“None recorded in the printed chronicles this maester can point to.”
The seat, the words, the line, and the tale of House Darry — drawn from the novels and the Citadel's fuller histories, with the television series set aside wherever it parts from the books.
Seat
Darry
Region
The Riverlands
Founder
Unnamed. A minor riverlands house of old but modest standing, its arms a plowman driving a team beneath the sun — an unusually humble sigil for a lordly line, and one the family's later history did nothing to make ironic in a kindly way.
House Darry's story, so far as the war has left one to tell, is a short one: a lord too courteous for the times he lived in, a castle burned by men who did not trouble to distinguish between hospitality and weakness, and a new lord — no Darry at all — installed by royal grant on land the old line no longer had the numbers left to hold.
I
The Plowman's House
Darry's arms — a plowman and his ox, working beneath an open sun — mark it as a house that never pretended to more than what it was: a small holding on the upper Trident, loyal to Riverrun, prosperous enough in fat years and unremarkable in lean ones. The Citadel's records find little to distinguish House Darry from a dozen similar minor riverlands lines across the centuries before this chronicle's own — which is, in its quiet way, the most any small house can generally hope a maester will say of 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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A Host Too Well Kept
Ser Raymun Darry — never, this chronicle notes with the same precision the sources themselves insist on, formally styled Lord of Darry in any account, though everyone who dealt with him plainly treated him as one — is remembered chiefly for sheltering Tyrion Lannister under his own roof early in the war's opening moves, guest right observed with a scrupulousness that did his household no favors when the fighting reached his gates in earnest. Raymun did not survive the war his hospitality could not keep at bay; nor did his kinsman Lyman, both killed, by the more careful accounts this chronicle trusts, at Gregor Clegane's hand rather than at his brother Sandor's, whatever a wandering singer's later verses about the Hound's crimes chose to claim. Castle Darry, its lords dead and its holding depopulated by the fighting that killed them, passed out of the family's keeping within the same year.
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.
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A Lion Given a Plowman's Lands
King Joffrey Baratheon rewarded Ser Lancel Lannister's service at the Battle of the Blackwater with the lands, castle, and rights of the extinguished House Darry outright — a grant that made a Lannister cousin lord of a holding the plowman's sigil had marked for three centuries, and gave rise, however briefly, to something the maesters have taken to calling House Lannister of Darry rather than any restoration of the line it replaced. Lancel did not wear the title long: grievously wounded in the same battle that won it for him, and drawn increasingly toward the austere new zeal sweeping King's Landing's smallfolk, he renounced both his lordship and his unconsummated marriage to take vows among the Warrior's Sons — leaving Darry's lands, once again, without a settled lord this chronicle can name with confidence.
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 Darry
The lords, ladies, and branches of Darry the books name — the notable, the infamous, and the merely unlucky.
Raymun Darry
held Castle Darry, sheltered Tyrion Lannister under guest right at the war's outset
d. 298 AC
Lyman Darry
kinsman of Raymun, killed alongside him
d. 298 AC
Lancel Lannister
granted Darry's lands and castle after the Blackwater; later renounced both
fl. 300 AC
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What is House Darry known for?
House Darry's story, so far as the war has left one to tell, is a short one: a lord too courteous for the times he lived in, a castle burned by men who did not trouble to distinguish between hospitality and weakness, and a new lord — no Darry at all — installed by royal grant on land the old line no longer had the numbers left to hold.
Where is the seat of House Darry?
House Darry holds Darry, in The Riverlands. 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 Darry 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.