House Whent

**House Whent of Harrenhal** is an exiled house from the Riverlands. Serving as a principal bannermen to House Brightflam, House Redwater, House Darkspear and House Youngflower. The house is exiled due to their events during the Darkspear Rebellion.

## History

### Prehistory

The Whents are the seventh noble house to rule Harrenhal, after Houses Hoare, Qoherys, Harroway, Towers, Strong, and Lothston. The Whents were originally knights in the service of the Lothstons. When Lady Danelle Lothston went mad during the reign of King Maekar I Targaryen, the Whents received Harrenhal for their role in defeating the Lothstons. House Whent is a fairly young house, Ben Blackthumb having smithed for Lothstons.

Hoster Tully, Lord Paramount of the Trident, and Lady Minisa Whent had three children, Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure. Minisa later died in childbirth.

Lord Walter Whent hosted the tourney at Harrenhal in 281 AC. It is said that his maiden daughter was the queen of love and beauty, and that her four brothers and her uncle Oswell unsuccessfully rode to defend her. At the end Lyanna Stark was crowned queen of love and beauty by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

Ser Oswell Whent served in the Kingsguard of King Aerys II Targaryen and was slain during the War of the Usurper. Ser Jorah Mormont defeated a Lord Whent at the tourney at Lannisport after Greyjoy's Rebellion.

### War of the 5 Kings

As war broke out in the Seven Kingdoms, House Whent's land was stripped by King Joffery I Baratheon due to their events during the war and given to Petyr Baelish of the Little Fingers. So when House Brightflame arrived, the Whents, sick of there mistreatment backed the new King, under Rodrick Whent they became a fierce command of men to the King's cause fighting in various battles and bolstering the Brightflames growing army, though once the King took King's Landing they started to play less of a role in the main wars now that the King had numerous other lords to do the bulk of the fighting, they never did reclaim there old land though preferring to make a new keep, the Storm Keep as vassals of House Redwater. Rodrick and Jory were at one point fast friends and in the initial stages of the war they remained so helping each other at battles congratulating each other at tourney grounds, and praising each other at feasts. This would soon change and the ensuing Redwater-Whent Conflict is well documented, and a few years down the line youd be forgiven for being surprised the two lords were ever close.

### Growing conflicts

In time the Whents were good friends with the Redwaters and the Hennings...both of these friendships would turn sour and tragically it can be said House Whent ended up on the losing end of both feuds, but it was the cause of much trouble over the years. Initially when Jory turned on the Hennings, the Whents supported the Hennings despite being vassals to Jory, the initial tension caused by this lead to the first few cracks in there friendships but problems wouldnt arise in full until the infamous Yellow Wedding where after a sellsword supposedly hired by the Whents attacked Jory, Jory and his vassals fired upon the Whent forces and took his sword, this forever turned the wedge between two friends and Rodrick and Jory would never meet on the same terms. House Whent fought on both the defenders and attackers of many of the Hen Hill sieges, fighting in 6 of them, initially supporting them, but soon after when Chrisarys in his rage arrested, Arthur Whent Rodrick was furious and Jory preventing him from sieging the castle only made things worst between both of them, Rodrick felt cheated and Chrisarys felt angered Rodrick would take up arms against him. The next time the whents were at Hen Hill it would again be as besiegers but this time for Visenya Henning who was married to Oswell, and when this bond was broken with Oswell's death at Visenya's hands the last tie between the families was broken, with only a bastard son between them not able to make them see eye to eye.

Rodrick initially followed his liege into war regardless of his personal beefs but during the Black Rebellion, the first real test against the Redwater's power the Whents initially seemed to maintain there loyalty to there Liege Lord but when the moment presented itself they showed there true colors, taking Fairmarket from them while they weren't defending it. This act violated there vows and after the war finally ended with a truce House Whent was made an enemy of House Redwater, realizing his situation Rodrick Whent fled back to Storm Keep hoping to take his family and try to get to Fairmarket but when he left the Redwaters took back the town, and on the way with his remaining family and army, his forces were attacked in the Ambush of the Whent Convoy. The battle was decisively in favor of House Redwater and by the time it was over Rodrick Whent's men were reduced from 500 to 50, but Alysanne Whent escaped to the comfort of her father, the rest of the Whent family was exiled from the Seven Kingdoms. For most houses this would have been it, but the Whents proved that the Gods stilled favored them enough to show them mercy.

### The Stepstones

The Whents fled to Essos, Storm Keep was burned down and they kept some of there fortune, Rodrick initallty decided his men would simply need to become a sellsword company to survive and even contemplated moving to Meereen to pledge his blade to Daenarys Targaryean. But a few months after there exile Lys was looking for help with pirates and they offered there blade looking to make easy money. The Battle of the Broken Arm saw them fight alongside some of there former allies but the battle itself was profitable enough that they gained more then they lost fighting it. Not to mention the fighting prowess impressed Haywin Sand who when he made his declaration of conquering the Stepstones requested there help which they were all too happy to offer. Rodrick and Arthur fought in the campaign over the Stepstones, hiring Sellswords to bolster there forces, it cost them much but eventually there work was rewarded, for when Haywin made the Stepstones his kingdom, he offered them Lordships, the aptly named Last refuge was theres for the taking and they would soon make a castle on part of the island not under control of the Tyroshi Remnats, Now under the Kingdom of the Stepstones Rodrick Whent had lead his house to a proper refuge and even under the diplomatic immunity his role for Haywin did he could return to the Seven Kingdoms at times. Though he would not long live to enjoy this venture, during another Siege of Hen Hill he joined Ser Jory's forces in trying to deal with the upstart Chrisarys, and Rodrick was quickly killed in the attack when he was knocked off a siege ladder and broke his neck on impact. Arthur Whent would take over in the aftermath and he made sure any and all felt the wrath of his grief.

Arthur fought for the Stepstones Kingdom in the Sunfyre Rebellion beating back Rickard and Darron Flameheart at the Battle by the Skulls and then fighting at Bloodstone where he crossed paths with the Redwaters, though The Stepstone Lords won the battle Haywin would forfeit the war for there sake and though the Redwaters opposed the decision Arthur was unpunished for his previous crimes, now a lord of the Seven (Now 8) Kingdoms again Arthur tried taking strides to maintain stronger relations then last time, though he made little effort to patch up his feud with the Redwaters. This came to a head eventually again when the Houses found themselves on opposing sides of war, the Verdant-Lash war, going against the neutrality of there Overlords the Sunfyres Lord Whent fought for the Verdant's opposite the Redwater backed Lashes and the two sides clashed many times before Whent was forced back tot he Stepstones, But Rhaegon found the situation turned against him when Arthur played his part in the Darkspear Coup outing the Redwater control in the Stepstones and then bringing there full might down on the Lashes winning the War for the Verdants. This would be the last major war Arthur fought in, less then a year later he died of Dysentery leaving the young Robin Whent, the last son of Rodrick, alive to lead the house. Since all of Arthurs children were wards or living with other people houses he was the only available Whent left. Though due to his young age his reign was overseen by sister-in-law Alysanne and later assisted by Larrys Whent his cousin, who would lead battles where he was needed. Robin would do little ruling, since soon after he found his house in War again, fighting for the Darkspears where Larrys was made a member of Haywin's short lived Silver cloak King's Guard. House Whent did little fighting until the end of the war but even so there forces were defeated and Haywin eventually killed. Robin Redwater forced Robin Whent into exile despite his young age and his reign as Lord ended before he was old enough to do anything with it. This angered Alysanne further and her anger at the Redwaters persisted despite Jory's legitimate attempts to amend things.

### Whent Rebellion and Exile

The tensions continued to grow between the Whents and all there perceived enemies. Remaining vassals to House Youngflower it seemed the worst of there troubles We’re over until during the feast and tourney at King’s landing, where Darron Flameheart and Ethan Lash had arranged a marriage between there children but in doing so Darron broke off his marriage agreement to Arthur Whent who he had arranged for his child be married to the same kid he was offering Ethan now. No known reason for why he marriage was broken off, Darron May have simply saw more value in an alliance with Ethan, or maybe he wanted to end any association to the Whents, or perhaps he simply forgot, it was noted he was spacious and troubled for years after the various wars had taken a toll on him mentally. Regardless of his reasons none of them calmed Arthur’s vengeful spouse, seeing this as another slight against her family. She wanted there heads and she might have gone for it, if not for Daniels declaration that he would have no wars with the mainlands or among vassals, though he did arrange for Darron to make amends this still didn’t stop Alysanne. Instead she has her generals start amassing her armies and plotting with pirates and sell swords to draw Lash into attacking her and thus claim self defense.

Her plans were found out. A spy or a loyal Stepstone soldier informed Daniel who was furious and demanded Alysanne come to his castle to explain herself. She refused and with no other option Daniel declared them rebels. What followed was the Whent Rebellion which none of the participants took any real pleasure in. In 3 decisive battles The Whents were bested until there castle had fallen to there enemies, it was when the battle has cost her everything that Alysanne felt regret, but by then Daniel wasn’t inclined to allow this to continue. While he understood her issues and wanted to hope things could improve, Alysanne was a Starkwood as well and Daniel was close friends with the family, he knew that no such thing could happen. Time and again she had shown herself too broken or too angry to be trusted and with his control over the keep, so he knew he had to show that no one was above the consequences of there actions. Thus the Whents were exiled again, this time for good. Alysanne and her remaining household reunited with Robin in Meereen and stayed there ever since. Though there were some Whents still as wards of houses they were allowed to stay in those houses. Balon Whent remained with Robb Griffin though he didn’t long survive the lord when he fell in his duel with Corlys. His Keep was ransacked by Addam Griften and the boy was one of the sad casualties of it. Victorian Whent was made a squire for Zelos and eventually became a knight who fought in he tail end of the Winter war and helped end the Vulture King. Afterward when things calmed down he left House Wilder to go meet his family In Essos, joined by Ellyn Whent, Pia Whent remained in Westeros and with the Starkwoods where she eventually married one of the surviving lords sons of the Winter war.

## Relationships

### Family Members

* Rodrick Whent
* *m. Eliza Dayne*
	+ Arthur Whent
	+ *m. Alysanne Starkwood*
		- Artos Whent
		- *m. Jynaera Terrace*
			* Eliza Whent
			* Victarion Whent
			* Balon Whent
			* Pia Whent
			* Ellyn Whent
	+ Rhaenys Whent
	+ Lyonel Whent
	+ Robin Whent
	+ *m. Rhaella Sunfyre*
* Walter Whent
* *m. Unknown*
	+ Bryden Whent
	+ *m. Allicent Hightower*
		- Oswell Whent
		- *m.  Visenya Henning*

### Household

Former Court:

* Ser Lucas Stillwater - Master of Arms
* Tytos Oakenstone - Captain of the Guard
* Frenken - Maester
* Jonothar Roote - Commander of the Fleet
* Joffrey Sand - Spymaster