The Ironborn are the inhabitants of the Iron Islands, who live under the rule of the King of the Iron Islands, a title typically held by a member of the House Greyjoy. The Ironborn worship the Drowned God and the sea, and are a hard people who believe in plunder rather than work and ships rather than horses.
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| - The Ironborn are the inhabitants of the Iron Islands, who live under the rule of the King of the Iron Islands, a title typically held by a member of the House Greyjoy. The Ironborn worship the Drowned God and the sea, and are a hard people who believe in plunder rather than work and ships rather than horses.
- The modern ironborn are an intermingling of the blood of the original First Men settlers of the islands and the Andals who followed six thousand years later. While the Andals and the Faith of the Seven came to dominate everywhere else below the Neck, they found less purchase on the Islands. While a few converts to the Faith of the Seven may be found there even in the present day, most of the Andal invaders converted to the native deity, the Drowned God, instead. The Andal invaders completely acculturated to the distinct "ironborn" culture, and their invasion had relatively little impact upon the Iron Islands. Thus the ironborn are ethnically composed of the same First Men/Andal mix as most of the rest of Westeros: they are culturally, not ethnically distinct.
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- Sea-faring
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| - The Ironborn are the inhabitants of the Iron Islands, who live under the rule of the King of the Iron Islands, a title typically held by a member of the House Greyjoy. The Ironborn worship the Drowned God and the sea, and are a hard people who believe in plunder rather than work and ships rather than horses.
- The modern ironborn are an intermingling of the blood of the original First Men settlers of the islands and the Andals who followed six thousand years later. While the Andals and the Faith of the Seven came to dominate everywhere else below the Neck, they found less purchase on the Islands. While a few converts to the Faith of the Seven may be found there even in the present day, most of the Andal invaders converted to the native deity, the Drowned God, instead. The Andal invaders completely acculturated to the distinct "ironborn" culture, and their invasion had relatively little impact upon the Iron Islands. Thus the ironborn are ethnically composed of the same First Men/Andal mix as most of the rest of Westeros: they are culturally, not ethnically distinct. One of the few notable changes was that the ironborn switched to speaking the Common Tongue of the Andals. On the other hand, the independent First Men of the North also eventually took up using the language of their Andal neighbors through cultural proximity, not because it was imposed upon them, and therefore it might be wrong to say that the Andals even "forced" the ironborn to speak their language. In the present day, the ironborn generally think of their distinct culture as stretching back without interruption to the Dawn Age, long before the Andals arrived. Even back then, however, their culture had developed so differently from their First Men cousins who were on the mainland that the ironborn only consider themselves to have truly "originated", culturally, on the Iron Islands themselves.
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