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A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Arya Stark|Arya]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| title = Arya VIII
| page = 400
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 39|Catelyn V]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 47|Arya IX]]
}}

[[Tywin Lannister]]’s host’s is leaving [[Harrenhal]] and Arya has been kept busy delivering messages for Weese, and she wants to find [[Jaqen H'ghar]] before he leaves. She finally finds Jaqen and gives him Weese’s name. As she watches [[Tywin Lannister]] lead his host out of the castle she realizes that she had been targeting the wrong people, people who really did not matter. She goes in search of Jaqen, but finds Weese’s dead body first..
==Synopsis==
[[File:Acok addam marbrand by o0magnus.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Lanister host marching out]]
The Castle is in an uproar with preparations for [[Tywin Lannister]]’s host’s departure. Ser [[Addam Marbrand]] had been the first to depart, a day before the rest. [[Weese]] said of Ser Addam:
{{Quote|great horseman and sword fighter, Lord Tywin’s most daring commander.}}
Arya hopes Ser Addam and all his men die. She is sure that they are going to fight [[Robb Stark]], and wondered what Robb had accomplished.

Arya has been kept busy running messages from dawn to dust. She even delivered messages beyond the wall, and considered running away except that Weese had told her that he would deliver her to [[Vargo Hoat]]; maybe if Weese were dead. Weese did not know Arya could read, so never sealed the messages. One time she delivered a message demanding payment for a debt to a knight who couldn’t read. She read it to him, and he tried to hit her so she took a silver banded drinking horn from him and fled, giving it to Weese. For this Arya got a reward of sharing a crisp capron. As she traveled she searched for [[Jaqen H'ghar]] to give him another name before he left. She finally asked a gate guard and was told that Ser [[Amory Lorch]] was to be castellan of [[Harrenhal]], so Jaqen will not be leaving. The [[Brave Companions]] would also be left to do foraging (Lorch and Vorgo Hoat had always hated each other). Unfortunately, the Mountain would be leaving to command Tywin’s van in battle, putting him, [[Dunsen]], [[Polliver]], and [[Rafford]] beyond reach.

Weese gives Arya a message for [[Lucan]] that Ser [[Lyonel]] who is to ride with [[Kevan Lannister]] needs a new sword. When she reaches the armory she spies [[Gendry]] and asks him which one of the men is Lucan, he tells her that [[Hot Pie]] asked him if he heard her scream [Winterfell]] when they were fighting on the wall. Arya immediately claims she didn’t and Gendry tells her she did, but that he told Hot Pie that he needs to clean out his ears because she yelled “Go to hell” and she better have the same story; she does not want Hot Pie to know who she really is, and thinks maybe she should give Jaqen his name. Gendry tells Arya that he will get Lucan. Lucan pulls down a longsword and gives it to Arya with the message that it is too good for an oaf. Arya said she would, but would not because Weese would beat her bloody. The longsword feels good in Arya’s hand although lot heavier than [[Needle]] and thinks that she may not be a [{Water Dancer]] but she also is not a mouse. She was thinking of using the note to get a horse saying she was doing it for Ser Lyonel since the sableboys wouldn’t be able to read.

She was trying to decide whether to take the chance when she overhears some archers talk. One says that Robb brought giants from the north, another that Starks are more like wolves than men, and then one states that Robb was scared to attack Harrenhal, and would piss in his pants if he knew they were coming. Then there is the comment that maybe they are the ones that should run. She thinks that yes, they should run or her brother would kill them. She is interrupted by Weese’s voice. Weese had come up in front of her and she had not seen him. He complains that she took long enough, and snatching the sword from her and slapping her on the back of the hand telling her next time she will be faster. She had been a wolf and suddenly was not. He asks her if she wants another, tells her he wants none of her insolent looks, and to tells [[Tuffleberry]] he has a barrels for him but he needs to sent lads to fetch them. He then tells her to run if she wants to eat tonight, and no getting lost again or she will be beat bloody.

Halfway to the brewhouse she runs into [[Rorge]] three other men of Ser Amory’s men. He calls her “Yoren’s little cunt” and that he promised to fuck her with her stick, and she is no longer so brave now that he is not wearing chains. When she tells him she is looking for Jaqen she could see something in his eyes, fear? He tells her he is in the bathhouse and to get out of his way. In the bathhouse she tries to sneak up one him, but he knows she is there:
{{Quote| She steals in on little mice feet, but a man hears. The scuff of leather on stone sings loud as warhorns to a man with open ears. Clever girls go barefoot., and tells her clever girls go barefoot.}}
She is upset that he heard her, and whispers Weese’s name in his ear. He states:
{{Quote|Tell his lordship a man shall attend him at his leisure.}}

She gives Turrleberry the message, and he curses, saying his lads are busy and that he will have those barrels within an hour, or Lord Tywin will hear of it. Weese also was not happy but found six men.

Supper was a thin stew, and Weese only gave her a wing of the capon, and when he saw Arya staring as he is finishing the bird, he tells her he told her what would happen if he caught her staring. He slaps her and then shoves her and her dress catches and rips. Weese tells her that she will fix that before she sleeps.

She is kicked awake in the morning by Weese who tells them that the work will not get easier now that the Tywin’s host is gone. Later Arya watches as Lord Tywin and Ser Kevan passed, followed by their great lords and captains. Last was [[Gregor Clegane]], with [[Polliver]] beside him with Gendry’s helmet. Suddenly Arya realizes she was stupid and the neither [[Chiswyck]] nor [[Weese]] mattered. Why didn’t she say Lord Tywin? She hurries to find Jaqen to tell him.

She hears a shriek of pain, and she finds a dozen people looking at the body of Weese with his ugly dog on his chest. Every so often the dog would rip a mouthful of flesh off his face. On man exclaims that he had that bitch since it was pup, and it must be [[Harren Hoare|Harren’s]] ghost. When Arya lifts her glaze she sees on the battlements, and the man lays two fingers across his cheek casually.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2012/01/re-read-arya-viii-hassle-with-oversized.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-18 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 38]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Harrenhal]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 39, Arya]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]]
| place = [[Stony Shore]]
| title = Theon III
| page = 393
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 24|Theon II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 50|Theon IV]]
}}

[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] had won an easy victory, and destroys a village, but he is not pleased with his victory that costs him only one man, who he killed, easily defeating a force lead by [[Benfred Tallhart
]]. When he returns to the ships, he meets with [[Dagmer]] Cleftjaw and arranges for him to lead a force against [[Torrhen's Square]], which is a feint to get [[Rodrik Cassel]] to send a force to relieve Torrhen's Square.

==Synopsis==
[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] has captured [[Benfred Tallhart]] after defeating the force sent to protect the [[Stony Shore]]. Now Benfred is being held between [[Stygg]] and [[Werlag]] as Theon questions him, but he only gets threats about what [[Robb Stark]] will do to him and Benfred’s spittle. [[Aeron Greyjoy]] is now insisting that Benford be sacrificed to the [[Drowned God]] in the old way for his insult. Theon finally gives in, figuring he may be doing Benfred a service since his neck, thick with muscle and fat, and Stygg was not an expert headman. Theon thinks of when he met Benfred three years past when [[Eddard Stark]] visited Ser [[Helman Tallhart]].

He can hear the noised of the men celebrating the victory, but it had been like slaughtering sheep. After climbing some stones, Theon could see [[Tymor]] with his brothers gathering the unhurt mounts as [[Urzen]] and Black [[Lorren]] killing the horses that could not be saved. He also sees [[Gevin Harlaw]] sawing off a finger to get a ring. Theon did not want to search the two men he killed because he could only think of what the now dead [[Eddard Stark]] would say, and it frustrates him. He next sees [[Maron Botley]] with his sons collecting plunder, and one of them in a shoving match with an obviously drunk [[Todric]]. Theon asks [[Wex Pyke]] for his bow and attempt to shoot the ale horn out of his hand, but he moves and Theon’s arrow takes him in the belly. This gets the attention of the other looters, and Theon tells them that he will abide no drunkards and no squabbles over plunder. Theon tells Botley to silence Todric. Theon realizes that his father Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]] gave him the command, but some of his men would see him as “a soft boy from the green lands.”

Theon kicks Benfred’s banner wondering about the rabbit skin tied to it. He is frustrated the he does not feel elated as he did after the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]]. Benfred had not even sent out a scout and had run into a trap and been cut down by a hail of arrows. Theon had ordered the leader spared for questioning, not expecting it to be Benfred.

Theon had planned the attack on the village well, and his men had easily taken the sleeping fishing village, which was now just ash. A few had been allowed to escape to take word to [[Torrhen's Square]], the rest killed except for some women taken for salt wives and thralls. He was not happy, but feels he has no choice. The word about hosting of the [[Iron Islands]] had been effectively kept secret so the northmen would not realize their peril until [[Deepwood Motte]] and [[Moat Cailin]] were attacked. He damns his sister [[Asha Greyjoy]] in her ship [[Black Wind]] again; she will win a castle of her own and gain glory while Theon’s work will be put down to raiders.

Theon had left [[Dagmer]] Cleftjaw to guard the ships so that he could be given credit, and he did not mind. When Theon returns, Dagmer is standing in front of his ship [[Foamdrinker]]. He notes that Theon does not smile despite the victory. Threon reports he only lost Todic, who he killed and Dagmer smiles telling him some men were born to be killed. As always, Theon appreciates the smile. Theon tells Dagmer that they need to talk, so he takes him to his cabin in Foamdrinker.

Theon tells him that they did not capture enough horses, and Dagmer asks why they need horses since Balon ordered them to only harry the coast. Theon, hoping the tone in Dagmer’s voice is interest, not disapproval, tells Dagmer that he is the most skilled in sword and spear in the Iron Islands. Dagmer tells him that [[Andrik]] who serves Lord [[Dunstan Drumm]], and Black [[Lorren]] and [[Qarl]] the Maid are said to be the best now. Theon tells him the Andrik is not nearly as feared, and raiding is no work for Lord Balon’s best man. Dagmer tells Theon that it is he who feels wasted, and Theon replies that it should have been him who had his sister’s command. He was valued by [[Robb Stark]] and was one of [[Brynden Tully]]’s picked scounts. He was in the first wave at Whispering Woods, and came close to crossing swords with [[Jaime Lannister|the Kingslayer]] except [[Daryn Hornwood]] came between and died for it. Dogmer states that he knows Theon is no craven, having trained him. Theon asks if his father knows that and states he is no [[House Stark|Stark]] but a [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], and will be his father’s heir, but to be his heir he must prove himself. When Dogmer states that he was commanded to raid, Theon states he will give Aeron six ships and he can do the raiding; he will capture his own castle. Meanwhile Dagmer, with his fearsome reputation, will march on Torrhen's Square. [[Helman Tallhart]] took his best men south, and Benfred and his sons are now dead; a small garrison under [[Leobald Tallhart]] is all that is left. He will not make a secret of his approach, and when he arrives will start building siege engines. Dagmer exclaims that this is not the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] way, and Theon replies that Leobald will not know that, and will call for help. The [[Rodrik Cassel|castellan]] in [[Winterfell]] learns that a bannerman is being attacked by Dagmer Cleftjaw he will ride to Leobald aid in strength. Dagmer states he cannot win since the force summoned will be larger than his, and Theon replies that he does not plan to take Torrhen’s Square.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2012/01/re-read-theon-iii-tis-season-to-be.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-18 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 38, Theon]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 37]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place at the Stony Shore]]

[[es:Choque de Reyes-Capítulo 37]]
[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 38, Theon]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]]
| place = [[Stony Shore]]
| title = Theon III
| page = 393
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 24|Theon II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 50|Theon IV]]
}}

[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] had won an easy victory, and destroys a village, but he is not pleased with his victory that costs him only one man, who he killed, easily defeating a force lead by [[Benfred Tallheart]]. When he returns to the ships, he meets with [[Dagmer Cleftjaw]] and arranges for him to lead a force against [[Torrhen's Square]], which is a feint to get [[Rodrik Cassel]] to send a force to relieve Torrhen's Square.

==Synopsis==
[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] has captured [[Benfred Tallheart]] after defeating the force sent to protect the [[Stony Shore]]. Now Benfred is being held between [[Stygg]] and [[Werlag]] as Theon questions him, but he only gets threats about what [[Robb Stark]] will do to him and Benfred’s spittle. [[Aeron Grayjoy]] is now insisting that Benford be sacrificed to the [[Drowned God]] in the old way for his insult. Theon finally gives in, figuring he may be doing Benfred a service since his neck, thick with muscle and fat, and Stygg was not an expert headman. Theon thinks of when he met Benfred three years past when [[Eddard Stark]] visited Ser [[Helman Tallhart]].

He can hear the noised of the men celebrating the victory, but it had been like slaughtering sheep. After climbing some stones, Theon could see [[Tymor]] with his brothers gathering the unhurt mounts as [[Urzen]] and [[Black Lorren]] killing the horses that could not be saved. He also sees [[Gevin Harlaw]] sawing off a finger to get a ring. Theon did not want to search the two men he killed because he could only think of what the now dead [[Eddard Stark]] would say, and it frustrates him. He next sees [[Maron Botley]] with his sons collecting plunder, and one of them in a shoving match with an obviously drunk [[Todric]]. Theon asks [[Wex Pyke]] for his bow and attempt to shoot the ale horn out of his hand, but he moves and Theon’s arrow takes him in the belly. This gets the attention of the other looters, and Theon tells them that he will abide no drunkards and no squabbles over plunder. Theon tells Botley to silence Todric. Theon realizes that his father Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]] gave him the command, but some of his men would see him as “a soft boy from the green lands.”

Theon kicks Benfred’s banner wondering about the rabbit skin tied to it. He is frustrated the he does not feel elated as he did after the [[Battle of the Whispering Wood]]. Benfred had not even sent out a scout and had run into a trap and been cut down by a hail of arrows. Theon had ordered the leader spared for questioning, not expecting it to be Benfred.

Theon had planned the attack on the village well, and his men had easily taken the sleeping fishing village, which was now just ash. A few had been allowed to escape to take word to [[Torrhen's Square]], the rest killed except for some women taken for salt wives and thralls. He was not happy, but feels he has no choice. The word about hosting of the [[Iron Islands]] had been effectively kept secret so the northmen would not realize their peril until [[Deepwood Motte]] and [[Moat Cailin]] were attacked. He damns his sister [[Asha Greyjoy]] in her ship [[Black Wind]] again; she will win a castle of her own and gain glory while Theon’s work will be put down to raiders.

Theon had left [[Dagmer Cleftjaw]] to guard the ships so that he could be given credit, and he did not mind. When Theon returns, Dagmer is standing in front of his ship [[Foamdrinker]]. He notes that Theon does not smile despite the victory. Threon reports he only lost Todic, who he killed and Dagmer smiles telling him some men were born to be killed. As always, Theon appreciates the smile. Theon tells Dagmer that they need to talk, so he takes him to his cabin in Foamdrinker.

Theon tells him that they did not capture enough horses, and Dagmer asks why they need horses since Balon ordered them to only harry the coast. Theon, hoping the tone in Dagmer’s voice is interest, not disapproval, tells Dagmer that he is the most skilled in sword and spear in the Iron Islands. Dagmer tells him that [[Andrik]] who serves Lord [[Dunstan Drumm]], and Black [[Lorren]] and [[Qarl]] the Maid are said to be the best now. Theon tells him the Andrik is not nearly as feared, and raiding is no work for Lord Balon’s best man. Dagmer tells Theon that it is he who feels wasted, and Theon replies that it should have been him who had his sister’s command. He was valued by [[Robb Stark]] and was one of [[Brynden Tully]]’s picked scounts. He was in the first wave at Whispering Woods, and came close to crossing swords with [[Jaime Lannister|the Kingslayer]] except [[Daryn Hornwood]] came between and died for it. Dogmer states that he knows Theon is no craven, having trained him. Theon asks if his father knows that and states he is no [[House Stark|Stark]] but a [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], and will be his father’s heir, but to be his heir he must prove himself. When Dogmer states that he was commanded to raid, Theon states he will give Aeron six ships and he can do the raiding; he will capture his own castle. Meanwhile Dagmer, with his fearsome reputation, will march on Torrhen's Square. [[Helman Tallhart]] took his best men south, and Benfred and his sons are now dead; a small garrison under [[Leobald Tallhart]] is all that is left. He will not make a secret of his approach, and when he arrives will start building siege engines. Dagmer exclaims that this is not the [[Ironborn|Ironmen]] way, and Theon replies that Leobald will not know that, and will call for help. The [[Rodrik Cassel|castellan]] in [[Winterfell]] learns that a bannerman is being attacked by Dagmer Cleftjaw he will ride to Leobald aid in strength. Dagmer states he cannot win since the force summoned will be larger than his, and Theon replies that he does not plan to take Torrhen’s Square.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2012/01/re-read-theon-iii-tis-season-to-be.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-18 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 38, Theon]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 37]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place at the Stony Shore]]

[[es:Choque de Reyes-Capítulo 37]]
[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 38, Theon]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Tyrion VIII
| page = 386
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 41|Tyrion IX]]
}}

The [[Small Council]] is discussing the news of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder. [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] points that they have an opportunity the recruit [[House Tyrell]] to [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] since they loved Renly but not [[Stannis Baratheon]]. To recruit them, Tyrion recommends that Joffrey marry [[Margaery Tyrell]]. [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] does not like the idea stating Joffrey will not like it but eventually agrees. Neither Cercei nor Tyrion want to leave King’s Landing to meet with the Tyrell’s but [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] volunteers, expecting a reward for his service.
==Synopsis==
[[Varys]]'s report of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder where his throat and gorget was cut like soft cheese. The reports of the murderer vary from Stannis with a magic sword, a knight of his [[Rainbow Guard]], a main, a woman spurned, and Lady [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]. The [[Small Council]], including [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], and [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] are not pleased with the report since they expect the truth, not rumors. Vayrs assures them it is not a rouse, and that Renly is dead.

Tyrion notes the [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] will not be happy since he was reserving a spike for Renly’s head. Tyrion also unhappy since he was depending on the brothers to decimate each other, and assumes the Stannis is behind the death.

Varys reports the foot remain at [[Bitterbridge]] and most of the lords have gone over to [[Stannis Baratheon]], with, as Littlefinger assumed, Lord [[Alester Florent]] being first. [[Loras Tyrell]], [[Randyll Tarly, and [[Mathis Rowan]] did not switch allegiance, and the Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]] will not yield [[Storm's End]] until he sees Renly’s body, which has disappeared. A fifth of the knights left with Loras, who had killed three or Renly’s guards in anger, including [[Emmon Cuy]] and [[Robar Royce]]. Loras is probably headed to Bitterbridge for his sister [[Margaery Tyrell]] and the foot still there. Tyrion notes that this is an opportunity to win the Tyrell’s to their cause; the Tyrell’s may have loved Renly, but perhaps they can be convinced to prefer Joffrey over Stannis. Littlefinger suggests bribes, but both Varys and Tyrion do not think gold will win [[Highgarden]]. Littlefinger admits they are right, and states that Loras, although a younger son, is [[Mace Tyrell]]’s favorite, so they just have to win him. Tyrion suggests marrying 15/16 year old Margaery to the younger 13-year old Joffrey. Cersei objects that Joffrey is promised to [[Sansa Stark]], and Tyrion that there is no advantage of wedding the king to the daughter of a [[Eddard Stark|traitor]]. Littlefinger adds that the Tyrells are wealthier than the [[House Stark|Starks]] and Margaery is lovely and beddable.

When Tyrion states that Joffrey should like this, Cersei states her son is too young to care about such things. Tyrion notes that he was the same age as Joffrey when he married. Cersei states that Joffrey is made of finer stuff, so Tyrion points out he orders Sansa stripped by Ser [[Boros Blount]].

Tyrion had spoken to Varys about arranging a secret visit to [[Chataya]]’s by Joffrey; Tyrion hopes that it will sweeten Joffrey. Tyrion notes that they will have to arrange to do it when [[Sandor Clegane]] is busy. Varys agreed to look into the mater.

Tyrion tells Cercei that the marriage may be the only way for Joffrey to reach his wedding night and Littlefinger adds that Sansa brings only her body to Joffrey’s bed, but Margaery would bring 50,000 swords. Varys then adds that the needs of the realm come before the king’s own desires. Cersei states that the king would never agree to Renly’s leavings. Tyrion states that when the king comes of age in 3 years he can make his own decisions, but until then he does as the [[Hand of the King]] and the regent (Cersei) say. Cersei agrees but warns them if Joffrey does not like Margaery.

Now Tyrion brings up the need to send one of them to Bitterbridge before Loras’ blood cools; Loras will scarcely deal with [[Bronn]] or [[Shagga]]. Cercei first recommends Ser[[ Jacelyn Bywater]], Tyrion points out that whoever they send must be able to make decisions for the king and council. Cercei recommends Tyrion as [[Hand of the King]] and Tyrion recommends Cercei as the king’s mother. Littlefinger volunteers, stating he would make a poor hostage and neither Loras nor Mace bears any enmity towards him. Tyrion does not like it since he does not trust Littlefinger but if he leaves [[King's Landing]] for any time everything he worked for would be undone. There is fighting on the route to Bitterbridge, so Littlefinger will need a strong escort. Tyrion initially offers 100 [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and they agree on 300 plus 40 knights with squires to give Littlefinger a knightly tail to impress the Tyrells. Littlefinger states he will take [[Horas Redwyne]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] (Horror and Slobber) who will be sent on to their father as a gesture of good will since [[Paxter Redwyne]] is an old friend of Mace. Cercei expresses wrath at the this since [[House Redwyne]] would have declared for Renly except for the twins being held hostage. Littlefinger notes that Renly is dead and Stannis and Lord Paxter have an enmity against each other from the sedge of Storm's End. Tyrion decides to send Ser Hobber and keep Ser Horas in King’s Landing. Littlefinger also demands plenty of horses and gold, and a commission in writing, which Tyrion agrees to, so Littlefinger states he will start before dawn, but is expecting a suitable reward for his services. Cersei is direct and wants to know what, and Littlefinger replies he will think about it. Tyrion instructs Varys to get parchment and quill, and they will need someone to wake Joffrey.

Cersei asks Tyrion about his chain, and he tells her it is getting longer link by link, and that they should thank Ser Cortnay since Stannis will not march north with Storm’s End untaken. Cercei now tells Tyrion that he has been a great help, unlike what she expected, and kisses him on the brow.

When Cersei leaves, Tyrion tells Bronn that Cersei is up to something, and for Bronn to try to find out what; Tyrion hates surprises.

==See Also==
* Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-tyrion-viii-meeting-over-renlys.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 36]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]
[[es:Choque de Reyes-Capítulo 36]]
[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 37, Tyrion]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Tyrion VIII
| page = 386
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 41|Tyrion IX]]
}}

The [[Small Council]] is discussing the news of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder. [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] points that they have an opportunity the recruit [[House Tyrell]] to [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] since they loved Renly but not [[Stannis Baratheon]]. To recruit them, Tyrion recommends that Joffrey marry [[Margaery Tyrell]]. [[Cersie Lannister|Cersei]] does not like the idea stating Joffrey will not like it but eventually agrees. Neither Cercei nor Tyrion want to leave King’s Landing to meet with the Tyrell’s but [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] volunteers, expecting a reward for his service.
==Synopsis==
[[Varys]]'s report of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder where his throat and gorget was cut like soft cheese. The reports of the murderer vary from Stannis with a magic sword, a knight of his [[Rainbow Guard]], a main, a woman spurned, and Lady [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]. The [[Small Council]], including [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], and [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] are not pleased with the report since they expect the truth, not rumors. Vayrs assures them it is not a rouse, and that Renly is dead.

Tyrion notes the [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] will not be happy since he was reserving a spike for Renly’s head. Tyrion also unhappy since he was depending on the brothers to decimate each other, and assumes the Stannis is behind the death.

Varys reports the foot remain at [[Bitterbridge]] and most of the lords have gone over to [[Stannis Baratheon]], with, as Littlefinger assumed, Lord [[Alester Florent]] being first. [[Loras Tyrell]], [[Randyll Tarly, and [[Mathis Rowan]] did not switch allegiance, and the Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]] will not yield [[Storm's End]] until he sees Renly’s body, which has disappeared. A fifth of the knights left with Loras, who had killed three or Renly’s guards in anger, including [[Emmon Cuy]] and [[Robar Royce]]. Loras is probably headed to Bitterbridge for his sister [[Margaery Tyrell]] and the foot still there. Tyrion notes that this is an opportunity to win the Tyrell’s to their cause; the Tyrell’s may have loved Renly, but perhaps they can be convinced to prefer Joffrey over Stannis. Littlefinger suggests bribes, but both Varys and Tyrion do not think gold will win [[Highgarden]]. Littlefinger admits they are right, and states that Loras, although a younger son, is [[Mace Tyrell]]’s favorite, so they just have to win him. Tyrion suggests marrying 15/16 year old Margaery to the younger 13-year old Joffrey. Cersei objects that Joffrey is promised to [[Sansa Stark]], and Tyrion that there is no advantage of wedding the king to the daughter of a [[Eddard Stark|traitor]]. Littlefinger adds that the Tyrells are wealthier than the [[House Stark|Starks]] and Margaery is lovely and beddable.

When Tyrion states that Joffrey should like this, Cersei states her son is too young to care about such things. Tyrion notes that he was the same age as Joffrey when he married. Cersei states that Joffrey is made of finer stuff, so Tyrion points out he orders Sansa stripped by Ser [[Boros Blount]].

Tyrion had spoken to Varys about arranging a secret visit to [[Chataya]]’s by Joffrey; Tyrion hopes that it will sweeten Joffrey. Tyrion notes that they will have to arrange to do it when [[Sandor Clegane]] is busy. Varys agreed to look into the mater.

Tyrion tells Cercei that the marriage may be the only way for Joffrey to reach his wedding night and Littlefinger adds that Sansa brings only her body to Joffrey’s bed, but Margaery would bring 50,000 swords. Varys then adds that the needs of the realm come before the king’s own desires. Cersei states that the king would never agree to Renly’s leavings. Tyrion states that when the king comes of age in 3 years he can make his own decisions, but until then he does as the [[Hand of the King]] and the regent (Cersei) say. Cersei agrees but warns them if Joffrey does not like Margaery.

Now Tyrion brings up the need to send one of them to Bitterbridge before Loras’ blood cools; Loras will scarcely deal with [[Bronn]] or [[Shagga]]. Cercei first recommends Ser[[ Jacelyn Bywater]], Tyrion points out that whoever they send must be able to make decisions for the king and council. Cercei recommends Tyrion as [[Hand of the King]] and Tyrion recommends Cercei as the king’s mother. Littlefinger volunteers, stating he would make a poor hostage and neither Loras nor Mace bears any enmity towards him. Tyrion does not like it since he does not trust Littlefinger but if he leaves [[King's Landing]] for any time everything he worked for would be undone. There is fighting on the route to Bitterbridge, so Littlefinger will need a strong escort. Tyrion initially offers 100 [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and they agree on 300 plus 40 knights with squires to give Littlefinger a knightly tail to impress the Tyrells. Littlefinger states he will take [[Horas Redwyne]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] (Horror and Slobber) who will be sent on to their father as a gesture of good will since [[Paxter Redwyne]] is an old friend of Mace. Cercei expresses wrath at the this since [[House Redwyne]] would have declared for Renly except for the twins being held hostage. Littlefinger notes that Renly is dead and Stannis and Lord Paxter have an enmity against each other from the sedge of [[Strom's End]]. Tyrion decides to send Ser Hobber and keep Ser Horas in King’s Landing. Littlefinger also demands plenty of horses and gold, and a commission in writing, which Tyrion agrees to, so Littlefinger states he will start before dawn, but is expecting a suitable reward for his services. Cersei is direct and wants to know what, and Littlefinger replies he will think about it. Tyrion instructs Varys to get parchment and quill, and they will need someone to wake Joffrey.

Cersei asks Tyrion about his chain, and he tells her it is getting longer link by link, and that they should thank Ser Cortnay since Stannis will not march north with Storm’s End untaken. Cercei now tells Tyrion that he has been a great help, unlike what she expected, and kisses him on the brow.

When Cersei leaves, Tyrion tells Bronn that Cersei is up to something, and for Bronn to try to find out what; Tyrion hates surprises.

==See Also==
* Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-tyrion-viii-meeting-over-renlys.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 36]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]
[[es:Choque de Reyes-Capítulo 36]]
[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 37, Tyrion]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36

2013-04-03T00:38:11Z

Qck2: Significant increase in detail

{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Tyrion VIII
| page = 386
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 37|Theon III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 41|Tyrion IX]]
}}

The [[Small Council]] is discussing the news of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder. [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] points that they have an opportunity the recruit [[House Tyrell]] to [[Joffrey Baratheion|Joffrey]] since they loved Renly but not [[Stannis Baratheon]]. To recruit them, Tyrion recommends that Joffrey marry [[Margaery Tyrell]]. [[Cersie Lannister|Cersei]] does not like the idea stating Joffrey will not like it but eventually agrees. Neither Cercei nor Tyrion want to leave King’s Landing to meet with the Tyrell’s but [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] volunteers, expecting a reward for his service.
==Synopsis==
[[Varys]]'s report of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]]'s mysterious murder where his throat and gorget was cut like soft cheese. The reports of the murderer vary from Stannis with a magic sword, a knight of his [[Rainbow Guard]], a main, a woman spurned, and Lady [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn Stark]]. The [[Small Council]], including [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], and [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] are not pleased with the report since they expect the truth, not rumors. Vayrs assures them it is not a rouse, and that Renly is dead.

Tyrion notes the [[Joffrey Baratheion|Joffrey]] will not be happy since he was reserving a spike for Renly’s head. Tyrion also unhappy since he was depending on the brothers to decimate each other, and assumes the Stannis is behind the death.

Varys reports the foot remain at [[Bitterbridge]] and most of the lords have gone over to [[Stannis Baratheon]], with, as Littlefinger assumed, Lord [[Alester Florent]] being first. [[Loras Tyrell]], [[Randyll Tarly, and [[Mathis Rowan]] did not switch allegiance, and the Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]] will not yield [[Storm's End]] until he sees Renly’s body, which has disappeared. A fifth of the knights left with Loras, who had killed three or Renly’s guards in anger, including [[Emmon Cuy]] and [[Robar Royce]]. Loras is probably headed to Bitterbridge for his sister [[Margaery Tyrell]] and the foot still there. Tyrion notes that this is an opportunity to win the Tyrell’s to their cause; the Tyrell’s may have loved Renly, but perhaps they can be convinced to prefer Joffrey over Stannis. Littlefinger suggests bribes, but both Varys and Tyrion do not think gold will win [[Highgarden]]. Littlefinger admits they are right, and states that Loras, although a younger son, is [[Mace Tyrell]]’s favorite, so they just have to win him. Tyrion suggests marrying 15/16 year old Margaery to the younger 13-year old Joffrey. Cersei objects that Joffrey is promised to [[Sansa Stark]], and Tyrion that there is no advantage of wedding the king to the daughter of a [[Eddard Stark|traitor]]. Littlefinger adds that the Tyrells are wealthier than the [[House Stark|Starks]] and Margaery is lovely and beddable.

When Tyrion states that Joffrey should like this, Cersei states her son is too young to care about such things. Tyrion notes that he was the same age as Joffrey when he married. Cersei states that Joffrey is made of finer stuff, so Tyrion points out he orders Sansa stripped by Ser [[Boros Blount]].

Tyrion had spoken to Varys about arranging a secret visit to [[Chataya]]’s by Joffrey; Tyrion hopes that it will sweeten Joffrey. Tyrion notes that they will have to arrange to do it when [[Sandor Clegane]] is busy. Varys agreed to look into the mater.

Tyrion tells Cercei that the marriage may be the only way for Joffrey to reach his wedding night and Littlefinger adds that Sansa brings only her body to Joffrey’s bed, but Margaery would bring 50,000 swords. Varys then adds that the needs of the realm come before the king’s own desires. Cersei states that the king would never agree to Renly’s leavings. Tyrion states that when the king comes of age in 3 years he can make his own decisions, but until then he does as the [[Hand of the King]] and the regent (Cersei) say. Cersei agrees but warns them if Joffrey does not like Margaery.

Now Tyrion brings up the need to send one of them to Bitterbridge before Loras’ blood cools; Loras will scarcely deal with [[Bronn]] or [[Shagga]]. Cercei first recommends Ser[[ Jacelyn Bywater]], Tyrion points out that whoever they send must be able to make decisions for the king and council. Cercei recommends Tyrion as [[Hand of the King]] and Tyrion recommends Cercei as the king’s mother. Littlefinger volunteers, stating he would make a poor hostage and neither Loras nor Mace bears any enmity towards him. Tyrion does not like it since he does not trust Littlefinger but if he leaves [[King's Landing]] for any time everything he worked for would be undone. There is fighting on the route to Bitterbridge, so Littlefinger will need a strong escort. Tyrion initially offers 100 [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and they agree on 300 plus 40 knights with squires to give Littlefinger a knightly tail to impress the Tyrells. Littlefinger states he will take [[Horas Redwyne]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] (Horror and Slobber) who will be sent on to their father as a gesture of good will since [[Paxter Redwyne]] is an old friend of Mace. Cercei expresses wrath at the this since [[House Redwyne]] would have declared for Renly except for the twins being held hostage. Littlefinger notes that Renly is dead and Stannis and Lord Paxter have an enmity against each other from the sedge of [[Strom's End]]. Tyrion decides to send Ser Hobber and keep Ser Horas in King’s Landing. Littlefinger also demands plenty of horses and gold, and a commission in writing, which Tyrion agrees to, so Littlefinger states he will start before dawn, but is expecting a suitable reward for his services. Cersei is direct and wants to know what, and Littlefinger replies he will think about it. Tyrion instructs Varys to get parchment and quill, and they will need someone to wake Joffrey.

Cersei asks Tyrion about his chain, and he tells her it is getting longer link by link, and that they should thank Ser Cortnay since Stannis will not march north with Storm’s End untaken. Cercei now tells Tyrion that he has been a great help, unlike what she expected, and kisses him on the brow.

When Cersei leaves, Tyrion tells Bronn that Cersei is up to something, and for Bronn to try to find out what; Tyrion hates surprises.

==See Also==
* Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-tyrion-viii-meeting-over-renlys.html in the course of a 10th reread].
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 36]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]
[[es:Choque de Reyes-Capítulo 36]]
[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 37, Tyrion]]

Jojen Reed

2013-04-02T20:58:33Z

Qck2: /* Jojen’s Prophesies */

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'''Jojen Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s only son and [[Meera Reed]]'s younger brother. Jojen has [[greensight]], the power of prophetic dreams. He is thirteen.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

==Characteristics==
Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at [[Winterfell]], but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.{{Ref|aSoS|9}} He is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green colored clothing.{{Ref|aCoK|21}} He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

==History==
In his childhood Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited by a [[Three-eyed crow]] that gave him the gift of [[greensight]], causing him to experience prophetic dreams. One such dream involved a chained wolf that the three-eyed crow was trying to free from a chain. When Jojen told his [[Howland Reed|father]] about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

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

Later, after Meera manages to defeat Summer using a net and frog spear, Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. Jojen tells Bran that he should leave Winterfell sooner rather than later and Meera reveals that Jojen has the [[Greensight]]. Jojen and Meera ask Bran to tell them what frightens him; they tell him that that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps. Bran does not tell, but is interested in what dreams Jojen has had. Jojen says he will tell if Bran will tell about his dreams. Jojen tells Bran that he is sure that he is ''the Winged Wolf'' bound to earth with chains.

Meera reveals that they were sent to Winterfell by their father after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Bran tells them about the dreams of the [[three-eyed crow]]. The Crow has sent them to free him, and that the Crow is in the North beyond the Wall. Bran is also told that he must open his third eye to free himself. Bran says that he has only two, and that he does not need a third eye. Jojen’s questioning of Bran about his dreams upsets Bran, and Summer starts getting aggressive. [[Shaggydog]] also appears, brought by Summer’s anger. Meera tells Bran to call them off, but he does not know how, and Jojen tells Bran that Summer is reacting to his anger. When Meera tells Jojen to climb the tree, Jojen tells her that it is not yet time for him to die. Meera and Jojen escape up the Godswood. Bran calls [[Hodor]], who chases off the wolves.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later Jojen enters Bran’s room with Meera behind him after he is left in his room by [[Osha]] (while being carried, Bran questioned Osha who tells Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow). Bran finally tells them about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals his dream: he dreamed that sea would come to Winterfell in the dark of night, drowning many people. Then Bran tells Jojen about his dreams of the Crow and the worst, his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a Warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. He further tells Bran that he is powerful. After they leave, Bran attempts unsuccessfully to open the third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. He is also with Meera and Bran as they play a game of tiles and discuss the dreams. When Bran tells them that [[Maester Luwin]] thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees with Bran that it should be possible. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Jojen reveals that he has seen bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the feet of the man they call Reek (not yet revealed as being actually [[Ramsay Snow]]) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

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

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Bolton]]. Hodor has to force the crypts' door open with his massive strength and they find the castle destroyed. They discover many of the bodies of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the godswood they find Maester Luwin unconscious. They waken him and he tells them of enemies in all directions. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her South and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north, so he, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Jojen is there when Hodor wakes Bran from the Wolf dream while in the ruins of a tower. Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf, telling him that he must eat, and that eating in the Wolf Dream did not count. Bran tells Jojen that he wanted to eat the deer he had won in a fight against wolves; he was tired of the frogs Meera caught. Jojen asked if he had marked the trail, and Bran knows he did not do as Jojen told him again. Bran also points out that at one time Jojen was telling him to explore is skills in the Wolf dream and now he discourages him.

It is revealed that Jojen is so serious that he has was nicknamed little grandfather at Winterfell. Jojen tells them that the next day they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave given they seem safe and there is plenty of food. Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran state they want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells her that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe as long as it is thought he is dead. He continues by stating they are not robbers. Jojen explains to them that they must find Bran’s teacher; Jojen does not have the knowledge to train him since Jojen does not understand the gifts that Bran was given, which are way beyond Jojen’s gift. Then Meera tells Bran that Jojen is right, what they are is servants, and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran tells them that he wants to fly, and to take him to the crow with tears in his eyes.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels or hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they progress north food becomes harder to find, and even Summer is having a hard time finding food. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Jojen tells them about the mountain folks, when asked if the mountain people know they are there, Bran knows they do because of his wolf dreams.

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

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night's Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming.

There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which cannot be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull open the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them.

They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor collapses on the floor almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound.

At the Nightfort Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]].

The girl asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens.

Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is made of a White [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
Jojen, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]], [[Hodor]], and [[Coldhands]] travel north of the [[Wall]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]].{{Ref|aDwD|4}} They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref>

Jojen falls into a resigned depression. He wants to go home to [[Greywater Watch]]. Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a [[greenseer|greendream]] of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that the outcome is not good.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==Jojen’s Prophesies==
Earlier [[Bran Stark|Bran]] had gotten angry at [[Jojen Reed]] when he continues to ask about the wolf dreams, and [[Ghost]] starts growling at Jojen in response to Bran’s anger. [[Shaggydog]] appears and joins his brother wolf, and they attack. Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] escape by climbing a tree. Bran then talks to Maester [[Luwin]] about [[Greenseer|green dreams]] and the maester tells him dreams sometimes come true, but magic has gone, and dreams are just dreams. Afterwards Meera comes to his room, and Bran tells her about what the maester said. She leaves him with one of Jojen’s green dreams:

{{Quote|You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}}}
Later [[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]] from Maester Luwin. Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.
After Bran is carried back to his room, Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:

{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:

{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:

{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that [[Alebelly]] and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:

{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater]] the green dreams do not lie.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire|small=yes}}

[[Category:Nobles|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Greensight|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:House Reed]]

[[fr:Jojen Reed]][[ru:Жойен Рид]]
[[zh:玖健·黎德]][[zh:琼恩·艾林]][[zh:玖健·黎德]][[pt:Jojen Reed]]

Jojen Reed

2013-04-02T20:57:34Z

Qck2: editing

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'''Jojen Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s only son and [[Meera Reed]]'s younger brother. Jojen has [[greensight]], the power of prophetic dreams. He is thirteen.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

==Characteristics==
Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at [[Winterfell]], but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.{{Ref|aSoS|9}} He is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green colored clothing.{{Ref|aCoK|21}} He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

==History==
In his childhood Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited by a [[Three-eyed crow]] that gave him the gift of [[greensight]], causing him to experience prophetic dreams. One such dream involved a chained wolf that the three-eyed crow was trying to free from a chain. When Jojen told his [[Howland Reed|father]] about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

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

Later, after Meera manages to defeat Summer using a net and frog spear, Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. Jojen tells Bran that he should leave Winterfell sooner rather than later and Meera reveals that Jojen has the [[Greensight]]. Jojen and Meera ask Bran to tell them what frightens him; they tell him that that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps. Bran does not tell, but is interested in what dreams Jojen has had. Jojen says he will tell if Bran will tell about his dreams. Jojen tells Bran that he is sure that he is ''the Winged Wolf'' bound to earth with chains.

Meera reveals that they were sent to Winterfell by their father after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Bran tells them about the dreams of the [[three-eyed crow]]. The Crow has sent them to free him, and that the Crow is in the North beyond the Wall. Bran is also told that he must open his third eye to free himself. Bran says that he has only two, and that he does not need a third eye. Jojen’s questioning of Bran about his dreams upsets Bran, and Summer starts getting aggressive. [[Shaggydog]] also appears, brought by Summer’s anger. Meera tells Bran to call them off, but he does not know how, and Jojen tells Bran that Summer is reacting to his anger. When Meera tells Jojen to climb the tree, Jojen tells her that it is not yet time for him to die. Meera and Jojen escape up the Godswood. Bran calls [[Hodor]], who chases off the wolves.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later Jojen enters Bran’s room with Meera behind him after he is left in his room by [[Osha]] (while being carried, Bran questioned Osha who tells Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow). Bran finally tells them about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals his dream: he dreamed that sea would come to Winterfell in the dark of night, drowning many people. Then Bran tells Jojen about his dreams of the Crow and the worst, his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a Warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. He further tells Bran that he is powerful. After they leave, Bran attempts unsuccessfully to open the third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. He is also with Meera and Bran as they play a game of tiles and discuss the dreams. When Bran tells them that [[Maester Luwin]] thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees with Bran that it should be possible. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Jojen reveals that he has seen bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the feet of the man they call Reek (not yet revealed as being actually [[Ramsay Snow]]) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

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

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Bolton]]. Hodor has to force the crypts' door open with his massive strength and they find the castle destroyed. They discover many of the bodies of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the godswood they find Maester Luwin unconscious. They waken him and he tells them of enemies in all directions. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her South and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north, so he, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Jojen is there when Hodor wakes Bran from the Wolf dream while in the ruins of a tower. Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf, telling him that he must eat, and that eating in the Wolf Dream did not count. Bran tells Jojen that he wanted to eat the deer he had won in a fight against wolves; he was tired of the frogs Meera caught. Jojen asked if he had marked the trail, and Bran knows he did not do as Jojen told him again. Bran also points out that at one time Jojen was telling him to explore is skills in the Wolf dream and now he discourages him.

It is revealed that Jojen is so serious that he has was nicknamed little grandfather at Winterfell. Jojen tells them that the next day they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave given they seem safe and there is plenty of food. Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran state they want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells her that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe as long as it is thought he is dead. He continues by stating they are not robbers. Jojen explains to them that they must find Bran’s teacher; Jojen does not have the knowledge to train him since Jojen does not understand the gifts that Bran was given, which are way beyond Jojen’s gift. Then Meera tells Bran that Jojen is right, what they are is servants, and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran tells them that he wants to fly, and to take him to the crow with tears in his eyes.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels or hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they progress north food becomes harder to find, and even Summer is having a hard time finding food. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Jojen tells them about the mountain folks, when asked if the mountain people know they are there, Bran knows they do because of his wolf dreams.

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

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night's Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming.

There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which cannot be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull open the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them.

They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor collapses on the floor almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound.

At the Nightfort Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]].

The girl asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens.

Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is made of a White [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
Jojen, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]], [[Hodor]], and [[Coldhands]] travel north of the [[Wall]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]].{{Ref|aDwD|4}} They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref>

Jojen falls into a resigned depression. He wants to go home to [[Greywater Watch]]. Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a [[greenseer|greendream]] of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that the outcome is not good.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==Jojen’s Prophesies==
Earlier [[Bran Stark|Bran]] had gotten angry at [[Jojen Reed]] when he continues to ask about the wolf dreams, and [[Ghost]] starts growling at Jojen in response to Bran’s anger. [[Shaggydog]] appears and joins his brother wolf, and they attack. Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] escape by climbing a tree. Bran then talks to Maester [[Luwin]] about [[Greenseer|green dreams]] and the maester tells him dreams sometimes come true, but magic has gone, and dreams are just dreams. Afterwards Meera comes to his room, and Bran tells her about what the maester said. She leaves him with one of Jojen’s green dreams:

{{Quote|You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}
Later [[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]] from Maester Luwin. Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.
After Bran is carried back to his room, Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:

{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:

{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:

{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that [[Alebelly]] and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:

{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater]] the green dreams do not lie.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire|small=yes}}

[[Category:Nobles|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Greensight|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:House Reed]]

[[fr:Jojen Reed]][[ru:Жойен Рид]]
[[zh:玖健·黎德]][[zh:琼恩·艾林]][[zh:玖健·黎德]][[pt:Jojen Reed]]

Jojen Reed

2013-04-02T20:56:15Z

Qck2: Added Prophesies section

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'''Jojen Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s only son and [[Meera Reed]]'s younger brother. Jojen has [[greensight]], the power of prophetic dreams. He is thirteen.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

==Characteristics==
Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at [[Winterfell]], but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.{{Ref|aSoS|9}} He is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green colored clothing.{{Ref|aCoK|21}} He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

==History==
In his childhood Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited by a [[Three-eyed crow]] that gave him the gift of [[greensight]], causing him to experience prophetic dreams. One such dream involved a chained wolf that the three-eyed crow was trying to free from a chain. When Jojen told his [[Howland Reed|father]] about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

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

Later, after Meera manages to defeat Summer using a net and frog spear, Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. Jojen tells Bran that he should leave Winterfell sooner rather than later and Meera reveals that Jojen has the [[Greensight]]. Jojen and Meera ask Bran to tell them what frightens him; they tell him that that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps. Bran does not tell, but is interested in what dreams Jojen has had. Jojen says he will tell if Bran will tell about his dreams. Jojen tells Bran that he is sure that he is ''the Winged Wolf'' bound to earth with chains.

Meera reveals that they were sent to Winterfell by their father after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Bran tells them about the dreams of the [[three-eyed crow]]. The Crow has sent them to free him, and that the Crow is in the North beyond the Wall. Bran is also told that he must open his third eye to free himself. Bran says that he has only two, and that he does not need a third eye. Jojen’s questioning of Bran about his dreams upsets Bran, and Summer starts getting aggressive. [[Shaggydog]] also appears, brought by Summer’s anger. Meera tells Bran to call them off, but he does not know how, and Jojen tells Bran that Summer is reacting to his anger. When Meera tells Jojen to climb the tree, Jojen tells her that it is not yet time for him to die. Meera and Jojen escape up the Godswood. Bran calls [[Hodor]], who chases off the wolves.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}

Later Jojen enters Bran’s room with Meera behind him after he is left in his room by [[Osha]] (while being carried, Bran questioned Osha who tells Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow). Bran finally tells them about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals his dream: he dreamed that sea would come to Winterfell in the dark of night, drowning many people. Then Bran tells Jojen about his dreams of the Crow and the worst, his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a Warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. He further tells Bran that he is powerful. After they leave, Bran attempts unsuccessfully to open the third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. He is also with Meera and Bran as they play a game of tiles and discuss the dreams. When Bran tells them that [[Maester Luwin]] thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees with Bran that it should be possible. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Jojen reveals that he has seen bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the feet of the man they call Reek (not yet revealed as being actually [[Ramsay Snow]]) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

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

Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Bolton]]. Hodor has to force the crypts' door open with his massive strength and they find the castle destroyed. They discover many of the bodies of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the godswood they find Maester Luwin unconscious. They waken him and he tells them of enemies in all directions. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her South and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north, so he, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}

===A Storm of Swords===
Jojen is there when Hodor wakes Bran from the Wolf dream while in the ruins of a tower. Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf, telling him that he must eat, and that eating in the Wolf Dream did not count. Bran tells Jojen that he wanted to eat the deer he had won in a fight against wolves; he was tired of the frogs Meera caught. Jojen asked if he had marked the trail, and Bran knows he did not do as Jojen told him again. Bran also points out that at one time Jojen was telling him to explore is skills in the Wolf dream and now he discourages him.

It is revealed that Jojen is so serious that he has was nicknamed little grandfather at Winterfell. Jojen tells them that the next day they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave given they seem safe and there is plenty of food. Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran state they want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells her that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe as long as it is thought he is dead. He continues by stating they are not robbers. Jojen explains to them that they must find Bran’s teacher; Jojen does not have the knowledge to train him since Jojen does not understand the gifts that Bran was given, which are way beyond Jojen’s gift. Then Meera tells Bran that Jojen is right, what they are is servants, and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran tells them that he wants to fly, and to take him to the crow with tears in his eyes.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels or hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they progress north food becomes harder to find, and even Summer is having a hard time finding food. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Jojen tells them about the mountain folks, when asked if the mountain people know they are there, Bran knows they do because of his wolf dreams.

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

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night's Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming.

There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which cannot be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull open the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them.

They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor collapses on the floor almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}

They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound.

At the Nightfort Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]].

The girl asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens.

Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is made of a White [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

===A Dance with Dragons===
Jojen, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]], [[Hodor]], and [[Coldhands]] travel north of the [[Wall]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]].{{Ref|aDwD|4}} They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[Children of the Forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref>

Jojen falls into a resigned depression. He wants to go home to [[Greywater Watch]]. Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a [[greenseer|greendream]] of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that the outcome is not good.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>

==Jojen’s Prophesies==
Earlier [[Bran Stark|Bran]] had gotten angry at [[Jojen Reed]] when he continues to ask about the wolf dreams, and [[Ghost]] starts growling at Jojen in response to Bran’s anger. [[Shaggydog]] appears and joins his brother wolf, and they attack. Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] escape by climbing a tree. Bran then talks to Maester [[Luwin]] about [[Greenseer|green dreams]] and the maester tells him dreams sometimes come true, but magic has gone, and dreams are just dreams. Afterwards Meera comes to his room, and Bran tells her about what the maester said. She leaves him with one of Jojen’s green dreams:
{{Quote|You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}
Later [[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]] from Maester Luwin. Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.
After Bran is carried back to his room, Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:
{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:
{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:
{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that [[Alebelly]] and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:
{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater]] the green dreams do not lie.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}

==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{EnWP|Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire|small=yes}}

[[Category:Nobles|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Characters from the North|Reed, Jojen]]
[[Category:Greensight|Reed, Jojen]]
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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Bran Stark|Bran]]
| place = [[Winterfell]]
| title = Bran V
| page = 380
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28|Bran IV]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 46|Bran VI]]
}}
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]], and realizes that [[Jojen Reed]]’s prophesy had come true. Jojen now tells him of his [[Greenseer|green dream]] of the sea flowing over the walls of [[Winterfell]]. Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.
==Synopsis==
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] is found working the bellows for [[Mikken]] when [[Alebelly]] finds him to tell him that there has been a bird from [[Robb Stark]]. Bran lets Alebelly carry him to Maester [[Luwin]]’s turret where [[Rickon Stark|Richon]] already waits. The Maester informs them that Robb shattered a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] Army at the [[Battle of Oxcross]], killing its commander Ser [[Stafford Lannister]]. He has also captured several castles, and is currently at the stronghold of [[House Marbrand]], [[Ashemark]] Rickon asks if Robb is coming home, but Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.

Osha arrives to carry him; she is stronger than Alebelly. Bran asks if she knows the way north, and she tells him it is easy. He then asks if the [[Children of the Forest]], the [[Others]] and [[Giants]] are still there and she tells him she has seen giants and heard of the others. He then asks about the [[Three-eyed crow]], which she has never heard of. She sets him on the window seat of his bedchamber.

Shortly thereafter [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] enters the room unbidden with [[Meera Reed|Meera]] behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:
{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:
{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:
{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran wants to tell them, but Jojen tells him it will not save them, they will not believe him. Jojen then asks Bran to tell of his wolf dream, and Bran replies:
{{Quote|There’s different kinds. There’s the wolf dreams, those aren’t so bad as the others. I run and hunt and kill squirrels. And there’s dreams where the crow comes and tells me to fly. Sometimes the tree is in those dreams too, calling my name. That frightens me. But the worst dreams are when I fall.” He looked down into the yard, feeling miserable. “I never used to fall before. When I climbed. I went everyplace, up on the roofs and along the walls, I used to feed the crows in the Burned Tower. Mother was afraid that I would fall but I knew I never would. Only I did, and now when I sleep I fall all the time.}}
Jojen tells Bran that he will be called a [[Skinchanger|Warg]] if they hear of his wolf dreams, and some will hate you in fear, and the power is strong in him. Bran is concerned since in Old [[Nan]]’s stories wargs were always evil, and tells Jojen that he wants to be a knight. He is told that he is a winged wolf but will never fly unless he opens his eye in his forehead, and he must search for it with his heart. When Bran states that Maester Luwin states dreams are just that, and Jojen tells him they are the past, the future, and truth. With that they leave him, and Bran ties unsuccessfully to open his third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. Mikken thought it funny, and states he always wanted to see the sea. Septon Chayle states the gods will take her when they do, and she does not think she will drown since she grew up on the banks of the [[White Knife]]. Alebelly took heed, and refused to bath or go near a well; finally other guardsmen gave him a bath because he stunk so badly.

Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] returns with a man that [[Hayhead]] tells Bran is named [[Reek]]. He had served the now dead [[Ramsay Snow]] (aka the Bustard of Bolton). The bastard and Reek had murdered Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Rodrik’s men had shot the bastard as he attempted to ride away. The bastard had forced Lady Hornwood to marry him and then to sign a will naming him heir. Ser Rodrik is concerned that [[Roose Bolton]] may not agree that doing this under duress would make the marriage and will invalid. Ser Rodrik wants to keep Reek alive for judgement when Robb returns. Meanwhile [[House Manderly]] and [[House Bolton]] are fighting in the [[Hornwood]] forest, and Ser Rodrik does not have the strength to stop them.

Ser Rodrik then brings Bran commanding Alebelly not to bath. Bran tells him about the green dream. Maester Luwin then tells Rodrik that he has told Bran about the uncertainty of prophesies. The maester then tells how raiders in longships have been plundering and raping along the [[Stony Shore]], and [[Leobald Tallhart]] sent his nephew [[Benfred Tallhart]] to deal with it. After he gets more information about the green dream, Ser Rodrik promises ot to take Alebelly with him if he rides against the raiders. Bran takes some hope in this.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that Alebelly and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:
{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater Watch]] he would not avoid his fate; the green dreams do not lie.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-bran-v-is-sea-coming.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 35]]
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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Bran Stark|Bran]]
| place = [[Winterfell]]
| title = Bran V
| page = 380
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28|Bran IV]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 46|Bran VI]]
}}
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]], and realizes that [[Jojen Reed]]’s prophesy had come true. Jojen now tells him of his [[Greenseer|green dream]] of the sea flowing over the walls of [[Winterfell]]. Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.
==Synopsis==
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] is found working the bellows for [[Mikken]] when [[Alebelly]] finds him to tell him that there has been a bird from [[Robb Stark]]. Bran lets Alebelly carry him to Maester [[Luwin]]’s turret where [[Rickon Stark|Richon]] already waits. The Maester informs them that Robb shattered a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] Army at the [[Battle of Oxcross]], killing its commander Ser [[Stafford Lannister]]. He has also captured several castles, and is currently at the stronghold of [[House Marbrand]], [[Ashemark]] Rickon asks if Robb is coming home, but Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.

Osha arrives to carry him; she is stronger than Alebelly. Bran asks if she knows the way north, and she tells him it is easy. He then asks if the [[Children of the Forest]], the [[Others]] and [[Giants]] are still there and she tells him she has seen giants and heard of the others. He then asks about the [[Three-eyed crow]], which she has never heard of. She sets him on the window seat of his bedchamber.

Shortly thereafter Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:
{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:
{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:
{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran wants to tell them, but Jojen tells him it will not save them, they will not believe him. Jojen then asks Bran to tell of his wolf dream, and Bran replies:
{{Quote|There’s different kinds. There’s the wolf dreams, those aren’t so bad as the others. I run and hunt and kill squirrels. And there’s dreams where the crow comes and tells me to fly. Sometimes the tree is in those dreams too, calling my name. That frightens me. But the worst dreams are when I fall.” He looked down into the yard, feeling miserable. “I never used to fall before. When I climbed. I went everyplace, up on the roofs and along the walls, I used to feed the crows in the Burned Tower. Mother was afraid that I would fall but I knew I never would. Only I did, and now when I sleep I fall all the time.}}
Jojen tells Bran that he will be called a [[Skinchanger|Warg]] if they hear of his wolf dreams, and some will hate you in fear, and the power is strong in him. Bran is concerned since in Old [[Nan]]’s stories wargs were always evil, and tells Jojen that he wants to be a knight. He is told that he is a winged wolf but will never fly unless he opens his eye in his forehead, and he must search for it with his heart. When Bran states that Maester Luwin states dreams are just that, and Jojen tells him they are the past, the future, and truth. With that they leave him, and Bran ties unsuccessfully to open his third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. Mikken thought it funny, and states he always wanted to see the sea. Septon Chayle states the gods will take her when they do, and she does not think she will drown since she grew up on the banks of the [[White Knife]]. Alebelly took heed, and refused to bath or go near a well; finally other guardsmen gave him a bath because he stunk so badly.

Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] returns with a man that [[Hayhead]] tells Bran is named [[Reek]]. He had served the now dead [[Ramsay Snow]] (aka the Bustard of Bolton). The bastard and Reek had murdered Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Rodrik’s men had shot the bastard as he attempted to ride away. The bastard had forced Lady Hornwood to marry him and then to sign a will naming him heir. Ser Rodrik is concerned that [[Roose Bolton]] may not agree that doing this under duress would make the marriage and will invalid. Ser Rodrik wants to keep Reek alive for judgement when Robb returns. Meanwhile [[House Manderly]] and [[House Bolton]] are fighting in the [[Hornwood]] forest, and Ser Rodrik does not have the strength to stop them.

Ser Rodrik then brings Bran commanding Alebelly not to bath. Bran tells him about the green dream. Maester Luwin then tells Rodrik that he has told Bran about the uncertainty of prophesies. The maester then tells how raiders in longships have been plundering and raping along the [[Stony Shore]], and [[Leobald Tallhart]] sent his nephew [[Benfred Tallhart]] to deal with it. After he gets more information about the green dream, Ser Rodrik promises ot to take Alebelly with him if he rides against the raiders. Bran takes some hope in this.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that Alebelly and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:
{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater Watch]] he would not avoid his fate; the green dreams do not lie.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-bran-v-is-sea-coming.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 35]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Bran Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Winterfell]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 36, Bran]][[zh:列王的纷争-章节 35]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Bran Stark|Bran]]
| place = [[Winterfell]]
| title = Bran V
| page = 380
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28|Bran IV]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 46|Bran VI]]
}}
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Ryman Frey]], and realizes that [[Jojen Reed]]’s prophesy had come true. Jojen now tells him of his [[Greenseer|green dream]] of the sea flowing over the walls of [[Winterfell]]. Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.
==Synopsis==
[[Bran Stark|Bran]] is found working the bellows for [[Mikken]] when [[Alebelly]] finds him to tell him that there has been a bird from [[Robb Stark]]. Bran lets Alebelly carry him to Maester [[Luwin]]’s turret where [[Rickon Stark|Richon]] already waits. The Maester informs them that Robb shattered a [[House Lannister|Lannister]] Army at the [[Battle of Oxcross]], killing its commander Ser [[Stafford Lannister]]. He has also captured several castles, and is currently at the stronghold of [[House Marbrand]], [[Ashemark]] Rickon asks if Robb is coming home, but Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothers by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.

Osha arrives to carry him; she is stronger than Alebelly. Bran asks if she knows the way north, and she tells him it is easy. He then asks if the [[Children of the Forest]], the [[Others]] and [[Giants]] are still there and she tells him she has seen giants and heard of the others. He then asks about the [[Three-eyed crow]], which she has never heard of. She sets him on the window seat of his bedchamber.

Shortly thereafter Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:
{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:
{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
To this Jojen replies:
{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
Bran wants to tell them, but Jojen tells him it will not save them, they will not believe him. Jojen then asks Bran to tell of his wolf dream, and Bran replies:
{{Quote|There’s different kinds. There’s the wolf dreams, those aren’t so bad as the others. I run and hunt and kill squirrels. And there’s dreams where the crow comes and tells me to fly. Sometimes the tree is in those dreams too, calling my name. That frightens me. But the worst dreams are when I fall.” He looked down into the yard, feeling miserable. “I never used to fall before. When I climbed. I went everyplace, up on the roofs and along the walls, I used to feed the crows in the Burned Tower. Mother was afraid that I would fall but I knew I never would. Only I did, and now when I sleep I fall all the time.}}
Jojen tells Bran that he will be called a [[Skinchanger|Warg]] if they hear of his wolf dreams, and some will hate you in fear, and the power is strong in him. Bran is concerned since in Old [[Nan]]’s stories wargs were always evil, and tells Jojen that he wants to be a knight. He is told that he is a winged wolf but will never fly unless he opens his eye in his forehead, and he must search for it with his heart. When Bran states that Maester Luwin states dreams are just that, and Jojen tells him they are the past, the future, and truth. With that they leave him, and Bran ties unsuccessfully to open his third eye.

In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. Mikken thought it funny, and states he always wanted to see the sea. Septon Chayle states the gods will take her when they do, and she does not think she will drown since she grew up on the banks of the [[White Knife]]. Alebelly took heed, and refused to bath or go near a well; finally other guardsmen gave him a bath because he stunk so badly.

Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] returns with a man that [[Hayhead]] tells Bran is named [[Reek]]. He had served the now dead [[Ramsay Snow]] (aka the Bustard of Bolton). The bastard and Reek had murdered Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Rodrik’s men had shot the bastard as he attempted to ride away. The bastard had forced Lady Hornwood to marry him and then to sign a will naming him heir. Ser Rodrik is concerned that [[Roose Bolton]] may not agree that doing this under duress would make the marriage and will invalid. Ser Rodrik wants to keep Reek alive for judgement when Robb returns. Meanwhile [[House Manderley]] and [[House Bolton]] are fighting in the [[Hornwood]] forest, and Ser Rodrik does not have the strength to stop them.

Ser Rodrik then brings Bran commanding Alebelly not to bath. Bran tells him about the green dream. Maester Luwin then tells Rodrik that he has told Bran about the uncertainty of prophesies. The maester then tells how raiders in longships have been plundering and raping along the [[Stony Shore]], and [[Leobald Tallhart]] sent his nephew [[Benfred Tallhart]] to deal with it. After he gets more information about the green dream, Ser Rodrik promises ot to take Alebelly with him if he rides against the raiders. Bran takes some hope in this.

When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that Alebelly and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:
{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater]] the green dreams do not lie.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-bran-v-is-sea-coming.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-17 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 35]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Bran Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Winterfell]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 36, Bran]][[zh:列王的纷争-章节 35]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34

2013-04-02T01:27:40Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Jon Snow|Jon]]
| place = [[Fist of the First Men]]
| title = Jon IV
| page = 371
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 23|Jon III]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 43|Jon V]]
}}

Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]]'s men reach the [[Fist of the First Men]]. The Lord Commander plans to reinforce the stone ring built by the [[First Men]] during the [[Dawn Age]] to wait for men from the [[Shadow Tower]] here, and then to wait for [[Mance Rayder]] to return from the [[Frostfangs]]. [[Ghost]] finally joins Jon in the ring, surprising Jon since Ghost had refused previously to come into the ring. Ghost leads him to a buried cloak of the [[Night's Watch]] wrapping some [[Dragonglass]] weapns.

==Synopsis==
Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]]'s men arrive at the [[Fist of the First Men]]. [[Jon Snow]] thinks that it actually looks like a fist plunging up from the ground. The command tells [[Thoren Smallwood]] that it is good ground, and he replies it is an old place that is strong that will be easy to defend. The commander agrees they are not likely to find a better place to defend, its disadvantage, pointed out by Jon, being they would have to climb down to get water. Their camp was made behind a stone ring built by the [[First Men]] during the [[Dawn Age]].

As they had climbed, [[Ghost]] had run off, and Jon had to keep calling it back, but commander had finally grown impatient, and told Jon to let him go. Jon Snow can tell the travel is wearing on the Lord Commander, but he tries not to let it show.

After putting up the Lord Commander’s tent and seeing to the horses, he descended to find Ghost, suddenly appears next to him. There is a growing sense of foreboding. He climbs to rocks from where he can see the [[Milkwater]] river and the rugged landscape giving way to high stony hills to the north. When darkness starts to arrive Jon is interrupted revelries by [[Samwell Tarly]]. Jon tells Sam that the commander plans to stay here and wait for [[Qhorin Halfhand]] and the men from the [[Shadow Tower]], and he should get a raven ready since the commander will want to send a message. Sam states the ravens hate being caged, and if he could fly he would return to [[Castle Black]] and be eating pork pie.

They return to camp. Overhead the red tail of [[Red Comet|Mormont’s Torch]] is bright as the moon. When they arrive, Jon leaves to attend to the Lord Commander. Mormont, who is talking with some of his officers, tells Jon to bring some hot spiced wine. As he prepares the wine, he hears [[Jarman Buckwell]] state the following the Milkwater would be the easiest road to the [[Frostfangs]], but [[Mance Rayder]] will know of their approach. Ser [[Mallador Locke]] recommends [[Giant's Stair ]] or [[Skirling Pass]]. Mormont states he does not want to risk the Frostfangs unless he must. He plans to remain at the Fist since the [[Free Folk|Wildings]] outnumber them, and the Wildings will have to come from the Frostfangs eventually for food; they will strengthen their defenses. The rangers will limit their ranging to this side of the river since Mormont is sure that [[Craster]] did not lie to them about Mance gathering his force in the Frostfangs. The officers finish their wine and leave.

Jon asks if the commander would like his supper, and he asks if Ghost found any game since they could use meat, and then asks if Jon agrees with keeping the rangers close. Jon states that with them close, they are unlikely to find his uncle [[Brandon Stark]]. The commander replies that it would be easier for one man to find 200 than 200 to find one, and the land is too vast to search with their limited manpower. As he moves his raven to his shoulder, the commander states
{{Quote|Maester [[Aemon]] thinks you clever.}}
The commander continues by stating that they have left a very visible trail, and the fires on the fist should be visible to the foothills of the Frostfangs. Jon then brings up the case that his uncle is dead, and the commander replies that he still may return anyway as a [[Others#Wrights|Wight]]. The commander than tells Jon he will forsake supper and to wake him at first light.

However, Jon is hungry, and joins [[Dywen]], [[Grenn]], [[Eddison Tollett|Dolorous Edd]], and [[Hake]] for the stew. Dywen states there is a smell he does not like, a smell of cold. Jon hears a howling and then Ghost appears, surprising Jon since he had previously refused to come inside the ring. Ghost seems preoccupied, sniffing the air. Suddenly Jon is alarmed since Ghost knew when the dead came walking, and Dywen had said he smelled cold. Ghost starts to go, and then looks back, so Jon follows, leaving the protection of the ring. Ghost stops at the stream, and then goes on, so Jon follows, angry. He looses Ghost a quarter of the way around the Fist. When he catches up with Ghost against, he is digging at a mound that had been dug only recently. He expects to find a body, but finds a bundle 2 feet across. Inside the bundle made from the cloak of the [[Night's Watch]] he finds [[Dragonglass]] weapons.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/jon-iv-not-listening-to-awesomewolf.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-16 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 34]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Jon Snow]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the Fist of the First Men]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 35, Jon]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Jon Snow|Jon]]
| place = [[Fist of the First Men]]
| title = Jon IV
| page = 371
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 23|Jon III]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 43|Jon V]]
}}

Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]]'s men reach the [[Fist of the First Men]]. The Lord Commander plans to reinforce the stone ring built by the [[First Men]] during the [[Dawn Age]] to wait for men from the [[Shadow Tower]] here, and then to wait for [[Mance Rayder]] to return from the [[Frostfangs]]. [[Ghost]] finally joins Jon in the ring, surprising Jon since Ghost had refused previously to come into the ring. Ghost leads him to a buried cloak of the [[Night's Watch]] wrapping some [[Dragonglass]] weapns.

==Synopsis==
Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont|Mormont]]'s men arrive at the [[Fist of the First Men]]. [[Jon Snow]] thinks that it actually looks like a fist plunging up from the ground. The command tells [[Thoren Smallwood]] that it is good ground, and he replies it is an old place that is strong that will be easy to defend. The commander agrees they are not likely to find a better place to defend, its disadvantage, pointed out by Jon, being they would have to climb down to get water. Their camp was made behind a stone ring built by the [[First Men]] during the [[Dawn Age]].

As they had climbed, [[Ghost]] had run off, and Jon had to keep calling it back, but commander had finally grown impatient, and told Jon to let him go. Jon Snow can tell the travel is wearing on the Lord Commander, but he tries not to let it show.

After putting up the Lord Commander’s tent and seeing to the horses, he descended to find Ghost, suddenly appears next to him. There is a growing sense of foreboding. He climbs to rocks from where he can see the [[Milkwater]] river and the rugged landscape giving way to high stony hills to the north. When darkness starts to arrive Jon is interrupted revelries by [[Samwell Tarly]]. Jon tells Sam that the commander plans to stay here and wait for [[Qhorin Halfhand]] and the men from the [[Shadow Tower]], and he should get a raven ready since the commander will want to send a message. Sam states the ravens hate being caged, and if he could fly he would return to [[Castle Black]] and be eating pork pie.

They return to camp. Overhead the red tail of [[Red Comet|Mormont’s Torch]] is bright as the moon. When they arrive, Jon leaves to attend to the Lord Commander. Mormont, who is talking with some of his officers, tells Jon to bring some hot spiced wine. As he prepares the wine, he hears [[Jarman Buckwell]] state the following the Milkwater would be the easiest road to the [[Frostfangs]], but [[Mance Rayder]] will know of their approach. Ser [[Mallador Locke]] recommends [[Giant’s Stair]] or [[Skirling Pass]]. Mormont states he does not want to risk the Frostfangs unless he must. He plans to remain at the Fist since the [[Free Folk|Wildings]] outnumber them, and the Wildings will have to come from the Frostfangs eventually for food; they will strengthen their defenses. The rangers will limit their ranging to this side of the river since Mormont is sure that [[Craster]] did not lie to them about Mance gathering his force in the Frostfangs. The officers finish their wine and leave.

Jon asks if the commander would like his supper, and he asks if Ghost found any game since they could use meat, and then asks if Jon agrees with keeping the rangers close. Jon states that with them close, they are unlikely to find his uncle [[Brandon Stark]]. The commander replies that it would be easier for one man to find 200 than 200 to find one, and the land is too vast to search with their limited manpower. As he moves his raven to his shoulder, the commander states
{{Quote|Maester [[Aemon]] thinks you clever.}}
The commander continues by stating that they have left a very visible trail, and the fires on the fist should be visible to the foothills of the Frostfangs. Jon then brings up the case that his uncle is dead, and the commander replies that he still may return anyway as a [[Others#Wrights|Wight]]. The commander than tells Jon he will forsake supper and to wake him at first light.

However, Jon is hungry, and joins [[Dywen]], [[Grenn]], [[Eddison Tollett|Dolorous Edd]], and [[Hake]] for the stew. Dywen states there is a smell he does not like, a smell of cold. Jon hears a howling and then Ghost appears, surprising Jon since he had previously refused to come inside the ring. Ghost seems preoccupied, sniffing the air. Suddenly Jon is alarmed since Ghost knew when the dead came walking, and Dywen had said he smelled cold. Ghost starts to go, and then looks back, so Jon follows, leaving the protection of the ring. Ghost stops at the stream, and then goes on, so Jon follows, angry. He looses Ghost a quarter of the way around the Fist. When he catches up with Ghost against, he is digging at a mound that had been dug only recently. He expects to find a body, but finds a bundle 2 feet across. Inside the bundle made from the cloak of the [[Night's Watch]] he finds [[Dragonglass]] weapons.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/jon-iv-not-listening-to-awesomewolf.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-16 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 34]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Jon Snow]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the Fist of the First Men]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 35, Jon]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = A village near [[Storm's End]] - Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn IV
| page = 362
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 39|Catelyn V]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] prays to the seven in a sept in a small village. As she prays, the realization comes to her that both [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Jon Arryn]] died for their knowledge of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei’s]] incest, and also that [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows. She arrives back at [[Renly Baratheon]] where he is making final preparations for the battle. Finally Catelyn is given an opportunity to speak, and she asks Renly to support convening of at Great Council where Bran can tell what he saw. He refuses to support the concept. Then a shadow kills Renly. When the guards arrives, it is assumed that [[Brienne of Tarth]] killed Renly. Catelyn escapes with Brienne, and then they join Catelyn’s party to leave quickly.
==Synopsis==
It is full dark before [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] and Ser [[Robar Royce]] arrive at the village. The sept’s seven walls—one for each god—are cracked and crooked. She enters alone. Catelyn remembers Septon [[Osmynd]] telling her god is one with seven aspects. In [[Winterfell]] Septon [[Chayle]] had hung carved masks, but here they are but rough chalk drawings. Catelyn prays to the Mother to spare them if she can, and spare her own sons. She wonders if [[Eddard Stark]]’s gods ever answered him, and looks around. The Father’s face mades her think of her dying father [[Hoster Tully]]. The Warrior of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Stannis Baratheon]], [[Robert Baratheon]], [[Robb Stark]], [[Jaime Lannister]], [[Jon Snow]], and for a second she sees [[Arya Stark]]. The smoke burns her eyes, and, after rubbing them, she sees her mother [[Minisa Whent|Minisa Tully]], who had died in childbirth, in the face of the Mother. When her head starts swimming, she realizes she had not eaten today; food had lost its savor when [[Eddard Stark]] died. Then she thinks she can see [[Lysa Tully|Lysa’s]] face, but the eyes are too hard; it is the face of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. She first wonders if Cersei prays to the seven also, and thinks how if Robert, who did not regard [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] with any warmth, knew that the boy was of Jaime’s seed would have put both him and his mother to death and few would condemn him. Only in [[House Targaryen]] was incest common. Eddard and [[Jon Arryn]] must have both known, and she suddenly realizes [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows also. She prays to the different gods for her children. Ser Robar interrupts her prays to tell her they must leave to be back before dawn.

They pass through the army, to Catelyn it seems like grey men on gray horses beneath gray banners. At Renly’s pavilion Ser [[Parmen Crane]] and Ser [[Emmon Cuy]] of the [[Rainbow Guard]] stand guard outside while inside Brienne is armoring the king and Lords [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]] are speaking of dispositions and tactics. Catelyn tells Renly she needs to speak to him, but he tells her to wail. Lord Mathis is telling Renly that they should advance before dawn since the soldiers are in position, and Lord Rowan is agreeing since if they wait, they will charge into the rising sun, the Renly will not abide by treachery. Renly is sure that Ser Loras will break them. Then Renly tells them that when his brother falls, his body will be treated with respect. When Lord Tarly asks what to do if Stannis yields, both Renly and Lord Rowan are amused, and Renly tells how Ser [[Gawen Wylde]] tried to escape to surrender to [[Mace Tyrell]] during the siege of [[Storm's End]], and Stannis was going to hurl them using a catapult. He was only dissuaded by Maester [[Cressen]] telling him they might have to eat their dead. Renly, assuming the Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] will be with Stannis (since Ser Barristan is now with him and not with Robb, he must be with Stannis since he needs a king to guard), states he wants him spared. Finally Renly is ready to hear from Catelyn, the lords departing.

Catelyn now tells Renly:
{{Quote|The Lannisters tried to kill my son Bran. A thousand times I have asked myself why. Your brother gave me my answer. There was a hunt the day he fell. Robert and Ned and most of the other men rode out after boar, but Jaime Lannister remained at Winterfell, as did the queen }}
The then beseeches Renly to set aside the crown, along with his brother, and Robb would do the same. Then call a [[Great Council]] where Bran will tell his tale so the realm will know the Lannisters are true usurpers. Renly tells her the time for talk is done. As [[Brienne of Tarth]] is kneeling as she belts on Renly’s long sword and dagger when a breeze seems to fling open the tent door. Then Catelyn sees a shadow and then a lifting sword that takes Renly in the throat. Brienne catches Renly as he stumbles into her, his blood flowing over her armor. Ser Robar and Ser Emmon come rushing in, and seeing Brienne with Renly’s blood covering her armor immediately assume she killed him. Ser Emmon immediately attacks with a battleaxe as Catelyn screams a “No!” Brienne is soon in battle with Ser Robar and the two men-at-arms with them. Catelynstarts to tell Ser Robar, who hung back uncertain, that is was Stannis, only being able to explain it was some sort of sorcery, a shadow, swearing on her husband’s grave and her honor. Ser Robar tells her that he will hold them off and leaves the tent. Brienne had taken out the men-at-arms but in now the armored Ser Emmon in her wool. Catelyn bashes an iron brazier over Ser Emmon’s helm, sending him to his knees and Brienne, seeing the chance, slashes through the tent side. Catelyn tells her to follow her slowly so the do not raise suspicions.

Brienne had seen nothing, and Catelyn tells her it was a shadow, and she could feel Stannis. Brienne swears she will kill Stannis with Renly’s sword. They arrive at the camp, and Catelyn explains that Renly is dead, and will be no battle. Catelyn tells Brienne to select one of the many spare horse; they have to be far away before they look for them, so she does not have time to get her own armor and horse. Catelyn tells them to ride, and cut down any that try to stop them.

Catelyn thinks how all of Renly’s power will now belong to Stannis, won in a single evil stroke. Then she thinks how Stannis had also declared Robb a traitor and a chill goes through her. A chill goes through as she recalls Stannis's threat:
{{Quote|I am the rightful king and your son no less a traitor than my brother here. His day will come as well.}}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iv-of-fire-and-murder.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-16 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 33]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 34, Catelyn]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33

2013-04-01T21:30:11Z

Qck2: link fix

{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = A village near [[Storm's End]] - Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn IV
| page = 362
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 39|Catelyn V]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] prays to the seven in a sept in a small village. As she prays, the realization comes to her that both [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Jon Arryn]] died for their knowledge of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei’s]] incest, and also that [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows. She arrives back at [[Renly Baratheon]] where he is making final preparations for the battle. Finally Catelyn is given an opportunity to speak, and she asks Renly to support convening of at Great Council where Bran can tell what he saw. He refuses to support the concept. Then a shadow kills Renly. When the guards arrives, it is assumed that [[Brienne of Tarth]] killed Renly. Catelyn escapes with Brienne, and then they join Catelyn’s party to leave quickly.
==Synopsis==
It is full dark before [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] and Ser [[Robar Royce]] arrive at the village. The sept’s seven walls—one for each god—are cracked and crooked. She enters alone. Catelyn remembers Septon [[Osmynd]] telling her god is one with seven aspects. In [[Winterfell]] Septon [[Chayle]] had hung carved masks, but here they are but rough chalk drawings. Catelyn prays to the Mother to spare them if she can, and spare her own sons. She wonders if [[Eddard Stark]]’s gods ever answered him, and looks around. The Father’s face mades her think of her dying father [[Hoster Tully]]. The Warrior of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Stannis Baratheon]], [[Robert Baratheon]], [[Robb Stark]], [[Jaime Lannister]], [[Jon Snow]], and for a second she sees [[Arya Stark]]. The smoke burns her eyes, and, after rubbing them, she sees her mother [[Minisa Whent|Minisa Tully]], who had died in childbirth, in the face of the Mother. When her head starts swimming, she realizes she had not eaten today; food had lost its savor when [[Eddard Stark]] died. Then she thinks she can see [[Lysa Tully|Lysa’s]] face, but the eyes are too hard; it is the face of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. She first wonders if Cersei prays to the seven also, and thinks how if Robert, who did not regard [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] with any warmth, knew that the boy was of Jaime’s seed would have put both him and his mother to death and few would condemn him. Only in [[House Targaryen]] was incest common. Eddard and [[Jon Arryn]] must have both known, and she suddenly realizes [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows also. She prays to the different gods for her children. Ser Robar interrupts her prays to tell her they must leave to be back before dawn.

They pass through the army, to Catelyn it seems like grey men on gray horses beneath gray banners. At Renly’s pavilion Ser [[Parmen Crane]] and Ser [[Emmon Cuy]] of the [[Rainbow Guard]] stand guard outside while inside Brienne is armoring the king and Lords [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]] are speaking of dispositions and tactics. Catelyn tells Renly she needs to speak to him, but he tells her to wail. Lord Mathis is telling Renly that they should advance before dawn since the soldiers are in position, and Lord Rowan is agreeing since if they wait, they will charge into the rising sun, the Renly will not abide by treachery. Renly is sure that Ser Loras will break them. Then Renly tells them that when his brother falls, his body will be treated with respect. When Lord Tarly asks what to do if Stannis yields, both Renly and Lord Rowan are amused, and Renly tells how Ser [[Gawen Wylde]] tried to escape to surrender to [[Mace Tyrell]] during the siege of [[Storm's End]], and Stannis was going to hurl them using a catapult. He was only dissuaded by Maester [[Cressen]] telling him they might have to eat their dead. Renly, assuming the Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] will be with Stannis (since Ser Barristan is now with him and not with Robb, he must be with Stannis since he needs a king to guard), states he wants him spared. Finally Renly is ready to hear from Catelyn, the lords departing.

Catelyn now tells Renly:
{{Quote|The Lannisters tried to kill my son Bran. A thousand times I have asked myself why. Your brother gave me my answer. There was a hunt the day he fell. Robert and Ned and most of the other men rode out after boar, but Jaime Lannister remained at Winterfell, as did the queen }}
The then beseeches Renly to set aside the crown, along with his brother, and Robb would do the same. Then call a Great Council where Bran will tell his tale so the realm will know the Lannisters are true usurpers. Renly tells her the time for talk is done. As [[Brienne of Tarth]] is kneeling as she belts on Renly’s long sword and dagger when a breeze seems to fling open the tent door. Then Catelyn sees a shadow and then a lifting sword that takes Renly in the throat. Brienne catches Renly as he stumbles into her, his blood flowing over her armor. Ser Robar and Ser Emmon come rushing in, and seeing Brienne with Renly’s blood covering her armor immediately assume she killed him. Ser Emmon immediately attacks with a battleaxe as Catelyn screams a “No!” Brienne is soon in battle with Ser Robar and the two men-at-arms with them. Catelynstarts to tell Ser Robar, who hung back uncertain, that is was Stannis, only being able to explain it was some sort of sorcery, a shadow, swearing on her husband’s grave and her honor. Ser Robar tells her that he will hold them off and leaves the tent. Brienne had taken out the men-at-arms but in now the armored Ser Emmon in her wool. Catelyn bashes an iron brazier over Ser Emmon’s helm, sending him to his knees and Brienne, seeing the chance, slashes through the tent side. Catelyn tells her to follow her slowly so the do not raise suspicions.

Brienne had seen nothing, and Catelyn tells her it was a shadow, and she could feel Stannis. Brienne swears she will kill Stannis with Renly’s sword. They arrive at the camp, and Catelyn explains that Renly is dead, and will be no battle. Catelyn tells Brienne to select one of the many spare horse; they have to be far away before they look for them, so she does not have time to get her own armor and horse. Catelyn tells them to ride, and cut down any that try to stop them.

Catelyn thinks how all of Renly’s power will now belong to Stannis, won in a single evil stroke. Then she thinks how Stannis had also declared Robb a traitor and a chill goes through her. A chill goes through as she recalls Stannis's threat:
{{Quote|I am the rightful king and your son no less a traitor than my brother here. His day will come as well.}}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iv-of-fire-and-murder.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-16 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 33]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 34, Catelyn]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33

2013-04-01T21:26:59Z

Qck2: Significant increase in detail

{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = A village near [[Storm's End]] - Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn IV
| page = 362
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 34|Jon IV]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 39|Catelyn V]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] prays to the seven in a sept in a small village. As she prays, the realization comes to her that both [[Eddard Stark]] and [[Jon Arryn]] died for their knowledge of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei’s]] incest, and also that [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows. She arrives back at [[Renly Baratheon]] where he is making final preparations for the battle. Finally Catelyn is given an opportunity to speak, and she asks Renly to support convening of at Great Council where Bran can tell what he saw. He refuses to support the concept. Then a shadow kills Renly. When the guards arrives, it is assumed that [[Brienne of Tarth]] killed Renly. Catelyn escapes with Brienne, and then they join Catelyn’s party to leave quickly.
==Synopsis==
It is full dark before [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] and Ser [[Robar Royce]] arrive at the village. The sept’s seven walls—one for each god—are cracked and crooked. She enters alone. Catelyn remembers Septon [[Osmynd]] telling her god is one with seven aspects. In [[Winterfell]] Septon [[Chayle]] had hung carved masks, but here they are but rough chalk drawings. Catelyn prays to the Mother to spare them if she can, and spare her own sons. She wonders if [[Eddard Stark]]’s gods ever answered him, and looks around. The Father’s face mades her think of her dying father [[Hoster Tully]]. The Warrior of [[Renly Baratheon]], [[Stanis Baratheon]], [[Robert Baratheon]], [[Robb Stark]], [[Jaime Lannister]], [[Jon Snow]], and for a second she sees [[Arya Stark]]. The smoke burns her eyes, and, after rubbing them, she sees her mother [[Minisa Whent|Minisa Tully]], who had died in childbirth, in the face of the Mother. When her head starts swimming, she realizes she had not eaten today; food had lost its savor when [[Eddard Stark]] died. Then she thinks she can see [[Lysa Tully|Lysa’s]] face, but the eyes are too hard; it is the face of [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. She first wonders if Cersei prays to the seven also, and thinks how if Robert, who did not regard [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] with any warmth, knew that the boy was of Jaime’s seed would have put both him and his mother to death and few would condemn him. Only in [[House Targaryen]] was incest common. Eddard and [[Jon Arryn]] must have both known, and she suddenly realizes [[Bran Stark|Bran]] knows also. She prays to the different gods for her children. Ser Robar interrupts her prays to tell her they must leave to be back before dawn.

They pass through the army, to Catelyn it seems like grey men on gray horses beneath gray banners. At Renly’s pavilion Ser [[Parmen Crane]] and Ser [[Emmon Cuy]] of the [[Rainbow Guard]] stand guard outside while inside Brienne is armoring the king and Lords [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]] are speaking of dispositions and tactics. Catelyn tells Renly she needs to speak to him, but he tells her to wail. Lord Mathis is telling Renly that they should advance before dawn since the soldiers are in position, and Lord Rowan is agreeing since if they wait, they will charge into the rising sun, the Renly will not abide by treachery. Renly is sure that Ser Loras will break them. Then Renly tells them that when his brother falls, his body will be treated with respect. When Lord Tarly asks what to do if Stannis yields, both Renly and Lord Rowan are amused, and Renly tells how Ser [[Gawen Wylde]] tried to escape to surrender to [[Mace Tyrell]] during the siege of [[Storm's End]], and Stannis was going to hurl them using a catapult. He was only dissuaded by Maester [[Cressen]] telling him they might have to eat their dead. Renly, assuming the Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] will be with Stannis (since Ser Barristan is now with him and not with Robb, he must be with Stannis since he needs a king to guard), states he wants him spared. Finally Renly is ready to hear from Catelyn, the lords departing.

Catelyn now tells Renly:
{{Quote|The Lannisters tried to kill my son Bran. A thousand times I have asked myself why. Your brother gave me my answer. There was a hunt the day he fell. Robert and Ned and most of the other men rode out after boar, but Jaime Lannister remained at Winterfell, as did the queen }}
The then beseeches Renly to set aside the crown, along with his brother, and Robb would do the same. Then call a Great Council where Bran will tell his tale so the realm will know the Lannisters are true usurpers. Renly tells her the time for talk is done. As [[Brienne of Tarth]] is kneeling as she belts on Renly’s long sword and dagger when a breeze seems to fling open the tent door. Then Catelyn sees a shadow and then a lifting sword that takes Renly in the throat. Brienne catches Renly as he stumbles into her, his blood flowing over her armor. Ser Robar and Ser Emmon come rushing in, and seeing Brienne with Renly’s blood covering her armor immediately assume she killed him. Ser Emmon immediately attacks with a battleaxe as Catelyn screams a “No!” Brienne is soon in battle with Ser Robar and the two men-at-arms with them. Catelynstarts to tell Ser Robar, who hung back uncertain, that is was Stannis, only being able to explain it was some sort of sorcery, a shadow, swearing on her husband’s grave and her honor. Ser Robar tells her that he will hold them off and leaves the tent. Brienne had taken out the men-at-arms but in now the armored Ser Emmon in her wool. Catelyn bashes an iron brazier over Ser Emmon’s helm, sending him to his knees and Brienne, seeing the chance, slashes through the tent side. Catelyn tells her to follow her slowly so the do not raise suspicions.

Brienne had seen nothing, and Catelyn tells her it was a shadow, and she could feel Stannis. Brienne swears she will kill Stannis with Renly’s sword. They arrive at the camp, and Catelyn explains that Renly is dead, and will be no battle. Catelyn tells Brienne to select one of the many spare horse; they have to be far away before they look for them, so she does not have time to get her own armor and horse. Catelyn tells them to ride, and cut down any that try to stop them.

Catelyn thinks how all of Renly’s power will now belong to Stannis, won in a single evil stroke. Then she thinks how Stannis had also declared Robb a traitor and a chill goes through her. A chill goes through as she recalls Stannis's threat:
{{Quote|I am the rightful king and your son no less a traitor than my brother here. His day will come as well.}}

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iv-of-fire-and-murder.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-16 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 33]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 34, Catelyn]]

Sandor Clegane

2013-03-28T21:45:35Z

Qck2: /* A Clash of Kings */ chapter 32

{{Infobox character
| Character_name = [[File:House Clegane.png|50px|left]] '''Sandor Clegane''' [[File:Kingsguard.PNG|50px|right]]
| image = [[Image:Sandor.jpg|250px]]
| image_caption = Sandor Clegane Portrait by Amoka©
| Alias = The Hound<br>Dog
| Title =
| Allegiance = [[Kingsguard]]<br>[[House Clegane]]
| Race =
| Culture =
| Spouse =
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|271}}
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|300}} (supposedly)
| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (Appears)<br>[[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears)<br>[[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears)<br>[[A Feast for Crows]] (Appears)<br>[[A Dance with Dragons]] (Mentioned)
| coat-of-arms =
| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Rory McCann,Sandor Clegane|Rory McCann]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]]
}}

'''Sandor Clegane''' is a member of [[House Clegane]]. He is the younger brother of the current head, Ser [[Gregor Clegane]]. He is nicknamed '''"The Hound"''' for his savage nature and unquestioning obedience to his masters and for the three dogs featured in his family's crest. He is considered one of the most dangerous fighters in [[Westeros]], though he frequently drinks himself into stupors. As a child, Sandor received gruesome facial burns when Gregor shoved his face into a brazier.{{Ref|aGoT|29}} He came to loathe fire, his brother, and the hypocrisy of [[Knight|knighthood]] in general.

==Appearance==
Sandor is a huge and heavily-muscled man. The right side of his face is gaunt, sharp cheekbones and heavy brow. His nose is large and hooked, and his hair is dark and thin worn long and brushed so that it cover the left side since no hair grew there. The left side of his face is a ruin with no ear but a hole. There is a twisted mass of scar around his good left eye. Slick black flesh is pocked with craters and deep cracks that ooze red and wet. His eyes are grey. On his jaw, bone shows.{{Ref|aGoT|29}} He regularly wears plain armor and a distinctive helm sculpted into the shape of a snarling dog's head. See also [[:Category:Images of Sandor Clegane|this collection of images]].

==History==
Sandor's childhood appears to have been overshadowed by his older brother Gregor's brutality and martial prowess. Aged seven, his father explained the burns inflicted by Gregor by claiming his bedding caught fire.{{Ref|aGoT|29}} There are rumours of a sister who died young in mysterious circumstances, and their father was killed in a hunting accident shortly after [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] came to the throne, which is also implied to have been suspicious, leaving the family estates to Gregor.{{Ref|aGoT|30}}

Sandor left to join the [[Lannister]] household the same day Gregor came into his inheritance.{{Ref|aGoT|30}} He claims to have killed a man when he was twelve years old,{{Ref|aGoT|7}} presumably during [[Robert's Rebellion]].

==Recent Events==
===A Game of Thrones===
[[File:The hound by ammotu.jpg|thumb|250px|Sandor Clegane by Ammotu©]]
Clegane acted for a time as bodyguard and servant of Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]], who regularly called him "Dog". [[Cersei]] suggests that he looked to the Hound as a surrogate father. En route from [[Winterfell]] to King's Landing, he earned the enmity of [[Arya Stark]] by acting on Lannister orders to kill her friend [[Mycah]], the son of a butcher, believed to have harmed Joffrey.

He won the [[Tourney of the Hand]] after saving Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] from Gregor's wrath. After the tourney, Joffrey has him escort Sansa back to the castle. Drunk off his winnings, Sandor becomes enamored with [[Sansa Stark]]. Angry that she can't look him in the eye due to his disfigurement, he mocks her for her polished manners, calling her a "little bird" who chirps on command.

Clegane was eventually named to the [[Kingsguard]] despite refusing to become a knight. In this capacity he was often assigned to watch over Sansa. Despite his loyalty to Joffrey, he strategically defended her from Joffrey's wrath several times and is the only Kingsguard who was never commanded to beat her. Instead he treated her with relative kindness and tried to spare her from Joffrey's sadism.

When [[Eddard Stark]] attempted to take Cersei and her illegitimate children into custody with the help of the [[City Watch of King's Landing|goldcloaks]] (unbeknownst to the fact that [[Janos Slynt]] had already been under the employ of the treacherous [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger]] all along and was plotting betrayal), Sandor Clegane participated in the widespread slaughter of Eddard's remaining household guard alongside his erstwhile allies, personally killing [[Cayn]].

[[File:RoryMcCannHound.jpg|thumb|250px|Rory McCann as the Hound.jpg]]

===A Clash of Kings===
[[File:Sandor and stranger by Giliberti.jpg|thumb|300px|Sandor flees King's Landing on Stranger by M.Luisa Giliberti©]]

[[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day]] the Hound, who is standing with King [[Joffrey Baratheon]], [[Myrcella Baratheon]], and [[Tommen Baratheon]], announces Sansa’s arrival. When Sansa asks Joffrey if he will be in the lists, he replies “''My lady mother said it was not fitting, since the tourney is in my honor. Otherwise I would have been champion. Isn’t that so, dog?''” Clegane states that “''Against this lot? why not.''” When Sansa asks the Hound “''Will you joust today, my lord?''” he replies “''Wouldn’t be worth the bother of arming myself. This is a tournament of gnats.''” Joffrey laughing states “''My dog has a fierce bark. Perhaps I should command him to fight the day’s champion. To the death.''” To this the Hound replies “''You’d be one knight the poorer''.” Sandor has never taken a knight’s vows.{{Ref|aCoK|2}}

Joffrey is disgusted with the first two jousts of the day and states “''This is a feeble show;''” the Hound responds “''I warned you, Gnats.''” For the next joust, Ser Dontos arrives half naked and so drunk he cannot mount his horse. He finally sits in the dirt and shouts “''I lose, Fetch me some wine.''” Joffrey, already in a foul mood stands and says “''A cask from the cellars! I’ll see him drowned in it.''” Sansa protests without thinking; she is immediately shocked that she spoke knowing Joffrey is in a foul mood . Joffrey turns on her, furious at being gainsaid, and Sansa struggles to make up a story that it is a curse to kill a man on one’s name day. Joffrey spits out “''You’re lying. I ought to drown you with him, if you care for him so much.''” The Hound comes to her rescue by telling Joffrey, “''What a man sows on his name day, he reaps throughout the year.''” {{Ref|aCoK|2}}

When Joffrey attempts to call off the tourney in disgust, Tommen vehemently protests that he was supposed to ride against the quintain. An argument among the royal siblings ensues. Myrcella finally points out that mother agreed, Joffrey mocks “''Mother said. Don’t be childish,''” and Myrcella responds that they are children. The Hound, laughing, tells Joffrey. “''She has you there.''” Joffrey sullenly agrees.{{Ref|aCoK|2}}

After [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives with the Lannister troops and the [[Mountain clans]]], Sandor comments to Tyrion “''They said you were dead,''” to which Tyrion replies “''I was speaking to the king, not to his cur.''” After Joffrey leaves with his brother and sister, the Hound tells Tyrion “''I’d guard that tongue of yours, little man.''”{{Ref|aCoK|2}}

When returning from the [[Godswood]] after meeting with [[Dontos Hollard]] for the first time [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] caroms into Sandor as he lurches out of a hidden doorway on the serpentine stairs. His iron grip keeps her from falling. Laughing he states “It’s a long roll down the serpentine, little bird. Want to kill us both? Maybe you do.” She asks pardons of my lord and tells him that he is hurting her. He asks “And what’s Joff’s little bird doing flying down the serpentine in the black of night?” and then after a pause asks “Where were you?” She states she was in the godswood praying for her father and the king. To this he replies “Think I’m so drunk that I’d believe that?” When he releases her he sways slightly and then says “You look almost a woman…face, teats, and you’re taller too, almost…ah, you’re still a stupid little bird, aren’t you? Singing all the songs they taught you…sing me a song, why don’t you? Go on. Sing to me. Some song about knights and fair maids. You like knights, don’t you?” This is scaring Sansa and she states “T-true knights, my lord.” To this he replies “True knights, and I’m no lord, no more than I’m a knight. Do I need to beat that into you?” he then almost falls and swears “Gods, too much wine. Do you like wine, little bird? Rue wine? A flagon of sour red, dark as blood, all a man needs. Or a woman.” He then continues “Drunk as a dog, damn me. You come now. Back to your cage, little bird. I’ll take you there. Keep you safe for the king.”

When they arrive at the drawbridge, Ser [[Boros Blount]] is there and Sansa is alarmed. The hound tells her “That one is nothing to fear, girl. Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.” When Ser Borus says “Ser, where-” the hound replies “Fuck your ser, Boros. You’re the knight, not me. I’m the king’s dog, remember?” Boros then tells him that “The king was looking for his dog earlier.” Sandor replies to this with “The dog was drinking. It was your night to shield him, ser. You and my other brothers.” When Ser Boros asks Sansa why she was not in her quarters, she give him the lie that she was praying in the godswood. ““You expect her to sleep with all the noise?”

Then Sandor asks about the ruckus and is told that some wretches had heard about a feast in preparation of [[Tyrek Lannister]]’s wedding and thought they should feast also. Joffrey led sortie that sent them scurrying. Clegane states “A brave boy,” his mouth twitching.

After crossing the drawbridge, Sansa asks the hound why he lets people call him dog but not knight. He replies “I like dogs better than knights. My father’s father was kennelmaster at the [[Casterly Rock|the Rock]]. One autumn year, Lord [[Tytos Lannister|Tytos]] came between a lioness and her prey. The lioness didn’t give a shit that she was Lannister’s own sigil. Bitch tore into my lord’s horse and would have done for my lord too, but my grandfather came up with the hounds. Three of his dogs died running her off. My grandfather lost a leg, so Lannister paid him for it with lands and a towerhouse, and took his son to squire. The three dogs on our banner are the three that died, in the yellow of autumn grass. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he’ll look you straight in the face. And that’s more than little birds can do, isn’t it? I never got my song.” She replies “I…I know a song about [[Florian]] and [[Jonquil]].” The hound has another name for the song: “Florian and Jonquil? A fool and his cunt. Spare me. But one day I’ll have a song from you, whether you will it or no.” Sansa tells him that she will gladly sing it for him.

Before he leaves her he says “Pretty thing, and such a bad liar. A dog can smell a lie, you know. Look around you, and take a good whiff. They’re all liars here…and every one better than you.”{{Ref|aCoK|18}}

When he comes for [[Sansa Stark]] to take her before [[Joffrey Baratheon|King Joffrey]] after her brother [[Robb Stark]] cripples a [[House Lannister]] army in the [[Battle of Oxcross]]. He tells her:
{{Quote|The longer you keep him waiting, the worse it will go for you.}}
As he is leading her to the lower bailey where Joffrey is waiting, she asks the Hound what she has done, and he answers:
{{Quote|Not you. Your kingly brother.}}
She tells him how her brother is the traitor and she had no part in what he did, he snorts:
{{Quote|They trained you well, little bird.}}
When Sansa comes before the king, she kneels before him and he tells her that kneeling will not save her and must answer to her brother’s treasons. She is slow to get up, and the Hound not ungently pulls her up when commanded by Joffrey.

After Sansa is given the story of how her brother defeated the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] army in the battle, he orders his [[Kingsguard]] to beat her, and they are vicious. The Hound has finally had enough, and rasps:
{{Quote|Enough.}}

The king states it is not enough, and orders Ser [[Boros Blount]] to strip her naked and he tears the silk of her bodice away exposing her breasts. Joffery orders her beat bloody. [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives with [[Bronn]] and [[Timett]] and stops the beating. Tryion asks for someone to give Sansa something to cover herself, and Sandor undoes his cloak and tosses it to Sansa.

As Sansa is being led to the [[Tower of the Hand]], she thinks:
{{Quote|Only Ser Dontos had tried to help, and he was no longer a knight, no more than the Imp was, nor the Hound... the Hound hated knights... I hate them too, Sansa thought. They are no true knights, not one of them.}}
{{Ref|aCoK|32}}

During the [[Riot of King's Landing]], Sandor came to the aid of [[Sansa Stark]] when the girl was nearly dragged from her horse by the angry mob. Sandors savage fury and sword fighting driving the away the mob from her in fear. Sandor's intervention saved Sansa from rape and possible murder by the mob.

He fought heroically during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], but eventually deserted after refusing to [[Tyrion]]'s command to return to the fiery battlefield.{{Ref|aCoK|59}} Before fleeing, he waited for Sansa Stark in her chambers and drunkenly offered to take her with him, but instead settled for a song elicited at knifepoint.{{Ref|aCoK|62}} Sansa [[UnKiss|believes that he kissed her]], and kept the bloodied Kingsguard cloak he left behind.

===A Storm of Swords===
[[File:Asiulus_SC&alittlebird.png|thumb|right|Sandor Clegane - Artwork by Asiulus ©|250px]]
As a vagabond, he was arrested in the Riverlands by the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]], who also had [[Arya Stark]] in their custody. The Brotherhood put Sandor on trial for various atrocities committed by Lannister soldiers, but no crime could be attributed to him personally until Arya testified to his killing of Mycah the butcher's boy. He chose trial by combat, facing the Brotherhood's leader Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]]. A follower of [[R'hllor]], Beric fought with a magic flaming blade, but Sandor managed to [[Beric Dondarrion#The Seven Deaths of Dondarrion|defeat]] him despite his hangover and fear of fire.{{Ref|aSoS|34}}
[[File:MKomarck_Beric_v_Hound.jpg‎‎|Sandor Clegane vs [[Beric Dondarrion]] - by Michael Komarck © |thumb|280px|right]]
The Brotherhood stripped him of most of his possessions, including the remains of his winnings from the [[Tourney of the Hand]], and set him free, though he was allowed to keep his arms, armor and his warhorse [[Stranger (horse)|Stranger]]. When several of the Brotherhood stated that Sandor should be killed, Lord Beric said [[R'hllor]] must have a purpose for the Hound.{{Ref|aSoS|39}} Clegane soon returned to try to reclaim his gold by force, upon which he stumbled across Arya as she was escaping. He kidnapped her instead{{Ref|aSoS|43}} and intended to ransom her her back to her brother [[Robb Stark]]{{Ref|aSoS|47}} at the [[Twins]]{{Ref|aSoS|50}}, but arrived just as the [[Red Wedding]] massacre was taking place{{Ref|aSoS|51}}{{Ref|aSoS|52}}.

Clegane stole Arya off again in the hopes of finding another relative to whom he could ransom her. With [[Riverrun]] besieged by the Lannisters and the [[Eyrie]] inaccessible,{{Ref|aSoS|65}} the prospect of the ransom faded and they spent some time living rough and moving from village to village. Arya continued to name the Hound every night among the people she wanted to kill.

Seeking shelter at the [[Inn at the Crossroads]], they ran afoul of two of Gregor's men and their squire. When the two groups came to blows, Sandor killed [[Polliver]] and held off [[Tickler|The Tickler]] but was seriously injured in the fight due to inebriation and hunger. The two were victorious, and though Arya dressed his wounds, they quickly became infected; still hating him, Arya refused to grant him the mercy of a quick death. She abandoned Sandor to die under a tree by the Trident, and his fate becomes uncertain after this point.{{Ref|aSoS|74}}

===A Feast For Crows===
[[Rorge]], [[Biter]], and some of the remaining [[Brave Companions]] travel east to the town of [[Saltpans]] where [[Rorge]] recovers and dons Sandor Clegane's ‘snarling dog’, helm from his purported gravesite, and embarks upon a brutal spree of banditry across the region, culminating in the vicious sack of [[Saltpans]].

With reports identifying the culprit only by the helm, [[Rorge]]'s crimes have been attributed to Sandor {{Ref|aFfC|12}}{{Ref|aFfC|31}}, which results in rumors of Sandor Clegane’s alleged atrocities spreading throughout the region. {{ref|affc|30}}

Just prior to King [[Tommen]]’s nuptials [[Kevan Lannister]] comes over to Cersei and mentions that Sandor Clegane was reported to have joined [[Beric Dondarrion]]'s outlaws. The queen is already aware of this, having read a report that outlaws had pillaged [[Saltpans]] and savagely raped the townswomen. The report had come from a septry on an island hard by the mouth of the [[Trident]], she read that included in the band of outlaws was a roaring brute in a hound's head helm.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}
Cersei suggests that [[Lancel Lannister]] hunt down the Hound, but her uncle is displeased by this insolent comment and answers that his son is not the man to deal with Sandor Clegane. When she then suggests that he go after Clegane, Ser Kevan responds,
{{Quote|When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master. {{Ref|aFfC|12}}}}
[[Rorge]] was later killed by [[Brienne of Tarth]]{{Ref|aFfC|37}} at the [[Inn at the Crossroads]]. The snarling dog’s helm came to be in the possession of [[Lem|Lem Lemoncloak]] when the [[Brotherhood Without Banners|Brotherhood]] arrived. [[Thoros of Myr]] advised Lem to abandon the helm, seeing it as a symbol of Sandor's rage, but the bitter Lem refused.{{Ref|aFfC|42}}

Prior to [[Rorge]]’s death [[Brienne]] acted on information that she received from [[Timeon]] that [[Sansa Stark]] had been stolen and carried away by [[the Hound]]. Her travels with septon [[Meribald]] take her to a monastery on the [[Quiet Isle]]. On the isle she speaks privately to the [[Elder Brother]] of the monastery and tells him of her quest and her past. [[Elder Brother]] informs her that it was the other sister that Sandor made off with, the younger one, [[Arya Stark]].

[[Brienne]] is shocked by this news as she believed [[Arya]] to be dead. [[Elder Brother]] goes on to tell her that he is certain that [[Arya]] was with Sandor at the inn beside the crossroads, the one old [[Masha Heddle]] used to keep. He knows that they were headed for the [[Saltpans]] but beyond that he tells her that all he knows for a certainty is that:
{{Quote|The man you hunt is dead. {{ref|affc|31}}}}
This is another shock to [[Brienne]]. She asks him how Sandor died. [[Elder Brother]] replies,
{{Quote|By the sword, as he had lived. {{ref|affc|31}}}}
[[Brienne]] asks [[Elder Brother]],
{{Quote|You know this for a certainty? {{ref|affc|31}}}}
He answers by saying that he buried him himself and that he knows where his grave lies and if she wishes he can show her. He says to [[Brienne]],
{{Quote|I covered him with stones to keep the carrion eaters from digging up his flesh, and set his helm atop the [[w:cairn|cairn]] to mark his final resting place. That was a grievous error. [[Rorge|Some other wayfarer found my marker]] and claimed it for himself. The man who raped and killed at [[Saltpans]] was not Sandor Clegane, though he may be as dangerous. {{ref|affc|31}}}}
He adds that the [[riverlands]] are full of such scavengers and that he will not call them wolves, saying:
{{Quote|Wolves are nobler than that … and so are dogs, I think. {{ref|affc|31}}}}
The [[Elder Brother]] tells Brienne that he knows a little of this man, Sandor Clegane. Then he goes on to say to her what he knows of him:
{{Quote|He was Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]’s sworn shield for many a year, and even here [on the Quiet Isle] we would hear tell of his deeds, both good and ill. If even half of what we heard was true, this was a bitter, tormented soul, a sinner who mocked both gods and men. He served, but found no pride in service. He fought, but took no joy in victory. He drank, to drown his pain in a sea of [[wine]]. He did not love, nor was he loved himself. It was hate that drove him. Though he committed many sins, he never sought forgiveness. Where other men dream of love, or wealth or glory, this man Sandor Clegane dreamed of slaying [[Gregor Clegane|his own brother]], a sin so terrible it makes me shudder just to speak of it. Yet it was the bread that nourished him, the fuel that kept his fires burning. Ignoble as it was, the hope of seeing his brother's blood upon his blade was all this sad and angry creature lived for … and even that was taken from him, when [[Oberyn Martell|Prince Oberyn]] of [[Dorne]] stabbed Ser Gregor with a poisoned spear. {{Ref|aFfC|31}} }}
[[Brienne]] remarks that its sounds as if [[Elder Brother]] pitied him. He replies that he did and that she would have pitied him as well if she had seen him at the end,
{{Quote|I came upon him by the [[Trident]], drawn by his cries of pain. He begged me for the gift of mercy, but I am sworn not to kill again. Instead, I bathed his fevered brow with river water, and gave him [[wine]] to drink and a poultice for his wound, but my efforts were too little and too late. The Hound died there, in my arms. You may have seen a big black stallion in our stables. That was his warhorse, [[Stranger (horse)|Stranger]]. A blasphemous name. We prefer to call him [[Stranger (horse)|Driftwood]], as he was found beside the river. I fear he has his former master’s nature. {{Ref|aFfC|31}} }}
Brienne’s thoughts turn to the black stallion she has seen, but she understands destriers are trained to kick and bite, she concludes to herself that,
{{Quote|In war they were a weapon, like the men who rode them. Like the Hound. {{Ref|aFfC|31}} }}
[[Brienne]] is disappointed as her plans on confronting the Hound and finding out what has happened to Sansa or Arya have been thwarted. She comments dully to Elder Brother,
{{Quote|It is true, then … Sandor Clegane is dead. {{Ref|aFfC|31}}}}
[[Elder Brother]] simply replies,
{{Quote|He is at rest. {{Ref|aFfC|31}}}}
Elder Brother then pauses and the conversation turns to [[Elder Brother]] himself.

Many readers of the series believe that there are hints in what [[Elder Brother]] has said about the Hound to [[Brienne]], that [[Elder Brother]] considers "the Hound" to be simply an aspect of Sandor's personality, and that Sandor Clegane himself may have survived and is living as a novice on the [[Quiet Isle]] monastery. Readers have identified Sandor as the [[Gravedigger/Theories|novice gravedigger]] espied by Brienne.

Sometime later, while having dinner at [[House Darry|Castle]], [[Jaime Lannister]] hears of the rumors concerning Sandor Clegane from the other people at the dinner table. He asks what makes them so certain it was the Hound in the [[Saltpans]]. He thinks what the people at the dinner table are describing sounds more [[Gregor Clegane]]’s work than Sandor’s. Jaime nurses doubts about the rumors and thinks privately to himself:
{{Quote|Sandor had been hard and brutal, yes, but it was his big brother who was the real monster in [[House Clegane]]. {{ref|affc|30}}}}

During the dinner Ser [[Lyle Crakehall]] claims to have been moved by the distress of Lady [[Mariya Darry|Mariya]], and Lady[[ Amerei Frey|Amerei]] and gives them his word that once [[Riverrun]] has fallen he shall return to hunt down the Hound and kill him for them, adding that dogs do not frighten him. [[Jaime]] thinks that to himself this one should, he thinks to himself that,
{{Quote|both men are large and powerful, but Sandor Clegane is much quicker, and fights with a savagery that [[Lyle Crakehall]] cannot hope to match. {{ref|affc|30}}}}
==Quotes==
[[File: MiguelRegodónHarkness_theHound.jpg‎|Sandor Clegane - © 2012 Miguel Regodón Harkness|thumb|300px]]
{{Quote|A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he’ll look you straight in the face. {{Ref|aSoS|18}}}} - Sandor Clegane, to [[Sansa]]

{{Quote|I like dogs better than [[knight]]s. {{Ref|aSoS|18}}}}- Sandor Clegane, to [[Sansa]]

{{Quote|Even a dog gets tired of being kicked. {{Ref|aSoS|47}}}}- Sandor Clegane, to [[Arya]]

{{Quote| [[Sansa| Your sister]] sang me a sweet little song. {{Ref|aSoS|47}}}}- Sandor Clegane, to [[Arya]]

{{Quote| My own dog now. {{Ref|aSoS|65}}}}- Sandor Clegane, to another survivor of the [[Red Wedding]], the dying bowman in service to Ser [[Marq Piper]]

{{Quote|Bugger that. Bugger him. Bugger you. {{Ref|aSoS|74}}}}- Sandor Clegane, to the [[Tickler]], before the fight at the [[Inn at the Crossroads]]

==Family==
{{Clegane tree}}

==References and Notes==
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A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Sansa III
| page = 355
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 18|Sansa II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 52|Sansa IV]]
}}

[[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] is called before [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] to pay for her brother [[Robb Stark]]’s victory. Sansa is being beaten by [[Kingsguard]] when [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives. He stops the beating and has her taken to the [[Tower of the Hand]] to be cleaned up and treated. The next morning he offers her protection, but she refuses.

==Synopsis==
[[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] is telling [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] that if she keeps [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] waiting it will only be worse. As Sansa is making herself pretty for Joffrey (he likes he to look pretty), she is wondering if Joffrey had heard about her meetings with Ser [[Dontos Hollard|Dontos]].
As they are walking, Sansa asks the Hound what she has done and is told her that it is what her kingly brother [[Robb Stark]] had done. Sansa tells the Hound that Robb is the traitor and she had no part; she can only think that if Robb had harmed [[Jaime Lannister]] she would have to face Ser [[Ilyn Payne]]. The Hound tells her again that they trained her well, little bird.

She is led to the lower bailey where a crowd is gathered. She can hear Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] coughing as they part to let her pass. Ser [[Horas Redwyne]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] avoid her glaze as she passes. There is a cat shot by a bolt mewling on the ground. Ser Dontos riding a broomstick as commanded by the king, whispers to her “Be brave.” In the center stands Joffrey with Ser [[Boros Blount]] and Ser [[Meryn Trant]] beside him. She kneels before him to be told kneeling will not save her and must answer to her brother’s treasons. She is slow to get up, and the Hound not ungently pulls her up when commanded.

Ser [[Lancel Lannister]] is told to tell her of the outrage:
{{Quote|Using some vile sorcery, your brother fell upon Ser [[Stafford Lannister]] with an army of wargs, not three days ride from Lannisport. Thousands of good men were butchered as they slept, without the chance to lift sword. After the slaughter, the northmen feasted on the flesh of the slain.}}

(Of course the Lannisters are responsible for worse outrages of murder, pillaging, raping, and burning in the [[Riverlands]]). Joffrey asks if she has anything to say. Ser Dontos tells him that she is shocked witless. Joffrey then brings up how her [[Direwolf]], savaged him. Sansa tells him that is was [[Arya Stark|Arya’s]] wolf, and he killed [[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]] even though she never hurt him. Joffrey replies that it was [[Eddard Stark]] that killed Lady, and he killed him. Joffrey then recounts how he shot a man in the throat at the gates that was bigger than her father. He would shoot her also but [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] says they will kill [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]]. He then commands the Hound to hit Sansa, but Ser Dontos intervenes by waking her over the head with his morning star—a melon on the end of a stick. People were laughing, but, despite Sansa’s prayers, Joffrey did not. Instead he calls to his [[Kingsguard]], telling them to save her face. Ser Meryn flings Ser Dontos down while Ser Boros first slams a fist into Sansa’s belly, and then starts to lay the flat of his blade across her thighs. The Hound rasps “Enough,” but the king orders Boros to make her naked and he tears the silk of her bodice away exposing her breasts. She can hear sniggers as Joffery orders her beat bloody.

It is then that [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives and asks what sort of knight beats helpless maids. Ser Boros replies one that serves his king, drawing his sword, with Ser Meryn stepping beside him. [[Bronn]] tells them:
{{Quote|Careful with those. You don’t want to get blood all over those pretty white cloaks.”
Tryion asks for someone to give Sansa something to cover herself, and Sandor tosses her his cloak. Tyrion then asks Joffrey:
{{Quote|This girl’s to be your queen. Have you no regard for her honor?}}

Joffrey replies that he is punishing her for having the blood of the wolf, and Tyrion replies that Joffrey has the wits of a goose. Joffrey then tells Tyion that the king can do as he likes, and Tyrion asks if he knows what happened to [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Ser Boros tell Tyrion that no one threatens the king, and Tyrion tells him that he is educating him, and then tells Bronn and [[Timett]] to kill Ser Boros if he opens his mouth again…that is a threat. When Ser Boros, turning red, states the queen will hear of this, Tyrion asks if they should send for Cersei. When Joffrey has nothing to say, Tyrion continues:
{{Quote|Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. Wanton brutality is no way to win your people’s love... or your queen’s.}}
Joffrey replies:
{{Quote|Fear is better than love, Mother says. She fears me. (he is pointing to Sansa}}
An so Tyrion states:
{{Quote|Yes, I see. A pity [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] and [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] aren’t twelve year-old girls as well.}}
Tyrion then continues by ordering Bronn and Timett to bring Sansa.

They take her to the [[Tower of the Hand}}. She is shaking and moving as she is in a dream. Serving girls clean her up and treat her wounds. Sansa thinks how the Hound hated knight, and now she hates them also, and also that they are not true knights. She sleeps.

She wakes that night and her legs pain her when she gets up. Outside her door she finds a woman a woman who she tells she wants to go to the [[Godswood]]; she wanted to find Ser Dontos and beg him to take her home before it was too late. The woman tells her that that Tyrion said she was not to leave. When food comes in the morning she tells the servant to take it away. Later Tyrion arrives and tells her that she is a guest, not a prisoner.

Tyrion then tells the story of Robb’s victory. Ser Stafford’s host was encamped outside [[Oxcross]]. There were no army of wargs as Ser Lancel claimed:
{{Quote|Ser Lancel’s a wineskin warrior who wouldn’t know a warg from a wart.}}
Robb’s soldiers crept into the camp and cut the horse lines, and then Robb sent his [[Direwolf]] among them, which helped to cause a stampede, the trampled the camp, killing many. Most of the rese fled in terror, casting aside their weapons. Among the dead are Ser Stafford (killed by Lord [[Rickard Karstark]]), Ser [[Rupert Brax]], Ser [[Lymond Vikary]], Lord [[Roland Crakehall|Crakehall]], and Lord [[Antario Jast]]. Five hundred had been taken prisoner including Jast’s sons, and [[Martyn Lannister]]. Ser Stafford had not even posted sentries. The only mystery is how Robb reached Oxcross since [[House Lannister|Lannister]] forces hold [[Golden Tooth]].

Tyrion then asks Sansa how she feels about his nephew and she says:
{{Quote|I love him with all my heart.}}
When Tyrion asks for confirmation she states:
{{Quote|My love for His Grace is greater than it has ever been.}}
Tyrion is amused and tells her someone taught her to lie well and she may be grateful one day. He then asks if she has flowered, to which she answers no. He says that is good, and that he does not intend for her to marry Joffrey since there will never be a reconciliation between the Lannister and [[House Stark|Stark]] with the way Joffrey has acted; it was one of [[Robert Baratheon]]’s better notions. Sansa is concerned that this is a trick and states she only wants to be loyal. Tyrion muses.
{{Quote|Loyal and far from any Lannisters. I can scarce blame you for that. When I was your age, I wanted the same thing. They tell me you visit the godswood every day. What do you pray for, Sansa?}}
She thinks Robb’’s victory and Joffrey’s death but says:
{{Quote|I pray for an end to the fighting.}}
Tyrion tells her there will be another battle between Robb and [[Tywin Lannister]] and that will settle the issue, not to think that Oxcross was significant, and to pray that her bother bends his knee, and he will return her to [[Winterfell]] once there is peace. He offers to have some of his [[Mountain clans|clansmen]] guard her, maybe [[Chella]] if she prefers a woman. Sansa, thinking about Ser Dontos rescuing her, tells him that wildlings frighten her. He tells her that they frighten Joffrey and his Kingsguard so no one would harm her. When she tells him she would prefer sleeping in her own bed and the tower was where her father’s men were slain, and their ghosts give her bad dreams.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-sansa-iii-slapping-me-softly.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-15 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 32]]
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[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 33, Sansa]][[zh:列王的纷争-章节 32]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Sansa III
| page = 355
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 18|Sansa II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 52|Sansa IV]]
}}

[[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] is called before [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] to pay for her brother [[Robb Stark]]’s victory. Sansa is being beaten by [[Kingsguard]] when [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives. He stops the beating and has her taken to the [[Tower of the Hand]] to be cleaned up and treated. The next morning he offers her protection, but she refuses.

==Synopsis==
[[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] is telling [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] that if she keeps [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] waiting it will only be worse. As Sansa is making herself pretty for Joffrey (he likes he to look pretty), she is wondering if Joffrey had heard about her meetings with Ser [[Dontos Hollard|Dontos]].
As they are walking, Sansa asks the Hound what she has done and is told her that it is what her kingly brother [[Robb Stark]] had done. Sansa tells the Hound that Robb is the traitor and she had no part; she can only think that if Robb had harmed [[Jaime Lannister]] she would have to face Ser [[Ilyn Payne]]. The Hound tells her again that they trained her well, little bird.

She is led to the lower bailey where a crowd is gathered. She can hear Lord [[Gyles Rosby]] coughing as they part to let her pass. Ser [[Horas Redwyne]] and [[Hobber Redwyne]] avoid her glaze as she passes. There is a cat shot by a bolt mewling on the ground. Ser Dontos riding a broomstick as commanded by the king, whispers to her “Be brave.” In the center stands Joffrey with Ser [[Boros Blount]] and Ser [[Meryn Trant]] beside him. She kneels before him to be told kneeling will not save her and must answer to her brother’s treasons. She is slow to get up, and the Hound not ungently pulls her up when commanded.

Ser [[Lancel Lannister]] is told to tell her of the outrage:
{{Quote|Using some vile sorcery, your brother fell upon Ser [[Stafford Lannister]] with an army of wargs, not three days ride from Lannisport. Thousands of good men were butchered as they slept, without the chance to lift sword. After the slaughter, the northmen feasted on the flesh of the slain.}}

(Of course the Lannisters are responsible for worse outrages of murder, pillaging, raping, and burning in the [[Riverlands]]). Joffrey asks if she has anything to say. Ser Dontos tells him that she is shocked witless. Joffrey then brings up how her [[Direwolf]], savaged him. Sansa tells him that is was [[Arya Stark|Arya’s]] wolf, and he killed [[Lady (direwolf)|Lady]] even though she never hurt him. Joffrey replies that it was [[Eddard Stark]] that killed Lady, and he killed him. Joffrey then recounts how he shot a man in the throat at the gates that was bigger than her father. He would shoot her also but [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] says they will kill [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]]. He then commands the Hound to hit Sansa, but Ser Dontos intervenes by waking her over the head with his morning star—a melon on the end of a stick. People were laughing, but, despite Sansa’s prayers, Joffrey did not. Instead he calls to his [[Kingsguard]], telling them to save her face. Ser Meryn flings Ser Dontos down while Ser Boros first slams a fist into Sansa’s belly, and then starts to lay the flat of his blade across her thighs. The Hound rasps “Enough,” but the king orders Boros to make her naked and he tears the silk of her bodice away exposing her breasts. She can hear sniggers as Joffery orders her beat bloody.

It is then that [[Tyrion Lannister]] arrives and asks what sort of knight beats helpless maids. Ser Boros replies one that serves his king, drawing his sword, with Ser Meryn stepping beside him. [[Bronn]] tells them:
{{Quote|Careful with those. You don’t want to get blood all over those pretty white cloaks.”
Tryion asks for someone to give Sansa something to cover herself, and Sandor tosses her his cloak. Tyrion then asks Joffrey:
{{Quote|This girl’s to be your queen. Have you no regard for her honor?}}

Joffrey replies that he is punishing her for having the blood of the wolf, and Tyrion replies that Joffrey has the wits of a goose. Joffrey then tells Tyion that the king can do as he likes, and Tyrion asks if he knows what happened to [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Ser Boros tell Tyrion that no one threatens the king, and Tyrion tells him that he is educating him, and then tells Bronn and [[Timett]] to kill Ser Boros if he opens his mouth again…that is a threat. When Ser Boros, turning red, states the queen will hear of this, Tyrion asks if they should send for Cersei. When Joffrey has nothing to say, Tyrion continues:
{{Quote|Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. Wanton brutality is no way to win your people’s love... or your queen’s.}}
Joffrey replies:
{{Quote|Fear is better than love, Mother says. She fears me. (he is pointing to Sansa}}
An so Tyrion states:
{{Quote|Yes, I see. A pity {{Stannis Baratheon|Stannis }} and {{Renly Baratheon|Renly}} aren’t twelve year-old girls as well.}}
Tyrion then continues by ordering Bronn and Timett to bring Sansa.

They take her to the [[Tower of the Hand}}. She is shaking and moving as she is in a dream. Serving girls clean her up and treat her wounds. Sansa thinks how the Hound hated knight, and now she hates them also, and also that they are not true knights. She sleeps.

She wakes that night and her legs pain her when she gets up. Outside her door she finds a woman a woman who she tells she wants to go to the [[Godswood]]; she wanted to find Ser Dontos and beg him to take her home before it was too late. The woman tells her that that Tyrion said she was not to leave. When food comes in the morning she tells the servant to take it away. Later Tyrion arrives and tells her that she is a guest, not a prisoner.

Tyrion then tells the story of Robb’s victory. Ser Stafford’s host was encamped outside [[Oxcross]]. There were no army of wargs as Ser Lancel claimed:
{{Quote|Ser Lancel’s a wineskin warrior who wouldn’t know a warg from a wart.}}
Robb’s soldiers crept into the camp and cut the horse lines, and then Robb sent his [[Direwolf]] among them, which helped to cause a stampede, the trampled the camp, killing many. Most of the rese fled in terror, casting aside their weapons. Among the dead are Ser Stafford (killed by Lord [[Rickard Karstark]]), Ser [[Rubert Brax]], Ser [[Lymond Vikary]], Lord [[Roland Crakehall|Crakehall]], and Lord [[Antario Jast]]. Five hundred had been taken prisoner including Jast’s sons, and [[Martyn Lannister]]. Ser Stafford had not even posted sentries. The only mystery is how Robb reached Oxcross since [[House Lannister|Lannister]] forces hold [[Golden Tooth]].

Tyrion then asks Sansa how she feels about his nephew and she says:
{{Quote|I love him with all my heart.}}
When Tyrion asks for confirmation she states:
{{Quote|My love for His Grace is greater than it has ever been.}}
Tyrion is amused and tells her someone taught her to lie well and she may be grateful one day. He then asks if she has flowered, to which she answers no. He says that is good, and that he does not intend for her to marry Joffrey since there will never be a reconciliation between the Lannister and [[House Stark|Stark]] with the way Joffrey has acted; it was one of [[Robert Baratheon]]’s better notions. Sansa is concerned that this is a trick and states she only wants to be loyal. Tyrion muses.
{{Quote|Loyal and far from any Lannisters. I can scarce blame you for that. When I was your age, I wanted the same thing. They tell me you visit the godswood every day. What do you pray for, Sansa?}}
She thinks Robb’’s victory and Joffrey’s death but says:
{{Quote|I pray for an end to the fighting.}}
Tyrion tells her there will be another battle between Robb and [[Tywin Lannister]] and that will settle the issue, not to think that Oxcross was significant, and to pray that her bother bends his knee, and he will return her to [[Winterfell]] once there is peace. He offers to have some of his [[Mountain clans|clansmen]] guard her, maybe [[Chella]] if she prefers a woman. Sansa, thinking about Ser Dontos rescuing her, tells him that wildlings frighten her. He tells her that they frighten Joffrey and his Kingsguard so no one would harm her. When she tells him she would prefer sleeping in her own bed and the tower was where her father’s men were slain, and their ghosts give her bad dreams.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-sansa-iii-slapping-me-softly.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-15 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 32]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Sansa Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 33, Sansa]][[zh:列王的纷争-章节 32]]

User talk:Scafloc

2013-03-28T17:36:18Z

Qck2: /* Gyles Greycloak */ new section

==Test of template from the Turkish wiki==
*The Turkish version of the War template is copied to [[User:Scafloc/sandbox]]
*The War template uses the infobox template the Turkish version of that is copied to [[Sandbox]]
{{User:Scafloc/sandbox
| savas_ismi = Bes Kralın Savası
| anasavas =
| image =
| image2 =
| tarih = {{Tarih|298}}-{{Tarih|300}}
| eksavaslar =
| yer = [[Westeros]]
| sonuc = [[Kral Toprakları-Baratheon Hanesi]]'nin ezici zaferi.

| taraf1 = [[Joffrey Baratheon|Demir Taht'taki Kral]]
| kumandan1 = Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]
Sör [[Jaime Lannister]]
Sör {[[Stafford Lannister]]}
Sör [[Daven Lannister]]
| guc1 = [[Kral Toprakları-Baratheon Hanesi]] ve [[Lannister Hanesi]]
[[Kral Toprakları]]'na ve [[Casterly Kayasına]] yeminli diger haneler
| kayıp1 =

| taraf2 = [[Robb Stark|Kuzeydeki Kral]]
| kumandan2 = Kral {[[Robb Stark]]}
Lord [[Roose Bolton]]
Sör [[Brynden Tully]]
Lord [[Edmure Tully]]
| guc2 = [[Stark Hanesi]] ve [[Tully Hanesi]]
[[Kısyarı]] ve [[Nehirova]]'ya baglı diger haneler.
| kayıp2 =

| taraf3 = [[Stannis Baratheon|Dar Deniz ve Sur'daki Kral]]
| kumandan3 = Kral [[Stannis Baratheon]]
Lord {[[Imry Florent]]}
Sör {[[Axell Florent]]}
Sör [[Rolland Storm]]
[[Salladhor Saan]]
| guc3 =[[Ejderha Kayası-Baratheon Hanesi]]
[[Ejderha Kayası]]'na yeminli haneler.
[[Mormont Hanesi|Mormont]] ve [[Glover Hanesi|Glover]] Haneleri (daha sonradan)
| kayıp3 =

| taraf4 = [[Renly Baratheon|Yuksek Bahce'deki Kral]]
| kumandan4 = Kral {[[Renly Baratheon]]}
Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]
Lord [[Randyll Tarly]]
Sör [[Loras Tyrell]]
| guc4 = Fırtına Burnu [[Baratheon Hanesi]] ve [[Tyrell Hanesi]]
[[Fırtına Burnu]]'na ve [[Yuksek Bahce]]'ye yeminli haneler.
| kayıp4 =

| taraf5 = [[Balon Greyjoy|Demir Adalar Kralı]]
| kumandan5 = Kral {[[Balon Greyjoy]]}
Prens [[Theon Greyjoy]]
Leydi [[Asha Greyjoy]]
Lord [[Victarion Greyjoy]]
Kral [[Euron Greyjoy]]
| guc5 = [[Greyjoy Hanesi]]
[[Pyke]]'a yeminli haneler.
| kayıp5 =
}}
Rather unfortunate the error cannot be regenerated.
== Notice ==

This is a generic sent to all users: Before adding new articles today, please review all articles you have contributed to (and any other articles you care to check, but your own articles first and foremost) and verify that they are either: a) wholly original or b) copied from [[w:Main%20Page|RTENOTITLE]]. If (b) applies, please verify that [[w:Copyrights|RTENOTITLE]] is fulfilled by making sure that somewhere on the document is a notice of this kind:

::<nowiki>This article derives from the Wikipedia article "[[w:<Article name>|<Article Name>]]"</nowiki>. --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 02:32, 26 April 2007 (CDT)

== Hello ==

Thank you for adding me to ASOIF Wiki.
Your email said I could contact you if I needed any help, so here I am. I added six quotes to the featured quotes section - but do not know how to link the names after the quotes to the character pages.
Also, I have more quotes to add, but can not figure out how to add new quote pages. I followed the guide, both ways they discussed, but ended up deleting the whole page. I restored it, but am not sure how. to avoid doing so in the future, I am waiting for some help. Could you either add new blank quote pages, so I could add more quotes (have about 15 more) or could you help by making the description of how to add a new quote page more friendly for users who have no wiki-editing experience? I really appreciate any attention you can give to these issues. Please let me know how I can help in anyway. Thanks, Kyle [[User:Kylevincent|Kylevincent]] 16:06, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

== Houses without info ==

Hi Scafloc!

You're right that we should think about what to do with the minor houses/the hiosues whe know little of. For Jasts or Hetherspoon's we'd even could include info for the minor characters of their house, but for others all we have is a name, and an uncannon heraldry from westeros.org.

I'd say the best thing would be your second suggestion. Create pages such as "[[Houses from the Stormlands]], and include there all the minor houses with the few bits of info we may have. Not much sure how those pages should be structured exactly. --[[User:The hairy bear|The hairy bear]] ([[User talk:The hairy bear|Send me a raven]]) 05:31, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

== Wiki ==

Is it completly dead and abandoned? You seem to be the last one to regularly contribute, that's why I'm asking here. [[User talk:Stalker25|Stalker]] 04:20, 21 February 2009 (CST)

== Husband as a parameter in Template:Character ==

Ok thanks for the info!

== Rhaena ==

Thanks, I only noticed after I had saved the page that I had not checked that I had the full name in the link. I was wondering how I was going to solve the Rhaena/Rhaena Targaryen problem.

The Pale Griffin

== Sorry about the banners, help needed ==

I got the images from the RPG book that I purchased some days ago.

I'm not sure what are the copyrights for those pictures and to be honest, I didn't even know they had them for such images.

Anyway, I don't really know how to add the copyrights or anything or how to check them, could you help me out on this? I would gladly do it, but I lack the knowledge (and skills).

By the way, I was going to add a detailed map of Westeros, also gotten from the RPG book, but now I'm not sure if I can and I don't really even know how to since I am a wiki-newbie.

Cheers!

== COA ==
Really like your new coat of arms ! [[User:Evrach|Evrach]] 09:38, 30 August 2010 (CDT)

===Category:Houses without COA===
Sorry, I didnt understand the query thing. what I did is change the Image field for the [[Template:Noble_House]] to:

<code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{image|}}}|{{{image}}}|[[Image:No_image.jpg|200px]][[Category:Houses without COA]]}}</nowiki></code>

It checks if image was assigned, if so it shows it otherwise it auto adds it to the [[:Category:Houses without COA]]. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I think I get it now. Do you want to add to that list only houses that has no Image AND have coat of arms description? if so it's an easy fix. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 08:49, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

=== Updating COA ===
I tried to update the [[:File:Kingsguard.PNG|Kingsguard COA]], with a simple gradient to make it less blend, but for some reason it doesnt work. the file was uploaded successfully it's the correct size but it doesnt show as it [[http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=i2m61d&s=7 should]], I thought that it might be some kind of cache thing, so I waited but it still show nothing, any idea why not? [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 17:13, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

: well I recently uploaded another file but I still have the same issue, clearing cache diffident browsers and few other tricks didnt solve it... so if you happened to have a chance to update an image, specifically by selecting it and then clicking upload a new version of it, please drop me a message. I want to make sure it's not some kind of server side upload issue before I schedule a format of my laptop, thanks --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:29, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

== Wiki ==

Hey Scafloc! Thanks for the message. I see that you seem to be one of the main guys here. I've just finished compiling all of the Martin sources concerning Languages I could (in one read through) from the books on another wiki, at http://wiki.dothraki.org Perhaps you could look through it, or we could replicate the pages I made here? Particularly Other Languages and Corpus...

== RE: Selyse Florent ==

You're totally right... obviously I was not well enough caffeinated when I changed that. Thanks for catching it! -[[User:Managerpants|Managerpants]] 12:25, 23 May 2011 (CDT)

== Talkback ==

Replied at [[User talk:Anguy the Archer#Templates]]. [[User:Anguy the Archer|Anguy the Archer]] 15:26, 19 June 2011 (CDT)

== New Main Page ==

Great new main page! It's a nice approach. Two suggestions: it may just be me, but the top section seems to have much too large a font, with the main category links spilling off to the right of the page. Also, some more reference to the TV series by name would be good, just to help search engines find us, as we provide relevant content. Unless the idea is to go this way as we set up a specific portal for the show, of course. Thanks for your hard work! --[[User:Ran|Ran]] 12:46, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

::Okay, I think I fixed the size issue, and also worked in a more explicit reference to the show on the project section. But just an attempt at it, please feel free to adjust it further in whatever way you think best! --[[User:Ran|Ran]]12:57, 2 July 2011 (CDT)

== Punks ==
Thanks Scafloc. I just dread when that guy gets access. I can only imagine his "better than you" attitude and if we don't like what he has to offer, we "don't get it". [[User:The Pale Griffin|The Pale Griffin]] 18:49, 16 August 2011 (CDT)

== Hi ==
Just dropped by to say thank for the welcome. Btw, I didnt know it's possible to link to templates from wikipida(like you did with the userbars) and that Feature quote is awesome, if there is no template for it yet, there will be ;) [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 06:23, 18 August 2011 (CDT)

Hi Scafloc (Arek here) Apologies for images. I know you cannot add images unless the artist has given consent. Im not sure how to send message back to you so hope this reaches you. Im a big fan of the series and enjoy contributing to the Wiki. The House Targaryen & BLackfyre Sigils were based on TV series but were modified by me Photoshop. Ive uploaded some personal artwork I drew on two characters (Mors Umber & Moqorro). Is it ok to do that with characters that have no artwork done?

Im planning on drawing/designing Arnolf Karstark & Ser Robert Strong later on when I have the free time. Anyway if you let me know Id appreciate it. Once again Apologies for Targaryen symbol (I do not want to get into an editing war :-) )

== CSS ==
I like your idea of working with custom css, here is few thought I had going over it:
* Topbar transparency, If still want it, I think you should check mw-page-base and mw-head-base on top of mw-head.
* Backround Image, I like the idea of the map. I think that it will look better if we make it little smaller, blurred and place it bellow the navigation links (or change nav links color, because it's kind of hard to read it blue on blue).
* Hiding the logo, I dont like the logo as well, but I like the Idea of a logo or nice background image for the topbar. we have so many amazing artist around maybe we can ask if someone can make something?
* Fonts, I love hand written fonts but I think they fit better on art pieces or at best you should limit it to h1 h2 h3 titles because the rest look funny in the articles.

Also, how do you feel about changing the over all white background and font color to something darker, lets say: ''background:#F9F7F1; color:#414141; '' <br />
and maybe hiding the caption on the main page as well ''body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }'' <br /> [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 18:29, 22 August 2011 (CDT)
==Thanks==
for the welcome! [[User:Jdray|Jdray]] 18:32, 5 September 2011 (CDT)

== spoilers ==

Damn, those spoilers sections looks bad, not the way I thought they would :/
* What if we add a width 100% to avoid the dance of the spoilers? something like that:
====A Game of Thrones====
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! WARNING! This section contains spoilers! Press show to see them.
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* maybe we can combine the header with the warning, something like that:
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* And try for a more minimalistic approach:

{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"
|-
! style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"| <div style="float:left">
====A Game of Thrones====
</div><div style="float:right">WARNING! This section contains spoilers! To see them Press  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px #000000 solid;background:none;"|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
|}

* it's probably will not work well with other elements and still doesnt look that well, but this the best I can think of right now, here is a quick template that will utilize the above:
<pre>
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%; border:0px; background:none;"
! style="border:0px; solid;background:none;"|<div style="float:left">
{{{1}}}
</div> <div style="float:right">Spoiler warning  </div>
|-
| style="border:0px;background:none;"|{{{2|}}}
|}
</pre>

* which would be used like that:
<pre>
{{Spoiler|====A Game of Thrones====|
After the death of [[Jon Arryn]], King Robert travels north to visit Ned Stark at Winterfell and persuade him to become Jon's successor as Hand of the King. The king is accompanied by almost the whole court, among them Jaime and Cersei.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 4|Chapter 4]], Eddard</ref>

While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei are caught having sex by [[Bran Stark]]. Bran is shocked and almost falls from the tower. Jaime pulls him up and then throws him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret. Bran survives but falls into a coma.<ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 8|Chapter 8]], Bran</ref>
}}
</pre>

[[User_talk:Mordin999#Collapsible_tables|Replay]] - Maybe we should start by creating a new template , so we can discuss it there(so I dont have to spam your talk page with the above crap ;) ) and see how it goes. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 10:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

:: I Have removed the spoiler tags from the Jaime Lannister entry, until we finalize it I dont think we should be experimenting on our featured article. [[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 05:58, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

==Thanks==

Thanks for the welcome! [[User:Monkeytypist|Monkeytypist]] 22:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

== Page/chapter table ==

Your Page/chapter table at the sandbox looks pretty decent to me, any ideas where and how we can include it in the wiki?
: --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 00:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

:Hi, Scafloc. On that note, you will notice that I have included some information there, including Kindle positions. It seems to me that for that table purposes "paperbacks" are in fact ''mass market paperbacks'', since so far all the regular-sized paperbacks that I have found follow the same numbering as the hardcovers. Do you know if that is correct? Also, I have a wish to include some specific information for the two halves of ASOS that exist in the UK paperbacks. I would probably have included some if I had any. You're more experienced and better at this than me, so I want your counsel, if it pleases you. I'm of half a mind to put the specific ISBN information and the like in the articles of the books themselves. I probably will when I feel like it. [[User:LuisDantas|LuisDantas]] 16:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

== thanks ==
thanks for the welcome and all other stuff and for help in creating greyjoys rebellion page (actually you created it i only gave an idea). sorry 4 my horrible english

yours faithiful

--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 14:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)stormlander

== Welcome Template ==

Nice spot on the Welcome template, iirc I was trying to place a default action in-case someone forget to place the variable. unfortunately I found no magic word to do it and for some reason(that at the moment escapes me) used the code:<code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> which had no reason to do anything other than that :/ anyway if you stumble on way to use the <code>[[User:Mordin999|Mor]]</code> in template to auto sign, it would be great, cheers --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 23:52, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

== Wellcome ==

:Thanks! Looking forward to it. I'm in awe of the GRRM's accomplishment. Definitely need a wiki to ven understand what's going on. [[User:Ronnotel|Ronnotel]] 02:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

== Games ==
Hi again Scafolc, i was thinking maybe we should make pages about A Game of Thrones Genesis and meanwhile when RPG comes out do the same with it.
Think about it :)

Yours fathifull,
--[[User:Stormlander|Stormlander]] 18:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Stormlander

P.S. Dont have any of these games but i hope (acttualy im sure) that we could find out a lot about them.
P.S. on P.S. Sorry 4 little absence going back soon :)
----
We have pages on these games: to see what games and related products see [[:Category:Products]]

[[User:ASHaber|Ser Ash the Red]] 19:46, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

== Chapter summaries ==

Regarding your recent addition to the Chapter summaries, to the external links sections. Since we are using those Chapter summaries for reference in our articles and in turn use them to link back to various entries, it is my preference that we use as little Eternal links as possible and improve our own Chapter summaries instead, but obviously they still need a lot of work and you and other may want those additional reference and considering that there are so many summaries out there and everyone may want to add his own, lets try to keep them under 2-3 ? --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 16:06, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

<gallery>
File:Example.jpg|Caption1
File:Example.jpg|Caption2
</gallery>
== Maps ==

I just noticed your map for the [[:File:Battle of the Shield Islands.gif|Battle of the Shield Islands]]. I think that your animated gif solution is great for what otherwise maybe a very confusing map. I am not familiar with animated gif's, so I just wanted to know if there are any limits or problems that you encountered with it? --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 11:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
:I looked on the web if there was a gifmaker and found one: http://gifmake.com/. You upload the different pictures and the gifmaker-software creates 1 gif file from it which you can download. As for limitations: I noticed that the wiki software is not able to handle large gifs. If you try the software seems to treat it as a regular file; you cannot see any animation. [[User:Scafloc|Scafloc]] 15:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
[EXTRACT]3rd Test text added
3rd Test text added

== Interwiki ==

There were few errors/spelling mistakes in the list you used (on the left is the list value, on the right our):
* Jeffery Norcross -> Jeffory Norcross
* Obera Sand -> Obara Sand
* Mern IX Gardener -> Mern Gardener
* Loren I Lannister -> Loren Lannister
* Smalljon Umber -> Jon Umber (Smalljon)

Some entries blanked the pages, I fixed them and added the correct link manualy in all but the last one.
* Loras Tyrell
* Joffrey Baratheon
* Roland Crakehall (Lord).

Also, I think we would benift from doing those changes with a bot or at least with user with Bot privilege, which would hide that recent changes "spam" under the hood(unless "Show bots" is checked). I had to manually edit the url to be able to see the edit done be editors prior to this change. --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 14:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I belive your script screws up articles containing the <nowiki><br></nowiki> tag, removing ever reference of it. --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 21:19, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

== RE: Images ==

Hallo Safloc,

Ik weet eigelijk niet hoe ik de copyright status van de beelden moet veranderen bij het uploaden kon ik die optie ook niet terugvinden. Of voeg ik een copyright icoon toe tijdens het editen van een wiki-pagina.

Wat betrefd de hoeveelheid foto's. Ik heb een heleboel personages gemaakt en wil die graag allemaal toeveogen als dat mogelijk is. Kan ik bij het wijzigen van een pagina aanduiden dat het een grote wijziging is zodat een moderator kan beslissen of er teveel images zijn of dat de images te groot worden afgebeeld en welke afbeeldingen er eventueel worden verwijderd. Ik wil zelf liever geen andere afbeeldingen verwijderen om plaats te maken voor mijn eigen afbeeldingen.

Wouter

== Template:Settlement ==

Any thoughts on the new infobox [[Template:Settlement]] to provide a quick overview information for Settlement(like the rest of our articles), something I missed or should have done diffidently? I added it to the [[King's Landing]] entry for a test drive. --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 02:56, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I have included your suggestions, added a few small additions from wikipidea and renamed it to [[Template:Infobox Settlement]] to be inline with the other Infobox templates. I think it looks good, so unless there will be more suggestions(people here seem shy sometimes), I'll start adding it to the various pages. --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 06:10, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

== Location map ==

I was wondering why you added the table warper for the Location map template? i.e.
<pre>{|
snip
|}</pre>

Also I intend to work on the template to simplify its use, any suggestions? --[[User:Mordin999|Mor]] 04:43, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

==Please, see this==
[[User_talk:Sergio_Tavel#New_coat_of_arms]]

== Ser Arys ==

I uploaded a new picture but for some reason it still does not work. Any suggestions? [[User:The Hedge Knight|The Hedge Knight]] 23:06, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

:No error message, it is just no picture shows up. Maybe you should upload it instead? [[User:The Hedge Knight|The Hedge Knight]] 17:06, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

::Right I just uploaded it to imgur myself. http://i.imgur.com/klgVR.jpg [[User:The Hedge Knight|The Hedge Knight]] 18:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

:::As I said, I got no idea what the license is; I just know the artist already has several works here. [[User:The Hedge Knight|The Hedge Knight]] 19:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

::::Had to do some serious detective work but here you go. http://www.fanpop.com/spots/a-song-of-ice-and-fire/images/29579851/title/arys-oakheart-photo [[User:The Hedge Knight|The Hedge Knight]] 19:18, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

== Category:House Fowler ==

Hello, Scafloc!

I noticed that [[:Category:House Fowler]] is misspelled as [[:Category:House Folwer]]. Is that something you can correct? [[User:Nittanian|Nittanian]] 14:15, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
:Thank you! [[User:Nittanian|Nittanian]] 15:28, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Here are two more that I noticed:
*[[:Category:House Felwood]] is an empty, incorrectly named category (correct one is [[:Category:House Fell]]) which can be deleted.
*There are articles for [[House Wells]] (of the North) and [[House Wells of Dorne]]. Might it be better to move the first to [[House Wells of the North]] to avoid confusion? The Dornish article has more information than the Northern one. Additionally, [[:Category: House Wells]] currently refers to the Northern house, but contains characters from the Dornish house. [[User:Nittanian|Nittanian]] 18:58, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
:Thanks again! [[User:Nittanian|Nittanian]] 20:48, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

== new message ==

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== Hizdahr zo Loraq coat of arms ==

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==Hizdahr zo Loraq==
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A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31

2013-03-28T00:43:19Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn III
| page = 344
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 22|Catelyn II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] meets with [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] in hopes of bringing the brothers to reason. She fails and learns that Stannis had sent a letter claiming that neither [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffery]] nor [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] were not [[Robert Baratheon]]’s sons. Even though there is no proof, she remembers that [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] claimed that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersie]] killed her husband. Catelyn asks Renly’s leave but is not given it—he wants her to see him victorious in the morning.

==Synopsis==
[[Hallis Mollen]] announces to [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] that they are the first arrive at an area where the trees had been cut down by [[Stannis Baratheon]]’s foragers to build siege equipment. Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] tells Catelyn that this is not their fight and Catelyn replies that she was sent her by [[Robb Stark]] and for the good of the realm it must be done, but forging a peace between the brothers will not be easy; she would prefer to be with her dying father [[Hoster Tully]] in [[Riverrun]] or back in [[Winterfell]]. In the distance she can see [[Storm's End]] and Stannis’s army looking small and insignificant under its walls.

Catelyn thinks about the history of Storm’s End and of the love between the first Storm King, [[Durran]], and [[Elenei]], the daughter of sea god and goddess of the wind. After the wedding, Elenei had yielded her maidenhood and immortality. Her parents had unleashed storm and wind to destroy Durran’s hold, killing all but Durran and his wife, who had protected him within her arms. It was seventh castle he built that managed to withstand the storms. It is said that this castle was built with the help of the [[Children of the Forest]] or a child that became known as [[Bran the Builder|Brandon the Builder]].

Stannis is the first to arrive with a [[Red Priestess| Melisandre]] as his standard bearer; Catelyn knew that [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] would be last. Stannis expresses his surprise to fine her here, and gives his condolences for her husband [[Eddard Stark]], who was no friend of his. Stannis is not grateful for Eddard’s part in breaking the seige, saying it was on [[Robert Baratheon]]’s command. Stannis hold it against Eddard that he took the position of [[Hand of the King]], which he did not even want. Stannis tells her that she will have justice and she tells him Renly promised the same, and she would prefer her daughters back. Stannis promises that her daughters will be found when he takes King's Landing. Catelyn thinks his tone implies dead or alive, and tells him that King’s Landing is close to [[Dragonstone]], but he is at Storm’s End. He replies that he needs the power of the southron lords to take King’s Landing, and so he must take them from his brother, who owes him loyalty and obedience and his elder and rightful king. Stannis then asks if Robb has thrown his lot in with Renly, and is told he is King of the North by the will of the lords and people, and only hold his hand out in friendship. Stannis states
{{Quote|Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies.}}

At this point Renly’s party arrives with [[Brienne of Tarth]] with his banner. Renly asks about Stannis’s sigil and Milisandre replies it is the fiery heart of the Lord of Light. Renly says it is as well since with them having the same banner, the battle would be confused. Catelyn states that there hopefully will be no battle, and Stannis states that the [[Iron Throne]] is his by rights, and those the deny this are his foes. Catelyn tells them that this is folly with the [[Jaime Lannister]]’s host reforming at the [[Golden Tooth]], another [[House Lannister|Lannister]] host gathering at [[Casterly Rock]], and [[Tywin Lannister]] at [[Harrenhal]] with 20,000, and the Lannisters holding [[King's Landing]]. Renly immediately demands that Stannis bend his knee to him, and Stannis absolutely refuses, stating he is eldest. Renly tells Stannis that the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] called Robert a usurper and he bore up under the shame. Catelyn tries to convince them to be reasonable, and is told by Stannis that he is the rightful king. Catelyn asks how he is rightful king, and Renly laughs, stating that she had not seen Stannis’ letter. Stannis tells Catelyn that [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and his siblings are not of Robert’s seed.

Catelyn asks why he kept this knowledge to himself, and is told that he approached [[Jon Arryn]] since he figured that Robert would be more willing to listen to Jon, who he loved. Renly points out that Jon is dead, and Stannis states that his death was not by happenstance, that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] poisoned him. Catelyn immediately, putting the pieces together, states that her sister [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] accused the queen of killing her husband. Renly tells Stannis that he may have the greater right but he has the bigger army.

Renly reaches under his cloak, and Stannis immediately goes for his sword, but Renly only brings out a peach, and offers one to Stannis. Stannis retorts he did not come there to eat fruit, and Renly replies a man should never refuse a peach because life is short and the [[House Stark|Starks]] say “Winter is Coming.” Stannis thinks this is a threat but Renly states it was not, and he tells Stannis he never liked him, but he is of his blood, and if it is Storm’s End he wants, he will give it to him. Stannis refuses saying it is his and Renly states he refuses a peach, a castle and did not come to his wedding. To this Stannis points out that he married a woman that he was scheming to make her one of Robert’s whore. Renly corrects this, saying he was going to make [[Margaery Tyrell]] his queen, but Robert was killed by a boar, and so he got Margaery. He tells how he plans to have a son with her within a year, and then asks Stannis how many sons he has, and then continues by telling him that if he had a wife that looked like his, he would send his fool to service her as well. Infuriated, Stannis draws his blade which shines strangely, but Brienne moves between them. Stannis tells Renly that he will not kill Renly with [[Lightbringer]], and will give him till dawn to pledge to him. In return Stannis will grant him Storm’s End, a seat on the council, and name him his hear until he has a son. Renly laughs, pointing out that he has the strength in banners: [[House Rowan]], [[House Tarly]], [[House Caron]], [[House Tarth]], [[House Penrose]], [[House Fossoway]], [[House Cuy]], [[House Mullendore]], [[House Estermont]], [[House Selmy]], [[House Hightower]], [[House Oakheart]], [[House Crane]], [[House Caswell]], [[House Blackbar]], [[House Morrigen]], [[House Beesbury]], [[House Shermer]], [[House Dunn]], [[House Footly]] and his wife’s [[House Florent]]. What is present is only the vanguard, with100,000 foot are still to arrive. After exchanging taunts, Stannis gallops away, the Red Priestess staying long enough to say before also leaving
{{Quote|Look to your own sins, Lord Renly.}}

Catelyn tells Renly that his brother is lawful heir if Joffrey is Jaime’s son. Renly replies this is true only while he lives, and asks if Catelyn would agree that it is a fool’s law since he would be a better king that either Robert or Stannis. He will be a great king:
{{Quote|strong yet generous, clever, just, diligent, loyal to my friends and terrible to my enemies, yet capable of forgiveness, patient-}}

Catelyn adds
{{Quote|-humble?}}

Renly laughs and states

{{Quote|You must allow a king some flaws, my lady.}}

Catelyn feels very tired, she had failed, and her son would have to face the Lannisters alone while the brothers fought. She thinks how much Renly is like his brother Robert, but Robert had Eddard to temper him. Eddard would have prevailed on Robert to bring the whole force to besiege Stannis, the besieger, instead of forging ahead with only the horse and no fodder. Now he must come to battle soon or starve. Catelyn accomplices Renly back to his pavilion, sending Hal Mollen to tend to the horses.

Once inside Renly states his brother has not changed, and since he will not take his gifts, maybe he should fight. Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] points out that the castle well provisioned and has a strong garrison under Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]]; they can let Stannis have a profitless siege. Renly, however, is concerned that men will say he fears Stannis. Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] thinks they cannot leave him unblooded since he may grow stronger than Renly, and the others seem to agree. Renly states that they will fight. At this, Catelyn sees no point in not returning to Riverrun, so asks to leave, but is told she cannot, she must watch.

Renly then give command of the center to Lord Mathis Rowan, the left to [[Bryce Caron]], and the reserve to Lord [[Eldon Estermont]], while Renly takes the right. Lord Mathis Rowan asks who will have the van, and Ser [[Jon Fossoway]] first asks the honor, but Ser [[Guyard Morrigen|Guyard the Green]] states that is should be one of the seven. [[Randyll Tarly]] states he lead [[Mace Tyrell]]’s van. After a clamor fills the pavilion, Renly gives the honor to Ser [[Loras Tyrell]]. Ser Loras accepts and asks for a one of his knights to ride beside him:
{{Quote|Let the stag and rose go to battle side by side.}}

Renly gives Brienne this honor. She wants to fight by his side and is told that there are four of the [[Rainbow Guard]] that will fight beside him. She accepts the duty, but requests that she arm him for battle. Renly accepts. Catelyn can hear someone snigger. Renly then asks them to leave him.

Before she leaves, Catelyn asks to visit a sept she saw in a village, and Renly tells Ser Ser [[Robar Royce]] to provide an escort, but to return by dawn. Catelyn tells him he should also pray, not for victory but for wisdom. Renly tells Ser Loras to remain with him to help him pray (George R. R. Martin has confirmed that Renly and Loras have a relationship).

Ser Robar Royce is a member of the Rainbow guard and Catelyn knows him slightly, that he is known for his skill in the tourney. He son of [[Yohn Royce]], bannerman to [[House Arryn]]. She asks her about this and says his father owes fealty as does his heir, but he is a second son. He is tired of tourneys and looking for glory. She arrives at her camp to find [[Shadd]] preparing the meal, Hal Mollen dicing with three of his men, and [[Lucas Blackwood]] sharpening his dagger. Lucas asks if they fight or flee, and she says pray.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iii-life-is-peachy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-15 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 31]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 32, Catelyn]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31

2013-03-28T00:41:30Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn III
| page = 344
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 22|Catelyn II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] meets with [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] in hopes of bringing the brothers to reason. She fails and learns that Stannis had sent a letter claiming that neither [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffery]] nor [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] were not [[Robert Baratheon]]’s sons. Even though there is no proof, she remembers that [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] claimed that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersie]] killed her husband. Catelyn asks Renly’s leave but is not given it—he wants her to see him victorious in the morning.

==Synopsis==
[[Hallis Mollen]] announces to [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] that they are the first arrive at an area where the trees had been cut down by [[Stannis Baratheon]]’s foragers to build siege equipment. Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] tells Catelyn that this is not their fight and Catelyn replies that she was sent her by [[Robb Stark]] and for the good of the realm it must be done, but forging a peace between the brothers will not be easy; she would prefer to be with her dying father [[Hoster Tully]] in [[Riverrun]] or back in [[Winterfell]]. In the distance she can see [[Storm's End]] and Stannis’s army looking small and insignificant under its walls.

Catelyn thinks about the history of Storm’s End and of the love between the first Storm King, [[Durran]], and [[Elenei]], the daughter of sea god and goddess of the wind. After the wedding, Elenei had yielded her maidenhood and immortality. Her parents had unleashed storm and wind to destroy Durran’s hold, killing all but Durran and his wife, who had protected him within her arms. It was seventh castle he built that managed to withstand the storms. It is said that this castle was built with the help of the [[Children of the Forest]] or a child that became known as [[Bran the Builder|Brandon the Builder]].

Stannis is the first to arrive with a [[Red Priestess| Melisandre]] as his standard bearer; Catelyn knew that [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] would be last. Stannis expresses his surprise to fine her here, and gives his condolences for her husband [[Eddard Stark]], who was no friend of his. Stannis is not grateful for Eddard’s part in breaking the seige, saying it was on [[Robert Baratheon]]’s command. Stannis hold it against Eddard that he took the position of [[Hand of the King]], which he did not even want. Stannis tells her that she will have justice and she tells him Renly promised the same, and she would prefer her daughters back. Stannis promises that her daughters will be found when he takes King's Landing. Catelyn thinks his tone implies dead or alive, and tells him that King’s Landing is close to [[Dragonstone]], but he is at Storm’s End. He replies that he needs the power of the southron lords to take King’s Landing, and so he must take them from his brother, who owes him loyalty and obedience and his elder and rightful king. Stannis then asks if Robb has thrown his lot in with Renly, and is told he is King of the North by the will of the lords and people, and only hold his hand out in friendship. Stannis states
{{Quote|Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies.}}

At this point Renly’s party arrives with [[Brienne of Tarth]] with his banner. Renly asks about Stannis’s sigil and Milisandre replies it is the fiery heart of the Lord of Light. Renly says it is as well since with them having the same banner, the battle would be confused. Catelyn states that there hopefully will be no battle, and Stannis states that the [[Iron Throne]] is his by rights, and those the deny this are his foes. Catelyn tells them that this is folly with the [[Jaime Lannister]]’s host reforming at the [[Golden Tooth]], another [[House Lannister|Lannister]] host gathering at [[Casterly Rock]], and [[Tywin Lannister]] at [[Harrenhal]] with 20,000, and the Lannisters holding [[King's Landing]]. Renly immediately demands that Stannis bend his knee to him, and Stannis absolutely refuses, stating he is eldest. Renly tells Stannis that the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] called Robert a usurper and he bore up under the shame. Catelyn tries to convince them to be reasonable, and is told by Stannis that he is the rightful king. Catelyn asks how he is rightful king, and Renly laughs, stating that she had not seen Stannis’ letter. Stannis tells Catelyn that [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and his siblings are not of Robert’s seed.

Catelyn asks why he kept this knowledge to himself, and is told that he approached [[Jon Arryn]] since he figured that Robert would be more willing to listen to Jon, who he loved. Renly points out that Jon is dead, and Stannis states that his death was not by happenstance, that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] poisoned him. Catelyn immediately, putting the pieces together, states that her sister [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] accused the queen of killing her husband. Renly tells Stannis that he may have the greater right but he has the bigger army.

Renly reaches under his cloak, and Stannis immediately goes for his sword, but Renly only brings out a peach, and offers one to Stannis. Stannis retorts he did not come there to eat fruit, and Renly replies a man should never refuse a peach because life is short and the [[House Stark|Starks]] say “Winter is Coming.” Stannis thinks this is a threat but Renly states it was not, and he tells Stannis he never liked him, but he is of his blood, and if it is Storm’s End he wants, he will give it to him. Stannis refuses saying it is his and Renly states he refuses a peach, a castle and did not come to his wedding. To this Stannis points out that he married a woman that he was scheming to make her one of Robert’s whore. Renly corrects this, saying he was going to make [[Margaery Tyrell]] his queen, but Robert was killed by a boar, and so he got Margaery. He tells how he plans to have a son with her within a year, and then asks Stannis how many sons he has, and then continues by telling him that if he had a wife that looked like his, he would send his fool to service her as well. Infuriated, Stannis draws his blade which shines strangely, but Brienne moves between them. Stannis tells Renly that he will not kill Renly with [[Lightbringer]], and will give him till dawn to pledge to him. In return Stannis will grant him Storm’s End, a seat on the council, and name him his hear until he has a son. Renly laughs, pointing out that he has the strength in banners: [[House Rowan]], [[House Tarly]], [[House Caron]], [[House Tarth]], [[House Penrose]], [[House Fossoway]], [[House Cuy]], [[House Mullendore]], [[House Estermont]], [[House Selmy]], [[House Hightower]], [[House Oakheart]], [[House Crane]], [[House Caswell]], [[House Blackbar]], [[House Morrigen]], [[House Beesbury]], [[House Shermer]], [[House Dunn]], [[House Footly]] and his wife’s [[House Florent]]. What is present is only the vanguard, with100,000 foot are still to arrive. After exchanging taunts, Stannis gallops away, the Red Priestess staying long enough to say before also leaving
{{Quote|Look to your own sins, Lord Renly.}}

Catelyn tells Renly that his brother is lawful heir if Joffrey is Jaime’s son. Renly replies this is true only while he lives, and asks if Catelyn would agree that it is a fool’s law since he would be a better king that either Robert or Stannis. He will be a great king:
{{Quote|strong yet generous, clever, just, diligent, loyal to my friends and terrible to my enemies, yet capable of forgiveness, patient-}}

Catelyn adds
{{Quote|-humble?}}

Renly laughs and states

{{Quote|You must allow a king some flaws, my lady.}}

Catelyn feels very tired, she had failed, and her son would have to face the Lannisters alone while the brothers fought. She thinks how much Renly is like his brother Robert, but Robert had Eddard to temper him. Eddard would have prevailed on Robert to bring the whole force to besiege Stannis, the besieger, instead of forging ahead with only the horse and no fodder. Now he must come to battle soon or starve. Catelyn accomplices Renly back to his pavilion, sending [[Hal Mollen]] to tend to the horses.

Once inside Renly states his brother has not changed, and since he will not take his gifts, maybe he should fight. Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] points out that the castle well provisioned and has a strong garrison under Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]]; they can let Stannis have a profitless siege. Renly, however, is concerned that men will say he fears Stannis. Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] thinks they cannot leave him unblooded since he may grow stronger than Renly, and the others seem to agree. Renly states that they will fight. At this, Catelyn sees no point in not returning to Riverrun, so asks to leave, but is told she cannot, she must watch.

Renly then give command of the center to Lord Mathis Rowan, the left to [[Bryce Caron]], and the reserve to Lord [[Eldon Estermont]], while Renly takes the right. Lord Mathis Rowan asks who will have the van, and Ser [[Jon Fossoway]] first asks the honor, but Ser [[Guyard Morrigen|Guyard the Green]] states that is should be one of the seven. [[Randyll Tarly]] states he lead [[Mace Tyrell]]’s van. After a clamor fills the pavilion, Renly gives the honor to Ser [[Loras Tyrell]]. Ser Loras accepts and asks for a one of his knights to ride beside him:
{{Quote|Let the stag and rose go to battle side by side.}}

Renly gives Brienne this honor. She wants to fight by his side and is told that there are four of the [[Rainbow Guard]] that will fight beside him. She accepts the duty, but requests that she arm him for battle. Renly accepts. Catelyn can hear someone snigger. Renly then asks them to leave him.

Before she leaves, Catelyn asks to visit a sept she saw in a village, and Renly tells Ser Ser [[Robar Royce]] to provide an escort, but to return by dawn. Catelyn tells him he should also pray, not for victory but for wisdom. Renly tells Ser Loras to remain with him to help him pray (George R. R. Martin has confirmed that Renly and Loras have a relationship).

Ser Robar Royce is a member of the Rainbow guard and Catelyn knows him slightly, that he is known for his skill in the tourney. He son of [[Yohn Royce]], bannerman to [[House Arryn]]. She asks her about this and says his father owes fealty as does his heir, but he is a second son. He is tired of tourneys and looking for glory. She arrives at her camp to find [[Shadd]] preparing the meal, Hal Mollen dicing with three of his men, and [[Lucas Blackwood]] sharpening his dagger. Lucas asks if they fight or flee, and she says pray.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iii-life-is-peachy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-15 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 31]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 32, Catelyn]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31

2013-03-28T00:38:53Z

Qck2: Significant increase in detail

{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]]
| place = Outside the walls of [[Storm's End]]
| title = Catelyn III
| page = 344
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 32|Sansa III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 22|Catelyn II]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 33|Catelyn IV]]
}}

[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] meets with [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] in hopes of bringing the brothers to reason. She fails and learns that Stannis had sent a letter claiming that neither [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffery]] nor [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] were not [[Robert Baratheon]]’s sons. Even though there is no proof, she remembers that [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] claimed that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersie]] killed her husband. Catelyn asks Renly’s leave but is not given it—he wants her to see him victorious in the morning.

==Synopsis==
[[Hallis Mollen]] announces to [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] that they are the first arrive at an area where the trees had been cut down by [[Stannis Baratheon]]’s foragers to build siege equipment. Ser [[Wendel Manderly]] tells Catelyn that this is not their fight and Catelyn replies that she was sent her by [[Robb Stark]] and for the good of the realm it must be done, but forging a peace between the brothers will not be easy; she would prefer to be with her dying father [[Hoster Tully]] in [[Riverrun]] or back in [[Winterfell]]. In the distance she can see [[Storm's End]] and Stannis’s army looking small and insignificant under its walls.

Catelyn thinks about the history of Storm’s End and of the love between the first Storm King, [[Durran]], and [[Elenei]], the daughter of sea god and goddess of the wind. After the wedding, Elenei had yielded her maidenhood and immortality. Her parents had unleashed storm and wind to destroy Durran’s hold, killing all but Durran and his wife, who had protected him within her arms. It was seventh castle he built that managed to withstand the storms. It is said that this castle was built with the help of the [[Children of the Forest]] or a child that became known as [[Bran the Builder|Brandon the Builder]].

Stannis is the first to arrive with a [[Red Priestess| Melisandre]] as his standard bearer; Catelyn knew that [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] would be last. Stannis expresses his surprise to fine her here, and gives his condolences for her husband [[Eddard Stark]], who was no friend of his. Stannis is not grateful for Eddard’s part in breaking the seige, saying it was on [[Robert Baratheon]]’s command. Stannis hold it against Eddard that he took the position of [[Hand of the King]], which he did not even want. Stannis tells her that she will have justice and she tells him Renly promised the same, and she would prefer her daughters back. Stannis promises that her daughters will be found when he takes King's Landing. Catelyn thinks his tone implies dead or alive, and tells him that King’s Landing is close to [[Dragonstone]], but he is at Storm’s End. He replies that he needs the power of the southron lords to take King’s Landing, and so he must take them from his brother, who owes him loyalty and obedience and his elder and rightful king. Stannis then asks if Robb has thrown his lot in with Renly, and is told he is King of the North by the will of the lords and people, and only hold his hand out in friendship. Stannis states
{{Quote|Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies.}}

At this point Renly’s party arrives with [[Brienne of Tarth]] with his banner. Renly asks about Stannis’s sigil and Milisandre replies it is the fiery heart of the Lord of Light. Renly says it is as well since with them having the same banner, the battle would be confused. Catelyn states that there hopefully will be no battle, and Stannis states that the [[Iron Throne]] is his by rights, and those the deny this are his foes. Catelyn tells them that this is folly with the [[Jaime Lannister]]’s host reforming at the [[Golden Tooth]], another [[House Lannister|Lannister]] host gathering at [[Casterly Rock]], and [[Tywin Lannister]] at [[Harrenhal]] with 20,000, and the Lannisters holding [[King's Landing]]. Renly immediately demands that Stannis bend his knee to him, and Stannis absolutely refuses, stating he is eldest. Renly tells Stannis that the [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] called Robert a usurper and he bore up under the shame. Catelyn tries to convince them to be reasonable, and is told by Stannis that he is the rightful king. Catelyn asks how he is rightful king, and Renly laughs, stating that she had not seen Stannis’ letter. Stannis tells Catelyn that [[Joffery Baratheon|Joffery]] and his siblings are not of Robert’s seed.

Catelyn asks why he kept this knowledge to himself, and is told that he approached [[Jon Arryn]] since he figured that Robert would be more willing to listen to Jon, who he loved. Renly points out that Jon is dead, and Stannis states that his death was not by happenstance, that [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] poisoned him. Catelyn immediately, putting the pieces together, states that her sister [[Lysa Tully|Lysa]] accused the queen of killing her husband. Renly tells Stannis that he may have the greater right but he has the bigger army.

Renly reaches under his cloak, and Stannis immediately goes for his sword, but Renly only brings out a peach, and offers one to Stannis. Stannis retorts he did not come there to eat fruit, and Renly replies a man should never refuse a peach because life is short and the [[House Stark|Starks]] say “Winter is Coming.” Stannis thinks this is a threat but Renly states it was not, and he tells Stannis he never liked him, but he is of his blood, and if it is Storm’s End he wants, he will give it to him. Stannis refuses saying it is his and Renly states he refuses a peach, a castle and did not come to his wedding. To this Stannis points out that he married a woman that he was scheming to make her one of Robert’s whore. Renly corrects this, saying he was going to make [[Margaery Tyrell]] his queen, but Robert was killed by a boar, and so he got Margaery. He tells how he plans to have a son with her within a year, and then asks Stannis how many sons he has, and then continues by telling him that if he had a wife that looked like his, he would send his fool to service her as well. Infuriated, Stannis draws his blade which shines strangely, but Brienne moves between them. Stannis tells Renly that he will not kill Renly with [[Lightbringer]], and will give him till dawn to pledge to him. In return Stannis will grant him Storm’s End, a seat on the council, and name him his hear until he has a son. Renly laughs, pointing out that he has the strength in banners: [[House Rowan]], [[House Tarly]], [[House Caron]], [[House Tarth]], [[House Penrose]], [[House Fossoway]], [[House Cuy]], [[House Mullendore]], [[House Estermont]], [[House Selmy]], [[House Hightower]], [[House Oakheart]], [[House Crane]], [[House Caswell]], [[House Blackbar]], [[House Morrigen]], [[House Beesbury]], [[House Shermer]], [[House Dunn]], [[House Footly]] and his wife’s [[House Florent]]. What is present is only the vanguard, with100,000 foot are still to arrive. After exchanging taunts, Stannis gallops away, the Red Priestess staying long enough to say before also leaving
{{Quote|Look to your own sins, Lord Renly.}}

Catelyn tells Renly that his brother is lawful heir if Joffrey is Jaime’s son. Renly replies this is true only while he lives, and asks if Catelyn would agree that it is a fool’s law since he would be a better king that either Robert or Stannis. He will be a great king:
{{Quote|strong yet generous, clever, just, diligent, loyal to my friends and terrible to my enemies, yet capable of forgiveness, patient-}}
Catelyn adds
{{Quote|-humble?}}
Renly laughs and states
{{Quote|You must allow a king some flaws, my lady.}}

Catelyn feels very tired, she had failed, and her son would have to face the Lannisters alone while the brothers fought. She thinks how much Renly is like his brother Robert, but Robert had Eddard to temper him. Eddard would have prevailed on Robert to bring the whole force to besiege Stannis, the besieger, instead of forging ahead with only the horse and no fodder. Now he must come to battle soon or starve. Catelyn accomplices Renly back to his pavilion, sending [[Hal Mollen]] to tend to the horses.

Once inside Renly states his brother has not changed, and since he will not take his gifts, maybe he should fight. Lord [[Mathis Rowan]] points out that the castle well provisioned and has a strong garrison under Ser [[Cortnay Penrose]]; they can let Stannis have a profitless siege. Renly, however, is concerned that men will say he fears Stannis. Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] thinks they cannot leave him unblooded since he may grow stronger than Renly, and the others seem to agree. Renly states that they will fight. At this, Catelyn sees no point in not returning to Riverrun, so asks to leave, but is told she cannot, she must watch.

Renly then give command of the center to Lord Mathis Rowan, the left to [[Bryce Caron]], and the reserve to Lord [[Eldon Estermont]], while Renly takes the right. Lord Mathis Rowan asks who will have the van, and Ser [[Jon Fossoway]] first asks the honor, but Ser [[Guyard Morrigen|Guyard the Green]] states that is should be one of the seven. [[Randyll Tarly]] states he lead [[Mace Tyrell]]’s van. After a clamor fills the pavilion, Renly gives the honor to Ser [[Loras Tyrell]]. Ser Loras accepts and asks for a one of his knights to ride beside him:
{{Quote|Let the stag and rose go to battle side by side.}}
Renly gives Brienne this honor. She wants to fight by his side and is told that there are four of the [[Rainbow Guard]] that will fight beside him. She accepts the duty, but requests that she arm him for battle. Renly accepts. Catelyn can hear someone snigger. Renly then asks them to leave him.

Before she leaves, Catelyn asks to visit a sept she saw in a village, and Renly tells Ser Ser [[Robar Royce]] to provide an escort, but to return by dawn. Catelyn tells him he should also pray, not for victory but for wisdom. Renly tells Ser Loras to remain with him to help him pray (George R. R. Martin has confirmed that Renly and Loras have a relationship).

Ser Robar Royce is a member of the Rainbow guard and Catelyn knows him slightly, that he is known for his skill in the tourney. He son of [[Yohn Royce]], bannerman to [[House Arryn]]. She asks her about this and says his father owes fealty as does his heir, but he is a second son. He is tired of tourneys and looking for glory. She arrives at her camp to find [[Shadd]] preparing the meal, Hal Mollen dicing with three of his men, and [[Lucas Blackwood]] sharpening his dagger. Lucas asks if they fight or flee, and she says pray.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/12/re-read-catelyn-iii-life-is-peachy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-15 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 31]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Catelyn Tully]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Storm's End]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 32, Catelyn]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Arya Stark|Arya]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| title = Arya VII
| page = 334
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 26|Arya VI]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
}}

[[Arya Stark|Arya]] is working for the understeward of the [[Wailing Tower]] doing various chores. When the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]] arrive, [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] are with them. Arya thinks that Jaqen had not seen her, but he interrupts her sleep and tells her that he will kill three for her for saving him and his two companions. She avoids Jaqen for a while, but after hearing a story by [[Chiswyck]], next time she sees him she whispers Chiswyck’s name in his ear. Several days later he falls to his death.
==Synopsis==
[[Arya Stark|Arya]] wonders what King [[Harren Hoare]] had meant to name the five towers of [[Harrenhal]], but they were now known as the [[Tower of Dread]], the [[Widow's Tower]], the [[Wailing Tower]], the [[Tower of Ghosts]], and [[Kingspyre Tower]]. She now sleeps in a niche in the vaults beneath the Wailing Tower. The work is hard, but no harder than the miles she was walking every day, and can be clean and the food is filling; she does not need to find bugs to eat. [[Hot Pie]] is assigned to the kitchens, and [[Gendry]] to the forge, while Arya works for the understeward [[Weese]] doing errands; running messages, drawing water, fetch food, and sometimes serve table in the barracks hall. Arya hates [[Weese]] and adds him to her list of names. She occasionally gets to see Hot Pie when she is sent to fetch the food for Weese and his charges; Arya does not want to learn the names Weese’s other charges since it hurt when people she knew died. She

Lady [[Shella Whent]] had only occupied parts of two towers, letting the rest of the castle go to ruin. She left a small staff when she fled, and this was inadequate for the host that now occupied the castle. As a result the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] had to forage for servants to make more of Harrenhal habitable. Harrenhal covered three times the area of [[Winterfell]], but its buildings were much grander: the stables handled a 1000 horses, the [[Godswood]] covered 20 acres, the kitchen was as large as Winterfell’s Great Hall, and the Hall of the Hundred Hearths could handle Tywin’s entire host (but he never did).

Some say that ghosts of [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] and his sons occupy the Wailing Tower, but Arya knows that they died in the Kingspyre Tower; the wailing is from the wind, and the ghosts never trouble her. However she fears living men, including Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Tywin Lannister]], who keep their apartments in the Kingspyre Tower. She considers marching up to Tywin and telling him who she is, but she figures she would never get close enough to him, and if she did, he would not believe her, and she would get a beating form Weese, who she feared more than the Mountain; he would hit you at the slightest provocation. On the road to Harrenhal she had felt like a sheep, but now feels like a mouse.

The lords and ladies never notice the grey mice under their feet, and Arya hears many secrets by just listening as she does her duties. The slut Pretty [[Pia]] working her way through every knight, the wife of the gaoler is pregnant either by Ser [[Alyn Stackspear]] or a singer [[Wat (Whitesmile)|Whitesmile]], Lord [[Leo Lefford]] keeps a candle lit by his bed because of the ghosts, Ser [[Dunaver]]’s squire Jodge cannot hold his water at night, the cooks spit on the dispised Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s food, and Maester [[Tothmure]]’s serving girl had told her brother that Tywin had ordered the maester to burn a message that Joffrey was a bastard, and to never speak of it again. She also hears from Weese that [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] are both kings and have joined the fighting. Many of the Lannister men question how long Joffrey can hold the throne protected only by [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and is ruled by a eunuch, dwarf and a woman. There were also a number of reports of [[Beric Dondarrion]] being killed by the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]], but he had already supposed been killed by [[Amory Lorch]] at [[Rushing Falls]], and twice by the Mountain

A fortnight later the queerest collection of men Arya has ever seen arrives, the Bloody Mummers. Weese tells her that she does not want to know them, and is told their name is told “The Footmen, girl. Toes of the Goat. Lord Tywin’s Bloody Mummers.” They call themselves the Brave Companions and their leader is the very tall stick thin [[Vargo Hoat]]. They are housed in the Widow’s Tower, for which Arya is thankful. On their first night Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s squire is killed and two of the Bloody Mummers are wounded. Tywin hangs both along with one of Lord [[Lewys Lydden]]’s archers who was supposed to have started the trouble. They do not stay long, but before they leave she hears the [[Roose Bolton]] has occupied the [[Ruby Ford]], and her brother is in [[Riverrun]], which is much closer than Winterfell but she does not know where it lies with relation to Harrenhal; if only she could get away.

She learns that there are captives from [[Battle of the Green Fork]]. They were given freedom of the castle is return for a pledge that they would not attempt to escape. Arya was hoping they could help her escape. There are three Frey brothers, and their bastard brother, but they were ransomed. There is also a very fat lordling that was always in the kitchen, one that wore a black cloak with white suns, and Lord [[Medger Cerwyn]], who she recognized. She figures she can aid from Lord Cerwyn, but learns later that he died from his wounds.

Arya hears all sorts of rumors about Lord Tywin’s plans. Lord Tywin spent his days with his war council. Arya would often catch sight of him, and thought he was strong looking for an old man, and his face reminds her of her father, although they look nothing alike, and she could never picture Tywin laughing.

Ser Amory Lock arrives one afternoon, looking less frightening in the daylight. There were fewer men then she remembered and many wounded. She is told that they had ridden all the way around the lake chasing Beric Dondarrion and slaying rebels. Arya figures they are talking about the men of the [[Night's Watch]]. At the end of the column she see [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] with his body covered in half healed wounds. Jaqen H’ghar still smiles, and his cloths were filthy, but his hair washed and brushed. His eyes pass right over Arya, and she thinks he did not even notice her. Arya thinks that Gendry was right and she should have let them die. That night she says the names again: [[Weese]], [[Dunsen]] (for taking Gendry’s bull helm), [[Chiswyck]], [[Polliver]] (for Needle), [[Rafford|Raff]] the Sweetling (for killing Lommy), the [[Tickler]], [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] (for killing [[Mycah]]), Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]], Ser [[Amory Lorch]] (for killing [[Yoren]]), Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]], Ser [[Meryn Trant|Meryn]] (for killing Syrio), and King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] (for killing [[Eddard Stark]], [[Tomard]], [[Desmond]] and the rest). She thinks she might add three names to the list, but she was too tired to decide.

She is dreaming of wolves in the wild when she wakes with Jaqen H’ghar’s hand over her mouth. He murmurs
{{Quote|A boy becomes a girl.}}
She tells him that she was always a girl, and he replies
{{Quote|A man sees. A man knows.}}
She tells him she should have let him burn, and he tells her:
{{Quote|A man pays his debts. A man owes three.}}
She replies three, and Jaqen H’ghar continues:
{{Quote|The Red God has his due, sweet girl, and only death may pay for life. This girl took three that were his. This girl must give three in their places. Speak the names, and a man will do the rest.}}
Arya asks him to take her to Riverrun, but he replies:
{{Quote|Three lives you shall have of me. No more, no less. Three and we are done. So a girl must ponder. But not too long.}}
He kisses her hair as he says this. She cannot see his face, as she nods, and he is gone with only whiff of ginger and cloves in the air. She thinks of those on her list, but they are all miles away. There is Weese.

The next morning Arya yawns in Weese’s presence, and he warns her not to let her mouth drop open again, telling her he will feed her tongue to his bitch, and twists her ear to make certain she heard. As she works she thinks of who she wants dead, and how being at war she should try to kill as many Lannisters as she could and how her father personally killed those he condemned to death. She is not sure she should trust Jaqen, and avoids, him, which is not hard to do.

Ser Gregor returns, and Weese sends Arya to see if they have cloths that need mending. She arrives to find Chiswyck talking, and does not want to interrupt because she might be hit. He is talking about when he were returning from the [[Tourney of the Hand]] with Ser Gregor, Raff, [[Joss Stilwood]], and [[Eggon]]. They stopped at an alehouse where the brewer did not stop talking. They knew better than to talk because the Mountain was seething over the joust with the [[Knight of Flowers]]. The brewer’s girl was serving, and they were touching her. Finally Joss puts his hand up her skirt, and the screams, and runs to the kitchen. The brewer goes to Ser Gregor and asks that his men leave the girl alone. Ser Gregor has the girl brought before him, pays the brewer a silver, and takes her right there. A boy runs in from cellar and Raff sticks him with a dirk. After Ser Gregor is done, [[Tobbot]] takes the girl from the back. Ser Gregor tells the brewer the girl was not worth a silver, and wants change, and the brewer gives it to him. They all roar with laughter at the story. Arya sneaks away. When Weese learns she did not ask about the mending, he beats her bloody.

Two days later she sees Jaqen H’ghar in the Barracks Hall. Ensuring that Weese is not around, she works her way down to him filling wine cups until she reaches him and whispers “Chiswyck” in his ear. He gives no sign that he heard, but nothing happens until the third day when she hears that a man had fallen off the wallwalk the previous night. Some are saying Harren’s ghost flung him down and Arya thinks that she is the ghost in Harrenhal, and there is one less name on her list.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/re-read-arya-vii-wish-unfairy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-14 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 30]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Harrenhal]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 31, Arya]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 26

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Arya Stark|Arya]]
| place = The [[Riverlands]] on the way to [[Harrenhal]] - [[Harrenhal]]
| title = Arya VI
| page = 304
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 25|Tyrion VI]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 26|Arya VI]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 27|Daenerys II]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 19|Arya V]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
}}

It is eight days before they leave the village. On each of the days one of them is tortured by the [[Tickler]] for information about where valuables and food is hidden (with little result) and the whereabouts of Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]] (for no information). Finally they are marched to [[Harrenhal]] to serve under [[Tywin Lannister]]. [[Arya Stark|Arya]], after complaining about being assigned to the kitchen, is assigned to the understeward in the [[Wailing Tower]], [[Weese]].
==Synopsis==

[[Arya Stark|Arya]] watched [[Gregor Clegane|the Mountain]] came into the store house every morning and pick a child, a woman or a man from to be interrogated by an ordinary looking man in plain garb named the [[Tickler]]. [[Chiswyck]], who Arya had tried to bite and who had then smashed her in the head with his mailed fist, had told them “Tickler makes them howl so hard they piss themselves.” The questions are always where are the valuables hidden, where is Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]], and who had aided him. They found a few valuables from the interrogations, but not consistent information about Beric Dondarrion. The Mountain watched, with some of his men sometimes helping the Tickler. Nobody survived the Tickler past evening fall, and afterwards the bodies being hung beyond the fires for the wolves. None of they were safe: a girl that had been sharing a soldier’s bed every night, the daughter of a woman that freely told all she knew, a man claiming his son was with the [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and he was all for [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]].

[[Arya Stark|Arya]] is more afraid than she ever has been, and keeps reminding herself “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” Arya knows she is no [[Water Dancer]], and [[Syrio Forel]] would have never let them knock him down, take his sword, or just watch as [[Lommy Greenhands]] was killed. She felt like a lamb and hated the villagers for being sheep. She finally had to pee in front of others since there was no privacy, and [[Hot Pie]] had gaped, but nobody else even looked. The [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] had taken everything from her: father, friends, home, hope, courage, her sword [[Needle]], broken her wooden sword, and even the secrete she was a girl. She however learned fast from a broken lip to hold her tongue, but others did not; [[Rafford]] had killed a boy that had been screaming for his father, and then the mother when she started screaming. Arya could see no purpose in being brave; she watched them die and did nothing.

Most of the men that were not very old or very young had been killed. [[Gendry]] had been spared because he claimed to have made his helmet, and blacksmiths were too valuable to kill.

After eight days they started their march to [[Harrenhal]] to serve [[Tywin Lannister]] even though they are traitors and rebels. An old woman states they were no traitors, only that Lord Beric and [[Thoros of Myr]] hand come and taken what they wanted. Another states they did not kill anyone, and at least gave script for what they took (but they cannot eat script). An old man states that if the old king would not have stood for this, and when questioned by Arya, she learns he means King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], not King [[Robert Baratheon]]. The Mountain also brings pigs, chickens, a cow, and wagons of salt fish. The Mountain’s men have horses, but the captives have to walk, and are killed if they cannot keep up or flee. Along the way she sees a balding man named [[Polliver]] with her sword [[Needle]]; Arya thinks that it is good they took the sword away because she would have tried to stab Ser Gregor, and been killed. She learned all the Lannister men: Shitmouth with the foul tongue would give her extra bread if asked, but jolly old [[Chiswyck]] or Rafford would give her a slap. [[Dunsen]] had taken Gendry’s helmet. She started her list, and every night would say Ser Gregor, Dunsen, Polliver (for Needle), Chiswyck, Raff the Sweetling (for killing Lommy), the Tickler, [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] (for killing [[Mycah]]), Ser [[Amory Lorch]] (for killing [[Yoren]]), Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], Ser [[Meryn Trant]] (for killing Syrio), and King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] (for killing [[Eddard Stark]], [[Tomard]], [[Desmond]] and the rest).

As they approach Harrenhal, Arya thinks about the stories from Old [[Nan]] that [[Harren Hoare]] had built the castle with mortar mixed with human blood, and how King Aegon had roasted Harren and his sons within. She thinks it cannot be far when she first see the castle, but they had to march that day and most of the next. When they reached the castle the stench from the overflowing latrines and the flies were horrible, and the gatehouse was as large as [[Winterfell]]’s Great Keep. Hot Pie did not want to go in because of the ghosts, but went in when given the other choice of joining the ghosts.

After they were all stripped and scrubbed, each of the captives is brought before Goodwife [[Amabel]] and Goodwife [[Harra]]. When it is Arya’s turn she gives her name first she thinks of, Weasel. Goodwife Harra examines her calluses on her hands from training with Needle, and assumes it is from churning butter; that she was a farmer’s girl. Arya is told her that she now has a chance to improve her station in life working in the kitchens. When Arya exclaims she would prefer tending horses, and gets a slap that breaks her lip and is told that there are grooms and squires for that duty; the kitchens are snug and clean and there is always a warm place to sleep and plenty to eat. She is told she is not a cleaver girl and gets assigned to [[Weese]], the understeward in the [[Wailing Tower]].

There are six of them sent to Weese and he tells them that the Lannisters are generous to those that serve, which is more than any of they deserve. If they work hard they might rise as high as him, but he can smell disobedience, and only wants to smell fear.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Analyses and summary of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/arya-vi-prison-break-it-aint.html in the course of a 10th reread] by Slynt.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-13 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 26]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Harrenhal]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 27, Arya]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Arya Stark|Arya]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| title = Arya VII
| page = 334
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 26|Arya VI]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
}}

[[Arya Stark|Arya]] is working for the understeward of the [[Wailing Tower]] doing various chores. When the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]] arrive, [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] are with them. Arya thinks that Jaqen had not seen her, but he interrupts her sleep and tells her that he will kill three for her for saving him and his two companions. She avoids Jaqen for a while, but after hearing a story by [[Chiswyck]], next time she sees him she whispers Chiswyck’s name in his ear. Several days later he falls to his death.
==Synopsis==
[[Arya Stark|Arya]] wonders what King [[Harren Hoare]] had meant to name the five towers of [[Harrenhal]], but they were now known as the [[Tower of Dread]], the [[Widow's Tower]], the [[Wailing Tower]], the [[Tower of Ghosts]], and [[Kingspyre Tower]]. She now sleeps in a niche in the vaults beneath the Wailing Tower. The work is hard, but no harder than the miles she was walking every day, and can be clean and the food is filling; she does not need to find bugs to eat. [[Hot Pie]] is assigned to the kitchens, and [[Gendry]] to the forge, while Arya works for the understeward [[Weese]] doing errands; running messages, drawing water, fetch food, and sometimes serve table in the barracks hall. Arya hates [[Weese]] and adds him to her list of names. She occasionally gets to see Hot Pie when she is sent to fetch the food for Weese and his charges; Arya does not want to learn the names Weese’s other charges since it hurt when people she knew died. She

Lady [[Shella Whent]] had only occupied parts of two towers, letting the rest of the castle go to ruin. She left a small staff when she fled, and this was inadequate for the host that now occupied the castle. As a result the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] had to forage for servants to make more of Harrenhal habitable. Harrenhal covered three times the area of [[Winterfell]], but its buildings were much grander: the stables handled a 1000 horses, the [[Godswood]] covered 20 acres, the kitchen was as large as Winterfell’s Great Hall, and the Hall of the Hundred Hearths could handle Tywin’s entire host (but he never did).

Some say that ghosts of [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] and his sons occupy the Wailing Tower, but Arya knows that they died in the Kingspyre Tower; the wailing is from the wind, and the ghosts never trouble her. However she fears living men, including Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Tywin Lannister]], who keep their apartments in the Kingspyre Tower. She considers marching up to Tywin and telling him who she is, but she figures she would never get close enough to him, and if she did, he would not believe her, and she would get a beating form Weese, who she feared more than the Mountain; he would hit you at the slightest provocation. On the road to Harrenhal she had felt like a sheep, but now feels like a mouse.

The lords and ladies never notice the grey mice under their feet, and Arya hears many secrets by just listening as she does her duties. The slut Pretty [[Pia]] working her way through every knight, the wife of the gaoler is pregnant either by Ser [[Alyn Stackspear]] or a singer [[Whitesmile]], Lord [[Leo Lefford]] keeps a candle lit by his bed because of the ghosts, Ser [[Dunaver]]’s squire Jodge cannot hold his water at night, the cooks spit on the dispised Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s food, and Maester [[Tothmure]]’s serving girl had told her brother that Tywin had ordered the maester to burn a message that Joffrey was a bastard, and to never speak of it again. She also hears from Weese that [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] are both kings and have joined the fighting. Many of the Lannister men question how long Joffrey can hold the throne protected only by [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and is ruled by a eunuch, dwarf and a woman. There were also a number of reports of [[Beric Dondarrion]] being killed by the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]], but he had already supposed been killed by [[Amory Lorch]] at [[Rushing Falls]], and twice by the Mountain

A fortnight later the queerest collection of men Arya has ever seen arrives, the Bloody Mummers. Weese tells her that she does not want to know them, and is told their name is told “The Footmen, girl. Toes of the Goat. Lord Tywin’s Bloody Mummers.” They call themselves the Brave Companions and their leader is the very tall stick thin [[Vargo Hoat]]. They are housed in the Widow’s Tower, for which Arya is thankful. On their first night Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s squire is killed and two of the Bloody Mummers are wounded. Tywin hangs both along with one of Lord [[Lewys Lydden]]’s archers who was supposed to have started the trouble. They do not stay long, but before they leave she hears the [[Roose Bolton]] has occupied the [[Ruby Ford]], and her brother is in [[Riverrun]], which is much closer than Winterfell but she does not know where it lies with relation to Harrenhal; if only she could get away.

She learns that there are captives from [[Battle of the Green Fork]]. They were given freedom of the castle is return for a pledge that they would not attempt to escape. Arya was hoping they could help her escape. There are three Frey brothers, and their bastard brother, but they were ransomed. There is also a very fat lordling that was always in the kitchen, one that wore a black cloak with white suns, and Lord [[Medger Cerwyn]], who she recognized. She figures she can aid from Lord Cerwyn, but learns later that he died from his wounds.

Arya hears all sorts of rumors about Lord Tywin’s plans. Lord Tywin spent his days with his war council. Arya would often catch sight of him, and thought he was strong looking for an old man, and his face reminds her of her father, although they look nothing alike, and she could never picture Tywin laughing.

Ser Amory Lock arrives one afternoon, looking less frightening in the daylight. There were fewer men then she remembered and many wounded. She is told that they had ridden all the way around the lake chasing Beric Dondarrion and slaying rebels. Arya figures they are talking about the men of the [[Night's Watch]]. At the end of the column she see [[Jaqen H'ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] with his body covered in half healed wounds. Jaqen H’ghar still smiles, and his cloths were filthy, but his hair washed and brushed. His eyes pass right over Arya, and she thinks he did not even notice her. Arya thinks that Gendry was right and she should have let them die. That night she says the names again: [[Weese]], [[Dunsen]] (for taking Gendry’s bull helm), [[Chiswyck]], [[Polliver]] (for Needle), [[Rafford|Raff]] the Sweetling (for killing Lommy), the [[Tickler]], [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] (for killing [[Mycah]]), Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]], Ser [[Amory Lorch]] (for killing [[Yoren]]), Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]], Ser [[Meryn Trant|Meryn]] (for killing Syrio), and King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] (for killing [[Eddard Stark]], [[Tomard]], [[Desmond]] and the rest). She thinks she might add three names to the list, but she was too tired to decide.

She is dreaming of wolves in the wild when she wakes with Jaqen H’ghar’s hand over her mouth. He murmurs
{{Quote|A boy becomes a girl.}}
She tells him that she was always a girl, and he replies
{{Quote|A man sees. A man knows.}}
She tells him she should have let him burn, and he tells her:
{{Quote|A man pays his debts. A man owes three.}}
She replies three, and Jaqen H’ghar continues:
{{Quote|The Red God has his due, sweet girl, and only death may pay for life. This girl took three that were his. This girl must give three in their places. Speak the names, and a man will do the rest.}}
Arya asks him to take her to Riverrun, but he replies:
{{Quote|Three lives you shall have of me. No more, no less. Three and we are done. So a girl must ponder. But not too long.}}
He kisses her hair as he says this. She cannot see his face, as she nods, and he is gone with only whiff of ginger and cloves in the air. She thinks of those on her list, but they are all miles away. There is Weese.

The next morning Arya yawns in Weese’s presence, and he warns her not to let her mouth drop open again, telling her he will feed her tongue to his bitch, and twists her ear to make certain she heard. As she works she thinks of who she wants dead, and how being at war she should try to kill as many Lannisters as she could and how her father personally killed those he condemned to death. She is not sure she should trust Jaqen, and avoids, him, which is not hard to do.

Ser Gregor returns, and Weese sends Arya to see if they have cloths that need mending. She arrives to find Chiswyck talking, and does not want to interrupt because she might be hit. He is talking about when he were returning from the [[Tourney of the Hand]] with Ser Gregor, Raff, [[Joss Stilwood]], and [[Eggon]]. They stopped at an alehouse where the brewer did not stop talking. They knew better than to talk because the Mountain was seething over the joust with the [[Knight of Flowers]]. The brewer’s girl was serving, and they were touching her. Finally Joss puts his hand up her skirt, and the screams, and runs to the kitchen. The brewer goes to Ser Gregor and asks that his men leave the girl alone. Ser Gregor has the girl brought before him, pays the brewer a silver, and takes her right there. A boy runs in from cellar and Raff sticks him with a dirk. After Ser Gregor is done, [[Tobbot]] takes the girl from the back. Ser Gregor tells the brewer the girl was not worth a silver, and wants change, and the brewer gives it to him. They all roar with laughter at the story. Arya sneaks away. When Weese learns she did not ask about the mending, he beats her bloody.

Two days later she sees Jaqen H’ghar in the Barracks Hall. Ensuring that Weese is not around, she works her way down to him filling wine cups until she reaches him and whispers “Chiswyck” in his ear. He gives no sign that he heard, but nothing happens until the third day when she hears that a man had fallen off the wallwalk the previous night. Some are saying Harren’s ghost flung him down and Arya thinks that she is the ghost in Harrenhal, and there is one less name on her list.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/re-read-arya-vii-wish-unfairy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-14 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 30]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Harrenhal]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 31, Arya]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30

2013-03-27T23:21:25Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Arya Stark|Arya]]
| place = [[Harrenhal]]
| title = Arya VII
| page = 334
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 31|Catelyn III]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 26|Arya VI]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 38|Arya VIII]]
}}

[[Arya Stark|Arya]] is working for the understeward of the [[Wailing Tower]] doing various chores. When the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]] arrive, [[Jaqen H’ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] are with them. Arya thinks that Jaqen had not seen her, but he interrupts her sleep and tells her that he will kill three for her for saving him and his two companions. She avoids Jaqen for a while, but after hearing a story by [[Chiswyck]], next time she sees him she whispers Chiswyck’s name in his ear. Several days later he falls to his death.
==Synopsis==
[[Arya Stark|Arya]] wonders what King [[Harren Hoare]] had meant to name the five towers of [[Harrenhal]], but they were now known as the [[Tower of Dread]], the [[Widow's Tower]], the [[Wailing Tower]], the [[Tower of Ghosts]], and [[Kingspyre Tower]]. She now sleeps in a niche in the vaults beneath the Wailing Tower. The work is hard, but no harder than the miles she was walking every day, and can be clean and the food is filling; she does not need to find bugs to eat. [[Hot Pie]] is assigned to the kitchens, and [[Gendry]] to the forge, while Arya works for the understeward [[Weese]] doing errands; running messages, drawing water, fetch food, and sometimes serve table in the barracks hall. Arya hates [[Weese]] and adds him to her list of names. She occasionally gets to see Hot Pie when she is sent to fetch the food for Weese and his charges; Arya does not want to learn the names Weese’s other charges since it hurt when people she knew died. She

Lady [[Shella Whent]] had only occupied parts of two towers, letting the rest of the castle go to ruin. She left a small staff when she fled, and this was inadequate for the host that now occupied the castle. As a result the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] had to forage for servants to make more of Harrenhal habitable. Harrenhal covered three times the area of [[Winterfell]], but its buildings were much grander: the stables handled a 1000 horses, the [[Godswood]] covered 20 acres, the kitchen was as large as Winterfell’s Great Hall, and the Hall of the Hundred Hearths could handle Tywin’s entire host (but he never did).

Some say that ghosts of [[Harren Hoare|Harren the Black]] and his sons occupy the Wailing Tower, but Arya knows that they died in the Kingspyre Tower; the wailing is from the wind, and the ghosts never trouble her. However she fears living men, including Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] and [[Tywin Lannister]], who keep their apartments in the Kingspyre Tower. She considers marching up to Tywin and telling him who she is, but she figures she would never get close enough to him, and if she did, he would not believe her, and she would get a beating form Weese, who she feared more than the Mountain; he would hit you at the slightest provocation. On the road to Harrenhal she had felt like a sheep, but now feels like a mouse.

The lords and ladies never notice the grey mice under their feet, and Arya hears many secrets by just listening as she does her duties. The slut Pretty [[Pia]] working her way through every knight, the wife of the gaoler is pregnant either by Ser [[Alyn Stackspear]] or a singer [[Whitesmile]], Lord [[Leo Lefford]] keeps a candle lit by his bed because of the ghosts, Ser [[Dunaver]]’s squire Jodge cannot hold his water at night, the cooks spit on the dispised Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s food, and Maester [[Tothmure]]’s serving girl had told her brother that Tywin had ordered the maester to burn a message that Joffrey was a bastard, and to never speak of it again. She also hears from Weese that [[Stannis Baratheon]] and [[Renly Baratheon]] are both kings and have joined the fighting. Many of the Lannister men question how long Joffrey can hold the throne protected only by [[City Watch of King's Landing|Gold Cloaks]] and is ruled by a eunuch, dwarf and a woman. There were also a number of reports of [[Beric Dondarrion]] being killed by the [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]], but he had already supposed been killed by [[Amory Lorch]] at [[Rushing Falls]], and twice by the Mountain

A fortnight later the queerest collection of men Arya has ever seen arrives, the Bloody Mummers. Weese tells her that she does not want to know them, and is told their name is told “The Footmen, girl. Toes of the Goat. Lord Tywin’s Bloody Mummers.” They call themselves the Brave Companions and their leader is the very tall stick thin [[Vargo Hoat]]. They are housed in the Widow’s Tower, for which Arya is thankful. On their first night Ser [[Harys Swyft]]’s squire is killed and two of the Bloody Mummers are wounded. Tywin hangs both along with one of Lord [[Lewys Lydden]]’s archers who was supposed to have started the trouble. They do not stay long, but before they leave she hears the [[Roose Bolton]] has occupied the [[Ruby Ford]], and her brother is in [[Riverrun]], which is much closer than Winterfell but she does not know where it lies with relation to Harrenhal; if only she could get away.

She learns that there are captives from [[Battle of the Green Fork]]. They were given freedom of the castle is return for a pledge that they would not attempt to escape. Arya was hoping they could help her escape. There are three Frey brothers, and their bastard brother, but they were ransomed. There is also a very fat lordling that was always in the kitchen, one that wore a black cloak with white suns, and Lord [[Medger Cerwyn]], who she recognized. She figures she can aid from Lord Cerwyn, but learns later that he died from his wounds.

Arya hears all sorts of rumors about Lord Tywin’s plans. Lord Tywin spent his days with his war council. Arya would often catch sight of him, and thought he was strong looking for an old man, and his face reminds her of her father, although they look nothing alike, and she could never picture Tywin laughing.

Ser Amory Lock arrives one afternoon, looking less frightening in the daylight. There were fewer men then she remembered and many wounded. She is told that they had ridden all the way around the lake chasing Beric Dondarrion and slaying rebels. Arya figures they are talking about the men of the [[Night's Watch]]. At the end of the column she see [[Jaqen H’ghar]], [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]] with his body covered in half healed wounds. Jaqen H’ghar still smiles, and his cloths were filthy, but his hair washed and brushed. His eyes pass right over Arya, and she thinks he did not even notice her. Arya thinks that Gendry was right and she should have let them die. That night she says the names again: [[Weese]], [[Dunsen]] (for taking Gendry’s bull helm), [[Chiswyck]], [[Polliver]] (for Needle), [[Rafford|Raff]] the Sweetling (for killing Lommy), the [[Tickler]], [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]] (for killing [[Mycah]]), Ser [[Gregor Clegane|Gregor]], Ser [[Amory Lorch]] (for killing [[Yoren]]), Ser [[Ilyn Payne|Ilyn]], Ser [[Meryn Trant|Meryn]] (for killing Syrio), and King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] and [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]] (for killing [[Eddard Stark]], [[Tommad]], [[Desmond]] and the rest). She thinks she might add three names to the list, but she was too tired to decide.

She is dreaming of wolves in the wild when she wakes with Jaqen H’ghar’s hand over her mouth. He murmurs
{{Quote|A boy becomes a girl.}}
She tells him that she was always a girl, and he replies
{{Quote|A man sees. A man knows.}}
She tells him she should have let him burn, and he tells her:
{{Quote|A man pays his debts. A man owes three.}}
She replies three, and Jaqen H’ghar continues:
{{Quote|The Red God has his due, sweet girl, and only death may pay for life. This girl took three that were his. This girl must give three in their places. Speak the names, and a man will do the rest.}}
Arya asks him to take her to Riverrun, but he replies:
{{Quote|Three lives you shall have of me. No more, no less. Three and we are done. So a girl must ponder. But not too long.}}
He kisses her hair as he says this. She cannot see his face, as she nods, and he is gone with only whiff of ginger and cloves in the air. She thinks of those on her list, but they are all miles away. There is Weese.

The next morning Arya yawns in Weese’s presence, and he warns her not to let her mouth drop open again, telling her he will feed her tongue to his bitch, and twists her ear to make certain she heard. As she works she thinks of who she wants dead, and how being at war she should try to kill as many Lannisters as she could and how her father personally killed those he condemned to death. She is not sure she should trust Jaqen, and avoids, him, which is not hard to do.

Ser Gregor returns, and Weese sends Arya to see if they have cloths that need mending. She arrives to find Chiswyck talking, and does not want to interrupt because she might be hit. He is talking about when he were returning from the [[Tourney of the Hand]] with Ser Gregor, Raff, [[Joss Stilwood]], and [[Eggon]]. They stopped at an alehouse where the brewer did not stop talking. They knew better than to talk because the Mountain was seething over the joust with the [[Knight of Flowers]]. The brewer’s girl was serving, and they were touching her. Finally Joss puts his hand up her skirt, and the screams, and runs to the kitchen. The brewer goes to Ser Gregor and asks that his men leave the girl alone. Ser Gregor has the girl brought before him, pays the brewer a silver, and takes her right there. A boy runs in from cellar and Raff sticks him with a dirk. After Ser Gregor is done, [[Tobbot]] takes the girl from the back. Ser Gregor tells the brewer the girl was not worth a silver, and wants change, and the brewer gives it to him. They all roar with laughter at the story. Arya sneaks away. When Weese learns she did not ask about the mending, he beats her bloody.

Two days later she sees Jaqen H’ghar in the Barracks Hall. Ensuring that Weese is not around, she works her way down to him filling wine cups until she reaches him and whispers “Chiswyck” in his ear. He gives no sign that he heard, but nothing happens until the third day when she hears that a man had fallen off the wallwalk the previous night. Some are saying Harren’s ghost flung him down and Arya thinks that she is the ghost in Harrenhal, and there is one less name on her list.

==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
*Summary and analyses of the chapter [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/re-read-arya-vii-wish-unfairy.html in the course of a 10th reread].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-14 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 30]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Arya Stark]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in Harrenhal]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 31, Arya]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29

2013-03-27T23:19:28Z

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Tyrion VII
| page = 326
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28|Bran IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 25|Tyrion VI]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
}}

It is late at night when [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is disturbed by the arrival of [[Lancel Lannister|Lancel]] with demands from [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] that [[Pycelle]] be released and Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] be arrested for defying a command in the [[Joffrey Baratheon|King’s]] name. Lancel is arrogant until Tyrion reveals the he knows his part in King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] death and that he has been having sex with the queen. Then Tyrion threatens to tell Joffrey, and this convinces Lancel to agree to be Tyrion’s spy. Afterwards, Tyrion travels a circuitous route to be with his whore [[Shae]].

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is woken by a sleepy [[Podrick Payne]] with news that [[Lancel Lannister]] had arrived. Tyrion was not bothered by the late hour since he usually worked well into the morning reading [[Varys]]’ whisperer’s reports or going over [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger’s]] accounts. He figures, however, the [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] was expecting Lancel’s late arrival would catch him less alert. Tyrion takes his time, and roughens his hair to make it look like he had been woken from his sleep.

Tyrion warmly greets Lancel, who has been pacing. Lancel tells him that Cersei commands that [[Pycelle]] be released, handing Tyrion her warrant. Tyrion tell Lancel that he hopes she is not over taxing herself, he would not want to see a relapse. After being told that she is recovered, Tyrion states it is music to his ears, thinking he should have given her a larger dose. Tryion offers Lancel mulled wine to help to sleep, and he rejects the offer, having not come to drink. Tyrion states that wine has it dangers and the he would have thought that if Cersei was so concerned about Pycelle she would have come herself. Lancel tells Tyrion just to release the prisoner with a sneer, that the queen is [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey’s]] regent. Tyrion replies that he is Joffrey’s [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Lancel replies ““The Hand serves. The regent rules until the king is of age,” and Tyrion tell him maybe he should write it down so he can remember, and tells Podrick to leave.

After Pod leaves, Lancel states that Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] defied a command in the King’s name, and that Cersei demands he be removed and charged with treason; Tyrion thinks that it means that Cersei had already ordered Pycelle’s release. When Lancel threatens Tyrion, Tyrion tells him that he will hear no warning from a boy. Lancel touches his sword and tells Tyrion “Have a care how you speak to me, Imp.” Tyrion warns him that at a cry from him [[Shagga]] will break in and kill Lancel with an axe and not a wineskin. Lancel, incensed, tells Tyrion that he is a knight. Tyrion asks if Cersei had him knighted before or after she took him to bed. Lancel says nothing, and Tyrion can tell from his eyes that Varys was right. When Tyrion comments, Lancel demands he withdraw filthy accustaions. Before he can finish, Tyrion mentions the result if Joffrey discovers he murdered his father to bed his mother. Lancel tells Tyrion that [[Tywin Lannister]] told Lancel to do everything that Cersei told him when he was assigned squire to King [[Robert Baratheon]]. Tryion asks if Tywin told him to fuck Cersei also, Tyron noting that Lancel looks somewhat like [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], but a poor copy. Lancel starts to say he only did has he was bid, to which Tyrion adds that he hated every instant of a high place in court, knighthood, and Cersei opening her legs, and then threatens to go to the king. Lancel begs for mercy as Tyrion continues his threats to go to the king, who he is duty bound to inform. When Lancel states he will end it, Tyrion tells him no, that he will stay close to Cersei, be a spy for him, and tell no one. Lancel agrees, and Tyrion order him to drink to their understanding. Tyrion then tells Lancel the he could do well out of this and that knighthood is nothing. Then he tells him to tell the queen that he begs her forgiveness, and he will let her have Pycelle to do with however she will, but he will not be on the council. With respect to Ser Jacelyn Bywater, tell the queen that you think you can win him away from Tyrion. Then one more instruction, that Tyrion does not want another nephew. He tells her that there is no need for concern since Cersei has him spill his seed on her belly.

After he leaves, Tyrion wonders him if Jaime will kill him or Cersei will have him killed to prevent Jaime from finding out when Jaime returns. Cersei would also kill him if she learns he betrayed her.

Tyrion could not get to sleep, so sends Podrick, who was asleep, to summon [[Bronn]] and get two horses saddled. When Bronn arrives, he damands “Who pissed in your soup?” to which Tyrion answers Cersei. He states he should be use to the taste and that she seems to have mistaken him for [[Eddard Stark]]. Bronn replies that he was tall, to which Tyrion responds not after Joffrey took off his head.

The leave through the postern gate, then down Shadowblack Lane to the foot of [[Aegon's high hill]] onto Pigrun Alley. Tyrion reflects that the men that had been Hand had been no match for Cersei because they had been too honest. The only way to defeat Cersei is to play her own game. In the crowded brothel they were met by [[Chataya]], who leads them to the common room, and serves them wine, apologizing for the quality; she cannot find good wine at any price, which Tyrion understands. As Tyrion waits, [[Dancy]] slides onto his lap, telling she has a cure for him feeling unloved. He tells her that he has grown fond of [[Alayaya]]’s remedy. When Alayaya arrives, she leads him up the stairs, and tells him that Dancy has a bet with [[Marei]], and has only a fortnight before she loses her black pearls. She leads him to the Tower Room, telling him that she will sleep while he is gone before he disappears down the shaft to the tunnel.

As he leaves the stables on his gelding, he hears music that reminds of the words [[Tysha]] had sung to him, who had been a lie, a whore Jaime had hired to make him a man.

He arrives at the manse which had been arranged by Varys as a place to sequester [[Shae]]. He had told Varys he wanted her protected by ugly, scared men who did not like having sex women. She is now protected by a [[Braavos|Braavosi]] daggerman with a hair lip and lazy eye, two eunuch strangler, a pair of foul smelling [[Ibben|Ibbenese]] who are fond of axes and each other. If Tyrion had her guarded by his [[Mountain clans|clansmen]] it would only be a matter of time before everyone knew of his concubine.

He enters the room not intending to disturb Shea, but the sight of her nude body makes him hard. He spreads her legs and starts to lick her until his beard is soaked and then enters her, and explodes almost at once. She opens her eyes and tells him she just had the sweetest dream.

Tyrion thinks of the wars and intrigues and how he was made for this.

==External links==
*[http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/re-read-tyrion-vii-song-of-brother-and.html Analyses and summary of the chapter in the course of a 10th reread] by Slynt.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-14 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.
==References and Notes==
{{References|2}}
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 29]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]

[[fr:A Clash of Kings, Chapitre 30, Tyrion]]

A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29

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{{Infobox Chapter ACfK
| pov = [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]]
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| title = Tyrion VII
| page = 326
| previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28|Bran IV]]
| current = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 29|Tyrion VII]]
| next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30|Arya VII]]
| arc previous = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 25|Tyrion VI]]
| arc next = [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 36|Tyrion VIII]]
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It is late at night when [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is disturbed by the arrival of [[Lancel Lannister|Lancel]] with demands from [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] that [[Pycelle]] be released and Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] be arrested for defying a command in the [[Joffrey Baratheon|King’s]] name. Lancel is arrogant until Tyrion reveals the he knows his part in King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] death and that he has been having sex with the queen. Then Tyrion threatens to tell Joffrey, and this convinces Lancel to agree to be Tyrion’s spy. Afterwards, Tyrion travels a circuitous route to be with his whore [[Shae]].

==Synopsis==
[[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] is woken by a sleepy [[Podrick Payne]] with news that [[Lancel Lannister]] had arrived. Tyrion was not bothered by the late hour since he usually worked well into the morning reading [[Vayrs]]’ whisperer’s reports or going over [[Petyr Baelish|Littlefinger’s]] accounts. He figures, however, the [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] was expecting Lancel’s late arrival would catch him less alert. Tyrion takes his time, and roughens his hair to make it look like he had been woken from his sleep.

Tyrion warmly greets Lancel, who has been pacing. Lancel tells him that Cersei commands that [[Pycelle]] be released, handing Tyrion her warrant. Tyrion tell Lancel that he hopes she is not over taxing herself, he would not want to see a relapse. After being told that she is recovered, Tyrion states it is music to his ears, thinking he should have given her a larger dose. Tryion offers Lancel mulled wine to help to sleep, and he rejects the offer, having not come to drink. Tyrion states that wine has it dangers and the he would have thought that if Cersei was so concerned about Pycelle she would have come herself. Lancel tells Tyrion just to release the prisoner with a sneer, that the queen is [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey’s]] regent. Tyrion replies that he is Joffrey’s [[Hand of the King|Hand]]. Lancel replies ““The Hand serves. The regent rules until the king is of age,” and Tyrion tell him maybe he should write it down so he can remember, and tells Podrick to leave.

After Pod leaves, Lancel states that Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] defied a command in the King’s name, and that Cersei demands he be removed and charged with treason; Tyrion thinks that it means that Cersei had already ordered Pycelle’s release. When Lancel threatens Tyrion, Tyrion tells him that he will hear no warning from a boy. Lancel touches his sword and tells Tyrion “Have a care how you speak to me, Imp.” Tyrion warns him that at a cry from him [[Shagga]] will break in and kill Lancel with an axe and not a wineskin. Lancel, incensed, tells Tyrion that he is a knight. Tyrion asks if Cersei had him knighted before or after she took him to bed. Lancel says nothing, and Tyrion can tell from his eyes that [[Varys]] was right. When Tyrion comments, Lancel demands he withdraw filthy accustaions. Before he can finish, Tyrion mentions the result if Joffrey discovers he murdered his father to bed his mother. Lancel tells Tyrion that [[Tywin Lannister]] told Lancel to do everything that Cersei told him when he was assigned squire to King [[Robert Baratheon]]. Tryion asks if Tywin told him to fuck Cersei also, Tyron noting that Lancel looks somewhat like [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], but a poor copy. Lancel starts to say he only did has he was bid, to which Tyrion adds that he hated every instant of a high place in court, knighthood, and Cersei opening her legs, and then threatens to go to the king. Lancel begs for mercy as Tyrion continues his threats to go to the king, who he is duty bound to inform. When Lancel states he will end it, Tyrion tells him no, that he will stay close to Cersei, be a spy for him, and tell no one. Lancel agrees, and Tyrion order him to drink to their understanding. Tyrion then tells Lancel the he could do well out of this and that knighthood is nothing. Then he tells him to tell the queen that he begs her forgiveness, and he will let her have Pycelle to do with however she will, but he will not be on the council. With respect to Ser Jacelyn Bywater, tell the queen that you think you can win him away from Tyrion. Then one more instruction, that Tyrion does not want another nephew. He tells her that there is no need for concern since Cersei has him spill his seed on her belly.

After he leaves, Tyrion wonders him if Jaime will kill him or Cersei will have him killed to prevent Jaime from finding out when Jaime returns. Cersei would also kill him if she learns he betrayed her.

Tyrion could not get to sleep, so sends Podrick, who was asleep, to summon [[Bronn]] and get two horses saddled. When Bronn arrives, he damands “Who pissed in your soup?” to which Tyrion answers Cersei. He states he should be use to the taste and that she seems to have mistaken him for [[Eddard Stark]]. Bronn replies that he was tall, to which Tyrion responds not after Joffrey took off his head.

The leave through the postern gate, then down Shadowblack Lane to the foot of [[Aegon's high hill]] onto Pigrun Alley. Tyrion reflects that the men that had been Hand had been no match for Cersei because they had been too honest. The only way to defeat Cersei is to play her own game. In the crowded brothel they were met by [[Chataya]], who leads them to the common room, and serves them wine, apologizing for the quality; she cannot find good wine at any price, which Tyrion understands. As Tyrion waits, [[Dancy]] slides onto his lap, telling she has a cure for him feeling unloved. He tells her that he has grown fond of [[Alayaya]]’s remedy. When Alayaya arrives, she leads him up the stairs, and tells him that Dancy has a bet with [[Marei]], and has only a fortnight before she loses her black pearls. She leads him to the Tower Room, telling him that she will sleep while he is gone before he disappears down the shaft to the tunnel.

As he leaves the stables on his gelding, he hears music that reminds of the words [[Tysha]] had sung to him, who had been a lie, a whore Jaime had hired to make him a man.

He arrives at the manse which had been arranged by Varys as a place to sequester [[Shae]]. He had told Varys he wanted her protected by ugly, scared men who did not like having sex women. She is now protected by a [[Braavos|Braavosi]] daggerman with a hair lip and lazy eye, two eunuch strangler, a pair of foul smelling [[Ibben|Ibbenese]] who are fond of axes and each other. If Tyrion had her guarded by his [[Mountain clans|clansmen]] it would only be a matter of time before everyone knew of his concubine.

He enters the room not intending to disturb Shea, but the sight of her nude body makes him hard. He spreads her legs and starts to lick her until his beard is soaked and then enters her, and explodes almost at once. She opens her eyes and tells him she just had the sweetest dream.

Tyrion thinks of the wars and intrigues and how he was made for this.

==External links==
*[http://slynt.blogspot.com/2011/11/re-read-tyrion-vii-song-of-brother-and.html Analyses and summary of the chapter in the course of a 10th reread] by Slynt.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-14 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.
==References and Notes==
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[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Clash of Kings: Chapter 29]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Tyrion Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in King's Landing]]

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