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 Elmar Frey by Amuelia | ||||
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| Allegiance | House Frey | |||
| Culture | Rivermen | |||
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290 AC[1] the Twins[2] | |||
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| Mother | Annara Farring | |||
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Elmar Frey is a member of House Frey and is the youngest son of Lord Walder Frey.[3] Elmar is the twenty-second-born son of Walder and the fourth son born of Walder's marriage to Annara Farring.
Appearance and Character
Elmar is short for his age.[4]
Elmar can be friendly to smallfolk when he needs help, but is proud of his status as a trueborn son of Lord Walder Frey. He is terrified of leeches.[4]
History
There is a rumor in the Twins that Lady Annara Farring slept with Black Walder Frey, a great-grandson of Lord Walder Frey, casting doubts on Elmar's parentage.[5]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
As part of the pact sealed during the parley between Lady Catelyn Stark and Lord Walder Frey, Elmar is promised to Arya Stark.[6]
A Clash of Kings
Elmar squires for Lord Roose Bolton. When Roose arrives at Harrenhal after its fall, Elmar has those at the castle kneel before the Lord of the Dreadfort.[7]
Elmar frequently interacts with Roose's new cupbearer, "Nan", who is actually Arya Stark. Neither is aware they are betrothed to each other, and Elmar sometimes boasts of his betrothal to a princess.[4]
Arya helps Elmar scour a chainmail hauberk in a barrel of sand. Arya thinks that Elmar will tell her what happened when she hears the older Freys discussing the fall of Winterfell and supposed deaths of her brothers Bran and Rickon.[4]
When Elmar learns that his betrothal to Arya, his "princess", has been called off[4] due to Robb Stark's marriage to Jeyne Westerling,[8] he cries about losing his princess and is dismissive when "Nan" confides that her brothers might be dead. Elmar's father, Lord Walder Frey, writes that he will need to marry someone else or become a septon.[4]
A Storm of Swords
Elmar remains at Harrenhal to serve Roose Bolton. He serves as Roose's cupbearer when Lord Bolton hosts Ser Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth in the Hall of a Hundred Hearths. Roose reports to Jaime that Elmar is still bereft at the end of his betrothal to Arya.[9]
A Dance with Dragons
Lord Bolton, the new Warden of the North, returns to the north;[10] Elmar is not mentioned as accompanying him.
Quotes
Quotes by Elmar
On your knees for the Lord of the Dreadfort![7]
—Elmar at Harrenhal
Elmar: My princess. We've been dishonored, Aenys says. There was a bird from the Twins. My lord father says I'll need to marry someone else, or be a septon.
Nan: My brothers might be dead.
Elmar: No one cares about a serving girl's brothers.
Nan: I hope your princess dies.[4]—Elmar Frey and "Nan" (Arya Stark)
Quotes about Elmar
Elmar could be friendly when he needed help, but afterward he would always remember that he was a squire and she was only a serving girl. He liked to boast how he was the son of the Lord of the Crossing, not a nephew or a bastard or a grandson but a trueborn son, and on account of that he was going to marry a princess.[4]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
My poor Elmar is bereft. He was to wed Arya Stark, but my good father of Frey had no choice but to break the betrothal when King Robb betrayed him.[9]
Family
References
- ↑ See the Elmar Frey calculation.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Elmar Frey.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Epilogue.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 59, Catelyn IX.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 37, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 20, Reek II.