Ours Is The Fury

The death of Robert Baratheon has thrown the house of the king into disarray. Although the daring and bold warrior he once was had vanished in a haze of wine and women, he alone held the other ambitious lords of House Baratheon in check and solidified the house’s place among kings. With Robert's death however, three kings of House Baratheon emerged to claim the Iron Throne: Joffrey, a child born of Lannister incest but raised as Robert’s own; Stannis, Robert’s cold, hard brother who chafes at the bonds of his castle at Dragonstone; and finally Renly, the carelessly charming younger brother who pooled the strength of Storm’s End and Highgarden, and cultivated the allegiances of the lords of the south. Each of these claims to the throne fractured the house into competing allegiances — Joffrey to the Lannister bird whispering in his ear, Stannis to his pride and the priestess of a new god, and Renly to himself and the roses of Highgarden. With Joffrey eventually poisoned and Renly murdered, only Stannis remains to claim the Iron Throne.

History

House Baratheon is the youngest of the great houses of Westeros. It was founded during the Wars of Conquest, when Aegon the Conqueror granted the keep at Storm’s End and the lands and daughter of Argilac the Arrogant to Orys Baratheon. The house’s founder, Orys, was rumoured to be Aegon’s bastard brother; true or not, he became the new king’s most loyal commander. The Baratheons remained loyal to the Targaryens for nearly 300 years, and the two houses intermarried with regularity. This helped establish Robert Baratheon’s successful claim to the throne after overthrowing the Targaryen line during the War of the Usurper, or Robert’s Rebellion, though his true claim was his hammer.

Holdings

The seat of Baratheon power is in King’s Landing, where Robert sits on the Iron Throne and rules the Seven Kingdoms. Lord Stannis rules from the island stronghold of Dragonstone and is the master of ships for the king. The youngest brother, Renly, sits at the king’s council as master of laws, ruling from afar the traditional Baratheon home, the castle of Storm’s End. By virtue of the Iron Throne, House Baratheon reigns over all the lands of the Seven Kingdoms; only the Stormlands and the Marches belong to the house proper, however, gifted to Orys Baratheon long ago. Many of the houses sworn to King’s Landing pay direct service to Baratheon now ... but others secretly remain Targaryen loyalists.