1. Timeline: History of Westeros
(World of Westeros/History)

...  AGE OF HEROES - Long Night - Battle for the Dawn - Building of the Wall - Founding of House Stark 6,000 - Arrival of the Andals - Breaking of the Pact - Rise of Valyria 5,000 AGE ...

2. The Age of Heroes
(World of Westeros/History)

The truce between the First Men and Children of the Forest (The Pact) marked the end of the Dawn Age and the beginning of the Age of Heroes. A hundred kingdoms rose and fell. This was a rugged time where ...

3. The Age of Valyria
(World of Westeros/History)

During the Age of Heroes, the empire of Old Ghis was the chief power of the east (the continent of Essos). Their fall would be legendary, the result of the Valyrians ... and their dragons. The Freehold ...

4. The Andals
(World of Westeros/History)

The peace of the Pact and the Age of Heroes lasted some 4,000 years, and was only broken by the arrival of the Andals. They arrived in the Vale from across the sea, wresting control of the region from ...

5. Old Nan
(World of Westeros/People)

... or great-grandson. Old Nan was a fount of folk-tales and superstitions, filling the children’s ears with tales of monsters, old heroes, knaves, and others from the Age of Heroes. Most adults discounted ...

6. History of the Arryns
(World of Westeros/History)

... the end of the Age of Heroes until they fell to the dragons. The Bloody Gate has long demarcated entrance to the Vale and kept the region secure — a dozen armies broke themselves against the Gate in the ...

7. History of the Ironborn
(World of Westeros/History)

The origins of the Ironmen are lost to the mists of time. They claim descent from the Grey King, the mighty mariner of the Age of Heroes. The Grey King’s people have always been people of the sea, revering ...

8. Eddard Stark, Ned
(World of Westeros/People)

... look older than his thirty-five years. He had a grim cast to his grey eyes this day, and he seemed not at all the man who would sit before the fire in the evening and talk softly of the age of heroes and ...

9. The Bloody Gate
(World of Westeros/Strongholds)

... armies were destroyed attempting to breach it during the Age of Heroes. In the present day and age, it guards mostly against raids by the warrior clans of the mountains. The last Knight of the Gate was ...

10. House Tully
(Houses of Westeros/Great Houses)

... given dominion over the Trident in return. They are an old line dating back to the Age of Heroes as Lords of Riverrun but were never kings. History Before the Tullys were the River Kings — the Mudds, ...

11. House Lannister
(Houses of Westeros/Great Houses)

... hair. Even without such a claim, their connection to the Age of Heroes is clearly marked by their fair hair and tall, handsome build — hallmark traits of Andal blood. When Aegon the Conqueror swept through ...

12. House Greyjoy
(Houses of Westeros/Great Houses)

... claimed would bind dragons to his will and help restore the ironborn to glory. History The lineage of the Greyjoys is said to extend from the Age of Heroes — the mythical Grey King was the progenitor ...

13. House Arryn
(Houses of Westeros/Great Houses)

... that guard the Bloody Gate, the door to the Vale itself, against which a dozen armies smashed themselves in the Age of Heroes. The armies of the Vale are a match in size for those of the North or Dorne. ...

14. Customs & Laws of the Seven Kingdoms
(World of Westeros/Miscellaneous)

... fables of fantastic creatures. Two notable figures from the Age of Heroes that are often spoken of are Brandon the Builder and Lann the Clever. Brandon is the fabled builder of the Wall (and many other ...

15. The Stormlands
(World of Westeros/Geography)

... kings have called the Stormlands home: the Storm Kings who arose in the Age of Heroes, the Targaryens who invaded Westeros from Dragonstone Isle, and the Baratheons who currently hold the Iron Throne. ...

16. The Iron Islands
(World of Westeros/Geography)

... harder and stronger.” — Aeron Greyjoy Greyjoy's of Pyke Reportedly descended from the legendary Grey King of the Age of Heroes, the Greyjoy family has ruled the Iron Islands since Lord Vickon Greyjoy ...