Bulwark

The Bulwark is a sellsail company based in Oldtown. Though its current incarnation is among the newest companies in Westeros, the Bulwark’s history predates the Targaryen conquest by centuries.

The earliest remaining company records date only back to a century before conquest, but its members continue to entertain rival origin stories. In one, the company was founded by the youngest son of Owen Oakenshield; in the other, it was founded by a bastard of Bors the Breaker.

The original Bulwark suffered a decline in its fortunes in the decades after conquest and was eventually disbanded, though tales of its historic feats remained popular among seafaring Reachmen. In 369 AC, During the Second Lysene Spring, sailors from the Shields and the Whispering Sound bonded over a shared appreciation for those stories, and after the war’s conclusion they reunited in Oldtown to formally reestablish the Bulwark.