House Vikary

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House Vikary
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Coat of arms Quarterly: a red boar's head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red
(Quarterly, 1st and 4th white, a boar erased gules, 2nd and 3rd gules, a lion rampant regardant queue-forché silver, armed and langued or, debruised by a bend sinister of the last)
Head Ser Lymond Vikary
Region The Westerlands
Overlord House Lannister

House Vikary is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock.[1]

According to semi-canon sources they blazon their arms with quarterly: a red boar's head on white, beneath a gold bend sinister a silver lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on red.[2] Their words are not known.

Origin

The use of the reverse colors of the Reynes arms in the second and third quarters beneath a bend sinister may indicate that the founder of the house was either a Reyne bastard or a descendant of a Reyne bastard. It is also possibile that the red boar indicates a relation with House Crakehall, whose arms depict a black and white brindled boar.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

The news of the Battle of Oxcross that reaches King's Landing reports that Ser Lymond Vikary had been slain.[3]

A Storm of Swords

Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at Wayfarer's Rest.[4]

A Feast for Crows

Lord Karyl Vance of Wayfarer's Rest bends the knee to the Iron Throne after the Red Wedding and joins House Lannister in the siege of Riverrun.[5] Ser Lymond is presumably released from his imprisonment at Karyl's castle.

Brienne of Tarth and her companions see the corpses of the perpetrators of the raid on Saltpans hanged from trees. Among the dead is a man with a badge depicting a boar's heads sewn on his breast, presumably a Vikary man-at-arms who became a broken man during the War of the Five Kings.[6]

House Vikary at the end of the third century

The known Vikarys during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:

Behind the Scenes

House Vikary is a reference by George R. R. Martin to Jaan Vikary, a character in his first novel, Dying of the Light.

References