| Magnar Styr | |
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 Styr, by Mike S Miller © | |
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| Title | Magnar of Thenn |
| Allegiance | Thenn |
| Culture | Free folk |
| Born | Thenn[1] |
| Died |
Late 299 AC Castle Black |
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| Played by | Yuri Kolokolnikov |
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 4 |
Styr is the Magnar of Thenn and leader of the Thenns, a tribe of free folk.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Styr is portrayed by Yuri Kolokolnikov.
Appearance and Character
Styr is a tall, lean man. He is clean shaven and bald, with grey eyes and a straight nose. Styr has lost both of his ears.[2]
The Magnar of Thenn rules with an iron fist and commands absolute loyalty from his men.[3] He is seen more as a god than a man by the Thenns.[2] Coming from a valley in the Frostfangs,[3] Styr has never seen the Wall.[4] He speaks the Old Tongue as well as the Common Tongue.[4]
Styr wears bronze scale armor and a helm.[5] He wields a weirwood spear with an ornate bronze head[5] and slings a two-handed greatsword across his back in a leather sheath.[2] The Magnar also carries a long knife.[6]
History
Mance Rayder had to defeat Styr three times before the Magnar agreed to support him as King-beyond-the-Wall.[7]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
When Rattleshirt brings Jon Snow to Mance Rayder, Jon thinks Styr is Mance, mistakenly calling him "Your Grace". Styr is wary of Jon, who claims to have deserted the Night's Watch.[2]
Mance tasks Styr, together with Jarl, to scale the Wall and take Castle Black from the rear, and the King-Beyond-the-Wall has Jon accompany them.[6] Styr has a hundred Thenns, five times as many raiders as Jarl.[3] Jarl and Styr share the command, although Styr, who commands significantly more men than Jarl, resents this and often acts as the sole commander.[3] Styr distrusts Ygritte's support for Jon.[8] In a cave near Greyguard, Jarl and Styr interrogate Jon about patrols of the Night's Watch.[3]
Jarl falls to his death while attempting to scale the Wall. Styr leads the surviving wildlings in descending at Greyguard.[4] Styr orders Jon to kill a captive northman at Queenscrown, but Jon refuses and escapes the wildlings.[8] Jon is able to warn the Night's Watch of the coming attack.[9]
Styr leads his men in an attack on Castle Black. During the fighting, Jon sees the Magnar climbing the barricade constructed by the defenders. The Night's Watch trap Styr and his Thenns between fires on the steps, however. Styr is last seen as a portion of the Wall collapses on the lower third of the stair.[5]
Stannis Baratheon informs Jon that the new Magnar of Thenn was taken captive during the battle beneath the Wall.[10]
A Feast for Crows
Styr's son, Sigorn, is the new Magnar of Thenn.[11]
A Dance with Dragons
Jon, now the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, fears that Sigorn blames him for his father's death,[12] and he recollects that Styr put Mole's Town to the torch.[13] Jon arranges the wedding of Sigorn and Alys Karstark.[7]
Quotes by Styr
Styr: What do I want with a crow?
Mance: He knows the Watch and he knows the Wall, and he knows Castle Black better than any raider ever could. You'll find a use for him, or you're a fool.
Mance: Then cut it out.[6]
Styr: His heart may still be black.
—Styr and Mance Rayder
Crow, do not take me for Mance Rayder. If you lie to me, I will have your tongue.[3]
—Styr to Jon Snow
Quotes about Styr
He was straight as a spear, all long wiry muscle, clean-shaved, bald, with a strong straight nose and deepset grey eyes. He might even have been comely if he'd had ears, but he had lost both along the way, whether to frostbite or some enemy's knife Jon could not tell. Their lack made the man's head seem narrow and pointed.[2]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
The Magnar claimed to be the last of the First Men, and ruled with an iron hand. His little land of Thenn was a high mountain valley hidden amongst the northernmost peaks of the Frostfangs, surrounded by cave dwellers, Hornfoot men, giants, and the cannibal clans of the ice rivers. Ygritte said the Thenns were savage fighters, and that their Magnar was a god to them. Jon could believe that. Unlike Jarl and Harma and Rattleshirt, Styr commanded absolute obedience from his men, and that discipline was no doubt part of why Mance had chosen him to go over the Wall.[3]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Give me one clean shot at the Magnar of Thenn, he prayed to his father's gods. The Magnar at least was a foe that he could hate. Give me Styr.[5]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Tormund: The Magnar of Thenn swore t'us that he'd have the gate wide open, so all we'd need to do was stroll through singing. He was going to bring the whole Wall down.
Jon: He brought down part. On his head.
Tormund: Har! Well, I never had much use for Styr. When a man's got no beard nor hair nor ears, you can't get a good grip on him when you fight.[14]
References
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Styr.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 7, Jon I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 26, Jon III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 30, Jon IV.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 76, Jon XI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 21, Jon V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 73, Jon X.