A monkey is a non-hominoid simian. There are several monkey species in the known world.[1][2] Other simians include apes.
Distribution
Monkeys are known to be nimble, and to climb with agility and speed.[3][4][5][6]
The Isle of Cedars has agile monkeys which howl,[2] and they inhabit the broken pyramids in the ruined city of Ghozai.[7]
Black-and-white monkeys come from the Summer Islands,[8] and tribes of monkeys swing through its rain forests.[9]
According to Lomas Longstrider, the isle of Leng is home to "ten million monkeys".[10]
Monkeys can be found in Sothoryos.[11][12]
Culture
Monkeys can be kept as pets.[9][13][14][15] Monkeys can be purchased on the Long Bridge in Volantis.[15]
Men from Yi Ti wear monkey-tail hats.[1]
Jade statues carved in the shape of monkeys are a trade good.[16] Salladhor Saan wears a flamboyant tunic with jade buttons carved in the shape of monkeys.[17]
Mummers often have monkeys in their farces and plays.[18][19]
There is a small carrack called the Brazen Monkey.[20]
History
A legend from Yi Ti says that the Long Night was averted by the deeds of a woman with a monkey's tail.[21]
Monkeys were among the many goods traded between the Summer Isles and the Valyrian Freehold, as there was a fashion among the dragonlords for pet monkeys.[9]
The hunchbacked fool in the service of Queen Visenya Targaryen was known as Lord Monkeyface.[22]
Among the strange creatures observed by the crew of Lady Meredith during their year-long stay in Sothoryos were monkeys that walked like men.[11]
Lady Baela Targaryen had a pet monkey.[13]
Roggerio Rogare kept monkeys from Sothoryos at the Mermaid.[12]
Gerion Lannister taught his young nephew Tyrion some tumbling tricks, after which he practiced tumbling for six months, until his father Tywin told him to stop, telling him he was born a lion, not a monkey.[23]
The widow of the waterfront once had a monkey which could perform all sorts of clever tricks.[15]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Ser Alliser Thorne derisively nicknames Pypar, a recruit of the Night's Watch, as "Monkey" and "the Mummer's Monkey".[18]
A Clash of Kings
In Cobbler's Square in King's Landing, a begging brother rants about corruption in the city, calling Tyrion Lannister a "twisted little monkey demon" who controls the abomination, King Joffrey I Baratheon.[24] Tyrion is hurt by the title, and often uses it mockingly in reference to himself thereafter.[25][26][27]
Ser Mark Mullendore has a pet monkey, a black-and-white creature from the Summer Isles,[8] and he joins Renly Baratheon beneath the walls of Bitterbridge. The knight feeds his monkey morsels at the feast.[14] Mark fights at the Battle of the Blackwater, losing part of his left arm and his monkey before getting captured.[28]
Xaro Xhoan Daxos gives Daenerys Targaryen many gifts, including tumbling monkeys.[5]
A Feast for Crows
Leo Tyrell mocks Alleras by referring to his mother, a trader from the Summer Isles, as a monkey.[29]
Brienne of Tarth recalls that Ser Mark Mullendore was a part of the wager over who would claim her maidenhead. He used his monkey to make her laugh in his attempt to woo her.[8] When she learns of Mark's fate, she remembers him sitting outside his pavilion with his monkey on his shoulder in a little suit of chainmail, the two of them making faces at each other.[8]
Megga Tyrell asks Queen Margaery Tyrell for help in finding Mark a new monkey.[30]
A Dance with Dragons
In Volantis, Prince Quentyn Martell sees a number of animal sellers clustered together; some of the animals on offer are agile little monkeys with striped tails and clever pink hands. Ser Gerris Drinkwater suggests to Quentyn that Daenerys Targaryen might like a monkey.[31] When attempting to help Quentyn steal one of Daenerys's dragons from the Great Pyramid in Meereen, Ser Gerris Drinkwater wears an ape mask and says his disguise "makes a monkey out of me."[32]
When Illyrio Mopatis and Tyrion Lannister meet with some of the magister's cohorts, Illyrio tells them Tyrion is called "Yollo". Tyrion thinks that Yollo sounds like something you might name a monkey, and says his mother called him Hugor Hill.[33]
Anchored near the Isle of Cedars, half of the Iron Fleet becomes infested with monkeys from the isle, even Iron Victory. Victarion Greyjoy thinks that the isle should have been called the "Isle of Monkeys". He sends men up into the rigging to deal with the animals, but they prove themselves more agile than his crew. The antics of the monkeys amuse the crew, but they do not amuse Victarion, who dislikes laughter.[2] The monkeys aboard Iron Victory do not seem to like Moqorro, screaming and throwing their feces at the red priest and the ship's crew. As Moqorro heals Victarion's hand, he sings a strange high wailing song in High Valyrian, which appears to make the monkeys leave the ship, screeching as they leap into the water.[2] When Lamentation chases down Ghiscari Dawn, both ships can hear monkeys chattering from the ruins of Ghozai.[7]
Quotes
The street curved where the river met the sea, and there along the bend a number of animal sellers were clustered together, offering jeweled lizards, giant banded snakes, and agile little monkeys with striped tails and clever pink hands.[31]
—thoughts of Quentyn Martell
Filthy, noisy beast.[2]
—thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy
The monkeys, though … the monkeys were a plague. Victarion had forbidden his men to bring any of the demonic creatures aboard ship, yet somehow half his fleet was now infested with them, even his own Iron Victory. He could see some now, swinging from spar to spar and ship to ship. Would that I had a crossbow.[2]
—thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 54, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 56, The Iron Suitor.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 20, Eddard IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Prologue.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 40, Daenerys III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 69, Jon XIII.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 63, Victarion I.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 14, Brienne III.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Sunset Kingdom: Beyond the Free Cities (The Summer Isles).
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Sunset Kingdom: The Bones and Beyond (Leng).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 27, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 27, Daenerys III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 10, Davos I.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Ancient History: The Long Night.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 20, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 44, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 49, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 22, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 6, The Merchant's Man.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 4, Tyrion I.