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| Allegiance | Night's Watch[1] (deserted)[2] | |||
| Culture | Westeros | |||
| Born |
~241–246 AC[3] Westeros[4] | |||
| Died |
298 AC holdfast in the hills | |||
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| Played by | Dermot Keaney | |||
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 1 | |||
Gared is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Gared is portrayed by Dermot Keaney.[5]
Appearance and Character
[edit]Gared is past fifty. He lost both ears, three toes and the little finger of his left hand to the cold.[1] Old and scrawny,[2] he is considered an experienced ranger.[6]
The man-at-arms is known to make fun of Ser Waymar Royce because of the fine clothes the inexperienced lordling wears.[1]
Gared's sword is a short, ugly thing with a nicked edge and a grip discolored by sweat. His garron is smaller than Waymar's destrier.[1]
History
[edit]Gared joined the Night's Watch as a boy and spent forty years as a ranger. When Gared's ears had frostbite one winter, Maester Aemon had to cut them off.[1]
While drinking wine in the barracks of Castle Black, Gared joked that Ser Waymar Royce personally killed the sables for his cloak.[1]
Shortly before A Song of Ice and Fire starts, Waymar, Will, and Gared were sent ranging into the haunted forest by Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, in search of a band of wildling raiders. Jeor gave the command to Waymar, although he was the least experienced of the three, whereas Jeor counted Gared and Will among his best men. However, Waymar felt it was his due to have a command because he was a knight, and the Lord Commander accepted because he did not want to offend Waymar's father, Lord Yohn Royce.[6]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
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Gared, Will, and Ser Waymar Royce follow the wildlings, finding them dead on the ninth day. Gared wants to return to the Wall, but Waymar insists they discover what killed the wildlings. Gared says he can feel that something is wrong, but Waymar dismisses the suggestion. He mocks the experienced ranger repeatedly, making Gared increasingly angry. Waymar orders Gared to remain with the horses while he and Will walk the last part. Waymar refuses to allow Gared to make a fire. After Waymar is slain by Others, the knight rises as a wight and kills Will.[1]
A terrified[4] Gared deserts the Night's Watch and flees south of the Wall, but he is arrested outside a small holdfast in the hills near Winterfell. He is questioned by Lord Eddard Stark, but Eddard's words do not reach the ragged and distraught Gared.[2][7][8]
For his desertion, Gared is sentenced to death by Eddard, who performs the beheading himself with the greatsword Ice, in accordance with the traditions of the First Men. Afterwards, Theon Greyjoy laughs and kicks Gared's head when it lands near his feet, provoking Jon Snow's disapproval.[2] Eddard sends Gared's head to Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.[6]
When Jeor tells Tyrion Lannister about the conditions on the Wall, he mentions the ranging on which Will and Waymar went missing. Jeor laments giving the command to someone as inexperienced as Waymar. Jeor mentions that Gared had been longer at the Wall than himself and that he would never have believed the man would turn.[6]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]Craster tells Jeor that the three rangers stopped at Craster's Keep during their search for raiders.[9]
Quotes
[edit]—Gared to Waymar Royce
Waymar: What do you think might have killed these men, Gared?
Gared: It was the cold. I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.
Waymar: Such eloquence, Gared. I never suspected you had it in you.[1]
—Waymar Royce and Gared
Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold.[1]
—Gared to Waymar Royce
Quotes about Gared
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Gared had spent forty years in the Night's Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more than that. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.[1]
—thoughts of Will
Robb: The deserter died bravely. He had courage, at the least.
Jon: No. It was not courage. This one was dead of fear. You could see it in his eyes, Stark.[2]—Robb Stark and Jon Snow
The poor man was half mad. Something had put a fear in him so deep that my words could not reach him.[7]
Gared was near as old as I am and longer on the Wall, yet it would seem he forswore himself and fled. I should never have believed it, not of him, but Lord Eddard sent me his head from Winterfell.[6]
Jeor: Ben was searching for Ser Waymar Royce, who'd vanished with Gared and young Will.
Craster: Aye, those three I recall. The lordling no older than one of these pups. Too proud to sleep under my roof, him in his sable cloak and black steel. My wives give him big cow eyes all the same. Gared says they were chasing raiders. I told him, with a commander that green, best not catch 'em. Gared wasn't half-bad, for a crow. Had less ears than me, that one. The 'bite took 'em, same as mine.[9]—Jeor Mormont and Craster
Game of Thrones
[edit]In the television series Game of Thrones, the roles of Gared and Will are swapped. Gared is beheaded by a White Walker, and Will flees south until he is captured and executed.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 A Game of Thrones, Prologue.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
- ↑ See the Gared calculation.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Gared.
- ↑ Cast of the first episode of Game of Thrones on IMBD
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 21, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 70, Jon IX.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 23, Jon III.
- ↑ Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 1: "Winter Is Coming".