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Dawn

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[[File:Dawn by henning.jpg|350px|thumb|Dawn by Henning Ludvigsen, Fantasy Flight Games ©]]
'''Dawn''' is the ancestral [[greatsword]] of [[House Dayne]], who bestow the title [[Sword of the Morning]] on the sword's bearer. It is said to be made from metal forged from the heart of a fallen star.{{ref|ACOK|21}} Its blade is as pale as milkglass.{{ref|AGOT|39}} The name of the Daynes' castle, [[Starfall]], and their arms, featuring a white sword and falling star, both reference Dawn.

The last known user of the sword was Ser [[Arthur Dayne]], who died at the [[Tower of Joy]]. After the fight, [[Eddard Stark]] rode to Starfall to deliver Dawn to Arthur's sister, [[Ashara Dayne]].

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Dawn remains at [[Starfall]], until another Sword of the Morning shall arise.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/P75/ So Spake Martin. Valyria-related Subjects.] January 01, 2002</ref>}} - [[George R. R. Martin]]

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Others

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[[File:John_Picacio_the_Others.jpg‎| The Others ‎- © 2012 John Picacio|thumb|350px|right]]

{{Quote|Demons made of snow and ice and cold...The ancient enemy. The only enemy that matters. {{Ref|aSoS|78}}}} – [[Stannis Baratheon]] describing the Others

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|400px|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}}

==Characteristics==
[[File:White walkers by reneaigner.jpg|thumb|300px|Other or white walker. Art by Rene Aigner©]]
[[File:White_walker_by_arkoniel.jpg|thumb|300px|Others by Mathia Arkoniel©]]
The Others appear in the prologue to ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' as tall and gaunt with flesh pale as milk and blue eyes, deeper and bluer than human eyes, burning like ice, as bright as blue stars, and as cold. {{ref|aCoK|23}} The white walker who married the [[Night's King]] is similarly described as having skin as pale as the moon and eyes like blue stars. [[Old Nan]] declares them to be cold dead things, hating all life, but 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.

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

The Others are known only as White Walkers in the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]]. 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 TV series give two major revelations about the White Walkers that haven't 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 there has been no evidence so far on what actually happens to the babies, even 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 big revelation was 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.

The synopsis for the episode ''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 couple of 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.

==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|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]]

{{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]]

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

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Valyria

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| image_caption = Topless towers of Valyria

| settlement_type= Ruins of the [[Valyrian Freehold]] Capital City
| location = Valyrian peninsula, [[Essos]]
| seat = Dragonlords
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'''Valyria''' is a ruined city in [[Essos]]. It is a long-dead city of wonderment, and was once the capital of a great empire called the [[Valyrian Freehold]]. It was destroyed by a cataclysmic event known as the [[Doom of Valyria]] a century before [[War of Conquest|Aegon's Landing]]. It is the ancestral home of [[House Targaryen]].{{Ref|aGoT|3}}

==Location==

Valyria was located on [[Valyrian peninsula|a peninsula]] of the same name extending into the [[Summer Sea]].<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Map of Slaver's Bay|Map of Slaver's Bay]]</ref>{{Ref|aGoT|Appendix}} The [[Doom of Valyria]] shattered the peninsula, separating the city of Valyria from the [[Lands of the Long Summer]] by the [[Smoking Sea]]. The city of Valyria lies at the center of the largest surviving island, surrounded by cliffs where the island has broken away from the mainland. Valyria was connected by [[Valyrian roads]] to surrounding cities, such as [[Tyria]].<ref>''[[The Lands of Ice and Fire]]''</ref>

==Culture==
A common racial characteristic among Valyrians appears to have been [[purple eyes]] and hair of silver-gold or platinum white. Valyria is said to still hold many treasures from before the Doom, such as [[Valyrian steel]] blades and items of magical power. It is said that the glass candles of [[Oldtown]] were brought there from Valyria a thousand years before the Doom.

==History==
Valyria was ruled by its [[dragonlords]], led by two score rival houses that contested for power. House Targaryen, however, was not considered a powerful house. <ref>[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/72313-reading-from-the-world-of-ice-and-fire/page__st__40#entry3588552 Reading from the world of Ice and Fire.] Notes from George R.R. Martin's reading and Q&A at the Bubonicon 44 in Albuquerque by Trebla.</ref> The Valyrians' empire, the [[Valyrian Freehold]], conquered the [[Ghiscari Empire]] to the east and established colonies to the west and north. Valyria and its peninsula were shattered by the [[Doom of Valyria|Doom]], however.

Some years ago [[Gerion Lannister]] journeyed to Valyria to try to recover [[Brightroar]], the lost Valyrian steel sword of [[House Lannister]], and any other treasures that might have survived the Doom. He did not return and was presumed lost at sea.{{Ref|aSoS|32}} More recently, [[Euron Greyjoy]] claims to have returned from Valyria to claim the throne of the [[Iron Islands]].

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Blackfyre

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:''This article is about the Valyrian steel sword. For the house founded by [[Daemon Blackfyre]], see '''[[House Blackfyre]]'''''.
[[File:Blackfyre.jpg|350px|thumb|right|© Fantasy Flight Games]]

'''Blackfyre''' is the fabled [http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bastard_sword hand-and-a-half longsword] of [[Valyrian steel]], wielded by [[Aegon the Conqueror]].
==About==
The Targaryens owned several Valyrian steel swords. Blackfyre is the most famous of them.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/P105/ Many Questions.]June 13, 2001</ref> It is one of the two named Valyrian steel swords the Targaryens brought from [[Dragonstone]] after the [[Doom]], the other is [[Dark Sister]]. Blackfyre was passed from Targaryen king to king, until [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Unworthy]] chose to bestow it on his bastard son [[Daemon Blackfyre|Daemon]] instead of his legitimate son instead of his legitimate son, Daeron, whom he suspected was actually fathered by his brother, Prince Aemon the [[Dragonknight]]. <ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999/ SSM:June 26, 2001]</ref>

Some felt that the sword symbolized the monarchy, so the gift was the seed from which the [[Blackfyre Rebellion]] grew. During the Blackfyre Rebellion Daemon continued to wield the sword in battle, and fought an epic duel with Ser [[Gwayne Corbray]] of the Kingsguard at the [[Battle of the Redgrass Field]], pitted against Gwayne's own Valyrian blade [[Lady Forlorn]].

After the death of Daemon Blackfyre and two of his sons on the Redgrass Fields, his half brother [[Aegor Rivers|Bittersteel]] took Blackfyre with him in exile to the [[Free Cities]], where Bittersteel and Daemon's surviving kin founded the mercenary force known as the [[Golden Company]]. The sword's whereabouts are unknown.

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