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Biter is one of the criminals Yoren recruits to the Night's Watch when he cleans out the dungeons of King’s Landing.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Biter is portrayed by Gerard Jordan.
Appearance
[edit]Biter is enormous and bald, with soft, doughy flesh. He has little eyes and weeping sores on his cheeks. His tongue has been cut out and he does not speak, except to hiss. Biter's teeth have been filed into points.[2] Biter's weight is enough to make a courser look half-ready to collapse when riding.[3][4] He has a stench like bad cheese and tears his food apart with fingers and teeth.[5]
Biter is not able to write.[2] He makes an odd hissing sound when he sleeps.[6]
Biter is a cannibal.[7][8][9][10]
History
[edit]According to a semi-canon source, Biter was found as an orphaned child by Rorge, who raised him ferally to fight in Rorge's dog and bear fighting pit in Flea Bottom.[11][12]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]Biter is one of three known criminals imprisoned in the black cells of the Red Keep.[13] Yoren recruits him for the Night's Watch, but considers him so dangerous that he keeps him chained in a wagon, along with Jaqen H'ghar and Rorge, for the journey to the Wall.[14] Outside an ivy-covered inn, Arya Stark forces herself to approach the wagon after Rorge insults her. When Biter reaches for her, Arya punches him between his eyes, enraging him. Biter follows Rorge in laughing at a mortally-wounded, one-armed woman.[6]
When Yoren's band is attacked at the Gods Eye by raiders led by Ser Amory Lorch, Biter and his companions find themselves trapped in the wagon in the middle of a fire. Arya, before escaping herself through a tunnel, throws them an axe which Rorge uses to break through the wagon's bottom.[15]
Biter and his two companions, Rorge, and Jaqen, join Amory's raiding party for a time, eventually arriving at Harrenhal. Arya sees half-healed burns covering Biter's hideous body.[3]
The three men remain in the garrison holding Harrenhal after Tywin Lannister departs the castle. They help Arya free the captive northmen during the fall of Harrenhal, though Rorge and Biter do it reluctantly and only because Jaqen requested their help. Biter cracks the necks of Lannister guards after they have been splashed with boiling broth, and he begins chewing the hand of one of the fallen. With Amory's men slaughtered, Rorge and Biter join the Brave Companions.[7]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]Rorge tells the captive Ser Jaime Lannister that Biter chewed the breasts and nipples off a septa sometime during their foraging and pillaging as part of the Brave Companions.[8]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]After the death of Vargo Hoat, leader of the Brave Companions, Biter travels with Rorge alongside remnants of the Companions and participates in the sacking of Saltpans. Biter eats the breasts of a woman after she has been repeatedly raped by the outlaws.[9]
At the inn at the crossroads, after Rorge duels with and is slain by Brienne of Tarth, a shrieking Biter quickly overpowers Brienne and begins savagely biting her face. He is stopped by Gendry, who drives a spear through the back of his neck, killing him.[10]
Quotes
[edit]A man must have some name, is that not so? Biter cannot speak and Biter cannot write, yet his teeth are very sharp, so a man calls him Biter and he smiles.[2]
Yoren found Jaqen in a black cell, the same as Rorge and Biter, she remembered. Jaqen did something horrible and Yoren knew, that's why he kept him in chains. If the Lorathi was a wizard, Rorge and Biter could be demons he called up from some hell, not men at all.[7]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Robett: Who are you men? You were not with Hoat when he came to Lord Bolton's encampment. Are you of the Brave Companions?
Rorge: We are now.
Jaqen: This man has the honor to be Jaqen H'ghar, once of the Free City of Lorath. This man's discourteous companions are named Rorge and Biter. A lord will know which is Biter.[7]
Biter gave off a stench like bad cheese, so the Brave Companions made him sit down near the foot of the table where he could grunt and hiss to himself and tear his meat apart with fingers and teeth. He would sniff at Arya when she passed, but it was Rorge who scared her most.[5]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Biter's mouth gaped open, impossibly wide. She saw his teeth, yellow and crooked, filed into points.[10]
—thoughts of Brienne Tarth
She remembered his teeth tearing into the flesh of her face. The thought that he might still be out there somewhere, breathing, made Brienne want to scream.[4]
—thoughts of Brienne Tarth
References
[edit]- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Biter.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 5, Arya II.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 9, Arya III.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 21, Jaime III.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: Canadian Signing Tour (Vancouver); Submitted by Evil Agent (January 13, 2006).
- ↑ So Spake Martin: Canadian Signing Tour (Vancouver); Submitted by Whoresbane (January 13, 2006).
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 1, Arya I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 14, Arya IV.
External Links
[edit]- Biter on the Game of Thrones wiki.