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Fall of King's Landing

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|battle_name = Fall of King's Landing
|conflict = [[Dance of the Dragons]]
|date = {{Date|130}}
|place = [[King's Landing]]
|result = Victory for the [[blacks]]
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The '''fall of King's Landing''' occurred in {{Date|130}} during the [[Dance of the Dragons]].{{Ref|TPATQ}}

==Prelude==
Prince [[Aemond Targaryen]] and Ser [[Criston Cole]] gathered their [[Greens|green]] forces to [[Aemond's march on Harrenhal|march]] on [[Harrenhal]], which left [[King's Landing]] largely defenseless. This created an opportunity that the [[blacks]] seized.{{Ref|TPATQ}}

Prince [[Daemon Targaryen]] on [[Caraxes]] and Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] on [[Syrax]] flew over the capital and circled their dragons above [[Aegon's High Hill]]. The fleet of the Sea Snake, Lord [[Corlys Velaryon]], then arrived to the east of [[Blackwater Bay]].{{Ref|TPATQ}}

==Battle==
The sight of Daemon on Caraxes and Rhaenyra on Syrax over King's Landing sent the city into a panic. The Queen Dowager, [[Alicent Hightower]], tried to send riders to bring back Aemond and ravens to leal lords, but her efforts were quickly stopped. Unknown to Alicent was that the gold cloaks, the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], had turned. The gold cloaks were loyal to Daemon who had once been their leader. When he went to dispatch ravens, Grand Maester [[Orwyle]] was beaten and bound by gold cloaks as he arrived in his chambers. The seven commanders of the city gates who had been chosen for their loyalty to King [[Aegon II Targaryen]] were either imprisoned or killed the moment Caraxes was spotted over the [[Red Keep]]. Ser [[Gwayne Hightower]], the second in command of the City Watch, was captured when he tried to sound the alarm. He was brought before Ser [[Luthor Largent]], the commander of the gold cloaks. Gwayne denounced him as a turncloak to which Luthor replied:

{{Quote|Daemon gave us these cloaks and they're gold no matter how you turn them.{{Ref|TPATQ}}}}

Luthor then murdered Gwayne and had the city gates opened to the army pouring in from the Sea Snake's ships. Thirteen [[House Hightower]] knights and a hundred men-at-arms managed to hold the [[River Gate]] for eight hours from both attacks without and within the city. The other six gates, however, fell swiftly and the blacks' army entered the city unmolested through those gates. The city fell in less then a day. Seeing hope was lost, Queen Alicent ordered her forces to surrender.{{Ref|TPATQ}}

==Aftermath==
King [[Aegon II Targaryen]] escaped the fall of King's Landing. He was smuggled out by the [[master of whisperers]], Lord [[Larys Strong]], via secret passages. Aegon was protected by two of his [[Kingsguard]] knights, Ser [[Willis Fell]] and Ser [[Rickard Thorne]], and was accompanied by his children, Princess [[Jaehaera Targaryen|Jaehaera]] and Prince [[Maelor Targaryen|Maelor]].{{Ref|TPATQ}}

Lord [[Otto Hightower]] and Lord [[Jasper Wylde]] were executed for treason. Lords [[Lord Rosby|Rosby]] and [[Lord Stokeworth|Stokeworth]] tried to switch their allegiances back to Rhaenyra, but she refused, judging them to be "faithless friends" and ordered their executions. Queen [[Alicent Hightower]] and Princess [[Helaena Targaryen]] were held as captives. Ser [[Tyland Lannister]] was tortured for information on where he had hidden the crown's treasure. Grand Maester [[Orwyle]] was confined in the [[black cells]].{{Ref|TPATQ}}

Queen [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] seized the [[Iron Throne]], though many lords noted she cut herself upon the throne, starting rumors that the throne had rejected her. At first the population of the city had welcomed Rhaenyra's ascent to the Iron Throne as Aegon II and Prince [[Aemond Targaryen]] had not been much loved. In time, however, with more executions happening daily and more taxes being raised to fund the wars, the population began to loathe Rhaenyra, calling her "King [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor]] with teats".{{Ref|TPATQ}}

When Queen Alicent heard of Rhaenyra's planned campaigns against Prince Aemond and Prince Daeron, she made a new offer of peace. This time, she proposed that the [[Seven Kingdoms]] would be divided between the two claimants, with Rhaenyra keeping the [[crownlands]], [[riverlands]], the [[Vale of Arryn]], the [[Iron Islands]] and the [[North]] and ruling from King's Landing, while Aegon II would rule a new realm from [[Oldtown]] that consisted of the [[Reach]], the [[stormlands]] and the [[westerlands]]. Rhaenyra rejected this offer, and noted that her brothers had given up positions of honor that they may have had when they stole her birthright and took the lives of her sons.{{ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant}}

==References==
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Tumbledown Tower

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'''Tumbledown Tower''' is an ancient watchtower in the [[wolfswood]] in the [[north]] that has been abandoned for a long time. The stones that make the tower have fallen from their places and are overgrown with moss and ivy. The vault still stands, and there are no villages nearby.{{ref|ASOS|9}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Bran Stark]], [[Hodor]], and [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]] and [[Meera Reed]] rest in the tower's vault on their journey north to the [[Wall]]. Although its true name has been lost, Bran names it the "Tumbledown Tower" for its appearance.{{ref|ASOS|9}}

==References and Notes==
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{{region North}}

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[[fr:Tour Éparse]]
[[zh:摇坠塔]]

House Tyrell

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{{Noble House
| House_name = House Tyrell of [[Highgarden]]
| image = [[File:House Tyrell.svg|250px|center]]
| image_caption =
| Coat_of_arms = A golden rose, on a green field (''Vert, a rose or'')
| Words = ''Growing Strong''
| Seat = [[Highgarden]]
| Current_Lord = [[Mace Tyrell]]
| Region = [[Reach]]
| Title = Lord of [[Highgarden]] [[Defender of the Marches]] [[High Marshal of the Reach]] [[Warden of the South]] [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] [[High Steward of Highgarden]] (pre-Conquest)
| Heir = [[Willas Tyrell]]
| Overlord = [[House Baratheon of King's Landing]]
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| Cadet_branch = [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]
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| Founder = Ser [[Alester Tyrell]]
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'''House Tyrell of Highgarden''' is one of the [[Great Houses]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], being [[Lords Paramount of the Mander]] and the liege lords of the [[Reach]]. A large, wealthy house, its wealth is only surpassed among the Great Houses by [[House Lannister]], and the Tyrells can field the greatest armies. Additionally, if they call the ships of the [[Redwyne fleet]], the lords of the [[Shield Islands]], and the coastal lords, they can command a navy that equals if not surpasses the [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|royal fleet]] of [[King's Landing]].

[[Highgarden]] is an ancient seat of rule and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms;{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach}} the Tyrells style themselves '[[Defender of the Marches|Defenders of the Marches]]' and 'High Marshals of the Reach', and traditionally, they have been [[Warden of the South|Wardens of the South]] in addition to Lords Paramount of the Mander. Their sigil is a golden rose on a green field, and their words are "Growing Strong."{{Ref|aCoK|22}} Members of the family tend to have curly brown hair and brown or golden eyes.

==History==
===Kingdom of the Reach===
The Tyrells trace their line of descent through the female line to the legendary [[Garth the Gardener]], the mythical first [[King of the Reach]] reigning in the [[Age of Heroes]], and the son of the equally mythic [[Garth Greenhand]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Garth Greenhand}} Unlike other Great Houses, the Tyrells never ruled as kings. The Tyrells were [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] to [[House Gardener]], the ancient ruling line of the [[King of the Reach|Kings of the Reach]],{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} who periodically intermarried with lower ranking houses of the Reach such as House Tyrell or [[House Florent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], the founder of the house, was an [[Andal]] [[knight]] and adventurer who showed such prowess at arms that he was named the champion and sword shield of King [[Gwayne V Gardener]], the last of the [[Three Sage Kings]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} Ser Alester's eldest son also became a notable knight, but died in a tourney. Alester's second son, [[Gareth Tyrell|Gareth]], was of a more bookish bent and never achieved knighthood, choosing instead to serve as a royal steward. He and his son [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo]] performed their duties so well, the Gardeners made the office of [[High Steward of Highgarden|High Steward]] hereditary. It is from Gareth that today’s Tyrells descend.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

During the minority of King [[Garland VI Gardener]], a member of House Tyrell ruled the [[Reach]] in his name as [[Regent]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

When Lords [[House Manderly|Manderly]] and [[House Peake|Peake]] instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King [[Garth X Gardener]], succeed as Queen of the Reach, Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], the [[High Steward of Highgarden]], led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaimed the ruins of [[Highgarden]] which had been sacked by a [[Dorne|Dornish]] king and his raiders. Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X, who has been killed by the raiders, upon the new throne as King [[Mern VI Gardener]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}}

Relying on the able counsel of Ser Osmund, and later Osmund's son Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], and finally Robert's son [[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], King Mern ruled well, rebuilding [[Highgarden]] and doing much and more to restore the power of the [[Reach]] and House Gardener.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Reach: Andals in the Reach}} Mern VI was so pleased with them that he gave Ser Robert the hand of his youngest daughter in marriage, thereby allowing the following generations of Tyrells to claim decent from [[Garth Greenhand]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} That was the first marriage between the two houses, and nine more unions followed in the passing centuries.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

===Targaryen Era===
[[File:T Jedruszek HighgardenHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|350px|Highgarden Honor Guard by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Following the defeat and death of King [[Mern IX Gardener]] and his other kin, at the [[Field of Fire]] during the [[War of Conquest]], [[Harlen Tyrell]], hereditary high steward of the Reach, surrendered [[Highgarden]] and was granted the castle along with dominion of the Reach as [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]] by [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]. As Wardens of the South they frequently warred with the [[Dornishmen]], who remained independent. Harlen disappeared in the Dornish sands during the [[First Dornish War]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons}}

During the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]], the Tyrells hosted the famed [[Tourney of the Field of Roses]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}}

As the [[Dance of the Dragons]] began, Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]] was an infant, and his regent mother was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, the [[House Hightower|Hightowers]], and [[the greens]].{{Ref|tpatq}} However, House Tyrell decided to take no part in the war.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} The Tyrell bannermen, on the other hand, were split during the war, with men of the Reach fighting on both sides. Later Ser [[Ulf the White]] would attempt to claim Highgarden for himself, as House Tyrell had taken no part in the Dance and he believed they should be considered traitors.{{Ref|TPATQ}}

When [[Daeron I Targaryen]], the Young Dragon, attempted the [[conquest of Dorne]], Lord Lyonel commanded the army that invaded via [[Prince's Pass]]. After the initial victory, Daeron appointed Lord Tyrell as governor of Dorne. Lord Tyrell liked Dornish women and one night he pulled the rope that would signal for a wench to come to his bed, and a hundred scorpions fell from the canopy instead. His death sparked new revolts, and the conquest was undone in a fortnight.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}{{Ref|ASOS|66}}

Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo "Longthorn" Tyrell]] participated in the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]], beginning the tourney as one of the champions. Both Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] and Ser [[Duncan]] recognized him as a formidable opponent, one that Duncan would better avoid.{{ref|THK}}

During [[Robert's Rebellion]], House Tyrell stayed loyal to King [[Aerys II Targaryen]]. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]]'s forces achieved victory against [[Robert Baratheon]] at the [[Battle of Ashford]], dealing the future king his only defeat of the war at the cost of Ser [[Quentin Tyrell]]'s life. Mace likes to take credit for the success, but it was the van under command of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] that put Robert to flight. Mace went on to [[Siege of Storm's End|besiege]] Robert's brother [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] at [[Storm's End]], but bent the knee after the Targaryens were all but wiped out in the [[Sack of King's Landing]]. Robert Baratheon, king by conquest, forgave them and accepted them as sworn vassals.

==Recent Events==
[[File:Zippo514 Highgarden.jpg|[[Highgarden]] - by Zippo514 ©|thumb|350px|right]]
===''A Game of Thrones''===
House Tyrell is among the houses that [[Viserys Targaryen]] believes will rise for him if he lands in [[Westeros]].

Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, rides in [[the Hand's tourney]], defeating Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] but yielding the final tilt to [[Sandor Clegane]] after the Hound rescues him from the Mountain. He is upset when the [[Hand of the King]], [[Eddard Stark]], does not send him to bring Gregor to justice for pillaging the [[riverlands]]. As King [[Robert Baratheon]] lays dying, Loras supports [[Renly Baratheon]]'s desire to take the crown before either Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] or Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]] can claim it, and flees the city with him when Lord Stark rebuffs Renly's request for his aid. Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] and his brothers (of which he has none), uncles, and sons (and Ser Loras specifically) are named among the nobles whom the new King Joffrey decrees must swear fealty to him or be attainted as traitors.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
House Tyrell declares for King Renly. [[Margaery Tyrell]] is to be his queen, his ex-squire and secret lover Ser Loras the Lord Commander of his [[Rainbow Guard]], and Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] his Hand. With the backing of the Tyrells and almost all of their bannermen, Renly has the strongest army in the [[War of the Five Kings]]. After a failed parley with his brother Stannis, Renly's host seems sure to win the coming battle. When he is [[Siege of Storm's End (299)|murdered that night]], an enraged Loras kills the two knights who were guarding him.

Renly's assassination sees many of the Reach's soldiers defect to Stannis's cause. The Tyrells and their leal bannermen (including [[Paxter Redwyne]], [[Randyll Tarly]] and [[Mathis Rowan]]) plot their next move at [[Bitterbridge]], where they receive a visit from [[Petyr Baelish]]. He extends an offer of alliance with Houses [[House Baratheon of King's Landing|Baratheon]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]]. The Tyrells join with [[Tywin Lannister]], marching on [[King's Landing]] in time to save the city and King Joffrey and rout Stannis's forces in the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Mace's second son, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], fights in Renly's armor, frightening the smallfolk into believing the king had risen from the grave.

After the battle, Mace is rewarded with the [[small council]] post of [[master of ships]], while Lords Redwyne and Rowan are given advisory seats. Garlan is made [[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Lord of Brightwater Keep]], since [[House Florent|the Florents]] now serve Stannis's cause. Loras joins the [[Kingsguard]], and Margaery is betrothed to King Joffrey.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Prior to Margaery's arrival in King's Landing, Tyrell men with food carts succor the starving residents, creating wild popularity for her and her house despite the fact that it was the Tyrell embargo that created the shortage in the first place.

A Tyrell man-at-arms is killed and two [[House Gargalen|Gargalen]] man-at-arms are scalded in a fight in [[Flea Bottom]].

Mace's mother, Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], arranges to meet with [[Sansa Stark]]. Talking to Sansa about Joffrey, Olenna decides she does not care for the match between he and Margaery and conspires with Petyr Baelish to poison Joffrey at his own [[Purple Wedding|wedding feast]]. [[Tyrion Lannister]] is falsely accused of the murder, and Mace is one of the judges at his trial. He wants the Imp dead because Margaery was drinking from the same cup, unaware that it was his mother who perpetrated the poisoning, but Tyrion eventually escapes the city.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Tomasz Jedruszek HouseTyrell Bannermen.jpg|350px|thumb|right|House Tyrell Bannermen – by Tomasz Jedruszek]. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Tyrells come to dominate their tenuous alliance with the Lannisters despite the paranoid meddling of Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]. After the death of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], her father and the Hand of the King, Cersei resumes her regency and removes Mace and his favored bannermen from the small council. Meanwhile, Margaery is wed to the new king, Joffrey's brother [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], releasing Mace from his vow not to leave the city until Margaery is wed. Margaery makes a point to win the love of the people and to try and prepare Tommen for kingship; she is baffled by Cersei's refusal of all her suggestions and apparent lack of understanding regarding dire military threats. She resists the attempted seductions of Cersei's agent, [[Osney Kettleblack]].

Cersei sends Loras to [[Siege of Dragonstone|besiege Dragonstone]] and Mace to besiege [[Siege of Storm's End (300)|Storm's End]] to remove them from the capital and place them in danger. Loras is badly wounded while seizing the island, and Mace quickly returns when he hears that Margaery has been imprisoned by the [[High Sparrow]], she and Cersei exchanging mutual accusations of immorality. By the time he arrives, however, he finds [[Randyll Tarly]] has already secured her release; Lord Tarly is to hold them until their trial. Mace again vows to remain in the city, this time until Margaery is acquitted in her upcoming trial.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
With Cersei imprisoned, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]] is named Lord Regent over Tommen, and he takes several steps to smooth over Cersei's actions. Mace Tyrell is finally made Hand, and his bannermen Randyll Tarly and Paxter Redwyne are made masters of [[Master of laws|laws]] and [[Master of ships|ships]], respectively. Lord Mace has a hundred Highgarden men added to the [[City Watch of King's Landing]], further consolidating power in the capital. However, Ser Kevan is killed by [[Varys]], which the Spider hopes will lead to continued fracturing of the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.

==House Tyrell at the end of the third century==
[[File:House tyrell by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Back row, left to right: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]], [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]]. Front: [[Olenna Tyrell|Olenna]], [[Mace Tyrell|Mace]], [[Alerie Hightower]].Art by Cabepfir©]]

The known Tyrells during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:
* Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], Lord of [[Highgarden]], [[Defender of the Marches]], High Marshal of the [[Reach]], [[Warden of the South]] and [[Hand of the King]].
** Lady [[Alerie Hightower]], his wife.
*** [[Willas Tyrell]], his eldest son and heir. He has a crippled leg.
*** Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]], his second son. Called Garlan the Gallant. Married to [[Leonette Fossoway]]. Titular Lord of [[Brightwater Keep]].
*** Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], his third son. Called the Knight of Flowers. A brother of the [[Kingsguard]].
*** Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]], his daughter, Queen of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Widow of [[Renly Baratheon|Renly I]] and [[Joffrey I]], now married to King [[Tommen I]].
* Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]], his mother. She is known as the 'Queen of Thorns.'
* Lady [[Mina Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]].
* Lady [[Janna Tyrell]], his sister. Married to Ser [[Jon Fossoway]].
* [[Garth Tyrell]], his uncle. Called 'Garth the Gross'. Lord Seneschal of Highgarden.
** [[Garse Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
** [[Garrett Flowers]], Garth's bastard son.
* Ser [[Moryn Tyrell]], his uncle. Lord Commander of the [[City Watch of Oldtown]].
** Ser {[[Luthor Tyrell (son of Moryn)|Luthor Tyrell]]}, Moryn's eldest son. Married to [[Elyn Norridge]].
*** Ser [[Theodore Tyrell]], Luthor's eldest son. Married to [[Lia Serry]].
**** [[Elinor Tyrell]], Theodore's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
**** [[Luthor Tyrell (son of Theodore)|Luthor Tyrell]], Theodore's son. A squire.
*** Maester [[Medwick Tyrell|Medwick]], Luthor's second son. A [[Maester]].
*** [[Olene Tyrell]], Luthor's daughter. Married to Ser [[Leo Blackbar]].
** [[Leo Tyrell]], Moryn's second son. Called 'Leo the Lazy'. Studying at the [[Citadel]].
* Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], his uncle. A Maester.

Distant relations of the main branch are:
* Ser {[[Quentin Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain at the [[Battle of Ashford]].
** Ser [[Olymer Tyrell]], Quentin's son. Married to [[Lysa Meadows]].
*** [[Raymund Tyrell]], Olymer's eldest son.
*** [[Rickard Tyrell]], Olymer's second son.
*** [[Megga Tyrell]], Olymer's daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
* Maester [[Normund Tyrell|Normund]], a cousin of Lord Mace. He is in service at [[Blackcrown]].
* Ser {[[Victor Tyrell]]}, a cousin of Lord Mace. Slain by the [[Smiling Knight]] of the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]].
** [[Victaria Tyrell]], Victor's daughter. Widow of Lord [[Jon Bulwer]].
*** [[Alysanne Bulwer]], Victaria's daughter. The Lady of [[Blackcrown]].
** Ser [[Leo Tyrell (son of Victor)|Leo Tyrell]], Victor's son. Married to [[Alys Beesbury]].
*** [[Alla Tyrell]], Leo's eldest daughter. Handmaiden to Queen Margaery.
*** [[Leona Tyrell]], Leo's second daughter.
*** [[Lyonel Tyrell (son of Leo)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Leo's eldest son.
*** [[Lucas Tyrell]], Leo's second son.
*** [[Lorent Tyrell]], Leo's third son.

{{Template:Tyrell_tree 2}}

===Household===
====Margaery's companions and ladies-in-waiting:====
* [[Megga Tyrell|Megga]], [[Alla Tyrell|Alla]], and [[Elinor Tyrell]], Margaery's cousins.
** Elinor's betrothed, [[Alyn Ambrose]], a squire.
* Lady [[Alysanne Bulwer]], a girl, [[Meredyth Crane]], called 'Merry', Lady [[Alyce Graceford]], Lady [[Taena Merryweather]], late of [[Myr]] and wife of Lord [[Orton Merryweather]], Lady [[Leonette Fossoway]], wife of Lord [[Garlan Tyrell]].
* Septa [[Nysterica]], a sister of the Faith.

====At Highgarden:====

* Maester [[Lomys]], counselor, healer, and tutor.
* [[Igon Vyrwel]], captain of the guard.
* Ser [[Vortimer Crane]], master-at-arms.
* [[Butterbumps]], fool and jester, hugely fat.
* [[Arryk]] and [[Erryk]], called 'Left' and 'Right', twin guardsmen to Lady Olenna.

====Knights and sworn swords:====
* Ser [[Mark Mullendore]], a knight. Crippled during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].
* Ser [[Willam Wythers]], captain of Queen Margaery's guard in King's Landing.
* Ser [[Bayard Norcross]] and Ser [[Hugh Clifton]], household knights in King's Landing.

====At King's Landing====
*The '[[Blue Bard]]', whose real name is Wat, a singer. Gone mad from torture at the hands of [[Qyburn]] and, later, the [[Faith of the Seven]].

==Historical Members==
* Ser [[Alester Tyrell]], founder of the House. An [[Andal]] knight and sworn shield to King [[Gwayne V Gardener]].
** [[Gareth Tyrell]], Alester's second son.
*** [[Leo Tyrell (son of Gareth)|Leo Tyrell]], Gareth's son.
* Ser [[Osmund Tyrell]], High Steward of Highgarden during the reign of King [[Garth X Gardener]].
** Ser [[Robert Tyrell]], his son, High Steward to King [[Mern VI Gardener]]
***[[Lorent Tyrell (steward)|Lorent Tyrell]], his grandson, High Steward to Mern VI
* Lord [[Harlen Tyrell]], first Tyrell Lord of Highgarden.
** Lord [[Theo Tyrell]], Harlen's son and successor. Consolidated Tyrell power over the Reach.
* Lord [[Matthos Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Great Council]] of {{date|101}}.
* When Princess [[Rhaenyra Targaryen]] toured the south in {{date|112}}, she was courted by the son of Lord Tyrell, among many others.{{ref|trp}}
* Lord [[Lyonel Tyrell (lord)|Lyonel Tyrell]], Lord of Highgarden during the [[Dance of the Dragons]] and a major participant serving under King [[Daeron I Targaryen|Daeron I]] in the [[Conquest of Dorne]].
* Lord [[Leo Tyrell (Longthorn)|Leo Tyrell]], known as "Leo Longthorn", a renowned jouster and participant in the [[Ashford Tourney]]; head of the House during the reigns of kings [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron II]] and [[Aerys I Targaryen|Aerys I]].
* Lord [[Luthor Tyrell]], father of [[Mace Tyrell]]. He rode off a cliff to his death while hawking.

==Sworn Houses==
* '''[[House Ambrose|Ambrose]]'''.
* '''[[House Appleton|Appleton]]''' of [[Appleton]].
* '''[[House Ashford|Ashford]]''' of [[Ashford]].
* '''[[House Ball|Ball]]'''.
* '''[[House Blackbar|Blackbar]]''' of [[Bandallon]].
* '''[[House Bridges|Bridges]]'''.
* '''[[House Bushy|Bushy]].
* '''[[House Caswell|Caswell]]''' of [[Bitterbridge]].
* [[House Chester|'''Chester''']]. The head of House Chester is given the title of Lord of [[Greenshield]].
* '''[[House Cockshaw|Cockshaw]]'''.
* '''[[House Conklyn|Conklyn]]'''.
* '''[[House Cordwayner|Cordwayner]]''' of [[Hammerhal]].
* [[House Crane|'''Crane''']] of [[Red Lake]].
* '''[[House Dunn|Dunn]]'''.
* '''[[House Durwell|Durwell]]'''.
* '''[[House Florent|Florent]]''' of [[Brightwater Keep]].
* '''[[House Footly|Footly]]''' of [[Tumbleton]].
* [[House Fossoway|'''Fossoway''']]. Two branches exist —
** The "red apple" '''[[House Fossoway of Cider Hall|Fossoways of Cider Hall]]'''.
** The "green apple" '''[[House Fossoway of New Barrel|Fossoways of New Barrel]]''', a cadet branch descending from [[Raymun Fossoway]]. The house's creation is described in ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''.
* '''[[House Graceford|Graceford]]''' of [[Holyhall]].
* '''[[House Graves|Graves]]'''.
* [[House Grimm|'''Grimm''']] of [[Grimston]]. The head of House Grimm is given the title of Lord of [[Greyshield]].
* '''[[House Hastwyck|Hastwyck]]'''.
* [[House Hewett|'''Hewett''']] of [[Hewett Castle]]. The head of House Hewett is given the title of Lord of [[Oakenshield]].
* '''[[House Hightower|Hightower]]''' of the [[Hightower]]. They reside in [[Oldtown]], and are very rich and influential. Lady [[Alerie Hightower]] is the wife of Lord Mace and mother of his four children: [[Willas Tyrell|Willas]], [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan]], [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] and [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]].
* '''[[House Hutcheson|Hutcheson]]'''.
* '''[[House Inchfield|Inchfield]]'''.
* '''[[House Kidwell|Kidwell]]''' of [[Ivy Hall]].
* '''[[House Leygood|Leygood]]'''.
* '''[[House Lowther|Lowther]]'''.
* '''[[House Lyberr|Lyberr]]'''.
* '''[[House Meadows|Meadows]]''' of [[Grassy Vale]].
* '''[[House Merryweather|Merryweather]]''' of [[Longtable]].
* '''[[House Middlebury|Middlebury]]'''.
* '''[[House Norcross|Norcross]]'''.
* '''[[House Norridge|Norridge]].
* '''[[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]''' of [[Old Oak]].
* '''[[House Oldflowers|Oldflowers]].
* '''[[House Orme|Orme]].
* '''[[House Peake|Peake]]''' of [[Starpike]].
* '''[[House Pommingham|Pommingham]]'''.
* '''[[House Redding|Redding]]'''.
* '''[[House Redwyne|Redwyne]]''' of the [[Arbor]], a large island off of Westeros proper. The Redwynes are cousins of the Tyrell family. The Lord of the House, [[Paxter Redwyne]], is Lord Mace's cousin and married to Mace's sister [[Mina Tyrell]]. His elderly aunt, [[Olenna Redwyne]], the "Queen of Thorns", is the mother of Mace and Mina.
* '''[[House Rhysling|Rhysling]]'''.
* '''[[House Risley|Risley]]'''.
* '''[[House Rowan|Rowan]]''' of [[Goldengrove]].
* '''[[House Roxton|Roxton]]''' of the [[Ring]].
* '''[[House Serry|Serry]]'''. The head of House Serry is given the title of Lord of [[Southshield]].
* '''[[House Shermer|Shermer]]''' of [[Smithyton]].
* '''[[House Sloane|Sloane]]'''.
* '''[[House Stackhouse|Stackhouse]]'''.
* '''[[House Tarly|Tarly]]''' of [[Horn Hill]].
* '''[[House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep|Tyrell of Brightwater Keep]]''', a newly made cadet branch of House Tyrell.
* '''[[House Uffering|Uffering]]'''.
* '''[[House Varner|Varner]]'''.
* [[House Vyrwel|'''Vyrwel''']] of [[Darkdell]].
* '''[[House Westbrook|Westbrook]]'''.
* '''[[House Willum|Willum]]'''.
* '''[[House Woodwright|Woodwright]]'''.
* '''[[House Wythers|Wythers]]'''.
* '''[[House Yelshire|Yelshire]]'''.

==Quotes==

{{Quote|My Most leal servants.{{ref|TWOIAF| House Tyrell}}}} - King [[Gyles III Gardener]].

{{Quote|Tyrell swords will make me king.{{ref|ACOK|22}}}} - [[Renly Baratheon]] to [[Stannis Baratheon]]

{{Quote|The Tyrells were only [[High Steward of Highgarden|stewards]] that the [[House Targaryen|dragon-kings]] had upjumped far above their station. Their vanity was exceeded only by their ambition.{{ref|AFFC|3}}}}
– thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.{{Ref|affc|12}}}} – thoughts of [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.{{Ref|adwd|Epilogue}}}} - thoughts of [[Kevan Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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Fire & Blood

2017-07-25T04:59:37Z

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{{hatnote|For the TV episode, see [[Fire and Blood (TV)]]. For the tome, see [[Blood and Fire]].}}
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'''''Fire and Blood''''' is a planned complete history of [[House Targaryen]] by [[George R. R. Martin]].<ref>[[Not A Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/360936.html The Rogues Are Coming...]</ref> ''Fire and Blood'' is planned for publication after the completion of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''.<ref>[[Not A Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/347757.html?thread=18471789#t18471789 The Dangerous Women Are Coming]</ref> Before being titled ''Fire and Blood'', the history was jokingly named the '''''GRRMarillion'''''<ref name=PQ>[[Not A Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/331218.html The Princess and the Queen (August 31, 2013)]</ref> after [[:w:J. R. R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien's]] ''[[:w:The Silmarillion|The Silmarillion]]''.

==Contents==
Thus far, ''Fire and Blood'' is known to contain the following texts:
* '''The Sons of the Dragon'''<ref name=history>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/519773.html A Bit More (Fake) History (January 31, 2017)]</ref>
* '''Heirs of the Dragon'''<ref name=reddit>r/asoiaf.com: [https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/5qh7aa/spoilers_extended_the_possibilities_for_grrms_new/dczqsou/ (Spoilers Extended) The Possibilities for GRRM's New Novella in the Book of Swords Anthology]</ref>
* '''The Dying of the Dragons'''<ref name=reddit/>
* '''Aftermath — The Boy King and His Regents'''<ref name=reddit/>

The "Heirs of the Dragon" is about 17,000 words long. It focuses on the children of [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen]] and the succession questions following the deaths of his sons. An abridged version, ''[[The Rogue Prince]]'', previously published in the anthology [[w:Rogues|Rogues]] in 2014, uses the majority of this text.<ref name=reddit/>

"The Dying of the Dragons" is an account on the [[Dance of the Dragons]], and roughly 60,000 words in length.<ref name=reddit/><ref group="N">Previously reported to have a word count of 80,000 ([[Not A Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/331218.html The Princess and the Queen (August 31, 2013)])</ref> An abridged version of 30,000 words was included in ''[[The Princess and the Queen]]'',<ref name=PQ/> which was published in the anthology [[w:Dangerous Women|Dangerous Women]] in 2013.

Additionally, ''Fire and Blood'' is known to contain an account on the lives of King [[Aenys I Targaryen]] and King [[Maegor I Targaryen]] called ''[[The Sons of the Dragon]]'', which Martin had read on two occassions, and which is set to be released in the anthology ''[[w:The Book of Swords (anthology)|The Book of Swords]]'' in 2017.<ref name=history/>

As of 2014, more than 200,000 words had been written for ''Fire and Blood''.<ref>[[Not a Blog]] comment: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/372179.html?thread=19140563#t19140563 Ten Thousand Ships (May 20, 2014)]</ref> This historical account is said to cover Targaryen history through the reign of [[Aegon V Targaryen]].<ref>asoiaf.westeros.org: [http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/100291-when-is-the-world-of-ice-and-fire-coming-out-v2/&do=findComment&comment=5665386 When is 'The World of Ice and Fire' coming out v.2 (April 19, 2014)]</ref>

On July 22nd, 2017, Martin revealed on his [[Not a Blog]] that the material for ''Fire and Blood'' had grown so large, that the decision had been made to publish the fake histories of the Targaryen kings in two volumes. The first volume is set to cover the history of Westeros from [[Aegon's Conquest]] up to and through the regency of the boy king, [[Aegon III Targaryen]]. The second volume covers the history from Aegon III's reign up to [[Robert's Rebellion]], which ended the Targaryen dynasty. Martin reported that the first volume of ''Fire and Blood'' is largely written, whereas the second volume remains largely unwritten. Though no publication date has been set yet. but it's likely that we will get the first volume of ''Fire and Blood'' in late 2018 or early 2019.<ref>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/544709.html The Swords are Drawn (July 22, 2017)]</ref>

==Notes==
{{Notes}}

==References==
{{references}}

{{GRRM works}}

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Yurkhaz zo Yunzak

2017-07-24T21:27:29Z

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'''Yurkhaz zo Yunzak''' is the Supreme Commander of the Armies and Allies of [[Yunkai]]{{Ref|ADWD|Appendix}} He is a vain old man who is carried upon a palanquin by over forty slaves.

==Appearance==
Yurkhaz is bent-backed, wrinkled, and toothless.{{Ref|ADWD|50}} According to [[Tyrion Lannister]], Yurkhaz looks like a human prune, and is rather frail.{{Ref|aDwD|47}} Yurzkhaz is an old man, and [[Daenerys Targaryen]] thinks to herself he might been alive during [[Aegon's Conquest]], judging by his appearance.{{Ref|ADWD|50}}

While on the march during the war between [[Meereen]] and the slavers, he is carried around upon an palanquin so large forty slaves are needed to carry it.{{Ref|ADWD|25}}

==History==
Yurkhaz is an old Yunkish hero.{{Ref|ADWD|25}} He owns a group of Yunkish [[w:castrati|castrati]] [[slave]]s who sing songs in the ancient tongues of the Old Empire.{{Ref|ADWD|50}} He is the man who hires the [[Windblown]] during the war against [[Meereen]], signing their contract on behalf of the city of [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aDwD|60}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Yurkhaz zo Yunzak's army besieges [[Astapor]], but isonly victorious because of the [[sellsword]] legions hired by the [[Yunkai]]'i. His leadership skills (along with the rest of the [[Wise Masters]]) are considered to be highly dubious and questioned by many of the sellsword captains such as the [[Tattered Prince]].{{fact}}

When [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]] hosts the Yunkish supreme commander, a dozen other Yunkish lords attend. During the antics of slaves [[Penny]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]], the guests all wait to see how Yurkhaz responds before joining in. Yurkhaz appears so frail that Tyrion is afraid laughing might kill him. When Penny's helm gets struck off and flies into the lap of a sour-faced Yunkishman in a striped green-and-gold tokar, Yurkhaz cackles like a chicken. When said lord reaches inside the helm and draws out a large purple melon dribbling with pulp, Yurkhaz wheezes until his face turns the same colour as the fruit. He then turns to his host and whispers something that makes Yezzan chortle and lick his lips … though Tyrion thinks there is a hint of anger in Yezzan's slitted yellow eyes. Once Yurkhaz has departed, [[Nurse]] informs Tyrion that Yurkhaz has persuaded Yezzan that it would be selfish to keep such droll antics to himself and that his dwarfs should have the honour of jousting in the [[Daznak's Pit|Great Pit of Daznak]] to celebrate the singing of the peace.{{Ref|ADWD|47}}

Yurkhaz is among the seven commandes who enter Meereen to sign the peace and witness the opening of the [[fighting pits]]. During the feast held in the [[Great Pyramid]] to celebrate the signing of the peace, [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sees [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] laughing with Yurkhaz and the other Yunkish lords.{{Ref|ADWD|50}}

During the opening of [[Daznak's Pit]], [[Drogon]] appears and panic ensues.{{Ref|ADWD|52}} Yurkhaz perishes in Daznak's Pit as he tries to flee the dragon, either having been crushed beneath the feet of his own fleeing slaves and companions, or because his heart burst in terror.{{Ref|aDwD|59}} In the [[Purple Lotus]], the [[Tattered Prince]] tells [[Quentyn Martell]] he saw Yurkhaz die.{{Ref|aDwD|60}} The Yunkish try to use Yurkhaz's accidental death to their advantage, saying it is a breach of the peace, and that that blood must pay for blood, and a life needs to be exchanged for his life - for which they execute their hostage [[Groleo]] and demand the deaths of [[Viserion]] and [[Rhaegal]]. According to [[Skahaz mo Kandaq]] they are using Yurkhaz's death to give [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] a pretext to kill [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s dragons.{{Ref|aDwD|67}}

==References and Notes==
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First Blackfyre Rebellion

2017-02-20T17:47:12Z

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{{Hatnote|"Blackfyre Rebellion" redirects here. For the other Blackfyre Rebellions, see [[Blackfyre Pretenders]]}}

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: [[Brynden Rivers]]
: [[Lord Hayford]], Hand of the King
: Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor Targaryen]]
: Prince [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar Targaryen]]
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: Ser [[Aegor Rivers]]
: Ser [[Quentyn Ball]] †
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The '''First Blackfyre Rebellion''',{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}{{ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: House Arryn}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Reach: House Tyrell}} originally called the '''Blackfyre Rebellion''',{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}{{ref|TSS}} was a war fought between the loyalist forces of King [[Daeron II Targaryen]] and the rebel forces of his half-brother, [[Daemon I Blackfyre]]. Conflict arose when Daemon, a bastard son of the late King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]], claimed the [[Iron Throne|throne]] of his older, true born brother, King Daeron II Targaryen, which resulted in open civil war that divided the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{ref|TSS}}

==Prelude==
When King [[Baelor I Targaryen]] had made peace with Dorne, he returned to [[King's Landing]] and annulled his marriage to his eldest sister, [[Daena Targaryen|Daena]]. He then locked his three sisters, Daena, [[Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Aegon III)|Rhaena]] and [[Elaena Targaryen|Elaena]] in the [[Maidenvault]], so they could not tempt the lusts of men. However, Daena contrived to escape her imprisonment on several occasions, and towards the end of her brother's reign became pregnant by her cousin, Prince [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}} In late {{Date|170}}, she gave birth to a bastard son whom she named [[Daemon Waters]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} Daena refused to reveal the identity of the father of her child, though Aegon was already suspected to have been involved.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} Baelor I, in response to Daemon's birth, began a forty-day fast, which eventually caused his death in {{Date|171}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}} After the claims of Daena and her sisters were dismissed, Daena's uncle, King [[Viserys II Targaryen]], was crowned. Viserys ruled only for a year, until his own death, after which his eldest son, King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]], ascended the throne.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Viserys II}}

In addition to his unacknowledged bastard son by Daena, King Aegon IV had a true born son by his marriage to his sister [[Naerys Targaryen|Naerys]], called [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeoron]], born in {{Date|153}}, and a daughter, [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|Daenerys]], born in {{Date|172}}, early in the start of his reign. Daeron and Aegon often clashed during his reign, with Daeron opposing the idea's and the corrupt style of rule of his father. Aegon, on the other hand, despised his sister-wife, and his younger brother, [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon]], the Dragonknight, to both of whom Prince Daeron was close. When Aegon, in {{Date|174}}, planned to launch an uprovoked attack against [[Dorne]], the homeland of his [[Mariah Martell|daughter-in-law]], Daeron opposed his ideas. Around the same time, rumours began to circulate, instigated by King Aegon himself, that Daeron was a bastard, born of adultery between his siblings Naerys and Aemon. For the first time, though not the last, Aegon threatened to name one of his bastard sons ([[Aegor Rivers]] and [[Balerion Otherys]] being the only sons Aegon had, at this point, acknowledged) as his heir over Daeron.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} The rumours about Daeron's parentage forever remained, but despite King Aegon IV's threats and japes, Daeron was never formally disowned. Meanwhile, two factions began to form at court, one supporting the corrupt reign of Aegon IV, the other supporting Prince Daeron.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

In {{Date|182}}, King Aegon IV knighted his bastard son [[Daemon Waters]], after the boy had won a squire's tourney at the age of twelve. He publicly bestowed the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] [[Valyrian steel]] sword [[Blackfyre]] on him as well,{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} finally acknowledging him.<ref name=greatbastards>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Great_Bastards/ The Great Bastards (December 26, 2005)]</ref> There were some who felt that the sword symbolized the monarchy<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/SF_Targaryens_Valyria_Sansa_Martells_and_More SF, Targaryens, Valyria, Sansa, Martells, and More (June 26, 2001)]</ref> (not unlike rumors that were spread when King [[Aenys I Targaryen]] bestowed the sword on his half-brother, Prince [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor]]<ref>''[[The Sons of the Dragon]]'', [http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/115696-spoilers-sons-of-the-dragon-reading-at-loncon-today/&do=findComment&comment=6134038 notes from the reading at LonCon 2014]</ref>), as it had been the sword of King [[Aegon I Targaryen]], the Conqueror, and had been passed on from king to king ever since. Aegon's public gift of the sword would eventually start the first talk that Daemon should be king.<ref name=targaryenhistory>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_History Targaryen History (April 20, 2008)]</ref> Following the acquisition of the sword, Daemon took the name "Blackfyre" for himself.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}
[[File:Marc Simonetti knightingson.jpg|thumb|400px|King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] knights his bastard son, [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon]], publicly acknowledging him as his own son, and grants him the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] sword [[Blackfyre]] - by Marc Simonetti]]
In early {{Date|184}}, King Aegon IV legitimized all of his bastards on his deathbed. Prince Daeron ascended the throne as King [[Daeron II Targaryen]], and did all he could to keep the nobly-born [[Great Bastards]] close. He paid the dowry his late father had promised to the [[Archon]] of [[Tyrosh]], seeing his half-brother [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon]] wed to [[Rohanne of Tyrosh]], as per the late King Aegon IV's desire.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

Daeron was a cultured and scholary man, and swept the court clear of Aegon IV's corruption, depriving several people of their advantageous positions. Daeron placed men of his own in the positions of power, and began negotiations with his brother-in-law, [[Maron Martell]], the [[Prince of Dorne]], which resulted in the wedding of Prince Maron to Daeron's younger sister, Princess [[Daenerys Targaryen (daughter of Aegon IV)|Daenerys]], in {{Date|187}}, and the joining of [[Dorne]] into the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} However, dissatisfaction grew from the fact that [[Dorne]] had won several consessions during Maron's negotiations that the other kingdoms did not have (e.g. the right to keep their [[Prince of Dorne|royal title]], autonomy to maintain their own laws, the right to assess and gather the taxes due to the Iron Throne with only irregular oversight from the Red Keep). Additionally, it was the belief that the Dornish held too much power at court, as many Dornishmen were brought to Daeron's court, and several of them filled important offices.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} While Daeron had chosen to be crowned with his father's crown, rumours about his legitimacy remained. Daeron was not a warrior, and while his eldest son by his [[Dornish]] wife [[Mariah Martell]], Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor]], was all that could be desired in a warrior, he had the looks of a Martell, and not, like Daemon Blackfyre, of a Targaryen. Nobles and knights from the [[Dornish Marches]] began to mistrust both Daeron and Baelor, and began to long for the days when the Dornish were still their enemies.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

Meanwhile, Daemon Blackfyre had grown into a great warrior of his own, trained by Ser [[Quentyn Ball]],{{Ref|TMK}} and had come to resemble [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]] in appearance according to his supporters, with silver-gold hair and deep purple eyes.<ref name=greatbastards/> Married to [[Rohanne of Tyrosh]] in {{Date|184}}, his twin sons [[Aegon Blackfyre|Aegon]] and [[Aemon Blackfyre|Aemon]] were born later that same year.<ref>''See the calculations for [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aegon Blackyre|Aegon]] and [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aemon Blackyre|Aemon Blackfyre]]''</ref> Six other sons, and at least two daughters would follow during the years to come.{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}} Daemon's supporters claimed that Daemon had desired his half-sister, Princess Daenerys, and the singers claim that she loved him as well. It is said that Aegon, who had seen more profit in the match with Tyrosh, had promised Daemon that he could have more than one bride. Daeron, however did not agree. Nor has it ever been proven that Princess Daenerys indeed loved Daemon, as the singers and Daemon's supporters claimed.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

The Dornish consessions and influence, the sudden change of Dornish enemies to Dornish allies, Daeron's rumored illegitimacy, and Aegon IV's public gift of the sword of kings to Daemon, all were part the seeds from which the first Blackfyre Rebellion grew. Still, it took many years for the actual rebellion to begin.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} There was no final insult that resulted in the declaration of Daemon's claim.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} Daemon had come to resent having the status of bastard, and what it represented.<ref name=santafe>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Month/2004/05/ Private Meeting (Santa Fe, NM) (May 4, 2004)]</ref> Additionally, he had councillors who urged him to rebel, and many famous warriors who disagreed with the peace with Dorne sought him out. Years passed between the first man approaching him, and Daemon finally declaring his claim. However, [[maester]] [[Yandel]] considers it likely that it had been [[Aegor Rivers]], Daemon's younger half-brother, who managed to convince Daemon in the end.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} According to King [[Maekar I Targaryen]], it had been both Aegor Rivers and Ser [[Quentyn Ball]], the master-at-arms at the [[Red Keep]], who had played the largest role in convincing Daemon.{{Ref|TMK}} Aegor pressed him to proclaim, increasing his efforts after marrying Daemon's eldest daughter, [[Calla Blackfyre|Calla]], and many lords and knights joined in.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

==War==
===Open rebellion===
The First Blackfyre Rebellion finally broke out in {{date|196}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} It would would last nigh on a year,{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} and divide the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{ref|TSS}} Daemon's decision to claim the throne had been made rashly, and word soon reached Daeron's court that Daemon meant to declare within a month. It has been suggested by [[Archmaester]] [[Merion]] that [[Brynden Rivers]], another one of Aegon IV's bastard sons, was involved in the news reaching Daeron.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} The [[Kingsguard]] was sent to arrest Daemon, but, with the aid of the master-at-arms of the [[Red Keep]], Daemon managed to escape imprisonment.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}{{ref|TMK}}

Daemon reversed the colors of [[House Targaryen]], taking for his own sigil a black dragon on a red field, which led to his nickname, the "black dragon" (with Daeron becoming known as the "red dragon"),{{Ref|TSS}} and began to mint his own coinage.{{ref|TMK}} Over the course of the war, battle were fought between the rebels and loyalists in, amongst other places, the [[Vale]], the [[westerlands]], the [[riverlands]] and the [[Reach]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

Half the realm declared for Daemon, but not all houses were eager to pledge their full support. Notably, Houses [[House Hightower|Hightower]], [[House Butterwell|Butterwel]], [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]] and [[House Tarbeck|Tarbeck]] gave support to both Daemon and Daeron, while others (e.g., [[Manfred Lothston]]) were willing to betray Daemon for Daeron. The thief [[Quickfinger]] attempted to steal [[dragon eggs]] for Daemon, but was caught.{{Ref|TSS}}

Ser [[Quentyn Ball]] attacked the [[Westerlands]], killing Lord [[House Lefford|Lefford]] at the gates of [[Lannisport]] and then defeating Lord [[Damon Lannister (Lord)|Damon Lannister]] in turn. At the crossing of the [[Mander]], Ser Quentyn slew all of Lady [[House Penrose|Penrose]]'s sons, except for the youngest, whom he spared as a favour to the lady.{{Ref|TMK}} Lord [[Leo Tyrell]] participated in the First Blackfyre Rebellion as well, fighting on behalf of House Targaryen. He won notable victories in the [[Reach]] against Daemon Blackfyre's supporters.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

During the war, King Daeron II came to consider his [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Ambrose Butterwell]], to be ineffectual, and in the end, Butterwelll’s loyalty was questioned. Shortly before the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]], the final battle of the war, took place Butterwell was fired and replaced by Lord Hayford, a noted loyalist.{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}

A key general, Fireball was slain on the eve of the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]] by an archer.{{ref|TMK}} Meanwhile, Lord [[House Bracken|Bracken]] had gone across the [[narrow sea]] to hire forces, but storms delayed the return of him and the [[Myr]]ish crossbowmen he had hired.{{ref|TSS}}

===The Battle of the Redgrass Field===
:{{Main|Battle of the Redgrass Field}}
The final battle of the First Blackfyre Rebellion was the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]], in late {{date|196}}. Lord [[Leo Tyrell]]'s forces could not gather quickly enough to arrive in time for the Battle of the Redgrass Field.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} [[House Arryn]] did participate, as Lord [[Donnel Arryn]] led the vanguard of the Targaryen forces. However, but Daemon Blackfyre shattered his lines, leaving the loyalists in peril until Ser [[Gwayne Corbray]] of the [[Kingsguard]] arrived with reinforcements.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: House Arryn}} Ser Gwayne Corbray and Daemon Blackfyre came face-to-face during the battle. Their duel, in which Daemon wielded the [[Valyrian steel]] sword [[Blackfyre]] and Gwayne the Valyrian steel sword [[Lady Forlorn]], is said to have lasted nearly an hour, before Daemon gained the upper hand. Corbray was wounded, but Daemon dismounted, preventing Corbray from being trampled, and commanded that he was taken off the field.{{Ref|TSS}}

In the meantime, [[Brynden Rivers]] with his archers, the [[Raven's Teeth]], had captured and assumed a position atop the [[Weeping Ridge]], which overlooked the battlefield and allowed them to rain arrows down among Daemon and his commanders. Daemon’s heir [[Aegon Blackfyre|Aegon]] died first, followed by Daemon himself. When Daemon’s second son, Aegon’s twin brother [[Aemon Blackfyre|Aemon]] took up Blackfyre, he was slain as well.{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

The rebels began to rout, but [[Aegor Rivers]] claimed Blackfyre and rallied the rebels by leading a charge against the Raven's Teeth. In the ensueing duel, Aegor took out Brynden’s eye. However, Prince Baelor arrived with a host of [[Dornishmen|Dornish spearmen]] and [[stormlands|stormlanders]], while his younger brother, Prince Maekar, rallied what remained of the van. As such, Baelor crushed the rebel army against Maekar’s shield wall, a move later called “the hammer and the anvil”.{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

The size of the armies participating in the Battle of the Redgrass Field is not known; However, ten thousand men died, and many more were maimed and wounded.{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

==Aftermath==
King Daeron's punishment of the rebels was harsher than had been previously expected of him.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} Those who had supported Daemon lost lands, titles or wealth, and all were forced to give hostages.{{Ref|TMK}} Lord [[Gormon Peake]] lost two of his three castles for his support of Daemon’s cause,{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}} while Ser [[Eustace Osgrey]], whose three sons [[Edwyn Osgrey|Edwyn]], [[Harrold Osgrey|Harrold]] and [[Addam Osgrey|Addam]] had died upon the [[Redgrass Field]], had to give up his daughter [[Alysanne Osgrey|Alysanne]] as a hostage, and lost a great amount of land to [[House Webber]].{{Ref|TSS}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} The First Blackfyre Rebellion left its mark upon [[Westeros]] for years to come. Asking a man whether he had fought for the black dragon or the red was considered a dangerous question,{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}

Aegor Rivers was able to recover the sword [[Blackfyre]] from the battlefield and escaped to the [[Free Cities]], together with Daemon's widow and remaining children, eventually ending up in [[Tyrosh]].{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}} In exile, Daemon's descendants continued their struggle for the [[Iron Throne]], resulting in four more rebellions ([[Second Blackfyre Rebellion|Second]], [[Third Blackfyre Rebellion|Third]] and [[Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion]], and the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]), as well as one peacefull attempt during the [[Great Council of 233 AC]]. These attempts led to the arrest of Daemon's second son ([[Daemon II Blackfyre|Daemon]]), and the deaths of his third and fifth sons ([[Haegon I Blackfyre|Haegon]] and [[Aenys Blackfyre|Aenys]]), as well as the death of a grandson, also named [[Daemon III Blackfyre|Daemon]]. Daemon's last male descendant, [[Maelys I Blackfyre|Maelys]], was slain during the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]] by Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], ending the Blackfyre threat.{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon V}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys II}}{{Ref|ADWD|5}}

Singers immortalized the Battle of Redgrass Field with the song "[[The Hammer and Anvil]]", referring to Baelor and Maekar's strategy.{{ref|TSS}}

The [[Great Spring Sickness]], which began in {{Date|209}}, created the possibility for a [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion]] to arise. Many of those who had been taken hostage by King Daeron II had died,{{Ref|TMK}} as had King Daeron himself.{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} Daeron's heir, and [[Hand of the King]], Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor Targaryen]], had died shortly before, during a tourney mishap at the [[Tourney at Ashford Meadow]].{{Ref|THK}} Baelor's two sons, [[Valarr Targaryen|Valarr]] and [[Matarys Targaryen|Matarys]] had perished in the Spring Sickness as well,{{Ref|TSS}} leading to the coronation of Daeron's second son, the bookish [[Aerys I Targaryen]], who named Ser [[Brynden Rivers]] as his Hand.{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}} Under these circumstances did Daemon Blackfyre's eldest surviving son arrive in Westeros from [[Tyrosh]], [[Daemon II Blackfyre]], and preparations for the [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion]] began, in {{Date|211}}.{{Ref|TMK}}

==Houses by Allegiance==
While not every house supporting the loyalists and the rebels respectively is known, this list provides an overview of the loyalties that have been revealed thusfar:

'''Loyalist ([[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] supporters):'''
{{Columns|2|
* [[House Arryn]]{{ref|TSS}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Vale: House Arryn}}
* [[House Butterwell]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Darry]]{{Ref|AFFC|37}}
* [[House Hayford]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Hightower]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Lannister]]{{Ref|TMK}}
* [[House Lefford]]{{Ref|TMK}}
* [[House Lothston]] (betrayed Daemon for Daeron)
* [[House Martell]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Oakheart]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Penrose]]{{Ref|TMK}}
* [[House Targaryen]]
* [[House Tarbeck]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Tully]]{{ref|twoiaf| The Riverlands: House Tully}}
* [[House Tyrell]]{{ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
* [[House Templeton]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Webber]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Waynwood]]{{Ref|TSS}}
}}

'''Rebels ([[House Blackfyre|Blackfyre]] supporters):'''
{{Columns|2|
* [[House Blackfyre]]
* [[House Bracken]]{{ref|TSS}}
* [[House Butterwell]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Costayne]]{{ref|TMK}}
* [[House Hightower]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Lothston]] (betrayed Daemon for Daeron){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Oakheart]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Osgrey]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Peake]]{{Ref|TMK}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}
* [[House Reyne]]{{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Shawney]]{{ref|TMK}}
* [[House Strickland]]{{Ref|ADWD|24}}
* [[House Sunderland]]{{Ref|TMK}}
* [[House Tarbeck]] (supported both sides){{Ref|TSS}}
* [[House Yronwood]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Queer Customs of the South}}{{Ref|AFFC|13}}<ref>[[House Yronwood]] fought on the side of [[House Blackfyre]] for three of the five Blackfyre Rebellions (''[[A Feast for Crows]]'', [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 13|Chapter 13]], The Soiled Knight) They are known not to have fought in the [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion|Second]] or [[War of the Ninepenny Kings|Fifth]] Rebellion, leaving the first, third, and fourth.</ref>
}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|So many ifs, ser ... had any one come out differently, it could all have turned t'other way. Then we would be called the loyalists, and the [[House Targaryen|red dragons]] would be remembered as men who fought to keep the usurper [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron the Falseborn]] upon his stolen throne, and failed.{{ref|TSS}}}} - [[Eustace Osgrey]] to [[Dunk]]

{{quote|Some [[Aegon IV Targaryen|old dead king]] gave [[Blackfyre|a sword]] to [[Daemon I Blackfyre|one son]] instead of [[Daeron II Targaryen|another]], that was the start of it.{{ref|TMK}}}} - thoughts of [[Dunk]]

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

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Aerion Targaryen

2017-02-20T17:43:33Z

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:''For the Lord of Dragonstone and father of Aegon the Conqueror, see [[Aerion Targaryen (son of Daemion)]].''

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| image_caption = Aerion Targaryen by Mathia Arkoniel©
| Alias = Aerion Brightflame Aerion Brightfire Aerion the Monstrous The Bright Prince The Prince Who Thought He Was a Dragon
| Title = Prince
| Allegiance = [[House Targaryen]] [[Second Sons]]
| Race = [[Valyria]]n
| Culture = [[crownlands]]
| Spouse = Princess [[Daenora Targaryen]]
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth = or between {{Date|191}} and {{Date|194}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aerion Targaryen (Brightflame)|Aerion Targaryen (Brightflame)]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|232}}
| Books = ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Hedge Knight]]'' (appears) ''[[The Sworn Sword]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Mystery Knight]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned)
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Prince '''Aerion Targaryen''', also known as '''Aerion the Monstrous''', or '''Aerion Brightflame''' as he liked to call himself, was the second son of King [[Maekar I Targaryen]].

==Appearance and Character==
{{See also|:Category:Images of Aerion Targaryen|l1=Images of Aerion Targaryen}}

In his youth, Aerion was slim and of average height. He had curly silver-gold hair, [[purple eyes|deep violet eyes]], and pale skin. Aerion's face was sculptured and imperious, with a high brow, sharp cheekbones, and a straight nose. He frequently wore clothing as bright as fire, in red and yellow and gold.{{Ref|THK}}

Aerion was one of the most outstanding examples of the [[Targaryen madness|madness]] that can hit the members of [[House Targaryen]]. Cruel and arrogant, he thought he was a [[dragon]] in human form.{{Ref|THK}}{{Ref|ACOK|6}} Reportedly, he was a dabbler in [[magic|the black arts]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I}}

Aerion was despised by his brother [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon]]. Aerion threw Aegon's pet cat down a well, though he claimed otherwise, but Aegon believed Aerion was an inveterate liar. Aerion once visited Aegon in his bedroom during the dead of night, and put a knife to Aegon's privates and joked about removing his genitals so he would become a sister he could marry. According to [[Raymun Fossoway]], the prince was all smiles and courtesy in front of his father, but his true nature showed in front of others. Aerion's brother, [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Daeron]], called him "quite the monster".{{Ref|THK}}

==History==
Aerion was born the second son to Prince [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar Targaryen]] and his wife, Lady [[Dyanna Dayne]]. He had one older brother, [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Daeron]], two younger brothers, [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] and [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon]], and two younger sisters, [[Daella Targaryen (daughter of Maekar I)|Daella]] and [[Rhae Targaryen|Rhae]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}}

Aerion owned a [[dragon egg]] that was gold and silver.{{Ref|TMK}}

===Ashford Tourney===
[[File:Aerion-and-Tanselle-THK-MikeSMiller.png|250px|thumb|Aerion breaks [[Tanselle]]'s fingers. Art by Mike S. Miller.]]
In {{date|209}} Aerion traveled to [[Ashford]] for the [[tourney at Ashford Meadow]], where he mistook Ser [[Duncan the Tall]] for a stable boy, ordering him to take his horse. Aerion seemed about to challenge his cousin [[Valarr Targaryen]] to a joust, but instead challenged [[Humfrey Hardyng]]. Prince [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]], Duncan's squire, wanted Humfrey to kill Aerion. Aerion lowered his lance and impales Humfrey's horse, injuring Humfrey's leg and leaving his horse to die in agony, which Aegon considered to be intentional.{{Ref|THK}}

Aerion was insulted by a puppet show portraying a [[dragon]] being slain, as the prince felt he was a dragon. Aerion attacked the puppeteers, breaking the fingers of a girl named [[Tanselle]] and destroying the puppets. Duncan was then arrested after punching and kicking the prince. After Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor Targaryen]] reminded Duncan he could request a [[trial by battle]], Aerion requested a [[trial of seven]]. Aerion bribed Ser [[Steffon Fossoway]], one of Duncan's champions, with the chance of a [[lord]]ship to join the accusers against Duncan. Joining Aerion were his brother [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Daeron]], his father Prince [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]], and three knights of the [[Kingsguard]], [[Willem Wylde]], [[Donnel of Duskendale]], and [[Roland Crakehall (Kingsguard)|Roland Crakehall]]. Aerion's uncle, Prince Baelor, joined Duncan's side.{{Ref|THK}}

During the trial, Aerion put his lance through Duncan's side and struck him from the saddle with a morningstar. Duncan refused to yield and used his skills as a brawler from [[Flea Bottom]] to beat the prince down. Duncan forced Aerion to repeat his submission before [[Lord Ashford]], ending the threat to Dunk's other champions. Baelor died from wounds sustained in the trial, however.{{Ref|THK}}

After the conclusion of the tournament, Maekar sent Aerion to [[Lys]].{{Ref|THK}}

===Later life===
[[File:He thinks he is a dragon.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Aerion drinks [[wildfire]], illustrated by Roman Papsuev]]
Aerion stayed in Lys for a few years. It is possible that he fathered some children while living there.<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Many_Questions/ Many Questions (October 14, 1998)]</ref> He served with the [[Second Sons]] for a time while in exile.{{Ref|ADWD|66}}

Aerion returned to [[Westeros]] at some point and fought in the [[Third Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|219}}. He performed some actions there that are "known well". After [[Aegor Rivers]] was captured, Aerion and the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Brynden Rivers]], urged King [[Aerys I Targaryen]] to put Aegor to death, but the king decided to send Bittersteel to the [[Night's Watch]] instead.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}

Aerion was married to his cousin, [[Daenora Targaryen]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}} Together, they had one child, a son ominously named [[Maegor Targaryen (son of Aerion)|Maegor]], born in {{Date|232}}.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I}} The same year as his son's birth, Aerion died screaming after drinking a cup of [[wildfire]], believing it would transform him into a [[dragon]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I}}{{ref|aSoS|54}} A year later, King Maekar died, and in the [[Great Council]] Aerion's son Maegor was passed over in the succession as it was feared that the boy might have inherited his father's cruelty and madness.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I}}{{Ref|ACOK|6}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|'''Aerion''': If you cannot manage a horse, fetch me some wine and a pretty wench. 
'''Duncan''': I ... m'lord, pardons, I'm no serving man either. I have the honor to be a [[knight]]. 
'''Aerion''': Knighthood has fallen on sad days.{{ref|THK}}}} - Aerion and [[Duncan the Tall]]

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

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

[[Category:House Targaryen]]
[[Category:Characters from the Crownlands|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Exiles|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Members of Daeron II Targaryen's court|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Members of Aerys I Targaryen's court|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Members of Maekar I Targaryen's court|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Mercenaries|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Nobles|Targaryen, Aerion]]
[[Category:Princes of Dragonstone|Targaryen, Aerion]]
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Aegor Rivers

2016-09-09T18:50:55Z

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{{Infobox character
| Character_name = [[File:COA Aegor Rivers.png|50px|left]] '''Aegor Rivers''' [[File:Golden Company pike.png|11px|right]]
| image = [[File:Bittersteel at the red grass field by mike hallstein-da4esnm.png|300px]]
| image_caption = Aegor Rivers at the Redgrass Field - by [http://mike-hallstein.deviantart.com/ Mike Hallstein]
| Alias = Bittersteel
| Title = [[Knight|Ser]]
| Allegiance = [[House Bracken]] [[House Blackfyre]] [[Second Sons]] [[Golden Company]]
| Race =
| Culture =
| Spouse = [[Calla Blackfyre]]
| Place_of_Birth =
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|172}}<ref name=Cal>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aegor Rivers|Aegor Rivers]] calculations.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death = the [[Disputed Lands]]
| Date_of_Death = {{Date|241}}<ref name=Cal></ref>
| Books = ''[[The Sworn Sword]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The Mystery Knight]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (mentioned) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (mentioned) ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' (mentioned)
| coat-of-arms = A red stallion with black wings snorting flame on gold ''(Or, a stallion gules winged sable snorting flames proper)''
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Ser '''Aegor Rivers''', frequently called '''Bittersteel''', was the bastard son of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] by his fifth mistress, Lady [[Barba Bracken]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}<ref name=greatbastards/> Aegor was the founder of the famed group of exiled sellswords, the [[Golden Company]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen KingsL Daeron II}} In his personal arms, he combined the red stallion of [[House Bracken]] with black dragon wings from [[House Blackfyre]], on a golden field.<ref name=greatbastards/>

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Aegor Rivers|Images of Aegor Rivers]]''
Being half-[[House Targaryen|Targaryen]], Aegor had [[purple eyes]], but black hair. As an adult, he had a close-cropped beard. He looked like a warrior, being lean, light, and tall.<ref name=greatbastards>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Great_Bastards/ (December 26, 2005)]</ref> Aegor's armor was well-made, though plain-looking, being grey-steel and black rings. On his helm was a horsehead with a horse's made flowing behind. His shield displayed his personal sigil: a stallion with black dragon wings, on a golden field, snorting fire.<ref name=greatbastards/>

Aegor was angry all of his life,<ref name=greatbastards/> and quickly irritated and offended.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}} He did not smile, and especially loathed his younger halfbrother, [[Brynden Rivers]], and Brynden's mother, [[Melissa Blackwood]], who had replaced Aegor's own mother [[Barba Bracken]] as King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]]'s mistress.<ref name=greatbastards/>

==History==
===Early life===
Aegor was born at [[King's Landing]] to one of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]]'s mistresses, [[Barba Bracken]]. When Queen [[Naerys Targaryen]] recovered her health, Prince [[Daeron II Targaryen|Daeron]] and [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Viserys II)|Aemon the Dragonknight]] forced Aegon to send Barba and child from the capital, and Aegor was instead raised at [[Stone Hedge]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} He was angry his whole life, but reserved particular loathing for his half-brother [[Brynden Rivers]], whose mother, [[Melissa Blackwood]], had replaced his own as their father's favorite mistress. Aegor also loathed Brynden, who was known as Bloodraven, even further when [[Shiera Seastar]], the half-sister of both Bloodraven and himself, chose Bloodraven over him. Their other half-brother, [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]], agreed to wed his daughter [[Calla Blackfyre|Calla]] to Aegor. Aegor often urged Daemon to press his own claim to the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}

In the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{date|196}}, Aegor sided with [[Daemon I Blackfyre|Daemon Blackfyre]] against King Daeron II Targaryen. During the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]], Aegor commanded the right of Daemon's host.{{Ref|tMK}} Upon Daemon's death, Aegor rallied his troops and charged into the [[Raven's Teeth]], the archers of [[Brynden Rivers]], taking out Brynden's eye in the process. Aegor managed to recover the [[Valyrian steel]] sword [[Blackfyre]], and fled Westeros with Daemon's widow and remaining children, eventually settling in the Free City of [[Tyrosh]].{{Ref|tSS}}

===The Golden Company===
[[File:Marc Simonetti Bittersteel golden company.jpg|Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers leads the charge of the Golden Company - by Marc Simonetti © |thumb|550px|right]]
Aegor served a year with the [[Second Sons]] before leaving to create the [[Golden Company]], a famous mercenary organization, to stop the loss of support for the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyres]] as other exile lords began to join other mercenary companies. While sellswords are notoriously unreliable, the Golden Company has a respectable reputation. They are said to have never broken a contract, The words of the Golden Company are "Beneath the gold, the bitter steel"{{Ref|ADWD|5}}, and refer to Aegor's nickname, Bittersteel. Shortly after its creation, the Golden Company became one of the most famous and disciplined sellsword companies known in the Free Cities. They quickly established their reputation by sacking [[Qohor]] when the city refused to honor its contract.{{Ref|aWoIaF| Aegor Rivers}}

The Golden Company was heavily involved three of the four [[Blackfyre Pretenders|Blackfyre Rebellions]] that followed the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion|first one]]. While Aegor refused refused to support [[Daemon II Blackfyre]] during the [[Second Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{date|211}}, he supported [[Haegon I Blackfyre]] in the [[Third Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{date|219}}. Aegor was captured at the end of the third rebellion, and brought to the [[Red Keep]] as a captive. While [[Brynden Rivers]] and Prince [[Aerion Targaryen]] argued that Aegor should be executed, King [[Aerys I Targaryen]] decided to send Aegor to the [[Wall]] to join the [[Night's Watch]]. The ship taking Aegor north was intercepted, and Aegor was able to return to the [[Golden Company]]. In [[Tyrosh]], before the year was over, Aegor crowned [[Daemon III Blackfyre]], Haegon I's eldest son.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys I}}

In {{date|236}}, Aegor landed on [[Massey's Hook]] at the head of the Golden Company with Daemon III, starting the [[Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion]]. The rebellion was crushed in the [[Battle of Wendwater Bridge]], though Aegor managed to escape.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon V}}{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons}} A few years after the Wendwater Bridge, Aegor reappeared in the [[Disputed Lands]], where he fell during a skirmish between Tyrosh and [[Myr]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon V}} On his deathbed, he commanded the men of the Golden Company to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they cross the [[narrow sea]] to retake [[Westeros]]. The captains-general who have since led the Golden Company have followed Aegor's example.{{Ref|aDwD|24}}

During one of the various Blackfyre Rebellions, Aegor swore a blood oath with [[Torwyn Greyjoy]], but this [[Lord Reaper of Pyke]] betrayed Aegor to his enemies.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Iron Islands: The Old Way and the New}}

==Quotes==
[[File:Aegor Rivers.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Aegor Rivers by Amoka]]
{{Quote|Bitter his steel may have been, but worse was his tongue.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Daeron II}}}} - writings of [[Yandel]]

{{Quote|He died defeated and alone, a broken man in an [[Essos|alien land]].{{Ref|aDwD|24}}}} – [[Jon Connington]]'s thoughts

{{Quote|When he fled, he swore he would return to place a son of Daemon's upon the [[Iron Throne]]. He never did.<ref>[[The Winds of Winter]], [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>}} – [[Stannis Baratheon]]
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{{Quote|Bittersteel was half-dragon, and all [[bastard]].<ref name=Ar2>[[Arianne II (The Winds of Winter)]]</ref>}} [[Arianne Martell]], to [[Lysono Maar]]

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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The Sworn Sword

2016-09-09T18:50:30Z

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| name = The Sworn Sword
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = [[Image:TheSwornSword.jpg|200px]] 
| image_caption = Graphic Novel
| author = [[George R. R. Martin]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| series = [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]
| genre = [[w:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
| publisher = Dabel Brothers Productions
| release_date = 2003 (novella in [[w:Legends II (book)|Legends II anthology]]) 2 July 2008 (the graphic novel)
| media_type = Original novella in ''Legends II'' anthology; released as standalone graphic novel; prose novella republished in ''Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King''
| pages = 152
| isbn = ISBN 978-0785126508 (graphic novel, 2008 edition, Hardcover) ISBN 9780007154364 (Legends II) ISBN 9780345475787 (Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King) See the References and Notes section for alternate editions' ISBNs
| preceded_by = ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''
| followed_by = ''[[The Mystery Knight]]''
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'''''The Sworn Sword''''' is the second in [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''Tales of Dunk & Egg'', following the the story of [[Dunk]] and [[Aegon V Targaryen|Egg]] a year and a half after the events of ''[[The Hedge Knight]]''. It was first published in the ''Legends II'' anthology series, a collection of short stories by authors such as [[:w:Tad Williams|Tad Williams]], [[:w:Orson Scott Card|Orson Scott Card]], and [[:w:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]].

As before the story's focus is almost exclusively on Dunk and Egg and their progression through life. The novella focuses on the difficult path of chivalry when taking part in petty feuds and casual injustices are part and parcel of what it means to be a sworn man in the [[feudalism|feudal]] [[Seven Kingdoms]].

==Sources==
''The Sworn Sword'' was originally published in ''Legends II'',<ref>''Legends II'', ISBN 9780007154364 (Paperback, 2011 Edition); ISBN 9780007154357 (Paperback, 2004 Edition); ISBN 9780007305094 (Paperback, 2008 Edition); ISBN 9780345456441 (Hardcover, 2003 Edition); ISBN 9780007154340 (Hardcover, September 2003, Voyager, 400 pages)</ref> later also in ''Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King''<ref>''Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King'', ISBN 9780345475787 (Paperback); ISBN 9781435291133 (Library Binding)</ref> and as a Graphic Novel.<ref>''The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword'', ISBN 9780785126515 (2009 TPB); ISBN 9780785126508 (2008 Hardcover)</ref>

Some confusion exists because the anthology ''Legends'', where the previous Dunk and Egg novella was published, has on occasion been divided into two or three numbered volumes. It is helpful to focus on the five writers that change between ''Legends'' and ''Legends II'': Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan and Ursula K. LeGuin contribute to ''Legends'' but not to ''Legends II'', while Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks, Diana Gabaldon and Elizabeth Haydon have stories in ''Legends II'' but none in ''Legends''.

A compilation of the four initial "Dunk and Egg" stories, including ''The Sworn Sword'', was expected to be published by Bantam.<ref>http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/FAQ/Entry/1974/ The Citadel FAQ, 2.1.9 - ''Will There Be Any More Dung and Egg Stories?''</ref> Ultimately, a collection of only the three already published stories was released in 2015 as ''[[A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms]]''.<ref name=Ride>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/406858.html Dunk and Egg Ride Again (February 25, 2015)]</ref><ref name=Here>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/447919.html Dunk & Egg are HERE (October 6, 2015)]</ref>

==Story==
{{Main|The Sworn Sword-Summary}}

The story opens a year and a half after the events of ''The Hedge Knight''. The two are in the midst of a terrible summer drought in the [[Reach]] (which itself followed [[the Great Spring Sickness]]). [[Dunk]] has sworn his sword to Ser [[Eustace Osgrey]] of [[Standfast]], an old, done knight who dwells on the dual-losses of his family and its ancient honors. Gnawing at the bones of faded glory, Ser Eustace draws Dunk and [[Aegon V Targaryen|Egg]] into a potentially-fatal conflict with his neighbour, Lady [[Rohanne Webber]].

Dunk and Egg return to Standfast from a short journey to [[Dosk]] to get much needed supplies. They discover [[Chequy Water|a local stream]] had suddenly dried up while they were gone. Suspicious, and unheeding of Ser [[Bennis]]'s warning to leave it alone, they go to investigate. As they follow the riverbed upstream they discover that workmen of Lady Rohanne have built a dam. When the workmen refuse to remove the dam Ser Bennis wounds one of them and drives them away, which sets into motion the outbreak of a long-simmering feud.

The hedge knights return to Standfast and tell Ser Osgrey what has happened. The old man realizes that Lady Rohanne will see the wounding of one of her men as a slight on her honor. He orders Ser Bennis and Dunk to gather men from his three villages and to start training them to fight.
Duncan hopes for another solution and is sent to [[Coldmoat]] to parley with Lady Rohanne and offer her bloodprice, an ancient form of [[w:wergeld|wergeld]].

As they meet Lady Rohanne Duncan realizes that some things are different than he was told. Lady Rohanne is an pretty young woman, to whom he is attracted, instead of an old widow. He is informed that the river does not belong to Ser Eustace, but had been granted by King [[Daeron II Targaryen]] to [[House Webber]] for its services in the [[Blackfyre Rebellion]]. It had been taken from [[House Osgrey]] in punishment for their support of [[Daemon I Blackfyre]].

Dunk and Egg also learn that the lady has to remarry within a short time or lose her lands to a cousin as stated in her father's testament. Her father also tasked Ser [[Lucas Inchfield|Lucas 'Longinch']] to protect her against unworthy suitors. Ser Lucas has interpreted this to shield her against all suitors and tries to get her to marry him.

The meeting does not end well. Lady Rohanne refuses to break up the dam or take the bloodprice. She demands that Ser Bennis will be turned over to her or else she will take him herself.
Shocked and angered by all the revelations Ser Duncan wants to leave Osgrey's service. However, as he realizes that the villagers will not stand a chance against Lady Rohanne's well-armed soldiers, he decides to stay.

The next morning Ser Osgrey, Duncan and Egg ride to the river where they meet Lady Webber and her small army. Ser Duncan asks and is granted a private parley with Lady Webber. He shows her Egg's ring, proving Egg is a prince of the blood. He cuts his own cheeks to make up for the wounding of her man. Lady Rohanne is impressed but still demands an apology from Ser Eustace, who refuses. The parties decide to settle the matter in a fight between their champions. Duncan fights Ser Lucas and is able to kill him but almost drowns in the process.

When he wakes up Ser Eustace and Lady Rohanne have settled their differences and have married. Duncan is asked to remain at Standfast as their captain of the guard but refuses. Barely recovered he prepares to leave. Lady Rohanne meets him at the stables and offers her finest horse and her apologies. Dunk refuses both, but Rohanne demands that he take something of her. They kiss passionately and Duncan cuts her braid so that he will have something to remember her.

==Editions==
<gallery>
File:Legends ii hardcover isbn 9780007154340.jpg|''The Sworn Sword'' was originally published in ''Legends II'', in Hardcover (2003) and Paperback (2004)
File:Legends_ii_isbn_9780345456441.jpg|This is another hardcover edition of ''Legends II'', from Del Rey, December 2003, ISBN 978-0345456441. Both editions contain the exact same eleven stories in all. Authors include Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks and Elizabeth Haydon. ''The Sworn Sword'' is found in pages 73 to 152 of this edition, after an introduction two pages long.
File:Cover legends ii.jpg|Later editions of ''Legends II'', such as this one with ISBN 978-1435291133, split the eleven stories between two volumes with different names. ''The Sworn Sword'' is included in "Dragon, Sword and King"
File:TheSwornSword.jpg|[[The Hedge Knight (comics)|''The Sworn Sword'' (Graphic Novel)]], ISBN 978-1477849293
</gallery>

==References and Notes==
{{References|1|refs=}}
*[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/12702-asoiaf-bibliography-where-you-can-find-all-of-those-dunk-egg-stories/ Westeros forums: ''ASOIAF Bibliography: Where You Can Find All Of Those Dunk & Egg Stories'']
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/12/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-the-sworn-sword-part-1 A Read of Ice and Fire: The Sworn Sword, Part 1]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-the-sworn-sword-part-2 A Read of Ice and Fire: The Sworn Sword, Part 2]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-the-sworn-sword-part-3 A Read of Ice and Fire: The Sworn Sword, Part 3]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.
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The She-Wolves of Winterfell

2016-09-09T18:49:40Z

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| country = [[w:United States|United States]]
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'''''The She-Wolves of Winterfell''''' is the working title given to the as-yet unpublished fourth [[Tales of Dunk and Egg]] novella,<ref>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/225206.html Stuff and Nonsense (July 2nd, 2011)]</ref><ref name=NaB>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/365715.html Dunk & Egg (April 15th, 2014)]</ref> once intended to be published in an anthology named ''[[w:Dangerous Women (anthology)|Dangerous Women]]''<ref>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/283248.html Monkeys on My Back (June 23rd, 2012)]</ref> but now postponed.<ref>[[Not a Blog]]: [http://grrm.livejournal.com/310198.html A Dangerous Delivery (January 22nd, 2013)]</ref><ref name=NaB/> George R.R. Martin says he will not know more about when the story can be completed until he has finished [[The Winds of Winter]].<ref name=NaB/>

==Plot==
The novella is set in [[Winterfell]]. It will feature Ser [[Duncan the Tall]] and his squire [[Aegon V Targaryen|Egg]], who will meet "the She-Wolves": a group of formidable [[Stark]] wives, widows, mothers and grandmothers.<ref name=NaB/> Four may be widows of previous Lords of Winterfell, and one the current Lady Stark whose husband [[Beron Stark]] is dying from a wound taken while fighting [[Ironborn]].<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1409/ Boskone (February 17, 2006)]</ref> There may be a [[House Stark]] succession crisis, a struggle for power among the ladies on behalf of their children.<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1408/ Boskone (February 17, 2006)]</ref>

==References and Notes==
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Bethany Redwyne

2016-06-02T23:47:54Z

Rufion: /* A Game of Thrones */

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Lady '''Bethany Redwyne''' is the wife of Lord [[Mathis Rowan]]. They have three children.{{ref|agot|71}}

==History==
Lord [[Hoster Tully]] intended to ask for Bethany's hand for his brother Ser [[Brynden Tully|Brynden]], but Brynden stubbornly refused to marry.{{ref|agot|71}}

==Recent Events==
===A Game of Thrones===
The daughter of Bethany and Lord Mathis was caught in bed with a singer named [[Dareon]]. In order to protect her reputation, she says he tried to rape her and Dareon is sent to the [[Wall]].{{ref|agot|26}}

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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Aerys II Targaryen

2016-06-02T21:34:09Z

Rufion: /* Year of the False Spring */

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'''Aerys II Targaryen''', also called '''the Mad King''' and '''King Scab''', was the seventeenth and last member of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] dynasty to sit the [[Iron Throne]], ruling from {{Date|262}} to {{Date|283}}.{{ref|agot|appendix}} His children that lived to adulthood, by his sister-wife, [[Rhaella Targaryen]], were [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]].

Aerys showed great promise at the start of his reign, bringing peace and prosperity to the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but later descended into insanity, caused by, amongst other factors, multiple miscarriages and stillbirths, the deaths of three sons, and a brief uprising known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], in which he was held prisoner for half a year by a rebellious lord. His paranoia and cruelty grew out of control. He was eventually killed by a member of his own [[Kingsguard]], Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], during [[Robert's Rebellion]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Aerys II Targaryen|Images of Aerys II Targaryen]]''
In his youth, while not being the most intelligent, nor the most diligent of princes, he was described as having an undeniable charm. He was generous, handsome and resolute, although somewhat quick to anger. He was also vain, proud, and changeable, traits that made him easy prey for lickspittles and flatterers. As he grew older, Aerys became increasingly jealous, suspicious and cruel, prone to furious outbursts.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

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

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

After repeatedly cutting himself on the [[Iron Throne]] Aerys developed a phobia of blades, and forbade any sharp implements in his presence other than the swords of his [[Kingsguard]], refusing even to trim his nails or hair. His fingernails grew to cracked yellow claws nine inches long. His beard was matted and unwashed and his silver-gold hair hung down to his waist in wild tangles. His arms and legs were always covered with scabs and half-healed cuts from the [[Iron Throne]]. He wore the elaborate dragon-emblazoned [[crown]] of [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Unworthy]].{{Ref|aFfC|16}}<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_Kings Targaryen Kings (November 1, 2005)]</ref>

==History==
===Early life===
[[File:Aerys_wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Aerys and [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella's]] unhappy wedding]]
Aerys was born to Prince [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], the second son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], and his sister-wife, Princess [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. While still a teenager, Aerys was married to his sister [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], in accordance with the family tradition of dynastic incest. While Aerys's grandfather, King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] was against this incestous marriage (as he had been against incestous marriages for his own children), Jaehaerys was allowed to arrange it. Jaehaerys's motivation for the marriage was a prophecy, made by a [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]], which had been interpreted to mean that the [[prince that was promised]] would be born of the line of Aerys and Rhaella.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} According to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who was present at the wedding, there was no fondness between the two siblings.{{ref|ADWD|23}}

During his youth, Aerys befriended the young heir to [[Casterly Rock]], [[Tywin Lannister]], who served as a page at the royal court. Aerys also befriended the heir to [[Storm's End]], his cousin, [[Steffon Baratheon]]. The three became inseparable.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

In {{Date|259}}, Rhaella gave birth to their firstborn son and heir, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. He was "born in blood and grief" during the disaster known as the [[tragedy of Summerhall]], which killed King Aegon V, his eldest son Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], and many others.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaegar Targaryen}} Aerys's father, Jaehaerys, ascended the [[Iron Throne]] after the tragedy. It would later be rumoured that, on the night of Jaehaerys's coronation, Aerys took the maidenhead of Lady [[Joanna Lannister]], who had come to court for the celebrations.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys was a squire during the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]], and fought in the [[Stepstones]]. There, at the age of sixteen, he received his [[knight]]hood. Aerys choose to be dubbed a knight by his friend, [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]]. When King Jaehaerys II passed away from illness in {{Date|262}}, after having ruled for only three years, Prince Aerys was crowned as King Aerys II Targaryen.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

===Early reign===
[[File:Aerys_twoiaf.png|500px|thumb|left|Aerys on the Iron Throne during his early reign, as depicted by Jennifer Drummond in ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]''.]]

Aerys's reign began in {{Date|262}} with great promise. Over the peaceful first dozen years, the realm recovered from the tragic events at [[Summerhall]] and the War of the Ninepenny Kings, growing strong and prosperous. However, this would not remain.

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

Aerys did not lack ambition. Upon his coronation he declared it was his wish to be the greatest king in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, a conceit certain of his friends encouraged by suggesting one day he would be known as Aerys the Wise or Aerys the Great. Aerys was very active in the early years of his reign and held a splendid court. He loved music, dancing and masked balls, and was exceedingly fond of young beautiful women, filling the court with fair maidens from across the kingdoms. Some say he had as many mistresses as [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Unworthy]], though most historians highly doubt that. Whatever the case, Aerys always lost interest in his lovers fairly quickly.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

King Aerys was full of schemes, boasting about his grand plans, then quickly forgetting about them in less than a moon's turn. Aerys boasted upon his coronation about invading the [[Stepstones]] and adding them to the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. When Lord [[Rickard Stark]] of [[Winterfell]] visited [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|264}}, the king hatched a plan to build a new [[Wall]] hundreds of miles north of the current one and claim all the lands in between. After complaining about the stink of [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|265}}, Aerys wanted to build a new city of white marble on the south bank of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]]. In {{Date|267}}, after a dispute with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], Aerys claimed he would build a war fleet and bring the [[Titan of Braavos]] to its knees. When he visited [[Dorne]] in {{Date|270}}, he told the [[Princess of Dorne]] that he would build an underwater canal and make the deserts bloom. Nothing ever came from any of these grandiose schemes, as Aerys was changeable and grew as bored with his ideas as quickly as they came to him.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Still, the Seven Kingdoms prospered during Aerys's reign, due to his [[Hand of the King]], for [[Tywin Lannister]] was everything Aerys was not. Lord Tywin was diligent, decisive, tireless, fiercely intelligent, just and stern. Eventually, Aerys came to regret his choice for Hand – not because of any lack of competence on Tywin's part, but rather the opposite.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} He proved to be a brilliant administrator, and as Hand his reputation for brutal effectiveness became so well-known and so widely respected that popular rumor held it was Tywin, not Aerys, who truly ruled the realm.{{Ref|ASOS|38}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}
[[File:Tywin and Aerys.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Tywin Lannister]] Aerys [[King's Hand|Hand]]]]

It was Tywin who settled the dispute with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] in {{Date|267}}, as Tywin was shrewd enough not to make an enemy of the Iron Bank. He paid the Bank back the loans owed to them by the [[Iron Throne]] with the gold of [[Casterly Rock]]. Tywin also appeased the High Lords by repealing all the laws, rights and protections that were granted to the [[smallfolk]] by King [[Aegon V Targaryen]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Tywin won the support of the wealthy merchants by reducing tariffs on shipping to [[Oldtown]], [[Lannisport]] and [[King's Landing]], which increased trade. He sternly punished any baker caught mixing sawdust with bread or any butcher selling horsemeat as beef. Tywin built new roads and repaired old ones, held splendid [[Tourney|tournaments]] about the realm to the delight of knights and commons both. Despite these accomplishments, Tywin was little loved for he was also humorless, unforgiving, unbending, proud and insensitive. Traits that earned him many rivals, even his bannermen while greatly respecting him and loyally following him to war, bore him little love.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

The relationship between Aerys and Tywin was always complicated. When he was still a prince, Aerys had developed a crush on [[Joanna Lannister]] who was to marry her cousin Tywin. Aerys was present at the wedding in {{Date|263}} and drank too much during the feast, leading to him joking that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the [[first night]] had been abolished and to taking certain liberties during the [[bedding]]. It is said that Tywin did not forget Aerys's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|43}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys's marriage to his younger sister, [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], was less happy than Tywin's. Aerys was known to keep many mistresses, and whilst Rhaella turned a blind eye to her husband's infidelities, she objected heavily against "turning my ladies into whores". In {{Date|263}}, Lady Joanna Lannister was dismissed by Rhaella, shortly after having married Lord Tywin. Whilst no official reason was given for Joanna's abrupt dismissal, she was not the first of Rhaella's ladies to be dismissed in this fashion, nor was she the last.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys's many relationships were not the only string on his marriage. Rhaella's difficulties with childbirth played their part as well. In {{Date|263}} and {{Date|264}}, Rhaella had miscarriages. In {{Date|267}}, whilst Aerys was away in the [[westerlands]], Rhaella gave birth to the stillborn Princess [[Shaena Targaryen|Shaena]]. Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Daeron]], born in {{Date|279}}, survived for only half a year. After Daeron, a second stillbirth followed in {{Date|270}}, and a miscarriage in {{Date|271}}. In {{Date|272}}, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Aegon]] was born two months premature. He would die in {{Date|273}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

While Aerys was compassionate at first, comforting Rhaella in her grief, he turned suspicious in time. By {{Date|270}}, he had decided that Rhaella had been unfaithful to him, and that none of the stillbirths, miscarriages and dead princes had been his, as the gods would not want a bastard to sit the Iron Throne. He soon confined Rhaella to [[Maegor's Holdfast]], and ordered that two [[septa]]'s would sleep in her bed from that moment forth, to ensure she would remain faithful.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Meanwhile, Aerys's relationship with his Hand was breaking down as well, the pair's friendship fraying. Where previously Aerys had heeded Tywin's counsel, he now often disagreed with his Hand and did the opposite of what Tywin suggested. When [[Myr]] and [[Tyrosh]] became involved in a trade war against [[Volantis]], Lord Tywin suggested that [[Westeros]] remained neutral. King Aerys, in response, provided [[Currency|gold]] and arms to the Volantenese. When [[House Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood]] had a border dispute, Lord Tywin wanted to act in favor for House Blackwood, leading to Aerys siding with House Bracken. Over Tywin's objections, Aerys doubled the port fees for [[Oldtown]] and [[King's Landing]] and tripled them at [[Lannisport]] and other ports in Westeros. Trade suffered and a delegation of merchants arrived before the Iron Throne to protest. Aerys lied to them and blamed the matter on his Hand of the King stating;

{{Quote|Lord Tywin shits gold, but of late he has been constipated and had to find some other ways to fill our coffers.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}}}

Aerys restored the port fees to the previous levels, which won him much popularity and acclaim for himself, whilst the king's lies and actions left Tywin with nothing but scorn. Aerys objected to many of Tywin's appointments and filled the offices with men of his own choosing. When Tywin suggested his own brother, Ser [[Tygett Lannister]], as master-at-arms for the [[Red Keep]], Aerys appointed Ser [[Willem Darry]] instead.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

By now, Aerys had become aware of the tales being told in his Kingdoms; that it was Lord Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms and that Aerys was but a hollow figurehead. These statements greatly angered the king. When Lord Tywin's captain of guard, Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], had been overheard to repeat this statement, Aerys had the man's tongue torn out with hot pincers.{{Ref|ASOS|11}}{{Ref|aFfC|27}} The angered king became determined to disprove the tales, and to humble Tywin, his "overmighty servant", putting him back into his place.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}
[[File:Ilyn Payne loosing his tongue.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys deals with disturbing rumours by taking Ser [[Ilyn Payne]]'s tongue with hot pincers]]

In {{Date|272}}, to celebrate Aerys's tenth year on the [[Iron Throne]], Tywin hosted the [[Anniversary Tourney]] in [[King's Landing]]. Lady [[Joanna Lannister]] returned to the court for this event, bringing with her her six-year old twins, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]]. Drunkenly, Aerys asked Joanna if nursing her children had ruined her breasts. Whilst the question was a great amusement for Lord Tywin's rivals, it humiliated Lady Joanna. Lord Tywin attempted to resign the next morning, but Aerys refused to accept. And thus, Tywin Lannister remained Hand of the King.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Courtiers at the court who wished to win the king's favor and gain advancement soon learned the best way to gain the king's eye was to mock and make japes about Lord Tywin. King Aerys continued to undermine and slight his Hand, which amused many Lords who were rivals of Lord Tywin or who simply disliked the humorless man. Tywin Lannister suffered all these slights in silence, never showing any public display of weakness. When Joanna Lannister died in childbirth in {{Date|273}}, the king had been heard to remark that Joanna had died, and Tywin had begotten [[Tyrion Lannister|his dwarf son]] instead from the gods, "to teach him some humility at last". These reports would reach [[Casterly Rock]], where Lord Tywin was in mourning. From that moment on, all the old affection between the old childhood friends was gone. Yet still, Lord Tywin continued to serve the realm as Hand of the King, whilst King Aerys grew increasingly violent, suspicious and erratic.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

The king's madness abated slightly with the birth of another son, who he named [[Jaehaerys Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Jaehaerys]], in {{Date|274}}. In fact, Jaehaerys's birth almost restored the king to his old self. This changed when Jaehaerys died later that same year. In a black rage, Aerys had the boys wet nurse beheaded, convinced it had been her fault. He soon had a change of heart, and declared that his mistress was to blame, having poisoned the young babe. Aerys had her and her entire family tortured and eventually executed. Under torture, all confessed to murdering Prince Jaehaerys, though their accounts on Jaehaerys's death greatly differed from one another.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

After this deed, however, Aerys changed his mind yet again. He fasted for a fortnight, and made a walk of repentance across the city, to the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. There, he prayed with the [[High Septon]]. When he returned, he announced that he would remain true to his wife and marital vows from that moment forth. From that day on in {{Date|275}}, King Aerys II Targaryen lost interest in all other women.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

In {{Date|276}}, Rhaella gave birth to a son named [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]]. While the boy was healthy enough, Aerys was paranoid about the boy's safety. [[Kingsguard]] knights were ordered to stand over the babe, day and night. No one, not even Queen Rhaella, was allowed to be alone with Viserys. Gifts that came from all over the realm for the new prince were piled up in the yard and burned on Aerys's orders, as the king feared they might be cursed or ensorcelled. When Rhaella's milk dried up, Aerys made his own food taster suckle on the nipples of the wet nurse, to ensure there was no poison on them.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Later that year, Lord Tywin Lannister staged a [[tournament in honor of Viserys's birth]] at Lannisport. It has been suggested by history that this tourney was arranged as a gesture for reconciliation.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} At this tourney, Lord Tywin proposed a marriage between his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and Prince Rhaegar to King Aerys. However, Aerys's fear of Tywin's power and ambition led him to reject the offer rudely, saying that Tywin was a mere servant of the crown, and no servant's daughter was fit to marry a prince of royal blood. The tourney ended without a final feast and Aerys departed in a chilly atmosphere. Tywin would not forget the insult.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

===The Defiance of Duskendale===
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[[File:Marc Simonetti King Aerys II Targaryen.jpg|King Aerys II Targaryen after the [[Defiance of Duskendale]] - by Marc Simonetti © |thumb|300px|right]]

Lord [[Denys Darklyn]] of [[Duskendale]] desired to win a charter for Duskendale, which would give him more autonomy from the crown. He made his proposal to the crown in {{Date|277}}, but Lord Tywin Lannister, however, refused the proposal, but Lord Denys would not give up so easily. Having noticed the deteriorated relationship between Aerys and Tywin, Lord Denys decided to withhold his payments to the crown, and instead invited the king to Duskendale to hear his petition for a new charter. While Aerys had intend to decline the invitation, the king changed his mind when Lord Tywin advised him to refuse in the strongest possible terms. Eager to demonstrate his ability to handle the situation without the help of his Hand, Aerys decided to settle the issue personally and bring the defiant Lord Darklyn to heel. Informing [[Grand Maester]] [[Pycelle]] and the [[small council]] of his decision, Aerys traveled to Duskendale taking a small force led by Ser [[Gwayne Gaunt]] of the [[Kingsguard]], against Lord Tywin's advice. The invitation proved to be a trap, however, and Aerys walked right into it. Some of his escort (most notably Ser Gwayne) were killed trying to defend their king, Aerys was taken prisoner.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Outrage was the response to this news from [[Duskendale]]. As [[Hand of the King]], it fell to Lord Tywin Lannister to resolve the crisis. He massed an army and laid siege to the town in what became known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]]. The situation remained in a stalemate for six months, with Lord Denys threatening to execute the king at the first sign that Tywin intended to storm the town. In the end, it was Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] of the Kingsguard who staged a daring infiltration and managed to rescue the king.

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

===Following the Defiance===
The Defiance of Duskendale plunged Aerys deeper into his descent into madness. Deeply shaken by his imprisonment, he refused to leave the [[Red Keep]] for the next four years. His jealous and suspicious nature deepened into paranoia and eventually outright delusions, seeing evidence of treachery everywhere.

Aerys's relations with Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] deteriorated even more rapidly. The king felt his Hand had wanted him to perish in the dungeons of Duskendale. Aerys also no longer trusted his wife or his heir. In his paranoia, Aerys believed that Tywin and Rhaegar had conspired to have him killed by storming Duskendale, so Rhaegar would ascend the [[Iron Throne]] and marry Tywin's daughter.

To prevent such conspiracies between Rhaegar and Tywin, Aerys summoned his old childhood friend, Lord [[Steffon Baratheon]], to court, making him a member of the [[small council]]. Aerys publically announced Steffon would go to [[Volantis]], to find a bride for Rhaegar of ''"proud Valyrian blood"''. The fact that Aerys entrusted this task to Steffon instead of Tywin or Rhaegar caused many to whisper that Aerys intended to make Steffon his new Hand of the King, upon the successful completion of this mission, and that Aerys planned to have Lord Tywin arrested and executed for high treason. Many lords took delight in the prospect.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Fate had other plans. Lord Steffon's mission turned out to be a failure and on the return voyage his ship was caught in a storm and sank, just off the coast of [[Storm's End]], in sight of his two eldest children, [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] and [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]. Aerys got the notion in his head that Tywin had somehow assassinated Lord Steffon. He even stated to [[Pycelle]] that he could not dismiss Tywin as Hand, as Tywin would have him killed then as well. In the final years of his reign where Tywin was still Hand, Aerys never met with Lord Tywin unless all seven of the Kingsguard knights were present.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}{{Ref|ACOK|Prologue}}

His paranoia and hysterical madness ever deepening, Aerys heard word of the talents of a certain eunuch named [[Varys]]. The eunuch was brought to court, and appointed as Aerys's [[master of whisperers]] on the small council. The king reasoned that only a foreigner with no competing loyalties in [[Westeros]] could be trusted to alert him of potential threats. The Spider, as Varys became known to the smallfolk, used the crowns gold to form a vast web of informers. Varys was always seen crouching at the king's side whispering in his ear.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys also resolved the matter of Rhaegar's marriage. In early {{Date|279}}, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] was betrothed to Princess [[Elia Martell]]. In early {{Date|280}}, the two were wed in a lavish ceremony at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. Fearing to be assassinated, Aerys refused to attend. Neither did he allow Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] to attend. Rhaegar and his new bride decided to take up residence on [[Dragonstone]], instead of remaining in [[King's Landing]], which led some to whisper that Rhaegar planned on disposing his father and seizing the throne. Others claimed that Aerys II meant to disinherit Rhaegar and name his younger son, Prince Viserys, the new heir. The birth of Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], Aerys first grandchild, did not unite the estranged father and son. When Rhaegar presented the girl at court, Queen Rhaella embraced her grandchild warmly, but Aerys refused to touch her, stating that ''"she smelled Dornish"''.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys grew brutal, capricious and increasingly fascinated with fire, especially the highly flammable substance known as [[wildfire]] which was said to be a cousin to dragonflame. By {{Date|280}}, Aerys had taken to using wildfire for executing alleged traitors, rather than hangings and beheadings. The pyromancers became a fixture at the king's court and Wisdom [[Rossart]], who carried out the executions, was eventually named to the [[small council]]. All the executions by fire aroused the king and, while he and his wife had slept in separate chambers for some years and avoided each other by day as well, Aerys would always claim his marriage rights after such an execution by fire, brutally abusing his wife in bed.{{Ref|aFfC|16}}

===Year of the False Spring===
When a place in the [[Kingsguard]] became available, after Ser [[Harlan Grandison]] died in his sleep, Aerys decided to appoint Lord Tywin Lannister's eldest (and [[Tyrion Lannister|only able-bodied]]) son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] as the youngest knight ever to join the order. Tywin, and later his son Jaime, came to believe that Aerys had intended this not as an honor but a slight to [[House Lannister]], meant to deprive Tywin of his heir and allow Aerys to hold Jaime hostage for his father's loyalty. Unknown to Tywin, this scheme had originally been hatched by Tywin's very own daughter, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], who had proposed the idea to King Aerys as she wished for Jaime to join the order as to prevent Tywin from betrothing him to [[Lysa Tully]], as Tywin and Lord [[Hoster Tully]] had been discussing.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}

Aerys had made his announcement during court, and Tywin had thanked him openly for the honour the king bestowed upon his House. In reality, he had been furious, and pleading illness, Tywin resign his position as Hand and returned to [[Casterly Rock]], with his daughter. Aerys accepted Tywin's resignation and appointed Lord [[Owen Merryweather]] as his replacement, an amiable but not especially competent old man whose main qualifications as [[Hand of the King|Hand]] were his willingness to throw lavish feasts and offer the king constant flattery. The young knight Jaime would officially join the Kingsguard in a ceremony at a later date.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

With Lord Tywin now gone from court, the new focus of Aerys' mistrust was his own son and heir Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], who had become wary of his father's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|24}} At court there was growing tension between the factions loyal to the king and those loyal to his heir Prince Rhaegar. Aerys may have been mad and cruel to those he deemed his enemies, but he was lavish with wealth and titles to those who enjoyed his trust.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Those loyal to the king were [[Qarlton Chelsted]], the [[master of coin]], [[Lucerys Velaryon (master of ships)|Lucerys Velaryon]], the [[master of ships]], [[Symond Staunton]], the [[master of laws]], [[Varys]], the [[master of whisperers]], and Wisdom [[Rossart]]. All enjoyed the king's trust and at court held great power and they had learned how to twist the king's madness to their own benefit, they had good reason to oppose Aerys' removal from the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Rhaegar's supporters were young Lord [[Jon Connington]], Ser [[Myles Mooton]], Ser [[Richard Lonmouth]], and the [[Dornishmen]] who accompanied him at court, including Princess [[Elia Martell|Elia's]] uncle, Prince [[Lewyn Martell]] of the [[Kingsguard]] and Ser [[Arthur Dayne]], the [[Sword of the Morning]] also of the Kingsguard and who was Rhaegar's dearest friend.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

It fell to [[Grand Maester]] [[Pycelle]] and the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Owen Merryweather]] the unenviable task of trying to keep the peace between the factions, Pycelle even dispatched a letter to the [[Citadel]] writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those before the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Pycelle was fearful of a civil war between those loyal to the king and those who supported the prince would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Lord [[Walter Whent]] announced a [[Tourney at Harrenhal|tourney]] would be held at [[Harrenhal]] in either {{Date|280}} or {{Date|281}}<ref>''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' lists 280 AC in ''"The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II"'', but 281 AC in ''"The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring"''. It is unconfirmed which date is correct</ref> to rival any previous tournament. The tourney was to be held in {{Date|281}}. It is believed by some that the tournament was secretly arranged and financed by Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet up with the Great Lords of the realm to discuss arranging a [[Great Council]] and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Lord Whent shortly after his brother Ser [[Oswell Whent|Oswell]], of the [[Kingsguard]], visited his older brother.{{Ref|aDwD|67}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Aerys at first was counseled by Lord Chelsted to forbid the tourney, while Lord Staunton went as far to suggest the king should outlaw all tournaments. Lord Merryweather intervened by pointing out such events were extremely popular with the highborn and lowborn and that attempting to ban or outlaw tourneys would make King Aerys unpopular and strengthen Rhaegar. Aerys decided to attend the tournament, the first time he left the [[Red Keep]] since the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], he also decided that the tournament would be the perfect place to initiate Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] into the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Aerys also hoped his presence at the tourney would win back the love of his people. If that was his intention it backfired horrifically. Since the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], the king had not taken care of his appearance. His fear of blades meant he would not permit his hair to be cut, or his nails to be groomed. His hair and beard were unwashed, matted and tangled, and his nails were yellow and grew nine inches in length. His fear and paranoia of poison had made him thin and gaunt. The Lords and knights at the tourney were appalled at what their monarch had become. Nor was his behavior that of a sane man, going from mirth to melancholy at a snap of the fingers. His bouts of hysterical laughter, long silences, sudden rages and constant weeping made all present weary.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

In contrast, Prince Rhaegar looked every inch a leader and warrior. Tall, clean, handsome, well groomed, this Prince was unstoppable in the lists, winning bout after bout. The young Jaime Lannister said his vows before the king with the realm looking on, a cheer went up as the young handsome knight joined the [[Kingsguard]], a cheer that Aerys, at the time, believed to be for him.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

A [[mystery knight]], the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]], competed in the tournament. Certain the knight had concealed his identity because he was an enemy of the crown, Aerys ordered Rhaegar to discover his identity, but the mystery knight could not be found. Prince Rhaegar went on to win the tournament, and shocked all those present by crowning [[Lyanna Stark]], rather than his wife, Princess [[Elia Martell]], his [[Queen of Love and Beauty]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

The next year, in {{Date|282}}, some time after the birth of Rhaegar's heir, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]], Prince Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, apparently having kidnapped her.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}} Her eldest brother, [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]], rode to King's Landing with several friends when word of his sister's disappearance reached him. Upon arriving at the Red Keep, Brandon roared for Rhaegar to "come out and die." As it turned out, Rhaegar was not present – but Aerys was. The king had Brandon and his companions arrested on charges of conspiring against the life of the crown prince, demanding that their fathers present themselves at court to answer for their sons' crimes. When they did so, Aerys had them all executed without a fair trial. When Lord [[Rickard Stark]] demanded a [[trial by combat]], King Aerys chose fire as his champion. Lord Rickard was burned alive by wildfire as Brandon was forced to watch, strapped into a torture device that caused him to strangle himself in his attempts to save his father.{{Ref|ACOK|55}} His paranoia still unsatisfied, the king ordered Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to send him the heads of Lyanna's next brother, [[Eddard Stark]], now the Lord of [[Winterfell]], and Lyanna's fiancé, Lord [[Robert Baratheon]], who were present at the [[Eyrie]]. Arryn refused, and raised his banners in revolt.{{Ref|AGOT|2}} Thus, the king's brutal acts triggered a chain of events that would become known as the War of the Usurper to [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] loyalists and [[Robert's Rebellion]] to those who fought on the rebel side. [[House Arryn]], [[House Stark]] and [[House Baratheon]], and later on in the war also [[House Tully]], unified in rebellion against the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

===Robert's Rebellion===
[[File:Mad King AerysJake Murray.png|King Aerys has a man burned to death. © FFG|thumb|300px]]
[[File:GoranGligovic mad king aerys.jpg|The Mad King enjoying a [[wildfire]] display. © Goran Gligovic|thumb|300px]]
:{{Main|Robert's Rebellion}}

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

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

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

Realizing this was the end, Aerys summoned Lord Rossart and Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], the last remaining Kingsguard knight. Aerys had retained Jaime throughout the war to ensure Tywin's loyalty, though up until that point [[House Lannister]] had been neutral in the rebellion. Jaime would later remark upon the irony of the Mad King's belief that he could not be harmed if he kept Jaime close. Aerys commanded Jaime to kill his father, then gave Rossart the long-awaited order to ignite the wildfire caches and burn the city to the ground.{{ref|ASOS|37}}

Jaime later suggested that much like his mad great-uncle [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion the Monstrous]] before him, Aerys held the delusional belief that he would not die in the inferno, but rather would be transformed by the flames into a [[dragon]], giving him the power to crush his enemies. However, before the plot could be carried out, Jaime slew Lord Rossart and then King Aerys, preventing the orders from reaching anyone else and thus saving the entire population of King's Landing, while earning himself the epithet [[Kingslayer]]. Robert Baratheon claimed the Iron Throne, and the reign of the Targaryen dynasty was ended.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Small Council under Aerys II==
During the reign of King Aerys his [[small council]] had the following known members:

{| class=wikitable width=60%i
!Office
!Duration
!Name
|-
| rowspan="5"| '''[[Hand of the King]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|281}}
| Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]
|-
| {{Date|281}} - {{Date|282}}
| Lord [[Owen Merryweather]]
|-
| {{Date|282}} - {{Date|283}}
| Lord [[Jon Connington]]
|-
| {{Date|283}} - {{Date|283}}
| Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]]
|-
| {{Date|283}} - {{Date|283}}
| Wisdom [[Rossart]]
|-
| '''[[Maester|Grandmaester]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|283}}
| [[Pycelle]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Coin]]'''
| Unknown
| Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Laws]]'''
| Unknown
| [[Symond Staunton]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Ships]]'''
| Unknown - Unknown
| [[Lucerys Velaryon (Master of Ships)|Lucerys Velaryon]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Whisperers]]'''
| ±{{Date|278}} - {{Date|283}}
| [[Varys]]
|-
| '''[[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|283}}
| Ser [[Gerold Hightower]]
|}

==Quotes by Aerys==
{{Quote|The traitors want [[King's Landing|my city]] ... but I’ll give them naught but ashes. Let [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] be king over charred bones and cooked meat.{{ref|ASOS|37}}}}

{{Quote|I want [[Tywin Lannister|him]] dead, the traitor. I want his head, you’ll bring me his head, or you’ll burn with all the rest. All the traitors.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}}} – Aerys, to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|You are my most able servant, Tywin, but a man does not marry [[Rhaegar Targaryen|his heir]] to [[Cersei Lannister|his servant's daughter]].{{Ref|AFFC|24}}}} – Aerys, to [[Tywin Lannister]]

==Quotes about Aerys==
{{Quote|Aerys was dead on the floor, drowned in his own blood. His dragon skulls stared down from the walls. [[Tywin Lannister|Lannister’s]] men were everywhere. [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] wore the white cloak of the [[Kingsguard]] over his golden armor. I can see him still. Even his sword was gilded. He was seated on the [[Iron Throne]], high above his knights, wearing a helm fashioned in the shape of a lion’s head. How he glittered!{{Ref|agot|12}}}} – [[Eddard Stark]], to [[Robert Baratheon]]

{{Quote|Aerys was mad, the whole realm knew it.{{Ref|aCoK|55}}}} – [[Catelyn Stark]], to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}}} – [[Brienne of Tarth|Brienne]], to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|A crowned beast.{{ref|AFFC|16}}}} – [[Jaime Lannister]]'s thoughts

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

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

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'''Aerys II Targaryen''', also called '''the Mad King''' and '''King Scab''', was the seventeenth and last member of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] dynasty to sit the [[Iron Throne]], ruling from {{Date|262}} to {{Date|283}}.{{ref|agot|appendix}} His children that lived to adulthood, by his sister-wife, [[Rhaella Targaryen]], were [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]].

Aerys showed great promise at the start of his reign, bringing peace and prosperity to the [[Seven Kingdoms]], but later descended into insanity, caused by, amongst other factors, multiple miscarriages and stillbirths, the deaths of three sons, and a brief uprising known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], in which he was held prisoner for half a year by a rebellious lord. His paranoia and cruelty grew out of control. He was eventually killed by a member of his own [[Kingsguard]], Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], during [[Robert's Rebellion]].

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Aerys II Targaryen|Images of Aerys II Targaryen]]''
In his youth, while not being the most intelligent, nor the most diligent of princes, he was described as having an undeniable charm. He was generous, handsome and resolute, although somewhat quick to anger. He was also vain, proud, and changeable, traits that made him easy prey for lickspittles and flatterers. As he grew older, Aerys became increasingly jealous, suspicious and cruel, prone to furious outbursts.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

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

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

After repeatedly cutting himself on the [[Iron Throne]] Aerys developed a phobia of blades, and forbade any sharp implements in his presence other than the swords of his [[Kingsguard]], refusing even to trim his nails or hair. His fingernails grew to cracked yellow claws nine inches long. His beard was matted and unwashed and his silver-gold hair hung down to his waist in wild tangles. His arms and legs were always covered with scabs and half-healed cuts from the [[Iron Throne]]. He wore the elaborate dragon-emblazoned [[crown]] of [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Unworthy]].{{Ref|aFfC|16}}<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_Kings Targaryen Kings (November 1, 2005)]</ref>

==History==
===Early life===
[[File:Aerys_wedding.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Aerys and [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella's]] unhappy wedding]]
Aerys was born to Prince [[Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], the second son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen|Aegon V]], and his sister-wife, Princess [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. While still a teenager, Aerys was married to his sister [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], in accordance with the family tradition of dynastic incest. While Aerys's grandfather, King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] was against this incestous marriage (as he had been against incestous marriages for his own children), Jaehaerys was allowed to arrange it. Jaehaerys's motivation for the marriage was a prophecy, made by a [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]], which had been interpreted to mean that the [[prince that was promised]] would be born of the line of Aerys and Rhaella.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} According to Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who was present at the wedding, there was no fondness between the two siblings.{{ref|ADWD|23}}

During his youth, Aerys befriended the young heir to [[Casterly Rock]], [[Tywin Lannister]], who served as a page at the royal court. Aerys also befriended the heir to [[Storm's End]], his cousin, [[Steffon Baratheon]]. The three became inseparable.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

In {{Date|259}}, Rhaella gave birth to their firstborn son and heir, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]]. He was "born in blood and grief" during the disaster known as the [[tragedy of Summerhall]], which killed King Aegon V, his eldest son Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], and many others.{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaegar Targaryen}} Aerys's father, Jaehaerys, ascended the [[Iron Throne]] after the tragedy. It would later be rumoured that, on the night of Jaehaerys's coronation, Aerys took the maidenhead of Lady [[Joanna Lannister]], who had come to court for the celebrations.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys was a squire during the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]], and fought in the [[Stepstones]]. There, at the age of sixteen, he received his [[knight]]hood. Aerys choose to be dubbed a knight by his friend, [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]]. When King Jaehaerys II passed away from illness in {{Date|262}}, after having ruled for only three years, Prince Aerys was crowned as King Aerys II Targaryen.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

===Early reign===
[[File:Aerys_twoiaf.png|500px|thumb|left|Aerys on the Iron Throne during his early reign, as depicted by Jennifer Drummond in ''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]''.]]

Aerys's reign began in {{Date|262}} with great promise. Over the peaceful first dozen years, the realm recovered from the tragic events at [[Summerhall]] and the War of the Ninepenny Kings, growing strong and prosperous. However, this would not remain.

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

Aerys did not lack ambition. Upon his coronation he declared it was his wish to be the greatest king in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, a conceit certain of his friends encouraged by suggesting one day he would be known as Aerys the Wise or Aerys the Great. Aerys was very active in the early years of his reign and held a splendid court. He loved music, dancing and masked balls, and was exceedingly fond of young beautiful women, filling the court with fair maidens from across the kingdoms. Some say he had as many mistresses as [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Unworthy]], though most historians highly doubt that. Whatever the case, Aerys always lost interest in his lovers fairly quickly.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

King Aerys was full of schemes, boasting about his grand plans, then quickly forgetting about them in less than a moon's turn. Aerys boasted upon his coronation about invading the [[Stepstones]] and adding them to the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. When Lord [[Rickard Stark]] of [[Winterfell]] visited [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|264}}, the king hatched a plan to build a new [[Wall]] hundreds of miles north of the current one and claim all the lands in between. After complaining about the stink of [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|265}}, Aerys wanted to build a new city of white marble on the south bank of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]]. In {{Date|267}}, after a dispute with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]], Aerys claimed he would build a war fleet and bring the [[Titan of Braavos]] to its knees. When he visited [[Dorne]] in {{Date|270}}, he told the [[Princess of Dorne]] that he would build an underwater canal and make the deserts bloom. Nothing ever came from any of these grandiose schemes, as Aerys was changeable and grew as bored with his ideas as quickly as they came to him.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Still, the Seven Kingdoms prospered during Aerys's reign, due to his [[Hand of the King]], for [[Tywin Lannister]] was everything Aerys was not. Lord Tywin was diligent, decisive, tireless, fiercely intelligent, just and stern. Eventually, Aerys came to regret his choice for Hand – not because of any lack of competence on Tywin's part, but rather the opposite.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} He proved to be a brilliant administrator, and as Hand his reputation for brutal effectiveness became so well-known and so widely respected that popular rumor held it was Tywin, not Aerys, who truly ruled the realm.{{Ref|ASOS|38}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}
[[File:Tywin and Aerys.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Tywin Lannister]] Aerys [[King's Hand|Hand]]]]

It was Tywin who settled the dispute with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] in {{Date|267}}, as Tywin was shrewd enough not to make an enemy of the Iron Bank. He paid the Bank back the loans owed to them by the [[Iron Throne]] with the gold of [[Casterly Rock]]. Tywin also appeased the High Lords by repealing all the laws, rights and protections that were granted to the [[smallfolk]] by King [[Aegon V Targaryen]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Tywin won the support of the wealthy merchants by reducing tariffs on shipping to [[Oldtown]], [[Lannisport]] and [[King's Landing]], which increased trade. He sternly punished any baker caught mixing sawdust with bread or any butcher selling horsemeat as beef. Tywin built new roads and repaired old ones, held splendid [[Tourney|tournaments]] about the realm to the delight of knights and commons both. Despite these accomplishments, Tywin was little loved for he was also humorless, unforgiving, unbending, proud and insensitive. Traits that earned him many rivals, even his bannermen while greatly respecting him and loyally following him to war, bore him little love.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

The relationship between Aerys and Tywin was always complicated. When he was still a prince, Aerys had developed a crush on [[Joanna Lannister]] who was to marry her cousin Tywin. Aerys was present at the wedding in {{Date|263}} and drank too much during the feast, leading to him joking that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the [[first night]] had been abolished and to taking certain liberties during the [[bedding]]. It is said that Tywin did not forget Aerys's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|43}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys's marriage to his younger sister, [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], was less happy than Tywin's. Aerys was known to keep many mistresses, and whilst Rhaella turned a blind eye to her husband's infidelities, she objected heavily against "turning my ladies into whores". In {{Date|263}}, Lady Joanna Lannister was dismissed by Rhaella, shortly after having married Lord Tywin. Whilst no official reason was given for Joanna's abrupt dismissal, she was not the first of Rhaella's ladies to be dismissed in this fashion, nor was she the last.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys's many relationships were not the only string on his marriage. Rhaella's difficulties with childbirth played their part as well. In {{Date|263}} and {{Date|264}}, Rhaella had miscarriages. In {{Date|267}}, whilst Aerys was away in the [[westerlands]], Rhaella gave birth to the stillborn Princess [[Shaena Targaryen|Shaena]]. Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Daeron]], born in {{Date|279}}, survived for only half a year. After Daeron, a second stillbirth followed in {{Date|270}}, and a miscarriage in {{Date|271}}. In {{Date|272}}, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Aegon]] was born two months premature. He would die in {{Date|273}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

While Aerys was compassionate at first, comforting Rhaella in her grief, he turned suspicious in time. By {{Date|270}}, he had decided that Rhaella had been unfaithful to him, and that none of the stillbirths, miscarriages and dead princes had been his, as the gods would not want a bastard to sit the Iron Throne. He soon confined Rhaella to [[Maegor's Holdfast]], and ordered that two [[septa]]'s would sleep in her bed from that moment forth, to ensure she would remain faithful.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Meanwhile, Aerys's relationship with his Hand was breaking down as well, the pair's friendship fraying. Where previously Aerys had heeded Tywin's counsel, he now often disagreed with his Hand and did the opposite of what Tywin suggested. When [[Myr]] and [[Tyrosh]] became involved in a trade war against [[Volantis]], Lord Tywin suggested that [[Westeros]] remained neutral. King Aerys, in response, provided [[Currency|gold]] and arms to the Volantenese. When [[House Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood]] had a border dispute, Lord Tywin wanted to act in favor for House Blackwood, leading to Aerys siding with House Bracken. Over Tywin's objections, Aerys doubled the port fees for [[Oldtown]] and [[King's Landing]] and tripled them at [[Lannisport]] and other ports in Westeros. Trade suffered and a delegation of merchants arrived before the Iron Throne to protest. Aerys lied to them and blamed the matter on his Hand of the King stating;

{{Quote|Lord Tywin shits gold, but of late he has been constipated and had to find some other ways to fill our coffers.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}}}

Aerys restored the port fees to the previous levels, which won him much popularity and acclaim for himself, whilst the king's lies and actions left Tywin with nothing but scorn. Aerys objected to many of Tywin's appointments and filled the offices with men of his own choosing. When Tywin suggested his own brother, Ser [[Tygett Lannister]], as master-at-arms for the [[Red Keep]], Aerys appointed Ser [[Willem Darry]] instead.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

By now, Aerys had become aware of the tales being told in his Kingdoms; that it was Lord Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms and that Aerys was but a hollow figurehead. These statements greatly angered the king. When Lord Tywin's captain of guard, Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], had been overheard to repeat this statement, Aerys had the man's tongue torn out with hot pincers.{{Ref|ASOS|11}}{{Ref|aFfC|27}} The angered king became determined to disprove the tales, and to humble Tywin, his "overmighty servant", putting him back into his place.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}
[[File:Ilyn Payne loosing his tongue.jpg|thumb|350px|Aerys deals with disturbing rumours by taking Ser [[Ilyn Payne]]'s tongue with hot pincers]]

In {{Date|272}}, to celebrate Aerys's tenth year on the [[Iron Throne]], Tywin hosted the [[Anniversary Tourney]] in [[King's Landing]]. Lady [[Joanna Lannister]] returned to the court for this event, bringing with her her six-year old twins, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]]. Drunkenly, Aerys asked Joanna if nursing her children had ruined her breasts. Whilst the question was a great amusement for Lord Tywin's rivals, it humiliated Lady Joanna. Lord Tywin attempted to resign the next morning, but Aerys refused to accept. And thus, Tywin Lannister remained Hand of the King.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Courtiers at the court who wished to win the king's favor and gain advancement soon learned the best way to gain the king's eye was to mock and make japes about Lord Tywin. King Aerys continued to undermine and slight his Hand, which amused many Lords who were rivals of Lord Tywin or who simply disliked the humorless man. Tywin Lannister suffered all these slights in silence, never showing any public display of weakness. When Joanna Lannister died in childbirth in {{Date|273}}, the king had been heard to remark that Joanna had died, and Tywin had begotten [[Tyrion Lannister|his dwarf son]] instead from the gods, "to teach him some humility at last". These reports would reach [[Casterly Rock]], where Lord Tywin was in mourning. From that moment on, all the old affection between the old childhood friends was gone. Yet still, Lord Tywin continued to serve the realm as Hand of the King, whilst King Aerys grew increasingly violent, suspicious and erratic.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

The king's madness abated slightly with the birth of another son, who he named [[Jaehaerys Targaryen (son of Aerys II)|Jaehaerys]], in {{Date|274}}. In fact, Jaehaerys's birth almost restored the king to his old self. This changed when Jaehaerys died later that same year. In a black rage, Aerys had the boys wet nurse beheaded, convinced it had been her fault. He soon had a change of heart, and declared that his mistress was to blame, having poisoned the young babe. Aerys had her and her entire family tortured and eventually executed. Under torture, all confessed to murdering Prince Jaehaerys, though their accounts on Jaehaerys's death greatly differed from one another.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

After this deed, however, Aerys changed his mind yet again. He fasted for a fortnight, and made a walk of repentance across the city, to the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. There, he prayed with the [[High Septon]]. When he returned, he announced that he would remain true to his wife and marital vows from that moment forth. From that day on in {{Date|275}}, King Aerys II Targaryen lost interest in all other women.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

In {{Date|276}}, Rhaella gave birth to a son named [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]]. While the boy was healthy enough, Aerys was paranoid about the boy's safety. [[Kingsguard]] knights were ordered to stand over the babe, day and night. No one, not even Queen Rhaella, was allowed to be alone with Viserys. Gifts that came from all over the realm for the new prince were piled up in the yard and burned on Aerys's orders, as the king feared they might be cursed or ensorcelled. When Rhaella's milk dried up, Aerys made his own food taster suckle on the nipples of the wet nurse, to ensure there was no poison on them.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Later that year, Lord Tywin Lannister staged a [[tournament in honor of Viserys's birth]] at Lannisport. It has been suggested by history that this tourney was arranged as a gesture for reconciliation.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}} At this tourney, Lord Tywin proposed a marriage between his daughter [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and Prince Rhaegar to King Aerys. However, Aerys's fear of Tywin's power and ambition led him to reject the offer rudely, saying that Tywin was a mere servant of the crown, and no servant's daughter was fit to marry a prince of royal blood. The tourney ended without a final feast and Aerys departed in a chilly atmosphere. Tywin would not forget the insult.{{Ref|aFfC|24}}

===The Defiance of Duskendale===
:{{Main|Defiance of Duskendale}}
[[File:Marc Simonetti King Aerys II Targaryen.jpg|King Aerys II Targaryen after the [[Defiance of Duskendale]] - by Marc Simonetti © |thumb|300px|right]]

Lord [[Denys Darklyn]] of [[Duskendale]] desired to win a charter for Duskendale, which would give him more autonomy from the crown. He made his proposal to the crown in {{Date|277}}, but Lord Tywin Lannister, however, refused the proposal, but Lord Denys would not give up so easily. Having noticed the deteriorated relationship between Aerys and Tywin, Lord Denys decided to withhold his payments to the crown, and instead invited the king to Duskendale to hear his petition for a new charter. While Aerys had intend to decline the invitation, the king changed his mind when Lord Tywin advised him to refuse in the strongest possible terms. Eager to demonstrate his ability to handle the situation without the help of his Hand, Aerys decided to settle the issue personally and bring the defiant Lord Darklyn to heel. Informing [[Grand Maester]] [[Pycelle]] and the [[small council]] of his decision, Aerys traveled to Duskendale taking a small force led by Ser [[Gwayne Gaunt]] of the [[Kingsguard]], against Lord Tywin's advice. The invitation proved to be a trap, however, and Aerys walked right into it. Some of his escort (most notably Ser Gwayne) were killed trying to defend their king, Aerys was taken prisoner.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Outrage was the response to this news from [[Duskendale]]. As [[Hand of the King]], it fell to Lord Tywin Lannister to resolve the crisis. He massed an army and laid siege to the town in what became known as the [[Defiance of Duskendale]]. The situation remained in a stalemate for six months, with Lord Denys threatening to execute the king at the first sign that Tywin intended to storm the town. In the end, it was Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] of the Kingsguard who staged a daring infiltration and managed to rescue the king.

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

===Following the Defiance===
The Defiance of Duskendale plunged Aerys deeper into his descent into madness. Deeply shaken by his imprisonment, he refused to leave the [[Red Keep]] for the next four years. His jealous and suspicious nature deepened into paranoia and eventually outright delusions, seeing evidence of treachery everywhere.

Aerys's relations with Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] deteriorated even more rapidly. The king felt his Hand had wanted him to perish in the dungeons of Duskendale. Aerys also no longer trusted his wife or his heir. In his paranoia, Aerys believed that Tywin and Rhaegar had conspired to have him killed by storming Duskendale, so Rhaegar would ascend the [[Iron Throne]] and marry Tywin's daughter.

To prevent such conspiracies between Rhaegar and Tywin, Aerys summoned his old childhood friend, Lord [[Steffon Baratheon]], to court, making him a member of the [[small council]]. Aerys publically announced Steffon would go to [[Volantis]], to find a bride for Rhaegar of ''"proud Valyrian blood"''. The fact that Aerys entrusted this task to Steffon instead of Tywin or Rhaegar caused many to whisper that Aerys intended to make Steffon his new Hand of the King, upon the successful completion of this mission, and that Aerys planned to have Lord Tywin arrested and executed for high treason. Many lords took delight in the prospect.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Fate had other plans. Lord Steffon's mission turned out to be a failure and on the return voyage his ship was caught in a storm and sank, just off the coast of [[Storm's End]], in sight of his two eldest children, [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] and [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]. Aerys got the notion in his head that Tywin had somehow assassinated Lord Steffon. He even stated to [[Pycelle]] that he could not dismiss Tywin as Hand, as Tywin would have him killed then as well. In the final years of his reign where Tywin was still Hand, Aerys never met with Lord Tywin unless all seven of the Kingsguard knights were present.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}{{Ref|ACOK|Prologue}}

His paranoia and hysterical madness ever deepening, Aerys heard word of the talents of a certain eunuch named [[Varys]]. The eunuch was brought to court, and appointed as Aerys's [[master of whisperers]] on the small council. The king reasoned that only a foreigner with no competing loyalties in [[Westeros]] could be trusted to alert him of potential threats. The Spider, as Varys became known to the smallfolk, used the crowns gold to form a vast web of informers. Varys was always seen crouching at the king's side whispering in his ear.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys also resolved the matter of Rhaegar's marriage. In early {{Date|279}}, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] was betrothed to Princess [[Elia Martell]]. In early {{Date|280}}, the two were wed in a lavish ceremony at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]]. Fearing to be assassinated, Aerys refused to attend. Neither did he allow Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] to attend. Rhaegar and his new bride decided to take up residence on [[Dragonstone]], instead of remaining in [[King's Landing]], which led some to whisper that Rhaegar planned on disposing his father and seizing the throne. Others claimed that Aerys II meant to disinherit Rhaegar and name his younger son, Prince Viserys, the new heir. The birth of Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]], Aerys first grandchild, did not unite the estranged father and son. When Rhaegar presented the girl at court, Queen Rhaella embraced her grandchild warmly, but Aerys refused to touch her, stating that ''"she smelled Dornish"''.{{ref|twoiaf| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Aerys grew brutal, capricious and increasingly fascinated with fire, especially the highly flammable substance known as [[wildfire]] which was said to be a cousin to dragonflame. By {{Date|280}}, Aerys had taken to using wildfire for executing alleged traitors, rather than hangings and beheadings. The pyromancers became a fixture at the king's court and Wisdom [[Rossart]], who carried out the executions, was eventually named to the [[small council]]. All the executions by fire aroused the king and, while he and his wife had slept in separate chambers for some years and avoided each other by day as well, Aerys would always claim his marriage rights after such an execution by fire, brutally abusing his wife in bed.{{Ref|aFfC|16}}

===Year of the False Spring===
When a place in the [[Kingsguard]] became available, after Ser [[Harlan Grandison]] died in his sleep, Aerys decided to appoint Lord Tywin Lannister's eldest (and [[Tyrion Lannister|only able-bodied]]) son [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] as the youngest knight ever to join the order. Tywin, and later his son Jaime, came to believe that Aerys had intended this not as an honor but a slight to [[House Lannister]], meant to deprive Tywin of his heir and allow Aerys to hold Jaime hostage for his father's loyalty. Unknown to Tywin, this scheme had originally been hatched by Tywin's very own daughter, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]], who had proposed the idea to King Aerys as she wished for Jaime to join the order as to prevent Tywin from betrothing him to [[Lysa Tully]], as Tywin and Lord [[Hoster Tully]] had been discussing.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}

Aerys had made his announcement during court, and Tywin had thanked him openly for the honour the king bestowed upon his House. In reality, he had been furious, and pleading illness, Tywin resign his position as Hand and returned to [[Casterly Rock]], with his daughter. Aerys accepted Tywin's resignation and appointed Lord [[Owen Merryweather]] as his replacement, an amiable but not especially competent old man whose main qualifications as [[Hand of the King|Hand]] were his willingness to throw lavish feasts and offer the king constant flattery. The young knight Jaime would officially join the Kingsguard in a ceremony at a later date.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

With Lord Tywin now gone from court, the new focus of Aerys' mistrust was his own son and heir Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], who had become wary of his father's behavior.{{Ref|aDwD|24}} At court there was growing tension between the factions loyal to the king and those loyal to his heir Prince Rhaegar. Aerys may have been mad and cruel to those he deemed his enemies, but he was lavish with wealth and titles to those who enjoyed his trust.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Those loyal to the king were [[Qarlton Chelsted]], the [[master of coin]], [[Lucerys Velaryon (master of ships)|Lucerys Velaryon]], the [[master of ships]], [[Symond Staunton]], the [[master of laws]], [[Varys]], the [[master of whisperers]], and Wisdom [[Rossart]]. All enjoyed the king's trust and at court held great power and they had learned how to twist the king's madness to their own benefit, they had good reason to oppose Aerys removal from the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II}}

Rhaegar's supporters were young Lord [[Jon Connington]], Ser [[Myles Mooton]], Ser [[Richard Lonmouth]], and the [[Dornishmen]] who accompanied him at court, including Princess [[Elia Martell|Elia's]] uncle, Prince [[Lewyn Martell]] of the [[Kingsguard]] and Ser [[Arthur Dayne]], the [[Sword of the Morning]] also of the Kingsguard and who was Rhaegar's dearest friend.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

It fell to [[Grand Maester]] [[Pycelle]] and the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Owen Merryweather]] the unenviable task of trying to keep the peace between the factions, Pycelle even dispatched a letter to the [[Citadel]] writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those before the [[Dance of the Dragons]], Pycelle was fearful of a civil war between those loyal to the king and those who supported the prince would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Lord [[Walter Whent]] announced a [[Tourney at Harrenhal|tourney]] would be held at [[Harrenhal]] in either {{Date|280}} or {{Date|281}}<ref>''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'' lists 280 AC in ''"The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II"'', but 281 AC in ''"The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring"''. It is unconfirmed which date is correct</ref> to rival any previous tournament. The tourney was to be held in {{Date|281}}. It is believed by some that the tournament was secretly arranged and financed by Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet up with the Great Lords of the realm to discuss arranging a [[Great Council]] and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Lord Whent shortly after his brother Ser [[Oswell Whent|Oswell]], of the [[Kingsguard]], visited his older brother.{{Ref|aDwD|67}}{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Aerys at first was counseled by Lord Chelsted to forbid the tourney, while Lord Staunton went as far to suggest the king should outlaw all tournaments. Lord Merryweather intervened by pointing out such events were extremely popular with the highborn and lowborn and that attempting to ban or outlaw tourneys would make King Aerys unpopular and strengthen Rhaegar. Aerys decided to attend the tournament, the first time he left the [[Red Keep]] since the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], he also decided that the tournament would be the perfect place to initiate Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] into the [[Kingsguard]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

Aerys also hoped his presence at the tourney would win back the love of his people. If that was his intention it backfired horrifically. Since the [[Defiance of Duskendale]], the king had not taken care of his appearance. His fear of blades meant he would not permit his hair to be cut, or his nails to be groomed. His hair and beard were unwashed, matted and tangled, and his nails were yellow and grew nine inches in length. His fear and paranoia of poison had made him thin and gaunt. The Lords and knights at the tourney were appalled at what their monarch had become. Nor was his behavior that of a sane man, going from mirth to melancholy at a snap of the fingers. His bouts of hysterical laughter, long silences, sudden rages and constant weeping made all present weary.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

In contrast, Prince Rhaegar looked every inch a leader and warrior. Tall, clean, handsome, well groomed, this Prince was unstoppable in the lists, winning bout after bout. The young Jaime Lannister said his vows before the king with the realm looking on, a cheer went up as the young handsome knight joined the [[Kingsguard]], a cheer that Aerys, at the time, believed to be for him.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

A [[mystery knight]], the [[Knight of the Laughing Tree]], competed in the tournament. Certain the knight had concealed his identity because he was an enemy of the crown, Aerys ordered Rhaegar to discover his identity, but the mystery knight could not be found. Prince Rhaegar went on to win the tournament, and shocked all those present by crowning [[Lyanna Stark]], rather than his wife, Princess [[Elia Martell]], his [[Queen of Love and Beauty]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

The next year, in {{Date|282}}, some time after the birth of Rhaegar's heir, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]], Prince Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, apparently having kidnapped her.{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}} Her eldest brother, [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]], rode to King's Landing with several friends when word of his sister's disappearance reached him. Upon arriving at the Red Keep, Brandon roared for Rhaegar to "come out and die." As it turned out, Rhaegar was not present – but Aerys was. The king had Brandon and his companions arrested on charges of conspiring against the life of the crown prince, demanding that their fathers present themselves at court to answer for their sons' crimes. When they did so, Aerys had them all executed without a fair trial. When Lord [[Rickard Stark]] demanded a [[trial by combat]], King Aerys chose fire as his champion. Lord Rickard was burned alive by wildfire as Brandon was forced to watch, strapped into a torture device that caused him to strangle himself in his attempts to save his father.{{Ref|ACOK|55}} His paranoia still unsatisfied, the king ordered Lord [[Jon Arryn]] to send him the heads of Lyanna's next brother, [[Eddard Stark]], now the Lord of [[Winterfell]], and Lyanna's fiancé, Lord [[Robert Baratheon]], who were present at the [[Eyrie]]. Arryn refused, and raised his banners in revolt.{{Ref|AGOT|2}} Thus, the king's brutal acts triggered a chain of events that would become known as the War of the Usurper to [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] loyalists and [[Robert's Rebellion]] to those who fought on the rebel side. [[House Arryn]], [[House Stark]] and [[House Baratheon]], and later on in the war also [[House Tully]], unified in rebellion against the [[Iron Throne]].{{ref|twoiaf| The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring}}

===Robert's Rebellion===
[[File:Mad King AerysJake Murray.png|King Aerys has a man burned to death. © FFG|thumb|300px]]
[[File:GoranGligovic mad king aerys.jpg|The Mad King enjoying a [[wildfire]] display. © Goran Gligovic|thumb|300px]]
:{{Main|Robert's Rebellion}}

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

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

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

Realizing this was the end, Aerys summoned Lord Rossart and Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], the last remaining Kingsguard knight. Aerys had retained Jaime throughout the war to ensure Tywin's loyalty, though up until that point [[House Lannister]] had been neutral in the rebellion. Jaime would later remark upon the irony of the Mad King's belief that he could not be harmed if he kept Jaime close. Aerys commanded Jaime to kill his father, then gave Rossart the long-awaited order to ignite the wildfire caches and burn the city to the ground.{{ref|ASOS|37}}

Jaime later suggested that much like his mad great-uncle [[Aerion Targaryen|Aerion the Monstrous]] before him, Aerys held the delusional belief that he would not die in the inferno, but rather would be transformed by the flames into a [[dragon]], giving him the power to crush his enemies. However, before the plot could be carried out, Jaime slew Lord Rossart and then King Aerys, preventing the orders from reaching anyone else and thus saving the entire population of King's Landing, while earning himself the epithet [[Kingslayer]]. Robert Baratheon claimed the Iron Throne, and the reign of the Targaryen dynasty was ended.{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Small Council under Aerys II==
During the reign of King Aerys his [[small council]] had the following known members:

{| class=wikitable width=60%i
!Office
!Duration
!Name
|-
| rowspan="5"| '''[[Hand of the King]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|281}}
| Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]
|-
| {{Date|281}} - {{Date|282}}
| Lord [[Owen Merryweather]]
|-
| {{Date|282}} - {{Date|283}}
| Lord [[Jon Connington]]
|-
| {{Date|283}} - {{Date|283}}
| Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]]
|-
| {{Date|283}} - {{Date|283}}
| Wisdom [[Rossart]]
|-
| '''[[Maester|Grandmaester]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|283}}
| [[Pycelle]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Coin]]'''
| Unknown
| Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Laws]]'''
| Unknown
| [[Symond Staunton]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Ships]]'''
| Unknown - Unknown
| [[Lucerys Velaryon (Master of Ships)|Lucerys Velaryon]]
|-
| '''[[Master of Whisperers]]'''
| ±{{Date|278}} - {{Date|283}}
| [[Varys]]
|-
| '''[[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]]'''
| {{Date|262}} - {{Date|283}}
| Ser [[Gerold Hightower]]
|}

==Quotes by Aerys==
{{Quote|The traitors want [[King's Landing|my city]] ... but I’ll give them naught but ashes. Let [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] be king over charred bones and cooked meat.{{ref|ASOS|37}}}}

{{Quote|I want [[Tywin Lannister|him]] dead, the traitor. I want his head, you’ll bring me his head, or you’ll burn with all the rest. All the traitors.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}}} – Aerys, to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|You are my most able servant, Tywin, but a man does not marry [[Rhaegar Targaryen|his heir]] to [[Cersei Lannister|his servant's daughter]].{{Ref|AFFC|24}}}} – Aerys, to [[Tywin Lannister]]

==Quotes about Aerys==
{{Quote|Aerys was dead on the floor, drowned in his own blood. His dragon skulls stared down from the walls. [[Tywin Lannister|Lannister’s]] men were everywhere. [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] wore the white cloak of the [[Kingsguard]] over his golden armor. I can see him still. Even his sword was gilded. He was seated on the [[Iron Throne]], high above his knights, wearing a helm fashioned in the shape of a lion’s head. How he glittered!{{Ref|agot|12}}}} – [[Eddard Stark]], to [[Robert Baratheon]]

{{Quote|Aerys was mad, the whole realm knew it.{{Ref|aCoK|55}}}} – [[Catelyn Stark]], to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that.{{Ref|aSoS|11}}}} – [[Brienne of Tarth|Brienne]], to [[Jaime Lannister]]

{{Quote|A crowned beast.{{ref|AFFC|16}}}} – [[Jaime Lannister]]'s thoughts

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
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==External Links==
* [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Aerys_II_Targaryen Aerys II Targaryen] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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| father = [[Aegon V Targaryen]]
| mother = [[Betha Blackwood]]
| dateofbirth = {{Date|225}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued)#Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys II Targaryen]] calculation.''</ref>
| placeofbirth = [[King's Landing]]{{Ref|AWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}}
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'''Jaehaerys II Targaryen''' was king of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and the sixteenth [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] to sit the [[Iron Throne]]. He was the second born son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] and Queen [[Betha Blackwood]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}} Jaehaerys was the father of [[Aerys II Targaryen]] and the grandfather of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]].

==Appearance and Character==
Jaehaerys was sickly looking, pale and frail with large [[purple eyes]] and shoulder length hair. He wore his grandfather [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]]'s crown. He suffered from numerous ailments throughout his life.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}} An amiable and clever, yet sickly man, Jaehaerys died at the young age of thirty-seven.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1274/ Archon Meeting (October 5-7)], October 05, 2001</ref><ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_Kings/Archived Targaryen Kings], November 01, 2005</ref>

==History==
===Early Life===
Jaehaerys's father, King [[Aegon V Targaryen]], had developed a deep distaste for the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] practice of incestuous marriages and was determined to end the custom. Thus, in {{Date|237}}, Jaehaerys was betrothed to [[Celia Tully]], the daughter of the Lord of Riverrun. However, from a young age, Jaehaerys had been of a more traditional frame of mind, as he was in love with his sister, Princess [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. Shaera, in turn, desired him. King Aegon V and Queen [[Betha Blackwood|Betha]] observed this and were alerted because of it. They did everything they could to separate the two siblings, yet this only served to inflame their passion.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}}

While Jaehaerys had been betrothed to Celia Tully, Princess Shaera had been betrothed in {{Date|237}} to [[Luthor Tyrell]], the heir to [[Highgarden]].{{Ref|twoiaf| Aegon V}} When Jaehaerys's and Shaera's elder brother, Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], broke his betrothal to the daughter of Lord [[Lyonel Baratheon]] in {{Date|239}} and married a common born girl known as [[Jenny of Oldstones]], Prince Jaehaerys and Princess Shaera took note. Duncan was forced to choose between the [[Iron Throne]] and his position as heir to the throne, and his new bride. King Aegon V, in the end, relented, though Duncan was excluded from the line of succession.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}}

Thus, in {{Date|240}}, Jaehaerys and Shaera followed in Duncan's footsteps. They eluded their guardians, and secretly wed and consummated the marriage. Aegon despaired over this, but felt he had no choice, as the marriage had been consummated. He was forced to relent to his children's wishes, while at the same time dealing with the anger and wounded pride of both [[House Tully]] and [[House Tyrell]].{{Ref|twoiaf| Aegon V}}

Following their example, the younger brother of Duncan and Jaehaerys, Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Aegon V)|Daeron Targaryen]], would later also break his betrothal, meaning all sons of King Aegon V married for love, which the king had only agreed to because he himself had been allowed to do so.{{Ref|ADWD|67}}

In {{date|244}} Jaehaerys and Shaera had their first child, a son who they named [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]]. A daughter, [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], followed within the next two years.<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II Targaryen]] and [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella Targaryen]] calculations.''</ref>

While Jaehaerys himself had married for love, he later commanded his son, Prince [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]], and daughter, Princess [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], to marry each other, despite neither desiring this match. A [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]], brought to court by [[Jenny of Oldstones]], prophesied that the [[prince that was promised]] would be born from their line.{{ref|ADWD|23}} Whilst King Aegon V was frustrated by Jaehaerys's decision, he let his son have his way.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}} The firstborn child of Aerys and Rhaella, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], was born in the year {{Date|259}}, on the same day that the [[Tragedy at Summerhall]] took place, a tragedy which killed multiple members of House Targaryen, including King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] and his eldest son, [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaegar Targaryen}}

===Reign===
Jaehaerys ascended the throne at the age of thirty-four. Despite his young age, his reign would be short, lasting only three years.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} [[Dalbridge]], who would later join the [[Night's Watch]], served as a squire to Jaehaerys II in his youth.{{ref|AWOIAF| Dalbridge}}{{Ref|ACOK|56}}

The most notable event that occured in his reign was the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]. The conflict had been brewing for some time.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}} The [[Band of Nine]] seized the [[Stepstones]] and Jaehaerys feared they would use the islands as a base of operation to launch a war on the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Despite being the least martial of Aegon V's sons, he proved capable of defending realm from the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyre]] pretender [[Maelys I Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]].{{ref|AWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} Wanting to end the Blackfyre threat once and for all, Jaehaerys assembled the armies of the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} Jaehaerys wanted to command the attack against Maelys himself, but his [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Ormund Baratheon]], counselled the king to remain at [[King's Landing]] with Queen [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. Instead, Lord Ormund led the attack himself. In {{Date|260}}, the Targaryen armies landed on three of the Stepstones and the war lasted for most of that year.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} In the end, it was a young knight, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who slew Maelys in single combat.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}}{{Ref|ADWD|55}}{{Ref|ASOS|67}} With Maelys dead, the rest of the Band of Nine lost interest in [[Westeros]] and fell back to their own domains.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}}

Due to his delicate health, Jaehaerys was considered weak by many, but Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], whom he raised to the [[Kingsguard]],{{ref|ADWD|55}} thought differently. Jaehaerys's reign only lasted three years, but he reigned well in those short years. He proved a capable king, restoring order to the kingdom, ending the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyre]] threat and reconciling many of the Great Houses who had grown unhappy with his fathers' reign.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}} In {{Date|262}}, after barely three years on the throne, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen died after a short illness, complaining of a sudden shortness of breath, at the age of thirty-seven.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Arstan Whitebeard]] mentions Jaehaerys to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. Dany is struck by the realisation that Arstan knew her grandfather and will be able to tell her about [[House Targaryen|her family]], the people she comes from. Arstan also tells her of the latent [[Targaryen madness|madness]] in her family and that Jaehaerys once told him that madness and greatness were two sides of the same coin.{{ref|asos|71}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
In [[Meereen]] Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] reveals to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that her grandsire, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen, arranged the marriage between her parents, Prince [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]] and Princess [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]].

After Daenerys's disappearance Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] thinks to himself that it is his failures that haunt him at night, one of which is King Jaehaerys, whom he feels he failed, as he had stood in his white cloak beside the [[Iron Throne]] as madness consumed Jaehaerys’s son Aerys. Ser Barristan recalls that he stood, and saw, and heard, and yet did nothing.

In the [[Audience chamber (Great Pyramid)|Great Pyramid's audience chamber]], when Admiral [[Groleo]]'s severed head is presented to King [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]], Ser Barristan glances toward the throne, having served so many kings he cannot help but imagine how they might have reacted to this provocation, he thinks that even Jaehaerys, reckoned weak by many, would have ordered the arrest of [[Bloodbeard]] and the Yunkish slavers.{{Ref|aDwD|59}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|King Jaehaerys once told me that [[Targaryen madness|madness]] and greatness were two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}}} - [[Barristan Selmy]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

{{Quote|Jaehaerys. [[Barristan Selmy|This old man]] knew my grandfather.{{Ref|asos|71}}}} - thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

==Family==
{{Targaryen_tree_now}}

==References==
{{references|3}}

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Jaehaerys II Targaryen

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| mother = [[Betha Blackwood]]
| dateofbirth = {{Date|225}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued)#Jaehaerys II Targaryen|Jaehaerys II Targaryen]] calculation.''</ref>
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'''Jaehaerys II Targaryen''' was king of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and the sixteenth [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] to sit the [[Iron Throne]]. He was the second born son of King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] and Queen [[Betha Blackwood]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Appendix: Targaryen Lineage}} Jaehaerys was the father of [[Aerys II Targaryen]] and the grandfather of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]].

==Appearance and Character==
Jaehaerys was sickly looking, pale and frail with large [[purple eyes]] and shoulder length hair. He wore his grandfather [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]]'s crown. He suffered from numerous ailments throughout his life.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}} An amiable and clever, yet sickly man, Jaehaerys died at the young age of thirty-seven.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1274/ Archon Meeting (October 5-7)], October 05, 2001</ref><ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Targaryen_Kings/Archived Targaryen Kings], November 01, 2005</ref>

==History==
===Early Life===
Jaehaerys's father, King [[Aegon V Targaryen]], had developed a deep distaste for the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] practice of incestuous marriages and was determined to end the custom. Thus, in {{Date|237}}, Jaehaerys was betrothed to [[Celia Tully]], the daughter of the Lord of Riverrun. However, from a young age, Jaehaerys had been of a more traditional frame of mind, as he was in love with his sister, Princess [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. Shaera, in turn, desired him. King Aegon V and Queen [[Betha Blackwood|Betha]] observed this and were alerted because of it. They did everything they could to separate the two siblings, yet this only served to inflame their passion.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}}

While Jaehaerys had been betrothed to Celia Tully, Princess Shaera had been betrothed in {{Date|237}} to [[Luthor Tyrell]], the heir to [[Highgarden]].{{Ref|twoiaf| Aegon V}} When Jaehaerys's and Shaera's elder brother, Prince [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]], broke his betrothal to the daughter of Lord [[Lyonel Baratheon]] in {{Date|239}} and married a common born girl known as [[Jenny of Oldstones]], Prince Jaehaerys and Princess Shaera took note. Duncan was forced to choose between the [[Iron Throne]] and his position as heir to the throne, and his new bride. King Aegon V, in the end, relented, though Duncan was excluded from the line of succession.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}}

Thus, in {{Date|240}}, Jaehaerys and Shaera followed in Duncan's footsteps. They eluded their guardians, and secretly wed and consummated the marriage. Aegon despaired over this, but felt he had no choice, as the marriage had been consummated. He was forced to relent to his children's wishes, while at the same time dealing with the anger and wounded pride of both [[House Tully]] and [[House Tyrell]].{{Ref|twoiaf| Aegon V}}

Following their example, the younger brother of Duncan and Jaehaerys, Prince [[Daeron Targaryen (son of Aegon V)|Daeron Targaryen]], would later also break his betrothal, meaning all sons of King Aegon V married for love, which the king had only agreed to because he himself had been allowed to do so.{{Ref|ADWD|67}}

In {{date|244}} Jaehaerys and Shaera had their first child, a son who they named [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]]. A daughter, [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], followed within the next two years.<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages#Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II Targaryen]] and [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella Targaryen]] calculations.''</ref>

While Jaehaerys himself had married for love, he later commanded his son, Prince [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]], and daughter, Princess [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], to marry each other, despite neither desiring this match. A [[Ghost of High Heart|woods witch]], brought to court by [[Jenny of Oldstones]], prophesied that the [[prince that was promised]] would be born from their line.{{ref|ADWD|23}} Whilst King Aegon V was frustrated by Jaehaerys's decision, he let his son have his way.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}} The firstborn child of Aerys and Rhaella, Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]], was born in the year {{Date|259}}, on the same day that the [[Tragedy at Summerhall]] took place, a tragedy which killed multiple members of House Targaryen, including King [[Aegon V Targaryen]] and his eldest son, [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]].{{Ref|AWOIAF| Rhaegar Targaryen}}

===Reign===
Jaehaerys ascended the throne at the age of thirty-four. Despite his young age, his reign would be short, lasting only three years.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} [[Dalbridge]], who would later join the [[Night's Watch]], served as a squire to Jaehaerys II in his youth.{{ref|AWOIAF| Dalbridge}}{{Ref|ACOK|56}}

The most notable event that occured in his reign was the [[War of the Ninepenny Kings]]. The conflict had been brewing for some time.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Aegon V}} The [[Band of Nine]] seized the [[Stepstones]] and Jaehaerys feared they would use the islands as a base of operation to launch a war on the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Despite being the least martial of Aegon V's sons, he proved capable of defending realm from the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyre]] pretender [[Maelys I Blackfyre|Maelys the Monstrous]].{{ref|AWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} Wanting to end the Blackfyre threat once and for all, Jaehaerys assembled the armies of the [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} Jaehaerys wanted to command the attack against Maelys himself, but his [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Ormund Baratheon]], counselled the king to remain at [[King's Landing]] with Queen [[Shaera Targaryen|Shaera]]. Instead, Lord Ormund led the attack himself. In {{Date|260}}, the Targaryen armies landed on three of the Stepstones and the war lasted for most of that year.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}} In the end, it was a young knight, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], who slew Maelys in single combat.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}}{{Ref|ADWD|55}}{{Ref|ASOS|67}} With Maelys dead, the rest of the Band of Nine lost interest in [[Westeros]] and fell back to their own domains.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}}

Due to his delicate health, Jaehaerys was considered weak by many, but Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], whom he raised to the [[Kingsguard]],{{ref|ADWD|55}} thought differently. Jaehaerys's reign only lasted three years, but he reigned well in those short years. He proved a capable king, restoring order to the kingdom, ending the [[House Blackfyre|Blackfyre]] threat and reconciling many of the Great Houses who had grown unhappy with his fathers' reign.{{ref|twoiaf| Jaehaerys II}} In {{Date|262}}, after barely three years on the throne, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen died after a short illness, complaining of a sudden shortness of breath, at the age of thirty-seven.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Jaehaerys II}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Arstan Whitebeard]] mentions Jaehaerys to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. Dany is struck by the realisation that Arstan knew her grandfather and will be able to tell her about [[House Targaryen|her family]], the people she comes from. Arstan also tells her of the latent [[Targaryen madness|madness]] in her family and that Jaehaerys once told him that madness and greatness were two sides of the same coin.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
In [[Meereen]] Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] reveals to [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] that her grandsire, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen, arranged the marriage between her parents, Prince [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys II]] and Princess [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]].

After Daenerys's disappearance Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] thinks to himself that it is his failures that haunt him at night, one of which is King Jaehaerys, whom he feels he failed, as he had stood in his white cloak beside the [[Iron Throne]] as madness consumed Jaehaerys’s son Aerys. Ser Barristan recalls that he stood, and saw, and heard, and yet did nothing.

In the [[Audience chamber (Great Pyramid)|Great Pyramid's audience chamber]], when Admiral [[Groleo]]'s severed head is presented to King [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]], Ser Barristan glances toward the throne, having served so many kings he cannot help but imagine how they might have reacted to this provocation, he thinks that even Jaehaerys, reckoned weak by many, would have ordered the arrest of [[Bloodbeard]] and the Yunkish slavers.{{Ref|aDwD|59}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|King Jaehaerys once told me that [[Targaryen madness|madness]] and greatness were two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}}} - [[Barristan Selmy]] to [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

{{Quote|Jaehaerys. [[Barristan Selmy|This old man]] knew my grandfather.{{Ref|asos|71}}}} - thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]

==Family==
{{Targaryen_tree_now}}

==References==
{{references|3}}

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The Maester's Path

2016-05-23T19:30:59Z

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'''The Maester's Path''' is a viral marketing campaign and cryptic online game created by ''HBO'' to help market [[Game of Thrones]]. In early 2011, select bloggers and critics received a medieval themed box in the mail that included genre and setting items such as scrolls, spices, and maps. The items in this crate could then be used to piece together clues for the online game, hosted at [http://www.themaesterspath.com/ themaesterspath.com].

[[File:MaestersPathCrate.JPG|thumb|400 px|right|The Mailed Crate with Contents]]

The browser-based game puts the player on a quest to forge their [[Maesters|maester]] chain by showcasing their knowledge of different setting-based items. The player may earn up to five links in their chain, one each for taste ''(potions and poisons)'', scent ''(spices)'', hearing ''(listening and learning)'', seasons, and learning about the [[Night's Watch]] by taking the black.

==External links==
*[http://www.themaesterspath.com/ Official Site]
*[http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/the-maesters-path-begins/ Winter-is-Coming.net Blog Post]
{{TV Series}}
[[Category:Game of Thrones (TV series)]][[fr:The Maester's Path]]

The Maester's Path

2016-05-23T19:30:49Z

Rufion: /* External Links */

'''The Maester's Path''' is a viral marketing campaign and cryptic online game created by ''HBO'' to help market [[Game of Thrones]]. In early 2011, select bloggers and critics received a medieval themed box in the mail that included genre and setting items such as scrolls, spices, and maps. The items in this crate could then be used to piece together clues for the online game, hosted at [http://www.themaesterspath.com/ themaesterspath.com].

[[File:MaestersPathCrate.JPG|thumb|400 px|right|The Mailed Crate with Contents]]

The browser-based game puts the player on a quest to forge their [[Maesters|maester]] chain by showcasing their knowledge of different setting-based items. The player may earn up to five links in their chain, one each for taste ''(potions and poisons)'', scent ''(spices)'', hearing ''(listening and learning)'', seasons, and learning about the [[Night's Watch]] by taking the black.

==External links==
*[http://www.themaesterspath.com/ Official Site]
*[http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/the-maesters-path-begins/ Winter-is-Coming.net Blog Post]
{{TV series}}
[[Category:Game of Thrones (TV series)]][[fr:The Maester's Path]]

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Others

2016-05-23T19:26:17Z

Rufion: /* Game of Thrones */

[[File:Marc Simonetti an Other ice sword.jpg|Blue-eyed Other gripping the pommel of a crystal sword - by Marc Simonetti © |thumb|400px|right]]
[[File:John_Picacio_the_Others.jpg‎| The Others ‎- © 2012 John Picacio|thumb|350px|right]]

The '''Others''', also known as '''white walkers''', are a species of humanoid beings that exist in the north [[beyond the Wall]]. At the start of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the Others have supposedly not been seen for eight thousand years.

==History==
: {{See also|The Long Night|Night's Watch}}

According to legend, the Others first appeared approximately 8,000 years before the [[War of Conquest]], during a winter that lasted a generation and a period of darkness known as [[the Long Night]]. Eventually they were defeated, supposedly by the [[Night's Watch]] in the [[Battle for the Dawn]], and [[the Wall]] may have been raised as a defense against them.

The [[Night's King]] appears to have married a white walker, but the Others have not been heard of again since his defeat. They are regarded south of the [[Wall]] as nothing more than fairy tales to frighten the little children. They are often mentioned in curses, such as "The Others take his eyes."{{ref|AGOT|1}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Waymar Others.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Waymar Royce]] discovers the Others - by Amok ©]]
During a ranging [[beyond the Wall]], Ser [[Waymar Royce]] is slain by Others. He then rises as a [[wight]] and kills [[Will]].{{ref|AGOT|Prologue}} [[Gared]] is able to escape and flee south of the [[Wall]], but he is executed for desertion by Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{ref|AGOT|1}}

Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]], in conversation with [[Tyrion Lannister]] at [[Castle Black]], refers to white walkers being glimpsed by fisherfolk on the shore near [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]], with little concern. He does not say whether they were glimpsed on the shore north of the Wall or the shore south of it. Tyrion, unable to hold his tongue at the mention of white walkers, replies that fisherfolk of [[Lannisport]] often glimpse [[merling]]s.{{Ref|aGoT|21}} The conversation then moves to the movements of the [[wildlings]] which they consider a more pressing concern.

===''A Clash of Kings''===
At [[Craster's Keep]], [[Gilly]] tells [[Jon Snow]] that [[Craster]] gives up his infant sons to the cold gods; Jon determines she is speaking of the Others.{{ref|ACOK|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The brothers of the [[Night's Watch]] are attacked by [[wights]] in the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]].{{ref|ASOS|Prologue}} During the retreat back to Craster's home, [[Samwell Tarly]] kills an Other with a [[dragonglass]] dagger in the [[haunted forest]].{{ref|ASOS|18}} During the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep]], one of Craster's wives warns Sam that Craster's sons will soon arrive for [[monster|Gilly's newborn]].{{ref|ASOS|33}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]] and [[Tormund Giantsbane]] discuss their foe, the Others. Jon asks if the Others troubled the wildlings on their march to the Wall. Tormund informs him that they never came in force, but they were with them all the way.

==Characteristics==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Others|Images of the Others]]''
[[File:White walkers by reneaigner.jpg|thumb|300px|Other or white walker. Art by Rene Aigner©]]
The Others appear in ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' as tall and gaunt with flesh pale as milk.{{ref|AGOT|0}} In ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' [[Gilly]] tells [[Jon Snow]] they have cold blue eyes bright as blue stars.{{ref|aCoK|23}} The [[Night's King]]'s corpse queen is similarly described as having skin as pale as the moon and eyes like blue stars.{{ref|ASOS|56}} [[Old Nan]] declares them to be cold dead things, hating all life.{{ref|AGOT|24}}

In an email to the comic book artist Tommy Patterson, [[George R. R. Martin]] wrote
{{Quote|The Others are not dead. They are strange, beautiful… think, oh… the [[w:Sidhe|Sidhe]] made of ice, something like that… a different sort of life… inhuman, elegant, dangerous.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=i_SorqUvsOEC&lpg=PT203&ots=5oK3EkTd8Y&pg=PT203#v=onepage&q&f=false A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1]</ref>}}
They wear reflective armour that shifts in colour with every step - rather like the stealth armour once said to have been worn by the [[children of the forest]].
According to Patterson,
{{Quote|Had many talks with George. He told me of the ice swords, and the reflective, camouflaging armor that picks up the images of the things around it like a clear, still pond. He spoke a lot about what they were not, but what they were was harder to put into words.}}
The Others appear to be superior swordsmen, wielding thin crystal swords said to be so cold as to shatter any object they touch, including the steel blades favoured by the [[Night's Watch]].{{Ref|aGoT|Prologue}} The sword of the Other that Samwell Tarly slays gleams with a faint blue glow. When the ice blue blade brushes the flames of [[Grenn]]'s torch a screech as sharp as a needle stabs Sam's ears.
When asked if he knows what substance an Other sword is made from Martin answered,
{{Quote|Ice. But not like regular old ice. The Others can do things with ice that we can't imagine and make substances of it.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20051103091500/nrctc.edu/fhq/vol1iss3/00103009.htm/ "Interview with the Dragon" Copyright © 2003 Robert Shaw.]</ref>}}

The Others go lightly on the snow and leave no prints to mark their passage. Their movements can be lighting quick. Their [[languages|language]] is unknown, although readers have speculated that it may be the [[Old Tongue]]. When one speaks in the prologue his voice is said to sound like the cracking of ice, but this may simply have been a figure of speech. The [[wildlings]] believe the Others and their wights can smell life, or rather its warmth. [[Old Nan]] used to say that there were wildlings that would lay with the Others to birth half-human children.{{ref|aGoT|1}}{{ref|aCoK|23}}

The old stories reveal uncertainty whether the Others come when it is cold or that it becomes cold when they appear, during snowstorms or mist and melt away when the skies clear. They hide from the light of the sun and emerge at night; although once again some stories claim that their coming brings the night.

There are tales of Others riding the corpses of dead animals such as bears, direwolves, mammoths, and horses. The Other that [[Samwell Tarly]] slays is riding [[Mawney]]’s dead horse. Hoarfrost covers it like a sheen of frozen sweat, and a nest of stiff black entrails drag from its open belly. On its back is a rider as pale as ice. The Others can be accompanied by "[[giant ice spiders]]" as big as hounds.{{ref|AFFC|5}}

[[Melisandre]] thinks that Others are servants of the [[Great Other]], allegedly an evil god of darkness, cold, and death who wages eternal war against [[R'hllor]].

As the wildlings are passing through [[the Wall]] to settle on the [[Gift]], Lord Commander of the Night's Watch [[Jon Snow]] asks [[Tormund Giantsbane]] to tell him of their foe, the Others. He tells him he wants to know all there is to know of the Others.

Tormund is plainly uncomfortable with the mention of the Others; he tells Jon that he does not want to discuss them, not here, not on the northern side of the Wall. He then glances uneasily towards the trees in their snowy white mantles. He says to Jon:
{{Quote|They’re never far, you know. They won’t come out by day, not when that old sun’s shining, but don’t think that means they went away. Shadows never go away. Might be you don’t see them, but they’re always clinging to your heels. {{Ref|ADWD|58}}}}
Jon asks if the Others troubled the wildlings on their way to the Wall.
Tormund informs him that they never came in force, if that’s what Jon is meaning, but they were with them all the same, nibbling at their edges. They lost more outriders than he cares to think about, and it was worth your life to fall behind or wander off. Every nightfall they would ring their camps with fire. Tormund says they don’t like fire much:
{{Quote|When the snows came though…snow and sleet and freezing rain, its bloody hard to find dry wood or get your kindling lit, and the cold…some nights our fires just seemed to shrivel up and die. Nights like that, you always find some dead come the morning. ‘Less they find you first.{{Ref|ADWD|58}}}}
He says to Jon:
{{Quote|A man can fight the dead, but when their masters come, when the white mists rise up … how do you fights a mist crow? Shadows with teeth … air so cold it hurts to breath, like a knife inside your chest … you do not know, you cannot know … can your sword cut cold? {{Ref|ADWD|58}}}}

==Weakness==
[[File:Samwell Dragonglass.jpg|400px|thumb|[[Samwell Tarly]] with an obsidian dagger - by Amok ©]]
The Others have a few known weaknesses that are recorded in ancient texts. One is obsidian, otherwise called [[dragonglass]] or "frozen fire". When [[Samwell Tarly]] accidentally stabs an Other with an obsidian dagger, its flesh and bones melt away leaving only an icy puddle. Ancient texts also record a weakness to "dragonsteel", which several have taken to be [[Valyrian steel]]. [[Mance Rayder]] expresses belief that magic wards in the [[Wall]] prevent the Others from crossing into the Seven Kingdoms.

After listening to [[Tormund]]’s words [[Jon Snow]] remembers all the things that Sam had told him, the things he’d found in his old books. He thinks to himself that [[Longclaw]] had been forged in the fires of old Valyria, forged in dragonflame and set with spells. ''Dragonsteel'', Sam had called it. Stronger than any common steel, lighter, harder, sharper … But he thinks that words in a book were one thing. He knows that the true test comes in battle.

==Wights==
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[[Wights]] are dead men or creatures raised up by the Others, seemingly when touched by the cold that accompanies them. {{Ref|aGoT|52}} They are thralls to the Others. Men who fall in battle against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.

==''Game of Thrones''==
[[File:Other HBO WhiteWalker.jpg|thumb|300px|White Walker as depicted in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'']]

The Others are known only as '''White Walkers''' in the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. Unlike the strange beauty Martin describes them as having in the book series, they are depicted with frightening, emaciated appearances. They also lack the camouflage armor from the books; most wear little armor, and whatever protection they do wear is black. Their spoken language is called [[Skroth]], which resembles the cracking of ice.

While "the Others" appears in early drafts of the pilot episode's script, "White Walkers" was ultimately settled upon for the final version of the TV series. In the audio commentary for "[[Winter Is Coming]]", producers [[David Benioff]] and [[D. B. Weiss]] explained that the change was made to avoid confusion that may arise between references to the race known as the Others and "others" meaning other groups or people within the show. Benioff and Weiss explain:

{{Quote|We call them White Walkers in the show, more often known as the Others in the books and the reason for the change is simply that people would refer to 'the Others' and viewers who didn't know the books would think: 'Which others are we talking about? The other whats?'}}

Moreover, the episode "[[Oathkeeper (TV)|Oathkeeper]]" give two major revelations about the White Walkers that have not been featured in the novels so far:

The fate of Craster's sons is revealed when a White Walker riding an undead horse takes the last son of Craster and carries him towards a shattered mountain in the [[Lands of Always Winter]]. Once inside, the White Walker approaches an icy altar ringed by large icy spikes and places the baby upon the altar. In the distance, a group of thirteen black-garbed White Walkers are revealed to be viewing the proceedings from afar. One of them breaks from the middle of their number and approaches the altar, stopping to regard the human child for a moment before gently gathering him in its arms. The baby immediately calms, staring into the face of the White Walker. It places its index finger upon the baby's cheek, causing the child's eyes to slow turn to icy, depthless blue and his skin to grow pale, transforming him into another White Walker.

In the novels as of ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', there has been no evidence so far on what actually happens to the babies, though [[Craster's wives]] believe that the baby boys given by Craster to the Others are, in turn, transformed into new Others. Old Nan's tale's simply state that the Others feed human children to the wights.

Another revelation is the White Walker's master, the one who transformed the baby. He and his ilk differ in appearance from regular White Walkers in that they wear black armor, and he is revealed to also have bone-white skin—as opposed to grey—and a ring of small horns atop his skull that form a natural crown. Whether or not he is their master or simply one of the collective group remains to be seen, yet he appears to hold a position of particular importance amongst their number, being the only ruling White Walker of the thirteen shown to approach the altar. The specifics of the power to change humans into White Walkers, and if it is unique to this White Walker, are as yet unknown. This [[Night King]] then leads the attack against the [[free folk]] in the episode "[[Hardhome (TV)|Hardhome]]".

The synopsis for "Oathkeeper" on the HBO Viewer's Guide originally listed this specific character as the [[Night's King]], a legendary figure that has been mentioned a few times in the novels, though this was later removed. It is unknown whether this was due to an error in identification or the fact that this would be a major spoiler.

In the novels, there has not yet been any mention of the Others having a leader or any kind of hierarchy.

Further, in the episode "[[The Door]]", Bran sees a vision of the [[Children of the Forest]] creating an Other from a captured [[First Man]] as a defense against the invasion of the First Men.

==Quotes==
{{Quote|The Others are as dead as the [[children of the forest]], gone eight thousand years. Maester [[Luwin]] will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one.{{Ref|aGoT|2}}}} – [[Eddard Stark]], to [[Catelyn Stark]]

{{Quote|If the Others ever come for us, I pray they have archers, because you lot are fit for nothing more than arrow fodder.{{Ref|aGoT|19}}}} – [[Alliser Thorne]], to the Night's Watch recruits

{{Quote|The Others are only a story, a tale to make children shiver. If they ever lived at all, they are gone eight thousand years.{{Ref|agot|52}}}} – [[Jon Snow]]'s thoughts

{{quote|The cold gods. The ones in the night. The white shadows.{{ref|ACOK|23}}}} – [[Gilly]], to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|'''Melisandre''': Necromancy animates these [[wights]], yet they are still only dead flesh. Steel and fire will serve for them. The ones you call the Others are something more. '''Stannis''': Demons made of snow and ice and cold. The ancient enemy. The only enemy that matters.{{Ref|aSoS|78}}}} – [[Melisandre]] and [[Stannis Baratheon]], to [[Samwell Tarly]]

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Bastard Letter

2016-05-16T18:43:01Z

Rufion: /* Theories */

'''Bastard Letter''' and '''Pink Letter''' are fan-given names for a letter purportedly written by [[Ramsay Bolton]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
The letter is delivered to Lord Commander [[Jon Snow]] by the steward [[Clydas]] at [[Castle Black]]. It is addressed to "[[Bastardy|Bastard]]" and is sealed with pink sealing wax, which is used by [[House Bolton]]. The letter states:
{{Quote|Your [[Stannis|false king]] is dead, bastard. He and all his host were smashed in seven days of battle. I have his [[Lightbringer|magic sword]]. Tell his [[Melisandre|red whore]].

Your false king's friends are dead. Their heads upon the walls of [[Winterfell]]. Come see them, bastard. Your false king lied, and so did you. You told the world you burned the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]. Instead you sent him to Winterfell to steal [[Jeyne Poole|my bride]] from me.

I will have my bride back. If you want [[Mance Rayder]] back, come and get him. I have him in a cage for all the [[north]] to see, proof of your lies. The cage is cold, but I have made him a warm cloak from the skins of the [[spearwife|six whores]] who came with him to Winterfell.

I want my bride back. I want the false king's [[Selyse Florent|queen]]. I want his [[Shireen Baratheon|daughter]] and his red witch. I want this [[Val|wildling princess]]. I want his [[Monster|little prince]], the wildling babe. And I want my [[Theon Greyjoy|Reek]]. Send them to me, bastard, and I will not trouble you or your [[Night's Watch|black crows]]. Keep them from me, and I will cut out your bastard's heart and eat it.

[[Ramsay Bolton]],
Trueborn Lord of Winterfell.}}

Jon reads the letter to the illiterate [[Tormund]], who is skeptical of its contents. Convinced some of the letter is accurate, Jon announces in the [[Shieldhall]] he will march to Winterfell, which leads many [[free folk]] to volunteer to accompany him. After leaving the hall, however, Jon is stabbed in the [[mutiny at Castle Black]].{{ref|ADWD|69}}

==Theories==

*[[Bastard Letter/Theories]]

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Shireen Baratheon

2015-05-05T12:27:24Z

Rufion: /* A Dance with Dragons */

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'''Shireen Baratheon''' is the daughter and only child of Lord [[Stannis Baratheon]] and Lady [[Selyse Florent]].{{ref|agot|appendix}}

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Shireen Baratheon|Images of Shireen Baratheon]]''
Shireen is regarded as a sweet child, but she is not considered very pretty. She has blue eyes, but inherited both her father's square, jutting jaw and her mother's large ears.{{Ref|aSoS|54}} [[Greyscale]] has left half of her left cheek and most of her neck covered in cracked and flaking, gray and black skin, which is stony to the touch. When introduced to [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] she is nine years old.{{Ref|aCoK|Prologue}}

==History==
When Shireen was an infant, she suffered from [[greyscale]]. The disease almost killed her, and left her disfigured.{{Ref|aCoK|Prologue}}

As the daughter and heir of Stannis, Shireen resides in [[Dragonstone]] and is educated by Maester [[Cressen]]. She is usually seen in the company of [[Patchface]], their mad, broken fool she calls "Patches", though his ravings sometimes frighten her.{{Ref|aCoK|Prologue}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Patchface.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Shireen playing with [[Patchface|Patches]] - by M.Luisa Giliberti ©]]
Shireen is on [[Dragonstone]] with her father and mother. Maester [[Cressen]] pities the sad looking child.
[[File:Sara Biddle Shireen BaratheonII.png|300px|thumb|Princess Shireen - by Sara Biddle ©]]
In retaliation for Stannis writing a letter to the lords of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] informing them that [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon]] are the offspring of incest between [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister]], the [[small council]] under [[Tyrion Lannister]] discusses schemes to spread rumors that Shireen is not Stannis's child, expecting that this would hurt Stannis's sense of honor. These schemes involve attempts to make use of Shireen's looks. While Tyrion proposes that [[Axell Florent]] could be claimed to be the father of his niece Selyse's daughter because she has big [[House Florent|Florent]] ears, [[Petyr Baelish]] prevails with his suggestion that [[Patchface]] being the father of Shireen would make for a more juicy tale, referring to them looking somewhat alike with their speckled, half-frozen faces and also to the fool being close to the girl. The rumor, strongly supported by Cersei, is meant to be spread via prostitutes in Petyr Baelish's brothels and with the help of [[Varys]] through alehouses and pot-shops.{{Ref|aCoK|15}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Owen William Weber Shireen Baratheon.JPG|Shireen Baratheon © FFG|thumb|300px|right]]
Shireen often plays with her cousin, [[Edric Storm]], in Aegon's Garden and grows very fond of him. [[Davos Seaworth]] notes Shireen is much happier around Edric.

Stannis's army and retinue leaves for the [[Wall]] to respond to the [[wildling]] threat. He leaves Shireen at [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]] with her mother, while his army [[Battle of Castle Black|marches to Castle Black]].{{Ref|aSoS|75}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Shireen and her mother, [[Selyse Florent|Selyse]], are eventually brought to [[Castle Black]]. The girl is intrigued by the giant [[Wun Wun]].{{ref|Adwd|44}} [[Val]] is frightened of Shireen due to her appearance with greyscale and tells Lord Commander [[Jon Snow]] the child is not clean and should be killed. Jon is horrified by Val's statement and is grateful that Selyse and her [[Queen's Men]] did not hear it.{{ref|adwd|53}}

==Quotes about Shireen==
{{Quote|The child is not clean.{{Ref|aDwD|53}}}} – [[Val]], on Shireen's greyscale

==Family==
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Belwas

2015-04-28T23:18:21Z

Rufion: /* References and notes */

{{Character
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'''Belwas''', more commonly known as '''Strong Belwas''', is a tanned [[eunuch]] colossus. His nickname comes from the arenas of [[Meereen]] where he used to fight.{{Ref|aCoK|63}} He claims he never lost a fight and he allows his opponents to cut him once before they die.

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Belwas|Images of Belwas]]''

Belwas's skin is nut-brown. He has gapped teeth, a gleaming bald head, the smooth cheeks of a eunuch, a huge chest, a massive belly, and Daenerys compares his arms to tree-trunks. Belwas is three times the size of Daenerys;{{Ref|aCoK|63}} she originally estimates Belwas to weigh 20 stone,{{Ref|aCoK|63}} and later 15 stone. He wears baggy pants, a yellow silk bellyband and a tiny leather vest with iron studs.{{ref|ASoS|8}} This leaves his upper torso mostly bare, making visible pale old scars in his arms, chest, and belly. He is armed with a curved ''[[arakh]]'' and a small shield the size of a pie plate, which he holds with his hand rather than strapped to his forearm like a knight.{{ref|ASoS|8}}

==History==
Belwas was a [[slavery|slave]], bred and trained in Meereen. {{ref|ASoS|8}} He is a veteran [[Pit Fighters|pit-fighter]] who earned a reputation at the [[fighting pits]] of Meereen. He claims to have never lost a fight. His signature move is to allow each opponent to cut him once, then to go on the offensive and kill them. He is proud of his scars, pointing that Daenerys can count them to find out how many opponents he has slain. {{Ref|aCoK|63}} {{ref|ASoS|57}} He finds [[Dothraki]] "horse boys" to be amusing opponents. He clams to have killed many of them in the fighting pits, and that their bells jingle when they die. {{Ref|aCoK|63}}

Belwas was eventually sold away from Meereen to [[Qohor]] and from there to [[Pentos]]. His latest owner was [[Illyrio Mopatis]], whom he describes as a "fat man with sweet stink in his hair". Illyrio sends Belwas across the sea to locate Daenerys for him.{{Ref|aCoK|63}} Belwas remembers Illyrio weeping when news reachs him of the death of [[Viserys Targaryen]]. He will later report this scene to Daenerys and [[Jorah Mormont]]. In reaction, Jorah wonders if Illyrio wept for Viserys, or because the death cancelled certain plans involving the claimant king.{{ref|ASoS|8}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Accompanied by his aged squire, [[Barristan Selmy|Arstan Whitebeard]], Belwas is sent by [[Illyrio Mopatis]] to protect [[Daenerys Targaryen]], whom he meets in [[Qarth]], and take her back to [[Pentos]]. He also tells Daenerys that he has three ships for her to travel in.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 63|Chapter 63]], Daenerys</ref>

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Strong belwas featuring spoilers by sir heartsalot.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Strong Belwas]] fights hero before [[Meereen]]- by Sir-Heartsalot ©.]]

Belwas travels with Daenerys in the ship, ''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]'', where he is served by Arstan. On the ship all he does is eat.{{ref|ASoS|9}}

Strong Belwas is one of Daenerys's bodyguards when she goes to purchase the [[Unsullied]] from the [[Good Masters]] of [[Astapor]].{{ref|ASoS|27}}

Belwas is with Daenerys when she treats with the commanders of the sellsword companies before [[Yunkai]]. When [[Prendahl na Ghezn]], one of the three captains of the [[Stormcrows]], insults Daenerys, Strong Belwas offers to cut out his tongue. Daenerys refuses, saying that he has her safe conduct.{{ref|ASoS|42}}

When Daenerys [[Siege of Meereen|besieges Meereen]], [[Oznak zo Pahl]] rides out of the city on a white charger with a fourteen foot lance, challenging the besiegers to send forth a champion. Daenerys decides that Belwas is perfect since she can easily spare him, his death as an ex-slave would not give Oznak prestige, and a defeat to an ex-slave would be an insult. Belwas wounds Oznak's horse in the duel, leading to a sword fight. Belwas allows himself to be wounded in the stomach before he kills Oznak, severs his head, and holds it up high for those in Meereen to see. The defenders of the city fire arrows, but Belwas is too far away. He squats to defecate towards the city, wipes himself on Oznak's cloak, loots the corpse and kills the horse. Because Daenerys had lost her husband [[Drogo]] to a similar wound, she forces the reluctant Belwas to be treated for his wound by a Yunkish freeman known for his healing skills when he returns to camp.{{ref|ASoS|57}}

Later in the siege, Strong Belwas, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] and twenty other men enter Meereen though the sewers to take the city. Some of the freedmen in the group are afraid of the huge rats until Belwas bites one of them in two. When they enter the city, Belwas leads the group to the nearest of the [[fighting pits]], where they raise the fighting slaves to revolt, enabling Daenerys Targaryen to take the city. Later, when Daenerys dismisses Ser Jorah from her service, Belwas drags him out of her throne room.{{ref|ASoS|71}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Belwas serves as a member of Daenerys Targaryen's queensguard, standing at her side when she holds court. During one such event Belwas smashes in the teeth of an envoy from Astapor, [[Ghael]]. As a former gladiator, he is among those in favor of reopening Meereen's fighting pits. He nearly dies after eating [[poisoned locusts]] given to him but previously offered to Daenerys by [[Hizdahr zo Loraq]] at the opening of the fighting pits of Meereen.{{Ref|aDwD|52}}{{Ref|aDwD|55}} He manages to survive the poison due to his huge bulk, although his strength is somewhat sapped by the experience. He is made part of the [[ruling council of Meereen]] instituted by Ser Barristan Selmy. As the city is surrounded by Daenerys's enemies, Selmy holds a war council wherein Belwas volunteers himself for a duel between champions. The other attendees favor a more traditional battle. {{Ref|aDwD|59}}{{Ref|aDwD|67}}{{Ref|aDwD|70}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|I let each man cut me once, before I kill him. Count the cuts and you will know how many Strong Belwas has slain. {{Ref|aCoK|63}} }}
{{Quote|Bad fighting, good dying. Strong Belwas hates it when they scream. {{Ref|aDwD|52}}}}

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

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Yohn Royce

2015-04-15T17:49:01Z

Rufion:

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Lord '''Yohn Royce''', better known as '''Bronze Yohn''', is Lord of [[Runestone]] and head of [[House Royce]]. He is sworn to [[House Arryn]]. He has three sons, [[Andar Royce|Andar]], [[Robar Royce|Robar]] and [[Waymar Royce]], all knights,{{Ref|aGoT|29}} and a daughter, [[Ysilla Royce|Ysilla]].{{ref|affc|41}}

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Yohn Royce|Images of Yohn Royce]]''
His face is lined and he has grey hair, slate-grey eyes and very bushy eyebrows. He is tall and has large, gnarled hands, with a booming voice to match.{{ref|AFFC|23}} He has a set of bronze armor, thousands of years old that is inscribed with runes that ward him from harm.{{ref|AGOT|29}}

==History==
Lord Yohn is a tourney knight, who took part in the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]], where he was defeated by Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]],{{Ref|aGoT|58}} and in the [[Tourney at Lannisport]], where he was defeated by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]].{{Ref|aCoK|12}} He defeated [[Thoros of Myr]] in the melee at the [[Tourney for Prince Joffrey's 12th Name Day]] with a common mace after the fire of Thoros' sword had guttered out.{{Ref|aCoK|10}}

Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] offered his son [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] for marriage within House Royce but was rejected.{{Ref|aSoS|19}}

Lord Royce escorted his youngest son north, when [[Waymar Royce|Waymar]] joined the [[Night's Watch]] in {{Date|296}}. They stayed in [[Winterfell]] on their way, where Yohn participated in hunts and practice sparring with [[Ned Stark]] and [[Rodrik Cassel]], defeating them both in the latter.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Lord Royce takes part in the [[Tourney of the Hand|Hand's Tourney]] in [[King's Landing]], attending with his sons [[Andar Royce|Andar]] and [[Robar Royce|Robar]].{{ref|AGOT|29}} He stays in King's Landing, participating in the boar hunt that kills King [[Robert I Baratheon]].{{Ref|aGoT|43}} As Robert lies dying, Yohn is named by [[Petyr Baelish]] as a possible ally for [[Eddard Stark]] against [[Cersei Lannister]] in the matter of the succession, though ultimately Ned chooses to rely on the [[Gold Cloaks]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Yohn is mentioned as a suitor of [[Lysa Tully]] by Ser [[Kevan Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}} According to Lysa herself, Yohn is pressuring her into participating in the [[War of the Five Kings]], presumably in defense of [[Riverrun]] against the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] forces.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
After the death of Lady Lysa Arryn, Lord Yohn brings five other lords of the Vale to Runestone where they sign a document forming the [[Lords Declarant]]. Nestor Royce informs Lord Baelish about Yohn's intent to question [[Marillion]] himself about the murder of Lady [[Lysa Tully]] and to remove Baelish from his position as Lord Protector.{{ref|AFFC|10}}

The Lords Declarant later ascend the [[Eyrie]] to meet with Lord Baelish, where Yohn briefly recognizes [[Sansa Stark]]. Yohn declares his intent to foster Lord Robert at [[Runestone]] as his ward and squire and to raise him to be a knight that [[Jon Arryn]] would be proud of, with the group's backing. He prevents Ser [[Lyn Corbray]] from attacking Ser [[Lothor Brune]], but later departs the Eyrie in anger when the other members of the Lord Declarant allow Lord Baelish a year more as Lord Protector.{{ref|AFFC|23}}

Lord Baelish tells Sansa he believes Lord Yohn will be the only member of the Lords Declarant who will continue to be a threat to his plans.{{ref|AFFC|23}} Lord Yohn later holds a small melee at Runestone only for squires. [[Harrold Hardyng]] wins the melee and Lord Yohn knights him as his reward.{{ref|AFFC|41}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
News reaches [[Sisterton]] and [[White Harbor]] about Lord Yohn publicly vowing to remove Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] from power in the [[Vale]].{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

==Family==
{{Royce tree}}

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

==External Links==
:[http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Yohn_Royce Yohn Royce] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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Yohn Royce

2015-04-15T17:46:42Z

Rufion: page doesn't mention his daughter

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Lord '''Yohn Royce''', better known as '''Bronze Yohn''', is Lord of [[Runestone]] and head of [[House Royce]]. He is sworn to [[House Arryn]]. He has three sons, [[Andar Royce|Andar]], [[Robar Royce|Robar]] and [[Waymar Royce]], all knights,{{Ref|aGoT|29}} and a daughter, [[Ysilla Royce|Ysilla]].

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Yohn Royce|Images of Yohn Royce]]''
His face is lined and he has grey hair, slate-grey eyes and very bushy eyebrows. He is tall and has large, gnarled hands, with a booming voice to match.{{ref|AFFC|23}} He has a set of bronze armor, thousands of years old that is inscribed with runes that ward him from harm.{{ref|AGOT|29}}

==History==
Lord Yohn is a tourney knight, who took part in the [[Tourney at Harrenhal]], where he was defeated by Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]],{{Ref|aGoT|58}} and in the [[Tourney at Lannisport]], where he was defeated by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]].{{Ref|aCoK|12}} He defeated [[Thoros of Myr]] in the melee at the [[Tourney for Prince Joffrey's 12th Name Day]] with a common mace after the fire of Thoros' sword had guttered out.{{Ref|aCoK|10}}

Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] offered his son [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] for marriage within House Royce but was rejected.{{Ref|aSoS|19}}

Lord Royce escorted his youngest son north, when [[Waymar Royce|Waymar]] joined the [[Night's Watch]] in {{Date|296}}. They stayed in [[Winterfell]] on their way, where Yohn participated in hunts and practice sparring with [[Ned Stark]] and [[Rodrik Cassel]], defeating them both in the latter.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Lord Royce takes part in the [[Tourney of the Hand|Hand's Tourney]] in [[King's Landing]], attending with his sons [[Andar Royce|Andar]] and [[Robar Royce|Robar]].{{ref|AGOT|29}} He stays in King's Landing, participating in the boar hunt that kills King [[Robert I Baratheon]].{{Ref|aGoT|43}} As Robert lies dying, Yohn is named by [[Petyr Baelish]] as a possible ally for [[Eddard Stark]] against [[Cersei Lannister]] in the matter of the succession, though ultimately Ned chooses to rely on the [[Gold Cloaks]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Yohn is mentioned as a suitor of [[Lysa Tully]] by Ser [[Kevan Lannister]].{{Ref|aSoS|19}} According to Lysa herself, Yohn is pressuring her into participating in the [[War of the Five Kings]], presumably in defense of [[Riverrun]] against the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] forces.{{Ref|aSoS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
After the death of Lady Lysa Arryn, Lord Yohn brings five other lords of the Vale to Runestone where they sign a document forming the [[Lords Declarant]]. Nestor Royce informs Lord Baelish about Yohn's intent to question [[Marillion]] himself about the murder of Lady [[Lysa Tully]] and to remove Baelish from his position as Lord Protector.{{ref|AFFC|10}}

The Lords Declarant later ascend the [[Eyrie]] to meet with Lord Baelish, where Yohn briefly recognizes [[Sansa Stark]]. Yohn declares his intent to foster Lord Robert at [[Runestone]] as his ward and squire and to raise him to be a knight that [[Jon Arryn]] would be proud of, with the group's backing. He prevents Ser [[Lyn Corbray]] from attacking Ser [[Lothor Brune]], but later departs the Eyrie in anger when the other members of the Lord Declarant allow Lord Baelish a year more as Lord Protector.{{ref|AFFC|23}}

Lord Baelish tells Sansa he believes Lord Yohn will be the only member of the Lords Declarant who will continue to be a threat to his plans.{{ref|AFFC|23}} Lord Yohn later holds a small melee at Runestone only for squires. [[Harrold Hardyng]] wins the melee and Lord Yohn knights him as his reward.{{ref|AFFC|41}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
News reaches [[Sisterton]] and [[White Harbor]] about Lord Yohn publicly vowing to remove Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] from power in the [[Vale]].{{Ref|aDwD|15}}

==Family==
{{Royce tree}}

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

==External Links==
:[http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Yohn_Royce Yohn Royce] on the [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Main Game of Thrones wiki].

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House Mormont

2015-04-15T14:12:11Z

Rufion: /* History */ Department of Redundancy Department

{{Noble House
| House_name = House Mormont of [[Bear Island]]
| image = [[File:House_Mormont.PNG|250px]]
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| Coat_of_arms = A wood vert, a bear sable
| Words = ''Here We Stand''
| Seat = [[Bear Island]]
| Current_Lord = [[Maege Mormont]]
| Region = [[The North]]
| Title = Lord of Bear Island
| Heir = [[Alysane Mormont]]
| Overlord = [[House Stark]] [[House Baratheon of Dragonstone]]
| Ancestral_weapon = [[Longclaw]] (formerly; now gifted to [[Jon Snow]])
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'''House Mormont of Bear Island''' is an old, proud, and honorable house,{{Ref|aGoT|12}} one of the principal families sworn to [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]].{{ref|agot|Appendix}} Their seat is at [[Bear Island]], located in the [[Bay of Ice]] far to the north-west of [[Winterfell]]. Their blazon is a black bear over a green wood{{Ref|aGoT|53}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/2/#In the North]</ref> and their motto is "Here We Stand".<ref>The Citadel. [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/ House Mottoes]</ref>

House Mormont is one of the few houses to have an ancestral weapon of [[Valyrian steel]]: a bastard sword called [[Longclaw]]. However, due to Bear Island's lack of valuable resources, the Mormonts are a rather poor house. Their hall is made of huge logs, surrounded by an earthen palisade. On the gate is a carving of a woman in a bearskin with a child in one arm suckling at her breast and a battleaxe in the other. Like the other women of Bear Island, the women of House Mormont learn how to defend themselves from [[ironmen]] and [[wildlings]].

==History==
Legend has it that King [[Rodrik Stark]] won Bear Island in a wrestling match (presumably from the [[ironborn]] [[House Hoare|king]] who controlled it at the time) and gave it to the Mormonts.{{Ref|aGoT|66}}

Presumably, when Lord [[Eddard Stark]] called his banners, to fight in [[Robert's Rebellion]], Lord [[Jeor Mormont]] led the Bear Island men to war.<ref>There is no confirmation that Jeor was still the Lord of Bear Island in 282AC/283AC. However, it is known that Jeor became Lord Commander of the Nights Watch in 288AC and that he had been elected rather quickly, suggesting that he did not join too many years before.</ref> Jeor eventually abdicated his lordship to join the [[Night's Watch]] and was succeeded by his son [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]]. In {{Date|288}}, Jeor was chosen as [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]].{{Ref|awoiaf}}.

Jorah went on to earn fame in the [[Greyjoy Rebellion]] and the subsequent [[Tourney at Lannisport]] in {{Date|289}}. However, he was driven from the North by Lord Eddard Stark in {{Date|293}}, after selling poachers to a [[Tyrosh]]i [[slavery|slaver]] in order to pay for the tastes of his wife, [[Lynesse Hightower]].{{Ref|aGoT|12}} Jorah fled to the [[Free Cities]] and was succeeded by his aunt, Jeor's sister [[Maege Mormont]]. Lady Mormont's heir is [[Dacey Mormont]], a tall, lanky warrior-woman.

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Lady Mormont answers [[Robb Stark]]'s call to arms and she, her heir [[Dacey Mormont|Dacey]], and their bannermen follow him south against the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. Maege acts as part of Robb's war councils and Dacey rides with his [[Robb's personal guard|battle companions]] and guards, being the only woman of the group. Both Mormont women are present when Robb is named [[King in the North]] at [[Riverrun]].

[[Jeor Mormont]] is [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], and is introduced when [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Jon Snow]] arrive at [[the Wall]]. Later he chooses Jon as his steward and acts as a mentor to young Jon.

The exiled Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] attends Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]]'s party in [[Pentos]], where he gets to know Prince [[Viserys Targaryen]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. Jorah becomes an advisor to Daenerys and the first of her [[Queensguard]].

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Lady Maege and Dacey accompany Robb into the [[Westerlands]]. After the [[Battle of Oxcross]], Maege captures thousands of livestock and drives them back to the [[Riverlands]].

Jeor leads the [[Night's Watch]] in [[the great ranging]] [[beyond the Wall]].

===''A Storm of Swords''===
In preparation for King Robb's plan to recover [[Moat Cailin]] from the [[ironborn]], Maege is sent by Robb on a [[House Mallister|Mallister]] longship to [[the Neck]] to contact the [[crannogmen]]. Dacey is killed during the [[Red Wedding]].

After having survived the [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men]], Jeor is slain by [[Ollo Lophand]] during the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep]]. Maester [[Aemon]] sends a raven to Bear Island in a plea for help to defend [[Battle of Castle Black|Castle Black]] from [[wildlings]].

Jorah is exiled from [[Meereen]] by Queen Daenerys when she discovers that he had been spying on her for [[Varys]].

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Alysane is the new heir of House Mormont after the death of her elder sister, [[Dacey Mormont|Dacey]], at the [[Red Wedding]].{{Ref|aFfC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
When [[Stannis Baratheon]] demands the fealty of the northern lords, young [[Lyanna Mormont]] sends Bear Island's denial.{{ref|adwd|3}}

[[Alysane Mormont]] and men-at-arms of House Mormont launch an attack on the ironmen longships off the strand of [[Deepwood Motte]], managing to take them unawares by hiding fighters inside a gaggle of fishing sloops. She burns and captures all ships, securing several ironborn captains, knights, warriors and other nobility for ransom.{{ref|ADWD|35}}

After [[Stannis Baratheon]] takes [[Deepwood Motte]] and restores it to [[House Glover]], House Mormont swears fealty to Stannis. Alysane joins his army when it marches on [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aDwD|42}} She becomes one of the guards of [[Asha Greyjoy]].{{Ref|aDwD|62}}

[[Lyra Mormont|Lyra]] and [[Jorelle Mormont]] are with their mother Maege while Alysane joins Stannis's march to [[Siege of Winterfell|take Winterfell]] from [[Roose Bolton]].

Jorah takes Tyrion captive in [[Selhorys]] and travels with him to [[Slaver's Bay]], where he hopes to present Tyrion to Daenerys in Meereen.

==House Mormont at the end of the third century==
The known Mormonts during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

*Lady [[Maege Mormont]], Lady of the Bear Island. A short, stout and grey-haired woman who dresses in mail.
**{[[Dacey Mormont]]}, her eldest daughter. Slain at the [[Red Wedding]].
**[[Alysane Mormont]], her daughter and heir to Bear Island.
***A daughter of nine.
***A son of two.
**[[Lyra Mormont]], her daughter.
**[[Jorelle Mormont]], her daughter.
**[[Lyanna Mormont]], her daughter.
*Lord {[[Jeor Mormont]]}, her brother. Called the ''"Old Bear"''. Lord of Bear Island until he chose to take the black. Was [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] of the [[Night's Watch]]. Slain at [[Craster's Keep]] by his own men.
**Ser [[Jorah Mormont]], an exiled [[knight]]. Lord of Bear Island until sentenced to death for selling poachers into slavery.
***A lady of [[House Glover]], his first wife. Died after her third miscarriage in their tenth year of marriage.
***[[Lynesse Hightower]], his second wife. She abandoned him after his disgrace, and now is the chief concubine of [[Tregar Ormollen]].
*Some of Maege's daughters have children of their own.

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==References and Notes==
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Samwell Tarly

2015-04-14T15:58:04Z

Rufion: /* A Storm of Swords */

{{Infobox character
| Character_name= [[File:Tarly.png|50px|left]] '''Samwell Tarly''' [[File:Minigdn.png|50px|right]]
| image = [[File:Samwell Tarly.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption = Portrait by Amok©
| Alias = Sam Ser Piggy{{Ref|aGoT|26}} Lord of Ham{{Ref|aGoT|26}} Lady Piggy {{Ref|aGoT|26}} Sam the Slayer Black Sam
| Title =
| Allegiance = [[Night's Watch]]
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| Culture = [[Westeros]]
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| Place_of_Birth= [[Horn Hill]]
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|283}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued3)#Samwell Tarly|Samwell Tarly]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death=
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| Books = ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' (appears) ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (POV) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (POV) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appears)
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| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 5|Season 5]]}}
:''For the historical lord, see [[Sam Tarly]].''
'''Samwell Tarly''' is the eldest son of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and his wife [[Melessa Florent]]. He is popularly called 'Sam', and disparagingly referred to as 'Ser Piggy.' He is a steward of the [[Night's Watch]]. He becomes a [[POV character]] in ''[[A Storm of Swords]]''. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' he is played by John Bradley.<ref name=HBO/>

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Samwell Tarly|Images of Samwell Tarly]]''
Samwell is very fat, with dark hair, pale eyes, and a large moon-shaped face.{{Ref|aGoT|26}} [[Jon Snow]] originally estimates Samwell to weigh 20 stone (127 kg/280 lbs). {{Ref|aGoT|26}} Samwell is fond of music and songs, and prefers books over weapons and soft fabrics over armor. He is also a craven, afraid of blood and violence. Although fat, timid, and unsure of himself, he is intelligent and thoughtful.

==History==
Samwell was the first child of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and his wife [[Melessa Florent]]. Lord Randyll, who was regarded as one of the finest military commanders in the Seven Kingdoms, did everything in his power to raise his son into what he deemed a proper heir, but Samwell frustrated him at every opportunity, resisting every effort made to change his nature. He was sent to the [[Arbor]] as a page, but the [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] twins bullied him and [[Paxter Redwyne|Lord Paxter]] sent him back to Horn Hill. A dozen masters-at-arms failed to toughen him. Attempts such as dressing him in his mother's clothes, forcing him to sleep in chainmail, and even being bathed in aurochs blood by [[Qarth]]een [[warlocks]] failed to raise his valor. He wept even to see a chicken slaughtered.

After Lady Melessa bore her husband three girls, Samwell's brother [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]] was born. Dickon showed all of the physical vigor that Samwell lacked, and Randyll's attentions turned to raising his more promising younger son to take his place. For a time Sam was left to enjoy his music, food, and other soft pursuits, though Randyll forbade Samwell from traveling to [[Oldtown]] to become a [[Maester]], horrified at the notion of a member of his house wearing a chain.

When Sam reached maturity, his father bluntly told him that he was not worthy of their house's ancestral sword, and that he must join the [[Night's Watch]] and renounce his family name so that he would not stand in the way of his younger brother's inheritance. Failing that, Randyll promised that he would suffer an unfortunate hunting accident on the morrow. Sam chose to take the black.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Jon Snow Samwell Pypar Grenn Training Castle BlackHBO.jpg|thumb|300px|Sam training with the new recruits at [[Castle Black]].]]

Samwell arrives at [[Castle Black]] shortly after [[Jon Snow]] and is immediately mocked for his size and timid nature. Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], the master-at-arms, joins in the mocking, nicknaming him "Ser Piggy" and doing nothing to prevent the other recruits from bullying him and hurting him during their training. Miserable, Sam finds a friend in Jon, with whom he shares his story. Jon takes pity on Sam and, to Ser Alliser's annoyance, takes it upon himself to persuade (and threaten, when necessary) his fellow recruits to stop their abuse.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}

Samwell is not helped by any of Ser Alliser's training and remains an incompetent warrior. Because of this he is initially deemed not ready to take his vows and become a man of the Night's Watch with Jon and his fellow recruits. Jon, fearful of what will happen to Sam once he is no longer able to protect him, persuades [[Maester Aemon]] to allow him to join the Stewards, convincing him that despite his uselessness as a soldier, Sam's literacy and intelligence may be of great value to the Watch. Aemon agrees, and gives Samwell a position assisting him in Castle Black's rookery and library, displacing [[Chett]]. Despite having been born and raised into the [[Faith of the Seven]], Samwell decides to take his Night's Watch vow with Jon Snow at a [[Weirwood|Heart Tree]]. He is able to impress [[Jeor Mormont|Lord Commander Mormont]] by noting some of the odd details of the corpses of [[Othor]] and [[Jafer Flowers]]. He is among the group of friends who stop Jon from abandoning the Night's Watch and forswearing himself.{{Ref|aGoT|70}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Sam joins [[the Great Ranging]] to the Far North and is placed in charge of the ravens as [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] Mormont's aide.{{Ref|aCoK|11}} When the expedition stays a night at [[Craster's Keep]] he is befriended by [[Gilly]], one of daughter-wives of [[Craster]], who is pregnant and fearful that if she has a boy, Craster will sacrifice it to the [[Others]]. Samwell, unsure of what to do, turns to Jon for help, but there is nothing that Jon can do.{{Ref|aCoK|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Samwell Dragonglass.jpg|400px|thumb|Samwell facing an Other - by Amok ©]]
When the [[Others]] [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men|attack]] the Watch camp at the [[Fist of the First Men]], Sam manages to send word of the attack to Castle Black and is able to escape with a group of about fifty survivors led by [[Jeor Mormont]]. The march is hard on Sam and he is helped by his friends [[Grenn]] and [[Paul|Small Paul]]. Eventually they are separated from the majority of the men. Paul, who carried Sam for much of the journey, is attacked and killed by an Other, but the weight of his body disarms it as he dies. Samwell, who is carrying a [[dragonglass]] dagger that was among the cache found by [[Ghost]], uses the opportunity to attack, and blindly stabs the Other, who dies instantaneously from the dragonglass blade. Killing the Other earns him the nickname "Sam the Slayer", although many say this mockingly as they do not believe his feat.{{Ref|aSoS|18}}

He and Grenn rendezvous with the remaining survivors at Craster's Keep, where Gilly gives birth to a son. Shortly thereafter, violence erupts in the keep, with some Night's Watch men believing that Craster was holding out on the food he provided for the Watch, and others harboring mutinous intentions toward Commander Mormont. Craster and Mormont are both killed in the fighting. Before Mormont dies he gives Sam his dying wish, that [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]], his son, join the Watch.{{Ref|aSoS|33}}

Sam is forced to flee, joined only by Gilly and her newborn. They make it as far as a village Sam believes to be [[Whitetree]] but are then attacked by wights, including a reanimated Small Paul, who attacks Sam first. Sam fights him off and stabs him with the dragonglass dagger, but it proves ineffective. Desperately, Sam strikes him with a piece of charred wood, which catches him on fire, killing him. They run, but are beset by additional wights, and are saved at the last moment by [[Coldhands]].{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

Gilly and Sam are led back to the wall by Coldhands, who has informed them that there will be one in the [[Nightfort]] that must be sent to him. Entering the Nightfort through the castle's Black Gate, Samwell encounters [[Bran Stark]], along with [[Hodor]], and [[Meera Reed|Meera]] and [[Jojen Reed]], all of whom he leads back to Coldhands.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

After leaving the Nightfort on the south side of the wall, Sam and Gilly join Ser [[Denys Mallister]] and [[Bowen Marsh]]'s party, also en route to [[Castle Black]]. They arrive after the [[Battle of Castle Black]], with [[Stannis Baratheon]] present and urging the swift election of a new Lord Commander and threatening to name one himself if none can achieve the required two-thirds majority. In the voting, [[Janos Slynt]] is gaining ground on the leading candidates [[Cotter Pyke]] and Denys Mallister. Believing Slynt would be a disastrous Lord Commander, Sam approaches Pyke and Mallister independently, and lies to each regarding Stannis's intentions to name the other to the office, thus convincing them both to support Jon Snow as a compromise candidate,{{ref|ASOS|78}} leading to Jon's election.{{ref|ASOS|79}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Only water by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Sam and [[Gilly]]: "I would sooner have you than any princess..., but I can't". Art by cabepfir]]

One of Jon Snow's first acts as Lord Commander is to send Samwell South to [[Oldtown]] so that he might study there as a [[Maesters|maester]] for Castle Black. With him he sends [[Dareon]], whom he appoints as a recruiter for the Night's Watch, as well as [[Maester Aemon]] and the infant son of [[Mance Rayder]], so as to deprive [[Melisandre]] of the chance to sacrifice them for their king's blood. He also sends [[Gilly]], separating her from her child, so that she might nurse Rayder's son.{{ref|affc|5}}{{ref|Affc|15}} Maester Aemon falls ill on the voyage, however, and stopping in [[Braavos]] they are forced to spend their coin on an inn and a healer. Aemon's condition worsens nonetheless, though he briefly wakes and wishes to hear the stories of [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys's]] dragons that are spreading throughout the city, having the revelation that Daenerys may be the true fulfillment of the prophecy of [[the prince that was promised]].{{ref|affc|35}}

Samwell urges Dareon to sing at the local taverns to earn money so that they might buy passage on a ship to Oldtown, but Dareon spends most of what he earns on wine and trade from the city's whores. Samwell confronts Dareon in a brothel and accuses him of breaking his vows, and Dareon responds with his intention to abandon them and desert the Night's Watch, resulting in a fight whereupon Samwell is pulled off of Dareon and thrown into a canal. He is pulled out by [[Xhondo]], who heard him speaking of dragons and had seen them in [[Qarth]].{{ref|Affc|26}} Xhondo offers them passage on his ship, the ''Cinnamon Wind'', in exchange for work and for some of the last of their possessions.{{ref|affc|35}}

Maester Aemon dies early in that journey, and in mourning for his death Gilly briefly becomes a lover to Samwell. She names the child after Aemon,{{ref|affc|35}} and it is planned that upon landing at Oldtown she will be sent to Samwell's childhood home of [[Horn Hill]] with the story that her child is a bastard fathered by Sam. Samwell continues to the [[Citadel]], where he encounters [[Alleras]], who has sought him out and brings him straight to Archmaester [[Marwyn]], who asks Samwell to repeat for him Aemon's final words. Upon hearing the story, Marwyn immediately departs the city with the stated intention of going to Daenerys and becoming her maester.{{ref|affc|45}}

==Quotes by Sam==
{{Quote|'''Jon:''' Have you seen [[the Wall]]?

'''Sam:''' I'm fat, not blind. Of course I saw it, it's seven hundred feet high.{{ref|agot|26}}}}
– Samwell to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|Sam thought of all the trials that he and [[Gilly]] suffered, [[Craster's Keep]] and the death of the [[Jeor Mormont|Old Bear]], snow and ice and freezing winds, days and days and days of walking, the [[wight|wights]] at [[Whitetree]], [[Coldhands]] and the tree of ravens, the [[Wall]], the Wall, the Wall, the [[Nightfort#The Black Gate|Black Gate]] beneath the earth. What had it all been for? No happy choices and no happy endings.{{Ref|affc|15}}}}
– Sam's thoughts aboard the ''[[Blackbird]]''

{{Quote|The worst isn’t done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.{{ref|affc|15}}}}
– Samwell to [[Dareon]]

{{Quote|I am still craven, [[Jon Snow|Jon]]. No matter where he went in this wide world, his fears went with him.{{ref|affc|26}}}}
– Samwell, to himself in [[Braavos]]

==Quotes about Sam==

{{Quote|The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}}} – [[Jon Snow]]'s thoughts after meeting Sam

==Family==
{{Tarly tree}}

==See also==
* The [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Samwell_Tarly Samwell Tarly article] on the TV show wiki.

==References and Notes==
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[[es:Samwell Tarly]][[fa:سمول تارلی]][[fr:Samwell Tarly]][[pt:Samwell Tarly]][[ru:Сэмвелл Тарли]][[zh:山姆威尔·塔利]]

Theon I (The Winds of Winter)

2015-04-14T14:46:10Z

Rufion: /* Synopsis */

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==Synopsis==
Though reportedly isolated and secluded at the [[crofters' village]], [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] is actively preparing for the looming battle against the [[House Bolton|Boltons]]. Stannis received the [[Braavos]]i [[Iron Bank of Braavos|banker]] [[Tycho Nestoris]] and the two signed a contract, Stannis is planning on sending the banker back to the [[Wall]] so he does not get caught up in the fighting.

Stannis is made aware of [[Arnolf Karstark]]'s planned treachery due to the message [[Jon Snow]] gave the banker. Stannis has Arnolf, his son [[Arthor Karstark|Arthor]] and three grandsons arrested and plans to execute them, though whether their death will be quick beheadings or by fire depends on their willingness to confess. Stannis is preparing his position to battle the coming vanguard of [[Roose Bolton]]'s army led by [[Hosteen Frey]]. Stannis is sending Ser [[Justin Massey]] to escort "[[Arya Stark]]" (actually [[Jeyne Poole]], though this is unknown to Stannis) back to the Wall to reunite the girl with her brother [[Jon Snow]] in gratitude for Snow warning him to amass the [[northern mountain clans]] rather than march straight into Arnolf's trap.

Stannis also orders Massey to go with Tycho Nestoris to [[Braavos]], where Massey will use the money given to him by the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] to hire sellsword companies until he has a force no less than twenty thousand strong, and then sail back to [[Westeros]]. Stannis also gives orders that if he is slain in the coming battle, Massey is still to do as instructed, with the intention of using the army to place [[Shireen Baratheon|Shireen]] on the Iron Throne.

Stannis also plans to have [[Theon Greyjoy]] executed, hoping to gain favor with his northern allies by exacting justice for the murders of [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark]].<ref>[http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html ''The Winds of Winter'', Theon's sample chapter], made available on [[George R. R. Martin]]'s website as of Dec 28th, 2011</ref>

==References and Notes==
{{References}}
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|The Winds of Winter: Chapter ?]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place in the North]]

[[fr:The Winds of Winter, Chapitre provisoire, Theon 1]]

Jeyne Poole

2015-04-14T14:42:22Z

Rufion: /* A Game of Thrones */

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[[File:408px-Jeyne Poole.jpg|thumb|right|Jeyne Poole in HBO's adaptation]]
'''Jeyne Poole''' is the daughter of the steward of [[Winterfell]], [[Vayon Poole]]. She is the best friend of [[Sansa Stark]].{{Ref|aGoT|7}}

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Jeyne Poole|Images of Jeyne Poole]]''

Jeyne is described as very pretty. She has brown eyes and dark hair.{{Ref|aDwD|37}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
During a needlework session with Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]], Jeyne claims that Sansa has caught the eye of Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]], which leads to a discussion that upsets [[Arya Stark]].{{Ref|aGoT|7}} Jeyne accompanies her father to [[King's Landing]] when Lord [[Eddard Stark]] is named [[Hand of the King]].{{Ref|aGoT|22}} During [[the Hand's tourney]], Jeyne declares that she will marry Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]] when she first sees him. Some time later, she watches the young Ser [[Hugh]] die and has to be escorted away by Septa [[Mordane]] to regain her composure.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}

Jeyne survives the massacre of Eddard's household following his arrest for treason, and she is confined by Ser [[Boros Blount]] of the [[Kingsguard]] in a room with [[Sansa Stark]]. Jeyne's father, [[Vayon Poole]], died in the massacre and she is given over to [[Littlefinger]], who says he will find a place for her.{{Ref|aGoT|51}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
When [[Jaime Lannister]] says farewell to [[Walton|Steelshanks Walton]] there is a northern girl present who claims to be [[Arya Stark]], although Jaime does not recognize her. In case [[Brienne of Tarth|Brienne]] has the idea of rescuing the girl, Jaime tells Brienne that the girl is not Arya Stark but some northern girl his father [[Tywin Lannister]] found. They pin a [[House Stark|wolf brooch]] on her and send her north to wed [[Roose Bolton]]'s legitimized bastard, [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]], in order to cement their claim to [[Winterfell]]. Brienne is shocked, but Jaime explains that with all of Arya Stark's kin believed dead, besides her sister Sansa and half-brother [[Jon Snow]] on the [[Wall]], no one will be able to dispute the girl's identity. According to Jaime, the Boltons are aware the girl is a fraud.{{Ref|aSoS|72}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] claims that Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] dressed up a "steward's whelp" and claimed she was [[Arya Stark]], sent to marry Ramsay.{{Ref|aFfC|17}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Thrumugnyr theon and jeyne.JPG|© Thrumugnyr|thumb|250px|right]]
The [[House Bolton|Boltons]] call upon the northern bannerman to assemble in [[Barrowton]] to pledge loyalty to the [[Iron Throne]] and attend the wedding of "Arya" to [[Ramsay Bolton]].{{ref|ADWD|28}} After hearing that [[Stannis Baratheon]] has [[Retaking of Deepwood Motte|taken Deepwood Motte]], Roose decides to move the wedding to [[Winterfell]] to strengthen Ramsay's claim and to goad Stannis into fighting.{{ref|ADWD|32}} Jeyne is protected by [[Barbrey Dustin]], the Lady of Barrowton, during the journey from Barrowton to Winterfell.{{Ref|ADWD|37}}

Jeyne is forced to marry Ramsay and pleads with [[Theon Greyjoy]] several times before the wedding for him to help her and take her away. When stripped by Theon for the bedding, numerous scars cover Jeyne's back, suggesting she had been whipped. When Ramsay asks her if she knows how to please a man, she replies fearfully that she has had training.

Jeyne spends all her time confined to a tower and is deeply traumatized by the things Ramsay does to her. The maids who bath her notice the bruises on her body and the girl's sobbing is known throughout Winterfell. According to Lady Dustin, the crying of "Arya Stark" is more a danger than the army of [[Stannis Baratheon]]. The [[House Frey|Freys]] may not care, but the other northern houses who had served [[House Stark]] for generations do, and morale is being damaged from hearing the cries of [[Eddard Stark]]'s "daughter".{{ref|ADWD|41}}

A rescue attempt is launched by [[Mance Rayder]], who was sent south to rescue "Arya Stark". Mance, under the alias Abel, brings six spearwives with him who are disguised as maids.{{ref|aDwD|37}}{{Ref|aDwD|41}} They enlist or force the help of Theon Greyjoy.{{Ref|aDwD|46}} Though Jeyne and Theon manage to escape Winterfell,{{Ref|aDwD|51}} Mance and the spearwives do not. It is reported in a [[Bastard Letter|letter to Jon Snow]] that all six women were flayed, with Mance put in a cage in the winter elements with their skins to act as cloaks to keep him warm from the cold.{{ref|aDwD|69}}

After escaping from Winterfell Jeyne and Theon are discovered by [[Mors Umber]] and brought to the main camp of [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{Ref|aDwD|62}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
[[Mors Umber]] brings Theon and Jeyne to Stannis. To confirm her identity, Mors asks the girl questions about Winterfell, such as the names of servants, including the [[Gage|cook]] and the [[Mikken|smith]]. Having lived at Winterfell, Jeyne is able to answer these questions to Mors's satisfaction. Theon whispers to Jeyne on their trek to Stannis's camp that she must still pretend to be Arya, otherwise she will be nothing to them but a whore. The tip of her nose becomes black from frostbite en route and she will most likely lose a bit of her nose because of it.

When meeting with Stannis, the king sends "Arya" to the [[Wall]] to reunite her with her "brother" [[Jon Snow]] with an escort of six men, the banker [[Tycho Nestoris]] and Ser [[Justin Massey]].{{ref|twow||[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon]]}}

==Family==
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==References and Notes==
{{references|2}}
{{Arya-rescue-party}}

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Varamyr

2014-10-31T19:48:45Z

Rufion: /* A Dance with Dragons */

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'''Varamyr''', better known as '''Varamyr Sixskins''', is a diminutive member of the [[free folk]] and a [[skinchanger]] who controls three wolves, a [[snow bear]], and a [[shadowcat]].{{Ref|aSoS|15}} He was known as '''Lump''' until he took his new name.{{Ref|aDwD|Prologue}}

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Varamyr|Images of Varamyr]]''
Varamyr is grey-faced and bald with round shoulders. He is small.{{Ref|aSoS|73}}

==History==
Varamyr, known as ''Lump'' at the time, used one of his dogs [[Loptail]], [[Sniff]] or [[Growler]] to kill his younger brother [[Bump]]. When Varamyr's father came upon Bump's body, the dogs were sniffing around it. Not knowing which one had done the act, he put all three to death. However, before Loptail's death, Varamyr slipped inside his skin and felt Loptail's death. His reaction, a scream, informed Varamyr's parents that he was a [[warg]].

Varamyr's father dragged him through the woods until he came to [[Haggon]], an elderly warg who informed Varamyr that he belonged with his own kind. Haggon taught him how to skinchange properly and the rules of the ability. He also instructed him on the strengths and weaknesses of the different animals and rudimentary survival skills. Haggon often traded with the [[Night's Watch]], and it was on one of those trips where Varamyr began to dream of living south of the [[Wall]]. He named himself Varamyr when he was ten years old.

When Haggon lay dying, Varamyr, resentful, stole his wolf, [[Greyskin]], who Haggon had intended as his second life. At that point Varamyr was calling himself Varamyr Threeskins and then Fourskins after taking Greyskin. Over the years, Varamyr died eight more times while wearing the skins of other creatures. However, his power grew and he was known to ride into battle on the back of a 13-foot tall female [[snow bear]]. He had a hall of moss, mud and hew logs, which had been Haggon's before he died. A dozen villages paid him homage. When he wanted a woman from the villages, he would send his shadowcat to get them. They came, some crying, some not, but all resentful. Eventually [[Mance Rayder]] sought an alliance with Varamyr. Varamyr agreed and was a part of Mance's host beneath the [[Wall]].{{Ref|aDwD|Prologue}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the death of [[Orell]], Varamyr takes control of Orell's eagle, which still has a remnant of Orell's consciousness inside of it, and uses it to scout [[Castle Black]]. He takes early notice of [[Stannis Baratheon]]'s arrival at the Wall thanks to the eagle.{{Ref|aSoS|73}} [[Melisandre]] burns the eagle, causing Varamyr to briefly go insane.{{Ref|aSoS|73}}{{Ref|aSoS|76}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
After the defeat of the [[wildlings]] at the [[Battle of Castle Black]], he flees together with a small group, hiding his real identity from them. One by one they leave until only [[Thistle]], a [[spearwife]], remains. He is stabbed by a boy when he attempts to take a squirrel-skin cloak off of a dead body that happens to be the boy's mother. Varamyr reveals that he wanted to take [[Ghost]] from [[Jon Snow]] saying to himself that a second life in Ghost would have been worthy of a king. When Varamyr tries to take over Thistle's body because he is dying, she kills him. He lives on in his wolf [[One Eye]].{{Ref|aDwD|Prologue}}

==Quotes by Varamyr==
{{Quote|Once a horse is broken to the saddle, any man can mount him. Once a beast’s been joined to a man, any [[skinchanger]] can slip inside and ride him. [[Orell]] was withering inside his feathers, so I took the eagle for my own. But the joining works both ways, [[warg]]. Orell lives inside me now, whispering how much he hates you. And I can soar above the Wall, and see with eagle eyes.{{Ref|aSoS|73|p 1017}}}} – Varamyr, to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|[[Mance Rayder|Mance]] should have let me take the [[Ghost|direwolf]]. There would be a second life worthy of a king.{{Ref|aDwD|Prologue|p 12}}}} – Varamyr's thoughts

==Quotes about Varamyr==
{{Quote|A vicious little runt.{{Ref|aDwD|58|p 774}}}} – [[Tormund]]

==References and Notes==
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Samwell Tarly

2014-10-29T19:18:23Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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{{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]}}

'''Samwell Tarly''' is the eldest son of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and his wife [[Melessa Florent]]. He is popularly called 'Sam', and disparagingly referred to as 'Ser Piggy.' He is a steward of the [[Night's Watch]]. He becomes a [[POV Character]] in [[A Storm of Swords]]. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]] he is played by John Bradley.<ref name=HBO/>

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Samwell Tarly|Images of Samwell Tarly]]''
Samwell is very fat, with dark hair, pale eyes, and a large moon-shaped face.{{Ref|aGoT|26}} [[Jon Snow]] originally estimates Samwell to weigh 20 stone (127 kg/280 lbs). {{Ref|aGoT|26}} Samwell is fond of music and songs, and prefers books over weapons and soft fabrics over armor. He is also a craven, afraid of blood and violence. Although fat, timid, and unsure of himself, he is intelligent and thoughtful.

==History==
Samwell was the first child of Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] and his wife [[Melessa Florent]]. Lord Randyll, who was regarded as one of the finest military commanders in the Seven Kingdoms, did everything in his power to raise his son into what he deemed a proper heir, but Samwell frustrated him at every opportunity, resisting every effort made to change his nature. He was sent to the [[Arbor]] as a page, but the [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] twins bullied him and [[Paxter Redwyne|Lord Paxter]] sent him back to Horn Hill. A dozen masters-at-arms failed to toughen him. Attempts such as dressing him in his mother's clothes, forcing him to sleep in chainmail, and even being bathed in aurochs blood by [[Qarth]]een [[warlocks]] failed to raise his valor. He wept even to see a chicken slaughtered.

After Lady Melessa bore her husband three girls, Samwell's brother [[Dickon Tarly|Dickon]] was born. Dickon showed all of the physical vigor that Samwell lacked, and Randyll's attentions turned to raising his more promising younger son to take his place. For a time Sam was left to enjoy his music, food, and other soft pursuits, though Randyll forbade Samwell from traveling to [[Oldtown]] to become a [[Maester]], horrified at the notion of a member of his house wearing a chain.

When Sam reached maturity, his father bluntly told him that he was not worthy of their house's ancestral sword, and that he must join the [[Night's Watch]] and renounce his family name so that he would not stand in the way of his younger brother's inheritance. Failing that, Randyll promised that he would suffer an unfortunate hunting accident on the morrow. Sam chose to take the black.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Jon Snow Samwell Pypar Grenn Training Castle BlackHBO.jpg|thumb|300px|Sam training with the new recruits at [[Castle Black]].]]

Samwell arrives at [[Castle Black]] shortly after [[Jon Snow]] and is immediately mocked for his size and timid nature. Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], the master-at-arms, joins in the mocking, nicknaming him "Ser Piggy" and doing nothing to prevent the other recruits from bullying him and hurting him during their training. Miserable, Sam finds a friend in Jon, with whom he shares his story. Jon takes pity on Sam and, to Ser Alliser's annoyance, takes it upon himself to persuade (and threaten, when necessary) his fellow recruits to stop their abuse.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}

Samwell is not helped by any of Ser Alliser's training and remains an incompetent warrior. Because of this he is initially deemed not ready to take his vows and become a man of the Night's Watch with Jon and his fellow recruits. Jon, fearful of what will happen to Sam once he is no longer able to protect him, persuades [[Maester Aemon]] to allow him to join the Stewards, convincing him that despite his uselessness as a soldier, Sam's literacy and intelligence may be of great value to the Watch. Aemon agrees, and gives Samwell a position assisting him in Castle Black's rookery and library, displacing [[Chett]]. Despite having been born and raised into the [[Faith of the Seven]], Samwell decides to take his Night's Watch vow with Jon Snow at a [[Weirwood|Heart Tree]]. He is able to impress [[Jeor Mormont|Lord Commander Mormont]] by noting some of the odd details of the corpses of [[Othor]] and [[Jafer Flowers]]. He is among the group of friends who stop Jon from abandoning the Night's Watch and forswearing himself.{{Ref|aGoT|70}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Sam joins [[the Great Ranging]] to the Far North and is placed in charge of the ravens as [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] Mormont's aide.{{Ref|aCoK|11}} When the expedition stays a night at [[Craster's Keep]] he is befriended by [[Gilly]], one of daughter-wives of [[Craster]], who is pregnant and fearful that if she has a boy, Craster will sacrifice it to the [[Others]]. Samwell, unsure of what to do, turns to Jon for help, but there is nothing that Jon can do.{{Ref|aCoK|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Samwell Dragonglass.jpg|400px|thumb|Samwell facing an Other - by Amok ©]]
When the [[Others]] [[Battle of the Fist of the First Men|attack]] the Watch camp at the [[Fist of the First Men]], Sam manages to send word of the attack to Castle Black and is able to escape with a group of about fifty survivors led by [[Jeor Mormont]]. The march is hard on Sam and he is helped by his friends [[Grenn]] and [[Paul|Small Paul]]. Eventually they are separated from the majority of the men. Paul, who carried Sam for much of the journey, is attacked and killed by an Other, but the weight of his body disarms it as he dies. Samwell, who is carrying a [[dragonglass]] dagger that was among the cache found by [[Ghost]], uses the opportunity to attack, and blindly stabs the Other, who dies instantaneously from the dragonglass blade. Killing the Other earns him the nickname "Sam the Slayer", although many say this mockingly as they do not believe his feat.{{Ref|aSoS|18}}

He and Grenn rendezvous with the remaining survivors at Craster's Keep, where Gilly gives birth to a son. Shortly thereafter, violence erupts in the keep, with some Night's Watch men believing that Craster was holding out on the food he provided for the Watch, and others harboring mutinous intentions toward Commander Mormont. Craster and Mormont are both killed in the fighting, Before Mormont dies he gives Sam his dying wish, that [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]], his son, join the Watch.{{Ref|aSoS|33}}

Sam is forced to flee, joined only by Gilly and her newborn. They make it as far as a village Sam believes to be [[Whitetree]] but are then attacked by wights, including a reanimated Small Paul, who attackes Sam first. Sam fights him off and stabs him with the dragonglass dagger, but it proves ineffective. Desperately, Sam strikes him with a piece of charred wood, which catches him on fire, killing him. They run, but are beset by additional wights, and are saved at the last moment by [[Coldhands]].{{Ref|aSoS|46}}

Gilly and Sam are led back to the wall by Coldhands, who has informed them that there will be one in the [[Nightfort]] that must be sent to him. Entering the Nightfort through the castle's Black Gate, Samwell encounters [[Bran Stark]], along with [[Hodor]], and [[Meera Reed|Meera]] and [[Jojen Reed]], whom he leads back to Coldhands.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}

After leaving the Nightfort on the south side of the wall, Sam and Gilly join Ser [[Denys Mallister]] and [[Bowen Marsh]]'s party, also en route to [[Castle Black]]. They arrive after the [[Battle of Castle Black]], with [[Stannis Baratheon]] present and urging the swift election of a new Lord Commander and threatening to name one himself if none can achieve the required two-thirds majority. In the voting, [[Janos Slynt]] is gaining ground on the leading candidates [[Cotter Pyke]] and Denys Mallister. Believing Slynt would be a disastrous Lord Commander, Sam approaches Pyke and Mallister independently, and lies to each regarding Stannis's intentions to name the other to the office, thus convincing them both to support Jon Snow as a compromise candidate, leading to Jon's election.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Only water by cabepfir.jpg|thumb|350px|Sam and [[Gilly]]: "I would sooner have you than any princess..., but I can't". Art by cabepfir]]

One of Jon Snow's first acts as Lord Commander is to send Samwell South to [[Oldtown]] so that he might study there as a [[Maesters|maester]] for Castle Black. With him he sends [[Dareon]], whom he appoints as a recruiter for the Night's Watch, as well as [[Maester Aemon]] and the infant son of [[Mance Rayder]], so as to deprive [[Melisandre]] of the chance to sacrifice them for their king's blood. He also sends [[Gilly]], separating her from her child, so that she might nurse Rayder's son.{{ref|affc|5}}{{ref|Affc|15}} Maester Aemon falls ill on the voyage, however, and stopping in [[Braavos]] they are forced to spend their coin on an inn and a healer. Aemon's condition worsens nonetheless, though he briefly wakes and wishes to hear the stories of [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys's]] dragons that are spreading throughout the city, having the revelation that Daenerys may be the true fulfillment of the prophecy of [[the prince that was promised]].{{ref|affc|35}}

Samwell urges Dareon to sing at the local taverns to earn money so that they might buy passage on a ship to Oldtown, but Dareon spends most of what he earns on wine and trade from the city's whores. Samwell confronts Dareon in a brothel and accuses him of breaking his vows, and Dareon responds with his intention to abandon them and desert the Night's Watch, resulting in a fight whereupon Samwell is pulled off of Dareon and thrown into a canal. He is pulled out by [[Xhondo]], who heard him speaking of dragons and had seen them in [[Qarth]].{{ref|Affc|26}} Xhondo offers them passage on his ship, the ''Cinnamon Wind'', in exchange for work and for some of the last of their possessions.{{ref|affc|35}}

Maester Aemon dies early in that journey, and in mourning for his death Gilly briefly becomes a lover to Samwell. She names the child after Aemon,{{ref|affc|35}} and it is planned that upon landing at Oldtown she will be sent to Samwell's childhood home of [[Horn Hill]] with the story that her child is a bastard fathered by Sam. Samwell continues to the [[Citadel]], where he encounters [[Alleras]], who has sought him out and brings him straight to Archmaester [[Marwyn]], who asks Samwell to repeat for him Aemon's final words. Upon hearing the story, Marwyn immediately departs the city with the stated intention of going to Daenerys and becoming her maester.{{ref|affc|45}}

==Quotes by Sam==
{{Quote|'''Jon:''' Have you seen [[the Wall]]?

'''Sam:''' I'm fat, not blind. Of course I saw it, it's seven hundred feet high.{{ref|agot|26}}}}
– Samwell to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|Sam thought of all the trials that he and [[Gilly]] suffered, [[Craster's Keep]] and the death of the [[Jeor Mormont|Old Bear]], snow and ice and freezing winds, days and days and days of walking, the [[wight|wights]] at [[Whitetree]], [[Coldhands]] and the tree of ravens, the [[Wall]], the Wall, the Wall, the [[Nightfort#The Black Gate|Black Gate]] beneath the earth. What had it all been for? No happy choices and no happy endings.{{Ref|affc|15}}}}
– Sam's thoughts aboard the ''[[Blackbird]]''

{{Quote|The worst isn’t done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.{{ref|affc|15}}}}
– Samwell to [[Dareon]]

{{Quote|I am still craven, [[Jon Snow|Jon]]. No matter where he went in this wide world, his fears went with him.{{ref|affc|26}}}}
– Samwell, to himself in [[Braavos]]

==Quotes about Sam==

{{Quote|The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.{{Ref|aGoT|26}}}} – [[Jon Snow]]'s thoughts after meeting Sam

==Family==
{{Tarly tree}}

==See also==
* The [http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Samwell_Tarly Samwell Tarly article] on the TV show wiki.

==References and Notes==
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[[es:Samwell Tarly]][[fa:سمول تارلی]][[fr:Samwell Tarly]][[pt:Samwell Tarly]][[ru:Сэмвелл Тарли]][[zh:山姆威尔·塔利]]

Gilly

2014-10-29T19:15:01Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

{{Character
| Character_name = '''Gilly'''
| image = [[File:Only water by cabepfir.jpg|300px]]
| image_caption = Gilly and Samwell from ''Only Water'' by cabepfir
| Alias =the rabbit keeper {{Ref|aCoK|23}}
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| Culture = [[Free Folk]]
| Spouse = [[Craster]]
| Place_of_Birth =[[Craster's Keep]]
| Date_of_Birth = either {{Date|282}}, {{Date|283}} or {{date|284}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued)#Gilly|Gilly]] calculation.''</ref>
| Place_of_Death =
| Date_of_Death =
| Books = ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (Appears) ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (Appears) ''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (Appears) ''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (Appears)
| coat-of-arms
| Played_by = Hannah Murray
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]
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'''Gilly''' is a [[wildling]] girl, daughter and wife of [[Craster]]. She also has a [[The abomination|son]] by Craster.

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

Gilly seems to be in her late teens. During their initial encounter, [[Jon Snow]] estimated her to be 15 or 16 years-old. Gilly has dark hair and a gaunt face. She is named for the [[w:Gilliflower|gillyflower]]. {{Ref|aCoK|23}} <ref>The term "gillyflower" traditionally describes a number of unrelated species of scented flowering plants. The most notable of them are [[w:Dianthus caryophyllus|Dianthus caryophyllus]] (also known as "carnation" or "clove pink"), [[w:Matthiola incana|Matthiola incana]] ("stock" or "hoary stock"), [[w:Erysimum cheiri|Erysimum cheiri]] ("cheiranthus" or "wallflower"), [[w:Hesperis matronalis|Hesperis matronalis]] ("night-scented gilliflower" or "mother-of-the-evening"), [[w:Common Soapwort|Saponaria officinalis]] ("soapwort" or "bouncing bet"), and [[w:Armeria maritima|Armeria maritima]] ("thrift" or "sea pink"). </ref> She has brown eyes. She is regarded as doe-eyed. Even after giving birth, Gilly retains a slim figure. She is regarded as pretty. {{Ref|aFfC|5}} Jon Snow considers Gilly a slender little thing, somewhat childlike in appearance. Her status as a wife and mother is not evident in her appearance. {{Ref|aDwD|7}}

[[Samwell Tarly]] considers Gilly "very brave", and able to keep going no matter the obstacles on the way. He contrasts her to himself and his perceived cowardice. {{Ref|aSoS|46}} He also considers her to be kind. {{Ref|aSoS|75}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Gilly.jpg|thumb|right|Hannah Murray as Gilly at Craster's Keep ([[Game of Thrones|TV Show]])]]
When the [[Night's Watch]] stops at Craster's Keep on [[Jeor Mormont]]'s ranging, she encounters and befriends [[Samwell Tarly]]. She is pregnant with Craster's child, and fears that if she gives birth to a son, Craster will sacrifice him to the [[Others]]. She beseeches Samwell to help her, and Samwell agrees, sending her to [[Jon Snow]], to the annoyance of the latter.{{ref|acok|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the attack on the [[Fist of the First Men]], as the Night's Watch pauses to regroup at Craster's Keep, Gilly gives birth to a [[Monster|son]]. Craster is killed before he can sacrifice the child, and in the confusion Gilly flees south with Samwell. After arriving at the Wall, she serves as a wetnurse to [[Mance Rayder]]'s son after his wife, [[Dalla]], dies in childbirth.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
She is sent South aboard a ship to [[Oldtown]] with Samwell, [[Dareon]], and [[Maester Aemon]], ostensibly with her child;{{ref|affc|5}} in truth [[Jon Snow]] swapped [[The abomination|her child]] with that of [[Mance Rayder]], to spare the innocent child from [[Melisandre]]'s flames on account of his king's blood. For much of the journey she is overcome with grief at being separated from her child,{{ref|affc|15}} but after Aemon's death aboard the [[Cinnamon Wind]], she recovers, and for a time becomes a lover to Samwell.{{ref|affc|35}}

Upon their arrival at Oldtown, it is planned that she will be sent to Samwell's old home at [[Horn Hill]] with the story that her child is a bastard fathered by Samwell.{{ref|affc|45}}

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

[[Category:Wetnurse]]
[[Category:Wildlings]]
[[Category:Characters from the North]]
[[es:Elí]][[fr:Vère]][[ru:Лилли]][[zh:吉莉]]

Gilly

2014-10-29T19:13:19Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

{{Character
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| Played_by = Hannah Murray
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]
}}

'''Gilly''' is a [[wildling]] girl, daughter and wife of [[Craster]]. She also has a [[The abomination|son]] by Craster.

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

Gilly seems to be in her late teens. During their initial encounter, [[Jon Snow]] estimated her to be 15 or 16 years-old. Gilly has dark hair and a gaunt face. She is named for the [[w:Gilliflower|gillyflower]]. {{Ref|aCoK|23}} <ref>The term "gillyflower" traditionally describes a number of unrelated species of scented flowering plants. The most notable of them are [[w:Dianthus caryophyllus|Dianthus caryophyllus]] (also known as "carnation" or "clove pink"), [[w:Matthiola incana|Matthiola incana]] ("stock" or "hoary stock"), [[w:Erysimum cheiri|Erysimum cheiri]] ("cheiranthus" or "wallflower"), [[w:Hesperis matronalis|Hesperis matronalis]] ("night-scented gilliflower" or "mother-of-the-evening"), [[w:Common Soapwort|Saponaria officinalis]] ("soapwort" or "bouncing bet"), and [[w:Armeria maritima|Armeria maritima]] ("thrift" or "sea pink"). </ref> She has brown eyes. She is regarded as doe-eyed. Even after giving birth, Gilly retains a slim figure. She is regarded as pretty. {{Ref|aFfC|5}} Jon Snow considers Gilly a slender little thing, somewhat childlike in appearance. Her status as a wife and mother is not evident in her appearance. {{Ref|aDwD|7}}

[[Samwell Tarly]] considers Gilly "very brave", and able to keep going no matter the obstacles on the way. He contrasts her to himself and his perceived cowardice. {{Ref|aSoS|46}} He also considers her to be kind. {{Ref|aSoS|75}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Gilly.jpg|thumb|right|Hannah Murray as Gilly at Craster's Keep ([[Game of Thrones|TV Show]])]]
When the [[Night's Watch]] stops at Craster's Keep on [[Jeor Mormont]]'s ranging, she encounters and befriends [[Samwell Tarly]]. She is pregnant with Craster's child, and fears that if she gives birth to a son, Craster will sacrifice him to the [[Others]]. She beseeches Samwell to help her, and Samwell agrees, sending her to [[Jon Snow]], to the annoyance of the latter.{{ref|acok|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the attack on the [[Fist of the First Men]], as the Night's Watch pauses to regroup at Craster's Keep, Gilly gives birth to a [[Monster|son]]. Craster is killed before he can sacrifice the child, and in the confusion Gilly flees south with Samwell. After arriving at the Wall, she serves as a wetnurse to [[Mance Rayder]]'s son after his wife, [[Dalla]], dies in childbirth.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
She is sent South aboard a ship to [[Oldtown]] with Samwell, [[Dareon]], and [[Maester Aemon]], ostensibly with her child; in truth [[Jon Snow]] swapped [[The abomination|her child]] with that of [[Mance Rayder]], to spare the innocent child from [[Melisandre]]'s flames on account of his king's blood. For much of the journey she is overcome with grief at being separated from her child, but after Aemon's death aboard the [[Cinnamon Wind]], she recovers, and for a time becomes a lover to Samwell. Upon their arrival at Oldtown, it is planned that she will be sent to Samwell's old home at [[Horn Hill]] with the story that her child is a bastard fathered by Samwell.{{ref|affc|45}}

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

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[[Category:Wildlings]]
[[Category:Characters from the North]]
[[es:Elí]][[fr:Vère]][[ru:Лилли]][[zh:吉莉]]

Oldtown

2014-10-29T19:11:39Z

Rufion: /* Recent Events */

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| settlement_type= Port City
| location = the [[Reach]], [[Westeros]].
| seat = [[House Hightower]]
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'''Oldtown''' is one of the largest cities in [[Westeros]] and is by far the oldest, built by the [[First Men]] before the [[Andal invasion]]. The city is located in the south-west of [[the Reach]], at the mouth of the river [[Honeywine]] where it opens onto [[Whispering Sound]] and the [[Sunset Sea]] beyond. It is the western terminus of the [[Roseroad]] from [[Highgarden]] and [[King's Landing]]. [[House Hightower]] have their seat at the [[Hightower]] in Oldtown. The city also hosts the [[Citadel]].

==History==
In the [[Age of Heroes]], what is now the [[Ravenry]] of the [[Citadel]] was supposedly the stronghold of a [[pirate]] lord who sat there robbing ships as they came down the [[Honeywine]].{{ref|AFFC|45}} Oldtown survived the [[Andal invasion]] by welcoming the [[Andal]]s, not resisting them.

King [[Aegon I Targaryen]]'s reign is dated from his entrance into the city of Oldtown and his acknowledgment as King by the [[Faith of the Seven#Clergy|High Septon]]. During [[the Great Spring Sickness]], Oldtown suffered badly, second only to [[King's Landing]].{{ref|tss}}

Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] and Princess [[Elia Martell]] visited Oldtown on their way to [[Casterly Rock]] where their mother was to broker their marriage to the [[House Lannister|Lannister]] twins, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]].{{ref|aSoS|70}}

==About==
[[File:Oldtown.jpg|thumb|350px|right|© Fantasy Flight Games]]
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Oldtown|Images of Oldtown]]''
The city is primarily known as the location of the [[Citadel]], home of the order of [[Maesters]] who serve as councillors, doctors, scientists, and postmasters for the Seven Kingdoms.

The city's [[Starry Sept]] was the seat of the [[Faith of the Seven]] until the construction of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] in [[King's Landing]].{{ref|aFfC|Prologue}} Other septs include the [[Sailor's Sept]], the [[Lord's Sept]] and the [[Seven Shrines]]. Oldtown also has a [[motherhouse]].{{ref|ASOS|22}} The temples that cater to foreign sailors are all located down by the wharves.{{ref|aFfC|Prologue}}

Oldtown is also one of the most important ports of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Trading ships from all over [[Westeros]], as well as the [[Summer Islands]], the [[Free Cities]] and other places [[across the narrow sea]], constantly crowd into its harbors.

The city itself is stunningly beautiful; many rivers and canals crisscross its cobbled streets, and breathtaking stone mansions are common. The city lacks the squalor of [[King's Landing]], which usurped its position as the pre-eminent city of Westeros. However, the city is a labyrinth of wynds, alleys and streets.{{ref|aFfC|Prologue}} West of the [[Honeywine]] lie guildhalls, which sit along the shoreline.

The largest structure in the city, and also the tallest structure in Westeros, is the [[Hightower]], a massive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat|stepped lighthouse] which extends some 800 feet into the sky and is topped by a huge beacon which can be seen for many miles out to sea.

The city is policed by the [[City Watch of Oldtown]],{{ref|TMK}} commanded by Ser [[Moryn Tyrell]], an uncle of [[Mace Tyrell|Lord Mace]].{{ref|aGoT|Appendix}} Oldtown is ruled from the Hightower by [[House Hightower]]. Originally kings in their own right, they later swore fealty to [[House Gardener]], and later became vassals of the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] after the [[War of Conquest]]. The Hightowers are known for their loyalty and being stalwart. The current ruler of the city is Lord [[Leyton Hightower]].

==Streets and Markets==
====Markets====
* Thieves' Market
====Streets====
* Ragpyckers' Wynd

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
Oldtown remains aloof from the [[War of the Five Kings]]. Late in the war the [[Iron Islands]] under [[Euron Greyjoy]] launch a massive raid along the coast, conquering the [[Shield Islands]] and parts of the [[Arbor]] before trying to blockade the mouth of the Honeywine. An [[ironborn]] attack on the city's harbour is repulsed by the city's defenders. Oldtown remains under threat from the ironborn.

[[Timeon]] informs [[Brienne of Tarth]] that [[Urswyck]] was heading towards Oldtown with a small band of his fellow former [[Brave Companions]].{{Ref|aFfC|20}}

Lord Commander [[Jon Snow]] sends [[Samwell Tarly]] south to Oldtown so that he might study there to become a [[maester]] for [[Castle Black]]. He reaches Oldtown and becomes a novice at the Citadel.{{ref|affc|45}}

==Chapters that take place at Oldtown==
*[[A Feast for Crows-Prologue|A Feast for Crows: Prologue]]
*[[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 45|A Feast for Crows: 45. Samwell V]]

==References and Notes==
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Maggy the Frog

2014-10-29T17:44:28Z

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'''Maggy''', better known as '''Maggy the Frog''', was a fortune teller from [[Lannisport]]. Her true name has been forgotten, while "Maggy" was likely a bastardization of the word "[[Maegi]]".

==Appearance==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Maggy|Images of Maggy]]''
Maggy is squat and warty, with crusty yellow eyes, no teeth, and pale green jowls.{{Ref|aFfC|36}}

==History==
Maggy came to Lannisport as a young woman, brought by her husband who had been trading spices in the East. Their son was the founder of [[House Spicer]].{{ref|affc|44}}

As a girl, [[Cersei Lannister]] sought Maggy after hearing rumours about her magical powers. Cersei and her friends [[Jeyne Farman]] and [[Melara Hetherspoon]] went to her during the [[tourney for King Aerys II]]'s visit to [[the Westerlands]], at which Cersei became enamoured of Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]].

Jeyne fled the scene at the sight of Maggy's yellow eyes. Maggy initially refused to tell the futures of the remaining girls, but grudgingly agreed faced with Cersei's threats. She allowed Cersei three questions and made the prophecy of the ''valonqar'' ([[High Valyrian]] for "little brother"), which haunted Cersei thereafter. When Melara took her turn, Maggy predicted that she would die young, and hinted that it would be by Cersei's hand. Dissatisfied, Cersei threw a jar of potion into Maggy's eyes and fled, leaving Maggy to curse them both.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}{{Ref|aFfC|24}}{{Ref|aFfC|36}}

==Prophecies==

====Cersei's queenship====

A younger, more beautiful queen will be Cersei's undoing.

{{Quote|'''Cersei:''' When will I wed [[Rhaegar Targaryen|the prince]]? '''Maggy:''' Never. You will wed [[Robert Baratheon|the king]]. '''Cersei:''' I will be queen, though? '''Maggy:''' Aye. Queen you shall be... until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.{{Ref|aFfC|12}}}}

====Cersei's children====

Cersei will outlast her children and die by the hands of "''the [[valonqar]]''".

{{Quote|'''Cersei:''' Will the king and I have children? '''Maggy:''' Oh, aye. Six-and-ten for him, and three for you. Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds, she said. And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.}}

====Melara's death====

Melara will fall down a well, on the same night. The prophecy came true.

{{Quote|'''Melara:''' Will I marry [[Jaime]]? '''Maggy:''' Not Jaime, nor any other man, Worms will have your maidenhead. Your death is here tonight, little one. Can you smell her breath? She is very close.}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Piss on your prophecy, old woman.{{Ref|aFfC|39}}}} – [[Cersei Lannister]]'s thoughts

{{Quote|I would never have gone into that tent if not for them. I would never have allowed Maggy the Frog to taste my morrows in a drop of blood.{{Ref|aFfC|32}}}} – [[Cersei Lannister]]'s thoughts

==References and Notes==
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Jaehaerys I Targaryen

2014-10-28T19:35:24Z

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{{See homonyms |Jaehaerys Targaryen}}
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'''Jaehaerys I Targaryen''', known as '''the Conciliator''', '''the Wise''' or '''the Old King''', was the fourth [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] King of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], ruling from {{Date|48–103}}. He was a dragonrider whose mount was [[Vermithor]].

==Appearance==
According to a semi-canon source, Jaehaerys looked wise and dignified even into his later years, with a long white, flowing beard. Not a warrior, his crown was a simple gold band with seven different colored stones inset.<ref>Targaryen Kings. November 1, 2005 [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/ So Spake Martin]</ref>

==Biography==
Jaehaerys was a child of King [[Aenys I Targaryen]]. For unknown reasons, his half-uncle, [[Maegor I Targaryen|Maegor I]], took the [[Iron Throne]] before him. After Maegor died without issue, Jaehaerys took the throne at the age of fourteen.{{ref|trp}} He inherited from his uncle's reign a war with the [[Faith Militant]], known as the [[Faith Militant uprising]]. Maegor had used brutal methods to eradicate the rebellion, such as placing bounties on the heads of all members of the Faith Militant, but the rebellion had continued. Jaehaerys pacified the rebellion with the offer of amnesty for all participants and the disbanding of the Faith Militant.{{ref|AFFC|33}} The offer was accepted and the orders disbanded on the condition that the [[Iron Throne]] would always defend the [[Faith of the Seven]]. This act earned him the name "the Conciliator." Jaehaerys also took away the right of the Faith to conduct criminal trials.{{ref|affc|43}}

Jaehaerys ruled for over five decades, becoming the longest ruling of the Targaryen kings, which led to him also being referred to as the "Old King". Jaehaerys brought to the realm a time of great peace and prosperity, aided by his beloved sister-wife, Good Queen [[Alysanne Targaryen|Alysanne]]. Alysanne convinced him to abolish the lord's right to the [[first night]].{{ref|tss}} As his [[Hand of the King|Hand]], Jaehaerys chose Septon [[Barth]], a smith's son who served him for forty years.{{ref|aSoS|54}}

Such was Jaehaerys's wisdom and skill at diplomacy that he even managed to negotiate a truce and bring fifty years of peace between Houses [[House Bracken|Bracken]] and [[House Blackwood|Blackwood]], two houses whose animosity has lasted for well over two thousand years.{{Ref|aDwD|48}}

Jaehaerys was known for his love of travel, and once visited [[the North]] with Queen Alysanne, six dragons and half his court.{{Ref|ASOS|41}} His grandson [[Viserys I Targaryen|Viserys]] told his own grandchildren a tale of Jaehaerys flying north to defeat a vast host of [[wildling]]s, [[giant]]s, and [[warg]]s at the [[Wall]].{{ref|trp}}

It was during Jaehaerys' reign that the [[Night's Watch]] castle [[Deep Lake]] was built, which was paid for by his wife's jewels and built by men Jaehaerys sent north.{{ref|ASOS|56}} Jaehaerys built the [[kingsroad]], and the king and queen were known to stay at the [[inn at the crossroads]] during their journeys, so that afterward it was called the Two Crowns.{{ref|aFfC|37}}

Jaehaerys and Alysanne had 9 children.{{ref|awoiaf}} Their first born son was [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Jaehaerys I)|Aemon]] and their second born son was [[Baelon Targaryen (son of Jaehaerys I)|Baelon]]. In {{date|92}} Jaehaerys chose [[Baelon Targaryen (son of Jaehaerys I)|Baelon]] as his heir rather than [[Rhaenys Targaryen (The Queen Who Never Was)|Rhaenys]]. However, Baelon died before the Old King. Jaehaerys was succeeded by his grandson, [[Viserys I Targaryen|Viserys I]], who was selected as the heir by the [[Great Council of 101]].{{ref|tpatq}}

After Septon Barth, Jaehaerys chose for his Hand the legendary knight [[Ryam Redwyne]], the [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]]. Ser Ryam while a great knight proved a terrible Hand, and was replaced in that office by the king's son and heir [[Baelon Targaryen (son of Jaehaerys I)|Prince Baelon]]. After Baelon's death, Ser [[Otto Hightower]] took the job for Jaehaerys's final years.

After the deaths of both his beloved wife and son Baelon, Jaehaerys's grief was great. The Old King's mind began to wander in the last few years of his reign and his time was usually spent bed ridden. His new Hand Otto Hightower effectively ruled the realm while his daughter [[Alicent Hightower|Alicent]] looked after the ailing King, reading to him, washing him and helping to feed him.{{ref|trp}}

Jaehaerys passed away in {{date|103}}. He was sixty nine when he died. His body was burned in the [[Dragonpit]] and his ashes interred with Good Queen Alysanne's beneath the Red Keep. All of [[Westeros]] mourned, even [[Dorne]]. The Old King was well loved and brought the realm a time of great peace and prosperity.{{ref|trp}}

==Small Council under Jaehaerys I==
During the reign of King Jaehaerys his [[small council]] had the following known members:

* [[Hand of the King]] - Septon [[Barth]], served for 40 years
* [[Hand of the King]] - Ser [[Ryam Redwyne]]{{ref|trp}}
* [[Hand of the King]] - Prince [[Baelon Targaryen (son of Jaehaerys I)|Baelon Targaryen]]{{ref|trp}}
* [[Hand of the King]] - Ser [[Otto Hightower]]
* [[Master of Coin]] - Lord [[Lyman Beesbury]]
* [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]] - Ser [[Ryam Redwyne]]{{ref|trp}}

==Family==
===Ancestors===
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===Descendants===
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==References and Notes==
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House Wells (Dorne)

2014-10-28T17:50:32Z

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'''House Wells''' is a noble house from [[Dorne]]. Their arms are not yet given.<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/9/ In Dorne]</ref> There is another [[House Wells (the North)|House Wells]] from the [[North]].

==Recent Events==
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Ser [[Willam Wells]] is among the party that escorts Prince [[Quentyn Martell]] to the [[Free Cities]]. While en route to [[Volantis]] their ship, the ''[[Meadowlark]]'', is attacked and Willam is among those slain.{{ref|adwd|6}}

==House Wells at the end of the third century==
The known Wells during the timespan of the events described in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are:

* Ser {[[Willam Wells]]}, slain off the coast of the [[Disputed Lands]].

==References and Notes==
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High Septon (Tyrion's)

2014-10-28T17:30:25Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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'''Tyrion's High Septon''' is a [[High Septon]] of the [[Faith of the Seven]] chosen to his office by [[Tyrion Lannister]] after the death of his [[High Septon (Fat One)|predecessor]]. His real name is unknown as High Septons once elected to office abandon their names.

==Appearance and Personality==
The High Septon is a bent old man with a wispy grey beard and spotted hands.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} He is regarded as a good man, though weak willed.

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of the [[High Septon (Fat One)|previous High Septon]] during the [[Riot of King's Landing]], [[Tyrion Lannister]] selects his replacement. The new High Septon, while not corrupt like the previous one, is still considered a pawn.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The High Septon prays with [[Lancel Lannister]] after the boy is badly wounded during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Lancel confesses to bedding [[Cersei Lannister]] to His High Holiness and expresses his anger with her, but the High Septon says he must forgive her.{{ref|affc|30}}

Tyrion's appointee performs the marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and attends the wedding feast afterwards.{{ref|asos|60}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
The High Septon greets Queen Cersei Lannister on the steps of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] before the wake for [[Tywin Lannister]].{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

The High Septon reportedly died in his sleep.{{ref|affc|17}} Cersei, paranoid of what the High Septon might know and the fact that he was selected by her brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], had [[Osney Kettleblack]] sneak into the High Septon's chamber while he sleeps and suffocate him with a pillow.{{ref|affc|43}} He is succeeded by the [[High Sparrow]], who was imposed on the [[Most Devout]] by a group of [[sparrows]].{{ref|affc|28}}

==References and Notes==
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A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43

2014-10-28T13:34:19Z

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{{Infobox Chapter AFfC
| pov = [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]
| title = Cersei X
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| page = 642
| previous = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 42|Brienne VIII]]
| current = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43|Cersei X]]
| next = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 44|Jaime VII]]
| arc previous = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 39|Cersei IX]]
}}
==Synopsis==

Accompanied by six newly reinstated [[Warrior's Sons]], Septa [[Moelle]] brings word to the court that Queen [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her cousins have been imprisoned at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] for adultery and high treason. The Septa reveals that Margaery's maidenhead is not intact. Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] also reluctantly discloses to the Septa that Margaery has had him mix [[moon tea]] on many occasions. Leaving the throne room confident that Margaery was finished, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] agrees with [[Aurane Waters]]' request to launch his new dromonds, in case Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] decides to march on [[King's Landing]] to save his daughter. Lord [[Orton Merryweather]] remarks that the High Septon may want to try Margaery himself, as the Faith used to do. Cersei hopes he is right.

Cersei has [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] sign some blank warrants, which she then affixes names to. Summoning Ser [[Osfryd Kettleblack|Osfryd]], she orders him to arrest Ser [[Tallad]], the [[Blue Bard]], [[Hugh Clifton]], [[Mark Mullendore]], as well as the [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] twins whom she wants to be found innocent of the charges of bedding Margaery. The next morning, Cersei and [[Taena of Myr|Taena]] are carried by litter to the Great Sept. On the way, Lady Merryweather inquires, "What if Margaery demands that her innocence be determined by battle?" Cersei smiles, and replies that she must be championed by a knight of the [[Kingsguard]], but since Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack|Osmund]] is brother to one of her accusers, that leaves only Ser [[Meryn Trant]] and Ser [[Boros Blount]]. Cersei states that the former will not be feeling well when the time comes. Within the Sept, the High Septon grants Cersei permission to visit her good-daughter, while Taena goes to speak with Margaery's cousins.
Margaery is beside herself, stripped of her clothes and dignity, while she is asked once an hour to confess her fornication. Cersei tells her that she has rounded up all those that Ser Osney named, lying that they will reveal her innocence. When Cersei says that a sworn brother of the Kingsguard will fight for her should it come to a trial by combat, Margaery demands that her own brother, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], be summoned to fight in place of the grievously injured Ser [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]]. Cersei would never allow this to happen; and Margaery, well aware of Cersei's intentions, tells her to leave, calling her a vile, scheming, evil bitch.

Cersei is then escorted deep beneath [[Visenya's hill|Visenya's Hill]] to speak with the High Septon. He tells her that seven will sit in judgment of Margaery and her cousins, as the Faith did in yore, before King [[Jaehaerys I|Jaehaerys the Conciliator]] stripped them of this power. When Cersei asks to have Ser Osney released into her custody, the priest flatly denies her. Chained to the ceiling of his cell, Osney has been brutally whipped. Infuriated, Cersei tells the High Septon that Osney came of his own free will. The holy man responds, "I have heard many men confess, but seldom have I heard a man so pleased to be so guilty... The more diligently we applied the scourge, the more Ser Osney's offenses seemed to change. He would now have us believe that he never touched Margaery Tyrell." When asked now if he had carnal knowledge of the queen, Osney points at Cersei, saying, "Aye. That one there." Furthermore, he confesses that Cersei ordered him to kill the old High Septon. Upon hearing this, Cersei bolts from the cell, racing headlong through the Great Sept. Fearing what may happen should the Faith question Taena Merryweather, she is soon overtaken by a group of septas, who strip her and confine her to a grim cell.

Her screams going unheard, Cersei begins to shiver from the cold. Every time she begins to fall asleep, she is jostled awake and asked if she will confess her sins. After two days of this torture, [[Qyburn]] enters her cell. She begs him to take her home, but the de-chained maester tells her it will not be allowed and she will be tried for murder, treason, and fornication. He reveals that Margaery will be tried by the same court, and that he delivered the Blue Bard to the High Septon, but despite the Faith's torture, "he is still singing the same sweet song we taught him". Qyburn then informs her of the rapid changes made since her fall: the realm is now being governed by Ser [[Harys Swyft]] and Pycelle; they removed Ser Osfryd as Commander of the gold cloaks and Qyburn from the small council (though he still works for them thanks to his control of [[Varys]]' whisperers); Lord Orton and Taena have fled to [[Longtable]], while Ser [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]] has been sent for to take over the Regency. Perhaps worst of all, Aurane Waters unshipped his oars and sailed the fleet, possibly to join Lord [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]; while Lord Mace Tyrell and Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] are marching on [[King's Landing]].

Despite Qyburn's words that his unbeatable "champion" is ready, Cersei knows that only a Kingsguard can defend her in a trial by combat. She has Qyburn pen her final plea to her brother: "Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you as I have never needed you before. I love you, I love you, I love you. Come at once."

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/09/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-feast-for-crows-part-31 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows, Part 31]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.

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A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43

2014-10-28T13:34:06Z

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{{Infobox Chapter AFfC
| pov = [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]
| title = Cersei X
| place = [[King's Landing]]
| page = 642
| previous = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 42|Brienne VIII]]
| current = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 43|Cersei X]]
| next = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 44|Jaime VII]]
| arc previous = [[A Feast for Crows-Chapter 39|Cersei IX]]
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==Synopsis==

Accompanied by six newly reinstated [[Warrior's Sons]], Septa [[Moelle]] brings word to the court that Queen [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] and her cousins have been imprisoned at the [[Great Sept of Baelort]] for adultery and high treason. The Septa reveals that Margaery's maidenhead is not intact. Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] also reluctantly discloses to the Septa that Margaery has had him mix [[moon tea]] on many occasions. Leaving the throne room confident that Margaery was finished, [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] agrees with [[Aurane Waters]]' request to launch his new dromonds, in case Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] decides to march on [[King's Landing]] to save his daughter. Lord [[Orton Merryweather]] remarks that the High Septon may want to try Margaery himself, as the Faith used to do. Cersei hopes he is right.

Cersei has [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]] sign some blank warrants, which she then affixes names to. Summoning Ser [[Osfryd Kettleblack|Osfryd]], she orders him to arrest Ser [[Tallad]], the [[Blue Bard]], [[Hugh Clifton]], [[Mark Mullendore]], as well as the [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] twins whom she wants to be found innocent of the charges of bedding Margaery. The next morning, Cersei and [[Taena of Myr|Taena]] are carried by litter to the Great Sept. On the way, Lady Merryweather inquires, "What if Margaery demands that her innocence be determined by battle?" Cersei smiles, and replies that she must be championed by a knight of the [[Kingsguard]], but since Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack|Osmund]] is brother to one of her accusers, that leaves only Ser [[Meryn Trant]] and Ser [[Boros Blount]]. Cersei states that the former will not be feeling well when the time comes. Within the Sept, the High Septon grants Cersei permission to visit her good-daughter, while Taena goes to speak with Margaery's cousins.
Margaery is beside herself, stripped of her clothes and dignity, while she is asked once an hour to confess her fornication. Cersei tells her that she has rounded up all those that Ser Osney named, lying that they will reveal her innocence. When Cersei says that a sworn brother of the Kingsguard will fight for her should it come to a trial by combat, Margaery demands that her own brother, Ser [[Garlan Tyrell|Garlan the Gallant]], be summoned to fight in place of the grievously injured Ser [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]]. Cersei would never allow this to happen; and Margaery, well aware of Cersei's intentions, tells her to leave, calling her a vile, scheming, evil bitch.

Cersei is then escorted deep beneath [[Visenya's hill|Visenya's Hill]] to speak with the High Septon. He tells her that seven will sit in judgment of Margaery and her cousins, as the Faith did in yore, before King [[Jaehaerys I|Jaehaerys the Conciliator]] stripped them of this power. When Cersei asks to have Ser Osney released into her custody, the priest flatly denies her. Chained to the ceiling of his cell, Osney has been brutally whipped. Infuriated, Cersei tells the High Septon that Osney came of his own free will. The holy man responds, "I have heard many men confess, but seldom have I heard a man so pleased to be so guilty... The more diligently we applied the scourge, the more Ser Osney's offenses seemed to change. He would now have us believe that he never touched Margaery Tyrell." When asked now if he had carnal knowledge of the queen, Osney points at Cersei, saying, "Aye. That one there." Furthermore, he confesses that Cersei ordered him to kill the old High Septon. Upon hearing this, Cersei bolts from the cell, racing headlong through the Great Sept. Fearing what may happen should the Faith question Taena Merryweather, she is soon overtaken by a group of septas, who strip her and confine her to a grim cell.

Her screams going unheard, Cersei begins to shiver from the cold. Every time she begins to fall asleep, she is jostled awake and asked if she will confess her sins. After two days of this torture, [[Qyburn]] enters her cell. She begs him to take her home, but the de-chained maester tells her it will not be allowed and she will be tried for murder, treason, and fornication. He reveals that Margaery will be tried by the same court, and that he delivered the Blue Bard to the High Septon, but despite the Faith's torture, "he is still singing the same sweet song we taught him". Qyburn then informs her of the rapid changes made since her fall: the realm is now being governed by Ser [[Harys Swyft]] and Pycelle; they removed Ser Osfryd as Commander of the gold cloaks and Qyburn from the small council (though he still works for them thanks to his control of [[Varys]]' whisperers); Lord Orton and Taena have fled to [[Longtable]], while Ser [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]] has been sent for to take over the Regency. Perhaps worst of all, Aurane Waters unshipped his oars and sailed the fleet, possibly to join Lord [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]; while Lord Mace Tyrell and Lord [[Randyll Tarly]] are marching on [[King's Landing]].

Despite Qyburn's words that his unbeatable "champion" is ready, Cersei knows that only a Kingsguard can defend her in a trial by combat. She has Qyburn pen her final plea to her brother: "Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you as I have never needed you before. I love you, I love you, I love you. Come at once."

==References and Notes==
*The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/09/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-feast-for-crows-part-31 A Read of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows, Part 31]. Analyses and summary of the chapter by Leigh Butler.

[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Feast for Crows: Chapter 43]]
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Cersei Lannister]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place at the Red Keep]]
[[Category:Chapters which take place at the Great Sept of Baelor]]

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High Septon (Tyrion's)

2014-10-28T13:28:45Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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'''Tyrion's High Septon''' is a [[High Septon]] of the [[Faith of the Seven]] chosen to his office by [[Tyrion Lannister]] after the death of his [[High Septon (Fat One)|predecessor]]. His real name is unknown as High Septons once elected to office abandon their names.

==Appearance and Personality==
The High Septon is a bent old man with a wispy grey beard and spotted hands.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} He is regarded as a good man, though weak willed.

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of the [[High Septon (Fat One)|previous High Septon]] during the [[Riot of King's Landing]], [[Tyrion Lannister]] selects his replacement. The new High Septon, while not corrupt like the previous one, is still considered a pawn.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The High Septon prays with [[Lancel Lannister]] after the boy is badly wounded during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Lancel confesses to bedding [[Cersei Lannister]] to His High Holiness and expresses his anger with her, but the High Septon says he must forgive her.{{ref|affc|30}}

Tyrion's appointee performs the marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and attends the wedding feast afterwards.{{ref|asos|60}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
The High Septon greets Queen Cersei Lannister on the steps of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] before the wake for [[Tywin Lannister]].{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

The High Septon reportedly died in his sleep.{{ref|affc|17}} Cersei, paranoid of what the High Septon might know and the fact that he was selected by her brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], had [[Osney Kettleblack]] sneak into the High Septon's chamber while he sleeps and suffocate him with a pillow.{{ref|affc|43}} He is succeeded by the [[High Sparrow]], who was imposed on the [[Most Devout]] by a group of [[sparrows]].

==References and Notes==
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Lords Declarant

2014-10-27T15:50:49Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

The '''Lords Declarant''' are a group of nobles from the [[Vale]] that sign a letter stating their intent to remove Lord [[Petyr Baelish]] as Lord Protector of the Vale by any means necessary. The letter, signed at [[Runestone]], is sent both to the [[Eyrie]] and [[King's Landing]].{{Ref|aFfC|17}}{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

==The Signatories==
{{COA|Royce|small}} Lord [[Yohn Royce]], head of [[House Royce]]. 
{{COA|Waynwood|small}} Lady [[Anya Waynwood]], head of [[House Waynwood]]. 
{{COA|hunter|small}} Lord [[Gilwood Hunter]], head of [[House Hunter]]. 
{{COA|redfort|small}} Lord [[Horton Redfort]], head of [[House Redfort]]. 
{{COA|belmore|small}} Lord [[Benedar Belmore]], head of [[House Belmore]]. 
{{COA|templeton|small}} Ser [[Symond Templeton]], head of [[House Templeton]], oft called the Knight of Ninestars. 

==Recent Events==
===''A Feast for Crows''===
The Lords Declarant, after sending the letters, mass their forces beneath the Eyrie, intending to blockade the fortress until Lord Petyr surrenders. Each Lord brings a thousand soldiers. Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] sends a letter ordering safe passage for Petyr but otherwise the terms would be decided amongst themselves.{{Ref|aFfC|17}}

After some time of denying access of food and other goods from the outside to the Eyrie, the Lords Declarant negotiate a meeting and arrive with [[Lyn Corbray]] to confront Petyr with their objections to his rule and their insistence at taking Lord [[Robert Arryn]] away from him. However, their demands are stymied by a display of belligerence from Corbray, which shames the Lords Declarant into giving Petyr a year to show his prowess at raising Robert and ruling the Eyrie. As it turns out, Petyr has his own agent among them and believes the weaknesses of the Lords will make them easy to manipulate from now on.

Lord Yohn Royce sees [[Sansa Stark|Alayne Stone]] during the proceedings, but shows no sign of recognizing her.{{Ref|aFfC|23}}

Lord Benedar, Lady Waynwood, and Ser Symond attended the wedding of Lord [[Lyonel Corbray]] in [[Gulltown]], an event masterminded by Petyr Baelish. The other Lords Declarant shun the wedding. Petyr had bought up the debts of the Waynwoods and persuaded Lady Anya to give permission for Sansa to wed her ward, [[Harrold Hardyng]], if Harry agrees.{{ref|AFFC|41}}

==References and Notes==
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Rorge

2014-10-23T18:26:35Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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'''Rorge''' is one of the criminals [[Yoren]] picked for the [[Night's Watch]] when he cleaned out the dungeons of [[King’s Landing]]{{ref|acok|Appendix}} and is part of the group marching north to the [[Wall]].{{Ref|aCoK|5}} In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' he is portrayed by Andy Beckwith.

==Appearance and Character==
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of Rorge|Images of Rorge]]''
Rorge is described as squat, bulky, and hairy, with black hair covering most of his body. He is also described as thick and powerful.{{ref|ASoS|21}} He is missing his nose, and the nasal bar of his iron half-helm does not completely conceal the hole.{{ref|ASOS|21}}

==History==
According to semi-canon sources, Rorge ran a dog and bear fighting pit in [[Flea Bottom]]. He found [[Biter]] as an orphan and raised him ferally to fight dogs in the pit.<ref>Canadian Signing Tour (Vancouver, January 13, 2006) report [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Canadian_Signing_Tour_Vancouver/ So Spake Martin]</ref>

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
Rorge is one of three known criminals imprisoned in the [[Red Keep#Dungeons|black cells]].{{ref|AFFC|8}} He is taken from the black cells and is bound for the [[Wall]] in [[Yoren]]'s band alongside [[Arya Stark]], [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]], [[Lommy Greenhands]], [[Jaqen H'ghar]], and [[Biter]], among others. Yoren considers him so dangerous that he keeps him chained in a wagon, along with [[Jaqen H'ghar]] and [[Biter]], for the journey to the Wall.{{Ref|aCoK|1}}

When Yoren's band is attacked at the [[Gods Eye town|Gods Eye]] by Ser [[Amory Lorch]] and Yoren is killed, Arya saves Rorge's life, along with Biter and Jaqen H'ghar, by giving them an axe to break free with as the room burns around their wagon.{{ref|ACOK|19}} The three join the [[Brave Companions]] for a time, under [[Vargo Hoat]]. They help Arya [[Sack of Harrenhal|free the northmen]] held captive at [[Harrenhal]], though Rorge and Biter do it reluctantly and only because Jaqen requested their help.{{ref|ACOK|47}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Rorge is part of the foraging company who captures [[Jaime Lannister]] and [[Brienne of Tarth]] near [[Maidenpool]]. He immediately threatens Brienne with rape and severely beats Jaime into submission.{{ref|ASOS|21}} He later claims the bloodstained surcoat off the corpse of [[Cleos Frey]].{{ref|ASOS|21}}

On the way back to [[Harrenhal]], Rorge, [[Shagwell]] and [[Zollo]] attempt to rape Brienne. He argues with Zollo over who would rape Brienne first, but Jaime thwarts them. Jaime considers Rorge one of the three worst members of the Brave Companions.{{ref|ASoS|31}}

Rorge is one of the many Brave Companions who remain behind at Harrenhal after several failed foraging runs. He is present when [[Brienne of Tarth]] is thrown into the bear pit and threatens Jaime once more when he comes back to save her, but [[Vargo Hoat]] orders him to stand down.{{ref|ASOS|44}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
After [[Retaking of Harrenhal|Hoat's death]], Rorge, Biter, and some of the remaining Brave Companions travel east to the town of [[Saltpans]] where Rorge finds and dons the Hound helm once worn by [[Sandor Clegane]]. He wears the helm whilst brutally [[Sack of Saltpans|sacking Saltpans]], which results in Clegane being blamed for the attack. At the [[inn at the crossroads]], Rorge duels with and is slain by [[Brienne of Tarth]].{{ref|affc|37}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Come closer, and I’ll shove that stick up your bunghole and fuck you bloody.{{Ref|aCoK|5}}}} – Rorge, to [[Arya Stark]]

{{Quote|You're the ugliest woman I've ever seen, but don't think I can’t make you uglier. You want a nose like mine? Fight me, and you'll get one. And two eyes, that's too many. One scream out o' you, and I'll pop one out and make you eat it, and then I'll pull your fucking teeth out one by one.{{Ref|ASOS|31}}}} – Rorge, to [[Brienne of Tarth]]

==References and Notes==
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Falyse Stokeworth

2014-10-22T19:22:16Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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Lady '''Falyse Stokeworth''' is the heir of Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth]]. She has been married to Ser [[Balman Byrch]] for ten years, but they remain childless.

==Appearance & Character==
Falyse has an acid tongue.{{ref|ACOK|2}} Cersei thinks to herself that Falyse not only looks like a fish but drinks like one too. She is fond of [[hippocras]].{{Ref|aFfC|24}} It is rumoured that her husband shuns her bed.{{ref|asos|66}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===

Falyse remains at the court of King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] after the beginning of [[War of the Five Kings|hostilities]] with [[the North]]. She attends the [[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day]] with her mother, Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth|Tanda]] and her sister, [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys]]. Falyse arrives in [[King's Landing]] with a small troop of soldiers the day before the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. She stays in [[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]] during the battle with her sister and mother.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Falyse attends the funeral of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her husband, Ser [[Balman Byrch]],{{ref|AFFC|7}} but is not in King's Landing for the wedding of King [[Tommen Baratheon]] to [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|AFFC|12}} After the birth of Lollys's bastard son, Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] believes [[Bronn]] to be a traitor because he names the child [[Tyrion Tanner|Tyrion]]. While traveling from [[Stokeworth]] to King's Landing, Falyse is refused hospitality at [[Rosby]] by the [[ward of Lord Gyles Rosby]] and is also disturbed by [[sparrows]] on the road. Once Falyse returns to the capital, Cersei plots with Falyse and her husband, attempting use them as her tools to get rid of Bronn.{{Ref|AFFC|24}}

The plan backfires when Balman challenges Bronn to single combat, and Bronn kills Balman in an unchivalrous manner. Bronn hits Falyse and orders her gone. She returns to King's Landing, pleading with Cersei to give her the men to retake her castle. Cersei, fearing that the failure of the plot would undermine her position, gives Falyse to [[Qyburn]] instead and tells him that Falyse should never see the light of day again.{{Ref|AFFC|32}} When Cersei contemplates sending Falyse back to Stokeworth to reclaim it from Bronn, Qyburn tells her that she is not able feed herself, much less rule.{{ref|AFFC|36}}

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

Falyse dies screaming due to Qyburn's torture and experiments.{{Ref|ADWD|Appendix}}

==Family==
{{Stokeworth tree}}

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Noblewomen|Stokeworth, Falyse]]
[[Category:Characters from the Crownlands|Stokeworth, Falyse]]
[[es:Falyse Stokeworth]]
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Template:Spicer tree

2014-10-22T14:21:51Z

Rufion: Rollam is the youngest (AFFC Appendix)

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Falyse Stokeworth

2014-10-20T14:05:54Z

Rufion: /* A Feast for Crows */

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Lady '''Falyse Stokeworth''' is the heir of Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth]]. She has been married to Ser [[Balman Byrch]] for ten years, but they remain childless.

==Appearance & Character==
Falyse has an acid tongue.{{ref|ACOK|2}} Cersei thinks to herself that Falyse not only looks like a fish but drinks like one too. She is fond of [[hippocras]].{{Ref|aFfC|24}} It is rumoured that her husband shuns her bed.{{ref|asos|66}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===

Falyse remains at the court of King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] after the beginning of [[War of the Five Kings|hostilities]] with [[the North]]. She attends the [[Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day]] with her mother, Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth|Tanda]] and her sister, [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys]]. Falyse arrives in [[King's Landing]] with a small troop of soldiers the day before the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. She stays in [[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]] during the battle with her sister and mother.

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Falyse attends the funeral of Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] with her husband, Ser [[Balman Byrch]],{{ref|AFFC|7}} but is not in King's Landing for the wedding of King [[Tommen Baratheon]] to [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|AFFC|12}} After the birth of Lollys's bastard son, Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] believes [[Bronn]] to be a traitor because he names the child [[Tyrion Tanner|Tyrion]]. While traveling from [[Stokeworth]] to King's Landing, Falyse is refused hospitality at [[Rosby]] by the [[ward of Lord Gyles Rosby]] and is also disturbed by [[sparrows]] on the road. Once Falyse returns to the capital, Cersei plots with Falyse and her husband, attempting use them as her tools to get rid of Bronn.{{Ref|AFFC|24}}

The plan backfires when Balman challenges Bronn to single combat, and Bronn kills Balman in an unchivalrous manner. Bronn hits Falyse and orders her gone. She returns to King's Landing, pleading with Cersei to give her the men to retake her castle. Cersei, fearing that the failure of the plot would undermine her position, gives Falyse to [[Qyburn]] instead and tells him that Falyse should never see the light of day again.{{Ref|AFFC|32}}

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

Falyse dies screaming due to Qyburn's torture and experiments.{{Ref|ADWD|Appendix}}

==Family==
{{Stokeworth tree}}

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Characters from the Crownlands|Stokeworth, Falyse]]
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High Septon (Tyrion's)

2014-10-17T14:06:25Z

Rufion: /* A Storm of Swords */

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'''Tyrion's High Septon''' is a [[High Septon]] of the [[Faith of the Seven]] chosen to his office by [[Tyrion Lannister]] after the death of his [[High Septon (Fat One)|predecessor]]. His real name is unknown as High Septons once elected to office abandon their names.

==Appearance and Personality==
The High Septon is a bent old man with a wispy grey beard and spotted hands.{{Ref|aFfC|7}} He is regarded as a good man, though weak willed.

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the death of the [[High Septon (Fat One)|previous High Septon]] during the [[Riot of King's Landing]], [[Tyrion Lannister]] selects his replacement. The new High Septon, while not corrupt like the previous one, is still considered a pawn.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
The High Septon prays with [[Lancel Lannister]] after the boy is badly wounded during the [[Battle of the Blackwater]]. Lancel confesses to bedding [[Cersei Lannister]] to His High Holiness and expresses his anger with her, but the High Septon says he must forgive her.{{ref|affc|30}}

Tyrion's appointee performs the marriage between [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]] at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] and attends the wedding feast afterwards.{{ref|asos|60}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
The High Septon greets Queen Cersei Lannister on the steps of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] before the wake for [[Tywin Lannister]].{{Ref|aFfC|7}}

The High Septon reportedly died in his sleep.{{ref|affc|17}} Cersei, paranoid of what the High Septon might know and the fact that he was selected by her brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], had [[Osney Kettleblack]] sneak into the High Septon's chamber while he sleeps and suffocate him with a pillow. He is succeeded by the [[High Sparrow]], who was imposed on the [[Most Devout]] by a group of [[sparrows]].

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

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[[Category:Members of the Faith]]

[[fr:Grand Moineau]]

Template:High Septons

2014-10-15T18:50:18Z

Rufion: war of conques

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2014-10-15T18:48:58Z

Rufion: the stonemason

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High Septon (stonemason)

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The '''stonemason High Septon''' was appointed [[High Septon]] by King [[Baelor I Targaryen|Baelor I]].
==About==
During his reign King Baelor had him, a stonemason by trade, named as the High Septon. He could carve stonework so beautifully that Baelor believed him to be [[Smith (the Seven)|the Smith]] in human form. While a fantastic stonecarver, this High Septon could not read, write or recite any prayers and must have been ill suited to his new vocation High Septon.{{Ref|affc|28}}

It was rumoured that to spare the realm embarrassment, [[Viserys II Targaryen|Viserys Targaryen]] used his position as [[Hand]] to have him [[poison]]ed, thereby ridding the realm of an ineffectual High Septon.{{ref|AFFC|28}}

==References and Notes==
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Riots in King's Landing

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[[File:Mathia Arkoniel the riot.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Sandor saves Sansa from the rioters - by Mathia Arkoniel ©]]
The '''Riot of King's Landing''' is a large riot in the city of [[King's Landing]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]]. It leaves several notable people dead and burns parts of the city.{{ref|aCoK|41}}

==Prelude==
The cause of the riot is due to a lack of food and sense of dissatisfaction of the general populace during [[Tyrion Lannister]]'s preparation for the eventual assault on King's Landing by [[Stannis Baratheon]], a claimant to the throne. With the [[Reach]] cut off due to the war and the [[Riverlands]] awash in blood, King's Landing is supplied mainly by [[House Rosby]] and [[House Stokeworth]], whose lands have been largely untouched by the war.{{ref|aCoK|17}} This leads to shortages in most basic foods. Already incensed with King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]'s brand of justice, the city is in a bad way when the lords and ladies ride out to the harbor to see Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon]] off to [[Dorne]].{{ref|aCoK|41}}

==The Riot==
On the way back to the castle, as the king's party rides up the Hook at the foot of [[Aegon's High Hill]], a woman walks out of the crowd with a dead baby and blocks the way. [[Sansa Stark]] encourages the king to win the people by throwing the woman some gold, but the woman ignores the coins as they fell around her and continues to hold the baby before her. Someone throws dung at the king, hitting him squarely in the face. Incensed, Joffrey demands to know the culprit and sends [[Sandor Clegane]] in the general direction of where the crowd said he was. This angers the crowd and shouted curses shower down on the party, further inflaming the situation. The crowd begins to move in and soon the party is surrounded and has to fight their way out.{{ref|aCoK|41}}

Not all of the party escape the mob. Among those killed are Ser [[Aron Santagar]], Ser [[Preston Greenfield]] and the [[High Septon]]. [[Lollys Stokeworth]] is raped and [[Tyrek Lannister]] is never found. Dozens of the smallfolk are killed by the [[gold cloaks]] and the knights of the [[Kingsguard]] who defend the King.{{ref|aCoK|41}}

Even after the king is safely within the walls of the [[Red Keep]], the riot continues. [[King's Landing#Flea Bottom|Flea Bottom]] is set afire.{{ref|aCoK|41}} A goldsmith is killed for having a full larder while the city starves. His manse is burned down.{{ref|aCoK|44}}

==Aftermath==
Nine gold cloaks are killed and over forty are wounded. However, the [[smallfolk]] pay for their attack. By night-time, the fires are out and most of the mobs disperse. There is no improvement in the welfare of the general populace and now a curfew is set in place so that anyone found in the streets after dark is to be killed. Tyrek Lannister remains missing. Lollys has a son, who is subsequently named [[Tyrion Tanner]]. Tyrion Lannister has a [[High Septon (Tyrion's)|new High Septon]] named, and Ser [[Balon Swann]] fills Preston Greenfield's place in the Kingsguard.{{ref|aCoK|41}}

Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] later notes that [[Varys]] was not present to see Myrcella off to Dorne, thereby avoiding the riot. He wonders if Varys had agents abduct Tyrek during the riot due to the fact that Tyrek squired for [[Robert Baratheon]].{{ref|Affc|27}}

==Notable participants==
===Survivors===
*King [[Joffrey Baratheon]]
*Queen [[Cersei Lannister]]
*Prince [[Tommen Baratheon]]
*[[Hand of the King]] [[Tyrion Lannister]]
*Lord [[Gyles Rosby]]
*Lady [[Tanda Stokeworth]]
*Ser [[Mandon Moore]]
*Ser [[Boros Blount]]
*Ser [[Meryn Trant]]
*Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]]
*Ser [[Lancel Lannister]]
*Ser [[Balon Swann]]
*Ser [[Horas Redwyne]]
*[[Jalabhar Xho]]
*[[Bronn]]
*[[Sandor Clegane]], initially thought dead
*[[Sansa Stark]], initially thought dead
*[[Lollys Stokeworth]], found later after being gang-raped half a hundred times

===Dead===
*[[High Septon (Fat One)|High Septon]], ripped apart by the mob
*Ser [[Preston Greenfield]] of the Kingsguard, hacked and stabbed to death
*Ser [[Aron Santagar]], Master-at-Arms of the [[Red Keep]], held down and had his head bashed in with cobblestones

===Missing===
*[[Tyrek Lannister]]

==References and Notes==
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