House Wisent

To Find A Way, or Make One

To Find A Way, or Make One

Realm: The North
Liege: Lord Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell
Seat: Wisenwood, at the southeastern edge of the Wolfswood
Age: Established, in the time of Aegon's Conquest

Traits

• Defense: 28 (20 Invested; 8 Free)
• Influence: 41 (40 Invested; 1 Free)
• Lands: 53 (53 Invested)
• Law: 11 (House Fortunes Roll: -5)
• Population: 23 (House Fortunes Roll: +1)
• Power: 37 (37 Invested; 0 Free)
• Wealth: 19 (15 Invested; 4 Free; House Fortunes Roll: +3 due to Maester, +(2d6-6) due to Godswood)

Defense

House Wisent maintains two fortifications in its domain: the ancient Wisenwood Tower, and the newer Pale Tower.

• Wisenwood Tower: A small tower originally built along the Kingroad where it met the Wolfswood south of Castle Cerwyn, Wisenwood is a very strong and respectable tower-keep now surrounded by the small town of Wisenwood.
• Pale Tower: Built in the time of Maegris Wisent, the Pale Tower is built all of weirwood that retains its gleaming white color to this day. Though the Pale Tower had sinister origins, it is now a favored hunting lodge for the family, situated in the deeps of the Wolfswood as it is. A small hamlet, Palewood, has grown up around the tower there.

Influence

Aside from its Lord Josian Wisent and his Lady Elizabel, the Wisent family consists of their three daughters Kaila (10 pts - eldest girl), Cimbre (5 pts - second girl) and Dania (5 pts - third girl). The family has also recently sent for its estranged uncle, Josian's younger brother Ayrant Wisent. (20 pts - male heir).

Land

House Wisent has good lands.

• Wisenwood: A small town built up around Wisenwood Tower, Wisenwood is less than an hour's travel from the Kingsroad. (Plains; Road, Small Town; 30 pts)
• Palewood: A small hamlet made up primarily of foresters and woodland crofters, grown up around the Pale Tower. (Hills; Lightly Wooded, River, Hamlet; 23 pts)

Power

The military forces House Wisent can call upon are as follows:

• House Blackhorn: A banner house from deeper within the Wolfswood. (20 pts)
• Trained Infantry: The footsoldiers of House Wisent are usually garrisoned in Wisenwood. (7 pts)
• Trained Garrison: Wisenwood maintains a garrison of peacekeeper forces. (5 pts.)
• Trained Guerillas: The tradition of the Wisent Wise, forest-men skilled in fighting from treetops in defense of Maegris' Pale Tower continues into the modern day. These days, they aren't bandits and wildlings, but the woods-wise men and women of the Palewood hamlet sworn to help defend their home. (5 pts)

Wealth

House Wisent's investments include:

• Maester Tolbric Storm: Lord Josian, recognizing the limitations of his own governing skills, sent to the Citadel requesting the assistance of a maester. (10 pts; +3 to House Fortunes roll)
• The Weeping Gardens of Wisenwood: An extensive set of gardens grown up around the Godswood of Wisenwood. (5 pts; +[2d6-6] to House Fortunes rolls)

History

• Glory: +6 Def, +3 Infl, +1 Law, +3 Pow
• Favor: +3 Inf, +3 Lands, +4 Law, +2 Pow
• Villain: +3 Inf, +6 Pow, -1 Law, -6 Pop
• Victory: +5 Def, +6 Infl, +5 Pow
• Conquest: -5 Def, +3 Infl, +6 Lands, -5 Law, +2 Pop, +1 Wealth
• Madness: -3 Def, -6 Infl, -1 Lands, -2 Pop, -3 Wealth

Founding

X

The Wolf's Favor

X

Maegris the Mad

X

A Return to Honor

X

Rivalry

X

Blood Will Tell

X

Wisenwood Tower

Wisenwood Tower

Ground Floor

• Cellars: The cellars are half-buried, and remain quite cool year round. As such, they often house sleeping servants at night during the warmer months. The walls here are stocked with drink, bags of root vegetables and plenty of cured meats, much of it hunted by the lord.

First Floor

• Kitchens & Main Hall: This grand chamber is - in the old style of such fortifications - both preparation and dining hall. The family rarely dines here, however, save when there are guests. As such, the servants have most of the run of this area. With its grand hearths, it is often quite warm, and as such serves as the bedding-down place for many servants at night.

Second Floor

• Solar: A warm, pleasant room with ample natural lighting, the Solar is where the family is usually found. The lord's desk is kept near the entrance, with seating for the house's women to do their embroidery and other household work beside the hearth. The southern portion of the chamber has a fair-sized table where the family take their meals.

Third Floor

• Heir's Chambers: X
• Daughters' Chambers: The household's daughters share a room and a large curtained bed here. Nanna Snow also sleeps here, in a smaller bed shoved off into one of the corners.
• Maester's Chambers: House Wisent has prepared one of its few chambers for the sole use of their new maester, outfitting it with a decent bed with thick coverlets and furs, a desk and shelves for the books and other possessions he brings with him.

Fourth Floor

• Garret: The garret has been turned into the Lord and Lady's chambers, and the nursery (though there are no younglings in it now). The chambers are always kept locked, as the household's moneychest can be found here.

Roof

• Rookery: The southeastern tower, originally basically unused, has been refurbished to act as a basic rookery for the ravens that House Wisent's new maester is bringing with him.

Palewood Tower

Palewood Tower

A squat tower in the dim recesses of the nearby Wolfswood, the Palewood Tower has something of a sinister origins. It earned its name for the ample use of cut weirwood that XXX the Mad cut down and put to use in the tower's building, and to this day they retain their bleached, bone-like appearance. Despite these unsavory origins, Palewood Tower sees ample use by House Wisent as a hunting lodge.

Ground Floor

• Cellars: The cellars here are staged, and kept well-stocked with the spoils of many a hunting expedition.

First Floor

• Lower Hall: A hall with ample seating for armsmen, hunters and other men-at-arms, the lower hall is intended for entertaining the retinues of any guests. When it is not in such service, the servants are permitted to use it for their own purposes. More than a few of the locals have also gotten permission from Lord Wisent to hold wedding feasts and other large celebrations, as well; indeed, the lord usually contributes a large haunch of venison or boar to the feast as his gift.

Second Floor

• Great Hall: The gathering spot for members of the House and their guests. The Great Hall doesn't often see use. The Great Hall has a single, massive table, with seats at its upper end, and benches along the rest of it, and its walls are hung with generations of hunting trophies.
• Kitchens: Thanks to the frequent hunting successes of Lord Wisent, the kitchens here are amply prepared to cook very large haunches and cuts of meat, indeed, up to and including roasting entire boar.

Roof Floor

• Bedroom Garret: Kept in ready condition for any of the House who might arrive, this bedroom is richly appointed, with a curtained bed and comfortable seats beside the large fireplace, over which usually hangs Lord Wisent's most recently-stuffed trophy.
• Caphouses: When a noble is in residence, the caphouses serve as sleeping chambers for their guests, or retinue if there are no guests. They have several beds apiece, though they are usually bare, waiting to be made when the servants receive word of visitors.