House Baratheon

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House Baratheon of Storm's End is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, and is the principal house in the stormlands, which they rule as Lords Paramount of the Stormlands. Their seat, Storm's End, is an ancient castle raised by the Storm Kings from the now-extinct House Durrandon. The Baratheon sigil is a crowned black stag on a field of gold. Their words are "Ours is the Fury".

## Appearance and Traits

Members of the family tend to be tall and powerfully built, with black hair and blue eyes, as well as strong, square jawlines. They are known for their mercurial tempers.

## History

House Baratheon was created when Orys Baratheon, one of Aegon I Targaryen's generals, his closest companion, and his rumored bastard half-brother, took Argella Durrandon, the only daughter of Argilac Durrandon, the last Storm King, to wife. Orys took the sigil and words of House Durrandon for his own and became the first Lord of Storm's End. Through the female line, House Baratheon descents from King Durran Godsgrief, who founded the kingdom of the Storm Kings during the Age of Heroes.

### Robert's Rebellion

Steffon's eldest son, Robert, inherited Storm's End upon Steffon's death, and in the years that followed, was betrothed to Lyanna Stark of Winterfell. In 282 AC, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, Robert's cousin, disappeared with Lyanna Stark, causing Lyanna's eldest brother Brandon to ride to King's Landing in anger. He was arrested, and killed together with his father, Lord Rickard Stark, on the command of King Aerys II. The king then demanded the heads of both Lord Robert, as well as Eddard Stark, from Lord Jon Arryn, as both men were in the Vale. Jon refused and raised his banners, marking the start of the war that would become known as Robert's Rebellion. Robert became a figure-head, and he personally killed Prince Rhaegar Targaryen during the Battle of the Trident in 283 AC. In the early parts of the war, the battles at Summerhall and the siege of Storm's End were fixtures of the stormlands theater.

### Baratheon Dynasty

Lord Robert was crowned King Robert I. House Baratheon was split into three branches: House Baratheon of King's Landing, under King Robert I, House Baratheon of Dragonstone, headed by Lord Stannis Baratheon, and House Baratheon of Storm's End, headed by Lord Renly Baratheon, Robert's youngest brother. During Greyjoy's Rebellion in 289 AC, the combined Baratheon fleet defeated the Iron Fleet in a sea battle off Fair Isle, commanded by Stannis, the master of ships. Stannis later subdued Great Wyk in his brother's name. Some time after he achieved manhood, Renly Baratheon was appointed to Robert's small council as master of laws.

## Recent History

Stannis Baratheon died in the north, but his dream did not die with him. Ser Justin Massey, a devoted king’s man, fled the Seven Kingdoms with Shireen Baratheon. For several years Massey sought in vain to raise the swords that he would need to keep his last promise to his king, only in the end to recognize it truly was a lost cause. However, the crownlander was successful in one regard - he successfully negotiated a deal with Queen Myrcella’s regency council that permitted his young charge to return to the kingdoms.

In a public court of session Shireen renounced any claim to the Iron Throne and swore to be a leal subject of her cousin. For two years she remained in residence at the Red Keep as a guest of Queen Myrcella, during which time the two did form bonds of friendship. After Myrcella was wed to Willas Tyrell in 306 AC, queen and king-consort surprised the court with a magnanimous gesture - Shireen was to be granted the seat of Storm’s End and named to the paramountcy over the Stormlands.

Shireen herself was married but a year later to Clifford Swann, the youngest son of Lord Gulian Swann and brother to Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard. Trouble would soon come to the Stormlands, however, as Daenerys Targaryen and Aegon Targaryen returned to the Seven Kingdoms in 309 AC with the intent to conquer. The Queen of Meereen invaded through the Stormlands, first cutting a swath of dragonflame straight through the Rainwood that burned for two weeks. Next she took Griffin’s Roost and Storm’s End, too, where she took Lady Shireen and Lord Clifford hostage.

Following the close of the war the Stormlands returned to a period of relative peace marked by a need to recover. Shireen and Clifford ruled capably together for another 24 years before trouble would return once more, this time in the form of pirates striking from the Stepstones. The Bastards of the Tide were illusive; hitting targets both in Dorne and the Stormlands, they would then flee back to the archipelago where Drogon had retreated after the death of his mother. For 14 years the pirates - flying banners with a seahorse of sea green - harassed the coasts of both regions. Even Weeping Town fell to their blades before Ser Davos Baratheon brought an end to their reign of terror.

Rule over the Stormlands passed to Davos Baratheon in 350 AC after his mother passed at the age of 61. Lord Davos’s own tenure did not last long, sadly, with the man taken by a winter illness only two years later. Lord Arlan Baratheon, great grandson of a king, presently rules as the Lord of Storm’s End and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands.