| House Fowler of Skyreach | |
|---|---|
 Let Me Soar
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| Coat of arms |
A hooded blue hawk on silver (Argent, a hooded hawk azure) |
| Seat | Skyreach |
| Head | Lord Franklyn Fowler |
| Region | Dorne |
| Titles | |
| Heir | Jeyne Fowler |
| Overlord | House Martell |
| Founded | Age of Heroes |
House Fowler of Skyreach is a noble house from Skyreach in Dorne. They hold the title of "Warden of the Prince's Pass" and watch over the Prince's Pass.
Their words are "Let Me Soar".[2] According to semi-canon sources their blazon is a hooded blue hawk on silver.[3]
History
[edit]The Fowlers were First Men kings who ruled from Skyreach, which guarded the Wide Way between Dorne and the Reach. They titled themselves Kings of Stone and Sky and Lords of the Wide Way. Along with the Daynes and Yronwoods, the Fowlers were among the most powerful of the Dornish kings.[4]
The Fowlers often warred with the marcher lords to their north.[5] King Ferris Fowler led 10,000 Dornishmen through the Wide Way to the Kingdom of the Reach, but they were turned back by King Garth VII Gardener.[6]
Following the defeat of King Garrison Fowler, who was then exiled to the Night's Watch, the Fowlers sided with the Martells against the Yronwoods during Nymeria's War a thousand years ago. Since then they have feuded with the Yronwoods, the Wardens of the Stoneway east of the Prince's Pass.[1] More recent Fowlers may have taken the black, as shields displaying hawks had adorned the Shieldhall's walls at Castle Black, according to Jon Snow.[7]
In 10 AC during the First Dornish War, Lord Fowler led a Dornish host which burned Nightsong and took hostages from the marcher castle. The Targaryens retaliated by unleashing their dragons on Skyreach and other Dornish castles during the Dragon's Wroth.[8] Lord Fowler was murdered for the Iron Throne's ransom on his head.[9]
When she was younger, Princess Arianne Martell would ride the shoulders of one of the Fowler twins, Jeyne and Jennelyn, while at play in the Water Gardens.[1]
Lord Fowler kept a dwarf jester at Skyreach during Tyrion Lannister's childhood (circa 280 AC).[10]
Recent Events
[edit]A Feast for Crows
[edit]Nymeria Sand was abed with the Fowler twins, Jeyne and Jennelyn, when the news of her father Oberyn Martell's death reached her. Quoting the Fowler words, she asks Prince Doran Martell to "let her soar" and avenge Oberyn.[2]
While prisoner in her tower at Sunspear, Arianne Martell decides to confide with Lord Franklyn Fowler among all the Dornish lords because of his great power, the traditional rivalry between Fowlers and Yronwoods, and the fact that Nymeria is close to the Fowler twins. Doran later tells Arianne he does not trust Nymeria because she is too close to the Fowler twins, and he cannot say whom they would confide in.[1]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]During a feast in Sunspear, Areo Hotah notes that the Fowler twins are among the Dornish nobility who do not drink during Ricasso's toast of King Tommen I Baratheon.[11]
House Fowler at the end of the third century
[edit]
The known Fowlers during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Lord Franklyn Fowler, Lord of Skyreach, Warden of the Prince's Pass, called "The Old Hawk".
- Jeyne Fowler, his daughter. The first of the Fowler twins.
- Jennelyn Fowler, his daughter. The second of the Fowler twins.
Historical Members
[edit]- King Ferris Fowler, who was turned back by Garth VII Gardener.[6]
- King Garrison Fowler, last king of House Folwer.[12]
- Lord Fowler, who burned Nightsong during the First Dornish War[8] and was later murdered for the ransom on his head.[9]
Quotes
[edit]North and east, beyond a great gap in the mountains that provided the shortest and easiest passage from Dorne to the Reach, House Fowler carved its own seat into the stony slopes overlooking the pass. Skyreach, that seat became known, for its lofty perch and soaring stone towers. At the time, the pass it brooded over was commonly known as the Wide Way (today we name it the Prince's Pass), so the Fowlers took for themselves the grandiose titles of Lords of Skyreach, Lords of the Wide Way, and Kings of Stone and Sky.[4]
—writings of Yandel
You know the Fowler words? Let Me Soar![2]
Lord Fowler might be a safer choice. The Old Hawk, he was called. He had never gotten on with Anders Yronwood; there was bad blood between their Houses going back a thousand years, from when the Fowlers had chosen Martell over Yronwood during Nymeria's War.[1]
—thoughts of Arianne Martell
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses from Dorne
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Kingdoms of the First Men.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Queer Customs of the South.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: The Gardener Kings.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fire & Blood, Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 33, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: The Coming of the Rhoynar.
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