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==Quotes== {{quote|When we still kept the Old Way, lived by the axe instead of the pick, taking what we would, be it wealth, women, or glory. In those days, the [[ironborn]] did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep. War was an ironman's proper trade. The [[Drowned God]] had made them to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and write their names in fire and blood and song.{{ref|ACOK|11}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} {{quote|In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the [[iron price]], it was called.{{ref|ACOK|11}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} {{quote|Yet in the [[dawn of days]] the [[ironborn]] chose their own kings, [[kingsmoot|raising up the worthiest amongst them]]. It is time we returned to the Old Way, for only that shall make us great again.{{ref|AFFC|1}}|[[Aeron Greyjoy]] to [[Meldred Merlyn]]}} {{quote|The Old Way served [[Iron Islands|the isles]] well when we were [[Hundred Kingdoms|one small kingdom amongst many]], but [[Aegon's Conquest]] put an end to that. [[Balon Greyjoy|Balon]] refused to see what was plain before him. The Old Way died with [[burning of Harrenhal|Black Harren and his sons]].{{ref|AFFC|11}}|[[Rodrik Harlaw]] to [[Asha Greyjoy]]}} {{quote|My brother [[Balon Greyjoy|Balon]] was a great man, but I shall do what he could not. The [[Iron Islands]] shall be free again, and the Old Way will return. Even [[Dagon Greyjoy|Dagon]] could not do that.{{ref|ADWD|63}}|[[Victarion Greyjoy]] to the [[dusky woman]]}}
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