Harrenhal, seat of house Strong
HARRENHAL
seat of house Strong
Income, trade and taxes
Land Income: 60,000
+15% ruler wealth trait
= 69,000 GD
Trade
Resource - Grain +1200 levy points
1. Darry, Darry - Grain +1200 levy points
2. Footly, Tumbleton - Fruits +600 levy points +1 NPC convincing
Taxation
0%
Buildings
Keep Expansion
Buildings Tier I:
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Tier III:
Tier IV:
Military
Tier I: Militia Armoury: +250 Land Levy Points (129)
Tier II:
Tier III:
Tier IV:
Income:
Tier I: Market Square: +10% income (129)
Tier II:
Tier III:
Tier IV:
Castle Reinforcement
Tier I: Wall Reinforcements: +1 Siege Defence rolls (129)
Tier II:
Tier III:
Tier IV:
City Watch
Tier I:
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Tier III:
Tier IV:
Land Levy and Vassal Levy
Land Levy and Vassal Levy Very Large Levy – 7,500 Points
+1200 Grain
+1800 Trade
10,500 Points
Vassals
- Shoreham - House Wode, Knights of Shoreham.Small Levy – 2,750 Points- Esgaroth - House Blanetree, Knights of Esgaroth.
275 Heavy Infantry
692 Light Infantry
365 Polearm Infantry
415 Archers
275 Light Cavalry
90 Heavy Cavalry
Total: 2,112 men
Very Small Levy – 1,000 points- Atranta - House Vance of Atranta.
100 Heavy Infantry
250 Light Infantry
130 Polearm Infantry
150 Archers
100 Light Cavalry
35 Heavy Cavalry
Total: 765 menMedium Levy – 2,750 Points
275 Heavy Infantry692 Light Infantry
365 Polearm Infantry
415 Archers
275 Light Cavalry
90 Heavy Cavalry
Total: 2,112 men
- Willow Wood - House Ryger of Willow Wood.Small Levy – 2,750 Points
275 Heavy Infantry
692 Light Infantry
365 Polearm Infantry
415 Archers
275 Light Cavalry
90 Heavy Cavalry
Total: 2,112 men
- Goodsbrook - House Goodsbrook of Goodsbrook.
Small Levy – 2,750 Points
275 Heavy Infantry
692 Light Infantry
365 Polearm Infantry
415 Archers
275 Light Cavalry
90 Heavy Cavalry
Total: 2,112 men
Harrenhal regional bonus
Harrenhal
- 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.
House Strong
Line of Lord Galbart Strong
- Lord Lyonel Strong born 72 A.L, married to Zhoe Vance (deceased)
- Ser Harwin Strong born 93 A.L, married to Mira Rayonet
- Jeyne Strong, born 114 A.L
- Helicent Strong, born 117 A.L
- Kyle Strong, born 120 A.L
- Ser Edmure Strong born 95 A.L married to a Piper
- Vardis Strong, born 111 A.L
- Margot Strong, born 111 A.L
- Ser Lucamore Strong, former Kingsguard, now member of the Night's Watch, born 76 A.L
- Ser Jaehaerys "Jerry" Waters, born 100 A.L
- Fifteen other bastards
- Lady Marriane Strong born 82 A.L, married to Lord Jorah Darry
Lord Lyonel Strong, born 72 A.L (57)
Born during the peaceful reign of the Old King, the old lord Jonothor of the house Strong has lived through three wives and fathered four children. Third son of the late Galbart and the third Strong to rule Harrenhal, his reign has benefited greatly from the prosperity the Jaehaerys brought to the realm. Sections of Harrenhal were restored and roads were built across the lands, giving Harrenhal great wealth and prestige. The laws that Jaehaerys and his commonborn hand, Septon Barth enforced on the lands were not always popular and for some time lord Galbart plotted rebellion. He was talked down by his son Jonothor, by simply pointing out what castle they lived in.
As a member of house Strong, Jonothor is over six feet tall and was full of muscle during his prime. Melees were his greatest joy and a whole lot of the current gold in Harrenhal were earned from his victories during younger years. He still holds an impressive stature despite his old age and can swing a mace if need be.
+3 Wealth
+3 Survival
+3 Charisma
+3 Counterspy
Ser Harwin Strong, born 93 A.L (age 36 at start)
The heir of Harrenhal, knight of the God's Eye is seven feet tall and has an intimidating effect when he stands a foot above any man he's ever met. From being the young hotspur of house Strong seeking fights on the roads and chasing outlaws he became a bored and cowed once he married a Rayonet to avoid a border dispute. Lady Mira kept him on a tight leash and his shenanigans ended when he turned thirty. Now he mostly spends his days in the castle, overseeing repairs and sections that can be rebuilt.
+2 Battles
+3 Survival
+2 Duels
+2 Wealth
Jaehaerys Waters, born 100 A.L, (age 29 at start)
The last of the infamous Kingsguard Lucamore's bastards and the only one to become formally recognized. Given birth to by a distantly related Velaryon, Jerry inherited mostly Targaryen features and due to the mercy shown Lucamore the mother decided to name him in her honor. Since this bastard was the only one Jaehaerys ever met he sent the young child to Harrenhal with the command for the Strongs to take responsibility. Reluctantly, lord Jonothor took him in and raised as his own. Jaeharys Waters was then subject to a very rigorous training by his older cousin, ser Duncan whilst the lord Strong wanted to make sure he'd be taking his vows seriously and hold his honor above all, in contrast with his father. Jaerhaerys has since holding a sword set his sights on being a Kingsguard and restore his house's honor in the eyes of the realm.
+3 Duel
+3 Survival
+2 Battle
Description of 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 a million men.
However, much of Harrenhal has far gone into decay. The Strongs 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.
Walls and Towers
The Five Towers: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 Harrenhal by the Targaryen dragons three centuries earlier. Their original names were lost with the death of Harren the Black.
- 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 castellan'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.
Misc
- 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.
The seat of King Halleck Hoare, Harren the Black's father, was a modest tower house at Fairmarket. Harren, King of the Isles and the Rivers, built Harrenhal as a monument to himself, intending it to be the greatest of all castles in Westeros and for it to dwarf any other.
The construction of his dream took forty years. Thousands of captives from the other realms died in the quarries chained to sledges or laboring on the five huge towers. Men froze by winter and sweltered in summer. Weirwoods that had stood three thousand years were cut down to provide rafters and beams. Harren beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.
Upon its completion, Harren boasted that his new fortress was impregnable. However, he did not account for Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons invading Westeros. On the very day Harren took up residence, Aegon came ashore at what would become King's Landing. The dragons were not obstructed by high walls and forbidding towers and roasted Harren alive in the tallest of the towers, now known as the Kingspyre. Harren and all his line perished in the burning of Harrenhal. Due to the extreme heat of dragonflame, the castle took on a charred, melted appearance.
Since the Conquest, the castle became something of a white elephant. It is too big to garrison effectively and too expensive to maintain. It is believed by some that the castle is cursed and haunted due to Harren's hubris and the horrors that have occurred within the castle's walls. Harren allegedly mixed human blood into the mortar for the stonework. The curse is thought to prevent any lord from holding Harrenhal indefinitely.
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