Castle Rho

Castle Rho is a a port town and castle on the coast of the Eastern Sea. It has been ruled by House Stormeblood for some centuries. Its current lord is Russell Stormeblood.

Geography
It is located just southeast of the eastern end of the Last Mountains, and about ten leagues south of Vesper Primis via the Sand Road. Castle Rho is the capital of the Sealands, making it the smallest capital of all provinces. If you follow the Sea's Way south, you will reach Arrowton and the lands of the Bow. If you follow the North Way west, you will reach Clyffeton and later the Gate.

Description
The town spreads out around the port and is about half the size of the Gate. The eastern gates open up to a market square, where mostly fishermen and fisherwives come to sell their catch. Castle Rho is surrounded by low stone walls, where soldiers patrol constantly. The roads inside the town are mostly cobblestone, but that makes way for dirt in some smaller alleys.

The castle of House Stormeblood, the Grey Fort, is, as the name implies, almost completely grey. It used to be grey before Victorik Stormeblood took it from House Greystorm. Afterward, he commanded painters to colour the roof of the castle in their own blue. Three main towers form the Grey Fort: the Hydra's Tower, the Storm's Tower, and the Blood's Tower. They are connected by means of archways and turret steps. The lord of the castle resides is the Hydra's Tower.

The people of Castle Rho, and the northern Coasts, wear thin garb and wield long spears due to the possible heat in the summer.

History
In the days before the Age of Emperors, a lord named Victorik Blood took matters into his own hands during the tyranny of Hadryan Greystorm. He rallied all the lords in his area and sacked Castle Rho. He named himself Lord of Castle Rho and the Coasts and renamed his family Stormeblood.

Lord Russell Stormeblood marches east to Clyffeton in 220 A.K. to help Lord Eryc Radclyffe in his war against King Oscar Anthony I. However, he is lured into a trap set up by his wife, Pearl Arrandale-Stormeblood, and killed along with Eryc Radclyffe and all the strength of Clyffeton. Pearl names herself Lady of Castle Rho and Clyffeton after laying siege to Radclyffe's capital.