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| Allegiance | Night's Watch | |||
| Culture | Westeros | |||
| Born | 240 AC or before[1] | |||
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| Played by | Unidentified | |||
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | |||
Clydas is a steward of the Night's Watch.
Appearance
Short and chinless,[2] Clydas has a few white hairs still clinging to his scalp.[3] The steward has dim pink eyes[4][3] like a mole[2] and is hunched[5] with rounded shoulders.[4]
Jon considers Clydas to be ugly[2] and estimates him to be about sixty years old.[3]
History
For years[6] Clydas and Chett have helped tend to Maester Aemon's needs and helped with the ravens in the rookery at Aemon's tower at Castle Black.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Because Maester Aemon is blind, the half-blind[7] Clydas reads messages to him.[8]
A Storm of Swords
Clydas aids Aemon when the maester treats the wounds of Jon Snow.[4]
Aemon, Clydas, and most of the women from Mole's Town take the winch cage to the top of the Wall for safety during the attack on Castle Black by Thenns. A midwife from Moles Town aids Aemon and Clydas as they deal with those wounded in the fighting.[9] Owen the Oaf and Clydas distribute cups of onion broth to archers during the battle beneath the Wall.[10] Clydas guides Jon with a lantern when they investigate the tunnel through the Wall, and they find the bodies of Donal Noye and Mag the Mighty.[10]
Clydas gives flagons of goats' milk and dreamwine to the wounded after the battle, including to black brothers, king's men, and queen's men.[11] He helps count during the choosing of a new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.[11]
A Feast for Crows
When Aemon is sent away by Jon, the new Lord Commander, Clydas takes over the duties of tending to the ravens and the wounded. Before leaving, Aemon has Clydas mark passages in the Jade Compendium for Jon.[6]
A Dance with Dragons
Clydas mulls wine and offers a cup to Jon, who tells the steward of Stannis Baratheon's sword, Lightbringer.[3] Clydas informs Jon of a letter sent by Ramsay Bolton after the siege of Moat Cailin,[12] and he also informs Jon of a letter from Stannis after the fight by Deepwood Motte.[13]
Clydas treats Alys Karstark when she flees to Castle Black.[14] After Alys tells her tale, Clydas sends a message to Deepwood hoping to warn Stannis of Arnolf Karstark's treachery.[15] Clydas brings Jon letters from Cotter Pyke.[15][16] Jon tasks Clydas with tending to any of Tormund's people who are sick.[17]
Clydas is frightened by a letter to Jon entitled "Bastard" and sealed with pink wax. He brings it to Jon unopened.[18]
Quotes by Clydas
Jon: Do I intrude?
Clydas: Not at all. I was mulling wine. Will my lord take a cup?
Jon: With pleasure.[3]—Jon Snow and Clydas
—Alys Karstark and Clydas
Jon: We have much to do before the gate is opened. Tormund and his people will need to be fed and clothed and housed. Some are sick and will need nursing. Those will fall to you, Clydas. Save as many as you can.
Clydas: I will do my best, Jon. My lord, I mean.[17]—Jon Snow and Clydas
Quotes about Clydas
He's sixty if he's a day. An old man. He only seemed young compared with Aemon. Short and round, he had the dim pink eyes of some nocturnal creature.[3]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Clydas tended to the ravens well enough, but he had not a tenth of Aemon Targaryen's knowledge or experience, and even less of his wisdom.[12]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Cellador would be half-drunk, and Clydas was a poor substitute for a real maester, but they were what he had.[17]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
References
- ↑ See the Clydas calculation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 60, Jon VIII.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 52, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 64, Jon VIII.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 28, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 35, Jon VII.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 44, Jon IX.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 58, Jon XII.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.