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House Whitehill of Highpoint

House Whitehill is a noble house from the North. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a white pile inverted on indigo, an arch of 4-pointed stars above. The Whitehills are one of the few northern families to follow the Faith of the Seven instead of the old gods.

The Whitehills have been traditional vassals of House Bolton for centuries.

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Tropes related to House Whitehill

• Arc Words: "Ever Higher".
• Green-Eyed Monster: The Whitehills are driven by their sense of being slighted by the Forresters as well as their belief they were cheated out of their rightful share of Ironwood.
• Empathic Environment: Highpoint has a very Mordor-esque appearance, the castle surrounded by clear-cut stumps and having half-crumbled towers. If that's not enough, it is viewed under a cloudy sky.
• Evil Former Friend: In episode four a surprising revelation is made. The Whitehills and Forresters were once close allies.
• Evil Is Petty: The Whitehills almost uniformly display a cruelty in ways both big and small—particularly small.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The Boltons and Lannisters are nominally on their side but both make it clear they're completely expendable.
• Impoverished Patrician: The Whitehills are almost bankrupt, living in a crumbling keep they can barely maintain with their livelihood destroyed.
• Mordor: The Whitehill lands are a clear-cut ruin of former forest which they never bothered to clean up.
• Pyrrhic Victory: They finally manage to take Ironrath in Episode 6 but suffer heavy casualties and lose either Gryff Whitehill or Lord Ludd while failing to kill the Lord of the House.
• The Rival: To the Forresters.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The Whitehills get away with almost everything they do due to being vassals of the Boltons.
• Stupid Evil: A quality the Forresters frequently bring up to their more Pragmatic Villainy rivals. The Whitehills are the Forrester's biggest rivals in the Ironwood business but mismanage it on every level.

Lord Ludd Whitehill

Lord Ludd Whitehill

"Your brother Ethan called me craven, but you're a different man entirely, aren't you?"

Played By: Geoff Leesley

The Lord of House Whitehill. He is considered a toady of House Bolton but possesses ten times the men of House Forrester. This is probably due to the Red Wedding wiping out the majority of their men.

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• Adipose Rex: Is an obese Lord, which is surprising in the North. His family tapestry at Highpoint shows that he was fairly fit back in the day.
• Badass Boast: "You Forresters have shit on us for generations. Well now the Starks are no longer around to have your back, are they? We're the power in the North now."
• Believing Their Own Lies: Ludd very clearly believes that The Forresters are only refusing to share the Ironwood Forest with them because they are too selfish and proud. He won't relent on this point, even after he proves The Forresters claims correct by clearcutting the part of the forest he was given by Ramsey.
• Big Bad: Ultimately, he's the main driver of the conflicts against House Forrester and ultimately the main antagonist of the game.
• The Brute: The Whitehills appear to be Dumb Muscle for the Boltons.
• Character Death: He can be beheaded by Rodrik if the player chooses to go after him instead of Gryff in Episode 6, or poisoned by Asher if the player opts for it instead of the ambush plan.
• Decapitation Presentation: Forces Ryon to do this when his army comes to bear on Ironrath, with Asher's head mounted on the end of a spear if you left chose him to be left behind at the end of Episode 5. Needless to say everyone is suitably horrified.
• Didn't Think This Through: House Forrester expresses this about the Whitehills' approach to Ironwood, feeling that they'd clear-cut it away for a quick profit and make the rare trees extinct. They have historical precedent for that viewpoint, if Ludd's whining is any indication.
  • Episode 3 confirms this, as the Whitehills have clearcut the forests they have full control over.
  • Ludd continues to press the Forresters at every turn but this ends up just making them hit back harder. It eventually results in his or Gryff's death.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ludd is a despicable man, but he loves his family. His claim that he doesn't care if Rodrik hurts Gryff because Gryff is only his fourth born son is a bluff.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Ludd is a strong believer in guest right and dislikes Walder Frey for the Red Wedding, even though the Whitehills have profited from it. While he does threaten the Forresters during their visit to Highpoint, he only does so after Rodrik threatens Gryff, and his men will only attack if Rodrik orders his allies to kill Ludd.
• Evil Is Hammy: As Lady Elissa puts it, Lord Whitehill bellows like a wounded boar when he's angry. When things are going his way, however, he arguably chews the scenery even more, becoming pompous and smug.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The Boltons, if Ramsay is any indication, think as little of the Whitehills as the Forresters do.
• Hate Sink: Ludd has very few redeeming qualities, is a huge ass to the Forresters, and is responsible for most of the trouble the Forresters face. He's pretty much designed for the player to hate, and Ludd is unapologetic about it.
• The Heavy: Ramsay Snow is technically his boss, but in Episode 5 he leaves the story of the game in order to fulfill his plotline in the show, leaving Lord Whitehill as the main antagonist to the Forresters.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A minor one. Every time Ethan points out the incompetence of the Whitehills, he gives a very-very poor excuse or explanation. Ramsay finally gets so sick of it, he lets the Whitehills' keep half of their land. The Whitehills have gained powerful concessions but just had their reward halved because he wasn't able to give a decent defense of his house.
  • Unfortunately, in Episode 2, he reverses this and demands all of the Forrester ironwood anyway, going against what Ramsay said in the previous episode.
• Hypocrite: During his first visit to House Forrester after the Red Wedding, Ludd Whitehill is rude, abrasive, and constantly taunting and insulting both Ethan and the House in general with the foulest language a man can muster. But if Ethan calls him an "old man" or shows any snark or disrespect whatsoever in return, he seems barely able to restrain himself from flipping his shit, clearly giving the impression that he should be the exception to the rule he's clearly displaying for all to see. Which would make sense if Forrester was a vassal of Whitehill, which, despite the Red Wedding, they very much are not.
  • He does this again in Episode 4; if the player chooses to swear at Ludd during the meeting at Highpoint, Ludd will get angry at using foul language at his table, while throughout the game, Ludd himself is rather liberal in his use of the "s" and "f" words.
• Insane Troll Logic: It's the Forrester's fault the Whitehills clear-cut their Ironwood forests to oblivion.
• I Shall Taunt You: If defeated and fatally wounded by Rodrik, he will admit he underestimated him, but his soldiers will still kill his family and destroy his home even after his demise. "My soldiers are already tearing down your gates. They'll kill your mother, your sisters, and Ryon, Gryff's cut his throat by now."
• Jerkass: He has quickly made a name for himself as one of the biggest assholes in the setting. Even in a universe with characters like Ramsay Bolton and Joffrey Baratheon, he somehow manages to stand out.
• Karma Houdini: If he manages to survive the season. It's not a complete example though, as Gryff (who he genuinely loved) will be dead in this scenario.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In Episode 6, you are finally able to kill him after everything he has done. Even if he survives Episode 6, he knows that he lost his son to achieve his goals.
• Karmic Death: In Rodrik's route of Episode 6, he can force Ludd on his knees similar to how Ludd would have forced Rodrik on his knees to potentially kiss his ring. After all his mocking of Rodrik of being crippled, ruining his family's lives, and beheading his brother's corpse, Rodrik can tell Ludd that he's the last lord standing before beheading him.
• Kick the Dog: Seemingly every other thing that comes out of his mouth.
  • He expresses condolences to the grieving Forrester family... only to express that he wished he had done it himself.
  • Ludd demands justice for his slain man, despite 1) said man was murdering the killer's family at the time, and 2) the killer was sent to the Wall (the traditional punishment for murderers in the North).
  • His Lack of Empathy moment listed below.
  • If Rodrik refuses to kiss his shiny ring in Episode 2, he then explains he's going to tell Ryon that Ryon's family doesn't want to see him.
  • Perhaps his worst moment is returning Asher's dead body to Ironrath as a head skewered on a pole, and forcing Ryon to carry it. This is done if the player has consistently antagonized the Whitehills, otherwise they simply return the body as-is.
  • This is potentially subverted if Asher survives episode 5. He brings Rodrik's mutilated yet intact dead body, as a sign of respect for the loss before he demands the Forresters to surrender.
• Kneel Before Zod: In Episode 2, he demands that Rodrik kneel and kiss his shiny ring if the Forresters want to see Ryon at Gregor and Ethan's funeral.
• Lack of Empathy: After Ramsay kills Ethan in cold blood, he tells the surviving family members that they brought this on themselves.
• Moral Myopia: Really has a mad-on for getting his man avenged, despite the circumstances.
• Off with His Head!: If Rodrik survives and follows him, Ludd will meet his fate this way.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Acting like a schoolyard bully with a child-like tendency to say hateful things about the Forresters makes him come across like one.
• Sadistic Choice: You can kill Ludd for his part in the Forresters' suffering, but if you do so, Gryff will escape and go unpunished for his part.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: While numerous characters swear every so often, Ludd has the foulest mouth thus far by far. He even throws in a Country Matters at one point. This is especially noteworthy, as it's all being aimed at a young child.
• Smug Snake: Whitehill thinks he's far more important to the Boltons than he really is. It's possible for Ethan to talk Ramsay out of putting the Whitehills in charge of their land and letting them keep half their land. Which is a significantly worse deal than Lord Whitehill expected—even if he gets to keep a Forrester hostage and garrison present.
  • He goes back on this but gets a small measure of comeuppance in Episode 4. Due to the tables having turned and his son being a captive.
• Stout Strength: You would think someone as fat as him is worthless in a fight - however, he's strong and fast enough to hold his own against Rodrik.
• Stupid Evil: As mentioned, the Whitehill's mismanage the Ironwood business in every way and Ludd is the one most responsible. Despite Ludd desperately wanting to control the Ironwood trade, he clear cuts his entire portion of the Ironwood Forest, meaning that, instead of taking part of the trees and letting them regrow naturally, once he runs out of Ironwood, he has nothing left to trade. Worse yet, since his crafts men are unskilled with Ironwood, what little they can make before running out will be less than half as good as it should be.
• Worthy Opponent: Gives this to Rodrik, surprisingly, if defeated in a duel. "I underestimated you."

Gryff Whitehill

Gryff Whitehill

"So, "Lord Forrester." You made your way as a sellsword, did you? Eh, a little rape, a little murder. Anything for the right price."

Played By: Sacha Dhawan

Lord Whitehill's fourth son and the commander of the Forrester garrison.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As arrogant and haughty as he is, even as he's at the mercy of the family he's tormented, he will cry out "I yield!" as Rodrik's beatdown reaches Eye Scream levels.
  • By episode 6, once he is mortally wounded by Rodrik, he cries pathetically and begs Rodrik to spare him.
• The Bully: Pushes the Forresters around just because he can, and beats up Rodrik who is unarmed and crippled despite having a sword and being fully armoured himself.
• Character Death: He can be beheaded by Rodrik or impaled by Asher if the player decides to kill him instead of Ludd in the finale.
• Defiant to the End: In stark contrast to his literal crying during his death in Rodrik's route, his death in Asher's route has him sputter out "Your... fucking... family..." after being impaled.
• Dirty Coward: In episode 5 he lets his men do the fighting for him while watching from a safe distance. Bonus points if its a (recently recovered) Rodrik who stays behind at the end. Gryff had no problem pushing Rodrik around when the latter was injured, but on a more even footing Gryff doesn't have the stones to get close to Rodrik.
• The Dreaded: Soldiers were bad enough, but their leader was the one Forresters were really afraid to see, and rightly so - he starts causing trouble the moment he enters Ironrath.
• Evil Is Hammy: He's a smug jerk and a showboat, but not quite as practiced as his dad. When he gets worked up, he sounds more like a whiny teenager than an outraged nobleman.
• Eye Scream: Can get a cane in the eye twice from Rodrik in episode four, should the player take it that far. The game's stats track it as "maiming Gryff", suggesting the damage might be permanent, and in Episode 6 he shows up with an eyepatch.
• Eyepatch of Power: Averted. While Gryff shows up with an eyepatch after Rodrik maims his eye, it doesn't add any points to his character.
• Freudian Excuse: Gryff was bullied by his older brothers as a child. His father is one of the few people who cares for him.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He won't be reasoned with, and he won't make concessions. The only thing Rodrik can do to smooth over a disagreement between the Forresters and the Whitehill occupiers is to let Gryff kick the hell out of him.
  Notification (during a certain part of the game): You've aggravated Gryff.
• Hate Sink: Like father, like son.
• Hero Killer: Indirectly. He leads the ambush in Episode 5 that results in the death of either Asher or Rodrik, but he doesn't engage either of them in combat.
• Hypocrite: Gryff accuses Rodrik of being arrogant, and claims that he used to know him as "cocky Rodrik", but spends his entire screentime lording himself over the Forresters and demanding that they do things his way or not at all.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: If Asher survives and Ludd is not poisoned, he will meet his fate this way.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's a fourthborn son of a local lord. Naturally, when he gets power over Forresters, he immediately starts to abuse it in order to feed his ego, taking residence in their great hall and then even proclaiming himself as lord of their house.
• Insane Troll Logic: Whitehill soldier was stealing from a kitchen, Talia tried to stopped him. Talia is a Forrester, so naturally she's the one that needs to be punished.
• Jerkass: Hitting a crippled man who can barely fight back would earn one this title.
• Karma Houdini: If Ludd is killed in episode 6, then Gryff will survive the season. However, if Rodrik viciously beat him in Episode 4, his face is maimed, and he lost his left eye.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He can finally suffer the consequences for everything he did at the hands of either Asher or Rodrik.
• Karmic Death: In Rodrik's route of Episode 6, Rodrik can repay Gryff for murdering and desecrating Asher's corpse by slowly decapitating him as well.
• Kick the Dog: He's so evil, he kicks around a defenseless cripple and threatens to do the same to his sister, if said cripple doesn't submit. Gwyn implies that Gryff also does it literally, telling Rodrik that dogs in the kennels go silent, when Gryff passes by.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After giving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Rodrik in Episode 3, the player can choose to invoke this and have Gryff on the receiving end of one, courtesy of Rodrik, in Episode 4.
  • And yet again in episode 6, when Asher finally kills him if he survived, or Rodrik fights him if he survived and chose to follow. Gryff spent his entire screentime lording himself over the Forresters and pushing them around, but either Asher kills him, or Rodrik beats him so badly that he's the one crying and begging for mercy. And Gryff dies of blood loss even if you do show mercy, so he dies either way, mirroring the way Gryff drove the Forresters into a corner and didn't give them any good options.
• Missing Mom: It's heavily implied that his mother died during or immediately following Gryff's birth. This likely helped form Gryff's surly disposition, because as Tyrion Lannister found out, death in childbirth is often blamed on the child.
  • Sure enough, Gwyn admits the other Whitehill brothers abused Gryff for this, though surprisingly Ludd never did and defended him.
• Not Worth Killing: If Rodrik decides not to behead him, although he still bleeds out anyway
• Off with His Head!: If Rodrik survives and follows him, Gryff can meet his fate this way.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Has the same name as the nickname of a character from A Dance With Dragons.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Again, like father, like son.
• Sadistic Choice: You can kill Gryff for his part in the Forresters' suffering, but if you do so, Ludd will escape and go unpunished for his part.
• Smug Snake: Has a very smug grin on his face when his men kill either Asher or Rodrik.
• Teens Are Monsters: Gryff can't be older than his early twenties at most, but he's cruel, petty, and quick to anger.
• Villainous Breakdown: If Rodrik refuses to stay down while Gryff is beating him, Gryff eventually works himself into an impotent rage, sputtering threats toward both Rodrik and Talia, and ultimately storming off in a huff.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Duncan implies this, saying of Gryff that "there's nothing worse than a fourth-born with something to prove" in the preview for his debut episode.

Gwyn Whitehill

Gwyn Whitehill

"I want peace between our families. No more wars. No more bloodshed. Is that what you want too?."

Played by: Laura Bailey

Lord Whitehill's daughter. She and Asher fell in love, but were stopped from eloping after Asher was banished to Essos to prevent a war between the Forresters and Whitehills.

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• Action Girl: Implied. She brings a knife to her meeting with Rodrik and is pleased if he does the same.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Gwyn is polite, but if Rodrik is openly critical of Ludd's cruelty, Gwyn will get mad and say that while she acknowledges her father is cruel, Rodrik can't blame him for everything.
  • And she can and will use the knife she always carries should you choose to go through with the ambush/poison as Asher, stabbing him in the back after he's killed either her brother or father.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Gwyn is the nicest of the Whitehills, which isn't really saying much. She claims to empathize with and respect the Forresters, but maintains that the only way for peace is if they submit to her family.
  • Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: But when she says that she wants peace, she means it. To the point where if Asher calls off his plans, she'll make a Heel–Face Turn.
• Double Standard: If Rodrik brings the Glenmore soldiers to the meeting at Highpoint, Gwyn Whitehill chews you out on it and claims that bringing them to a peaceful meeting will only make Lord Whitehill angry. Come the meeting and the entire gathering is watched from above by a group of Whitehill soldiers with crossbows. Gwyn, thankfully, realizes that her father is out of line.
• Everyone Has Standards: She is shocked when she sees her father threaten to harm Ryon and potentially violate the Guest Right in Episode 4.
• Heel–Face Turn: Can potentially happen in the two different versions of Episode 6.
  • If Asher agrees to call off his plans against the Whitehills at the feast, Gwyn will help Asher fight off her family's men when everything goes to hell. In this scenario, she's the one who escapes Ironrath with Talia and reunites with the gravely wounded Asher.
  • If Asher is killed and beheaded by her father, she sends a message to Rodrik warning him of her father's planned attack, so he knows how much time he has to prepare.
• Oh, Crap!: Her reaction to her father threatening to kill Ryon in Episode 4.
• Only Sane Man: For her entire family. Just let that sink in for a moment. She A: realizes that if peace is ever going to happen without one of the Houses being wiped out, it'll have to be due to compromise; B: sees that the Forresters know how to cultivate and keep the Ironwood in a consistent state of growth and chop-worthy, whereas the Whitehills just clearcut for quick gains, C: is the only member who takes an active role in trying to really reason with the Forresters, rather than use brute force and gunboat diplomacy to get what the Whitehills want. She even is constantly trying to temper her father during the meeting at Highpoint (he doesn't listen).
• Pet the Dog: For House Whitehill as a whole, she's the only one who actually cares about Ryon's position.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Was this with Asher, which caused Asher's exile. Whether or not she still has feelings for him is unknown, as if the player asks her about it she just says it was a long time ago.
• White Sheep: Unlike the rest of her family, she treats the Forresters with respect.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Comes across this way, seeming to genuinely believe that there could ever be peace between her family and the Forresters despite the actions of her father and brother. However, she insists that the only way this will happen is if the Forresters roll over and submit to Whitehill rule, so her motives are dubious. She also seems to have a blind spot to her father's cruel and vindictive side, seeming to prefer to remember the kinder man he was when his wife was still alive and while he was raising her and her brothers, rather than the monster he's being now. Which is why it isn't until the nearly-disastrous meeting at Highpoint that she blatantly refuses to acknowledge that the majority of problems facing the Forresters are entirely his fault, and finally seems to realize just what a bully and blundering example of Dumb Muscle Ludd really is.
• Will They or Won't They?: Rodrik can optionally ask Gwyn about Asher, but Gwyn's answer is vague as to whether or not she still has feelings for him, all she says is "that was a long time ago."

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Harys

Harys

"All of you, show your respect to Gryff Whitehill. Fourthborn son of Lord Ludd Whitehill and commander of this garrison."

Played By: Ron Bottitta

A soldier in the Whitehill army who acts as Gryff's right hand man.

• Asshole Victim: Asher or Rodrik finish him off by forcing their swords through his mouth and out the back of his head, Jon Snow style.
• Beard of Evil: Has a pretty spectacular one that only makes him look more evil.
• The Brute: Gryff seems to prefer to let Harys do the fighting for him.
• Cool Helmet: Wears a menacing looking horned helmet during the final battle.
• The Dragon: To Gryff.
• Elite Mook: Harys is little more than a Whitehill flunky, but he's a tough sonofabitch in combat. He gives Rodrik or Asher a fierce one-on-one fight in the finale.
• Final Boss: The last major opponent for Rodrik/Asher, as far as QTE's are concerned.
• Hero Killer: He is the one to land the final blow on either Rodrik or Asher, and can potentially kill Lady Forrester one episode later
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Meets his end by way of sword through the mouth, courtesy of Rodrik/Asher
• In the Back: Does the non-lethal variety to Royland if he picks the fight with the Whitehills in episode 3 by tripping him, and stabs Rodrik or Asher on the hip when he is behind them.
• Kick the Dog: Spits on Asher/Rodrik's corpse (depending on who stayed to hold the portcullis open in Episode 5) after smashing their eyeball with the pommel of his sword. After the sacrificed brother's just been, to put it bluntly, mobbed to death by his cronies.
• Know When to Fold Them: Harys stands down when held at arrowpoint by Glenmore troops.
• Oh, Crap!: An unspoken variant during his final battle with the surviving Forrester brother, gradually escalating as the fight goes downhill for him. He's just killed Elissa, ran the brother through with his sword and starts laughing sadistically as he twists the blade... right before his neck gets opened courtesy of the Forrester's axe.
  • Bonus points for the fact that it doesn't instantly finish him, with him visibly freaking out following a second axe strike and openly panicking when Rodrik/Asher prepares to shove their sword through his mouth.
• Would Hit a Girl: Murders Lady Elissa by stabbing her through the stomach.

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