| Lordsport | |
|---|---|
| Harbor village | |
 Lordsport from the sea | |
| Location | Pyke, Iron Islands |
| Government | House Botley |
| Ruler |
Lord Sawane Botley (ACoK) Lord Germund Botley (ADwD) |
| Religion | Drowned God |
Lordsport is the seat of House Botley on Pyke.[2] Located on the central northern shore of the isle,[1] it is the largest town in the Iron Islands.[3][4]
Layout
Half the size of Lord Hewett's Town,[5] Lordsport is located near a wooded point with pine-clad bluffs. Lordsport provides safe anchor for those who wish to reach the castle of Pyke, seat of House Greyjoy. Otter Gimpknee's inn is located near the landing.[2][6]
The town is known for its forges and metalworkers, who produce excellent swords, axes, ringmail, and plate.[3] Sigrin is a prominent shipwright in Lordsport.[7]
The seat of House Botley is a small square stone keep atop a hill overlooking the town; the banners of the Botleys droop from the castle's squat corner towers.[2]
History
During the reign of House Hoare as Kings of the Iron Islands, ships from Lordsport began to trade at Lannisport, Oldtown, and the Free Cities.[8]
Corlys Velaryon sailed to Oldtown, Lannisport, and Lordsport when he was a young man.[9]
During Greyjoy's Rebellion, the timber-and-wattle castle of House Botley and the village of Lordsport were razed by the forces of King Robert I Baratheon before the battle at Pyke.[2] After the war, Lordsport was rebuilt by its smallfolk, who used the stones from the burned remnants and cut new thatch for their roofs. Otter Gimpknee's inn at the harbor doubled in size. The sept was not rebuilt, however, as the ironmen prefer the Drowned God over the Faith of the Seven, the religion of the victorious Robert.[2] Lord Sawane Botley rebuilt his stronghold in stone.[2]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Returning to the Iron Islands for the first time since Greyjoy's Rebellion, Theon Greyjoy sails on the Myraham from Seagard to Lordsport. Theon, the heir of Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, is displeased that the merchants of Lordsport do not recognize him. Aeron Damphair escorts his nephew from Lordsport to Pyke.[2]
Lord Balon musters ironborn longships to Lordsport in preparation for his invasion of the north during the War of the Five Kings.[2] Balon prevents merchant vessels like the Myraham from leaving the harbor and informing the green lands of the gathering of ironborn ships.[6]
Theon acquires a horse, Smiler, from Sawane Botley, Lord of Lordsport, and takes on the mute Wex Pyke, the bastard of Sawane's half-brother Sargon, as his squire.[6] Theon sees his newly-built longship, later named Sea Bitch, on the strand of Lordsport. Asha Greyjoy, calling herself "Esgred" and claiming to be the daughter of Ambrode and wife of Sigrin, escorts her unknowing brother from the town to Pyke, where she reveals her true identity.[6]
A Storm of Swords
The captain of the Myraham reports that Euron Greyjoy sailed into Lordsport's harbor the day after the death of his brother Balon, King of the Isles and the North. Euron claimed the Seastone Chair at Pyke and drowned Lord Botley in a cask of seawater when he objected.[10]
A Feast for Crows
It is reported that Euron had Sawane killed because he recognized Balon's heir to be Theon, not Euron.[11] Ralf of Lordsport comes from the town, whose new lord is Germund Botley.[12] Asha, a claimant to the Seastone Chair, intends to restore Lordsport to Sawane's son and heir, her childhood friend Tristifer Botley.[13]
Quotes
There are many fine metalworkers amongst the ironborn, as might be expected; the forges of Lordsport produce swords, axes, ringmail, and plate second to none.[3]
—writings of Yandel
Beneath the dubious protection of the fish-ridden little castle lay the village of Lordsport, its harbor aswarm with ships. When last he'd seen Lordsport, it had been a smoking wasteland, the skeletons of burnt longships and smashed galleys littering the stony shore like the bones of dead leviathans, the houses no more than broken walls and cold ashes. After ten years, few traces of the war remained. The smallfolk had built new hovels with the stones of the old, and cut fresh sod for their roofs. A new inn had risen beside the landing, twice the size of the old one, with a lower story of cut stone and two upper stories of timber. The sept beyond had never been rebuilt, though; only a seven-sided foundation remained where it had stood. Robert Baratheon's fury had soured the ironmen's taste for the new gods, it would seem.[2]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Among the masts of countless fishing boats, he spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading beside a lumbering Ibbenese cog with her black-tarred hull. A great number of longships, fifty or sixty at the least, stood out to sea or lay beached on the pebbled shore to the north.[2]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Lordsport has no lack of strong arms.[6]
—Theon Greyjoy to "Esgred"
Tristifer: The Silence returned with holds full of treasure. Plate and pearls, emeralds and rubies, sapphires big as eggs, bags of coin so heavy that no man can lift them ... the Crow's Eye has been buying friends at every hand. My uncle Germund calls himself Lord Botley now, and rules in Lordsport as your uncle's man.
Asha: You are the rightful Lord Botley. Once I hold the Seastone Chair, your father's lands shall be restored.[13]
Chapters that take place at Lordsport
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Map of the Iron Islands.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 11, Theon I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands.
- ↑ In A Clash of Kings, Chapter 11, it is also described as a village.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: The Black Blood.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 1, The Prophet.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.