White Harbor

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The North and the location of White Harbor
The North and the location of White Harbor
White Harbor
The North and the location of White Harbor

White Harbor is the smallest of Westeros's major cities but the largest settlement north of the Neck. It is located on the mouth of the White Knife, the principal river of the North, and is the seat of House Manderly.[1]

White Harbor has much more contact with the south due to its position as the North's primary trade port, and there are more knights and followers of the Faith of the Seven in White Harbor than anywhere else in the North. The city has access to very good fishing grounds and is also the home of many silversmiths.

History

The castle and later city of White Harbor were founded by King Jon Stark after he drove out raiders who were using the harbor as a base for raids inland.[2] Many centuries later the city was given to the Manderlys, an exiled house from the Reach, for loyal service to the Kings of the North.

City

Seal Rock

A massive grey-green sea stone looming fifty feet above the waters. Its top is crowned with a ringfort of the First Men that had once stood desolate and abandoned for centuries, but now currently occupied by crossbowmen with scorpions and spitfires.[3]

Outer Harbor

Inner Harbor

The Inner Harbor surrounded by a thirty foot wall, provides better anchorage than the Outer Harbor, and when Davos sees it filled with twenty-three war galleys.[4]

Wolf's Den

New Castle

Merman's Court

Fishfoot Yard

Old Mint

Lazy Eel

A winesink renowned for offering the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of lard and gristle that were inedible on their best days and poisonous on their worst.[5]

the Sept of Snow

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Maester Aemon sent a raven to White Harbor in a plea for help to defend Castle Black from wildlings.

A Feast for Crows

It is reported to queen Cersei that Davos Seaworth was executed in White Harbor and his head head and hand grace the walls of White Harbor.

A Dance with Dragons

Davos Seaworth arrives White Harbour.[6] He is preceded, however, by envoys of House Frey (Rhaegar Frey, Ser Jared Frey and Symond Frey), who have come with the remains of one of Lord Wyman Manderly's sons.[7] Davos appears before Merman's Court to present the case for the Manderlys to support Stannis. Lord Manderly has Davos dragged off to prison as a traitor in the presence of the Freys.[8] Manderly then has Davos imprisoned in the Wolf's Den, but has a different prisoner in the cell executed. The prisoner is beheaded, his head dipped in tar. The fingers of one of his hands are also cut off to resemble Davos. The head and hands are then put up on spikes on the walls of White Harbour to give the Lannisters and Freys reason to believe in House Manderly's loyalty to the Iron Throne. Once Manderly has sent a false report to the Iron Throne and gotten his son and heir, Ser Wylis Manderly, back, he frees Davos. He tells Davos that he will swear his allegiance to Stannis if Davos retrieves Rickon Stark. Manderly has discovered the boy is alive, but needs a smuggler to retrieve him. [9]

References and Notes