Golden Tooth

The small strong castle that locks the hill road between the Riverlands and the West — the Lannister armies march past it this season.

The fuller tale

The small, strong castle locking the hill road between the riverlands and the west takes on real strategic weight once the two regions declare for opposite colors — Golden Tooth is the gate the green Lannister armies march through on their way to punish a black-declared riverlands, and the mustering that passes beneath its walls is some of the heaviest traffic the old chokepoint has seen in generations.

In the first season

The Lannister host under Ser Jaime pours past the Golden Tooth this season to put the Riverlands to the sword.

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.