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The '''silver hairnet''' is a silver hairnet gifted to [[Sansa Stark]].  It is made of fine-spun silver.  What are said to be to be small black amethysts from [[Asshai]]{{ref|acok|65}} are set whenever the two silver strands cross, so dark they drink the [[moon|moonlight]].
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The '''silver hair net''' is a [[w:hairnet|hair net]] gifted to [[Sansa Stark]], made of [[silver]] and what appears to be [[amethyst]]s.{{ref|acok|65}}
  
==About==
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==Description==
The silver hairnet’s strands are so thin and delicate that it seems to weigh no more than a breath of air. {{ref|acok|65}}  The black amethysts in the hairnet are in fact the [[strangler]], a [[poison]] which turns a deep purple colour when crystallised. {{ref|ACOK|Prologue}}
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The hair net looks like a silvery spiderweb. Its fine-spun silver wire strands are so thin and delicate, that the net seems to weigh no more than a breath of air. Small gems are set where any two strands cross. The gems, so dark they drink the [[moon]]light, are supposedly rare black amethysts from [[Asshai]], which are a deep true purple in daylight.{{ref|acok|65}}{{ref|ASOS|60}}  However, the "amethysts" are in fact the [[strangler]], a choking [[poison]] in the form of deep purple crystals.{{ref|ACOK|0}}
 
 
Sansa wears the silver hairnet to the [[Purple Wedding]] where, unbeknownst to Sansa, one of the “[[strangler|amethysts]]” is removed and used to poison King [[Joffrey Baratheon]]. The murder of Joffrey is revealed as a murky plot organized by the [[Tyrell]]s and [[Petyr Baelish]], but Tyrion and Sansa are falsely implicated.
 
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
After the award ceremony for the [[battle of the Blackwater]], Littlefingers’s catspaw Ser [[Dontos Hollard]]  meets [[Sansa Stark]] in the [[Red Keep]]’s  godswood. Under orders of [[Petyr Baelish]] {{Ref|aSoS|61}} Dontos gives her a hairnet of "black amethysts from [[Asshai]]" (secretly [[strangler]] crystals), which he says is magic that will take her [[Winterfell|home]] the night of [[Purple Wedding|Joffrey's wedding]].{{ref|acok|65}}. Sansa thinks to herself that it’s a ship to escape [[kings landing]] that she needs, not a hairnet.
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After the award ceremony for the [[battle of the Blackwater]], the [[fool]] Ser [[Dontos Hollard]]  meets [[Sansa Stark]] in the [[Red Keep]]'s [[godswood]]. Under the secret orders of [[Petyr Baelish]],{{Ref|aSoS|61}} Dontos gives Sansa a silver hair net, set with gems he claims are black amethysts from [[Asshai]]. He says that the hair net is [[magic]], that will give Sansa justice, vengeance for King [[Joffrey Baratheon]]'s execution of her father [[Eddard Stark]], and take her home to [[Winterfell]].{{ref|ACOK|65}}
  
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Arya Stark]] and the [[brotherhood without banners]] camp overnight at [[High Heart]] to meet with the [[ghost of High Heart]] to hear her tell the future.  One of her dreams is of a [[Sansa Stark|maid]] at a [[Purple Wedding|feast]] with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}, foreshadowing the [[Purple Wedding]]
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In [[King's Landing]], Dontos reminds Sansa that she must wear the silver hair net the night of King Joffrey's [[Purple Wedding|upcoming wedding]], and afterwards they will escape.{{ref|ASOS|16}}  
  
Sansa wears the hairnet as instructed for the wedding feast. Tyrion notices that [[Shae]] has arranged Sansa’s hair artfully in a delicate silver net winking with dark purple gemstones, he fails to notice that the gemstones are more than they seem {{Ref|aSoS|}} Just before the wedding feast Lady [[Olenna Redwyne]] tells Sansa the wind has been at her hair and helps tuck the loose stands back into place, she also straightens Sansa hairnet, tugging and fiddling with it. {{Ref|aSoS|60}}  
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In the [[Riverlands]], [[Arya Stark]] and the [[brotherhood without banners]] camp overnight at [[High Heart]] to meet with the [[ghost of High Heart]] to hear her tell the future. The old woman relates several of her [[dream]]s, including one of a [[Sansa Stark|maid]] at a [[Purple Wedding|feast]] with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}
  
During the confusion caused by Joff’s death Sansa flees to the godswood.  When she removes her hairnet, she notices that one of the black amethysts is missing.  She lifts the net for a closer look as sees a dark smudge in the silver socket where the stone had fallen out.  Terror fills her and she remembers that the amethysts are from Asshai, and that Dontos called the hairnet “magic”. Dontos then appears in the godswood, and Sansa accuses him of murdering the King by using one of the amethysts. Dontos denies it, telling her Tyrion has already been arrested for poisoning the King. Sansa flees the city on a ship in [[Blackwater Bay]].
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As instructed, Sansa wears the silver hair net for the wedding feast, with a matching gown of silvery satin and purple felt. [[Tyrion Lannister]], Sansa's husband, notices that her handmaid [[Shae]] has arranged her hair artfully within the silver and purple gemstone net. But when they arrive at the feast, Lady [[Olenna Tyrell]] says that the wind has disturbed Sansa's hair, and tucks the loose strands back into place and straightens the hair net.{{ref|ASOS|60}}
  
At the [[Drearfort]] Sansa wonders who poisoned Joffrey. She considers if it were Ser Dontos who poisoned Joffrey. [[Littlefinger]] laughs and says that he could never be entrusted with a task of such enormity, and that all Dontos had to do was lead her from the Red Keep and make certain she wore her silver hairnet. {{Ref|aSoS|61}}  Littelfinger wagers that at some point during the evening someone told her that her hair net was crooked and straightened it for her.  Sansa is horrified, as she realises that that person was Lady Olenna.  
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During the wedding feast, King Joffrey appears to choke on a piece of his wedding pie, and dies, unable to breathe. Tyrion is arrested for the crime of [[kingslaying]].{{ref|ASOS|60}} In the chaos of the assassination, Sansa flees to the godswood as she had been instructed by Dontos, and changes into the darker, simpler clothing she had previously hidden there. When she removes her hair net, she notices that one of the black amethysts is missing, with a dark smudge in the silver socket where the stone had fallen out. Terrified, Sansa realizes that the "magic" of the hair net must be related to Joffrey's murder, that the amethysts must not truly be amethysts. When she hears Dontos arriving in the godswood, she hides the hair net in the pocket of her cloak. Sansa confronts Dontos, saying he must have taken the amethyst from her hair net and poisoned Joffrey, but he denies it. They then escape the Red Keep to [[Petyr Baelish]]'s [[Merling King|ship]] in [[Blackwater Bay]], where Dontos is killed on Petyr's orders.{{ref|ASOS|61}}
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At the [[House Baelish]] [[Drearfort|tower]] in the [[Fingers]], Sansa confronts Petyr about Joffrey's death, accusing him of commanding Dontos to poison him. Littlefinger laughs, and says that the alcoholic Dontos's only job was to help Sansa escape the castle, and make sure she wore the silver hair net to the wedding feast. Petyr says that someone must have straightened her hair net that night, and Sansa realizes it must have been Lady Olenna who took the "amethyst" from the net and used it to poison Joffrey's [[wine]].{{ref|ASOS|68}}
  
 
==Quotes==
 
==Quotes==
 
{{Quote|I dreamt of a [[Sansa Stark|maid]] at a [[Purple Wedding|feast]] with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}|the [[ghost of High Heart]]}}
 
{{Quote|I dreamt of a [[Sansa Stark|maid]] at a [[Purple Wedding|feast]] with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.{{Ref|aSoS|43}}|the [[ghost of High Heart]]}}
  
{{Quote|There was muder in them!{{Ref|aSoS|61}}|Sansa, to Dontos Hollard, on the amethysts}}
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{{Quote|It is a [[ship]] I need, not a net for my hair.{{ref|ACOK|65}}|thoughts of [[Sansa Stark]]}}
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{{Quote|It's [[magic]], you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for [[Eddard Stark|your father]]. It's ''[[Winterfell|home]]''.{{ref|ACOK|65}}|[[Dontos Hollard]], to [[Sansa Stark]]}}
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{{Quote|'''[[Sansa Stark]]:''' You said I must wear the hair net. The [[silver]] net with... what sort of stones are those?<br>
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'''[[Dontos Hollard]]:''' [[Amethyst]]s. Black amethysts from [[Asshai]], my lady.<br>
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'''Sansa Stark:''' They're no amethysts. Are they? ''Are they?'' You lied.<br>
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'''Dontos Hollard:''' Black amethysts. There was [[magic]] in them.<br>
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'''Sansa Stark:''' There was ''murder'' in them!{{ref|ASOS|61}}}}
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{{Quote|Silver and stones, that's all it was, silver and stone and magic.{{ref|ASOS|61}}|[[Dontos Hollard]], to [[Sansa Stark]]}}
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==References==
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{{References}}
  
==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Clothing]]
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[[Category:Poisons]]
[[Category:Poisons|Strangler]]
 
[[Category:Objects]]
 

Revision as of 12:43, 22 May 2020

Sansa Stark examining the silver hair net after Joffrey's poisoning - art by Natascha Röösli. © Fantasy Flight Games

The silver hair net is a hair net gifted to Sansa Stark, made of silver and what appears to be amethysts.[1]

Description

The hair net looks like a silvery spiderweb. Its fine-spun silver wire strands are so thin and delicate, that the net seems to weigh no more than a breath of air. Small gems are set where any two strands cross. The gems, so dark they drink the moonlight, are supposedly rare black amethysts from Asshai, which are a deep true purple in daylight.[1][2] However, the "amethysts" are in fact the strangler, a choking poison in the form of deep purple crystals.[3]

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

After the award ceremony for the battle of the Blackwater, the fool Ser Dontos Hollard meets Sansa Stark in the Red Keep's godswood. Under the secret orders of Petyr Baelish,[4] Dontos gives Sansa a silver hair net, set with gems he claims are black amethysts from Asshai. He says that the hair net is magic, that will give Sansa justice, vengeance for King Joffrey Baratheon's execution of her father Eddard Stark, and take her home to Winterfell.[1]

A Storm of Swords

In King's Landing, Dontos reminds Sansa that she must wear the silver hair net the night of King Joffrey's upcoming wedding, and afterwards they will escape.[5]

In the Riverlands, Arya Stark and the brotherhood without banners camp overnight at High Heart to meet with the ghost of High Heart to hear her tell the future. The old woman relates several of her dreams, including one of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.[6]

As instructed, Sansa wears the silver hair net for the wedding feast, with a matching gown of silvery satin and purple felt. Tyrion Lannister, Sansa's husband, notices that her handmaid Shae has arranged her hair artfully within the silver and purple gemstone net. But when they arrive at the feast, Lady Olenna Tyrell says that the wind has disturbed Sansa's hair, and tucks the loose strands back into place and straightens the hair net.[2]

During the wedding feast, King Joffrey appears to choke on a piece of his wedding pie, and dies, unable to breathe. Tyrion is arrested for the crime of kingslaying.[2] In the chaos of the assassination, Sansa flees to the godswood as she had been instructed by Dontos, and changes into the darker, simpler clothing she had previously hidden there. When she removes her hair net, she notices that one of the black amethysts is missing, with a dark smudge in the silver socket where the stone had fallen out. Terrified, Sansa realizes that the "magic" of the hair net must be related to Joffrey's murder, that the amethysts must not truly be amethysts. When she hears Dontos arriving in the godswood, she hides the hair net in the pocket of her cloak. Sansa confronts Dontos, saying he must have taken the amethyst from her hair net and poisoned Joffrey, but he denies it. They then escape the Red Keep to Petyr Baelish's ship in Blackwater Bay, where Dontos is killed on Petyr's orders.[4]

At the House Baelish tower in the Fingers, Sansa confronts Petyr about Joffrey's death, accusing him of commanding Dontos to poison him. Littlefinger laughs, and says that the alcoholic Dontos's only job was to help Sansa escape the castle, and make sure she wore the silver hair net to the wedding feast. Petyr says that someone must have straightened her hair net that night, and Sansa realizes it must have been Lady Olenna who took the "amethyst" from the net and used it to poison Joffrey's wine.[7]

Quotes

I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.[6]

It is a ship I need, not a net for my hair.[1]

—thoughts of Sansa Stark

It's magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father. It's home.[1]

Sansa Stark: You said I must wear the hair net. The silver net with... what sort of stones are those?

Dontos Hollard: Amethysts. Black amethysts from Asshai, my lady.
Sansa Stark: They're no amethysts. Are they? Are they? You lied.
Dontos Hollard: Black amethysts. There was magic in them.

Sansa Stark: There was murder in them![4]

Silver and stones, that's all it was, silver and stone and magic.[4]

References