Howland Reed
Lord of Greywater Watch
fl. 283 AC–
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
House Reed — seat, history, and blood
House Reed
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Reed — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
- Seat
- Greywater Watch
- Region
- The Neck, The North
- Founder
- no single founder survives in any chronicle the Citadel holds; the crannogmen trace their friendship with House Stark to an age when the Neck's people still kept company with the children of the forest, a claim easier to honor than to verify
The crannogmen of the Neck live poorer and stranger than their northern neighbors, in villages of reed and mud that are said to move, or vanish, or simply refuse to be found by armies that go looking for them — Greywater Watch chief among these tricks. House Reed rules them in name and represents them in practice, a duty that mostly consists of being overlooked by the rest of the Seven Kingdoms and occasionally saving it.
The people of House Reed
The lords, ladies, and branches of Reed the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
Jojen and Meera Reed
of Greywater Watch
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
What the record disputes
Where the sources disagree or a song outruns the maesters, the chronicle marks the doubt rather than settling it.
Meera Reed's tale of a mystery knight who avenged Howland's humiliation at Harrenhal — the 'Knight of the Laughing Tree' — is presented in the text as a story Meera tells, not as attested history; the Chronicle keeps it filed as an unconfirmed tale rather than an event.
Whether Howland Reed's silence about the tower in Dorne conceals a truth touching Jon Snow's parentage is a matter of strong implication and reader inference rather than any statement the novels have yet made outright; the Chronicle hedges accordingly.
The Reed arms are attested only in semi-canon heraldic material; the Chronicle notes this rather than presenting the blazon as settled.
What is House Reed known for?
The crannogmen of the Neck live poorer and stranger than their northern neighbors, in villages of reed and mud that are said to move, or vanish, or simply refuse to be found by armies that go looking for them — Greywater Watch chief among these tricks. House Reed rules them in name and represents them in practice, a duty that mostly consists of being overlooked by the rest of the Seven Kingdoms and occasionally saving it.
Where is the seat of House Reed?
House Reed holds Greywater Watch, in The Neck, The North. 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 Reed 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.