Harrenhal

**Oznerol** · April 25, 2016, 02:40 AM

HARRENHAL

Harrenhal Harren the Black, the last Iron King, erected a monument to his own self-proclaimed glory; it took fourty years and thousands of slaves to finish such a project, but the very day Harren moved to his new seat Aegon landed on Westeros. Soon after the castle was melt by Belarion the Black Dread and turned into a twisted, melted monstrosity, with Harren Hoare and his sons meeting a horrific end between flames. Aegon granted it to one of his Valyrian retainers, Quenton Qoherys, but the house died soon after. That cemented the belief on Harrenhal’s curse, which has haunted every single house and Lord ruling over Harren Hoare’s abhorrent seat: House Harroway which was extinguished by Maegor I and House Towers which were granted Harrenhall by that very King, followed suit. House Strong came to power under Jaehaerys I and ruled until the scheming Lord Larys Strong was executed by Lord Cregan Stark in the last days of the Dance of Dragons. Falena Stokeworth was found in bed with prince Aegon and Viserys II in order to get rid of his son's mistress got her a husband and a castle: Lucas Lothston was named Lord of Harrenhal. Lothstons met their end at the hands of Lady Danelle who practised the dark arts and whose madness brought chaos upon the realm. Finally, House Whent was granted the castle and all its lands by Maekar I.

Immense Castle: Built by Harren the Black on an enormous scale and burnt by Aegon's dragons, Harrenhal is one of the largest castles in the Seven Kingdoms, and anyone with enough men to defend it properly will find it to be one of the strongest too. +4 to siege defense, rising to +6 if the defender has at least 10,000 men.
Harrenhall: Large castle - may garrison an additional 200% of the levy. Requires at least 1,000 men to defend or a -1 siege defense modifier is applied.
The Curse of Harrenhal: Harrenhal is notorious in that those who control the castle often meet horrific ends, ever since Harren was burned to death in his castle. Chance of death in death rolls increases +1.

HARRENHAL

The castle has five towers of dizzying size, with equally monstrous curtain walls. The walls are incredibly thick and its rooms are built on a scale that would be more comfortable for giants than humans. Harrenhal covers three times as much ground as Winterfell and its buildings are so much larger that they can scarcely be compared. Its stables can house a thousand horses, its godswood covers twenty acres, and its kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall. When it was built it could have potentially garrisoned thousands of men.
However, much of Harrenhal has far gone into decay. The Whents use only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, letting the rest go to ruin, and many places in the castle have not been entered in decades. Bats infest the tops of some of the towers.
Harrenhal is built on a gigantic scale; its colossal curtain walls are sheer and high as mountain cliffs while atop the battlements the wood-and-iron scorpions seem as small as their namesakes when seen from the ground. Harrenhal's gatehouse is as large as Winterfell's Great Keep, and its stone is discolored and fissured. From outside the gatehouse, only the tops of five immense towers can be seen because the height of the walls obscure the view of them.

Of the castle's five towers, the shortest is half again as high as the tallest one in Winterfell, yet none of the towers are proper, being bent, lumped, and cracked from the melting of the stone during the burning of Harrenhall. Their original names were lost with the death of Harren the Black.

The Five Towers:

Tower of Dread
Widow's Tower connects to the Kingspyre Tower via a stone bridge. Underneath there is a great cell that is used to keep prisoners.
Wailing Tower contains storerooms on the ground floor and cavernous vaults beneath.
Tower of Ghosts is near the postern gate and the ruined sept.
Kingspyre Tower contains the Lord's chambers. It connects to the Widow's Tower via a stone bridge.

Known Gates:

The main gate has walls so thick that no less than a dozen murder holes are passed before one reaches the yard on the other side.
The east gate is smaller than the main gate and is located near the Tower of Ghosts.

Locations:

The Hall of the Hundred Hearths is the castle's great hall. It has only thirty-four or thirty-five hearths, but is said to be able to entertain an army. Its floors are smooth slate and there are steps to two galleries above.
The kitchens are located in a round stone building with a domed roof containing nothing but kitchens. The kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall.
The Barracks Hall above the armory is where the men-at-arms take their meals.
The armory is located below the Barracks Hall and contains the forge.
The godswood is walled over twenty acres. It has a small stream running through it. The weirwood heart tree appears to have a terrible visage full of hatred, with a twisted mouth and flaring eyes. It is located across the ward from where the Barracks Hall and the armory are.
Flowstone Yard is where men-at-arms exercise and drill and squires clean arms and armor. It has a lumpy surface and is located near the Wailing Tower. There is a covered gallery above the Flowstone Yard with arches looking towards it.
The bear pit is ten yards across and five yards across, walled in stone, floored with sand, and encircled by six tiers of marble benches. It is located in the middle ward.
The bathhouse is a low-ceilinged room filled with great stone tubs large enough to hold six or seven after the fashion of the Free Cities. The bathhouse is made of stone and timber, with only one entrance to the room.

HOUSE WHENT: BACKGROUND

HOUSE WHENT OF HARRENHAL

Background and recent history
Danelle Lothson, last of her line, embraced the dark arts during the reign of Maekar I. Instrumental in her defeat and death was a knight, formerly on Lothson’s service, Ser Walton Whent, who was then awarded Harrenhal and all its lands by the King himself. An aging and increasingly fat knight he was already on his fifties when he gained the lordship and had a large family. Lord Walton Whent was an amiable, kind and cheerful man, who enjoyed dancing and singing, while being fond of quills and books. Walton had many sons from his devoted wife, all of them born before his father became Lord of Harrenhal; Manfred, Walder, Lothar, Stevron, Steffon and Hoster. All of them but one died within a decade: Manfred chocked on a pie, Lothar drowned on the God’s Eye, Stevron was mortally injured in a tourney, Steffon fell from his horse and Hoster caught a pox from a whore and committed suicide a year after. Walton, devastated from that string of unfortunate events withered and died infirm and bedridden; his heir was Walder Whent, morbidly obese he died soon thereafter from a bad bladder. Lord Whent’s sole heir was his only daughter, Shella, but next in line stood his brother Stevron’s sons, Walter and Oswell Whent. Willing to avoid the castle falling into another house’s hands after scarcely two generations of Whent rule and to preserve her inheritance, Walton married his daughter to his nephew and named them both as heirs in his last will.

Shella, orphaned at young age was sombre and moody, but wilful, born to the late Sharella Butterwell an imposing noblewoman who had been her father’s second wife. She only begrudgingly accepted her husband’s hand by her sire’s imposition and felt that Lord Walton’s decision had in fact achieved the opposite of what he supposedly pretended: disinheriting her, for she only was Lady Whent by marriage. Lord Walter, on the other hand clearly took after his grandfather and was an open-handed, cheerful and boastful man, who loved more his hawks and hounds than his cold wife. None less, he performed his marital duties admirably, fathering three sons in little time, including two miscarriages and a girl who died on her first year and was buried in the godswood. Lady Shella’s former beauty slowly withers with every pregnancy, something his detached and unresponsive husband cares little about if she remains fertile and capable of fathering even more children. Walter’s brother, Ser Oswell, became castellan of Harrenhall and the first sword of the Whents. He is a magnificent swordsman, resembling his father, and has a very distinctive black humour; he refuses to take any wife and has scorned many maidens, from a Blanetree to a Smallwood one. It's rumored he is in fact in love with one of his uncles' widow and thus either can marry her or accept another women as wife. There are several other grandchildren of the late Walton Whent in Walter’s household, including his and Oswell’s younger sister, Minissa Whent, and Hoster’s twin daughters, Wynafrey and Sarya Whent, both of whom were offered to Lord Frey as wives either for him or one of his many sons.

LORD AND HOUSEHOLD

Lord and Lady Whent

LORD WALTER WHENT

Born 228 AC
Status: Married, to Lady Shella Whent.
Children: Walder Whent, Manfred Whent, Oswald Whent.

BIOGRAPHY: Eldest son of Ser Stevron Whent is a cheerful, charitable, open-handed and party-goer man. Flamboyant and prideful he behaves as expected from a spoiled nobleman, spending with largesse and living with pomp and magnificence. Since his uncle died and he assumed Harrenhal’s lordship, Walter has partly restored the decayed fortress and once again all the fireplaces are lit in the Great Hall and songs are sung between the fortress’ towering walls. Walter is a tall and lanky man, with thin, long limbs, his head crowned by a mane of reddish curls. Still, he is no fool and knows his letters but, instead, Lord Whent choses to neglect the affairs of ruling his state and focus on minutiae. Surprisingly, he is exceedingly good at the courtly ways and is revered as Lord Tully’s most powerful vassal… to his wife’s dismay.

LADY SHELLA WHENT

Born 230 AC
Status: Married, to Lord Walter Whent.
Children: Walder Whent, Manfred Whent, Oswald Whent.

BIOGRAPHY: Sole daughter of Walder Whent by Sharella Butterwell, who died while she was seven. Orphaned, forcefully married and deprived of her whole inheritance by her own loving father she grew distrustful, sombre and surly. Lady Whent watched as her youth and beauty vanish, labour after labour, buried between the black walls of Harrenhal. Capable and clever Lady Shella is a thoughtful and responsible administrator who carries the day-to-day management of her lands; while Lord Whent spends his days idle, stamping his seal when his wife tells him so. Even if she is the true ruler of Harrenhall and its lands, she bitterly resents her husband for being their house’s head and by law, its Lord. Shella is sometimes moody and aloof and some fear for her sanity once she becomes an elderly woman.

Household WIP
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD:
Ser Oswell Whent

RELATIVES:
Minissa Whent.
Wynafrey Whent.
Sarya Whent.

HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
Ben Blackthumb.

MILITARY

ECONOMY

**Victorius** · April 25, 2016, 03:22 PM

A Raven arrives at Harrenhal, carrying a letter sealed with the unicorn of House Brax

Dear Lord Walter Whent,
I hereby ask for trade, your nutritious grain for our pure westerland gold.
May the seven bless you and your Family

Sincerly, Lord Andros Brax

**Zeus Almighty** · April 25, 2016, 07:01 PM

A raven arrives at Harrenhal following the coronation of King Aerys II,

Lords of the Riverlands are called to Riverrun for a meeting and emergency counsel. Please make haste.

Signed, Ser Warrick Tully, Heir to Riverrun.