The Vale's great sea-gate, tucked into a fine harbor at the northern lip of the Bay of Crabs — the port through which the Vale trades with the world it otherwise prefers to ignore behind its mountains.
Gulltown's older history belongs to House Shett, First Men kings who ruled the town before the Andals arrived in numbers; the town changed hands, by the tale the Graftons themselves prefer to tell, when the Andal knight Ser Gerold Grafton lent his sword to King Osgood Shett in battle and then relieved him of both his crown and his heir once the fighting was done. However it truly happened, House Grafton has held Gulltown ever since, sworn to the Arryns of the Eyrie but never quite letting the rest of the Vale forget who keeps its harbor running.
Trade, not war, has been the town's usual business, its docks handling the bulk of what passes between the closed valleys of the Vale and Braavos, the riverlands, and points further south. It is a comfortable, unglamorous kind of importance, and the Graftons seem content enough to keep it that way.
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Where is Gulltown?
The Vale's great sea-gate, tucked into a fine harbor at the northern lip of the Bay of Crabs — the port through which the Vale trades with the world it otherwise prefers to ignore behind its mountains.
Is Gulltown from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.