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Hazrak zo Loraq is a famous Ghiscari citizen of the city of Meereen. He is an ancestor of Hizdahr zo Loraq.




Annotations from item #46266745:

Hazzea's father shows Daenerys Targaryen her bones. © FFG

Hazzea is a Ghiscari child of the plains near the city of Meereen. She is a farmer's daughter, and was four years old at the time of her death.

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Hazzea is apparently killed by the black dragon, Drogon. Her father brings her burned bones to Daenerys Targaryen in the Great Pyramid of Meereen. Daenerys is plagued by guilt, and orders her three dragons caged, but Drogon escapes and heads to the Dothraki Sea.

Skahaz mo Kandaq suggests that the father just used Drogon and Dany as an opportunity to get rid of an unwanted child. It is also suggested the sons of the Harpy did the deed, and made it look like Drogon did it. Dany wishes she could believe this, but finds herself unable to, since Hazzea's father had waited until the entire court had been cleared before confronting Dany with his daughter's bones.

Instead of killing Hazzea's father, as the Shavepate urges Daenerys to do, Dany decides to pay the blood price for Hazzea. On the condition that her family never speaks a word of what has happened to her, Daenerys will pay Hazzea's family money each year on Hazzea's nameday. Hazzea herself is put to rest in the Temple of the Graces, with a hundred candles burning day and night in her memory.

The memory of Hazzea and the guilt over what happened to her plagues Daenerys for a long time, and she keeps thinking about the little girl. Only months later, when attempting to return to Meereen, Daenerys finds herself unable to recall Hazzea's name, which saddens her greatly.

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"It were the black one," the man said, in a Ghiscari growl, "the winged shadow. He come down from the sky and … and …"

No. Dany shivered. No, no, oh no….

…”Those are no sheep bones.”

No, Dany thought, those are the bones of a child.[*citation needed*]

Her name had been Hazzea.[*citation needed*]

"Drogon killed a little girl. Her name was … her name …" Dany could not recall the child's name. That made her so sad that she would have cried if all her tears had not been burned away.[*citation needed*]




Annotations from item #46266746:

Headless Jeyne is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.

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Headless Jeyne accompanies the rest of the Iron Fleet when they sail for Slaver's Bay. It arrives at the rendezvous at the Isle of Cedars along with *Fear* seven days before the fleet sails further east.




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Heart's Home is a castle in the Vale of Arryn and is the seat of House Corbray, a vassal house holding fealty to House Arryn of the Eyrie. It is located on the northern shore where a glacial river flows into a narrow bay of the narrow sea. Upriver to the west is Strongsong, while directly north is a forest.




Annotations from item #46266748:

The heart of the Great Pyramid is located deep within the center of the massive structure. Massive brick walls surround a suite of windowless rooms buried in the very heart of the pyramid on the sixteenth and seventeenth levels.'s absence.

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King Hizdahr zo Loraq's chambers in the heart of the pyramid are dark and windowless and surrounded on all sides by brick walls 8 feet thick (2, 44 meters).[*citation needed*]

The door of the King’s apartments have a slidehole.

The archway leading to the royal bedchamber is guarded by a pair of sandalwood lovers, shaped and smoothed and oiled. Ser Barristan Selmy finds them distasteful.

A thin and nearly-transparent silk curtain stands at the entrance of the archway. It allows a person standing in the archway to examine visitors without stepping outside to meet them, but offers little protection from prying eyes.

Hizdahr keeps two men by him when he sleeps. One on the door of his bedchamber and a second within in an adjoining alcove.[*citation needed*]

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Ser Barristan took six Brazen Beasts with him to the king's apartments – by Urukki Saki ©

Ser Barristan Selmy goes to the heart of the Great Pyramid and places Hizdahr zo Loraq under arrest. He tells him that he will be kept prisoner until the queen returns. Ser Barristan gives his word as a knight to Hizdahr that if nothing can be proved against him he will not come to harm.[*citation needed*]




Annotations from item #46266749:

The heart of winter is a place glimpsed by Bran Stark when he is lying in a coma after his fall. Bran looks beyond the Wall, and beyond the curtain of light (possibly an Aurora Borealis) at the edge of the world, into what he calls the heart of winter. What he sees there makes him cry. The three-eyed crow tells Bran that now he knows why he must live: because winter is coming.

Bran then sees spires of ice rising up to impale him and the bodies of a thousand dreamers before him. The crow tells Bran that he must choose: fly or die. Bran spreads his arms and flies.

Many readers have theorised that the heart of winter is when the Others or the Great Other come from.




Annotations from item #46266750:

Cat visits Ned by Winterfell's heart tree - by Thomas Denmark © Fantasy Flight Games

A heart tree is a tree with a carved face that followers of the old gods pray, often within a godswood.

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Jojen Reed underneath a heart tree. Illustrated by Joel Hustak © Fantasy Flight Games

After Ice Eyes retook the Wolf's Den from slavers from the Stepstones, the freed slaves were said to have hanged the entrails of the slavers from a heart tree.

The Knight of the Laughing Tree carried a shield depicting a weirwood heart tree with a laughing face.

Quotes

Here every castle had its godswood, and every godswood had its heart tree, and every heart tree its face.

- thoughts of Catelyn Stark

The heart tree had always frightened him; trees ought not have eyes, Bran thought, or leaves that looked like hands.

- thoughts of Bran Stark

Northmen, they were. Savages who worship trees.

- septon to Lem




Annotations from item #46266751:

Hearteater is the name King Joffrey Baratheon gives his sword on the eve of the Battle of the Blackwater, replacing the lost Lion's Tooth. The pommel is a ruby cut in the shape of a heart between a lion's jaws. Three fullers are incised deeply in the blade.




Annotations from item #46266752:

Lord Randyll Tarly wielding Heartsbane in battle. © FFG

Heartsbane is the ancestral Valyrian steel sword of House Tarly. It is a two-handed greatsword. It has been in the family for five hundred years.

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Randyll Tarly wore it while with Renly Baratheon's army.




Annotations from item #46266753:

Heddle can refer to any of the following characters:




Annotations from item #46266754:

Hedge is a term that occurs in real world history, and not just for knights. In Westeros "hedge" is attached to various people, such as hedge knights, hedge teachers, hedge poets, hedge wizards. They are basically poor itinerants who have to sleep in the hedges as often as not, since they don't have a roof over their heads. George R. R. Martin has seen the term hedge used most frequently in Irish history, which is where he got it from.

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Fifty, if he's a day, a hedge harp, and hard used by life.

- Jaime Lannister, taking note of Tom of Sevenstreams




Annotations from item #46266755:

This article is about a type of knights. For the Dunk & Egg novella, see The Hedge Knight.

A hedge knight. © Fantasy Flight Games

A hedge knight is a wandering knight without a master, many are quite poor. Hedge knights travel the length and breadth of Westeros looking for gainful employment.

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Hedge knights are so named because most of their worldly wealth is in their arms and horses and they generally must sleep outdoors, under a hedge. Contrary to landed knights, hedge knights own no land. Daenerys Targaryen recalls that her brother Viserys had told her of knights so poor that they had to sleep beneath the ancient hedges that grew along the byways of the Seven Kingdoms.

There are many fine hedges in the Riverlands[...] The old ones are the best. There's nothing beats a hundred- year-old hedge. Inside one of those a man can sleep as snug as at an inn, and with less fear of fleas.

The hedge knight Ser Arlan of Pennytree never ventured north with his squire Dunk as he thought that there were no hedges there, and all the woods full of wolves.

Most hedge knights travel in search of employment and often attend jousts to make money and display their prowess in hopes of being hired and making a name for themselves.

Less scrupulous hedge knights put their martial training to use by resorting to banditry. She recalls that it is said that,

A hedge knight and a robber knight are two sides of the same sword.

Nonetheless there are some chivalrous hedge knights who value their honour and who try to uphold their vows, in fact sometimes more so than in comparison to other knights who are higher up in the social strata. Even knights of the Kingsguard have been known to dishonour themselves by beating a helpless maid.

The Hedge Knight

George R. R. Martin has written several novellas in the Dunk and Egg series about the hedge knight Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg, an alias of Prince Aegon Targaryen, the future King Aegon V. The first novella is titled *The Hedge Knight*, in which Duncan and Egg meet.

Known hedge knights

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Other knights serve the lords who keep them, of from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in.

– Ser Arlan of Pennytree

Hedge knights, old and vain and plump and nearsighted, yet decent men for all that.

Brienne of Tarth, on Ser Illifer the Penniless and Ser Creighton Longbough




Annotations from item #46266756:

A hedge wizard is a Westerosi local or traveling herb-doctor who also likely uses traditional healing, spells and charms to heal the sick or help the needy.

Like hedge knights they are probably quite poor and sleep in hedges on occasion. They are probably most popular amongst the smallfolk as they are likely to be more affordable and accessible. Nobles probably do not employ the services of hedge wizards or if they do so they do it clandestinely.

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During a meeting in Winterfell the steward of Deepwood Motte informs Prince Bran Stark and his councillors that he is setting aside only a tenth of his harvest. A hedge wizard had told him that there would be a bountiful spirit summer before the cold set in. Maester Luwin has a number of choice things to say about hedge wizards in reply.

A Feast for Crows

Marwyn is said in the Citadel to keep the company of hedge wizards, among other social outcasts.

One of the men trying to pass the head of a murdered dwarf as that of Tyrion Lannister - to collect the reward offered by Queen Regent Cersei Lannister - argues that a hedge wizard had regrown Tyrion's missing nose.

A Dance with Dragons

When Davos arrives at White Harbor he visits Fishfoot Yard he finds the yard teeming with people. Beneath the arches of the peddler's colonnade he sees that a hedge wizard has set up for business.




Annotations from item #46266757:

Queen Helaena Targaryen was the sister-wife to King Aegon II Targaryen. She was the only daughter of King Viserys I Targaryen by his second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower, and his second daughter overall. Helaena and Aegon had three children: the twins Jaehaerys and Jaehaera, and Maelor. Like her siblings, Helaena was a dragonrider, who rode the dragon Dreamfyre.

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See also: Images of Helaena Targaryen

As a young girl, Helaena was plumper than most Targaryens, and less striking as well. Nonetheless, she was a pleasant and happy girl.

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Early life

In 109 AC, Helaena was born to King Viserys I Targaryen and his second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower. She had an older half-sister, Rhaenyra, and an older brother, Aegon, and would have two younger brothers, Aemond and Daeron.

By the age of twelve, Helaena had become a dragonrider, and rode the dragon Dreamfyre. In 122 AC, at the age of thirteen, Helaena was married to her older brother Aegon, following the ancient tradition of House Targaryen. Barely a year after her wedding, Helaena gave birth to twins: Jaehaerys and Jaehaera.

On the first day of 127 AC, Helaena's father, King Viserys I, held a feast to celebrate the recovery of his health. According to the court fool Mushroom, after the king had left the feast, Helaena's nephew, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, asked her for a dance, which her husband and brother, Aegon, took offense to.

On the third day of the third month of 129 AC, Helaena brought her three children to her father's chambers, where the king, the night before his death, entertained her children with stories about King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

The Dance of the Dragons

With the death of King Viserys I Targaryen, a war for succession began. Helaena was informed of her father's passing a day after his death was discovered. When the decision was made to crown her husband, Prince Aegon, instead of Viserys's appointed heir, Princess Rhaenyra, Helaena became a Queen. On the day of the coronation, it was Helaena's mother Alicent who placed the crown upon Helaena's head.

Unwilling to accept Aegon as her King, Helaena's half-sister Rhaenyra was crowned Queen of the Seven Kingdoms on Dragonstone. While she declared Otto Hightower, Helaena's grandfather, and Dowager Queen Alicent to be traitors, Rhaenyra expressed willingness to forgive Helaena and her siblings, as long as they came to Dragonstone and swore fealthy to her.

When Grand Maester Orwyle suggested traveling to Dragonstone to make Rhaenyra give up her claim, Helaena spoke in favor of his plan, together with her mother, after which King Aegon II Targaryen reluctantly agreed to send the Grand Maester.

Helaena and her three young children, Jaehaera (left), Maelor (middle) and Jaehaerys (right) are surprised by Cheese and Blood.

Helaena was accustomed to bring her children by her mother's chambers in the Tower of the Hand every night before they were put to bed. The two men Prince Daemon Targaryen, Rhaenyra's husband, had hired to murder one of Helaena's sons, were aware of this fact. Thus these two men, known as Blood and Cheese, hid in Alicent's chambers, bound and gagged Alicent, and murdered her bedmaid. There, they awaited Helaena's arrival. They took Helaena and her children hostage, and forced Helaena to choose which one of her sons would die. Helaena offered herself, but was refused. Threatening to have Blood rape Jaehaera, and to kill all three of her children should she refuse, the two men forced Helaena to make a decision. In the end, Helaena reluctantly named her youngest child, Maelor, who was deemed to be to young to understand what was happening. In response, the two men killed Prince Jaehaerys, and fled with his head. Helaena became depressed and slowly sank into madness after Jaehaerys's death, and refused to eat, bathe, or leave her chambers. Nor would she look at her younger son, Maelor, anymore, knowing that she had chosen him to die.

Aegon and Helaena slept apart from one another since then, and after Aegon was severily injured at the Battle at Rook's Rest, Helaena did not even make an attempt to visit him. She had become unreliable as a dragonrider, uncapable to be used in battle. When King's Landing fell to Rhaenyra, Helaena was taken captive.

On the twenty-second day of the fifth moon of 130 AC Helaena, at the age of twenty-one, jumped from her window in Maegor's Holdfast at sunset. She died on the spikes below, with her throat impaled. While some called it suicide, by nightfall that same day rumors were already being told in King's Landing that she had been murdered by Luthor Largent, at the behest of Queen Rhaenyra.

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Annotations from item #46266758:
Annotation #1 for item #46266758: Wiki: Helicent

Helicent is a female name in Westeros. It may refer to:

Annotation #2 for item #46266758: Wiki: (hound) Helicent

For other characters named Helicent, see Helicent.

Helicent. © Thrumugnyr

Helicent is one of the Bastard's girls.

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Helicent curls up at the feet of Theon Greyjoy, who considers her to be a good dog.

Annotation #3 for item #46266758: Wiki: (septa) Helicent

For other characters named Helicent, see Helicent.

Helicent is a septa of the Faith of the Seven in King's Landing. She is one of the Most Devout at the Great Sept of Baelor.

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Septas Moelle, Aglantine, Helicent, and Nysterica examine Margaery Tyrell and discover that her maidenhead is not intact, giving grounds for Margaery's arrest by the Faith on charges of infidelity.

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In Cersei X of *A Feast for Crows*, Helicent is erroneously called "Melicent".

Although Septas Helicent, Moelle, Aglantine and Unella are listed as members of the Most Devout in the Appendix of A Feast for Crows, the Appendix of A Dance with Dragons does not, possibly indicating that the former appendix is incorrect and none of the septas belong to the Most Devout.




Annotations from item #46266759:

For other characters named Helicent, see Helicent.

Lady Helicent Uffering was a member of House Uffering and was the sister to Ser Rolland Uffering.

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Appearance

Helicent was stout and square with a pointed head that her hair did not conceal. Her nose was big and her mouth small. She was a simple woman, and could not dress herself without the help of her septas.

History

Lady Helicent was one of the courtiers at Coldmoat during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen. She came to Coldmoat with her brother, Ser Rolland Uffering, who was the fourth husband of Lady Rohanne Webber. Ser Lucas Inchfield introduced Helicent as Rohanne in order to embarrass Ser Duncan the Tall. She did not understand Dunk's meaning when he asked her about the dam on the Chequy Water, and was frightened when one of the other courtiers shouted that Dunk wanted to sleep with her.

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Dunk: Ser Eustace bid me talk with you concerning the recent trouble at your dam.
Helicent: The... dam, you say?
Dunk: The stream, the Chequy Water. Your ladyship built a dam across it...
Helicent: Oh, I am quite sure I haven’t. Why, I have been at my devotions all morning, ser.




Annotations from item #46266760:

Hellgate Hall was the seat of House Dryland, who ruled as Kings of the Brimstone in Dorne prior to Nymeria's War. It is unknown what happened to the castle after the defeat of King Lucifer Dryland, as he was the last of his line.




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Hellholt

Dorne and the location of Hellholt

Hellholt castle by Alfred Khamidullin. © FFG

Streets of Hellholt by Folko Streese. © FFG

Hellholt Docks by Simon Dominic. © Fantasy Flight Games.

Hellholt, also called the Hellholt, is a castle and the seat of House Uller in southern Dorne. It is located near the source of the river Brimstone, east of Sandstone and west of Vaith.

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See also: Images of Hellholt

The Hellholt was founded during the Andal invasion by the Ullers, who were Andal adventurers.

The Ullers vacated the castle at the start of the First Dornish War. After the Dornish attacked Nightsong and Oldtown, the Targaryens answered by unleashing dragonfire upon Dornish castles, including Hellholt. Rhaenys Targaryen and her dragon, Meraxes, were lost in battle attacking the Hellholt. The body of Rhaenys was never recovered, however, and some allege she was tortured within the Hellholt's dungeon.

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Arianne Martell intends to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon as queen at Hellholt. Before she can, however, her party is intercepted and captured at the Greenblood.




Annotations from item #46266762:

Hellhounds are creatures in some legends, presumably being supernatural canines.

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Culture

Symeon Star-Eyes is said to have seen hellhounds fighting at the Nightfort.

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Tyrion Lannister thinks of Ser Gregor Clegane, Ser Amory Lorch, and Vargo Hoat as the hellhounds of his father, Lord Tywin Lannister.




Annotations from item #46266763:

Helliweg is a maester of the Citadel in service at Runestone to House Royce.

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Maester Helliweg's age, experience and knowledge are given as reasons why Lord Robert Arryn would be better off at Runestone than at the Eyrie.




Annotations from item #46266764:

Helly is a serving girl at the Peach, an inn and brothel in Stoney Sept.

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A Storm of Swords

Helly is one of the two serving wenches who carries Arya Stark up the stairs when she arrives at the Peach, in order to bathe her. She argues with another serving wench about whether Arya is a boy or a girl, and eventually wins the argument.




Annotations from item #46266765:

Helman Tallhart is a knight, the head of House Tallhart and the Master of Torrhen's Square.

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A Game of Thrones

When Robb Stark calls the northern banners in response to Lord Eddard Stark's arrest, Helman leads the Tallhart men to join the army at Winterfell, leaving his brother Leobald in command at Torrhen's Square. He is part of the host that marches south to Moat Cailin.

A Clash of Kings

Ser Edmure Tully orders Helman to quit the Twins and join up with Lord Roose Bolton to seize Harrenhal.

A Storm of Swords

Helman is part of the northern infantry force that marches on Duskendale on the orders of Lord Bolton. At the Battle of Duskendale they are defeated by Lord Randyll Tarly, who had been anticipating them. Helman himself is killed in combat along with most of the force. in the mastery of Torrhen's Square.

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Annotations from item #46266766:

Helya is the steward of Pyke. She is a bentback old woman.

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Helya greets Theon Greyjoy upon his arrival at Pyke. She informs him of the death of the old steward Sylas and her position in the household.




Annotations from item #46266767:

Hempen Dan is a free folk raider. He is a ropemaker.

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A Storm of Swords

Hempen Dan is among the wildlings who go over the Wall with Styr and Jon Snow.




Annotations from item #46266768:

Hendry Bracken is a member of House Bracken and nephew to Lord Jonos Bracken.

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Hendry is killed by House Lannister forces during the liberation of Stone Hedge.

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Annotations from item #46266769:

Henk the Helm is a free folk raider. He comes from a place by the sea.

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A Storm of Swords

Henk is among the wildling raiders that go over the Wall under the command of Styr.




Annotations from item #46266770:
Annotation #1 for item #46266770: Wiki: Henly

Henly refers to:

Annotation #2 for item #46266770: Wiki: (House Ashford) Henly

Henly was the stableman in the town of Ashford. He purchased Sweetfoot from Ser Duncan the Tall.

Annotation #3 for item #46266770: Wiki: (maester) Henly

Henly is a young maester of the Citadel in service to Lord Slate.

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A Dance with Dragons

Along with Maesters Medrick and Rhodry, Henly is brought by Lord Roose Bolton to Winterfell to be put in charge of the ravens and messages.




Annotations from item #46266771:

"Her Little Flower" is a bawdy song.

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A Feast for Crows

It is sung by Dareon on the voyage to Braavos.




Annotations from item #46266772:

A knight easily identifiable by his heraldry as belonging to House Qorgyle - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © FFG

Calling the Banners. © FFG

A Dothraki flying Queen Daenerys Targaryen's banner - by Régis Moulun. © FFG

Heraldry is the art and science of blazoning coats of arms. It is an important part of the Seven Kingdoms feudal structure. Heraldry is used by the royalty and nobility as a sign of status. Most noble houses have their own designs, and variants of these designs are adopted only by members of the house. Coats of arms are commonly used by knights in tourneys and on the battlefields as a way to identify allied from enemy soldiers in the heat of battle; conversely, mystery knights that want anonymity use blank or nonexistent coats of arms.

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Heraldry in Westeros and in the real world

Overall, the heraldry of the Seven Kingdoms seems to be quite similar to that of medieval Europe, at least in purpose. Most of the Seven Kingdoms use escutcheon-shaped coats of arms; Dorne, however seems to favor circular coats of arms that are not widely seen anywhere else. There is little or no mention of the heraldic vocabulary of Westeros: in the real world heraldry has its own collection of jargon known as blazonry, whereas in Westeros arms tend to be described in standard English.

The arms of a house belong to that family, as in Germany and Italy, and may be used only by trueborn descendants of that house..

Tinctures

It is worth noting that real world heraldic rules and terminology seem to have little formal use in Westeros and may in fact be non-existent, should not be placed over other colours. Examples of this rule being broken include:

It is possible and perhaps likely that George R. R. Martin wanted to depict an earlier medieval society, before the rules of heraldry were well-developed and well-accepted.

However, the tincture known as "furs" are used in Westeros heraldry; for example:

In traditional heraldry no distinction is made between white, silver and light grey, which are all named "argent". Likewise, both gold and yellow are called "or". That is not so in Westeros: white, (light) grey and silver are treated as distinct tinctures and can be used together on a coat of arms. Examples are:

Many of the available blazons of Westerosi coats of arms are notable in their lack of detail; for instance the blazon for the coat of arms of House Blanetree (maple leaves, green and brown, strewn on a field of yellow) fails to tell us how many maple leafs the shield should have, and gives only the vaguest indication of how they should be placed. In some cases the blazons manifest in quite poor designs rendering them of little use for recognition on the battlefield, for example:

For practical reasons, traditional heraldry uses a very limited set of tinctures; it was not always practical or possible to reproduce subtler color variations in the numbers and time constraints found. Besides, coats of arms are meant to be recognizable from far away and are often employed in shields and other pieces of equipment that are subject to abuse, neglect and disrepair. Even today, many pigments show some degree of color degradation, often severe, when consistently exposed to sun rays, rain and other influences.

This limited palette is not the case in the Seven Kingdoms, where heraldic descriptions include ambiguous colours such as:

The use of physical material descriptions like 'oak', 'masonry' or 'sand' in Martin's heraldic descriptions also complicates matters because it is uncertain whether these refer to a shade of colour or an attempt to actually represent these materials pictorially, such as painting the grain of the oak or the bricks of the masonry. Such detail would seem difficult to render on fabric surfaces such as flags, surcoats or the livery of men-at-arms or servants. This however reflect the real world use of the tincture "proper".

Devices and charges

Charges are objects or figures placed on a shield. Many of the devices and charges used in the heraldry of Westeros derive directly from traditional sources and include creatures such as lions, stags and birds, and symbols such as stars, weapons and ships. There are some notable differences in Martin's designs though:

The use of seven-pointed stars to represent the Faith of the Seven. Seven-pointed stars are rare in traditional heraldry and vexillology, with a notable exception being the flag of Australia. Examples include:

The use of very detailed pictures, particularly humanoid figures, such as:

In reality, these figures would be difficult to render on shields and flags with any accuracy or consistency.

The use of detailed creatures and figures on the shield that would normally only appear as supporters in traditional coats of arms, such as:

The use of fauna and flora specific to Westeros, such as:

Ordinaries

Some charges with simple geometric shapes are so common that they are often classified separately as ordinaries. These include:

Variations of the field

Divisions of the field.

The field of a shield, is sometimes made up of a pattern of colors, or variation. A pattern of horizontal (barwise) stripes, for example, is called barry, while a pattern of vertical (palewise) stripes is called paly. A pattern of diagonal stripes may be called bendy or bendy sinister, depending on the direction of the stripes. Other variations include chevrony, gyronny and chequy. For further variations, these are sometimes combined to produce patterns of barry-bendy, paly-bendy, lozengy and fusilly. Semés, or patterns of repeated charges, are also considered variations of the field.

Examples

Divisions of the field

The field of a shield in heraldry can be divided into more than one tincture, as can the various heraldic charges. Many coats of arms consist simply of a division of the field into two contrasting tinctures. These divisions are considered to lie next to each other rather than on top of each other and thus the rule of tincture can be ignored. For example, a shield divided azure and gules would be perfectly acceptable. A line of partition may be straight or it may be varied. The variations of partition lines can be wavy, indented, embattled, engrailed, nebuly, or made into myriad other forms.

In general, if the field is divided and every segment has to be blazoned (e.g. each has a different charge on it), they are blazoned in the following order: dexter to sinister, then chief to base. In the case of "party per cross" or "quarterly", the four segments are typically numbered in this order.

Marshalling

To marshal two or more coats of arms is to combine them in one shield, to express inheritance, claims to property, or the occupation of an office. This can be done in a number of ways, of which the simplest is impalement: dividing the field per pale and putting one whole coat in each half. Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and chevron. "Dexter" (from Latin dextra, right) means to the right from the viewpoint of the bearer of the arms and "sinister" (from Latin sinistra, left) means to the left. The dexter side is considered the side of greatest honour.

A more versatile method is quartering, division of the field by both vertical and horizontal lines. This practice originated in Spain after the 13th century. As the name implies, the usual number of divisions is four, but the principle has been extended to very large numbers of "quarters"; the largest number recorded being the arms of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, featuring a total of 719 "quarters".

Quarters are numbered from the dexter chief (the corner nearest to the right shoulder of a man standing behind the shield), proceeding across the top row, and then across the next row and so on. When three coats are quartered, the first is repeated as the fourth; when only two coats are quartered, the second is also repeated as the third. The quarters of a personal coat of arms correspond to the ancestors from whom the bearer has inherited arms, normally in the same sequence as if the pedigree were laid out with the father's father's ... father (to as many generations as necessary) on the extreme left and the mother's mother's ... mother on the extreme right. A few lineages have accumulated hundreds of quarters, though such a number is usually displayed only in documentary contexts.

The third common mode of marshalling is with an inescutcheon, a small shield placed in front of the main shield. In Britain this is most often an "escutcheon of pretence" indicating, in the arms of a married couple, that the wife is an heraldic heiress (that is, she inherits a coat of arms because she has no brothers). In continental Europe an inescutcheon (sometimes called a "heart shield") usually carries the ancestral arms of a monarch or noble whose domains are represented by the quarters of the main shield.

Inheritance and Younger sons

In Westeros arms belong to a family, and any trueborn child may use the family arms. This is similar to the practice in German heraldry, and converse to the practice in British heraldry, where only the head of the family may use the family arms; other members of the family have to difference their arms in some way. In Westeros this is not compulsory, though many choose to adopt their own personal arms, usually a minor variation on the arms of their house. For example:

Bastards

Bastards do not have the right to use the arms of their families. The custom is thus a bastard using arms (when knighted for example) adds a distinction, called "breaking". This can be in the form of a color inversion on their own coats of arms, with the addition of a possible red bar sinister.

Canting

Martin makes use of canting arms to represent some of the houses in his books. Canting arms are a type of heraldic pun, whereby the blazon of the shield makes a direct reference to the name of the family. Examples include:

In other houses the canting refers not to their name of the family, but to their ancestral seat. Examples include:

House Words

Main article: House Words

In real world heraldry there are family mottos that are often shown on a scroll under the shield in a coat of arms (except in Scottish heraldry where they are placed above the shield). In Westeros these are called house 'words'.

Heraldic homage

Some of the Houses and their blazons are tributes to other authors. For example:

Martin also homages one of his own characters, the Great and Powerful Turtle from Wild Cards, in House Tudbury.

Software




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Ser Herbert Bolling is a knight of House Bolling.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

According to Ser Creighton Longbough, he killed Ser Herbert during the Battle of the Blackwater.




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Maester Heriston was a maester of the Citadel who served at White Harbor. He speculated that beyond the White Waste may lie a warm summer sea.




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Herndon of the Horn is a legendary son of Garth Greenhand and ancestor of House Tarly. He and his twin brother Harlon the Hunter built their castle atop Horn Hill and took to wife the beautiful woods witch who dwelled there, sharing her favors for a hundred years. The brothers did not age so long as they had intercourse with her whenever the moon was full.




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Annotation #1 for item #46266776: Wiki: Hero

For the dog, see Hero (dog).

Hero is an Unsullied purchased by and sworn to Daenerys Targaryen. He is the second in command of Daenerys's Unsullied after Grey Worm.

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A Dance with Dragons

Hero, along with six other of Daenerys's court Daario Naharis, Jhogo, Groleo and three of the kin of Hizdahr zo Loraq, are given over to the Yunkai'i as a guarantee of safe conduct to the seven Yunkish commanders who would enter Meereen.

Annotation #2 for item #46266776: Wiki: (dog) Hero

Hero was a dog that belonged to Podrick Payne when he was little.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

While Brienne of Tarth and her companions are travelling with Septon Meribald through the riverlands, Podrick asks what Dog’s name is. Meribald replies that he has not told him his name so he calls him Dog. Pod thinks about that for a while and then mentions that he used to have a dog when he was little and he called him Hero. When Meribald asked Pod if Hero was a hero, Pod replied no, but he was a good dog.




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The Herons are the slave soldiers of Paezhar zo Myraq, called the "Little Pigeon", one of the Wise Masters of Yunkai. They are bred by Paezhar, who buys tall slaves from all over the world, mates them, and keeps their tallest offspring for the Herons.

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Appearance

Herons stand from seven to nearly eight feet tall. They are long-faced and long-legged.

Equipment

Herons wear stilts built into the legs of their ornate armor, which makes them stand taller still. They wear pink-enameled scales on their torsos. Their helms are elongated, with pointed steel beaks and crests of bobbing pink feathers.

They are armed with long curved swords, and spears as tall as them, with a leaf-shaped blade at both ends.

Recent events

A Dance with Dragons

Herons are employed in the Siege of Astapor, and in the Second Siege of Meereen.

Quotes

A fearsome lot. Nothing scares me worse than stilt-walkers in pink scales and feathers. If one was after me, I'd laugh so hard my bladder might let go.

Gerris Drinkwater

One day he hopes to be able to dispense with the stilts.

Dick Straw




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Herrock Kenning, known as Herrock the Whoreson, was an ironborn warrior of House Kenning of Harlaw who founded House Kenning of Kayce in the westerlands. His warhorn, the Horn of Herrock, has been passed down by his descendants.

History

During the wars between the driftwood kings and the Kings of the Rock, Herrock the Whoreson used his horn as a signal for the whores of Kayce to open a postern gate. His men then captured the town for House Lannister of Casterly Rock. Three different ironborn kings attempted to retake the town over the years; Herrock personally killed two of them.




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Maester Herryk was a maester of the Citadel. He wrote the book *History of the Kings-Beyond-the-Wall*.




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Hesh

Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of Hesh

Hesh is a city located in the Lhazar region of Essos. It is northwest of Lhazosh and west of Kosrak. A trade route from Hesh extends through the Khyzai Pass to Meereen.




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Heward is a guard sworn to House Stark.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Heward accompanies Lord Eddard Stark south to King's Landing when Eddard is made the new Hand of the King. He escorts Eddard to the whorehouse that one of Robert Baratheon's bastards resides in and plays forfeits with a brothel wench.

Heward is slain by Ser Jaime Lannister's men in the streets of the capital as a lesson to Eddard.




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Hibald is a merchant.

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Character

According to Ser Shadrich, Hibald is niggardly and fearful.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Hibald travels from King's Landing to Duskendale with his serving men and a hedge knight, Ser Shadrich. On the road, he comes upon Brienne of Tarth and her two companions, Ser Illifer and Ser Creighton Longbough. After Shadrich declares the three are not threath, Hibald agrees they can travel together. They all spend the night at the Old Stone Bridge, where Hibald confirms to one of the locals that Jaime Lannister has lost his sword hand.




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Hidden Sea

The known world and the location of the Hidden Sea

The Hidden Sea is a legendary sea nestled in the southeastern stretches of the Mountains of the Morn in far eastern Essos. The City of the Winged Men is located along the northwestern shore of the Hidden Sea, while Carcosa is situated at the southeastern corner. Southwest of the Hidden Sea are the Shadow Lands.




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Hide-the-treasure is a game played by multiple individuals, usually children.

History

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




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The High Council of the Triarchy was the governing body of the Triarchy - the now defunct alliance of the Free Cities of Lys, Myr and Tyrosh. It was composed of thirty-three magisters.




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High Heart

The riverlands and the location of High Heart

High Heart is a very tall hill sacred to the children of the forest in the riverlands. Around its crown stands a ring of thirty-one weirwood stumps. The hill is considered a safe place due to its relative height compared to the very flat surrounding land, making it nearly impossible to be approached unseen.

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History

According to song, during the Andal invasion the Andal king Erreg slaughtered children of the forest, their animals, and their First Men allies at High Heart, after which his men cut down the weirwood grove. According to *True History*, however, the children had left the region long before the Andals arrived.

The nearby smallfolk avoid the area as it is said to be haunted by the children of the forest who had been slaughtered by Erreg.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Arya Stark and the Brotherhood without banners rest here one night while travelling south, in order to meet with the ghost of High Heart and to gather information on the whereabouts of Lord Beric Dondarrion.

Quotes

No harm can ever come to those as sleep here.

- Tom of Sevenstreams to Arya Stark

This place belongs to the old gods still ... they linger here as I do, shrunken and feeble but not yet dead.

- the ghost of High Heart to Thoros of Myr

Chapters that take place at High Heart




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High Hermitage. © FFG

High Hermitage

Dorne and the location of High Hermitage

High Hermitage is the seat of House Dayne of High Hermitage. It is located in the Red Mountains of Dorne,




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High King of Dorne was a title claimed by some First Men rulers in Dorne prior to the Andal invasion.

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History

House Yronwood

The lords of House Yronwood styled themselves High Kings of Dorne when they ruled northern Dorne, from the domains of House Wyl in the Red Mountains to the headwaters of the Greenblood.

Houses of the Greenblood

The title was also claimed by a ruler seated on a great wooden motte-and-bailey castle on the south bank of the Greenblood near Lemonwood. This king was chosen by election from a dozen noble houses settled along the river or its eastern shores. These included Houses Briar, Brook, Brownhill, Holt, Lake, Shell, and Wade. This powerful river realm ended when a disputed election led to warfare. After a generation of war, three houses were extinct and the realm had splintered into a dozen petty kingdoms.




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High King of Sarnor was the title held by the monarch who ruled over the independent kings of the cities of the Kingdom of Sarnor. His seat was located at the Palace With a Thousand Rooms in the city of Sarnath. Though by law and custom all of the lesser Sarnori kings were his subjects, few High Kings of Sarnor ever exercised any real power.

The last known High King of Sarnor was Mazor Alexi, who led his people in the last stand against the Dothraki.




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High King of the First Men is the title given to the mythical Garth Greenhand in tales in which he's stated to have led the First Men in the migration from Essos into Westeros through the Arm of Dorne.




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High King of the Vale, the Fingers and the Mountains of the Moon was the title claimed by Robar II Royce, the Bronze King of House Royce, when he unified all the First Men in the Vale proper, the Fingers and the Mountains of the Moon under his rule with the goal of fighting against the Andal invaders, who had already carved out kingdoms for themselves by taking advantage of the rivalries between the First Men.[*citation needed*]

Redforts, Hunters, Belmores, and Coldwaters, as well smaller clans and houses, were all brought together with marriages, grants of land or gold and, in one case, outshooting Lord Hunter in an archery contest - though legend claims King Robar cheated. He even won the allegiance of reputed sorceress Ursula Upcliff of Witch Isle. Thus Robar was proclaimed High King of the Vale, the Fingers and the Mountains of the Moon.[*citation needed*]

King Robar was the only one to bear the title, however, as he was slain in the Battle of Seven Stars, after which the entirety of the Vale came under the rule of House Arryn as Kings of Mountain and Vale.




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The High Lickspittle, as he was dubbed by the Faith Militant during the Faith Militant uprising, was the third High Septon of the Faith of the Seven during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen.

History

He replaced the elderly and amiable High Septon after his death in 44 AC. The Faith Miliant dubbed him "the High Lickspittle", because he never spoke against King Maegor while hundreds of Poor Fellows were hunted and murdered for the bounty Maegor put on their scalps. In defiance, a band of Poor Fellows crowned one of their leaders, Septon Moon, as their own High Septon.

In 47 AC, the High Septon sailed from Oldtown to King's Landing, to officiate at the wedding between King Maegor and the three women known as the Black Brides.




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High Marshal of the Reach is a title claimed by House Tyrell of Highgarden,




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Annotation #1 for item #46266794: Wiki: High Septon

The High Septon in his crystal crown - by Amoka©

The High Septon is the head of the Faith of the Seven. Historically the High Septon ruled from the Starry Sept in Oldtown. However, after the invasion of Aegon Targaryen, the High Septon at that time threw his support behind Aegon and the position was eventually relocated to the new capital of King's Landing.

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Position

The High Septon and the Most Devout convene in the Great Sept of Baelor in King's Landing, a vast building of white marble with seven crystal towers. Prior to being stationed in King's Landing, and before the arrival of the Targaryens, the seat of the Faith was the ornate Starry Sept in Oldtown, which was constructed of black marble with stained glass windows set in pointed arches.

The High Septon was not especially "beholden" to the Targaryens and was often a dangerous rival to them, until the reign of Maegor the Cruel.

The selection of a new High Septon is traditionally in the hands of the Most Devout but the will of past Targaryen kings has sometimes influenced their choice. This was most notable during the reign of Baelor the Blessed, who had a stoneworker and later an eight-year old boy chosen for the office.

A new High Septon extends the practice of septons giving up their family names by renouncing any kind of individual name. This is due to the belief that the individual becoming High Septon is no longer a man but an avatar of the gods. This leads to trouble distinguishing between various past holders of the office, as one can only refer to them by descriptions such as "the stonemason one" or "the fat one" or the "one before the fat one." High Septons usually wear a great crown made of crystal and gold while performing their duties.

Historical High Septons

After the death of the High Septon who annointed Aegon I in 11 AC six other High Septon's followed until Aegon I's own death in 37 AC. who opposed a possible marriage between Maegor and Rhaena.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

The High Septon, known as the fat one, is a grossly fat man who has been High Septon for many years. He is regarded by many lords and smallfolk as corrupt.

A Clash of Kings

The fat High Septon is killed in the riot of King's Landing. His crystal crown is destroyed by thieves.

A Storm of Swords

The new High Septon, who was selected by Tyrion Lannister,

A Feast for Crows

Tyrion's High Septon is regarded as a weak willed but good man. He prayed with Ser Lancel Lannister when he was injured and near death. Lancel confesses his sins to him, such as bedding Queen Cersei Lannister and giving King Robert I Baratheon a more potent wine than he was used to which resulted in his death. The High Septon said he must forgive her though. Cersei, paranoid about what Lancel may have told him, orders the High Septon's death. Osney Kettleblack sneaks into the Great Sept of Baelor and suffocates the man with a pillow while he sleeps.

The next High Septon is imposed on the Most Devout by the "sparrows" who turn up as refugees from the War of the Five Kings. He's dubbed the High Sparrow is reinstated during his term when Queen Cersei wants the crown's debt to the Faith settled.

A devout and holy man with an iron will, the High Sparrow has much of the Faith's riches, such as crowns and rings, sold to raise funds for the poor.

Quotes

Our good High Septon was taken, the gods' own voice on earth, with a third of the Most Devout and near all our silent sisters.

Sefton to Duncan the Tall regarding the Great Spring Sickness

The High Septon speaks for the Seven here on earth. Strike at him, and you are striking at the gods themselves.

Kevan Lannister to Cersei Lannister

Annotation #2 for item #46266794: Wiki: (Aegon's Conquest) High Septon

The High Septon during Aegon's Conquest was a High Septon of the Faith of the Seven. The name he was born with is unknown.

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History

When news of the landing of Aegon and his sisters on Westerosi soil reached Oldtown, the High Septon locked himself away within the Starry Sept in Oldtown and fasted and prayed for seven days and nights, seeking guidance from the gods.

Lord Manfred Hightower, a pious man, heeded the High Septon's prophecy and kept his forces at Oldtown. When Aegon marched south towards Oldtown, Manfred opened his gates and submitted to Aegon's authority. The High Septon anointed Aegon with the seven oils and crowned him as King Aegon I at the Starry Sept three days after his arrival.

He held the position of High Septon until his death in 11 AC.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

The new High Septon mentions this High Septon to Cersei Lannister during their meeting in the Great Sept of Baelor. He tells her that Lord Manfred Hightower heeded the High Septon's prophecy. He informs her that he must go pray and fast as the High Septon had done three hundred years ago. When Cersei asks him if it will be for seven days and seven nights he replies that is will be for as long as need be.

Quotes

I must do as he did, three hundred years ago. I must pray, and fast.

- the new High Septon, to Cersei Lannister

Annotation #3 for item #46266794: Wiki: (Aegon I) High Septon

The High Septon was High Septon of the Faith of the Seven during the reign of Aegon I Targaryen. He was a maternal uncle of Ceryse Hightower.

History

In 24 AC, when Queen Visenya Targaryen proposed a marriage between her son Maegor and her niece, Princess Rhaena, the High Septon strongly objected. Instead, he suggested his own niece, Lady Ceryse Hightower. Maegor and Ceryse were wed in 25 AC in the Starry Sept in Oldtown,

Annotation #4 for item #46266794: Wiki: (Aenys I) High Septon

This High Septon was the High Septon of the Faith of the Seven during the Faith Militant uprising that occurred during the reigns of Aenys I Targaryen and Maegor I Targaryen.

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Appearance and character

By the time of his death, at 53, the High Septon was robust, tireless, fearless, and renowned for his strength. He sometimes preached for day and night, without sleep or nourishment.

History

The constant, though largely unintentional, slights suffered by the Faith of the Seven during the reign of King Aenys I Targaryen, led to a revolt by the Faith against the Iron Throne. The High Septon spoke out against the polygamous marriage of Prince Maegor to Alys Harroway. To appease him, Aenys exiled Maegor, and named Septon Murmison as Hand of the King.

The final straw was in 41 AC, when King Aenys had his daughter, Princess Rhaena, marry his son and heir, Prince Aegon. The High Septon condemned the marriage as an obscenity, warning that children born of it would be "abominations in the sight of gods and men", and expelled Septon Murmison for performing the wedding ceremony. Aenys responded by sending a letter to the High Septon, explaining the history of incestuous marriage among Valyrians, and asking for "good Murmison" to be reinstated. The High Septon responded to the king's request with a blistering denunciation, addressing "King Abomination" as a pretender and a tyrant, with no right to rule the Seven Kingdoms.

The conflict continued during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen, who in 42 AC burned the Sept of Remembrance in King's Landing to the ground, and killed seven hundred Warrior's Sons. Maegor then commanded the Poor Fellows to disarm, and when this decree had no effect, commanded his loyal lords to disperse them by force. In response, the High Septon called upon "true and pious children of the gods" to take up arms in defense of the Faith, and put an end to the reign of "dragons and monsters and abominations."

Later in 42 AC, after the wedding of Maegor to his third wife, Tyanna of the Tower, the High Septon denounced "the abomination and his whores."

In 43 AC, Maegor outlawed the Faith Militant, and commanded the High Septon to deliver himself to the Red Keep, to stand trial for high treason. In response, His High Holiness commanded the king to present himself to the Starry Sept in Oldtown, to beg the forgiveness of the gods for his sins and cruelties.

The cause of High Septon's death remains debated, especially as he had been a healthy man. Some believe he took his own life, either the act of a craven afraid to face the wroth of Maegor, or a noble sacrifice to spare the people of Oldtown from dragonflame. Others claim the Seven struck him down for the sin of pride, for heresy, treason, or arrogance. Many more are certain he was murdered. One of the suspects is Ser Morgan Hightower, at the command of Lord Martyn Hightower, who was seen entering and leaving the High Septon's privy chambers the night of his death, and was the only Warrior's Son ever pardoned by Maegor. Others point to Patrice Hightower, Lord Martyn's maiden aunt and a reputed witch, who had sought an audience with His High Holiness at dusk, though he was alive when she departed. Other suspects are the archmaesters of the Citadel, through the use of the dark arts, an assassin, or a poisoned scroll, as messages were sent between the Citadel and the Stary Sept during the night of the High Septon's demise. The final suspect was Queen Visenya Targaryen, another reputed sorceress.

Nevertheless, the death of the High Septon and the election of a new, more passive figure did not stop the uprising.

Errata

In *The World of Ice & Fire, it is stated that *"The unexpected nature of the High Septon's death in 44 AC aroused much suspicion, however, and whispers of murder persist to this day. Some believe His High Holiness was removed by his own brother, Ser Morgan Hightower, commander of the Warrior's Sons in Oldtown (and it is undeniably true that Ser Morgan was the sole Warrior's Son pardoned by King Maegor)."

Additionally, *The Sons of the Dragon* gives the correct date of 43 AC for the death of the High Septon, and relates that it was the replacement High Septon who died in 44 AC.

Notes

  1. Earlier prints of *The World of Ice & Fire* erroneously state that this event and the death of the High Septon took place in 44 AC..
  2. Elio Garcia: "Morgan is Martyn's younger brother, not the High Septon's. Small error."
Annotation #5 for item #46266794: Wiki: (Tyrion's) High Septon

Tyrion's High Septon is a High Septon of the Faith of the Seven chosen to his office by Tyrion Lannister after the death of his fat predecessor. His real name is unknown as High Septons abandon their names once elected to office.

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Appearance and Personality

The High Septon is a bent old man with a wispy grey beard and spotted hands. He is regarded as a good man, though weak willed.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

After the death of the previous High Septon during the riot of King's Landing, Tyrion Lannister selects his replacement. The new High Septon, while not corrupt like the previous one, is still considered a pawn.

A Storm of Swords

The High Septon attends a small council meeting after the Battle of the Blackwater.

The High Septon prays with Lancel Lannister after the boy is badly wounded during the Battle of the Blackwater. Lancel confesses to bedding Cersei Lannister to His High Holiness and expresses his anger with her, but the High Septon says he must forgive her.

Tyrion's appointee performs the marriage between Joffrey I and Margaery Tyrell at the Great Sept of Baelor and attends the wedding feast afterwards.

A Feast for Crows

The High Septon greets Queen Cersei Lannister on the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor before the wake for Tywin Lannister.

The High Septon reportedly dies in his sleep.

Having been tortured by the Faith to confirm his claims of sleeping with Queen Margaery Tyrell, Osney confesses to having slept with Cersei and having murdered the previous High Septon at her command. The High Sparrow then has Cersei arrested.

Quotes

Our present High Septon is a trained seal who barks prettily on command.

- Tyrion Lannister to Tywin Lannister

Annotation #6 for item #46266794: Wiki: (child) High Septon

This High Septon was appointed High Septon at the age of eight, making him the youngest High Septon in the history of Westeros.

History

His appointment was made by King Baelor I Targaryen who informed the Most Devout that the Seven had revealed the new High Septon's identity to him after the sudden death of his predecessor. The boy was said to be a street urchin or the son of a draper, but Baelor claimed he saw the boy perform miracles, that the boy spoke to doves and they answered him back in the voice of the gods. Despite their misgivings the Most Devout agreed to the King's request since Baelor did so much for the Faith of the Seven. Though Baelor claimed the boy could work miracles, he failed to save the King's life when he fasted himself to death.

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The fat High Septon is the High Septon of the Faith of the Seven at the beginning of the series. His real name is unknown as High Septons abandon their names once elected to office.

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Appearance and Personality

The High Septon is a squat man and ponderously fat with grey hair,

History

The High Septon has been in his position for some time. When over two hundred jars of wildfire were discovered beneath the Great Sept of Baelor around 298 AC, he was livid with fear and had Hallyne of the Alchemists' Guild and his acolytes remove the jars.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

The High Septon in *Game of Thrones*

In the first session of the small council presided over by the new Hand of the King, Eddard Stark, Petyr Baelish informs the council members that in his attempts to borrow more money for the Crown he had to turn to the Faith lately and complains that the High Septon haggles worse than a fishmonger.

At the feast during the Hand's tourney, Moon Boy sings a song about the High Septon that causes many of the guests to laugh, including Septa Mordane.

The fat High Septon is present when Eddard Stark is brought to the Great Sept of Baelor. Having been told by Cersei Lannister that Eddard would be pardoned and allowed to join the Night's Watch, like many of the onlookers he is shocked when King Joffrey I Baratheon orders Eddard's execution. He clutches the king's cape in an attempt to stop him. After the execution, the High Septon is furious and feels that the Great Sept has been befouled.

A Clash of Kings

When the small council discusses reactions to the letters in which Stannis Baratheon alleges that Cersei Lannister's children are the result of incest, Tyrion Lannister suggests that Stannis's apparent conversion to the faith of R'hllor can be used against him and that the High Septon should be urged to reveal how Stannis has turned against both the rightful king and the gods.

In the presence of Tyrion, Moon Boy makes a joke about the High Septon, calling him "a pious man who worships the Seven so fervently that he eats a meal for each of them whenever he sits to table."

The High Septon is a target in the rantings of a prophet of the begging brothers who addresses a crowd on Cobbler's Square when Tyrion's litter passes along. The prophet accuses the High Septon of having forgotten the gods, of bathing in scented waters and of growing fat on lark and lamprey while common people starve. Reflecting on the rantings later, Tyrion thinks the prophet has a point about the High Septon.

Cersei uses calls on the High Septon at the Great Sept of Baelor, in which she seeks the blessings of the gods for the upcoming struggle against Stannis, as cover for meetings with the Kettleblacks who are so supposed to hire her her own force of sellwords to rival her brother's.

The fat High Septon goes to the docks to bless Myrcella Baratheon, when the girl is about to sail to Dorne, giving one of his long-winded speeches. On the way back to the Red Keep, a riot breaks out that results in many deaths, including his own. He is pulled down from his litter by the angry mob and, despite appealing at the gods to save him, is ripped apart. According to Jalabhar Xho, Ser Preston Greenfield of the Kingsguard, who also perished in the riot, might have tried to save the High Septon. The High Septon's crystal crown is missing when his body is found.

Upon hearing of the High Septon's death, Tyrion thinks that "starving men take a dim view of priests too fat to walk."

A Feast for Crows

When the new High Septon greets Queen Cersei Lannister on the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor, before the wake for Tywin Lannister, Cersei finds herself recalling the previous High Septon and that the fat fool had been torn apart by the mob. She thinks to herself that he had been a great glutton, and biddable and is disturbed by the thought that the new High Septon is of Tyrion's making.

Annotation #8 for item #46266794: Wiki: (stonemason) High Septon

This High Septon, whose birth name was Pate, was appointed High Septon after King Baelor I Targaryen informed the Most Devout that the Seven had revealed the new High Septon's identity to him.

About

During his reign King Baelor I Targaryen had the man, a stonemason by trade, named as the High Septon. He could carve stonework so beautifully that Baelor believed him to be the Smith in human form. While a fantastic stonecarver, this High Septon could not read, write or recite any prayers and must have been ill suited to his new vocation High Septon.

It was rumored that to spare the realm embarrassment, Prince Viserys Targaryen used his position as Hand of the King to have him poisoned, thereby ridding the realm of an ineffectual High Septon.




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Annotation #1 for item #46266795: Wiki: High Sparrow

The High Sparrow is the current High Septon of the Faith of the Seven. His real name is unknown as High Septons abandon their names once elected to office. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Jonathan Pryce.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of the High Sparrow

He is a small, thin, hard-eyed, grey-haired man with a heavily lined face. Unlike previous High Septons, he does not wear rich robes or elaborate crowns of crystal and spun gold. Instead, he wears a simple white wool tunic that goes to his ankles. The man is truly devout to his faith and has an iron will.

History

Little is known of the history of the current High Septon. He claims to have been a septon who walked all over the realm. His heavily callused feet support this claim; they are black, gnarled and hard as tree roots. He often came upon villages that were too small to have their own septs and performed the traditional duties of a septon, such as naming newborn children, absolving sins and performing marriages.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

On the Rosby road, Brienne of Tarth spots a group of sparrows led by a septon with feet that are "bare and black, gnarled and hard as tree roots", a lean face, and grey-and-brown hair, who is going to King's Landing with bones of septons killed in the Riverlands. This septon is probably the High Sparrow.

After the previous High Septon is slain, the Most Devout begin the selection process to see who of them will become the new High Septon.

The new High Septon begins his term by selling all of the golden crowns, including his own, and robes of cloth and gold. The money earned from this is used to buy food for the sparrows and the poor. He clads himself in a humble wool robe and other Most Devout are forced to follow suit. Cersei Lannister, in order to secure the Faith's blessing for her son and cancel the near one million dragons the crown owed the Faith, allows the High Septon to restore the Faith Militant. This military arm of the Faith has not existed in the realm since it was disbanded by Jaehaerys I Targaryen. His army of sparrows become Poor Fellows of old and soon over a hundred knights join the Warrior's Sons. The new High Septon becomes commonly known as the High Sparrow after a jape of Moon Boy.

The Faith, emboldened by their new power, arrests Margaery Tyrell and her cousins when Osney Kettleblack falsely confesses to bedding the girls. The High Septon is suspicious of Osney's confession, as he had never heard a confession from a man so pleased to be guilty, and has Osney scourged. Osney confesses the actual truth that Cersei had him lie and he killed the previous High Septon under her orders.

When Cersei Lannister visits the Great Sept of Baelor, the High Septon has her arrested and imprisoned on similar, but accurate, charges.

A Dance with Dragons

Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, tasks Tyene Sand with befriending the High Sparrow.

Since the evidence against Margaery and her cousins is quite weak, the High Septon releases them into the custody of Randyll Tarly. The High Septon requires Tarly to swear a holy oath to return them for trial.

The High Septon then sees Cersei when she says she wishes to confess. To try and gain access to visitors, Cersei decides to confess many of her crimes to him. She confesses she did have relations with her cousin Lancel and the Kettleblack brothers. She knows such sins would not earn her an execution, but denies the sins that would earn her death - ordering Osney to kill the previous High Septon and her involvement in Robert's death. The High Septon agrees to allow her one visitor a day.

The High Septon agrees to free Cersei on the condition that she performs a penance walk through King's Landing. Cersei reluctantly agrees. Cersei and Margaery are still to be put on trial. Cersei chose trial by combat with Ser Robert Strong as her champion. Margaery chose trial by the Faith.

Lord Regent Kevan Lannister, Master of Laws Randyll Tarly and Hand of the King Mace Tyrell are frustrated by having to give in to the demands of the "High Sparrow". With so many rebellious subjects in the Seven Kingdoms, however, they dare not be seen to go against the Faith, lest it drive the pious into the armies of another claimant to the Iron Throne..

Quotes by the High Sparrow

I seldom feel so close to god as when I am being whipped for mine own wickedness, though my darkest sins are no wise near as black as his.

- the High Sparrow to Cersei Lannister

Quotes about the High Sparrow

The Swords and Stars have been re-formed, and this new High Septon is not the puppet that the others were. Try and get close to him.

Doran Martell to Tyene Sand

This man is implacable.

– thoughts of Cersei Lannister

What have we become, when kings and high lords must dance to the twittering of Sparrows.

Randyll Tarly to Kevan Lannister

Annotation #2 for item #46266795: Wiki: (TV) High Sparrow

"High Sparrow" is the third episode of the fifth season of HBO's fantasy television series *Game of Thrones*, and the 43rd overall. The episode was written by David Bennioff and D.B. Weiss and directed by Mark Mylod. It aired on April 26th, 2015.

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Synopsis

In Braavos, Arya sees the Many-Faced God. In King's Landing, Queen Margaery Tyrell enjoys her new husband. Tyrion and Varys walk the Long Bridge of Volantis.

Production

Writing

"High Sparrow" was written by David Bennioff and D.B. Weiss, based on the original series by George R. R. Martin.

The episode is adapted from the following chapters from the *A Song of Ice and Fire* series: Brienne I, Arya I, Cersei II, Cersei III, Brienne III, Samwell II, Cersei IV, Brienne IV, Arya II, Cersei V, Cersei VI and Alayne I from *A Feast for Crows, and Jon I, Jon II, Jon IV, Tyrion VI, Tyrion VII, Reek III, The Prince of Winterfell and The Blind Girl from *A Dance with Dragons, and Alayne I from *The Winds of Winter*.

Regular cast members

The following regular cast members appeared in this episode:

Eighteen out of twenty-seven members for the fifth season appeared in this episode. Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Nathalie Emmanual (Missandei), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Kristofer Hivju (Tormund), Carice van Houten (Melisandre), Michiel Huisman (Daario Naharis), Hannah Murray (Gilly) and Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand) are not credited and do not appear in this episode.

Guest cast

The following guest appearances were made in this episode:




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High Steward of Highgarden was the hereditary title held by the head of House Tyrell during the reign of House Gardener.

Known High Stewards




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High Steward of the Vale is a position of great authority and title in the Vale of Arryn.

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The only known High Steward of the Vale has been Lord Nestor Royce, Keeper of the Gates of the Moon, during the fourteen years in which Lord Jon Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, Defender of the Vale and Warden of the East, remained in court at the Red Keep serving as Hand of the King. As High Steward, Nestor ruled the Vale of Arryn in the name of Lord Jon.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Nestor Royce, the High Steward of the Vale,




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High Tide is one of the castles of House Velaryon on the island of Driftmark in the crownlands.

History

High Tide was the seat of the Sea Snake, Lord Corlys Velaryon, one of the wealthiest and most powerful lords of the Seven Kingdoms..

Corlys's son, Ser Laenor Velaryon, preferred High Tide to King's Landing, where his wife, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, remained at court. One of Laenor's favorites at High Tide was the household knight Qarl Correy.

Laena died at High Tide from childbed fever in 120 AC, while Laenor died later that year at Spicetown. While at High Tide for the funeral of Laenor, Prince Aemond Targaryen rode the dragon Vhagar above the castle's towers. Aemond subsequently lost an eye fighting with Laenor's children.

The Velaryons sided with the blacks during the Dance of the Dragons. Following the Battle in the Gullet, the greens destroyed Spicetown, which was never rebuilt, and put High Tide to the torch. The Sea Snake's treasures from Essos were destroyed by fire, and his servants were cut down as they tried to escape. It is unknown if the Velaryons kept High Tide as their main seat or if they returned to ancient Driftmark.




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High Valyrian is a language originating from Valyria and the Valyrian Freehold. It is no longer widely spoken due to the Doom of Valyria, although there are songs and books still sung and read in it. In Westeros, highborn children, specifically the Targaryens, are taught Valyrian as a sign of their noble education..

According to George R. R. Martin,

Tolkien was a philologist, and an Oxford don, and could spend decades laboriously inventing Elvish in all its detail. I, alas, am only a hardworking SF and fantasy novel, and I don't have his gift for languages. That is to say, I have not actually created a Valyrian language. The best I could do was try to sketch in each of the chief tongues of my imaginary world in broad strokes, and give them each their characteristic sounds and spellings.

David J. Peterson further developed High Valyrian for the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*.

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Language

House Targaryen came from Valyria and thus most of its members can be considered to have High Valyrian names. These include:

Houses Baratheon, Celtigar, Qoherys, and Velaryon are of Valyrian descent, and thus these names are possibly Valyrian as well.

Velaryon first names include:

Jaenara Belaerys was a Valyrian explorer

The Valyrians most likely gave Valyrian names to their dragons, as the dragons Balerion, Meraxes, Vhagar, and Syrax were named after Valyrian gods..

Eight of the nine Free Cities were founded as colonies of the Valyrian Freehold, and are thus likely to bear Valyrian names as well:

Volantis's satellite towns of Selhorys, Valysar, and Volon Therys likely have Valyrian names as well. It is also probable that Elyria, Mantarys, Oros, Tolos, Tyria, and Velos are Valyrian in name, being cities close to Old Valyria.

The High Valyrian phrase *valar morghulis‎*

The word dracarys is translated as meaning "dragonfire."

The Valyrian writing system, or at least a Valyrian writing system, is described as involving glyphs.

Valyrian steel is forged with spells, as well as hammers.

Bastard Valyrian

Free Cities

Bastard Valyrian includes the languages of the nine Free Cities.

The Free Cities use glyphs to write Valyrian.

Slaver Cities

The Old Empire of Ghis was conquered by the Valyrian Freehold five thousand years ago, and the Ghiscari have since spoken High Valyrian. The Slaver's Bay cities of Yunkai, Meereen, and Astapor have their own versions of bastard Valyrian, which have been influenced mainly by Old Ghiscari, the ancient language of Old Ghis. Like the Free Cities, the people of the Slaver Cities use glyphs to write Valyrian.

Astapori Valyrian is described as having a "characteristic growl," influenced by Ghiscari.

Yunkai used to be part of the Old Empire of Ghis, and has multiple languages spoken in the city. *Mhysa, Maela, Aelalla, Qathei,* and Tato are given as words for "mother", but which tongue fits which word is unknown (excepting the first, which is Ghiscari).

Some slavers speak a mongrel tongue,

Characters familiar with High Valyrian




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The high road in *Game of Thrones*

The high road running north and south.

The road is wild and dangerous, climbing through rocky foothills and thick forests in the Mountains of the Moon, past high passes and deep chasms to the Vale of Arryn. Travelers on the road are often attacked by the mountain clans or shadowcats. It is often closed by snow. In parts the high road is just a stoney track.

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Catelyn Stark takes Tyrion Lannister captive at the inn at the crossroads. He is deceived into thinking she will take him to Winterfell, but he is blindfolded and finds they are instead on the high road to the Vale of Arryn.

A Storm of Swords

Sandor Clegane tries to bring Arya Stark to Lysa Arryn at the Eyrie, but turns back when a village elder warns them of inclement weather, shadowcats, and mountain clans.

A Feast For Crows

The high road to the Vale is closed by snow.




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Highgarden

The Reach and the location of Highgarden

Highgarden is a castle which serves as the seat of House Tyrell, the regional capital of the Reach, and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms. It lies on the Mander and is where the Ocean Road meets the Roseroad, making it an important crossroads.

Mace Tyrell is the Lord of Highgarden. The castle's household includes Lord Seneschal Garth Tyrell, Maester Lomys, the master-at-arms Ser Vortimer Crane, and the fool Butterbumps.

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Layout

See also: Images of Highgarden

Highgarden is surrounded by three rings of white stone whose walls increase in height. Between the outer and middle walls is a famous briar labyrinth which serves to entertain as well as slow invaders.

Also within Highgarden's walls are groves, fountains, and courtyards. The sept is matched only by the Great Sept of Baelor and the Starry Sept. The castle's godswood contains three weirwoods known as the Three Singers. The palatial keep is decorated with statues and colonnades. The castle's structures are covered in ivy, grapes, and climbing roses.

Highgarden is filled with flowers, singers, pipers, fiddlers and harpers. The stables have a fine selection of horseflesh, and there are pleasure boats to sail along the Mander.

History

House Gardener

Highgarden - by Juan Carlos Barquet © Fantasy Flight Games

Highgarden is said to have been built by Garth the Gardener atop a hill overlooking the Mander.

During the Andal invasion of Westeros, King Mern II Gardener built a curtain wall about the castle. The Andals were ultimately welcomed into the Reach, however, and King Garth IX Gardener built the first sept at Highgarden, although he continued to worship in its godswood. House Tyrell became the hereditary stewards of the castle.

Highgarden was sacked by Dornishmen during the reign of King Garth X Gardener, and the Gardener's Oakenseat was destroyed. The castle was rebuilt by Garth's cousin, King Mern VI Gardener.

The peaceful Harmund II Hoare, King of the Iron Islands, once visited Highgarden and Oldtown.

House Tyrell

Highgarden was the seat of House Gardener until Aegon the Conqueror defeated King Mern IX Gardener and his host on the Field of Fire, ending their line. When Aegon then marched his host to Highgarden, its steward, Harlen Tyrell, surrendered the castle. For this, Aegon granted him the castle and gave House Tyrell dominion over the Reach as the Lord Paramount of the Mander.

During the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, the Tyrells hosted the famed Tourney of the Field of Roses.

While a squire to Arlan of Pennytree, Ser Duncan the Tall once served at Highgarden, where he met Leo Longthorn.

Samwell Tarly saw Highgarden when his father, Lord Randyll Tarly, visited Lord Mace Tyrell, Warden of the South.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

An envoy of Highgarden - by Sedone Thongvilay © Fantasy Flight Games

Following the death of King Robert I Baratheon, his younger brother Renly Baratheon and Ser Loras Tyrell flee from King's Landing to Highgarden.

A Clash of Kings

Brienne of Tarth travels to Highgarden,

During the parley at Storm's End, Renly offers his brother Stannis a peach from Highgarden.

A Storm of Swords

After having caused famine in King's Landing by closing the roseroad while supporting Renly,

The Tyrells plot to marry Sansa Stark to Willas,

After Joffrey's death, Littlefinger reveals to Sansa that while he was at Highgarden negotiating with Mace and Olenna, he ordered his men to spread disturbing tales of Joffrey to discredit the boy king. Petyr's men also bribed Highgarden's musicians into singing songs of the Kingsguard, thereby influencing Loras into joining the knightly order.

A Feast for Crows

Highgarden by feliche

Ser Garlan Tyrell takes half the Tyrell strength back to Highgarden,

A Dance with Dragons

Laswell Peake tells Aegon Targaryen that the power of Highgarden may not be what Lord Mace Tyrell imagines, as some members of the Golden Company still have friends in the Reach.

Quotes

You need to come south. You need a taste of summer before it flees. In Highgarden there are fields of golden roses that stretch away as far as the eye can see. The fruits are so ripe they explode in your mouth—melons, peaches, fireplums, you've never tasted such sweetness.

- Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark

Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne?

- Jon Umber to northmen

The war had not touched the fabled bounty of Highgarden.

- thoughts of Catelyn Stark

The roses support the lion, as the might of Highgarden supports the realm.

- Joffrey I Baratheon to Mace Tyrell

At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.

- Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark

You will love Highgarden as I do, I know it. Once you see it, you'll never want to leave.

- Margaery Tyrell to Sansa Stark

Centuries of blood and war lay between Sunspear and Highgarden.

- thoughts of Cersei Lannister




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The Hightower at Oldtown by Ted Nasmith ©.

The Hightower

The Reach and the location of the Hightower

The Hightower or High Tower is the seat of House Hightower, one of the most powerful families of the Reach.

According to a semi-canon source, the Hightower stands in the center of Oldtown, the city having grown around it. It is a massive stepped tower with a beacon on top to guide ships into port. It is the tallest structure in the Seven Kingdoms,

It is speculated by fans that the Hightower is one of the nine *Wonders Made by Man* written about by Lomas Longstrider.

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History

Black Stone Fortress

The foundation of the Hightower is a labyrinthine fortress of unadorned black stone of uncertain origin on Battle Isle. While some believe it to be Valyrian in origin, Archmaester Quillion suggests it was made by the mazemakers and Maester Theron suggests it was created by Deep Ones, citing its similarities to the Seastone Chair. Valyrian origin is supported by the claim of Maester Jellicoe that Oldtown began as a trading post for ships of Valyria, Old Ghis, and the Summer Isles, predating the arrival of the First Men to Westeros. Septon Barth also claimed Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea.

Kings of the High Tower

House Hightower of the Hightower is an ancient and noble family of impeccable lineage,

The Hightower and Oldtown were incorporated into the Kingdom of the Reach during the rule of the Sea Lion, Lymond Hightower.

Modern Era

During Aegon's Conquest Lord Manfred Hightower heeded the High Septon, who prophesied that the Hightower would burn with the rest of Oldtown if the city resisted the Targaryens. When Aegon the Conqueror arrived at Oldtown on dragonback, Lord Hightower opened his gates. Aegon spared the city, and the High Septon anointed him and acknowledged Aegon's right to rule the Seven Kingdoms.

During the Dance of the Dragons, Lord Ormund Hightower's young sons remained at the Hightower while Ormund led an army for the greens.

Lord Leyton Hightower, the Old Man of Oldtown, has not descended from the Hightower in more than a decade.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Alekyne Florent, the attainted Lord of Brightwater, flees to Oldtown to seek refuge at the Hightower.

While sailing on the *Cinnamon Wind* to Oldtown, Gilly is impressed with the size of Three Towers, but Samwell Tarly tells her to wait until she sees the Hightower. When they reach Oldtown, the morning fog is so thick that the Hightower's beacon is the only part of the city visible.

Lord Leyton Hightower and his daughter, the Mad Maid Malora, are said to have locked themselves atop the Hightower, consulting books of spells in response to the ironborn attacks on the Reach.

Quotes

The distant beacon of the Hightower floated in the damp of night like a hazy orange moon.

- thoughts of Pate




Annotations from item #46266803:

Hildy is the lover of a sworn sword in the service of Lord Tytos Blackwood.

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Appearance and Character

Hildy has a pug nose and a shaggy mane of hair, and Jaime Lannister thinks her nipples are thrice the size of Cersei Lannister's. She has a playful personality.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Lord Jonos Bracken claims Hildy for himself after killing her lover during the siege of Raventree.

Quotes

Jaime: If a man wants to sell his turnips, he needs to set them out.

Hildy: You been looking at my turnips since you came in, ser. And they're not for sale, neither.

Jaime: My apologies if I mistook you for something you're not.

Jaime Lannister and Hildy




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Rhaenys's Hill, illustrated by Franz Miklis © Fantasy Flight Games

The Hill of Rhaenys

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History

The Sept of Remembrance was raised on the Hill of Rhaenys as a memorial to Queen Rhaenys Targaryen,

Maegor decreed that a large domed structure would be built on the hill for Targaryens to house its royal dragons.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Tyrion Lannister learns that Lord Rossart had stored jars of wildfire in a cellar beneath the Dragonpit.




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Hills of Norvos

Western Essos and the location of the Hills of Norvos

The Hills of Norvos are a series of rolling limestone hills.

The city of Norvos is located among the hills. The headwaters of the Noyne and the Darkwash lie in the Hills of Norvos.

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Caverns

The Hills of Norvos are crossed by swift, stony streams and honeycombed with caverns, which are sometimes inhabited by bears and wolves.

History

The caves within the hills were inhabited by giants and men who painted on walls in antiquity.

After winning two victories over Norvoshi hosts in the hills, Qarlon the Great of Lorath decided to attack Great Norvos. The Valyrian Freehold came to the aid of Norvos, however, and defeated Qarlon with dragonfire.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Daenerys Targaryen travels with the *khalasar* of Khal Drogo through the Hills of Norvos, passing terraced farms and small villages.




Annotations from item #46266806:

Hilmar Drumm, known as Hilmar the Cunning, was a member of House Drumm.

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History

Hilmar took the Valyrian steel sword Red Rain from an armored knight with nothing but his wits and a wooden cudgel.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Hilmar is mentioned by Lord Dunstan Drumm at the kingsmoot as an example of House Drumm's great history.




Annotations from item #46266807:

Hippocras is a alcoholic drink in Westeros. Hippocras is likely made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, most notably cinnamon, and possibly heated. Highgarden produces a fine sweet hippocras.

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History

It was King Viserys I Targaryen’s custom to take a cup of hippocras at the hour of the bat.

Ser Duncan the Tall drank hippocras during the wedding tourney at Whitewalls.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Lord Roose Bolton drinks hippocras when he hosts Ser Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth at Harrenhal.

A Feast For Crows

Queen Cersei Lannister has Falyse Stokeworth and her husband, Ser Balman Byrch, as guests for dinner. By the time she joins them in her solar a flagon of hippocras is already half empty.

A Dance with Dragons

Lord Wyman Manderly brings casks of hippocras with him from White Harbor to Barrowton.

Quotes

A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.

- thoughts of Cersei Lannister

I could have hired a Faceless Man to kill Bronn for half of what I've spent on hippocras.

- thoughts of Cersei Lannister regarding the drinking of Falyse Stokeworth and Balman Byrch

To the fervor of the Warrior's Sons and the brilliance of the Queen Regent. To Cersei, the First in Her Name!

- Taena Merryweather toasting Cersei Lannister




Annotations from item #46266808:

History of the Ironborn is a book written by Haereg about the history of the ironborn people from the Iron Islands.

The book also has account on the great and tragic friendship between Lord Loron Greyjoy and Ser Desmond Mallister.




Annotations from item #46266809:

History of the Kings-Beyond-the-Wall is a book written by Maester Herryk about monarchs of the free folk, the Kings-Beyond-the-Wall. It contains the transcription of a song that recounts when Gendel and Gorne were called to mediate a dispute by a clan of children of the forest and a family of giants over possession of a cavern. They settled by resorting to trickery to make both sides disavow the cavern after the brothers discovered it as part of a chain of caverns that passed beneath the Wall.




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The History of the Rhoynish Wars is a book written by Beldecar about the Rhoynish Wars. A copy can be found in the library of the Red Keep.




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The Hand's tourney (*Game of Thrones*)

This article lists the history of known tourneys in Westeros. The ordering below is roughly chronological. The dates are given in years after Aegon's Conquest (AC).

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Tourneys

Legendary tourneys

The first tourney in Westeros is said to have been held in the Reach. According to legend, fifty lords competed for the hand of Maris the Maid, a daughter of Garth Greenhand. Argoth Stone-Skin is said to have won the tourney, but Maris wed Uthor of the High Tower before Argoth could claim her.

Loreon II Lannister, King of the Rock, is said to have held and been undefeated in the first tourney in the westerlands.

Royal tourney of 28 AC

Date: 28 AC

Tourney of the Field of Roses

House Tyrell held this tourney during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. It was regarded as the finest tournament in a generation.

Tourney to celebrate the fiftieth year of King Jaehaerys's reign

Date: 98 AC

Tourney for King Viserys I's accession

Date: 104 AC, Main article: Tourney for King Viserys I's accession

At Maidenpool, Criston Cole gave the melee victor's laurel to Rhaenyra Targaryen, who gave him her favor for the joust.

Melee:

Joust:

Great tourney on the fifth anniversary of King Viserys I and Queen Alicent's marriage

Date: 111 AC

During this tourney, Queen Alicent dressed in green, whilst Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen dressed in black, creating the origin of the names *greens* and *blacks* for respective parties.

Tourney at King's Landing for the wedding of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Ser Laenor Velaryon

Date: 114 AC

Other participants:

Mêlée at Last Hearth

Date: 170 AC, Main article: Mêlée at Last Hearth

This mêlée is known for having 18 men killed and 27 maimed during its proceedings.

Unnamed tourney

Tourney at Lannisport

Princess Daenerys's wedding tourney

Date: 187 AC

Tourney at King's Landing

Date: 193 AC

Hastilude for Lord Baratheon's grandson

Date: 200 AC

Tourney at King's Landing

Date: 206 AC

Reigniting the age-old feud between houses Blackwood and Bracken, Ser Otho "the Brute of Bracken" slew Lord Blackwood at this tourney, smashing his helm and face with a blow from a blunted longaxe.

Tourney at Maidenpool

Date: 207 AC, Main article: Tourney at Maidenpool

Melee champion: Humfrey Hardyng

Tourney at Ashford Meadow

Date: 209 AC, Main article: Tourney at Ashford Meadow

The Ashford tourney provides the setting for *The Hedge Knight* and is presented in great detail in the short story, as well as in a graphic novel adaptation. The tournament was arranged by Lord Ashford in honour of his daughter, who reigned as queen of love and beauty and was defended by five champions. The outcome of the tournament is unknown to us, and the event itself came to be overshadowed by the trial of seven that developed out of a confrontation between Duncan the Tall and Prince Aerion Brightflame, resulting in the death of Crown Prince Baelor Targaryen.

Wedding tourney at Whitewalls

Date: 211 AC, Main article: Wedding tourney at Whitewalls

The tourney at Whitewalls provides the setting for *The Mystery Knight* and the Second Blackfyre Rebellion. It was arranged by Lord Ambrose Butterwell to celebrate his second marriage, to a daughter of House Frey. The format was a standard knock-out tournament; only few outcomes are known to us, and the tourney was aborted prematurely when an army led by Brynden Rivers surrounded Whitewalls. Two knights entered the lists under false names: Duncan the Tall as the mystery “Gallows Knight,” Daemon II Blackfyre as “John the Fiddler.”

Tourney at Blackhaven

Date: 246 AC/247 AC

This tournament is notable as the first appearance of Barristan Selmy. Selmy, then a squire of ten years, acquired a suit of armor and entered the lists as a mystery knight. He jousted well until being defeated by Duncan Targaryen and unmasked. He was dubbed Barristan the Bold for his deeds that day.

Winter Tourney at King's Landing

Date: 252 AC/253 AC

King Aegon V Targaryen knighted the 16-year-old Barristan Selmy for his great acts of prowess at this event.

Tourney of the Silver Bridge

Only Ser Barristan's entry in the White Book tells of this tourney. He defended the passage against all comers.

Champion: Barristan Selmy

Tourney at Maidenpool

Champion: Barristan Selmy

Oldtown tourney

Unknown tourney

Champion: Denys Mallister.

Unknown tourney

Date: prior to 267 AC

Anniversary Tourney

Date: 272 AC, Main article: Anniversary Tourney

Tywin Lannister hosted a tourney at King's Landing to celebrate the tenth year of King Aerys II Targaryen's reign.

Tournament in honor of Viserys's birth

Date: 276 AC, Main article: Tournament in honor of Viserys's birth

Champion: Ser Arthur Dayne

Tywin Lannister held a tourney at Lannisport to honor the birth of Prince Viserys Targaryen. King Aerys II Targaryen refused Tywin's offer to marry Prince Rhaegar Targaryen to Cersei Lannister.

Tourney at Storm's End

Date: between 276 AC and 281 AC, Main article: Tourney at Storm's End

The information about this tourney is problematic because some details in *A Storm of Swords* conflict. In response, George R. R. Martin suggested that the outlaw Simon Toyne was already dead by this time and the elderly Ser Barristan misremembered.

Champion: Barristan Selmy

Unnamed melee

Date: 279 AC

This may have been a squires-only melee.

Great tourney at Harrenhal

Date: 281 AC, Main article: Tourney at Harrenhal

Possibly the most pivotal event prior to *A Song of Ice and Fire, this tourney took place more than a decade before the events in *A Game of Thrones, and few details have been disclosed so far. The tourney was held by Lord Walter Whent in honor of his daughter and to show off his house's power; it was the greatest tourney of its time and perhaps ever. Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was champion, and in the end chose Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty. This was scandalous in that, not only was Rhaegar already married (to Elia Martell), but Lyanna herself was betrothed to Robert Baratheon. Rhaegar's indiscretion culminated in his abduction of Lyanna a year later, which touched off the War of the Usurper and brought an end to Targaryen rule. Also at this occasion, fifteen-year-old Jaime Lannister was admitted into the order of the Kingsguard, and a mystery knight, the "Knight of the Laughing Tree", appeared in the lists to fight for the honor of Howland Reed of Greywater Watch.

Joust : Champion: Rhaegar Targaryen.

Melee :

King Robert's wedding

Date: 284 AC

A tourney was held in celebration of King Robert I Baratheon's marriage to Cersei Lannister.

Champion: Jaime Lannister

Unnamed tourney

Date: Between 285 AC and 290 AC

Tourney in celebration of Balon Greyjoy's defeat

Date: 289 AC, Main article: Tourney at Lannisport

After King Robert's forces defeated Greyjoy's Rebellion, a tourney was arranged in celebration at nearby Lannisport. Jorah Mormont, recently knighted for his valorous acts in the final battle at Pyke, won the tournament and with it the hand of Lynesse Hightower, whose favor he wore.

Champion: Jorah Mormont

Unnamed tourney in King's Landing

Date: 294 AC

Champion: Barristan Selmy

Unnamed tourney

Date: 297 AC

Tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day

Date: 298 AC, Main article: Tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day

Champion: Loras Tyrell

The Hand's tourney

The Knight of Flowers at the Hand's tourney (*Game of Thrones*)

Date: 298 AC, Main article: Hand's tourney

This tourney is described in great detail over a number of chapters in *A Game of Thrones*. It is held at King's Landing in honor of Eddard Stark, the newly appointed Hand of King Robert I Baratheon. It includes an archery tournament, a melee, and a round-based jousting competition. The jousting competition ends when Gregor Clegane attacks Loras Tyrell after their tilt. Sandor Clegane steps in and saves Loras's life, fighting his own brother to an impasse. After Robert puts a stop to the fighting, Loras yields the final tilt to Sandor in gratitude.

Champion: Sandor Clegane

Other participants: Yohn Royce,Hobber Redwyne, Patrek Mallister, Jared Frey, Hosteen Frey, Danwell Frey, Emmon Frey, Theo Frey, Perwyn Frey, Martyn Rivers, Jalabhar Xho, Arys Oakheart, Mandon Moore, Preston Greenfield

Archery champion: Anguy the Archer, defeating Balon Swann and Jalabhar Xho at the final distance

Melee champion: Thoros of Myr

Tourney on King Joffrey's name day

Date: 299 AC, Main article: Tourney on King Joffrey's name day

This tourney happens in the first Sansa chapter of *A Clash of Kings*. It is held at King's Landing in honor of the young King Joffrey I Baratheon. It is called off prematurely by the king after the Ser Dontos Hollard shames himself by appearing drunk.

Melee at Bitterbridge

Date: 299 AC, Main article: Melee at Bitterbridge

Only the end of this event, a large melee of 116 knights, is described in the books, Chapter 22 in *A Clash of Kings* and Chapter 20 in *A Feast for Crows*. The tourney is arranged by the self-proclaimed King Renly Baratheon (younger brother of the late Robert I Baratheon) at Bitterbridge on his march towards King's Landing during the War of the Five Kings.

Champion: Brienne of Tarth.

Melee at Runestone

Date: 300 AC

This is a melee for squires only.

Miscellaneous

The remaining results cannot be tied to a specific event. These encounters may have happened at the same tourney or not.




Annotations from item #46266812:

Hizdahr zo Loraq, Fourteenth of That Noble Name, is a Ghiscari noble of the city of Meereen. He is extremely wealthy and can trace his descent from several notable Ghiscari citizens such as Mazdhan the Magnificent, Hazrak the Handsome and Zharaq the Liberator..

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Appearance

See also: Images of Hizdahr zo Loraq

Hizdahr is a tall, very slender man

Hizdahr is a cunning

As befits his status of birth, Hizdahr often dresses in a tokar.

History

A merchant within Meereen, Hizdahr has become famously and fabulously rich.

Hizdahr has fathered two bastard children; a boy and a girl.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

After Daenerys takes Meereen she has the fighting pits closed. Hizdahr buys them at a reduced price and makes several petitions to Daenerys to reopen them.

With the Sons of the Harpy continuing to cause trouble in the streets, the High Priestess of Meereen, the Green Grace advises Daenerys to take a husband of Ghiscari blood to placate the Meereenese and recommends Hizdahr.

Though Daenerys is reluctant, she asks Hizdahr to bring her ninety days of peace with no more harpy killings before she will consider, and he agrees.

Daenerys dismisses this, however, and marries him. Although Daenerys has no desire for him, she is desperate for peace in Meereen. eagerly eats them instead.

During a fight between a boar and Barsena Blackhair, Drogon appears over the arena drawn by the stench of blood and noise of the crowd. Hizdahr becomes a king without his queen when Daenerys flees the area on Drogon's back.

Hizdahr tries to gain control of Meereen after the disappearance of Daenerys but Grey Worm and his Unsullied refuse to obey him and Ser Barristan Selmy considers Hizdahr vain and weak. Hizdahr removes Skahaz from command of the Brazen Beasts and appoints his cousin Marghaz zo Loraq over them. He takes up residence in the heart of the Great Pyramid during Daenerys's absence. Many of Daenerys's supporters, such as Barristan and Skahaz, later suspect Hizdahr of poisoning the locusts in hopes of getting rid of Daenerys, since he had offered her the food but did not touch it himself.

When the Yunkai lords along with Bloodbeard present Hizdahr with the head of Groleo and demand the deaths of the dragons in return of the Meereen hostages, Hizdahr states he must ponder their request. Barristan, who is present at this parley and had served three kings (Robert, Aerys and Jaehaerys), thinks that none of them would have acted as meekly as Hizdahr when presented with such a threat.

The delicate political situation leads Ser Barristan to talk with Skahaz mo Kandaq the Shavepate has continued their siege of Meereen.

Quotes by Hizdahr zo Loraq

Men are born to strive and suffer. Our woes only vanish when we die.

– Hizdahr, to Daenerys Targaryen

Before you came Meereen was dying. Our rulers were old men with withered cocks and crones whose puckered cunts were dry as dust. They sat atop their pyramids sipping apricot wine and talking of the glories of the Old Empire whilst the centuries slipped by and the very bricks of the city crumbled all around them. Custom and caution had an iron grip upon us till you awakened us with fire and blood. A new time has come, and new things are possible.

– Hizdahr, to Daenerys Targaryen

One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it comes.

– Hizdahr, to Daenerys Targaryen

Quotes about Hizdahr zo Loraq

I have to trust in Hizdahr.

Daenerys Targaryen

On her terrace, in her bathing pool, the little fish would nibble at her legs as she soaked. Even they kissed with more fervor than Hizdahr zo Loraq.

Daenerys Targaryen

Naked men felt vulnerable and were less inclined to acts of suicidal heroism.

Barristan Selmy's opinion of Hizdahr (taking note of his appearance) prior to capturing him.