Rosby

A small castle astride the road from Duskendale to the capital.

The fuller tale

Rosby is a small castle astride the busy road between Duskendale and King's Landing, which makes its lords wealthier than their walls suggest and their village a place travelers remember chiefly for having passed through it. In the tale its name attaches mostly to Lord Gyles, the coughing fixture of the royal court — a man who attends every council and wedding of the era apparently on the strength of never once being a threat to anyone, and who is eventually handed the crown's treasury on roughly that qualification. The books add a dry postscript: when the cough finally wins, the question of who inherits Rosby's comfortable revenues becomes exactly the sort of small, undignified squabble the realm's great players find time for even with a winter coming — a keep-sized reminder that in the Crownlands, proximity to power is itself an estate.

The chronicle here

• At Rosby and beyond, Brienne collects a companion she doesn't want — Podrick Payne — and a lead she doesn't trust, toward Crackclaw Point with Nimble Dick. (AFFC 10)

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.