Cassella Vaith
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 Cassella Vaith, by Magali Villeneuve, as depicted in The World of Ice & Fire | ||||
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| Title | Lady[1] | |||
| Allegiance | House Vaith | |||
| Culture | Dornishmen | |||
| Father | Lord Vaith | |||
| Lover | King Aegon IV Targaryen | |||
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Cassella Vaith was a member of House Vaith and a Lady of Vaith. She was the third mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen, although prior to his ascent to the Iron Throne.[2]
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Appearance
Cassella was a willowy maid with green eyes and pale white-blond hair.[2]
History
In 158 AC, after the Submission of Sunspear during the Conquest of Dorne, Cassella was one of the hostages sent to King's Landing, as she was the daughter of Lord Vaith. She was escorted by Prince Aegon Targaryen, who kept Cassella a "hostage" in his own chambers.[2]
After the Dornishmen revolted and killed King Daeron I Targaryen, all the hostages were to be killed. Aegon, by then bored of her, returned Cassella to her place with the other prisoners. The new king, Baelor I Targaryen, pardoned all the hostages and personally took them back to Dorne.[2]
Cassella never wed or had children, and in her old age she was consumed by the delusion that she had been Aegon's one true love and that he would soon send for her.[2]
At Vaith circa 209–210 AC, Ser Duncan the Tall met an aged Lady Vaith, and spoke to her with such lack of grace that he put his own life and Egg's, his squire, in danger. According to Egg, Lady Vaith was mad, so it is unclear if that danger could have been avoided, but that Duncan could have been more gallant.[1] (It remains unconfirmed if Cassella and this mad Lady Vaith are the same woman, but likely.) For a brief time before he met Lady Rohanne Webber, Duncan worried that she was as old as Lady Vaith.[1]
Quotes
I don't know how to talk with highborn ladies. We both might have been killed in Dorne, on account of what I said to Lady Vaith.[1]
—Dunk
...Mad sad Lady Vaith.[3]
—thoughts of Dunk
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Sworn Sword.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.