Knowing that the Citadel doesn't allow women, Sam takes Gilly to Horn Hill to visit his family in season six. Unfortunately, his father abhors the free folk, so Sam stretches the truth and simply introduces Gilly as a northerner. Of course, the truth slips out over dinner, forcing Sam to stand up for his adopted family. In an act of defiance, Sam steals his father's 500-year-old Valyrian steel sword Heartsbane, the ancestral blade of House Tarly.