Great Wyk
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Great Wyk is the largest of the Iron Islands, the only one where fortresses have been raised far from the sea.
Ironborn live on it, and houses such as Goodbrother, Merlyn, Sparr and Farwynd hold their seats there.
Geography
Geography and Houses
Great Wyk rises in the Iron Bay and is larger than every other island in the archipelago. That size allows for something the rest of the isles lack: castles raised inland, away from the surf.
Ironborn live across its lands, split among several houses. Hammerhorn holds the main line of House Goodbrother, with cadet branches at Corpse Lake, Crow's Nest Keep and the Pit. Pebble belongs to the Merlyns, and Sealskin Point to a branch of the Farwynds.
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History
First Sept and Fall of the Hoares
During Wulfgar Hoare's reign, the first sept in the Iron Islands was raised on Great Wyk.
Hoare Castle, his house's seat on the island, did not outlast King Hagon Hoare's defeat: Ser Aubrey Crakehall razed it after beating him.
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Conquest and Greyjoy Rebellion
Once the War of Conquest ended, Aegon I Targaryen landed on Great Wyk on Balerion's back, set on breaking the island's lords who still styled themselves Kings of the Iron Islands.
Generations later, during the Greyjoy Rebellion, Stannis Baratheon subdued the island once more.
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Gallery
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On the map
On the map
Who rules it
- House Goodbrother of Corpse Lake · Seated here
- House Goodbrother of Crow Spike Keep · Seated here
- House Goodbrother of Downdelving · Seated here
- House Merlyn of Pebbleton · Seated here
- House Sparr of Great Wyk · Seated here
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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.
Books and show
Where it appears
In the books (3)
- The World of Ice & Fire
- A Storm of Swords
- A Feast for Crows