Mors Umber

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Mors Umber
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Mors Umber Drawing by Robert O'Leary [1]

Alias Mors Crowfood
Allegiance House Umber
Books

Mors Umber, better known as Mors Crowfood, is the uncle of Lord Greatjon Umber and joint castellan of Last Hearth. He is old and usually drunk.[1]

Appearance

An old man, huge and powerful, with a ruddy face and a shaggy white beard. He wears a stained white leather eye patch to conceal his missing eye. He wears the a cloak made of a snow bear with its head as a hood.[2]

History

Whilst sleeping by the side of a road, a crow had taken Mors for dead and so it pecked out his eye which earned him his nickname Crowfood.[3]His wife died while in childbirth. Both of his sons were killed during the Battle of the Trident in the War of the Usurper and his only daughter was abducted by a wildling leaving Mors with a deep hatred of the Free Folk [4]. Mors either wears a white patch over his missing eye or uses a chunk of dragonglass to fill his empty socket.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Mors Crowfood, with his brother, Hother Whoresbane, attend the harvest feast at Winterfell, where Mors puts himself forward as a possible match for the Lady of Hornwood.[5] At the harvest feast he and his brother Hother play a drinking game.

A Dance with Dragons

Mors Umber is one of the few representatives of the North to declare fealty to Stannis Baratheon. He agreed to serve Stannis if he was sent the skull of Mance Rayder. Mors also stated to Stannis that he would not fight his brother, Hother Whoresbane, who had joined House Bolton.[4] Hothor did this only because the Greatjon is a prisoner of the Iron Throne. Stannis agreed and promised to place Mors and his host on the opposite side of battle to his brother.

Mors camped outside Winterfell during a blizzard, his men repeatedly blowing warhorns to cause confusion and to draw out the Bolton host. There he was able to capture Theon Greyjoy and Jeyne Poole, when both were fleeing Winterfell and their depraved captor Ramsay Bolton, the heir of Roose Bolton. Also during this time, the Braavosi Banker Tycho Nestoris came looking for Stannis but met Mors instead. Mors sent Theon and Jeyne to Stannis with Tycho Nestoris and his escort.[6]

The Winds of Winter

Theon revealed that Mors asked Jeyne, who was still claiming she was Arya Stark, questions about Winterfell and even asked her to name the servants of the keep to confirm her identity. Since Jeyne lived at Winterfell for most of her life, she was able to answer them correctly. Also, Mors was only able to muster a few crippled men and green boys as part of his force, as most of the Umber strength had gone south with the Greatjon and the remaining guard had left with Hother.

Mors had his green boys dig a pit trap outside the Winterfell gates. Due to the blizzard, the sentries visibility was impaired and they were able to do it without detection. When the Freys rode out of Winterfell's gate, several of them fell into this trap. Hosteen Frey lost his horse and Aenys Frey broke his neck and died.[7]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hoarfrost
 
Unknown
wife
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
Umber
 
Unknown
wife
 
 
 
Mors
 
Unknown
wife
 
Hother
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jon
 
Unknown
wife
 
Sons
 
Sons
 
Daughter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jon
 
Sons
 
At least
two daughters
 


References and Notes

  1. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran
  2. The Winds of Winter, Theon's sample chapter, made available on GRRM's website as of Dec 28th, 2011
  3. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran
  4. 4.0 4.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
  5. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran
  6. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
  7. The Winds of Winter, Theon's sample chapter, made available on GRRM's website as of Dec 28th, 2011