Editing Dungeons of the Dreadfort

[[File:T Jedruszek DreadfortSentinels.jpg|thumb|350px|Dreadfort Sentinels, by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The '''dungeons of the Dreadfort''' are where prisoners are held by the [[Lord of the Dreadfort]].

==Layout==
Kennels are located in the [[Dreadfort]]'s yard, and steep steps lead down to the dungeons. The cells beneath the castle have cold, damp stone walls.{{ref|ADWD|12}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
At [[Riverrun]], [[Lothar Frey]] informs [[Robb Stark]], [[King in the North]], and his mother [[Catelyn Stark|Catelyn]] of the [[sack of Winterfell]], attributing the destruction to [[Theon Greyjoy]] and his [[ironborn]]. Lothar reports that [[Ramsay Snow]], the Bastard of Bolton, took the women and children of [[Winterfell]] to the safety of the [[Dreadfort]].{{Ref|ASOS|35}} In actuality, the sack was caused by [[House Bolton]] men led by Ramsay.{{ref|ACOK|66}}

At the [[Twins]], [[Roose Bolton]], [[Lord of the Dreadfort]], tells Robb and Catelyn that Theon is being held captive by Ramsay, his bastard son.{{ref|ASOS|49}} Ramsay is legitimized in the aftermath of the [[Red Wedding]].{{ref|ASOS|72}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Beth Cassel]], [[Kyra]], [[Turnip (scullion)|Turnip]], [[Palla]], [[Bandy]], [[Shyra]], and [[Old Nan]] are women of Winterfell now held captive at the Dreadfort.{{Ref|AFFC|Appendix}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Reek ADWD.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Theon Greyjoy]] as "Reek" © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Theon is held captive in the dungeons; he sometimes hears other prisoners scream from nearby cells, with women screaming the loudest.{{ref|ADWD|12}} On one occasion Theon is allowed to escape through an open door with the help of Kyra, his former bedwarmer at Winterfell. It turns out to be a game by Ramsay Bolton, who hunts down the escapees with his dogs, the [[bastard's girls]]. Kyra is killed and Theon is soon taken back to the Dreadfort's dungeon.{{Ref|ADWD|12}}

Ramsay [[torture]]s Theon for some time, [[flaying]] and mutilating the captive and calling him "Reek" after [[Reek|Ramsay's late servant]].{{ref|ADWD|12}} [[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)|Big Walder]] and [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder Frey]], Ramsay's squires, are eventually sent to bring Theon to Ramsay's feast in the great hall with [[Hother Umber]] and [[Arnolf Karstark]]. When the Frey cousins arrive at Theon's cell, they find him eating a [[rat]].{{Ref|ADWD|12}}

Theon later thinks that "Reek" was born in the dungeons of the Dreadfort. Sent to resolve the [[siege of Moat Cailin]], Theon worries that he will be sent back to the dungeons if he fails his mission. Ramsay instead decides to have Theon sleep alongside his hounds.{{ref|ADWD|20}}

==Quotes==
{{quote|He did not know how long he had been down there in the dungeons, but it had to have been half a year at least. ''That long, or longer. What if it has been five years, or ten, or twenty? Would I even know? What if I went mad down there, and half my life is gone?''{{ref|ADWD|12}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}}

{{quote|The boy he'd been before had been [[ironborn]], true enough, but Reek had come into this world in the dungeons of the Dreadfort.{{ref|ADWD|20}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}}

{{quote|His pride had perished here in [[Winterfell]]; there was no place for such in the dungeons of the [[Dreadfort]]. When you have known the kiss of a [[flaying]] knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.{{ref|ADWD|37}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}}

==References==
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[[Category:Dreadfort]]
[[Category:Prisons|Dreadfort]]