Books...]] Before the Targaryen Conquest, the Stormlands under the Durrandon dynasty conquered the Riverlands (including the future Crownlands), as well as bits of the eastern Reach, and expanding further into the Dornish Marches. This Durrandon super-kingdom controlled essentially the entire eastern half of southern Westeros, and it held these lands for a full three centuries. They had over-expanded, however, because now they shared hostiles borders with *all six* of the other Kingdoms. Most kingdoms could handle having two powerful bordering kingdoms: the Westerlands border the Reach and are right near the Iron Islands, Dorne borders the Reach and the Stormlands, etc. The Reach gets away with having four powerful neighbors (the Westerlands, the Stormlands, Dorne, and the nearby Iron Islands to the north) because it’s the most fertile part of Westeros, has twice the population, and can field twice as many armies (though this balances out because they have twice as many hostile borders). The old Storm Kingdom’s westward expansion, however, meant it wasn’t just fighting its traditional enemies of the Reach and Dorne: now it had to defend its conquests against the Westerlands, the Vale, the North, and particularly the Iron Islands pressing from the west -- *nor* did they have the numbers advantages the Reach did. This is much like what happened to the medieval Holy Roman Empire – basically centered around Germany, but also trying to hold on to the eastern parts of France, northern Italy, fighting Slavs to the east and Vikings to the north. Its borders were so amorphous, and faced so many powerful rivals on every side, that its lands got chipped away over time. Similarly, about three generations before the Targaryen Conquest, King Harwyn Hoare led the ironborn to conquer the Riverlands from the Stormlands. In the next generation his son kicked them out of the future Crownlands, while the Gardener Kings of the Reach from the southwest chipped away at their lands on the upper Mander, and the Dornish edged them back in the Marches. The remaining core territories of “The Stormlands”, ruled from Storm’s End, got taken over by the Baratheons during the Conquest, when a Targaryen general named Orys Baratheon married the daughter of the last Durrandon king. Other points going towards considering the Stormlands to be a fantasy counterpart to Germany are their long history of wars across a poorly defined border to the west with the Reach (which is much more clearly Fantasy!France). One difference is that Germany doesn’t border Spain, but the Stormlands do have contested mountainous borders with Dorne (Fantasy!Muslim Spain) – though the Holy Roman Empire at its height did compete with Spain for control of the southern parts of France. Again, the similarity to a real life counterpart isn’t quite as pronounced as in other regions. The Season 3 Blu-ray animated featurette on “The Stormlands”, narrated by Brienne of Tarth, does quickly explain how the Stormlands conquered the Riverlands but later lost it to the ironborn – establishing that their backstory is also pretty much the same in the TV continuity.[[/labelnote]]
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--> ''Ride 700 miles that way, you're still in the North. 400 miles that way. 300 miles that way. The North is larger than the other six kingdoms combined.''
-->-- '''Roose Bolton''' describing the region's size to Ramsay Snow
The North is a cold, blasted region and largest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, able to potentially house the other six inside of it by its sheer size alone. The people of the North have a bit of an idiosyncratic culture compared to those south of The Neck, as they still worship the Old Gods that the First Men adopted from the Children of the Forest and pray (or take their vows, for Northborn Night's Watch members) underneath the weirwood trees that dot the land. They also place a high value on honor, and still hold the belief that the man who passes sentence should be the one to swing the executing sword. They are also the only region that still hold the tales of the Long Night and the White Walkers as truth(however distant), as evidenced by the words of House Stark; Winter Is Coming. While formerly ruled over by House Stark, the current Lord Paramount and Warden of the North is Roose Bolton, the title awarded to him by Tywin Lannister after the fall of House Stark.
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* AnimalMotifs: Wolves for House Stark, bears for House Mormont, and "lizard-lions" for House Reed (they being akin to alligators and crocodiles.)
* BubblegloopSwamp: The Neck is this, and it also serves as a natural barrier into the North proper. Only the Crannogmen of The Neck and House Reed can properly navigate its treacherous landscape and fierce creatures, and many have died trying to find their way through it unaided.
* GrimUpNorth: Boy is it ever, and this is normally what most Southerners would tell you about the North. The Northmen still love it though, much to the bewilderment of the South.
* HonorBeforeReason: A defining trait of most Northmen, and what led to the fall of House Stark.
* OopNorth: Most Northmen have a much thicker accent than those in The South, as evidenced by Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, and various other Northern characters.
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[[folder: The Westerlands]]
--> ''Fools look at the Westerlands and see gold. Fools see our wealth and call it strength. Gold is just another rock. The Westerlands are strong because of House Lannister. From strong leadership comes unity; from unity comes power.''
-->-- '''Tywin Lannister'''
The richest of the Seven Kingdoms, The Westerlands are ruled over by House Lannister from their seat of Casterly Rock. While The Reach has its fields of food and the Riverlands and The North its hardened warriors and honorable leaders, The Westerlands draws its power from the gold and silver and other precious items found in their mountain mines. They are surrounded by three natural defenses; thick forests, mountains, and the sea at their back, making it very hard to try and invade to get at their riches. Unfortunately for House Lannister, the Westerlands gold mines (or at least the Lannister owned ones) have run dry, leaving the status of the region in a delicate position, particularly after the death of Tywin Lannister and the exile of Tyrion Lannister leaving no suitable heir for title of Lord Paramount of the Westerlands and Warden of the West.
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* AnimalMotifs: The Lion seems to be the predominant one for this region, having been featured on the Lannister banners as well as those of the Reynes of Castamere. The region is also home to wild mountain lions, one of which led to the death of Tytos Lannister, Tywin's father.
* RagsToRiches: A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lan the Clever, patriarch to House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Even the lower Westerlands Houses can get in on this considering the Lannister fortunes have enriched almost every noble house of the region.
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[[folder: The Crownlands]]
Home to King's Landing and the Red Keep, the Crownlands are considered the de facto capital region of Westeros, situated close to Narrow Sea and above the Stormlands. This region was not one of the original Seven Kingdoms, having been created after Aegon the Conqueror got through living up to his name, and this section of land was set aside for his castle. Because of the importance of King's Landing, a lot of wealth and power flows through this region, although the small folk tend to see very little of it. It is currently ruled by House Baratheon of King's Landing, headed by King Tommen Baratheon and Queen Margery Tyrell.
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* AnimalMotifs: Formerly dragons from House Targaryen, now the Lion of House Lannister and the Stag of House Baratheon.
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[[folder: The Stormlands]]
A rocky, storm ravaged land, the Stormlands are ruled over by House Baratheon of Storm's End and Dragonstone. Originally ruled by the Storm Kings of old and worshiping the Storm God (bitter rival to the Drowned God of the Iron Islands), this land and the castle at Storm's End was given over to Aegon the Conqueror's cousin, Oris Baratheon, to rule when the Storm King fell in battle rather than bend the knee. The one place not constantly ravaged by inclement weather on a near constant basis is the Isle of Tarth, otherwise known as the Sapphire Isle and ruled by House Tarth.
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* AnimalMotifs: Stags for House Baratheon
* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter[=/=]RageAgainstTheHeavens: The Storm Kings of old had this sort of relationship with their Storm God, and it was this attitude the fueled the creation of Storm's End, it being a castle that was repeatedly destroyed by the weather but was continued to be rebuilt out of sheer mule-headed stubbornness until they built one that finally could withstand the beating.
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[[folder: The Iron Islands]]
--> ''Where the North has its honor and the South its chivalry, the Iron Islands has its strength.''
-->-- '''Theon Greyjoy'''
A small collective of islands west of The Neck and northwest of The Riverlands, the Iron Islands are home to the Ironborn and headed by House Greyjoy. In their past the Ironborn were fierce pirates and plunderers, raiding the mainland for gold, glory, and prisoners to tend their fields and work their docks, for as House Greyjoy's words go; "We Do Not Sow." The Ironborn once ruled The Riverlands and Harren the Black had his massive castle of Harrenhall built as a monument to his subjugation of them. This was not to last, as the day the last brick was lain in his tower, Aegon the Conqueror landed and reduced the great castle to a pile of smoking ruins. The Ironborn were then pushed back to their islands, but Aegon allowed them to keep their hold over it and appointed House Greyjoy as rulers of the islands. They still long for their pillaging ways though, but the Ironborns golden age is far behind them.
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* AnimalMotifs: The Kraken for House Greyjoy.
* GrimUpNorth: While not in The North, the Iron Islands have this vibe, being grey and dreary due to their location, and the people are not much better.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Although they're seen as the ButtMonkey of the Seven Kingdoms, the Ironborn are still fearsome warriors and unparalleled in the seafaring arts, despit their other failings.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: One of their defining traits, if the Greyjoy Rebellion is any indication. They simply cannot admit defeat and insist on paying for everything with the "iron price", taking it by force rather than paying for or negotiating for what they need.
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[[folder: The Vale]]
--> ''Only 20 years ago, the knights of the Vale rode behind Jon Arryn, Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon. They fought together to overcome the Mad King. And since then, Arryn and Royce, Corbray, Waynwood, all the great houses of the Vale watched from the corner. A timid boy at a tavern brawl...By staying out of the fray, you've allowed Tywin Lannister to destroy his rivals on every compass point.''
-->-- '''Petyr Baelish'''
The high mountainous region of eastern Westeros, The Vale of Arryn is considered nigh impregnable by most of the rest of the kingdoms. As the name would imply, The Vale is ruled by House Arryn, whose lord also holds the title of Lord Paramount of The Vale and Warden of the East. The Vale is also home to many barbaric hill tribes in its lower areas, a problem that the Lords of The Vale haven't really done much to combat since they all have a seeming blindness to any problems in the region and a very distinct sense of pride and honor regarding their mountains. There is only one way into The Vale proper and that is through The Bloody Gate, so named because during the Age of Heroes twelve different armies beat themselves bloody against it trying to get in, all without success. The seat of House Arryn is The Eyrie, located beyond a long and treacherous road at the top of a high mountain.
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* AnimalMotifs: Falcons for House Arryn and birds in general for the other Houses of The Vale.
* FatalFlaw: The intense pride that the Vale Lords hold for their homeland has blinded them to any flaws within them, and whenever danger comes knocking at their door they are more than content to simply hole up in their mountains and ride it out relatively unscathed. Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] during Robert's Rebellion when Jon Arryn rallied the Houses of The Vale against the Mad King, and then played brutally straight during the War of Five Kings while under the leadership of Lysa Arryn.
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[[folder: The Riverlands]]
--> ''They say that "The King eats and The Hand takes the shit." Such is the same with our home; The Seven Kingdoms piss themselves, and The Riverlands change clothes.''
-->-- '''Ser Brynden the Blackfish'''
A bountiful region located on The Trident river, and formerly presided over by House Tully, while currently ruled by House Frey. The Riverlands are located between "everything and everything else," at a primary junction between The North, The Crownlands, The Westerlands, The Reach, and The Iron Islands, leading to them often getting embroiled in wars and conflicts they didn't start. Still, The Riverlands always seem to press onward despite it, and remains the second most bountiful region land-wise after The Reach. Currently the region is being ravaged by brigands and deserters from the War of Five Kings, in addition to being mismanaged by the Freys, so the recovery for the region may take longer than usual without House Tully to guide them along.
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* AnimalMotifs: Trout for House Tully, and fish for the area in general.
* ButtMonkey: They're pretty much the red-headed stepchild of the Seven Kingdoms, as they not only get dragged into wars they never caused and are a primary raiding target of the Ironborn, but most of those battles and wars are fought in The Riverlands rather than in the regions that started them. They're basically World War II era Poland, and the rest of the Kingdoms are either Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
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[[folder: The Reach]]
--> ''The Reach is aptly named; we're the ones that give your hand something to do at the table.''
-->-- '''Margery Tyrell'''
The breadbasket of Westeros, The Reach is the second-most spacious after The North and the primary food provider for the Seven Kingdoms. Historically they were ruled by House Gardner, but when the last Gardner King died to Aegon the Conqueror on the Field of Flames House Tyrell (who had been their faithful stewards for thousands of years) yielded the castle of Highgarden to Aegon and were awarded Lord Paramountship of The Reach and Wardenship of The South. The Reach is often heavily tied to the Corwnlands because of this, and they stood beside Aerys II Targaryen when Robert Baratheon raised up The North, Stormlands, Vale, and Riverlands against him. Robert allowed the Tyrells to keep their titles at the cost of food and paying off the war debt after the Rebellion, and now The Reach is seeing an influx of political power due to the marriage of Margery Tyrell to King Joffrey Baratheon.
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* BreadAndCircuses: Being a bountiful region allows them a lot of food and money to throw around on extravagances for their people to keep them happy and satisfied.
* FlowerMotifs: Roses for House Tyrell, and plant-life in general for the region.
* SilkHidingSteel: Particularly House Tyrell, but all the Houses of The Reach do this to a certain extent by cultivating their BreadAndCircuses image to throw people off to their political wheelings and dealings. House Florent is a particular example, as they play nice around the Tyrells despite having had their right to Highgarden taken after the fall of the Gardners when the Tyrells gave up Highgarden to Aegon. They often ally themselves against the Tyrells when they can get away with it, such as Selyse Florent marrying Stannis Baratheon, who opposed his brother Renly, who was married to Margery Tyrell.
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[[folder: Dorne]]
The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, in which Dorne was integrated through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more independent than their other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Dorne is considerably more liberal when it comes to sexuality. Their bastard children, given the surname Sand, are not treated with the same stigma as they are in the rest of Westeros.
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[[folder: The North]]
--> ''Ride 700 miles that way, you're still in the North. 400 miles that way. 300 miles that way. The North is larger than the other six kingdoms combined.''
-->-- '''Roose Bolton''' describing the region's size to Ramsay Snow
The North is a cold, blasted region and largest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, able to potentially house the other six inside of it by its sheer size alone. The people of the North have a bit of an idiosyncratic culture compared to those south of The Neck, as they still worship the Old Gods that the First Men adopted from the Children of the Forest and pray (or take their vows, for Northborn Night's Watch members) underneath the weirwood trees that dot the land. They also place a high value on honor, and still hold the belief that the man who passes sentence should be the one to swing the executing sword. They are also the only region that still hold the tales of the Long Night and the White Walkers as truth(however distant), as evidenced by the words of House Stark; Winter Is Coming. While formerly ruled over by House Stark, the current Lord Paramount and Warden of the North is Roose Bolton, the title awarded to him by Tywin Lannister after the fall of House Stark.
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* AnimalMotifs: Wolves for House Stark, bears for House Mormont, and "lizard-lions" for House Reed (they being akin to alligators and crocodiles.)
* BubblegloopSwamp: The Neck is this, and it also serves as a natural barrier into the North proper. Only the Crannogmen of The Neck and House Reed can properly navigate its treacherous landscape and fierce creatures, and many have died trying to find their way through it unaided.
* GrimUpNorth: Boy is it ever, and this is normally what most Southerners would tell you about the North. The Northmen still love it though, much to the bewilderment of the South.
* HonorBeforeReason: A defining trait of most Northmen, and what led to the fall of House Stark.
* OopNorth: Most Northmen have a much thicker accent than those in The South, as evidenced by Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, and various other Northern characters.
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[[folder: The Westerlands]]
--> ''Fools look at the Westerlands and see gold. Fools see our wealth and call it strength. Gold is just another rock. The Westerlands are strong because of House Lannister. From strong leadership comes unity; from unity comes power.''
-->-- '''Tywin Lannister'''
The richest of the Seven Kingdoms, The Westerlands are ruled over by House Lannister from their seat of Casterly Rock. While The Reach has its fields of food and the Riverlands and The North its hardened warriors and honorable leaders, The Westerlands draws its power from the gold and silver and other precious items found in their mountain mines. They are surrounded by three natural defenses; thick forests, mountains, and the sea at their back, making it very hard to try and invade to get at their riches. Unfortunately for House Lannister, the Westerlands gold mines (or at least the Lannister owned ones) have run dry, leaving the status of the region in a delicate position, particularly after the death of Tywin Lannister and the exile of Tyrion Lannister leaving no suitable heir for title of Lord Paramount of the Westerlands and Warden of the West.
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* AnimalMotifs: The Lion seems to be the predominant one for this region, having been featured on the Lannister banners as well as those of the Reynes of Castamere. The region is also home to wild mountain lions, one of which led to the death of Tytos Lannister, Tywin's father.
* RagsToRiches: A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lan the Clever, patriarch to House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Even the lower Westerlands Houses can get in on this considering the Lannister fortunes have enriched almost every noble house of the region.
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[[folder: The Crownlands]]
Home to King's Landing and the Red Keep, the Crownlands are considered the de facto capital region of Westeros, situated close to Narrow Sea and above the Stormlands. This region was not one of the original Seven Kingdoms, having been created after Aegon the Conqueror got through living up to his name, and this section of land was set aside for his castle. Because of the importance of King's Landing, a lot of wealth and power flows through this region, although the small folk tend to see very little of it. It is currently ruled by House Baratheon of King's Landing, headed by King Tommen Baratheon and Queen Margery Tyrell.
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* AnimalMotifs: Formerly dragons from House Targaryen, now the Lion of House Lannister and the Stag of House Baratheon.
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[[folder: The Stormlands]]
A rocky, storm ravaged land, the Stormlands are ruled over by House Baratheon of Storm's End and Dragonstone. Originally ruled by the Storm Kings of old and worshiping the Storm God (bitter rival to the Drowned God of the Iron Islands), this land and the castle at Storm's End was given over to Aegon the Conqueror's cousin, Oris Baratheon, to rule when the Storm King fell in battle rather than bend the knee. The one place not constantly ravaged by inclement weather on a near constant basis is the Isle of Tarth, otherwise known as the Sapphire Isle and ruled by House Tarth.
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* AnimalMotifs: Stags for House Baratheon
* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter[=/=]RageAgainstTheHeavens: The Storm Kings of old had this sort of relationship with their Storm God, and it was this attitude the fueled the creation of Storm's End, it being a castle that was repeatedly destroyed by the weather but was continued to be rebuilt out of sheer mule-headed stubbornness until they built one that finally could withstand the beating.
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[[folder: The Iron Islands]]
--> ''Where the North has its honor and the South its chivalry, the Iron Islands has its strength.''
-->-- '''Theon Greyjoy'''
A small collective of islands west of The Neck and northwest of The Riverlands, the Iron Islands are home to the Ironborn and headed by House Greyjoy. In their past the Ironborn were fierce pirates and plunderers, raiding the mainland for gold, glory, and prisoners to tend their fields and work their docks, for as House Greyjoy's words go; "We Do Not Sow." The Ironborn once ruled The Riverlands and Harren the Black had his massive castle of Harrenhall built as a monument to his subjugation of them. This was not to last, as the day the last brick was lain in his tower, Aegon the Conqueror landed and reduced the great castle to a pile of smoking ruins. The Ironborn were then pushed back to their islands, but Aegon allowed them to keep their hold over it and appointed House Greyjoy as rulers of the islands. They still long for their pillaging ways though, but the Ironborns golden age is far behind them.
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* AnimalMotifs: The Kraken for House Greyjoy.
* GrimUpNorth: While not in The North, the Iron Islands have this vibe, being grey and dreary due to their location, and the people are not much better.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Although they're seen as the ButtMonkey of the Seven Kingdoms, the Ironborn are still fearsome warriors and unparalleled in the seafaring arts, despit their other failings.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: One of their defining traits, if the Greyjoy Rebellion is any indication. They simply cannot admit defeat and insist on paying for everything with the "iron price", taking it by force rather than paying for or negotiating for what they need.
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[[folder: The Vale]]
--> ''Only 20 years ago, the knights of the Vale rode behind Jon Arryn, Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon. They fought together to overcome the Mad King. And since then, Arryn and Royce, Corbray, Waynwood, all the great houses of the Vale watched from the corner. A timid boy at a tavern brawl...By staying out of the fray, you've allowed Tywin Lannister to destroy his rivals on every compass point.''
-->-- '''Petyr Baelish'''
The high mountainous region of eastern Westeros, The Vale of Arryn is considered nigh impregnable by most of the rest of the kingdoms. As the name would imply, The Vale is ruled by House Arryn, whose lord also holds the title of Lord Paramount of The Vale and Warden of the East. The Vale is also home to many barbaric hill tribes in its lower areas, a problem that the Lords of The Vale haven't really done much to combat since they all have a seeming blindness to any problems in the region and a very distinct sense of pride and honor regarding their mountains. There is only one way into The Vale proper and that is through The Bloody Gate, so named because during the Age of Heroes twelve different armies beat themselves bloody against it trying to get in, all without success. The seat of House Arryn is The Eyrie, located beyond a long and treacherous road at the top of a high mountain.
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* AnimalMotifs: Falcons for House Arryn and birds in general for the other Houses of The Vale.
* FatalFlaw: The intense pride that the Vale Lords hold for their homeland has blinded them to any flaws within them, and whenever danger comes knocking at their door they are more than content to simply hole up in their mountains and ride it out relatively unscathed. Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] during Robert's Rebellion when Jon Arryn rallied the Houses of The Vale against the Mad King, and then played brutally straight during the War of Five Kings while under the leadership of Lysa Arryn.
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[[folder: The Riverlands]]
--> ''They say that "The King eats and The Hand takes the shit." Such is the same with our home; The Seven Kingdoms piss themselves, and The Riverlands change clothes.''
-->-- '''Ser Brynden the Blackfish'''
A bountiful region located on The Trident river, and formerly presided over by House Tully, while currently ruled by House Frey. The Riverlands are located between "everything and everything else," at a primary junction between The North, The Crownlands, The Westerlands, The Reach, and The Iron Islands, leading to them often getting embroiled in wars and conflicts they didn't start. Still, The Riverlands always seem to press onward despite it, and remains the second most bountiful region land-wise after The Reach. Currently the region is being ravaged by brigands and deserters from the War of Five Kings, in addition to being mismanaged by the Freys, so the recovery for the region may take longer than usual without House Tully to guide them along.
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* AnimalMotifs: Trout for House Tully, and fish for the area in general.
* ButtMonkey: They're pretty much the red-headed stepchild of the Seven Kingdoms, as they not only get dragged into wars they never caused and are a primary raiding target of the Ironborn, but most of those battles and wars are fought in The Riverlands rather than in the regions that started them. They're basically World War II era Poland, and the rest of the Kingdoms are either Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
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[[folder: The Reach]]
--> ''The Reach is aptly named; we're the ones that give your hand something to do at the table.''
-->-- '''Margery Tyrell'''
The breadbasket of Westeros, The Reach is the second-most spacious after The North and the primary food provider for the Seven Kingdoms. Historically they were ruled by House Gardner, but when the last Gardner King died to Aegon the Conqueror on the Field of Flames House Tyrell (who had been their faithful stewards for thousands of years) yielded the castle of Highgarden to Aegon and were awarded Lord Paramountship of The Reach and Wardenship of The South. The Reach is often heavily tied to the Corwnlands because of this, and they stood beside Aerys II Targaryen when Robert Baratheon raised up The North, Stormlands, Vale, and Riverlands against him. Robert allowed the Tyrells to keep their titles at the cost of food and paying off the war debt after the Rebellion, and now The Reach is seeing an influx of political power due to the marriage of Margery Tyrell to King Joffrey Baratheon.
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* BreadAndCircuses: Being a bountiful region allows them a lot of food and money to throw around on extravagances for their people to keep them happy and satisfied.
* FlowerMotifs: Roses for House Tyrell, and plant-life in general for the region.
* SilkHidingSteel: Particularly House Tyrell, but all the Houses of The Reach do this to a certain extent by cultivating their BreadAndCircuses image to throw people off to their political wheelings and dealings. House Florent is a particular example, as they play nice around the Tyrells despite having had their right to Highgarden taken after the fall of the Gardners when the Tyrells gave up Highgarden to Aegon. They often ally themselves against the Tyrells when they can get away with it, such as Selyse Florent marrying Stannis Baratheon, who opposed his brother Renly, who was married to Margery Tyrell.
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[[folder: Dorne]]
The last of the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne was the only one that was able to resist the initial Targaryen conquest of Westeros and remained independent until a century prior to the War of the Five Kings, in which Dorne was integrated through marriage. Because of this, the land remains considerably more independent than their other kingdoms. For instance, the ruling family is allowed to stylize themselves as Prince, whereas the rest of the Seven Kingdoms are given the title of Lord Paramount.
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* EternalSexualFreedom: Dorne is considerably more liberal when it comes to sexuality. Their bastard children, given the surname Sand, are not treated with the same stigma as they are in the rest of Westeros.
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