Grey Cliffs

The Grey Cliffs are a series of cliffs in the North. They lie along the shore of the narrow sea, east of Karhold. Traditionally, they were part of the lands of the Karstark, but they were later given for governance as vassal to Rhogar Snow, bastard of Cregan Stark, a close relative of the Karstark. This mean that the Grey Cliffs became the seat of a new house, known as House Greycliff.

The area is known for its beautiful cliffs and its land of scarse woods, strong winds and stormy weather. In winter, snow covers most of the area. Sheep roaming the grass is one of most iconic views of the area. The main economical activities are fishing and sheep, or cattle raising with wool, milky products, leather and meat being source of income. Agriculture is low, mostly made for local consumption. A bit more inland, some small woods still remain.

Hanging for the top of a cliff lies the new castle called "Windfort" recently built by Rhogar under the ruins of a small watchtower. The Castle is among the newest contructed in all of westeros. It was built on a partial island and under it, it has a large cave able to hold Kerzogue and Gaulax, the Dragons of Rhogar and his mother Naera Targaryen of Whitefyre. The fort was built thanks to the money Naera was able to gather for her son to finance it's construction, It is said to have vidriagon rooms and fires lit in every chamber. It has as well two shrines, one for Rh'ollor and a tiny garden for the old gods.

The population in the area has been traditionally low but its peoples are known as tough and strong. Some foreigners might call them barbaric or unrefine but in reality they are loyal peasants and fishermen. Most of them were converted to the Faith of Rh'ollor through the actions of Naera. This has caused some tensions but Rhogar passed a law to protect the right of the old religion and thus both religions coexist and have syncretized gradually. The Grey Cliffs are the only places in Westeros and the north where the faith of the Lord of Light is widely spread among the population.

History
The land was mostly inhabited by the small folk and then later by first men in the early days. The First men displaced the small folk from the area but took the Old Gods religion. In this early days, the Grey Cliff area was quite wild and probably very sparsely populated. When the Andals arrived to the southern lands, some First men from the south arrived in the grey cliffs as refugees. They were still few and the land kept still very lowly populated. During this time, sheephearding replaced fishing as the main activity of the region (Fishing still remained very close second) and the first signs of agriculture also began in this period.

When the Targaryens arrived in the north, some old records say they had seen Meraxes, Vhagar and Balerion land in the area at some point. The dragons seemed to have lay a clutch of eggs in the Old Tower where Windfort would be located. This were just legends until Naera arrived in the area with her son Rhogar snow and found the eggs. She gave those eggs to members of her own family.

House Grey Cliff
When Rhogar Snow was born out of the Union between Naera Targaryen of Whitefyre and Cregan Stark, the blood of the Dragon and the Wolf mixed in him and he was granted land after being legitimized by Cregan Stark. Rhogar was given land in the westernmost part of the North of Westeros, in the Grey Cliffs, land that had become property of the Karstark. The family had close ties with Cregan who had become owner of the westernmost part of the Karstark possesions through her mother and his close ties to this family. Cregan however, gave them to his son Rhogar, after he was legitimized. Rhogar however, took a new surname, and thus founded the house Grey Cliff which much as the Karstarks, was an offshoot of House Stark.