“Ours is the Fury”
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Durrandon — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
The Durrandons ruled the stormlands as Storm Kings from a founding the songs remember better than any maester can verify — a wedding night broken by a storm that killed every guest inside it, and a king who rebuilt his hall again and again rather than yield the woman he had won. What survives that legend is Storm's End itself, whose curved, windowless walls have shrugged off every siege and every storm thrown at them since. The line ended not by slow decline but on a single rain-lashed field, when an old king's pride outran his caution and a dragon queen's flanking charge outran his army.
The lords, ladies, and branches of Durrandon the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
the first Storm King
Age of Heroes, by tradition
Wed Elenei against her divine parents' wishes and watched the sea and sky together break his wedding hall over his guests' heads — then rebuilt, and was broken again, through generation after generation of storms no two songs number the same way. What finally quieted the storms — the children of the forest, or simple stubborn engineering — the singers do not agree, only that Storm's End still stands.
the last Storm King
d. 2 BC
An old king grown fearful of Harren the Black, who offered Aegon Targaryen his daughter Argella's hand and a slice of disputed land, then read insult into Aegon's counter-offer of Orys Baratheon and sent back an envoy missing both hands. He met Orys in the field rather than hide behind his walls, very nearly won, and was killed in single combat during the storm the singers call the Last Storm — the end of his line's name, though not, through Argella, of its blood.
Where the sources disagree or a song outruns the maesters, the chronicle marks the doubt rather than settling it.
The number of storms that broke over Durran's rebuilt halls is given wildly differently between tellings — some songs count dozens, others hundreds; the Chronicle treats the figure as unfixed rather than choosing among them.
Whether the Last Storm fell in the same year as Aegon's landing or somewhat after it is not pinned to a single date across the sources consulted; the Chronicle gives the landing's own year rather than commit to a sharper figure the record does not support.
Some accounts credit Storm's End's storm-defying construction to the children of the forest, others to later Durrandon builders working alone; the Chronicle records both rather than choose.
The Durrandons ruled the stormlands as Storm Kings from a founding the songs remember better than any maester can verify — a wedding night broken by a storm that killed every guest inside it, and a king who rebuilt his hall again and again rather than yield the woman he had won. What survives that legend is Storm's End itself, whose curved, windowless walls have shrugged off every siege and every storm thrown at them since. The line ended not by slow decline but on a single rain-lashed field, when an old king's pride outran his caution and a dragon queen's flanking charge outran his army.
House Durrandon holds Storm's End, in The Stormlands. The chronicle traces the house from its founding down to its part in the present tale, marking legend as legend wherever the songs run ahead of the record.
Book canon. This history follows George R. R. Martin's novels first, then the histories — Fire & Blood and The World of Ice & Fire — and does not follow the television series where it diverges.