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Kedge Whiteye is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Appearance and Character
Kedge is in his forties and has a blind left eye.[1]
Kedge is a skilled ranger,[3][1] but he does not get along well with other members of the Night's Watch.[1]
History
Kedge has been with the Night's Watch since he was ten.[1]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Kedge is part of Thoren Smallwood's scouting expedition in the Frostfangs during the great ranging. When they return to the encampment of the Night's Watch on the Fist of the First Men, he tells assorted members of the Watch of the march of Mance Rayder's host.[4]
Kedge survives the fight at the Fist. After reaching Craster's Keep, Kedge chops off Bannen's mangled foot in an attempt to save the injured scout, but Bannen eventually dies nine days later.[5]
Kedge stays loyal to the Watch during the mutiny at Craster's Keep and is one of the few survivors of the ranging to make it back to Castle Black.[6]
A Feast for Crows
Kedge is one of the rangers tasked with escorting Samwell Tarly, Maester Aemon, and Gilly to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. He curses when Samwell shows up on his own, as it means he lost a bet that Samwell would have to be dragged from his bed by the rangers.[3]
A Dance with Dragons
Kedge guards the Wall when Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, makes his inspection. Kedge and Dywen report that two of the queen's men, Ser Richard Horpe and Ser Justin Massey, rode south along the kingsroad.[1]
Jon appoints Kedge as the leader of one of the three groups of three rangers he is sending north of the Wall. Kedge laughs when Dywen condescendingly reassures the highborn Ser Alliser Thorne, who thinks he is being sent to die by Jon. Melisandre warns Jon soon after their departure that in her visions she has seen three of the nine rangers return eyeless, weeping blood.[7]
When the decapitated heads of the group led by Black Jack Bulwer turn up north of Castle Black, Jon asks Melisandre if she has also seen the surviving six rangers, including Kedge, in her visions. Melisandre reveals she has not seen their fates just yet.[8]
Quotes by Kedge
Kedge: Smallwood sent Bannen and me wide around the van to catch a peek at the main body. There was no end of them. They're moving slow as a frozen river, four, five miles a day, but they don't look like they mean to go back to their villages neither. More'n half were women and children, and they were driving their animals before them, goats, sheep, even aurochs dragging sledges. They'd loaded up with bales of fur and sides of meat, cages of chickens, butter churns and spinning wheels, every damn thing they own. The mules and garrons was so heavy laden you'd think their backs would break. The women as well.
Lark: And they follow the Milkwater?
Kedge: I said so, didn't I?[4]—Kedge and Lark
Quotes about Kedge
Kedge had seen forty-odd namedays, thirty of them on the Wall. His left eye was blind, his right eye mean. In the wild, alone with axe and garron, he was as good a ranger as any in the Watch, but he had never gotten on well with the other men.[1]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 7, Jon II.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Kedge.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Prologue.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 28, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.