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 Willam Dustin, by TheMico © | ||||
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| Title | Lord of Barrowton[1] | |||
| Allegiance | House Dustin | |||
| Culture | Northmen | |||
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283 AC[2] the tower of joy, Dorne[2] | |||
| Spouse | Lady Barbrey Ryswell[1] | |||
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Willam Dustin was the Lord of Barrowton and the head of House Dustin during Robert's Rebellion. He was married to Barbrey Ryswell, now the Lady of Barrowton.[3]
Character
According to his widow, Barbrey Dustin, Willam was full of pride.[4]
Lord Dustin rode a great red stallion.[2]
History
Young Lord Willam had been married to Barbrey Ryswell for less than half a year before the outbreak of Robert's Rebellion. Barbrey urged him to send one of his kin in his place, but Willam insisted on leading the levies from Barrowton himself. Barbrey gave her husband a fine red stallion, the pride of the herds of her father, Lord Rodrik Ryswell. Willam vowed he would return to her mounted on the steed.[4]
Willam was present at the wedding of his liege, Lord Eddard Stark, to Lady Catelyn Tully at Riverrun. During the bedding custom, Willam praised Catelyn's breasts to Eddard.[5]
Willam was one of six companions who accompanied Eddard to the tower of joy in the Red Mountains of Dorne, where Lord Stark sought his sister, Lyanna Stark. They were opposed by three Kingsguard, however, and only Eddard and Lord Howland Reed survived the ensuing battle. Eddard buried the fallen in cairns raised from the tower's stones.[2] Lord Stark returned the red stallion to Willam's widow, Barbrey, when he returned to the north, and told her that Willam had died an honorable death.[4]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
While under the influence of the milk of the poppy, taken because of his broken leg,[6] Lord Eddard Stark has a fever dream of Willam and his companions at the combat at the tower of joy.[2]
A Storm of Swords
Before the bedding at the Red Wedding, Catelyn Stark remembers how Lord Dustin had praised her breasts during the bedding at her own wedding to Eddard Stark. She thinks sadly of how he had ridden south with her husband, never to return.[5]
A Dance with Dragons
In the crypts of Winterfell, Barbrey Dustin, the widow of Willam and the Lady of Barrowton, reveals to Theon Greyjoy that she still resents that Eddard brought Willam's red stallion back from Dorne but not his bones. She mentions that Eddard did bring home his sister Lyanna's bones, but Barbrey promises that Eddard's own bones (being transported north from Riverrun) will never be laid to rest in the crypts beside hers, as she intends to feed them to her dogs.[4]
Family
Quotes about Willam
In the dream his friends rode with him, as they had in life. Proud Martyn Cassel, Jory's father; faithful Theo Wull; Ethan Glover, who had been Brandon's squire; Ser Mark Ryswell, soft of speech and gentle of heart; the crannogman, Howland Reed; Lord Dustin on his great red stallion. Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist.[2]
—thoughts of Eddard Stark
When Lord Dustin had beheld her naked, he'd told Ned that her breasts were enough to make him wish he'd never been weaned. Poor man, she thought. He had ridden south with Ned, never to return.[5]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Ned Stark returned the horse to me on his way back home to Winterfell. He told me that my lord had died an honorable death, that his body had been laid to rest beneath the red mountains of Dorne. He brought his sister's bones back north, though, and there she rests... but I promise you, Lord Eddard's bones will never rest beside hers. I mean to feed them to my dogs.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 39, Eddard X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 41, The Turncloak.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 35, Eddard IX.