Game Of Thrones History & Lore of The North
Game Of Thrones History &
Lore of
The North video on the history of the
North , house
Stark, the
Wall, the
Night's Watch , the
Free Folk, the
Children of the Forest, and many more.
Watch this video to here a large amount information from characters in the show were they tell a deep history in there
point of view.
Video in full HD music from the show soundtrack
House Stark theme.
The North or the north is one of the constituent regions of Westeros and was a sovereign nation ruled by
Kings in the North before the
War of Conquest. The largest of the
Seven Kingdoms' regions, the North covers the entire area south of the Wall and north of the
Neck.
The North has been ruled by House Stark for thousands of years from the castle known as Winterfell. Other notable houses of the region include
Bolton, Karstark, Manderly, and
Umber.
Bastards of noble origin raised in the North are given the surname
Snow.
Dawn Age. The peoples of the North are nearly all descended from the
First Men, who settled the land nearly
12,000 years ago.
Little is known of that time, but cryptic runes carved in old stones and the barrows the First Men lived in can still be found in the barrowlands.
Ancient forts of the First Men are scattered throughout the North, including a ringfort atop
Seal Rock near
White Harbor and ruins in
Sea Dragon Point. The children of the forest also made weirwood circles.
Kings of
Winter. About
8,000 years ago,
the Long Night occurred, when the
Others invaded. The event defined and shaped the North, leading to the founding of the Wall, the order of the Night's Watch, the castle of Winterfell and the first Stark Kings of Winter. The
Starks gradually defeated rival kings, such as the
Barrow Kings to their south and the Red Kings to their east.
When the Andals invaded Westeros, the Stark Kings of Winter resisted them successfully, stopping them at Moat Cailin and the eastern shores, the only kingdom in Westeros to do so.
King Jon Stark founded the
Wolf's Den at the mouth of the White
Knife after driving out sea raiders. His son,
Rickard Stark, conquered the
Neck from the Marsh King and married his daughter. King Rodrik Stark is said to have won
Bear Island from the ironborn in a wrestling match.
Two thousand years ago the North warred with the
Vale of Arryn after the
Rape of the
Three Sisters, with the Arryns eventually gaining control of the islands in this War
Across the Water.
For many centuries the
Boltons were bitter rivals of
the Starks of Winterfell. The practice of flaying their enemies gave the Boltons a sinister reputation. Approximately a thousand years ago, the Boltons finally swore fealty to the Kings in the North and agreed to abandon their practice of flaying their enemies.
A thousand years before the
Conquest, the Manderlys were driven from the river
Mander by
House Gardener of the
Reach and fled to the North, where they were welcomed by the Starks of Winterfell as their own bannermen. The Manderlys received the Wolf's Den and developed White Harbor, one of the five cities of Westeros and the main northern port for commerce and naval transport. The Manderlys are the most prominent of the few northern noble houses to follow the
Faith of the Seven instead of the old gods.
For more information
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index
.php/North