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Lady Catelyn's sept[1] is a sept built for Catelyn Stark at Winterfell.
Layout
The sept is a small building with fragrant incense.[2] Septon Chayle hangs carved masks of the Seven on the sept's seven walls.[3] Septa Mordane tutors Sansa and Arya Stark.[4]
History
Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, had the sept built after Robert's Rebellion so that his new southron wife, Catelyn Tully, could pray to the Seven after moving to the north.[5]
Arya Stark has prayed with her mother in the sept and with her father in the godswood of Winterfell.[6]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
After Lord Eddard Stark decides to bring Bran Stark with him to King's Landing, Lady Catelyn Stark prays seven times that Ned would change his mind and leave their son at Winterfell. When Bran becomes crippled and comatose after falling from the First Keep, Catelyn wishes that it had instead been Jon Snow, Eddard's bastard son.[7]
A Clash of Kings
Chayle is drowned in a well after the capture of Winterfell by ironborn.[8] The sept is burned to an ashen shell during the sack of Winterfell by House Bolton.[9]
A Dance with Dragons
Theon Greyjoy visits the ruins of Mikken's forge and Lady Catelyn's sept.[1]
Quotes
For her sake, Ned had built a small sept where she might sing to the seven faces of god, but the blood of the First Men still flowed in the veins of the Starks, and his own gods were the old ones, the nameless, faceless gods of the greenwood they shared with the vanished children of the forest.[5]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
God is one, Septon Osmynd had taught her when she was a girl, with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls. The wealthy septs of the cities had statues of the Seven and an altar to each. In Winterfell, Septon Chayle hung carved masks from each wall.[3]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 41, The Turncloak.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 26, Arya VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 10, Jon II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 69, Bran VII.