Editing /tg/ Song of Ice and Fire Houses (section)

===Lore===

House Clearwater began in the Stormlands around the time of the Rhoynar invasion, and grew to become a respectable house
Sitting on the coast of the Sea of Dorne, they focussed their efforts around the building of a great fleet with which to keep enemies of the stormlands at bay

>Marlyn Clearwater - The old lord of the house, Marlyn acquired a great prize for his family at the cost of its fleet, and a mistake that would haunt the house forever henceforth

>Lord Vans Clearwater - Now an old and sickly man, Vans stoop up to his position after an ancient Marlyn finally died, and led his house from ruin back into stability, reclaiming his lands and contributing to the storming of dragonstone and defeat of the Greyjoy fleet

>Pyle Clearwater - The heir to house Clearwater, Pyle has neglected his duties and sails the seas east of Westeros with a loyal crew, seeking fame and a fortune with which he could bring his house to its true formerly glory and crush those that laid his house to waste

The Clearwaters have often been driven back inside their ancestral walls as misfortune and disaster strike their lands and men
Seabreak stands high on foothills bordering the Sea of Dorne, overlooking the harbour where a great fleet once lay
Of moderate size for a castle, it has oft seen war as it’s lords flee within its walls, but has so far stood tall in the face of danger, braving the storm

The Clearwater fleet was once a sight to behold, a sea of great crimson sails and a source of true pride to their house
This pride was lost when Marlyn Clearwater traded all but a handful for something he believed far greater than any fleet.
Marlyn’s deal gained his house a Valyrian steel axe, mastbreaker

Like fate itself had patiently waited to spell their demise, war engulfed the kingdoms and Clearwater found itself woefully vulnerable
As what little remained of their fleet sailed to meet with the Saltvine fleet, they were descended upon by the filthy turncloaks and decimated
As the wars continued, Reachmen and the Dornish reaved across their lands, until an ancient Marlyn was finally slain by men of house Redwyne during Roberts Rebellion
After Marlyn’s death at the hands of house Redwyne, the axe fell into the hands of his heir, Vans Clearwater, who would at last lead his vengeful stormlanders out of Seabreak and into the storming of Dragonstone, and then the crushing of the Greyjoy fleet in their revolt

Pyle Clearwater spent his years sailing the narrow sea and roaming Essos, hellbent on finding treasure or a means to raise the wealth to rebuild the great fleet and strike back at those who have sullied House Clearwater
With his fathers decline, he must now bear the House axe, and find the means to justice that he seeks

Pyle’s gallivanting around the seas and essos in search of glory and fortune has left him detached from his elderly father, and mildly unprepared for the undertakings of leading his house in the wake of Vans’ efforts to restore normality after Marlyn’s blunders
Whilst lacking in the experience and skills of running a house, Pyle’s time under a sail has left him a skilled captain, with friends and connections in the stepstones and cities across the narrow sea
It is from these connections that he has been lead onto the trail of a great treasure in the east, and with it Lord’s greed for wealth and revenge has driven him ever-further from the house he is supposed to serve
It has fallen on the Clearwater maester, Cearn, and the Lord’s younger brother Pann to keep the house afloat whilst their leader once again disappears onto the great blue, abandoning his home in search of treasure and revenge