Red Graces
The Red Graces are priestesses who provide sexual services in the religion of the Ghiscari. Like other Graces, they dwell in the Temple of the Graces.[1]
Duties
At nighttime, the Red Graces wait in little snuggeries in the pleasure gardens every night until a man chooses them. Those who are not chosen must remain until the sun comes up.[1]
Girls of noble birth who are too young to serve their year in the pleasure gardens of the Temple of the Graces serve instead as White Graces.[2]
Recent Events
A Dance with Dragons
Ser Gerris Drinkwater suggests to Prince Quentyn Martell that they go to the Temple of the Graces to find a girl for Quentyn, but he refuses.[1] Gerris feels that the septas of Westeros should emulate the Red Graces, pointing out that old septas always look like prunes, as a result of a boring life of chastity.[1]
Quotes
Gerris: Or better still, I could take you to the Temple of the Graces and find a girl for you.
Quentyn: A whore, you mean.
Gerris: They call them Graces. They come in different colors. The red ones are the only ones who fuck.[1]
Gerris: There are little snuggeries in the pleasure gardens, and they wait there every night until a man chooses them. Those who are not chosen must remain until the sun comes up, feeling lonely and neglected. We could console them.
Quentyn: They could console me, is what you mean.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 68, The Dragontamer.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 23, Daenerys IV.