Ravella Smallwood
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| Alias | Ravella Swann | |||
| Title | Lady of Acorn Hall | |||
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| Culture | Marcher | |||
| Spouse | Lord Theomar Smallwood | |||
| Lover | Tom of Sevenstreams (formerly) | |||
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Ravella Smallwood,[1] née Swann,[2] is the Lady of Acorn Hall. She is the wife of Lord Theomar Smallwood and the mother of Carellen Smallwood.[3]
Character
Ravella is kind and welcoming, but also has a temper and a sharp tongue, as well as a scornful look towards those that have displeased her.[1]
History
Ravella had a son who died when he was seven. According to Anguy, Ravella and Tom of Sevenstreams were once lovers. According to Tom, Ravella enjoyed his playing of the song "Let Me Drink Your Beauty".[1]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
At the start of the War of the Five Kings, Lady Smallwood sends her daughter, Carellen, to a motherhouse in Oldtown, where Ravella's great-aunt is a septa.[1]
Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr visit Acorn Hall with a dozen of the brotherhood without banners, herding a flock of sheep. In return for Lady Smallwood's hospitality, Thoros gives her three sheep.[1]
Northmen wearing the heraldry of House Karstark come to Acorn Hall's gates to see if the Smallwoods are harboring the escaped Jaime Lannister. Lady Ravella claims to them she had made love to Jaime until he was too exhausted to move, and when the Karstark men call her a liar, she has them sent off by having her men shoot arrows at them.[1]
When Arya Stark and the brotherhood without banners come to Acorn Hall, Lady Ravella welcomes the outlaws, but becomes angry that they brought a young girl through a warzone. After she learns that Arya is highborn, Lady Smallwood insists that she take a bath and be dressed as a proper lady, giving her one of her daughter's dresses, green with embroidered acorns. Lady Smallwood gives the brotherhood information concerning the whereabouts of Lord Beric Dondarrion. She also relays the news that Jaime Lannister had escaped Riverrun, allegedly set free by Catelyn Stark, which upsets Arya to hear. After Arya tears her dress while scuffling with Gendry, Lady Smallwood has her washed again and put in another of Carellen's dresses, lilac with baby pearls. However, the dress is too delicate to ride in, so when Arya and the brotherhood leave Acorn Hall the next morning, Lady Smallwood gives her boy's clothing to wear, which had belonged to her late son.[1]
When Arya worries that her brother, King Robb Stark, will not pay the brotherhood a ransom for her, Beric Dondarrion tells her if that is so, he will send her to the protection of Lady Smallwood.[4]
When Sandor Clegane and Arya approach the Twins for the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, Arya recognizes Lord Smallwoood's pavilion by its acorn sigil and is reminded of Lady Smallwood.[5]
In a village in the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon, some of the women try to make Arya wear a dress and do needlework, but as they are not Lady Smallwood, she refuses them.[6]
Family
| Gulian | Unknown wife | Walder Frey | Cyrenna | Corenna | Stevron Frey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Donnel | Balon | Jared Frey | Alys Frey | Luceon Frey | Ryman Frey | Theomar Smallwood | Ravella | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | | Son | Carellen Smallwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quotes
Who dressed the poor child in those Bolton rags? That badge... there's many a man who would hang her in half a heartbeat for wearing a flayed man on her breast.[1]
—Ravella, to the brotherhood without banners
Ravella: Are you fond of dancing, child? My Carellen's a lovely dancer. She sings beautifully as well. What do you like to do?
Arya: Needlework.
Arya: Well, not the way I do it.[1]
Ravella: Very restful, isn't it?
—Ravella and Arya Stark
The gods give each of us our little gifts and talents, and it is meant for us to use them, my aunt always says. Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. Isn't that a lovely thought?[1]
—Ravella, to Arya Stark
In times like these, we all must make do as best we can.[1]
—Ravella, to Arya Stark
Tom: Someone could make a rare fine song of that.
Ravella: Someone who doesn't rhyme carry on with Dondarrion, perhaps. Or play 'Oh, Lay My Sweet Lass Down in the Grass' to every milkmaid in the shire and leave two of them with big bellies."
Tom: It was 'Let Me Drink Your Beauty,' and milkmaids are always glad to hear it. As was a certain highborn lady I do recall. I play to please.[1]—Tom of Sevenstreams and Ravella
Ravella: A pack of wolves came howling around my gates, thinking I might have Jaime Lannister in here.
Tom: Then it's true, the Kingslayer is loose again?
Ravella: Why, that I had Ser Jaime naked in my bed, but I'd left him much too exhausted to come down. One of them had the effrontery to call me a liar, so we saw them off with a few quarrels.[1]
Ravella: I hardly think they'd be hunting him if he was chained up under Riverrun.
Jack: What did m'lady tell them?
—Ravella, Tom of Sevenstreams, and Jack-Be-Lucky
Ravella: They were my son's things. He died when he was seven.
Arya: I'm sorry, my lady. I'm sorry I tore the acorn dress too. It was pretty.
Ravella: Yes, child. And so are you. Be brave.[1]
—Ravella and Arya Stark
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 50, Arya X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 65, Arya XII.