Editing Yoren (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Yorens Task by chrzan666.jpg|thumb|350px|Yoren's Task, by Piotr Chrzanowski © Fantasy Flight Games]]
At a wooden [[holdfast]] at the edge of the [[wolfswood]], Yoren joins the party led by [[Benjen Stark]] that is heading north to the [[Wall]], with [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Jon Snow]] also coming along. Yoren brings two young rapists from the [[Fingers]] as recruits for the [[Night's Watch]]. Yoren's ragged appearance as well as his charges serve as a rude awakening to Jon, who might have thought that the Watch just consisted of noble men like his uncle Benjen.{{Ref|AGOT|13}}

Yoren returns south, arriving at [[Winterfell]] in the company of four black brothers and Tyrion, the latter receiving a cold welcome from [[Robb Stark]]. Yoren is present when Tyrion hands over his plans for building a saddle that can carry the crippled [[Bran Stark]]. As Yoren is senior among the Night's Watch men, he is seated with Robb and [[Maester]] [[Luwin]] for dinner that night. Yoren refers to Jon as the bane of Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], and he angers Robb by stating that the missing Benjen is probably dead.{{Ref|AGOT|24}} 

Yoren is present when [[Catelyn Stark]] arrests Tyrion at the [[crossroads inn]], and afterwards he continues to [[King's Landing]] to inform her husband, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], the new [[Hand of the King]].{{Ref|AGOT|32}} Yoren remains in the capital to gather more recruits. No [[knight]]s volunteer for the Watch, so Eddard gives Yoren his pick of the king's dungeons.{{ref|AGOT|44}} At some point, Yoren is approached by [[Varys|a man]] who gives him gold to take [[Gendry|a boy]] with him to the Wall, and after Eddard's imprisonment Yoren is told to be ready to take Eddard to the Wall.{{Ref|ACOK|1}}

Yoren is present at the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] when Eddard publicly confesses to [[treason]], and he recognizes Eddard's daughter [[Arya Stark|Arya]] in the crowd. When King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] unexpectedly orders Lord Stark to be beheaded by Ser [[Ilyn Payne]], Yoren grabs Arya and prevents her from seeing her father's execution. Calling her "boy", Yoren drags Arya away.{{Ref|AGOT|65}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Yoren by Roman Papusev.jpg|thumb|350px|Yoren, by Roman Papusev © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Yoren cuts [[Arya Stark]]'s hair to a stubble with his dagger so she can pass as an orphan boy called "Arry". He intends to bring her with his band of recruits headed for the [[Wall]], and is going to drop her off at [[Winterfell]]. What turned out to be [[Yoren's last Night's Watch recruitment group]] consists of approximately thirty people. In addition, he takes along five wagons laden with supplies, as well as two [[courser]]s and a couple of [[donkey]]s for the boys.{{Ref|ACOK|1}}

While heading north on the [[kingsroad]], Yoren stops Arya from beating [[Hot Pie]] with a wooden sword. He strikes her behind with a stick, but gives her [[sourleaf]] for the pain. He informs her that Lord [[Eddard Stark]] was supposed to join the [[Night's Watch]], and that something must have gone wrong, arousing Arya's suspicion that King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] is responsible for her father's death.{{Ref|ACOK|1}}

The band is confronted with refugees, warning of [[War of the Five Kings|war]] and armed men. [[Praed]] dies, only the fourth recruit Yoren has lost. Yoren remains undisturbed at first, insisting that the Night's Watch takes no part in the wars of the realm and that his band will be safe.{{Ref|ACOK|5}}{{Ref|ACOK|9}}

At an [[ivy-covered inn]] on the kingsroad where Yoren protects Arya from revealing her [[north]]ern identity, a group of [[City Watch of King’s Landing|gold cloaks]] present a warrant for [[Gendry]], signed by Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]]. Yoren refuses their demand that the boy be handed over, pointing out that laws protect members of the Night's Watch. Yoren makes the unimpressed gold cloaks retreat, although they announce they will be back. Yoren gives Arya and Gendry the two coursers, advising them to flee as fast as they can if the gold cloaks reappear.{{Ref|ACOK|5}}

[[File:Yoren_by_Lopata_4.jpg|thumb|350px|Yoren by Lopata 4]]
Avoiding the kingsroad afterwards, the band marches west- and northwards toward the [[Gods Eye]], which Yoren wants to pass along its western shore. The hostility of the fieldhands at [[Briarwhite]], who take the recruits for possible looters, make Yoren increasingly bitter about disrespect shown to the Night's Watch. Yoren rescues a [[Weasel|little girl]] and a [[one-armed woman]] from a [[Weasel's village|burned village]], though the woman dies soon after from her wounds. Yoren admits to Arya that he might have made a mistake taking orphans away from the safety of the city or, at least, not going by ship to the Wall this time.{{Ref|ACOK|9}}

The band arrives at the eastern side of [[Gods Eye river|the river]] running south from the Gods Eye. Having no means to cross the river with their wagons, Yoren wants to rent a boat in an [[Gods Eye town|unnamed town]] on the southern shore of the Gods Eye and to cross it towards [[Harrentown]], going on from there or finding shelter with Lady [[Shella Whent]] at [[Harrenhal]]. However, when they arrive at the town, it is deserted and no boats can be found.{{Ref|ACOK|14}}

While Yoren and his recruits stay in an abandoned [[holdfast]] overnight, a party led by Ser [[Amory Lorch]], part of the Lannister campaign in the riverlands, arrives and torches the town. In the name of King Joffrey, Amory commands Yoren to open the gate. Again pointing out that the Night's Watch takes no part in the war, Yoren refuses, prompting Lorch to order his men to [[Storming of the Gods Eye town holdfast|storm the holdfast]] and kill everyone inside. They open the attack by thrusting a spear in Yoren's direction, but kill [[Woth]] instead. Yoren organizes the defense of the walls, and during the ensuing assault he kills the man with whom he had the first exchange that night. When he realizes that the attackers have won, Yoren tells Arya that she and Gendry should rescue as many boys as possible, directing her towards a tunnel they found earlier.{{Ref|ACOK|14}} 

Arya and Gendry return to the holdfast the next evening, after the departure of Amory's men, but the rest of Yoren's band has been killed. They find Yoren's body, with his skull split by an axe, and surrounded by the bodies of four enemies. They bury him on Arya's insistence, leaving the bodies of the others, as they have no time to bury them all.{{Ref|ACOK|19}} 

Back in King's Landing, [[Tyrion Lannister]] is told by [[Bronn]] that a black brother has arrived from the Wall. Tyrion is disappointed when he learns it is Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] instead of Yoren.{{Ref|ACOK|17}} After the [[fall of Harrenhal]], Amory is fed to a black [[bear]], which reminds Arya of Yoren.{{ref|ACOK|47}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
With Yoren missing and presumed dead, [[Dareon]] is named by [[Jon Snow]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], as a replacement recruiter.{{ref|AFFC|15}}