Editing Mance Rayder (section)

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Lukasz Jaskolski Melisandre's SchemeIII.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Melisandre]] glamours Mance to appear as [[Rattleshirt]], by Lukasz Jaskolski © Fantasy Flight Games]]
[[Mors Umber]] agrees to support Stannis if he is given Mance's skull to use as a drinking cup, since Mors's only daughter was carried away by wildlings.{{ref|ADWD|17}}

Mance is supposedly burned alive by Stannis with surrendered free folk, members of the Night's Watch, [[king's men]], and [[queen's men]] there to bear witness. [[Jon Snow]] orders him killed by archers of the Watch during the burning to give him a quick death.{{Ref|ADWD|10}} In actuality the man killed is [[Rattleshirt]], who is glamoured by [[Melisandre]]'s magic to appear like Mance. Meanwhile, the actual Mance is glamoured by a [[ruby]] worn at his wrist to appear as Rattleshirt. Sparring with "Rattleshirt" in the yard of Castle Black, Jon is shocked by the man's speed and skill, not knowing he is actually Mance.{{Ref|ADWD|28}}

Word reaches the [[Wall]] that [[Arya Stark]] is to wed [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] at [[Barrowton]], and Melisandre has a vision of a girl in grey on a dying horse.{{ref|ADWD|28}} Melisandre offers to send "Rattleshirt" to retrieve Arya, but Jon refuses, not trusting the Lord of Bones. Melisandre reveals Mance's disguise to make Jon reconsider the offer. Jon holds [[Aemon Steelsong|Mance's son]] so Mance would do everything in his power to rescue Jon's sister for the sake of his son. However, Mance does not know that Mance's son was switched with [[Monster|Gilly's son]].{{Ref|ADWD|31}} Lord [[Roose Bolton]], the new [[Warden of the North]], later decides to move his son's wedding to [[Winterfell]].{{ref|ADWD|32}}

No longer appearing as Rattleshirt, the brown-bearded{{Ref|ADWD|51}} Mance takes six [[spearwives]] with him to find Arya:{{Ref|ADWD|35}} [[Rowan]], [[Holly]], [[Squirrel (free folk)|Squirrel]], [[Willow Witch-eye]], [[Frenya]], and [[Myrtle]]. He arrives at Winterfell as a bard under the assumed name '''Abel''',{{Ref|ADWD|37}} an anagram for "[[Bael the Bard|Bael]]", and claims the women are camp followers and relatives to him.{{Ref|ADWD|41}} Mance performs throughout [[Wedding of Ramsay Bolton and Arya Stark|the wedding]] and subsequent feasts at Winterfell.{{Ref|ADWD|37}}{{Ref|ADWD|41}}{{Ref|ADWD|46}} His songs include "[[Two Hearts That Beat as One]]",{{Ref|ADWD|37}} "[[Fair Maids of Summer]]"{{Ref|ADWD|37}}, "The Dornishman's Wife",{{Ref|ADWD|41}} "[[Iron Lances]]",{{Ref|ADWD|46}} "[[The Winter Maid]]",{{Ref|ADWD|46}} "[[The Queen Took Off Her Sandal, the King Took Off His Crown]]",{{Ref|ADWD|46}} "[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]",{{Ref|ADWD|46}} "[[The Maids That Bloom in Spring]]",{{Ref|ADWD|46}} and an unnamed sad song.{{Ref|ADWD|51}}

With Winterfell snowbound from a blizzard, Mance's spearwives kill several northern men. Suspicion is cast on [[Theon Greyjoy]] at first, then [[House Manderly|Manderly]] knights, causing tension in the castle between [[House Bolton|Boltons]], other northern houses, and [[House Frey|Freys]].{{ref|ADWD|46}}{{ref|ADWD|51}} They also receive the help of a reluctant and fearful Theon to help them free "Arya", though he knows she is really [[Jeyne Poole]]. Tensions explode in the castle when [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder Frey]] is murdered, though the spearwives claim it was not their doing. Theon assists Mance's spearwives in rescuing Jeyne, but when Jeyne gives their position away by screaming, Theon and Jeyne are forced to jump from Winterfell's battlements to the snow below.{{Ref|ADWD|51}}

It is reported in [[Bastard Letter|a letter]] to Jon purportedly from Ramsay Bolton that Mance has been captured. Ramsay claims Mance has been thrown in a cage which is exposed to the elements and that the six spearwives that came with him have been killed and skinned. Mance is allegedly being forced to use their sewn-together skins in the cage, as it is his only source of warmth.{{Ref|ADWD|69}}