Storm's End

A drum-towered castle whose walls have never fallen to storm or siege — seat of Ser Lyonel Baratheon, the Laughing Storm, who fights with a roar of mirth.

The fuller tale

Storm’s End has never fallen to siege or storm in all the centuries since the Storm Kings raised it, and the Baratheons who hold it now — cousins of the dragon by Orys Baratheon’s marriage into the conquered Durrandon line — wear that unbroken record as proudly as any words. In Dunk and Egg’s age the castle’s honor rides at Ashford in the person of Ser Lyonel Baratheon, called the Laughing Storm, a lord who fights tourneys with a booming good humor that unnerves opponents more reliably than a scowl ever could.

The castle’s drum-towered walls, curved to break the sea gales that would flatten a straighter fortress, are as much a statement of character as of engineering — the Baratheons of this era favor strength worn lightly, the same trait that makes the Laughing Storm memorable on a tourney field crowded with grimmer men. It is a house, and a castle, entirely comfortable with its own legend, which is not nothing in an age when so many older houses are still trying to live down theirs.

In the first season

Ser Lyonel Baratheon, the Laughing Storm, brings his roar to Ashford Meadow — and answers a hedge knight's plea when it matters most.

Born here

Souls the story brings here

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.