the Reach - Map Detailed (Game of Thrones)

the reach is your ideal Kingdom to live in in this terrifying world created by George Martin the rest of the kingdoms have their serious flaws while the reach remains sunny and happy the North has its cold wildlings and whatever else makes its way around the wall the Vale also has terrible winters and violent mountain clans let alone having mountains all around you the Stormlands have an annoying amount of rain and they all along with the river lads have unfortunate positioning keeping them in a constant state of warring with neighboring kingdoms the Iron Islands have it the worst just a completely miserable place that rely on raiding others just to get by the western lands aren't too bad if you're lucky enough to be born in a house with mines or wealth but they have lions running around so no thanks and Dorne is a desert with little water so but the reach this is the place to live there's a reason why this kingdom is the most populous in all of Westeros it's size is only second to the north but all this land is very fertile so even the small folk can live comfortably it's the most fertile Kingdom which is why the wealth is only second to the westerland's whose gold mines are running dry there aren't a lot of iconic locations here in comparison to somewhere like the north instead the lands are filled with houses that share one really cool thing in common the houses in the reach cleaned descent from the mythical king named Garth greenhand supposedly the high king of the first men Garth greenhand either led his people over to Westeros from Essos or was already in Westeros just hanging out for any of the first man cross the arm of Dorne this make him the first and only man on the continent shared between Giants and children or the forest he was his godlike figure that brought life to the land wherever he went he taught the first men how to farm and live off their harvests before him hunting and gathering was the only way to eat it seems like Garth was smart enough to not settle in Dorne and make his way to the reach there's a reason why the children of the forest called Doran in the empty land as funny as this sounds he was even capable of making women fertile it's hard not to believe it when you see his list of children I think detailing the reach through his children would be a lot more fun than how I usually make these videos the first of his 13 children was known as Garth the gardener he built the castle a high garden atop a hill and became the first king of the reach and a founder of house gardener the throne was a growing oak that was planted by Garth greenhand house Gardner was able to bring each other King in the reach into their kingdom and ruled for thousands of years you don't hear much about them in the current story since Aegon Targaryen and his sister wives caused the family's extinction during Aegon's conquest the Gardner King and Lannister King went against the Dragons in a battle called the field of fire house gardener got roasted and the Targaryen is appointed house Tyrell who were just the highest stewards for house gardener to rule over the reach in their place John the oak was the son of Garth greenhand he apparently had with a giant Tess he was this extremely tall man who was credited for incorporating silvery into Westeros his culture he would be the founder of house oak art of old oak they are one of the families that have had to deal with countless battles with Dorne Garth greenhand had twin sons Harland a hunter and herndon of the horn who founded house Tarly of horn Hill which you're probably thinking is helping a couple of guys be the founders of a house where they both married the same women and she happened to be a woods which she lived on the hill also called horn Hill where their home is built house Tarly is one of the Marshall Lords in the reach that rule and darkness marches so you know they've had tons of battles with Dornishmen they have a very strong military tradition which explains Samwell Tarly father's reaction to him I went over the donors marches and the red mountains in my dorm stone lands videos so I'll try not to be repetitive by going over it again rows of Red Lake is a daughter of Garth and founder of house crane of Red Lake rose was said to be able to skin change into a crane and that women of this family can still do the same there is an actual lake here and their castle just shares his name the lake used to be known as Blue Lake but after one of God's sons Brandon of the bloody blade killed so many children of the forest here it had to be renamed something more appropriate Brandon of the bloody blade is said to be either a father or ancestor of bran the Builder who founded House Stark Maris the maid was one of God's daughters her beauty inspired the first ever tourney in Westeros to fight for her hand in marriage while 50 Lords were fighting it out for her she married author of the Hightower House Hightower was likely founded long before these two however the high tower where this family lives is in the massive city called Old Town it's one of the largest oldest and richest cities in Westeros it was built around the high tower and so over the maesters can't even agree on who made it the early high towers lived in a fortress made of black stone on a small island called battle isle black stone is this mysterious an ancient material found all over this world to better defend their home the high towers built walls around the black stone and a tower on top of it out of making towers out of wood didn't work out Luther of the high tower hired bran the Builder to make one out of stone and it continues to stand tall today there is so much more to the city aside from the high tower Luther of the high tower and marries the maids two sons are responsible for the creation of the Citadel the younger brother was bedridden most of his life so spent his time obsessing over knowledge he had experts of all fields come to old town to answer the world's questions he would live a short life but his older brother had the Citadel built to continue their search for answers it became a place for people to study and become masters for all of Westeros the towers and domes of the Citadel are all connected with stone bridges that have houses all along of it the oldest building of the Citadel is a raven ray of the isle of ravens old town has small islands all around it on the honey wine river and the isle of ravens was once a stronghold of a pirate lord also an old town as the story snapped this was like the fate of the sevens headquarters before it relocated to Baylor cept in King's Landing thousands of years later for as the breaker was a son of Garth and founder of house bull war of black-crowned Bors would only drink Bulls blood and it resulted in him having the strength of 20 men their sigil depicts this legend Alan ever sweet was a daughter who loved honey so much she sought out the king of bees in his Mountain High if they made a pact that she would care for all his descendants she was the first beekeeper and considered the mother to house bees burry of honey halt foster Archer was a son known for shooting apples off girls heads he founded house false away of cedar Hall and of course their sigil would have an apple on it this house was divided into a branch family following the events of the Ashford tourney in 209 AC one false away was fighting on the opposite side of his during a trial and it caused him to start house false away of new barrel you see this all go down in the dunk and egg short story the hedge Knight arguably the best one out of the three Jorge Martinez el house falls away of new barrel has a green apple for its sigil instead of cedar Hall's red new barrels location hasn't been stated yet however Ashford is also known for being the location where Robert Baratheon was handed his only defeat during his rebellion the large Tyrell army was being led by randyll Tarly of horn Hill aka Sam's dad Robert didn't have the numbers to go up against the Tyrell army so he retreated to avoid losing lives Robert would group up with his allies and win the war so it wasn't much of the defeat really Rowan go tree was a daughter of Garth and founder of House Roman of golden groove all she's known for is planting an apple wrapped in her golden hair it grew into a tree that had gold bark leaves and fruit this house has a title of marshal of the North March making them pretty powerful Gabler the vines was a son of Garth and founder of House red wine of the Arbor he taught the people on its Island to make wine now the arbor is renowned for making the best wine in Westeros it also has the largest fleet in Westeros they along with the shield islands have a history of being raided by the Ironborn so this powerful fleet became necessary one of Garth's sons conquered all four of the islands that make up the shield islands his name was Owen Oakenshield and it's also said he drove up mythical creatures called selkies and merlynx out of the islands and back into the sea the shield's gets its name for protecting the manda River that gives access to the rest of the kingdom from an Ironborn attack they've also made it their responsibility to warn everyone of an attack by lighting watchtowers they were once called the misty Islands before the Gardner Kings drove out the iron men and fortified the islands Oakenshield is ruled by house Hewitt house Chester rules over green shield house Grimm has grey shield and South shield is ruled by House Suri Flores the Fox is the last child of Garth greenhand to talk about she's known for being the cleverest of Garth's children she had three husbands and none of them were aware of this she didn't conquer any land or anything like her siblings but her sons from each of our husbands became the founders of house Florent house ball and how speak it's also believed that land the clever who found a house lannister may have been a bastard child of hers or her sister roman gold tree house Florence did rule over bright water but in the current story this castle is given to the Tyrells after House Florence supported Stannis and war we don't know much about house ball all we know is that they ruled somewhere in the reach how speak our mantra Lords of star pike they once had this rivalry with house mandala of dust and burry the manderlys claimed the Mandor was named after them when the manderlys were becoming too powerful in the reach a gardener King allowed house peak to run them out of the kingdom House peak took over Dustin Barry and house manually found a new home in the north at one point house peak had three castles under them as I picked it in their sigil but would eventually be stripped of two of them and left with only star pike all the other houses and locations have yet to be given an exact location on the Westeros map a couple rows that I think are worth mentioning is the Rose Road in Ocean Road the Rose Road is a path from King's Landing to Old Town at Highgarden where it meets with the ocean road a path from alanis port in the western lands to Highgarden hope you enjoyed this map detailing considering it was requested by a lot of you guys in the comments I feel like I've been making a lot of these so I do want to change it up a bit by making some videos I've had planned for a while before turning and finishing the rest of the Seven Kingdoms thanks for watching [Music]

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Keywords: the reach, highgarden, game of thrones, house tyrell, house targaryen, dragons, aegon, dragon, magic, north, westerlands, olenna, king's landing, lannister, stark, jon snow, season 7, season 8, map, world

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Length: 10min 27sec (627 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 28 2018