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Crispian Celtigar was Lord of Claw Isle, head of House Celtigar, and master of coin during the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen.




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Ser Criston Cole was a knight of House Cole. Made a member of King Viserys I Targaryen's Kingsguard, eventually rising to Lord Commander. Criston convinced Viserys's son, Aegon, to claim the rule of the Seven Kingdoms as his father lay dead. This led to the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war between Aegon II and his elder sister, Rhaenyra, whom Viserys had long groomed as his successor. For this he became known as Criston the Kingmaker.

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Appearance and Character

Criston had black hair and green eyes. Many ladies described him as charming. He was an exceptionally skilled warrior particularly with his morning star.

History

Early life

Ser Criston was born to a steward of Lord Dondarrion at Blackhaven. He won a melee at the tourney at Maidenpool to celebrate the ascension of Viserys I Targaryen, drawing the attention of the royal court by knocking Dark Sister from the hands of Prince Daemon Targaryen with his morningstar. He gave the victor's laurel to the seven-year-old Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, whose favor he wore while unhorsing Daemon in the joust, as well as the famed Cargyll twins of the Kingsguard, before being unhorsed by Lord Lymond Mallister. Thereafter, King Viserys indulged Rhaenyra by naming Criston her personal sworn shield. In 105 AC, the twenty-three-year-old Criston became a member of the Kingsguard, taking the place of the legendary Ser Ryam Redwyne.

Cole wore Rhaenyra's favor in a tournament in 111 AC where he unhorsed Ser Gwayne Hightower, brother and champion to King Viserys's second wife and queen, Alicent Hightower.

In 112 AC Ser Criston was still Rhaenyra's champion and constant companion. Lord Commander Ser Harrold Westerling died in that year, and Criston was named his successor to lead the White Cloaks. It was rumored that Cole had an affair with Rhaenyra in 113 AC.

Septon Eustace says that Ser Criston slipped into Rhaenyra's bedchamber to confess his love, offering to abscond with her to one of the Free Cities where he would pledge his sword to some merchant prince, but that Rhaenyra refused him, saying a Targaryen was meant to be more than the wife of a sellsword, and that if he could forget his Kingsguard vows, he could forget marriage vows.

The royal fool Mushroom tells a different tale - that Rhaenyra had been practicing her enticements with her uncle, Prince Daemon, so that she would lose her maidenhead to Criston, a man she loved, rather than her betrothed homosexual cousin, Laenor Velaryon. She failed to seduce Ser Criston in White Sword Tower, however, and the spurned princess took solace in Ser Harwin "Breakbones" Strong. Whatever the way of it, Cole went from being her staunchest defender to her bitterest foe, and Rhaenyra soon left for Driftmark with Breakbones as her new sworn shield.

In 114 AC, Ser Criston attended the wedding of Rhaenyra to Laenor, which included seven days of feasting and jousting. Cole fought with Queen Alicent's token, and during a melee left Breakbones with a broken collarbone and shattered elbow, prompting Mushroom to call him *"Brokenbones"* thereafter. Criston's morningstar also cracked the helm of the Knight of Kisses, Laenor's favorite Ser Joffrey Lonmouth, which he died from six days later. While many were angered at Criston for this, including King Viserys, Queen Alicent did not share their displeasure, and asked that he be made her personal sworn shield. Cole became a staunch supporter of Queen Alicent ever after.

Criston tutored Prince Aemond Targaryen to be a skilled swordsman, despite Aemond's one eye.

The Dance of the Dragons

Main article: Dance of the Dragons

Due to the contradictory sources, Criston's motives in supporting Aegon II are unclear; some say that he acted from ambition as Aegon was more controllable than his willful half-sister Rhaenyra; indeed Aegon II eventually raised Ser Criston to the office of Hand of the King.

During the meeting of Viserys's small council after King Viserys's death in 129 AC, Cole slit the throat of Lord Lyman Beesbury, the only member of the council to support crowning Princess Rhaenyra instead of Prince Aegon. The rest of the council were greens. Criston later crowned Aegon II with the iron-and-ruby crown of Aegon the Conqueror. However, Rhaenyra, who was at Dragonstone at the time of Aegon's coronation, refused to support Aegon, beginning the great armed conflict which engulfed the Seven Kingdoms and became known as the Dance of the Dragons.

As the blacks gathered their forces, Aegon II became frustrated with his Hand of the King, Ser Otto Hightower, and awarded the office to Ser Criston Cole. The Kingmaker's forces quickly took Duskendale and Rook's Rest, the latter after a fierce battle. When Prince Aemond Targaryen became Protector of the Realm and Prince Regent because of Aegon's injuries in the battle, Criston remained Hand.

Aemond and the Kingmaker led an army of 4,000 greens from King's Landing to retake Harrenhal in the riverlands from Prince Daemon Targaryen, who vacated the castle before Criston arrived. After hearing of the Lannisters' defeat in the battle by the Lakeshore, Aemond began burning the riverlands and Cole marched his remaining 3,600 greeens south along the western shore of the Gods Eye, intending to join with the army of Lord Ormund Hightower. However, the Kingmaker's forces were ambushed by the Winter Wolves and river knights south of the Gods Eye. Criston challenged Lord Roderick Dustin, Ser Pate of Longleaf, and Ser Garibald Grey to single combat what they declined, and was instead slain by arrows at the Butcher's Ball in 130 AC.

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Trying to gain Ser Arys Oakheart for her plot to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon, Princess Arianne Martell tells Arys that Lord Anders Yronwood is Criston Cole reborn.

While showing Ser Loras Tyrell the White Book of the Kingsguard, Lord Commander Jaime Lannister mentions the controversial Criston Cole.

Quotes by Criston

Seven save this realm if we seat a bastard on the Iron Throne. They will turn the Red Keep into a brothel. No man's daughter will be safe, nor any man's wife. Even the boys ... we know what Laenor was.

– Criston to the small council of Viserys I Targaryen

Quotes about Criston

My new Hand is a steel fist.

Aegon II Targaryen

The Kingmaker wrought grave harm and gravely did he pay for it ...

Arys Oakheart

Loras: The heroes will always be remembered. The best. Jaime: The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both. Like him.

Loras Tyrell and Jaime Lannister




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Ser Criston Wylde was a knight of House Wylde during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.

History

Ser Criston is listed on the roll of arms as a competitor in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.




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crofters' village

The North and the location of the crofters' village

Depiction of the crofters' village by BryndenBFish

The crofters' village is a village located in the wolfswood west of Winterfell. It is inhabited by crofters and consists of a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower by the lakeshore, as the village is located between two lakes. The longhall has space to comfortably seat fifty men.

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A Dance with Dragons

Slowed by a blizzard while traveling through the wolfswood from Deepwood Motte to Winterfell, the army of Stannis Baratheon stops at the crofters' village. They find it abandoned, a mean and meagre place.

While Benjicot Branch thought they were about three days away from Winterfell,

The Winds of Winter

Theon is kept prisoner by Stannis inside the watchtower. Informed by a letter from Lord Commander Jon Snow that Arnolf plots betrayal, Stannis has the Karstarks taken into custody. Rather than have Theon burned as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light, Asha suggests to Stannis that he instead have Theon beheaded at the island's weirwood as a sacrifice to the old gods.

Quotes

I know them lakes. You been on them like maggots on a corpse, hundreds o' you. Cut so many holes in the ice it's a bloody wonder more haven't fallen through. Out by the island, there's places look like a cheese the rats been at. Lakes are done. You fished them out.

- Ned Woods to the queen's men




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Cromm is one of the crew on Asha Greyjoys ship *Black Wind*.

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A Dance with Dragons

He along with the rest of Asha's supporters sails to Deepwood Motte with Asha Greyjoy as she contemplates her next move. He fled with Asha to the sea, and was wounded in the battle and taken captive by Stannis.




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The Crone's Lantern is a constellation.




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Crone's Mill is a place in the Riverlands. It is unknown which noble house it belongs to.

History

Crone's Mill was burned by the dragon Vhagar during the Dance of the Dragons.




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The Crone - by mustamirri ©

The Crone is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.

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About

See also: Images of the Crone

The Crone represents wisdom and is prayed to for guidance. Her statues often show her with a lamp in one hand. A passage in the Seven-Pointed Star says that the Crone foretold that the girl the Maiden brought forth would bear the king four-and-forty mighty sons.

There is a constellation of stars called the Crone's Lantern.

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A Clash of Kings

Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village’s sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. She turns to the Crone and prays.

A Feast for Crows

The pious dwarf makes Brienne of Tarth’s acquaintance at the Seven Swords inn common room. After chatting with her he notices Brienne looks sad and asks her if she is thinking of her missing sister, he pats her hand and tries to reassure her, telling Brienne “The Crone with light your way for her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe.”

Quotes

Guide me, wise lady. Show me the path I must walk, and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

Catelyn Tully

The Crone is very wise and old,
and sees our fates as they unfold.
She lifts her lamp of shining gold,
to lead the little children.

– *The Song of the Seven*




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Crossbow Ridge is a place in the Riverlands on the east bank of the Widow's Wash. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.

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A Dance with Dragons

Jonos Bracken wants the east bank of the Widow's Wash from Crossbow Ridge to Rutting Meadow for subduing Tytos Blackwood. Tytos surrenders Crossbow Ridge as part of the price to submit to the Iron Throne.




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Crossed Elms is a village located west of the Gods Eye in the Riverlands. It was the site of a skirmish during the Dance of the Dragons.

History

As Ser Criston Cole's greens traveled south along the western shore of the Gods Eye lake, the river lords allied with the blacks practiced scorched earth tactics, burning their forests and villages. In order to frighten the greens, the blacks arranged dead men in grotesque mockeries of feasts. Prior to the battle at the stony ridge, Criston's outriders were attacked at Crossed Elms by men disguised as feasting corpses, losing twelve men before realizing the ruse.




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The Feast of the Crows, illustrated by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games.

Crows are black birds similar to ravens found in the Known World. They have a reputation for scavenging corpses.

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Influence

Members of the Night's Watch are sometimes called crows, and their recruiters can be referred to as wandering crows.

House Morrigen of Crow's Nest includes a crow in their sigil, while groups named after the bird include the Stone Crows and the Stormcrows. Euron Greyjoy is known as Euron Crow's Eye.

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Bran Stark dreams of a three-eyed crow.

Quotes

Crows are all liars. I know a story about a crow.

- Old Nan to Bran Stark

The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood.

- Aemon to Jon Snow




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Crow's Nest Castle

Crow's Nest

The stormlands and the location of Crow's Nest

Crow's Nest is the seat of House Morrigen in the stormlands. It is located in mountainous terrain between Griffin's Roost and Stonehelm, along the western edge of Cape Wrath and the rainwood.

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A Dance with Dragons

The stormlands are invaded with the landing of the Golden Company. While a quarter of the Golden Company's available strength is taking Griffin's Roost, Ser Tristan Rivers sets off to seize the seat of House Morrigen at Crow's Nest, and Laswell Peake for Rain House, the stronghold of House Wylde, simultaneously. Harry Strickland argues that if Rivers and Peake are successful the Golden Company will control a better part of Cape Wrath.




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Crow Spike Keep is the seat of House Goodbrother of Crow Spike Keep. It is located on the island of Great Wyk.

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A Feast for Crows

Greydon Goodbrother is sent by his father Lord Gorold Goodbrother to inform their cousins at Downdelving, Crow Spike Keep and Corpse Lake of King Balon Greyjoy's death.




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Aegon I Targaryen's crown upon his head. Amok ©

Crown of winter. © Fantasy Flight Games

Crowns are worn as a symbol of royal or elevated office, especially kings. Rulers in many cultures, such as a King-Beyond-the-Wall who may rule the Wildlings or Free Folk, wear no crowns.

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Other Targaryen Crowns

Daemon offers his crown to his brother, King Viserys I Targaryen, by Chase Stone, as depicted in *The World of Ice and Fire*.

Crown of Daemon

History: Prince Daemon Targaryen, brother of King Viserys I Targaryen, won a kingdom for himself in the Stepstones and crowned himself King of the Narrow Sea in 109 AC. Daemon returned to King's Landing during a great tourney and knelt in fealty, offering the crown to his brother, who returned it to him.

Royal Bearers:

Crown of Alysanne

Description: A crown of gold, a slimmer, more feminine version of the second crown of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.

Royal Bearers:

Crown of Alicent

History: At the coronation of Aegon II Targaryen, his mother Dowager Queen Alicent crowned his sister-wife Helaena with her own crown.

Royal Bearers:

Crown of Rhaella

History: When Viserys Targaryen and Daenerys Targaryen fled to the Free Cities after Robert's Rebellion, they took the crown of their mother, Queen Rhaella Targaryen, with them. Later, in poverty in exile, Viserys sold this crown in order to survive. It is not known whether this crown may be any of the crowns detailed above.

Royal Bearers:

Crowns of the Baratheon dynasty

Crowns of the Kings in the North

Crowns of the Ironborn

Religious Crowns

Other Crowns

Khal Drogo crowned Viserys with molten gold

Hizdahr zo Loraq's crown

The crown of Meereen

Crowns in history and legend

Garth Gardener's crown

Notable omissions

TV show depiction of Robert Baratheon's crown

It may be noted that although Robert I Baratheon was the 18th King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, no mention is made of his crown.

It is likely that each line of kings to preside over each of the many kingdoms that emerged throughout the history of Westeros bore a crown of some description.

Quotes

"Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen." And so she did, though the weight of it made her neck ache.

"Fool. No one who wears a crown is ever safe."

- Cersei Lannister, to Jaime Lannister




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The crownlands with the major strongholds

The crownlands of noble origin raised in the crownlands are given the surname Waters.

Some notable houses of the crownlands include Bar Emmon, Celtigar, Massey, Rosby, Rykker, Stokeworth, Sunglass, and Velaryon.

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Geography

The environs of King's Landing. Concept art by Kim Pope for the *Game of Thrones*

The crownlands are based around Blackwater Bay, with the capital of King's Landing built where the Blackwater Rush meets the bay. King's Landing, the largest city in Westeros, contains the Great Sept of Baelor and the Red Keep, the home of House Baratheon of King's Landing. Settlements north of King's Landing include Antlers (seat of House Buckwell), Rosby (seat of House Rosby), Stokeworth (seat of House Stokeworth), and Duskendale (seat of House Rykker), the region's secondary port. Farther north are Rook's Rest (seat of House Staunton) and Crackclaw Point, a rugged peninsula of insular folk whose castles include the Dyre Den (seat of House Brune), Brownhollow (another seat of House Brune), and the Whispers (formerly of House Crabb). North of Crackclaw Point are the Bay of Crabs and the Vale of Arryn.

The crownlands are bordered to the northwest and west by the riverlands. A stream forms part of the boundary between the two regions, with the hills of House Wode in the riverlands and the lands of House Hogg in the crownlands.

South of King's Landing is the kingswood, the royal hunting forest, and the stormlands. The Wendwater flows through the kingswood into the bay. East of the kingswood is Massey's Hook, another peninsula that with Crackclaw Point forms the inlet of Blackwater Bay. Castles on Massey's Hook include Stonedance (seat of House Massey) and Sharp Point (seat of House Bar Emmon).

Islands within Blackwater Bay include Dragonstone, Driftmark (seat of House Velaryon), and Claw Isle (seat of House Celtigar). Also sworn to the Baratheons of Dragonstone is Sweetport Sound (seat of House Sunglass). Massey's Hook is separated from Driftmark by the Gullet. East of Blackwater Bay is the narrow sea.

The kingsroad connects King's Landing with Storm's End to the south and the crossroads to the north, while the capital is connected to Lannisport by the goldroad and to Highgarden by the roseroad. With the exception of Crackclaw Point, the land is largely flat. Lying in the middle portion of Westeros, the crownlands possess a temperate climate.

People and Economy

The metropolis of King's Landing is the driving force of the region, with the largest population and harbor in the realm. Trade and taxes flow into the capital from every corner of the realm acknowledging the Iron Throne, and many foreign vessels ply their wares as well. Virtually every craft and trade is practiced here, from metalsmithing and shipbuilding to alchemy. Elsewhere, fishing and farming are the norm, with a smattering of the common professions.

Along the kingsroad north of the capital, a traveler goes "past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts."

Military strength

According to a semi-canon source from 2005, the mainland lords of the crownlands can raise ten to fifteen thousand men.

King's Landing's main defense are the City Watch. In 298 AC, they number two thousand.

Dragonstone, the island east of Blackwater Bay, can field its own military strength, but compared to the regions in Westeros, can field the least amount of soldiers.

Royal Fleet

See also: Royal fleet, and Category:Royal fleet

The crownlands is also home to the royal fleet, which is one of the main three forces at sea in Westeros.

History

Hundred Kingdoms

Dragonstone © Marc Simonetti

In the Age of Heroes, the petty kings of House Darklyn ruled much of the future crownlands, from Duskendale to Crackclaw Point. Although neighboring realms forced them to swear fealty and their lands changed hands many times over the years, the Darklyns remained one of the more influential houses of the region. In the days of the Hundred Kingdoms, the mouth of the Blackwater was claimed by the Darklyns, the Masseys of Stonedance, and the river kings of Houses Mudd, Fisher, Bracken, Blackwood, and Hook.

Two centuries before the Doom of Valyria, Valyrians settled Dragonstone and built a citadel as the westernmost outpost of the Valyrian Freehold, becoming another power in the region.

The Conquest

It was at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, the later site of King's Landing, where Aegon Targaryen and his sisters, Visenya and Rhaenys, landed with their initial army. At that time the petty lords of the region had been subjugated by Harren the Black. Rosby and Stokeworth surrendered to Visenya and Rhaenys without fighting, while Aegon and his half-brother Orys Baratheon defeated the Darklyns and Mootons.

Targaryen Era

Since the Conquest, the crownlands houses have historically been a strong source of support for House Targaryen, with Crackclaw Point being particularly fierce supporters. The Conqueror's councillors included several crownlands men, including Crispian Celtigar, Daemon Velaryon, and Tristan Massey. Nobles from the region such as Qarlton Chelsted, a Hayford lord, and several Targaryens have served as Hand of the King, and even smallfolk of the region are near enough to catch the royal eye for such service, such as Rossart and presumably Septons Barth and Murmison. Nobles and smallfolk alike also provide much of the manpower for the City Watch of King's Landing. The Kingsguard has also included many men of the crownlands, such as Duncan the Tall, Donnel of Duskendale, the Cargyll twins, Ser Rickard Thorne, at least six men of Crackclaw Point, and seven Darklyn knights.

At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, the Velaryons, supporters of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks, used their fleet to seal the Gullet and blockade King's Landing. King Aegon II Targaryen's supporters, the greens, retaliated by sacking Duskendale and Rook's Rest. The greens later broke the blockade with the Battle in the Gullet and sacked Driftmark. Rhaenyra was eventually fed to Aegon II's dragon, Sunfyre, at Dragonstone.

The Defiance of Duskendale, a rising by the Darklyns during the reign of King Aerys II Targaryen, was a sign that even the normally loyal crownlands were losing respect for the dragonlords. Later, the outlaws of the Kingswood Brotherhood robbed nobles in the forest before being suppressed by the Kingsguard.

Robert's Rebellion

King's Landing was sacked by the forces of Lord Tywin Lannister during Robert's Rebellion, also known as the War of the Usurper.

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The crownlands are sworn to King Robert I Baratheon, and the lords of the region are often seen at court. There is lingering anti-Lannister sentiment from the Sack of King's Landing, with Lady Tanda Stokeworth being among those listed by Petyr Baelish as possible supporters in a hypothetical coup after Robert's death.

A Clash of Kings

At the outbreak of War of the Five Kings, the lords of the narrow sea gather their fleets to support Robert's brother, Stannis Baratheon, the Lord of Dragonstone and master of ships. Stannis sails most of the royal fleet to Dragonstone in 298 AC,

The mainland lords support Joffrey, who is backed by the Lannisters. Ser Jacelyn Bywater augments the gold cloaks to six thousand in early 299 AC.

The split of the crownlands effectively ends after the Lannister-Tyrell victory for Joffrey in the Battle of the Blackwater.

A Storm of Swords

The gold cloaks decline to some forty-four hundred men due to deaths and desertions following the Battle of the Blackwater in the second half of 299 AC.

Lord Roose Bolton sends a northern army led by Robett Glover and Ser Helman Tallhart to attack Duskendale,

A Feast for Crows

Queen Regent Cersei Lannister appoints Gyles Rosby and Aurane Waters, two natives of the crownlands, to her small council,

Houses

House Bar Emmon of Sharp Point
House Baratheon of Dragonstone
House Baratheon of King's Landing
House Blackfyre
House Blount
House Boggs
House Brune of Brownhollow
House Brune of the Dyre Den
House Buckwell of the Antlers
House Byrch
House Bywater
House Cargyll
House Cave
House Celtigar of Claw Isle
House Chelsted
House Chyttering
House Crabb of the Whispers
House Cressey
House Dargood
House Darke
House Darklyn of Duskendale
House Darkwood
House Edgerton
House Farring
House Follard
House Gaunt
House Hardy
House Harte
House Hayford of Hayford
House Hogg of Sow's Horn
House Hollard
House Kettleblack
House Langward
House Mallery
House Manning
House Massey of Stonedance
House Pyle
House Pyne
House Rambton
House Rollingford
House Rosby of Rosby
House Rykker of Duskendale
House Slynt
House Staunton of Rook's Rest
House Stokeworth of Stokeworth
House Sunglass of Sweetport Sound
House Targaryen of King's Landing
House Thorne
House Velaryon of Driftmark
House Wendwater




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Penny and Crunch. © FFG

Crunch is a dog which accompanies Penny.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Crunch

Crunch is large and grey.

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A Dance with Dragons

Tyrion Lannister and Penny join the Second Sons after Yezzan zo Qaggaz dies. When Penny asks Tyrion about Crunch, he lies and and says there is no news, even though according to Kasporio three Yunkish slave-catchers are parading around, one with a dog's head impaled on their spear.




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Ned and Robert Baratheon visiting Lyanna Stark’s tomb. Illustrated by Thomas Denmark. © Fantasy Flight Games.

The crypt of Winterfell

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Layout

The crypt's ironwood door, which is located in the oldest section of Winterfell near the First Keep

While all family members can have tombs in the crypts,

The cavernous vault is larger than Winterfell itself, with older Starks buried in deeper and darker levels.

Breaking the tradition of only lords having statues, Lord Eddard Stark, Rickard's successor, had statues made of his deceased siblings, Brandon and Lyanna, after Robert's Rebellion.

History

According to free folk legend, Bael the Bard disappeared from Winterfell with the daughter of Lord Brandon Stark. The daughter eventually reappeared with an infant, a future Lord Stark, with the legend claiming that they had hid within the crypt.

*The Testimony of Mushroom* alleges that when Prince Jacaerys Velaryon came to Winterfell at the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Vermax laid dragon eggs in the depths of the crypts, where hot springs are near the walls. Archmaester Gyldayn rejects the idea.

Arya Stark was a little girl when she saw the crypts for the first time; Old Nan had told her it contained spiders and rats the size of dogs. On that occasion, Jon Snow, having covered himself with flour, tried to scare Arya and her siblings as a ghost.

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Rickon Stark and Shaggydog in the crypts of Winterfell. - Illustrated by Chris Casciano. © Fantasy Flight Games.

Shortly after arriving at Winterfell, King Robert I Baratheon visits the crypt with Lord Eddard Stark to pay his respects..

At Castle Black, Jon Snow tells Samwell Tarly that he sometimes dreams of the crypts. He is afraid of what he will find within them and awakens when they become too dark.

While in King's Landing, Ned dreams of the crypts beneath Winterfell, envisioning the Kings of Winter watching him with eyes of ice and the stone direwolves snarling at him. Lyanna's statue whispers to him, "Promise me, Ned."

The crippled Bran Stark dreams of visiting the crypts with the three-eyed crow and speaking with his father, Eddard, who is away in the capital. After waking he tasks Hodor with bringing him the crypts, but the stableboy is terrified and refuses to enter the crypts, which had not happened before.

To prove that Ned is not there, Maester Luwin brings Bran to the crypts with the assistance of Osha instead of Hodor. Bran identifies the statues of Kings Jon, Rickard, Theon the Hungry Wolf, Brandon the Shipwright, Brandon the Burner, Rodrik, and Torrhen Stark, as well as Lords Cregan and Rickard and Rickard's children, Brandon and Lyanna. Rickon Stark, having hidden in Ned's empty tomb, claims he also had a vision of Ned the previous night. Later in Luwin's turret, they receive a raven informing them of Ned's death in King's Landing.

A Clash of Kings

A stonemason chisels the likeness of Eddard for his granite tomb in the crypt. Rickon shows the vaults to Big Walder and Little Walder Frey, which angers Bran.

Ser Cleos Frey brings the bones of Ned to his widow, Catelyn Stark, to Riverrun. Catelyn tasks Hallis Mollen with bringing them to Winterfell to be entombed.

Having captured Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy refuses to allow Luwin to bury the bodies of Bran and Rickon in the crypts. Unbeknownst to the servants of Winterfell, however, the bodies are the sons of a miller, not the missing Starks.

Bran and Rickon, Meera and Jojen Reed, Hodor, and Osha survive the sack of Winterfell by having already been hiding within the crypts, Hodor no longer being terrified.

A Storm of Swords

En route to the Wall, Bran recalls that in addition to the swords taken by himself and Meera, Hodor took a much older rusted iron sword.

Jon Snow dreams he is walking past the stone kings, who tell him there is no place for him in the crypt.

A Feast for Crows

When the kindly man asks Arya Stark of what she thinks when she smells candles at the House of Black and White, one memory is of the crypts with their stone kings.

A Dance with Dragons

When Bran has a number of visions within the cave of the three-eyed crow, one of them is of men he recognizes from their statues.

Lady Barbrey Dustin has Theon show her the entrance to the crypts, and they descend into the dark. Theon sees the statues of Edric Snowbeard, Brandon the Shipwright, Theon Stark, and Beron Stark. They notice one statue missing a rusted sword, as well as swords missing from those of Lord Rickard Stark and Brandon Stark. Barbrey confides to Theon her relationship with Brandon in her youth. She wants to prevent Ned Stark's bones from reaching Winterfell because he did not bring Willam Dustin's remains back to Barrowton after Robert's Rebellion.

Holly asks Theon to show her the crypts, but he refuses to help her or Abel.

Quotes

Take me down to your crypt, Eddard. I would pay my respects.

- Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark

Robert: Ah, damn it, Ned, did you have to bury her in a place like this? She deserves more than darkness...

Eddard: She was a Stark of Winterfell. This is her place.
Robert: She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

Eddard: I was with her when she died. She wanted to come home, to rest beside Brandon and Father.

- Robert I Baratheon and Eddard Stark regarding Lyanna Stark

Somehow I know I have to go down there, but I don't want to. I'm afraid of what might be waiting for me.

- Jon Snow to Samwell Tarly

You had no right! That was our place, a Stark place!

- Bran Stark to Rickon Stark after Rickon shows the crypt to Big Walder and Little Walder Frey

This was where they came when the warmth had seeped out of their bodies; this was the dark hall of the dead, where the living feared to tread.

- thoughts of Bran Stark

Their faces were stern and strong, and some of them had done terrible things, but they were Starks every one, and Bran knew all their tales. He had never feared the crypts; they were part of his home and who he was, and he had always known that one day he would lie here too.

- thoughts of Bran Stark

All my dreams are of the crypts, of the stone kings on their thrones. Sometimes I hear Robb's voice, and my father's, as if they were at a feast. But there's a wall between us, and I know that no place has been set for me.

- Jon Snow to Samwell Tarly

Theon: What do you want?
Holly: To see these crypts. Where are they, m'lord? Would you show me? Deep and dark, they say. A good place for touching. All the dead kings watching.

- Theon Greyjoy and Holly




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Cuger

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Cuger is a recruit at Castle Black at the same time as Jon Snow.

A Clash of Kings

Cuger remains a recruit.

A Storm of Swords

Now a steward, Cuger serves at Castle Black.




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A cupbearer is a servant who fills wine cups and serves wine to a lord. A cupbearer may also do other duties, such as setting a table and serving food. In Westeros, noble children often serve as cupbearers, and it is considered to be a great honor to be chosen to serve, especially at court. may also act as a cupbearer to his master.

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Known cupbearers

History

During the Andal invasion in the Westerlands, the First Men Kings of the Rock ennobled the more powerful of the Andal war chiefs, but took their children as wards, to serve as squires and pages and cupbearers in Casterly Rock, and as hostages against potential treachery.

In 105 AC, eight-year-old Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen became the cupbearer for her father, King Viserys I Targaryen. Thereafter, the king was seldom seen without his daughter by his side.

In 126 AC, King Viserys I's youngest son Prince Daeron was sent to Oldtown to serve as cupbearer and squire to Lord Ormund Hightower.

During the Dance of the Dragons civil war, King Aegon II Targaryen offered his rival Queen Rhaenyra terms of parlay, including that her son Prince Viserys would be given a place of honor in his court as his cupbearer, but she rejected the offer.

After Queen Rhaenyra took King's Landing, she made her son Prince Aegon her cupbearer, so he might never be far from her side.

After Prince Duncan Targaryen broke his betrothal with the daughter of Lord Lyonel Baratheon in 239 AC, a short rebellion ensued due to the Storm Lord's anger at his wounded pride. It ended only when Lord Lyonel was defeated in single combat, and King Aegon V Targaryen promised that his youngest daughter, Rhaelle, would wed Lord Lyonel's heir Ormund. To seal the bargain, Princess Rhaelle was sent to Storm's End to serve as Lord Lyonel's cupbearer and companion to his lady wife.

Around 252 AC, Tywin Lannister was sent by his father Lord Tytos to King's Landing, to serve as a cupbearer in the court of King Aegon V Targaryen.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Arya Stark, incognito as "Nan", is given the honor of becoming Lord Roose Bolton's cupbearer for her role in freeing the northern prisoners at Harrenhal.

A Storm of Swords

Since Arya Stark has fled Harrenhal, Roose Bolton has his squire Elmar Frey serve as his cupbearer at dinner with Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth.

To mock him, King Joffrey Baratheon has his uncle Tyrion Lannister serve as his cupbearer at his wedding to Margaery Tyrell.

A Feast for Crows

Samwell Tarly recalls that when was he no more than ten, he was to be a ward of Lord Paxter Redwyne at the Arbor, to serve as his page and cupbearer, but his cravenly behavior when faced with the bullying of Redwyne's sons and fool caused his father to bring him home in shame instead.

Arianne Martell learns that when she was a girl, she was to have been sent to Tyrosh to be the Archon's ward and cupbearer, to secretly meet with her betrothed Viserys Targaryen. However, her father Doran abandoned that plan due to suicidal threats from his wife Mellario, who was already deeply upset that their son Quentyn had been sent away to be fostered.

A Dance with Dragons

To stymie the nightly killings of the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen, Queen Daenerys Targaryen has every noble family of Meereen who is of dubious loyalty send her a child as a hostage.

When Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, her cupbearers continue to serve her husband, King Hizdahr zo Loraq.

When Jon Connington and "Young Griff" meet Harry Strickland and the rest of the Golden Company at Volantis, Harry tells his squire Watkyn to serve them wine. Watkyn pats Harry's feet dry after he has finished soaking them to treat blisters.

The Winds of Winter

Obella Sand is sent to Sunspear, to serve as a cupbearer for the wife of Ser Manfrey Martell, castellan of the castle.




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The cupbearers of Daenerys Targaryen are her Meereenese child hostages and servants.

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Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

To stymie the nightly killings of the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen, Queen Daenerys Targaryen has every noble family of Meereen who is of dubious loyalty send her a child as a hostage. These children are made her cupbearers.

Daenerys hopes having noble children as hostages will halt the killings, but it does not. However, Daenerys refuses to allow any harm to come to the children. She grows fond of them all, and ignores Skahaz mo Kandaq's counsel to kill one for every death done by the Sons of the Harpy. Ser Barristan Selmy instructs the boys in the ways of Westerosi chivalry.

When Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, the cupbearers continue to serve her husband, King Hizdahr zo Loraq.

Ser Barristan Selmy plots with Skahaz mo Kandaq to seize control of Meereen in the queen's name. Although Skahaz wants to kill the cupbearers in return for the deaths of the hostages Daenerys had granted to the besiegers of Meereen, Barristan also refuses to allow any harm to come to the children. Their innocence reminds him of the children of Rhaegar Targaryen, Rhaenys and Aegon, who were murdered in the Sack of King's Landing.

The cupbearers are in Hizdahr zo Loraq's chambers when Barristan comes to arrest him. A few bear witness when Barristan kills Hizdahr's bodyguard, the pit fighter Khrazz, and are very frightened by the sight.

After Prince Quentyn Martell is deathly burned by Rhaegal's dragonfire, Barristan asks the cupbearers if they will tend to his needs while he lays dying in Queen Daenerys's chambers, but the sight of the burned man is too much for the children, even for the boldest of them. After Quentyn dies and his corpse is taken away, Barristan enters the chambers and finds six of the cupbearers playing a child's game, sitting in a circle on the floor as they take turns spinning a dagger. They obey Barristan's commands, as he is Hand of the Queen.

Cupbearers




Annotations from item #46265302:

Depiction of a gold dragon of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, by Tom Maringer © Shire Post Mint

Depiction of a silver stag of King Aegon I Targaryen, by Tom Maringer © Shire Post Mint

Coins and money are a manner of currency used mostly by merchants, owners of establishments, and noble classes, while smallfolk might use either coins or barter.

Thusfar, no society in Westeros or Essos has been described as using paper currency (though the currency of every region hasn't been described in detail). Most societies use currency in the form of coins made from precious metals such as gold, silver, or copper (with a few notable exceptions, such as the iron coins used in Braavos). Contracts written on parchment or paper are also accepted, though these are not "currency" as such: for example, the Brotherhood without Banners during the War of the Five Kings would give commoners notes promising to pay them for supplies they took after the war ended.

George R. R. Martin has compared the Westerosi coinage to medieval coinage, saying that *"Westerosi coinage is probably more complex than actual British medieval coinage"*, despite some similarities.

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Westeros

Seven Kingdoms

Depiction of the gold coins of House Gardener, by Tom Maringer © Shire Post Mint

Depiction of a silver stag of King Aerys II Targaryen, by Tom Maringer © Shire Post Mint

Depiction of a copper star of King Robert I Baratheon, by Tom Maringer © Shire Post Mint
Initially it was created as a copper penny, but the coin ended up being too large and heavy for a penny and George R. R. Martin changed it to a star.

Prior to Aegon's Conquest, each of the Seven Kingdoms had their own coinage minted by their respective kings.

The current currency was established shortly after the unification of the Seven Kingdoms following Aegon's Conquest and was used through the whole Targaryen rule and continued after Robert's Rebellion. In order from high to low value, respectively, these are golden dragons,

The king's coinage is one of the most visible manifestations of royal authority. Golden dragons bear the face of the king in whose time they were minted in, as well as his name.*]

King Viserys II Targaryen introduced a new royal mint during his reign.

Among the ironborn culture, while women are allowed to buy ornaments with coin, warriors only take items, be it jewelry or items as food and water, off of the corpses of the enemies he has slain. It is called paying "the iron price", whereas paying with coin is called paying "the gold price".

Values

Specific values of each of the coins have not yet been mentioned in any of the canon works of *A Song of Ice and Fire. The semi-canon *A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying game by Green Ronin has placed the value of the coins as represented in the table, which it states are to be used as a rule of thumb, as rates can change over time due to various economic fluctuations of inflation and deflation (e.g., war-time versus times of peace, failed harvests, etc.). For example, when House Tyrell had cut off the food supply to King's Landing from the Reach during the War of the Five Kings, food prices in the city rose steeply..

The coins most commonly encountered are pennies, stars, stags and dragons.

Examples of currency rates

Beyond the Wall

The lands north of The Wall are harsh lands, and the free folk inhabiting those lands usually barter for goods amongst themselves based upon the needs of the parties involved.[*citation needed*] The free folk have been known to trade with the brothers of the Night's Watch as well,

Essos

Dothraki

The Dothraki neither buy nor sell

Despite the common saying that Dothraki do not sell,

Cities of Essos

Coins of the Free Cities
Top (left to right): Braavos, Pentos, Lys, Myr, Tyrosh
Bottom (left to right): Volantis (front and back), Norvos, Qohor, Lorath.
Depicted by Nutchapol Thitinunthakorn in *The World of Ice & Fire*

Each of the Nine Free Cities has its own bank, and some have more than one. The Iron Bank of Braavos is richer and more powerful than all the rest combined.

For Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, the three Slaver Cities located in Slaver's Bay, slaves are their main trade as well. Slaves are bred and trained to perform all the work of daily life. As such, the economy of these cities is based on this slave labor. In many of the Free Cities, slave trade is also a large part of the economy. The Free City of Lys, for example, is well-known for training bed slaves for pillow houses. The major exception is Braavos, where slavery is forbidden.

Each of these cities use their own coinage. It is unknown how they relate to one another in value. Braavosi use square iron coins,

From the Slaver Cities, Meereenese coins include honors,

Other coins, for which no region is specified, have ships, elephants, or goats[N 3] depicted on them.

Examples of currency rates

Quotes

I am fond of coins. Is there any sound as sweet as the clink of gold on gold?

Illyrio Mopatis to Tyrion Lannister

Trivia

Notes

  1. This matches exchange rates given in the semi-canon *A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying* game by Green Ronin, which states that 210 silver stags are equal to one gold dragon.
  2. Duncan the Tall initially had 2 stags, which equals 112 pennies according to the semi-canon *A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying* game by Green Ronin. After Duncan has bought his tent, he only has twenty two pennies, three stars and one stag, which together equal 102 pennies. This count assumes that currency rates as given in the RPG has not changed since the reign of Aerys I Targaryen.
  3. Possibly Qohor



Annotations from item #46265303:

This article is about the known customs in the known world. Most information will reflect the customs as they are in the Seven Kingdoms, though customs as they are elsewhere will be stated whenever possible.

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Monarchy and Nobility

See also: Law and justice

In the Seven Kingdoms, all authority derives from the king.

It is possible for the king to redistribute lands and grant titles of nobility as he sees fit; He may also sign bills of attainder to strip lords of their lands and incomes.

On extremely rare occasions, the lords of the kingdom may be gathered together to decide some great matter. The first of these Great Councils was convened in 101 AC, when King Jaehaerys I Targaryen found himself unable to decide on who to name his heir. The last Great Council was convened was in 233 AC, when King Maekar I Targaryen died without having named a new heir.

Social Ranks

Main article: Feudalism

The Seven Kingdoms is a feudal society. Below the King and the royal family rank the Great Houses (House Arryn, House Baratheon of Storm's End, House Greyjoy, House Martell, House Stark, House Targaryen, House Tully, and House Tyrell), followed by other noble houses, both greater and small, knights (landed knights, household knights, and hedge knights), and commoners. Nobles are addressed as "my lord" by other highborns, or "m’lord" by the smallfolk.

Every noble house has a house motto, while a coat of arms can be used by both nobility and knights, as a sign of status and identification (e.g. on the battlefield). Both nobles and knights can be ransomed, so in battle it might be preferred to capture them instead of killing them. Three hundred golden dragons is considered to be a fair ransom for a knight, A noble prisoner can be treated with honor and be kept in isolation in rooms as his status requires. However, making offense can result in the loss of the right for such honorable treatment.

At feasts, great honor can be given to a guest by seating him or her on the dais,

Inheritance

Inheritance laws in the Seven Kingdoms are not clear cut. According to George R. R. Martin,

The short answer is that the laws of inheritance in the Seven Kingdoms are modelled on those in real medieval history... which is to say, they were vague, uncodified, subject to varying interpretations, and often contradictory.

Male-preference primogeniture is customary, but not binding, for most nobles.

A lord may lay out specific terms for inheritance or pass over their offspring in his will, which may invite legal wrangling after their death, and potentially violence during it. For instance, Lord Tywin Lannister preferred his elder son, Ser Jaime Lannister, to be the heir to Casterly Rock, and as such refused to acknowledge the claim of his younger son, Tyrion, despite custom disqualifying Jaime due to being a member of the Kingsguard.

The role of legitimised bastards throughout the Seven Kingdoms is also unclear i.e., whether they follow trueborn children, or join the line of succession in order of birth as if they had been trueborn all along.

Heirs born into a different house drop their birth surname when they come into their inheritance, adopting the name of the inherited house as their own. For example, Joffrey Lydden adopted the name Lannister upon marrying the heiress of that house,

Loss of succession right

The right of succession may be renounced. A famous example is Prince Duncan Targaryen, the eldest son of King Aegon V Targaryen, who broke his betrothal to marry Jenny of Oldstones. When made to choose between his right to the throne and his wife, Duncan renounced his claim, making his younger brother, Jaehaerys, the new heir.

A king or lord can also name another as his heir (e.g. King Aerys II Targaryen naming his younger son Viserys Targaryen as his heir over his grandson Aegon Targaryen following the death of his eldest son, Rhaegar, Aegon’s father,. However, even in such cases, claims might still be made later on.

Right of succession is also lost when someone becomes a septon, a maester, a member of the Night's Watch, or joins the Kingsguard. Traitors may be attainted, in which case even his descendants would lose their right to succeed.

Inheritance of the Iron Throne

Inheritance customs for the Iron Throne differ from the inheritance customs in the rest of Westeros. The inheritance rights of females with regard to the Iron Throne have changed over the years, as a result of several power struggles.

Females have, over the years, been declared heir to the throne, both directly and indirectly. When King Aegon I Targaryen's eldest grandchild, Princess Rhaena Targaryen, was born in 23 AC, she was regarded as second in line to the throne (her father, Prince Aenys Targaryen, being King Aegon's immediate heir), placed before her father’s half-brother Maegor in the line of succession.

However, despite these examples, towards the end of the first century of the Targaryen Dynasty, the first hesitations towards female inheritance of the throne arose. King Jaehaerys I Targaryen's eldest son, Prince Aemon Targaryen, had been the king's heir until his death in 92 AC. Aemon had only had one child, a daughter named Rhaenys. When naming his new heir, King Jaehaerys I chose his next eldest son, Prince Baelon, over Aemon's daughter Rhaenys. When Baelon died in 101 AC, a Great Council was called, in which the Westerosi lords voted on the succession. The lords voted for Baelon's son Viserys over Rhaenys's son Laenor Velaryon, by a vote of twenty to one. The lords felt that a male line was preferred over a female line, and believed that a precedent was set stating that the Iron Throne could not pass to a woman, or to the male descendants of a woman..

This war began when Viserys I's eldest surviving son, Aegon II Targaryen, claimed the throne after Viserys's death, dividing the loyalties of the kingdoms between Aegon II and Rhaenyra.

The agnatic principle laid down in the Great Council of 101 AC was slightly modified after the Dance of the Dragons. Thereafter, according to a semi-canon source, women came after all men in the Targaryen succession,

In 283 AC, the Sack of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion led to the death of King Aerys II Targaryen. His sister-wife, Queen Rhaella Targaryen, pregnant with Princess Daenerys, was at Dragonstone with Aerys's surviving son, Prince Viserys, who was declared king on the island fortress.

It is possible that some of the kingdoms of old practiced different customs regarding the inheritance of the throne. The heir of King Argilac Durrandon, the last Storm King, was his maiden daughter, Princess Argella,

Age of majority

For both boys and girls, sixteen is the age of legal majority.

However, for girls, there are exceptions. A girl who has had her first flowering (i.e. first menstruation) is considered to be fit for both marriage and consumation of the marriage.

Young boys can be sent away for fosterage to other noble families. While there are exceptions (e.g., Quentyn Martell), it appears that boys who have reached the age of majority are free to go where they like, thereby ending their fosterage.

Marriage

Main article: Marriage

Jeyne Poole wearing her brides cloak while being escorted to her groom by Theon Greyjoy.

Marriage customs vary considerably between the lands and major faiths, though all appear to be religious ceremonies between one man and one woman (who should not be more closely related than first cousins). Wedding ceremonies involve the exchange of vows in the presence of particular sacred witnesses, and are followed by a feast, where the bride and groom eat and drink with everyone. Afterwards, the bedding takes place, where the marriage is consummated.

Betrothals are expected to be arranged by the head of a house, both for his or her children and any unwed younger siblings. and usually is only done for specific reasons.

Wedding ceremonies differ between religions. While a priest is involved in ceremonies following the customs of the Faith of the Seven, involve the exchange of a "maiden's cloak" and a "bride's cloak"

Wedding ceremonies are generally followed by a feast, which in turn is followed by the bedding.

Lords in Westeros once had the right to the first night, the custom of bedding newly-wed women before their husbands. Queen Alysanne convinced King Jaehaerys I to abolish it,

Polygamy

Main article: Polygamy

While most marriages are between only one man and one woman, polygamous marriages do occur in the known world. Before the Andal invasion, kings from the Kingdom of the Reach

Followers of the Drowned God are allowed to take multiple "salt wives" in addition to their "rock wife". Although only the children fathered upon the latter are considered trueborn, any children fathered on salt wives still hold more rights than a man's bastards.

Funeral customs

Funeral customs can differ between followers of different religions, but also between families following the same religion. The Starks of Winterfell, followers of the old gods, bury their dead in the crypts in the castle,

The Targaryens have the tradition of cremating their dead;

Mourning clothes are black of color. though these remain unspecified.

When Lord Corlys Velaryon, Hand of the King at the time of his death, died in 132 AC, his body was placed beneath the Iron Throne where it remained for seven days.

A great lord who dies away from home will usually be escorted back home. A funeral procession of a lord of high nobility can include an escort of knights, vassal lords, members of the household guard, and others.

Naming customs

First names

Main article: Nameday

In the Seven Kingdoms, children receive a name at their birth, causing the day of their birth being called "nameday" or "name day". The free folk who live beyond the Wall name their children only after they reach the age of two, believing it to be bad luck if children are given a name at an earlier age, as child mortality is high north of the Wall.

Surnames

Upon marriage, while some women (e.g., Cersei Lannister) keep their maiden name, most of the women take their husband's surname.

In Dorne, customs vary from the rest of Westeros. As firstborn children inherit in Dorne, following Rhoynish customs, females more frequently inherit their family's lands and titles. In such cases, they do not take the name of their husband.

Bastards with at least one noble parent can be given surnames by their parents. There are "usual bastard surnames", which differ per region. In the north, bastards are usually called "Snow", in the riverlands "Rivers", in the Westerlands "Hill", on the Iron Islands "Pyke", in the Vale "Stone", in the Crownlands "Waters", in the Stormlands "Storm", in the Reach "Flowers", and in Dorne "Sand". When a male bastard has legitimate children, these children receive their father's bastard name, though a later generation might adjust the name as to remove the taint of bastardy,

The bastards of two common born people do not receive a surname.

Holy days

In Westeros, in custom to the Faith of the Seven, each of the seven gods have their own holiday.

In the Free City of Qohor, the Black Goat of Qohor is given a daily blood sacrifice. Though usually animals (calves, bullocks, and horses) are used to this end, on holy days condemned criminals are sacrificed.

Hospitality

Main article: Guest right

The custom of “guest right” is both sacred rule and ancient.

Pastimes

Nobles and smallfolk alike can participate in a variety of pastimes for their entertainment.

Children play with toys (e.g., puppets,

Places adults might like to visit for their entertainment include taverns and brothels. Most nobles are literate, and therefore might prefer to spend their times reading books.

Games

See also: List of known games

Westerosi children's games include come-into-my-castle, monsters-and-maidens, hide-the-treasure, hopfrog, spin-the-sword, and rats and cats named for the title held by the head of House Frey.

The finger dance is a game played by the ironborn of the Iron Islands, and involves throwing a hand axe which must be caught or leaped over without missing a step. The game is named for the fact that it usually ends with a dancer losing one or more of his fingers.

Cyvasse is a board game of military strategy originating from Volantis.

Hunting

Both male and female nobles might hunt for sport. Men might like to hunt a large variety of animals, like boar,

Both men of their own.

Hunts can be dangerous, and accidents during a hunt are common enough that they might be faked in order to assassinate someone.

Combat

Main articles: Tourneys, and Fighting pits

Popular in Westeros are tourneys, chivalrous competitions where men compete against one another either in a joust, a melee, an archery competition. The format and rules used during a tourney can vary between different regions in Westeros, demonstrating the desires of the hosting lord.

The Ghiscari cities in Slaver's Bay prefer to watch gladiatorial combats in the fighting pits. These pits can be found in at least Astapor

Gambling

Other pastimes include gambling,

Mummers and music

See also: Mummers, and Songs

Mummers,

Some mummer groups prefer to perform from a fixed location (e.g., the Blue Lantern and the Dome, two mummers' playhouses in Braavos,

In Essos, mummer troupes might contain enslaved mummers.

Gender and Sexuality

Main article: Gender and Sexuality

The various cultures across Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos have diverse attitudes and social patterns regarding gender and sexuality.

Notes

  1. For example, Baela and Rhaena Targaryen



Annotations from item #46265304:

Cutjack is one of the recruits for the Night’s Watch found by Yoren

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Appearance

Cutjack is plump and always wears a leather apron in which he carries a hammer.

History

Cutjack used to be a stonemason.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Cutjack is part of the band of recruits which are escorted north to the Wall by Yoren from King's Landing. When being confronted by a group of gold cloaks searching for Gendry at an inn with a bathhouse, Cutjack is one of the recruits who willingly aids Yoren in resisting handing the boy over. He takes a hammer from his leather apron to use it as weapon. Eventually, the gold cloaks retreat without a fight.

Now avoiding the kingsroad, the group moves west- and northwards on side roads in the direction of the Gods Eye. At a burned-down village, Cutjack joins Yoren and Murch in investigating the holdfast. Cutjack and Murch bring back a woman whose arm has been cut off at the elbow, while Yoren holds a little girl in his arms. When the woman dies that night, Cutjack and Gendry dig a grave for her on a hillside beneath a weeping willow.

When the group decides to spend the night in the holdfast of a deserted town on the southern shore of the Gods Eye, Yoren assigns Cutjack, Kurz and Tarber the task of holding vigil from on high at the towerhouse of the town.




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The Cymmeri were an ancient people of the grasslands of central Essos, who established their kingdoms among the hills. They were at some point conquered and assimilated by the Tall Men. According to legend, the daughter of their greatest ruler was married by Huzhor Amai, bringing the Cymmeri under his rule. The Cymmeri wife of Amai was charged with making his armor.

The Cymmeri are the first people known to have worked iron.




Annotations from item #46265306:

Cynthea Frey is the only daughter of Ser Geremy Frey and Carolei Waynwood. She is a ward of Lady Anya Waynwood.

Family




Annotations from item #46265307:

Cyrelle Tarbeck was a member of House Tarbeck and the younger daughter of Lord Walderan and Ellyn Tarbeck.

History

According to a semi-canon source,

During the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion, Lord Tywin Lannister ordered the executions of Cyrelle's unnamed husband and her father, Lord Walderan Tarbeck. Cyrelle and her sister Rohanne were taken captive during Tywin's assault on Tarbeck Hall; some stories claim that Tywin ordered their tongues removed before they were forced to join the silent sisters.

Family




Annotations from item #46265308:

Lady Cyrenna Swann was a member of House Swann and the second wife of Lord Walder Frey, with whom she had two sons, Ser Jared and Septon Luceon., is unknown.

Family




Annotations from item #46265309:

Prince Doran Martell eyeing the dragon piece in a game of cyvasse .© FFG

Dragon and elephant game pieces in cyvasse.© FFG

Cyvasse is a game played by two players and features ten pieces, each with different powers and attributes.

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Gameplay

See also: Images of Cyvasse

Cyvasse is played on a board which changes from game to game. The players arrange the tiles on the board, with a screen in the middle, so neither can see how the other arranges their board. Amongst the squares that the players can place themselves, are mountains.

According to George R. R. Martin, cyvasse is complex and profound but he has not come up with rules for the game.

Game Pieces

There are ten different pieces available:

The dragon is the most powerful piece in the game.

Known color combinations of pieces include ivory and onyx,

Known Rules

Several rules are briefly mentioned in *A Song of Ice and Fire*:

History

Cyvasse originates from Volantis.

Cyvasse is frequently played in Lys

Recent Events

Tyrion Lannister plays Qavo Nogarys in a game of cyvasse.
Art by Marc Fishman

A Feast for Crows

Cyvasse is a craze among the court at Sunspear. Princess Myrcella Baratheon learns the game from her betrothed, Prince Trystane Martell, when she comes to live with him in Dorne.

When Arianne is imprisoned in a chamber in the Spear Tower for her failed attempt at kidnapping Myrcella, she finds that her father Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne, has had a cyvasse table placed there. Though she ignores it, he later tells her it was there to teach her to study a game before she attempts to play it. When Arianne is summoned to her father's rooms at the end of her imprisonment, she finds him sitting across a cyvasse table, studying the pieces. He hands her an onyx dragon piece as he explains the secret marriage pact between House Martell and House Targaryen.

In King's Landing, Queen Margaery Tyrell and her cousins are studying the game when Queen Regent Cersei Lannister brings the news that Ser Loras Tyrell has taken Dragonstone but received severe injuries in the process.

A Dance with Dragons

While is in Lys, Prince Quentyn Martell spots cyvasse pieces being sold.

Cyvasse is played during Tyrion Lannister's voyage on the *Shy Maid* with Haldon

On board the *Selaesori Qhoran, Tyrion attempts to teach Penny how to play *cyvasse, though he soon realizes it is a lost cause.

The Winds of Winter

In the camp of the Second Sons outside Meereen, Tyrion plays numerous cyvasse games in Brown Ben Plumm's tent. As the second siege of Meereen commences, a Yunkish nobleman enters Brown Ben's tent during a meeting. When he recognizes Tyrion, he demands that the the dwarf be surrendered for punishment. Jorah Mormont opens the Yunkish nobleman's throat with his longsword. The man takes two wobbly steps, falls across the cyvasse board, scatters the wooden armies everywhere, and dies on the carpet. The white dragon piece ends up at Tyrion's feet. He scoops it off the carpet and wipes it on his sleeve, but some of the man's blood has collected in the fine grooves of the carving, so the pale wood appears to be veined with red.

Arianne Martell, on her way to Jon Connington, loses in games of cyvasse against Ser Daemon Sand and Ser Garibald Shells.

Quotes

Cyvasse, the game was called. It had come to the Planky Town on a trading galley from Volantis, and the orphans had spread it up and down the Greenblood. The Dornish court was mad for it. Ser Arys just found it maddening.

- thoughts of Arys Oakheart

I hope Your Grace will pardon me. Your king is trapped. Death in four.

- Tyrion Lannister when defeating Young Griff

You have other pieces beside the dragon, princess. Try moving them sometime.

- Daemon Sand, mocking Arianne Martell after she loses to him

Behind the Scenes

According to George R. R. Martin, cyvasse is partially inspired by chess, *Blitzkrieg, and *Stratego.




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Daario Naharis is a Tyroshi captain of the sellsword company, the Stormcrows.

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Appearance and Character

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Daario keeps his beard cut in three prongs, all dyed blue. His eyes are blue and his curly hair is dyed blue. His mustachios are painted gold and he has a large, curving nose. He is lithe, smooth skinned, has a golden tooth and dresses in loud colors and finery. He wears a Dothraki *arakh* on his left hip and a Myrish stiletto on his right hip. Their hilts are a matched pair of naked women made in gold.

Daario is a capable warrior and like most sellswords is fickle, faithless and brutal. He is also quick to anger and reckless. He seems to have some genuine affection for Daenerys Targaryen.

Recent Events

Daario with the heads of Prendahl and Sallor - by Amok ©

A Storm of Swords

Daario Naharis, Captain of the Stormcrows and paramour of Daenerys Targaryen - by Sardag ©

Daario is part of the Stormcrows when they take on a contract to defend Yunkai from the forces of Daenerys Targaryen. Daario is one of the captains of the Stormcrows who attend the parley with Daenerys. She offers the captains gold and plunder if the Stormcrows come over to her side, but is rebuffed by Prendahl na Ghezn, one of the other captains. The Stormcrows are a company of freedmen, and therefore the question of breaking the contract with Yunkai would have to be put to each man. While that debate is going on in the camp, Daario, won over by Daenerys, kills Prendahl and his fellow captain, Sallor the Bald, and brings the Stormcrows over to Daenerys.

A Dance with Dragons

Daenerys sends Daario as an ambassador to the Lhazareen with the mission of reopening the land trade routes between Lhazar and Meereen.—horrifies Daenerys and she refuses to go along with it.

Daario becomes bad tempered when Dany weds Hizdahr and he leaves her presence.

Quotes by Daario

I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal...

My sword is yours. My life is yours. My love is yours. My blood, my body, my songs, you own them all. I live and die at your command, fair queen.

– Daario, to Daenerys Targaryen

I trust all my men. Just as far as I can spit.

Better the butcher than the meat. All kings are butchers. Are queens so different?

– Daario, to Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys: You boasted that you'd had a hundred women.
Daario: A hundred? I lied, sweet queen. It was a thousand. But never once a dragon.

– Daario, to Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys: Where are you going?
Daario: Out into your city, to drink a keg or two and pick a quarrel. It has been too long since I've killed a man. Might be I should seek out your betrothed.

– Daario, to Daenerys Targaryen

Quotes about Daario

He has a sellsword's conscience, That is to say, none at all.

- Daenerys Targaryen's thoughts

Daario...She loves Daario. He had seen it in her eyes when she looked at him, heard it in her voice when she spoke of him.

Barristan Selmy

Her love for Daario is poison. A slower poison than the locusts, but in the end as deadly.

Barristan Selmy




Annotations from item #46265311:

Dacey Mormont is the heir of House Mormont. She is the daughter of Maege Mormont, Lady of Bear Island, and the niece of Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

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Appearance

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Dacey is six feet tall, a lanky woman who finds herself at ease in a lady's garb or in leather armor.

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A Game of Thrones

Dacey rides south against the Lannisters with Robb Stark, with Dacey being numbered among Robb's battle companions and personal guards during the Battle of the Whispering Wood.

A Storm of Swords

Dacey is among the northern nobles who march to the Twins to attend the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and then to recover Moat Cailin from the ironborn. She claims to have fought in every battle with Robb and he has won every one.

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Dacks was a squire for House Redfort.

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Appearance

Dacks was pock faced.

History

Dacks was the squire of Lord Redfort during the time when Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark were fostering at the Eyrie with Lord Jon Arryn. Robert once threw a rotten orange at Dacks, beginning a food fight in the castle's High Hall.

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A Game of Thrones

During the Hand's tourney, King Robert I Baratheon reminisces with Lord Eddard Stark about Dacks and the oranges..




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Daegon Shepherd, better known as The Black Shepherd, is the captain of the ship *Dagger* in the Iron Fleet and is under the command of Victarion Greyjoy.

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A Dance with Dragons

Daegon's ship and crew accompany the Iron Fleet when they sail to Slaver's Bay.




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Annotation #1 for item #46265314: Wiki: Daella Targaryen

The name Daella Targaryen can refer to the following members of House Targaryen:

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Princess Daella Targaryen was the daughter of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen. She married Lord Rodrik Arryn, and together they had one child, Aemma Arryn.

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History

Princess Daella was the fifth of the thirteen children born to King Jaehaerys and his wife Queen Alysanne, and one of only nine to live until adulthood.

In 80 AC, Daella married the Lord of the Eyrie, Rodrik Arryn. They had one child together, a daughter named Aemma Arryn. However, Daella died giving birth to Aemma, in 82 AC.

Aemma married Daella's nephew, Prince Viserys Targaryen.

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Siblings

Descendants

Annotation #3 for item #46265314: Wiki: (daughter of Maekar I) Daella Targaryen

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Princess Daella Targaryen was the eldest daughter and fourth child of King Maekar I Targaryen and his wife Dyanna Dayne.

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History

Born in 199 AC,

Once, in their youth, Daella's sister Rhae gave a love potion to their youngest brother, Aegon, so he would marry Rhae, instead of Daella.

Later in life, Daella was married, and had children.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

While on his way from Braavos to Oldtown, Maester Aemon wonders if, when he dies, he will hear Daella and her sister sing to their children.

Family




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Daemion Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen, the third son of Lord Aerys Targaryen of Dragonstone, and the father of Aerion Targaryen. He became Lord of Dragonstone. His son Aerion succeeded him.

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Daemon can refer to:




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Annotation #1 for item #46265317: Wiki: Daemon Blackfyre

Several members of House Blackfyre have been named Daemon Blackfyre:

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Daemon Blackfyre was a member of House Blackfyre. He was a cousin of Maelys I Blackfyre and a captain-general of the Golden Company., is currently unknown.

History

Daemon fought with his cousin, Maelys, over the command of the Golden Company. Maelys killed Daemon's destrier with a single punch, and then twisted Daemon's head until he tore it from his shoulders.

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Daemon III Blackfyre was the eldest son of Haegon I Blackfyre.

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History

Youth

Born in exile,[N 1] Daemon was the eldest son of Haegon, who was the fourth son of Daemon I Blackfyre.

Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion

Following the death of his father Haegon and the escape of House Blackfyre's greatest supporter, Aegor Rivers, Daemon was crowned king by Aegor, who was called Bittersteel.

Family

Notes

  1. While Daemon's birth year is unknown, his father Haegon was born in or between 189 AC and 193 AC, meaning that Haegon had been between the ages of six (his older brother was seven) and three when he went into exile, too young to father children.



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Daemon II Blackfyre, also known as Daemon the Younger,

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Character and Appearance

When meeting him under the alias of "Ser John the Fiddler", Ser Duncan the Tall thought of Daemon II as "a young man lean and lithe, with a comely clean-shaved face and fine features". He had collar-length black hair and eyes that caught the deep blue of his doublet; Dunk noted he had "Egg's eyes". After revealing himself as the son of Daemon I Blackfyre, Daemon the Younger washed the black dye from his hair to reveal its silver-gold color.

Daemon had a love of music and fine things. He had a close relationship with Lord Alyn Cockshaw.

Daemon had prophetic dreams. He correctly dreamed that his brothers Aegon and Aemon would die, and that Dunk would become a knight of the Kingsguard. He also dreamed that a dragon would hatch from an egg at Whitewalls, but this turned out to be a metaphor.

History

Early life

Daemon was born in Westeros, the third son of Daemon I Blackfyre and Rohanne of Tyrosh. As a child, he became close friends with Alyn Cockshaw, and they were bullied by Daemon's older brothers, Aegon and Aemon. In 196 AC, when he was seven years old, his father began the First Blackfyre Rebellion. After the death of his father and his older brothers at the Battle of the Redgrass Field, Daemon went into exile in Tyrosh with his surviving family and with Aegor Rivers.

The Second Blackfyre Rebellion

In Tyrosh, Daemon dreamed that a dragon would be born at Whitewalls. Lord Gormon Peake, a Blackfyre supporter, somehow heard of this, and convinced Daemon to cross the narrow sea and make a play for the Iron Throne. The pretext for gathering other lords to support Daemon was a wedding tourney that Lord Ambrose Butterwell would hold in 211 AC, at which the grand prize would be Butterwell's dragon egg. However, Bittersteel did not think much of Peake's plan, and mistrusted Daemon's dreams (or perhaps was troubled by his homosexuality), and so did not give him his support nor the sword Blackfyre.

Under the guise of Ser John the Fiddler, Daemon happened across Ser Duncan the Tall and Egg while heading to Whitewalls for the tourney. During the wedding, he was given a place of honor on the dais, uncommon for someone supposed to be a hedge knight. After the bedding took place, Daemon, still under the guise of John, approached Duncan and told him about the dreams he was having, about Duncan wearing a white cloak in the future. He tried to win Duncan over to his side, but Duncan remained unsure and then they were interrupted by Lord Gormon Peake. Alyn Cockshaw, who had been ecstatic at Daemon's return to Westeros, deeply resented Dunk for the loss of Daemon's attentions and became his secret enemy.

During the tourney, Daemon unseated Ser Franklyn Frey and Ser Galtry the Green, but Dunk discovered that Peake had been bribing Daemon's opponents so that he would win the tourney.

News quickly spread that Lord Brynden Rivers, Bloodraven, was marching on Whitewalls to end what had become the Second Blackfyre Rebellion. Daemon tried to inspire the armsmen who were within the castle, but they had no intention of fighting for such a weak warrior. Daemon met the oncoming army and challenged Bloodraven to single combat, but was instead arrested by Lord Rivers.

Later life

Bloodraven kept Daemon alive as a hostage to prevent Aegor Rivers from crowning Daemon's younger brother, Haegon.

Family

Quotes by Daemon

"John": I dreamed that you were all in white from head to heel, with a long pale cloak flowing from those broad shoulders. You were a White Sword, ser, a Sworn Brother of the Kingsguard, the greatest knight in all the Seven Kingdoms, and you lived for no other purpose but to guard and serve and please your king. You have dreamed the same dream, I know you have.
Dunk: It makes no matter what I dream. Only a king can make a Kingsguard knight.
"John": I suppose that means I'll have to take the throne, then. I would much rather be teaching you to fiddle.

- Daemon and Duncan the Tall

This pale white castle, you, a dragon bursting from an egg, I dreamed it all, just as I once dreamed of my brothers lying dead. They were twelve and I was only seven, so they laughed at me, and died. I am two-and-twenty now, and I trust my dreams.

- Daemon to Duncan the Tall

Daemon: They cannot cow us, for our cause is just. We'll slash through them and ride hell-bent for King's Landing! Sound the trumpets! We'll make another Redgrass Field today.
Squire: Piss on that, fiddle boy. I'd rather live.

- Daemon and a squire

I will fight you, or the coward Aerys, or any champion you care to name.

- Daemon to Brynden Rivers

Quotes about Daemon

His dreams will be the death of all of us.

- Gormon Peake to Duncan the Tall

You would be surprised to know how many lords prefer their kings brave and stupid. Daemon is young and dashing, and looks good on a horse.

- Maynard Plumm to Duncan the Tall

There have always been Targaryens who dreamed of things to come, since long before the Conquest, so we should not be surprised if from time to time a Blackfyre displays the gift as well. Daemon dreamed that a dragon would be born at Whitewalls, and it was. The fool just got the color wrong.

- Brynden Rivers




Annotations from item #46265320:

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Daemon I Blackfyre, born Daemon Waters, was the bastard son of Princess Daena Targaryen and King Aegon IV Targaryen..

Daemon was the first and greatest of the five Blackfyre Pretenders. As a bastard of House Targaryen Daemon bore the arms of House Targaryen with the colors reversed: a black three-headed dragon on a red field. Thus he became known as the Black Dragon.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Daemon Blackfyre

Daemon was tall and powerful, with broad shoulders, muscular arms, and a flat stomach. Targaryen on both sides, Daemon had all the hallmarks of his house. He had strong Targaryen features, with deep purple eyes and silver-gold hair which he wore long, flowing down to his shoulders in a silvery-gold mane. He always went clean-shaven, with neither beard nor mustache. Almost inhumanly beautiful, Daemon looked every inch the warrior, and many thought that he strongly resembled portraits of Aegon the Conqueror.

His armor was ornate and costly, all black and red plate, and his warhelm was distinctive, with batlike steel "dragon wings" on the sides.

Daemon matured into a man of considerable charm and strength, mastering all weapons of the battlefield, but with the sword Blackfyre in hand he was said to fight like the Warrior himself. He won friends easily and women were drawn to him.

History

Early life

In late 170 AC[N 1] Princess Daena Targaryen gave birth to Daemon

Daemon was raised in the Red Keep and was taught arms by Ser Quentyn Ball, the master-at-arms at the Red Keep.

King Aegon IV negotiated a betrothal for Daemon to Rohanne of Tyrosh.

In 187 AC, Daemon participated in Princess Daenerys's wedding tourney. He was defeated in the final tilt by Prince Baelor Targaryen, Daeron II's eldest son.

Meanwhile, the growing influence of the Dornish at court, the Dornish appearance of Daeron II's heir, the sudden change of Dornish enemies to Dornish allies, Daeron's rumored illegitimacy (started by King Aegon IV durign his reign), and Aegon IV's previous public gift of Blackfyre, the "sword of kings", to Daemon caused several nobles and knights to start mistrusting Daeron II and Baelor, while seeing promise in Daemon. Men began to approach Daemon, but it took them many years to convince Daemon to declare his claim. Maester Yandel considers it likely that it had been Aegor Rivers, Daemon's younger half-brother, who had managed to convince Daemon in the end.

Following the Blackfyre defeat in the first rebellion (which included the death of Daemon himself and his eldest two children, Aegon and Aemon), Daemon's bastard half-brother, Ser Aegor Rivers, fled to Tyrosh with Daemon's remaining children and widow. From there, Daemon's descendants continued to plot. Four more rebellions would follow, until 260 AC, when Maelys I Blackfyre, the last male of House Blackfyre, was slain on the Stepstones during the War of the Ninepenny Kings.

First Blackfyre Rebellion

See also: Blackfyre Pretenders, and First Blackfyre Rebellion

Daemon I Blackfyre, the Black Dragon, by Mike Hallstein

There was no final insult that resulted in the declaration of Daemon's claim.

Daemon's decision to claim the throne had been made rashly, and word soon reached Daeron's court that Daemon meant to declare within a month. It has been suggested by Archmaester Merion that Brynden Rivers, another one of Aegon IV's bastard sons, was involved in the news reaching Daeron.

Besides Aegor Rivers and Quentyn Ball, Daemon's supporters, according to Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast, included Robb Reyne, Gareth the Grey, Ser Aubrey Ambrose, Lord Gormon Peake, Black Byren Flowers, and Redtusk.

Daemon's rebellion ended on the Redgrass Field in late 196 AC.

In the meantime, Brynden Rivers with his archers, the Raven's Teeth, had captured and assumed a position atop the Weeping Ridge, which overlooked the battlefield and allowed them to rain arrows down among Daemon and his commanders. Daemon's heir Aegon died first, followed by Daemon himself. When Daemon’s second son, Aegon's twin brother Aemon took up Blackfyre, he was slain as well.

Legacy

With Daemon dead, the rebels began to rout. Aegor Rivers claimed Blackfyre and rallied the rebels by leading a charge against the Raven's Teeth, but was eventually forced to flee. after sixty-four years.

Quotes about Daemon

The first and greatest of the Blackfyre Pretenders was the natural son of Daena Targaryen, sister, betrothed, and (briefly) wife to King Baelor the Blessed.

George R. R. Martin

Daemon was the name Daena gave to this child, for Prince Daemon had been the wonder and terror of his age, and in later days that was seen as a warning of what the boy would become.

Yandel

The rightful king, Daemon Blackfyre. The King Who Bore the Sword.

Eustace Osgrey, to Duncan the Tall

Traitors have always paid with their lives.

Stannis Baratheon, to Davos Seaworth

Daemon Blackfyre loved the first Daenerys, and rose in rebellion when denied her.

Barristan Selmy's thoughts

Daemon Blackfyre was a rebel and usurper.

Stannis Baratheon, to Justin Massey

Family

Notes

  1. After Daemon's birth, King Baelor I Targaryen began a forty-day fast. At the forty-first day he collapsed. As Daemon's year of birth is 170 AC and the year of Baelor's death is 171 AC, Daemon's birth took place late in the year 170 AC, while Baelor died early the following year.



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Ser Daemon Sand, known as the Bastard of Godsgrace, is the bastard son of Ser Ryon Allyrion, the heir of House Allyrion. He is one of Dorne's finest swords.

Ser Daemon Sand as he appears in Game of Thrones.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Daemon Sand

Daemon is handsome, with a strong jaw, sky blue eyes, and light sandy brown hair. He has a close-cropped beard, and dimples when he smiles.

History

Daemon is not much older than Princess Arianne Martell.

Daemon squired for Prince Oberyn Martell

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Daemon is part of the nobles and knights that accompany Prince Oberyn Martell to King's Landing to take his place on the small council, as had been negotiated by Oberyn's brother.

A Feast for Crows

After Oberyn's death at the hands of Ser Gregor Clegane, Daemon sends a bird to Nymeria Sand, telling of the fates of Oberyn and Clegane.

A Dance with Dragons

He is freed by Prince Doran, along with Obara, Tyene and Nymeria Sand, and is present at the feast when Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard arrives in Sunspear to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane. When Ricasso raises a toast to King Tommen I Baratheon, Daemon Sand declines the toast.

The Winds of Winter

He becomes the sworn shield to Princess Arianne Martell, and travels with her and her companions to Ghost Hill.

Quotes

Of all the knights in Dorne, why did my father chose this one to be my shield? He knows our history.

Arianne Martell

Family




Annotations from item #46265322:

Prince Daemon Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen and the uncle and husband of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, whose claim he supported in the Dance of the Dragons..

Prince Daemon was the most experienced warrior of his time and wielded the Valyrian steel blade Dark Sister. A dragonrider whose dragon was Caraxes, Daemon declared himself the King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea.

Much of Daemon's life was written about by Archmaester Gyldayn in *The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother*.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Category:Images of Daemon Targaryen

Daemon was a skilled warrior, described in the histories as dashing, daring, and dangerous. He was also ambitious, impetuous, mercurial, amoral, reckless, and quick to take offense.

History

Early life

Daemon was born as the second son of Prince Baelon Targaryen and his sister-wife, Princess Alyssa Targaryen, in 81 AC, during the reign of his grandfather, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. He had one older brother, Viserys, as well as one younger brother, Aegon.

Daemon' first marriage was to Lady Rhea Royce, but he disliked both her and the Vale of Arryn. During the Great Council of 101 AC, Daemon supported the claim of Prince Viserys, as it would make Daemon the heir after his brother. Daemon gathered a small army when it was rumored that Lord Corlys Velaryon was readying a fleet to defend the rights of his son, Laenor Velaryon.

Early reign of Viserys I

Ser Criston Cole twice defeated Daemon in the tourney for King Viserys I's accession in 104 AC.

Daemon was appointed Commander of the City Watch of King's Landing, a position he thrived in and maintained for two years. Daemon inspired loyalty with many of the rank-and-file men of the City Watch, improving their armaments and equipment. He gave every man a golden cloak, which led to the guards becoming known as the gold cloaks. Crime fell sharply under Daemon's command, likely due to his love of inflicting harsh punishments on thieves and cutpurses. Daemon developed a dark reputation in the stews and brothels. He became acquainted with a prostitute named Mysaria who would serve as his mistress of whisperers in the streets of Flea Bottom. While Daemon called himself the "Prince of the City", he became known as "Lord Flea Bottom" among the residents of King's Landing.

Daemon considered himself his brother's heir as Viserys had no living sons, and he coveted the title Prince of Dragonstone, which the king refused to grant. Otto Hightower equally did not want Daemon to follow Viserys and proposed the idea that Viserys's daughter, Rhaenyra, should be named heir. Viserys did not address the issue of inheritance, hoping a future son would settle the issue.

Viserys's first wife, Aemma Arryn, died birthing Baelon Targaryen, Viserys's second son, the first having died in the cradle. Baelon died a day after his birth, however. Daemon was observed in a brothel in the Street of Silk making drunken japes about the "heir for a day". When word of this reached the grieving Viserys, the enraged king had Rhaenyra declared heir in response to his ungrateful brother's apathy. Daemon left the capital in a fury.

On Dragonstone, Daemon impregnated his lover, Mysaria. He wanted to present her with a dragon egg. The angry Viserys demanded that Daemon return the egg and that he return to Rhea in the Vale. Daemon sent Mysaria to Lys, but Mysaria's ship sailed through a storm in the narrow sea and Mysaria lost the child. This hardened Daemon against his brother.

Conquest of the Stepstones

Daemon offers his crown to his brother, King Viserys I Targaryen, by Chase Stone, as depicted in *The World of Ice and Fire*.

In 106 AC, Daemon led an army to invade the Stepstones in the southern narrow sea, with the support of Lord Corlys Velaryon and his fleet, and with the use of Daemon's dragon, Caraxes. He made many enemies in the Triarchy (Myr, Tyrosh and Lys) during the course of his adventures there.

After conquering all but two of the islands, Daemon declared himself King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea in 109 AC, being crowned by Corlys the Sea Snake. The Triarchy launched a massive fleet under Racallio Ryndoon to retake the isles, and Dorne joined the alliance against Daemon. Bored with ruling his meager kingdom, Daemon returned to the capital of King's Landing in 111 AC during the tourney that gave the greens and the blacks their names. He reconciled with Viserys I Targaryen by offering him his Stepstones crown. Viserys welcomed his brother's return and Daemon was given a seat on the small council.

Neither age or exile had changed Daemon's nature, however. He took up again with old companions in the City Watch and returned to the brothels on the Street of Silk. Daemon was cold with Viserys's second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower, and her children, who had pushed him further down in the line of succession. Daemon spent hours in the company of his niece, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, praising her beauty, enthralling her with tales of his adventures, giving her gifts, and mocking her stepmother and her greens.

Six months after his return, it was rumored that Daemon took Rhaenyra's virginity prior to her sixteenth name day. Lord Lyonel Strong counseled the livid Viserys that Daemon should be executed for treason. Septon Eustace, however, reminded the council about the taint of kinslaying, and Daemon was exiled instead.

Second marriage

Daemon's wife, Rhea Royce, died from falling from a horse in 115 AC. Daemon departed to the Vale of Arryn to claim Runestone, which had been Rhea's seat, but he was refused by House Royce. Not welcome in the Vale, Daemon turned to Driftmark, where he laid eyes upon the enchanting Laena Velaryon, the beautiful daughter of his friend, Lord Corlys. After killing in a duel Laena's betrothed, the son of the Sealord of Braavos, Daemon asked the Sea Snake for his daughter's hand. While singers say Daemon fell in love with Laena at first sight, others state Daemon married into mighty House Velaryon to check his own descent from power, as he had been pushed far down the line of succession and made many enemies in his adventures.

Because the marriage had been without consent of King Viserys I Targaryen, Daemon and Laena left Westeros, abandoned the Stepstones, and toured the Free Cities. They remained in Pentos for some time when they learned that Laena was pregnant, causing their daughters Baela and Rhaena to be born there in 116 AC. Daemon wrote his brother begging leave to present his daughters to court to receive a royal blessing. The small council advised the king to refuse, but Viserys replied, "Daemon is a father now. He will have changed."

Viserys's daughter, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, was wed to Laena's brother, Ser Laenor Velaryon. While Rhaenrya disliked her stepmother, Queen Alicent Hightower, she became fond of Laena, and the two often rode together on their dragons. With the blessing of King Viserys, Rhaenyra betrothed her two eldest sons, Jacaerys and Lucerys Velaryon, to Baela and Rhaena. Laena died in 120 AC, however, trying to birth Daemon a son who died as well.

Third marriage

In 120 AC Daemon married again, this time to his niece, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. This marriage was performed suddenly without the knowledge of King Viserys I Targaryen, and was scandalous since neither Laena nor Laenor Velaryon, Rhaenyra's previous husband, had been dead for six months. According to Mushroom, it was Daemon who arranged the death of Laenor by paying Ser Qarl Correy to kill him, thus making Rhaenyra available to marry.

Daemon and Rhaenyra had two sons together, Prince Aegon the Younger, born in 120 AC, and Prince Viserys, born in 122 AC.

The Dance of Dragons

While Viserys I Targaryen had decreed Rhaenyra Targaryen his heir, Ser Criston Cole crowned Queen Alicent Hightower's son, Aegon II Targaryen, after Viserys's death in 129 AC. At the start of the civil war called the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Daemon had more experience in warfare than all their foes combined. During Rhaenyra's rival coronation on Dragonstone, Daemon placed the crown of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen on the head of his wife, proclaiming her queen and claiming himself Protector of the Realm.

Daemon led the assault on Harrenhal, capturing the ruined castle from its castellan, Ser Simon Strong, without conflict by landing Caraxes on top of Kingspyre Tower. After hearing of the death of his stepson, Prince Lucerys Velaryon, at the hands of his nephew, Prince Aemond Targaryen, Daemon, through his spymaster and former mistress Mysaria, hired Blood and Cheese to murder a son of Aegon II.

The enemies made by Daemon during his earlier adventures came back to haunt the blacks when Ser Otto Hightower, now the Hand of the King of Aegon II, recruited the Triarchy to send a fleet against them. The Battle of the Gullet broke the the Velaryon blockade of Blackwater Bay and killed Daemon's stepson, Jacaerys.

Daemon abandoned Harrenhal when Aemond and Criston began marching on the great castle with a host of greens. Instead, Daemon flew Caraxes back to King's Landing and assisted Rhaenyra with capturing King's Landing.

While searching for Aemond and Vhagar, who were burning the riverlands, Daemon took Nettles for a bedmate and made their base in Maidenpool. Maester Norren informed Daemon that Queen Rhaenyra wanted Nettles dead, to which Daemon replied, "A queen's words, a whore's work."

Daemon challenged Aemond, waiting for thirteen days at Harrenhal until Aemond stopped burning the riverlands to come face him. The Battle Above the Gods Eye ended in the deaths of both riders and both dragons. Daemon was forty-nine when he died. Unlike Aemond's body, however, Daemon's was never found. Singers say that Daemon lived to spend the rest of his days in secret with Nettles, but most historians disagree.

Daemon never achieved his ambition and sat on the Iron Throne, though his sons Aegon III and Viserys II eventually did. In 170 AC Princess Daena Targaryen named her bastard son Daemon Waters after her grandfather.

Quotes about Daemon

Over the centuries, House Targaryen has produced both great men and monsters. Prince Daemon was both. In his day there was not a man so admired, so beloved, and so reviled in all Westeros. He was made of light and darkness in equal parts. To some he was a hero, to others the blackest of villains.

—writings of Gyldayn

Let Daemon play at war. It keeps him out of trouble.

Viserys I Targaryen to his court

Make no mistake, should Rhaenyra ever sit the Iron Throne, it will be Daemon who rules us, a king consort as cruel and unforgiving as Maegor ever was.

Otto Hightower to the small council of Viserys I Targaryen

The whore on Dragonstone is not the threat. No more than Rowan and these traitors in the Reach. The danger is my uncle. Once Daemon is dead, all these fools flying our sister's banners will run back to their castles and trouble us no more.

Aemond Targaryen to Criston Cole

Daemon: Were I not alone, you would not have come.
Aemond: Yet you are, and here I am. You have lived too long, nuncle.
Daemon: On that much we agree.

—Daemon and Aemond Targaryen before the battle above the Gods Eye

Daemon was the name Daena gave to this child, for Prince Daemon had been the wonder and the terror of his age, and in later days that was seen as a warning of what the boy would become.

—writings of Yandel

Prince Daemon, a rogue if there ever was one.

George R. R. Martin

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Daemon Velaryon was the Lord of the Tides and the head of House Velaryon during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen., whose children Maegor the Cruel fought against.

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Daemon was the admiral of the royal fleet for King Maegor I Targaryen. While originally on Maegor's side, he turned against the king in 48 AC and many of the great houses followed his example.

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Daemon Velaryon was a Lord of the Tides and head of House Velaryon. He served as the master of ships to Aegon the Conqueror during Aegon's Conquest.

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Lord Daemon was counted as one of the oldest supporters of Aegon I Targaryen when he was crowned after Aegon's Landing. Daemon was therefore given the honor of becoming Aegon's master of ships, in control of the new royal fleet.[*citation needed*]

After House Arryn refused to bend the knee, Aegon sent his admiral to take the coastal city of Gulltown, but the fleet of the Vale of Arryn managed to repel the Targaryen fleet. Daemon perished during the battle in the waters off Gulltown.

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The name Daena can refer to the following people:

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Daena is a mummer at the Gate in Braavos.

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She and Mercy take a look to see who is in the audience of The Gate before the performance of The Bloody Hand.




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Princess Daena Targaryen, also known as Daena the Defiant, was the eldest daughter of King Aegon III Targaryen and Queen Daenaera Velaryon. She was the sister-wife of King Baelor I Targaryen, and was the mother of Daemon Blackfyre, her bastard son by the future King Aegon IV Targaryen.

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Character and Appearance

The most famous of three sisters, Daena was much loved, both for her beauty and courage.

Daena was lithe and athletic.

She worshipped her father and idolized her brother Daeron.

Daena often dressed dramatically. As a child, she always wore black in emulation of her father. After her brother Baelor failed to consummate their marriage, she changed to all white.

She always wore the golden three-headed dragon pendant she had inherited from her father. At court she wore it on a fine golden chain; when in disguise as a peasant, she hung it on a leather thong and hid it beneath her clothes. Supposedly she even wore it when bathing and when making love.

History

Youth

Born in 145 AC, Daena was the third child and eldest daughter of King Aegon III Targaryen and Queen Daenaera Velaryon. She had two older brothers, Daeron and Baelor, and two younger sisters, Rhaena and Elaena.

In 160 AC, at the age of fifteen, Daena was married to her brother Baelor.

The Maidenvault

King Daeron I died in Dorne in 161 AC, and Baelor ascended the Iron Throne. Early in his reign, he convinced the High Septon to dissolve his marriage to Daena, since it had never been consummated.

During the decade she was confined in the Maidenvault, Daena quickly became known as the Defiant, for she was the most restless of the three sisters. She escaped her confinements thrice, disguised as either a servant or one of the smallfolk. Towards the end of Baelor's reign, Daena contrived to get pregnant. In late 170 AC, she gave birth to a bastard son whom she named Daemon, after her grandfather, Prince Daemon Targaryen.

The birth of Daena's son led to a fast by King Baelor I. He fasted for forty days, taking only water and a little bit of bread. On the forty-first day of his fast, he was found collapsed before the altar of the Mother.

Family

Daena's Blackfyre descendants

Quotes by Daena

I was born to ride a dragon.

Quotes about Daena

Daena was Targaryen to the bone; strong, beautiful, willful.

- George R. R. Martin

Lancel: Marriage requires consummation. King Baelor was made to wed his sister Daena, but they never lived as man and wife, and he put her aside as soon as he was crowned.
Jaime: The realm would have been better served if he had closed his eyes and fucked her. I know enough of history to know that.

- Lancel Lannister and Jaime Lannister




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Lady Daenaera Velaryon was the queen consort and second wife of King Aegon III Targaryen, and a member of House Velaryon.

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Appearance

Daenaera was a "surpassingly beautiful" child, and was also called beautiful when she came to adulthood.

History

Young King Aegon III Targaryen's first marriage to Princess Jaehaera Targaryen had ended tragically in 133 AC with Jaehaera's apparent suicide. The Hand of the King, Lord Unwin Peake, attempted to betroth his own daughter to the 13-year-old king, but was prevented in this by Aegon's regents. However, Lord Peake did not give up his attempts, and declared a great ball in 133 AC to find a new wife for the king. Daenaera was only six years old when Aegon's half-sisters, the princesses Rhaena and Baela Targaryen, presented her to him, the last of a thousand maidens.

Lord Peake was greatly frustrated by Aegon's choice of Daenaera. His efforts to have the marriage put aside were opposed by both Aegon and the other regents, and resulted in his resignation as Hand in 134 AC. Later, an attempted poisoning was made on Aegon and Daenaera, which resulted in the death of Aegon's friend and food taster Gaemon Palehair.

While Aegon and Daenaera were married young, the marriage was not consummated until long after Daenaera had flowered. Aegon was very melancholy, and had come to dislike being touched, even by the hand of his beautiful queen.

Legacy

Daenaera's two sons reigned after her husband's death. Daeron I Targaryen, the Young Dragon, became famous for his conquest of Dorne, though his conquest lasted only for four years.

When Daeron died childless, his younger brother was crowned Baelor I Targaryen in 161 AC. Baelor, who had been married to Daenaera's eldest daughter Daena, had his marriage undone, and locked his three sisters in what would become known as the Maidenvault. Baelor the Blessed was known for being pious, and fasted often, and long. One such fast eventually killed him.

During her captivity in the Maidenvault, Daena had an affair with her cousin, Prince Aegon. She gave birth to a bastard son, named Daemon, in the end of Baelor's reign. In 182 AC King Aegon IV gave Daemon the Targaryen sword Blackfyre, and Daemon choose the name Blackfyre for himself. that threatened the Targaryen dynasty.

Daenaera's second daughter, Rhaena, joined the Faith and became a septa.

The youngest girl, Elaena, was married three times, and gave birth to seven children. was childless.

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Descendants




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Princess Daenerys Targaryen, also known as Daenerys Stormborn,

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Daenerys Targaryen

A young woman in her early teens,

Beside the Common Tongue, Daenerys speaks the bastard Valyrian of the Free Cities with a Tyroshi accent,

Daenerys grew up terrified and abused by her brother Viserys,

As she was raised in exile, never staying long as one place, Daenerys has never truly known a place to call home. Though she describes the fragrance of the Western Market at Vaes Dothrak with smelling "of home", they in fact remind of her her days spent in several of the Free Cities as a small child.

Daenerys loves the sea, as it makes her feel free, as well as the sailors and their songs and stories.

Descending from dragonlords, Daenerys dreams of dragons.

Daenerys sometimes dresses in Dothraki garb; a painted vest

History

Young Dany and Viserys - by Jacqui Davis ©

Daenerys is the youngest child of King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Rhaella. Daenerys was conceived during the last month of Robert's Rebellion, the war which ended House Targaryen's reign over the Seven Kingdoms. Shortly thereafter, her mother was sent with the young prince Viserys to the family ancestral seat of Dragonstone to escape the rebel army which was marching towards King's Landing. Daenerys was born nine months after their flight, while a great storm raged above Dragonstone, sinking what remained of the Targaryen fleet; for this reason she is known as "Daenerys Stormborn".

The war had been lost shortly after Rhaella had fled the city, after which Robert I Baratheon had claimed the throne. With Aerys, his eldest son Rhaegar, and Rhaegar's young children Rhaenys and Aegon dead, Daenerys and her older brother Viserys were the only known living Targaryen heirs. As Viserys had been crowned king on Dragonstone by their mother before her death,

Viserys and Daenerys left Braavos, and wandered the Free Cities for years. They visited nearly all the Free Cities, including Myr, Tyrosh, Qohor, Volantis, and Lys,

Though Viserys's growing bitterness made their relationship more troubled, Daenerys also has fond memories of her brother from times when he had not yet been so angry. He let her crawl into bed with him and told her stories about the Seven Kingdoms,

In 297 AC, Viserys and Daenerys were taken in by Magister Illyrio Mopatis in the Free City of Pentos, who offered his help in reclaiming the Iron Throne for Viserys. They have lived with Illyrio for almost half a year.

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A Game of Thrones

Jorah Mormont pledges to Dany - by Amok ©

Magister Illyrio Mopatis arranges a marriage between the powerful Dothraki Khal Drogo and Daenerys, in return for the promise of an army for Viserys to conquer the Iron Throne with. Though Daenerys does not want the marriage, Viserys is insistent.

The day after the wedding, the khalasar leaves Pentos. Although she is accompanied by both Viserys and the exiled knight Ser Jorah Mormont, who has sworn his sword to Viserys, Daenerys feels lonely. Her entire body hurts from spending her days on horseback, and her nights with Drogo. On the night that Daenerys decides she cannot go on anymore, she dreams about a black dragon. The flames of the dragon cleanse her and make her feel strong and new and fierce. From that night onwards, life among the Dothraki begins to come more easily to her. She begins to enjoy her surroundings, and grows more confident. She also dares for the first time ever to fight back against Viserys when he attacks her in a rage. She shoves him away, realizes that Viserys is a pitiful thing, and would make a terrible king. When she discusses this with Jorah Mormont, she is shocked to learn how badly Jorah thinks about Viserys. When Drogo arrives in her tent that night to take his pleasure, Daenerys leads him outside, as the Dothraki believe that everything of importance happens must be done beneath the bare sky. Daenerys initiates sex with Drogo, and her new-found confidence and strength mark the beginning of a loving relationship between them.

Daenerys in the early stages of pregnancy riding her silver in the Dothraki sea - by Nyph-Atzbel ©

The khalasar travels to Vaes Dothrak. They pass through Ghoyan Drohe, Norvos, Qohor, Vaes Khadokh, and southern Sarnor.

In Westeros, King Robert I Baratheon has learned of Daenerys's marriage to Drogo from Jorah Mormont, who is in the employment of Lord Varys, Robert's master of whisperers. Though his Hand of the King, Lord Eddard Stark, protests against the notion of killing Daenerys, calling her an innocent child, Robert nonetheless fears that Daenerys will soon start breeding more "dragonspawn", and that Viserys will cross the narrow sea with a horde of Dothraki. Eddard convinces him that the Dothraki are not likely to cross, and that they can easily defeat them if they do.

At Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys is presented to the dosh khaleen, and takes part in a ceremony for her unborn child, where she eats a raw stallion heart. The dosh khaleen predict that Daenerys will have a son, who will be "the stallion who mounts the world", a long-prophesied leader destined to unite the Dothraki into a single khalasar and conquer the world. Daenerys choses the name Rhaego for her son, after her eldest brother, Rhaegar.

Now the last remaining Targaryen, Daenerys believes her family's throne should be conquered for her unborn son and attempts to persuade Drogo to invade the Seven Kingdoms. However, Drogo has no interest in doing so, until Daenerys is rescued by Jorah Mormont from drinking poisoned wine at the Western Market of Vaes Dothrak. They learn that King Robert I Baratheon has promised a lordship and lands to whoever kills Viserys, Daenerys, and her child. Furious, Drogo vows to conquer the Seven Kingdoms for his son.

Drogo is injured, but the healers are occupied elsewhere. When Daenerys insists that Drogo's cuts are seen to immediately, a Lhazareen godswife, Mirri Maz Duur, offers her service. Drogo's bloodriders call the woman a *maegi*, but Drogo agrees to accompany Mirri inside the temple, supported by Daenerys, where Mirri tends to his wounds. Afterwards, Daenerys asks Mirri to be her midwife when she goes into labour.

Daenerys the Unburnt with hatched dragons - by Michael Komarck ©

Daenerys wakes days later, after several fever dreams, with one of her dragon eggs in her arms, as she had requested during one of her short waking moments. Rhaego was stillborn and malformed, Daenerys learns, and had been dead for months according to Mirri, even though Daenerys had felt him strong and alive shortly before her labour had begun. Mirri reveals that Rhaego's death was the true price of the blood magic. Drogo's khalasar is gone, split into two new khalasars belonging to Khal Pono and Khal Jhaqo. Although Drogo still lives, he is in a catatonic state. Daenerys demands to know when Drogo will be as before, and Mirri replies *"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before". She reveals that it had been wrong of Drogo's *khalasar to burn her temple, and that Rhaego's death means that the stallion who mounts the world is now unable to burn cities or trample nations into dust.

Daenerys orders Mirri arrested. She attempt to get a response from Drogo by pleasuring him and speaking to him, but realizes that he is truly gone.

A Clash of Kings

Daenerys names the three dragons Viserion (after her brother Viserys), Rhaegal (after her brother Rhaegar), and Drogon (after Drogo).

Daenerys in a Qartheen dress

They eventually arrive in an abandoned city, which Daenerys dubs Vaes Tolorro. While her khalasar recovers from the terrible journey through the desert, Daenerys sends out her bloodriders to scout in every direction. Aggo and Rakharo return without hopeful news, and Daenerys begins to fortify Vaes Tolorro, in case of enemies. After a long time, Jhogo returns accompanied by three citizens from the city Qarth: the merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the warlock Pyat Pree, and the shadow-binder Quaithe of Asshai.

Daenerys visits the Pureborn of Qarth, hoping to convince them to help her in her conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. They refuse her, however. On her way back to Xaro's palace, Daenerys sees Quaithe, who urges Daenerys to travel to Asshai. Xaro proposes marriage to Daenerys, which Daenerys finds amusing as she has found Xaro completely uninterested in the charms of women. Jorah warns her that according to Qartheen marriage customs, Xaro would be within his rights to ask a dragon of Daenerys if they were to wed, and Daenerys would not legally be able to deny him. Not knowing where else to turn, Daenerys decides to go to the warlocks.

Daenerys goes to the House of the Undying, where Pyat Pree gives her shade-of-the-evening, after which she enters the building alone. Inside, Daenerys sees several strange visions. When she reaches the hall of the Undying, they tell her that she will light three fires (one for life, one for death, and one to love), ride three mounts (one to bed, one to dread, and one to love), and face three betrayals (one for blood, one for gold, and one for love). More visions follow as the Undying attack her. Drogon sets the Undyin Ones on fire, allowing Daenerys to flee. The Palace of Dust burns down. Outside Daenerys is attacked by Pyat Pree, but Jhogo, Rakharo and Drogon save her.

The destruction of the Palace of Dust turns the Qartheen against her. Xaro warns Daenerys that Pyat Pree is gathering warlocks against her, and after she refuses to marry him once more, suggests that she should leave Qarth. He offers to give her ships in exchange for a dragon, and when Daenerys refuses, insists she leaves his palace. Daenerys visits the docks of Qarth to seek passage on a ship for herself, her khalasar and her dragons, but is frequently refused. Jorah warns her that they are being followed by two strangers. When a Sorrowful Man gives her a box containing a manticore with the purpose of killing her, one of the strangers knocks the manticore aside before it can sting her. The two strangers, Belwas and Arstan Whitebeard, inform Daenerys they had been sent to Qarth by Magister Illyrio with three ships to escort Daenerys and her party back to Pentos. Daenerys renames the ships *Vhagar, *Meraxes and *Balerion*, after the dragons of Aegon I Targaryen and his sister-wives, Rhaenys and Visenya, and sets sail for Pentos.

A Storm of Swords

On their way to Pentos, Ser Jorah Mormont convinces Daenerys to change course to Astapor, one of the slave cities of Slaver's Bay. Mistrustful of Illyrio's motives, he believes it wise to purchase Unsullied before travelling to Illyrio, so Daenerys has an army loyal to her. He kisses her and professes his love for her, telling her that he could be one of the three heads of the dragon, as her husband.

The next day, Daenerys goes to purchase her Unsullied. After assuming command of the soldiers, Daenerys betrays the Good Masters. She orders Drogon to attack the slavers and her Unsullied to conquer the city.

Once the envoy from Yunkai has left, Daenerys reveals that she plans to attack the city that same night, while the Stormcrows are still arguing over her offer, the Second Sons are drunk on the wine she gave them, and the Yunkai'i believe they still have two more days. Shortly before the attack begins, Daario Naharis walks into the Targaryen camp. He presents Daenerys with the heads of Prendahl na Ghezn and Sallor, his fellow captains, and pledges the Stormcrows to her service.

The Surrender of Meereen

Daenerys marches further north, to Meereen. In preparation for her arrival, the Meereenese retreat behind the walls of their city after stripping their lands clean. In addition, they have nailed a hundred and sixty-three slave children onto the mileposts placed on the coast road between Yunkai and Meereen. Daenerys encamps her host, now more than eighty thousand strong (though fewer than a quarter are warriors), outside of the walls of Meereen. Belwas fights against Oznak zo Pahl, the "hero of Meereen", and easily slays him. Ben Plumm, the new commander of the Second Sons, suggests entering the city through the sewers, but Daenerys does not consider it a promising idea. She takes Missandei and Arstan into the camp of her freedmen, where she is attacked by Mero, who had been hidden among her freedmen while awaiting an opportunity to kill her. Arstan saves her life, killing Mero in the process. However, Jorah questions Arstan's ability, causing Arstan to reveal he is Ser Barristan Selmy, formerly of the Kingsguard. Barristan further reveals that Jorah has served the Iron Throne as a spy, giving them information about Viserys and Daenerys ever since her wedding to Drogo. Daenerys is furious and feels betrayed by both of them.

With Meereen taken, Daenerys has one hundred and sixty-three of the Great Masters nailed on posts on the plaza in front of the Great Pyramid. Though she is able to pardon Barristan Selmy, she finds herself unable to do the same for Jorah Mormont. Instead, she exiles Mormont, and warns him that he'll be killed if he returns to the city. Daenerys learns that the council she had previously installed in Astapor to rule the city has been killed and recplaced by a former butcher who has declared himself king, and enslaved all the former nobility. In addition, Yunkai is gathering new levies and sending out envoys to form alliances against Daenerys. Daenerys decides that she cannot leave Meereen to suffer the same violent fate as Astapor, and informs her captains that she will stay in Meereen to learn how to rule as a Queen over one city, before conquering the Seven Kingdoms.

In the meantime, word of a three-headed dragon having hatched in Qarth reach King's Landing, and are reported to the small council by Lord Varys.

A Feast for Crows

By now, news of Daenerys's dragons and her campaign are starting to reach Westeros. Several acolytes of the Citadel discuss the stories they have heard; Sailors speak of dragons in Asshai, Qarth, and Meereen, dragons among the Dothraki, and dragons freeing slaves. Though all the tales differ in details, all speak of dragons and a beautiful young queen.

In Dorne, Arianne Martell recalls having heard stories about dragons in Qarth and a slave revolt in Astapor.

At the Kingsmoot, Euron Greyjoy reveals to the lords of the Iron Islands that there are three dragons in the world.

In Braavos, a drunk Dareon hears tales about dragons as well, and repeats them to maester Aemon and Samwell Tarly. Aemon becomes increasingly interested in the stories about the dragons, but is too ill to venture outside and learn about them firsthand. He requests that Samwell brings him someone who has seen the dragons. Samwell encounters Xhondo Dhoru, who had seen Daenerys and her dragons in Qarth.

A Dance with Dragons

Daenerys after conquering Meereen - by © Denkata5698

Rumors of Daenerys's striking beauty have spread far and wide,

Daenerys rules Meereen as its queen, but she faces multiple enemies. A resistance group of Ghiscari noblemen from Meereen, the Sons of the Harpy, engage in a shadow war against Daenerys, slaying freedmen, Unsullied, and shavepates during the night.

Daenerys also faces the dislike from the nobility of the city, as numerous crimes had been committed during the sack, and the nobility especially have suffered losses of property and wealth.

Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal have been growing wilder and often hunt sheep in the lands surrounding the city. Daenerys pays shepherds for the loss of their animals. However, one day at court, one man lingers after Daenerys has granted compensation to be given for the loss of twenty-three animals. After all petitioners have departed, he presents her with the burned bones of his daughter, Hazzea, saying it had been "the winged shadow".

Quaithe uses magic to visit Daenerys one night, when Daenerys is alone. She informs her that the glass candles are burning, and warns Daenerys about the dangers that are coming. *"Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal."* After telling Daenerys her to remember who she is, Quaithe disappears.

Daenerys hosts Xaro Xhoan Daxos, who offers her thirteen ships on the condition that she departs for Westeros immediately. She considers his offer, but realizes that all of her freedmen who stay behind in Meereen will either be enslaved once more or die. Unable to take all of them to Westeros with only thirteen ships, Daenerys refuses Xaro's offer, and Xaro leaves Meereen, declaring war.

The Wise Masters of Yunkai resumed slavery after Daenerys left for Meereen, and by now have raised a new army of slave levies and sellswords, and the Yunkai'i begin their march against Daenerys.

Galazza Galare, the Green Grace, counsels Daenerys that she should take a Meereenese noble as her husband, and proposes Hizdahr zo Loraq. Daenerys and Hizdahr come to an agreement; If he can stop the murders by the Sons of the Harpy for ninety days, they will wed. Barristan objects to the marriage, but Daenerys informs him that ninety days is a long period, and Hizdahr could still fail. However, she admits that, should Hizdahr succeed, she will wed him as she promised, for her people.

Ships from Qarth, Tolos, and New Ghis, and even Meereenese ships which had fled when Daenerys first took the city have blocked the harbor. Without any ships of her own, nor wood to build new ships, Daenerys cannot battle them. Hizdahr has been successful thusfar in preventing new murders, causing Skahaz mo Kandaq to suspect him of being the Harpy. Daenerys refuses to alow him torture Hizdahr.

The Yunkai'i are in contact with Hizdahr zo Loraq, and inform him that they are willing to give Meereen peace, but they require gold from Daenerys, as well as an agreement that the Yunkai'i can resume slaving and Astapor will be a slaver city once again, without Daenerys's interference. The agreements are to be sealed by Daenerys's marriage to Hizdahr., Daenerys has them imprisoned.

Daenerys and Drogon in Daznak's Pit - by Marc Simonetti ©

Hizdahr invites the captains from the Yunkish army into Meereen, to sign the peace treaty and celebrate the opening of the fighting pits. Hostages from Meereen have been sent into the Yunkish camp, to ensure the captains remain unharmed. Daenerys hates everything about the feast. After a confrontation with Ben Plumm, Daenerys orders Barristan Selmy to free Meris and send her back to the Windblown, hoping to convince the Windblown to abandon Yunkai. Daenerys next takes Quentyn to see her dragons, and urges him to return home.

In Meereen, many fear that Daenerys has died,

Quotes by Daenerys

Young Daenerys © jekaa

I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.

– thoughts of Daenerys

If I look back I am lost.

– thoughts of Daenerys

Mirri: You are mad.
Daenerys: Is it so far from madness to wisdom?

Mirri Maz Duur and Daenerys

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?

– Daenerys's thoughts while Drogo's pyre rages

A queen must listen to all. The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

– Daenerys to Jorah Mormont

It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.

– Daenerys to Jorah Mormont

Do you know what it is like to be sold, squire? I do. My brother sold me to Khal Drogo for the promise of a golden crown. Well, Drogo crowned him in gold, though not as he had wished, and I... my sun-and-stars made a queen of me, but if he had been a different man, it might have been much otherwise. Do you think I have forgotten how it felt to be afraid?

– Daenerys to Arstan Whitebeard

Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

– Daenerys to Jorah Mormont

A dragon is no slave.

– Daenerys to Kraznys mo Nakloz

Mother of dragons, Daenerys thought. Mother of monsters. What have I unleashed upon the world? A queen I am, but my throne is made of burned bones, and it rests on quicksand. Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.

– thoughts of Daenerys

Jorah: You are a queen. In Westeros.

Daenerys: It is such a long way. I was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. I am only a young girl.
Jorah: No. You are the blood of the dragon. Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words.

Daenerys: Fire and Blood.

– Daenerys having a fever dream of Jorah Mormont

Quotes about Daenerys

Jorah: You are your brother's sister, in truth.

Daenerys: Viserys?

Jorah: No. Rhaegar.

Jorah Mormont and Daenerys

The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true Targaryen.

Illyrio Mopatis to Tyrion Lannister

Tyrion: If Daenerys is no more than a sweet young girl, the Iron Throne will cut her into sweet young pieces.
Illyrio: Fear not, my little friend. The blood of Aegon the Dragon flows in her veins.

Tyrion Lannister and Illyrio Mopatis

You are her perfect prince, agreed, bright and bold and comely as any maid could wish. Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and a sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. She may not prove as willing as you wish.

Tyrion Lannister to Aegon Targaryen

I know that she spent her childhood in exile, impoverished, living on dreams and schemes, running from one city to the next, always fearful, never safe, friendless but for a brother who was by all accounts half-mad... a brother who sold her maidenhood to the Dothraki for the promise of an army. I know that somewhere upon the grass, her dragons hatched, and so did she. I know she is proud. How not? What else was left her but pride? I know she is strong. How not? The Dothraki despise weakness. If Daenerys had been weak, she would have perished with Viserys. I know she is fierce. Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen are proof enough of that. She has survived assassins and conspiracies and fell sorceries, grieved for a brother and a husband and a son, trod the cities of the slavers to dust beneath her dainty sandalled feet.

Tyrion Lannister to Aegon Targaryen

On wings of song I fly to you, Daenerys, the iron captain thought.

– thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy

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Princess Daenerys Targaryen was the daughter of Aegon IV Targaryen and Naerys Targaryen, and the younger sister of King Daeron II Targaryen. Daenerys Targaryen, daughter of Aerys II Targaryen and Rhaella Targaryen, was named after her.

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History

Princess Daenerys was born in 172 AC, some nineteen years after the birth of her brother, the future King Daeron II Targaryen, who had been born in 153 AC, the year their parents had been wed.

Daenerys's betrothal to the Prince of Dorne, Prince Maron Martell, was brokered by her brother Daeron as part of the treaty bringing Dorne into the realm of the Iron Throne,

Daenerys's wedding to Prince Maron was held in King's Landing in 187 AC, and after the ceremony Prince Maron and King Daeron went to pay their respects to the statue of King Baelor I Targaryen, who had once brokered the peace between the Iron Throne and Dorne (with the marriage of King Daeron II and Princess Mariah Martell, Maron's sister, as a result). To celebrate the marriage, a tourney was held, where Prince Baelor Targaryen won the name "Breakspear", defeating, amongst others, Daemon Blackfyre in the lists in the final tilt.

According to George R. R. Martin:

Despite Daemon and Daenerys being in love, her brother the king, Daeron the Good, was more concerned with matters of state than matters of love. There had been many years of fighting with Dorne, and failure to bring them into the Seven Kingdoms while not being able to keep them from harassing the Seven Kingdoms. So he realized that where violence failed, perhaps marriage could bring an end to hostilites and so he uses his sister to make an alliance with the prince of Dorne. It's a political marriage, pure and simple, a convenient marriage to guarantee a union between Dorne and the Seven Kingdoms. And also, he prefers to give his sister to the prince of Dorne over a bastard brother with whom he'd already had a few clashes and whom too many people were looking one as a legitimate claimant to the throne or rightful king. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, and helps lead to Daemon becoming the first Blackfyre Pretender.

Prince Maron Martell built his new bride the Water Gardens, a place of beauty made of colored marble with pools and trees, to free her from the heat and dust of Sunspear. Their children played in the pools along with the children of other highborn lords and ladies. One day, when the sun was hot, she took pity on the children of the servants and guards and allowed them to play in the pools with the highborn children, starting a tradition that is still kept in Dorne to this day.

A portrait of Princess Daenerys hangs in Sunspear.

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A Dance with Dragons

While Davos Seaworth is in White Harbor, at a winesink named the Lazy Eel, amongst the patrons, talk turns to the Targaryens and the Mad King's daughter, but none of the patrons are sure what the name of the princess is. Davos Seaworth mentions that her name is Daenerys Targaryen, as she was named for the Daenerys who wed the Prince of Dorne during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.

During a feast at Sunspear, Prince Doran Martell tells Ser Balon Swann of the Water Gardens and that one of his ancestors built them to please his Targaryen bride, Daenerys. He adds that it was her marriage that made Dorne part of the Seven Kingdoms.

In Meereen Prince Quentyn Martell tells Queen Daenerys Targaryen that he can trace his lineage back to the first Daenerys, the Targaryen princess who was a sister to King Daeron II Targaryen and wife to Maron Martell, the Prince of Dorne. He tells her that Prince Maron had built the Water Gardens for his bride. Queen Daenerys admits to never having heard of the Water Gardens before. As they make their way back from the Dragonpit, she asks Quentyn to tell her of her namesake. She confesses that she knows less than she should of the history of her father's kingdom as she never had a maester growing up to teach her.

The Winds of Winter

Arianne Martell recalls that in her younger days, she spent hours gazing at the portrait of Princess Daenerys hanging in Sunspear, back when she was just a pudgy flat-chested girl on the cusp of maidenhood who prayed every night for the gods to make her pretty.

Quotes by Daenerys

This is your realm, remember them, in everything you do.

- Daenerys, to her son and heir, speaking of the innocent children of the Water Gardens, from the high-born to the low

Quotes about Daenerys

The whole realm knew that the girl loved Daeron’s bastard brother Daemon Blackfyre, and was loved by him in turn, but the king was wise enough to see that the good of thousands must come before the desires of two, even if those two were dear to him.

- Prince Doran Martell, to Ser Balon Swann

Daemon Blackfyre loved the first Daenerys, and rose in rebellion when denied her.

- Ser Barristan Selmy's thoughts

A hundred years ago, Daenerys Targaryen came to Dorne to make a peace. Now another comes to make a war.

- Arianne Martell

Whether Daenerys loved Daemon, as those who rose for the Black Dragon later claimed, who could say? In the years afterward, Daenerys was never aught but a loyal wife to Prince Maron, and if she mourned Daemon Blackfyre, she left no record of it.

- Maester Yandel

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