House Frostwright

History:
Infrastructure*, Conquest*, Victory, Madness, Invasion/Revolt, Villain, Decline, Scandal, Scandal

Founding:
Founded sometime between 10,000 and 8,000BAL (the time period known as the Dawn Age/Age of Heroes)(the specific time that it was founded has since been lost, due to the loss of the first castle Skyreacher, and all of its associated records), House Frostwright was formed after Skaal Frostwright (a powerful military leader from the ranks of the First Men, who had long since retired from war) built the first of his ice castles high in the mountains on the south-eastern fringe of the North by having large quantities of ice transported into the mountains and fashioned into an intricate and functional castle, reinforced by snowfall and a flattened stone ground.

Siege of the Guardbreakers:
In time, the ice-castle Skyreacher would be envied by another self-made house leader, Warran Guardbreaker, a native of the Iron Islands, who had come to carve his own part out of the North. His warring and claiming of lands was stopped when he reached high-reaching castle Skyreacher, as the traditional tactics he had used in the past proved ineffective, as hooks could not grip ice to climb, and ice could not be burned. Skaal and his sons Trent and Janis waited out Warran and his armies, raining slurries of water and ice down on them from their walls to freeze their men in their tracks. Eventually, Warran was forced to retreat, but Skaal used this opportunity to charge the Guardbreaker ranks and force Warran himself to bend the knee. Skaal then sent the Guardbreaker host back to the Iron Islands in disgrace, and took a portion of their claimed lands for himself, where he established himself a newer, smaller, but stone-built castle to make his home rather than a fortress, which would be called Frosthall.