Bone is a tissue which makes up part of the skeleton in people and animals in the known world.
Uses
The free folk make use of bone weapons,[1] such as daggers[2] and knives.[3] Some armor themselves in bone,[4] such as the Lord of Bones.[5] Many raiders who climb the Wall attach bone spikes to their boots and climb with sharpened bone.[6] Bones and skulls are depicted on the round leathern shields of some wildlings warriors,[7][8] and the men of the Frozen Shore ride bone chariots.[9]
Buttons[10] and fastenings can be made of bone.[4] Dragonbone makes strong and flexible bows.[11] The hilts of weapons can be made of bone, such as the blades of Ramsay Snow.[12]
The walls of Kayakayanaya are made of black basalt, black iron, and yellow bone.[13]
Culture
Maesters train in how to set bones.[14] The silent sisters strip the flesh from the bones of the deceased.[15] Many peoples of the Seven Kingdoms bury the bones of their dead in tombs,[16] crypts,[17] or lichyards.[18]
House Drumm's arms depict a bone hand, and the sigil of House Willum includes a dragonbone skeleton.
The Boneway is one of the passes through the Red Mountains of Dorne.[19]
The Grey King's Hall on Old Wyk is said to have been made from the bones of Nagga.[20]
Belaquo Bonebreaker is a famed pit fighter in the city,[21] and a slave of Yurkhaz zo Yunzak plays a bone flute.[22]
The Bone Mountains, the tallest range in the known world, are named after the multitude of bones left behind by people and animals.[13] Bonetown in the Further East of Essos is said to be made of bones.[23] Some of the Summer Isles are called the Bones.[24]
History
The Brotherhood of Bones were a group of corsairs active in the Basilisk Isles.[25]
The gates of Ibbish were known as the Whalebone Gates.[26]
Ser Harwin Strong, one of the strongest men in the Seven Kingdoms, was called Breakbones.[27]
Ser Davos Seaworth keeps his finger bones, which were cut off by Lord Stannis Baratheon, in a pouch about his neck.[28]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
The khalasar of Daenerys Targaryen gives the name "Vaes Tolorro", or City of Bones, to an abandoned city they find in the red waste.[29][30]
A Feast for Crows
The kingsmoot on Old Wyk is held among Nagga's bones at the Grey King's Hall.[31]
Sparrows bring to the Great Sept of Baelor the bones of pious people who were killed in the War of the Five Kings.[32]
A Dance with Dragons
After Hazzea is killed by Drogon, her father brings her burnt bones before Daenerys, Queen of Meereen.[33]
Bran Stark finds bones littered throughout a passage within the cave of the three-eyed crow.[34]
Quotes
Pain is a gift from the gods, Lord Eddard. It means the bone is knitting, the flesh healing itself.[35]
—Pycelle to Eddard Stark
Living men had gone south, and cold bones would return.[17]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Their leader came on alone, riding a beast that seemed more goat than horse, from the surefooted way it climbed the uneven slope. As man and mount grew nearer Jon could hear them clattering; both were armored in bones. Cow bones, sheep bones, the bones of goats and aurochs and elk, the great bones of the hairy mammoths ... and human bones as well.[5]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.[36]
—thoughts of Aeron Greyjoy
We are made of blood and bone, in the image of the Father and the Mother.[37]
—Lemore to Young Griff
References
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Prologue.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 68, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 30, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 58, Jon XII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 64, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 18, Samwell I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Summer Isles.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Bones and Beyond.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 67, Tyrion XV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 7, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Boneway.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 18, The Iron Captain.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti.
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, The Known World.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 5, Davos I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 12, Daenerys I.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 27, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 2, Daenerys I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 13, Bran II.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 45, Eddard XII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 1, The Prophet.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 18, Tyrion V.