| Farlen | |
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 Farlen by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games | |
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| Title | kennelmaster |
| Allegiance | House Stark |
| Culture | Northmen |
| Died |
299 AC Winterfell, the North |
| Issue | Palla |
| Books |
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| Played by | Peter Balance |
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 2 |
Farlen is the kennelmaster at Winterfell.[1][2] His daughter is Palla.[3]
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Farlen is portrayed by Peter Balance.
Character
Farlen cares for his daughter, Palla.[4] His favorite dog is a red bitch.[5][4]
History
The kennelmaster once told Sansa Stark that an animal takes after its master.[6] Theon Greyjoy learned all he knows about hounds from Farlen.[4]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark allows his children to keep the direwolf pups they have found, but insists the youths must train the puppies themselves as the kennelmaster will have nothing to do with them.[7]
Farlen and Maester Luwin teach Bran Stark how to tell the differences between direwolves and regular wolves.[2]
Farlen chains Shaggydog in the kennels after the direwolf bites Gage and Mikken, causing Rickon Stark to cry.[8]
A Clash of Kings
Farlen and his hounds dislike Shaggydog and Summer.[9]
Farlen has his red bitch beg for bones during the harvest feast.[5]
Farlen is injured during the the capture of Winterfell by ironborn led by Theon Greyjoy. The kennelmaster limps into the Great Hall with his daughter Palla, who has been raped by the invaders.[10]
Theon forces Farlen to accompany his search party when Bran and Rickon disappear, by holding his daughter Palla hostage.[4] The search in the wolfswood is unsuccessful, so Theon sends Farlen back to Winterfell.[4] Following the advice of Reek, Theon kills two boys around the same age from the Acorn Water mill, and presents their preserved corpses as the Stark boys.[11] When Theon displays the heads of the miller's boys above the gate, Farlen attacks him until he is beaten senseless by Urzen and Cadwyl.[11]
After Gelmarr, Aggar and Gynir—all men who had been part of Theon's search party—die mysteriously, Theon chooses to blame Farlen and sentences the kennelmaster to death. As he is about to be executed, Farlen points out to Theon that Lord Eddard Stark did his own killings, forcing Theon to do the deed himself. It takes Theon four strikes to behead the kennelmaster.[11] While Farlen is blamed for the deaths of the three ironmen, the truth is that the men were murdered by Reek (with Theon's knowledge), as they knew the truth about the two bodies.[11]
Theon has a nightmare of eating with the dead at Winterfell, including Farlen.[11]
A Storm of Swords
Jon Snow recalls Farlen while beyond the Wall, unaware of the kennelmaster's fate.[12]
Catelyn Stark thinks of Farlen after learning of the sack of Winterfell.[13]
A Dance with Dragons
Having been tortured by Ramsay Bolton, Theon includes Farlen among the ghosts of Winterfell.[14]
Quotes
It's freedom they're calling for. They don't like being walled up, and who's to blame them? Wild things belong in the wild, not in a castle.[9]
—Farlen to Bran Stark
Farlen: And why would I care to hunt down my own trueborn lords, and babes at that?
Theon: I am your trueborn lord now, and the man who keeps Palla safe.
Farlen: Aye, m'lord.[4]
—Farlen and Theon Greyjoy
Theon: The only thing those dogs are fit for is a bear baiting. Would that I had a bear.
Farlen: The dogs are not at fault. Running water don't hold no scents, m'lord.[4]—Theon Greyjoy and Farlen
References
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 37, Bran V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 4, Bran I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 56, Theon V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 46, A Ghost in Winterfell.