Casterly Rock

A fortress carved into a golden rock above the Sunset Sea, seat of the wealthiest house in the Seven Kingdoms.

The fuller tale

Casterly Rock declares early and firmly for the greens ÔÇö Lord Jason Lannister throws the westerlandsÔÇÖ gold and swords behind Aegon II almost as soon as the crown is contested, while his twin brother Ser Tyland Lannister is named master of ships and, later, master of coin in the green council, tying the familyÔÇÖs fortune to AlicentÔÇÖs cause at the very top of the government. It is not a cheap loyalty: Jason Lannister marches a westerlands army east to punish the riverlandsÔÇÖ defection to the blacks and is killed for it in the fighting near the Red Fork, one of the warÔÇÖs more senior casualties.

With its lord dead, Casterly Rock does not so much waver as simply endure ÔÇö JasonÔÇÖs widow, Lady Johanna Lannister, holds the Rock itself and bars its gates against the ironborn raiders who come sniffing around the western coast while every mainland lord is distracted by the civil war, and the castle proves, as it always has, too strong to take by anyone lacking a great deal of patience and a very large fleet. The gold beneath it keeps the green war machine paid long after the battlefield news turns bad.

Born here

Souls the story brings here

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.