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| Full name | Durran | |||
| Title | Storm King | |||
| Heir | Durran the Devout | |||
| Successor | Durran the Devout | |||
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| Born | Age of Heroes | |||
| Culture | First Men | |||
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| Dynasty | House Durrandon | |||
| Queen | Elenei | |||
| Issue | Durran the Devout | |||
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Durran, called Durran Godsgrief[1] and the Godsgrief,[2] was the mythic first Storm King and the founder of House Durrandon. Legend has that he was married to Elenei and was the builder of Storm's End.[3]
Character
[edit]Durran was unrelenting[3] and defiant.[4]
History
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According to legend, in the Age of Heroes, Durran won the love of Elenei, the daughter of the sea god and the goddess of the wind. Her divine parents forbade their love, but Durran and Elenei wed despite them. When she gave her maidenhead to him on their wedding night, committing herself to a mortal life, the gods' wrath was terrible to behold. They destroyed Durran's keep, killing all his family and the wedding guests, but Elenei protected Durran from the storm. Enraged, Durran declared war on the gods, who replied by hammering his kingdom with massive storms. Each time Durran built a castle to face the sea, the gods destroyed it.[3][2]
King Durran's lords pleaded with him to build inland, his priests told him he must placate the gods by giving Elenei back to the sea, and even his smallfolk begged him to relent. But Durran refused, and persisted building larger and more powerful fortifications. Finally, the seventh castle stayed in place at Durran's Point and resisted the storms of Shipbreaker Bay. Some believe this is because the children of the forest took a hand in its construction, shaping the stones with magic. Others believe that a young boy, who grew up to be Bran the Builder, advised Durran on its construction. The truth of the matter is unknown. Nevertheless, Storm's End resisted everything the gods threw at it, and Durran reigned with Elenei at his side for a thousand years.[3][2] Storm's End has been called Durran's Defiance.[4]
Though Durran supposedly ruled for a thousand years, Archmaester Glaive proposed that the "King of a Thousand Years" was in fact a succession of monarchs all bearing the same name.[2] The Storm Kings of old from House Durrandon named their firstborn son and heir after Durran Godsgrief, complicating the research of maesters.[2]
Durran Godsgrief claimed the rainwood, but much of it was returned to the children of the forest by his son, Durran the Devout.[2]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]When Catelyn Stark arrives at the siege of Storm's End, she recalls the legend of Durran and Elenei.[3]
The Winds of Winter
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Arianne Martell recalls her father, Prince Doran, and Maester Caleotte arguing with a septon about why the north and south sides of the Sea of Dorne were so different. Prince Doran Martell and his maester favored weather patterns, the way the big storms that formed in the Summer Sea would pick up moisture until they crashed into Cape Wrath, though Doran thought it was odd that the storms never struck at Dorne. The septon believed the reason was because Durran Godsgrief stole Elenei from her godly parents and earned their eternal enmity, while no Dornishman ever did so.[5]
Quotes
[edit]Names such as Brandon the Builder, Garth Greenhand, Lann the Clever, and Durran Godsgrief are names to conjure with, but it is likely that their legends hold less truth than fancy.[1]
—writings of Yandel
Family
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Ancient History: The Age of Heroes.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The World of Ice & Fire, The Stormlands: House Durrandon.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son.
- ↑ The Winds of Winter, Arianne II