History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireCrackclawPointHouses

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Possibly. Despite being a rather seedy member of the smallfolk, he claims descent from a possibly fictitious in-universe MemeticBadass, Ser Clarence Crabb, and by extension, the noble House of Crabb ([[UnreliableExpositor pretty much all of the details of which come from him]]).

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Possibly. Despite being a rather seedy member of the smallfolk, he claims descent from a possibly factious in-universe MemeticBadass, Ser Clarence Crabb, and by extension, the noble House of Crabb ([[UnreliableExpositor pretty much all of the details of which come from him]]).

* RedHerring: Brienee is suspicious of him during the entire journey, suspecting he might be planning to ambush, rape, and rob her. She discovers his good intentions about the same time [[spoiler:he gets killed by Shagwell]].

[[folder: House Brune]]

[[folder: House Crabb]]

* IronicName: A great champion named after the Lord of all evil.

House Crabb is a noble house from the crownlands sworn to King's Landing. Its lands are found on Crackclaw Point. A former seat of the house is the Whispers, a castle ruined for over a millenium. Neither their arms nor words have appeared in the text.

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:After Dick gets killed by Shagwell, Brienne forces Shagwell to dig Dick's grave, kills him when he tries to kill her after finishing, and then places the money she had promised Dick after hiring him into the grave with him]].

* ShamingTheMob: Impressed by Dick Bean's loyalty, he motivated the other knights to fight alongside Maegor.

* FamousAncestor: He's known in history as the slayer of Harren the Red and one of the participant of Maegor's trial of seven, in which he died fighting for Maegor.

** Bernarr Brune, slayer of Harren the Red, who died fighting in Maegor's trial of the seven.

* FamousAncestor: The Brothers Brune, legendary champions who brought peace to Crackclaw Point.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Another Bennard Brune killed Harren the Red.

* GenreSavvy: After Brienne tells him the story of a hero with a magic sword who never used it, saving it for a singular event, Dick tells her that it's better to use the best weapon available than die thinking, "I should have used the sword!" When Brienne next anticipates a fight, she thinks back to Dick's advice and pulls out her hidden Valyrian steel sword. [[spoiler:It gives her just enough of an advantage to win the ensuing fight and avenge his death]].

!!This is a listing of Houses in Crackclaw Point that appear in the {{Fantasy}} series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' that do not have enough members or tropes to justify their own page (yet). Visit [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFire here]] for the main character index.

Crackclaw Point is a peninsula in the crownlands jutting out into the narrow sea. To the north lies the Bay of Crabs, to the south Blackwater Bay. Maidenpool and Rook's Rest are west of the forested peninsula, while Dragonstone and Claw Isle are to the south and east, respectively.

* TheClan

* AlliterativeName

* AlliterativeName

* FamousAncestor

* BitCharacter: The Caves and Pynes are only mentioned.

[[folder:House Boggs]]
House Boggs is a noble house from the crownlands. Their seat is located on Crackclaw Point. Neither their arms nor their words appear in the books.

!!Ser Mortimer Boggs
Ser Mortimer Boggs was a knight of House Boggs during the reign of Aerys I. He was a knight of some repute.
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* BitCharacter: On ''Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg''.
* SoreLoser: He was defeated in the lists by Ser Glendon Flowers. He refused to send over his horse and the armor he sent over had holes punched through it.
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* FamousAncestor

* InSeriesNickname: Nimble Dick.

[[folder: House Brune of the Dyre Den]]

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!!Landed Knights
[[folder: House Brune of Brownhollow]]
!! House Brune of Brownhollow

House Brune of Brownhollow is a house of landed knights from Brownhollow, which is located in Crackclaw Point in the crownlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a bear paw, brown on white, within a double tressure brown. Their words are not known.

The Brownhollow Brunes are presumably a cadet branch of House Brune of the Dyre Den.

!!Ser Bennard Brune

The knight of Brownhollow.
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* AlliterativeName
* TheGhost: Still hasn't appeared.

!!Ser Lothor Brune
!!!The Apple Eater

A knight and former freerider in service to Littlefinger. He is a distant relation of the house.
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* AscendedExtra: He was a minor character in the first two books who was mentioned to be participating in some tournaments in King's Landing. ''A Storm of Swords'' reveals that he is in the employ of Littlefinger and he becames a supporting character in Sansa's POV.
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheQuietOnes: He is a pretty nice and quiet individual, but is also an extremely dangerous man.
* TheCaptain: He is appointed captain of the Eyrie's guard after Littlefinger marries Lysa Arryn.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: After his father died he had tried to make a connection with House Brune's main line, but was shunned and chased away. He won't speak of what happened after that, but hints that it was very bloody.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Is very attracted to Mya Stone, but she won't even give him the time of day. After her ill-fated affair with Mychel Redfort this is understandable, but Brune is also about fifteen years older than her.
* TheDragon: To Littlefinger.
* InSeriesNickname: Lothor the Apple-Eater, which he got for cutting his way through House Fossoway men-at-arms and knights at the Battle of the Blackwater, since their sigil was an apple.
* NiceGuy: Oddly enough, considering who he is in service to.
* TheNondescript: Another likely reason Littlefinger employs him. He is eminently blendable and can suddenly pop up from the background to surprise the ''readers'', let alone anybody in-universe. Even dolled-up in his best armour, emblazoned with his own colours... he fades.
* PunchClockVillain: Works for Littlefinger, making this trope pretty much a given, but so far the worst thing he has done is order some crossbowmen to shoot [[spoiler:Ser Dontos, a fairly unsympathetic character who had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] to Littlefinger]]. Most of the time he is carrying out pretty normal tasks, and even stops Marillion from raping Sansa.
* OneManArmy: He kills around '''fifty''' soldiers single-handedly during the Battle of the Blackwater, including killing two knights and capturing a third.
* TheQuietOne: He doesn't speak much, which is one of the reasons Littlefinger employs him.
* SecretKeeper: Knows about several of the plots Littlefinger has going, [[spoiler:the most important of which is Sansa Stark hiding in the Vale as Alayne Stone]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A common mistake is writing his name as Lothar. Not even the author is spared of this.

Crackclaw Point is a peninsula in the crownlands jutting out into the narrow sea. To the north lies the Bay of Crabs, to the south Blackwater Bay. Maidenpool and Rook's Rest are west of the forested peninsula, while Dragonstone and Claw Isle are to the south and east, respectively.

The land is full of cavernous hills and bogs and pine barrens, thick with deciduous trees and evergreens like sentinels and soldier pines. Moss covers ancient ruined strongholds throughout the region. Settlement is denser along the coastal road near Maidenpool.

[[folder: House Brune of Brownhollow]]
!! House Brune of Brownhollow

House Brune of Brownhollow is a house of landed knights from Brownhollow, which is located in Crackclaw Point in the crownlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with a bear paw, brown on white, within a double tressure brown. Their words are not known.

The Brownhollow Brunes are presumably a cadet branch of House Brune of the Dyre Den.

!!Ser Bennard Brune

The knight of Brownhollow.

* TheGhost: Still hasn't appeared.

!!Ser Lothor Brune
!!!The Apple Eater

A knight and former freerider in service to Littlefinger. He is a distant relation of the house.

* AscendedExtra: He was a minor character in the first two books who was mentioned to be participating in some tournaments in King's Landing. ''A Storm of Swords'' reveals that he is in the employ of Littlefinger and he becames a supporting character in Sansa's POV.
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheQuietOnes: He is a pretty nice and quiet individual, but is also an extremely dangerous man.
* TheCaptain: He is appointed captain of the Eyrie's guard after Littlefinger marries Lysa Arryn.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: After his father died he had tried to make a connection with House Brune's main line, but was shunned and chased away. He won't speak of what happened after that, but hints that it was very bloody.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Is very attracted to Mya Stone, but she won't even give him the time of day. After her ill-fated affair with Mychel Redfort this is understandable, but Brune is also about fifteen years older than her.
* TheDragon: To Littlefinger.
* InSeriesNickname: Lothor the Apple-Eater, which he got for cutting his way through House Fossoway men-at-arms and knights at the Battle of the Blackwater, since their sigil was an apple.
* NiceGuy: Oddly enough, considering who he is in service to.
* TheNondescript: Another likely reason Littlefinger employs him. He is eminently blendable and can suddenly pop up from the background to surprise the ''readers'', let alone anybody in-universe. Even dolled-up in his best armour, emblazoned with his own colours... he fades.
* PunchClockVillain: Works for Littlefinger, making this trope pretty much a given, but so far the worst thing he has done is order some crossbowmen to shoot [[spoiler:Ser Dontos, a fairly unsympathetic character who had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] to Littlefinger]]. Most of the time he is carrying out pretty normal tasks, and even stops Marillion from raping Sansa.
* OneManArmy: He kills around '''fifty''' soldiers single-handedly during the Battle of the Blackwater, including killing two knights and capturing a third.
* TheQuietOne: He doesn't speak much, which is one of the reasons Littlefinger employs him.
* SecretKeeper: Knows about several of the plots Littlefinger has going, [[spoiler:the most important of which is Sansa Stark hiding in the Vale as Alayne Stone]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A common mistake is writing his name as Lothar. Not even the author is spared of this.

[[folder: House Crabb]]

House Crabb is a noble house from the crownlands sworn to King's Landing. Its lands are found on Crackclaw Point. A former seat of the house is the Whispers, a castle ruined for over a millenium. Neither their arms nor words have appeared in the text.

!!Dick Crabb
!!!Nimble Dick

A former soldier that encounters Brienne of Tarth during her search for Sansa Stark.

* ConMan: With negative results for him, since he conned members of the Brave Companions.
* DangerousDeserter: Averted; the tunic with its insignia ripped out implies he's a deserter, but he doesn't try to harm Brienne.
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:After Dick gets killed by Shagwell, Brienne forces Shagwell to dig Dick's grave, kills him when he tries to kill her after finishing, and then places the money she had promised Dick after hiring him into the grave with him]].
* GenreSavvy: After Brienne tells him the story of a hero with a magic sword who never used it, saving it for a singular event, Dick tells her that it's better to use the best weapon available than die thinking, "I should have used the sword!" When Brienne next anticipates a fight, she thinks back to Dick's advice and pulls out her hidden Valyrian steel sword. [[spoiler:It gives her just enough of an advantage to win the ensuing fight and avenge his death]].
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Possibly. Despite being a rather seedy member of the smallfolk, he claims descent from a possibly factious in-universe MemeticBadass, Ser Clarence Crabb, and by extension, the noble House of Crabb ([[UnreliableExpositor pretty much all of the details of which come from him]]).
* InSeriesNickname: Nimble Dick.
* LovableRogue: Possibly a deserter, a little shady, and a con-man, but still a relatively pleasant man.
* RedHerring: Brienee is suspicious of him during the entire journey, suspecting he might be planning to ambush, rape, and rob her. She discovers his good intentions about the same time [[spoiler:he gets killed by Shagwell]].
* SmallReferencePools: Is rather surprised that Brienne has never heard of famous local heroes like Ser Clarence. Naturally he hasn't heard of Brienne's heroes either.
* UndyingLoyalty: He is derisive of the Baratheons, mentioning that the houses of Crackclaw Point have always been loyal to House Targaryen.
* UnreliableExpositor: He gives Brienne and Podd numerous details about the history of Crackclaw Point and the houses there, but they (and the reader) are skeptical about how much of it is true. Considering how well he seemed to know the area, the amount of details he includes, and the fact he turns out to be trustworthy, at least some of what he is saying is likely true, if ShroudedInMyth.

!!!Historical Crabbs
!!Ser Clarence Crabb

Ser Clarence Crabb is a legendary hero from the Crackclaw Point area.

* FamousAncestor
* LargeAndInCharge: He was apparently eight feet tall, can uproot and throw trees and so heavy he needed to ride an aurochs to carry him.
* SorcerousOverlord: He apparently disembodied heads for his wife who then raised them from the dead. The dead heads would talk in whispers and give him counsel. It's possible these "whispers" are what gave House Crabb's castle its name.
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[[folder:House Hardy]]
House Hardy is a noble house from the Crownlands. Their lands are located on Crackclaw Point. Neither their arms nor their words have appeared.

!!Lord Lucifer Hardy
Lord Lucifer Hardy was lord and head of House Hardy. He is remembered for bringing peace to Crackclaw Point, though it did not survive him long.

* TheChampion: He is called as such.
* FamousAncestor
* IronicName: A great champion named after the Lord of all evil.

!!!Tropes related to House Crabb:
* PraetorianGuard: Three Crabbs were members of the Kingsguard: Ser Clement, Ser Rupert and Ser Clarence the Short.