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| Alias | The Brute of Bracken[1] | |||
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| Culture | Rivermen | |||
| Born | Stone Hedge[3] | |||
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Otho Bracken, called the Brute of Bracken, was a knight of House Bracken during the reign of kings Daeron II and Aerys I Targaryen.[1][2] He was the second son of Lord Bracken of Stone Hedge and eventually succeeded him.[2]
History
After slaying Lord Quentyn Blackwood in 206 AC in a tourney at King's Landing, Otho became known as "the Brute of Bracken". Although he used a blunted longaxe, Otho struck Lord Quentyn so hard that he stove in his helm's visor and the face beneath.[1]
Otho participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC, his brown tent beneath a red stallion erected far away from the tents of House Blackwood. Ser Duncan the Tall watched Otho and Lord Pearse Caron tilting against a quintain the day before the tourney began. While searched for knights for his trial of seven, Ser Steffon Fossoway believed he could bring the Brute of Bracken to Duncan's cause, but ended up betraying Duncan in favor of Prince Aerion Targaryen. Still in need of a seventh knight, Duncan reined up before Otho and pleaded for his assistance; unlike other knights, Otho had the grace to respond, but rejected him on account of not knowing the hedge knight.[1]
Otho's older brother died in the Great Spring Sickness, which made Otho his father's new heir. In 211 AC, Otho's father was slowly dying, and Septon Sefton predicted that "The Blackwoods will never stomach the Brute of Bracken as a neighbor", insisting it would mean war.[4] Early the following year, it was rumored at the wedding tourney at Whitewalls that Otho might come. He did not, however, and it was suggested that the tourney was "hardly worth the bother" for Otho.[2] At the tourney, Ser Duncan the Tall overheard a discussion between Lord Gormon Peake and Ser Tommard Heddle, where the belief was expressed that Otho would have to follow the Blackfyre cause, once the Freys and Lothstons had joined it.[2]
Quotes
Duncan: Ser Otho, all know you for a great champion. Join us, I beg you. In the names of the old gods and the new. My cause is just.
Otho: That may be, but it is your cause, not mine. I know you not, boy.[1]—Duncan the Tall and Otho
Family
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Hedge Knight.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Otho Bracken.
- ↑ The Sworn Sword.