House Grey

House Grey is a young Northern noble house, founded under heavy shadow and heavier silence. Its lords trace their blood through Eddard Stark of Winterfell, but its origins lie in scandal, sacrifice, and exile.

The house was established when Jon Snow - revealed to be the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen - was spared execution by King Robert, on the condition that he be forever removed from southern politics and pose no threat to the Iron Throne. To ensure Jon's loyalty and bury his lineage, Eddard Stark granted him land in the harsh northern Gift and wed him to his daughter Sansa Stark in a politically fraught, sorrow-burdened match.

Though the arrangement was dressed in honor, all in the North understood it for what it was:

a burial disguised as a gift.

Thus arose House Grey, named for the bleak landscape of their new domain, the direwolf of their sigil, and the color of the life they were condemned to live - neither black with dishonor nor white with safety, but caught forever in the cold middle ground.

The Grey sigil - a white direwolf on a grey field - is a somber echo of the Stark banner, a quiet declaration that even cast out, the founders carried Winterfell's blood and values into exile. Their house words, "Stark, Still," serve both as defiance and confession: they remain Starks at heart, unbroken by distance, disgrace, or snowbound isolation.

Their seat, Ned's Gift, is a once-ruined holdfast carved into livable form through labor, stubbornness, and necessity. It stands on the edge of the world, where men look toward the Wall and remember how thin the line is between survival and loss.

In time, House Grey becomes known in the North as:

"The Quiet Wolves."
"The Still Wolves of the Gift."
"The Exiled Starks."

Yet their loyalty to the North proves unwavering, their endurance remarkable. Out of a sentence meant to erase them, Jon and Sansa Grey build a home - not one of splendor or ambition, but of resilience, duty, and a love born from hardship.