Dalla
| Dalla | |
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 Dalla, by Jason Engle © Fantasy Flight Games | |
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| Allegiance | Mance Rayder |
| Culture | Free folk |
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300 AC Near Castle Black |
| Spouse | King Mance Rayder |
| Issue | Aemon Steelsong |
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Dalla is a wildling and the wife of Mance Rayder. She has a sister, Val.[1]
Contents
Appearance and character
According to Jon Snow, Dalla looks so heavily pregnant that it's surprising she can move.[2]
Mance Rayder thinks his new queen is good[1] and wise.[3] Melisandre agrees that Dalla's words are wise.[4]
History
Val's fine white clothes were given to her by her sister.[5]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
The pregnant Dalla is cooking a brace of hens when Jon Snow is brought to Mance Rayder. When Jon wonders if Mance had abandoned the Night's Watch for Dalla, the King-Beyond-the-Wall informs him that he met Dalla upon his return to the lands beyond the Wall, after secretly attending King Robert I Baratheon's visit to Winterfell.[1]
Mance instructs Varamyr to protect Dalla during the battle beneath the Wall,[3] but the skinchanger is incapacitated when Melisandre magically burns Orell's eagle.[6] Jon protects the tent during the battle, tasking Val to act as midwife in the chaos.[3] Dalla gives birth to a son, but dies in childbirth.[7][6]
After the battle, Dalla's son, the so-called "wildling prince", is kept at Castle Black, and fed goats' milk and potions made by Maester Aemon. When Gilly arrives at Castle Black, he is given over to her care, to nurse alongside her own infant son.[7]
A Feast for Crows
Jon Snow, now the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, hears that Melisandre plans to sacrifice Dalla's son for his king's blood, in order to wake a dragon.[8] To protect the baby, Jon arranges for him to be secretly switched with Gilly's son.[9][10] Dalla's baby is sent with Gilly, Samwell Tarly, and Maester Aemon to Oldtown,[11] while Gilly's babe remains at Castle Black. For much of the journey, Gilly is overcome with grief at being separated from her child,[10][12] but eventually comes to love Dalla's child as much as she loves her own.[13] At Maester Aemon's funeral aboard the Cinnamon Wind, Gilly suggests that when the baby turns two years old, he should be named Aemon Battleborn or Aemon Steelsong, in honor of the late maester and because the boy was born during the battle beneath the Wall.[14]
A Dance with Dragons
Jon Snow recalls how he convinced Gilly to secretly take Dalla's baby and leave her own child behind.[9]
Jon speaks with Melisandre about sorcery, and mentions what Dalla had told him about it.[4]
Quotes by Dalla
We free folk know things you kneelers have forgotten. Sometimes the short road is not the safest, Jon Snow. The Horned Lord once said that sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.[3]
—Dalla to Jon Snow
Quotes about Dalla
The good woman at the brazier is Dalla. Treat her like you would any queen, she is carrying my child.[1]
—Mance Rayder to Jon Snow
It's a wise woman I've found. A true queen.[3]
—Mance Rayder to Dalla
Fire is a cruel way to die. Dalla died to give this child life, but you have nourished him, cherished him. You saved your own boy from the ice. Now save hers from the fire.[9]
Jon: Dalla told me something once. Val's sister, Mance Rayder's wife. She said that sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
Melisandre: A wise woman. A sword without a hilt is still a sword, though, and a sword is a fine thing to have when foes are all about.[4]—Jon Snow and Melisandre
Family
| Man of the Night's Watch | Free folk woman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mance Rayder | Dalla | Val | Jarl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aemon Steelsong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 7, Jon I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 69, Jon IX.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 73, Jon X.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 28, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 76, Jon XI.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 3, Jon I.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 7, Jon II.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 26, Samwell III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 45, Samwell V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 35, Samwell IV.