Mander
Not to be confused with Mander (to the southwest).
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The Mander is the longest and mightiest river of the Reach, and it gives its name to the house that once lived on its banks, House Manderly. It rises in the western highlands and empties across from the Shield Islands, after crossing some of the wealthiest lordships in the region.
Ironborn raiders have rowed up its channel after plunder, and whole armies have followed its course after a crown. Towns such as Bitterbridge, Longtable, and Highgarden owe much of their wealth to the river, and lords of the Reach have fought over its control for centuries.
Geography
Course
Slow-flowing, the Mander carries sandbanks and fords that can trap a careless boat. It takes in the waters of the Blueburn and the Cockleswhent, and along its course it waters Tumbleton, Bitterbridge, Longtable, Cider Hall, and Highgarden.
In its upper reaches it runs brown and swift, but by the time it reaches Highgarden its waters turn clear and calm, almost a different river from the one that rises further west.
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History
Ironborn Raids
For generations, ironborn raiders rowed up the Mander as far as Bitterbridge to plunder its banks. The kings of House Gardener answered by fortifying and settling the Shield Islands at the river's mouth, to close the way in and give warning before any raid could land.
A thousand years earlier, House Manderly held its lands along the river that still bears its name, until the Gardener kings drove them out.
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Targaryen Conquest
Aegon's Conquest
Shortly before the war broke out, Aegon Targaryen answered the peace Argilac Durrandon offered him with a far harder demand: he wanted the Garfio de Massey and all the woodland between the Aguastortas and the Blackwater Rush, the headwaters of the Mander included. Argilac turned it down.
When House Gardener fell, the title of Lord Paramount of the Mander passed to Lord Harlen Tyrell. After the Battle of Puente de Piedra, the river's waters ran red with blood for twenty leagues.
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The physical world
Es un río de caudal lento, con vados y bancos de arena que atrapan a las embarcaciones no cuidadosas. Los tributarios del Mander incluyen al río Fuegoazul y al río de los Mejillones.
What it is like · Festín de Cuervos, Capítulo 29, El Saqueador.
Algunos lugares notables que se encuentran en su ribera son Ladera, Puenteamargo, Granmesa, La Sidra y Altojardín.
What it is like · Choque de Reyes, Capítulo 22, Catelyn.
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Gallery
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On the map
On the map
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 (5)
- A Feast for Crows
- The Sworn Sword
- Fire & Blood
- A World of Ice and Fire
- A Clash of Kings