Raventree Hall

Seat of the old-gods-keeping Blackwoods, forever feuding with the Brackens across the river.

The fuller tale

Raventree Hall takes its name from the vast dead weirwood in its yard — poisoned, the Blackwoods say, by the Brackens across the river, a thousand years ago or more — whose bare white branches fill each evening with hundreds of ravens that no one has ever explained. The Blackwoods are that rarest thing south of the Neck, keepers of the old gods, and their feud with House Bracken is the oldest running argument in Westeros: two houses that have married, murdered and mocked each other since before the Andals landed, neither able to remember the original offense and neither willing to concede it.

In the war the Blackwoods are Tully loyalists to the last ditch — theirs is among the final banners lowered in the riverlands, and the siege of Raventree is settled not by storm but by talk, a negotiated dignity that says much about how the realm actually values them. The story keeps the Blackwoods close for texture: an old northern faith stranded in southern country, a dead tree full of living ravens, and the suggestion that some feuds are not history but weather — permanent conditions of the land itself.

The chronicle here

• In the riverlands Jaime folds Raventree Hall's last defiance into the king's peace — then Brienne finds him at Pennytree with a lie: Sansa, a day's ride, come alone. (ADWD 49)

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.