Orkmont
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Orkmont is one of the Iron Islands, set in the Iron Bay, as rocky as it is rich in ore beneath its surface.
It was the birthplace of two lines that once wore the crown of salt and stone, and today it still houses the houses Orkwood, Tawney, and Goodbrother.
Origins
Geography
The island is a mass of stone and mountain, its ground threaded with iron, lead, and tin. Woodland once covered it, but the ironborn felled it whole to raise keels and hulls.
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Urras Greyiron
Urras Greyiron ruled the island as its Salt King before the other iron houses bowed to him above all others. With that crowning, Orkmont gave the isles their first High King.
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Hoare Era
Sea trade
Under the kings of House Hoare, merchants from Orkmont sailed to Lannisport and Oldtown, and on to the Free Cities. Trade opened the island to a world it rarely touched with steel.
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King after Harren
When Harren the Black burned to death at Harrenhal, a man of Orkmont rose and named himself king. The struggle over the isles gave him no peace: they killed him soon after he claimed the crown.
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Greyjoy Rebellion
Robert's Conquest
When the Greyjoys rose against the Iron Throne, Robert Baratheon's forces reached Orkmont and brought it to heel. The island that once gave kings now bent the knee to one it had not chosen.
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The physical world
En el pasado la isla estuvo cubierta de bosques, pero fueron talados para usar la madera en la construcción de barcos.
Geography · El Mundo de Hielo y Fuego, Los Siete Reinos, Las Islas del Hierro.
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Gallery
OrkmontHarlaw.jpg · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA
On the map
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Who rules it
- House Greyiron of Orkmont · Seated here
- House Hoare of Orkmont · Seated here
- House Orkwood of Orkmont · Seated here
- House Tawney of Orkmont · Seated here
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On the same island
- Iron Islands island
- Great Wyk place
- Old Wyk castle
- Sealskin Point cape
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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)
- A Feast for Crows
- The World of Ice & Fire
- A Storm of Swords