House Drumm

An old and proud ironborn house of Old Wyk, keepers of the Valyrian sword Red Rain, which they say an ancestor took the honest way — by reaving.

The fuller tale

House Drumm holds land on Old Wyk, the holiest of the Iron Islands, and among their treasures is the red-tinged Valyrian blade Red Rain. The Drumms insist it was won the proper ironborn way: taken in battle from an Andal knight by their ancestor Hilmar Drumm, called the Cunning, who is said to have done it while armed with almost nothing — a tale told to prove that cleverness beats good steel, and told very often.

The head of the house in the recent tale is old, stubborn Dunstan Drumm, a hard traditionalist who was among the claimants at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk. To the Drumms, a sword taken by reaving is worth more than any bought with gold — which is the whole ironborn creed distilled into a single heirloom.