Captain (Free Company)
Captain is the highest rank within the free companies of Essos.[1] They are sometimes also called commander.[2][3][N 1]
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About
Many sellswords are organized into free companies, where the highest rank is captain, although the highest rank of the Golden Company is captain-general.[3] They are usually led by one captain, but can also have multiple captains, such as Stormcrows, which has three.[1][4] Some captains are alleged to instigate wars during peacetime.[5]
History
The Band of Nine, the group that caused the War of the Ninepenny Kings in 260 AC, included three sellsword captains, Liomond Lashare, Spotted Tom, and Nine Eyes, with the latter being the captain of the Jolly Fellows.[6]
Recent events
A Clash of Kings
The Brave Companions, including its captain Vargo Hoat,[7] are brought across the narrow sea by Lord Tywin Lannister,[8] who employs them as reavers and foragers in the Riverlands.[9] Vargo later betrays the Lannisters, however, and his Bloody Mummers aid in the fall of Harrenhal.[10]
A Storm of Swords
The Mummers abandon the wounded Vargo, allowing Ser Gregor Clegane to easily take Harrenhal and slay him.[11]
Following the fall of Astapor to Daenerys Targaryen, Yunkai hires the Second Sons and the Stormcrows.[4] After arriving in Yunkai, Daenerys meets with the captains from the sellsword companies. Though two of the captains of the Stormcrows, Prendahl na Ghezn and Sallor the Bald, are quick to refuse Daenerys, the third, Daario Naharis, is more polite, while Mero, the captain of the Second Sons, behaves rudely in Daenerys's presence. Later that day, Daario Naharis walks into the Targaryen camp to present Daenerys with the heads of his fellow captains, and pledges the Stormcrows to her service.[4] Ben Plumm is elected as the new captain of the Second Sons after Mero disappears during the battle near Yunkai.[12]
A Dance with Dragons
Ben Plumm leads the Second Sons from Daenerys's service over to the Yunkai'i.[13]
Bloodbeard, the captain of the Company of the Cat, refers to the Windblown as "old grey-beards in rags"[14] and he despises their captain and founder, the Tattered Prince.[3][15] Gylo Rhegan the captain and commander of the Long Lances,[3] accepts Yunkai's contract, but Daenerys secretly sends Ser Barristan Selmy to try and persuade Rhegan to turn his cloak and bring the Long Lances over to her.[16]
After Daenerys disappears from Meereen, Quentyn Martell allies with the Tattered Prince in a failed scheme to claim dragons.[17][18]
Known captains of the Free Companies
- Liomond Lashare, a famed sellsword captain[6]
- Spotted Tom, captain of a free company in the Disputed Lands[6]
- Nine Eyes, captain of the Jolly Fellows[6]
- Prendahl na Ghezn[1]
- Sallor the Bald[1]
- Daario Naharis, captain of the Stormcrows[1]
- Mero, captain of the Second Sons[1]
- Ben Plumm, captain of the Second Sons[3]
- Bloodbeard, captain and commander of the Company of the Cat[3]
- Gylo Rhegan, captain and commander of the Long Lances[3]
- Tattered Prince, captain of the Windblown[3]
Quotes
Daenerys Targaryen loved her captain, but that was the girl in her, not the queen.[19]
—thoughts of Barristan Selmy
See also
- Captain-general
- Paymaster, another high-ranking position within the free companies of Essos
Notes
- ↑ The appendix of A Storm of Swords lists Daario Naharis and Mero as captains;
The appendix of A Feast for Crows lists Naharis and Ben Plumm (Mero's sucessor) as "commanding";
And then the appendix of A Dance with Dragons lists Naharis and Plumm first as captains, and then as "captain and commander".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 77, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 62, Jaime VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 36, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 25, The Windblown.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 55, The Queensguard.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 50, Daenerys VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 60, The Spurned Suitor.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.