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| Title | Brother | |||
| Allegiances | ||||
| Culture | Rivermen | |||
| Died |
300 AC Crownlands | |||
| Book | A Feast for Crows (appears) | |||
The dwarf brother is a holy brother and a member of the sparrows. His given name is unknown.
Appearance and Character
The dwarf is not quite five feet tall. He has a veined, bulbous nose, and his teeth are red from chewing sourleaf. He is dressed in the roughspun robes of a holy brother, with the iron hammer of the Smith dangling down about his thick neck. He has a tonsure, in the way many holy brothers cut their hair. His speech is coarse, but courteous.[1]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
The dwarf used to serve at a holy house near Maidenpool, but northmen burned them out. They rebuilt as best they could, but sellswords came, took their pigs, burned them out and killed the brothers. He managed to survive by squeezing in the hollow of a log, hiding until the sellswords left. Afterwards, he buried his brothers, dug up a few coins the elder brother had hid, and set off by himself. He went to Maidenpool, thinking he might find a ship to take him to King's Landing. There he glimpsed a fool down by the docks and then later at the Stinking Goose.[1]
The dwarf brother makes Brienne of Tarth's acquaintance in the common room of the Seven Swords in Duskendale, courteously letting her sit down on one of the benches. She tells him that she is looking for her sister (actually Sansa Stark), who might be accompanied by a fool (Dontos Hollard). The dwarf tells Brienne that he had seen a fool at Maidenpool, and overheard Dick Crabb boasting that he had fooled a fool and had the gold to prove it. After reassuring Brienne and finishing a bowl of crab stew bought by her, the dwarf heads for King's Landing.[1]
Sometime afterwards, three men present Queen Regent Cersei Lannister with a dwarf's head, grey-green and crawling with maggots. Cersei points out that the head has a bulbous nose, whereas Tyrion Lannister has no nose. One of the three men says that the dwarf told them he was a sparrow, but they didn't believe him. While Cersei knows that they have killed an innocent man, she does not punish them, for fear it will discourage other such bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape.[2] The beheaded dwarf is likely the same dwarf brother that Brienne encountered.
Brienne has Nimble Dick Crabb escort her to the Whispers, where she learns the fool observed by the dwarf brother is actually Shagwell, not Dontos.[3]
Quotes
Brienne: I met some other brothers going to King's Landing.
Dwarf brother: Aye, there's hundreds on the roads. Not only brothers. Septons too, and smallfolk. Sparrows all. Might be I'm a sparrow too. The Smith, he made me small enough.[1]—Brienne of Tarth and the dwarf brother
Are you thinking of your sister? The Crone will light your way to her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe.[1]
—the dwarf brother, to Brienne of Tarth
—Cersei Lannister, to the dwarf brother's killers
First man: This one come walking along as bold as you please, some ugly dwarf, so we thought...
Second man: He said he were a sparrow, and you said he was lying.[2]—the dwarf brother's killers
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 20, Brienne IV.