Difference between revisions of "Capture of Winterfell"
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| place = [[Winterfell]] | | place = [[Winterfell]] | ||
| result = [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]] victory | | result = [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]] victory | ||
− | | combatant1 = [[House Stark]] | + | | combatant1 = [[File:House Stark.svg|30px]] '''[[King in the North|Kingdom of the North]]/[[House Stark]]''' |
− | | combatant2 = [[House Greyjoy]] | + | | combatant2 = [[File:House Greyjoy.svg|30px]] '''[[King of the Isles and the North|Kingdom of the Isles and the North]]/[[House Greyjoy]]''' |
*[[House Botley]] | *[[House Botley]] | ||
*[[House Harlaw]] | *[[House Harlaw]] | ||
*[[House Sharp]] | *[[House Sharp]] | ||
− | | commander1 = [[Bran Stark]] | + | | commander1 = [[File:House Stark.svg|20px]] [[Bran Stark]] |
− | | commander2 = [[Theon Greyjoy]] | + | | commander2 = [[File:House Greyjoy.svg|20px]] [[Theon Greyjoy]] |
| strength1 = minimal castle garrison ([[Rodrik Cassel]] took most of them) | | strength1 = minimal castle garrison ([[Rodrik Cassel]] took most of them) | ||
| strength2 = ~30 | | strength2 = ~30 | ||
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==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
− | {{quote|I am no [[House Stark|Stark]]. I am a [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], and I mean to be [[Balon Greyjoy|my father's]] heir. How can I do that unless I prove myself with some great deed?{{ref|ACOK|37}} | + | {{quote|I am no [[House Stark|Stark]]. I am a [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]], and I mean to be [[Balon Greyjoy|my father's]] heir. How can I do that unless I prove myself with some great deed?{{ref|ACOK|37}}|[[Theon Greyjoy]] to [[Dagmer]]}} |
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+ | {{quote|All's well, Greyjoy. Hear the quiet? You ought to be drunk with joy. You took Winterfell with fewer than thirty men, a feat to sing of.{{ref|ACOK|50}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} | ||
{{quote|'''Theon''': With thirty men, I captured Winterfell in a night. You needed a thousand and a moon's turn to [[taking of Deepwood Motte|take Deepwood Motte]].<br> | {{quote|'''Theon''': With thirty men, I captured Winterfell in a night. You needed a thousand and a moon's turn to [[taking of Deepwood Motte|take Deepwood Motte]].<br> | ||
− | '''Asha''': Well, I'm no great warrior like you, brother, I saw the heads above your gates. Tell me true, which one gave you the fiercest fight, [[Bran Stark|the cripple]] or [[Rickon Stark|the babe]]?{{ref|ACOK|56}} | + | '''Asha''': Well, I'm no great warrior like you, brother, I saw the heads above your gates. Tell me true, which one gave you the fiercest fight, [[Bran Stark|the cripple]] or [[Rickon Stark|the babe]]?{{ref|ACOK|56}}|[[Theon Greyjoy]] and [[Asha Greyjoy]]}} |
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+ | {{Quote|'''Asha''': Oh, it was cleverly done, I'll grant you. If only you'd had the good sense to raze [[Winterfell|the castle]] and carry the two little princelings back to [[Pyke]] as hostages, you might have won the war in a stroke.{{ref|ACOK|56}}|[[Asha Greyjoy]] to [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} | ||
{{quote|'''Asha''': How could you be such a bloody fool? Children ...<br> | {{quote|'''Asha''': How could you be such a bloody fool? Children ...<br> | ||
− | '''Theon''': They defied me! And it was blood for blood besides, two sons of [[Eddard Stark]] to pay for [[Rodrik Greyjoy|Rodrik]] and [[Maron Greyjoy|Maron]].{{ref|ACOK|56}} | + | '''Theon''': They defied me! And it was blood for blood besides, two sons of [[Eddard Stark]] to pay for [[Rodrik Greyjoy|Rodrik]] and [[Maron Greyjoy|Maron]].{{ref|ACOK|56}}|[[Asha Greyjoy]] and [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} |
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 12:41, 19 June 2019
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Conflict | War of the Five Kings | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 299 AC | ||||||||||||||||
Place | Winterfell | ||||||||||||||||
Result | Greyjoy victory | ||||||||||||||||
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The capture of Winterfell,[1] fall of Winterfell,[2] or taking of Winterfell[3][4] is a daring raid that ends in the capture by House Greyjoy of Winterfell, the ancestral home of House Stark. It marks a turning point in the War of the Five Kings.
Contents
Prelude
As Theon Greyjoy planned, after Dagmer Cleftjaw laid siege to Torrhen's Square as a diversion, Ser Rodrik Cassel raises Winterfell's levies and marches with six hundred men, leaving Winterfell minimally defended.[5][3] Theon travels inland with about thirty ironborn to Winterfell, planning to take it by surprise.
Capture
The ironborn attack in the night eight days after Rodrik leaves. Theon sends four ironborn to go over Winterfell's double walls with grappling hooks and swim its moat. From there they sneak up on Alebelly, whom they slay in a postern gate's turret, and they open the gate to let in the rest of the ironborn. With speed and surprise they take the remaining garrison unawares. Hayhead is also wounded. The crippled Bran Stark is able to sense intruders while in the mind of his direwolf, Summer, but Summer and Shaggydog are unable to escape the godswood. A wounded Maester Luwin tells Bran that he was able to send a raven to White Harbor, but a second raven was shot down by the ironborn.[3]
Theon has the people of Winterfell brought to the Great Hall so they can hear Bran yield the castle. Declaring himself the Prince of Winterfell, Theon takes Bran and Rickon Stark, Big Walder and Little Walder Frey, Meera and Jojen Reed, and Beth Cassel as wards and hostages. "Reek", who has been released from a tower cell, and Osha agree to serve Theon. Stygg slays the blacksmith Mikken when he refuses to yield[3] and Theon has Septon Chayle drowned as a sacrifice to the Drowned God.[4]
Theon does not post guards on Bran and Rickon, and the Starks and Reeds eventually disappear overnight with the aid of Osha and Hodor.[4] Osha seduces and kills the guard Drennan, while the direwolves kill Squint. Unable to find the escapees in the wolfswood, Theon has "Reek" kill two smallfolk in place of the Starks.[4] Theon announces to the world that Bran and Rickon were killed after being captured at a mill on the Acorn Water, and the flayed and tarred heads of the miller's boys are mounted on the walls of Winterfell.[6]
Aftermath
The grief over the alleged deaths of Bran and Rickon causes Robb Stark, the King in the North, to seek solace in Jeyne Westerling's arms and then marry her at the Crag, breaking his marriage alliance with House Frey of the Twins.[7] Realizing that he is in danger of losing the north, Robb seeks to mend his alliance with the Freys[8] and gain their aid for the siege of Moat Cailin.[9] The boys' mother, Catelyn Stark, frees Ser Jaime Lannister from Riverrun in hopes that he will be exchanged at King's Landing for Catelyn's daughters, Sansa and Arya.[6][10] Rodrik gathers a host to Castle Cerwyn to free Winterfell from Theon's ironborn.[6]
Quotes
I am no Stark. I am a Greyjoy, and I mean to be my father's heir. How can I do that unless I prove myself with some great deed?[11]
—Theon Greyjoy to Dagmer
All's well, Greyjoy. Hear the quiet? You ought to be drunk with joy. You took Winterfell with fewer than thirty men, a feat to sing of.[4]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Theon: With thirty men, I captured Winterfell in a night. You needed a thousand and a moon's turn to take Deepwood Motte.
Asha: Well, I'm no great warrior like you, brother, I saw the heads above your gates. Tell me true, which one gave you the fiercest fight, the cripple or the babe?[1]
Asha: Oh, it was cleverly done, I'll grant you. If only you'd had the good sense to raze the castle and carry the two little princelings back to Pyke as hostages, you might have won the war in a stroke.[1]
Asha: How could you be such a bloody fool? Children ...
Theon: They defied me! And it was blood for blood besides, two sons of Eddard Stark to pay for Rodrik and Maron.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 56, Theon V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 49, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 35, Bran V.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 55, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 37, Theon III.
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