The Weeping Water is a river between the Last River, the Lonely Hills, and the Sheepshead Hills in the north. The Dreadfort, the seat of House Bolton, lies along the river, which flows southeast into the Shivering Sea.[1]
Culture
In wintertime, stones in the icy Weeping Water become half frozen.[2] There is ice fishing on the northern rivers.[3]
History
During the coming of the Andals, Theon Stark, King in the North, allied with the Boltons to crush Argos Sevenstar and his Andals in the Battle of the Weeping Water.[4]
While foxhunting along the Weeping Water, Lord Roose Bolton raped and impregnated a miller's wife; the child of the rape was Ramsay Snow. Roose eventually decided to give the mill by the Weeping Water to the widowed woman.[2] After returning from the Redfort, Domeric Bolton rode up the river to befriend Ramsay. Domeric eventually died of poison.[2]
Recent Events
A Dance with Dragons
Theon Greyjoy remembers escaping from the Dreadfort with Kyra, stumbling over stones in the icy river, and kissing her after they reached the other side. The escape turned out to be a hunting game devised by Ramsay Bolton, however.[5]
Quotes
They waited for the moon to go behind a cloud, then slipped from the castle and splashed across the Weeping Water, stumbling over stones, half-frozen by the icy stream.[5]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
References
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Map of the North
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: The Effects of Winter, June 22, 2001
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Kings of Winter.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 12, Reek I.