The Fingers
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The Fingers are a windswept, rocky stretch of land at the eastern edge of the Vale of Arryn: five narrow peninsulas reaching into the Narrow Sea, bare of nearly every tree. It's a poor, lonely corner of the Vale, all but forgotten by its own lords.
In an old tower nobody ever bothered to name, House Baelish keeps its seat, the birthplace of Petyr Baelish. It's more a place people pass through than a destination, but the Andals first set foot in Westeros on its shores, and centuries later Sansa Stark would pass through it too.
Chapter 1
Kings who devoured one another
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When the Andals crossed the Narrow Sea to turn their swords on the First Men, the Fingers were their first footfall in Westeros. On the boulders along the shore they carved the seven-pointed star of their faith, a mark that outlasted the men who cut it.
The land already had rulers fighting over the title of King of the Fingers: Dywen Shell and Jon Brightstone, two petty kings of the First Men. Each sought help among the newcomers, and each ended up killed by those same allies. Corwyn Corbray, the Andal who had helped finish off both of them, took one king's daughter as his wife and the other's widow as his mistress, then proclaimed himself lord of the five peninsulas.
Generations later, Qyle Corbray called himself King of the Fingers and was killed by King Robar II Royce at the Battle of the Seven Stars. The Kings of Winter tried their luck too: Theon Stark once sent an army there but couldn't hold what he took, and during the War Across the Water Stark ships landed on the Fingers three times, with no lasting result either.
Chapter 2
The road to the nameless tower
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Sansa Stark
Petyr BaelishDuring Joffrey's reign, at a meeting of the small council, Varys mentions that a kraken has been sighted near the Fingers, and that it has sunk an Ibbenese whaler.
Not long after, Sansa Stark travels there with Petyr Baelish, on their way to the nameless tower that is his home. They wait for a party coming down from the Vale. It's there, among the stone and the wind, that Petyr tells Sansa: "The Fingers is a lovely place, if you want to become a stone."
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.