The Crag

The First Men raised the castle in the Age of Heroes, atop the crag that gives it its name, with the sea breaking below. Little remains of that original structure: House Westerling no longer has the means to maintain a fortress of that size, and the place looks more like a ruin than a stronghold.

In the year 55 After the Conquest, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen visited the Crag during the royal progress that took him through the Westerling lands and the rest of the western dominion.

When the War of the Five Kings breaks out, Robb Stark leads his men across the Westerlands to the gates of the Crag. Word reaches Riverrun that the King in the North has taken the castle.

The assault follows soon after: Smalljon Umber and Black Walder Frey scale the walls while Robb forces the main gate. Robb comes out of the attack wounded, and the one who nurses him through his recovery is Jeyne Westerling, daughter of the house that now holds the castle.

Something more grows out of that care, and Robb, who prides himself on being a man of honor, marries her soon after. The marriage draws the Westerlings into the Stark cause — though the castellan who had governed the Crag before the assault, Ser Rolph Spicer, would go on to betray both his own house and the king who had made it his.