Justin Milk-Eye

The Storm King was embroiled in his own wars at the time, attempting to reconquer Massey's Hook from its infamous pirate king, Justin Milk-Eye.
- The World of Ice and Fire

Arms of House Massey

Justin I Massey (born 3857 A.I.), also known as Justin Milk-Eye or simply the Milk-Eye, was the first Massey King of the Hook and a renowned pirate-lord during the early Andal Invasions.

History

During the reign of the Storm King Erich VII Durrandon, Justin would declare his independence from the Durrandons and fight off attempts by them to retake the Hook. After he would be infamous as a fierce pirate-lord, raiding up and down the Wendwater Forest, pillaging Crackclaw Point, and even leading attacks on Duskendale. Rich with plunder he established Stonedance as a major port, erecting large docks to harbour his own fleet, which would become known as Milk-Eye's Port forever after.

When the Andals began migrating en masse over the narrow sea, particularly towards the Blackwater, Justin targeted the Andal supply ships behind their main fleets and crippled the supply chains for many Andal companies.

During the early days of his reign, the Andal House Sunglass conquered the nearby island of Sweetport Sound and exiled House Sweet, which sought refuge with him. As he had already taken a Sweet to wife, he granted the Sweets the land of Sweetmont to rule as his own vassals.

In 38 A.I., the Magnar Owen Sweet, head of House Sweet, and other vassals would demand Justin to venture outwards to make retake Sweetport Sound from the Sunglass' and Gullet Isle from House Quince, both of which had expelled the First Men into the Hook as refugees. The Milk-Eye would march and take both isles in a matter of months, beheading Lord Lymond Sunglass and Lord Addam Quince, but allowing their sons to remain if they kept the weirwoods.

Later that year, Erich VII sent a messenger demanding the Milk-Eye kneel and restore Durrandon rule over the Hook. Justin sent the messenger back half-blinded, and with an insult, and war broke out immediately. Erich would march on Benthill Dale, intending to take the keep and move northwards. However Justin would march to the hills north of Erich, drawing the Stag King out, and routing his army there. Erich would return, depleted, and would again be defeated outside the walls of the Dale, with much of his army lost to the Masseys and a full retreat to Storm's End which ended the war.