White Harbor

Sept of the Snows

Old Mint

House Woolfield

White Harbor is a large port city in the North. Although the smallest of the five major cities of Westeros, it is the largest and wealthiest settlement north of the Neck. White Harbor is located on the eastern shore of the White Knife, where the river opens to the Bite. Due to its location, White Harbor has more contact with the south and there are more knights and followers of the Faith of the Seven in White Harbor than anywhere else in the north. There are some followers of the old gods, but most follow the Faith. The city has access to good fishing grounds and is also the home of many silversmiths. White Harbor contains New Castle, the seat of House Manderly.

## White Harbor

White Harbor is clean and well-ordered, with wide straight cobbled streets that make it easy to walk around. The houses are built of whitewashed stone, with steeply-pitched roofs of dark grey slate.

### Outskirts

* Seal Rock is a massive stone dominating the approaches to the Outer Harbor. It is crowned with a ringfort of weathered stones of the First Men that stood desolate and abandoned for centuries. However, the Manderlys fortify it with crossbowmen, scorpions, and spitfires. The stone looms fifty feet above the waters, grey-green in color. Seals often rest on it in times of peace.

* The harbor is divided into the inner and outer harbors. The outer harbor is larger, but the inner harbor offers better anchorage and shelter by the city wall on one side and the looming mass of the Wolf's Den on another. A mile-long, thirty foot wall, with towers every hundred yards, is located on the jetty that separates the two harbors.

* The Wolf's Den is an ancient fortress that once served as a prison. It is located by the water and adjoins the city walls. There is a Godswood within the prison's walls. When Lord Eddard Manderly refounded the Order of The Green Hand, The Wolf's Den was refitted as the order's command structure, with clear effort to renew the crumbling fortress.

* A fish market is located between the outer harbor and the Seal Gate. Seafood available at White Harbor include whitefish, winkles, crabs, mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster, and lampreys.

### Inside the Walls

* Fishfoot Yard, a cobbled square with a fountain at its center, located just outside the Seal Gate. There is an alley leading to a brothel.
* The Old Mint, located in Fishfoot Yard.
* The Lazy Eel, a winesink once renowned for offering the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of lard and gristle that are inedible on their best days and poisonous on their worst. Medrick personally invested and oversaw the complete re-haul of the establishment, turning it into one of the most sought after destinations for pleasures of all sorts: food, drink, or women. A brew-house which makes the famous Manderly ales: Merman’s Ale, Harbor Brown, and White Knife Black, was added to the building as well.
* Castle Stair is a street with steps. It is a broad white stone way that leads up from the Wolf’s Den by the water to the New Castle on its hill. Marble mermaids light the way, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms. From the top there is a view down to both harbors.
* The Sept of the Snows is a large sept with a domed roof surmounted by tall statues of the Seven.
* A mummer's hall were bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.

### New Castle

* The New Castle is the seat of House Manderly. It is located on a hill inside the city wall, a broad white stone way of Castle Stair leads to its gates from the Wolf's Den below. There is a secret passage beneath the Castle Stair connecting it to the Wolf's Den.

* Merman's Court is the great hall of the New Castle where Lord Manderly holds court and feasts. Its walls, floor and ceiling are made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea. At one end is the entrance, at the other is a dais where there is a large cushioned throne. The floor has painted crabs and clams and starfish, half-hidden amongst twisting black fronds of seaweed and the bones of drowned sailors. On the walls are pale sharks prowling painted blue-green depths, whilst eels and octopods slither amongst rocks and sunken ships. Shoals of herring and great codfish swim between the tall, arched windows. Higher up, near where the old fishing nets droop down from the rafters, the surface of the sea is depicted. To the right a war galley rests serenely against the rising sun; to the left, a battered old cog races before a storm, her sails in rags. Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan are locked in battle beneath the painted waves.