SynopsisThe Baratheons are the youngest of the Great Houses of Westeros, having been founded just after Aegon's Conquest of the Durrandons of Storm's End, when his truest friend and champion Orys Baratheon slew Argilac the Arrogant, last of the legendary Storm Kings, in the battle now known as the Last Storm and married his daughter Argella, joining the two bloodlines. Orys would take the Durrandons' castle, words and banners for his own, and ever since the Baratheons have ruled as Lords Paramount of the Stormlands. They briefly reigned as Kings of Westeros at the tail end of the second century AC but were nearly rendered extinct during the War of the Five Kings and the subsequent War for the Dawn, but have since served Queen Daenerys I Targaryen loyally and faithfully for nearly eighty years.
Head of HouseLord Paramount Lyonel Baratheon
SeatStorm's End
DemesneWIP
Current Lords of Note include:
Lord Benedict Blackberry, WIP text.
Ser Humfrey Bolling, WIP text.
Ser Jon Brownhill, WIP text.
Lord Boremund Buckler, WIP text.
Lord Cedrik Cafferen, WIP text.
Lord Roderick Caron, WIP text.
Lord Addam Cole, WIP text.
Lord Rogar Connington, WIP text.
Lord Barron Dondarrion, WIP text.
Lord Colin Errol, WIP text.
Lord Arthur Estermont, a young lord of five-and-ten, previously fostered by Lady Alys at Storm's End.
Lord Harmon Fell, WIP text.
Lord Mychel Gower, WIP text.
Lord Harras Grandison, WIP text.
Ser Dickon Hasty, WIP text.
Lord Harrold Herston, WIP text.
Lord Maric Horpe, WIP text.
Lord Clifford Kellington, WIP text.
Lord Loren Lonmouth, WIP text.
Lord Myles Mertyns, WIP text.
Lord Luthor Morrigen, WIP text.
Lord Marq Musgood, WIP text.
Lord Qarlton Peasebury, WIP text.
Lady Elayne Penrose, WIP text.
Lord Fredrec Rogers, WIP text.
Lord Duncan Seaworth, WIP text.
Lord Alaric Selmy, WIP text.
Lady Alysanne Staedmon, WIP text.
Lord Gerald Swann, WIP text.
Lord Steffon Swygert, WIP text.
Lady Carolei Tarth, the Evenstar is an aged woman of nine-and-forty.
Lady Marenda Trant, WIP text.
Lord Tommard Tudbury, WIP text.
Lord Willam Wagstaff, WIP text.
Lord Orson Wensington, WIP text.
Lord Casper Whitehead, WIP text.
Lord Jason Wylde, a man of seven-and-twenty, became heir to the Rain House after his sister's ascension to the Queensguard.
Recent HistoryThough they were nearly rendered extinct by the War of the Five Kings, House Baratheon survived thanks to the efforts of Davos Seaworth. While Stannis Baratheon fought valiantly both against the tyrannical House Bolton and the monstrous Others, he eventually sacrificed his own daughter, Shireen, as a last ditch effort to push back the Walkers. It was unsuccessful, and Stannis died a broken man. However, one of King Robert's bastards had joined the Brotherhood Without Banners, and through his heroism was legitimized as Gendry Baratheon at the conclusion of the War for the Dawn. However, Ser Gendry was averse and ill suited to rule Storm's End, and freely abdicated to Edric Storm upon his return from hiding in Essos and retired to a life of smithing at the Crossroads Inn along the Kingsroad.
Edric's reign as Lord Paramount of the Stormlands was rather plain and uneventful. For much of the first half of the 300s AC, House Baratheon was content to stay in its homeland, replenish its numbers, and reassert itself over the region. That was, until Davos Baratheon took over as the head of house.
Where his father had strengthened ties with their immediate vassals, Davos came to a conclusion the rest of Westeros would take decades to come to themselves; Queen Daenerys wasn't going to name an heir, and when she inevitably came to the same end as all humans do, the power vacuum left in her wake would be extraordinary, and to come out on top, the Baratheons would need the support of the other Great Houses.
To this end, Lord Davos made a number of deals with the wider Realm; his elder son and heir sent to Highgarden to serve under the Lord Paramount of the Mander, his second son warded to the Starks of Winterfell, and his only daughter betrothed to the heir of House Arryn. He even sought a seat on the Small Council for himself and spent much of his time in the Capital, but was never appointed, to his great dismay.
The biggest obstacle to Davos' plan came when his firstborn son was killed at the age of six and ten. This put the Baratheons' potential alliance with the Tyrells in jeopardy, and Davos moved swiftly to ensure such a match was still viable. While he still had a son to spare, however, said son was hundreds of miles away in the North, and he was decidedly against his father's wish for a prearranged marriage.
Lyonel Baratheon's time as heir to Storm's End did not start particularly well. Young and in love, he went against convention and married Alys Manderly in a private ceremony in White Harbor without his father, or Lord Tyrell's, knowledge. To say Lords Davos and Loras were displeased when they arrived in Winterfell with Lyonel's so called betrothed only to find a newly married man with a pregnant wife would be an understatement.
Realm RelationsHouse Targaryen
House Stark
Though they are not bound together by blood, the Starks and Baratheons are perhaps the tightest knit of the Great Houses of Westeros. Lord Lyonel himself spent much of his youth warding at Winterfell, married a Northern woman, and redoubled the efforts of his house to aid in the reconstruction of the North when he ascended to his lordship. Although his responsibilities have made it all but impossible to visit the Starks in person himself, the ties Lyonel has in the North remain strong through his children, who see the Starks as nothing less than extended family; perhaps even more-so than their actual cousins in the Vale.
House Tyrell
Relations with the Lords Paramount of the Mander have been troubled, to say the least. House Florent, stripped of Brightwater Keep by the tyrannical Queen Cersei Lannister, did not have their lands returned to them after the return of Daenerys Targaryen to Westeros, and as such sought refuge under the roof of their newly legitimized cousin, Edric Storm. This caused no small amount of tension between the Baratheons and Tyrells over the years. Tensions that would nearly be remedied by Edric's son and heir, Davos. Davos would send his own firstborn son, Sebastion, to serve as a page in Highgarden and even arranged a betrothal between Sebastion and Alys Tyrell. However, Sebastion tragically died at a tourney in the early days of 352 AC. Davos rushed to ensure the match was still viable, with his second son, Lyonel, acting as Sebastion's replacement. When he and the Tyrells arrived at Winterfell only to find Lyonel had already married another woman, all relations with the Tyrells seemed to cease. Davos was shamed and made to return to Storm's End in humility. That Alys Tyrell has since inherited her father's lands and titles after the deaths of her own older brothers and now serves alongside Lyonel on the Small Council has not helped matters in the slightest.
House Arryn
Despite the marriage of Serina Baratheon to Martyn Arryn, the two houses seem to only interact when necessary. Althought by no means enemies, Serina was not particularly close with either of her brothers in their youth, due in no small part to their lord father separating them by hundreds of miles by the time they could talk in complete sentences. (Write more stuff)
Storyline PremiseThe Baratheons find themselves at a crossroads of opportunity. Where they were once rendered all but extinct by the War of the Five Kings, with Daenerys' death looming on the horizon, they stand to regain their place upon the Iron Throne of Westeros. Dominion over the Seven Kingdoms is not so easily gained, however. While the Lord Paramount of the Stormlands has made no secret of his wish to call a Great Council, his former peers on the Small Council were less than receptive of the idea. For now, the Baratheons bide their time in Storm's End.Family Tree (subject to change) 
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