The Crag

The Crag is the seat of House Westerling in the Westerlands. It is more of a ruin than a castle as the Westerlings no longer have the funds to maintain it. It sits along the coast of the Sunset Sea, south of Banefort, northwest of Ashemark, and northeast of Fair Isle.

History
The Crag was first planned by Corlos Cragstrider as depicted in The Epic of Corlos Cragstrider. It was finished 12 years after his death, and at the time of its completion it was viewed as one of the better keeps in the Westerlands. For the next while, it remained this why. Their mines remained productive and the keep remained beautiful. Yet, eventually, it seemed the Seven had cursed them as their mines ran empty and their wealth dried up. The keep slowly turned into a semi-ruin, with vines running up and down its walls and moss growing in between cracks in the stone.

During the War of the Five Kings, King Robb Stark and his force in the westerlands march on the Crag. News is received at Riverrun that Robb has taken the castle.

The Crag was stormed, with Smalljon Umber and Black Walder Frey scaling the walls, while Robb broke through the main gate. Robb took a wound and was nursed back to health by Jeyne Westerling. During the nursing, Robb deflowered Jeyne, and being an honorable man, married her shortly thereafter. As a consequence of that, the Westerlings joined with House Stark.

Rolph Spicer, the castellan of the Crag, receives Castamere for his betrayal of Robb in the Red Wedding.

Layout
The Crag is atop a cliff overlooking the Sunset Sea, the keep is rather small, surrounded by a medium sized wall. Inside the keep there is a main building which is split into two wings. The first wing has the large hall known as the council hall. Here, feasts are held - when they happen - and this is also where Lord Westerling holds council. There are also multiple other rooms, one of which is a smaller council room. The other wing of the building houses the rooms of all the members of House Westerling, along with a kitchen, a dining room, and other practical things.

There are several other buildings, the most important is the guard barracks, where the city guard is kept, the dungeons are also in the basement of this building.

The Grand Order of Corlos used to preside in its own building, it was gloriously decorated and seen as the center of the entire keep. Yet, as the Order delved deeper and deeper into irrelevance they abandoned the building, and the knights simply lived in the main building. Now, the building is used for a variety of purposes. When they had an abundant harvest a few years ago, the excess grain was stored in the building, for example.

The Sept of The Crag is its own building, it is plain white and beautifully decorated, the only building in the keep still kept as well in shape as it was when the Westerlings were rich.

Outside of the buildings there is a training yard, used to train scions, knights, and soldiers.