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This '''timeline of major events''' attempts to lay out the most important points in the history of [[Westeros]] and [[Essos]], based on dates and information given in the novels and supporting material. See also: a thorough [[Years after Aegon's Conquest|listing of events]] after Aegon's Conquest.

According to tradition, the known history of Westeros extends back over 12,500 years. However, the oldest historic recounts in [[Westeros]] were only written after the [[Andal invasion|Andals' arrival]] to the continent, as the [[First Men]] only used runes for carving on stone. Everything written about the [[Age of Heroes]], the [[Dawn Age]], and [[the Long Night]] originates from stories written down by [[Faith of the Seven|septons]] thousands of years later. The accuracy of the legends and myths that recount much of this history is openly questioned by the [[maesters]] of the Citadel, amongst others.

=Timeline=
All dates are in relation to the Conquest of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]], using negative numbers for events before [[Aegon's Conquest]]. Note, that 'ca' is an abbreviation for the Latin word 'circa', meaning around, or approximately.

==[[Dawn Age]]==
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|width=85px|Prehistory
| '''Before the coming of men''': The lands of [[Westeros]] are inhabited by a mysterious race of diminutive humanoid creatures known as the [[children of the forest]], as well as [[giants]] and other magical [[Bestiary|creatures]].
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| ca.-12,000
| '''The [[First Men]] invade Westeros''': A human ethnic group from [[Essos]], the First Men, invades Westeros by crossing the [[Arm of Dorne]], bearing weapons of bronze. In a futile attempt to end the invasion, the children use magic to shatter the land-bridge, creating the island chain known as the [[Stepstones]]. However, the First Men are able to reinforce by ship, leading to generations of warfare over the land.

The First Men are more numerous, larger, stronger, and more technologically advanced than the children, who try to resist the invaders using their magic and obsidian weapons. It proves unsuccessful, however: the First Men gradually push deeper and deeper into Westeros, establishing hundreds of petty kingdoms.
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| ca.-10,000
| '''Signing of the [[Pact]]''': After years of warfare, the First Men and children of the forest come to a standstill and finally agree to a peaceful coexistence, signing the Pact on the [[Isle of Faces]]. This pact gives the First Men dominion over the open lands and lets the children keep control over the forested areas. In time, the First Men adopt the worship of the [[old gods|old gods of the forest]].
|}

==[[Age of Heroes]]==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px| ca.-10,000
| '''Age of Heroes''': An era during the history of [[Westeros]], which would be named so later for the great men and women who live in the years of peace and prosperity following the forging of the [[Pact]]. The Pact endures for nearly four thousand years, and in that time, the children of the forest and the First Men grow closer. In time, the First Men set aside many of their cultural differences to embrace the ways and customs of the children of the forest. With the exception of the [[Drowned God]] of the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[Lady of the Waves]] and [[Lord of the Skies]] of the [[Three Sisters]], the [[Old Gods|gods of the children]] become those of the First Men.

Many of the noble houses of Westeros today trace their lineage back to the Age of Heroes. This was the time when grand historical figures are said to have lived, such as [[Brandon the Builder]], founder of [[House Stark]]; [[Lann the Clever]], founder of House Lannister, who winkled Casterly Rock from the Casterlys; or [[Garth Greenhand]], founder of House Gardener of the Reach. Also during this era the Storm Kings arise in the stormlands: a line with figures such as the founding [[Durran]], supposed builder of [[Storm's End]]; and the [[Grey King]], first king of the [[Iron Islands]].
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| ca.-8,000
|'''[[The Long Night]]''': In this time, night seems to last for a generation, and the longest, coldest and darkest winter descends on Westeros. The ice spreads down from the north, and under the cover of darkness, the [[Others]] invade Westeros from the [[Lands of Always Winter|uttermost north]], marching, killing and raising up the dead to be their [[Wight|servants]] in unlife and nearly destroying all men in Westeros. The Long Night comes to an end with the [[Battle for the Dawn]]. The children and the First Men unite to defeat the Others with [[dragonglass]] weapons, with the [[Night's Watch]] pushing them back into the frozen reaches of the Far North.{{ref|ACOK|21}} Legendary figures from this time include the [[last hero]] and [[Azor Ahai]], who wields a great sword of fire, [[Lightbringer]].<hr>

'''Building of [[the Wall]]''': With the Others defeated, [[Bran the Builder]], with the aid of giants, the First Men, and perhaps the children of the forest, raises the Wall, a monumental fortification of ice and ancient [[magic]], to shelter the realms of men from the menaces of the north. The Sworn Brotherhood of the [[Night's Watch]] guards the Wall. It is said that Bran the Builder also built [[Winterfell]], became the first [[King in the North]], and founded [[House Stark]].<hr>

'''The [[Night's King]]''': Not long after the Wall is complete, the thirteenth [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] breaks his oath. He is seduced by an [[Other]] woman from beyond the Wall, declares himself the Night's King, and rises in rebellion with the Watch as his personal army. During the dark years of his reign, horrific atrocities are committed, of which tales would be told in [[the North]] even after several millennia. The [[House Stark|Starks]] of [[Winterfell]] and the [[King-beyond-the-Wall]], [[Joramun]], join forces to defeat the Night's King and thus restore honor to the Watch. This is the same Joramun who also finds the [[Horn of Winter]], which he is said to use to awaken [[giants]] from the earth.
|}

==[[Andal Invasion]]==
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|width=85px|ca.-6,000
| '''Foundation of the Faith''': In the hills of [[Andalos]] on [[Essos]], a new religion takes shape, called the [[Faith of the Seven]]. Supposedly, the supreme deity of the [[Andals]] appears to them, guiding them into their invasion of [[Westeros]].<hr>

'''The [[Andal Invasion]]''': The [[Andal]]s cross the [[narrow sea]] and make landfall on its eastern shore at the [[Fingers]], on what would one day become the [[Vale of Arryn]]. They come under the banner of the [[Faith of the Seven]], with seven-pointed stars carved into their chests, wielding [[Armament|weapons]] of steel. They fight both the First Men and the children of the forest, sweeping the land much like the First Men did thousands of years before. When the Andals crossed the narrow sea from Essos is disputed; some sources indicate six thousand years ago,<ref>[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]], Guardians of Order</ref> the ''[[True History]]'' states it was four thousand years ago, and some [[maesters]] claim it was two thousand years ago.{{ref|ADWD|48}}

For centuries the Andals war with the First Men and the children in an attempt to drive them out. One by one, the six southron kingdoms fall and the [[weirwood]]s are burned. Only the Kingdom of the North remains under the rule of the First Men, in large part due to the strategically located fortress of [[Moat Cailin]] resisting multiple attempts to take it and thereafter serving as the door between North and South. Even though the North remain secure, the children of the forest begin their slow withdrawal from the lands of men, retreating deeper into their forests and [[beyond the Wall|north of the Wall]].
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|width=85px|ca.-4,000
| The [[Iron Islands]] fall to the Andals, ending the first line of kings ruling there uncontested for over a thousand years, originating from [[Urron Greyiron]]. Unlike in the other regions, however, Andals are assimilated to the native beliefs of the [[Old Way]] and the [[Drowned God]].
|}

==[[Valyrian Freehold|Age of Valyria]] ==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px|ca.-5,000
| '''Rise of the [[Valyrian Freehold]]''': On [[Essos]], the peaceful sheep-herding folk of the [[Valyrian peninsula]] find [[dragon]]s lairing in the [[Fourteen Fires]], an immense chain of volcanoes extending across the neck of the peninsula. The Valyrians tame the dragons with [[magic]], which gives them the means to gain influence over the area. The Valyrian Freehold is established. In its capital, [[Valyria]], magic flourishes, topless towers rise toward the heavens where dragons soar, stone sphinxes gaze down through eyes of garnet, and smiths forge swords of legendary strength and sharpness.<hr>

'''Conquest of Ghiscar''': [[Ghiscari Wars|Five great wars]] are fought between the [[Ghiscari Empire]], the greatest empire on the eastern peninsula, and the Freehold — wars which Valyria wins with the help of its dragons. After the last war, the Freehold utterly destroys the [[Old Ghis|Ghiscari capital]], slaying its people, destroying the city's walls and streets with dragonflame, and salting and sulphuring the fields. The Ghiscari empire shattered, the Valyrian Freehold expands its influence over the surviving Ghiscari cities of [[Slaver's Bay]].
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| ca.-700
| '''The [[Rhoynar migration]]''': With the destruction of Old Ghis, the Freehold's slow westward expansion brings it into conflict with the Rhoynish cities along the great River [[Rhoyne]], a vast waterway. Prince [[Garin (Prince)|Garin the Great]] raises an army a quarter-million strong to oppose the Valyrians, but fails utterly against their dragons.<hr>

Rhoynar evacuation: [[Nymeria]], a Rhoynish warrior-queen, evacuates the survivors of Garin's war, mostly women and children, on ten thousand ships across the [[narrow sea]], seeking refuge in [[Dorne]] in southern Westeros. There, Nymeria forms a marriage alliance with Lord [[Mors Martell]] and together they finally organize the land into one kingdom, establishing [[House Martell]] as the ruling house of Dorne. Mors adopts many Rhoynish [[customs]]. The unification of Dorne under Nymeria and Mors leads to new conflicts with the kingdoms of the Reach and the Stormlands, expressed through raids, skirmishes, and the occasional wars over the centuries.
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| ca.-500
| The Valyrian Freehold conquers much of what would be the area of the southern [[Free Cities]]. A slave revolt breaks out in a Valyrian fleet carrying thousands of captives, who decide to flee as far from Valyria as possible. Ultimately they land in a remote lagoon protected by mountains and mists, and there found the Secret City of [[Braavos]]. They later build the [[Titan of Braavos]], a great statue which also serves as a defensive fortification.
|-
| ca.-200
| The Valyrian Freehold annexes a [[Dragonstone|small island]] at the mouth of [[Blackwater Bay]], off the east coast of [[Westeros]]. The [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]], a minor Valyrian noble family, take control of the island, building a castle whose towers are shaped to look like [[dragon]]s, giving it its name: [[Dragonstone]].
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| ca.-100
| '''The [[Doom of Valyria]]''': The nature of the Doom is unclear, save that heavy volcanic and seismic activity are involved, likely due to the Fourteen Fires, the mountains where the dragons were first discovered. The Valyrian Peninsula is shattered and the city of Valyria is laid waste, although not completely destroyed. The dragons of Valyria are virtually wiped out and the Valyrian Freehold crumbles apart, its various city-states break apart asserting their independence, surviving to this day as the [[Free Cities]] and the cities of [[Slaver's Bay]].<hr>

[[Braavos]] reveals itself to the other cities, eventually becoming the most powerful of them through its vast fleet and economic power. The cities of [[Slaver's Bay]] become independent again, although Ghiscari power begins building again in the south. The warrior-nomads of the vast [[Dothraki Sea|eastern plains]] become more emboldened by the fall of Valyria, and their dominant tribe, the [[Dothraki]], begins raiding the surrounding lands. The Targaryens remain safe on Dragonstone, the guardians of possibly the last three dragons in the western world.
|}

==The Seven Kingdoms==
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|width=85px| ca.-3000
|Over the centuries following the Andal Invasion, the southern kingdoms of the first men fall, and eventually the Andals raise up six powerful kingdoms of their own.
|-
| ca.-3000
| '''Wildling Invasion''': The [[free folk]] (wildlings) unite under the brother [[King-Beyond-the-Wall|Kings-beyond-the-Wall]], [[Gendel]] and [[Gorne]]. They manage to evade the [[Night's Watch]] and bypass the [[Wall]] in great numbers using a network of tunnels that extend under the Wall. However, they are met by the Stark king on the other side and are eventually thrown back.
|-
| ca. -700
| [[House Stark]] finally subdues [[House Bolton]], their primary antagonists for dominance in the North. Later Karlon Stark would defeat sea raiders from the east and found the cadet branch [[House Karstark]].<hr>
In the West, the Ironborn of the Iron Islands rise to power; at their peak they control most of the western coast from [[Oldtown]] and the [[Arbor]] in the south to [[Bear Island]] in the north.<hr>
The Rhoynar, fleeing the Valyrians, [[Rhoynar migration|migrate to Dorne]]. This is the last major migration into Westeros.
|-
| ca. -350
| The Storm Kings expand their control of the [[Stormlands]] north to include the territory of the [[Riverlands]] up to the Neck. <hr>
Over time the ironborn lose many of their holdings but, some three generations before Aegon's Landing, conquer the territory of the Riverlands from the [[Stormlands]]. An ironborn king, [[Harren Hoare]], builds [[Harrenhal]].
|}

==Targaryen Dynasty==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px| [[Years before Aegon's Conquest#Year 2 Before the Conquest|2BC]]-{{Date|1}}
| '''The [[War of Conquest]]''': [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] invades [[Westeros]] and in two years' time subdues and unites six of the seven kingdoms of Westeros under his banner and constructs a new capital city at [[King's Landing]]. He is unable to conquer Dorne and allows it to remain sovereign. With the destruction of the [[Storm King]], [[Argilac]] the Arrogant, and the death of the last King of the [[Reach]], control of the castle of Storm's End passes to Aegon's bastard half-brother [[Orys Baratheon]], and of [[Highgarden]] to [[Harlen Tyrell]]. [[Edmyn Tully]] of [[Riverrun]] is named Lord of the [[Riverlands]] and [[Vickon Greyjoy]] of [[Pyke]] becomes Lord of the [[Iron Islands]]. The day of Aegon's coronation by the High Septon in Oldtown becomes the first day of Aegon's reign, beginning {{Date|1}}.
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| {{Date|41-48}}
| '''The [[Faith Militant uprising]]''': Upon Aegon I's death, his son [[Aenys I Targaryen|Aenys I]] takes the throne. He angers the Faith when he marries his [[Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Aenys I)|eldest daughter]] to his [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aenys I)|eldest son]], leading to an uprising against the Targaryens. Aenys is incapable of dealing with the crisis, and eventually dies of a short illness on [[Dragonstone]] in {{Date|42}}. Dowager Queen Visenys, leading the care for Aenys, brings her son [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor]], Aenys' brother, back from his exile, and Maegor is crowned king, despite Aenys having three sons all before Maegor in the line of succession. Maegor's response to the Faith's uprising is ruthless and brutal, resulting in the deaths of thousands in battle, through slaughter and by dragonfire. Besides the Faith's uprising, Maegor also has to deal with Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aenys I)|Aegon]], Aenys I's eldest son, battling him for the throne, and later Prince [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], who makes his claim known towards the end of Maegor's reign.
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| {{Date|48}}
| '''[[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys the Conciliator]]''': King Jaehaerys I succeeds King Maegor, who by that time is known as ''Maegor the Cruel''. He declares a truce and agrees to end the slaughter in return for the [[Faith Militant]] disbanding and submitting to the Targaryens, earning the name ''The Conciliator''. Jaehaerys' rule brings decades of peace and prosperity to the realm.

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| {{Date|129-131}}
| '''The [[Dance of the Dragons]]''': The first major civil war in the history of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], in {{Date|129-131}}: a war of succession between [[Aegon II Targaryen|Aegon II]] and his half-sister [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] over their father's throne. It consumes them both, as well as most of the Targaryen family and their remaining dragons. The war ends with [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon III]], son of Rhaenyra, being crowned.
|-
| {{Date|131-157}}
| '''Death of the last dragon''': King [[Aegon III|Aegon Targaryen]] struggles to breed healthy dragons - those he does manage to produce are born weak and sickly. He is unable to prevent the death of the last one, earning himself the title 'Dragonbane'. The last dragons leave behind several eggs which the Targaryens fail to hatch. These eggs are later destroyed or lost, leading to what is popularly believed to be the extinction of dragons.
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| {{Date|157-161}}
| '''[[Conquest of Dorne|Daeron conquers Dorne]]''': Upon taking the throne at age fourteen, King [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]] decides to finish Aegon the Conqueror's work and launches a successful invasion of Dorne. Unfortunately, he leaves a [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] of Highgarden in charge: a house that has warred with the Martells for thousands of years. The tyrannical rule of the Tyrells triggers an uprising against the [[Iron Throne]]. When Daeron I returns with a fresh army, he is killed, his cousin Prince Aemon the Dragonknight is captured and his forty thousand men are lost.
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| {{Date|161-171}}
| Reign of King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor the Blessed]], the septon king. Baelor manages to forge a peace treaty with [[Dorne]]. It is said that he made this peace by walking the Boneway barefoot and rescuing his cousin, Prince [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon "the Dragonknight" Targaryen]], from a viper pit. He builds the Great Sept in [[King's Landing]], which is later renamed the [[Great Sept of Baelor]].
Baelor locks his sisters in the Maidenvault of the [[Red Keep]] so the sight of them will not tempt him to carnal thoughts. Despite this, his sister [[Daena Targaryen|Daena the Defiant]] has an affair with her cousin [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon]] (later crowned Aegon IV) and gives birth to a bastard son, [[Daemon Blackfyre]].
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| ca.{{Date|170}}
| Prince [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron]], second cousin of Baelor I, and Princess [[Myriah Martell]] of Dorne are married and have their first son, Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor]].
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| {{Date|171-172}}
| Reign of King [[Viserys II Targaryen|Viserys II]].
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| {{Date|172-184}}
| Reign of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]], Aegon the Unworthy, held to be the worst king in the history of Westeros. On his deathbed Aegon IV legitimises all his bastards, including the so-called 'Great Bastards': [[Daemon Blackfyre]], [[Aegor Rivers]], [[Brynden Rivers]] and [[Shiera Seastar]]. He is succeeded by his son, [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]], but his legitimacy is called into question due to his mother's close relationship with her second brother, [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon Targaryen]].
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| {{Date|184-209}}
| Reign of [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]].
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| {{Date|196-196}}
| '''The [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]]''': The second major civil war of Westeros erupts after Daemon Blackfyre puts a claim on the Iron Throne based on Daeron II's illegitimacy. With many lords declaring for him, Daemon Blackfyre marches his forces on King's Landing but is defeated in the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]]. He is killed by his half-brother [[Bloodraven]], yet several of his sons escape to the [[Free Cities]] with [[Bittersteel]].
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| {{Date|197}}
| [[Dorne]] formally joins the Seven Kingdoms through the marriage of King Daeron II's younger sister [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|Daenerys]] to Prince [[Maron Martell]]. After his wedding, Prince Maron swears his fealthy to the Iron Throne.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Daeron II}}
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| {{Date|209}}
| The events of ''[[The Hedge Knight]]'' take place. Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor 'Breakspear' Targaryen]], the heir to the throne, is killed in a tourney mishap. A few months later, King Daeron II and Baelor's two sons die in [[the Great Spring Sickness]]. Daeron II's second son, [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]], becomes king. Prince Baelor's nephew Aegon becomes squire to a hedge knight, Ser [[Duncan the Tall]], in the hope of improving his mettle.
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| {{Date|209-221}}
| Reign of King [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]].
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{Date|211}}
| The events of ''[[The Sworn Sword]]'' and ''[[The Mystery Knight]]'' take place. As depicted in ''The Sworn Sword'', [[House Webber]] and [[House Osgrey]] of the Reach become allies. Bloodraven has become the King's Hand by this time, angering Prince [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], brother to Aerys and the late Baelor.
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| '''The [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion]]''': Blackfyre loyalists attempt to launch a second rebellion, but Bloodraven exposes the plan, captures one of Daemon Blackfyre's sons and executes many of the conspirators before a battle needs to be fought. These events are depicted in ''The Mystery Knight''.
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| {{Date|221-233}}
| Reign of King [[Maekar I Targaryen]]. During Maekar's reign his eldest son [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron]] dies of the pox and his second son [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion]] "Brightflame" dies after drinking [[wildfire]]. His third son, [[Maester Aemon|Aemon]], has already taken his [[maesters]] vows. Maekar dies battling an outlaw lord. Aemon refuses the crown and removes himself to the [[Wall]]. Prince Aegon becomes [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], the Unlikely, as he is the fourth son of a fourth son. Bloodraven is exiled to the Wall by the new King, later becoming Lord Commander.
|-
| {{Date|226}}
| '''Beyond the wall''': The free folk unite under [[Raymun Redbeard]], King-Beyond-the-Wall. Taking the Night's Watch unawares, they scale the [[Wall]] and invade the [[North]]. They are eventually stopped at the [[Battle of Long Lake]] by a Stark host led by Lord [[Willam Stark]].
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| {{Date|259}}
| ''The [[Tragedy of Summerhall]]'': King Aegon V and his heir, Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], are killed in a great fire at the Targaryen's summer palace. The fire was triggered by an unsuccessful attempt to hatch the last three dragon eggs left in the west, and it heralded or directly contributed to [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]'s birth.
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| {{Date|259-262}}
| Reign of Aegon's second son [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys II]].
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| {{Date|260}}
| '''The [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]''': War erupts when the [[Band of Nine]], including [[Maelys Blackfyre]], after having conquered the Free City of [[Tyrosh]] and the [[Stepstones]], begin to move towards the Seven Kingdoms. King Jaehaerys calls his banners to bring the attack to the Stepstones. [[Barristan Selmy]] kills Maelys. [[Brynden Tully]] distinguishes himself in the war. Prince Aerys Targaryen is knighted by Ser Tywin Lannister. Hand of the King [[Ormund Baratheon]] dies in the hands of his son, Ser [[Steffon Baratheon|Steffon]].
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| {{Date|262-283}}
| Reign of [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]], the Mad King. He appoints the ruthless young [[Tywin Lannister]] as his Hand.
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| {{Date|276}}
| King Aerys spurns Tywin Lannister's offer of his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] for Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]].
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| {{Date|277}}
| '''The [[Defiance of Duskendale]]''' takes place a while later, when [[House Darklyn]] refuses to pay taxes to the Iron Throne. Aerys, eager to sort out the situation himself, ends up being taken prisoner. Duskendale is besieged for six months before [[Barristan Selmy]] manages to free the king. House Darklyn is destroyed and [[House Rykker]] takes over the town. It is said that it was the Defiance that began Aerys' descent into madness. Aerys doesn't leave the [[Red Keep]] until {{Date|281}} because of this event. Around this time Prince Rhaegar begins corresponding with Maester Aemon and ponders if he is the "[[the prince that was promised]]", who shall be reborn to fight the great darkness when it returns. Later they conclude the prince is actually Rhaegar's baby son, [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]].
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| {{Date|280}}
| After having been betrothed in early {{Date|279}}, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen marries Princess [[Elia Martell]] of [[Dorne]] in the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] early in the year. Towards year's end, their first child, Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], is born.
|}

==Robert's Rebellion==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px| {{Date|281}}
| ''The [[Year of the False Spring]]'': Lord [[Walter Whent]] holds a great [[Tourney at Harrenhal]], where Prince Rhaegar distinguishes himself in battle, but names [[Lyanna Stark]] of [[Winterfell]], who is betrothed to [[Robert Baratheon]], as the [[Queen of Love and Beauty]] rather than his own wife [[Elia Martell|Elia]]. [[Eddard Stark]] meets and befriends [[Howland Reed]] of [[Greywater Watch]].<hr>

The band of outlaws called the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]] is defeated by a royal force commanded by [[Arthur Dayne]]; during that battle a young squire, [[Jaime Lannister]], distinguishes himself and is [[knight]]ed, later becoming a member of the [[Kingsguard]] and discarding his claim as Tywin Lannister's heir. Tywin resigns the Handship in angry protest and returns to [[Casterly Rock]].
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| {{Date|282-283}}
| '''[[Robert's Rebellion]]''': Rhaegar Targaryen abducts Lyanna Stark. Lyanna's brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] and father [[Rickard Stark|Rickard]] demand that Aerys discipline his son, but instead the Mad King kills them both. Aerys demands the heads of [[Robert Baratheon]] and [[Eddard Stark]] from their guardian, [[Jon Arryn]]. Instead, [[House Arryn|Houses Arryn]], [[House Stark|Stark]], and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] raise the standard of rebellion. Robert claims the throne through his descent from his great-grandfather, [[Aegon V]] and thus Robert's Rebellion, also called the War of the Usurper, begins. [[Hoster Tully]] agrees to join the rebellion as well. The [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] remain loyal to the king and besiege Robert's castle of [[Storm's End]], held by his brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]. The [[Hand of the King]], [[Jon Connington]], is defeated in the [[Battle of the Bells]] and is sent into exile in the [[Free Cities]]. The rebel army defeats the royalists at the [[Battle of the Trident]]. Prince Rhaegar is killed. The [[House Lannister|Lannister]]s apparently march to the aid of King Aerys, but instead turn against him and [[Sack of King's Landing|sack the city]]. King Aerys is killed by Jaime Lannister. Princess Elia Martell and her children, Aegon and [[Rhaenys Targaryen]], are brutally murdered by Lannister bannermen, causing a rift between Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon. Ned Stark and Howland Reed defeat the Kingsguard guarding the [[Tower of Joy]] holding Lyanna prisoner, only to find her dying. Robert becomes King of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and marries [[Cersei Lannister]]. Ned returns home to Winterfell with his bastard son, [[Jon Snow]]. Loyal Targaryen retainers spirit away Aerys' two youngest children, Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]], to safety in the Free Cities.
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==King Robert's Reign==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px|{{Date|289}}
| '''The [[Greyjoy Rebellion]]''': [[Balon Greyjoy]] names himself King of the [[Iron Islands]]. He is defeated and two of his sons are killed. King Robert accepts his surrender and Balon's remaining son, [[Theon Greyjoy]], becomes a ward and hostage of [[Eddard Stark]].
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| {{Date|297}}
| Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] of Pentos invites [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]] to stay in his manse and offers to help them reclaim their [[Iron Throne|throne]].
|}

== A Song of Ice and Fire ==
{| class="wikitable"
|width=85px|{{Date|298}}
| The events of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' begin. (The Prologue of ''A Game of Thrones'' takes place in {{Date|297}}, and quite possibly the first few Daenerys chapters as well.)
In the North, after thousands of years without encounter, the [[Others]] reappear in an attack on rangers from the [[Night's Watch]] and a group of [[Wildlings]].
The [[Hand of the King]], [[Jon Arryn]], discovers that the heirs to the [[Iron Throne]] are bastards and is killed with poison.
Following the death of King [[Robert Baratheon]], the [[Seven Kingdoms]] is engulfed in the [[War of the Five Kings]], a central conflict that spans through all five books.
|-
|{{Date|299}}
| Beyond the Wall: With the disturbing news of a new [[Conflict Beyond the Wall|conflict Beyond the Wall]] brewing, the [[Night's Watch]] leaves in force on a [[the Great Ranging|ranging]] into the far north.
In [[Essos]], after having hatched three [[dragon]] eggs, bringing dragons back to the world once again, [[Daenerys Targaryen]] conquers the great cities of [[Slaver's Bay]], setting their slaves free and throwing the region into chaos.
|-
|{{Date|300}}
| After a decade-long summer and brief autumn, winter finally engulfs [[Westeros]].
|}

==Quotes==
{{quote|Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.{{ref|ADWD|48}}}} - [[Hoster Blackwood]], to [[Jaime Lannister]]

=References and Notes=
{{References|2}}
{{EnWP|Westeros|small=yes}}

[[Category:History| ]]

[[es:Cronología de eventos importantes]]
[[fa:تاریخ نگار وقایع مهم]]
[[fr:Histoire des Sept Couronnes]]
[[pt:Linha do Tempo dos Principais Eventos]]
[[ru:История]]

Stranger (horse)

2015-02-04T20:10:31Z

Miroir: /* Quotes */

[[File:Sandor and stranger by Giliberti.jpg|thumb|300px|Sandor riding stranger by M.Luisa Giliberti©]]
[[File: Heliotropa_Stranger_horse.jpg‎|Stranger, the blasphemously named warhorse - by Heliotropa ©|thumb|300px|right]]
'''Stranger''' is [[Sandor Clegane]]'s warhorse. The brothers at [[Quiet Isle]] rename him '''Driftwood'''.

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Stranger|Images of Stranger]]''
Stranger is a heavy [[horse|courser]] almost as large as a destrier but much faster.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} He is a big handsome black stallion with a mean temper. He is quick to kick and bite. However he is as gentle as an old gelding with Sandor.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} He was apparently named after [[Stranger (the Seven)|the Stranger]], the death aspect of the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven-Faced God]]. Sandor may have given him that name.

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Dismounting just prior to the [[riot of King's Landing]], [[Sandor Clegane]] is left afoot when Stranger gallops away with the royal party. When [[Tyrion Lannister]] sends Sandor and [[Bronn]] to contain the fire in [[Flea Bottom]], Sandor only goes so he can find his horse.{{ref|ACOK|41}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After fleeing because of the [[wildfire]] in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Sandor escapes [[King's Landing]] on Stranger.

After he is captured by the [[brotherhood without banners]], Sandor wins his [[trial by combat]] in the [[hollow hill]] and is freed. The brotherhood are wary of being followed by him. [[Beric Dondarrion]] orders [[Anguy]] to take the rearguard with [[Beardless Dick]] on the morrow and if he sees Clegane still following them, to kill his horse. Anguy protests as he thinks Stranger is a good horse. [[Lem]] agrees and says that it is the rider they should kill and they could use the horse. {{Ref|aSoS|39}}

After capturing [[Arya Stark]], Sandor rides him trough the [[riverlands]]. Shortly after being kidnapped, thinking she can ride off before he can catch her, Arya tries to steal Stranger when Sandor is relieving himself against a tree. Instead Stranger almost bites her face off.

Just before the [[Red Wedding]], Sandor and Arya attempt to enter the [[Twins]] on a wagon disguised as peasants. One of the squires riding near the wagon almost winds up in the mud when Stranger, who is tethered to the wagon, bites at the squire’s own mount. Once the battle begins Clegane cuts Stranger loose with a single slash of his sword and leaps onto his back. Later the Hound rides down Arya on Stranger, catching her as she runs towards the Twins' open gates.

After escaping the Twins Arya acquires a horse to ride which she calls [[Craven]]. Although she is a good enough horse, Arya resents her for running away from the fighting at the Twins and thinks that Stranger would have remained to fight. When Arya abandons Sandor she saddles up Craven and rides her but leaves Stranger with the dying Hound. {{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:driftwood.jpg|Driftwood on the [[Quiet Isle]] - by Pojypojy ©|thumb|400px|right]]
As [[Brienne of Tarth]] and her companions arrive on the [[Quiet Isle]] they make their way to a whitewashed stable. Way down at the far end of the stable, well away from the other animals, a huge black stallion trumpets at the sound of their voices and kicks the at the door of his stall. Ser [[Hyle Hunt]] gives the horse an admiring look as he is handing his horse’s reins to Brother [[Gillam]] and remarks that he is a handsome beast. Brother [[Narbert]] sighs and replies that,
{{Quote|[[The Seven]] send us blessings, and the Seven send us trials. Handsome he may be, but Driftwood was surely whelped in hell. When we sought to harness him to a plow he kicked Brother [[Rawney]] and broke his shinbone in two places. We had hoped gelding might improve the beast’s ill temper, but …{{Ref|aFfC|31}}}}
He then asks Brother Gillam to show them his injury. Underneath his cowl he has a bloodstained bandage where he should have had an ear, as Driftwood bit it off.

Later, after Brienne’s confession to [[Elder Brother]], he tells her of the fate of [[the Hound]] adding that the big black stallion that is in their stables was the Hound’s warhorse, Stranger. He adds that it is a blasphemous name, saying that the brothers prefer to call him ''Driftwood'', as he was found beside the river. Elder Borther tells Brienne that he fears the horse has his former master’s nature.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}

==Quotes about Stranger==
{{Quote|That’s a good horse.{{Ref|aSoS|39}}}} – [[Anguy]]

{{Quote|A handsome beast.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}}} – [[Hyle Hunt]]

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

[[Category:Horses]]
[[Category:House Clegane]]

[[es:Desconocido (caballo)]]
[[fr:Étranger (monture)]]
[[ru:Неведомый (конь)]]

Stranger (horse)

2015-02-04T20:08:37Z

Miroir: /* A Storm of Swords */

[[File:Sandor and stranger by Giliberti.jpg|thumb|300px|Sandor riding stranger by M.Luisa Giliberti©]]
[[File: Heliotropa_Stranger_horse.jpg‎|Stranger, the blasphemously named warhorse - by Heliotropa ©|thumb|300px|right]]
'''Stranger''' is [[Sandor Clegane]]'s warhorse. The brothers at [[Quiet Isle]] rename him '''Driftwood'''.

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Stranger|Images of Stranger]]''
Stranger is a heavy [[horse|courser]] almost as large as a destrier but much faster.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} He is a big handsome black stallion with a mean temper. He is quick to kick and bite. However he is as gentle as an old gelding with Sandor.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} He was apparently named after [[Stranger (the Seven)|the Stranger]], the death aspect of the [[Faith of the Seven|Seven-Faced God]]. Sandor may have given him that name.

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Dismounting just prior to the [[riot of King's Landing]], [[Sandor Clegane]] is left afoot when Stranger gallops away with the royal party. When [[Tyrion Lannister]] sends Sandor and [[Bronn]] to contain the fire in [[Flea Bottom]], Sandor only goes so he can find his horse.{{ref|ACOK|41}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After fleeing because of the [[wildfire]] in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Sandor escapes [[King's Landing]] on Stranger.

After he is captured by the [[brotherhood without banners]], Sandor wins his [[trial by combat]] in the [[hollow hill]] and is freed. The brotherhood are wary of being followed by him. [[Beric Dondarrion]] orders [[Anguy]] to take the rearguard with [[Beardless Dick]] on the morrow and if he sees Clegane still following them, to kill his horse. Anguy protests as he thinks Stranger is a good horse. [[Lem]] agrees and says that it is the rider they should kill and they could use the horse. {{Ref|aSoS|39}}

After capturing [[Arya Stark]], Sandor rides him trough the [[riverlands]]. Shortly after being kidnapped, thinking she can ride off before he can catch her, Arya tries to steal Stranger when Sandor is relieving himself against a tree. Instead Stranger almost bites her face off.

Just before the [[Red Wedding]], Sandor and Arya attempt to enter the [[Twins]] on a wagon disguised as peasants. One of the squires riding near the wagon almost winds up in the mud when Stranger, who is tethered to the wagon, bites at the squire’s own mount. Once the battle begins Clegane cuts Stranger loose with a single slash of his sword and leaps onto his back. Later the Hound rides down Arya on Stranger, catching her as she runs towards the Twins' open gates.

After escaping the Twins Arya acquires a horse to ride which she calls [[Craven]]. Although she is a good enough horse, Arya resents her for running away from the fighting at the Twins and thinks that Stranger would have remained to fight. When Arya abandons Sandor she saddles up Craven and rides her but leaves Stranger with the dying Hound. {{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:driftwood.jpg|Driftwood on the [[Quiet Isle]] - by Pojypojy ©|thumb|400px|right]]
As [[Brienne of Tarth]] and her companions arrive on the [[Quiet Isle]] they make their way to a whitewashed stable. Way down at the far end of the stable, well away from the other animals, a huge black stallion trumpets at the sound of their voices and kicks the at the door of his stall. Ser [[Hyle Hunt]] gives the horse an admiring look as he is handing his horse’s reins to Brother [[Gillam]] and remarks that he is a handsome beast. Brother [[Narbert]] sighs and replies that,
{{Quote|[[The Seven]] send us blessings, and the Seven send us trials. Handsome he may be, but Driftwood was surely whelped in hell. When we sought to harness him to a plow he kicked Brother [[Rawney]] and broke his shinbone in two places. We had hoped gelding might improve the beast’s ill temper, but …{{Ref|aFfC|31}}}}
He then asks Brother Gillam to show them his injury. Underneath his cowl he has a bloodstained bandage where he should have had an ear, as Driftwood bit it off.

Later, after Brienne’s confession to [[Elder Brother]], he tells her of the fate of [[the Hound]] adding that the big black stallion that is in their stables was the Hound’s warhorse, Stranger. He adds that it is a blasphemous name, saying that the brothers prefer to call him ''Driftwood'', as he was found beside the river. Elder Borther tells Brienne that he fears the horse has his former master’s nature.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|That’s a good horse.{{Ref|aSoS|39}}}} – [[Anguy]]

{{Quote|A handsome beast.{{Ref|aFfC|31}}}} – [[Hyle Hunt]]

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

[[Category:Horses]]
[[Category:House Clegane]]

[[es:Desconocido (caballo)]]
[[fr:Étranger (monture)]]
[[ru:Неведомый (конь)]]

Arya Stark

2015-02-04T13:22:12Z

Miroir: /* Arya and Death */

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'''Arya Stark''' is the third child and second daughter of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]]. A member of [[House Stark]], she has five siblings: brothers [[Robb Stark|Robb]], [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], half-brother [[Jon Snow]], and older sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. She is a [[POV character]] in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' and is portrayed by Maisie Williams in the television adaptation, ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

Like some of her siblings, Arya sometimes dreams that she is a [[direwolf]].{{ref|aSoS|3}} Her own direwolf is [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], who is named in reference to the [[Rhoynar]] warrior-queen [[Nymeria|of the same name]].

==Appearance and Character==
[[File:Arya Stark Ammotu.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Arya Stark - by Ammotu ©]]
:''See also: [[:Category:Images_of_Arya_Stark|Images of Arya Stark]]''
Nine years old at the start of ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'', Arya is a spirited girl interested in fighting and exploration, unlike her older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. Arya wants to learn how to fight with a sword and ride in tourneys, to the horror of [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]], who enjoys the more traditional pursuits of a noblewoman. Arya is particularly close to her half brother [[Jon Snow]], who encourages her martial pursuits. [[Jon Snow]] gives Arya her first sword, [[Needle]], as a gift. Throughout her travels, Arya displays great resourcefulness, cunning, and an unflinching ability to accept hard necessity. She is said to take after her fiery aunt [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] in temperament.{{Ref|aGoT|22}}

Arya's appearance is more Stark than Tully, with a long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. She is skinny and athletic. At the start of the story, she is generally regarded as plain, as exemplified by her nickname "Arya Horseface", and often mistaken for a boy. However, there are instances of her being called pretty, compared to the beautiful [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]]{{Ref|aGoT|22}}, and catching the eye of men later in the books. In Braavos the [[kindly man]] says she has a pretty face.{{ref|adwd|64}}

She is left-handed, quick, and dexterous. She learned basic swordplay in the [[Braavos]]i [[Water Dancer]] tradition and later learned how to handle knives. She is a [[skinchanger|warg]], entering her direwolf Nymeria in her dreams, as well as cats in Braavos. She received a noble's education at [[Winterfell]] and is said to be good with mathematics and an excellent horse rider. She has proved to know at least a bit of [[Valyria|High Valyrian]].{{ref|adwd|64}} She also speaks Braavosi with a strong accent and has put some effort into learning the language, under orders from the kindly man. She has a quick and curious mind and a pragmatic outlook.

==History==
Arya is the youngest daughter and third child of Lord [[Eddard Stark]], head of [[House Stark]] and [[Warden of The North|Warden]] of the [[North]], and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}} She was born at [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Arya Stark}} Arya has an older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]].{{Ref|AGOT|5}} She has an older brother, [[Robb Stark|Robb]], and two younger brothers, [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. She also has a [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Jon Snow]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}

Arya has shown herself to be an independent and wild-spirited girl. Unlike her sister, she rejects the notion that she must become a lady and marry for influence and power,{{Ref|AGOT|25}} showing no interest in the womanly arts of dancing, singing, and sewing; instead she revels in fighting and exploring, to the bemusement of her tutor Septa [[Mordane]] and parents.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Arya is better than her sister Sansa at riding horses.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} She is known affectionately as "Arya Underfoot" by the staff and servants of Winterfell.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Arya stark by teiiku.jpg|thumb|300px|Arya exploring in the vaults under [[King's Landing]]. Art by TeiIku©]]
[[File:Joffs justice Arya POV by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Eddard Stark|Arya father's]] executed, TV interpretation of the scene, by Cabepfir]]
Arya travels with her father, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], to [[King's Landing]] when he is made [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Before she leaves, her half-brother [[Jon Snow]] gives her a sword called Needle, after her least favourite ladylike activity, as a parting gift. He tells her she will need to practice to get good, but that the first lesson is to "stick 'em with the pointy end".{{ref|agot|10}} On the way south, she befriends a peasant boy named [[Mycah]]; they often play at swords.{{ref|agot|15}}

While taking a walk together, Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and her sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] happen upon Arya and Mycah "battling" in the woods. Arya defends Mycah from Joffrey's torments and her [[direwolf]] [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]] helps Arya fight off Joffrey, wounding his arm in the process. Knowing that Nymeria will likely be killed in retribution, Arya and [[Jory Cassel]] chase her wolf away.{{Ref|aGoT|15}} Arya is brought before King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]], who counsels Eddard to handle punishment himself, but Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] is not satisfied with this and orders Sansa's direwolf, [[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]], to be killed in Nymeria's place. The peasant boy, Mycah, having fled, is tracked and killed by Joffrey's "dog," the [[Sandor Clegane|Hound]].{{Ref|aGoT|16}} From this moment, Arya harbors a lasting enmity for Clegane.

While in King's Landing, her father discovers Needle, but she refuses to give up Jon's name as the gift giver. [[Eddard Stark|Her father]] realizes that she must be trained if she is entertaining ideas about swordsmanship. Arya begins training under [[Syrio Forel]], a celebrated [[Braavos]]i swordsman. Under his strict, but creative, tutelage, Arya learns to fight in the Braavosi style with [[Needle]].{{Ref|aGoT|22}} She spends most of her time doing balancing and swordplay exercises as Forel instructed her. During one of these she discovers a secret passage in the castle. She overhears two men, who by description seem to be [[Varys]] and [[Illyrio]] speaking about her father, Cersei and Varys' children-spies.{{Ref|aGoT|32}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1214 |date=June 12, 2002 |title=Eastern Cities and Peoples |work=So Spake Martin |publisher=Westeros.org |quote=It was Varys.}}</ref>

During the purge of [[House Stark|Stark]] from the [[Red Keep]], Syrio realises the Lannister guardsman were not sent by her father as they said, he holds off Arya's attackers with a practice sword so she can escape.{{Ref|aGoT|50}} Arya got out of the castle using the passage she found earlier, but she could not get out of the city since the gates are heavily guarded. She lives on the streets of [[Flea Bottom]], catching pigeons and rats to trade for food, until the day she witnesses her father's public condemnation. She is found in the crowd by [[Yoren]] of the [[Night's Watch]], who recognises her and then saves her from the sight of Eddard's execution and drags her from King's Landing.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Arya escapes [[King's Landing]] with [[Yoren]] and his party of [[Night's Watch]] recruits, with Yoren planning to return her to [[Winterfell]] on his way back the Wall. Yoren shaves her head and makes Arya assume the identity of ''Arry'', a boy recruit traveling with Yoren to the Wall.{{Ref|aCoK|1}} They make it as far as a [[Gods Eye town|deserted town]] near the [[God's Eye]] lake, where they are attacked by raiders led by Ser [[Amory Lorch]]. Arya is one of the few to escape alive, along with [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]], [[Lommy Greenhands]], and [[Weasel]]. Before escaping, she saves the lives of the chained Night's Watch prisoners [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]].{{Ref|aCoK|15}} Hot Pie calls her ''Lumpyface'' and Lommy calls her ''Lumpyhead''.

Arya heads out with the survivors until they are captured by Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]] and [[The Mountain's men|his men]] in the next town, where they are held for eight days, while the [[Tickler]] ''questions'' the villagers.{{Ref|aCoK|19}} Then they are taken to Harrenhal and made servants. On the journey, she creates a [[#Hit List|Hit List]] of all those she hates and wants to kill. At Harrenhal she is assigned to the steward [[Weese]] to work at the [[Wailing Tower]].{{Ref|aCoK|26}} Several days later, she reunites with Jaqen and the two other prisoners she saved, who are now in the employ of Ser [[Amory Lorch]].
[[File:Valar Morghulis by Tim Tsang II.jpg|thumb|400px|Arya kills the [[Harrenhal]] guard and whispers ''[[valar morghulis]]'' - by Tim Tsang ©]]
Jaqen comes to her at night and offers her three murders for the three lives she saved. After several days Arya names [[Chiswyck]], after she overhears him boast at how he participated in a gang rape. He dies three days later. Next she names [[Weese]], for striking her. Weese's death is untraceable, apparently linked to his small dog that he raised from a pup. Whilst trying to figure out the last name to say, she realises she should have said a more important name, such as Tywin or Amory Lorch. A bit regretful, she thinks hard about how to make the last name count. Finally, she names Jaqen himself. To make her unsay his name, Jaqen helps her free the Northmen in the dungeon and stage an uprising. Afterwards, to Arya's amazement, Jaqen changes his face and manner in front of her, saying it was time for that person to die. He gives Arya an iron coin so she can find him again and leaves. The next morning, Lord [[Roose Bolton]] arrives to take charge of the castle. Arya, now calling herself ''Nymeria'', or ''Nan'' for short, is made one of Roose's cup-bearers for her role in the freeing of the prisoners. She inadvertently meets [[Elmar Frey|the squire]] she would have to marry under Robb's agreement with the Freys, though they remain unknown to each other.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

She realizes she has been treated quite well under Roose and wishes to leave with him in an effort to get back to Winterfell and her family. She speaks out of turn to ask him what will happen to her. He treats her unkindly, so she keeps to herself until he goes. After Harrenhal is left to [[Vargo Hoat]], Arya escapes with [[Gendry]] and [[Hot Pie]], killing a gate guard.{{Ref|aCoK|64}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Mathia Arkoniel thetickler arya sandor.jpg|Arya stabs the Tickler over and over again in a rage until [[The Hound]] stops her - by Mathia Arkoniel|left|thumb|300px]]
While Arya and her companions are making their way north, Arya enters Nymeria during a dream and sees Nymeria kill the members of the [[Brave Companions]] that were sent after them.{{Ref|aSoS|3}} Not long afterwards, she and her companions are discovered by a group of the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] and taken to [[Inn of the Kneeling Man]], where she meets one of her father's former guards, [[Harwin]], who recognizes her as Arya Stark.{{Ref|aSoS|13}} Arya travels with the group to their hideout. At the Brotherhood's camp Arya encounters the recently captured [[Sandor Clegane]] standing for trial. She accuses him of murdering [[Mycah]], earning him a [[trial by combat]]. He survives and so is set free.{{Ref|aSoS|34}}

Disappointed with the Brotherhood and feeling alone in the world after [[Hot Pie]] and Gendry go their separate ways, Arya attempts to flee and ends up being captured by [[Sandor Clegane]], who was trailing the group.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} Sandor takes her to the [[Twins]], where he plans to return her to her brother [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and win a place in his service.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} They reach the [[Twins]] just as the slaughter of the [[Red Wedding]] begins. The Hound has to prevent Arya from running into the castle (and certain death) by knocking her out with the flat of his axe.{{Ref|aSoS|52}}

Sandor decides that the only place left to take her is to the [[Vale of Arryn]], which is ruled by Arya's aunt, [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]]. On the way east, Arya finds a saddled horse. She takes him as her mount and names him [[Craven (horse)|Craven]]. However, it is soon discovered they cannot reach the [[Eyrie]], and they are forced to head back towards [[Riverrun]] to ransom her to Ser [[Brynden Tully]] instead.{{Ref|aSoS|65}}

On their way they stop at an inn where they meet the [[Tickler]] and [[Polliver]], two of the men on Arya's death list, as well as a young squire. The Hound gets drunk and a fight ensues. Arya manages to stab the squire in the belly while The Hound kills Polliver, though he is badly wounded in the fight. As the Tickler closes in on Sandor, Arya is able to sneak behind him and stab him. She continues to stab him while savagely echoing the questions he asked of his victims on their journey to Harrenhal. After, Sandor directs her to finish off the squire, who is dying of his wound. Arya reclaims [[Needle]] from Polliver's corpse and stabs the squire in the heart.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

Arya and Sandor head towards the town of [[Saltpans]], but Sandor is too weak to continue and falls from his horse. Arya draws Needle, intending to kill him, but decides to leave him to die instead of administering the mercy of a quick death. She sells [[Craven (horse)|Craven]] at Saltpans and gains passage on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'', a ship headed to [[Braavos]], by using the coin that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] had given her, along with the [[Valyria]]n phrase "''[[Valar Morghulis]]''."{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File: Marc_Simonetti_HouseofB&W.jpg|Arya in the [[House of Black and White]] - by Marc Simonetti ©|thumb|300px]]
During the voyage to [[Braavos]] on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'' Arya uses the name ''Salty''. Many of the sailors and even Captain [[Ternesio Terys]] ask her to learn and remember their names. Many seem afraid of her. The captain has his older son [[Yorko Terys|Yorko]] row Arya to shore so as to get her off the ship prior to customs coming aboard.{{ref|affc|6}}

In [[Braavos]], Arya Stark finds her way to the [[House of Black and White]], where a [[kindly man|kindly old man]] initiates her into the guild of the [[Faceless Men]].{{Ref|aFfC|6}} She is required to discard her old personality, including her belongings, to begin the training. She does this, except for [[Needle]], which she hides in a safe location. {{Ref|aFfC|22}}

Arya's training requires her to go out into the city under the identity of ''Cat of the Canals'', a street urchin, learn secrets, and report what she has learned to the kindly man. She also begins learning the [[Braavos]]i language and the art of lying from the [[waif]]. During this time, she kills a deserter from the [[Night's Watch]] named [[Dareon]] and briefly meets [[Samwell Tarly]], though they do not introduce themselves to each other. After these incidents, she accepts milk meant for "Arya". When she wakes the next morning, she is blind.{{Ref|aFfC|34}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Thaldir the Blind Girl.jpg|A blinded Arya in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]] - art by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|300px]]

Arya remains blind and in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]]. The blindness is induced by the milk she drinks every night. She continues to dream through the eyes of her [[direwolf]], [[Nymeria]], but speaks of it to no one. She still struggles with leaving her identity as Arya Stark behind. While she is blind, Arya wears the guise of ''Beth'', a beggar girl. She wanders the streets of Braavos, begging for money and listening for bits and pieces of information. She becomes better at lying and detecting the lies of others.

Arya receives her sight again after she is able to identify the [[kindly man]] and hit him with a stick when he sneaks up on her. It is implied, however, that she does not simply sense his presence (as he assumes) but sees him through the eyes of a cat hiding in the rafters.

After regaining her sight,{{Ref|aDwD|45}} Arya is given her first assassination assignment. She is asked to give "the gift" to an old man who sells a type of insurance for ships. The kindly man takes her to the secret lower chambers of the House of Black and White, where thousands of faces are hung on the walls. She is given the face of an ugly, broken girl who had been beaten by her father and came to the House of Black and White to seek the gift. Arya watches her target carefully for days. She notices that the old man has guards with him wherever he goes, and always tests the coin he is given with his teeth. While watching him, she attempts to find ways to justify his fate, but the kindly man tells her it is not for her to judge the old man.

In the end, she feigns stealing a bag of coins from a captain on his way to meet with the old man. She splits the bag in the attempt, and switches one of the captain's coins with one of her own, coated in poison. After the switch, she escapes. Later, the old man's heart mysteriously gives out.

The kindly man then gives Arya an acolyte's robe and assigns her to begin her first apprenticeship with [[Izembaro]].{{Ref|aDwD|64}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
Under the identity of "Mercedene" or "Mercy", Arya is now a mummer at a playhouse called [[The Gate|the Gate]], owned by Izembaro. She is still experiencing wolf dreams, the latest with a tree watching her.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

When Ser [[Harys Swyft]] arrives in Braavos on a mission to negotiate with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], the mummers of the Gate perform the play ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' in which Arya plays a maid, presumably [[Sansa Stark]], who is raped by Tyrion, played by a dwarf named [[Bobono]].<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

However, as the play is about to begin, Arya notices two of Swyft's guards talking. One of them is [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]. She seduces him and takes him to her room. She tires him out by running there, and thus she is able to stab him in his thigh, cutting his femoral artery and rendering him unable to walk. Rafford pleads to have him carried to a healer, but Arya replies: "Think so?" and stabs him in the throat, just as he did to the disabled Lommy. Arya throws his corpse in a canal and heads back to the Gate before she is due to come on stage.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

==Arya and Death==
[[File:Arya tickler by tribemun.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Tickler's death by [http://www.nickalcorn.com/ Nick Alcorn©]]]

During her journey, Arya is subjected to many hard situations in the war-torn [[Riverlands]]. Her fiery personality prompts her to take the initiative and fight back, and so she is led to kill and ultimately wishes to murder specific characters herself. This course of action is supposed to end as of ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' with her being an assassin trainee in [[Braavos]], as the leader stresses becoming indifferent to death and killing. She continues, however, to repeat to herself the names of the people she wishes dead. Some names are added as she goes, and others are dropped when the character dies or becomes closer to her. She calls it a prayer, and ends it with the words ''[[Valar Morghulis]]''. The names are:

{| class="wikitable"
! Person
! Reason
! Status
! Fate
|-
| Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]]
| His men captured Arya and other smallfolk
| Dead
| Stabbed by [[Oberyn Martell|Prince Oberyn]] with a poisoned spear during [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s trial of combat at [[King's Landing]] (Arya currently is unaware of his death and Gregor is still on her list)
|-
| [[Dunsen]]
| Stole [[Gendry]]'s horned helmet
| Alive
|
|-
| [[Polliver]]
| Stole [[Needle]] from Arya
| Dead
| Killed by [[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]] at the Crossroads Inn
|-
| [[Chiswyck]]
| Boasted of his participation in the gang rape of [[Layna]]
| Dead
| Pushed off a wall by [[Jaqen H'ghar]] at [[Harrenhal]] on the orders of Arya
|-
| [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]
| Killed [[Lommy Greenhands]]
| Dead
| Killed by Arya under the identity of Mercy in [[Braavos]]
|-
| The [[Tickler]]
| Tortured captives during questioning
| Dead
| Killed by Arya at the Crossroads Inn
|-
| [[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]]
| Killed [[Mycah]]
| Dead
| Succumbed to his infected wounds after the fight at the Crossroads Inn (Arya had removed his name from her list prior to his death, but did not grant him the mercy of a quick death)
|-
| Ser [[Amory Lorch|Amory]]
| Killed [[Yoren]]
| Dead
| Killed by [[Vargo Hoat]]'s bear in the bear pit at Harrenhal
|-
| Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]]
| Beheaded [[Eddard Stark]] on the orders of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]
| Alive
|
|-
| Ser [[Meryn Trant|Meryn]]
| Killed [[Syrio Forel]]
| Alive
|
|-
| King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]
| Ordered the execution of [[Eddard Stark]]
| Dead
| Poisoned with [[The Strangler]] at his own wedding feast by [[Olenna Tyrell]] in co-operation with [[Petyr Baelish]]
|-
| Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]
| Involved in the death of [[Eddard Stark]]
| Alive
|
|-
| [[Weese]]
| Violently abused Arya
| Dead
| Killed by his own dog under [[Jaqen H'ghar]]'s influence on the orders of Arya
|}

Arya stated she would have added the [[House Frey|Freys]] to the list after the [[Red Wedding]] but she did not know the names of those responsible for her brother's death.

She also killed a number of people who were not on her list herself:
*a King's Landing stableboy
*several soldiers of [[Amory Lorch]]
*a [[House Bolton|Bolton]] guard at Harrenhal
*a [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]] squire
*[[Dareon]]
*a [[Braavosi]] insurance salesman {{Ref|aDwD|64}}

She also initiated and, along with [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]], and [[Biter]], took part in the killing of eight [[Harrenhal]] jailors, an event that would be remembered as the "weasel soup," from the nickname she used at the time.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

==Quotes by Arya==

{{Quote|Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.{{Ref|agOt|52}}}}

{{Quote|[[Gregor Clegane|Ser Gregor,]] [[Dunsen]], [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]], [[Ilyn Payne|Ser Ilyn]], [[Meryn Trant|Ser Meryn]], [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]. [[Valar morghulis]].{{Ref|aFfC|22}}}}

{{Quote|I'm the ghost in [[Harrenhal]], she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.{{Ref|aCoK|30}}}}
– after the killing of [[Chiswyck]]

{{Quote|Yes, it’s you who ought to run, you and Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Gregor Clegane|the Mountain]] and Ser [[Addam]] and Ser [[Amory]] and stupid Ser [[Lyonel (knight)|Lyonel]] whoever he is, all of you better run or [[Robb Stark|my brother]] will kill you, he’s a Stark, he’s more wolf than man, and so am I.{{Ref|acok|38}}}}

{{Quote|A long time ago, she remembered [[Eddard Stark|her father]] saying that when the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but [[House Stark#House Stark at the end of the third century|the wolves of the pack]] had been taken and slain and skinned.{{Ref|aFfC|6}}}}

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' If you need help, bark like a dog. '''Arya:''' That's stupid. If I need help, I'll shout 'help'.{{Ref|acOk|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' What kind of lady are you? '''Arya:''' '''This''' kind.{{Ref|asOs|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|''The Many-Faced God can have the rest'', she thought, ''but he can't have this''.{{Ref|AFFC|22}}}}

==Quotes about Arya==
{{Quote|Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. The ‘Wolf Blood', [[Rickard Stark|my father]] used to call it. [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] had a touch of it, and my brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave.{{Ref|agot|22}}}}
– [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|A boy has more courage than sense.{{Ref|acok|5}}}} – [[Jaqen H'ghar]]

{{Quote|Arya had always been harder to tame.{{Ref|aCoK|45}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|And Arya, well...Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy, half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. She had Ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head.{{Ref|acok|55}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]] remembers her daughter

{{Quote|Arya Underfoot, he almost said. Arya Horseface. [[Robb Stark|Robb]]'s younger sister, brown-haired, long-faced, skinny as a stick. Always dirty.{{Ref|adwd|12}}}}
– [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote| The [[Jeyne Poole|girl]] dipped before [[Ramsay Snow|him]]. That was wrong as well. The real Arya Stark would have spat in his face.{{Ref|aFfC|20}}}}
– [[Reek|Theon Greyjoy]] realizing that Ramsay's bride is not Arya Stark

==Family==

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==References and Notes==
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==External Links==
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'''Arya Stark''' is the third child and second daughter of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]]. A member of [[House Stark]], she has five siblings: brothers [[Robb Stark|Robb]], [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], half-brother [[Jon Snow]], and older sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. She is a [[POV character]] in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' and is portrayed by Maisie Williams in the television adaptation, ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

Like some of her siblings, Arya sometimes dreams that she is a [[direwolf]].{{ref|aSoS|3}} Her own direwolf is [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], who is named in reference to the [[Rhoynar]] warrior-queen [[Nymeria|of the same name]].

==Appearance and Character==
[[File:Arya Stark Ammotu.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Arya Stark - by Ammotu ©]]
:''See also: [[:Category:Images_of_Arya_Stark|Images of Arya Stark]]''
Nine years old at the start of ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'', Arya is a spirited girl interested in fighting and exploration, unlike her older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. Arya wants to learn how to fight with a sword and ride in tourneys, to the horror of [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]], who enjoys the more traditional pursuits of a noblewoman. Arya is particularly close to her half brother [[Jon Snow]], who encourages her martial pursuits. [[Jon Snow]] gives Arya her first sword, [[Needle]], as a gift. Throughout her travels, Arya displays great resourcefulness, cunning, and an unflinching ability to accept hard necessity. She is said to take after her fiery aunt [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] in temperament.{{Ref|aGoT|22}}

Arya's appearance is more Stark than Tully, with a long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. She is skinny and athletic. At the start of the story, she is generally regarded as plain, as exemplified by her nickname "Arya Horseface", and often mistaken for a boy. However, there are instances of her being called pretty, compared to the beautiful [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]]{{Ref|aGoT|22}}, and catching the eye of men later in the books. In Braavos the [[kindly man]] says she has a pretty face.{{ref|adwd|64}}

She is left-handed, quick, and dexterous. She learned basic swordplay in the [[Braavos]]i [[Water Dancer]] tradition and later learned how to handle knives. She is a [[skinchanger|warg]], entering her direwolf Nymeria in her dreams, as well as cats in Braavos. She received a noble's education at [[Winterfell]] and is said to be good with mathematics and an excellent horse rider. She has proved to know at least a bit of [[Valyria|High Valyrian]].{{ref|adwd|64}} She also speaks Braavosi with a strong accent and has put some effort into learning the language, under orders from the kindly man. She has a quick and curious mind and a pragmatic outlook.

==History==
Arya is the youngest daughter and third child of Lord [[Eddard Stark]], head of [[House Stark]] and [[Warden of The North|Warden]] of the [[North]], and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}} She was born at [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Arya Stark}} Arya has an older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]].{{Ref|AGOT|5}} She has an older brother, [[Robb Stark|Robb]], and two younger brothers, [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. She also has a [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Jon Snow]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}

Arya has shown herself to be an independent and wild-spirited girl. Unlike her sister, she rejects the notion that she must become a lady and marry for influence and power,{{Ref|AGOT|25}} showing no interest in the womanly arts of dancing, singing, and sewing; instead she revels in fighting and exploring, to the bemusement of her tutor Septa [[Mordane]] and parents.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Arya is better than her sister Sansa at riding horses.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} She is known affectionately as "Arya Underfoot" by the staff and servants of Winterfell.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Arya stark by teiiku.jpg|thumb|300px|Arya exploring in the vaults under [[King's Landing]]. Art by TeiIku©]]
[[File:Joffs justice Arya POV by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Eddard Stark|Arya father's]] executed, TV interpretation of the scene, by Cabepfir]]
Arya travels with her father, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], to [[King's Landing]] when he is made [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Before she leaves, her half-brother [[Jon Snow]] gives her a sword called Needle, after her least favourite ladylike activity, as a parting gift. He tells her she will need to practice to get good, but that the first lesson is to "stick 'em with the pointy end".{{ref|agot|10}} On the way south, she befriends a peasant boy named [[Mycah]]; they often play at swords.{{ref|agot|15}}

While taking a walk together, Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and her sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] happen upon Arya and Mycah "battling" in the woods. Arya defends Mycah from Joffrey's torments and her [[direwolf]] [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]] helps Arya fight off Joffrey, wounding his arm in the process. Knowing that Nymeria will likely be killed in retribution, Arya and [[Jory Cassel]] chase her wolf away.{{Ref|aGoT|15}} Arya is brought before King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]], who counsels Eddard to handle punishment himself, but Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] is not satisfied with this and orders Sansa's direwolf, [[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]], to be killed in Nymeria's place. The peasant boy, Mycah, having fled, is tracked and killed by Joffrey's "dog," the [[Sandor Clegane|Hound]].{{Ref|aGoT|16}} From this moment, Arya harbors a lasting enmity for Clegane.

While in King's Landing, her father discovers Needle, but she refuses to give up Jon's name as the gift giver. [[Eddard Stark|Her father]] realizes that she must be trained if she is entertaining ideas about swordsmanship. Arya begins training under [[Syrio Forel]], a celebrated [[Braavos]]i swordsman. Under his strict, but creative, tutelage, Arya learns to fight in the Braavosi style with [[Needle]].{{Ref|aGoT|22}} She spends most of her time doing balancing and swordplay exercises as Forel instructed her. During one of these she discovers a secret passage in the castle. She overhears two men, who by description seem to be [[Varys]] and [[Illyrio]] speaking about her father, Cersei and Varys' children-spies.{{Ref|aGoT|32}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1214 |date=June 12, 2002 |title=Eastern Cities and Peoples |work=So Spake Martin |publisher=Westeros.org |quote=It was Varys.}}</ref>

During the purge of [[House Stark|Stark]] from the [[Red Keep]], Syrio realises the Lannister guardsman were not sent by her father as they said, he holds off Arya's attackers with a practice sword so she can escape.{{Ref|aGoT|50}} Arya got out of the castle using the passage she found earlier, but she could not get out of the city since the gates are heavily guarded. She lives on the streets of [[Flea Bottom]], catching pigeons and rats to trade for food, until the day she witnesses her father's public condemnation. She is found in the crowd by [[Yoren]] of the [[Night's Watch]], who recognises her and then saves her from the sight of Eddard's execution and drags her from King's Landing.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Arya escapes [[King's Landing]] with [[Yoren]] and his party of [[Night's Watch]] recruits, with Yoren planning to return her to [[Winterfell]] on his way back the Wall. Yoren shaves her head and makes Arya assume the identity of ''Arry'', a boy recruit traveling with Yoren to the Wall.{{Ref|aCoK|1}} They make it as far as a [[Gods Eye town|deserted town]] near the [[God's Eye]] lake, where they are attacked by raiders led by Ser [[Amory Lorch]]. Arya is one of the few to escape alive, along with [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]], [[Lommy Greenhands]], and [[Weasel]]. Before escaping, she saves the lives of the chained Night's Watch prisoners [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]].{{Ref|aCoK|15}} Hot Pie calls her ''Lumpyface'' and Lommy calls her ''Lumpyhead''.

Arya heads out with the survivors until they are captured by Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]] and [[The Mountain's men|his men]] in the next town, where they are held for eight days, while the [[Tickler]] ''questions'' the villagers.{{Ref|aCoK|19}} Then they are taken to Harrenhal and made servants. On the journey, she creates a [[#Hit List|Hit List]] of all those she hates and wants to kill. At Harrenhal she is assigned to the steward [[Weese]] to work at the [[Wailing Tower]].{{Ref|aCoK|26}} Several days later, she reunites with Jaqen and the two other prisoners she saved, who are now in the employ of Ser [[Amory Lorch]].
[[File:Valar Morghulis by Tim Tsang II.jpg|thumb|400px|Arya kills the [[Harrenhal]] guard and whispers ''[[valar morghulis]]'' - by Tim Tsang ©]]
Jaqen comes to her at night and offers her three murders for the three lives she saved. After several days Arya names [[Chiswyck]], after she overhears him boast at how he participated in a gang rape. He dies three days later. Next she names [[Weese]], for striking her. Weese's death is untraceable, apparently linked to his small dog that he raised from a pup. Whilst trying to figure out the last name to say, she realises she should have said a more important name, such as Tywin or Amory Lorch. A bit regretful, she thinks hard about how to make the last name count. Finally, she names Jaqen himself. To make her unsay his name, Jaqen helps her free the Northmen in the dungeon and stage an uprising. Afterwards, to Arya's amazement, Jaqen changes his face and manner in front of her, saying it was time for that person to die. He gives Arya an iron coin so she can find him again and leaves. The next morning, Lord [[Roose Bolton]] arrives to take charge of the castle. Arya, now calling herself ''Nymeria'', or ''Nan'' for short, is made one of Roose's cup-bearers for her role in the freeing of the prisoners. She inadvertently meets [[Elmar Frey|the squire]] she would have to marry under Robb's agreement with the Freys, though they remain unknown to each other.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

She realizes she has been treated quite well under Roose and wishes to leave with him in an effort to get back to Winterfell and her family. She speaks out of turn to ask him what will happen to her. He treats her unkindly, so she keeps to herself until he goes. After Harrenhal is left to [[Vargo Hoat]], Arya escapes with [[Gendry]] and [[Hot Pie]], killing a gate guard.{{Ref|aCoK|64}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Mathia Arkoniel thetickler arya sandor.jpg|Arya stabs the Tickler over and over again in a rage until [[The Hound]] stops her - by Mathia Arkoniel|left|thumb|300px]]
While Arya and her companions are making their way north, Arya enters Nymeria during a dream and sees Nymeria kill the members of the [[Brave Companions]] that were sent after them.{{Ref|aSoS|3}} Not long afterwards, she and her companions are discovered by a group of the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] and taken to [[Inn of the Kneeling Man]], where she meets one of her father's former guards, [[Harwin]], who recognizes her as Arya Stark.{{Ref|aSoS|13}} Arya travels with the group to their hideout. At the Brotherhood's camp Arya encounters the recently captured [[Sandor Clegane]] standing for trial. She accuses him of murdering [[Mycah]], earning him a [[trial by combat]]. He survives and so is set free.{{Ref|aSoS|34}}

Disappointed with the Brotherhood and feeling alone in the world after [[Hot Pie]] and Gendry go their separate ways, Arya attempts to flee and ends up being captured by [[Sandor Clegane]], who was trailing the group.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} Sandor takes her to the [[Twins]], where he plans to return her to her brother [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and win a place in his service.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} They reach the [[Twins]] just as the slaughter of the [[Red Wedding]] begins. The Hound has to prevent Arya from running into the castle (and certain death) by knocking her out with the flat of his axe.{{Ref|aSoS|52}}

Sandor decides that the only place left to take her is to the [[Vale of Arryn]], which is ruled by Arya's aunt, [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]]. On the way east, Arya finds a saddled horse. She takes him as her mount and names him [[Craven (horse)|Craven]]. However, it is soon discovered they cannot reach the [[Eyrie]], and they are forced to head back towards [[Riverrun]] to ransom her to Ser [[Brynden Tully]] instead.{{Ref|aSoS|65}}

On their way they stop at an inn where they meet the [[Tickler]] and [[Polliver]], two of the men on Arya's death list, as well as a young squire. The Hound gets drunk and a fight ensues. Arya manages to stab the squire in the belly while The Hound kills Polliver, though he is badly wounded in the fight. As the Tickler closes in on Sandor, Arya is able to sneak behind him and stab him. She continues to stab him while savagely echoing the questions he asked of his victims on their journey to Harrenhal. After, Sandor directs her to finish off the squire, who is dying of his wound. Arya reclaims [[Needle]] from Polliver's corpse and stabs the squire in the heart.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

Arya and Sandor head towards the town of [[Saltpans]], but Sandor is too weak to continue and falls from his horse. Arya draws Needle, intending to kill him, but decides to leave him to die instead of administering the mercy of a quick death. She sells [[Craven (horse)|Craven]] at Saltpans and gains passage on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'', a ship headed to [[Braavos]], by using the coin that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] had given her, along with the [[Valyria]]n phrase "''[[Valar Morghulis]]''."{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File: Marc_Simonetti_HouseofB&W.jpg|Arya in the [[House of Black and White]] - by Marc Simonetti ©|thumb|300px]]
During the voyage to [[Braavos]] on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'' Arya uses the name ''Salty''. Many of the sailors and even Captain [[Ternesio Terys]] ask her to learn and remember their names. Many seem afraid of her. The captain has his older son [[Yorko Terys|Yorko]] row Arya to shore so as to get her off the ship prior to customs coming aboard.{{ref|affc|6}}

In [[Braavos]], Arya Stark finds her way to the [[House of Black and White]], where a [[kindly man|kindly old man]] initiates her into the guild of the [[Faceless Men]].{{Ref|aFfC|6}} She is required to discard her old personality, including her belongings, to begin the training. She does this, except for [[Needle]], which she hides in a safe location. {{Ref|aFfC|22}}

Arya's training requires her to go out into the city under the identity of ''Cat of the Canals'', a street urchin, learn secrets, and report what she has learned to the kindly man. She also begins learning the [[Braavos]]i language and the art of lying from the [[waif]]. During this time, she kills a deserter from the [[Night's Watch]] named [[Dareon]] and briefly meets [[Samwell Tarly]], though they do not introduce themselves to each other. After these incidents, she accepts milk meant for "Arya". When she wakes the next morning, she is blind.{{Ref|aFfC|34}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Thaldir the Blind Girl.jpg|A blinded Arya in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]] - art by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|300px]]

Arya remains blind and in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]]. The blindness is induced by the milk she drinks every night. She continues to dream through the eyes of her [[direwolf]], [[Nymeria]], but speaks of it to no one. She still struggles with leaving her identity as Arya Stark behind. While she is blind, Arya wears the guise of ''Beth'', a beggar girl. She wanders the streets of Braavos, begging for money and listening for bits and pieces of information. She becomes better at lying and detecting the lies of others.

Arya receives her sight again after she is able to identify the [[kindly man]] and hit him with a stick when he sneaks up on her. It is implied, however, that she does not simply sense his presence (as he assumes) but sees him through the eyes of a cat hiding in the rafters.

After regaining her sight,{{Ref|aDwD|45}} Arya is given her first assassination assignment. She is asked to give "the gift" to an old man who sells a type of insurance for ships. The kindly man takes her to the secret lower chambers of the House of Black and White, where thousands of faces are hung on the walls. She is given the face of an ugly, broken girl who had been beaten by her father and came to the House of Black and White to seek the gift. Arya watches her target carefully for days. She notices that the old man has guards with him wherever he goes, and always tests the coin he is given with his teeth. While watching him, she attempts to find ways to justify his fate, but the kindly man tells her it is not for her to judge the old man.

In the end, she feigns stealing a bag of coins from a captain on his way to meet with the old man. She splits the bag in the attempt, and switches one of the captain's coins with one of her own, coated in poison. After the switch, she escapes. Later, the old man's heart mysteriously gives out.

The kindly man then gives Arya an acolyte's robe and assigns her to begin her first apprenticeship with [[Izembaro]].{{Ref|aDwD|64}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
Under the identity of "Mercedene" or "Mercy", Arya is now a mummer at a playhouse called [[The Gate|the Gate]], owned by Izembaro. She is still experiencing wolf dreams, the latest with a tree watching her.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

When Ser [[Harys Swyft]] arrives in Braavos on a mission to negotiate with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], the mummers of the Gate perform the play ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' in which Arya plays a maid, presumably [[Sansa Stark]], who is raped by Tyrion, played by a dwarf named [[Bobono]].<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

However, as the play is about to begin, Arya notices two of Swyft's guards talking. One of them is [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]. She seduces him and takes him to her room. She tires him out by running there, and thus she is able to stab him in his thigh, cutting his femoral artery and rendering him unable to walk. Rafford pleads to have him carried to a healer, but Arya replies: "Think so?" and stabs him in the throat, just as he did to the disabled Lommy. Arya throws his corpse in a canal and heads back to the Gate before she is due to come on stage.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

==Arya and Death==
[[File:Arya tickler by tribemun.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Tickler's death by [http://www.nickalcorn.com/ Nick Alcorn©]]]

During her journey, Arya is subjected to many hard situations in the war-torn [[Riverlands]]. Her fiery personality prompts her to take the initiative and fight back, and so she is led to kill and ultimately wishes to murder specific characters herself. This course of action is supposed to end as of ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' with her being an assassin trainee in [[Braavos]], as the leader stresses becoming indifferent to death and killing. She continues, however, to repeat to herself the names of the people she wishes dead. Some names are added as she goes, and others are dropped when the character dies or becomes closer to her. She calls it a prayer, and ends it with the words ''[[Valar Morghulis]]''. The names are:

{| class="wikitable"
! Person
! Reason
! Status
! Fate
|-
| Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]]
|
| Dead
| Stabbed by [[Oberyn Martell|Prince Oberyn]] with a poisoned spear during [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s trial of combat at [[King's Landing]] (Arya currently is unaware of this and Gregor is still on her list).
|-
| [[Dunsen]]
| Stole [[Gendry]]'s horned helmet
| Alive
|
|-
| [[Polliver]]
| Stole [[Needle]] from Arya
| Dead
| Killed by [[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]] at the Crossroads Inn
|-
| [[Chiswyck]]
| Boasted of his participation in the gang rape of [[Layna]]
| Dead
| Pushed off a wall by [[Jaqen H'ghar]] at [[Harrenhal]] on the orders of Arya
|-
| [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]
| Killed [[Lommy Greenhands]]
| Dead
| Killed by Arya under the identity of Mercy
|-
| The [[Tickler]]
| Tortured captives during questioning
| Dead
| Killed by Arya at the Crossroads Inn
|-
| [[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]]
| Killed [[Mycah]]
| Dead
| Succumbed to his infected wounds after the fight at the Crossroads Inn (Arya had removed his name from her list prior to his death, but did not grant him the mercy of a quick death)
|-
| Ser [[Amory Lorch|Amory]]
| Killed [[Yoren]]
| Dead
| Killed by [[Vargo Hoat]]'s bear in the bear pit at Harrenhal
|-
| Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]]
| Beheaded [[Eddard Stark]] on the orders of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]
| Alive
|
|-
| Ser [[Meryn Trant|Meryn]]
| Killed [[Syrio Forel]]
| Alive
|
|-
| King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]
| Ordered the execution of [[Eddard Stark]]
| Dead
| Poisoned by [[Olenna Tyrell]] at his own wedding feast
|-
| Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]
| Involved in the death of [[Eddard Stark]]
| Alive
|
|-
| [[Weese]]
| Violently abused Arya
| Dead
| Killed by his own dog under [[Jaqen H'ghar]]'s influence on the orders of Arya
|}

Arya stated she would have added the [[House Frey|Freys]] to the list after the [[Red Wedding]] but she did not know the names of those responsible for her brother's death.

She also killed a number of people who were not on her list herself:
*a King's Landing stableboy
*several soldiers of [[Amory Lorch]]
*a [[House Bolton|Bolton]] guard at Harrenhal
*a [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]] squire
*[[Dareon]]
*a [[Braavosi]] insurance salesman {{Ref|aDwD|64}}

She also initiated and, along with [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]], and [[Biter]], took part in the killing of eight [[Harrenhal]] jailors, an event that would be remembered as the "weasel soup," from the nickname she used at the time.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

==Quotes by Arya==

{{Quote|Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.{{Ref|agOt|52}}}}

{{Quote|[[Gregor Clegane|Ser Gregor,]] [[Dunsen]], [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]], [[Ilyn Payne|Ser Ilyn]], [[Meryn Trant|Ser Meryn]], [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]. [[Valar morghulis]].{{Ref|aFfC|22}}}}

{{Quote|I'm the ghost in [[Harrenhal]], she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.{{Ref|aCoK|30}}}}
– after the killing of [[Chiswyck]]

{{Quote|Yes, it’s you who ought to run, you and Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Gregor Clegane|the Mountain]] and Ser [[Addam]] and Ser [[Amory]] and stupid Ser [[Lyonel (knight)|Lyonel]] whoever he is, all of you better run or [[Robb Stark|my brother]] will kill you, he’s a Stark, he’s more wolf than man, and so am I.{{Ref|acok|38}}}}

{{Quote|A long time ago, she remembered [[Eddard Stark|her father]] saying that when the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but [[House Stark#House Stark at the end of the third century|the wolves of the pack]] had been taken and slain and skinned.{{Ref|aFfC|6}}}}

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' If you need help, bark like a dog. '''Arya:''' That's stupid. If I need help, I'll shout 'help'.{{Ref|acOk|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' What kind of lady are you? '''Arya:''' '''This''' kind.{{Ref|asOs|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|''The Many-Faced God can have the rest'', she thought, ''but he can't have this''.{{Ref|AFFC|22}}}}

==Quotes about Arya==
{{Quote|Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. The ‘Wolf Blood', [[Rickard Stark|my father]] used to call it. [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] had a touch of it, and my brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave.{{Ref|agot|22}}}}
– [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|A boy has more courage than sense.{{Ref|acok|5}}}} – [[Jaqen H'ghar]]

{{Quote|Arya had always been harder to tame.{{Ref|aCoK|45}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|And Arya, well...Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy, half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. She had Ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head.{{Ref|acok|55}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]] remembers her daughter

{{Quote|Arya Underfoot, he almost said. Arya Horseface. [[Robb Stark|Robb]]'s younger sister, brown-haired, long-faced, skinny as a stick. Always dirty.{{Ref|adwd|12}}}}
– [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote| The [[Jeyne Poole|girl]] dipped before [[Ramsay Snow|him]]. That was wrong as well. The real Arya Stark would have spat in his face.{{Ref|aFfC|20}}}}
– [[Reek|Theon Greyjoy]] realizing that Ramsay's bride is not Arya Stark

==Family==

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

==External Links==
:[http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Arya_Stark Arya Stark] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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Polliver

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'''Polliver''' is a [[The Mountain's men|man-at-arms in service]] to Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].

==Appearance and Character==
[[File:Polliver.jpg|thumb|right|Andy Kellegher in HBO's interpretation]]
He is tall, yet not heavily muscled.{{Ref|aSoS|74}} He has a thick, black, spade-shaped beard that is neatly trimmed, covering his jaws and jowls. His head is more bald than not.{{ref|ACOK|26}}

[[Arya Stark]] does not believe him to be as evil as his more violent comrades.{{ref|ACOK|26}}

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
Polliver is one of Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]'s [[The Mountain's men|men]] at arms and is part of the group that captures [[Arya Stark]], [[Gendry]] and [[Hot Pie]] in the [[Riverlands]]. He takes [[Needle]] from Arya.{{ref|ACOK|26}} For this, Arya adds him to her [[Arya_Stark#Arya_and_Death|prayer kill list]].{{ref|ACOK|26}}

Polliver later departs [[Harrenhal]] alongside [[Tywin Lannister]] as part of [[Gregor Clegane]]'s vanguard, unknowingly putting himself out of Arya's reach to choose him as her next target for [[Jaqen H'ghar]].{{ref|ACOK|38}} He is the standard bearer of Ser Gregor and is seen wearing Gendry's bull helm when leaving, supposedly having taken it from [[Dunsen]].{{ref|ACOK|38}}

Polliver participates in the [[Battle of the Fords]] under Ser Gregor Clegane's command, managing to cross the trident as one of his best men. He survives the battle at [[Stone Mill]] and successfully retreats when Ser [[Edmure Tully]] counter-attacks with his reserve.{{ref|ACOK|45}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Polliver's atrocities are recalled by Arya, who informs [[Harwin]] and the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] of his actions when his group captured her and [[Gendry]] near the [[God's Eye]].{{ref|ASOS|22}} He continues to be religiously included in Arya's death prayer list, though as time goes on she struggles to remember his face as well as the other marked members of Ser Gregor's men-at-arms.{{ref|ASOS|39}}

After securing [[Harrenhal]] under The Mountain's command, Polliver, the [[Tickler]] and a [[Sarsfield]] squire visited the [[Inn at the Crossroads]] to "tickle" the innkeep before running into [[Sandor Clegane]] and Arya.{{ref|ASOS|74}} A fight ensued and the three were killed, with Polliver being slain by Sandor. Arya retrieves needle from his corpse.{{ref|ASOS|74}}

===A Feast for Crows===
Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] discovers that Ser Gregor had named Polliver as his [[Castellan|castellan]] after his departure, but Polliver was killed by Sandor, leaving no one in charge at [[Harrenhal]].<ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 27|Chapter 27]], Jaime</ref>

==References and Notes==
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Arya Stark

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| Alias = Arya Horseface Arya Underfoot Arry Lumpyface/Lumpyhead Weasel Nymeria/Nan Squab Salty Cat of the Canals Beth The Blind Girl The Ugly Little Girl Mercedene/Mercy
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| 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]]
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'''Arya Stark''' is the third child and second daughter of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]]. A member of [[House Stark]], she has five siblings: brothers [[Robb Stark|Robb]], [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], half-brother [[Jon Snow]], and older sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. She is a [[POV character]] in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' and is portrayed by Maisie Williams in the television adaptation, ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.

Like some of her siblings, Arya sometimes dreams that she is a [[direwolf]].{{ref|aSoS|3}} Her own direwolf is [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], who is named in reference to the [[Rhoynar]] warrior-queen [[Nymeria|of the same name]].

==Appearance and Character==
[[File:Arya Stark Ammotu.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Arya Stark - by Ammotu ©]]
:''See also: [[:Category:Images_of_Arya_Stark|Images of Arya Stark]]''
Nine years old at the start of ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'', Arya is a spirited girl interested in fighting and exploration, unlike her older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]. Arya wants to learn how to fight with a sword and ride in tourneys, to the horror of [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]], who enjoys the more traditional pursuits of a noblewoman. Arya is particularly close to her half brother [[Jon Snow]], who encourages her martial pursuits. [[Jon Snow]] gives Arya her first sword, [[Needle]], as a gift. Throughout her travels, Arya displays great resourcefulness, cunning, and an unflinching ability to accept hard necessity. She is said to take after her fiery aunt [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] in temperament.{{Ref|aGoT|22}}

Arya's appearance is more Stark than Tully, with a long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. She is skinny and athletic. At the start of the story, she is generally regarded as plain, as exemplified by her nickname "Arya Horseface", and often mistaken for a boy. However, there are instances of her being called pretty, compared to the beautiful [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]]{{Ref|aGoT|22}}, and catching the eye of men later in the books. In Braavos the [[kindly man]] says she has a pretty face.{{ref|adwd|64}}

She is left-handed, quick, and dexterous. She learned basic swordplay in the [[Braavos]]i [[Water Dancer]] tradition and later learned how to handle knives. She is a [[skinchanger|warg]], entering her direwolf Nymeria in her dreams, as well as cats in Braavos. She received a noble's education at [[Winterfell]] and is said to be good with mathematics and an excellent horse rider. She has proved to know at least a bit of [[Valyria|High Valyrian]].{{ref|adwd|64}} She also speaks Braavosi with a strong accent and has put some effort into learning the language, under orders from the kindly man. She has a quick and curious mind and a pragmatic outlook.

==History==
Arya is the youngest daughter and third child of Lord [[Eddard Stark]], head of [[House Stark]] and [[Warden of The North|Warden]] of the [[North]], and Lady [[Catelyn Tully]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Stark Lineage}} She was born at [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Arya Stark}} Arya has an older sister, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]].{{Ref|AGOT|5}} She has an older brother, [[Robb Stark|Robb]], and two younger brothers, [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. She also has a [[bastard]] half-brother, [[Jon Snow]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}

Arya has shown herself to be an independent and wild-spirited girl. Unlike her sister, she rejects the notion that she must become a lady and marry for influence and power,{{Ref|AGOT|25}} showing no interest in the womanly arts of dancing, singing, and sewing; instead she revels in fighting and exploring, to the bemusement of her tutor Septa [[Mordane]] and parents.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Arya is better than her sister Sansa at riding horses.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} She is known affectionately as "Arya Underfoot" by the staff and servants of Winterfell.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Arya stark by teiiku.jpg|thumb|300px|Arya exploring in the vaults under [[King's Landing]]. Art by TeiIku©]]
[[File:Joffs justice Arya POV by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Eddard Stark|Arya father's]] executed, TV interpretation of the scene, by Cabepfir]]
Arya travels with her father, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], to [[King's Landing]] when he is made [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Before she leaves, her half-brother [[Jon Snow]] gives her a sword called Needle, after her least favourite ladylike activity, as a parting gift. He tells her she will need to practice to get good, but that the first lesson is to "stick 'em with the pointy end".{{ref|agot|10}} On the way south, she befriends a peasant boy named [[Mycah]]; they often play at swords.{{ref|agot|15}}

While taking a walk together, Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and her sister [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] happen upon Arya and Mycah "battling" in the woods. Arya defends Mycah from Joffrey's torments and her [[direwolf]] [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]] helps Arya fight off Joffrey, wounding his arm in the process. Knowing that Nymeria will likely be killed in retribution, Arya and [[Jory Cassel]] chase her wolf away.{{Ref|aGoT|15}} Arya is brought before King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]], who counsels Eddard to handle punishment himself, but Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] is not satisfied with this and orders Sansa's direwolf, [[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]], to be killed in Nymeria's place. The peasant boy, Mycah, having fled, is tracked and killed by Joffrey's "dog," the [[Sandor Clegane|Hound]].{{Ref|aGoT|16}} From this moment, Arya harbors a lasting enmity for Clegane.

While in King's Landing, her father discovers Needle, but she refuses to give up Jon's name as the gift giver. [[Eddard Stark|Her father]] realizes that she must be trained if she is entertaining ideas about swordsmanship. Arya begins training under [[Syrio Forel]], a celebrated [[Braavos]]i swordsman. Under his strict, but creative, tutelage, Arya learns to fight in the Braavosi style with [[Needle]].{{Ref|aGoT|22}} She spends most of her time doing balancing and swordplay exercises as Forel instructed her. During one of these she discovers a secret passage in the castle. She overhears two men, who by description seem to be [[Varys]] and [[Illyrio]] speaking about her father, Cersei and Varys' children-spies.{{Ref|aGoT|32}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1214 |date=June 12, 2002 |title=Eastern Cities and Peoples |work=So Spake Martin |publisher=Westeros.org |quote=It was Varys.}}</ref>

During the purge of [[House Stark|Stark]] from the [[Red Keep]], Syrio realises the Lannister guardsman were not sent by her father as they said, he holds off Arya's attackers with a practice sword so she can escape.{{Ref|aGoT|50}} Arya got out of the castle using the passage she found earlier, but she could not get out of the city since the gates are heavily guarded. She lives on the streets of [[Flea Bottom]], catching pigeons and rats to trade for food, until the day she witnesses her father's public condemnation. She is found in the crowd by [[Yoren]] of the [[Night's Watch]], who recognises her and then saves her from the sight of Eddard's execution and drags her from King's Landing.{{Ref|aGoT|65}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Arya escapes [[King's Landing]] with [[Yoren]] and his party of [[Night's Watch]] recruits, with Yoren planning to return her to [[Winterfell]] on his way back the Wall. Yoren shaves her head and makes Arya assume the identity of ''Arry'', a boy recruit traveling with Yoren to the Wall.{{Ref|aCoK|1}} They make it as far as a [[Gods Eye town|deserted town]] near the [[God's Eye]] lake, where they are attacked by raiders led by Ser [[Amory Lorch]]. Arya is one of the few to escape alive, along with [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]], [[Lommy Greenhands]], and [[Weasel]]. Before escaping, she saves the lives of the chained Night's Watch prisoners [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]].{{Ref|aCoK|15}} Hot Pie calls her ''Lumpyface'' and Lommy calls her ''Lumpyhead''.

Arya heads out with the survivors until they are captured by Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]] and [[The Mountain's men|his men]] in the next town, where they are held for eight days, while the [[Tickler]] ''questions'' the villagers.{{Ref|aCoK|19}} Then they are taken to Harrenhal and made servants. On the journey, she creates a [[#Hit List|Hit List]] of all those she hates and wants to kill. At Harrenhal she is assigned to the steward [[Weese]] to work at the [[Wailing Tower]].{{Ref|aCoK|26}} Several days later, she reunites with Jaqen and the two other prisoners she saved, who are now in the employ of Ser [[Amory Lorch]].
[[File:Valar Morghulis by Tim Tsang II.jpg|thumb|400px|Arya kills the [[Harrenhal]] guard and whispers ''[[valar morghulis]]'' - by Tim Tsang ©]]
Jaqen comes to her at night and offers her three murders for the three lives she saved. After several days Arya names [[Chiswyck]], after she overhears him boast at how he participated in a gang rape. He dies three days later. Next she names [[Weese]], for striking her. Weese's death is untraceable, apparently linked to his small dog that he raised from a pup. Whilst trying to figure out the last name to say, she realises she should have said a more important name, such as Tywin or Amory Lorch. A bit regretful, she thinks hard about how to make the last name count. Finally, she names Jaqen himself. To make her unsay his name, Jaqen helps her free the Northmen in the dungeon and stage an uprising. Afterwards, to Arya's amazement, Jaqen changes his face and manner in front of her, saying it was time for that person to die. He gives Arya an iron coin so she can find him again and leaves. The next morning, Lord [[Roose Bolton]] arrives to take charge of the castle. Arya, now calling herself ''Nymeria'', or ''Nan'' for short, is made one of Roose's cup-bearers for her role in the freeing of the prisoners. She inadvertently meets [[Elmar Frey|the squire]] she would have to marry under Robb's agreement with the Freys, though they remain unknown to each other.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

She realizes she has been treated quite well under Roose and wishes to leave with him in an effort to get back to Winterfell and her family. She speaks out of turn to ask him what will happen to her. He treats her unkindly, so she keeps to herself until he goes. After Harrenhal is left to [[Vargo Hoat]], Arya escapes with [[Gendry]] and [[Hot Pie]], killing a gate guard.{{Ref|aCoK|64}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Mathia Arkoniel thetickler arya sandor.jpg|Arya stabs the Tickler over and over again in a rage until [[The Hound]] stops her - by Mathia Arkoniel|left|thumb|300px]]
While Arya and her companions are making their way north, Arya enters Nymeria during a dream and sees Nymeria kill the members of the [[Brave Companions]] that were sent after them.{{Ref|aSoS|3}} Not long afterwards, she and her companions are discovered by a group of the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] and taken to [[Inn of the Kneeling Man]], where she meets one of her father's former guards, [[Harwin]], who recognizes her as Arya Stark.{{Ref|aSoS|13}} Arya travels with the group to their hideout. At the Brotherhood's camp Arya encounters the recently captured [[Sandor Clegane]] standing for trial. She accuses him of murdering [[Mycah]], earning him a [[trial by combat]]. He survives and so is set free.{{Ref|aSoS|34}}

Disappointed with the Brotherhood and feeling alone in the world after [[Hot Pie]] and Gendry go their separate ways, Arya attempts to flee and ends up being captured by [[Sandor Clegane]], who was trailing the group.{{Ref|aSoS|43}} Sandor takes her to the [[Twins]], where he plans to return her to her brother [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and win a place in his service.{{Ref|aSoS|47}} They reach the [[Twins]] just as the slaughter of the [[Red Wedding]] begins. The Hound has to prevent Arya from running into the castle (and certain death) by knocking her out with the flat of his axe.{{Ref|aSoS|52}}

Sandor decides that the only place left to take her is to the [[Vale of Arryn]], which is ruled by Arya's aunt, [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]]. On the way east, Arya finds a saddled horse. She takes him as her mount and names him [[Craven (horse)|Craven]]. However, it is soon discovered they cannot reach the [[Eyrie]], and they are forced to head back towards [[Riverrun]] to ransom her to Ser [[Brynden Tully]] instead.{{Ref|aSoS|65}}

On their way they stop at an inn where they meet the [[Tickler]] and [[Polliver]], two of the men on Arya's death list, as well as a young squire. The Hound gets drunk and a fight ensues. Arya manages to stab the squire in the belly while The Hound kills Polliver, though he is badly wounded in the fight. As the Tickler closes in on Sandor, Arya is able to sneak behind him and stab him. She continues to stab him while savagely echoing the questions he asked of his victims on their journey to Harrenhal. After, Sandor directs her to finish off the squire, who is dying of his wound. Arya reclaims [[Needle]] from Polliver's corpse and stabs the squire in the heart.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

Arya and Sandor head towards the town of [[Saltpans]], but Sandor is too weak to continue and falls from his horse. Arya draws Needle, intending to kill him, but decides to leave him to die instead of administering the mercy of a quick death. She sells [[Craven (horse)|Craven]] at Saltpans and gains passage on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'', a ship headed to [[Braavos]], by using the coin that [[Jaqen H'ghar]] had given her, along with the [[Valyria]]n phrase "''[[Valar Morghulis]]''."{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File: Marc_Simonetti_HouseofB&W.jpg|Arya in the [[House of Black and White]] - by Marc Simonetti ©|thumb|300px]]
During the voyage to [[Braavos]] on the ''[[Titan's Daughter]]'' Arya uses the name ''Salty''. Many of the sailors and even Captain [[Ternesio Terys]] ask her to learn and remember their names. Many seem afraid of her. The captain has his older son [[Yorko Terys|Yorko]] row Arya to shore so as to get her off the ship prior to customs coming aboard.{{ref|affc|6}}

In [[Braavos]], Arya Stark finds her way to the [[House of Black and White]], where a [[kindly man|kindly old man]] initiates her into the guild of the [[Faceless Men]].{{Ref|aFfC|6}} She is required to discard her old personality, including her belongings, to begin the training. She does this, except for [[Needle]], which she hides in a safe location. {{Ref|aFfC|22}}

Arya's training requires her to go out into the city under the identity of ''Cat of the Canals'', a street urchin, learn secrets, and report what she has learned to the kindly man. She also begins learning the [[Braavos]]i language and the art of lying from the [[waif]]. During this time, she kills a deserter from the [[Night's Watch]] named [[Dareon]] and briefly meets [[Samwell Tarly]], though they do not introduce themselves to each other. After these incidents, she accepts milk meant for "Arya". When she wakes the next morning, she is blind.{{Ref|aFfC|34}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Thaldir the Blind Girl.jpg|A blinded Arya in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]] - art by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|right|300px]]

Arya remains blind and in the service of the [[House of Black and White]] in [[Braavos]]. The blindness is induced by the milk she drinks every night. She continues to dream through the eyes of her [[direwolf]], [[Nymeria]], but speaks of it to no one. She still struggles with leaving her identity as Arya Stark behind. While she is blind, Arya wears the guise of ''Beth'', a beggar girl. She wanders the streets of Braavos, begging for money and listening for bits and pieces of information. She becomes better at lying and detecting the lies of others.

Arya receives her sight again after she is able to identify the [[kindly man]] and hit him with a stick when he sneaks up on her. It is implied, however, that she does not simply sense his presence (as he assumes) but sees him through the eyes of a cat hiding in the rafters.

After regaining her sight,{{Ref|aDwD|45}} Arya is given her first assassination assignment. She is asked to give "the gift" to an old man who sells a type of insurance for ships. The kindly man takes her to the secret lower chambers of the House of Black and White, where thousands of faces are hung on the walls. She is given the face of an ugly, broken girl who had been beaten by her father and came to the House of Black and White to seek the gift. Arya watches her target carefully for days. She notices that the old man has guards with him wherever he goes, and always tests the coin he is given with his teeth. While watching him, she attempts to find ways to justify his fate, but the kindly man tells her it is not for her to judge the old man.

In the end, she feigns stealing a bag of coins from a captain on his way to meet with the old man. She splits the bag in the attempt, and switches one of the captain's coins with one of her own, coated in poison. After the switch, she escapes. Later, the old man's heart mysteriously gives out.

The kindly man then gives Arya an acolyte's robe and assigns her to begin her first apprenticeship with [[Izembaro]].{{Ref|aDwD|64}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
Under the identity of "Mercedene" or "Mercy", Arya is now a mummer at a playhouse called [[The Gate|the Gate]], owned by Izembaro. She is still experiencing wolf dreams, the latest with a tree watching her.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

When Ser [[Harys Swyft]] arrives in Braavos on a mission to negotiate with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], the mummers of the Gate perform the play ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' in which Arya plays a maid, presumably [[Sansa Stark]], who is raped by Tyrion, played by a dwarf named [[Bobono]].<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

However, as the play is about to begin, Arya notices two of Swyft's guards talking. One of them is [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]. She seduces him and takes him to her room. She tires him out by running there, and thus she is able to stab him in his thigh, cutting his femoral artery and rendering him unable to walk. Rafford pleads to have him carried to a healer, but Arya replies: "Think so?" and stabs him in the throat, just as he did to the disabled Lommy. Arya throws his corpse in a canal and heads back to the Gate before she is due to come on stage.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>

==Arya and Death==
[[File:Arya tickler by tribemun.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Tickler's death by [http://www.nickalcorn.com/ Nick Alcorn©]]]

During her journey, Arya is subjected to many hard situations in the war-torn [[Riverlands]]. Her fiery personality prompts her to take the initiative and fight back, and so she is led to kill and ultimately wishes to murder specific characters herself. This course of action is supposed to end as of ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' with her being an assassin trainee in [[Braavos]], as the leader stresses becoming indifferent to death and killing. She continues, however, to repeat to herself the names of the people she wishes dead. Some names are added as she goes, and others are dropped when the character dies or becomes closer to her. She calls it a prayer, and ends it with the words ''[[Valar Morghulis]]''. The names are:

;Dead
*King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]. Posioned by [[Olenna Tyrell]].
*[[Amory Lorch|Ser Amory]]. Eaten by [[Vargo Hoat]]'s bear.
*The [[Tickler]]. Arya killed him herself at the [[Crossroads Inn]].
*[[Polliver]]. Killed by [[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]] at the Crossroads Inn.
*[[Gregor Clegane|Ser Gregor]]. Died in extreme pain due to the thickened manticore venom that coated [[Oberyn Martell|Prince Oberyn]]'s spear. (Arya currently is unaware of this and Gregor is still on her list).
*[[Chiswyck]]. Pushed off a wall by [[Jaqen H'ghar]].
*[[Weese]]. His own dog tore out his throat.
*[[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]]. Killed by Arya under the identity of Mercy.

;Alive
*[[Ilyn Payne]]
*[[Meryn Trant]]
*[[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]
*[[Dunsen]]

;Removed
*[[Sandor Clegane|The Hound]]

Arya stated she would have added the [[House Frey|Freys]] to the list after the [[Red Wedding]] but she did not know the names of those responsible for her brother's death.

She also killed a number of people who were not on her list herself:
*a King's Landing stableboy
*several soldiers of [[Amory Lorch]]
*a [[House Bolton|Bolton]] guard at Harrenhal
*a [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]] squire
*[[Dareon]]
*a [[Braavosi]] insurance salesman {{Ref|aDwD|64}}

She also initiated and, along with [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]], and [[Biter]], took part in the killing of eight [[Harrenhal]] jailors, an event that would be remembered as the "weasel soup," from the nickname she used at the time.{{Ref|aCoK|47}}

==Quotes by Arya==

{{Quote|Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.{{Ref|agOt|52}}}}

{{Quote|[[Gregor Clegane|Ser Gregor,]] [[Dunsen]], [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]], [[Ilyn Payne|Ser Ilyn]], [[Meryn Trant|Ser Meryn]], [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]]. [[Valar morghulis]].{{Ref|aFfC|22}}}}

{{Quote|I'm the ghost in [[Harrenhal]], she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.{{Ref|aCoK|30}}}}
– after the killing of [[Chiswyck]]

{{Quote|Yes, it’s you who ought to run, you and Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Gregor Clegane|the Mountain]] and Ser [[Addam]] and Ser [[Amory]] and stupid Ser [[Lyonel (knight)|Lyonel]] whoever he is, all of you better run or [[Robb Stark|my brother]] will kill you, he’s a Stark, he’s more wolf than man, and so am I.{{Ref|acok|38}}}}

{{Quote|A long time ago, she remembered [[Eddard Stark|her father]] saying that when the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but [[House Stark#House Stark at the end of the third century|the wolves of the pack]] had been taken and slain and skinned.{{Ref|aFfC|6}}}}

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' If you need help, bark like a dog. '''Arya:''' That's stupid. If I need help, I'll shout 'help'.{{Ref|acOk|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|'''Gendry:''' What kind of lady are you? '''Arya:''' '''This''' kind.{{Ref|asOs|19}}}}
– [[Gendry]] and Arya

{{Quote|''The Many-Faced God can have the rest'', she thought, ''but he can't have this''.{{Ref|AFFC|22}}}}

==Quotes about Arya==
{{Quote|Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. The ‘Wolf Blood', [[Rickard Stark|my father]] used to call it. [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]] had a touch of it, and my brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave.{{Ref|agot|22}}}}
– [[Eddard Stark]]

{{Quote|A boy has more courage than sense.{{Ref|acok|5}}}} – [[Jaqen H'ghar]]

{{Quote|Arya had always been harder to tame.{{Ref|aCoK|45}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]]

{{Quote|And Arya, well...Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy, half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. She had Ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head.{{Ref|acok|55}}}}
– [[Catelyn Tully]] remembers her daughter

{{Quote|Arya Underfoot, he almost said. Arya Horseface. [[Robb Stark|Robb]]'s younger sister, brown-haired, long-faced, skinny as a stick. Always dirty.{{Ref|adwd|12}}}}
– [[Theon Greyjoy]]

{{Quote| The [[Jeyne Poole|girl]] dipped before [[Ramsay Snow|him]]. That was wrong as well. The real Arya Stark would have spat in his face.{{Ref|aFfC|20}}}}
– [[Reek|Theon Greyjoy]] realizing that Ramsay's bride is not Arya Stark

==Family==

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==References and Notes==
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==External Links==
:[http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Arya_Stark Arya Stark] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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Rafford

2015-02-04T10:27:49Z

Miroir: /* The Winds of Winter */

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'''Rafford''', better known as '''Raff''' or '''Raff the Sweetling''', is a [[The Mountain's men|man at arms in service]] to Ser [[Gregor Clegane]].

==Appearance and Character==
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Rafford is soft spoken and has a mop of sandy hair. He is cruel and sadistic.{{Ref|ACOK|26}}

When [[Jaime]] arrives at [[Harrenhal]], he sees Raff wearing the chain of coins that once belonged to [[Vargo Hoat]]. He thinks of Raff as bolder than the rest of Gregor’s men and notes that he is not as drunk as [[Shitmouth]].{{Ref|aFfC|27}}

==Recent Events==
===A Clash of Kings===
{{Quote|'''Raff:''' Can you walk? 
'''Lommy:''' No, you got to carry me. 
'''Raff:''' Think so?}}

Raff the Sweetling is one of Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]'s men at arms and is part of the group that captures [[Arya Stark]], [[Gendry]] and [[Hot Pie]] in the [[Riverlands]]. He sees [[Lommy Greenhands|Lommy]] is injured and asked him if he is alright in a feigned voice of concern. After Lommy says Raff will need to carry him, Raff proceeds to stab Lommy in the throat with his spear, chuckling to himself after the deed is done.{{ref|ACOK|19}}

On the march to Harrenhal, he smashes the face of a three-year-old boy with a spiked mace and kills his screaming mother shortly afterwards. [[Chiswyck]] later recalls Raff killed the son of the alehouse owner when he tells the story about the gang rape at the alehouse.{{ref|ACOK|30}} For these actions, Arya adds him to her [[Arya_Stark#Arya_and_Death|prayer kill list]].{{ref|ACOK|26}}

Raff later departs Harrenhal alongside [[Tywin Lannister]] as part of [[Gregor Clegane]]'s vanguard, unknowingly putting himself out of Arya's reach to choose him as her next target for [[Jaqen H'ghar]].{{ref|ACOK|38}}

He participates in the [[Battle of the Fords]] under Ser Gregor Clegane's command, managing to cross the [[Trident]] as one of his best men. He survives the battle at [[Stone Mill]] and successfully retreats when Ser [[Edmure Tully]] counter-attacks with his reserve.{{ref|ACOK|45}}

===Storm of Swords===
Raff's atrocities are recalled by Arya, who informs [[Harwin]] and the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] of his actions when his group captured her and [[Gendry]] near the [[God's Eye]].{{ref|ASOS|22}}

Raff continues to be religiously included in Arya's death prayer list, though as time goes on she struggles to remember his face as well as the other marked members of Ser Gregor's men-at-arms.{{ref|ASOS|39}}

===A Feast for Crows===
When Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] pauses at [[Harrenhal]], he encounters the remnants of Ser Gregor's men there, and notes Raff is the boldest of the group. After Ser [[Bonifer Hasty]] refuses to allow them to stay, Jaime brings them with him to [[Riverrun]] as part of his force to besiege the castle. After the [[Siege of Riverrun|fall of Riverrun]], Rafford is told to escort Ser [[Robin Ryger]] and Ser [[Desmond Grell]] to [[Maidenpool]] for their journey to [[the Wall]] and make sure they made it alive. <ref>[[A Feast for Crows]], [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 44|Chapter 44]], Jaime</ref>

===A Dance with Dragons===
Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] suggests that Ser [[Harys Swyft]] hire some of the Mountain's men to add to his household guard.

===The Winds of Winter===
When Ser [[Harys Swyft]] is sent to negotiate the crown's debt to the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] he is accompanied by Raff as one of his guards. They attend a performance of ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' at [[The Gate|the Gate]]. Arya, posing as the mummer "Mercy" spots him, and seduces him. She tires him out by running him to her room, then once he is undressed she discreetly stabs him in the thigh, rendering him unable to walk. She backs off feigning surprise and shock, and Raff, seeing the blood flowing out of his wound, panics and tells her to help him to a healer. When Arya asks how they can get there, Raff replies:

{{Quote|'''Raff:''' You’ll need to carry me. 
'''Arya:'''Think so?}}

After sweetly echoing Raff's own words from when he killed Lommy, Arya stabs him in the throat. His corpse is dumped in a canal, for the eels.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref>.

==References and Notes==
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Harys Swyft

2015-02-04T10:22:42Z

Miroir: /* A Dance with Dragons */

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Ser '''Harys Swyft''' is the head of [[House Swyft]] and good-father to Ser [[Kevan Lannister]].

==Appearance==
Harys has a very small chin.{{ref|AGOT|69}} He is bald, soft and has a small white beard over his chin.{{ref|AFFC|17}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Ser Harys is part of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]'s force in the [[Riverlands]]. He participates in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]]. When a courier arrives at Lord Tywin's camp bearing the news of the defeat of the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] forces in the [[Battle of the Camps]], lifting the siege of [[Riverrun]], Harys questions Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]]'s tactical ability, criticizing that Ser Jaime split up his host into three different camps. [[Tyrion Lannister]], thinking by himself, resents this attack on his brother's tactical prowess, in particular when it comes from Ser Harys, whom he considers a shameless lickspittle whose only personal achievement is that he married off [[Dorna Swyft|his daughter]] to a Lannister and thus attached himself to the house.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

However, it is Ser Harys' own son-in-law, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]], who refutes the critique, explaining that Jaime had no alternative and that he would have done the same, also pointing out that Ser Harys doesn't seem to be familar with the strategic position of Riverrun. Ser Harys later says that Ser Jaime's capture and the defeat at Riverrun constitute a catastrophe for the Lannister forces, prompting a dismissive remark by Ser [[Addam Marbrand]] who thanks him for pointing out the obvious. Ser Harys insists that there is no other alternative than appealing for peace, to which Tyrion replies that [[Robb Stark]] will never accept peace negotiations now, after [[Eddard Stark|his father]] has been executed in [[King's Landing]]. Ser Harys later suggests appealing to the Crown for new troops and trying to raise a new host in [[Casterly Rock]], but the discussion comes to an end when Lord Tywin asks all present to leave, except Ser Kevan and Tyrion.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Harys is with Lord Tywin's army when they take [[Harrenhal]]. During their time there he manages to alienate the cooks, who spit in his food. His squire is killed in an argument with the [[Brave Companions]] over the supposed death of Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]] at the hands of the Companions. [[Arya Stark]] watches him kiss [[Vargo Hoat]] under Tywin's orders to make up and put the conflict behind them.{{ref|ACOK|30}} During the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Harys is trapped beneath his horse after it falls on him. He is rescued by one of his men-at-arms, [[Willit]], who defends him against all attackers, taking grievous wounds in the process.{{ref|ACOK|65}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Harys is among the nobles that accompany [[Tyrion Lannister]] to meet the [[Dorne|Dornish]] party when they arrived at [[King's Landing]].{{ref|ASOS|38}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Harys is named [[Hand of the King]] by Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], because he is both a weak man and he was a hostage against Ser [[Kevan Lannister]].{{ref|AFFC|17}} He is appointed/demoted to [[Master of Coin|Lord Treasurer]] by Cersei after [[Gyles Rosby|Lord Rosby]] dies.{{ref|AFFC|39}} When Cersei is arrested Harys and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] take control of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] and request that [[Kevan Lannister]] return to King's Landing as regent.{{ref|AFFC|43}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Harys continues to serve as lord treasurer. In order to placate the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], he has written to the bankers of [[Myr]] in hopes of a loan and is advised by Kevan to also write to the magisters of [[Pentos]]. Kevan refuses to follow Harys's suggestion of raising taxes as the realm is too full of rebellion and half its lords cannot tell taxation from tyranny. Kevan suggests to Harys that he travel to [[Braavos]] and treat with the bank in person.{{ref|ADWD|Epilogue}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
In Braavos, Harys attends a performance of ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' at [[The Gate|the Gate]], accompanied by the [[Bellegere Otherys (courtesan)|Black Pearl of Braavos]] and a guard of Lannister men, including [[Rafford|Raff the Sweetling]].

==Quotes about Harys==
{{Quote|[[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]] should be [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen's]] [[Hand of the King|hand]]. Harys Swyft is a toad, and my [[Cersei Lannister|sister]] is a fool if she thinks elsewise.{{Ref|aFfC|30}}}} - [[Jaime Lannister]]s thoughts

==Family==
{{Swyft tree}}

==References and Notes==
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Rhaella Targaryen

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Miroir: /* Early Life */ spelling error

{{Character
| Character_name= [[File:House_Targaryen_crest.PNG|50px|right]] '''Rhaella Targaryen''' [[File:House_Targaryen_crest.PNG|50px|left]]
| image = [[File:Rhaella Targaryen.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption =
| Alias =
| Title = Princess Queen Dowager Queen
| Allegiance = [[House Targaryen]]
| Race = [[Valyria]]n
| Culture =
| Spouse = King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]
| Place_of_Birth= [[King's Landing]]{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaella Targaryen}}
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|245}} or {{Date|246}}<ref name=Calculation>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella Targaryen]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death= [[Dragonstone]]{{Ref|AGOT|3}}
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|284}}<ref name=Calculation>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella Targaryen]] calculation.''</ref>
| Books = ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' (Mentioned) ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (Mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (Mentioned) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (Mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (Mentioned)
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Queen '''Rhaella Targaryen''' was the sister, wife, and queen of King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] and the only daughter of King [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen]]. Her grandfather was King [[Aegon V Targaryen]]. Rhaella was the mother of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]]. She died shortly after Daenerys' birth.{{ref|AGOT|3}}

==History==
===Early Life===
Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] claimed that in her youth Rhaella was in love with Ser [[Bonifer Hasty]], a young landed knight{{Ref|AWOIAF| Bonifer Hasty}} from the [[Stormlands]], who had once named her [[Queen of Love and Beauty]]. It had been a brief thing, as Ser Bonifer was of too low birth to ever be seriously considered a suitor for a Princess.{{Ref|ADWD|43}}

[[File:Aerys_wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Rhaella and [[Aerys II|Aerys]]' unhappy wedding]]
Rhaella was married to her older brother,{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}} [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]], on the command of her father, Prince [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]].{{Ref|ADWD|43}}{{Ref|ADWD|23}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}} According to [[Barristan Selmy]], there was no fondness between Aerys and Rhaella on the day of their wedding.{{ref|ADWD|23}} In {{Date|259}}, whilst present at [[Summerhall]], Rhaella gave birth to the first of her children, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]], whilst the [[Tragedy of Summerhall]] raged.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}}{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaegar Targaryen}}

As a princess, and eventual queen, Rhaella had multiple ladies in waiting. At some point, this included the mother of Prince [[Doran Martell]], and, from {{Date|259}} to {{Date|263}}, Lady [[Joanna Lannister]].{{ref|ASOS|70}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}
 
 
 

===Married life===
Rhaella's marriage to Aerys was arranged at the command of their father, King [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys II]]. He had been influenced by a [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]], who had been brought to court by [[Jenny of Oldstones]]. The woods witch prophesied that [[the prince that was promised]] would be born from Aerys' and Rhaella's line.{{Ref|ADWD|23}}

On the same day her [[Aegon V Targaryen|grandfather]] and his [[Duncan Targaryen|eldest son]] perished in the [[Tragedy at Summerhall]], Aerys became crown prince and Rhaella gave birth to their first child, [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]].{{ref|AFFC|34}}

[[File:Marc Simonetti The fire at the summer palace.jpg|thumb|350px|Rhaella giving birth to Rhaegar as Summerhal burns down]]
After Rhaegar's birth, Rhaella and Aerys had more trouble where their children were concerned. In the seventeen years following Rhaegar's birth, Rhaella went through multiple pregnancies, stillbirths and miscarriages:
* miscarriage in {{Date|263}}
* miscarriage in {{Date|264}}
* Princess [[Shaena Targaryen]], born in {{Date|267}}, stillborn
* Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Daeron Targaryen]], born in {{Date|269}}, lived only half a year
* stillbirth in {{Date|270}}, gender and name of child unnown
* miscarriage in {{Date|271}}
* Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Aegon Targaryen]], born in {{Date|272}}, born two months premature, died in {{Date|273}}
* Prince [[Jaehaerys Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Jaehaerys Targaryen]], born in {{Date|274}}, died later that same year

While at first, her brother comforted Rhaella in her grief, the multiple stillbirths, miscarriages and dead children eventually caused Aerys to become suspicious of Rhaella. He accused her of being unfaithful, and that the dead children had been bastards. Rhaella was confined to Maegor's Holdfast (roughly around 270AC), and Aerys decreed that two septas would sleep in Rhaella's bed every night, to ensure she would remain faithful.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}

The death of Prince Jaehaerys in {{Date|264}} shifted Aerys' suspicions to others. He first blamed Jaehaerys' wetnurse first, in black rage, and had her beheaded. It did not take Aerys long to decide Jaehaerys had been poisoned, and that the poisoner had been his own mistress, the young daughter of a household knight. The girl and her family were tortured to death, and all confessed to the murder (though the details of their confessions differed greatly).{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}

Afterwards, Aerys decided that he himself had been to blame. He fasted for a fornight, made a walk of repentance across the city to the Great Sept, and prayed with the High Septon. When he returned, he declared that he would only sleep with Rhaella from that day forth. If the chronicles can be believed, Aerys remained true to this vow, thereby ceasing to have mistresses from {{Date|275}} forth.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}

In {{Date|276}}, Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] was born, small and robust, and most of all, healthy. However, Viserys' birth terrified Aerys, who feared Viserys would suffer the fate of his brothers. No one was allowed to touch the child, Rhaella included. She was even forbidden to be alone with Viserys. And when Rhaella's milk dried up, Aerys insisted that his own food taster would suckle at the breasts of the wet nurse, to be certain that there was no poison on her nipples.

When Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], [[Hand of the King]], held a tourney at [[Lannisport]] to celebrate Viserys' birth in {{Date|276}}, Rhaella was ordered to remain at [[King's Landing]] with Viserys. In {{Date|281}}, during the Tourney at Harrenhal, the same occured.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aerys II}}{{Ref|ASOS|44}}

In the later years of the marriage of Aerys and Rhaella, as Aerys's [[Targaryen madness|insanity]] began to set in, he grew sexually abusive toward Rhaella. He developed a sexual fetish for fire and death, only sleeping with Rhaella after he had executed someone by burning. The final time, just before the queen was sent to [[Dragonstone]] to escape the coming siege of [[King's Landing]] by rebels during the [[Robert's Rebellion]], Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] of the [[Kingsguard]] recalls listening to Rhaella cry as the king raped her; when Jaime protested that the Kingsguard were sworn to defend the queen as well, Ser [[Jon Darry]] replied, ''"We are, but not from him"''. In the morning, the queen's maids reported seeing scratches, bruises and bite marks all over her body.{{ref|AFFC|16}}

According to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], Rhaella did her best to protect her younger son, [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], from the worst of Aerys's excesses, keeping her child oblivious to the fact his father was sliding deeper into madness.{{ref|ASOS|71}} In [[Harrenhal]] Jaime tells [[Brienne]] that by the time King Aerys was ordering that caches of [[wildfire]] be placed all over King's Landing Rhaella's eyes had been closed for years.{{Ref|ASOS|37}}

===Evacuation to Dragonstone===
After the royalist defeat at the [[Battle of the Trident]], Queen Rhaella, who was in the early stages of pregnancy, and Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] were evacuated, sailing to [[Dragonstone]] with the Red Keep's master-at-arms Ser [[Willem Darry]], before King's Landing [[Sack of King's Landing|fell]] to the rebels. During the first months of exile Rhaella crowned her son Viserys Targaryen on [[Dragonstone]].{{Ref|awoiaf}} As [[Robert's Rebellion]] wound down, Dragonstone became the last haven of the remaining Targaryens.

===Death===
Rhaella spent the duration of her pregnancy on Dragonstone. Nine moons after their midnight flight from King's Landing Rhaella gave birth to her third child and only daughter Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. Rhaella died shortly thereafter from complications of giving birth. {{ref|AGOT|3}} Rhaella's surviving children inherited her crown. Later, in poverty in exile, they sell their mother’s crown in order to survive.{{Ref|aSoS|27}}

==Quotes about Rhaella==
{{Quote|Whenever Aerys gave a man to the flames, Queen Rhaella would have a visitor in the night.}} – [[Jaime Lannister]]’s thoughts

{{Quote|'''Jaime:''' [[Kingsguard|We]] are sworn to protect her as well.

'''Jonothor:''' We are, but not from [[Aerys II Targaryen|him]].{{Ref|affc|16}}}}
– [[Jaime Lannister]] and [[Jonothor Darry]]

{{Quote|The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty.}} – [[Barristan Selmy]], to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

==Family==
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==See also==
:*[[:Category:Images of Rhaella Targaryen|Images of Rhaella Targaryen]]

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

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