Grave worm

A grave worm in the kindly man's skeletal eye socket, by Wibben © Fantasy Flight Games

Grave worms are white worms often found in corpses.

Description

See also: Images of grave worms

Smaller than milk snakes but similarly coloured, they are soft, pale, squishy, and have teeth. They are associated with an awful stink.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Investigating the corpses of Othor and Jafer Flowers, Samwell Tarly notices the bodies aren't rotting and haven't been eaten by worms or maggots. Dywen and Jaremy Rykker notice there is no "corpse stink".

Mirri Maz Duur tells Daenerys Stormborn that her stillborn child was full of grave worms and the stink of corruption.

A Clash of Kings

Edd Tollett speculates that the dead are probably dull fellows who would complain about others having more worms than them.

When digging up what he fears is a corpse at the Fist of the First Men, Jon Snow finds no smell or sign of grave worms.

A Feast for Crows

In the House of Black and White the kindly man shows his face to be a yellowing skull with a white worm wriggling from one eye socket. To prove her fearlessness, Arya plucks and tries to eat the worm, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. Later, he names her “Arya of House Stark, eater of grave worms."

In Queen Cersei’s small council, Qyburn claims that spittle on Lord Walder's tomb is not like to disturb the grave worms.

A Dance with Dragons

Bran mistakes weirwood roots for giant grave worms in the tunnels leading to Lord Brynden's great cavern.

Those who saw Caggo cut down Cleon the Great in Astapor claim that from within came an awful stench and a hundred wriggling grave worms, as the Astapori had apparently pulled him from his tomb, clapped him into armor, and tied him onto a horse.