Pennytree
el Árbol de la Moneda
Pennytree is a small village in the Riverlands, standing north of the Red Fork, in the strip of land that House Bracken and House Blackwood have fought over for generations. It takes its name from a centuries-old oak by a duck pond, its trunk studded with copper pennies driven in by generations of travelers.
Its history blends the tales of a hedge knight with the damage of a war that, centuries later, burned through its streets again.
Chapter 1
The Teats and the dispute
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The hills flanking the village were once known as the Mother's Teats. King Aegon IV Targaryen renamed them the Teats of Barba, after his mistress Barba Bracken, and years later, with a new mistress, called them the Teats of Missy, for Melissa Blackwood. The Blackwoods took up that name; the Brackens kept the old one.
Sitting between Stone Hedge and Raventree Hall, the village has changed hands again and again in the feud between the two houses.
Chapter 2
The knight who never knew the way
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A hedge knight named Arlan came from here, as did his nephew and first squire, Roger. With his second squire, Dunk, he rarely spoke of the place: by the year 211, by then Ser Duncan the Tall, the boy had never visited it and wasn't sure where it lay.
By then the village had already been a direct holding of the Crown for about a century.
Chapter 3
The king's men
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During the War of the Five Kings, a band posing as the king's men stole the village's sheep. Later, real king's men arrived, and these ones did burn the houses and orchards, killing three villagers: Harsley, Lacey, and Ser Ormond.
Chapter 4
Jaime Lannister's camp
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Jaime Lannister
Tommen Baratheon
Jonos BrackenWith the siege of Riverrun settled, Ser Jaime Lannister traveled to Raventree Hall, besieged by the Brackens, as King Tommen's envoy. There Lord Jonos Bracken showed him a map of the lands he claimed from Lord Tytos Blackwood; when Jaime asked about the village between the Teats, Jonos said he didn't want that one, since it had belonged to the Crown for a hundred years.
Once the siege ended, Jaime camped there for the night. He found it burned by the war but mostly rebuilt, its people shut indoors and willing to open up only once the army left. Ser Kennos of Kayce urged an attack; Jaime dismissed it, and ordered his men to shelter without stealing, since they carried their own provisions.
Chapter 5
The pennies in the oak
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Brienne Tarth
Sansa StarkOver dinner, Jaime tried counting the coins driven into the oak, curious about their origin, though he never got around to asking his hostage, Hoster Blackwood. At midnight, his scouts captured Brienne of Tarth near the village; she begged him to help save Sansa Stark from the Hound.
Days later, word reached King's Landing that Jaime had left the place in the company of a woman.