The ghost in Harrenhal,[1][2] or the ghost of Harrenhal,[3] is the nickname Arya gives herself during her time in Harrenhal, where she kills people with a whisper to Jaqen H'ghar.[4] Some attribute Jaqen's assassinations to Harren's ghost.[1][5]
History
Harrenhal is said to be haunted by fiery spirits,[6] namely those of Harren the Black and his sons, who were roasted alive during the burning of Harrenhal.[1]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
While imprisoned and forced to serve at Harrenhal by House Lannister, Arya Stark is approached by Jaqen H'ghar, who insists that because Arya had saved him, Rorge, and Biter from death by burning during the Fight at the holdfast, he now owes her three deaths to repay those she stole from the "Red God", and asks for her to give him three names.[1]
Arya's first name to Jaqen is Chiswyck, a Mountain's men who dies three days later after falling off the wallwalk. When some say that he was flung down by the ghost of Harren the Black, Arya thinks that she is the ghost in Harrenhal and there is one less name on her list.[1]
Arya's second name to Jaqen is Weese, the understeward of the Wailing Tower, who dies the next day after having his throat torn out by his own spotted dog. The servant Amabel attributes Weese's death to Harren's ghost.[5]
Arya twice thinks of herself as the ghost in Harrenhal, and realizes that Jaqen had made her brave again, making her "a ghost instead of a mouse".[2]
A Storm of Swords
Arya, now with the brotherhood without banners in the riverlands, feels strong remembering how she had been the ghost in Harrenhal, killing people with only a whisper.[4]
A Feast for Crows
When the Kindly man asks her who she is, Arya thinks of her many names and nicknames, including the ghost of Harrenhal.[3]
Quotes
—Arya after the killing of Chiswyck
Jaqen made me brave again. He made me a ghost instead of a mouse.[2]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
She took out the coin that Jaqen H'ghar had given her and curled her fingers around it as she lay beneath her cloak. It made her feel strong to hold it, remembering how she'd been the ghost in Harrenhal. She could kill with a whisper then.[4]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 22, Arya II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 38, Arya VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 14, Arya IV.