Orkmont

Monteorca

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.

Chapter 1

Stone beneath the felled woods

Books only

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.

Chapter 2

The first High King

Books only

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.

Chapter 3

Routes to the south

Books only

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.

Chapter 4

A throne that did not last

Books only

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.

Chapter 5

Robert's conquest

Books and show

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.

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.

Gallery

  • Orkmont — image 1
    OrkmontHarlaw.jpg · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA

What we are not sure about

  1. 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.

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Monteorca · 2026-07-30

Images remain the property of their authors and are published under the licence of the wiki that hosts them; each one links its page.

Where each datum comes from
Position
centroid of the islands the label covers
English name
visual reading checked against the canon
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
194
What was read
ORKMONT
Features averaged into the centroid
4
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

Entry written on .