Will of the Woods is a sellsword and member of the Windblown.
Will takes part in the Siege of Astapor. He is later sent by the Tattered Prince along with the other Westerosi Windblown to go over to Daenerys Targaryen. He leers at Daenerys as he kneels.
Will of the Woods, well, you’re just filth.
– the Tattered Prince, on Will of the Woods
Ser Will, better known as Will the Stork, is a hedge knight.
Brienne of Tarth recalls that Ser Will was a part of King Renly Baratheon's host encamped beneath the walls of Highgarden. He was one of the knights that participated in the wager on who would claim Brienne's maidenhead. In his efforts to win the bet, Will offered to rub her shoulders to get the knots out. Lord Randyll Tarly found out about the bet and put an end to it.
Willam is the brother of Septon Meribald. He died in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
William and his brothers, Meribald, Robin, Owen and Owen's friend Jon Pox all went off to fight in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. During the War, Willam and Robin died from a fever. Owen died in battle and Jon was hanged for rape. Meribald survived to become a septon.
Willam Dustin was Lord of Barrowton and head of House Dustin. He was married to Barbrey Ryswell, now the Lady of Barrowton.
Lord William had been married to Barbrey Ryswell for less than half a year before the outbreak of Robert's Rebellion. Barbrey gave her husband a fine red stallion, the pride of the herds of her father, Lord Rickard Ryswell. Willam vowed he would return to her mounted on the steed.
Willam was one of six companions who accompanied Eddard to the tower of joy in the Red Mountains of Dorne, where Lord Stark sought his sister, Lyanna Stark. They were opposed by three Kingsguard, however, and only Eddard and Howland Reed survived the ensuing battle. Eddard buried the fallen in cairns raised from the tower's stones.
Eddard Stark dreams about Willam and the combat at the tower of joy.
Barbrey Dustin, the widow of Willam and the Lady of Barrowton, reveals to Theon Greyjoy she still resents that Eddard brought Willam's red stallion back from Dorne but not his bones. If Eddard's bones are discovered, she will prevent them from being laid to rest in the crypt of Winterfell.
When Lord Dustin had beheld her naked, he'd told Ned that her breasts were enough to make him wish he'd never been weaned. Poor man, she thought. He had ridden south with Ned, never to return.
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Ned Stark returned the horse to me on his way back home to Winterfell. He told me that my lord had died an honorable death, that his body had been laid to rest beneath the red mountains of Dorne. He brought his sister's bones back north, though, and there she rests ... but I promise you, Lord Eddard's bones will never rest beside hers. I mean to feed them to my dogs.
Willam Stackspear was a member of House Stackspear. In 136 AC he was chosen by lot in a Great Council to become one of the seven regents for King Aegon III Targaryen. He held office until the council was dissolved that same year.
Willam Stark was a Lord of Winterfell and head of House Stark. The second son of Lord Beron Stark and Lady Lorra Royce, Willam married Lady Melantha Blackwood, with whom he had two children, Edwyle and Jocelyn. He also married Lady Lyanne Glover and had one child with her, Brandon. It is unknown which of the two marriages occurred first.
Willam became Lord of Winterfell after the death of his older brother, Donnor Stark.
When King-Beyond-the-Wall Raymun Redbeard went over the Wall, Lord Willam called his banners and marched with Lord Harmond Umber. On the shores of Long Lake, the two forces met. During the battle at Long Lake in 226 AC, Willam was killed and beheaded. His younger brother, Artos, avenged him by slaying Raymun.
Willam was succeeded as Lord of Winterfell by his son, Edwyle.
Ser Willam Wells is a knight of House Wells from Dorne.
Willam has freckles and crooked teeth.
Ser Willam is one of Prince Quentyn Martell's travelling companions on his way to find Daenerys Targaryen in the Free Cities. While traveling to Volantis disguised as merchants, their ship, the *Meadowlark*, is attacked by corsairs off the coast of the Disputed Lands and Willam is among those killed.
Ser Willam Whistler was a knight who fought in the army of Prince Aegon Targaryen when he rebelled against his uncle, King Maegor I Targaryen.
Willam fought in the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye in 43 AC, and was killed in the battle.
Ser Willam Wythers is a knight of House Wythers. He is captain of the guard for Queen Margaery Tyrell in King's Landing.
Ser Willam, known as Willam the Wanderer, was a knight of the Warrior's Sons at the start of the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen.
In 42 AC, Ser Willam was stationed at the King's Landing chapter of the Warrior's Sons, based in the Sept of Remembrance. He fought in the trial of seven in which seven of the Warrior's Sons faced King Maegor I Targaryen and his six champions.
Ser Willam and Ser Damon Morrigen were the last Warrior's Sons standing against Maegor, whose six champions had all been killed. Badly wounded, the two were killed by Maegor with Blackfyre, the king's Valyrian steel sword. As he fell, however, Ser Willam dealt the king a terrible blow to the head, cracking his helm and leaving him insensate. However, this was not enough to kill him and Maegor was declared the winner.
Willamen Frey is a maester of the Citadel in service at Longbow Hall to House Hunter.
Willas Tyrell is a member of House Tyrell and the eldest son of Lord Mace Tyrell and Lady Alerie Hightower. He is the heir to Highgarden.
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Willas is crippled with a bad leg. He is often noted as studious, educated, and kind, and is renowned for breeding the finest hawks, hounds, and horses in the Seven Kingdoms.
Willas was born the eldest son Lord Mace Tyrell and Lady Alerie Hightower. During his first tourney, he competed against Prince Oberyn Martell of Dorne, who knocked Willas from his horse. Unfortunately, his foot caught in his stirrup as he fell, and Willas pulled his horse on top of him, crushing his leg and leaving him a cripple.
Though the incident fanned the flames of the considerable and historical enmity between Houses Tyrell and Martell, Willas bore Oberyn no personal ill will and the two long remained in correspondence, sharing a passion for horseflesh.
Willas gave his younger brother Garlan his nickname, "Garlan the Gallant".
Back row, left to right: Willas, Garlan, Loras, Margaery.
Front: Olenna, Mace, Alerie. Art by Cabepfir©
Lady Olenna Tyrell plots to have Sansa Stark married to Willas.
After the taking of the Shields, Willas reportedly sends messengers to Lord Leyton Hightower ordering him to strengthen his defences in Oldtown. Willas also guesses correctly that the ironborn did not follow the coast when attacking the Shield Islands so the ambush would take the lords of the Shields off guard.
Ser Kevan Lannister, the regent of King Tommen I Baratheon, thinks that Mace wants to marry Willas to Tommen's sister, the wounded Princess Myrcella.
We were speaking of my grandson Willas. He is a bit old for you, to be sure, but a dear boy for all that. Not the least bit oafish, and heir to Highgarden besides.
– Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
Willas has a bad leg but a good heart.
- Margaery Tyrell to Sansa Stark
The Fat Flower thrust him into tourneys at too tender an age, just as he did the other two. He wanted another Leo Longthorn, and made himself a cripple.
– Oberyn Martell to Tyrion Lannister
Gentle, pious, good-hearted Willas Tyrell. Be grateful you were spared, he would have bored you spitless.
- Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark
Ser Willem Darry was a knight from House Darry who served as the Red Keep's master-at-arms for King Aerys II Targaryen. He remained deeply loyal to House Targaryen during and after Robert's Rebellion. According to semi-canon sources, he was the brother of Ser Jonothor Darry of the Kingsguard.
Willem was staunchly loyal to House Targaryen. By the end of his life, he was a grey bear of a man who was half-blind
When a new master-at-arms of the Red Keep needed appointing, Lord Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King, wished to name his brother Ser Tygett to the post, but King Aerys II Targaryen chose Ser Willem instead.
When young Prince Rhaegar Targaryen decided that he must be a knight, he went to Ser Willem to be trained.
After King Aerys II learned of the death of Prince Rhaegar at the battle of the Trident, the king sent Queen Rhaella Targaryen and Prince Viserys to Dragonstone,
Willem and the Targaryen children then settled in Braavos, living in a house with a red door.
In a vision at the House of the Undying in Qarth, Daenerys Targaryen sees a room within the house with the red door, where Willem Darry beckons to her, but she remembers that he is dead and rejects it as false.
In Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen is visited by Prince Quentyn Martell, who presents her with a parchment. The parchment details the secret pact contracting a marriage between Viserys Targaryen and Arianne Martell, and is signed by Willem Darry for the Targaryens and Oberyn Martell for Dorne.
Eddard Stark: Ser Willem Darry is fled to Dragonstone, with your queen and Prince Viserys. I thought you might have sailed with him.
Oswell Whent: Ser Willem is a good man and true.
Little princess, there you are. Come, come to me, my lady, you're home now, you're safe now.
- Willem Darry to Daenerys Targaryen, in a vision at the House of the Undying
No one ever kept me safe when I was little. Well, Ser Willem did, but then he died.
– Daenerys Targaryen, to Missandei
Willem Frey is a member of House Frey. The second son of Ser Cleos Frey and Jeyne Darry,
Willem Lannister is a member of House Lannister. He is a son of Ser Kevan Lannister and Dorna Swyft. He is a squire.
Lord Gawen Westerling, a bannerman of his uncle, once suggested that Willem or his twin Martyn would marry Gawen's daughter, Jeyne. Kevan refused this offer because he considered Jeyne of dubious blood due to her mother's lineage.
Willem is part of the army of his cousin, Jaime Lannister, that invades the Riverlands. He fights in the Battle of the Whispering Wood and is captured there together with another cousin, Tion Frey, by Robb Stark.
Tyrion Lannister and Robb Stark attempt to negotiate Willem's release but no agreement is reached. he shares a room with Tion.
Lord Rickard Karstark's sons were both killed by Ser Jaime Lannister in the Battle of the Whispering Wood.
Robb Stark is furious about the killing of the captives. He executes Rickard with his accomplices.
After they have been murdered, Catelyn Tully sees the bodies of Willem and Tion Frey. She observed that one was blond, wore his hair long, and was trying to grow a beard. He was probably killed in his sleep. His cousin was brown-haired and had fought for his life. Both were pale from their imprisonment.
Ser Willem Wylde was a knight of House Wylde and a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.
When a place opened in the Kingsguard, Daeron II Targaryen gave the position to Ser Willem. Either Daeron did not know, or willfully ignored his father, Aegon IV's, promise to Ser Quentyn Ball that he would be raised to the Kingsguard. This was one of the contributing factors to Ser Quentyn siding with Daemon Blackfyre during the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
Ser Willem, along with his two fellow brothers of the Kingsguard, Ser Roland Crakehall and Ser Donnel of Duskendale, escorted the royal Targaryen prince's to Ashford for the tourney in 209 AC. After Prince Aerion Targaryen invoked the Trial of seven all three Kingsguard members present were made part of his seven. Ser Willem was carried off the field unconscious at the end of the trial.
Ser William Foxglove, also known as Will Foxglove, is a knight sworn to King Stannis Baratheon.
William accompanies Stannis to the Wall and remains with his army when they reach the crofters' village.
His Grace has seen victory in his fires, a victory that will be sung of for a thousand years in lord's castle and peasant's hut alike.
- William in the longhall of the crofters' village
William Mooton is Lord of Maidenpool and head of House Mooton. He is the brother of Ser Myles Mooton.
Lord William is fleshy with pale skin and he looks soft. He is cowardly and timid.
According to rumor, when Lord Mooton heard about the dangerous wolf pack led by a huge she-wolf around the Gods Eye, he set out with his sons and his dogs to hunt her down. When they found her lair, they were attacked and they just managed to escape, losing all their dogs in the process.
After the Battle of Duskendale, Lord Randyll Tarly marches on Maidenpool, takes the town and locks William in a tower cell.
Brienne of Tarth learns that during the War of the Five Kings, Lord William remained safely behind his walls while he sent soldiers off to fight and let Maidenpool burn.
William is present when Lord Tarly is dispensing justice; he fears Randyll and does not intervene in any of his decisions.
Mooton has the courage of a worm. You will not speak to me of Mooton.
- Randyll Tarly to Hyle Hunt
Willing Maiden is a galley from Yunkai. It is renamed Slaver's Scream after being captured by the ironborn.
The Willing Maiden's cargo is twenty boys and eighty girls, slaves to be trained in the pleasure houses of Lys. It is captured by the Iron Fleet north of Yunkai in Slaver's Bay and the slavers are killed. Although Victarion Greyjoy frees the enslaved rowers, they are forced to join the Iron Fleet. Victarion divides the girls among his captains and drowns the perfumed boys. The Lord Captain sacrifices the seven prettiest girls to the Drowned God and R'hllor and renames the galley Slaver's Scream.
Ser Willis Fell was a knight of House Fell and a member of the Kingsguard during the reigns of Viserys I and Aegon II Targaryen.
After the death of King Viserys I Targaryen, Willis choose the side of King Aegon II Targaryen in the ensuing civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
During the fall of King's Landing, Lord Larys Strong, the master of whisperers, smuggled Aegon, Princess Jaehaera, and Prince Maelor Targaryen to safety through a secret passage known only to Larys within Maegor's Holdfast. The party was accompanied by Willis and Ser Rickard Thorne of the Kingsguard. Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen offered rewards for information about the vanished "false knights", and Aegon's rival also sent knights inquisitor in search of Willis and Rickard.
Ser Willis Wode is a knight of House Wode and is a sworn to House Whent.
He is stiff-necked and stolid. He wields a spiked morningstar.
Ser Willis is at the crossroads inn when Catelyn Tully takes Tyrion Lannister prisoner. He is the first to proclaim his loyalty to House Tully and to agree in accompanying Lady Catelyn to the Eyrie with Tyrion as prisoner. He survives the ride through the Mountains of the Moon, and is the only Riverlands man-at-arms to survive the journey.
He remains at the Bloody Gate upon the party's arrival in the Vale of Arryn., though his whereabouts afterwards is unknown.
On the journey to lift the Siege of Riverrun, Ser Jaime Lannister and his host come across the the lands once held by the brothers Wode, two landed knights sworn to Harrenhal. Jaime encounters neither member of the Wode family or their smallfolk but finds both of their timber keeps burned down, and hangs several outlaws taking shelter in the cellar beneath one of the ruined halls.
Willit is a man-at-arms in service to House Swyft. He is grizzled.
When Ser Harys Swyft was trapped beneath his dying horse during the Battle of the Blackwater, Willit pulled him from under the horse and defended him against a dozen attackers. Willit's wounds were great. For his efforts he was awarded a spear with a silver-banded haft, a new suit of ringmail and a full helm with visor. His sons would be taken to Casterly Rock to serve House Lannister, the eldest as a squire, the younger as a page with the opportunity to rise to knighthood.
Willow can refer to:
Willow was the third of the four bastard children of King Aegon IV Targaryen and his second mistress, Megette.
Willow's mother Megette was the mistress of Prince Aegon for four years. Willow was the third of four daughters. After Prince Viserys discovered this, Megette was returned to her husband in the riverlands, while Willow and her three sisters were given to the Faith to be trained as a septa.
Willow. © Thrumugnyr
Willow is one of the Bastard's girls.
Willow Heddle is the younger sister of Jeyne Heddle, the new innkeep of the Crossroads Inn. She is the niece of Masha Heddle.
Willow appears to be nine or ten years old. She is wary of possibly dangerous strangers, and protective of younger children. She has a commanding personality, even at such a young age. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and is skinny.
When Brienne of Tarth's party pulls up outside the Crossroads Inn, Willow meets them at the door, surrounded by the orphan children that have taken refuge at the inn. She has the charge of the inn and the other children while her sister Jeyne is away, and accepts Septon Meribald's food in exchange for providing the party rooms at the inn, over Gendry's objections. As Brienne watches Willow command the orphans to prepare the food and the common room for dinner, she wonders if she might be Arya Stark in disguise.
When Rorge and the Brave Companions arrive at the inn, Willow confronts them, armed with a crossbow. Rorge threatens to rape and mutilate Willow, Brienne steps in to defend her, and a fight breaks out.
Gendry was the closest thing to a man grown, but it was Willow shouting all the orders, as if she were a queen in her castle and the other children were no more than servants. If she were highborn, command would come naturally to her, and deference to them.
— thoughts of Brienne of Tarth
One day that little girl will make some man a frightful wife. That poor ’prentice boy, most like.
Willow, better known as Willow Witch-eye is a wildling spearwife. She has a long black braid and witch-eye.
She accompanies Mance Rayder along with five other spearwives to Winterfell on a mission to free "Arya Stark" (the girl is actually Jeyne Poole) who is to wed Ramsay Snow. Mance is "Abel" a singer and the six spearwives are his mother, wife, two daughters and two sisters who perform the instruments with him.
They play at the wedding feast and are responsible for the deaths of several Bolton men at arms. They later enlist the help of a reluctant and fearful Theon Greyjoy in freeing Jeyne.
Willum is a knight in the riverlands. He is old. He may possibly be the Knight of Sherrer.
An old man from Sherrer once worked in Ser Willum's stables. Using the knowledge he got there, he could tell that those who raided Sherrer rode horses that were meant for war.
Ser Willum Royce was a knight of House Royce during the Dance of the Dragons.
Ser Willum was with the blacks in King's Landing. The Storming of the Dragonpit resulted in the loss of Ser Willum and the Valyrian steel sword Lamentation he bore.
The Wind Witch is a ship captained by Captain Qos. It is a sleek three-banked trading galley.
The Wind Witch is contracted by Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, to take his daughters, Sansa and Arya, from King's Landing, as Ned intends to inform King Robert I Baratheon of Queen Cersei Lannister's deceit when the king returns from hunting.
When Arya is living on the streets of the city, she goes to the river front to investigate stowing away aboard a ship and sees the Wind Witch with guards in the colors of Winterfell guarding it. She is about to go to them when she realizes she knows none of the guards. When the unknown guards notice her, she pretends to be a boy trying to sell them a pigeon she had killed and they tell her to scram.
Windblown, © Fantasy Flight Games
The Windblown are a mercenary company of two thousand mounted horse and foot soldiers.
The Windblown's standards are fork-tailed blue-and-white banners, with streamers of pale blue silk on their lances. Their command tent is a great grey sailcloth pavilion which the Tattered Prince calls his canvas castle. It can take the Windblown less than an hour to strike camp.
The men of the Windblown chose their own names, and can change them as they wish. The closest thing the Windblown have to a company tongue is classic High Valyrian.
The Tattered Prince takes a dim view of deserters and deals with them harshly by sending hunters after them. If the deserters are caught, a foot might be chopped off to make sure the deserter in question can never run again. The unlucky ones are given to Meris,
The Windblown were established around 270 AC.
There is enmity between the Windblown and the Company of the Cat. In 299 AC the two sellsword companies had been on opposite sides of the battle lines in the Disputed Lands, and bad blood continues to linger. Bloodbeard, the leader of the Company of the Cat, has a strong dislike for the Tattered Prince, and makes no secret of this, referring to his Windblown rivals as "old greybeards in rags".
The Yunkai'i contract and bring the Windblown from Volantis to fight for the Yellow City. The Yunkish Supreme Commander Yurkhaz zo Yunzak signs the Windblown's contract on behalf of the city of Yunkai.
Before leaving for Yunkai four Windblown serjeants set up a trestle table outside of the Merchant's House in Volantis, calling to every passing man and boy looking for fresh meat to fill their ranks. Prince Quentyn Martell and his companions, Ser Archibald Yronwood and Ser Gerris Drinkwater, join the Windblown, pledging their sword and service to the Tattered Prince for a year, as a way to reach Queen Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen.
To get to Yunkai the Windblown sail on an overcrowded ship tossed by wind and sea. They fight during the siege of Astapor and participate in sacking the city, after which they march for Yunkai.
The Westerosi contingent successfully contact Daario Naharis and offer themselves as recruits for his Stormcrows.
After Daenerys leaves Meereen, Quentyn contacts the Tattered Prince, requesting his aid in stealing one of the two remaining dragons. The Tattered Prince eventually agrees to help Quentyn, in exchange for Pentos.
Barristan, acting as Hand of the Queen while Daenerys is absent, eventually sends Archibald and Gerrold to the Windblown with an offer of alliance against Yunkai. Barristan plans to release the other feigned deserters of the Windblown as well, so Archibald and Gerrold can go unnoticed in the Yunkish camps, and is willing to promise Pentos to the Tattered Prince in exchange for the safe return of the hostages given to Yunkai by Meereen.
As the second siege of Meereen begins Tyrion Lannister surveys the scene and sees a column of mounted men flash past the Harridan trebuchet, flying the blue banners of the Windblown. Shortly thereafter, while the Second Sons are in a meeting, they are informed that Gorzhak zo Eraz has been slain by the Tattered Prince and the Windblown have gone over to Daenerys Targaryen.
The Windblown are comprised out of two thousand men in total, both infantry and cavalry.
Captain-generals
Soldiers
Windproud was a two-masted galley belonging to House Baratheon. It had a hundred oarsmen and sailors.
Lord Steffon Baratheon and his wife, Lady Cassana Estermont, took Windproud to the Free Cities to search for a wife for Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, the son of King Aerys II Targaryen. On their return trip, however, the ship broke up during a storm in Shipbreaker Bay. Robert and Stannis Baratheon watched the destruction of their parents' ship from Storm's End. All lives were lost with the exception of Patchface, who washed up on shore, half-mad.
I stopped believing in gods the day I saw the Windproud break up across the bay. Any gods so monstrous as to drown my mother and father would never have my worship, I vowed.
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented fruit juice,, with some vastly superior to others.
Wine is popular among the nobility, whereas the smallfolk generally prefer beer. Wine is kept in casks and served in flagons. It can be watered down when preferable,
Wine is also used in healthcare. Boiling wine can be used to disinfect wounds prior to binding them up, either by pouring it directly into the wound
The castle of House Celtigar on Claw Isle contain cellars with enough wine to keep a man drunk for a hundred years.
A Gift of Arbor Red - © FFG
King Robert Baratheon's wine cellar - © FFG
In Westeros, most wines are produced in the south, and the Arbor is famed for its wines.
The Dornish, however, might refer to red wines from the Arbor as "red water".
At the Wall, the brothers of the Night's Watch drink hot mulled wine, spiced with cloves and nutmeg.
Many of the cities found across the narrow sea produce their own brands of wine. Among the Free Cities, sweet red wines are produced in Lys and Volantis.
The wine from Slaver's Bay is thin and pale.
The Unsullied from Astapor drink the wine of courage, which numbs them.
Further east, other wines can be found. In Qarth, dreamwine is flavored with strange spices.
Unknown vintages can be found in Yi Ti and Asshai.
Other wines found in the known world are firewine,
During the Dance of the Dragons, the Caltrops intended to murder Ulf the White by poisoning his wine. When Ulf became suspicious of Ser Hobert Hightower, Hobert agreed to drink from the same wine as Ulf. Both died from the poisoned wine.
King Robert Baratheon in his cups - © FFG
Lord Jon Arryn, Hand of the King, is murdered by his own wife, Lady Lysa Arryn, who poisons Jon's wine with the tears of Lys.
Ser Jorah Mormont saves Princess Daenerys Targaryen from an attempted poisoning, by stopping her from drinking poisonous wine.
Lancel Lannister provides King Robert I Baratheon with fortified wine, three times as strong as usual.
In order to temporarily eliminate his sister, Queen Cersei Lannister, for a few days, Tyrion Lannister eventually resorts to poisoning her wine.
Daenerys visits the Pureborn of Qarth. While the Pureborn are notorious for offering poisoned wine to those they consider dangerous, she is not even offered a cup of water.
King Joffrey I Baratheon is killed at his own wedding feast by drinking poisoned wine.
When travelling towards Meereen in secret, Prince Quentyn Martell and his companions, Gerris Drinkwater and Archibald Yronwood pretend to be merchants looking to sell their Dornish wine.
The giant Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun takes a liking to wine after trying it at Castle Black.
During his journey through Essos, Tyrion learns that Lord Varys swapped Prince Aegon Targaryen with an infant whose features resembled Aegon close enough, preventing Aegon from being killed during the Sack of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion. According to Aegon, Varys had purchased the child who had died in his stead by trading him for a jug of Arbor gold.
Winesinks, taverns, and inns are popular places to drink wine and other alcoholic beverages in Westeros and Essos.
Westeros:
Essos and beyond:
The world is full of wine.
– Tyrion Lannister to himself
I mean to sail to Westeros and drink the wine of vengeance from the skull of the Usurper.
- Daenerys Targaryen to Xaro Xhoan Daxos
You see the wonders than can be worked with lies and Arbor gold?
- Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark
Japes are one way to keep the fear away. Wine's another.
– Tyrion Lannister to Penny
The wine of courage is a wine-like mixture of nightshade, bloodfly larva, black lotus root, and many secret things. It is a numbing agent which makes the drinker feel less and less with every consumption. It is created by the Astapori and given to the Unsullied at every meal from the day they are cut, so the eunuch soldiers are more able to endure pain.
A knight in a winesink - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
A winesink is a disreputable pub often frequented by the rougher sort of patron. They are usually seedy, unsavory places of ill-repute. Whores can be found plying their trade in winesinks.
Winesinks primarily serve wine and are also known to offer food.
Winesinks are usually fund in the more squalid parts of towns and cities. They are an excellent source of gossip.
Todder’s father owned a winesink.
The Winged Knight was a legendary First Man figure of the Vale from the Age of Heroes thousands of years before the Andal invasion. He is sometimes conflated with Ser Artys Arryn, an Andal who conquered the Vale for House Arryn and was known as the Falcon Knight.
Among the hundreds of stories told about him, the Winged Knight is said to have flown upon a huge falcon and had armies of eagles at this command. He won the the Vale by slaying the Griffin King atop the Giant's Lance. He is said to have been friendly with giants and merlings. His wife, one of the children of the forest, died giving birth to his son.
The existence of the Winged Knight is questioned by Maester Yandel, who includes the knight with other legendary heroes such as Lann the Clever and Bran the Builder. Archmaester Perestan theorized that the story of a huge falcon derives from dragonriders.
Yandel suggests that singers combined the figure of the Winged Knight with that of Ser Artys Arryn, who won the Vale for the Andals from the First Men in the Battle of the Seven Stars, to curry favor with the Kings of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.
Young Lord Robert Arryn's favorite stories are those of the Winged Knight. He demands three stories of Ser Artys from Alayne Stone before he agrees to prepare for his departure from the Eyrie.
After Alayne notices that Robert is always comforted when she reads him tales of his legendary ancestor, Ser Artys Arryn, the Winged Knight, she has the idea that he would feel safer if he were surrounded by his own bodyguard of Winged Knights. Lord Petyr Baelish, regent for Robert, likes her idea and immediately set plans in motion to form the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. The winners of a tourney at the Gates of the Moon will become the first eight members of the new knightly order, and serve Robert for the next three years. Sixty-four knights from across the Vale of Arryn come to the tourney to compete for the eight positions.
Winter's Kings, or the Legends and Lineages of the Starks of Winterfell is a book written by Maester Childer about House Stark, the one-time Kings of Winter from Winterfell. It contains part of a ballad alleged to tell of the time Brandon the Builder sought the aid of the children of the forest while raising the Wall.
The Winter Fever is a disease which was common during the terrible hard winter which had begun in 130 AC and ended in 135 AC, lasting six years.
The winter which had begun during the Dance of the Dragons, officially declared on Maiden's Day, lasted for six years, leading to the Winter Fever claiming multiple victims amongst the highborn at the king's court.
The following people are known to have died of Winter Fever:
"Winter Is Coming" is the first episode of medieval fantasy television series *Game of Thrones*. Running 62 minutes long, it premiered April 17, 2011., and how its lord gets involved in the court politics after the king chooses him to replace his recently dead Hand.
The rangers leaving the Wall.
The episode opens with three rangers of the Night's Watch scouting beyond the Wall, following the track of a group of wildings. After finding their mutilated corpses, they are surprised by the White Walkers. Two of them are killed, while the youngest is able to flee, seemingly at the will of the White Walker. Aft er the opening sequence, the Starks of Winterfell are introduced. Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark (Sean Bean) is informed that a deserter of the Night's Watch, the young ranger from the prologue, has been captured. Men of the Night's Watch are sworn never to desert their northern posts, upon penalty of death. Lord Stark takes with him his heir Robb (Richard Madden), his bastard son Jon Snow (Kit Harington), and his ten-year-old son Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) to come with him to witness the execution. Upon their return, the Starks find the pups of a dead direwolf. Given that the direwolf is the sigil of the family and there are as many pups as the Stark children (even an albino runt for Jon), they take the pups with them.Back at Winterfell, Lady Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) informs her husband that a raven has come bearing a letter that announces the death of Jon Arryn, The Hand of the King and Eddard's old mentor. The message also reports that the king himself is coming to Winterfell. Winterfell receives the royal court where King Robert (Mark Addy) confides to his old friend Ned that he doesn't trust anyone around him. He decides to name Ned as the new Hand of the King, and to solidify the alliance between the two families he suggests that Ned's daughter, Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) be betrothed to his son and the heir of the crown, Prince Joffrey (Jack Gleeson).At night, Catelyn receives a troubling message from her sister, Lord Arryn's widow. She suspects her husband Jon was murdered by the king's family-in-law, the powerful Lannisters. Ned, who at first was reluctant to accept the position of Hand of the King, finally does so in order to protect his old friend.On an abandoned section of Winterfell, young Bran enjoys climbing on the walls where he stumbles on Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) having sex with her twin brother Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). In order to keep the incestuous relationship a secret, Jaime shoves the boy out of the high window.
Khal Drogo arriving to meet his bride.
The exiled prince Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd) plots to overthrow King Robert and reclaim his father's throne. To this end, he brokers a marriage between his sister Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and the powerful horselord Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) in exchange for the Khal's army. Daenerys voices her fear of the barbarian lord, but her brother forces her to marry him against her will. During the wedding ceremony, Daenerys is given two particular wedding gifts. The first gifts are books from the Seven Kingdoms by Ser Jorah Mormont, an exiled knight who swears his fealty to the Targaryens. The second gifts are three dragon eggs by Magister Illyrio Mopatis, the man who helped arrange the marriage between her and Khal Drogo. After the ceremony, Drogo removes Daenerys' clothing as she cries. He then pushes her to the ground and the scene ends.
The series began development in January 2007. However, due to artistic and casting reasons, it was decided that the pilot would not serve as the first episode and a reshoot was in order. The actors appearing in the original pilot that did not return for the series were:
Another difference is that the pilot featured scenes shot in Scotland (where Doune Castle was used to recreate Winterfell) and Morocco (reusing the sets of Kingdom of Heaven to stand in for Pentos)..The pilot remained unaired and the first episode was filmed by new director Tim Van Patten, although some scenes from the original pilot were used in the final cut.
Scripted by the show creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, the first episode includes the plot of the prologue and first six chapters of the book, the eighth, and the 11th (the second Daenerys chapter is pulled forward ahead of events that will be covered in the next episode). Prologue, Bran I, Catelyn I, Daenerys I, Eddard I, Jon I, Catelyn II, Daenerys II, Bran II) The main changes in the adaptation to the screen are the modification of the sequence of events in the prologue (most significantly, in the books it is Gared and not Will who survives and is beheaded by Eddard afterwards), the introduction of the Lannisters twins as independent point-of-view with new scenes created to show their perspective, and the modification of Daenerys' wedding night with Drogo having sex without waiting for her consent. The creators stated that this last change was made to simplify the narrative arc, having the situation improve gradually.
The first episode of Game of Thrones obtained 2.2 million viewers in its premiere airing, with an additional 2 million viewers in the reruns aired during the same night. The day after the premiere HBO aired the episode six additional times, adding another 1.2 million to the viewer's figures.
The critical response to the first episode of the series was overwhelmingly positive. James Poniewozik from Time considered it an "epic win",
Roaming Wolfpack by Sebastian Rodriguez. © FFG
The Winter Wolves were the northmen soldiers under the command of Lord Roderick "Roddy the Ruin" Dustin that supported the claim of Rhaenyra Targaryen. They joined the blacks against the greens during the Dance of the Dragons.
Upon the outbreak of civil war Prince Jacaerys Velaryon traveled to White Harbor and Winterfell to ask the Manderlys and the Starks to support the blacks. Cregan Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, sent two thousand soldiers, the so-called Winter Wolves, under the command of Lord Roderick Dustin south to aid the blacks after they gathered at Barrowton. The Manderlys separately sent knights under the command of Ser Medrick Manderly and Ser Torrhen Manderly to support the claim of Rhaenyra Targaryen.
The grizzled Winter Wolves rode shaggy northern horses and used axes, mauls, spiked maces, and ancient iron swords. They led the attack and charged the Lannister spearmen five times in the battle by the Lakeshore, with two-thirds of the northmen killed or wounded in their victory. In the Butcher's Ball, Lord Dustin sounded the charge of the northmen and their river knight allies against Ser Criston the Kingmaker.
Screaming northern war cries, the surviving Winter Wolves rode from a postern gate in the first Battle of Tumbleton. Although outnumbered ten to one, Roderick led the northmen to strike at Lord Ormund Hightower. Roddy the Ruin managed to slay Lord Ormund and Ser Bryndon Hightower before succumbing to his wounds.
Blue roses
The winter rose is a pale blue flower the color of frost.
According to legend, Bael the Bard climbed the Wall, took the kingsroad, and entered Winterfell as a singer under the name Sygerrik of Skagos. There he sang until midnight for Lord Brandon Stark. Impressed by Bael's skills as a singer, Brandon asked him what he wanted as a reward. Bael answered by requesting the most beautiful flower blooming in Winterfell's gardens. As the blue winter roses were just blooming, Brandon agreed to offer him one. The following morning the single virgin daughter of the lord had disappeared. In her bed was the rose Bael had received from her father.
Lyanna Stark loved the scent of blue winter roses.
Lyanna Stark with blue winter roses. © Marcos Feittosa
Eddard Stark recalls that when his sister Lyanna died, rose petals spilled from her palm, now dead and black.
While in the House of the Undying in Qarth, Daenerys Targaryen has a vision of a sweet-scented blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice.
The wildling Ygritte tells Jon Snow of Bael the Bard, a legendary King-Beyond-the-Wall, a story she calls "the song o' the winter rose."
After capturing Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy dreams of the feast that Eddard held for King Robert I Baratheon at Winterfell, except the feasters are all dead. Although he never met her, Theon thinks his vision of a slim, sad girl wearing a a crown of pale blue roses can only be Lyanna.
As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. "Eddard!" she called. A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death.
- dream of Eddard Stark
Ned remembered the moment when all the smiles died, when Prince Rhaegar Targaryen urged his horse past his own wife, the Dornish princess Elia Martell, to lay the queen of beauty's laurel in Lyanna's lap. He could see it still: a crown of winter roses, blue as frost. Ned Stark reached out his hand to grasp the flowery crown, but beneath the pale blue petals the thorns lay hidden. He felt them clawing at his skin, sharp and cruel, saw the slow trickle of blood run down his fingers, and woke, trembling, in the dark.
- dream of Eddard Stark
Ygritte: And she never sung you the song o' the winter rose?
Jon: I never knew my mother. Or any such song.
Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious.
Winter town
The north and the location of the winter town
The winter town is a town located outside of Winterfell, the seat of House Stark in the north. During autumn and winter it is one of the largest northern settlements, along with White Harbor and Barrowton.
Winter town beneath the walls of Winterfell by Ted Nasmith ©
The winter town has rows of small and neat houses built of log and undressed stone. Its streets are muddy.
The kingsroad lies past the sprawl of castle and town,
During spring and summer, four-fifths of the winter town's homes are empty.
Some townfolk claim that the hot springs of Winterfell are warmed by a dragon that sleeps below the castle.
After receiving a frosty greeting from Robb Stark in Winterfell, Tyrion Lannister decides to stay in an inn in the winter town, rather than in the castle.
Robb, Bran Stark, and Theon Greyjoy ride through the winter town on their way to the wolfswood. Most townspeople have become accustomed to their direwolves, Grey Wind and Summer.
The winter town becomes full when Robb calls the northern banners in response to the Iron Throne's imprisonment of his father, Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell. The townspeople cheer Robb when he leads the soldiers south along the kingsroad.
Some smallfolk from the town attend the harvest feast in Winterfell.
After the capture of Winterfell by Theon's ironborn during the War of the Five Kings,
Theon unsuccessfully parleys with Ser Rodrik Cassel in the market square after Rodrik gathers an army of Stark loyalists to retake Winterfell. The square is defended by Rodrik's men, including spearmen, archers atop the houses, and knights from White Harbor.
The remnants of the winter town are buried by the blizzard striking the north.
When the snow fell and the ice winds howled down out of the north, Old Nan said, farmers left their frozen fields and distant holdfasts, loaded up their wagons, and then the winter town came alive.
—thoughts of Bran Stark
Wintercake is a cake popular in Norvos. Its ingredients include pine nuts, ginger, and bits of cherry.*
Winterfell
The north and the location of Winterfell
Winterfell is the ancestral castle and seat of power of House Stark and is considered to be the capital of the north. It is located in the center of the northernmost province of the Seven Kingdoms, on the kingsroad that runs from Storm's End to the Wall. It is situated at the eastern edge of the wolfswood, north of the western branch of the White Knife and Castle Cerwyn. Winterfell is south of the northern mountains and southwest of Long Lake,
Vayon Poole is the castle's steward, while Maester Luwin advises Lord Eddard Stark. Ser Rodrik Cassel serves as Winterfell's master-at-arms and his nephew Jory Cassel is captain of the House Stark guards. Septon Chayle maintains the castle's sept and Septa Mordane tutors the Stark children. Other servants include the master of horse Hullen, the kennelmaster Farlen, the blacksmith Mikken, the cook Gage,
See also: Images of Winterfell
Winterfell is a huge castle complex spanning several acres and protected by two massive walls.
Inside the walls, the complex is composed of dozens of courtyards and small open spaces. Weapons training and practice take place in those yards. The inner ward is a second, much older open space in the castle where archery practice takes place. It is located next to the broken tower. Inside Winterfell stands the inner castle, which contains the Great Keep and the Great Hall.
The Great Keep is the innermost castle and stronghold of the castle complex. It was built over natural hot springs to keep it warm.
The Great Hall is used for receiving guests and the place where the household would dine together, including the lord of the house. The Great Hall is very large. On the outside it is enclosed with grey stone and covered with banners, with wide doors made of oak and iron, which opens to the castle yard, whilst a rear exit leads to a dimly-lit gallery. Inside it can hold eight long rows of trestle tables, four to each side of the central aisle, and can seat five hundred people. There is a raised platform for noble guests.
The small sept was built for Lady Catelyn Tully, a southron, by her husband, Lord Eddard Stark.
Fan-made map of Winterfell prior to *A Dance with Dragons*. 1.North Gate 2.Broken Tower 3.Glass Garden 4.Crypts 5.First Keep 6.Godswood 7.Guards Hall 8.East Gate 9.Armory 10.Hunter's Gate 11.Kennels 12.Guest House 13. Bridge between the Armory and the Great Keep 14.Great Keep 15.Maester's Turret 16.Kitchen 17.Courtyard 18.Bell Tower 19.Library Tower 20.Sept 21.Stables 22.Great Hall 23.Smithy 24.South Gate
The First Keep, a squat and round drum tower, is the oldest surviving part of the castle but is no longer in use. Around it lies a lichyard where the Kings of Winter would lay their loyal servants. The keep has gargoyles atop it.
The broken tower, also known as the Burned Tower, was once the tallest watchtower in Winterfell. Over one hundred forty years ago a lightning strike set it afire and the top third collapsed inward, but no one bothered to rebuild it.
The ancient godswood of Winterfell has stood untouched for ten thousand years, with three acres of old packed earth and close together trees creating a dense canopy, which the castle was raised around. At the center of the grove stands an ancient weirwood with a face carved into it, standing over a pool of black water. Across the godswood from the heart tree, beneath the windows of the Guest House, an underground hot spring feeds three small pools, with a moss-covered wall looming above them. The godswood is enclosed by walls, and is accessed by a main iron gate, or smaller wooden ones.
The glass garden is a greenhouse heated by the hot springs, which turn it into a place of moist warmth.
The crypt of Winterfell, located near the First Keep, is where members of House Stark are buried. The underground crypts are long and narrow, with pillars moving two by two along its length. Between pillars stand the sepulchers of the Starks of Winterfell, the likenesses of the dead seated on thrones, with iron swords set before them to keep the restless spirits from wandering, and snarling direwolves at their feet. The crypts are located deep under the earth, cavernous and bigger than the complex above ground. They are accessed by a twisting stone stair and a huge ironwood door that lies at a slant to the floor. The stair continues below to older levels where the most ancient Kings in the North are entombed.
The Bell Tower is connected to the rookery by a bridge. The bridge is covered and runs from the fourth floor of the tower to the second floor of the rookery.
The maester's turret is located below the rookery.
The Library Tower houses the library at Winterfell. A stonework staircase winds about its exterior.
The Guards Hall is in line with the Bell Tower, and further back, the First Keep.
Winterfell - Illustrated by Federico Musetti © Fantasy Flight Games
Gates of Winterfell - Illustrated by Mariusz Gandzel © Fantasy Flight Games
Winterfell is a huge castle complex spanning several acres, defended by two massive walls of grey granite with a wide moat between them. The outer wall is eighty feet high, while the inner is one hundred feet high, with a wide moat between them. There are guard turrets on the outer wall and more than thirty watch turrets on the crenelated inner walls.
The great main gates
There is a narrow tunnel inside of the inner wall stretching halfway around the castle, allowing travel from the south gate all the way to the north gate without interruption.
The Hunter's Gate is a gate located close to the kennels and the kitchens. It opens directly onto open fields and the wolfswood, so people can come and go without having to cross through the winter town. It is favored by hunting parties.
The East Gate may be another name for the same gate.
The Battlements Gate is a small arched postern in the inner wall. It crosses the moat between the walls but does not have a passageway through the outer wall.
The winter town, so called because it lies mostly deserted during summer, is where smallfolk gather in winter. It is located outside the walls of Winterfell. Its market square is filled with wooden stalls for merchants, while its streets are muddy and lined with rows of houses made from log and undressed stone. Less than one in five are occupied during the summer, but they fill up once winter arrives.
Winterfell throne by Marc Simonetti ©
The Great Keep by Eric Lofgren © Fantasy Flight Games
According to legend, Winterfell was built by Brandon the Builder, who was aided by giants,
For most of recorded history Winterfell was the seat of House Stark, the Kings in the North and later Wardens of the North, after King Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons. During the wars between the Kings of Winter from House Stark and the Red Kings from House Bolton, Winterfell was burned by Kings Royce II and Royce IV Bolton of the Dreadfort prior to the Andal invasion of Westeros.
Maester Kennet determined that the First Keep, the oldest surviving part of the castle,
According to free folk legend, Bael the Bard once entered Winterfell under the guise of a singer named Sygerrik. Leaving behind only a winter rose, Bael supposedly disappeared with the daughter of Lord Brandon Stark after tricking the lord. The daughter eventually reappeared with an infant, a future Lord Stark, the story claiming that they had been hiding in the crypt of Winterfell.
King Torrhen Stark called the banners to Winterfell during Aegon's Conquest, but the King Who Knelt eventually submitted to Aegon the Conqueror at the Trident.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon visited Winterfell and gained Cregan Stark for the cause of Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks.
At the start of Robert's Rebellion, Lord Eddard Stark left the Eyrie and crossed the Mountains of the Moon and the Bite to return to the north, where he raised the northern banners.
Mance Rayder once accompanied Lord Commander Qorgyle in a visit from the Wall to Winterfell to see Lord Eddard. have been hosted in Winterfell for centuries.
Catelyn visits Ned by the heart tree - by Thomas Denmark. © Fantasy Flight Games
Lord Eddard Stark hosts King Robert I Baratheon and the royal family at Winterfell after the death of Lord Jon Arryn. They visit the crypt so Robert can pay his respects to Lyanna Stark.
Robb Stark remains in the castle when Eddard travels south to King's Landing to serve as the new Hand of the King. A fire is started in the Library Tower in order to distract the guards during the catspaw's attempt on Bran's life.
When Robb hears that Eddard has been taken prisoner in King's Landing, he raises the northern bannerman and marches south to rescue his father. Bran remains as the Stark in Winterfell. The direwolf Lady is buried in the lichyard of the First Keep.
Winterfell by Feliche©
Bran, the Stark in Winterfell in Robb's absence, hosts numerous northern lords for the harvest feast.".
During the War of the Five Kings, Winterfell is captured in a surprise attack by the ironmen led by Theon Greyjoy.
Ser Rodrik Cassel assembles near two thousand northmen to retake Winterfell from Theon. Ramsay Snow, the castellan of the Dreadfort, leads the Bolton soldiers in betraying their fellow northmen, however, and Rodrik's army is destroyed in a battle outside Winterfell's gates. Ramsay then double-crosses Theon, takes him prisoner, and has the Dreadfort men sack and burn Winterfell.
The surviving women and children of Winterfell are taken to the Dreadfort by Ramsay Snow,
Due to the alleged deaths of Bran and Rickon Stark, Sansa Stark is now considered the heir to Winterfell. For this title Lady Olenna Tyrell plots to have Sansa married to the heir of Highgarden, Willas Tyrell. When Lord Tywin Lannister is informed of this he has his son, Tyrion, marry her instead, to both Sansa and Tyrion's reluctance.
Sansa Stark making a snow-castle of Winterfell at the Eyrie - by Michael Komarck.©
After King Robb Stark marries Jeyne Westerling, he tells his mother, Catelyn Stark, that he plans to legitimize his brother, Jon Snow of the Night's Watch, and name him heir of Winterfell and King in the North should he and Jeyne not have a child. Due to Sansa's marriage to Tyrion, Robb fears that Sansa will give Tyrion a son and thus control of Winterfell which Robb wants to prevent. Catelyn pleads that Robb consider naming his other sister, Arya, as heir, but Robb insists that no one has seen Arya since his father Eddard's death and that Arya is likely also dead. Robb signs the decree naming Jon his heir,.
As Sansa hides at the Eyrie after the murder of Joffrey I Baratheon, she reminisces fondly about Winterfell and makes a castle of snow in its likeness with the aid of Petyr Baelish.
At the Wall, in exchange for Jon Snow recognizing Stannis Baratheon as king, Stannis offers to legitimize him, which would make him Lord Jon Stark of Winterfell. However, Jon refuses Stannis and he instead becomes the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Asha Greyjoy informs Lord Rodrik Harlaw that when she and her ironborn searched Winterfell for Theon they found only scattered bodies scavenged by wolves.
Winterfell illustrated by Lino Drieghe © Fantasy Flight Games
King Stannis Baratheon reminds Jon Snow that he had hoped to bestow Winterfell on him, and that his offer was thrown in his face. Jon replies that by right Winterfell should go to his sister, Sansa Stark. Stannis asks Jon if he is eager to see the Imp, Tyrion Lannister, perched on Eddard Stark's seat. He promises Jon that as long as he, Stannis, is alive that will not happen.
Lord Roose Bolton, the new Warden of the North, moves the wedding of his newly-legitimized son, Ramsay Bolton, to "Arya Stark", who is actually Jeyne Poole, from Barrowton to Winterfell.
Ramsay marries "Arya" in the godswood and becomes Lord of Winterfell, with Theon Greyjoy giving Jeyne away. Lord Wyman Manderly furnishes the wedding feast and asks the singer Abel to sing of the Rat Cook.
During a winter storm that hits Winterfell, squires build snowmen on the battlements. A dozen snowy lords are built to command them, including depictions of Lord Manderly, Lord Harwood Stout, Lady Barbrey Dustin, and Whoresbane Umber on the battlements. Theon and Barbrey discover that swords are missing from the crypts.
After Freys fight with Manderly men, Roose sends the Freys out the main gate and the Manderlys out the east gate. They are to march on Stannis's army, which is said to be three days march from Winterfell. Amidst the commotion, Theon and "Arya" flee the castle by passing through the Battlements Gate, climbing a stair to the battlements, and leaping into the snow.
It is believed among Stannis's army that Arnolf Karstark, castellan of Karhold, would receive Winterfell should it be taken from the Boltons.
Roose has sent out the Freys and Manderlys, as well as Ramsay and his men, but he has kept much of his own strength behind in Winterfell. According to Theon, who has been brought to Stannis by Mors Umber, Roose is keeping his own men back as a reserve, as he once did in the riverlands, to weaken potential rivals.
Mors had his troops built pits outside the main gate. The Freys ride into them, causing Aenys Frey to break his neck.
Bran could perch for hours among the shapeless, rain-worn gargoyles that brooded over the First Keep, watching it all: the men drilling with wood and steel in the yard, the cooks tending their vegetables in the glass garden, restless dogs running back and forth in the kennels, the silence of the godswood, the girls gossiping beside the washing well. It made him feel like he was lord of the castle, in a way even Robb would never know. It taught him Winterfell's secrets too. The builders had not even leveled the earth; there were hills and valleys behind the walls of Winterfell. There was a covered bridge that went from the fourth floor of the bell tower across to the second floor of the rookery. Bran knew about that. And he knew you could get inside the inner wall by the south gate, climb three floors and run all the way around Winterfell through a narrow tunnel in the stone, and then come out on ground level at the north gate, with a hundred feet of wall looming over you. Even Maester Luwin didn't know that, Bran was convinced.
—Bran Stark's thoughts
He remembered Winterfell as he had last seen it. Not as grotesquely huge as Harrenhal, nor as solid and impregnable to look at as Storm's End, yet there had been a great strength in those stones, a sense that within those walls a man might feel safe. The news of the castle’s fall had come as a wrenching shock.
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark.
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
"The Prince of Winterfell." Of Winterfell burned and tumbled, its people scattered and slain. The glass gardens were smashed, and hot water gushed from the cracked walls to steam beneath the sun. How can you be the prince of someplace you might never see again?
—Bran Stark's thoughts
The weirwood was the heart of Winterfell, Lord Eddard always said ... but to save the castle Jon would have to tear that heart up by its ancient roots, and feed it to the red woman's hungry fire god. I have no right. Winterfell belongs to the old gods.
—Jon Snow's thoughts
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.
—Sansa Stark's thoughts, at the Eyrie
Petyr: May I come into your castle, my lady?
Sansa: Don’t break it. Be ...
Petyr: ... gentle? Winterfell has withstood fiercer enemies than me. It is Winterfell, is it not?
Sansa: Yes.
Petyr: I used to dream of it, in those years after Cat went north with Eddard Stark. In my dreams it was ever a dark place, and cold.
Sansa: No. It was always warm, even when it snowed. Water from the hot springs is piped through the walls to warm them, and inside the glass gardens it was always like the hottest day of summer.—Sansa Stark makes a snow castle of Winterfell with Petyr Baelish
Winterfell was full of ghosts for Theon Greyjoy.
—Theon Greyjoy's thoughts
It was my home, though. Not a true home, but the best I ever knew.
—Theon Greyjoy's thoughts
Wisdom is the title used by full member of the Alchemists' Guild of King's Landing, a learned society that knows how to make wildfire. They are known colloquially as pyromancers.
A Wise Master atop his litter, being carried by slaves. © FFG
The Wise Masters are the ruling class of Yunkai.
“They style themselves the Wise Masters. Of their wisdom I cannot speak, but they do not lack for cunning.”
Witch Isle is an island located on the seas before the Vale of Arryn and the seat of House Upcliff. It was brought under the rule of House Arryn by the marriage of Alester II Arryn to Arwen Upcliff.
The Wolf's Den is an ancient castle
King Jon Stark raised the Wolf's Den to defend the mouth of the White Knife from raiders from the sea. It was the seat of younger sons, brothers, uncles and cousins to the King in the North. Some passed the castle to their sons and grandsons, and cadet branches of House Stark had arisen. The Greystarks lasted the longest, holding the Wolf's Den for five centuries, until they joined the Dreadfort in rebellion against the Starks of Winterfell.
After the Greystarks, the castle switched many hands. House Flint held it for century, and House Locke for almost two. Slates, Longs, Holts and Ashwoods held the Wolf's Den, charged by Winterfell to keep the river safe. Reavers from the Three Sisters took the castle once, and made it their toehold in the north. During the wars between the North and the Vale, it was besieged by Osgood Arryn, the Old Falcon, and burned by his son, called the Talon.
The Wolf's Den was captured by slavers from the Stepstones when Edrick Stark had grown too feeble to defend his realm. A long, cruel winter came that froze the White Knife, when the slavers were huddled around their fires, Edrick's great-grandson, the new king called "Ice Eyes", took back the Wolf's Den. He stripped the slavers naked and gave them to the slaves chained up in the dungeon. They, among those Ser Bartimus's ancestors, hung the slavers' entrails in the branches of the heart tree as an offering to the old gods.
A thousand years before the War of Conquest, the Manderlys received the Wolf's Den from the Starks. They took oaths before the old gods and the new to be the Starks' men forever in return for protection from their enemies and the land that became the city of White Harbor.
Ser Bartimus received the Wolf's Den from Lord Wyman Manderly as a reward for saving his life at the Battle of the Trident.
Lord Wyman Manderly rejects Lord Davos Seaworth's attempt to gain House Manderly for the cause of King Stannis Baratheon and instead has Davos imprisoned within the Wolf's Den.
The ground floor contains a barracks. The cell that Davos is imprisoned in is large and unexpectedly comfortable; Davos think it may once have a lordling's bedchamber. It contains a hearth large enough to hold a kettle and a privy in a corner nook. The cell's floor consists of warped planks. The walls are solid stone and the door is made of oak and iron. Beneath Davos's cell are true dungeons in the castle's cellars, including oubliettes, torture chambers, and rat-filled pits.
The castle contains a godswood with a weirwood heart tree so large its limbs pass through walls and windows. Amongst several cellars, a barrel-vaulted cellar has walls covered with salt and a floor sloshing with seawater. Past the cellars are rows of smaller, foul-smelling cells. There is also a long tunnel that secretly runs below the Castle Stair connecting the Wolf's Den and the New Castle.
Wolf in the Night - by Serena Malyon. © Fantasy Flight Games
"Wolf in the Night" is a song about the Battle of Oxcross.
And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolf, and the wind itself was their song.
Rymund the Rhymer writes the song about King Robb Stark's victory at the Battle of Oxcross.
Wolfsbane is a poison.
Tyrion Lannister sees wolfsbane in Grand Maester Pycelle's collection of medicines and poisons.
During Tyrion Lannister's trial for the death of King Joffrey Baratheon, Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole a sample of wolfsbane as well as other drugs from Pycelle's collection.
Wolfswood
The north and the location of the wolfswood
Hunting party in the wolfswood - by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games
The wolfswood is a large forest in the north named for the great many wolves one can hear howling in the night.
The wolfswood stretches across the northwestern part of the north.
The wolfswood is made up of oak, evergreen and black brier,
Even in the deepest parts of the wolfswood, there are crofters, foresters and hunters.
The wolfswood - by Eric Lofgren © Fantasy Flight Games
According to the traditions of House Blackwood, the family once controlled most of what is now the wolfswood before being driven from the north by the Kings of Winter, the Starks of Winterfell. The Blackwoods then settled at Raventree Hall in the riverlands, where they ruled as kings before the Andal invasion.
Parts of the wolfswood were reduced to ashes by Harrag Hoare, King of the Iron Islands.
Jory Cassel once brought Robb Stark, Bran Stark, and Jon Snow into the wolfswood to fish for trout in a rushing stream near Winterfell.
En route to Castle Black, Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister travel on the kingsroad through the eastern wolfswood. They are met by Yoren at a wooden holdfast near the edge of the forest.
Bran Stark is attacked by deserters of the Night's Watch and wildlings, including Osha, while riding in the wolfswood near Winterfell.
Theon Greyjoy leads a group hunting Bran and Rickon Stark by Marc Simonetti
After hearing of the ironborn threat to Torrhen's Square, Maester Luwin sends ravens to White Harbor, the barrowlands, and the deepest parts of the wolfswood with instructions to summon their levies.
After Bran and his companions, Osha, Hodor, and Meera and Jojen Reed, vanish from Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy follows a trail that leads north by northwest into the misty wolfswood. His hunting party passes near treacherous gullies, stony hills, a deserted crofter's cottage, and a flooded quarry.
Bran and his companions travel north to the Wall. Rather than take the kingsroad from Winterfell, they detour around the western edge of the hills north of the castle.
At Deepwood Mootte, Asha Greyjoy is unable to see the Bay of Ice only five leagues away because of the thick forest.
Jon Snow learns in a letter from Stannis Baratheon that crofters from the wolfswood have joined his army after the fight by Deepwood Motte.
With the mountains a wall to the west, the road veered north by northeast through the wood, a forest of oak and evergreen and black brier that seemed older and darker than any Tyrion had ever seen. "The wolfswood," Benjen Stark called it, and indeed their nights came alive with the howls of distant packs, and some not so distant.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
The wolfswood is full of danger; your last ride should have taught you that.
- Luwin to Bran Stark
The sea was closer, only five leagues north, but Asha could not see it. Too many hills stood in the way. And trees, so many trees. The wolfswood, the northmen named the forest. Most nights you could hear the wolves, calling to each other through the dark. An ocean of leaves. Would it were an ocean of water.
- thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
In *Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series*, House Forrester's seat of Ironrath is located at the edge of the largest ironwood forest in Westeros. The Forresters control most of the wolfswood's ironwoods and they are rivals with House Whitehill.
Wolkan is a maester serving House Bolton of the Dreadfort. His character was created specifically for the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* in which he is played by Richard Rycroft.
When Myranda's body is found, Ramsay Bolton pays his respects to her corpse. He remembers how they met when she was only eleven and that from the very start she never showed fear towards him. He ends his eulogy with a promise of revenge and then casually tells Maester Wolkan to feed her body to the dogs, so as not to waste her flesh.
Wolkan informs Lord Roose Bolton that his wife, Lady Walda Frey, has given birth to a healthy son. Ramsay murders Roose in front of Wolkan, who is shocked and horrified. Ramsay then orders Wolken to send ravens informing the North that Roose was poisoned by his enemies and to summon Walda and the babe. Wolkan obeys out of fear.
Since the fall of House Bolton, Wolkan now serves as maester for House Stark under the leadership of Jon Snow and Sansa Stark.
Wolmer was a peasant in service to House Webber of Coldmoat.
Wolmer was old, scrawny and stooped.
Wolmer defied Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield and refused to take down the dam that was being built across the Chequy Water. Ser Bennis slashed his face for his refusal.
"Wolves in the Hills" is a song about the Northern mountains and their inhabitants, the Northern mountain clans. Their liege lords, the Starks of Winterfell, have often sent men into the mountains to settle feuds, which are remembered in songs such as "Wolves in the Hills" and "Black Pines".
Womb of the World
Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of the Womb of the World
The Womb of the World. © FFG
The Womb of the World is a large lake that lies just west of Vaes Dothrak and the Mother of Mountains.
According to Dothraki legends, the first man emerged from the depths of the Womb of the World, riding on the back of the first horse over a thousand years ago.
After eating the heart of a stallion as part of a ceremony for her child, Daenerys Targaryen rides to the lake and bathes naked to remove the blood. Afterwards she has sex with Khal Drogo on the shore.
Wonders is one of the two famous books written by Lomas Longstrider, recording the seven natural wonders of the known world. Longstrider also wrote a book discussing man-made wonders, called *Wonders Made by Man*.
One of the wonders recorded in the book is the large cavern system located a hundred leagues northwest of Norvos.
A second one might be the Bones, the mountains located east of the Dothraki Sea, as Longstrider is said to have "lost heart at the sight of them, believing that he had at last reached the ends of the earth".
The Titan of Braavos is one of the Wonders Made by Man.
Art by zippo514
Wonders Made by Man is one of the two books written by Lomas Longstrider, the famous traveller. This book records nine man-made wonders of the known world, while the second book records seven natural wonders.
In the books, Valyrian roads are mentioned to be listed as the fourth of the nine wonders. Seven other wonders have been confirmed, though in unknown order. They are:
Speculatively, fans have considered the possibility of the Hightower of Oldtown, the tallest structure in the Seven Kingdoms, Harrenhal, the largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms, and the Five Forts, a massive fortress along the northeastern boundaries of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti, as being among the other man-made wonders.
A fourth possibility are the ruins of the Great Pyramid of Ghis, which Longstrider is known to have visited.
Wood dancers were the hunters among the children of the forest. During the war of the First Men and the children of the forest, wood dancers became warriors, but despite their secret arts of tree and leaf, they could only slow the advance of the First Men.
Woodhedge is a ruin in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Jonos Bracken wants Woodhedge for subduing Tytos Blackwood. Tytos surrenders Woodhedge as part of the price to submit to the Iron Throne.
Woodmere is a settlement in Westeros, although its location is unknown.
Ser Walder of Woodmere participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow of 209 AC.
A woods witch is a Westerosi medicine woman, both within the Seven Kingdoms and beyond the Wall. They are likely to be local or travelling herb-women who use traditional healing, and perhaps simple spells and charms to heal the sick or help the needy. They have also been known to have prophetic dreams.
According to Qyburn most woods witches are harmless creatures; they know a little herb-craft and some midwifery and not much else. However, some woods witches do have the gift of prophecy.
The Green Queen was a woods witch that challenged the rule of King Durwald I Durrandon.
Maester Wyllis wrote an account about his time at the free folk settlement of Hardhome, included is time he spent among the settlement's woods-witches
At the command of their father, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen, Rhaella and her brother Aerys were married. Jaehaerys was influenced by a certain woods witch brought to court by Jenny of Oldstones, who prophesied that the prince that was promised would be born from their line.
Varamyr Sixskins knew a woods witch beyond the Wall when he was a child.
A woods witch in the Iron Islands taught Asha Greyjoy how to brew moon tea to prevent pregnancy.
Travelling with the brotherhood without banners, Arya Stark meets a woods witch known as the ghost of High Heart.
After the defeat of Mance Rayder at the battle beneath the Wall, Mother Mole claims to have had a vision of a fleet of ships coming to carry the free folk away to safety across the narrow sea. Thousands of those who fled the battle are desperate enough to believe her. Mother Mole leads them all to Hardhome to pray and await salvation from across the sea.
In Meereen Ser Barristan Selmy reveals to Daenerys Targaryen that her grandsire, King Jaehaerys, commanded that her father and mother be wed after he heard a prophecy from a woods witch. Daenerys is astonished.
Woodswatch-by-the-Pool
The North and the location of Woodswatch-by-the-Pool
Woodswatch-by-the-Pool is a castle along the Wall. It was abandoned by the Night's Watch. It is situated along the Wall between Oakenshield to the west and Sable Hall to the east.
Harma is seen at Woodswatch-by-the-Pool prior to the wildlings' attack on the Wall.
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Worm
Slaver's Bay and the location of the Worm
The Worm
The Worm is a meandering river, wide and slow and crooked. It has tranquil banks, and is dotted with tiny wooded islands.
On her way to the Plaza of Punishment to collect the Unsullied she has agreed to purchase, Daenerys Targaryen leads her tattered band up along the Worm. She glimpses children playing on one of the wooded islands, darting amongst elegant marble statues. On another island two lovers kiss in the shade of tall green trees, with no more shame than Dothraki at a wedding. Without clothing Daenerys cannot tell if they are slaves or free.
Wormtree is a type of tree found in the stormlands.
Princess Arianne Martell observes wormtrees while traveling through the rainwood.
Woth is one of the recruits for the Night’s Watch found by Yoren
Woth is squat and has a kettle belly.
Woth pulled an oar on a galley once.
Avoiding the kingsroad, Yoren's band arrives at the eastern side of the river running south from the Gods Eye. Yoren creates search parties for finding a ford to cross the river, with Woth and Gerren going downstream and Yoren and Koss searching upriver. When they return at midday, Woth reports a burned-down bridge, but none of them has found a ford. They move on that day to a town on the southern shore of the Gods Eye where Yoren intends to rent a boat for crossing the lake, but the town is deserted. Since Woth's galley experience makes him the next best thing to a sailor the group has, he leads a search party with Arry, Gendry, Hot Pie and Lommy Greenhands for finding a boat at the lakefront. When Lommy and Hot Pie want to search an inn for food and ale instead, he snaps at them, pointing out Yoren's orders. He also reprimands Arry when she is idle at the lakefront. However, despite all their efforts they find no boats.
They spend the night at the abandoned holdfast of the town. When Arry is the first to be alarmed that night by a dream of a howling wolf, Woth tells her that the wolves are outside and cannot storm the holdfast. However, Arry's foreboding was on point and the whole town is burned down that night by men under the command of Ser Amory Lorch. They order Yoren's band to open the gates of the holdfast in the name of the king, to which Reysen demands in which king's name, earning him a cuff by Woth. In the ensuing attack by Lorch's men, Woth is the first killed, his neck impaled by a spear meant for Yoren. Yoren orders Lommy to pull out the spear and take Woth's place.
The Wraith is a war galley captained by Dale Seaworth.
Dale sails the Wraith beyond Cape Wrath and the Broken Arm, along the coast of Dorne to the Arbor to distribute Stannis Baratheon's claim against the legitimacy of Cersei Lannister's children with King Robert I Baratheon.
Wraith is among Stannis's fleet that sails into Blackwater Bay during the Battle of the Blackwater.
Wroth of the Dragonlords is a mummer's play written by Phario Forel. It is the first play Forel had ever written. In it, Prince Garin gives a speech on the eve of battle.
Izembaro, the King of the Mummers, quotes Prince Garin from this play the night he and his group of mummers are set to perform *The Bloody Hand*, also written by Phario Forel.
It shall go ill for any man who fails me
- Izembaro quoting Prince Garin's line from the play
Wulfe One-Ear is an ironborn raider in Victarion Greyjoy's crew on the *Iron Victory.*
Wulfe One-Ear follows Victarion Greyjoy in boarding the Serry ship during the taking of the Shields, letting a yell out as he starts fighting.
Wulfe accompanies Victarion when the Iron Fleet sails to Slaver's Bay. Wulfe discovers Moqorro clinging to wreckage while at sea and brings him before Victarion. Wulfe wants Moqorro put to death as he believes the red priest brings curses.
Victarion gives command to Wulfe over the *Noble Lady* and the fleet of cogs, great cogs, carracks and trading galleys seized by the Iron Fleet and sends them to be the first fo fight the Yunkishmen in Slaver's Bay. He orders Wulfe to keep the ironmen belowdeck to fool any slaver ship they might encounter and then to board and seize them. He also orders Wulfe to free the slaves and give the slavers to the sea. Victarion also puts his best fighters under Wulfe's command
Wulfgar Hoare, known as Wulfgar the Widowmaker, was a King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare. The Hoare kings of his era were opposed by the priests of the Drowned God because of their support for the Faith of the Seven, discouraging of reaving, and promotion of trade.
Wulfgar allowed the construction on Great Wyk of the first sept in the Iron Islands. His great-grandson was King Horgan Priestkiller.
Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun, nicknamed Wun Wun, is a giant.
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Wun Wun is at least fourteen feet tall, even larger than Mag the Mighty, and possesses the strength of twelve men.
Along with some wildlings, Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun is discovered by the Night's Watch when Lord Commander Jon Snow leads new recruits to the weirwood grove in the Haunted Forest. With the help of some diplomacy by the new wildling recruit Leathers, they avoid a fight and manage to convince the wildlings to return with them to Castle Black.
Jon speaks with Wun Wun as often as he can, with the help of Leathers, learning more about giants and their stories.
Wun Wun had never tasted wine before he came to Castle Black, but he develops a liking for it.
When Queen Selyse arrives at Castle Black, Wun Wun kneels in front of her and Princess Shireen, who is fascinated by the giant. Wun Wun is distracted by Patchface, who jumps away and falls over into a snowdrift. Wun Wun laughs loudly, which causes Ser Patrek of King's Mountain to draw his sword.
After Jon receives a letter from Ramsay Bolton, he hears Wun Wun roar and a man scream. When he arrives at Hardin's Tower, Jon finds a bleeding Wun Wun smashing a dead Patrek against a tower wall. While he is distracted by Wun Wun's rage, the men of the Watch turn on Jon and stab him repeatedly, chanting "For the Watch" as they attempt to assassinate him.
Hodor twice as big, twice as strong, and half as clever.
– Jon Snow's thoughts
He’s a giant! A real true giant, like from the stories.
Wun Wun kills Patrek to fulfill a bet that George R. R. Martin made with his friend, Patrick St. Denis. George is a fan of the New York Giants football team, while Patrick supports the Dallas Cowboys.
Wyl
Dorne and the location of Wyl
Wyl is the seat of House Wyl in Dorne. It is located east of the Boneway at the mouth of the Wyl river at the Sea of Dorne.
The Wyls have long fought against the lords of the Dornish Marches to the north. The family has tunneled beneath their castle to link caverns for greater defense.
Wyl is a young guard sworn to House Stark.
Wyl is one of the guards that go south with Lord Eddard Stark when he is named Hand of the King. He escorts Eddard to a brothel to find one of Robert I Baratheon's bastards. On the return trip to the Red Keep, he is slain by the men of Ser Jaime Lannister as a lesson to Eddard.
The Wyl is a river in the Red Mountains of northern Dorne.
Wyl Waynwood, better known as Wild Wyl Waynwood, was a member of House Waynwood, during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Wild Wyl fought as a loyalist in Lord Arryn's van at the Battle of the Redgrass Field. There, he was slain by Daemon Blackfyre.
The Wyl of Wyl, also known as the Widow-lover, was the Lord of Wyl and head of House Wyl during the reign of Aegon the Conquerer. His given name is not mentioned by Maester Yandel. He had at least one son, Walter Wyl.
In the First Dornish War, Lord Wyl ambushed the forces of Lord Orys Baratheon as they tried to assault the Boneway. The cunning Dornishmen launched a night raid, raining rocks, arrows and spears from above. In the end, the Boneway was blocked both before and behind, and Orys Baratheon was captured by the Wyl of Wyl.
Orys Baratheon remained the Wyl's captive for years, until the Targaryens ransomed him and his men back in 7 AC for each man's weight in gold. When the captives were freed, however, the Wyl had their sword hands chopped off so they could not be used again against Dorne. It is said that, after the release of Orys and the other lords, the war entered a new stage, as King Aegon I Targaryen was by now intent on revenge.
According to Maester Yandel, the Wyl of Wyl committed infamous deeds which are still remembered in Fawnton and Old Oak, though the maester does not go into detail.
Wyl the Whittler is a blind inhabitant of the riverlands.
Wyl is slain by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Ser Wylis Manderly is a knight of House Manderly. He is the eldest son and heir of Lord Wyman of White Harbor..
See also: Images of Wylis Manderly
Wylis is a very fat man, bald and with a large walrus mustache. He is quiet and formal.
Wylis's wife, Leona, is very devoted to him.
Ser Wylis commands the men from White Harbor when Robb Stark calls his banners, as his father, Lord Wyman Manderly, is too fat to ride a horse any longer and remains to look after the city's defenses. The force, consisting of 1,500 men with about 20 knights, 200 mounted riders, swordsmen and freeriders and the rest foot, marches from White Harbor to Moat Cailin, where Robb is gathering his troops before heading south. Wylis is accompanied, apart from his younger brother Wendel, by Lady Catelyn Stark, Ser Rodrik Cassel and Ser Brynden Tully, who all arrived by ship in White Harbor coming from the Vale of Arryn. Although she thinks that Wylis is probably the fattest man she has ever seen, apart from his father, so that she pities his horse, and that he wears only clothes that have food stains, Catelyn likes him well enough. When they arrive near Moat Cailin, Wylis remains in the camp while his brother Wendel rides on with Catelyn to the castle to greet Robb.
The northern host marches south and arrives at the Twins, where they are greeted by Ser Stevron Frey, who invites Robb to the Twins in the name of Lord Walder Frey. Robb's bannermen, distrusting Walder, advise against Robb putting himself in the hand of the Lord of the Crossing, with Wylis suggesting that Walder should come out of his castle and treat with Robb in plain sight of both men's forces. It is ultimately decided that Catelyn will go to the Twins to talk with Lord Walder.
After an agreement with Walder has been found, the northern army splits and Wylis comes under the command of Lord Roose Bolton, who marches his troops south along the kingsroad to engage Lord Tywin Lannister's main host at the Trident as a diversion for Robb's attempt to lift the siege of Riverrun. Lord Bolton's forces suffer a defeat against Tywin's in the battle on the Green Fork, in which Wylis is captured
Lord Tywin Lannister offers to trade Wylis, held captive at Harrenhal, to his father without ransom, if Lord Wyman withdraws his support from Robb Stark, who is now King in the North. Wyman refuses Tywin, however. During the harvest feast at Winterfell, Wyman talks with Ser Rodrik Cassel, Maester Luwin, and Bran Stark. He stresses he would not want to see his son Wylis languishing at a cursed place such as Harrenhal longer than he must and expresses the hope that in time a fair exchange of prisoners can be arranged. Additionally, Wylis would not want to sit out the rest of the war. In this context, Lord Manderly describes his son as gallant and fierce as a mastiff.
In reply to the northern peace terms submitted by Robb Stark via Ser Cleos Frey, Tyrion Lannister offers to trade Wylis and Harrion Karstark for Willem Lannister in an exchange of prisoners.
While in Harrenhal, the prisoners taken in the battle on the Green Fork are housed in the upper chambers of the Tower of Dread. Most of them are given freedom of the castle when they pledge not to attempt escape and thus Wylis can start haunting the kitchens, where he is always looking for morsels of food. Arya Stark learns about this "fat lordling" from Hot Pie.
Harrenhal is captured by Lord Roose Bolton's troops after the Brave Companions switch sides following Tywin's departure from the castle.
Wylis is part of Lord Roose Bolton's army when it leaves Harrenhal to Vargo Hoat and the Brave Companions. They move north to cross the Trident at the ruby ford to eventually join forces with Robb Stark at the Twins on the occasion of Lord Edmure Tully's wedding with Roslin Frey.
When Roose's army arrives at the river, the ford is impassable and Roose has to ferry his men across in small boats. Wylis and the knights from White Harbor serve as rear guard during the operation. When two thirds of the force have crossed the Trident, the rest, mainly Locke, Norrey and Burley men, are suddenly attacked by Lannister forces, leading to fighting at the fords of the Trident. Wylis tries to rally the men as best as he can, but they come under attack by heavy cavalry led by Ser Gregor Clegane, who drives the defenders into the water. Many men drown, die in the fighting, or flee, while others are captured, including Wylis.
While meeting with Robb Stark at the Twins, Lord Bolton claims that he was unable to help the men on the south shore..
The Iron Throne negotiates with Lord Wyman Manderly about the possibility of White Harbor abandoning the northern cause and rallying behind the new Warden of the North, Lord Roose Bolton. Wyman suggests he will wed off both his granddaughters to Freys and open his harbor for ships of the Crown, but only if Wylis is returned to him safely. The small council and Queen Regent Cersei Lannister demand that Wyman execute Davos Seaworth, held prisoner by Lord Manderly, as a token of his good will.
When Cersei sends her resisting brother, Ser Jaime Lannister, to lift the siege of Riverrun, she lists reestablishing order at Harrenhal and getting hold of Wylis on the way as additional reasons why Jaime needs to attend personally to the matter.
Upon Jaime's arrival at Harrenhal, the Mountain's men tell him of Vargo Hoat's death after Gregor Clegane's capture of Harrenhal, including that Vargo's flesh had been fed to Wylis and other prisoners as "roast goat". Wylis is alive and brought to Jaime, if in a ragged and filthy condition and completely broken in spirit. Jaime notices his dull eyes and sallow, sagging jowls and wonders whether he and the other prisoners had any inkling of what they had been eating at one point. When he tells Wylis that he will be escorted to Maidenpool and put on a boat to White Harbor, Wylis collapses in tears. It takes four men to lift him up again, making Jaime think that the man ate too much roast goat.
Jaime sends Wylis to Maidenpool with a party that includes some Brave Companions and is under the command of Ser Ronnet Connington, whom Jaime wants to get rid off after Ronnet made insulting remarks about his former betrothed, Brienne of Tarth.
Upon his arrival in White Harbor, Davos Seaworth, who is in the city to negotiate a possible alliance of House Manderly with Stannis Baratheon, learns that the Lannisters still keep Wylis as prisoner, whereas Davos thought that both of Lord Wyman's sons were dead. Davos receives this as a bad omen for his mission, because the captivity of Wylis makes Wyman susceptible to blackmail.
When Wylis returns to White Harbor from Maidenpool, his father holds a welcoming feast in the New Castle. During the feast, Wyman uses the need for digestion after he ate too much as excuse for a secret meeting with Davos to inform him about the background of his long imprisonment and to apologize for it. The late Tywin Lannister had written to Lord Wyman, lising conditions for his safe return, mainly that Lord Manderly bends his knee to the Iron Throne and to the new Warden of the North, Lord Roose Bolton. If Wyman refused, Wylis would die a traitor's death and White Harbor would be stormed and sacked with the Manderlys extinguished. Wyman explains he had to fake Davos's execution, using another prisoner, to guarantee the safe return of Wylis and that he could not reveal this to him earlier. Wyman also apologizes for his daughter-in-law, pointing out that Wylis is the whole life of Lady Leona.
At Winterfell, where the wedding of Ramsay Bolton and "Arya Stark" (actually Jeyne Poole) has taken place, Hosteen Frey questions Wyman on the disappearance of the three Frey envoys, suggesting foul play by Wyman in this context. He points out that the three were Wyman's guests at White Harbor and brought his son home. Wyman is dismissive, stressing that, whereas the Freys merely returned Wendel's bones from the Red Wedding, it was Lord Tywin Lannister who was true to his word and returned Wylis safe and whole.
Gallant, that son of mine, and fierce as a mastiff.
- Wyman Manderly to Rodrik Cassel
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home.
- Wyman Manderly to Davos Seaworth
For other characters named Wylla, see Wylla (disambiguation).
Wylla was the wet nurse to Edric Dayne, who believes her to be the mother of Jon Snow.
Wylla was the wet-nurse of Edric Dayne. She worked at Starfall for many years.
While Eddard Stark is out on a ride with King Robert I Baratheon, the king asks for the name of his bastard's mother, and Eddard replies that her name is Wylla. Eddard then states he does not want to talk about it. Robert then adds that she must have been quite a woman, if she was able to make Eddard Stark forget his honor even for an hour.
Lord Edric Dayne tells Arya Stark that he and Jon Snow are "milk brothers". He elaborates that one of the servants of his house, called Wylla, was Jon Snow's mother. When his own mother had no milk, Wylla became Edric's wet-nurse. Arya, who has never heard the name and is aware that Jon doesn't know anything about his mother, first thinks that Edric might be mocking her, but when he swears on the honor of his house that he's telling the truth, she decides to remember the name, so that she can tell Jon when they meet again.
Wylla Fenn was a member of House Fenn. She was the mother of Lord Brandon Stark's bastard son Lonnel Snow.
Wylla Manderly is the second daughter of Ser Wylis Manderly and Leona Woolfield.
See also: Images of Wylla Manderly
Wylla has blond hair, longer than her sister Wynafryd's. She dyes it a garish green and wears it in a braid, but leaves her eyebrows blond. She has a thin and high voice.
As part of the terms of White Harbor being pardoned and returning to the king's peace of Tommen I Baratheon, Wylla is betrothed to Little Walder Frey,
When Lord Davos Seaworth appears in the Merman's Court before her grandfather, Lord Wyman Manderly, Wylla stands behind him with her sister, Wynafryd. While Wyman is skeptical of Davos's call for vengeance for the death of Robb Stark in the Red Wedding, Wylla pipes out her agreement. When she announces her refusal to marry Little Walder, her grandfather threatens to send her to the silent sisters. Wylla goes on to tell of the promises of loyalty House Manderly made to House Stark when they were exiled from the Reach centuries ago. Finally, her mother, Lady Leona, has to drag her from the hall.
After faking the execution of Davos and releasing him from imprisonment in the Wolf's Den, the scheming Wyman reveals his true feelings about the Freys and calls Wylla brave.
Wylla Manderly. © Fantasy Flight Games
Davos: What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!
Wylla: Yes. They killed Lord Eddard and Lady Catelyn and King Robb. He was our king! He was brave and good and the Freys murdered him. If Lord Stannis will avenge him, we should join Lord Stannis.
- Davos Seaworth and Wylla
I know about the promise ... Maester Theomore, tell them! A thousand years before the Conquest, a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the Wolf's Den before the old gods and the new. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. Stark men!
- Wylla to the Merman's Court
Wylla. Did you see how brave she was? Even when I threatened to have her tongue out, she reminded me of the debt White Harbor owes to the Starks of Winterfell, a debt that can never be repaid. Wylla spoke from the heart ... not every woman can be as brave as my Wylla.
– Wyman Manderly to Davos Seaworth
Wylla of Wyl was a warrior-maid of House Wyl who fought besides Yoren Yronwood against King Durran the Young at the Battle by the Bloody Pool and turned back.
Wyllis was a maester of the Citadel.
Wyllis journeyed to Hardhome on a Pentoshi trader and established himself among the Free Folk, under the protection of the chieftain Gorm the Wolf, to write their customs while practicing as a healer and counselor. When Gorm was murdered in a drunken brawl, Wyllis found himself in mortal danger and fled back to Oldtown, where he wrote *Hardhome: An Account of Three Years Spent Beyond-the-Wall among Savages, Raiders, and Woods-witches*. The year after the illuminations were done, Wyllis vanished. It was said in the Citadel that he was last seen at the docks, looking for a ship that would take him to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea
Wyman Manderly is the head of House Manderly. He has two sons, Wylis and Wendel, and has been a widower for eight years. His titles include Lord of White Harbor, Warden of the White Knife, Shield of the Faith, Defender of the Dispossessed, Lord Marshal of the Mander, and Knight of the Order of the Green Hand..
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Wyman is so fat he can no longer ride a horse and must be carried in a litter, leading to the nickname Lord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-Horse.
Wyman is amiable and has a loud, booming laugh. He is mocked by his own people as Lord Lamprey.
Wyman wears rich clothing, including a velvet blue-green doublet embroidered with golden thread. A golden trident pins his mantle to his shoulder.
Wyman loved to ride horses as a boy and he won some small acclaim in the lists when he was a young man. However, he has grown too big to ride.
Wyman participated in the Battle of the Trident during Robert's Rebellion. He granted the Wolf's Den to Ser Bartimus after the latter saved Wyman's life in the battle.
Lord Manderly has been a widower since about 291 AC.
While in King's Landing, Lord Eddard Stark asks his wife, Lady Catelyn Stark, to instruct Lord Wyman to strengthen the defenses of White Harbor and keep them well garrisoned.
Wyman Manderly by The Mico
Wyman comes to Winterfell to partake in the harvest feast, bringing a retinue of knights, retainers, and entertainers,
When Ramsay Snow, the Bastard of Bolton, kidnaps and forcibly marries Lady Hornwood, Wyman moves quickly to seize Hornwood and prevent House Bolton from having it.
In response to Theon Greyjoy's capture of Winterfell, Wyman sends a dozen barges packed with knights, warhorses, and siege engines up the White Knife to join Rodrik's army.
While traveling in the wolfswood, the crippled Bran recalls that during the harvest feast Lord Wyman looked at him with less pity than other northern lords. However, Bran does not know if White Harbor is safe from the Boltons, and he decides instead to journey beyond the Wall to find the three-eyed crow.
Wyman's heir, Ser Wylis, is captured by Ser Gregor Clegane in the fighting at the fords of the Trident.
King Tommen I Baratheon's small council learns that Wyman has imprisoned Lord Davos Seaworth, an envoy of Stannis Baratheon, and Queen Regent Cersei Lannister orders Lord Manderly to execute the Onion Lord.
Stannis Baratheon sends a letter from Castle Black to White Harbor demanding fealty to him as king. Wyman responds with obfuscation, speaking of his age and infirmity. Jon Snow informs Stannis that Val would refuse to marry Wyman.
Robett Glover comes to White Harbor to try raising men, but it is believed that Lord Manderly is refusing his pleas. Supported by the Iron Throne, Rhaegar, Symond, and Jared arrive in White Harbor on *Lionstar* as envoys and to return the bones of Ser Wendel Manderly.
Lord Davos Seaworth arrives to treat with Wyman on behalf of Stannis and is brought before the Merman's Court. A large audience is present, with the three Freys and Wylis's family in attendance. A pallid Wyman listens to Jared claim that Wendel sacrificed his life to save Lord Walder Frey from Robb Stark, who had turned into a wolf. When Rhaegar insults Robb, claiming he was a vile dog who died like one, and that Tommen I Baratheon is the rightful king, Wyman agrees with him. Wylla speaks in favor of Davos, saying they should join Stannis for vengeance and that she will not marry a Frey, but Lord Wyman threatens to send her to the silent sisters. After Wyman hears Davos's plea to join Stannis's cause, he orders his cousin, Ser Marlon Manderly, to have Davos executed.
Instead of executing Davos, Wyman sends Davos to comfortable captivity in the Wolf's Den, a prison in White Harbor, and a criminal who resembles Davos is killed instead. The unnamed man's head and hands are removed and dipped in tar, and his fingers are shortened by Ser Bartimus so that the publicly-displayed remains look like Davos's. Once the Freys inform Cersei's small council that Lord Manderly ordered the execution of the Onion Lord, the Iron Throne returns Wylis from captivity at Maidenpool.
During the celebration feast welcoming Wylis home to White Harbor, Wyman meets secretly in the New Castle with Davos and Robett. He apologizes for the way in which Davos has been treated, tells him he agrees with Wylla about the debt White Harbor owes the Starks, and explains he is acting cowardly to deceive the Lannisters and Freys. Wyman has been building warships at White Harbor and hiding them up the White Knife.
Wyman with his three pies, by Jake Murray © Fantasy Flight Games
Wyman leaves White Harbor to attend the wedding of Ramsay to "Arya Stark" with an armed escort. Before doing so, he gives his three Frey guests a palfrey each; guest gifts are given to guests when they leave their host's protection, meaning they are no longer under the protection of guest right.
Lord Roose Bolton, the new Warden of the North, moves his son Ramsay's wedding from Barrowton to Winterfell.
Among the snowmen that squires build along the battlements of Winterfell, one resembling Wyman is the fattest snowman Theon Greyjoy has ever seen. Lady Barbrey Dustin does not believe that Roose would allow Lord Manderly to survive the upcoming battle with Stannis.
When tensions arise from the blizzard, Aenys and Hosteen accuse Lord Manderly of being responsible for the disappearance of their kin, but Wyman pleads ignorance.
Having escaped from Winterfell and been brought to the crofters' village, Theon Greyjoy tells Stannis Baratheon that Roose Bolton has sent the Freys and Manderlys to confront him. Stannis is angered at Wyman's support of the Boltons, but Theon does not believe Wyman would coordinate with the Freys against Stannis.
If I had thought to see war again in my lifetime, I should have eaten a few less eels.
—Wyman, to Catelyn Stark
Why, no prince is ever late. "Those who arrive before him have come early, that's all.
—Wyman, to Bran Stark
King Robb has no more loyal servant than Wyman Manderly.
—Wyman, to Rodrik Cassel
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
—Wyman, to Davos Seaworth
I am fat, and many think that makes me weak and foolish.
—Wyman, to Davos Seaworth
My son Wendel came to the the Twins a guest. He ate Lord Walder's bread and salt, and hung his sword upon the wall to feast with friends. And they murdered him. Murdered, I say, and may the Freys choke upon their fables. I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter ... but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home.
—Wyman, to Davos Seaworth
The wolf will prove the boy is who we say he is, should the Dreadfort attempt to deny him. That is my price, Lord Davos. Smuggle me back my liege lord, and I will take Stannis Baratheon as my king.
—Wyman, to Davos Seaworth
The best pie you have ever tasted, my lords. Wash it down with Arbor gold and savor every bite. I know I shall.
—Wyman, to Roose Bolton, Hosteen Frey, and Aenys Frey
Hosteen: We know the man who did this. Killed this boy and all the rest. Not by his own hand, no. He is too fat and craven to do his own killing. But by his word. Do you deny it?
Wyman: I confess ... I confess that I know little of this poor boy. Lord Ramsay's squire, was he not? How old was the lad?
Hosteen: Nine, on his last nameday.
Wyman: So young. Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would have grown up to be a Frey.—Hosteen Frey and Wyman
The great pig Manderly was too craven to leave White Harbor, or we would have brought him as well.
—Ramsay Snow after displaying the bodies of Rodrik Cassel, Leobald Tallhart, and Cley Cerwyn
If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins.
— Cersei Lannister's thoughts
The fat man would like to kill us all, I do not doubt, but he does not have the belly for it, for all his girth. Under that sweaty flesh beats a heart as craven and cringing as ... well ... yours.
Aenys: We must look at Manderly. Lord Wyman loves us not.
Roger: He loves his steaks and chops and meat pies, though. Prowling the castle by dark would require him to leave the table. The only time he does that is when he seeks the privy for one of his hourlong squats.—Aenys Frey and Roger Ryswell
Stannis: Wyman Manderly. Lord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-Horse. Too fat to come to me, yet he comes to Winterfell. Too fat to bend the knee and swear me his sword, yet now he wields that sword for Bolton. I sent my Onion Lord to treat with him, and Lord Too-Fat butchered him and mounted his head and hands on the walls of White Harbor for the Frey to gloat over. And the Freys ... has the Red Wedding been forgotten?
Theon: The north remembers. The Red Wedding, Lady Hornwood's fingers, the sack of Winterfell, Deepwood Motte and Torrhen's Square, they remember all of it.
Lord Wyman Webber was the Lord of Coldmoat and head of House Webber during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen. He had one daughter, Rohanne Webber.
He was good friends with Ser Eustace Osgrey until the Blackfyre Rebellion. He fought at the Battle of the Redgrass Field for House Targaryen.
Lord Wyman dictated, in his will, that his daughter Rohanne would have to be married by the second anniversary of his death, or else the lands and income of Coldmoat would pass to his cousin, Ser Wendell Webber.