Ice
Ice is the ancestral Valyrian steel greatsword of House Stark.
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Appearance
- See also: Images of Ice
Ice is a greatsword, as wide across as a man's hand and taller than an adolescent Robb Stark. Its Valyrian steel blade has a dark and smokey appearance.[1]
History
The name "Ice" is a legacy from the Age of Heroes, and predates the current sword. About four hundred years before Robert Baratheon's reign, the Valyrian steel greatsword was spell-forged in Valyria and acquired by the Starks, who named it after that legacy.[2] It became the sword of the Lord of Winterfell. Eddard Stark used the sword to personally execute condemned prisoners.
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark uses Ice to execute Gared, a deserter from the Night's Watch.[1] After Eddard is arrested for treason, the royal executioner, Ser Ilyn Payne, is given the sword and uses it to execute Eddard himself at the Great Sept of Baelor.[3]
A Storm of Swords
Ilyn carries the blade until Lord Tywin Lannister takes it from him and has Tobho Mott re-forge Ice into two longswords, Widow's Wail, and the longsword later called Oathkeeper.[4][5]
Quotes
The blade was Valyrian steel, spell-forged and dark as smoke. Nothing held an edge like Valyrian steel.[1]
What has Ser Ilyn done with my father's sword?[6]
- Sansa Stark to Tyrion Lannister
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 32, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 72, Jaime IX.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.