A hard, rain-lashed country between King's Landing and Dorne, its people bred to weather they never asked for and tempers to match it. Storm's End has never fallen to siege, storm, or dragon, and the stormlanders consider that proof of something, though they rarely agree on what.
The stormlanders kept their own line of Storm Kings for thousands of years before Aegon's Conquest, descended in legend from Durran Godsgrief, said to have wed the daughter of the wind and sea and paid for the honeymoon with several centuries of storms hurled at his new castle. Whether or not the gods truly minded the marriage, Storm's End stood through everything since, including a siege backed by dragonflame that finally persuaded the last Storm King to kneel rather than test the walls' patience further.
House Baratheon inherited both the castle and the temperament when Orys Baratheon, said by whispers to be Aegon's own bastard half-brother, was granted the stormlands once the old royal line ended in battle, and the fierceness the Baratheons are known for owes at least as much to the land as to the blood. The stormlanders fought the First Dornish War on the realm's southern flank in the Conquest's earliest years, and nearly three centuries later marched again at their own liege lord's back to put down a rebellion in the Iron Islands.
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A hard, rain-lashed country between King's Landing and Dorne, its people bred to weather they never asked for and tempers to match it. Storm's End has never fallen to siege, storm, or dragon, and the stormlanders consider that proof of something, though they rarely agree on what.
Is The Stormlands 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.