House Umber

House Umber of the Last Hearth is a noble house from the Last Hearth in the north. Lord Rickar Umber, is sworn to House Stark of Winterfell. The Umber sigil is a roaring giant, brown-haired and wearing a skin, with broken silver chains, on flame-red.

Lands
The Umbers are hardy people, tempered by the rough northern climate. They control the harsh land along the Bay of Seals, south of the New Gift and extending west to the kingsroad - a place of wild hills and ancient forests of oak and pine. Their lands include the northern Last River and the Lonely Hills. The kingsroad runs along the western marches of Umber territory for a hundred leagues. Most of their land is east of the kingsroad, but the Umbers graze their sheep in the high meadows of the northern mountains in summer.

History
House Umber is an ancient house who once ruled as First Men kings. After many struggles, the Umbers were reduced from royals to vassals of House Stark, the Kings of Winter. Amongst other possibilities, the Night's King is rumored to have been an Umber.

The Umbers' proximity to the Wall puts them at risk of wildling raids and they have often been called upon to help defend the north against wildling raiders. The Umbers joined the Starks in defeating the brother Kings-Beyond-the-Wall Gendel and Gorne three thousand years ago. Lord Harmond Umber helped Lord Willam and Artos Stark defeat King Raymun Redbeard in a battle at Long Lake. Lord Greatjon Umber's cousin, the daughter of Mors Umber, was carried off in a wildling raid.

During Robert's Rebellion, the Umbers followed Lord Eddard Stark to war, with Mors's sons dying at the Battle of the Trident.

Although they deny it, Umber lords are rumored to still practice the tradition of the lord's right to the first night, which was banned during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

During the Bolton occupation in the North, the Umber's remained loyal to the Stark's splitting their forces into two, one that followed Stannis and one that followed the Bolton's, upon the siege of the Winterfell, the Umber's revealed their true loyalties as the Umber's in service to House Bolton turned on them and slaughtered many. Before joining their forces in full strength with Jon Snow. The Umber's partook in the battle of the Weeping Water lead by the Greatjon after he was released following the Battle of Oldstones, it is from his second son the current Umber's claim ancestry.

Family

 * Artos Umber d. 404
 * m. Freya Umber
 * Lord Rickard Umber b. 382
 * m. Eddara Glover b. 383
 * Hoarfrost Umber b. 400
 * m. Arrana Stark
 * Robb Umber b. 401
 * Domeric Umber b. 402
 * Serena Umber b. 403
 * Mors Umber b. 385
 * m. Ella Hornwood b. 385
 * Osric Umber b. 410
 * Jon Umber b. 390 - Member of the Nights Watch

Last Hearth
Last Hearth, sometimes known as the Last Hearth, is the seat of House Umber in the North. It lies close to the Gift in a forest east of the kingsroad. It is north of the Last River, northeast of Long Lake, and west of the Bay of Seals. With the exception of the castles of the Night's Watch, Last Hearth is the northernmost major castle of the Seven Kingdoms.

Last Hearth was the royal seat of the Umbers when they were petty kings.

In the great mêlée at Last Hearth in 170 AC, it is said that no fewer than eighteen men died, and half again that number were sorely maimed before the day was done.