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'''Saltpans''' is a town in the [[Riverlands]] that sits on the [[Bay of Crabs]] and the seat of [[House Cox]]. It has never been an important trading port but ships do call there from time to time.{{Ref|aFfC|31}} A small castle dominates the town. A tall, square keep with a bailey and a curtain wall.{{ref|ASOS|74}} The castle overlooks the harbor.<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 37|Chapter 37]], Brienne</ref>
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'''Saltpans''' is a town in the [[riverlands]] that sits on the [[Bay of Crabs]]. It is the seat of [[House Cox]], although semi-canon sources indicate that [[House Hawick]] is also from the town.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/4/ Houses in the Riverlands]</ref>  
  
==Recent Events==
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==Description and History==
===A Storm of Swords===
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The [[river king]]s of old refused charters which would have allowed towns like [[Fairmarket]], [[Lord Harroway's Town]], and Saltpans to expand and potentially become cities.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}
After being attacked at the [[Inn at the Crossroads]], a wounded [[Sandor Clegane]] and [[Arya Stark]] set out for Saltpans.  Six days after abandoning the dying Hound Arya sees a town appear before her. She hopes it is Saltpans. She sees that a small castle dominates the town; no more than a holdfast, and also observes a single tall square keep with a bailey and a curtain wall. Arya sees that most of the shops and inns and alehouses around the harbor have been [[Sack of Saltpans|plundered or burned]], though some still look inhabited.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}
 
  
She notices that the port is still there and eastward spreads the [[Bay of Crabs]], its waters shimmering blue and green in the sun. Arya also notices that there are three ships. Two are only river galleys but the third is bigger with furled purple sails and a hull that has been painted purple. She rides [[Craven (horse)|Craven]] for a better look at the ships and realises that she needs silver to pay for sea passage.  
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Saltpans has never been an important trading port, but ships do call there from time to time.{{Ref|aFfC|31}} The castle of [[House Cox]] dominates the town; it is a small castle, no more than a holdfast, a single tall square keep with a bailey and a curtain wall.{{Ref|aSoS|74}} There are shops and inns and alehouses by the harbor, as well as a [[sept]] and a stable.{{Ref|aSoS|74}} Industries in the town include fishing and trading salt across the [[narrow sea]].{{Ref|aSoS|74}}{{Ref|aFfC|31}} The [[Quiet Isle]] is an island in the bay, some distance to the southeast; the fires of Saltpans can be seen from the island on clear nights.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}
  
She learns from a boy at the docks that the towns stable had been burnt but the woman who owned it was still trading behind the sept. Arya finds her easily, and sells [[Craven (horse)|Craven]] for far less than her worth to the woman, much to Arya’s annoyance.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}
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==Recent Events==
 
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
Arya then walks back to the docks to the purple galley and demands to see the captain and informs him she wants to go north to the [[Wall]], to the [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea|castle by the sea]]. Arya does not have enough silver and neither is the captain remotely interested in sailing north. She asks what ship it is and is told that it is the galleas ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'', of the Free City of [[Braavos]]. 
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[[Arya Stark]] arrives at Saltpans six days after abandoning the dying [[Sandor Clegane]] by the banks of the [[Trident]]. Arya sees that most of the shops and inns and alehouses around the harbor have been plundered or burned from the [[War of the Five Kings]], though some still look inhabited. After trading [[Craven|her horse]] for silver, she manages to procure passage on a [[Braavos]]i ship, using the [[Faceless Men|iron coin]] given to her by [[Jaqen H'ghar]].{{Ref|aSoS|74}}
 
 
As captain [[Ternesio Terys]] is turning away Arya suddenly remembers the iron coin [[Jaqen H'ghar]] gave to her and shows it to him and says to the shocked captain ''"[[Valar Morghulis]]"'', to which he replies ''"[[Valar Dohaeris]]"'' and tells her that of ''course'' she shall have a cabin. {{Ref|aSoS|74}} Arya sets sail for Braavos.
 
 
 
===A Feast for Crows===
 
It is believed that the Hound, [[Sandor Clegane]], led the Saltpans massacre when it was in fact [[Rorge]], wearing the Hound's distinctive helm, who committed the atrocities. The rest of the raiders were members of the [[Brave Companions]].
 
 
 
Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] tells her uncle [[Kevan Lannister]] that the nearby town of Saltpans had been savagely raided by a band of outlaws, and some of the survivors claimed a roaring brute in a hound’s head helm was amongst the raiders.  Supposedly he killed a dozen men and raped a girl of twelve.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}
 
 
 
When talking to Kevan [[Jaime Lannister]] reflects that he had heard about Saltpans, and by now half the realm had heard too.  The raid had been exceptionally savage, with women raped and mutilated, children butchered in their mother’s arms and half the town put to the torch.{{Ref|aFfC|20}}
 
 
 
While confronted by [[Brienne of Tarth]] at the [[Whispers]], [[Timeon]] informs her that the [[Brave Companions]] went their own ways after they left [[Harrenhal]], and that [[Rorge]] thought he might slip out at Saltpans.{{Ref|aFfC|20}} He also tells her that the Hound is the one who has the Stark girl. This somewhat misleading information gives Brienne a lead as the location of [[Sansa Stark]] and she decides to track down the the Hound.
 
 
 
First Brienne heads back to [[Maidenpool]] where Ser [[Hyle Hunt]] tells her that his cousin [[Alyn Hunt]] told him that Sandor Clegane was last seen in the Saltpans on the day of the raid, and at Saltpans he was looking for a ship. Brienne surmises that if Sandor was last seen at Saltpans, that would be the place to find his trail. Hyle adds that there is no one left at Saltpans but [[Quincy Cox|an old knight]] hiding in his castle.{{Ref|aFfC|25}} Hyle informs Brienne that Septon [[Meribald]] always calls at Saltpans and they can accompany him when makes his circuit on the morrow.{{Ref|aFfC|25}}
 
 
 
The [[High Sparrow]] tells Cersei that the Hound slew an aged [[septon]] at Saltpans and despoiled a girl of twelve, an innocent child promised to the Faith. He goes on to say the Hound wore his armor as he raped the girl and her tender flesh was torn and crushed by his iron mail. When he was done he gave her to his men, who cut of her nose and nipples.{{Ref|aFfC|28}}
 
  
During the dinner held in Jaime’s honour at Castle [[Darry]], Ser [[Arwood Frey]] says the Hound slew twenty men at Saltpans. Ser Arwood Frey insists that there is a knight at Saltpans and that he hid behind his walls whilst Clegane and his mad dogs ravaged through town.
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A [[raven]] arrives in [[King's Landing]] from the [[septry]] at the [[Quiet Isle]], saying that [[Sack of Saltpans|Saltpans has been savagely raided by a band of outlaws]], and some of the survivors claim [[Sandor Clegane|a roaring brute in a hound's head helm]] was amongst the raiders.  Supposedly the Hound killed a dozen men and raped a twelve-year-old girl who had been promised to the [[Faith]].{{Ref|aFfC|12}}{{Ref|aFfC|28}} Later reports say that all that remains of the town is the castle of Ser [[Quincy Cox]], and the rest is bones and ashes.{{Ref|aFfC|30}}{{Ref|aFfC|31}}{{Ref|aFfC|37}} Those who were at sea during the raid only returned to bury their kin.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}
  
Arwood himself saw what was done at Saltpans. When news of the raid at Saltpans reached [[the Twins]], Arwood rode to the town with Ser [[Harys Haigh|Harys]] and Ser [[Donnel Haigh]] and half a hundred men, archers and men-at-arms to investigate. There they found the knight of Saltpans, Ser [[Quincy Cox]], sitting behind his walls and the town in ashes. Arwood says,  
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On the [[Quiet Isle]], the [[Elder Brother (Quiet Isle)|Elder Brother]] informs [[Brienne of Tarth]] more of what happened at Saltpans. He has treated some of the survivors, when the fisherfolk brought them across the bay to him, after the flames had gone out and they deemed it safe to land. The Elder Brother tells Brienne that the raiders wanted a galley or a cog to carry them across the [[narrow sea]]. When none was at hand, they took their rage and desperation out upon the townsfolk.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}
{{Quote|All that remains of Saltpans is the castle, and old Ser [[Quincy Cox|Quincy]] so frightened he would not open his gates, but shouted down at them from his battlements. The rest is bones and ashes. A whole town. The Hound put the buildings to the torch and the people to the sword and rode off laughing. The women … you would not believe what he did to some of the women. I will not speak of it at table. It made me sick to see.{{Ref|aFfC|30}}}}
 
Lady [[Amerei Frey]] says she cried when she heard the news of Saltpans. Arwood adds there are a few who survived to tell the tale: the girl that was raped, some boys who hid, a woman they found beneath a blackened beam, and the fisherfolk who watched the butchery from their boats.{{Ref|aFfC|30}}
 
  
Forty-eight-year-old Brother [[Clement]] died of wounds he got at Saltpans. He had taken some of the Quite Isle’s mead to the market there, on the day the outlaws descended on the town. {{Ref|aFfC|31}}
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The Elder Brother tells Brienne that it was not Sandor Clegane who had led the massacre, as the Hound had died by the Trident, but another man who found his hound's head helm that the Elder Brother had left on his grave.{{Ref|aFfC|31}} Later, Brienne learns that it was in fact [[Rorge]], wearing the helm, who committed the atrocities, along with his companion [[Biter]]. The rest of the raiders were members of the [[Brave Companions]].{{Ref|aFfC|37}}{{Ref|aFfC|20}}
  
On the [[Quiet Isle]] [[Elder Brother]] informs Brienne and her companions that the raiders burned everything at Saltpans, save the castle. Only that building was made of stone, though it had as well been made of suet for all the good it did the town. It fell to Elder Brother to treat some of the survivors. The fisherfolk brought them across the bay to him after the flames had gone out and they deemed it safe to land. One poor woman had been raped a dozen times, and her breasts had been torn and chewed and eaten, as if by some cruel beast. Elder Brother says,
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The fishermen and others who escaped the assault eventually abandon the town, with most of them going to [[Maidenpool]], leaving nothing behind in Saltpans other than the holdfast.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}
{{Quote|I did what I could for her, though that was little enough. As she lay dying, her worst curses were not for the men who had raped her, nor the monster who devoured her living flesh, but for Ser [[Quincy Cox]], who barred his gates when the outlaws entered the town and sat safe behind stone walls as his people screamed and died.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}}}
 
Meribald, Brienne, and their companions go with Elder Brother to the Quiet Isle's sept to pray for the souls of the good folk of Saltpans.
 
 
 
Elder Brother informs Brienne that only the castle at Saltpans remains.  Even the fisherfolk are gone, the fortunate few who were out on the water when the raiders came. They watched their houses burn and listened to screams and cries across the harbor, too fearful to land their boats. When at last they came ashore, it was to bury friends and kin.  What is there for them at Saltpans now but bones and bitter memories. They have moved to [[Maidenpool]] or other towns.
 
 
 
Elder Brother tells Brienne that the raiders wanted a galley or a cog to carry them across the [[narrow sea]]. When none was at hand they took their rage and desperation out upon the townsfolk.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}
 
  
 
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{{Quote|Saltpans was the work of some fell beast in human skin.{{Ref|aFfC|30}}|Lady [[Mariya Darry]]}}
Saltpans was the work of some fell beast in human skin. {{Ref|aFfC|30}}}} – Lady [[Mariya Darry]]
 
  
==Chapters that take place at Saltpans==
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{{quote|At Saltpans, they had found only death and desolation. By the time Brienne and her companions were ferried over from the [[Quiet Isle]], the survivors had fled and the dead had been given to the ground, but the corpse of the town itself remained, ashen and unburied.{{ref|AFFC|37}}|thoughts of [[Brienne of Tarth]]}}
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 74|A Storm of Swords: 74. Arya XIII]]
 
  
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Latest revision as of 02:26, 17 March 2020

The riverlands and the location of Saltpans
The riverlands and the location of Saltpans
Saltpans
The riverlands and the location of Saltpans

Saltpans is a town in the riverlands that sits on the Bay of Crabs. It is the seat of House Cox, although semi-canon sources indicate that House Hawick is also from the town.[1]

Description and History

The river kings of old refused charters which would have allowed towns like Fairmarket, Lord Harroway's Town, and Saltpans to expand and potentially become cities.[2]

Saltpans has never been an important trading port, but ships do call there from time to time.[3] The castle of House Cox dominates the town; it is a small castle, no more than a holdfast, a single tall square keep with a bailey and a curtain wall.[4] There are shops and inns and alehouses by the harbor, as well as a sept and a stable.[4] Industries in the town include fishing and trading salt across the narrow sea.[4][3] The Quiet Isle is an island in the bay, some distance to the southeast; the fires of Saltpans can be seen from the island on clear nights.[3]

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Arya Stark arrives at Saltpans six days after abandoning the dying Sandor Clegane by the banks of the Trident. Arya sees that most of the shops and inns and alehouses around the harbor have been plundered or burned from the War of the Five Kings, though some still look inhabited. After trading her horse for silver, she manages to procure passage on a Braavosi ship, using the iron coin given to her by Jaqen H'ghar.[4]

A Feast for Crows

A raven arrives in King's Landing from the septry at the Quiet Isle, saying that Saltpans has been savagely raided by a band of outlaws, and some of the survivors claim a roaring brute in a hound's head helm was amongst the raiders. Supposedly the Hound killed a dozen men and raped a twelve-year-old girl who had been promised to the Faith.[5][6] Later reports say that all that remains of the town is the castle of Ser Quincy Cox, and the rest is bones and ashes.[7][3][8] Those who were at sea during the raid only returned to bury their kin.[3]

On the Quiet Isle, the Elder Brother informs Brienne of Tarth more of what happened at Saltpans. He has treated some of the survivors, when the fisherfolk brought them across the bay to him, after the flames had gone out and they deemed it safe to land. The Elder Brother tells Brienne that the raiders wanted a galley or a cog to carry them across the narrow sea. When none was at hand, they took their rage and desperation out upon the townsfolk.[3]

The Elder Brother tells Brienne that it was not Sandor Clegane who had led the massacre, as the Hound had died by the Trident, but another man who found his hound's head helm that the Elder Brother had left on his grave.[3] Later, Brienne learns that it was in fact Rorge, wearing the helm, who committed the atrocities, along with his companion Biter. The rest of the raiders were members of the Brave Companions.[8][9]

The fishermen and others who escaped the assault eventually abandon the town, with most of them going to Maidenpool, leaving nothing behind in Saltpans other than the holdfast.[3]

Quotes

Saltpans was the work of some fell beast in human skin.[7]

—Lady Mariya Darry

At Saltpans, they had found only death and desolation. By the time Brienne and her companions were ferried over from the Quiet Isle, the survivors had fled and the dead had been given to the ground, but the corpse of the town itself remained, ashen and unburied.[8]

—thoughts of Brienne of Tarth

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