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Prince Aeryn Targaryen was the sixthborn child of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen.

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Aerys II Targaryen, also called the Mad King and King Scab, was the seventeenth and last member of the Targaryen dynasty to sit the Iron Throne, ruling from 262 AC to 283 AC..

Aerys showed great promise at the start of his reign, bringing peace and prosperity to the Seven Kingdoms, but later descended into insanity, caused by, amongst other factors, multiple miscarriages and stillbirths, the deaths of three sons, and a brief uprising known as the Defiance of Duskendale, in which he was held prisoner for half a year by a rebellious lord. His paranoia and cruelty grew out of control. He was eventually killed by a member of his own Kingsguard, Ser Jaime Lannister, during Robert's Rebellion.

In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is played by David Rintoul who appears as the Mad King in flashbacks.

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Appearance and Character

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In his youth, while not being the most intelligent, nor the most diligent of princes, he was described as having an undeniable charm. He was generous, handsome and resolute, although somewhat quick to anger. He was also vain, proud, and changeable, traits that made him easy prey for lickspittles and flatterers. As he grew older, Aerys became increasingly jealous, suspicious and cruel, prone to furious outbursts.

After the Defiance of Duskendale, these characteristics became more pronounced. He began to see every unexplained event or act of minor defiance as evidence of fearful conspiracies against him, and devised sadistic punishments for those he imagined to be his enemies. He developed a fascination with fire, which eventually grew so consuming that he could only become sexually aroused by watching someone burn to death. His marriage to his sister-wife Rhaella, while never happy, became sexually abusive late in his reign.

By the end of his life, Aerys's madness had taken a serious toll on his appearance, so that although only forty years old at the time of his death, he looked much older. He ate little and became gaunt as a result of his fear of poison.

After repeatedly cutting himself on the Iron Throne Aerys developed a phobia of blades, and forbade any sharp implements in his presence other than the swords of his Kingsguard, refusing even to trim his nails or hair. His fingernails grew to cracked yellow claws nine inches long. His beard was matted and unwashed and his silver-gold hair hung down to his waist in wild tangles. His arms and legs were always covered with scabs and half-healed cuts from the Iron Throne. He wore the elaborate dragon-emblazoned crown of Aegon the Unworthy.

History

Early life

Aerys and Rhaella's unhappy wedding.

Aerys was born to Prince Jaehaerys, the second son of King Aegon V, and his sister-wife, Princess Shaera. While still a teenager, Aerys was married to his sister Rhaella, in accordance with the family tradition of dynastic incest. While Aerys's grandfather, King Aegon V Targaryen was against this incestuous marriage (as he had been against incestuous marriages for his own children), Jaehaerys was allowed to arrange it. Jaehaerys's motivation for the marriage was a prophecy, made by a woods witch, which had been interpreted to mean that the prince that was promised would be born of the line of Aerys and Rhaella.

During his youth, Aerys befriended the young heir to Casterly Rock, Tywin Lannister, who served as a page at the royal court. Aerys also befriended the heir to Storm's End, his cousin, Steffon Baratheon. The three became inseparable.

In 259 AC, Rhaella gave birth to their firstborn son and heir, Prince Rhaegar. He was *"born in blood and grief"* during the disaster known as the tragedy of Summerhall, which killed King Aegon V, his eldest son Prince Duncan, and many others.

Aerys was a squire during the War of the Ninepenny Kings, and fought in the Stepstones. There, at the age of sixteen, he received his knighthood. Aerys choose to be dubbed a knight by his friend, Tywin. When King Jaehaerys II passed away from illness in 262 AC, after having ruled for only three years, Prince Aerys was crowned as King Aerys II Targaryen.

Early reign

Aerys on the Iron Throne during his early reign, as depicted by Jennifer Drummond in *The World of Ice and Fire*.

Aerys's reign began in 262 AC with great promise. Over the peaceful first dozen years, the realm recovered from the tragic events at Summerhall and the War of the Ninepenny Kings, growing strong and prosperous. However, this would not remain.

Under his father and grandfather, the royal court at King's Landing had grown stuffy and conservative, filled with hidebound old men. Aerys brought sweeping changes, replacing many prominent officials with younger faces. Impressed by the ruthlessness young Ser Tywin Lannister had shown in dealing with a rebellion against House Lannister, he named Tywin as the Hand of the King.

Aerys did not lack ambition. Upon his coronation he declared it was his wish to be the greatest king in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, a conceit certain of his friends encouraged by suggesting one day he would be known as Aerys the Wise or Aerys the Great. Aerys was very active in the early years of his reign and held a splendid court. He loved music, dancing and masked balls, and was exceedingly fond of young beautiful women, filling the court with fair maidens from across the kingdoms. Some say he had as many mistresses as Aegon the Unworthy, though most historians highly doubt that. Whatever the case, Aerys always lost interest in his lovers fairly quickly.

King Aerys was full of schemes, boasting about his grand plans, then quickly forgetting about them in less than a moon's turn. Aerys boasted upon his coronation about invading the Stepstones and adding them to the Seven Kingdoms. When Lord Rickard Stark of Winterfell visited King's Landing in 264 AC, the king hatched a plan to build a new Wall hundreds of miles north of the current one and claim all the lands in between. After complaining about the stink of King's Landing in 265 AC, Aerys wanted to build a new city of white marble on the south bank of the Blackwater. In 267 AC, after a dispute with the Iron Bank of Braavos, Aerys claimed he would build a war fleet and bring the Titan of Braavos to its knees. When he visited Dorne in 270 AC, he told the Princess of Dorne that he would build an underwater canal and make the deserts bloom. Nothing ever came from any of these grandiose schemes, as Aerys was changeable and grew as bored with his ideas as quickly as they came to him.

Still, the Seven Kingdoms prospered during Aerys's reign, due to his Hand of the King, for Tywin Lannister was everything Aerys was not. Tywin was diligent, decisive, tireless, fiercely intelligent, just and stern. Eventually, Aerys came to regret his choice for Hand – not because of any lack of competence on Tywin's part, but rather the opposite.

Aerys and his Hand Tywin Lannister.

It was Tywin who settled the dispute with the Iron Bank of Braavos in 267 AC, as Tywin was shrewd enough not to make an enemy of the Iron Bank. He paid the Bank back the loans owed to them by the Iron Throne with the gold of Casterly Rock. Tywin also appeased the high lords by repealing all the laws, rights and protections that were granted to the smallfolk by King Aegon V Targaryen.

Tywin won the support of the wealthy merchants by reducing tariffs on shipping to Oldtown, Lannisport and King's Landing, which increased trade. He sternly punished any baker caught mixing sawdust with bread or any butcher selling horsemeat as beef. Tywin built new roads and repaired old ones, held splendid tournaments about the realm to the delight of knights and commons both. Despite these accomplishments, Tywin was little loved for he was also humorless, unforgiving, unbending, proud and insensitive. Traits that earned him many rivals, even his bannermen while greatly respecting him and loyally following him to war, bore him little love.

The relationship between Aerys and Tywin was always complicated. When he was still a prince, Aerys had developed a crush on Joanna Lannister who was to marry her cousin Tywin. Aerys was present at the wedding in 263 AC and drank too much during the feast, leading to him joking that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished and to taking certain liberties during the bedding. It is said that Tywin did not forget Aerys's behavior.

Aerys's marriage to his younger sister, Rhaella, was less happy than Tywin's. Aerys was known to keep many mistresses, and whilst Rhaella turned a blind eye to her husband's infidelities, she objected heavily against *"turning my ladies into whores"*. In 263 AC, Lady Joanna Lannister was dismissed by Rhaella, shortly after having married Tywin. Whilst no official reason was given for Joanna's abrupt dismissal, she was not the first of Rhaella's ladies to be dismissed in this fashion, nor was she the last.

Aerys's many relationships were not the only strain on his marriage. Rhaella's difficulties with childbirth played their part as well. In 263 AC and 264 AC, Rhaella had miscarriages. In 267 AC, whilst Aerys was away in the westerlands, Rhaella gave birth to the stillborn Princess Shaena. Prince Daeron, born in 279 AC, survived for only half a year. After Daeron, a second stillbirth followed in 270 AC, and a miscarriage in 271 AC. In 272 AC, Prince Aegon was born two months premature. He would die in 273 AC.

While Aerys was compassionate at first, comforting Rhaella in her grief, he turned suspicious in time. By 270 AC, he had decided that Rhaella had been unfaithful to him, and that none of the stillbirths, miscarriages and dead princes had been his, as the gods would not want a bastard to sit the Iron Throne. He soon confined Rhaella to Maegor's Holdfast, and ordered that two septa's would sleep in her bed from that moment forth, to ensure she would remain faithful.

Meanwhile, Aerys's relationship with his Hand was breaking down as well, the pair's friendship fraying. Where previously Aerys had heeded Tywin's counsel, he now often disagreed with his Hand and did the opposite of what Tywin suggested. When Myr and Tyrosh became involved in a trade war against Volantis, Lord Tywin suggested that Westeros remained neutral. King Aerys, in response, provided gold and arms to the Volantenese. When House Bracken and House Blackwood had a border dispute, Lord Tywin wanted to act in favor for House Blackwood, leading to Aerys siding with House Bracken. Over Tywin's objections, Aerys doubled the port fees for Oldtown and King's Landing and tripled them at Lannisport and other ports in Westeros. Trade suffered and a delegation of merchants arrived before the Iron Throne to protest. Aerys lied to them and blamed the matter on his Hand of the King stating;

Lord Tywin shits gold, but of late he has been constipated and had to find some other ways to fill our coffers.

Aerys restored the port fees to the previous levels, which won him much popularity and acclaim for himself, whilst the king's lies and actions left Tywin with nothing but scorn. Aerys objected to many of Tywin's appointments and filled the offices with men of his own choosing. When Tywin suggested his own brother, Ser Tygett Lannister, as master-at-arms for the Red Keep, Aerys appointed Ser Willem Darry instead.

By now, Aerys had become aware of the tales being told in his kingdoms; that it was Lord Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms and that Aerys was but a hollow figurehead. These statements greatly angered the king. When Lord Tywin's captain of guard, Ser Ilyn Payne, had been overheard to repeat this statement, Aerys had the man's tongue torn out with hot pincers.

Aerys deals with disturbing rumors by taking Ser Ilyn Payne's tongue with hot pincers.

In 272 AC, to celebrate Aerys's tenth year on the Iron Throne, Tywin hosted the Anniversary Tourney in King's Landing. Lady Joanna Lannister returned to the court for this event, bringing with her her six-year-old twins, Cersei and Jaime. Drunkenly, Aerys asked Joanna if nursing her children had ruined her breasts. Whilst the question was a great amusement for Lord Tywin's rivals, it humiliated Lady Joanna. Lord Tywin attempted to resign the next morning, but Aerys refused to accept. And thus, Tywin Lannister remained Hand of the King.

Courtiers at the court who wished to win the king's favor and gain advancement soon learned the best way to gain the king's eye was to mock and make japes about Lord Tywin. King Aerys continued to undermine and slight his Hand, which amused many lords who were rivals of Lord Tywin or who simply disliked the humorless man. Tywin Lannister suffered all these slights in silence, never showing any public display of weakness. When Joanna Lannister died in childbirth in 273 AC, the king had been heard to remark that Joanna had died, and Tywin had begotten his dwarf son instead from the gods, *"to teach him some humility at last"*. These reports would reach Casterly Rock, where Lord Tywin was in mourning. From that moment on, all the old affection between the old childhood friends was gone. Yet still, Lord Tywin continued to serve the realm as Hand of the King, whilst King Aerys grew increasingly violent, suspicious and erratic.

The king's madness abated slightly with the birth of another son, who he named Jaehaerys, in 274 AC. In fact, Jaehaerys's birth almost restored the king to his old self. This changed when Jaehaerys died later that same year. In a black rage, Aerys had the boys wet nurse beheaded, convinced it had been her fault. He soon had a change of heart, and declared that his mistress was to blame, having poisoned the young babe. Aerys had her and her entire family tortured and eventually executed. Under torture, all confessed to murdering Prince Jaehaerys, though their accounts on Jaehaerys's death greatly differed from one another.

After this deed, however, Aerys changed his mind yet again. He fasted for a fortnight, and made a walk of repentance across the city, to the Great Sept of Baelor. There, he prayed with the High Septon. When he returned, he announced that he would remain true to his wife and marital vows from that moment forth. From that day on in 275 AC, King Aerys II Targaryen lost interest in all other women.

In 276 AC, Rhaella gave birth to a son named Viserys. While the child was healthy enough, Aerys was paranoid about the boy's safety. Kingsguard knights were ordered to stand over the babe, day and night. No one, not even Queen Rhaella, was allowed to be alone with Viserys. Gifts that came from all over the realm for the new prince were piled up in the yard and burned on Aerys's orders, as the king feared they might be cursed or ensorcelled. When Rhaella's milk dried up, Aerys made his own food taster suckle on the nipples of the wet nurse, to ensure there was no poison on them.

Later that year, Lord Tywin Lannister staged a tournament in honor of Viserys's birth at Lannisport. It has been suggested by history that this tourney was arranged as a gesture for reconciliation.

The Defiance of Duskendale

Main article: Defiance of Duskendale

Aerys after the Defiance of Duskendale - by Marc Simonetti ©.

Lord Denys Darklyn of Duskendale desired to win a charter for Duskendale, which would give him more autonomy from the crown. He made his proposal to the crown in 277 AC, but Lord Tywin Lannister, however, refused the proposal, but Lord Denys would not give up so easily. Having noticed the deteriorated relationship between Aerys and Tywin, Lord Denys decided to withhold his payments to the crown, and instead invited the king to Duskendale to hear his petition for a new charter. While Aerys had intended to decline the invitation, the king changed his mind when Lord Tywin advised him to refuse in the strongest possible terms. Eager to demonstrate his ability to handle the situation without the help of his Hand, Aerys decided to settle the issue personally and bring the defiant Lord Darklyn to heel. Informing Grand Maester Pycelle and the small council of his decision, Aerys traveled to Duskendale taking a small force led by Ser Gwayne Gaunt of the Kingsguard, against Lord Tywin's advice. The invitation proved to be a trap, however, and Aerys walked right into it. Some of his escort (most notably Ser Gwayne) were killed trying to defend their king, Aerys was taken prisoner.

Outrage was the response to this news from Duskendale. As Hand of the King, it fell to Lord Tywin Lannister to resolve the crisis. He massed an army and laid siege to the town in what became known as the Defiance of Duskendale. The situation remained in a stalemate for six months, with Lord Denys threatening to execute the king at the first sign that Tywin intended to storm the town. In the end, it was Ser Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard who staged a daring infiltration and managed to rescue the king.

Lord Denys immediately surrendered and begged for mercy, but in his fury Aerys immediately had him beheaded. His rage still not sated, the king next ordered House Darklyn utterly destroyed, along with House Hollard, which had sided with them. Every last member of both families was tortured at excruciating length before being burned alive, with the sole exception of the child Dontos Hollard, who was spared only at Ser Barristan's pleading. Ser Barristan later developed doubts about his actions at Duskendale, wondering whether Aerys's death in Lord Denys's dungeon and Prince Rhaegar's ascent to the throne would not have spared the Seven Kingdoms much grief.

Following the Defiance

The Defiance of Duskendale plunged Aerys deeper into his descent into madness. Deeply shaken by his imprisonment, he refused to leave the Red Keep for the next four years. His jealous and suspicious nature deepened into paranoia and eventually outright delusions, seeing evidence of treachery everywhere.

Aerys's relations with Lord Tywin deteriorated even more rapidly. The king felt his Hand had wanted him to perish in the dungeons of Duskendale. Aerys also no longer trusted his wife or his heir. In his paranoia, Aerys believed that Tywin and Rhaegar had conspired to have him killed by storming Duskendale, so Rhaegar would ascend the Iron Throne and marry Tywin's daughter.

To prevent such conspiracies between Rhaegar and Tywin, Aerys summoned his old childhood friend, Lord Steffon Baratheon, to court, making him a member of the small council. Aerys publically announced Steffon would go to Volantis, to find a bride for Rhaegar of *"proud Valyrian blood"*. The fact that Aerys entrusted this task to Steffon instead of Tywin or Rhaegar caused many to mutter that Aerys intended to make Steffon his new Hand of the King, upon the successful completion of this mission, and that Aerys planned to have Lord Tywin arrested and executed for high treason. Many lords took delight in the prospect.

Fate had other plans. Lord Steffon's mission turned out to be a failure and on the return voyage his ship was caught in a storm and sank, just off the coast of Storm's End, in sight of his two eldest children, Robert and Stannis. Aerys got the notion in his head that Tywin had somehow assassinated Lord Steffon. He even stated to Pycelle that he could not dismiss Tywin as Hand, as Tywin would have him killed then as well. In the final years of his reign where Tywin was still Hand, Aerys never met with Lord Tywin unless all seven of the Kingsguard knights were present.

His paranoia and hysterical madness ever deepening, Aerys heard word of the talents of a certain eunuch named Varys. The eunuch was brought to court, and appointed as Aerys's master of whisperers on the small council. The king reasoned that only a foreigner with no competing loyalties in Westeros could be trusted to alert him of potential threats. The Spider, as Varys became known to the smallfolk, used the crowns gold to form a vast web of informers. Varys was always seen crouching at the king's side whispering in his ear.

Aerys also resolved the matter of Rhaegar's marriage. In early 279 AC, Prince Rhaegar was betrothed to Princess Elia Martell. In early 280 AC, the two were wed in a lavish ceremony at the Great Sept of Baelor. Fearing to be assassinated, Aerys refused to attend. Neither did he allow Prince Viserys to attend. Rhaegar and his new bride decided to take up residence on Dragonstone, instead of remaining in King's Landing, which led some to mutter that Rhaegar planned on disposing his father and seizing the throne. Others claimed that Aerys II meant to disinherit Rhaegar and name his younger son, Prince Viserys, the new heir. The birth of Princess Rhaenys, Aerys first grandchild, did not unite the estranged father and son. When Rhaegar presented the girl at court, Queen Rhaella embraced her grandchild warmly, but Aerys refused to touch her, stating that *"she smelled Dornish"*.

Aerys grew brutal, capricious and increasingly fascinated with fire, especially the highly flammable substance known as wildfire which was said to be a cousin to dragonflame. By 280 AC, Aerys had taken to using wildfire for executing alleged traitors, rather than hangings and beheadings. The pyromancers became a fixture at the king's court and Wisdom Rossart, who carried out the executions, was eventually named to the small council. All the executions by fire aroused the king and, while he and his wife had slept in separate chambers for some years and avoided each other by day as well, Aerys would always claim his marriage rights after such an execution by fire, brutally abusing his wife in bed.

Year of the False Spring

Aerys the Mad King, as depicted by Arthur Bozonnet in *The World of Ice & Fire*.

When a place in the Kingsguard became available, after Ser Harlan Grandison died in his sleep, Aerys decided to appoint Lord Tywin Lannister's eldest (and only able-bodied) son Ser Jaime as the youngest knight ever to join the order. Tywin, and later his son Jaime, came to believe that Aerys had intended this not as an honor but a slight to House Lannister, meant to deprive Tywin of his heir and allow Aerys to hold Jaime hostage for his father's loyalty. Unknown to Tywin, this scheme had originally been hatched by Tywin's very own daughter, Cersei, who had proposed the idea to King Aerys as she wished for Jaime to join the order as to prevent Tywin from betrothing him to Lysa Tully, as Tywin and Lord Hoster Tully had been discussing.

Aerys had made his announcement during court, and Tywin had thanked him openly for the honor the king bestowed upon his House. In reality, he had been furious, and pleading illness, Tywin resign his position as Hand and returned to Casterly Rock, with his daughter. Aerys accepted Tywin's resignation and appointed Lord Owen Merryweather as his replacement, an amiable but not especially competent old man whose main qualifications as Hand were his willingness to throw lavish feasts and offer the king constant flattery. The young knight Jaime would officially join the Kingsguard in a ceremony at a later date.

With Lord Tywin now gone from court, the new focus of Aerys' mistrust was his own son and heir Prince Rhaegar, who had become wary of his father's behavior.

Those loyal to the king were Lord Qarlton Chelsted, the master of coin, Lord Lucerys Velaryon, the master of ships, Lord Symond Staunton, the master of laws, Varys, the master of whisperers, and Wisdom Rossart. All enjoyed the king's trust and at court held great power and they had learned how to twist the king's madness to their own benefit, they had good reason to oppose Aerys' removal from the Iron Throne.

Rhaegar's supporters were young Lord Jon Connington, Ser Myles Mooton, Ser Richard Lonmouth, and the Dornishmen who accompanied him at court, including Princess Elia's uncle, Prince Lewyn Martell of the Kingsguard and Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning also of the Kingsguard and who was Rhaegar's dearest friend.

It fell to Grand Maester Pycelle and the Hand of the King, Lord Owen Merryweather the unenviable task of trying to keep the peace between the factions, Pycelle even dispatched a letter to the Citadel writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those before the Dance of the Dragons, Pycelle was fearful of a civil war between those loyal to the king and those who supported the prince would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.

Lord Walter Whent announced a tourney would be held at Harrenhal in either 280 AC or 281 AC[N 1] to rival any previous tournament. The tourney was to be held in 281 AC. It is believed by some that the tournament was secretly arranged and financed by Prince Rhaegar, as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet up with the great lords of the realm to discuss arranging a Great Council and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Lord Whent shortly after his brother Ser Oswell, of the Kingsguard, visited his older brother.

Aerys at first was counseled by Lord Chelsted to forbid the tourney, while Lord Staunton went as far to suggest the king should outlaw all tournaments. Lord Merryweather intervened by pointing out such events were extremely popular with the highborn and lowborn and that attempting to ban or outlaw tourneys would make King Aerys unpopular and strengthen Rhaegar. Aerys decided to attend the tournament, the first time he left the Red Keep since the Defiance of Duskendale, he also decided that the tournament would be the perfect place to initiate Ser Jaime Lannister into the Kingsguard.

Aerys also hoped his presence at the tourney would win back the love of his people. If that was his intention it backfired horrifically. Since the Defiance of Duskendale, the king had not taken care of his appearance. His fear of blades meant he would not permit his hair to be cut, or his nails to be groomed. His hair and beard were unwashed, matted and tangled, and his nails were yellow and grew nine inches in length. His fear and paranoia of poison had made him thin and gaunt. The lords and knights at the tourney were appalled at what their monarch had become. Nor was his behavior that of a sane man, going from mirth to melancholy at a snap of the fingers. His bouts of hysterical laughter, long silences, sudden rages and constant weeping made all present weary.

In contrast, Prince Rhaegar looked every inch a leader and warrior. Tall, clean, handsome, well groomed, this Prince was unstoppable in the lists, winning bout after bout. The young Jaime Lannister said his vows before the king with the realm looking on, a cheer went up as the young handsome knight joined the Kingsguard, a cheer that Aerys, at the time, believed to be for him.

A mystery knight, the Knight of the Laughing Tree, competed in the tournament. Certain the knight had concealed his identity because he was an enemy of the crown, Aerys ordered Rhaegar to discover his identity, but the mystery knight could not be found. Prince Rhaegar went on to win the tournament, and shocked all those present by crowning Lyanna Stark, rather than his wife, Princess Elia Martell, his Queen of Love and Beauty.

The next year, in 282 AC, sometime after the birth of Rhaegar's heir, Prince Aegon, Prince Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, apparently having kidnapped her.

Robert's Rebellion

Main article: Robert's Rebellion

Aerys's Hand at the start of the rebellion was still Lord Owen Merryweather, but he was quickly replaced for his failure to act to contain the unrest in its early stages. Aerys next turned to Lord Jon Connington, a close friend of Rhaegar's, who promised him to deliver Robert's head. However, Connington lost to rebel forces at Stoney Sept in the battle of the Bells and was exiled by Aerys because of it. As his new Hand, Aerys chose Lord Qarlton Chelsted., his final Hand.

After the battle of the Trident, in which Prince Rhaegar was slain and the royal army defeated, a rebel victory was all but certain. Aerys sent Queen Rhaella (then newly pregnant with Princess Daenerys) and Prince Viserys to Dragonstone to escape the coming Sack of King's Landing. However, he kept Princess Elia and her young children Rhaenys and Aegon with him at the Red Keep, believing they were necessary as hostages to ensure the loyalty of House Martell and Dorne. This decision would ultimately lead to their brutal deaths at the hands of Ser Amory Lorch and Ser Gregor Clegane.

Sack of King's Landing

Main article: Sack of King's Landing

Jaime Lannister kills Aerys during the Sack of King's Landing.

Hours before the vanguard of Lord Eddard Stark's rebel host would arrive, twelve thousand westermen under Tywin Lannister reached King's Landing and pledged their loyalty to King Aerys. Varys advised the king not to admit them to the city, but Grand Maester Pycelle argued that the Lannisters should be trusted. Aerys made the fateful choice to listen to Pycelle, and opened the city gates. The Lannister forces promptly began sacking the city in the name of King Robert.

Realizing this was the end, Aerys summoned Lord Rossart and Ser Jaime Lannister, the last remaining Kingsguard knight. Aerys had retained Jaime throughout the war to ensure Tywin's loyalty, though up until that point House Lannister had been neutral in the rebellion. Jaime would later remark upon the irony of the Mad King's belief that he could not be harmed if he kept Jaime close. Aerys commanded Jaime to kill his father, then gave Rossart the long-awaited order to ignite the wildfire caches and burn the city to the ground.

Jaime later suggested that much like his mad great-uncle Aerion the Monstrous before him, Aerys held the delusional belief that he would not die in the inferno, but rather would be transformed by the flames into a dragon, giving him the power to crush his enemies. However, before the plot could be carried out, Jaime slew Lord Rossart and then King Aerys, preventing the orders from reaching anyone else and thus saving the entire population of King's Landing, while earning himself the epithet Kingslayer. Robert Baratheon claimed the Iron Throne, and the reign of the Targaryen dynasty was ended.

Small Council under Aerys II

During the reign of King Aerys his small council had the following known members:

Quotes by Aerys

The traitors want my city ... but I'll give them naught but ashes. Let Robert be king over charred bones and cooked meat.

I want him dead, the traitor. I want his head, you'll bring me his head, or you'll burn with all the rest. All the traitors.

– Aerys, to Jaime Lannister

You are my most able servant, Tywin, but a man does not marry his heir to his servant's daughter.

– Aerys, to Tywin Lannister

Quotes about Aerys

Aerys was dead on the floor, drowned in his own blood. His dragon skulls stared down from the walls. Lannister's men were everywhere. Jaime wore the white cloak of the Kingsguard over his golden armor. I can see him still. Even his sword was gilded. He was seated on the Iron Throne, high above his knights, wearing a helm fashioned in the shape of a lion's head. How he glittered!

Eddard Stark, to Robert I Baratheon

Aerys was mad, the whole realm knew it.

Catelyn Stark, to Jaime Lannister

Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that.

Brienne of Tarth, to Jaime Lannister

A crowned beast.

Jaime Lannister's thoughts

Family

Notes

  1. *The World of Ice & Fire* lists 280 AC in *"The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II", but 281 AC in *"The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring". It is unconfirmed which date is correct.



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Aerys I Targaryen was Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and the thirteenth Targaryen king to sit the Iron Throne. He succeeded his father, King Daeron II Targaryen.

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Appearance and Character

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According to semi-canon sources, Aerys was bookish. He was spindly and stooped, with long, straight hair. He had a long, thin face, a long, thin mustache and a long pointed beard. He wore the crown of Aegon IV Targaryen.

Aerys was a bookish man who preferred reading to ruling, and it was said in the Seven Kingdoms that "Aerys would sooner bring a book to his bed rather than his wife".

History

Youth

Aerys Targaryen was the second son of King Daeron II Targaryen and Queen Mariah Martell.

He was married to his cousin, Lady Aelinor Penrose, but he never showed any interest in getting her with child, instead shunning her bed. Rumor had it that Aerys had not even consummated the marriage.

Aerys's nephew Prince Aegon once recalled that as a boy he heard Aerys read about the return of dragons in a prophecy.

Reign

After the death of Daeron II and his nephews Valarr and Matarys (sons of his elder brother, Baelor in the Great Spring Sickness, Aerys became king. The plague continued for some time under his rule. His reign was troubled by sickness, drought, and war. The Blackfyre Pretenders and their allies launched two rebellions during his reign.

Upon becoming king, Aerys appointed his uncle, Brynden Rivers, known as Bloodraven, as Hand and let him rule while he occupied himself with the study of books and lore.

Aerys's reign began during the Great Spring Sickness, and at its start, suffered a great drought.

Because Aerys was seen as bookish and weak, the Blackfyres tried to take advantage. Lord Gormon Peake, a Blackfyre loyalist, smuggled Daemon II Blackfyre across the narrow sea and attempted to gather support for an insurrection, the Second Blackfyre Rebellion. Thanks to Bloodraven's network of spies and the actions of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, this rebellion at the Whitewalls tourney ended with relatively little bloodshed.

Aerys's brother and heir, Prince Rhaegel, died in 215 AC by choking on a lamprey pie. Rhaegel's son, Prince Aelor, was named heir and made Prince of Dragonstone. Aelor died in 217 AC in a mishap caused by his twin sister, Princess Aelora, who would commit suicide an unknown amount of time later. Aerys's last heir was his youngest brother, Prince Maekar.

The Third Blackfyre Rebellion was launched in 219 AC and ended with the capture of Aegor Rivers and the death of Haegon I Blackfyre. Aegor Rivers was brought to King's Landing in chains and while Brynden Rivers and Prince Aerion wanted him put to death, King Aerys overruled them and sentenced him to take the black instead. The ship that was tasked to deliver Rivers to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, however, was intercepted by Blackfyre loyalists. Rivers was rescued and returned to the Golden Company and crowned Haegon's eldest son, Daemon III Blackfyre.

Throughout his reign, Aerys acknowledged four different heirs. First came his brother Rhaegel, who died in 215 AC when he chocked on a lamprey pie.

Quotes about Aerys

His Grace cares more for old scrolls and dusty prophecies than for lords and laws. He will not even bestir himself to sire an heir. Queen Aelinor prays daily at the Great Sept, beseeching the Mother Above to bless her with a child, yet she remains a maid. Aerys keeps his own apartments, and it is said he would sooner take a book to bed than any woman.

Sefton Staunton, to Duncan the Tall

In Dagon's day a weak king sat the Iron Throne, his rheumy eyes fixed across the narrow sea where bastards and exiles plotted rebellion. So forth from Pyke Lord Dagon sailed, to make the Sunset Sea his own.

– thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy

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Annotation #1 for item #46264368: Wiki: Aerys Targaryen

The following members of House Targaryen are named Aerys Targaryen:

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For other articles sharing the same title, please see this disambiguation page.

Aerys Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen and Lord of Dragonstone before Aegon's Conquest. He was the son of Lord Aegon Targaryen and his sister-wife Elaena Targaryen. He was the father of Aelix, Baelon and Daemion Targaryen.

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Aethan is a ranger of the Night's Watch of Castle Black.

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Aethan is part of the great ranging beyond the Wall led by Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, where he is under the command of Thoren Smallwood.




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Aethan Velaryon was a head of House Velaryon and Lord of the Tides. He had sons and at least one daughter.

History

Aethan served King Aegon I Targaryen as lord admiral and master of ships.

A Lord Velaryon, possibly Aethan, advised King Maegor I to wed Princess Rhaena Targaryen.

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Aethelmure was a Grand Maester of the Citadel.'s library.

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While Tyrion Lannister does some reading in the library, Septon Chayle falls asleep over Aethelmure's biography.

When, during a meeting with Grand Maester Pycelle, Eddard Stark suggests to him that Jon Arryn could have been poisoned, the Grand Maester rebuffs him, asking who would do such a thing. Pycelle tells him that they are not the Free Cities where such things are common and quotes Aethelmure's view on a person who would stoop to using poison.

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...all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

- Pycelle quoting to Eddard Stark what Grand Maester Aethelmure stated about poison




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Against the Unnatural is a book written by Maester Vanyon. It contains certain proofs of dragons having existed in Westeros even in the earliest of days, before Valyria's rise to power. The work considers as far-fetched the claim that Valyrian bloodmages experimented with unnatural arts to create dragons.




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The Age of Heroes was an era during the history of Westeros which takes its name from the great men and women who lived in the years of peace that followed the forging of the Pact between the First Men and the children of the forest.

Many noble houses trace their family histories to the Age of Heroes and many stories, songs, and legends are told about it. is defined by them.

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The Age of Heroes began with the signing of the Pact on the Isle of Faces. The Pact ended the war of the First Men and the children of the forest and lasted for nearly four thousand years.

During that time, a hundred kingdoms rose and fell. This was a rugged time where many ancient traditions and legacies forged by the First Men were established, with influence from the children. Many of these customs live on among the lords of the North, who still bear the blood of the First Men in their veins. The laws of hospitality, the obligation of a judge to also be the executioner, and the renowned Wall are all accredited to these ancestors of the northmen; the barrows of the First Men can still be found throughout the North. This was the time when many legendary kings and heroes walked the earth, such as:

Other royal houses from the era include the Blackwoods,

While much was achieved during this ancient era, it was at a cost - in the midst of the Age of Heroes fell the longest and blackest of winters - the Long Night which heralded the arrival of the Others. During this time it was also recorded by the Night's Watch that the children of the forest gave the defenders of the Wall a hundred obsidian daggers every year.

Quotes

The oldest histories we have were written after the Andals came to Westeros. The First Men only left us runes on rocks, so everything we know about the Age of Heroes and the Dawn Age and the Long Night comes from accounts set down by septons thousands of years later. There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it. Those old histories are full of kings who reigned for a hundred years, and knights riding around a thousand years before there were knights.

- Samwell Tarly, to Jon Snow

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The Age of the Hundred Kingdoms was a broad period of Westerosi history.

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Definition

The term "Age of the Hundred Kingdoms" has thus far only been mentioned in *The World of Ice & Fire. In a 2012 panel at World Con, George R. R. Martin spoke of: *"...The history of Westeros, and the ages before: the Dawn Age, and the Age of Heroes, and the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms..."

Although the start and end of this time period has not been specified, several indications are given. King Arlan I Durrandon extended the domains of his kingdoms as far as the Blackwater Rush and the headwaters of the Mander during the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms.. This usage indicates that the term "Age of the Hundred Kingdoms" was still applied even during the past four to five centuries before the Targaryen Conquest.

The Darklyns of Duskendale are known to have been kings of Duskendale in days of the Hundred Kingdoms The usage of the Darklyns having been kings both in the days of the Hundred Kingdoms and during the Age of Heroes leads to the possibility that the two time periods overlap.

The terms "Age of the Hundred Kingdoms" or "Hundred Kingdoms" in their capitalized form have thus far only been used in The World of Ice & Fire and are absent from any other material from *A Song of Ice and Fire. However, several references to this time period might be found in *A Game of Thrones. Old Nan refers to "the hundred kingdoms" of the First Men spread across Westeros when the Long Night occurred. If meant to indicate the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms, they would place the start of this time period before the Long Night and indicate an overlap between the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms and the Age of Heroes. However, it has not been confirmed whether these statements refer to the specific time period known as the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms or not.

Importantly, according to Maester Yandel, "Hundred Kingdoms" is just a broad common usage; Westeros was never literally divided in a hundred independent kingdoms.

By region

Crownlands

Although the crownlands were only created after Aegon's Conquest. Prior to House Targaryen's victory, the region contained local petty kings and was also disputed by kings from afar, such as the Storm Kings and river kings.

Dorne

Dorne was a patchwork of kingdoms until its unification by House Nymeros Martell during Nymeria's War.

Iron Islands

In antiquity, each of the Iron Islands had its own rock king and salt king. A high king wearing a driftwood crown was eventually chosen through kingsmoots. House Greyiron eventually made the title King of the Iron Islands hereditary, which was continued by House Hoare. The Hoares later became Kings of the Isles and the Rivers.

North

Over thousands of years the Kings of Winter from House Stark subdued the other kingdoms of the north. In later centuries the Starks were known as Kings in the North.

Reach

The Reach once consisted of various kingdoms which were consolidated by the Kings of the Reach from House Gardener.

Possibly once-sovereign houses include:

Riverlands

The riverlands of old were divided by numerous petty monarchs, although some river kings grew to become Kings of the Trident or Kings of the Rivers and the Hills. The riverlands eventually passed first to the Storm Kings from House Durrandon and then the Kings of the Isles and the Rivers from House Hoare.

Stormlands

The Storm Kings of House Durrandon conquered what is now the stormlands, although their rule was threatened by petty kings during the Andal invasion.

Vale

The Vale of Arryn consisted of a score of petty kingdoms which were conquered during the Andal invasion, after which they were ruled by the Kings of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.

Possibly once-sovereign houses include:

Westerlands

The westerlands were gradually consolidated by the Kings of the Rock from House Lannister.

Possibly once-sovereign houses include:

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Aggar is an ironborn warrior.

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Aggar is one of Theon Greyjoy's crew members. He takes part in the capture of Winterfell and accompanies Theon during the search for Bran Stark and his companions.

A Dance with Dragons

As more men turn up mysteriously dead in Winterfell Theon Greyjoy thinks to himself that it all seems so familiar, like a mummer show that he had seen before. Except this time the mummers have changed, Roose Bolton is playing the part that Theon once played and the dead mean are playing the parts of Aggar, Gynir Rednose, and Gelmarr the Grim.




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Aggo is a Dothraki horserider of Daenerys Targaryen's khas who later becomes one of her bloodriders.

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A Game of Thrones

Aggo is one of four Dothraki warriors assigned to the *khas* of Daenerys Targaryen within the *khalasar* of Khal Drogo. He accompanies Daenerys during her visit to the Western Market in Vaes Dothrak. He helps stop an assassination attempt on Daenerys's life by a wineseller.

When Daenerys attempts to heal Drogo with Mirri Maz Duur's aid, his bloodriders attempt to stop her. Cohollo is prevented from slitting Daenerys's throat when he is killed by an arrow from Aggo.

When Daenerys names Aggo ko and asks him to become one of her bloodriders alongside Jhogo and Rakharo, she offers him the dragonbone bow she received as a present during her wedding. He is at first reluctant, but he accepts after the dragons are born.

A Clash of Kings

During their journey across the red waste, Aggo tells Daenerys that Drogon is Balerion the Black Dread reincarnated.

While her *khalasar* rests in Vaes Tolorro after crossing the red waste, Daenerys orders her three bloodriders to scout out the country, each one in a different direction. Aggo leaves to the south-west, where he find nothing but sterile desert and the ruins of two abandoned cities, one of which is warded by skulls and the other where he finds an iron bracelet, which he brings back to Daenerys.

Aggo accompanies Daenerys to the House of the Undying, where he asks her to allow him and Jhogo to go with her and protect her as her sworn bloodrider, though Daenerys insists there are places even a khal must walk alone.

Afterwards, Aggo, along with Jhogo, rides with Daenerys to Qarth's waterfront to seek a ship, where he buys a skewer of honey-roasted mice to eat.

A Storm of Swords

Aggo guards Daenerys when she visits the Plaza of Pride to discuss the purchase of Unsullied slaves.

He is present when Daenerys purchases and turns the Unsullied upon the slavers of Astapor. The night before the battle, Daenerys sees him fit a new string to his dragonbone bow, and recalls his opinion that Eroeh's rape by Mago was the Lhazareen girl's fate.

Aggo leads the litter during the Battle of Astapor, and feathers several Good Masters and Astapori slavers on the day of the battle with his great bow, calmly mowing down anyone with tokars with pinpoint precision.

On the march to Yunkai, Aggo and his fellow bloodriders are also made kos by Daenerys and are put in charge of commanding the 30-odd mounted khalasar remaining to her, leaving their guarding duties to Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas. Aggo later participates in the battle of Yunkai, successfully leading the Dothraki mounted warriors in wedge formation against the enemy center.

During the siege of Meereen, Aggo almost comes to blows with Jhogo and Rakharo over who would fight Oznak zo Pahl, the Hero of Meereen; Daenerys ultimately stops her bloodriders from fighting, deeming them brave but too young and valuable to lose.

A Dance with Dragons

Aggo, Jhogo and Rakharo are commanded by Daenerys to use her khalasar to subdue the hinterlands of Meereen and end the slavery there.

Daenerys later recalls Aggo and her other bloodriders back to Meereen. They arrive in time to assist her in feeding the thousands of survivors from the siege of Astapor, where Aggo expresses disgust at the cannibalism of the diseased refugees. He later watches in disbelief as Daenerys and his comrades help the sufferers of the bloody flux.

Aggo later accompanies Daenerys to Daznak's Pit as part of the royal procession's guard.

Quotes

We are blood of your blood, sworn to live and die as you do.

– Aggo, to Daenerys Targaryen




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Aglantine is a septa of the Faith of the Seven in King's Landing. She has white hair and a sharp face.

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A Feast for Crows

Septas Moelle, Aglantine, Helicent and Nysterica examine Margaery Tyrell to see if her maidenhead is still intact, which they find is not. This is the grounds for her arrest by the Faith on charges of infidelity.




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Agnes Blackwood was a Lady of Raventree Hall and head of House Blackwood.

History

Agnes led the Blackwoods when King Harwyn Hoare of the Iron Islands invaded the northern riverlands. After Samwell Rivers' small force was destroyed by Harwyn on the Tumblestone, Lord Tommen Tully joined his strength to that of Agnes at Raventree Hall. When she marched on Harwyn's ironborn, however, Agnes was attacked from behind by her neighboring rival, Lord Lothar Bracken. Lothar delivered Agnes and two of her sons to Harwyn, who strangled the boys himself. Harwyn offered to make Agnes a salt wife, as he was impressed with her demeanor, but she said she would rather die; he stabbed her after her rejection. The defeat of the Blackwoods ended the rivermen's resistance to Harwyn, but the Storm King Arrec Durrandon then marched on the ironborn.

Quotes

I have other sons. Raventree shall endure long after you and yours are cast down and destroyed. Your line shall end in blood and fire.

- Agnes to Harwyn Hoare (attributed by Maester Yandel to singers)

I would sooner have your sword inside me than your cock.

- Agnes to Harwyn Hoare




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Archmaester Agrivane is an archmaester at the Citadel in Oldtown.




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Ser Aladale Wynch is a knight of House Wynch. He is a ranger of the Night's Watch.

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A Storm of Swords

Aladale is slain during the fight at the Bridge of Skulls, where Bowen Marsh forces wildlings, led by the Weeper, to retreat.




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Ser Aladore Florent was a knight of House Florent during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen. He was the heir of the Lord of Brightwater Keep.

History

Ser Aladore is listed in the roll of arms as participating in the tourney at Ashford Meadow, 209 AC.




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Ser Alan Beesbury was a knight and member of House Beesbury during the Dance of the Dragons.

History

Alan supported Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks.

Alan, Lord Owen Costayne, and Lord Alan Tarly trapped Lord Ormund Hightower's forces between them and Lord Thaddeus Rowan and the Bastard of Bitterbridge and the banks of the Honeywine. Lord Hightower's lines were starting to crumble and defeat seemed all but a forgone conclusion. However, Daeron Targaryen joined the Battle on the Honeywine on his dragon Tessarion, turning the battle for the greens. Alan was captured after the battle.




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Alan Tarly was the Lord of Horn Hill and head of House Tarly during the Dance of the Dragons.

History

Lord Tarly supported Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks.

Supported by Lord Owen Costayne and Ser Alan Beesbury, Alan trapped Lord Ormund Hightower's forces between them and Lord Thaddeus Rowan and the Bastard of Bitterbridge along the banks of the Honeywine. Lord Hightower's lines were starting to crumble and defeat seemed all but a forgone conclusion. However, Daeron Targaryen joined the Battle on the Honeywine on his dragon Tessarion, turning the battle for the Greens. Alan was captured after the Battle on the Honeywine.




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Alan o' the Oak, also known as the Blind Bowman, is a legendary figure from the Age of Heroes that founded House Yew.




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Alan of Rosby is a ranger of the Night's Watch, stationed at Castle Black. He comes from Rosby in the crownlands. He is a good archer.

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A Storm of Swords

Alan survives the fight at the Fist during the great ranging beyond the Wall and is among the survivors that make it to Craster's Keep.

A Feast for Crows

Alan remains at Craster's Keep after the death of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.

A Dance With Dragons

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




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Alannys Harlaw is the wife of Lord Balon Greyjoy and sister to Lord Rodrik Harlaw. She had four children with Balon; Rodrik, Maron, Asha and Theon. She is nicknamed "Lanny" by her brother, Lord Rodrik.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alannys Harlaw

Alannys has long white hair and thin skin. Although never a conventional beauty, she once had a strong face and laughing eyes. She has become frail and sickly,

Alannys has lost much of her mental faculties, frequently forgetting that her sons Rodrik and Maron have died.

History

During her husband's rebellion, Alannys was briefly the Queen of the Iron Islands. Her eldest two sons, Rodrik and Maron, were killed during the rebellion, however, and her youngest son, Theon, was taken by Lord Eddard Stark as a hostage. After the war, Alannys brought five boys, including Tristifer Botley, to Pyke to foster.

As time passed, Alannys began to roam the halls of Pyke in search of her lost sons, even walking the rope bridge to the Sea Tower while barefoot.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

When Theon Greyjoy returns home, his mother is on Harlaw and not expected to return to Pyke due to her poor health.

Alannys's husband, Lord Balon Greyjoy, declares himself King of the Isles and the North.

A Storm of Swords

Alannys is widowed after Balon falls to his death from Pyke.

A Feast for Crows

Alannys lives in the Widow's Tower at Ten Towers, the castle of her brother, Lord Rodrik Harlaw. Asha visits Alannys before her departure for Deepwood Motte. Her brother Rodrik feels that Alannys is beginning to recover on Harlaw, though she is still frail, but Asha thinks that Alannys is a shadow of her former self. Alannys is convinced that her husband Balon was murdered. She also gives her consent to Tristifer Botley for him to marry Asha.

Quotes about Alannys

The cold winds have worn her away.

Asha Greyjoy to Theon Greyjoy

Is this my mother, or her ghost?

Asha Greyjoy's thoughts

Asha: How is she?
Rodrik: Stronger. She may yet outlive us all. She will certainly outlive you, if you persist in this folly. She eats more than she did when she first came here, and oft sleeps through the night.

- Asha Greyjoy and Rodrik Harlaw

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Alaric of Eysen is a far-traveled singer.

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A Storm of Swords

Symon Silver Tongue informs Tyrion Lannister that Alaric is one of the seven singers chosen to sing at the wedding feast of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Lady Margaery Tyrell, where he will compete for a gilded lute with silver strings.

A Feast for Crows

Alaric remains in King's Landing and occasionally plays for Queen Margaery Tyrell and her entourage.

Behind the Scenes

Alaric is a reference by George R. R. Martin to Tales of Alaric the Minstrel by Phyllis Eisenstein. *A Storm of Swords* is dedicated to Phyllis, "who made [George] put the dragons in."




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Alayaya, sometimes called Yaya, is a prostitute working at the whorehouse owned by her mother, Chataya, in King's Landing.

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Alayaya is a beautiful young Summer Islander who speaks the Common Tongue with only a light accent. She is taller than Shae but not as tall as her own mother.

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A Game of Thrones

Anguy spends the small fortune he had won at the Hand's tourney on Jayde, Alayaya and Dancy, girls from Chataya's brothel, roast swan, and Arbor wine.

A Clash of Kings

Thanks to Varys, who shows him a secret passage between a small stable and Chataya's establishment, Tyrion Lannister uses Alayaya as a cover for his nocturnal visits to Shae.

A Storm of Swords

After receiving his new knighthood, Bronn visits Chataya's brothel and sleeps with Alayaya and Marei simultaneously.

Quotes about Alayaya

You are very beautiful, Alayaya. From head to heels, every part of you is lovely.

Tyrion Lannister

Alayaya was a whore, true enough, but a sweeter, braver, more innocent girl he had seldom met.

- Tyrion's thoughts

They tied her to a post in the yard and scourged her, then shoved her out the gate naked and bloody.

Bronn

At Chataya's I bedded the black-skinned girl. Alayaya, I believe she is called. Exquisite, despite the stripes on her back.

Oberyn Martell




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Alayne was the mother of Petyr Baelish.

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Recent events

A Storm of Swords

Petyr Baelish gives Sansa Stark the name "Alayne", after his mother, when disguising her as his bastard daughter, Alayne Stone.

Quotes

Petyr: What should you be called?

Sansa: I ... I could call myself after my mother...
Petyr: Catelyn? A bit too obvious ... but after my mother, that would serve. Alayne. Do you like it?

Sansa: Alayne is pretty.

Petyr Baelish and Sansa Stark

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Alayne Stone meets Harrold Hardyng prior to a tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights.

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Ser Albar Royce is a knight and the eldest son and heir of Lord Nestor Royce, Keeper of the Gates of the Moon.

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Appearance

Albar is broad shouldered.

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A Game of Thrones

Ser Albar is present at the Eyrie when Tyrion Lannister demands trial by combat. He offers himself as a champion for Lady Lysa Arryn, but she prefers Ser Vardis Egen to him.

A Feast for Crows

Albar comes with his father Nestor to the Eyrie to hear Marillion confess that he killed Lysa. Albar does not like Marillion very much, as the singer made a song about pigs eating a falcon's droppings. As the arms of House Arryn displays a falcon and Albar and his father were in service to House Arryn, they consider the song insulting.

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Albett is a young recruit of the Night's Watch. He is called Pimple by Ser Alliser Thorne.

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A Game of Thrones

Albett is in the same group of recruits as Jon Snow when he comesto the Wall. He is given the nickname "Pimple" by Ser Alliser Thorne. After Jon intervenes during a practice session between Halder and Samwell Tarly, Alliser sends Albett and Rast to help Halder beat Jon. However, Pypar and Grenn aid Jon, and after a relatively quick fight, Albett yields after watching his two comrades fall.

A Clash of Kings

Albett is stationed at Castle Black.




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Albin Manwoody was the last king of House Manwoody in Dorne.

Character

Albin was a troublesome madman who claimed dominion over the Red Mountains.

History

Albin was defeated in Nymeria's War and was one of the six kings sent to the Wall by Nymeria.




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The alchemist is a man encountered by Pate, a novice of the Citadel, in Oldtown. It is unknown if he is connected with the Alchemists Guild of King's Landing.

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Appearance

See also: Jaqen H'ghar/Theories

The alchemist is a young man with a hooked nose and thick, black, curly hair. He has the shadow of a beard and there is a faint scar on his right cheek.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

The serving wench Rosey of the Quill and Tankard inn introduces the novice Pate to a hooded stranger, who dances a gold dragon coin over his knuckles and says he will exchange the gold for the iron key of Archmaester Walgrave, whom Pate serves. Desiring the coin so he can buy Rosey's maidenhood, Pate is given three days to consider.

Three days later, Pate is at the Quill and Tankard with the key he stole from Walgrave's strongbox. Pate completes his transaction with the alchemist in a narrow alley. He is hesitant, because an archmaester's key is supposed to be capable of opening any door in the Citadel, such as to locked vaults containing rare Valyrian scrolls. Pate bites the coin as he has seen others do. When the alchemist reveals his face, Pate does not recognize the young man. Pate gives the alchemist the key and leaves, but, his legs weak and his heart hammering, he falls and dies.

When Samwell Tarly meets Archmaester Marwyn at the Citadel, a novice with the same features as the late Pate is present in his chambers. He identifies Marwyn's glass candle as obsidian, and listens as Sam tells his story. When Marwyn leaves for Slaver's Bay, he commands Sam to stay and forge a maester's chain and help with the ravens. The novice tells Sam that there is an empty sleeping cell under his own in the west tower of the Ravenry, with steps that lead to Archmaester Walgrave's chambers. Sam thinks there is something about the pale, soft youth that he dislikes, and the novice introduces himself as Pate, "like the pig boy".

Quotes

Pate: Who are you?
Alchemist: An alchemist. I can change iron into gold.

- Pate and the alchemist

Pate: I do not know you.

Alchemist: Nor I you.
Pate: Who are you?

Alchemist: A stranger. No one. Truly.

- Pate and the alchemist




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The term Alchemists may refer to:




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*"Pyromancer" redirects here. For other magic practitioners controling fire, see Firemage.*

Two members of the Alchemist's Guild with wildfire, illustrated by Joshua Cairos. © FFG

The Alchemist's Guild Hall, illustrated by Jonny Klein. © FFG

The Alchemists' Guild

A full member of the Alchemists' Guild is called a *wisdom*. There are also apprentices and acolytes to assist them.

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Organization

In its earlier years, the guild was very powerful, but by the reign of King Robert I Baratheon their abilities and influence have been greatly diminished. Now only a few of the old order remain..

The alchemists claimed to be able to transmute metals and create living creatures of flame, at the height of their power. In more recent times, they are still likely to hint at possessing vast secret stores of knowledge, though they only demonstrate the skill to create wildfire, which they call the substance. The wildfire is created in the Guildhall, located on the Street of the Sisters, close to Visenya's Hill in King's Landing.

History

Reign of Aegon IV Targaryen

King Aegon IV Targaryen, who had dreamed of conquering Dorne, commanded the Guild of Alchemists to build him "dragons". Thus, the alchemists constructed massive devices fitted with pumps that shot jets of wildfire. One of the engines went up in flames in the kingswood and soon all seven burned, taking a quarter of the kingswood with them and forcing Aegon to abandon his scheme.

Reign of Daeron II Targaryen

Because of the Great Spring Sickness, Hand of the King Lord Brynden Rivers had the pyromancers burn the corpses that had been piled in the Dragonpit. A quarter of King's Landing burned in the aftermath.

Reign of Aegon V Targaryen

Pyromancers are mentioned in the fragments of Gyldayn's writings which survived the tragedy at Summerhall.

Reign of Aerys II Targaryen

The alchemists enjoyed a period of increased influence during the reign of King Aerys II Targaryen. The Alchemists visited court more frequently as King Aerys's fascination with wilfire grew larger..

The three wisdoms during Robert's Rebellion were Lord Rossart, Garigus and Belis. King Aerys tasked them with creating a vast quantity of wildfire to potentially destroy King's Landing, should the war be lost. When Lord Qarlton Chelsted, the Hand of the King, opposed the plan and renounced his duties in disgust, Aerys had him burned to death with wildfire and made Rossart as his next and final Hand..

Days after the Sack of King's Landing, Jaime Lannister hunted down Garigus and Belis and killed them.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

During the War of the Five Kings, Cersei Lannister commissions a great quantity of wildfire for the defenses of King's Landing. The alchemists report an unexplainable increase in the effectiveness of their spells, where it is quickly noted that it had not been as easy since the time of the dragons, which allowed them to create the substance more quickly.

A Feast for Crows

Lord Hallyne and his Guild of Alchemists are employed by Queen Regent Cersei Lannister to burn down the Tower of the Hand.

Quotes

Wildfire is but one of the dread secrets of our ancient order. Many and wondrous are the things we might show you.

Hallyne to Tyrion Lannister

King Aerys took a great interest in our work.

Hallyne to Tyrion Lannister

His brother Jaime had told him a few stories of the Mad King and his pet pyromancers.

- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts




Annotations from item #46264397:

The Alchemists of the Free City of Lys are master poisoners renowned for preparing lethal substances such as the Tears of Lys;




Annotations from item #46264398:

Alcoholic beverages are popular in the known world.

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Varieties

Common alcoholic drinks include beer, fermented milk, hippocras, liquors, mulled spirits, rum, mead, cider, and wine. They are often served to the public in beer halls, brothels, inns, taverns, and winesinks. Lords often have beverages available in their halls and keeps as well.

Alcoholism

Some characters in *A Song of Ice and Fire* suffer from alcoholism.

Alcoholics

King Robert Baratheon in his cups - © FFG

Alcoholic tendencies

King Robert Baratheon passed out drunk - © FFG

Reformed alcoholics

Quotes

A wedding feast was not a battle, but there were always dangers when men were in their cups, and a king should never be unguarded.

- Catelyn Stark's thoughts

...Ser Dontos, my poor old drunken Florian...

- Sansa Stark's thoughts

Casks of wine and ale surrounded them, more than enough drink to see a thirsty dwarf safely through the night. Or through a life.

- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts, in the cellar of Illyrio's manse




Annotations from item #46264399:

Alebelly is a fat guard of Winterfell.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Alebelly stays at Winterfell after both Lord Eddard Stark and then his son Robb leave. He is still a member of the guards when Bran and Rickon are the only representatives of House Stark within the castle.

Jojen Reed announces to Bran that he has seen the deaths of several persons, including Mikken, Septon Chayle and Alebelly, in a green dream.




Annotations from item #46264400:

Alekyne Florent is the only son of Lord Alester Florent and Lady Melara Crane, and the heir to Brightwater Keep. He has two sisters Melessa and Rhea.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Lord Alester Florent and the rest of House Florent are attainted by the Iron Throne for pledging allegiance to Stannis Baratheon, and their castle, Brightwater Keep, is granted to Ser Garlan Tyrell.

A Feast for Crows

Alekyne becomes the new Lord of Brightwater after the death of his father, Alester.

Family




Annotations from item #46264401:

Alequo Adarys, known as Silvertongue and the Tyrant of Tyrosh, was a wealthy and ambitious Tyroshi merchant and a key member of the Band of Nine.

History

The Band of Nine were a group of merchants, sellswords and pirates who joined together to carve kingdoms out for themselves. After conquering the Disputed Lands, Alequo convinced the others to take Tyrosh. After successfully sacking the city, Alequo was installed as its head of state. The Band of Nine next meant to conquer Westeros for Maelys I Blackfyre, and fought a war called the War of the Ninepenny Kings on the Stepstones against the Westerosi forces. The Band of nine was defeated there, and Maelys killed. While the remainder of the Band of Nine was defeated half a year later, Alequo, known as the Tyrant of Tyrosh, would rule the Free City for six more years, until he was poisoned by his queen. With Alequo's death, the Archon of Tyrosh was restored.




Annotations from item #46264402:

Alerie Hightower is the daughter of Lord Leyton Hightower, Lord of Oldtown, and the spouse of Lord Mace Tyrell of Highgarden. She is the mother of his four children, Willas, Garlan, Loras and Margaery.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alerie Hightower

Alerie is tall, dignified, and handsome, with long silver hair.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Lady Alerie is part of Margaery Tyrell's retinue when Margaery travels to King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

Lady Alerie attends the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister with her family.

Quotes by Alerie

He choked, sweetling. He choked on the pie. It was naught to do with you. He choked. We all saw.

– Alerie, to Margaery Tyrell, upon Joffrey Baratheon's death

Quotes about Alerie

Don't call me Mother. If I'd given birth to you, I'm sure I'd remember.

Olenna Redwyne

Family




Annotations from item #46264403:

Alesander Frey is a singer and the son of Symond Frey, the seventh son of Lord Walder Frey, and Betharios of Braavos.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

When Catelyn Stark asks Ryman Frey about Alesander's whereabouts at the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, Ryman squints at her before telling her Alesander is away. When Catelyn later feels the chainmail underneath the clothing of Edwyn Frey, she thinks of the absence of Alesander, Olyvar, and Perwyn Frey, and Roslin's crying, and realizes the reason for it.

Family




Annotations from item #46264404:

Lord Alesander Staedmon also known as the Pennylover, is Lord of Broad Arch and head of House Staedmon.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Lord Alesander Staedmon is part of Stannis Baratheon's army. He is captured during the Battle of the Blackwater and later submits to King Joffrey I.

A Storm of Swords

Lord Alesander remains at the court of King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

Lord Alesander remains at the court of King's Landing.




Annotations from item #46264405:

Lord Alesandor Torrent is the Lord of Littlesister and head of House Torrent.

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A Dance with Dragons

Lord Godric Borrell informed Davos Seaworth that Lord Torrent had spied the sails of Salladhor Saan's fleet off of Littlesister.




Annotations from item #46264406:

Melisandre burns Alester Florent alive in order to obtain favorable winds for the expedition to the North - by Dejan Delic ©

Alester Florent is Lord of Brightwater and head of House Florent. He is married to Melara Crane and they have three children Melessa, Alekyne and Rhea. Alester had three brothers; Ser Axel, Ser Ryam and Ser Colin, and one sister, Rylene. His niece, Selyse is married to Stannis Baratheon. He is also Samwell Tarly's maternal grandfather.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alester Florent

Alester is old, thin and tall, with silver hair and a beard shaped in a spike surrounding a long and distinguished face.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

After following House Tyrell in supporting Renly Baratheon, Alester rallies his banners and is the first of those who swore to Renly to go over to Stannis Baratheon's cause.

A Storm of Swords

After Stannis's defeat at the Battle of the Blackwater, it is left to Selyse Florent and Alester to rule in Stannis's name while the king broods. Alester is given the king's seal by Selyse, to speak in Stannis's name.

Alester is imprisoned in Dragonstone after he attempts to make peace with House Lannister in hopes of having Brightwater returned to him.

Denys Mallister recalls that he once unhorsed both of Samwell Tarly's grandfathers in the same tourney.

A Feast for Crows

Alester is reported to have been sacrificed by Melisandre to R'hllor as a traitor.

A Dance with Dragons

Davos Seaworth recalls that when Stannis decided to aid the Night's Watch at the Wall, Melisandre burned Alester alive in order to obtain favorable winds for their expedition to Eastwatch.

Quotes by Alester

Alester: You know me for a man of honor—
Cortnay: I know you for a man of ambition, a man who changes kings and gods the way I change my boots.

– Alester and Cortnay Penrose

My chests were lost when the Lannisters overran our camp. I escaped with no more than the mail on my back and the rings on my fingers. No doubt some cook’s boy or groom is prancing around King’s Landing just now in my slashed velvet doublet and jeweled cloak. But war has its horrors, as all men know.

- Alester to Davos Seaworth

Stannis Baratheon will never sit the Iron Throne. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

- Alester to Davos Seaworth

Not treason. Never treason. I love His Grace as much as any man. My own niece is his queen, and I remained loyal to him when wiser men fled. I am his Hand, the Hand of the King, how can I be a traitor?

- Alester to Davos Seaworth

Quotes about Alester

This man is defeated.

Davos Seaworth's thoughts

Family




Annotations from item #46264407:

Alester II Arryn was a King of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.

History

Unlike Kings Hugh and Hugo, he brought the Witch Isle, seat of House Upcliff, an isle in the waters off the eastern and northern coasts of the Vale, into the realm by marriage. He took Arwen Upcliff for his bride.




Annotations from item #46264408:

Alester Norcross is the eldest son of Ser Hosman Norcross and Delena Florent. He has a younger brother, Renly.

Family




Annotations from item #46264409:

Alester Oakheart was a member of House Oakheart. There is a tapestry at Old Oak depicting him in the Prince's Pass, blowing a warhorn with his last breath.

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Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ser Arys Oakheart thinks of Alester and the Oakheart tradition of killing Dornishmen when walking the streets of Sunspear.

Behind the Scenes

The mention of Alester Oakheart blowing a warhorn with his last breath may be a reference to *The Song of Roland*, in which Roland dies shortly after sounding a warhorn to call for aid from Charlemagne's army, after being ambushed.




Annotations from item #46264410:

Alester Sarwyck is a member of House Sarwyck and a red priest. He has only appeared in the video game *Game of Thrones*, in which he and Mors Westford are playable characters.

History

Alester is the elder son of Lord Raynald Sarwyck from Riverspring in the westerlands. For an unknown reason, Alester left Riverspring and went to Essos after Robert's Rebellion. He became a follower of R'hllor and a red priest. He returns to Riverspring from exile when he hears of his father dying. There he finds a devastated land where people tell of a peasant revolt. His sister, Elyana, tries to manage the lands of House Sarwyck. Alester's brother, Gawen, is missing and is accused of poisoning Raynald. Alester's bastard half-brother, Valarr Hill, desires to inherit Riverspring.




Annotations from item #46264411:

Ser Alester Tyrell was an Andal knight and adventurer who founded House Tyrell.

History

Alester was among the many knights taken by House Gardener into their service and became the sworn shield of King Gwayne V Gardener, the last of the Three Sage Kings. His eldest son became a notable knight, only to die in a tourney. His second son, Gareth, was more bookish and never achieved knighthood, choosing to serve as a royal steward instead.




Annotations from item #46264412:

Alex Graves is an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter.

Early life

Alex Graves was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

His father, William Graves, was a reporter for The Kansas City Star and his mother, Alexandra "Sandy" Graves, worked for United States Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas.

He attended Kansas University and The University of Southern California where he earned a BA Degree in Film Production.

Career

Well known for his work directing 34 episodes of the hit series The West Wing, where he served as director producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, and ultimately executive producer.

He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for his producing work on that series.

He was also nominated for the Emmy for his direction of the episodes "Posse Comitatus" and "2162 Votes." He was awarded the Humanitas Prize for his work on the episode "N.S.F. Thurmont."

Graves began his work in television directing installments of Ally McBeal, ports Night and The Practice.

In 2006, he directed the pilot episode of *The Nine* for ABC, serving as an executive producer on the pilot.

In 2007, he directed and executive produced the pilot, and directed several more episodes, of the drama *Journeyman* which aired on NBC.

In 2009, Graves was asked by J.J.Abrams to direct and executive produce the pilot of the FOX science-fiction series *Fringe*. He received high critical acclaim for his work.

In 2010, he directed and executive produced the ABC pilot The Whole Truth for Jerry Bruckheimer. This pilot also went on to become a series.

In 2011, he directed a pilot for ABC entitled, Poe. A re-imagining of the life of the famed author, Edgar Allan Poe starring Natalie Dormer and Chris Egan, which did not go to series.

From 2010 to 2011, Graves was hired by Steven Spielberg to direct and executive produce the pilot of the Fox adventure series *Terra Nova*. Which series premiered September 26, 2011.

In 2012 Graves directed Showtime's "Shameless" for John Wells before being asked by Aaron Sorkin to direct his new HBO series The Newsroom, titled "News Night 2.0."

Most recently, Graves directed 2 episodes of season 3 of HBO's Game of Thrones: And Now His Watch Is Ended and Kissed by Fire.

Graves is currently directing 4 of the 10 episodes for the yet-to-be aired season 4 of HBO's GAME OF THRONES.




Annotations from item #46264413:

Alf of Runnymudd is a builder of the Night's Watch from Runnymudd.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

After Stannis Baratheon and Melisandre are established at Castle Black, Alf of Runnymudd converts to the faith of R'hllor and is among the queen's men.

Alf gathers with other members of the Night's Watch at the gate of Castle Black after word spreads that the heads of three rangers were found impaled upon spears on the other side of the Wall. When Lord Commander Jon Snow and his party return from inspecting the heads, Alf inquires if his friend Garth Greyfeather is among them. He lets out a howl of grief upon learning that Garth is dead, and has to escorted to a bed and given mulled wine by Hobb.

When Jon gathers men to the Shieldhall, Alf of Runnymudd sits with Bowen Marsh, Wick Whittlestick, and Left Hand Lew.




Annotations from item #46264414:

Alford was a Grand Maester of the Citadel during the reign of Aegon III Targaryen.

History

Alford was Grand Maester in 153 AC. When Prince Daeron Targaryen was born to Prince Aegon and Princess Naerys on the last day of the year, Alford warned them that another pregnancy might kill the princess.




Annotations from item #46264415:

Ser Alfred Broome was a knight during the Dance of the Dragons.

Character and Appearance

Afred had a sullen disposition and a sour manner.

History

Alfred joined the garrison of Dragonstone during the reign of the Old King, Jaehaerys I Targaryen. By the time civil war broke out between Rhaenyra Targaryen and Aegon II Targaryen, Alfred was the most senior knight of Dragonstone. When Rhaenyra led the blacks to capture King's Landing, she named Ser Robert Quince as castellan of Dragonstone, rather than the sullen Alfred.

Unbeknownst to Rhaenyra, Aegon and later his dragon, Sunfyre, went into hiding on the island of Dragonstone. Aegon's supporters, the greens, were able to find potential allies amongst the castle's garrison, including Ser Alfred. He participated in the coup against Robert, personally slaying the castellan with a spear. After the duel between Sunfyre and Moondancer, Ser Marston Waters prevented Alfred from slaying Moondancer's dragonrider, Baela Targaryen.

When Rhaenyra and her few remaining companions returned to Dragonstone after the storming of the Dragonpit, Alfred led the forty-strong escort that accompanied her from the port to the castle. When they arrived at the castle, Rhaenyra was shocked to see the charred corpse of Robert. Alfred had his men slay Rhaenyra's remaining Queensguard, Ser Harrold Darke, Ser Adrian Redfort, and Ser Loreth Lansdale, although the latter knight slew two of Alfred's guards. Alfred's cloak caught fire when Sunfyre bathed Rhaenyra with flame. Alfred advised Aegon II to kill Rhaenyra's son, Aegon III Targaryen, but the king decided to keep the boy as a hostage. Ser Marston Waters prevented Alfred from harming Baela Targaryen.




Annotations from item #46264416:

Alfyn, also known as Alfyn Crowkiller, is an infamous wildling leader. He has at least three sons.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alfyn Crowkiller

Alfyn gets his name from his history of killing members of the Night's Watch.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Mance Rayder sends Alfyn as a scout toward the Wall. As he is returning from his mission, Alfyn encounters Qhorin Halfhand and his rangers as they are on their way to the Fist of the First Men to join Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and his expedition. Alfyn is killed during the skirmish by Qhorin.

A Dance with Dragons

Three of Alfyn's sons become hostages to the Night's Watch.

Quotes

Alfyn's member was a wee thing, even smaller than yours, but he was never shy with where he stuck it. Had a son in every village, that one.

Tormund




Annotations from item #46264417:

Alia of Braavos is a singer from the Free City of Braavos. She is old.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Rodrik Cassel calls Alia of Braavos the best singer he has ever heard.




Annotations from item #46264418:

Aliandra Martell was a ruling Princess of Dorne and head of House Nymeros Martell.

History

The daughter of Prince Qoren Martell, Aliandra came young into her seat. She saw herself as a new Nymeria. She was a fiery young woman who encouraged her lords and knights to prove themselves to her by raiding in the Dornish Marches.

Aliandra showed great favor to Lord Alyn Velaryon, when he visited Sunspear. They met during his first great journey, when his campaign to defend the westerlands from Dalton Greyjoy,

Aliandra was married to Drazenko Rogare, who would become the Prince Consort of Dorne due to the marriage..

Family




Annotations from item #46264419:

Alicent Hightower was a member of House Hightower who became the second wife to King Viserys I Targaryen. She was the daughter of Ser Otto Hightower, who had been Hand of the King to Jaehaerys I, and later Viserys I. She was the mother of King Aegon II, Prince Aemond, Prince Daeron, and Queen Helaena.

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Appearance and Character

Alicent was described as clever and lovely at the age of eighteen. After having given birth four times, Alicent remained as slender and graceful as before the first pregnancy.

History

Arrival at court

Alicent arrived at the court of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen when she was fifteen years old, in 101 AC, when her father, Ser Otto Hightower, was named Hand of the King. Alicent would become the constant companion of the Old King, whose health was failing. She would fetch his meals, help him wash and dress him, and read to him. In the end, King Jaehaerys would sometimes mistake her for his daughter, Saera Targaryen. King Jaehaerys eventually died in 103 AC, while Alicent was reading to him.

Alicent stayed at court, as her father continued to occupy the position as Hand under Jaehaerys' successor, King Viserys I Targaryen. Already early in the reign of Viserys, Ser Otto and Prince Daemon Targaryen were at odds with each other, and the court fool Mushroom has suggested that the quarrel between the two men began when Daemon deflowered Alicent. The truths of these tales has never been uncovered.

Marriage

In the years that followed, Alicent caught the eye of King Viserys I, whose first wife, Queen Aemma Arryn, had died, and whose small council was urging him to wed again. Ignoring all advice from his council, Viserys choose Alicent as his wife. They married in 106 AC, despite the whispers of people who believed that the Hand had risen above himself. Some people even doubted Alicents virtue, as rumors began circling that she had given her maidenhead to Prince Daemon, and had later even slept with King Viserys while Queen Aemma was still alive. Nonetheless, Alicent was wed to the king.

Originally, Queen Alicent had a good relationship with her step-daughter, Princess Rhaenyra. But when Alicent gave birth to a son, Prince Aegon, a daughter, Princess Helaena, and another son, Prince Aemond, in rapid succession, and Rhaenyra remained Viserys' heir, those feelings started to change. Both women wanted to be the first lady of the realm, but there could only be one.

Alicent's biggest supporter was her own father, Ser Otto Hightower. He eventually pushed too far on the matter, and was stripped of his position as Hand. Having no place at court anymore, Ser Otto returned to Oldtown. A "Queen's party", a group of powerful lords who were friends with Queen Alicent, remained, who supported the rights of Alicent's sons.

In 111 AC, a great tourney was held at King’s Landing on the fifth anniversary of the king’s marriage to Queen Alicent. At the opening feast, Alicent wore a green gown, whilst Princess Rhaenyra dressed in Targaryen red and black. Note was taken, and thereafter it became the custom to refer to “greens” and “blacks” when talking of the queen’s party and the party of the princess, respectively. In the tourney itself, the greens were defeated by the blacks, when Ser Criston Cole, wearing Princess Rhaenyra’s favor, unhorsed all of the queen’s champions, including two of her cousins and her youngest brother, Ser Gwayne Hightower.

Prince Daemon Targaryen was opposed to Alicent and her sons, and after his return to King's Landing, he made fun of Alicent, Aegon and Aemond, and the other greens, to entertain Princess Rhaenyra. It is said he acted cool towards the princes Aegon and Aemond, because they had pushed him even lower in the line of succession.

When Princess Rhaenyra turned sixteen, the small council started looking for a suitable husband. Alicent had her own choice: her eldest son, Prince Aegon, who, while the Princess was sixteen years old, was only 6 years old himself. Viserys argued that the siblings had never gotten along, but Alicent urged her husband that was all the more reason to wed the two. Viserys refused, believing that Alicent only made the suggestion to get her own blood on the throne.

By the time Princess Rhaenyra got married, in 114 AC, Queen Alicent had found a new member for her greens: Ser Criston Cole, former companion to Princess Rhaenyra. Cole fought in the tourney for Rhaenyra's wedding with Alicent's favor, and was named Alicent's personal sworn shield soon thereafter.

By 115 AC, the enmity between the greens and the blacks had grown deep. Whilst Alicent had given birth to Prince Daeron, who, just like his brothers and sister, looked unmistakably like a Targaryen, Princess Rhaenyra had given birth to princes Jacaerys and Lucerys, who both looked nothing like either Rhaenyra or her husband, Ser Laenor Velaryon. Whilst Alicent was convinced the children had actually been fathered by Ser Harwin Strong, King Viserys did not share these feelings.

In 120 AC, Alicent's second son got involved in an incident where Rhaenyra's son Lucerys took out Aemonds right eye. Alicent, angered, demanded that to Lucerys the same would be done. After this incident, King Viserys I declared that Alicent and her children would remain at court in King's Landing, whilst Rhaenyra and her family remained at Dragonstone. Later that year, as Rhaenyra gave birth to her first son by Prince Daemon Targaryen, Alicent grew wroth upon learning the child had been named Aegon, believing it to be a slight against her own firstborn, who had also been named Aegon.

The Dance of the Dragons

Main article: Dance of the Dragons

When King Viserys I died in his sleep, on the third day of the third moon in 129 AC, a servant warned Queen Alicent as instructed, without telling anyone else. Alicent warned Ser Criston Cole, now Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, and together, they called the small council, where plans were made to crown Alicent's son Prince Aegon, instead of Princess Rhaenyra, who had been Viserys' heir. At the coronation ceremony held for Aegon and Helaena, Aegon's sister-wife, in the Dragonpit, Alicent placed her own crown upon the head of Helaena and addressed her as "my queen."

After the coronation she moved her chambers to the Tower of the Hand, where her father resided. Every evening before bed, Queen Helaena would bring her children to see their grandmother. Because the Tower of the Hand was less secure than Maegor's Holdfast, Blood and Cheese were able to take advantage of this custom. They stole into Alicent's chambers, slew her bedmaid, and bound and gagged her. When Helaena arrived with the children, they slew Prince Jaehaerys, Aegon's heir, as revenge for the death of Rhaenyra's son Lucerys. Helaena subsequently went mad with grief.

When Rhaenyra took King's Landing, Alicent was forced to yield. She was bound in golden fetters, but while her father and co-conspirators on the small council were beheaded for treason, Rhaenyra spared her life "for the sake of our father, who loved you once." When Helaena's madness led her to commit suicide by jumping from her window, Alicent cursed her rival.

Alicent outlived Rhaenyra, but her son lived only half a year after triumphing over his half-sister. Both of his brothers had already died in the war. Alicent's remaining grandson, Prince Maelor, had died as well, leaving only her granddaughter Princess Jaehaera, who married Rhaenyra's son Aegon III.

Further life

Alicent was imprisoned after the Dance of the Dragons, and remained a captive for the remainder of her life. She eventually died in 133 AC, during the outbreak of Winter Fever.

Quotes about Alicent

The boy is Alicent’s own blood. She wants him on the throne.

Viserys I Targaryen on Alicent's scheming

Family

Alicent was the daughter of Ser Otto Hightower. She had an unknown number of elder brothers, and one younger brother, Ser Gwayne Hightower. Alicent had four children and three grandchildren.




Annotations from item #46264420:

Alios Qhaedar is a candidate to become a triarch of Volantis.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

With Triarch Doniphos Paenymion unlikely to be re-elected, Alios, Parquello Vaelaros, and Belicho Staegone are top contenders to take his place. During the election Alios has a hundred pretty and nubile slave girls lie with voters.




Annotations from item #46264421:

Alison is one of the Bastard's girls.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

When the ironborn surrender to Ramsay Bolton at the siege of Moat Cailin, one of the Codds tries to kiss Ramsay's ring in thanks. Alison takes a chunk out of his ear when he approaches. The man limps off still muttering thanks.




Annotations from item #46264422:

All-for-Joffrey is an old man held captive by Ser Gregor Clegane and his men in a village at the Gods Eye. His real name is not mentioned. Other prisoners start calling him All-for-Joffrey because he keeps insisting that he and his son do all for King Joffrey.

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Appearance & Personality

He is an old man with a smiley face, prone to babble.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

He is held captive by Ser Gregor Clegane and his men with a group of smallfolk that also includes Arya Stark, Gendry and Hot Pie, in a storehouse in a village located on the shore of the Gods Eye. As Clegane has started picking captives to be interrogated by the Tickler, the old man, while mending the clothes of his captors, keeps insisting that he and his son are loyal to King Joffrey, apparently in the assumption this will keep him safe. He shares that his son is off to King’s Landing where he serves in the City Watch, stressing that he and his son are good king's men and do all for Joffrey. He says this so often that the other prisoners start calling him All-for-Joffrey when the guards aren't listening. He is picked for interrogation by Clegane on the fifth day Arya is held captive at the storehouse. Interrogation invariably ends with the death of the prisoner. The bodies are later hung beyond the fires outside the storehouse as food for the wolves.




Annotations from item #46264423:

Alla Tyrell is the eldest daughter of Ser Leo Tyrell and Lady Alys Beesbury. She is a granddaughter of Ser Victor Tyrell, the latter being a cousin of Lord Mace Tyrell.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

She is "shy and pretty" and still a girl (as opposed to a maiden flowered). She is a companion and lady in waiting of Queen Margaery Tyrell.

A Feast for Crows

According to Taena of Myr, Ser Tallad desired Alla or her cousin Elinor.

Family




Annotations from item #46264424:

Allaquo is a mummer of the Ship.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

He and Quence had a fight after Quence found him abed with Sloey and left the Ship. He is not good enough for the Blue Lantern.




Annotations from item #46264425:

Allar Deem is a member of the City Watch of King's Landing and one of Janos Slynt's most ardent supporters.

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Character

Allar is feared on the streets.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Obeying the orders of Queen Cersei Lannister, Allar kills the infant Barra, a bastard daughter of the late King Robert I Baratheon, as well as her mother when she tries to stop him.

Lord Janos Slynt places Allar first on the list of six potential successors as Commander of the City Watch that he submits to Tyrion Lannister, the acting Hand of the King, not knowing that Tyrion has already chosen Ser Jacelyn Bywater. Tyrion condemns the six and Janos to be sent to the Night's Watch. Tyrion orders for Allar to be thrown overboard from *Summer's Dream* during the journey to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

Quotes

My right arm. Good good man. Loyal.

Janos Slynt to Tyrion Lannister

A hard man for a hard job, is Deem. Does as he's told, and never a word afterward.

Janos Slynt to Tyrion Lannister

Tyrion: Deem. Tell the captain it would not be taken amiss if that one should happen to be swept overboard before they reach Eastwatch.
Jacelyn: I'm told those northern waters are very stormy, my lord.

Tyrion Lannister and Jacelyn Bywater




Annotations from item #46264426:

Lord Allard Royce was the head of House Royce at the beginning of the reign of King Aenys I Targaryen.

History

In 37 AC, at the start of the reign of King Aenys I's reign, Jonos Arryn rose up in rebellion against the Targaryens and his own older brother, Ronnel Arryn. He imprisoned Ronnel in the Eyrie and declared himself King of Mountain and Vale. King Aenys's response was confused and vacilating: first ordering his Hand of the King, Lord Alyn Stokeworth, to sail to the Vale to deal with the usurper, but then recalling the order at the last moment, for fear that Harren the Red, a rebel from the riverlands, might infiltrate King's Landing.

Taking matter into own hands, Lord Allard Royce of Runestone gathered "twoscore loyal lords" and led them to sweep away Jonos's supporters, penning him at the Eyrie. However, this led Jonos to send his brother flying out of the Moon Door, earning him the nickname Jonos the Kinslayer.

Jonos and his garrison remained defiant until Prince Maegor Targaryen flew to the Eyrie atop the dragon Balerion. Rather than face the fire, Jonos was seized by his garrison and delivered to Lord Royce through the Moon Door. Surrender saved Jonos's followers from burning, but not from death. All of them were hanged per the orders of Maegor, who denied the highborn rebels the honor of beheading.




Annotations from item #46264427:

Allard Seaworth is the second son of Ser Davos Seaworth, and the rashest.*.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

During the cremation of the statues of the Seven on the orders of Melisandre, Allard expresses his disappointment, but only in a low voice. Like his father and his brother Dale, he is charged by the king, Stannis I, to issue along the coasts the declaration accusing Queen Cersei of an incestuous relationship with her brother, Ser Jaime Lannister, thus denying the legitimacy of her children to the throne, making Stannis the rightful king of the Seven Kingdoms. Allard leaves for the Free Cities.

Allard dies during the Battle of the Blackwater fighting in the naval combat on the Blackwater Rush.

Family




Annotations from item #46264428:

Alleras, known as the Sphinx, is an acolyte studying at the Citadel in Oldtown.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alleras

Alleras is slender, comely, and has a soft smile,

Alleras prefers wine from the Summer Isles instead of Westeros.

Alleras is in the circle of friends that includes Armen, Mollander, Pate, Mollander, and Roone. He is nicknamed the Sphinx by Leo Tyrell.

History

Alleras has a Dornishman for a father and a Summer Islander for a mother.

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A Feast for Crows

Having forged his copper link, Alleras celebrates at the Quill and Tankard by purchasing drinks for his friends. They practice their archery skills by shooting apples, although Alleras allows his last apple to fall into the Honeywine untouched.

Having foreseen the arrival in Oldtown of Samwell Tarly with a glass candle, Archmaester Marwyn sends Alleras to the Seneschal's Court. After Sam tells his story, the Sphinx brings him to Marwyn at the Ravenry. With Maester Aemon having died en route to Oldtown, Marwyn decides to sail himself to find Daenerys Targaryen in Slaver's Bay. The archmaester tasks Alleras with looking after Sam.

Quotes by Alleras

Roone: You always miss your last shot. See?
Alleras: The day you make them all is the day you stop improving.

Roone and Alleras

Leo: I understand you won your copper link. I'll drink to that.

Alleras: I only buy for friends. And I am no lord's son, I've told you that. My mother was a trader.

Leo: Your mother was a monkey from the Summer Isles. The Dornish will fuck anything with a hole between its legs. Meaning no offense. You may be brown as a nut, but at least you bathe.

Leo Tyrell and Alleras

Samwell: Are you a novice?

Alleras: An acolyte. Alleras, by some called Sphinx.
Samwell: The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. Do you know what that means?
Alleras: No. Is it a riddle?

Samwell: I wish I know.

Samwell Tarly and Alleras

Quotes about Alleras

It had been Lazy Leo who dubbed Alleras "the Sphinx." A sphinx is a bit of this, a bit of that: a human face, the body of a lion, the wings of a hawk. Alleras was the same: his father was a Dornishman, his mother a black-skinned Summer Islander. His own skin was dark as teak. And like the green marble sphinxes that flanked the Citadel's main gate, Alleras had eyes of onyx.

—thoughts of Pate

The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape.

—thoughts of Pate

Theories

Main article: Alleras/Theories

Evidence suggests that Alleras may be a disguised Sarella Sand, one of Oberyn Martell's bastard daughters known as the Sand Snakes.




Annotations from item #46264429:

Alleras is an acolyte studying at the Citadel in Oldtown. and that Sarella has disguised herself in order to be able to study at the Citadel.

Supporting Evidence

The following pieces of information can be considered supporting evidence for the theory:




Annotations from item #46264430:

Ser Alliser Thorne is a knight from House Thorne who now serves as the master-at-arms of the Night's Watch at Castle Black. While capable, he is bitter and humorless, and is particularly hated by the recruits of the Night's Watch who have been trained by him. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Owen Teale.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Alliser Thorne

Alliser Thorne is a slim and sinewy fifty-year-old, dry and hard, with black eyes and black hair streaked with grey.

History

Prior to joining the Night's Watch, Alliser was a knight of House Thorne in the crownlands and fought on the side of House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. Following the Sack of King's Landing, he was given the choice by Lord Tywin Lannister between death or taking the black.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Alliser Thorne - by Brittmartin ©

As master-at-arms responsible for training new recruits, Ser Alliser gives Jon Snow the mocking nickname "Lord Snow". His disdain turns into hatred when Jon replies to one of his mockeries, provoking the hilarity of the whole common room of Castle Black.. Alliser is, however, so delighted at Jon's appointment to the stewards that Jon thinks he is behind it.

Alliser never misses an occasion to provoke the young bastard. The evening Jon learns of the imprisonment of his father, Lord Eddard Stark, in King's Landing for treason, Alliser's jeers anger Jon, who tries to attack him with a knife, before being stopped and put under arrest. This mutual hostility, and the master-at-arms' old friends who are well-placed at court, lead the Lord Commander to send Alliser to the new king, Joffrey I Baratheon, with the mission to acquire reinforcements for the Night's Watch.

Ser Endrew Tarth takes Alliser's place as the master-at-arms of Castle Black.

A Clash of Kings

After a long travel, Ser Alliser arrives in King's Landing. In the Red Keep, he asks for an audience with Tyrion Lannister, the acting Hand of the King. Tyrion, remembering his dislike for Alliser, has Bronn find poor quarters for the visitor. Alliser appears before the throne, only to be mocked by Tyrion. However, Tyrion allows for word to be put out in King's Landing that the Night's Watch is in need of men.

A Storm of Swords

At some point, presumably after returning from King's Landing, Alliser is appointed by Lord Commander Mormont as the new master-at-arms of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. He returns to Castle Black during the resistance to Mance Rayder's wildlings siege and becomes one of Janos Slynt's followers. Jon Snow is chosen as the new Lord Commander, however.

A Dance with Dragons

When Janos refuses to obey orders, Jon personally executes him. Ser Alliser is present when the sentence is given but does not interfere, much to Jon's disappointment.

Jon later orders Alliser to accompany Dywen and another seasoned ranger beyond the Wall. Alliser is angry, but accepts the mission, not wanting to give Jon cause to execute him as well. He then states that he will return from the ranging, one way or the other.

Quotes by Alliser

They will call you men of Night's Watch now, but you are bigger fools than the Mummer's Monkey here if you believe that. You are boys still, green and stinking of summer, and when the winter comes you will die like flies.

- Alliser to his recruits

Alliser: Lord Snow wants to take my place now. I’d have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.
Jon: I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser. I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

– Alliser and Jon Snow

Alliser: Come and make your japes with steel in your hand.
Tyrion: Why, I have steel in my hand, Ser Alliser, although it appears to be a crab fork. Shall we duel?

– Alliser and Tyrion Lannister

It would seem they have run short of poachers and thieves down south. Now they send up pigs to man the Wall. Is fur and velvet your notion of armor, my Lord of Ham?

– Alliser to Samwell Tarly

Alliser: Do you think I sailed all the way from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea to be mocked by the likes of you? This is no jape. I saw it with my own eyes. I tell you, the dead walk.
Tyrion: You should try to kill them more thoroughly.

– Alliser and Tyrion Lannister

You would like me to refuse. Then you could hack off my head, same as you did for Slynt. I'll not give you that pleasure, bastard. You'd best pray that it's a wildling blade that kills me, though. The ones the Others kill don't stay dead ... and they remember. I'm coming back, Lord Snow.

- Alliser to Jon Snow

Quotes about Alliser

Jeor: You are a wicked man, to provoke our Ser Alliser so.
Tyrion: If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.

Jeor Mormont and Tyrion Lannister

Jeor: Ser Alliser is an anointed knight, one of the few to take the black since I have been Lord Commander. He fought bravely at King's Landing.
Jaremy: On the wrong side. I ought to know, I was there on the battlements beside him. Tywin Lannister gave us a splendid choice. Take the black, or see our heads on spikes before evenfall.

Jeor Mormont and Jaremy Rykker

I don't believe I care to see Ser Alliser just now. Find him a snug cell where no one has changed the rushes in a year.

Tyrion Lannister to Bronn




Annotations from item #46264431:

Allyria Dayne is a member of House Dayne, and according to semi-canon sources the younger sibling of Ser Arthur Dayne and Lady Ashara Dayne.

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A Storm of Swords

Having been revived several times by Thoros of Myr, Lord Beric Dondarrion admits that he has forgotten the hair color of the woman he was pledged to marry.

Family




Annotations from item #46264432:

Alton Butterwell was a head of House Butterwell and the master of coin during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen.

History

After Maegor exterminated House Harroway in 44 AC, he divided up the Harroway holdings among his remaining supporters. He granted Harrenhal to House Towers, but gave rule over Lord Harroway's Town to Lord Alton and the rest of the Harroway holdings to Lord Dormand Darry.

The execution of Alys Harroway, and soon Tyanna of the Tower as well, left Maegor in need of new brides, as he had still failed to produce any heir. Alton suggested his widowed stout sister as a match, who while no great beauty had given birth to seven children so her fertility was beyond doubt. Maegor was scornful of Alton's offer, but with Alton's remark upon fertility in mind, the three "Black Brides" wed by the king in 47 AC were proven to be fertile.




Annotations from item #46264433:

Alton Greyjoy, known as the Holy Fool, was a Lord of the Iron Islands and head of House Greyjoy.

History

According to Archmaester Haereg's *History of the Ironborn*, Alton wanted to conquer new lands beyond the Lonely Light,




Annotations from item #46264434:

Alton Lannister is the cousin of Ser Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister and Queen Cersei Lannister. The character was created specifically for the TV Series and is played by Karl Davies. He replaces Cleos Frey from the books, as being a captive of House Stark and delivering terms to House Lannister. His name appears to have been changed so that TV viewers would not be confused that he is on the Lannisters' side, despite House Frey officially declaring for Robb Stark.

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Game of Thrones

Background

Alton's relationship to the main branch of the family is not clear. His mother is named Cynda Lannister.

Alton states that at Willem Frey's wedding his family sat at "a table so far on the edge of the feast you could barely even see the bride." Alton squired for his cousin Jaime at the wedding after the previous squire got drunk, an experience that he later described as "the best day of my life".

He fights for House Lannister against House Stark in the Battle of the Whispering Wood and is captured by the Stark army.

Season Two

Soon after news of King Joffrey Baratheon's bastardy reaches the Northern camp, Robb Stark tasks Alton with sending his peace terms to King's Landing. Ser Alton remarks that Robb's demand for the return of Sansa and Arya as well as Ned Stark's bones and the remains of all the Stark household, is an honorable request, but expresses doubt and surprise when Robb also demands that the independence of the North and Riverlands be respected. He also tries to correct Robb when he refers to Joffrey as a Lannister.

Alton Lannister presents Stark's demands to the small council, but Queen Cersei rejects them and sends him back with the Iron Throne's reply. Cersei also asks him to tell Jaime that he has not been forgotten and Tyrion wishes Alton a safe journey.

He returns to the Westerlands to inform Robb of Cersei's response, and Robb asks that he return to his old pen but the prisoners are far too many that they have occupied it, so Alton is placed in his cousin, Jaime's cell, until a new pen can be built. He tells Jaime his mother's name at which Jaime, not knowing who that is, asks if she is the fat one. Alton mentions squiring for Ser Jaime once and that his father was furious at Alton's volunteering to be a replacement squire as he might embarrass their lesser branch of the family before the major one. At first Jaime doesn't remember until reminded that his squire Brian had become so sick he threw up on his own horse. He then remembers that Alton had been a much better squire than Jaime himself had been and shares his experience of squiring for Barristan Selmy. Alton asks if Jaime has ever thought of escaping imprisonment, when Jaime replies that he has a plan, Alton agrees to help and gets close to hear what he is to do. Jaime whispers to him the one thing he has to do is to die, then headbutts him and beats him repeatedly with his shackles. Their guard, Torrhen Karstark enters the cell to check the convulsing Alton, allowing Jaime to get behind him and strangle him with his chains. Getting the key from his belt, he frees himself from the chains and escapes from the cell.

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 *Game of Thrones*, Season 2, "A Man Without Honor".
  2. *Game of Thrones*, Season 2, "The North Remembers".
  3. *Game of Thrones*, Season 2, "Nightlands".



Annotations from item #46264435:

Alvyn Sharp is a member of House Sharp and an ironborn captain. He is considered clever.

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A Feast for Crows

During the kingsmoot, Alvyn offers his support to Victarion Greyjoy.

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Why sail the world, when the Mander lies before us?.

– Alvyn Sharp proposes raiding up the Mander




Annotations from item #46264436:

Alyce is a serving girl at the Peach in Stoney Sept.

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A Storm of Swords

Tansy teases Gendry by saying that Alyce would take his virginity.




Annotations from item #46264437:

Lady Alyce Graceford is a member of House Graceford. She is pale and elegant.

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A Storm of Swords

Lady Alyce comes to King's Landing in the entourage of Margaery Tyrell. She is pregnant.

A Feast for Crows

Lady Alyce attends the funeral for Lord Tywin Lannister. There, she asks Cersei Lannister for leave to name her child Tywin if it is a boy or Lanna if it is a girl. She is granted leave.




Annotations from item #46264438:

For articles with the same or similar names, see Alyn (disambiguation).

Alyn is a member of the household guard of Lord Eddard Stark at Winterfell.

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Appearance and Character

Sansa Stark considers Alyn more handsome than Jory Cassel.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Alyn is among the guardsmen who accompany Lord Eddard Stark when he travels south to assume the office of Hand of the King to Robert I Baratheon.

Like the rest of the Stark household, Alyn does nothing to prevent Sandor Clegane from killing the butcher son's, Mycah. Arya Stark, remembering how Alyn is going to be a knight one day, resents him over his inaction.

In King's Landing, Alyn admits Petyr Baelish to Eddard's chambers, when Littlefinger comes to offer help in relation to the death of Lord Jon Arryn. Later, Alyn leads Eddard to the armory of Tobho Mott in the Street of Steel.

When Janos Slynt, commander of the City Watch of King's Landing, asks for reinforcements to deal with increased disorder caused by the Hand's tourney, Eddard gives him twenty men from his household under the command of Alyn.

After Eddard is attacked in the street by Ser Jaime Lannister, it is Alyn who sends a raven to Winterfell with the news of Eddard's wounding and the deaths of Jory Cassel, Wyl, and Heward.

When Lord Eddard awakes, Alyn informs him that Ser Jaime has fled the city, probably to join with his father, Tywin Lannister, at Casterly Rock, and that the news of Lady Catelyn taking Tyrion Lannister captive has become common knowledge. He tells Eddard that Sansa Stark is praying quietly while Arya is full of anger over what has happened. Eddard tells him to keep his daughters safe under any circumstance. Alyn also informs Eddard that he has given the bodies of the dead Stark guards over to the silent sisters so that they can be sent to Winterfell. Eddard applauds Alyn's actions.

Alyn is present in the throne room when Lord Eddard commissions Lord Beric Dondarrion to bring Ser Gregor Clegane to justice.

After Alyn's departure, command of the Stark household guard passes to Tomard, which disquiets Eddard, as "Fat Tom" is past fifty and has never been energetic.

Alyn participates in the battle at the Mummer's Ford, where the men led by Lord Beric Dondarrion are caught in a trap set by Lannister forces under the command of Ser Gregor Clegane. At the end of the engagement, when their situation is seemingly hopeless, Alyn manages to restore order to the ranks, and a third of the force manage to break free, led by Thoros of Myr.

A Clash of Kings

During the harvest feast at Winterfell, Bran Stark muses the number of new faces at the feast this year, filling the positions of those of the Stark household who went south with Lord Eddard Stark and died eventually. Bran counts Alyn among the dead. However, this is likely just an assumption, as Bran has little knowledge of the Mummer's Ford and also thinks of Harwin, who is alive.

A Storm of Swords

Harwin tells Arya Stark about the battle at the Mummer's Ford and how Alyn's actions contributed to the escape of a third of the force led by Lord Beric Dondarrion, including Harwin himself, Lord Beric and Thoros of Myr.

When Sandor Clegane is put on trial by the brotherhood without banners, Tom of Sevenstreams lists Alyn among the deaths Sandor for which supposedly shares responsibility. It is not clear whether Alyn died at the Mummer's Ford or a later conflict with Lannister men.

A Dance with Dragons

During the wedding of Ramsay Bolton and "Arya Stark" at Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy thinks of former members of the Stark household who have died since the War of the Five Kings began, including Alyn "with his dreams of knighthood".




Annotations from item #46264439:

Alyn Ambrose is a squire, the son of Lord Arthur Ambrose

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Appearance and Character

He is gangly.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

As a squire, Alyn takes part in the Battle of the Blackwater, wearing Elinor Tyrell's favor. During the battle he kills a Myrish archer and a Mullendore man-at-arms. He shouts Elinor's name as his battle cry.

A Storm of Swords

Elinor and Megga Tyrell tell Sansa Stark about Alyn's feats of arms during the Battle of the Blackwater. Elinor and Alyn are to marry as soon as he is knighted.

At the wedding feast for Sansa and Tyrion Lannister, Alyn dances with his betrothed. Sansa also dances with Alyn, but after King Joffrey Baratheon has threatened her, and she fears he must think her a very clumsy dancer.

A Feast for Crows

Alyn accompanies Elinor when she goes for a ride with her cousin, Queen Margaery Tyrell.

Family




Annotations from item #46264440:

Alyn Blackwood is the fifth son of Lord Tytos Blackwood of Raventree Hall.

Family




Annotations from item #46264441:

Lord Alyn Cockshaw was the head of House Cockshaw during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen.

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Character and Appearance

He had a pudgy face with dark blond hair.

Alyn had a close relationship with Daemon II Blackfyre.

History

Alyn Cockshaw was a childhood friend of Daemon II Blackfyre. He and Daemon were bullied by Daemon's older twin brothers, Aegon and Aemon. He wept when Daemon went into exile after the First Blackfyre Rebellion.

Alyn was ecstatic at Daemon's return to Westeros in 211 AC. He was part of the conspiracy to start the Second Blackfyre Rebellion at the Whitewalls tourney. Alyn hoped to become the Lord Commander of Daemon's Kingsguard.

On the way to Whitewalls, while part of Lord Gormon Peake's entourage accompanying Ser John the Fiddler (Daemon in disguise), Alyn first encountered Ser Duncan the Tall. He did not care for Dunk and was jealous every time "John" approached him. During the tourney, Alyn was unhorsed by Ser Glendon Flowers, and his mood towards hedge knights took an even darker turn.

Alyn deeply resented Dunk for the loss of Daemon's attentions and became his secret enemy. He arranged for Ser Uthor Underleaf to kill Dunk "accidentally" in a tourney joust. However, Dunk survived the blow to his head, much to Alyn's dismay.

After Egg went missing at the tourney, Alyn convinced Dunk to follow him if he wanted to find his squire. Alyn lured Dunk to a well, where he intended to kill him. Duncan foiled his plan, and instead it was Alyn who fell into the well, though not before badly injuring Dunk's arm with his dagger. Alyn was left to drown in the well by Dunk and Ser Maynard Plumm, who had seen the entire episode.

Quotes

Daemon's mine.

– Alyn, to Duncan the Tall

I wept when Bittersteel carried him off to exile, and again when Lord Peake told me he was coming home. But then he saw you upon the road, and forgot that I existed.

– Alyn, to Duncan the Tall




Annotations from item #46264442:

Ser Alyn Connington, also known as the Pale Griffin, was a knight from House Connington, who eventually became Lord Commander of the Kingsguard at an unknown time.




Annotations from item #46264443:

Ser Alyn Estermont is a knight of House Estermont. He is the son of Aemon Estermont and the grandson of Eldon Estermont.

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A Clash of Kings

Ser Alyn is listed as supporting Renly Baratheon at the beginning of the War of the Five Kings.

A Storm of Swords

Ser Alyn is among the Estermonts that swear fealty to King Joffrey I Baratheon.

A Feast for Crows

Ser Alyn is currently in King's Landing with his father, Aemon, supporting King Tommen I Baratheon.

Family

There are different possibilities for the Estermont family tree; see House Estermont/Family Trees.