See also Pact of Ice and Fire.
The Pact between the First Men and the children of the forest.
Faces were carved on all the trees of the Gods Eye to cement the Pact agreement. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Pact of the Isle of Faces was a treaty that ended the war of the First Men and the children of the forest, an event that took place more than 10,000 years ago.
The Pact came to be after the First Men and the children of the forest fought each other to a standstill and the two races agreed to peaceful coexistence. to the axe.
Faces were carved on all the trees of the island to cement the agreement, so that the gods could bear witness to the Pact, giving its name the Isle of Faces. The sacred order of Green Men was established to maintain and keep watch over the Isle of Faces.
The signing of the Pact marked the end of the Dawn Age and the beginning of the Age of Heroes. It marked 4,000 years of friendship between men and the children.
The Pact endured all through the Age of Heroes and the Long Night and the birth of the Seven Kingdoms until finally there came a time many centuries later, when Andals crossed the narrow sea.
The Pact of Ice and Fire was an alliance between Houses Stark and Targaryen arranged during the Dance of the Dragons.
At the start of the civil war, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon flew to Winterfell to gain House Stark and the North for the cause of his mother, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Lord Roderick Dustin led the Winter Wolves to join the blacks, while House Manderly also contributed knights to Rhaenyra's side.
Cregan briefly governed in the capital as Hand of the King during the Hour of the Wolf.
Paezhar zo Myraq is a Yunkai noble known as the Little Pigeon.
He is five feet tall, and mocked by the the Windblown as the "Little Pigeon". His slave soldiers range from seven to almost eight feet tall and also wear stilts built into their ornate armor. Their armor consists of pink-enameled scales on their torsos, and elongated helms with pointed steel beaks and crests of pink feathers, which earn them the nickname the Herons by the Windblown. He was present at the Siege of Astapor.
The Painted Dogs
© Fantasy Flight Games
The Painted Dogs are one of the Vale mountain clans of the Mountains of the Moon,
Roland I Arryn, King of Mountain and Vale, was slain by Painted Dogs during winter.
Painted Mountains
Slaver's Bay and the location of the Painted Mountains
The Painted Mountains are a mountain range separating the Dothraki sea from Slaver's Bay and the Sea of Sighs in central Essos. The Demon Road runs through the southern stretch of the mountains. West of the Painted Mountains are the Rhoyne and its tributaries.
The Chamber of the Painted Table by Mariusz Gandzell . © FFG
The Chamber of the Painted Table, located on the top floor of the Stone Drum in Dragonstone, is a round room, with four tall windows, overlooking the north, south, east and west.
The chamber holds a large table, carved and painted in the form of a detailed map of Westeros. Here, Aegon the Conqueror planned for the Invasion of Westeros.
The painted table is more than fifty feet long: roughly twenty-five feet wide at its widest point and four feet at its thinnest. At the precise location of Dragonstone is a raised seat that allows the occupant to view the entire map. It is covered by over 300 years of varnish.
His shadow went before him, tall and thin, and fell across the Painted Table like a sword.
The Palace With a Thousand Rooms was the residence of the High King of Sarnor. It was located in the city of Sarnath.
The ruins of the Palace of Sorrow - by Dimitri Bielak. © FFG
The Palace of Sorrow is a ruined island palace in the Rhoyne at Chroyane.
Travelling down the Rhoyne, the *Shy Maid* and her crew pass the palace. Tyrion Lannister sees slender, broken spires and roofless towers thrusting blindly upward. The crew see graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers. The palace's towers and fallen stones are covered in thick, grey moss and black vines. The fog allows Tyrion to see only a quarter of the palace, but he believes it must have been ten times the size of the Red Keep and a hundred times more beautiful.
There was laughter here once ... There were gardens bright with flowers and fountains sparkling golden in the sun. Those steps once rang to the sound of lovers' footsteps, and beneath that broken dome marriages beyond count were sealed with a kiss.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
The Palace of Truth
Arya Stark, disguised as the Braavos street urchin and fish peddler Cat of the Canals, travels south on the Long Canal to the fishmarket in southern Braavos. Brusco's boat passes beneath the Palace of Truth on the way.
Cat sells shellfish on the steps of the Palace of Truth. When another peddler tries to run her off, she upends his oyster cart and flees.
Prior to the performance of *The Bloody Hand*, Daena tells Mercy that the father of the keyholder Bessaro was so fat, that one time when he was summoned to the Hall of Truth to vote, he stepped onto his barge and it sank.
Queen Daenerys Targaryen in Qarth travelling by palanquin - by Mustamirri ©
Palanquin is a litter, a class of wheel-less vehicle for the transport of persons.
A palanquin fit for a man of my stature.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts as he is nailed into an empty wine cask.
Palla is a kennel girl at Winterfell..
Palla plays lord of the crossing with the Frey wards, Big Walder and Little Walder.
After the sack of Winterfell, Palla is among the captives held at the Dreadfort.
Panthers are large feline creatures native to the Summer Isles.
Panthers are found in the rain forests of the Summer Isles, where they prowl beneath the canopies of trees.
After actions taken by Malthar Xaq and other princes of the Summer Isles began a new era of exploration and trade for their people, a fashion developed amongst the dragonlords of Valyria for panther cubs from the islands.
The spotted panthers of the Summer Isles are larger than lions. Their movements are thought of as graceful.
When first laying eyes on Khal Drogo, Daenerys Targaryen thought him as graceful as the panther in the menagerie of Illyrio Mopatis.
When Tywin Lannister takes his leave of Harrenhal, one of the banners Arya Stark spies traveling with his lords and captains bore a panther on it.
Daenerys thinks of the pit fighter, Barsena Blackhair, as moving with the feral grace of a panther.
The Paps
The Vale of Arryn and the location of the Paps
See also the Teats.
The Paps is an island to the northeast of the Fingers in the narrow sea. The seat of House Elesham, the Paps is considered part of the Vale of Arryn and is sworn to the Eyrie.
The island was brought under the rule of House Arryn by Hugo the Hopeful, King of Mountain and Vale.
A paramour - by Sedone Thongvilay. © Fantasy Flight Games
A Dornish paramour beckons - by Federico Piatti. © Fantasy Flight Games
A jealous paramour - by Xia Taptara. © Fantasy Flight Games
A paramour is the unmarried lover of a noble.
In Dorne, lords and ladies can have paramours, chosen for love and lust rather than for breeding or alliance. Dornishmen are not greatly concerned if a bastard is born to a paramour.
That same varying treatment also applies to paramours of non-Dornish nobles, even the mistresses of kings.
The Citadel does not allow its novices to keep wives or paramours, at least not openly.
It was a closely held secret that Prince Lewyn Martell kept a paramour despite the Kingsguard oaths of chastity.
A degree of social deference is given to Ellaria Sand by virtue of her relationship with Prince Oberyn Martell.
And this is Ellaria Sand, mine own paramour.
- Oberyn Martell to Tyrion Lannister
Prince Lewyn was my Sworn Brother. In those days there were few secrets amongst the Kingsguard. I know he kept a paramour. He did not feel there was any shame in that.
Ser Parmen Crane, also known as Parmen the Purple, is a knight of House Crane. He is named to King Renly I's Rainbow Guard.
See also: Images of Parmen Crane
Parmen wears purple plums on his surcoat.
Ser Parmen is part of King Renly Baratheon's army encamped beneath Bitterbridge and a member of the Rainbow Guard, Renly's version of the Kingsguard.
When Ser Loras Tyrell recounts to Ser Jaime Lannister of his blood rage upon hearing of Renly's death, he remembers confronting Parmen alongside Ser Emmon Cuy and Ser Robar Royce. Upon seeing Renly's corpse, Loras kills Emmon and Robar for their failure to protect Renly as his sworn guards. Only Ser Parmen survives the encounter, despite being on duty as Renly's guard alongside Emmon.
After Renly's death, Parmen defects to Stannis Baratheon. Parmen and Ser Erren Florent are sent to retrieve Renly's foot soldiers encamped at Bitterbridge.
Parmen is imprisoned at Highgarden after being captured by Loras.
Parquello Vaelaros is a candidate to become a triarch of Volantis.
With Triarch Doniphos Paenymion unlikely to be reelected, Parquello, Alios Qhaedar, and Belicho Staegone are the top contenders to take his place.
Parrot Bay is a body of water south of the island of Jhala in the Summer Islands. At its southern end are the island Xon and the group of small islands called the Bones.
Passages of the Dead is a work by Maester Kennet about the barrow fields, graves, and tombs of the north. It has information about the burials of giants and mentions a legendary curse on the Great Barrow. Kennet wrote his study while serving Lord Cregan Stark at Winterfell.
Patchface or Patches is Stannis Baratheon's court fool and jester at Dragonstone. His face is tattooed in motley, earning his name.
See also: Images of Patchface
Patchface takes his name for the tattoos covering his broad face and bald head, marked in a pattern of green and red squares.
Patchface - by Amok ©
Patchface was a jester slave in Volantis. He was a clever boy with astonishing wit. His freedom was bought by Lord Steffon Baratheon, who was impressed with him and intended to bring him back to Storm's End from his trip to the Free Cities:
The king — the old king, Aerys II Targaryen, who had not been quite so mad in those days, had sent his lordship to seek a bride for Prince Rhaegar, who had no sisters to wed. “We have found the most splendid fool,” he wrote Cressen, a fortnight before he was to return home from his fruitless mission. “Only a boy, yet nimble as a monkey and witty as a dozen courtiers. He juggles and riddles and does magic, and he can sing prettily in four tongues. We have bought his freedom and hope to bring him home with us. Robert will be delighted with him, and perhaps in time he will even teach Stannis how to laugh.
Maester Cressen regrets that Patchface never did teach Stannis to laugh.
Lord Steffon Baratheon's ship, *Windproud*, broke up in Shipbreaker Bay within sight of Storm's End while his sons Stannis Baratheon and Robert Baratheon watched. Everyone aboard ship was killed including the lord, his lady, and over 100 soldiers and sailors. Patchface washed up three days later, his naked skin white, wrinkled, and, the man that found him, Jommy, swears to his dying day that the fool's skin was clammy cold. They had taken him for dead, but then he coughed up water, albeit broken in mind and body; the ordeal had taken his memories, and half his wit. Now he is subject to twitches and trembles and mostly incoherent. What happened to him during the two days is unknown, but the fisher folk like to say "a mermaid had taught him to breathe water in return for his seed." It was suggested by Ser Harbert, the castellan of Storm’s End, that it would be kindest for Maester Cressen to let the mad boy die, but he had refused, and he now wonders at that decision.
Patchface is employed as court fool and jester at Dragonstone. He spends most of his time with Shireen Baratheon, Stannis's daughter, who calls him Patches. He offers her strange insights and stranger songs, sometimes touching upon what may have really happened to the boy at the bottom of the bay.
Patchface accompanies Princess Shireen Baratheon when she visits Maester Cressen in his chamber to see the white raven. Later the fool is at the feast where Cressen attempts to kill Melisandre with poisoned wine, but the poison does not affect her. Cressen drinks what is left, and dies.
Patchface is in attendance when Stannis Baratheon burns the statues of the Seven on Dragonstone's beach.
Petyr Baelish alleges that Shireen is the daughter of Patchface and Selyse Florent.
When Davos Seaworth returns to Dragonstone, he finds Patches playing with Shireen and Edric Storm.
Patches accompanies Shireen and Selyse to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and Castle Black.
Some of Patchface's rhymes seem to be of prophetic nature, though none of his listeners understand them; see Patchface/Theories.
The shadows come to dance, my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord. The shadows come to stay, my lord, stay my lord, stay my lord.
- Patchface to Cressen and Shireen Baratheon
Under the sea, smoke rises in bubbles, and flames burn green and blue and black. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
- Patchface during the burning of the Seven on Dragonstone
Fool's blood. King's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye, aye, aye.
- Patchface to Davos Seaworth
Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish. Up here the young fish teach the old fish.
- Patchface to Davos Seaworth
In the dark the dead are dancing. I know, I know, oh oh oh.
- Patchface at Castle Black
Under the sea the mermen feast on starfish soup, and all the serving men are crabs.
- Patchface at Castle Black
The crow, the crow. Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
- Patchface to Jon Snow
Malegorn: Lord Snow, who will lead this ranging?
Jon: Are you offering yourself, ser?
Malegorn: Do I look so foolish?Patchface: I will lead it! We will march into the sea and out again. Under the waves we will ride seahorses, and mermaids will blow seashells to announce our coming, oh, oh, oh.
- Malegorn, Jon Snow, and Patchface
That creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.
- Melisandre to Jon Snow
Patchface was brought to Westeros from Volantis by Lord Steffon Baratheon, the father of Robert, Stannis and Renly.
The same shipwreck that killed Lord Steffon and his wife Cassana Estermont took its toll on Patchface, affecting his body and mind. Yet even so it is apparent that he is not only well aware of his surroundings, but he sometimes also makes uncanny predictions in his songs.
Patchface may have had such prophetic powers before the shipwreck; that would help explain Lord Steffon's decision to bring him to Westeros. Or maybe they have developed somehow as a consequence of his misfortune. There is also the possibility that he is a vessel for someone else's words, as we have occasionally seen happen with ravens and weirwood trees.
As Patchface apparently drowned but was revived, and makes frequent references to events underwater, it is theorized he may be connected to the Drowned God of the Ironborn. This may be why Melisandre considers him dangerous, as she may associate the Drowned God with the Great Other.
Some of Patchface's rhymes seem to be of prophetic nature, though none of his listeners understand them.
As Maester Pylos goes up to get the white raven for Maester Cressen so Princess Shireen can see it, the fool sings:
Under the sea, the birds have scales for feathers. I know. I know…
Shireen states that her mother says that the white raven means that it is not summer any more, and when Maester Cressen responds with reassurances the fool sings:
It is always summer under the sea. The merwives wear nennymoans in their hair and weave gowns of silver seaweed. I know. I know…
Right after this quote Shireen states that she would like a gown of silver seaweed, and the fool sings:
Under the sea it snows up, and the rain is dry as bone. I know. I know…
When the white raven speaks to Shireen after Cressen introduces the raven to her, the princess exclaims that it talks. The maester responds that white ravens are clever birds, and the fool sings:
Clever bird, clever man, clever clever fool…
Immediately after the statement about the clever bird the fool sings:
The shadows come to dance my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord. The shadows come to stay my lord, stay my lord, stay my lord...
When Maester Cressen enters the feasting hall and is making his way across, Patchface lurches into him while singing the same song from the morning and they both fall to the floor. Face to face with Creseen, the fool sings:
Under the sea, you fall up. I know. I know…
As Maester Cressen had his first run in with Melisandre and then makes his way around the tables in the feasting hall to where Lord Davos had offered him a place next to him, the fool sings:
Here we eat fish, under the sea, the fish eat us. I know. I know…
After Maester Cressen states that R'hllor has no power here, the Red Woman tells him that if he believes that he should put the crown back on, and Queen Selyse commands it, the fool sings:
Under the sea no one wears hats. I know. I know…
As the statues of the seven gods are being burned in sept at Dragonstone at the command of Melisandre and before Stannis Baratheon plunges into the fire to pull out Lightbringer, Patchface sings:
Under the sea, smoke rises in bubbles, and flames burn green and blue and black. “I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
Pathface also seems to predict the Red Wedding:
Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye.
Shortly after Alys Karstark's wedding Patchface proclaims:
Under the sea the mermen feast on starfish soup, and all the serving men are crabs.
Melisandre’s face darkens and she says to Jon Snow:
That creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.
Pate is a common name among the smallfolk due to Spotted Pate, a fictional character:
Pate of Lancewood was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. He was killed by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Pate of Mory was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. He was killed by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Pate is a builder in the Night's Watch.
Pate carves the wolf's head for the new pommel for Longclaw with the help of Halder.
Pate, better known as Old Pate, had a cottage in the Riverlands near the Inn of the Kneeling Man. He was slain during the War of the Five Kings.
Arya Stark, Gendry and Hot Pie encounter the Brotherhood Without Banners at the cottage of Old Pate. Tom of Sevenstreams had buried him beneath the willow when he died. His cottage is burned and his garden overgrown.
Pate, better known as Pinchbottom Pate, was an old man who lived in Little Dosk. When the ironmen raided Little Dosk, they attempted to take Pate's daughter. Pate tried to stop them, but was killed instead. He owed Ser Bennis a silver.
Pate of Shermer's Grove was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. He was killed by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Pate was a peasant sworn to House Osgrey. He had weepy eyes.
Pate went off to fight for House Osgrey during the Blackfyre Rebellion. He was one of the four that came back, the others being Ser Eustace, Dake and Lem.
Pate was among those called up for duty defending House Osgrey lands after a dispute over the Chequy Water with House Webber escalated into threats of war. He was sent home with the other by Ser Duncan the Tall after he realized that it would be futile to fight.
Pate is a novice of the Citadel. He is the POV Character of the Prologue of *A Feast for Crows*.
Originally from the Westerlands, Pate is named after the folk hero Spotted Pate, the pig boy, but he hates it when people refer to the story.
Pate has met a person who calls himself an Alchemist, who has promised Pate a golden dragon coin if he brings him the personal key of Walgrave in three days. The personal key of an archmaester can open any lock in the Citadel. Pate thinks about this offer for two days, as he does not want to be a thief. However, he needs the gold to claim the maidenhood of Rosey, the youngest serving girl of the *Quill and Tankard* inn. Pate dreams of running away with Rosey, and serving the smallfolk with the medical knowledge he has learned at the Citadel.
On the third day, Pate is with his friends, Alleras, Mollander, Armen, and Roone, in the *Quill and Tankard*, celebrating Alleras's newly acquired link. They meet Leo Tyrell, another novice who thinks very much of himself and is not liked by the others. Leo mocks them, and claims he will have Rosey. Shortly afterwards, the other boys go back to the Citadel, leaving Leo and Pate, who is waiting for the Alchemist.
Eventually, Pate thinks that the Alchemist will not show up, and heads back to the Citadel. Outside the pub, he runs into the Alchemist, who has Pate follow him into a narrow alley. The Alchemist gives Pate the coin, and Pate bites down on it as he has seen others do with gold coins. Pate asks the Alchemist to show his face, which is revealed to be that of a young man. He has a slight scar on his right cheek and a hooked nose, while his hair is thick, black and curly.
Later, Samwell Tarly comes to the Citadel and meets Alleras, Leo Tyrell, and a boy calling himself Pate, "like the pig boy".
He had no time to think about it, to weigh his choices. The alchemist was walking away. Pate had to follow or lose Rosey and the dragon both, forever. He followed.
Pate is a boy orphaned by the War of the Five Kings who is currently living at the Crossroads Inn.
Pate is among the orphans taken in by Willow Heddle at the Crossroads Inn. When Brienne of Tarth and her party were allowed to stay at the inn, Pate was sent alongside Tansy to get wood for the inn's fire.
Pate is a whipping boy in service to House Baratheon of King's Landing. He is the whipping boy for Tommen I and the former whipping boy for Joffrey I.
Queen Cersei threatened to send for Pate when Tommen I refused to do as she wished. After the threat was made, Tommen relented.
Pate of Fairmarket was a lowborn rebel who claimed the title of river king or King of the Trident in the generations after the riverlands were conquered by the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon. Pate even had a brief, inglorious reign, presumably ruling from Fairmarket, before being put down by the might of Storm's End.
Ser Pate of Longleaf, known as Longleaf the Lionslayer, was a knight during the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
Pate served as a squire during the battle at the Red Fork, during which he mortally wounded Lord Jason Lannister, for which he was knighted after the battle.
Ser Pate of the Blue Fork,
Pate the hedge knight married Amerei Frey, the eldest daughter of Merrett Frey, after she was caught in the stables of the Twins having sex with three grooms at the same time.
Amerei Frey is widowed because of Pate's death.
Lord Walder Frey tells Robb Stark he had negotiated a marriage between his granddaughter Amerei and Pate, but Pate was then killed by Ser Gregor Clegane during the War of the Five Kings.
When Jaime Lannister visits Castle Darry, Lady Amerei tells how Pate had sworn to kill Gregor when House Frey was still supporting Robb.
I married Ami to Ser Pate of Sevenstreams, but the Mountain killed the oaf so I got her back.
– Walder Frey to Robb Stark
I sang at your daughter's wedding. And passing well, I thought. That Pate she married was a cousin. We're all cousins in Sevenstreams. Didn't stop him from turning niggard when it was time to pay me.
- Tom of Sevenstreams to Merrett Frey
I begged him not to go, but my Pate was oh so very brave, and swore he was the man to slay that monster. He wanted to make a great name for himself.
Pate the Plowman is a legendary figure of the Age of Heroes who founded House Moreland.
The High Septon, formerly known as Septon Pater, was the second High Septon of the Faith of the Seven during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen.
By 43 AC, Septon Pater was ninety years old, blind, stooped, and feeble. He was known to be famously amiable, though he had grown forgetful in his late years.
In 43 AC,[N 1] during the Faith Militant uprising, King Maegor and his mother, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen, after several victorious battles against the Faith Militant, turned towards Oldtown, threatening to incinerate the Starry Sept in response to the High Septon's condemnation of Maegor's polygamous marriages.
The High Septon died suddenly before the Targaryens and their dragons arrived, allowing Lord Martyn Hightower to open his gates before Balerion and Vhagar could burn the city.
The new High Septon was happy to welcome Maegor when he arrived at Oldtown, and blessed and anointed his head with holy oils, although he forgot the words of the blessing. He formally dissolved the Warrior's Sons and Poor Fellows, commanding the surviving members of the Faith Militant to lay down their arms in the name of the gods. He proclaimed that the Seven had no more need of warriors, and that henceforth the Iron Throne would protect and defend the Faith. King Maegor allowed the surviving members of the Faith Militant until year's end to surrender their weapons, but afterwards a bounty would be placed on those remaining defiant. Neither the new High Septon nor the Most Devout disagreed with the king.
The High Septon died in 44 AC, most likely due to old age, and was replaced by another who spoke no word against King Maegor or his queens.
Path of the Dragon is a Novella published in the December 2000 issue of the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, based on the *Daenerys* chapters from *A Storm of Swords. It is reprinted in *The Sword & Sorcery Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman, published by Tachyon Publications, San Francisco, (2012).
Returning to Pentos by sea, Daenerys Targaryen learns from Ser Jorah Mormont that large slave armies can be bought in the cities of Slaver's Bay: Meereen, Astapor and Yunkai. To Arstan Whitebeard's disgust - slavery has been illegal in the Seven Kingdoms for millennia - Daenerys buys the services of the Unsullied, the feared warrior-eunuchs of Astapor. When the slave lords of Astapor try to take one of Daenerys' dragons as payment, Daenerys has them burned alive. The Unsullied agree to serve her, whilst Daenerys has the slaves of Astapor set free. She leads a strong force north to Yunkai which forces the lords of the city to release their slaves into Daenerys' service. However, the lords of Meereen choose to antagonise Daenerys by killing 163 of their slaves and leaving each corpses staked at every mile along the road to the city. Daenerys besieges the city to no avail.
Daenerys discovers two traitors in her camp: Ser Jorah Mormont and Arstan Whitebeard. However, the nature of their treachery is very different. Mormont was selling information about her to Robert Baratheon up until they reached Qarth. Arstan Whitebeard is actually an alias of Ser Barristan Selmy, late of King Aerys and Robert's Kingsguard. Barristan wanted to right the ancient wrong of accepting Robert as his king by finding the true Targaryen heir to Westeros, but wanted to make sure the taint of madness had not affected her as her father. Daenerys offers both men the chance to make amends: by sneaking into Meereen through its sewers and opening the gates. They succeed and Meereen falls to Daenerys' armies. She forgives Barristan Selmy and makes him Lord Commander of her Queensguard. However, she finds she still cannot trust Mormont and has him banished from her presence. Learning that Astapor has fallen under the control of a brutal dictator who moved to fill the power vacuum she left behind, Daenerys decides she cannot allow that to happen to Meereen and resolves to stay, and rule, and learn to be the queen that Westeros needs her to be.
Patrek Mallister is the son of Lord Jason Mallister and heir to Seagard. He is good friends with Ser Edmure Tully, the heir to Riverrun.
Patrek enjoys drink, women, and hawking.
Patrek attends the Hand's tourney with his father, Lord Jason Mallister.
Theon Greyjoy helps Patrek and his father bring hostage westermen to the Mallister seat of Seagard.
Following the Battle of the Fords, Ser Edmure Tully spends much of his time with his friends, Ser Marq Piper and Patrek.
Patrek is among the nobles that accompany Edmure to the Twins for his wedding to Roslin Frey. at the Twins.
Patrek is brought by Black Walder Frey during the siege of Seagard, where Walder threatens to hang him if Lord Jason does not surrender the castle. Once Jason yields, he and his son are held captive within their castle.
After Ser Jaime Lannister negotiates an end to the siege of Riverrun, he informs Edwyn Frey that King Tommen I Baratheon requires all captives taken during the Red Wedding, which displeases the Freys.
Patrek Mallister was not too ill a fellow; they shared a taste for wenches, wine, and hawking.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Mallister or no, he was a more amiable riding companion than this sour old priest that his uncle Aeron had turned into.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Patrek Vance is the second son of Ser Dafyn Vance and Maegelle Frey.
Ser Patrek of King's Mountain is a knight from the stormlands in the service of King Stannis Baratheon. He is one of the queen's men.
See also: Images of Patrek of King's Mountain
Patrek is clean-shaven and windburnt. His knightly raiment are of white and blue and silver, his cloak a spatter of five-pointed stars.
Patrek's lands were lost to him when he went north with King Stannis.
Patrek stays with Queen Selyse Florent at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea when Stannis Baratheon goes to take Deepwood Motte. When Selyse leaves Eastwatch to go to the Nightfort, Patrek accompanies her to Castle Black..
Patrek of King's Mountain is named after a friend of George R. R. Martin, Patrick St. Denis of Montreal. Patrick is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys football team (whose logo is a blue star), while George supports the New York Giants.
The Patriarchs of Hyrkoon were the rulers of the now extinct Patrimony of Hyrkoon. They founded the fortress cities of Kayakayanaya, Shamyriana, and Bayasabhad to guard the western marches of the realm from outlaws, brigands, and wild men of the Bone Mountains, and the savages who dwelt beyond.
Patrice Hightower was a lady of House Hightower. The sister of Lord Manfred Hightower of Oldtown and the aunt of Lord Martyn Hightower, and Ser Morgan Hightower.
Patrice never married and remained a maid. She was a reputed witch.
Patrice is considered one of the suspects in the death of the High Septon in 43 AC.[N 1] As she sought an audience with His High Holiness at the Starry Sept on the day of his death, but he was known to be alive when she departed. However, according to Maester Yandel the suspicion only rests in the belief that poison is a woman's weapon.
Hyrkoon the Hero, with Lightbringer in hand, leads the virtuous into battle, as depicted by Jordi Gonzales Escamilla in *The World of Ice and Fire*.
The Patrimony of Hyrkoon was an ancient nation that flourished to the east of the Bone Mountains in Essos. It was ruled by the Patriarchs of Hyrkoon. They founded the fortress cities of Kayakayanaya, Shamyriana and Bayasabhad.
The Patrimony is presumably connected with "Hyrkoon the Hero", another name for the legendary figure most commonly known as Azor Ahai. Its leaders appear to claim descent from him.
The Patrimony of Hyrkoon was centered around a fertile area of rivers and lakes, since desiccated to become the Great Sand Sea, a time known as the Dry Times. The fortified cities of Kayakayanaya, Samyriana and Bayasabhad were once part of this great nation, each guarding the Steel Road, the Stone Road, and the Sand Road, respectively, from brigands, outlaws, and wild men of the Bone Mountains, and the savages that dwelt beyond them.
Before the Dry Times, the Patrimony fought a savage border war with the Jogos Nhai, who poisoned rivers and wells, burned towns and cities, and carried off thousands into slavery on the plains. The Hyrkoon, for their part, sacrificed tens of thousands of Jogos Nhai to their gods. This enmity survives into the present, with Jogos Nhai *jhattars* leading attacks on Kayakayanaya.
The custom of having warrior women, who fight bare-breasted and pierce their nipples with iron rings and cheeks with rubies, shared by the above cities, possibly originates in the Patrimony. West of the Bone Mountains, the city of Yinishar, now the ruins of Vaes Jini, may have been connected with Hyrkoon, as the people of Yinishar were akin to the people of Shamyriana.
Hyrkoon appears to take its name from the Elric saga by Michael Moorcock. The main character, Elric of Melniboné, is the ruler of his city, while his cousin and heir Yyrkoon plots against him. "Eldric Shadowchaser" is an alternate name for Azor Ahai. In "The Lion and the Rose", an episode of *Game of Thrones* scripted by George R. R. Martin, a wedding guest suggests the name "Stormbringer"—which is the name of Elric's sword—for Joffrey Baratheon's new sword, but the king prefers the name Widow's Wail.
The name "Hyrkoon" may also draw inspiration from the name "Hyrkania" from the story "Shadows in the Moonlight" by Robert E. Howard. In an essay in his *Dreamsongs* anthology Martin cites reading Howard's story as a formative experience in his (Martin's) development as a reader of fantasy. Martin quotes a passage referring to Hyrkania, "whose riders wore steel and silk and gold."
The Pattern is a religion worshipped in Essos. The Patternmaker's Maze is located in Braavos, and the priests of the Pattern claim that only those who learn to walk the labyrinth properly will find wisdom..
The Pattern may be a reference by George R. R. Martin to The Pattern in the works of Roger Zelazny. House Rogers and Qarl Correy may also be inspired by Zelazny.
The Patternmaker's Maze is a religious labyrinth located in Braavos. The priests of the Pattern claim that only those who learn to walk it properly will find wisdom.
The Patternmaker's Maze may be a reference by George R. R. Martin to The Pattern in the works of Roger Zelazny. House Rogers is also inspired by Zelazny.
Paxter Redwyne is the Lord of the Arbor and head of House Redwyne. He is married to his cousin, Mina Tyrell, the sister of his liege lord, Mace Tyrell; he is thus twice a nephew of the Queen of Thorns, Olenna Redwyne..
Paxter commands the Redwyne fleet from his galleas, the *Arbor Queen*. His healer is Maester Ballabar.
See also: Images of Paxter Redwyne
Paxter is stooped of shoulder, thin, and balding with only a few orange tufts of hair remaining.
Following the lead of his liege lord, Mace Tyrell, Paxter remained loyal to the Targaryens during Robert's Rebellion. During the year-long siege of Storm's End, the Redwyne fleet blockaded Shipbreaker Bay to prevent Stannis Baratheon from being resupplied by sea. Paxter and Mace feasted outside Storm's End while the Baratheon garrison starved.
During Greyjoy's Rebellion, Paxter presumably commanded the warships from the Arbor which supported Stannis, Robert's master of ships, in the sea battle off Fair Isle.
Ser Stafford Lannister has been negotiating to betroth his son, Ser Daven, to Desmera Redwyne, although an agreement has not been reached with her father, Paxter.
With Horas and Hobber held hostage by Queen Cersei Lannister, Lord Paxter is the only Tyrell bannerman who does not declare for Renly Baratheon for fear of his sons' lives. However, following Renly's death, Lord Petyr Baelish suggests they send Hobber to Paxter as a gesture of goodwill. Petyr believes Paxter would not want Stannis Baratheon on the Iron Throne considering Paxter besieged him at Storm's End during the War of the Usurper.
Paxter participates in the Battle of the Blackwater, when House Tyrell joins with House Lannister to smash Stannis's army.
Paxter serves on the small council of King Joffrey I Baratheon.
Paxter attends the wedding of King Tommen I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell..
After the arrest of Queen Cersei by the High Sparrow, Lord Paxter is given a seat at the small council and made master of ships and lord admiral by Ser Kevan Lannister, the new Lord Regent.
Not to be confused with Renly's peach.
Tom Sevenstrings, Arya Stark, and Gendry at the Peach - by mustamirri ©
The Peach is an inn and brothel located at the eastern side of Stoney Sept's main market square. It has white-washed walls, and its sign is a wooden shingle painted like a peach with a bite taken out of it. The inn is run by Tansy, while Alyce, Bella, Cass, Helly, Jyzene, and Lanna work there as prostitutes or "peaches".
During Robert's Rebellion, Lord Robert Baratheon hid at the Peach before the Battle of the Bells. According to Leslyn, Robert laid with all of the inn's prostitutes but his favorite was Bella's mother.
The Peach is damaged when Stoney Sept is attacked during the War of the Five Kings. When Arya Stark and Gendry arrive in the town with a group of the brotherhood without banners, however, they see that half of the inn's roof has been patched over. After the visitors are bathed, Tom of Sevenstreams performs in the common room, singing "Six Maids in a Pool", "The Maids that Bloom in Spring", and "Two Hearts That Beat as One".
Bella flirts with Gendry and Jack-Be-Lucky, and she reveals that she does not charge friends of Thoros of Myr and Beric Dondarrion. Greenbeard flirts with two girls, while Anguy and Lem disappear into private rooms with their own women. Later, Tansy reveals to Lem and Harwin of the release of Ser Jaime Lannister from captivity at Riverrun by Catelyn Stark and Brienne of Tarth, which Arya disbelieves. An old man propositions young Arya, but Gendry sends him away by protecting his "sister".
Arya and her companions sleep on a large mattress under eaves at the top of the stairs. The next morning, they awake to find the Mad Huntsman has returned to Stoney Sept with Sandor Clegane in custody.
Arya: I bet this is a brothel.
Gendry: You don't even know what a brothel is.
Arya: I do so. It's like an inn, with girls.
- Arya Stark and Gendry
Across the square the dead men were rotting in their crow cages, but inside the Peach everyone was jolly. Except it seemed to her that some of them were laughing too hard, somehow.
- thoughts of Arya Stark
The Peake Uprising was a rebellion by House Peake against House Targaryen in 233 AC. It is notable for the death in battle of King Maekar I Targaryen.
House Peake were loyal supporters of House Blackfyre, but they lost Dunstonbury and Whitegrove in the aftermath of the First Blackfyre Rebellion and Lord Gormon Peake was executed in the Second Blackfyre Rebellion.
Maekar, Robert Reyne of Castamere, and Tywald Lannister, the young heir of Casterly Rock, died during the conclusive battle, the Storming of Starpike.
Roger Reyne, the new Lord of Castamere, slaughtered seven Peakes after Starpike, while Maekar's death led to to political chaos..
The pearl-white emperors were an ancient ruling dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. They ruled from the city of Yin for at least 130 years of peace and prosperity.
The Pearl Emperor was the legendary second ruler of the mythic Great Empire of the Dawn. According to the tales told by the priestly scribes of Yin, he was the eldest son and the successor of the God-on-Earth, the son of the Maiden-Made-of-Light and the Lion of Night, who ruled for ten thousand years before ascending to the heavens. The Pearl Emperor then ruled for a thousand years and was followed by the Jade Emperor. He's credited by some for the construction of the Five Forts, to keep the Lion of Night and his demons away from the realms of men.
The Pearl Palace is the seat of the Princes of Koj, one of the Summer Isles. The palace has a famed collection of charts and maps.
Pearse Caron was the head of House Caron, Lord of Nightsong, and Lord of the Marches during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen. He was a noted singer, harper and skilled tourney knight. He blazoned his shield with a silver harp on yellow.
Lord Pearse participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC, challenging Lord Leo Tyrell in the second tilt. They fought afoot with blunted longaxes, but Pearse was defeated after his axehead caught in Leo's shield.
Peasedale contains an ancient septry in the riverlands. Fragments from the septry's *Annals of the Rivers* suggest that House Fisher was the third dynasty of river kings.
Pebble
The Vale and the location of Pebble
Pebble is an island in the Bite north of the Fingers. It is the seat of House Pryor, sworn to the Eyrie.
It was brought under the rule of House Arryn by King Hugh Arryn.
Pebbleton
The Iron Islands and the location of Pebbleton
Pebbleton is a village on Great Wyk in the Iron Islands. It contains Pebbleton Tower, the seat of House Merlyn. The hovels that surround the tower are home to roughly seven thousand people, most of them employed in the fisheries.
Below the walls of Pebbleton, Aeron Greyjoy calls for a kingsmoot to be held at Nagga's Hill on Old Wyk.
Pebbleton Tower
The Iron Islands and the location of Pebbleton Tower
Pebbleton Tower is the semi-canonical name
The Pendric Hills are the site of a gold mine in the Westerlands. Their exact location has not been published.
During the War of the Five Kings, Greatjon Umber captures the gold mines at the Pendric Hills after the Battle of Oxcross.
Penny is a dwarf woman from across the narrow sea.
See also: Images of Penny
Penny has smooth pink cheeks, thick curly warm-brown hair, a heavy brow and a squashed nose. Her brown eyes are large and trusting. Tyrion has thought of Penny as being ugly and also almost pretty - if you can forget that she's a dwarf.
Penny and her brother Oppo make their living as entertainers who ride atop a pig (Pretty Pig) and a dog (Crunch) while mock fighting each other. Her brother went by the name Groat. She and her brother were Groat and Penny after the two smallest coins.
In Pentos Penny and her brother are hired by a man known as Oswell to entertain the guests in King's Landing during Joffrey Baratheon's wedding to Margaery Tyrell. They ride a pig and a dog while in painted wooden armor. It was Oppo who met with Oswell; Penny did not, as Oppo always made the arrangements.
Unknown to the pair, this stunt was arranged by Petyr Baelish in order to provoke a quarrel between Tyrion and Joffrey, in order to add further false evidence against the dwarf when he would be accused of Joffrey's murder.
Penny's brother Oppo is murdered by sailors from Westeros who falsely believe him to be Tyrion Lannister.
Penny spots Tyrion Lannister when he is a prisoner of Jorah Mormont. Full of grief for her brother's death, she attacks him and is eventually restrained by Jorah. She is made to accompany the pair when they sail for Meereen. Tyrion takes pity on her for what happened to her brother.
Penny and Tyrion are made to entertain the crowds in the fighting pits upon the day they are reopened. Unknown to the pair, lions were meant to be released on them after they finish their mock joust, but when Daenerys Targaryen learns of this, she orders the lions not to be released.
As the Second Siege of Meereen is beginning Tyrion finds Penny in their tent, she is already clad in the company's steel armor. Penny helps him put on his armour. As Tyrion is reminiscing to her about his father during the Battle of the Green Fork she kisses him quickly. Tyrion Lannister is at a loss for words. Tyrion asks her if she heard the sound outside and that it is made by the war. Penny tells him that he is brave but he thinks she is lying and mocking him as he is reminded of Shae's lies.
Penny senses Tyrion's fury and apologises to him. She then tells him she is frightened - but those were the same words Shae had used too. Tyrion remembers that he swallowed every bit of it, even though he had known what Shae was. He becomes lost in a black rage, turns away from Penny and goes outside.
She looks so young, he thought. A girl, that's all she is. A girl, and almost pretty if you can forget that she's a dwarf. Her hair was a warm brown, thick and curly, and her eyes were large and trusting. Too trusting.
Jenny, better known as Penny Jenny, and later known as Redgrass Jenny, was a whore.
She was a camp follower, known as Penny Jenny to those who visited her. Among her known lovers was Ser Quentyn Ball. The night before the Battle of the Redgrass Field she lay with dozens of men, which earned her the new nickname, Redgrass Jenny. After the battle, Redgrass Jenny established herself in King's Landing at an establishment called the Pussywillows. There she raised her two children: her son, who would be known as Ser Glendon Flowers, and her daughter who would become a whore. After she died, the other women working at the Pussywillows raised the two children and told them the story that the mother had put about that the two children were the result of her coupling with Ser Quentyn Ball.
Pennytree
The riverlands and the location of Pennytree
Pennytree is a village in the riverlands, located north of the Red Fork in the disputed border area between Stone Hedge and Raventree Hall.
Pennytree is situated near the Widow's Wash between two grassy hills known as the Teats. It is named for a huge old oak tree that grows by the duck pond, to which hundreds of copper pennies have been nailed. The village holdfast, as strong as any in the riverlands, has thick stone walls twelve feet high, behind which the people of Pennytree retreat at the sign of trouble.
The hills to either side of Pennytree were historically known as the Teats. King Aegon IV Targaryen dubbed them Barba's Teats in honor of his mistress Barba Bracken, the mother of Aegor Rivers. A few years later, he renamed the hills for his new mistress, Melissa Blackwood, the mother of Brynden Rivers. Blackwoods call them Missy's Teats, while Brackens still call them Barba's Teats.
The hedge knight Ser Arlan of Pennytree, a competent tourney warrior and mentor to Ser Duncan the Tall, was from Pennytree.
The village was originally disputed between House Bracken and House Blackwood, but became a royal fief some time around 200 AC.
Ser Jaime Lannister spends a night at Pennytree after securing the surrender of Raventree Hall to the cause of King Tommen I Baratheon. He notes that Pennytree has been burned in the War of the Five Kings, but most of its houses have since been rebuilt. The inhabitants remain wary of visitors. His scouts apprehend Brienne of Tarth on the outskirts of the village. Upon meeting Jaime she pleads for him to help her save Sansa Stark from the Hound.
Nine Free Cities on the continent of Essos:
Pentos, Braavos, Lys, Qohor, Norvos, Myr, Tyrosh, Volantis, Lorath
Pentos is one of the Free Cities of western Essos. It is a port located on the eastern coast of the Bay of Pentos.
Trading with the Pentoshi. © Fantasy Flight Games
Pentos is a large port city, more populous than Astapor on Slaver's Bay.
Even though Pentos has massive, high walls,
The faith of R'hllor is practiced in Pentos. A large red temple is located in the city,
Like the Braavosi, and Lysene, Pentoshi are great lovers of song, and generous with those who please them.
Pentos is a city where wealth equals power, ruled over by a prince with a council of rich magisters. The prince has a mostly ceremonial function, however, while the magisters rule. The prince, who is chosen from forty families, presides chiefly over balls and feasts.
Slavery was heavily practiced for most of Pentoshi history, but Braavos imposed abolition after several wars. Pentoshi ships flout these laws, however, by running Lysene or Myrish banners when challenged. Pentos is full of "free bond servants", who are collared and branded like slaves in Lys, Myr, or Tyrosh. Although they are free men and women by law, the cost of their food, clothing, and shelter is higher than the value of their service and they become indebted to their masters.
Pentos is not allowed by Braavos to have more than twenty warships, nor are they allowed to hire sellswords, make contracts with free companies, or maintain an army. As a consequence, Pentoshi are less belligerent than Tyroshi, Myrmen, or Lyseni. The Pentoshi are friendly with the other Free Cities
A coin of Pentos, as depicted by Nutchapol Thitinunthakorn in *The World of Ice and Fire*
The Pentoshi are involved in trade, with ships daily passing forth between Pentos and King's Landing across the narrow sea in Westeros.
Slavery has been forbidden in Pentos since its last war with Braavos. Nonetheless, there are many servants that are slaves in all but name.
According to semi-canon sources, the square brick towers are controlled by the spice traders of Pentos, who send off their ships to distant locations to trade for saffron and peppers. The poorer population of Pentos, however, struggles, and many become performers, training as singers or tumblers, for multiple generations, perfecting their art.
Pentos was founded by merchants, traders, seafarers, and farmers from the Valyrian Freehold as a trading outpost. Many were smallfolk who bred with local Andals, so the Pentoshi are less protective of Valyrian blood than other Free Cities.
Pentos grew to control almost all of Andalos, with domains stretching from the Velvet Hills and the Little Rhoyne to the narrow sea.
Main article: Century of Blood
As the Century of Blood slowly came to an end, Pentos joined Tyrosh in their resistance to Volantis, which had conquered Lys and Myr in a Volantene attempt to seize control of all Old Valyria had left behind.
In Westeros, in 39 AC, Prince Maegor Targaryen was exiled by his brother, King Aenys I Targaryen.
In 115 AC, Prince Daemon Targaryen married Lady Laena Velaryon. Since Daemon realized his brother, King Viserys I Targaryen, would not be pleased when he heard about the marriage, the newlyweds left Westeros and travelled to Pentos instead. The Prince of Pentos entertained them, as the Pentoshi feared the increasing strength of the Triarchy, and Pentos saw Prince Daemon as a valuable ally. Though Daemon and Laena travelled elsewhere as well, they had returned to Pentos by the time Laena learned she was pregnant. They remained in Pentos as guests of a Pentoshi magister, where their twin daughters, Baela and Rhaena Targaryen, were born in 116 AC. Daemon and Laena remained for another half a year, after which they returned to Driftmark.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon decided that his younger half-brothers, Aegon and Viserys Targaryen, would be fostered with the Prince of Pentos until their mother, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, had secured the Iron Throne. The young princes departed on the Pentoshi cog *Gay Abandon* towards the end of 129 AC, but the ship was intercepted shortly before the Battle of the Gullet.
During the reign of King Daeron I Targaryen, Pentos and Lys were at war with Braavos.
During the past two centuries, Pentos lost four of six wars with Braavos, over slavery and control of the lands and waters between the two cities. Four princes were elected and sacrificed within a year during the last war, which ended in 209 AC.
In 262 AC, a man now known as the Tattered Prince, twenty-three years old at the time, was chosen by the magisters of Pentos to be their new Prince of Pentos, shortly after the beheading of the previous one.
While a bravo in his youth, Illyrio Mopatis protected the despised eunuch Varys in Pentos. They began to work together,
Varys, now the master of whisperers for King Robert I Baratheon, employs Ser Jorah Mormont as a spy in Pentos.
A Dothraki *khalasar* led by Khal Drogo arrives at the city, leading the magisters of Pentos to double the city guard.
Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas sail from Pentos to New Ghis and then on to Qarth,
Illyrio's three ships sail from Qarth for Pentos with Daenerys, her people, and her three dragons aboard them. During their journey Ser Jorah Mormont counsels Daenerys to sail for Astapor and buy Unsullied. Daenerys heeds his counsel, turning away from the original plan to sail to Pentos.
While in Pentos, Oppo and Penny are approached by a man who wishes to hire them for the wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Lady Margaery Tyrell, on the orders of Lord Petyr Baelish.
Varys smuggles Tyrion Lannister across the narrow sea, and the dwarf stays in Illyrio's manse during his brief sojourn in Pentos.
A trading galley out of Pentos travelling in the Bay of Seals is commandeered by the commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, Cotter Pyke, on the orders of Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch..
The Pentoshi nobleman known as the Tattered Prince, leads the Windblown, a sellsword company. One of the sellswords, Pretty Meris, is imprisoned in Meereen when Prince Quentyn Martell reveals that Meris had not deserted Yunkai as she had claimed.
Quentyn meets with the Tattered Prince after Daenerys disappears from Meereen, since Quentyn requires assistance in stealing the remaining two dragons locked in the dragon pit. Quentyn agrees to help the Tattered Prince gain Pentos and they make marks on a paper.
I will not come to Pentos bowl in hand.
- Daenerys Targaryen to Arstan Whitebeard
What I want is Pentos.
- the Tattered Prince to Quentyn Martell
Perceon III Gardener was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener.
Fearing House Manderly's swelling power in the Reach, Perceon had Lord Lorimar Peake drive the Manderlys into exile. This allowed House Peake to acquire the Manderly's seat of Dunstonbury.
The Peregrine is a ship.
The Peregrine takes Princess Arianne Martell and her party from Ghost Hill across the Sea of Dorne to meet Jon Connington in the stormlands. The crossing takes a day and a night, and Jayne Ladybright becomes seasick. Arianne loses to Daemon Sand and Garibald Shells in games of *cyvasse*.
Peremore Hightower, known as Peremore the Twisted, was the second son of King Uthor of the High Tower. He was a sickly boy born with a withered arm and twisted back. He was bedridden for much of his short life but had an insatiable thirst for knowledge about the world, so he turned to wise men, teachers, priests, healers, and singers, as well as wizards, alchemists and sorcerers. When Peremore died, his brother, King Urrigon, bequeathed a large tract of land beside the Honeywine to "Peremore's pets", that they might establish and continue in their quest for for knowldege. Thus the Citadel and the order of maesters was established.
Archmaester Perestan is one of the archmaesters at the Citadel. He has a poor opinion of Archmaester Marwyn. He claims the world is forty thousand years old.
He considers that the importance the Norvoshi give to the axe as a symbol of power and might is proof that the Andals were the first to settle Norvos, and suggests the bearded priests took the emblem from ruins they found as they established the city. He argues that axes are, next to the seven-pointed star, the second most common symbols favored by the Andals warriors who conquered the Seven Kingdoms.
Archmaester Perestan wrote the book *A Consideration of History*.
The Perfumed Hero is a name the Windblown, a sellsword company hired by Yunkai, mockingly gave to a Yunkish nobleman commanding some of the Yunkai slave solders.
The perfumed seneschal is a figure Quaithe warns Daenerys Targaryen about during one of her visits.
*"The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal.*
Ser Perkin Follard is a knight of House Follard in the service of King Stannis Baratheon. He is one of the queen's men.
Perkin stays with Queen Selyse at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, when Stannis Baratheon goes to take Deepwood Motte. When Selyse leaves Eastwatch to go to the Nightfort, Perkin accompanies her to Castle Black.
Ser Perkin the Flea was a hedge knight who lived during the Dance of the Dragons.
Perkin was cunning
During the riots in King's Landing during the Dance of the Dragons, Perkin the Flea crowned his squire, Trystane Truefyre, declaring him a natural son of the late King Viserys I Targaryen. Perkin knighted anyone who pledged to his cause, and thereby gathered hundreds under his command.
After Rhaenyra Targaryen abandoned King's Landing, Perkin installed Trystane in the Red Keep and began to issue edicts. When Aegon II Targaryen retook the capital Perkin was imprisoned, whereas Trystane was knighted before being executed, as he had requested.
After Lord Cregan Stark arrested the conspirators in the murder of Aegon II, many of the accused chose to take the black and join the Night's Watch, led by Perkin.
Perkin and his squire, Trystane Truefyre, may be homages by George R. R. Martin to Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, son of King Edward IV of England.
Perra Frey is the only child of Petyr Frey and Mylenda Caron.
Lady Perra Royce was Lord Walder Frey's first wife. It is not mentioned from which branch of House Royce Perra came from. She and Walder had three sons, Stevron, Emmon, and Aenys, and one daughter, Perriane. All of them had descendants. One of them, Perra Frey, is probably named after her great-great-grandmother. Perra Royce died before the books.
Perra, during her marriage to Walder Frey, gave birth to four children. She had fourteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Perra never lived long enough to see most of her descendants born. Her last child was born no earlier than 241 AC, and by 249 AC, her husband had remarried, and thus Perra had died.
Descendants of her first son Stevron Frey:
Descendants of her second son Emmon Frey:
Descendants of her third son Aenys Frey and her daughter Perriane Frey:
Perianne Frey is the eldest daughter of Lord Walder Frey and Perra Royce. She is married to Ser Leslyn Haigh and they have three sons Harys, Donnel and Alyn Haigh.
Perros Blackmont is the son of the Lady of Blackmont and a member of House Blackmont. He is a squire.
Perros joined his mother, Lady Larra, and his sister Jynessa as part of the escort that accompanied Prince Oberyn Martell to King's Landing when he came to claim his seat on the small council.
The personal key of Walgrave is a key that can supposedly open every door at the Citadel. Only archmaesters possess such keys. Old senile archmaester Walgrave's key is stolen by his young aide Pate, and ends up in the possession of the Alchemist - a suspected Faceless Man, possibly Jaqen H'ghar.
The key is old and heavy, and made of black iron. Other archmaesters carry their keys upon their person or hide them away in some safe place; however Walgrave had hidden his in a stout strongbox underneath his bed. The strongbox's lock was broken by Walgrave after he lost the key that opened it, making it easy for Pate to access the key.
Pate steals the personal key of Walgrave, in exchange for a golden dragon from a person who calls himself the Alchemist. Pate's steals the key due to needing a gold coin to claim the maidenhood of his beloved Rosey, the youngest serving girl of the *Quill and Tankard* inn.
Before Pate hands over the key in a narrow alley in Oldtown, something makes him hesitate, and he asks what the man wants with the key, as some of the old Valyrian scrolls down in the locked vaults were said to be the only surviving copies in the world. The Alchemist replies that what he wants is none of Pate's concern.
After he hands over the key, Pate dies of poison,
Ser Perwyn Frey is a knight from House Frey. He is the fifteenth son of Lord Walder Frey and the first son born in the marriage between Walder and Bethany Rosby.
According to Ser Daven Lannister, Perwyn is a decent man.
Ser Perwyn rode in the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day in 297 AC.
Ser Perwyn attends the Hand's tourney in King's Landing with five other members of House Frey.
During Catelyn Stark's parley with Lord Walder Frey within the Twins, Perwyn is left outside in the company of Robb Stark to ensure his mother's safety.
Five Freys serve in Robb's personal guard during the battle in the Whispering Wood.
Perwyn is a member of the party that escorts Catelyn as she travels to treat with Renly Baratheon at Bitterbridge
While under house arrest for freeing Ser Jaime Lannister, Catelyn watches Perwyn and Martyn, who fought in the Battle of the Fords,
Catelyn is surprised that Perwyn is not present at the Twins for the wedding of his sister, Roslin Frey, to Catelyn's brother, Lord Edmure Tully. Lothar Frey explains that Perwyn is away and delayed by the flooding of the Trident.
Perwyn is present at the siege of Riverrun, where he tells Ser Daven Lannister that his sister Roslin is in love with Edmure and is praying for a girl. Unlike most of the Freys at the siege, Daven approves of Perwyn.
Hallis: They have hanged some Lannisters.
Wendel: A pretty sight.
Perwyn: Our friends have begun without us.
- Hallis Mollen, Wendel Manderly, and Perwyn
Catelyn: Is Ser Perwyn about? He helped escort me to Storm's End and back, when Robb sent me to speak with Lord Renly. I was looking forward to seeing him again.
Lothar: Perwyn is away. I shall give him your regards. I know he will regret having missed you.
- Catelyn Stark and Lothar Frey
Lord Perwyn Osgrey, also known as Perwyn the Proud, was Lord of Coldmoat and head of House Osgrey.
Lord Perwyn ruled House Osgrey when the Gardener kings still ruled from Highgarden. He built the greatest of the Osgrey holds, Coldmoat.
Ser Peter Plumm is a knight of House Plumm, the second son of Lord Philip Plumm.
Peter is a big man with a thick neck and a red face. Like his older brother Dennis, he is boisterous, quick to laugh, quick to anger and quick to forgive.
Peter and his brothers Ser Dennis and Ser Harwyn Plumm are among the men who are sent by Lord Tywin Lannister to the Riverlands in search of his son, after Ser Jaime Lannister has been released from Riverrun by Lady Catelyn Stark.
Petyr is a given name.
It is borne by:
Petyr Baelish, also called Littlefinger, is the head of House Baelish of the Fingers..
See also: Images of Petyr Baelish
Petyr had been slight and short for his age as a boy, and nearing his thirties, he is still a short man of slender build. Petyr has sharp features, a small pointed beard on his chin, and dark hair with threads of grey running through it.
Petyr has always been cunning and clever. As a child, he was bold, always getting into trouble,
Petyr owns a slashed velvet doublet in cream-and-silver,
Petyr's great-grandfather was a Braavosi sellsword in the service of Lord Corbray; when his son became a hedge knight, he took the stone head of the Titan of Braavos as his sigil. Petyr's father, in turn, was the smallest of small lords of a few rocky acres on the smallest of the Fingers,
Petyr was raised alongside Hoster Tully's children, Catelyn, Lysa and Edmure. Because of Petyr's family holdings and his short stature, Edmure gave him the nickname "Littlefinger", by which he is still called.
When Catelyn's betrothal to Brandon Stark, the heir to Winterfell, was announced,
In 282 AC, when the date of Catelyn's wedding was announced,
Petyr was given a fortnight to recover at Riverrun, during which time Lysa helped care for him. Catelyn did not go to see him, and Petyr refused to see Edmure, who had served as Brandon's squire during the duel.
When the fortnight had passed and Petyr was strong enough, Lord Hoster sent Petyr away from Riverrun. Catelyn did not say goodbye to him.
Back at the Fingers, Petyr sent Catelyn a single letter after the death of her betrothed, Brandon. However, she burned the letter without reading it, and they would not see each other for many years to come.
Petyr maintained a relationship with Lysa, even after her marriage to Lord Jon Arryn during Robert's Rebellion. Lysa convinced her husband to give Petyr control of customs at Gulltown around 289 AC, where he increased incomes tenfold, displaying his skill with finances.
During his time at court, Petyr continued his relationship with Lysa, who, as the wife to the Hand of the King, had been living in King's Landing as well.
Conleth Hill as Varys and Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish, as portrayed in HBO's *Game of Thrones*
When Catelyn Stark arrives in King's Landing to inform her husband, Lord Eddard Stark, about the attempt on the life of their son Bran, Petyr, who learned of her arrival despite her efforts to remain unnoticed, intercepts her and stashes her away in one of his brothels. Catelyn, justifying her trust in Baelish from their time together in Riverrun, shows him the Valyrian steel dagger used in the attempt by a catspaw. Petyr says that he recognizes the dagger, claiming that it was once his but that he lost it in a wager to Tyrion Lannister.
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Petyr Baelish at the Hand's tourney, as portrayed in HBO's *Game of Thrones*
Petyr fetches Eddard to meet with his wife and is able to convince him, against his inclination, to make no move against the Lannisters until they have proof. He vows to assist Ned in finding Jon Arryn's killer,
When King Robert I learns that the exiled Daenerys Targaryen is pregnant, Baelish agrees with Robert in advocating her assassination. Ned Stark resigns as Hand in protest of Robert's command, but before he can arrange to travel back to Winterfell, Petyr approaches him with the promise of assistance in his investigation into Jon Arryn's death.
After King Robert's mortal wounding and his subsequent naming of Eddard as Regent and Lord Protector, Baelish advises Ned that despite their knowledge that Queen Cersei Lannister's children are illegitimate and that Stannis Baratheon is the legal heir, the wisest course of action is to ensure Joffrey's succession, a maneuver calculated to avoid all-out war and maximize their own power. Eddard refuses the suggestion and enlists Petyr's help in securing the allegiance of the city watch to ensure its loyalty when he moves against Cersei.
After the majority of Eddard's followers in King's Landing are killed following Eddard's arrest,
Littlefinger – by Algesiras ©
Upon arriving at King's Landing to serve as Hand of the King while Tywin Lannister is in the field, Tyrion Lannister realizes Petyr is more dangerous than he had previously known.
During a meeting of the small council, following the proclamation of Stannis Baratheon that Cersei Lannister's children were born out of incest, Petyr proposes they "fight" Stannis's claims by spreading rumors of their own, suggesting they spread the news that Stannis's daughter Shireen was fathered by Patchface, Stannis's fool at Dragonstone.
After the assassination of King Renly Baratheon, Petyr and Tyrion plot to form an alliance with House Tyrell to win over any lords of the Reach or the stormlands that did not immediately declare for King Stannis Baratheon. Petyr volunteers to travel to Bitterbridge to meet the angry Ser Loras Tyrell.
Petyr returns to King's Landing with Tyrell forces alongside those of Tywin Lannister. The allied Lannister and Tyrell armies are able to take Stannis's forces in the rear in the last hours of the Battle of the Blackwater, with Petyr providing the idea to dress Ser Garlan Tyrell in King Renly's armor during the battle so as to frighten Stannis's men-at-arms.
Petyr maintains contact with Sansa Stark via Ser Dontos Hollard, who vaguely informs Sansa of a secret plan to return her home. Petyr also acquires key informants in the crown's inner circle in Osney, Osfryd, and Osmund Kettleblack, who are hired to guard Queen Cersei Lannister after Tyrion send her guards away. Tyrion believes that the Kettleblack brothers are in his pay, when in truth their allegiance is to Petyr.
During a session of the small council, Petyr informs Lord Tywin Lannister of the Tyrell plot to spirit Sansa Stark to Highgarden and marry her to Willas Tyrell, giving Tywin the necessary time to wed her in haste to his son Tyrion instead.
Petyr's newfound status as a high lord gives him the necessary standing to be considered by Tywin for a marriage to the widowed Lysa Arryn with the intent of delivering the Vale of Arryn, which has remained neutral, to the Crown without violence. Petyr agrees with the plan and is sent to the Eyrie to woo Lysa, believing that to be an easy task given their history. Tyrion Lannister is appointed as master of coin upon Petyr's departure. He warns Cersei and Kevan that Petyr's scheming and wealth makes him dangerous even to their family, despite the Lannisters' gold.
Though Petyr has left King's Landing, he does not go immediately to the Vale, and instead remains near the city until after the wedding between Joffrey and Margaery, in which King Joffrey I is killed.
With Sansa at his side, Petyr has her hair dyed and gives her the assumed identity of Alayne Stone, his bastard daughter. They travel on the *Merling King* to the Vale, stopping at his meager inherited holdings on the Fingers for a few days. Lysa meets them there and insists upon marrying Petyr immediately. He reluctantly agrees, and after the wedding they travel to the Eyrie, where Petyr spends much of his time traveling from lord to lord and asserting his authority. Lysa names Petyr the Lord Protector of the Vale.
In the Eyrie, Petyr notes that Sansa is growing into a beautiful young woman and that she looks very much like her mother Catelyn did at that age. In a quiet moment he takes that affection so far as to kiss her. Lysa witnesses the act, and in a fit of jealous rage attempts to kill Sansa in the throne room, nearly shoving her out the Moon Door. Petyr arrives in time to intervene, at which point Lysa breaks down crying. She accuses Petyr of not loving her despite all she had done for him. She reveals in Sansa's hearing that it had been Petyr who had convinced her to poison her previous husband, Lord Jon Arryn, to prevent him from sending her young son Robert away to be fostered, and that it had been Petyr who had convinced her to write a letter to her sister Catelyn, stating that Jon Arryn had been poisoned and that the Lannisters were responsible. Petyr temporarily soothes Lysa, assuring her that he has only ever loved one woman. He then adds "Only Cat" and shoves Lysa out the Moon Door to her death. The killing is blamed on the singer Marillion.
Petyr and Sansa Stark with the lords of the Vale - by Mike Capprotti ©
Following Lysa's death, Petyr remains Lord Protector of the Vale, with Lord Robert Arryn as his ward. The six most powerful lords of the Vale respond by combining their forces, planning on removing Petyr as Lord Protector. Petyr gains Lord Nestor Royce as an ally by granting him the Gates of the Moon, stating it had been the desire of the late Lysa.
During the parley with the Lords Declarant at the Eyrie, Ser Lyn Corbray behaves belligerently, going so far as to draw his sword, breaching guest right. Now holding leverage over the Lords Declarant, Petyr demands a trial period on his wardship over Robert. He notes to Sansa how fortuitous Lyn's action was, and Sansa correctly guesses that Lyn must be on his payroll. Petyr confirms this, and confides in Sansa how he plans to use this time as regent to eliminate, win over, or marginalize the lords who are currently against him, and to allow Lyn to use his supposed disgust for him to facilitate his joining, and covertly informing on, any conspiracy against the Lord Protector.
Petyr arranges a marriage between Lord Lyonel Corbray and a merchant's daughter, and he then attends the wedding in Gulltown. With winter approaching, the Arryn court departs the Eyrie for the Gates of the Moon. Upon returning from Gulltown, Petyr states Cersei Lannister's leadership in King's Landing is bringing the Seven Kingdoms to ruin faster than he had anticipated. He informs Sansa that he means to marry her to Harrold Hardyng, the current heir of the young and sickly Robert Arryn, and help her regain Winterfell, her family's ancestral seat in the North.
Following the Red Wedding, the Lannisters produce a girl whom they claim to be the missing Arya Stark. They send the girl to marry Roose Bolton's son, Ramsay, helping to cement the alliance between House Bolton and the Crown.
While mulling over Sansa Stark, Cersei Lannister recalls that before the Lannisters married her to Tyrion Lannister, Petyr had offered to marry Sansa himself, but his offer was rejected on account of his low birth.
With the Crown having huge financial problems due to the follies of Cersei, Ser Kevan Lannister wishes that Petyr was back in King's Landing as master of coin.
You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.
—Petyr to Eddard Stark
I did warn you not to trust me, you know.
—Petyr to Eddard Stark
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
—Petyr to Sansa Stark
Petyr: Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.
Sansa: What... what game?
Petyr: The only game. The game of thrones.
—Petyr and Sansa Stark
In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces.
—Petyr to Sansa Stark
Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
—Petyr to Sansa Stark
You could turn King's Landing upside down and not find a single man with a mockingbird sewn over his heart, but that does not mean I am friendless.
—Petyr to Sansa Stark
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
—Petyr to Alayne Stone
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn.
—Petyr to Alayne Stone
He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
He had grey-green eyes that did not smile when his mouth did.
—Sansa Stark's first impression of Petyr
Littlefinger... the gods only know what game Littlefinger is playing.
—Varys to Illyrio Mopatis
Littlefinger is the second most devious man in the Seven Kingdoms.
—Varys to Eddard Stark
If ever truly a man had armored himself in gold, it was Petyr Baelish, not Jaime Lannister. Jaime's famous armor was but gilded steel, but Littlefinger, ah ... Tyrion had learned a few things about sweet Petyr, to his growing disquiet.
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Littlefinger's gold is made from thin air, with a snap from his fingers.
Eddard: Are you in league with Littlefinger?
Varys: I would sooner wed the Black Goat of Qohor.—Eddard Stark and Varys
He many not look as tall or as strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them. Trust in him and do as he says.
He was Petyr, her protector, warm and funny and gentle ... but he was also Littlefinger, the lord she'd known at King's Landing, smiling slyly and stroking his beard as he whispered in Queen Cersei's ear. And Littlefinger was no friend of hers.
—Sansa Stark's thoughts
Petyr Frey, also called Petyr Pimple, is a member of House Frey and is the youngest of Ser Ryman Frey's three sons. His elder brothers are Edwyn and Walder Frey. Petyr is married to Mylenda Caron and they have one daughter Perra Frey.
Petyr's face is covered in warts and pimples (thus the reason for his nickname), but even without them he is not a handsome man.
Petyr is only a year or two older than Robb Stark, but he was married at the age of ten to Mylenda Caron, a woman three times his age.
Petyr, together with his brother "Black" Walder Frey, and his father, Ser Ryman Frey, are sent to greet Robb Stark's arrival at the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey. Robb's direwolf, Grey Wind, tries to attack them, scaring the greeters' horses and dropping Petyr into the mud.
After the Red Wedding, Petyr is captured by the brotherhood without banners while wandering around with some camp followers and is kept for a ransom of one hundred gold pieces. Merrett Frey volunteers to pay the ransom at Oldstones, hoping to gain favor with Ryman's branch of House Frey and not be thrown out of the Twins when Lord Walder Frey finally dies. Merrett is shown Petyr's hanged body, however, and Merrett is himself hanged soon after for his participation in the Red Wedding.
Lord Petyr Mallister was a Lord of Seagard and head of House Mallister who claimed the title of river king or King of the Trident in the generations after the riverlands were conquered by the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon. Lord Petyr had a brief, inglorious reign before being put down.
Ser Petyr Plumm was a knight of House Plumm during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Petyr participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
A phantom tortoise is a type of tortoise found in Qarth.
Following the destruction of the House of the Undying, Xaro Xhoan Daxos reports that phantom tortoises have been seen carrying messages between the windowless houses of Warlock's Way.
Phario Forel is a playwright in Braavos. He is said to have the bloodiest quill of all of Braavos.
He has recently written *The Bloody Hand*
Ser Philip Foote is a one-eyed knight of little note from House Foote in the westerlands.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, where Ser Philip fights for the combined Lannister-Tyrell army, he kills Lord Bryce Caron, the Lord of Nightsong, in single combat. After the battle the Iron Throne names Philip the new Lord of Nightsong and gives him all the lands, rights and incomes of House Caron, forming House Foote of Nightsong.
Philip, the new Lord of the Marches,
Philip attends the royal wedding of Margaery Tyrell and King Joffrey I Baratheon. He is called as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Tyrion for the death of Joffrey. He tells of how he saw Tyrion fill the wedding chalice.
Lord Philip Plumm is the head of House Plumm. He has three sons.
Philip is among the gathered nobility that escort the corpse of Lord Tywin Lannister back to Casterly Rock. Ser Jaime Lannister thinks Lord Plumm could deal with the outlaws Sandor Clegane and Beric Dondarrion, but he would not be a good Hand of the King.
Piety is a war galley in service to pious Lord Guncer Sunglass.
Piety is seized by Stannis Baratheon when Lord Guncer Sunglass refuses to acknowledge Stannis as his liege, since Stannis destroyed the sept at Dragonstone. It is part of the fleet commanded by Ser Imry Florent during the Battle of the Blackwater.
Pilman was a Westerosi ship's captain from Lannisport who provided the Citadel with an account of a water dancer duel. He claimed that the water dancers seemed to barely skim upon the surface, and insisted he never saw anything like it for grace and skill, however.
Pinchbottom Petto is a trading ship.
Pinchbottom Petto is too small for Daenerys Targaryen's needs at the port of Qarth.
Pinchfire is presumably a plant found in the continent of Essos.
Daenerys Targaryen smells pinchfire in the manse of Khal Drogo in Pentos.
The Pink Graces are priestesses. The specialty of the Pink Graces is as yet unknown.[*citation needed*]
The Green Grace Galazza Galare is attended by four Pink Graces when she meets with Ser Barristan Selmy in the Great Pyramid after Daenerys Targaryen's disappearance on Drogon. The Pink Graces array themselves behind her and lower their eyes and clasp their hands before them when Galazza Galare sits down to talk with Ser Barristan.
Pinkmaiden
The riverlands and the location of Pinkmaiden
Pinkmaiden Castle,
Lord Quellon Greyjoy was married to his third wife, a daughter of Lord Piper, by a septon in Pinkmaiden's hall.
Ser Kevan Lannister states Ser Gregor Clegane burnt out the Pipers.
Several high-born captives are held at Pinkmaiden Castle, such as Ser Lyle Crakehall and Lord Antario Jast, during the War of the Five Kings.
The pious dwarf is a holy brother and a member of the Sparrows. His given name is unknown.
The dwarf is not quite five feet tall. He has a veined, bulbous nose, and his teeth are red from chewing sourleaf. He is dressed in the roughspun robes of a holy brother, with the iron hammer of the Smith dangling down about his thick neck. His hair is tonsured, as many holy brothers do. His speech is coarse, but courteous.
The dwarf used to serve at a holy house near Maidenpool, but northmen burned them out. They rebuilt as best they could, but sellswords came, took their pigs, burned them out and killed the brothers. He managed to survive by squeezing in the hollow of a log, hiding until the sellswords left. Afterwards, he buried his brothers, dug up a few coins the elder brother had hid, and set off by himself. He went to Maidenpool, thinking he might find a ship to take him to King's Landing. There he glimpsed a fool down by the docks and then later at the Stinking Goose. The dwarf also overheard a man boasting that he fooled a fool, and noticed he had the gold to prove it.
The pious dwarf makes Brienne of Tarth's acquaintance in the common room of the Seven Swords in Duskendale. The room is crowded and there are no empty seats. The dwarf notices Brienne, and offers her his seat at the end of a bench. Brienne accepts his offer, and makes conversation with him. She tells him that she is looking for her sister, who might be accompanied by a fool. In reply to Brienne's inquiry, the dwarf tells her that he had seen a fool at Maidenpool, and overheard another man (Dick Crabb) boasting that he’d fooled a fool.
Brienne buys him a bowl of hot crab stew. He notices Brienne looks sad, and asks her if she is thinking of her sister. He tries to reassure her, telling Brienne:
The Crone will light your way for her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe.
After finishing the stew he leaves, heading for King's Landing.
Sometime afterwards, three men present Cersei Lannister with a dwarf's head, grey-green and crawling with maggots. Cersei points out that the head has a bulbous nose, whereas Tyrion Lannister has no nose. One of the three men says that the dwarf told them he was a sparrow. The beheaded dwarf may be the same dwarf that Brienne encountered.
Piper's grass is a type of grass found beyond the Wall in northern Westeros.
Jon Snow sees a mountain meadow with groups of piper’s grass growing in shades of russet and gold while in the Skirling Pass near the Frostfangs.
Salladhor Saan, Lysene pirate and sellsail, with his crew. - Fantasy Flight Games ©
Pirates or corsairs commit acts of robbery or criminal violence at sea, on a shore, or in other major bodies of water, such as the river pirates on the Rhoyne.
Pirates make their dens upon the Stepstones and venture forth to prey on honest men.
While the Qohorik rule the Qhoyne and the Darkwash north of Ar Noy, pirates are thickest on the rivers between Ar Noy and the Sorrows. There are pirates on Dagger Lake, which is full of islands where pirates lurk in hidden caves and secret strongholds. Pirates do not sail into the Sorrows, and the Rhoyne south of the Sarrows is held by Volantene galleys.
The Basilisk Isles off Sothoryos is a base for corsairs who raid shipping in the Summer Sea for captives to sell as slaves in Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor.
The Three Sisters have been a favorite haunt of smugglers for hundreds of years, and were pirate nests before that. The ancestors of House Borrell of Sweetsister were pirate kings until the Starks came down on them with fire and sword in the Rape of the Three Sisters.
Bellegere Otherys, the first Black Pearl of Braavos and the fourth of Aegon IV Targaryen's mistresses, was a pirate queen.
The Braavosi innkeeper Pynto was formerly a pirate.
Stannis Baratheon hires Salladhor Saan, a Lysene pirate known as the Prince of the Narrow Sea, to provide him with more ships to aid in his battle for the Iron Throne.
Three days before Daenerys Targaryen inspects Unsullied in Astapor, a corsair king was interested in purchasing one hundred of the slave soldiers.
The *Cinnamon Wind* is attacked by pirates off the Stepstones.
Aurane Waters flees King's Landing with the royal dromonds after the arrest of Queen Cersei Lannister. Grand Maester Pycelle believes that Aurane is sailing to the Stepstones to set himself up as a pirate.
When Quentyn Martell sails incognito on the *Meadowlark*, pirates come aboard when the ship is anchored off the coast of the Disputed Lands; the crew fends off the pirates off at the cost of twelve lives.
Lady Nymella Toland tells Princess Arianne Martell that a new pirate king, calling himself the "Lord of the Waters", has set up on Torturer's Deep.
"Pisswater prince" is the moniker that Tyrion Lannister gives the nameless tanner's son from Pisswater Bend who, according to Illyrio Mopatis, was swapped with Prince Aegon Targaryen when he was an infant.
His mother died birthing him and his father sold him to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold - his father had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold. Varys gave the pisswater prince to Princess Elia Martell and carried Aegon away for his own safety.
During the Sack of King's Landing, Ser Gregor Clegane scaled Maegor's Holdfast
After the boy was dead, Varys smuggled Aegon across the narrow sea to his ally, Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos.
Travelling down the Rhoyne aboard the *Shy Maid*, Tyrion Lannister manages to puzzle out that Young Griff might in fact be Aegon Targaryen, although he has not managed to figure out how he managed to survive the events following the Battle of the Trident. Aegon discloses to Tyrion that as an infant he was swapped with a tanner’s son from Pisswater Bend.
The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy ... a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon and we took him at his word.
- thoughts of Kevan Lannister
Main article: Aegon Targaryen/Theories
Pit fighters do battle in a fighting pit - by Marc Fishman ©
Pit Fighters are slaves bred and/or trained to fight and die in fighting pits for the entertainment of spectators. Some trained since birth, others recently captured and forced to fight. Those who show great skill and become the very best pit fighters are usually then reserved for the largest fighting pits that draw huge crowds.
The combatants wear no armour in the fighting pits as it is blood the crowds have come to see. They are usually bought, sold and trained in Astapor and Meereen.
The Pit of Ghrazz is a fighting pit located in Meereen.
After Viserion and Rhaegal are unleashed upon the city the ruling council of Meereen fill the Pit of Ghrazz with bullocks to feed the dragons and keep them sated. The dragons however prove to have a taste for mutton and instead keep returning to Daznak's Pit, which is filled with sheep, whenever they grow hungry.
Plague face is how Arya Stark refers to a secret servant of the Many-Faced God in the House of Black and White in Braavos and a Faceless Man. He has the face of a plague victim.
His face bears the marks of plague; his cheeks are covered with weeping sores, his hair has fallen out, and blood drips from a nostril and crusts at his eyes.
He comes to the meeting of the eleven priests of the Many-Faced God at the House of Black and White by secret ways, through tunnels and secret passages. He interrogates Arya Stark, who is not afraid of his appearance. He tasks her with assassinating an old man.
Jogos Nhai astride zorses on the plains of the Jogos Nhai - by Marc Simonetti ©
The plains of the Jogos Nhai are situated in Essos, east of the Great Sand Sea and the Howling Hills, north of Yi Ti and the Shrinking Sea, and west of N'Ghai and the Bleeding Sea. To the north is Leviathan Sound and the Shivering Sea.
The plains are vast and may be flat or gently rolling. They are dominated by the Jogos Nhai, a race of nomadic mounted warriors.
The Jogos Nhai people have been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels. However, the geographical plains of the Jogos Nhai have not yet been mentioned and only appears in the map collection *The Lands of Ice and Fire*.
Planky Town
Dorne and the location of the Planky Town
The Planky Town is a trading town that lies at the mouth of the Greenblood in Dorne, near Lemonwood. It has a harbor that sees trading vessels.
During the Conquest of Dorne, Alyn Velaryon broke the Planky Town and sailed up the Greenblood while most of the Dornish strength was in the Prince's Pass.
Posing as merchants, Quentyn Martell and his companions sail from the Planky Town to the Free Cities.
This is a listing of all known plant types from the world of *A Song of Ice and Fire*—plants which are directly referenced in the text, or appear on coats of arms. Most of the plants inhabiting the world are similar to those on Earth.
Thornbushes
Rose:
Dusky rose
White rose
Black brier bush
Corn:
Fern:
Herb:
Pale ivy
Red ivy
Blood melons
Green moss
Grey moss
Purple moss
Red-tailed moss
Silver moss
Orange snap peppers
Thornbushes
Wild wheat
The Plaza of Pride by Tom Garden © Fantasy Flight Games
The Plaza of Pride is a plaza in Astapor. It is an open market where the city's slavers, the Good Masters, take their customers to view their purchases. Its ground is covered in red bricks.
In the centre of the plaza stands a red brick fountain with a monstrous hammered bronze harpy rearing twenty feet tall in its middle.
In Astapor, Daenerys Targaryen goes to the Plaza of Pride to inspect the Unsullied soldiers that she is considering purchasing. A thousand Unsullied have been marched out of their barracks for her inspection and drawn up in ten ranks of one hundred before the fountain and its great bronze harpy. Arstan Whitebeard taps the end of his staff in displeasure on the red bricks as he listens to Kraznys mo Nakloz boast to Daenerys how the Unsullied have been standing in the Plaza of Pride for a day and a night with no food and no water.
Tell the Westerosi whore to lower her eyes. I deal in meat not metal. The bronze is not for sale.
The Plaza of Punishment is a plaza in Astapor. It is where new slaves taken into Astapor are first brought, so they can see slaves who have been punished or executed..
During the Siege of Astapor, after the faux Unsullied of the late King Cleon are defeated in their sortie against the Yunkai'i and their allies, the Green Grace of Astapor is impaled in the Plaza of Punishment and left to die.
A pleasure house in Lys
Pleasure houses.
Sometime after fleeing Westeros Princess Saera Targaryen became the owner of a famous pleasure house in Old Volantis.
The plot to free Jaime Lannister is a scheme devised by Tyrion Lannister to release his brother Jaime from captivity in Riverrun.
After Ser Cleos Frey arrives to King's Landing to deliver Robb Stark's terms for peace, Tyrion Lannister has his agent, Bronn, search for a mummer, a poisoner, a murderer, and a thief in the low places of the capital. Tyrion has them disguised as red cloaks and places along Cleos's honor guard, which comes from Queen Cersei Lannister's guard and are led by Vylarr. Tyrion has Varys convince the queen of going along with Tyrion's plan—which leaves her without men under her direct command—by telling her that the four infiltrators will be unnoticed among the hundred men.
Once in Riverrun, Cleos's escort pledge peace to Ser Edmure Tully and surrender their weapons, Given freedom of the castle, for three nights they are treated as guests. On the fourth night, while Edmure is away across the Tumblestone, the murderer kills two men guarding the Kingslayer with his bare hands, catching them by the throats and smashing their skulls one against the other. The thief, a young and skinny man, opens Jaime's cell with a bit of wire. Afterward, the mummer, imitating Edmure's voice, orders the River Gate to be opened. Enger, Delp, and Long Lew are fooled and raise the portcullis.
An hour before dawn, Edmure returns and Long Lew realizes the deception. The House Tully guards moves to retake the Kingslayer but a confrontation ensues. Jaime gets hold of a sword, slays both Poul Pemford and Desmond Grell's squire Myles, and leaves Delp grievously wounded. Some of the House Lannister red cloaks rush to join the Kingslayer at the sound of fighting but all are subdued.
Edmure has Tyrion's recruits and the red cloaks that aided Jaime hanged from the walls of Riverrun. The rest of the honor guard are thrown in the dungeons. Jaime is also imprisoned in a dark cell, chained hand and foot and bolted to a dungeon wall. Cleos Frey, who was ignorant of the plot, is imprisoned in Jaime's old tower cell.
Plummer was the steward of Ashford during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.
He had a narrow, pinched face and thin grey hair.
Plummer was the master of the games for the tourney at Ashford Meadow. He initially rejected Ser Duncan the Tall's entry into the tourney on the grounds that no one knew who he was, until Prince Baelor Targaryen vouched for him.
Podrick Payne, frequently called Pod, is the squire of Tyrion Lannister. He is from a cadet branch of House Payne
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He is a skinny boy with straight, thin hair. He has a stye beneath one eye.
Podrick was born a member of a lesser branch of House Payne. His father was a squire to richer cousins and his mother was a chandler's daughter. His father died in the Greyjoy Rebellion and his mother abandoned him when he was four years old and ran away with one of the cousins his father had squired for. He ended up with Ser Cedric Payne who took care of him, although he might have treated him more like a servant than a relative. Ser Cedric took him along to tend his horse and clean his mail, when Lord Tywin Lannister called his banners at the start of the War of the Five Kings. Ser Cedric died in the fighting in the Riverlands.
Podrick, alone in the army, attached himself to the hedge knight Ser Lorimer, who was part of Lord Leo Lefford's troops and charged with protecting the baggage train. Ser Lorimer stole a ham from Lord Tywin's personal stores and was hanged for it, but Podrick, who had shared the ham, was spared due to his family's name. Ser Kevan Lannister took charge of him.
Podrick Payne passes into the service of Tyrion Lannister as his squire after Tyrion joins the Lannister forces in the Riverlands. He is so quiet that Tyrion on one occasion makes him stick his tongue out to confirm that he has not lost it, as his relative Ser Ilyn Payne did. Tyrion suspects that Podrick has been assigned to him as some cruel jape.
Upon their arrival in King's Landing, Tyrion Lannister sends Podrick to Ser Aron Santagar, master-at-arms of the Red Keep, for training. His training comes to an end when Ser Aron perishes in the bread riots.
He is present in the Battle of the Blackwater, joining Tyrion's several mounted sorties. He later saves Tyrion's life from Ser Mandon Moore of the Kingsguard, pushing Ser Mandon into the waters of the Blackwater Rush, where the knight drowns due to his heavy armor.
Podrick is part of Tyrion's party that goes forth to meet the delegation from Dorne. He describes the banners of the Dornish nobles to the gathered nobles.
Podrick and Brienne of Tarth overnighting somewhere as they search for Sansa Stark - by mustamirri©
Podrick talks with Brella, Sansa Stark's former maid, who tells him that Brienne of Tarth has visited her and that she is searching for Sansa. This prompts Podrick's wish to find Brienne, as he hopes that her finding Sansa will lead him to Tyrion. He starts to follow Brienne who is on her way towards Duskendale.
Brienne first notices Podrick from a distance in Rosby, riding on his horse,
After an encounter with remnants of the Brave Companions at the Crossroads Inn, Podrick is among those taken prisoner by those sworn to Lady Stoneheart. Brienne is given the choice between killing Jaime Lannister, or dying herself by noose, a choice formulated as "the sword or the noose". When Brienne refuses to kill Jaime, she is sentenced to die. Podrick is judged guilty for being allied with House Lannister as well, and is sentenced to die alongside Brienne. However, when the brotherhood begins to hang them, Brienne of Tarth screams "sword" in an attempt to save Podrick from the noose.
The boy may be a stumbletongue, but he’s not stupid.
It was Pod on the bridge of boats, the lad saved my life.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
The lad was a distant cousin to Ser Ilyn Payne, the king's headsman... and almost as quiet, although not for want of a tongue.
– Tyrion Lannister, to himself
Ser? My Lady?
– Podrick, to Brienne of Tarth
I told you I could fight!
– Podrick, after stunning Shagwell with a rock
The Poetess is a courtesan in Braavos. She always had a book to hand. She has her own barge, and servants to pole her to trysts.
Demon's dance. © Fantasy Flight Games
Citadel Politics. © Fantasy Flight Games
A poisoned well in Dorne. © Fantasy Flight Games
Poison may also be delivered by coating a weapon - by Felicia Cano. © Fantasy Flight Games
Many poisons are used throughout the Seven Kingdoms and in the East. Although the Maesters of the Citadel study the histories and qualities of various poisons in addition to their healing arts, their use seems to be more widespread in the Free Cities
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Poisons are regarded with fear and loathing by knights and high lords alike in the feudal society of the Seven Kingdoms. Many regard them as vile weapons used only by the debauched sots of the Free Cities. It is also seen as a weapon of cravens
Common poisons include nightshade and powdered greycap, derived from a plant and a variety of toadstool respectively. Animal and insect venoms such as basilisk and manticore venom are also known to be used, though they are harder to gather. Manticore venom is particularly vicious and can be treated to make it work more slowly, causing its victim to die in slow agony. Every hedge maester knows the common poisons.
Rare poisons include the Strangler, which is made from a plant found only in the Jade Sea. It kills by closing the windpipe and therefore suffocating its victims. It is a poison that has been used in the past to kill kings, a reason many kings now employ food-tasters. The tears of Lys is an odorless and colorless poison, killing by attacking the stomach and bowels.
There are also ambiguous poisons. Moon tea aborts pregnancies, which makes some maesters reluctant to call it a medicine. Sweetsleep brings deep sleep in small doses, but larger doses can kill. Large enough doses of most medicines can be fatal; the difference with sweetsleep is that the fatal dose is still quite small relative to other medicines. A maester must therefore be very careful when administering it.
Arya Stark's target bites the poisoned coin. © Fantasy Flight Games
Poisons are commonly administered to victims in food or drink, which can also serve to mask their taste and odor. Because of this, noble kitchens are often guarded, and food tasters are employed to protect their masters' lives with their own. Even so, clever poisoners manage to slip past the safeguards from time to time, and at least as many nobles' deaths are caused by a poisoned cup or dish as a bloodied blade, if not more so. Poison may also be delivered by coating a weapon or even through the skin. An assassin may even coat a gold coin with poison, and pass it to the target who is poisoned when they bite the coin to test its value.
Poison is Tyene Sand's chosen weapon. © FFG
Melisandre drinks from the poisoned wine. © Fantasy Flight Games
Schemes of the Scholar - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games
The poisoner is beneath contempt.
– Grand Maester Aethelmure
No true man killed with poison. Poison was for cravens, women, and Dornishmen.
Poison is a foul and filthy way to kill.
– Balon Swann, to Tyene Sand
– Lysa Tully, to Petyr Baelish
I begged Lord Arryn to use a taster, in this very room I begged him, but he would not hear of it. Only one who was less than a man would even think of such a thing, he told me.
– Varys, to Eddard Stark
"I was weaned on venom, Dalt. Any viper takes a bite of me will rue it."
- Darkstar
Poisoners invariably choose the choicest dishes.
– The Tattered Prince