House Reaper

Maester Luwin says there are no more giants. He says they're all dead, like the children of the forest. All that's left of them are old bones in the earth that men turn up with plows from time to time.
- A Game of Thrones

Arms of House Reaper

House Reaper of the Giant's Layer is a First Man house from Shipbreaker Bay. They are sworn to House Durrandon. House Reaper's seat is the Giant's Layer.

The Reapers have taken a severed head on tan for their sigil. Their words are "Where the Small Stood Tall".

History

A little-known house, the Reapers of the Giant's Layer claim descent from Rogar Reaper, an woodchopper from the town of Reaper's Rest whose only daughter was taken by a man-eating giant. Legend tells that Rogar took up his axe, went to the giant's home atop a hill and slew it in three furious blows. Afterwards, he took its head and dragged it back to his village where he was hailed as a hero, and granted lands and titles for his heroic deed.

Rogar returned to the Giant's Layer, erecting a castle there atop the giant's bones, and mourned his lost child until his dying days. The sons that succeeded him were famed as being harsh and stony, traits that are common in all the scions of House Reaper.

Notable Members

• Lord Rogar Reaper, legendary founder of House Reaper during the Age of Heroes.

• Lord Thrain Reaper, head of House Reaper during the reign of Erich VII Durrandon in the early Andal Invasions.

Houses Sworn to House Reaper

• House Straw of Strawcastle
• House Hasty of Hadlow Keep