House Gargalen

Lords of Salt Shore on the Dornish coast, whose cockatrice sigil warns of a house as venomous as its desert home.

The fuller tale

Salt Shore sits on the hot southern coast of Dorne, and House Gargalen has held it long enough to be counted among the principality's steadier bannermen. Their red-and-black cockatrice — a serpent with a rooster's head, deadly in legend — is a fittingly Dornish choice for a house of the salt and the sand.

The Gargalens stood among the lords who answered Sunspear's call through the long quarrel with the Iron Throne, one more thread in the patient net Dorne weaves around its enemies.