The Plowman's Keep is the keep of Darry in the riverlands. The arms of House Darry depict a plowman.[1][2]
Layout
[edit]The lord's bedchamber, which contains Myrish carpet, sits at the top of the keep and has a window overlooking the godswood. Ser Raymun Darry's bed has brown velvet draperies and oakwood posts carved with vines and leaves. The lady's bedchamber adjoins the lord's with a servant's cell between.[3]
The keep has a gallery.[3] Its walls were once decorated with tapestries of Targaryen kings, but they were hidden in the cellar before a visit by King Robert I Baratheon.[3]
There are vaults beneath the Plowman's Keep.[4]
History
[edit]During the Dance of the Dragons, Lady Darry and her younger children hid in the keep's vaults when Prince Aemond Targaryen attacked Darry with Vhagar.[4]
Recent Events
[edit]A Feast for Crows
[edit]As Darry has been burned and sacked during the War of the Five Kings, the steps to the keep and the shutters on its windows are replaced after Ser Lancel Lannister takes possession of the castle.[3] Old stale rushes have replaced the Myrish carpet, and the new furnishings crudely made. Ser Raymun Darry's spacious bed is gone, with Lancel sleeping instead on a lumpy straw pallet by the window.[3]
Lancel begins sleeping in the castle's sept, so Maester Ottomore places Ser Jaime Lannister in the bedchamber atop the Plowman's Keep when the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard visits the castle. Jaime observes that the keep's walls are still undecorated since King Robert I Baratheon's visits. Jaime descends the tower to attend supper in the castle's great hall. While practicing in the godswood, Jaime recounts to the mute Ser Ilyn Payne that Robert had stayed in Raymun's bedchamber when the royal retinue was returning south from Winterfell. After Robert passed out on the Myrish carpet, Jaime slept with his twin, Queen Cersei Lannister, in Raymun's bed.[3]
Quotes
[edit]Jaime: The walls are still bare.
Ottomore: Lord Lancel hopes one day to cover them with hangings. Scenes of piety and devotion.[3]—Jaime Lannister and Ottomore
References
[edit]- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 30, Jaime IV.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant.