House Corbray

### Title

Lord of the Five Fingers (formerly)King of the Fingers (formerly) Lord of Heart's Home

## Historic Information

### Culture

Andal

**House Corbray of Heart's Home** is an ancient and proud noble house of the Vale, counted among the principal bannerman sworn to House Arryn.

Known for producing peerless swordsmen, House Corbray's famous ancestral Valyrian steel sword, Lady Forlorn, is passed from bearer to bearer outside of traditional inheritance.

They blazon their arms with three black ravens in flight holding three red hearts, on white.

## History

### Kings in Andalos

The Corbrays once ruled fertile lands and rich hills as kings in Andalos of old, before bending the knee to the legendary Andal high king, Hugor of the Hill.

### The Coming of Corbray

Though proud and ancient, the Corbrays cannot deny that they came first to Westeros, not as kings or chieftains, but as sellswords.

A vaunted knight and famous warlord, Corwyn Corbray, came to Westeros at the behest of First Men kings, Dywen Shell and Jon Brightstone, rivals for dominion over the Fingers.

Having had the worst of the fighting, but holding greater coffers, King Jon Brightstone, named so for the great ruby-stone that was his great treasure, sent emissaries across the water for aid, promising his daughter's hand to warlike Corwyn Corbray in exchange for swords and victory.

Not to be outdone, King Dywen Shell sent his queenly wife to his foe's prospective ally with an offer. Having no daughters of his own, and intending to seize Brightstone's greater hall for his sons, he promised him the ancient wooden hall of the Shells for a manor.

Like the raven of his sigil, Corwyn Corbray was a creature of cunning and greed, as well as skill. He looked upon all these things, shiny and beautiful, and chose...

All of them.

He sent to each with eager assent, and the night his black longships beached themselves on the Fingers marked the beginning of the end for the ancient and noble Houses Shell and Brightstone.

Dywen Shell he surprised, to burn alive with his sons in his wooden longhouse by the sea, after seducing his queen and taking her for a bedwarmer.

Jon Brightstone he defeated in a day of battle, after promising two of the First Man king's captains the great red ruby that was their master's treasure if each would but turn on the other. Their royal master he took captive, and tortured and beheaded, before wedding his daughter and taking the great heart-shaped ruby of Brightstone for his own, to mount her in the ancient iron sword he brought over from Andalos as an heirloom of his house.

In Brightstone's hall, which he tore down and built anew in stone, he took for his House's sigil three ravens bearing three hearts, to honor his conquest and the prizes he took: Shell's wife, Brightstone's daughter, and the great heart-shaped ruby that would sit to crown the pommel of the sword Lady Forlorn.

Thus, the Corbrays came to be the first Andal house in Westeros.

### Kings of the Fingers

Ser Corwyn, first of his name, held the Five Fingers as its lord to avoid drawing the ire of the more powerful First Men kings of the Vale to the hinterland.

But as the Andal tide flowed high and hard into Westeros, his heirs raised themselves up to kingship, claiming the style of 'King of the Fingers', raising their knights bannermen to lordship, to establish Houses Neville, Persy, and Mowbray.

### The Battle of Seven Stars

When the First Men began to unite against the Andals, King Robar II Royce slew Qyle Corbray, King of the Fingers. The Corbrays claim that Ser Jaime Corbray killed Robar in the battle of the Seven Stars.

## Recent bloodline

* Qarl Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home, Lord Commander of the City Watch of King’s Landing (b. 10 A.C., d. 59 A.C.)
	+ Gerold Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home (b. 40 A.C.)
		- M. Elinor Hunter, Lady of Heart’s Home
			* **Lucion Corbray, Lord of Heart’s Home and High Justiciar of the Vale (b. 72 A.C.)**
				+ M. Elissa Darry (d. 93 A.C.)
				+ Corwyn Corbray (b. 92 A.C.)
			* **Alys Corbray, lady in waiting at the Eyrie**
	+ Lyanna Corbray, Lady of Runestone
		- M. Robar Royce, Lord of Runestone
	+ Artos Corbray, Knight of Heart's Home (b. 46 A.C.)
		- M. Jeyne Royce (b. 51 A.C)
		- Jonelle Corbray (b. 71 A.C.)
		- **Alyn Corbray, Knight of the Kingsguard (b. 74 A.C.)**
	+ Damon Corbray, Knight of Heart’s Home (b. 45 A.C)
		- Lythene Stone, natural born daughter of Damon Corbray (b. 73 A.C.)
* Lyonel Corbray, Knight of Heart's Home (b. 20 A.C.)
	+ The Corbrays of Bentbrook
* Lymond Corbray, Knight of Heart's Home (b. 20 A.C.)
	+ The Corbrays of Shellbeach