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[[Theon Greyjoy]] is awoken by [[Wex Pyke]] and [[Ramsay Bolton|Reek]] and informed of the arrival of his sister, [[Asha Greyjoy|Asha]]. Theon meets with Asha, who berates him for having killed [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark]] and having mounted their heads upon the gates of [[Winterfell]]. Theon refuses to abandon his conquered seat, after which Asha leaves. As a last measure, Theon sends Reek away with a bag of coin in search of men to defend the castle. Afterwards he has yet another nightmare, which makes him realize all around him belongs to the Starks.
  
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
[[Theon Greyjoy|Theon]] is having another nightmare when [[Reek]] awakens him to inform him of [[Asha Greyjoy|his sister]]’s arrival in [[Winterfell]]. He had been having nightmares of the evening he and Reek had killed the boys at the old mill and mounted their tarred heads on the gates of Winterfell. Theon is concerned because several of his men have mysteriously turned up dead recently. Asha has arrived with only 20 men, and she berates him for a fool for the slaughter of two innocent children, both of whom were princes. Asha plans to leave him only ten men, despite Theon’s protests that the remainder of [[the North]] is mobilizing against him, and that [[Dagmer]] was defeated at [[Torrhen's Square]], allowing Ser [[Rodrik Cassel|Rodrik]] to begin marching back to Winterfell. Asha tells him he should have burnt Winterfell to the ground and brought the two princes to [[Pyke]] as hostages. Asha again calls him a fool for his actions, but gives him one last chance to burn Winterfell and return to [[Deepwood Motte]] with her. Theon will not hear of it, not wishing to give up his prize. He tells his sister he killed the boys to pay for [[Rodrik Greyjoy|Rodrik]] and [[Maron Greyjoy|Maron]], hoping [[Balon Greyjoy|his father]] would approve. Asha departs in disgust. Reek asks Theon for his permission to return to the [[Dreadfort]] and gather men to help him protect Winterfell. Theon, desperate for men, agrees.
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[[Theon Greyjoy]] is woken from a nightmare, in which he is being chased by [[direwolf|large wolves]] with the faces of children, by his squire, [[Wex Pyke]], with [[Ramsay Bolton|Reek]] standing behind him. Reek informs Theon that [[Asha Greyjoy|Asha]] has arrived. As Theon prepares to see his sister, he thinks back about the nightmares he has been having lately, ever since the night he and Reek killed the two boys at the mill. After washing his face, Theon dresses in rich clothing, only to realize that Asha cares more for blades. He changes again, this time dressing in felted black wool and ringmail. Lastly, he dons his crown.
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Theon has taken to using guards for his own safety, while his own men have become sullen and anxious following the murders of [[Gelmarr]], [[Aggar]], and [[Gynir]]. Although the three [[ironborn]] had been killed by Reek with Theon's permission, to ensure they would not be able to reveal what had happened at the mill the night they returned with the corpses of the children, Theon had felt the need to blame someone for their deaths. To that end, he had executed [[Farlen]], going as far as to personally execute him like [[Eddard Stark]] would have done. The memory is a sour one, as it had taken him four difficult blows to sever Farlen's head, afterward feeling sick about it.
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His men would prefer to leave [[Winterfell]], a thought that makes Theon angry. He refuses to be driven from his own seat, being the Prince of Winterfell. He blames Asha, feeling she had taken this long to respond to his commands on purpose. Reek, [[Urzen]] and [[Kromm]] escort Theon to the hall, where he finds Asha in the high seat of the [[House Stark|Starks]]. Theon is dismayed to discover that Asha brought only twenty men. In turn, she scolds him for having killed [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark]] and having mounted their heads upon Winterfell's gates. The memory of returning the bodies to Winterfell is a sour one for Theon as well. He recalls forbidding [[Luwin]] from sewing the heads back onto the bodies and placing them in the [[crypts of Winterfell]]. Theon leads Asha to Eddard Stark's solar, where he tells her that [[Dagmer]] has lost the fight at [[Torrhen's Square]]. Asha tells him she was not surprised to learn about it, and informs him that Dagmer is currently leading the survivors back to the [[Stony Shore]], making Theon realize that she is better informed than he is.
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Theon is furious about the fact that Asha is planning on leaving only ten of her men behind for him. [[Leobald Tallhart]] has joined Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]], Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] has sent a dozen barges upriver, and [[House Umber|the Umbers]] are gathering beyond the [[Last River]]. Asha compliments her brother for the clever way he took Winterfell, but tells him that the wise course of action would have been razing the castle and taking the two princes as hostages back to [[Pyke]]. Winterfell is too far from the sea, and every northman is now his enemy. Theon counters her, telling her that he killed two of Eddard Stark's sons to lay to rest the ghosts of their brothers, [[Rodrik Greyjoy|Rodrik]] and [[Maron Greyjoy|Maron]]. Asha tells him that Rodrik might feel the need to avenge Eddard's sons and asks Theon to return with her to [[Deepwood Motte]]. When Theon refuses, Asha leaves, telling him he shall hold the castle for the remainder of his life.
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Asha departs the castle with her men and Theon watches her go from atop the wall, where he is approached by Reek. Reek offers to find Theon two hundred good men if Theon provides a horse and a bag of coin. He asks for [[Palla]] as a reward. Although Reek makes Theon uneasy, he does not dare kill the man, as he is literate and cunning, and could easily have left a hidden account of what they had done behind. Theon agrees to give him the girl if he can deliver two hundred men, and Reek leaves the castle before the sun goes down. That night Theon dreams about the welcoming feast Eddard Stark had thrown King [[Robert I Baratheon]] when the king visited Winterfell. Although the feast is jolly at first, the room grows darker and suddenly Theon finds himself dining with the dead. Robert's guts are spilling out on the table from a great gash in his belly, while Eddard Stark is headless. Lining the benches below are the corpses of men he knows: [[Jory Cassel]], [[Fat Tom]], [[Porther]], [[Cayn]], [[Hullen]], and all the others who had gone south to [[King's Landing]]. [[Mikken]], [[Chayle]], [[Benfred Tallhart]] and his [[Wild Hares]], the [[Miller's wife from Acorn Water|miller's wife]], [[Farlen]], and the [[wildling]] Theon had killed to rescue Bran are among them. There are also people who Theon has never met, including [[Rickard Stark|Rickard]], [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]], and [[Brandon Stark]]. Then, [[Robb Stark]] enters through the doors with [[Grey Wind]] beside him, both of them bleeding "from half a hundred savage wounds".
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Theon wakes screaming, and Wex and his guards fetch Luwin, but Theon does not dare drink the sleeping draught that the [[maester]] leaves him. Instead, he summons [[Kyra]] and fucks her, but even that cannot help him sleep again, and she leaves sobbing of pain. At dawn, Theon goes outside. Seeing everything belonging to the Starks around him, he thinks to himself he should have gone with Asha. In silence, he looks at the heads mounted atop the iron spikes of the gatehouse, reflecting on what fools people could be. Although everyone had accepted his story, the heads on the wall actually belong to the miller's sons, who had been of an age and coloring with the two missing Starks. With their faces flayed, no one had been able to tell the difference.<Ref group="N">Making [[Jojen Reed]]'s [[green dream]] of Bran and Rickon's deaths as described in ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'', [[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 35|Bran V]] come true ("'' "I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade."''")</ref> Theon never found Bran and Rickon.
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==Character list==
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{| class="wikitable" width="80%"
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'''Appears:'''
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*[[Theon Greyjoy]]
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*[[Wex Pyke]]
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*[[Ramsay Bolton|Reek]]
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*[[Asha Greyjoy]]
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'''Mentioned:'''
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{{Columns|3|
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*[[Aggar]]
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*[[Alannys Harlaw]]
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*[[Balon Greyjoy]]
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*[[Bran Stark]]
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*[[Cadwyl]]
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*[[Dagmer]]
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*[[Eddard Stark]]
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*[[Farlen]]
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*[[Gelmarr]]
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*[[Gynir]]
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*[[Leobald Tallhart]]
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*[[Lorren]]
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*[[Luwin]]
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*[[Maron Greyjoy]]
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*[[Mikken]]
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*[[Old Nan]]
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*[[Rickon Stark]]
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*[[Robert I Baratheon]]
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*[[Rodrik Cassel]]
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*[[Rodrik Greyjoy]]
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*[[Miller's wife from Acorn Water|The miller's wife]]
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*[[Urzen]]
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*[[Wyman Manderly]]
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}}
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|}
  
That night, Theon dreams of the night King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]] feasted at Winterfell, nearly two years before. But all the diners were dead, Robert with his guts spilling out, Lord [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]] headless, and dozens of others Theon had known. But there were others he had never met, a sad girl with a crown of winter roses who could only be [[Lyanna Stark|Lyanna]], Ned’s brother [[Brandon Stark|Brandon]] and father [[Rickard Stark|Rickard]]. And then [[Robb Stark|Robb]] entered the hall with [[Grey Wind]] at his side, both bleeding from dozens of savage wounds. Theon awakes, and goes outside; thinking that the castle belonged to the [[House Stark|Starks]] and that he should have gone with his sister. He stares at the heads above the gatehouse, and reflects on what fools people are when they look with their hearts and not their eyes. The heads on the wall were from the miller’s sons, for Theon and Reek had never found [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]
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==Places and terms mentioned==
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{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
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'''Places:'''
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*[[Deepwood Motte]]
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*[[Last River]]
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*[[Pyke]]
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*[[Stony Shore]]
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*[[Torrhen's Square]]
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*[[Winterfell]]
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**Great Hall
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**Hunter’s Gate
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**Crypts of Winterfell
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*[[wolfswood]]
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'''Houses:'''
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*[[House Umber]]
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'''Terms:'''
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*[[Ice]]
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*[[Kraken]]
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*[[Longship]]s
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*[[Northmen]]
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*[[Old gods]]
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*[[Weirwood]]
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*[[Ironborn]]
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'''Nicknames and titles:'''
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*[[Dagmer|Cleftjaw]]
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|}
  
==References and Notes==
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==Notes==
{{References|2}}
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{{Notes}}
  
* The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].
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==External Links==
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* [http://slynt.blogspot.com/2012/01/re-read-theon-v-prince-of-fools-not-so.html Analyses and summary of the chapter] in the course of a 10th reread by Slynt.
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* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-clash-of-kings-part-27 Review and summary] by Leigh Butler.
  
 
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[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Theon Greyjoy]]
 
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[[pt:A Fúria dos Reis - Capítulo 56]]

Revision as of 19:51, 9 June 2019

Theon V
A Clash of Kings chapter
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POV Theon Greyjoy
Place Winterfell
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Chapter chronology (All)
Theon IV
Catelyn VII  ← Theon V →  Sansa V

Theon VI

Theon Greyjoy is awoken by Wex Pyke and Reek and informed of the arrival of his sister, Asha. Theon meets with Asha, who berates him for having killed Bran and Rickon Stark and having mounted their heads upon the gates of Winterfell. Theon refuses to abandon his conquered seat, after which Asha leaves. As a last measure, Theon sends Reek away with a bag of coin in search of men to defend the castle. Afterwards he has yet another nightmare, which makes him realize all around him belongs to the Starks.

Synopsis

Theon Greyjoy is woken from a nightmare, in which he is being chased by large wolves with the faces of children, by his squire, Wex Pyke, with Reek standing behind him. Reek informs Theon that Asha has arrived. As Theon prepares to see his sister, he thinks back about the nightmares he has been having lately, ever since the night he and Reek killed the two boys at the mill. After washing his face, Theon dresses in rich clothing, only to realize that Asha cares more for blades. He changes again, this time dressing in felted black wool and ringmail. Lastly, he dons his crown.

Theon has taken to using guards for his own safety, while his own men have become sullen and anxious following the murders of Gelmarr, Aggar, and Gynir. Although the three ironborn had been killed by Reek with Theon's permission, to ensure they would not be able to reveal what had happened at the mill the night they returned with the corpses of the children, Theon had felt the need to blame someone for their deaths. To that end, he had executed Farlen, going as far as to personally execute him like Eddard Stark would have done. The memory is a sour one, as it had taken him four difficult blows to sever Farlen's head, afterward feeling sick about it.

His men would prefer to leave Winterfell, a thought that makes Theon angry. He refuses to be driven from his own seat, being the Prince of Winterfell. He blames Asha, feeling she had taken this long to respond to his commands on purpose. Reek, Urzen and Kromm escort Theon to the hall, where he finds Asha in the high seat of the Starks. Theon is dismayed to discover that Asha brought only twenty men. In turn, she scolds him for having killed Bran and Rickon Stark and having mounted their heads upon Winterfell's gates. The memory of returning the bodies to Winterfell is a sour one for Theon as well. He recalls forbidding Luwin from sewing the heads back onto the bodies and placing them in the crypts of Winterfell. Theon leads Asha to Eddard Stark's solar, where he tells her that Dagmer has lost the fight at Torrhen's Square. Asha tells him she was not surprised to learn about it, and informs him that Dagmer is currently leading the survivors back to the Stony Shore, making Theon realize that she is better informed than he is.

Theon is furious about the fact that Asha is planning on leaving only ten of her men behind for him. Leobald Tallhart has joined Ser Rodrik Cassel, Lord Wyman Manderly has sent a dozen barges upriver, and the Umbers are gathering beyond the Last River. Asha compliments her brother for the clever way he took Winterfell, but tells him that the wise course of action would have been razing the castle and taking the two princes as hostages back to Pyke. Winterfell is too far from the sea, and every northman is now his enemy. Theon counters her, telling her that he killed two of Eddard Stark's sons to lay to rest the ghosts of their brothers, Rodrik and Maron. Asha tells him that Rodrik might feel the need to avenge Eddard's sons and asks Theon to return with her to Deepwood Motte. When Theon refuses, Asha leaves, telling him he shall hold the castle for the remainder of his life.

Asha departs the castle with her men and Theon watches her go from atop the wall, where he is approached by Reek. Reek offers to find Theon two hundred good men if Theon provides a horse and a bag of coin. He asks for Palla as a reward. Although Reek makes Theon uneasy, he does not dare kill the man, as he is literate and cunning, and could easily have left a hidden account of what they had done behind. Theon agrees to give him the girl if he can deliver two hundred men, and Reek leaves the castle before the sun goes down. That night Theon dreams about the welcoming feast Eddard Stark had thrown King Robert I Baratheon when the king visited Winterfell. Although the feast is jolly at first, the room grows darker and suddenly Theon finds himself dining with the dead. Robert's guts are spilling out on the table from a great gash in his belly, while Eddard Stark is headless. Lining the benches below are the corpses of men he knows: Jory Cassel, Fat Tom, Porther, Cayn, Hullen, and all the others who had gone south to King's Landing. Mikken, Chayle, Benfred Tallhart and his Wild Hares, the miller's wife, Farlen, and the wildling Theon had killed to rescue Bran are among them. There are also people who Theon has never met, including Rickard, Lyanna, and Brandon Stark. Then, Robb Stark enters through the doors with Grey Wind beside him, both of them bleeding "from half a hundred savage wounds".

Theon wakes screaming, and Wex and his guards fetch Luwin, but Theon does not dare drink the sleeping draught that the maester leaves him. Instead, he summons Kyra and fucks her, but even that cannot help him sleep again, and she leaves sobbing of pain. At dawn, Theon goes outside. Seeing everything belonging to the Starks around him, he thinks to himself he should have gone with Asha. In silence, he looks at the heads mounted atop the iron spikes of the gatehouse, reflecting on what fools people could be. Although everyone had accepted his story, the heads on the wall actually belong to the miller's sons, who had been of an age and coloring with the two missing Starks. With their faces flayed, no one had been able to tell the difference.[N 1] Theon never found Bran and Rickon.

Character list

Appears:

Mentioned:

Places and terms mentioned

Places:

Houses:

Terms:

Nicknames and titles:

Notes

  1. Making Jojen Reed's green dream of Bran and Rickon's deaths as described in A Clash of Kings, Bran V come true (" "I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade."")

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