Reach Appreciation Week - Day 5: Castles & Locations
Highgarden is located on a broad verdant hill overlooking the Mander. The castle is surrounded by three rings of white stone whose crenellated curtain walls increase in height. Between the outer and middle walls is a famous briar labyrinth which serves to entertain as well as slow invaders. The oldest towers, squat and square, date from the Age of Heroes. Newer towers are tall and slender, round fortifications dating from after the coming of the Andals.
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the Reach Appreciation Week 2022- Day Seven: Chivalry and Knighthood or Flowers of the Reach
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THE REACH APPRECIATION WEEK 2022: day seven - flowers of the reach
“Lyanna was...fond of flowers.”
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THE REACH APPRECIATION WEEK
day 1 | fashion and culture
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THE REACH APPRECIATION WEEK: day three - aegon’s conquest or robert’s rebellion
Harlen Tyrell served as the steward to Mern IX Gardener, King of the Reach, at the time of Aegon's Conquest. After King Mern IX died at the Field of Fire, King Aegon I Targaryen marched on Highgarden, where Harlen yielded up the castle without a fight, pledging his support to Aegon. For this, Aegon named him Lord of Highgarden and gave him dominion over the Reach as Lord Paramount of the Mander and Warden of the South, despite the fact that the Tyrells could only claim descent from Garth Greenhand through the female line, while other houses, with older and more distinguished lineages, had closer blood ties to the now-extinct House Gardener.
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THE REACH APPRECIATION WEEK
day 3 | Aegon’s Conquest or Robert’s Rebellion
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Reach Appreciation Week - Day 5: Castles & Locations
The Three Singers are the three weirwood trees located in the godswood of Highgarden. They are large, ancient, and graceful, and have grown so entangled over time that they look like one single tree, albeit with three trunks. Located beneath the three weirwood trees is a pool.
According to legend, Garth Greenhand planted the Three Singers.
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