The High Kings of Dorne who ruled the lands near the mouth of the Greenblood were elected in a non-hereditary fashion from among a dozen noble families. In Dorne, before the coming of the Andals or the Rhoynar, the First Men were divided into numerous petty kingdoms. The ironborn of old chose their kings through a kingsmoot, where each man who owned and captained a ship might cast a vote for the new king. Several of the groups that descended from the First Men practiced rule by consensus or election among several lords and chieftains in council. The exact laws of inheritance followed by the First Men have not been stated. Īccording to Maester Yorrick, blood sacrifice to the old gods was still practiced in the vicinity of White Harbor five hundred years ago. Once all noble houses had a godswood with a heart tree in its center, but the First Men, in their wars against the children of the forest, cut down many of the trees, as did the Andals later on, replacing the old gods with the Seven in the southern kingdoms. The heart trees are usually weirwoods, and godswoods are often the only places where living weirwoods still remain until one goes north of the Wall. Worshipers believe the old gods watch through the trees. These trees, which have faces carved into them, are considered to be sacred. Worshipers of the old gods visit godswoods, groves contained within castles throughout the Seven Kingdoms, where a heart tree can be found. The worship of the old gods is not accompanied by priests, holy texts, songs of worship, and barely any rites. These nameless deities of stream, forest, and stone are referred to as the " old gods" because the gods of the Andals, referred to as the " new gods", replaced them in all but the north of Westeros. įollowing the Pact between the First Men and the children of the forest, the majority of the First Men eventually set aside their own gods and adopted the gods of the children as their own. In addition, they also continue to believe in the Drowned God's eternal enemy, the Storm God.
The ironborn, who are considered by most to descend from the First Men, worshiped the Drowned God before the Andals came, and continue to do so. In the Kingdom of the Storm, the sea god and his wife, the goddess of the wind, were worshiped. Their worship ended with the coming of the Andals, who introduced the Faith of the Seven. The Sistermen of the Three Sisters believed that sacred storms were the result of the Lady of the Waves mating with the Lord of the Skies. The First Men worshiped unspecified gods before they arrived in Westeros. Worship before heart trees, by Bill Corbett © Fantasy Flight Games
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