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6 - Slighting a castle refers to the deliberate destruction of a castle's walls and other defenses, so that the structure is no longer defensible.

If Arrec's army was half-again the size of Harwyn's, that makes Harwyn's army about 26,000 strong, and only 3,000 of those were Ironborn.

5 - The Stormlands and Crownlands together add up to 40,000 men under arms.

The second is that, as the Lannisters used co-opted Andals to fight back would-be conquerors, it might be that Torrence was one of those Andals who fought for the Lannisters, but preferred to take his payment in Casterly Rock gold rather than land and title. So where is there space for Torrence's daring raid? I see two possible solutions: the first is that Torrence was raiding those parts of the Westerlands that were outside of the realm at that time (the WOIAF mentions that). The WOIAF tells us that the Lannisters met the Andal invasion of the Westerlands with ease, with the first three armies of Andals smashed to pieces in the hills, and the sage Kings Tyrion III and Gerold II co-opting the Andals into fighting their own.

4 - Incidentally, the detail about Torrence paying for his army by " seiz a fortune in gold in a daring attack upon the westerlands" is quite puzzling.If the Westermen were pouring over the border to " pillage and conquer," it's possible that they sapped the strength of this House before they could establish themselves as the Arryns of the Riverlands. Given that Wayfarer's Rest is at the far western border of the Riverlands and that the Vances were formerly the overlords of the Tullys, it's likely that Atranta also lies to the west. 3 - This last detail may explain how the Vances, who were the " mightiest of the Andal conquerors" in the immediate aftermath of the fall of House Mudd, failed to become true Kings of the Rivers.

2 - According to a 1999 So Spake Martin, " the Mudds and Fishers were two dynasties of River Kings, who ruled the lands around the Trident in ancient times, but were destroyed in wars by the Storm Kings or Ironmen." GRRM clearly changed his mind about House Mudd in A Storm of Swords, but it's worth noting that if the line of the Fishers ended in a war with the Storm Kings or the Ironborn, it would fit the pattern of the Mudds (defeated by the Andals), Justmans (defeated by the Ironborn), and Teagues (defeated by the Stormlords).colorful tales of Artos the Strong, Florian the Fool, Nine-Finger Jack, Sharra the Witch Queen, and the Green King of the Gods Eye," are set in the Riverlands, with Florian and Jonquil associated with Maidenpool and the Green King with the Godseye.

1 - Another sign of the Riverlands' importance for the First Men is that much of the surviving First Men " myth and song.