House Blackwood
Old-gods riverlords of Raventree Hall, nine hundred years at feud with the Brackens across the stream ÔÇö early and eager swords for the black queen.
The fuller tale
Raventree Hall keeps the old gods in a riverlands that converted to the Seven generations ago, and the Blackwoods have spent nine hundred years treating that difference as a matter of pride rather than eccentricity ÔÇö a house that never stopped being what the rest of the Trident used to be, feuding the entire time with the Andal-converted Brackens across the stream from them.
When Daemon Targaryen comes to the riverlands looking for allies, Willem Blackwood does not need much persuading ÔÇö declaring for the Blacks under the old godsÔÇÖ banner is both a genuine political calculation and, more immediately satisfying, a chance to fight the Brackens with a crownÔÇÖs authority behind him rather than merely a neighborÔÇÖs grudge.
The houseÔÇÖs war, in practice, is fought as much across the stream that divides Raventree from Stone Hedge as it is against any green army proper ÔÇö a national civil war providing cover and legitimacy for a much older, much more local one that neither family particularly wants to let go of, crown or no crown.
