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Meera Reed

2012-09-04T01:24:31Z

Ceitean:

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| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}

'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Her younger brother is [[Jojen Reed]]. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]'s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that [[Greywater Watch]] has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find [[Greywater Watch]] because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Greywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has [[Skinchanger|the wolf dreams]], Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. [[Shaggy Dog]] joins Summer and they both start to attack. Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to [[Winterfell]].

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. Outside they find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. Meera takes the sword of [[Rickard Stark]] from the crypts to use as a weapon.

In the [[godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is [[Beyond the Wall|north]].{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, mainly catching fish and frogs.

They camp in a place they call [[Tumbledown Tower]], but Jojen tells them that they need to move on. Meera questions him on why they should leave since Tumbledown Tower is a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that though Bran could wait out the in anonymity there, it was not the place they needed to be. He says they must keep going to find Bran's [[three-eyed crow|teacher]] in the [[Beyond the Wall|north]]. Meera eventually agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a [[House Liddle|Liddle]]) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are [[House Bolton|flayed men]] and dead men. He tells them that [[Jeor Mormont|the Bear]] disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that [[Hodor]] likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is [[Nan|Old Nan’s]] distant progeny. He asks if they think the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] who did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people (likely [[Howland Reed]], Meera's father) traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon [[Harenhal|a great castle]] where [[Tourney at Harrenhal|a large tourney]] is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - [[House Blount|the porcupine knight]], [[House Haigh|the pitchfork knight]], and the knight of [[House Frey|the two towers]]. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]], to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]] went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of [[Gift|the New Gift]] given to the Night's Watch courtesy of [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]]. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, [[Queenscrown]] in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Night's Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]], traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}} Bran posses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to [[Castle Black]], but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a [[greensight|green dream]] to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a white [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

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{{Character
| Character_name = [[File:House_Reed.PNG|50px|left]] Meera Reed [[File:House_Reed.PNG|50px|right]]
| image = [[File:Meera reed by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©]]
| image_caption = Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©
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| Title =
| Allegiance = [[House Reed]]
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| Culture = [[Crannogmen]]
| Spouse =
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth = [[283 AL]]
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = [[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears) [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (Appears)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}

'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Her younger brother is [[Jojen Reed]]. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]'s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that [[Graywater Watch]] has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find [[Graywater Watch]] because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to [[Winterfell]].

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. Outside they find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. Meera takes the sword of [[Rickard Stark]] from the crypts to use as a weapon.

In the [[godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is [[Beyond the Wall|north]].{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, mainly catching fish and frogs.

They camp in a place they call [[Tumbledown Tower]], but Jojen tells them that they need to move on. Meera questions him on why they should leave since Tumbledown Tower is a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that though Bran could wait out the in anonymity there, it was not the place they needed to be. He says they must keep going to find Bran's [[three-eyed crow|teacher]] in the [[Beyond the Wall|north]]. Meera eventually agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a [[House Liddle|Liddle]]) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are [[House Bolton|flayed men]] and dead men. He tells them that [[Jeor Mormont|the Bear]] disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that [[Hodor]] likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is [[Nan|Old Nan’s]] distant progeny. He asks if they think the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] who did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people (likely [[Howland Reed]], Meera's father) traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon [[Harenhal|a great castle]] where [[Tourney at Harrenhal|a large tourney]] is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - [[House Blount|the porcupine knight]], [[House Haigh|the pitchfork knight]], and the knight of [[House Frey|the two towers]]. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]], to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]] went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of [[Gift|the New Gift]] given to the Night's Watch courtesy of [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]]. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, [[Queenscrown]] in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Night's Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]], traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}} Bran posses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to [[Castle Black]], but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a [[greensight|green dream]] to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a white [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]

Meera Reed

2012-09-03T13:59:06Z

Ceitean:

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| Books = [[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears) [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (Appears)
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| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}

'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]'s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that [[Graywater Watch]] has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find [[Graywater Watch]] because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to [[Winterfell]].

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. Outside they find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. Meera takes the sword of [[Rickard Stark]] from the crypts to use as a weapon.

In the [[godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is [[Beyond the Wall|north]].{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, mainly catching fish and frogs.

They camp in a place they call [[Tumbledown Tower]], but Jojen tells them that they need to move on. Meera questions him on why they should leave since Tumbledown Tower is a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that though Bran could wait out the in anonymity there, it was not the place they needed to be. He says they must keep going to find Bran's [[three-eyed crow|teacher]] in the [[Beyond the Wall|north]]. Meera eventually agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a [[House Liddle|Liddle]]) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are [[House Bolton|flayed men]] and dead men. He tells them that [[Jeor Mormont|the Bear]] disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that [[Hodor]] likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is [[Nan|Old Nan’s]] distant progeny. He asks if they think the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] who did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people (likely [[Howland Reed]], Meera's father) traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon [[Harenhal|a great castle]] where [[Tourney at Harrenhal|a large tourney]] is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - [[House Blount|the porcupine knight]], [[House Haigh|the pitchfork knight]], and the knight of [[House Frey|the two towers]]. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]], to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]] went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of [[Gift|the New Gift]] given to the Night's Watch courtesy of [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]]. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, [[Queenscrown]] in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Night's Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]], traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}} Bran posses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to [[Castle Black]], but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a [[greensight|green dream]] to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a white [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]

Meera Reed

2012-09-03T13:57:56Z

Ceitean:

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| image = [[File:Meera reed by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©]]
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| Date_of_Birth = [[283 AL]]
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| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}

'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]'s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that [[Graywater Watch]] has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find [[Graywater Watch]] because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to [[Winterfell]].

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. Outside they find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. Meera takes the sword of [[Rickard Stark]] from the crypts to use as a weapon.

In the [[godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is [[Beyond the Wall|north]].{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, catching many frogs.

They camp in a place they call [[Tumbledown Tower]], but Jojen tells them that they need to move on. Meera questions him on why they should leave since Tumbledown Tower is a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that though Bran could wait out the in anonymity there, it was not the place they needed to be. He says they must keep going to find Bran's [[three-eyed crow|teacher]] in the [[Beyond the Wall|north]]. Meera eventually agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a [[House Liddle|Liddle]]) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are [[House Bolton|flayed men]] and dead men. He tells them that [[Jeor Mormont|the Bear]] disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that [[Hodor]] likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is [[Nan|Old Nan’s]] distant progeny. He asks if they think the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] who did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people (likely [[Howland Reed]], Meera's father) traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon [[Harenhal|a great castle]] where [[Tourney at Harrenhal|a large tourney]] is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - [[House Blount|the porcupine knight]], [[House Haigh|the pitchfork knight]], and the knight of [[House Frey|the two towers]]. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]], to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]] went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of [[Gift|the New Gift]] given to the Night's Watch courtesy of [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]]. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, [[Queenscrown]] in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Night's Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]], traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}} Bran posses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to [[Castle Black]], but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a [[greensight|green dream]] to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a white [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]

Meera Reed

2012-09-03T13:41:32Z

Ceitean:

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| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
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'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]'s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that [[Graywater Watch]] has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find [[Graywater Watch]] because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to [[Winterfell]].

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. They find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the [[godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is [[Beyond the Wall|north]].{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, catching many frogs. Bran becomes sick of them since there isn't much else to eat.

They find what seems to be a safe place to camp in the ruins of a tower, but Jojen tells them that they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave since it seems a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells them that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe only as long as it's believed he's dead. He says they must keep going to find Bran's teacher in the north. Meera agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Little) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are [[House Bolton|flayed men]] and dead men. He tells them that [[Jeor Mormont|the Bear]] disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that [[Hodor]] likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is [[Nan|Old Nan’s]] distant progeny. He asks if they think the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] who did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people (likely [[Howland Reed]], Meera's father) traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon [[Harenhal|a great castle]] where [[Tourney at Harrenhal|a large tourney]] is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - [[House Blount|the porcupine knight]], [[House Haigh|the pitchfork knight]], and the knight of [[House Frey|the two towers]]. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]], to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the dragon prince]] went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of [[Gift|the New Gift]] given to the Night's Watch courtesy of [[Alysanne Targaryen|Queen Alysanne]]. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, [[Queenscrown]] in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Night's Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]], traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}} Bran posses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to [[Castle Black]], but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a [[greensight|green dream]] to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a white [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]

Meera Reed

2012-09-03T13:00:02Z

Ceitean: Same as before, just cleaning it up a tiny bit

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| image = [[File:Meera reed by daenerys mod.jpg|250px|Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©]]
| image_caption = Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©
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| Date_of_Birth = [[283 AL]]
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| Books = [[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears) [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (Appears)
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| Played_by = Ellie Kendrick
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
}}

'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that Graywater Watch has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find Graywater Watch because it moves, although many have tried.

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come whenever he wants.

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to Winterfell.

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. They find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the [[Godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, catching many frogs. Bran becomes sick of them since there isn't much else to eat.

They find what seems to be a safe place to camp in the ruins of a tower, but Jojen tells them that they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave since it seems a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells them that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe only as long as it's believed he's dead. He says they must keep going to find Bran's teacher in the north. Meera agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Little) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are flayed men (the bastard’s men), and dead men. He tells them that the Bear disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny. He asks if they think the Ironmen killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] that did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the Knight of the Laughing Tree in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon a great castle where a tourney is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - the porcupine knight, the pitchfork knight, and the knight of the two towers. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, the dragon prince, to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying the dragon prince went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the Knight of the Laughing Tree should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the Queen of Love and Beauty. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night's Watch courtesy of Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Old Nana said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Nights Watch may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be Jon Snow, traveling with wildlings. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Then Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}

They arrive at the Nightfort, the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the wildlings. But there had been too many of them and Summer was hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the wildlings were gone. Summer had finally swum across to them, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound.

At the Nightfort, Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a green dream to show him the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor. As Hordor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]].

Gilly asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] was looking for. Coldhands had told Gilly and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate, which is a ahite [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are you?” Sam answers with the Night's Watch oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the wall.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
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{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]

Meera Reed

2012-09-03T12:02:41Z

Ceitean: Just cleaning up the text, putting in paragraphs, etc.

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'''Meera Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress, able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the [[direwolf]], in her net. She is sixteen years old.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 9|Chapter 9]], Bran</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 21|Chapter 21]], Bran</ref> Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, [[Theon Greyjoy]] seems to have considered her attractive{{Ref|aCoK|50}}, while [[Bran Stark]]s initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons{{Ref|aDwD|13}}.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective of her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen {{Ref|aSoS|9}}.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
In the middle of a Harvest Feast, Meera and her brother [[Jojen Reed]] arrive to pledge [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells [[Bran]] that he should greet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}

Later, Meera manages to defeat the direwolf [[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arms, and she tells him that Graywater Watch has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravens. She says neither ravens nor the Reeds’ enemies can find Graywater Watch because it moves (although many have tried).

Bran asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come then or now (he has never been away from Winterfell).

Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the tree, Meera following him. They climb down only after Hodor arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later, Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left there by [[Osha]] who had told Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow. Bran finally tells Meera and Jojen about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals one of his own dreams: he saw that sea would come to Winterfell.

When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always comes true. Jojen reveals that he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]at the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the [[Bastard of Bolton|Ramsay Bolton]] yet) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; the jailers would stop her, he says, and would not believe her if she tried to explain.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is carried out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Snow]]. Debris traps them in the crypts until Hodor forces the door open with his massive strength. They find the castle destroyed. Many of the bodies they find are of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the [[Godswood]], they find Maester Luwin alive but unconscious. They wake him and he warns them of all the enemies Bran and Rickon have in each direction. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children up to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, catching many frogs. Bran becomes sick of them since there isn't much else to eat.

They find what seems to be a safe place to camp in the ruins of a tower, but Jojen tells them that they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave since it seems a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells them that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe only as long as it's believed he's dead. He says they must keep going to find Bran's teacher in the north. Meera agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go north.{{Ref|aSoS|09}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Little) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are flayed men (the bastard’s men), and dead men. He tells them that the Bear disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny. He asks if they think the Ironmen killed Nan. Meera states that it was not [[Theon Greyjoy]] that did the killing because too many of the dead were [[Ironborn]]. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories so part of Nan would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the Knight of the Laughing Tree in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out when a young [[Crannogmen]] who knew many magics of his people traveled to visit the [[Isle of Faces]] and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon a great castle where a tourney is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged [[Lyanna Stark|she-wolf]] rescued the Crannogman, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little Crannogman declines, since Crannogmen are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - the porcupine knight, the pitchfork knight, and the knight of the two towers. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, the dragon prince, to search for the Knight of the Laughing Tree. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying the dragon prince went on to win the tourney.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

Bran complains about the story, saying the Knight of the Laughing Tree should have won the whole tourney and the wolf maid should have been crowned as the Queen of Love and Beauty. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. {{Ref|aSoS|24}} Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the foot it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor just sages to the floor almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}

They arrive at the Nightfort, this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound. At the Nightfort Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]]. The girl asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is not black of a White [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
While traveling with [[Coldhands]] north of the [[Wall]], Meera, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Hodor]] are forced to take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran I (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran I]]</ref>

They reach the cave of the [[three-eyed crow]], but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back up to the entrance. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{references|3}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire}}

[[Category:Noblewomen|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Meera]]
[[Category:House Reed]]
[[fr:Meera Reed]]
[[zh:梅拉·黎德]]
[[es:Meera Reed]][[ru:Мира Рид]]