House Hoare of Orkmont
General Information
Orkmont appears to be one of the smaller, if not the smallest, islands of the Iron Islands. House Hoare was that of King Qhored, who could almost truthfully say that his realm was anywhere on the western coast where men could smell the salt of the sea or hear the crashing of waves. The arms refer to this far-ranging power: the trees for Bear Island, the grapes for the Arbor, and the pine may refer to Raventree Hall in the riverlands, all conquered by the longboats of the ironborn and bound beneath their iron chains.
Qhored’s descendants gradually lost these conquests, but the house endured until Harren the Black and his sons were burned to death in the great burning of Harrenhal by the Targaryen dragons.
Last revised March 14, 2006
