The Cattery is a brothel in Braavos.It is located on the northern side of Ragman's Harbor, between Pynto's and Nabbo's Bridge.
Cat of the canals hears that Dareon told one of the whores at the Cattery that there is no one half as pretty as her at Eastwatch. Samwell Tarly unsuccessfully searches for Dareon at the Cattery, where he gets strange looks but no help. Leaving he almost bumps into Terro and Orbelo who confront him. Due to the timely intervention of Cat, they decide to leave Samwell alone.
Theon Greyjoy riding on the causeway near to Moat Cailin - by Marc Simonetti ©
The causeway is the only dry road through the Neck and forms part of the kingsroad in the North. The road rests on a raised embankment which provides the only navigable passage through the bogs and the only safe route for armies to travel through the swamps of the Neck.
East of the road is a bleak and barren shore and the cold salt sea of the Bite, while to the west are the swamps and bogs of the Neck, impassible and quite deadly. The three remaining towers of Moat Cailin plug the northern end of the causeway like a cork in a bottle. The road is narrow and the ruins are positioned so that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. Even a small garrison at Moat Cailin can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway.
The army of Robb Stark marches south along the causeway to rescue Lord Eddard Stark.
Ironborn led by Victarion Greyjoy capture Moat Cailin and block the causeway.
Lord Roose Bolton leads an army of mostly Freys and Boltons north on the causeway to Moat Cailin.
A cave dweller
Art by Paolo Puggioni
Cave dwellers are clans of free folk that live in the caverns of the Frostfangs, surrounding Thenn.
The cave dwellers dye and paint their faces blue, green and purple,
Cave dwellers are among Mance Rayder's army.
The lands beyond the Wall and its major locations. The exact location of the cave of the three-eyed crow is unknown, but it is within the haunted forest (click to zoom)
The cave of the three-eyed crow is a cave found beyond the Wall and named after its occupant, the three-eyed crow, who is attended to by the remaining children of the forest. The precise location is not specified in *A Dance with Dragons, but *The Lands of Ice and Fire places it within the haunted forest, east of the Fist of the First Men and southwest of the Antler River.
The entrance is a cleft in a wooded hillside, halfway up, between some weirwood trees. It is warded so that dead men, such as wights, cannot enter. Another way in is a back door three leagues north, down a sinkhole.
Under the hill is a vast, silent cave system extending far below and home to more than three score living singers, the children of the forest, and the bones of thousands dead. Its cramped and branching tunnels are full of weirwood roots. One echoing cavern is as large as the great hall of Winterfell and contains stalagmites and stalactites.
The route steeply descends to a great cavern opening on a black abyss, with a swift river six hundred feet below. Near a natural bridge across the abyss is the three-eyed crow, the last greenseer, sitting on a throne of woven weirwood roots.
No sunlight, moonlight, or starlight reaches the caves beneath the hill. Its inhabitants eat a hundred kinds of mushrooms, as well as blind white fish swimming in the black river. Cheese and milk is made from goats sharing the caves with the singers, and oats, barleycorn, and dried fruit are also available.
Bran Stark and the three-eyed crow - by Marc Simonetti ©
After a perilous journey, Bran Stark and his companions—Hodor, Meera and Jojen Reed, and Summer—are attacked by wights near the entrance to the cave. After being rescued by Leaf, one the children of the forest, they gain entry through the cleft. Coldhands remains outside because of the magic wards.
Bran is introduced to the three-eyed crow,
Summer digs his way through the snowdrifts at the entrance to the cave whenever he goes outside to join his pack to hunt.
The roots were everywhere, twisting through earth and stone, closing off some passages and holding up the roofs of others. All the color is gone, Bran realized suddenly. The world was black soil and white wood. The heart tree at Winterfell had roots as thick around as a giant's legs, but these were even thicker. And Bran had never seen so many of them. There must be a whole grove of weirwoods growing up above us.
- thoughts of Bran Stark
Men should not go wandering in this place. The river you hear is swift and black, and flows down and down to a sunless sea. And there are passages that go even deeper, bottomless pits and sudden shafts, forgotten ways that lead to the very center of the earth. Even my people have not explored them all, and we have lived here for a thousand thousand of your man-years.
- Leaf to Bran Stark
Cayn is a guard sworn to House Stark.
As a guard of House Stark, Cayn accompanies Lord Eddard Stark to King's Landing. He is one of the few northern guardsmen that remains after the death of Jory Cassel and his men and the departure of Alyn and his men.
Cedra is a servant of House Martell at Sunspear. She is young and pretty.
Cedra is among the servants who are allowed access to Princess Arianne Martell during her imprisonment at Sunspear. She has a crush on Garin, which Arianne uses to get Cedra to smuggle a letter out of Sunspear. She is caught by Prince Doran Martell's spies and is sent to work at the Water Gardens instead.
Ser Cedric Payne was a knight of House Payne.
Ser Cedric took Podrick Payne in after he was abandoned by his mother. Podrick squired for Ser Cedric until the War of the Five Kings where during Lord Tywin Lannister's campaign in the Riverlands, Ser Cedric died.
Cedrik Storm, also known as the Bastard of Bronzegate, was a member of House Buckler.
In the White Book, Ser Barristan Selmy's victory over Cedrik is recorded.
Celia Tully was a daughter of the Lord of Riverrun.
She was betrothed to Prince Jaehaerys, son of King Aegon V Targaryen and Queen Betha Blackwood. Jaehaerys refused her and instead, married his sister Princess Shaera for love.
Cellador is the septon of Castle Black, where he maintains a small sept.
Cellador attends the brothers of the Night's Watch who believe in the Faith of the Seven when they say their vows.
With his drunken prayers Cellador takes part in the defense of the Wall against the wildlings of Mance Rayder.
Like Bowen Marsh, Septon Cellador is opposed to many of the decisions Jon Snow makes as the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, such as making Satin his squire, learning about wights, and bringing the wildlings of Tormund south of the Wall. Cellador is still often in his cups.
Jon: My lord father used to tell me that a man must know his enemies. We understand little of the wights and less about the Others. We need to learn.
Cellador: I think this most unwise, Lord Snow. I shall pray to the Crone to lift her shining lamp and lead you down the path of wisdom.
- Jon Snow and Cellador
Salvation can be found only through the Seven.
- Cellador to Jon Snow
Hungry was not the word Jon would have used. Septon Cellador appeared confused and groggy and in dire need of some scales from the dragon that had flamed him, whilst First Builder Othell Yarwyck looked as if he had swallowed something he could not quite digest.
- thoughts of Jon Snow
Centaurs are a legendary race of half-man and half-horse creatures. House Caswell includes a centaur in their sigil.
Centaurs supposedly lived in the eastern grasslands of central Essos in the Dawn Age.
The Century of Blood was a period of chaos in Essos which lasted for approximately one century. It began following the destruction of the Valyrian Freehold in the Doom of Valyria,
The Century of Blood is also known to readers as "the Bleeding Years"*. However, Martin has thus far not used these terms in any of his released works.
The Valyrian Freehold defeated the Old Empire of Ghis and took control of the Slaver Cities,
In 114 BC
What followed the Doom of Valyria was struggle that lasted a century. The destruction of Valyria left a power vacuum in Essos. According to history, Aurion, a dragonlord who had been visiting Qohor, proclaimed himself the first Emperor of Valyria and raised forces from the Qohorik. With his dragon and an army of thirty thousand men he marched to claim Valyria's remains, but none were ever seen again.
Volantis, then the mightiest of the nine Free Cities, laid claim to Valyria's empire.
As Valyria's "First Daughter", the Volantenes regarded themselves as the rightful successors of the dragonlords.
Resistance began when Volantis attempted to take control of Tyrosh, however,
In the end, a second political party, the elephants seized control of Volantis. Where the tigers had favored conquest, the elephants favored trade and peace. After having held power for almost a century following Valyria's Doom, the tigers were displaced by the rising elephants, and ever since, at least two of the three triarchs of Volantis have been elephants each year.
While Volantis had been the most powerful of the Free Cities shortly after the Doom, the Century of Blood left the city broken, bankrupt, and depopulated.
Following the power struggles during the Century of Blood, Volantis has mostly been ruled by the elephants instead of the tigers.
Because of the power vacuum left by the Doom, the Dothraki came from the east and the grasslands of central Essos exploded into war. Acting on the advice given by his mother Doshi, Khal Mengo united the sixty *khalasars* and focused on the west. The Tall Men of the Kingdom of Sarnor ignored the threat the Dothraki posed, instead attempting to use them in their own wars. Mengo accepted all the Tall Men offered in return for his help, but took the lands they had conquered as well. The fields, farms and towns were burned, and so these lands returned to the wild state they had once had.
The khalasar of Khal Moro, Mengo's son, destroyed Sathar, slew its men, and took its women and children to be sold as slaves. Kasath and Gornath both claimed Sathar's ruins, which resulted in conflict between the two Sarnori cities.
The Field of Crows and the destruction of Sathar, art by Paolo Puggioni.
Following the fall of Mordosh, the Sarnori united against their enemy, and faced the Dothraki in the tall grasses halfway Sarnath and the ruins of Kasath. The so-called Field of Crows ended in Dothraki victory, and a fortnight later, Sarnath was taken and put to the torch. With the Century of Blood drawing to a close, the remaining Sarnori cities fell to the Dothraki. The last to fall was Sarys, though it had been mostly abandoned by the time Khal Zeggo and his khalasar arrived.
The Valyrian colony Essaria fell to the Dothraki, as did the Ibbenese town Ibbish. As its inhabitants had abandoned the city, the Dothraki renamed the city Vaes Aresak, meaning the "City of Cowards".
The Ghiscari hill city Hazdahn Mo, where Dothraki sold the slaves acquired at the Sarnori city Sathar, was eventually destroyed by the Dothraki as well,
The grasslands of central Essos have since become known as the Dothraki sea, following the expansion of the Dothraki borders.
Khal Temmo awakens to the three thousand Unsullied at Qohor.
Main article: Three Thousand of Qohor
Temmo, a Dothraki khal, rode west to Qohor, one of the Free Cities. The Qohorik had prepared for the Dothraki by strengtening their walls and hiring two free companies. As an afterthought, they sent a man to Astapor to buy three thousand Unsullied soldiers, for which that city is famed. The Dothraki reached Qohor before the Unsullied arrived, and defeated Qohor's defenses.
When the Dothraki attempted to sack Qohor the following day, the twenty thousand Dothraki screamers found three thousand Unsullied defending the gates. The Unsullied withstood eighteen charges and killed twenty-four hundred Dothraki, including Temmo. On the fourth day, the new khal led the survivors through the gates to surrender.
The Doom of Valyria and the Century of Blood that followed were also felt in in Sothoryos. Raids on Naath have since become so frequent that most of the Peaceful People have moved inland.
The Dothraki renamed the cities they sacked and destroyed during the Century of Blood. The following cities, towns and settlements have been known to have fallen to the Dothraki during this century:
Sarnori:
As Saath is the only Sarnori city that survived, the Sarnori city Rathylar is likely to have fallen to the Dothraki as well.
Ghiscari:
Qaathi:
While not explicitly stated to have been attacked by the Dothraki, the city Vaes Tolorro is likely to have been amongst the Qaathi cities that fell to the Dothraki as well, due to its proximity to Vaes Orvik, Vaes Shirosi, and Vaes Qosar, and the fact that Qarth is the only Qaathi city that survived.
Other:
Adakhakileki, meaning "The Cannibals" in Dothraki, a ruined small city on the shores of the Poison Sea, might have fallen to the Dothraki as well, as it is in ruins, and known now only by its Dothraki name (its original name having been lost to history).
Cerelle Lannister was Lady of Casterly Rock and head of House Lannister. She was the only child of Lord Tybolt Lannister and Lady Teora Kyndall.
In 212 AC, at the age of three, Cerelle became the ruling Lady of Casterly Rock. Her uncle, Gerold Lannister, served as her regent. Cerelle's rule would last for less than a year, as she herself would die in 213 AC. As her death had occurred at such a young age, it was whispered that her death, and the death of her father had been caused by Gerold, who, after Cerelle's death, became the ruling Lord of Casterly Rock.
Cerenna Lannister is a member of House Lannister and the daughter of Ser Stafford Lannister and Myranda Lefford.
Cerion Lannister was a King of the Rock of House Lannister of Casterly Rock. He extended the rule of the Kingdom of the Rock as far east as the Golden Tooth and its surrounding hills, defeating three lesser kings when they made an alliance against him.
Cerissa Brax was a member of House Brax. She was married to Damon Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock.
She married Damon Lannister known as the Grey Lion. She was the mother of Tybolt and Gerold.
Cerrick was the maester at Coldmoat at the start of the reign of Kin Aerys I Targaryen. He was born an ironman. He was in the service of Lady Rohanne of House Webber.
Cerrick was a young man with a great hooked nose.
Maester Cerrick designed the dam of the Chequy Water river, which caused a conflict between Lady Rohanne Webber and Ser Eustace Osgrey.
After Ser Duncan the Tall defeated Ser Lucas Inchfield in a trial by battle, Maester Cerrick treated his wounds. Thanks to his ironborn origins and his studies of the customs of the priests of the Drowned Gos, Cerrick was able to resuscitate Duncan after he had drowned in he river during the battle. Duncan's squire, Egg, worried about poison, forced Cerrick to first taste anything he wanted to give the knight while Duncan was still unconscious.
King's Landing Dromon. © FFG
Cersei's dromonds are a fleet of new warships approved by Queen Regent Cersei Lannister to begin the rebuilding of the royal fleet of House Baratheon of King's Landing.
Acting as regent for King Tommen I Baratheon, Queen Cersei Lannister hears and accepts the suggestion from Grand Admiral Aurane Waters to build a fleet of war dromonds to reestablish King's Landing's sea power, after the severe losses from the Battle of the Blackwater left less than a dozen warships remaining.
The ten ships
Lord Tywin is named by Aurane, while King Tommen I names the latter five ships.
Aurane suggests that the captains of the dromonds are chosen among the younger candidates. The objections of Grand Maester Pycelle, who favors veterans of the Battle of the Blackwater, who are experienced men of established loyalty, are ignored by Queen Regent Cersei Lannister.
While Lord Mace Tyrell besieges Storm's End, Aurane reports to Queen Regent Cersei that three of the ships are nearing completion and requests more gold as to finish them "in the splendor they deserved".
Aurane eventually convinces Cersei to leave the dromonds at sea as a display of strength for House Lannister as the commotion from the accusations against Margaery Tyrell grows. During her imprisonment by the Faith of the Seven, Cersei is visited by Qyburn, who tells her that Aurane has fled King's Landing with the new ships after her arrest.
According to Valena Toland, a new pirate king with three-decked warships has set up on Torturer's Deep, styling himself the Lord of the Waters.".
Cersei Frey, also know as the Little Bee, is the second daughter of Ser Raymund Frey and Beony Beesbury.
Cersei is one of the Frey women presented to Robb Stark when he arrives at the Twins to attend the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully to Lady Roslin Frey.
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Cersei Lannister is the only daughter and eldest child of Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock and his wife, Lady Joanna Lannister. She is the twin of her younger brother, Ser Jaime Lannister. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* Cersei is played by Lena Headey, and is portrayed when she is a child by Nell Williams in a Season 5 flashback.
After Robert's Rebellion, Cersei married King Robert I Baratheon and became Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. She is the mother of Prince Joffrey, Princess Myrcella, and Prince Tommen of House Baratheon of King's Landing. Cersei becomes a POV character in *A Feast for Crows*.
See also: Images of Cersei Lannister
When they were children, Cersei and her twin-brother, Jaime, looked so alike not even their father, Tywin, could tell them apart.
Cersei is willful, ambitious and has a certain low cunning. She is hungry and greedy for power.
Cersei is impatient,
Cersei was born in 266 AC as the first-born child and only daughter to Ser Tywin Lannister, heir to Casterly Rock, and his wife, Lady Joanna.
During their early childhood, Cersei and Jaime were inseparable.
Cersei's mother died not long thereafter,
Cersei Lannister, by Elia Fernandez ©.
Lord Tywin Lannister first informed Cersei of his wish to betroth her to the crown prince when she was no older than six or seven, though he told her never to speak of it until a betrothal was officially announced., informed Cersei that her betrothal to Rhaegar would be announced during the final feast of the tourney.
After being separated from Jaime following their mother's discovery of their sexual experimenting, Cersei had numerous bedmaids and companions, daughters of Tywin's bannermen and household knights who were of an age with her. While Cersei occasionally appreciated their company, she had not liked any of them, believing them weak and convinced they were trying to come between her and Jaime.* would come to end her life. Melara suggested that if they never spoke about it, the prophecies would not come true. However, Melara died shortly after their visit to Maggy, and it is implied that Cersei killed the girl to prevent her from speaking of the prophecies.
After Melara's death, Cersei inquired with her septa, Saranella, about the meaning of valonqar, who informed her it was High Valyrian for "little brother".
After the guests left the westerlands, Cersei learned from her aunt that Tywin had proposed the betrothal to King Aerys II Targaryen, but Aerys refused Cersei as a bride for his son and heir.
At the age of twelve, following the failure of Lord Steffon Baratheon's mission to find Prince Rhaegar Targaryen a suitable bride in Essos, Cersei was taken to King's Landing by her father, who still served as Hand of the King. In the following years, Lord Tywin Lannister refused every offer of marriage for Cersei. According to Jaime, Tywin still had his sights set on a Targaryen match, either hoping to betroth Cersei to young Prince Viserys or hoping for Rhaegar's new bride, Elia Martell, to die in childbirth.
In 281 AC, when Cersei was fifteen, Jaime visited King's Landing after receiving his knighthood. Cersei informed him their father had been discussing betrothing Jaime to Lysa Tully. Cersei seduced Jaime and persuaded him to join the Kingsguard, which would require him to remain unmarried and live near her in King's Landing. Cersei knew that Tywin would be opposed to the idea, but that he could not openly object to, and offered to make the arrangements herself.
Wedding of Cersei and her husband, King Robert I Baratheon.
After the conclusion of Robert's Rebellion, a marriage was arranged between Cersei and the new king, Robert I Baratheon, in order to seal the new royal house's alliance with House Lannister. Cersei and Robert were wed in 284 AC.
The marriage rapidly deteriorated, and Cersei resumed her incestuous relationship with Jaime. She bore him three children (Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen), all of whom she successfully passed off as Robert's trueborn heirs. Although the king was away during the births of his children, Jaime was present for at least Joffrey's birth, though Cersei refused to let her brother hold the child, fearing people might start to suspect his true parentage.
During the early years of their marriage, Cersei declined Robert's invitations to hunt with him, as Robert's trips allowed her more time with Jaime.
While Robert "claimed his rights" frequently during the early years of their marriage, his drinking led to him hurting Cersei during those encounters. When she confronted him once during their first year of marriage, Robert claimed it was because of the drink, and he was not to blame. When he tried to take another horn of ale, Cersei smashed her own horn in his face, chipping his tooth. Robert claimed not to remember anything of those nights, but Cersei believes otherwise, and is certain that Robert did recall what he did to her, but felt that pretending to forget was easier than facing the truth. Cersei, in turn, tried to pretend that Robert was Rhaegar during those years. Over time, Robert came to Cersei's bed less frequently, not even once a year.
True to Maggy's prophecy, Cersei had three children, while Robert sired several bastards. After Joffrey assaulted a pregnant cat, Robert suggested bringing a bastard daughter of his to court. Cersei threatened the girl, claiming King's Landing was a dangerous place for a girl growing up. Though Robert hit Cersei for that, the girl was not brought to court, and all of Robert's bastards were kept out of sight.
Eventually Stannis Baratheon, familiar with the appearance of his brother Robert's black-haired, blue-eyed bastard offspring, grew suspicious of the royal children's lack of resemblance to their supposed father. He confided in Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, and the two investigated the matter together. After the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day, Cersei and her children travelled with Lord Tywin to Casterly Rock. During the fortnight following the tourney, Jon was poisoned and fell ill, eventually dying before he could act. While Cersei was innocent of the fact, Stannis was convinced that she was responsible for Jon's death, and he fled to Dragonstone.
Cersei Lannister, by Katherine Dinger ©.
After the death of the Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, Cersei accompanies her husband, King Robert I Baratheon, to Winterfell, where the king offers the position to Lord Eddard Stark.
While the royal procession travels back to King's Landing, Cersei's eldest son, Prince Joffrey, bullies a common boy, Mycah, prompting Arya Stark and her direwolf, Nymeria, to attack and disarm him. Joffrey tells his parents that Arya and her wolf attacked him without provocation, and Cersei takes her son's side, arguing that the girl should lose a hand in accordance with the ancient penalty for striking a prince of royal blood.
Having appointed Eddard Stark as Jon Arryn's replacement, Robert orders the Hand's tourney be held in honor of Eddard.
When Cersei's brother Tyrion is abducted by Catelyn Stark, Cersei argues with Robert, insulting his manhood for his failure to immediately avenge the insult to her family. The king strikes her in response, but Cersei tells him she intends to wear the bruise "as a badge of honor." Eddard does not approve and Robert admits that it was "not kingly," but blames Cersei for provoking him.
Eddard, who has been investigating Jon Arryn's death, discovers the truth about the royal children's parentage. While the king is hunting in the kingswood, Eddard confronts Cersei, who admits the accusation is true. She attempts to seduce him, but he refuses. Not wanting to see the children harmed, Eddard warns her that he intends to tell Robert the truth and urges her to flee with the princes and princess.
A drunken Robert is fatally injured by a boar during his hunt,
Cersei intends to have Eddard convicted of treason but allowed to take the black, thus discrediting him and removing him as a factor in the political arena without antagonizing the north. She arranges a public confession for him on the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor, assuring the High Septon that he will be offered forgiveness and the holy ground will not be profaned with blood. However, Joffrey ignores her advice and instead orders Lord Stark's immediate execution. Janos Slynt and Ser Ilyn Payne carry out the king's imprudent command before Cersei can intervene, deeply offending the Faith and rendering peace between Stark and Lannister impossible.
Cersei weeps when she hears that Jaime has been captured by Robb Stark in the Whispering Wood.
Having escaped King's Landing, Arya Stark adds Cersei's name to the list of those she desires dead.
When Tyrion arrives in King's Landing, bearing a letter from their father, Cersei threatens to have him thrown in the dungeon, but he placates her by saying he could rescue Jaime.
In Jaime's absence, Cersei begins sleeping with her cousin, the knighted Lancel, which is discerned by Tyrion.
Tyrion deceives small council members and determines that Pycelle is Cersei's agent. When Tyrion arrests Pycelle, the Grand Maester tells him that Jon Arryn had been recovering from his poisoning, and that he had sent Jon's maester away in order to prevent Jon's recovery, assuming that Cersei wanted Jon dead.
As King Stannis Baratheon moves on King's Landing, Cersei sends Tommen to Rosby for safety, but Tyrion's men intercept the party and take the boy into Tyrion's custody.
As the Battle of the Blackwater begins, Cersei hosts a banquet for noblewomen in the Red Keep. She claims it is in an effort to keep their minds off the fighting, but has invited Ser Ilyn Payne, the King's Justice, to be on hand to kill them if the city is taken, to prevent them from becoming hostages. When she hears that the River Gate is under attack, she summons Joffrey back to the Red Keep.
If not for the timely arrival and attack on Stannis's flank by the army of Lords Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell, the battle would be lost for the Lannisters.
Cersei as depicted by Lena Headey in *Game of Thrones*.
Tyrion Lannister believes that Cersei is to blame for Ser Mandon Moore's assassination attempt at the Blackwater.
Cersei plans the upcoming wedding of her son, King Joffrey I Baratheon, to Margaery Tyrell.
Cersei intends to keep Sansa Stark as her hostage,
After Joffrey offends Tywin through his ungracious behavior, Tywin is furious and asks where the boy could have learnt such amoral sentiments. Cersei blames Robert but it is clear to all in the room, including Tywin's brother Kevan, that Cersei is responsible.
Joffrey is killed at his own wedding feast, and Cersei accuses Tyrion and Sansa, falsely believing them responsible.
Having escaped King's Landing with the aid of Petyr Baelish, Sansa learns that the Kettleblacks are actually loyal to Petyr, not Cersei or Tyrion.
Cersei finds numerous witnesses to testify against Tyrion,
Oberyn's death condemns Tyrion, but he is freed from his cell by Jaime and Varys. Tyrion tells Jaime that Cersei has been sleeping with Lancel Lannister and Osmund Kettleblack. Before escaping the Red Keep, Tyrion kills Shae and his father, Tywin.
Cersei frames Margaery Tyrell, leading to her arrest - by cabepfir ©.
Cersei's tendencies to paranoia, rash judgement and hysteria increase following the deaths of her son, King Joffrey, and her father, Lord Tywin. She resumes her position as regent over her surviving son, the eight-year-old King Tommen, who is obedient to her will. As the eldest child of Tywin, she is also acknowledged as the Lady of Casterly Rock by her uncle, Ser Kevan.
Cersei has Ser Osney and Ser Osfryd Kettleblack hide Shae's corpse,
Cersei surrounds herself with sycophants rather than honest and competent advisers,
Cersei suspects her powerful Tyrell allies, now relatives through Tommen's marriage to Margaery, are trying to seize control of the kingdom. This suspicion grows from a Gardener coin found by Qyburn in the dungeon where Tyrion was being held before his escape
Cersei refuses to honor the debts owed by the crown, angering powerful institutions such as the Iron Bank of Braavos and the Faith of the Seven.
In an attempt to alleviate the crown's debts, gain the Faith's blessing, and gain more protection from her purported enemies, Cersei allows the new High Septon, the so-called High Sparrow, to revive the Faith Militant, ignorant of its history of causing trouble for monarchs.
Cersei sends Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard to Dorne to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane.
Cersei takes the disgraced former maester Qyburn into her service as master of whisperers, using him as a torturer, and allowing him to conduct immoral experiments on human subjects.
The queen is reluctant to aid the Tyrells after Euron Greyjoy's taking of the Shields. Cersei instead gives command of the siege of Dragonstone to Loras, as the Redwyne fleet could return to the Reach when the island castle falls.
Cersei manipulates Falyse Stokeworth and her husband, Ser Balman Byrch, into attacking Tyrion's friend, the sellsword Bronn, who was knighted and married to simple Lollys Stokeworth to pry him away from Tyrion. Falyse flees to King's Landing to report that Bronn killed Balman in a duel, though not before Bronn extracted a confession that Cersei was behind the attempt to kill him. Cersei responds by sending Falyse to Qyburn so nothing is found out about her machinations.
Cersei plots to frame Margaery for adultery and treason. Having seduced Osney Kettleblack, she has him falsely confess to the High Sparrow that he had intercourse with Margaery and two of her three cousins, Megga and Elinor.
Cersei's ministers seize control of the government while she awaits trial in the Great Sept, and they recall her uncle Kevan from Casterly Rock to fill her position as regent. Aurane absconds with the costly new fleet, while Taena flees for Longtable. Accused of capital crimes, Cersei's only hope lies in a Kingsguard champion to stand for her in a trial by combat.
Cersei's walk of atonement from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep, by Marc Simonetti ©.
Ser Balon Swann arrives at Sunspear with a letter in which Cersei asks Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, to give leave to her daughter Myrcella to return to King's Landing for a short visit, and to invite Doran to take the Dornish seat on the small council that has been left vacant with the death of Prince Oberyn. Doran learns from informers at the royal court, however, that Balon is to invite Prince Trystane Martell to accompany Myrcella but then be killed by outlaws in the kingswood, for which Tyrion is supposed to be blamed, with Balon as a witness.
Cersei remains a prisoner of the Faith of the Seven in a tower of the Great Sept of Baelor, under the care of Septas Unella, Moelle, and Scolera. To gain access to visitors, Cersei confesses to the High Sparrow that she had relations with her cousin, Lancel Lannister, and all three of the Kettleblack brothers, knowing that such sins would not earn her an execution. She continues to deny having ordered Osney Kettleblack to kill the previous High Septon, or that she was involved in King Robert I Baratheon's death. The High Septon agrees to allow her one visitor a day. Cersei learns from her uncle, Ser Kevan, that Jaime disappeared in the riverlands with a woman, possibly Brienne of Tarth. Kevan also tells his niece about Myrcella's injury and of Arys Oakheart's death at the Greenblood, which leaves a vacancy in the Kingsguard. Cersei sends word to Lord Qyburn that the time has come.
Before her trial, the Faith requires Cersei to submit to a walk of atonement from the Great Sept to the Red Keep. Cersei is shaved of hair from her entire body, then stripped naked. An escort of Warrior's Sons, Poor Fellows, and septas protect her from the leering and jeering crowds that have flocked to see her, with Septa Scolera ringing a bell and singing the word "shame". Cersei tries to hang on to her pride during the barefoot walk in spite of the crowds projecting filth at her and bawdy insults. Faces in the crowd remind her of Tywin Lannister, Melara Hetherspoon, Eddard Stark, Tyrion Lannister, and Joffrey Baratheon. She eventually breaks down in tears, however, just before finishing and entering the Red Keep. Upon her entrance, Jocelyn Swyft has her body covered. Cersei is carried into the castle by a giant knight, whom Qyburn introduces as the newest member of the Kingsguard and her champion, "Ser Robert Strong".
Cersei dines with Tommen's regent, her uncle Kevan, who has been trying to repair the damage Cersei has done. She requests that Lady Taena Merryweather attend again her once her innocence is proved. Although Kevan has no news of Jaime, Cersei seems certain of his safety, believing she would know if he were dead. Later that evening, Varys has Kevan and Pycelle murdered to keep the realm in chaos.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
– Cersei to Eddard Stark
Jaime and I are more than brother and sister. We are one person in two bodies. We shared a womb together. He came into this world holding my foot, our old maester said. When he is in me, I feel... whole.
– Cersei to Eddard Stark
A true man does what he will, not what he must.
– Cersei to Eddard Stark
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough... and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.
– Cersei to Sansa Stark
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
– Cersei to Sansa Stark
The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.
– Cersei to Sansa Stark
I waited, and so can he. I waited half my life. She had played the dutiful daughter, the blushing bride, the pliant wife. She had suffered Robert's drunken groping, Jaime's jealousy, Renly's mockery, Varys with his titters, Stannis endlessly grinding his teeth. She had contended with Jon Arryn, Ned Stark, and her vile, treacherous, murderous dwarf brother, all the while promising herself that one day it would be her turn. If Margaery Tyrell thinks to cheat me of my hour in the sun, she had bloody well think again.
– Cersei's thoughts, on ruling as Queen Regent until Tommen Baratheon comes of age
Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once.
– Cersei writing to Jaime Lannister
I am a lioness. I will not cringe for them.
– Cersei's thoughts before her walk of atonement
I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city. They think that this will break my pride, that it will make an end to me, but they are wrong.
– Cersei's thoughts during her walk of atonement
And Cersei . . . I have Jon Arryn to thank for her. I had no wish to marry after Lyanna was taken from me, but Jon said the realm needed an heir. Cersei Lannister would be a good match, he told me, she would bind Lord Tywin to me should Viserys Targaryen ever try to win back his father’s throne. I loved that old man, I swear it, but now I think he was a bigger fool than Moon Boy. Oh, Cersei is lovely to look at, truly, but cold ... the way she guards her cunt, you’d think she had all the gold of Casterly Rock between her legs.
– Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.
– Tyrion Lannister to Bronn
I have never liked you, Cersei, but you were my own sister, so I never did you harm. You've ended that. I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.
– Tyrion Lannister to Cersei
They are knights now, all three, and your sister has promised them further advancement. And the eldest, Ser Osmund of the Kingsguard, dreams of certain other ... favors ... as well. You can match the queen coin for coin, I have no doubt, but she has a second purse that is quite inexhaustible.
– Varys to Tyrion Lannister
Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players. Cersei, for one. She thinks herself sly, but in truth she is utterly predictable. Her strength rests on her beauty, birth, and riches. Only the first of those is truly her own, and it will soon desert her. I pity her then. She wants power, but has no notion what to do with it when she gets it.
– Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark
Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and probably Moon Boy for all I know.
– Tyrion Lannister to Jaime Lannister
His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. She had been giddy as a maiden when she learned that Stannis had abandoned Dragonstone, certain that he had finally given up the fight and sailed away to exile. When word came down from the north that he had turned up again at the Wall, her fury had been fearful to behold. She does not lack for wits, but she has no judgment, and no patience.
– Jaime Lannister's thoughts
Cersei is as gentle as King Maegor, as selfless as Aegon the Unworthy, as wise as Mad Aerys. She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honor, for love.
– Tyrion Lannister to Young Griff
This head of mine is worth a lordship... back in Westeros, half a world away. By the time you get it there, only bone and maggots will remain. My sweet sister will deny the head is mine and cheat you of the promised reward. You know how it is with queens. Fickle cunts, the lot of them, and Cersei is the worst.
– Tyrion Lannister to Ben Plumm
Cersei may have been inspired by Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, both queens of English kings.
Queen Ceryse Hightower was a lady of House Hightower and was the daughter of Lord Martyn Hightower of Oldtown. Her maternal uncle was one of the High Septons during the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen. She eventually married Prince Maegor Targaryen, becoming his first (of many) wives.
Ceryse's uncle, the High Septon, protested strongly when Queen Visenya Targaryen suggested that her son Prince Maegor should be wed to Princess Rhaena Targaryen, and instead suggesting his own niece. Ceryse and Maegor were wed in 25 AC.
Maegor returned to Westeros in 42 AC and claimed the Iron Throne. Later in the same year, Maegor announced his intent to marry again, taking Tyanna of the Tower as his third wife, who had become his paramour while in exile in Pentos. Grand Maester Myres spoke against the proposed wedding, stating that Maegor's *"one true wife"* awaited him at the Hightower. Ceryse, still at Oldtown, continued to insist that she was Maegor's only lawful queen.
In 43 AC King Maegor and Dowager Queen Visenya moved towards Oldtown, threatening to incinerate the Starry Sept in response to the High Septon's continued condemnation of his polygamous marriages. But the High Septon instead died suddenly shortly before they arrived. Maegor remained at Oldtown for half a year while presiding over the trials of the Warrior's Sons chapter at Oldtown, and in that time Ceryse reconciled with Maegor. Ceryse agreed to accept Maegor's other two wives, with Maegor in turn swearing to restore Ceryse to all the rights, incomes, and privileges due her as lawful queen. They celebrated their reunion with a great feast and had a second consummation. She later returned to court at King's Landing.
Shortly after the completion of the Red Keep in 45 AC, Ceryse died of a sudden illness. Though it was rumored she had said something to offend Maegor and he ordered Ser Owen Bush of the Kingsguard to remove her tongue but she had struggled so much that his knife slipped and he accidentally slashed her throat, though never proven this story was widely believed at the time, most historians believe it was a slander concocted by the kings enemies to further blacken Maegor repute.
Cetherys is an Unsullied sworn to Daenerys Targaryen.
Cetherys patrols with another Unsullied, Black Fist. The pair are slain by crossbow bolts while walking Mazdhan's Maze.
Ch'Vyalthan was an archmaester of the Citadel who was credited with the authorship of *An History of the Great Sieges of Westeros* and *An History of the House of Lannister*.'s death.
He is mentioned in the second and seventh seasons of *Game of Thrones* in episodes "The Prince of Winterfell" and "Stormborn".
Chai Duq was a God-Emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti and the fourth member of his dynasty. He took to wife a noblewoman of Valyria and kept a dragon at his court.
The Chainmaker is a Ghiscari deity in the modern Slaver's Bay. There's a bronze statue of it in the plaza adjacent to the Slave Exchange of Meereen.
While the Meereenese army prepares to engage in battle with the forces of Yunkai during the second siege of Meereen, the remaining Dothraki in the city, led by *jaqqa rhan* Rommo, gather around the weathered statue of the Chainmaker.
Chains is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. As a serjeant, he is a high-ranking officer. His given name is unknown.
A brusque man, Chains is taller than Young John Mudd and wears two rusted chains across his chest. Instead of a blade, he uses five feet of heavy linked iron as a whip.
Chains, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen in Volon Therys before they invade Westeros.
Chains and Young John Mudd hold Mistwood for the Golden Company. They keep Lady Mary Mertyns under house arrest and host Arianne Martell's party for a night.
While escorting Arianne part of the way to Griffin's Roost, Chains reveals that a forefather fought in the Battle of the Redgrass Field and and became a member of Aegor Rivers' Golden Company of exiles. Raised in Essos, Chains had never been in Westeros before the invasion.
The chamber of the dragon mosaic is located below the Tower of the Hand, in the fourth level network of secret passages and tunnels in the Red Keep of King's Landing.
The small round chamber is a juncture which lies at the bottom of a shaft where half a dozen tunnels meet. On the floor is a scuffed mosaic of the three-headed dragon of House Targaryen, done in tiles of black and red.
To one side, there is an ornate iron brazier fashioned in the shape of a dragon's head. It is kept lit to warm the chamber; there is a sullen orange glow given off by the coals in the beast's yawning mouth. Each door leading to the chamber is closed off by an iron gate.
Varys delivers Shae to Tyrion Lannister's bedchamber in the Tower of the Hand. Tyrion, who is surprised to see her, asks her how she entered the room. She tells him that Varys made her wear a hood as he escorted her, but there was one place where she got a peep at the floor and saw a picture in tiles of a dragon, in red and black. The dragon was past an iron gate that Varys had to unlock with a key.
Locked in the black cells beneath the Red Keep, Tyrion is rescued by his brother, Jaime Lannister. After Jaime confesses the truth about Tysha, Tyrion abandons him and finds Varys, who leads him deeper, down to the fourth level where King Maegor had built torture chambers.
When Tyrion and Varys enter a small round chamber, Tyrion sees the mosaic of a three-headed dragon wrought in red and black tiles. He realizes that it is the place that Shae told him of. He states to Varys that they are below the Tower of the Hand, which Varys confirms. Tyrion realizes that the series of rungs set in the wall will take him to what is now his father's Tywin Lannister's bedchamber. Tyrion climbs up the two hundred and thirty rungs, confronts his father and slays him.
During his search for Tyrion in the Red Keep's tunnels, Jaime finds himself in a chamber at the bottom of a shaft where six tunnels meet. He sees the mosaic of the three-headed dragon, and it seems to Jaime as if the beast addresses him in Prince Rhaegar Targaryen’s voice:
I know you, Kingslayer, the beast seemed to be saying. I have been here all the time, waiting for you to come to me. And it seemed to Jaime that he knew that voice, the iron tones that had once belonged to Rhaegar, Prince of Dragonstone.
As he stands vigil over his father Tywin's corpse, Jaime finds himself recalling the mosaic, and the time when he said farewell to Prince Rhaegar in the yard of the Red Keep during Robert's Rebellion, and the words they exchanged, before the Prince of Dragonstone rode forth to his doom in the Battle of the Trident.
In the cabin of a ship fleeing across the narrow sea, Tyrion cannot remember how he returned to the chamber after he killed his father. He knows that he must have clambered back down the shaft, two hundred and thirty rungs to where orange embers were aglow in the mouth of an iron dragon, but he does not remember anything that had happened between Tywin's death and when he was walking through the tunnels with Varys.
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Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.
Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
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Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, who held sway over an age of enforced peace—are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding wilds of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.
As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky—a comet the color of blood and flame—six factions struggle for control of a divided land. Eddard's son Robb has declared himself King in the North. In the south, Joffrey, Robert's heir, rules in name only, victim of the scheming courtiers who teem over King's Landing. Robert's two brothers each seek their own dominion, while the disfavored House Greyjoy turns once more to conquest. And a continent away, an exiled queen, the Mother of Dragons, risks everything to lead her precious brood across a hard hot desert to win back the crown that is rightfully hers.
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Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits the Iron Throne, uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His bitterest rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world.
As opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their wake is a horde of mythical Others, a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords.
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It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, his mother Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist, or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, fighting for the spoils and picking over the bones of the dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.
It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, the guests are many but the survivors are only a few.
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In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.
Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever. Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.
From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.
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Set in a time eighty-nine years before the events depicted in *A Game of Thrones*, these stories relate the adventures of a hedge knight, Dunk, and his young squire, Egg.
The three tales published as of 2016 are, in order:
A collection was been released in 2015 containing the three separate Dunk and Egg novellas, with additional art:
These history novellas are abridged versions of texts meant for publication in *Fire and Blood, a planned complete history of House Targaryen. The first novella, *The Princess and the Queen, was released in December 2013 and details about the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, while the second story, a novelete called *The Rogue Prince* which was released in June 2014, details about the life of Prince Daemon Targaryen during the entire reign of King Viserys I. The third story, *The Sons of the Dragon*, was released on October 10, 2017, and chronicles the early lives and the reigns of Kings Aenys I and Maegor I. The stories have been published in separate anthologies.
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The Charioteer is a name the Windblown, a sellsword company hired by Yunkai, mockingly gave to a Yunkish nobleman commanding some of the Yunkai slave solders.
Chatana Qo, the Arrow of Jhahar, was a warrior woman of the Summer Isles and the daughter and successor of Xanda Qo, Princess of Sweet Lotus Vale. She fought in a series of wars, which came to be known as the Slavers' Wars. The unity of the Summer Isles, that her mother achieved, did not survive Chatana's reign however, for she wed unwisely and did not rule as well as she fought.
Chataya is the owner of an upscale whorehouse in King's Landing. She has a daughter named Alayaya who works in her establishment.
Chataya is a tall, black woman with sandalwood eyes, from the Summer Isles. Her voice is smooth, with the accent of the Summer Isles.
One of Chataya's whores has a bastard daughter of King Robert I Baratheon.
When the new Hand of the King Tyrion Lannister sends Allar Deem to the Wall, Chataya is thankful to him. When Lord Varys appeals to her, she accepts that Tyrion uses her daughter Alayaya and her establishment as a cover to visit Shae.
The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They gave us voices, so we might worship them with song. They gave us hands, so we might build them temples. And they gave us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.
My people hold that there is no shame to be found in the pillow house. In the Summer Isles, those who are skilled at giving pleasure are greatly esteemed. Many highborn youths and maidens serve for a few years after their flowerings, to honor the gods.
A handsome woman.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
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Chataya's brothel is an upscale brothel on the Street of Silk in King's Landing. It is owned and run by Chataya.
This brothel was one of Robert Baratheon's favorites.
One of Chataya's whores has Barra, a bastard daughter of King Robert I.
Queen Cersei decides to erase any clue of her adultery and has Barra and her mother killed by men of the City Watch under the command of Allar Deem.
Anguy reveals he spent the small fortune he had won at the Hand's tourney on Jayde, Alayaya and Dancy, roast swan and arbor wine.
The brothel is a house two stories tall with a stone ground floor and a timber upper floor. A round turret rises from one corner of the structure. Many of the windows are leaded. Over the door swings an ornate lamp, a globe of gilded metal and scarlet glass.
Inside the entrance the air smells of some exotic spice and the floor beneath displays a mosaic of two women entwined in love.
The common room is behind an ornate Myrish screen that has been carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens. When looking into the common room Tyrion Lannister sees an old man playing a cheerful air on pipes. There is a cushioned alcove and a leaded coloured glass window where sunlight pours through.
The turret room is up two flights of stairs from the ground floor, then down a long hall and up another stair to a lone door which opens to the turret room. Within the room is a great canopied bed, a tall wardrobe decorated with erotic carvings and a narrow window of leaded glass in a pattern of red and yellow diamonds.
Inside the empty wardrobe there is a back panel concealing a secret passageway. Chataya has closely guarded the knowledge of its existence. When the back panel is pushed all the way aside it reveals a metal ladder, the rungs go well below street level, the shaft then opens onto a dark, slanting earthen tunnel.
Having come perhaps a distance of three blocks under Rhaenys's Hill down the earthen tunnel a patron will then emerge through a trap door at the back of a nearby stable. The tunnel was dug for a King's Hand whose honor would not allow him to enter such a house openly.
Chataya’s girls are costly. It is said the girls are fit for a king. They are all as sweet as they are beautiful and skilled in every art of love. They dress in flowing silks cinched at the waist with beaded belts.
King Robert I.
Prince Oberyn Martell
Anguy the archer
unnamed Hand of the King
You will find that they are all as sweet as they are beautiful, and skilled in every art of love.
– Chataya, on her girls
Chataya runs a choice establishment, I’ve half a mind to buy it. Brothels are a much sounder investment than ships, I’ve found. Whores seldom sink, and when they are boarded by pirates, why, the pirates pay good coin like everyone else.
It’s good to be a knight. No more looking for the cheaper brothels down the street. Now it’s Alayaya and Marei in the same featherbed, with Ser Bronn in the middle.
– Bronn
Chataya’s on the Street of Silk has several girls who might suit your needs.
Chayle is a septon from the Faith of the Seven. He is the guardian of Winterfell's sept, where he hangs carved masks of the Seven,
Chayle is young
Chayle grew up on the shores of the White Knife and is a very good swimmer.
Septon Chayle falls asleep reading about Grand Maester Aethelmure while Tyrion Lannister explores Winterfell's library.
While they are sorting through some scrolls from Winterfell's library fire, Chayle tells Bran that the red comet "is the sword that slays the season." Bran thinks he probably is right since a white raven has arrived from Oldtown bringing word of autumn.
Jojen Reed foresees the death of Chayle in his green dreams. When Bran tells Chayle of his nearing death, Chayle holds to his faith.
A dripping Chayle appears in Theon's nightmare of King Robert I Baratheon's feast of the dead at Winterfell.
The gods will take me when they see fit, though I scarcely think it likely that I'll drown, Bran.
- Chayle to Bran Stark
I bear you no ill will, but you and your gods have no place here now.
- Theon Greyjoy to Chayle
Septon Cellador is erroneously called "Septon Chayle" on one occasion in *A Dance with Dragons*, Jon X.
The Checkered Hazard is an inn or tavern found in Oldtown. It has been frequented by Lazy Leo.
Cheese is the alias of a rat-catcher who, during the Dance of the Dragons, helped murder six-year-old Prince Jaehaerys, King Aegon II Targaryen's firstborn son and the heir to the Iron Throne. Cheese's true name is lost to history.
Cheese was a rat-catcher in the Red Keep. The hidden doors and secret tunnels that Maegor I Targaryen had built were as familiar to Cheese as the rats that he hunted. However, even Cheese knew of no way in and out of Maegor's Holdfast except over the drawbridge that spanned the dry moat and its formidable iron spikes. Cheese spent time in Flea Bottom.
After the death of Prince Lucerys Velaryon, Cheese, along with Blood was employed by Mysaria, Prince Daemon Targaryen's spymaster, to slay one of Aegon II Targaryen' sons.
Using a forgotten passageway in the Red Keep, Cheese led Blood into the heart of the castle unseen by any guard. The two men crept up through the walls and slipped into Queen Alicent Hightower's chambers. Once inside Cheese bound and gagged the Dowager Queen whilst Blood strangled her bedmaid. Then they waited for Queen Helaena Targaryen and her children to arrive.
Once Blood and Cheese confronted Helaena in the Tower of the Hand they told her to name which son she wanted them to kill. Helaena offered herself but they refused, stating it had to be a son. Although Helaena eventually named her youngest son Maelor (after Cheese threatened her that Blood would rape her daughter Jaehaera if she did not choose one), they killed Jaehaerys instead. It was Blood who slew Jaehaerys, striking the boy's head off with a single blow. After killing the prince Blood and Cheese did no further harm to Helaena or her surviving children and fled with the prince's head in hand.
Which one you want t' lose Your Grace?
- Cheese to Helaena Targaryen
Chella is the daughter of Cheyk and clan chief of the Black Ears, one of the Vale mountain clans.* she is portrayed by Natalie Lee.
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Chella is a small woman described as flat like a boy and not very pretty.
Chella meets Tyrion Lannister in the Mountains of the Moon. She is the one that finds Lord Tywin Lannister's encampment and accompanies Tyrion to the meeting with his father. There she accepts to fight for the Lannisters and follow Tyrion to King's Landing.
Tyrion entrusts Chella with the guard of Shae when he leaves his mistress in an inn, the Broken Anvil, before going to the Red Keep.
After the Battle of the Blackwater Chella returns to King's Landing to be greeted by a hostile crowd which forces her and the Black Ears to return to the Mountains of the Moon.
Shae: M'lord Varys complimented Chella on her ears and said she must have killed many men to have such a fine necklace. And Chella told him only cowards kill the vanquished. Chella: Braver to leave the man alive, with a chance to cleanse his shame by winning back his ear. Only so can you prove you do not fear your enemies."
- Shae and Chella to Tyrion Lannister
One is never quite safe when Chella daughter of Cheyk is about.
- Tyrion Lannister to Vylarr
Chequy Port is a harbor in the Free City of Braavos. It lies on an island to the southeast of the Arsenal of Braavos.
Chequy Port is where the customs officers of the Sealord of Braavos board merchant galleys to inspect their holds. The inspection can take as much as half a day.
The Chequy Water is a stream that runs between the lands of House Osgrey and House Webber in the Reach..
Lady Rohanne Webber had the stream dammed to irrigate her crops and provide water for her moat. This caused a confrontation with Ser Eustace Osgrey and was only settled after a battle to the death between Ser Lucas Longinch and Ser Duncan the Tall.
Chestnut was an old horse, a stot.
When Ser Arlan died, Duncan the Tall took ownership of Chestnut along with Thunder and Sweetfoot.
Chestnut died in Dorne, during the desert crossing between the Prince's Pass and Vaith.
Chett is a steward of the Night's Watch. Before he was sent to the Wall, he was a leech man's son in the riverlands.*.
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Chett has a red face with many boils and a large cyst on his neck.
Chett was born around Hag's Mire. His father collected leeches and sold them to maesters, and Chett learned the trade from his father. He was an ugly boy and so girls did not take interest in him. Chett picked flowers for a girl named Bessa who had slept with every boy in their town, but she spurned and insulted him. Chett became so angry that he killed her. He was caught by Walder Rivers, one of Lord Walder Frey's bastards, and sent to the Wall. He has been a steward assisting Maester Aemon for four years.
At the Wall, Chett is a steward whose job is to care for the ravens and old Maester Aemon, with Clydas. This was a rather comfortable position, but it is taken away from him by Jon Snow, who advises Aemon that the job is better suited for the literate Samwell Tarly.
Chett takes care of the dogs on the great ranging beyond the Wall. He and Lark the Sisterman come upon Jon when he is talking to Gilly, one of Craster's wives.
Morale is low during the great ranging. Fourteen. To make sure they will not be caught, they plan to kill some of their Night's Watch brothers:
Chett intends to murder Samwell himself. After the killings he plans to set free his dogs, which would frighten the horses, running them off. Chett has not fed the dogs for a few days so they will be extra fierce. In the confusion that would follow, the deserters could flee with the remaining horses and the food they had hoarded.
Unfortunately for the conspirators, it begins to snow a few hours before they intend to set their plan into motion. Chett realizes that in fresh snow they would be easily followed and would not make good time, so he cancels the plan. Regardless, he decides to kill Samwell out of spite. However, at the moment Chett finds Sam they hear three horn blows, signalling that Others have been sighted.
When wights attack the Night's Watch, beginning the fight at the Fist, a trusting Samwell asks Chett for help in sending off ravens, but the kennel keeper runs away.
He could see Bessa's face floating before him. It wasn't the knife I wanted to put in you, he wanted to tell her. I picked you flowers, wild roses and tansy and goldencups, it took me all morning.
- thoughts of Chett
Cheyk is a member of the Black Ears, one of the Vale mountain clans. Chella is the daughter of Cheyk, but Cheyk's gender and living status are unknown.
Chezdhar zo Rhaezn is a Yunkish Nobleman.
Chezdhar zo Rhaezn, along with his brothers Maezon zo Rhaezn and Grazdhan zo Rhaezn, are mocked by the sellsword companies as the Clanker Lords, since they came up with the idea of chaining all the slave soldiers together so they cannot flee when facing the Unsullied of Daenerys Targaryen (as their previous soldiers did). The soldiers march at a snail's pace, due to the weight of the chains.
None of the poor bastards can run unless they all run... and if they do all run, they won't run very fast.
—Dick Straw, on the Clanker Lords' chained troops
The chief gaoler is one of the overseers of the dungeons in the Red Keep and answers to the King's Justice. He has authority over the chief undergaoler.
The last Chief Gaoler of the Red Keep had been a cloth merchant who purchased the office from Littlefinger during the reign of Robert Baratheon. After Robert's death, he became was one of the conspirators known as 'Antler Men', who sought to put Stannis Baratheon on the Iron Throne, for which he was imprisoned and later used as a catapult projectile by Joffrey during the beginnings of the Battle of the Blackwater.
The chief undergaoler is one of the overseers of the dungeons in the Red Keep and answers to the chief gaoler. He commands over the undergaolers and keeps records on all prisoners held in each of the dungeons' levels.
Chiggen is a sellsword who rides with Bronn.
Along with Bronn, Chiggen answers Lady Catelyn Stark's call at the crossroads inn when she finds Tyrion Lannister and takes him into custody. He is part of her escort during her flight to the Eyrie, through the Mountains of the Moon in the Vale of Arryn. In order to feed the group, he kills Tyrion's mount, which saddens the dwarf for the animal had been given to him by his brother Jaime for his twenty-third birthday. Tyrion takes his chainmail hauberk.
Maester Childer was a maester of the Citadel. He wrote the book *Winter's Kings, or the Legends and Lineages of the Starks of Winterfell*.
The Children's Tower. © FFG
The Children's Tower is one of the three towers that remain at Moat Cailin, the others being the Gatehouse Tower and the Drunkard's Tower.
The Children's Tower is tall, slender and green with moss. It has only half of the crenelations of its crown, it looks as if some great beast has taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. Its shattered top is open to the wind and the rain.
Legend has it that the children of the forest called upon their gods from the top of the tower to send the hammer of the waters and shatter the Neck.
House Umber takes this tower as its seat during the northern host's stay at Moat Cailin.
During the siege of Moat Cailin, Ramsay Bolton sends Theon Greyjoy to offer the ironborn garrison of Moat Cailin food and safe passage if they surrender to House Bolton unarmed. As he passes the tower on the way to the Gatehouse Tower, he sees pale faces peering through the broken masonry crowning the structure. He is later informed by a guard that all of the ironborn within the Children's Tower are dead after Dagon Codd went over a few days ago and discovered two survivors eating the corpses of the deceased and killed them both. The pale faces signal the crannogmen retaking the tower.
Children of Summer is written by Maester Gallard. It is the chief source on the history of the Summer Isles.
Maester Yandel believes that no better work on the Summer Isles has ever appeared, despite certain controversies remaining.
A child of the forest. © Kallielef
The children of the forest, sometimes referred to simply as the children, are a mysterious non-human race that originally inhabited the continent of Westeros during the Dawn Age long before the arrival of the First Men thousands of years ago. The giants call them woh dak nag gram (little squirrel people). They call themselves those who sing the song of earth in the True Tongue.
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A red-eyed child of the forest with a raven. © Pea's Pod
Their hands had only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails. © HBO
The children are smaller than humans, but they are not childlike. They have nut-brown skin, dappled like a deer's with paler spots. Their hands have only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails. They have large ears that can hear things that no man can hear.
The children are slight, quick, and graceful. They weave leaves and vines and flowers into their hair, and wear cloaks of leaves. They may live for centuries.
Very rarely, one of the children is born with mossy green or blood red eyes, a sign that they have been chosen by the Old Gods. The chosen ones are not robust, and do not live long on the earth, but they have the gift of greensight and are known as greenseers. Once they are bound to a weirwood, they live far longer than other children.
The children may have lived in clans.
Legends say the children of the forest were gifted with supernatural powers. These included having power over the beasts of the wood, the ability to wear an animal's skin, the skill to create music so beautiful as to bring tears to the eyes of any who heard it, the greensight ability and the ability to speak to the dead.
It is unknown if there is a connection between the children of the forest and the Ifequevron, or "woods walkers", of northern Essos. There is a ruined settlement of carved trees and haunted grottoes, called by the Dothraki Vaes Leisi, in the Kingdom of the Ifequevron.
Child of the forest, in its natural habitat. © HBO
It is unknown where the children of the forest came from, nor for how long they were in their land before humans arrived. For thousands of years during the Dawn Age the children and the giants shared the landmass that later became known as Westeros.
Eventually between eight thousand and twelve thousand years ago,
The children initially welcomed the newcomers, but they disliked the First Men's harvesting of trees from forests, such as the rainwood.
For thousands of years the two races fought a desperate war for dominance.
Eventually the First Men and the children fought to a standstill. The two races agreed to peaceful coexistence and signed the Pact on the Isle of Faces, granting the open lands to humanity and the forests to the children, who had been greatly diminished. The children taught worship of the old gods to the First Men.
A greenseer singing the song of earth. © HBO
The Age of Heroes followed the Pact between the children and the First Men, four thousand years of relative peace between the races.
The children began their slow withdrawal from the lands of men, retreating deeper into their forests and beyond the Wall. It was recorded by the Night's Watch that the children of the forest gave the black brothers a hundred obsidian daggers every year during the Age of Heroes.
Children and their greenseers supported the Warg King at Sea Dragon Point, but they were defeated by the Starks of Winterfell, the Kings of Winter.
Children slain and weirwoods burned by Andals. © HBO
The children again warred with humans when the Andals began migrating from Andalos across the narrow sea to Westeros. Zealous in the Faith of the Seven and armed with steel, having learned of ironworking from the Rhoynar,
Children are said to have sent wolves against Andals at the White Wood.
A hill, now known to the Westerosi as High Heart, was sacred to the children of the forest. There the Andal king Erreg the Kinslayer cut down the children's grove of thirty-one weirwoods. High Heart is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the children who died there, where the children's magic is said to still linger.
Because of the Andals' invasion and conquest of the First Men, the old gods were largely supplanted south of the Neck by the Faith of the Seven. Moat Cailin held back the Andals from the north,
Relations between the children and humans grew distant over the years, until they ceased altogether. Maesters largely believe the children have been gone for hundreds
Jenny of Oldstones always claimed that her woods witch friend was one of the children.
At Winterfell, Maester Luwin tells Bran Stark of the war of the First Men and the children of the forest and the Pact.
In the library of Castle Black Samwell Tarly reads an account of Redwyn's journey beyond the Wall, during which the ranger met children of the forest, and a book about the tongue of the children.
Luwin and Bran speak of greensight.
Tom of Sevenstreams tells Arya Stark how High Heart is shunned by smallfolk, who believe it haunted by children slain by Erreg the Kinslayer. Arya wonders if the ghost of High Heart is one of the children, but tom explains she is just a dwarf woman.
Bran Stark with the children of the forest by Conor Campbell ©
Coldhands leads Bran, Hodor, and Meera and Jojen Reed north of the Wall to the cave of the three-eyed crow, whom Coldhands calls the last greenseer.
Bran and his companions discover a dwindling remnant of children live in the warded cavern. The caves are home to more than three score living singers and the bones of thousands dead, and extend far below the hollow hill. Bran and Meera give names to the children, since they cannot speak the True Tongue. Bran hears them sing sad songs in the True Tongue which he cannot understand, but their voices are as pure as the winter air. Leaf, who saved the humans from the wights, explains that the children have not explored all of the caves, even though they have lived there for a thousand thousand man-years.
Bran finds greenseers enthroned in nests of weirwood roots. The boy learns from Lord Brynden, the last greenseer, and the child Snowylocks supplies weirwood paste.
Bran, the children of the forest have been dead and gone for thousands of years. All that is left of them are the faces in the trees.
– Luwin, to Bran Stark
They were a people of the Dawn Age, the very first, before kings and kingdoms. In those days, there were no castles or holdfasts, no cities, not so much as a market town to be found between here and the sea of Dorne. There were no men at all. Only the children of the forest dwelt in the lands we now call the Seven Kingdoms.
– Luwin, to Bran Stark
North of the Wall, things are different. That's where the children went, and the giants, and the other old races.
- Osha, to Bran Stark
The children are gone from this world, and their wisdom with them.
– Luwin, to Bran Stark
We remember the First Men in the Neck, and the children of the forest who were their friends ... but so much is forgotten, and so much we never knew.
- Jojen Reed, to Bran Stark
The children of the forest are all dead. The First Men killed half of them with bronze blades, and the Andals finished the job with iron.
- Jeor Mormont, to Samwell Tarly
Though the men of the Seven Kingdoms might call them the children of the forest, Leaf and her people were far from childlike. Little wise men of the forest would have been closer.
- Bran Stark's thoughts
Bran: Where are the rest of you?
Leaf: Gone down into the earth … Into the stones, into the trees. Before the First Men came all this land that you call Westeros was home to us, yet even in those days we were few. The gods gave us long lives but not great numbers, lest we overrun the world as deer will overrun a wood where there are no wolves to hunt them. That was in the dawn of days, when our sun was rising. Now it sinks, and this is our long dwindling. The giants are almost gone as well, they who were our bane and our brothers. The great lions of the western hills have been slain, the unicorns are all but gone, the mammoths down to a few hundred. The direwolves will outlast us all, but their time will come as well. In the world that men have made, there is no room for them, or us.
Men would not be sad. Men would be wroth. Men would hate and swear a bloody vengeance. The singers sings sad songs, where men would fight and kill.
- Bran Stark's thoughts
Chiswyck is a man-at-arms in service to Ser Gregor Clegane.
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He is old and stoop-shouldered, with a sadistic temperament masked by a jolly personality.
Chiswyck is one of Ser Gregor Clegane's men at arms and is part of the group that captures Arya Stark, Gendry and Hot Pie in the Riverlands. When Arya tries to bite him, he hits her in the face. He sometimes aided the Tickler in torturing the smallfolk.
Chiswyck tells a story about the gang rape of an innkeeper's daughter that Gregor and the men had instigated, laughing as he recalls the details. Arya overhears this, and whispers his name into the ear of Jaqen H'ghar as the first of her three promised deaths. H'ghar, obliging, pushes him off a wall three days later.
Hot Pie: I don’t want to go there. There’s ghosts in there.
Chiswyck: Baker boy, here’s your choice. Come join the ghosts, or be one.
Choq Choq was a God-Emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti and the fifteenth and last member of his dynasty. He kept a hundred wives and a thousand concubines and sired daughters beyond count, but was never able to produce a son. He was humpbacked
The Chronicles of Maidenpool is a history of Maidenpool in the riverlands. During the Dance of the Dragons, Maester Norren was the keeper of the text.
Chroyane
Western Essos and the location of Chroyane
Chroyane is a foggy, ruined city of Rhoynish origin that sits in the southern Sorrows at the confluence of the Lhorulu and the Rhoyne, south of the Golden Fields in Essos.
Chroyane of old was said to have streets made of water and houses of gold.
The Chroyane, as depicted by Philip Straub in *The World of Ice and Fire*
Chroyane, nicknamed the festival city, was once the richest and most splendid of the cities along the Rhoyne. It contained the colossal Palace of Love, a magnificent fastness.
According to legend, Prince Garin the Great of Chroyane gathered a quarter million soldiers in his city during the Second Spice War. The Rhoynar marched south and were victorious against Selhorys, Valysar, and Volon Therys, but were then defeated by the dragonlords of the Valyrian Freehold in a great battle along the Rhoyne.
Mists now rule the Sorrows and people infected with greyscale roam the ruins. They are called stone men, and the mists are said to be ruled by the enigmatic Shrouded Lord. Sunken architecture and statues pose threats to passing boats. Many travelers become lost in the thick fog, eventually succumbing to madness, hunger, greyscale, or stone men.
There has not been law above the Sorrows for a thousand years, so pirates are common in the Rhoyne north of Chroyane, although they do not enter the ruined city.
Lomas Longstrider met descendants of the Rhoynar in the ruins of Chroyane.
Tyrion Lannister travels with the crew of the *Shy Maid* through Chroyane, meeting the *Kingfisher* and observing the Palace of Sorrow. They sail unscathed beneath the Bridge of Dream, but despite sailing with the current of the Rhoyne, they appear to approach the Bridge of Dream again shortly afterward. They are attacked by stone men during their second voyage past the bridge. Tyrion saves Young Griff from a stone man, but is dragged into the cold Rhoyne.
Many a voyager has been lost here, poleboats and pirates and great river galleys too. They wander forlorn through the mists, searching for a sun they cannot find until madness or hunger claim their lives. There are restless spirits in the air here and tormented souls below the water.
This was the most beautiful city on the river, and the richest. Chroyane, the festival city.
Too rich, too beautiful. It is never wise to tempt the dragons.
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
The Church of Starry Wisdom, also known as the Cult of Starry Wisdom,
The legendary Bloodstone Emperor of the Great Empire of the Dawn, who renounced the gods of Yi Ti and began to worship a black stone that fell from the skies, is believed by some scholars to have been the first High Priest of the Church.
While posing as Beth, Arya Stark overhears the acolytes of the church atop their scrying tower in Braavos, singing to the evening stars.
The Church of Starry Wisdom is a reference to the eponymous cult in H. P. Lovecraft's short story *The Haunter of the Dark*. In the story, the Church worships Nyarlathotep, one of the "outer gods".
Lord Chyttering was the head of House Chyttering. He is the father of Lucos Chyttering.
Lord Chyttering burns during the Battle of the Blackwater.
Cider Hall
The Reach and the location of Cider Hall
Cider Hall is the seat of House Fossoway of Cider Hall in the Reach. It is located near the confluence of the Cockleswhent and the Mander.
The Cinnamon Straits separate Great Moraq from several islands to the south and west. Along with the Jade Gates north of Great Moraq, the Cinnamon Straits divide the Summer Sea and the Jade Sea. Vahar and Lesser Moraq are to the northwest of the Straits, while the Isle of Elephants is to the southeast.
The Cinnamon Straits have not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire*.
The Cinnamon Wind is a swan ship captained by Quhuru Mo. Her home port is Tall Trees Town in the Summer Isles.
The Cinnamon Wind is at the port of Qarth, having traveled there from Oldtown. Quhuru Mo is brought to Daenerys Targaryen, sees her dragons, and gives her news of Westeros, including the death of King Robert I Baratheon. Daenerys asks if the ship is returning to Westeros soon, but the captain says it will not be for a year or more, as the Cinnamon Wind will be sailing east, to make the trader's circle around the Jade Sea.
The Cinnamon Wind is in Braavos, and the ship's mate Xhondo Dhoru encounters Samwell Tarly.
The ship is attacked by pirates off the Stepstones, but Kojja Mo and her red archers slay them and drive them off.
The Cinnamon Wind arrives at Oldtown. After hearing all the information Samwell Tarly has for him, Archmaester Marwyn leaves the Citadel, intending to take the ship to Meereen to serve Daenerys.
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A novice of the Citadel © Fantasy Flight Games
The Citadel is a complex of buildings in Oldtown that serves as the central home to the order of the maesters. The name is also employed to refer to order of maesters as an institution, or the higher placed members.
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The Citadel lies on the Honeywine, where its towers and domes are connected with arching stone bridges. Houses and stalls sit on the bridges.
Just inside the gates of the Citadel lies the Scribe's Hearth. Here, the citizens of Oldtown come to hire scribes, usually acolytes, to write and read letters for them. The scribes wait in open stalls for their custom. Other stalls situated at the Scribe's Hearth include those where books are bought and sold. Others offer maps.
From this dock one can get a boat for a short voyage to the Bloody Isle.
Outside the Seneschal's Court lies where acolytes and novices are punished for minor crimes, such as petty thievery. Inside the doors is a hall with a stone floor and high, arched windows. At the far end of the hall there is a raised dais where a gatekeeper greets all those who wish to make an appointment to see the Seneschal.
Main articles: Isle of Ravens, and white raven
The Isle of Ravens is linked to the eastern bank of the Honeywine by a weathered wooden drawbridge. On the island is located the Ravenry, the oldest building of the Citadel. The walls of the Ravenry are covered in moss and vines and within its yard sits a weirwood tree on which the ravens like to perch. The white raven rookery is located in the west tower.
In the Age of Heroes the Ravenry was supposedly a stronghold of a pirate lord who picked off ships as they came downriver.
The origin of the Citadel is disputed, but House Hightower is generally considered to have played an integral role in its foundation.
The Citadel gates are flanked by a pair of tall green sphinxes. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jon Snow, sends Samwell Tarly to the Citadel to study and become a maester.
The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.
– Marwyn
The healers of the Citadel are the best in the Seven Kingdoms.
There are so many books at the Citadel that no man can hope to read them all.
– Jon Snow
The Cities of the Bloodless Men is a region located in far eastern Essos.
The Cities of the Bloodless Men lie in the plains of far eastern Essos, southeast of the Dry Deep and northeast of the Mountains of the Morn. Farther to the south is the Hidden Sea.
Travelers claim the cities are inhabited by people as pale as the dead. Others claim the inhabitants are corpses who have been drained of blood and returned to life through dark rites.
The Cities of the Bloodless Men have not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire*.
Prince Daemon Targaryen, who once commanded the City Watch of King's Landing, and his men on patrol - by Marc Simonetti ©
Gold cloaks - illustrated by Michael J. Williams. © Fantasy Flight Games
The City Watch of King's Landing, also known as the gold cloaks, are the defenders of the city of King's Landing (including the Red Keep) and the enforcers of the law, sworn only to the Iron Throne. The Watch presumably falls under the bailiwick of the master of laws.[N 1] They are not as well trained as the City Watch of Lannisport.
There are three sets of barracks for the City Watch: the East Barracks by the Dragon Gate, the West Barracks near Cobbler's Square,
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The City Watch wear cloaks, usually made of heavy wool, dyed gold. They are equipped with mail armor, iron cudgels, iron spears, dirks, and occasionally longswords. Their armor, boots, and gloves are black.
The City Watch was established under the Targaryen dynasty. Prince Daemon Targaryen once commanded the watch, from 104–105 AC. He was the one who instituted their uniform use of equipment, including the golden cloaks from which they get their name. The weapons he issued were dirk, short sword, and cudgel. There were two thousand gold cloaks at his time.
During the Dance of the Dragons, the officers of the City Watch were loyal to Queen Alicent Hightower and the greens, but the rank-and-file gold cloaks supported their former commander, Daemon, a leader of the blacks. During the fall of King's Landing, Commander Ser Luthor Largent led a coup in support of the blacks, and personally killed his second-in-command, Ser Gwayne Hightower. After Luthor was killed during the riots in King's Landing, Ser Balon Byrch became the new commander.
When the Targaryens were overthrown during Robert's Rebellion, the new king, Robert I Baratheon, continued the institution of the gold cloaks. Janos Slynt became their commander after the death of Manly Stokeworth.
During the Hand's tourney, the gold cloaks are hard-pressed to keep the king's peace. The Hand of the King, Lord Eddard Stark, commands Lord Petyr Baelish to find funds to hire more watchmen, and lends twenty of his own Winterfell guardsmen to help for the tourney's duration.
After Robert's death, Petyr Baelish tells Eddard he will make certain the gold cloaks are loyal to him in the power struggle against Queen Cersei Lannister, with a bribe of six thousand gold coins.
King Joffrey Baratheon considers leading the City Watch into the field to join the War of the Five Kings.
Five gold cloaks come upon Yoren's band of Night's Watch recruits with the intent of seizing Gendry, a bastard of King Robert Baratheon, but are driven away.
Commander Slynt is exiled to the Wall by the acting Hand, Tyrion Lannister, for his corruption and next potential betrayal.
Along with forty knights and squires including Hobber Redwyne, three hundred gold cloaks escort Petyr Baelish to Bitterbridge on his mission to treat with the Tyrells.
During the riot of King's Landing, Ser Jacelyn and a wedge of mounted lancers charge down the streets in an effort to defend the royal party, while numerous others form lines of spears before the smallfolk. In total, nine gold cloaks are slain and forty wounded.
Towards the end of his term, Slynt had tripled the number of the gold cloaks, making them six thousand strong.
When Stannis arrives and the Battle of the Blackwater begins, the Watch constitutes the bulk of the defending force.
Gold cloaks in *Game of Thrones*
After figuring casualties and desertions, the number of men available is down to forty-four hundred.
An honor guard consisting mostly of gold cloaks accompanies Tyrion Lannister when he welcomes Prince Oberyn Martell to King's Landing.
When being brought to his trial for the death of Joffrey, Tyrion is escorted by Addam and six watchmen rather than the Kingsguard, most of whom had testified against him. A hundred gold cloaks stand guard in the throne room.
Ser Addam is relieved to leave his troubling duties to join Ser Jaime Lannister in a mopping-up campaign in the riverlands.
The new Hand of the King, Lord Mace Tyrell, adds a hundred Highgarden men to the City Watch.
Daemon gave us these cloaks, and they're gold no matter how you turn them.
For the sake of the love I bear for Catelyn, I will go to Janos Slynt this very hour and make certain that the City Watch is yours. Six thousand gold pieces should do it. A third for the Commander, a third for the officers, a third for the men. We might be able to buy them for half that much, but I prefer not to take chances.
It takes more than a gold cloak to make a watchman.
A Lannisport guard
The City Watch of Lannisport is the formal policing and protection unit of Lannisport in the westerlands. Supported by the wealthy House Lannister, they are known to be well-trained compared to those of King's Landing or Oldtown.
After losing to Uthor Underleaf in the Whitewalls tourney, Ser Duncan the Tall briefly considered joining the City Watch of Lannisport or Oldtown.
The City Watch of Oldtown is the formal policing and protection unit of Oldtown. They are commanded by Ser Moryn Tyrell.
After losing to Uthor Underleaf in the Whitewalls tourney, Ser Duncan the Tall briefly considered joining the City Watch of Lannisport or Oldtown.
The City of the Winged Men is a legendary city in far eastern Essos.
It is located on the northwestern shore of the Hidden Sea within the Mountains of the Morn. Carcosa is situated on the southeastern shore.
The city's inhabitants are said to have leather wings and to be able to fly like eagles.
The Civic Guard in *Game of Thrones*
The Civic Guard is the organization charged with defending and maintaining order in the city of Qarth. It is commanded by the Pureborn, the rulers of the city. It includes some camelry and works in partnership with the Pureborn fleet to defend Qarth.
Clanker Lords is the mocking style that the sellsword companies gave Chezdhar zo Rhaezn and his brothers Maezon zo Rhaezn and Grazdhan zo Rhaezn who came up with the idea of chaining all their slave soldiers together so they cannot flee when facing Daenerys Targaryen's Unsullied (as their previous soldiers did). They are chained together in groups of ten, wrist to wrist, ankle to ankle.
The slave soldiers march at a snails pace due to the weight of their chains. Beans observes that you can hear them clanking ten leagues off.
"None of the poor bastards can run unless they all run," Dick Straw explained, laughing. "And if they do all run, they won't run very fast."
Ser Clarence Cargyll was a knight of House Cargyll during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Clarence attended the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Ser Clarence Charlton was a knight of House Charlton during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen.
Ser Clarence took part in the wedding tourney at Whitewalls. He was soundly defeated in the lists by Ser Tommard Heddle.
Ser Clarence Crabb is a legendary hero from the Crackclaw Point area.
According to legend Ser Clarence was eight feet tall and strong enough to uproot trees and throw them half a mile. He was so heavy that only an aurochs could carry him.
Ser Clarence's seat was called the Whispers, so named due to the disembodied heads that he would collect and bring home to his wife who would raise them from the dead. The dead heads would give him counsel and talk among themselves in a whisper. Ser Clarence collected the heads from a variety of people including pirates, lords, wizards, knights and even one king from Duskendale.
Ser Clarence Crabb, better known as Clarence the Short, was a knight of House Crabb who became a member of the Kingsguard at an unknown time.
Even though he was over six feet tall, he was called *"the Short"* due to his inferior height to the legendary Ser Clarence Crabb.
Clarent Crakehall was a knight of House Crakehall during the Dance of the Dragons.
Ser Clarent was part of the Lannister host at the Battle by the Lakeshore where he was slain in 130 AC.
Lady Clarisse Dayne was the Lady of Starfall and head of House Dayne during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen. She was considered to be proud and beautiful.
When King Maegor decided to take another wife, Grand Maester Benifer suggested Clarisse as a possible match in the hopes of detaching her lands and house from Dorne, Maegor dismissed his advice.
Claw Isle
The Crownlands and the location of Claw Isle
Claw Isle is the ancient island seat of House Celtigar in the Crownlands. It lies a few hours sail north from Dragonstone.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Lord Walys Mooton's force to retake Rook's Rest from the greens included men from Claw Isle.
Though Lord Ardrian Celtigar has shown the world a niggardly face, he has never stinted on his own comforts. Claw Isle's castle is reputedly stuffed with Myrish carpets, Volantene glass, gold and silver plate, jeweled cups, magnificent hawks, an axe of Valyrian steel, a horn said to summon krakens from the deep, chests of rubies, and more wines that a man could drink in a hundred years.
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Lord Ardrian Celtigar takes most of the able-bodied men with him when Stannis Baratheon calls his banners. Captured in the Battle of the Blackwater, Lord Celtigar bends the knee to King Joffrey Baratheon.
Because Lord Celtigar submitted to Joffrey, Ser Axell Florent plots with Salladhor Saan to attack Claw Isle as a reprisal, for the island is lightly garrisoned. Ser Davos Seaworth advises Stannis that it is a poor option, reminding him that Claw Isle is only held by women, children, and old men because the warriors of the island were killed fighting for Stannis on the Blackwater. Stannis decides not to attack Claw Isle. For his counsel and loyalty, Stannis names Davos Lord of the Rainwood and Hand of the King.
Claypool is a ruin in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Claypool was burned by the dragon Vhagar during the Dance of the Dragons.
Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for Claypool for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood.
Ser Clayton Suggs is a knight from House Suggs and a supporter of Stannis Baratheon.
Clayton is a short burly man with a balding head
Clayton is considered a crony
Clayton was a hedge knight
Ser Clayton is sworn to King Stannis Baratheon. He is among the queen's men who went north to the Wall with him.
Suggs rips his longsword from its scabbard - by Marc Fishman ©
Clayton is part of Stannis's honor guard when free folk pass through the Wall to Castle Black after the battle beneath the Wall.
When Stannis's army is slowed during the march on Winterfell, Clayton agrees with Ser Godry Farring they should burn someone to appease R'hllor and end the blizzard, but the king refuses.
When four Peasebury men are caught committing cannibalism at a crofters' village, they are to be burned alive as a sacrifice to R'hllor. Desiring a quick death, their serjeant insults the queen's men. Clayton is goaded into quickly killing the condemned man with a knife after being called a bleeding bastard.
When Asha later reminds Clayton that Stannis gelds men for rape, he laughs and says he would sooner see her burn..
Clayton is present along with Ser Godry Farring and Ser Richard Horpe when Stannis interrogates Maester Tybald about his loyalties. Stannis has Clayton threaten violence on the maester to make Tybald tell him everything. Clayton wants Stannis to burn Theon Greyjoy.
Godry: I had forgotten that you northmen worship trees.
Clayton: What sort of god lets himself be pissed upon by dogs?
- Godry Farring and Clayton to Jon Snow
A sacrifice will prove our faith still burns true, Sire.
- Clayton to Stannis Baratheon
Suggs was an upjumped hedge knight, as crude as he was strong.
- thoughts of Jon Snow
She had seen him at the nightfires, watching, his lips parted and his eyes avid. It is not the god he loves, it is the flames, she concluded.
- thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
- thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
He learned all he knows in the wynds of Flea Bottom. Were I to put you in his charge, he might strangle you with your own chain or scoop your eye out with a spoon.
- Stannis Baratheon to Tybald
Clegane's Keep
The westerlands and the location of Clegane's Keep
Clegane's Keep is the semi-canonical name
The towerhouse
The keep was given to the first Clegane knight, the kennelmaster at Casterly Rock, who saved Lord Tytos Lannister from a lion and lost a leg in the effort.
Ser Gregor Clegane raids Sherrer, Wendish Town, and the Mummer's Ford in the riverlands, then retreats across the Red Fork into the westerlands. Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, charges Lord Beric Dondarrion with riding to Gregor's keep and bringing the king's justice to the knight.