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Janos Slynt

2026-05-29T00:53:16Z

Dancing Maester: gr: parallelism, both gerunds

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| Title = Captain of the [[Iron Gate]] (formerly) [[Commander of the City Watch]] [[Lord of Harrenhal]]
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| Place_of_Death = [[Castle Black]]
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| Issue = [[Morros Slynt]] [[Jothos Slynt]] [[Danos Slynt]] Daughter
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| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appears)
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'''Janos Slynt''' is the founder of [[House Slynt]] and [[Commander of the City Watch|commander]] of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]]. His father was a butcher.{{Ref|AGOT|69}}

In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Janos is portrayed by [[w:Dominic Carter (actor)|Dominic Carter]].<ref>[http://www.liftingfaces.com/2009/09/game-of-thrones-cast-so-far/ Game of Thrones: cast so far] on Liftingfaces</ref>

==Appearance==
{{See also|:Category:Images of Janos Slynt|l1=Images of Janos Slynt}}
Janos is a stout man, with a jowly face and a bald pate.{{Ref|aGoT|27}} He is frog-faced, and built like a keg.{{Ref|aCoK|8}} He wears ornate gold-and-black plate, with a high-crested helm.{{ref|AGOT|49}}

==History==
Janos was born the son of a butcher in [[King's Landing]]. While captain of the [[Iron Gate]], he was raised to Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], the so-called gold cloaks, after the death of the previous commander, [[Manly Stokeworth]].{{ref|aDwD|7}}

During his rule as commander of the gold cloaks, Janos was known for taking bribes and selling positions and promotions. By the end of his tenure, over half the officers were paying him part of their salaries. Lord [[Jon Arryn]], the [[Hand of the King]] to [[Robert I Baratheon]], discovered this, and had two men who were willing to come forward to testify against Janos, but both were found dead a short time later. Robert ackowledged Janos's corruption, but allowed him to remain in his position, arguing his successor might be worse. The king's brother, Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]], was certain Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] had convinced Robert to retain Janos.{{ref|ASOS|78}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Janos Slynt1.jpg‎‎|thumb|350px|Janos Slynt by Paul Phillips ©]]
Janos is the Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]] when Lord [[Eddard Stark]] becomes [[Hand of the King]] after the death of Lord [[Jon Arryn]]. Before the start of the [[Hand's tourney]], Janos comes before the [[small council]] and reports about the disturbances caused by people flooding the city. He asks for more men to keep the peace. Eddard grants Slynt to hire fifty more men and orders the [[master of coin]], Lord [[Petyr Baelish]], to come up with the money to pay them. He also promises Janos twenty men of his own household guards as reinforcements for the time of the tourney.{{ref|aGoT|27}}

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

When Eddard challenges Joffrey's legitimacy in the throne room and calls on Janos to put Cersei and her children under arrest, Janos betrays him. The gold cloaks begin to murder the [[House Stark guards|Stark household guards]], and Janos kills [[Varly]] by slashing his throat.{{ref|aGoT|49}} Musing in his cell about why his actions have failed, Eddard damns Janos as one of the people who have betrayed him and [[Seven Kingdoms|the realm]], yet he ultimately blames himself the most.{{ref|aGoT|58}}

Janos is raised to [[Lord of Harrenhal]] for his services to the crown, and is named a member of the small council. The appointment of a commoner to such a high position causes resentment among nobles at court.{{ref|aGoT|57}} Janos chooses a bloody spear on a black field as his sigil. He adds golden scales to his black doublet, and wears a checkered cape of black and gold.{{ref|AGOT|57}}

Janos laughs when Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] is dismissed and replaced as [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]].{{ref|aGoT|57}} After recording his dismissal in the [[White Book]]{{ref|aCoK|67}} and gathering his possessions in the [[Red Keep#White Sword Tower|White Sword Tower]], Barristan is confronted by Janos and three gold cloaks in the stables. The seasoned knight, only armed with a knife, escapes them, killing one gold cloak and riding through Janos and the other two. The commander sends men after the former Kingsguard, but Barristan the Bold overcomes the guards at the [[River Gate|Mud Gate]] and kills one of his pursuers before fleeing [[King's Landing]].{{ref|aDwD|11}}

At the [[Great Sept of Baelor]], Janos and Ser [[Ilyn Payne]] follow King Joffrey's order to execute Eddard,{{ref|AGOT|65}}{{ref|ACOK|8}} with Janos displaying Ned's head to the crowd.{{ref|ADWD|65}} Afterward, Lord Slynt attends another court session, in which Joffrey hands out harsh sentences in matters brought before him, nodding in approval to every action of the king.{{ref|aGoT|67}}

Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] is aghast at the granting of [[Harrenhal]] to Janos, the son of a butcher. He orders his son, [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], to go to King's Landing and act as Hand of the King in his absence.{{ref|aGoT|69}}

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

Tyrion's action against Janos displeases his sister, Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]].{{ref|aCoK|17}} Petyr cites Janos's fate when Tyrion offers him Harrenhal as a gift for his services to the Crown, pointing out that Janos had received Harrenhal for the same reason and yet wound up being forced to [[Night's Watch|take the black]]. Tyrion replies that, while he had no use for Slynt, the same is not true for Baelish.{{ref|aCoK|17}} Rumor spreads among the [[smallfolk]] that Janos was exiled because he was too bluff and honest for Tyrion.{{ref|ACOK|41}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Janos Wall.jpg|350px|thumb|Janos at the [[Wall]] - by Amok ©]]

Not knowing that [[Renly Baratheon]] is dead, [[Bowen Marsh]] of the [[Night's Watch]] sends an appeal to the [[War of the Five Kings|five kings at war]], in which he asks them to send men to defend the [[Wall]] and the realm against an expected attack by [[Mance Rayder]]'s [[free folk|wildlings]]. He also tells them about the possible death of [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]] during the [[great ranging]]. Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], annoyed about the neutrality of the Night's Watch, suggests Janos become the new Lord Commander as a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] ally against the objections of Tyrion.{{ref|ASOS|32}} Tywin orders Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] to write to Bowen in the name of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], in which the demand for men is rejected for the time being but the "fondest regards to his faithful friend and servant Lord Janos Slynt" are also expressed. Tyrion regrets that he did not leave orders for Janos to be disposed of the way his partner in crime [[Allar Deem]] was.{{Ref|aSoS|32}}

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

After being prevented by Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] from hanging Jon, Janos sends Jon to assassinate Mance Rayder, hoping that Jon will be killed in the process. [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s army arrives and [[battle beneath the Wall|captures]] Mance, however.{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

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

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Janos informs the Lannister court of events at the Wall, sending a letter to Grand Maester Pycelle telling of Stannis trying to make common cause with the wildlings.{{ref|affc|17}}

===''A Dance With Dragons''===
[[File:Small Justice for Ned.jpg|350px|thumb|[[Jon Snow]] executes Janos Slynt, by acazigot ©]]
[[Jon Snow]], now Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, decides to give Janos command of the abandoned way castle [[Greyguard]], in order to avoid Janos undermining his authority with his scheming and to separate him from his ally Alliser Thorne.{{ref|ADWD|7}}

However, Janos refuses to follow Jon's orders, first in private, and then the next morning refusing him publicly. Jon, tired of Janos's insubordination, and knowing either imprisoning him or forcing him to go would only cause further problems, orders that Janos be taken to the top of the [[Wall]] and hanged. The arrogant Janos threatens [[Tywin Lannister]]'s retribution, unaware that Tywin has died. As Janos protests, Jon changes his mind, and orders his men to fetch a chopping block so he can carry out the beheading himself, under the laws of the [[First Men]] his father had followed. Janos begs for mercy with his head on the block, but Jon quickly beheads him with [[Longclaw]]. A watching [[Stannis Baratheon]] approves of Jon's decision.{{Ref|aDwD|7}}

Janos's accusations toward Jon are remembered by some of the men at Castle Black, hampering the new Lord Commander's support.{{ref|ADWD|17}}

==Quotes by Janos==
[[File: Borja Pindado janosslynt.jpg|thumb|350px|Janos, by Borja Pindado © Fantasy Flight Games]]
{{quote|You and your threats, well, we will see. I am the king's friend, you know. We shall hear what [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] has to say about this. And [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] and [[Cersei Lannister|the queen]], oh, yes. Janos Slynt has a good many friends. We will see who goes sailing, I promise you. Indeed we will.{{ref|ACOK|8}}|Janos to [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}

{{quote|'''Janos''': You lie through your [[bastard]]'s teeth. Well, I will not suffer it. I will not! You might have fooled [[Donal Noye|this crippled blacksmith]], but not Janos Slynt! Oh, no. Janos Slynt does not swallow lies so easily. Did you think my skull was stuffed with cabbage? 
'''Jon''': I don't know what your skull is stuffed with. My lord.{{ref|ASOS|69}}|Janos and [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{quote|'''Janos''': Lies, all lies! A strong man makes enemies, Your Grace, they whisper lies behind your back. Naught was ever proven, not a man came forward... 
'''Stannis''': Two men who were prepared to come forward died suddenly on their rounds. Do not trifle with me, my lord, I saw the proofs [[Jon Arryn]] laid before the [[small council]]. If I had been king, you would have lost more than your office, I promise you that, but [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert]] shrugged away your little lapses. 'They all steal' I recall him saying. 'Better a thief we know than one we don't, the next man might be worse'. Lord [[Petyr Baelish|Petyr's]] words in my brother's mouth, I'll warrant.{{ref|aSoS|78}}|Janos and [[Stannis Baratheon]]}}

{{Quote|'''Jon''': It is forty leagues to [[Greyguard]]. Pack up your arms and armor, say your farewells, and be ready to depart at first light on the morrow. 
'''Janos''': No. I will not go meekly off to freeze and die. No [[Eddard Stark|traitor's]] bastard gives commands to Janos Slynt! I am not without friends, I warn you. Here, and in [[King's Landing]] too. I was the [[Lord of Harrenhal]]! Give your ruin to one of the blind fools who cast a stone for you, I will not have it. Do you hear me, boy? I will not have it!{{ref|ADWD|7}}|[[Jon Snow]] and Janos}}

{{Quote|'''Jon''': You are refusing to obey my order? 
'''Janos''': You can stick your order up your [[bastard]]'s arse. 
'''Jon''': As you will. Please take Lord Janos to the Wall, and hang him.{{ref|ADWD|7}}|[[Jon Snow]] and Janos}}

{{Quote|If the boy thinks that he can frighten me, he is mistaken. He would not dare to hang me. Janos Slynt has friends, important friends, you'll see…{{ref|ADWD|7}}|Janos, about [[Jon Snow]]}}

==Quotes about Janos==
{{quote|If you cannot keep the king's peace, Janos, perhaps the [[City Watch of King's Landing|City Watch]] should be commanded by someone who can.{{ref|AGOT|27}}|[[Renly Baratheon]] to Janos}}

{{quote|Frog-faced Lord Slynt sat at the end of the [[small council|council]] table wearing a black velvet doublet and a shiny cloth-of-[[gold]] cape, nodding with approval every time [[Joffrey Baratheon|the king]] pronounced a sentence. Sansa stared hard at his ugly face, remembering how he had thrown down [[Eddard Stark|her father]] for Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]] to behead, wishing she could hurt him, wishing that some hero would throw him down and cut off his head.{{ref|AGOT|67}}|thoughts of [[Sansa Stark]]}}

{{quote|Whose notion was it to make this Janos Slynt a lord? The man's father was a butcher, and they grant him [[Harrenhal]]. Harrenhal, that was the [[House Hoare|seat of kings]]! Not that he will ever set foot inside it, if I have a say. I am told he took a bloody spear for his sigil. A bloody cleaver would have been my choice.{{ref|AGOT|69}}|[[Tywin Lannister]] to [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}

{{quote|'''Tyrion''': Janos Slynt is a butcher's son. You yourself told me— 
'''Tywin''': I recall what I told you. [[Castle Black]] is not [[Harrenhal]], however. The [[Night's Watch]] is not the [[small council|king's council]]. There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool. 
'''Tyrion''': Lord Janos is a hollow suit of armor who will sell himself to the highest bidder.{{ref|ASOS|32}}|[[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Tywin Lannister]]}}

{{Quote|'''Bowen''': Who better to command the [[Night's Watch|black cloaks]] than a man who once commanded the [[City Watch of King's Landing|gold]]? 
'''Stannis''': Any one of you I would think. Even [[Hobb|the cook]].{{ref|ASOS|78}}|[[Bowen Marsh]] and [[Stannis Baratheon]]}}

{{Quote|This so-called Lord of [[Harrenhal]] is a butcher's whelp upjumped by the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. Small wonder he is venal and corrupt.{{ref|aSoS|78}}|[[Denys Mallister]] to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|All of a man's crimes were wiped away when he [[Night's Watch|took the black]], and all of his allegiances as well, yet he found it hard to think of Janos Slynt as a brother. There is blood between us. This man helped slay [[Eddard Stark|my father]] and did his best to have me killed as well.{{ref|aDwD|7}}|[[Jon Snow]]'s thoughts}}

{{Quote|'''Jon''': I will not hang him. Bring him here. 
'''Bowen''': Oh, [[The Seven|Seven]] save us. 
'''Jon''': [[Eddison Tollett|Edd]], fetch me a block.{{ref|ADWD|7}}|[[Jon Snow]] and [[Bowen Marsh]]}}

==Family==
{{Slynt tree}}

==Behind the Scenes==
At a convention in 2008, [[George R.R. Martin]] read an early version of ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 7|Jon II]], in which Janos Slynt was actually hanged from the [[Wall]]. The rope used was one hundred feet long, and Slynt breaks his neck when he hits the end.<ref>asoiaf.westeros.org: [https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/27418-pre-adwd-spoilers-jon-3-but-actually-jon-1/ [Pre-ADwD Spoilers] Jon 3 but actually Jon 1] (March 30, 2008)</ref>

==References==
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Blue Bard

2026-03-29T04:52:06Z

Dancing Maester:

{{Infobox character
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| epithet = Blue Bard
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The '''Blue Bard''' is a young singer in service with [[House Tyrell]]. His real name is '''Wat'''.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==Appearance==
Wat is a handsome young man{{Ref|AFFC|28}} with healthy teeth.{{ref|AFFC|39}} He has blue eyes and [[Hair dye|dyes]] his curly, shoulder-length brown hair blue in the [[Tyrosh]]i fashion.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

The Blue Bard dresses all in blue,{{Ref|AFFC|12}} including a blue silk tunic slashed with blue satin, blue wool breeches, and blue calfskin boots.{{ref|AFFC|39}} He plays a lute.{{ref|AFFC|39}}

==History==
Wat was the son of a cooper and was raised in the trade, but he found he had more talent for making [[lute]]s than barrels. When he was twelve years old, he ran away to join a musician troupe. He wandered half the [[Reach]] before coming to [[King's Landing]] in search of patronage.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
As part of the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] entourage, the Blue Bard sings at [[Wedding of Tommen I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell|the wedding]] of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|AFFC|12}} [[Taena of Myr]] informs Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] that the Blue Bird has become Margaery's favorite entertainer.{{ref|AFFC|28}} The Blue Bird plays for Margaery and her entourage when they go to pick flowers in the [[kingswood]].{{ref|AFFC|28}} Taena learns that the Blue Bird performs at an inn when he is not attending to Margaery.{{ref|AFFC|36}}

Cersei contrives to use the Blue Bard as a pawn in her efforts to remove Margaery from [[King's Landing]], and she has the musician perform while Cersei has dinner with Taena and Lord [[Orton Merryweather]]. During the meal, the queen has the Blue Bard arrested and sent to the dungeons for seducing Margaery, though he claims never to have done so. In front of Cersei, the Blue Bird is stripped and mutilated by [[Qyburn]], who removes one each of his eyes and nipples, and is told to tell the story as Cersei wants him to. Under torture he names Ser [[Osney Kettleblack]], Ser [[Tallad the Tall]], Ser [[Lambert Turnberry]], [[Jalabhar Xho]], [[Hugh Clifton]], Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], Ser [[Bayard Norcross]], and [[Hamish the Harper]] as Margaery's lovers.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}
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The Blue Bard also names Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] and the Redwyne twins, Ser [[Horas Redwyne|Horas]] and Ser [[Hobber Redwyne|Hobber]], but Cersei has him recant the three; Loras because the accusation is not credible and the twins because she needs the support of [[House Redwyne]] and [[Redwyne fleet|their ships]] to deal with the [[ironborn]].{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

After Margaery is successfully framed, Cersei has the Blue Bard arrested again. He is tortured once again by the [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] but continues to tell the story Cersei wants him to.{{Ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
The Blue Bard is still held by the Faith. According to Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], the singer appears to have gone mad.{{Ref|ADWD|54}}

==Quotes by the Blue Bard==
{{quote|'''Cersei''': It is easy to see why you are Lady [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery's]] favorite. 
'''Blue Bard''': Her Grace is kind. She says I give her pleasure. 
'''Cersei''': Oh, I'm certain of it.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|[[Cersei Lannister]] and the Blue Bard}}

==Quotes about the Blue Bard==
{{quote|The singer's boots were supple blue calfskin, his breeches fine blue wool. The tunic he wore was pale blue silk slashed with shiny blue satin. He had even gone so far as to dye his hair blue, in the [[Tyrosh]]i fashion. Long and curly, it fell to his shoulders and smelled as if it had been washed in rosewater. From blue roses, no doubt. At least his teeth are white. They were good teeth, not the least bit crooked.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]}}

{{quote|The Blue Bard's eyes were the same color as [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert's]]. For that alone, she hated him.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]}}

==Behind the Scenes==
In the US edition of ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'', it is said the Blue Bard was the son of a chandler, a mistake fixed in the UK edition.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==References==
{{References}}

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Blue Bard

2026-03-29T04:50:57Z

Dancing Maester: typo

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The '''Blue Bard''' is a young singer in service with [[House Tyrell]]. His real name is '''Wat'''.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==Appearance==
Wat is a handsome young man{{Ref|AFFC|28}} with healthy teeth.{{ref|AFFC|39}} He has blue eyes and [[Hair dye|dyes]] his curly, shoulder-length brown hair blue in the [[Tyrosh]]i fashion.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

The Blue Bard dresses all in blue,{{Ref|AFFC|12}} including a blue silk tunic slashed with blue satin, blue wool breeches, and blue calfskin boots.{{ref|AFFC|39}} He plays a lute.{{ref|AFFC|39}}

==History==
Wat was the son of a cooper and was raised in the trade, but he found he had more talent for making [[lute]]s than barrels. When he was twelve years old, he ran away to join a musician troupe. He wandered half the [[Reach]] before coming to [[King's Landing]] in search of patronage.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
As part of the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] entourage, the Blue Bard sings at [[Wedding of Tommen I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell|the wedding]] of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|AFFC|12}} [[Taena of Myr]] informs Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] that the Blue Bird has become Margaery's favorite entertainer.{{ref|AFFC|28}} The Blue Bird plays for Margaery and her entourage when they go to pick flowers in the [[kingswood]].{{ref|AFFC|28}} Taena learns that the Blue Bird performs at an inn when he is not attending to Margaery.{{ref|AFFC|36}}

Cersei connives to use the Blue Bard as a pawn in her efforts to remove Margaery from [[King's Landing]], and she has the musician perform while Cersei has dinner with Taena and Lord [[Orton Merryweather]]. During the meal, the queen has the Blue Bard arrested and sent to the dungeons for seducing Margaery, though he claims never to have done so. In front of Cersei, the Blue Bird is stripped and mutilated by [[Qyburn]], who removes one each of his eyes and nipples, and is told to tell the story as Cersei wants him to. Under torture he names Ser [[Osney Kettleblack]], Ser [[Tallad the Tall]], Ser [[Lambert Turnberry]], [[Jalabhar Xho]], [[Hugh Clifton]], Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], Ser [[Bayard Norcross]], and [[Hamish the Harper]] as Margaery's lovers.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}
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The Blue Bard also names Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] and the Redwyne twins, Ser [[Horas Redwyne|Horas]] and Ser [[Hobber Redwyne|Hobber]], but Cersei has him recant the three; Loras because the accusation is not credible and the twins because she needs the support of [[House Redwyne]] and [[Redwyne fleet|their ships]] to deal with the [[ironborn]].{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

After Margaery is successfully framed, Cersei has the Blue Bard arrested again. He is tortured once again by the [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] but continues to tell the story Cersei wants him to.{{Ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
The Blue Bard is still held by the Faith. According to Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], the singer appears to have gone mad.{{Ref|ADWD|54}}

==Quotes by the Blue Bard==
{{quote|'''Cersei''': It is easy to see why you are Lady [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery's]] favorite. 
'''Blue Bard''': Her Grace is kind. She says I give her pleasure. 
'''Cersei''': Oh, I'm certain of it.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|[[Cersei Lannister]] and the Blue Bard}}

==Quotes about the Blue Bard==
{{quote|The singer's boots were supple blue calfskin, his breeches fine blue wool. The tunic he wore was pale blue silk slashed with shiny blue satin. He had even gone so far as to dye his hair blue, in the [[Tyrosh]]i fashion. Long and curly, it fell to his shoulders and smelled as if it had been washed in rosewater. From blue roses, no doubt. At least his teeth are white. They were good teeth, not the least bit crooked.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]}}

{{quote|The Blue Bard's eyes were the same color as [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert's]]. For that alone, she hated him.{{ref|AFFC|39}}|thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]}}

==Behind the Scenes==
In the US edition of ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'', it is said the Blue Bard was the son of a chandler, a mistake fixed in the UK edition.{{Ref|AFFC|39}}

==References==
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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 67

2026-03-28T23:46:14Z

Dancing Maester: Double possessive. What has nasty little hobbitses got in their pocketses?

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Barristan Selmy]]
| place = [[Meereen]]
| title = The Kingbreaker
| page = 874
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 66|Tyrion XII]]
| current = The Kingbreaker
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 68|The Dragontamer]]
| arc previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 59|The Discarded Knight]]
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 70|The Queen's Hand]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan]] meets with [[Skahaz mo Kandaq]] again, and they go through with their plan to seize [[Hizdahr zo Loraq|Hizdahr]] and the city, and have it [[ruling council of Meereen|ruled by a council]] until [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]'s return. They decide that their word for going ahead with the plan will be "''[[Groleo]]''," in reference to the hostage that was slain by the [[Yunkai]]'i. Skahaz reveals that he was present in the throne room when [[Bloodbeard]] and the slaver lords made their insult, and that he and every one of the [[Brazen Beasts]] present would have killed the Yunkish delegation in an instant had Hizdahr given the command, raging that the Yunkish would never have dared do such a thing to Daenerys. The Shavepate goes on to explain to Ser Barristan that Hizdahr's horrified reaction to Groleo's severed head was a sham and the slavers couldn't care less about [[Yurkhaz zo Yunzak]]'s death in the pit; the whole thing was arranged so as to give Hizdahr a pretext to kill the queen's [[dragon]]s before [[Volantis]]'s fleet arrives.

Despite Skahaz's objections, Barristan insists that after Hizdahr is deposed, they will order the Yunkai'i return their remaining hostage and withdraw their armies from [[Meereen]], only going forth to do battle if they refuse. Selmy is also confident he can overcome Hizdahr's guards, as they are only [[pit fighters]] and Barristan believes men like that, who fight for the adulation of the crowd and only when they are called to, are no match for a knight of the [[Kingsguard]] who must always be alert and ready to fight and die at a moment's notice to defend their monarch.

Barristan and Skahaz also dispute over trying to rescue the remaining hostages—[[Jhogo]], [[Hero]] and [[Daario Naharis|Daario]]—as the Shavepate believes it is too dangerous to try. He is also particularly scathing about Daario, believing it would be better in the long run for Daenerys if the [[Stormcrows]]' captain were to die. Though he is aware Daenerys is in love with Daario, Barristan privately agrees as he is well aware from history that the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] have a propensity for choosing poorly in matters of the heart, choices that almost always lead to disaster:

{{Quote|''Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] loved his Lady [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] and [[Robert's Rebellion|thousands died for it]]. [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]] loved the [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|first Daenerys]], and rose in [[First Blackfyre Rebellion|rebellion]] when denied her. [[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]] and [[Brynden Rivers|Bloodraven]] both loved [[Shiera Seastar]] and the Seven Kingdoms bled. The [[Duncan Targaryen|Prince of Dragonflies]] loved [[Jenny (Oldstones)|Jenny of Oldstones]] so much he cast aside a crown, and Westeros paid the bride price in corpses. All three of the sons of the [[Aegon V Targaryen|fifth Aegon]] had wed for love in defiance of their father's wishes. And because that unlikely monarch had followed his heart when he chose his queen, he allowed his sons to have their way, making bitter enemies when he might have made fast friends. Treason and turmoil followed, as night follows day, ending at [[Summerhall]] in sorcery, fire and grief.''}}

Skahaz also mentions that they have hostages of their own and that they can easily retaliate in kind if the Yunkai'i harm any more of their hostages, but like his queen, Barristan refuses to harm the cupbearers, due to his own aversion to killing children. Though disappointed, the Shavepate agrees and promises that everything will be ready for the plan by nightfall.

For the rest of the day, Barristan makes his rounds about [[Great Pyramid|the pyramid]] and trains with his boys. He thinks to himself that some of them might be ready for [[knight]]hood soon. However, as he wrestles with what he is planning to do that night, he decides it would be worse for the boys if they were knighted by a knight without honor just before his death. He lectures the boys about honor and thinks that someday maybe they will understand. He also warns [[Missandei]] not to leave the queen's chambers, but refuses to answer her questions about his intentions. He also reflects on his own failures, one in particular; that he didn't defeat Rhaegar at the [[tourney at Harrenhal]]. Had he won, he would have crowned [[Ashara Dayne]], who he was enamored with, as [[queen of love and beauty]] and wonders that if he had, would Ashara not have killed herself from grief over a child supposedly fathered on her by [[House Stark|a Stark]]. Barristan considers that his greatest failure.

During the night, after bathing and donning his armor, Ser Barristan goes to confront Hizdahr in his chambers; the Brazen Beasts let him past without incident. Barristan, using the pretext of delivering a message to gain entrance, tries to question Hizdahr, demanding to know if he is in league with the [[Sons of the Harpy]] and if he had anything to do with the [[Poisoned locusts|assassination attempt]] on Daenerys. Hizdahr's denials of the accusations do not convince Selmy, and when the old knight draws his sword, Hizdahr call for the pit fighter [[Khrazz]], one of his guards, to defend him. Despite Barristan's efforts to convince Khrazz to surrender, the pit fighter attacks him; however, Khrazz's inexperience of fighting opponents wearing armor is his downfall, and Selmy kills him quickly. Barristan tells Hizdahr, who desperately begs for his life, that he means to take Hizdahr to a cell, where he will be imprisoned until Daenerys returns. Suddenly, a [[Miklaz|cup bearer]] informs them that [[Reznak mo Reznak|Reznak]] wishes to see the king. Barristan, surprised as he and Skahaz had planned to imprison Reznak as well, asks why and is told the dragons ([[Viserion]] and [[Rhaegal]]) have been loosed upon the city.

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

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

==External links==
*[https://www.tor.com/2015/10/08/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-dance-with-dragons-part-39/ A Read of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons, Part 39] Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.

[[Category:A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|Dance 67]]
[[Category:A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Barristan Selmy|Dance 67]]
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[[zh:魔龙的狂舞-章节 67]]

Doreah

2026-03-22T00:40:08Z

Dancing Maester: Past tense, not past participle

{{Hatnote|For the Sand Snake, see [[Dorea Sand]].}}
{{Infobox character
| firstname = Doreah
| lastname =
| arms = Lys
| image = Doreah.jpg
| image_caption = Art by Foolish-Arethousa
| Alias =
| Title =
| Allegiance = Khal [[Drogo]]'s ''khalasar'' [[House Targaryen]]
| Race =
| Culture = [[Lys]]ene
| Spouse =
| Place_of_Birth = [[Lys]]{{Ref|AWOIAF|Doreah}}
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|278}} or {{Date|279}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Doreah|Doreah]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death = the [[red waste]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|299}}
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Roxanne McKee
| TV_series = ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|2]]
}}

'''Doreah''' is a [[Lys]]ene [[handmaid]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]].

In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Doreah is portrayed by [[w:Roxanne McKee|Roxanne McKee]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Doreah|Images of Doreah]]''
Doreah has blue eyes{{Ref|AGOT|11}} and soft white skin.{{ref|AGOT|36}} Her soft{{ref|ACOK|12}} blond hair{{ref|AGOT|23}} is fair{{ref|AGOT|11}} and golden.{{ref|ACOK|12}} At the start of the series, she is almost twenty.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}

Doreah is an attentive{{ref|AGOT|54}} handmaid experienced in [[pillow house|pillow tricks]]{{ref|AGOT|6}} and the arts of love.{{ref|AGOT|11}}

==History==
Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] found Doreah in a [[pleasure house]] in [[Lys]]. [[Viserys Targaryen]] bedded her while he was a guest at [[Illyrio's manse]] in [[Pentos]].{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Doreah, [[Irri]], and [[Jhiqui]], are given to [[Daenerys Targaryen]] as [[wedding of Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen|wedding gifts]] to serve as her handmaidens; Doreah is to instruct the young bride in the "womanly" arts of love.{{Ref|AGOT|11}} Daenerys remembers Doreah's lessons when she sleeps with Khal [[Drogo]].{{ref|AGOT|23}}{{ref|AGOT|36}}

[[Viserys Targaryen]] is usually kinder to Doreah than to Daenerys's [[Dothraki]] handmaids, and Daenerys has the Lyseni sew a fine sandsilk cloak for her brother. When Daenerys sends Doreah to bring Viserys to dinner, however, he strikes the handmaid. Daenerys then offers the cloak to her brother, but Viserys refuses to wear the Dothraki garb.{{ref|AGOT|36}}

Doreah drapes Daenerys in a scented sandsilk robe after she has sex with Drogo by the [[Womb of the World]].{{ref|AGOT|46}}

The handmaid accompanies Daenerys when she visits the Western Market of [[Vaes Dothrak]]. At a [[magic]]ian's booth, Daenerys purchases a fertility charm for Doreah. When a wineseller attacks Daenerys, Doreah prevents the pregnant girl from falling on her belly.{{ref|AGOT|54}}

Daenerys claims [[Eroeh]] and tasks Doreah with tending to her wounds.{{ref|AGOT|61}}

Daenaerys's handmaids help treat Drogo as the ''khal'' is dying.{{ref|AGOT|64}} Doreah washes and brushes Daenerys's hair in preparation for Drogo's funeral.{{ref|AGOT|72}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
After [[Drogo]]'s death, Daenerys takes what remains of her ''[[khalasar]]'' and marches out into the [[red waste]] in search of a safe place. On the march, Doreah dies of a wasting disease,.{{Ref|ACOK|12}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Daenerys, now [[Queen of Meereen]], uses Doreah's lessons when she sleeps with [[Daario Naharis]].{{ref|ADWD|43}} Having reluctantly reopened the [[fighting pits of Meereen]], Daenerys thinks of Doreah and other women she has lost.{{ref|ADWD|50}}

==Quotes by Doreah==
{{Quote|Once there were two [[moon]]s in the sky, but one wandered too close to the [[sun]] and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand [[dragon]]s poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons [[Dragonflame|breathe flame]].{{Ref|AGOT|23}}|Doreah to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

==Quotes about Doreah==
{{Quote|She's very good, [[Illyrio Mopatis|Illyrio]] and I can both swear to that.{{ref|AGOT|11}}|[[Viserys Targaryen]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{Quote|The [[Lys]]ene girl had hair the color of [[honey]], and eyes like the summer sky.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}|thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

==References==
{{References}}

==External Links==
* [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Doreah Doreah] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki]

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Pleasure house

2026-03-22T00:33:30Z

Dancing Maester:

[[File:HBO Lys season 2 pleasure house.png|thumb|350px|right|A pleasure house in [[Lys]], from ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Blu-ray]]
'''Pleasure houses'''{{Ref|ADWD|1}}, '''pleasure gardens'''{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Policy, Progeny, and Pain}} or '''pillow houses'''{{Ref|ADWD|5}} are different terms used throughout the [[known world]] to refer to [[brothel]]s that are typically of high quality.

==Culture==
[[Lys]] is full of pleasure houses catering to every taste, no matter how peculiar.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh}} One in particular is famed for its [[Naath]]i girls, who are clad in diaphanous [[silk]]en gowns and adorned with gaily painted [[butterfly]] wings.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Beyond the Free Cities: Naath}}

[[Summer Islands|Summer Islanders]] held the belief that no shame can be found in pillow houses.{{Ref|ACOK|15}}

In [[Ghiscari]] culture, [[Red Graces]] wait for patrons at snuggeries in pleasure gardens at the [[Temple of the Graces]].{{ref|ADWD|68}} Girls of noble birth too young to serve their year in the pleasure gardens serve instead as [[White Graces]].{{ref|ADWD|23}}

==History==
Sometime after fleeing [[Westeros]], Princess [[Saera Targaryen]] became the owner of a famous pleasure house in [[Old Volantis]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I}}{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

During the tilme of the [[Triarchy]], Lysene captains took off women, girls, and comely young boys to serve in their pleasure gardens and pillow houses. One of these unfortunate women was the fifteen-year-old [[Johanna Swann]], niece of the [[Lord of Stonehelm]].{{Ref|FAB|Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession}}

The wealthy [[House Rogare|Rogare family]] owned a famous pleasure house, the [[Perfumed Garden]], before their downfall in {{Date|135}}.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}

[[Doreah]] and [[Serra]] were both bought by Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in Lysene pleasure houses.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}{{Ref|ADWD|5}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Obara Sand]] claims the whores in the pillow houses of [[Dorne]] mourn the death of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] so much that they are working for free.{{Ref|AFFC|2}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
The [[Yunkai]]i galley ''[[Willing Maiden]]'' contains twenty perfumed boy and eighty girl [[slaves]] to be trained in the pleasure houses of Lys when the [[Iron Fleet]] captures it.{{Ref|ADWD|63}}

==References==
{{References|2}}

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Doreah

2026-03-22T00:30:29Z

Dancing Maester:

{{Hatnote|For the Sand Snake, see [[Dorea Sand]].}}
{{Infobox character
| firstname = Doreah
| lastname =
| arms = Lys
| image = Doreah.jpg
| image_caption = Art by Foolish-Arethousa
| Alias =
| Title =
| Allegiance = Khal [[Drogo]]'s ''khalasar'' [[House Targaryen]]
| Race =
| Culture = [[Lys]]ene
| Spouse =
| Place_of_Birth = [[Lys]]{{Ref|AWOIAF|Doreah}}
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|278}} or {{Date|279}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Doreah|Doreah]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death = the [[red waste]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|299}}
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = Roxanne McKee
| TV_series = ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|2]]
}}

'''Doreah''' is a [[Lys]]ene [[handmaid]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]].

In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Doreah is portrayed by [[w:Roxanne McKee|Roxanne McKee]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Doreah|Images of Doreah]]''
Doreah has blue eyes{{Ref|AGOT|11}} and soft white skin.{{ref|AGOT|36}} Her soft{{ref|ACOK|12}} blond hair{{ref|AGOT|23}} is fair{{ref|AGOT|11}} and golden.{{ref|ACOK|12}} At the start of the series, she is almost twenty.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}

Doreah is an attentive{{ref|AGOT|54}} handmaid experienced in [[pillow house|pillow tricks]]{{ref|AGOT|6}} and the arts of love.{{ref|AGOT|11}}

==History==
Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] found Doreah in a [[pleasure house]] in [[Lys]]. [[Viserys Targaryen]] bedded her while he was a guest at [[Illyrio's manse]] in [[Pentos]].{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Doreah, [[Irri]], and [[Jhiqui]], are given to [[Daenerys Targaryen]] as [[wedding of Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen|wedding gifts]] to serve as her handmaidens; Doreah is to instruct the young bride in the "womanly" arts of love.{{Ref|AGOT|11}} Daenerys remembers Doreah's lessons when she sleeps with Khal [[Drogo]].{{ref|AGOT|23}}{{ref|AGOT|36}}

[[Viserys Targaryen]] is usually kinder to Doreah than to Daenerys's [[Dothraki]] handmaids, and Daenerys has the Lyseni sew a fine sandsilk cloak for her brother. When Daenerys sends Doreah to bring Viserys to dinner, however, he strikes the handmaid. Daenerys then offers the cloak to her brother, but Viserys refuses to wear the Dothraki garb.{{ref|AGOT|36}}

Doreah drapes Daenerys in a scented sandsilk robe after she has sex with Drogo by the [[Womb of the World]].{{ref|AGOT|46}}

The handmaid accompanies Daenerys when she visits the Western Market of [[Vaes Dothrak]]. At a [[magic]]ian's booth, Daenerys purchases a fertility charm for Doreah. When a wineseller attacks Daenerys, Doreah prevents the pregnant girl from falling on her belly.{{ref|AGOT|54}}

Daenerys claims [[Eroeh]] and tasks Doreah with tending to her wounds.{{ref|AGOT|61}}

Daenaerys's handmaids help treat Drogo as the ''khal'' is dying.{{ref|AGOT|64}} Doreah washes and brushes Daenerys's hair in preparation for Drogo's funeral.{{ref|AGOT|72}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
After [[Drogo]]'s death, Daenerys takes what remains of her ''[[khalasar]]'' and marches out into the [[red waste]] in search of a safe place. On the march, Doreah dies of a wasting disease,.{{Ref|ACOK|12}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Daenerys, now [[Queen of Meereen]], uses Doreah's lessons when she sleeps with [[Daario Naharis]].{{ref|ADWD|43}} Having reluctantly reopened the [[fighting pits of Meereen]], Daenerys thinks of Doreah and other women she has lost.{{ref|ADWD|50}}

==Quotes by Doreah==
{{Quote|Once there were two [[moon]]s in the sky, but one wandered too close to the [[sun]] and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand [[dragon]]s poured forth, and drunk the fire of the sun. That is why dragons [[Dragonflame|breathe flame]].{{Ref|AGOT|23}}|Doreah to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

==Quotes about Doreah==
{{Quote|She's very good, [[Illyrio Mopatis|Illyrio]] and I can both swear to that.{{ref|AGOT|11}}|[[Viserys Targaryen]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{Quote|The [[Lys]]ene girl had hair the color of [[honey]], and eyes like the summer sky.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}|thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Doreah Doreah] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki]

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Randyll Tarly

2025-10-01T01:40:17Z

Dancing Maester: Sentence was ambiguous/misleading, sounds like he was to be killed shortly after his arrival at the Wall.

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| lastname = Tarly
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| image_caption = Randyll Tarly - by Sardag ©
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| Title = [[Lord of Horn Hill]] [[Justiciar]] [[Master of laws]]
| Allegiance = [[House Tarly]]
| Race =
| Culture = [[Dornish Marches|Marcher]]
| Spouse = Lady [[Melessa Florent]]
| Issue = [[Samwell Tarly]] [[Talla Tarly]] Two daughters [[Dickon Tarly]]
| Place_of_Birth = [[Horn Hill]]{{Ref|AWOIAF|Randyll Tarly}}
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| Place_of_Death =
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| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appears)
| Played_by = [[w:James Faulkner (actor)|James Faulkner]]
| TV_series = ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': [[Game of Thrones - Season 6|Season 6]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 7|7]]
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[[File:Randyll Tarly TheMico.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Randyll Tarly by TheMico ©]]

'''Randyll Tarly''' is Lord of [[Horn Hill]] and head of [[House Tarly]]. He is married to Lady [[Melessa Florent]], and is the father of the [[POV character]] [[Samwell Tarly]]. Randyll wields the Tarly ancestral blade [[Heartsbane]], a [[Valyrian steel]] greatsword, in battle.

In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Randyll is portrayed by [[w:James Faulkner (actor)|James Faulkner]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Randyll Tarly|Images of Randyll Tarly]]''
Randyll is a lean and balding man with a short, bristly grey beard.{{Ref|ACOK|22}}{{Ref|ACOK|65}}

Hard, narrow-minded, and shrewd,{{ref|AWOIAF|Randyll Tarly}}{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}} Randyll is blunt of speech.{{ref|ACOK|22}} He is misogynistic and a harsh disciplinarian,{{ref|AFFC|14}} and he believes in putting idle men to work.{{ref|AFFC|14}} Lord Tarly is not well liked in [[Oldtown]].{{ref|AFFC|45}} Randyll follows the [[Faith of the Seven]].{{ref|AGOT|48}}

A careful tactician{{ref|ACOK|33}} always in the van of his liege, Lord [[Mace Tyrell]],{{ref|AFFC|29}} Randyll is considered an able soldier by [[Stannis Baratheon]]{{ref|ASOS|78}} and the finest soldier in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] by Ser [[Kevan Lannister]].{{Ref|AFFC|7}} Lord Tarly prizes courage and martial ability, which causes him to despise his elder son, [[Samwell Tarly|Samwell]], because of his cowardice and softness, and strongly favor his younger son, [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]], who is much more fierce and robust.{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

In the field Randyll wears mail and boiled leather with a breastplate of grey [[steel]].{{Ref|AFFC|14}} He carries the ancestral [[Valyrian steel]] sword [[Heartsbane]] across his back in a [[Jewelry|jeweled]] scabbard.{{Ref|ACOK|65}} Ser [[Hyle Hunt]] is one of his [[household knight]]s{{ref|AFFC|42}} and captains.{{ref|AFFC|14}}

==History==
Randyll married Lady [[Melessa Florent]], the eldest daughter of [[Alester Florent]], [[Lord of Brightwater Keep]].{{Ref|ASOS|Appendix}} Their first-born child, [[Samwell Tarly|Samwell]], was born in {{Date|283}}.<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Samwell Tarly|Samwell Tarly]] calculation.''</ref> They would later have three daughters, born within three years time, and a second son, [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]].{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

As one of Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]'s bannermen, Randyll fought in [[Robert's Rebellion]] on the side of [[House Targaryen]]. He defeated Lord [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert Baratheon]]'s forces at the [[Battle of Ashford]],{{Ref|ASOS|78}} cutting down [[Lord Cafferen]] with [[Heartsbane]] during the battle.{{Ref|ASOS|36}}{{ref|ASOS|78}}

Randyll insisted that young Sam attend him while holding court in the audience chamber at [[Horn Hill]], and he brought Sam to [[Highgarden]] during a visit to see Mace.{{ref|AGOT|48}} A martinet, Randyll became disappointed in his gentle, timid firstborn son and made several harsh attempts to engage him in manly, martial pursuits, but all to no effect.{{Ref|AGOT|26}} A dozen masters-at-arms failed to toughen Sam. Attempts such as dressing him in his mother's clothes, forcing him to sleep in chainmail, and even being bathed in [[aurochs]] blood by two [[warlocks]] of [[Qarth]] failed to raise his valor. Samwell even wept to see a chicken slaughtered.{{Ref|AGOT|26}} When Lord Tarly threw Sam into Horn Hill's fishpond to teach him to swim, Ser [[Hyle Hunt]] had to rescue the boy.{{Ref|AFFC|15}}

Randyll forbade Sam from sleeping in the same bed as his sisters,{{ref|ASOS|46}} and he reprimanded Sam and his mother when he heard them singing "[[The Song of the Seven]]" to the infant Dickon.{{ref|ASOS|46}} Randyll began to ignore Samwell, leaving him to his own devices and paying more attention to Dickon after his second son was born.{{ref|AGOT|26}}

When Sam was no more than ten, Lord Tarly brought his heir with him to the [[Arbor]], where Samwell was mocked endlessly by [[Horas Redwyne|Horas]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] as well as by the fool of [[House Redwyne]]. Randyll had planned to leave his son at the Arbor as Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]]'s page and squire, but he instead brought Samwell back to Horn Hill with him.{{Ref|AFFC|15}} Randyll forbade Sam from traveling to [[Oldtown]] to study at the [[Citadel]], horrified at the notion of a member of [[House Tarly]] wearing a [[maester]]'s chain. To discourage the boy, Randyll had Sam chained and manacled to a wall for three days.{{Ref|AFFC|15}}

When Samwell turned fifteen, three men-at-arms escorted him to his father in a nearby forest. While skinning a deer, Randyll offered his eldest son the choice of either joining the [[Night's Watch]], thereby nullifying his claim to Horn Hill and allowing Dickon to become Randyll's lawful heir, or dying in a supposed accident while hunting the following day. Sam agreed to leave for the [[Wall]].{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Randyll has men escort his eldest son, [[Samwell Tarly]], to [[Castle Black]]. Shortly after his arrival at the [[Wall]], Sam tells his new friend, [[Jon Snow]], how Randyll gave him the choice between joining the [[Night's Watch]] and death.{{Ref|AGOT|26}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
When [[Renly Baratheon]] calls his banners, Randyll joins with [[House Tyrell]] in supporting Renly.{{Ref|ACOK|22}} While encamped by [[Highgarden]], Randyll is told by his son and heir, [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]], of a cruel game that several knights are playing on [[Brienne of Tarth]]. Randyll summons Brienne and tells her that some of the men laid wagers on the first to claim her [[maidenhead]]. He then tersely advises her that women have no place on the battlefield.{{Ref|AFFC|14}}

Lord Tarly is hosting Renly at [[Horn Hill]] when they receive [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s letter claiming that the late King [[Robert I Baratheon]]'s children are [[bastard]]s.{{Ref|ACOK|31}} Randyll accompanies Renly's army to [[Bitterbridge]], and he meets [[Catelyn Stark]] when she arrives during the [[melee at Bitterbridge]].{{Ref|ACOK|22}}

After the parley with Stannis beneath the walls of [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|Storm's End]], Lord Tarly counsels attacking Stannis to make sure he gains no strength while Renly is away.{{Ref|ACOK|31}} Randyll and Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] discuss tactics for the upcoming battle. Before it can take place, however, [[Shadow assassin|Renly is assassinated]].{{Ref|ACOK|33}}

Randyll continues to follow the Tyrells in forsaking Stannis's cause.{{Ref|ACOK|36}} He captures Renly's stores and puts a great many men to death, mainly those sworn to [[House Florent]], his wife's family, in [[fighting at Bitterbridge]].{{Ref|ACOK|44}}

Randyll is sent out with Lord Rowan to find Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and bring him to [[Tumbler's Falls]] where Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] is waiting with a huge host and a fleet of barges.{{Ref|ASOS|14}} Once again following the lead of his liege lord, Lord Tarly joins with the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] and fights against Stannis, commanding the center at the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].{{Ref|ACOK|62}} Randyll is honored in the [[Great Hall (Red Keep)|throne room]] after the battle.{{ref|ACOK|65}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Patrick McEvoyRandyl Tarly.png|thumb|350px|Randyll with [[Heartsbane]], by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The [[small council]] of King Joffrey awards lesser tracts of land to Lord Tarly, Lady [[Arwyn Oakheart]], and Lord [[Leyton Hightower]] as rewards for the Blackwater.{{ref|ASOS|19}}

Randyll [[battle at Duskendale|destroys]] a [[north]]ern force attacking the town of [[Duskendale]], resulting in the capture of [[Harrion Karstark]] and [[Robett Glover]] and the death of [[Helman Tallhart]].{{Ref|ASOS|4}} Afterwards, he takes the town of [[Maidenpool]] with Lord [[Renfred Rykker]], locks Lord [[William Mooton]] of Maidenpool in a tower, and secures the [[kingsroad]].{{Ref|ASOS|60}}{{Ref|ASOS|74}}{{Ref|AFFC|9}}

At Castle Black, Samwell suggests to Jon that [[Gilly]] and [[Monster|her son]] could be sent to live with his family at [[Horn Hill]] under the false belief that the baby was fathered by him. Sam thinks Randyll might be secretly proud of his son fathering a [[bastard]] with the [[wildling]] girl, but Jon is skeptical of the idea.{{ref|ASOS|75}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Gilly]] accompanies Samwell when he departs the [[Wall]] for [[Oldtown]] to study at the [[Citadel]]. Though he is nervous about possibly seeing his father, Sam hopes Gilly can become a serving maid at Horn Hill.{{ref|AFFC|15}}

Randyll and Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] are suggested by Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] as good candidates to replace his late brother, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], as [[Hand of the King]]. Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] refuses to name a [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] bannerman as Hand, however, failing to understand that such a move would actually weaken the Tyrells by placing one of their most powerful bannermen in a position of authority higher than Lord Mace.{{Ref|AFFC|7}}

Randyll begins rebuilding Maidenpool, and he beheads [[outlaws]] with [[Heartsbane]].{{ref|AFFC|14}} His son [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]] is to marry [[Eleanor Mooton]], the daughter of the pardoned Lord William.{{ref|AFFC|14}}

Brienne encounters Lord Tarly again while he is dispensing harsh justice in the fishmarket of Maidenpool. He decides that a thief whole stole from an abandoned [[sept]] should have seven fingers removed from his hand, and he orders the lashing of a baker unable to pay a heavy fine of fifty [[currency|stags]] for mixing sawdust in his flour. A [[whore]] accused of giving the [[pox]] to four Tarly soldiers is to be imprisoned and having her private parts washed with lye. Randyll orders an archer from the [[House Mooton|Mooton]] garrison, accused of cheating at dice, to have the little finger of one his hands removed and a nail driven through his other hand. Randyll admonishes Brienne for having let [[Renly Baratheon]] die and for her non-traditional behavior, but he allows her to leave after reading her letter from King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]].{{Ref|AFFC|14}}

Randyll sends Ser [[Hyle Hunt]], one of his captains, to follow an unknowing Brienne in her search for [[Sansa Stark]], and to bring Sansa back to Maidenpool if Brienne is successful.{{ref|AFFC|20}} Brienne kills [[Pyg]], [[Timeon]], and [[Shagwell]], former [[Brave Companions]], at the [[Whispers]], and Hyle helps her bury [[Dick Crabb]].{{ref|AFFC|20}}

When Brienne returns to Maidenpool, Hyle brings the outlaws' heads with them so they can be displayed on the walls. Lord Randyll in incredulous when Hyle tells him about Brienne killing the outlaws, and he attributes her victory to her [[Valyrian steel]] sword, [[Oathkeeper]]. He complains that he has executed many outlaws, but cannot find their leaders. Randyll is dismissive of Brienne's missions and forbids her from returning to Maidenpool while he is there.{{Ref|AFFC|25}}

The [[Elder Brother (Quiet Isle)|Elder Brother]] of the [[Quiet Isle]] tells Brienne that Lord Tarly is hunting outlaws from Maidenpool.{{ref|AFFC|31}} When Brienne is held captive by the [[brotherhood without banners]], [[Jack-Be-Lucky]] says that Lord Tarly has hanged a score of his comrades.{{ref|AFFC|42}} Once word of the imprisonment of [[Margaery Tyrell]] reaches Randyll, he marches his army to [[King's Landing]].{{Ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Dickon has married Eleanor.{{ref|ADWD|Appendix}} Randyll recounts that when some of the [[Mountain's men]] began committing crimes in Maidenpool, he had to hang a murderer and geld a rapist.{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}

Randyll's army reaches King's Landing before his liege lord, [[Mace Tyrell]]. The [[Faith of the Seven|Faith]] releases [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her cousins into his custody after Lord Tarly swears a holy oath to return them for trial. To try and undo the damage [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] did to the Tyrell and Lannister alliance, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], now the Lord Regent, makes Randyll the new [[justiciar]] on King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]]'s [[small council]] and restores the title of [[master of laws]].{{Ref|ADWD|54}} Randyll makes a list of knights who could replace the late Ser [[Arys Oakheart]] on the [[Kingsguard]],{{ref|ADWD|54}} but Ser [[Robert Strong]] is chosen instead.{{ref|ADWD|65}}

When news of the [[taking of Griffin's Roost]] and the [[landing of the Golden Company]] arrive at the capital, Randyll expresses doubts about the identity of Lord [[Jon Connington]] as well as that of his [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] pretender, dismissing [[Aegon Targaryen (Young Griff)|Aegon]] as a "feigned boy". He is also dismissive of the [[sparrows]] who have overtaken the Faith. Kevan thinks that Randyll is more dangerous than Mace Tyrell, the new [[Hand of the King]].{{Ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}

==Quotes by Randyll==
[[File:RandyllTarly_by_Kevin_McCoy.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Randyll with [[Heartsbane]], by Kevin McCoy ©]]
{{Quote|You are almost a man grown now, and my heir. You have given me no cause to disown you, but neither will I allow you to inherit [[Horn Hill|the land]] and [[Lord of Horn Hill|title]] that should be [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon's]]. [[Heartsbane]] must go to a man strong enough to wield her, and you are not worthy to touch her hilt. So I have decided that you shall this day announce that you wish to [[take the black]]. You will forsake all claim to your brother's inheritance and start north before evenfall.{{ref|AGOT|26}}|Randyll to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|'''Randyll''': No disrespect to you, Lady Stark, but it would have been more seemly had Lord [[Robb Stark|Robb]] come to pay homage to [[Renly Baratheon|the king]] himself, rather than hiding behind his mother's skirts. 
'''Catelyn''': [[King in the North|King]] Robb is warring, my lord, not playing at [[melee at Bitterbridge|tourney]]. 
'''Renly''': Go softly, Lord Randyll, I fear you're overmatched.{{Ref|ACOK|22}}|Randyll, [[Catelyn Stark]], and [[Renly Baratheon]]}}

{{Quote|I say that [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] is a danger to you, leave him unblooded and he will only grow stronger, while your own power is diminished by battle. The [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] will not be beaten in a day. By the time you are done with them, Lord Stannis may be as strong as you ... or stronger.{{Ref|ACOK|31}}|Randyll to [[Renly Baratheon]]}}

{{Quote|It takes more than a [[Rainbow Guard|pretty cloak]] to charge a shield wall. [[Battle of Ashford|I was leading]] [[Mace Tyrell]]'s van when you were still sucking on your mother's teat, Guyard.{{Ref|ACOK|31}}|Randyll to [[Guyard Morrigen]]}}

{{Quote|You ruined [[Samwell Tarly|one boy]] with those soft [[septon]]'s songs, do you mean to do the same to [[Dickon Tarly|this babe]]?{{ref|ASOS|46}}|Randyll to [[Melessa Florent]]}}

{{Quote|No son of [[House Tarly]] will ever wear [[maesters|a chain]]. The men of [[Horn Hill]] do not bow and scrape to petty [[lord]]s.{{ref|AFFC|5}}|Randyll to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|'''Brienne''': I came to fight. To be a [[knight]]. 
'''Randyll''': [[Faith of the Seven|The gods]] made men to fight, and women to bear children. A woman's war is in the birthing bed.{{Ref|AFFC|14}}|[[Brienne Tarth]] and Randyll}}

{{Quote|What have we become, when [[king]]s and high [[lord]]s must dance to the twittering of [[sparrows]]?{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}|Randyll to [[Kevan Lannister]]}}

==Quotes about Randyll==
{{Quote|He wondered what his father would say if he could see him now. I killed one of the [[Others]], my lord, he imagined saying. I stabbed him with an [[obsidian]] dagger, and my [[Night's Watch|Sworn Brothers]] call me Sam the Slayer now. But even in his fancies, Lord Randyll only scowled, disbelieving.{{ref|ASOS|46}}|thoughts of [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|'''Stannis''': Your father is an able soldier. He defeated [[Robert I Baratheon|my brother]] once, at [[Battle of Ashford|Ashford]]. [[Mace Tyrell]] has been pleased to claim the honors for that victory, but Lord Randyll had decided matters before Tyrell ever found the battlefield. He slew [[Lord Cafferen]] with [[Heartsbane|that great Valyrian sword]] of his and sent his head to [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]]. You are not the sort of son I would expect such a man to have. 
'''Samwell''': I ... I am not the sort of son he wanted, sire.{{ref|ASOS|78}}|[[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|The sight of blood might make Sam faint, but he knew how wars were won. His own father had seen to that.{{ref|AFFC|5}}|thoughts of [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{Quote|Randyll Tarly is the finest soldier in [[Seven Kingdoms|the realm]]. A poor [[Hand of the King|Hand]] for peacetime, but with [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] dead there's no better man to finish [[War of the Five Kings|this war]].{{Ref|AFFC|7}}|[[Kevan Lannister]] to [[Cersei Lannister]]}}

{{Quote|'''Dunstan''': Lord Tarly bears the greatsword [[Heartsbane]], forged of [[Valyrian steel]], and he is always in Lord [[Mace Tyrell|Tyrell's]] van. 
'''Victarion''': Let him come. I will take his sword for mine own, as your own forebear took [[Red Rain]].{{ref|AFFC|29}}|[[Dunstan Drumm]] and [[Victarion Greyjoy]]}}

{{Quote|Tarly is the real danger. A narrow man, but iron-willed and shrewd, and as good a soldier as the [[Reach]] could boast.{{Ref|ADWD|epilogue}}|[[Kevan Lannister]]'s thoughts}}

==Family==
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Aegon, Rhaenys, and Visenya (islands)

2022-08-28T21:15:11Z

Dancing Maester:

{{See homonyms|Aegon|Rhaenys}}

The islands '''Aegon, Rhaenys, and Visenya''' are a small grouping of islands in the [[Summer Sea]] that were discovered in {{Date|56}} by Lady [[Alys Westhill]]. They are the most westerly lands ever discovered in the [[known world]], even farther west than [[Lonely Light]].{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

==Geography==
The islands are located several weeks' travel away from [[Oldtown]], slightly farther south than the latitude of the [[Summer Isles]], and at a longitude farther west than even [[Lonely Light]]. The islands are very small, with a combined land area no larger than [[Dragonstone]]; the largest of the islands is no more than a third the size of Dragonstone itself. [[Alys Westhill]] described them as "''a mountain attended by two hills''".{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

The islands are pleasant and bountiful. Springs and streams provide plentiful fresh water. The islands are uninhabited but for the wildlife, including wild pigs and huge, sluggish grey lizards as big as [[deer]], whose bites can cause severe infections. The trees are heavy with edible nuts and fruits unknown in other lands.{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

==History==
The three islands went, as far as is known, undiscovered by men for most of history, due to the fact that they are located far to the west across the open ocean, far away from any shipping lanes. In {{Date|56}}, Lady [[Alys Westhill]] led an expedition on her ship, the ''[[Sun Chaser]]'', accompanied by the ships ''[[Lady Meredith]]'' and ''[[Autumn Moon]]''. The expedition stumbled onto the three islands by accident. The three ships had been caught in a devastating storm that sank ''Autumn Moon'', while blowing ''Sun Chaser'' farther west. There, after the storm had passed, the crew spotted shore birds and followed them to land. ''Sun Chaser'' recovered the badly damaged ''Lady Meredith'' and brought her to the islands, where they remained for a fortnight making repairs and restocking their provisions. As the islands are on no known chart and there were three of them, Lady Alys Westhill named the islands Aegon, Rhaenys, and Visenya, after the [[Aegon I Targaryen|Conqueror]] and his two queens.{{Ref|FAB|The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain}}

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Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)

2019-06-27T08:57:10Z

Dancing Maester:

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| Alias = Aemon Targaryen Uncle Maester
| Title = Prince [[Maester]] at [[Dragonstone]]{{Ref|ACOK|6}} (formerly) [[Maester]] at [[Castle Black]]{{Ref|AGOT|19}}
| Allegiance = [[House Targaryen]] The [[Citadel]] [[Night's Watch]]
| Race = [[Valyria]]n
| Culture = [[Crownlands]]
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| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|198}}{{Ref|awoiaf| Aemon}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aemon (Targaryen|Aemon (Targaryen)]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death = the ''[[Cinnamon Wind]]'', off the coast of [[Dorne]], at the [[Summer Sea]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|300}}
| Books = ''[[The World of Ice & Fire]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Hedge Knight]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Sworn Sword]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Mystery Knight]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appears)
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}}
:''"Aemon" redirects here. For other uses, see [[Aemon (disambiguation)]]. For other characters named "Aemon Targaryen", see [[Aemon Targaryen]].''

'''Aemon''', born '''Aemon Targaryen''', is the third son of King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] and his wife [[Dyanna Dayne]]. He has served as a [[maester]] to the [[Night's Watch]] at [[Castle Black]] for so long that the rest of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] has forgotten about his [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] blood. In the television series ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' he is portrayed by Peter Vaughan.

==Appearance and Character==
{{See also|:Category:Images of Aemon Targaryen|l1=Images of Aemon Targaryen}}
An ancient man of a hundred years old at the beginning of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Aemon is bald, wrinkled, shrunken, and blind.{{Ref|aGoT|21}} He speaks softly but his counsel is so valued and respected that many fall silent to hear it. Despite his age his mind is still sharp as is his hearing. Aemon is a wise, humble and capable man.

==History==
Aemon Targaryen was the third son of King [[Maekar I Targaryen]] and his wife, Lady [[Dyanna Dayne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}} He was [[named after]] his great-great-uncle, Prince [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon the Dragonknight]], by his grandfather, [[Daeron II Targaryen]].{{Ref|AGOT|60}} At this time, King Daeron II had four grown sons, three with sons of their own, and so felt that having too many potential Targaryen heirs was dangerous and sent Aemon to the [[Citadel]]{{Ref|AFFC|5}} around the age of nine or ten.{{Ref|ACOK|6}} At one point after his younger brother, [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], became the squire of the hedge knight [[Duncan the Tall]] the pair visited Aemon in Oldtown. Aemon measured Duncan's height.

Aemon forged his chain, and earned the title of Maester Aemon, finishing his studies at the age of 19.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Aemon}} He served an unidentified lord until his father, now King Maekar I, summoned him to court to serve the [[Iron Throne]]. Not wanting to sit on the [[small council]] as he felt that would displace the [[Grand Maester]], Aemon chose instead to serve at [[Dragonstone]], the seat of his eldest brother, Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Daeron]], until Daeron died of the pox.{{Ref|awoiaf| Aemon}} After Daeron's death, Maester Aemon became a maester at the Citadel. He was summoned to court for the [[Great Council]] of {{Date|233}}, where some wanted to offer him the crown. Aemon quietly refused, however, ceding rule to his younger brother, [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I}} [[Rhaelle Targaryen|Rhaelle]], Aegon's young daughter, referred to Aemon as "Uncle Maester".{{Ref|AFFC|35}}

[[File:Maester Aemon Castle Black.jpg|350px|left|thumb|Maester Aemon in [[Castle Black]] - by Amok ©]]

Aemon then chose to go to the [[Wall]] to take the vows of the [[Night's Watch]] for fear that he might be used in a plot to usurp his brother. On his journey King Aegon provided him with an "honor guard" (emptying the dungeons) to take the vows of the Night's Watch with him. Among them was [[Brynden Rivers]], who later went on to become Lord Commander of the Watch. Ser Duncan accompanied them aboard the ''[[Golden Dragon]]'' on the way to [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]].{{Ref|AFFC|15}}

[[Rhaegar Targaryen]] sometimes corresponded with his ancient great-great uncle via [[raven]] messages. Aemon claims that every man who has ever joined the Watch has been tested on keeping his vows at least once. Aemon stated that he was tested three times, and that the hardest time for him was hearing about the destruction of [[House Targaryen]] during the [[Robert's Rebellion|War of the Usurper]].{{Ref|aGoT|60}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Marc Simonetti jonandaemon.jpg|300px|thumb|Maester Aemon and [[Jon Snow]] on the [[Wall]] - by Marc Simonetti ©]]
Maester Aemon is present at the feast at [[Castle Black]] when [[Jeor Mormont]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], welcomes [[Tyrion Lannister]] to the [[Wall]]. Aemon recognizes the intelligence of Tyrion and describes him as "a giant come among us," rendering Tyrion, a [[dwarf]], uncharacteristically speechless.{{ref|aGoT|21}}

Aemon aids [[Jon Snow]] in helping his friend [[Samwell Tarly]] become a steward of the Night's Watch, fearing for the boy's safety if he remains a recruit under the brutal training of Ser [[Alliser Thorne]].{{ref|aGoT|41}}{{ref|aGoT|48}} Aemon counsels Jon Snow when he learns Jon's family is in danger, for he knew Jon was having thoughts of deserting to come to [[House Stark]]'s aid, just as Aemon had considered helping [[House Targaryen]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{ref|aGoT|60}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Aemon, being too old to accompany the [[great ranging]], remains at Castle Black. The duty of writing and sending messages falls to Sam Tarly. Jeor reveals much of Aemon's history to Jon, including the fact that Aemon could have been king, but refused the crown. Jeor has a very high opinion of Aemon and his abilities, an opinion Jon shares.{{ref|aCoK|6}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
When Jon returns to Castle Black, badly wounded by an arrow, Maester Aemon treats his injury; despite being blind, his hands are steady and he treats the wound successfully.{{ref|aSoS|48}} [[Donal Noye]] and Aemon hear and believe Jon's report of [[Thenns]] about to attack. When Donal is killed defending the gates from [[giants]], Aemon tells Jon he must lead the men while Aemon provides guidance to him and the other men of the Wall. Aemon also comes to Jon's defense when [[Janos Slynt]] and Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] want Jon executed for allegedly breaking his oaths and becoming a [[wildling]].{{ref|aSoS|69}} During [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s occupation of the Wall, Aemon is dubious of [[Melisandre]]'s claim that Stannis is [[Azor Ahai]] reborn.{{ref|aSoS|78}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Blackbird.jpg|300px|thumb|Maester Aemon and [[Samwell Tarly]] on the ''[[Blackbird]]'' - by zippo514 ©]]
Jon, the new Lord Commander, sends Aemon to [[Oldtown]] with Samwell Tarly and the wildling girl [[Gilly]], carrying [[Mance Rayder]]'s infant "wildling prince", to remove all "royal blood" from Melisandre's grasp. Jon fears that Melisandre might kill Aemon for his "king's blood" to use in a spell. However, the sea voyage on the ''[[Blackbird]]'' is hard for the old man and Sam struggles to tell him what to do, leaving him out on the deck, in the rain for too long whilst he is lost in his reminiscences. He is bedridden and near death when arriving at [[Braavos]].

Aemon, upon hearing of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and her [[dragon]]s, is convinced she is [[the prince that was promised]], the [[High Valyrian]] word for "dragon" being gender neutral.{{Ref|aFfC|35}} He curses his age, gutted that he is too old and feeble to seek her out to help with counsel and dragon lore—a fourth testing of his dual vows.{{ref|AFFC|35}}

During the voyage from Braavos to Oldtown Aemon dies of a chill at the age of one hundred and two.{{ref|AFFC|35}} His body is stored in a cask of rum aboard the ''[[Cinnamon Wind]]''.{{ref|AFFC|35}} Gilly decides to name the child of Mance and [[Dalla]] "Aemon Battleborn" or "[[Aemon Steelsong]]" in honor of the maester.{{ref|AFFC|35}}

Once at Oldtown, Sam informs Archmaester [[Marwyn]] of Aemon's passing and of Aemon's intention to help Daenerys. Marwyn immediately leaves the [[Ravenry]] to travel to Daenerys in [[Slaver's Bay]].{{ref|AFFC|45}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Jon reads about [[Azor Ahai]] and [[Lightbringer]] in the ''[[Jade Compendium]]'',{{ref|ADWD|10}} which Aemon left for Jon at Castle Black.{{ref|ADWD|7}} Jon thinks of Aemon's advice, to "kill the boy and let the man be born".{{Ref|ADWD|7}}{{ref|ADWD|69}} Jon has [[Alys Karstark]] rest in Aemon's chambers when the girl reaches Castle Black.{{ref|ADWD|44}}

==Quotes by Aemon==
{{Quote|I have been called many things, my lord, but kind is seldom one of them.{{Ref|aGoT|21}}|Aemon, to [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}

{{Quote|'''Aemon''': Jon, did you ever wonder ''why'' the men of the [[Night's Watch]] take no wives and father no children? 
'''Jon''': No. 
'''Aemon''': So they will not love, for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.{{ref|agot|60}}| Aemon and [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{Quote|What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.{{Ref|aGoT|60}}|Aemon, to [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{Quote|I see [[dragon|their shadows]] on the snow, hear the crack of leathern wings, feel their [[dragonfire|hot breath]].{{Ref|aFfC|26}}|Aemon, to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{quote|Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel, the same counsel that I once gave my brother when we parted for the last time. He was three-and-thirty when the [[Great Council]] chose him to mount the [[Iron Throne]]. A man grown with sons of his own, yet in some ways still a boy. [[Aegon V Targaryen|Egg]] had an innocence to him, a sweetness we all loved. Kill the boy within you, I told him the day I took ship for the [[Wall]]. It takes a man to rule. An [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon]], not an Egg. Kill the boy and let the man be born. You are half the age that Egg was, and your own burden is a crueler one, I fear. You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done. Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.{{ref|ADWD|7}}|Aemon, to [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{Quote|Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.{{ref|ADWD|7}}|Aemon, to [[Jon Snow]]}}

==Quotes about Aemon==
{{Quote|He was a good man... No. He was a great man. A [[maesters|maester]] of the [[Citadel]], chained and sworn, and Sworn Brother of the [[Night's Watch]], ever faithful. When he was born they named him for a [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|hero]] who had died too young, but though he lived a long long time, his own life was no less heroic. No man was wiser, or gentler, or kinder. At the [[Wall]], a dozen [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|lords commander]] came and went during his years of service, but he was always there to counsel them. He counseled kings as well. He could have been a king himself, but when they offered him the crown he told them they should give it to his [[Aegon V Targaryen|younger brother]]. How many men would do that? He was the [[House Targaryen|blood of the dragon]], but now his fire has gone out. He was Aemon Targaryen. And now his watch is ended.{{ref|AFFC|35}}|[[Samwell Tarly]]'s eulogy}}

{{quote|He was more than just the oldest living maester. He was the oldest man in [[Westeros]], and lived through more history than Archmaester [[Perestan]] has ever learned. He could have told us much and more about [[Maekar I Targaryen|his father's]] reign, and [[Aerys I Targaryen|his uncle's]].{{ref|AFFC|45}}|[[Alleras]], to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{quote|The world the [[Citadel]] is building has no place in it for [[magic|sorcery]] or [[prophecy]] or [[glass candle]]s, much less for [[dragon]]s. Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryen was allowed to waste his life upon the [[Wall]], when by rights he should have been raised to [[archmaester]]. [[House Targaryen|His blood]] was why. He could not be trusted. No more than I can.{{ref|AFFC|45}}|[[Marwyn]], to [[Samwell Tarly]]}}

{{quote|Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.{{ref|ADWD|10}}|[[Clydas]], to [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{quote|Aemon Targaryen had seen nine kings upon the [[Iron Throne]]. He had been [[Maekar I Targaryen|a king's son]], [[Aegon V Targaryen|a king's brother]], a [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|king's uncle]].{{ref|ADWD|10}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}

==Family==
{{Targaryen tree Daeron II}}

==References==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|House Targaryen|small=yes}}

==External links==
* [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Aemon Aemon] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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Gerold Dayne

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Dancing Maester:

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| image_caption = Darkstar by Bella Bergolts ©
| Alias = Darkstar
| Title = [[knight|Ser]] [[Knight of High Hermitage]]{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
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Ser '''Gerold Dayne''', known as '''Darkstar''', is the [[Knight of High Hermitage]]. [[House Dayne of High Hermitage|His house]] is a cadet branch of the [[House Dayne|Daynes]] of [[Starfall]].

==Appearance and Character==
{{See also|:Category:Images of Gerold Dayne|l1=Images of Gerold Dayne}}
Gerold is in his late twenties.{{ref|AWOIAF|Gerold Dayne}} A handsome man, he has a clean-shaven face with an aquiline nose, high cheekbones, dark [[purple eyes]], and a strong jaw. Gerold has collar-length thick silver hair, divided by a streak of midnight black.{{ref|AFFC|21}}

Despite his beauty and valor, Gerold is a cruel man with angry eyes. He is jealous of his famous cousin, the late Ser [[Arthur Dayne]], who was the [[Sword of the Morning]]. Darkstar wields a longsword. He prefers to drink unsweetened lemonwater instead of [[wine|summerwine]].{{ref|AFFC|21}}

==History==
At some point, Gerold was one of the lovers of [[Arianne Martell]].{{ref|AWOIAF|Gerold Dayne}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Darkstar_by_arkoniel.jpg|thumb|Darkstar by Mathia Arkoniel ©]]
Gerold allies himself with Princess [[Arianne Martell]] when she attempts to crown Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]] in place of her younger brother, King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]]. At [[Shandystone]], Arianne admits to her other conspirators that she only included Darkstar for his fighting prowess and his keep, [[High Hermitage]]. Gerold is skeptical of Arianne's plan to provoke Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|21}}

Arianne's party is surprised at the [[Greenblood]] by [[Areo Hotah]], who orders them to surrender. Gerold agrees since they are outnumbered, but Myrcella's bodygyard, Ser [[Arys Oakheart]] of the [[Kingsguard]], rides to his death in an attack on Areo. Amidst the fighting, Gerold attempts to kill Myrcella.{{ref|AFFC|21}} Her horse rears, however, and Darkstar succeeds only in slicing off her ear and scarring her face.{{ref|affc|21}} He escapes Areo's guards by riding into the sands of Dorne.{{ref|affc|40}}

Myrcella is taken to [[Sunspear]], where Maester [[Caleotte]] saves her life. Arianne ponders whether her plan had been betrayed by Darkstar or by another of her conspirators.{{ref|AFFC|40}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Sacha Angel Diener DarkstarII.jpg|thumb|Darkstar by Sacha Angel Diener © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Ser [[Balon Swann]] arrives at Sunspear with the [[Mountain's skull]]. Under Arianne's instruction, Myrcella has blamed Darkstar, not Areo, for the death of Arys.{{ref|ADWD|38}}{{ref|ADWD|54}} Arianne's father [[Doran Martell|Doran]], the [[Prince of Dorne]], sends [[Obara Sand]] with Balon to hunt Gerold at [[High Hermitage]].{{ref|ADWD|38}}{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}} Cersei thinks that Darkstar is a catspaw of her brother, [[Tyrion Lannister]], whom she already blames for the deaths of her first son, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]], and her father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]].{{ref|ADWD|54}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
{{Warning/twow}}
While traveling to the [[stormlands]], Arianne and Ser [[Daemon Sand]] discuss Gerold. Arianne feels that Obara and Areo can kill Darkstar, although Daemon is skeptical. Arianne is regretful for ever trusting Gerold, thinking that he was so handsome she had not believed half the stories told about him.<ref name=arianne1>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne I]]</ref>

==Quotes by Gerold==
[[File:Mathia Arkoniel DarkstarDayne.jpg|thumb|350px|Darkstar, by Mathia Arkoniel]]
{{Quote|If I led a quarter of a million men to death, would they call me Gerold the Great? I shall remain Darkstar, I think. At least it is mine own.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|Gerold to [[Garin (orphan)|Garin]]}}

{{Quote|I was weaned on venom, Dalt. Any viper takes a bite of me will rue it.{{ref|affc|21}}|Gerold to [[Andrey Dalt]]}}

{{Quote|'''Myrcella''': Are you the [[Sword of the Morning]] now? 
'''Gerold''': Men call me Darkstar, and I am of the night.{{ref|affc|21}}|[[Myrcella Baratheon]] and Gerold}}

==Quotes about Gerold==
{{quote|He is highborn enough to make a worthy consort, she thought. [[Doran Martell|Father]] would question my good sense, but our children would be as beautiful as [[dragonlords]]. If there was a handsomer man in [[Dorne]], she did not know him.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|By tradition the [[Kingsguard]] were the finest knights in all the [[Seven Kingdoms]] ... but Darkstar was Darkstar.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|You were a fool to make him part of this. Darkstar is the most dangerous man in [[Dorne]]. You and he have done us all great harm.{{ref|AFFC|40}}|[[Doran Martell]] to [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|Ser Gerold is more a viper than your uncle ever was. Prince [[Oberyn Martell|Oberyn]] could see that he was poison, he said so more than once. It's just a pity that he never got around to killing him.<ref name=arianne1/>|[[Daemon Sand]] to [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|Poison, yes. Pretty poison, though.<ref name=arianne1/>|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

==References==
{{References|2}}

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Gerold Dayne

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Dancing Maester: Fixed a dangling modifier

{{Infobox character
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| image_caption = Darkstar by Bella Bergolts ©
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| Title = [[knight|Ser]] [[Knight of High Hermitage]]{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
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Ser '''Gerold Dayne''', known as '''Darkstar''', is the [[Knight of High Hermitage]]. [[House Dayne of High Hermitage|His house]] is a cadet branch of the [[House Dayne|Daynes]] of [[Starfall]].

==Appearance and Character==
{{See also|:Category:Images of Gerold Dayne|l1=Images of Gerold Dayne}}
Gerold is in his late twenties.{{ref|AWOIAF|Gerold Dayne}} A handsome man, he has a clean-shaven face with an aquiline nose, high cheekbones, dark [[purple eyes]], and a strong jaw. Gerold has collar-length thick silver hair, divided by a streak of midnight black.{{ref|AFFC|21}}

Despite his beauty and valor, Gerold is a cruel man with angry eyes. He is jealous of his famous cousin, the late Ser [[Arthur Dayne]], who was the [[Sword of the Morning]]. Darkstar wields a longsword. He prefers to drink unsweetened lemonwater instead of [[wine|summerwine]].{{ref|AFFC|21}}

==History==
At some point, Gerold was one of the lovers of [[Arianne Martell]].{{ref|AWOIAF|Gerold Dayne}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Darkstar_by_arkoniel.jpg|thumb|Darkstar by Mathia Arkoniel ©]]
Gerold allies himself with Princess [[Arianne Martell]] when she attempts to crown Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]] in place of her younger brother, King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]]. At [[Shandystone]], Arianne admits to her other conspirators that she only included Darkstar for his fighting prowess and his keep, [[High Hermitage]]. Gerold is skeptical of Arianne's plan to provoke Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|21}}

Arianne's party is surprised at the [[Greenblood]] by [[Areo Hotah]], who orders them to surrender. Gerold agrees since they are outnumbered, but Myrcella's bodygyard, Ser [[Arys Oakheart]] of the [[Kingsguard]], rides to his death in an attack on Areo. Amidst the fighting, Gerold attempts to kill Myrcella.{{ref|AFFC|21}} Her horse rears, however, and Darkstar succeeds only in slicing off her ear and scarring her face.{{ref|affc|21}} He escapes Areo's guards by riding into the sands of Dorne.{{ref|affc|40}}

Myrcella is taken to [[Sunspear]], where Maester [[Caleotte]] saves her life. Arianne ponders whether her plan had been betrayed by Darkstar or by another of her conspirators.{{ref|AFFC|40}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Sacha Angel Diener DarkstarII.jpg|thumb|Darkstar by Sacha Angel Diener © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Ser [[Balon Swann]] arrives at Sunspear with the [[Mountain's skull]]. Under Arianne's instruction, Myrcella has blamed Darkstar for the death of Arys, not Areo.{{ref|ADWD|38}}{{ref|ADWD|54}} Arianne's father [[Doran Martell|Doran]], the [[Prince of Dorne]], sends [[Obara Sand]] with Balon to hunt Gerold at [[High Hermitage]].{{ref|ADWD|38}}{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}} Cersei thinks that Darkstar is a catspaw of her brother, [[Tyrion Lannister]], whom she already blames for the deaths of her first son, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]], and her father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]].{{ref|ADWD|54}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
{{Warning/twow}}
While traveling to the [[stormlands]], Arianne and Ser [[Daemon Sand]] discuss Gerold. Arianne feels that Obara and Areo can kill Darkstar, although Daemon is skeptical. Arianne is regretful for ever trusting Gerold, thinking that he was so handsome she had not believed half the stories told about him.<ref name=arianne1>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne I]]</ref>

==Quotes by Gerold==
[[File:Mathia Arkoniel DarkstarDayne.jpg|thumb|350px|Darkstar, by Mathia Arkoniel]]
{{Quote|If I led a quarter of a million men to death, would they call me Gerold the Great? I shall remain Darkstar, I think. At least it is mine own.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|Gerold to [[Garin (orphan)|Garin]]}}

{{Quote|I was weaned on venom, Dalt. Any viper takes a bite of me will rue it.{{ref|affc|21}}|Gerold to [[Andrey Dalt]]}}

{{Quote|'''Myrcella''': Are you the [[Sword of the Morning]] now? 
'''Gerold''': Men call me Darkstar, and I am of the night.{{ref|affc|21}}|[[Myrcella Baratheon]] and Gerold}}

==Quotes about Gerold==
{{quote|He is highborn enough to make a worthy consort, she thought. [[Doran Martell|Father]] would question my good sense, but our children would be as beautiful as [[dragonlords]]. If there was a handsomer man in [[Dorne]], she did not know him.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|By tradition the [[Kingsguard]] were the finest knights in all the [[Seven Kingdoms]] ... but Darkstar was Darkstar.{{ref|AFFC|21}}|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|You were a fool to make him part of this. Darkstar is the most dangerous man in [[Dorne]]. You and he have done us all great harm.{{ref|AFFC|40}}|[[Doran Martell]] to [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|Ser Gerold is more a viper than your uncle ever was. Prince [[Oberyn Martell|Oberyn]] could see that he was poison, he said so more than once. It's just a pity that he never got around to killing him.<ref name=arianne1/>|[[Daemon Sand]] to [[Arianne Martell]]}}

{{quote|Poison, yes. Pretty poison, though.<ref name=arianne1/>|thoughts of [[Arianne Martell]]}}

==References==
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Edric Dayne

2019-06-01T06:45:27Z

Dancing Maester: Minor clarification of language

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| image_caption = Edric Dayne, by Rae Lavergne©
| Alias = Ned
| Title = [[Lord of Starfall]]
| Allegiance = [[House Dayne]] [[brotherhood without banners]]
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| Culture = [[Dornishmen]]
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| Place_of_Birth= [[Starfall]]{{ref|awoiaf|Edric Dayne}}
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|287}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued)#Edric Dayne|Edric Dayne]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death=
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appendix) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appendix) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (appendix) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appendix)
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'''Edric Dayne''', also known as '''Ned''', is the [[Lord of Starfall]] and head of [[House Dayne]]. His father, whose name is unknown, was the elder brother of Ser [[Arthur Dayne|Arthur]], Lady [[Ashara Dayne|Ashara]], and Lady [[Allyria Dayne]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Edric Dayne|Images of Edric Dayne]]''
At the time of ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'', Edric is twelve years old.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}{{ref|ASOS|Appendix}} He is described as having pale blond hair, and dark blue eyes that appear almost purple.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} He wears a pale purple cloak. He is shy and good-natured, and very polite. He has never killed anyone.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}

==History==
[[File:Edric Dayne Dimitri Bielak.jpg|thumb|300px|Edric Dayne by Dimitri Bielak © FFG]]
Edric was born at [[Starfall]], in [[Dorne]], to Lord Dayne and his wife. Edric's mother did not have enough milk for him when he was born, so he was [[wet nurse|nursed]] by [[Wylla]], a servant at Starfall.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} At some point, Edric was told that Wylla was the mother of [[Eddard Stark]]'s [[bastard]], [[Jon Snow]]. When Edric was seven, his aunt [[Allyria Dayne|Allyria]] was betrothed to Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]], and Edric went to [[Blackhaven]] with Beric to serve as his page. Beric raised Edric to squire when he turned ten. He once won a prize riding at rings.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Edric Dayne.jpg|thumb|Edric Dayne, by Mustamirri ©]]
Edric is at the [[Hand's tourney]] in [[King's Landing]], where he sees Lord [[Eddard Stark]]. Edric wants to go and speak with him, but he does not know what to say. He also sees [[Sansa Stark]] at the tourney, when Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] gives her a rose.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}

As Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]]'s squire, Edric is part of the force sent by Eddard to the [[riverlands]] to apprehend Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].{{ref|agot|43}} After the force is ambushed in the [[battle at the Mummer's Ford]], Edric pulls the dying Beric out of the river and stands over the body while the battle rages around them.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Edric continues to squire for the revived Lord Beric, who establishes the [[brotherhood without banners]]. They move throughout the riverlands, fighting to protect [[smallfolk]] from the [[War of the Five Kings]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
When [[Arya Stark]] is taken by the brotherhood, she sees that Lord Beric has a young squire named Ned, who helps remove his breastplate. She is unnerved by hearing the name "Ned", the same as her father's. Ned brings Beric his sword, surcoat, and shield before Beric fights a duel with [[Sandor Clegane]]. After Beric is killed in the duel, [[Thoros of Myr]] has Ned help him with Beric's body before he revives him with the [[last kiss]].{{ref|ASOS|34}} Ned fights alongside Beric during the [[battle at the burning septry]].{{ref|ASOS|39}}

Ned attempts to befriend Arya, though she is wary, and her friend [[Gendry]] is scornful of their interactions. He tells her that he saw her [[Eddard Stark|father]] and [[Sansa Stark|sister]] at the [[Hand's tourney]]. Ned tells Arya that he and and her half-brother [[Jon Snow]] are [[milk brother]]s; that is, his [[wet nurse]] [[Wylla]], who has been a servant of [[House Dayne|his family]] for many years, is Jon's mother, and swears that this is true on the honor of his house.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} When Arya asks who he is, Ned reveals he is Lord Edric Dayne. Ned also tells Arya about his family, about how his aunt [[Ashara Dayne|Ashara]] committed suicide over her broken heart. He is surprised that Eddard Stark never spoke of her. He hesitantly tells Arya that his aunt [[Allyria Dayne|Allyria]] told him that Ashara and Eddard fell in love at the [[tourney at Harrenhal]]. Arya is upset to hear that her father might have loved someone besides her mother [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]], and though Edric tries to apologize, she does not want to hear it.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
After Beric's final death, Edric and several members of Beric's band go their separate ways from those who choose to follow the resurrected, vengeful [[Lady Stoneheart]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}{{ref|AWOIAF|Edric Dayne}}

==Family==
{{Dayne tree}}

==References==
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Petyr Baelish

2017-08-31T01:58:50Z

Dancing Maester: /* History */Fixed minor typo (“believe” for “belief”).

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| image = [[File:Sardag littlefinger.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption = Petyr Baelish by Sardag
| Alias = Littlefinger
| Title = [[Master of coin]] (formerly) [[Lord Paramount of the Trident]] [[Lord of Harrenhal]] [[Lord Protector of the Eyrie and the Vale of Arryn]]
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| Race =
| Culture = [[Vale of Arryn|Valemen]]
| Spouse = Lady [[Lysa Arryn]]
| Place_of_Birth = the [[Drearfort|Fingers]]
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|268}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued2)#Petyr Baelish|Petyr Baelish]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)
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| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Aidan Gillen,Petyr Baelish|Aidan Gillen]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 5|Season 5]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 6|Season 6]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 7|Season 7]]
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'''Petyr Baelish''', also called '''Littlefinger''', is the head of [[House Baelish]] of the [[Fingers]].{{Ref|AGOT|18}} He serves as [[master of coin]] on King [[Robert I Baratheon]]'s [[small council]].{{ref|agot|appendix}} Petyr wears a mockingbird as his personal crest instead of House Baelish's sigil, a titan's head.{{Ref|AGOT|18}}{{Ref|AGOT|29}}{{Ref|ASOS|68}} In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' he is played by [[w:Aidan Gillen|Aidan Gillen]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Petyr Baelish|Images of Petyr Baelish]]''

Petyr had been slight and short for his age as a boy, and nearing his thirties, he is still a short man of slender build. Petyr has sharp features, a small pointed beard on his chin, and dark hair with threads of grey running through it.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}{{Ref|AGOT|29}} He has laughing gray-green eyes;{{Ref|AGOT|18}}{{Ref|ACOK|15}} however, [[Sansa Stark]] notes that when Petyr laughs, his eyes do not.{{Ref|AGOT|29}} His breath is always fresh,{{Ref|ASOS|68}} smelling like mint,{{Ref|AGOT|29}} which he had enjoyed chewing as a boy.{{Ref|AGOT|71}}

Petyr had always been cunning and clever. As a child, he was bold, always getting into trouble,{{Ref|AGOT|71}} but was also capable of looking contrite after his mischiefs.{{Ref|AGOT|18}} While Petyr was born to the small and insignificant [[House Baelish]], he is a subtle and ambitious man,{{Ref|ASOS|19}}{{Ref|ACOK|17}} whose intelligence helped him advance in terms of power and status.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}} He possesses considerable skill in commerce and coin, as well as manipulation, and has a gift for political improvisation. He is often underestimated by many high lords due to his low birth.{{Ref|ACOK|17}} According to [[George R. R. Martin]], "Everybody trusts him because he seems powerless, and he's very friendly, and he's very helpful."<ref>blastr.com: [http://www.blastr.com/2013-12-2/which-thrones-character-changed-most-book-tv-grrm-explains Which Thrones character changed most from book to TV? GRRM explains (December 02, 2013)]</ref> Despite this, [[Tyrion Lannister]] considers Petyr to be a dangerous man.{{Ref|ACOK|15}}

==History==
===Early Life===
Petyr's [[Baelish (sellsword)|great-grandfather]] was a [[Braavosi]] [[sellsword]] in the service of Lord [[House Corbray|Corbray]]; when his [[Baelish (hedge knight)|son]] became a [[hedge knight]], he took the stone head of the [[Titan of Braavos]] as his sigil. Petyr's father, in turn, was the smallest of small lords of a few rocky acres on the smallest of the [[Fingers]],{{Ref|ACOK|17}} who befriended [[Hoster Tully]] during his service in the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]. This friendship led to Petyr being sent to be fostered at [[Riverrun]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}}<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/US_Signing_Tour_Half_Moon_Bay_CA/ US Signing Tour (Half Moon Bay, CA) (November 18, 2005)]</ref>

At Riverrun, Petyr was fostered as a ward and raised alongside Lord Hoster Tully's children, [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]], [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]] and [[Edmure Tully|Edmure]]. Because of his family holdings, and because of his short stature, Edmure gave him the nickname "Littlefinger", by which he is still called during the present times.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Petyr grew close to the Tully children,{{Ref|ACOK|17}} and used to play with Edmure{{ref|AFFC|44}} as well as Catelyn and Lysa; Catelyn recalls how she and Lysa once made mud pies, which Petyr ate, resulting in him being sick for a week.{{Ref|AGOT|28}} When he had a problem, Petyr went to Lord Hoster's brother, Ser [[Brynden Tully]], just as Lord Hoster's children were wont to do.{{Ref|AGOT|34}} Petyr accompanied Lord Hoster on at least one journey that he made, to [[Seagard]].{{Ref|ACOK|55}}{{Ref|ASOS|45}} As the children grew older, Petyr fell in love with Catelyn,{{Ref|AGOT|29}} who was several years his elder. She did not reciprocate those feelings, loving him as a brother instead.{{Ref|AGOT|18}}{{Ref|ACOK|55}} Catelyn's younger sister, Lysa, on the other hand, fell in love with Petyr.{{ref|ASOS|80}} Petyr would play at kissing with both Catelyn and Lysa in the [[godswood]] of [[Riverrun]], attempting to stick his tongue into their mouths - which Catelyn halted, but Lysa both allowed and enjoyed.{{Ref|AGOT|71}}

When Catelyn's betrothal to [[Brandon Stark]], the heir to [[Winterfell]], was announced,{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}} Lord [[House Bracken|Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood|Blackwood]] were at Riverrun, to settle a fued with Lord [[Hoster Tully]]'s help. Catelyn and Petyr danced six dances that night, but when he tried to kiss her, she pushed him away and laughed at him. Wounded by the rejection, Petyr got drunk, passed out at the table, and was brought to his bed by Ser [[Brynden Tully]]. Lysa snuck in after him, and gave Petyr her virginity that night. Still drunk, Petyr believed he was having sex with Catelyn, and even called out "Cat".{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}}{{Ref|ASOS|80}}

In {{Date|282}}, when the date of Catelyn's wedding was announced,{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}} Petyr, scarcely fifteen years old, challenged the twenty-year old Brandon Stark to a duel for her hand.{{Ref|AGOT|18}} He arrived with only a helm, breastplate and mail, leading to Brandon taking off most of his own armor. Petyr asked Catelyn for her favor to wear, but she refused, giving it to Brandon instead.{{Ref|ASOS|80}}{{Ref|AGOT|40}} Catelyn begged Brandon not to kill Petyr, to which he agreed. While Brandon offered Petyr multiple chances to yield, Petyr refused to give up. In the end, Petyr was staggering and bleeding from a dozen wounds, when Brandon ended the battle with a backhand cut so brutal Catelyn Tully was convinced it was mortal.{{Ref|AGOT|40}}

Petyr was given a fortnight to recover at [[Riverrun]], during which time Lysa helped care for him. Catelyn did not go to see him, and Petyr refused to see Edmure, who had served as Brandon's squire during the duel.{{Ref|AGOT|40}}{{Ref|ACOK|45}} During this fortnight, Petyr slept with Lysa again.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}} He would later claim to have taken the maidenhood of both Tully sisters, due to his belief that his first encounter with Lysa had actually been with Catelyn.{{Ref|ACOK|17}}{{Ref|ACOK|55}}{{Ref|AGOT|31}}

When the fortnight had passed and Petyr was strong enough, Lord Hoster sent Petyr away from Riverrun. Catelyn did not say goodbye to him.{{Ref|AGOT|40}} However, Lysa had become pregnant with Petyr's child as a result of their second sexual encounter. After Petyr had been send away, Lysa revealed her pregnancy to [[Hoster Tully|her father]], hoping he would relent and allow Lysa and Petyr to marry. Instead, Hoster, who had believed Petyr to be too lowborn,{{Ref|ASOS|68}} forced Lysa to drink [[moon tea]] to abort the pregnancy.{{Ref|aSoS|2}}

===Appointment to the small council===
Back at the [[Fingers]], Petyr sent Catelyn a single letter after the death of her betrothed, Brandon. However, she burned the letter without reading it, and they would not see each other for many years to come.{{Ref|aGoT|18}} Catelyn married [[Eddard Stark]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]],{{Ref|AGOT|2}}{{Ref|ASOS|2}} and went north to [[Winterfell]] after the conclusion of [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{Ref|AGOT|6}} Petyr used to dream about Wintefell, always imagining it as a dark and cold place.{{Ref|ASOS|80}}

Petyr did maintain a relationship with Lysa, even after her marriage to Lord [[Jon Arryn]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]]. Lysa convinced her husband to give Petyr control of customs at [[Gulltown]] around {{Date|289}}, where he increased incomes tenfold, displaying his skill with finances.{{Ref|ASOS|68}} Jon Arryn, [[Hand of the King]] for King [[Robert I Baratheon]], eventually brought Petyr to court in [[King's Landing]], and within three years, he was named [[master of coin]] and appointed to the [[small council]].{{Ref|aSoS|68}}{{Ref|ACOK|17}} There, he increased his influence by moving his own people in place, such as the four [[Keeper of the Keys|Keepers of the Keys]], the [[King's Counter]] and the [[King's Scales]], as well as harbor masters, toll collectors, and wine factors.{{Ref|ACOK|17}} Meanwhile, he also developed a complex web of loans, transactions, and investments, as to supply the King and the [[Hand of the King|King's Hand]] with enough gold,{{Ref|ACOK|17}} and bought several establishments (including several brothels).{{Ref|ACOK|15}}{{Ref|AGOT|20}}

During his time at court, Petyr continued his relationship with Lysa, who, as the wife to the Hand of the King, had been living in [[King's Landing]] as well.{{Ref|ASOS|68}}{{Ref|AWOIAF| Petyr Baelish}} When Lysa learns that her husband plans to send their son, [[Robert Arryn]], away to be fostered at [[Dragonstone]] by Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]], it is Petyr who provides her with the [[Tears of Lys|poison]] she uses to kill Lord Jon. He also convinces her to send a message to her sister Catelyn at [[Winterfell]], in which she accuses Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] and [[House Lannister|her family]] of the murder of her husband.{{Ref|ASOS|80}}{{Ref|AGOT|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Petyr baelish varys HBO.jpg|300px|thumb|[[w:Conleth Hill|Conleth Hill]] as [[Varys]] and [[w:Aidan Gillen|Aidan Gillen]] as Petyr Baelish, as portrayed in HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
When [[Catelyn Stark]] arrives in [[King's Landing]] to inform her husband, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], about the attempt on the life of their son [[Bran Stark|Bran]], Petyr, who learned of her arrival despite her efforts to remain unnoticed, intercepts her and stashes her away in one of his brothels. Catelyn, justifying her trust in Baelish from their time together in [[Riverrun]], shows him the [[Valyrian steel dagger]] used in the attempt by a [[catspaw]]. Petyr says that he recognizes the dagger, claiming that it was once his but that he [[tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day|lost it in a wager]] to [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|aGoT|18}} This lie - Petyr in truth lost the dagger to King [[Robert I Baratheon]]{{Ref|ACOK|55}} - leads to Catelyn's eventual arrest of Tyrion at the [[crossroads]].{{Ref|AGOT|28}}
[[File:Petyr baelish sansa stark HBO.jpg|310px|thumb|[[w:Sophie Turner|Sophie Turner]] as [[Sansa Stark]] and Petyr Baelish at the [[Hand's tourney]], as portrayed in HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]
Petyr fetches Eddard to meet with his wife and is able to convince him, against his inclination, to make no move against the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] until they have proof. He vows to assist Ned in finding [[Jon Arryn]]'s killer,{{Ref|aGoT|20}} and during Ned's tenure as [[Hand of the King]] feigns friendship to him on behalf of his fondness for Catelyn. He superficially attempts to tutor Ned in the intrigues of the court and warns Ned not to trust anyone, including himself.{{ref|agot|25}}

When King Robert I learns that the exiled [[Daenerys Targaryen]] is pregnant, Baelish agrees with Robert in advocating her assassination. Ned Stark resigns as Hand in protest of Robert's command, but before he can arrange to travel back to Winterfell, Petyr approaches him with the promise of assistance in his investigation into Jon Arryn's death.{{Ref|AGOT|33}} He leads Ned to a brothel where [[Mhaegen|a young whore]] is raising [[Barra|one of Robert's bastard children]]. He is present when Ned is accosted by men led by Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] while returning from the city shortly thereafter.{{Ref|aGoT|35}}

After King Robert's mortal wounding and his subsequent naming of Eddard as Regent and Lord Protector, Baelish advises Ned that despite their knowledge that Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]'s children are illegitimate and that [[Stannis Baratheon]] is the legal heir, the wisest course of action is to ensure Joffrey's succession, a maneuver calculated to avoid all-out war and maximize their own power. Eddard refuses the suggestion and enlists Petyr's help in securing the allegiance of the city watch to ensure its loyalty when he moves against Cersei.{{Ref|aGoT|47}} Baelish agrees, but betrays Ned, bribing the City Watch to support the queen. This leads to Stark's arrest{{Ref|aGoT|49}} and eventual execution for treason.{{Ref|AGOT|65}}

After the majority of Eddard's followers in King's Landing are killed following Eddard's arrest,{{Ref|AGOT|50}} Petyr takes [[Jeyne Poole]] into his custody.{{ref|AGOT|51}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Upon arriving at [[King's Landing]] to serve as [[Hand of the King]] while [[Tywin Lannister]] is in the field, [[Tyrion Lannister]] realizes Petyr is more dangerous than he had previously known.{{Ref|ACOK|15}} Tyrion learns about Petyr's past, learning how Petyr came to be on the small council, naming Petyr a "master juggler" when referring to his skill at finances, and noting on the fact that Petyr, due to his low birth and the way he presents himself, is not seen as a threat by anyone.{{ref|aCoK|17}} Realizing Petyr has many of his own men placed into multiple positions, Tyrion decides not to make a move against Petyr concerning the lie he told about Tyrion's involvement in the attack on [[Bran Stark]]'s life, until he can find a way to replace those men with his own.{{Ref|ACOK|17}}

During a meeting of the small council, following the proclamation of Stannis Baratheon that Cersei Lannister's children were born out of incest, Petyr proposes they "fight" Stannis's claims by spreading rumors of their own, suggesting they spread the news that Stannis's daughter [[Shireen Baratheon|Shireen]] was fathered by [[Patchface]], Stannis's fool on [[Dragonstone]].{{Ref|AGOT|15}}

After [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|the assassination]] of King [[Renly Baratheon]], Petyr and Tyrion plot to form an alliance with [[House Tyrell]] to win over any lords of the [[Reach]] or the [[stormlands]] that did not immediately declare for King [[Stannis Baratheon]]. Petyr volunteers to travel to [[Bitterbridge]] to broker the deal,{{Ref|aCoK|36}} and is successful in forging a Lannister-Tyrell alliance through the engagement of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{Ref|aCoK|41}}{{Ref|aCoK|54}}
[[File:Littlefinger by algesiras.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Littlefinger – by Algesiras ©]]
Petyr returns to King's Landing with Tyrell forces alongside those of Tywin Lannister. The allied Lannister and Tyrell armies are able to take Stannis's forces in the rear in the last hours of the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], with Petyr providing the idea to dress Ser [[Garlan Tyrell]] in King Renly's armor during the battle so as to frighten Stannis's men-at-arms.{{Ref|aSoS|67}} After the battle, Petyr is rewarded with the title [[Lord Paramount of the Trident]] and is named [[Lord of Harrenhal]], despite the fact that it is still under control of [[Robb Stark]], [[King in the North]], and held by Lord [[Roose Bolton]]. Though Petyr never sets foot in the castle, the title gives the new [[House Baelish of Harrenhal]] nominal control over the war-torn [[riverlands]] and makes him a high lord.{{Ref|aCoK|65}}

Petyr maintains contact with [[Sansa Stark]] via Ser [[Dontos Hollard]], who vaguely informs Sansa of a secret plan to return her home. Petyr also acquires key informants in the crown's inner circle in [[Osney Kettleblack|Osney]], [[Osfryd Kettleblack|Osfryd]], and [[Osmund Kettleblack]], who are hired to guard Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] after Tyrion send her guards away. Tyrion believes that the Kettleblack brothers are in his pay, when in truth their allegiance is to Petyr.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
During a session of the [[small council]], Baelish informs Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] of the [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] plot to spirit [[Sansa Stark]] to [[Highgarden]] and marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]], giving Tywin the necessary time to wed her in haste to his son [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] instead.{{Ref|ASOS|19}}

Petyr's newfound status as a high lord gives him the necessary standing to be considered by Tywin for a marriage to the widowed [[Lysa Arryn]] with the intent of delivering the [[Vale of Arryn]], which has remained neutral, to the [[Iron Throne|Crown]] without violence. Petyr agrees with the plan and is sent to the [[Eyrie]] to woo Lysa, believing that to be an easy task given their history. Tyrion Lannister is appointed as [[master of coin]] upon Petyr's departure.{{Ref|aSoS|19}}

Though Petyr has left King's Landing, he does not go immediately to the Vale, and instead remains near the city until after the [[Purple Wedding|wedding between Joffrey and Margaery]], in which King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]] is killed.{{Ref|ASOS|60}} In the ensuing chaos, Sansa is spirited out of the city by [[Dontos Hollard]] and taken to a ship where Petyr awaits her. Petyr has Dontos killed, explaining to Sansa that she will be wanted in connection with Joffrey's death and that Dontos's death is the only sure way to know he will remain silent. He then goes on to explain his role in Joffrey's murder, having plotted it with [[Olenna Redwyne]]. He reveales that the involvement of the hairnet laced with black amethysts that Dontos had insisted Sansa wear to the feast. The amethysts were in reality the [[strangler]], the poison used to kill Joffrey; Sansa had unwittingly smuggled them into the feast. Petyr also brags of his involvement in arranging a set of jousting dwarfs as entertainment, which he explains were calculated to bring Tyrion Lannister into conflict with Joffrey just prior to Joffrey's death. Confident that Tyrion will be executed, he notes to Sansa that widowhood will become her.{{Ref|aSoS|61}}

With Sansa at his side, Petyr has her hair dyed and gives her the assumed identity of Alayne Stone, his bastard daughter. They travel on the ''[[Merling King]]'' to the Vale, stopping at his [[Drearfort|meager inherited holdings]] on the [[Fingers]] for a few days. Lysa meets them there and insists upon marrying Petyr immediately. He reluctantly agrees, and after the wedding they travel to the Eyrie, where Petyr spends much of his time traveling from lord to lord and asserting his authority. Lysa names Petyr the [[Lord Protector of the Vale]].{{ref|ASOS|68}}{{ref|ASOS|80}}

In the Eyrie, Petyr notes that Sansa is growing into a beautiful young woman and that she looks very much like her mother [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]] did at that age. In a quiet moment he takes that affection so far as to kiss her. Lysa witnesses the act, and in a fit of jealous rage attempts to kill Sansa in the throne room, nearly shoving her out the [[Moon Door]]. Petyr arrives in time to intervene, at which point Lysa breaks down crying. She accuses Petyr of not loving her despite all she had done for him. She reveals in Sansa's hearing that it had been Petyr who had convinced her to poison her previous husband, Lord [[Jon Arryn]], to prevent him from sending her young son [[Robert Arryn|Robert]] away to be fostered, and that it had been Petyr who had convinced her to write a letter to her sister Catelyn, stating that Jon Arryn had been poisoned and that the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] were responsible. Petyr temporarily soothes Lysa, assuring her that he has only ever loved one woman. He then adds "Only Cat" and shoves Lysa out the Moon Door to her death. The killing is blamed on the singer [[Marillion]].{{Ref|aSoS|80}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Mike Capprotti Kings of Mountain and Vale.jpg|350px|thumb|Petyr and Sansa with the lords of the Vale - by Mike Capprotti ©]]
Followling Lysa's death, Petyr remains Lord Protector of the Vale, with [[Robert Arryn]] as his ward. The [[Lords Declarant|six most powerful lords]] of the Vale respond by combining their forces, planning on removing Petyr as Lord Protector. Petyr gains [[Nestor Royce]] as an ally by granting him the [[Gates of the Moon]], stating it had been the desire of the late Lysa.{{ref|AFFC|10}}

During the parley with the [[Lords Declarant]] at the [[Eyrie]], [[Lyn Corbray]] behaves belligerently, going so far as to draw his sword, breaching the [[Guest right|guest right]]. Now holding leverage over the Lords Declarant, Petyr demands a trial period on his wardship over Robert. He notes to Sansa how fortuitous Corbray's action was, and Sansa correctly guesses that Corbray must be on his payroll. Petyr confirms this, and confides in Sansa how he plans to use this time as regent to eliminate, win over, or marginalize the lords who are currently against him, and to allow Corbray to use his supposed disgust for him to facilitate his joining, and covertly informing on, any conspiracy against the Lord Protector.{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

Petyr arranges a marriage between Lord [[Lyonel Corbray]] and a merchant's daughter, and he then attends the wedding in [[Gulltown]]. With winter approaching, the Arryn court departs the Eyrie for the Gates of the Moon. Upon returning from Gulltown, Petyr states [[Cersei Lannister]]'s leadership in King's Landing is bringing the [[Seven Kingdoms]] to ruin faster than he had anticipated. He informs Sansa that he means to marry her to [[Harrold Hardyng]], the current heir of the young and sickly [[Robert Arryn]], and help her regain [[Winterfell]], her family's ancestral seat in the [[North]].{{ref|AFFC|41}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Following the [[Red Wedding]], the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] produce a girl whom they claim to be the missing [[Arya Stark]]. They send the girl to marry [[Roose Bolton]]'s son, [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay]], helping to cement the alliance between [[House Bolton]] and the Crown.{{ref|ASOS|53}}{{ref|ASOS|72}} [[Theon Greyjoy]] later learns that the girl sent by the Lannisters to marry [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] is not [[Arya Stark]], but a disguised [[Jeyne Poole]],{{ref|ADWD|20}} who had been whipped and trained while being kept in one of Petyr's brothels.{{ref|ADWD|37}}{{ref|AWOIAF| Jeyne Poole}}

While mulling over [[Sansa Stark]], [[Cersei Lannister]] recalls that before the Lannisters married her to [[Tyrion Lannister]], Petyr had offered to marry Sansa himself, but his offer was rejected on account of his low birth.{{Ref|aDwD|65}}

With the Crown having huge financial problems due to the follies of Cersei, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] wishes that Petyr was back in [[King's Landing]] as master of coin.{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}

==Quotes by Petyr==
{{Quote|You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.{{ref|agot|25}}}}
– Petyr to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|I did warn you not to trust me, you know.{{ref|agot|49}}}}
– Petyr to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.{{ref|asos|61}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.{{ref|asos|61}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|In [[King's Landing]], there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces.{{ref|asos|68}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.{{ref|asos|68}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|You could turn [[King's Landing]] upside down and not find a single man with a mockingbird sewn over his heart but that does not mean I am friendless.{{ref|asos|68}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark]]

{{Quote|Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.{{ref|AFFC|10}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark|Alayne Stone]]

{{Quote|In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that [[Cersei Lannister]] still has yet to learn.{{ref|affc|23}}}}
– Petyr to [[Sansa Stark|Alayne Stone]]

==Quotes about Petyr==
{{Quote|He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.{{Ref|aGoT|18}}}} – [[Catelyn Stark]] to [[Rodrik Cassel]]

{{Quote|He had grey-green eyes that did not smile when his mouth did.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}}}
– [[Sansa Stark]]'s first impression of Petyr

{{Quote|Littlefinger... the gods only know what game Littlefinger is playing.{{Ref|aGoT|32}}}}
– [[Varys]] to [[Illyrio Mopatis]]

{{Quote|Littlefinger is the second most devious man in the Seven Kingdoms.{{Ref|aGoT|58}}}}
– [[Varys]] to [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|Littlefinger's gold is made from thin air, with a snap from his fingers.{{ref|asos|19}}}}
– [[Tyrion Lannister]] to [[Kevan Lannister]]

{{Quote|'''Eddard''': Are you in league with Littlefinger? 
'''Varys''': I would sooner wed the [[Black Goat of Qohor]].{{Ref|aGoT|58}}}}
– [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Varys]]

{{quote|He many not look as tall or as strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them. Trust in him and do as he says.{{ref|ASOS|68}}}}
- [[Lysa Arryn]] to [[Sansa Stark]]

==References==
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Talk:Braavos

2016-07-05T07:13:04Z

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== Wealthiest and most powerful? ==

"Braavos . . . is the wealthiest and likely the most powerful of the Free Cities." Wouldn’t that be Volantis?

[[User:Dancing Maester|Dancing Maester]] ([[User talk:Dancing Maester|talk]]) 07:13, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Moonsingers

2016-07-05T06:58:59Z

Dancing Maester: /* Braavos */ Fixed a misspelling/typo: prophsied --> prophesied.

The '''Moonsingers'''{{ref|AFFC|6}} or '''moonsingers'''{{ref|AGOT|61}} are the priestesses of the [[Jogos Nhai]], nomadic raiders of the [[Further East]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}} However, their religion has spread over [[Essos]] as moonsingers were among the escaped slaves that founded [[Braavos]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Braavos}}

==Among the Jogos Nhai==

Each band of Jogos Nhai is led by a ''[[jhat]]'', a war chief, and a moonsinger, who takes the role of priestess, healer, and judge. Whereas ''jhats'' command in matters of war, raid, and battle, the moonsinger commands over any other aspect in the band's life. Males can be moonsingers, too. However, this requires boys to dress and live as women.{{ref|twoiaf| The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}}

==Braavos==
When a shipment of slaves of the [[Valyrian Freehold]] bound for [[Sothoryos]] revolted, seized the slave ships transporting them, and fled north, a group of enslaved women from the [[Plains of the Jogos Nhai|lands]] of the Jogos Nhai prophesied where they would find shelter: a lagoon behind a wall of pine-clad hills and sea stones, where frequent fogs would help hide the refugees from the eyes of [[dragonlords]] passing overhead. These women were moonsingers and, according to Braavosi history, their prophecy proved true. For that reason, the [[Temple of the Moonsingers]] is the largest in Braavos.{{ref|affc|6}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[Mirri Maz Duur]] tells [[Daenerys Targaryen]] that she studied the birthing songs of a moonsinger of the [[Jogos Nhai]] while she was in [[Asshai]].{{ref|agot|61}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Denyo Terys]] tells [[Arya Stark]] of the Moonsingers.{{ref|AFFC|6}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|They were very important in the founding and early history of Braavos, but they still exist to this day. Beyond that, I don't expect they'll have much importance to the present story....<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Month/2012/07/ So Spake Martin. Asshai.com Interview in Barcelona] July 28, 2012.</ref>}} - [[George R. R. Martin]]

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Talk:North

2016-06-08T22:13:04Z

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== Misspellings on map ==

I noticed several misspellings on the accompanying map:

- Last Heart should be Last Hearth.

- Dreatfort should be Dreadfort.

- Torren’s Square should be Torrhen’s Square.

I don’t know how to fix these; can somebody do it for me?

[[User:Dancing Maester|Dancing Maester]] ([[User talk:Dancing Maester|talk]]) 22:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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2016-06-08T09:26:44Z

Dancing Maester:

== Misspellings ==

I noticed several misspellings on this map:

- Last Heart should be Last Hearth.

- Dreatfort should be Dreadfort.

- Torren’s Square should be Torrhen’s Square.

I don’t know how to fix these; can somebody do it for me?

[[User:Dancing Maester|Dancing Maester]] ([[User talk:Dancing Maester|talk]]) 09:22, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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2016-06-08T09:24:31Z

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I noticed several misspellings on this map:

- Last Heart should be Last Hearth.

- Dreatfort should be Dreadfort.

- Torren’s Square should be Torrhen’s Square.

I don’t know how to fix these; can somebody do it for me?

[[User:Dancing Maester|Dancing Maester]] ([[User talk:Dancing Maester|talk]]) 09:22, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

== Misspellings ==

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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 12

2016-05-31T00:20:23Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Theon Greyjoy]]
| place = the [[Dreadfort]]
| title = Reek I
| page = 161
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 11|Daenerys II]]
| current = Reek I
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 13|Bran II]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 20|Reek II]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:Marc Fishman TheonReek.jpg|[[Theon Greyjoy]], now Reek - by Marc Fishman ©|thumb|250px|left]]
[[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)|Big Walder]] and [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder]] enter a cell in the dungeons of the [[Dreadfort]]. Cowering before them is a weak and foul-smelling man, who knows his name is ''Reek'' - but that he once had another name.

Reek is so weakened and mentally ravaged that he is terrified of the two eight year old Freys. He remembers his attempt to escape with the bedwarmer [[Kyra]], but that had been a ruse by [[Ramsay Bolton]] for his own amusement. Kyra had suffered horribly at the hands of Ramsay's dogs, and Reek has lost several of his own fingers and toes through agonizing flayings at the hands of the [[Bastard Boys|Bastard's Boys]].

The Frey boys bring Reek before Ramsay, who is with [[Arnolf Karstark]] and [[Hother Umber]]. Ramsay taunts him in front of his guests. The reader learns that Reek is [[Theon Greyjoy]] when [[Arnolf Karstark]] recognizes him as "Stark's ward". In his degraded state, Reek thinks of him as a merciful and kind master. Ramsay promises him a bath, since he rides to war, and needs Reek's help to bring home his virgin bride.

==Character list==

{{columns|3|
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Theon Greyjoy]]
*[[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)]]
*[[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)]]
*[[Ben Bones]]
*[[Damon Dance-for-Me]]
*[[Grunt]]
*[[Sour Alyn]]
*[[Skinner]]
*[[Yellow Dick]]
*[[Ramsay Bolton]]

'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Donella Manderly|Lady Hornwood]]
*[[Kyra]]
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Roose Bolton]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
*[[Arya Stark]]
*[[Robb Stark]]
*[[Sansa Stark]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{columns|1|
*[[Winterfell]]
*[[Weeping Water]]
*[[House Bolton]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Dreadfort]]
*[[Bastard's Boys]]
*[[House Stark]]
}}

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Mander

2016-05-26T10:22:47Z

Dancing Maester: /* Geography */

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[[File:T Jedruszek MenOfTheMander.jpg|thumb|350px|Men of the Mander by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
[[File:Jorge Carrero Roig The Mander.png|A skiff sails the Mander on a sunny day. © FFG|thumb|350px]]
[[File:David Lecossu Shores of the Mander.JPG|The shores of the Mander. © FFG|thumb|350px|right]]

The '''Mander''' is the largest river in [[the Reach]]. Whilst large and powerful, it is a slow-moving river, wide with snags and sandbars to trap the unwary ship.{{ref|AFFC|21}}{{ref|AFFC|29}} Some say the river is named after [[House Manderly]].{{Ref|aWoIaF| Mander}}{{ref|TSS}}

==Geography==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Mander|Images of the Mander]]''
The Mander has its source in hills near [[Tumbleton]] in the northeastern Reach near [[King's Landing]]. Flowing southwest past [[Bitterbridge]],{{ref|ACOK|22}} it meets the [[Blueburn]] near [[Longtable]] and then the [[Cockleswent]] near [[Cider Hall]]. Near [[Highgarden]] the Mander meets an as-yet-unnamed river which flows south from [[Goldengrove]]. From Highgarden the Mander continues west to a bay of the [[Sunset Sea]] near the [[Shield Islands]].{{ref|TLOIAF}}

The upper reaches of the Mander are muddy and rough, and only shallow-draughted boats can go as far as Bitterbridge. As they near Highgarden, they settle down and become clear and calm, and are navigable by seagoing vessels.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref>{{ref|affc|29}}

==History==

According to legend, [[Garth the Gardener]] built [[Highgarden]] atop a hill along the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| Garth Greenhand}}

Historically, the [[ironborn]] raided up the river Mander all the way to [[Bitterbridge|Stonebridge]]. [[Garth VII Gardener]], a [[King of the Reach]], fortified the [[Shield Islands]], which sit near the mouth of the river, and armed its [[smallfolk]] to guard the approaches and warn those further inland of coming attacks.{{ref|AFFC|29}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Kings}}

The headwaters of the Mander were conquered by the [[Storm King]] [[Arlan I Durrandon]], but they were eventually lost by the descendents of his grandson, [[Arlan III Durrandon|Arlan III]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Stormlands}} A [[Dorne|Dornish]] king once sacked Highgarden after crossing the Mander.{{ref|TWOIAF| Andals in the Reach}}

[[House Manderly]] once lived at [[Dunstonbury]] on the banks of the mighty river Mander, but they were driven away{{Ref|ADWD|9|p. 130}}{{ref|ADWD|19}}{{ref|TSS}} by Lord [[Lorimar Peake]] at the behest of King [[Perceon III Gardener]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Kings of Winter}} Despite being exiled, the Manderlys still claim the title [[Lord Marshal of the Mander]].{{ref|ADWD|19}}

After the downfall of [[House Gardener]] in the [[Field of Fire]], [[Aegon I Targaryen]] granted [[Highgarden]] to [[Harlan Tyrell]] and named him [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Conquest}} After the [[battle of Stonebridge]], the Mander was said to have been red with blood for twenty leagues.{{ref|TWOIAF| Maegor I}}

At a crossing of the Mander during the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]], Ser [[Quentyn Ball]] slew all of Lady [[House Penrose|Penrose]]'s sons except for the youngest, whom he spared as a favor to the lady.{{ref|TMK}}

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], the [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoys]] and Shield Islanders fought a [[battle at the Mander]]'s mouth. Lord [[Quellon Greyjoy]] was killed in the fighting.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Old Way and the New}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
The [[Iron Fleet]] is victorious in the [[Battle of the Shield Islands]], allowing the [[ironborn]] to sail up the Mander and threaten the [[Reach]].{{ref|AFFC|29}}{{ref|AFFC|32}}{{ref|AFFC|36}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ironborn raiders sail up the Mander deep into the heart of the Reach.{{ref|ADWD|38}}

==References and Notes==
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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 11

2016-05-26T07:42:06Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Daenerys Targaryen]]
| place = [[Meereen]]
| title = Daenerys II
| page = 148
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 10|Jon III]]
| current = Daenerys II
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 12|Reek I]]
| arc previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 2|Daenerys II]]
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 16|Daenerys III]]
}}

[[File:Sarah Biddle Guided by Quaithe..JPG|350px|thumb|right|''"Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen...."'' © Fantasy Flight Games]]
==Synopsis==
There have been more murders by the [[Harpy's Sons]] on the streets of [[Meereen]]. This time they involved an attack on fully-armed [[Unsullied]] in pairs. Nine died, including one of [[Missandei]]'s brothers.<ref>[[Mossador]]. He is survived by [[Marselen]]. A third brother died during his training as Unsullied before we met them</ref> Once again, [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] orders an investigation, permitting [[Skahaz mo Kandaq]] to torture a wineseller when she discovers that three [[freedmen]] were among the slain. Furious, Dany orders the Unsullied to restrict themselves to patrolling the walls, and imposes a blood tax on the great families of Meereen to fund a new mixed force of freedmen and [[shavepates]] to patrol the city streets under the control of Skahaz. The families of [[House of Zhak|Zhak]] and [[House of Merreq|Merreq]] are preparing to leave the city; the Queen orders that their wealth must remain behind, as well as some of their children in her custody.

That night, Dany offers Missandei the chance to return to [[Naath]], but the girl feels safer with her. Dreaming of [[Daario Naharis]], Dany hopes that the sellsword will remain loyal to her. Dany goes to take a bath on her terrace, when she is surprised by the voice of [[Quaithe]],<ref>Last seen in [[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 12|Chapter 12]]</ref> speaking to her via some magic. "Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The [[glass candle]]s are burning.<ref>A sign that magic is becoming stronger and easier, as commented in [[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Prologue|Prologue]]</ref> Soon comes the [[bloody flux|pale mare]], and after her the others. [[House Greyjoy|Kraken]]<ref>Supposedly [[Victarion Greyjoy]] and/or [[Euron Greyjoy]]</ref> and dark flame,<ref>Probably a reference to [[Moqorro]]</ref> [[Tyrion Lannister|lion]] and griffin,<ref>Probably a reference to [[Jon Connington]] and/or Young Griff</ref> the [[Quentyn Martell|sun's son]] and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the [[House of the Undying|Undying]]. Beware the [[perfumed seneschal]].<ref>Probably [[Reznak mo Reznak]]; see for instance [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 55|Chapter 55]], page 731. Another possibility is noted in [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 33|Chapter 33]]</ref>" After telling her to remember who she is, Quaithe is gone. As the sun rises, Dany breaks her fast and prepares for court.

At court she gazes suspiciously at [[Reznak mo Reznak]] - could he be a traitor? [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] pleads for the seventh time for the reopening of the fighting pits, this time cunningly presenting former fighters who themselves willingly ask to be returned to combat. She promises to consider all they have said and then ends the session.

[[Barristan Selmy]] relates how he escaped from [[King's Landing]] and [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]'s guards, and defends [[Eddard Stark]] when Daenerys angrily denounces him as a traitor, asserting that Stark argued against having her killed in the [[small council]]. Dany asks to see her dragons: [[Rhaegal]] and [[Viserion]] have been chained up in a pit since the killing of the little girl [[Hazzea]], but [[Drogon]] could not be taken and was last seen flying off north to the [[Dothraki Sea]].

==Character List==
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'''Appearing:'''
*[[Daenerys Targeryen]]
*[[Irri]]
*[[Jhiqui]]
*[[Skahaz mo Kandaq]]
*[[Reznak mo Reznak]]
*[[Grey Worm]]
*[[Missandei]]
*[[Quaithe]]
*[[Hizdahr zo Loraq]]
*[[Khrazz]]
*[[Barsena Blackhair]]
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'''Appearing:'''
*[[Camarron of the Count]]
*[[Goghor the Giant]]
*[[Spotted Cat]]
*[[Fearless Ithoke]]
*[[Belaquo Bonebreaker]]
*[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Rhaegal]]
*[[Viserion]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Daario Naharis]]
*[[Black Fist]]
*[[Cetherys]]
*[[Mossador]]
*[[Duran]]
*[[Eladon Goldenhair]]
*[[Loyal Spear]]
*[[Marselen]]
*[[Rylona Rhee]]
*[[Willem Darry]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Drogon]]
*[[Green Grace]]
*[[Belwas]]
*[[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*[[Sandor Clegane]]
*[[Cersei Lannister]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Robert Baratheon]]
*[[Janos Slynt]]
*[[Eddard Stark]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Varys]]
*[[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]
*[[Hazzea]]
*[[Aegon III Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaenyra Targaryen]]
*[[Aegon II Targaryen]]
*[[Sallor]]
*[[Prendahl na Ghezn]]
|}

==Places and Terms Mentioned==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- valign="top"
| style="width:33;" |
'''Places:'''
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Mazdhan's Maze]]
*[[Naath]]
*[[Basilisk Isles]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Dragonstone]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Lhazar]]
*[[Qarth]]
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'''Places:'''
*[[Gates of Fate]]
*[[Dothraki Sea|Great Grass Sea]]/[[Dothraki Sea]]
*[[White Sword Tower]]
*[[Harvest Hall]]
*[[Red Keep]]
*[[River Gate]]/[[River Gate|Mud Gate]]
*[[Gate of the Gods]]
*[[Great Sept of Baelor]]
*[[Great Pyramid]]
*[[Harrenhal]]
*[[Temple of the Graces]]
*[[Skahazadhan]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Khaleesi]]
*[[Sons of the Harpy]]
*[[Good Masters]]
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Maiden (the Seven)|Maiden]]
*[[Shavepates]]
*[[Great Masters]]
*[[House of Zhak]]
*[[House of Merreq]]
*''[[arakh]]''
*[[Lamb Men]]
*[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]
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'''Terms:'''
*[[Bloody flux|Pale mare]]
*[[Undying Ones]]
*''[[tokar]]''
*[[Faith of the Seven|Seven gods]]
*[[Mother's Men]]
*[[Free Brothers]]
*[[Stalwart Shields]]
*[[Andals]]
*[[Rhoynar]]
*[[First Men]]
*[[Kingsguard]]
*[[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]]
| style="width:33;" |
'''Terms:'''
*[[City Watch of King's Landing]]
*[[Hand of the King]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[House Stark]]
*[[Field of Fire]]
*[[Dance of the Dragons]]
|}

==References==
{{References}}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 11]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Meereen]]
[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 11]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 12, Daenerys]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 10

2016-05-26T07:32:36Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Jon Snow]]
| place = [[Castle Black]]
| title = Jon III
| page = 134
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 9|Davos I]]
| current = Jon III
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 11|Daenerys II]]
| arc previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 7|Jon II]]
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 17|Jon IV]]
}}

==Synopsis==
At [[Castle Black]] [[Melisandre]] is preparing to burn [[Mance Rayder]] in a cage made out of wood from the [[haunted forest]], despite [[Jon Snow|Jon]]'s pleas to King [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] to spare him. At the sight of the cage, Mance's courage fails and he goes to his death begging for mercy, denying his kingship and his name and shrieking of witchcraft. Melisandre burns the [[Horn of Joramun]] as well, so that the Wall can never fall. As the cage burns Jon orders his bowmen to shoot Mance with arrows, a fitting end for a man of the [[Night's Watch]]. Melisandre proclaims to the assembled [[wildlings]] that Stannis is their true King, [[Azor Ahai]] reborn. Stannis draws [[Lightbringer]] which is blindingly bright, and promises all who serve him food, land and justice. The gates of the [[Wall]] are opened and most of the captive wildlings enter to kneel before Stannis, feeding the fire with fragments of [[weirwood]], pieces of the [[old gods]] to feed [[R'hllor]]'s fires.

[[Bowen Marsh]] thinks it is wrong to let thousands of wildlings south of the Wall, and would prefer to seal the gates and let the wildlings defend the northern side. Many of the men of the Night's Watch are also muttering against the perception that Jon has taken Stannis' side in the game of thrones. Jon denies this, but says that the outcome of the struggle is unclear following the death of [[Tywin Lannister]]. Jon shares a cup of wine with [[Clydas]], telling him that Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] had shown him a passage in the ''[[Jade Compendium]]'' describing [[Lightbringer]] as both bright and fearfully hot. He notes that although Stannis's sword radiates light, it produces no heat.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 10]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Jon Snow]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Castle Black]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 10]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 11, Jon]]

Mercy (The Winds of Winter)

2016-05-25T23:24:07Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Warning|This information has thus far been released in a sample chapter for ''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', and might therefore not be in finalized form. Keep in mind that the content as described below is still subject to change.}}
{{Infobox Chapter TWoW
| pov = [[Arya Stark]]
| title = Mercy
| place = [[Braavos]]
| page =
| previous =
| current = [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]
| next =
| arc previous =
| arc next =
}}
A girl named [[Arya Stark|Mercy]], working for the [[Izembaro|King of the Mummers]], has an encounter with a [[Rafford|man]] she knew in another life.

==Synopsis==
A girl named Mercy, short for Mercedene, wakes up after having [[Skinchanger|dreamed]] of [[Nymeria|wolves]] and blood. She is in [[Braavos]], where the day is hidden in a chilly fog. She is going to perform in a play tonight at the [[Gate]], where an envoy from [[Westeros]] will come and watch a performance. Izembaro, the King of the Mummers, will not tolerate her being late. After scrubbing and shaving her head, so as to better keep the wigs on her head, Mercy rushes to the Gate, where she finds Big [[Brusco]] painting the sign for tonight's play: ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'', written by [[Phario Forel]]. ''The Bloody Hand'' features characters such as [[Robert Baratheon|the fat king]], played by Izembaro, [[Joffrey Baratheon|the boy king]], and [[Tyrion Lannister|the demonic dwarf]], played by [[Bobono]]. Mercy's character is a young, sweet [[Sansa Stark|maiden]] who will be raped and [[Shae|murdered]] by the dwarf.

Izembaro reminds them all that there will be many important people in the audience tonight, so they must be magnificent. Less than an hour is left before the shows starts, and Mercy spends her time helping the other mummers with their costumes, sticking the horn back on the [[Stranger]], finding Izembaro's crown in the privy, finding needle and thread so the gown of the queen can be sewed back up, lacing up Bobono's fake cock, which is to be used for the raping scene, finding Izembaro's boar spear, helping Big Brusco into his boar costume, checking the knives used for the play, and pouring wine for [[Lady Stork]].

By then, the pit is already very full. The [[Harys Swyft|Westerosi envoy]] has arrived as well, accompanied by the [[Bellegere Otherys (courtesan)|Black Pearl of Braavos]]. Mercy's friend [[Daena (mummer)|Daena]] tells her that the Black Pearl descends from a [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Targaryen King]], but Mercy states that the term "Brown Pearl" would be more fitting, due to her skin colour. They speak about the sigil of the envoy, and Daena points out that the envoy's guards have lions for their sigil. Then, Mercy sees a [[Rafford|familiar face]]. She points him out to Daena, telling her she thinks he's fair to look upon. Mercy goes in search for him, pretending towards the other mummers that she's off to practice her lines for the play - it's the first time she's gotten lines in a play, and everyone expects her to be nervous to get them right.

The man Mercy is looking for is found guarding the entrance to the envoy's seating with another lion guard. The guards are discussing the length of their stay, claiming that "if [[Harys Swyft|he]] returns without gold - from the [[Iron Bank]] - , the [[Cersei Lannister|Queen]] will have his head". Mercy approaches Rafford as the play begins. When they turn out not to understand Braavosi, Mercy speaks to them in broken [[Common Tongue]], telling them that ''"Izembaro said to please the lords"''. His companion is disgusted by the thought of sleeping with a girl so young, but Rafford sees no problem. Mercy takes him back to her little room a few blocks away from the Gate, warning him they have to hurry, otherwise Mercy will miss her rape in the second act. She teases him that he could be a mummer, and that she could teach him a line to say. Once in her room, Mercy slides her finger down the inside of Raff's thigh, but when Raff insists she unlace him, Mercy tells him he's bleeding. Rafford doesn't understand, but he starts to bleed heavily, and calls for Mercy to get a healer. Mercy insists that the healer will only help those who come to him. When Rafford tells her that [[Lommy Greenhands|he can't walk, and she'll have to carry him]], Mercy happily thinks to herself ''"See? You know your line, and so do I."''

"You think so?" [[Arya Stark]] asks [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]], as she takes the blade from her sleeve. She kills him, whispering "Valar Morghulis". Knowing that this will be the end of Mercy, Arya realizes she'll miss Daena, Izembaro and Bobono, but that there is no time to think about that now. Mercy still has some lines to say in the play, and she must not miss her own rape.<ref>[http://archive.is/6UYCu ''The Winds of Winter'', Mercy's sample chapter], made available on [[George R. R. Martin]]'s website as of March 26, 2014</ref>

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

[[Category:A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|The Winds of Winter: Chapter ?]]
[[Category:A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Braavos]]
[[fr:The Winds of Winter, Chapitre provisoire, Mercy]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 7

2016-05-25T21:12:28Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Jon Snow]]
| place = [[Castle Black]]
| title = Jon II
| page = 95
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 6|The Merchant's Man]]
| current = Jon II
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 8|Tyrion III]]
| arc previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 3|Jon I]]
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 10|Jon III]]
}}

This chapter covers the events of [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 5|Chapter 5 of ''A Feast for Crows'']], but from [[Jon Snow|Jon's]] perspective rather than [[Samwell Tarly]]'s.

==Synopsis==
Jon summons Gilly and, despite his own misgivings, forces her to give up her own child and take [[Mance Rayder]]'s baby away with her, disguised as her own. Gilly is distraught, but Jon tells her that [[Melisandre]] will burn the child for the purposes of a spell, as Mance was [[King-Beyond-The-Wall]] and the blood of kings has magical powers. Jon warns her that if Mance's son is burned her own will die as well. She leaves wordlessly.

Soon after, Sam arrives. After a brief discussion regarding what they know of [[the Others]] and how to stop such monsters, Jon breaks the news that he is sending Sam to the [[Citadel]] so he can train to become a maester and replace Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]]. Sam will travel by sea from [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea|Eastwatch]], along with Gilly, the baby, and Maester Aemon. Sam leaves him, distraught, while Jon remembers something Maester Aemon told him when he became Lord Commander of the Night's Watch:
{{Quote|You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done. Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.}} Jon makes his inspection of Castle Black, during which he hears a report from [[Dywen]] and [[Kedge Whiteye]] that two of the [[queen's men]], Ser [[Richard Horpe]] and Ser [[Justin Massey]], were seen riding off to the south.

The next morning, Jon wakes early to see off Sam, Gilly, and Maester Aemon, as they depart for Eastwatch. He then meets with ranger [[Bedwyck]]. Jon tells Bedwyck that he is putting a garrison in the abandoned way-castle [[Icemark]] and giving him command of it. Both of them assert the danger of wildlings climbing over and creating a toehold for the rest, referring to [[Raymun Redbeard]] having done just that to bypass the wall. Jon says he is intending to garrison all of the castles on [[the Wall]], but for the time being, only Icemark and Greyguard. When he learns that [[Janos Slynt]] is to command Greyguard, Bedwyck urges Jon to choose someone more trustworthy.

[[File:Small Justice for Ned.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Art by acazigot]]
Half the morning passes before Lord Janos reports as commanded, escorted by [[Kegs]] and [[Eddison Tollett|Dolorous Edd]]. Jon tells him that he is giving him command of [[Greyguard]] (partly in light of Slynt's years commanding the City Watch, but primarily to separate Slynt from [[Alliser Thorne]] and end their scheming), but Slynt curses him and storms out. The next morning, Jon finds Slynt breaking his fast in the common room and announces that he is giving Slynt one last chance to drop his spoon and report to the stables to depart for Greyguard. After Slynt refuses him again and mocks him in front of his men and Stannis' men, Jon instructs [[Iron Emmett]] and Edd to take Slynt to the Wall and hang him. As Slynt is being dragged out, Jon changes his mind and orders a block brought so he can behead Slynt himself with [[Longclaw]]. With his head on the block, Slynt desperately begs Jon for mercy. Jon refuses and carries out the execution. Watching from the steps of the [[King's Tower]], Stannis meets Jon's eyes and nods briefly in approval.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 07]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Jon Snow]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Castle Black]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 7]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 08, Jon]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 6

2016-05-25T19:21:27Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Quentyn Martell]]
| place = [[Volantis]]
| title = The Merchant's Man
| page = 83
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 5|Tyrion II]]
| current = The Merchant's Man
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 7|Jon II]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 25|The Windblown]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Quentyn Martell]], son of the [[Doran Martell|Prince of Dorne]], is in [[Volantis]], disguised as a wineseller's servant. He and his servant are attempting to book a passage to [[Meereen]] aboard ship, but even in the massive port of Volantis they are unable to find a single ship willing to risk the trip to [[Slaver's Bay]] while there is war brewing and the [[slavery|slave trade]] and [[fighting pits]] are both terminated.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}<ref>Pages 85-86</ref> Quentyn is anxious trying to get to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] in Meereen as his father commanded, intent on marrying her. He has heard that she is the most beautiful woman in the world.<ref>Page 84</ref>

Quentyn is accompanied by [[Gerris Drinkwater]], acting as his merchant master, and [[Archibald Yronwood]]. On the trip from [[Dorne]] aboard the [[Meadowlark]] they were attacked by corsairs from the [[Disputed Lands]], losing their Maester [[Kedry]], [[Willam Wells]] and his dear friend [[Cletus Yronwood]]. Quentyn feels their loss keenly, and feels in dire need of his missing maester's counsel.<ref>Page 87</ref>

Quentyn and Gerris meet with the captain of the ''[[Adventure]]'', a smuggler's ship, who agrees to take them to Meereen only if they are prepared to pay three times the normal fare - for each of them. Quentyn knows that the man simply plans to take their money and either kill them or enslave them at the first chance he gets.<ref>Pages 86 and 94</ref>

The pair debate whether they should give up their quest and return to Dorne, or attempt to travel to Meereen overland via the [[demon road]].<ref>Page 89</ref> Quentyn is anxious not to have any more deaths on his conscience, but he feels his duty to Dorne and to his father is too important to turn back. They travel through the streets to the [[Merchant's House]] to meet with Archibald Yronwood. Along the way, they encounter a party of [[Windblown]] who are recruiting soldiers as they head to [[Yunkai]] to war against [[Astapor]] and [[Meereen]]. Quentyn tells him that they have no choice but to board ''Adventure'' - but Archibald says there is another way to Meereen, less honorable, but faster than the demon road...

==Character List appearing/mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Quentyn Martell]]
*[[Doran Martell]]
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Gerris Drinkwater]]
*[[Archibald Yronwood]]
*[[Kedry]]
*[[Willam Wells]]
*[[Cletus Yronwood]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Volantis]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Meadowlark]]
*[[Disputed Lands]]
*[[Adventure]]
*[[Demon road]]
*[[Merchant's House]]
*[[Windblown]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Astapor]]
}}

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

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 06]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Quentyn Martell]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Volantis]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 6]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 07, Le domestique du marchand]]

Free Cities

2016-05-25T19:12:38Z

Dancing Maester: /* The Nine Free Cities */

[[File:Free Cities world map.png|thumb|300px|Free Cities grouped along the western coast of [[Essos]]]]
[[File:Free Cities.png|thumb|300px|Nine Free Cities on the continent of [[Essos]]: [[Pentos]], [[Braavos]], [[Lys]], [[Qohor]], [[Norvos]], [[Myr]], [[Tyrosh]], [[Volantis]], [[Lorath]]]]

The '''Free Cities''' are a group of nine city-states grouped along the western coast of [[Essos]]. They trade and interact frequently with the [[Seven Kingdoms]] of [[Westeros]].

==Geography==
The nine city-states composing the Free Cities lie [[across the narrow sea]], east of [[Westeros]], on the western side of the eastern continent. [[Braavos]], [[Lorath]], [[Lys]], and [[Tyrosh]] are located on islands, [[Myr]], [[Pentos]], and [[Volantis]] are located on the coasts, and [[Norvos]] and [[Qohor]] lie inland. There are significant differences between the geography of the various cities, from the [[Forest of Qohor|thick forests around Qohor]], to the rolling hills of Norvos, to the tiny islands of Braavos. To the east of the Free Cities lies the [[Dothraki sea]], to the south [[Slaver's Bay]]. North of the Free Cities lie the [[Shivering Sea]] and the islands of [[Ibben]].{{Ref|TLOIAF| The Known World}}

==The Nine Free Cities==
With the exception of Braavos, the Nine Free Cities are all colonies founded by the [[Valyrian Freehold]] for various reasons.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Valyria's Children}} Because they are "daughters of Valyria", all speak different dialects of the [[High Valyrian|Valyrian language]]. The Free Cities are all self-governed, though during the time of the Valyrian Freehold, they would look to their "mother" for aid in times of crisis.

When [[Valyria]] was destroyed during the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]], the eldest of the Free Cities, [[Volantis]], attempted to seize power over the others, but eventually lost the war that ensued during the [[Century of Blood]]. Some called the city of [[Gogossos]] on the [[Basilisk Isles]] the "Tenth Free City" when it grew rich and powerful during the Century of Blood, until it was destroyed by plague.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles}} [[Essaria]], near the [[Dothraki sea|grasslands]], has sometimes been considered the "Lost Free City", as the colony was reduced to ruins by the [[Dothraki]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands}}

While other Valyrian settlements can be found across [[Essos]], such as [[Mantarys]], [[Selhorys]], and [[Tyria]], none of these cities or towns were independent, but instead were ruled directly by [[archon]]s sent from Valyria.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Valyria's Children}}

===Braavos===
:{{main|Braavos}}
Braavos, also known as the ''Secret City'', is the wealthiest and most powerful of the Free Cities.{{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Braavos}} The youngest of the nine cities, Braavos was founded by [[slavery|slaves]] fleeing the grasp of the Valyrian Freehold.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Braavos}} The ancestry of the founders of Braavos was highly diverse, and thus temples can be found in Braavos for all gods, even for the [[Moonsingers]] of the [[Jogos Nhai]] of the [[Further East]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Braavos}}{{Ref|AFFC|6}} A seafaring city composed of many tiny islands, Braavos is known for its ships with purple hulls and sails, the powerful [[Iron Bank]], the guild of assassins known as the [[Faceless Men]], and the [[Titan of Braavos]], the fortified statue and lighthouse that straddles the entrance channel to the city. Braavos is ruled by the [[Sealord]], who is elected by the city's [[magister]]s and [[keyholder]]s of the Iron Bank.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Braavos}}{{Ref|AGOT|33}}{{Ref|AFFC|6}}

Notable Braavosi include [[Syrio Forel]], a former [[First Sword of Braavos]], and [[Tycho Nestoris]], an agent of the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]].

===Lorath===
:{{main|Lorath}}
Located on the largest of three islands at the mouth of [[Lorath Bay]], Lorath is one of the northernmost of the Free Cities. It is also the smallest, poorest, and least populous of the Nine Free Cities, as well as the most isolated. While the islands were originally inhabited by the [[Mazemakers]], Lorath was founded when the followers of the god [[Boash]] settled on the main isle in [[1436 BC]].{{Ref|TLOIAF| The Free Cities}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Lorath}}{{Ref|AGOT|54}}

Notable Lorathi include [[Jaqen H'ghar]].

===Lys===
:{{main|Lys}}
Lys is located on an island near the southern coast.{{Ref|TLOIAF| The Free Cities}} The blood of [[Old Valyria]] still runs strong in this Free City, and as such, the Lyseni often have the coloring of the [[dragonlord]]s of old. Lys is well known for its pleasure houses, training slaves in the arts of love and selling them as concubines and bed-slaves. Having once formed a [[Triarchy|kingdom]] together with [[Tyrosh]] and [[Myr]], Lys now frequently fights with them over the control of the [[Disputed Lands]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh}}

Notable Lyseni include [[Varys]], a eunuch and spymaster for several Westerosi kings;{{Ref|aGoT|25}} [[Salladhor Saan]], a pirate and [[Mercenary#Sellsail|sellsail]]; [[Doreah]], a handmaid to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]; [[Lysono Maar]], a member of the [[Golden Company]]; and [[Tregar Ormollen]], a merchant prince.

===Myr===
:{{main|Myr}}
Myr is a coastal city renowned for their master glasscrafters,{{Ref|AGOT|6}}{{Ref|ADWD|35}} intricate lace, and fine carpets. It is considered to be among the most advanced of the Free Cities, and famed for its arts and learning. While Myr once formed the [[Kingdom of the Three Daughters]] with [[Tyrosh]] and [[Lys]], they now frequently fight over control of the [[Disputed Lands]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh}}{{Ref|ADWD|5}}

Notable Myrmen include [[Taena Merryweather|Taena]], the wife of Lord [[Orton Merryweather]]; [[Thoros of Myr]], a priest of [[R'hllor]]; and [[Serala]], the wife of Lord [[Denys Darklyn]], who was involved in the [[Defiance of Duskendale]].

===Norvos===
:{{main|Norvos}}
Norvos sits on the main continent in two parts, one atop a high hill and the other beside a low river. The surrounding area is a land of rolling hills, terraced farms, and white-stucco villages. The city has [[three bells|three large bells]], each with its own name and distinctive voice, that are rung to govern every aspect of city life. Norvoshi men can be recognized by their dyed and upswept mustaches. The city is run by a council of [[magister]]s, chosen by the [[bearded priests of Norvos|bearded priests]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Norvos}}{{Ref|AFFC|2}}{{Ref|AGOT|3}}

Notable Norvoshi include [[Areo Hotah]], the captain of Prince [[Doran Martell]]'s guard, and Lady [[Mellario]], Doran's estranged wife.

===Pentos===
:{{main|Pentos}}
Pentos is a major trading port on a bay of the western coast, at approximately the latitude of the [[Westerosi]] city [[King's Landing]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Pentos}}{{Ref|TLOIAF| The Known World}} The city is ruled by a [[Prince of Pentos|Prince]] who is chosen by the ''de facto'' rulers of the city, known as [[Magister]]s. [[Dothraki]] ''[[Khalasar]]s'' occasionally make their way this far from the [[Dothraki sea]], but the Pentoshi are spared much of the raiding and invasions by paying tribute to their ''[[khal]]s''. Slavery is outlawed in Pentos, but the Pentoshi flout these laws by keeping servants who, in essence, are slaves.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Pentos}}{{Ref|AGOT|3}}{{Ref|ADWD|5}}

Notable Pentoshi include [[Illyrio Mopatis]], a powerful magister; and the [[Tattered Prince]], the commander of the [[Windblown]], a mercenary company.

===Qohor===
:{{main|Qohor}}
Situated on the main continent, Qohor lies in the vast [[Forest of Qohor]].{{Ref|TLOIAF| The Free Cities}} It is known for its fine tapestries and its smiths, who have the rare ability to reforge [[Valyrian steel]]. The [[Black Goat of Qohor|Black Goat]] is a prominent god in the city. The city guard is comprised solely of [[Unsullied]] eunuch slave soldiers, and has been ever since three thousand Unsullied soldiers [[Battle of Qohor|successfully defended the city]] against a [[Dothraki]] [[khalasar]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Qohor}}{{Ref|ASOS|8}}{{Ref|ASOS|72}}

Notable Qohoriks include [[Vargo Hoat]], also known as ''the Goat'', leader of the brutal mercenary company called the [[Brave Companions]]; and [[Tobho Mott]], a master armorer in King's Landing.

===Tyrosh===
:{{main|Tyrosh}}
A coastal city, Tyrosh is ruled by an archon. The Tyroshi are known for their greed.{{Ref|AGOT|18}} Traders deal extensively in slaves{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh}} and Tyroshi pear brandy,{{Ref|AGOT|54}} and Tyroshi master armorsmiths make intricate armor in fantastic shapes.{{Ref|THK}} The city is often involved in conflicts over the [[Disputed Lands]] and the [[Stepstones]] with [[Lys]] and [[Myr]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh}}{{Ref|TRP}}

Notable Tyroshi include [[Greenbeard]]; [[Roro Uhoris]]; and the flamboyant [[Daario Naharis]], one of three captains of the [[Stormcrows]] sellsword company.

===Volantis===
:{{main|Volantis}}
The southernmost of the Free Cities, Volantis is situated nearest [[Slaver's Bay]], and does extensive trade in slaves, glassware and wines. The city is the oldest and proudest of the Free Cities, and only the [[Old Blood]], those who can trace their lineage back to Valyria, may dwell within the part of the city behind the [[Black Wall]]. Volantis is ruled by an elected [[Triarchs of Volantis|triarchy]]. Volantene sellswords are often recognizable by their fierce tattoos.{{ref|asos|39}} It is not uncommon for the Volantene to mark the faces of their slaves and servants with tattoos as well.{{Ref|ADWD|6}}{{Ref|ADWD|27}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Volantis}} Volantis is sometimes drawn into conflicts over the [[Disputed Lands]].{{ref|trp}}{{Ref|ADWD|14}}

Notable Volantenes includes the triarch [[Belicho]], the [[fool]] [[Patchface]], and the [[widow of the waterfront]].

==Quotes==
{{quote|In the Free Cities of the west, towers and manses and hovels and bridges and shops and halls all crowded in on one another.{{ref|AGOT|36}}}} - [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s thoughts

{{quote|The Nine Free Cities are the daughters of [[Valyria]] that was, but [[Braavos]] is the bastard child who ran away from home.{{ref|AFFC|34}}}} - the [[kindly man]] to [[Arya Stark]]

{{Quote|It was all profit with the merchant princes of the Free Cities. "Spice soldiers and cheese lords," [[Tywin Lannister|his lord father]] called them, with contempt.{{Ref|aDwD|1}}}} – [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts

{{quote|Some in the Free Cities think that [[Seven Kingdoms|we're]] all savages on our side of the [[narrow sea]]. The ones who don't think that we're children, crying out for [[Iron Throne|a father's strong hand]].{{ref|ADWD|27}}}} - [[Jorah Mormont]] to [[Tyrion Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 5

2016-05-25T19:07:12Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister]]
| place = [[Valyrian road]] between [[Pentos]] and [[Ghoyan Drohe]]
| title = Tyrion II
| page = 71
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 4|Bran I]]
| current = Tyrion II
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 6|The Merchant's Man]]
| arc previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 1|Tyrion I]]
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 8|Tyrion III]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] has been smuggled out of [[Pentos]] inside the litter of [[Illyrio Mopatis]], and they are now on their way to the [[Rhoyne]]. Illyrio explains that Tyrion and a sellsword called [[Griff]] will meet [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] in [[Volantis]], while he remains to "smooth the way" for them in Pentos. Illyrio tells Tyrion that Daenerys has need of cunning men such as him, but Tyrion is suspicious: why does Illyrio have a stake in helping Daenerys claim the [[Iron Throne]]? Instead of answering, the merchant tells of how when he first met her, Daenerys was young and fearful and her brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] was foolish and greedy, and Mopatis had to post guards on her door to prevent her brother from "undoing years of planning" by entering her chambers and raping her before she was given to Khal [[Drogo]]. He recounts how the meek little girl he knew was reborn in the Dothraki sea as a true Targaryen, before turning to Slaver's Bay, conquering [[Astapor]], cowing [[Yunkai]] and sacking [[Meereen]]. He now expects her to make her way to Volantis - where she will meet Tyrion and Griff with enough forces to carry her to [[Westeros]].

Tyrion presses Illyrio, wanting to know why a slaver city like Volantis and a man such as Illyrio would want to assist Daenerys, and he says that her brother promised him the position of [[Master of Coin]] and the castle of his choice. Tyrion also demands to know how he is friends with [[Varys]], and Illyrio tells him that the two of them were thieves together in Pentos - with Varys spying on and stealing from other thieves, then passing them on to Illyrio, who would return the goods to their rightful owners for a fee. Varys trained a network of spies - young boys and girls - to steal information, and eventually the two of them became influential enough that Illyrio was able to marry the daughter of the cousin of the Prince of Pentos, and Varys was sought by [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys the Mad]] in his paranoia for the post of [[Master of Whisperers]].

Over several more days' travel through [[Andalos]], Illyrio tells Tyrion that he has managed to persuade the [[Golden Company]] to break their contract with [[Myr]] and instead accompany Daenerys. When Tyrion questions how Illyrio convinced the Golden Company- a group that has spent most of its history warring with the Targaryens- to side with Daenerys, the magister reminds Tyrion that the [[Blackfyre Pretenders]] are no more and that Daenerys can give the company of exiles what the Blackfyres never could: she can finally take them home.<ref>Early references to the Golden Company breaking their contract, an unusual event, are made in [[A Feast for Crows]], Chapters [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 13|13 (The Soiled Knight)]] and [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 17|17 (Cersei)]]</ref> After Tyrion recounts the story of [[Hugor of the Hill]], he tells Illyrio that he had originally intended to become [[High Septon]] before he met and married [[Tysha]]. Illyrio likewise has a story of a [[Lys]]ene bed slave, Serra, his second wife, who was killed by the [[grey plague]]. As they continue to travel, Tyrion's thoughts turn to [[Shae]], and to Tysha.

==Character list==
{{columns|7|
'''Appearing:'''
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]

'''Mentioned:'''
*[[Aegon I Targaryen]]
*[[Vhagar]]
*[[Meraxes]]
*[[Balerion]]
*[[Daenerys Targaryen]]
*[[Griff]]
*[[Aegon IV Targaryen]]
*[[Maegor I Targaryen]]
*[[Baelor I Targaryen]]
*Khal [[Drogo]]
*[[Viserys Targaryen]]
*[[Aerys II Targaryen]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Pytho Malanon]]
*[[Gerion Lannister]]
*[[Tygett Lannister]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Rhaella Targaryen]]
*[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Jaime Lannister]]
*[[Barristan Selmy]]
*[[Aegor Rivers]]
*[[Daemon I Blackfyre]]
*[[Maelys I Blackfyre]]
*[[Hugor of the Hill]]
*[[Serra]]
*[[Tysha]]
*[[Young Griff]]
*[[Shae]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{columns|7|
*[[Pentos]]
*[[Unsullied]]
*[[Asshai]]
*[[Volantis]]
*[[Stepstones]]
*[[Rhoyne]]
*[[Valyria]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Dothraki]]
*[[Dothraki Sea]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
*[[Slaver's Bay]]
*[[Astapor]]
*[[Yunkai]]
*[[Meereen]]
*[[Mantarys]]
*[[Westeros]]
*[[Free Cities]]
*[[Casterly Rock]]
*[[Master of Coin]]
*[[Myr]]
*[[King's Landing]]
*[[Valyrian Freehold]]
*[[Dragonstone]]
*[[Seven Kingdoms]]
*[[Doom of Valyria]]
*[[Golden Company]]
*[[Redgrass Field]]
*[[Ragged Standard]]
*[[Second Sons]]
*[[Maiden's Men]]
*[[House Blackfyre]]
*[[Disputed Lands]]
*[[Lys]]
*[[Tyrosh]]
*[[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]
*[[Andalos]]
*[[Andals]]
*[[Ibben]]
*[[Flatlands]]
*[[Velvet Hills]]
*[[Faith of the Seven]]
*[[High Septon]]
*[[Braavos]]
*[[Jade Sea]]
*[[Treasure]]
*[[Seven-Pointed Star]]
*[[Battle of the Blackwater]]
*[[Qohor]]
*[[Ghoyan Drohe]]
*[[Little Rhoyne]]
*[[Lannisport]]
*[[Vaes Dothrak]]
}}

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

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 05]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the Flatlands]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 5]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 06, Tyrion]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 1

2016-05-25T18:43:00Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister]]
| place = the [[Narrow Sea]] - [[Pentos]]
| title = Tyrion I
| page = 16
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Prologue|Prologue]]
| current = Tyrion I
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 2|Daenerys I]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 5|Tyrion II]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is in the cabin of a ship fleeing across the [[narrow sea]], perpetually drunk and wracked with guilt over his betrayal of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] and murder of [[Tywin Lannister|his father]], as well as his anxiety over the fate of [[Tysha]], whom he now knows to be the only woman ever to have truly loved him.

Having escaped and found passage across the sea thanks to [[Varys]], he ponders where he might be going. He decides he would prefer to go to [[Dorne]] so he can raise his niece [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] to the [[Iron Throne]]. Once the ship reaches port he is bundled into a barrel and smuggled off the ship, finding himself in [[Pentos]], in the home of [[Magister]] [[Illyrio Mopatis]].

Tyrion spends a day wandering around Illyrio's home talking to his servants and plotting escape. He discovers [[Tyrion's mushrooms|a patch of poisonous mushrooms]] and picks them before passing out. He meets a courtesan of Illyrio's who has been assigned to him, threatening her before heading off to dinner with the Magister.

He is eventually served a dish of mushrooms and contemplates whether Illyrio is trying to poison him, and whether it would not be best just to eat some and be done with it. Illyrio goads him before eating some of the mushrooms himself and asking Tyrion of his intentions. He informs Tyrion that [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] is at the [[Wall]], and says that neither Stannis at the Wall nor Myrcella in Dorne is a viable candidate for support in the game of thrones. Mopatis claims that Westeros is in need of a savior from across the sea. When Tyrion asks who that would be, he replies "[[House Targaryen|A dragon with three heads]]".

==Character List appearing/mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Tysha]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Myrcella Baratheon]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Narrow Sea]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Pentos]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Tyrion's mushrooms]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
}}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 01]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place on the Narrow Sea]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Pentos]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 1]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 02, Tyrion]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 1

2016-05-25T18:40:54Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister]]
| place = the [[Narrow Sea]] - [[Pentos]]
| title = Tyrion I
| page = 16
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Prologue|Prologue]]
| current = Tyrion I
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 2|Daenerys I]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 5|Tyrion II]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is in the cabin of a ship fleeing across the [[narrow sea]], perpetually drunk and wracked with guilt over his betrayal of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] and murder of [[Tywin Lannister|his father]], as well as his anxiety over the fate of [[Tysha]], whom he now knows to be the only woman ever to have truly loved him.

Having escaped and found passage across the sea thanks to [[Varys]], he ponders where he might be going. He decides he would prefer to go to [[Dorne]] so he can raise his niece [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] to the [[Iron Throne]]. Once the ship reaches port he is bundled into a barrel and smuggled off the ship, finding himself in [[Pentos]], in the home of [[Magister]] [[Illyrio Mopatis]].

Tyrion spends a day wandering around Illyrio's home talking to his servants and plotting escape. He discovers [[Tyrion's mushrooms|a patch of poisonous mushrooms]] and picks them before passing out. He meets a courtesan of Illyrio's who has been assigned to him, threatening her before heading off to dinner with the Magister.

He is eventually served a dish of mushrooms and contemplates whether Illyrio is trying to poison him, and whether it would not be best just to eat some and be done with it. Illyrio goads him before eating some of the mushrooms himself and asking Tyrion of his intentions. He informs Tyrion that [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] is at the [[Wall]], and says that neither Stannis at the Wall or Myrcella in Dorne are viable candidates for support in the game of thrones. Mopatis claims that Westeros is in need of a savior from across the sea. When Tyrion asks who that would be, he replies "[[House Targaryen|A dragon with three heads]]".

==Character List appearing/mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Tysha]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Myrcella Baratheon]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Narrow Sea]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Pentos]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Tyrion's mushrooms]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
}}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 01]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place on the Narrow Sea]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Pentos]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 1]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 02, Tyrion]]

A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 1

2016-05-25T18:37:24Z

Dancing Maester: /* Synopsis */

{{Infobox Chapter ADwD
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister]]
| place = the [[Narrow Sea]] - [[Pentos]]
| title = Tyrion I
| page = 16
| previous = [[A Dance with Dragons-Prologue|Prologue]]
| current = Tyrion I
| next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 2|Daenerys I]]
| arc previous =
| arc next = [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 5|Tyrion II]]
}}

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is in the cabin of a ship fleeing across the [[narrow sea]], perpetually drunk and wracked with guilt over his betrayal of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] and murder of [[Tywin Lannister|his father]], as well as his anxiety over the fate of [[Tysha]], whom he now knows to be the only woman ever to have truly loved him.

Having escaped and found passage across the sea thanks to [[Varys]], he ponders where he might be going. He decides he would prefer to go to [[Dorne]] so he can raise his niece [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] to the [[Iron Throne]]. Once the ship reaches port he is bundled into a barrel and smuggled off the ship, finding himself in [[Pentos]], in the home of [[Magister]] [[Illyrio Mopatis]].

Tyrion spends a day wandering around Illyrio's home talking to his servants and plotting escape. He discovers [[Tyrion's mushrooms|a patch of poisonous mushrooms]] and picks them before passing out. He meets a courtesan of Illyrio's who has been assigned to him, threatening her before heading off to dinner with the Magister.

He is eventually served a dish of mushrooms and contemplates whether Illyrio is trying to poison, and whether it would not be best just to eat some and be done with it. Illyrio goads him before eating some of the mushrooms himself and asking Tyrion of his intentions. He informs Tyrion that [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] is at the [[Wall]], and says that neither Stannis at the Wall or Myrcella in Dorne are viable candidates for support in the game of thrones. Mopatis claims that Westeros is in need of a savior from across the sea. When Tyrion asks who that would be, he replies "[[House Targaryen|A dragon with three heads]]".

==Character List appearing/mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
*[[Tywin Lannister]]
*[[Tysha]]
*[[Varys]]
*[[Myrcella Baratheon]]
*[[Illyrio Mopatis]]
*[[Stannis Baratheon]]
}}

==Places and terms mentioned==
{{Columns|3|
*[[Narrow Sea]]
*[[House Lannister]]
*[[Dorne]]
*[[Iron Throne]]
*[[Pentos]]
*[[Magister]]
*[[Tyrion's mushrooms]]
*[[Wall]]
*[[House Targaryen]]
}}

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Dance with Dragons 01]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place on the Narrow Sea]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Pentos]]

[[es:Danza de Dragones-Capítulo 1]]
[[fr:A Dance with Dragons, Chapitre 02, Tyrion]]

Mormont's raven

2013-10-13T00:57:49Z

Dancing Maester:

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'''Mormont's raven''' is a pet [[raven]] of [[Jeor Mormont]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]]. He can speak, usually repeating a one syllable word twice. Typically it is a word just said by one of the people around, however it is often uncannily appropriate.

==Appearance and traits==

Mormont's raven has beady black eyes and {{Ref|aGoT|21}} and big black wings. {{Ref|aCoK|6}} [[Jon Snow]] describes it as an "old raven", though its exact age remains unknown. {{Ref|aGoT|60}} <ref> The lifespan of the [[w:Common Raven|Common Raven]] depends on its living conditions. In the wild, the average raven lives for 10 to 15 years. Some survive longer, dying between the 20th and 23rd year of their lives. In captivity, a raven can survive longer still. A number of individual ravens of the Tower of London managed to reach or surpass the 40th year of their lives. </ref> At some point it is described as a "huge raven". {{Ref|aSoS|79}} It seems to be rather large for its species. {{Ref|aDwD|3}}

This raven is particularly fond of fruit and "corn" ([[w:Cereal|grain]]). [[Maester Aemon]] considers this a rather rare trait, since most ravens prefer meat. {{Ref|aGoT|60}} The raven is typically scruffy in appearance. Jon Snow considers it bold and fearless. He also considers it clever, too clever. {{Ref|aDwD|3}}

==History==
Mormont's raven served as the companion of [[Jeor Mormont]] for "long years". {{Ref|aDwD|3}}

==Recent Events ==

=== A Game of Thrones ===
At [[Castle Black]], [[Alliser Thorne]] orders recent recruit [[Jon Snow]] to report to [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont]]. Jon first notices Mormont's raven, perched on the arm of Jeor. Mormont gives Jon a letter that has arrived from Winterfell for him. The message was written by [[Robb Stark]], informing Jon that [[Bran Stark]] has recovered from a coma. Though the boy is crippled, Jon is happy that his brother is going to live. The raven flies to the shoulder of Jeor, while repeating the last word of Jon: ''Live!'' {{Ref|aGoT|19}}

During a meal, Alliser Thorne and visitor [[Tyrion Lannister]] insult each other. Bystanders laugh, while the raven caws loudly from above a window, repeating the last word of Tyrion: ''Duel!'' {{Ref|aGoT|21}} Tyrion finds the bird annoying and privately considers throttling it. He decides against it, not wanting to insult Jeor. {{Ref|aGoT|21}}

Later, Jon is forced to fight a [[wight]]. Jon improvises and uses Jeor's oil lamp to start a fire. The raven starts cawing ''Burn'', seemingly on its own initiative. {{Ref|aGoT|52}}

After Jon attempts to desert to avenge his late father, Jeor asks whether Jon finds the war of Robb Stark to be more important that their own war. The ongoing wars mentioned are the [[War of the Five Kings]] and the [[Conflict Beyond the Wall]]. The raven flaps its wings and starts repeating: ''War''. Jon finds the words to be song-like. Jeor suggests that Eddard Stark himself sent Jon to the [[Wall]], though nobody truly knows why. The raven repeats the question: ''Why?''{{Ref|aGoT|70}}

=== A Clash of Kings ===
[[File:JeorMormontbyWouterBruneel.jpg|left|240px|thumb|[[Jeor Mormont]] with his raven by [http://www.wbruneel.com/IllustrationPortfolio.html Wouter Bruneel].]]

Lord Commander Mormont brings his raven with him while commanding [[The Great Ranging]]. It continues to repeat various words of those having conversations with Mormont.{{Ref|aCoK|43}}

=== A Storm of Swords ===
[[File:Jeor Mormont.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Jeor Mormont]] feeding his raven by Amoka]]
Mormont's raven survives the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]], and manages to accompany his master to Craster's Keep. After Mormont is murdered during the [[Mutiny at Craster's Keep|mutiny]] he seems to disappear.

Later, the elections for the position of [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] are ongoing. No candidate has enough votes to secure election, and a new vote is about to take place. A large kettle is used as ballot box. [[Samwell Tarly]] and [[Clydas]] transport the kettle. When Clydas takes off the lidd of the kettle, a raven bursts out from inside. It then flies three times around the room finally it landing on the table, next to the place where [[Jon Snow]] is seated. It starts repeating the name: ''Snow''. It then spreads its wings and flies to Jon, perching on his shoulder. {{Ref|aSoS|79}}

Samwell claims to recognize this bird, proclaiming it to be Mormont's raven. [[Alliser Thorne]] laughs, claiming that Samwell is trying to fool them. He is certain that this is one of several ravens which Tarly has trained to say ''Snow'', while Mormont's raven had a richer vocabulary. {{Ref|aSoS|79}} The raven looks at Jon and asks for corn. It soon changes its tune, repeating a new word: ''Kettle?''. This act helps convince the present men that this is indeed Mormont's raven, and helps decide the election in favor of Jon. {{Ref|aSoS|79}} Samwell insists that he had nothing to do with the raven's appearance, claiming that it even scared him. {{Ref|aSoS|79}}

===A Feast for Crows ===
The raven dwells with new Lord Commander Jon Snow in his quarters, and continues to repeat certain words from ongoing conversations.{{Ref|aFfC|5}}
[[File:MKomarck_JonSnowLC_II.jpg‎ |Jon Snow - by Michael Komarck ©|thumb|300px|right]]

=== A Dance with Dragons ===

Jon has a dream where he defends the Wall, facing the Others and their wights. He faces various people from his past. {{Ref|aDwD|58}} <ref>The persons depicted include the eagle of [[Orell]], [[Ygritte]], [[Donal Noye]], [[Dick Follard]], [[Qhorin Halfhand]], and [[Robb Stark]]. </ref> The dream continues with a "gnarled hand" roughly seizing his shoulder. Jon turns to face the owner of the hand and there the dream ends. He finds himself in bed with Mormont's raven pecking at his chest. It calls him ''Snow''. As Jon dresses, the raven keeps some distance from him and mutters from the other side of the room. He recognizes some familiar words: ''Corn'', ''King'', ''Snow''. Then the raven twice calls him by full name: ''Jon Snow''. Jon finds this peculiar as he cannot remember any previous instance of the raven using his full name. {{Ref|aDwD|58}}

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

[[Category:Animals listing]]
[[es:Cuervo de Mormont]]

Lemore/Theories

2013-10-10T04:29:35Z

Dancing Maester:

{{Theory_Policy}}
Some{{Citation needed}} believe [[Lemore]] is the mother of [[Tyene Sand]]. Lemore is a [[Septa]] who has given birth before, as evidenced by the stretchmarks on her belly seen by [[Tyrion Lannister]]. She is also roughly in her mid 40's, and Tyene is in her early 20's, which would lend further support to the theory.

'''Evidence against'''

Tyene Sand has golden hair. Oberyn Martell and Lemore both have dark hair, making it unlikely that their daughter would have light hair. It is possible that Lemore dyes her hair to further conceal her identity, but that seems unnecessarily cautious. Further, if Lemore were Tyene's mother, it would be strange for her not to have communicated with her daughter or anyone else back in Dorne to give support to Aegon's legitimacy.

'''Ashara Dayne'''

Another possibility is that Lemore is actually Ashara Dayne, who did not in fact die after Robert’s Rebellion, but went to aid Aegon in Essos after giving birth to Jon Snow.

[[category:theories]]

Weirwood

2013-10-02T09:25:04Z

Dancing Maester:

[[image:Weirwood.png|thumb|300px|A Weirwood]]
[[File:Thomas Denmark ned cat hart tree.jpg|300px|thumb|Cat visits Ned by the Heart Tree - by [http://thomasdenmarkportfolio.blogspot.com/ Thomas Denmark]. © [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ Fantasy Flight Games]]]
[[File:Winterfell Godswood.jpg|thumb|300px|Weirwood heart tree, in [[Winterfell]] [[godswood]]]]

The '''weirwood''' is a species of deciduous trees found all over [[Westeros]]. The five-pointed leaves and the sap of weirwoods are blood-red, while the smooth bark on their wide trunks{{ref|aGoT|48}} and wood are bone white{{ref|aGoT|2}}. Most weirwoods have faces carved into their trunks. This was done by the [[children of the forest]] in ancient days, and is now done by the [[wildlings|freefolk]] as well as other descendants of the [[First Men]]. In some cases sap has collected in the crevices of the carved faces, giving the trees red eyes which have even been known to drip sap as if the trees were weeping{{ref|aGoT|48}}.

==Weirwood and the Old Gods==
Weirwoods are considered sacred to the followers of the [[Old Gods|Old Faith]]. The children of the forest are said to have carved faces in the weirwoods during the [[dawn Age]], before the coming of the [[First Men]] across the [[narrow sea]]. It is said that through the faces the [[Old Gods|old gods]] watch over the followers and bear witness to important events. The [[Greenseer|Greenseers]] of the children of the forest can see through the eyes of weirwoods. Since trees have no sense of time, the Greenseer can see into the past or present when looking through the eyes of a tree.

Weirwoods grow wild in the forest. After the First Men took up the Old Faith they created [[godswood|godswoods]] within their castle walls and villages where a single weirwood, known as a heart tree, was planted so the gods could be worshiped.

Weirwoods are used to bear witness to important ceremonies such as marriages. It said that it is impossible to lie in the presence of a weirwood. An enormous weirwood with a gaping mouth grows in the village of [[Whitetree]] beyond [[the Wall]] with a trunk that is eight feet wide{{ref|aCoK|13}}.

The [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]] bore a device on his or her shield of a weirwood with a laughing face{{ref|aSoS|24}}.

==Weirwood and the Andals==
With the invasion of the [[Andals]] came the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Weirwoods came to represent the Old Faith and most were cut or burned down{{ref|aGoT|2}}. With the exception of a few remaining heart trees, the only place south of [[The Neck]] where weirwood groves remain is the [[Isle of Faces]] where the children and the First Men agreed to the peace. The Andals never conquered [[the North]], however, and the Old Faith remains strong there. Weirwoods still grow in the forests of the North, and are very prevalent beyond the Wall. [[Night’s Watch|The Night’s Watch]] uses a grove of nine weirwoods in the [[Haunted Forest]] half a league from [[Castle Black]] as a godswood when necessary{{ref|aGoT|48}}.

==As a Material==
The wood of the weirwood is an excellent, though expensive{{ref|TMK}}, building material because it does not rot. Weirwood can be used for making bows, spears, and arrows; [[Ygritte]] and [[Brynden Rivers]] both have horn and weirwood bows, and the children of the forest are said to have used weirwood bows{{ref|aGoT|66}}{{ref|aSoS|15}}{{ref|aSoS|55}}. [[Styr]] has a long bronze and weirwood spear{{ref|aSoS|69}}.

Weirwood can also be used to make furniture. The meeting table of the [[Kingsguard]] is made of white weirwood fashioned into the shape of a shield and supported by three white stallions{{ref|aSoS|67}}, and the throne, as well as the [[Moon Door]], of [[House Arryn]] in [[Eyrie|The Eyrie]] are carved out of weirwood{{ref|aGoT|38}}. Weirwood is also used in architecture for things such as the Black Gate of [[Nightfort]] and the rafters of [[Harrenhal]]{{ref|aCoK|7}} and [[Whitewalls]]{{ref|TMK}}. [[House of Black and White|The House of Black and White's]] main door is made of weirwood and ebony, as are it's chairs. [[Tobho Mott|Tobho Mott's]] shop has doors carved out of ebony and weirwood showing a hunting scene{{ref|aGoT|27}}.

==Black Gate at Nightsfort==
[[Coldhands]] leads [[Samwell Tarly]] and [[Gilly]] to the Black Gate to bring someone back that Coldhands was sent to find. Once through the gate, Sam and Gilly climb up a well with stairs cut into the side to the kitchen. In the kitchen [[Bran Stark|Bran]], and his group were sleeping. Sam’s arrival scares them, and Sam is caught up in [[Meera Reed|Meera]]’s net before the fire can be stoked so that the situation can be assessed. After Sam tells them that he is to lead someone through the gate for [[Coldhands]] Bran decides to go, so Sam leaves Gilly behind, and guides them to the gate. Since only a sworn man of the Watch can open the gate, Sam had to be there to open it. When they get to the gate it can be seen that it is made of faintly glowing white Weirwood with an old, wrinkled, shrunken, and pale face. The face opens its eyes and asks, “''Who are you?''”. Sam replies:

{{Quote|I am the sword in the darkness, I am the watcher on the walls, I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, I am the shield that guards the realms of men.}}

The face responds, “''Then pass''” and the door opens wide. All that remains is a great gaping mouth in a ring of wrinkles. As they pass [[Hodor]] does not dip low enough and a drip of water falls on Bran that is as salty as a tear.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

==References and Notes==
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Jaqen H'ghar/Theories

2013-10-02T04:51:11Z

Dancing Maester: /* Supporting Evidence */

{{Theory Policy}}
[[Jaqen H'ghar]] changes his face and name after he leaves [[Arya]]. {{Ref|aCoK|47}} The description of his new face matches that of the [[Alchemist]] that meets with [[Pate]] in [[Oldtown]]. [[Pate (Novice)|Pate]] later meets [[Samwell Tarly]], but at the end of his Prologue chapter he appeared to have been murdered by the [[Alchemist]]. It's possible the [[Alchemist]] stole his identity.

==Supporting Evidence==
* [[Jaqen H'ghar]]'s new face is similarly described to that of the [[Alchemist]].
* It is unclear whether Pate dies at the end of his chapter or merely passes out, though all other prologue characters either die immediately at, or shortly after, the end to their chapters.
* It is very unlikely the Pate Sam meets when he reaches [[Oldtown]] is the same Pate in the prologue of "A Feast for Crows." The Pate in the prologue hates being connected to [[Spotted Pate]] the pig boy {{Ref|aFfC|0}} while in the final chapter of [[A Feast For Crows]] he introduces himself as "''Pate like the pig boy''". {{Ref|aFfC|45}}
* [[Jaqen H'ghar]] can change the appearance of his face at will, and would easily be able to copy Pate's.
* It's quite strange for a [[Faceless Man]] to be in the Black Cells of the [[Red Keep]]. He would not have left [[Braavos]] without a distinct purpose.

==Questions==
* Who hired [[Jaqen H'ghar]] and who is he meant to kill?
* How did this person pay the [[House of Black and White]] for the assassination?
==References and Notes==
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Alchemist

2013-10-02T04:48:47Z

Dancing Maester: /* A Feast for Crows */

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'''The Alchemist''' is a man encountered by [[Pate (Novice)|Pate]] in [[Oldtown]].
==Appearance==
The Alchemist has a hooked nose and thick, black, curly hair, with a slight scar on his right cheek.{{ref|aFfC|0}} This is an identical description to that of the identity assumed by the [[Faceless Men|Faceless Man]] assassin known to [[Arya Stark]] as [[Jaqen H'ghar]].{{ref|aCoK|47}}

''See also:'' [[Jaqen H'ghar/Theories]]
==Recent Events==
===A Feast for Crows===
The Alchemist meets Pate outside the ''[[Quill and Tankard]]'' pub where Pate has spend the evening with some of his friends. Pate has stolen the personal key of the senile Archmaester [[Walgrave]] as part of an arrangement between the two that had been agreed upon three days prior. This key is supposed to be capable of opening any door in the [[Citadel]].{{ref|aFfC|0}}

In return for the key, The Alchemist has promised Pate a gold coin, with which Pate intends to purchase the virginity of his beloved [[Rosey]]. The indirect "transformation" of lead (the key) into gold (the coin) is the source of The Alchemist's name.{{ref|aFfC|0}}

[[Pate (Novice)|Pate]] asks the Alchemist to reveal his face to him, which he does. They complete their transaction, during which Pate admits to being a thief. Immediately after, Pate falls to the ground and dies.{{ref|aFfC|0}}

When [[Samwell Tarly|Sam Tarly]] meets Archmaester [[Marwyn|Marwyn 'the Mage']] a youth is present who calls himself Pate and has the same features as the person who died previously.{{ref|aFfC|45}}

After Marwyn has gone, Pate tells Sam that there’s an empty sleeping cell under his own in the west tower, with steps that lead right up to Archmaester [[Walgrave]]’s chambers. He adds that the [[raven]]s ''quork'' but there is a good view of the [[Honeywine]]. Sam agrees to sleep there. Pate tells him he will bring Sam some woolen coverlets since the stone walls turn cold at night. Sam thanks him, but thinks to himself that there is something about the pale, soft youth that he mislikes, but he does not want to seem discourteous so he tells him his name, in return the youth tells him his name, which is Pate, ''"like the pig boy"'' he adds.{{ref|aFfC|45}}

==References and Notes==
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Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)

2013-09-28T23:02:34Z

Dancing Maester: /* Line Of Succession to the Iron Throne */

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'''Aegon Targaryen''' was the second child and only son of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] and [[Elia Martell]]. Had he ascended to the throne he would have ruled as '''Aegon VI'''.

==Character and Appearance==
According to semi-canonical sources, Aegon looks like a [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]].<ref>Westeros. "A Number of Questions." (August 26, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/A_Number_of_Questions/ So Spake Martin]</ref> As an infant, Aegon had "fair hair". {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

The older Aegon is described as a lithe and well-made youth, with a lanky build. [[Tyrion Lannister]] initially estimated him to be "fifteen" or "sixteen" years-old. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} According to [[Haldon]], Aegon is as tall as [[Jon Connington]]. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} Aegon has a lanky build that suggests that he has yet to reach his full growth. Tyrion noted that his eyes seem to be dark blue, but look black by lamplight, and [[purple eyes|purple]] in the light of dusk. His eyelashes are long, seemingly feminine. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He is exceptionally handsome and has the Targaryen traits of silver hair and purple eyes, both features which are also present in his aunt [[Daenerys]]. Jon Connington notes that Aegon's eyes were a lighter shade of purple to those of Rhaegar. He dyes his hair blue to conceal his identity.{{ref|aDwD|18}} {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Aegon is well educated and intelligent, speaking several languages, and is well versed in history. He speaks the [[Common Tongue]] as a native speaker. He is fluent in [[High Valyrian]], in the Bastard Valyrian dialects of [[Pentos]], [[Tyrosh]], [[Myr]], and [[Lys]], and in [[Trade Talk]]. He is a novice at speaking the dialect of [[Volantis]], only familiar with a few of its words. The dialect of [[Meereen]], whose terms derive from both Valyrian and [[Ghiscari Empire|Ghiscari]], gives him trouble. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He has some training in mathematics, with a decent knowledge of [[w:Summation|sums]] and a limited understanding of [[w:Geometry|geometry]]. He also has been trained in songs. Tyrion notes that Aegon is more learned than "half the lords in [[Westeros]]". {{Ref|aDwD|14}}

==History==
===Birth===
[[File: ReneAigner_Dragonguard.jpg‎ ‎| A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived - art by Rene Aigner ©|thumb|450px|right]]
A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived, which led his father [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] to believe that he was the ''[[prince that was promised]]''. The comet was seen as "the bleeding star" of the prophecy. [[Maester Aemon]] was aware of Rhaegar's beliefs, though it is unclear if he shared them. Aemon later came to doubt the wisdom of looking for a prince, rather than a princess. He realized there was a translation error, and that the term translated was fluid in terms of gender. This is connected to the term for [[dragon]]s, which are neither male nor female. {{ref|aFfC|35}}

===Sack of King's Landing===

Aegon was just an infant during [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{ref|aGoT|20}} {{Ref|aGoT|30}} Following the [[Battle of the Trident]], [[Aerys II Targaryen]] decided to send [[Rhaella Targaryen|Queen Rhaella]] and [[Viserys Targaryen|Prince Viserys]] to [[Dragonstone]]. The original plan was for Elia to join them, but Aerys came to blame the lost battle on the supposed treason of [[Lewyn Martell]]. He thus chose to keep Elia and her children by his side as hostages to ensure continued Dornish loyalty. {{Ref|aSoS|37}} With the death of Rhaegar, [[Pycelle]] was convinced that the war was effectively over, and that [[House Targaryen]] could no longer offer a proper king to the realm. Pycelle worked to convince Aerys II to open the gates of [[King's Landing]] to the Lannister forces, secretly hoping [[Tywin Lannister]] would rise to the throne. {{Ref|aCoK|25}}

During the [[Sack of King's Landing]], [[Jaime Lannister]] killed Aerys in the throne room of the [[Red Keep]]. At the same time, [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Amory Lorch]] were scaling the walls of Maegor's Holdfast. There they murdered Elia, Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], and the babe they presumed to be Prince Aegon.
Jaime briefly toyed with the idea of proclaiming a new Targaryen king. Tywin would gain control, as [[Hand of the King]], the "wolves" of the North would howl in frustration, Robert would choke with rage. For a moment, Jaime found this option tempting, until he glanced at the corpse of Aerys II. Recalling that both Aegon and Viserys had inherited the blood of Aerys, Jaime decided against supporting either one of them. He told Crakehall to proclaim whoever the man wanted and carry word of Aerys's death to any Targaryen loyalists still fighting, in the hope it would convince them to surrender. Jaime seated himself on the [[Iron Throne]], simply waiting to see who would arrive to claim the throne and the kingdom. He was still sitting there when Eddard entered the throne room.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}

Viserys often told stories to his sister Daenerys. One of these stories involved the Sack of King's Landing by the "Usurper's dogs", [[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Eddard Stark]]. In this story, Elia Martell was pleading for mercy as Aegon was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. Aegon was "Rhaegar's heir". {{Ref|aGoT|3}} Daenerys later recalled an additional detail, men had dashed the head of Aegon against a wall. {{Ref|aGoT|64}} Eddard Stark recalls that "Lord Tywin's soldiers" had torn Aegon from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. They were also said to have dragged [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]] from beneath her bed, putting her to the sword.{{ref|aGoT|12}} Eddard Stark had heard rumors that it was Gregor Clegane who dashed the skull of infant Aegon against a wall. It was whispered that afterward Gregor had raped [[Elia Martell]], and then put her to the sword. At the time Gregor was only seventeen. Nobody dared to repeat these rumors when Gregor himself could be listening. {{Ref|aGoT|30}} According to [[Tyrion Lannister]], the responsibility of Gregor for the murders of Elia and Aegon was "common knowledge" in [[Casterly Rock]]. The tale went that while Gregor raped Elia, his hands were still covered in the blood and brains of Aegon. {{Ref|aCoK|17}} A wounded Gregor later narrated a brief account of the events to [[Oberyn Martell]], while killing him. He had first killed Aegon, the "screaming whelp". Then came the rape of Elia; Clegane claimed to have smashed her head with his bare hands, the same method Gregor used to finish off Oberyn. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Tywin Lannister later narrated his view of the events to his son Tyrion. Rhaenys was hiding under Rhaegar's bed, while Elia and Aegon were in the nursery, just a floor below the location of Rhaenys. Tywin had kept [[the Westerlands]] from joining Robert's cause for most of the Rebellion. They had only joined said cause at the last stage of the war, and their loyalty would be suspected. He needed a way to demonstrate loyalty to Robert, a way to convince people that the Lannisters had severed all ties to House Targaryen. In addition, Eddard Stark was also heading toward King's Landing, leading Robert's army south from the [[Battle of the Trident|Trident]]. Instead of the Lannister and Stark forces meeting as allies, there was still a chance for the two armies to clash. Tywin also feared that his elder son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] might do something stupid or that Aerys would kill Jaime for no more reason than sheer spite {{Ref|aSoS|53}}.

Tywin decided to have his troops eliminate Rhaegar's children. In a single move, the Lannisters would prove their commitment to the Rebellion and secure the throne for Robert by eliminating rival claimants for the throne. Tywin himself was somewhat surprised by the result of his commands. The murders were performed "too brutally" for his needs; he insisted that Elia didn't have to die, it happened because he didn't specify she should be spared. He had not grasped yet that Gregor is bestial, not just "terrible in battle". {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

[[Oberyn Martell]] had another view on Tywin's motives. Elia was once supposed to marry Jaime Lannister, based on an agreement between her mother and [[Joanna Lannister]]. Following the death of Joanna, Tywin broke the agreement, though he offered Tyrion as a a prospective bridegroom instead of Jaime, taunting the Martells. He had also informed them that [[Cersei Lannister]] was meant for Rhaegar, not for Oberyn. When Elia married Rhaegar, the Martells had ruined Tywin's plans. Tywin was "not a man to forget such slights". Oberyn believed that the murder of Elia was decided by Tywin, to teach Elia the same lesson that Houses [[House Reyne|Reyne]] and [[House Tarbeck|Tarbeck]] had [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|learned]]. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Eddard Stark recalled how Tywin Lannister presented [[Robert Baratheon]] with the corpses of Elia, Aegon, and Rhaenys: his "token of fealty". {{ref|aGoT|12}} Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the [[Iron Throne]], wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard - a clever choice, as the blood was less obvious against the red cloth. Rhaenys had been barefoot, dressed in a bed gown. The condition of the boy horrified Eddard. {{ref|aGoT|45}} The skull was a "red ruin", even Robert could not stand its sight. {{ref|aGoT|20}} [[Kevan Lannister]] was also present during this scene. He was able to recognize Rhaenys, but recalls that nobody could recognize Aegon. All that remained of the boy was a faceless horror of bone, brain, and gore with a few hanks of fair hair. Tywin stated that this was Aegon and everyone else took him at his word. Seventeen years later, Kevan was no longer certain of Tywin's word on the matter.{{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

===Reactions to the death===
*[[Robert Baratheon]] was actually relieved and glad that the royal children were killed. Robert viewed himself as a hero, and was reluctant to kill children, but he knew Rhaegar's children had to die if his throne was ever to be secure. Tywin painted himself as the villain, allowing Robert to keep his hands clean, the reason Robert refused to punish any of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] for the brutal act.{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Tywin Lannister]] knew this act would prove to Robert that [[House Lannister]] had forsaken the [[House Targaryen|dragon]] forever. Years later, Tyrion came to question the wisdom of the act. Robert Baratheon would have bloodied his own hands, soiling his own reputation. Instead the Lannisters had damaged their own reputation, gaining long-term enemies in the process. {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Eddard Stark]] called the act murder, Robert just called it war. Eddard protested that Aegon and Rhaenys were "no more than babes". Robert replied that they were not babes, only dragonspawn. The two men quarreled over the matter, [[Jon Arryn]] unable to calm them. Eddard had ridden out of King's Landing in a cold rage, heading south to fight the last battles of the war on his own. They would only be reconciled by their shared grief over the death of [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]].{{ref|aGoT|12}}

*[[Thoros of Myr]] claims to have personally seen the corpses of Aegon and Rhaenys, as they were placed before the Iron Throne. In his view, [[House Clegane]] was "built upon dead children" and their arms should display "two bloody infants". {{Ref|aSoS|34}}

*[[Arianne Martell]] recalled Robert as a monster who climbed onto his throne over the corpses of children, directly connecting his rise to the murders of Aegon and Rhaenys. Robert is not held in high regard in [[Dorne]].{{ref|aFfC|13}}

*[[Viserys Targaryen]] was convinced that the [[Dornishmen]] were determined to avenge Elia and her children, and would thus rise to his cause. {{Ref|aGoT|3}}

*Years following the murders, [[Doran Martell]] still mourns for the victims. According to [[Varys]], Prince Doran's hatred for [[House Lannister]] is well known.{{Ref|aCoK|17}} Doran himself claims to have worked at the downfall of Tywin Lannister for all these years.{{ref|aFfC|40}}

*[[Oberyn Martell]], in his words, hungered for justice for sixteen years. Oberyn was certain that Gregor was following orders rather than acting on his own,{{Ref|aCoK|38}} and wanted vengeance on the man who gave the orders, not just the man who performed the deed.{{Ref|aCoK|66}}

*[[Nymeria Sand]] believes that the only fitting payment for the death of Elia's children would be the death of "Lord Tywin's golden twins". [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] would pay with their lives for the old murders. {{ref|aFfC|2}}

*[[Jacelyn Bywater]] stated to [[Tyrion Lannister]] there were still whispers in King's Landings that "the butchery of Rhaegar's children" was one of the sins of [[House Lannister]]. And that the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven]] would punish the entire city for the sins of this House. {{Ref|aCoK|41}}

*[[Daenerys Targaryen]] can't see a difference between Houses [[House Lannister|Lannister]] and [[House Stark|Stark]]. She considers Eddard Stark also responsible for the murders of Rhaenys and Aegon, arguing that "the Usurper's dogs" acted as a pack of hounds, hunting children. Which individual hound kills a child doesn't matter, all the dogs are equally guilty. [[Barristan Selmy]] disagrees with her, and has tried to explain the distinction between Eddard and Tywin. Daenerys notices a "flicker of disapproval" in his face when she insists on her original opinion.{{Ref|aDwD|11}}

*[[Barristan Selmy]] himself has been haunted by the ''"bloody bodies"'' of Aegon and Rhaenys. His serious injuries following the [[Battle of the Trident]] prevented him from personally examining the corpses, but he wondered for years about whether Robert smiled at the bodies. Selmy concludes that such a smile would lead him to kill Robert, and that no army could save him. {{Ref|aDwD|67}}

==Reported survival==
A young man claiming to be Aegon explains his apparent survival to [[Tyrion Lannister]]. According to his account, the boy killed during the Sack of King's Landing was a [[Pisswater prince]]. He had been born at the Pisswater Bend, a street of King's Landing. His father was a tanner, and his mother had died at birth. The tanner sold his boy to [[Varys]] for a jug of [[Arbor]] gold [[wine]]. The man had other sons, but wanted to experience the taste of Arbor gold once in his life. Varys then arranged the swap between the two infant boys. Elia received the Pisswater prince, Varys took custody of the real Aegon. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} Tyrion Lannister deduces the rest of the story. When the Pisswater prince was "safely dead", Varys smuggled Aegon across the [[narrow sea]]. Varys entrusted the boy to [[Illyrio Mopatis]], who in turn found an adoptive father for Aegon in the person of exiled Lord [[Jon Connington]]. Aegon does not comment on Tyrion's deductions.{{Ref|aDwD|22}}

According to the recollection of Jon Connington, he had to fake his own death "twelve years" before the present. In [[288 AL]], five years following the [[Battle of the Bells]], Varys had convinced him that the lie would be necessary Aegon's safety. Connington had spent the "five years" of his exile as a member of the [[Golden Company]], and had become the right-hand man to [[Myles Toyne]]. To fulfill Varys' plan, Connington first had to be discharged from the Company in disgrace. The crafted story went that he been stealing from its war chest. Then rumors reported tha

==Line Of Succession to the Iron Throne==
If Aegon is who he and his supporters purport him to be, his claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than that of his aunt [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} {{Ref|aDwD|24}} According to the relevant succession laws,

{{Quote|The sons of the first son come before the second son. {{Ref|aCoK|35}}}}
- [[Big Walder Frey]]

Aegon is a son of [[Rhaegar]], who was himself the first son of [[Aerys II]], placing Aegon higher in the Targaryen succession line than both [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] (Aerys's second son) and [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] (the daughter of Aerys). {{Ref|aCoK|35}}

Since the [[Dance of the Dragons]], House Targaryen has practiced a highly modified version of agnatic primogeniture, placing female claimants in the line of succession behind all possible male ones, even collateral relations.

After her [[the Beggar King|her brother's]] death in [[Vaes Dothrak]] Daenerys is referred to as queen - there are no male [[Targaryen]] heirs and she is the very last of her line - but if Aegon’s claim is a rightful one then according to the relevant succession laws she is a princess of [[Westeros]], not a queen. She is queen of [[Meereen]] in her own right nevertheless, having conquered the city and installed herself as ruler.

However, in contrast to the alleged Aegon Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen's lineage is not under suspicion.

During a small council meeting in the [[Red Keep]]'s throne room concerning the [[Young Griff|Targaryen pretender]], [[Kevan Lannister]] says as much, stating that there is

{{Quote|A second Targaryen, and one whose blood no man can question. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys Stormborn]]. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

During the [[Golden Company]]’s rendezvous with Jon Connington in [[Volantis]] Homeless [[Harry Strickland]] points out that Aegon's lineage can be questioned and Aegon’s marriage to his aunt would quell any doubts,

{{Quote|Has the sun curdled your brains, [[Franklyn Flowers|Flowers]]? We need [[Daenerys Targaryen|the girl]]. We need the marriage. If Daenerys accepts our princeling and takes him for her consort, the Seven Kingdoms will do the same. Without her, the lords will only mock his claim and brand him a fraud and a pretender. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}}

Nevertheless the men of the [[Golden Company]] are sick of waiting for Daenerys, who is ensconced in [[Meereen]] and female besides, whom they refer to as “a child queen” a “girl” and a “little queen”. They decide to take their chances on Aegon.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
One of the visions [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sees in the [[House of the Undying]] involves Rhaegar, Elia, and Aegon. In this vision, a newborn Aegon nurses from the breast of Elia. The woman is seated in a great wooden bed. Rhaegar decides on the name "Aegon" for his newborn son, as he thinks the name fit for a king. Elia asks whether Rhaegar will make a song for their son. He replies that Aegon already has a song, "[[the song of ice and fire]]". Part of his role as "the prince that was promised".

However, Rhaegar then claims that there must be "one more", since "the dragon has three heads". Rhaegar moves to a seat near the window, and picks up a harp. Daenerys listens to the "sweet sadness" of his music as the vision fades away. {{Ref|aCoK|48}}

Daenerys later describes this vision to [[Jorah Mormont]]. Jorah helps her confirm the identities of the people in this vision but points out that if Aegon was the promised prince, the promise was broken with his death. {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Daenerys notices a pattern in the names Rhaegar chose for his children. They were named after [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sisters. There was a daughter named after the original [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], but none named after [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]]. She wonders if that was the missing third head of the dragon. Neither Daenerys nor Jorah have heard of the term "song of ice and fire". They are unable to determine its meaning. {{Ref|aCoK|63}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
[[File: Pojypojy_Griff&YoungGriff.jpg‎|[[Griff]] and Young Griff - by Pojypojy ©|thumb|300px|right]]
While in [[Meereen]], [[Daenerys]] has mused about Aegon who would have been the sixth to sit on the [[Iron Throne]]. She is yet unaware that he is alive. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} She thought to herself:

{{Quote|''If he had lived, I might have married him. Aegon would have been closer to my age than Viserys''. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} }}

To better conceal his identity Aegon dyes his silver hair blue, which also serves to makes his [[violet eyes]] appear blue. He uses the false story that his mother was a [[Tyrosh|Tyroshi]] who dyed her hair blue, and that he dyes his own hair to honor her memory. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} {{Ref|aDwD|14}} {{ref|aDwD|18}}

In {{Date|300}}, [[Illyrio Mopatis]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]] jointly depart [[Pentos]], heading towards the river Rhoyne. On the journey Illyrio explains the purpose of Tyrion's mission. He and "Griff" ([[Jon Connington]] in disguise]]) are to head towards [[Volantis]] and wait for the expected arrival of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in that city, with fresh forces and more ships for her cause. Based on Illyrio's information, Daenerys has conquered [[Astapor]], made [[Yunkai]] bend the knee and sacked [[Meereen]]. He estimates that Daenerys is heading westwards, either by land to [[Mantarys]] or by sea to Volantis. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

Tyrion wants more information on Griff, who Illyrio supposedly trusts as a brother. Illyrio simply points that unlike most [[Mercenary|sellswords]], Griff is a doting father. He also mentions that his boy, "Young Griff" (Aegon) is a noble lad. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

During their journey down the Rhoyne on the [[Shy Maid]], Tyrion and Aegon play a game of [[cyvasse]]. During the game, Tyrion fishes for information as to Connington and Illyrio's plan, namely that Aegon will be married to his aunt Daenerys. Tyrion warns the prince that Daenerys might not be accommodating, shocking Aegon. Tyrion points out that Daenerys is a proud, strong, and fierce young woman who will not appreciate a relative coming to her with a begging bowl, certainly not one with a stronger claim to the [[Iron Throne]] than her own. Aegon angrily denies being a beggar, pointing at his own army: the [[Golden Company]]. Tyrion points out that Daenerys has a larger army than his own and owes nothing to Aegon. Aegon protests, trusting in Lord Connington to win her over. Tyrion calls him a fool, warning him: {{Quote|Trust no one, my prince. {{ref|aDwD|22}} }}

Tyrion plants the seeds of doubt in the young prince, pointing that Haldon, Jon Connington, Rolly Duckfield, Lemore and every one of the friends who raised him could also betray him, and that Illyrio Mopatis, Varys, and Daenerys are even less trustworthy. {{ref|aDwD|22}} He then suggests a different course of action to Aegon: heading to [[Westeros]] instead of going east, taking advantage of all the problems caused by the [[War of the Five Kings]]. He points that [[the North]] is in a chaotic condition, the [[Riverlands]] are devastated, while [[Stannis Baratheon]] holds [[Storm's End]] and [[Dragonstone]]. The coming winter will starve out the realm. He then paints the opposition as particularly weak. He points that King [[Tommen Baratheon]] is just a boy, and all his potential regents come with their own problems. [[Cersei Lannister]] will alienate her own allies, [[Jaime Lannister]] actively avoids the responsibility of ruling, and [[Kevan Lannister]] is a born follower. [[Mace Tyrell]] will have to fight the Lannisters to become regent, and Stannis' unpopularity makes him an unlikely choice. Only a victorious Aegon can hope to meet Daenerys as her equal. The game of cyvasse ends with a loss for Aegon.{{ref|aDwD|22}}

Their journey brings them to [[Volon Therys]], where Jon Connington and Aegon depart the ship, heading towards the camp of the [[Golden Company]]. Connington introduces "Young Griff" as Aegon VI, King of the [[Andal]]s, [[Rhoynar]], and the [[First Men]]. This introduction is met with silence by the officers. Connington realizes that all of them were aware of Aegon's identity for some time. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

Connington and the the officers briefly discuss Daenerys' lingering presence in Meereen, and whether they should join the ongoing conflict in [[Slaver's Bay]]. Several of them are already disillusioned with Daenerys. Aegon sees the opportunity to introduce his own plan of going to Westeros and claiming the throne in his own name. Strickland tries to point out the risk of this plan, but most of the officers are eager to support this course of action. Aegon further explains that his aunt is welcome to keep Meereen. His plan is to move fast and strike hard, gaining a foothold before the Lannisters can react. This would certainly gain them some new allies. Connington is impressed, thinking that this is a new side of Aegon. All officers swear allegiance to Aegon. They agree, however, to keep his identity secret from the soldiers at least until they actually land in Westeros. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

The entire Golden Company's 10,000 men departed Volantis. Not quite half of them made it to Westeros, [[Landing of the Golden Company|landing]] at [[Cape Wrath]] and [[Greenstone]]. Connington leads 1/4 of the forces in seizing [[Griffin's Roost]]. Simultaneously [[Tristan Rivers]] besieges [[Crows Nest]], and [[Laswell Peake]] besieges [[Rain House]]. Aegon remains in their camp, guarded by the remaining 1/4 of the Company under [[Gorys Edoryen]]. Haldon collects information about the military and diplomatic situation across Westeros. He already considers marital alliances for King Aegon and his [[Hand of the King]], Jon Connington. The latter is against both such plans. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington receives news that part of the missing four ships landed in [[Estermont]]. [[Marq Mandrake]] has led the men there in capturing [[Greenstone]]. The rest of the ships are still missing. Franklyn Flowers suggests that the missing men are scattered across the [[Stepstones]]. Connington decides to bring Aegon to Griffin's Roost for increased safety. Franklyn points out,however, that Aegon would like to be in the thick of things. {{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington has a plan to capture [[Storm's End]], last foothold of Stannis in the [[Stormlands]]. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Four days later, Aegon arrives at Griffin's Roost. He rides at the head of a column including a hundred [[horse]]s with their riders, and three [[elephant]]s. He is accompanied by Lemore and Rolly Duckfield, the first person in his version of the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington remembers arguing with Aegon over the appointment of Rolly. Connington had pointed out that positions in the Kingsguard should be reserved for warriors of great renown and/or sons of great lords. Aegon pointed out that [[Jaime Lannister]] fit that description perfectly, and was currently known as the Kingslayer. He would rather have men personally loyal to himself, ready to die for his safety. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington asks to have the Prince escorted to his [[solar]], but soon realizes that Prince Aegon is less pliant than Young Griff. Aegon leaves him waiting for "the better half of a hour", bringing Duck with him instead of coming alone. Connington tries to dismiss the bodyguard, but Aegon insists on having Rolly by his side. Aegon mentions discussing the plan to take Storm's End with Strickland and Flowers. Strickland even tried to persuade him to delay the plan. Aegon, however, feels Strickland is a bit of "an old maid" and is in favor of the plan, with one significant change: he intends to personally lead the attack.{{ref|aDwD|61}}

===The Winds of Winter===
[[Arianne Martell]] has departed [[Sunspear]] on a mission from her [[Doran Martell|father]] to discover the truth about the supposed Aegon Targaryen. On the castle battlements of [[Ghost Hill]] she asks Ser [[Daemon Sand]] could this truly be Prince Aegon? He replies,
{{Quote|If Lord Connington’s prince has a crushed skull, I will believe that Aegon Targaryen has returned from the grave. Elsewise, no. This is some feigned boy, no more. A sellsword’s ploy to win support. <ref>[http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html ''The Winds of Winter'', Arianne sample chapter]</ref>}}

==Quotes by Aegon==
{{Quote|Why should I go running to [[Dany|my aunt]] as if I were a beggar? My claim is better than her own. Let her come to me … in [[Westeros]]. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

{{Quote|I am the only dragon that you need. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

==Quotes about Aegon==
{{Quote|''Aegon has been shaped for rule before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. [[Tommen I|Tommen]] has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them.'' {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}} - [[Varys]] to [[Kevan Lannister]]

{{Quote|The perfect prince but still half a boy for all that, with little and less experience of the world and all its woes. {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]], contemplating Prince Aegon on the [[Shy Maid]]

{{Quote|''My [[Tywin Lannister|lord father]] wrapped your corpse in a crimson cloak and laid you down beside [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|your sister]] at the foot of the [[Iron Throne]], his gift to the [[Robert Baratheon|new king]]. Those who had the stomach to lift the cloak said that half your head was gone.'' {{Ref|aDwD|18}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] discussing Prince Aegon's supposed death during the [[Sack of King's Landing]]

{{Quote|How do you suppose this [[Daenerys Targaryen|queen]] will react when you turn up with your begging bowl in hand and say 'Good morrow to you, Auntie. I'm your nephew Aegon, returned from the dead. I've been hiding on a [[Shy Maid|poleboat]] all my life, but now I've washed the blue dye from my hair and I'd like a [[dragon]] please... anf oh, did I mention that my claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than yours? {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] musing on how Aegon intends to present himself to his aunt Daenerys.

{{Quote|''His silvery hair was blowing in the wind, and his eyes were a deep purple, darker than this boy's.'' {{Ref|aDwD|61}}}}
- [[Jon Connington]] reminisces about Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] as he addressed Aegon following the capture of [[Griffin's Roost]] by the [[Golden Company]].

{{Quote|[[Kevan Lannister]] had been here, in this very hall when Tywin had laid the bodies of Prince Rhaegar's children at the foot of the Iron Throne, wrapped up in crimson cloaks. The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy... '''a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon and we took him at his word'''. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

==Family==
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==Survival speculation==
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Even before ''A Dance With Dragons'' was released, there was speculation regarding whether or not Aegon Targaryen survived. Martin did not confirm that the character died, though he did confirm that his sister was slain.<ref>Westeros. "Elia’s Children." (August 6, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Elias_Children So Spake Martin]</ref> Fans debated who might be the real Aegon suggesting [[Edric Dayne]], [[Samwell Tarly]], [[Daario Naharis]], among others. The question of the character's survival continued even after ''A Dance With Dragons'', with readers questioning Varys's story of the [[Pisswater prince]].

==References and Notes==
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'''Aegon Targaryen''' was the second child and only son of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] and [[Elia Martell]]. Had he ascended to the throne he would have ruled as '''Aegon VI'''.

==Character and Appearance==
According to semi-canonical sources, Aegon looks like a [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]].<ref>Westeros. "A Number of Questions." (August 26, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/A_Number_of_Questions/ So Spake Martin]</ref> As an infant, Aegon had "fair hair". {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

The older Aegon is described as a lithe and well-made youth, with a lanky build. [[Tyrion Lannister]] initially estimated him to be "fifteen" or "sixteen" years-old. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} According to [[Haldon]], Aegon is as tall as [[Jon Connington]]. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} Aegon has a lanky build that suggests that he has yet to reach his full growth. Tyrion noted that his eyes seem to be dark blue, but look black by lamplight, and [[purple eyes|purple]] in the light of dusk. His eyelashes are long, seemingly feminine. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He is exceptionally handsome and has the Targaryen traits of silver hair and purple eyes, both features which are also present in his aunt [[Daenerys]]. Jon Connington notes that Aegon's eyes were a lighter shade of purple to those of Rhaegar. He dyes his hair blue to conceal his identity.{{ref|aDwD|18}} {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Aegon is well educated and intelligent, speaking several languages, and is well versed in history. He speaks the [[Common Tongue]] as a native speaker. He is fluent in [[High Valyrian]], in the Bastard Valyrian dialects of [[Pentos]], [[Tyrosh]], [[Myr]], and [[Lys]], and in [[Trade Talk]]. He is a novice at speaking the dialect of [[Volantis]], only familiar with a few of its words. The dialect of [[Meereen]], whose terms derive from both Valyrian and [[Ghiscari Empire|Ghiscari]], gives him trouble. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He has some training in mathematics, with a decent knowledge of [[w:Summation|sums]] and a limited understanding of [[w:Geometry|geometry]]. He also has been trained in songs. Tyrion notes that Aegon is more learned than "half the lords in [[Westeros]]". {{Ref|aDwD|14}}

==History==
===Birth===
[[File: ReneAigner_Dragonguard.jpg‎ ‎| A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived - art by Rene Aigner ©|thumb|450px|right]]
A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived, which led his father [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] to believe that he was the ''[[prince that was promised]]''. The comet was seen as "the bleeding star" of the prophecy. [[Maester Aemon]] was aware of Rhaegar's beliefs, though it is unclear if he shared them. Aemon later came to doubt the wisdom of looking for a prince, rather than a princess. He realized there was a translation error, and that the term translated was fluid in terms of gender. This is connected to the term for [[dragon]]s, which are neither male nor female. {{ref|aFfC|35}}

===Sack of King's Landing===

Aegon was just an infant during [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{ref|aGoT|20}} {{Ref|aGoT|30}} Following the [[Battle of the Trident]], [[Aerys II Targaryen]] decided to send [[Rhaella Targaryen|Queen Rhaella]] and [[Viserys Targaryen|Prince Viserys]] to [[Dragonstone]]. The original plan was for Elia to join them, but Aerys came to blame the lost battle on the supposed treason of [[Lewyn Martell]]. He thus chose to keep Elia and her children by his side as hostages to ensure continued Dornish loyalty. {{Ref|aSoS|37}} With the death of Rhaegar, [[Pycelle]] was convinced that the war was effectively over, and that [[House Targaryen]] could no longer offer a proper king to the realm. Pycelle worked to convince Aerys II to open the gates of [[King's Landing]] to the Lannister forces, secretly hoping [[Tywin Lannister]] would rise to the throne. {{Ref|aCoK|25}}

During the [[Sack of King's Landing]], [[Jaime Lannister]] killed Aerys in the throne room of the [[Red Keep]]. At the same time, [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Amory Lorch]] were scaling the walls of Maegor's Holdfast. There they murdered Elia, Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], and the babe they presumed to be Prince Aegon.
Jaime briefly toyed with the idea of proclaiming a new Targaryen king. Tywin would gain control, as [[Hand of the King]], the "wolves" of the North would howl in frustration, Robert would choke with rage. For a moment, Jaime found this option tempting, until he glanced at the corpse of Aerys II. Recalling that both Aegon and Viserys had inherited the blood of Aerys, Jaime decided against supporting either one of them. He told Crakehall to proclaim whoever the man wanted and carry word of Aerys's death to any Targaryen loyalists still fighting, in the hope it would convince them to surrender. Jaime seated himself on the [[Iron Throne]], simply waiting to see who would arrive to claim the throne and the kingdom. He was still sitting there when Eddard entered the throne room.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}

Viserys often told stories to his sister Daenerys. One of these stories involved the Sack of King's Landing by the "Usurper's dogs", [[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Eddard Stark]]. In this story, Elia Martell was pleading for mercy as Aegon was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. Aegon was "Rhaegar's heir". {{Ref|aGoT|3}} Daenerys later recalled an additional detail, men had dashed the head of Aegon against a wall. {{Ref|aGoT|64}} Eddard Stark recalls that "Lord Tywin's soldiers" had torn Aegon from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. They were also said to have dragged [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]] from beneath her bed, putting her to the sword.{{ref|aGoT|12}} Eddard Stark had heard rumors that it was Gregor Clegane who dashed the skull of infant Aegon against a wall. It was whispered that afterward Gregor had raped [[Elia Martell]], and then put her to the sword. At the time Gregor was only seventeen. Nobody dared to repeat these rumors when Gregor himself could be listening. {{Ref|aGoT|30}} According to [[Tyrion Lannister]], the responsibility of Gregor for the murders of Elia and Aegon was "common knowledge" in [[Casterly Rock]]. The tale went that while Gregor raped Elia, his hands were still covered in the blood and brains of Aegon. {{Ref|aCoK|17}} A wounded Gregor later narrated a brief account of the events to [[Oberyn Martell]], while killing him. He had first killed Aegon, the "screaming whelp". Then came the rape of Elia; Clegane claimed to have smashed her head with his bare hands, the same method Gregor used to finish off Oberyn. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Tywin Lannister later narrated his view of the events to his son Tyrion. Rhaenys was hiding under Rhaegar's bed, while Elia and Aegon were in the nursery, just a floor below the location of Rhaenys. Tywin had kept [[the Westerlands]] from joining Robert's cause for most of the Rebellion. They had only joined said cause at the last stage of the war, and their loyalty would be suspected. He needed a way to demonstrate loyalty to Robert, a way to convince people that the Lannisters had severed all ties to House Targaryen. In addition, Eddard Stark was also heading toward King's Landing, leading Robert's army south from the [[Battle of the Trident|Trident]]. Instead of the Lannister and Stark forces meeting as allies, there was still a chance for the two armies to clash. Tywin also feared that his elder son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] might do something stupid or that Aerys would kill Jaime for no more reason than sheer spite {{Ref|aSoS|53}}.

Tywin decided to have his troops eliminate Rhaegar's children. In a single move, the Lannisters would prove their commitment to the Rebellion and secure the throne for Robert by eliminating rival claimants for the throne. Tywin himself was somewhat surprised by the result of his commands. The murders were performed "too brutally" for his needs; he insisted that Elia didn't have to die, it happened because he didn't specify she should be spared. He had not grasped yet that Gregor is bestial, not just "terrible in battle". {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

[[Oberyn Martell]] had another view on Tywin's motives. Elia was once supposed to marry Jaime Lannister, based on an agreement between her mother and [[Joanna Lannister]]. Following the death of Joanna, Tywin broke the agreement, though he offered Tyrion as a a prospective bridegroom instead of Jaime, taunting the Martells. He had also informed them that [[Cersei Lannister]] was meant for Rhaegar, not for Oberyn. When Elia married Rhaegar, the Martells had ruined Tywin's plans. Tywin was "not a man to forget such slights". Oberyn believed that the murder of Elia was decided by Tywin, to teach Elia the same lesson that Houses [[House Reyne|Reyne]] and [[House Tarbeck|Tarbeck]] had [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|learned]]. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Eddard Stark recalled how Tywin Lannister presented [[Robert Baratheon]] with the corpses of Elia, Aegon, and Rhaenys: his "token of fealty". {{ref|aGoT|12}} Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the [[Iron Throne]], wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard - a clever choice, as the blood was less obvious against the red cloth. Rhaenys had been barefoot, dressed in a bed gown. The condition of the boy horrified Eddard. {{ref|aGoT|45}} The skull was a "red ruin", even Robert could not stand its sight. {{ref|aGoT|20}} [[Kevan Lannister]] was also present during this scene. He was able to recognize Rhaenys, but recalls that nobody could recognize Aegon. All that remained of the boy was a faceless horror of bone, brain, and gore with a few hanks of fair hair. Tywin stated that this was Aegon and everyone else took him at his word. Seventeen years later, Kevan was no longer certain of Tywin's word on the matter.{{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

===Reactions to the death===
*[[Robert Baratheon]] was actually relieved and glad that the royal children were killed. Robert viewed himself as a hero, and was reluctant to kill children, but he knew Rhaegar's children had to die if his throne was ever to be secure. Tywin painted himself as the villain, allowing Robert to keep his hands clean, the reason Robert refused to punish any of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] for the brutal act.{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Tywin Lannister]] knew this act would prove to Robert that [[House Lannister]] had forsaken the [[House Targaryen|dragon]] forever. Years later, Tyrion came to question the wisdom of the act. Robert Baratheon would have bloodied his own hands, soiling his own reputation. Instead the Lannisters had damaged their own reputation, gaining long-term enemies in the process. {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Eddard Stark]] called the act murder, Robert just called it war. Eddard protested that Aegon and Rhaenys were "no more than babes". Robert replied that they were not babes, only dragonspawn. The two men quarreled over the matter, [[Jon Arryn]] unable to calm them. Eddard had ridden out of King's Landing in a cold rage, heading south to fight the last battles of the war on his own. They would only be reconciled by their shared grief over the death of [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]].{{ref|aGoT|12}}

*[[Thoros of Myr]] claims to have personally seen the corpses of Aegon and Rhaenys, as they were placed before the Iron Throne. In his view, [[House Clegane]] was "built upon dead children" and their arms should display "two bloody infants". {{Ref|aSoS|34}}

*[[Arianne Martell]] recalled Robert as a monster who climbed onto his throne over the corpses of children, directly connecting his rise to the murders of Aegon and Rhaenys. Robert is not held in high regard in [[Dorne]].{{ref|aFfC|13}}

*[[Viserys Targaryen]] was convinced that the [[Dornishmen]] were determined to avenge Elia and her children, and would thus rise to his cause. {{Ref|aGoT|3}}

*Years following the murders, [[Doran Martell]] still mourns for the victims. According to [[Varys]], Prince Doran's hatred for [[House Lannister]] is well known.{{Ref|aCoK|17}} Doran himself claims to have worked at the downfall of Tywin Lannister for all these years.{{ref|aFfC|40}}

*[[Oberyn Martell]], in his words, hungered for justice for sixteen years. Oberyn was certain that Gregor was following orders rather than acting on his own,{{Ref|aCoK|38}} and wanted vengeance on the man who gave the orders, not just the man who performed the deed.{{Ref|aCoK|66}}

*[[Nymeria Sand]] believes that the only fitting payment for the death of Elia's children would be the death of "Lord Tywin's golden twins". [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] would pay with their lives for the old murders. {{ref|aFfC|2}}

*[[Jacelyn Bywater]] stated to [[Tyrion Lannister]] there were still whispers in King's Landings that "the butchery of Rhaegar's children" was one of the sins of [[House Lannister]]. And that the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven]] would punish the entire city for the sins of this House. {{Ref|aCoK|41}}

*[[Daenerys Targaryen]] can't see a difference between Houses [[House Lannister|Lannister]] and [[House Stark|Stark]]. She considers Eddard Stark also responsible for the murders of Rhaenys and Aegon, arguing that "the Usurper's dogs" acted as a pack of hounds, hunting children. Which individual hound kills a child doesn't matter, all the dogs are equally guilty. [[Barristan Selmy]] disagrees with her, and has tried to explain the distinction between Eddard and Tywin. Daenerys notices a "flicker of disapproval" in his face when she insists on her original opinion.{{Ref|aDwD|11}}

*[[Barristan Selmy]] himself has been haunted by the ''"bloody bodies"'' of Aegon and Rhaenys. His serious injuries following the [[Battle of the Trident]] prevented him from personally examining the corpses, but he wondered for years about whether Robert smiled at the bodies. Selmy concludes that such a smile would lead him to kill Robert, and that no army could save him. {{Ref|aDwD|67}}

==Reported survival==
A young man claiming to be Aegon explains his apparent survival to [[Tyrion Lannister]]. According to his account, the boy killed during the Sack of King's Landing was a [[Pisswater prince]]. He had been born at the Pisswater Bend, a street of King's Landing. His father was a tanner, and his mother had died at birth. The tanner sold his boy to [[Varys]] for a jug of [[Arbor]] gold [[wine]]. The man had other sons, but wanted to experience the taste of Arbor gold once in his life. Varys then arranged the swap between the two infant boys. Elia received the Pisswater prince, Varys took custody of the real Aegon. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} Tyrion Lannister deduces the rest of the story. When the Pisswater prince was "safely dead", Varys smuggled Aegon across the [[narrow sea]]. Varys entrusted the boy to [[Illyrio Mopatis]], who in turn found an adoptive father for Aegon in the person of exiled Lord [[Jon Connington]]. Aegon does not comment on Tyrion's deductions.{{Ref|aDwD|22}}

According to the recollection of Jon Connington, he had to fake his own death "twelve years" before the present. In [[288 AL]], five years following the [[Battle of the Bells]], Varys had convinced him that the lie would be necessary Aegon's safety. Connington had spent the "five years" of his exile as a member of the [[Golden Company]], and had become the right-hand man to [[Myles Toyne]]. To fulfill Varys' plan, Connington first had to be discharged from the Company in disgrace. The crafted story went that he been stealing from its war chest. Then rumors reported tha

==Line Of Succession to the Iron Throne==
If Aegon is who he and his supporters purport him to be, his claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than that of his aunt [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} {{Ref|aDwD|24}} According to the relevant succession laws,

{{Quote|The sons of the first son come before the second son. {{Ref|aCoK|35}}}}
- [[Big Walder Frey]]

Aegon is a son of [[Rhaegar]], who was himself the first son of [[Aerys II]], placing Aegon higher in the Targaryen succession line than both [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] (Aerys's second son) and [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] (the daughter of Aerys). {{Ref|aCoK|35}}

Since the [[Dance of the Dragons]], House Targaryen has practiced a highly modified version of agnatic primogeniture, placing female claimants in the line of succession behind all possible male ones, even collateral relations.

After her [[the Beggar King|her brother's]] death in [[Vaes Dothrak]] Daenerys is referred to as queen - there are no male [[Targaryen]] heirs and she is the very last of her line - but if Aegon’s claim is a righteous one then according to the relevant succession laws she is a princess of [[Westeros]], not a queen. She is queen of [[Meereen]] in her own right nevertheless, having conquered the city and installed herself as ruler.

However, in contrast to the alleged Aegon Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen's lineage is not under suspicion.

During a small council meeting in the [[Red Keep]]'s throne room concerning the [[Young Griff|Targaryen pretender]], [[Kevan Lannister]] says as much, stating that there is

{{Quote|A second Targaryen, and one whose blood no man can question. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys Stormborn]]. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

During the [[Golden Company]]’s rendezvous with Jon Connington in [[Volantis]] Homeless [[Harry Strickland]] points out that Aegon's lineage can be questioned and Aegon’s marriage to his aunt would quell any doubts,

{{Quote|Has the sun curdled your brains, [[Franklyn Flowers|Flowers]]? We need [[Daenerys Targaryen|the girl]]. We need the marriage. If Daenerys accepts our princeling and takes him for her consort, the Seven Kingdoms will do the same. Without her, the lords will only mock his claim and brand him a fraud and a pretender. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}}

Nevertheless the men of the [[Golden Company]] are sick of waiting for Daenerys, who is ensconced in [[Meereen]] and female besides, whom they refer to as “a child queen” a “girl” and a “little queen”. They decide to take their chances on Aegon.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
One of the visions [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sees in the [[House of the Undying]] involves Rhaegar, Elia, and Aegon. In this vision, a newborn Aegon nurses from the breast of Elia. The woman is seated in a great wooden bed. Rhaegar decides on the name "Aegon" for his newborn son, as he thinks the name fit for a king. Elia asks whether Rhaegar will make a song for their son. He replies that Aegon already has a song, "[[the song of ice and fire]]". Part of his role as "the prince that was promised".

However, Rhaegar then claims that there must be "one more", since "the dragon has three heads". Rhaegar moves to a seat near the window, and picks up a harp. Daenerys listens to the "sweet sadness" of his music as the vision fades away. {{Ref|aCoK|48}}

Daenerys later describes this vision to [[Jorah Mormont]]. Jorah helps her confirm the identities of the people in this vision but points out that if Aegon was the promised prince, the promise was broken with his death. {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Daenerys notices a pattern in the names Rhaegar chose for his children. They were named after [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sisters. There was a daughter named after the original [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], but none named after [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]]. She wonders if that was the missing third head of the dragon. Neither Daenerys nor Jorah have heard of the term "song of ice and fire". They are unable to determine its meaning. {{Ref|aCoK|63}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
[[File: Pojypojy_Griff&YoungGriff.jpg‎|[[Griff]] and Young Griff - by Pojypojy ©|thumb|300px|right]]
While in [[Meereen]], [[Daenerys]] has mused about Aegon who would have been the sixth to sit on the [[Iron Throne]]. She is yet unaware that he is alive. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} She thought to herself:

{{Quote|''If he had lived, I might have married him. Aegon would have been closer to my age than Viserys''. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} }}

To better conceal his identity Aegon dyes his silver hair blue, which also serves to makes his [[violet eyes]] appear blue. He uses the false story that his mother was a [[Tyrosh|Tyroshi]] who dyed her hair blue, and that he dyes his own hair to honor her memory. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} {{Ref|aDwD|14}} {{ref|aDwD|18}}

In {{Date|300}}, [[Illyrio Mopatis]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]] jointly depart [[Pentos]], heading towards the river Rhoyne. On the journey Illyrio explains the purpose of Tyrion's mission. He and "Griff" ([[Jon Connington]] in disguise]]) are to head towards [[Volantis]] and wait for the expected arrival of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in that city, with fresh forces and more ships for her cause. Based on Illyrio's information, Daenerys has conquered [[Astapor]], made [[Yunkai]] bend the knee and sacked [[Meereen]]. He estimates that Daenerys is heading westwards, either by land to [[Mantarys]] or by sea to Volantis. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

Tyrion wants more information on Griff, who Illyrio supposedly trusts as a brother. Illyrio simply points that unlike most [[Mercenary|sellswords]], Griff is a doting father. He also mentions that his boy, "Young Griff" (Aegon) is a noble lad. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

During their journey down the Rhoyne on the [[Shy Maid]], Tyrion and Aegon play a game of [[cyvasse]]. During the game, Tyrion fishes for information as to Connington and Illyrio's plan, namely that Aegon will be married to his aunt Daenerys. Tyrion warns the prince that Daenerys might not be accommodating, shocking Aegon. Tyrion points out that Daenerys is a proud, strong, and fierce young woman who will not appreciate a relative coming to her with a begging bowl, certainly not one with a stronger claim to the [[Iron Throne]] than her own. Aegon angrily denies being a beggar, pointing at his own army: the [[Golden Company]]. Tyrion points out that Daenerys has a larger army than his own and owes nothing to Aegon. Aegon protests, trusting in Lord Connington to win her over. Tyrion calls him a fool, warning him: {{Quote|Trust no one, my prince. {{ref|aDwD|22}} }}

Tyrion plants the seeds of doubt in the young prince, pointing that Haldon, Jon Connington, Rolly Duckfield, Lemore and every one of the friends who raised him could also betray him, and that Illyrio Mopatis, Varys, and Daenerys are even less trustworthy. {{ref|aDwD|22}} He then suggests a different course of action to Aegon: heading to [[Westeros]] instead of going east, taking advantage of all the problems caused by the [[War of the Five Kings]]. He points that [[the North]] is in a chaotic condition, the [[Riverlands]] are devastated, while [[Stannis Baratheon]] holds [[Storm's End]] and [[Dragonstone]]. The coming winter will starve out the realm. He then paints the opposition as particularly weak. He points that King [[Tommen Baratheon]] is just a boy, and all his potential regents come with their own problems. [[Cersei Lannister]] will alienate her own allies, [[Jaime Lannister]] actively avoids the responsibility of ruling, and [[Kevan Lannister]] is a born follower. [[Mace Tyrell]] will have to fight the Lannisters to become regent, and Stannis' unpopularity makes him an unlikely choice. Only a victorious Aegon can hope to meet Daenerys as her equal. The game of cyvasse ends with a loss for Aegon.{{ref|aDwD|22}}

Their journey brings them to [[Volon Therys]], where Jon Connington and Aegon depart the ship, heading towards the camp of the [[Golden Company]]. Connington introduces "Young Griff" as Aegon VI, King of the [[Andal]]s, [[Rhoynar]], and the [[First Men]]. This introduction is met with silence by the officers. Connington realizes that all of them were aware of Aegon's identity for some time. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

Connington and the the officers briefly discuss Daenerys' lingering presence in Meereen, and whether they should join the ongoing conflict in [[Slaver's Bay]]. Several of them are already disillusioned with Daenerys. Aegon sees the opportunity to introduce his own plan of going to Westeros and claiming the throne in his own name. Strickland tries to point out the risk of this plan, but most of the officers are eager to support this course of action. Aegon further explains that his aunt is welcome to keep Meereen. His plan is to move fast and strike hard, gaining a foothold before the Lannisters can react. This would certainly gain them some new allies. Connington is impressed, thinking that this is a new side of Aegon. All officers swear allegiance to Aegon. They agree, however, to keep his identity secret from the soldiers at least until they actually land in Westeros. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

The entire Golden Company's 10,000 men departed Volantis. Not quite half of them made it to Westeros, [[Landing of the Golden Company|landing]] at [[Cape Wrath]] and [[Greenstone]]. Connington leads 1/4 of the forces in seizing [[Griffin's Roost]]. Simultaneously [[Tristan Rivers]] besieges [[Crows Nest]], and [[Laswell Peake]] besieges [[Rain House]]. Aegon remains in their camp, guarded by the remaining 1/4 of the Company under [[Gorys Edoryen]]. Haldon collects information about the military and diplomatic situation across Westeros. He already considers marital alliances for King Aegon and his [[Hand of the King]], Jon Connington. The latter is against both such plans. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington receives news that part of the missing four ships landed in [[Estermont]]. [[Marq Mandrake]] has led the men there in capturing [[Greenstone]]. The rest of the ships are still missing. Franklyn Flowers suggests that the missing men are scattered across the [[Stepstones]]. Connington decides to bring Aegon to Griffin's Roost for increased safety. Franklyn points out,however, that Aegon would like to be in the thick of things. {{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington has a plan to capture [[Storm's End]], last foothold of Stannis in the [[Stormlands]]. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Four days later, Aegon arrives at Griffin's Roost. He rides at the head of a column including a hundred [[horse]]s with their riders, and three [[elephant]]s. He is accompanied by Lemore and Rolly Duckfield, the first person in his version of the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington remembers arguing with Aegon over the appointment of Rolly. Connington had pointed out that positions in the Kingsguard should be reserved for warriors of great renown and/or sons of great lords. Aegon pointed out that [[Jaime Lannister]] fit that description perfectly, and was currently known as the Kingslayer. He would rather have men personally loyal to himself, ready to die for his safety. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington asks to have the Prince escorted to his [[solar]], but soon realizes that Prince Aegon is less pliant than Young Griff. Aegon leaves him waiting for "the better half of a hour", bringing Duck with him instead of coming alone. Connington tries to dismiss the bodyguard, but Aegon insists on having Rolly by his side. Aegon mentions discussing the plan to take Storm's End with Strickland and Flowers. Strickland even tried to persuade him to delay the plan. Aegon, however, feels Strickland is a bit of "an old maid" and is in favor of the plan, with one significant change: he intends to personally lead the attack.{{ref|aDwD|61}}

===The Winds of Winter===
[[Arianne Martell]] has departed [[Sunspear]] on a mission from her [[Doran Martell|father]] to discover the truth about the supposed Aegon Targaryen. On the castle battlements of [[Ghost Hill]] she asks Ser [[Daemon Sand]] could this truly be Prince Aegon? He replies,
{{Quote|If Lord Connington’s prince has a crushed skull, I will believe that Aegon Targaryen has returned from the grave. Elsewise, no. This is some feigned boy, no more. A sellsword’s ploy to win support. <ref>[http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html ''The Winds of Winter'', Arianne sample chapter]</ref>}}

==Quotes by Aegon==
{{Quote|Why should I go running to [[Dany|my aunt]] as if I were a beggar? My claim is better than her own. Let her come to me … in [[Westeros]]. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

{{Quote|I am the only dragon that you need. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

==Quotes about Aegon==
{{Quote|''Aegon has been shaped for rule before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. [[Tommen I|Tommen]] has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them.'' {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}} - [[Varys]] to [[Kevan Lannister]]

{{Quote|The perfect prince but still half a boy for all that, with little and less experience of the world and all its woes. {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]], contemplating Prince Aegon on the [[Shy Maid]]

{{Quote|''My [[Tywin Lannister|lord father]] wrapped your corpse in a crimson cloak and laid you down beside [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|your sister]] at the foot of the [[Iron Throne]], his gift to the [[Robert Baratheon|new king]]. Those who had the stomach to lift the cloak said that half your head was gone.'' {{Ref|aDwD|18}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] discussing Prince Aegon's supposed death during the [[Sack of King's Landing]]

{{Quote|How do you suppose this [[Daenerys Targaryen|queen]] will react when you turn up with your begging bowl in hand and say 'Good morrow to you, Auntie. I'm your nephew Aegon, returned from the dead. I've been hiding on a [[Shy Maid|poleboat]] all my life, but now I've washed the blue dye from my hair and I'd like a [[dragon]] please... anf oh, did I mention that my claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than yours? {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] musing on how Aegon intends to present himself to his aunt Daenerys.

{{Quote|''His silvery hair was blowing in the wind, and his eyes were a deep purple, darker than this boy's.'' {{Ref|aDwD|61}}}}
- [[Jon Connington]] reminisces about Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] as he addressed Aegon following the capture of [[Griffin's Roost]] by the [[Golden Company]].

{{Quote|[[Kevan Lannister]] had been here, in this very hall when Tywin had laid the bodies of Prince Rhaegar's children at the foot of the Iron Throne, wrapped up in crimson cloaks. The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy... '''a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon and we took him at his word'''. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

==Family==
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==Survival speculation==
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Even before ''A Dance With Dragons'' was released, there was speculation regarding whether or not Aegon Targaryen survived. Martin did not confirm that the character died, though he did confirm that his sister was slain.<ref>Westeros. "Elia’s Children." (August 6, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Elias_Children So Spake Martin]</ref> Fans debated who might be the real Aegon suggesting [[Edric Dayne]], [[Samwell Tarly]], [[Daario Naharis]], among others. The question of the character's survival continued even after ''A Dance With Dragons'', with readers questioning Varys's story of the [[Pisswater prince]].

==References and Notes==
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'''Aegon Targaryen''' was the second child and only son of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] and [[Elia Martell]]. Had he ascended to the throne he would have ruled as '''Aegon VI'''.

==Character and Appearance==
According to semi-canonical sources, Aegon looks like a [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]].<ref>Westeros. "A Number of Questions." (August 26, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/A_Number_of_Questions/ So Spake Martin]</ref> As an infant, Aegon had "fair hair". {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

The older Aegon is described as a lithe and well-made youth, with a lanky build. [[Tyrion Lannister]] initially estimated him to be "fifteen" or "sixteen" years-old. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} According to [[Haldon]], Aegon is as tall as [[Jon Connington]]. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} Aegon has a lanky build that suggests that he has yet to reach his full growth. Tyrion noted that his eyes seem to be dark blue, but look black by lamplight, and [[purple eyes|purple]] in the light of dusk. His eyelashes are long, seemingly feminine. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He is exceptionally handsome and has the Targaryen traits of silver hair and purple eyes, both features which are also present in his aunt [[Daenerys]]. Jon Connington notes that Aegon's eyes were a lighter shade of purple to those of Rhaegar. He dyes his hair blue to conceal his identity.{{ref|aDwD|18}} {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Aegon is well educated and intelligent, speaking several languages, and is well versed in history. He speaks the [[Common Tongue]] as a native speaker. He is fluent in [[High Valyrian]], in the Bastard Valyrian dialects of [[Pentos]], [[Tyrosh]], [[Myr]], and [[Lys]], and in [[Trade Talk]]. He is a novice at speaking the dialect of [[Volantis]], only familiar with a few of its words. The dialect of [[Meereen]], whose terms derive from both Valyrian and [[Ghiscari Empire|Ghiscari]], gives him trouble. {{Ref|aDwD|14}} He has some training in mathematics, with a decent knowledge of [[w:Summation|sums]] and a limited understanding of [[w:Geometry|geometry]]. He also has been trained in songs. Tyrion notes that Aegon is more learned than "half the lords in [[Westeros]]". {{Ref|aDwD|14}}

==History==
===Birth===
[[File: ReneAigner_Dragonguard.jpg‎ ‎| A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived - art by Rene Aigner ©|thumb|450px|right]]
A comet was seen above [[King's Landing]] on the night Aegon was conceived, which led his father [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] to believe that he was the ''[[prince that was promised]]''. The comet was seen as "the bleeding star" of the prophecy. [[Maester Aemon]] was aware of Rhaegar's beliefs, though it is unclear if he shared them. Aemon later came to doubt the wisdom of looking for a prince, rather than a princess. He realized there was a translation error, and that the term translated was fluid in terms of gender. This is connected to the term for [[dragon]]s, which are neither male nor female. {{ref|aFfC|35}}

===Sack of King's Landing===

Aegon was just an infant during [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{ref|aGoT|20}} {{Ref|aGoT|30}} Following the [[Battle of the Trident]], [[Aerys II Targaryen]] decided to send [[Rhaella Targaryen|Queen Rhaella]] and [[Viserys Targaryen|Prince Viserys]] to [[Dragonstone]]. The original plan was for Elia to join them, but Aerys came to blame the lost battle on the supposed treason of [[Lewyn Martell]]. He thus chose to keep Elia and her children by his side as hostages to ensure continued Dornish loyalty. {{Ref|aSoS|37}} With the death of Rhaegar, [[Pycelle]] was convinced that the war was effectively over, and that [[House Targaryen]] could no longer offer a proper king to the realm. Pycelle worked to convince Aerys II to open the gates of [[King's Landing]] to the Lannister forces, secretly hoping [[Tywin Lannister]] would rise to the throne. {{Ref|aCoK|25}}

During the [[Sack of King's Landing]], [[Jaime Lannister]] killed Aerys in the throne room of the [[Red Keep]]. At the same time, [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Amory Lorch]] were scaling the walls of Maegor's Holdfast. There they murdered Elia, Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], and the babe they presumed to be Prince Aegon.
Jaime briefly toyed with the idea of proclaiming a new Targaryen king. Tywin would gain control, as [[Hand of the King]], the "wolves" of the North would howl in frustration, Robert would choke with rage. For a moment, Jaime found this option tempting, until he glanced at the corpse of Aerys II. Recalling that both Aegon and Viserys had inherited the blood of Aerys, Jaime decided against supporting either one of them. He told Crakehall to proclaim whoever the man wanted and carry word of Aerys's death to any Targaryen loyalists still fighting, in the hope it would convince them to surrender. Jaime seated himself on the [[Iron Throne]], simply waiting to see who would arrive to claim the throne and the kingdom. He was still sitting there when Eddard entered the throne room.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}

Viserys often told stories to his sister Daenerys. One of these stories involved the Sack of King's Landing by the "Usurper's dogs", [[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Eddard Stark]]. In this story, Elia Martell was pleading for mercy as Aegon was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. Aegon was "Rhaegar's heir". {{Ref|aGoT|3}} Daenerys later recalled an additional detail, men had dashed the head of Aegon against a wall. {{Ref|aGoT|64}} Eddard Stark recalls that "Lord Tywin's soldiers" had torn Aegon from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. They were also said to have dragged [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]] from beneath her bed, putting her to the sword.{{ref|aGoT|12}} Eddard Stark had heard rumors that it was Gregor Clegane who dashed the skull of infant Aegon against a wall. It was whispered that afterward Gregor had raped [[Elia Martell]], and then put her to the sword. At the time Gregor was only seventeen. Nobody dared to repeat these rumors when Gregor himself could be listening. {{Ref|aGoT|30}} According to [[Tyrion Lannister]], the responsibility of Gregor for the murders of Elia and Aegon was "common knowledge" in [[Casterly Rock]]. The tale went that while Gregor raped Elia, his hands were still covered in the blood and brains of Aegon. {{Ref|aCoK|17}} A wounded Gregor later narrated a brief account of the events to [[Oberyn Martell]], while killing him. He had first killed Aegon, the "screaming whelp". Then came the rape of Elia; Clegane claimed to have smashed her head with his bare hands, the same method Gregor used to finish off Oberyn. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Tywin Lannister later narrated his view of the events to his son Tyrion. Rhaenys was hiding under Rhaegar's bed, while Elia and Aegon were in the nursery, just a floor below the location of Rhaenys. Tywin had kept [[the Westerlands]] from joining Robert's cause for most of the Rebellion. They had only joined said cause at the last stage of the war, and their loyalty would be suspected. He needed a way to demonstrate loyalty to Robert, a way to convince people that the Lannisters had severed all ties to House Targaryen. In addition, Eddard Stark was also heading toward King's Landing, leading Robert's army south from the [[Battle of the Trident|Trident]]. Instead of the Lannister and Stark forces meeting as allies, there was still a chance for the two armies to clash. Tywin also feared that his elder son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] might do something stupid or that Aerys would kill Jaime for no more reason than sheer spite {{Ref|aSoS|53}}.

Tywin decided to have his troops eliminate Rhaegar's children. In a single move, the Lannisters would prove their commitment to the Rebellion and secure the throne for Robert by eliminating rival claimants for the throne. Tywin himself was somewhat surprised by the result of his commands. The murders were performed "too brutally" for his needs; he insisted that Elia didn't have to die, it happened because he didn't specify she should be spared. He had not grasped yet that Gregor is bestial, not just "terrible in battle". {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

[[Oberyn Martell]] had another view on Tywin's motives. Elia was once supposed to marry Jaime Lannister, based on an agreement between her mother and [[Joanna Lannister]]. Following the death of Joanna, Tywin broke the agreement, though he offered Tyrion as a a prospective bridegroom instead of Jaime, taunting the Martells. He had also informed them that [[Cersei Lannister]] was meant for Rhaegar, not for Oberyn. When Elia married Rhaegar, the Martells had ruined Tywin's plans. Tywin was "not a man to forget such slights". Oberyn believed that the murder of Elia was decided by Tywin, to teach Elia the same lesson that Houses [[House Reyne|Reyne]] and [[House Tarbeck|Tarbeck]] had [[Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion|learned]]. {{Ref|aSoS|70}}

Eddard Stark recalled how Tywin Lannister presented [[Robert Baratheon]] with the corpses of Elia, Aegon, and Rhaenys: his "token of fealty". {{ref|aGoT|12}} Tywin had laid the bodies beneath the [[Iron Throne]], wrapped in the crimson cloaks of his house guard - a clever choice, as the blood was less obvious against the red cloth. Rhaenys had been barefoot, dressed in a bed gown. The condition of the boy horrified Eddard. {{ref|aGoT|45}} The skull was a "red ruin", even Robert could not stand its sight. {{ref|aGoT|20}} [[Kevan Lannister]] was also present during this scene. He was able to recognize Rhaenys, but recalls that nobody could recognize Aegon. All that remained of the boy was a faceless horror of bone, brain, and gore with a few hanks of fair hair. Tywin stated that this was Aegon and everyone else took him at his word. Seventeen years later, Kevan was no longer certain of Tywin's word on the matter.{{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

===Reactions to the death===
*[[Robert Baratheon]] was actually relieved and glad that the royal children were killed. Robert viewed himself as a hero, and was reluctant to kill children, but he knew Rhaegar's children had to die if his throne was ever to be secure. Tywin painted himself as the villain, allowing Robert to keep his hands clean, the reason Robert refused to punish any of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] for the brutal act.{{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Tywin Lannister]] knew this act would prove to Robert that [[House Lannister]] had forsaken the [[House Targaryen|dragon]] forever. Years later, Tyrion came to question the wisdom of the act. Robert Baratheon would have bloodied his own hands, soiling his own reputation. Instead the Lannisters had damaged their own reputation, gaining long-term enemies in the process. {{Ref|aSoS|53}}

*[[Eddard Stark]] called the act murder, Robert just called it war. Eddard protested that Aegon and Rhaenys were "no more than babes". Robert replied that they were not babes, only dragonspawn. The two men quarreled over the matter, [[Jon Arryn]] unable to calm them. Eddard had ridden out of King's Landing in a cold rage, heading south to fight the last battles of the war on his own. They would only be reconciled by their shared grief over the death of [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]].{{ref|aGoT|12}}

*[[Thoros of Myr]] claims to have personally seen the corpses of Aegon and Rhaenys, as they were placed before the Iron Throne. In his view, [[House Clegane]] was "built upon dead children" and their arms should display "two bloody infants". {{Ref|aSoS|34}}

*[[Arianne Martell]] recalled Robert as a monster who climbed onto his throne over the corpses of children, directly connecting his rise to the murders of Aegon and Rhaenys. Robert is not held in high regard in [[Dorne]].{{ref|aFfC|13}}

*[[Viserys Targaryen]] was convinced that the [[Dornishmen]] were determined to avenge Elia and her children, and would thus rise to his cause. {{Ref|aGoT|3}}

*Years following the murders, [[Doran Martell]] still mourns for the victims. According to [[Varys]], Prince Doran's hatred for [[House Lannister]] is well known.{{Ref|aCoK|17}} Doran himself claims to have worked at the downfall of Tywin Lannister for all these years.{{ref|aFfC|40}}

*[[Oberyn Martell]], in his words, hungered for justice for sixteen years. Oberyn was certain that Gregor was following orders rather than acting on his own,{{Ref|aCoK|38}} and wanted vengeance on the man who gave the orders, not just the man who performed the deed.{{Ref|aCoK|66}}

*[[Nymeria Sand]] believes that the only fitting payment for the death of Elia's children would be the death of "Lord Tywin's golden twins". [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] would pay with their lives for the old murders. {{ref|aFfC|2}}

*[[Jacelyn Bywater]] stated to [[Tyrion Lannister]] there were still whispers in King's Landings that "the butchery of Rhaegar's children" was one of the sins of [[House Lannister]]. And that the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven]] would punish the entire city for the sins of this House. {{Ref|aCoK|41}}

*[[Daenerys Targaryen]] can't see a difference between Houses [[House Lannister|Lannister]] and [[House Stark|Stark]]. She considers Eddard Stark also responsible for the murders of Rhaenys and Aegon, arguing that "the Usurper's dogs" acted as a pack of hounds, hunting children. Which individual hound kills a child doesn't matter, all the dogs are equally guilty. [[Barristan Selmy]] disagrees with her, and has tried to explain the distinction between Eddard and Tywin. Daenerys notices a "flicker of disapproval" in his face when she insists on her original opinion.{{Ref|aDwD|11}}

*[[Barristan Selmy]] himself has been haunted by the ''"bloody bodies"'' of Aegon and Rhaenys. His serious injuries following the [[Battle of the Trident]] prevented him from personally examining the corpses, but he wondered for years about whether Robert smiled at the bodies. Selmy concludes that such a smile would lead him to kill Robert, and that no army could save him. {{Ref|aDwD|67}}

==Reported survival==
A young man considering himself to be Aegon explains his apparent survival to [[Tyrion Lannister]]. According to his account, the boy killed during the Sack of King's Landing was a [[Pisswater prince]]. He had been born at the Pisswater Bend, a street of King's Landing. His father was a tanner, and his mother had died at birth. The tanner sold his boy to [[Varys]] for a jug of [[Arbor]] gold [[wine]]. The man had other sons, but wanted to experience the taste of Arbor gold once in his life. Varys then arranged the swap between the two infant boys. Elia received the Pisswater prince, Varys took custody of the real Aegon. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} Tyrion Lannister deduces the rest of the story. When the Pisswater prince was "safely dead", Varys smuggled Aegon across the [[narrow sea]]. Varys entrusted the boy to [[Illyrio Mopatis]], who in turn found an adoptive father for Aegon in the person of exiled Lord [[Jon Connington]]. Aegon does not comment on Tyrion's deductions.{{Ref|aDwD|22}}

According to the recollection of Jon Connington, he had to fake his own death "twelve years" before the present. In [[288 AL]], five years following the [[Battle of the Bells]], Varys had convinced him that the lie would be necessary for the safety of Aegon. Connington had spent the "five years" of his exile as a member of the [[Golden Company]], and had become the right-hand man to [[Myles Toyne]]. To fulfill Varys' plan, Connington first had to be discharged from the Company in disgrace. The crafted story went that he been stealing from its war chest. Then rumors reported that Connington drank himself to death in [[Lys]]. In Varys' words, as a gallant exile Connington would be remembered. But few tend to remember thieves, drunks, and cowards. Reputed to be one of the latter, Connington too would be forgotten. {{Ref|aDwD|24}} Aegon spend most of his life hiding aboard the poleboat [[Shy Maid]]. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} {{Ref|aDwD|22}} He shared a cabin with his adoptive father. {{Ref|aDwD|14}}

Aegon has been trained in matters of military tactics by Jon Connington {{Ref|aDwD|24}}, arms by [[Rolly Duckfield]], in the [[Faith of the Seven]] by [[Lemore|Septa Lemore]], and history and languages by [[Haldon|Haldon Halfmaester]].{{Ref|aDwD|8}} {{Ref|aDwD|18}} He was taught to read and write, and studied history, law, and poetry. He lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swam in rivers, and mended nets. He learned practical things such as washing his own clothes, fishing, cooking, and binding up wounds. He was familiar with hunger, and the fear of being hunted. His education was intended to teach him that kingship was a duty, not a right. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}

As yet there is no indication as to whether he has inherited the [[Targaryen]] propensity for [[dragon dreams]] as [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] has. He might have the potential for it, like all those with Targaryen blood, but only some members of this bloodline actually displayed this ability. <ref name="Forum1">Conversation topic: [http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/58262-adwd-spoilers-dragon-dreams-of-ice-and-fire/ Dragon Dreams of Ice and Fire] on [http://asoiaf.westeros.org/ Westeros Forum] </ref>

==Line Of Succession to the Iron Throne==
If Aegon is who he and his supporters purport him to be, his claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than that of his aunt [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. {{Ref|aDwD|22}} {{Ref|aDwD|24}} According to the relevant succession laws,

{{Quote|The sons of the first son come before the second son. {{Ref|aCoK|35}}}}
- [[Big Walder Frey]]

Aegon is a son of [[Rhaegar]], who was himself the first son of [[Aerys II]], placing Aegon higher in the Targaryen succession line than both [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] (Aerys's second son) and [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] (the daughter of Aerys). {{Ref|aCoK|35}}

Since the [[Dance of the Dragons]], House Targaryen has practiced a highly modified version of agnatic primogeniture, placing female claimants in the line of succession behind all possible male ones, even collateral relations.

After her [[the Beggar King|her brother's]] death in [[Vaes Dothrak]] Daenerys is referred to as queen - there are no male [[Targaryen]] heirs and she is the very last of her line - but if Aegon’s claim is a righteous one then according to the relevant succession laws she is a princess of [[Westeros]], not a queen. She is queen of [[Meereen]] in her own right nevertheless, having conquered the city and installed herself as ruler.

However, in contrast to the alleged Aegon Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen's lineage is not under suspicion.

During a small council meeting in the [[Red Keep]]'s throne room concerning the [[Young Griff|Targaryen pretender]], [[Kevan Lannister]] says as much, stating that there is

{{Quote|A second Targaryen, and one whose blood no man can question. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys Stormborn]]. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

During the [[Golden Company]]’s rendezvous with Jon Connington in [[Volantis]] Homeless [[Harry Strickland]] points out that Aegon's lineage can be questioned and Aegon’s marriage to his aunt would quell any doubts,

{{Quote|Has the sun curdled your brains, [[Franklyn Flowers|Flowers]]? We need [[Daenerys Targaryen|the girl]]. We need the marriage. If Daenerys accepts our princeling and takes him for her consort, the Seven Kingdoms will do the same. Without her, the lords will only mock his claim and brand him a fraud and a pretender. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}}

Nevertheless the men of the [[Golden Company]] are sick of waiting for Daenerys, who is ensconced in [[Meereen]] and female besides, whom they refer to as “a child queen” a “girl” and a “little queen”. They decide to take their chances on Aegon.

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
One of the visions [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sees in the [[House of the Undying]] involves Rhaegar, Elia, and Aegon. In this vision, a newborn Aegon nurses from the breast of Elia. The woman is seated in a great wooden bed. Rhaegar decides on the name "Aegon" for his newborn son, as he thinks the name fit for a king. Elia asks whether Rhaegar will make a song for their son. He replies that Aegon already has a song, "[[the song of ice and fire]]". Part of his role as "the prince that was promised".

However, Rhaegar then claims that there must be "one more", since "the dragon has three heads". Rhaegar moves to a seat near the window, and picks up a harp. Daenerys listens to the "sweet sadness" of his music as the vision fades away. {{Ref|aCoK|48}}

Daenerys later describes this vision to [[Jorah Mormont]]. Jorah helps her confirm the identities of the people in this vision but points out that if Aegon was the promised prince, the promise was broken with his death. {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Daenerys notices a pattern in the names Rhaegar chose for his children. They were named after [[Aegon I Targaryen]] and his sisters. There was a daughter named after the original [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], but none named after [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]]. She wonders if that was the missing third head of the dragon. Neither Daenerys nor Jorah have heard of the term "song of ice and fire". They are unable to determine its meaning. {{Ref|aCoK|63}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
[[File: Pojypojy_Griff&YoungGriff.jpg‎|[[Griff]] and Young Griff - by Pojypojy ©|thumb|300px|right]]
While in [[Meereen]], [[Daenerys]] has mused about Aegon who would have been the sixth to sit on the [[Iron Throne]]. She is yet unaware that he is alive. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} She thought to herself:

{{Quote|''If he had lived, I might have married him. Aegon would have been closer to my age than Viserys''. {{Ref|aDwD|2}} }}

To better conceal his identity Aegon dyes his silver hair blue, which also serves to makes his [[violet eyes]] appear blue. He uses the false story that his mother was a [[Tyrosh|Tyroshi]] who dyed her hair blue, and that he dyes his own hair to honor her memory. {{Ref|aDwD|8}} {{Ref|aDwD|14}} {{ref|aDwD|18}}

In {{Date|300}}, [[Illyrio Mopatis]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]] jointly depart [[Pentos]], heading towards the river Rhoyne. On the journey Illyrio explains the purpose of Tyrion's mission. He and "Griff" ([[Jon Connington]] in disguise]]) are to head towards [[Volantis]] and wait for the expected arrival of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in that city, with fresh forces and more ships for her cause. Based on Illyrio's information, Daenerys has conquered [[Astapor]], made [[Yunkai]] bend the knee and sacked [[Meereen]]. He estimates that Daenerys is heading westwards, either by land to [[Mantarys]] or by sea to Volantis. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

Tyrion wants more information on Griff, who Illyrio supposedly trusts as a brother. Illyrio simply points that unlike most [[Mercenary|sellswords]], Griff is a doting father. He also mentions that his boy, "Young Griff" (Aegon) is a noble lad. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}

During their journey down the Rhoyne on the [[Shy Maid]], Tyrion and Aegon play a game of [[cyvasse]]. During the game, Tyrion fishes for information as to Connington and Illyrio's plan, namely that Aegon will be married to his aunt Daenerys. Tyrion warns the prince that Daenerys might not be accommodating, shocking Aegon. Tyrion points out that Daenerys is a proud, strong, and fierce young woman who will not appreciate a relative coming to her with a begging bowl, certainly not one with a stronger claim to the [[Iron Throne]] than her own. Aegon angrily denies being a beggar, pointing at his own army: the [[Golden Company]]. Tyrion points out that Daenerys has a larger army than his own and owes nothing to Aegon. Aegon protests, trusting in Lord Connington to win her over. Tyrion calls him a fool, warning him: {{Quote|Trust no one, my prince. {{ref|aDwD|22}} }}

Tyrion plants the seeds of doubt in the young prince, pointing that Haldon, Jon Connington, Rolly Duckfield, Lemore and every one of the friends who raised him could also betray him, and that Illyrio Mopatis, Varys, and Daenerys are even less trustworthy. {{ref|aDwD|22}} He then suggests a different course of action to Aegon: heading to [[Westeros]] instead of going east, taking advantage of all the problems caused by the [[War of the Five Kings]]. He points that [[the North]] is in a chaotic condition, the [[Riverlands]] are devastated, while [[Stannis Baratheon]] holds [[Storm's End]] and [[Dragonstone]]. The coming winter will starve out the realm. He then paints the opposition as particularly weak. He points that King [[Tommen Baratheon]] is just a boy, and all his potential regents come with their own problems. [[Cersei Lannister]] will alienate her own allies, [[Jaime Lannister]] actively avoids the responsibility of ruling, and [[Kevan Lannister]] is a born follower. [[Mace Tyrell]] will have to fight the Lannisters to become regent, and Stannis' unpopularity makes him an unlikely choice. Only a victorious Aegon can hope to meet Daenerys as her equal. The game of cyvasse ends with a loss for Aegon.{{ref|aDwD|22}}

Their journey brings them to [[Volon Therys]], where Jon Connington and Aegon depart the ship, heading towards the camp of the [[Golden Company]]. Connington introduces "Young Griff" as Aegon VI, King of the [[Andal]]s, [[Rhoynar]], and the [[First Men]]. This introduction is met with silence by the officers. Connington realizes that all of them were aware of Aegon's identity for some time. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

Connington and the the officers briefly discuss Daenerys' lingering presence in Meereen, and whether they should join the ongoing conflict in [[Slaver's Bay]]. Several of them are already disillusioned with Daenerys. Aegon sees the opportunity to introduce his own plan of going to Westeros and claiming the throne in his own name. Strickland tries to point out the risk of this plan, but most of the officers are eager to support this course of action. Aegon further explains that his aunt is welcome to keep Meereen. His plan is to move fast and strike hard, gaining a foothold before the Lannisters can react. This would certainly gain them some new allies. Connington is impressed, thinking that this is a new side of Aegon. All officers swear allegiance to Aegon. They agree, however, to keep his identity secret from the soldiers at least until they actually land in Westeros. {{ref|aDwD|24}}

The entire Golden Company's 10,000 men departed Volantis. Not quite half of them made it to Westeros, [[Landing of the Golden Company|landing]] at [[Cape Wrath]] and [[Greenstone]]. Connington leads 1/4 of the forces in seizing [[Griffin's Roost]]. Simultaneously [[Tristan Rivers]] besieges [[Crows Nest]], and [[Laswell Peake]] besieges [[Rain House]]. Aegon remains in their camp, guarded by the remaining 1/4 of the Company under [[Gorys Edoryen]]. Haldon collects information about the military and diplomatic situation across Westeros. He already considers marital alliances for King Aegon and his [[Hand of the King]], Jon Connington. The latter is against both such plans. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington receives news that part of the missing four ships landed in [[Estermont]]. [[Marq Mandrake]] has led the men there in capturing [[Greenstone]]. The rest of the ships are still missing. Franklyn Flowers suggests that the missing men are scattered across the [[Stepstones]]. Connington decides to bring Aegon to Griffin's Roost for increased safety. Franklyn points out,however, that Aegon would like to be in the thick of things. {{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington has a plan to capture [[Storm's End]], last foothold of Stannis in the [[Stormlands]]. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Four days later, Aegon arrives at Griffin's Roost. He rides at the head of a column including a hundred [[horse]]s with their riders, and three [[elephant]]s. He is accompanied by Lemore and Rolly Duckfield, the first person in his version of the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|aDwD|61}} Connington remembers arguing with Aegon over the appointment of Rolly. Connington had pointed out that positions in the Kingsguard should be reserved for warriors of great renown and/or sons of great lords. Aegon pointed out that [[Jaime Lannister]] fit that description perfectly, and was currently known as the Kingslayer. He would rather have men personally loyal to himself, ready to die for his safety. {{ref|aDwD|61}}

Connington asks to have the Prince escorted to his [[solar]], but soon realizes that Prince Aegon is less pliant than Young Griff. Aegon leaves him waiting for "the better half of a hour", bringing Duck with him instead of coming alone. Connington tries to dismiss the bodyguard, but Aegon insists on having Rolly by his side. Aegon mentions discussing the plan to take Storm's End with Strickland and Flowers. Strickland even tried to persuade him to delay the plan. Aegon, however, feels Strickland is a bit of "an old maid" and is in favor of the plan, with one significant change: he intends to personally lead the attack.{{ref|aDwD|61}}

===The Winds of Winter===
[[Arianne Martell]] has departed [[Sunspear]] on a mission from her [[Doran Martell|father]] to discover the truth about the supposed Aegon Targaryen. On the castle battlements of [[Ghost Hill]] she asks Ser [[Daemon Sand]] could this truly be Prince Aegon? He replies,
{{Quote|If Lord Connington’s prince has a crushed skull, I will believe that Aegon Targaryen has returned from the grave. Elsewise, no. This is some feigned boy, no more. A sellsword’s ploy to win support. <ref>[http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html ''The Winds of Winter'', Arianne sample chapter]</ref>}}

==Quotes by Aegon==
{{Quote|Why should I go running to [[Dany|my aunt]] as if I were a beggar? My claim is better than her own. Let her come to me … in [[Westeros]]. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

{{Quote|I am the only dragon that you need. {{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} - Aegon Targaryen, to the high officers of the [[Golden Company]]

==Quotes about Aegon==
{{Quote|''Aegon has been shaped for rule before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. [[Tommen I|Tommen]] has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them.'' {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}} - [[Varys]] to [[Kevan Lannister]]

{{Quote|The perfect prince but still half a boy for all that, with little and less experience of the world and all its woes. {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]], contemplating Prince Aegon on the [[Shy Maid]]

{{Quote|''My [[Tywin Lannister|lord father]] wrapped your corpse in a crimson cloak and laid you down beside [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|your sister]] at the foot of the [[Iron Throne]], his gift to the [[Robert Baratheon|new king]]. Those who had the stomach to lift the cloak said that half your head was gone.'' {{Ref|aDwD|18}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] discussing Prince Aegon's supposed death during the [[Sack of King's Landing]]

{{Quote|How do you suppose this [[Daenerys Targaryen|queen]] will react when you turn up with your begging bowl in hand and say 'Good morrow to you, Auntie. I'm your nephew Aegon, returned from the dead. I've been hiding on a [[Shy Maid|poleboat]] all my life, but now I've washed the blue dye from my hair and I'd like a [[dragon]] please... anf oh, did I mention that my claim to the [[Iron Throne]] is stronger than yours? {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}}
- [[Tyrion Lannister]] musing on how Aegon intends to present himself to his aunt Daenerys.

{{Quote|''His silvery hair was blowing in the wind, and his eyes were a deep purple, darker than this boy's.'' {{Ref|aDwD|61}}}}
- [[Jon Connington]] reminisces about Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] as he addressed Aegon following the capture of [[Griffin's Roost]] by the [[Golden Company]].

{{Quote|[[Kevan Lannister]] had been here, in this very hall when Tywin had laid the bodies of Prince Rhaegar's children at the foot of the Iron Throne, wrapped up in crimson cloaks. The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy... '''a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon and we took him at his word'''. {{Ref|aDwD|Epilogue}}}}

==Family==
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==Survival speculation==
{{main|Aegon Targaryen/Theories}}
Even before ''A Dance With Dragons'' was released, there was speculation regarding whether or not Aegon Targaryen survived. Martin did not confirm that the character died, though he did confirm that his sister was slain.<ref>Westeros. "Elia’s Children." (August 6, 2000). [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Elias_Children So Spake Martin]</ref> Fans debated who might be the real Aegon suggesting [[Edric Dayne]], [[Samwell Tarly]], [[Daario Naharis]], among others. The question of the character's survival continued even after ''A Dance With Dragons'', with readers questioning Varys's story of the [[Pisswater prince]].

==References and Notes==
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Tyrion Lannister

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| Alias = The Imp Halfman Giant of Lannister Yollo Hugor Hill No-Nose Freak Dwarf
| Title = Acting [[Hand of the King]] (former) [[Master of Coin]] (former) Lord of Casterly Rock (by birth) Shield of [[Lannisport]] (by birth) [[Warden of the West]] (by birth) Lord Paramount of the Westerlands (by birth)
| Allegiance = [[Second Sons]] [[House Lannister]]
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| Spouse = [[Tysha]], 1st (annulled) [[Sansa Stark]], 2nd (unconsummated)
| Place_of_Birth = [[Casterly Rock]]
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|274}}
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| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (POV) [[A Clash of Kings]] (POV) [[A Storm of Swords]] (POV) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (POV) [[The Winds of Winter]] (POV)
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| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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[[File:Tyrion arrested by Catelyn.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion arrested by [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] in the [[Crossroads Inn]].]]
[[File:Tyrion and Mord.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion being held in the [[Sky Cells]] at the [[Eyrie]].]]
[[File:Tyrion Battle of the Green Fork Hbo.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion at the [[Battle of the Green Fork]].]]

'''Tyrion Lannister''', is the third and youngest child of [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Joanna Lannister|Joanna]]. Tyrion is a dwarf, because of this he is sometimes mockingly called '''The Imp''' and '''The Halfman'''. He is one of the major [[POV Character]]s in the books. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], Tyrion is played by [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]].<ref>HBO: Game of Thrones:[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#/game-of-thrones/cast-and-crew/index.html Cast and Crew].</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
:''See also [[:Category:Images of Tyrion Lannister]]''

Tyrion is shrewd, educated, and calculating, but receives little respect for this from his father, because of his deformity, and the death of his mother during his birth.{{ref|asos|70}} He is capable of cruelty to his enemies, but also has great sympathy for fellow outcasts and the mistreated.{{ref|agot|24}} Tyrion gets on well with his brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] but has a cooler relationship with sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. Tyrion’s deformity was the cause of many problems and persecution, although mitigated to some extent by his high social standing and his family’s wealth and power.

Tyrion is a dwarf, he has stubby legs, a jutting forehead, mismatched eyes of green and black,{{ref|agot|5}} and a mixture of pale blond and black hair.{{ref|adwd|47}} Later, he grows a beard, which also contains both blonde and black hair.{{ref|acok|2}} After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion has a grisly facial scar that has removed most of his nose.{{ref|asos|4}}
==History==
Tyrion was born the third child of Tywin and Joanna Lannister when his two older siblings, Cersei and Jaime, were already nine years old. His mother died giving birth to him, and as a result his father blamed him for her death and hates him for that and for his deformity. Tyrion finds himself excluded from regular family life, especially by his father and by his sister, who abused him during his childhood.

When Tyrion was thirteen, he and his brother Jaime rescued a common girl, [[Tysha]], from some bandits. While Jaime went after the bandits Tyrion took care of Tysha. To his amazement Tysha liked him, and they eventually made love. Tyrion became so enamoured by her that he bribed a [[septon]] and married her in secret. Tysha would sing the [[Myr|Myrish]] song "[[Seasons of My Love|The Seasons of My Love]]". Their happiness lasted only two weeks, however, before Tyrion’s father got news of the wedding. Lord Tywin commanded Jaime to say that Tysha was a prostitute whom Jaime had hired for Tyrion’s benefit. Because the “whore” had presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more.{{ref|agot|42}}

After his brother’s proposed marriage to [[Lysa Tully]] fell through when [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] named Jaime to the [[Kingsguard]], Tywin offered Tyrion as a replacement, only to be told by [[Hoster Tully]] that his daughter required a “whole man”.{{ref|asos|19}}

When Tyrion became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden from taking a tour of the nine [[Free Cities]] as his uncles [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]] and [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] had done. Instead, Tywin gave him charge of all the cisterns and drains at [[Casterly Rock]].{{ref|adwd|8}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Tyrion goes north to [[Winterfell]] as part of King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] royal procession.{{ref|agot|4}} After [[Bran Stark|Bran Stark’s]] fall, Tyrion makes [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] offer his sympathies to Bran’s parents, though his nephew only obeys after Tyrion hits him.{{ref|agot|9}} Suspicious of the accident, Tyrion took notice of his siblings’ reactions to the news that Bran is expected to survive.{{ref|agot|9}}

When the royal family leaves Winterfell, Tyrion rides north to see the [[Wall]] before returning south. He joins the [[Night’s Watch|ranger]] [[Benjen Stark]] and new recruit [[Jon Snow]] for the journey and is accompanied by two guards, [[Jyck]] and [[Morrec]]. While at the Wall, Tyrion sees firsthand the poor state of the Night’s Watch; {{ref|agot|13}} it is dwindling in numbers, ranging parties are going missing more often than usual, and [[wildlings]] are fleeing south like never before. He is implored by [[Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont]] to make King Robert and his father, Lord Tywin, aware of the Watch’s needs.

During his time at the Wall, Tyrion befriends and advises Jon Snow. Tyrion sees himself as an outcast on similar ground as the bastard-born Snow and helps Jon cope with his identity and lot in life. Before Tyrion leaves the Wall, Jon asks him to help his brother Bran in the same way that he helped Jon; Tyrion promises to do so.{{ref|agot|21}} On his way back south, he stops at Winterfell. Despite initially receiving a hostile welcome from [[Robb Stark]] and an attack from the Stark [[direwolf|direwolves]] at his arrival, Tyrion gives [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] plans for a special saddle that will allow Bran to ride a horse despite his disability and is offered rooms at Winterfell. He declines, choosing to stay at an inn nearby.{{ref|agot|24}}

On his way back to [[King’s Landing]] Tyrion encounters [[Catelyn Stark]] at the [[Crossroads Inn]]. Unknown to Tyrion, Catelyn was told by [[Petyr Baelish]] that the dagger used in Bran’s failed assassination attempt belonged to Tyrion. As a result, Catelyn, with the help of some of her father’s [[Bannerman|bannermen]] present at the inn, arrests Tyrion and takes him to the [[Eyrie]] to be tried.{{ref|agot|28}}{{ref|agot|31}} There, [[Lysa Tully|Lysa Arryn]] puts him on trial for the crime of sending an assassin to end Bran’s life, as well as the murder of her husband [[Jon Arryn]], though he is innocent of both. To break him, Lysa locks him up in the [[Sky Cells|sky cells]], which are prison cells with a floor slanted toward an exposed cliff side. While confined in the sky cell, Tyrion wonders about who the true perpetrators of his accused crimes could be. He thinks it possible that his siblings were responsible for both, but that Bran’s assassination attempt seems too clumsily done to be Jaime or Cersei’s work. Tyrion eventually manages to bribe his gaoler [[Mord]] into telling Lysa that he is ready to confess. When Lysa summons the complete court of the [[Vale]] to hear his confession, he demands a [[trial by combat]].{{ref|agot|38}}

Tyrion’s champion, the sellsword [[Bronn]], kills Lysa’s champion Ser [[Vardis Egen]], securing Tyrion’s freedom.{{ref|agot|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[High Road]], and along the way they are surrounded by men of the [[mountain clans of the Vale|mountain clans]], led by [[Shagga]]. Tyrion uses his quick wits and words to win over the clansmen by promising them weapons, armor, and glory.{{ref|agot|42}} The group rides out of the mountains, eventually reaching the Lannister host led by his father, Lord Tywin, who has invaded the [[Riverlands]] following Tyrion’s capture.

Lord Tywin decides to place Tyrion and his clansmen in the front for the upcoming battle with the Stark forces and Tyrion is given a number of new servants including a new squire, [[Podrick Payne]]. That night, he seds Bronn looking for a female companion for him, and Bronn brings back a young prostitute named [[Shae]], whom Tyrion takes an immediate liking to and takes into his service. The next day, he fights in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]] against Stark forces commanded by [[Roose Bolton]].{{ref|agot|62}} The battle is won, though afterward the Lannisters learn it was only a diversion and that meanwhile Jaime Lannister’s host was defeated at Riverrun and he himself was captured. Lord Tywin retreats to [[Harrenhal]] and sends Tyrion to King’s Landing to act as [[Hand of the King]] in his stead, to rein in his newly crowned nephew and prevent further mistakes from Joffrey like [[Eddard Stark]]’s execution, but forbids him from taking Shae along. Tyrion disobeys and Shae accompanies him in secret.{{ref|agot|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Tyrion, along with his mountain clansmen, Shae, and Bronn, arrives at King’s Landing and presents his father Tywin’s letter which names him the Hand of the King in his father’s absence, much to Cersei’s dismay. She threatens to name it a forgery and throw him in the dungeon, but Tyrion tells her that he can get Jaime back and Cersei concedes. She also admits she needs help and agrees to ally herself with Tyrion, though they both have no intention of keeping it. This leads to a power struggle between the two. Tyrion takes up residence in the [[Tower of the Hand]] and as his first act of business removes the heads of the executed [[House Stark|Stark]] household from the walls of the [[Red Keep]].{{ref|acok|3}}

Tyrion forges an alliance with [[Varys]] who helps him to replace [[Janos Slynt]] with Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] as Commander of the [[City Watch of King’s Landing|City Watch]] and sends Slynt and a few of his cronies to the Wall.{{ref|acok|8}} Next he concocts a plan to weed out Cersei’s informants on the [[small council]]. He tells Petyr Baelish, Varys, and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] each different plans that he has for [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]; {{ref|acok|17}} when Cersei confronts him about the plan that he divulged to Pycelle, Tyrion knows that Pycelle is the informant.{{ref|acok|20}} Tyrion’s true plan is to send Myrcella to [[Dorne]] to be betrothed to Prince [[Trystane Martell]]. To further garner Dornish support, he offers Prince [[Doran Martell]] a seat on the small council and promises to turn over the men that murdered Doran’s sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]].{{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|20}} For his part in giving Cersei private information, Pycelle is confined to the black cells beneath the keep.{{ref|acok|25}}

With his place at court secure and successfully outsmarting Cersei at every turn, Tyrion begins a series of initiatives to prepare the city for the siege, commanding the construction of fishing boats. He also opens the [[Kingswood]] for hunting and sends gold cloaks out to forage, but this is still not enough to feed the overcrowded city. He commands the blacksmiths around the city to begin construction on a giant chain which will allow him to close the [[Blackwater Rush]]. He also has [[Hallyne]] of the [[Alchemists’ Guild]] synthesize a large quantity of [[wildfire]]. Eventually, he sends his clansmen to the Kingswood to snuff out outriders and scouts loyal to [[Stannis Baratheon]].

Tyrion sets Shae up in a manse outside the [[Red Keep]] to keep her existence in King’s Landing a secret.{{ref|acok|8}} Varys, however, knows her location, and helps Tyrion use [[Chataya’s brothel]] as a front. Once inside the brothel, Tyrion passes through a tunnel that takes him to a location where he can safely travel to Shae’s manse without being followed.{{ref|acok|15}} She is restless there, however, and wishes to see more of court. Following the [[riot of King’s Landing]], Tyrion moves Shae to the Red Keep for her safety in the guise of [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys’s]] maid.{{ref|acok|44}}

Tyrion’s cousin, Ser [[Cleos Frey]], brings peace terms from Robb Stark, asking that [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark]] be released (although Arya is not, in fact, held at King’s Landing) in exchange for all captives save Jaime, and that Joffrey renounce all claims to the [[North]] and Riverlands.{{ref|acok|7}} Tyrion deems the terms unacceptable {{ref|acok|20}} and sends Cleos back with the counter-offer that he will release Sansa and Arya along with a number of captive Stark bannermen in return for Robb’s fealty and Jaime’s release, setting up an escape plan for Jamie to be orchestrated by men in Cleos’s party.{{ref|acok|25}} Tyrion is also visited by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] of the Night’s Watch, who has brought with him the severed hand of a [[wight]] from the Wall, but it rots away before he can present it. Ser Alliser is mocked by Tyrion and the court, but is promised his pick of the city’s dungeons as recruits.{{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}}

When [[Renly Baratheon]] is murdered, Tyrion seizes the opportunity to bring the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] to the Lannister cause. He sends Petyr Baelish to treat with the Tyrells and offers Joffrey in marriage to [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|acok|36}} Tyrion continues to thwart Cersei’s plans, including one to send a disguised Tommen to [[Rosby]] to remove him from the reach of the mobs and Tyrion.{{ref|acok|44}} On one occasion Tyrion drugs her so that she will not be able to attend the small council.{{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}} In retaliation Cersei has [[Alayaya]], who she believes is Tyrion’s whore, seized and beaten, offering her freedom in return for custody over Tommen. Tyrion is furious and swears to take from Cersei everything she cares about.{{ref|acok|54}}

When Stannis’s forces attack King’s Landing, later called the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion sets in place a giant chain in [[Blackwater Bay]] which traps many ships, Lannister and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] alike. The wildfire commissioned from the Alchemists is then launched at the ships and they are trapped in the bay to burn.{{ref|acok|58}} During the battle, Tyrion is forced to lead a sortie out past the city walls because [[Sandor Clegane]], terrified of fire, refuses to do so.{{ref|acok|59}} Tyrion heads his men in a wedge formation dispersing the men assaulting the [[King’s Gate]]. He then continues with his men to hold the men crossing over a makeshift bridge made of of sinking galleys of Stannis’s fleet in the river. During the battle, Ser [[Mandon Moore]] of the Kingsguard turns on Tyrion and tries to kill him, slicing off his nose, but Tyrion is saved by his squire Podrick Payne before Moore could finish him.{{ref|acok|61}} Tyrion passes out and wakes up in bed some time after the battle, suffering from serious facial wounds and the loss of most of his nose.{{ref|acok|67}} Tyrion suspects that Cersei was behind the assassination attempt.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Flawed by algesiras.jpg|thumb|300px|Tyrion loveless marriage to [[Sansa Stark]]. Art by algesiras ©]]


Tyrion makes a complete recovery some weeks later, only to learn that Lord Tywin had taken all the glory and taken over as Hand. Tyrion finds himself demoted to [[Master of Coin]], replacing [[Petyr Baelish]] and forced into a political marriage with Sansa Stark to forestall a Tyrell move to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]].{{ref|asos|19}}

The wedding to Sansa goes forward, though Tyrion chooses to defy custom and does not consummate their marriage, saying he will not touch her unless and until she wants him to. His father pushes him to consummate the marriage with [[Sansa]] for the good of the house, but Tyrion never does - a decision that earns him scorn and jest in court.{{ref|asos|28}} Tyrion’s marriage brings him no joy, as Sansa is repulsed by him and [[Shae]] remains indifferent.{{ref|asos|32}}

At King Joffrey’s wedding feast, Tyrion gets into an altercation with Joffrey, and soon afterwards the king is murdered, an act for which Tyrion is unjustly accused and arrested by command of Cersei.{{ref|asos|60}} Tyrion again stands trial for a crime he did not commit. During the trial, [[Cersei]] brings Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack]], who lies that Joffrey believed Tyrion meant to muder him; Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole poison from him and Shae is brought to humiliate him before the court. After the first day the situation seems hopeless, but Tyrion again seeks trial by combat after Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] visits his cell and offers to serve as his champion in the trial. In the trial, Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] stands against [[Gregor Clegane]], but fails to win, although not without mortally wounding him first.{{ref|asos|70}}

Oberyn’s death condemns Tyrion, but the night before he is to be executed, he is freed from his prison cell by his brother [[Jaime]] and a reluctant [[Varys]]. During their escape, Jaime reveals that their father made him lie about [[Tysha]] being a prostitute, and that she was just a peasant girl who had genuinely loved Tyrion.

Tyrion sees this admission as an unforgivable betrayal and abandons Jaime, promising retribution on Jaime, Tywin and Cersei. He also torments Jaime by telling his brother of Cersei's repeated infidelities, and falsely claims responsibility for Joffrey's death.

Before leaving the [[Red Keep]], Tyrion visits his father’s room and, finding [[Shae]] in his bed, strangles her. He then confronts his father, demanding he tell him what became of Tysha. Tywin tells Tyrion that she went ''“wherever whores go.”'' Tyrion then slays his father and escapes.{{ref|asos|77}} He flees [[Across the Narrow Sea|across the Narrow Sea]] to an unknown destination chosen by [[Varys]]. After his escape, Cersei offers a lordship for any that brings her Tyrion.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Tyrion remains in his flight across the Narrow Sea. He is regarded by most as accursed as a [[Kinslaying|kinslayer]] and Kingslayer, although he is guilty of only the former. Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, Cersei’s bounty on Tyrion results in the killing of a number of innocent dwarfs and children; Cersei refuses to publicly punish anyone who does so, for fear it will discourage other such bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Tyrion flees across the [[Narrow Sea]], pondering his options. Tyrion arrives drunk and despondent at the manse of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in [[Pentos]].{{ref|adwd|1}} There Illyrio tells Tyrion of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and her three [[Dragon|dragons]].

He then sends Tyrion, along with retainers Griff, Young Griff, Ser [[Rolly Duckfield]], Septa [[Lemore]], and [[Haldon]], called Halfmaester, aboard the ship ''[[Shy Maid]]'' to [[Volantis]]. During the trip, Tyrion assumes the aliases Yollo and Hugor Hill.{{ref|adwd|5}} In Volantis, he and his companions plan to meet up with Daenerys to strengthen her cause. En route, Tyrion realizes that Griff is in fact the exiled lord [[Jon Connington]], and Young Griff is [[Aegon Targaryen]], saved from the [[Sack of King’s Landing]]. During the journey, the boat is ambushed by [[stone men]] and Tyrion is knocked overboard; he would have drowned had Jon Connington not dived in to save him.{{ref|adwd|18}}

While in [[Selhorys]], Tyrion (under Haldon’s direction) plays a game of [[Cyvasse]] with [[Qavo Nogarys]], a customs offical, in order to gain information. Tyrion later visits a brothel, a modest one compared to those he he had been wont to frequent in [[Lannisport]] and King’s Landing, where he is recognized and captured by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]].{{ref|adwd|22}} Jorah plans to bring Tyrion to Daenerys to regain her favor. Jorah takes him to the [[Widow of the Waterfront]] to try and arrange passage out of Volantis. There Tyrion meets a female dwarf performer named [[Penny]] who, upon learning that Tyrion was indirectly responsible for her brother [[Oppo]]’s death, tries to kill him.{{ref|adwd|27}} Penny joins the pair as they travel to [[Meereen]] by sea aboard the ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'', where the crew take to calling him No-Nose, to reach Daenerys. On the ship Penny eventually befriends Tyrion.{{ref|adwd|33}}

While aboard the ''Selaesori Qhoran'', Tyrion makes the acquaintance of [[Moqorro]]. One night Tyrion asks him what he sees in the flames. Moqorro replies dragons, adding:

{{Quote|Dragons [[Maester Aemon|old]] and young, true and false, [[House Targaryen|bright]] and [[House Blackfyre|dark]]. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.}}

Tyrion wonders if he may be seeing Penny in the flames as they are almost of size, Moqorro tells him no.

Soon, however, Tyrion, Penny, and Mormont are captured by a [[Yunkai|Yunkai’i]] slaver and bought by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]. They are instructed by his overseer [[Nurse]] on how to treat their new master.{{ref|adwd|47}} Tyrion and Penny are forced to perform a mock joust in the [[fighting pits]], not knowing that they were to be eaten by lions at the end of the show. Daenerys Targaryen, for whom the show was staged, learns of their impending fate and stops the lions from being released.{{ref|adwd|52}}

After their new master dies of the [[bloody flux]] the trio escapes. Tyrion arranges for the three to join the sellsword company the [[Second Sons]], under the command of [[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]], by promising the company the wealth of Casterly Rock.{{ref|adwd|57}}{{ref|adwd|66}} While the Sons’ current contract is to fight Daenerys, Tyrion hopes to win them to her side.

==Relationships==
===Tywin Lannister===
[[File:Tywin and Tyrion.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion and his father. ([[Game of Thrones|TV series]])]]
[[File:Tyrion and shae by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion and [[Shae]], his favourite. Art by algesiras ©]]

Tyrion has a difficult relation with his father. His mother died giving birth to Tyrion, something his father never forgave him.{{ref|asos|4}} When his father found out Tyrion had married Tysha, he had her raped by his guardsmen and finally by Tyrion himself to teach them a lesson.{{ref|agot|42}} Her memory haunted him for a very long time {{ref|acok|29}} and he began to seek his pleasure with prostitutes.{{ref|acok|8}} To his father this brought further shame on their house.{{ref|asos|4}} Tyrion himself has thought about killing his father.{{ref|agot|42}}

When Tyrion was kidnapped by Catelyn Tully, his father invaded [[the Riverlands]] not out of concern for Tyrion but to defend the honour of their house. Later he had Tyrion fight in the vanguard at the Battle of the Green Fork which made Tyrion suspect that his father would not have been unhappy to see him killed.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

Though their relation is bad, his father recognized his capacities enough to send him to King’s Landing to act as Hand of the King in his stead.{{ref|agot|69}} Tyrion did well, keeping the Dornish neutral and building a chain across the Blackwater river to trap [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]’ fleet, something his father acknowledged. As a reward Tyrion asked to be named Tywin’s heir, which he was under the laws as Jaime had joined the Kingsguard and thus was unable to inherit. His father flatly refused, saying that he would never allow Tyrion to make Casterly Rock his whorehouse.{{ref|asos|4}}

After Joffrey’s death, Cersei accused Tyrion of murdering him. Tywin formed a court to sit in judgement of his son. Tyrion demanded a trial by battle and when his champion lost his father sentenced him to death though it is not clear if Tywin really thought Tyrion was guilty. Jaime freed Tyrion the night before his execution. He told him this was to make up for lying to Tyrion that Tysha had been a whore who was after riches while she had been what she claimed to be: a common girl and in love with Tyrion. Armed with this knowledge Tyrion visited his father and found him with Shae, Tyrion’s former mistress. Tyrion killed them both.{{ref|asos|77}}

===Cersei Lannister===
Cersei Lannister is Tyrion’s older sister and has always despised him. When Oberyn Martell and his sister Elia Martell visited Casterly Rock in their teens, they were shown the newborn baby Tyrion by both Jaime and Cersei. Cersei twisted Tyrion’s penis until he cried, only stopping when Jaime intervened. When she read how [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]] imprisoned his sisters for being beautiful, Cersei went to Tyrion’s nursery and pinched him till he cried. Cersei’s cruelty to Tyrion only increased when she heard the prophecy of [[Maggy|Maggy the Frog]] and the meaning of the word [[valonqar]] ([[High Valyrian]] for "little brother").

She never kept her hatred for Tyrion a secret and made him aware of it throughout his life, and Tyrion returned her hatred in kind, developing a deep contempt for Cersei. Tyrion even dreamed of hiring a [[Faceless Men|Faceless Man]] to kill his sister.{{ref|acok|44}} The only thing that kept the two from harming each other was Jaime. Cersei once stated that she would have killed Tyrion but Jaime would never have forgiven her if she did {{ref|acok|54}} and Tyrion would not have harmed Cersei because he loves his brother Jaime and knows how much Cersei means to him.

The ironic thing is if Cersei had only ever treated Tyrion with even a little love and respect (a thing Tyrion craves for, especially from his family), Tyrion would return this with utter devotion and love to Cersei, the same he feels for his brother Jaime. Unknown to Tyrion is that every time Cersei see’s Tyrion or thinks of him all she remember is the prophecy of Maggy the Frog. When Joffrey was murdered, Cersei falsely believed Tyrion was responsible and did everything in her power to see him die, even getting his former whore Shae to lie and humiliate her “valonqar” further before his death.

When Tyrion escaped and killed Tywin, Cersei now sees him in every shadow. She offered a [[Lord|lordship]] to any man who killed Tyrion, resulting in the mass murder of innocent dwarfs and small children. In addition, Cersei will not punish any man who kills an innocent dwarf as she believes it might make the next man hesitate.

Cersei, upon hearing about Mrycella’s injury at the hands of [[Gerold Dayne|Ser Gerold Dayne]], believed Dayne was Tyrion’s catspaw and that Tyrion had him cut off Myrcella’s ear the way an agent of Cersei ([[Mandon Moore|Ser Mandon Moore]]) once cut off Tyrion’s nose. With her uncle [[Kevan Lannister]] now dead by the crossbow bolt (unknown to Cersei is the fact Kevan was killed by Varys), Cersei will most likely believe Tyrion killed Kevan the same way he killed their father and will see even more of him in the shadows and in her nightmares. Tyrion also remarks on his journey that the only reward he will ask from Daenerys Targaryen for his service is the right to rape and kill Cersei.

===Jaime Lannister===
Jaime Lannister is Tyrion’s older brother. Growing up Jaime was the only one who ever treated Tyrion with love and affection and for this Tyrion believed he would forgive his brother for anything.{{ref|agot|9}} Jaime was full of guilt over the lie their father had him tell Tyrion about Tysha, as Jaime was unaware of what his father planned and upon hearing about it lives with further guilt. The guilt had Jaime free his brother even when he was not sure of Tyrion’s innocence in the murder of his son Joffrey.

Upon freeing his brother, Jaime finally confessed the truth about Tysha causing an enraged Tyrion to reveal to Jaime the truth about Cersei’s infidelity towards Jaime and Tyrion also falsely told Jaime he did indeed kill his son Joffrey just to further hurt Jaime.

Tyrion mentioned to Illyrio Mopatis that Jaime and Cersei are his to kill. Despite this statement Tyrion while having no doubt about his desire to kill and hurt Cersei still harbours mixed feelings towards Jaime.

===His Uncles===
From all reports, Tyrion got on well with all of his uncles, [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]], [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] and [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]].

Gerion and Tygett once asked Tyrion what gift he would like for his next nameday, Tyrion asked for a baby [[dragon]] and Tygett kindly told Tyrion that all the dragons were extinct and was careful not to hurt his nephew’s feelings. When [[Tyrek Lannister]] disappeared in the riots of King’s Landing, Tyrion instructed the watch that the lad was to be found alive or dead as his father, Tygett, was always kind to Tyrion.

Gerion gifted Tyrion with the Books [[Wonders]] and [[Wonders Made by Man]] by [[Lomas Longstrider]] and often had Tyrion recite the sixteen wonders of the World. Tyrion wished to accompany his uncle Gerion on his quest to find and retrieve [[Brightroar]] but his father would not allow him.

Until Tyrion was accused of killing Joffrey, Kevan Lannister was respectful to Tyrion and was one of the few after his injuries during the battle of the Blackwater to praise him and his abilities.

===Tysha===
Tysha was Tyrion’s first wife. For years Tyrion believed she was a whore who his brother hired so Tyrion could experience his first woman. Because of this he thought women would only want him for his money.{{ref|acok|3}} When Jaime rescued Tyrion from his cell he told him the truth: Tysha was a girl chance met on the road. As she had seemed to genuinely love Tyrion, he became furious with his brother. In retaliation Tyrion told Jaime that Cersei had bedded others and that he had killed Jaime’s son. The latter part was not true but was said to hurt Jaime.{{ref|asos|77}}

===Shae===
Shae was Tyrion’s whore who he began, despite his better judgement, to develop feelings towards. In order to protect Shae, Tyrion enlisted Varys help in creating an alias of Shae as a bedmaid. Tyrion reminded himself on several occasions that the only thing Shae loved about him was his gold. It turns out his assessment was correct, as Shae testified against him in his trial falsely (under Cersei’s direction) claiming Tyrion planned to kill the King, his father and his sister and seize the throne for himself.{{ref|asos|77}}

When Tyrion escaped his dungeon he went to his father's chamber. There he found Shae in his father’s bed. He killed her and later his father.{{ref|asos|77}}{{Clear}}

==Quotes by Tyrion==

{{Quote|'''Tyrion''': Let me give you some advice bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
'''Jon''': What the hell do you know about being a bastard?

'''Tyrion''': All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes.
{{ref|aGOT|5}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|''My mind is my weapon. My [[Jaime Lannister|brother]] has his sword, [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] has his warhammer and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much Jon Snow.''{{ref|aGOT|5}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|All sorts of people are calling themselves kings [[War of the Five Kings|these days]]. {{ref|acOk|2}}}}

{{Quote|'''Tyrion''': When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own. 
'''Jon Snow''': You did? 
'''Tyrion''': Oh, yes. Even a stunted, twisted, ugly little boy can look down over the world when he's seated on a dragon's back. I used to start fires in the bowels of Casterly Rock and stare at the flames for hours, pretending they were dragonfire. Sometimes I'd imagine my father burning. At other times, my sister. Don't look at me that way, bastard. I know your secret. You've dreamt the same kind of dreams.{{Ref|aGoT|13}}}} - Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|'''Gunthor''': How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin? 
'''Tyrion''': In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty. {{ref|agot|56}}}} - Tyrion to [[Gunthor]]

{{Quote|Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. {{ref|acok|3}}}}

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{{Quote|''Trust no one'', my prince. Not your [[Haldon|chainless maester]], not your [[Jon Connington|false father]], not the gallant [[Rolly Duckfield|Duck]] or the lovely [[Lemore]] nor these other fine friends who grew you up from a bean. Above all, trust not the [[Illyrio Mopatis|cheese monger]], nor [[Varys|the Spider]], nor this little [[Daenerys Targaryen|dragon queen]] you mean to marry. All this mistrust will sour your stomach and keep you awake at night, ’tis true, but better that than the long sleep that does not end''.{{ref|adwd|22}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Aegon Targaryen|Young Griff]]

{{Quote|'''Widow of the waterfront''': I know who the dwarf is, and what he is. Kinslayer, kingslayer, murderer, turncloak. ''Lannister''. What do ''you'' plan to offer the [[Daenerys Targaryen|dragon queen]], little man? 
'''Tyrion''': Whatever she would have of me. Sage counsel, savage wit, a bit of tumbling. My cock, if she desires it. My tongue, if she does not. I will lead her armies or rub her feet, as she desires. And the only reward I ask is I might be allowed to rape and kill my sister.{{Ref|aDwD|27}}}}
- Tyrion to the [[Widow of the waterfront]]

{{Quote|''You poor stupid blind crippled fool. Must I spell out every little thing for you? Very well. Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking [[Lancel Lannister|Lancel]] and [[Osmund Kettleblack]] and probably [[Moon Boy]] for all I know. And I am the monster they all say I am. Yes, I killed [[Joffrey Baratheon|your vile son]].''{{Ref|aSoS|77}}}}
- Tyrion to [[Jaime]]

{{Quote|''Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical, the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys.It's the [[High Sparrow|ones who believe in gods]] who make the trouble''.{{ref|aDwD|27}}}}

==Family tree==
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==References and Notes==
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Masha Heddle

2013-09-28T22:49:19Z

Dancing Maester: /* A Game of Thrones */

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'''Masha Heddle''' is the innkeeper of an inn in the Riverlands.

The inn is called the [[Crossroads Inn]] by the smallfolk and dates from the time of King [[Jaehaerys I]]. It has been run by Masha Heddle and her grandfather before her. At the time of [[A Game of Thrones]] she is a middle-aged fat woman.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 28|Chapter 28]], Catelyn</ref>

==Recent Events==
===A Game of Thrones===
Upon her arrival in the inn [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] remembers that when she was a child Masha always had a smile and a sweet cake for the children. Catelyn loved the cake but dreaded Masha's smile because it showed her blood-red teeth caused by her continuous eating of [[sourleaf]].<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 28|Chapter 28]], Catelyn</ref>

When Catelyn arrested [[Tyrion Lannister]] Masha did not want to get involved and let Catelyn take him. When the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] invaded the Riverlands Masha was hanged on a gibbet for letting Catelyn kidnap Tyrion. Tyron sees the body when he arrives at the inn to meet with [[Tywin Lannister|his father]].<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 56|Chapter 56]], Tyrion</ref>

===A Feast for Crows===
The inn was continued by Masha Heddle's nephew who was killed by an unspecified nobleman and after that by his daughters, [[Willow Heddle|Willow]] and [[Jeyne Heddle|Jeyne]].<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 36|Chapter 36]], Brienne</ref>

==Feature Quotes==

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==References and Notes==
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House Targaryen

2013-09-28T07:25:30Z

Dancing Maester: /* Downfall */

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| House_name = House Targaryen of King's Landing
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| Coat_of_arms = A three-headed dragon, red on black.
| Words = ''Fire and Blood''
| Seat = [[Red Keep]] [[Dragonstone]]
| Current_Lord = Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]]
| Region = [[King's Landing]] [[Dragonstone]] [[Valyria]]
| Title = [[Iron Throne|King]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] Lord of the [[Andals]], the [[Rhoynar]] and the [[First Men]] [[Prince of Dragonstone]] (heir apparent)
| Overlord = None
| Ancestral_weapon= [[Blackfyre]] [[Dark Sister]]
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[[File:House_Targaryen_Family_tree.jpg|thumb|300px|House Targaryen Family tree]]

'''House Targaryen''' is a noble family of [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyrian]] descent that escaped the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]]. They lived for centuries on the island of [[Dragonstone]] until [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and his sisters rode their dragons to the [[War of Conquest|conquest]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. House Targaryen ruled as the Kings of [[Westeros]] for nearly 300 years, until their ouster in the [[War of the Usurper]]. Their seats were the capital city of [[King's Landing]] and the island castle of Dragonstone.{{Ref|aGoT|23}}

==Culture==

===Customs===
House Targaryen's sigil is a three-headed [[dragon]] breathing flames, red on black. The three-headed dragon represents [[Aegon the Conqueror]] and his two sisters, [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]] and [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]].{{Ref|aGoT|3}}{{Ref|aGoT|62}} Their house words are "Fire and Blood."{{Ref|aSoS|23}} Although the Targaryen [[Iron Throne|kings]] took their seat at [[King's Landing]], the place where Aegon and his army first landed in Westeros and made their first fort, [[Dragonstone]] remained the traditional seat of the heir-apparent to the throne.

House Targaryen historically followed the gods of [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyria]]. Sometime before the conquest of the Seven Kingdoms, the Targaryens abandoned the Valyrian gods and converted to the [[Faith of the Seven]], the predominant religion in Westeros. However, they continued to follow the Valyrian practice of incestuous marriage, wedding brother to sister, cousin to cousin, uncle to niece and aunt to nephew, holding themselves apart from and above the noble Westerosi families.

Deceased Targaryens are traditionally cremated.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Asshai.com_Forum_Chat So Spake Martin, July 27, 2008]</ref>

===Traits===

The phrase "blood of the dragon" refers to what are considered typical Targaryen features: silvery-gold (or platinum) hair and [[violet eyes]]. The Targaryens can tolerate a bit more heat than most ordinary people, though they are by no means immune to fire.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20051103091500/nrctc.edu/fhq/vol1iss3/00103009.htm/ "Interview with the Dragon" Copyright © 2003 Robert Shaw.]</ref>

Another trait typical to Targaryens, and one that was passed on to the cadet branch, [[House Blackfyre]], was the ability to have [[dragon dreams|premonition-like dreams]].{{Ref|TMK}} Before the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]], a noble in Valyria called [[Aenar Targaryen]] had a [[Daenys Targaryen|maiden daughter]] whose visions moved him to relocate his family to [[Dragonstone]], twelve years before the Doom. Her visions were written down and published in a book called ''[[Signs and Portents]]'', which is now lost.

Probably due to their incestuous practices, the Targaryens are [[Targaryen madness|prone to madness]]; King Jaehaerys II said that with the birth of a new Targaryen, the gods tossed a coin to decide whether the child would be a genius or a lunatic.

===Dragons===
:{{See also|Dragons}}

The Targaryens are known as [[dragonlords]], and seem to be closer to dragons than other men are. Aegon I introduced dragons to Westeros when he conquered it, and dragons were kept and ridden by the Targaryens until the [[last dragon|last one]] perished in the reign of Aegon III Dragonbane.

The Targaryens kept [[dragon]]s for much of their reign in Seven Kingdoms. To house them they built an immense domed structure in King's Landing called the [[Dragonpit]]. New dragons were bred from Aegon's original three: [[Vhagar]], [[Meraxes]], and the dreaded [[Balerion]]. However, violent deaths in battle and a growing infirmity in each following generation caused the family's stable to dwindle. The [[last Targaryen dragon]] was a deformed and sterile creature that died very young. It is not clearly understood what caused the last dragons to die out. A legend holds that [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]] poisoned them, but Archmaester [[Marwyn]] suggested that the [[maesters]] were somehow responsible. Others have also claimed that raising dragons in enclosed spaces, even the Dragonpit, was unnatural and stunted their growth.

==History==

===Origins and Conquests===
House Targaryen was one of the forty ancient noble houses known as [[dragonlords]] who ruled the [[Valyrian Freehold]], a great empire spanning most of the [[Essos|eastern continent]]. They were traditionally not one of the most important of these families, however. [[Daenys Targaryen|Daenys the Dreamer]], the daughter of the head of House Targaryen, [[Aenar Targaryen|Aenar]], had visions of a cataclysm that would come over Valyria. Aenar led House Targaryen and their five dragons, including [[Balerion]], to the westernmost outpost of Valyrian influence, the island of [[Dragonstone]], off the east coast of [[Westeros]]. Twelve years later the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]] descended on the city of [[Valyria]], leading to the collapse of the Freehold. The Targaryens were one of the few families to survive the destruction of their home and were the only dragonriders of Valyria to survive. Thereafter four of the dragons died under unknown circumstances, possibly due to infighting among the family, but two more were born from eggs, [[Vhagar]] and [[Meraxes]].

Following the Doom, there was pressure for the Targaryens to go east and ally themselves with [[Volantis]], who attempted to restore the Freehold by conquering the rest of the Valyrian colonies to survive the Doom, now known as the [[Free Cities]]. However, the Targaryens remained on Dragonstone for another century. After flying to the [[Disputed Lands]] and joining an alliance to crush Volantene aspirations, the young [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] developed ambitions toward Westeros.

Aegon aspired to unite the seven Westerosi kingdoms under one ruler, himself. A hundred years after the Doom, Aegon set forth from Dragonstone with his sister/wives [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]] and [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]], their dragons, and a small force, landing at the mouth of the [[Blackwater Rush]] and beginning the [[Wars of Conquest]]. During his campaigns, Aegon was anointed king by the [[High Septon]] in [[Oldtown]], leading to the unification of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] under Targaryen rule from the [[Iron Throne]], starting a dynasty that lasted nearly 300 years. The area where the Targaryens began their conquest became the site of their new capital, [[King's Landing]]. Dragonstone was used as the seat of the heir to the throne. The region around these strongholds became known as the [[Crownlands]], and several houses of the area, such as the [[House Velaryon|Velaryons]], [[House Darklyn|Darklyns]], and the lords of [[Crackclaw Point]], were among the staunchest Targaryen loyalists. Another close ally was [[House Baratheon]]; Aegon had installed his bastard brother [[Orys Baratheon]] to rule the [[Stormlands]].

{{Template:Targaryen tree Aegon|state=hidden|title=Targaryen Family Tree (click show to Expand)}}

===Early Dynasty and the Faith Militant Uprising===
Despite converting to the [[Faith of the Seven]], the Targaryens held themselves apart from the laws of gods and men, and continued to follow the Valyrian practice of incestuous marriage, which was a sin in the eyes of the Seven. Indeed, Aegon married both of his sisters. When Aegon died 37 years after his landing and was succeeded by his incest-born son and heir, [[Aenys I Targaryen|Aenys I]], local populations revolted in what is know as the [[Faith Militant uprising]]. Early Targaryen kings often appointed those of the blood royal to act as their [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Such was the case with with Aenys, who was served by his brutal half-brother and cousin, Prince [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor]]. Maegor conducted the suppression of these revolts, and seized the throne for himself after Aenys's death, going on to earn the moniker "the Cruel" in his attempts to crush the rebellion. Construction of the [[Red Keep]] in King's Landing was finished during Maegor's reign. After his mysterious death in 48 AL he was succeeded by Aenys's son [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys the Conciliator]], who disbanded the Faith Militant. His rule was long and wise.

===Death of the Dragons===
:{{See also|The Dance of the Dragons}}

After his death in 103 AL, Jaehaerys was succeeded by his grandson [[Viserys I Targaryen|Viserys I]], who ruled well except in marriage. Viserys raised his daughter [[Rhaenyra Targaryen|Rhaenyra]] as his heir, but his wishes were defied by the [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]] of his [[Kingsguard]], Ser [[Criston Cole|Criston the Kingmaker]], who earned his epithet by crowning [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]], a son of a second marriage. In the resulting war of succession, called [[the Dance of the Dragons]] (129-131 AL), both of the monarchs perished, as did many lesser branches of House Targaryen, and most of their dragons. During the reign of [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]], the son of Rhaenyra who held the Iron Throne at the war's conclusion, the last dragon died, earning him the nickname "Dragonbane." The loss of their signature war mounts and the deaths of so many family members severely weakened the Targaryens' grip on the Seven Kingdoms.

{{Template:Targaryen tree Viserys‎|state=hidden|title=Targaryen Family Tree, during the Dance of Dragons (click show to Expand)}}

Since the Dance, House Targaryen has practiced a highly modified version of agnatic primogeniture, placing female claimants in the line of succession behind all possible male ones, even collateral relations.

===Incorporating Dorne===
Since resisting the conquest of Aegon I, the [[House Martell|Martell]] princes of [[Dorne]] had ruled their land as a sovereign realm. Upon assuming the throne in 157 AL, Aegon III's fourteen-year old son [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]], the Young Dragon, decided to end that. Despite his youth and lack of dragons, Daeron [[Conquest of Dorne|defeated the Dornishmen]] in a successful invasion. His rule of Dorne did not last, however, and he and 40,000 men died trying to defeat an uprising. Dead at eighteen without issue, the Young Dragon was succeeded by his brother [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]], who was in training to become a [[septon]]. One of Baelor's first acts was to make peace with Dorne by marrying his cousin, Prince [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron]], to [[Myriah Martell]]. Baelor is well-remembered by the smallfolk, but maesters and others learned in history recall his piety as his undoing. As his Hand, Baelor retained his uncle [[Viserys II Targaryen|Viserys]], who had also served Daeron. Viserys held the realm together while Daeron warred and Baelor prayed. During his reign, Baelor locked his three sisters in the "Maidenvault" of the Red Keep to avoid carnal thoughts. One, [[Daena Targaryen|Daena the Defiant]], carried on an affair with their cousin [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon]]. When Baelor died childless as well in 171, his uncle took the throne as Viserys II. After a brief reign, Viserys was succeeded by his son Aegon, who reigned as Aegon IV and was called "the Unworthy". It was during the reign of Aegon's son Daeron II that Dorne finally joined the Targaryen empire, after Daeron's sister [[Daenerys, daughter of Aegon IV]], wed Prince [[Maron Martell]].

===The Blackfyre Pretenders===
:{{See also|House Blackfyre|Blackfyre Pretenders|Blackfyre Rebellion|Second Blackfyre Rebellion|War of the Ninepenny Kings}}

[[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon IV]] kept many mistresses and sired several bastards by them. The oldest of them, by Princess Daena, had strong Targaryen features; he grew up to be a promising young knight and was granted [[Blackfyre]], the [[Valyrian steel]] blade of Aegon the Conqueror. He became known as [[Daemon Blackfyre]]. Before his death in 184, Aegon IV legitimized all of his natural children, placing them in the succession, albeit behind his trueborn son, [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]]. Nobles such as [[Aegor Rivers|Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers]], one of Aegon IV's [[Great Bastards]], did not care for Daeron's bookish nature or the Dornish flavor of his court, and whispered that Daeron was not the son of Aegon IV, but of his brother, Prince [[Aemon the Dragonknight]], casting doubts over Daeron's right to rule. Finally, Daemon Blackfyre was bitter over the loss of Princess [[Daenerys, daughter of Aegon IV|Daenerys]], Daeron's sister, whom he had promised to Prince [[Maron Martell]]. For these reasons, Daemon and his supporters launched the First [[Blackfyre Rebellion]] against Daeron's rule. This was crushed by Daeron's sons, [[Baelor Targaryen|Baelor Breakspear]] and [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], and his bastard brother [[Brynden Rivers|Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers]], Bittersteel's rival for the affections of their half-sister [[Shiera Seastar]]. Daemon was killed by Bloodraven in the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]], and Bittersteel was driven into exile across the [[narrow sea]], where he founded the [[Golden Company]], a sellsword army bent on naming a Blackfyre son as King of Westeros. Prince Baelor was named his father's Hand as well as heir, but died in 209 in a Trial of Seven at the [[Ashford Tourney]] fighting opposite his brother Maekar for the honor of a hedge knight called [[Dunk]]. Maekar's son, [[Aerion Brightflame]], was sent into exile after the trial, and Maekar allowed another son, nicknamed "[[Aegon V|Egg]]", to continue squiring for Dunk in order to teach him humility and honor. During Daeron's reign, the third major Targaryen palace was built at [[Summerhall]], in the [[Dornish Marches]].

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===Mounting Problems===

[[The Great Spring Sickness]] of 209 AL killed King [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and several of his grandchildren. His equally bookish son [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]] took the throne, appointing his uncle [[Brynden Rivers|Bloodraven]] as Hand. Aerys ignored the realm's problems (including plague, drought, dwindling trade, rising banditry, and the reaving of [[Dagon Greyjoy]]) as Bloodraven focused on dealing with minor Blackfyre rebellions instigated by [[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]]. Prince [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], who had expected to be named Aerys's Hand, succeeded his brother on the throne in 221 and had Bloodraven thrown into the Red Keep's dungeons. Across the Narrow Sea, House Blackfyre continued to be a distant threat to the main Targaryen line. In 233 King Maekar fell in battle against a rebel lord, presumably a Blackfyre supporter.

A series of misfortunes and deaths over the years culminated in a [[Great Council]] being held upon Maekar's demise in 233 AL. The council bypassed the mad Prince [[Daeron Targaryen|Daeron's]] lackwit daughter and the infant son of the dead and mad [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion Brightflame]], leading to the crowning of Maekar's son "Egg" as [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], called “The Unlikely” for being the fourth son of a fourth son. Aegon's elder brother, [[Aemon]], had been quietly offered the throne before him, but Aemon refused the crown since he had taken a [[maester]]'s vows, forswearing his inheritance and going on to join the [[Night's Watch]] lest he be used in plots against Aegon. The new king emptied the dungeons to accompany Aemon to the [[Wall]], including their great-uncle Bloodraven, who went on to become [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]]. As Lord Commander of his Kingsguard, Aegon V appointed Ser [[Dunk|Duncan the Tall]], the hedge knight Dunk for whom he had squired in his youth.

{{Template:Targaryen_tree_Daeron_II|state=hidden|title=Targaryen Family Tree, during the Great Council (click show to Expand)}}

In the latter part of Aegon's reign, he sent a host to the [[Stepstones]] to defeat [[Maelys Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]], the last Blackfyre. The Blackfyre pretender and his supporters were defeated in the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]], and Maelys slain. Hearing a prophecy from a [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]] that their line would bear the [[Azor Ahai|Prince That Was Promised]] to defeat the [[Others]], Egg arranged the marriage of his grandchildren [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] and [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]]. Since he had done so, Aegon allowed his children to marry for love, earning him bitter enemies instead of friends. His daughter [[Rhaelle Targaryen|Rhaelle]] married into [[House Baratheon]]. His son [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan the Small]], Prince of Dragonflies, "cast aside a crown" for [[Jenny of Oldstones]], leading in some way to the [[Tragedy of Summerhall]], where Aegon V and both Duncans lost their lives in 259. Aegon's sickly son [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys II]] reigned for a few years before dying in 262. Amiable, clever, and able, he nonetheless was seen as weak by those martial lords prejudiced against his frail constitution. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Aerys II.

===Downfall===
:{{See also|Robert's Rebellion}}

Aided by his able [[Hand of the King|Hand]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], King [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]] began his reign with promise, but became paranoid and increasingly mad after being abducted during a [[Defiance of Duskendale|failed revolt]] of the longtime Targaryen loyalists of [[House Darklyn]] and Tywin's cautious response. His heir, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], resolved to be a better monarch and set forth to prove himself, and to fulfill the prophecy of the [[Azor Ahai|Prince That Was Promised]]. Aerys chose Tywin's heir, Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], for his Kingsguard, robbing Tywin of his heir and provoking him to resignation because the King had also rejected Tywin's proposal of a marriage between Rhaegar and Jaim's twin sister, [[Cersei Lannister]]. Also during the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]], Rhaegar offended [[Robert Baratheon]] by naming his betrothed, [[Lyanna Stark]], as Queen of Love and Beauty rather than his own wife, Princess [[Elia Martell]].

{{Targaryen tree now|state=hidden|title=Targaryen Family Tree, during the Downfall (click show to Expand)}}

Shortly after the tourney, Prince Rhaegar ran off with Lyanna. When Lyanna's [[Brandon Stark|brother]] and [[Rickard Stark|father]] protested, Aerys had them killed, starting a [[Robert's Rebellion|civil war]]. Rhaegar took command of the royal troops, leading them to defeat in the [[Battle of the Trident]], where he was killed by Robert Baratheon. Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and the pregnant Queen [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]] fled to Dragonstone. Perfidious Lannisters killed Aerys, Elia, [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], and the infant [[Aegon Targaryen|Aegon]] in King's Landing. On Dragonstone, Rhaella died giving birth to Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]], who was spirited to the [[Free Cities]] along with Viserys by the loyal Ser [[Willem Darry]]. Robert Baratheon was crowned king, partially due to his having a Targaryen [[Rhaelle Targaryen|grandmother]].

King Aerys II Targaryen was the last king in a dynasty which had held for nearly 300 years of unbroken rule. Where the Targaryens had begun as untouchable demigods atop fire-breathing dragons, their power had fallen noticeably since the time of those beasts, with many more large-scale civil wars featuring pitched battles. In the short term, Aerys's madness had provoked the nobles to action, but such open defiance would not have occurred if his family's prestige had not been in decline for some time. This loss of influence is perhaps shown by the fact that Aegon V was invited to rule by a council rather than claiming a divine right. The [[Defiance of Duskendale]] by [[House Darklyn]], one of the staunchest traditional royal allies, is another sign of the house's loss of influence.

==Recent Events==
[[File: John_Picacio_Daenerys_Targaryen.jpg‎ |[[Daenerys]] and her three fledgling [[dragons]]‎ - © 2012 John Picacio|thumb|300px|right]]

===''A Game of Thrones''===
Across the [[Narrow Sea]], the [[Aerys II Targaryen|Mad King]]'s surviving son claims legitimacy as "[[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys III]]." He and his sister [[Daenerys Targaryen]] wander the [[Free Cities]], seeking aid from various merchant princes to restore House Targaryen. Few take his claim seriously, calling him the Beggar King.

In 288 AL, Viserys betroths his sister to [[Drogo]], a mighty ''[[khal]]'' of the [[Dothraki]], hoping to use his horde to retake the Seven Kingdoms. Viserys alienates the horselord with his arrogance and is eventually killed. After the death of Khal Drogo, Daenerys takes command of the ''[[khalasar]]'''s ragged remnants, and is able to hatch three [[dragon]] eggs, the first in a century and a half.

At the [[Wall]], the century-old Maester [[Aemon]], brother to King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], imparts wisdom to a new recruit of the [[Night's Watch]], [[Jon Snow]], regarding the conflict of loyalty between family and duty.

===''A Clash of Kings''===

Daenerys nurtures her young dragons, [[Drogon]], [[Rhaegal]], and [[Viserion]], and her people, bringing them through the [[Red Waste]] to the strange city of [[Qarth]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Traveling to [[Slaver's Bay]], Daenerys conquers the cities of [[Astapor]], [[Yunkai]], and [[Meereen]]. However, her campaign of liberation seems to cause more conflict than it solves, so she decides to remain in Meereen to bring order and to learn to rule. One of her officers, [[Ben Plumm]], claims to have Targaryen ancestry.

Maester Aemon pushes Jon Snow to take command of [[Castle Black]] when the Wall is [[Battle of Castle Black|besieged by wildlings]]. Jon is subsequently elected [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===

Lord Commander Snow orders Maester Aemon to [[Oldtown]] to avoid the red sorceress [[Melisandre]], who might wish to sacrifice him to [[R'hllor]] for his kingsblood. Unfortunately, Aemon does not survive the voyage, leaving the lore of the Night's Watch in the hands of [[Samwell Tarly]].

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

As she hones her skills of leadership in Meereen, Daenerys tries to tell good counsel from bad and how to make decisions of dubious morality. She refuses a marriage proposal from [[Quentyn Martell]], whose father, [[Doran Martell]], is attempting to honor a secret pact made to wed Viserys to [[Arianne Martell]]. Daenerys's control of Meereen is threatened by a coalition led by Yunkai. She flees from [[Daznak's Pit]] on the back of her dragon [[Drogon]] and ends up in the [[Dothraki Sea]], where she encounters the ''khalasar'' of Khal [[Jhaqo]]. Meanwhile, her other dragons, [[Rhaegal]] and [[Viserion]], are released and wreak havoc upon Meereen.

It is claimed that, unbeknownst to the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], Crown Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar's]] infant son [[Aegon Targaryen]], Daenerys's nephew, survived the [[Sack of King's Landing]] thanks to [[Varys]], who had a peasant baby killed in his place. The purported Aegon was raised in secret across the narrow sea by Rhaegar's friend [[Jon Connington]], who nicknamed the youth Young Griff. He lands in the [[Stormlands]] with the [[Golden Company]] at his back, calling himself Aegon VI.

[[Beyond the Wall]], the [[three-eyed crow]] who has been appearing to [[Bran Stark]] in his dreams is strongly implied to be none other than Bloodraven, [[Brynden Rivers]], kept alive by sorcery and living in a [[cave of the three-eyed crow|cave]].

==Timeline==
{{See also|Timeline of major events}}
{| class="wikitable" ALIGN="right"
|+Targaryen kings
|-
| [[Aegon I]] || [[1 AL]] – [[37 AL]]
|-
| [[Aenys I]] || [[37 AL]] – [[42 AL]]
|-
| [[Maegor I]] || [[42 AL]] – [[48 AL]]
|-
| [[Jaehaerys I]] || [[48 AL]] – [[103 AL]]
|-
| [[Viserys I]] || [[103 AL]] – [[129 AL]]
|-
| [[Aegon II]] || [[129 AL]] – [[131 AL]]
|-
| [[Aegon III]] || [[131 AL]] - [[157 AL]]
|-
| [[Daeron I]] || [[157 AL]] -[[161 AL]]
|-
| [[Baelor I]] || [[161 AL]] - [[171 AL]]
|-
| [[Viserys II]] || [[171 AL]] - [[172 AL]]
|-
| [[Aegon IV]] || [[172 AL]] - [[184 AL]]
|-
| [[Daeron II]] || [[184 AL]] - [[209 AL]]
|-
| [[Aerys I]] || [[209 AL]] - [[221 AL]]
|-
| [[Maekar I]] || [[221 AL]] - [[233 AL]]
|-
| [[Aegon V]] || [[233 AL]] - [[259 AL]]
|-
| [[Jaehaerys II]] || [[259 AL]] - [[262 AL]]
|-
| [[Aerys II]] || [[262 AL]] - [[283 AL]]
|}
All dates are given relative to Aegon's Landing (AL).

;before ca. -200 AL: House Targaryen relocates to the island of [[Dragonstone]], off the coast of [[Westeros]].
;The [[Doom of Valyria]] (ca. -100 AL): The Doom destroys the freehold of Valyria.
;[[War of Conquest|The Wars of Conquest]] (ca. 1 AL): Aided by his two sisters and their dragons Vhagar, Meraxes, and Balerion, the armies of Aegon the Conqueror invade the seven kingdoms of Westeros, sparking the Wars of Conquest. In the battle known as the "[[Field of Fire]]," Aegon's army conquers the combined forces of the [[Kingdom of the Rock|Rock]] and of the [[Reach]]; the three dragons kill nearly four thousand men. Many other kings bend the knee to Aegon, and in the end, only Dorne remains unconquered.
; [[Faith Militant uprising]] (37-48 AL)
: The two armed wings of the church rise against Aegon's incest-born son [[Aenys I]]. Aenys's half-brother and Hand, [[Maegor I]] seizes the throne after his death and fails to crush the rebels. Aenys's son [[Jaehaerys I]] succeeds and outlaws both military orders.
;[[The Dance of the Dragons]] (129-131 AL), the Targaryen civil war.
: [[Aegon II]]'s claim to the throne is disputed by his elder sister [[Rhaenyra Targaryen|Rhaenyra]]; both perish in the resulting war. Several dragons and lesser branches of the house are extinguished.
;[[Conquest of Dorne]] (ca. 157 AL)
:Aged 14, [[Daeron I]] conquers [[Dorne]], but is unable to hold it. He dies along with tens of thousands.
;The [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]] (196 AL): The first Blackfyre Rebellion ends when the rebel Daemon Blackfyre's forces are defeated in the Battle of the Redgrass Field. These events are recounted in ''[[The Sworn Sword]]''.
;[[Ashford Tourney|Tourney at Ashford]] (208 AL)
: [[Baelor Breakspear]] dies from wounds sustained in trial by combat. These events are recounted in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
;[[The Great Spring Sickness]] (209 AL)
:A plague engulfs large parts of Westeros, killing King [[Daeron II]] and his grandsons [[Valarr Targaryen|Valarr]] and [[Matarys Targaryen|Matarys]].
;[[Great Council]] (233 AL)
:A great council passes over the infant bastard son of [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion Brightflame]] and the idiot daughter of Prince [[Daeron Targaryen|Daeron]], crowning [[Aegon V]], the Unlikely.
;[[War of the Usurper]] (282-283 AL)
:The Targaryen reign ends when Lord [[Robert Baratheon]] takes the [[Iron Throne]] and King [[Aerys II]] is killed by his sworn knight Ser [[Jaime Lannister]].

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

The known Targaryens during the timespan of the events described on [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] are:
*{[[Viserys Targaryen|King Viserys III]]}, called the Beggar King and Khal Raggat (Sorefoot King) and self-proclaimed King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men and Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, in exile. Fatally crowned in [[Vaes Dothrak]].
*[[Daenerys Targaryen|Queen Daenerys I Stormborn]], called Mother of Dragons, sister of Viserys and last known Targaryen heir, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles, Queen of Meereen.
**her dragons, [[Drogon|Drogon]], [[Viserion|Viserion]], [[Rhaegal|Rhaegal]],
**{[[Drogo|Khal Drogo]]}, her first husband. Euthanized after disabling wounds.
***{[[Rhaego]]}, her son by Drogo. Died at birth.
**[[Hizdahr zo Loraq|King Hizdahr zo Loraq XIV]], her second husband, King of Meereen, Scion of Ghis, Octarch of the Old Empire, Master of the Skahazadhan, Consort to Dragons, Blood of the Harpy. A Ghiscari noble of Meereen.
*{[[Maester Aemon|Maester Aemon]]}, sworn to the Night's Watch. Great-granduncle to the Mad King. Died of a chill at sea, at the age of one hundred and two.

*[[Aegon Targaryen|Prince Aegon]], Rhaegar's son. Believed to have died at Gregor Clegane's hand in the Sack of King's Landing, but is purported by some to be alive under the identity of Young Griff and with the [[Golden Company]]. If true his claim supersedes his aunt Daenerys', and he is Aegon VI.

{{Targaryen tree|state=hidden|title=Complete Targaryen Family Tree (click show to Expand)}}

===Household===

====The Queen's protectors:====
*Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], called Barristan the Bold, Lord Commander of the [[Queensguard]].
**his two known knights:
***Ser [[Tumco Lho]], of the [[Basilisk Isles]], a newly-made knight.
***"[[The Red Lamb]]", a [[Lhazar]]ene freedman and newly-made knight.
**his lads, squires training for knighthood:
***[[Larraq]], called 'The Lash', of Meereen.
***the Boys, three Ghiscari brothers and freedmen.
*[[Belwas]], called Strong Belwas, eunuch and former pit fighter.
*her [[Dothraki]] bloodriders:
**[[Jhogo]], the whip, blood of her blood and ''ko''.
**[[Aggo]], the bow, blood of her blood and ''ko''.
**[[Rakharo]], the arakh, blood of her blood and ''ko''.
* Ser [[Jorah Mormont]], called 'Jorah the Andal', former Lord Commander. Banished.

====The Queen's captains and commanders:====
*[[Grey Worm]], a eunuch, commander of the [[Unsullied]], a company of eunuch infantry.
**[[Hero]], an Unsullied captain, second-in-command.
**{[[Stalwart Shield]]}, an Unsullied spearman, murdered by the [[Sons of the Harpy]].
*{[[Mollono Yos Dob]]}, commander of the [[Stalwart Shields]], a company of freedmen named for the martyred Unsullied. Died of the Pale Mare.
**[[Tal Toraq]], new commander of the Stalwart Shields.
*[[Symon Stripeback]], commander of [[Free Brothers]], a company of freedmen.
*[[Marselen]], commander of the [[Mother's Men]], a company of freedman, a eunuch, brother to Missandei.
*{[[Groleo]]} of Pentos, formerly captain of the great cog ''Saduleon'', made an admiral without a fleet. Executed by the Yunkai'i.
*[[Rommo]], a ''jaqqa rhan'' of the Dothraki, he represents Daenerys' khalasar at council.
*[[Daario Naharis]], a [[Tyrosh]]i sellsword, captain of the [[Stormcrows]], a free company.
**[[Widower|The Widower]], second in command and acting joint-commander of the Stormcrows.
**[[Jokin]], commander of the archers and acting joint-commander of the Stormcrows.
*[[Ben Plumm]], called 'Brown Ben', a mongrel sellsword, captain of the [[Second Sons]], a free company. Defected to Yunkai.

====The Queen's Meereenese court:====
*[[Reznak mo Reznak|Reznak mo Reznak]], her seneschal, bald and unctuous.
*[[Skahaz mo Kandaq|Shahaz mo Kandaq]], called 'The Shavepate', shaven-headed commander of the [[Brazen Beasts]], Meereen's city watch.

====The Queen's handmaids and servants:====
*[[Irri|Irri]] and [[Jhiqui|Jhiqui]], young women of the Dothraki, handmaidens.
*[[Missandei|Missandei]], a [[Naath]]i scribe and translator.
*[[Grazdar|Grazdar]], [[Qezza|Qezza]], [[Mezzara|Mezzara]], [[Kezmya|Kezmya]], [[Azzak|Azzak]], [[Bhakaz|Bhakaz]], [[Miklaz|Miklaz]], [[Dhazzar|Dhazzar]], [[Draqaz|Draqaz]], [[Jhezane|Jhezane]], children of the pyramids of Meereen, her cupbearers and pages.
*{[[Doreah]]}, a Lysene handmaiden and former bedslave. Perished to sickness in the [[Red Waste]].

===Young Griff/Prince Aegon's followers===
* '[[Jon Connington|Griff]]', a sellsword late of the [[Golden Company]]. Actually [[Jon Connington]], exiled Lord of [[Griffin's Roost]] and [[Hand of the King]] to [[Aerys II]].
* Ser [[Rolly Duckfield]], called 'Duck', a [[knight]]. Pronounced the first of Aegon's [[Kingsguard]].
* Septa [[Lemore]], called 'Lady Lemore', a woman of the [[Faith of the Seven]].
* [[Haldon]], called 'the Halfmaester', Aegon's tutor.
* [[Yandry]], master and captain of the ''[[Shy Maid]]''
** [[Ysilla]], his wife.
* The [[Golden Company]], a famous sellsword company founded by the [[Blackfyre Pretenders]] to the [[Iron Throne]].
==Quotes==
{{Quote|Like their [[dragon]]s the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}}}
- [[Catelyn Tully]]'s thoughts

{{Quote|Every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness.{{Ref|ASOS|71}}}}
- Ser [[Barristan Selmy]]

{{Quote|I will kill every [[Targaryen]] I can get my hands on, until they are as dead as their dragons, and then I will piss on their graves. {{Ref|aGoT|12}}}}
- [[Robert Baratheon]]

{{Quote|What did any Targaryen ever know of honor? Go down into your crypt and ask [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] about the dragon’s honor! {{Ref|AGOT|12}}}}
- [[Robert Baratheon]] to [[Eddard Stark]]

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==References and Notes==
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Dunk and Egg

2013-09-28T07:01:46Z

Dancing Maester:

{| style="float:right;"
|[[File:Dunk.jpg|150px]] [[File:Egg.jpg|150px]]
|}

'''Dunk and Egg stories''' are an ongoing series of novellas written by [[George R. R. Martin]], set in the world of his [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Song of Ice and Fire]], set as prequels to the [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Novel]]. The stories relate the adventures of Ser [[Duncan the Tall]], who later became a legendary member of the [[Kingsguard]], and [[Aegon V|his esquire Egg]], who later became the King of the [[Seven Kingdoms]].

Three novellas have appeared so far: ''[[The Hedge Knight]]'', ''[[The Sworn Sword]]'' and ''[[The Mystery Knight]]'' and there are plans for there to be 6 to 12 such stories.<ref>{{cite web |last=Harte |first=Bryant |url=http://blog.indigo.ca/fiction/item/512-an-interview-with-george-r-r-martin-part-one.html |title=An Interview with George R. R. Martin, Part I |publisher=indigo.ca |date=July 12, 2011 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/66fwa9nw4 |archivedate=April 4, 2012 |deadurl=no |accessdate=February 15, 2012}}</ref> The published stories deal with Aegon, known as Egg, in his youth being the squire to Duncan, a [[knight#Types of knights|hedge knight]]. Starting with their meeting eighty-nine years before the events of the main Novel({{Date|208}} and intended to cover a long period.

==Publications==
The Three novellas that have appeared so far are:

*''[[The Hedge Knight]]'', Set in the world of the Song of Ice and Fire series eighty-nine years before the events of the main cycle, the story relates the adventures of Dunk (eponymously called Ser Duncan the Tall) and his squire, Egg. A novella originally published August 25, 1998 in the ''Legends'' anthology, edited by Robert Silverberg<ref name=Legends/>, later also in ''Dreamsongs Volume II''<ref name=Dreamsongs/> and as a stand-alone graphic novel.<ref name=HedgeKnight/>

*''[[The Sworn Sword]]'', originally published in ''Legends II'' anthology series<ref name=LegendsII/>, later also in ''Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King''<ref name=LegendsIID/> and as a Graphic Novel.<ref name=HedgeKnightII/>

*''[[The Mystery Knight]]'', originally published in 2010 as part of the ''Warriors'' anthology <ref>''Warriors'', ISBN 978-0765320483 (Hardcover)</ref> and later in ''Warriors 1''.<ref>''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0765360267 (Mass Market Paperback)</ref>

*''[[The She-Wolves of Winterfell]], Upcoming.

==Planned Instalments ==
The author has said that he would like to write a number of these stories (varying from six to twelve from interview to interview) covering the entire lives of these two characters. A fourth instalment, currently untitled, has been announced by Martin as in the planning stages. It will feature Ser [[Duncan the Tall]] and [[Egg]] at [[Winterfell]], where they will meet the "She-Wolves". It will be published in a new anthology he is co-editing with [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]], titled 'Dangerous Women'. Martin announced on his 2011 national book tour that the ''Dunk and Egg'' series will be collected into a book and published by Bantam Spectra.

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==References and Notes==
{{References|2|refs=
<ref name=Legends>''Legends'', ISBN 978-0006483946 (Paperback, 2011 Edition); ISBN 978-0002256674 (Paperback, June 1999 Edition); ISBN 978-0812566635 (Mass Market Paperback, September 1999 Edition); ISBN 978-0765300355 (Paperback, 2001 Reissue); ISBN 978-0007385034 (Paperback, 2010 Edition); ISBN 978-0312867874 (Hardcover, 1998 Edition) and several other Hardcover printings, some of them limited editions.</ref>
<ref name=Dreamsongs>''Dreamsongs Volume II'', ISBN 978-0553806588 (Hardcover); ISBN 978-0553385694 (Paperback)</ref> and as a stand-alone graphic novel.
<ref name=HedgeKnight>''Hedge Knight'' Graphic Novel, ISBN 978-0785127246 (Second Edition, 2007, Marvel); ISBN 978-0976401100 (First Edition, 2005, Dabel Brothers)</ref>
<ref name=LegendsII>''Legends II'', ISBN 978-0007154364 (Paperback, 2011 Edition); ISBN 978-0812575231 (Mass Market Paperback, 1999 Edition); ISBN 978-0007154357 (Paperback, 2004 Edition); ISBN 978-0007305094 (Paperback, 2008 Edition); ISBN 978-0007154340 (Hardback, 2003 Edition); ISBN 978-0606186476 (Turtleback, 1999 Edition)</ref>
<ref name=LegendsIID>''Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King'', ISBN 978-0345475787 (Paperback); ISBN 978-1435291133 (Library Binding)</ref>
<ref name=HedgeKnightII>''The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword'', ISBN 978-0785126515 (2009 TPB); ISBN 978-0785126508 (2008 Hardcover)</ref>
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Blackfyre Pretenders

2013-09-27T12:05:09Z

Dancing Maester:

The '''Blackfyre Pretenders''' were a series of claimants to the [[Iron Throne]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], flying the banner of [[House Blackfyre]]. The Blackfyres opposed the reign of [[House Targaryen]]  from the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and until they were eliminated during the reign of King [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]].

The conflict divided Westeros, bringing sporadic periods of pain, grief, war, and murder that lasted for decades. Much of what we know of the conflict comes from flashbacks and from the [[Dunk and Egg]] novellas, which have the Blackfyre tensions as an important plot point.

==History==
===Background===
King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] legitimized all of his [[bastard]] children on his deathbed, most notably his noble [[Great Bastards]], most famous of whom were Ser [[Daemon Blackfyre]], Ser [[Aegor Rivers|Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers]], Ser [[Brynden Rivers|Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers]], and [[Shiera Seastar]]. After Aegon's death he was succeeded by his legitimate son, [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]]. However there were rumors that Daeron's true father was Aegon's brother, [[Aemon Targaryen|Prince Aemon the Dragonknight]].

Daemon Blackfyre then decided to found his own House using the reversed colors of House Targaryen. In his youth Aegon IV had given Daemon the Valyrian steel sword ''[[Blackfyre]]'', instead of to his trueborn son Daeron. The possession of ''Blackfyre'' was seen by many as a symbol of Targaryen rule; it had been the personal weapon of all Targaryen kings since the very first, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon I the Conqueror]].

===First Blackfyre Rebellion===
:{{Main|Blackfyre Rebellion}}

In {{Date|195}}, the proud Daemon Blackfyre attempted to usurp the throne from Daeron II Targaryen, the legitimate son of Aegon IV and his sister, Naerys. Causing the the second major civil war in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, the resulting war cost tens of thousands of lives. At the end of the war, Daemon and his two eldest sons were killed, and his allies defeated. However, five of Daemon's sons survived and were carried into exile in the [[Free Cities]] by Bittersteel, who continue plotting a return. It is for that purpose Bittersteel founded the [[Golden Company]].

===Second Blackfyre Rebellion===
:{{Main|Second Blackfyre Rebellion}}

In {{Date|212}}, [[Daemon II Blackfyre]], disguised as "Ser John the Fiddler", and other Blackfyre loyalists attempted to launch a [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion|second rebellion]] under the pretense of gathering for [[Whitewalls Tourney|a tourney]], but were exposed by Bloodraven who ended it swiftly.

===War of the Ninepenny Kings===
:{{Main|War of the Ninepenny Kings}}

In 256 or 257, a descendant of Daemon and captain-general of the Golden Company, [[Maelys Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]], tried to regain power in the east and invade Westeros. [[Aegon V Targaryen]] responded swiftly, dispatching an army to the [[Stepstones]]. The ensuing conflict was dubbed the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]. The threat to Targaryen rule was ended along with the Blackfyre male line when [[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan the Bold]] slew Maelys the Monstrous in single combat.

===Aftermath===
After decades of conflict all the Blackfyre pretenders have been killed. The Golden Company, however, escaped destruction and continues to exist as a mercenary force in Essos.

==Known Pretenders==
* [[Daemon Blackfyre]], killed at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]] with his two eldest sons.
* [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]. Captured by Bloodraven's men.
* [[Maelys Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]], killed by Ser Barristan Selmy on the Stepstones during the War of the Ninepenny Kings.

{{Blackfyre tree}}

==References==
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Blackfyre Pretenders

2013-09-27T12:03:20Z

Dancing Maester:

The '''Blackfyre Pretenders''' were a series of claimants to the [[Iron Throne]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], flying the banner of [[House Blackfyre]]. The Blackfyres opposed the reign of [[House Targaryen]]  from the reign of King [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and until they were eliminated during the reignof King [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]].

The conflict divided Westeros, bringing sporadic periods of pain, grief, war, and murder that lasted for decades. Much of what we know of the conflict comes from flashbacks and from the [[Dunk and Egg]] novellas, which have the Blackfyre tensions as an important plot point.

==History==
===Background===
King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] legitimized all of his [[bastard]] children on his deathbed, most notably his noble [[Great Bastards]], most famous of whom were Ser [[Daemon Blackfyre]], Ser [[Aegor Rivers|Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers]], Ser [[Brynden Rivers|Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers]], and [[Shiera Seastar]]. After Aegon's death he was succeeded by his legitimate son, [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]]. However there were rumors that Daeron's true father was Aegon's brother, [[Aemon Targaryen|Prince Aemon the Dragonknight]].

Daemon Blackfyre then decided to found his own House using the reversed colors of House Targaryen. In his youth Aegon IV had given Daemon the Valyrian steel sword ''[[Blackfyre]]'', instead of to his trueborn son Daeron. The possession of ''Blackfyre'' was seen by many as a symbol of Targaryen rule; it had been the personal weapon of all Targaryen kings since the very first, [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon I the Conqueror]].

===First Blackfyre Rebellion===
:{{Main|Blackfyre Rebellion}}

In {{Date|195}}, the proud Daemon Blackfyre attempted to usurp the throne from Daeron II Targaryen, the legitimate son of Aegon IV and his sister, Naerys. Causing the the second major civil war in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, the resulting war cost tens of thousands of lives. At the end of the war, Daemon and his two eldest sons were killed, and his allies defeated. However, five of Daemon's sons survived and were carried into exile in the [[Free Cities]] by Bittersteel, who continue plotting a return. It is for that purpose Bittersteel founded the [[Golden Company]].

===Second Blackfyre Rebellion===
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In {{Date|212}}, [[Daemon II Blackfyre]], disguised as "Ser John the Fiddler", and other Blackfyre loyalists attempted to launch a [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion|second rebellion]] under the pretense of gathering for [[Whitewalls Tourney|a tourney]], but were exposed by Bloodraven who ended it swiftly.

===War of the Ninepenny Kings===
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In 256 or 257, a descendant of Daemon and captain-general of the Golden Company, [[Maelys Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]], tried to regain power in the east and invade Westeros. [[Aegon V Targaryen]] responded swiftly, dispatching an army to the [[Stepstones]]. The ensuing conflict was dubbed the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]. The threat to Targaryen rule was ended along with the Blackfyre male line when [[Barristan Selmy|Ser Barristan the Bold]] slew Maelys the Monstrous in single combat.

===Aftermath===
After decades of conflict all the Blackfyre pretenders have been killed. The Golden Company, however, escaped destruction and continues to exist as a mercenary force in Essos.

==Known Pretenders==
* [[Daemon Blackfyre]], killed at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]] with his two eldest sons.
* [[Daemon II Blackfyre]]. Captured by Bloodraven's men.
* [[Maelys Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]], killed by Ser Barristan Selmy on the Stepstones during the War of the Ninepenny Kings.

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==References==
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War of the Ninepenny Kings

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The '''War of the Ninepenny Kings''' was a conflict involving several of the [[Free Cities]], started by a group of ambitious men known as the [[Band of Nine]]. After the Band set their sights on Westeros, [[Aegon V]] dispatched an army to defeat them.

==Background==
In the latter part of the reign of King [[Aegon V]], the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyres]] re-emerged to trouble the Seven Kingdoms. [[Maelys Blackfyre]], who was said to have consumed his twin in the womb, resulting in a second head growing out of his neck, made alliance with a group of eight other power-seekers in [[Essos]]. The members of this group, the Band of Nine, vowed to aid one another in achieving their goals.

==War==
The Band of Nine met with initial success, conquering the [[Disputed Lands]] and securing the Free City of [[Tyrosh]], setting up [[Alequo Adarys]], the Goldentongue as its ruler. Second, they secured the [[Stepstones]] as a base for operations against [[Westeros]].

The Seven Kingdoms recognized the threat and sent a large force to the [[Stepstones]] to remove the danger before it grew any larger. This was the last time prior to the [[War of the Five Kings]] that the regional [[Warden|warden]] titles were activated. Several knights distinguished themselves in the battle, including [[Brynden Tully]] and [[Barristan Selmy]], who cut a bloody path though the [[Golden Company]]'s ranks to slay the last of the [[Blackfyre Pretenders]] - Maelys the Monstrous - in single combat, and ended the threat to the Seven Kingdoms.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> However, it took another six years before the Band of Nine's holdings in Essos were lost and Alequo deposed from power in Tyrosh.

==Aftermath==
[[Hoster Tully]] became acquainted with Lord Baelish during this event which subsequently led to Lord Tully taking his son, [[Petyr Baelish]], on as a ward. The Blackfyres were extinguished in the male line; this accomplishment was enough to name Barristan Selmy to the Kingsguard when the next opening presented itself.

==References and Notes==
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Daenerys Targaryen

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{{See homonyms | Daenerys Targaryen (disambiguation)}}
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| image =[[File:Daenerys targareyen by teiiku.jpg|250px|Dany in the flames, birth of her [[dragon]]s, Art by TeiIku©]]
| image_caption = Dany in the flames, birth of her dragons, Art by TeiIku©©
| Played_by = Emilia Clarke
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| Alias = Dany Daenerys Stormborn The Unburnt Mother of Dragons Mother Mysha The Silver Queen Silver Lady Child of Three {{Ref|aCoK|48}} {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Daughter of Death {{Ref|aCoK|48}} {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Slayer of Lies{{Ref|aCoK|48}} {{Ref|aCoK|63}} Bride of Fire{{Ref|aCoK|48}}{{Ref|aCoK|63}} The Dragon Queen{{Ref|aDwD|25}}
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| Culture = [[Valyria]]
| Spouse = [[Khal Drogo]] 1st [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] 2nd
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| Played_by = [[w:Emilia Clarke|Emilia Clarke]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]]{{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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'''Daenerys Targaryen''', known as '''Daenerys Stormborn''' or '''Dany''', is the last confirmed member of the ancient [[House Targaryen|Targaryen Dynasty]] and one of the primary [[POV Character|POV characters]] in the book series. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], Daenerys is played by Emilia Clarke.<ref name=hbo/>

==Appearance==
:''See also'' [[:Category:Images of Daenerys Targaryen|this collection of images]].
Daenerys is a young woman in her early teens. She is short of stature and very beautiful, with the silver-blonde hair and [[purple eyes]] for which [[House Targaryen]] has always been known. {{Ref|aGoT|3}} Dany is said to bear a certain physical resemblance to [[Naerys Targaryen]]. <ref>Naerys Targaryen. (March 9, 2006) [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1463/ So Spake Martin]</ref> By [[A Dance with Dragons]] rumours of Daenerys's striking beauty are spreading far and wide.

==Character==
In her youth, Dany was a meek, timid girl with little confidence or self-esteem. She knew no life other than one of exile, dependent and in constant fear of her brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]]. He was the only family she knew, but was often a cruel guardian, prone to mood swings and fits of violence.

Her marriage to [[Khal Drogo]] was a turning point for her; adapting to life in a Dothraki ''[[khalasar]]'' was difficult, but it allowed her to begin to achieve independence from her abusive brother, and she emerged from the experience as a strong, confident, courageous woman. Nevertheless, she has not forgotten what it was like to be a victimized child, and her experiences have left her with a compassion that is unusual in a would-be conqueror. She is determined to bring justice through her reign, and has made ending [[slavery]] a particular priority. Despite her strong moral compass, however, she is capable of dealing ruthlessly with her enemies.

It was often said that the Targaryen kings tended to be either [[Targaryen madness|madmen]] or brilliant rulers, and Daenerys seems to have inherited a natural gift for leadership as her birthright. Her followers generally regard her with great respect and love, and she is often compared to her deceased brother [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], a similarly charismatic leader who was known for his skill, determination, scholarly mind and strong sense of justice. Her primary weakness as a ruler is her youth and relative inexperience; however, she has a keen intellect and learns quickly from her mistakes.

Although she has matured enough to recognize that [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] was weak, cowardly and cruel, his abiding obsession with regaining the crown he felt was his birthright has instilled in Daenerys a similar belief that reclaiming the [[Seven Kingdoms]] is both her right and her duty as the last of the Targaryens, and it remains the paramount goal of her life. Nevertheless, [[Westeros]] is a foreign land that she has never seen with her own eyes, and she sometimes longs wistfully for the house with a red door in [[Braavos]] that has come to symbolize her lost childhood.

==History==
[[File:Edriss_young_Dany&Viserys.jpg‎‎‎|young Dany and her brother - by Jacqui Davis ©|thumb|250px|left]]
[[File:Viserys Daenerys Targaryen hbo.jpg|thumb|250px|Daenerys and her brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] complicated relationship]]
Daenerys is the only daughter and youngest child of King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] and his sister-wife, Queen [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]]. She was named after the first [[Daenerys, daughter of Aegon IV|Daenerys]] in her family and was most like named by her mother. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1202/ So Spake Martin] February 28, 2002, Numerous Questions.</ref>
Daenerys was conceived during the last month of [[Robert's Rebellion|the rebellion]] that would ultimately end her family's reign over the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Shortly thereafter, her mother was sent with the young prince Viserys to the family ancestral seat of [[Dragonstone]] to escape the coming [[Sack of King's Landing]]. Daenerys was born while a great storm raged above Dragonstone, sinking what remained of the Targaryen fleet, for this reason she is sometimes known as "Daenerys Stormborn." Her mother died in labor.

By this time, the war was already lost. [[Robert Baratheon]] had claimed the throne and Aerys had already been killed along with the rest of the royal family, leaving Daenerys and her older brother Viserys as the only known living Targaryen heirs. The garrison at Dragonstone decided to surrender and turn them over to the rebels in exchange for their lives, but before they could act on this plan, Ser [[Willem Darry]] and several other loyal retainers rescued the children and smuggled them into exile, sailing to the [[Braavos|Free City of Braavos]], where they lived for years in a house with a [[red door]]. Ser Willem was old and sickly, but Dany remembers that he always treated her kindly. After his death, the servants drove the young Targaryens from the house. Dany wept as they were forced out.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

The Targaryen loyalists who raised the two children considered Viserys the rightful ruler of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] despite the family's defeat and exile, as did Viserys himself. He regarded it as his duty to revenge himself on the usurpers who murdered his family and reclaim the birthright that had been stolen from him when he was only a child. In the years that followed Ser Willem's death, Viserys wandered the nine [[Free Cities]] with his sister, trying to raise support to retake the [[Iron Throne]], which earned him the mocking title of "The Beggar King."

As a result of this long humiliation, Viserys grew bitter and obsessed with his long-denied birthright. Dany was the only convenient target for his frustration, and over time he even came to blame her for their mother's death. He took pride in his lack of control of his own temper, regarding it as proof that he was a true heir to the Targaryen kings; he regularly warned Dany not to "wake the dragon" by angering him. He often spoke to her of the importance of preserving the purity of their royal bloodline through the ancient [[Valyria|Valyrian]] practice of dynastic incest, so Dany grew up believing she would one day wed her brother. She was bright enough to realize that most of Viserys' plans for retaking the Seven Kingdoms were unrealistic, and as she had no memory of [[Westeros]] herself, his dream meant little to her; instead she longed to return to the house with the red door, which in her mind became a symbol for the childhood she had lost. With no family other than the abusive Viserys and no expectation of ever escaping his control, Dany grew into a fearful and docile young woman.

Viserys and Daenerys eventually found the help they sought in the [[Pentos|Free City of Pentos]], in the form of a rich and powerful [[magister]], [[Illyrio Mopatis]], who invited them to stay in his mansion and offered his help in reclaiming [[Iron Throne|their throne]].{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Recent Events==
[[File:Daenerys and handmaidens.png|250px|thumb|left|Daenerys and her handmaidens Doreah and Irri ([[Game of Thrones|Tv]])]]

===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Moon of my life by celestialfrost.jpg|thumb|250px|Moon of my life, Daenerys and her [[Drogo|husband]], Art by Celestialfrost©]]
[[File:Dany_and_silver_in_the_Dothraki_Sea.jpg|thumb|250px|Daenerys Targaryen riding her silver in the [[Dothraki Sea]] - © by Nyph-Atzbel]]
[[File:GOT_tvseries_Daenerys.png|250px|thumb|Daenerys and [[Jorah Mormont]] defender and companion]]
[[File:Dany dragon.jpg|thumb|250px|Dany [[Dragons]] growing strong]]

While Daenerys and [[Viserys Targaryen|her brother]] stay at the mansion of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in [[Pentos]], Illyrio arranges a marriage between Dany and the powerful [[Dothraki]] warlord [[Khal]] [[Drogo]]. In return, Drogo is to provide Viserys with ten thousand warriors for his campaign to retake the [[Iron Throne]]. Dany's opinion is not consulted, and she realizes this marriage is little different from being sold into [[slavery]]. She tells her brother she does not wish to marry Khal Drogo, but Viserys only threatens that she will “wake the dragon” if she fails to please the ''khal''. Despairing, Dany sees no choice but to do her best to avoid her brother's wrath, as she always had.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

At the wedding, the exiled [[Westeros]]i [[knight]] Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] pledges his sword to the Targaryen cause. Dany receives three petrified dragon eggs from Illyrio, three handmaidens ([[Irri]], [[Jhiqui]] and [[Doreah]]) from her brother, and [[The Silver|a magnificent silver filly]] from Drogo. She is frightened by the seemingly barbaric Dothraki culture and particularly terrified of her bridegroom, a powerfully-built man who shares no common language with her. After the ceremony she weeps in terror, waiting for him to rape her, but Drogo proves to be a surprisingly considerate lover. He establishes that he understands the word “no” and begins touching her gently and gradually, only having intercourse with her after she expresses her consent and initiates it.{{Ref|aGoT|11}}

Life in the ''[[khalasar]]'' is difficult at first; Dany is lonely and unaccustomed to spending her days on horseback. Nevertheless, she is determined to embrace her new life. Gradually her body strengthens and she begins to enjoy the sense of freedom that came with the nomadic lifestyle. The first real turning point comes when Viserys flies into one of his rages at her and Dany, for the first time in her life, fights back, shoving him away – and finds herself backed up by [[Jhogo]], who whips Viserys and asks the ''[[khaleesi]]'' how he ought to be punished. Dany begns to realize that Viserys is ultimately a pathetic bully, and that she herself might not be as worthless as her brother has always claimed. From this day forward, she begins to assert herself more and more.{{Ref|aGoT|23}} She loses her fear of both the Dothraki and her brother, becoming a strong and confident woman who little resembles the timid girl who had left Pentos. Her growing courage pleases Drogo, and they developed a loving relationship.

Drogo takes Daenerys east to [[Vaes Dothrak]] and presents her to the ''[[dosh khaleen]]''. By the time they arrive, Daenerys, now fourteen, is pregnant with Drogo's child.{{Ref|aGoT|23}} She takes part in the [[stallion heart]] ceremony, and the ''dosh khaleen'' foretell that her son will be "the [[Stallion Who Mounts the World]]," a long-prophesied leader destined to unite the Dothraki into a single ''khalasar'' and conquer the world. Dany announces that the child will be named [[Rhaego]] in honor of her deceased brother [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. Viserys grows increasingly impatient for the aid he had been promised, and the situation comes to a head when he breaks Dothraki law by drawing a blade in the sacred city, threatening both Daenerys and her unborn child. Drogo announces that Viserys will have the golden crown he deserves and dumps a pot of molten gold over his head, killing him and making Daenerys the last Targaryen. Dany watches impassively.{{Ref|aGoT|46}}

With Viserys' death, Drogo loses interest in the notion of invading Westeros, despite Dany's attempts to persuade him. This changes, however, when Ser Jorah prevents an assassin from poisoning Daenerys and discovers that [[Robert Baratheon]] has placed a price on her head. Enraged, Drogo vows before his ''khalasar'' to avenge this insult by conquering Westeros to seat his son on the [[Iron Throne]] that his mother's ancestors had once held.{{Ref|aGoT|54}} The ''khalasar'' continues east, pillaging foreign lands with the intent of selling slaves for ships to make the crossing to Westeros. During one such raid of a [[Lhazareen]] town, Daenerys grows disturbed by the treatment of the defeated and finally gives orders to stop every rape she sees, claiming the victims as her personal slaves and taking them under her protection. The Dothraki are angered by the ''khaleesi'' denying them their traditional right to rape captives, but Daenerys holds her ground, prompting Jorah to comment that she reminds him of Rhaegar. Khal Drogo, delighted by his wife's boldness, supports her decision.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 61|Chapter 61]], Daenerys</ref>

Drogo is injured in the raid. A Lhazareen priestess, [[Mirri Maz Duur]], offers to treat him, and although Drogo's [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]] reviled the woman as a ''[[maegi]]'', Dany feels that she could trust her, as Mirri was one of the women she had rescued.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 61|Chapter 61]], Daenerys</ref> However, Drogo does not follow the priestess' advice, and the wound festers, making him too weak to ride. Jorah explained to Dany that her position as ''khaleesi'' is entirely dependent on Drogo, and without him, both she and her unborn son are likely to be killed. Desperate, she begs Mirri Maz Duur to save her husband, ignoring the possible consequences of [[Magic|blood magic]]. During the rite, Dany enters into labor and Ser Jorah carries her into Drogo's tent, where Mirri Maz Duur is in the process of summoning dark spirits.{{Ref|aGoT|64}} When Dany awoke days later, she learns that Rhaego was stillborn, while Drogo lives only as a catatonic husk. Mirri Maz Duur reveals that this was the true price of the blood magic, and that she felt no gratitude toward Dany, who had "rescued" her only after she had been raped multiple times and seen her community destroyed.

Dany euthanizes Drogo and is abandoned by most of the ''khalasar'', which breaks into rival war-bands.{{Ref|aGoT|68}} Jorah urges her to flee with him into the east, while the men of Dany's ''khas'' offer to escort her to Vaes Dothrak to take her place as a former ''khaleesi'' among the ''dosh khaleen''. Dany, however, decides to finally take control of her destiny. She orders Mirri Maz Duur bound to Drogo's funeral pyre and places the three dragon eggs around his corpse, then announces to Drogo's remaining followers that she is freeing those who were enslaved, and will lead them all to glory if they chose to follow her. She offers to [[Aggo]], [[Jhogo]] and [[Rakharo]] the traditional gifts of a ''khal'' to his bloodriders; each refuse, saying that to serve as bloodrider to a woman would shame them, but Daenerys ignores their objections. Ser Jorah accepts her offer, and she names him the first of her [[Kingsguard|Queensguard]].

Daenerys then walks unflinchingly into the flames. The resulting magic restores life to the eggs, from which three [[dragon|dragons]] hatched, the first known for centuries. Daenerys emerges from the fire unharmed. Drogo's former ''khalasar'', now hers more surely than they had ever been Drogo's, kneels in awe. Aggo, Jhogo and Rakharo willingly swear themselves as her bloodriders, and Daenerys becomes the first female Dothraki war-leader, a ''[[khaleesi]]'' in her own right.{{Ref|aGoT|72}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===

Daenerys names the three dragons [[Viserion]], [[Rhaegal]] and [[Drogon]], after her two deceased brothers and her late husband, respectively.

She and the remains of Drogo's ''khalasar'' are stranded in a desolate area known as the [[Red Waste]]. They dare not turn toward the [[Dothraki Sea]], the cities of [[Slaver's Bay]], or even [[Lhazar]], for the group would have made easy prey for any Dothraki ''khalasar'' they encountered. Dany chooses instead to follow a red comet that had appeared in the sky following the hatching of her dragons; although the Dothraki view the comet as a foreboding omen, Dany believes that it heralds her own rise to power. The comet leads them to an ancient, abandoned city, which Dany names [[Vaes Tolorro]]. There they recover from the ravages of the desert while Dany sends scouts in all directions.

One scout returns with three emissaries, all prominent citizens from the great city of [[Qarth]]: the merchant [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]], the warlock [[Pyat Pree]], and the mysterious masked Asshai'i [[Quaithe]]. Dany and her people accompany the Qartheen back to their city, where they stay as honored guests in the palatial home of Xaro. There Dany learns of King [[Robert Baratheon]]'s death and the civil war in the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. She attempts to seek out Qartheen allies who would provide her with aid in conquering [[Westeros]], but it swiftly becomes clear that the merchants of Qarth are only interested in obtaining her dragons.{{Ref|aCoK|12}}{{Ref|aCoK|27}}

Daenerys turns to Pyat Pree and the famous warlocks of Qarth. Against the judgment of her friends and counselors, she agrees to visit the [[House of the Undying]], seeking a vision of the warlocks' masters, the [[Undying Ones]].{{Ref|aCoK|40}} Although Jorah and her bloodriders beg to accompany her, she insists on entering alone. After receiving instructions from Pyat Pree, Dany drinks [[shade of the evening]] and entered the building. Inside, Dany beholds a number of strange visions, most apparently signifying past, present and future events in [[Westeros]]. Upon finally reaching the chamber of the Undying, Dany hears whispers hailing her as "Mother of Dragons" and prophesying that she will light three fires, ride three mounts, and face three betrayals. The Undying show Dany several more visions and then attack her, but with Drogon's help she destroys the House of the Undying.{{Ref|aCoK|48}}

Afterward, the people of Qarth turn against Daenerys; the warlocks are rumored to conspire against her life, while Xaro requests that Dany and her people leave his mansion. With nowhere else to turn, she finally considers the suggestions of the third emissary, Quaithe, who tells her that she must go further east to conquer the west.{{Ref|aCoK|48}} Dany visits the docks with Jorah to seek passage out of Qarth. There she notices two strangers following her. Thus distracted, she is off her guard when a [[Sorrowful Men|Sorrowful Man]] attempts to poison her with a [[manticore]], but one of the strangers intercedes and knocks the manticore aside just in time. The two men introduce themselves as [[Strong Belwas]], a eunuch and former pit fighter, and [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]], an older [[Westeros]]i man serving as Belwas' squire. They claim to be agents sent by [[Illyrio Mopatis|Magister Illyrio]] with three ships to escort Daenerys and her party back to [[Pentos]]. Dany accepts the pair into her service and claim the three ships and their cargo for her own, renaming them ''[[Vhagar (ship)|Vhagar]]'', ''[[Meraxes (ship)|Meraxes]]'' and ''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]'' after the three dragons that brought her ancestor [[Aegon the Conqueror]] and his sister-wives to Westeros. Dany and her companions thus set sail for Pentos.{{Ref|aCoK|63}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:ReneAigner_Queen riding_to_war.jpg ‎| Queen Daenerys Targaryen leading her army astride [[her silver]] - by © Rene Aigner|thumb|250px|right]]
Several days into the trip, Ser [[Jorah]] manages to convince Daenerys to go to [[Astapor]], one of the great [[slave]] cities of [[Slaver's Bay]], to purchase [[Unsullied]] so she can return to [[Illyrio]] with an army at her back. He also kisses her and professes his love for her.{{Ref|aSoS|8}} Lonely since Drogo's death, Daenerys briefly takes her maid [[Irri]] as a lover.{{Ref|aSoS|23}} Once in [[Astapor]], Daenerys begins to have doubts about using [[slave]]s, still she agrees to purchases an army of every [[Unsullied]] in the ciry in exchange for her Dragon [[Drogon]]. She is given a slave [[Missandei]] as a gift from the [[Good Masters]]. Dany accepts, but she then frees [[Missandei]]. Dany tells Missandei that she can leave Dany's service whenever she wishes, but Missandei remains close and loyal to Dany.

After taking control of the [[Unsullied]], Dany betrays the Masters by breaking the deal, reclaims [[Drogon]] and commands him to use his fires against the [[Astapor]]i leaders. She then uses the Unsullied to [[Sack of Astapor|conquer the city]]. After the fighting, she proclaims all Astapori slaves free, including her Unsullied, giving her the name ''Breaker of Shackles'', or ''Breaker of Chains''. The [[Unsullied]] and many new [[Freedmen]] choose to follow her in her future battles. After forming a council to rule Astapor, she sets out for the next great slave city [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aSoS|27}}

[[Yunkai]] hires two sellsword companies, the [[Stormcrows]] and the [[Second Sons]], in addition to conscripting a force of some four thousand slave soldiers. Daenerys parleys with the captains of the companies, hoping to convince them to switch sides. Her arguments convince one of the Stormcrows' commanders, [[Daario Naharis]], to assassinate his colleagues and pledge the company to Daenerys. To the Second Sons, Daenerys offers a great store of wine as tribute then [[Battle of Yunkai|attacks]] them in the night while they are drunk and sleeping. With the Stormcrows' betrayal and the Second Sons' drunkenness, Yunkai's [[slave]] army is unable to withstand Daenerys's Unsullied. The entire Yunkish army is slain, captured, or put to flight, and Yunkai surrenders a few days later.{{Ref|aSoS|42}}

Daenerys next made for [[Meereen]], the last of the great slave cities. Near Meereen, Daenerys is nearly killed by the [[Mero|Titan's Bastard]], the former captain of the Second Sons. [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]] slays the Bastard, and finally reveals his true identity as [[Barristan Selmy]], a famous knight of her father's [[Kingsguard]] who had served the Usurper [[Robert Baratheon]] after the end of the Rebellion. He claims to have seen the error of his ways and to seeking her out as the true heir to the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Selmy also reveals that [[Jorah Mormont]], still Daenerys's trusted right arm, has been sending reports on her actions to the spymaster in [[King's Landing]], [[Varys|Lord Varys]], hoping for a pardon from [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]]. Daenerys feels betrayed by each of them, though both fervently wish to atone for their actions.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} During her [[Siege of Meereen]], she sends them on a covert suicide mission through the sewers, half hoping that they will die in the attempt. The mission succeeds and wins the city with minimal blood. Barristan humbly submits to his Queen's judgment and is forgiven. [[Jorah]] stubbornly continues to insist that he had done nothing wrong, and Daenerys is forced to banish him from her service, despite her desire to pardon him.

Having captured [[Meereen]], Dany turns her eyes toward [[Westeros]]. Through talks with Barristan about her homeland and its history, however, she learns that there is much she does not know about ruling. Upon hearing that Astapor and Yunkai cannot maintain the peace she had hoped to bring, she resolves to bring order to [[Slaver's Bay]] before leaving it behind. By this time, she is close on seventeen years.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Daenerys_by_quickreaver.jpg|Daenerys by quickreaver,©Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|250px]]
Tales told by sailors reach [[Westeros]], dragons in [[Asshai]], dragons in [[Qarth]], dragons in [[Meereen]], [[Dothraki]] dragons, dragons freeing [[slave]]s … each telling differs from the last, but only in details. All speak of [[dragons]], and a beautiful young queen. {{Ref|aFfC|Prologue}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[Image:Daenerys.jpg|thumb|250px|Daenerys Targaryen with Dragons, by [http://en.amokanet.ru/gallery/martin/targaryens_1237.html Amoka©]]]
Dany struggles as ruler of [[Meereen]], mainly due to the constant threats surrounding her. A portion of [[Meereen]]'s former slaving families who call themselves the [[Sons of the Harpy]] fight a shadow war with her followers, attacking lone freedmen or [[Unsullied]] in the black of night and drawing a harpy nearby with the man's blood.{{Ref|aDwD|2}} The sons have also scrawled graffiti on the walls of Meereen in blood promising a death to the families of any who serve the Dragon Queen.

In Meereen, men traditionally wear their oiled black and red hair in varying shapes in homage to [[Ghis|Ghiscari]] culture. The Meereenese who now serve Dany shave their heads, symbolizing the abandonment of old Meereen to serve the new. These men are known as [[Shavepates]], and are led by [[Skahaz mo Kandaq]], known as ''the Shavepate''. Another of her Meereenese councilors is the seneschal, [[Reznak mo Reznak]].

Three fighting companies were also formed by Daenerys, their members comprised from her freeman. The company names are [[Mother's Men]]; The Company of the [[Free Brothers]]; and the [[Stalwart Shields]]. They have been receiving their training in arms from [[Grey Worm]].

Daenery's dragons have grown wilder, hunting sheep and livestock. Eventually a petitioner comes to her, presenting the bones of his six-year-old girl daughter "[[Hazzea]]", claiming the "[[Drogon|winged shadow]]" had killed her.{{Ref|aDwD|2}} Prompted by this, Dany has her [[Unsullied]] capture the dragons using nets and chains and lock them below ground to prevent any more such killings. In a [[dragon pit (Great Pyramid)|closed fighting pit]], [[Viserion]] and [[Rhaegal]] are captured (though several Unsullied lose their lives in the process), but [[Drogon]] escapes and disappears. During this time, she has a vision of [[Quaithe]] that offers her prophetic advice, most specifically warning her not to trust the perfumed seneschal.{{Ref|aDwD|11}}

Daenerys has grave enemies outside [[Meereen]] as well as in. Since she ended the [[slave]] trade in [[Slaver's Bay]], several of the [[Free Cities]] that rely upon the slave trade of the slave cities to fuel their economy have promised help to the [[Yunkai]] to bring her down. Yunkai has hired sellsword legions such as the [[Long Lances]], the [[Company of the Cat]] and the [[Windblown]]. Legions have also arrived from [[New Ghis]].

The Yunkai host first takes [[Astapor]] from [[Cleon|Cleon the Butcher King]], its most recent ruler, and puts thousands of its inhabitants to the sword or sends them again into slavery.{{Ref|aDwD|25}} An escaped rider who managed to flee in the confusion of the siege brings word of this to Dany in Meereen. Unfortunately word is not the only thing he brings, as he is infected with the [[bloody flux]].{{Ref|aDwD|30}} Several other [[Astapor]]i citizens flee to Meereen, bringing the disease with them.

The merchant emissary [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] arrives from [[Qarth]] bearing a gift of 13 ships in exchange for Dany's abandon of [[Slaver's Bay]] and departure for [[Westeros]]. Dany wishes to go, but the thirteen ships are not enough to take her entire army of Unsullied, [[Dothraki]], sellswords and freedmen. The Shavepates beg her not to go. If she does, they who served her and their families will die by the Sons of the Harpy. She refuses Xaro, which prompts [[Qarth]] to join the Yunkai against her.{{Ref|aDwD|16}}

Deaths of freedmen and Unsullied continue to grow nightly, and several former freed slave women are raped by the Sons of the Harpy before having their throats slit open. Daenerys takes the children of several Meereenese families of dubious loyalty as [[Cupbearers of Daenerys Targaryen|Cupbearers]] in name, but hostages in truth in hopes that would stop the killing. The killings only continue though and Daenerys refuses to harm the child hostages.

In despair and loneliness, Dany takes [[Daario Naharis]] as a lover. A plan is put to her by the [[Graces|Meereenese priestess]], the [[Green Grace]] [[Galazza Galare]], suggesting that Dany should wed the Meereenese noble [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] to bring peace. After a time Dany agrees, on the condition that [[Hizdahr]] can promise her 90 days of peace. Hizdahr agrees.{{Ref|aDwD|23}} [[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]], captain of the [[Second Sons]], learns that Dany can no longer control her dragons, and takes his company over to the Yunkai.
[[File: Drogon in Daznak's Pit.jpg|Daenerys and Drogon in [[Daznak's Pit]] - by Marc Simonetti ©|thumb|250px]]

At this point, [[Quentyn Martell]] of [[Dorne]] arrives to make a marriage claim, but is rejected because Dany has already promised to wed Hizdahr. After [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] succeeds at keeping his promise of peace, Dany weds him.{{Ref|aDwD|43}} Under his direction, Dany, much to her disgust, suggests peace terms with [[Yunkai]]. She promises if they leave [[Meereen]] and do not enslave any of the former slaves she freed, she will not disrupt the slave trade of [[Slaver's Bay]] any further. The Yunkai agree.{{Ref|aDwD|50}}

To mark the occasion, the [[fighting pits]] are reopened and several gladiators (who freely agreed to compete) battle in the arena of [[Daznak's Pit]]. During the event [[Strong Belwas]] consumes [[poisoned locusts]] that were most likely meant for Daenerys and her black dragon [[Drogon]] appears, drawn to the screams of the crowd and the smell of death. He kills a boar in the arena, but is then attacked by the animal handler [[Harghaz]]. Dany, seeing her "child" in pain, runs out in the arena to him as she sees other pit fighters going to kill the dragon. Dany manages to mount the dragon and ride him out of the arena.{{Ref|aDwD|52}} Many in Meereen suspect that she is dead.{{Ref|aDwD|55}} She is alive with [[Drogon]], however, thousands of leagues away. She and her dragon are eventually discovered by the ''khalasar'' of [[Jhaqo|Khal Jhaqo]].{{Ref|aDwD|71}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|''I am the blood of the dragon.'' {{Ref|aGoT|11}}}}

{{Quote|''A dragon is no slave.''{{Ref|aSoS|27}}}}

{{Quote|''If I look back I am lost.'' {{Ref|aGoT|72}}}}

==Quotes about Daenerys==
[[File:Mario Teodosio dracarys.jpg|art by Mario Teodosio © |thumb|right|250px]]

{{Quote|The frightened child who sheltered in [[Illyrio's manse|my manse]] died on the [[Dothraki Sea]], and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true [[Targaryen]]. {{Ref|ADWD|5}}}} – [[Illyrio Mopatis]]

{{Quote|The Blood of [[Aegon I|Aegon the Dragon]] flows in her veins{{Ref|aDwD|5}}}} - [[Illyrio Mopatis]]

{{Quote|If Daenerys is no more than a sweet young girl, the [[Iron Throne]] will cut her into sweet young pieces. {{Ref|aDwD|5}}}} - Tyrion Lannister

{{Quote|Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a [[Khal Drogo|Dothraki khal]], a mother of dragons and a sacker of cities, [[Aegon the Conqueror]] with teats...{{Ref|aDwD|22}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]

{{Quote|I know that she spent her childhood in exile, impoverished, living on dreams and schemes, running from one city to the next, always fearful, never safe, friendless but for a brother who was by all accounts [[Targaryen madness|half-mad]]...a brother who sold her maidenhood to the [[Dothraki]] for the promise of an army. I know that somewhere upon the grass, her [[dragon]]s hatched, and so did she. I know she is proud. How not? What else was left her but pride? I know she is strong. How not? The Dothraki despise weakness. If Daenerys had been weak, she would have perished with [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]]. I know she is fierce. [[Astapor]], [[Yunkai]] and [[Meereen]] are proof enough of that. She has survived assassins and conspiracies and [[House of the Undying|fell sorceries]], grieved for a brother and a [[Drogo|husband]] and [[Rhaego|a son]], trod the cities of the slavers to dust beneath her dainty sandalled feet {{Ref|aDwD|22}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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Jon Arryn

2013-08-23T22:50:36Z

Dancing Maester: /* Cause of Death */

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[[File:King Robert Baratheon Hand Jon Arryn.jpg|thumb|250px|Jon Arryn as [[Hand of the King]], for King [[Robert Baratheon]]]]

Lord '''Jon Arryn''' ([[225 AL]]-[[298 AL]]) was Lord of the [[Eyrie]], Defender of the Vale and Warden of the East. He served as [[Hand of the King]] to [[Robert Baratheon]] from 283 AL until his death in 298 AL.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

==Appearance==
Jon had broad shoulders.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

==History==
===Youth===
Jon was born in [[225 AL]] as the son of Lord [[Jasper Arryn]]. Not much is known about his youth or his parents. He had a younger brother, [[Ronnel Arryn|Ronnel]], and a sister, [[Alys Arryn|Alys]], who married [[Elys Waynwood]]. Jon was Keeper of the [[Gates of the Moon]] while his father lived, and after his father's death he named his brother Ronnel and later his cousin [[Denys Arryn|Denys]] to that position.{{Ref|aFfC|10}}

===Robert's Rebellion===
:{{main|Robert's Rebellion}}

Jon fostered [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Robert Baratheon]] as his wards in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]]. As they grew, the two boys became close companions and regarded Jon as a second father. After [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]] demanded that Jon turn them over for a likely execution, Jon refused and raised his banners in revolt. After the [[Battle of Gulltown]], where he confronted several lords who resisted the rebellion, Jon fought in the [[Battle of the Bells]] and the [[Battle of the Trident]]. During the war, in the same ceremony in which Eddard Stark and [[Catelyn Tully]] were wed, he married [[Lysa Tully]] to gain [[Hoster Tully|her father]]'s support and to try and secure an heir for the failing Arryn line.

During the [[Sack of King's Landing]], not only King Aerys but also the wife and children of [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar]] were killed. Eddard Stark was appalled by the brutality of the acts but Robert's hatred for the Targaryens made him consider the murders necessary, creating a temporary rift between the two that even Jon Arryn was unable to breach.{{Ref|aGoT|12}} When Robert Baratheon ascended to the [[Iron Throne]], he appointed Jon as his [[Hand of the King|Hand]].{{Ref|aGoT|2}}

===Hand of the King===
The first task Jon undertook was making peace with [[Dorne]]. Dorne was incensed by the deaths of [[Lewyn Martell|Lewyn]] and [[Elia Martell]] during the war. [[Oberyn Martell]] tried to raise the kingdom to support [[Viserys Targaryen]], the surviving son of [[Aerys II Targaryen|King Aerys]]. In response, Jon returned the bones of Lewyn and was able to broker a peace with [[Doran Martell]]. However, the knights [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Amory Lorch]], who had killed Elia and her children, went unpunished, creating a persistent bone of contention between the Iron Throne and Dorne.

[[File:Jon Arryn TheMico.jpg|thumb|200px|Jon Arryn by TheMico]]

To strengthen Robert's hold on the throne, Jon negotiated [[Robert Baratheon|Robert's]] marriage with [[Cersei Lannister]] and advised that he retain her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] on the [[Kingsguard]], thereby opposing [[Eddard Stark]] who proposed sending Jaime to the [[Wall]] for his killing of King Aerys. Robert also considered the assassination of Viserys and [[Daenerys Targaryen]], believed to be the last two [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] and thus a possible threat, but Lord Jon dissuaded him from the idea.{{Ref|aGoT|12}}

Robert left Jon with much of the responsibility of running the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but Jon could not stop Robert from spending huge amounts of money on tournaments and excess, putting the nation in serious debt.{{Ref|aGoT|20}} While he was at court, [[Nestor Royce]] ruled as High Steward of the Vale.

Unbeknownst to Lord Jon, his wife and [[Petyr Baelish]] kept up a relationship they had since their youth. She organized for Petyr to get his first position and later convinced her husband to bring her lover to the court in [[King's Landing]], so that they could be close together. Petyr was made [[Master of Coin]] under Jon as [[Hand of the King|Hand]].{{Ref|aSoS|80}}

===Cause of Death===
[[Stannis Baratheon]] began to suspect that [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei's]] children had been fathered not by [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] but by her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], the Kingslayer—which would have made them illegitimate and Stannis therefore Robert's rightful heir. Concerned that such a suggestion coming from him would be seen as motivated by his own ambitions, Stannis didn't confide in the King but rather raised the issue with Jon Arryn, whom Robert would be more inclined to believe.{{Ref|aCoK|31}}

Jon and Stannis began to investigate the matter secretly by seeking out bastards Robert had begotten. Together they visited the armory of [[Tobho Mott]] where [[Gendry]] was employed, one of Robert's offspring who bore a striking resemblance to his father. They also visited the brothel of [[Chataya]], where Robert had fathered a girl, [[Barra]], who also clearly had the King's features.{{Ref|aGoT|27}}{{Ref|aGoT|30}} The increased contact with Stannis apparently also contributed to Jon Arryn's planning to send his [[Robert Arryn|own son]] to be fostered by Stannis at [[Dragonstone]].{{Ref|aGoT|40}}

Jon was seeking further proof that Cersei's children couldn't be Robert's in Grand Maester [[Malleon]]'s book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms]]'', a ponderous tome lent to him by Grand Maester [[Pycelle]]. The book would have informed him, as it later informed Lord [[Eddard Stark]], that whenever members of houses [[House Lannister|Lannister]] and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] wed, their offspring always bore clear Baratheon features{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aGoT|45}} (unlike Cersei's children [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]], and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], who more closely resembled the Lannisters).

Jon's investigation had become known to a number of people at the court, including Pycelle, [[Varys]], Cersei, and [[Petyr Baelish]] (Littlefinger). Cersei considered Jon a threat to her plan of putting her son Joffrey on the [[Iron Throne]] after her husband had been disposed of.{{Ref|aFfC|3}} Pycelle believed that Jon was about to act on his knowledge by making preparations to send his wife to the [[Eyrie]] and his son to Dragonstone.{{Ref|aCoK|25}} Varys saw Jon's life in danger and begged him to employ a taster, but Jon dimissed the suggestion that anyone would try to poison him.{{Ref|aGoT|30}} Littlefinger's motivations are not clear, but he evidently saw the chance of exploiting the death of Jon Arryn to increase the animosity between the Lannisters and the [[House Stark|Starks]] for his own ends.{{Ref|aSoS|80}} It is also possible that he saw Cersei and her tendency to act hastily and irrationally as crucial to his own strategy in the "game of thrones" and wanted to prevent her untimely removal from the game.{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

Littlefinger persuaded [[Lysa Arryn]] to poison Jon's wine with [[Tears of Lys]], suggesting to her that this would both remove the obstacle to their marriage and prevent Jon from sending Robert Arryn to Dragonstone. Lysa did as she was bidden.{{Ref|aSoS|80}} Jon, until then considered very robust for his age, became ill the night after he had borrowed Malleon's book, and quickly wasted away. Jon's own maester [[Colemon]] tried treating an assumed stomach illness by purging the body. However, Grand Maester Pycelle, a staunch Lannister ally, believed that Queen Cersei wanted Jon dead. Although she hadn't given him explicit orders in this regard and wasn't even in the city at the time, he assumed responsibility for the treatment and thereby assured that Jon Arryn died. The moribund Jon kept mentioning the name Robert, and his final words to his wife and King Robert were "The seed is strong."{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aCoK|25}} Lysa believed this to be a reference to their own son,{{Ref|aCoK|25}} but it is more likely that Jon Arryn was referring to what he had learned about the Baratheon lineage while studying Maester Malleon's book.{{Ref|aGoT|45}} Afterwards his speech became too slurred to comprehend and he died the following morning.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

===Repercussions===
After Jon Arryn's death, [[Robert Baratheon]] suggested to [[Lysa Tully|Lysa Arryn]] that her son [[Robert Arryn|Robert]] should become ward of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and be sent to [[Casterly Rock]], as he feared that being raised by his mother would make his namesake weak. Lysa refused the suggestion brusquely and, against the wishes of the King, one night fled from [[King's Landing]] with her son und returned to the [[Vale of Arryn]].{{Ref|aGoT|4}}

The death of Jon Arryn soon became one of the primary triggers of the [[War of the Five Kings]]. King Robert decided that Lord [[Eddard Stark]] should succeed as [[Hand of the King]], which angered both [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]], who had hoped her (uninterested) brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] would assume the position and feared that Lord Eddard would move to curb [[House Lannister|Lannister]] influence{{Ref|aGoT|8}}, and [[Stannis Baratheon]], who thought he'd owned the position through his 15 years of service on the [[small council]].{{Ref|aCoK|Prologue}} Shortly after Robert and his entourage left for [[Winterfell]] to ask Lord Eddard to become his Hand, Stannis went to [[Dragonstone]]{{Ref|aGoT|20}}, where he remained until the war had broken out, which kept him from sharing his suspicions about Cersei's children with Lord Eddard and from directly challenging the legitimacy of [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] when he assumed the throne after King Robert died.

On [[Petyr Baelish]]'s initiative, Lysa wrote a coded letter to her sister [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], in which she falsely claimed that Jon Arryn had been murdered by Queen Cersei. This convinced Catelyn and eventually Eddard, who had been inclined to refuse King Robert's offer, that he must assume the position of Hand, so that he can find out the truth about Jon Arryn's death and expose those responsible.{{Ref|aGoT|6}}{{Ref|aSoS|80}}

However, when Lord Eddard arrived at the [[Red Keep]], he soon had to realize that Lysa's return to the Eyrie with most of the Arryn household and Stannis' departure to Dragonstone prevented him from questioning crucial witnesses about the circumstances and background of Jon Arryn's death. Left without other options, he began to rely on information provided by Littlefinger and Varys. For obvious reasons, Littlefinger had every interest in Eddard not finding out the truth and only fed him useless information, whereas Varys' belief that Jon Arryn's squire [[Hugh]] had poisoned his master might have been an honest mistake.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aGoT|27}}{{Ref|aGoT|30}}

In any event, by the time Eddard found out what Jon Arryn had been investigating and what had provided the likely motive for his murder, it was too late to inform King Robert, as he had already gone on the hunting trip on which he would be fatally wounded, and, following Catelyn taking [[Tyrion Lannister]] captive for his assumed role in plotting her son [[Bran Stark|Bran's]] death, fighting had already broken out in the [[Riverlands]].{{Ref|aGoT|39}}{{Ref|aGoT|43}}{{Ref|aGoT|45}}

==Marriages and Heirs==
Jon Arryn was married three times, first to [[Jeyne Royce]], and then to [[Rowena Arryn]], a cousin. Neither marriage produced a child. Because he had no children, he had appointed a number of heirs who died one after another.
First his nephew [[Elbert Arryn]], the son of his younger brother Ronnel. After Elbert was executed by [[Aerys II]], [[Denys Arryn]] became heir. He was of a lower branch of House Arryn, and had married Jon's niece. He was killed in the Battle of the Bells.

During the Rebellion, Jon had married a third time to [[Lysa Tully]], the daughter of [[Hoster Tully]]. Their marriage was loveless. Lysa found Jon to be too old and hated his bad breath. After several miscarriages Lysa gave Jon a sickly son and heir, [[Robert Arryn]].

{{Arryn tree}}

==References and Notes==
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Jon Arryn

2013-08-23T22:17:26Z

Dancing Maester: /* Cause of Death */

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| image = [[File:970110_1331165364981_full.jpg|250px]]
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| Title = [[Hand of the King]] Lord of the Eyrie Defender of the Vale [[Warden of the East]]
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| Place_of_Birth=
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|225}}
| Place_of_Death= [[King's Landing]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|298}}
| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (Mentioned) [[A Clash of Kings]] (Mentioned) [[A Storm of Swords]] (Mentioned) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (Mentioned)
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[[File:King Robert Baratheon Hand Jon Arryn.jpg|thumb|250px|Jon Arryn as [[Hand of the King]], for King [[Robert Baratheon]]]]

Lord '''Jon Arryn''' ([[225 AL]]-[[298 AL]]) was Lord of the [[Eyrie]], Defender of the Vale and Warden of the East. He served as [[Hand of the King]] to [[Robert Baratheon]] from 283 AL until his death in 298 AL.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

==Appearance==
Jon had broad shoulders.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

==History==
===Youth===
Jon was born in [[225 AL]] as the son of Lord [[Jasper Arryn]]. Not much is known about his youth or his parents. He had a younger brother, [[Ronnel Arryn|Ronnel]], and a sister, [[Alys Arryn|Alys]], who married [[Elys Waynwood]]. Jon was Keeper of the [[Gates of the Moon]] while his father lived, and after his father's death he named his brother Ronnel and later his cousin [[Denys Arryn|Denys]] to that position.{{Ref|aFfC|10}}

===Robert's Rebellion===
:{{main|Robert's Rebellion}}

Jon fostered [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Robert Baratheon]] as his wards in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]]. As they grew, the two boys became close companions and regarded Jon as a second father. After [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]] demanded that Jon turn them over for a likely execution, Jon refused and raised his banners in revolt. After the [[Battle of Gulltown]], where he confronted several lords who resisted the rebellion, Jon fought in the [[Battle of the Bells]] and the [[Battle of the Trident]]. During the war, in the same ceremony in which Eddard Stark and [[Catelyn Tully]] were wed, he married [[Lysa Tully]] to gain [[Hoster Tully|her father]]'s support and to try and secure an heir for the failing Arryn line.

During the [[Sack of King's Landing]], not only King Aerys but also the wife and children of [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Prince Rhaegar]] were killed. Eddard Stark was appalled by the brutality of the acts but Robert's hatred for the Targaryens made him consider the murders necessary, creating a temporary rift between the two that even Jon Arryn was unable to breach.{{Ref|aGoT|12}} When Robert Baratheon ascended to the [[Iron Throne]], he appointed Jon as his [[Hand of the King|Hand]].{{Ref|aGoT|2}}

===Hand of the King===
The first task Jon undertook was making peace with [[Dorne]]. Dorne was incensed by the deaths of [[Lewyn Martell|Lewyn]] and [[Elia Martell]] during the war. [[Oberyn Martell]] tried to raise the kingdom to support [[Viserys Targaryen]], the surviving son of [[Aerys II Targaryen|King Aerys]]. In response, Jon returned the bones of Lewyn and was able to broker a peace with [[Doran Martell]]. However, the knights [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Amory Lorch]], who had killed Elia and her children, went unpunished, creating a persistent bone of contention between the Iron Throne and Dorne.

[[File:Jon Arryn TheMico.jpg|thumb|200px|Jon Arryn by TheMico]]

To strengthen Robert's hold on the throne, Jon negotiated [[Robert Baratheon|Robert's]] marriage with [[Cersei Lannister]] and advised that he retain her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] on the [[Kingsguard]], thereby opposing [[Eddard Stark]] who proposed sending Jaime to the [[Wall]] for his killing of King Aerys. Robert also considered the assassination of Viserys and [[Daenerys Targaryen]], believed to be the last two [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] and thus a possible threat, but Lord Jon dissuaded him from the idea.{{Ref|aGoT|12}}

Robert left Jon with much of the responsibility of running the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but Jon could not stop Robert from spending huge amounts of money on tournaments and excess, putting the nation in serious debt.{{Ref|aGoT|20}} While he was at court, [[Nestor Royce]] ruled as High Steward of the Vale.

Unbeknownst to Lord Jon, his wife and [[Petyr Baelish]] kept up a relationship they had since their youth. She organized for Petyr to get his first position and later convinced her husband to bring her lover to the court in [[King's Landing]], so that they could be close together. Petyr was made [[Master of Coin]] under Jon as [[Hand of the King|Hand]].{{Ref|aSoS|80}}

===Cause of Death===
[[Stannis Baratheon]] started to suspect that [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei's]] children had been fathered not by [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] but by her brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], the Kingslayer, which would have made them illegitimate and Stannis therefore Robert's rightful heir. Concerned that such a suggestion coming from him would be seen as a result of own ambitions, Stannis didn't confide in the King but rather raised the issue with Jon Arryn, whom Robert would be more inclined to believe.{{Ref|aCoK|31}}

Jon and Stannis began to secretly investigate the matter by seeking out bastards Robert had produced. Together they visited the armory of [[Tobho Mott]] where [[Gendry]] was employed, one of Robert's offsprings who bore a striking resemblance to his father. They also visited the brothel of [[Chataya]], where Robert had fathered a girl, [[Barra]], who also clearly had the King's features.{{Ref|aGoT|27}}{{Ref|aGoT|30}} The increased contact with Stannis apparently also contributed to Jon Arryn planning to send his [[Robert Arryn|own son]] as Stannis' ward to [[Dragonstone]].{{Ref|aGoT|40}}

Jon was seeking further proof that Cersei's children couldn't be Robert's in Grand Maester [[Malleon]]'s book ''[[The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms]]'', a ponderous tome lent to him by Grand Maester [[Pycelle]]. The book would have informed him, as it later informed Lord [[Eddard Stark]], that whenever members of the houses [[House Lannister|Lannister]] and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] married, their offspring always showed clear Baratheon features.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aGoT|45}}

At that time, Jon's investigation had become known to a couple of people at the court, including Pycelle, [[Varys]], Cersei and [[Petyr Baelish]]. Cersei considered Jon a threat to her plan of putting her son [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] on the [[Iron Throne]] after her husband had been disposed of.{{Ref|aFfC|3}} Pycelle believed that Jon was about to act on his knowledge by making preparations to send his wife to the [[Eyrie]] and his son to Dragonstone.{{Ref|aCoK|25}} Varys saw Jon's life in danger and begged him to use a taster, but Jon dimissed the suggestion that anyone would try to poison him.{{Ref|aGoT|30}} Littlefinger's motivations are not clear, but he obviously saw the chance of exploiting the death of Jon Arryn for increasing the animosity between the Lannisters and the [[House Stark|Starks]] for his own ends.{{Ref|aSoS|80}} It's also possible that he saw Cersei and her tendency to act irrationally and hastily as crucial to his own strategy in the "game of thrones" and wanted to prevent her untimely removal from the game.{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

Petyr Baelish convinced [[Lysa Arryn]] to poison Jon's wine with [[Tears of Lys]], suggesting to her that this would both remove the obstacle of them getting married and prevent Jon from sending Robert Arryn to Dragonstone. Lysa did as bid.{{Ref|aSoS|80}} Jon, until then considered very robust for his age, became ill the night after he had borrowed Malleon's book. He quickly wasted away. Jon's own maester [[Colemon]] tried treating an assumed stomach illness by purging the body. However, Grand Maester Pycelle, a staunch Lannister ally, believed that Queen Cersei wanted Jon dead. Although she hadn't given him explicit orders in this regard and wasn't even in the city at the time, he assumed responsibility for the treatment and thereby assured that Jon Arryn died. The moribund Jon kept mentioning the name Robert and his final words to his wife and King Robert were "The seed is strong."{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aCoK|25}} Lysa believed this to be a comment on their own son.{{Ref|aCoK|25}} However, it is more likely that Jon Arryn was referring to what he had learned about the Baratheon lineage while studying Maester Malleon's book.{{Ref|aGoT|45}} Afterwards his speech became too slurred to comprehend and he died the following morning.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}

===Repercussions===
After Jon Arryn's death, [[Robert Baratheon]] suggested to [[Lysa Tully|Lysa Arryn]] that her son [[Robert Arryn|Robert]] should become ward of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] and be sent to [[Casterly Rock]], as he feared that being raised by his mother would make his namesake weak. Lysa refused the suggestion brusquely and, against the wishes of the King, one night fled from [[King's Landing]] with her son und returned to the [[Vale of Arryn]].{{Ref|aGoT|4}}

The death of Jon Arryn soon became one of the primary triggers of the [[War of the Five Kings]]. King Robert decided that Lord [[Eddard Stark]] should succeed as [[Hand of the King]], which angered both [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]], who had hoped her (uninterested) brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] would assume the position and feared that Lord Eddard would move to curb [[House Lannister|Lannister]] influence{{Ref|aGoT|8}}, and [[Stannis Baratheon]], who thought he'd owned the position through his 15 years of service on the [[small council]].{{Ref|aCoK|Prologue}} Shortly after Robert and his entourage left for [[Winterfell]] to ask Lord Eddard to become his Hand, Stannis went to [[Dragonstone]]{{Ref|aGoT|20}}, where he remained until the war had broken out, which kept him from sharing his suspicions about Cersei's children with Lord Eddard and from directly challenging the legitimacy of [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] when he assumed the throne after King Robert died.

On [[Petyr Baelish]]'s initiative, Lysa wrote a coded letter to her sister [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], in which she falsely claimed that Jon Arryn had been murdered by Queen Cersei. This convinced Catelyn and eventually Eddard, who had been inclined to refuse King Robert's offer, that he must assume the position of Hand, so that he can find out the truth about Jon Arryn's death and expose those responsible.{{Ref|aGoT|6}}{{Ref|aSoS|80}}

However, when Lord Eddard arrived at the [[Red Keep]], he soon had to realize that Lysa's return to the Eyrie with most of the Arryn household and Stannis' departure to Dragonstone prevented him from questioning crucial witnesses about the circumstances and background of Jon Arryn's death. Left without other options, he began to rely on information provided by Littlefinger and Varys. For obvious reasons, Littlefinger had every interest in Eddard not finding out the truth and only fed him useless information, whereas Varys' belief that Jon Arryn's squire [[Hugh]] had poisoned his master might have been an honest mistake.{{Ref|aGoT|25}}{{Ref|aGoT|27}}{{Ref|aGoT|30}}

In any event, by the time Eddard found out what Jon Arryn had been investigating and what had provided the likely motive for his murder, it was too late to inform King Robert, as he had already gone on the hunting trip on which he would be fatally wounded, and, following Catelyn taking [[Tyrion Lannister]] captive for his assumed role in plotting her son [[Bran Stark|Bran's]] death, fighting had already broken out in the [[Riverlands]].{{Ref|aGoT|39}}{{Ref|aGoT|43}}{{Ref|aGoT|45}}

==Marriages and Heirs==
Jon Arryn was married three times, first to [[Jeyne Royce]], and then to [[Rowena Arryn]], a cousin. Neither marriage produced a child. Because he had no children, he had appointed a number of heirs who died one after another.
First his nephew [[Elbert Arryn]], the son of his younger brother Ronnel. After Elbert was executed by [[Aerys II]], [[Denys Arryn]] became heir. He was of a lower branch of House Arryn, and had married Jon's niece. He was killed in the Battle of the Bells.

During the Rebellion, Jon had married a third time to [[Lysa Tully]], the daughter of [[Hoster Tully]]. Their marriage was loveless. Lysa found Jon to be too old and hated his bad breath. After several miscarriages Lysa gave Jon a sickly son and heir, [[Robert Arryn]].

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