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'''Elder Brother''' is the Elder Brother on the [[Quiet Isle]]. He is tall. He is forty-four years old. He is claimed to have powers as a healer.<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 31|Chapter 31]], Brienne</ref>
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The '''Elder Brother''' is the leader of the Refuge on the [[Quiet Isle]]. He is tall. He is forty-four years old. He is claimed to have powers as a healer.<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 31|Chapter 31]], Brienne</ref>
  
 
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==Appearance==

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Title Elder Brother
Allegiance Faith of the Seven
Born +/- 256 AL
Book A Feast for Crows

The Elder Brother is the leader of the Refuge on the Quiet Isle. He is tall. He is forty-four years old. He is claimed to have powers as a healer.[1]

Appearance

He has a large, square head, shrewd eyes, a veined, red nose, and a heavy jaw. He shaves his head.

History

The Elder Brother was once a knight. His father and his family had all been knights. He was the third son of a knight and had nothing to offer the woman he wanted to marry but the shield, sword and horse of his knighthood. He fought for House Targaryen at the Battle of the Trident where he was knocked unconscious. Others thought him dead so they stripped his armor and things and dumped his body into the river. He floated downstream where he woke up naked on the Quiet Isle. He spent the next ten years in silence.[2]

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Brienne, Hyle Hunt, Podrick Payne and Septon Meribald met with the Elder Brother on the Quiet Isle. He tells them of the events at Saltpans and the end of the true Sandor Clegane and breaks the news to Brienne that it was Arya Stark that Sandor had, not Sansa Stark.[3]

When Brienne asks him when the life as a knight ended for him. He responds:

When I died in the Battle of the Trident. I fought for Prince Rhaegar, though he never knew my name. I could not tell you why, save that the lord I served a lord who served a lord who had decided to support the dragon rather than the stag. Had he decided elsewise, I might have been on the other side of the river. The battle was a bloody thing. The singers would have us believe it was all Rhaegar and Robert struggling in the stream for a woman both of them claimed to love, but I assure you, other men were fighting too, and I was one. I took an arrow through the thigh and another through the foot, and my horse was killed from under me, yet I fought on. I can still remember how desperate I was to find another horse, for I had no coin to buy one, and without a horse I would no longer be a knight. That was all that I was thinking of, if truth be told. I never saw the blow that felled me. I heard hooves behind my back and thought, a horse! but before I could turn something slammed into my head and knocked me back into the river, where by rights I should have drowned. Instead I woke here, upon the Quiet Isle. The Elder Brother told me I had washed up on the tide, naked as my name day. I can only think that someone found me in the shallows, stripped me of my armor, boots, and breeches, and pushed me back out into the deeper water. The river did the rest. We are all born naked, so I suppose it was only fitting that I come into my second life the same way. I spent the next ten years in silence. [4]

References and Notes