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By the coming of the Andals, the lands of Mountain and Vale were a fractured realm of petty kings, border skirmishes, and simmering feuds. Yorwyck Royce, a grizzled and unyielding king, carried on a brutal war against Osgood III Shett, the King of Gulltown, whose forebears had slain Yorwyck's father. The conflict escalated into a bitter and near unending blood feud, with the Shetts seeking help from across the sea, and finding it in the form of Andal swords.

The Andals came not as one horde, but in waves. Some seeking refuge, others conquest. Among them was Corwyn Corbray, a hardened mercenary who had grown disillusioned with Essos and Valyria’s creeping dominion. Corwyn saw opportunity in the Vale’s disunity and took it, turning on his First Men patrons and carving out a realm in the Fingers for himself and his Andal kin. Brightstone was captured, tortured, and beheaded. Shell roasted alive in his own longhall. Their doom crowned Corwyn Corbray's rise. He took Shell’s wife for his bed and Brightstone’s daughter for his bride, claiming the Fingers as his domain. He rejected the title of king, but there was no doubt that his hand ruled firm across the coast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>

The Andals came not as one horde, but in waves. Some seeking refuge, others conquest. Among them was Corwyn Corbray, a hardened mercenary who had grown disillusioned with Essos and Valyria’s creeping dominion. When Dywen Shell and Jon Brightstone bickered over land and clamoured for his service, Corwyn saw opportunity in the Vale’s disunity and took it, turning on his First Men patrons and carving out a realm in the Fingers for himself and his Andal kin. Brightstone was captured, tortured, and beheaded. Shell roasted alive in his own longhall. Their doom crowned Corwyn Corbray's rise. He took Shell’s wife for his bed and Brightstone’s daughter for his bride, claiming the Fingers as his domain. He rejected the title of king, but there was no doubt that his hand ruled firm across the coast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>

In Gulltown, desperation drove Osgood Shett to abandon the gods of his fathers. Besieged by Royce, he bent the knee to the Seven and wed his kin to Andal newcomers like Ser Gerold Grafton, an ambitious knight eager to carve out a future. Ser Gerold's motives, however, remained his own. His loyalty as yet untested, his ambitions vast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>

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 By the coming of the Andals, the lands of Mountain and Vale were a fractured realm of petty kings, border skirmishes, and simmering feuds. Yorwyck Royce, a grizzled and unyielding king, carried on a brutal war against Osgood III Shett, the King of Gulltown, whose forebears had slain Yorwyck's father. The conflict escalated into a bitter and near unending blood feud, with the Shetts seeking help from across the sea, and finding it in the form of Andal swords.
-The Andals came not as one horde, but in waves. Some seeking refuge, others conquest. Among them was Corwyn Corbray, a hardened mercenary who had grown disillusioned with Essos and Valyria’s creeping dominion. Corwyn saw opportunity in the Vale’s disunity and took it, turning on his First Men patrons and carving out a realm in the Fingers for himself and his Andal kin. Brightstone was captured, tortured, and beheaded. Shell roasted alive in his own longhall. Their doom crowned Corwyn Corbray's rise. He took Shell’s wife for his bed and Brightstone’s daughter for his bride, claiming the Fingers as his domain. He rejected the title of king, but there was no doubt that his hand ruled firm across the coast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>
+The Andals came not as one horde, but in waves. Some seeking refuge, others conquest. Among them was Corwyn Corbray, a hardened mercenary who had grown disillusioned with Essos and Valyria’s creeping dominion. When Dywen Shell and Jon Brightstone bickered over land and clamoured for his service, Corwyn saw opportunity in the Vale’s disunity and took it, turning on his First Men patrons and carving out a realm in the Fingers for himself and his Andal kin. Brightstone was captured, tortured, and beheaded. Shell roasted alive in his own longhall. Their doom crowned Corwyn Corbray's rise. He took Shell’s wife for his bed and Brightstone’s daughter for his bride, claiming the Fingers as his domain. He rejected the title of king, but there was no doubt that his hand ruled firm across the coast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>
 In Gulltown, desperation drove Osgood Shett to abandon the gods of his fathers. Besieged by Royce, he bent the knee to the Seven and wed his kin to Andal newcomers like Ser Gerold Grafton, an ambitious knight eager to carve out a future. Ser Gerold's motives, however, remained his own. His loyalty as yet untested, his ambitions vast.<ref> Martin, The World of Ice and Fire, p. 163.</ref>

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