Lord Hoster Tully

• Individual Picture Notes
  • The Tully sigil is a leaping trout, silver, on a field of rippling blue and red.  Their motto is, “Family, Duty, Honor.”
    

• General Notes
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    The Tullys were never kings but were the chief leaders of the rebel riverlords who deserted Harren the Black (King of the Isles) and joined Aegon the Conqueror.  Harren's grandfather, King Harwyn Hardhand, had taken the Trident from Arrec the Storm King, whose ancestors had conquered all the way to the Neck 300 years earlier, slaying the last of the old River Kings.  A vain and bloody tyrant, Harren the Black was little loved y those he ruled, and many of the river lords deserted him to join Aegon's host. 
    
    First among them was Edmyn Tully of Riverrun.  When Harren and his line perished in the burning of Harrenhal, Aegon rewarded House Tully by raising Lord Edmyn to dominion over the lands of the Trident and requring the other river lords to swear him fealty.
    
    Riverrun is a strong three-sided castle, although not especially large, situated at the point where the Tumblestone and Red Fork rivers meet. A moat on the third side of the castle can be flooded to leave it practically unassailable.
    
    Lord Tully Hoster joined the rebellion against Aerys, in part because Brandon Stark and his lord father Rickard had arranged a marriage with Lord Tully’s eldest daughter Catelyn before their deaths. Eddard Stark fulfilled the marriage contract and Lord Tully’s younger daughter Lysa was wed to Lord Jon Arryn.
    
    Lord Hoster is an old man, afflicited with an illness which has left him a bed-ridden invalid. His son and heir is Ser Edmure, a proud, hot-tempered, short-sighted man.