Rain House, the seat of Lord Morgan Wylde, is central to the surviving account of Coryanne Wylde’s youth. The evidence gives little description of the castle itself; its significance lies instead in the household where Coryanne’s pregnancy and the birth of her son were recorded, and in the efforts to keep those events from becoming widely known.

The Wylde Household

Coryanne was Lord Morgan’s younger daughter. A maester who served at Rain House recorded that, when she was thirteen, she became pregnant by a man from the stables. His account describes the man as an adult stable servant, unlike the version in A Caution for Young Girls, which presents him as a handsome boy of Coryanne’s own age. The discrepancy places Rain House at the center of the later uncertainty over how faithfully the book relates her early life.

Birth and Fostering

According to the maester’s journals, Coryanne’s bastard son was born in 48 AC. After the pregnancy became known, the stableman was sent to the Wall, and Coryanne was kept in her chambers until she gave birth. The boy was sent soon afterward to Storm’s End, where a castle steward and his wife fostered him. Thus the child’s recorded life began at Rain House but continued elsewhere, separated from his mother and from the household in which he was born.

Secrecy and Departure

Coryanne was watched carefully after the birth, and few people beyond Rain House knew what had happened. When she was summoned to King’s Landing, her mother instructed her not to speak of her child or her past, telling her that she would be taken for a maiden at court. Coryanne set out with her father and a brother; on the journey, they stopped at an inn beside the ferry on the south bank of the Blackwater Rush. That meeting belongs to the disputed later account, not to the confirmed record of events at Rain House. The house’s lasting importance is therefore as the place where a private family scandal was documented, concealed, and followed by Coryanne’s departure under an imposed silence.