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 Rolly, by Darek Zabrocki © Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
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| Culture | Reach | |||
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In or before 280 AC[2] Bitterbridge[1] | |||
| Book | A Dance with Dragons (appears) | |||
Rolly Duckfield, also known as Duck, is a knight in service to Young Griff.
Appearance
[edit]Duck is a brawny man. He has a shock of orange hair and a shaggy beard.[1]
History
[edit]Rolly was born in the Reach. His father was a blacksmith at Bitterbridge in service to old Lord Caswell. Rolly's strength and skill with a blade earned him a place in the castle garrison, but Rolly had dreams of knighthood. He resented seeing Lord Caswell's weakling son Lorent become a page, a squire, then a knight. Lord Caswell had only one son, so no one in the castle was allowed to say a word against Lorent. In the yard the other squires barely touched him.[1]
On his sixteenth name day, Rolly's father made a longsword for Rolly as a present, but Lorent Caswell saw it and claimed it for his own, saying to Rolly that he was only fit to wield a hammer, not a sword. Rolly then fetched a hammer and broke both of Lorent's arms and half his ribs. Afterwards, Rolly quickly fled across the narrow sea to escape Lord Caswell's wrath. He joined the Golden Company as an apprentice smith for a few years, and then served Ser Harry Strickland as a squire.[1]
When Griff needed someone to train his son Young Griff in skill at arms, Harry Strickland sent him Rolly. A year later Rolly was knighted by Griff. Having no surname, Rolly chose the name Duckfield because he was in a field with some ducks when he was knighted, earning him the nickname "Duck".[1]
Recent Events
[edit]A Dance with Dragons
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Rolly meets Illyrio Mopatis's litter and escorts Tyrion Lannister to meet the rest of the party. They set sail on the Shy Maid to Volantis.[1] Young Griff is revealed to be Aegon Targaryen, and Griff to be Jon Connington,[3] and they are supported by the Golden Company.[4]
Duck and Jon participate in the landing of the Golden Company in the stormlands. Duck is named to the new Kingsguard by Aegon, but Jon does not approve of the choice. He thinks Duck is a solid man and true, but not worthy of the Kingsguard, and that they should be reserving positions for famous warriors and younger sons of great lords whose support they will need in the fight for the throne. However, Aegon feels that it is most important that Rolly will die for him, citing the Kingslayer, Ser Jaime Lannister, as an example that matches Jon's preferences.[5]
Quotes
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Tyrion: Are these two known to you, magister? They look like outlaws. Should I find my axe?
Rolly: Your axe? Did you hear that, Haldon? The little man wants to fight with us!
Haldon: I should gladly settle for a quieter one.[1]
Haldon: Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts. I doubt if he could kill a duck.
Tyrion: Fetch the duck.
Haldon: If you insist.
Rolly: I'm Duck, you mouthy little pisspot.
Tyrion: I had a smaller duck in mind.
Rolly: Did you hear, Haldon? He wants a smaller Duck!
—Tyrion Lannister, Haldon, and Rolly
Illyrio: How fares our lad?
Haldon: He is as tall as Griff now. Three days ago he knocked Duck into a horse trough.
Haldon: Your ploy was a success. I laughed myself.[1]
Rolly: I wasn't knocked. I fell in just to make him laugh.
—Illyrio Mopatis, Haldon, and Rolly
Haldon: Tell our little friend how you came by your name, why don't you?
Rolly: A knight needs more than just the one name, and, well, we were in a field when he dubbed me, and I looked up and saw these ducks, so ... don't laugh, now.[1]—Haldon and Rolly
Quotes about Rolly
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Griff: I am no knight.
Tyrion: And yet Ser Duck says you knighted him.
Tyrion: Some might wonder that a duck can talk at all.[1]
Griff: Duck talks too much.
—Griff and Tyrion Lannister
Duck will die for me if need be, and that's all I require in my Kingsguard.[5]
At least I convinced him to leave the other six slots open, else Duck might have six ducklings trailing after him, each more blindingly adequate than the last.[5]
—thoughts of Jon Connington
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 8, Tyrion III.
- ↑ See the Rolly Duckfield calculation.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 22, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.