Meera Reed

Meera Reed by Elia Fernandez©
Allegiance	House Reed
Culture	Crannogmen
Born	283 AL
Books	A Clash of Kings (Appears) A Storm of Swords (Appears) A Dance with Dragons (Appears)
Played by	Ellie Kendrick
TV series	Season 3

Meera Reed is Howland Reed's daughter and oldest child. Meera has been taught to fight with a net and a three prong frog spear by her father. She is a fine huntress being able to easily spear fish with her spear. She was able to defeat Summer in mock combat with her weapons by entangling the direwolf, in her net. She is sixteen years old.

Character and Appearance

As is typical of crannogmen, Meera is short and slim. She has long brown hair and green eyes. Although she is flat chested and is never remarked as being particularly beautiful, Theon Greyjoy seems to have considered her attractive, while Bran Starks initial crush on her grows to the point of believing himself to "love" her by A Dance with Dragons.

Meera is described as having a cheerful disposition, in stark contrast to her sullen brother. She is intensely loyal and protective to her "prince" as well as her own brother, and will not back down from a fight if need be, even volunteering herself. Bran says that the only thing that ever makes her angry or upset is her brother Jojen .

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

In the middle of a Harvest Feast Meera and her brother Jojen Reed arrive to pledge Reeds' support to Winterfell and Robb after Eddard Stark's death. Maester Luwin tells Bran that he should meet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Meera is with Jojen when he asks about the Direwolves, wanting to see them, and is told they are in the Godswood. Later Meera manages to defeat the direwolf Summer using a net and frog spear. Bran claims that Summer won, but then Jojen points out that Summer is tangled up in the net and cannot escape. After Bran does a mock fight with Summer, he asks her if she was taught to fight by their Master at Arm, and she tells him that Graywater Watch has no knights, master at arms, maester, or ravans; ravans and the Reeds’ enemies cannot find Graywater because it moves (although many have tried). Bran has never heard of the castle that moves. He asks her if he can visit Graywater after the conflict, and she tells him that he can come then or now (he has never been away from Winterfell). Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. As Jojen questions Bran and pushes him to admit he has the wolf dreams, Bran gets agitated, which causes Summer to get agitated, and start to act aggressively towards Jojen. Meera tells her brother the climb the tree, but he initially refuses, telling her it is not yet his time to die. When [Shaggy Dog] joins Summer, they both start to attack, and Jojen finally climbs the GodsWood, Meera following him. Only after Hodar arrives to chase the direwolves away at Bran’s instruction, they can climb down. Later Meera is behind Jojen when they enter Bran’s room after he is left in his room by Osha (while being carried, Brans questioned Osha who tells Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow). Bran finally tells them about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals his dream: he dreamed that sea would come to Winterfell. She is also with Jojen and Bran as they play a game of tiles and discus the dreams. When Bran tells them that Maester Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees. She gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Jojen reveals that he has seen bodies of Bran and Rickonat the feet of the man they call Reek (not revealed as actually the Ramsay Bolton) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; First the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. When Theon Greyjoy takes Winterfell, Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive. Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, Rickon, Osha and Hodor fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by Ramsay Snow. Hodor has to force the crypts' door open with his massive strength and they find the castle destroyed. They discover many of the bodies of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the Godswood they find Maester Luwin unconscious. They waken him and he tells them of all the enemies in all directions. Luwin advises Osha to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north, so he, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north.

A Storm of Swords

Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north, catching many frogs; Bran is sick of frogs. They have found what seems to be a safe place to camp in the ruins of a tower, but Jojen tells them that they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave given they seem safe and there is plenty of food. Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran state they want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells her that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe as long as it is thought he is dead. He continues by stating they are not robbers. Jojen explains to them that they must find Bran’s teacher; Jojen does not have the knowledge to train him since Jojen does not understand the gifts that Bran was given, which are way beyond Jojen’s gift. Then Meera tells Bran that Jojen is right, but they are is servants, and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran tells them that he wants to fly, and to take him to the crow with tears in his eyes. As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels or hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they progress north food becomes harder to find, and even Summer is having a hard time finding food. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Jojen tells them about the mountain folks, when asked if the mountain people know they are there, Bran knows they do because of his wolf dreams. When they are desperate, and the weather is turning bad, Summer finds them a cave where they fine a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Little) that shares his food with them. When asked if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that things are dangerous. Now there are flayed men (the bastard’s men), and dead men. As for the wall he tells them that the Bear disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He continues by stating things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will be back. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them. When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny. He asks if they think the Ironmen killed Nan. Meera states that it was not Theon Greyjoy that did the killing because too many of the dead were Ironborn. Meera tells him to remember Old Nan’s stories since then part of her would be alive in him. As they move on, Bran tells them that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the Knight of the Laughing Tree in the Year of the False Spring. It starts out about a young Crannogmen that knew many magics and traveled to visit the Isle of Faces. After the winter he leaves and comes to a great castle where a tourney is taking place. He is beat up by three squires. A two-legged she wolf rescued him, attacking the squires with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the feast. At the feast he sees the squires with their knights. Late on the second day a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats these knights (the porcupine knight, the pitchfork knight, and the knight of the two towers, these are the knights whose squires had attacked Crannogman). To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The next day, all that was found mystery knight his shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the Wildings. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the foot it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor just sages to the floor almost comatose. They arrive at the Nightfort, this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound. At the Nightfort Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, Gilly, with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is Sam. The girl asks if Jojen is the one that Coldhands sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is not black of a White Weirwood with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.

A Dance with Dragons

While traveling with Coldhands north of the Wall, Meera, Bran, Jojen and Hodor are forced to take shelter in an abandoned wildling village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera does not trust him. They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by wights just outside the cave’s entrance. Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining Children of the Forest and the three-eyed crow. Jojen falls into a resigned depression, and Meera struggles to keep both their spirits up.

References and Notes

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire. The list of authors can be seen in the page history of Minor houses in A Song of Ice and Fire. As with A Wiki of Ice and Fire, the content of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.