The garden of the Seven Kingdoms, watered by the Mander and gilded with more wheat, wine, and self-regard than any other kingdom can claim — the Reach fields the largest host in Westeros and, its rivals note, very nearly the largest opinion of itself.
Legend credits Garth Greenhand with coaxing the Reach's first harvest from soil that has never since stopped giving, and whatever truth lies buried under ten thousand years of green-thumbed tall tales, the Reach remains the richest farmland in the Seven Kingdoms by any maester's reckoning. Its western edge holds Oldtown, oldest and long the grandest of Westerosi cities, home to both the Citadel of the maesters and the Hightower that lights the harbor.
The Reach fought on the losing side at the Field of Fire and the winning side very nearly two centuries later at the Redgrass Field, and has generally found that whichever dynasty sits the Iron Throne, its grain still needs selling and its roses still need someone worth marrying them to. House Tyrell's stewardship of Highgarden — granted rather than won, a fact the older Reach houses are unfailingly polite about never mentioning — has outlasted every house that once thought the position beneath it.
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Where is The Reach?
The garden of the Seven Kingdoms, watered by the Mander and gilded with more wheat, wine, and self-regard than any other kingdom can claim — the Reach fields the largest host in Westeros and, its rivals note, very nearly the largest opinion of itself.
Is The Reach 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.