![]() ![]() The Iron Islands are rocky, which makes it difficult for farming. They despise the soft gods of the mainland, preferring their Drowned God who rewards the strong.īastards born in the Iron Islands take the surname 'Pyke'. They are raiders and reavers, not farmers. They use horses, who do not breed well on the islands, only as beasts of burden or conveyence, not in battle, and prefer the use of ships. ![]() Theirs is a harsh land and they hold no truck with mainland or 'green land' way, which they hold to be soft and womanly. The ironborn are independent, fierce and sometimes cruel. They chose House Greyjoy of Pyke, who have ruled the islands ever since. They were defeated by Aegon the Conqueror and forced to swear fealty to him.Īegon had to utterly destroy the then-ruling House Hoare during the Conquest, so allowed the ironborn to choose their new ruling house. The Iron Islands were long an independent nation confined to their islands before they invaded Westeros roughly a century before the War of Conquest, eventually going on to conquer the Riverlands. ![]() The Iron Islands are one of the constituent regions of Westeros. ![]()
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