House Farman of Faircastle is among the oldest of the Westerlands houses, tracing its lineage to the Age of Heroes when the Farmans ruled Fair Isle as petty kings and drove ironborn reavers from their coasts with a fleet of war-longships. Through the centuries they held their isle against the driftwood kings of the Iron Islands, and when the Andal tide swept across the westerlands the Farmans bent the knee to Tommen I Lannister, King of the Rock, who raised a great fleet and married the daughter of the last Farman king into his line. That union secured Fair Isle within the Lannister sphere and the Farmans have flown their silver ships beneath the lion's banner ever since.
The house has known both honor and suffering in the years since. During the reign of Maegor the Cruel, Lord Farman and his eldest son rode to join the faith's rebellion against the king and were slain at the Battle Beneath the God's Eye. A generation later, in the Dance of the Dragons, Lord Dalton Greyjoy descended on Fair Isle and seized Faircastle, carrying off several of the lord's daughters as salt wives and ransoming his sons back to Casterly Rock at great cost. Despite these trials the Farmans endured, and in the age of A Game of Thrones Sebaston Farman holds the lordship of Fair Isle, keeping watch over the western sea as his forebears have done since the dawn of recorded history.