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 ÔÇö 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 ÔÇö 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 ÔÇö Podrick Payne ÔÇö and a lead she doesn't trust, toward Crackclaw Point with Nimble Dick. (AFFC 10)

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

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