The fox is an animal similar to the real-life mammal. They include black foxes,[1] red foxes,[2] and white foxes.[3]
Culture
Foxes are known for being sly.[2] A red gold fox is included in the sigil of House Florent.[4] House Foxglove is a noble house from Westeros.[5]
Expensive cloaks are often lined with foxfur. Lord Petyr Baelish owns a grey silk cloak trimmed with black fox,[1] and Salloreon also owns a foxfur cloak.[6] Lady Lysa Arryn has a blue velvet robe trimmed with fox fur.[7] Lord Meldred Merlyn wears a fox-fur mantle.[8]
A sly red fox is included on the painted doors of the Seven Swords in Duskendale.[2]
Ronnel Harclay,[9] Tom of Sevenstreams,[10] Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen,[11] Big Walder Frey,[12] and Brandon Norrey[13] are said to resemble foxes.
History
Florys the Fox is said to have been the cleverest of the children of Garth Greenhand, and Houses Florent, Ball, and Peake claim descent from her.[14]
Lord Roose Bolton was unsuccessfully hunting a fox on the Weeping Water on the day he raped the mother of Ramsay Snow.[15]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark compares Lord Tywin Lannister's craftiness to that of a fox.[16]
A Clash of Kings
Todric claims a white foxfur cloak from one of the Wild Hares.[17]
A Storm of Swords
Lady Lysa Arryn often sings a song about a chicken which dressed like a fox to her son, Lord Robert Arryn.[18] Sansa Stark wears a hooded cloak of soft white fox fur at the Eyrie.[7]
A Feast for Crows
Brienne of Tarth thinks she might be hearing owls and prowling foxes in the woods at night.[11] Meribald's dog barks at a fox while Brienne's party travel along the Bay of Crabs toward Saltpans.[19]
A Dance with Dragons
Varamyr detects the faint smells of foxes and other animals in the haunted forest.[20]
Some of the Brazen Beasts of Meereen wear fox masks.[21][22]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 33, Eddard VIII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 35, Bran V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42, Davos II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Epilogue.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: Garth Greenhand.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard XI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 37, Theon III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 68, Sansa VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 59, The Discarded Knight.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer.