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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 46

2013-05-27T21:37:37Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| title = A Ghost in Winterfell
| pov pagename = Theon Greyjoy
| previous = The Blind Girl
| next = Tyrion X
| bantam hc page = 605
| arc previous = The Turncloak
| arc next = Theon I
}}

==Synopsis==
One of [[Roger Ryswell]]'s men has been found dead at the inner wall of [[Winterfell]]. [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] hears Lord Roger Ryswell declare that he must've fallen off the wall drunk, but he suspects it might have been murder, as do some others.

[[Roose Bolton]] and his host are still stuck inside [[Winterfell]]'s walls due to the relentless snow storms. They expect Stannis' forces to attack them, but have no idea how close he may be due to the storms. Tensions rise among the people inside Winterfell, with no one quite certain whether it is a good idea to wait passively for Stannis or instead to pursue him outside. It doesn't help that food is somewhat scarce and distributed quite unevenly.

[[Holly]], one of Abel the Bard's washer women, sits down next to Theon, who is upset that she has touched him. She asks him about the crypts, and a mistrusting Theon comes to the conclusion that she, Abel, and the other women want out of the locked Winterfell. Theon sympathizes, but he fears the wrath of [[Ramsay Bolton]] and prefers not to get involved.

The next morning [[Aenys Frey]]'s squire is found dead and naked outside in the snow. Later on that day another man, a crossbowman sword to [[House Flint]], was found dead with a crushed skull, presumably from a horse kick.

Nevertheless, the suspicions and tensions keep growing to the point that open quarreling happens among the host's Lords inside the Great Hall. Some are tired of waiting for Stannis and want to attack him. A fight nearly breaks out as [[Hosteen Frey|Ser Hosteen]] and [[Aenys Frey]] blame [[Wyman Manderly]] for the deaths of their three kin [[Rhaegar Frey|Rhaegar]], [[Jared Frey|Jared]], and [[Symond Frey|Symond]]. It almost comes to a duel before [[Roger Ryswell]] and [[Barbrey Ryswell|Barbrey Dustin]] calm them down, though [[Roose Bolton|Roose]] did nothing throughout the near altercation and Theon sees something new in Roose's eyes for the first time; a hint of fear..

Soon the newly rebuilt stable collapses, killing two men and twenty-six horses. Roose Bolton gives orders for the surviving horses to be brought inside the walls of Winterfell.

A more suspicious death is discovered, that of [[Yellow Dick]]. His namesake is stuffed in his mouth so hard that three teeth have been broken. This death is taken more seriously as it can't be confused with an accident and to boot he is one of Ramsay Bolton's [[Bastard Boys]]. Theon is soon ushered to see Roose by [[Walton|Steelshanks Walton]]. Roose says that Theon has been seen where all the murders have occurred. Theon is freed from the suspicions due to his weakened physical and psychological state, as remarked by Lady Dustin and Roger Ryswell. It is now however undeniable that someone has been committing murders, possibly at Stannis' behest. The resulting suspicion flames the tensions between the Freys and the Northmen, who are reminded of their role at the [[Red Wedding]] and the fact they are surrounded by northern Houses who all lost people at the Red Wedding and have more than good reason to despise and do harm to the Freys.

Suddenly a war horn and drum is sounded, the men inside the walls begin to believe that Stannis has arrived. Theon goes to pray in the [[godswood]], seeing hints of [[Bran Stark|Bran]]'s very face in the [[weirwood]], hearing it whisper his name.

[[Holly]], [[Rowan]] and a third washerwoman appear, claiming to have come for him. Theon believes that they are behind the murders and want to kill him now, but they deny his suspicions and insist that there will be no more hurt for him but instead a nice, quick death - but first he must see Abel.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Theon Greyjoy]]/[[Theon Greyjoy|"Reek"]]/ [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon Turncloak]]
*[[Ben Bones]]
*[[Grey Jeyne]]
*[[Roger Ryswell]]
*[[Hosteen Frey]]
*[[Ondrew Locke]]
*[[Yellow Dick]]
*[[Sour Alyn]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton]]
*[[Damon Dance-for-Me]]
*[[Skinner]]
*[[Hother Umber|Whoresbane Umber]]
*[[Rickard Ryswell]]
*[[Barbrey Dustin]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Holly]]
*[[Aenys Frey]]
*[[Harwood Stout]]
*[[Roose Ryswell]]
*[[Wyman Manderly]]
*[[Sara]]
*[[Willow (Hound)|Willow]]
*[[Mance Rayder|Abel]]
*[[Luton]]
*[[Grunt]]
*[[Walton|Steelshanks Walton]]
*[[Roose Bolton]]
*[[Rowan]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
*[[Roose Ryswell]]
*[[Melisandre]]
*[[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder Frey]]
*[[Red Jeyne]]
*[[Jez]]
*[[Helicent]]
*[[Aggar]]
*[[Gynir|Gynir Rednose]]
*[[Gelmarr|Gelmarr the Grim]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton|"Reek"]]
*[[Rhaegar Frey]]
*[[Jared Frey]]
*[[Symond Frey]]
*[[Wendel Manderly]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Wylis Manderly]]
*[[Jeyne Poole|"Arya Stark"]]
*[[Mikken]]
*[[Farlen]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]
*[[Jon Umber (Greatjon)|Greatjon Umber]]
*[[Donella Hornwood]]
*[[Robb Stark]]/[[Robb Stark|Young Wolf]]
*[[Jon Snow]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Bran Stark]]
*[[Rickon Stark]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[Winterfell#Inner Castle|Great Hall]] (Winterfell)
*[[Dreadfort]]
*[[Winterfell|Battlements Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[Winterfell#External Walls|Hunter's Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[Winterfell|Kingsroad Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[White Harbor]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Riverrun]]
*[[Pyke]]
*[[Iron Islands]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Acorn Water]]
*[[Winterfell#Inner Castle|Great Keep]] (Winterfell)
*[[Barrowton]]
*[[Wolfswood]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Tallhart]]
*[[House Cerwyn]]
*[[R'hllor|Red God]]
*[[Bastard's Boys]]
*[[Old Gods]]
*[[House Flint]]
*[[Faith of the Seven|The Seven]]
*"[[Iron Lances]]"
*"[[The Winter Maid]]"
*"[[The Queen Took Off Her Sandal, the King Took Off His Crown]]"
*"[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]"
*[[House Frey]]
*"[[The Maids That Bloom in Spring]]"
*[[Kinslayer]]
*[[Ironborn]]
*[[Godswood]]
*[[Red Wedding]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Slate]]
*[[House Ryswell]]
*[[House Dustin]]
*[[Northmen]]
*[[House Baratheon]]
*[[House Bolton]]
*[[Horn of Joramun]]
*[[House Hornwood]]
*[[House Locke]]
*[[House Stark]]
*[[Direwolf]]
*[[Weirwood]]/[[Weirwood|Heart Tree]]
*[[House Greyjoy]]
|}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 46]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Winterfell]]

[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 47, Un fantôme à Winterfell]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 46

2013-05-27T21:36:38Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| title = A Ghost in Winterfell
| pov pagename = Theon Greyjoy
| previous = The Blind Girl
| next = Tyrion X
| bantam hc page = 605
| arc previous = The Turncloak
| arc next = Theon I
}}

==Synopsis==
One of [[Roger Ryswell]]'s men has been found dead at the inner wall of [[Winterfell]]. [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] hears Lord Roger Ryswell declare that he must've fallen off the wall drunk, but he suspects it might have been murder, as do some others.

[[Roose Bolton]] and his host are still stuck inside [[Winterfell]]'s walls due to the relentless snow storms. They expect Stannis' forces to attack them, but have no idea how close he may be due to the storms. Tensions rise among the people inside Winterfell, with no one quite certain whether it is a good idea to wait passively for Stannis or instead to pursue him outside. It doesn't help that food is somewhat scarce and distributed quite unevenly.

[[Holly]], one of Abel the Bard's washer women, sits down next to Theon, who is upset that she has touched him. She asks him about the crypts, and a mistrusting Theon comes to the conclusion that she, Abel, and the other women want out of the locked Winterfell. Theon sympathizes, but he fears the wrath of [[Ramsay Bolton]] and prefers not to get involved.

The next morning [[Aenys Frey]]'s squire is found dead and naked outside in the snow. Later on that day another man, a crossbowman sword to [[House Flint]], was found dead with a crushed skull, presumably from a horse kick.

Nevertheless, the suspicions and tensions keep growing to the point that open quarreling happens among the host's Lords inside the Great Hall. Some are tired of waiting for Stannis and want to attack him. A fight nearly breaks out as [[Hosteen Frey|Ser Hosteen]] and [[Aenys Frey]] blame [[Wyman Manderly]] for the deaths of their three kin [[Rhaegar Frey|Rhaegar]], [[Jared Frey|Jared]], and [[Symond Frey|Symond]]. It almost comes to a duel before [[Roger Ryswell]] and [[Barbrey Ryswell|Barbrey Dustin]] calm them down, though [[Roose Bolton|Roose]] did nothing throughout the near altercation and Theon sees something new in Roose's eyes for the first time; a hint of fear..

Soon the newly rebuilt stable collapses, killing two men and twenty-six horses. Roose Bolton gives orders for the surviving horses to be brought inside the walls of Winterfell.

A more suspicious death is discovered, that of [[Yellow Dick]]. His namesake is stuffed in his mouth so hard that three teeth have been broken. This death is taken more seriously as it can't be confused with an accident and to boot he is one of Ramsay Bolton's [[Bastard Boys]]. Theon is soon ushered to see Roose by [[Walton|Steelshanks Walton]]. Roose says that Theon has been seen where all the murders have occurred. Theon is freed from the suspicions due to his weakened physical and psychological state, as remarked by Lady Dustin and Roger Ryswell. It is now however undeniable that someone has been committing murders, possibly at Stannis' behest. The resulting suspicion flames the tensions between the Freys and the Northmen, who are reminded of their role at the [[Red Wedding]] and the fact they are surrounded by northern Houses who all lost people at the Red Wedding and have more than good reason to despise and do harm to the Freys.

Suddenly a war horn and drum is sounded, the men inside the walls begin to believe that Stannis has arrived. Theon goes to pray in the [[godswood]], seeing hints of [[Bran Stark|Bran]]'s very face in the [[weirwood]], hearing it whisper his name.

[[Holly]], [[Rowan]] and a third washerwoman appear, claiming to have come for him. Theon believes that they are behind the murders and want to kill him now, but they deny his suspicions and insist that there will be no more hurt for him but instead a nice, quick death - but first he must see Abel.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Theon Greyjoy]]/[[Theon Greyjoy|"Reek"]]/ [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon Turncloak]]
*[[Ben Bones]]
*[[Grey Jeyne]]
*[[Roger Ryswell]]
*[[Hosteen Frey]]
*[[Ondrew Locke]]
*[[Yellow Dick]]
*[[Sour Alyn]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton]]
*[[Damon Dance-for-Me]]
*[[Skinner]]
*[[Hother Umber|Whoresbane Umber]]
*[[Rickard Ryswell]]
*[[Barbrey Dustin]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Holly]]
*[[Aenys Frey]]
*[[Harwood Stout]]
*[[Roose Ryswell]]
*[[Wyman Manderly]]
*[[Sara]]
*[[Willow (Hound)|Willow]]
*[[Mance Rayder|Abel]]
*[[Luton]]
*[[Grunt]]
*[[Walton|Steelshanks Walton]]
*[[Roose Bolton]]
*[[Rowan]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
*[[Roose Ryswell]]
*[[Melisandre]]
*[[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder Frey]]
*[[Red Jeyne]]
*[[Jez]]
*[[Helicent]]
*[[Aggar]]
*[[Gynir|Gynir Rednose]]
*[[Gelmarr|Gelmarr the Grim]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton|"Reek"]]
*[[Rhaegar Frey]]
*[[Jared Frey]]
*[[Symond Frey]]
*[[Wendel Manderly]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Wylis Manderly]]
*[[Jeyne Poole|"Arya Stark"]]
*[[Mikken]]
*[[Farlen]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]
*[[Jon Umber (Greatjon)|Greatjon Umber]]
*[[Donella Hornwood]]
*[[Robb Stark]]/[[Robb Stark|Young Wolf]]
*[[Jon Snow]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Bran Stark]]
*[[Rickon Stark]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[Winterfell#Inner Castle|Great Hall]] (Winterfell)
*[[Dreadfort]]
*[[Winterfell|Battlements Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[Winterfell#External Walls|Hunter's Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[Winterfell|Kingsroad Gate]] (Winterfell)
*[[White Harbor]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Riverrun]]
*[[Pyke]]
*[[Iron Islands]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Acorn Water]]
*[[Winterfell#Inner Castle|Great Keep]] (Winterfell)
*[[Barrowton]]
*[[Wolfswood]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Tallhart]]
*[[House Cerwyn]]
*[[R'hllor|Red God]]
*[[Bastard's Boys]]
*[[Old Gods]]
*[[House Flint]]
*[[Faith of the Seven|The Seven]]
*"[[Iron Lances]]"
*"[[The Winter Maid]]"
*"[[The Queen Took Off Her Sandal, the King Took Off His Crown]]"
*"[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]"
*[[House Frey]]
*"[[The Maids That Bloom in Spring]]"
*[[Kinslayer]]
*[[Ironborn]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Godswood]]
*[[Red Wedding]]
*[[House Slate]]
*[[House Ryswell]]
*[[House Dustin]]
*[[Northmen]]
*[[House Baratheon]]
*[[House Bolton]]
*[[Horn of Joramun]]
*[[House Hornwood]]
*[[House Locke]]
*[[House Stark]]
*[[Direwolf]]
*[[Weirwood]]/[[Weirwood|Heart Tree]]
*[[House Greyjoy]]
|}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 46]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Winterfell]]

[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 47, Un fantôme à Winterfell]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 37

2013-05-27T17:26:15Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| title = The Prince of Winterfell
| pov pagename = Theon Greyjoy
| previous = Daenerys VI
| next = The Watcher
| bantam hc page = 484
| arc previous = Reek III
| arc next = The Turncloak
}}

==Synopsis==
The Arya impostor, [[Jeyne Poole]], is preparing for her marriage to [[Ramsay Bolton]], out of fear more than for any other reason. [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] reminds her that she should think of herself as [[Arya Stark]] at all times in order to avoid the dangers of enraging Ramsay. Her plight moves Theon considerably.

Theon has been chosen to ceremoniously present "Arya" in marriage to Ramsay, since he was the longtime ward of [[Eddard Stark]] for so long and it is widely believed that Arya's trueborn brothers are died. [[Jon Snow]] is a bastard half-brother and while Theon believes [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark]] to be alive, he does not dare to reveal that.

Meanwhile, [[Winterfell]] is suffering from both a hard white frost and the looming menace of the coming of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s troops. Even so, Ramsay marries Fake Arya in the [[godswood]]. A bard by the name of Abel arrives uninvited, with six women followers, to perform for the wedding.<ref>Page 491; see also page 472, at the trailing end of [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 35|Chapter 35 (Jon)]]</ref> Theon believes that he hears his name ("Theon") whispered by the godswood, after months of thinking of himself only as Reek. That and the memories of a different life in a far livelier Winterfell shake him deeply.

After the marriage there is a banquet with many northern guests, including Lord [[Wyman Manderly]], who is particularly enthusiastic with the meal. Lady [[Barbrey Dustin]] engages in a surprisingly frank conversation with Theon about her mistrusts of the Boltons and of the [[maester]]s of the [[Citadel]].

Ramsay calls for Theon and cruelly humiliates both him and the fake Arya (Jeyne) in his quarters.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 37]]

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Theon Greyjoy]]/[[Theon Greyjoy|"Reek"]]
*[[Jeyne Poole]]/[[Jeyne Poole|"Arya Stark"]]
*[[Harwood Stout]]
*[[Ondrew Locke]]
*[[Hother Umber]]/[[Hother Umber|Whoresbane]]
*[[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder Frey]]
*[[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder Frey]]
*[[Roose Bolton]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton]]
*[[Fat Walda Frey|Fat Walda Bolton]]
*[[Mance Rayder|Abel]]
*[[Barbrey Dustin]]
*[[Hosteen Frey]]
*[[Aenys Frey]]
*[[Medrick|Maester Medrick]]
*[[Rhodry|Maester Rhodry]]
*[[Henly (Maester)|Maester Henly]]
*[[Sour Alyn]]
*[[Yellow Dick]]
*[[Damon Dance-for-Me]]
*[[Skinner]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Arya Stark]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Sansa Stark]]
*[[Robb Stark]]/[[Robb Stark|Young Wolf]]
*[[Bran Stark]]
*[[Rickon Stark]]
*[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]
*[[Brandon Stark]]
*[[Benjen Stark]]
*[[Jon Snow]]
*[[Wyman Manderly]]
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
*[[Balon Greyjoy]]
*[[Jory Cassel]]
*[[Luwin|Maester Luwin]]
*[[Sansa Stark]]
*[[Tommen Baratheon]]
*[[Rodrik Cassel]]
*[[Smiler]]
*[[Lord Walder Frey]]
*[[Danny Flint]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Wendel Manderly]]
*[[Wylis Manderly]]
*[[Wynafryd Manderly]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]/[[Jaime Lannister|Kingslayer]]
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]/[[Tyrion Lannister|Imp]]
*[[Halys Hornwood]]
*[[Medger Cerwyn]]
*[[House Slate|Lord Slate]]
*[[Rickard Stark]]
*[[Walys Flowers|Maester Walys]]
*[[Mors Umber|Crowfood Umber]]
*[[Arnolf Karstark]]
*[[Rat Cook]]
*[[Kyra]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Winterfell#Glass Garden|Glass Garden]]
*[[Barrowton]]
*[[Dreadfort]]
*[[The North]]
*[[Pyke]]
*[[Winterfell|Great Hall]]
*[[White Harbor]]
*[[Flint's Finger]]
*[[Moat Cailin]]
*[[Arbor]]
*[[Citadel]]
*[[Oldtown]]
*[[Deepwood Motte]]
*[[Winterfell|Great Keep]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Stark]]
*[[Night's Watch]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[House Slate]]
*[[House Ryswell]]
*[[House Hornwood]]
*[[House Cerwyn]]
*[[Godswood]]
*[[Weirwood]]/[[Weirwood|Heart Tree]]
*[[House Bolton]]
*[[Old Gods]]
*"[[Two Hearts That Beat As One]]"
*[[Ironborn]]
*[[Drowned God]]
*[[House Frey]]
*"[[Fair Maids of Summer]]"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Umber]]
*[[House Flint]]
*[[House Manderly]]
*[[House Tallhart]]
*[[House Poole]]
*"[[The Night That Ended]]"
*[[Red Wedding]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Maesters|Maester]]/[[Maesters#Archmaester|Archmaester]]
*[[House Hightower]]
*[[House Tully]]
*[[R'hllor|Red God]]
*[[Kingsroad]]
*[[House Karstark]]
*[[Bastard's Boys]]
|}

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

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Winterfell]]

[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 38, Le prince de Winterfell]]

Whoresbane Umber

2013-05-27T15:38:12Z

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#REDIRECT [[Hother Umber]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 70

2013-05-27T11:07:12Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| title = The Queen's Hand
| pov pagename = Barristan Selmy
| previous = Jon XIII
| next = Daenerys X
| bantam hc page = 914
| arc previous = The Kingbreaker
}}

==Synopsis==
[[File: Marc Fishman SerBS GreatP.jpg|Ser [[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan]] looks a smouldering [[Meereen]] - by Marc Fishman © |thumb|350px|left]]

[[Quentyn Martell]] is dead. [[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan]] is now the Queen's [[Hand of the King|Hand]], as head of a council ruling the city. Barristan sent the [[Galazza Galare|Green Grace Galazza Galare]] to treat with the [[Yunkai'i]], and make them release the hostages. Barristan does not expect them to comply, so he makes preparations for an attack on them, and sends the two [[Dornishmen]] [[Archibald Yronwood]] and [[Gerris Drinkwater]] and the other captives of the [[Windblown]] company back to the [[Tattered Prince]] and his company, hoping that they will convince the Prince to free and protect the hostages during the attack.

The Green Grace returns, telling Barristan that the Yunkai'i have refused his offer, and that the only price they will accept is the death of the dragons. As they speak, [[Shavepate]] runs in and tells them that the six trebuchets have begun flinging not rocks, but corpses into [[Meereen]].

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Barristan Selmy]]/[[Barristan Selmy|Whitebeard]]
*[[Quentyn Martell]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Skahaz mo Kandaq]]/[[Skahaz mo Kandaq|Shavepate]]
*[[Marselen]]
*[[Symon Stripeback]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Tal Toraq]]
*[[Jokin]]
*[[Widower]]
*[[Rommo]]
*[[Goghor the Giant]]
*[[Belaquo Bonebreaker]]
*[[Camarron of the Count]]
*[[Spotted Cat]]
*[[Belwas|Strong Belwas]]
*[[Tumco Lho|Tum]]
*[[The Red Lamb|Red Lamb]]
*[[Archibald Yronwood]]
*[[Gerris Drinkwater]]
*[[Bhakaz]]
*[[Grazdar zo Galare]]
*[[Azzak]]
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Galazza Galare]]
*[[Kezmya]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Pycelle|Grand Maester Pycelle]]
*[[Hizdahr zo Loraq]]
*[[Harghaz]]
*[[Mollono Yos Dob]]
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Harghaz|Harghaz the Hero]]
*[[Hero]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Doran Martell]]
*[[Cletus Yronwood]]
*[[Willam Wells]]
*[[Tattered Prince]]/[[Tattered Prince|Rags and Tatters]]
*[[Caggo]]
*[[Meris|Pretty Meris]]
*[[Hugh Hungerford]]
*[[Dick Straw]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[The Harpy]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Great Pyramid]]
*[[Naath]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Dothraki Sea]]
*[[Yunkai]]/[[Yunkai|Yellow City]]
*[[Summer Islands]]
*[[Daznak's Pit]]
*[[Pit of Ghrazz]]
*[[Golden Pit]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Skahazadhan]]
*[[Sunspear]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Pentos]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Duskendale]]
*[[Harvest Hall]]
*[[Tolos]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Ghis]]
*[[Valyria]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House of Hazkar]]
*[[House of Yherizan]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Blue Graces]]
*[[Bloody flux|Pale mare]]
*[[Silent Sisters]]
*[[Battle of the Trident]]
*[[Maesters#Grand Maester|Grand Maester]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Hand of the King|Hand of the Queen]]
*[[Green Grace]]
*[[Wise Masters]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[House of Uhlez]]
*[[Sons of the Harpy]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Brazen Beasts]]
*[[Mother's Men]]
*[[Free Brothers]]
*[[Stalwart Shields]]
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Stormcrows]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*''[[jaqqa rhan]]''
*[[Fighting pits|Pit fighters]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Faith of the Seven|The Seven]]
*[[Windblown]]
*[[White Book]]
*[[Pink Graces]]
*[[Poisoned locusts]]
|}

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[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Barristan Selmy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 70]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 71, La Main de la reine]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 67

2013-05-27T09:10:14Z

Beekowski: revision of lists

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| title = The Kingbreaker
| pov pagename = Barristan Selmy
| previous = Tyrion XII
| next = The Dragontamer
| bantam hc page = 874
| arc previous = The Discarded Knight
| arc next = The Queen's Hand
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan]] meets with [[Skahaz mo Kandaq]] again, and they go through with their plan to seize [[Hizdahr zo Loraq|Hizdahr]] and the city, and have it [[ruling council of Meereen|ruled by a council]] until [[Daenerys Targaryen|Dany]]'s return. They decide that their word for going ahead with the plan will be "''[[Groleo]]''," in reference to the hostage that was slain by the [[Yunkai]].

For the rest of the day, Barristan makes his rounds about [[Great Pyramid|the pyramid]] and trains with his boys. He thinks to himself that some of them might be ready for [[knight]]hood soon. However, as he wrestles with what he is planning to do that night, he decides it would be worse for the boys if they were knighted by an knight without honour. He lectures the boys about honor and thinks that someday maybe they will understand.

During the night, Ser Barristan defeats the pit fighter [[Khrazz]] who guards the king, and means to take [[Hizdahr]] to a cell, having cornered the king into having no way to deny that he was involved in the poisoned locusts that almost killed the queen. Then, a cup bearer informs them that the dragons ([[Viserion]] and [[Rhaegal]]) have been loosed upon the city.

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==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Skahaz mo Kandaq]]
*[[Tumco Lho]]
*[[Larraq]]/[[Larraq|The Lash]]
*[[The Red Lamb|Red Lamb]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Steelskin]]
*[[Draqaz]]
*[[Qezza]]
*[[Hizdahr zo Loraq]]
*[[Miklaz]]
*[[Khrazz]]
*[[Jezhene]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Groleo]]
*[[Bloodbeard]]
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Yurkhaz zo Yunzak]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Symon Stripeback]]
*[[Mollono Yos Dob]]
*[[Marselen]]
*[[Marghaz zo Loraq]]
*[[Reznak mo Reznak]]
*[[Hero]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Denys Darklyn]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Lyanna Stark]]
*[[Daemon Blackfyre]]
*[[Daenerys, daughter of Aegon IV]]
*[[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]]
*[[Brynden Rivers|Bloodraven]]
*[[Shiera Seastar]]
*[[Prince of Dragonflies]]
*[[Jenny of Oldstones]]
*[[Duncan Targaryen]]
*[[Jaehaerys II Targaryen]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Aegon V Targaryen]]
*[[Grazdar zo Galare]]
*[[Qezza]]
*[[Galazza Galare]]
*[[Mezzara]]
*[[Kezmya]]
*[[Azzak]]
*[[Bhakaz]]
*[[Dhazzar]]
*[[The Harpy]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Arthur Dayne]]
*[[House Whent|Lord Whent]]
*[[Oswell Whent]]
*[[Varys]]/[[Varys|The Spider]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Elia Martell|Elia of Dorne]]
*[[Ashara Dayne]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Lomas Longstrider]]
*[[Quentyn Martell]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Barsena Blackhair]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Great Pyramid|Great Pyramid of Meereen]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Volantis]]
*[[Duskendale]]
*[[Ghis]]
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Oldstones]]
*[[Summerhall]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Basilisk Isles]]
*[[Lhazar]]
*[[Ghis]]
*[[Red Keep]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Harrenhal]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Great Pyramid of Ghis]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Ghiscari Empire|Old Empire of Ghis]]
*[[Arbor]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House of Loraq]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Wise Masters]]
*[[Stormcrows]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Free Brothers]]
*[[Stalwart Shields]]
*[[Mother's Men]]
*[[Fighting pits]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Brazen Beasts]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*[[Summerhall#Tragedy at Summerhall|Tragedy at Summerhall]]
*[[Poisoned locusts]]
*[[Green Grace]]
*[[House of Merreq]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House of Pahl]]
*[[House of Ghazeen]]
*[[House of Zhak]]
*[[House of Quazzar]]
*[[House of Uhlez]]
*[[House of Hazkar]]
*[[House of Dhazak]]
*[[House of Yherizan]]
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[Battle of the Trident]]
*[[Sons of the Harpy]]
*[[Tourney at Harrenhal]]
*[[Queen of Love and Beauty]]
*[[Faith of the Seven|The Seven]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[arakh]]''
|}

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[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Barristan Selmy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 67]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 68, Le briseur de roi]]

Aerys II Targaryen

2013-05-27T06:08:59Z

Beekowski:

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| image = [[Image:AERYS II.jpg|350px]]
| image_caption = Aerys II by [http://en.amokanet.ru/gallery/martin/ Amoka©]
| reign = {{Date|262}} - {{Date|283}}
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| othertitles = King of the Seven Kingdoms
| alias = The Mad King King Scab The Old King
| fullname = Aerys Targaryen Second of His Name
| predecessor = [[Jaehaerys II]]
| successor = [[Robert Baratheon]]
| suc-type =
| heir = [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
| queen = [[Rhaella Targaryen]]
| consort =
| spouse =
| issue = [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]].
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| dateofbirth = {{Date|243}}
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| dateofdeath = {{Date|283}}
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[[File:Aerys_wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys and [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella's]] unhappy wedding]]
[[File:Tywin and Aerys.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Tywin Lannister]] Aerys [[King's Hand|Hand]]]]
[[File:Ilyn Payne loosing his tongue.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys deals with disturbing rumours - taking Ser [[Ilyn Payne]] tongue with hot pincers]]

'''Aerys II Targaryen''', also called '''Aerys the Mad''', '''the Mad King''', and '''King Scab''', was the seventeenth and last member of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] dynasty to sit the [[Iron Throne]], ruling from {{Date|262}} to {{Date|283}}.

Aerys showed great promise at the start of his reign, bringing peace and prosperity to the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but later descended into insanity following the brief uprising known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], in which he was held prisoner for several months by a rebellious lord. After that, his paranoia and cruelty grew out of control.

==Character & Appearance==
In his youth, Aerys II was charming, generous, handsome and resolute, although somewhat quick to anger. As he grew older, he became increasingly jealous, suspicious and cruel, prone to furious outbursts.

After the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], these characteristics became more pronounced. He began to see every unexplained event or act of minor defiance as evidence of fearful conspiracies against him, and devised sadistic punishments for those he imagined to be his enemies. He developed a fascination with fire, which eventually grew so consuming that he could only become sexually aroused by watching someone burn to death. His marriage to his sister-wife [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], while never happy, became sexually abusive late in his reign.

By the end of his life, Aerys' madness had taken a serious toll on his appearance, so that although only forty years old at the time of his death, he looked much older. He ate little and became gaunt as a result of his fear of poison.

After repeatedly cutting himself on the [[Iron Throne]] he developed a phobia about blades, and forbade any sharp implements in his presence other than the swords of his [[Kingsguard]], refusing even to trim his nails or hair. His fingernails grew to nearly a foot long, and his hair and beard hung far past his shoulders in wild tangles. See also [[:Category:Images of Aerys II Targaryen|this collection of images]]. He wore the elaborate dragon-emblazoned crown of Aegon IV.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} <ref> Targaryen Kings. (November 1, 2005) [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/ So Spake Martin]</ref>

==Early life==
Aerys was born to Prince [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], the second son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]]. While still a teenager, Aerys was married to his sister [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]] in accordance with the family tradition of dynastic incest. The marriage was arranged by [[Aegon V Targaryen|their grandfather the king]], who was motivated by a prophecy that he interpreted to mean the [[prince that was promised]] would be born of their line. According to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who was present at the wedding, there was no fondness between the two siblings.

In {{Date|259}}, Rhaella gave birth to their firstborn son and heir, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. He was ''"born in blood and grief"'' during the disaster known as the [[Tragedy of Summerhall]], which killed King Aegon V, his heir Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], and many others. Aerys' father Jaehaerys ruled for only three years before passing away, and Aerys became King Aerys II.

Aerys and Rhaella would later have a second son, Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and eventually a daughter, Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]], although the latter would not be born until after her father's death.

==Early reign==
Aerys' reign began in {{Date|262}} with great promise. Over the peaceful first dozen years, the realm recovered from the tragic events at Summerhall, growing strong and prosperous. However, problems would arise that eventually transformed the character of Aerys' reign into something very different.

Under his father and grandfather, the royal court at [[King's Landing]] had grown stuffy and conservative, filled with hidebound old men. Aerys brought sweeping changes, replacing many prominent officials with younger faces. Impressed by the ruthlessness of the young Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] in dealing with [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|rebellion]] against [[Casterly Rock]], he named Tywin as the [[King's Hand]].

However, the relationship between Aerys and Tywin was always complicated. When he was still a prince, Aerys had developed a crush on [[Joanna Lannister]], who was to marry her cousin Tywin. Aerys was present at the wedding and drank too much during the feast, leading to him joking that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished and to taking certain liberties during the [[bedding]]. It is said that Tywin did not forget Aerys' behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|43}}

Eventually, Aerys came to regret his choice for Hand – not because of any lack of competence on Tywin's part, but rather the opposite. He proved to be a brilliant administrator, and as Hand his reputation for brutal effectiveness became so well-known and so widely respected that popular rumor held it was Tywin, not Aerys, who truly ruled the realm. (Lord Tywin's captain of the guard, Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], would eventually lose his tongue at Aerys' command for repeating this boast.{{Ref|aFfC|27}}) Jealous of the respect and fear accorded to Tywin, Aerys resolved to rely less on his Hand.

In {{Date|276}}, Lord Tywin staged a [[Tourney at Lannisport|tourney]] in the king's honor. There he proposed a marriage between his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and Prince Rhaegar. However, Aerys' fear of Tywin's power and ambition led him to reject the offer rudely, saying that Tywin was a mere servant of the crown, and no servant's daughter was fit to marry a prince of royal blood. The tourney ended without a feast and Aerys departed in a chilly atmosphere. Tywin would not forget the insult.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

==The Defiance of Duskendale==
:{{See also|Defiance of Duskendale}}
In late {{Date|276}}, Lord [[Denys Darklyn]] of [[Duskendale]], possibly influenced by his [[Myr|Myrish]] [[Serala|wife]], withheld port taxes from the crown. Eager to demonstrate his ability to handle the situation without the help of his Hand, Aerys decided to settle the issue personally, a decision that would backfire horribly. Taking a small force that included only one [[Kingsguard]] knight, Aerys personally marched to Duskendale to arrest and execute Lord Denys. Denys panicked and took the king prisoner. Lord Tywin was left to resolve the crisis himself, amassing an army and laying siege to the town in what became known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]]. The situation remained in a stalemate for six months, with Denys threatening to execute the king at the first sign that Tywin intended to storm the town. Finally, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] of the Kingsguard staged a daring infiltration and managed to rescue the king.

Lord Denys immediately surrendered and begged for mercy, but in his fury Aerys had him immediately beheaded. His rage still not sated, the king ordered [[House Darklyn]] utterly destroyed, along with [[House Hollard]], which had sided with them. Every last member of both families was tortured at excruciating length before being burned alive, with the sole exception of the child [[Dontos Hollard]], who was spared only at Ser Barristan's pleading. Ser Barristan later developed doubts about his actions at Duskendale, wondering whether Aerys' death in Lord Denys' dungeon and [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar's]] ascent to the throne would not have spared the [[Seven Kingdoms]] a lot of grief.{{Ref|aDwD|55}}

The Defiance of Duskendale marked the beginning of Aerys' descent into madness. Deeply shaken by his imprisonment, he refused to leave the [[Red Keep]] for many years afterward. His jealous and suspicious nature deepened into paranoia and eventually outright delusions, seeing evidence of treachery everywhere. The king no longer trusted his wife or his heir, and especially not his Hand, all of whom he perceived as having gladly abandoned him to rot away in Duskendale. Hearing word of [[Varys]]' talents as an information broker from across the [[Narrow Sea]], he appointed the eunuch his Master of Whispers, believing that only a foreigner with no competing loyalties in [[Westeros]] could be trusted to alert him of potential threats. Aerys grew brutal, capricious and increasingly fascinated with fire, especially the highly flammable substance known as [[wildfire]]. Aerys began to use wildfire for executing alleged traitors. The procedures aroused him and, while he and his wife had slept in separate chambers for some years and avoided each other by day as well, Aerys would always claim his marriage rights after such an execution by fire, brutally abusing his wife in bed.{{Ref|aFfC|16}}

Aerys' relations with Lord Tywin deteriorated rapidly. According to Ser Barristan Selmy's account decades later, the situation was exacerbated by Aerys' well-known lust for Tywin's wife, [[Joanna Lannister]]. Although Tywin had continued to hope for a marriage between Cersei and Prince Rhaegar after Aerys' insult at Lannisport, two years later Aerys chose to tie [[Dorne]] more closely to the [[Iron Throne]] by marrying Rhaegar to [[Elia Martell]]. Later, Aerys appointed Tywin's eldest (and [[Tyrion Lannister|only able-bodied]]) son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] as the youngest knight ever to join the Kingsguard. Both Tywin and Jaime came to believe that Aerys had intended this not as an honor but a slight to [[House Lannister]], meant to deprive Tywin of his heir and allow Aerys to hold Jaime hostage for his father's loyalty. Furious, Tywin found a thin pretext to resign his position and returned to Casterly Rock. Aerys appointed as his replacement Lord [[Owen Merryweather]], an amiable but not especially competent old man whose main qualifications as Hand were his willingness to throw lavish feasts and offer the king constant flattery.

==The War of the Usurper==
:{{See also|War of the Usurper}}
Aerys' distrust eventually turned against his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar]], who had become wary of his father's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|24}} The first time Aerys finally left the [[Red Keep]] again would be to attend the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]] in {{Date|281}}. He did so only at the urging of [[Varys]], who claimed Prince Rhaegar planned to use the [[Tourneys in Westeros|tournament]] as a pretext to recruit lords with the intent of taking his father's throne.{{Ref|aDwD|67}} A [[mystery knight]], the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]], competed in the tournament. Certain the knight had concealed his identity because he was an enemy of the crown, Aerys ordered Rhaegar to discover his identity, but no evidence was found. Rhaegar went on to win the tournament and shocked all present by crowning [[Lyanna Stark]], rather than [[Elia Martell|Princess Elia]], his [[Queen of Love and Beauty]].

Some time afterward, Prince Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, apparently having kidnapped her. Her eldest brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] rode to King's Landing with several friends. Arriving at the Red Keep, Brandon roared for Rhaegar to "come out and die." As it turned out, Rhaegar was not present – but Aerys was. The king had Brandon and his companions arrested on charges of conspiring against the life of the crown prince, demanding that their fathers present themselves at court to answer for their sons' crimes. When they did so, Aerys had them all executed without trial. Lord [[Rickard Stark]] was burned alive by wildfire as Brandon watched, strapped into a torture device that caused him to strangle himself in his struggles to save his father. His paranoia still unsatisfied, the king ordered Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to send him the heads of his two wards, [[Eddard Stark]] and Lyanna's fiance [[Robert Baratheon]], both of whom he believed to be guilty of participating in the "conspiracy" on account of their ties with [[House Stark]]. Arryn refused, and the king's brutal acts triggered a chain of events that would become known as the [[War of the Usurper]] to Targaryen loyalists and [[Robert's Rebellion]] to those who fought on the other side. [[House Arryn]], House Stark, [[House Baratheon]] and [[House Tully]] all rebelled against the [[Iron Throne]], uniting behind the claim of Robert Baratheon, who was descended from royal blood through his grandmother [[Rhaelle Targaryen]], the king's aunt.

Aerys' [[Hand of the King|Hand]] at the start of the rebellion was still [[Owen Merryweather]], but he was quickly replaced for his failure to act to contain the unrest in its early stages. Aerys next turned to Lord [[Jon Connington]], a close friend of Rhaegar's, who promised him to deliver Robert's head. However, Connington lost to rebel forces at [[Stoney Sept]] in the [[Battle of the Bells]] and was exiled by Aerys because of it. As his new Hand, Aerys chose Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]].{{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}} By this point, the king was becoming fearful of a rebel victory, and hatched the [[The Wildfire Plot]], a plan to gain a final revenge against his enemies in the event that they took the capital. He ordered pyromancers to create a massive reserve of wildfire and secrete it around [[King's Landing]], plotting to burn down the entire city and kill all its half a million inhabitants rather than allow Robert to have it intact. Upon discovering the plot, Lord Chelsted confronted Aerys and, when he realized the king could not be dissuaded, resigned his positon in disgust, flinging his chain of office at the king's feet. Aerys had him burned alive. The [[Alchemists' Guild]] had enjoyed royal favor ever since the Defiance of Duskendale owing to the king's obsession with wildfire, and Aerys appointed the head of the guild, [[Rossart]], his final Hand.

After the [[Battle of the Trident]], in which Prince [[Rhaegar]] was slain and the royal army defeated, a rebel victory was all but certain. Aerys sent Queen Rhaella (then newly pregnant with Princess Daenerys) and Prince Viserys to [[Dragonstone]] to escape the coming [[Sack of King's Landing]]. However, he kept Princess Elia and her young children [[Rhaenys daughter of Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaenys]] and [[Aegon Targaryen|Aegon]] with him at the Red Keep, believing they were necessary as hostages to ensure the loyalty of [[House Martell]] and [[Dorne]]. This decision would ultimately lead to their brutal deaths at the hands of Ser [[Amory Lorch]] and Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].

==Death==
Hours before the vanguard of [[Eddard Stark]]'s rebel host would arrive, 12,000 [[The Westerlands|Westerland]] troops under Tywin Lannister reached King's Landing and pledged their loyalty to King Aerys. [[Varys]] advised the king not to admit them to the city, but Grand [[Maester]] [[Pycelle]] argued that the Lannisters should be trusted. Aerys made the fateful choice to listen to Pycelle, and opened the city gates. The Lannister forces promptly began [[Sack of King's Landing|sacking the city]] in the name of [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]].

Realizing this was the end, Aerys summoned Lord Rossart and Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], the last remaining Kingsguard [[Knighthood|knight]]. He commanded Ser Jaime to kill his father, then gave Rossart the long-awaited order to ignite the wildfire caches and burn the city to the ground, saying, "Let [Robert] be king over charred bones and cooked meat. Let him be king of ashes."

Jaime later suggested that much like his mad great-uncle [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion the Monstrous]] before him, Aerys held the delusional belief that he would not die in the inferno, but rather would be transformed by the flames into a [[Dragons|dragon]], giving him the power to crush his enemies.

However, before the plot could be carried out, Jaime slew Lord Rossart and then King Aerys, preventing the orders from reaching anyone else and thus saving the entire population of King's Landing. Robert Baratheon claimed the Iron Throne, and the reign of the Targaryen dynasty was ended. {{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|''"The traitors want [[King's Landing|my city]] ... but I’ll give them naught but ashes. Let [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] be king over charred bones and cooked meat"''.}}

{{Quote|"You are my most able servant, Tywin, but a man does not marry [[Rhaegar|his heir]] to [[Cersei|his servant's daughter]]." {{Ref|AFFC|24}}}} - King Aerys's answer to [[Tywin Lannister]]'s proposed match
==Quotes about Aerys==
{{Quote|''"Aerys was mad, the whole realm knew it"''}} - [[Catelyn Stark]] {{Ref|aCoK|55}}

{{Quote|''"Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that"''.}} - [[Brienne of Tarth]] {{Ref|aSoS|11}}

{{Quote|''"Those [[purple eyes]] grew huge then, and the royal mouth drooped open in shock. He lost control of his bowels, turned and ran for the [[Iron Throne]]. Beneath the empty eyes of the skulls, Jaime hauled the last dragonking bodily off the steps, squealing like a pig and smelling like a privy. A single slash across his throat was all it took to end it.'' So easy, ''he remembered thinking''. A king should die harder than this".}} - [[Jaime Lannister]] remembering Aerys's death at his hands. {{Ref|aSoS|11}}

When the head of Admiral [[Groleo]] is presented in the court of [[Daenerys Targaryen|Aerys's daughter]] in [[Meereen]], [[Barristan Selmy]] thinks on how Aerys would have reacted to such an insult:

{{Quote|"Aerys would have flinched away in horror, likely cutting himself on the barbs of the Iron Throne, then shrieked at his swordsmen to cut the Yunkishmen to pieces."}} {{Ref|aDwD|59}}

==Genealogy==
{{Template:Targaryen_tree_now}}

==TV series==
The [[Game of Thrones]] TV series deviated from the books by removing Aerys's father [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen]] and making him son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen]], rather than his grandson. The reason for this appears to be to simplify the relationship between Maester Aemon and the other Targaryens.

Additionally, an actor was cast to play Aerys II in a flashback in [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]], but the scene was cut for time and pacing.

==References and Notes==
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Aerys II Targaryen

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[[File:Aerys_wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys and [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella's]] unhappy wedding]]
[[File:Tywin and Aerys.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Tywin Lannister]] Aerys [[King's Hand|Hand]]]]
[[File:Ilyn Payne loosing his tongue.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys deals with disturbing rumours - taking Ser [[Ilyn Payne]] tongue with hot pincers]]

'''Aerys II Targaryen''', also called '''Aerys the Mad''', '''the Mad King''', and '''King Scab''', was the seventeenth and last member of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] dynasty to sit the [[Iron Throne]], ruling from {{Date|262}} to {{Date|283}}.

Aerys showed great promise at the start of his reign, bringing peace and prosperity to the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but later descended into insanity following the brief uprising known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], in which he was held prisoner for several months by a rebellious lord. After that, his paranoia and cruelty grew out of control.

==Character & Appearance==
In his youth, Aerys II was charming, generous, handsome and resolute, although somewhat quick to anger. As he grew older, he became increasingly jealous, suspicious and cruel, prone to furious outbursts.

After the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], these characteristics became more pronounced. He began to see every unexplained event or act of minor defiance as evidence of fearful conspiracies against him, and devised sadistic punishments for those he imagined to be his enemies. He developed a fascination with fire, which eventually grew so consuming that he could only become sexually aroused by watching someone burn to death. His marriage to his sister-wife [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], while never happy, became sexually abusive late in his reign.

By the end of his life, Aerys' madness had taken a serious toll on his appearance, so that although only forty years old at the time of his death, he looked much older. He ate little and became gaunt as a result of his fear of poison.

After repeatedly cutting himself on the [[Iron Throne]] he developed a phobia about blades, and forbade any sharp implements in his presence other than the swords of his [[Kingsguard]], refusing even to trim his nails or hair. His fingernails grew to nearly a foot long, and his hair and beard hung far past his shoulders in wild tangles. See also [[:Category:Images of Aerys II Targaryen|this collection of images]]. He wore the elaborate dragon-emblazoned crown of Aegon IV.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} <ref> Targaryen Kings. (November 1, 2005) [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/ So Spake Martin]</ref>

==Early life==
Aerys was born to Prince [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], the second son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]]. While still a teenager, Aerys was married to his sister [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]] in accordance with the family tradition of dynastic incest. The marriage was arranged by [[Aegon V Targaryen|their grandfather the king]], who was motivated by a prophecy that he interpreted to mean the [[prince that was promised]] would be born of their line. According to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who was present at the wedding, there was no fondness between the two siblings.

In {{Date|259}}, Rhaella gave birth to their firstborn son and heir, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. He was ''"born in blood and grief"'' during the disaster known as the [[Tragedy of Summerhall]], which killed King Aegon V, his heir Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], and many others. Aerys' father Jaehaerys ruled for only three years before passing away, and Aerys became King Aerys II.

Aerys and Rhaella would later have a second son, Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and eventually a daughter, Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]], although the latter would not be born until after her father's death.

==Early reign==
Aerys' reign began in {{Date|262}} with great promise. Over the peaceful first dozen years, the realm recovered from the tragic events at Summerhall, growing strong and prosperous. However, problems would arise that eventually transformed the character of Aerys' reign into something very different.

Under his father and grandfather, the royal court at [[King's Landing]] had grown stuffy and conservative, filled with hidebound old men. Aerys brought sweeping changes, replacing many prominent officials with younger faces. Impressed by the ruthlessness of the young Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] in dealing with [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|rebellion]] against [[Casterly Rock]], he named Tywin as the [[King's Hand]].

However, the relationship between Aerys and Tywin was always complicated. When he was still a prince, Aerys had developed a crush on [[Joanna Lannister]], who was to marry her cousin Tywin. Aerys was present at the wedding and drank too much during the feast, leading to him joking that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished and to taking certain liberties during the [[bedding]]. It is said that Tywin did not forget Aerys' behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|43}}

Eventually, Aerys came to regret his choice for Hand – not because of any lack of competence on Tywin's part, but rather the opposite. He proved to be a brilliant administrator, and as Hand his reputation for brutal effectiveness became so well-known and so widely respected that popular rumor held it was Tywin, not Aerys, who truly ruled the realm. (Lord Tywin's captain of the guard, Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], would eventually lose his tongue at Aerys' command for repeating this boast.) Jealous of the respect and fear accorded to Tywin, Aerys resolved to rely less on his Hand.

In {{Date|276}}, Lord Tywin staged a [[Tourney at Lannisport|tourney]] in the king's honor. There he proposed a marriage between his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and Prince Rhaegar. However, Aerys' fear of Tywin's power and ambition led him to reject the offer rudely, saying that Tywin was a mere servant of the crown, and no servant's daughter was fit to marry a prince of royal blood. Tywin would not forget the insult.

==The Defiance of Duskendale==
:{{See also|Defiance of Duskendale}}
In late {{Date|276}}, Lord [[Denys Darklyn]] of [[Duskendale]], possibly influenced by his [[Myr|Myrish]] [[Serala|wife]], withheld port taxes from the crown. Eager to demonstrate his ability to handle the situation without the help of his Hand, Aerys decided to settle the issue personally, a decision that would backfire horribly. Taking a small force that included only one [[Kingsguard]] knight, Aerys personally marched to Duskendale to arrest and execute Lord Denys. Denys panicked and took the king prisoner. Lord Tywin was left to resolve the crisis himself, amassing an army and laying siege to the town in what became known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]]. The situation remained in a stalemate for six months, with Denys threatening to execute the king at the first sign that Tywin intended to storm the town. Finally, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] of the Kingsguard staged a daring infiltration and managed to rescue the king.

Lord Denys immediately surrendered and begged for mercy, but in his fury Aerys had him immediately beheaded. His rage still not sated, the king ordered [[House Darklyn]] utterly destroyed, along with [[House Hollard]], which had sided with them. Every last member of both families was tortured at excruciating length before being burned alive, with the sole exception of the child [[Dontos Hollard]], who was spared only at Ser Barristan's pleading. Ser Barristan later developed doubts about his actions at Duskendale, wondering whether Aerys' death in Lord Denys' dungeon and [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar's]] ascent to the throne would not have spared the [[Seven Kingdoms]] a lot of grief.{{Ref|aDwD|55}}

The Defiance of Duskendale marked the beginning of Aerys' descent into madness. Deeply shaken by his imprisonment, he refused to leave the [[Red Keep]] for many years afterward. His jealous and suspicious nature deepened into paranoia and eventually outright delusions, seeing evidence of treachery everywhere. The king no longer trusted his wife or his heir, and especially not his Hand, all of whom he perceived as having gladly abandoned him to rot away in Duskendale. Hearing word of [[Varys]]' talents as an information broker from across the [[Narrow Sea]], he appointed the eunuch his Master of Whispers, believing that only a foreigner with no competing loyalties in [[Westeros]] could be trusted to alert him of potential threats. Aerys grew brutal, capricious and increasingly fascinated with fire, especially the highly flammable substance known as [[wildfire]].

Aerys' relations with Lord Tywin deteriorated rapidly. According to Ser Barristan Selmy's account decades later, the situation was exacerbated by Aerys' well-known lust for Tywin's wife, [[Joanna Lannister]]. Although Tywin had continued to hope for a marriage between Cersei and Prince Rhaegar after Aerys' insult at Lannisport, two years later Aerys chose to tie [[Dorne]] more closely to the [[Iron Throne]] by marrying Rhaegar to [[Elia Martell]]. Later, Aerys appointed Tywin's eldest (and [[Tyrion Lannister|only able-bodied]]) son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] as the youngest knight ever to join the Kingsguard. Both Tywin and Jaime came to believe that Aerys had intended this not as an honor but a slight to [[House Lannister]], meant to deprive Tywin of his heir and allow Aerys to hold Jaime hostage for his father's loyalty. Furious, Tywin found a thin pretext to resign his position and returned to Casterly Rock. Aerys appointed as his replacement Lord [[Owen Merryweather]], an amiable but not especially competent old man whose main qualifications as Hand were his willingness to throw lavish feasts and offer the king constant flattery.

==The War of the Usurper==
:{{See also|War of the Usurper}}
Aerys' distrust eventually turned against his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar]], who had become wary of his father's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|24}} The first time Aerys finally left the [[Red Keep]] again would be to attend the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]] in {{Date|281}}. He did so only at the urging of [[Varys]], who claimed Prince Rhaegar planned to use the [[Tourneys in Westeros|tournament]] as a pretext to recruit lords with the intent of taking his father's throne.{{Ref|aDwD|67}} A [[mystery knight]], the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]], competed in the tournament. Certain the knight had concealed his identity because he was an enemy of the crown, Aerys ordered Rhaegar to discover his identity, but no evidence was found. Rhaegar went on to win the tournament and shocked all present by crowning [[Lyanna Stark]], rather than [[Elia Martell|Princess Elia]], his [[Queen of Love and Beauty]].

Some time afterward, Prince Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, apparently having kidnapped her. Her eldest brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] rode to King's Landing with several friends. Arriving at the Red Keep, Brandon roared for Rhaegar to "come out and die." As it turned out, Rhaegar was not present – but Aerys was. The king had Brandon and his companions arrested on charges of conspiring against the life of the crown prince, demanding that their fathers present themselves at court to answer for their sons' crimes. When they did so, Aerys had them all executed without trial. Lord [[Rickard Stark]] was burned alive by wildfire as Brandon watched, strapped into a torture device that caused him to strangle himself in his struggles to save his father. His paranoia still unsatisfied, the king ordered Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to send him the heads of his two wards, [[Eddard Stark]] and Lyanna's fiance [[Robert Baratheon]], both of whom he believed to be guilty of participating in the "conspiracy" on account of their ties with [[House Stark]]. Arryn refused, and the king's brutal acts triggered a chain of events that would become known as the [[War of the Usurper]] to Targaryen loyalists and [[Robert's Rebellion]] to those who fought on the other side. [[House Arryn]], House Stark, [[House Baratheon]] and [[House Tully]] all rebelled against the [[Iron Throne]], uniting behind the claim of Robert Baratheon, who was descended from royal blood through his grandmother [[Rhaelle Targaryen]], the king's aunt.

Aerys' [[Hand of the King|Hand]] at the start of the rebellion was still [[Owen Merryweather]], but he was quickly replaced for his failure to act to contain the unrest in its early stages. Aerys next turned to Lord [[Jon Connington]], a close friend of Rhaegar's, who promised him to deliver Robert's head. However, Connington lost to rebel forces at [[Stoney Sept]] in the [[Battle of the Bells]] and was exiled by Aerys because of it. As his new Hand, Aerys chose Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]].{{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}} By this point, the king was becoming fearful of a rebel victory, and hatched the [[The Wildfire Plot]], a plan to gain a final revenge against his enemies in the event that they took the capital. He ordered pyromancers to create a massive reserve of wildfire and secrete it around [[King's Landing]], plotting to burn down the entire city and kill all its half a million inhabitants rather than allow Robert to have it intact. Upon discovering the plot, Lord Chelsted confronted Aerys and, when he realized the king could not be dissuaded, resigned his positon in disgust, flinging his chain of office at the king's feet. Aerys had him burned alive. The [[Alchemists' Guild]] had enjoyed royal favor ever since the Defiance of Duskendale owing to the king's obsession with wildfire, and Aerys appointed the head of the guild, [[Rossart]], his final Hand.

After the [[Battle of the Trident]], in which Prince [[Rhaegar]] was slain and the royal army defeated, a rebel victory was all but certain. Aerys sent Queen Rhaella (then newly pregnant with Princess Daenerys) and Prince Viserys to [[Dragonstone]] to escape the coming [[Sack of King's Landing]]. However, he kept Princess Elia and her young children [[Rhaenys daughter of Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaenys]] and [[Aegon Targaryen|Aegon]] with him at the Red Keep, believing they were necessary as hostages to ensure the loyalty of [[House Martell]] and [[Dorne]]. This decision would ultimately lead to their brutal deaths at the hands of Ser [[Amory Lorch]] and Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].

==Death==
Hours before the vanguard of [[Eddard Stark]]'s rebel host would arrive, 12,000 [[The Westerlands|Westerland]] troops under Tywin Lannister reached King's Landing and pledged their loyalty to King Aerys. [[Varys]] advised the king not to admit them to the city, but Grand [[Maester]] [[Pycelle]] argued that the Lannisters should be trusted. Aerys made the fateful choice to listen to Pycelle, and opened the city gates. The Lannister forces promptly began [[Sack of King's Landing|sacking the city]] in the name of [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]].

Realizing this was the end, Aerys summoned Lord Rossart and Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], the last remaining Kingsguard [[Knighthood|knight]]. He commanded Ser Jaime to kill his father, then gave Rossart the long-awaited order to ignite the wildfire caches and burn the city to the ground, saying, "Let [Robert] be king over charred bones and cooked meat. Let him be king of ashes."

Jaime later suggested that much like his mad great-uncle [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion the Monstrous]] before him, Aerys held the delusional belief that he would not die in the inferno, but rather would be transformed by the flames into a [[Dragons|dragon]], giving him the power to crush his enemies.

However, before the plot could be carried out, Jaime slew Lord Rossart and then King Aerys, preventing the orders from reaching anyone else and thus saving the entire population of King's Landing. Robert Baratheon claimed the Iron Throne, and the reign of the Targaryen dynasty was ended. {{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|''"The traitors want [[King's Landing|my city]] ... but I’ll give them naught but ashes. Let [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] be king over charred bones and cooked meat"''.}}

{{Quote|"You are my most able servant, Tywin, but a man does not marry [[Rhaegar|his heir]] to [[Cersei|his servant's daughter]]." {{Ref|AFFC|24}}}} - King Aerys's answer to [[Tywin Lannister]]'s proposed match
==Quotes about Aerys==
{{Quote|''"Aerys was mad, the whole realm knew it"''}} - [[Catelyn Stark]] {{Ref|aCoK|55}}

{{Quote|''"Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that"''.}} - [[Brienne of Tarth]] {{Ref|aSoS|11}}

{{Quote|''"Those [[purple eyes]] grew huge then, and the royal mouth drooped open in shock. He lost control of his bowels, turned and ran for the [[Iron Throne]]. Beneath the empty eyes of the skulls, Jaime hauled the last dragonking bodily off the steps, squealing like a pig and smelling like a privy. A single slash across his throat was all it took to end it.'' So easy, ''he remembered thinking''. A king should die harder than this".}} - [[Jaime Lannister]] remembering Aerys's death at his hands. {{Ref|aSoS|11}}

When the head of Admiral [[Groleo]] is presented in the court of [[Daenerys Targaryen|Aerys's daughter]] in [[Meereen]], [[Barristan Selmy]] thinks on how Aerys would have reacted to such an insult:

{{Quote|"Aerys would have flinched away in horror, likely cutting himself on the barbs of the Iron Throne, then shrieked at his swordsmen to cut the Yunkishmen to pieces."}} {{Ref|aDwD|59}}

==Genealogy==
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==TV series==
The [[Game of Thrones]] TV series deviated from the books by removing Aerys's father [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen]] and making him son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen]], rather than his grandson. The reason for this appears to be to simplify the relationship between Maester Aemon and the other Targaryens.

Additionally, an actor was cast to play Aerys II in a flashback in [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]], but the scene was cut for time and pacing.

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==Synopsis==
Tyrion is dreaming of his [[Tywin Lannister|lord father]] and the Shrouded Lord. He dreams that they are one in the same. He wakes up with his mouth dry and rusty with the taste of blood and his heart hammering in his chest.

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Tyrion learns that after being knocked overboard during the battle with the [[Stone men]], he was rescued by Connington and the Prince forbade the crew from throwing him, near-dead, overboard. Tyrion is being treated with vinegar, to reduce the danger of an infection with [[Greyscale]]. Prince Aegon is also still aboard and irritated about it; however, his companions insisted on keeping him safe, as [[Selhorys]], where the ''Shy Maid'' is currently docked, fears an imminent attack by an approaching [[Dothraki]] [[khalasar]] and they don't want to get caught up in the chaos. To pass the time, Tyrion goads Aegon into playing a game of [[cyvasse]] with him, using it as an opportunity to probe the boy for information. Aegon asks Tyrion about his [[Rhaegar Targaryen|real father]], but Tyrion can tell him little; he himself only saw Rhaegar once or twice, and was a small boy hidden away at [[Casterly Rock]] when Rhaegar died at [[Battle of the Trident|the Trident]].

Tyrion learns from Aegon that the child murdered by [[Gregor Clegane]] during the Sack of King's Landing was a [[Pisswater prince|tanner's son]] from [[Pisswater Bend]] who Varys purchased and substituted for Aegon in the cradle. After the Sack, Varys smuggled the baby Aegon across the [[Narrow Sea]] to [[Illyrio Mopatis]], who made the arrangements for Aegon's upbringing. Tyrion jokes that it will make a good story for the singers when he returns to Westeros...assuming [[Daenerys Targaryen]] takes him as her consort. Aegon is stunned by this, having clearly never considered the possibility Daenerys might refuse him. Tyrion points out that Daenerys is a proud, strong, and fierce young woman who is unlikely to appreciate a relative coming to her with a begging bowl, certainly not one with a stronger claim to the [[Iron Throne]] than her own. Aegon angrily denies being a beggar, pointing at his own army: the Golden Company. Tyrion points out that Daenerys has a larger army than his own and owes nothing to Aegon. Aegon protests, trusting in Lord Connington to win her over. Tyrion calls him a fool, and gives him the following warning:

{{Quote|''"Trust no one, my prince. Not your [[Haldon|chainless maester]], not your [[Jon Connington|false father]], not the gallant [[Rolly Duckfield|Duck]] or the lovely [[Lemore]] nor these other fine friends who grew you up from a bean. Above all, trust not the [[Illyrio Mopatis|cheese monger]], nor the [[Varys|Spider]], nor this [[Daenerys Targaryen|little dragon queen]] you mean to marry. All this mistrust will sour your stomach and keep you awake at night, ’tis true, but better that than the long sleep that does not end"''.}}

Tyrion then suggests a different course of action to Aegon: heading to Westeros instead of going east, taking advantage of all the problems caused by the [[War of the Five Kings]]. He points that the [[North]] is in a chaotic condition, the [[Riverlands]] are devastated, while [[Stannis Baratheon]] holds [[Storm's End]] and [[Dragonstone]]. The coming winter will starve out the realm. He then paints the opposition as particularly weak: King [[Tommen Baratheon]] is just a boy, and all his potential regents come with their own problems. [[Jaime Lannister]] actively avoids the responsibility of ruling, and [[Kevan Lannister]] is a born follower- he will only take the rule if it is offered to him. [[Mace Tyrell]] will have to fight the Lannisters to become regent, and Stannis' unpopularity makes him an unlikely choice. That leaves only one potential candidate: [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. Tyrion is particularly scathing of his sister's ability to rule, comparing her to some of the worst Targaryen kings, noting that Cersei, in her paranoia and impatience, will undo all the alliances his father created to secure Tommen's hold on the Iron Throne and adds that if Aegon acts quickly, he can take advantage of the chaos and make serious gains before Cersei is overthrown and someone more competent takes her place.

When Aegon protests, asking how they can win without his aunt and her [[dragon]]s, Tyrion points out that he doesn't have to win; he only needs to start winning victories, acting not as a beggar, but a true scion of [[House Targaryen]], like his ancestor [[Aegon the Conqueror]]. When he does, word of it will get back to Daenerys, and she and Aegon can meet as equals, as Tyrion describes:

{{Quote|''"Let her hear that her brother Rhaegar's murdered son is still alive, that this brave boy has raised the dragon standard of her forebears in Westeros once more, that he is fighting a desperate war to avenge his father and reclaim the Iron Throne for House Targaryen, hard pressed on every side...and she will fly to your side as fast as wind and water can carry her. You are the last of her line, and this Mother of Dragons, this Breaker of Chains, is above all a ''rescuer''. The girl who drowned the slaver cities in blood rather than leave strangers to their chains can scarcely abandon her own brother's son in his hour of peril. And when she reaches Westeros, and meets you for the first time, you will meet as equals, man and woman, not queen and supplicant. How can she help but love you then, I ask you?"''}}

To re-empahsise his point to Aegon about trusting no one if he wants to survive in the game of thrones, Tyrion wins the cyvasse game using a piece of bad advice he gave and which the prince took at the start of the game. Aegon does not take his loss well; the sudden burst of anger convinces Tyrion the boy [[Targaryen madness|might be a Targaryen after all]].

Later that evening,[[Haldon]] takes Tyrion into [[Selhorys]] in search of information, where they confirm the rumors that Daenerys still hasn’t left Meereen. They need to know more so Haldon takes Tyrion into an inn where they bribe a customs officer to learn more. They learn many things, such as the fact the rulers of [[Yunkai]] are spreading slanderous propoganda and offering heavy bribes to convince [[Volantis]] to side with them against Daenerys, whose attack on the slave trade has made her enemies in Volantis. By constrast, it is learned that the red priests of [[R'hllor]], particularly the High Priest [[Benerro]] are supporting Daenerys, and preach Volantis's destruction if the city's rulers side against her, along with other apocalyptic prophecies. There are also rumours of [[Pono|Khal Pono]]'s khalasar approaching the city, though they are confident they can, as usual, buy off the Dothraki.

Later, Tyrion convinces Haldon to let him find a brothel and goes searching for [[Tysha]]. He finds his way into a cheap brothel where he fucks a Westerosi looking girl, retches, fucks her again and then leaves ashamed of himself. On his way out, he stumbles drunkenly into a [[Jorah Mormont|Westerosi man]] who takes him prisoner to be "delivered to the queen".

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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 2

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| next = Jon I
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==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]], Queen in [[Meereen]], is delivered the body of one of her [[Unsullied]] soldiers, [[Stalwart Shield]]. Stalwart Shield was visiting a brothel alone when he was set upon by the [[Sons of the Harpy]], a secret society raised in opposition to Daenerys' rule and targeting her supporters for assassination (particularly ex-slaves). She orders an investigation, but has little hope that the culprits will be found.

She discusses her situation with [[Barristan Selmy]]. Her Dothraki are attempting to subdue the hinterlands of Meereen, while [[Brown Ben Plumm]] is in the north, defending against a feared attack from [[Yunkai]]. [[Daario Naharis]], whom she secretly loves, is in the east attempting to make an alliance with the [[Lhazareen]]. After leaving the dead man she calls on her dragon [[Viserion]], noting that all three of her dragons are growing larger and wilder. She dons a [[tokar]] and holds court.

[[Skahaz mo Kandaq]] of the shaven head recommends that the great families of Meereen must be punished for the murders at the hands of the Sons of the Harpy. [[Reznak mo Reznak]], her [[w:seneschal|seneschal]], denies that the murderers are connected to the great families. Daenerys hears an embassy from the new king of Astapor, Cleon, who is asking both for her hand in marriage and support in a war against Yunkai. She tells the ambassador that Cleon should feed his own people before marching out to war.

The next petitioner is [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]], a wealthy Meereenese noble, who wants Dany to reopen the fighting pits of Meereen. She refuses him for the sixth time and ponders whether she should take him as a husband in order to solidify her rule over the city. She hears a number of other petitioners, including shepherds who are claiming that her dragons have devoured their sheep. Reznak sends them all away, promising they will be compensated for their loss, but one man remains behind. He empties out a sack of burnt bones on the marble floor. To her horror Dany realizes they are not the bones of a sheep - they belong to a child.

==Character List==
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'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Stalwart Shield]] (dead)
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Reznak mo Reznak]]
*[[Skahaz mo Kandaq]]
*[[Ghael]]
*[[Hizdahr zo Loraq]]
*[[Grazdan zo Galare]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]]
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]
*[[Galazza Galare]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Oznak zo Pahl]]
*[[Belwas|Strong Belwas]]
*[[Mirri Maz Duur]]
*[[Cleon|Cleon the Great]]
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]
*[[Elza]]/[[Elza|Ella]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
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'''Places:'''
*[[Dothraki Sea]]/[[Dothraki Sea|Great Grass Sea]]
*[[Lys]]
*[[Volantis]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Yunkai]]/[[Yunkai|Yellow City]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Temple of the Graces]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Khyzai Pass]]
*[[Lhazar]]
*[[Great Pyramid]]
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'''Places:'''
*[[Skahazadhan]]
*[[Ghis]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Myr]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Vaes Dothrak]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Tolos]]
*[[Elyria]]
*[[New Ghis]]
*[[Plaza of Purification]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Queensguard]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[hrakkar]]''
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Sons of the Harpy]]
*[[Wise Masters]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Good Masters]]
*[[Blue Graces]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Bloodrider]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Second Sons]]
*[[Lamb Men]]
*[[Stormcrows]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Green Grace]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Battle of the Trident]]
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[High Valyrian]]
*[[Slaver Cities]]
*[[House of Zhak]]
*[[House of Hazkar]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House of Ghazeen]]
*[[House of Merreq]]
*[[House of Loraq]]
*[[House of Pahl]]
*''[[Joso's Prank|Joso's Cock]]''
*[[Undying Ones]]
*[[Andals]]
*[[Rhoynar]]
*[[First Men]]
*[[Fighting pits]]
*[[Mother's Men]]
|}

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[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 2]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 03, Daenerys]]

King Cleaver

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#REDIRECT [[Cleon]]

Cleon the Great

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Butcher King

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#REDIRECT [[Cleon]]

Meereen

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{{Location map|Slavers Bay |long=125 |lat=65 |label=Meereen | caption = The [[Slaver's Bay]] and the location of Meereen}}
[[File:Meereen.png|thumb|300px|Meereen emblem]]

'''Meereen''' is the northernmost and the largest of the three great [[Slaver Cities]] of [[Slaver's Bay]]. It is ruled by the [[Great Masters]], the heads of Meereen's slaving families, and its wealthiest of citizens live in stepped pyramids.{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

Meereen lies on the northeast coast of Slaver's Bay at the mouth of the [[Skahazadhan]], where it flows from its origins in Lhazar through the range of sandstone mountains separating Meereen and the rest of Slaver's Bay from the Red Waste. <ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Map of Valyria (A Dance with Dragons)|Map of Valyria]]</ref> The [[Dothraki Sea]] lies to the north, beyond the river. To reach [[Lhazar]] from meereen one must pass through the [[Khyzai Pass]].{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

==History==
Copper is plentiful in the [[Ghis]]cari hills, but the metal is not as valuable as it had been when bronze ruled the world. Cedars once grown tall along the coast but they grow no more, they were felled by the axes of the Old Empire or consumed by [[dragon]]fire when [[Ghis]] made war against [[Valyria]]. Once the trees had gone, the soil baked beneath the hot sun and blew away in thick red clouds. According to [[Galazza Galare]] it was these calamities that transformed her people into slavers. Without slaves Meereen has little to offer.{{Ref|aDwD|16}}

When attempting to convince Dany to marry him [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] tells her of Meereen’s past and future possibilities - although he what he says is worded in such a way so that it appeals to Daenerys, there is likely much truth in what he declares,
{{Quote|Before you came Meereen was dying. Our rulers were old men with withered cocks and crones whose puckered cunts were dry as dust. They sat atop their pyramids sipping apricot [[wine]] and talking of the glories of the [[Ghiscari Empire|Old Empire]] whilst the centuries slipped by and the very bricks of the city crumbled all around them. Custom and caution had an iron grip upon us till you awakened us with fire and blood. A new time has come, and new things are possible. {{Ref|aDwD|23}}}}

==The City==
Meereen is as large as [[Astapor]] and [[Yunkai]] combined, like them it made of bricks, which are of many colors here.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} It has wide brick streets and the fighting pits are red.{{Ref|aSoS|71}} The city is dominated by a monstrous pyramid, called the [[Great Pyramid]].

Meereen's walls are high, studded with bastions and anchored by great towers at every every corner there are defensive towers. The north wall of the city runs along the river bank of the [[Skahazadhan]], the river that flows through the city. It's west wall runs along the shore of [[Slaver's Bay]]. Its gates has bronze harpy heads above its gates, with open mouths, from which the Meereenese can squirt boiling oil from those mouths to deter attackers. Meereen draws its water from deep wells instead of the Skahazadhan river into which the sewers of the city empty out.{{Ref|aSoS|57}}.

* '''[[The Great Pyramid]]''' is huge, 800 feet tall and topped with a towering bronze harpy. There are a score of lesser pyramids in the city, but none stand even half as high.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} It is here [[Daenerys Targaryen]] resided after she [[Siege of Meereen|conquered the city]], at large chambers at the apex of the pyramid.{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

* '''[[Temple of the Graces]]''' is a huge structure with topped with golden domes. It houses the priestesses of Meereen, called [[Graces]]. The Graces are divided in groups with each a specific color and a specialty. The Blue [[Graces]] are specialized in healing. It lies to the west of the [[Great Pyramid]].{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

* '''[[Fighting pits|The Fighting pits]]''' are huge circular arenas built of many multicolored bricks they similar in stature but smaller to the Colosseum in ancient Rome. The largest and most extravagant and the main one in Meereen is [[Daznak's Pit]].

[[File:Meereen city.png|thumb|right|350px|Meereen, artwork by lvlorf3us]]
==Slaving Families of Meereen==
The city is ruled by slaving families who keep there residences within the pyramids of Meereen. The greater and more powerful the family the larger the Houses pyramid.
{{Columns|2|
*[[House of Dhazak]]
*[[House of Galare]]
*[[House of Ghazeen]]
*[[House of Hazkar]]
*[[House of Kandaq]]
*[[House of Loraq]]
*[[House of Merreq]]
*[[House of Naqqan]]
*[[House of Pahl]]
*[[House of Quazzar]]
*[[House of Reznak]]
*[[House of Rhazdar]]
*[[House of Uhlez]]
*[[House of Yherizan]]
*[[House of Zhak]]
}}
==Slavery==
Meereen renown for trading in [[slave]]s. [[Slave]]s are used in every aspect of life as guards, cleaning, fighting in pits and pleasure. Healthy young girls and boys under ten are especially sought after as slaves to be used in brothels.{{Ref|aGoT|61}}

Slavers in Meereen only cut off the testicles when making eunuchs, compared to [[Astapor]], where they cut off both penis and testicles.{{Ref|aSoS|23}} When [[Daenerys Targaryen]] took Meereen, she abolished slavery within the city. However the practice was continued in the hills where [[slave]]s still worked on the estates of the wealthy.{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

==Sons of the Harpy==
The [[Sons of the Harpy]] are a secret group that uses guerrilla-like techniques to undermine Daenerys Targaryen's rule. No one knows who their mysterious leader, [[the Harpy]], is. Some suspect it might be [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]], while others believe the sons have no leader.{{Ref|aDwD|2}}

==Recent Events==
[[File:Denkata5698_QueenofMeereen.jpg‎|thumb|300px|[[Daenerys Targaryen]], Queen of Meereen - by denkata5698 ©]]
===A Game of Thrones===
Ser Jorah advised Khal [[Drogo]] to drive his slaves to Meereen since it had suffered from a plague recently.{{Ref|aGoT|61}}

===A Storm of Swords===
The Great Masters scorched the earth around Meereen when news that [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s army was marching on the city. The city was soon besieged by the forces of Daenerys.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} Daenerys [[Siege of Meereen|took the city]] by sending men through the sewers and battering down the eastern gate. After receiving news from [[Astapor]], that she had conquered earlier, Daenerys decided to remain and learn to rule in Meereen instead of spreading her rule somewhere else.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
Merchant ships from [[Westeros]] and the [[Free Cities]] are now few and far between, since the slave commerce and fighting pits are closed under Daenerys' rule.{{ref|aDwD|6|p 84}}

While several of the Wise Masters have accepted the rule of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] an organization known as the [[Sons of the Harpy]] are waging a shadow war against her and slaying small groups of [[Freedmen]], [[Shavepates]] and [[Unsullied]] in the dead of night.

The armies of [[Yunkai]] are surrounding the city. The [[ruling council of Meereen]] has recently assumed command of the overseeing of Meereenese affairs due to the absence of Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. Headed by the Queen's Hand Ser [[Barristan]] they have met to discuss and decide how to best deal with the Yunkai army.
==Quotes==
{{Quote|A child departed [[Qarth]], as lost as she was lovely. I feared she was sailing to her doom, yet now I find her here enthroned, mistress of an ancient city, surrounded by a mighty host that she raised up out of dreams. {{Ref|aDwD|16}}}} [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]], to Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]] during his visit to Meereen

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

{{Cities}}


[[Category:Meereen| ]]
[[Category:Places on the eastern continent]]
[[Category:Cities]][[Category:Valyrian successor states]]


[[fr:Meereen]]
[[zh:弥林]][[ru:Миэрин]]

Slaver Cities

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'''Slaver Cities''' is a generic term used for the cities of [[Astapor]], [[Yunkai]] and [[Meereen]], located around [[Slaver's Bay]] on the continent of [[Essos]]. Drawing on the culture of the [[Ghiscari Empire]], the Slaver Cities have been ruled by aristocrats that call themselves [[Masters]]. Their wealth derives from engaging in slavery.{{Ref|aDwD|2}} They are distinguished from the [[Free Cities]] located to the west, in most of which slavery is officially forbidden although common to some degree.

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

[[Category:Places on the eastern continent]]

Perfumed seneschal

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The '''perfumed seneschal''' is a figure [[Quaithe]] warns [[Daenerys Targaryen]] about during one of her visits.

{{Quote|''"The [[A Feast for Crows-Prologue|glass candles are burning]]. Soon comes the [[bloody flux|pale mare]], and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the [[Undying Ones|Undying]]. Beware the perfumed seneschal.{{ref|aDwD|11}}''}}

==Possible candidates==
* [[Reznak mo Reznak]] - due to his position in [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s court and his penchant for wearing lots of perfume.
* [[Varys]] - he held a similar position in the Westerosi royal court. He also wears heavy perfume.
* The ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'' (''Fragrant Steward''), a trading cog.
* [[Satin]] the steward to [[Jon Snow]], who wears perfume.
* [[Garth Tyrell]] is the Lord Seneschal of High Garden. [[Garth Tyrell]], is a Tyrell (roses) and flatulent, both of which indicates a perfume of sorts.

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

[[Category:Theories]]
[[Category:Prophecy]]

A Storm of Swords-Chapter 71

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{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| title = Daenerys VI
| page = 803
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 70|Tyrion X]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 71|Daenerys VI]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 72|Jaime IX]]
| arc previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 57|Daenerys V]]
| arc next =
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] sits in the great pyramid of [[Meereen]], her troops having conquered the city after the men she sent into the sewers opened the gates. She meets an envoy from [[Astapor]], who represents King [[Cleon]] the great, a former butcher who now rules Astapor, supposedly in Dany’s name. But the envoy suggests that King Cleon wishes to marry Dany, and that the men she left to rule Astapor have all been deposed. Cleon has amassed new slaves, and is beginning to train them as [[Unsullied]], and Daenerys is dismayed that all she has done to free Astapor of slavery is coming undone.

Finally, she sends for Ser [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]] and Ser [[Barristan Selmy|Barristan]], wishing the two had died in the sewers, but the two knights are greater warriors than even that suicide quest. Barristan speaks of things Daenerys was never aware of, that [[Aerys II Targaryen|her father]] was mad, and that [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], even as a young boy, seemed to be [[Targaryen madness|more like his father]] than his brother [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. The old knight tells her, 
::"''The Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. King [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]] once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] is born, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.''" 
She absolves Barristan, and he swears his sword to her cause. But Ser Jorah does not beg forgiveness, and remains defensive, insisting that he has done nothing wrong. Daenerys then exiles the knight who was once her closest friend and protector, threatening to kill him if she ever sees him again.

Later, [[Daario Naharis|Daario]] warns her that she should not have banished Jorah, and that she may come to regret not keeping him near or having him killed outright. When her advisors urge her to move on, Daenerys decides that she must learn to rule if she ever wishes to sit the throne of [[Westeros]], and she declares that she will stay in Meereen and rule as queen.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]]
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Ghael]]
*[[Belwas|Strong Belwas]]
*[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Viserion]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]
*[[Balerion]]
*[[Meraxes]]
*[[Vhagar]]
*[[Groleo]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Visenya Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Grazdan mo Ullhor]]
*[[Cleon|King Cleon]]
*[[Eroeh]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Mero|Titan's Bastard]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Jaehaerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]
*[[Pyat Pree]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Rhaego]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Willem Darry]]
*[[Oznak zo Pahl]]
*[[Duncan Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon V Targaryen]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Great Pyramid]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Naath]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Plaza of Punishment]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Ghis]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[New Ghis]]
*[[Volantis]]
*[[Vaes Dothrak]]
*[[Lhazar]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Free Cities]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Yi Ti]]
*[[Jade Sea]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Temple of the Graces]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Peaceful People]]
*[[Lord of Harmony (god)|Lord of Harmony]]
*[[Faith of the Seven]]
*[[Septon]]
*[[Common Tongue]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Tourmaline Brotherhood]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]/''[[Joso's Prank]]''
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*''[[Indigo Star]]''
*[[Good Masters]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Wise Masters]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Zorse]]
*[[Stormcrows]]
*[[Second Sons]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[Sorrowful Men]]
*[[Battle of the Trident]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Warlocks]]
*''[[khal]]''
|}

==References and Notes==
* The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html]

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 71]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]

[[es:Tormenta de Espadas-Capítulo 71]]
[[fr:A Storm of Swords, Chapitre 72, Daenerys]]
[[zh:冰雨的风暴-章节 71]]

Cleon

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{{Character
| Character_name = Cleon
| image =
| image_caption =
| Alias = Cleon the Great The Butcher King King Cleaver
| Title = King Cleon of Astapor
| Allegiance =
| Race =
| Culture = [[Astapor|Astapori]]
| Spouse =
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth =
| Place_of_Death = [[Astapor]]
| Date_of_Death = [[300 AL]]
| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (Mentioned)
| coat-of-arms =
}}

King '''Cleon''' of [[Astapor]], also known as '''Cleon the Great''' and '''The Butcher King''', is the current ruler of [[Astapor]]. He has three daughters by his first wife and two of his newer wives are with child.{{Ref|ASOS|71}}

==History==
Cleon was once a slave owned by [[Grazdan mo Ullhor]], where he worked as a butcher. It was said he could cut up a pig faster than any other man in [[Astapor]].{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
After [[Daenerys Targaryen]] conquers the city of [[Astapor]], she installs a council of three men to rule after her departure. Cleon stirs up the people of Astapor, claiming that the council is attempting to reinstall the deposed [[Good Masters]]. With the backing of the people, Cleon executes the council members and installs himself as king.

Cleon then sends a messenger ([[Ghael|Lord Ghael]]) to Daenerys in [[Meereen]], offering a pact between Meereen and Astapor to attack [[Yunkai]] and to seal it, he would put aside his wives and wed her.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Cleon was defeated at a battle at the Horns of Hazzat. He was forced to flee back to Astapor, with his new [[Unsullied]] following him in retreat. {{Ref|aDwD|16}}

Cleon is slain by his own men when he commands them to march out and attack the [[Yunkai'i]]. He is succeeded by a string of unsuccessful rulers, including a man calling himself [[Cleon the Second]], his concubine, called [[Queen Whore]], and Cleon the Second's killer, called [[King Cutthroat]].{{Ref|aDwD|23}} When the [[Yunkai'i]] attack [[Astapor]] during the [[Siege of Astapor]], Cleon's body is disinterred and clad in armor after the [[Graces|Green Grace]] of Astapor sees a vision that he would deliver them from the Yunkai'i. The corpse is then strapped onto a horse to lead the remnants of his new, subpar [[Unsullied]] into battle. Every man in the sortie was killed.{{Ref|aDwD|30|pages 398-402}}

==References and Notes==
{{references}}
{{Template:Kings of Astapor}}
[[Category:Characters from Astapor]]
[[Category:Slaves and freedmen]]
[[es:Cleon]]
[[fr:Cleon]][[zh:克莱昂]]

A Storm of Swords-Chapter 57

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{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| title = Daenerys V
| page = 639
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 56|Bran IV]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 57|Daenerys V]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 58|Tyrion VII]]
| arc previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 42|Daenerys IV]]
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 71|Daenerys VI]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Meereen]] is enclosed by a great wall, with hundreds of defenders to guard it. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]’s huge army consists mostly of freed slaves. They are eating up the surrounding lands, and Daenerys realizes that she must claim the city before the army starves. Aware that storming the walls will cost her a great deal, Daenerys sends Strong [[Belwas]] to dispatch the Hero of Meereen. Belwas kills [[Oznak zo Pahl]], but the city still stands strong. Brown [[Ben Plumm]] reveals a way into the city through the sewers, and we find out that Dany’s dragons seem to like Brown Ben, and perch on his shoulder when he visits.

Daenerys, however, finds herself drawn to [[Daario Naharis]], and keeps thinking of his blue eyes. Later, she goes off with [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan]] and [[Missandei]] to visit the camps, and there she is attacked by [[Mero]] of Braavos. Arstan kills the Titan’s Bastard with his staff alone, and when Dany reaches her pavilion, [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]] is shocked to learn that a squire with a staff could defeat Mero with such ease. Arstan reveals that he is actually a knight, and Jorah finally recognizes him as Barristan the Bold. Barristan apologizes for deceiving her, and swears his sword in her service. Jorah warns her not to accept the man, for he went over to [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] after [[Battle of the Trident|the Trident]]. But Barristan reveals that Jorah has spied on her on behalf of [[Varys]] and the [[Small Council]] in hopes of gaining a royal pardon. Jorah pleads that he did so only at first, but he has been loyal to her since the birth of the dragons. Daenerys, disgusted, dismisses them both. She doesn't want them in her service any more. When she wonders where to send them, she suddenly has an idea.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Oznak zo Pahl]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]]/[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]]
*[[Belwas|Strong Belwas]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Mero|Mero of Braavos]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Scarb]]
*[[Prendahl na Ghezn]]
*[[Sallor|Sallor the Bald]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Groleo]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Ossifer Plumm]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Manfred Swann]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Gerold Hightower]]
*[[Varys]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Great Pyramid]]
*[[Tyrosh]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Skahazadhan]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Lands of the Long Summer]]
*[[Pentos]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Braavos]]
*[[Summer Islands]]
*[[Ibben]]
*[[Qohor]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Dothraki Sea]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Bloodrider]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[Second Sons]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*''[[arakh]]''
*[[Stormcrows]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[Unsullied]]
*''[[khal]]''
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Dragon]]
*''[[ko]]''
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]/''[[Saduleon]]''
*[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]/''[[Joso's Prank]]''
*[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]/''[[Summer Sun]]''
*[[Magister]]
*[[Doom of Valyria]]
*[[Balerion (god)]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Meraxes (god)]]
*[[Vhagar (god)]]
*[[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Small Council]]
*[[Battle of the Trident]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Others]]
*[[Undying Ones]]
|}

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html]

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 57]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]

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Janos Slynt

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| Place_of_Death = [[Castle Black]]
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[[File:Janos Slynt.png|300px|thumb|Janos Slynt as Commander of the City Watch in the HBO adaptation]]

Lord '''Janos Slynt''' is the head of [[House Slynt]] and commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]]. His father was a butcher.{{ref|aGoT|69}} In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], he is played by Dominic Carter.<ref>[http://www.liftingfaces.com/2009/09/game-of-thrones-cast-so-far/ Game of Thrones: cast so far] on Liftingfaces</ref>

==Appearance==
He is a stout man, with jowls and a bald pate.{{Ref|aGoT|27}} He is frog-faced and built like a keg.{{Ref|aCoK|8}}

==History==
Slynt was captain of the [[Iron Gate]] and was raised to commander of the City Watch after the death of the previous commander, [[Manly Stokeworth]].{{ref|aDwD|7}}

During his reign as Commander of the [[Gold Cloaks]], Janos was known for taking bribes and selling positions and promotions. By the end of his tenure, over half the officers were paying him part of their salaries. [[Jon Arryn]] discovered this and had two men who were willing to come forward to testify against Janos, but both were found dead a short time later. Despite this, Arryn still wished for Slynt to be dismissed but [[Robert Baratheon]] stated that...

{{Quote|"They all steal, better one we know the next man might be worse."{{ref|aSoS|78}}
}}
Thus Slynt retained his office. According to [[Stannis Baratheon]], these were [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger's]] words coming from Robert's mouth. Stannis stated that Baelish undoubtedly knew of Slynt's corruption and made sure the crown profited from it as much as Janos. Stannis also swore that if he had been king, Slynt would have lost more than his office for such corruption.{{ref|aSoS|78}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Janos Slynt is the Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]] when Lord [[Eddard Stark]] becomes [[Hand of the King]]. Before the start of the [[Tourney of the Hand]], Slynt comes before the [[small council]] and reports about the disturbances caused by people flooding the city. He asks for more men to keep the peace. Lord Eddard grants Slynt to hire fifty more men and orders [[Master of Coin]] [[Petyr Baelish]] to come up with the money to pay them. He also promises Slynt twenty men of his own household guards as reinforcement for the time of the tourney.{{ref|aGoT|27}}

After [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] has been injured by a boar during a hunt in the [[Kingswood]], Lord Eddard plans to proclaim [[Stannis Baratheon]] as the new king once Robert has died, implying a likely confrontation with [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]], who wants to install her son [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] to the [[Iron Throne]] instead. Given the strength of the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] force commanded by Cersei, Eddard sees the loyalty of the City Watch as crucial to the success of his plan, so he contacts Littlefinger, who promises him to buy the loyalty of Slynt and his men for six thousand gold pieces.{{ref|aGoT|47}}

When Eddard goes to the throne room to challenge the legitimacy of Joffrey, he is joined by Janos Slynt at the door, and Eddard is reassured by the number of gold cloaks on display. However, when Eddard calls on Slynt to put Cersei and her children under arrest, Slynt betrays him and the gold cloaks begin to murder the [[House Stark|Stark]] household guards. Slynt personally kills [[Varly]] by slashing his throat. Shoving a dagger under Eddard's chin, Littlefinger points out: "I did warn you not to trust me, you know."{{ref|aGoT|49}}

Slynt is raised to Lord of [[Harrenhal]] for his services to the crown and named a member of the small council. He chooses a bloody spear on a black field as his sigil. The appointment of a commoner to such a high position causes some resentment among members of noble houses.{{ref|aGoT|57}}

When [[Barristan Selmy]] reacts with bewilderment to Cersei's announcement that he is relieved of his burden, Slynt explains bluntly that Selmy is being replaced as [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]], angering the old knight. Slynt laughs with others in the throne room when Littlefinger mocks Selmy. After Selmy has left, King Joffrey is outraged about the defiance and contempt the knight has exhibited and orders his arrest. Slynt declares that his gold cloaks will see to it and immediately goes after Selmy.{{ref|aGoT|57}} However, Selmy can still record his own dismissal in the [[White Book]]{{ref|aCoK|67}} and gather his possessions in the [[Red Keep#White Sword Tower|White Sword Tower]], before Slynt and three of his men confront him at the stables. When they try to arrest Selmy, the seasoned knight, only armed with a knife, manages to escape them, killing one gold cloak and riding through Slynt and the other two. Slynt sends men after him but to no avail, as Selmy is able to overcome the guards at the [[River Gate|Mud Gate]] and to kill one of his pursuers before fleeing the city.{{ref|aDwD|11}}

Musing in his cell about why his actions have failed, Lord Eddard damns Slynt as one of the people who have betrayed him and the realm, yet he ultimately blames himself the most.{{ref|aGoT|58}}

Following Lord Eddard's execution, Lord Slynt attends another court session, in which Joffrey hands out harsh sentences in matters brought before him, nodding in approval to every action of the king.{{ref|aGoT|67}}

In a conversation with [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] refers to granting Harrenhal, a former seat of kings, to the son of a butcher as one example of Cersei not being able to prevent foolish actions on the part of Joffrey, also citing the execution of Lord Eddard and the dismissal of Ser Barristan in this context. Lord Tywin notes with contempt that Slynt should have chosen a bloody cleaver instead of a bloody spear as his sigil. He orders Tyrion to go to [[King's Landing]] and act as Hand of the King in his absence.{{ref|aGoT|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Lord Janos sits on the Small Council when [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives in King's Landing. He is later stripped of [[Harrenhal]] and sent to join the [[Night's Watch]] by Tyrion along with the men he has suggested as replacements for him as Commander of the City Watch. He's replaced by Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]]{{ref|aCoK|8}}, though Tyrion believes that in getting rid of Slynt for Bywater, he has merely replaced a man loyal to Littlefinger with one loyal to Varys.

Tyrion's action against Janos Slynt displeases his sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]{{ref|aCoK|17}} while it elicits a statement from [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]], made in [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey's]] presence, that she wishes the [[Others]] will get Slynt when he's at the [[Wall]], with which she angers the King.{{ref|aCoK|18}} [[Petyr Baelish]] cites Slynt's fate when Tyrion offers him Harrenhal as gift for his services to the Crown, meaning when he betrayed [[Eddard Stark]], pointing out that Slynt had received Harrenhal for the same reason and thus suggesting that the fruit might be poisoned. To which Tyrion replies that, while he had no use for Slynt, the same is not true for Littlefinger.{{ref|aCoK|17}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Not knowing that [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] is already dead, [[Bowen Marsh]] of the [[Night's Watch]] sends an appeal to the five kings, in which he asks them to send men to defend the [[Wall]] and the realm against an expected attack by [[Mance Rayder]]'s [[Free Folk|wildlings]]. He also tells them about the possible death of [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]] during [[the Great Ranging]]. When Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] informs Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] about the letter, the [[Hand of the King]] is annoyed about the neutrality the Night's Watch keeps in the [[War of the Five Kings]] and suggests that no help will be sent, until a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] ally has been installed as new Lord Commander and brings discipline back to the Wall. Pycelle suggests Janos Slynt for the position, angering [[Tyrion Lannister]], who reminds his father that he was against a butcher's son holding [[Harrenhal]]. Lord Tywin disagrees, arguing that "there is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool". When Tyrion objects that Slynt will sell himself to the highest bidder, Lord Tywin answers that he counts that in the man's favor. Knowing that the Black Brothers chose their own commander and direct support for Slynt would thus be unwise, Lord Tywin orders Pycelle to write a letter to Marsh in the name of [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]], in which the demand for men is rejected for the time being but the "fondest regards to his faithful friend and servant Lord Janos Slynt" are also expressed. Thinking by himself, Tyrion regrets that he didn't leave orders for Slynt to be disposed of the way his partner in crime [[Allar Deem]] was.{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

Slynt arrives at [[Castle Black]] and hauls [[Jon Snow]] before him on charges of treason and oathbreaking. He allies with Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] and Ser [[Glendon Hewett]]. He brings [[Rattleshirt]] out who confirms that Jon killed [[Qhorin Halfhand]]. He has Jon arrested and placed in an ice cell.{{Ref|aSoS|69}}

After being prevented by [[Maester Aemon]] from hanging Jon, Slynt sends Jon to assassinate [[Mance Rayder]], hoping that Jon will be killed in the process.{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

Slynt puts himself forth as candidate to succeed [[Jeor Mormont]] as [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], with the support of Ser Alliser Thorne and later on of [[Bowen Marsh]] as well.{{Ref|aSoS|75}} Slynt also tries to persuade [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] to support him, but Stannis's dislike for Slynt and his distaste for the man's sycophantic flattery put an end to it. Due to the rivalry between [[Cotter Pyke]] and Ser [[Denys Mallister]], Slynt's chances improve. In the end, he is defeated by the efforts of [[Samwell Tarly]] who persuades Pyke and Mallister to support Jon Snow as a compromise candidate.{{Ref|aSoS|78}}{{Ref|aSoS|79}}

===''A Dance With Dragons''===
[[File:Janos Slynt1.jpg‎‎|Janos Slynt by Paul Phillips©|thumb|250px]]
To avoid Slynt undermining his authority with his scheming, to separate him from his ally [[Alliser Thorne]] and in view of his experience, Jon Snow, now Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, decides to give Slynt command of the abandoned way castle [[Greyguard]].

Still under the misapprehension that Jon's youth and inexperience give him licence to do as he pleases, Slynt refuses to follow Jon's orders, doing so the second time publicly. At this point, Jon, sick of Slynt's insubordination and knowing either imprisoning Slynt or forcing him to go would only cause further problems, orders that Slynt should be taken to the top of the Wall and hanged, though Slynt remains arrogantly confident that Jon wouldn't go through with the execution. However, Jon ultimately decides to follow the moral code that [[Eddard Stark]] had set his sons, and orders his men to fetch a chopping block so Jon can carry out the beheading himself, under the laws of the [[First Men]] his father had followed: namely 'The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.' With his head on the block, Slynt begs for mercy and says he will obey Jon's orders, but Jon tells him it is too late, though Jon is merciful and kills Slynt quickly. [[Stannis Baratheon]], who watches the execution, approves of Jon's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|7}}

==Family==
{{Slynt tree}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

===See also===
The [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Janos_Slynt Janos Slynt article] on the Game of Thrones wikia.

[[Category:House Slynt]]
[[Category:Nobles|Slynt, Janos]]
[[Category:Characters from the Crownlands|Slynt, Janos]]
[[Category:Members of the Small council|Slynt, Janos]]
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[[ru:Джанос Слинт]]
[[zh:杰诺斯·史林特]]

Janos Slynt

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Olenna Tyrell

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| Alias = The Queen of Thorns
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| Spouse = Lord {[[Luthor Tyrell]]}
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| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Appears)
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| Played_by = Diana Rigg
| TV_series =[[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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'''Olenna Redwyne''' is the widow of Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]] and the mother of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. Because of her sharp tongue, she is generally known as the '''Queen of Thorns'''.

==Appearance & Character==
Lady Olenna is old, with white hair and very small. She has soft, spotted hands with gaunt thin fingers. Olenna has an old woman's sour breath. She is older than [[Hoster Tully]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} She has lost her teeth.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} Olenna walks with a cane{{Ref|aSoS|60}} and claims to be near deaf{{Ref|aSoS|6}}, but both might be part of her feigning to be more frail than she actually is.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

Olenna rarely shies from stating her opinion. She is described as a wizened, cunning old woman with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue. According to her granddaughter [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]], she is not the most patient of women.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} Although she regularly mocks members of her own family{{Ref|aSoS|6}}{{Ref|aFfC|7}}, she seems to be a staunch supporter of [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] family interests.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

[[File:OllenaRedwynebyWouterBruneel.jpg|250px|thumb|Olenna Redwyne by [http://www.wbruneel.com/IllustrationPortfolio.html Wouter Bruneel].]]

==History==
In her youth, she was almost wed to a member of [[House Targaryen]], but Olenna did everything she could to make sure it never came to fruition. She liked her husband [[Luthor Tyrell|Luthor]] well enough, as he was kind and not unskilled in bed, but she still considered him an oaf. She regrets that she didn't have a chance to beat her son [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]] more often when he was a child, as that would have made him more ready to heed her advise when he became an adult.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Petyr Baelish]] is sent to [[Highgarden]] to negotiate an alliance between [[House Lannister]] and [[House Tyrell]], including a marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]] and Renly's widow, [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|aCoK|36}} During the negotiations, Lady Olenna asks Littlefinger pointed questions about Joffrey's nature. Littlefinger praises Joffrey to the skies, but secretly uses some of his escorts to plant disturbing rumors about the king among the servants at Highgarden, thereby creating doubts about the truth of his official statements.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Olenna redwyne by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Illustration by Elia Fernandez©|250px]]
Lady Olenna comes to [[King's Landing]] to attend the wedding of her granddaughter, [[Margaery Tyrell]], to King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]]. During a supper with Margaery and a number of noble ladies of houses sworn to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], Olenna sharply questions [[Sansa Stark]] about Joffrey's nature. She refuses to listen to Sansa's evasions and half truths about Joffrey and gets Sansa to speak the truth about Joffrey's cruelty and the beatings he gave her. To prevent any potential spy from listening to Sansa, Lady Olenna orders her jester, [[Butterbumps]], to sing loudly.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

Lady Olenna also voices a scathing opinion on the way her son, [[Mace Tyrell]], is going about playing the game of thrones, much to Sansa's amazement:
{{Quote| ‘If truth be told, even our claim to [[Highgarden]] is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful [[House Florent|Florents]] are always whining. "What does it matter," you ask, and of course it doesn't, except to oafs like my son. The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the [[Summer Isles]] that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.'

'They call them puff fish, Grandmother.'

'Of course they do, Summer Islanders have no imagination. My son ought to take the puff fish for his sigil, if truth be told. He could put a crown on it, the way the [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] do their stag, perhaps that would make him happy. We should have stayed well out of all this bloody foolishness if you ask me, but once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder. After Lord Puff Fish put that crown on [[Renly Baratheon|Renly's]] head, we were into the pudding up to our knees, so here we are to see things through.'
{{Ref|aSoS|6}}}}

Olenna plots with Margaery to marry Sansa to her grandson [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]] without letting her son Mace know about it.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} However, Sansa unwisely tells [[Dontos Hollard]] about the plan{{Ref|aSoS|28}} and Dontos supposedly shares the information with [[Petyr Baelish]]. Littlefinger foils the plot by telling Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] about it, who quickly marries Sansa to his own son, [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}}{{Ref|aSoS|28}}

In turn, Olenna sabotages Lord Tywin's plan to marry his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] to Willas, the heir to [[Highgarden]]. After Mace Tyrell is originally inclined to accept the offer, Olenna belabors her son and talks him out of it, arguing that Cersei is too old and too used for Willas. Lord Tywin learns about this from [[Varys]] and shares the information with Tyrion, but orders Tyrion not to tell Cersei about the reason and rather act as if the offer has never been made.{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

Olenna seems to share the general aversion of the Tyrells against [[House Martell|the Martells]]. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the [[Red Keep]], she calls [[Oberyn Martell]]'s paramour [[Ellaria Sand]] "the serpent's whore".{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Olenna is present at the wedding of her granddaughter Margaery and King Joffrey at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. In the wedding procession after the ceremony, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] excorts her out of the sept. Before the wedding feast in the throne room, Olenna approaches Sansa and expresses her condolences over the deaths of [[Robb Stark|Sansa's brother]] and [[Catelyn Tully|mother]]. While she talks with her, Olenna puts Sansa's messy hair in order and straightens the hair net that Sansa has received from Dontos and which he told her to wear at the wedding. Later, Olenna makes a snide remark about how often ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' is being performed during the wedding feast. When Joffrey begins to choke, she calls for help and later comforts Margaery.{{Ref|aSoS|60}}{{Ref|aSoS|61}}

While revealing his own part in planning Joffrey's death, Littlefinger implies to Sansa Stark that Olenna is the one who poisoned the king, with some help from himself and the people he used, especially Dontos. He refers to Lady Olenna straightening Sansa's hair net, implying that this was the moment the old woman took the black stones (actually a crystallized form of [[The Strangler|the Strangler]]), which she used to poison Joffrey. Littlefinger suggests that Olenna killed Joffrey to spare her granddaughter Margaery from the same cruelty the boy showed Sansa and to prevent her hot-tempered grandson [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] from becoming a kingslayer in case he, while serving in the [[Kingsguard]], had to witness the king mistreating his sister. Littlefinger also shares how he planted disturbing rumors about Joffrey's character while he was at Highgarden, prompting Lady Olenna's questioning Sansa when they first met. According to Littefinger, Olenna knew Mace dreamed of his daughter Margaery becoming queen and for that they needed a king, but they did not need Joffrey, as Margaery could also marry his brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]].{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lady Olenna attends the wake for Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her family. [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] informs Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] that she has appointed Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] as [[Master of Coin]] instead of Mace's uncle [[Garth Tyrell|Garth]], although the position had been promised to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] by Lord Tywin. When Lord Mace tries to protest, Lady Olenna eases the tension, but not without making some inappropriate remarks about both Lord Rosby and Garth. She also alludes to the smell emanating from Lord Tywin's corpse, making Cersei angry. When Cersei suggests that Lady Olenna would want to return to [[Highgarden]] soon, she replies that she can't leave [[King's Landing]] before the wedding of [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|King Tommen]]. She mentions that she had been discussing a date for the wedding with Lord Tywin at the time of his death and proposes to talk about this with Cersei soon.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

In the negotiations with Cersei on the marriage between Tommen and Margaery, Olenna drives a hard bargain. She insists on an immediate wedding, much to Cersei's dismay{{Ref|aFfC|39}}, and she also throws out Cersei's suggestion that Tommen should wed his bride with a cloak in [[House Lannister|Lannister]] instead of [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] colors.{{Ref|aFfC|12}} Olenna, vouching for her granddaughter still being a maiden{{Ref|aFfC|43}}, also proposes that Tommen and Margaery share their bed as soon as they are married. Cersei, horrified by the suggestion, refuses this. However, Olenna is adamant that the royal couple should at least spend the wedding night together, as anything else would mean ill luck for the marriage. Cersei relents on this point, but she later regrets her concession and arranges for her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] to make certain that nothing happens between Tommen and Margaery that night.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

During the wedding feast, Olenna complains mockingly that ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' isn't being sung. The nasty smile of the Queen of Thorns makes Cersei, who is increasingly wary of all Tyrells, think of [[Maggy the Frog]], although the two actually hardly look alike. Later that night, Olenna is the one suggesting to break up the feast and send king and queen to bed together.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

The day after the wedding, Olenna returns to [[Highgarden]] with her grandson, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

Following [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion's]] escape, [[Qyburn]] informed Cersei that a gold coin dating from the time of [[House Gardener]] has been found in the quarters of an undergaoler named [[Rugen]] (actually an alias of [[Varys]]), who vanished at the time Tyrion did.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} From Lady [[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]], Cersei also learns that Olenna keeps a large chest of gold from before the [[War of Conquest|Conquest]] in her wheelhouse. In the event that unwary tradespeople offend her, she pays them in the old gold coins of the [[Reach]], which are only half the weight of newly minted gold dragons.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} Both pieces of information make Cersei suspect that the Tyrells were involved in the escape of Tyrion and in the assassination of Lord Tywin.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

==Family==
{{Template:Redwyne tree}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Redwyne, Olenna]]
[[Category:Characters from the Reach|Redwyne, Olenna]]
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Olenna Tyrell

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| image = [[File:Olenna Redwyne.jpg|250px]]
| image_caption = Olenna by [http://en.amokanet.ru/gallery/martin/ Amoka©]
| Alias = The Queen of Thorns
| Title =
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| Culture =
| Spouse = Lord {[[Luthor Tyrell]]}
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth =
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Appears)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Diana Rigg
| TV_series =[[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}
'''Olenna Redwyne''' is the widow of Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]] and the mother of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. Because of her sharp tongue, she is generally known as the '''Queen of Thorns'''.

==Appearance & Character==
Lady Olenna is old, with white hair and very small. She has soft, spotted hands with gaunt thin fingers. Olenna has an old woman's sour breath. She is older than [[Hoster Tully]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} She has lost her teeth.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} Olenna walks with a cane{{Ref|aSoS|60}} and claims to be near deaf{{Ref|aSoS|6}}, but both might be part of her feigning to be more frail than she actually is.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

Olenna rarely shies from stating her opinion. She is described as a wizened, cunning old woman with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue. According to her granddaughter [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]], she is not the most patient of women.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} Although she regularly mocks members of her own family{{Ref|aSoS|6}}{{Ref|aFfC|7}}, she seems to be a staunch supporter of [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] family interests.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

[[File:OllenaRedwynebyWouterBruneel.jpg|250px|thumb|Olenna Redwyne by [http://www.wbruneel.com/IllustrationPortfolio.html Wouter Bruneel].]]

==History==
In her youth, she was almost wed to a member of [[House Targaryen]], but Olenna did everything she could to make sure it never came to fruition. She liked her husband [[Luthor Tyrell|Luthor]] well enough, as he was kind and not unskilled in bed, but she still considered him an oaf. She regrets that she didn't have a chance to beat her son [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]] more often when he was a child, as that would have made him more ready to heed her advise when he became an adult.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Petyr Baelish]] is sent to [[Highgarden]] to negotiate an alliance between [[House Lannister]] and [[House Tyrell]], including a marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]] and Renly's widow, [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|aCoK|36}} During the negotiations, Lady Olenna asks Littlefinger pointed questions about Joffrey's nature. Littlefinger praises Joffrey to the skies, but secretly uses some of his escorts to plant disturbing rumors about the king among the servants at Highgarden, thereby creating doubts about the truth of his official statements.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Olenna redwyne by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Illustration by Elia Fernandez©|250px]]
Lady Olenna comes to [[King's Landing]] to attend the wedding of her granddaughter, [[Margaery Tyrell]], to King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]]. During a supper with Margaery and a number of noble ladies of houses sworn to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], Olenna sharply questions [[Sansa Stark]] about Joffrey's nature. She refuses to listen to Sansa's evasions and half truths about Joffrey and gets Sansa to speak the truth about Joffrey's cruelty and the beatings he gave her. To prevent any potential spy from listening to Sansa, Lady Olenna orders her jester, [[Butterbumps]], to sing loudly.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

Lady Olenna also voices a scathing opinion on the way her son, [[Mace Tyrell]], is going about playing the game of thrones, much to Sansa's amazement:
{{Quote| ‘If truth be told, even our claim to [[Highgarden]] is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful [[House Florent|Florents]] are always whining. "What does it matter," you ask, and of course it doesn't, except to oafs like my son. The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the [[Summer Isles]] that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.'

'They call them puff fish, Grandmother.'

'Of course they do, Summer Islanders have no imagination. My son ought to take the puff fish for his sigil, if truth be told. He could put a crown on it, the way the [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] do their stag, perhaps that would make him happy. We should have stayed well out of all this bloody foolishness if you ask me, but once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder. After Lord Puff Fish put that crown on [[Renly Baratheon|Renly's]] head, we were into the pudding up to our knees, so here we are to see things through.'
{{Ref|aSoS|6}}}}

Olenna plots with Margaery to marry Sansa to her grandson [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]] without letting her son Mace know about it.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} However, Sansa unwisely tells [[Dontos Hollard]] about the plan{{Ref|aSoS|28}} and Dontos supposedly shares the information with [[Petyr Baelish]]. Littlefinger foils the plot by telling Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] about it, who quickly marries Sansa to his own son, [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}}{{Ref|aSoS|28}}

In turn, Olenna sabotages Lord Tywin's plan to marry his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] to [[Willas Tyrell]], Olenna's grandson and heir to [[Highgarden]]. After Mace Tyrell is originally inclined to accept the offer, Olenna belabors her son and talks him out of it, arguing that Cersei is too old and too used for Willas. Lord Tywin learns about this from [[Varys]] and shares the information with Tyrion, but orders Tyrion not to tell Cersei about the reason and rather act as if the offer has never been made.{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

Olenna seems to share the general aversion of the Tyrells against [[House Martell|the Martells]]. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the [[Red Keep]], she calls [[Oberyn Martell]]'s paramour [[Ellaria Sand]] "the serpent's whore".{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Olenna is present at the wedding of her granddaughter Margaery and King Joffrey at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. In the wedding procession after the ceremony, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] excorts her out of the sept. Before the wedding feast in the throne room, Olenna approaches Sansa and expresses her condolences over the deaths of [[Robb Stark|Sansa's brother]] and [[Catelyn Tully|mother]]. While she talks with her, Olenna puts Sansa's messy hair in order and straightens the hair net that Sansa has received from Dontos and which he told her to wear at the wedding. Later, Olenna makes a snide remark about how often ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' is being performed during the wedding feast. When Joffrey begins to choke, she calls for help and later comforts Margaery.{{Ref|aSoS|60}}{{Ref|aSoS|61}}

While revealing his own part in planning Joffrey's death, Littlefinger implies to Sansa Stark that Olenna is the one who poisoned the king, with some help from himself and the people he used, especially Dontos. He refers to Lady Olenna straightening Sansa's hair net, implying that this was the moment the old woman took the black stones (actually a crystallized form of [[The Strangler|the Strangler]]), which she used to poison Joffrey. Littlefinger suggests that Olenna killed Joffrey to spare her granddaughter Margaery from the same cruelty the boy showed Sansa and to prevent her hot-tempered grandson [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] from becoming a kingslayer in case he, while serving in the [[Kingsguard]], had to witness the king mistreating his sister. Littlefinger also shares how he planted disturbing rumors about Joffrey's character while he was at Highgarden, prompting Lady Olenna's questioning Sansa when they first met. According to Littefinger, Olenna knew Mace dreamed of his daughter Margaery becoming queen and for that they needed a king, but they did not need Joffrey, as Margaery could also marry his brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]].{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lady Olenna attends the wake for Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her family. [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] informs Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] that she has appointed Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] as [[Master of Coin]] instead of Mace's uncle [[Garth Tyrell|Garth]], although the position had been promised to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] by Lord Tywin. When Lord Mace tries to protest, Lady Olenna eases the tension, but not without making some inappropriate remarks about both Lord Rosby and Garth. She also alludes to the smell emanating from Lord Tywin's corpse, making Cersei angry. When Cersei suggests that Lady Olenna would want to return to [[Highgarden]] soon, she replies that she can't leave [[King's Landing]] before the wedding of [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|King Tommen]]. She mentions that she had been discussing a date for the wedding with Lord Tywin at the time of his death and proposes to talk about this with Cersei soon.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

In the negotiations with Cersei on the marriage between Tommen and Margaery, Olenna drives a hard bargain. She insists on an immediate wedding, much to Cersei's dismay{{Ref|aFfC|39}}, and she also throws out Cersei's suggestion that Tommen should wed his bride with a cloak in [[House Lannister|Lannister]] instead of [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] colors.{{Ref|aFfC|12}} Olenna, vouching for her granddaughter still being a maiden{{Ref|aFfC|43}}, also proposes that Tommen and Margaery share their bed as soon as they are married. Cersei, horrified by the suggestion, refuses this. However, Olenna is adamant that the royal couple should at least spend the wedding night together, as anything else would mean ill luck for the marriage. Cersei relents on this point, but she later regrets her concession and arranges for her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] to make certain that nothing happens between Tommen and Margaery that night.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

During the wedding feast, Olenna complains mockingly that ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' isn't being sung. The nasty smile of the Queen of Thorns makes Cersei, who is increasingly wary of all Tyrells, think of [[Maggy the Frog]], although the two actually hardly look alike. Later that night, Olenna is the one suggesting to break up the feast and send king and queen to bed together.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

The day after the wedding, Olenna returns to [[Highgarden]] with her grandson, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

Following [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion's]] escape, [[Qyburn]] informed Cersei that a gold coin dating from the time of [[House Gardener]] has been found in the quarters of an undergaoler named [[Rugen]] (actually an alias of [[Varys]]), who vanished at the time Tyrion did.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} From Lady [[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]], Cersei also learns that Olenna keeps a large chest of gold from before the [[War of Conquest|Conquest]] in her wheelhouse. In the event that unwary tradespeople offend her, she pays them in the old gold coins of the [[Reach]], which are only half the weight of newly minted gold dragons.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} Both pieces of information make Cersei suspect that the Tyrells were involved in the escape of Tyrion and in the assassination of Lord Tywin.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

==Family==
{{Template:Redwyne tree}}

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Noblewomen|Redwyne, Olenna]]
[[Category:Characters from the Reach|Redwyne, Olenna]]
[[Category:House Tyrell]]
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A Storm of Swords-Chapter 6

2013-05-26T05:30:56Z

Beekowski: add character, place + term list

{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Sansa I
| page = 61
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 5|Davos I]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 6|Sansa I]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 7|Jon I]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 16|Sansa II]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:Mustamirri tellmeallaboutjoff.jpg‎|by mustamirri ©|thumb|200px]]
[[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] is invited to dinner by [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her grandmother, the Lady [[Olenna Redwyne|Olenna]]. She is escorted to the party by [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], and unknowingly upsets him by talking of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]’s death. The party is held in the [[Red Keep#Maidenvault|Maidenvault]], where King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]] confined his sisters so they would not tempt him, as he had sworn a vow of celibacy. She is introduced to all of Margaery’s cousins and companions, but it is the Queen of Thorns who takes the most interest in Sansa.

Lady Olenna reveals that the [[House Baratheon|Baratheons]] have [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] blood, and that the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] claim to [[Highgarden]] has always been shaky since several other houses in [[the Reach]] can claim descent from [[Garth Gardener (Greenhand)|Garth Greenhand]] as well. The old woman makes it known that [[Mace Tyrell|her son]] is an oaf for making this alliance with the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], and she wishes to learn from Sansa the truth of what [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] is. Sansa fears that [[Varys]] is listening, but Lady Olenna commands [[Butterbumps]] to sing at the top of his voice. Sansa reveals the truth about Joffrey to the Queen of Thorns and Margaery, telling them that the King is a monster and that she fears for Margaery. Lady Olenna assures Sansa that the wedding will still go on, as Mace is determined that his daughter wed the King. The Queen of Thorns offers Sansa a proposal to visit Highgarden after the wedding, and wishes Sansa to marry her grandson [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]].

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Sansa Stark]]
*[[Loras Tyrell]]
*[[Balon Swann]]
*[[Tallad]]
*[[Kennos of Kayce]]
*[[Osney Kettleblack]]
*[[Osfryd Kettleblack]]
*[[Morros Slynt]]
*[[Garlan Tyrell]]
*[[Arryk (Guard)|Arryk]]
*[[Erryk (Guard)|Erryk]]
*[[Margaery Tyrell]]
*[[Alerie Hightower|Alerie Tyrell]]
*[[Megga Tyrell]]
*[[Alla Tyrell]]
*[[Elinor Tyrell]]
*[[Janna Tyrell|Janna Fossoway]]
*[[Leonette Fossoway|Leonette Tyrell]]
*[[Nysterica|Septa Nysterica]]
*[[Alyce Graceford]]
*[[Alysanne Bulwer]]
*[[Meredyth Crane]]
*[[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]]
*[[Olenna Redwyne|Olenna Tyrell]]
*[[Butterbumps]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Sandor Clegane]]
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Florian]]
*[[Dontos Hollard]]
*[[Robar Royce]]
*[[Renly Baratheon]]
*[[Mace Tyrell]]
*[[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]]
*[[Luthor Tyrell]]
*[[Rickard Stark]]
*[[Hoster Tully]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Tommen Baratheon]]
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Dragon]]
*[[Mern IX Gardener]]
*[[Garth Gardener (Greenhand)|Garth Greenhand]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Moon Boy]]
*[[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion Brightfire]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Ilyn Payne]]
*[[Mycah]]
*[[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]]
*[[Cersei Lannister]]
*[[Willas Tyrell]]
*[[Oberyn Martell]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Aegon's High Hill]]
*[[King’s Gate]]
*[[Red Keep]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]]
*[[Red Keep#Tower of the Hand|Tower of the Hand]]
*[[Storm's End]]
*[[Bitterbridge]]
*[[Myr]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[The Reach]]
*[[Summer Isles]]
*[[Red Keep]]
*[[Casterly Rock]]
*[[Mander]]
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Dorne]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Tyrell]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Tourney of the Hand]]
*[[Rainbow Guard]]
*[[Sept]]
*[[Maidenvault]]
*[[House Baratheon]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[House Stark]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Arryn]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[King of the Reach]]
*[[Field of Fire]]
*[[House Florent]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[House Rowan]]
*[[House Oakheart]]
*''[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]''
|}

==References and Notes==
* The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
*[http://slynt.blogspot.nl/2012/08/re-read-sansa-i-butterbumps-study-in.html Analyses and summary of the chapter] in the course of a 10th reread by Slynth.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/10/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-4 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords part 4] Analyses and summary by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 06]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Sansa Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place at the Red Keep]]

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Olenna Tyrell

2013-05-26T05:03:44Z

Beekowski:

{{Infobox character
| Character_name = [[File:House_Redwyne.png|50px|left]] '''Olenna Redwyne''' [[File:House_Tyrell.PNG|50px|right]]
| image = [[File:Olenna Redwyne.jpg|250px]]
| image_caption = Olenna by [http://en.amokanet.ru/gallery/martin/ Amoka©]
| Alias = The Queen of Thorns
| Title =
| Allegiance = [[House Redwyne]] [[House Tyrell]]
| Race =
| Culture =
| Spouse = Lord {[[Luthor Tyrell]]}
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth =
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Appears)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Diana Rigg
| TV_series =[[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}
'''Olenna Redwyne''' is the widow of Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]] and the mother of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. Because of her sharp tongue, she is generally known as the '''Queen of Thorns'''.

==Appearance & Character==
Lady Olenna is old, with white hair and very small. She has soft, spotted hands with gaunt thin fingers. Olenna has an old woman's sour breath. She is older than [[Hoster Tully]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} She has lost her teeth.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} Olenna walks with a cane{{Ref|aSoS|60}} and claims to be near deaf{{Ref|aSoS|6}}, but both might be part of her feigning to be more frail than she actually is.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

Olenna rarely shies from stating her opinion. She is described as a wizened, cunning old woman with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue. According to her granddaughter [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]], she is not the most patient of women.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} Although she regularly mocks members of her own family{{Ref|aSoS|6}}{{Ref|aFfC|7}}, she seems to be a staunch supporter of [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] family interests.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

[[File:OllenaRedwynebyWouterBruneel.jpg|250px|thumb|Olenna Redwyne by [http://www.wbruneel.com/IllustrationPortfolio.html Wouter Bruneel].]]

==History==
In her youth, she was almost wed to a member of [[House Targaryen]], but Olenna did everything she could to make sure it never came to fruition. She liked her husband [[Luthor Tyrell|Luthor]] well enough, as he was kind and not unskilled in bed, but she still considered him an oaf. She regrets that she didn't have a chance to beat her son [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]] more often when he was a child, as that would have made him more ready to heed her advise when he became an adult.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Petyr Baelish]] is sent to [[Highgarden]] to negotiate an alliance between [[House Lannister]] and [[House Tyrell]], including a marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]] and Renly's widow, [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|aCoK|36}} During the negotiations, Lady Olenna asks Littlefinger pointed questions about Joffrey's nature. Littlefinger praises Joffrey to the skies, but secretly uses some of his escorts to plant disturbing rumors about the king among the servants at Highgarden, thereby creating doubts about the truth of his official statements.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Olenna redwyne by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Illustration by Elia Fernandez©|250px]]
Lady Olenna comes to [[King's Landing]] to attend the wedding of her granddaughter, [[Margaery Tyrell]], to King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]]. During a supper with Margaery and a number of noble ladies of houses sworn to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], Olenna sharply questions [[Sansa Stark]] about Joffrey's nature. She refuses to listen to Sansa's evasions and half truths about Joffrey and gets Sansa to speak the truth about Joffrey's cruelty and the beatings he gave her. To prevent any potential spy from listening to Sansa, Lady Olenna orders her jester, [[Butterbumps]], to sing loudly.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

Lady Olenna also voices a scathing opinion on the way her son, [[Mace Tyrell]], is going about playing the game of thrones, much to Sansa's amazement:
{{Quote| ‘If truth be told, even our claim to [[Highgarden]] is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful [[House Florent|Florents]] are always whining. "What does it matter," you ask, and of course it doesn't, except to oafs like my son. The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the [[Summer Isles]] that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.'

'They call them puff fish, Grandmother.'

'Of course they do, Summer Islanders have no imagination. My son ought to take the puff fish for his sigil, if truth be told. He could put a crown on it, the way the [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] do their stag, perhaps that would make him happy. We should have stayed well out of all this bloody foolishness if you ask me, but once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder. After Lord Puff Fish put that crown on [[Renly Baratheon|Renly's]] head, we were into the pudding up to our knees, so here we are to see things through.'
{{Ref|aSoS|6}}}}

Olenna plots to marry Sansa to her grandson [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} However, Sansa unwisely tells [[Dontos Hollard]] about these plans{{Ref|aSoS|28}} and Dontos supposedly shares the information with [[Petyr Baelish]]. Littlefinger foils the plot by telling Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] about it, who quickly marries Sansa to his own son, [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}}

She shares the general aversion of the Tyrells against [[House Martell|the Martells]]. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the [[Red Keep]], she calls [[Oberyn Martell]]'s paramour [[Ellaria Sand]] "the serpent's whore".{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Olenna is present at the wedding of her granddaughter Margaery and King Joffrey at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. In the wedding procession after the ceremony, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] excorts her out of the sept. Before the wedding feast in the throne room, Olenna approaches Sansa and expresses her condolences over the deaths of [[Robb Stark|Sansa's brother]] and [[Catelyn Tully|mother]]. While she talks with her, Olenna puts Sansa's messy hair in order and straightens the hair net that Sansa has received from Dontos and which he told her to wear at the wedding. Later, Olenna makes a snide remark about how often ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' is being performed during the wedding feast. When Joffrey begins to choke, she calls for help.{{Ref|aSoS|60}}{{Ref|aSoS|61}}

While revealing his own part in planning Joffrey's death, Littlefinger implies to Sansa Stark that Olenna is the one who poisoned the king, with some help from himself and the people he used, especially Dontos. He refers to Lady Olenna straightening Sansa's hair net, implying that this was the moment the old woman took the black stones (actually a crystallized form of [[The Strangler|the Strangler]]), which she used to poison Joffrey. Littlefinger suggests that Olenna killed Joffrey to spare her granddaughter Margaery from the same cruelty the boy showed Sansa and to prevent her hot-tempered grandson [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] from becoming a kingslayer in case he, while serving in the [[Kingsguard]], had to witness the king mistreating his sister. Littlefinger also shares how he planted disturbing rumors about Joffrey's character while he was at Highgarden, prompting Lady Olenna's questioning Sansa when they first met. According to Littefinger, Olenna knew Mace dreamed of his daughter Margaery becoming queen and for that they needed a king, but they did not need Joffrey, as Margaery could also marry his brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]].{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lady Olenna attends the wake for Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her family. [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] informs Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] that she has appointed Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] as [[Master of Coin]] instead of Mace's uncle [[Garth Tyrell|Garth]], although the position had been promised to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] by Lord Tywin. When Lord Mace tries to protest, Lady Olenna eases the tension, but not without making some inappropriate remarks about both Lord Rosby and Garth. She also alludes to the smell emanating from Lord Tywin's corpse, making Cersei angry. When Cersei suggests that Lady Olenna would want to return to [[Highgarden]] soon, she replies that she can't leave [[King's Landing]] before the wedding of [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|King Tommen]]. She mentions that she had been discussing a date for the wedding with Lord Tywin at the time of his death and proposes to talk about this with Cersei soon.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

In the negotiations with Cersei on the marriage between Tommen and Margaery, Olenna drives a hard bargain. She insists on an immediate wedding, much to Cersei's dismay{{Ref|aFfC|39}}, and she also throws out Cersei's suggestion that Tommen should wed his bride with a cloak in [[House Lannister|Lannister]] instead of [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] colors.{{Ref|aFfC|12}} Olenna, vouching for her granddaughter still being a maiden{{Ref|aFfC|43}}, also proposes that Tommen and Margaery share their bed as soon as they are married. Cersei, horrified by the suggestion, refuses this. However, Olenna is adamant that the royal couple should at least spend the wedding night together, as anything else would mean ill luck for the marriage. Cersei relents on this point, but she later regrets her concession and arranges for her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] to make certain that nothing happens between Tommen and Margaery that night.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

During the wedding feast, Olenna complains mockingly that ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' isn't being sung. The nasty smile of the Queen of Thorns makes Cersei, who is increasingly wary of all Tyrells, think of [[Maggy the Frog]], although the two actually hardly look alike. Later that night, Olenna is the one suggesting to break up the feast and send king and queen to bed together.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

The day after the wedding, Olenna returns to [[Highgarden]] with her grandson, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

Following [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion's]] escape, [[Qyburn]] informed Cersei that a gold coin dating from the time of [[House Gardener]] has been found in the quarters of an undergaoler named [[Rugen]] (actually an alias of [[Varys]]), who vanished at the time Tyrion did.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} From Lady [[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]], Cersei also learns that Olenna keeps a large chest of gold from before the [[War of Conquest|Conquest]] in her wheelhouse. In the event that unwary tradespeople offend her, she pays them in the old gold coins of the [[Reach]], which are only half the weight of newly minted gold dragons.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} Both pieces of information make Cersei suspect that the Tyrells were involved in the escape of Tyrion and in the assassination of Lord Tywin.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

==Family==
{{Template:Redwyne tree}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Redwyne, Olenna]]
[[Category:Characters from the Reach|Redwyne, Olenna]]
[[Category:House Tyrell]]
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Olenna Tyrell

2013-05-25T20:49:45Z

Beekowski: add

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| Character_name = [[File:House_Redwyne.png|50px|left]] '''Olenna Redwyne''' [[File:House_Tyrell.PNG|50px|right]]
| image = [[File:Olenna Redwyne.jpg|250px]]
| image_caption = Olenna by [http://en.amokanet.ru/gallery/martin/ Amoka©]
| Alias = The Queen of Thorns
| Title =
| Allegiance = [[House Redwyne]] [[House Tyrell]]
| Race =
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| Spouse = Lord {[[Luthor Tyrell]]}
| Place_of_Birth =
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| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Appears)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Diana Rigg
| TV_series =[[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}
'''Olenna Redwyne''' is the widow of Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]] and the mother of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]. Because of her sharp tongue, she is generally known as the '''Queen of Thorns'''.

==Appearance & Character==
Lady Olenna is old, with white hair and very small. She has soft, spotted hands with gaunt thin fingers. Olenna has an old woman's sour breath. She is older than [[Hoster Tully]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} She has lost her teeth.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} Olenna walks with a cane{{Ref|aSoS|60}} and claims to be near deaf{{Ref|aSoS|6}}, but both might be part of her feigning to be more frail than she actually is.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

Olenna rarely shies from stating her opinion. She is described as a wizened, cunning old woman with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue. According to her granddaughter [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]], she is not the most patient of women.{{Ref|aSoS|6}} Although she regularly mocks members of her own family{{Ref|aSoS|6}}{{Ref|aFfC|7}}, she seems to be a staunch supporter of [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] family interests.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

[[File:OllenaRedwynebyWouterBruneel.jpg|250px|thumb|Olenna Redwyne by [http://www.wbruneel.com/IllustrationPortfolio.html Wouter Bruneel].]]

==History==
In her youth, she was almost wed to a member of [[House Targaryen]], but Olenna did everything she could to make sure it never came to fruition. She liked her husband [[Luthor Tyrell|Luthor]] well enough, as he was kind and not unskilled in bed, but she still considered him an oaf. She regrets that she didn't beat her son [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]] more often when he was a child, as that would have made him more ready to heed her advise when he became an adult.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Petyr Baelish]] is sent to [[Highgarden]] to negotiate an alliance between [[House Lannister]] and [[House Tyrell]], including a marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]] and Renly's widow, [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|aCoK|36}} During the negotiations, Lady Olenna asks Littlefinger pointed questions about Joffrey's nature. Littlefinger praises Joffrey to the skies, but secretly uses some of his escorts to plant disturbing rumors about the king among the servants at Highgarden, thereby creating doubts about the truth of his official statements.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Olenna redwyne by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Illustration by Elia Fernandez©|250px]]
Lady Olenna comes to [[King's Landing]] to attend the wedding of her granddaughter, [[Margaery Tyrell]], to King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]]. During a supper with Margaery and a number of noble ladies of houses sworn to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], Olenna sharply questions [[Sansa Stark]] about Joffrey's nature. She refuses to listen to Sansa's evasions and half truths about Joffrey and gets Sansa to speak the truth about Joffrey's cruelty and the beatings he gave her. To prevent any potential spy from listening to Sansa, Lady Olenna orders her jester, [[Butterbumps]], to sing loudly.{{Ref|aSoS|6}}

Lady Olenna also voices a scathing opinion on the way her son, [[Mace Tyrell]], is going about playing the game of thrones, much to Sansa's amazement:
{{Quote| ‘If truth be told, even our claim to [[Highgarden]] is a bit dodgy, just as those dreadful [[House Florent|Florents]] are always whining. "What does it matter," you ask, and of course it doesn't, except to oafs like my son. The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the [[Iron Throne]] makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the [[Summer Isles]] that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.'

'They call them puff fish, Grandmother.'

'Of course they do, Summer Islanders have no imagination. My son ought to take the puff fish for his sigil, if truth be told. He could put a crown on it, the way the [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] do their stag, perhaps that would make him happy. We should have stayed well out of all this bloody foolishness if you ask me, but once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder. After Lord Puff Fish put that crown on [[Renly Baratheon|Renly's]] head, we were into the pudding up to our knees, so here we are to see things through.'
{{Ref|aSoS|6}}}}

Olenna plots to marry Sansa to her grandson [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]].{{Ref|aSoS|6}} However, Sansa unwisely tells [[Dontos Hollard]] about these plans{{Ref|aSoS|28}} and Dontos supposedly shares the information with [[Petyr Baelish]]. Littlefinger foils the plot by telling Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] about it, who quickly marries Sansa to his own son, [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}}

She shares the general aversion of the Tyrells against [[House Martell|the Martells]]. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the [[Red Keep]], she calls [[Oberyn Martell]]'s paramour [[Ellaria Sand]] "the serpent's whore".{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

Olenna is present at the wedding of her granddaughter Margaery and King Joffrey at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. In the wedding procession after the ceremony, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] excorts her out of the sept. Before the wedding feast in the throne room, Olenna approaches Sansa and expresses her condolences over the deaths of [[Robb Stark|Sansa's brother]] and [[Catelyn Tully|mother]]. While she talks with her, Olenna puts Sansa's messy hair in order and straightens the hair net that Sansa has received from Dontos and which he told her to wear at the wedding. Later, Olenna makes a snide remark about how often ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' is being performed during the wedding feast. When Joffrey begins to choke, she calls for help.{{Ref|aSoS|60}}{{Ref|aSoS|61}}

While revealing his own part in planning Joffrey's death, Littlefinger implies to Sansa Stark that Olenna is the one who poisoned the king, with some help from himself and the people he used, especially Dontos. He refers to Lady Olenna straightening Sansa's hair net, implying that this was the moment the old woman took the black stones (actually a crystallized form of [[The Strangler|the Strangler]]), which she used to poison Joffrey. Littlefinger suggests that Olenna killed Joffrey to spare her granddaughter Margaery from the same cruelty the boy showed Sansa and to prevent her hot-tempered grandson [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] from becoming a kingslayer in case he, while serving in the [[Kingsguard]], had to witness the king mistreating his sister. Littlefinger also shares how he planted disturbing rumors about Joffrey's character while he was at Highgarden, prompting Lady Olenna's questioning Sansa when they first met. According to Littefinger, Olenna knew Mace dreamed of his daughter Margaery becoming queen and for that they needed a king, but they did not need Joffrey, as Margaery could also marry his brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]].{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Lady Olenna attends the wake for Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her family. [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] informs Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] that she has appointed Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] as [[Master of Coin]] instead of Mace's uncle [[Garth Tyrell|Garth]], although the position had been promised to the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] by Lord Tywin. When Lord Mace tries to protest, Lady Olenna eases the tension, but not without making some inappropriate remarks about both Lord Rosby and Garth. She also alludes to the smell emanating from Lord Tywin's corpse, making Cersei angry. When Cersei suggests that Lady Olenna would want to return to [[Highgarden]] soon, she replies that she can't leave [[King's Landing]] before the wedding of [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|King Tommen]]. She mentions that she had been discussing a date for the wedding with Lord Tywin at the time of his death and proposes to talk about this with Cersei soon.{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

In the negotiations with Cersei on the marriage between Tommen and Margaery, Olenna drives a hard bargain. She insists on an immediate wedding, much to Cersei's dismay{{Ref|aFfC|39}}, and she also throws out Cersei's suggestion that Tommen should wed his bride with a cloak in [[House Lannister|Lannister]] instead of [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] colors.{{Ref|aFfC|12}} Olenna, vouching for her granddaughter still being a maiden{{Ref|aFfC|43}}, also proposes that Tommen and Margaery share their bed as soon as they are married. Cersei, horrified by the suggestion, refuses this. However, Olenna is adamant that the royal couple should at least spend the wedding night together, as anything else would mean ill luck for the marriage. Cersei relents on this point, but she later regrets her concession and arranges for her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] to make certain that nothing happens between Tommen and Margaery that night.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

During the wedding feast, Olenna complains mockingly that ''[[The Rains of Castamere]]'' isn't being sung. The nasty smile of the Queen of Thorns makes Cersei, who is increasingly wary of all Tyrells, think of [[Maggy the Frog]], although the two actually hardly look alike. Later that night, Olenna is the one suggesting to break up the feast and send king and queen to bed together.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

The day after the wedding, Olenna returns to [[Highgarden]] with her grandson, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell]].{{Ref|aFfC|12}}

Following [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion's]] escape, [[Qyburn]] informed Cersei that a gold coin dating from the time of [[House Gardener]] has been found in the quarters of an undergaoler named [[Rugen]] (actually an alias of [[Varys]]), who vanished at the time Tyrion did.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} From Lady [[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]], Cersei also learns that Olenna keeps a large chest of gold from before the [[War of Conquest|Conquest]] in her wheelhouse. In the event that unwary tradespeople offend her, she pays them in the old gold coins of the [[Reach]], which are only half the weight of newly minted gold dragons.{{Ref|aFfC|16}} Both pieces of information make Cersei suspect that the Tyrells were involved in the escape of Tyrion and in the assassination of Lord Tywin.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28

2013-05-25T17:27:30Z

Beekowski: character, place + term lists

{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]
| title = Sansa III
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| page = 316
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 27|Daenerys III]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28|Sansa III]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 29|Arya V]]
| arc previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 16|Sansa II]]
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 59|Sansa IV]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] is dressing in the gown [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] had made for her, thinking to herself what it would be like to marry [[Willas Tyrell]]. However, her daydreams are shattered when the Queen reveals that she is to marry [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] that very afternoon. Sansa does her duty, realizing there is no way out. Tyrion apologizes to her, saying that it was his [[Tywin Lannister|father]]’s wish to see them wed. During the ceremony, Sansa does not bend to allow Tyrion to place his cloak over her shoulders, causing embarrasment for the dwarf. At the feast, [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]] comforts Sansa, saying that Tyrion will make a good husband, "He is a bigger man than he seems." When the time comes to have them bedded, Tyrion demands that there will be no bedding. He has to threaten [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] to keep him from making the tense moment worse. In bed that night, Tyrion realizes that Sansa is petrified at the thought of losing her maidenhood to him, and he tells her that he will not touch her until she wants him to.

==Character List==
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|- valign="top"
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'''Appearing:'''
*[[Sansa Stark]]
*[[Cersei Lannister]]
*[[Meryn Trant]]
*[[Osmund Kettleblack]]
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Dontos Hollard]]
*[[Balon Swann]]
*[[Boros Blount]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Addam Marbrand]]
*[[Philip Foote]]
*[[Bronn]]
*[[Jalabhar Xho]]
*[[Gyles Rosby]]
*[[Ermesande Hayford|Ermesande Lannister]]
*[[Lollys Stokeworth]]
*[[Margaery Tyrell]]
*[[Olenna Redwyne|Queen of Thorns]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Arryk (Guard)|Left]]
*[[Erryk (Guard)|Right]]
*[[Elinor Tyrell]]
*[[Alla Tyrell]]
*[[Megga Tyrell]]
*[[Tommen Baratheon]]
*[[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]]
*[[Mace Tyrell]]
*[[Alerie Hightower|Alerie Tyrell]]
*[[Kevan Lannister]]
*[[Janna Tyrell]]
*[[Meredyth Crane|Merry Crane]]
*[[Paxter Redwyne]]
*[[Mathis Rowan]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Moon Boy]]
*[[Garlan Tyrell]]
*[[Tallad]]
*[[Orton Merryweather]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Willas Tyrell]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Ilyn Payne]]
*[[Lancel Lannister]]
*[[Loras Tyrell]]
*[[Tanda Stokeworth]]
*[[Sandor Clegane]]
*[[Garth Tyrell]]
*[[Leonette Fossoway|Leonette Tyrell]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Aegon IV Targaryen]]
*[[Tysha]]
*[[Mordane|Septa Mordane]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
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|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Myr]]
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Highgarden]]
*[[Small Hall]]
*[[Myr]]
*[[Red Keep#Tower of the Hand|Tower of the Hand]]
*[[Arbor]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Direwolf]]
*[[Septon]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Godswood]]
*[[House Tyrell]]
*[[Mother (the Seven)|Mother]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Father (the Seven)|Father]]
*[[House Stark]]
*[[Bedding]]
*[[Summer Tongue]]
*[[Tysha#"House Silverfist"|House Silverfist]]
*[[Septa]]
|}

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html]
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/02/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-16 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 16]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.


[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 28]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Sansa Stark]]
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Garth the Gross

2013-05-25T17:06:11Z

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Garlan the Gallant

2013-05-25T17:04:48Z

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A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12

2013-05-25T16:14:46Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| place = Somewhere in the [[Red Waste]] - [[Vaes Tolorro]]
| title = Daenerys I
| page = 138
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 11|Theon I]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12|Daenerys I]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 13|Jon II]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 27|Daenerys II]]
}}

[[Daenerys Targaryen]] decides to follow the [[Red Comet]] deep into the Red Waste of the [[Dothraki Sea]]. Many are lost before they find an abandoned city. While her ''[[khalasar]]'' rests, her three [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]] scout ahead. Jhogo, the last to return, brings three strangers from [[Qarth]].

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen]] is having her small ''[[khalasar]]'' follow the [[Red Comet]] the [[Dothraki]] have named ''shierak qiya'', Bleeding Star. The old men mutter that it is an ill omen, but it appeared the night they cremated [[Khal]] [[Drogo]] and Daenerys' dragons hatched; she considers it the herald of her coming. She is told by [[Doreah]] that the land is grim in that direction, but she really has no choice with the ''khalasar''s of Khal [[Pono]], Khal [[Jhaqo]] and others holding sway to the north; their hundred people with only four warriors would be no match. When Daenerys told Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] that Pono always used to speak to her kindly, Jorah reminds her that he was first to leave, and would kill her. When the khaleesi mentions that she has dragons, he replies that a swipe of an ''[[arakh]]'' would kill the hatchlings. He also tells her that if her dragon eggs were, highly valuable, a living dragon is priceless, and every man would want one, but Daenerys makes it clear that they are hers and will never be taken away from her. However, her ''khalasar'' could not withstand even the peaceful [[Lhazareen|Lamb Men]] to the south, who have no love for her. The only way seems to be into the red lands, and when she tells her people, while garbed in the pelt of a White Lion with its head covering her bald head, that they will follow the comet, no words are raised against it.

They ride by night. Several horses die as they travel—Pono, Jhago and the others have taken the best horses—and soon many are forced to walk; they find little game or water in this desolate land. Then, the weakest of her people start to die. It is worse than Ser Jorah expected.

With little to eat and drink, Daenerys suffers with her people, as she sheds much weight and her milk dries up, so that Daenerys can no longer breastfeed the young dragons. They do not eat the meat she tries to feed them until she remembers [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] saying that only men and dragons eat cooked meat. From then on, she cooks meat, which they devour, and finally stops fearing for their lives. Every night, Daenerys lets one of the dragons ride on her shoulder, while [[Irri]] and [[Jhiqui]] carry the other two in in a cage slung between their mounts.

One day Aggo states that the black dragon is [[Balerion]] come again. Daenerys recalls that [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]]’s dragons were named for the gods of Old [[Valyria]], but she decides to name the dragons after those the gods have taken from her: She names the green one [[Rhaegal]] after her brother [[Rhaegar Targaryen]], the cream and gold one [[Viserion]] after [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and the black one [[Drogon]] after her late [[Drogo|husband]]. The dragons prosper.

[[Doreah]], who has been ill for a while, gets worse with a fever, and finally grows unable to mount her horse. Daenerys stops the ''khalasar'' and personally cares for the woman that taught her the art of love, and finally, as Daenerys is holding her hand while she is shivering, she dies.

Daenerys is despairing that the Red Comet has shown her wrong, but outriders return with news of a city, a city that even Ser Jorah can tell her nothing of. She sends her [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]] to scout the city: [[Aggo]], [[Jhiqui]] and [[Rakharo]]. They return to report that the city is dead, with Jhiqui stating that cities where the gods are gone and the ghosts feast at night are best avoided. This does not dissuade Daenerys, and she leads her ''khalasar'' into the deserted city. Inside, Daenerys finds an empty plinth and thinks that its statue probably now stands in [[Vaes Dothrak]]. They find fruit trees and fresh water. When [[Irri]] mutters about ghosts, Daenerys tells her that they have dragons which are more powerful; more importantly there is food, water, and grass for the horses. When Ser Jorah arrives after she has settled in her tent and been bathed in sand, he brings a peach for her, which she savours. Daenerys declares that the gods were good to lead them here, and Ser Jorah replies that they should rest and gather strength.

Daenerys tells Ser Jorah her handmaidens say there are ghosts here, but he is unimpressed, pointing out there are ghosts everywhere. Daenerys asks about his ghosts and he tells her of his second wife, the very beautiful [[Lynesse Hightower]] and youngest daughter of [[Leyton Hightower]]—Leyton was the commander of [[Aerys II Targaryen|Daenerys' father’s]] [[Kingsguard]]. He then tells her of his home on the remote [[Bear Island]], where it is cold in the winter and his family's hall was built of logs surrounded by an earthen palisade. Then he explains his first wife, a [[House Glover|Glover]] of [[Deepwood Motte]], who was chosen by [[Jorah Mormont|his father]] before he took the black, whom he loved after a fashion. She died with her third miscarriage, ten years after they were married. Then he fought in the [[Greyjoy Rebellion]], earning his knighthood when he followed [[Thoros of Myr]] through the breach at [[Pyke]]. After the victory, [[Robert Baratheon]] held a tourney outside [[Lannisport]] where Jorah met Lynesse. He won jousts against Lord [[Jason Mallister]], [[Yohn Royce]], Ser [[Ryman Frey]], Ser [[Hosteen Frey]], Lord Whent, [[Lyle Crakehall|Strongboar]], and Ser [[Boros Blount]], then fought to a draw with [[Jaime Lannister]], and was given the champion's laurel by King Robert. That night, drunk, he asked Lord Leyton for Lynesse’s hand, and they were married there in Lannisport. But his home was a disappointment to Lynesse. He went to great expense to bring what she wanted, and when that failed to work, started entering tourneys but he never distinguished himself again; the magic was gone. Each loss in a tourney cost a suit of armor and a charger, and soon he was broke. Lynesse was unwilling to give up her jewels, so for gold he lost his honor. When he heard [[Eddard Stark]] was coming, he fled with his wife to [[Lys]]. In half a year his gold was gone, and he had to become a [[Mercenary|sellsword]]. While he was fighting, she moved in with a merchant prince named [[Tregar Ormollen]].Ser Jorha tells Daenerys that Lynesse looked much like her. He now hates and loves her.

After he leaves, Daenerys feels she understands him better; she now knows that Ser Jorah loves and wants he, however, she realizes that she does not want him. She also noticed his longing to return to Bear Island, a wish she hopes to grant him one day. That night she dreams of Drogo.

The next morning she calls her bloodriders and tells them each to take three healthy horses and plenty of supplies to go on scouting missions: Aggo southwest, Rakharo south, Jhogo southeast. She does not want to go forward blindly again. While they wait, the ''khalasar'' finally has a chance to recover, and Daenerys tends to Ser Jorah's hip wound, which finally starts to heal.

In the city they name [[Vaes Tolorro]], Daenerys waits many days for their return. Rakharo returns first with a report that to the south, the wasteland stretches till it reaches poisoned water. Along the way he passed the bones of a dragon whose jaws he could have ridden a horse through. Daenerys puts him in charge of pulling up the plaza so that more grass might grow for the horses. Aggo returns next, having found two deserted cities smaller than Vaes Tolorro that only yielded an iron bracelet and crumbling scrolls. Dany has him repair the city gates. Jhogo is the last to return, much later, bringing three queerly garbed strangers from the city of [[Qarth]], riding massive beasts: [[Pyat Pree]], the great warlock, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] of the Thirteen, a merchant prince of Qarth, and [[Quaithe]] of the Shadow. They have come seeking dragons.

==Character List==
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|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Doreah]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
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'''Appearing:'''
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Pyat Pree]]
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]
*[[Quaithe|Quaithe of the Shadow]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Pono|Khal Pono]]
*[[Rhaego]]
*[[Mirri Maz Duur]]
*[[Jhaqo|Khal Jhaqo]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Willem Darry]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Visenya Targaryen]]
*[[Vhagar]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Meraxes]]
*[[Balerion]]
*[[Lynesse Hightower|Lynesse Mormont]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Leyton Hightower]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Gerold Hightower]]
*[[Jeor Mormont]]
*[[Balon Greyjoy]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Thoros of Myr]]
*[[Jason Mallister]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Yohn Royce|Bronze Yohn Royce]]
*[[Ryman Frey]]
*[[Hosteen Frey]]
*[[House Whent|Lord Whent]]
*[[Lyle Crakehall|Strongboar]]
*[[Boros Blount]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Tregar Ormollen]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Dothraki Sea]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Lys]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Yi Ti]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Asshai|Asshai by the Shadow]]
*[[Vaes Dothrak]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Oldtown]]
*[[Bear Island]]
*[[Deepwood Motte]]
*[[Pyke]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Myr]]
*[[Lannisport]]
*[[Braavos]]
*[[Rhoyne]]
*[[Vaes Tolorro]]
*[[Free Cities]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Red Comet]]/''[[Red Comet|shierak qiya]]''
*''[[khal]]''
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Lamb Men]]
*[[Lhazareen]]
*''[[ko]]''
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[arakh]]''
*[[Maegi]]
*[[Queensguard]]
*''[[hrakkar]]''
*[[Devilgrass]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Maiden (the Seven)|Maid]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[House Hightower]]
*[[House Mormont]]
*[[House Glover]]
*[[Tourney at Lannisport]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*[[Warlock]]
*[[Thirteen]]
*[[Common Tongue]]
|}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Analyses and summary of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-read-daenerys-i-titles-titles.html in the course of a 10th reread] by Slynt.
*[http://blogoficeandfire.blogspot.com/2010/04/daenerys-jon.html Humorous review and summary of the chapter] by Jason.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/02/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-6 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 12]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the Red Waste]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Vaes Tolorro]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 13, Daenerys]]

A Storm of Swords-Chapter 27

2013-05-25T16:13:39Z

Beekowski:

{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| title = Daenerys III
| page = 304
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 26|Jon III]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 27|Daenerys III]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28|Sansa III]]
| arc previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 23|Daenerys II]]
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 42|Daenerys IV]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] tells the slavers that she wants all eight thousand [[Unsullied]], plus all the slave boys in training, whether they’ve been cut yet or not. In order to pay the slave masters, Daenerys offers all three of her ships as well as [[Drogon]], for the price of a dragon is incalculable. Daenerys frees [[Missandei]] and takes her into her service, revealing that she can speak [[High Valyrian]]. We learn that [[Valar Morghulis]] means ‘all men must die’.

That night, [[Quaithe]] appears to Daenerys, seemingly in a dream, telling her again, "To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." When the time for the deal to be brokered arrives, Daenerys swings the slaver’s whip in [[Kraznys mo Nakloz|Kraznys]]’ face, and releases Drogon on him, shouting, "Drogon! Dracarys!" This is the sign for her followers to attack the slavers. With the help of the Unsullied who obey her as she is now their owner she has the slavers killed. The other slaves join her and soon [[Astapor]] is conquered.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="70%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Grazdan]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Barristan Selmy|Whitebeard]]
*[[Belwas]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Rakharo]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[Kraznys mo Nakloz]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Groleo]]
*[[Quaithe]]
*[[The Silver]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Grazdan (Great)|Grazdan the Great]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Eroeh]]
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Mago]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Ghis|Old Ghis]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Valyrian Freehold]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Ghiscari Empire]]
*[[Plaza of Pride]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[House of the Undying|Palace of Dust]]
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Worm River]]
*[[Plaza of Punishment]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Good Masters]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[House Mormont]]
*[[Common Tongue]]
*[[Ghiscari]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Unsullied]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]''
*''[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]''
*''[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]''
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Field of Fire]]
*[[High Valyrian]]
*[[Valar Morghulis]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[arakh]]''
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[Lhazareen]]
*[[Undying Ones]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[House Targaryen]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Zorse]]
*[[Jogos Nhai]]
*[[Dragonbone]]
*[[Dracarys]]
|}

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html]
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/02/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-16 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 16]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.


[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 27]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Astapor]]


[[es:Tormenta de Espadas-Capítulo 27]]
[[fr:A Storm of Swords, Chapitre 28, Daenerys]]
[[zh:冰雨的风暴-章节 27]]

A Storm of Swords-Chapter 27

2013-05-25T16:06:59Z

Beekowski: revised lists

{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| title = Daenerys III
| page = 304
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 26|Jon III]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 27|Daenerys III]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 28|Sansa III]]
| arc previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 23|Daenerys II]]
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 42|Daenerys IV]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] tells the slavers that she wants all eight thousand [[Unsullied]], plus all the slave boys in training, whether they’ve been cut yet or not. In order to pay the slave masters, Daenerys offers all three of her ships as well as [[Drogon]], for the price of a dragon is incalculable. Daenerys frees [[Missandei]] and takes her into her service, revealing that she can speak [[High Valyrian]]. We learn that [[Valar Morghulis]] means ‘all men must die’.

That night, [[Quaithe]] appears to Daenerys, seemingly in a dream, telling her again, "To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." When the time for the deal to be brokered arrives, Daenerys swings the slaver’s whip in [[Kraznys mo Nakloz|Kraznys]]’ face, and releases Drogon on him, shouting, "Drogon! Dracarys!" This is the sign for her followers to attack the slavers. With the help of the Unsullied who obey her as she is now their owner she has the slavers killed. The other slaves join her and soon [[Astapor]] is conquered.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Grazdan]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Barristan Selmy|Whitebeard]]
*[[Belwas]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Jhogo]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[Kraznys mo Nakloz]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Groleo]]
*[[Quaithe]]
*[[The Silver]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Grazdan (Great)|Grazdan the Great]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Eroeh]]
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Mago]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Ghis|Old Ghis]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Valyrian Freehold]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Ghiscari Empire]]
*[[Plaza of Pride]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[House of the Undying|Palace of Dust]]
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Worm River]]
*[[Plaza of Punishment]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Good Masters]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[House Mormont]]
*[[Common Tongue]]
*[[Ghiscari]]
*[[Tokar]]
*[[Unsullied]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]''
*''[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]''
*''[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]''
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Field of Fire]]
*[[High Valyrian]]
*[[Valar Morghulis]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[arakh]]''
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[Lhazareen]]
*[[Undying Ones]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[House Targaryen]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Zorse]]
*[[Jogos Nhai]]
*[[Dragonbone]]
*[[Dracarys]]
|}

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html]
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/02/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-16 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 16]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.


[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 27]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Astapor]]


[[es:Tormenta de Espadas-Capítulo 27]]
[[fr:A Storm of Swords, Chapitre 28, Daenerys]]
[[zh:冰雨的风暴-章节 27]]

A Storm of Swords-Chapter 8

2013-05-25T13:29:10Z

Beekowski:

{{Infobox Chapter ASoS
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| place = Aboard the ''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]'' on the [[Jade Sea]]
| title = Daenerys I
| page = 86
| previous = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 7|Jon I]]
| current = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 8|Daenerys I]]
| next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Bran I]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 23|Daenerys II]]
}}

==Synopsis==

[[Illyrio Mopatis|Illyrio]]’s three ships are sailing for [[Pentos]], and Daenerys is watching her dragons fly over the ocean. [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan]] tells her that [[Balerion]] was 200 years old when he died during the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys the Conciliator]]. Arstan then speaks of [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], how bookish he was as a child, always reading. Then one day he read something in a scroll that made him want to be a warrior, and he began training fiercely. Arstan admits that Rhaegar was a great warrior, but he won no battles.

Later, [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]] tells her that Arstan is more than he seems, and warns her not to trust him. The knight advises her to sail for [[Astapor]] and buy [[Unsullied]], the best trained fighting force in the world. He tells the tale of the [[Three Thousand of Qohor]], where a small army of Unsullied defeated a huge ''[[khalasar]]'' trying to pillage [[Qohor]]. The Unsullied are eunuch slaves trained to obey orders absolutely, and they feel no pain. Daenerys agrees that she will force Captain [[Groleo]] and Strong [[Belwas]] to change course. Ser Jorah then grabs her by the waist and kisses her. Dany tells him he should not have done so, but Jorah talks of her vision in the [[House of the Undying]], and how the dragon having three heads may mean that she should take two more husbands.

==References and Notes==
* The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
* [http://slynt.blogspot.nl/2012/09/re-read-daenerys-i-nudity-and-naivety.html Analyses and summary of the chapter] in the course of a 10th reread by Slynt
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/10/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-5 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords part 5] Analyses and summary by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Storm of Swords: Chapter 08]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place on the Summer Sea]]
[[es:Tormenta de Espadas-Capítulo 8]]
[[fr:A Storm of Swords, Chapitre 09, Daenerys]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12

2013-05-25T13:12:45Z

Beekowski: add character, place + term lists

{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| place = Somewhere in the [[Red Waste]] - [[Vaes Tolorro]]
| title = Daenerys I
| page = 138
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 11|Theon I]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12|Daenerys I]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 13|Jon II]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 27|Daenerys II]]
}}

[[Daenerys Targaryen]] decides to follow the [[Red Comet]] deep into the Red Waste of the [[Dothraki Sea]]. Many are lost before they find an abandoned city. While her ''[[khalasar]]'' rests, her three [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]] scout ahead. Jhogo, the last to return, brings three strangers from [[Qarth]].

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen]] is having her small ''[[khalasar]]'' follow the [[Red Comet]] the [[Dothraki]] have named ''shierak qiya'', Bleeding Star. The old men mutter that it is an ill omen, but it appeared the night they cremated [[Khal]] [[Drogo]] and Daenerys' dragons hatched; she considers it the herald of her coming. She is told by [[Doreah]] that the land is grim in that direction, but she really has no choice with the ''khalasar''s of Khal [[Pono]], Khal [[Jhaqo]] and others holding sway to the north; their hundred people with only four warriors would be no match. When Daenerys told Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] that Pono always used to speak to her kindly, Jorah reminds her that he was first to leave, and would kill her. When the khaleesi mentions that she has dragons, he replies that a swipe of an ''[[arakh]]'' would kill the hatchlings. He also tells her that if her dragon eggs were, highly valuable, a living dragon is priceless, and every man would want one, but Daenerys makes it clear that they are hers and will never be taken away from her. However, her ''khalasar'' could not withstand even the peaceful [[Lhazareen|Lamb Men]] to the south, who have no love for her. The only way seems to be into the red lands, and when she tells her people, while garbed in the pelt of a White Lion with its head covering her bald head, that they will follow the comet, no words are raised against it.

They ride by night. Several horses die as they travel—Pono, Jhago and the others have taken the best horses—and soon many are forced to walk; they find little game or water in this desolate land. Then, the weakest of her people start to die. It is worse than Ser Jorah expected.

With little to eat and drink, Daenerys suffers with her people, as she sheds much weight and her milk dries up, so that Daenerys can no longer breastfeed the young dragons. They do not eat the meat she tries to feed them until she remembers [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] saying that only men and dragons eat cooked meat. From then on, she cooks meat, which they devour, and finally stops fearing for their lives. Every night, Daenerys lets one of the dragons ride on her shoulder, while [[Irri]] and [[Jhiqui]] carry the other two in in a cage slung between their mounts.

One day Aggo states that the black dragon is [[Balerion]] come again. Daenerys recalls that [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]]’s dragons were named for the gods of Old [[Valyria]], but she decides to name the dragons after those the gods have taken from her: She names the green one [[Rhaegal]] after her brother [[Rhaegar Targaryen]], the cream and gold one [[Viserion]] after [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and the black one [[Drogon]] after her late [[Drogo|husband]]. The dragons prosper.

[[Doreah]], who has been ill for a while, gets worse with a fever, and finally grows unable to mount her horse. Daenerys stops the ''khalasar'' and personally cares for the woman that taught her the art of love, and finally, as Daenerys is holding her hand while she is shivering, she dies.

Daenerys is despairing that the Red Comet has shown her wrong, but outriders return with news of a city, a city that even Ser Jorah can tell her nothing of. She sends her [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]] to scout the city: [[Aggo]], [[Jhiqui]] and [[Rakharo]]. They return to report that the city is dead, with Jhiqui stating that cities where the gods are gone and the ghosts feast at night are best avoided. This does not dissuade Daenerys, and she leads her ''khalasar'' into the deserted city. Inside, Daenerys finds an empty plinth and thinks that its statue probably now stands in [[Vaes Dothrak]]. They find fruit trees and fresh water. When [[Irri]] mutters about ghosts, Daenerys tells her that they have dragons which are more powerful; more importantly there is food, water, and grass for the horses. When Ser Jorah arrives after she has settled in her tent and been bathed in sand, he brings a peach for her, which she savours. Daenerys declares that the gods were good to lead them here, and Ser Jorah replies that they should rest and gather strength.

Daenerys tells Ser Jorah her handmaidens say there are ghosts here, but he is unimpressed, pointing out there are ghosts everywhere. Daenerys asks about his ghosts and he tells her of his second wife, the very beautiful [[Lynesse Hightower]] and youngest daughter of [[Leyton Hightower]]—Leyton was the commander of [[Aerys II Targaryen|Daenerys' father’s]] [[Kingsguard]]. He then tells her of his home on the remote [[Bear Island]], where it is cold in the winter and his family's hall was built of logs surrounded by an earthen palisade. Then he explains his first wife, a [[House Glover|Glover]] of [[Deepwood Motte]], who was chosen by [[Jorah Mormont|his father]] before he took the black, whom he loved after a fashion. She died with her third miscarriage, ten years after they were married. Then he fought in the [[Greyjoy Rebellion]], earning his knighthood when he followed [[Thoros of Myr]] through the breach at [[Pyke]]. After the victory, [[Robert Baratheon]] held a tourney outside [[Lannisport]] where Jorah met Lynesse. He won jousts against Lord [[Jason Mallister]], [[Yohn Royce]], Ser [[Ryman Frey]], Ser [[Hosteen Frey]], Lord Whent, [[Lyle Crakehall|Strongboar]], and Ser [[Boros Blount]], then fought to a draw with [[Jaime Lannister]], and was given the champion's laurel by King Robert. That night, drunk, he asked Lord Leyton for Lynesse’s hand, and they were married there in Lannisport. But his home was a disappointment to Lynesse. He went to great expense to bring what she wanted, and when that failed to work, started entering tourneys but he never distinguished himself again; the magic was gone. Each loss in a tourney cost a suit of armor and a charger, and soon he was broke. Lynesse was unwilling to give up her jewels, so for gold he lost his honor. When he heard [[Eddard Stark]] was coming, he fled with his wife to [[Lys]]. In half a year his gold was gone, and he had to become a [[Mercenary|sellsword]]. While he was fighting, she moved in with a merchant prince named [[Tregar Ormollen]].Ser Jorha tells Daenerys that Lynesse looked much like her. He now hates and loves her.

After he leaves, Daenerys feels she understands him better; she now knows that Ser Jorah loves and wants he, however, she realizes that she does not want him. She also noticed his longing to return to Bear Island, a wish she hopes to grant him one day. That night she dreams of Drogo.

The next morning she calls her bloodriders and tells them each to take three healthy horses and plenty of supplies to go on scouting missions: Aggo southwest, Rakharo south, Jhogo southeast. She does not want to go forward blindly again. While they wait, the ''khalasar'' finally has a chance to recover, and Daenerys tends to Ser Jorah's hip wound, which finally starts to heal.

In the city they name [[Vaes Tolorro]], Daenerys waits many days for their return. Rakharo returns first with a report that to the south, the wasteland stretches till it reaches poisoned water. Along the way he passed the bones of a dragon whose jaws he could have ridden a horse through. Daenerys puts him in charge of pulling up the plaza so that more grass might grow for the horses. Aggo returns next, having found two deserted cities smaller than Vaes Tolorro that only yielded an iron bracelet and crumbling scrolls. Dany has him repair the city gates. Jhogo is the last to return, much later, bringing three queerly garbed strangers from the city of [[Qarth]], riding massive beasts: [[Pyat Pree]], the great warlock, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] of the Thirteen, a merchant prince of Qarth, and [[Quaithe]] of the Shadow. They have come seeking dragons.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Doreah]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Viserion]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Pyat Pree]]
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]
*[[Quaithe|Quaithe of the Shadow]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Pono|Khal Pono]]
*[[Rhaego]]
*[[Mirri Maz Duur]]
*[[Jhaqo|Khal Jhaqo]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Willem Darry]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Visenya Targaryen]]
*[[Vhagar]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Meraxes]]
*[[Balerion]]
*[[Lynesse Hightower|Lynesse Mormont]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Leyton Hightower]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Gerold Hightower]]
*[[Jeor Mormont]]
*[[Balon Greyjoy]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Thoros of Myr]]
*[[Jason Mallister]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Yohn Royce|Bronze Yohn Royce]]
*[[Ryman Frey]]
*[[Hosteen Frey]]
*[[House Whent|Lord Whent]]
*[[Lyle Crakehall|Strongboar]]
*[[Boros Blount]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Tregar Ormollen]]
|}

==Place and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Dothraki Sea]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Trident]]
*[[Lys]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Yi Ti]]
*[[Qarth]]
*[[Asshai|Asshai by the Shadow]]
*[[Vaes Dothrak]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Oldtown]]
*[[Bear Island]]
*[[Deepwood Motte]]
*[[Pyke]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Myr]]
*[[Lannisport]]
*[[Braavos]]
*[[Rhoyne]]
*[[Vaes Tolorro]]
*[[Free Cities]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Red Comet]]/''[[Red Comet|shierak qiya]]''
*''[[khal]]''
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Lamb Men]]
*[[Lhazareen]]
*''[[ko]]''
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[arakh]]''
*[[Maegi]]
*[[Queensguard]]
*''[[hrakkar]]''
*[[Devilgrass]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Maiden (the Seven)|Maid]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[House Hightower]]
*[[House Mormont]]
*[[House Glover]]
*[[Tourney at Lannisport]]
*[[Sellsword]]
*[[Warlock]]
*[[Thirteen]]
*[[Common Tongue]]
|}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Analyses and summary of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-read-daenerys-i-titles-titles.html in the course of a 10th reread] by Slynt.
*[http://blogoficeandfire.blogspot.com/2010/04/daenerys-jon.html Humorous review and summary of the chapter] by Jason.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/02/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-6 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 12]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the Red Waste]]
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White Bull

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Garden of Gehane

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The '''Garden of Gehane''' is a location in [[Qarth]]. It is not mentioned whether Gehane is a person or an area in the city.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
While listing miraculous things that have happened in [[Qarth]] recently, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] mentions to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that ghost grass is growing in the Garden of Gehane, probably indicating an increase of power of the [[warlocks]].{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Places in Qarth]]

Warlock's Way

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'''Warlock's Way''' is a street in [[Qarth]].{{Ref|aCoK|63}} The [[warlocks]] are practitioners of magic and have exerted great influence in the history of the city. Despite decreasing importance, they are still much feared.{{Ref|aCoK|40}} The houses on Warlock's Way have no windows.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
While listing miraculous things that have happened in [[Qarth]] recently, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] mentions to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that phantom tortoises have been seen carrying messages between the windowless houses on Warlock’s Way, probably indicating an increase of power of the warlocks.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Places in Qarth]]

Garden of Gehane

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Beekowski:

The '''Garden of Gehane''' is a location in [[Qarth]]. It is not mentioned whether Gehane is a person or an area in the city.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
While listing miraculous things that have happened in [[Qarth]] recently, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] mentions to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that ghost grass is growing in the Garden of Gehane.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Places in Qarth]]

Warlock's Way

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'''Warlock's Way''' is a street in [[Qarth]].{{Ref|aCoK|63}} The [[warlocks]] are practioners of magic and have exerted great influence in the history of the city. Despite decreasing importance, they are still much feared.{{Ref|aCoK|40}} The houses on Warlock's Way have no windows.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
While listing miraculous things that have happened in [[Qarth]] recently, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] mentions to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that phantom tortoises have been seen carrying messages between the windowless houses on Warlock’s Way, probably indicating an increase of power of the warlocks.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Places in Qarth]]

Garden of Gehane

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The '''Garden of Gehane''' is a location in [[Qarth]]. It is not mentioned whether Gehane is a person or an area in the city.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
While listing miraculous things that have happened in [[Qarth]] recently, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] mentions that ghost grass is growing in the Garden of Gehane.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}

[[Category:Places in Qarth]]

Qarth

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{{Infobox Settlement
| name = Qarth
| image = [[File:Qarth HBO.jpg|350px]]
| settlement_type= Mercantile, Port, city-state
| location = [[Essos]]
| seat = [[Pureborn]]
| seat_type = Oligarchy
| religion = Mixed [[Religion]]s
| population =
| size =
| founder =
| founded = in ancient times.
| named_for =
| places = [[House of the Undying]], [[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]], Temple of Memory, The triple walls of Qarth
| organizations = [[Thirteen]], [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]], [[Ancient Guild of Spicers]], [[Sorrowful Men]], [[Warlocks]]
}}
'''Qarth''' is an ancient port city located on the south coast of the [[Essos]] continent. Situated in a central location, Qarth is a gateway of commerce and culture between the east and west, and the north and south.{{Ref|aCoK|27}} Brimming with wealth, the city's architecture makes a grand display. It is home to [[warlocks]] and merchant princes, and nominally ruled by the [[Pureborn]]. However, the powerful guilds [[Thirteen]], [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]] and the [[Ancient Guild of Spicers]] all attempt to play a role in the governance of the city. It has been referred to as the ''Queen of Cities''.{{ref|aDwD|16}} [[Pyat Pree]] describes Quarth as "the greatest city that ever was or ever will be." On entering Qarth, [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] thinks to herself that the magnificence of the city cannot be denied.{{ref|aCoK|27}}

==About the City==
===Location===
Qarth located to the southeast of [[Lhazar]] and the [[Red Waste]], with the great slaver cities [[Meereen]], [[Astapor]], and [[Yunkai]] to the west. On the shores of the [[Jade Sea]] controlling the [[Straits of Qarth]] that link the [[Summer Sea]] to the fabled [[Jade Sea]]. Its prime position makes it the gateway between the lands of [[Westeros]], [[Free Cities]] and [[Slaver's Bay]], and more eastern lands such as [[Asshai]], the [[Shadow Lands]], and [[Yi Ti]]. Qarth has been described as the center of the world.{{ref|aCoK|27}}

===Vast Wealth===
Having managed to successfully remain the crucial commerce point for centuries, Qarth is absolutely brimming with wealth; the city's architecture makes a grand display. Its buildings painted in shades of rose, violet, and umber. Its streets are lined with bronze statues, its fountains carved to form the shapes of fantastic creatures, and its thoroughfares lined with arches of bronze decorated in precious stones.

===Rulers===
Qarth is nominally ruled by the [[Pureborn]], who are seated in the [[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]]. They deal with all matters of civic importance, commanding the 'Civic Guard' and the fleet of ornate war galleys which rule the straits between the seas. However, the powerful guilds [[Thirteen]], [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]] and the [[Ancient Guild of Spicers]] all attempt and jostle to play a role in the governance and political machinations of the city.

===Buildings===
Upon her arrival it seems to Daenerys that all the colours that had been missing from [[Vaes Tolorro]] had found their way to Qarth; buildings crowd about her about her fantastical as a fever dream in shades of rose, violet, and umber. She passes under a bronze arch fashioned in the likeness of two snakes mating, their scales are delicate flakes of jade, obsidian and lapis lazuli. Slim towers stand taller than any Dany has ever seen, and elaborate fountains fill eve square, wrought in the shapes of griffins and [[dragons]] and [[manticore]]s.

There is a great arcade where the heroes of the city stand three times as large as they did in life atop columns of green and white marble. {{Ref|aCoK|27}} [[Dany]] and her khalasar pass through a bazaar in a cavernous building whose latticework ceiling is home to a thousand gaily coloured birds. Trees and flowers bloom on the terrace walls above the bazaar’s stalls, while below it seems as if everything the gods have put into the world is for sale.
* '''[[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]]''', The seat of government in Qarth. The [[Pureborn]] rule from this place, sitting atop their wooden chairs, rising in curved tiers. It has marble floors and a high-domed ceiling painted with past events from Qarth's history. The chairs are large, carved and gilded with goldwork, lapis, onyx, jade and amber. No two are the same.{{Ref|aCoK|40}}
* '''Temple of Memory''', It is the site of traditional sacrifices.{{Ref|aCoK|40}}
* '''[[House of the Undying]]''', also known colloquially as the 'Palace of Dust', was until recently the center of power for the [[warlocks]] of Qarth. It was destroyed by [[Drogon|a dragon]] belonging to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. After its destruction, ghost grass was found growing in the 'Garden of Gehane' and phantom tortoises were seen carrying messages between the windowless houses on Warlock's Way.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

===Port===
:{{main|Port of Qarth}}
The city possesses one of the greatest ports in the world, it is sheltered harbor full of colours, with large stone quays reserved for the ships of the various trade guilds and at the far end of the harbor are the quays left for the ships that come from a far. {{Ref|aCoK|12}}
Winesinks, warehouses, gaming dens, cheap brothels, and temples to peculiar gods all cluster together. All manner of people from cutpurses and cutthroats to spellsellers and moneychangers mingle amongst folk hawking their wares at the waterfront that acts like a massive never-closing marketplace where goods (usually stolen) can be had at a fraction of what they cost at a bazaar.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}
[[File:Qarth Walls HBO.jpg|thumb|350px|Qarth city walls]]

===Defenses===
Qarth is surrounded by three thick walls of thirty, forty, and fifty feet in height, respectively engraved with portraits of animals, war, and lovemaking. {{ref|aCoK|27}} The triple walls of Qarth is one of the nine wonders made by man reported in the book, ''[[Wonders Made by Man]]'', by [[Lomas Longstrider]]{{Ref|aDwD|57}}
*'''Outer wall''' - the outer wall is made of red sandstone, 30 feet high and decorated with animals; snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped [[zorse]]s and monstrous [[elephants]] .
*'''Middle wall''' - the middle wall of grey granite, 40 feet high, it is alive with scenes of war: the clash of sword and shield and spear, arrows in flight, heroes at battle and babes being butchered, pyres of the dead.
*'''Innermost wall''' – the innermost wall is made black marble 50 feet high, it is carved with scenes of lovemaking which make [[Dany]] blush.

The cities outer gates are banded with copper, the middle with iron and the innermost gates studded with golden eyes. All opened at [[Daenerys Targaryen]]’s approach.

The three walls of Qarth have not been used for defense in centuries, but they still stand, representing the power of the city.

===Slavery===
The Qartheen trade in slaves and practice [[slavery]] in the city. They consider slavery very essential to their civilization and have no qualms about its existence, as [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] said to [[Daenerys]],
{{Quote|...the magnificence that is the Queen of Cities [Qarth] rests upon the backs of slaves. Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods? For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.{{Ref|aDwD|16}}}}

===Miscellaneous===
Qartheen spice ships can be as big as palaces.{{Ref|aDwD|6}}

The Qartheen camelry riders wear scaled copper armour and snouted helms with copper tusks and long black silk plumes. They sit high on saddles inlaid with rubies and garnets. Their camels are dressed in blankets of a hundred different hues. {{ref|aCoK|27}} A column of camelry emerge from the city as [[Daenerys]]’s honour guards upon her arrival.

While traveling in her palanquin after being refused by the [[Pureborn]] Dany notices that outside the great city murmurs and thrums and seethes, all its myriad voices blending into one low sound like the surge of the sea. {{Ref|aCoK|40}}

When Khal [[Drogo]] was alive he dreamt of the day when he might sack the great cities of the east – Qarth included.

==People of Qarth==
===General Populace===
The Qartheen are a tall and pale people, called the '[[Milk Men]]' by the [[Dothraki]] for their complexion. {{Ref|aCoK|27}} They pride themselves on their sophistication and consider weeping in times of strong emotion to be a mark of civilization.

The Qartheen fashion for women leaves [[Qartheen gown|one breast exposed]], while men favor beaded silk skirts. Warriors of Qarth wear scaled, copper armor and snouted-helms with copper tusks and long, black silk plumes and some of its guards ride camels.{{Ref|aCoK|27}}

They seat themselves on cushions on the floor.{{Ref|aCoK|27}} Wealthy merchant of Qarth sometimes place jewels in their nose.{{Ref|aCoK|12}}

===The Undying of Qarth===
Qarth is most famous for its [[warlocks]], known as the Undying of Qarth, who are feared and respected throughout the East. Like the [[Alchemists' Guild]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], however, the [[warlocks]]' power and prestige have waned over the years. Most warlocks have blue lips. They drink [[shade of the evening|shade-of-the-evening]], which makes their lips turn blue.{{Ref|aCoK|27}} The warlocks stronghold and seat of power is the [[House of the Undying]], which house the [[Undying Ones]], the most mysterious and likely the most ancient and powerful of all warlocks.{{Ref|aCoK|27}}

There is a saying in Qarth concerning the [[warlocks]],

{{Quote|''"A warlock's house is built of bones and lies."'' {{Ref|aCoK|27}}}}

===Sorrowful Men===
Qarth is also home to a guild of assassins known as the [[Sorrowful Men]], who whisper, ''"I am so sorry,"'' just before they kill their victims.{{Ref|aCoK|40}} The Qartheen are nothing if not polite.

==Customs==
===Marriage===
:{{See also|Marriage}}
Husbands and wives retain their possessions after marriage, however there is a marriage custom on the day of the wedding. A groom may ask for any one item from his bride’s possessions and the bride may ask for any one item of the groom’s possessions. Whatever is asked by either cannot be refused and is considered to now belong to the other. This is seen as a gift of devotion by the bride and groom to each other. {{Ref|aCoK|40}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[Samwell Tarly]] mentions the city to [[Jon Snow]], telling Jon that in one of his efforts to cure him of his timidity Sam’s father once brought two [[warlocks]] from Qarth to his castle at [[Horn Hill]].

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Three representatives of Qarth - [[Pyat Pree]], [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] and [[Quaithe]] - accompany [[Jhogo]] back to [[Vaes Tolorro]] after he was sent by [[Daenerys Targaryen]] to discover what lies near the abandoned city. <ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12|Chapter 12]], Daenerys</ref> The emissaries escort Daenerys and her khalasar to Qarth. When Daenerys arrives in Qarth her three young dragons are a marvel in the ancient city. {{Ref|aCoK|12}} {{Ref|aCoK|27}} {{Ref|aCoK|40}}

[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]], a member of the [[Thirteen]], offers her the hospitality of his palace while she and her khalasar are in Qarth which she accepts. Under his guidance of Daenerys seeks an audience with the [[Pureborn]] to plea with them in the [[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]] for their fleet of galleys, or part of it and some of their soldiers too. {{ref|aCoK|40}} The Pureborn refuse her.

As the rumor of living dragons had spread through the east seekers came to learn if the tale was true. [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] saw to it that the great and the humble alike offered some token to the [[Dany|Mother of Dragons]]. The trickle he started soon swelled to a flood,
*Trader captains brought lace from [[Myr]], chests of saffron from [[Yi Ti]], amber and [[dragonglass]] out of [[Asshai]].
*Merchants offered bags of coin, silversmiths rings and chains.
*Pipers piped for her, tumblers tumbled, and jugglers juggled, while dyers draped her in colors she had never known existed.
*A pair of [[ Jogos Nhai]] presented her with one of their striped [[zorse]]s, black and white and fierce.
*A widow brought the dried corpse of her husband, covered with a crust of silvered leaves; such remnants were believed to have great power, especially if the deceased had been a sorcerer, as this one had.
*the [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]] pressed on her a crown wrought in the shape of a three-headed dragon; the coils were yellow gold, the wings silver, the heads carved from jade, ivory, and onyx.

The crown was the only offering Dany kept. The rest she sold, to gather the wealth she ends up wasting on the [[Pureborn]]. Xaro would have sold the crown too—the [[Thirteen]] would see that she had a much finer one, he swore—but Dany forbade it telling him,
{{Quote|“Viserys sold my mother’s crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen.”}}
And so she did, though the weight of it makes her neck ache.

After having been refused by the [[Pureborn]] Daenerys agrees to go with [[Pyat Pree]] to visit the [[House of the Undying]].{{ref|aCoK|27}} While inside the House of the Undying Daenerys destroys it when she is attacked by the [[Undying Ones]].

Due to the ruin of the House of the Undying Daenerys is soon forced to flee Qarth after the [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]], the [[Ancient Guild of Spicers]] and the [[Pureborn]] trade guilds demand her expulsion and possible assassination after the destruction of the [[House of the Undying]].{{ref|aCoK|63}} Only Xaro's influence prevents the [[Thirteen]] from adding their voices to that of the other trade guilds.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
In [[Meereen]] Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] admits to [[Daenerys]] that the last report that he made to [[Varys]] was one from Qarth. Dany is taken aback as she hoped his spying had ended much earlier.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] arrives in [[Meereen]] as a representative of Qarth to visit Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in order to try and convince her to sail for [[Westeros]] as her presence has disrupted the [[slave]] trade which many [[Essos]]i cities, including Qarth, depend on for their economies. He brings forth a gift of thirteen ships, stating that they are hers on the condition she sails from [[Slaver's Bay]] to [[Westeros]]

Daenerys has the thirteen ships Xaro brought inspected, but later refuses the offer. Xaro's reply was to leave a bloodstained glove on a satin pillow - declaring that the city of Qarth has declared war on Queen Daenerys Targaryen.{{ref|aDwD|16}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Qarth is the greatest city that ever was or ever will be. {{ref|aCoK|27}}}} - [[Pyat Pree]]

{{Quote| How savage we must seem to these Qartheen {{ref|aCoK|27}}}} - [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s thoughts as she and her [[khalasar]] entered Qarth

{{Quote|These are strange times in Qarth.}} - [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]

{{Quote|In Qarth I was a beggar. {{ref|aDwD|11}}}} - Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]], to [[Quaithe]]

{{Quote|Qartheen have milk in their veins.}} - [[Daario Naharis]]

{{Cities}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}


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[[es:Qarth]][[fr:Qarth]][[ru:Кварт]]
[[zh:魁尔斯]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 63

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]
| place = [[Qarth]]
| title = Daenerys V
| page = 637
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 62|Sansa VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 63|Daenerys V]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 64|Arya X]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 48|Daenerys IV]]
| arc next =
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Dany]] considers the defeat of the Undying to be [[Drogon]]’s victory. However, [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos|Xaro]], whose guest she is, warns her that the [[Warlocks]] are gathering their power to come for her, and that the other two great merchant consortiums want her either expelled from [[Qarth|the city]], or killed outright. Dany realizes she must flee, for Xaro’s protection can only go so far. The merchant again asks her to marry him, but this time Dany learns that what Xaro really wants is one of the dragons. Dany tells him that it would cost one-third of all the ships in the world in order for her to give up one of her dragons. Xaro leaves, and Dany questions Ser [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]] about some of the mysteries she saw in the [[House of the Undying]]. Jorah says that the three heads of the dragon represent [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]] and his two sisters, but Dany is not convinced. The knight confirms that [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] did play a silver harp, but he says that if the [[Aegon Targaryen|Prince’s son]] was the promised one in the vision, the infant Aegon was killed during the [[sack of King's Landing]]. Jorah has no knowledge of the song of ice and fire.

Dany later sets out with the exiled knight and her bloodriders to find ships to take her from Qarth. Along the docks, Jorah warns her that a big, scarred man and an old man with a staff are following them. When a merchant hands her a beautiful box as a gift, Dany opens it to find a green scarab within. The creature within the box flies out, and mayhem erupts. The creature would have bit Dany had the old man with the staff not knocked it out of her hands. The merchant was a [[Sorrowful Men|Sorrowful Man]], and the creature a [[manticore]] that would have killed Dany had it bitten her. They learn that the huge, scarred eunuch is the pit-fighter Strong [[Belwas]], and the old man is his squire [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]], both sent by Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] to return them to [[Pentos]]. The old man recognizes Mormont, and the exile recognizes him but cannot place a name. Arstan claims he comes from the [[Seven Kingdoms]], and squired for a knight of [[House Swann]] as a young man. The two claim that Illyrio sent for them because he wishes to have her dragons in order to bring justice to the Seven Kingdoms, which are a divided and warring realm. Dany concedes that she must leave Qarth, but commands them to change the names of their three ships to that of Aegon’s three dragons.

==Character List==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Jorah Mormont]]
*[[Rakharo]]
*[[Jhogo]]
*[[Aggo]]
*[[The Silver]]
*[[Belwas|Strong Belwas]]
*[[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]
*[[Pyat Pree]]
*[[Urrathon|Urrathon Night-Walker]]
*[[Mathos Mallarawan]]
*[[Sybassion|Blind Sybassion the Eater of Eyes]]
*[[Mirri Maz Duur]]
*[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]
*[[Rhaego]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Visenya Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Aenys I Targaryen]]
*[[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Elia Martell|Elia Targaryen]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Manfred Swann]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Vhagar]]
*[[Balerion]]
*[[Meraxes]]
|}

==Place and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Qarth]]
*[[House of the Undying]]/[[House of the Undying|Palace of Dust]]
*[[Garden of Gehane]]
*[[Warlock’s Way]]
*[[Jade Sea]]
*[[Red Waste]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Dothraki Sea|Great Grass Sea]]
*[[Vaes Tolorro]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Asshai]]
*[[Braavos]]
*[[Summer Islands]]
*[[Ibben]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Astapor]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Free Cities|Nine Free Cities]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Lys]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Myr]]
*[[Arbor]]
*[[Jade Sea]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Qohor]]
*[[Pentos]]
*[[Dornish Marches]]
*[[Lannisport]]
*[[Pyke]]
*[[Bear Island]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[Milk Men]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*[[Bloodrider]]
*[[Warlock]]
*[[Glass candle]]
*[[Dragon]]
*''[[khalasar]]''
*[[Tourmaline Brotherhood]]
*[[Ancient Guild of Spicers]]
*[[Thirteen]]
*''[[khaleesi]]''
*[[House Targaryen]]
*''[[Vermillion Kiss]]''
*''[[Bride in Azure]]''
*''[[Sunblaze]]''
*[[Common Tongue]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[House Mormont]]
*''[[Ardent Friend]]''
*''[[Trumpeteer]]''
*''[[Silken Spirit]]''
*''[[Lord Faro's Belly]]''
*''[[Quicksilver]]''
*''[[Greyhound]]''
*''[[Pinchbottom Petto]]''
*''[[Sloe-Eyed Maid]]''
*''[[Bravo (ship)|Bravo]]''
*''[[Magister Manolo]]''
*''[[arakh]]''
*[[Sorrowful Men]]
*[[Manticore]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Queensguard]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*''[[Saduleon]]''/''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]''
*''[[Summer Sun]]''/''[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]''
*''[[Joso's Prank]]''/''[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]''
|}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
* The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/08/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-30 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.
* [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-read-daenerys-v-getting-on-with-it.html Analyses and summary of the chapter] in the course of a 10th reread by Slynt.

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