Seat of the junior branch of House Vance, standing beside the river road in the western riverlands, west of Riverrun. Its name is older than any record, given, the singers say, for the welcome its halls offered travelers on the long road between the Red Fork and the mountains of the west.
The Road to the Golden Tooth
The river road runs past Wayfarer's Rest toward the Golden Tooth and the westerlands beyond, and the castle has ever stood as a first bulwark against armies marching down out of the hills. The Vances of Wayfarer's Rest bear a golden eye upon their quartered arms, and they have need of its watchfulness, for when the west comes east it comes past their gates.