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== History == | == History == | ||
During Otho II’s youth the wealth of Oldtown drew calamity: in one century the city fell to [[ | During Otho II’s youth the wealth of Oldtown drew calamity: in one century the city fell to [[Samwell Dayne “the Starfire,”]] to [[Qhored_I_Blacktyde|Qhored the Cruel’s]] ironborn, and to [[Gyles_I_Gardener|Gyles I Gardener “the Woe,”]] who sold three-quarters of the populace into slavery—yet none could breach the black-stone Hightower itself.<ref name="Oldtown">George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'' (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) pp. 213–216</ref> | ||
Judging wooden palisades and ditches hopeless, King Otho II devoted most of his reign to raising a new circuit of stone ramparts thicker and higher than any yet seen. The project emptied coffers for three generations, but when the final blocks were set the city stood inviolate: later pirates and would-be conquerors turned their prow elsewhere, while Oldtown stood tall. <ref name="Oldtown">George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'' (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) pp. 213–216</ref> | Judging wooden palisades and ditches hopeless, King Otho II devoted most of his reign to raising a new circuit of stone ramparts thicker and higher than any yet seen. The project emptied coffers for three generations, but when the final blocks were set the city stood inviolate: later pirates and would-be conquerors turned their prow elsewhere, while Oldtown stood tall. <ref name="Oldtown">George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'' (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) pp. 213–216</ref> | ||