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The southern reaches of the Riverlands have already fallen to Andal adventurers, led by Lord Armistead Vance. After failing to take Duskendale, he landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush with a host of warriors and marched north into the fractured petty-kingdoms. Securing several keeps south-west of the Gods’ Eye, he made his seat at the refortified stronghold now called Castle Armistead.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'', (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) p. 151–152.</ref> | The southern reaches of the Riverlands have already fallen to Andal adventurers, led by Lord Armistead Vance. After failing to take Duskendale, he landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush with a host of warriors and marched north into the fractured petty-kingdoms. Securing several keeps south-west of the Gods’ Eye, he made his seat at the refortified stronghold now called Castle Armistead.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'', (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) p. 151–152.</ref> | ||
[[File:Gods Eye.jpg|thumb|The Isle of Faces is guarded by the Green Men.]] | |||
Not far from these contested lands lies the Gods’ Eye, the great inland lake of the Riverlands, famed for the Isle of Faces at its center. Here the Pact between the First Men and the children of the forest was signed, and the Green Men were sworn to guard its weirwoods.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'', (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) p. 8–9.</ref> In summer its waters gleam blue-green in the sun; in winter they harden to a pewter hue “like cold steel.”<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords'', Arya I (2002).</ref> Travellers warn of odd, shifting currents and “hungry fish” lurking in the deep.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''Fire and Blood'', (Random House LLC US, 2018) p. 567–569.</ref> | Not far from these contested lands lies the Gods’ Eye, the great inland lake of the Riverlands, famed for the Isle of Faces at its center. Here the Pact between the First Men and the children of the forest was signed, and the Green Men were sworn to guard its weirwoods.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''The World of Ice and Fire'', (London: HarperVoyager, 2014) p. 8–9.</ref> In summer its waters gleam blue-green in the sun; in winter they harden to a pewter hue “like cold steel.”<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords'', Arya I (2002).</ref> Travellers warn of odd, shifting currents and “hungry fish” lurking in the deep.<ref>George R. R. Martin, ''Fire and Blood'', (Random House LLC US, 2018) p. 567–569.</ref> | ||