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House Royce
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House Royce is a vassal house which holds fealty to House Arryn of the Vale. Their seat is Runestone, located east of the Eyrie, on the coast of the Narrow Sea. Its head is the veteran Lord Yohn Royce.

House Royce's sigil is a shower of pebbles on an orange field surrounded by runes. Their motto is, "We Remember."

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In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Royces are the most powerful family in the Vale after the Arryns, and they are extremely loyal to House Arryn. House Royce is descended from the First Men, which is a very rare exception in the Vale, as the First Men were almost completely driven from the Vale during the Andal Invasion six thousand years ago. This extends to the point that in modern times the nobility of the Vale are considered to represent the purest Andal bloodlines, exterminating the local First Men instead of intermingling with them. However, House Royce managed to survive, and is very proud of their descent from the First Men, to the point that they include runes of the Old Tongue of the First Men in their sigil.

The members of House Royce are:

  • Lord Yohn Royce, called Bronze Yohn, Lord of Runestone, the ruler of the main branch of the family.
    • Ser Andar Royce, his eldest son and heir.
    • Ser Robar Royce, his second son, known as Robar the Red since joining Renly Baratheon's Rainbow Guard
    • Ser Waymar Royce, a ranger of the Night's Watch
    • Ysilla Royce, his only daughter.

In the novels, House Royce has a cadet branch ruling from the Gates of the Moon. However, since the Gates of the Moon do not apparently exist in the TV series, it is unclear if this cadet branch has also been eliminated. This branch consists of:

  • Nestor Royce, a cousin of Yohn's, Keeper of the Gates of the Moon, High Steward of the Vale, ruler of the cadet branch of the family.
    • Albar Royce, Nestor's son and heir.
    • Myranda Royce, Nestor's daughter.

Lady Jeyne of House Royce was Lord Jon Arryn's first wife who died delivering a stillborn daughter.

Two other members are the deceased Lady Perra of House Royce, Lord Walder Frey's first wife and Ser Stevron Frey's mother, and Lady Ryella of House Royce who is married to Ser Arwood Frey, Lord Walder Frey's grandson. Mya Stone, the bastard daughter of King Robert Baratheon, serves as a mountain guide to the cadet branch of House Royce.

Relationship to House Stark

House Royce holds a blood-relationship to House Stark of the North: while it is an old connection, they still consider the Starks their kin, combined with their shared heritage as descendants of the First Men. Lord Yohn Royce was the most vocal proponent among the Vale lords for openly joining Robb Stark's side during the War of the Five Kings (though Lady Lysa was able to suppress these sentiments and enforce the Vale's neutrality).

The exact relationship hasn't been completely mapped out, but it is known that the younger sister of Eddard Stark's paternal grandfather, Lord Edwyle Stark, married a younger member of House Royce. The specific relationship of this younger Royce son to the main line is also unclear, but he was either a member of the cadet branch "House Royce of the Gates of the Moon", or he or one of his descendants went on to formally establish that cadet branch. Assuming that the same number of generations occurred in House Royce as in House Stark during this time, this would make Nestor Royce the second cousin of Eddard Stark - though if a Royce had children at a very young or old age, this might be off by a generation.

After hearing of the Sack of Winterfell, and the assumed death of his younger brothers, Robb Stark's mother Catelyn urged her son to officially name one of his distant cousins from House Royce as his heir. Arya was also assumed dead at the time, and Sansa had just been forced to marry Tyrion Lannister, and both correctly feared that should he die, the Lannisters were planning on installing any child born between Sansa and Tyrion as their puppet to rule the North. Robb disagreed on the grounds that it was still a distant relationship, and said he would prefer to name his bastard half-brother Jon Snow as his heir, because given that Robb was a king he could simply declare Jon to be legitimized. The matter was rendered moot by Robb's sudden death at the Red Wedding.

House Royce's relationship to House Stark is said to be distant (i.e. to the degree of three cousins or thereabout) but they are apparently more closely related to the Starks than House Karstark, given that Catelyn considered the Royces to be potential heirs ahead of the Karstarks. Robb's recent execution of Lord Rickard Karstark and the withdrawal of Karstark support at the time may have also been a factor, but it is also known that the Karstarks branched off from the main Stark line about a thousand years ago, which would be far more distant than the relationship with House Royce, which (according to the dates when Edwyle Stark ruled), was made a little over a hundred years ago.

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