“None the Citadel can confirm from the printed page.”
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Glover — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
Seat
Deepwood Motte
Region
The North
Founder
Unnamed. A First Men house of the Wolfswood, overlord in turn to several smaller houses of that forest — Forrester, Woods, Branch, and Bole among them — which the Citadel notes without pretending to have traced any of their own individual foundings.
Lords of a deep, wet, unglamorous stretch of the Wolfswood, the Glovers marched south for their king and came home to find their own hall taken behind their backs — a lesson in the cost of loyalty this chronicle suspects the brothers Glover did not need repeated twice.
I
Lords of the Wolfswood
Deepwood Motte sits deep in the Wolfswood on the North's northwestern coast, overlord to a scattering of smaller houses — the Forresters, the Woods, the Branches, the Bole — who this chronicle mentions in passing rather than in detail, their own histories being thinner still than House Glover's own. The silver mailed fist on scarlet that serves as the Glovers' arms is, this chronicle notes, an unusually blunt piece of heraldry even by the North's plainspoken standards, and no less honest for it.
The present tale
This chapter carries the house's fortunes into the novels' events — veiled until you choose to read on.
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Brothers South, Wife Alone
When Robb Stark called the North to war, both Glover brothers answered — Galbart riding south with the host itself, given command of Robb's scouts and outriders, and Robett close behind him — leaving Deepwood Motte in the hands of Robett's wife, Sybelle, and a garrison too thin for the castle's importance. Balon Greyjoy's daughter Asha judged the opportunity as plainly as this chronicle now records it: Deepwood Motte, lightly held while its lords campaigned elsewhere, fell to her without the fight its walls might otherwise have offered, and Sybelle Glover and her two young children became the ironborn's hostages for the northern coast's obedience.
In the chronicle
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.
The present tale
This chapter carries the house's fortunes into the novels' events — veiled until you choose to read on.
§
The Long Way Back to Deepwood
Robett Glover left Robb Stark's host on hearing of his home's fall, determined to retake it by whatever means the war still allowed him, and this chronicle notes his frustration at finding no immediate path north through a kingdom that had, by then, considerably more urgent fires burning elsewhere. His path back to the Wolfswood came, eventually and by a considerably longer road than he can have wanted, through Stannis Baratheon's northern campaign, marching alongside the mountain clans Stannis had gathered to his cause toward a Deepwood Motte this chronicle cannot yet confirm has been retaken, held, or lost again. Galbart's fate in the war's later fighting is recorded with no more certainty than his brother's homecoming.
In the chronicle
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.
The people of House Glover
The lords, ladies, and branches of Glover the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
Galbart Glover
elder Glover brother, commander of Robb Stark's scouts
fl. 299–300 AC
Robett Glover
younger Glover brother, husband to Sybelle Locke
fl. 299–300 AC
Sybelle Locke, Lady Glover
Robett's wife, held hostage by the ironborn after Deepwood Motte's fall
fl. 299–300 AC
What is House Glover known for?
Lords of a deep, wet, unglamorous stretch of the Wolfswood, the Glovers marched south for their king and came home to find their own hall taken behind their backs — a lesson in the cost of loyalty this chronicle suspects the brothers Glover did not need repeated twice.
Where is the seat of House Glover?
House Glover holds Deepwood Motte, in 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 Glover 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.