Euron Greyjoy

	Euron by Sardag ©
Monarch
Reign	299 AC–
Coronation	300 AC; Nagga's hill, Old Wyk
Full name	Euron Greyjoy, the Third of His Name since the Grey King
Titles	Captain of the Silence; King of the Iron Islands and the North; King of Salt and Rock; Son of the Sea Wind; Lord Reaper of Pyke;
Predecessor	Balon IX Greyjoy
Heir	None
Personal Information
Aliases	Crow's Eye; Euron Croweye; Euron Crow's Eye; The Crow's Eye;
Born	256–268 AC; Pyke
Culture	Ironborn
Family
Dynasty	Greyjoy
Lover	Falia Flowers
Issue	At least three bastard sons
Father	Lord Quellon Greyjoy
Mother	Lady Sunderly
Personal arms	A red eye with a black pupil beneath a black iron crown supported by two crows
References
Books	The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned); A Game of Thrones (appendix); A Clash of Kings (mentioned); A Storm of Swords (mentioned); A Feast for Crows (appears); A Dance with Dragons (mentioned); The Winds of Winter (appears);
Played by	Pilou Asbæk
TV series	Game of Thrones: ; Season 6 \| 7 \| 8

Euron Greyjoy, known as Crow's Eye^[1] and Euron Crow's Eye,^[3] is a member of House Greyjoy and is the eldest of Lord Balon Greyjoy's younger brothers.

Euron is captain of the Silence, a ship crewed entirely by mutes whose tongues he ripped out. The personal coat of arms of the Crow's Eye is a red eye with a black pupil beneath a black iron crown supported by two crows.^[7]

In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Euron is portrayed by Pilou Asbæk.

Appearance and Character

Euron by Pojypojy ©

A handsome man, Euron is the most comely of the sons of the late Lord Quellon Greyjoy.^[6] He has pale skin, black hair, and a neat dark beard.^[6]

Euron wears a black leather patch over his left eye,^[6] and sometimes a red leather eyepatch.^[8] He is nicknamed Crow's Eye, possibly because the leather patch conceals a "black eye shining with malice", per his nephew, Theon Greyjoy.^[9] Euron's right eye is as blue as the summer sky and is called his "smiling eye".^[6] Additionally, since Euron has begun drinking shade of the evening, his lips have turned blue.^[8]

Euron has a black reputation.^[10] He is considered cunning^[2] and mocking,^[6]^[8] and has a glib tongue.^[8] The Crow's Eye is hated by his brothers Aeron,^[3] who considers him godless, and Victarion, as Euron impregnated his third wife.^[6]

Despite his dangerous and mercurial nature, Euron has little trouble in drawing men to his service, especially freaks and fools.^[11] While most ironborn captains keep the lion's share of plunder, Euron takes almost nothing for himself.^[12] Victarion thinks of Euron's supporters as his pets.^[6]

History

Youth

When he was a boy, Euron had a dream that he could fly.^[8] He often mocked his younger brother Victarion when they were children.^[13] Another brother, Aeron, has terrible memories associated with Euron and the sound of a rusted iron hinge.^[6]

Balon Greyjoy and his younger brothers, Euron and Victarion, convinced their father, Lord Quellon Greyjoy, to join Robert's Rebellion, and they raided the Reach late in the war. After Quellon was killed in a battle at the Mander, however, the new Lord Balon returned to the Iron Islands with his brothers.^[3]^[14]

Greyjoy's Rebellion

Rejecting the authority of the Iron Throne, Balon declared himself King of the Iron Islands in 289 AC. At the outset of Greyjoy's Rebellion, Euron concocted a plan to sail into Lannisport and burn the Lannister fleet at anchor. Led by Victarion, the Iron Fleet followed Euron's plan and destroyed the westerlands' naval force.^[2] Balon's rebellion was eventually defeated by King Robert I Baratheon, however.^[15]

Exile

Euron has often gone reaving.^[6] In 297 AC, he was sent away from the Iron Islands by Lord Balon as punishment for seducing or raping Victarion's third wife, a salt wife, and he was warned never to return while Balon was alive. Victarion would have killed Euron if not for the taboo against kinslaying.^[3] Euron laughed at Victarion when they parted.^[6]

Euron, by Amok © Fantasy Flight Games

Euron has several sons born to whores and captured women, but does not have any regard for his bastards. One such boy is ten years old with woolly hair and skin the color of mud.^[8]

Since Euron's banishment, the Silence has sailed, pillaged, and raped all over the known world. Euron boasts to have travelled to Asshai and even sailed the Smoking Sea and walked the smoking ruins of Valyria.^[16] Euron also claims to have owned a dragon egg which a Myrish wizard was unable to hatch.^[8] The Crow's Eye alleges he tossed the egg into the sea during one of his foul moods.^[8]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Sailing on Silence, Euron is an outlaw, pirate, and raider.^[1]

A Clash of Kings

Having returned to Pyke for the first time since Greyjoy's Rebellion, Theon Greyjoy notes that his uncle Euron's ship, Silence, is not in the fleet gathered at Lordsport by his father, Lord Balon Greyjoy.^[17]^[2]

A Storm of Swords

News comes to Robb Stark, King in the North, via the captain of the Myraham that Balon, self-styled King of the Isles and the North, fell to his death from Pyke. Euron returned to Lordsport and claimed the Seastone Chair. When Lord Sawane Botley objected to his claim, Euron had him drowned in a cask of seawater.^[10]

A Feast for Crows

Euron at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk, by JB Casacop © Fantasy Flight Games

Euron claims to have captured a galleas out of Qarth that held four warlocks,^[8] including Pyat Pree,^[5] When one warlock threatened him, Euron killed the man and fed him to the other three, who he now holds hostage.^[8] The ship had a cask of shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks, which Euron took up drinking.^[8] According to a semi-canon source, he also seized the warlocks' dragon horn.^[18]

Aeron Greyjoy is informed that his elder brother, Euron, returned to the Iron Islands the day after Balon's death and seized the Seastone Chair. The Damphair calls for a kingsmoot to contest Euron.^[3] The timing of Euron's return is questioned by Asha Greyjoy and Lord Rodrik Harlaw.^[11] Sawane's son Tristifer reports that the Crow's Eye has been bribing supporters with treasure.^[11]

Euron mocks his younger brothers, Victarion and Aeron, and his niece, Asha, when he meets his kin at Nagga's Cradle.^[6] During the kingsmoot on Old Wyk, Euron has Cragorn blow the dragon horn, which Euron claims he found in the feared ruins of Valyria, and he brags about having sailed all over the known world, including Asshai. Euron promises to conquer all of Westeros for the ironborn using dragons, which he claims he can bind to his will with the horn.^[16] Although Aeron considers the Crow's Eye to be a godless man, Euron is elected king, besting Victarion, Asha, and other contenders.^[16]

Asha flees from Old Wyk, and Aeron disappears after promising to raise smallfolk in rebellion.^[8] Euron gives plunder from half a hundred throughout the known world to the ironborn captains, including daggers of Valyrian steel, jade manticores and ancient Valyrian sphinxes, ivory tusks and the horns of unicorns, and green and orange and yellow feathers from the Summer Sea.^[8] The Crow's Eye has Lord Baelor Blacktyde killed when the man refuses to accept him as his king, taking Baelor's sable cloak as a trophy.^[8] Cragorn dies with charred lungs.^[8]

Euron begins raids upon the Reach, intending to sell captives into slavery in Essos. After the taking of the Shields, Euron holds a victory's feast in Lord Hewett's castle with the tied and gagged Lord Humfrey Hewett seated next to him. The Crow's Eye forces Humfrey's daughters and granddaughters to serve food and drink to the victorious ironborn. Euron takes Humfrey's bastard daughter, Falia Flowers, as a bedmate, and under her suggestion commands the noble-born ladies to strip and serve his men naked.^[8]

Euron weakens possible rivals by giving lands and titles to key followers of theirs. However, he fails to move the ironborn beyond raiding, as they are reluctant to embark on a dangerous journey in search of dragons after Lord Harlaw points out all the hazards of such an endeavor. Euron sends Victarion and the Iron Fleet to find Daenerys Targaryen, court her in his name, and bring her and her dragons to Westeros. He tells Victarion that he can succeed him on the Seastone Chair after Euron takes the Iron Throne.^[8]

Euron with a dragon horn, by Mathia Arkoniel ©

Ironborn attack the Mander,^[19] the Arbor,^[19] and reach the Whispering Sound.^[7] Queen Regent Cersei Lannister tasks Ser Loras Tyrell with resolving the siege of Dragonstone so that the Redwyne fleet can be freed to deal with the ironborn.^[19]

A Dance with Dragons

Euron styles himself King of the Iron Islands and the North,^[20] although he ignores Balon's conquests in the north, including Moat Cailin, Deepwood Motte, and Torrhen's Square.^[21] With Asha Greyjoy having fled the Iron Islands for Deepwood, Euron weds her to Erik Ironmaker using a seal as her proxy.^[21]

Before Victarion Greyjoy departs with the Iron Fleet for Meereen, Euron gives him Maester Kerwin,^[13] an unnamed dusky woman,^[13], and the dragon horn.^[22] Victarion plans to claim Queen Daenerys Targaryen as his own bride instead of bringing her to the Crow's Eye.^[13] During his voyage east, Victarion remembers that "Euron's gifts are poisoned" when he hears Moqorro, a rescued red priest, state that those who blow the horn die.^[22]

The Winds of Winter

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Euron aboard Silence with shade of the evening and his Valyrian steel armor, by Mike Hallstein ©

Euron has his mutes capture Aeron Damphair after the kingsmoot, and imprisons him in the belly of the Silence. Euron admits to causing the deaths of Harlon, Robin, and Balon, making him a kinslayer. He also admits he expects the followers to which he granted the Shield Islands to fail to hold them, thus ridding himself of potential enemies. Euron no longer wears his driftwood crown, but instead wears an iron crown with points made from shark teeth. He forces Aeron to drink shade of the evening, and the Damphair has visions of Euron on a throne of skulls and then a bloody Iron Throne, with gods impaled on its spikes. A later vision sees Euron as a kraken-like figure with a tentacled face, seated on the Iron Throne, with a shadow woman by his side.

Prior to sailing against the Redwyne fleet and the ships of House Hightower, Euron wears a suit of black scale armor with various patterns, glyphs, and arcane symbols. Aeron believes it to be made of Valyrian steel.^[12]

Euron has Aeron bound to the prow of the Silence, where he is joined by Falia, pregnant but tongueless. Euron also orders his captains to bind the priests and septons and warlocks he has kidnapped to the prows of their respective ships.^[12]

Quotes by Euron

Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.^[6]
—Euron to Aeron Greyjoy

We are the ironborn, and once we were conquerors. Our writ ran everywhere the sound of the waves was heard. My brother would have you be content with the cold and dismal north, my niece with even less ... but I shall give you Lannisport. Highgarden. The Arbor. Oldtown. The riverlands and the Reach, the kingswood and the rainwood, Dorne and the marches, the Mountains of the Moon and the Vale of Arryn, Tarth and the Stepstones. I say we take it all! I say, we take Westeros.^[16]
—Euron at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk

I am the storm, my lord. The first storm, and the last.^[8]
—Euron to Rodrik Harlaw

Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.^[8]
—Euron to Victarion Greyjoy

Kneel, brother. I am your king. I am your god. Worship me, and I will raise you up to be my priest.^[12]
—Euron to Aeron Greyjoy

Quotes about Euron

Euron by Bella Bergolts ©

Lord Balon's eldest brother had never given up the Old Way, even for a day. His Silence, with its black sails and dark red hull, was infamous in every port from Ibben to Asshai, it was said.^[2]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

Theon: My uncle Euron has not been seen in the islands for close on two years. He may be dead.
Esgred: He may be dead, and if he lives, why, he has spent so long at sea, he'd be half a stranger here. The ironborn would never seat a stranger in the Seastone Chair.^[2]
—Theon Greyjoy and "Esgred" (Asha Greyjoy)

Euron Greyjoy is no man’s notion of a king, if half of what Theon said of him was true.^[10]
—Robb Stark to his bannermen

Tristifer: The Crow's Eye brought back monsters from the east ... aye, and wizards too.
Asha: Nuncle always had a fondness for freaks and fools. My father used to fight with him about it. Let the wizards call upon their gods. The Damphair will call on ours, and drown them.^[11]
—Tristifer Botley and Asha Greyjoy

Balon was mad, Aeron is madder, and Euron is the maddest of them all.^[8]
—Baelor Blacktyde to Victarion Greyjoy

Euron's gifts are poisoned.^[8]
—thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy

Tell the Crow's Eye he's afraid of kinslaying and he'll murder one of his own sons just to prove you wrong.^[21]
—Asha Greyjoy to Tristifer Botley

Moqorro: Others seek Daenerys too.

Tyrion: Have you seen these others in your fires?

Moqorro: Only their shadows. One most of all. A tall and twisted thing with one black eye and ten long arms, sailing on a sea of blood.^[23]
—Moqorro and Tyrion Lannister

Family

Dagon

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wife

Son

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wife

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three wives

Stillborn
daughter