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Tiger

2017-05-13T13:16:01Z

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{{See homonyms | tiger (disambiguation)}}

The '''tiger''' of the [[Known World]] is similar to the real-life [[w:tiger|tiger]]. The felines are found in the [[Forest of Qohor]],{{Ref|aGoT|23}} and [[Lomas Longstrider]] claimed the island of [[Leng]] is home to ten thousand tigers.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Leng}}

==History==
[[Tiger-men]] are a sentient species in the myths and legends of [[Yi Ti]]. The legendary [[Bloodstone Emperor]] of [[Great Empire of the Dawn|The Great Empire of the Dawn]] took a tiger-woman to wife.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Beyond the Bones: Yi Ti}}

The aristocratic and warrior political party of [[Volantis]] is known as the “tigers”. They tend to be imperialists and advocate the sword.{{Ref|ADWD|22}} The Volantene guards known as [[tiger cloaks]] are named after the militant tiger party. They have green stripes tattooed on their cheeks and wear tiger masks.{{Ref|ADWD|22}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[Daenerys Targaryen]] sees spotted tigers during her journey through the [[Forest of Qohor]].{{Ref|aGoT|23}}

[[Syrio Forel]] tells [[Arya Stark]] he saw tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch in the [[Sealord of Braavos]]'s menagerie.{{Ref|aGoT|50}}<ref>Syrio possibly saw a [[w:thylacine|thylacine]] (Tasmanian tiger), or similar marsupial, which only superficially resembles a tiger.</ref>

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Daenerys sees [[Qarth]]een wearing tiger skins.{{Ref|aCoK|27}}. The ''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]'', ''[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]'' and ''[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]'' take on trade goods in [[Qarth]], including bales of costly tiger skin.{{Ref|aSoS|8}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Daenerys's tiger skins given to her by [[Illyrio Mopatis]] are part of her payment for the [[Unsullied]] in [[Astapor]].{{Ref|aSoS|27}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Victarion Greyjoy]] claims that his brother, [[Euron Greyjoy|Euron]], seduced many [[ironborn]] captains with valuable gifts, such as tiger pelts.{{Ref|aFfC|29}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Some of the [[Brazen Beasts]] who escort Daenerys Targaryen to [[Meereen]]'s fighting pits wear tiger masks.{{Ref|aDwD|52}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Tiger skins are costly.{{Ref|ASOS|8}}}} - Ser [[Jorah Mormont]], to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

{{Quote|What better use for [[Illyrio Mopatis|his]] tiger skins than to buy you the beginnings of an army?{{Ref|ASOS|8}}}} - Ser [[Jorah Mormont]], to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]
==References and Notes==
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House Celtigar

2016-03-25T16:00:18Z

BT2000: /* Game of Thrones */Celtigar not 'Cletigar'

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'''House Celtigar of Claw Isle''' rules [[Claw Isle]], an island in the [[narrow sea]] off the coast of [[Crackclaw Point]]. The Celtigars are historically sworn to [[Dragonstone]] within the [[Crownlands]].

Their arms depict red crabs strewn on white.{{ref|ACOK|61}}<ref>Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/1/#In%20the%20area%20of%20King%27s%20Landing/ In the area of the King's Landing]</ref> Their words do not appear in the books.

==History==

House Celtigar is an ancient and proud house, with the blood of old [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyria]] in its veins.{{ref|TWOIAF| The War of Conquest}} [[Crispian Celtigar]] served as [[master of coin]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen]]. The Celtigars claim dominion over [[Crackclaw Point]], but the inhabitants do not acknowledge their claim. When they surrendered peacefully to [[Visenya Targaryen]] during the [[War of Conquest]], the people of Crackclaw were officially freed from pledging fealty to anyone but the [[Iron Throne]]. The Celtigars occasionally send men there to collect taxes. If Lord Celtigar sends enough collectors, a few come back to him.{{ref|AFFC|20}}

During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Lord [[Bartimos Celtigar]] sat on the [[black council]] to Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]].{{ref|tpatq}}

The Celtigars' castle is rumored to hold fabulous treasures that bear witness to their wealth. Among Lord [[Ardrian Celtigar]]'s property there are [[Myr|Myrish]] carpets, [[Volantis|Volantene]] glass, gold and silver plate, jeweled cups, magnificent hawks, a trained sea eagle, an axe of [[Valyrian steel]], chests of rubies, a horn said to summon [[kraken]]s from under the sea, and many fine wines.{{ref|ASOS|36}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Lord [[Ardrian Celtigar]] answers [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s summons when he crowns himself king and calls his banners. Stannis comments to Ser [[Davos Seaworth]] his disgust about having to sup with his lords, among them Ardrian, who keeps asking which [[Stormlands|stormlords]] will join him. Lord Celtigar's contribution to Stannis's fleet is the ornate ship ''[[Red Claw]]''. Lord Ardrian is made prisoner at the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], and bends the knee to King [[Joffrey Baratheon]]. He remains at [[King's Landing]] afterwards.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Ser [[Axell Florent]] suggests that Stannis sack [[Claw Isle]] as a reprisal for Celtigar's surrender, but Davos convinces him otherwise and is named [[Hand of the King]] by Stannis for his honest counsel. Lord Celtigar declares at [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s trial for the [[Purple Wedding|death of Joffrey]] that he once heard Tyrion threatening Joffrey.

==House Celtigar at the end of the third century==

The known Celtigars during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
*Lord [[Ardrian Celtigar]], called "the Red Crab", Lord of Claw Isle. An old and sour man.

==Historical Members==
* Lord [[Crispian Celtigar]], [[Master of Coin]] to [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]].{{ref|twoiaf}}
* Lord [[Edwell Celtigar]], [[Hand of the King]] to [[Maegor I Targaryen]].{{ref|twoiaf}}
* Lord [[Bartimos Celtigar]]. Sat on the [[Black council]] of [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]].{{ref|tpatq}}

==''Game of Thrones''==
*[[Terrence Celtigar]], a new recruit to the [[Nightswatch]].

==References and Notes==
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House Yronwood

2016-02-21T17:46:31Z

BT2000: /* Historical Yronwoods */

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| Seat = [[Yronwood]]
| Current_Lord = Lord [[Anders Yronwood]]
| Region = [[Dorne]]
| Title = [[The Bloodroyal]] Lord of Yronwood [[Warden of the Stone Way]] [[Master of the Green Hills]](formerly) [[Lord of the Stone Way]] (formerly) [[High King of Dorne]] (formerly)
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[[File:T Jedruszek Lord Anders guard.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Lord [[Anders Yronwood]]'s Honor Guard – by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
[[File:T Jedruszek LordIronwoodSpears.jpg|350px|thumb|Lord Yronwood's Spears – by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]

'''House Yronwood of Yronwood''' is the most powerful house in [[Dorne]] after the [[House Martell|Martells]].{{Ref|aFfC|40}} [[Yronwood|Yronwood Castle]] is the last fortress defending the [[Boneway]]; this is reflected in their title [[Warden of the Stone Way]].{{Ref|aFfC|40}} The Yronwoods were [[High King of Dorne|kings]] in Dorne before the [[Rhoynar migration|arrival of the Rhoynar]]; the head of the house continues to hold the title ''The Bloodroyal''.

According to semi-canon sources, their motto is ''We Guard the Way''.<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/ House Mottoes]</ref> Their blazon is a black portcullis grill over sand.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/9/ Houses from Dorne]</ref> The Yronwoods often have blond hair and blue eyes.{{ref|ADWD|6}}

==History==
House Yronwood is an ancient family who once ruled half of Dorne as the Kings of Yronwood, with domains significantly greater than [[House Martell]] of [[Sunspear]], a fact the Yronwoods let no one forget.{{ref|twow||[[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne]]}} House Yronwood established [[Yronwood]] in the high valleys and green foothills below the peaks and seized control of the [[Stone Way]], the second of the two great passes into Dorne. Well protected and comparably fertile, their lands were also well timbered and possessed of valuable deposits of iron, tin, and silver, making them the richest and most powerful of the Dornish kings. The Yronwood domain reached from [[Wyl (castle)|Wyl]] to the headwaters of the [[Greenblood]],{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Kingdoms of the First Men}} and, at times, even the [[Sandship]] of [[House Martell]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: The Andals Arrive}}

The ancient Yronwood kings oft fought with the [[Storm King]]s, as seen when [[Yoren Yronwood]] was turned back by King [[Durran Durrandon (the Young)|Durran the Young]] at the [[Battle by the Bloody Pool]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Stormlands: House Durrandon}} King [[Olyvar Yronwood]] also invaded King [[Erich VII Durrandon]]'s domain.{{ref|twoiaf| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}

When the [[Rhoynar]] came to Dorne with [[Nymeria]] aboard her [[ten thousand ships]], they joined House Martell, increasing the size of Lord [[Mors Martell]]'s host tenfold.{{ref|twoiaf| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}. Nymeria married Mors and named herself and her husband the [[Prince of Dorne|Prince and Princess of Dorne]], asserting their dominion over all of Dorne in the ensuing [[Nymeria's War]]. King [[Yorick V Yronwood]] was supported by his bannermen, Houses [[House Jordayne|Jordayne]], [[House Wyl|Wyl]], [[House Blackmont|Blackmont]], [[House Qorgyle|Qorgyle]], amongst many others. In the ninth year of warfare Mors died at Yorick's sword in the [[Third Battle of the Boneway]]. Nymeria took control of the Martell armies, however, and it took another two years of fighting before Yorick bent the knee and was sent to the [[Wall]].{{ref|twoiaf| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} The Yronwoods became the most powerful bannermen of House Nymeros Martell, though their relationship is uneasy at best.{{ref|twoiaf| Dorne: The Coming of the Rhoynar}} The Yronwoods also have a rivalry with [[House Fowler]], who supported the Martells in the war.{{ref|AFFC|40}}

The Yronwoods joined [[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]] against the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] and Martells in three of the five [[Blackfyre Pretenders|Blackfyre Rebellions]], even though one of the original goals of the rebels was to remove the Dornish influence at court.{{Ref|aFfC|13}}

When [[Oberyn Martell]] was sixteen years old, he was found abed with old Lord [[Edgar Yronwood]]'s paramour and they fought a duel. Although it was only to first blood, Edgar's wounds festered and he died shortly afterwards, originating rumors that the Red Viper's blade had been poisoned. Oberyn fled to the [[Free Cities]] in exile. To "repay a blood debt", Prince [[Doran Martell]] later sent his second child, [[Quentyn Martell]], to foster with Edgar's grandson, Lord [[Anders Yronwood]].{{ref|twow||[[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne]]}} Quentyn was sent more than 10 years after the incident. Quentyn served at Yronwood as page and squire. He chose to be knighted by Anders himself instead of his uncle, Oberyn.{{Ref|aFfC|13}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Following Doran's instructions, Lord Anders musters and maintains an army in the [[Boneway]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]].{{ref|AFFC|2}} Anders delays Ser [[Balon Swann]] at [[Yronwood]] by feasting him for a fortnight.{{ref|AFFC|40}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Cletus Yronwood]] and Ser [[Archibald Yronwood]] accompany [[Quentyn Martell]] in his mission to find [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in [[Essos]]. Since his son and his cousin are traveling with Quentyn to [[Essos]], with all probability Lord Anders has been entrusted by [[Doran Martell]] with the critical secret of his support for the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] restoration. Cletus, the heir of House Yronwood, is killed by corsairs, but Archibald arrives in [[Meereen]].

==House Yronwood at the end of the third century==
The known Yronwoods during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Anders Yronwood]], Lord of Yronwood. Warden of the Stone Way. The Bloodroyal. Son of Lord Ormond.
** [[Ynys Yronwood]], his eldest daughter, and heir by Dornish law. Married to Ser [[Ryon Allyrion]].
*** She has at least two children.
** Ser {[[Cletus Yronwood]]}, his eldest son. Known for a lazy eye. Slain by corsairs aboard the ship ''[[Meadowlark]]''.
** [[Gwyneth Yronwood]], his youngest daughter.
** Ser [[Archibald Yronwood]], his cousin. Called the ''Big Man'' and known among the [[Windblown]] as ''Greenguts''.

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==Historical Yronwoods==
* [[Yoren Yronwood]], who was defeated in the [[Battle by the Bloody Pool]] by King [[Durran the Young]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Stormlands: House Durrandon}}
* King [[Olyvar Yronwood]], the Bloodroyal, Lord of Yronwood, [[Lord of the Stone Way]], [[Master of the Green Hills]], and [[High King of Dorne]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Stormlands: Andals in the Stormlands}}
* King [[Yorick V Yronwood]], the Bloodroyal, Fifth of His Name, Lord of Yronwood, [[Warden of the Stone Way]], [[Knight of the Wells]], [[King of Redmarch]], [[King of the Greenbelt]], [[King of the Dornish]]. The last of the Yronwood kings.{{ref|twoiaf| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}{{ref|twoiaf| Dorne: The Coming of the Rhoynar}}
* Lord [[Edgar Yronwood]], who died from poison after a duel with the [[Oberyn Martell|Red Viper]].
** Lord [[Ormond Yronwood]], former Lord of Yronwood. The son of Lord Edgar. His son Anders, now rules Yronwood.

==Houses Sworn to House Yronwood==

{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Drinkwater]]'''. 

==References and Notes==
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Oberyn Martell

2016-02-18T19:34:13Z

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| image = [[File:MagaliVilleneuve Prince Oberyn Nymeros Martell.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption = Oberyn Martell by MagaliVilleneuve©
| Alias = The Red Viper
| Title = Prince [[Knight|Ser]]
| Allegiance = [[House Martell|House Martell]] [[Second Sons]] (formerly)
| Race = "Salty" Dornishman
| Culture = [[Dornishmen]]
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| Place_of_Birth=
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|257}} or {{date|258}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued2)#Oberyn Martell|Oberyn Martell]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death= [[King's Landing]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|300}}
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| Books = ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)
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| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]
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Prince '''Oberyn Nymeros Martell''', known as the '''Red Viper''', is a member of [[House Martell]] and is Prince [[Doran Martell|Doran]]'s hot-headed younger brother. He has eight bastard daughters, called the [[Sand Snakes]], the four youngest of which are by his current paramour, [[Ellaria Sand]]. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Oberyn is portrayed by [[w:Pedro Pascal|Pedro Pascal]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Oberyn Martell|Images of Oberyn Martell]]''

Oberyn has a lined face with thin eyebrows, black "viper" eyes and a sharp nose.{{Ref|aFfC|2}} His hair is lustrous and black with only a few silver streaks and recedes from his brow into a widow's peak.{{Ref|aSoS|38}}

Oberyn is a forceful, lusty man with a quick wit and barbed tongue. He studied at the [[Citadel]] for a while, and apparently forged several maester links but eventually grew bored and left the order. Oberyn had traveled the world, and even founded his own mercenary company. He had a very close relationship with his sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]] and they were inseparable as children. Some rumors hold that he is bisexual.{{Ref|aSoS|38}} His squire (and one of his many rumored lovers) is [[Daemon Sand]].

Oberyn rides a black stallion with a tail the color of fire. He wears a pale red silk cloak and a shirt armored with overlapping discs of bright copper. His helm is adorned with a copper sun and he owns a steel round shield in the [[Dorne|Dornish]] style that is decorated with the sigil of [[House Martell]].{{Ref|aSoS|38}}

Oberyn is an exceptional fighter, his speed and skill with both spear and sword are renowned. In battle, along with his brightly-polished round shield, Oberyn wields an ash spear eight feet long with a steel spearhead and spike. He chooses to wear lightly armored greaves, vambraces, gorget, spaulder and steel codpiece, in addition to supple leather and flowing silk. He wears a helm without a visor and scales of gleaming copper over his byrnie. {{ref|ASOS|70}}

==History==
===Early Life===

In his youth, Oberyn was fostered at [[Sandstone]].{{Ref|aFfC|21}} When in his teens, Oberyn travelled with his mother, the ruling Princess of Dorne, and his sister, Princess [[Elia Martell]], and met multiple potential marriage candidates for his sister. The castles they visited included [[Starfall]], the [[Arbor]], [[Oldtown]], the [[Shield Islands]] and [[Crakehall]]. Oberyn spent his time mocking Elia's suitors. The last castle they visited was [[Casterly Rock]], where they arrived shortly after the death of [[Joanna Lannister]] in [[Tyrion Lannister|childbirth]]. According to Oberyn, his mother and Lady Joanna had planned to wed either Oberyn to [[Cersei Lannister]], or Elia to [[Jaime Lannister]], or both. Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], however, was unreceptive of the suggestion, stating that [[Cersei Lannister|his daughter]] would marry Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]. He offered the newborn [[Tyrion Lannister]] as a husband for Elia instead, which was seen as an insult.{{Ref|ASOS|70}}

At the age of sixteen, Oberyn was found in bed with the [[paramour]] of Lord [[Edgar Yronwood]], so the lord challenged him to a duel. The duel was to first blood, given the prince’s youth and high birth, and both took cuts. Lord Edgar's wounds festered and killed him. Oberyn has been known as the "Red Viper" ever since by friends and foes alike, due to rumors that he fought the duel with a poisoned blade.{{Ref|aSoS|38}} Afterward, Oberyn was sent to [[Oldtown]] and then to [[Lys]] in temporary exile (though none dared call it exile) in order for [[House Martell]] to make peace with [[House Yronwood]], and Prince [[Quentyn Martell]] was sent as a ward to [[House Yronwood]].<ref>[http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html The Winds of Winter, Arianne sample chapter]</ref>

Oberyn traveled extensively in the Free Cities, where he learned much about [[poison]]s and perhaps even darker arts. He had studied at the [[Citadel]], going so far as to forge six links of a [[maester]]'s chain before he grew bored. He had soldiered in the [[Disputed Lands]] across the Narrow Sea, riding with the [[Second Sons]] for a time before forming his own company. It is said that he beds both men and women, and has begotten eight bastard daughters, called the ''[[Sand Snakes]]''.{{Ref|aSoS|38}} Oberyn, however, does not let his children grow up wanting: he takes responsibility for them, and actively seeks to help raise all his children (something few lords do when it comes to their [[Bastardy|bastard]] offspring). He teaches them how to defend themselves and allows them great independence in growing up.{{Ref|AFFC|40}}

Prince Oberyn was unhorsed by Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] and Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] at a [[tourney at Storm's End]].{{Ref|aSoS|42}}{{Ref|aSoS|67}} He was also present during the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]] in {{Date|281}}, where he danced with Lady [[Ashara Dayne]].{{Ref|ASOS|24}}

Oberyn had a very close relationship with his sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]]. It is currently unknown where Oberyn was during [[Robert's Rebellion]]. However, following the [[Sack of King's Landing]], when he learned that Elia had been raped and murdered by a Lannister knight, [[Gregor Clegane]], along with her [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|son]], and how her [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|daughter]] had been killed by another Lannister knight ([[Amory Lorch]]), he attempted to raise Dorne for [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]]. The new [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Jon Arryn]], travelled to Sunspear in the year following the was, and was able to keep the peace, but Oberyn has desired revenge ever since.{{Ref|aSoS|38}} After the war, Oberyn seldom left Dorne.{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Oberyn is primarily responsible for giving modern revitalization to the ongoing feud between his House and the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], because he accidentally crippled [[Willas Tyrell]] in a [[tourney]]. Oberyn struck Willas's breastplate clean, but the boy's foot caught in a stirrup as he fell and his horse fell on top of him. Oberyn sent his own [[Maesters|maester]] to help treat Willas. Willas himself holds no grudge against Oberyn and the two correspond via raven message even after the accident as both share a passion for horses.{{Ref|aSoS|38}}

He and his brother [[Doran Martell|Doran]] worked in secret for years planning on bringing an end to the reign of [[Robert Baratheon]] and destroying [[House Lannister]].{{Ref|AFFC|40}} Oberyn traveled to Braavos, where [[Viserys Targaryen]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]] were living with Ser [[Willem Darry]]. Oberyn and Darry signed a [[secret marriage pact]], with the [[Sealord of Braavos]] as witness, promising Viserys the hand of Princess [[Arianne Martell]] im marriage, in return for Dorne's help in reclaiming the throne.{{Ref|ADWD|43}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Zippo514 RV vs Mountain.jpg|400px|thumb|The Red Viper vs The Mountain - by zippo514 ©]]
Prince Oberyn comes to [[King's Landing]] to claim the seat on the [[small council]] on Prince [[Doran Martell]]'s behalf and obtain justice for his sister [[Elia Martell]]'s murderer, as was agreed with the acting [[Hand of the King]], [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|38}} However, it soon becomes clear that the new Hand, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], means to forgo that promise. Tywin plans on lying to Oberyn and claiming that the now deceased Ser [[Amory Lorch]] is responsible for all three deaths (Lorch was guilty of the death of only [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]]).{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Oberyn gives King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] a red gold scorpion brooch for the [[Purple Wedding|royal wedding]]. {{ref|ASOS|59}}

When Tyrion is accused of Joffrey's murder, Oberyn is one of the judges. The day before a judgement is to be pronounced, Oberyn offers to be Tyrion's champion in a [[trial by combat]], if Tyrion tells who is guilty of the murder of Elia. Tyrion takes Oberyn up on his offer. He denies any involvement of his father but tells Oberyn that Lorch killed Rhaenys and Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] killed Elia and [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]].{{Ref|aSoS|66}} Oberyn knows already that Ser Gregor will be his adversary.

Despite his enormous physical disadvantage, Oberyn using speed manages to wound Clegane several times and cripple him by finding chinks in his armour and severing his hamstring after the Mountain tired from chasing him. As Oberyn approaches Gregor to finish him, the prostrated Clegane grabs hold of Oberyn and smashes his armoured fist into Oberyn's face, killing him: dashing out his brains after first destroying his teeth and knocking out his eyes. Before killing Oberyn however, Clegane roars his guilt in killing Elia and Aegon for for all to hear. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Oberyn achieves posthumous vengeance by having coated his spear in a special kind of poison, leaving Clegane to die slowly and in tremendous agony.{{Ref|aFfC|2}}

Oberyn's daughters, the [[Sand Snakes]], seek vengeance for his death; Prince [[Doran Martell]] orders [[Areo Hotah]] to place them under arrest to keep the peace.{{ref|AFFC|2}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[Tyene Sand]] mentions that she knows about the poison her father used on the Mountain and that if his spear so much as broke Cleganes skin then he is dead. {{Ref|aDwD|38}}

==Quotes by Oberyn==
[[File:Oberyn Martell10.jpg‎‎|Oberyn Martell by Paul Phillips ©|thumb|250px]]

{{Quote|'''Ellaria:''' You're going to fight [[Gregor Clegane|that]]? 
'''Oberyn:''' I'm going to kill that.{{Ref|asos|70}}}}
– Oberyn and [[Ellaria Sand]]

{{Quote|[[Elia Martell]], Princess of Dorne, you raped her. You murdered her. You killed her children.{{ref|aSoS|53}}}} – Oberyn while fighting [[Gregor Clegane]]

==Quotes about Oberyn==
{{Quote|Oberyn has always been half-mad.{{ref|aSoS|53}}}} – [[Tywin Lannister]] to [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|The man's infamous, and not just for poisoning his sword. He has more [[bastard]]s than [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]], and beds with boys as well.{{ref|aSoS|62}}}} – [[Jaime Lannister]] to [[Tywin Lannister]]

{{Quote|He knew the man only by reputation...but the reputation is fearsome...His tourneys, his battles, his duels, his horses, his carnality.{{Ref|aSoS|38}}}} - Thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him.{{Ref|aDwD|38}}}} – [[Doran Martell]] to the [[Sand Snakes]]

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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Quentyn Martell

2016-02-18T19:31:41Z

BT2000:

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| Place_of_Death = [[Meereen]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|300}}
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (POV)
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Prince '''Quentyn Nymeros Martell''', better known simply as '''Quentyn Martell''', is the second child and eldest son of Prince [[Doran Martell]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Quentyn Martell|Images of Quentyn Martell]]''
Quentyn is short and stocky with a plain face. He is very serious and does not smile easily.{{Ref|aDwD|6}} Ser [[Barristan Selmy|Barristan]] reflects that he "seemed a decent lad, sober, sensible, dutiful … but not the sort to make a young girl's heart beat faster."{{ref|adwd|59}}

==History==
At a young age, Quentyn was sent to be fostered by Lord [[Anders Yronwood]], whom he served as a page and squire. He was given his knighthood by Lord Yronwood, turning down the offer of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]], at the age of 18.{{Ref|aFfC|13}}{{Ref|awoiaf| Quentyn Martell}}

==Recent Events==
===A Feast for Crows===
Quentyn is believed to be in the [[Boneway]] with the host of Lord Yronwood. However, he has crossed the [[narrow sea]] in secret.{{Ref|aFfC|13}} [[Arianne Martell]] knows he has crossed the sea and erroneously believes Quentyn is recruiting mercenaries to displace her as heir of Dorne, with the approval of their father.{{Ref|aFfC|13}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
[[File:Gerris Quentyn and Arch.jpg|350px|thumb|[[Gerris Drinkwater|Ser Gerris]], Prince Quentyn, and [[Archibald Yronwood|Ser Archibald]] - by Sasha Gladysh ©|thumb|300px|right]]
[[File‎: ‎ Marc_Fishman_Rhaegal&QM.jpg‎|[[Rhaegal ]]'s flame engulfs Quentyn - by Marc Fishman © |thumb|300px|right]]
[[File:The_dragontamer.png‎|The Dragontamer by [http://ashleyhunterrice.tumblr.com/ Ashley Hunter Rice] |thumb|300px|right]]
Quentyn has been sent across the [[narrow sea]] with [[Cletus Yronwood]], Ser [[Gerris Drinkwater]], Ser [[Willam Wells]], Ser [[Archibald Yronwood]] and [[Maester]] [[Kedry]] to bring [[Daenerys Targaryen]] to [[Dorne]]. Cletus and Willam are slain when their ship, the ''[[Meadowlark]]'', is boarded by corsairs and they fight to repel them. Kedry dies as well.{{ref|adwd|6}}

When Quentyn and his companions reach [[Volantis]], Gerris pretends to be a wine merchant looking for a ship to take him and his two "servants" to [[Meereen]]. Every captain they try to convince to take them on this journey refuses, and in the end they are forced to consider seeking passage on the smuggler's ship ''[[Adventure]]''.{{ref|adwd|6}} No trade ships are leaving for Meereen due to the [[fighting pits]] now being closed and the slave trade there banned.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}{{ref|adwd|6}} Quentyn and his two companions join the [[Windblown]], a mercenary company hired by [[Yunkai]], as a way to reach the Queen.

Quentyn and his companions fight incognito beside the Windblown when they lay siege to [[Astapor]] and win [[Siege of Astapor|the battle]]. Quentyn is given the nickname ''"Frog"'' by the other Windblown. When Quentyn, [[Gerris Drinkwater|Gerris]] and [[Archibald Yronwood|Yronwood]] are planning to desert the mercenaries, the [[Tattered Prince]], leader of the Windblown, summons them. At first they believe that they are discovered, but soon it becomes clear that the mercenary captain has other plans for them. They are to join a group of [[Westeros|Westerosi]], all of them part of the company, pretending that they want to leave the Tattered Prince and fight for Daenerys. With this move, the Tattered Prince wants to make sure that if the tides turn he will be still on the winning side.{{Ref|aDwD|25}}

Once the trio reach Meereen they, along with the other feigned [[Windblown]] turncloaks, are presented by [[Daario]] to Daenerys [[audience chamber (Great Pyramid)|in her audience chamber]] as recruits to the [[Stormcrows]],{{ref|adwd|36}} Once presented Quentyn and his two companions reveal themselves to the Queen as Westerosi [[knight]]s. Quentyn then hands over to Daenerys a parchment containing [[Secret marriage pact (made in Braavos)|a pact that was sealed over 15 years ago]], signed by [[Willem Darry]] and [[Oberyn Martell]] with the [[Sealord of Braavos]] witnessing the signatures. The pact was for [[Viserys Targaryen]] to wed Princess [[Arianne Martell]] in return for Dorne's support in helping him regain his [[Iron Throne]]. With Viserys dead, Quentyn now offers himself as a husband for Daenerys in return for the support of Dorne. [[Daario Naharis]] mocks Quentyn, saying he is a boy and Daenerys needs a man. This angers Quentyn's companions. Quentyn tries to convince Daenerys that it's not too late to abandon her upcoming marriage to [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] and go back to [[Westeros]]. The Queen, however, does not accept Quentyn's proposition. Although Daenerys is courteous to Quentyn and his companions, she urges the Dornish envoy to go home.{{Ref|ADWD|43}} Later, [[Barristan Selmy]] notes that if Gerris were the prince the events may have turned in complete different direction since he is more attractive than Quentyn.

After Daenerys disappears on [[Drogon]]'s back,{{Ref|aDwD|52}} Ser Barristan Selmy advises the three Dornishmen to go back to [[Westeros]] and forget about the pact, but Quentyn turns the friendly advice of the old knight down, stating that he does not wish to return to [[Dorne]] empty handed.{{ref|adwd|59}}

Quentyn's companions are keen to return to Dorne but Quentyn refuses to go. He does not want to return having failed. Quentyn hatches a plan, he hopes that since he [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|has dragon blood in his veins]] he will be able to tame at least one of Dany's dragons. He goes over to the [[Tattered Prince]], enlisting the [[Windblown]]'s help in seizing [[Rhaegal]] and [[Viserion]]. The Tattered Prince agrees in return for [[Pentos]]. Quentyn agrees.{{Ref|aDwD|60}}

However, when Quentyn enters the [[Dragon pit (Great Pyramid)|dragon pit]] and attempts to tame [[Viserion]], he turns his back on [[Rhaegal]]. Too late he realizes his mistake and turns as Rhaegal bathes him in dragonfire. The Windblown mercenaries flee, and both dragons escape.{{Ref|aDwD|68}} Quentyn dies in Daenerys Targaryen's bed four days later covered in burns. Upon seeing the extent of the prince's injuries, Ser Barristan thinks it would have been better if Rhaegal had just eaten him alive.{{Ref|aDwD|70}}

==Relationships==
===Doran Martell===
Quentyn's father, [[Doran Martell]], is very much aware of his duties as prince of Dorne.{{Ref|aDwD|38}} Although he seems to love his children, they nevertheless have to play their part in that duty. Quentyn was fostered to the [[House Yronwood|Yronwoods]] to mend the relation between them and the Martells.{{Ref|aFfC|21}} While Quentyn was raised by the Yronwoods, he received letters from his father reminding him about his duties.{{Ref|aFfC|13}} His father also told him to be prepared to become the next prince of Dorne. At this time Doran secretly planned to have Arianne, Quentyn's elder sister, marry [[Viserys Targaryen]].{{Ref|aDwD|43}}

Later Quentyn goes to the east to marry [[Daenerys Targaryen]] as ordered by his father.{{Ref|aDwD|43}} When his journey is difficult he reminds himself of the trust his father has put into him and feels he cannot disappoint him. This motivates Quentyn to continue the journey regardless of the danger.{{Ref|aDwD|6}}

==Quotes about Quentyn==
{{Quote|Your brother Quentyn has a harder road to walk.}} – [[Doran Martell]], to [[Arianne Martell|Arianne]]

{{Quote|She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud. You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time}} – [[Barristan Selmy]]'s notion why Daenerys rejected Quentyn's marriage proposal, in spite of the fact that a Dornish ally would strengthen her cause.{{Ref|aDwD|59}}

{{Quote|Quentyn had never felt so much a boy as when he'd stood before Daenerys Targaryen, pleading for her hand. The thought of bedding her terrified him almost as much as her dragons had.}}

==Quotes by Quentyn==

{{Quote|I want to go back to [[Yronwood]] and kiss both of [[House Drinkwater|your sisters]], marry [[Gwyneth Yronwood]], watch her flower into beauty, have a child by her. I want to ride in [[tourney]]s, hawk and hunt, visit [[Mellario of Norvos|my mother]] in [[Norvos]], read some of those books my father sends me. I want [[Cletus Yronwood|Cletus]] and [[Willam Wells|Will]] and Maester [[Kedry]] to be alive again. {{Ref|adwd|68}}}} – Quentyn's thoughts

==Family==
{{Martell tree}}

==References and Notes==
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Talk:House Daffy

2015-10-02T17:55:59Z

BT2000:

I'm now wondering if this was a typo on the digital version I read. Perhaps it was supposed to be House Darry? - [[User:SquisherKing|SquisherKing]] ([[User talk:SquisherKing|talk]]) 11:44, 2 October 2015 (CDT)

==BlueTiger==
In English digital version I have House Daffy... but in Polish paperback 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' I have house Darry. .. -([[User:BT2000|BlueTiger]]

Talk:House Daffy

2015-10-02T17:53:08Z

BT2000:

I'm now wondering if this was a typo on the digital version I read. Perhaps it was supposed to be House Darry? - [[User:SquisherKing|SquisherKing]] ([[User talk:SquisherKing|talk]]) 11:44, 2 October 2015 (CDT)

In English digital version I have House Daffy... but in Polish paperback 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' I have house Darry. ..

Talk:Shadowcat

2015-09-16T16:06:57Z

BT2000: /* Black Panther Inspiration? */

== Black Panther Inspiration? ==

Could it be that the imagination for the "Shadowcats" came from the "Black Panthers"? Larger than cougars, smaller than tigers, and even it's a little bit hidden, the markings on a black panther are visible, like the stripes of a "Shadowcat"! --[[User:Exodianecross|Exodianecross]] ([[User talk:Exodianecross|talk]]) 10:36, 16 September 2015 (CDT)

===BlueTiger's response===

I've always imagined shadowcat as a GRRM's own creation, inspired by [[w:Smilodon]] , [[w:Snow leopard]] and other felids. GRRM often uses Pleioscene megafauna as inspiration for his creatures ( Direwolwes [[w:Direwolf]], Coldhands' s elk).

Gerardys

2015-09-06T08:06:40Z

BT2000:

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'''Gerardys''' was a [[maester]] who served Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] on [[Dragonstone]]. He later became the [[Grand Maester]] of Queen Rhaenyra, and sat on her small council.

==History==
Gerardys served Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] on [[Dragonstone]]. He also flew with Prince [[Daemon Targaryen]] to help his wife Lady [[Laena Velaryon]] after a difficult childbirth, but they arrived too late.{{ref|trp}} He became Rhaenyra's Grand Maester during the [[Dance of the Dragons]], until [[Aegon II Targaryen]] [[fall of Dragonstone|took Dragonstone]] and fed him to his dragon [[Sunfyre]] for reasons unknown.{{ref|asos|12}}

==Error in The Rogue Prince==
The novella ''[[The Rogue Prince]]'' identifies Gerardys as the Grand Maester who replaced [[Mellos]] in the council and amputated Viserys I's fingers. This was an error,<ref>[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/119534-twoiaf-spoilers-inconsistency-or-intentional/?p=6393809 Question] (last line) and [http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/119534-twoiaf-spoilers-inconsistency-or-intentional/?p=6393918 clarification]</ref> and ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' states the maester was [[Orwyle]].

==References and Notes==
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Gerardys

2015-08-29T17:04:50Z

BT2000: /* History */It was Aegon II who sacked Dragonstone, not Aegon the Younger...

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'''Gerardys''' was [[Grand Maester]] at the end of the reign of [[Viserys I Targaryen]] and during the reign of [[Aegon II Targaryen]].

==History==
Gerardys served Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] on [[Dragonstone]]. He also flew with Prince [[Daemon Targaryen]] to help his wife Lady [[Laena Velaryon]] after a difficult childbirth, but they arrived too late.{{ref|trp}} He became Rhaenyra's Grand Maester during the [[Dance of the Dragons]], until [[Aegon II Targaryen]] [[fall of Dragonstone|took Dragonstone]] and fed him to his dragon [[Sunfyre]] for reasons unknown.{{ref|asos|12}}

==Error in The Rogue Prince==
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Knight

2015-08-27T08:19:41Z

BT2000: /* Becoming a knight */

[[File: MKomarck_KnightOfFlowers.jpg‎|Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], a famous knight known as the ''Knight of Flowers'' - by Michael Komarck ©|thumb|350px|right]]
A '''knight''' is a member of a warrior tradition that is heavily interwoven in the [[Feudalism|feudal]] culture of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Knights occupy a social standing between that of lords and [[smallfolk]]. Contrary to the nobility, this rank is not hereditary and it is possible for the [[Bastard|baseborn]] to become knights. Knights are referred to with the title "'''Ser'''".

==History==
Knighthood has its roots in [[Andal]] culture and was brought to [[Westeros]] during the [[Andal Invasion]]. The military success of the Andals' mounted knights and their steel armament proved vital to the Andals' conquest of Westeros. The influence of the Andals on the culture of Westeros has made knights the backbone of warfare in the Seven Kingdoms. However, knighthood holds less cultural significance in areas of Westeros that are less assimilated to Andal culture, such as the [[North]] and the [[Iron Islands]].

==Practices==
Knights are supposed to be brave, courageous, honorable, and true to their word. They should be loyal to their feudal overlord, and are tasked with defending their faith. In practice, most knights fall short of sustaining such high and noble ideals. Many do not try particularly hard, and instead seek knighthood mainly for the prestige and opportunities.

To a degree, that is understandable and perhaps unavoidable; for [[bastardy|bastards]] and [[smallfolk]], knighthood is one of the few paths for improving their social standing and monetary prospects that does not involve seriously restrictive vows such as celibacy or abstaining from marrying, having children or owning lands of their own. Knighthood by itself brings few advantages and significant expenses and risks, but it opens the doors for significant opportunities as well.

In reality, skill at arms is the most important aspect of knighthood. Knights are expected to fight whenever there is a need for them. They traditionally fight as heavy cavalry, wearing plate armor and fighting from horseback with lance, sword and shield. Some knights choose to fight with other weapons such as axes, hammers, and spears as well. They own at least one [[horse]], and typically own two: a fierce warhorse and a milder horse for daily riding. According to Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] [[currency|three hundred dragons]] is a fair ransom for a knight.{{Ref|aSoS|44}}

Knights display a coat-of-arms on their shield and surcoat to identify themselves. They generally wear their family arms. Those who do not have family arms, or do not wish to use them, can create their own. These personal arms often portray the manner in which the man achieved knighthood or have some other personal significance. Many knights wear large crests on their helms that embellish the theme of their arms. Wealthy knights often seek to further distinguish themselves by wearing ornate weapons and armor. Lacquered or jeweled armor and capes of exotic materials are some ways that knights can flaunt their status.

==Becoming a knight==
[[File:T Jedruszek BrightwaterCavalrywing.jpg|400px|thumb|right|A knight of [[House Florent]] - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]

The traditional process to becoming a knight has three stages.

*'''Page'''. A boy that becomes a page is attached to a knight, who becomes the boy's master. The sons of many knights and lords are sent to foster with relatives or allies, while other pages serve their own fathers. The page performs simple errands for the knight, who in turn begins to train the boy in vital skills, such as jousting and swordsmanship. Typical training involves sparring with blunted weapons and tilting at rings.

*'''Squire'''. When a boy reaches adolescence, he graduates to being a squire. Squires learn how to properly care for and use weapons, armor, and horses as well as learning about Chivalry. In time of war Squires join their masters in war, assisting them with their equipment and fighting by their side in battles. Some squires choose to never become a full knight, and live the rest of their lives as squires. This may be because the individual does not have the inclination to live a knight's martial lifestyle, or does not have the funds to properly equip himself.<ref name=SSMKnighthood/> According to [[George R. R. Martin]],
{{Quote|We tend to think of squires as teenaged boys, knights in training, but that is only part of the truth. Historically, there were many men who spent their entire lives as squires, and never became knights.It was quite common to have thirty- and forty-year-old squires, even some in their fifties. Such men perhaps did not have the wealth to become knights (knights had to pay for their own equipment), or perhaps did not have the inclination. They were the medieval counterparts of the career army sergeant who has no desire to be promoted to lieutenant. Let alone general.<ref name=SSMKnighthood/>}}

*'''Knighthood'''. Any knight can proclaim another man a knight for whatever reason he chooses. This usually happens when a squire reaches adulthood and his master judges him worthy of accepting the responsibilities of a knight. A man who has not been raised in the knightly tradition can also be made a knight as a reward for service. This is often granted to soldiers or other smallfolk who have shown bravery or performed a great feat. Knighthood is considered valuable to smallfolk, as it raises a commoner's social standing. Knighthood is seen as primarily a martial position, so even the sons of powerful lords are not necessarily knighted if they are incapable of fulfilling the requirements. Doing otherwise would lose honor rather than gain it, and would make a lord and his family be held up to ridicule, this social pressure generally prevents knights from giving out knighthoods for petty or selfish reasons.<ref name=SSMKnighthood/>

===Knighting Ceremony===
[[File:Jason Engle knighted.jpg|400px|thumb|right|A man being knighted – by Jason Engle. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The ceremony to create a knight can be simple or complex, however, it always involves the man kneeling before a knight and being tapped on the shoulders with a sword. Ceremonies usually have religious overtones involving the [[Faith of the Seven]]. When knighted, men are often charged in the name of the Seven to be just and honorable. More elaborate knighthood ceremonies involve the prospective knight sitting a night's vigil at a sept, before the figure of the Warrior. He may lay his sword before or upon the figure, and his armour is piled at its base. It is followed by walking barefoot from the sept to the knighting place to prove his humble heart.{{Ref|aFfC|8}} He wear a shift of undyed wool to receive his knighthood, which is marked by the putting on of the swordbelt after dubbing.{{Ref|aCoK|65}} Newly-knighted men are also sometimes anointed with seven oils by a septon.{{ref|thk}} It is considered a great honor for the recipient when individuals of high status or fame perform the ceremony.

Part of the knighting ceremony starts with the person's name and House (if he has one), then:
{{Quote| a touch on the right shoulder with the blade. "In the name of the Warrior I charge you to be brave." The sword moves from right shoulder to left. "In the name of the Father I charge you to be just." Right shoulder. "In the name of the Mother I charge you to defend the young and innocent." The left. "In the name of the Maid I charge you to protect all women.... {{ref|THK}} }}

==Types of knights==
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek Army of Scorpions II.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Knights of [[House Qorgyle]] leading the charge – by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
*'''[[Hedge knight]]'''. A hedge knight is a wandering knight without a master. Hedge knights are so named because most of their worldly wealth is in their arms and horses and they generally must sleep outdoors, under a hedge. Most hedge knights travel in search of employment and often attend jousts to make money and display their prowess in hopes of being hired. Less scrupulous hedge knights put their martial training to use by resorting to banditry.{{ref|thk}} For this reason, hedge knights are often mistrusted and considered disreputable. The term "hedge knight" itself is considered disparaging.{{ref|thk}}

*'''Sworn sword'''. Some landless knights become sworn swords to other men, taking them as their master. They act as retainers for their master, taking food, shelter, and money in exchange for their services in war, should they be needed. During a campaign, lords often hire a large number of sworn swords on a temporary basis. After the campaign ends and the lord has no further need for so many knights, they are released and become hedge knights once again. Sworn swords who are assigned especially as bodyguards are known as "sworn shields." Some sworn swords, such as northmen, are not knights. Those who are, and are not hedge knights, may interchangeably be called "household knights." Some household knights can reach a respectable status in their master's service, becoming a master at arms, a captain of the guards or even a [[castellan]].

*'''[[Landed knight]]'''. A landed knight is a knight that takes residence in a [[keep]] with accompanying land. They have their own peasants and men-at-arms, and may even take sworn swords. Landed knights are sworn to fight for the lord who holds dominion over their land. While the wealthiest knights manage more land than the poorest lords, landed knights do not have the authority to deliver [[Laws & Justice|justice]] in their land. Rather, they must appeal to their liege lord.<ref name=SSMlandedknights/>

*'''[[Northern cavalry]]'''. Because few northerners worship the Seven, they rarely choose to become knights. However, the warrior (if not cultural) tradition of [[the North]] is similar to that of knighthood. Heavy cavalrymen in the North serve a nearly identical function to knights in the south, and are considered knights in all but name. Most anointed northern knights live in the southern regions of the North.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Drowned_God_and_More The Drowned God and More], July 14, 1999</ref> Some northern knights, such as Ser [[Bartimus]], still follow the [[old gods]] instead of the Seven.{{ref|ADWD|29}}

* '''[[True knight]]'''. A true knight is considered to embody all that a knight should be, that is, a perfect knight exemplifying all the qualities of what knighthood stands for and fully follows oath of knighthood.

==Quotes==
{{Quote|I am a knight. I shall die a knight.{{Ref|aGoT|57}}}} – [[Barristan Selmy]]

{{Quote|What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it’s all taking favors from ladies and looking fine in gold plate? Knights are for killing.{{Ref|aCoK|52}}}} – [[Sandor Clegane]], to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|Knights may keep their truces with other knights, but they are not so careful of their honor when dealing with those they deem outlaw.{{ref|ACOK|66}}}} – [[Black Lorren]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote|I have seen a hundred [[tourney|tournaments]] and more wars than I would wish, and however strong or fast or skilled a knight may be, there are others who can match him.{{ref|ASOS|8}}}} – [[Arstan Whitebeard]], to [[Jorah Mormont]]

{{Quote|Any knight can make a knight, and every man you see before you has felt a sword upon his shoulder.{{Ref|asos|34}}}} – [[Beric Dondarrion]], to [[Sandor Clegane]]

{{Quote|'''Sandor''': Might be you are knights after all. You lie like knights, maybe you murder like knights. 
'''Beric''': Say what you mean, Clegane. 
'''Sandor''': A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady’s favors, they’re silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword’s prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.{{ref|ASOS|34}}}} – [[Sandor Clegane]] and [[Beric Dondarrion]]

{{Quote|Some knights are dark and full of terrors. War makes monsters of us all.{{ref|aFfC|42}}}} – [[Thoros of Myr]], to [[Brienne of Tarth]]

{{Quote|In my [[Seven Kingdoms]], knights go on quests to prove themselves worthy of the maiden that they love. They seek for magic swords, for chests of gold, for crowns stolen from a [[dragon]]'s hoard. {{Ref|aDwD|23}}}} – [[Daenerys Targaryen]], to [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]]

{{Quote|Knights defend the weak and protect the innocent, they say. And I am the fairest maid in all [[Volantis]].{{Ref|aDwD|27}}}} – The [[widow of the waterfront]]

{{Quote|Night work is not knight's work.{{ref|ADWD|46}}}} – [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Aenys Frey]]

{{Quote|Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.{{ref|ADWD|67}}}} – [[Barristan Selmy]]

==References and notes==
{{References|2|refs=
<ref name=SSMKnighthood>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1045/ Some Info About Knighthood], July 30, 1999</ref>
<ref name=SSMlandedknights>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Land_Ownership_and_Marriage_in_Westeros/ Landownership and Marriage in Westeros], December 19, 1999</ref>}}

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The house with the red door in Braavos

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'''The house with the red door in Braavos''' was [[Daenerys Targaryen]]’s childhood home in the Free City of [[Braavos]]. The house is the closest thing to home that she has ever known. As a young child Daenerys and her brother [[Viserys Targaryen]] lived in this house, under the care of Ser [[Willem Darry]]. She had her own room there and a lemon tree outside her window.{{Ref|agot|3}}

==History==
According to Daenerys it was a big house.{{Ref|AGOT|3}} One of its rooms had great wooden beams with carved animal faces adorning them. The lemon tree could be seen outside a window from that room.{{Ref|ACOK|48}}

After Ser Willem's death, the servants stole what little money they had left. Soon after, Daenerys and Viserys were put out of the house. Daenerys cried when its red door was closed to them forever.{{Ref|AGOT|3}}

Daenerys longs for the house in Braavos, as its [[red door]] has become symbolic to her. It is unknown if the house is still standing.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Thaldir House of Dreams.jpg|Young [[Daenerys]] outside the house with the red door in [[Braavos]] - by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|400px]]
In Magister [[Illyrio's manse]], before Daenerys begins her preparations for her introduction to her prospective husband, Khal [[Drogo]], she thinks longingly of the house with the red door.{{Ref|AGOT|3}}

Upon meeting Khal Drogo, Daenerys, afraid, asks her brother [[Viserys III Targaryen|Viserys]] to go home. Viserys, angry, replies that Drogo is their way home, to [[Westeros]]. Daenerys, who had meant Magister Illyrio's estate, thinks to herself that ''"not even the house with the red door"'' had been a true home for Viserys.{{Ref|AGOT|3}}

On the [[Dothraki Sea]], Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] talks with the newly wedded Daenerys. When Dany asks Jorah what he prays for he tells her in a voice thick with longing "home". She replies that she prays for home too. He laughs and tells her to look around her, at the Dothraki Sea, but it is not the great plains that Dany sees at that moment. Instead, she thinks of [[King's Landing]] and the great [[Red Keep]], built on the command of [[Aegon I Targaryen]], her ancestor. She thinks of [[Dragonstone]], the place of her birth. And in her thoughts, all the doors were red.{{Ref|agot|23}}

At [[Vaes Dothrak]] Ser [[Jorah]] promises Dany that one day they will go home. Dany wonders what represents home to her. ''"A few tales, names recited as solemly as words of a prayer, the fading memory of a red door..."''.{{Ref|agot|54}}

On the Western Market in [[Vaes Dothrak]], the flasks of scented oils remind Daenerys of her childhood and the house with the red door.{{Ref|AGOT|54}}

In the [[Red Waste]], during her recovery after giving birth to her [[Rhaego|stillborn son]], Dany sees the house with the red door in her fever dreams. She tries to reach it, but is unable to do so.{{Ref|AGOT|68}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
In [[Qarth]], at the behest of [[Pyat Pree]], [[Daenerys Targaryen]] goes to seek answers in the [[House of the Undying]]. Inside, she passes through many rooms containing visions before she reaches the chamber of the [[Undying Ones]].{{Ref|aCoK|48}} One of the open doors she passes contains a vision of a room from the big house with the red door. She recognizes the great wooden beams, with the carved animal faces on them, and sees the lemon tree outside of the window, as well as Ser [[Willem Darry]]. While she wants to enter the room, she knows that Darry has been dead for years, and that the vision is false. Instead, she backs away and runs.{{Ref|ACOK|48}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
An evening shortly after the conquest of [[Meereen]], Daenerys Targaryen is looking out over the city from her terrace. When found by one of her servants, [[Missandei]], she is asked what she is doing. Daenerys replies that she was looking for a "house with a red door", but she didn't find it, as by night, all doors are black.{{Ref|ASOS|71}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[Daenerys Targaryen]] is dreaming of a house with a red door when she is woken by [[Missandei]] with the news of the murder of [[Stalwart Shield]].{{Ref|adwd|2}}

Later, Daenerys is dreaming that she and [[Daario Naharis]] are man and wife, simple folk living a simple life in a tall stone house with a red door, when her handmaiden [[Irri]] wakes her with the news that nine [[Unsullied]], including [[Mossador]], the brother of [[Missandei]], have been murdered by the [[Sons of the Harpy]]{{Ref|ADWD|11}}

When Daenerys talks to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], she thinks to herself that she had never known a home. ''"In [[Braavos]], there had been a house with a red door, but that was all"''.{{Ref|ADWD|16}}

As Daenerys is examining the parchment containing the [[Secret marriage pact|marriage pact]] that Prince [[Quentyn Martell]] had brought to her, she realizes that it had been signed in [[Braavos]], while they had been living in the house with the red door. The realization makes Daenerys feel strange, and she wonders why.{{Ref|ADWD|43}}

As she is readying herself to attend the opening of [[Daznak's Pit]], Daenerys Targaryen thinks to herself that she would rather have drifted in her fragrant bathing pool all day, eating iced fruit off silver trays and dreaming of a house with a red door.{{Ref|ADWD|52}}

Wandering alone through the [[Dothraki Sea]], Daenerys reflects on the life she had had with Khal [[Drogo]]. Not since those "half-remembered days in [[Braavos]]" when she had lived in the house with the red door, had she been as happy as she had been with Drogo, and her unborn son who, according to the [[Dosh khaleen|dosh khaleen]], would be the Stallion Who Mounts the World. In the [[Red Waste]], however, all her joy had turned to ashes.{{Ref|ADWD|71}}

==References and Notes==
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House Greyjoy

2015-08-24T08:37:35Z

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| Title = King of Salt and Rock Son of the Sea Wind [[Lord Reaper of Pyke]]
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'''House Greyjoy of Pyke''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of [[Westeros]]. It rules over the [[Iron Islands]], a harsh and bleak collection of forbidding islands off the west coast of Westeros, from the [[Seastone Chair]] in the castle of [[Pyke]] on the [[Pyke (island)|island of the same name]]. The head of the family is traditionally known as the [[Lord Reaper of Pyke]]. Their sigil is a golden [[kraken]] on a black field, and their house motto is "We Do Not Sow."{{Ref|aGoT|7}}{{Ref|aCoK|11}} Members of the family tend to be attractive and well-built, with black hair.

==History==
The Greyjoys of [[Pyke]] claim descent from the [[Grey King]] of the [[Age of Heroes]]. Legend says the Grey King ruled not only the western isles but the sea itself, and took a mermaid to wife.

In the era when the [[ironborn]] chose their rulers through the [[kingsmoot]], only Houses [[Greyiron|Greyiron]] and [[House Goodbrother|Goodbrother]] produced more kings than the Greyjoys.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Greyjoys of Pyke}} For instance, the Old Kraken, [[Loron Greyjoy]], was chosen as a [[King of the Iron Islands]] in a kingsmoot. The iron lords, including the Greyjoys, intermarried with the victorious [[Andals]] when they invaded the Iron Isles.{{ref|AGOT|Appendix}}

Come the [[Wars of Conquest]], King [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] of [[House Hoare]] ruled all the lands between the mountains, from [[the Neck]] to the [[Blackwater Rush]]. When Harren and his sons perished in the burning of [[Harrenhal]], [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] granted the riverlands to [[Edmyn Tully]] of [[House Tully]]. The surviving lords of the Iron Islands fell into chaotic squabbling, leading Aegon to invade the islands to subdue them. After they bent the knee Aegon allowed them to revive their ancient custom and chose who should have the primacy among them. They chose Lord [[Vickon Greyjoy]] of Pyke.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Greyjoys of Pyke}}

Thus relegated to their dismal homeland and constrained by the king's peace, the Greyjoys have kept themselves distant from the other Great Houses, rarely taking part in events on the mainland (which they call the "green lands"), even when asked.

At various times the Greyjoys have tried to return to their ancient practices of raiding the western coastlines. At the beginning of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the Lord Reaper of Pyke, [[Dalton Greyjoy]], was offered the position of [[master of ships]] to replace Ser [[Tyland Lannister]], who had been made [[master of coin]] of King [[Aegon II Targaryen]].{{ref|TPATQ}} Dalton, the Red Kraken, instead sacked [[Lannisport]] and sent the ironborn to raid the coasts, capturing [[Kayce]] and [[Faircastle]] on [[Fair Isle]]. Dalton defied the [[Iron Throne]] for two years, but he was eventually murdered in Faircastle.{{ref|TWOIAF}}

Lord [[Dagon Greyjoy|Dagon]] and the ironmen later raided the coastal areas of [[Westeros]], sacking the town of [[Little Dosk]]. Lord [[Beron Stark]] gathered swords and [[House Lannister]] built ships in an effort to drive Lord Dagon and his ironmen back to the Iron Islands,{{ref|TMK}} and Dagon was ultimately unable to resist the Targaryens.{{ref|ADWD|63}}

Lord [[Quellon Greyjoy]] tried to reform the ironborn and integrate them with the mainland, but [[battle at the Mander|he was killed]] late in [[Robert's Rebellion]]. His son, Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]], rejected Quellon's reforms and desired a return to the [[Old Way]]. He created the [[Iron Fleet]] and led [[Greyjoy's Rebellion|his own rebellion]] against the [[Iron Throne]], declaring himself [[King of the Iron Islands]], like many of his ancestors. Despite initiating several strong early strikes, such as burning of the Lannister fleet at anchor, he was defeated. Balon's own fleet under the command of his brother [[Victarion Greyjoy|Victarion]] burned and his two eldest sons [[Rodrik Greyjoy|Rodrik]] and [[Maron Greyjoy|Maron]] were slain during the war. His last son [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] was given as a hostage and ward to Lord [[Eddard Stark]] after he swore fealty to [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]].

Since their revolt, the Greyjoys have been as insular as ever. With Theon living in the green lands, Lord Balon raised his daughter [[Asha Greyjoy|Asha]] as his heir. Balon exiled his brother [[Euron Greyjoy|Euron]] when he raped [[Victarion Greyjoy's third wife|the salt wife]] of their brother [[Victarion Greyjoy|Victarion]], [[Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet]]. Victarion was forced to kill his wife to retain his honor. Since then Euron has sailed the world aboard the ''[[Silence]]'', reaving and pillaging, unwelcome in the Isles while Balon still lives. Another brother, [[Aeron Greyjoy|Aeron Damphair]], had been changed by his experience of washing overboard during the [[Battle of Fair Isle]], and became a priest of the [[Drowned God]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] is still a ward of [[Winterfell]] nine years after the Greyjoy Rebellion. He remains there when Lord [[Eddard Stark]] rides south to become [[Hand of the King]]. He views the Stark boys as younger brothers, and helps [[Robb Stark|Robb]] save [[Bran Stark|Bran]]'s life when the boy is attacked in the [[Wolfswood]], but is rebuked for endangering Bran himself. When Eddard is arrested, Theon rides to war with Robb, fighting in the battles to [[Battle of the Whispering Wood|capture]] Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] and [[Battle of the Camps|break his siege]] of [[Riverrun]].

House Greyjoy is among the noble houses [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him should he land in [[Westeros]].

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Naval superiority by neisbeis-d4s8s9o.jpg|thumb|350px|Outfitted for War by Ignacio Lazcano. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
After Lord Eddard is executed in [[King's Landing]], Robb is declared [[King in the North]] by his bannermen. Theon goes to [[Pyke]] with Robb's suggestion that [[Balon Greyjoy|Balon]] name himself [[King of the Iron Islands]] and join the war against [[House Lannister]]. Theon finds [[Asha Greyjoy|Asha]] as heir and is met with scorn from his family, who consider him softened by the green lands. Balon spurns the offer and declares himself King of the Iron Islands and [[the North]]. He sends his kin to take the lightly-held North: [[Victarion Greyjoy|Victarion]] [[Battle of Moat Cailin|captures Moat Cailin]] in [[the Neck]] to prevent Robb's lords from returning to their seats, while Asha [[Fall of Deepwood Motte|takes Deepwood Motte]] and Theon [[Battle of the Stony Shore|ravages Stony Shore]] along with [[Aeron Greyjoy|Aeron Damphair]] and [[Dagmer|Dagmer Cleftjaw]].

Each attack goes as planned. Theon, however, desires to prove himself and goes on to [[capture of Winterfell|seize Winterfell]] in a daring raid. There he begins a troublesome rule, at one point murdering two children that he tells the world are Bran and [[Rickon Stark]]. Asha tells him that the ironborn will never hold landlocked castles, and leaves only a token force to help his occupation. Stark forces are arrayed to root him out, but they are betrayed by [[Ramsay Snow]], who captures Theon and [[Sack of Winterfell|sacks Winterfell]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Due to the Greyjoy attacks, King Robb is forced to abandon his war in the south to liberate the Northern halls. While grieving for Bran and Rickon, he weds [[Jeyne Westerling]] and breaks his marriage contract with [[House Frey]], requiring a replacement match. Thus it is for Greyjoy-produced reasons that he marches north to free his home and to attend [[Edmure Tully|his uncle]]'s wedding. [[Roose Bolton]] reveals to Robb that Theon is being flayed by Ramsay Snow at the [[Dreadfort]]. Robb never makes it home, however, as he is [[Red Wedding|treacherously killed]] at [[the Twins]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Meanwhile King Balon has died from a fall at Pyke, just a day before [[Euron Greyjoy|Euron Crow's Eye]] returns from his long voyage. Aeron calls the first [[kingsmoot]] in millennia, hoping that Victarion will succeed Balon to the [[Seastone Chair]]. Euron is crowned, however, beating out Asha, Victarion, and several other claimants by promising to conquer all the green lands with the power of his [[Dragon Horn]]. Aeron disappears, vowing to rouse the people against the "godless" Euron.

Euron escalates ironborn commitment in the [[War of the Five Kings|continental war]] by launching a massive attack on [[the Reach]], [[Battle of the Shield Islands|conquering]] the [[Shield Islands]] and parts of the [[Arbor]], and threatening [[Oldtown]]. Victarion leads the attack on the Shields, but Euron steals away many of his trusted men by granting them lands on the Shield Islands. Euron goes on to ask Victarion to sail the Iron Fleet across the world to find [[Daenerys Targaryen]] to court her in his name. Victarion sets out, but secretly hopes to take Daenerys for himself.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===

During his arduous voyage Victarion rescues the red priest [[Moqorro]], who converts him to the faith of [[R'hllor]], supplementing his worship of the Drowned God. In the North, Theon is revealed to have been suffered horrific mind-shattering torture in the captivity of Ramsay Snow, now Ramsay Bolton, at the Dreadfort. Theon is released from the Dreadfort to perform a mission for Ramsay, who has warped the man's sense of identity and formed him into a broken creature. He is sent to Moat Cailin to treat with the ironborn garrison there, where he succeeds in getting them to surrender by promising safe passage. Ramsay reneges and flays the men alive.

Theon recognizes Ramsay's wife, "[[Arya Stark]]", as [[Jeyne Poole]] and develops a tenuous rapport with her during the tense Bolton occupation of Winterfell. He reluctantly teams with [[Mance Rayder]] to free her from the castle; they escape but are captured outside by [[Mors Umber]], who is now sworn to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. Meanwhile Asha has returned to hold Deepwood Motte, but is defeated and captured in a [[Retaking of Deepwood Motte|sudden attack]] by King Stannis and the [[Northern mountain clans]]. She is brought along with Stannis's army as he marches to the [[Siege of Winterfell]]. There she finds Theon alive.

===''The Winds of Winter''===
Asha tries to ransom Theon from Stannis, but is refused since the northmen want Theon dead. Asha suggests that he behead Theon himself before a [[weirwood|heart tree]], as Ned Stark would have done.

==Known members at the end of the third century==
* King [[Balon Greyjoy|{Balon IX Greyjoy}]], fourth son of Lord Quellon. King of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind. Died from a fall.
** Queen [[Alannys Harlaw]], his wife.
*** [[Rodrik Greyjoy|{Rodrik Greyjoy}]], his eldest son. Slain at [[Battle of Seagard|Seagard]] in the [[Greyjoy Rebellion]].
*** [[Maron Greyjoy|{Maron Greyjoy}]], his second son. Slain at [[Siege of Pyke|Pyke]] in the [[Greyjoy Rebellion]].
*** [[Asha Greyjoy]], his daughter. Sent to raid the North, now with the army of Stannis Baratheon.
*** [[Theon Greyjoy]], his third son. Hostage and ward at [[Winterfell]], he invade the North and seized Winterfell. Styled himself Prince of Winterfell; called Theon Turncloak by northmen. Temporarily held captive by [[House Bolton]] and renamed "Reek". Now a captive of King [[Stannis Baratheon]].
* King [[Euron Greyjoy|Euron III Greyjoy]], fifth son of Lord Quellon and King of the Iron Islands. Called the "''Crow's Eye''".
**his mongrel sons, born of salt wives taken from across the world
* [[Victarion Greyjoy]], sixth son of Lord Quellon, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet.
* [[Aeron Greyjoy]], eighth son of Lord Quellon. A [[Drowned Men|priest]] of the [[Drowned God]]. Called the "''Damphair''".

===Other branches===
Cousins to the mainline are:
* {[[Quenton Greyjoy (cousin)|Quenton Greyjoy]]}, a distant cousin to the main branch. Slain at [[Retaking of Deepwood Motte|Deepwood Motte]].
* {[[Dagon Greyjoy (Drunkard)|Dagon Greyjoy]]}, called Dagon the Drunkard, a more distant cousin to the main branch. Slain at [[Retaking of Deepwood Motte|Deepwood Motte]].

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===Household===
* [[Dagmer|Dagmer Cleftjaw]], captain of the ''[[Foamdrinker]]''. Currently occupying [[Torrhen's Square]].
* [[Bluetooth]], a longship captain.
* Maester [[Wendamyr]], healer and counselor.
* [[Helya]], steward of Pyke.
* [[Erik Ironmaker]], husband of Asha Greyjoy and castellan of Pyke.

==Historical Members==
*King [[Loron Greyjoy]], called "''the Old Kraken''" an ancient King of the Iron Islands, chosen by a [[kingsmoot]].
*King [[Theon III Greyjoy]], an ancient King of the Iron Islands, chosen by a Kingsmoot, who fought against the growing power of the [[House Gardener|Gardeners]] and the [[House Hightower|Hightowers]] in the Reach. He was killed in [[Oldtown]] by [[Lymond Hightower]].
*King [[Balon V Greyjoy]], called "''Coldwind''", a King chosen by a Kingsmoot, who destroyed the fleet of the [[King in the North]].
*Lord [[Vickon Greyjoy]], elected Lord of the Iron Islands after the death of [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]].
**Lord [[Goren Greyjoy]], Vickon's heir and successor.
*Lord [[Dalton Greyjoy]], called "''the Red Kraken''", Lord Reaper of Pyke during the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{ref|tpatq}}
*Lord [[Dagon Greyjoy]], Lord of the Iron Islands during the reign of [[Aerys I Targaryen]].{{ref|tss}}{{ref|tmk}}
*Lord [[Alton Greyjoy]], called "''the Holy Fool''".
*Lord [[Torwyn Greyjoy]], who betrayed [[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]].
*Lord [[Loron Greyjoy (lord)|Loron Greyjoy]], a friend of Ser [[Desmond Mallister]].
*Lord [[Quellon Greyjoy]], Lord of the Iron Islands before his son Balon.
** [[Harlon Greyjoy]], firstborn son of Lord Quellon. He died from [[greyscale]] as a child.
** [[Quenton Greyjoy]], second son of Lord Quellon. He died as an infant.
** [[Donel Greyjoy]], third son of Lord Quellon. He died as an infant.
** [[Urrigon Greyjoy]], seventh son of Lord Quellon. He died from an infection at the age of fourteen.
** [[Robin Greyjoy]], ninth and last born son of Lord Quellon. He died as a child.

==Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Blacktyde]]''' of Blacktyde.
* '''[[House Botley]]''' of Lordsport.
* '''[[House Codd]]'''. A house of very low standing. Their words are "Though All Men Do Despise Us."
* '''[[House Drumm]]''' of Old Wyk.
* '''[[House Farwynd]]'''. The Farwynds are considered strange by their fellow ironborn. Several branches of the house exist, including:
** ''[[House Farwynd|House Farwynd of Sealskin Point]]''. Located on the western shore of Great Wyk.
** ''[[House Farwynd of the Lonely Light]]''. Located on one of the westernmost islets of Great Wyk. They are rumored to be skinchangers, taking the shape of various sea mammals.
* '''[[House Goodbrother]]''' of Great Wyk. There are three branches of this house:
** ''[[House Goodbrother|House Goodbrother of Hammerhorn]]'' are the senior branch. Its Lord is titled Lord of Great Wyk.
** ''[[House Goodbrother of Shatterstone]]''. They reside on Old Wyk, a cadet branch of the former.
** ''[[House Goodbrother of Orkmont]]''. They reside on Orkmont, a cadet branch of the former.
* [[House Harlaw|'''House Harlaw''']] of Harlaw. Several branches of the house exist, including:
** ''[[House Harlaw|House Harlaw of Ten Towers]]''. The senior house. Its Lord is titled the Lord of Harlaw. The wife of Lord Balon Greyjoy is a Harlaw.
** ''[[House Harlaw of Grey Garden]]''. A cadet branch.
** ''[[House Harlaw of Tower of Glimmering]]''. A cadet branch.
** ''[[House Harlaw of Harridan Hill]]''. A cadet branch.
* '''[[House Humble]]'''. A house of low standing, originating from the blood of thralls.
* '''[[House Ironmaker]]'''.
* '''[[House Kenning of Harlaw|House Kenning]]''' of Harlaw.
* '''[[House Merlyn]]''' of Pebbleton.
* '''[[House Myre]]''' of Harlaw.
* '''[[House Netley]]'''.
* '''[[House Orkwood]]''' of Orkmont.
* '''[[House Saltcliffe]]''' of Saltcliffe.
* '''[[House Sharp]]'''.
* '''[[House Shepherd]]'''.
* '''[[House Sparr]]''' of Great Wyk.
* '''[[House Stonehouse]]''' of Old Wyk.
* '''[[House Stonetree]]''' of Harlaw.
* '''[[House Sunderly]]''' of Saltcliffe.
* '''[[House Tawney]]''' of Orkmont.
* '''[[House Volmark]]''' of Harlaw.
* '''[[House Weaver]]'''.
* '''[[House Wynch]]''' of Iron Holt.

==References and Notes==
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Lord Paramount

2015-08-23T06:53:18Z

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'''Lord Paramount''' is a title granted by [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] to some lords after the War of Conquest, seemingly to those houses who hadn't previously ruled their respective territories as kings. These include:
*[[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] (also called Lord Paramount of the Reach)
*[[Lord Paramount of the Stormlands]]
*[[Lord Paramount of the Trident]]

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King's Landing

2015-08-22T08:14:31Z

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{{Infobox Settlement
| name = King's Landing
| image = [[File:Tomasz Jedruszek Kings Landing.jpg|400px]]
| image_caption = King's Landing by [http://www.morano.pl/ Tomasz Jedruszek]. [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ © Fantasy Flight Games]
| settlement_type= Capital City of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]
| location = [[Crownlands]], [[Westeros]].
| seat = The King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men
| seat_type = [[Feudalism|Feudal society]]

| religion = [[Faith of the Seven]]
| population = 500,000 (approximately)
| size =
| founded = 0 AC, when [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]] first landed in Westeros.
| named_for = [[Aegon I Targaryen]], its founder.

| places = [[Red Keep]] {{!}} [[Great Sept of Baelor]]
| organizations = [[Kingsguard]] {{!}} [[Alchemists' Guild]] {{!}} [[City Watch of King's Landing|City Watch]]
}}
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[[Image:Kings landing map.png|400px|thumb|1 : [[Rosby road|Road to Rosby]] - 2 : [[Dragon Gate]] - 3 : [[Iron Gate]] - 4 : [[Dragonpit]]- 5 : mansion of [[Shae]] - 6 : brothel of [[Chataya]] - 7 : [[Old Gate]] - 8 : [[Flea Bottom]] - 9 : [[Red Keep]] - 10 : Street of Sisters - 11 : [[Gate of the Gods]] - 12 : Cobbler Square - 13 : [[Guildhall of the Alchemists]] - 14 : The Hook - 15 : [[Great Sept of Baelor]] - 16 : Muddy Way - 17 : Fishmonger's Square - 18 : [[River Gate]] - 19 : [[Tobho Mott]]'s store - 20 : Street of Steel - 21 : Harbor- 22 : [[Lion Gate]] - 23 : River Row - 24 : Fish Market - 25 : Tourney ground - 26 : The [[King's Gate]] - 27 : [[Kingsroad]].]]

'''King's Landing''' is the capital of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], located in the [[Crownlands]] on the east coast of [[Westeros]]. It is situated along the [[kingsroad]] at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]] and overlooks [[Blackwater Bay]]. It is the site of the [[Iron Throne]] and the [[Red Keep]], which is the seat of the king, [[Robert Baratheon]] from [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]].

The main city is surrounded by a wall, manned by the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], also known as the gold cloaks. King's Landing is extremely populous, but rather unsightly and dirty compared to other cities. Poorer [[smallfolk]] build shanty settlements outside the city. The stench of the city's waste can be smelled far beyond its walls. It is the principal harbor of the Seven Kingdoms, rivaled only by [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

Nearby towns include [[Rosby]] and [[Duskendale]] to the northeast and [[Tumbleton]] to the southwest, while the [[kingswood]] is found south of the capital across the Blackwater.<ref>''[[The Lands of Ice and Fire]]''</ref>

==History==
===Founding===

Prior to the [[War of Conquest]], the area around the future King's Landing was just hills and forests, with only a handful of fisherfolk living north of the [[Blackwater Rush]].{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Historically, the mouth of the Blackwater had been claimed by a hundred kings from the [[Kingdom of the Reach|Reach]], the [[Riverlands]], and the [[Kingdom of the Stormlands|Stormlands]].<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Chicon_7_Reading Chicon 7 Reading]</ref> Three hundred years ago, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] from [[House Targaryen]] led his army from [[Dragonstone]] and landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, building his first fortress of wood and earth, the [[Aegonfort]],<ref>"King's Landing" entry in ''[[A World of Ice and Fire]]''</ref> on top of the highest hill. Later, when Aegon finalized his conquest, he decided to build his capital around that fort, since it was more centrally located than any other and not part of the former kingdoms, setting the king apart from his new [[Feudalism|vassals]].{{Ref|aGoT|18}}

In time, the city was expanded by the Targaryen kings. The [[Red Keep]] was completed during the reign of [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor the Cruel]], the [[Great Sept of Baelor|Great Sept]] was built to show the Targaryens' piety and adherence to the [[Faith of the Seven]] after giving up the old gods of Valyria,<ref>It was not named the Great Sept of Baelor until after Baelor the Blessed's death.</ref> and the [[Dragonpit]] was constructed to house the Targaryen [[dragon]]s.

===Dance of the Dragons===

In the civil war known as the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the city was originally ruled by King [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]], but in {{Date|130}} the [[Fall of King's Landing|city fell]] when it was invaded by Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] and her [[the blacks|blacks]]. Later in {{date|130}}, [[Riot of King's Landing (the Dance of the Dragons)|riots]] broke out against the rule of Rhaenyra. These culminated in the mass [[storming of the Dragonpit]] and the deaths of five Targaryen dragons, thousands of smallfolk and the ruination of the [[Dragonpit]].{{Ref|tpatq}} Rhaenyra abandoned the city, which was subsequently left without a ruler for a short period of time. In the last month of {{Date|130}}, [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]] proclaimed his intent to retake the city.

===Blackfyre Rebellion===

During the [[Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|196}}, the army of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]], the bastard half-brother of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]], threatened King's Landing, but they were stopped at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]].

===Great Spring Sickness===

When [[the Great Spring Sickness]] engulfed [[Westeros]] in {{Date|209}}, four in ten inhabitants were killed by the outbreak. Funeral pyres which took place in the ruins of the Dragonpit burned nonstop, painting the night sky in the unnatural green of [[wildfire]].

===Robert's Rebellion===

During the civil war known as [[Robert's Rebellion]] and the War of the Usurper, King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] contemplated [[wildfire plot|burning the city to the ground]] to "save" it from the rebels, and it was [[Sack of King's Landing|sacked]] shortly after by a [[Westerlands]] host commanded by Aerys's former [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]. [[Robert Baratheon]] became the new king on the [[Iron Throne]], forming [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]].

===Robert's reign===

Robert Baratheon held mulitple tourneys in King's Landing during his reign, including a [[Tourney for Prince Joffrey's 12th Name Day|tourney]] to honor the twelfth name day of his heir, Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Following the sudden death of Lord [[Jon Arryn]], Lord [[Eddard Stark]] travels to King's Landing to become the new [[Hand of the King]] to [[Robert Baratheon]]. Robert's brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], leaves the capital to return to his seat of [[Dragonstone]]. The [[Tourney of the Hand]] is held at the city to honor Ned Stark, who does not approve of the extravagance.

Ned investigates Jon Arryn's death and learns that Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]'s children were fathered not by Robert, but by her twin brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]]. Following Robert's death, Cersei has Ned imprisoned for plotting against Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]], now Robert's successor as king. To the surprise of his [[small council]], Joffrey orders Ned's execution at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] rather than allow him to join the [[Night's Watch]]. [[Sansa Stark]] is held captive by the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], but [[Arya Stark]] escapes the city. Because Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] is campaigning against [[Robb Stark]], he sends [[Tyrion Lannister]] to act as Hand to Joffrey.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day|Another tourney]] is held in the city, this time to honor King Joffrey's thirteenth name day. During the [[War of the Five Kings]], King's Landing is cut off from trade and food supplies by the blockade of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. This leads to mass famine and a [[Riot of King's Landing|massive riot]] in which the [[High Septon (Fat One)|High Septon]] is killed.

The city is besieged by King [[Stannis Baratheon]] during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], but Joffrey's reign is secured by the timely arrival of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and his new ally, Mace Tyrell.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The city's master armorer, [[Tobho Mott]], smiths two [[Valyrian steel]] swords from [[Ice]] for Lord Tywin.{{ref|ASOS|32}}

King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] weds [[Margaery Tyrell]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]], but he [[Purple Wedding|dies during the reception]] at the Red Keep.{{ref|ASOS|60}} He is succeeded by his younger brother, [[Tommen Baratheon]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] serves as the regent for young King Tommen. She uses [[wildfire]] to burn the [[Tower of the Hand]].{{ref|AFFC|12}} Pious [[sparrows]] travel to the capital in support of the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|AFFC|4}}

Amidst growing unrest after the arrest of Queen Margaery by the Faith, Cersei allows Lord [[Aurane Waters]], the Master of Ships, to launch [[Cersei's dromonds|new dromonds]] in a show of force. However, Aurane sails from King's Landing when Cersei is herself arrested.{{ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
As atonement for her confessed sins, Cersei walks from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep amidst the [[smallfolk]] of King's Landing.{{ref|ADWD|65}}

==The City==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of King's Landing|Images of King's Landing]]''

The city is roughly square-shaped, sprawling across several miles and defended by tall walls. There are seven gates leading into the city: the Dragon Gate, the Lion Gate, the Mud Gate, the Old Gate, the Gate of the Gods, the King's Gate, and the Iron Gate. Within the walls, the city is dotted with manses, arbors, granaries, brick storehouses, timbered inns, merchant stalls, taverns, graveyards and brothels. There is a fish market. Hundreds of quays can be found in the harbor. Between buildings the roads are broad, lined with trees and branching alleys and streets.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Just within the Mud Gate lie the three great trebuchets called the [[Three Whores]], a new addition to the defense of the city.{{Ref|aCoK|49}}{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

The city covers the north shore of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]] and covers three tall hills, named after [[Aegon's Hill|Aegon]] and his two sisters, [[Visenya's hill|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys]]. Aegon's High Hill, surmounted by the [[Red Keep]], the royal castle located in the south-eastern corner of the city, overlooks the bay directly, whilst Visenya's Hill to the west is crowned by the marble-walled [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and its seven crystal towers. Rhaenys's Hill in the north is capped by the collapsed ruins of the [[Dragonpit]] dome, its bronze doors shut for a century and a half since the last dragon died.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}


The poor reside in the slums which are called [[Flea Bottom]], a maze of narrow streets and alleys, where many beggars and the poorest part of the city's population resides; they regularly subsist on "[[bowl of brown|bowls of brown]]", a mystery stew that can include the meat of rats and murder victims, among other things. The richest residents live on the other side of [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys's Hill]] from Flea Bottom. According to semi-canon sources the richer areas of King's Landing lie near the Old Gate.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref>

Large tournaments are held outside the city, beside the Blackwater {{Ref|aGoT|29}}

===City Gates===
Seven is a sacred number for [[Faith of the Seven|the Faith]], thus the reason [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conquerer]] had seven huge gates built as the entrances into the capital of King's Landing. Each of these gates is protected by portcullis, heavy doors and armed guard.

* [[Dragon Gate]], leads north to the [[kingsroad]].
* [[Iron Gate]], leads to the [[Rosby road]].
* [[Old Gate]].
* [[Gate of the Gods]].
* [[River Gate]], known as the Mud Gate by the population of the city, leads south to the [[kingsroad]] and the [[roseroad]].
* [[Lion Gate]], leads west to the [[Goldroad]].
* [[King's Gate]].

===Notable Locations===
[[File: MarcFishman_KL_street.jpg‎ |A street in King's Landing - by Marc Fishman © |thumb|300px|right]]
* The '''[[Red Keep]]''', the royal castle located on top of Aegon's High Hill.
* The '''[[Great Sept of Baelor]]''', where the [[Most Devout]] convene with the [[High Septon]]. It is the holiest sept of the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven]]. It is located on Visenya's Hill.
* The '''[[Dragonpit]]''', a huge dome, now collapsed, that used to hold the Targaryen dragons. Its bronze doors have not been opened for more than a century.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} It is found on Rhaenys's Hill. The Street of Sisters runs between it and the Great Sept of Baelor.
* The '''[[Guildhall of the Alchemists|Alchemist's Guildhall]]''', beneath Rhaenys's Hill, stretching right to the foot of Visenya's Hill, along the Street of Sisters. Beneath it is where the Alchemists create and store the [[wildfire]].{{Ref|aCoK|20}}
* '''[[Flea Bottom]]''', slum area of King's Landing, a downtrodden area of town. It has pot-shops along the alleys where one can get a '[[bowl of brown|bowl o' brown]].' It has a stench of pigsties and stables, tanner's sheds mixed in the smell of winesinks and whorehouses.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}

===Streets, Squares and other===
: See also [[A Clash of Kings-Map of King's Landing|Map of King's Landing]] from ''[[A Clash of Kings]].
[[File: Tyrion in Kings landing by MarcSimonetti.jpg|Tyrion in King's Landing - by MarcSimonetti ©|thumb|250px|right]]
* '''The Street of the Sisters''', road connecting the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] to the [[Dragonpit]].{{ref|awoiaf}} One can find the [[Guildhall of the Alchemists]] upon it.{{Ref|aCoK|20}} It runs straight as an arrow between the hills of Rhaenys and Visenya, from which it gets its name.{{Ref|aGoT|67}}
* '''The Street of Steel''', where most smiths have their forges. It begins on the west of Fishmonger's Square inside the River Gate and climbs up Visenya's hill. The higher up one goes, the more expensive the shops. At its top is the shop of [[Tobho Mott]].{{Ref|aGoT|27}}
* '''The Street of Flour''', along which numerous bakeries may be found. Below the street lies a maze of twisting alleys and cross streets.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}
* '''[[Street of Silk|The Street of Silk]]''', a street to the northwest of the Dragonpit lined with brothels of varying expense.{{Ref|aFfC|8}}{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''Eel Alley''', located on Visenya's Hill. An inn may be found here.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}
* '''Pigrun Alley''', enclosed by tall timber-and-stone buildings whose upper stories lean out so far over the streets that they nearly touch those of the buildings across from them.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}
* '''Shadowblack Lane''', a twisty lane that begins at the northern gate of the Red Keep and winds its way down to the foot of Aegon's High Hill.{{Ref|aCoK|15}}{{Ref|aCoK|29}}
* '''Reeking Lane''', a street full of apprentices.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Muddy Way''', a street that begins at Fishmonger's Square.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Sowbelly Row''', the street [[Lollys Stokeworth]] was found wandering along after she had been raped half a hundred times behind a tanner's shop during the [[Riot of King's Landing]].{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Pisswater Bend''', a street which is probably located in the [[Flea Bottom]] area. The [[pisswater prince]] came from here. The [[bloody flux]] was spreading through the stews on this street.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Street of Seeds''' - street
* '''Street of Looms''' - street{{ref|ACoK|3}}
* '''Coppersmith's Wynd''' - street
* '''River Row''', a street along the southern wall, east of Fishmonger's Square, home to sea captains, fishmongers and others with interest in harbor.{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''The Hook''', A long, curved thoroughfare connecting River Gate to Aegon's High Hill.{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''[[Cobbler's Square]]'''
* '''Fishmonger's Square''', market square inside the Mud Gate.{{ref|awoiaf}}

==Population==
King's Landing is extremely populous, but rather unsightly and dirty compared to other cities. Its population is estimated at more than 500,000,{{Ref|aSoS|38}} although this number varies during winters and in times of war, when people take shelter behind the city walls. [[George R. R. Martin]] has stated that the city is larger than [[:w:Norman and Medieval London|Medieval London]] or [[:w:History of Paris|Paris]] but smaller than [[:w:Constantinople|Medieval Constantinople]] or [[:w:Ancient Rome|Ancient Rome]] (each had a population of about 1,000,000).<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Geography Geography]</ref>

==Military==
The [[City Watch of King's Landing]], also called the gold cloaks, is King's Landing's main military formation, in charge of guarding and policing the town and its surroundings. Its men are 2,000 strong, the number being increased in times of need or war.

The royal fleet guards the entrance to Blackwater Bay and patrols the bay and the Blackwater Rush.


==Quotes==
{{Quote|"Is everyone someone's informer in this cursed city?"}} - [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|One peddler was hawking rats roasted on a skewer. "Fresh rats," he cried loudly, "fresh rats." Doubtless fresh rats were to be preferred to old stale rotten rats.{{ref|acok|3}}}}
– [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|Smoke, sweat, and shit. King’s Landing, in short. If you have a good nose you can smell the treachery too.{{Ref|asos|62}}}}
– [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|The morning air was thick with the old familiar stinks of King’s Landing. She breathed in the scents of sour wine, bread baking, rotting fish and nightsoil, smoke and sweat and horse piss. No flower had ever smelled so sweet.}} - [[Cersei Lannister]]

==Chapters that take place at King's Landing==
{{Columns|3|
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 18|A Game of Thrones: 18. Catelyn IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 20|A Game of Thrones: 20. Eddard IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 22|A Game of Thrones: 22. Arya II]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 25|A Game of Thrones: 25. Eddard V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 27|A Game of Thrones: 27. Eddard VI]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 29|A Game of Thrones: 29. Sansa II]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 30|A Game of Thrones: 30. Eddard VII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 32|A Game of Thrones: 32. Arya III]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 33|A Game of Thrones: 33. Eddard VIII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 35|A Game of Thrones: 35. Eddard IX]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 39|A Game of Thrones: 39. Eddard X]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 43|A Game of Thrones: 43. Eddard XI]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 44|A Game of Thrones: 44. Sansa III]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 45|A Game of Thrones: 45. Eddard XII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 47|A Game of Thrones: 47. Eddard XIII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 49|A Game of Thrones: 49. Eddard XIV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 50|A Game of Thrones: 50. Arya IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 51|A Game of Thrones: 51. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 57|A Game of Thrones: 57. Sansa V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 58|A Game of Thrones: 58. Eddard XV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 65|A Game of Thrones: 65. Arya V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 67|A Game of Thrones: 67. Sansa VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 1|A Clash of Kings: 1. Arya I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 2|A Clash of Kings: 2. Sansa I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 3|A Clash of Kings: 3. Tyrion I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 8|A Clash of Kings: 8. Tyrion II]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 15|A Clash of Kings: 15. Tyrion III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 17|A Clash of Kings: 17. Tyrion IV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 18|A Clash of Kings: 18. Sansa II]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 20|A Clash of Kings: 20. Tyrion V]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 25|A Clash of Kings: 25. Tyrion VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|A Clash of Kings: 29. Tyrion VII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|A Clash of Kings: 32. Sansa III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|A Clash of Kings: 36. Tyrion VIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 41|A Clash of Kings: 41. Tyrion IX]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 44|A Clash of Kings: 44. Tyrion X]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 49|A Clash of Kings: 49. Tyrion XI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 52|A Clash of Kings: 52. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 54|A Clash of Kings: 54. Tyrion XII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 57|A Clash of Kings: 57. Sansa V]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 58|A Clash of Kings: 58. Davos III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 59|A Clash of Kings: 59. Tyrion XIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 60|A Clash of Kings: 60. Sansa VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 61|A Clash of Kings: 61. Tyrion XIV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 62|A Clash of Kings: 62. Sansa VII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 65|A Clash of Kings: 65. Sansa VIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 67|A Clash of Kings: 67. Tyrion XV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 4|A Storm of Swords: 4. Tyrion I]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 6|A Storm of Swords: 6. Sansa I]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 12|A Storm of Swords: 12. Tyrion II]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 16|A Storm of Swords: 16. Sansa II]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 19|A Storm of Swords: 19. Tyrion III]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28|A Storm of Swords: 28. Sansa III]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 32|A Storm of Swords: 32. Tyrion IV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 38|A Storm of Swords: 38. Tyrion V]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 53|A Storm of Swords: 53. Tyrion VI]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 58|A Storm of Swords: 58. Tyrion VII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 59|A Storm of Swords: 59. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 60|A Storm of Swords: 60. Tyrion VIII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 61|A Storm of Swords: 61. Sansa V]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 62|A Storm of Swords: 62. Jaime VII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 66|A Storm of Swords: 66. Tyrion IX]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 67|A Storm of Swords: 67. Jaime VIII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 70|A Storm of Swords: 70. Tyrion X]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 72|A Storm of Swords: 72. Jaime IX]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 77|A Storm of Swords: 77. Tyrion XI]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 3|A Feast for Crows: 3. Cersei I]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 7|A Feast for Crows: 7. Cersei II]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 8|A Feast for Crows: 8. Jaime I]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 12|A Feast for Crows: 12. Cersei III]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 16|A Feast for Crows: 16. Jaime II]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 17|A Feast for Crows: 17. Cersei IV]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 24|A Feast for Crows: 24. Cersei V]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 27|A Feast for Crows: 27. Jaime III]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 28|A Feast for Crows: 28. Cersei VI]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 32|A Feast for Crows: 32. Cersei VII]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 36|A Feast for Crows: 36. Cersei VIII]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 39|A Feast for Crows: 39. Cersei IX]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43|A Feast for Crows: 43. Cersei X]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 54|A Dance with Dragons: 54. Cersei I]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 65|A Dance with Dragons: 65. Cersei II]]
*[[Epilogue (A Dance with Dragons)|A Dance with Dragons: Epilogue]]
}}

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{{Infobox Settlement
| name = King's Landing
| image = [[File:Tomasz Jedruszek Kings Landing.jpg|400px]]
| image_caption = King's Landing by [http://www.morano.pl/ Tomasz Jedruszek]. [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ © Fantasy Flight Games]
| settlement_type= Capital City of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]
| location = [[Crownlands]], [[Westeros]].
| seat = The King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men
| seat_type = [[Feudalism|Feudal society]]

| religion = [[Faith of the Seven]]
| population = 500,000 (approximately)
| size =
| founded = 0 AC, when [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]] first landed in Westeros.
| named_for = [[Aegon I Targaryen]], its founder.

| places = [[Red Keep]] {{!}} [[Great Sept of Baelor]]
| organizations = [[Kingsguard]] {{!}} [[Alchemists' Guild]] {{!}} [[City Watch of King's Landing|City Watch]]
}}
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{{Location map| Crownlands
| label = '''King's Landing'''
| label_size = 140
| lat = -45
| long = -66
| position = left
| marksize = 15
| width = 400
| float = right
| caption = [[Crownlands|The Crownlands]] and the location of King's Landing
| alt = The Crownlands and the location of King's Landing
}}
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[[Image:Kings landing map.png|400px|thumb|1 : [[Rosby road|Road to Rosby]] - 2 : [[Dragon Gate]] - 3 : [[Iron Gate]] - 4 : [[Dragonpit]]- 5 : mansion of [[Shae]] - 6 : brothel of [[Chataya]] - 7 : [[Old Gate]] - 8 : [[Flea Bottom]] - 9 : [[Red Keep]] - 10 : Street of Sisters - 11 : [[Gate of the Gods]] - 12 : Cobbler Square - 13 : [[Guildhall of the Alchemists]] - 14 : The Hook - 15 : [[Great Sept of Baelor]] - 16 : Muddy Way - 17 : Fishmonger's Square - 18 : [[River Gate]] - 19 : [[Tobho Mott]]'s store - 20 : Street of Steel - 21 : Harbor- 22 : [[Lion Gate]] - 23 : River Row - 24 : Fish Market - 25 : Tourney ground - 26 : The [[King's Gate]] - 27 : [[Kingsroad]].]]

'''King's Landing''' is the capital of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], located in the [[Crownlands]] on the east coast of [[Westeros]]. It is situated along the [[kingsroad]] at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]] and overlooks [[Blackwater Bay]]. It is the site of the [[Iron Throne]] and the [[Red Keep]], which is the seat of the king, [[Robert Baratheon]] from [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]].

The main city is surrounded by a wall, manned by the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], also known as the gold cloaks. King's Landing is extremely populous, but rather unsightly and dirty compared to other cities. Poorer [[smallfolk]] build shanty settlements outside the city. The stench of the city's waste can be smelled far beyond its walls. It is the principal harbor of the Seven Kingdoms, rivaled only by [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

Nearby towns include [[Rosby]] and [[Duskendale]] to the northeast and [[Tumbleton]] to the southwest, while the [[kingswood]] is found south of the capital across the Blackwater.<ref>''[[The Lands of Ice and Fire]]''</ref>

==History==
===Founding===

Prior to the [[War of Conquest]], the area around the future King's Landing was just hills and forests, with only a handful of fisherfolk living north of the [[Blackwater Rush]].{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Historically, the mouth of the Blackwater had been claimed by a hundred kings from the [[Kingdom of the Reach|Reach]], the [[Riverlands]], and the [[Kingdom of the Stormlands|Stormlands]].<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Chicon_7_Reading Chicon 7 Reading]</ref> Three hundred years ago, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] from [[House Targaryen]] led his army from [[Dragonstone]] and landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, building his first fortress of wood and earth, the [[Aegonfort]],<ref>"King's Landing" entry in ''[[A World of Ice and Fire]]''</ref> on top of the highest hill. Later, when Aegon finalized his conquest, he decided to build his capital around that fort, since it was more centrally located than any other and not part of the former kingdoms, setting the king apart from his new [[Feudalism|vassals]].{{Ref|aGoT|18}}

In time, the city was expanded by the Targaryen kings. The [[Red Keep]] was completed during the reign of [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor the Cruel]], the [[Great Sept of Baelor|Great Sept]] was built to show the Targaryens' piety and adherence to the [[Faith of the Seven]] after giving up the old gods of Valyria,<ref>It was not named the Great Sept of Baelor until after Baelor the Blessed's death.</ref> and the [[Dragonpit]] was constructed to house the Targaryen [[dragon]]s.

===Dance of the Dragons===

In the civil war known as the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the city was originally ruled by King [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]], but in {{Date|130}} the [[Fall of King's Landing|city fell]] when it was invaded by Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] and her [[the blacks|blacks]]. Later in {{date|130}}, [[Riot of King's Landing (the Dance of the Dragons)|riots]] broke out against the rule of Rhaenyra. These culminated in the mass [[storming of the Dragonpit]] and the deaths of five Targaryen dragons, thousands of smallfolk and the ruination of the [[Dragonpit]].{{Ref|tpatq}} Rhaenyra abandoned the city, which was subsequently left without a ruler for a short period of time. In the last month of {{Date|130}}, [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]] proclaimed his intent to retake the city.

===Blackfyre Rebellion===

During the [[Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|196}}, the army of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]], the bastard half-brother of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]], threatened King's Landing, but they were stopped at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]].

===Great Spring Sickness===

When [[the Great Spring Sickness]] engulfed [[Westeros]] in {{Date|209}}, four in ten inhabitants were killed by the outbreak. Funeral pyres which took place in the ruins of the Dragonpit burned nonstop, painting the night sky in the unnatural green of [[wildfire]].

===Robert's Rebellion===

During the civil war known as [[Robert's Rebellion]] and the War of the Usurper, King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] contemplated [[wildfire plot|burning the city to the ground]] to "save" it from the rebels, and it was [[Sack of King's Landing|sacked]] shortly after by a [[Westerlands]] host commanded by Aerys's former [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]. [[Robert Baratheon]] became the new king on the [[Iron Throne]], forming [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]].

===Robert's reign===

Robert Baratheon held mulitple tourneys in King's Landing during his reign, including a [[Tourney for Prince Joffrey's 12th Name Day|tourney]] to honor the twelfth name day of his heir, Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Following the sudden death of Lord [[Jon Arryn]], Lord [[Eddard Stark]] travels to King's Landing to become the new [[Hand of the King]] to [[Robert Baratheon]]. Robert's brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], leaves the capital to return to his seat of [[Dragonstone]]. The [[Tourney of the Hand]] is held at the city to honor Ned Stark, who does not approve of the extravagance.

Ned investigates Jon Arryn's death and learns that Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]'s children were fathered not by Robert, but by her twin brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]]. Following Robert's death, Cersei has Ned imprisoned for plotting against Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]], now Robert's successor as king. To the surprise of his [[small council]], Joffrey orders Ned's execution at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] rather than allow him to join the [[Night's Watch]]. [[Sansa Stark]] is held captive by the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], but [[Arya Stark]] escapes the city. Because Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] is campaigning against [[Robb Stark]], he sends [[Tyrion Lannister]] to act as Hand to Joffrey.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day|Another tourney]] is held in the city, this time to honor King Joffrey's thirteenth name day. During the [[War of the Five Kings]], King's Landing is cut off from trade and food supplies by the blockade of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. This leads to mass famine and a [[Riot of King's Landing|massive riot]] in which the [[High Septon (Fat One)|High Septon]] is killed.

The city is besieged by King [[Stannis Baratheon]] during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], but Joffrey's reign is secured by the timely arrival of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and his new ally, Mace Tyrell.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The city's master armorer, [[Tobho Mott]], smiths two [[Valyrian steel]] swords from [[Ice]] for Lord Tywin.{{ref|ASOS|32}}

King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] weds [[Margaery Tyrell]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]], but he [[Purple Wedding|dies during the reception]] at the Red Keep.{{ref|ASOS|60}} He is succeeded by his younger brother, [[Tommen Baratheon]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] serves as the regent for young King Tommen. She uses [[wildfire]] to burn the [[Tower of the Hand]].{{ref|AFFC|12}} Pious [[sparrows]] travel to the capital in support of the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|AFFC|4}}

Amidst growing unrest after the arrest of Queen Margaery by the Faith, Cersei allows Lord [[Aurane Waters]], the Master of Ships, to launch [[Cersei's dromonds|new dromonds]] in a show of force. However, Aurane sails from King's Landing when Cersei is herself arrested.{{ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
As atonement for her confessed sins, Cersei walks from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep amidst the [[smallfolk]] of King's Landing.{{ref|ADWD|65}}

==The City==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of King's Landing|Images of King's Landing]]''

The city is roughly square-shaped, sprawling across several miles and defended by tall walls. There are seven gates leading into the city: the Dragon Gate, the Lion Gate, the Mud Gate, the Old Gate, the Gate of the Gods, the King's Gate, and the Iron Gate. Within the walls, the city is dotted with manses, arbors, granaries, brick storehouses, timbered inns, merchant stalls, taverns, graveyards and brothels. There is a fish market. Hundreds of quays can be found in the harbor. Between buildings the roads are broad, lined with trees and branching alleys and streets.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Just within the Mud Gate lie the three great trebuchets called the [[Three Whores]], a new addition to the defense of the city.{{Ref|aCoK|49}}{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

The city covers the north shore of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]] and covers three tall hills, named after [[Aegon's Hill|Aegon]] and his two sisters, [[Visenya's hill|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys]]. Aegon's High Hill, surmounted by the [[Red Keep]], the royal castle located in the south-eastern corner of the city, overlooks the bay directly, whilst Visenya's Hill to the west is crowned by the marble-walled [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and its seven crystal towers. Rhaenys's Hill in the north is capped by the collapsed ruins of the [[Dragonpit]] dome, its bronze doors shut for a century and a half since the last dragon died.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}


The poor reside in the slums which are called [[Flea Bottom]], a maze of narrow streets and alleys, where many beggars and the poorest part of the city's population resides; they regularly subsist on "[[bowl of brown|bowls of brown]]", a mystery stew that can include the meat of rats and murder victims, among other things. The richest residents live on the other side of [[Rhaenys's hill|Rhaenys's Hill]] from Flea Bottom. According to semi-canon sources the richer areas of King's Landing lie near the Old Gate.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref>

Large tournaments are held outside the city, beside the Blackwater {{Ref|aGoT|29}}

===City Gates===
Seven is a sacred number for [[Faith of the Seven|the Faith]], thus the reason [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conquerer]] had seven huge gates built as the entrances into the capital of King's Landing. Each of these gates is protected by portcullis, heavy doors and armed guard.

* [[Dragon Gate]], leads north to the [[kingsroad]].
* [[Iron Gate]], leads to the [[Rosby road]].
* [[Old Gate]].
* [[Gate of the Gods]].
* [[River Gate]], known as the Mud Gate by the population of the city, leads south to the [[kingsroad]] and the [[roseroad]].
* [[Lion Gate]], leads west to the [[Goldroad]].
* [[King's Gate]].

===Notable Locations===
[[File: MarcFishman_KL_street.jpg‎ |A street in King's Landing - by Marc Fishman © |thumb|300px|right]]
* The '''[[Red Keep]]''', the royal castle located on top of Aegon's High Hill.
* The '''[[Great Sept of Baelor]]''', where the [[Most Devout]] convene with the [[High Septon]]. It is the holiest sept of the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven]]. It is located on Visenya's Hill.
* The '''[[Dragonpit]]''', a huge dome, now collapsed, that used to hold the Targaryen dragons. Its bronze doors have not been opened for more than a century.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} It is found on Rhaenys's Hill. The Street of Sisters runs between it and the Great Sept of Baelor.
* The '''[[Guildhall of the Alchemists|Alchemist's Guildhall]]''', beneath Rhaenys's Hill, stretching right to the foot of Visenya's Hill, along the Street of Sisters. Beneath it is where the Alchemists create and store the [[wildfire]].{{Ref|aCoK|20}}
* '''[[Flea Bottom]]''', slum area of King's Landing, a downtrodden area of town. It has pot-shops along the alleys where one can get a '[[bowl of brown|bowl o' brown]].' It has a stench of pigsties and stables, tanner's sheds mixed in the smell of winesinks and whorehouses.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}

===Streets, Squares and other===
: See also [[A Clash of Kings-Map of King's Landing|Map of King's Landing]] from ''[[A Clash of Kings]].
[[File: Tyrion in Kings landing by MarcSimonetti.jpg|Tyrion in King's Landing - by MarcSimonetti ©|thumb|250px|right]]
* '''The Street of the Sisters''', road connecting the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] to the [[Dragonpit]].{{ref|awoiaf}} One can find the [[Guildhall of the Alchemists]] upon it.{{Ref|aCoK|20}} It runs straight as an arrow between the hills of Rhaenys and Visenya, from which it gets its name.{{Ref|aGoT|67}}
* '''The Street of Steel''', where most smiths have their forges. It begins on the west of Fishmonger's Square inside the River Gate and climbs up Visenya's hill. The higher up one goes, the more expensive the shops. At its top is the shop of [[Tobho Mott]].{{Ref|aGoT|27}}
* '''The Street of Flour''', along which numerous bakeries may be found. Below the street lies a maze of twisting alleys and cross streets.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}
* '''[[Street of Silk|The Street of Silk''', a street to the northwest of the Dragonpit lined with brothels of varying expense.{{Ref|aFfC|8}}{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''Eel Alley''', located on Visenya's Hill. An inn may be found here.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}
* '''Pigrun Alley''', enclosed by tall timber-and-stone buildings whose upper stories lean out so far over the streets that they nearly touch those of the buildings across from them.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}
* '''Shadowblack Lane''', a twisty lane that begins at the northern gate of the Red Keep and winds its way down to the foot of Aegon's High Hill.{{Ref|aCoK|15}}{{Ref|aCoK|29}}
* '''Reeking Lane''', a street full of apprentices.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Muddy Way''', a street that begins at Fishmonger's Square.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Sowbelly Row''', the street [[Lollys Stokeworth]] was found wandering along after she had been raped half a hundred times behind a tanner's shop during the [[Riot of King's Landing]].{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Pisswater Bend''', a street which is probably located in the [[Flea Bottom]] area. The [[pisswater prince]] came from here. The [[bloody flux]] was spreading through the stews on this street.{{Ref|aCoK|41}}
* '''Street of Seeds''' - street
* '''Street of Looms''' - street{{ref|ACoK|3}}
* '''Coppersmith's Wynd''' - street
* '''River Row''', a street along the southern wall, east of Fishmonger's Square, home to sea captains, fishmongers and others with interest in harbor.{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''The Hook''', A long, curved thoroughfare connecting River Gate to Aegon's High Hill.{{ref|awoiaf}}
* '''[[Cobbler's Square]]'''
* '''Fishmonger's Square''', market square inside the Mud Gate.{{ref|awoiaf}}

==Population==
King's Landing is extremely populous, but rather unsightly and dirty compared to other cities. Its population is estimated at more than 500,000,{{Ref|aSoS|38}} although this number varies during winters and in times of war, when people take shelter behind the city walls. [[George R. R. Martin]] has stated that the city is larger than [[:w:Norman and Medieval London|Medieval London]] or [[:w:History of Paris|Paris]] but smaller than [[:w:Constantinople|Medieval Constantinople]] or [[:w:Ancient Rome|Ancient Rome]] (each had a population of about 1,000,000).<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Geography Geography]</ref>

==Military==
The [[City Watch of King's Landing]], also called the gold cloaks, is King's Landing's main military formation, in charge of guarding and policing the town and its surroundings. Its men are 2,000 strong, the number being increased in times of need or war.

The royal fleet guards the entrance to Blackwater Bay and patrols the bay and the Blackwater Rush.


==Quotes==
{{Quote|"Is everyone someone's informer in this cursed city?"}} - [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|One peddler was hawking rats roasted on a skewer. "Fresh rats," he cried loudly, "fresh rats." Doubtless fresh rats were to be preferred to old stale rotten rats.{{ref|acok|3}}}}
– [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|Smoke, sweat, and shit. King’s Landing, in short. If you have a good nose you can smell the treachery too.{{Ref|asos|62}}}}
– [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|The morning air was thick with the old familiar stinks of King’s Landing. She breathed in the scents of sour wine, bread baking, rotting fish and nightsoil, smoke and sweat and horse piss. No flower had ever smelled so sweet.}} - [[Cersei Lannister]]

==Chapters that take place at King's Landing==
{{Columns|3|
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 18|A Game of Thrones: 18. Catelyn IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 20|A Game of Thrones: 20. Eddard IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 22|A Game of Thrones: 22. Arya II]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 25|A Game of Thrones: 25. Eddard V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 27|A Game of Thrones: 27. Eddard VI]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 29|A Game of Thrones: 29. Sansa II]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 30|A Game of Thrones: 30. Eddard VII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 32|A Game of Thrones: 32. Arya III]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 33|A Game of Thrones: 33. Eddard VIII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 35|A Game of Thrones: 35. Eddard IX]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 39|A Game of Thrones: 39. Eddard X]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 43|A Game of Thrones: 43. Eddard XI]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 44|A Game of Thrones: 44. Sansa III]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 45|A Game of Thrones: 45. Eddard XII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 47|A Game of Thrones: 47. Eddard XIII]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 49|A Game of Thrones: 49. Eddard XIV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 50|A Game of Thrones: 50. Arya IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 51|A Game of Thrones: 51. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 57|A Game of Thrones: 57. Sansa V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 58|A Game of Thrones: 58. Eddard XV]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 65|A Game of Thrones: 65. Arya V]]
*[[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 67|A Game of Thrones: 67. Sansa VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 1|A Clash of Kings: 1. Arya I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 2|A Clash of Kings: 2. Sansa I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 3|A Clash of Kings: 3. Tyrion I]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 8|A Clash of Kings: 8. Tyrion II]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 15|A Clash of Kings: 15. Tyrion III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 17|A Clash of Kings: 17. Tyrion IV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 18|A Clash of Kings: 18. Sansa II]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 20|A Clash of Kings: 20. Tyrion V]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 25|A Clash of Kings: 25. Tyrion VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|A Clash of Kings: 29. Tyrion VII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|A Clash of Kings: 32. Sansa III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|A Clash of Kings: 36. Tyrion VIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 41|A Clash of Kings: 41. Tyrion IX]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 44|A Clash of Kings: 44. Tyrion X]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 49|A Clash of Kings: 49. Tyrion XI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 52|A Clash of Kings: 52. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 54|A Clash of Kings: 54. Tyrion XII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 57|A Clash of Kings: 57. Sansa V]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 58|A Clash of Kings: 58. Davos III]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 59|A Clash of Kings: 59. Tyrion XIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 60|A Clash of Kings: 60. Sansa VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 61|A Clash of Kings: 61. Tyrion XIV]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 62|A Clash of Kings: 62. Sansa VII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 65|A Clash of Kings: 65. Sansa VIII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 67|A Clash of Kings: 67. Tyrion XV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 4|A Storm of Swords: 4. Tyrion I]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 6|A Storm of Swords: 6. Sansa I]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 12|A Storm of Swords: 12. Tyrion II]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 16|A Storm of Swords: 16. Sansa II]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 19|A Storm of Swords: 19. Tyrion III]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28|A Storm of Swords: 28. Sansa III]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 32|A Storm of Swords: 32. Tyrion IV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 38|A Storm of Swords: 38. Tyrion V]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 53|A Storm of Swords: 53. Tyrion VI]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 58|A Storm of Swords: 58. Tyrion VII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 59|A Storm of Swords: 59. Sansa IV]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 60|A Storm of Swords: 60. Tyrion VIII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 61|A Storm of Swords: 61. Sansa V]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 62|A Storm of Swords: 62. Jaime VII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 66|A Storm of Swords: 66. Tyrion IX]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 67|A Storm of Swords: 67. Jaime VIII]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 70|A Storm of Swords: 70. Tyrion X]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 72|A Storm of Swords: 72. Jaime IX]]
*[[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 77|A Storm of Swords: 77. Tyrion XI]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 3|A Feast for Crows: 3. Cersei I]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 7|A Feast for Crows: 7. Cersei II]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 8|A Feast for Crows: 8. Jaime I]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 12|A Feast for Crows: 12. Cersei III]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 16|A Feast for Crows: 16. Jaime II]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 17|A Feast for Crows: 17. Cersei IV]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 24|A Feast for Crows: 24. Cersei V]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 27|A Feast for Crows: 27. Jaime III]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 28|A Feast for Crows: 28. Cersei VI]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 32|A Feast for Crows: 32. Cersei VII]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 36|A Feast for Crows: 36. Cersei VIII]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 39|A Feast for Crows: 39. Cersei IX]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43|A Feast for Crows: 43. Cersei X]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 54|A Dance with Dragons: 54. Cersei I]]
*[[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 65|A Dance with Dragons: 65. Cersei II]]
*[[Epilogue (A Dance with Dragons)|A Dance with Dragons: Epilogue]]
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== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester [[Caleotte]], is a maester in service to [[House Martell]] at [[Sunspear]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Ballabar]], is the maester assigned to [[House Redwyne]] in the [[Arbor]].
*Maester [[Brenett]], is the maester of [[House Frey]] at [[The Twins]]. He is fat, bald and lacked cleanliness.
*Maester [[Frenken]], maester assigned to [[House Stokeworth]].
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester [[Henly (maester)|Henly]], maester in service of Lord [[House Slate|Slate]], currently in [[Winterfell]] with Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
*Maester [[Kerwin]], is service on [[Greenshield]], probably to [[House Chester]], later forced to serve [[Victarion Greyjoy]] and board of the [[Iron Victory]].
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Omer Florent|Omer]], is a maester in service at [[Old Oak]] to [[House Oakheart]]
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*Maester [[Tybald]], in service to the [[Dreadfort]], currently with [[Arnolf Karstark]] at the [[Crofter's village]] near [[Winterfell]].
*Maester [[Willamen Frey|Willamen]], is a maester of the Citadel in service at [[Longbow Hall]] to [[House Hunter]]. He is the seventeenth son of Lord [[Walder Frey]] and the third son born in the marriage between Walder and [[Bethany Rosby]].
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Pages which I've created==
* [[Tiger (animal)]]
* [[Tiger (disambiguation)]]
* [[House Dargood]]
* [[House Darkwood]]

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BT2000: Test for Maesters→Known Members. That's not full version, I'm planning to add ALL members

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== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester [[Caleotte]], is a maester in service to [[House Martell]] at [[Sunspear]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Ballabar]], is the maester assigned to [[House Redwyne]] in the [[Arbor]].
*Maester [[Brenett]], iss the maester of [[House Frey]] at [[The Twins]]. He is fat, bald and lacked cleanliness.
*Maester [[Frenken]], maester assigned to [[House Stokeworth]].
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester [[Henly (maester)|Henly]], maester in service of Lord [[House Slate|Slate]], currently in [[Winterfell]] with Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
*Maester [[Kerwin]], is service on [[Greenshield]], probably to [[House Chester]], later forced to serve [[Victarion Greyjoy]] and board of the [[Iron Victory]].
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Omer Florent|Omer]], is a maester in service at [[Old Oak]] to [[House Oakheart]]
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*Maester [[Tybald]], in service to the [[Dreadfort]], currently with [[Arnolf Karstark]] at the [[Crofter's village]] near [[Winterfell]].
*Maester [[Willamen Frey|Willamen]], is a maester of the Citadel in service at [[Longbow Hall]] to [[House Hunter]]. He is the seventeenth son of Lord [[Walder Frey]] and the third son born in the marriage between Walder and [[Bethany Rosby]].
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Pages which I've created==
* [[Tiger (animal)]]
* [[Tiger (disambiguation)]]
* [[House Dargood]]
* [[House Darkwood]]

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Maesters

2015-08-12T19:18:33Z

BT2000: /* Known Members */

:''For the mule, see [[Maester (mule)]]''
[[File:Maester link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester links, Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Maester Duity.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester duty to the realm]]

The '''maesters''' are an order of scholars, healers, postmen, and scientists who are trained at a school called the [[Citadel]]. [[House Hightower]] was integral in the Citadel's foundation, and continues to patronize the order. As advisers to the Westerosi nobility, the maesters have largely supplanted the [[Alchemists' Guild]]. They are sometimes called "the knights of the mind."{{ref|AGOT|53}}

== The Citadel ==

The [[Citadel]] is an impressive structure in the city of [[Oldtown]], and is considered the home of all maesters. Here they undergo all of their training from the time they arrive as novices until they have achieved the status of maester. At the entrance of the Citadel are green marble sphinxes.

== Organization ==

The maesters are scholars, scientists, learned advisors to the nobility, and occasionally pseudo-religious researchers in the occult. Males of any age may begin training as a maester; females are not permitted to study or join the order. Noble families in [[Westeros]] sometimes send their younger sons to the Citadel. A [[bastard]] may study at the Citadel and become a maester. The maesters, like the brothers of the [[Night's Watch]], are considered to be servants of Westeros and all its people and in theory have no political allegiance. After finishing his course of study, a maester is assigned to a castle, keep or other holding, and is loyal to the people of that place as a mentor, healer and adviser, regardless of changes in control of that holding. To this end a man who earns his chain is stripped of his family name and from that time on is known only by his title and first name. In practice, some maesters hold over old allegiances and loyalties.

=== Grand Maester ===

The Grand Maester is considered the senior member of the order and serves as its representative to the king. He can only be made or unmade by the Conclave.{{ref|asos|12}} He sits on the [[small council]] and acts as the king's adviser. The Grand Maester wears many interwoven maester chains to indicate his high office, but these do not reflect his true studies. Gems are woven into the chains.{{ref|agot|20}}

[[Pycelle]] has served in the office for over forty years, though his loyalties lie with [[House Lannister]] rather than the realm. His advanced age has slowed him down, and he often dozes off during small council meetings. He was thrown in the dungeons of the [[Red Keep]] by [[Tyrion Lannister]], but [[Tywin Lannister]] recalled him to his duties when it appeared the Citadel was going to replace him with Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], formerly of [[House Tyrell]]. After his imprisonment Cersei perceives him as a broken man, but in spite of his past failings in court intrigue, Pycelle successfully seizes control of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and the council after Cersei's arrest by the [[High Sparrow]], offering [[Kevan Lannister]] the regency. As they attempt to fix Cersei's follies, Pycelle and Kevan are both assassinated by [[Varys]], the former [[master of whisperers]].

=== Archmaester ===

The perceived "master" of any area of study is given a mask, ring, and rod and the title Archmaester in the corresponding metal to signify his expertise. For example, an archmaester who specializes in ravenry will have a mask, ring, and rod made of black iron. Archmaesters are the senior members of the Order and are given the right to sit on the Conclave. The Conclave is the governing body of the Citadel and is the same body that elects the Grand Maester. All the meetings of the Conclave are confidential in nature and conducted behind closed doors at the Citadel only.{{ref|asos|12}}

Marwyn the Mage is the order's leading researcher into the occult and [[magic]]. For his strange pursuits and gruff manner he is ostracized by others in the Citadel.

=== Seneschal ===

The Seneschal is chosen from among the archmaesters by lot. A new one is chosen each year. The Seneschal is tasked with the governance of the Citadel. Most archmaesters consider it a thankless task that takes them away from their true calling.{{ref|affc|45}}

== Traditions and Culture ==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Maesters|Images of Maesters]]''
[[File:Maester Oath.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester taking the oath]]
[[File:Mike Capprotti the chain.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Forging the chain - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Maesters begin their training as novices in the Citadel. Once they begin their study and have been seen as proficient in a particular course of study they are tested and awarded a link of a certain metal to reflect their skill and knowledge. A student with a link is known as an acolyte until he has a full chain; it is not until he has completed extensive study in various subjects and has earned enough links to form a chain (to be worn around the neck) that he is considered worthy of advancement to the title of Maester, no longer a student but a peer. The night before the acolytes swear their vows to become maesters, they must stand a vigil in a vault with a black [[Glass candle]]. He is allowed no lantern or any other source of light. Unless he can light the candle, he will spend the night in total darkness.{{ref|affc|0}} There have been whispers that the maesters have held much more power and sway than they are ready to admit. Archmaester [[Marwyn]] suspects that they had a role in the demise of [[House Targaryen]]'s [[Dragon]]s. Some consider most maesters to be categorically opposed to magic and its influence on [[Westeros]].

=== The collar ===
[[File:Maester iron link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Iron link for studies in the field of warcraft. Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Kerry Barnett Linked Advisor.JPG|thumb|350px|A maester advises his lord. © FFG]]
The collar signifies that maesters do not serve themselves, but are instead servants of all of Westeros. The collar consists of several links of different types of metal. These chains are formed from every metal known to man, but almost no maester will ever wear them all. Maesters do not remove the chain ever, not even when sleeping.{{ref|agot|41}}

According to semi-canon sources, it is possible to earn multiple links of the same metal.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Dragon_Limbs_and_Gender_Valyrain_Weapons_and_Maesters_Chains/ Dragon Limbs and Gender, Valyrian Weapons and Maesters' Chains] (April 16, 2008)</ref>

These metals include:
*Black iron (Ravenry)
*Brass
*Bronze ([[Astronomy]])
*Copper (History)
*Electrum (Astrology)
*Yellow Gold (Economics)
*Iron (Warcraft)
*Lead
*Pale steel (Smithing)
*Pewter
*Platinum
*Red gold
*Silver ([[Medicine]] and healing)
*Steel
*Tin
*[[Valyrian steel]] (Magic and the occult) - Only one in one hundred holds a link of Valyrian steel; the study of magic is looked down upon by most maesters.{{ref|acok|28}}

=== Practices and observances ===

[[File:Maester studies.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester studies]]
Maesters chiefly communicate through messenger ravens. These ravens are trained specifically for one route; for example, for a message that must be sent to [[Castle Black]], the maester uses the raven from the Castle Black cage. One of the typical duties of a maester is care of a keep's ravens. A special breed of [[white ravens]] that are larger and more intelligent than average are maintained at the Citadel for important communications. Maesters also constantly monitor the seasons. When the seasons are about to change, they send white ravens to spread the announcement throughout the realm.{{ref|acok|0}} Maesters who are skilled in astronomy often watch the skies and study constellations. When the red comet appeared during the events of the [[War of the Five Kings]], the maesters were among the first to notice.

== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester [[Henly (maester)|Henly]], maester in service of Lord [[House Slate|Slate]], currently in [[Winterfell]] with Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*Maester [[Tybald]], in service to the [[Dreadfort]] , currently with [[Arnolf Karstark]] at the [[Crofter's village]] near [[Winterfell]].
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Quotes==
{{quote|There are some who call my order the [[knight]]s of the mind ... Have you ever thought that you might wear a maester's chain? There is no limit to what you might learn ... I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of [[raven]]s, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars I can teach you to measure the days and marks the seasons, and at the [[Citadel]] in [[Oldtown]] they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you [[magic]].{{ref|AGOT|53}}}} - Maester [[Luwin]] to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|If you do not have a maester, it is taken to mean that you are of little consequence.{{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote|Isn't it clever how the maesters go only by one name, even those who had two when they first arrived at the [[Citadel]]? That way we cannot know who they truly are or where they come from. {{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

==See Also==
*[[The Maester's Path]] - A viral marketing campaign for HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

== References and Notes ==
{{references|2}}

{{EnWP|Maesters|small=yes}}

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Maesters| ]]
[[Category:Titles]]
[[Category:Westeros]]

[[es:Maestre]]
[[fa:استادان]]
[[fr:Mestres de Villevieille|fr:Mestres de Villevieille]]
[[ru:Мейстер|ru:Мейстер]]
[[zh:学士]]

Maesters

2015-08-12T19:10:44Z

BT2000: /* Known Members */

:''For the mule, see [[Maester (mule)]]''
[[File:Maester link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester links, Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Maester Duity.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester duty to the realm]]

The '''maesters''' are an order of scholars, healers, postmen, and scientists who are trained at a school called the [[Citadel]]. [[House Hightower]] was integral in the Citadel's foundation, and continues to patronize the order. As advisers to the Westerosi nobility, the maesters have largely supplanted the [[Alchemists' Guild]]. They are sometimes called "the knights of the mind."{{ref|AGOT|53}}

== The Citadel ==

The [[Citadel]] is an impressive structure in the city of [[Oldtown]], and is considered the home of all maesters. Here they undergo all of their training from the time they arrive as novices until they have achieved the status of maester. At the entrance of the Citadel are green marble sphinxes.

== Organization ==

The maesters are scholars, scientists, learned advisors to the nobility, and occasionally pseudo-religious researchers in the occult. Males of any age may begin training as a maester; females are not permitted to study or join the order. Noble families in [[Westeros]] sometimes send their younger sons to the Citadel. A [[bastard]] may study at the Citadel and become a maester. The maesters, like the brothers of the [[Night's Watch]], are considered to be servants of Westeros and all its people and in theory have no political allegiance. After finishing his course of study, a maester is assigned to a castle, keep or other holding, and is loyal to the people of that place as a mentor, healer and adviser, regardless of changes in control of that holding. To this end a man who earns his chain is stripped of his family name and from that time on is known only by his title and first name. In practice, some maesters hold over old allegiances and loyalties.

=== Grand Maester ===

The Grand Maester is considered the senior member of the order and serves as its representative to the king. He can only be made or unmade by the Conclave.{{ref|asos|12}} He sits on the [[small council]] and acts as the king's adviser. The Grand Maester wears many interwoven maester chains to indicate his high office, but these do not reflect his true studies. Gems are woven into the chains.{{ref|agot|20}}

[[Pycelle]] has served in the office for over forty years, though his loyalties lie with [[House Lannister]] rather than the realm. His advanced age has slowed him down, and he often dozes off during small council meetings. He was thrown in the dungeons of the [[Red Keep]] by [[Tyrion Lannister]], but [[Tywin Lannister]] recalled him to his duties when it appeared the Citadel was going to replace him with Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], formerly of [[House Tyrell]]. After his imprisonment Cersei perceives him as a broken man, but in spite of his past failings in court intrigue, Pycelle successfully seizes control of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and the council after Cersei's arrest by the [[High Sparrow]], offering [[Kevan Lannister]] the regency. As they attempt to fix Cersei's follies, Pycelle and Kevan are both assassinated by [[Varys]], the former [[master of whisperers]].

=== Archmaester ===

The perceived "master" of any area of study is given a mask, ring, and rod and the title Archmaester in the corresponding metal to signify his expertise. For example, an archmaester who specializes in ravenry will have a mask, ring, and rod made of black iron. Archmaesters are the senior members of the Order and are given the right to sit on the Conclave. The Conclave is the governing body of the Citadel and is the same body that elects the Grand Maester. All the meetings of the Conclave are confidential in nature and conducted behind closed doors at the Citadel only.{{ref|asos|12}}

Marwyn the Mage is the order's leading researcher into the occult and [[magic]]. For his strange pursuits and gruff manner he is ostracized by others in the Citadel.

=== Seneschal ===

The Seneschal is chosen from among the archmaesters by lot. A new one is chosen each year. The Seneschal is tasked with the governance of the Citadel. Most archmaesters consider it a thankless task that takes them away from their true calling.{{ref|affc|45}}

== Traditions and Culture ==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Maesters|Images of Maesters]]''
[[File:Maester Oath.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester taking the oath]]
[[File:Mike Capprotti the chain.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Forging the chain - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Maesters begin their training as novices in the Citadel. Once they begin their study and have been seen as proficient in a particular course of study they are tested and awarded a link of a certain metal to reflect their skill and knowledge. A student with a link is known as an acolyte until he has a full chain; it is not until he has completed extensive study in various subjects and has earned enough links to form a chain (to be worn around the neck) that he is considered worthy of advancement to the title of Maester, no longer a student but a peer. The night before the acolytes swear their vows to become maesters, they must stand a vigil in a vault with a black [[Glass candle]]. He is allowed no lantern or any other source of light. Unless he can light the candle, he will spend the night in total darkness.{{ref|affc|0}} There have been whispers that the maesters have held much more power and sway than they are ready to admit. Archmaester [[Marwyn]] suspects that they had a role in the demise of [[House Targaryen]]'s [[Dragon]]s. Some consider most maesters to be categorically opposed to magic and its influence on [[Westeros]].

=== The collar ===
[[File:Maester iron link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Iron link for studies in the field of warcraft. Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Kerry Barnett Linked Advisor.JPG|thumb|350px|A maester advises his lord. © FFG]]
The collar signifies that maesters do not serve themselves, but are instead servants of all of Westeros. The collar consists of several links of different types of metal. These chains are formed from every metal known to man, but almost no maester will ever wear them all. Maesters do not remove the chain ever, not even when sleeping.{{ref|agot|41}}

According to semi-canon sources, it is possible to earn multiple links of the same metal.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Dragon_Limbs_and_Gender_Valyrain_Weapons_and_Maesters_Chains/ Dragon Limbs and Gender, Valyrian Weapons and Maesters' Chains] (April 16, 2008)</ref>

These metals include:
*Black iron (Ravenry)
*Brass
*Bronze ([[Astronomy]])
*Copper (History)
*Electrum (Astrology)
*Yellow Gold (Economics)
*Iron (Warcraft)
*Lead
*Pale steel (Smithing)
*Pewter
*Platinum
*Red gold
*Silver ([[Medicine]] and healing)
*Steel
*Tin
*[[Valyrian steel]] (Magic and the occult) - Only one in one hundred holds a link of Valyrian steel; the study of magic is looked down upon by most maesters.{{ref|acok|28}}

=== Practices and observances ===

[[File:Maester studies.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester studies]]
Maesters chiefly communicate through messenger ravens. These ravens are trained specifically for one route; for example, for a message that must be sent to [[Castle Black]], the maester uses the raven from the Castle Black cage. One of the typical duties of a maester is care of a keep's ravens. A special breed of [[white ravens]] that are larger and more intelligent than average are maintained at the Citadel for important communications. Maesters also constantly monitor the seasons. When the seasons are about to change, they send white ravens to spread the announcement throughout the realm.{{ref|acok|0}} Maesters who are skilled in astronomy often watch the skies and study constellations. When the red comet appeared during the events of the [[War of the Five Kings]], the maesters were among the first to notice.

== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester [[Henly (maester)|Henly]], maester in service of Lord [[House Slate|Slate]], currently in [[Winterfell]] with Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Quotes==
{{quote|There are some who call my order the [[knight]]s of the mind ... Have you ever thought that you might wear a maester's chain? There is no limit to what you might learn ... I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of [[raven]]s, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars I can teach you to measure the days and marks the seasons, and at the [[Citadel]] in [[Oldtown]] they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you [[magic]].{{ref|AGOT|53}}}} - Maester [[Luwin]] to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|If you do not have a maester, it is taken to mean that you are of little consequence.{{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote|Isn't it clever how the maesters go only by one name, even those who had two when they first arrived at the [[Citadel]]? That way we cannot know who they truly are or where they come from. {{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

==See Also==
*[[The Maester's Path]] - A viral marketing campaign for HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

== References and Notes ==
{{references|2}}

{{EnWP|Maesters|small=yes}}

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Maesters| ]]
[[Category:Titles]]
[[Category:Westeros]]

[[es:Maestre]]
[[fa:استادان]]
[[fr:Mestres de Villevieille|fr:Mestres de Villevieille]]
[[ru:Мейстер|ru:Мейстер]]
[[zh:学士]]

Maesters

2015-08-12T19:08:51Z

BT2000: /* Known Members */

:''For the mule, see [[Maester (mule)]]''
[[File:Maester link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester links, Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Maester Duity.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester duty to the realm]]

The '''maesters''' are an order of scholars, healers, postmen, and scientists who are trained at a school called the [[Citadel]]. [[House Hightower]] was integral in the Citadel's foundation, and continues to patronize the order. As advisers to the Westerosi nobility, the maesters have largely supplanted the [[Alchemists' Guild]]. They are sometimes called "the knights of the mind."{{ref|AGOT|53}}

== The Citadel ==

The [[Citadel]] is an impressive structure in the city of [[Oldtown]], and is considered the home of all maesters. Here they undergo all of their training from the time they arrive as novices until they have achieved the status of maester. At the entrance of the Citadel are green marble sphinxes.

== Organization ==

The maesters are scholars, scientists, learned advisors to the nobility, and occasionally pseudo-religious researchers in the occult. Males of any age may begin training as a maester; females are not permitted to study or join the order. Noble families in [[Westeros]] sometimes send their younger sons to the Citadel. A [[bastard]] may study at the Citadel and become a maester. The maesters, like the brothers of the [[Night's Watch]], are considered to be servants of Westeros and all its people and in theory have no political allegiance. After finishing his course of study, a maester is assigned to a castle, keep or other holding, and is loyal to the people of that place as a mentor, healer and adviser, regardless of changes in control of that holding. To this end a man who earns his chain is stripped of his family name and from that time on is known only by his title and first name. In practice, some maesters hold over old allegiances and loyalties.

=== Grand Maester ===

The Grand Maester is considered the senior member of the order and serves as its representative to the king. He can only be made or unmade by the Conclave.{{ref|asos|12}} He sits on the [[small council]] and acts as the king's adviser. The Grand Maester wears many interwoven maester chains to indicate his high office, but these do not reflect his true studies. Gems are woven into the chains.{{ref|agot|20}}

[[Pycelle]] has served in the office for over forty years, though his loyalties lie with [[House Lannister]] rather than the realm. His advanced age has slowed him down, and he often dozes off during small council meetings. He was thrown in the dungeons of the [[Red Keep]] by [[Tyrion Lannister]], but [[Tywin Lannister]] recalled him to his duties when it appeared the Citadel was going to replace him with Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], formerly of [[House Tyrell]]. After his imprisonment Cersei perceives him as a broken man, but in spite of his past failings in court intrigue, Pycelle successfully seizes control of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and the council after Cersei's arrest by the [[High Sparrow]], offering [[Kevan Lannister]] the regency. As they attempt to fix Cersei's follies, Pycelle and Kevan are both assassinated by [[Varys]], the former [[master of whisperers]].

=== Archmaester ===

The perceived "master" of any area of study is given a mask, ring, and rod and the title Archmaester in the corresponding metal to signify his expertise. For example, an archmaester who specializes in ravenry will have a mask, ring, and rod made of black iron. Archmaesters are the senior members of the Order and are given the right to sit on the Conclave. The Conclave is the governing body of the Citadel and is the same body that elects the Grand Maester. All the meetings of the Conclave are confidential in nature and conducted behind closed doors at the Citadel only.{{ref|asos|12}}

Marwyn the Mage is the order's leading researcher into the occult and [[magic]]. For his strange pursuits and gruff manner he is ostracized by others in the Citadel.

=== Seneschal ===

The Seneschal is chosen from among the archmaesters by lot. A new one is chosen each year. The Seneschal is tasked with the governance of the Citadel. Most archmaesters consider it a thankless task that takes them away from their true calling.{{ref|affc|45}}

== Traditions and Culture ==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Maesters|Images of Maesters]]''
[[File:Maester Oath.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester taking the oath]]
[[File:Mike Capprotti the chain.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Forging the chain - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Maesters begin their training as novices in the Citadel. Once they begin their study and have been seen as proficient in a particular course of study they are tested and awarded a link of a certain metal to reflect their skill and knowledge. A student with a link is known as an acolyte until he has a full chain; it is not until he has completed extensive study in various subjects and has earned enough links to form a chain (to be worn around the neck) that he is considered worthy of advancement to the title of Maester, no longer a student but a peer. The night before the acolytes swear their vows to become maesters, they must stand a vigil in a vault with a black [[Glass candle]]. He is allowed no lantern or any other source of light. Unless he can light the candle, he will spend the night in total darkness.{{ref|affc|0}} There have been whispers that the maesters have held much more power and sway than they are ready to admit. Archmaester [[Marwyn]] suspects that they had a role in the demise of [[House Targaryen]]'s [[Dragon]]s. Some consider most maesters to be categorically opposed to magic and its influence on [[Westeros]].

=== The collar ===
[[File:Maester iron link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Iron link for studies in the field of warcraft. Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Kerry Barnett Linked Advisor.JPG|thumb|350px|A maester advises his lord. © FFG]]
The collar signifies that maesters do not serve themselves, but are instead servants of all of Westeros. The collar consists of several links of different types of metal. These chains are formed from every metal known to man, but almost no maester will ever wear them all. Maesters do not remove the chain ever, not even when sleeping.{{ref|agot|41}}

According to semi-canon sources, it is possible to earn multiple links of the same metal.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Dragon_Limbs_and_Gender_Valyrain_Weapons_and_Maesters_Chains/ Dragon Limbs and Gender, Valyrian Weapons and Maesters' Chains] (April 16, 2008)</ref>

These metals include:
*Black iron (Ravenry)
*Brass
*Bronze ([[Astronomy]])
*Copper (History)
*Electrum (Astrology)
*Yellow Gold (Economics)
*Iron (Warcraft)
*Lead
*Pale steel (Smithing)
*Pewter
*Platinum
*Red gold
*Silver ([[Medicine]] and healing)
*Steel
*Tin
*[[Valyrian steel]] (Magic and the occult) - Only one in one hundred holds a link of Valyrian steel; the study of magic is looked down upon by most maesters.{{ref|acok|28}}

=== Practices and observances ===

[[File:Maester studies.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester studies]]
Maesters chiefly communicate through messenger ravens. These ravens are trained specifically for one route; for example, for a message that must be sent to [[Castle Black]], the maester uses the raven from the Castle Black cage. One of the typical duties of a maester is care of a keep's ravens. A special breed of [[white ravens]] that are larger and more intelligent than average are maintained at the Citadel for important communications. Maesters also constantly monitor the seasons. When the seasons are about to change, they send white ravens to spread the announcement throughout the realm.{{ref|acok|0}} Maesters who are skilled in astronomy often watch the skies and study constellations. When the red comet appeared during the events of the [[War of the Five Kings]], the maesters were among the first to notice.

== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester [[Henly|Henly (maester)]], maester in service of Lord [[House Slate|Slate]], currently in [[Winterfell]] with Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Quotes==
{{quote|There are some who call my order the [[knight]]s of the mind ... Have you ever thought that you might wear a maester's chain? There is no limit to what you might learn ... I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of [[raven]]s, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars I can teach you to measure the days and marks the seasons, and at the [[Citadel]] in [[Oldtown]] they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you [[magic]].{{ref|AGOT|53}}}} - Maester [[Luwin]] to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|If you do not have a maester, it is taken to mean that you are of little consequence.{{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote|Isn't it clever how the maesters go only by one name, even those who had two when they first arrived at the [[Citadel]]? That way we cannot know who they truly are or where they come from. {{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

==See Also==
*[[The Maester's Path]] - A viral marketing campaign for HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

== References and Notes ==
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Maesters

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:''For the mule, see [[Maester (mule)]]''
[[File:Maester link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester links, Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Maester Duity.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester duty to the realm]]

The '''maesters''' are an order of scholars, healers, postmen, and scientists who are trained at a school called the [[Citadel]]. [[House Hightower]] was integral in the Citadel's foundation, and continues to patronize the order. As advisers to the Westerosi nobility, the maesters have largely supplanted the [[Alchemists' Guild]]. They are sometimes called "the knights of the mind."{{ref|AGOT|53}}

== The Citadel ==

The [[Citadel]] is an impressive structure in the city of [[Oldtown]], and is considered the home of all maesters. Here they undergo all of their training from the time they arrive as novices until they have achieved the status of maester. At the entrance of the Citadel are green marble sphinxes.

== Organization ==

The maesters are scholars, scientists, learned advisors to the nobility, and occasionally pseudo-religious researchers in the occult. Males of any age may begin training as a maester; females are not permitted to study or join the order. Noble families in [[Westeros]] sometimes send their younger sons to the Citadel. A [[bastard]] may study at the Citadel and become a maester. The maesters, like the brothers of the [[Night's Watch]], are considered to be servants of Westeros and all its people and in theory have no political allegiance. After finishing his course of study, a maester is assigned to a castle, keep or other holding, and is loyal to the people of that place as a mentor, healer and adviser, regardless of changes in control of that holding. To this end a man who earns his chain is stripped of his family name and from that time on is known only by his title and first name. In practice, some maesters hold over old allegiances and loyalties.

=== Grand Maester ===

The Grand Maester is considered the senior member of the order and serves as its representative to the king. He can only be made or unmade by the Conclave.{{ref|asos|12}} He sits on the [[small council]] and acts as the king's adviser. The Grand Maester wears many interwoven maester chains to indicate his high office, but these do not reflect his true studies. Gems are woven into the chains.{{ref|agot|20}}

[[Pycelle]] has served in the office for over forty years, though his loyalties lie with [[House Lannister]] rather than the realm. His advanced age has slowed him down, and he often dozes off during small council meetings. He was thrown in the dungeons of the [[Red Keep]] by [[Tyrion Lannister]], but [[Tywin Lannister]] recalled him to his duties when it appeared the Citadel was going to replace him with Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], formerly of [[House Tyrell]]. After his imprisonment Cersei perceives him as a broken man, but in spite of his past failings in court intrigue, Pycelle successfully seizes control of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and the council after Cersei's arrest by the [[High Sparrow]], offering [[Kevan Lannister]] the regency. As they attempt to fix Cersei's follies, Pycelle and Kevan are both assassinated by [[Varys]], the former [[master of whisperers]].

=== Archmaester ===

The perceived "master" of any area of study is given a mask, ring, and rod and the title Archmaester in the corresponding metal to signify his expertise. For example, an archmaester who specializes in ravenry will have a mask, ring, and rod made of black iron. Archmaesters are the senior members of the Order and are given the right to sit on the Conclave. The Conclave is the governing body of the Citadel and is the same body that elects the Grand Maester. All the meetings of the Conclave are confidential in nature and conducted behind closed doors at the Citadel only.{{ref|asos|12}}

Marwyn the Mage is the order's leading researcher into the occult and [[magic]]. For his strange pursuits and gruff manner he is ostracized by others in the Citadel.

=== Seneschal ===

The Seneschal is chosen from among the archmaesters by lot. A new one is chosen each year. The Seneschal is tasked with the governance of the Citadel. Most archmaesters consider it a thankless task that takes them away from their true calling.{{ref|affc|45}}

== Traditions and Culture ==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Maesters|Images of Maesters]]''
[[File:Maester Oath.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester taking the oath]]
[[File:Mike Capprotti the chain.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Forging the chain - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Maesters begin their training as novices in the Citadel. Once they begin their study and have been seen as proficient in a particular course of study they are tested and awarded a link of a certain metal to reflect their skill and knowledge. A student with a link is known as an acolyte until he has a full chain; it is not until he has completed extensive study in various subjects and has earned enough links to form a chain (to be worn around the neck) that he is considered worthy of advancement to the title of Maester, no longer a student but a peer. The night before the acolytes swear their vows to become maesters, they must stand a vigil in a vault with a black [[Glass candle]]. He is allowed no lantern or any other source of light. Unless he can light the candle, he will spend the night in total darkness.{{ref|affc|0}} There have been whispers that the maesters have held much more power and sway than they are ready to admit. Archmaester [[Marwyn]] suspects that they had a role in the demise of [[House Targaryen]]'s [[Dragon]]s. Some consider most maesters to be categorically opposed to magic and its influence on [[Westeros]].

=== The collar ===
[[File:Maester iron link by timdurning.jpg|thumb|350px|Iron link for studies in the field of warcraft. Art by Tim Durning ©]]
[[File:Kerry Barnett Linked Advisor.JPG|thumb|350px|A maester advises his lord. © FFG]]
The collar signifies that maesters do not serve themselves, but are instead servants of all of Westeros. The collar consists of several links of different types of metal. These chains are formed from every metal known to man, but almost no maester will ever wear them all. Maesters do not remove the chain ever, not even when sleeping.{{ref|agot|41}}

According to semi-canon sources, it is possible to earn multiple links of the same metal.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Dragon_Limbs_and_Gender_Valyrain_Weapons_and_Maesters_Chains/ Dragon Limbs and Gender, Valyrian Weapons and Maesters' Chains] (April 16, 2008)</ref>

These metals include:
*Black iron (Ravenry)
*Brass
*Bronze ([[Astronomy]])
*Copper (History)
*Electrum (Astrology)
*Yellow Gold (Economics)
*Iron (Warcraft)
*Lead
*Pale steel (Smithing)
*Pewter
*Platinum
*Red gold
*Silver ([[Medicine]] and healing)
*Steel
*Tin
*[[Valyrian steel]] (Magic and the occult) - Only one in one hundred holds a link of Valyrian steel; the study of magic is looked down upon by most maesters.{{ref|acok|28}}

=== Practices and observances ===

[[File:Maester studies.jpg|thumb|350px|Maester studies]]
Maesters chiefly communicate through messenger ravens. These ravens are trained specifically for one route; for example, for a message that must be sent to [[Castle Black]], the maester uses the raven from the Castle Black cage. One of the typical duties of a maester is care of a keep's ravens. A special breed of [[white ravens]] that are larger and more intelligent than average are maintained at the Citadel for important communications. Maesters also constantly monitor the seasons. When the seasons are about to change, they send white ravens to spread the announcement throughout the realm.{{ref|acok|0}} Maesters who are skilled in astronomy often watch the skies and study constellations. When the red comet appeared during the events of the [[War of the Five Kings]], the maesters were among the first to notice.

== Known Members ==

===Archmaester===
* Archmaester [[Norren]], Seneschal for the waning year, whose ring and rod and mask are electrum,
* Archmaester [[Theobald]], Seneschal for the coming year, whose ring and rod and mask are lead,
* Archmaester [[Ebrose]], the healer, whose ring and rod and mask are silver,
* Archmaester [[Marwyn]], called "Marwyn the Mage", whose ring and rod and mask are [[Valyrian steel]],
* Archmaester [[Perestan]], the historian, whose ring and rod and mask are copper,
* Archmaester [[Vaellyn]], called "Vinegar Vaellyn", the stargazer, whose ring and rod and mask are bronze,
* Archmaester [[Ryam]], whose ring and rod and mask are yellow gold,
* Archmaester [[Walgrave]], an old man of uncertain wit, whose ring and rod and mask are black iron,
* [[Gallard]], [[Castos]], [[Zarabelo]], [[Benedict]], [[Garizon]], [[Nymos]], [[Cetheres]], [[Willifer]], [[Mollos]], [[Harodon]], [[Guyne]], [[Agrivane]], [[Ocley]], archmaesters all.

===Maester===
*Grand Maester {[[Pycelle]]}, served in King's Landing and on the small council for over forty years. Murdered during the reign of King Tommen I.
*Maester {[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]}, Maester of the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]], one of three living members of [[House Targaryen]]. Died of a chill after crossing by sea to the [[Free Cities]] in the company of his student, [[Samwell Tarly]].
*Maester {[[Cressen]]}, Maester at Dragonstone and advisor to [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He drank from the cup of poison that was meant for Stannis's red priestess, [[Melisandre]]. The poison did not affect Melisandre, but Cressen was killed.
*Maester [[Colemon]], personal maester to Jon Arryn while he was in King's Landing, currently living at the Eyrie.
*Maester [[Harmune]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
*Maester {[[Luwin]]}, Maester of [[Winterfell]] and trusted advisor to [[House Stark]]. Killed during the [[sack of Winterfell]] by men of [[House Bolton]]. One of the few maesters to have studied magic.
*Maester [[Mullin]], a maester for the [[Night's Watch]] at the Shadow Tower.
*Maester [[Pylos]], successor to Cressen at Dragonstone. Aided [[Davos Seaworth]] in smuggling out [[Edric Storm]], in order to spare him from being burned as a sacrifice by [[Melisandre]].
*Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], an uncle to [[Mace Tyrell]], nearly chosen to become Grand Maester.
*Maester [[Gulian]], currently with ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] at [[Harrenhal]].
*Maester [[Theomore]], originally of [[House Lannister of Lannisport]], in service at [[White Harbor]]. Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] does not trust him due to his Lannister blood.
*[[Qyburn]], advisor to Queen Cersei. Former maester stripped of his chain and title by the Citadel for conducting immoral research - vivisection and other experiments performed on living human subjects.

===Acolytes and Novices===
*Acolyte [[Leo Tyrell|Leo Tyrell]], called "Lazy" Leo, a follower of Marwyn.
*Acolyte [[Robert Frey (son of Raymund)|Robert Frey]]
*Acolyte [[Armen]], called "Armen the Acolyte" by his friends.
*Acolyte [[Alleras]], called "the Sphinx", also a follower of Marwyn

*Novice [[Samwell Tarly]], a brother of the [[Night's Watch]] and student of Maester Aemon.
*Novice {[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]]}, Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, killed and replaced by the [[Alchemist]]. Some speculate that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] was the Alchemist, and took up Pate's identity after killing him.
*Novice [[Mollander]]
*Novice [[Roone]]

===Historic Members ===
*Grand Maester [[Gawen]], who served [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sons until being executed by [[Maegor I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Desmond]], who served Maegor I until the king had him executed.
*Grand Maester [[Runciter]], who served [[Viserys I Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Mellos]], who served Viserys I.
*Grand Maester [[Orwyle]], who held the office at the onset of the [[Dance of the Dragons]]
*Grand Maester [[Gerardys]], who was fed to a dragon by [[Aegon II Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Munkun]], who served [[Aegon III Targaryen]] and his sons. Wrote the book ''[[The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Alford]], who served [[Aegon IV Targaryen]].
*Grand Maester [[Kaeth]], who briefly served [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Wrote the book ''[[Lives of Four Kings]]''.
*Grand Maester [[Ellendor]], who briefly served Aegon V.
*Grand Maester [[Merion]], who died after being named Grand Maester but before arriving in [[King's Landing]].
*Grand Maester [[Aethelmure]], whose biography exists in the library at [[Winterfell]] and whose harsh view on poisoners is referenced by Grand Maester Pycelle.
*Grand Maester [[Hareth (maester)|Hareth]], who was executed for attempting to usurp Targaryen rule.
*Grand Maester [[Malleon]], who wrote the book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children]]''.
*Archmaester [[Gyldayn]], who wrote the book ''[[The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens]]'' and ''[[The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother (by Archmaester Gyldayn)|The Rogue Prince, or, the King’s Brother]]''.
*Archmaester [[Harmune (archmaester)|Harmune]], who wrote the book ''[[Watchers on the Wall]]''.
*Maester [[Walys Flowers|Walys]], Maester of Winterfell and trusted advisor to [[Rickard Stark]].
*Archmaester [[Hake (archmaester)|Hake]], an archmaester of ironborn origin.
*Archmaester [[Haereg]], who wrote ''[[History of the Ironborn]].

==Quotes==
{{quote|There are some who call my order the [[knight]]s of the mind ... Have you ever thought that you might wear a maester's chain? There is no limit to what you might learn ... I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of [[raven]]s, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars I can teach you to measure the days and marks the seasons, and at the [[Citadel]] in [[Oldtown]] they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you [[magic]].{{ref|AGOT|53}}}} - Maester [[Luwin]] to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|If you do not have a maester, it is taken to mean that you are of little consequence.{{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote|Isn't it clever how the maesters go only by one name, even those who had two when they first arrived at the [[Citadel]]? That way we cannot know who they truly are or where they come from. {{Ref|aDwD|37}}}} - Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]], to [[Theon Greyjoy]]

==See Also==
*[[The Maester's Path]] - A viral marketing campaign for HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

== References and Notes ==
{{references|2}}

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Regency of Aegon III

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The regency of [[Aegon III Targaryen|King Aegon the Third]] lasted from the year {{date|131}} to {{date|136}} while the king was in his minority. It was a period of numerous political conflicts that occurred among the [[Regent|council of regents]] and several [[Hand of the King|Hands of the King]].

==Prelude==
Young King [[Aegon III Targaryen]] ascended the [[Iron Throne]] in {{date|131}}, at the age of eleven, after losing most of his family to the unprecedented internal conflict and civil war that came to be known as the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

Several [[Regent]]s and [[Hand of the King|Hand]]s ruled in Aegon's name for the first five years of his reign until the King came of age. During the regency numerous political schemes, plots and even a few assassinations happened as the Regents and their supporters vied for political power.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

==History==
===Begin of Regency===
After witnessing the horrific death of his [[Rhaenyra Targaryen|mother]] late in the war, Aegon had become a quite sullen, melancholic boy who spent days alone brooding. He was used as a pawn as the Lords and [[Regent]]s of the [[small council]] all sought to gain a political stronghold.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

The regency of King Aegon started with seven individual regents, who became known as the Council of Seven. Of these seven regents, only Grand Maester [[Munkun]] served during the entire regency. Other regents, and [[Hand of the King|Hands of the King]], resigned, were replaced, or died. Aegon's reign began in the second year of a harsh winter, which would last until {{Date|135}}. Winter Fever would take multiple of Aegon's regents.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

The first of Aegon's regents to die was Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], who died in {{Date|132}} of old age. His grandson and successor Lord [[Alyn Velaryon]], had hoped to take his grandfather's place on the council, but was denied. That same year, Lord [[Royce Caron]] gave up his place on the council. Ser [[Torrhen Manderly]] gave his his place on the council as well that year, to return home to [[White Harbor]], following the deaths of his father and brother from Winter Fever.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

In {{Date|133}}, Winter Fever took Ser [[Tyland Lannister]], who had returned from the Free Cities the year before, and had been named [[Hand of the King]], a position which he held and fulfilled capably, despite his mutilations. Lord [[Roland Westerling]], one of the regents, died in {{Date|133}} of Winter Fever as well, and was subsequently replaced by Lord [[Thaddeus Rowan]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

Lord [[Unwin Peake]] had felt slighted when he had not been amongst the original seven regents. Yet in {{Date|132}}, he was given Lord Corlys Velaryon's position. He rose to the position of Hand in {{Date|133}}, following the death of Ser Tyland Lannister. In his position of power, he saw his kin hold many high office, and endeavored to weaken his rivals by any means at hand.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

King Aegon III had married his cousin, Princess [[Jaehaera Targaryen]], the sole surviving child of King [[Aegon II Targaryen]], following the end of the war. She apparently killed herself in {{Date|133}}, when she threw herself out of her window and was impaled on the spikes of [[Maegor's Holdfast]]. Whilst officially named a suicide, there are some who question the manner of her death. Some whisper that Jaehaera had been murdered, and one of the suspects named was Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]] of the [[Kingsguard]], the bastard brother of Lord Unwin, who had been the guard at Jaehaera's door when she died. Court-fool [[Mushroom]] suggests that Flowers did not do the deed himself, but had allowed for someone else to push her out of the window. Maester [[Yandel]] speculates the assassin was [[Tessario]], a [[sellsword]] of the [[Free Cities]] in Lord Unwin's service.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

Following the death of Queen Jaehaera, Lord Unwin attempted to marry his own daughter to King Aegon. When the regents had stopped his attempts, the Hand arranged a ball, where a thousand maids were presented to King Aegon. Ladies [[Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Daemon)|Rhaena]] and [[Baela Targaryen]] presented a cousin of theirs, Lady [[Daenaera Velaryon]], at the time only six years old. Aegon choose her as his new Queen, which greatly frustrated Lord Peake. He attempted to have the King's choice put aside, but the other regents, as well as Aegon, opposed him. Lord Peake threatened to resign as Hand of the King in an attempt to bend the other regents to his will, but they were only happy to oblige. Thus Lord Peake's resignation was accepted and he was replaced as Hand of the King by Lord [[Thaddeus Rowan]] in {{Date|134}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

===The Red Kraken===
Lord [[Alyn Velaryon]], after having been denied Lord Corlys' place on the council, was made to sail against the [[Stepstones]]. Against the hopes of Lord Peake, who had then still been Hand, Alyn was victorious in the Stepstones. When he returned to King's Landing, his newborn fame proved divisive. The regents, despite Peake's protests, gave Alyn honors and rewards. Still as Hand, Lord Peake in the end convinced the regents to dispatch Alyn to the [[Westerlands]], to deal with [[Dalton Greyjoy]], almost certainly hoping it would result in Alyn's death or defeat. Instead, it became the first of six great voyages by Lord Alyn.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

Lord [[Dalton Greyjoy]], the Red Kraken, had joined the [[Dance of the Dragons|war]] on the side of Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]], and had been allowed to raid the western coasts.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}} Though the war ended, Greyjoy's raids did not. Greyjoy was eventually killed on [[Fair Isle]], when a girl named [[Tess]] opened his throat with a dagger. As Dalton had never married, a bloody struggle began within hours of his death.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Red Kraken}}

Lady [[Johanna Lannister]] extracted revenge for all the suffering of the westerlands in {{Date|134}}, when a Lannister force, with the aid of Ser [[Leo Costayne]], attacked the [[Iron Isles]]. Entire villages were put to the sword, man, woman, and child. Most of the attacking host was lost, including Lord Costayne, but those who returned home returned with plunder - and amongst the highborn hostages, was one of Dalton's salt sons. Lady [[Johanna Lannister]] had the boy gelded and mutilated, and forced him to be her son's fool.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Red Kraken}}

===Return of Prince Viserys===
The King's younger brother, Prince [[Viserys II Targaryen|Viserys]], was believed to be dead by many. His return to King's Landing was one of the few joy's of King Aegon III. Having been found in [[Lys]] by Lord Alyn Velaryon, a huge ransom was paid, and the prince was allowed to return to [[King's Landing]]. With him, he brought his new wife, [[Larra Rogare]], a wealthy daughter of the powerful and ambitious [[Rogare family]]. Larra's family owned the Rogare Bank, so powerful at the time that it was greater than the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

The Rogare family soon became involved in the conflicts of this period. Accusations of wrongdoing were spread back and forth by many parties. Lord [[Thaddeus Rowan]] was accused of treason and being involved in a plot with the Rogare family and was tortured for information. Somehow, Ser [[Marston Waters]] became [[Hand of the King]] despite being a member of the Kingsguard, and sent men to arrest Lady Larra after he arrested her brothers. The young King Aegon defended his brother and his brother's wife and her family, however, and refused to give her up, which led to a siege in [[Maegor's Holdfast]] for eighteen days. Eventually, recalling his duty, Marston attempted to fulfill his King's command and arrest those who falsely implicated the Rogares and Lord Rowan. Waters himself was killed attempting to arrest his sworn brother, Ser [[Mervyn Flowers]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

===End of Regency===
Grandmaester [[Munkun]] briefly took over as [[Hand of the King]] and restored order until new regents were appointed. Lord [[Torrhen Manderly]] was made the new [[Hand of the King]], and [[Willam Stackspear]], [[Marq Merryweather]] and [[Lorent Grandison]] were chosen by a Great Council to serve on the council in {{Date|136}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

The regency ended on the day of King [[Aegon III Targaryen]]s sixteenth nameday, when the King entered the [[small council]] chambers and dismissed all of the regents and his [[Hand of the King]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

==Council of Regents==
The regency council of Aegon III, as originally constituted, consisted of:{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}}

*Lady [[Jeyne Arryn]], Lady of the [[Eyrie]] (131-134 AC).
*Lord [[Royce Caron]], Lord of [[Nightsong]] (131-132 AC).
*Ser [[Torrhen Manderly]] (131-133 AC).
*Lord [[Manfryd Mooton]], Lord of [[Maidenpool]] (131-134 AC).
*[[Grand Maester]] [[Munkun]] (131-136 AC).
*Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], Master of [[Driftmark]] and [[Lord of the Tides]] (131-132 AC).
*Lord [[Roland Westerling]], Lord of the [[Crag]] (131-133 AC).

Subsequent replacements:

*Lord [[Unwin Peake]], replaced Lord Corlys (132-134 AC).
*Lord [[Thaddeus Rowan]], replaced Lord Roland (133-136 AC).
*Ser [[Corwyn Corbray]], replaced Lord Manfryd (134-134 AC).

Regents chosen by lot at the Great Council of 136:

*[[Willam Stackspear]].
*[[Marq Merryweather]].
*[[Lorent Grandison]].

Hands of the King:

*Ser [[Tyland Lannister]].
*Lord [[Unwin Peake]], Lord of [[Starpike]].
*Lord [[Thaddeus Rowan]], Lord of [[Goldengrove]].
*Ser [[Marston Waters]] of the [[Kingsguard]].
*[[Grand Maester]] [[Munkun]].
*Lord [[Torrhen Manderly]], Lord of [[White Harbor]].

==References and Notes==
{{References}}

[[Category:House Targaryen]]

Robert I Baratheon

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{{Infobox monarch
| name = '''Robert I Baratheon''' [[file:House_Baratheon.PNG|50px|left]][[file:House_Baratheon.PNG|50px|right]]
| image = [[File:RobertBKingMagali Villeneuve.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption = Robert Baratheon by Magali Villeneuve
| reign = {{Date|283}} - {{Date|298}}
| coronation =
| othertitles = King of the [[Andals]], the [[Rhoynar]] and the [[First Men]] [[Lord of the Seven Kingdoms]] Protector of the Realm [[Lord Paramount of the Stormlands]] [[Knight|Ser]]{{ref|TWOIAF| Robert's Rebellion}}
| fullname = Robert Baratheon the First of His Name
| alias = The Usurper Demon of the Trident The Whoremonger King
| predecessor = [[Aerys II Targaryen]]
| successor = [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]
| suc-type =
| heir = [[Joffrey Baratheon]]
| queen = [[Cersei Lannister]]
| consort =
| spouse1 =
| issue = [[Joffrey Baratheon]] (legally only) [[Myrcella Baratheon]] (legally only) [[Tommen Baratheon]] (legally only) [[Mya Stone]] [[Bella]] [[Gendry]] [[Edric Storm]] [[Barra]] Unknown twins 9 other unknown bastards
| royalhouse = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
| dynasty =
| royalanthem =
| father = [[Steffon Baratheon]]
| mother = [[Cassana Estermont]]
| dateofbirth = {{Date|262}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}
| placeofbirth =
| dateofdeath = {{Date|298}}<ref name=Calculation>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Robert Baratheon|Robert Baratheon]] calculation.''</ref>
| placeofdeath = [[King's Landing]]
| dateofburial =
| placeofburial = [[Storm's End]]
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' (mentioned)
| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Mark Addy, Robert Baratheon|Mark Addy]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]]
}}
:''"Robert" redirects here. For other characters named "Robert", see [[Robert (disambiguation)]].''
King '''Robert I Baratheon''' is the [[Lord of the Seven Kingdoms]] of [[Westeros]] and the head of [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]. Robert was crowned king after winning [[Robert's Rebellion|the rebellion]] which was named after him and taking the [[Iron Throne]] from [[Aerys II Targaryen]], his first cousin once removed. Robert fought the war to win back his betrothed, [[Lyanna Stark]], with the aid of her brother, his close friend, [[Eddard Stark]]. Due to Lyanna's death, however, Robert married [[Cersei Lannister]] after war's end to ensure political stability. Robert has three children with Cersei: [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]], and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' he is played by [[w:Mark Addy|Mark Addy]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Robert Baratheon|Images of Robert Baratheon]]''
Robert was once a renowned warrior with a good battlefield voice.{{ref|AGOT|30}} In his youth he was described as very tall (Ned Stark estimates his height at six feet and six inches, with his brothers slightly shorter), broad shouldered and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. He kept himself clean shaven. This started to change after winning the crown. Robert became overweight from excessive feasting and drinking. In the nine years since [[Greyjoy's Rebellion]], he gained at least eight stone in weight.{{Ref|aGoT|4}} Robert grew a beard to hide his multiple chins.{{Ref|aGoT|4}}

Robert is an avid hunter{{ref|AGOT|2}} who replaced the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[Dragon skulls (Targaryen)|dragon skulls]] in the [[Iron Throne|throne room]] with hunting tapestries.{{ref|AGOT|43}} Although the royal armory has numerous weapons, [[Tywin Lannister]] states the only blade used by Robert is a hunting knife he received from Lord [[Jon Arryn]] as a boy.{{ref|ASOS|32}} In his younger days Robert wielded a spiked iron warhammer crafted by [[Donal Noye]] and a great antlered helmet with his armor.{{ref|AGOT|4}}{{ref|ASOS|76}}

Some of Robert's favorite songs are "[[A Cask of Ale]]" and "[[Fifty-Four Tuns]]".{{Ref|aSoS|42}} He is known for his charm, outgoing and gregarious personality and remarkable ability to turn enemies into friends. Robert's lusts became the subject of ribald drinking songs throughout the realm. According to Ned, Robert would promise a woman the world in the night and forget everything, including her, in the morning.{{ref|aGoT|35}}

== History ==
===Early Life===
Born in {{Date|262}},{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} Robert was the first born child of [[Cassana Estermont]] and [[Steffon Baratheon]], Lord of [[Storm's End]], head of [[House Baratheon]] and [[Lord Paramount of the Stormlands]]. He was a scant year older than his brother, [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]], who was born in {{Date|264}}.<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Stannis Baratheon|Stannis Baratheon]] calculation.''</ref> When Robert was already in his teens, his youngest brother, [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]], was born.<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Renly Baratheon|Renly Baratheon]] calculation.''</ref>

According to Stannis, when Robert was five or six years old, the two brother were brought to court by their father, Steffon, where they witnessed [[Hand of the King]] [[Tywin Lannister]] sitting on the [[Iron Throne]], holding court.{{Ref|ASOS|54}}

From an early age onwards, Robert has been fostered by Lord [[Jon Arryn]] in the [[Eyrie]], together with [[Eddard Stark]] of [[Winterfell]]. The two boys became fast friends, and Jon Arryn, who had no children of his own, became like a second father to them.{{Ref|AGOT|2}}{{Ref|AWOIAF| Robert Baratheon}} During the period in which he was fostered, Robert visited [[Storm's End]] on multiple occasions.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Robert Baratheon}} At some point, Robert was [[knight]]ed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Fall of the Dragons: Robert's Rebellion}} During a [[tourney at Storm's End]], Robert was defeated by [[Barristan Selmy]].{{Ref|ASOS|67}}

In {{Date|278}}, Robert's father was send on a mission by King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], to travel to [[Volantis]] to find a bride for Robert's cousin, Crown Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]. The mission failed, and Steffon, accompanied by his wife, returned home.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} Robert and Stannis were present at Storm's End when their parents were expected to arrive, and when the ship came into sight of [[Storm's End]], the boys witnessed how a storm in [[Shipbreaker Bay]] sank the ship their parents were on.{{Ref|ACOK|Prologue}} With his father's death, Robert became the Lord of Storm's End.

Robert fell in love with [[Lyanna Stark]], Eddard Stark's younger sister.{{Ref|AGOT|4}} In time, Lyanna's father, Lord [[Rickard Stark]], agreed to betroth her to Robert.{{Ref|AGOT|35}} At the time of their betrothal, Robert already had a bastard daughter, [[Mya Stone]], in the [[Vale]], which led to Lyanna commenting that Robert would never keep to one bed, despite his love for her.{{Ref|AGOT|35}} Eddard once stated that Robert saw only Lyanna's beauty, and never recognized her boldness and strength of will.{{Ref|aGoT|30}}

In {{Date|281}}, Robert was present at the [[tourney at Harrenhal]], where he took part in the melee.{{Ref|AGOT|58}} He held a drinking contest with [[Richard Lonmouth]], and swore to unmask the mystery knight known as the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]], although he failed to do so.{{Ref|ASOS|24}} It was Robert's cousin, Crown Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]], who won the final joust of the tourney. The prince crowned Lyanna Stark—by then long betrothed to Robert—the [[queen of love and beauty]], instead of his wife, [[Elia Martell]]. There are some who sat that Robert had laughed, stating that Rhaegar had only paid Lyanna her due, though according to men who knew Robert better, he felt it had been an insult, on which he brooded long, causing him to harden against Prince Rhaegar.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

The next year, Prince Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna,{{Ref|AGOT|4}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}} which set in motion a chain of events that led to the war known as [[Robert's Rebellion]].

===Robert's Rebellion===
[[File:Battle of Summerhall Robert Baratheon.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Young Robert at the [[Battle of Summerhall]] (''[[Game of Thrones]]'' History and Lore)]]
News of the kidnapping led [[Lyanna Stark]]'s eldest brother, [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]], and later her father, Lord [[Rickard Stark|Rickard]], to [[King's Landing]] demanding justice. Both were executed by the Mad King, [[Aerys II Targaryen]], who demanded that Lord [[Jon Arryn]] turn over Robert and Eddard as well. Jon rose up in rebellion instead, with Eddard (now Lord of Winterfell) and Robert rallying the [[North]] and the [[stormlands]] respectively.{{Ref|aGoT|2}} Robert, whose descent gave him the best claim to the throne of the three lords, became the head of the revolt, known as [[Robert's Rebellion]] and as the War of the Usurper. At the [[Battle of Gulltown (Robert's Rebellion)|Battle of Gulltown]], Robert slew [[Marq Grafton]].

Robert began gathering his banners at [[Storm's End]], but he was separated from his allies in the North. Moreover, some of his bannermen decided to remain loyal to [[Iron Throne]] and began gathering their strength at [[Summerhall]].{{Ref|aSoS|55}} Robert learned of this plan and [[battles at Summerhall|defeated them all]], winning three battles in a single day. While attempting to link up with the forces from the North, Robert suffered a defeat at the [[Battle of Ashford]] and was later trapped in the town of [[Stoney Sept]] where he hid in a brothel and bedded nearly every whore while hiding there. {{Ref|aSoS|29}}

[[File:twoiaf battle of the trident.jpg|thumb|350px|Robert fighting Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] as depicted by Justin Sweet in ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]''.]]

A [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] army eventually led by Lord [[Jon Connington]] arrived and began to search the town for Robert, who was saved when a rebel force from the North joined him and the [[Battle of the Bells]] began. {{Ref|aSoS|29}} He led the combined forces of Baratheon, Stark, Arryn, and [[House Tully|Tully]] to victory over the royal forces led by Rhaegar at the [[Battle of the Trident]] and personally killed the crown prince, securing victory.{{Ref|aGoT|4}} Before Robert's allies could reach King's Landing, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] had forces from the [[westerlands]] [[Sack of King's Landing|sack the capital]], during which the Mad King was killed.

Although he won the rebellion and killed Rhaegar, Robert's hatred of his slain foe had not diminished. When Tywin presented Robert with the mutilated bodies of [[Elia Martell]], Rhaegar's wife, and their two young children, Robert was pleased they were dead. Eddard Stark, on the other hand, was outraged and disgusted by the act, calling it murder, and saying the young [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|prince]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|princess]] were no more than babes. Robert's response was:

{{Quote|I see no babes, only dragonspawn.{{ref|aGoT|12}}}}

Even Jon Arryn could not cool the rage and argument that followed between Robert and Eddard. Eddard left the [[Red Keep]] in a black rage to relieve Storm's End, where [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] languished [[Siege of Storm's End|under siege]]. It took the death of Lyanna and their shared grief to reunite the pair in friendship.{{ref|aGoT|12}} Robert was thereafter haunted by her memory and the desire for further vengeance against the slain Rhaegar.{{Ref|aGoT|4}}

===Reign===
[[File:Henning Ludvigsen kingshonorguard.jpg|350px|left|thumb|Coronation of King Robert Baratheon - by Henning Ludvigsen ©]]
Robert's claim to the [[Iron Throne]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] was based on his grandmother being [[Rhaelle Targaryen]], daughter of King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], thus giving him a much stronger claim to the throne than the [[House Arryn|Arryns]], [[House Tully|Tullys]] or [[House Stark|Starks]].

With Aerys and Rhaegar dead and King's Landing fallen, the lords of the Seven Kingdoms swore fealty to Robert and accepted him as king. He pardoned many of his former enemies and won some over as allies. Those opposed to his reign, however, refer to Robert as the Usurper. Robert tasked [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] with building a new fleet and capturing [[Dragonstone]], the last Targaryen-loyalist stronghold. Although Stannis commanded the [[assault on Dragonstone]], [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]] were smuggled from the island beforehand, which angered the new king. Robert named Stannis Lord of Dragonstone and granted the Baratheons' ancestral seat of Storm's End to their young brother, [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]], which Stannis took as a slight.{{ref|ACOK|25}}

[[Dorne]] never forgot or forgave the fact that Robert condoned the cold-blooded murders of [[Elia Martell]] and her children, [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]] and [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]]. Lord [[Jon Arryn]] managed to negotiate a truce with Dorne and a grudging acceptance of Robert's reign. Robert appointed Jon Arryn as his [[Hand of the King]]. Jon Arryn, along with Stannis, held the Seven Kingdoms together while Robert ate, drank, hunted, and whored.

[[File:Robert Baratheon Cersei Lannister Wedding.jpg|thumb|left|375px|Union of King Robert and his wife [[Cersei Lannister]] (''[[Game of Thrones]]'' History and Lore)]]

Robert began his reign by marrying [[Cersei Lannister]], Tywin's daughter, in {{Date|284}}. It was a political match intended to bring stability to the kingdom. The marriage was not a happy one. During their wedding night Robert, while drunk, accidentally whispered, "Lyanna", an act that earned him his new wife's hatred. Cersei bore three children: [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]. In his unhappiness Robert took to drink, feasting and sleeping with other women. In this way he had [[#Known bastards|several bastard children]].
[[File:Balon_kneels.png|thumb|[[Balon Greyjoy]] kneels before King Robert Baratheon|300px]]

Six years after taking the crown, Robert and Eddard joined forces again to crush [[Greyjoy's Rebellion]], which cemented Robert's position on the Iron Throne. Robert commanded during the [[siege of Pyke]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Old Way and the New}}

Robert beggared the realm with the expense of his tournaments and feasts, despite the fact Aerys II had left treasure vaults overflowing with gold. Robert's spending eventually left the crown in debt of over six million [[currency|golden dragons]] (borrowing heavily from the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], the [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] and the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]]).

Due to his frequent whoring, Robert also sired many bastards. According to [[Donal Noye]], he changed by becoming a king, and not for the better.{{Ref|aCoK|6}} Robert Baratheon also learned to close his eyes to anything he did not wish to see, a fact best proven when he was presented with the bodies of Rhaegar's children.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Jedruszek leaving Winterfell.jpg|500px|left|thumb|Robert and [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] leaving [[Winterfell]] - Tomasz Jedruszek ©]]
When the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Jon Arryn]], dies suddenly, Robert journeys to [[Winterfell]] to meet the last person he truly trusts, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], after a long separation. Robert appears to Eddard a broken man, unhealthy and unhappy.{{Ref|aGoT|4}} Eddard reluctantly takes the position of Hand and comes to King's Landing. He, like Jon, does much of the work as Robert seldom bothers to attend [[small council]] meetings. Robert confesses to Ned that he dreams about giving up his crown and journeying to the [[Free Cities]] as a [[sellsword]] to spend his life warring and whoring, believing that is what he was made for; only the thought of his heir, [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], on the [[Iron Throne]] with his mother, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], whispering in his ear keeps Robert from indulging his fantasy.{{Ref|aGoT|12}}

When Robert calls a meeting to demand the death of the pregnant [[Daenerys Targaryen]], who is in exile, Eddard refuses to be a part of it and resigns his position in protest.{{Ref|aGoT|33}} After Eddard is injured in an ambush led by Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], Cersei's twin brother, Robert visits his friend and gives him back his badge of office, stating that if Ned refuses to take it, Robert will pin it on Jaime. While Robert is off on one of his hunts, Eddard discovers that Robert's children are Cersei's bastards born of incest with her brother, Jaime.{{Ref|aGoT|39}}
[[File:Chris Dien Robert deathbead.jpg|400px|thumb|King Robert on his deathbed - Chris Dien ©]]


Acting first, Cersei has Robert's squire, her cousin [[Lancel Lannister]], give Robert a very strong wine, three times as potent as normal, which causes him to become very drunk. When the hunting party finally tracks down a large boar in the [[kingswood]], Robert is so inebriated that he misses his mark and is charged down and mortally gored. According to [[Varys]], if it had not been the boar, it would have been a fall from a horse or an arrow gone astray, as Cersei needed Robert dead before he returned from his hunt.

When Robert returns badly wounded and near death, he has Eddard visit him and make a will, naming him Lord Regent and Protector of the Realm until Joffrey comes of age. Eddard, seeing how much pain Robert is in, does not reveal the secret of Joffrey's parentage, not wanting to add further pain to his dying friend. Instead, when writing the will, Eddard replaces "My son Joffrey" with "my heir";{{ref|AGOT|47}} because the king's children are actually Jaime's bastards, Eddard believes Robert's heir should be his middle brother, [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]. Robert dies a day later. His death tips off a struggle for power that leads to the [[War of the Five Kings]].

Varys suggests that Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], the [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]], be blamed for Robert's death. King Joffrey I forces Barristan into retirement, replacing him with Jaime as Lord Commander and allowing [[Sandor Clegane]] to be added to the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|AGOT|57}}{{ref|ACOK|3}}

==Known bastards==
Although Robert Baratheon is known to have fathered - according to [[Maggy|Maggy the Frog's]] prophecy - a total of sixteen bastards, only one has been acknowledged. [[Varys]] admits to knowing of eight. Five have been seen by point of view characters, while two others have been mentioned only in passing. Because of how Eddard words Robert's will, Cersei begins a campaign to kill all of Robert's bastards, but Tyrion stops it after an ugly scene with [[Barra]]'s mother fighting to protect the baby. They are listed in approximate age order.

* '''[[Mya Stone]]'''. A bastard daughter born to Robert in the [[Vale]] whilst he was [[Jon Arryn]]'s ward. She serves as a guide to and from the [[Eyrie]], and becomes a favorite companion to [[Sansa Stark]]. Eddard Stark remembers that Robert was very fond of her, although like all his bastard children he later abandoned her.

* '''[[Bella]]'''. An unacknowledged bastard daughter who lived at the brothel called the [[Peach]] in [[Stoney Sept]]. Her mother told her that she was conceived during the [[Battle of the Bells]] when a wounded Robert hid there.

* '''[[Gendry]]'''. An unacknowledged bastard who was born to a worker in an alehouse. When he was old enough, [[Varys|an unknown lord]] paid Gendry's apprentice fee so he could learn to be a blacksmith. Gendry developed a reputation for stubbornness and fashioned a bull's head helmet, causing him to be named the "Bull". Following the death of Robert, Varys arranges for the boy to flee King's Landing with [[Yoren]] of the [[Night's Watch]]. Gendry knows that Queen Cersei wants him dead, although he does not know why. He travels with Arya Stark until the [[brotherhood without banners]] captures them and he joins the organization. The brotherhood later places him at the [[crossroads inn]] to smith and look after a group of orphans there. When [[Brienne of Tarth]] meets him, she is astonished by how much he looks like Renly, actually addressing him as "Renly" and "my lord".

* '''[[Edric Storm]]'''. Robert's only acknowledged bastard son, born to [[Delena Florent]].{{Ref|aGoT|35}} He lives at [[Storm's End]] under the protection of [[Cortnay Penrose]], the castellan. Robert visited Edric almost every year, taught him how to fight, and gave him a warhammer.{{ref|ASOS|10}} Stannis lays siege to the castle with the goal of capturing Edric Storm and using him to prove his claims of Cersei's incestuous affair with her brother Jaime. The red witch [[Melisandre]] also aims to use Edric's blood to raise the dragons of Dragonstone. [[Davos Seaworth]] smuggles Edric away from Dragonstone before he can be sacrificed.

* '''Two unnamed twins'''. [[Petyr Baelish]] hints that Robert fathered twins to a serving woman at [[Casterly Rock]] who were killed by Queen Cersei's agents.{{Ref|aGoT|35}}

* '''[[Barra]]'''. The youngest of Robert's known bastard children, born to [[Mhaegen|a King's Landing prostitute]]. A baby, Barra is killed by [[Allar Deem]] under Cersei's orders following the death of Robert.

==Quotes by Robert==

{{Quote|That damnable wheelhouse, the way it creaks and groans, climbing every bump in the road as if it were a mountain ... I promise you, if that wretched thing breaks another axle, I’m going to burn it, and [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] can walk! {{Ref|aGoT|12}}}}
– Robert, to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|The gods be damned. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown ... it was [[Lyanna Stark|the girl]] I prayed them for. Your sister, safe ... and mine again, as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.{{Ref|aGoT|12}}}}
– Robert to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|'''Eddard:''' You’re too fat for your armor, Robert.
'''Robert:''' Fat? Fat, is it? Is that how you speak to your king? Ah, damn you, Ned, why are you always right?{{Ref|aGoT|30}}}}
– Robert to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it..{{Ref|aGoT|30}}}}
– Robert to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|STOP THIS MADNESS, IN THE NAME OF YOUR KING!{{Ref|aGoT|30}}}} – Robert to [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Sandor Clegane]]

{{Quote|'''Cersei:''' I shall wear this as a badge of honor.
'''Robert:''' Wear it in silence, or I’ll honor you again. {{Ref|aGoT|39}}}}
– when Robert slaps [[Cersei Lannister]]

==Quotes about Robert==
{{Quote|The king was a great disappointment to Jon. [[Eddard Stark|His father]] had talked of him often: the peerless Robert Baratheon, [[Battle of the Trident|demon of the Trident]], the fiercest warrior of the realm, a giant among princes. Jon saw only a fat man, red-faced under his beard, sweating through his silks. He walked like a man half in his cups.{{Ref|agot|5}}}}
– thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|There's not a man in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] who would dare risk your displeasure by hurting you.{{Ref|agot|30}}}}
– [[Eddard Stark]] to Robert

{{quote|Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.{{ref|ACOK6}}}}
- [[Donal Noye]] to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|Tell me, what right did my brother Robert ever have to the [[Iron Throne]]? Oh, there was talk of the blood ties between [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] and [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]], of weddings a hundred years past, of second sons and elder daughters. No one but the [[maesters]] care about any of it. Robert won the throne with his warhammer.{{Ref|aCoK|22}}}}
– [[Renly Baratheon]] to [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|They said Robert Baratheon was strong as a bull and fearless in battle, a man who loved nothing better than war. {{Ref|aCoK|27}}}}
– thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

{{Quote|Robert wanted smiles and cheers, always, so he went where he found them, to his friends and his [[whore]]s. Robert wanted to be loved. My brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] has the same disease.{{Ref|aCoK|52}}}}
– [[Cersei Lannister]] to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|If he couldn't fuck it, fight it or drink it, it bored him.{{Ref|aSoS|34}}}}
– [[Sandor Clegane]] to [[Beric Dondarrion]]

{{Quote|Robert ... He is in my dreams as well. Laughing. Drinking. Boasting. Those were the things he was best at. Those, and fighting. I never bested him at anything.{{Ref|aSoS|36}}}}
– [[Stannis Baratheon]] suggesting to [[Melisandre]] that Robert should have been the champion of [[R'hllor]]

{{Quote|It's not [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] I rue, it's Robert ... Why is it no one names Robert oathbreaker? He [[Robert's Rebellion|tore the realm apart]], yet I am the one with shit for honor.{{Ref|aSoS|37}}}}
– [[Jaime Lannister]] to [[Brienne of Tarth]]

{{quote|He climbed onto his throne over the corpses of children.{{ref|aFfC|13}}}} - [[Arianne Martell]]

{{quote| If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar's]] children, no army on this earth could have stopped me from killing him.{{Ref|aDwD|67}}}} - thoughts of [[Barristan Selmy]]

{{quote|This Baratheon is fearless. He fights the way a king should fight.{{ref|ADWD|9}}}}
– [[Godric Borrell]]

{{Quote|We all know what my brother would do. Robert would gallop up to the gates of [[Winterfell]] alone, break them with his warhammer, and ride through the rubble to slay [[Roose Bolton]] with his left hand and [[Ramsay Snow|the Bastard]] with his right. I am not Robert. But [[march on Winterfell|we will march]], and we will free Winterfell … or die in the attempt.{{Ref|aDwD|42}}}}
– [[Stannis Baratheon]]

==Family Tree==
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Tiger (disambiguation)

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'''[[Tiger (animal)|Tiger]]''' is an animal found in [[Essos]].

'''Tiger''' may also refer to:
* [[Triarch of Volantis|Tigers]], a political party in Volantis
* [[Tiger-men]], mythical creatures in legends of Yi Ti
* [[Tessario]], sellsword, known as Tessario the Tiger
* [[Tiger cloaks]], slave soldiers from Volantis

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The Winds of Winter

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| author = [[George R. R. Martin]]
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| language = [[w:English language|English]]
| series = ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''
| genre = [[w:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
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| preceded_by = ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]''
| followed_by = ''[[A Dream of Spring]]''
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'''''The Winds of Winter''''' is the forthcoming sixth novel in the award-winning [[w:epic fantasy|epic fantasy]] series ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' by [[George R. R. Martin]]. It will take place after the concurrent fourth and fifth books in the series, ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (2005) and ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (2011).

==Plot==

The previous installment, ''A Dance with Dragons'' covers less story than Martin intended, omitting at least one planned large battle sequence and leaving several character threads ending in cliff-hangers.<ref name=ew_fantasy_king /> Martin intends to resolve these cliffhangers "very early" in ''The Winds of Winter'', saying, "I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at [[Meereen]]—the battle of [[Slaver's Bay]]. And then take it from there."<ref name=smartertravel />

Martin confirmed in March 2012 that the final two novels will take readers further north than any of the previous books: "What lies ''really'' north in my books—we haven't explored that yet, but we will in the last two books."<ref name=smartertravel /> He added, "you're definitely going to see more of the [[Others]]".<ref name=smartertravel /> Martin would not comment on [[Jon Snow]]'s cliffhanger fate after ''A Dance with Dragons''.<ref name=smartertravel />

On his website, in 2013, Martin published an [[Arianne Martell|Arianne]] chapter wherein she heads for [[Griffin's Roost]] to see the young boy who is calling himself Aegon.<ref name=arianne /> [[Victarion Greyjoy|Victarion]]'s chapter will take off "five minutes" after ''A Dance with Dragons'', taking place on the eve of the Iron Islanders' surprise attack on the cities in Slaver's Bay.<ref name=tiff3 /> [[Mago]], who was killed in the first season of ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' television series, will be a recurring character in the sixth book.<ref name=grmm_iv_ew /> A sample chapter on Martin's website is written from [[Theon Greyjoy]]'s viewpoint and shows his interactions with [[Stannis Baratheon]] as they are camped in the snow on his march to [[Winterfell]].<ref name="Theon Chapter" /><ref name=nydailynews_sample_chapter /> In March 2014, Martin published the chapter ''Mercy'' on his website, where Arya Stark continues her training with the Faceless Men.

In an interview from early April 2015 Martin declared his intent to complete ''The Winds of Winter'' before the sixth season of the TV series begins in 2016.<ref name=ew_april_2015>[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/03/george-rr-martin-winds-date ''George R.R. Martin determined to finish new 'Thrones' book by 2016'']; Entertainment Weekly, April 3rd 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-04.</ref>

==POV Characters==
George R. R. Martin confirmed the following characters to have [[POV character|POV chapters]] in ''The Winds of Winter'':

* [[Aeron Greyjoy]], one chapter, was removed from ''A Dance with Dragons'' in June 2010.<ref name=dancingincircles />
* [[Sansa Stark]], one chapter, was removed from ''A Dance with Dragons'' in June 2010.<ref name=dancingincircles /> This chapter was released as a preview chapter on Martin's website in March 2015.
* [[Arya Stark]], one chapter, was removed from ''A Dance with Dragons'' in June 2010.<ref name=dancingincircles /> This chapter was released as a preview chapter on Martin's website under the title ''Mercy''
* [[Arianne Martell]], two chapters, were removed from ''A Dance with Dragons'' in June 2010.<ref name=dancingincircles /> One of them was published in Martin's website in January 2013.
* [[Theon Greyjoy]], one chapter, appeared on Martin's website in December 2011
* [[Victarion Greyjoy]], one chapter, portions of one chapter were read at [[w:TIFF Bell Lightbox|TIFF Bell Lightbox]] in March 2012.<ref name=tiff3 />
* [[Barristan Selmy]], two chapters were read at Boskone in February 2013.<ref>[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/81338-twow-spoilers-barristan/ Westeros.org, ''TWoW Spoilers - Barristan''], thread from February 16th, 2013</ref> One of these was published as a sample chapter in the hardcover edition of A Dance with Dragons in 2013.
* [[Tyrion Lannister]], two chapters, one read at Miscon 2012 and one read at Worldcon 2013 and published on [[A World of Ice and Fire]] as of March 21st, 2014.

===Previews===
* [http://archive.is/eoIl Theon preview]
* [http://archive.is/2PS7R Arianne preview]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20140403003340/http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/ Mercy preview]
* [http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/ Alayne preview]

==Background and publication==

The sixth book is going to be called ''The Winds of Winter'',<ref name=dancingincircles /> taking the title of the originally last book of the trilogy<ref name=atlantic_sex_fantasy /> and the later planned fifth of six books.<ref name=grrm_iv_infinityplus /> By June 2010, Martin had finished four chapters for ''The Winds of Winter'', from the viewpoints of [[Sansa Stark]], [[Arya Stark]], and [[Arianne Martell]].<ref name=dancingincircles /> In July 2010, he added that an [[Aeron Greyjoy]] chapter had been moved from ''A Dance with Dragons'' to ''The Winds of Winter'', accumulating to around 100 completed pages.<ref name=grrm_blog_200721 /> After the publication of ''A Dance with Dragons'', Martin announced to return to writing in January 2012,<ref name=ew_fantasy_king /> spending the meantime on book tours, conventions, and continuing his work on the long-overdue ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' companion guide that he wanted to have finished by the end of 2011. He also worked on a new ''[[Dunk and Egg|Tales of Dunk and Egg]]'' novella that was expected to appear in an anthology called ''Dangerous Women''.<ref name=wsj_spill /><ref name=nymag_butterfly /> It announced in early 2013 that ''Dangerous Women'' would instead feature a novella about the [[Dance of the Dragons]] named "The Princess and the Queen", and that the fourth ''Dunk and Egg'' novella was postponed.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/Dangerous_Women_Delivered Westeros News, Jan 22nd, 2013]</ref>

In December 2011, Martin posted a chapter from ''The Winds of Winter'' from the viewpoint of [[Theon Greyjoy]] and added that another sample chapter would be included at the end of the US paperback version of ''A Dance with Dragons'', originally expected to be released in summer 2012<ref name="sample chapter" /><ref name=smartertravel /> (international ''A Dance with Dragons'' paper-pack releases in March 2012 had no sample chapter).<ref name=amazon_pubpp_adwd /> Martin also read a portion of a [[Victarion Greyjoy]] chapter at Toronto's [[TIFF Bell Lightbox]] in March 2012.<ref name=tiff3 />

With 200 finished pages by March 2012,<ref name=ctv_prep /> Martin hopes to finish ''The Winds of Winter'' much faster than the fifth book.<ref name=newyorker /> He has previously gotten in trouble from fans for repeatedly estimating his publication dates too optimistically and thus refrains from making absolute estimates for book six.<ref name=ew_fantasy_king /> A realistic estimation for finishing ''The Winds of Winter'' might be three years for him at a good pace,<ref name=guardian_barbarians /> but ultimately the book "will be done when it's done".<ref name=atlantic_sex_fantasy /> Martin does not intend to separate the characters geographically again but acknowledged that "Three years from [2011] when I'm sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows".<ref name=grmm_iv_ew />

==References==
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<ref name=dancingincircles>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=George R. R. |authorlink=George R. R. Martin |url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/159060.html |title=Dancing in Circles |publisher=grrm.livejournal.com |date=June 27, 2010 |accessdate=2012-02-04}}</ref>
<ref name=grrm_blog_200721>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=George R. R. |authorlink=George R. R. Martin |url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/169899.html |title=Dancing |publisher=grrm.livejournal.com |date=July 31, 2010 |accessdate=2012-02-04}}</ref>
<ref name="Theon Chapter">{{cite web |url=http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html |title=The Winds of Winter: Theon Chapter |work=georgerrmartin.com |accessdate=08 January 2012|archiveurl=http://archive.is/eoIl|archivedate=2012-06-29}}</ref>
<ref name=nydailynews_sample_chapter>{{cite web |last=Sacks |first=Ethan |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2011/12/george-rr-martin-surprises-song-of-ice-and-fire-fans-with-free-chapter-of-next-boo |title=George R.R. Martin surprises ''Song of Ice and Fire'' fans with free chapter of next book |publisher=nydailynews.com |date=December 30, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-21}}</ref>
<ref name="sample chapter">{{cite news|last=Kepler|first=Adam W.|title=‘Game of Thrones’ Treat|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/arts/television/game-of-thrones-treat.html?_r=1|accessdate=2 January 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 January 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=ctv_prep>{{cite web |last=Visser |first=Josh |url=http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20120312/george-martin-game-of-thrones-120313.html |title=''Game of Thrones'' author preparing for final books |publisher=[[CTV.ca]] |accessdate=2012-03-20 |date=March 13, 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=tiff3>{{cite video |people=Martin, George R. R. |year=2012 |title=In Conversation With... George R.R. Martin on Game of Thrones Part 3 – TIFF Bell Lightbox |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJblxV3QHQ |publisher=[[TIFF Bell Lightbox]] |time=30:50 min }}</ref>
<ref name=smartertravel>{{cite web |url=http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/today-in-travel/game-of-thrones-exclusive-george-martin-talks-season-the-winds-of-winter-and-real-world-influences-for-song-of-ice-and-fire.html?id=10593041 |title=George R.R. Martin Talks Season Two, 'The Winds of Winter,' and Real-World Influences for 'A Song of Ice and Fire' |work=SmarterTravel |date=March 26, 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=arianne>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=George R. R. |authorlink=George R. R. Martin |url=http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/ |title=Excerpt from the Winds of Winter |publisher=georgerrmartin.com |date=January 27, 2013 |accessdate=2013-06-21}}</ref>
<ref name=atlantic_sex_fantasy>{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Rachael |url=http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/george-r-r-martin-on-sex-fantasy-and-a-dance-with-dragons/241738/ |title=George R.R. Martin on Sex, Fantasy, and ''A Dance With Dragons'' |publisher=theatlantic.com |date=July 11, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-02}}</ref>
<ref name=grrm_iv_infinityplus>{{cite web |last=Gevers |first=Nick |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intgrrm.htm |title=Sunsets of High Renown – An Interview with George R. R. Martin |publisher=infinityplus.co.uk |month=December |year=2000 |accessdate=2012-01-21}} (Interview [http://georgerrmartin.com/links.html#interviews approved by GRRM].)</ref>
<ref name=ew_fantasy_king>{{cite web |last=Hibberd |first=James |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20470532_20511966,00.html |title=The Fantasy King |publisher=ew.com |date=July 22, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-21}}</ref>
<ref name=wsj_spill>{{cite web |last=Farley |first=Christopher John |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/07/08/game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-spills-the-secrets-of-a-dance-with-dragons/ |title=''Game of Thrones'' Author George R.R. Martin Spills the Secrets of ''A Dance with Dragons'' |publisher=wsj.com |date=July 8, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-15}}</ref>
<ref name=nymag_butterfly>{{cite web |last=Pasick |first=Adam |url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/george_rr_martin_on_his_favori.html |title=George R.R. Martin on His Favorite ''Game of Thrones'' Actors, and the Butterfly Effect of TV Adaptations |publisher=[[nymag.com]] |date=October 20, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-15}}</ref>
<ref name=amazon_pubpp_adwd>{{cite web |url=http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0553841122 |title=''A Dance with Dragons'': ''A Song of Ice and Fire'': Book Five |publisher=amazon.de |accessdate=2012-02-09}}</ref>
<ref name=newyorker>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Laura |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller |title=Just Write It! A fantasy author and his impatient fans. |publisher=newyorker.com |date=April 11, 2011 |accessdate=2010-04-23}}</ref>
<ref name=grmm_iv_ew>{{cite web |last=Hibberd |first=James |url=http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/07/12/george-martin-talks-a-dance-with-dragons/ |title=EW interview: George R.R. Martin talks ''A Dance With Dragons'' |publisher=ew.com |date=July 12, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-21}}</ref>
<ref name=guardian_barbarians>{{cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/13/george-rr-martin-game-thrones |title=George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate |publisher=guardian.co.uk |date=April 13, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-21}}</ref>

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[[File:King Robert's Hammer.jpg|thumb|350px|''[[King Robert's Hammer]]''. Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]

The '''royal fleet''' is the navy which serves the king on the [[Iron Throne]], the Lord of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. The fleet is based at [[King's Landing]] and [[Dragonstone]] in the [[crownlands]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Quarrelsome Daughters}} It is one of the three most powerful fleets of [[Westeros]], along with the [[Iron Fleet]] of the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[Redwyne fleet]] of the [[Arbor]].<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Lannister_Fleet The Lannister Fleet], September 26, 1999</ref>

According to a ''[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]]'', King's Landing usually has fifty ships and the island of Dragonstone has one hundred sixty ships, including eighty galleys.{{ref|rpg|guardiansorder}}

==History==
===Targaryen Era===
At the start of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[War of Conquest]], [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] secured the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]]. The newly-crowned king gave the title of [[master of ships]] to his loyal supporter, Lord [[Daemon Velaryon (master of ships)|Daemon Velaryon]], granting him command over the new royal fleet. Daemon and the Targaryen fleet were defeated by [[House Arryn]] at [[Battle of Gulltown|Gulltown]], however.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}} In {{date|2}} Aegon I was supported by a vast fleet when he subdued the [[Iron Islands]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Greyjoys of Pyke}}

Following the Targaryen conquest, [[House Velaryon]] often provided the bulk of the royal fleet and the House's lords almost always served as the masters of ships and lords admiral.{{ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys I}} During the reign of King [[Maegor I Targaryen]], another [[Daemon Velaryon (admiral of the king's fleet)|Daemon Velaryon]] turned against the king in support of [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys]] in {{date|48}}.{{ref|TWOIAF| Maegor I}}

Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]] sided with [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] against [[Aegon II Targaryen]] at the start of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], giving Rhaenyra naval control of [[Blackwater Bay]]. However, this control was eventually broken with the [[Battle in the Gullet]] in {{date|129}}.{{ref|TPATQ}}

During the [[conquest of Dorne]], Lord [[Alyn Velaryon]] led the royal fleet in breaking the [[Planky Town]] and sailing up the [[Greenblood]] in support of [[Daeron I Targaryen]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Daeron I}} In {{date|174}} King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] expanded the royal fleet in preparation for another invasion of [[Dorne]], but it scattered en route.{{ref|TWOIAF| Aegon IV}} King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] desired the largest fleet in the world in order to conquer [[Braavos]], but, like most of his schemes, nothing came of it.{{ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}

Royal fleets have sometimes been sent to subdue pirates from the [[Stepstones]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Quarrelsome Daughters}}

===Baratheon Era===
[[File:Fury.jpg|thumb|350px|''[[Fury]]''. Illustrated by Ignacio Bazán Lazcano. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Lords [[Jon Arryn]] and [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert Baratheon]] [[Battle of Gulltown (Robert's Rebellion)|captured Gulltown]] at the start of [[Robert's Rebellion]]. Robert then evaded the royal fleet of [[House Targaryen]] during his voyage to [[Storm's End]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Robert's Rebellion}} Although the Targaryen dynasty fell with the death of King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] during the [[Sack of King's Landing]], the pregnant Queen [[Rhaella Targaryen]] and Prince [[Viserys Targaryen]] were protected at [[Dragonstone]].{{ref|AGOT|3}}

Robert, the new king after the Sack, tasked his younger brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] with constructing a new fleet to challenge Dragonstone.{{ref|ACOK|Prologue}} While Rhaella was giving birth to [[Daenerys Targaryen]], a fierce storm destroyed the Targyaren fleet at anchor. Ser [[Willem Darry]] eventually fled with Viserys and the infant Daenerys into exile in the [[Free Cities]].{{ref|AGOT|3}} Stannis, commanding from ''[[Fury]]'', led Robert's newly-built fleet in the [[assault on Dragonstone]].{{ref|ACOK|58}}

During [[Greyjoy's Rebellion]], the royal fleet of [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]] was joined by the [[Redwyne fleet]] of the [[Arbor]] and other ships from the [[Reach]]. The [[Iron Fleet]] of [[House Greyjoy]] was then defeated by Stannis at [[Battle of Fair Isle|Fair Isle]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Old Way and the New}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]], the [[master of ships]] for King [[Robert I Baratheon]], sails to [[Dragonstone]] after Robert decides to offer the position of [[Hand of the King]] to Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{ref|AGOT|20}} Stannis is reported to be building new ships at Dragonstone.{{ref|AGOT|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Jedruszek battle of the b.jpg|thumb|350px|Ships burning during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The royal fleet is divided during the [[War of the Five Kings]], with many captains supporting Stannis at Dragonstone and others remaining loyal to his nephew, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]], at [[King's Landing]]. When Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]] sails from the capital aboard ''[[Seaswift]]'', her escort includes ''[[King Robert's Hammer]]'', ''[[Lionstar]]'', and ''[[Lady Lyanna]]''.{{ref|ACOK|41}}

Stannis gains the support of many [[stormlands|storm lords]] after the death of his younger brother, [[Renly Baratheon]], and the [[siege of Storm's End (299)|capture of Storm's End]].{{ref|ACOK|41}}{{ref|ACOK|42}}{{ref|ACOK|44}} The Baratheon fleet sails from Storm's End north around [[Massey's Hook]] to [[Blackwater Bay]].{{ref|ACOK|58}}

Lord Captain [[Imry Florent]] commands Stannis's fleet during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. The fleet—which also include the lords of the [[narrow sea]], [[Myr]]ish sellsails, and [[Salladhor Saan]]'s pirates—is divided into ten lines of twenty ships, and vary from war galleys to sailing ships, carracks, and cogs. In contrast, Joffrey's King's Landing fleet is only a quarter the size.{{ref|ACOK|58}}

At the start of the battle, the fleets of the rival kings meet in the [[Blackwater Rush]]. The defense of King's Landing, designed by [[Tyrion Lannister]], traps most of Stannis's fleet with a great chain blocking retreat to Blackwater Bay. [[Wildfire]] destroys most ships in the river, regardless of allegiance.{{ref|ACOK|58}}

Following the battle, naval officers in Joffrey's service who survived are honored by the Iron Throne.{{ref|ACOK|65}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Stannis at dragonstone.jpg|thumb|450px|[[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Melisandre]] at [[Dragonstone]]. Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek. ©]]
Traffic in the Blackwater Rush is greatly reduced by wreckage from the royal fleets.{{ref|ASOS|16}}

The once-great fleet of Stannis has been reduced to the [[Lys]]ene ships of [[Salladhor Saan]].{{ref|ASOS|25}} Most ships which survived the wildfire inferno either surrendered to Joffrey's forces or were scuttled by their captains after sailing upriver.{{ref|ASOS|10}} Stannis sails the remnants of his forces from Dragonstone to [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]], after which they ride to [[Battle of Castle Black|protect the Wall]] from [[Mance Rayder]] and his wildlings.{{ref|ASOS|73}}{{ref|ASOS|75}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek King's Landing Dromon.jpg|thumb|350px|King's Landing Dromond. Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
There are less than a dozen warships left in King's Landing. Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] approves the building of [[Cersei's dromonds|ten great dromonds]] under the command of Grand Admiral [[Aurane Waters]].{{ref|AFFC|17}} With the royal fleet greatly weakened, the [[Redwyne fleet]] is instead used during the [[siege of Dragonstone]].{{ref|AFFC|16}}

Lord Waters absconds from King's Landing with the new dromonds after the arrest of Cersei by the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Ser [[Harys Swyft]] worries that Aurane intends to join Stannis, while Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] believes the grand admiral is sailing for the [[Stepstones]].{{ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Stannis tasks [[Salladhor Saan]] with bringing [[Davos Seaworth]] from Eastwatch to [[White Harbor]]. When the twenty-nine ships are scattered by storms, however, Salladhor abandons Stannis, leaving the king without a fleet.{{ref|ADWD|9}}

''[[Lionstar]]'' transports [[Jared Frey|Jared]], [[Rhaegar Frey|Rhaegar]], and [[Symond Frey|Symond]] of [[House Frey]] to White Harbor as envoys of the new king in King's Landing, [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]].{{ref|ADWD|15}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
A pirate king calling himself the Lord of the Waters controls [[Torturer's Deep]] with three-decked warships.<ref>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne I]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
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== Reference to LORD OF THE RINGS? ==

Is the name of this dragon a hint to LOTR? In these books we have "Morgul-blades" and the town "Minas Morgul", assoziated with the Ringwraiths, the NAZGUL! --[[User:Exodianecross|Exodianecross]] ([[User talk:Exodianecross|talk]]) 10:49, 2 August 2015 (CDT)

===BlueTiger===
There's also ' Valar MORGHULIS'

IMO Morghul has valyrian word for death in his name, and this valyrian word is reference to Tower of Dark Magic from Arda...

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Minas_Morgul
Morgul is [[w:Sindarin]] word for Dark Sorcery and minas means tower

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== Reference to LORD OF THE RINGS? ==

Is the name of this dragon a hint to LOTR? In these books we have "Morgul-blades" and the town "Minas Morgul", assoziated with the Ringwraiths, the NAZGUL! --[[User:Exodianecross|Exodianecross]] ([[User talk:Exodianecross|talk]]) 10:49, 2 August 2015 (CDT)

==BlueTiger==
There's also ' Valar MORGHULIS'

IMO Morghul has valyrian word for death in his name, and this valyrian word is reference to Tower of Dark Magic from Arda...

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Minas_Morgul
Morgul is [[w:Sindarin]] word for Dark Sorcery and minas means tower

Talk:Morghul

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BT2000: /* Reference to LORD OF THE RINGS? */

== Reference to LORD OF THE RINGS? ==

Is the name of this dragon a hint to LOTR? In these books we have "Morgul-blades" and the town "Minas Morgul", assoziated with the Ringwraiths, the NAZGUL! --[[User:Exodianecross|Exodianecross]] ([[User talk:Exodianecross|talk]]) 10:49, 2 August 2015 (CDT)

==BlueTiger==
There's also ' Valar MORGHULIS'

IMO Morghul has valyrian word for death in his name, and this valyrian word is reference to Tower of Dark Magic from Arda...

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'''Edric Storm''' is the [[bastardy|bastard]] son of King [[Robert Baratheon]] and [[Delena Florent]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Edric Storm|Images of Edric Storm]]''
Edric is a sturdily attractive youth, with jet-black hair and deep blue eyes. He is said to be "the very image" of his father, although he also has the large ears common to [[House Florent]].{{ref|acok|10}}{{ref|asos|10}}{{ref|asos|54}} He is charming and courteous, but also fierce and proud.{{ref|asos|10}}{{ref|asos|54}} In his manner, [[Davos Seaworth]] compares him to both Robert and [[Renly Baratheon]].{{Ref|aSoS|36}}

==History==
Edric was conceived by Robert and Delena on the wedding night of [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Selyse Florent]] (Delena's cousin), in the couple's own wedding bed. Stannis saw this as an insult to his honor, so he sent Edric to [[Storm's End]] to foster with his other uncle, [[Renly Baratheon]].{{ref|agot|35}} As Delena was a noblewoman, Edric was acknowledged by his father.{{ref|agot|30}}{{ref|acok|10}} He was raised in relative comfort at [[Storm's End]] under the guardianship of [[Cortnay Penrose]], Renly's [[w:castellan|castellan]], who was very fond of him.{{ref|acok|45}}

Edric was sent a gift from his father every year on his [[name day]]. These included a pony, a sable cloak, and a child-sized warhammer similar to his father's own weapon. Edric would write to [[King's Landing]] to thank his father for the gifts, but upon receiving the letters Robert would laugh and ask [[Varys]] what he had sent that year.{{Ref|aSoS|36}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
After having discovered [[Gendry]], Lord [[Eddard Stark]] thinks about all of [[Robert Baratheon]]'s bastards that he knows about, Edric included.{{Ref|aGoT|30}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
When Stannis [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|besieges]] Storm's End, Cortnay Penrose resists in fear of what Stannis would do to Edric. Ultimately Stannis takes the castle and ships Edric to Dragonstone, where he spends time with Stannis's daughter [[Shireen Baratheon|Shireen]].{{ref|asos|10}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Melisandre]] pressures Stannis to sacrifice Edric, as she believes that his royal blood would wake dragons from stone to help Stannis. Conversely, [[Davos Seaworth]] pressures Stannis to spare him.{{ref|asos|54}} Edric's blood in three leeches is used in a ritual to curse the three rival Kings, [[Joffrey Baratheon]], [[Balon Greyjoy]], and [[Robb Stark]]. Concerned that Stannis was coming to favor Melisandre's position after Balon and Robb's deaths and would burn Edric on hearing of [[Joffrey's death|Purple Wedding]], Davos, with the help of [[Pylos]] and a small group of [[king's men]], has Edric secretly shipped away to the [[Free Cities]] aboard the ''[[Mad Prendos]]''.{{ref|asos|63}} Davos appoints [[Andrew Estermont]], Edric's cousin, to act as his guardian. [[Gerald Gower]], [[Triston of Tally Hill]], [[Lewys|Lewys the Fishwife]], and [[Omer Blackberry]] also accompany Edric, to be his guards and protectors.{{ref|adwd|Appendix}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Edric is sailing across the [[narrow sea]] to [[Essos]], on the ''[[Mad Prendos]]'' with his [[Andrew Estermont|guardian]] and protectors.{{ref|aFfC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Edric is in hiding in [[Lys]] with his guardian and protectors.{{ref|aDwD|Appendix}}

==Quotes by Edric==
{{Quote|I won’t go pray to the [[R'hllor|Lord of Light]]. I am a [[Warrior (the Seven)|Warrior]]’s man, like my father.{{Ref|aSoS|63}}}}

==Quotes about Edric==
{{Quote|Did the boy charm you? He has that gift. He got it from his father, with the blood. He knows he is a king’s son, but chooses to forget that he is bastard-born.{{Ref|aSoS|36}}}} – [[Stannis Baratheon]], to [[Davos Seaworth]]

{{Quote|[[R'hllor|The Lord of Light]] cherishes the innocent. There is no sacrifice more precious. From his king’s blood and his untainted fire, a dragon shall be born.{{ref|aSoS|54}}}} – [[Melisandre]], to [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|
'''Davos:''' His name is Edric Storm, sire. 
'''Stannis:''' I know his name. Was there ever a name so apt? It proclaims his [[bastardy]], his high birth, and the turmoil he brings with him. Edric Storm. There, I have said it. Are you satisfied, my [[Hand of the King|lord Hand]]?{{Ref|aSoS|54}}}} – [[Davos Seaworth]] and [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|If Stannis is [[Azor Ahai]] come again, does that mean Edric Storm must play the part of [[Nissa Nissa]]?{{Ref|aSoS|54}}}} – [[Davos Seaworth]]'s thoughts

==Family==
===Paternal (Baratheon) tree===
{{Baratheon tree}}

===Maternal (Florent) tree===
{{Florent tree}}

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:House Baratheon]]
[[Category:House Florent]]
[[Category:Bastards|Storm, Edric]]
[[Category:Characters from the Stormlands|Storm, Edric]]
[[Category:Nobles|Storm, Edric]]

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[[es:Edric Tormenta]]

Crownlands

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[[File:Crownlands.png|350px|thumb|The crownlands with the major strongholds]]

The '''crownlands'''{{ref|ADWD|42}}{{ref|TWOIAF}} are one of the nine constituent regions of the continent of [[Westeros]]. It was never a sovereign nation, instead being contested by [[river king]]s, [[Storm King]]s, and local petty kings until [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] seized control of the area during his [[War of Conquest]] and made it his primary foothold on the continent. Since then, the crownlands have been ruled directly by the crown on the [[Iron Throne]], first [[House Targaryen]] and, after [[Robert's Rebellion]], [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|House Baratheon]]. [[Bastardy|Bastards]] of noble origin raised in the crownlands are given the surname Waters.

==Geography==
[[File:King's Landing by Kim Pope.jpg|thumb|500px|The environs of [[King's Landing]]. Concept art by Kim Pope for the ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
The crownlands are based around [[Blackwater Bay]], with the capital of [[King's Landing]] built where the [[Blackwater Rush]] meets the bay. King's Landing, the largest city in Westeros, contains the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and the [[Red Keep]], the home of [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]. Settlements north of King's Landing include [[Antlers]] (seat of [[House Buckwell]]), [[Rosby]] (seat of [[House Rosby]]), [[Stokeworth]] (seat of [[House Stokeworth]]), and [[Duskendale]] (seat of [[House Rykker]]), the region's secondary port. Farther north are [[Rook's Rest]] (seat of [[House Staunton]]) and [[Crackclaw Point]], a rugged peninsula of insular folk whose castles include the [[Dyre Den]] (seat of [[House Brune of the Dyre Den|House Brune]]), [[Brownhollow]] (another seat of [[House Brune of Brownhollow|House Brune]]), and the [[Whispers]] (formerly of [[House Crabb]]). North of Crackclaw Point are the [[Bay of Crabs]] and the [[Vale of Arryn]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The crownlands are bordered to the northwest and west by the [[riverlands]]. A stream forms part of the boundary between the two regions, with the hills of [[House Wode]] in the riverlands and the lands of [[House Hogg]] in the crownlands.{{ref|AFFC|27}} [[Gods Eye river|An unnamed river]] flows south from [[Gods Eye]] into the Blackwater Rush in the western crownlands. Southwest of King's Landing are hills around [[Tumbleton]] in [[the Reach]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

South of King's Landing is the [[kingswood]], the royal hunting forest, and the [[stormlands]]. The [[Wendwater]] flows through the kingswood into the bay. East of the kingswood is [[Massey's Hook]], another peninsula that with Crackclaw Point forms the inlet of Blackwater Bay. Castles on Massey's Hook include [[Stonedance]] (seat of [[House Massey]]) and [[Sharp Point]] (seat of [[House Bar Emmon]]).{{ref|TLOIAF}}

Islands within Blackwater Bay include [[Dragonstone]] (another seat of [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|House Baratheon]]), [[Driftmark]] (seat of [[House Velaryon]]), and [[Claw Isle]] (seat of [[House Celtigar]]). Also sworn to the Baratheons of Dragonstone is [[Sweetport Sound]] (seat of [[House Sunglass]]). Massey's Hook is separated from Driftmark by the [[Gullet]]. East of Blackwater Bay is the [[narrow sea]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The [[kingsroad]] connects King's Landing with [[Storm's End]] to the south and the [[crossroads]] to the north, while the capital is connected to [[Lannisport]] by the [[goldroad]] and to [[Highgarden]] by the [[roseroad]].{{ref|TLOIAF}} With the exception of Crackclaw Point, the land is largely flat. Lying in the middle portion of Westeros, the crownlands possess a temperate climate.

==People and Economy==
The metropolis of [[King's Landing]] is the driving force of the region, with the largest population and harbor in the realm. Trade and taxes flow into the capital from every corner of the realm acknowledging the [[Iron Throne]], and many foreign vessels ply their wares as well. Virtually every craft and trade are practiced here, from metalsmithing and shipbuilding to [[Alchemists' Guild|alchemy]]. Elsewhere, fishing and farming are the norm, with a smattering of the common professions.

Along the [[kingsroad]] north of the capital, a traveler goes "past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts."{{ref|ACOK|5}}

According to a semi-canon source from 2005,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the mainland lords of the crownlands can raise ten to fifteen thousand troops, while the [[gold cloaks]] of King's Landing usually number two thousand. The city also has a fleet of fifty ships. [[Dragonstone]] can raise three thousand men-at-arms and four hundred knights. The island's fleet consists of one hundred sixty ships, including eighty galleys.

==History==
===Hundred Kingdoms===
[[File:A clash of kings by grr martin by marcsimonetti-d84tkck.jpg|thumb|400px|[[Dragonstone]] © Marc Simonetti]]
In the [[Age of Heroes]], the petty kings of [[House Darklyn]] ruled much of the future crownlands, from [[Duskendale]] to [[Crackclaw Point]]. Although neighboring realms forced them to swear fealty and their lands changed hands many times over the years, the Darklyns remained one of the more influential houses of the region. In the days of the [[Hundred Kingdoms]], the mouth of the Blackwater was claimed by the Darklyns, the [[House Massey|Masseys]] of [[Stonedance]], and the [[river kings]] of Houses [[House Mudd|Mudd]], [[House Fisher|Fisher]], [[House Bracken|Bracken]], [[House Blackwood|Blackwood]], and [[House Hook|Hook]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}

Two centuries before the [[Doom of Valyria]], [[Valyria]]ns settled [[Dragonstone]] as the westernmost outpost of the [[Valyrian Freehold]], becoming another power in the region.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Doom of Valyria}} In time, the middle of the [[narrow sea]] came to be controlled by the [[dragon]]s of [[House Targaryen]] of Dragonstone, as well as the ships of [[House Velaryon]] of [[Driftmark]] and [[House Celtigar]] of [[Claw Isle]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The COnquest}}

===The Conquest===
It was at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]], the later site of [[King's Landing]], where [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], landed with their initial army. At that time the petty lords of the region had been subjugated by [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]]. [[Rosby]] and [[Stokeworth]] surrendered to Visenya and Rhaenys without fighting, while Aegon and his half-brother [[Orys Baratheon]] defeated the Darklyns and [[House Mooton|Mootons]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}} [[Massey's Hook]] and the southern shore of the Blackwater Rush were controlled by the [[Storm Kings]] of [[House Durrandon]], but the [[House Bar Emmon|Bar Emmons]] and Masseys allied with Aegon the Conqueror against King [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}

===Targaryen Era===
Since the Conquest, the crownlands houses have historically been a strong source of support for House Targaryen, with Crackclaw Point being particularly fierce supporters. The Conqueror's [[small council|councillors]] included several crownlands men, including [[Crispian Celtigar]], [[Daemon Velaryon]], and [[Tristan Massey]]. Nobles from the region such as [[Qarlton Chelsted]], a [[House Hayford|Hayford]] lord, and several Targaryens have served as [[Hand of the King]], and even smallfolk of the region are near enough to catch the royal eye for such service, such as [[Rossart]] and presumably Septons [[Barth]] and [[Murmison]]. Nobles and smallfolk alike also provide much of the manpower for the [[City Watch of King's Landing]]. The [[Kingsguard]] has also included many men of the crownlands, such as [[Dunk|Duncan the Tall]], [[Donnel of Duskendale]], the [[House Cargyll|Cargyll]] twins, Ser [[Rickard Thorne]], at least six men of Crackclaw Point, and seven Darklyn [[knight]]s.

At the start of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the [[House Velaryon|Velaryons]], supporters of Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] and the [[blacks]], used their fleet to seal the [[Gullet]] and blockade King's Landing. King [[Aegon II Targaryen]]'s supporters, the [[greens]], retaliated by sacking [[Sack of Duskendale|Duskendale]] and [[Battle of Rook's Rest|Rook's Rest]]. The greens later broke the blockade with the [[Battle in the Gullet]] and sacked [[Driftmark]]. Rhaenyra was eventually fed to Aegon II's dragon, [[Sunfyre]], at Dragonstone.{{ref|TPATQ}} At the end of the war, the [[Lads]] defeated Lord [[Borros Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of the Kingsroad]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Aegon II}}

The [[Defiance of Duskendale]], a rising by the Darklyns during the reign of King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], was a sign that even the normally loyal crownlands were losing respect for the dragonlords. Later, the outlaws of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]] robbed nobles in the forest before being suppressed by the Kingsguard.

===Robert's Rebellion===
King's Landing was sacked by the forces of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]], also known as the War of the Usurper. After overthrowing Targaryen rule, the new king, [[Robert I Baratheon]], kept a crownlands presence among the White Cloaks by naming Ser [[Boros Blount]] to the order. Lingering Targaryen sympathies, meanwhile, were the reason that Robert named his brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], the new [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|Lord of Dragonstone]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
The crownlands are sworn to King [[Robert I Baratheon]], and the lords of the region are often seen at court. There is lingering anti-[[House Lannister|Lannister]] sentiment from the [[Sack of King's Landing]], with Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth]] being among those listed by [[Petyr Baelish]] as possible supporters in a hypothetical coup after Robert's death.{{ref|AGOT|47}} Robert is succeeded by his supposed son, [[Joffrey I Baratheon|Joffrey I]].{{ref|AGOT|57}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
:{{main|War of the Five Kings}}
On the outbreak of [[War of the Five Kings|war]], the lords of the [[narrow sea]] gather their fleets to support Robert's brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], while the mainland lords support Joffrey, who is backed by the Lannisters. The food supplies of [[Stokeworth]] and [[Rosby]] help prevent King's Landing from starving during the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] embargo.{{ref|ACOK|17}} The split of the crownlands effectively ends after the Lannister-[[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] victory for Joffrey in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Lord [[Roose Bolton]] sends a [[north]]ern army led by [[Robett Glover]] and Ser [[Helman Tallhart]] to attack [[Duskendale]], where they are [[Battle of Duskendale|crushed]] by Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]. Joffrey dies at [[Purple Wedding|his own wedding]] and is succeeded by his younger brother, [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Regent|Queen Regent]] [[Cersei Lannister]] appoints [[Gyles Rosby]] and [[Aurane Waters]], two natives of the crownlands, to her small council, although Gyles dies of natural causes and Aurane flees the city after the queen's arrest. [[Dragonstone]], Stannis's last remaining base in the crownlands, is said to have been [[Siege of Dragonstone|captured]] by Ser [[Loras Tyrell]].{{ref|AFFC|36}}

==Houses==
{{Columns|3|
[[File:BarEmmon.png|30px]] '''[[House Bar Emmon]]''' of [[Sharp Point]]. 
[[File:Stannis sigil coat.png|30px]] '''[[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|House Baratheon]]''' of [[Dragonstone]]. 
[[File:Joffrey sigil coat.png|30px]] '''[[House Baratheon of King's Landing|House Baratheon]]''' of [[King's Landing]]. 
[[File:House Blackfyre crest.png|30px]] '''[[House Blackfyre]]'''. 
[[File:House Blount.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Blount]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Boggs]]'''. 
[[File:House Brune.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Brune of Brownhollow|House Brune]]''' of [[Brownhollow]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Brune of the Dyre Den|House Brune]]''' of the [[Dyre Den]]. 
[[File:House Buckwell.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Buckwell]]''' of the [[Antlers]]. 
[[File:House Byrch.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Byrch]]'''. 
[[File:Bywater.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Bywater]]'''. 
[[File:House Cargyll.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Cargyll]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Cave]]'''. 
[[File:Celtigar.png|30px]] '''[[House Celtigar]]''' of [[Claw Isle]]. 
[[File:House Chelsted.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Chelsted]]'''. 
[[File:House Chyttering.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Chyttering]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Crabb]]''' of the [[Whispers]]. 
[[File:House Cressy.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Cressey]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Dargood]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Darke]]'''. 
[[File:House Darklyn.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Darklyn]]''' of [[Duskendale]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Darkwood]]'''. 
[[File:Edgerton.png|30px]] '''[[House Edgerton]]'''. 
[[File:House Farring.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Farring]]'''. 
[[File:Follard.png|30px]] '''[[House Follard]]'''. 
[[File:House Gaunt.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Gaunt]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Hardy]]'''. 
[[File:House Harte.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Harte]]'''. 
[[File:Hayford.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hayford]]''' of [[Hayford]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Hogg]]''' of [[Sow's Horn]]. 
[[File:House Hollard.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hollard]]'''. 
[[File:Kettleblack.png|30px]] '''[[House Kettleblack]]'''. 
[[File:Langward.png|30px]] '''[[House Langward]]'''. 
[[File:House Mallery.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Mallery]]'''. 
[[File:House Manning.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Manning]]'''. 
[[File:House Massey.png|30px]] '''[[House Massey]]''' of [[Stonedance]]. 
[[File:House Pyle.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Pyle]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Pyne]]'''. 
[[File:House Rambton.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rambton]]'''. 
[[File:House Rollingford.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rollingford]]'''. 
[[File:House Rosby.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rosby]]''' of [[Rosby]]. 
[[File:House Rykker.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rykker]]''' of [[Duskendale]]. 
[[File:House Slynt.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Slynt]]'''. 
[[File:House Staunton.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Staunton]]''' of [[Rook's Rest]]. 
[[File:Stokeworth.png|30px]] '''[[House Stokeworth]]''' of [[Stokeworth]]. 
[[File:Sunglass.png|30px]] '''[[House Sunglass]]''' of [[Sweetport Sound]]. 
[[File:House Targaryen crest.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Targaryen]]''' of [[King's Landing]]. 
[[File:Thorne.png|30px]] '''[[House Thorne]]'''. 
[[File:House Velaryon.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Velaryon]]''' of [[Driftmark]]. 
[[File:House Wendwater.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Wendwater]]'''. 
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==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}

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[[Category:Crownlands]]
[[Category:Places in Westeros]]

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Crownlands

2015-07-24T10:22:00Z

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[[File:Crownlands.png|350px|thumb|The crownlands with the major strongholds]]

The '''crownlands'''{{ref|ADWD|42}}{{ref|TWOIAF}} are one of the nine constituent regions of the continent of [[Westeros]]. It was never a sovereign nation, instead being contested by [[river king]]s, [[Storm King]]s, and local petty kings until [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] seized control of the area during his [[War of Conquest]] and made it his primary foothold on the continent. Since then, the crownlands have been ruled directly by the crown on the [[Iron Throne]], first [[House Targaryen]] and, after [[Robert's Rebellion]], [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|House Baratheon]]. [[Bastardy|Bastards]] of noble origin raised in the crownlands are given the surname Waters.

==Geography==
[[File:King's Landing by Kim Pope.jpg|thumb|500px|The environs of [[King's Landing]]. Concept art by Kim Pope for the ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
The crownlands are based around [[Blackwater Bay]], with the capital of [[King's Landing]] built where the [[Blackwater Rush]] meets the bay. King's Landing, the largest city in Westeros, contains the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and the [[Red Keep]], the home of [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]. Settlements north of King's Landing include [[Antlers]] (seat of [[House Buckwell]]), [[Rosby]] (seat of [[House Rosby]]), [[Stokeworth]] (seat of [[House Stokeworth]]), and [[Duskendale]] (seat of [[House Rykker]]), the region's secondary port. Farther north are [[Rook's Rest]] (seat of [[House Staunton]]) and [[Crackclaw Point]], a rugged peninsula of insular folk whose castles include the [[Dyre Den]] (seat of [[House Brune of the Dyre Den|House Brune]]), [[Brownhollow]] (another seat of [[House Brune of Brownhollow|House Brune]]), and the [[Whispers]] (formerly of [[House Crabb]]). North of Crackclaw Point are the [[Bay of Crabs]] and the [[Vale of Arryn]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The crownlands are bordered to the northwest and west by the [[riverlands]]. A stream forms part of the boundary between the two regions, with the hills of [[House Wode]] in the riverlands and the lands of [[House Hogg]] in the crownlands.{{ref|AFFC|27}} [[Gods Eye river|An unnamed river]] flows south from [[Gods Eye]] into the Blackwater Rush in the western crownlands. Southwest of King's Landing are hills around [[Tumbleton]] in [[the Reach]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

South of King's Landing is the [[kingswood]], the royal hunting forest, and the [[stormlands]]. The [[Wendwater]] flows through the kingswood into the bay. East of the kingswood is [[Massey's Hook]], another peninsula that with Crackclaw Point forms the inlet of Blackwater Bay. Castles on Massey's Hook include [[Stonedance]] (seat of [[House Massey]]) and [[Sharp Point]] (seat of [[House Bar Emmon]]).{{ref|TLOIAF}}

Islands within Blackwater Bay include [[Dragonstone]] (another seat of [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|House Baratheon]]), [[Driftmark]] (seat of [[House Velaryon]]), and [[Claw Isle]] (seat of [[House Celtigar]]). Also sworn to the Baratheons of Dragonstone is [[Sweetport Sound]] (seat of [[House Sunglass]]). Massey's Hook is separated from Driftmark by the [[Gullet]]. East of Blackwater Bay is the [[narrow sea]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The [[kingsroad]] connects King's Landing with [[Storm's End]] to the south and the [[crossroads]] to the north, while the capital is connected to [[Lannisport]] by the [[goldroad]] and to [[Highgarden]] by the [[roseroad]].{{ref|TLOIAF}} With the exception of Crackclaw Point, the land is largely flat. Lying in the middle portion of Westeros, the crownlands possess a temperate climate.

==People and Economy==
The metropolis of [[King's Landing]] is the driving force of the region, with the largest population and harbor in the realm. Trade and taxes flow into the capital from every corner of the realm acknowledging the [[Iron Throne]], and many foreign vessels ply their wares as well. Virtually every craft and trade are practiced here, from metalsmithing and shipbuilding to [[Alchemists' Guild|alchemy]]. Elsewhere, fishing and farming are the norm, with a smattering of the common professions.

Along the [[kingsroad]] north of the capital, a traveler goes "past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts."{{ref|ACOK|5}}

According to a semi-canon source from 2005,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the mainland lords of the crownlands can raise ten to fifteen thousand troops, while the [[gold cloaks]] of King's Landing usually number two thousand. The city also has a fleet of fifty ships. [[Dragonstone]] can raise three thousand men-at-arms and four hundred knights. The island's fleet consists of one hundred sixty ships, including eighty galleys.

==History==
===Hundred Kingdoms===
[[File:A clash of kings by grr martin by marcsimonetti-d84tkck.jpg|thumb|400px|[[Dragonstone]] © Marc Simonetti]]
In the [[Age of Heroes]], the petty kings of [[House Darklyn]] ruled much of the future crownlands, from [[Duskendale]] to [[Crackclaw Point]]. Although neighboring realms forced them to swear fealty and their lands changed hands many times over the years, the Darklyns remained one of the more influential houses of the region. In the days of the [[Hundred Kingdoms]], the mouth of the Blackwater was claimed by the Darklyns, the [[House Massey|Masseys]] of [[Stonedance]], and the [[river kings]] of Houses [[House Mudd|Mudd]], [[House Fisher|Fisher]], [[House Bracken|Bracken]], [[House Blackwood|Blackwood]], and [[House Hook|Hook]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}

Two centuries before the [[Doom of Valyria]], [[Valyria]]ns settled [[Dragonstone]] as the westernmost outpost of the [[Valyrian Freehold]], becoming another power in the region.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Doom of Valyria}} In time, the middle of the [[narrow sea]] came to be controlled by the [[dragon]]s of [[House Targaryen]] of Dragonstone, as well as the ships of [[House Velaryon]] of [[Driftmark]] and [[House Celtigar]] of [[Claw Isle]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The COnquest}}

===The Conquest===
It was at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]], the later site of [[King's Landing]], where [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], landed with their initial army. At that time the petty lords of the region had been subjugated by [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]]. [[Rosby]] and [[Stokeworth]] surrendered to Visenya and Rhaenys without fighting, while Aegon and his half-brother [[Orys Baratheon]] defeated the Darklyns and [[House Mooton|Mootons]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}} [[Massey's Hook]] and the southern shore of the Blackwater Rush were controlled by the [[Storm Kings]] of [[House Durrandon]], but the [[House Bar Emmon|Bar Emmons]] and Masseys allied with Aegon the Conqueror against King [[Argilac Durrandon|Argilac the Arrogant]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}}

===Targaryen Era===
Since the Conquest, the crownlands houses have historically been a strong source of support for House Targaryen, with Crackclaw Point being particularly fierce supporters. The Conqueror's [[small council|councillors]] included several crownlands men, including [[Crispian Celtigar]], [[Daemon Velaryon]], and [[Tristan Massey]]. Nobles from the region such as [[Qarlton Chelsted]], a [[House Hayford|Hayford]] lord, and several Targaryens have served as [[Hand of the King]], and even smallfolk of the region are near enough to catch the royal eye for such service, such as [[Rossart]] and presumably Septons [[Barth]] and [[Murmison]]. Nobles and smallfolk alike also provide much of the manpower for the [[City Watch of King's Landing]]. The [[Kingsguard]] has also included many men of the crownlands, such as [[Dunk|Duncan the Tall]], [[Donnel of Duskendale]], the [[House Cargyll|Cargyll]] twins, Ser [[Rickard Thorne]], at least six men of Crackclaw Point, and seven Darklyn [[knight]]s.

At the start of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the [[House Velaryon|Velaryons]], supporters of Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] and the [[blacks]], used their fleet to seal the [[Gullet]] and blockade King's Landing. King [[Aegon II Targaryen]]'s supporters, the [[greens]], retaliated by sacking [[Sack of Duskendale|Duskendale]] and [[Battle of Rook's Rest|Rook's Rest]]. The greens later broke the blockade with the [[Battle in the Gullet]] and sacked [[Driftmark]]. Rhaenyra was eventually fed to Aegon II's dragon, [[Sunfyre]], at Dragonstone.{{ref|TPATQ}} At the end of the war, the [[Lads]] defeated Lord [[Borros Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of the Kingsroad]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Aegon II}}

The [[Defiance of Duskendale]], a rising by the Darklyns during the reign of King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], was a sign that even the normally loyal crownlands were losing respect for the dragonlords. Later, the outlaws of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]] robbed nobles in the forest before being suppressed by the Kingsguard.

===Robert's Rebellion===
King's Landing was sacked by the forces of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]], also known as the War of the Usurper. After overthrowing Targaryen rule, the new king, [[Robert I Baratheon]], kept a crownlands presence among the White Cloaks by naming Ser [[Boros Blount]] to the order. Lingering Targaryen sympathies, meanwhile, were the reason that Robert named his brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], the new [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|Lord of Dragonstone]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
The crownlands are sworn to King [[Robert I Baratheon]], and the lords of the region are often seen at court. There is lingering anti-[[House Lannister|Lannister]] sentiment from the [[Sack of King's Landing]], with Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth]] being among those listed by [[Petyr Baelish]] as possible supporters in a hypothetical coup after Robert's death.{{ref|AGOT|47}} Robert is succeeded by his supposed son, [[Joffrey I Baratheon|Joffrey I]].{{ref|AGOT|57}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
:{{main|War of the Five Kings}}
On the outbreak of [[War of the Five Kings|war]], the lords of the [[narrow sea]] gather their fleets to support Robert's brother, [[Stannis Baratheon]], while the mainland lords support Joffrey, who is backed by the Lannisters. The food supplies of [[Stokeworth]] and [[Rosby]] help prevent King's Landing from starving during the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] embargo.{{ref|ACOK|17}} The split of the crownlands effectively ends after the Lannister-[[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] victory for Joffrey in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Lord [[Roose Bolton]] sends a [[north]]ern army led by [[Robett Glover]] and Ser [[Helman Tallhart]] to attack [[Duskendale]], where they are [[Battle of Duskendale|crushed]] by Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]. Joffrey dies at [[Purple Wedding|his own wedding]] and is succeeded by his younger brother, [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Regent|Queen Regent]] [[Cersei Lannister]] appoints [[Gyles Rosby]] and [[Aurane Waters]], two natives of the crownlands, to her small council, although Gyles dies of natural causes and Aurane flees the city after the queen's arrest. [[Dragonstone]], Stannis's last remaining base in the crownlands, is said to have been [[Siege of Dragonstone|captured]] by Ser [[Loras Tyrell]].{{ref|AFFC|36}}

==Houses==
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[[File:BarEmmon.png|30px]] '''[[House Bar Emmon]]''' of [[Sharp Point]]. 
[[File:Stannis sigil coat.png|30px]] '''[[House Baratheon of Dragonstone|House Baratheon]]''' of [[Dragonstone]]. 
[[File:Joffrey sigil coat.png|30px]] '''[[House Baratheon of King's Landing|House Baratheon]]''' of [[King's Landing]]. 
[[File:House Blackfyre crest.png|30px]] '''[[House Blackfyre]]'''. 
[[File:House Blount.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Blount]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Boggs]]'''. 
[[File:House Brune.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Brune of Brownhollow|House Brune]]''' of [[Brownhollow]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Brune of the Dyre Den|House Brune]]''' of the [[Dyre Den]]. 
[[File:House Buckwell.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Buckwell]]''' of the [[Antlers]]. 
[[File:House Byrch.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Byrch]]'''. 
[[File:Bywater.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Bywater]]'''. 
[[File:House Cargyll.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Cargyll]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Cave]]'''. 
[[File:Celtigar.png|30px]] '''[[House Celtigar]]''' of [[Claw Isle]]. 
[[File:House Chelsted.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Chelsted]]'''. 
[[File:House Chyttering.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Chyttering]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Crabb]]''' of the [[Whispers]]. 
[[File:House Cressy.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Cressey]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Dargood]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Darke]]'''. 
[[File:House Darklyn.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Darklyn]]''' of [[Duskendale]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Darkwood]]'''. 
[[File:Edgerton.png|30px]] '''[[House Edgerton]]'''. 
[[File:House Farring.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Farring]]'''. 
[[File:Follard.png|30px]] '''[[House Follard]]'''. 
[[File:House Gaunt.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Gaunt]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Hardy]]'''. 
[[File:House Harte.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Harte]]'''. 
[[File:Hayford.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hayford]]''' of [[Hayford]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Hogg]]''' of [[Sow's Horn]]. 
[[File:House Hollard.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hollard]]'''. 
[[File:Kettleblack.png|30px]] '''[[House Kettleblack]]'''. 
[[File:Langward.png|30px]] '''[[House Langward]]'''. 
[[File:House Mallery.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Mallery]]'''. 
[[File:House Manning.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Manning]]'''. 
[[File:House Massey.png|30px]] '''[[House Massey]]''' of [[Stonedance]]. 
[[File:House Pyle.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Pyle]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Pyne]]'''. 
[[File:House Rambton.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rambton]]'''. 
[[File:House Rollingford.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rollingford]]'''. 
[[File:House Rosby.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rosby]]''' of [[Rosby]]. 
[[File:House Rykker.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Rykker]]''' of [[Duskendale]]. 
[[File:House Slynt.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Slynt]]'''. 
[[File:House Staunton.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Staunton]]''' of [[Rook's Rest]]. 
[[File:Stokeworth.png|30px]] '''[[House Stokeworth]]''' of [[Stokeworth]]. 
[[File:Sunglass.png|30px]] '''[[House Sunglass]]''' of [[Sweetport Sound]]. 
[[File:House Targaryen crest.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Targaryen]]''' of [[King's Landing]]. 
[[File:Thorne.png|30px]] '''[[House Thorne]]'''. 
[[File:House Velaryon.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Velaryon]]''' of [[Driftmark]]. 
[[File:House Wendwater.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Wendwater]]'''. 
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==References and Notes==
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{{Regions}}
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{{Template:Region Crownlands|state=uncollapsed}}

[[Category:Crownlands]]
[[Category:Places in Westeros]]

[[es:Tierras de la Corona]]
[[fa:سرزمین های سلطنتی]]
[[fr:terres de la Couronne]]
[[ru:Королевские Земли]]
[[zh:王领]]

Westerlands

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[[File:Sarah Morris The Westerlands.png|The westerlands. © FFG|thumb|350px|right]]
[[File:The Westerlands.png|350px|thumb|The westerlands with the major strongholds]]

The '''westerlands'''{{ref|AFFC|Prologue}} is a region in the west of the continent of [[Westeros]]. It is ruled from [[Casterly Rock]] by [[House Lannister]]. Before the [[War of Conquest|Targaryen conquest]], it was known as the [[Kingdom of the Rock]]. People from the westerlands are known as westermen.{{ref|ACOK|26}}{{ref|TPATQ}} The customary surname of noble [[bastardy|bastards]] born in the westerlands is Hill.

==Geography==
The westerlands lies along the coast of the [[Sunset Sea]], with [[Ironman's Bay]] and the [[Iron Islands]] to the north.<ref>''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Map of the South|Map of the South]]</ref> Settlements on the western coast include [[Banefort]], [[the Crag]], [[Faircastle]] on [[Fair Isle]], [[Kayce]], [[Feastfires]], [[Casterly Rock]] with [[Lannisport]], and [[Crakehall]]. Hills and mountain ranges are spread throughout the westerlands, with inland castles near the Rock including [[Ashemark]] and [[Sarsfield]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The headwaters of the [[Tumblestone]] and the [[Red Fork]] flow east into the [[riverlands]]. The main pass through the eastern mountains is guarded by the [[Golden Tooth]], a castle which controls access to the [[river road]] leading to [[Riverrun]]. Further south is the [[Goldroad]], which runs east to [[King's Landing]]. [[Deep Den]] watches the Goldroad, with [[Hornvale]] to the north and [[Silverhill]] to the south.{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The southern westerlands, which borders [[the Reach]], contains more flatland than the rest of the country and includes [[Cornfield]] and the forest by Crakehall. The [[Ocean Road]] leads south from the Rock past Crakehall to [[Old Oak]] and [[Highgarden]] in the Reach.{{ref|TLOIAF}}

Because of the numerous hills and mountains, the westerlands' eastward border with the riverlands is easily defensible. However, the westerlands is potentially vulnerable to attack from the Sunset Sea or the south as the coast is quite flat and can be more easily invaded.

==Notable locations==
* [[Lannisport]], a port city which is one of the major ports of the Seven Kingdoms and is the largest city in the westerlands, ruled by [[House Lannister]].
* [[Casterly Rock]], the seat of [[House Lannister]], a fortress carved out of a massive hill of solid rock.
* The [[Golden Tooth]], the seat of [[House Lefford]], which guards the main pass from the westerlands into the riverlands.
* [[Kayce]], the seat of [[House Kenning of Kayce]], a market town on a peninsula west of Casterly Rock.
* [[Oxcross]], a village north-east of Casterly Rock.

==People and Economy==
[[File:Andrew Hall Western Fiefdoms.png|thumb|350px|Western Fiefdoms - Illustrated by Andrew Hall. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
The westerlands are not the largest, most populous, or most fertile part of the realm, but they are the richest. Full of hills and crags, the land is dotted with mines from which pour gold and silver in astonishing quantities. There are gold mines at [[Casterly Rock]], the [[Golden Tooth]], [[Castamere]], [[Nunn's Deep]], and the [[Pendric Hills]]. According to semi-canon sources, there are settlements which become ghost towns once nearby mines stop producing ore.<ref>''[[A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide]]''</ref> Besides farming, there is also some fishery in [[Lannisport]] and on [[Fair Isle]].

According to a semi-canon source from 2005,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the westermen could raise up to fifty thousand troops. The Lannister fleet at Lannisport consists of twenty or thirty cogs, carracks, galleys, and dromonds, while lesser lords have two or three ships for patrolling. In total, the westerman float fifty or sixty larger ships, while longships are used for coastal defense.

==History==
===Before the Andals===
Little is known of the time before the coming of the [[First Men]]. Like the rest of Westeros, the [[children of the forest]] and [[giants]] lived in the westerlands and fought with the First Men when they came. After the [[Pact]] at the [[Isle of Faces]], the children only kept the forests.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

First Men lords, some of whom were petty kings, included the [[House Banefort|Baneforts]], [[House Broom|Brooms]], [[House Crakehall|Crakehalls]], [[House Farman|Farmans]], [[House Foote|Footes]], [[House Greenfield|Greenfields]], [[House Hawthorne|Hawthornes]], [[House Moreland|Morelands]], [[House Plumm|Plumms]], [[House Reyne|Reynes]], [[House Westerling|Westerlings]], and [[House Yew|Yews]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

During the [[Age of Heroes]], the legendary hero and [[w:trickster|trickster]] [[Lann the Clever]] acquired [[Casterly Rock]] in some manner from [[House Casterly]]. According to legend he is the ancestor of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], who became the [[Kings of the Rock]] with Casterly Rock as their seat.

===Kingdom of the Rock===
The Lannister Kings of the Rock gradually conquered or acquired neighboring territory, including the lands of the Reynes and the Baneforts. They initially resisted the [[Andal invasion]], but later Lannister kings allowed the [[Andals]] to marry into the westermen nobility. New houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses [[House Brax|Brax]], [[Drox|Drox]], [[House Jast|Jast]], [[House Kyndall|Kyndall]], [[House Lefford|Lefford]], [[House Marbrand|Marbrand]], [[House Parren|Parren]], [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]], and [[House Serrett|Serrett]]. In contrast to most kings of First Men origin, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power. When King [[Gerold III Lannister]] died without male issue, a council crowned his daughter's husband, Ser Joffrey Lydden, who became the first Andal King of the Rock, [[Joffrey Lannister]].

With Andal support the Lannisters extended their rule to the [[Golden Tooth]] and [[Fair Isle]] and engaged in border wars with the [[Kings of the Trident]] and [[Kings of the Reach]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}} Some of the eastern hills of what is now the westerlands were historically ruled by [[Kings of the Rivers and the Hills]], such as the [[House Mudd|Mudds]] and the [[House Teague|Teagues]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Riverlands}}

Ser [[Eustace Osgrey]] mentioned that a famous relative of his defeated an attack by the Kingdom of the Rock by killing a Lannister king, [[Lancel V Lannister|Lancel V]]. The westermen also fought with the [[ironborn]] of the [[Iron Islands]].{{ref|TSS}}

===Targaryen Era===
:{{See also|War of Conquest}}
During the invasion of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]], [[Loren I Lannister]], King of the Rock, mustered his armies to fight the invaders. Allied with [[Mern IX Gardener]], King of the Reach, they assembled an enormous host, remembered as the Host of the Two Kings. However, they were no match for Targaryen [[dragon]]s. King Loren escaped the so-called [[Field of Fire]] and submitted to Aegon. His primacy in the westerlands was confirmed by the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]]. Since this time the westerlands have been part of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] controlled by the [[Iron Throne]].

During the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], some westerland houses kept a foot in both camps. It is mentioned that some nobles supported [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]], but no westerland supporters of [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] are mentioned. It is unknown if this means the westerlands only supported Daemon Blackfyre.

During [[the Great Spring Sickness]] the coast of the westerlands suffered under the attacks of raiders of [[Dagon Greyjoy]].

===Tytos Lannister===
During the rule of Lord [[Tytos Lannister]], the power of [[House Lannister]] was nominal. Tytos was held in low esteem and was largely ignored by his vassals. [[House Tarbeck]] and [[House Reyne]] eventually revolted against his rule. Tytos's son, [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]], led the campaign against the [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion]]. Houses Tarbeck and Reyne were extinguished; their respective seats at [[Tarbeck Hall]] and [[Castamere]] were razed. Since this time no house dares oppose House Lannister in the westerlands. Because of this unity, the westerlands are a force to be reckoned with. Tywin's own prestige was so great and his capabilities so well demonstrated that he became [[Hand of the King]] for King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], although he later resigned from the position.

===Robert's Rebellion===
:{{main|Robert's Rebellion}}
After the apparent abduction of [[Lyanna Stark]], who was betrothed to Lord [[Robert Baratheon]], by Crown Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] and the execution of her [[Rickard Stark|father]] and [[Brandon Stark|brother]] by King Aerys II, a rebellion of [[House Stark]], [[House Arryn]], [[House Baratheon]], and [[House Tully]] against [[House Targaryen]] began.

For the better part of the [[War of the Usurper]] the westerlands remained neutral. After the [[Battle of the Trident]] and the death of Rhaeger, however, Tywin chose the side of the rebels. The westermen army [[Sack of King's Landing|sacked King's Landing]], and killed the Targaryen heirs to prove their support. After being crowned king, Robert Baratheon married [[Cersei Lannister]] to bind the Lannisters to his cause.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
After the abduction of [[Tyrion Lannister]] by [[Catelyn Tully]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] sends Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] to raid the [[riverlands]] and then retreat back to the westerlands.{{ref|AGOT|43}} After the death of King [[Robert Baratheon]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] lead armies into the riverlands, the start of what becomes the [[War of the Five Kings]].{{ref|AGOT|55}} Jaime crushes the rivermen in the [[Battle of the Golden Tooth]], but he is eventually captured at the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]] and his army is dispersed in the [[Battle of the Camps]]. Tywin sends hundreds of cavalry, including Gregor and Ser [[Amory Lorch]], to set the riverlands ablaze.{{ref|AGOT|69}} In response to the actions of the westermen and King [[Joffrey Baratheon]], the rivermen proclaim [[Robb Stark]] to be [[King of the Trident|king]] at [[Riverrun]].{{ref|AGOT|71}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
In retaliation{{ref|ACOK|39}} and to draw Tywin from [[Harrenhal]],{{ref|ACOK|7}} Robb leads forces from [[the North]] and [[House Frey]] in an invasion of the westerlands.{{ref|ACOK|14}} After bypassing the [[Golden Tooth]], Robb wins a crushing victory over [[Stafford Lannister]] in the [[Battle of Oxcross]]. They then pillage the eastern and northern areas of the westerlands, capturing [[Ashemark]], [[the Crag]], and the gold mines at [[Castamere]], [[Nunn's Deep]] and the [[Pendric Hills]].{{ref|ACOK|35}}{{ref|ACOK|39}} Other areas of the westerlands remain relatively unscathed. Robb marries [[Jeyne Westerling]] at the Crag.

Tywin is stopped at the [[Red Fork]] during the [[Battle of the Fords]], after which he and the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] defeat [[Stannis Baratheon]] in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Robb claims to Ser [[Edmure Tully]] that he and Ser [[Brynden Tully]] had planned to ambush Tywin on the [[Goldroad]] or trap him in the west, but was prevented from doing so by the Battle of the Fords.{{ref|ASOS|14}}

Lord Tywin is murdered by his son, [[Tyrion Lannister]], in the [[Tower of the Hand]].{{ref|ASOS|77}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Queen [[Cersei Lannister]], the Lady of [[Casterly Rock]], succeeds Tywin as the liege lord of the westerlands.{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}} The lords of the west lead a procession of hundreds of soldiers which accompanies Tywin's corpse on its return to the Rock.{{ref|AFFC|16}}

When King [[Euron Greyjoy|Euron]] and Lord Captain [[Victarion Greyjoy]] set out to attack mainland Westeros, the westerlands escapes their wrath, as the [[Iron Fleet]] sails past and attacks the [[Battle of the Shield Islands|Shield Islands]] and [[the Reach]] instead.{{ref|AFFC|29}}

Jaime joins Ser [[Daven Lannister]], the new [[Warden of the West]], and other westermen at the [[Siege of Riverrun]].{{ref|AFFC|33}}

==Houses==
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[[File:Algood.png|30px]] '''[[House Algood]]'''. 
[[File:Banefort.png|30px]] '''[[House Banefort]]''' of [[Banefort]]. 
[[File:Bettley.png|30px]] '''[[House Bettley]]'''. 
[[File:House Brax.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Brax]]''' of [[Hornvale]]. 
[[File:House Broom.png|30px]] '''[[House Broom]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Casterly]]''' of [[Casterly Rock]]. 
[[File:House Clegane.png|30px]] '''[[House Clegane]]''' of [[Clegane's Keep]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Clifton]]'''. 
[[File:House Crakehall.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Crakehall]]''' of [[Crakehall]]. 
[[File:House Doggett.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Doggett]]'''. 
[[File:Drox.png|30px]] '''[[House Drox]]'''. 
[[File:House Estren.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Estren]]''' of [[Wyndhall]]. 
[[File:Falwell.png|30px]] '''[[House Falwell]]'''. 
[[File:Farman.png|30px]] '''[[House Farman]]''' of [[Faircastle]]. 
[[File:Ferren.png|30px]] '''[[House Ferren]]'''. 
[[File:House Foote.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Foote]]'''. 
[[File:House Garner.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Garner]]'''. 
[[File:House Greenfield.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Greenfield]]''' of [[Greenfield]]. 
[[File:Hamell.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hamell]]'''. 
[[File:Hawthorne.jpg|30px]] '''[[House Hawthorne]]'''. 
[[File:Hetherspoon.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Hetherspoon]]'''. 
[[File:House Jast.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Jast]]'''. 
[[File:House Kenning.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Kenning of Kayce|House Kenning]]''' of [[Kayce]]. 
[[File:House Lannister.png|30px]] '''[[House Lannister]]''' of [[Casterly Rock]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Lannister of Lannisport|House Lannister]]''' of [[Lannisport]]. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Lannett]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Lanny]]'''. 
{{COA|Unknown|small}} '''[[House Lantell]]'''. 
[[File:House Lefford.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Lefford]]''' of the [[Golden Tooth]]. 
[[File:House Lorch.png|30px]] '''[[House Lorch]]'''. 
[[File:House Lydden.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Lydden]]''' of [[Deep Den]]. 
[[File:Marbrand.png|30px]] '''[[House Marbrand]]''' of [[Ashemark]]. 
[[File:House Moreland.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Moreland]]'''. 
[[File:House Myatt.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Myatt]]'''. 
[[File:House Parren.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Parren]]'''. 
[[File:House Payne.png|30px]] '''[[House Payne]]'''. 
[[File:House Peckledon.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Peckledon]]'''. 
[[File:House Plumm.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Plumm]]'''. 
[[File:House Prester.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Prester]]''' of [[Feastfires]]. 
[[File:House Reyne.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Reyne]]''' of [[Castamere]]. 
[[File:House Ruttiger.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Ruttiger]]'''. 
[[File:House Sarsfield.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Sarsfield]]''' of [[Sarsfield]]. 
[[File:House Serrett.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Serrett]]''' of [[Silverhill]]. 
[[File:House Spicer.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Spicer]]''' of [[Castamere]]. 
[[File:House Stackspear.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Stackspear]]'''. 
[[File:House Swyft.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Swyft]]''' of [[Cornfield]]. 
[[File:House Tarbeck.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Tarbeck]]''' of [[Tarbeck Hall]]. 
[[File:Turnberry.png|30px]] '''[[House Turnberry]]'''. 
[[File:House Vikary.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Vikary]]'''. 
[[File:House Westerling.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Westerling]]''' of [[the Crag]]. 
[[File:Yarwyck.png|30px]] '''[[House Yarwyck]]'''. 
[[File:Yew.PNG|30px]] '''[[House Yew]]'''. 
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==References and Sources==
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{{Regions}}
{{HousesWesterlands}}
{{Region Westerlands}}

[[Category:Westerlands| ]]
[[Category:Places in Westeros]]

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House Lannister

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{{Noble House
| House_name = House Lannister of [[Casterly Rock]]
| image = [[File:House_Lannister.png|250px|center]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A gold lion, on a crimson field (''Gules, a lion or'')
| Words = ''Hear Me Roar!''
| Seat = [[Casterly Rock]]
| Current_Lord = Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]]
| Region = [[Westerlands]]
| Title = [[King of the Rock]] (formerly) Lord of [[Casterly Rock]] Shield of [[Lannisport]] [[Warden of the West]] 
| Overlord = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
| Ancestral_weapon = [[Brightroar]] (lost)
| Cadet_branch = [[House Lannister of Lannisport]] [[House Lannister of Darry]] [[House Lannett]] (possibly) [[House Lanny]] (possibly) [[House Lantell]] (possibly)
| Founded_in = [[Age of Heroes]]
| Founder = [[Lann the Clever]]
| Died_out =
}}

'''House Lannister of Casterly Rock''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of [[Seven Kingdoms]], and the principal house of the [[westerlands]]. Their seat is [[Casterly Rock]], though [[House Lannister of Lannisport|another branch]] exists that is based in nearby [[Lannisport]]. Their sigil is a golden lion on a field of crimson.{{Ref|aGoT|5}} Their official motto is "Hear Me Roar!" However, their unofficial motto, equally well known, is "A Lannister always pays his debts."{{Ref|aGoT|56}}{{Ref|aGoT|42}} The [[Warden of the West]] is a Lannister by tradition.

Fair-haired, tall, and handsome, the Lannisters are the blood of [[Andals|Andal]] adventurers who carved out a mighty kingdom in the western hills and valleys. Through the female line they boast of descent from [[Lann the Clever]], the legendary trickster of the [[Age of Heroes]] who tricked the members of [[House Casterly]] into giving him [[Casterly Rock]]{{Ref|aGoT|27}} during the era of the [[First Men]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

The Lannisters reigned as [[King of the Rock|Kings of the Rock]] until they fell to the [[War of Conquest|Targaryen conquest]], but were allowed to remain the liege lords of the westerlands. The House had fallen on hard times during the rule of Lord [[Tytos Lannister|Tytos]], but was restored to its former glory by Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]]. His daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] is the queen of King [[Robert I Baratheon]], while her twin Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] is a knight of Robert's [[Kingsguard]]. Members of the family tend to have golden hair and emerald green eyes.

==History==
===First Men Kings===
The Lannisters suddenly appear as [[First Men]] in historical records of the [[Age of Heroes]], ruling large portions of the westerlands from Casterly Rock just as the [[House Casterly|Casterlys]] vanished from the chronicles. They claim descent from [[Lann the Clever]], the legendary figure who tricked the Casterlys from their seat, [[Casterly Rock]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

According to a semi-canon source, members of lesser branches of the family left Casterly Rock and developed a nearby village into the city of [[Lannisport]], forming [[House Lannister of Lannisport]]. Meanwhile, the Lannisters of Casterly Rock grew to become [[Kings of the Rock]].<ref name=sample>georgerrmartin.com: [http://www.georgerrmartin.com/world-of-ice-and-fire-sample/ WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE SAMPLE]</ref> The first known King of the Rock was [[Loreon I Lannister]], although Lann the Clever has posthumously been called by the same title.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

===Andal Kings===
During the [[Andal invasion]] of [[Westeros]], House Lannister initially fought the invading Andal warlords and adventurers that ventured into the westerlands but then took a policy of arranging marriages between them and the daughters of the local [[First Men]] houses. They also took Andal sons and daughters as wards and fosterlings at Casterly Rock to prevent betrayals such as those that had happened in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]]. In time, the Lannister kings also wed their children to Andals, and when King [[Gerold III Lannister|Gerold III]] died without male issue, a council crowned the Andal husband of Gerold's only daughter, Ser [[Joffrey Lannister|Joffrey Lydden]], who took the Lannister name. Thus the Lannisters became an Andal house, though their First Men name lived on.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands}}

The gold of Casterly Rock, [[Castamere]], the [[Pendric Hills]] and the [[Golden Tooth]] has made them the wealthiest of the Great Houses. The keep at Casterly Rock sits on top of a gold mine, built into the very rock. From that lofty yet uncomfortable position, House Lannister rules over the westerlands and influences all of Westeros, by virtue of the kingdom's purse strings.

House Lannister possessed an ancestral [[Valyrian steel]] greatsword called [[Brightroar]], but it was lost when King [[Tommen II Lannister]] went on a quest to [[Valyria]] and never returned.{{ref|aSoS|32}} The Lannisters have been looking for a replacement ever since, though they have not stopped looking for their own lost ancestral sword.{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

When [[Lelia Lannister]], the Dowager Queen of the [[Iron Islands]], was mutilated by [[drowned men]], her nephew, the King of the Rock, began a war which left the Iron Islands impoverished.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Black Blood}}

===Targaryen Era===
When the [[War of Conquest]] began and [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] swept through the land, [[Loren I Lannister|Loren I]], King of the Rock, sided with [[Mern IX Gardener]], [[King of the Reach]] against the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]]. The two armies met in the Reach, where the combined might of the Reach and the Rock broke Aegon's army. Their army, dubbed by historians 'The Host of the Two Kings', numbered 55,000; five thousand of them mounted knights, while the Targaryens had only 10,000 men, many of uncertain loyalty and reliability. With their smaller force severely weakened and in danger of routing, Aegon and his sisters deployed all three dragons at once; the only time this happened during the war. Their combined fires scoured the battlefield, immolating more than four thousand men (including King Mern and his heirs) and giving the battle its name: The [[Field of Fire]].{{Ref|aGoT|13}} After he was captured, King Loren the Last bent the knee and was allowed to remain Lord of Casterly Rock and became the first [[Warden of the West]].

The Lannisters were also involved in the Targaryen civil war, the [[Dance of the Dragons]]. It was a contest of claims between [[Viserys I Targaryen]]'s issue, [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]], by his first wife [[Aemma Arryn|Aemma]] of [[House Arryn]] and his issue, [[Aegon II Targaryen]] by his second wife [[Alicent Hightower|Alicent]] of [[House Hightower]]. The head of House Lannister at that time, Lord [[Jason Lannister]], supported [[the greens]], along with his brother Ser [[Tyland Lannister]], the [[master of ships]] and a member of the [[small council]] during the reign of [[Viserys I Targaryen]]. Tyland was named [[master of coin]] at the start of the Dance, and he seized the royal treasury and divided crown's gold into four parts. One part was entrusted to the care of the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] for safekeeping, another sent under strong guard to Casterly Rock and a third to [[Oldtown]]. The remaining wealth was used by the greens for bribes and gifts and hiring [[sellsword]]s. Lord Jason was killed in the [[Battle at the Red Fork]], leaving Casterly Rock in disarray. The Lannister host under Lord [[House Lefford|Lefford]] was then shattered in the [[Battle by the Lakeshore]], the bloodiest battle of the war. After the [[fall of King's Landing]], Tyland was given to torturers in the hopes of recovering some of the crown's treasure.{{Ref|tpatq}}{{ref|TWOIAF}}

Several decades later, during the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], Lord [[Damon Lannister (lord)|Damon Lannister]] remained loyal to the Targaryens. The great rebel general Ser [[Quentyn Ball]] defeated him outside the gates of Lannisport. Damon and his heir Ser [[Tybolt Lannister|Tybolt]] participated in the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]]. Damon was defeated in the first tilt by Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell]], while his son defeated his opponent to become a champion. Tybolt inherited the lordship from Damon when the latter died of [[the Great Spring Sickness]]. [[Gerold Lannister]] was a suitor to Lady [[Rohanne Webber]] but much preferred to remain at Casterly Rock with his brother Tybolt. When Lord [[Dagon Greyjoy]] was raiding the western coast during the early reign of [[Aerys I Targaryen]], House Lannister built ships to fight him at sea.

===Lord Tywin Lannister===
[[File:Nachomolina_Tywin_Lannister.jpg‎ ‎|Tywin Lannister - by Nacho Molina ©|thumb|300px|right]]
In more recent times, during the lordship of [[Tytos Lannister]], the house fell on hard times. Tytos' weakness allowed him to be [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|bullied by his vassals]]. Eventually his son [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] brought the wayward bannermen to heel and restored the house to its former glory. Soon thereafter, Tywin was made [[Hand of the King]] by [[Aerys II Targaryen]], holding that position for many years. When Aerys was [[Defiance of Duskendale|held hostage]] by [[Denys Darklyn]], Tywin's conservative approach took six months to resolve the conflict. This instigated Aerys's paranoia and drove a wedge between the two, along with the king's lusting after Tywin's wife, cousin and trusted confidante [[Joanna Lannister|Joanna]]. Tywin was never a jovial man, but when Joanna died birthing their third child, [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], he was much saddened and his brother [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]] became his right hand. Their sister [[Genna Lannister|Genna]] took a maternal role over the children. His second brother [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] died of a pox, and their brother [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]] sailed off on a journey to Valyria, never to be seen again.

Despite Tywin's attempts to ensure a strong legacy, life at Casterly Rock was dysfunctional at best. His twin children [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] began an incestuous relationship at an early age. Cersei, while a young maid, visited a [[maegi|woods witch]] called [[Maggy the Frog]], who shared portents of Cersei's future that planted seeds of her paranoia. Cersei murdered her friend [[Melara Hetherspoon]], who had witnessed the prophecy. Tyrion, when thirteen years old, was out with Jaime when he met and married a girl named [[Tysha]], a match which was quickly and savagely ended by Lord Tywin. Tywin offered Tyrion to Houses [[House Martell|Martell]], [[House Hightower|Hightower]], [[House Royce|Royce]], [[House Florent|Florent]] and [[House Tully|Tully]], but he was rejected by all. Jaime was a promising young knight, dubbed by Ser [[Arthur Dayne]]. Tywin was devastated when Jaime joined King Aery's [[Kingsguard]], breaking off a betrothal to [[Lysa Tully]]. Upon this action (which he perceived as the Mad King "stealing" his heir), coupled with the Mad King's refusal to wed Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] to Cersei, Tywin resigned the Handship. This flew in the face of Jaime's plan, which was to be closer to Cersei: he was kept in King's Landing while Cersei returned to Casterly Rock.

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], the Lannisters stayed neutral for the majority of the war. Only after the [[Battle of the Trident|defeat of Prince Rhaegar]] at the [[Trident]] did Lord Tywin bestir himself to join [[Robert Baratheon]] against the Targaryen dynasty, perpetrating the [[Sack of King's Landing]] when the Lannister loyalist Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] suggested the gates be opened. There Ser Jaime Lannister, still a Kingsguard, slew Aerys, the last crowned Targaryen king. Meanwhile Tywin's knights killed the rest of the Targaryens in the capital to prove their commitment to Robert's cause.{{Ref|aGoT|12}} Afterwards, Tywin's daughter Cersei was wed to King Robert; [[Tya Lannister]] was the last Lannister to marry a member of [[House Baratheon]], [[Gowen Baratheon]], before the marriage of Robert and Cersei. The royal marriage and the increasing amount of gold Robert owes to Tywin have only increased Lannister power. Much of Lord Tywin's energy is directed inward, ensuring all of his relatives do their part to uphold the family name.

==Recent Events==

===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Jaime Lannister Army.jpg|400px|thumb|Jaime Lannister leads a Lannister army - by Amok ©]]
Unbeknownst to most, [[Tywin Lannister|Lord Tywin]]'s children, Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] have, for most of their lives, carried out an incestuous love affair. All three royal children, supposedly King [[Robert I Baratheon]]'s, are actually Jaime's. Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and his wife [[Catelyn Tully]] suspect the Lannisters of murdering Eddard's predecessor as [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Jon Arryn]], and also of attempting to kill their son, [[Bran Stark|Bran]]. The latter is true, as the boy was a witness to their fornication.{{ref|AGOT|8}} King Robert names Jaime the new [[Warden of the East]] instead of Jon's son, [[Robert Arryn]].{{ref|AGOT|12}}

Lady Catelyn captures [[Tyrion Lannister]] at the [[Inn at the crossroads|crossroads inn]] to bring him to trial, prompting Lord Tywin to send raiders into the [[riverlands]] in an attempt to draw Lord Stark into the field, hoping to capture him for an exchange. Eddard, however, is waylaid on the streets of [[King's Landing]] by Ser Jaime and is injured in the melee,{{ref|AGOT|35}} sending other men in his stead.{{ref|AGOT|43}}

Tyrion escapes the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]] of his own volition, but the war continues along with intrigue in the capital, where Cersei has Eddard arrested.{{ref|AGOT|49}} Tywin and Jaime win several victories over the river lords, but the [[House Tully|Tullys]] are soon joined by Eddard's son [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and a host of [[northmen]].

Tywin repels one Stark army under Lord [[Roose Bolton]] in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]], but this force turns out to have been a feint: with Tywin distracted, Robb captures Jaime in a [[Battle of the Whispering Wood|surprise attack]] at the [[Whispering Wood]],{{ref|AGOT|63}} and [[Battle of the Camps|breaks his siege]] of [[Riverrun]].{{ref|AGOT|69}}

Meanwhile Cersei fears for her children if Stark informs Robert of her children's parentage. She has her cousin [[Lancel Lannister]], Robert's squire, supply the king with strongwine during a boar hunt, resulting in Robert receiving a mortal wound.{{ref|AGOT|47}}

Soon Cersei's and Jaime's son [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] has become king, and he orders the execution of Lord Stark, ruining any chance of peace. Jaime, despite his absence, is named [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]]. Tywin, having been named Hand, sends Tyrion to take up his duties while he campaigns in the riverlands.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:T Jedruszek Tywins host.jpg|thumb|350px|Lord Tywin's Host by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
[[Robert I Baratheon]]'s brothers, [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] and [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]], each contest Joffrey I's right to the [[Iron Throne]], while [[Robb Stark]] has been named [[King in the North]]. The conflict becomes known as the [[War of the Five Kings]].

Tyrion and Cersei compete for influence at King's Landing, with Tyrion constantly outmaneuvering her. Desperate for allies, he makes moves to ally with [[House Martell]]. Part of this involves betrothing Joffrey's sister, Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]], to [[Trystane Martell]]. When her ship leaves port, the royal party is caught up in the [[riot of King's Landing]] provoked by King Joffrey.{{ref|ACOK|41}}

Jaime languishes in the dungeon of [[Riverrun]], despite attempts to free him. Cersei replaces him in her bed with their cousin, Ser [[Lancel Lannister]].{{ref|ACOK|29}}

When the Stark forces invade the [[westerlands]], Tywin's army marches from [[Harrenhal]], but are prevented access to their homelands by Ser [[Edmure Tully]] at the [[Battle of the Fords]]. As a result, King Robb's army destroys a third western host under Ser [[Stafford Lannister]] at the [[Battle of Oxcross]] and raids the westerlands, but Tywin is close enough to King's Landing to defend the city when he hears of King Stannis's impending attack. Due to Tywin's presence, Tyrion's defensive preparations, and a new alliance with [[House Tyrell]], the Lannisters are able to defeat Stannis in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], despite nearly suffering a rout of the [[gold cloaks]] when Cersei withdraws King Joffrey from the city walls.

Following the Blackwater, most of Stannis's bannermen declare for Joffrey, and Lord Tywin takes up rule in his own right. Lancel receives [[Darry]], forming [[House Lannister of Darry]].{{ref|ACOK|65}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]], having heard of [[capture of Winterfell|the supposed deaths]] of two of her sons [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the hands of the turncloak [[Theon Greyjoy]], releases Jaime from captivity in an attempt to covertly exchange him for her daughters [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark|Arya]].{{ref|ACOK|55}}{{ref|ASOS|1}} Unknown to most is that Arya escaped King's Landing long ago.

===''A Storm of Swords''===

Tywin refuses to appoint Tyrion as heir to the Rock, instead making him [[master of coin]] and wedding him to [[Sansa Stark]] for her claim to [[Winterfell]] and denying the Tyrells the chance to wed her to [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]]. His brother and right hand, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], is named [[master of laws]]. Tywin also betroths Joffrey to [[Margaery Tyrell]], and tries to re-wed Cersei, this time to [[Willas Tyrell]], but Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] refuses under pressure from his mother, [[Olenna Redwyne]]. Cersei is shunned from the [[small council]], and her regency over King Joffrey is ended. Tywin restores the title of [[Warden of the East]] to [[House Arryn]] and also reinstates [[Pycelle]] as grand maester when he hears the [[Citadel]] plans to grant the title to a Tyrell uncle, [[Gormon Tyrell]].

When Tywin discovers that Robb Stark has wed a daughter of one of his minor bannermen, [[Jeyne Westerling]], he begins plotting with Jeyne's [[Sybell Spicer|mother]], the slighted Lord [[Walder Frey]] and the opportunistic Lord [[Roose Bolton]] to overthrow the northern king. This treachery is accomplished in the [[Red Wedding|wedding]] at [[the Twins]] of Edmure Tully to one of the Frey women, when Robb, Lady Catelyn, and many others are murdered under [[guest right]]. The Starks and Tullys are ousted from power, replaced respectively by Lannister-backed [[House Bolton]] and [[House Baelish of Harrenhal]]. Most of their bannermen grudgingly return to the king's peace. With Renly and Robb dead, Stannis repelled and with few followers, and the Greyjoys concentrating on the North, Lannister power is at its zenith.

When King Joffrey unexpectedly dies at [[Purple Wedding|his wedding feast]], Cersei wrongfully accuses Tyrion of the deed. Tywin is a judge at the trial, along with Mace Tyrell and Prince [[Oberyn Martell]], the Red Viper of Dorne. After a bevy of witnesses defame Tyrion, including those he thought his friends, the Imp demands a trial by combat. Since Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] is appointed the royal champion, Prince Oberyn fights for Tyrion in an effort to avenge his sister [[Elia Martell|Princess Elia]], killed during Tywin's sack of King's Landing. Oberyn loses and Tyrion is condemned to die. Jaime, meanwhile, has made his way to King's Landing with [[Brienne of Tarth]], sworn sword of Lady Catelyn. On the way, he lost his hand by order of [[Vargo Hoat]], the sellsword holding Harrenhal who now serves House Stark. His return to the capital finds a changed man, increasingly at odds with his family. He quarrels with Lord Tywin, refusing to resign from the Kingsguard to become heir to Casterly Rock. Before Tyion can be executed Jaime frees him from his cell; Tyrion reveals Cersei's infidelity and accepts false responsibility for Joffrey's death. During his escape, Tyrion kills Lord Tywin with a crossbow.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:MagaliVilleneuve_CLannister.jpg‎‎|After Tywin's death Cersei resumed her [[Regent|regency]], now over the newly-crowned [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] - by Magali Villeneuve. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|400px]]
Dead soldiers with bearing the colors of House Lannister have washed up on the [[Quiet Isle]]. According to the [[Elder Brother]], they are buried next to their enemies.

Tywin's death lingers over the Lannister landscape. Cersei resumes her [[Regent|regency]], now over the newly crowned [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and sets out to prove herself a better ruler than her father. Ignoring her father's plans, she fills the [[small council]] with her own lackeys. As Queen Regent, she tries to appoint Jaime as Hand of the King, but he refuses - she responds by saying she was a fool for ever having loved him. After Tywin's funeral, Cersei charges Jaime with the mopping-up campaign in the riverlands, beginning with lifting the [[siege of Riverrun]]. While on campaign, Jaime tries to hone his left-handed swordsmanship and confronts his cousin Lancel at [[Darry]], where the latter is lord but has sworn himself to the Faith Militant (see below).

Kevan Lannister acknowledges Cersei as Lady of Casterly Rock. She offers him the position of Hand of the King, which he declines unless he can also assume the regency. Cersei refuses to give up her power and appoints Ser [[Daven Lannister]] as the new [[Warden of the West]] to slight Ser Kevan, and Ser [[Damion Lannister|Damion]] is named castellan of the Rock. Finally she makes Ser [[Harys Swyft]] the Hand, because he is a tractable man and he is a hostage against Ser Kevan. Cersei puts out a bounty for Tyrion's head, resulting in the deaths of many innocent dwarfs throughout the kingdoms as men try to cash in, but she refuses to rescind the offer for fear someone might stay his hand. Despite Tommen's marriage to Queen Margaery, Cersei begins to plot against the Tyrells, whom she suspects of intrigue. She gives one maid she suspects of espionage to Lord [[Qyburn]], her sinister ex-maester [[master of whisperers]], for his twisted experiments in necromancy, along with the corpse of Gregor Clegane (dead from the Red Viper's poisoned spear). Queen Margaery wants her brother [[Loras Tyrell]] to become King Tommen's master-at-arms; an offer which Cersei staunchly refuses. When [[Euron Greyjoy]]'s [[ironmen]] invade [[the Reach]], Cersei grants Ser Loras his wish to take command of the [[siege of Dragonstone]], hoping that he would rashly storm the castle to free up the [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] fleet. Her hopes are fulfilled, as the Knight of Flowers was reportedly maimed by boiling oil.

To "raise" funds to build a new royal fleet, Cersei freezes all crown debts, angering the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] and the [[Faith of the Seven]], and also has the [[High Septon (Tyrion's)|High Septon]] chosen by Tyrion assassinated. She tries to mollify the church by allowing the return of the [[Faith Militant]], but the [[High Sparrow|new High Septon]] has her arrested for her fornications, murders, and other myriad sins. She writes an impassioned letter to Jaime, imploring him to defend her in a trial by combat, but he burns the letter without response. Lord [[Orton Merryweather]], having replaced Harys Swyft as Hand, flees the capital as Swyft (now master of coin) and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] take control of King Tommen and request that Kevan Lannister return to King's Landing as Lord Regent.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===

Ser Kevan, as Lord Regent, begins trying to undo Cersei's political bumbling. To placate House Lannister's Tyrell allies, he appoints Lord Mace as Hand of the King, and his bannermen [[Paxter Redwyne]] and [[Randyll Tarly]] to the small council. He also visits the imprisoned Cersei, confronting her about her affair with Lancel and telling her that, regardless of her trial, her rule is at an end. When she undergoes her walk of shame across the city, shaven and benuded, he ensures that King Tommen does not witness the event.

Tyrion, aided by [[Varys]], has been whisked across the [[narrow sea]]. There Varys's ally [[Illyrio Mopatis]] arranges for him to travel with a misfit band to seek out [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. En route, he realizes that one of the group is actually the exiled Hand [[Jon Connington]], and that his "son" is Rhaegar's son, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]], long thought to be dead. At a brothel in [[Selhorys]], Tyrion is captured by another exiled lord, [[Jorah Mormont]], who aims to go to Daenerys for his own reasons. On the way to [[Meereen]], Tyrion befriends a dwarf woman called [[Penny]], who had performed at Joffrey's wedding. After a shipwreck, they are captured and sold into slavery. They are nearly killed by lions in the fighting pit before Queen Daenerys puts an end to it. When their master dies of the [[pale mare]], the trio joins the [[Second Sons]], as Tyrion plans to have [[Ben Plumm]] switch sides again back to Daenerys's cause.

Jaime brokers peace at the [[siege of Raventree]], the last southron stronghold loyal to Robb Stark's lost cause. While riding back to Riverrun he unexpectedly meets [[Brienne of Tarth]], who tells him that he must go with her to honor his oath to retrieve Sansa Stark.

Kevan, while trying to deal with the resurgent Faith Militant and the apparently living and [[Golden Company]]-backed Aegon VI, is murdered in his chambers by Varys. The Spider hopes that the Lord Regent's death will cast suspicion between Highgarden and Casterly Rock and prevent the rifts created during Cersei Lannister's rule from closing. These problems, combined with the mounting threats toward the Lannister-backed [[House Bolton]] in the North, the continuing Greyjoy threat, and the uncertain loyalty of [[Dorne]] mean that Lannister power is anything but secure.

==Known Members at the end of the third century==

The known Lannisters during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord {[[Tywin Lannister]]}, Lord of [[Casterly Rock]], Shield of [[Lannisport]], [[Warden of the West]] and [[Hand of the King]]. Slain by his [[Tyrion Lannister|son]].
** Lady {[[Joanna Lannister]]}, his wife and cousin. Died in childbirth.
*** Queen [[Cersei Lannister]], Queen Dowager and Lady of Casterly Rock, his daughter. The widow of [[Robert Baratheon|Robert I]].
*** Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], ''the Kingslayer'', his eldest son. [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]] of the [[Kingsguard]]. Maimed by [[Vargo Hoat]].
*** [[Tyrion Lannister]], his second son. Disinherited by Tywin. Called ''the Imp'' and ''Halfman''. In exile. Currently with the [[Second Sons]].
* Ser {[[Kevan Lannister]]}, Tywin's eldest brother, Lord Regent for [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I]] and Protector of the Realm. Married to [[Dorna Swyft]]. Assassinated by [[Varys]].
** Lord [[Lancel Lannister]], Kevan's eldest son, Lord of [[Darry]]. Joined the [[Warrior's Sons]].
** {[[Willem Lannister]]}, Kevan's second son. Slain at [[Riverrun]] under Lord [[Rickard Karstark]]'s orders. Twin to Martyn.
** [[Martyn Lannister]], Kevan's third son. Twin to Willem.
** [[Janei Lannister]], Kevan's daughter.
* Lady [[Genna Lannister]], his sister. Married to Lord [[Emmon Frey]].
* Ser {[[Tygett Lannister]]}, his second brother. Married to [[Darlessa Marbrand]]. Died from a pox.
** {[[Tyrek Lannister]]}, Tygett's son. Missing since the bread [[Riot of King's Landing|riots at King's Landing]] and presumed dead.
* {[[Gerion Lannister]]}, his third brother. Missing in [[Essos]] and presumed dead.
** [[Joy Hill]], Gerion's bastard daughter.
* Ser [[Damon Lannister (son of Jason)|Damon Lannister]], older (half-)brother of [[Stafford Lannister|Stafford]] and [[Joanna Lannister]].{{ref|twoiaf| Lannister Lineage}}
** [[Ella Lannister]], wife of Damon and mother to his son Damion. Cousin of an unknown branch.{{ref|twoiaf| Lannister Lineage}}
*** Ser [[Damion Lannister]], Damon's son, castellan of Casterly Rock, married to [[Shiera Crakehall]].
**** Ser [[Lucion Lannister]], his son.
**** [[Lanna Lannister]], his daughter, married to Lord [[Antario Jast]].
* Ser {[[Stafford Lannister]]}, younger brother of [[Joanna Lannister]]. Slain at the [[Battle of Oxcross]].
** Ser [[Daven Lannister]], Stafford's son. Made Warden of the West after Tywin Lannister's death.
** [[Cerenna Lannister]], Stafford's daughter.
** [[Myrielle Lannister]], Stafford's daughter.
* [[Lynora Hill]], bastard daughter of Jason Lannister, sister to Joanna, Stafford and Damon.{{ref|twoiaf| Lannister Lineage}}

With unspecified familiar relationship to the main branch there is also:
* [[Margot Lannister]], a cousin of an unknown branch, who married to Lord [[Titus Peake]].

===Family Tree===
{{Lannister_tree}}

===Household===
At Casterly Rock:
* Maester [[Creylen]] - healer and counselor at Casterly Rock.
* Ser [[Benedict Broom]] - master-at-arms at Casterly Rock.
* [[Wat (Whitesmile)|Whitesmile Wat]] - a singer at Casterly Rock.
* [[Walder Frey (son of Emmon)|Walder Frey]] - a squire, also known as Red Walder.
* [[Robert Brax (son of Flement)|Robert Brax]] - a page.

In King's Landing:
* [[Bronn]] - a sellsword once in the service of Tyrion Lannister.
* [[Podrick Payne]] - once squire to Tyrion Lannister.
* [[Vylarr]] - captain of the redcloak guards in King's Landing.
**[[Lum]] and [[Lester]], called 'Red Lester', [[Hoke]], called 'Hoke Horseleg', [[Shortear]], [[Puckens]] guardsmen.
* [[Osfryd Kettleblack]], captain of Cersei's redcloaks from after Vylarr's departure until his appointment as Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]].
* [[Josmyn Peckledon]], known as 'Peck', squire to Jaime Lannister.
* [[Lewys Piper]], known as 'Little Lew', [[Garrett Paege]], squires to Ser Jaime and hostages of the [[Iron Throne]].
* [[Osney Kettleblack]], a sellsword in Cersei's service.
* [[Senelle]] - a servingwoman. Died in the Red Keep's black cells, tortured and experimented on by [[Qyburn]].
* [[Dorcas]] - a serving woman in the Red Keep.
* [[Jocelyn Swyft]] - handmaiden to Queen Cersei
* [[Brella]] - a servingwoman attending [[Sansa Stark]] and formerly running Renly Baratheon's household.

==Historical Members==
* [[Lann the Clever]], legendary founding ancestor of House Lannister during the Age of Heroes.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Loreon Lannister]], ''the Lion'', the first true known Lannister king.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Tybolt Lannister (king)|Tybolt Lannister]], ''the Thunderbolt'', who made sure that the first [[Andal]] warlords in the westerlands met a bloody end.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Tyrion III Lannister]], who instead of fighting the Andals, took their sons and daughters for wards and fosterlings.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
** King [[Gerold II Lannister]], son of King Tyrion III, who took the same approach as his father regarding the Andal invaders.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Gerold III Lannister]], died without issue. His only daughter's husband, Ser [[Joffrey Lydden]], took the Lannister name and became the first Andal to rule the Rock.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Joffrey Lannister]], married into the House, took his wife's name and was the first Andal to rule the Rock.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Cerion Lannister]], extended his rule as far east as the [[Golden Tooth]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Tommen I Lannister]], built a great fleet and brought [[Fair Isle]] into the realm.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Loreon II Lannister]], held the first tourney ever seen in the westerlands.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Tywell II Lannister]], who was identified by some as being the king in the tale of the [[Rat Cook]].{{ref|twoiaf| The North}}
* King [[Lancel I Lannister]], ''the Lion'', rode to war against the Gardener kings and conquered the [[Reach]] as far south as [[Old Oak]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
** King [[Loreon III Lannister]], son of King Lancel I, lost all his father gained and earned the mocking name ''Loreon the Limp''.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Gerold Lannister (king)|Gerold Lannister]], ''the Great'', sailed to the [[Iron Islands]] and returned with a hundred hostages.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Lancel IV Lannister]], is said to have beheaded the ironborn king [[Harrald Halfdrowned]] and his heir with the House's [[Valyrian steel]] sword ''Brightroar'' in one swing.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Norwin Lannister]], ''the Niggardly'', who was not known for his openhandedness.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Loreon IV Lannister]], ''the Lackwit'', one of Casterly Rock's many weak, cruel and feeble kings.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Loreon V Lannister]], known as ''Queen Lorea'', for he was fond of dressing in his wife's clothing. One of Casterly Rock's many weak, cruel and feeble kings.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Tyrion II Lannister]], ''the Tormentor'', a strong king, famed for his prowess with a battle-axe, his true delight was torture.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Lancel V Lannister]], invaded the Reach during the reign of [[Gyles III Gardener]]. He was killed by Ser [[Wilbert Osgrey]].
* Queen [[Lelia Lannister]], the wife of King [[Harmund II Hoare]] and mother of Kings [[Harmund III Hoare|Harmund III]] and [[Hagon Hoare]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Iron Islands}}
* King [[Tommen II Lannister]], ''the Lion King'', disappeared with the ancestral greatsword [[Brightroar]] during an expedition to [[Valyria]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* King [[Loren Lannister|Loren I Lannister]], ''Loren the Last'', last King of the Rock at the time of Aegon's Conquest, he rose a lord.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* Lord [[Lyman Lannister]], the Lord of Casterly Rock during the [[Faith Militant uprising]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* Lord [[Tymond Lannister]], who was present at the [[Great Council]] of {{date|101}}.{{ref|twoiaf| House Lannister Under the Dragons}}
* Lord [[Jason Lannister]], Lord of Casterly Rock during King Viserys I's reign and Aegon II's. He was the older twin brother of Tyland Lannister. Killed during the [[Dance of the Dragons]] by Pate of Longleaf.{{ref|tpatq}}{{ref|trp}}
** Lady [[Johanna Lannister]], his widow.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* Ser [[Tyland Lannister]], master of ships during the reign of Viserys I and the younger twin brother to the Lord of Casterly Rock. Later made master of coin and [[Hand of the King]].{{ref|tpatq}}{{ref|trp}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
* [[Tya Lannister]], last Lannister to wed a Baratheon before the reign of Robert I Baratheon.
* Lord [[Damon Lannister (lord)|Damon Lannister]], known as ''the Grey Lion'', a participant at the Ashford tourney and head of house during the reign of Daeron II.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
** Lord [[Tybolt Lannister]], son and heir of Damon, succeeded as Lord of Casterly Rock during the reign of Aerys I.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
*** Lady [[Cerelle Lannister]], daughter and only child of Lord Tybolt, the child-Lady of Casterly Rock. Rumored to have been murderd by her uncle Gerold.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
** Lord [[Gerold Lannister]], known as ''Gerold the Golden'', younger brother, and adviser to Lord Tybolt. Regent for Lady Cerelle.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
*** Lady [[Alysanne Farman]], Gerold's first wife.
*** Lady [[Rohanne Webber]], Gerold's second wife. Mother to his children. Vanished under mysterious circumstances.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
**** Ser [[Tywald Lannister]], his eldest son. Squire to Lord [[Roger Reyne]]. Knighted on his deathbed.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
**** Ser [[Tion Lannister]], Gerold's second son and Tywald's twin. Killed at [[Battle of Wendwater Bridge]] during the [[Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
**** Lord [[Tytos Lannister]], known as ''the Toothless Lion'', Lord Gerold's third son and successor. Lord of Casterly Rock.{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}
**** [[Jason Lannister (son of Gerold)|Jason Lannister]], Gerold's fourth son. Father of [[Damon Lannister (son of Jason)|Damon]], [[Stafford Lannister|Stafford]] and [[Joanna Lannister]], two others sons and two other daughters, and a bastard daughter, [[Lynora Hill]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Westerlands}}

==Sworn Houses and Former Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Algood]]'''.
* '''[[House Banefort]]''' of [[Banefort]].
* '''[[House Brax]]''' of [[Hornvale]]. [[House Brax]] is one of the more powerful houses sworn to [[Casterly Rock]]. Lord [[Andros Brax]] had once made a visit to [[Riverrun]] in hopes of marrying his son to one of [[Hoster Tully]]s daughters.
* '''[[House Broom]]'''.
* '''[[House Clegane]]''' of [[Clegane's Keep]].
* '''[[House Crakehall]]''' of [[Crakehall]]. Members are regarded as being uncommonly strong and robust, including the knight Ser [[Lyle Crakehall]], called "Strongboar".
* '''[[House Estren]]''' of [[Wyndhall]].
* '''[[House Farman]]''' of [[Fair Isle]].
* '''[[House Kenning]]''' of [[Kayce]].
* '''[[House Lannister of Lannisport|Lannister]]''' of [[Lannisport]]. A large and ancient collection of cadet branches from the main house that live in city of Lannisport.
* '''[[House Lefford]]''' of the [[Golden Tooth]].
* '''[[House Lorch]]'''.
* '''[[House Lydden]]''' of the [[Deep Den]].
* '''[[House Marbrand]]''' of [[Ashemark]]. The current Lord of Ashemark is [[Damon Marbrand]]. His son and heir, [[Addam Marbrand|Addam]], is a childhood friend of Ser [[Jaime Lannister]]. A capable commander and was made commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]].
* '''[[House Payne]]'''. Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]] the [[King's Justice]] and [[Podrick Payne|Podrick]], squire to [[Tyrion Lannister]] are from this house, though [[Podrick Payne|Podrick]] is from a lesser branch.
* '''[[House Reyne]]''' of [[Castamere]]. Extinct house that rebelled against [[Tytos Lannister|Tytos]]. Destroyed by [[Tywin Lannister]] and an inspiration for a famous song in [[Westeros]], "[[The Rains of Castamere]]".
* '''[[House Prester]]''' of [[Feastfires]].
* '''[[House Serrett]]''' of [[Silverhill]].
* '''[[House Spicer]]''' of [[Castamere]]. The house is seen as an upstart house. They descend from a spice merchant and a witch-woman famous in [[Lannisport]] for her potions.
* '''[[House Swyft]]''' of [[Cornfield]].
* '''[[House Tarbeck]]''' of [[Tarbeck Hall]]. Extinct house that rebelled against [[Tytos Lannister|Tytos]]. Destroyed by [[Tywin Lannister]] and an inspiration for a famous song in [[Westeros]], "[[The Rains of Castamere]]".
* '''[[House Westerling]]''' of [[the Crag]].

==Quotes==
{{Quote|The Lannisters are proud. {{ref|agot|7}}}} - [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered. {{ref|agot|13}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|A very ambitious family. {{Ref|aGoT|30}}}} - [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|'''Tyrion:''' We Lannisters do have a certain pride. 
'''Catelyn:''' Pride? Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust for power. 
'''Tyrion:''' [[Jaime Lannister|My brother]] is undoubtedly arrogant. [[Tywin Lannister|My father]] is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am as innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? {{ref|agot|34}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]] to [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|No man sheds Lannister blood with impunity.{{ref|AGOT|56}}}} - [[Tywin Lannister]]

{{Quote|The Lannisters of Casterly Rock were a damnably large and fertile house. {{ref|acok|7}}}} - [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|By what right does [[Stark|the wolf]] judge [[Lannister|the lion]]? By what right? {{Ref|aSoS|37}}}} - [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|My lady, has no one told you? Lannisters lie. {{Ref|asos|37}}}} - [[Roose Bolton]] to [[Brienne of Tarth]]

{{Quote|Not every Lannister is fool for glory. {{Ref|aDwD|16}}}} - [[Kevan Lannister]] to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|The Lannisters make enemies easily but have a harder time keeping friends.{{ref|aDwD|61}}}} - [[Haldon]] Halfmaester

{{Quote|The Lannisters have no honor. {{ref|adwd|27}}}} - [[Jorah Mormont]]

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Karlon Stark

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Lord '''Karlon Stark''' was a younger son of a Lord of [[Winterfell]].

==History==
A thousand years ago, after putting down a rebel lord, Karlon was granted lands by his father for his success and bravery. Originally the castle he built was named Karl's Hold but eventually the name changed to [[Karhold]] and the Karhold Starks became the [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].{{ref|asos|20}}

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Karlon Stark

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Lord '''Karlon Stark''' was a younger son of a Lord of [[Winterfell]].

==History==
A thousand years ago, after putting down a rebel lord, Karlon was granted lands by his father for his success and bravery. Originally the castle he built was named Karl's Hold but eventually the name changed to [[Karhold]] and the Karhold Starks became the [[House Karstark|Karstarks]].{{ref|asos|20}}

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House Karstark

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'''House Karstark of Karhold''' is a noble house from [[Karhold]] in [[the North]]. They are a cadet branch of their overlords, [[House Stark|the Starks]], and are among their principal bannermen.{{ref|agot|Appendix}} Karstarks are big, fierce men, bearded and long-haired, with brown hair and blue-grey eyes, and favor wearing cloaks made of the pelts of seals, bears, and wolves. Their blazon is a white sunburst on black and their motto is "The Sun of Winter".<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Entry/House_Karstark House Karstark]</ref>

==History==
The Karstarks are descendants of the [[First Men]] and have the blood of the [[House Stark|Starks]] of [[Winterfell]] in their veins from a thousand years before. Their founder was [[Karlon Stark]], who put down a rebel lord and was granted lands for his valor.{{Ref|aSoS|20}} The castle he built was named Karl's Hold, but that soon became [[Karhold]], and over the centuries the Karhold Starks became Karstarks. Karhold lies far to the northeast of Winterfell in the midst of a forest beyond the [[Last River]], overlooking the [[Shivering Sea]].{{Ref|aSoS|20}} East of Karhold are the [[Grey Cliffs]].

Lord [[Rickard Karstark]] fought alongside Lord [[Eddard Stark]] at the [[Battle of the Trident]].

==Recent Events==

===''A Game of Thrones''===
The Karstarks answer the call of [[Robb Stark]] when he calls the banners of the North. Led by Lord Rickard and his sons, [[Harrion Karstark|Harrion]], [[Eddard Karstark|Eddard]], and [[Torrhen Karstark|Torrhen]], they bring three hundred horse and near two thousand foot to [[Winterfell]], singing hymns and marching to the rhythm of a big drum. The Karstark family enters the castle to pay their respects to the Starks, wearing black iron halfhelms and black woolen cloaks patterned with the white sunburst. [[Bran Stark]] overhears Eddard Karstark muttering to his brother Torrhen that he would sooner die than live crippled as Bran. Torrhen replies that Bran is likely broken inside, but is too craven to take his own life.

On the march south, the Karhold men quarter in the [[Drunkard's Tower]] at [[Moat Cailin]]. [[Catelyn Tully]] warns her son Robb that he cannot seem indecisive in front of men like [[Roose Bolton]] and Rickard Karstark. When the Stark host splits at [[the Twins]], Rickard's heir Harrion leads the Karstark spears with Lord Bolton's infantry, while Rickard and his other sons accompany Robb with their cavalry.

Eddard and Torrhen are two of the [[Robb's personal guard|thirty sons of lords]] who ride with the Young Wolf during the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]], where they are killed by [[Jaime Lannister]].

Among others, [[Tyrion Lannister]] sees the Karstark sunburst among the enemy banners at the [[Green Fork]]. He follows Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]'s charge against a double crescent of Karstark spearmen waiting behind tall oaken shields with the sigil of [[Karhold]]. Harrion is captured during the [[Battle of the Green Fork]] and brought to [[Harrenhal]].

Rickard desires vengeance for his sons, but Jaime is needed as a prisoner. After the [[Battle of the Camps]], Rickard Karstark is seen by Catelyn praying at [[Riverrun]]'s godswood with Robb and other followers of the [[old gods]]. He is perceived by Catelyn as a man in a nightmare, gaunt and hollow-eyed in his grief. Lord Rickard remains loyal and is the second man to proclaim Robb the [[King in the North]] after Lord [[Jon Umber (Greatjon)|Greatjon Umber]].

===''A Clash of Kings''===
The Karstarks are one of the families with ties to [[House Hornwood]] through the female line, and thus one of the houses interested on the inheritance of the [[Hornwood]] lands after the deaths of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]] and his heir, [[Daryn Hornwood|Daryn]].

Lord Karstark campaigns with Robb through the [[Westerlands]], driving a lance through Ser [[Stafford Lannister]]'s chest at the [[Battle of Oxcross]] and raiding along the coast thereafter along with [[Galbart Glover]].

[[Tyrion Lannister]], the acting [[Hand of the King]], plans to exchange Harrion Karstark and Ser [[Wylis Manderly]] for [[Willem Lannister]], but the negotiations fail. When [[Roose Bolton]] takes Harrenhal, Harrion is released from captivity. Lord Bolton sends him as part of [[Robett Glover]] and Ser [[Helman Tallhart]]'s force to take [[Duskendale]].

[[Arnolf Karstark]], the castellan of Karhold, sent regrets to Winterfell that they cannot send help to Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] against the [[ironborn]] because all the men had gone south with Robb. [[Theon Greyjoy]] notices few Karstark banners among [[battle at Winterfell|the army commanded by Rodrik]] that gathers at Winterfell to expel the ironmen.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the [[Sack of Winterfell]], [[Bran Stark]] considers going to the [[House Umber|Umbers]] or the Karstarks, whom he considers loyal. He remembers that his father [[Eddard Stark]] always said Karhold was a strong castle.

In the [[Battle of Duskendale]], Harrion is captured by Lord [[Randyll Tarly]]'s army, and is held at [[Maidenpool]]. The Karstarks that survive the battle rejoin Roose Bolton's forces.

Lord Karstark returns from the Westerlands with the rest of Robb's army. Finding that [[Catelyn Tully]] had freed [[Jaime Lannister]] from captivity in an effort to retrieve her daughters, Rickard feels she has robbed him of his vengeance. Driven to desperation, he and seven of his men murder the captive squires [[Tion Frey]] and [[Willem Lannister]], killing two [[House Tully|Tully]] men in the process. Meanwhile, his cavalry scours the Riverlands for Ser Jaime, as Rickard has promised the hand of his daughter [[Alys Karstark|Alys]] to whomever brings him Jaime's head.{{ref|ASOS|31}}

For his crime, Robb Stark sentences Rickard to death and beheads him. In his speech before his execution, Rickard appeals to his and his family's loyalty to House Stark, and curses Robb with an accusation of kinslaying due to the ancient relation between Karstarks and Starks. After the execution of Lord Rickard, the Karstark cavalry breaks away from the rest of the northmen and returns to Karhold.

The Karstark infantry are part of the force that Lord Bolton keeps with him after the [[Battle of the Ruby Ford]]. They march with Lord Bolton to [[the Twins]] for [[Red Wedding|the wedding]] between [[Edmure Tully]] and [[Roslin Frey]].{{Ref|aSoS|49}}

Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] sends a raven to Karhold in a plea for help to defend [[Battle of Castle Black|Castle Black]] from [[wildlings]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Brienne of Tarth]] spots the badge of House Karstark among those that have been collected from the dead around [[Duskendale]].{{Ref|aFfC|9}}

Ser [[Roger Hogg]], the Knight of [[Sow's Horn]] in the [[Crownlands]], tells Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] that he had been attacked by men wearing the white sunburst. Ser [[Daven Lannister]] confesses to Jaime that he had sworn not to cut his hair until avenging his father, Ser [[Stafford Lannister]], but he could not accomplish his goal once Rickard Karstark was executed by Robb.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
With the death of Lord Rickard, [[Harrion Karstark]] becomes the new Lord of [[Karhold]]. With Harrion in [[House Lannister|Lannister]] captivity, however, Rickard's uncle [[Arnolf Karstark]], the castellan of Karhold, declares for King [[Stannis Baratheon]]. House Karstark is the only major northern house to do so.{{Ref|aDwD|3}} Secretly, however, Arnolf is in a plot with the [[House Bolton|Boltons]]{{Ref|aDwD|32}} to provoke the Lannisters into executing Harrion and then marry his son [[Cregan Karstark|Cregan]] to Rickard's daughter [[Alys Karstark|Alys]], and then turning against Stannis when his forces reach [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aDwD|44}}

Alys flees to the [[Wall]] seeking Lord Commander [[Jon Snow]]'s help, and reveals the situation. Arnolf's plot to claim Karhold is foiled when Jon arranges a marriage between Alys and [[Sigorn]], the [[Magnar]] of [[Thenn (region)|Thenn]]. Should Harrion die, lordship of Karhold would pass to Alys and the newly-founded [[House Thenn]].{{Ref|aDwD|49}} Jon sends a raven to Stannis informing him of Arnolf's treachery. Cregan arrives at [[Castle Black]] only to find Alys already wed, and he is thrown into an ice cell. He is given the choice to join the [[Night's Watch]] and be cleared of all crimes or wait for the return of King Stannis and be executed for treason.

===''The Winds of Winter''===
Stannis learns of Arnolf's plot thanks to a letter sent by Jon Snow. Stannis summons Arnolf, his son [[Arthor Karstark|Arthor]], and his three grandchildren, to his presence under the pretext of breaking fast. Stannis's knights surround and arrest the Karstarks, injuring two of the grandchildren in the process. Stannis offers the Karstarks a choice between cooperation and being granted swift deaths, or being burned alive.<ref>[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)]]</ref>

==House Karstark at the end of the third century==
The known Karstarks during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Lord [[Rickard Karstark|{Rickard Karstark}]], Lord of Karhold. He is executed by [[Robb Stark]].
** [[Harrion Karstark]], his eldest son, the new Lord of Karhold. Called "Harry" by his sister. A hostage of the Iron Throne.
** [[Torrhen Karstark|{Torrhen Karstark}]], his second son, called "Torr" by his sister. Slain at the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]].
** [[Eddard Karstark|{Eddard Karstark}]], his third son, called "Edd" by his sister. Slain at the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]].
** [[Alys Karstark]], his daughter, and Harrion's heir. Married to [[Sigorn]], the [[Magnar]] of [[Thenn]].
* [[Arnolf Karstark]], his uncle. Called "Lord Arnolf" despite being only the castellan of Karhold.
** [[Cregan Karstark]], Arnolf's eldest son, a prisoner of the Night's Watch.
** [[Arthor Karstark]], Arnolf's second son.
***Three grandchildren, sons of Arthor.

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==Historical Members==
* Lord [[Karlon Stark]], founder of the house.
* Lady [[Margaret Karstark]], married [[Bennard Stark]], mother of [[Benjen Stark (son of Bennard)|Benjen]], [[Brandon Stark (son of Bennard)|Brandon]] and [[Elric Stark]].{{ref|twoiaf| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}
* Lady [[Alys Karstark (wife of Brandon)|Alys Karstark]], married Lord [[Brandon Stark (son of Cregan)|Brandon Stark]], mother of [[Rodwell Stark|Rodwell]], [[Beron Stark|Beron]] and [[Arsa Stark]].{{ref|twoiaf| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}
* [[Lysara Karstark]], married [[Artos Stark]], third son of Lord [[Beron Stark]], mother of [[Brandon Stark (son of Artos)|Brandon]] and [[Benjen Stark (son of Artos)|Benjen Stark]].{{ref|twoiaf| Appendix: Stark Lineage}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|'''Ramsay''': Scratch a Karstark and you'll find a [[House Stark|Stark]]. 
'''Roose''': After the scratch [[Robb Stark|the Young Wolf]] gave Lord [[Rickard Karstark|Rickard]], that may be somewhat less true than formerly.{{ref|ADWD|32}}}} - [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] and [[Roose Bolton]]

==References and Notes==
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[[File:Children of the Forest.jpg|thumb|350px|Child of the forest, in its natural habitat.]]
[[File:Children of the forest by kallielef.jpg|thumb|350px|A child of the forest. © Kallielef]]
[[File:Children of the Forest greenseers.jpg|thumb|350px|Depiction of a [[greenseer]] singing the song of the earth.]]
[[File:HBO cotf hand.png|thumb|350px|Their hands had only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails.]]
The '''children of the forest''', sometimes referred to simply as the "children" are a mysterious non-human race that originally inhabited the continent of [[Westeros]] long before the arrival of the [[First Men]] during the [[Dawn Age]] more than 12,000 years ago. The [[giants]] call them ''woh dak nag gram'' ('little squirrel people'). They call themselves ''those who sing the song of earth'' in the [[True Tongue]].{{Ref|aDwD|13}}

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Children of the Forest|Images of the Children of the Forest]]''
The children were smaller than men with nut-brown skin, dappled like a deer's with paler spots. They had large ears that could hear things that no man could hear.

They usually had large eyes, great golden cat's eyes, that could see down passages where a boy's eyes saw only blackness. They have vertical, slit-like pupils; this trait is responsible for improved night vision and typically associated with a nocturnal lifestyle in such creatures as cats (the children's eyes are described in ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' as resembling cats' eyes) and many species of snakes, including nearly all vipers (despite [[Doran Martell]]'s reference to his brother [[Oberyn Martell|Oberyn's]] "viper eyes," the Red Viper is never described as sharing this feature with the children of the forest). A few had green or red eyes; these had the gift of [[greensight]] and were known as [[greenseer]]s.

Their hands had only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails.{{Ref|aDwD|34}} The children were slight, quick, and graceful.

==History==
{{Quote|They were a people of the [[Dawn Age]], the very first, before kings and kingdoms, in those days, there were no castles or holdfasts, no cities not so much as a market town to be found between here and the [[sea of Dorne]]. There were no men at all. Only the children of the forest dwelt in the lands we now call the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{Ref|aGoT|66|p 737}}}}
It is unknown where the children of the forest came from, nor for how long they alone in their land before humans arrived. A child named [[Leaf]] claimed at least "a thousand thousand of your man-years."{{Ref|ADwD|34|p 496}} For thousands of years the children had to themselves, or shared only with the [[giants]], the landmass that later became known as [[Westeros]]. Eventually about 12,000 years ago, the children came in contact with the [[First Men]], the first outsiders. These invaders from [[Essos]] brought with them bronze, great leathern shields, the first [[horse]]s, and their own gods. They burned the great [[weirwood]]s as they came, leading to [[War of the First Men and the children of the forest|war]] between the two.

For roughly 2,000 years the two races fought a desperate war for dominance. The children used their magic to shatter the [[Arm of Dorne]], the land-bridge through which the First Men came, in a futile attempt to end the invasion and later flooded [[the Neck]] - where legend has it that the children called upon their [[old gods|gods]] from the [[Children's Tower]] to send the [[hammer of the waters]] to smash the Neck, as they smashed the Arm of Dorne, but it was not enough to stop the advance of the First Men. The histories say that some of the First Men, the [[crannogmen]], grew close to the children of the forest in the days when the greenseers tried to bring the hammer of the waters down upon the Neck.{{Ref|acok|50|p 733}}

Eventually the First Men and the children fought one another to a standstill. The two races agreed to peaceful coexistence and signed the [[Pact]] on the [[Isle of Faces]], granting the open lands to humanity and the forests to the children.

The Pact lasted for 4,000 years before the enigmatic [[Others]] invaded from the uttermost north, bringing death and destruction to both races, during an extended period of winter known as [[the Long Night]]. The children of the forest joined with the First Men, lead by the [[last hero]], to fight against the Others in the [[Battle for the Dawn]]. Eventually the Others were driven back into the [[Lands of Always Winter]].

After the Long Night, the First Men and the children of the forest lived in relative peace. In these years, the children of the forest began their slow withdrawal from the lands of men, retreating deeper into their forests and [[beyond the Wall]]. During the [[Age of Heroes]] it was also recorded by the [[Night's Watch]] that the children of the forest gave the black brothers a hundred obsidian daggers every year.{{Ref|aFfC|5}}

The children of the forest taught the worship of the [[old gods]] to the First Men, but the old gods were largely supplanted in the south by the [[Faith of the Seven]] after the [[Andal invasion]]. A hill, now known to the Westerosi as [[High Heart]], was sacred to the children of the forest. There the [[Andal]] king [[Erreg]] the [[Kinslayer]] cut down the children’s grove of thirty-one weirwoods.{{Ref|asos|22|p 249}} High Heart is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the children who died there, likely defending their grove from Erreg. Some of the children’s magic is said to still linger at High Heart.

Relations between the children and humans grew distant over the years, until they ceased altogether. By the time of [[Aegon's Landing]], humans had not seen the children for thousands of years.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}

It is unknown if there is a connection between the children of the forest and the [[Ifequevron]], or "woods walkers", of northern Essos; [[Vaes Leisi]] is a ruined settlement of carved trees and haunted grottoes.{{Ref|awoiaf}}

==Culture==
The children did not use metal, weave cloth or build cities; instead they lived off the land, using stone implements, wearing bark leg-bindings and shirts of woven leaves, dwelling in caves, crannogs, and hidden tree villages. Males and females both hunted side by side. The children had no books, no ink, no parchment and no written language.{{Ref|aDwD|34}} They were a people with a deep connection to the land.{{Ref|aGoT|66}} The children wielded [[obsidian]] weapons and bows in battle, but also used powerful [[magic]].

Legends say the children of the forest were gifted with supernatural powers and magic; having power over the beasts of the wood, the ability to wear an animal’s skin, the skill to create music so beautiful as to bring tears to the eyes of any who heard it, the [[greensight]] ability (although [[maesters]] believe that the greensight was not magic, simply another kind of knowledge) and the ability to speak to the dead.{{ref|acok|13}} It was the children who carved the faces on the [[weirwood]]s to keep watch over the woods.{{Ref|aCoK|28}} They believe that their wisdom had something to do with the faces in the trees.{{Ref|aCoK|28}} The children of the forest believed that the weirwood trees were gods, and when they died they became a part of them.{{ref|aDwD|34}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Although people in [[Westeros]] believe the children of the forest to be extinct there are a few that still live in the world of men. A dwindling remnant of their population is located far north of the [[Wall]], in [[cave of the three-eyed crow|a cave system under a hill]]; the entrance is a warded cleft in the hillside.{{Ref|aDwD|34}}

The caves are home to more than three score living singers and the bones of thousands dead, and extend far below the hollow hill. The children of the forest live with whom they refer to as ''the [[Three-eyed crow|Last Greenseer]]''. One of the children, [[Leaf]], tells [[Bran Stark]] that even the children of the forest have not explored all of the caves, even though they have lived there for a thousand thousand man-years.[[File:Bran Stark and the Children of the Forest.jpg|thumb|400px|right| Depiction of Brandon Stark with the children of the forest by Conor Campbell ©]] Bran hears them sing sad songs in the [[True Tongue]] so he cannot understand the words, but their voices are as pure as the winter air.{{Ref|aDwD|34}}

Leaf tells Bran the children have:

{{Quote|Gone down into the earth … Into the stones, into the trees. Before the [[First Men]] came all this land that you call [[Westeros]] was home to us, yet even in those days we were few. [[old gods|The gods]] gave us long lives but not great numbers, lest we overrun the world as deer will overrun a wood where there are no wolves to hunt them. That was in the [[Dawn Age|dawn of days]], when our sun was rising. Now it sinks, and this is our long dwindling. The [[giants]] are almost gone as well, they who were our bane and our brothers. The great [[lion]]s of the [[westerlands|western hills]] have been slain, the [[unicorns]] are all but gone, the [[mammoth]]s down to a few hundred. The [[direwolf|direwolves]] will outlast us all, but their time will come as well. In the world that men have made, there is no room for them, or us.{{Ref|aDwD|34}}}}

Although Bran is saddened by Leaf's explanation and demeanor, he later thinks to himself: {{quote|Men would not be sad. Men would be wroth. Men would hate and swear a bloody vengeance. The singers sings sad songs, where men would fight and kill.{{Ref|aDwD|34}}}}

==Known children of the forest==
*[[Leaf]]
*[[Ash]]
*[[Scales]]
*[[Black Knife]]
*[[Snowylocks]]
*[[Coals]]

==Quotes==

{{Quote|Bran, the children of the forest have been dead and gone for thousands of years. All that is left of them are the [[Heart tree|faces in the trees]].{{ref|AGOT|24}}}} – Maester [[Luwin]], to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|'''Osha''': The children of the forest could tell you a thing or two about dreaming. 
'''Luwin''': The children ... live only in dreams. Now. Dead and gone.{{ref|AGOT|66|p 736}}}} – [[Osha]] and [[Luwin]], to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|[[Beyond the Wall|North of the Wall]], things are different. That’s where the children went, and the [[giants]], and the other old races.{{ref|AGOT|66|p 736}}}} - [[Osha]], to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|The children are gone from this world, and their wisdom with them.{{ref|ACOK|28}}}} – [[Luwin]], to [[Bran Stark]]

{{Quote|The children of the forest are all dead. The [[First Men]] killed half of them with bronze blades, and the [[Andals]] finished the job with iron.{{Ref|ASOS|33|p 373}}}} - [[Jeor Mormont]], to [[Samwell Tarly]]

{{Quote|[[Leaf]] and her people were far from childlike. Little wise men of the forest would have been closer. {{Ref|aDwD|34}}}} - [[Bran Stark]]'s thoughts

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Could it be that Coldhands rides on a Megaloceros [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros] ? This is, technically, a great elk, but bigger than every living one and extinct in our time like the mammoth which was also described as alive in Westeros. --[[User:Exodianecross|Exodianecross]] ([[User talk:Exodianecross|talk]]) 19:00, 18 July 2015 (CDT)

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