House Sparr

An ironborn house of Great Wyk whose lord, styled simply the Sparr, is old enough and stubborn enough to have thrown his own name into a kingsmoot.

The fuller tale

The Sparrs hold a stretch of Great Wyk, and their aging lord ÔÇö known plainly as the Sparr ÔÇö stood among the claimants when the ironborn last gathered to choose a king by acclaim, a grey-bearded traditionalist for whom the Old Way is not nostalgia but simple sense.

Houses like the Sparr are the ballast of the Iron Islands: never going to rule, never going to submit tamely either, forever grumbling about the softness of the young and the folly of kings while sharpening their axes for the next reaving all the same.