Otho II Hightower
Otho II Hightower was the fortifier-king who encircled Oldtown with colossal stone walls after a century of ruinous raids.
History[edit]
During Otho II’s youth the wealth of Oldtown drew calamity: in one century the city fell to Samwell Dayne “the Starfire,” to Qhored the Cruel’s ironborn, and to Gyles I Gardener “the Woe,” who sold three-quarters of the populace into slavery—yet none could breach the black-stone Hightower itself.[1]
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. [1]
Quotes about Otho II Hightower[edit]
“King Otho the Second made Oldtown a fortress and any fool who tried to go after it, payed a high price."