| Horn Hill | |
|---|---|
| Castle | |
 Horn Hill by Logan Feliciano © Fantasy Flight Games | |
| Location | Westeros, Reach |
| Government | House Tarly, feudal lord |
| Ruler | Lord Randyll Tarly |
| Religion | Faith of the Seven |
| Founded | Age of Heroes by Herndon of the Horn and Harlon the Hunter[1] |
| Notable places | Sept |
Horn Hill is the seat of House Tarly in the Reach. Located on an eponymous hill, the castle lies south of Highgarden and a hundred leagues northeast of Oldtown among the thickly-wooded foothills[2] of the Red Mountains.[3] The Tarlys are marcher lords of the Dornish Marches.[4]
Layout
Horn Hill has a keep,[5] a sept,[6] and a library.[7] According to Samwell Tarly, Horn Hill's walls are less formidable than the city walls of Oldtown.[2] A pond lies below the castle,[8] and the woods around Horn Hill are teeming with game. The Tarlys employ huntsmen and hounds during their hunts.[9]
History
According to legend, the castle was built on Horn Hill by the brothers Harlon the Hunter and Herndon of the Horn, twin sons of Garth Greenhand.[1] In the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms, before the Reach was united under the Kings of the Reach, the kingdom of the western marches extended from Horn Hill to Nightsong.[10]
King Aegon I Targaryen visited Horn Hill during his reign.[11]
The Vulture King led one of his Dornish hosts to attack Nightsong and Horn Hill, but he was defeated in the Vulture Hunt.[12]
House Tarly hosted King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen at Horn Hill in 54 AC.[13]
Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen made a tour of the Riverlands, the Westerlands and the Reach in 112 AC which included a stop at Horn Hill.[14]
Two warlocks from Qarth sacrificed a bull aurochs at Horn Hill and had young Samwell Tarly bathe in its blood. When the act did not make his son stronger, Lord Randyll Tarly had the warlocks scourged.[15] Samwell rode a mare from Horn Hill to the Wall to join the Night's Watch.[16]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Renly Baratheon is camped at Horn Hill when Lord Randyll Tarly receives Stannis Baratheon's letter claiming that the children of the late King Robert I Baratheon are bastards.[17]
A Storm of Swords
While beyond the Wall, Samwell Tarly has a dream of ruling his family home. He hosts his friends from the Night's Watch at his castle, and when he goes to the lord's bedchamber he finds Gilly waiting for him in the bed.[9]
A Feast for Crows
Sam intends to send Gilly and the infant wildling prince from Oldtown to live at Horn Hill with his mother, Melessa Florent.[2]
Quotes
Jon: Do you dream of Horn Hill?
Samwell: No. I hated it there.[15]—Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly
Jon: The Old Bear is taking two hundred seasoned men, three-quarters of them rangers. Qhorin Halfhand will be bringing another hundred brothers from the Shadow Tower. You'll be as safe as if you were back in your lord father's castle at Horn Hill.
Samwell: I was never very safe in my father's castle either.[18]—Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly
His dreams were strange that night. He was back at Horn Hill, at the castle, but his father was not there. It was Sam's castle now. Jon Snow was with him. Lord Mormont too, the Old Bear, and Grenn and Dolorous Edd and Pyp and Toad and all his other brothers from the Watch, but they wore bright colors instead of black. Sam sat at the high table and feasted them all, cutting thick slices off a roast with his father's greatsword Heartsbane. There were sweet cakes to eat and honeyed wine to drink, there was singing and dancing, and everyone was warm. When the feast was done he went up to sleep; not to the lord's bedchamber where his mother and father lived but to the room he had once shared with his sisters. Only instead of his sisters it was Gilly waiting in the huge soft bed, wearing nothing but a big shaggy fur, milk leaking from her breasts.[9]
—dream of Samwell Tarly
The men of Horn Hill do not bow and scrape to petty lords.[16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: Garth Greenhand.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 45, Samwell V.
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, Westeros.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 18, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 46, Samwell III.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.