Mander

The Mander starts out turbulent: in its upper reaches it runs brown and fast, with treacherous fords and sandbars that have sunk more than one careless vessel. It takes in the waters of the Mussel River before its character begins to soften.

Near Highgarden it changes entirely and turns clear and slow-flowing. On its way to the sea it also passes Grassfield, Bitterbridge, Grand Chester and Cider Hall.

For a long time the ironborn would raid up the Mander, reaching as far as Bitterbridge. To stop them, the Gardener kings of the Reach built fortifications and settled the Shield Islands, at the river's mouth, tasked with guarding the entrance and giving warning when raiders came.

House Manderly itself once lived along the banks of the Mander, until the Gardeners drove them from those lands.

Shortly before the war that would win him the throne, Aegon Targaryen rejected the peace offered by Argilac Durrandon and answered with a greater demand: the cession of Massey's Hook and all the lands between the Blackwater Rush and the Wendwater, including the very headwaters of the Mander. Argilac refused.

With the fall of House Gardener, it was Lord Harlen Tyrell who received the title of Lord Paramount of the Mander. Later, after the Battle of the Stonebridge, the river ran red for twenty leagues.

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.

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