Cley comes to the Winterfell walls with a peace banner, announcing to Theon that Rodrik wishes to parley with him. Rodrik stops at Castle Cerwyn before launching the final attack to take back Winterfell from Theon Greyjoy's ironmen. Now lord of his House, Cley brings three hundred men to join Ser Rodrik Cassel on his march to clear the ironmen from the Stony Shore and Torrhen's Square. Arya sees three silent sisters taking away a body covered by a cloak of silk decorated with his battleaxe sigil. While Hand of the King, Tyrion offers to exchange Lord Medger Cerwyn and Ser Donnel Locke for his cousin Tion Frey, assuring that a Lannister is worth two northmen.Īrya Stark sees Lord Cerwyn while prisoner at Harrenhal, abed in a tower cell. A Cerwyn knight ridicules King Joffrey I Baratheon as Joffrey the Illborn. Tyrion Lannister sees the Cerwyn battleaxe among the northern forces at the battle on the Green Fork, at which Lord Cerwyn is wounded and taken prisoner.Ĭley Cerwyn comes to Winterfell with two dozen lances for the harvest feast, where he dances with Beth Cassel. When Robb's army split at the Twins, Lord Cerwyn marches with Roose Bolton's eastern army. The Greatjon threatens to return home with his levies if he is placed behind the Hornwoods or the Cerwyns in the order of march. However, Theon Greyjoy suspects that Medger intends to put the girl in Robb's bed. Lord Medger Cerwyn brings his daughter Jonelle with him to Winterfell, to cook for him and sit at his left hand on the march to Moat Cailin. While encamped there, a Bolton man stabs a Cerwyn man at the Smoking Log in the winter town outside the castle. The Cerwyn blazon is seen by Bran Stark at Winterfell when Robb Stark calls his banners. Their words do not appear in the books, but according to semi-canon sources, they are «Honed and Ready». Their blazon is a black battle-axe on silver. They are one of the closest bannermen to the Starks, Castle Cerwyn being just a half day's ride from Winterfell, and are among the most powerful as well. I will take my crown, as Urron Redhand did five thousand years ago.House Cerwyn of Cerwyn is a noble house from the north. I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind, and no man gives me a crown. The Drowned God makes men, but it's men who make crowns. Urron Redhand and his descendants had to deal with half a dozen major rebellions and at least two major thrall uprisings. Along with the kingsmoot, Galon Whitestaff's decree against ironborn making war upon each other ended. In his reign, the rulers of Great Wyk, Old Wyk, Pyke, Harlaw and the lesser isles were reduced to lords, while several ancient lines that refused to bend the knee were extinguished. Urron had the crown of the king be made of black iron instead of driftwood, and ruled for twenty-two years. Nevertheless, Urron put an end to the institution of kingsmoot when he descended with his axemen on Nagga's hill on Old Wyk, and slew all captains, the thirteen salt and rock kings, and half a hundred priests and prophets assembled for the choosing, taking the title of the High Kingship of the Isles and making it an hereditary one. It was the dying Urragon's wish for Urron to succeed him, but the Drowned Men were determined not to lose the power of kingmaking for a third time after Urragon's assumption of the throne and, before that, Torgon Greyiron's usurpation from Urrathon IV Goodbrother. Urron was the salt king of Orkmont during the rule of his great-uncle, Urragon IV Greyiron, who had assumed the High Kingship of the Iron Islands without being chosen in a kingsmoot. His descendants ruled uncontested for 1,000 years, until the Andals swept over the Iron Islands. He is already wearing an iron crown in contrast to the driftwood crown of other kings before and after him.īACKGROUND INFORMATION: Urron Greyiron, known as Urron Redhand, was a member of House Greyiron and was the first King of the Iron Islands to make the throne hereditary, five thousand years before the War of the Five Kings. Bloodhand or Redhand, who has just slaughtered 13 salt and rock kings beneath Nagga's Bones. ARTIST'S NOTE: This image will be part of my upcoming Iron Islands map.
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