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==About==
 
==About==
The [[House Arryn|Arryns]] keep the only dungeon in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] where the prisoners are welcome to escape at will – by jumping to their deaths. Many prisoners, driven mad by the cold and howling wind, commit suicide rather than remain imprisoned.   
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The [[House Arryn|Arryns]] keep the only dungeon in the [[Seven Kingdoms]] where the prisoners are welcome to escape at will – by jumping to their deaths. Many prisoners, driven mad by the cold and howling wind, commit suicide rather than remain imprisoned.   
  
[[Tyrion Lannister]] is imprisoned in the sky cells by [[Lysa Arryn]].{{Ref|aGoT|38}} The first day that he spends in his cell, after girding up his courage for hours, he laid flat on his stomach and squirmed to the edge to poke out his head and look down.  He sees Sky, the [[Eyrie]]’s third Waycastle, 600 feet below, with nothing between but empty air.  When he craned his neck out as far as it could go, he saw other cells to his right and left and above him.
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It is cold in the sky cells with the wind screaming night and day, but the only bedding is a thin blanket. The floor slopes slightly, unnerving prisoners. A cell is miserably small; five feet away, where a wall would be in a proper dungeon, the floor ends and sky begins. Six hundred feet below is the waycastle Sky.{{Ref|aGoT|38}}
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==Recent Events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
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[[Tyrion Lannister]] is imprisoned in the sky cells by [[Lysa Arryn]].{{Ref|aGoT|38}} During the first day he cautiously looks around, seeing the waycastle Sky below and other cells to his right and left and above him. Tyrion is afraid he will slide to his death if he rolls over in his sleep.
  
It is cold in the sky cells, the wind screams night and day, and worst of all the floor ''slopes'' ever so slightly - but Tyrion is afraid if he closes his eyes he might roll over in his sleep, and wake in sudden terror as he is sliding off the edge.  He thinks to himself that it is small wonder the sky cells drive men mad.
 
 
A previous tenant has written, in what looks suspiciously like blood,  
 
A previous tenant has written, in what looks suspiciously like blood,  
 
{{Quote|Gods save me, the blue is calling.}}   
 
{{Quote|Gods save me, the blue is calling.}}   
A first [[Tyrion]] wonders who he had been and what had become of him but later he decides he’s rather not know.
 
 
His only bedding is a thin blanket.  He stares out at a blaze of blue empty sky and distant mountains that seem to go on forever, the wind tugs at his blanket with gusts sharp as talons.  His cell is miserably small, even for a dwarf.  Not five feet away, where a wall ''would'' be in a proper dungeon, the floor ends and sky begins.
 
He has plenty of fresh air and sunshine, and the [[moon]] and the stars at night, but [[Tyrion]] would have traded it all in an instant for the dankest, gloomiest pit in the bowels of the [[Casterly Rock]]. 
 
{{Ref|aGoT|38}}
 
  
==Recent Events==
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To escape the sky cell Tyrion demands [[trial by combat]]. [[Bronn]] volunteers to champion him in the trial and kills Ser [[Vardis Egen]], saving Tyrion's life and securing Tyrion's freedom.{{Ref|aGoT|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[high road]].{{Ref|aGoT|42}}
===''A Game of Thrones''===
 
[[Tyrion Lannister]] is imprisoned in the sky cells by [[Lysa Arryn]].{{Ref|aGoT|38}} Tyrion demands trial by combat. [[Bronn]] volunteers to champion him in the [[trial by combat]] and kills Ser [[Vardis Egen]], saving Tyrion's life and securing Tyrion's freedom.{{Ref|aGoT|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[high road]].{{Ref|aGoT|42}}
 
  
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===

Revision as of 14:22, 13 September 2013

Tyrion Lannister in the Eyrie's sky cells - Art by Michael Komarck ©
The sky cells, left open to the cold sky - Art by Thomas Denmark. © Fantasy Flight Games

The sky cells are the Eyrie's dungeons. They are particularly infamous; they are merely shelves on the side of the mountain's sheer cliffs, left open to the cold sky. Mord is a gaoler of House Arryn in charge of the upkeep and maintenance of the sky cells.

About

The Arryns keep the only dungeon in the Seven Kingdoms where the prisoners are welcome to escape at will – by jumping to their deaths. Many prisoners, driven mad by the cold and howling wind, commit suicide rather than remain imprisoned.

It is cold in the sky cells with the wind screaming night and day, but the only bedding is a thin blanket. The floor slopes slightly, unnerving prisoners. A cell is miserably small; five feet away, where a wall would be in a proper dungeon, the floor ends and sky begins. Six hundred feet below is the waycastle Sky.[1]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Tyrion Lannister is imprisoned in the sky cells by Lysa Arryn.[1] During the first day he cautiously looks around, seeing the waycastle Sky below and other cells to his right and left and above him. Tyrion is afraid he will slide to his death if he rolls over in his sleep.

A previous tenant has written, in what looks suspiciously like blood,

Gods save me, the blue is calling.

To escape the sky cell Tyrion demands trial by combat. Bronn volunteers to champion him in the trial and kills Ser Vardis Egen, saving Tyrion's life and securing Tyrion's freedom.[2] Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous high road.[3]

A Feast for Crows

After he has been arrested Marillion is tortured into falsely confessing that he killed Lysa Arryn. Petyr Baelish has Marillion repeat his confession that he killed Lysa in front of Nestor Royce and then confines him to the sky cells. [4] During his imprisonment he sings the song "Fallen Leaves".[4] Petyr later claims that Marillion has died.[5]

Quotes

He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had torn off his wings.

- Tyrion Lannister contemplating his imprisonment in the sky cells

References and Notes