Fair Isle
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Fair Isle is an island off the western coast of Westeros, held by House Farman from their stronghold of Torrelabella.
Its position at sea has made it, again and again, an easy prize or a battlefield: from the ironborn to the fleets of the Seven Kingdoms, almost everyone who has fought for power in the west has passed along its shores.
Chapter 1
The kings of the sea
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During the Age of Heroes, the Farman kings kept fleets of their own to shield the island and the western coast from constant raids by the ironborn. That independence ended when Tommen I Lannister built a fleet larger than theirs and sealed the annexation by marrying the last Farman king's daughter, folding the island into the domain of the Kings of the Rock.
Generations later, a man named Gylbert Farman roused the commons against the Iron Islands kings who ruled there at the time. King Erich V Harlaw won the island back by force, only to lose it again once he grew too old to hold it.
Chapter 2
The princesses' hiding place
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Rhaena Targaryen took refuge on Fair Isle with her twin daughters after her husband, Prince Aegon Targaryen, died in the Battle Under the Gods Eye. Lord Farman sheltered them, but the hiding place did not hold: Tyanna of Pentos tracked them down.
Chapter 3
Prey of the ironborn
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During the Dance of the Dragons, Lord Dalton Greyjoy seized the island for the Iron Islands. Decades later, under the reign of Aerys I Targaryen, another ironborn lord, Dagon Greyjoy, sacked it again and carried off half its wealth.
Chapter 4
The singer from Casterly Rock
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In the days of Tytos Lannister, House Farman showed signs of wanting to rise again. When Tywin Lannister inherited his father's power, it took no more than sending a singer to play The Rains of Castamere before Lord Farman to smother the rebellion before it began.
What we are not sure about
PositionWe worked it out
The position was inferred from the label on the base map rather than from a symbol of its own: it marks the area, not the point.