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Dalton Greyjoy
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Alias The Red Kraken
Titles
Allegiances
Culture ironborn
Born 113 AC[1]
Died 134 AC
Faircastle
Spouses
Books

Dalton Greyjoy, known as the Red Kraken, was Lord of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, and head of House Greyjoy during the final days of Viserys I Targaryen and then the Dance of the Dragons.[2] He is regarded as a great hero of the ironborn of the Iron Islands.[3]

Character

Dalton was a daring and bloodthirsty man.[2] He was loved by his men but not by his wives, as he tired of women quickly.[3] Despite his youth, Dalton was shrewd.[3]

History

Youth

The wild young son of the heir to Pyke, Dalton rowed at age five and reaved at ten, sailing with his uncle to plunder the pirate towns of the Basilisk Isles. By fourteen, Dalton had sailed as far as Old Ghis, fought in a dozen actions, and claimed four salt wives.[3]

Dalton claimed a Valyrian steel longsword, which he named Nightfall, off a dead corsair. While fighting in the Stepstones as a sellsail, the fifteen-year-old Dalton avenged his uncle after watching his death. Because Dalton emerged from the fight drenched in blood from a dozen wounds, men began calling him the Red Kraken. Later in the same year, Dalton returned to the Iron Islands to claim the Seastone Chair after hearing of his father's death. Immediately he began to build longships, forge swords, and train fighters, citing that "the storm is coming" as the reason.[3]

The Dance of the Dragons

The Dance of the Dragons began after the death of King Viserys I Targaryen in 129 AC when Dalton was sixteen.[2] The Red Kraken is said to have laughed after hearing of the outbreak of war.[3]

The greens of Aegon II Targaryen offered Dalton the position of master of ships and the admiralty to replace Ser Tyland Lannister, who had been made master of coin, if Dalton would bring his ships around Westeros to battle Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake. Instead of leaping to the offer, Dalton waited to see what the blacks had to offer.[2][3] On the black council, Prince Daemon Targaryen suggested appealing to Dalton's bloodlust to bring him on the side of Rhaenyra Targaryen.[2] Instead of asking him to sail to Blackwater Bay, Rhaenyra only asked for Dalton to attack her enemies.[4]

The Red Kraken chose black over green, deciding to attack the nearby westerlands, vulnerable with Lord Jason Lannister campaigning in the riverlands. His wife, Lady Johanna, barred the gates of Casterly Rock but was unable to protect the rest of the west. Dalton burned the fleet of House Lannister and sacked Lannisport, carrying off gold, grain, and trade goods. Hundreds of women and girls were taken as salt wives, including the favorite mistress of Jason and their natural daughters. Dalton led the capture of Kayce, and after the fall of Fair Isle Dalton claimed four of Lord Farman's daughters as salt wives, giving the fifth, the "homely one", to his brother Veron.[3] Lord Jason was killed in the Battle of the Red Fork in 130 AC.[4]

For the better part of two years,[3] the Red Kraken ruled the Sunset Sea like the driftwood kings of antiquity.[5] The regency of Aegon III commanded Dalton to cease his raiding, but the Red Kraken ignored them.[3]

Death

While sleeping in Lord Farman's bedchamber at Faircastle, Dalton was killed when the girl Tess cut his throat with his own dagger before throwing herself into the sea. As the Red Kraken had never taken a rock wife, his closest heirs were his young salt sons, and within hours a bloody struggle for succession broke out among the ironborn.

In 134 AC Jason Lannister's widow, Johanna Lannister, avenged Dalton's raids by having her men-at-arms sail to the Iron Islands with the fleet of Ser Leo Costayne, the lord admiral of the Reach. One of Dalton's salt sons was taken captive, gelded, and made into Casterly Rock's new fool.[3]

Quotes

He loved three things: the sea, his sword, and women.[3]

- writings of Hake


A fine fool he proved, yet not half so foolish as his father.[3]

- writings of Haereg regarding Dalton's fool son

References

  1. See the Dalton Greyjoy calculation.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Princess and the Queen.
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: The Red Kraken.
  4. 4.0 4.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II.
  5. The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns.