Claw Isle

Claw Isle keeps only a light garrison, yet its castle holds treasures that belie that poverty: carpets brought from Myr, glassware from Volantis, plate of gold and silver, jewel-crusted goblets, hunting hawks, an axe forged of Valyrian steel, even a horn said to summon monsters from the deep, alongside chests of rubies and a cellar of fine wines.

Whoever rules the island may pinch every penny before the rest of the world, yet spares no expense on his own comfort.

When Lord Edwell Celtigar stepped down as Hand to King Maegor I Targaryen, he returned to rule Claw Isle.

Generations later, men from the island fought in the battle of Crow's Nest on the side of the Blacks.

When King Stannis called his banners, most of Claw Isle's garrison sailed for Dragonstone; its lord, Lord Celtigar, left behind only a handful of men to defend it.

Most of those who sailed died afterward at the battle of the Blackwater, and Celtigar himself, taken captive, ended up swearing fealty to King Joffrey Baratheon.

With nearly all its men dead at the Blackwater, Claw Isle was left with only women, children, and the old.

Ser Axell Florent and the pirate Salladhor Saan hatched a plan to strike the island as punishment and put its people to the sword.

It was Davos Seaworth who talked Stannis out of it, a stroke that won him the appointment as Hand of the King.