Lord Harroway's Town, called Harroway town[1] or Harroway[1] for short, is a town in the riverlands that sits along the Trident, upriver of the ruby ford.[2] It is the seat of House Roote but is named after extinct House Harroway.[3]
Layout
Harroway includes a seven-sided sept, a two-story inn, a stone roundtower, and many smaller buildings with chimneys.[1]
A wide, flat-bottomed boat, called Old King Andahar's two-headed water horse by some, is found at the ferry along the Trident. It has a dozen oarlocks, a wooden house on its deck, and is decorated with two carved horse heads fore and aft.[1] A two-headed horse is included in the arms of House Roote of Harroway.[4]
History
The river kings of old refused charters which would have allowed towns like Fairmarket, Saltpans, and Harroway to expand and potentially become cities.[5]
Because of his inability to conceive a son with Queen Alys Harroway, King Maegor I Targaryen killed Alys and her all of her kin from House Harroway in King's Landing, Harrenhal, and Lord Harroway's Town.[6] Afterward, Maegor decreed that the strongest of his knights could win Harrenhal. Ser Walton Towers was the victor of twenty-three household knights who fought in the blood-soaked streets of Harroway for the honor. Walton died of his wounds shortly after, with Harrenhal passing to his son Jordan Towers. Meanwhile, Maegor granted Harroway town to Lord Alton Butterwell and the remaining Harroway lands to Lord Darnold Darry.[6]
Harroway was in the possession of House Roote by the start of the Dance of the Dragons,[7] and the town was burned by Vhagar during the civil war of House Targaryen.[8]
Before the river moved some seventy to eighty years before the War of the Five Kings, one could take a ferry across the Trident from the inn at the crossroads to the road that led to Lord Harroway's Town and Whitewalls.[9]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane find Lord Harroway's Town flooded when the Trident overflows its banks. They ferry across aboard the two-headed horse boat, but the Hound refuses to pay golden dragons to the ferryman.[1]
A Feast for Crows
After stopping at the inn at the crossroads with Brienne of Tarth, Septon Meribald intends to travel on to Nutten, Riverbend, and Lord Harroway's Town.[9]
Quotes
Harroway town shouldn't be far. Where Lord Roote stables Old King Andahar's two-headed water horse.[1]
The town was drowned and desolate. The rising waters had overflowed the riverbanks. All that remained of Harroway town was the upper story of a daub-and-wattle inn, the seven-sided dome of a sunken sept, two-thirds of a stone roundtower, some moldy thatch roofs, and a forest of chimneys.[1]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Chapters that take place at Lord Harroway's Town
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: The Rootes and Harroway, June 16, 2000
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Riverlands: House Tully.
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Riverlands
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Riverlands.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.