The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Reyne — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
Seat
Castamere
Region
The Westerlands
Founder
unrecorded; the Reynes rose on the silver of Castamere's mines rather than on any sung ancestry
House Reyne held Castamere as bannermen to House Lannister and grew rich enough on its silver mines, allied by marriage to House Tarbeck, to forget for one costly generation that bannermen they remained. Under Lord Tytos Lannister — too generous, too forgiving, too slow to notice contempt curdling under his own roof — the Reynes let their arrogance harden past the point his heir was willing to tolerate. Ser Tywin Lannister answered it without waiting for his father's leave, and answered it completely: Castamere's mines were flooded with its lords and people still inside them, and House Reyne left the realm nothing but a song that has outlived every family it names.
The people of House Reyne
The lords, ladies, and branches of Reyne the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
Reynard Reyne
of Castamere
d. 261 AC
Led the Reynes and their household — some three hundred souls by report — down into the mines beneath Castamere when Tywin Lannister's army arrived, judging correctly that Tywin could not fight his way into rock he could not reach. He sent up terms of surrender demanding Tywin's own young brothers as hostages at Castamere for surety; Tywin never answered them, and instead dammed the stream that fed Castamere's pool into the nearest shaft. No one who went down into the mines came back up.
Ellyn Tarbeck
Lady of Tarbeck Hall, born Reyne
d. 261 AC
Sister to Roger and Reynard Reyne, married into House Tarbeck and caught first when Tywin Lannister's revenge began. She shut Tarbeck Hall's gates and sent ravens to Castamere for her brothers' aid, which arrived too late to matter — Tywin's siege engines brought the hall's roof down on her where she stood, and what still stood after, he had put to the torch.
What the record disputes
Where the sources disagree or a song outruns the maesters, the chronicle marks the doubt rather than settling it.
The precise number of Reynes, Tarbecks, and household folk who died in the flooded mines of Castamere is given as a round figure — some three hundred — in the sources consulted; the Chronicle preserves that approximation rather than sharpening it.
No Reyne house words are recorded in any source the Chronicle has consulted; the Chronicle records none rather than invent one for a house whose own voice the record did not preserve.
Whether Ellyn Tarbeck was born a Reyne or a Tarbeck is not stated with full explicitness everywhere the revolt is described; the Chronicle follows the sources that name her Reynard and Roger Reyne's sister.
What is House Reyne known for?
House Reyne held Castamere as bannermen to House Lannister and grew rich enough on its silver mines, allied by marriage to House Tarbeck, to forget for one costly generation that bannermen they remained. Under Lord Tytos Lannister — too generous, too forgiving, too slow to notice contempt curdling under his own roof — the Reynes let their arrogance harden past the point his heir was willing to tolerate. Ser Tywin Lannister answered it without waiting for his father's leave, and answered it completely: Castamere's mines were flooded with its lords and people still inside them, and House Reyne left the realm nothing but a song that has outlived every family it names.
Where is the seat of House Reyne?
House Reyne holds Castamere, in The Westerlands. 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 Reyne 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.