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Members of the nobility are called "highborn", in contrast to lowborn commoners. Some of the most powerful noble Houses rival the smaller great Houses in terms of wealth and the size of the armies they can field, e. House Hightower rules Oldtown , the second largest city in Westeros, and possesses large armies and fleets of its own. Other noble Houses, while technically holding this rank, are relatively poor.

A typical noble House is seated at a castle and controls the land around it, collecting tithes and taxes from farmers, lesser landholders and smallfolk. In times of war, they are expected to recruit and maintain a number of soldiers for their lieges. In most of Westeros, only men can become ruling lords, and women can only rule if the rest of the male line has been extinguished or if they are acting as regents for their sons until they have reached the age of maturity.

In Dorne , both men and women have equal property, inheritance and ruling rights. All of these are sworn to the great Houses. However, George R. Martin has admitted that his system of nomenclature for noble Houses isn't very precise, as major and minor lords are both called simply "lords" as opposed to differentiating between "duke" and "baron", etc.

Each of the constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms has about a dozen or so major Houses, i. House Cassel, meanwhile, is a minor House, sworn directly to House Stark, which has no minor Houses serving it. Thus there are roughly about or so major Houses in the Seven Kingdoms at any one time, and numerous minor Houses who in turn serve them not all of whom have been named.

It seems that none of the great cultures of Essos organized their elites into houses, with the possible exceptions of the culture of Slaver's Bay in the books they are referred to as Houses, but as great families in the TV series. It is explicitly stated that the Valyrians did not as well, as Aegon the Conqueror had to design the trappings of a Westerosi great House for the Targaryen family from scratch. This doesn't mean that Valyria or many of the Free Cities weren't organized around elite families, just that the power invested in such families was somewhat less official than in Westeros.

Some of the noble Houses have a marked propensity for physical traits which are passed down through the generations. Although no one in Westeros has a concept of "genetics" as such, it is sometimes understandable that "the seed is strong" and that f.

Some of the notable examples include:. It hasn't been said that there is a "traditional" House Greyjoy look, but most in the current generation tend to have dark hair.

So few living members of House Arryn have appeared in the narrative that it isn't clear what a "typical" Arryn looks like. Sweetrobin is half-Tully and thus might not be a good indication.

Both Sweetrobin and his cousin Harold have blue eyes, as well as brown hair; though they are said to be among the purest Andal bloodlines, and Andals often have lighter hair. This high propensity to pass on specific traits has led some to suggest that the humans of Martin's world have less complicated genetics than real-world humans, as the consistency of such traits across generations without significant inbreeding is unlikely.

Martin himself was probably more worried about telling a good story than about being true to modern understandings of genetic complexity, and made do with a basic understanding of Mendelian genetics. Elected king , currently Bran I the Broken. Game of Thrones Wiki. Game of Thrones Wiki Explore. Game of Thrones. Despite Catelyn's objections, Robb issues a decree that legitimizes Jon and names him his heir until a son is born to him from Jeyne Westerling, and several of the lords sign the decree as witnesses.

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