In the knotty place of Westeros, there are three faiths.
The North believes in the Old Gods, the other six kingdoms believe in the Seven Gods, and there is an Iron Island that believes in the Flood God.
Other gods and immortals teach you to do good deeds and learn well, but this lord of the god is completely different, demanding that his followers should burn and loot, and that they should be deceived and deceived, that is, they cannot live and work in peace and contentment, let alone engage in any productive labor.
If a person engages in arable land farming and business or handicraft industry in the Iron Islands, he will be looked down upon by everyone.
The reason why the iron people do this is related to the natural geography of the Iron Islands, which has neither fertile land nor mineral resources, and it is most realistic to rely on the island to eat and grab.
Take the most representative Greyjoy family in the Iron Islands as an example, the family language is called "strong is better than hard work", as a member of the family without being a good robber, it is simply the scum of the Greyjoy family, which is why the Theon returned to the Iron Islands later, everywhere was snubbed by people, the King of Baron would rather choose a woman as the heir than accept the good man Theon.
Being able to die gloriously in the process of burning and looting is the highest pursuit of every iron man, in their view, the death of the war is because of his outstanding looting work, and he has been affirmed by Lord Yan and has been selected to serve his old man in the paradise world.
The Iron People, the nickname given to the Iron Islanders elsewhere in Westeros, preferred to call themselves Iron.
The iron breed did not eat, did not wear, someone sent us forward; the iron breed did not have a gun, no cannon, someone made it for us. It is impossible to let the iron seed work, and it is also impossible to produce labor.
Such gangs of hooligans, which can be multiplied from generation to generation, are inseparable from their tough and cunning national character. Every time they encountered a strong man, they would pretend to give in, but in private everyone would recite the iron proverb:
The deceased will not die, but will rise again, and its momentum will be even stronger!
The original speaker of the Iron Islands was not the Greyjoy family, but the Grey Ain family.
Although both have a Grey in their names, the two have historically been in the same boat. The History of the Iron Island records that about 5,000 years ago, the Grey Ain family became the leader of a group of pirates by election, and then Ulun Grey Ain sent assassins to kill all the pirate leaders with the right to elect, changing the election system to a hereditary system.
Of course, the pirate families were not convinced, so when the Andals invaded, the Hall family took the lead, contacted the Andals, and the Inner GreyJoy family, overthrew the Iron People's supreme king Grey Ainn family, and became the speaker himself.
The Hall family is an outlier among the Iron People, who are said to have black blood in their bodies, and they have educated the Iron People to develop foreign trade while looting, and the Iron People believe that they have betrayed the god Yan and repeatedly killed the supreme king of the Hall family.
Iron Seed: Whoever teaches us to do good deeds and learn well is our enemy.
But it is undeniable that the Hall family has an international perspective, and it is under the leadership of the Hall family that the iron people's burning and looting activities are no longer small and small, no longer limited to the neighboring northern, western, and river lands, but along the sea all the way to the south, robbing the high court, robbing Dorne, and even crossing the Stone Steps Archipelago, to King's Landing and the Five Finger Peninsula robbery, the wealth of the Iron Islands has increased rapidly.
During the reign of Halvin Hall, he used the large amount of silver in his hand to encourage the Iron People to invade the Land of the River, and defeated the army from the Land of the Storm at the Beauty Set, and from then on the Iron People's sphere of influence spanned Westeros and dominated the Seven Kingdoms.
This was the most beautiful era of the Iron People, and the original fertile and economically developed river land was robbed of chickens and dogs, and the people were displaced and fled to foreign lands.
Halvin's grandson, Herren Hall, was the last king of the family, and the most famous of the kings, known as Heron the BlackHeart, known for his ruthlessness, who built the supposedly impregnable Heron Castle, and was burned to ashes by the dragon along with the castle he had built when the conqueror Egon attacked.
After the conqueror Yi Geng established the Dragon Dynasty, he was a vassal of the Great Seal.
Because Blackheart Heron was dead, all members of his family were killed in Herenburg, and a power vacuum appeared in the Land of the River and the Iron Islands. As a result, the original land of Hejian was not very remarkable, but the Tuli family, which was the first to belong to the Dragon Family, was named the Duke of Hejian Land.
A group of pirates in the Iron Islands were leaderless, and they turned into a pot of porridge and a pot of porridge, and were jointly sued by the Stark family in the north and the Lannister family in the west to the Iron Throne.
In fact, with the strength of the Wolf Family or the Lion Family, it is entirely possible to fight the Iron Islands, but for thousands of years, the Iron Islands have always been defeated and dissatisfied, like a piece of brown candy, who is in trouble, so simply handed over this hot potato to Long Taizu to deal with.
Long Taizu handled things, simple and rude, directly rode the dragon black god, flew over the Iron Islands, shouted to the island owners of the Iron Islands, obediently raised the white flag, did not obey the black death to blow a dragon flame, let the disobedient iron people go to see the god of Yan, less than half a day, to solve the big problem that has plagued Westeros for centuries.
The pirates collectively surrendered to Long Taizu, but how to govern the Iron Islands was still a tricky matter, and the Wolf Family and the Lion Family wanted to insert a pole and cultivate their own forces in the Iron Islands, but Long Taizu categorically refused.
Finally, Long Taizu patted his thigh and came up with a good idea----- let the pirates of the Iron Islands restore the original selection system and choose a leader themselves. Because both the Grey Ainn family and the Hall family are extinct, the Greyjoy family has become the new speaker of the Iron Islands without any suspense.
The first Iron King of the Greyjoy family was named Viken.
Viken had witnessed the demise of Heron the BlackHeart and knew that his opposition to the Dragon Taizu was purely a death-seeking, so he pledged allegiance to the Tangrian Dynasty and extended the tentacles of the Iron People's looting to places outside of Westeros, paying tribute to King's Landing every year.
During the 33 years of Viken's reign, the Iron Islands showed a rare honest gesture, for the simple reason that the Tangrian Dynasty had nuclear dragons that could deter the Iron People, who preferred to grab less than to see the yan gods early.
But the iron species is the iron species, each iron species has anti-bones on the back of the head, and by the end of the Tangrian Dynasty, the dragon has become extinct, the seven kingdoms are in crisis, the dregs of the Iron Islands are flooded, and the princes of Westeros have once again begun to loot.
During the reign of the Mad King Ilis I, the Greyjoy family refused to do even superficial work, no longer paid tribute to the court, and no longer submitted to the Tangrian family, and the lord of the Greyjoy family personally commanded the pirates to return to their old business.
When Robert ascended to the Iron Throne and Baratheon replaced the Tangrian dynasty, the Iron People disobeyed as usual and rebelled under the command of Balon Greyjoy (the Theon's father) to harass the coastal areas.
Balon fully restored the old tradition of iron breeds, changing the Trade Ships of the Hall family to pirate ships, and the Iron Islands Fleet dominated the sea for a time, unbeatable.
With this Armada, Baron established himself as The King of the Islands, on an equal footing with the Iron King of King's Landing.
Robert appointed Ned Stark as commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency and led a coalition of the Wolf and Deer families into the Iron Islands, where the Wolf Family army killed two of Baron's sons and captured Baron's third son, Theon.
Therefore, the Stark family and the squid family did have a vendetta against each other, and later the Iron People took advantage of the void to invade the North, and Theon betrayed Robb Stark.