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 Anguy the Archer, by Lucas Soriana © Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
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| Title | Ser[2] | |||
| Allegiance | Brotherhood without banners | |||
| Culture | Marcher[3] | |||
| Born | Dornish Marches[4] | |||
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| Played by | Philip McGinley | |||
| TV series | Game of Thrones: Season 3 | |||
Anguy, called the Anguy the Archer[5] or simply Archer,[1] is a commoner from the Dornish Marches who is skilled with the bow.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Anguy is portrayed by Philip McGinley.
Appearance and Character
[edit]Anguy is skinny with freckles and red hair. He is fairly young.[1][6]
Anguy carries a longbow[6] and uses arrows tipped with bodkins as well as broadheads.[7] He is highly valued due to his exceptional skill with a bow.[8][9] The only songs he knows are marcher ballads.[1]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]During the Hand's tourney at King's Landing in celebration of Lord Eddard Stark's ascension as Hand of the King, Anguy wins the archery competition, outshooting Ser Balon Swann and Jalabhar Xho at a hundred paces and earning himself a sum of ten thousand golden dragons. He refuses an offer from Eddard to join the Hand's guard.[8]
Having spent and lost his fortune, Anguy joins Lord Beric Dondarrion when Eddard dispatches him to bring Ser Gregor Clegane to justice.[4]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]Anguy is with the brotherhood without banners party that captures Arya Stark, Gendry, and Hot Pie. At the Inn of the Kneeling Man, Husband accuses Tom of Sevenstreams of impregnating Fern, but the singer explains the girl was interested in Anguy. He shoots a duck, which the outlaws give to Sharna,[1] and then a goose as they continue their travels.[10] Arya, who is unable to draw Anguy's longbow, is told tales of the Dornish Marches by the archer.[6] He offers to make a light bow for her once they get to Riverrun.[6] Anguy uses his arrows to put northmen starving in crow cages out of their misery at Stoney Sept, and he flirts with a freckle-faced wench at the Peach.[11]
The outlaws bring the three captured youths to Beric in the hollow hill.[1][2] Like most members of the brotherhood, Anguy is now a follower of R'hllor.[2]
Anguy takes part in the battle at the burning septry with the Brave Companions, shooting several of the sellswords.[7] He reveals he squandered his fortune at Chataya's brothel, enjoying lavish excesses with Jayde, Alayaya, and Dancy.[7] Beric orders Anguy to aid in keeping watch for Sandor Clegane.[7] Arya helps Anguy dry horses at the ruins of a Goodbrook village.[3]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]After Beric's final death,[12] a part of the brotherhood, including Anguy, go their separate way from those who chose to follow the resurrected, vengeful Lady Stoneheart.[9][4]
Quotes by Anguy
[edit]Arya: You missed.
Anguy: More fool you if you think so. They go where I send them.[1]—Arya Stark and Anguy
Tom: I'd dearly love someone to sing with, that I would. Lem can't carry a tune, and our longbow lad only knows marcher ballads, every one of them a hundred verses long.
Anguy: We sing real songs in the marches.[1]—Tom of Sevenstreams and Anguy
When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one.[1]
—Anguy to Husband
Sandor: You didn't leave me enough gold to buy a cup of wine, you whoresons.
Anguy: We're outlaws. Outlaws steal. It's in the songs, if you ask nice Tom may sing you one. Be thankful we didn't kill you.
Sandor: Come try it, Archer. I'll take that quiver off you and shove those arrows up your freckly little arse.[7]
—Sandor Clegane and Anguy
Lem: How'd that bloody bastard get all that gold anyhow?
Anguy: He won the Hand's tourney. In King's Landing. I won a fair fortune myself, but then I met Dancy, Jayde, and Alayaya. They taught me what roast swan tastes like, and how to bathe in Arbor wine.
Anguy: Not all. I bought these boots, and this excellent dagger.[7]
Harwin: Pissed it all away, did you?
Quotes about Anguy
[edit]That afternoon a boy named Anguy, an unheralded commoner from the Dornish Marches, won the archery competition, outshooting Ser Balon Swann and Jalabhar Xho at a hundred paces after all the other bowmen had been eliminated at the shorter distances. Ned sent Alyn to seek him out and offer him a position with the Hand's guard, but the boy was flush with wine and victory and riches undreamed of, and he refused.[8]
—thoughts of Eddard Stark
Tom: Boy, put up that sword now, unless you're wanting to be hurt. It's too big for you, lad, and besides, Anguy here could put three shafts through you before you could hope to reach us.
Arya: He could not, and I'm a girl.[1]
The archer's hand moved quicker than Arya would have believed. His shaft went hissing past her head within an inch of her ear and buried itself in the trunk of the willow behind her. By then the bowman had a second arrow notched and drawn. She'd thought she understood what Syrio meant by quick as a snake and smooth as summer silk, but now she knew she hadn't.[1]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Behind the Scenes
[edit]George R. R. Martin was probably inspired by his father when he wrote about Anguy spending ten thousand golden dragons on women and drinking as his father won ten thousand dollars by gambling during World War II. He had a good time with the money, spending it all on women, beer, nightclubs, and the track.[13]
External links
[edit]- Anguy on the Wiki of Westeros
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 13, Arya II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 34, Arya VI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Anguy.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 30, Eddard VII.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 17, Arya III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 29, Arya V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ The Heart of a Small Boy by George R. R. Martin