Annotations from item #46265198:

Clement is a brother of the order on the Quiet Isle. He is forty-eight years old.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Brother Narbert recounts the story of Brother Clement, who had gone to Saltpans to sell some mead when a force attacked Saltpans. One of the attackers had cut Clement's tongue out, saying he no longer needed it as he had taken a vow of silence. Clement died of the wounds he took at Saltpans. Brienne of Tarth and her party see another brother digging his grave.




Annotations from item #46265199:

Ser Clement Crabb was a knight of House Crabb. He was a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

History

In the great tourney of King's Landing in 98 AC to celebrate the fiftieth year of King Jaehaerys I reign, Ser Clement and Ser Ryam Redwyne broke thirty lances against each other before King Jaehaerys proclaimed them cochampions, in what is often called the finest display of jousting in Westerosi history.




Annotations from item #46265200:

Clement Piper is the Lord of Pinkmaiden and head of House Piper. He has two sons, Ser Marq and Lewys Piper.

Contents

Appearance

Clement is short, fat, bowlegged and has red hair that is bushy and wild. His son, Lewys Piper, resembles him.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Edmure Tully commands Lord Vance and Lord Clement Piper to guard the pass below the Golden Tooth when the Lannisters start to mass troops there. smashes their force, with Lord Vance killed and Lord Clement put to flight.

A Feast for Crows

Lord Clement is among the reluctant river lords who take part in the Siege of Riverrun. He is named as a representative to the war council for those river lords who only joined with House Lannister after the Red Wedding. During the council, Lord Clement dismisses Lord Norbert Vance's idea of peaceful resolution and threatens Edwyn Frey before Walder Rivers steps in.

Family




Annotations from item #46265201:

Cleoden I Durrandon was a Storm King of the stormlands from House Durrandon. During the Andal invasion of the stormlands, he made an unlikely alliance with three Dornish kings and won a major victory over Drox the Corpse-Maker on the river Slayne near Stonehelm.




Annotations from item #46265202:

King Cleon of Astapor, also known as Cleon the Great and the Butcher King, is the current ruler of Astapor. He has three daughters by his first wife and two of his newer wives are with child.

Contents

History

Cleon was once a slave owned by Grazdan mo Ullhor, where he worked as a butcher. It was said he could cut up a pig faster than any other man in Astapor.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

After Daenerys Targaryen conquers the city of Astapor, she installs a council of three men to rule after her departure. Cleon stirs up the people of Astapor, claiming that the council is attempting to reinstall the deposed Good Masters. With the backing of the people, Cleon executes the council members and installs himself as king. He also has the male children of the deposed Good Masters kidnapped and castrated to train them into new Unsullied.

Cleon then sends a messenger (Lord Ghael) to Daenerys in Meereen, offering a pact between Meereen and Astapor to attack Yunkai and to seal it, he would put aside his wives and wed her.

A Dance with Dragons

Cleon was defeated at a battle at the Horns of Hazzat. He was forced to flee back to Astapor, with his faux Unsullied following him in retreat.

Cleon is slain by his own men when he commands them to march out and attack the Yunkai'i. He is succeeded by a string of unsuccessful rulers, including a man calling himself Cleon the Second, his concubine, called Queen Whore, and Cleon the Second's killer, called King Cutthroat.




Annotations from item #46265203:

Cleon the Second was the brief King of Astapor, succeeding the first Cleon.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Cleon succeeds the Butcher King as ruler of Astapor, after the latter's death.




Annotations from item #46265204:

Ser Cleos Frey is a knight of House Frey and the eldest son of Emmon Frey and Genna Lannister. He is married to Jeyne Darry and has two young sons, Tywin and Willem. His personal coat-of-arms is the twin towers of House Frey and the golden lion of House Lannister, quartered.

Contents

Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Cleos Frey

Cleos has a thin face with a weak chin, and thinning stringy brown hair.

The surcoat worn by Cleos quarters the arms of Houses Frey and Lannister.

History

Cleos was born at Casterly Rock to Genna Lannister and Ser Emmon Frey.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Due to his Lannister blood, Cleos fights for the Lannisters when fighting breaks out in the Seven Kingdoms,

A Clash of Kings

Robb Stark, King in the North, sends Cleos from Riverrun to King's Landing with his peace offer. The captive knight is alarmed by Grey Wind, Robb's direwolf. Cleos promises to resume his captivity at Riverrun after completing his mission.

Despite carrying a peace banner, Cleos's party is attacked twice by broken men, suffering three dead and six wounded.

Cleos brings the bones of Lord Eddard Stark to Riverrun.

A Storm of Swords

Cleos, Brienne of Tarth, and Jaime Lannister by Felicia Cano © Fantasy Flight Games

Catelyn releases Jaime from the dungeon, tasking Brienne of Tarth with escorting him to King's Landing in exchange for her daughters, Sansa and Arya Stark. Cleos is released as well, with Catelyn giving him new terms to bring to Cersei.

On the road between Maidenpool and Duskendale,

Frustrated by Brienne's stubbornness while riding from Harrenhal to King's Landing, Jaime finds himself unexpectedly missing Cleos.

A Feast for Crows

During the siege of Riverrun, Jaime speaks of Cleos's death with his parents, Genna Lannister and Ser Emmon Frey. Jaime lies by claiming that Cleos was buried by a stream after scattering outlaws.

Quotes by Cleos

Cleos: My lady, I knew naught of any escape. The Imp said a Lannister must needs have a Lannister escort, on my oath as a knight
Catelyn: Arise, ser. I know no grandson of Walder Frey would be an oathbreaker.

- Cleos and Catelyn Stark

Cleos: I know nothing of any—
Catelyn: You know nothing.

- Cleos and Catelyn Stark

Quotes about Cleos

He is not a bold man, this one, Catelyn thought. More of a Frey than a Lannister, in truth.

Catelyn Stark's thoughts

Your grandfather Lord Walder pledged me his support and that of House Frey. Many of your cousins and uncles rode with us in the Whispering Wood, but you chose to fight beneath the lion banner. That makes you a Lannister, not a Frey.

Robb Stark

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

- Jaime Lannister's thoughts

What do we have here, an honest muttonhead or a lickspittle?

- Jaime Lannister's thoughts

Jaime: We were set upon by outlaws. Ser Cleos scattered them, but it cost his life.

Emmon: The boy had courage, I always said so. It was in his blood.
Genna: His bones should be interred beneath the Rock, in the Hall of Heroes.

Jaime: When this war is done, I will find the place and send him home.

- Jaime Lannister, Emmon Frey, and Genna Lannister

Family




Annotations from item #46265205:

Ser Cletus Yronwood is a knight of House Yronwood. Son of Lord Anders Yronwood..

Contents

Appearance

Despite his lazy eye he is considered handsome, randy and always laughing.

Recent events

A Feast for Crows

Cletus is among Prince Quentyn Martell's traveling companions on his mission to meet with Daenerys Targaryen in the Free Cities.

A Dance with Dragons

During Quentyn's travel he had to play a merchant in order to hide the true purpose of their journey. On the way to Volantis their ship is attacked by pirates near the Disputed Lands. Although the crew and the Dornishmen manage to win the fight, Cletus and Ser Willam Wells are killed in the battle. The sailors give them honourable funeral, but when Quentyn and his companions are asked to say few words about the deeds of their friends, Gerris Drinkwater is forced to lie in order not to reveal their identity.

Quotes

Give your bride a kiss for me.

- Cletus Yronwood, to Quentyn Martell, just before he died.

Family




Annotations from item #46265206:

Cley Cerwyn is a member of House Cerwyn and is the heir of Lord Medger Cerwyn. He has always been friendly with Bran Stark and his brothers.

Contents

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

While his father Medger Cerwyn is a captive at Harrenhal, Cley attends the harvest feast at Winterfell in his place, bringing two dozen lances with him. He brings the news to Winterfell of Stannis Baratheon being a king and of his letter concerning the illegitimacy of Queen Cersei Lannister's children.

When the ironmen attack Torrhen's Square, Lord Cley brings three hundred men as part of the relief force.

Family




Annotations from item #46265207:

Ser Cleyton Caswell was a knight of House Caswell during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen.

Appearance

Near the start of the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen, Cleyton was a handsome young man.

History

Cleyton was a suitor of Lady Rohanne Webber, a four-time widow. He attended her at Coldmoat, the seat of House Webber.




Annotations from item #46265208:

Ser Clifford Conklyn was the head of House Conklyn during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen. He had an old claim on Leafy Lake which was the property of House Webber.




Annotations from item #46265209:

Clifford Swann is a member of House Swann. In the appendix of *A Dance with Dragons* he is listed as the Lord of Stonehelm,, the former of which is still eligible to inherit.




Annotations from item #46265210:

Clubfoot Karl.

Although Clubfoot Karl does not appear in the television adaptation *Game of Thrones, the character Karl Tanner, played by Burn Gorman, is based on both Clubfoot Karl and Dirk.[citation needed*]

Contents

Appearance

Karl is a large man with a clubfoot.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Clubfoot Karl is a member of the great ranging, the force that leaves Castle Black in search of the wildlings. One of the conspirators who intend to kill Lord Commander Jeor Mormont near the Fist of the First Men, Karl is to cut the tethers among the horse lines.

A Feast for Crows

Karl remains at Craster's Keep after the betrayal, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.

A Dance With Dragons

Five surviving betrayers wander in the haunted forest, planning to head south over the Wall. However, the traitors are killed by Coldhands and his ravens. Summer, Bran Stark's direwolf, finds the bodies and eats parts of the meat. It is unknown if Karl is among them.




Annotations from item #46265211:

Clydas is a steward of the Night's Watch.

Contents

Appearance

Short and chinless, Clydas is considered ugly by Jon Snow.

Jon estimates Clydas to be about sixty years old.

History

For years

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Because Maester Aemon is blind, the half-blind

A Storm of Swords

Clydas aids Aemon when the maester treats the wounds of Jon Snow.

A Feast for Crows

When Aemon is sent away by Jon, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Clydas takes over the duties of tending to the ravens and the wounded. Before leaving, Aemon has Clydas mark passages in the *Jade Compendium* for Jon.

A Dance with Dragons

Clydas mulls wine and offers a cup to Jon, who tells the steward of Stannis Baratheon's sword, Lightbringer.

Clydas treats Alys Karstark when she flees to Castle Black.

Clydas is frightened by a letter to Jon entitled "Bastard" and sealed with pink wax. He brings it to Jon unopened.

Quotes

He's sixty if he's a day. An old man. He only seemed young compared with Aemon. Short and round, he had the dim pink eyes of some nocturnal creature.

- thoughts of Jon Snow

Clydas tended to the ravens well enough, but he had not a tenth of Aemon Targaryen's knowledge or experience, and even less of his wisdom.

- thoughts of Jon Snow

Cellador would be half-drunk, and Clydas was a poor substitute for a real maester, but they were what he had.

- thoughts of Jon Snow




Annotations from item #46265212:

Coals is one of the children of the forest in service to the last greenseer. He/she does not speak the Common Tongue. His/her true name is too long for the human tongue according to Leaf, so Meera Reed and Bran Stark make up the name Coals.

Contents

Appearance

Coals is one of the children of the forest with nut-brown skin that is dappled like a deer's with paler spots, and large ears and large eyes slitted like a cat's eyes. Coals has three fingers and a thumb with sharp black claws instead of nails.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Coals serves the last greenseer.




Annotations from item #46265213:

Cobble Cove is a place in the Reach. It was once the extent of House Osgrey lands.




Annotations from item #46265214:

The Cobblecat is a trading galley. It was once captained by Roro Uhoris. Ser Davos Seaworth served as a cabin boy aboard it.

History

Roro Uhoris, the Blind Bastard, once took the Cobblecat beyond the Wall and traded weapons and armor to the free folk for furs and other precious goods. When he set sail south again, he was intercepted in the Bay of Seals by three ships of the Night's Watch out of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. The Cobblecat was brought into port, the sailors lost their cargo, and Roro was beheaded for having traded arms to the wildlings.




Annotations from item #46265215:

Cobbler's Square is an area of King's Landing southeast of the Gate of the Gods and north of Visenya's Hill.. Presumably it is an area of craft.




Annotations from item #46265216:

The sigil of House Gargalen depicts a snake in the beak of a cockatrice.

Cockatrices are possibly mythical creatures of the Known World. Cockatrices from real-world legends are two-legged creatures with the body of a dragon or serpent and a rooster's head.

Culture

Among the grotesques and gargoyles of Dragonstone are cockatrices.




Annotations from item #46265217:

Cockleswent

The Reach and the location of the Cockleswent river

The Cockleswent




Annotations from item #46265218:

Cohollo is a bloodrider to Khal Drogo.

Contents

Appearance

Cohollo is the oldest of the bloodriders, a squat bald man with a crooked nose and a mouth full of broken teeth.

History

Cohollo saved Drogo from sellswords when he was still young.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

As a wedding gift to the newly-wed Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo, Cohollo gives them an *arakh* chased in gold.

Cohollo treats Daenerys kindly until she attempts to heal Drogo with the help of Mirri Maz Duur. Fearing the *maegi, Cohollo and the other bloodriders attempt to stop her. Cohollo nearly slashes the *khaleesi's throat during the attempt, but he is killed by an arrow from Aggo.




Annotations from item #46265219:

Coldhands is a mysterious figure from beyond the Wall. "Coldhands" is a name given to him by Samwell Tarly; his actual name is unknown.

Contents

Appearance

See also: Images of Coldhands

Coldhands is dressed in the mottled blacks and greys

Summer does not like the way Coldhands smells.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Coldhands by Marc Fishman ©

Coldhands saves Samwell Tarly, Gilly, and her son when they are beset by wights at Whitetree, lost in the haunted forest after fleeing Craster's Keep, addressing Sam as "Brother!"

A Dance with Dragons

Coldhands guides Bran, Hodor, and Meera and Jojen Reed to the last greenseer north of the Wall. Along the way he departs to deal with "foes" behind them, sending his charges on to a lakeside village. Bran, having slipped into his direwolf, Summer, as a warg, discovers Coldhands and his ravens had killed five men of the Night's Watch.

Coldhands leads Bran and his companions to the cave of the three-eyed crow, his flock of ravens dwindling during the journey.

Quotes by Coldhands

Coldhands by Diego Gisbert Llorens © Fantasy Flight Games

The world believes the boy is dead ... Let his bones lie undisturbed. We want no seekers coming after us. Swear it, Samwell of the Night's Watch. Swear it for the life you owe me.

- Coldhands to Samwell Tarly

Bran: What happened to the men? The foes behind us?

Coldhands: They will not trouble you.
Bran: Who were they? Wildlings?
Coldhands: They were foes.
Bran: You killed them. You and the ravens. Their faces were all torn, and their eyes were gone. They were your brothers. I saw. The wolves had ripped their clothes up, but I could still tell. Their cloaks were black. Like your hands. Who are you? Why are your hands black?

Coldhands: Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man's blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals ... His hands and feet swell up and turn as black as pudding. The rest of him becomes as white as milk.

- Bran Stark and Coldhands

Quotes about Coldhands

Jojen: This ... Coldhands?
Gilly: That wasn't his true name. We only called him that, Sam and me. His hands were cold as ice, but he saved us from the dead men, him and his ravens, and he brought us here on his elk.

- Jojen Reed and Gilly

The direwolf did not like the way that Coldhands smelled. Dead meat, dry blood, a faint whiff of rot. And cold. Cold over all.

- thoughts of Bran Stark

I don't like him. And I don't trust him. Those hands of his are bad enough. He hides his face, and will not speak a name. Who is he? What is he? Anyone can put on a black cloak. Anyone, or any thing. He does not eat, he never drinks, he does not seem to feel the cold.

- Meera Reed to Bran Stark

Bran: The ranger ...

Leaf: He cannot come.
Bran: They'll kill him.

Leaf: No. They killed him long ago.

- Bran Stark and Leaf




Annotations from item #46265220:

Coldhands seems to be a brother of the Night's Watch: he wears black and calls Samwell Tarly "brother." Therefore the dominant theory is that Coldhands is a dead or missing brother of the Night's Watch. Possibilities include:

Evidence Against

Brynden the Bloodraven is very likely to be the Three-eyed crow, and so could not also be Coldhands.

The Night's King was said to be deposed, his name "wiped from the memory of man," which sounds like he was thoroughly destroyed and likely to have been burned if it was known he was consorting with the Others.

Leaf, the child of the forest Bran meets at the cave of the Last Greenseer, says of Coldhands: "They killed him long ago." Will, Waymar Royce and Benjen Stark died/went missing only two years prior, a small amount of time for someone over 200 years old. In an original manuscript, Martin declared that Coldhands was not Benjen Stark.




Annotations from item #46265221:

Coldmoat, also called Coldmoat Castle,

Contents

Layout

Coldmoat has crenellated outer walls standing thirty feet high with towers at each of the corners. It is surrounded by a moat. The lion of House Osgrey is carved in checkered squares in the stone above Coldmoat's gates, although it has been worn down by the elements.

Within Coldmoat's yard are kennels, stables, a smithy, and a seven-sided wooden sept with windows of leaded glass. The audience chamber of the Webber is decorated with tapestries of battles and tourneys, and the stone floors are covered with rushes. Coldmoat also contains a maester's tower.

The castle can support twenty times as many smallfolk as Standfast.

During the rule of Lady Rohanne Webber, Coldmoat's household included Maester Cerrick, Septon Sefton, and the castellan, Ser Lucas Inchfield.

History

Once the greatest of the four castles of House Osgrey, Coldmoat was raised by Lord Perwyn the Proud. However, the castle was taken from the family during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen because Lord Ormond Osgrey opposed King Maegor's laws.

Addam Osgrey served at Coldmoat as a page and a squire. His father, Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast, once visited Coldmoat to suggest a marriage between Addam and Rohanne Webber, the daughter of Wyman Webber, but the Lord of Coldmoat refused Eustace.

When Rohanne was Lady of Coldmoat, an Osgrey man named Dake stole sheep from Webber land. When Eustace did nothing in response to her complaints, Rohanne's knights abducted Dake and sunk him in the castle's moat.

Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Prince Aegon Targaryen, visited Coldmoat as Eustace's envoys, but Rohanne revealed a royal decree granting the Webbers rights to the Chequy Water. After Duncan defeated Ser Lucas Inchfield in a trial by battle, Rohanne agreed to wed Eustace, thereby bringing Coldmoat under the joint control of House Webber and House Osgrey.

Quotes

You'd best not take any food or drink at Coldmoat, ser. The Red Widow poisoned all her husbands.

- Aegon Targaryen to Duncan the Tall

Compared to Storm's End or Highgarden and other lordly seats that Dunk had seen, it was a modest castle ... but it was a castle, not a fortified watchtower.

- thoughts of Duncan the Tall




Annotations from item #46265222:

Coldsnaps are a species of autumn wildflower found beyond the wall in the north of Westeros. Jon Snow sees a mountain meadow full of blue coldsnaps while in The Skirling Pass near The Frostfangs.




Annotations from item #46265223:

Coldwater Burn

The Vale and the location of Coldwater Burn (red)

Coldwater Burn




Annotations from item #46265224:

Colemon is Maester in service to House Arryn.

Contents

Appearance

See also: Images of Colemon

He is thin and nervous, with too little hair and too much neck.

History

Colemon was the personal maester to King's Hand Lord Jon Arryn during his stay in King's Landing. He treated Jon Arryn when illness struck him by purging him. When Arryn's condition began to improve, Colemon was sent away by Grand Maester Pycelle. Jon Arryn's illness worsened afterwards, and he soon died.

After Jon's death Colemon returned to the Eyrie with the rest of Lady Lysa Arryn's entourage.*]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Maester Colemon greets Lady Catelyn Stark upon her arrival at the Eyrie.

A Clash of Kings

During his interrogation by Tyrion Lannister, Grand Maester Pycelle lets it slip that Colemon had been having success in purging the poison which had been killing Jon Arryn, and that he had sent Colemon away to allow Lord Jon's condition to worsen.

A Storm of Swords

Colemon serves Lady Lysa Arryn and her son, Lord Robert Arryn, at the Eyrie. He is often worried about young Robert's shakes and treats them by leeching his blood.

A Feast for Crows

Colemon is present when Lord Petyr Baelish welcomes Lord Nestor Royce to the Eyrie.

Colemon expresses his worries about the treatments he gives Robert to Lord Baelish, as Robert's spells have grown worse since the boy's mother has died. Baelish orders him to add a pinch of sweetsleep to the boy's milk, before bringing him to meet the Lords Declarant.

Lady Anya Waynwood attempts to persuade Baelish to send Robert to Runestone, where Lord Yohn Royce's maester, Helliweg, could treat Robert, claiming that Helliweg is more experienced and better suited to treat Robert's frailties than Colemon.

The day the inhabitants of the Eyrie are to descent in preparation for winter, Robert empties his chamber pot upon Colemon. Robert complains to Alayne Stone that Colemon had put something "vile" in his milk. Colemon suggests giving Robert some milk of the poppy so the boy will slumber during the descent, but Alayne refuses the notion. She orders him instead to give Robert a cup of sweetmilk, which the maester objects to, fearing the poison is building up too much in Robert's blood. He reveals that Robert's blood has grown so thin that he had begun to fear leeching the boy. When Alayne insists that Colemon should give Robert a cup of sweetmilk before the descent, and one shortly after, Colemon insists that it must be the last cup for at least half a year.




Annotations from item #46265225:

Ser Colen of Greenpools is a knight from Greenpools. He is grizzled, with a grey beard. His coat-of-arms has bluejays.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Ser Colen meets Lady Catelyn Tully's party at the head of Renly Baratheon's outriders. He escorts Catelyn to Renly's camp at Bitterbridge, where they see the end of a great melee.




Annotations from item #46265226:

Ser Colin Florent is a knight of House Florent and the younger brother to Lord Alester Florent.

Contents

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ser Colin is the castellan at Brightwater Keep.

Family




Annotations from item #46265227:

Collio Quaynis is a Tyroshi singer. His accent is thick, making it sometimes hard to understand him when he sings in the Common Tongue.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Collio is one of the seven singers chosen to compete in the singers tourney at the wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Lady Margaery Tyrell.




Annotations from item #46265228:

Colloquo Votar was a Volantene adventurer and the author of the *Jade Compendium*, a collection of stories and legends from the east. At some point in his life Votar traveled east and visited all the lands of the Jade Sea. He was from Volantis.




Annotations from item #46265229:

Colmar Frey is the twentieth son of Lord Walder Frey, the second son born of his marriage to Annara Farring. However, the rumor at the Twins is that Annara Farring was sleeping with Black Walder Frey, making Colmar's parentage dubious.

Family




Annotations from item #46265230:

Combat at the tower of joy occurred at the end of Robert's Rebellion, according to a fever dream of Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark.

Contents

Prelude

According to a semi-canon source,

After the Sack of King's Landing, Lord Eddard Stark rode south to lift the siege of Storm's End. Lords Mace Tyrell and Paxter Redwyne quickly dipped their banners..

Combat

According to his fever dream, Eddard traveled to the tower of joy with six northern companions: Howland Reed, Lord Willam Dustin, Ethan Glover, Martyn Cassel, Theo Wull, and Ser Mark Ryswell. They approached the tower to recover Eddard's sister, Lyanna, but found the tower protected by Gerold, Arthur, and Oswell of the Kingsguard. Eddard recalls that he and Howland were the only survivors of the ensuing conflict.

According to a semi-canon source, Eddard found Lyanna dying in the tower,

Eddard returned Arthur's sword, Dawn, to Starfall, the seat of House Dayne.

Eddard returned Lyanna's body to the north so she could be buried with her brother, Brandon, and her father, Lord Rickard.

Servants at Winterfell whisper that Ned defeated Arthur, the Sword of the Morning, in single combat.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

While under the influence of the milk of the poppy, taken because of his broken leg,

A Dance with Dragons

Lady Barbrey Dustin, the widow of Lord Willam Dustin, resents that Ned brought Willam's red stallion back, but not the remains of Willam himself.

Quotes

Ser Arthur Dayne, Ser Gerold Hightower, and Ser Oswell Whent - by Amok ©

Ned's wraiths moved up beside him, with shadow swords in hand. They were seven against three.

—dream of Eddard Stark

Arthur: And now it begins.
Eddard: No. Now it ends.

Arthur Dayne in dream of Eddard Stark

The finest knight I ever saw was Ser Arthur Dayne, who fought with a blade called Dawn, forged from the heart of a fallen star. They called him the Sword of the Morning, and he would have killed me but for Howland Reed.

Eddard Stark to Bran Stark




Annotations from item #46265231:

Come-into-my-castle is a game played by multiple individuals, usually children. The game is designed to teach noble children about courtesy, heraldry, and the friends and enemies of their house. Usually only nobles play the game, as commoners do not have castles.

Contents

History

As a child, Arya Stark played come-into-my-castle, monsters-and-maidens, and hide-the-treasure with the children of the people of Winterfell.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Rickon Stark plays come-into-my-castle, monsters-and-maidens, lord of the crossing, and rats and cats with Big Walder and Little Walder Frey.

A Storm of Swords

Lady Lysa Arryn tells Sansa Stark that her young son, Lord Robert Arryn, likes to play hopfrog, spin-the-sword, and come-into-my-castle, but advises Sansa to always let the boy win.

A Feast for Crows

Lady Alysanne Bulwer and Queen Margaery Tyrell play the game together, and it is one of the things Ser Osney Kettleblack claims is preventing him from seducing Margaery.

A Dance with Dragons

The lowborn Penny tells Tyrion Lannister that she never played the game as a child.




Annotations from item #46265232:

The coming of the Andals,

Contents

History

Generational warfare had occurred in Westeros between the First Men and the children of the forest, but the Pact between the two peoples led to four thousand years of peace and worship of the old gods by the First Men.

Vale

The Fingers in what is now the Vale of Arryn was where where the Andals first landed to wrest from the First Men.

King Yorwyck VI Royce and his heirs led much of the resistance of the First Men to the Andals. King Robar II Royce gained the support of the Redforts, Hunters, Belmores, Coldwaters, and Upcliffs. These united First Men were able to successively defeat several Andal warlords, including the Corbrays, Graftons, and the Hammer of the Hills. However, Robar's army was routed in the Battle of the Seven Stars, and control of the Vale was claimed by the Andals of House Arryn.

Riverlands

Tristifer IV Mudd is defeated in his hundredth and final battle. Screenshot from *Game of Thrones* Blu-ray.

After conquering the Vale, the Andal warlords continued west through the Bloody Gate or sailed up the Trident into the riverlands, where they established their own small kingdoms. Tales from the era include the Fall of Maidenpool and the death of its young king Florian V Mooton; the Widow's Ford where Lord Darry's three sons held off Vorian Vypren and his Andals for a day and a night, slaying hundreds before they were themselves slain; and the events of the night in the White Wood. The Blackwoods and Brackens allied to oppose the Andals, but were shattered by 777 charging Andal knights and seven septons, at the great Battle of Bitter River.

The greatest of the river kings to oppose the Andals was King Tristifer IV Mudd, whom the Tullys fought alongside in many of his campaigns. Tristifer is said to have fought one hundred battles, winning ninety-nine and losing only one. When Roland II Arryn, the King of Mountain and Vale, invaded the riverlands and won small victories over several petty kings, he found himself facing Tristifer, who smashed his forces and forced the Valemen into retreat. One of Roland's allies then betrayed him to the river king, and Tristifer beheaded Roland at House Mudd's seat, Oldstones.

The Andals had mixed results when they invaded Crackclaw Point, which is now part of the crownlands. While the native Crackclaws had success fighting in their valleys and bogs, eventually, the Andals learned that what they could not conquer with swords they could through marriage.

During their conquest the Andals burned weirwood groves and slew the children of the forest when they found them,

The Andals failed to conquer the Isle of Faces, leading to conjecture that some children of the forest survived on the Isle with the aid of the green men.

After centuries of infighting between the Andal kings, House Justman was the first house to regain control over the riverlands.

Stormlands

Andals crossing the narrow sea. Screenshot from *Game of Thrones* Blu-ray.

When the Andals first began crossing the narrow sea, Erich the Unready was the Storm King from House Durrandon of Storm's End. He took little interest in the invaders as he was embroiled in his own wars at the time, and he died while the Andals completed their conquest of the Vale.

Shortly after the Andals conquered the Vale, they began sailing to Blackwater Bay and the stormlands. The Andal Togarion Bar Emmon allied with the First Men of House Massey and expelled the stormlanders from Massey's Hook and established Andal control over the peninsula. The grandson of Erich the Unready, King Qarlton the Conqueror, was the first Storm King to face the Andals in battle, and his reign and the reigns of his successors, Qarlton III and Monfryd V, would be spent continually warring against the Andals. The Storm Kings won at least six major battles against the Andals, including the great Battle of Bronzegate when King Monfryd V Durrandon defeated the Holy Brotherhood of the Andals at the cost of his own life, but the Andals continued to invade, conquering Tarth and Estermont.

To prevent the Andals from conquering all of the the rainwood, King Baldric the Cunning manipulated the petty Andal kings and warlords of Cape Wrath into attacking each other. King Durran XXI allied with the children of the forest, and this Weirwood Alliance achieved victories over the Andals at Black Bog, the Misty Wood, and the Howling Hill, and helped to check the decline of the Kingdom of the Storm for a time. A generation later, King Cleoden I allied with three Dornish kings and defeated the Andal Drox the Corpsemaker in a battle on the river Slayne.

Eventually the Durrandons and Andals came to an accord when the Andals failed in a seventh attempt to conquer the great castle of Storm's End. The Andals instead intermarried with the First Men storm lords; King Maldon IV and his son, Durran XXIV, for instance, married Andal maidens. The Andals swore to serve the Storm Kings, while King Ormund III and his queen converted to the Faith of the Seven.

The North

When the Andals attacked the eastern shores of the north, they were aggressively met by the Kings of Winter, House Stark of Winterfell, and their First Men bannermen.

The Hungry Wolf, King Theon Stark, was supported by House Bolton when the Andal warlord Argos Sevenstar was slain in the Battle of the Weeping Water. Theon then sailed east, raided Andalos, and displayed the heads of his Andal victims along the shore of the north.

After the conquest of the Trident and the riverlands, the Andals began to attack the north from its south over land. However, every attack was thrown back by the crannogmen of the Neck or the strong fortifications of Moat Cailin; it is unknown how many Andal armies were destroyed in the Neck.

Eventually, the Andals relented and the north was allowed to remain in peace, although over succeeding millennia Andal blood entered the kingdom through dynastic marriages.

Dorne

The influence of the Andals was less in Dorne than in the other southern kingdoms of Westeros. Most Andals focused on the nearer lands on the narrow sea, rather than the Dornish sands. Some, such as the Ullers, Qorgyles, and Vaiths, adventured into more inhospitable regions of Dorne. The Allyrions, Jordaynes, and Santagars also established their own realms. The Martells defeated two First Men houses, the Wades and Shells, claiming territory near the mouth of the Greenblood.

Westerlands

The Andals began to invade the westerlands after they conquered the Vale and the riverlands. Tybolt Lannister, the King of the Rock, defeated the first Andal warlord, and the next few attacks were also successfully defended by House Lannister.

As the Andals continued to march west, however, Kings Tyrion III and Gerold II arranged marriages between their bannermen and the most powerful of the warlords. The children of the Andals were brought to Casterly Rock to serve as wards but also hostages. After the death of King Gerold III, his daughter's husband, the Andal Ser Joffrey Lydden, took the Lannister name. Other houses formed by the intermarriages included Houses Brax, Drox, Jast, Kyndall, Lefford, Marbrand, Parren, Sarsfield, and Serrett. In contrast to most First Men kings, the support of the Andals allowed the Kings of the Rock to expand their power.

The Reach

The Andals arrived late in the Reach, after the invasions of the Vale, the riverlands, and the stormlands, as they were previously prevented from sailing there by the fleets of House Hightower of Oldtown and Redwyne of the Arbor. The Gardener kings of Highgarden prepared the defenses of the Kingdom of the Reach. King Gwayne IV sought help from the children of the forest, while King Mern II focused on fortification. King Mern III bestowed honors on a woods witch who claimed she could raise armies of the dead. The anticipated Andal attacks never occurred, however.

When the disunited Andals eventually reached the realm of the Gardeners generations later, they were welcomed by the Three Sage Kings: Garth IX, son Merle I, and grandson Gwayne V. Rather than resist, they granted lands, wives, and lordships to the most powerful Andals. Garth IX brought a septon to his court and built the first sept at Highgarden. Merle I, a convert to the Faith of the Seven, promoted the construction of septs, septries, and motherhouses across the Reach. Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith and the first to be knighted. In order to integrate the newcomers, Merle I and Gwayne V took Andal brides, and all three kings accepted Andal knights and retainers into their service. For instance, Ser Alester Tyrell, the founder of House Tyrell, was made Gwayne V's champion and sworn shield.

House Hightower of Oldtown were amongst the first lords to welcome the Andals.

The Gardeners encouraged Andal craftsmen, specially blacksmiths and stonemasons, to settle throughout the Reach, supplying their bannermen with iron instead of bronze and strengthening their castles with Andal masonry.

Families formed by the intermarriage of First Men and Andal nobles include Houses Cuy, Graceford, Leygood, Orme, Roxton, Uffering, and Varner. The Andals and First Men of the Reach became closely integrated, and most of the newcomers aided the Gardeners against future Andal invaders. Maester Yandel writes that "seldom has a conquest been achieved with less bloodshed."

Iron Islands

The Andals turned their attention to the Iron Islands a thousand years after their landing on the Fingers.

Rognar II Greyiron, King of the Iron Islands, was defeated by an alliance of Andals with Houses Drumm, Greyjoy, Hoare, and Orkwood. According to legend, Harras Hoare was chosen as king through the finger dance, but Archmaester Haereg states Harras became king by marrying the daughter of an Andal warlord.

Consequences

The Andals were a conquering people, but they were greatly outnumbered by the First Men of Westeros. In order to consolidate their control, the Andal warlords and kings often married the wives and daughters of the defeated First Men kings. Although most of the First Men eventually converted to the Faith of the Seven, godswoods with heart trees were retained in many castles to prevent religious wars.

The Andals introduced writing, as before that time the First Men only used runes for carving on stone. Everything since written about the Age of Heroes, the Dawn Age, and the Long Night originates from stories written down by septons. The Andals also introduced weapons of steel.

One of the major, if largely forgotten, consequences of the invasions is the ending of the Pact. The children of the forest abandoned Westeros and slowly disappeared over succeeding generations, aside from beyond the Wall.

During and following the Andals' arrival, six Andal-controlled southron kingdoms of Westeros were consolidated: the realms of the King of Mountain and Vale, the King of the Rock, the King of the Reach, the King of the Iron Islands, the King of the Trident, and the Storm King. Dorne remained a peninsula of bickering, feuding states of First Men and Andal origin, and the north remained under control of the First Men King in the North.

There is little left of Andal culture in Essos.

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Annotations from item #46265233:

The Common Tongue but these do not result in a lack of comprehensibility.

While some free folk who live beyond the Wall understand the Common Tongue, many clans instead speak local languages.

Language

Differences in speech can be observed between the highborn and lowborn of the Seven Kingdoms. Although the degree of which it is used differs greatly between the common born, the lowborn patois can be seen in multiple further instances:

Example 1: *"She ast me to, m'lord,"* Mycah said. *"She* ast me to."..."It's not no sword, it's only a stick."

Example 2: *"She don't know me,"* he said, *"but I knows her, oh, yes."*

Regional accents can lead someone to determine where a person has been born.

The largest difference within the Seven Kingdoms can be found in Dorne, where the Common Tongue is marked by the influences of the language of the Rhoynar.

Quotes

Yes, Westeros has regional accents. I played with the idea of trying to depict them with phonetic misspellings (and indeed I do a little of that, with some less educated characters), but that way lies madness. I try to suggest the accents with syntax and taglines instead.

- George R. R. Martin

"I swear it," she said in the Common Tongue of the Seven Kingdoms that by rights were hers.

- Daenerys Targaryen to Jorah Mormont

Tyrion took a mordant pleasure in inventing the details of the colorful life of Hugor Hill, also known as Yollo, a bastard out of Lannisport. The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth. The dwarf knew he sounded like a westerman, and a highborn westerman at that, so Hugor must needs be some lordling's by-blow. Born in Lannisport because he knew that city better than Oldtown or King's Landing, and cities were where most dwarfs ended up.

- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister

At least in Dorne they speak the Common Tongue. Like Dornish food and Dornish law, Dornish speech was spiced with the flavors of the Rhoyne, but a man could comprehend it.

- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister




Annotations from item #46265234:

The Company of the Cat, also called the Cats,

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History

There is enmity between the Company of the Cat and the Windblown, since they fought on opposite sides in the Disputed Lands in the recent past. Bloodbeard refers to the Windblown as "old grey-beards in rags"

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

The Company of the Cat is under contract from Yunkai and are present at the sieges of Astapor and Meereen.

Notable Members

Captain

Members




Annotations from item #46265235:

The Company of the Rose is a sellsword company operating in Essos. It was founded by men, and according to some accounts also women, of the North who rejected Torrhen Stark's submission to Aegon the Conqueror and thus chose exile over bending the knee.




Annotations from item #46265236:

The Conclave. © FFG

The Conclave is the governing body of the Citadel and the order of maesters. Composed of archmaesters, the Conclave elects a representative to the king, called the Grand Maester, who sits on the small council.

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A Storm of Swords

Varys informs Tyrion Lannister that Pycelle was restored to his position by Tywin Lannister after Tywin learned the Conclave of the Citadel was planning on naming Gormon Tyrell as Pycelle's replacement.




Annotations from item #46265237:

The conflict beyond the Wall takes place north of the Wall, the mightiest and oldest defensive structure constructed by men. Its main purpose was to shield the realms of men against the return of the Others, a race who emerged during the Long Night. Since then, the Night's Watch has stood guard for about 8,000 years, defending Westeros from threats from beyond the Wall. During that time, its initial task has generally been forgotten and instead they have been guarding against the human free folk (or wildlings) who hold the lands beyond. Occasionally forming raiding parties, the wildlings consistently try to cross the Wall into the richer and warmer lands to the south or to escape the unknown terrors of the far north.

The main events of this three-sided conflict that take place in the far north of the Seven Kingdoms and are thus unknown or considered unimportant to the majority of its population, especially with the War of the Five Kings ravaging through the country.

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Night's Watch Decline

See also: Night's Watch, and Wall

Before the War of Conquest by Aegon I Targaryen, the Night's Watch boasted nineteen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, accounting over ten thousand men at arms with Castle Black quartering five thousand fighting men with all their horses, servants, and equipment. Its power has dwindled during the last 300 years; by the reign of King Robert I Baratheon, the Watch only manages to sustain three castles: Castle Black, located in the middle of the Wall with about six hundred men; the Shadow Tower at the west of the Wall overlooking the mountains, with about two hundred men; and the coastal Eastwatch-by-the-Sea with even fewer men. A bare third of them are fighting men.

The 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont, is deeply concerned by the declining power of the Watch, and the rising threat of the wildlings beyond the Wall, whose raids have increased on the people south of the wall in recent years. He tries to make it more difficult for the wildlings to know their comings and goings by using a more random system, varying the number of patrols and the days of their departure. Sometimes a larger force is sent to one of the abandoned castles for a fortnight or a moon's turn.

The King-Beyond-the Wall and the Great Ranging

See also: Mance Rayder, and Great ranging

Even before the beginning of Robert's Rebellion, Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, was gathering wildling forces around him in an attempt to stave off attacks from the Others and recover the Horn of Winter. The Horn was needed as a fail-safe against the Night's Watch, as it was reputed in legend to be able to bring down the entire Wall with a single sounding. While most thought that the Horn was just a myth, Mance believed not only that it was real but that he could find it, deep in the frozen mountains known as the Frostfangs.

After the disappearance of a group of rangers led by Ser Waymar Royce,

While Lord Commander Mormont leads his small army north, several groups are dispatched by the Watch to scout ahead. One of these groups is led by Qhorin Halfhand, a senior ranger and the second in command of the Night's Watch western-most castle, the Shadow Tower. Accompanied by three other rangers and Jon Snow, a bastard of House Stark, the Halfhand discovers a vast wildling host deep in the Frostfangs. The group is trapped by wildling forces and either killed or goes missing one by one until only the Halfhand and Jon Snow remain. At this point, to ensure that someone survives to bring word back to the Lord Commander, Qhorin Halfhand allows Snow to slay him in a duel, thereby earning Snow the trust of the wildlings. With the destruction of the Halfhand's party, and Snow's inability to escape in time, the Lord Commander receives no warning of the wildling host's purpose or composition, now numbering over a hundred thousand.

The Half-Hand and the Fight at the Fist

Main article: Fight at the Fist

After the Night's Watch encamp on the Fist, a debate ensues among the Watch's leadership as to what the best course of action is to deal with the wildling threat. Some, such as Thoren Smallwood, advocate attacking the wildling host along its line of march. The argument is decided to be the best course of action by the lord commander, who proceeds to convince his men to the plan. It proves useless as the following night the group is attacked by a force of wights. The Watch has some initial success with flaming arrows and spear walls, but the massive waves of wights overcome the Watch's defenses. Realizing that his position is untenable and remaining on the Fist would result in the overrunning and ultimate destruction of his forces, Lord Commander Mormont orders the Brothers to attempt a breakout of their encircled position. Once mounted, the Brothers form a wedge and managed to fight their way off the Fist.

Mormont's savaged forces manage to make a long march through the snow-covered wilderness to Craster's Keep, a wildling estate known to the Brothers to be friendly to the Watch. The Watch is harried and harassed all through the night as they make their retreat, and by the time that they reach Craster's Keep less than one hundred Brothers remain of the original force. It is here, desperate and angry at their situation, that a group of Brothers rebeld and murder not only Craster but Lord Commander Mormont as well. A small group of loyalists manage to escape the mutiny at Craster's Keep and make their way back to the Wall, bringing news of the disastrous expedition's fate.

The Battles at Castle Black, the Bridge of Skulls, and beneath the Wall

King Stannis Baratheon's soldiers taking Mance Rayder's army in the flank - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games

Main articles: Attack on Castle Black, Fight at the Bridge of Skulls, and Battle beneath the Wall

Mance Rayder, now knowing that the bulk of the Watch's fighting forces have been wiped out on the Fist by their mutual enemy, makes his way out of the Frostfangs and starts his march toward the Wall. Mance forms a plan to divert the remaining fighting men from both Castle Black and the Shadow Tower to the far west so he can send a team to scale the Wall and take the unwalled Castle Black from behind by surprise. With his diversionary force riding hard for the west, Lord Steward Bowen Marsh marshals his forces and takes the bait, leaving only the old, the green, and the sickly behind to defend Castle Black.

Mance's attempt to take Castle Black from behind by surprise fails, as Styr's Thenns are defeated. Mance assembles his host and assaults the Wall for several days. King Stannis Baratheon, who had landed at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, takes Mance's army in the flank, routing it utterly and capturing Mance himself.

New Beginnings and Peace

The free folk march to the Wall - by Marc Fishman ©

With King Stannis Baratheon at the Wall, Mance Rayder in irons, and Lord Commander Jeor Mormont dead, along with most of the senior Brothers killed at the Fist or the Gorge, the Night's Watch is left in a precarious position of having to not only elect a new Lord Commander but also preserve their political neutrality. After a contested election between Lord Denys Mallister of the Shadow Tower, Cotter Pyke of Eastwatch, and Lord Janos Slynt, Jon Snow's name is placed as a compromise that both Mallister and Pyke can agree upon. The political maneuvers of Samwell Tarly securing Mallister's and Pyke's support (to prevent Slynt, who both agreed would make a bad Lord Commander, from being voted in) and some fortunate election night events result in Jon Snow becoming the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Jon attempts to make an alliance between the Watch and the wildlings so they can fight their common enemy, the Others.

Jon means to garrison the abandoned waycastles, restore patrols on the Wall, and establish a line of beacon towers along the top of the Wall, until they have more maesters and ravens. Jon also asks the free folk to help man the Wall.

According to a letter sent to the wall by Ramsay Bolton, the army of Stannis has been defeated and Stannis killed. When the letter is received at the Wall, Jon decides to ride south to meet the Bastard of Bolton in the field of battle, and several wildlings join him. Bowen Marsh and several of his followers, however, fearing that the neutrality of the Night's Watch is being threatened by their Lord Commander's actions, stab Jon several times. It is unknown if he has survived the mutiny at Castle Black.




Annotations from item #46265238:

Conjectures is written by Archmaester Timotty. In the work, Archmaester Timotty suggests that, during King Aegon I Targaryen's First Dornish War (4 AC-13 AC), the Targaryens had hoped to turn Dorne against House Martell, by destroying every castle, keep and holdfast in Dorne, except for the Martell seat of Sunspear.




Annotations from item #46265239:

Conn, known as Conn son of Coratt because of his father, is a member of the Stone Crows, one of the Vale mountain clans found in the Mountains of the Moon.

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Appearance

Conn is a handsome man.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Conn is a member of the Stone Crows that Tyrion Lannister and Bronn first encounter in the Mountains of the Moon.




Annotations from item #46265240:

For the book, see The Conquest of Dorne.

The conquest of Dorne was a war in Westeros, fought between the Iron Throne and Dorne. Upon ascending to the throne, King Daeron I Targaryen wanted to complete the campaign begun by his ancestor, Aegon the Conqueror. Daeron the Young Dragon was only fourteen years old when he began his war in 157 AC. Although Daeron quickly conquered Dorne, the Dornishmen successfully rebelled.

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Prelude

Shortly before Aegon's Conquest, Princess Meria Martell, the ruling Princess of Dorne, offered an alliance to Aegon Targaryen against the Storm Kings. Aegon, looking not for alliances but for submission, did not accept, and began his Wars of Conquest. His sister-wife, Queen Rhaenys Targaryen, led an army into Dorne during the first war. However, the Dornish refused to give battle, and instead hid, melting away in their mountains and deserts. Rhaenys captured holdfasts, but it made no difference, for there was no man to be found, only women and children. Eventually, Rhaenys flew to Sunspear on her dragon, Meraxes, where Princess Meria told her to leave, as she was not wanted in Dorne. Rhaenys left with Dorne untaken..

In 4 AC, Aegon the Conqueror launched a second attempt to conquer Dorne, the devastating First Dornish War. Notable events included the maiming of Lord Orys Baratheon, the death of Queen Rhaenys and Meraxes at Hellholt in 10 AC, and the formation of the Kingsguard following a failed assassination attempt on King Aegon I.

Dorne remained independent from Targaryen rule. Though King Viserys I Targaryen considered wedding his heir, Rhaenyra, to the Prince of Dorne as a way of bringing Dorne into his realm, he did not follow through on this idea.

The Conquest of Dorne

King Daeron I Targaryen ascended the throne at the age of fourteen in 157 AC. He had long felt that the continued independence of Dorne represented unfinished business for the Targaryens, and vowed to rectify this, planning to "complete the Conquest". When his councilors at first opposed him, informing their young king that he lacked the dragons that Aegon I Targaryen had used, Daeron replied "You have a dragon. He stands before you". His advisors became more convinced in the success of the plan after Daeron revealed the plans he had made with Lord Alyn Velaryon.

Three hosts went to war against the Dornish. One was led by Lord Lyonel Tyrell, who marched through the Prince's Pass, entering Dorne at the western end of the Red Mountains. Alyn led another by sea, while the king led a host down the Boneway, using goat tracks.

Submission of Sunspear

Within a year, the Targaryen armies arrived at the gates of Sunspear and battled their way through the shadow city. In 158 AC, the Prince of Dorne and forty of the most powerful Dornish lords bent their knees in the Submission of Sunspear, with all Seven Kingdoms now ruled by the Iron Throne in fact as well as name.

The few rebels who remained managed to cause trouble on several occasions. Once, they attempted to hit Daeron with a poisoned arrow. Daeron's cousin, Prince Aemon Targaryen, the Dragonknight, was hit instead, and was sent home to recover. Daeron was quick to consolidate his rule, and by 159 AC returned to King's Landing, leaving Lord Lyonel Tyrell to keep the peace in Dorne.

Many accounts have been written about the conquest of Dorne, including a book by the Young Dragon himself. Titled *The Conquest of Dorne*, Daeron's account is considered to have been written with an elegant simplicity.

Open rebellion

Though the hostages taken by Daeron I Targaryen ensured the loyalty of the Dornish nobility, the smallfolk continued to rebel against Targaryen rule. Lord Lyonel Tyrell moved with his train from one keep to the next each month, chasing the rebels and punishing those who had given them aid. The rebels attacked his train, stealing or destroying supplies, killing soldiers or horses, and burning camps.

True rebellion began when Lyonel reached Sandstone, the seat of House Qorgyle. It was his custom to turn the lords of the keeps he stayed in out of their chambers, to sleep in their beds. One night at Sandstone he found himself in a bed with a heavy velvet canopy, and was informed that he could summon a wench by pulling on the sash. When he did so, the canopy opened and a hundred red scorpions fell upon him. The news of his death led to a rebellion throughout Dorne, and in a fortnight all the work of the Young Dragon was undone.

Daeron had been intending to wed one of his sisters to the Sealord of Braavos, hoping to seal an alliance to removing pirates from the Stepstones, as they were hindering trade with Dorne. However, Braavos was at war with Pentos and Lys at the time, and talk of such an alliance between the Iron Throne and Braavos encouraged Pentos and Lys to lend aid to the Dornish that proved to be crucial.

Daeron returned to Dorne in 160 AC, and won several victories while fighting through the Boneway. Lord Alyn Velaryon once more descended on the Planky Town and the Greenblood. One of the notable people who died during the battles outside of Sunspear was Rickon Stark, the heir to Winterfell.

In 161 AC, the Dornishmen agreed to meet to discuss terms and renew their fealty. It was a ploy to kill King Daeron I, however, and the Dornish attacked the Young Dragon while under a peace banner. Of Daeron's Kingsguard knights, three died, Ser Aemon the Dragonknight was captured, and another yielded. Ser Olyvar Oakheart of the Kingsguard died at the side of King Daeron I, but it is unconfirmed if this was the same incident as Daeron's death.

The conquest of Dorne ended with Daeron's death, after having lasted only a summer.

Aftermath

Baelor I saves Aemon Targaryen from a viper pit, as depicted in *The World of Ice and Fire*.

With Dorne again independent, the body of King Daeron I Targaryen returned to the lands of the Iron Throne via the Weeping Town in the stormlands; the town received its name from its people's sadness at the king's murder.'s dungeons to await their execution.

The newly-crowned Baelor I Targaryen, however, desired peace with Dorne, and he walked the Boneway barefoot to Sunspear, returning the hostages. At the Dornish capital, he spoke with the Prince of Dorne, and negotiated a betrothal between his cousin, Prince Daeron Targaryen, and the eldest child of the Prince of Dorne, Princess Mariah Martell, as part of the peace negotiations.

From Sunspear, Baelor travelled to Wyl, where his cousin, Aemon the Dragonknight, had been imprisoned in a cage above a pit filled with vipers. Baelor was given the key to open the cage by Lord Wyl. While the songs say that the vipers bowed their heads to Baelor and refused to bite him because he was pure and holy, in truth Baelor the Blessed was bitten many times,

The betrothal between Daeron and Mariah that Baelor had negotiated eventually resulted in a fruitful marriage. Prince Daeron ascended the throne in 184 AC as Daeron II, and his good relations with Dorne led to an increased Dornish influence at court. There were some lords, however, who felt that the Dornish influence over Daeron II was too much, which in turn made them more sympathetic towards the Blackfyre cause.

Early in his reign, Daeron the Good began negotiations with his brother-in-law, Maron Martell, the Prince of Dorne, to unify his realm with Dorne. He arranged a betrothal between his younger sister, Princess Daenerys Targaryen, and Maron. The marriage took place at King's Landing in 187 AC, and peacefully joined Dorne with the Seven Kingdoms.

Quotes

The arms of House Martell display the sun and spear, the Dornishman's two favored weapons, but of the two, the sun is the more deadly.

- excerpt from *The Conquest of Dorne* by Daeron I Targaryen




Annotations from item #46265241:

Conwy is a recruiter or wandering crow of the Night's Watch.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Conwy brings a new group of recruits to Castle Black, consisting of a greybeard, two blond youths with the look of brothers (Arron and Emrick), a young man in soiled satin (Satin), a man with a clubfoot (Hop-Robin), and a man Jon Snow describes as a "grinning loon". He found them in a dungeon of a lord who resides near Gulltown.

A Dance With Dragons

Conwy brings another batch of new recruits to the Wall, among them Jace.




Annotations from item #46265242:

Coratt is one of the Stone Crows from the Mountains of the Moon in the Vale of Arryn. He is the father of Conn.




Annotations from item #46265243:

Corenna Swann was a member of House Swann, her relationship to the head of house is unknown. Was the first wife of Ser Stevron Frey and had one son Ser Ryman Frey. She died of a wasting illness.

Family




Annotations from item #46265244:

Ser Corliss Penny is a knight of House Penny and a supporter of Stannis Baratheon.

Contents

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ser Corliss is sworn to King Stannis Baratheon. He is among the queen's men who went north to the Wall with him.

A Dance with Dragons

After the battle beneath the Wall, Corliss commands the guards when free folk are allowed to pass through the Wall to Castle Black. Those who cross are required to throw pieces of weirwood into a fire. After a belligerent wilding is killed by queen's men, Corliss tosses the body into the fire pit.

When a blizzard slows Stannis's army during the march on Winterfell, a fearful Corliss blame the old gods of the north.

The Winds of Winter

Corliss wants Stannis to sacrifice Theon Greyjoy.

Quotes

Corliss: You northmen brought these snows upon us. You and your demon trees. R'hllor will save us.
Artos: R'hllor will doom us.

- Corliss and Artos Flint




Annotations from item #46265245:

Corlos is a figure from the Age of Heroes and the founder of House Casterly. His father's name was Caster.

History

According to legend, Corlos was a huntsman who lived in a village near to where Lannisport would eventually stand. When a lion began preying on the village's sheep, Corlos tracked it back to its den, a cave in the base of the Rock. Armed with only a spear, he slew the lion and his mate, but spared the newborn cubs. This act of mercy so pleased the old gods that they sent a a sudden ray of sunlight deep into the cave, revealing the gleam of yellow gold in a vein as thick as a man's waist.

Maester Yandel believes he soon moved inside the cave and fortified its entrance and as centuries passed, his descendants delved deeper and deeper into the earth to mine the gold but also carving halls, galleries and tunnels, transforming the gigantic Rock to a castle that dwarfed every other seat in Westeros.




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Annotation #1 for item #46265246: Wiki: Corlys Velaryon

For the Kingsguard knight from the reign of Aegon I Targaryen, see Corlys Velaryon (Kingsguard).
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Sea Snake.

Corlys Velaryon, known as the Sea Snake, was a fabled Lord of the Tides, Master of Driftmark, and head of House Velaryon.

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Appearance and Character

During his elder years, Corlys liked to say that he was clinging to life "like a drowning sailor clinging to the wreckage of a sunken ship."

History

Early life

Corlys was born in 53 AC.

Corlys became head of House Velaryon after the death of his grandsire. Richer than Lords Lannister or Hightower through his expeditions, Corlys used his great wealth to construct a new seat, High Tide,

Late reign of Jaehaerys I and reign of Viserys I

Corlys had been married to Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, the only child of Prince Aemon Targaryen, who in turn was the eldest son of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

Corlys and Rhaenys had two children, Laena, born in 93 AC, and Laenor, born in 94 AC. Upon the death of Prince Baelon in 101 AC, a Great Council was called at Harrenhal to determine the new heir of King Jaehaerys I. There, Corlys defended the claim of his son Laenor.

Following the death of Queen Aemma Arryn, in 105 AC, Grand Maester Runciter suggested to King Viserys I Targaryen that he take Corlys's twelve-year old daughter, Laena, to wife. King Viserys, however, chose Alicent Hightower. Angered by the third time his wife and children had been scorned by House Targaryen, Corlys and his family did not attend the wedding in 106 AC..

In 113 AC, King Viserys I and his small council began discussions concerning a betrothal for Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Viserys's heir. They eventually agreed on Corlys's son, Laenor. They were married in 114 AC. When Rhaenyra gave birth late that same year, Corlys overruled his son's wish and insisted that the child would be given a traditional Velaryon name. The boy was named Jacaerys.

In 115 AC, the newly widowed Prince Daemon visited High Tide, where he conceived the idea to marry Corlys's daughter, Laena. While Laena had been betrothed for nearly a decade to the son of a former Sealord of Braavos. However, Laena's betrothed had proved to be a wastrel and a fool after the death of his father. Eventually, he had turned up on Driftmark after losing all of his family's wealth and power. Though Corlys lacked a graceful way to get rid of the betrothal, he was not willing to let the marriage occur, and postponed the wedding on multiple occasions. When Daemon asked for Laena's hand in marriage, he mocked her betrothed until the latter demanded a trial by combat, which he lost. A fortnight later, Corlys saw his daughter wed to Prince Daemon.

The year 120 AC was less joyful for Corlys and his wife, however. In the first few days of the year, their daughter Laena died several days after giving birth to her third child. The child, malformed, had already died an hour after birth. Their son Laenor died not long after, stabbed to death by Ser Qarl Correy while attending a fair in Spicetown. Laena's husband, Prince Daemon Targaryen, and Laenor's wife, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, married each other within six months of the deaths of their spouses.

Lord Lyonel Strong and his son, Ser Harwin, died during a fire at Harrenhal in 120 AC. While there are many stories concerning this fire, the court fool Mushroom claims Corlys had been involved in the fire, as revenge on Harwin cuckolding his son.

When Corlys fell ill with a sudden fever in 126 AC, the issue of the succession of Driftmark asore. As both of his children were dead, according to law Laenor's eldest son Jacaerys stood to inherit. However, Jacaerys, as the eldest son to the Princess of Dragonstone, already stood to inherit the Iron Throne after his mother, and as such, Corlys was being urged by Rhaenyra to name her second son by Laenor, Lucerys, as his heir. However, the eldest of Corlys's six nephews, Ser Vaemond Velaryon, insisted that he should be proclaimed heir, insisting that Rhaenyra's three sons by Laenor had in truth been fathered by the late Ser Harwin Strong. Prince Daemon seized and executed Vaemond, and Vaemond's wife,children and siblings were punished by King Viserys I for repeating the rumours., Corlys had recovered from his illness.

Dance of the Dragons

Lord Corlys Velaryon sat on Rhaenyra's council during the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons; he was the greatest lord to pledge his strength to the cause of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, when her claim to the throne following King Viserys I's death was opposed by her half-brother, King Aegon II Targaryen. More than half of Rhaenyra's army was made up of men sworn to House Velaryon. Corlys's fleets also gave the blacks superiority at sea.

When Lord Bartimos Celtigar urged the princess to fly from Dragonstone to King's Landing at once and reduce the city to ash and bone, Corlys demanded to know how that would serve them, telling him "we want to rule the city, not burn it to the ground".

Corlys's wife, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, had gone to give aid to Lord Staunton at Rook's Rest, where she battled Aegon II, Prince Aemond Targaryen, and their dragons Sunfyre and Vhagar. Rhaenys and her own dragon Meleys died in battle, and when news reached Dragonstone, Corlys blamed Rhaenyra for Rhaenys's death, as she had forbidden her sons from going to Rook's Rest with Rhaenys. Corlys was brought back into the fold when Prince Jacaerys named him Hand of the Queen. Together, they planned an assault on King's Landing. For his plans, Jacaerys offered lands, riches and knighthood to anyone who could mount one of the riderless dragons. A fifteen year old Addam of Hull managed to claim Seasmoke, formerly ridden by Corlys's late son Laenor. Addam's mother Marilda proclaimed that Addam and his younger brother Alyn had both been fathered by Laenor, and, apparently accepting this fact, Corlys petitioned Rhaenyra to legitimize them both, naming Addam his new heir.

Marilda's proposed parentage for her sons was found remarkable by many, due to the rumours concerning Laenor's sexuality. The court fool Mushroom, however, proposed another possibility, suggesting that that Addam and Alyn had both been fathered by Corlys himself, and that he had kept them far from court whilst his wife was still alive, but took the oppertunity, after her death, to acknowledge them after a fashion.

Rhaenyra took King's Landing, though Aegon II and his remaining two children, Jaehaera and Maelor had escaped capture. Though her forces were victorious in the Butcher's Ball, in which Ser Criston Cole died, the First Battle of Tumbleton resulted in a loss for the blacks. Prince Aemond was terrorizing the riverlands with Vhagar, and Lord Ormund Hightower's host, with Prince Daeron and his dragon Tessarion, was slowly advancing on the city. With these threats in mind, Lord Corlys suggested to Rhaenyra that she should offer pardons to Lord Borros Baratheon, Ormund Hightower and House Lannister, send Queen Alicent Hightower and Queen Helaena Targaryen to the Faith, to make Aegon II's daughter Jaehaera Corlys's ward, as to marry her to her own son Aegon in due time, and to allow her half-brothers to take the black. Rhaenyra, however, insisted that her half-brothers had broken their vows before, and that the vows of the Night's Watch would mean little to them. Prince Daemon proposed to destroy both House Lannister and House Baratheon, and granting their seats to Ulf the White and Hugh Hammer, two of the four dragonseeds, but Corlys, horrified by this suggestion, insisted that half of the Westerosi lords would turn against them if they were to destroy two ancient and noble houses.

After Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White, the Two Betrayers, switched sides during the Second Battle of Tumbleton, Lord Corlys was the only person on the black council to speak in defense of Nettles and his own heir Addam, the two remaining dragonseeds. He remarked that Addam and Alyn were "true heirs" and worthy of Driftmark, and that Nettles had fought valiantly in the Battle in the Gullet. His protests were in vain, however, and Rhaenyra commanded Ser Luthor Largent to arrest Addam in the Dragonpit. Corlys warned Addam, who made his escape on Seasmoke's back. Confronted by an angry Ser Luthor, Corlys did not deny the accusations of treachery. Corlys remained silent, though he was bound and beaten before he was taken down into the Red Keep's dungeons and thrown into a black cell to await trial and execution.

Rhaenyra was eventually forced to flee the city, and King Aegon II Targaryen's men took the city back. Corlys was freed from the dungeons.

Corlys served Aegon II on his small council during the short remainder of Aegon's reign. Following the defeat of Lord Borros Baratheon at the Battle of the Kingsroad, with an army of riverlanders near the city, and a second host, led by Lord Cregan Stark, coming down the kingsroad, he advised King Aegon II to join the Night's Watch. The king refused, but was poisoned soon after, thereby ending the war.

Reign of Aegon III

Following the death of Aegon II, Corlys sent envoys to Casterly Rock, Storm's End and Oldtown, who had been Aegon II's main supporters, suing for peace. When Lord Cregan Stark arrived in King's Landing, he took power over the court and, insisting that the poisoners of Aegon II were punished, had twenty-two men arrested, including Corlys. This time became known as the Hour of the Wolf. Corlys was spared a trial. Instead, he was freed thanks to an edict of King Aegon III Targaryen that Baela and Rhaena Targaryen had persuaded him to issue. Alysanne Blackwood promised Lord Cregan her hand in marriage if he would honor the edict, which he did.

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Mayhaps the Seven have preserved me for this fight.

- Corlys at the start of the Dance of the Dragons

Family

Annotation #2 for item #46265246: Wiki: (Kingsguard) Corlys Velaryon

Ser Corlys Velaryon was a knight from House Velaryon. He was chosen by Queen Visenya Targaryen to be the first Lord Commander of the Kingsguard when the order was founded in 10 AC by King Aegon I Targaryen.




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Cornfield

The Westerlands and the location of Cornfield

Cornfield is the seat of House Swyft in the Westerlands. It is located southeast of Casterly Rock, east of Crakehall, and northwest of Red Lake.




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Corpse Lake is a lake on the island of Great Wyk. It is the seat of House Goodbrother of Corpse Lake.

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A Feast for Crows

Greydon Goodbrother is sent by his father Lord Gorold Goodbrother to inform their cousins at Downdelving, Crow Spike Keep and Corpse Lake of King Balon Greyjoy's death.




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A corsair king, a leader of pirates, is reported as being active in the Summer Sea.

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A Storm of Swords

Daenerys Targaryen travels to Astapor to view the Unsullied. The slaver Kraznys mo Nakloz has his translator, Missandei, tell Daenerys that three days earlier a corsair king was interested in purchasing a thousand of the troops. Missandei corrects the Good Master, and says that the unnamed corsair was interested in only one hundred Unsullied.

A Feast for Crows

Garin tells Arianne Martell that a corsair king has risen in the Basilisk Isles and raided Tall Trees Town in the Summer Isles.




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Ser Cortnay Penrose is a knight of House Penrose. He is named by Renly Baratheon as castellan of Storm's End.

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Appearance

Cortnay is completely bald with a red, spade-shaped beard and a weathered face.

History

When Renly Baratheon was performing his duties as Master of Laws, Ser Cortnay was the castellan of Storm's End. He took a part in raising Edric Storm, the acknowledged bastard of Renly's brother, King Robert Baratheon. Cortnay is considered a seasoned battle commander.

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A Clash of Kings

After Renly's assassination, Cortnay sends out ravens with a plea for help in breaking Stannis Baratheon's siege of Storm's End, offering to bend the knee to whomever would send him aid. He demands to see the corpse so he can make sure of Renly's death before turning the castle over to Stannis.

Storm's End is besieged by the army of Stannis, unable to receive help from anyone. At a parley beneath the walls, Stannis demands Cortnay turn over the castle and Robert Baratheon's bastard, Edric Storm, but Cortnay refuses, instead tossing his glove at Stannis and challenging him to a single combat duel. Stannis refuses this, and Cortnay tells him to elect a champion, insulting those who abandoned Renly to join Stannis. Rather than risk losing the duel, Stannis warns Cortnay that he will take the castle only by storm - a threat to which Cortnay replies by reminding Stannis of Storm's End's name.

After the parley, Stannis tells Davos Seaworth that Melisandre has seen Cortnay's death in the flames of the future. That night, Stannis sends Davos and Melisandre to have the castellan assassinated by one of Melisandre's shadows., immediately gives up the castle and Edric Storm.

Quotes by Cortnay

A man who changes kings and gods the way I change my boots. As do these other turncloaks I see before me.

- Cortnay to Alester Florent

Is it the justice of your cause you doubt, my lord, or the strength of your arm? Are you afraid I’ll piss on your burning sword and put it out?

- Cortnay to Stannis Baratheon

May the Others bugger your Lord of Light, and wipe his arse with that rag you bear.

- Cortnay to Melisandre

Quotes about Cortnay

Stannis: A smuggler must be a fair judge of men. What do you make of this Ser Cortnay Penrose? Davos: A stubborn man.

- Davos Seaworth to Stannis Baratheon

He throws my pardon in my face. Aye, and throws his life away in the bargain, and the lives of every man inside those walls. Single combat? No doubt he mistook me for Robert.

- Stannis Baratheon




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Ser Corwin Rogers was a knight from House Rogers during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.

History

Corwin was present at the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.

Behind the Scenes

The knight's name is a reference to Roger Zelazny, a late friend of George R. R. Martin, and Corwin of Amber, a character from *The Chronicles of Amber* by Zelazny.




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Annotation #1 for item #46265252: Wiki: Corwyn Corbray

For the Lord of the Five Fingers, see Corwyn Corbray (lord).

Ser Corwyn Corbray was a knight of House Corbray. He was married to Princess Rhaena Targaryen, by whom he had no children.

History

In 134 AC Ser Corwyn was made one of the seven regents during the regency of the young king, Aegon III Targaryen, replacing the late Lord Manfryd Mooton. He was killed by a crossbowman at Runestone that same year.

Annotation #2 for item #46265252: Wiki: (lord) Corwyn Corbray

Corwyn Corbray was an Andal knight during the Andal invasion of the Vale.

History

Corwyn claimed the Fingers after the death of the rival Kings of the Fingers Dywen Shell and Jon Brightstone. He took Brightstone's daughter for his bride and Shell's wife for his bedwarmer. Corbray named himself Lord of the Five Fingers.




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Cosgrove was the steward of House Butterwell during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen.

History

During the Whitewalls Tourney Cosgrove acted as the master of the games.




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Cossomo, also known as Cossomo the Conjurer, is a patron of the Happy Port. He is a conjurer who performs sleight of hand tricks and calls it magic.

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A Feast for Crows

He teaches Arya Stark sleight of hand tricks.

The Winds of Winter

Prior to the Gate's performance of *The Bloody Hand* Mercy takes a quick peek out into the house and sees Cossomo the Conjurer with Yna on his arm in the pit.[*citation needed*]




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Cotter Pyke is a member of the Night's Watch and the commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Cotter Pyke

Cotter has small, close-set eyes, a broken nose and a pox ravaged face. He has a widow's peak and a sparse, rough beard. He is lean, hard and wiry.

Cotter is illiterate, and Maester Harmune must read and write his letters.

History

Cotter is the bastard son of a tavern wench from the Iron Islands.

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A Game of Thrones

Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, assigns Dareon to help Cotter with visiting merchants.

A Storm of Swords

Cotter captures Rattleshirt at the Long Barrow.

Cotter puts his name forth as a candidate for the position of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch when they hold the choosing, and is a leading candidate.

A Dance with Dragons

Cotter hosts Queen Selyse Florent at Eastwatch,

Captaining *Talon*, Cotter sails from Eastwatch towards Hardhome with eleven ships by the command of Lord Commander Jon Snow.

By the time Cotter arrives at Hardhome, he has lost five ships and the wildlings are eating their own dead. The undead are lurking in the woods and in the waters. Cotter sends a raven to Jon Snow, pleading him to send help by land, since the weather was very harsh on the seas. His current fate is unknown.

Quotes by Cotter

Lord Snow, if you muck this up, I'm going to rip your liver out and eat it raw with onions.

- Cotter to Jon Snow

Quotes about Cotter

Those look like Eastwatch men. Sailors on horses. Cotter Pyke always had more guts than sense.

- Mance Rayder to Jon Snow

Samwell, it is not my habit to speak unkindly of my brothers, but let us be frank ... the ironborn are a race of pirates and thieves, and Cotter Pyke was raping and murdering when he was still half a boy.

- Denys Mallister to Samwell Tarly

We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.

- Selyse Florent to Jon Snow




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Courageous is a war galley of the royal fleet in service to Stannis Baratheon. It has one hundred oars.

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A Clash of Kings

Courageous is part of Stannis Baratheon's fleet commanded by Ser Imry Florent during the Battle of the Blackwater. It is among the first ships to be hit by burning pitch. She eventually sinks and her survivors are brought aboard the *Cat. Her hulk is engulfed by wildfire after the explosion of the *Swordfish.




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Ser Courtenay Greenhill is a household knight in King's Landing.

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A Feast for Crows

Ser Courtenay is named by Taena of Myr of being among the group of household knights who spend time in the presence of Queen Margaery Tyrell.

Behind the Scenes

Courtenay is named by George R. R. Martin after Richard Courtenay and Peter Greenhill, makers of collectible miniature knights.




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The profession of courtesan exists in Essos. A courtesan is not referred to as a whore although they are most likely trained in the arts of love and may also offer sexual services.[*citation needed*]

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Courtesans could be considered to be at the pinnacle of the prostitution hierarchy and a person who engages their services may not do so specifically for sexual reasons. Rather it is the pleasure and honour of their company that is paid for.[*citation needed*]

Engaging their company bestows as certain amount of status on the client themselves. In fact a sexual liaison may be the whim of the courtesan, not the patron. They are most likely similar to our world’s Japanese geisha, educated and trained in various cultural pursuits such as music, poetry, dance, history, literature etc.[*citation needed*]

Braavos

Braavos is also renowned worldwide for its courtesans, they enjoy high status and are famous worldwide.

Every courtesan has her own barge and servants to work them. The beauty of famed courtesans has inspired many a song. They are showered with gifts from goldsmiths and craftsmen beg for their custom. Nobility and rich merchants pay the courtesans large amounts of money to appear alongside them at events, and bravos are known to kill each other in their names.

Some Braavosi courtesans are famous, respected and wealthy and enjoy a kind of celebrity status as well as a certain kind of mystique. They are cultured and beautiful.

Some families have produced many generations of courtesans, such as Bellegere Otherys’s, it is likely that there are other Braavosi courtesan families.

The Kindly Man offers Arya Stark the chance to become a courtesan, giving a glimpse into the lifestyle of a Braavosi courtesan:

Would you sooner be a courtesan, and have songs sung of your beauty? Speak the word, and we will send you to the Black Pearl or the Daughter of the Dusk. You will sleep on rose petals and wear silken skirts that rustle when you walk, and great lords will beggar themselves for your maiden’s blood.

Famous courtesans

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Brusco makes it plain to Cat of the Canals that while selling her oysters, clams and cockles she is never to speak to a courtesan unless spoken to first.

When Cat is talking to some Westerosi sailors off of the *Brazen Monkey* the youngest monkey, a red-haired boy with freckles no older than sixteen, asks her “What about them fancy whores the singers sing about?" His shipmates look at him and laugh. One of them says,

Seven hells, boy. Might be the captain could get hisself a courty-san, but only if he sold the bloody ship. That sort o’ cunt’s for lords and such, not for the likes o’ us.

Cat tells them that she sold three cockles to the Black Pearl, she called to Cat as she was stepping off her barge.

As she pushes her barrow along the canals Cat sometimes glimpses one of them floating by, on her way to an evening with some lover.

Quotes

The courtesans of Braavos were famed across the world. Singers sang of them, goldsmiths and jewelers showered them with gifts, craftsmen begged for the honour of their custom, merchant princes paid royal ransoms to have them on their arms at balls and feasts and mummers shows, and bravos slew each other in their names.




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The Crab King is a lesser god of the Rhoynar. He fights the Old Man of the River for dominion of all life below the flowing water.




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Crackclaw Point

The crownlands and the location of Crackclaw Point

Crackclaw Point is a peninsula in the crownlands jutting out into the narrow sea. To the north lies the Bay of Crabs, to the south Blackwater Bay.

Noble houses from the peninsula include House Boggs, House Brune of Brownhollow, House Brune of the Dyre Den, House Cave, House Crabb (formerly of the Whispers), House Hardy, and House Pyne.

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Landscape

The land is full of cavernous hills and bogs and pine barrens,

Folklore

Crackclaws are sometimes considered half-wild by other peoples of the Seven Kingdoms.

History

The majority of Crackclaw's population is descended from the First Men. Every valley has a lord and all of them distrust outsiders. Andals tried to conquer the peninsula, but they were defeated by their lack of knowledge of the area. The Darklyn kings of Duskendale tried to impose themselves on the houses of the Point, as did Maidenpool and the Celtigars of Claw Isle, but all were repelled. Eventually, the Andals learned that what they could not conquer with swords they could through marriage.

When not fighting would-be conquerors, internecine fighting between the houses was commonplace. Champions rising from local noble families, such as Ser Clarence Crabb, Crackbones, the Brothers Brune, and Ser Lucifer Hardy, imposed peace on Crackclaw but it never survived their lifetimes.

Having heard of the destruction of House Hoare in the burning of Harrenhal, the lords of Crackclaw swore allegiance to Visenya Targaryen during Aegon's Conquest. Because they surrendered peacefully, they were sworn directly to the Targaryens of King's Landing. The region has since been known as Targaryen loyalists.

During the Dance of the Dragons, the Crabbs and Brunes joined the blacks and assisted Lord Walys Mooton in retaking Rook's Rest. The inhabitants of the peninsula say that following Lord Mooton's failed attempt to kill Sunfyre, the dragon sheltered amongst their dark and piney woods and caves for some time before traveling to Dragonstone.

Many of Crackclaw Point's lords and champions fought beside Prince Rhaegar Targaryen in the Battle of the Trident. The Celtigars sometimes send men to collect taxes, but they have limited success.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Podrick Payne, Brienne of Tarth, and Dick Crabb pass through Crackclaw Point to get to the Whispers. Dick regales them with the history and folklore of the peninsula.

Quotes

We're all good dragon men, up Crackclaw way.

Dick Crabb to Brienne of Tarth

They rode through pines and bogs, under dark skies and intermittent rain, past sinkholes and caves and the ruins of ancient strongholds whose stones were blanketed in moss. Every heap of stones had a story, and Nimble Dick told them all. To hear him tell it, the men of Crackclaw Point had watered their pine trees with blood.

—thoughts of Brienne of Tarth

Chapters that take place in Crackclaw Point




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Crag

The westerlands and the location of the Crag

The Crag is the seat of House Westerling in the westerlands. It is more of a ruin than a castle as the Westerlings no longer have the funds to maintain it. It sits along the coast

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

During the War of the Five Kings, King Robb Stark and his force in the westerlands march on the Crag.

A Storm of Swords

The Crag was stormed, with Smalljon Umber and Black Walder Frey scaling the walls, while Robb broke through the main gate. Robb took a wound and was nursed back to health by Jeyne Westerling. During the nursing, Robb deflowered Jeyne, and being an honorable man, married her shortly thereafter. As a consequence of that, the Westerlings joined with House Stark.

Rolph Spicer, the castellan of the Crag, receives Castamere for his betrayal of Robb in the Red Wedding.




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Craghas Drahar was a Myrish prince-admiral who commanded the armies of the Triarchy.

History

Craghas commanded the armies of the Triarchy which turned westward to conquer the Stepstones, after the Triarchy had driven the Volantenes from the Disputed Lands. During this campaign he earned his sobriquet, "Crabfeeder", by ordering hundreds of pirates staked out on beaches to drown in the rising tide. For a time the Westerosi lords were pleased by the pirates' defeat, and were happy to pay the Triarchy's tolls for safe passage. Several years later, however, the avarice of Craghas and his Lysene and Tyroshi co-admirals had driven up the tolls to outrageous levels. Lord Corlys Velaryon was most hurt by these tolls, and partnered with the glory-hungry Prince Daemon Targaryen to drive the Triarchy's forces from the Stepstones and carve out a realm, attacking in 106 AC. The forces of the Triarchy lost many battles over the next two years, before Craghas was finally defeated in battle by Prince Daemon, who beheaded him with his Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister.




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Craghorn Hoare, known as Craghorn of the Red Smile, was a King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare. The Hoare kings of his era were opposed by the priests of the Drowned God because of their support for the Faith of the Seven, discouraging of reaving, and promotion of trade.




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Cragorn blowing Dragonbinder by Yoann Boissonnet, © Fantasy Flight Games.

Cragorn is a member of Euron Greyjoy's crew aboard the *Silence*.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Cragorn

He is tall, with a broad chest tattooed with a bird of prey. His head is shaved and he wears rings of gold, jade, and jet on his arms.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

He was among Euron's party at the kingsmoot, at which he blew the dragon horn to announce Euron's claim to the title of King of the Iron Islands.




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Crake the Boarkiller is a legendary figure from the Age of Heroes that founded House Crakehall.




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Crakehall

The westerlands and the location of Crakehall

Crakehall or Crakehall Castle is the seat of House Crakehall in the southwestern westerlands. It is located on the Searoad

History

When he learned that his son and daughter, Aegon and Rhaena, were under siege at Crakehall, King Aenys I Targaryen collapsed and died three days later.

Prince Oberyn Martell and his sister Princess Elia visited Crakehall on their way to Casterly Rock where their mother attempted to broker their marriages to the Lannister twins, Cersei and Jaime.




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Reed's Crannogmen by Dennis McElroy © Fantasy Flight Games

The crannogmen are a reclusive people who dwell in the swamps of the Neck. They are ruled by House Reed from Greywater Watch. Their current lord is Howland Reed.

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Culture

The crannogmen are so called for their habit of living in small villages formed of reeds and thatch that sit atop floating islands in the mire (crannogs). They are a poor people and seldom leave their lands, subsisting on fishing and frogging.

Crannogmen are talented hunters and warriors. Despite their short stature

Crannogmen are looked down upon by most other people of the Seven Kingdoms for their tactics, which are viewed as cowardly.

History

The histories say that the crannogmen grew close to the children of the forest in the days when the greenseers tried to bring the hammer of the waters down upon the Neck.

The crannogmen are now ruled by House Reed from Greywater Watch. Other families of crannogmen are Houses Blackmyre, Boggs, Cray, Fenn, Greengood, Peat, and Quagg.

They have a feud with House Frey, who have ruled the lands immediately to the south in the northern riverlands for six centuries.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Robb Stark leads a host of northmen south to rescue his father, Lord Eddard Stark, from King's Landing. Robb sends a message to Howland Reed, Lord of Greywater Watch, tasking the crannogmen with guarding the causeway in case Lannisters march north.

A Clash of Kings

Victarion Greyjoy, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet, achieves the fall of Moat Cailin,

A Storm of Swords

Meera and Jojen tell Bran Stark about a crannogman and the Knight of the Laughing Tree.

Robb, now King in the North, tasks Galbart Glover and Maege Mormont with sailing on Mallister longships into the Neck. The envoys are to inform Howland and the crannogmen of Robb's plan to recover Moat Cailin.

A Feast for Crows

The poisoned arrows of crannogmen weaken the ironborn garrison at Moat Cailin, so Victarion wears heavy chain mail over boiled leather for protection.

A Dance with Dragons

Ralf Kenning, left in command of Moat Cailin by Victarion, is mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow.

Quotes

I've sent word to Howland Reed, Father's old friend at Greywater Watch. If the Lannisters come up the Neck, the crannogmen will bleed them every step of the way.

Robb Stark, to Catelyn Stark

Walder: Mudmen are sneaks, they won't fight like decent folks, they skulk and use poison arrows. You never see them, but they see you. Those who go into the bogs after them get lost and never come out. Their houses move, even the castles like Greywater Watch. They might be out there right now, listening to everything we say.

Farlen: My dogs would smell anything in them bushes. Be all over them before you could break wind, boy.

Walder: Frogeaters don't smell like men. They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water. Moss grows under their arms in place of hair, and they can live with nothing to eat but mud and breathe swamp water.

Little Walder Frey and Farlen

Just as dangerous were its people, seldom seen but always lurking, the swamp-dwellers, the frog-eaters, the mud-men. Fenn and Reed, Peat and Boggs, Cray and Quagg, Greengood and Blackmyre, those were the sorts of names they gave themselves. The ironborn called them all bog devils.

- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

We live closer to the green in our bogs and crannogs, and we remember. Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

Jojen Reed, to Bran Stark




Annotations from item #46265268:

Craster is a wildling and is the master of Craster's Keep, located beyond the Wall. Despite his unsavory reputation, he is regarded as a friend to the Night's Watch..

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Craster

Once a powerful-looking man, Craster is nearing the end of his life. His hair is grey turning to white. He has a flat nose and a drooping mouth, which gives him a cruel look. One of Craster's ears is missing, which he has lost to the cold.

Craster is one of the few wildlings not openly hostile to the Night's Watch. Although he shows the Watch no malice and offers sanctuary to those north of the Wall on rangings, he is regarded as a tenuous ally at best. This is due to his incestuous relationships with his daughter-wives and suspicions of kinslaying, sacrificing his male children.

History

Craster is the bastard son of a man of the Night's Watch and a wildling woman from the village of Whitetree. His father abandoned his mother after Craster was conceived, and when his mother tried to bring him to Castle Black, she was chased off by members of the Watch. His father's name is never mentioned.

Craster's Keep is located in the haunted forest, where he lives with his nineteen wives,

Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, once gifted Craster with a crossbow.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Craster begrudgingly allows the Night's Watch to stay at his keep overnight during their great ranging beyond the Wall. He informs Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, that Mance Rayder is gathering wildlings to the source of the Milkwater in the Frostfangs.

A Storm of Swords

Following the fight at the Fist, Craster allows the survivors of the attack to stay overnight at his keep. This time, several members of the Watch, already mutinous, believe that Craster is holding back food and aid to the men. During the farewell feast hosted by Craster, a mutiny erupts. Dirk slits Craster's throat, and the dying wildling falls atop the wounded Ser Byam Flint. Lord Commander Mormont is then mortally wounded by Ollo Lophand. Samwell Tarly flees with Gilly, who has recently given birth.

Quotes by Craster

Jeor: These are bad times to dwell alone in the wild. The cold winds are rising.
Craster: Let them rise. My roots are sunk deep.

- Jeor Mormont and Craster

A godly man got no cause to fear such. I said as much to that Mance Rayder once, when he come sniffing round. He never listened, no more'n you crows with your swords and your bloody fires. That won't help you none when the white cold comes. Only the gods will help you then. You best get right with the gods.

- Craster to the Night's Watch

Craster: Who calls me bastard?
Karl: It's no more than all men know.

- Craster and Clubfoot Karl

Quotes about Craster

Dolorous Edd says Craster's a terrible savage. He marries his daughters and obeys no laws but those he makes himself. And Dywen told Grenn he's got black blood in his veins. His mother was a wildling woman who lay with a ranger, so he's a bas ...

- Samwell Tarly to Jon Snow

The man's half-mad, I won't deny it, but you'd be the same if you'd spent your life in this cursed wood. Even so, he's never turned a ranger away from his fire, nor does he love Mance Rayder. He'll give us good counsel.

- Thoren Smallwood to Jeor Mormont

Jon: At Winterfell one of the serving women told us stories. She used to say that there were wildlings who would lay with the Others to birth half-human children.

Jeor: Hearth tales. Does Craster seem less than human to you?

Jon: He gives his sons to the wood.

- Jon Snow and Jeor Mormont

Craster's blood is black, and he bears a heavy curse.

- Ygritte to Jon Snow

Craster on the Game of Thrones wiki.




Annotations from item #46265269:

Craster's Keep. © Marc Simonetti

Craster's Keep. © Fantasy Flight Games

Craster's Keep is the home of Craster, an ornery wildling beyond the Wall who is a friend to the Night's Watch. It is not an actual keep, but is only given that title by members of the Watch.

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Layout

Craster's Keep sits in the haunted forest atop a low hill with an earthen dike around it. There is at least one gate on the southwest side of the compound and a stream runs around the north end of the hill. The gate is decorated with the skulls of a bear and a ram. Inside the dike, there is also a midden heap, a pigsty and a sheepfold.

The keep itself is a daub-and-wattle hall that is long and low, made with logs and roofed with sod and big enough to hold thirty to fifty men at best. The door to the hall is made of two flaps of deer hide. The windowless hall is a single room, with a sleeping loft above reached by a pair of splintery ladders. Only Craster has a chair inside, and all others sit on the benches. There is a firepit in the center of the dirt floor, and dogs run around.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

The Night's Watch stays at Craster's Keep during their great ranging north of the Wall.

Ghost, the direwolf of Jon Snow, scares the pregnant Gilly when he kills a rabbit.

A Storm of Swords

Plotting to mutiny against the Lord Commander, Chett decides he will claim Craster's Keep and wives for himself. His plans are interrupted by the fight at the Fist, however, and forty-four survivors of the Fist reach Craster's Keep.

Clubfoot Karl and Garth of Oldtown believe that Craster is keeping food in a secret larder. During the feast before the Night's Watch are to leave, Craster and Lord Commander Mormont are killed in the mutiny at Craster's Keep. The mutineers gorge in Craster's cellar and rape his wives.

A Feast for Crows

The betrayers from the Night's Watch reside at Craster's Keep.

A Dance with Dragons

During Bran Stark's journey north through the haunted forest to the cave of the three-eyed crow, Coldhands kills a small group of foes from the Night's Watch.

Quotes

Samwell: What's his castle like?
Jon: A midden heap with a roof and a firepit.

- Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow

Your uncle could tell you of the times Craster's Keep made the difference between life and death for our rangers.

- Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow

Crows. When did a black bird ever bring good to a man's hall, I ask you? Never. Never.

- Craster to Bedwyck

Chapters that take place at Craster's Keep




Annotations from item #46265270:

Craster's sons are the sons of the wildling Craster and his wives who may have become Others.

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About

If Craster has a daughter, once she grows up he marries her. However if the newborn is a boy he sacrifices the child to the Others when the white cold comes, in order to appease them. Of late the white cold has been coming more often.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

At Craster's Keep, one of Craster's wives called Gilly, who is visibly pregnant, tells Jon Snow that Craster gives up his infant sons to the cold gods; Jon determines she is speaking of the Others,

A Storm of Swords

During the mutiny at Craster's Keep, one of Craster's wives warns Samwell Tarly that Craster's sons will soon arrive for Gilly's newborn.

Game of Thrones

In the episode "Oathkeeper" the fate of Craster's sons is revealed when a White Walker riding an undead horse takes the last son of Craster and carries him towards a shattered mountain in the Lands of Always Winter.

Once inside, the White Walker approaches an icy altar ringed by large icy spikes and places the baby upon the altar. In the distance, a group of thirteen black-garbed White Walkers are revealed to be viewing the proceedings from afar. One of them breaks from the middle of their number and approaches the altar, stopping to regard the human child for a moment before gently gathering him in its arms. The baby immediately calms, staring into the face of the White Walker. It places its index finger upon the baby's cheek, causing the child's eyes to slow turn to icy, depthless blue and his skin to grow pale, transforming him into another White Walker.

In the novels as of *A Dance with Dragons*, there has been no evidence so far on what actually happens to the babies, though Craster's wives believe that the baby boys given by Craster to the Others are, in turn, transformed into new Others. Old Nan's tale's simply state that the Others feed human children to the wights.

Quotes

If it’s a girl, that’s not so bad, she’ll grown in a few years and he’’ marry her. But Nella says its to be a boy, and she’s had six and knows these things. He gives the boys to the gods. Come the white cold, he does and of late it comes more often.

- Gilly

The boy’s bothers…Craster’s sons. The white cold's rising out there, crow. I can feel it in my bones. These poor old bones don’t lie. They’ll be here soon, the sons.

- one of Craster's wives to Sam, after the mutiny




Annotations from item #46265271:

Craster and his wives - by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno © Fantasy Flight Games

Craster's wives are nineteen free folk women wed to Craster, who dwells with them in a keep in the haunted forest, beyond the Wall.

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History

Some of Craster's wives are also his daughters.

Craster's wives are interested in Ser Waymar Royce when the ranger visits Craster's Keep.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Craster begrudgingly allows the Night's Watch to stay at his keep overnight during their great ranging beyond the Wall. The black brothers are warned beforehand not to talk to Craster's wives, although Gilly beseeches Samwell Tarly to help her. Sam sends her to Jon Snow, who tells her that the Night's Watch is pressing north, heading towards danger.

A Storm of Swords

Chett considers having Craster killed and claiming the wives for himself, but his plotting is interrupted by the fight at the Fist.

After the mutiny at Craster's Keep, some of the younger wives are raped in the loft by mutineers. Rolley of Sisterton falls and breaks his neck while climbing toward the women. The fate of the other wives is unknown.

A Feast for Crows

Aboard the *Cinnamon Wind* Gilly helps Sam comfort the dying Maester Aemon by singing a nonsense song she learned from some of Craster's other wives. It soothes Aemon and helps him sleep.

Known wives

Quotes

Grenn: How many wives does he have, truly?
Dywen: More'n you ever will, brother. Well, it's not so hard when you breed your own.

- Grenn and Dywen

Any man lays a hand on my wives, he loses the hand.

- Craster to the Night's Watch

This is our place. Craster keeps us safe. Better to die free than live a slave.

- one of Craster's wives to Jeor Mormont

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.

- Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow

Except for Gilly, Sam could hardly tell the women apart. Some were old and some were young and some were only girls, but a lot of them were Craster's daughters as well as his wives, and they all looked sort of alike.

- thoughts of Samwell Tarly




Annotations from item #46265272:

Craven is a sorrel palfrey mare.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

After Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark flee the Red Wedding, they find the saddled horse a few days later. It is most likely that the horse's original owner was killed during the Red Wedding, and the horse fled. Arya names her Craven, due to the mare's meek nature compared to Sandor's fierce warhorse Stranger.

After Arya leaves the badly wounded Sandor Clegane, she rides Craven to Saltpans, where she tries to sell the horse. The woman who buys the mare recognizes her as a well-bred steed, and threatens Arya that if she doesn't accept the price offered, she will be reported to the castle for stealing some *"good knight's horse"*. Since there were too many witnesses around, Arya had to accept the offer and the very flat purse. Arya feels the woman would not have dared cheat the Hound.




Annotations from item #46265273:

Crawn, known as Crawn son of Calor because of his father, is a member of the Moon Brothers, one of the Vale mountain clans.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Crawn and his Moon Brothers serve as guards for Tyrion Lannister in King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

Crawn is listed as a clan chief of the Moon Brothers.




Annotations from item #46265274:

Cregan Karstark is the eldest son of Arnolf Karstark,

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Appearance

Cregan has brown hair, a beard and mustache.[*citation needed*]

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Cregan and his father conspire to have him marry Alys Karstark, his cousin once removed,

Jon Snow offers Cregan a choice - take the black and by all the laws of the realm be cleared of all past crimes and be a bound brother of the Night's Watch, or wait until Stannis returns to the Wall and hangs him for his planned treachery.[*citation needed*]

Quotes about Cregan

Once Cregan gets a child by me they won’t need me anymore. He’s buried two wives already.

Alys Karstark to Jon Snow

Family




Annotations from item #46265275:

Cregan Stark was a Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North, and head of House Stark.

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History

The Dance of the Dragons

Upon the death of King Viserys I Targaryen, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon flew to Winterfell on his dragon Vermax to gain the support of the Starks and the north for his mother Rhaenyra Targaryen's claim to the Iron Throne. The alliance, known as the Pact of Ice and Fire, stated that a Targaryen princess would marry into the Stark family. Cregan pledged his support to the blacks during the Dance of the Dragons.

According to semi-canon sources, Cregan had a bastard half-sister, and Mushroom's ribald account of the war claims that Jacaerys fell in love with and secretly married the girl.

Lord Roderick Dustin commanded the first host of northmen who marched south, known as the Winter Wolves, men who feared a long winter. They were followed by a larger host led by Lord Cregan, many of whose men were childless, homeless, unwed, or young sons marching to war to spare their families from supporting them in winter. Cregan's host was denied combat, however, by the poisoning of King Aegon II Targaryen. Lord Stark had intended to punish the leaders of Aegon II's greens, but Lord Corlys Velaryon had already sent envoys seeking peace.

Cregan held court at King's Landing for six days, a time known as the Hour of the Wolf. Acting in the name of the eleven-year-old King Aegon III Targaryen, who named him Hand of the King, Cregan had twenty-two men arrested for the murder of Aegon II, among them Lord Larys Strong and Corlys Velaryon. Cregan Stark served as Hand for a day, presiding over the trials and executions. Most of the accused, led by Ser Perkin the Flea, agreed to join the Night's Watch, but Ser Gyles Belgrave of the Kingsguard and Larys the Clubfoot chose death. Cregan married Black Aly Blackwood in exchange for honoring Aegon III's pardon of Lord Corlys. Lord Stark resigned as Hand the following day and returned to the north. Many of the northmen who had marched to King's Landing with him remained in the south, however.

Later Life

King Aegon III Targaryen granted many rewards to Cregan, although a Targaryen princess never did marry into House Stark.

Cregan once fought Prince Aemon the Dragonknight. Aemon claimed he never faced a finer swordsman.

Cregan was entombed in the crypts of Winterfell after his death.

Family




Annotations from item #46265276:

Cregard Stark was a member of House Stark. He was the older brother of his twin Torrhen, and the eldest son of Edric Stark and Serena Stark.

Family




Annotations from item #46265277:

Ser Creighton Longbough is a hedge knight. His coat of arms is a green field with a brown chief..

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Appearance & Character

Ser Creighton has a big belly that strains at the laces of his potted doeskin jerkin. He has a shaggy, untrimmed beard the colour of old gold that covers his cheeks and chin. He is nearsighted and squints on occasion. He is younger than Ser Illifer who is around sixty. He is courteous.

He rides a swaybacked brown gelding with rheumy eyes, according to him his steed served him well enough in the Battle of the Blackwater. There is a deep gouge in his shield made by a battle-axe.

History

Creighton claims that he is famous, and that the singers sing of him.[*citation needed*]

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

According to Creighton, he did great carnage on the Blackwater and won a dozen ransoms. He claims to have slain Ser Herbert Bolling and eleven other fearsome knights during the battle, and to have fought an epic battle with the Knight of the Red Chicken.

A Feast for Crows

Creighton is raveling to Duskendale with Ser Illifer the Penniless, when he comes upon Brienne of Tarth. Ser Creighton offers to share their trout and fire with her and escort her to Duskendale. When Illifer recognizes Brienne and accuses her of having slain Renly Baratheon and Brienne swears most sincerely by the Seven that she had not done the deed, Creighton remarks that she swears well for a woman. The next morning, as they break their fast, Creighton regales Brienne with his exploits at the Blackwater.[*citation needed*]

Creighton and Illifer continue onwards to Duskendale with Brienne. They come upon a merchant named Hibald, his serving men and a hedge knight in his employ, Ser Shadrich, all heading in the same direction. Creighton suggests riding together as three blades are better than one, to which Hibald agrees.[*citation needed*]

As night gathers the party comes upon the Old Stone Bridge inn, where Creighton owes the innkeeper, Naggle, seven silver stags. When Creighton and Illifer have no coin, Brienne offers to pay for a room for the two men, and buys them goat to eat.*]

Quotes

I have the honour to be Ser Creighton, of whom the singers sing … you will have heard of my deeds on the Blackwater, mayhaps.

- Ser Creighton, introducing himself to Brienne of Tarth.

A true knight must defend the gentler sex.

- Ser Creighton

A true knight is the only shield a maiden needs.

- Ser Creighton

A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.

- Ser Creighton

When swords clash, you shall ne’er find Ser Creighton Longbough to the rear.

- Ser Creighton

As it happens, I fight as well with either hand.

- Ser Creighton, on fighting with his off hand.

I showed them a glimpse of my steel and told them to be along their way. Rough fellows, by the look o’ them, and desperate too, but ne’er so desperate as to trifle with Ser Creighton Longbough.

- Ser Creighton, regaling Brienne

What sort of a man would slay a holy septon?

- Ser Creighton

Quotes about Ser Creighton

If there was a song about Ser Creighton, it was not one Brienne had heard.




Annotations from item #46265278:

Ser Creighton Redfort is a knight of House Redfort and is the son of Lord Horton Redfort.

Family




Annotations from item #46265279:

Oliver Ford Davies as Maester Cressen at Dragonstone (TV Show)

Cressen is a maester of the Citadel in service to Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Oliver Ford.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Cressen

At nearly eighty years old, Cressen is frail with a bad hip, causing him to have trouble walking. He has wrinkly, thin skin and trembling hands.

History

Maester Cressen used to be maester of Storm's End. When Lord Steffon Baratheon and his wife Cassana Estermont died in a shipwreck, Cressen more or less raised the Baratheon children. Stannis was his favourite as he needed Cressen more because he lacked the charm of his brothers. Cressen came to regard Stannis as the son he never had.

During the Siege of Storm's End some men of the garrison tried to open the gate. Stannis had wanted to place them on the catapults and send them to the enemy, but Cressen advised against it. He pointed out that they did not have much food and that hunger might force them to eat the prisoners.

When Robert Baratheon gave Dragonstone to Stannis, Maester Cressen followed him to the ancient stronghold. As a maester is sworn to advise and serve a specific castle, regardless of changes in control of that holding, this is very uncommon.

Some time before the War of the Five Kings Stannis asked for the Citadel to send him a replacement for Cressen as he began to age, so they sent Pylos.

It is implied that Maester Cressen worked with Walgrave in the past.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

After Stannis declares himself king he unsuccessfully sends messengers to gather support for his claim, with only the vassals of Dragonstone supporting him. The lords of the stormlands support Stannis's younger brother, Renly Baratheon, who has claimed the throne as well.

Maester Cressen advises Stannis to ally with the Starks and the Arryns. Stannis says that those crowning Robb Stark are committing treason. Stannis's queen, Lady Selyse, urges Stannis to rely solely on R'hllor and says that according to Melisandre, Renly will die soon. Cressen thinks that Selyse suggested that Stannis have Renly assassinated and is shocked because Stannis seems to listen to this advice. He blames Melisandre for this and plans to kill her.

At dinner Cressen poisons Melisandre's wine. She seems to sense this and suggests to Cressen to throw the wine away, but Cressen insists that they share the cup. Melisandre drinks the majority of the wine, but is unaffected. Cressen drinks the final sip, and dies.

A Storm of Swords

Aboard the *Bountiful Harvest* Davos Seaworth wonders if Melisandre can be killed by mortal weapons. He is not certain she can be, as he had seen old Maester Cressen slip poison into Melisandre's wine with his own eyes and when they both drank from the poisoned cup it was the maester who had died, not the red priestess.

Climbing up the narrow twisted steps of Sea Dragon Tower Davos Seaworth is reminded of Cressen. He finds himself missing the old man and he thinks Stannis must as well. He thinks that the old man had been with Stannis so long, until he ran afoul of Melisandre, and died for it.

When meeting with his the small group of king's men, just before Edric Storm is secretly shipped away, Davos reminds them that when Maester Cressen attempted to kill Melisandre she knew at once.

Quotes

When a maester donned his collar, he put aside the hope of children, yet Cressen had oft felt a father nontheless. Robert, Stannis, Renly: three sons he had raised after the angry sea claimed Lord Steffon.




Annotations from item #46265280:

Creylen is a maester of the Citadel assigned to Casterly Rock.




Annotations from item #46265281:

"Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" is the fourth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series *Game of Thrones*, first aired on May 8, 2011. Runtime is 56 minutes. It was written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Brian Kirk. by providing a design for a saddle that may allow him to ride: "I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things".

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Plot

At King's Landing

Lord Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) begins his covert inquiry into the death of the previous Hand. Questioning Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover), who tended him in his final days, he learns that Jon Arryn's last words were "the seed is strong", and that he was reading a book titled "The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms". Helped by Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen) and his net of informers, he follows up on two more clues regarding the last days of his predecessor. He questions a smith's apprentice that Jon Arryn had visited in his last days and, due to his resemblance to King Robert, he deduces that he is the king's bastard son. He also tries to obtain information from Jon's former squire, now knighted, but he is killed while jousting at the tourney held in Eddard's honor. The knight responsible for this apparent mishap is Ser Gregor Clegane (Conan Stevens), also known as "the Mountain" due to his towering size, a Lannister bannerman and the Hound Sandor Clegane's brother.

Across the Narrow Sea

The Dothraki horde arrives at the city of Vaes Dothrak. Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd) is upset that Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) has still not given him command of an army to conquer the Seven Kingdoms as was agreed upon when Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) married Drogo. When he misinterprets the summons of his sister as an order, he becomes angry and strikes his sister. For the first time though, Daenerys fights back and threatens her astounded brother that the next time he raises a hand against her will be the last time he has hands. Later on, the exiled knight Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) tells her that Viserys' inexperience would not make him a good leader to invade Westeros and bring them home, and despite what Viserys believes, the people of the Seven Kingdoms do not care who rules them as long as their life is good.

At the Wall

The Night's Watch receives Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), a new recruit who rapidly becomes the center of bullying of the master-at-arms Ser Alliser Thorne (Owen Teale). Sam is fat, cowardly and clumsy, but was forced by his father to take the Black and forsake his inheritance because he considered him unworthy; else, his father would kill him and pass his death off as a hunting accident. Jon Snow (Kit Harington) defends Sam and convinces the rest of the recruits not to harm him, much to Alliser's rage. Alliser defends his treatment as life north of the Wall is very harsh especially during Winter as he unfortunately learned, and warns Jon and Sam to toughen up or they will have no chance of survival.

In the North

Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) stops at Winterfell as he is returning to King's Landing after his visit to the Wall. But he gets a cold welcoming by the acting Lord Robb Stark ( Richard Madden), who suspects the Lannisters are behind his younger brother's fall and subsequent murder attempt. Despite the cold reception, Tyrion shows the now crippled Bran an act of kindness by giving him the blueprints to a unique saddle that will allow him to ride again. Before he leaves Winterfell, Tyrion has a talk with Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) a ward of House Stark, and mocks him on how his family and their land, the Iron Islands attempted a rebellion but failed and the fact Theon is now a "hostage" to the Stark family. Further south, Tyrion and his small retinue stop to spend the night at the Inn at the Crossroads. There he recognizes Lady Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) in disguise. With her cover blown, she requests the help of her father's bannermen present at the inn to seize Tyrion, and to face a trial.

Production

Writing

"Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" is the first episode of the series that was not written by the show creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The script was authored by writer Bryan Cogman, based on George R. R. Martin's original work. Cogman worked on Game of Thrones's … pilot as a writing assistant and was contracted for the full series as script-editor and the unofficial "keeper of the mythos" for the show, entrusted with the task of writing the series bible outlining character and background information, and making sure that the world-building remained consistent. In this capacity, he was approached by Benioff and Weiss asking him to write a treatment for the fourth episode. Believing it was only an exercise that would be completely rewritten by another professional writer, he completed the script that ended up being episode 4.

Casting

This episode introduces the character of Samwell Tarly, the new recruit of the Night's Watch, self-described as a coward. The part was cast with John Bradley, after the actor's first professional casting after graduating from the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre. The scene used in the auditions belonged to "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things", with Sam explaining to Jon how his father forced him to take the black. According to the book's writer and the show's executive producer, George R. R. Martin, Bradley delivered "a heartbreaking performance".

Guest Cast

Filming locations

The scenes of the Tourney of the Hand were filmed at the grounds of Shane's Castle.

The episode was shot at Belfast's studio The Paint Hall and on location through Northern Ireland: The scenes taking place at the grounds of Castle Black continued to be filmed at the large exterior set built on the abandoned quarry of Magheramorne, the grounds of the ruined Shane's Castle were used as the location of the tournament, and the area known as the Sandy Brae, at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, was used for the entrance to Vaes Dothrak.

Other

During the scene in the bathtub where Viserys recalls the old Targaryen dragons, he lists names taken from the books (Balerion, Meraxes and Vhagar) and others invented for the show. Among them a dragon called Vermithrax is mentioned, which is an homage to Vermithrax Pejorative from the 1981 film Dragonslayer.

Reception

Ratings

"Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"'s first airing was seen by 2.5 million viewers, a slight increase from last episode's 2.4 million. Including the repeat, the total for the night amounted to 3.1 million, which was also in line with last week's ratings.

Critical response

"Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" was received with positive reviews by the critics. Todd VanDerWerff from the A.V. Club gave it an A-,