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 Luke McEwan as Rast in Game of Thrones | ||||
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| Alias | Rat | |||
| Allegiance | Night's Watch | |||
| Culture | Valemen | |||
| Born |
281 AC[1] Fingers[2] | |||
| Died |
299 AC Castle Black | |||
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| Played by | Luke McEwan | |||
| TV series |
Game of Thrones: Season 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
Rast is a recruit of the Night's Watch. Ser Alliser Thorne refers to him as Rat.[3]
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Rast is portrayed by Luke McEwan.[4]
Appearance and Character
[edit]Rast is two years older than Jon Snow and forty pounds heavier.[3] He is cruel[3] and grudgeful.[5]
History
[edit]According to a semi-canon source, Rast comes from the Fingers.[2]
Rast was sentenced to the Wall for being a rapist.[3]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]Rast is in the same group of recruits as Jon Snow when he comes to the Wall. Ser Alliser Thorne, the master-at-arms at Castle Black, orders Rast, Albett, and Halder to fight Jon when he takes the side of Samwell Tarly during training. Jon defeats them with the help of Pyp and Grenn.[3] When Jon asks his fellow recruits to refrain from fighting Sam, all agree except Rast. The next night the boys go to Rast's cell and Jon's direwolf, Ghost, nips at Rast's throat with his fangs. The next day Rast claims he cut himself shaving, but he refuses to harm Sam.[3]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]When Samwell spends the night in the vaults of Castle Black and misses breakfast, Rast suggests that Sam had deserted.[6]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]In the haunted forest, Sam thinks of Rast and other tormenters before attacking an Other with a dragonglass dagger.[7]
Still in training,[8] Rast is among the men whom Bowen Marsh leaves behind to defend Castle Black when the castellan departs to deal with wildling attacks along the Wall. Rast dies during the attack on Castle Black when a Thenn shoves a spear into his belly and lifts the boy into the air.[5]
Quotes by Rast
[edit]You girls do as you please, but if Thorne sends me against Lady Piggy, I'm going to slice me off a rasher of bacon.[3]
—Rast to his fellow recruits
Quotes about Rast
[edit]Jon had once threatened to have Ghost rip his throat out unless he stopped tormenting Samwell Tarly, and Rast did not forget things like that.[5]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
References
[edit]- ↑ See the Rast calculation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Rast.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ Game of Thrones: full cast on IMDB
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 18, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.