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''Not to be confused with [[Brave Companions|The Brave Companions]], a sellsword company often called "The Bloody Mummers".''
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A '''mummer''' is an actor and entertainer. A mummer is usually part of a mummer’s troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays, shows, acrobatics and whatnot.
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A '''mummer''' is an actor and entertainer in [[Westeros]] and the [[Free Cities]]. A mummer is usually part of a troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place or perform at a playhouse. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays{{ref|AFFC|34}} and shows.{{ref|AGOT|32}} Because mummers' performances are often comical, a bungled, unbelievable, or manufactured event can be referred to as a mummer's farce.{{ref|AGOT|26}}{{ref|ACOK|31}}{{ref|ASOS|77}}{{ref|ADWD|29}}
==About==
 
There are mummers in [[Westeros]] and [[Essos]].  A master mummer is the mummer in charge of the troupe.  
 
  
[[Varys]] claims to have been born a slave in [[Lys]] that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the [[Free Cities]], [[Oldtown]], and occasionally [[King's Landing]], by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.
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==Traditions==
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A master mummer is in charge of each troupe,{{ref|ADWD|14}} which often have a [[dwarf]]<ref name=Mercy>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref> or a dancing bear.{{ref|ADWD| 47}} Some mummers own [[monkey]]s.{{ref|AFFC|33}}
  
Mummers that featured little folk in their troupes learned to stay away from [[Lannisport]] and  [[Casterly Rock]], at the risk of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]'s displeasure.  
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Mummers can be accomplished at manipulating their face,{{ref|AFFC|22}} while others wear masks.{{ref|AFFC|25}} Many performers shave their head, the so-called mummer's cut, to allow wigs to fit better.{{ref|ADWD|45}} Some mummers hide within a hollow horse and tumble from it for the amusement of patrons.{{ref|ACOK|44}} A mummer's dragon is a cloth [[dragon]] on poles which heroes fight during performances.{{ref|ACOK|63}}
  
In times of peace, gaily painted mummer’s boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colours would make their way up the forks of the [[Trident]], going from village to village and castle to castle.  
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During peacetime, gaily painted mummer's boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colors make their way up the forks of the [[Trident]], visiting villages and castles.{{Ref|aSoS|2}} The [[Mummer's Ford]] is a crossing of the [[Red Fork]].{{ref|AGOT|43}} There is a mummers hall in [[White Harbor]] where bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.{{ref|ADWD|15}}
  
[[The Ship]] is a mummers playhouse in [[Braavos]].<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 34|Chapter 34]], Cat of the Canals</ref> It is also known as the Mummer's Ship. It sits across the street from the [[Happy Port]].<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 26|Chapter 26]], Samwell</ref>  The [[Blue Lantern]] is a mummers playhouse in Braavos.
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Mummers in [[Braavos]] perform written stories instead of making up farces.{{ref|AFFC|15}} Braavosi playhouses include the [[Blue Lantern]] and the [[Ship (playhouse)|Ship]].{{ref|AFFC|34}} Mummers perform during the elections for [[triarchs of Volantis]].{{ref|ADWD|27}}
  
According to [[Samwell Tarly]] in Braavos the mummers play out written stories instead of just making up the usual stupid farces.  
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==History==
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Ser [[Humfrey the Mummer]], a [[hedge knight]], was among the first [[Kingsguard]] of [[Aegon I Targaryen]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I}} Queen [[Rhaenys Targaryen]] and her son, King [[Aenys I Targaryen]], sponsored many mummers.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I}}
  
There is a mummers’ hall in [[White Harbor]] where bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.
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Mummers and singers heralded the birth of King [[Viserys I Targaryen]]'s children.{{ref|TRP}} During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], some mummers offered to attempt to tame [[dragon]]s on [[Dragonstone (island)|Dragonstone]].{{ref|TPATQ}}
  
While tied up at [[Volon Therys]] [[Griff]] notices the gaily painted mummers’ barge next to the [[Shy Maid]]. The mummers are a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft that not.  They clang their mummers bell.
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Prince [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] "wed" [[Megette]] with the aid of a mummer who portrayed a septon.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} He also fathered [[bastard]]s on mummer's maidens.{{ref|TSS}}
  
Before coming to the [[Wall]], [[Pypar]] had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe.  He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.
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[[Varys]] claims to have been born a slave in [[Lys]] that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the [[Free Cities]], [[Oldtown]], and occasionally [[King's Landing]], by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.{{Ref|aCoK|44}}
  
When they took [[Arya]]’s eyes at the [[House of Black and White]] the [[Waif]] also shaved her head, ''a mummers cut'', she called it, since so many mummers did the same so their wigs might fit them better.  The [[Kindly Man]] tells [[Arya]] that mummers change their faces with artifice.
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The [[tourney at Harrenhal]] included a mummer show.{{ref|ASOS|42}}
  
==Known mummers==
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Lady [[Ellyn Reyne]] sponsored mummers when she held court at [[Casterly Rock]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons}} Mummers that featured [[dwarf]]s in their troupes learned to stay away from [[Lannisport]] and the Rock, because Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] dislikes his dwarf son, [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]].{{Ref|ADWD|33}}
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Before coming to the [[Wall]], [[Pypar]] traveled the [[Seven Kingdoms]] with a mummers' troupe. He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.{{ref|agot|26}} The [[Brave Companions]], a sellsword company, are pejoratively called the Bloody Mummers.{{ref|ACOK|30}} Archmaester [[Marwyn]] is said to consort with mummers and others with questionable reputations.{{ref|AFFC|Prologue}}
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[[Hop-Bean]] was a famous dwarf mummer who bought his freedom.{{ref|ADWD|33}} His children, [[Oppo]] and [[Penny]], became accomplished at jousting while on animals.{{ref|ADWD|40}} [[Izembaro]] calls himself the King of the Mummers.<ref name=Mercy/>
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==Recent Events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
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Lord [[Eddard Stark]] sees a mummer on stilts along the [[Street of Steel]] in [[King's Landing]].{{ref|AGOT|27}} A dozen troupes come to the capital for the [[Hand's tourney]].{{ref|AGOT|32}} [[Arya Stark]] listens to two unidentified men—actually [[Varys]] and [[Illyrio Mopatis]]—conspiring in the [[Red Keep]], but Eddard thinks they are mummers.{{ref|AGOT|32}}
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===''A Clash of Kings''===
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A mummer is among four agents, disguised as [[House Lannister guards]], sent by [[Tyrion Lannister]] to free Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] at [[Riverrun]].{{ref|ACOK|25}} The mummer impersonates Ser [[Edmure Tully]]'s voice, but they are eventually caught and hanged by [[House Tully guards]].{{ref|ACOK|39}}
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Within the [[House of the Undying]], [[Daenerys Targaryen]] has a vision of a mummer's dragon on poles among a cheering crowd.{{ref|ACOK|48}}
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
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Mummers are hired to perform at the [[Purple Wedding|royal wedding]] of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|ASOS|59}}
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===''A Feast for Crows''===
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Mummers perform at Margaery's court.{{ref|AFFC|28}}
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Arya, calling herself Cat of the Canals, befriends mummers in [[Braavos]].{{ref|AFFC|34}} Mummers are sometimes used to officiate "weddings" involving the [[Sailor's Wife]].{{ref|AFFC|34}}
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===''A Dance with Dragons''===
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[[Quaithe]] warns Daenerys against a mummer's dragon.{{ref|ADWD|11}}
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While at [[Volon Therys]], [[Jon Connington]] notices a gaily painted mummers' barge next to the ''[[Shy Maid]]''.{{Ref|aDwD|24}}
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When [[Arya Stark]]'s eyes are taken at the [[House of Black and White]], the [[waif]] also shaves her head in a mummer's cut.{{ref|ADWD|45}}
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Tyrion, [[Penny]], and Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] are forced to become mummers when enslaved and added to [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]'s grotesquerie.{{ref|ADWD|47}}
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==Quotes==
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{{quote|[[Pyp]] had traveled the [[Seven Kingdoms]] with a mummers' troupe, and bragged that he could tell what you were and where you'd been born just from the sound of your voice.{{ref|AGOT|26}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}
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{{quote|When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery.{{ref|AGOT|58}}|[[Varys]] to [[Eddard Stark]]}}
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{{quote|'''Varys''': Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.<br>'''Tyrion''': So power is a mummer's trick?<br>'''Varys''': A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.{{ref|ACOK|8}}|[[Varys]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}
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{{quote|I have taught my [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] what comely is worth, I hope. Somewhat less than a mummer's fart.{{ref|ASOS|4}}|[[Olenna Tyrell]] to [[Sansa Stark]]}}
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{{quote|'''Tywin''': What is it you would have of me? Lands, castle, some office?<br>'''Tyrion''': A little bloody gratitude would make a nice start.<br>'''Tywin''': Mummers and [[monkey]]s require applause.{{ref|ASOS|4}}|[[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}
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{{quote|The mummers were a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft than not.{{ref|ADWD|24}}|thoughts of [[Jon Connington]]}}
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{{quote|The [[north]] remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.{{ref|ADWD|29}}|[[Wyman Manderly]] to [[Davos Seaworth]]}}
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{{quote|Mummers change their faces with artifice, and sorcerers use [[glamor]]s, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.{{ref|ADWD|64}}|the [[kindly man]] to [[Arya Stark]]}}
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==Plays==
 
{{Columns|2|
 
{{Columns|2|
*[[Varys]] {formerly}
 
*[[Pypar]] {formerly}
 
*[[Quill]]
 
*[[Tagganaro]]
 
*[[Joss the Gloom]]
 
*[[Quence]]
 
*[[Allaquo]]
 
*[[Sloey]]
 
*[[Penny]]
 
*[[Oppo]]
 
*[[Tyrion Lannister]] – forced to become a mummer when enslaved and added to [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]'s grotesquerie
 
}}
 
==Mummers Plays==
 
 
*''[[The Lord of the Woeful Countenance]]''
 
*''[[The Lord of the Woeful Countenance]]''
 
*''[[Seven Drunken Oarsmen]]''  
 
*''[[Seven Drunken Oarsmen]]''  
*''The [[Song of the Rhoyne]]''
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*''[[The Song of the Rhoyne]]''
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*''[[The Anguish of the Archon]]''
 
*''[[The Conqueror's Two Wives]]''
 
*''[[The Conqueror's Two Wives]]''
 
*''[[The Merchant's Lusty Lady]]''
 
*''[[The Merchant's Lusty Lady]]''
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*''[[The Merchant's Melancholy Daughter]]''
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*''[[The Bloody Hand]]''<ref name=Mercy/>
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*''[[Wroth of the Dragonlords]]''<ref name=Mercy/>
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}}
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==References==
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{{References|2}}
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[[Category:Mummers| ]]
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[[Category:Occupations]]
  
==References and Notes==
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[[pt:Pantomimeiro]]
{{References}}
 

Latest revision as of 17:01, 21 October 2022

A mummer is an actor and entertainer in Westeros and the Free Cities. A mummer is usually part of a troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place or perform at a playhouse. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays[1] and shows.[2] Because mummers' performances are often comical, a bungled, unbelievable, or manufactured event can be referred to as a mummer's farce.[3][4][5][6]

Traditions

A master mummer is in charge of each troupe,[7] which often have a dwarf[8] or a dancing bear.[9] Some mummers own monkeys.[10]

Mummers can be accomplished at manipulating their face,[11] while others wear masks.[12] Many performers shave their head, the so-called mummer's cut, to allow wigs to fit better.[13] Some mummers hide within a hollow horse and tumble from it for the amusement of patrons.[14] A mummer's dragon is a cloth dragon on poles which heroes fight during performances.[15]

During peacetime, gaily painted mummer's boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colors make their way up the forks of the Trident, visiting villages and castles.[16] The Mummer's Ford is a crossing of the Red Fork.[17] There is a mummers hall in White Harbor where bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.[18]

Mummers in Braavos perform written stories instead of making up farces.[19] Braavosi playhouses include the Blue Lantern and the Ship.[1] Mummers perform during the elections for triarchs of Volantis.[20]

History

Ser Humfrey the Mummer, a hedge knight, was among the first Kingsguard of Aegon I Targaryen.[21] Queen Rhaenys Targaryen and her son, King Aenys I Targaryen, sponsored many mummers.[22]

Mummers and singers heralded the birth of King Viserys I Targaryen's children.[23] During the Dance of the Dragons, some mummers offered to attempt to tame dragons on Dragonstone.[24]

Prince Aegon Targaryen "wed" Megette with the aid of a mummer who portrayed a septon.[25] He also fathered bastards on mummer's maidens.[26]

Varys claims to have been born a slave in Lys that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the Free Cities, Oldtown, and occasionally King's Landing, by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.[14]

The tourney at Harrenhal included a mummer show.[27]

Lady Ellyn Reyne sponsored mummers when she held court at Casterly Rock.[28] Mummers that featured dwarfs in their troupes learned to stay away from Lannisport and the Rock, because Lord Tywin Lannister dislikes his dwarf son, Tyrion.[29]

Before coming to the Wall, Pypar traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe. He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.[3] The Brave Companions, a sellsword company, are pejoratively called the Bloody Mummers.[30] Archmaester Marwyn is said to consort with mummers and others with questionable reputations.[31]

Hop-Bean was a famous dwarf mummer who bought his freedom.[29] His children, Oppo and Penny, became accomplished at jousting while on animals.[32] Izembaro calls himself the King of the Mummers.[8]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Lord Eddard Stark sees a mummer on stilts along the Street of Steel in King's Landing.[33] A dozen troupes come to the capital for the Hand's tourney.[2] Arya Stark listens to two unidentified men—actually Varys and Illyrio Mopatis—conspiring in the Red Keep, but Eddard thinks they are mummers.[2]

A Clash of Kings

A mummer is among four agents, disguised as House Lannister guards, sent by Tyrion Lannister to free Ser Jaime Lannister at Riverrun.[34] The mummer impersonates Ser Edmure Tully's voice, but they are eventually caught and hanged by House Tully guards.[35]

Within the House of the Undying, Daenerys Targaryen has a vision of a mummer's dragon on poles among a cheering crowd.[36]

A Storm of Swords

Mummers are hired to perform at the royal wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[37]

A Feast for Crows

Mummers perform at Margaery's court.[38]

Arya, calling herself Cat of the Canals, befriends mummers in Braavos.[1] Mummers are sometimes used to officiate "weddings" involving the Sailor's Wife.[1]

A Dance with Dragons

Quaithe warns Daenerys against a mummer's dragon.[39]

While at Volon Therys, Jon Connington notices a gaily painted mummers' barge next to the Shy Maid.[40]

When Arya Stark's eyes are taken at the House of Black and White, the waif also shaves her head in a mummer's cut.[13]

Tyrion, Penny, and Ser Jorah Mormont are forced to become mummers when enslaved and added to Yezzan zo Qaggaz's grotesquerie.[41]

Quotes

Pyp had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe, and bragged that he could tell what you were and where you'd been born just from the sound of your voice.[3]

—thoughts of Jon Snow

When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery.[42]

Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.
Tyrion: So power is a mummer's trick?
Varys: A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.[43]

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Somewhat less than a mummer's fart.[44]

Tywin: What is it you would have of me? Lands, castle, some office?
Tyrion: A little bloody gratitude would make a nice start.
Tywin: Mummers and monkeys require applause.[44]

The mummers were a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft than not.[40]

—thoughts of Jon Connington

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.[6]

Mummers change their faces with artifice, and sorcerers use glamors, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.[45]

Plays

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 32, Arya III.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
  4. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
  5. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 77, Tyrion XI.
  6. 6.0 6.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
  7. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 The Winds of Winter, Mercy
  9. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X.
  10. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
  11. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 22, Arya II.
  12. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
  13. 13.0 13.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 45, The Blind Girl.
  14. 14.0 14.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 44, Tyrion X.
  15. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 63, Daenerys V.
  16. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
  17. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard XI.
  18. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 15, Davos II.
  19. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
  20. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 27, Tyrion VII.
  21. The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I.
  22. The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I.
  23. The Rogue Prince.
  24. The Princess and the Queen.
  25. The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.
  26. The Sworn Sword.
  27. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
  28. The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons.
  29. 29.0 29.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 33, Tyrion VIII.
  30. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
  31. A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
  32. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 40, Tyrion IX.
  33. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 27, Eddard VI.
  34. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 25, Tyrion VI.
  35. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
  36. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys IV.
  37. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
  38. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
  39. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
  40. 40.0 40.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
  41. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X.
  42. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
  43. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 8, Tyrion II.
  44. 44.0 44.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 4, Tyrion I.
  45. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 64, The Ugly Little Girl.