Ruby
Ruby is a precious red gemstone.[1] The Summer Isles are rich in rubies.[2]
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Culture
The three golden lions which decorate the armor of Lord Tywin Lannister have ruby eyes.[3] Ser Boros Blount uses a gold lion brooch with tiny ruby eyes.[4]
Lady Forlorn, the Valyrian steel blade of Ser Lyn Corbray, has a heart-shaped ruby in its pommel.[5]
House Celtigar is said to have chests of rubies at Claw Isle.[6]
Rubies are among the decorations on the maester's chain of Grand Maester Pycelle.[7]
Illyrio Mopatis has rubies among his various rings.[8][9]
Xaro Xhoan Daxos decorates his nose with rubies, opals, and flakes of jade.[10] The camelry of Qarth decorate their saddles with rubies and garnets.[10]
The warrior women of Bayasabhad, Kayakayanaya, and Samyriana wear iron rings in their nipples and rubies in their cheeks.[11]
History
The crown of King Aegon I Targaryen was a Valyrian steel circlet studded with rubies.[12]
Rego Draz, a native of Pentos, was resented for flaunting his wealth by wearing ruby rings in King's Landing.[13]
The sisters Baela Velaryon and Rhaena Targaryen wore rubies at their throats when they presented Daenaera Velaryon to King Aegon III Targaryen at the Maiden's Day Ball.[14]
The black breastplate of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was decorated with the red three-headed dragon of House Targaryen in rubies.[3] When Lord Robert Baratheon killed Rhaegar with his warhammer at the Battle of the Trident, the rubies were scattered into the river.[15] That crossing of the Trident subsequently became known as the ruby ford.[16]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Arya Stark and Mycah depart the crossroads inn to search for rubies at the ruby ford.[17]
After the death of King Robert I Baratheon, Queen Cersei Lannister wears a black mourning gown. Sewn into the bodice are a hundred dark red rubies in the shape of teardrops.[4] King Joffrey I Baratheon wears a golden crown crusted with rubies and black diamonds.[18]
A Clash of Kings
Melisandre's ruby glows when Maester Cressen fails in his attempt to poison the red priestess.[19] Lightbringer, the sword of Stannis Baratheon, has a great square-cut ruby set in its hilt.[20]
The pommel of Hearteater, the new blade of King Joffrey, depicts a heart-shaped ruby in the jaws of a lion.[21] Following the Battle of the Blackwater, the young king wears a mantle studded with rubies.[22] Joffrey rewards Lord Mace Tyrell and his sons, Ser Garlan and Ser Loras, with chains of roses wrought in soft yellow gold. Each necklace has a golden disc with the lion of Lannister picked out in rubies.[22]
A Storm of Swords
Tyrion Lannister wears a chain of rubies and lions' heads when he weds Sansa Stark.[23]
Lord Tywin Lannister has Tobho Mott melt down Ice to create two new Valyrian steel swords. The blades' scabbards are ornamented with a row of studded golden lion's heads with ruby eyes.[24] The new blade for Joffrey, which he names Widow's Wail,[25] has lions' paws with unsheathed ruby claws on its crossguard.[24]
The seven-sided golden chalice given by Mace to Joffrey has a ruby lion sun to represent House Lannister.[25] The pommel of Ser Ilyn Payne's new greatsword is skull-shaped dragonglass with ruby eyes.[26]
A Feast for Crows
Oathkeeper, the second blade made from Ice, has a golden lion's head with ruby eyes on its pommel.[27]
When Tywin's body lies in state, a longsword in a gilded scabbard studded with rubies is placed on his chest.[28]
The Elder Brother of the Quiet Isle informs Brienne of Tarth six rubies from the Battle of the Trident have washed up nearby.[29]
A Dance with Dragons
Rattleshirt tells Jon Snow that the big square-cut gem which adorns the captive wildling's iron cuff was a gift from Melisandre.[30] In actuality, Melisandre has used a glamor to disguise Mance Rayder as Rattleshirt, so that the real Rattleshirt can be publicly burned to death while Mance secretly survives.[31][32]
Prince Aegon Targaryen wears three huge square-cut rubies on a chain of black iron; the youth had received them as a gift from Magister Illyrio Mopatis.[33]
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References
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 12, Daenerys I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Summer Isles.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 51, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 36, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 20, Eddard IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 32, Arya III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 27, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 54, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Aegon's Conquest.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 55, Catelyn VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Prologue.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 32, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
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