““Let Me Soar” — attested in the record with rather more confidence than most Dornish house words this chronicle has occasion to print.”
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Fowler — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
Seat
Skyreach
Region
Dorne
Founder
Unnamed. First Men kings who styled themselves Kings of Stone and Sky and Lords of the Wide Way, ruling from Skyreach over the mountain pass that has borne their wardenship since long before any Martell claimed a crown to grant it to them.
Warden of the Prince's Pass by a title old enough to predate the principality it now guards on the Martells' behalf, House Fowler has spent this chronicle's own century as one of the few great Dornish houses whose loyalty Sunspear has never had cause to doubt — a distinction its old rivals at Yronwood, by most accounts, have found rather easier to hold against the Fowlers than against each other.
I
Kings of Stone and Sky
Skyreach's lords ruled the Prince's Pass — the Wide Way between Dorne and the Reach — as Kings of Stone and Sky long before any Rhoynish princess set foot on Dornish soil, and the wardenship the Martells later confirmed on House Fowler was, by the Citadel's understanding, less a new grant than a formal recognition of authority the family had held on its own account for generations already. That the Fowlers submitted to Sunspear's crown with rather less friction than House Yronwood's own long and bitter accommodation suggests either a shrewder family or simply a smaller ambition; this chronicle declines to guess which.
II
An Old Rivalry, Politely Kept
House Fowler's rivalry with House Yronwood is old enough that neither family, by this chronicle's understanding, could fully explain its origins without consulting a maester first — two great Dornish houses of comparably ancient blood, each convinced of its own seniority, and each content, in recent generations, to let the rivalry express itself in court precedence and old grievance rather than open war. It has proven, in this chronicle's own present, rather more useful to Sunspear than either family likely intended: a Martell in difficulty can generally find one of the two houses willing to help, on the reliable understanding that the other will not.
III
The Old Hawk's Confidence
Lord Franklyn Fowler, called the Old Hawk, stands among the most powerful lords in Dorne's present council, and it was to Franklyn rather than to any Yronwood, or indeed any closer kinsman, that Princess Arianne Martell chose to confide during a period of confinement this chronicle's sources describe without fully explaining its cause — a choice her own account attributes to the old rivalry with House Yronwood as much as to Franklyn's evident power, on the reasoning that a Fowler's help comes without a Yronwood's memory attached to it. Whether that confidence was well placed is a question this chronicle, writing before events in Dorne have fully settled, is not yet positioned to answer.
The people of House Fowler
The lords, ladies, and branches of Fowler the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
Franklyn Fowler, “the Old Hawk”
Lord of Skyreach, Warden of the Prince's Pass
fl. 298–300 AC
What is House Fowler known for?
Warden of the Prince's Pass by a title old enough to predate the principality it now guards on the Martells' behalf, House Fowler has spent this chronicle's own century as one of the few great Dornish houses whose loyalty Sunspear has never had cause to doubt — a distinction its old rivals at Yronwood, by most accounts, have found rather easier to hold against the Fowlers than against each other.
Where is the seat of House Fowler?
House Fowler holds Skyreach, in Dorne. 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.
Is House Fowler in the books or only the show?
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.