Pinkmaiden

The Pipers' seat on the upper Red Fork.

The fuller tale

Pinkmaiden watches the upper Red Fork for House Piper, whose banner — a dancing maiden — advertises a family famous for gallantry, music and getting into wars one bridge too far from home. The Pipers ride with Riverrun from the first muster to the last surrender, and the house’s war is the riverlands’ in miniature: a son at every battle, a seat that survives by being too small to be worth razing, and a stubborn streak that outlasts the outcome. The dancing maiden, the riverlands joke goes, has outdanced three royal dynasties so far.

The fallen of this place — if any, they are named here. Spoilers.

No death the chronicle records has come to this ground — or none the maesters have set down.