House Vikary

House Vikary
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 clockwise, 1st and 3rd white, a boar erased gules, 2nd and 4th 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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

A Storm of Swords

Lymond is listed as being a prisoner at Wayfarer's Rest.^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[9]

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:

Ser Lymond Vikary, head of House Vikary.

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.^[10]

Notes

↑ In Westerosi heraldry, the quarters are listed clockwise rather than the traditional 1-2/3-4 order.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ The Winds of Winter, Alayne I
↑ The Mystery Knight.
↑ The Mystery Knight: The Graphic Novel
↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Westerlands
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 32, Sansa III.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.
↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.
↑ grrm-thousand-worlds.fandom.com: Dying of the Light

[4] In Westerosi heraldry, the quarters are listed clockwise rather than the traditional 1-2/3-4 order.^[1]^[2]^[3]

[1] The Winds of Winter, Alayne I

[Rtmk{{{2}}}{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-2] The Mystery Knight.

[3] The Mystery Knight: The Graphic Novel

[Raffcappendix{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-5] A Feast for Crows, Appendix.

[6] The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Westerlands

[Racok32{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-7] A Clash of Kings, Chapter 32, Sansa III.

[Rasosappendix{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-8] A Storm of Swords, Appendix.

[Raffc38{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-9] A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.

[Raffc37{{{3}}}{{{4}}}-10] A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.

[11] rrm-thousand-worlds.fandom.com: Dying of the Light

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