whats your thoughts on house osgrey?

An interesting portrait of a noble family sliding into genteel poverty, trapped by their fixation on the past and a quixotic cause.

Their fall from grace, from being Marshalls of the Northmarch, where their status clearly was founded on the need for a military presence on the Reach’s border with the Westerlands during the era of seven kingdoms, with four castles, twenty vassal houses, and 100 landed knights, to a mere landed knight with nothing more than a tower to die in, is very reminiscent of how downward mobility worked for the nobility in the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

If they were a different kind of house, more practical and political, they might have righted themselves by marrying into a rich merchant house, using the capital to invest in Dosk, Little Dosk, and Brandybottom, try to make themselves a going concern in the winemaking, brewing, and distilling industries, like House Redwyne on a smaller scale.

But no, they had to be all about Coldmoat. 

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