The old inn on Eel Alley is a dismal inn in King's Landing. Its location is well away from watchful eyes.
The twins Cersei and Jaime Lannister once spent a night at the inn, during which Cersei managed to convince her brother to take the white.
After they disembark the *Storm Dancer*, Catelyn Stark and Ser Rodrik Cassel move into a modest old inn halfway up Visenya's Hill. The inn was suggested by the ship's captain Moreo Tumitis. It is a rambling old place on Eel alley. The woman who owns it is a sour old crone with a wandering eye.
After Ser Rodrik leaves, Catelyn tries to get some sleep but is woken by the City Watch of King's Landing. They show her a seal depicting a mockingbird in grey wax--the sigil of Petyr Baelish. As she prepares to accompany the soldiers (who do not recognize her), Catelyn wonders how Petyr knew she was in King’s Landing and settles on Storm Dancer’s captain as the culprit. When she asks Petyr how he knew she was in the city he tells her that Lord Varys knows all.
Some time in the middle of the night, as Jaime Lannister is standing his vigil over his father Tywin Lannister's funeral bier in the Great Sept of Baelor, Cersei Lannister visits him with news of Kevan Lannister's refusal to become her Hand. Cersei is in disguise, dressed as a tavern wench. She asks him if he remembers the first time she came to him like this, in some dismal inn off Weasel Alley. Jaime corrects her, saying it was Eel Alley.
The old piebald rounsey is a swaybacked, broken-down stot that is ridden by Podrick Payne.
Where Pod acquired the horse is not known, but presumably as it is such pitiable quality he was able to make it his own as nobody else wanted it. Its coat is a piebald pattern.
The piebald rounsey’s constitution must be much better than its appearance as the horse serves Pod well enough. He rides it throughout his travels with Brienne of Tarth across all sorts of terrain and it does not break down or go lame and can keep up with Brienne’s bay mare, which was given to her by Jaime Lannister.
At the beginning of her quest to find Sansa Stark, in the queue to enter Duskendale, Brienne of Tarth glances behind her and notices a skinny boy on a piebald rounsey further back. Later the hedge knight Ser Creighton Longbough mentions seeing some farm boy on a piebald horse go by while he was on watch.
Going about her business Brienne keeps catching glimpses of the skinny boy on the piebald rounsey. She realizes that the boy is following her and confronts him by sneaking up and giving the old horse a whack across the rump with the flat of her longsword, causing the horse to rear and the boy to fall off. The boy turns out to be Tyrion Lannister’s former squire, Podrick Payne.
Pod joins Brienne on her quest to find Sansa Stark and rides the old piebald rounsey during their travels. Ser Hyle Hunt is unimpressed with the quality of Pod’s horseflesh and says so at Maidenpool.
That rounsey may be the most hideous horse I’ve ever seen.
– Ser Hyle Hunt, talking about Podrick Payne’s mount
The old warhorn is a horn made from an aurochs horn. The cracked warhorn is banded with bronze and its rim is chipped.
While the Night's Watch is encamped at the Fist of the First Men during the great ranging, Ghost finds a bundle of black wool buried in a mound of soft earth behind a fallen tree. The direwolf informs Jon Snow. A length of rope binds together the bundle, which is perhaps two feet across. It contains the horn and dragonglass weapons, including a dozen knives, leaf-shaped spearheads, and numerous arrowheads.
While staying at an inn in Braavos with Maester Aemon, Dareon, and Gilly, Sam still has the horn.
Main article: Horn of Winter/Theories
Some readers suspect that this broken, modest horn may actually be the legendary Horn of Winter, also known as the Horn of Joramun, and they surmise that it may have been broken purposely, or even warded, so that it cannot be blown in error.
Oldcastle
The north and the location of Oldcastle
Oldcastle is the seat of House Locke in the north. It lies on the northern shore of the Bite, southeast of White Harbor and north of the Three Sisters.
Oldcastle was the royal seat of House Locke when they were petty kings.
Maester Aemon sends a raven to Oldcastle in a plea for help to defend Castle Black from wildlings.
The Lockes of Oldcastle take their lead from Wyman Manderly, Lord of White Harbor.
Oldforge is a ruin in the Riverlands . It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood. Jonos Bracken wants Oldforge for subduing Tytos Blackwood.
Oldstones
The riverlands and the location of Oldstones
Oldstones is the name given by smallfolk to a ruined castle in the northern riverlands. Once the seat of House Mudd, its original name has long been lost.
The ruined stronghold sits on a hill above the Blue Fork of the Trident.
Only the foundations remain among the weeds to show where the dismantled walls of Oldstones had once stood.
A great carved sepulcher rests in the castle yard, half-hidden in waist-high brown grass among of ash trees. The weathered sepulcher entombs Tristifer IV Mudd, King of the Rivers and the Hills. The stone is cracked and crumbling at the corners and discolored by splotches of white lichen, while wild roses creep up over the king's feet almost to his chest.
Near Oldstones is a bridge across the Blue Fork, older and smaller than the bridge downstream at Fairmarket.
Catelyn and Robb Stark contemplate King Tristifer IV Mudd's tomb. Art by onionjulius
The castle now called Oldstones was the seat of House Mudd, who succeeded in unifying more of the riverlands than previous First Men dynasties. Tristifer IV Mudd, King of the Rivers and Hills, beheaded Roland II Arryn, King of Mountain and Vale, at Oldstones during the coming of the Andals. However, the Mudds were eventually overwhelmed by Andal warlords such as Armistead Vance, and their castle fell to ruin over the centuries.
During the occupation of the riverlands by the Storm Kings, Ser Lymond Fisher, the Knight of Oldstones, unsuccessfully claimed to be a river king.
There is a song about Jenny of Oldstones.
Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident, once camped at Oldstones with his daughter, Catelyn, and his ward, Petyr Baelish, while traveling to Seagard. Catelyn played at being Jenny, while Petyr pretended to be the Prince of Dragonflies.
The rising waters of the Blue Fork wash away the bridge near Oldstones.
After the Red Wedding, during which Robb and Catelyn were betrayed by House Frey, the brotherhood without banners abducts Petyr Frey. Merrett Frey travels to the snowy ruins of Oldstones with the ransom for Petyr Pimple, the grandson of his half-brother Stevron. When Merrett enters Oldstones hears faint music coming drifting through the trees from somewhere deep within the castle. As he reaches the site of Tristifer's sepulchre, he finds Tom of Sevenstreams sitting cross-legged atop it, fingering the strings of his woodharp, along with other outlaws. Petyr is revealed to have already been hanged in the godswood. A revived Catelyn allows the outlaws to surround Merrett, take his gold, and hang him for his own involvement in the Red Wedding.
The murderers of Merrett flee Oldstones, with one band escaping Lord Lucias Vypren at Fairmarket.
Jenny of Oldstones by Rae Lavergne
Robb: Does this castle have a name?
Catelyn: Oldstones, all the smallfolk called it when I was a girl, but no doubt it had some other name when it was still a hall of kings.—Robb Stark and Catelyn Stark
High in the halls of the kings who are gone, Jenny would dance with her ghosts ...
—Merrett Frey recalling Jenny's song
Oldtown
The Reach and the location of Oldtown
Oldtown is one of the largest and oldest cities in Westeros, built by the First Men before the Andal invasion. Oldtown was constructed around the Hightower, the seat of House Hightower in the center of the city. Oldtown is home to the Citadel and houses the Starry Sept, formerly the seat of the High Septon of the Faith of the Seven.
Oldtown is located at the mouth of the Honeywine in the southwestern side of the Reach. North of the city are the castles Honeyholt and Brightwater Keep. To the east lies Uplands, and to the west Blackcrown and Three Towers. To enter the port of Oldtown from the Sunset Sea, one first needs to enter the Whispering Sound. The Roseroad travels from Oldtown to Highgarden, from where it continued on to King's Landing.
See also: Images of Oldtown
Oldtown is a labyrinth of wynds, crisscrossing alleys, narrow crookback streets, and markets. These include the Thieves' Market and Ragpicker's Wynd.
Many small isles are located in Oldtown; The Quill and Tankard, an inn, stands on its own island in the Honeywine.
The Citadel is located upriver on both sides of the Honeywine.
Downriver
The mighty Hightower is a massive stepped lighthouse located on Battle Isle, where the Honeywine widens into Whispering Sound.
Oldtown is the richest city of Westeros and second in population only to King's Landing., and more, are known to call upon Oldtown's port.
Oldtown is ruled from the Hightower by House Hightower, who were originally Kings of the High Tower but later swore fealty to House Gardener, the Kings of the Reach. They became vassals of the Tyrells after the Conquest.
Sphinxes at the Citadel by Juan Carlos Barquet © Fantasy Flight Games
The origins of Oldtown are lost to time. The oldest runic records of the First Men, as well as records from maesters that claim to have lived among the children of the forest, confirm men have lived at the mouth of the Honeywine since the Dawn Age. Maester Jellicoe suggested the settlement at Whispering Sound began as a trading post where ships from Valyria, Old Ghis, and the Summer Isles could resupply and trade with so-called "elder races".
In the Age of Heroes, what is now the Ravenry of the Citadel was supposedly the stronghold of a pirate lord who robbed ships as they came down the Honeywine.
Rival kings, pirates, and reavers coveted Oldtown's wealth as the city grew more powerful, but it was protected by only wooden palisades and ditches. In one century, the city was sacked by Samwell the Starfire, Qhored the Cruel, and Gyles the Woe. Three quarters of the city's inhabitants were reportedly sold into slavery by Gyles, but he failed to conquer the Hightower. Otho II, King of the High Tower, built massive stone walls to protect Oldtown.
Oldtown joined the Kingdom of the Reach when King Lymond Hightower and King Garland II Gardener agreed to marry each other's daughters.
Oldtown survived the Andal invasion by welcoming the Andals instead of resisting them. Lord Dorian Hightower married an Andal princess, while his grandson Damon converted to the Faith of the Seven.
Oldtown by Franz Miklis © Fantasy Flight Games
At the time of Aegon's Conquest, Oldtown was the greatest city in Westeros.
Oldtown contained a chapter of the Warrior's Sons during the Faith Militant uprising. Ser Joffrey Doggett gathered an army of two thousand during his journey to seek the blessing of the High Septon. Lord Martyn Hightower called his banners to resist King Maegor I Targaryen, but Oldtown submitted to the king and his mother, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen, after the High Septon suddenly died. Maegor held court in Oldtown for half a year, dismantling the Warrior's Sons chapter and reconciling with his first wife, Queen Ceryse Hightower.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Ser Tyland Lannister sent a third of the royal treasury to Oldtown for safekeeping.
During the Great Spring Sickness of 209 AC, Oldtown suffered badly, second only to King's Landing. Ser Duncan the Tall met Maester Aemon when he and Prince Aegon Targaryen visited the city while returning from Dorne via *White Lady*.
A generation later Oldtown was struck by the dreaded grey plague, a more deadly and fast-acting cousin of greyscale. The outbreak occurred when Grand Maester Pycelle was young, and it wiped out half the city and three-quarters of the Citadel during its run. To prevent its spread, Lord Quenton Hightower ordered the gates barred, all the ships in harbor burned, and anyone trying to leave killed. These orders made him extremely unpopular, but the measures were successful. The day he rescinded the orders, after the plague had burnt itself out, Quenton and his young son were pulled from their horses and had their throats slit by the survivors.
Around fifty years ago, Hother Umber disemboweled a whore in Oldtown, earning himself the nickname Whoresbane.
Prince Oberyn Martell and Princess Elia Martell visited Oldtown on their way to Casterly Rock where their mother was to broker their marriage to the Lannister twins, Cersei and Jaime.
Ser Barristan Selmy defeated Blackshield in a tourney at Oldtown.
Orland of Oldtown is a court musician for King Robert I Baratheon.
Lord Baelor Blacktyde spent eight years as a hostage in Oldtown after Greyjoy's Rebellion.
Although Oldtown remains the largest and richest city of Westeros, the newer capital city of King's Landing has since grown more populous.
The Hightower at Oldtown by Ted Nasmith ©
The *Myraham* sails from Oldtown to Seagard.
Carellen Smallwood is sent from Acorn Hall to safety at a motherhouse in Oldtown during the War of the Five Kings.
Garth of Oldtown is killed by Garth of Greenaway during the mutiny at Craster's Keep.*]
Pate, a novice of the Citadel, dies after meeting with an alchemist in the streets of Oldtown.
In response to the death in King's Landing of her father, Oberyn Martell, Obara Sand desires to sack Oldtown.
Garth Tyrell, the choice of the late Lord Tywin Lannister to become master of coin, travels to Oldtown to take ship for King's Landing. Queen Regent Cersei Lannister instead appoints Lord Gyles Rosby.
Hotho Harlaw brings Lord Rodrik Harlaw a copy of *Book of Lost Books* from Oldtown.
Timeon informs Brienne of Tarth that Urswyck was heading towards Oldtown with a small band of his fellow former Brave Companions.
Euron Greyjoy, the new King of the Isles and the North, attacks the Reach, conquering the Shield Islands and parts of the Arbor before trying to blockade the mouth of the Honeywine. An ironborn attack on the harbor is repulsed by the city's defenders. Aboard *Honor of Oldtown*, Ser Gunthor Hightower commands a line of warships and a boom which protects the harbor.
Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, sends Samwell Tarly south to Oldtown so that he might study there to become a maester for Castle Black. Maester Aemon dies en route, but Sam reaches Oldtown. At the Seneschal's Court he is approached by the acolyte Alleras, who introduces him to Archmaester Arwyn and Leo Tyrell. After Marwyn leaves, the novice Pate gives Sam a cell near Archmaester Walgrave's chamber.
Jon Snow sends from Castle Black to Oldtown for more maesters.
Stories of Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons have reached Oldtown.
There are truths in this world that are not taught at Oldtown.
- Melisandre to Cressen
Oldtown was a veritable labyrinth of a city, all wynds and crisscrossing alleys and narrow crookback streets.
- thoughts of Pate
The city was never more beautiful than at break of day.
- thoughts of Pate
Doran: Obara would have me go to war.
Nymeria: Yes, she wants to set the torch to Oldtown. She hates that city as much as our little sister loves it.
- Doran Martell and Nymeria Sand
Oldtown. Yes. I dreamt of Oldtown, Sam. I was young again and my brother Egg was with me, with that big knight he served. We were drinking in the old inn where they make the fearsomely strong cider.
- Aemon to Samwell Tarly
The Oledo is a galley in the fleet of Salladhor Saan.
While sailing from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, the Oledo is driven onto the rocks of Skagos.
Olene Tyrell is the only daughter of Ser Luthor Tyrell and Elyn Norridge. She is married to Ser Leo Blackbar.
Olenna Tyrell,.
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Lady Olenna is in her sixties
Olenna rarely shies from stating her opinion. She is described as a wizened, cunning old woman with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue, earning her the moniker 'Queen of Thorns'. According to her granddaughter Margaery, she is not the most patient of women.
Olenna was betrothed to Prince Daeron Targaryen when they were both nine,
Olenna liked her husband Luthor Tyrell well enough, as he was kind and not unskilled in bed, but she still considered him an oaf. She regrets that she did not have a chance to beat her son Mace more often when he was a child, as that would have made him more ready to heed her advice when he became an adult.
Olenna is the aunt of Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor.
After the death of King Renly Baratheon, Lord Petyr Baelish is sent to Bitterbridge
Olenna having dinner with Margaery and Sansa - by mustamirri ©
Lady Olenna comes to King's Landing to attend the wedding of Margaery to Joffrey. During a supper with Margaery and a number of noble ladies of houses sworn to the Tyrells, Olenna sharply questions Sansa Stark about Joffrey's nature. She refuses to listen to Sansa's evasions and half truths about Joffrey and gets Sansa to speak the truth about Joffrey's cruelty and the beatings he gave her. To prevent any potential spy from listening to Sansa, Olenna orders her jester, Butterbumps, to sing loudly. She also compares her son, Lord Mace, to a puff fish of the Summer Isles.
Olenna plots with Margaery to marry Sansa to her grandson Willas without letting Lord Mace know about it.
In turn, Olenna sabotages Tywin's plan to marry his widowed daughter, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, to Willas, the heir to Highgarden. Although Mace is originally inclined to accept the offer, Olenna belabors her son and talks him out of it, arguing that Cersei is too old and too used for Willas. Tywin learns about this from Lord Varys and shares the information with Tyrion, but orders Tyrion not to tell Cersei about the reason and rather act as if the offer has never been made.
Olenna seems to share the general aversion of the Tyrells against House Martell. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the Red Keep, she calls Oberyn Martell's paramour, Ellaria Sand, "the serpent's whore".
Olenna is present at the wedding of her granddaughter Margaery and King Joffrey at the Great Sept of Baelor. In the wedding procession after the ceremony, Ser Kevan Lannister escorts her out of the sept. Before the wedding feast in the throne room, Olenna approaches Sansa and expresses her condolences over the deaths of her brother, King Robb Stark, and mother, Lady Catelyn Stark, at the Red Wedding. While she talks with her, Olenna puts Sansa's messy hair in order and straightens the hair net that Sansa has received from Dontos and which he told her to wear at the wedding. Later, Olenna makes a snide remark about how often "The Rains of Castamere" is being performed during the wedding feast. When Joffrey begins to choke, she calls for help and later comforts Margaery.
While later revealing his part in planning Joffrey's death, Petyr implies to Sansa that Olenna is the one who poisoned the king, with some help from himself and the people he used, especially Dontos. He refers to Olenna straightening Sansa's hair net, implying that this was the moment the old woman took the black stones (actually a crystallized form of the strangler), which she used to poison Joffrey. Petyr suggests that Olenna killed Joffrey to spare her granddaughter Margaery from the same cruelty the boy showed Sansa and to prevent her hot-tempered grandson, Ser Loras, from becoming a kingslayer in case he, while serving in the Kingsguard, had to witness the king mistreating his sister. Petyr also shares how he planted disturbing rumors about Joffrey's character while he was at Highgarden, prompting Olenna's questioning Sansa when they first met. According to Petyr, Olenna knew Mace dreamed of his daughter Margaery becoming queen and for that they needed a king, but they did not need Joffrey, as Margaery could also marry his brother, Prince Tommen Baratheon.
Illustration by Elia Fernandez©
Lady Olenna attends the wake for Lord Tywin Lannister with her family. Queen Regent Cersei Lannister informs Lord Mace Tyrell that she has appointed Lord Gyles Rosby as master of coin instead of Mace's uncle Garth, although the position had been promised to the Tyrells by Tywin. When Mace tries to protest, Olenna eases the tension, but not without making some inappropriate remarks about both Gyles and Garth. She also alludes to the smell emanating from Tywin's corpse, making Cersei angry. When Cersei suggests that Olenna would want to return to Highgarden soon, she replies that she cannot leave King's Landing before the wedding of Margaery and King Tommen I Baratheon. She mentions that she had been discussing a date for the wedding with Tywin at the time of his death and proposes to talk about this with Cersei soon.
In the negotiations with Cersei on the marriage between Tommen and Margaery, Olenna drives a hard bargain. She insists on an immediate wedding, much to Cersei's dismay,
During the wedding feast, Olenna complains mockingly that "The Rains of Castamere" is not being sung. The nasty smile of the Queen of Thorns makes Cersei, who is increasingly wary of all Tyrells, think of Maggy the Frog, although the two hardly look alike. Later that night, Olenna suggests to break up the feast and send king and queen to bed together.
Following Tyrion Lannister's escape after Tywin's death, Qyburn informs Cersei that a gold coin dating from the time of House Gardener has been found in the quarters of an undergaoler named Rugen (actually an alias of Varys), who vanished at the time Tyrion did.
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
- Olenna to Sansa Stark
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.
– Olenna to Sansa Stark
Hush, Alerie, don't take that tone with me. And don't call me Mother. If I'd given birth to you, I'm sure I'd remember. I'm only to blame for your husband, the lord oaf of Highgarden.
– Olenna to Alerie Hightower
Night falls for all of us in the end, and too soon for some. You would know that more than most, poor child. You've had your share of grief, I know. We are sorry for your losses.
– Olenna to Sansa Stark
Sansa: The Queen of Thorns, she's called. Isn't that right?
Loras: It is. You'd best not use that name in her presence, though, or you're like to get pricked.
– Loras Tyrell to Sansa Stark
Tyrion was beginning to wonder whether Lord Luthor Tyrell had ridden off that cliff intentionally.
– Tyrion Lannisters thoughts on Olenna
The old woman is not boring, though, I'll grant her that. A fearsome old harridan, and not near as frail as she pretends.
– Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark
Septon Ollidor is a follower of the Faith of the Seven. He is stationed in King's Landing and a member of the Most Devout.
Ollidor is among the leading possibilities to replace the deceased High Septon according to Grand Maester Pycelle.
Ollo,.
Ollo is from Tyrosh. He lost a hand after being caught for thievery and was sent to the Wall after being found abed with a knight's wife.
Ollo Lophand is part of the great ranging, the force that leaves Castle Black in search of the wildlings. He is one of the conspirators that intends to kill Lord Commander Jeor Mormont at the Fist of the First Men. If the conspiracy is successful, he plans to return to Tyrosh.
Ollo survives the fight at the Fist and is among the men who make it back to Craster's Keep. Ollo is among those brothers that mutiny at Craster's Keep, mortally wounding Lord Commander Mormont in the process.
Ollo remains at Craster's Keep after the betrayal, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.
Whilst escorting Bran Stark beyond the Wall, Coldhands tracks the Night's Watch traitors and kills them. Ollo Lophand's one-handed corpse, the largest of them, is found with its throat slit in the snow by Summer, who eats part of the meat.
Olly is a young boy who lives in the North. His character was created specifically for the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, in which he is played by Brenock O'Connor. He replaces the unknown killer of Ygritte from the novels, in the attack on Castle Black, and Satin as Jon Snow's steward.
When Olly and his father are on their way home for dinner, their village in the Gift is attacked by a group of wildlings. When his father is killed by Ygritte, his mother tells him to hide. He flees, and she is killed by Styr. Olly hides under a cart, but is caught by the Thenn warg. The warg brings him to Styr, who holds a blade to his throat. Styr tells Olly that he is going to eat his dead parents, and orders him to tell the men of the Night's Watch at Castle Black in an attempt to draw them out into the open. He then releases Olly, who reaches Castle Black and informs the men of the approaching wildlings.
Olly stays at Castle Black, living amongst the brothers of the Night's Watch and wearing their black clothes. He later trains with them for the upcoming fight against the wildlings. Olly brags to the brothers about his archery skills, though only Grenn says he believes him, as well as promising to take him hunting soon.
Olly greets Jon Snow, Grenn and Eddison Tollett as they return to Castle Black after coming from Craster's Keep. Jon pats him on the head as he greets the brothers.
During the Battle of Castle Black, Olly is assigned to work the wooden lift system. As the battle rages on Samwell Tarly urges him to pick up a weapon and defend himself. Olly then spots Ygritte preparing to kill Jon Snow. Before she can shoot Jon, Olly uses a bow to kill Ygritte with an arrow through the heart, avenging his father in the process. and his forces, Olly is among the black brothers that attend when the fallen brothers are burned in Castle Black's courtyard.
Olly remains at Castle Black and spars with Jon Snow in the training yard, alongside other new recruits. He has little experience with a sword and shield, but Jon does his best to teach Olly how to be a proper swordsman. Olly abruptly stops sparring when Melisandre arrives to fetch Jon. Later, Olly is present when Mance Rayder is executed by King Stannis for refusing to bend the knee.
Olly is present at the choosing for the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and is happy when Jon Snow defeats Ser Alliser Thorne for the position of Lord Commander.
Jon later names Olly as his personal steward, grooming him for command as Jeor Mormont once did for him. He is present at Jon's meeting with King Stannis and Davos Seaworth, in which Jon points out, while looking at Olly, that many of his black brothers do not like the wildlings. Later, Davos asks Olly to recite part of the Night's Watch oath in order to persuade Jon to rally the Night's Watch to Stannis's side in the upcoming battle for the North. Olly is later at a meeting of Night's Watch where Janos Slynt refuses to man and repair Greyguard, a ruined castle on the Wall. Jon orders Slynt to be brought outside and orders Olly to bring him Longclaw. Olly gives Jon his sword and witnesses Slynt's execution.
However, Olly's trust in Jon begins to sour after Jon makes the suggestion of allowing the wildlings to pass through the Wall and become subjects of the Seven Kingdoms or even members of the Night's Watch so as to avoid them falling into the coming White Walker army. First Steward Bowen Marsh points out what the wildlings did to Olly's family and friends in the Gift while in Mance Rayder's army. Later, in Jon's office, Olly asks if Jon means to lure the wildlings into a trap, but Jon denies it, reminding Olly that despite the losses they have suffered at the wildlings' hands, they will need all the help they can get if the Night's Watch is to stand a chance against the White Walkers.
Later, Olly visits Sam in his rooms, ostensibly to offer him some food. However, he wants to ask Sam why Jon would want to join forces with the Wildlings, particularly Tormund, who led the raid in which his parents were killed. Sam reassures Olly that Jon knows what he is doing, and that unless he is successful, neither the Night's Watch nor Westeros stands a chance against the White Walkers. Sam explains this is a hard choice Jon had to make, however unpopular, and then then tells him not to worry, as Jon always comes back.
When Jon Snow returns from Hardhome with thousands of wildlings and lets them in through the Wall, Olly is among the many black brothers who look at the wildlings and even their Lord Commander with disgust. When Jon smiles at Olly, the boy goes away angrily.
Olly is sent to Jon's room to let him know that a Wildling knows where his uncle Benjen is. Jon quickly rushes out of the room, across the courtyard and past a group of Night's Watchmen, only to find a sign with the word "Traitor" scrawled upon it. Several Night's Watchmen mutiny against Jon and stab him, bringing him to his knees, and Olly approaches. Jon whispers Olly's name as a plea for mercy. With tears in his eyes, Olly finishes Jon off by stabbing him through the chest, ending the mutiny and leaving his Lord Commander dead in the snow.
Olly is present in the dining room of Castle Black when Thorne announces Jon's murder at their hands and gives his justification to sway most of the Watch to his side. He witnesses Thorne issue Davos Seaworth and the brothers loyal to Jon his ultimatum to surrender or die.
Later, Olly is present as the mutineers attempt to break into the room where Jon's body is. Before the mutineers can break in however, Edd returns with Tormund Giantsbane and an army of wildlings. Though Thorne demands that the watchmen stand and fight, they are intimidated into surrender by the giant, Wun Wun. Olly then charges Tormund, but is quickly defeated and disarmed. Then, Olly, along with Thorne and the officers who mutinied alongside him, are led away to the Ice Cells.
After Jon Snow's resurrection and subsequent reclamation of command, Olly is led to the gallows to be publicly hanged for treason. As Jon asks his condemned murderers for their last words, Olly refuses to speak and instead glares furiously at Jon. After a moment of silence from Jon, Olly gives him one final look of hatred before he is hanged along with the others.
Despite Olly having literally stabbed him in the heart, Jon continues to be plagued by guilt for executing him.
Ser Olymer Tyrell is the only child of Ser Quentin Tyrell. He is married to Lysa Meadows and they have three children; Raymund, Rickard and Megga Tyrell.
Olyvar Frey is a member of House Frey. He is the eighteenth son of Lord Walder Frey, the fourth with his sixth wife, Bethany Rosby.
Young Olyvar is anxious
Robb Stark takes Olyvar as a squire as part of the pact sealed between Catelyn Stark and Lord Walder Frey at the Twins to join the Freys to the Stark cause in the War of the Five Kings.
Olyvar is beside Robb when he presents his terms concerning peace with the Iron Throne to Ser Cleos Frey.
When the Freys abandon Robb's cause after his marriage to Jeyne Westerling, Olyvar wishes to stay with him at the Crag. The other members of his family force him to return to the Twins, however.
Catelyn expects Olyvar to attend his sister Roslin's marriage at the Twins to Lord Edmure Tully. and it is possible that the other Freys kept him away due to his friendship with Robb.
Robb: I'd hoped to ask Olyvar to squire for me when we march north, but I do not see him here. Would he be at the other feast?
Ryman: Olyvar? No. Not Olyvar. Gone ... gone from the castles. Duty.
- Robb Stark and Ryman Frey
Prince Olyvar Nymeros Martell was a younger brother of Prince Doran Martell. He died as an infant.
Ser Olyvar Oakheart, known as the Green Oak, was a knight of House Oakheart. He was a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of Daeron I Targaryen.
Olyvar died at the side of his king, Daeron I Targaryen, as depicted in a tapestry at Old Oak.
Ser Arys Oakheart thinks of Ser Olyvar and the Oakheart tradition of killing Dornishmen while walking the streets of Sunspear.
Olyvar Yronwood, the Bloodroyal, Lord of the Stone Way, Master of the Green Hills, High King of Dorne, was a king of House Yronwood. He repeatedly led incursions into the Kingdom of the Storm during the reign of Erich VII Durrandon.
Olyver is a prostitute and a spy specializing in homosexual relations, in the employ of Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish. The character was created specifically for the TV series and is played by Will Tudor. He assumes part of Dontos Hollard's storyline in *A Storm of Swords, on obtaining information about the planned wedding of Loras Tyrell and Sansa Stark—not from Sansa, as it happens in the books, but from Loras, and later on part of Blue Bard's storyline in *A Feast for Crows as Queen Margaery's accuser. He has also been referred to as "Olyvar".
Olyver poses as Loras Tyrell's squire during a sparring match. He makes flirtatious advances toward Loras and the two later have sex. Olyver discovers that Loras is due to be married, and relays this information to Littlefinger shortly thereafter. Olyver implies that noblemen in Loras' position make up the bulk of his clientele.
Olyver has been left in charge of Littlefinger's brothels, presumably replacing Ros. When Oberyn Martell and Ellaria Sand arrive to King's Landing, they attend the brothel, with Olyver showing three prostitutes to the couple. After Ellaria chooses one and dismisses the other two, Oberyn turns his attentions to Olyver, who protests that he's not on offer before giving in and admitting he's just "wildly expensive". Oberyn asks if Olyver has ever been with a prince before and orders him to remove his clothes, grabbing him by the crotch. However, they are interrupted when Oberyn overhears a pair of Lannister men singing "The Rains of Castamere".
Olyver later takes part in a small orgy involving Oberyn and Ellaria. When the latter attempts to "share" him with Oberyn, Olyver politely refuses her, claiming to have "not acquired the taste" for women. He then presses Oberyn to divulge his own preference. The Prince, however, explains his rather fluid approach to sexuality, a common trait among the Dornish. Olyver and the other prostitutes depart when Tywin Lannister unexpectedly arrives to speak with Oberyn.
Olyver continues to see Loras on a regular basis, though it's unclear if their arrangement is personal or professional. Around the time of Tywin Lannister's funeral, Olyver is cuddling with Loras Tyrell post coitus, discussing the possibility of visiting Dorne or anywhere far away from King's Landing, when Margaery walks in. Staring down Olyver, she admonishes Loras for making them late for supper with King Tommen, and tells Olyver to leave.
Olyver later plays the role of the Father with a fake beard when the High Septon visits the brothel, while a collection of female prostitutes play the rest of the Seven. He breaks character to make a snide remark about the High Septon's choice, and to remind him that two prostitutes will cost him extra. Moments later, the brothel is attacked by Sparrows, led by Lancel Lannister, who seize the High Septon. Olyver attempts to tell them that they will have to answer to Baelish, but they strike him across the face and remove his fake beard.
Olyver is present when the brothel is attacked again by the Sparrows, this time having formed into the Faith Militant with Cersei Lannister's permission. Again, he is struck when he tells them they will have to answer to Baelish, but this time, the Faith Militant have targeted the brothel's homosexual patrons and prostitutes who have been caught in the act. Since Olyver is fully clothed, he is not suspected of homosexuality, and is able to flee the brothel when he sees the Sparrows murder both the homosexual patron and the prostitute.
Olyvar is later called to give evidence at the "Holy Inquest" of Loras, who is accused of "fornication", "buggery", and "blasphemy", though it is clear he is doing it on Cersei's instructions. Despite their previous, affectionate relationship, Olyvar turns on his lover, and provides the High Sparrow with testimony that allows him to pursue formal charges against Loras. For his cooperation, Olyvar is spared from punishment for his own homosexuality.
Omboru is the central of the three largest islands of the Summer Isles. To its north is the Smiling Sea and the islands of Koj. South of it is the Indigo Straits and then Jhala. To the west in the Summer Sea are the island Isle of Love, and the groups of small islands known as The Singing Stones and The Three Exiles. East of it is the Summer Sea.
Omer Blackberry is a sworn sword from House Blackberry in service at Dragonstone.
Omer is among the small group of knights loyal to Stannis Baratheon who escort Edric Storm onto the *Mad Prendos*.
Omer remains a guard and protector of Edric in the Free Cities.
Omer Florent is a maester of the Citadel in service at Old Oak to House Oakheart.
On Miasmas is an account written by Harmon. It described that animals are more sensitive to poluted waters in Asshai, even without drinking it, causing Asshai to be without horses, elephants, mules, donkeys, zorses, camels and dogs.
"On a Misty Morn" is a song about a mother searching for her son among the dead and the grief that she feels.
Oh, have you seen my boy, good ser?
His hair is chestnut brown
He'd promised he'd come back to me
Our home's in Wendish Town.
Ondrew Locke is the head of House Locke and is the Lord of Oldcastle. He is an old man.
Ondrew Locke is aged, with vulturous features and no teeth left in his mouth. Despite his age, he's outspoken and bold.
Lord Ondrew is invited to the harvest feast at Winterfell but considers himself too old to make the trip.
Ondrew Locke, called "old Lord Locke", attends the wedding of Ramsay Bolton and "Arya Stark" (actually Jeyne Poole) at Winterfell. Theon Greyjoy notes that the face of Lord Locke seemed bestial in the shifting light, reminding Theon of a vulture.
Lord Locke is last seen having breakfast, sitting beside Lord Wyman Manderly. While Wyman eats sausages and boiled eggs, the "toothless" Locke contents himself with gruel. When Ser Hosteen Frey attacks Wyman with a longsword, Lord Locke starts shouting for a maester to tend to the wounded man.
The nickname One-Eye can refer to the following characters:
The one-eyed crone is an ancient crone of the *dosh khaleen* who dwell in Vaes Dothrak. She is a bent and shrivelled stick of a woman with a single back eye. She is the oldest of the crones and has a thin wavery voice. It is she who makes the prophecy that Daenerys Targaryen and Drogo’s unborn son is the stallion who mounts the world.
At Vaes Dothrak, right after Daenerys Targaryen consumes the stallion heart, she and her husband Drogo turn to the dosh khaleen to hear their son’s destiny foretold. The one-eyed crone closes her single eye so that she can peer more easily into the future. When she finally opens her eye she lifts her arms and proclaims the prophecy. Afterwards she peers at Dany and asks her the name of the stallion who mounts the world. Dany replies that he shall be called Rhaego.
The old woman trembled and looked at Dany almost as if she were afraid.
One Eye is a wolf. He is one of the three wolves that Varamyr can enter into as a skinchanger. He is the biggest of Varamyr's wolves and has grey brown fur.
One Eye, Stalker and Sly chase down a group of wildlings and kill them, using them as food. When Varamyr dies, he enters one last time into One Eye.
Onqo was a Dothraki *khal* who lived during the Century of Blood, leading a particularly huge *khalasar. He began to make incursions into the Ibbenese territories in Essos, only to be killed by the Ibbenese in an epic battle that destroyed his *khalasar. His grandson was Khal Dhako.
The Onyx Emperor was the legendary fifth ruler of the mythic Great Empire of the Dawn. He succeeded the Tourmaline Emperor and was in turn succeeded by the Topaz Emperor.
The Opal Emperor was the legendary seventh ruler of the mythic Great Empire of the Dawn and one of its last emperors. He succeeded the Topaz Emperor and was in turn succeeded by his daughter, the Amethyst Empress, though his second son would usurp his sister and crown himself as the Bloodstone Emperor.
The Opener of the Door is a public official in the city of Qarth. Petitioners who seek audience with the Pureborn are expected to make a sacrifice at the Temple of Memory, offer a traditional bribe to the Keeper of the Long List, and send a persimmon to the Opener. If all goes well, the petitioner will be sent a pair of blue slippers, signifying the granting of an audience in the Hall of a Thousand Thrones.
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Oppo, better known as Groat, is a dwarf from across the narrow sea.
Oppo and his sister Penny make their living as entertainers who ride atop a pig and a dog while mock fighting each other. Oppo rides the Pig. He and his sister were Groat and Penny after: the two smallest coins.
Oppo and Penny were hired by a man known as Oswell to entertain the guests in King's Landing during Joffrey Baratheon's wedding to Margaery Tyrell by riding a pig and a dog while in painted wooden armor..
Quentyn Martell sees Oppo and his sister perform whilst in Volantis.
Oppo is later killed by sailors from Westeros who believe him to be Tyrion Lannister.
At the start of the Battle of Slaver's Bay, as they ready themselves, Penny tells Tyrion Oppo thought Cersei Lannister was beautiful when he saw her when they jousted for King Joffrey Baratheon. Tyrion thinks privately to himself that Groat was a stunted little lickspittle with a stupid name.
His blood is on my sister’s hands, and the hands of the brutes who killed him.
Orange Shore
Western Essos and the location of the Orange Shore
The Orange Shore is a strip of shoreline along the southern coast of Essos, found to the west of Volantis.
The orange emperors are a newly founded dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. Though the empire is officially ruled by Bu Gai, seventeenth of the azure emperors, general Pol Qo has given himself imperial honors and named himself first of the orange emperors.
Orbelo is a Braavosi Bravo. He has fair hair and wears a jacket made of green velvet and cloth of silver.
Orbelo and his companion Terro confront Samwell Tarly outside the Cattery, a brothel in Braavos. Due to the timely intervention of Cat, Terro and Orbelo decide to leave Samwell alone.
Orbert Caswell, known as the Black Centaur, was a member of House Caswell who became Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Lord Commander Orbert served nine years in the position. He died in the night. The book *Annals of the Black Centaur* was written about his era.
Magister Ordello was a magister of Pentos.
Half a year before Tyrion Lannister arrived in Pentos, Magister Ordello was poisoned by a mushroom. He did not suffer long.
The Order of the Green Hand was a knightly order founded by House Gardener, the Kings of the Reach, whose sigil was a green hand. Only those both virtuous and skilled in arms were offered membership. The last members of the Order died with King Mern IX Gardener at the Field of Fire during the Aegon's Conquest.
Orell is a free folk raider and a skinchanger who controls an eagle..
While inhabiting his eagle to search for a party of rangers, Orell's human body and another wildling are killed in the Skirling Pass by Jon Snow. Stonesnake and Jon toss the bodies into the depths below, and Jon takes Ygritte prisoner.
Due to the magic of skinchanging, a portion of Orell's consciousness remains in the eagle, which develops a fierce hatred for Jon. He is instrumental in helping Rattleshirt track down and capture Jon and Qhorin Halfhand.
Orell's eagle attacks the captive Jon and scars his face with its talons.
Another skinchanger, Varamyr Sixskins, takes control of Orell's eagle.
The bird hates you, Jon Snow. And well he might. He was a man, before you killed him.
Can a bird hate? Jon had slain the wilding Orell, but some part of the man remained within the eagle. The golden eyes looked out on him with cold malevolence.
- thoughts of Jon Snow
Bag o' Bones, call off your hellcrow!
- Tormund to Rattleshirt
Ser Orivel, better known as Orivel the Open-Handed, was a knight of the Kingsguard at an unknown time.
He is remembered as a knight who shamed the white cloak of the Kingsguard. History remembers him as a coward.
Orkmont
The Iron Islands and the location of Orkmont
Orkmont by Franz Miklis © Fantasy Flight Games
Raiders of Orkmont by Jake Murray. © Fantasy Flight Games.
Orkmont is one of the islands that make up the island chain called the Iron Islands. Orkmont is centrally located, with Blacktyde to the north, Harlaw to the southeast, Pyke to the south, and Old Wyk and Great Wyk to the west.
Rugged and mountainous Orkmont is rich in ore. It was once covered in forest but the timber was used extensively for shipbuilding.
Orkmont is the site of the seats of House Orkwood and House Tawney.
Urras Greyiron, the salt king of Orkmont, was crowned the first driftwood king.
During the rule of the iron kings of House Hoare, merchants and traders from Orkmont were known to call at Lannisport, Oldtown, and the Free Cities.
Following the death of Harren Hoare in the burning of Harrenhal, an ironman of Orkmont declared himself king but was killed in the succession squabble.
During Greyjoy's Rebellion, the forces of King Robert I Baratheon conquered Orkmont.
Orland of Oldtown,
Mance Rayder tells Jon Snow that Orland played the high harp at Winterfell when King Robert Baratheon visited to offer the Hand of the King to Lord Eddard Stark.
Orland is chosen to participate in the singers tourney at the wedding of King Joffrey Baratheon and Lady Margaery Tyrell.
Orlos, dubbed Orlos the Catamite, is a Meereenese pit-fighter.
He's spotted by Barristan Selmy along with a hundred pit fighters about the Spire of Skulls when preparations are made to attack the Yunkish and their allies.
Ormond is a given name in Westeros. Characters named Ormond include:
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Ser Ormond was a knight slain in the Riverlands by forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
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Ormond Osgrey was Lord of Coldmoat and head of House Osgrey during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen.
Lord Ormond spoke out against Maegor I Targaryen's law that suppressed the religious orders of the Poor Fellows and the Warrior's Sons. Maegor took Coldmoat away from House Osgrey in retaliation for the outburst.
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Ser Ormond Westerling was a knight of House Westerling, during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.
Ser Ormond participated in the Tourney at Ashford Meadow of 209 AC.
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Ormond Yronwood was Lord of Yronwood and head of House Yronwood..
Ormund Baratheon was the Lord of Storm's End during the second half of the reign of Aegon V Targaryen and during the reign of Jaehaerys II Targaryen. He served the latter as Hand of the King, until his death whilst commanding the royal army in the invasion of the Stepstones in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. He was married to Princess Rhaelle Targaryen, the youngest daughter of King Aegon V. Ormund was the father of Steffon Baratheon and grandfather to Robert Baratheon, who would eventually overthrow House Targaryen and become the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.
Ormund was the heir of Lord Lyonel Baratheon. Lord Lyonel rebelled against the Iron Throne after Prince Duncan Targaryen spurned Lyonel's daughter and married Jenny of Oldstones. The conflict was eventually settled and King Aegon V Targaryen's youngest daughter, Princess Rhaelle Targaryen, was betrothed to Ormund, and sent to live at Storm's End. In 245 AC they were married, and their son, and only known child, Steffon, was born a year later.
Ormund had inherited Storm's End already prior to his marriage.
Ormund Hightower was Lord of the Hightower and head of House Hightower during the Dance of the Dragons. He wielded the Valyrian steel blade Vigilance.
Ormund led the Reach forces for the greens during the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, supporting his kinsman King Aegon II Targaryen. Not all of the Reach's lords supported him, however.
During the Battle on the Honeywine, Lord Ormund Hightower and his forces were trapped between the forces of Lord Thaddeus Rowan and Tom Flowers, the Bastard of Bitterbridge, on one side and Ser Alan Beesbury, Lord Alan Tarly and Lord Owen Costayne from the other on the banks of the Honeywine. Lord Hightower's lines were starting to crumble and defeat seemed all but a foregone conclusion. His squire, King Aegon's brother Prince Daeron, turned up on his dragon, Tessarion, and turned the battle for the greens. After the battle Ormund knighted Daeron, naming him Ser Daeron the Daring.
Ormund's host advanced slowly on King's Landing, smashing the blacks' forces trying to hinder their advance. The green host came to Tumbleton, where Lord Roderick Dustin and his Winter Wolves rode out to meet them. Screaming war cries, the northmen fought through ten times their own numbers till Lord Roderick came face to face with Lord Hightower. Ormund's cousin, Ser Bryndon Hightower, put himself between the northman and his liege, taking off his arm with his longaxe, yet the Lord of Barrowton slew both before succumbing to his wounds.
After losing their general in the first Battle of Tumbleton, Lord Ormund's host was divided and without direction, with the Caltrops and the Two Betrayers competing for leadership. The army finally dissolved following the second Battle of Tumbleton.
Ormund III Durrandon was a Storm King of House Durrandon. His Queen and him led the stormlanders in poutting aside the old gods and take up the Faith of the Seven.
Ser Ormund Wylde is a knight of House Wylde and is sworn to King Stannis I Baratheon. He is an old man.
He accompanies and continues to serve King Stannis I at the Wall. He marches on Winterfell with King Stannis' host. In the squires betting pool he is the heavy favorite to die next from the cold. During a discussion among Stannis' lords and knights in the longhall of the crofters' village the army has stopped at, Ormund suggests that they remain there until the snowy weather breaks since they have some shelter and can fish from the nearby lake.
Oro Tendyris is a merchant from Braavos. Bradamar Frey is his ward.
Oros
Slaver's Bay and the location of Oros
Oros is a ruined city that sits on the northern coast of the Smoking Sea in Essos, said to be second only in majesty to the city of Valyria before the Doom.
Oros was founded by the Valyrian Freehold. Although rich and glorious, it did not have self-rule and was instead governed by men and women sent from Valyria to rule in the name of the Freehold.
The ruins of Oros are still inhabited to some extent after the Doom of Valyria, although it is not clear whether by descendants of its original inhabitants. The few stories told of these latter-day dwellers tend towards the malign.
Orphan-Maker is a Valyrian steel sword belonging to House Roxton.
It is Valyrian steel, and said to have a black blade.
Ser Jon Roxton wielded the blade during the Dance of the Dragons fighting for king Aegon II.
Orphan Oss is a steward of the Night's Watch.
Orphan Oss is a member of the great ranging that leaves Castle Black and the Shadow Tower in search of Benjen Stark and Mance Rayder. He survives the fight at the Fist and is among those who make it back to Craster's Keep. There, he breaks guest right and takes part in the mutiny at Craster's Keep against the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont.
Orphan Oss remains at Craster's Keep after the betrayal, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.
Five mutineers wanders in the haunted forest, planning to head south over the Wall. However, they encounter Coldhands, who kills and buries their bodies, which aree found by Summer, Bran Stark's direwolf. It is unknown if Orphan Oss is among them.
Orphan of the Greenblood trader. © Fantasy Flight Games
Orphans of the Greenblood are the descendants of the Rhoynar, who fled in Nymeria's ten thousand ships to Dorne, but refused to assimilate into Dornish culture.
The orphans still mourn the loss of their distant homeland in Essos, and so continue to practice the traditions of their river-faring ancestors.
They consider themselves to be "orphans" as they are of the Rhoynar and have been orphaned from their "Mother", the river Rhoyne, which in their faith also holds a divine status. Therefore, they also identify the river as "Mother Rhoyne."
The orphans live on rafts along the river Greenblood. It is said that when they first came to Dorne, they built their smaller boats from the burned carcasses of the ships they used to cross the narrow sea.
The orphans of the Greenblood pole their boats up and down the river and its tributaries, fishing, picking fruits, and doing whatever work is required.
They founded Planky Town as a gathering place, lashing together their boats,
Some Greenblood-born orphans have returned home to the Rhoyne, such as Yandry and Ysilla, who ply the river on the *Shy Maid*.
Orphans of the Greenblood on a boat plying the river. © FFG
The orphan boats are pole boats. They have hardly any draft to speak of and are painted and carved. They have low roofs and wide beams. Daeron I Targaryen disparaged them as "hovels built on rafts," but that is hardly a fair assessment; all but the poorest orphan boats are wonderfully carved and painted.
One of Princess Arianne Martell's companions in her attempt to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon is the orphan Garin, her milk brother. He has arranged for them to meet some orphan friends on the Greenblood, who will take them down the river. However, when they reach the pole boat, they are ambushed by Areo Hotah and his men.
Prince Doran Martell takes coin and hostages from Garin's kin among the orphans, as punishment for his role in the plot.
On the Rhoyne in Essos, Tyrion Lannister encounters Yandry and his wife Ysilla, two orphans who have come home to Mother Rhoyne. Yandry captains the poleboat *Shy Maid*, and transports Tyrion, Griff, and the rest of their party down the river to Volantis.
Nymeria’s blood is in me, along with that of Mors Martell, the Dornish lord she married. On the day they wed, Nymeria fired her ships, so her people would understand that there could be no going back. Most were glad to see those flames, for their voyagings had been long and terrible before they came to Dorne, and many and more had been lost to storm, disease, and slavery. There were a few who mourned, however. They did not love this dry red land or its seven-faced god, so they clung to their old ways, hammered boats together from the hulks of the burned ships, and became the orphans of the Greenblood. The Mother in their songs is not our Mother, but the Mother Rhoyne, whose waters nourished them from the dawn of days.
Orson Stone is a sellsword and member of the Windblown. He is known as the Bastard Knight by the rest of the Windblown. His surname implies that he is probably a bastard born or raised in the Vale. At some time the Tattered Prince dispatched Orson’s brother to the Sorrows.
Orson Stone was part of the Siege of Astapor. He was later sent by the Tattered Prince along with the other Westerosi Windblown to go over to Daenerys Targaryen.
Orton Merryweather is the Lord of Longtable and head of House Merryweather.
Orton has a large, lumpy nose with messy orange-red hair. He is always courteous.
Orton is the grandson of Lord Owen Merryweather,
Orton presumably lived in Essos before King Robert I Baratheon restored House Merryweather's titles and some of their lands when he took the Iron Throne.
Lord Orton is among the lords who travel to King's Landing when Margaery Tyrell is promised to King Joffrey I Baratheon. He brings his wife, Lady Taena of Myr.
Queen regent Cersei Lannister names Lord Orton to her small council as justiciar. In their first session, he counsels making cause with the ironborn to make up for the Iron Throne's lack of sea power after the battle of the Blackwater, and granting them part of the north despite House Bolton's dominion there. He further suggests turning on the ironmen if the Bolton's defeat Stannis Baratheon, though ultimately Cersei elects to build her own fleet.
Cersei raises Orton to be the new Hand of the King after she demotes Ser Harys Swyft to lord treasurer.
After Cersei's imprisonment by the Faith of the Seven, Lord Orton resigns his position and he and his wife flee back to Longtable.
Petyr had once remarked that the horn of plenty that adorned House Merryweather's arms suited Lord Orton admirably, since he had carrot-colored hair, a nose as bulbous as a beetroot, and pease porridge for wits.
– thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Orwyle was Grand Maester during the reigns of Viserys I Targaryen and Aegon II Targaryen.
Orwyle succeeded Grand Maester Mellos in 127 AC. In 128 AC, when King Viserys I Targaryen cut himself on the Iron Throne and his wound became dangerously infected, Orwyle was forced to amputate off two of Viserys' fingers. This did not fully help, as Viserys' health detoriated, and the King grew increasingly ill around the turning of the year.
Orwyle pleaded with Aegon II to send him with terms of peace to Rhaenyra Targaryen, but he was initially refused. Eventually, he was dispatched to Dragonstone, where he spoke with Rhaenyra in favor of Aegon II. Rhaenyra refused to give up her claim. The war known as the Dance of the Dragons occurred afterwards. When Prince Aemond Targaryen decided to make Daemon Targaryen their priority, Orwyle was in favor of asking Storm's End for help, asking for caution, but Aemond proceeded with his plans. When Rhaenyra took King's Landing, Orwyle was send out by Queen Alicent Hightower to send out ravens asking for help, but instead he was arrested in his chambers, and escorted to the black cells.
Elio Garcia explained:
George noted that his account was written up while he sat in a prison cell uncertain if he was going to end up executed or not and wanting to lay down "his side" of the story to try and paint himself in the best possible light. (Yep, Orwyle actually has quite an interesting little story that unfortunately we really had trim almost entirely out of the world book. Definitely will be one of the many highlights of Fire and Blood, IMO.
Orwyle's prison-cell account of what happened was therefore probably slanted in Rhaenyra's favor, in contrast with how Septon Eustace's history was slanted in Aegon II's favor. Grand Maester Munkun then based his The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling on Orwyle's already somewhat biased account.
Orys Baratheon, known as Orys One-Hand, was the founder of House Baratheon and was the first Lord of Storm's End after House Durrandon.
Orys had black hair and black eyes.
Orys was the rumored bastard half-brother of Aegon I Targaryen by their father Aerion, Lord of Dragonstone. Orys was one of Aegon's fiercest commanders and was regarded as Aegon's only true friend. He rose through the ranks and became the first Hand of the King after Aegon's Landing on mainland Westeros and his coronation at the Aegonfort.
During Aegon's Conquest, Orys had command on the ground during Aegon's first test. Orys and Rhaenys Targaryen, with her dragon Meraxes, were then tasked with taking Storm's End. The Storm King, Argilac Durrandon, hearing of the burning of Harrenhal, knew his formidable walls would not protect him from dragonfire. Argilac rode out to give open battle, but Orys slew Argilac the Arrogant in the Last Storm, ending the reign of the Storm Kings.
After the battle, Argella Durrandon, the daughter of Argilac, declared herself the Storm Queen and continued to hold Storm's End until her household turned against her to avoid the same fate of Harrenhal. They delivered her to Orys, naked and chained. Orys, however, covered her with his cloak and treated her chivalrously. Aegon rewarded Orys with Storm's End and named him Lord Paramount of the Stormlands.
Orys Baratheon by feliche
Orys later joined Aegon I Targaryen in the First Dornish War, leading an assault on the Boneway that proved a disaster. The cunning Dornishmen launched a night raid, raining arrows, rocks, and spears from above. The bodies of the invading army blocked the Boneway from both ends, and Orys, along with many of his bannermen and knights, was captured by the Wyl of Wyl, who was also called the Widow-lover. When Aegon eventually agreed to the Dornish ransom demands, Lord Baratheon and his knights and bannermen were ransomed in 7 AC for each man's weight in gold. However, they were freed only after having their sword hands chopped off so they would not be able to use them again against Dorne. Orys became known as Orys One-Hand thereafter.
Orys was said to have become crabbed and bitter after that, so he resigned his office as Hand and returned to the stormlands. He became obsessed with vengeance against the Dornish, especially House Wyl, whose lord had removed his hand.
Orys received his opportunity during the reign of Aegon's son, King Aenys I Targaryen, when a Dornish outlaw known as the Vulture King sent a huge army to reave the lands north of the Red Mountains. Orys, eager for revenge against the Dornish, led his forces against him in the Vulture Hunt.
During a battle at Stonehelm, Orys's forces crushed a part of the Vulture King's host and Lord Walter Wyl, the Widow-lover's son, fell into his hands. Orys chopped off Walter's sword hand, then his other hand, followed by both feet, which he called his usury. On his trip home to Storm's End, Orys died of the wounds he had taken in the battle. According to his son, Davos Baratheon, Orys died content, smiling at the rotten hands and feet dangling in his tent.
My shield, my stalwart, my strong right hand.
Osbert Serry is the Lord of Southshield and head of House Serry, from the Shield Islands.
After the taking of the Shields, Lord Osbert fled to Highgarden with the remnants of the Serry fleet.
Osfryd Kettleblack is the second oldest of the Kettleblack brothers. He is the son of Oswell Kettleblack, and he has two brothers, Ser Osmund and Osney Kettleblack.
See also: Images of Osfryd Kettleblack
Osfryd is a tall man, with a hooked nose, dark hair, and a cruel smile.
Osfryd, along with his brothers, are used by Tyrion Lannister to infiltrate Queen Cersei Lannister's attempt to buy a force of sellswords for herself.
Osfryd is given his knighthood after the Battle of the Blackwater along with his brother, Osney, though they took no part in the actual fighting.
Ser Osfryd and his brothers are ordered by Queen Cersei to dispose of the corpse of Shae. Cersei tells them that what they do with the corpse is of no concern.
Cersei confesses to bedding all three of the Kettleblack brothers.
Osgood Arryn, known as the Old Falcon, was a King of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.
Osgood warred with House Stark of Winterfell and besieged the Wolf's Den. His son, Oswin the Talon, burned the Wolf's Den down.
King Osgood III Shett was a First Man ruler of Gulltown and the head of House Shett during the early stages of the Andal Invasion. He was styled Osgood Shett, Third of His Name, King of the True Men.
King Osgood and his forebears had been waging an intermittent war against the Bronze Kings of House Royce of Runestone. Under Osgood's rule, the Shetts were pushed back inside their town walls. Osgood turned to Andalos for help in recovering the lands lost to King Yorwyck VI Royce.
Seeking to avoid the mistakes made by Jon Brightstone and Dywen Shell, who had hired Andal warlords with gold, he sought to bind them with blood. He gave his daughter in marriage to the Andal knight Ser Gerold Grafton, took Grafton's eldest daughter as his own bride, and married a younger daughter of Grafton to his own son and heir. All these marriages were performed by septons, according to the rites of the "Seven From Across the Sea". Shett even converted to the Faith and swore to build a great sept in Gulltown should the Seven grant him victory. And so she sallied forth with his allies to face the Bronze King.
King Osgood won his victory, but did not survive the battle. It was rumored that Ser Gerold himself struck him down, for upon his return, the Andal knight claimed his good-father's crown for his own, dispossessing Osgood's lawful heir and confining him to his bedchamber until he had gotten his wife (Ser Gerold's daughter) with child. After the daughter was impregnated, Osgood's heir dissappeared from the pages of history.
Natalia Tena as Osha in *Game of Thrones*
Osha is a free folk woman who becomes a captive of Winterfell and later a servant of House Stark. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* she is played by Natalia Tena.
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Osha is tall and lean, standing a head taller than Robb Stark. She has a hard face and shaggy brown hair. Her body bears many scars.
Osha is a spearwife from north of the Wall..
Osha travels with three other wildlings and a pair of Night's Watch deserters, Stiv and Wallen. This group flees south of the Wall, trying to escape the Others. They cross the Wall and travel into the wolfswood north of Winterfell, where they come upon the crippled Bran Stark. Osha wants to take him hostage and return to Mance Rayder, presumably to use him to gain passage south through the Wall. Robb Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Grey Wind, and Summer arrive to rescue him and all of the band are killed, except Osha. She is taken back to Winterfell for questioning.
Osha goes to pray to the the old gods in the godswood and comes upon Bran as he finishes his prayers. She is wearing chains on her legs. The two bond to a degree, sharing a common devotion to the old gods. She tells him that when the weirwood leaves are rustling in the wind, it means the old gods are listening. She also says that the old gods have no power in the south because the weirwoods are gone. She says that Robb is marching the wrong way, and that she has been trying to warn him that the Others are coming, but was ignored.
Bran dreams that he saw his father, Lord Eddard Stark, in the crypt of Winterfell. Maester Luwin summons Osha to carry Bran and goes down to the crypts with him; Osha tells them that she has lived her life beyond the Wall and a hole in the ground will not scare her. Because of Osha’s good behavior, the chains from her shackles are removed, but the shackles remain to show she is not totally trusted. They are surprised in the catacombs by Shaggydog, who savages Maester Luwin's arm. They return to Luwin's tower, where Osha bandages the maester's wound.
Osha works in the kitchens, often giving Bran advice when she bathes in the godswood. During one of their conversations, Osha reveals to Bran that she had killed a Night's Watch ranger in the past.
After Winterfell is taken by the turncloak Theon Greyjoy and his ironborn, Osha publicly bends the knee to Theon and is set free.
After the sack of Winterfell, Osha helps Bran and Rickon escape, along with their direwolves, the Reed siblings, and Hodor. The group splits up outside Winterfell. Bran, Summer, the Reeds, and Hodor head north while Osha escorts Rickon and Shaggydog to parts unknown. Before they leave, Osha grants a mortally wounded Maester Luwin the gift of mercy.
It has been revealed by a survivor of the sack of Winterfell, Wex Pyke, that Osha has taken Rickon and Shaggydog to Skagos.
You tell him this, m’lord. You tell him he’s bound on marching the wrong way. It’s north he should be taking his swords. North, not south.
– Osha to Bran Stark regarding Robb Stark
Who do you think sends the wind, if not the gods?
– Osha to Bran Stark
The giants I’ve seen, the children I’ve heard tell of, and the white walkers ...
– Osha to Bran Stark
Osmund Frey is the eldest son of Ser Benfrey Frey and Jyanna Frey.
Ser Osmund Kettleblack is a member of House Kettleblack who claims to be a hedge knight. He is the son of Oswell Kettleblack and he has two brothers, Osfryd and Osney. In *A Storm of Swords, he is mistakenly called *Oswald Kettleblack** in chapter 67 and chapter 70.
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Osmund stands six feet and six inches, most of it muscle. He has a hook nose, bushy eyebrows and a triangular brown beard.
Ser Osmund served in the Stepstones and the Disputed Lands with the Gallant Men fighting for Lys and then Tyrosh. He claims to have been knighted on a battlefield by Ser Robert Stone, who is now dead.
In order to match her brother Tyrion's personal power base of sellswords, Queen Cersei Lannister secretly tries to hire her own sellsword force through her cousin Lancel. Since he has forced Lancel to spy on Cersei for him, Tyrion learns about this and orders Bronn to find sellswords who he can plant as double agents around Cersei.
Osmund is soon named to the Kingsguard by Cersei when Ser Boros Blount is stripped of his white cloak for cowardice on the Rosby road. Tyrion thinks it ironic that Cersei replaces Blount with a man just as hollow, but he is glad that the appointment supposedly gives him another agent close to King Joffrey I and admits that Kettleblack cannot be any worse than Blount.
Osmund and his brothers become great favorites in the Red Keep, getting along with both servants and highborns with their easygoing manner and their humor. It is rumored that they get best along with the serving wenches, although Osmund's position in the Kingsguard implies celibacy.
Together with Ser Meryn Trant, Osmund personally guards King Joffrey during the battle of the Blackwater. When Joffrey goes off to catapult the Antler Men into the Blackwater Rush, Tyrion warns him to keep the king safe under any circumstance but to also keep him among the defenders of the city.
After the battle, Ser Osmund and the other remaining members of the Kingsguard spend hours knighting more than six hundred men.
Ser Osmund is one of the Kingsguard assigned to bring Sansa Stark to the sept for her marriage to Tyrion Lannister; unlike his counterpart, Ser Meryn Trant, whose mere look promises violence, Osmund speaks to Sansa kindly and convinces her to come along quietly. Osmund is called as a witness for the prosecution during the trial of Tyrion for the death of King Joffrey I, but his testimony is made up.
The absentee Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Jaime Lannister, returns to the city and calls a meeting of the Sworn Brothers in the White Sword Tower. Discussing Joffrey's murder, Osmund jokingly accuses the new High Septon of the murder. Jaime asks why he has never heard of Osmund in all of his tourneys and battles, and presses him on how he came by his knighthood, not quite believing that Ser Robert Stone ever existed. Jaime wonders why Cersei named him to the order, but takes some solace in Osmund's skill at arms.
When Jaime helps Tyrion escape from the black cells, Tyrion learns from Jaime that his first wife, Tysha, was not a whore, but was as she had said - an innocent, orphaned crofter's daughter. In his fury, one of the things that Tyrion tells Jaime is that Cersei has been having sex with Osmund.
Ser Osmund and Ser Boros Blount bring the news to Queen Cersei that Lord Tywin Lannister is dead. Osmund and his brothers are ordered by the queen to dispose of the corpse of Shae. What they do with the corpse was of no concern to Cersei, only that her presence at the Tower of the Hand is to be kept secret.
Ser Osmund, as well as his brother Ser Osfryd, are thrown into a dungeon by Ser Kevan Lannister when Cersei admits to bedding all three of the Kettleblack brothers. Kevan plans to send them to the Wall, if they plead guilty. If they plead not guilty, they will face Ser Robert Strong in trial by combat.
Osmund has become especially unreliable since he joined the Kingsguard. That white cloak does things to a man, I find. Even a man like him.
Ser Osmund Strong was a knight of House Strong and Hand of the King to Aegon I Targaryen.
In 29 AC and 30 AC, Ser Osmund and Aethan Velaryon, lord admiral and master of ships, led a campaign in the Stepstones to root out Lysene pirate king Sargoso Saan. They were accompanied by Prince Maegor Targaryen.
Osmund oversaw the construction of the wall around King's Landing.
Ser Osmund Tyrell was a knight of House Tyrell and the High Steward of Highgarden during the reigns of Garth X Gardener and Mern VI Gardener, Kings of the Reach.
Lords Peake and Manderly instigated a civil war to see their respective wives, both daughters to the senile old King Garth X Gardener, succeed as Queen of the Reach. Ser Osmund led an alliance of twoscore houses to put down the rebels and reclaim the ruins of Highgarden, as a Dornish king and his raiders had sacked the seat of House Gardener and killed Garth X.
Ser Osmund placed a second cousin of the late Garth X upon the throne as King Mern VI Gardener. With the counsel of Osmund, Mern VI began the reconstruction of the Reach and Highgarden and the power of House Gardener. Osmund was succeeded by his son, Ser Robert Tyrell.
Osmynd was the former septon at Riverrun when Catelyn Tully was a child.
Osney Kettleblack is the youngest of the Kettleblack brothers..
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Osney is a tall man with a hooked nose, dark hair and clean-shaven.
Osney, along with his brothers Ser Osmund and Osfryd, is used by Tyrion Lannister to infiltrate Cersei Lannister's attempt to buy a force of sellswords for herself.
Osney is knighted along with his brother Osfryd after the Battle of the Blackwater despite the fact that neither of them did any actual fighting.. All three Kettleblack brothers give evidence against Tyrion in his trial.
Ser Osney and his brothers are ordered by Queen Cersei to dispose of the corpse of Shae. Cersei tells them that what they do with the corpse is of no concern. and smothers the High Septon with a pillow while he sleeps. As a reward Cersei beds him.
Cersei then sends Osney on a mission. He is to be caught seducing and bedding Queen Margaery Tyrell. Then King Tommen I is to send him to the Wall as punishment, where he can kill the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jon Snow. Cersei promises Osney a pardon and lordship when both these tasks are completed. Margaery responds to Osney's advances with nothing but teasing, however, so Cersei hatches a new scheme. She tells Osney to go the the new High Septon (known as the High Sparrow) and falsely confess to bedding Margaery and two of her three cousins. Cersei then lets him bed her again to make sure he obeys.
During his torture, the Blue Bard is forced to list those he claims are Queen Margaery's secret lovers. Among them is Ser Osney.
Osney remains a prisoner of the Faith of the Seven. He is to be executed for the murder of the previous High Septon.
Aye... That one there. She's the queen I fucked, the one sent me to kill the old High Septon.
– Ser Osney, to the High Sparrow
Osric Stark was a member of House Stark who became Lord Commander of the Night's Watch around 400 BC. Osric was only ten years old at the time, making him the youngest chosen for that position.
Osric Umber was a member of House Umber, married to Arrana Stark and had issue.
King Osric V Arryn was a King of Mountain and Vale of House Arryn. He ordered the reconstruction of the Bloody Gate from the rough-hewn, unmortarted wall that it was, to the vaunted gate on which many a army smashed themselves to pieces..
Ossifer Lipps is a knight from the Vale and a member of House Lipps. He is a large, grizzled man with a round belly.
Summoned by the Lord of the Vale, Robert Arryn, Ser Ossifer Lipps arrives at the Gates of the Moon to compete in Lord Robin's tourney. While flirting with Myranda Royce, he is interrupted by Alayne Stone, who rescues her friend from his unwanted advances.
Lord Ossifer Plumm was a wealthy head of House Plumm. He married Princess Elaena Targaryen during the reign of King Aegon IV Targaryen.
Ossifer was an aged man when he wed Elaena Targaryen in 176 AC. He is said to have died whilst consummating his new marriage, after seeing his wife naked for the first time.
According to Ben Plumm, Ossifer had a six-foot long penis that was famous throughout the land.
Tyrion Lannister speculates that Brown Ben Plumm is descended from a younger son of Viserys Plumm, and that rather than the "drop of dragon blood" Ben claims is in his family tree, there are "Two drops. That, or a cock six foot long.",.
There was some old Plumm in the Sunset Kingdoms who wed a dragon princess. My grandmama told me the tale. He lived in King Aegon's day.
– Ben Plumm to Daenerys Targaryen
This old Plumm was a lord, though, must have been a famous fellow in his day, the talk of all the land. The thing was, begging your royal pardon, he had himself a cock six foot long.
– Ben Plumm to Daenerys Targaryen
And Ossifer Plumm was much too dead, but that did not stop him fathering a child, did it?
– Cersei Lannister to Jaime Lannister
Ossy is one of the mule-handlers in service to House Royce of the Gates of the Moon.
During the descent from the Eyrie, Ossy is charged by Mya Stone with bringing Ser Lothor Brune and the servants down the Giant's Lance to the Gates of the Moon.
Oswell I Arryn was a King of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.
In the North, they tell the tale of the Rat Cook, who served an unknowing Andal king the flesh of his son, which had been baked into a pie.
Oswell Kettleblack is a member of House Kettleblack and is one of Petyr Baelish's servants.
Oswell has a wind burnt face, hooked nose, white hair, huge knuckled hands, and crooked teeth.
Little is known of Oswell except he has been in Baelish's service for quite some time.
Under his master Petyr Baelish's direction Oswell hires the dwarf jousters, Penny and Oppo, as entertainers for King Joffrey Baratheon's wedding.
After Joffrey dies at his own wedding feast, Oswell waits for Ser Dontos Hollard and Sansa Stark on a small skiff in Blackwater Bay to take them to the *Merling King*, where Petyr awaits.
It is likely that Oswell knows that Alayne Stone is really Sansa Stark. When Sansa says as much to Petyr, he remarks that if Oswell is as half as clever as a sheep pellet he will know. However, Oswell has been in his service for a long time and he has Lothor Brune watching him – and vice versa.
Oswell hears interesting news in Gulltown from the crew of the *Merling King*, who have just returned. He shares the news with Petyr, but Sansa does not ask for details.
Penny mentions Oswell to Tyrion Lannister - with regard to who hired her and her brother to joust at Joffrey's wedding - although she is fuzzy about his actual name.
Ser Oswell Whent was a knight of House Whent and a member of King Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard.
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Oswell wore a distinctive helmet emblazoned with a black bat with its wings spread, symbolizing House Whent.
Lord Walter Whent of Harrenhal, Oswell's older brother, announced the tourney at Harrenhal shortly after a visit from Oswell. It was proposed by Varys and believed by some that Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was secretly sponsoring the tourney in order to gather lords together to deal with the matter of his mad father, King Aerys II Targaryen, and used Oswell as a go-between to Lord Whent.
According to a semi-canon source, began shortly after.
At the end of the rebellion, Eddard Stark encountered Ser Oswell and two other knights of the Kingsguard, Arthur and Ser Gerold Hightower, at the tower of joy in Dorne. Eddard told them that King's Landing had already fallen and that King Aerys II Targaryen was dead. In the ensuing conflict, all three Kingsguard were killed. Eddard had been with six northern companions, but he and Howland Reed were the only survivors.
Eddard Stark, fevered in the black cells of the Red Keep, dreams of the combat at the tower of joy, where he and his companions encountered and battled Oswell and two other knights of the Kingsguard, Ser Gerold Hightower and Ser Arthur Dayne.
With his head on a weirwood stump, Jaime Lannister dreams he is below Casterly Rock, and is confronted with the shades of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, and his fellow Kingsguard, Oswell, Arthur, Gerold, Jon Darry, and Lewyn Martell. They admonish Jaime for his murder of King Aerys II Targaryen, and for his failure to protect Rhaegar's wife Elia Martell, and children Rhaenys and Aegon.
Ser Barristan Selmy recalls that Lord Walter Whent announced the tourney at Harrenhal shortly after a visit from his brother, Oswell.
Eddard: I looked for you on the Trident.
Gerold: We were not there.
Oswell: Woe to the Usurper if we had been.
– Eddard Stark, Gerold Hightower, and Oswell in Eddard's dream
I learned from the White Bull and Barristan the Bold. I learned from Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, who could have slain all five of you with his left hand while he was taking a piss with the right. I learned from Prince Lewyn of Dorne and Ser Oswell Whent and Ser Jonothor Darry, good men every one.
– Jaime Lannister to Loras Tyrell, Osmund Kettleblack, Balon Swann, Meryn Trant, and Boros Blount
Oswin Arryn, nicknamed the Talon, was a King of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.
During the wars between House Stark of the North and House Arryn of the Vale of Arryn, King Osgood Arryn laid siege to the Wolf's Den.
Oswyn, better known as Oswyn Longneck the Thrice-Hanged, was a famous member of the Kingswood Brotherhood.
Othell Yarwyck is a member of House Yarwyck and is the First Builder of the Night's Watch. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Brian Fortune.
Othell is lantern-jawed.
Othell is present as First Builder when the new members of the Night's Watch swear their vows.
The brothers of the Night's Watch left to defend the Wall from the assault by the wildlings name one of the straw dummies after him.
Othell and his builders are sent by Lord Commander Jon Snow to restore the Nightfort.
The Others - © 2012 John Picacio
The Others, also known as white walkers,. As they have not been seen for eight thousand years, they are considered to be extinct.
See also: Images of the Others
The Others are tall and gaunt, with flesh pale as milk.
According to George R. R. Martin, the Others *"are strange, beautiful… think, oh… the Sidhe made of ice, something like that… a different sort of life… inhuman, elegant, dangerous."*
Blue-eyed Other gripping the pommel of a crystal sword - by Marc Simonetti ©
The Others wear delicate, reflective, camouflaging armor that shifts in color with every step., Martin told him that *"the reflective, camouflaging armor"* is able to pick up *"the images of the things around it like a clear, still pond."*
The Others appear to be superior swordsmen, wielding thin crystal swords.
The Others are capable of resurrecting dead men or creatures as wights.
The Others go lightly on the snow and leave no prints to mark their passage.
According to Old Nan, the Others hate "every creature with hot blood in its veins".
The Others have a few known weaknesses that are recorded in ancient texts. One is obsidian,
See also: Long Night, and Night's Watch
Other or white walker. Art by Rene Aigner©
According to legend, the Others came from the Lands of Always Winter six or eight thousand years ago, and brought with them cold and darkness that lasted a generation: the Long Night. They resurrected dead men and animals to serve them.
The Night's King, the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, is said to have married a woman with pale skin and blue eyes, matching the description of the Others. Reportedly, she was a sorceress. He brought her to the Nightfort, where he proclaimed himself king and her his queen, and bound his Sworn Brothers in the Night's Watch to his will. After a thirteen-year reign, he was defeated by Brandon the Breaker, King of Winter, and Joramun, King-Beyond-the-Wall, after which it was discovered that he had been sacrificing to the Others.
In his *Lies of the Ancients* Archmaester Fomas speculates that the Others were a tribe of the First Men who had been living in the far north. Fomas suggests that the Long Night pressured these men, the ancestors of the current wildlings, to migrate south. Over the years, they became more and more monstrous in the telling of the tales about them, because the Night's Watch and the Starks wanted to seem heroic. However, Lies of the Ancients is little regarded nowadays, as it contains erroneous claims about Valyria, the Reach, and the westerlands.
The Wall was built to protect the people of the realms in Westeros from the threats of the north,
Ser Waymar Royce discovers the Others - by Amok ©
During a ranging beyond the Wall, Ser Waymar Royce is confronted by a group of at least five Others who speak an icy language. Waymar duels one of the Others, but the ranger is blinded when his sword shatters. The laughing group butchers Waymar, who then rises as a wight to slay Will.
Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, in conversation with Tyrion Lannister at Castle Black, refers to white walkers being glimpsed by fisherfolk on the shore near Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. Tyrion discounts them, however, by mentioning mythical merlings.
Old Nan tells Bran Stark about the Long Night, when white walkers moved through woods.
Traveling in the wolfswood, Bran encounters six wildlings and deserters from the Night's Watch, who discuss whether to take the boy hostage and return north to sell him to Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall. Out of fear for encountering the white walkers, one of the men decides not to do so.
At Craster's Keep, Gilly tells Jon Snow that Craster gives up his infant sons to the cold gods; Jon determines she is speaking of the Others.
Samwell Tarly with an obsidian dagger - by Amok ©
Encamped at the Fist of the First Men, the Night's Watch hear three horn blasts signifying Others. The brothers are then attacked by wights in the fight at the Fist.
While the survivors retreat through the haunted forest back to Craster's Keep, an Other knocks away Grenn's torch and kills Small Paul. Samwell Tarly stabs it in the throat with a dragonglass dagger, however, and Sam hears a sound similar to the cracking of ice beneath one's foot. The Other's armor, flesh, and bones melt away as a result, dissolving away until nothing remains.
During the mutiny at Craster's Keep, one of Craster's wives warns Sam that Craster's sons will soon arrive for Gilly's newborn boy.
At the parley during the battle beneath the Wall, Mance Rayder reveals to Jon that he is trying to lead the free folk south of the Wall to protect them from the Others and their wights.
Sam finds limited information about the Others while researching in the library of Castle Black.
Jon Snow, now the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and Tormund discuss their common foe, the Others, when Tormund's four thousand wildlings cross the Wall. Jon asks if the Others troubled the wildlings on their march to the Wall, and Tormund informs him that the Others had been with them all the way, though they never attacked the free folk in force.
White Walker as depicted in *Game of Thrones*
There are notable differences between the Others in the novels and HBO's television adaptation, *Game of Thrones. In the television adaptation, the Others are known only as White Walkers. In the audio commentary for "Winter Is Coming", producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss explained that the change was made to avoid confusion that may arise between references to the race known as the Others and "others" meaning other groups or people within the show. Additionally, George R. R. Martin has stated that the change was decided upon early in the development process to avoid confusion with the Others from ABC's show *Lost, the mysterious inhabitants of the island on which that show mostly takes place.
Unlike the strange beauty Martin describes them as having in the book series, the White Walkers of Game of Thrones are depicted with frightening, emaciated appearances. In *Valar Morghulis*, the tenth and final episode of the second season, Others appear looking like undead men without skin, their bones and muscles white from ice and snow. Their eyes are bright blue. They wear little armor and no camouflage.
The language spoken by the Others, unnamed in the book series, is called Skroth in the TV series.
The leader of the White Walkers is known as the Night King in Game of Thrones. He is first seen in "Oathkeeper", transforming Craster's last son,, a legendary figure that has been mentioned a few times in the novels, though this was later removed. It is unknown whether this was due to an error in identification or the fact that this would be a major spoiler.
While in the novels, the backstory of the Others has barely been revealed, the Season 6 episode "The Door" has Bran Stark seeing a vision of the children of the forest creating an Other from a captured First Man, in an attempt to create a defense against the invasion of the First Men.
The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking.
- thoughts of Will
The Others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one.
– Eddard Stark to Catelyn Stark
If the Others ever come for us, I pray they have archers, because you lot are fit for nothing more than arrow fodder.
– Alliser Thorne, to the Night's Watch recruits
The Others are only a story, a tale to make children shiver. If they ever lived at all, they are gone eight thousand years.
– Jon Snow's thoughts
The cold gods. The ones in the night. The white shadows.
The white walkers of the wood, the cold shadows, the monsters of the tales that made him squeak and tremble as a boy, riding their giant ice-spiders, hungry for blood ...
- Samwell Tarly's thoughts
A godly man got no cause to fear such. I said as much to that Mance Rayder once, when he come sniffing round. He never listened, no more'n you crows with your swords and your bloody fires. That won't help you none when the white cold comes. Only the gods will help you then. You best get right with the gods.
- Craster to the Night's Watch
Melisandre: Necromancy animates these wights, yet they are still only dead flesh. Steel and fire will serve for them. The ones you call the Others are something more.
Stannis: Demons made of snow and ice and cold. The ancient enemy. The only enemy that matters.
– Melisandre and Stannis Baratheon to Samwell Tarly
They're never far, you know. They won't come out by day, not when that old sun's shining, but don't think that means they went away. Shadows never go away. Might be you don't see them, but they're always clinging to your heels.
Othgar Hoare, known as Othgar the Demonlover, was a King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare. The Hoare kings of his era were opposed by the priests of the Drowned God because of their support for the Faith of the Seven, discouraging of reaving, and promotion of trade.
Othgar Hoare, known as Othgar the Soulless, was a King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare. The Hoare kings of his era were opposed by the priests of the Drowned God because of their support for the Faith of the Seven, discouraging of reaving, and promotion of trade.
Ser Otho Bracken, known as the Brute of Bracken, was a knight of House Bracken during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen. He was the second son of Lord Bracken.
He was called the Brute after slaying Lord Quentyn Blackwood in 206 AC in a tourney at King's Landing. Although he used a blunted longaxe, Otho struck Blackwood so hard that he stove in his helm's visor and the face beneath.
Ser Otho participates in the tourney at Ashford Meadow. He rejects Ser Duncan the Tall's plea for aid when he searches for a seventh knight for the Trial of seven.
Otho is mentioned as the new heir to House Bracken and soon-to-be lord of the Stone Hedge, as his father is slowly dying and his older brother died in the Great Spring Sickness.
Otho II Hightower was a King of the High Tower and head of House Hightower. He had the wooden palisades and ditch protecting Oldtown replaced with massive stone walls, thicker and higher than any seen in Westeros in that time, as the city had previously been sacked three times in a single century. Otho's efforts beggared the city for three generations, but succeeded in their purpose of turning back would-be invaders and raiders.
Othor is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Othor is a big, ugly man who carries a hunting horn and an axe.
Othor is a member of the ranging party commanded by Benjen Stark, and he sings bawdy songs when they depart Castle Black. Jon Snow finds his corpse in the haunted forest when he goes to say his vows beneath the weirwood grove. Othor's corpse is brought back to Castle Black. Reanimated as a wight, he seeks out and attempts to kill Lord Commander Jeor Mormont but is stopped by a fire started by Jon. His eyes turned blue while a wight.
Ser Alliser Thorne brings Othor's still-moving hand in a jar to King's Landing to try to scare the Iron Throne into sending more men to the Wall. Disliking Alliser,
And might be I’m a fool, but I don’t know that Othor never had no blue eyes afore.
- Dywen to Samwell Tarly
Otter Gimpknee is an innkeeper and whoremonger in Lordsport.
Otter's inn doubled in size when Lordsport was rebuilt after Greyjoy's Rebellion.
It is said about Lordsport that Otter's whores are busy at his inn with the boys that arrived with Lord Gorold Goodbrother.
Otter Gimpknee's inn is a three-storied inn and brothel in Lordsport on Pyke.
Most of Lordsport was destroyed during Greyjoy's Rebellion. Rebuilt after the war, the waterside inn of Otter Gimpknee is twice the size of its predecessor. Its lower story is made of cut stone, while the two upper floors are timber.
When Theon Greyjoy returns to the Iron Islands, he sees a prostitute call to Ibbenese sailors from the inn.
It was said about the inn that Otter Gimpknee's whores were being fucked bowlegged by beardless boys in sashes. The boys were welcome to them so far as Theon was concerned. A poxier den of slatterns he hoped he'd never see.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Ser Otto Hightower was a knight of House Hightower who served as Hand of the King to three kings, although two of the kings removed him from office at various times.
Considered a man of great learning in his time, Otto was haughty, blunt, and domineering.
Ser Otto was famous for his knowledge. For this ability, he was named Hand of the King. He is now a warning to future Hands that knowledge is not everything. He served as Hand of the King under Jaehaerys I, Viserys I, and Aegon II Targaryen, but was not Hand continuously.
Otto first served as Hand after the death of Jaehaerys's Hand and son, Prince Baelon Targaryen. Jaehaerys was devastated by the death of his son and loss of his beloved wife earlier, becoming grief stricken, and with his health failing he became bedridden. Otto effectively ruled the kingdom as Hand in the final two years of Jaehaerys's reign while his daughter Alicent Hightower nursed the ailing king.
Otto continued as Hand to Jaehaerys's successor, Viserys I Targaryen. He was father to Viserys's second wife, Queen Alicent. In 109 AC, Otto was removed as Hand for hounding Viserys to declare Alicent's sons the heirs to the Iron Throne instead of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. Having no place at court anymore, Ser Otto returned to Oldtown. A "queen's party", known as the greens, a group of powerful lords who were friends with Queen Alicent, remained, who supported the rights of Alicent's sons.
In 120 AC, Otto returned as Hand after Lord Lyonel Strong died. When Viserys died in 129 AC, Otto played a crucial role in crowning his eldest grandson as King Aegon II in defiance of the last will of Viserys I, which specified Rhaenyra as the successor. This defiance precipitated the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
Main article: Dance of the Dragons
The opposing faction, the blacks, included the battle-tested Prince Daemon Targaryen, who, in the course of his pre-war adventures, had made many foes. Ser Otto had been amongst the first of these. He reached out to other enemies of the prince, the Kingdom of the Three Daughters, as allies. They were crucial in breaking the Velaryon blockade in the battle in the Gullet.
Aegon II, however, perceived Otto's diplomacy as slothful at a time when Prince Daemon had captured Harrenhal and many houses had declared for the blacks. This led to his replacement as Hand by Ser Criston Cole, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, despite the pleading of Ser Otto's daughter (and Aegon's mother), Queen Alicent Hightower. It was only after his dismissal that his efforts bore fruit.
Otto was the first to be executed as a traitor by Rhaenyra Targaryen when she took King's Landing in 130 AC, just as he had predicted.
On Dragonstone Davos Seaworth, who is now King Stannis Baratheon's Hand, thinks that he has risen to high due to his humble origins. Davos tells Maester Pylos that a King's Hand should be a highborn lord, someone wise and learned, a battle commander or a great knight. Maester Pylos reminds Davos Seaworth that Ser Otto Hightower was renowned for his learning but failed as Hand.
Ottomore is a maester of the Citadel.
Ottomore wears the grey maester's robe and has skinny legs.
When Ser Jaime Lannister and his army arrive outside Darry, Lady Amerei Frey sends Maester Ottomore to greet them..
Ser Ottyn Wythers is a knight from House Wythers and a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Considered an old, done man by Chett,
Ottyn is part of the great ranging that leaves Castle Black in search of the wildlings. He commands the rearguard in the column.
Ottyn is one of the commanders of the Night's Watch at the Fist of the First Men. He urges retreat when the wildling masses are discovered. He is second in command on the ranging behind Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
Ottyn is killed during the fight at the Fist when a riderless horse kicks his face as he stares at the chaos and death, kneeling in the snow.
This wet has soaked my bones, and even my saddle sores complain of saddle sores.
- Ottyn to Jon Snow
We are the shield that guards the realms of men. You do not throw away your shield for no good purpose.
- Ottyn to Thoren Smallwood
A prison cell which is only accessible from above. It is impossible to escape an oubliette without help. Prisoners are often left in oubliettes to die of starvation.
In A Feast for Crows, Jaime claims that Casterly Rock has oubliettes so small that a man cannot even sit down in one.
The Outcast Inn is an inn in Braavos.
Its patrons do most of the singing, in drunken voices and half a hundred tongues.
Samwell Tarly unsuccessfully searches for Dareon at the Outcast Inn.
Owen is a male name in Westeros. It may refer to:
Owen is the brother of Septon Meribald. He died in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
Owen and his brothers, Meribald, Robin, Willam and Owen's friend Jon Pox all went off to fight in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. During the War, Willam and Robin died from a fever. Owen died in battle after receiving a blow from a mace and Jon was hanged for rape. Meribald survived to become a septon.
Ser Owen is a knight from the Vale of Arryn.
Owen is a large man.
Ser Owen is among the knights gathered at the Gates of the Moon for the tourney to fill the membership of the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. He is knocked senseless during a practice match by Ser Lyn Corbray.
Ser Owen Bush was a knight of the Kingsguard during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen.
When Queen Alyssa Velaryon escaped from King Maegor I Targaryen's imprisonment, the king ordered his knights to give her son, Prince Viserys Targaryen, to his torturers to discover where she was hiding.
Queen Ceryse Hightower died suddenly, so a rumor went around the Red Keep that she had said something to offend Maegor. It was widely believed that the king had ordered Owen to remove her tongue, but Ceryse's struggles caused his knife to slip and slash her throat. Most historians believe this was a slander concocted by the king's enemies to damage Maegor's reputation, however.
When Maegor suspected Queen Tyanna of the Tower of betrayal, he had Owen and his sworn brother, Ser Maladon Moore, bring her to the dungeons, where she confessed.
Maegor the Cruel gradually lost political support, resulting in a rival threat in his nephew, Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen. Two of his Kingsguard defected to Jaehaerys, and Maegor lost a third guard when Owen was found dead outside a brothel in 48 AC, his member cut off and stuffed in his mouth.
Maegor: Chain him in a black cell and question him sharply. Ask him where his mother has gone.
Owen: He may not know.
Maegor: Then let him die. Perhaps the bitch will turn up for his funeral.—Maegor I Targaryen and Owen
Owen Costayne was Lord of Three Towers and head of House Costayne during the Dance of the Dragons.
Lord Costayne supported Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks.
Owen, along with Lord Alan Tarly and Ser Alan Beesbury, trapped Lord Ormund Hightower's forces between them and Lord Thaddeus Rowan and the Bastard of Bitterbridge and the banks of the Honeywine. Lord Hightower's lines were starting to crumble and defeat seemed all but a forgone conclusion. Daeron Targaryen joined the Battle on the Honeywine on his dragon Tessarion, however, turning the battle for the greens.
Owen died slowly from a wound given by Bold Jon Roxton's blade, Orphan-Maker.
Owen Fossoway was Lord of Cider Hall and the head of House Fossoway during the reigns of Viserys I and Aegon II Targaryen.
During the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons Owen was loyal to King Aegon II Targaryen and the greens, marching with Lord Ormund Hightower's army from the Reach. A member of the Caltrops, Owen was slain during the Second Battle of Tumbleton.
Ser Owen Inchfield is a knight from House Inchfield.
Brienne of Tarth recalls that Ser Owen was a part of King Renly Baratheon's host encamped beneath the walls of Highgarden. He was one of the knights that participated in the wager on who would claim her maidenhead. In his efforts to win the bet, Owen attempted to take it by force, kissing Brienne without her permission. She knocked him backwards into a campfire. Lord Randyll Tarly found out about the bet and put an end to it.
Owen Merryweather was a Lord of Longtable and head of House Merryweather. He served as Hand of the King to Aerys II Targaryen.
Owen was an old man at the time of Robert's Rebellion. He was considered amiable but not capable.
Owen was famous for throwing feasts and lavishing praise upon King Aerys II.
During a feast King Aerys II Targaryen held when Cersei Lannister came to court for the first time, Lord Owen talked about raising taxes on wine, which led to Lord Rykker joking about Lord Tywin Lannister shitting gold.
When Lord Tywin resigned his position as Hand of the King in 281 AC, Owen was named the new Hand by King Aerys II Targaryen. With Tywin gone from court, the new focus of Aerys's mistrust and paranoia was his own son and heir, Rhaegar Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone. At court, there was growing tension between the factions loyal to the king and those loyal to Rhaegar. It fell to Lord Merryweather and Grand Maester Pycelle the unenviable task of keeping peace between the two factions.
Owen proved ineffectual in preventing the uprising that came to be known as Robert's Rebellion. When Lords Jon Arryn, Robert Baratheon, and Eddard Stark began their rebellion, Owen sent missives to the lords of the Seven Kingdoms declaring them outlaws and demanding their heads. Some of the stormlords were encouraged by Owen, but they were defeated by Robert at Summerhall.
King Robert I Baratheon eventually restored the Merryweather titles and some of their lands to Owen's grandson, Orton.
Owen Norrey is a member of House Norrey.
Owen is among the nobles that attend the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully at the Twins. He is slain at the Red Wedding, getting hit by crossbow bolts.
Owen Oakenshield is a legendary son of Garth Greenhand. He is credited for conquering the Shield Islands and driving the selkies and merlings back into the sea.
Owen, called the Oaf.
Owen is tall and blond, friendly, diligent, and a surprisingly good carpenter.
Owen's mother dropped him on his head as a baby and left him dimwitted.
Owen is among the men that Bowen Marsh leaves behind to defend Castle Black.
Owen is stationed at Castle Black.
Owen is one of the men brought along to assist Lord Commander Jon Snow in escorting Janos Slynt out of Castle Black to carry out his duties as garrison commander of Greyguard. After Janos's execution for disobedience, Owen asks if he can have his boots.
Alongside two score other black brothers, Owen gathers at the gate through the Wall after rumors spread that the heads of three rangers were found impaled on spikes north of the Wall. When Jon and his party return from inspecting the heads, Owen asks if Dywen is among the dead, but Jon informs the gathered men that the heads belong to Jack Bulwer, Hairy Hal, and Garth Greyfeather, who had all been slain by the Weeper.
Owen attends the wedding of Alys Karstark and Sigorn, and plays his fiddle at the wedding feast. He also dances with Patchface, which causes the other guests to laugh. He listens nervously with the rest of the attendees after two horn blasts are heard coming from the watchers on the Wall, and titters with relief after no third blast is heard.
Owen stands sentry at the top of the Wall alongside Ty when Jon arrives upon the elevator with Leathers for a meeting with other officers of the Night's Watch.
Owen: I had a dream that the king had come. Maester Aemon sent a raven, and King Robert came with all his strength. I dreamed I saw his golden banners.
Jon: That would be a welcome sight to see, Owen.
- Owen and Jon Snow
And through the smoke another wedge of armored riders came, on barded horses. Floating above them were the largest banners yet, royal standards as big as sheets; a yellow one with long pointed tongues that showed a flaming heart, and another like a sheet of beaten gold, with a black stag prancing and rippling in the wind. Robert, Jon thought for one mad moment, remembering poor Owen, but when the trumpets blew again and the knights charged, the name they cried was "Stannis! Stannis! STANNIS!"
- thoughts of Jon Snow
Oxcross is a village not three days ride from Lannisport in the westerlands.
The village is the site of the battle of Oxcross, where an army led by Ser Stafford Lannister is annihilated by forces under the command of King Robb Stark.
Oznak zo Pahl is a noble from Meereen, a scion of the House of Pahl, an ancient slaving family.
Oznak wears his hair in the shape of two ram's horns. He wears pink and white, the colors of the House of Pahl. His armor is of copper and jet scales.
Oznak once cut the liver out of a man, Scarb, who had looked at a Meereenese lady wrongly. He claimed he was defending her honor. His father commands the city guard of Meereen and his uncle is the richest man in the city.
Strong Belwas after killing Oznal zo Pahl before the gates of Meereen- by Sir-Heartsalot ©.
When Daenerys Targaryen besieges Meereen, Oznak rides out of Meereen on a white charger, armed with a fourteen foot lance, and challenges Daenerys Targaryen to send forth a champion. Oznak insults Daenerys's men for an hour, and leads the city's defenders in pissing in her direction. Finally Daenerys sends Belwas, who sidesteps Oznak's charges three times. On the fourth charge, Belwas wounds Oznak's horse. Leaping clear of his mount, Oznak crosses blades with Belwas, who allows Oznak to cut him once before killing him and severing his head from his body. Afterward, Belwas defecates in the direction of Meereen and wipes himself using Oznak's cloak.
I knew a man, Scarb, this Oznak cut his liver out. Claimed to be defending a lady’s honor, he did, said Scarb had raped her with his eyes. How do you rape a wench with eyes, I ask you? But his uncle is the richest man in Meereen and his father commands the city guard, so I had to run like a rat before he killed me too.
Chapters of *A Song of Ice and Fire* are presented through different POV characters. Point of view is the way a story is written, determining through whose perspective the story is told. George R. R. Martin adheres to third-person narration. In each chapter the reader is presented with the thoughts of one particular character, but not the thoughts of other characters appearing within the chapter. The differing, sometimes conflicting, points of view within A Song of Ice and Fire present a multi-faceted view of the story.
Although most POV characters have been featured in multiple chapters, the prologues of the published books and the epilogues of *A Storm of Swords* and *A Dance with Dragons* feature characters whose points of view have only been featured once. Beginning in *A Feast for Crows*, some chapters are headed with a descriptive title rather than the POV character's name, although Martin has not yet explained why..
Statistics, detailing the appearance of POV chapters across the novels.
All prologue and epilogue POV characters so far have had their point of view featured only once, dying at the end of their chapter or, in the case of Chett, shortly afterward. However, George R. R. Martin has stated, "It's the viewpoint character who always dies. I like to break rules. Just when I get it established what the rule is, I like to break it. So maybe the viewpoint character will die in the prologue, and maybe they won't."