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| Allegiance | House Mormont | |||
| Culture | Northmen | |||
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| Mother | Maege Mormont | |||
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Alysane Mormont, known as Aly and the She-Bear, is a member of House Mormont. She is the second daughter of Maege Mormont, Lady of Bear Island.[5]
Appearance and Character
Alysane is short, chunky, and muscular, with big thighs, breasts, and hands. Her hands are heavily callused. She has crooked teeth, but an ingratiating smile. Her snores are reportedly worse than any man's.[6]
Aly is gruff and taciturn.[6]
Alysane wears ringmail under her furs, boiled leather under that, and sheepskin under the leather, turned inside out for warmth, even while sleeping. The layers make her look almost as wide as she is tall, and also ferocious.[6]
History
Alysane is in her mid-twenties and has two children, a nine-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son. She is unwed, and claims her children were fathered by a bear. Though Alysanne started having children at an age she feels was too young, she also feels that it was better than to wait too long.[6]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
After the death of her elder sister, Dacey, at the Red Wedding, Alysane is the new heir of House Mormont.[7]
A Dance with Dragons
Alysane and men-at-arms of House Mormont launch a surprise attack on longships off the strand of Deepwood Motte, taking them unawares by hiding fighters inside a gaggle of fishing sloops. She burns and captures all the longships, securing several ironborn captains, knights, warriors, and other nobility for ransom.[1]
After Stannis Baratheon is victorious in the fight by Deepwood Motte and restores it to House Glover, Alysane joins his army for the march on Winterfell. Aly insists that Lord Roose Bolton cannot be allowed to hold Winterfell, and that "Arya Stark" must be rescued from the Boltons. She also wants Theon Greyjoy to be killed for his prior capture of Winterfell.[6] Despite their alliance, Alysane frustrates Stannis.[6]
She is assigned as one of the guards of the captive Asha Greyjoy, Theon's sister, and watches her day and night. Alysane and Asha share sleeping furs, and Asha grows used to her snores while on the march. On the third day, while riding in the baggage wayn, Asha has a nearly pleasant conversation with Alysane about her family, but the She-Bear's smile fades when she reminds Asha that the Mormont women are warriors because they are frequently attacked by ironborn.[6]
When Stannis and his army are camped at the crofters' village west of Winterfell, Alysane and Asha go ice fishing on the frozen lakes, but after several days, they have little luck finding any fish. Alysane protects Asha when Clayton Suggs wishes to burn her as a sacrifice to R'hllor.[2]
The Winds of Winter
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Stannis commands Ser Justin Massey to bring "Arya Stark" (actually Jeyne Poole) to Castle Black, with Alysane as her female companion.[8]
Quotes by Alysane
Asha: You are wed.
Alysane: No. My children were fathered by a bear. Mormont women are skinchangers. We turn into bears and find mates in the woods. Everyone knows.
Asha: Mormont women are all fighters too.
Alysane: What we are is what you made us. On Bear Island every child learns to fear krakens rising from the sea.[6]—Asha Greyjoy and Alysane
Alysane: My lady asked you to let her go. You would do well to listen, ser. Lady Asha is not for burning.
Clayton: She will be. We have harbored this demon worshiper amongst us too long.[2]—Alysane and Clayton Suggs
—Alysane, to Clayton Suggs
Quotes about Alysane
This southron king seemed to be one of those men to whom women are another race, as strange and unfathomable as giants and grumkins and the children of the forest. The She-Bear made him grind his teeth as well.[6]
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Her proper name was Alysane of House Mormont, but she wore the other name as easily as she wore her mail.[6]
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
One did not provoke the She-Bear needlessly.[2]
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Family
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 35, Jon VII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ See the Alysane Mormont calculation.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Alysane Mormont.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King's Prize.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ The Winds of Winter, Theon I