The Maiden, or the Maid, is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.[1]
Culture
[edit]The beautiful[2][1] Maiden represents innocence[3] and chastity. She is believed to look after young girls,[4] and followers pray to her to protect a maiden's virtue.[1]
The Maiden's Book is part of the The Seven-Pointed Star.[5] Maiden's Day is a holy day in the Faith.[6]
"Maiden, Mother, and Crone" is a song popular among the pious.[7]
The Maiden's Tower is one of the towers of the Eyrie.[8]
History
[edit]A passage in The Seven-Pointed Star says that the Maiden brought Hugor of the Hill, the first king of the Andals in Andalos, a bride as supple as a willow with eyes like deep blue pools.[9]
Legend says that Galladon of Morne's valor was so great the Maiden fell in love with him. She gave him an enchanted sword, the Just Maid, to demonstrate her love for him.[10]
Princess Arianne Martell lit candles to the Maid when Lord Hoster Tully asked for her to come to Riverrun to meet Edmure Tully, but her father Doran, Prince of Dorne, declined the invitation.[11]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village's sept near Storm's End. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. She goes to the Maid and beseeches her to lend her courage to Arya and Sansa, to guard them in their innocence.[1]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]A dwarf brother makes Brienne of Tarth's acquaintance at the Seven Swords inn in Duskendale, and he reassure her that the Maiden will keep her sister safe.[12]
Lord Lancel Lannister sleeps among the statues of the Seven in the sept of Darry.[13]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]Queen Cersei Lannister asks for forgiveness from the Maid after confessing to the High Sparrow that she slept with the Kettleblacks.[14]
Quotes
[edit]The Maiden dances through the sky,
she lives in every lover's sigh.
Her smiles teach the birds to fly,
and gives dreams to little children.[15]—Samwell Tarly singing from "The Song of the Seven"
You should be sleeping with your wife, not with the Maid. You need a son with Darry blood if you want to keep this castle.[13]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 12, Daenerys I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 39, Cersei IX.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 20, Brienne IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 30, Jaime IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 54, Cersei I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 46, Samwell III.
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