Tumbleton

Location from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin

A prosperous Reach town sacked twice during the Dance. Where the dragonseeds Hugh Hammer and Ulf White betrayed the Blacks, turning their dragons against their own side.

Tumbleton is a market town in the northern Reach, prosperous and unremarkable until the Dance makes it a byword for treachery and horror. The town is sacked twice. In the First Battle of Tumbleton, Hugh Hammer on Vermithor and Ulf White on Silverwing — dragonseeds recruited by the Blacks — switch sides mid-battle and burn the town they were sent to defend. Thousands die. The Second Battle is even more chaotic, with dragonseeds turning on each other. By the war's end, Tumbleton is a charred ruin and the name itself becomes a cautionary tale about the dangers of giving dragons to men of low birth and uncertain loyalty.

Appearance

Market town in the northern Reach. Sacked twice during the Dance — first by Blacks, then betrayed by the dragonseeds Hugh Hammer and Ulf White who switched sides. A byword for treachery.

Also known as: Tumbleton town

What They Know

• Hugh Hammer and Ulf White's betrayal at Tumbleton was the most devastating act of treachery in the Dance
• The town was burned by the very dragons sent to defend it — the smallfolk had cheered their arrival hours before
• Hugh Hammer crowned himself and attempted to claim the Iron Throne after the betrayal, believing his dragon made him worthy
• The Second Tumbleton saw Addam Velaryon on Seasmoke prove the dragonseeds' loyalty was not universally treacherous

Connections

• part_of — the_reach
• located_in — the_reach

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