Editing Stormlands (section)

===Storm Kings===
[[File:Masseys Hook.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Massey's Hook]] by Zach Graves © Fantasy Flight Games]]
During the [[Dawn Age]], the woods of the stormlands were inhabited by [[children of the forest]], while [[giants]] dwelled in the foothills of the [[Red Mountains]]. The land was then settled by [[First Men]] who came to [[Westeros]] across the [[Arm of Dorne]]. Deities worshipped by the stormlanders of antiquity included the [[sea god]] and the [[goddess of the wind]].{{ref|ACOK|31}} [[War of the First Men and the children of the forest|War ensued]] between the elder races and the humans until the [[Pact]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: The Coming of the First Men}} The First Men of old often carved their tales into wood.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: House Durrandon}}

The stormlands were consolidated by the [[Storm King]]s, [[House Durrandon]] of [[Storm's End]], who were founded by [[Durran Godsgrief]]. In time, the Durrandons gained dominion over [[Cape Wrath]] and the [[rainwood]], what would become the [[kingswood]], [[Massey's Hook]], and islands in the [[narrow sea]], such as [[Tarth]] and [[Estermont]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands}} Storm Kings fought [[river kings]] for control of lands north of the [[Blackwater Rush]], and sometimes Storm's End controlled lands as far as [[Maidenpool]] and the [[Bay of Crabs]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands}} The [[Dornish Marches]] were created as bulwarks against [[Dorne]] to the south and the [[Kingdom of the Reach]] to the west.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: The Men of the Stormlands}}

The Storm Kings defended the stormlands during the [[coming of the Andals]], but eventually the First Men intermarried with the Andal newcomers.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}} Himself aided by Andals, [[Gyles III Gardener]], King of the Reach, conquered the lands north of the rainwood, but he failed to capture Storm's End after besieging it for two years.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} King [[Arlan III Durrandon]] vanquished the river kings of [[House Teague]], extending the Storm Kings' domain north to the [[Neck]] for three centuries.{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Riverlands}}

Stretched thin by their conquests,{{ref|TWOIAF|The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}} the power of the Storm Kings gradually declined due to pressure from [[House Gardener]] and [[Dornishmen]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} King [[Arrec Durrandon]] lost the [[riverlands]] to [[Harwyn Hoare|Harwyn Hardhand]], who became [[King of the Isles and the Rivers]], although the stormlands fended off Harwyn's son, King [[Halleck Hoare]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands: The Black Blood}} The rivermen found the [[ironborn]] to be crueler masters than the stormlanders.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Riverlands}}

Arrec's grandson, King [[Argilac Durrandon]], killed King [[Garse VII Gardener]] at [[Battle of Summerfield|Summerfield]] and also fought alongside [[Pentos]] and [[Tyrosh]] against [[Volantis]] during the [[Century of Blood]].{{ref|ADWD|14}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}