House Tarth

House Tarth is one of the larger Gothic Houses in the Westros city of Harrenhall. House Tarth was always aligned with House Strong but following the early events of the siege of Harrenhall they changed sides and gave control of the factory district to House Seaworth which proved devestating to the siege. House Tarth is perhaps the fourth largest house in Harrenhall falling only behind House Seaworth, House Strong, and House Peach.

House Tarth was alongside House Strong one of the main clans that moved south threw Dole during the Great Migration, and during this trip they became extremely valuable to the leadership in House Strong, and this relationship continued during the rise of Harrenhall. As Harrenhall begin to grow in strength the members of House Tarth found themselves pushed into more and more of a role of being the manuphactures of the town, and there control was stamped all over the northeastern district of the city which became known as the factory district. In the years preceding the War with Dole they founded the small town of Tabor where they begin to pour a lot of their energy into. This town meant that there center of influence moved somewhat out of Harrenhall into the bergouning western section of the Harrenhall region. When House Seaworth begin plans to betray House Strong they were not consulted as it was believed correctly that they would simply ride the winner to the end with no real moral standing point.

Harrenhall
Main Article : Harrenhall



Conflict with Dole
Dole was always an enemy of House Strong, since the first days of House Strong entering Westros the Dolish people had for whatever reason come to absolutely hate the members of Harrenhall who they believed looked down on the Dolish and their way of living. Dole and Harrenhall have had a long and dirty history between eachother and this usually ignites into war over some meaningless town between the two or some stupid insult leveled at the other Houses. In this case the leader of Dole at the time ordered the murder of several Harrenhall tradesmen in an attempt to control trade in the center of the Dolish Peninsula. These murders led to a revenge killing in which Robert rode with two thousand horses and burned down an entire Dole village.

War
With this act the two went to war, and the war was at first heavily favored by the Dolish who enjoyed a massive superiority in numbers but as time went on the superior skills, and equipment of Harrenhall coupled with brilliant meneuvers by Stannis Strong led the Dolish to begin to lose the war. This series of defeats led to the Dolish besieging the House Strong town of Wurzberg where they besieged it with well over four hundred thousand men against fewer then one hundred thousand on the defenders side. The siege went on for well over a year with the Dolish unable to properly besiege the town and taking increasingly large casualties to both the battle and even larger to disertions as the clan leaders returned to their homes for the winter. As the Dolish retreated from the seige the large forces of Harrenhall who were barely even damaged moved themselves and begin harrasing the much larger force as it made its way back to Dole. Every time the Dolish attempted to battle the forces of Harrenhall they retreated and since the command of the Dolish was weaker many clans walked in wrong directions and were massacred as they drifted from the main force. This continued for weeks until completely exhausted and nearly at the point of breaking the forces of Dole stood their ground and a large land battle took place which led the destruction of much of the Dolish forces and minimul casualties to the Harrenhall forces.

Invasion of Harrenhall
Main Article : Siege of Harrenhall

Brianne Tarth
This relationship was extremely taboo as House Tarth controlled the regions of the Factory District and they were placed inside the House Seaworth camp by this. The relationship though didn't end and when he proposed and she accepted the entire city has been put on high alert by the outcome of this marriage.

Family Members

 * Brianne Tarth