| The Teats | |
|---|---|
| Hills | |
 King Aegon IV Targaryen admires the Teats, while his mistresses (Melissa Blackwood and Barba Bracken) and their fathers argue. Art by Jota Saraiva© | |
| Location | the Riverlands, Westeros |
| Named for | The Mother, Barba Bracken, Melissa Blackwood |
| Notable places | Pennytree |
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Map   The Teats | |
The Teats[1] are a pair of grassy hills in the disputed border area between Stone Hedge and Raventree Hall in the northwestern riverlands. They are located near the Red Fork, northeast of Riverrun.[2][3] The hills resemble women's breasts, so they became known as the Teats or the Mother's Teats, after the aspect of the Seven.[4] Situated between the hills is the village of Pennytree.[1]
History
The hills and their surrounding lands have frequently changed hands in the ongoing conflict between House Bracken and House Blackwood.[1] The Battle of Six Kings, in which the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon defeated five kings from House Teague, was fought between the Mother's Teats.[4]
In 172 AC, King Aegon IV Targaryen dubbed the hills Barba's Teats in honor of his buxom mistress, Lady Barba Bracken. Later that year Aegon took up a new mistress, Lady Melissa Blackwood, who was slender. After it was heard that Barba had insulted the size of Melissa's breasts, Aegon renamed the hills Missy's Teats,[1] and took them from the Brackens, granting them instead to the Blackwoods.[5] Each rival family still calls the hills by their preferred name.[1]
Recent Events
A Dance with Dragons
Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for the Teats as a reward for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood in the siege of Raventree. Hoster Blackwood discusses the region's history with Jaime after leaving Raventree Hall.[1]
Quotes
Hoster: Aegon the Unworthy took Barba Bracken as his mistress. She was a very buxom wench, they say, and one day when the king was visiting at the Stone Hedge he went out hunting and saw the Teats and...
Jaime: ...named them for his mistress. Only later he put the Bracken girl aside and took up with a Blackwood, was that the way of it?
Jaime: ... gave her Barba's teats.[1]
Hoster: Lady Melissa. Missy, they called her. There's a statue of her in our godswood. She was much more beautiful than Barba Bracken, but slender, and Barba was heard to say that Missy was flat as a boy. When King Aegon heard, he ...
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 48, Jaime I.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Teats.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Map of Westeros.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Riverlands.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.