Shadow Men in the Eastern Market of Vaes Dothrak
The Shadow Men are the people settled along the mountainous region of Essos known as the Shadow Lands, in the Further East of the known world. Shadow Men are known for covering their bodies in tattoos and wearing red lacquered wooden masks.
Throughout history, some Shadow Men have engaged in piracy and reaving. The maroon emperors of Yi Ti kept their court in Jinqi to better guard the borders of the empire from reavers from the Shadow Lands.
During her stay at Vaes Dothrak to be presented to the *Dosh khaleen*, Daenerys Targaryen often spends her mornings in the Eastern Market, and enjoys wathcing the people there, including Shadow Men, which she considers dour and frightening.
Shadow Tower
The north and the location of the Shadow Tower
The Shadow Tower is one of three castles along the Wall that are still inhabited by the Night's Watch. It is located next to mountains at the western end of the Wall. both abandoned castles.
The Shadow Tower is commanded by Ser Denys Mallister and its maester is Mullin. Two hundred men of the Watch are stationed at the Shadow Tower.
Redwyn wrote about his journey from the Shadow Tower to Lorn Point.
Ser Denys Mallister has commanded the Shadow Tower since 267 AC.
Lord Commander Qorgyle sent patrols from Castle Black to the Shadow Tower every second day.
The Shadow Tower, illustrated by Franz Miklis. © Fantasy Flight Games
Ser Denys Mallister writes that increasing numbers of wildlings are slipping past the Shadow Tower,
Qhorin Halfhand ventures forth from the castle in search of Benjen Stark, but is unable to find the First Ranger.
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, considers re-garrisoning Stonedoor using men from the Shadow Tower.
One hundred men from the Shadow Tower—including lead rangers Qhorin Halfhand, Ebben, Dalbridge, and Stonesnake—arrive at the Fist of the First Men to augment the main force from Castle Black.
Qhorin's second-in-command, Blane, commands the Shadow Tower men in his absence during the fight at the Fist.
Maester Aemon sends ravens to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and the Shadow Tower to warn of Thenns.
After the battle beneath the Wall, Shadow Tower men are housed in the Lance.
The Weeper is said to be gathering free folk to cross the Bridge of Skulls and threaten the Shadow Tower.
A grizzled steward from the Shadow Tower is re-assigned as commander of the newly-formed garrison at Greyguard.
Denys sends regular ravens to Castle Black requesting additional men for the Shadow Tower.
The garrison of the Shadow Tower spot multiple fires in the night north of the Gorge. Denys believes wildlings are amassing to force the Bridge of Skulls once more.
Shadowbaby by TheMico
A shadow assassin is a form of magic used by the shadowbinder Melisandre of Asshai. It is implied by Melisandre that the shadow assassin is created through an act of sexual intercourse, so they are also known by the fan-given nickname shadow babies.
Melisandre birthing a shadow assassin
art by Anja
After Renly Baratheon refuses to bend the knee to his older brother, Stannis Baratheon, Catelyn Stark and Brienne of Tarth witness Renly's death. Catelyn sees a shadow that looks like Stannis and a shadow sword that cuts Renly's throat. The shadow then disappears.
After Renly's assassination, Storm's End is besieged by Stannis and his army. Ser Cortnay Penrose, who was left charge of the castle, refuses to yield Storm's End and Robert Baratheon's bastard, Edric Storm. The shadowbinder Melisandre has Davos Seaworth sail her under the stronghold. She claims that shadows are servants of the light. She disrobes and Davos watches in horror as the now-pregnant woman gives birth to a shadowy creature. As the shadow emerges Davos recognises the man who had cast it, Stannis. The shadow goes to slay Penrose, allowing Stannis to take Storm's End.
The effect of Melisandre's sorcery on Stannis is significant. He appears to have aged years after siring a shadow assassin on her. Davos notices that his eyes are like dark blue bruises in the hollows of his face. Perhaps this is why no shadow assassin is used during the Battle of the Blackwater. Stannis perceives the actions of the shadow assassins as his own through dreams.
Melisandre visits Davos in his prison in Dragonstone. She tells him that shadows only live when given birth by light. She admits to him that Stannis's fires now burn so low that she dare not draw off any more to make another son, as it might well kill him. She indicates she can make more shadow assassins with another man, implying Davos, but the prisoner rejects her offer, believing their union would only result in a horror. Davos holds fast to the Faith of the Seven instead of Melisandre's god, R'hllor.
Upon her arrival in King's Landing, Brienne of Tarth is confronted by Ser Loras Tyrell over Renly's death. Brienne explains:
I was helping Renly into his armor, and the candles blew out and there was blood everywhere. It was Stannis, Lady Catelyn said. His … his shadow.
When meeting with Jaime Lannister Loras admits to him that Renly's steel gorget was cut through with one clean stroke. He tells Jaime that Renly had the best armor, made of the finest steel, and that even the Mountain would have needed a heavy axe.
Brienne is haunted by Renly’s death. During her quest of Sansa Stark she dreams of what happened in Renly's tent:
All the candles were guttering out and the cold was thick around her. Something was moving through green darkness, something foul and horrible was hurtling toward her king. She wanted to protect him, but her limbs felt stiff and frozen, and it took more strength than she had just to lift her hand. And when the shadow sword sliced through the green steel gorget and the blood began to flow, she saw that the dying king was not Renly after all but Jaime Lannister, and she had failed him.
A shadow is a thing of darkness.
– Davos
There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of the light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.
The shadow war is the armed resistance of the Sons of the Harpy against the rule of Daenerys Targaryen over Meereen and the abolition of slavery.
A shadowbinder is a practitioner of magic who binds shadows to do their will.
It is unknown from where shadowbinders originate. However, shadowbinders Melisandre and Quaithe come from Asshai, near the Shadow Lands,
Only shadowbinders and fools are willing to eat the twisted and deformed fish from the river Ash near Asshai.
Archmaester Marwyn has studied with shadowbinders during his travels.
Daenerys Targaryen recalls stories she has heard of shadowbinders working terrible sorceries at night.
Mirri Maz Duur studied the arts of the shadowbinders during her time in Asshai.
At the crossroads inn Lord Tywin Lannister tells his son Tyrion that, according to Lord Varys, Lord Stannis Baratheon is bringing to Dragonstone a shadowbinder from Asshai.
Stannis Baratheon enlists the aid of the red priestess and shadowbinder Melisandre,
Daenerys Targaryen meets Quaithe for the first time; the shadowbinder proceeds to give the young queen cryptic information during her journeys.
A shadowcat, by Kevin Catalan ©
Varamyr Sixskins with his shadowcat and shadowskin cloak, by Elena María Vacas
Shadowcats are large felines that are found throughout Westeros, from the lands beyond the Wall,
Shadowcats have thick black fur with white stripes.
There is also a constellation of stars named the Shadowcat.
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Shadowcats are fearsome predators, but will also scavenge.
It's said that shadowcats can smell blood six miles away. They will eat every shred of meat from a kill and will even crack the bones to get at the marrow.
Some believe that in ancient days, the children of the forest resided in "tree towns" high above the ground to avoid predators such as shadowcats, which their stone weapons and greenseers were not proof against.
Shadowskin fur cloaks are prized.
Varamyr Sixskins is a wildling and a skinchanger who controls a shadowcat along with several other animals.
A shadowcat in the snow - by Veronica V. Jones. © Fantasy Flight Games
While riding along the Trident, Joffrey Baratheon and Sansa Stark track a shadowcat to its lair.
Along the high road in the Mountains of the Moon, Catelyn Stark and her party (including the captive Tyrion Lannister) are worried about the shadowcats that live in the passes.
The singer Marillion somehow acquires the dead chief's shadowskin cloak,
When Tyrion arrives in King's Landing to take the role of acting Hand of the King, he is still wearing his shadowskin cloak.
While making his way through Skirling Pass with Qhorin Halfhand, Dalbridge, Ebben, and Stonesnake, Jon Snow watches a shadowcat stalk a ram, flowing down the mountainside like liquid smoke until it was ready to pounce. Jon wishes he could move as sure and silent as that shadowcat, and kill as quickly.
After Jon captures Ygritte, she asks if he will burn her body after he kills her; when Jon says he can't light a fire because it might be seen, she says there's worse places to end up than the belly of a shadowcat.
In the pass, Jon hears the scream of a shadowcat and thinks he sees one's glowing eyes.
Later, Qhorin and Jon hide in a cave behind a waterfall. Qhorin tells Jon that when he was young, a Night's Watchman had told him how he had followed a shadowcat through the falls.
Ghost becomes aggressive whenever he sees Varamyr Sixskins's shadowcat.
From the top of the Wall, looking down into the wildlings' camp with Maester Aemon's Myrish eye, Jon sees Varamyr walking through the trees with his shadowcat.
When the wildling camp is attacked by Stannis Baratheon's army, Varamyr's shadowcat prevents Jon from entering Mance Rayder's tent to search for the Horn of Winter.
Varamyr Sixskins remembers how when he was a boy, he had seen the wildling skinchanger Briar with her shadowcat and wanted one for himself. He remembers that when he wished to have sex with a woman from the villages near his home, he would send his shadowcat to stalk her, and she would come, often crying. He also recalls how his shadowcat used to fight him violently when he would skinchange into it, but discovers it is even more difficult to take control of a human being.
Jon Snow remembers how Mance Rayder had compared some of the free folk to shadowcats, saying that "one kind prowls where they please and will tear your dogs to pieces."
A low rumbling growl echoed off the rock. Shadowcat, Jon knew at once. As he rose he heard another, closer at hand. He pulled his sword and turned, listening.
In their midst, riding on a tall red horse in a strange high saddle that cradled him back and front, was the queen's dwarf brother Tyrion Lannister, the one they called the Imp. He had let his beard grow to cover his pushed-in face, until it was a bristly tangle of yellow and black hair, coarse as wire. Down his back flowed a shadowskin cloak, black fur striped with white.
The Shadowcat is a constellation..
Ser Shadrich, known as Shadrich of the Shady Glen and the Mad Mouse, is a hedge knight. His coat of arms is a large white mouse with red eyes on bendy brown and blue. The brown is for the lands he has crossed and the blue the rivers. is unknown.
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Shadrich is a wiry, fox-faced man with a sharp nose and bristly orange hair.
Shadrich is not a tourney knight, instead saving his valor for the battlefield. He rides a rangy chestnut courser. He has a cocksure manner and is sharp-witted.
Ser Shadrich fought for Stannis Baratheon in the Battle of the Blackwater. After Stannis's defeat, Shadrich was forced to pay a ransom he could not afford, meaning that he was ruined financially. Shadrich becomes a hired knight for the merchant Hibald and his serving men.
While Shadrich is escorting Hibald's party to Duskendale, they are joined by Brienne of Tarth, Ser Creighton Longbough, and Ser Illifer the Penniless. When Brienne says she is searching for her lost sister, Shadrich realizes that it is Sansa Stark whom Brienne seeks. Shadrich explains Varys is offering a plump bag of gold for Sansa, which would return him to the status he enjoyed before the Blackwater.
After Brienne abandons her traveling companions at the Old Stone Bridge,
Ser Shadrich eventually turns up at the Gates of the Moon as a newly-hired hedge knight in service to Lord Petyr Baelish. Along with Ser Byron and Ser Morgarth, Shadrich is introduced to Alayne Stone in the west tower of the Gates.
The day before the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights, Alayne Stone is greeting the guests arriving at the Gates of the Moon when she bumps into Ser Shadrich. He tells her and Myranda Royce that he does not intend to participate in the joust whose winners will be the Winged Knights, as "a mouse with wings would be a silly sight". Alayne asks if he will enter the melee instead, where there are to be prizes for the champions and a chance for ransoms. Shadrich replies that a good melee is all a hedge knight can hope for, unless he stumbles upon a bag of dragons. Later, at the feast, Alayne dances with Ser Shadrich, among others.
I am big enough where it counts, wench.
– Shadrich to Brienne Tarth
Your common mouse will run from blood and battle. The mad mouse seeks them out.
– Shadrich to Brienne Tarth
It is no easy thing to fight with your off hand.
– Shadrich on Jaime Lannister losing his sword hand
We mice are quiet creatures.
He had the sort of easy arrogance that comes with skill at arms.
– thoughts of Brienne Tarth
The Shady Glen is a place in Westeros, although its location is unknown.
The hedge knight Ser Shadrich is known as Shadrich of the Shady Glen.
Shae is a young camp follower who comes into the service of Tyrion Lannister. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* she is portrayed by Sibel Kekilli.
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Shae is short and very pretty, with large dark eyes and black hair. She is around eighteen years old.
Shae ran off when her father attempted to turn her into his kitchen wench and his whore.
Shae serves as a camp follower in Lord Tywin Lannister's army when Bronn brings her to Tyrion Lannister, who is looking for a female companion before the battle on the Green Fork.
Shae with Tyrion Lannister - by algesiras ©
Upon arrival in King's Landing, Shae is set up at a house in the city. Tyrion cannot bring her to court, already defying his father in bringing her to the capital. Tyrion makes frequent use of Shae's services, relegating her to a role as his exclusive companion, and he finds his feelings for her are very strong. Tyrion believes he has finally gotten over his first wife, Tysha, and his need for whoring.
Recognizing that Shae's presence in King's Landing is a weapon his adversaries could use against him, Tyrion takes pains to keep her safe and secret, though her presence is immediately known to Varys, who on several occasions facilitates their trysts. Tyrion keeps her in a manse in the city where they can rendezvous in secret.
With the approach of Stannis Baratheon's army and the breaking out of several riots in the city, Tyrion comes to fear for Shae's safety and moves her to the Red Keep. He finds her a cover job as a maid of Lollys Stokeworth, allowing him to continue to see her.
After Tyrion is married to Sansa Stark, Shae is made a maid of Sansa's so that she can continue to be close to Tyrion. Tyrion is worried about her safety, however, and is torn between sending her away and marrying her off in order to avoid Queen Cersei Lannister's suspicions. Eventually he decides to arrange a marriage between Shae and Ser Tallad..
During Tyrion's trial, Shae betrays Tyrion by lying that he conspired with Sansa to murder King Joffrey and Lord Tywin, revealing the full and intimate details of their affair - including her pet name for him as her "Giant of Lannister". In exchange for her testimony Cersei offered her a manse in King's Landing and a knight to wed.
Shae is in Lord Tywin's bed when Tyrion arrived in Tywin's chambers, after his escape from the black cells. He strangles her to death with his father's golden chain of office.
Shae's body is discovered in the bed where Tyrion had left her. Cersei orders the disposal of her corpse to be handled by the Kettleblacks and that her presence in the chambers of the Hand of the King be kept secret.
Shae - by Pojypojy ©
My mother named me Shae. Men call me... often.
– Shae to Tyrion Lannister
Shae: M'lord looks fearsome.
Tyrion: M'lord looks a dwarf in mismatched armor, but I thank you for your kindness.
– Shae and Tyrion Lannister, before the battle on the Green Fork
Shae may only be a whore, but I am faithful to her after my fashion.
– thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
I'm free of Tysha now. She's haunted me half my life, but I don't need her any more, no more than I need Alayaya or Dancy or Marei, or the hundreds like them I've bedded with over the years. I have Shae now. Shae.
– thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
You knew what she was.
– Varys to Tyrion Lannister
Princess Shaena Targaryen was the stillborn second child of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella Targaryen.
Shaena was stillborn in 267 AC, while her father Aerys II, her brother Rhaegar, and half the court were present in the westerlands. Shaena's mother, Queen Rhaella, had remained in King's Landing.
Shaera Targaryen was the eldest daughter of King Aegon V Targaryen and Queen Betha Blackwood..
Shaera was betrothed to Luthor Tyrell by her mother, Queen Betha Blackwood, in 237 AC, while her older brother, Prince Jaehaerys, was betrothed to Celia Tully. After their brother, Prince Duncan, defied King Aegon V Targaryen and married following his heart, Shaera and Jaehaerys eluded their guards and were secretly married in 240 AC. By the time this became known to their royal parents, Jaehaerys and Shaera had already consummated the marriage, forcing Aegon to accept it.
The marriage of Shaera and Jaehaerys yielded two children, Aerys and Rhaella.
Shagga, known as Shagga son of Dolf because of his father,
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Shagga© by Thaldir Copyright by Fantasy Flight Games
A large hairy man, Shagga has a deep, deadly voice and prefers to fight with a weapon in each hand.
After Tyrion Lannister wins his trial by combat in the Eyrie, Shagga is in Gunthor's band of Stone Crows that Tyrion encounters in the Mountains of the Moon.
When Tyrion is sent to King's Landing to act as Hand of the King, Shagga goes with him as one of Tyrion's key guards. Tyrion leverages Shagga's imposing physical presence in his interrogation of Grand Maester Pycelle.
Before the Battle of the Blackwater Shagga and the rest of the mountain clansmen who accompanied Tyrion to King's Landing are sent to the kingswood in order to raid and delay Stannis Baratheon's forces.
After the Battle of the Blackwater, Shagga and his clansmen remain in the kingswood, preferring to stay instead of returning home to the Mountains of the Moon.
Shagga is listed as a clan chief of the Stone Crows, leading a band in the kingswood.
Shagga son of Dolf will chop off their manhoods and feed them to the crows.
– Shagga to Tywin Lannister regarding northmen
Shagga: Shagga wants this woman.
Timett: Shagga wants every whore in this city of whores.
Shagga: Yes. Shagga would give her a strong child.
– Shagga and Timett
Shagga son of Dolf is the one who looks like Casterly Rock with hair.
- Tyrion Lannister to Tywin Lannister
Telling Shagga and Timett how to pillage is like telling a rooster how to crow.
- Tyrion Lannister to Tywin Lannister
Shagga article on the Game of Thrones wikia.
Shaggydog is the direwolf belonging to Rickon Stark. Rickon is known to shorten his name to Shaggy. He is the litter-mate of Grey Wind, Summer, Lady, Nymeria and Ghost.
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Shaggydog's fur is all black and his eyes are bright green.
Shaggydog and Summer in *Game of Thrones*
Shaggydog is found in the snow with his brothers and sisters by Robb Stark and Jon Snow.
Once Rickon discovers that Robb may be going off to war, he becomes angry and Shaggydog begins to take after his master, biting Gage and Mikken. Farlen chains Shaggydog up so he can bite no one else and Rickon becomes even more upset.
Shaggydog and Summer are confined to the godswood of Winterfell after Shaggydog bites Little Walder Frey.
Through his warg bond with Summer, Bran senses that Shaggydog grows more distant every day.
In a vision of Ghost, Jon sees a black direwolf fighting a goat with one long horn.
Wex Pyke claims Shaggydog is on Skagos with Rickon and Osha.
Meera: Did you know they would be so big?
Jojen: They will be bigger still before they are grown. The black one is full of fear and rage, but the grey is strong ... stronger than he knows ... can you feel him, sister?
– Meera Reed and Jojen Reed
Shagwell, better known as Shagwell the Fool, is a psychotic jester and member of the Brave Companions mercenary company.
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Shagwell wears green and pink motley.
Jaime Lannister considers Shagwell one of the three worst members of the Brave Companions.
There are rumours said that Shagwell once killed a man for not laughing at one of his japes.
Shagwell the fool with two severed heads. - by artist Rafal Hrynkiewicz. © Fantasy Flight Games.
Shagwell is one of the many members of the Brave Companions mercenary company that arrives at Harrenhal under the employ of Tywin Lannister. He participates in the slaughter of Ser Amory Lorch's men, in which he hacks off the heads of two dead knights and swings them by their hair to talk to each other as part of a puppet show.
Shagwell spreads the story of the 'weasel soup' and Arya Stark's involvement in Harrenhal's takeover, which prompts Arya to consider adding him to her prayer kill list, but her fear of Shagwell negates this thought.
Shagwell is part of the foraging company who captures Ser Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth near Maidenpool, kicking Jaime to the ground so that Zollo can maim him.
On the way back to Harrenhal, Shagwell, Zollo, and Rorge attempt to rape Brienne, but Jaime thwarts them.
After the scattering of the Brave Companions following Vargo Hoat's death, Shagwell, Timeon, and Pyg splinter off and go to Maidenpool to find passage out of the area, but cannot get near a ship. Dick Crabb cons Shagwell into buying a map to the Whispers, which he says is a popular smugglers' cove. The Whispers is deserted, and the group camps in the ruins until Brienne, Dick, and Podrick Payne arrive. Shagwell jumps down from above Dick and kills him with two blows of his flail. Then he and Timeon begin talking to Brienne in an attempt to distract her while they surround her. As Brienne kills Timeon and Pyg, Podrick throws stones at Shagwell until he yields. Brienne makes him dig a grave for Dick. After he completes digging, he lunges at Brienne with a rock, but she stabs him to death with a dagger.
You mustn’t hurt sweet Shagwell, I’m too droll to die.
– Shagwell, to Brienne of Tarth
Shamyriana or Samyriana is a fortified city in Essos, located on the Stone Road between the Bone Mountains and the Great Sand Sea.
The Stone Road, which penetrates the Bone Mountains, leads from Vaes Jini, once known as Yinishar, to Shamiryana, passing beneath its walls. Shamyriana is a grey stone city carved into the very rock of the mountains it defends.
The city is known for its warrior maids who wear iron rings in their nipples and rubies in their cheeks, similar to those of Kayakayanaya and Bayasabhad.
Like its sister cities, Shamyriana is ruled by the Great Fathers. Their daughters learn to ride and climb before they learn to walk and are trained in the arts of bow, spear, knife, and sling from the earliest age. Meanwhile, ninety nine of every hundred boys, the sons of the Great Fathers, are gelded when they reach the age of manhood and live out their lives as eunuchs, serving their cities as scribes, priests, scholars, servants, cooks, farmers, and craftsmen. Only the most promising males, the largest, strongest, and most comely, are permitted to mature, breed, and become Great Fathers in their turn. Maester Naylin in his *Rubies and Iron* speculates on the circumstances that led to such customs.
In the Eastern Market of Vaes Dothrak Daenerys Targaryen spies warrior maids from Shamyriana.
The Shan is the ruler of the Isle of Elephants. According to Corlys Velaryon, the shan's palace is made of ivory.
Shandystone is an abandoned holdfast in southeastern Dorne.
The modest ruins have fluted columns, triple arches, and a dry well. Much of it has been overtaken by sand, including the faces of statues. Nearby are dead trees whose branches have been bleached white
The holdfast was abandoned when the well went dry circa 200 AC.
Prince Oberyn Martell once brought two of his daughters, Tyene and Sarella Sand, with his niece, Princess Arianne Martell, to Shandystone. Oberyn showed Tyene how to milk vipers for their venom, while Sarella explored rocks and mosaics to learn of the holdfast's history. Arianne begged her uncle for a story.
Princess Arianne Martell gathers her supporters at Shandystone to begin her quest to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon as queen. They then travel south and west toward the Greenblood.
Arianne Martell arrived with Drey and Sylva just as the sun was going down, with the west a tapestry of gold and purple and the clouds all glowing crimson. The ruins seemed aglow as well; the fallen columns glimmered pinkly, red shadows crept across the cracked stone floors, and the sands themselves turned from gold to orange to purple as the light faded.
- thoughts of Arianne Martell
It is lovely here.
- Andrey Dalt to Arianne Martell
Shapechangers are, apparently, magic practitioners that can alter their forms. It is unclear if they physically change their shape or are synonymous with skinchangers, those who can enter the minds of animals and control them. For instance, people who encounter a wolf controlled by a warg might mistake that the wolf's human master actually transformed into a wolf.
Mossovy is said to be a land of shapechangers and demon hunters.
Shapechangers are said to be welcomed in Asshai, where no practice is forbidden.
In the stories of Old Nan to the Stark children, shapechangers are always evil.
Jojen: Warg. Shapechanger. Beastling. That is what they will call you, if they should ever hear of your wolf dreams.
Bran: Who will call me?
Jojen: Your own folk. In fear. Some will hate you if they know what you are. Some will even try to kill you.
- Jojen Reed and Bran Stark
Sharako Lohar was the Triarchy's admiral. He was from Lys.
During the Westerosi civil war Admiral Lohar commanded a fleet of 90 Myrish, Lysene and Tyroshi warships under the banners of the Three Daughters who had allied themselves to King Aegon II Targaryen.
On a mission to break the the blacks's blockade of the Gullet, Sharako Lohar took the fleet of 90 warships up from the Stepstones bending their oars for the Gullet. When the fleet captured the cog the *Gay Abandon* Prince Viserys was made the captive of a Tyroshi captain, however Admiral Lohar soon took the Prince into his charge.
Admiral Lohar was in command during the Battle in the Gullet, one of the bloodiest sea battles in all of history. The Three Daughters emerged victorious. It is unclear whether Admiral Lohar survived the battle, but of the ninety original warships, twenty-eight survived to limp home.
A shariff is a law enforcement official charged with policing the shadow city of Sunspear.
Shark is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
The Shark is part of the Iron Fleet contingent dispatched to Slaver's Bay. Violent storms east of the Stepstones leave the Shark little more than a hulk, so Victarion Greyjoy decides to leave her behind at the rendez-vous point, off the southern tip of the Isle of Cedars, to make repairs and to alert stragglers to the current plan. After leaving the Shark behind, the ironborn fleet bound for Slaver's Bay numbers fifty-three.
Sharna is the innkeep of the Inn of the Kneeling Man. She is married to Husband.
Sharna is very tall, and ugly with a knobby chin.
Sharna and her family were displaced during the War of the Five Kings. She had two sons, one of whom was killed by Lannister men, whilst the other died of the flux, and they later adopted an orphaned boy whose mother had been killed by the Brave Companions. They came upon the Inn of the Kneeling Man and found the previous owners dead, so buried them and took over running the establishment.
Sharna is off delivering Fern's baby in Lambswold when Brienne, Jaime Lannister, and Cleos Frey pass through. She is present though when Arya Stark, who had recently been captured by members of the brotherhood without banners, is brought to the inn.
She has a sharp tongue and a fierce eye, I’ll grant you that, but her heart’s a good one.
Sharp Point
The crownlands and the location of Sharp Point
Sharp Point is the seat of House Bar Emmon in the crownlands. The castle is located along the Gullet at the northern end of Massey's Hook, north of Stonedance.
Sharp Point was founded during the Andal invasion by the warlord Togarion Bar Emmon, who established a new kingdom on Massey's Hook. The peninsula was eventually recovered by the Storm Kings of House Durrandon, however, and included within the stormlands.
Although sworn to King Argilac the Arrogant of Storm's End, Lord Bar Emmon had stronger ties to Lord Aegon Targaryen of Dragonstone, and the Bar Emmons supported the Targaryens during Aegon's War of Conquest. owing allegiance to Dragonstone.
Sharra Arryn, known as the Flower of the Mountain, was Queen Regent of the Kingdom of Mountain and Vale, ruling in the name of her son, the boy-king Ronnel Arryn, during the invasion of Westeros by Aegon I Targaryen. Sharra was regarded as one the most beautiful women of Westeros.
After Aegon launched his invasion and made his intentions known to the rulers of the seven independent kingdoms of Westeros, Sharra sent a portrait of herself to him and offered her hand in marriage with the condition Aegon would make her son his heir. Despite being ten years older than Aegon, she was still regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the land, yet Aegon refused. The Vale scored a victory against the invaders in a battle in the waters off Gulltown, though the Arryn fleet was burned afterwards by Visenya Targaryen. With the Arryn fleet destroyed, the Sistermen revolted against the Eyrie.
As other regions of Westeros fell to Aegon, Sharra amassed the Vale army at the Bloody Gate. However, Aegon sent Visenya to the Eyrie riding her dragon Vhagar. When Sharra returned to the Eyrie she found her son sitting on Visenya's lap and asking if he could ride the dragon with Visenya. Sharra bent the knee afterward. The Arryns were declared Wardens of the East and Defenders of the Vale.
Sharra the Witch Queen is one of the many legendary heroes of the Riverlands, whose tales date back to the Age of Heroes.
Shatterstone is the seat of House Goodbrother of Shatterstone on Old Wyk in the Iron Islands.
Asha Greyjoy beaches the *Black Wind* beneath Shatterstone before making her way to the kingsmoot.
The shavepates are Ghiscari citizens of Meereen who have accepted the rule of Daenerys Targaryen.
The shavepates have shaved off their traditional Ghiscari hairstyles, which represents leaving the old Meereen behind and accepting the new Meereen. They are considered traitors by the Sons of the Harpy who kill them along with freedmen and Unsullied. Their leader is Skahaz mo Kandaq, who is known as "the Shavepate".
Shayala's Dance is a Lyseni galley owned by Salladhor Saan. It is captained by Khorane Sathmantes. It has a bronze figurehead.
Shayala's Dance finds Ser Davos Seaworth among the spears of the merling king, risking much to pluck him from among the sea monts.
Sheepshead Hills
The North and the location of the Sheepshead Hills
The Sheepshead Hills is a series of hills located in the North within the dominion of House Manderly.
For Harrag Sheepstealer, see Harrag Sharp.
Sheepstealer was a wild dragon during the Dance of the Dragons with a taste for mutton.
Sheepstealer's coloring was an ugly "mud brown". He was hatched when King Jaehaerys I Targaryen was young, which would put him around 80 years old at the time of the civil war.
Jacaerys Velaryon called for dragonriders during the Dance of the Dragons. Silver Denys, a man who claimed to be a descendent of King Maegor I Targaryen, tried to master the dragon. Sheepstealer tore off the man's arm but was chased off by the Cannibal before he could finish Silver.
During the taming, Sheepstealer killed more seeds than the other two wild dragons combined. Alyn of Hull tried to tame him, but received a burnt cloak for his troubles.
A bastard girl named Nettles finally tamed Sheepstealer by feeding him a sheep every morning. Along with Rhaenyra Targaryen's other dragonriders, Nettles and Sheepstealer took part in the Battle of the Gullet and the rapid capture of King's Landing.
When Rhaenyra named Nettles a traitor for taking Daemon Targaryen to bed, Nettles was allowed to flee from Maidenpool. The dragon and its rider were last seen flying over the Bay of Crabs. Many think that in despair, Nettles just kept flying out into the open ocean until her dragon was too tired to continue flying, and they both drowned. Wild tales by the singers say that Nettles and Sheepstealer secretly escaped and subsequently picked up Daemon - who according to the legend, miraculously survived his fall during the Dance over Harrenhal, and the two lovers dropped out of history. The veracity of this legend is unknown, but it is certain that Nettles and Sheepstealer were never seen again, and played no further role in the Dance.
Lady Shella is the focus of a famous love story with the Rainbow Knight.
Following the arrest of her father, Lord Eddard Stark, Sansa Stark is returned to her room in the Red Keep after promising to support King Joffrey I Baratheon. She loses herself in a collection of stories, one of which is the story of Lady Shella and the Rainbow Knight.
Shella Whent is the Lady of Harrenhal and head of House Whent.
Shella is an old lady.
According to a semi-canon response from George R. R. Martin, Shella was married to Lord Walter Whent, the brother of Ser Oswell Whent, and she was the mother of the fair maid of the tourney at Harrenhal. In *A Game of Thrones* and *A Clash of Kings* it is stated that Shella is from House Whent, and that her father and grandfather held Harrenhal before her.
While traveling near the inn at the crossroads, Catelyn Stark thinks of Lady Whent, the last of her line, living with her ghosts in the halls of Harrenhal.
Lady Shella yields Harrenhal to forces belonging to House Lannister because she lacks the men to defend it during the War of the Five Kings.
Following instruction from his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, who is aghast at a once-royal seat being granted to the upjumped son of a butcher, Tyrion Lannister strips Lord Slynt of Harrenhal, but it is not returned to Shella.
Arya Stark serves incognito at Harrenhal, where Shella's household had used only the lower thirds of two of Harrenhal's five towers.
Prior to the Red Wedding, an incognito Sandor Clegane tells Ser Donnel Haigh that he serves Lady Whent.
Lord Petyr Baelish tells Sansa Stark that Lady Shella has reportedly died, but her whereabouts and manner of death are unknown.
Shella is considered the dispossessed Lady of Harrenhal.
With all the semi-canon and canon information taken into account, this is the current tree for House Whent as described in the main series. appear to have been Whents by birth. Their relation to each other, besides their marriage, is as of yet unknown. Until any confirmation is given, a clearer family tree showing all relations of the Whents cannot be depicted.
The Shepherd was a crazed prophet who lived in King's Landing during the Dance of the Dragons..
He was one-handed, religious and insane.
It was the fear of dragons, and of their presence, that gave birth to the Shepherd. His name has been lost to history. Some suppose he was a poor beggar, others that he might have been one of the Poor Fellows who, though outlawed and disbanded, still stubbornly haunted the realm. Whoever he was, he began to preach in the Cobbler's Square, saying that the dragons were demons, the spawn of godless Valyria, and the doom of men. Scores listened—then hundreds, then thousands. Fear begat anger, and anger begat a thirst for blood. And when the Shepherd announced that the city would be saved only when the city was cleansed of dragons, people listened.
During the riots in King's Landing the Shepherd began to rant against dragons, not just the dragons that were coming to attack the city but all dragons everywhere. The half-crazed crowd listened to him preach and after he was done ten thousand throats cried "Kill them! Kill them!", and much of the mob headed for the Dragonpit, where three of the blacks' dragons and one of the greens' dragons dwelled.
After the Storming of the Dragonpit and Rhaenyra's flight, the Shepherd and his mob ruled much of the city. Other factions of rioters seized control of other parts of the city, particularly Trystane Truefyre at the Red Keep itself on Aegon's Hill and Gaemon Palehair on Visenya's Hill. Eventually, Aegon II recovered enough strength to join the fresh armies of the Stormlands led by Borros Baratheon to retake the city. The Shepherd's fate has not yet been revealed.
Sherrer is a stone holdfast in the riverlands downriver from Mummer's Ford on the Red Fork.
The population of Sherrer is decimated and their houses burned by Lannister men-at-arms posing as brigands at the beginning of the War of the Five Kings. The remaining population is brought to King's Landing as witnesses against those who were raiding. Joss tells of the attack to the Hand of the King, Lord Eddard Stark, who sends Lord Beric Dondarrion to bring Ser Gregor Clegane to justice.
The Mad Huntsman accuses Sandor Clegane of crimes against the population of Sherrer, stating that girls of six and seven were raped and babies were killed. Sandor replies that he was not at Sherrer, nor the Mummer's Ford.
King Sherrit was an ancient king who, while at the Nightfort, called a curse down on the Andals.
Shield Islands
The Reach and the location of the Shield Islands
The Shield Islands, commonly called the Shields
When any sign of longships is spotted, elders in watchtowers light beacon fires, which in turn cause other watchtowers to light their own beacons and spread the warning to settlements further inland so they will not be caught unaware.
Shield Islands dromon engages an ironborn vessel - Illustrated by Ben Zweifel. © Fantasy Flight Games.
The Shields Islands were originally known as the Misty Islands. Two thousand years before the events of *A Song of Ice and Fire* the ironborn were free to sail up the Mander and plunder all the villages and towns all the way to (now Bitterbridge). Torgon Greyiron used Greyshield as his stronghold.
The Misty Islands were renamed the Shield Islands once King Garth VII Gardener drove out the ironmen and fortified them with men from the Reach.
During Robert's Rebellion, longships of the Shield Islands were defeated by House Greyjoy in the battle at the Mander, although Lord Quellon Greyjoy was killed in the battle.
In 300 AC the Shield Islands are invaded by ironborn led by King Euron Greyjoy. The ironborn fleet successfully outmaneuvers the local island defenses and captures most of their fleet. Euron Greyjoy names new Lords, Harras Harlaw is made Lord of Greyshield, Andrik the Unsmiling Lord of Southshield, Maron Volmark Lord of Greenshield, and Nute the Barber Lord of Oakenshield.
Shield of Lannisport is a title bestowed upon the defender of the city of Lannisport in the westerlands. Traditionally, the title is usually held by the head of House Lannister, the Lord of Casterly Rock.
Shield of Sisterton is one of the hereditary titles held by the head of House Borrell. It refers to their responsibility to protect and defend Sisterton, a town in Sweetsister where their overlords, House Sunderland, resides.
The current Shield of Sisterton is Lord Godric Borrell.
Shield of the Faith is an honorary title claimed by the Lord of House Manderly of White Harbor..
Being exiles from the Reach, the Manderlys are the most prominent of the few houses of the north who adhere to the Faith,
The Shieldhall is an old feast hall of dark stone at Castle Black.
In years past, when the Night's Watch was much larger in number, the Shieldhall's walls had been hung with rows of brightly colored wooden shields. When a knight took the black, his shield would adorn its wall and he would take up the plain black shield of the brotherhood. When a knight died, his shield was removed so it could go to the deceased's pyre or tomb. As the Night's Watch declined in number, however, the noble brothers dined instead with the smallfolk in the common hall. The dark Shieldhall was used infrequently, as it was difficult to heat, infested with rats, and had worm-eaten wooden rafters.
After letting Tormund's free folk through the Wall, Lord Commander Jon Snow has them gather with the Night's Watch within the Shieldhall, as it seats two hundred and has the capacity for another hundred. Jon notices fewer than a dozen shields along its wall.
Hundreds of knights meant hundreds of shields. Hawks and eagles, dragons and griffins, suns and stags, wolves and wyverns, manticores, bulls, trees and flowers, harps, spears, crabs and krakens, red lions and golden lions and chequy lions, owls, lambs, maids and mermen, stallions, stars, buckets and buckles, flayed men and hanged men and burning men, axes, longswords, turtles, unicorns, bears, quills, spiders and snakes and scorpions, and a hundred other heraldic charges had adorned the Shieldhall walls, blazoned in more colors than any rainbow ever dreamed off.
- Thoughts of Jon Snow
Shiera is a female name. Characters named Shiera include:
Shiera Blackwood was a member of House Blackwood who married into House Durrandon.
Shiera was the eldest child of Lord Roderick Blackwood, who was allied with the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon. Arlan had married one of Roderick's daughters, while Shiera was herself married to Arlan's son. to House Blackwood, but Roderick was slain in battle.
After the Battle of Six Kings, Roderick's heir was a boy of only eight and Arlan distrusted Roderick's brothers. Arlan considered granting the riverlands to his good-daughter Shiera and having his own son rule by her side, but the other river lords opposed being ruled by a woman. Arlan instead added the riverlands to the domains of House Durrandon.
Shiera Crakehall is the wife of Ser Damion Lannister, a cousin of the main branch of House Lannister. They have two children, Ser Lucion and Lanna Lannister.
Shiera Seastar was the last of the Great Bastards of King Aegon IV Targaryen, born to his last mistress, Serenei of Lys. The known lover of Brynden Rivers, she is said to have been the most beautiful woman of the Seven Kingdoms.
See also: Images of Shiera Seastar
Shiera was renowned as a beauty and seductress, with long Targaryen silver-gold hair, and a heart-shaped face. Although she had two mismatched eyes—one blue, the other green—it was said that the "defect" only enhanced her beauty. She was fond of ivory and lace and cloth-of-silver, but not gold, which she considered too vulgar.
Shiera was a great reader, even at an early age, spoke many languages, and maintained a large and arcane library. She also was reputed to share her mother Serenei's skill in the dark arts. Shiera was known to possess a heavy silver necklace, alternating star sapphires and emeralds to compliment her unusual eyes.
King Aegon IV Targaryen sired Shiera upon the ninth and last of his mistresses, Lady Serenei of Lys. She died in childbed bringing forth Shiera, the child's name meaning "Star of the Sea."
Shiera never married, but took many lovers, and numerous duels were fought for her favor. Her half-brother Brynden Rivers, known as Bloodraven, was her most ardent suitor, and repeatedly proposed marriage to her. Although she refused to marry him, Shiera did share her bed with him and was amused with his jealousy.
There were rumors that Shiera used sorcery to aid Bloodraven when he served as Hand of the King and master of whisperers to King Aerys I Targaryen,
Shiera Seastar by Bella Bergolts ©
Bran Stark trains beyond the Wall with the ancient three-eyed crow, who calls himself Lord Brynden. Bran learns that this last greenseer once desired a woman, but her name is not mentioned.
Duncan: You've known queens and princesses. Did they dance with demons and practice the black arts?
Aegon: Lady Shiera does. Lord Bloodraven's paramour. She bathes in blood to keep her beauty.
– Duncan and Aegon Targaryen
I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother that I loved, a brother that I hated, a woman I desired.
- Brynden Rivers to Bran Stark
Bittersteel and Bloodraven both loved Shiera Seastar, and the Seven Kingdoms bled.
– Barristan Selmy's thoughts
Though she never wed, she had many offers, and several lovers through the years. Duels were fought over the right to sit beside her, men killed themselves after falling from her favor, poets outdid each other writing songs about her beauty. Her most ardent admirer was her half-brother, Bloodraven, who proposed marriage to her half a hundred times. Shiera gave him her bed, but never her hand. It amused her more to make him jealous.
Shierle Swyft is the daughter of Ser Harys Swyft. She is married to Ser Melwyn Sarsfield.
Shipbreaker Bay
The stormlands and the location of Shipbreaker Bay
Shipbreaker Bay is a large bay in the stormlands along the eastern coast of Westeros. Rocky and frequented by storms, it is named after the large number of ships that have been destroyed in its waters.
Storm's End sits on Durran's Point on the northern shore of Shipbreaker Bay, while Griffin's Roost is on the western shore. South of the bay is Cape Wrath with the rainwood and Rain House. Tarth sits in the narrow sea east of Shipbreaker Bay, with Evenfall Hall situated along the bay on the western side of the isle. North of Shipbreaker Bay are the Straits of Tarth.
Storm's End lacks a safe anchorage because of wild waters and dangerous rocks in Shipbreaker Bay. Instead, the Storm Kings of House Durrandon kept fleets at Massey's Hook, Estermont, Tarth, or the Sea of Dorne.
At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Aemond Targaryen and Vhagar killed Prince Lucerys Velaryon and Arrax above the bay.
Lord Steffon Baratheon and his wife, Cassana Estermont, died when the *Windproud* broke up within sight of Storm's End during a sudden storm.
During the siege of Storm's End, the smuggler Davos navigated the rocks of Shipbreaker Bay to bring supplies to the besieged Stannis Baratheon.
Two cogs from Stannis Baratheon's fleet are lost on the rocks of Shipbreaker Bay on the day his fleet sets sail.
Lords Mace Tyrell and Mathis Rowan besiege Storm's End, which still supports Stannis. Part of Lord Paxter Redwyne's fleet from the Arbor patrols Shipbreaker Bay to prevent the castle from being resupplied by sea.
Blacktyde longship, by Marc Simonetti
A ship's crew
Salladhor Saan's escort ship, by Marc Simonetti
Braavosi trading ships, with purple sails, by Paolo Puggioni
Suicide raider, by Marc Simonetti
Lyseni ship's Captain. © FFG
Ships are watercraft used in the Known World. They range from smaller fisher boats and raider vessels, various warships and trade ships, up to the huge war dromonds and the magnificent swan ships that cross the Summer Sea.
The major fleets of the Seven Kingdoms are the Iron Fleet and the fleets of the ironborn, based in the Iron Islands; the royal fleet, based at King's Landing and Dragonstone; and the Redwyne fleet, based at the Arbor.
In the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, lords whose lands abut the coast might keep a war galley or three for coastal defense against pirates, but only major houses like the Lannisters have larger and grander fleets of twenty to thirty ships. Usually for major battles, the lords call the ships of their various bannermen.
The Tyrells are in more or less the same position as the Lannisters, though they depend even more on their bannermen, especially the lords of the Shield Islands off the mouth of the Mander. The Hightowers have only a few warships, but control Oldtown, home to numerous trading vessels.
In Qarth, the Thirteen control about 1,000 ships, the Ancient Guild of Spicers own about 1,200 or 1,300, and the Tourmaline Brotherhood has about 800.
Ibben makes use of fat-bellied whaling ships.
Ships are used in small skirmishes, raids, and full-scale naval engagements, such as the Battle of Fair Isle. Lords whose lands abut the coast might need to maintain a few war galleys to defend against piracy. Ships are also use for support roles, such as providing provisions and transporting troops.
The basic tactic of naval battles is to get the ship close enough to ram the other ship, board her, and fight the rest of the battle on the deck. Up until they close, longbows and crossbows can be used. Sometimes siege weapons are carried on the largest war galleys.
Longships of the Iron Fleet are used as fast raiding ships. They can travel twice as swiftly as a merchant cog The standard tactic for engaging is to board the enemy ship. The crew being combatants, as well as the ironborn preference for wearing armor despite the risk of drowning, gives the ironborn an advantage when boarding.
War galleys or dromonds are larger than normal galleys and carry more tonnage as a result of being equipped with a ram, and they may equip siege weapons like ballista or catapults. They also have a larger compliment of oarsmen and soldiers onboard. The standard tactic for engaging is to ram the enemy ship, causing it to sink, or to board it if the attacking ship has a greater number of soldiers and wishes to capture the enemy ship intact. They are presumably the kind of ship that George R. R. Martin has compared to Venetian/Byzantine dromonds of war. war galleys appear to have no more than 80 oars.
Swan ships are known to have red archers with goldenheart bows, companies that help defend the vessel from attack. Women serve on swan ships and can command the red archers.
Some of the descriptions are based on real world parallels.
Galleys, vessels larger than boats, are propelled by sail or oar power. They are used for warfare, trade and piracy. Due to their low setting they are primarily coastal ships, preferring to thread through archipelagos rather than risking even a moderate sea. Their large rower crew makes them maneuverable and swift but also require frequent stops for food and water. The galley has supplemental sails to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys. The ability to travel swiftly without regard to the direction or strength of the wind becomes invaluable for daylight expeditions across open water. The real world, practical upper limit for a galley fast and maneuverable enough for warfare was around 25-30 oars per side. By adding another level of oars, the galley could be made shorter with as many rowers, while making them strong enough to be effective ramming weapons. The flagship of House Hightower, *Honor of Oldtown, and the flagship of the royal fleet, *King Robert's Hammer, are the two largest known galleys in Westeros.
Longships are a smaller type of galley primarily used by the ironborn. They are long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed. The ship's shallow draft allows navigation in waters only one meter deep and permits beach landings, while its light weight enables it to be carried over portages. Longships are also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without having to turn around. This trait proves particularly useful in northern latitudes where icebergs and sea ice pose hazards to navigation. Longships are fitted with oars along almost the entire length of the boat itself. Later versions sport a rectangular sail on a single mast which is used to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys. Martin has compared them to Viking longboats.
Cogs are mostly propelled by sails, which make them difficult to sail, especially upwind, and they are hostage to breezes and currents in a way that the swift galley is not. However, it can better manage rough seas and its small crew and ample storage space give it greater freedom of movement, making it perfect for trade or equipment transport.
Carracks are large ocean-going vessels. They are stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough to carry provisions for long voyages.
Swan ships, so called in the Seven Kingdoms for their great white sails and figureheads which are often carved in the shape of birds, are large ocean-going vessels designed and built in the Summer Islands. With a good wind behind them they can outrun any galley. However, they are helpless when becalmed. They have high masts and high forecastles.
Whalers are fat-bellied ships from Ibben, with hulls black with tar, used to hunt and process whales in the Shivering Sea. Ibbenese ships, though ungainly and smelly, are renowned for their strength, as they are built to weather any storm and withstand the assaults of the largest whales.
Victarion Greyjoy leads the Iron Fleet in capturing capturing Moat Cailin.
The royal fleet is divided between King Joffrey I Baratheon at King's Landing and Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone. Both fleets are largely destroyed during the Battle of the Blackwater.
Euron Greyjoy sends the Iron Fleet against the Shield Islands.
The Redwyne fleet assists in the siege of Dragonstone.
Victarion leads the Iron Fleet to Slaver's Bay.
The Redwyne fleet sails back to defend the Reach from the ironborn.
Davos Seaworth spots twenty-three war galleys at White Harbor,
Shireen Baratheon is a member of House Baratheon of Dragonstone, and is the daughter and only child of Lord Stannis Baratheon and Lady Selyse Florent.*, she is portrayed by Kerry Ingram.
See also: Images of Shireen Baratheon
Shireen is regarded as a sweet child, but she is not considered pretty. She has blue eyes, but inherited her father's square, jutting jaw, and her mother's large ears.
When Shireen was an infant, she suffered from greyscale. The disease almost killed her, and left her disfigured. Cressen, Dragonstone's maester, feels that her sadness is a mark of his failure.
As the daughter and heir of Stannis, Shireen resides in Dragonstone and is educated by Maester Cressen. She is usually seen in the company of Patchface, their mad fool that she calls "Patches", though his ravings sometimes frighten her. Shireen has also suffered from nightmares for years.
Renly Baratheon refers to Shireen as his brother Stannis's "ugly daughter".
Shireen playing with Patchface, art by M.Luisa Giliberti©
Princess Shireen, art by Sara Biddle©
Shireen is on Dragonstone with her father, Stannis, and mother, Selyse. Maester Cressen pities the sad-looking child, and has his assistant, Maester Pylos, show her the white raven that has arrived from the Citadel to announce the onset of autumn. Shireen tells Cressen about her nightmares that dragons are coming to eat her, and he tries to reassure her, saying that the stone dragons of Dragonstone can never come to life. She is uncertain, as Melisandre has said the red comet is "dragonsbreath", and Cressen reassures her that it is just a comet and will soon be gone.
Cressen suggests to Stannis that Shireen be betrothed to Lord Robert Arryn and sent to the Eyrie to make an alliance with Lady Lysa Arryn, whom he thinks will want vengeance for Lord Jon Arryn's death, but Stannis is unsure of the idea.
Stannis writes a letter to the lords of the Seven Kingdoms, informing them that Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen Baratheon are the offspring of incest between Queen Cersei Lannister and her brother, Ser Jaime Lannister. In retaliation, the small council under Tyrion Lannister discusses schemes to spread rumors that Shireen is not Stannis's child, expecting that this would hurt Stannis's sense of honor. These schemes make use of Shireen's looks: Tyrion proposes that Shireen's great-uncle, Ser Axell Florent, could be the father because she has big Florent ears, but Lord Petyr Baelish prevails with his suggestion that Patchface being the father of Shireen would make for a more juicy tale. He refers to them looking somewhat alike with their speckled, half-frozen faces, and also that the fool is close with the girl. The rumor, strongly supported by Cersei, is meant to be spread via prostitutes in Petyr's brothels, and with the help of Lord Varys through alehouses and pot-shops.
Later, Renly refers to this rumor about Shireen's parentage during his meeting with Stannis at Storm's End, causing great offense.
Shireen Baratheon © FFG
With Stannis having declared himself King of Westeros, Shireen is now referred to as a princess.
While attempting to bring peace between Stannis and King Joffrey I, Lord Alester Florent suggests that Shireen be betrothed to Joffrey's younger brother, Prince Tommen. Alester is imprisoned for negotiating with Stannis's enemies without his approval.
Stannis's army and retinue travels from Dragonstone to the Wall to respond to the wildling threat. At the Wall, he leaves Shireen at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea with her mother, while his army marches to Castle Black.
Shireen, Selyse, and Patchface are brought to Castle Black, where the girl is intrigued by the giant Wun Wun.
After Alys Karstark marries Sigorn of the Thenns, Shireen dances with Ser Brus Buckler during the wedding feast.
Val of the free folk is frightened of Shireen due to her greyscale scars, and tells Jon Snow that the child is "not clean" and should be killed or she will put others in danger. Jon is horrified by Val's statement, and is grateful that Selyse and her queen's men did not hear it. Val refuses to let Gilly's baby and his wet nurses stay in the same tower as "the dead girl".
Stannis orders Ser Justin Massey to travel from the crofters' village to Braavos to recruit sellswords. Stannis instructs Justin to support Shireen's claim to the Iron Throne if the king were to die in battle.
I had bad dreams. About the dragons. They were coming to eat me.
- Shireen to Cressen
Wun Wun: Kneel queen. Little queen.
Shireen: He's a giant! A real true giant, like from the stories. But why does he talk so funny?
Jon: He only knows a few words of the Common Tongue as yet. In their own land, giants speak the Old Tongue.
- Wun Wun, Shireen, and Jon Snow
Her name was Shireen. She would be ten on her next name day, and she was the saddest child that Maester Cressen had ever known.
- thoughts of Cressen
This is the king's true heir. Shireen will one day sit the Iron Throne and rule the Seven Kingdoms.
- Selyse Florent to Jon Snow
The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!
- Val to Jon Snow
Justin: Your Grace, if you are dead —
Stannis: — you will avenge my death, and seat my daughter on the Iron Throne. Or die in the attempt.
Justin: On my honor as a knight, you have my word.
- Justin Massey and Stannis Baratheon
Shirei Frey is the seventh daughter of Lord Walder Frey, the second born daughter of his seventh spouse, Lady Annara Farring. was rumored to be sleeping with Lady Annara casting doubts on the parentage of her children. Shirei is the youngest daughter of Lord Walder Frey.
Shirei was among the Frey women that was presented to Robb Stark when he came to the Twins for Lord Edmure Tully's wedding.
Shitmouth is a man at arms in service to House Clegane. His real name is not known: everybody refers to him as Shitmouth due to his foul language.
Shitmouth has grey hair and is grizzled, with a thick beard.
Shitmouth is one of Ser Gregor Clegane's men at arms and is part of the group that captures Arya Stark, Gendry and Hot Pie in the Riverlands. Arya does not add him to her prayer kill list as he displays a lack of cruelty in comparison to his comrades.
When Ser Jaime Lannister and his force arrives at Harrenhal, he encounters a drunken Shitmouth after emerging from the gates. When Jaime asks him if he was in charge, Shitmouth responds:
Me? Shit no. M'lord. Bugger me with a bloody spear.
To this, Jaime asks for a spear. It is meant in jest but Shitmouth takes it seriously and falls silent. When Jaime is informed by Rafford that Sandor Clegane, accompanied by a boy, some time ago killed Polliver, the Tickler and a squire at the Crossroads Inn, Jaime asks whether the men went after Ser Sandor. Shitmouth betrays that the thought never crossed their mind. Jaime advises them that a dog needs his throat cut when he goes wild, to which Shitmouth replies that he never liked Polliver anyway and suggests that they didn't want to kill the brother of the man who commands them.
Though the one they called Shitmouth had the foulest tongue she had ever heard, he'd give you an extra piece of bread if you asked, while jolly old Chiswyck and soft spoken Raff would just give you the back of their hand.
- Arya Stark.
A map showing the location of the Shivering Sea in blue.
The Shivering Sea is a frigid sea north of Essos. It is bounded to the west by Westeros, to the south by Essos, to the north by a vast frozen wilderness called the White Waste, and to the east by lands and seas unknown, perhaps the Sunset Sea.
Braavos is located in a lagoon in northwestern Essos where the Shivering Sea meets the narrow sea. East of Braavos are the islands of Lorath and Lorath Bay. Further east is the Axe and the oft-disputed Bitterweed Bay. Next along the Shivering Sea are the delta of the Sarne, the Kingdom of Omber, and the Bay of Tusks. East of the latter bay is the forested Kingdom of the Ifequevron, north of which are the islands of Ibben. The Realm of Jhogwin lies between the Shivering Sea and the Krazaaj Zasqa. Even further east are Leviathan Sound, the Thousand Islands, N'Ghai, and forested Mossovy. It is unknown how far east the sea extends beyond Mossovy.
There are several tales about the Shivering Sea, including queer lights shimmering in the sky, where the demon mother of the ice giants dances eternally through the night, seeking to lure men northward to their dooms. Tales also mention Cannibal Bay, where ships enter only to find themselves trapped forever when the sea freezes behind them. Other tales also mention pale blue mists moving across the waters, so cold they freeze any ship they pass over; drowned spirits that rise at night to drag the living down into the depths; or mermaids of pale flesh and black-scaled tails, far more malign than their sisters to the south.
Another myth speaks of ice dragons, far larger than the dragons of Valyria, said to be made of living ice, with eyes of pale blue crystal, vast translucent wings, and breath of cold.
The waters of the Shivering Sea teem with life. Hundreds of varieties of fish swim through its depths, including salmon, wolf fish, sand lances, grey skates, lampreys and other eels, whitefish, char, shark, herring, mackerel, and cod. Crabs and lobsters are found everywhere along its shores. Seals, narwhals, walruses, and sea lions have their rookeries and breeding grounds on and around the countless rocky islands and sea stacks. The sea is also home to many whales, including grey whales, white whales, humpbacks, spotted whales, and leviathans. The westernmost reaches of the Shivering Sea, from Skagos and the Grey Cliffs to the delta of the Sarne, are the richest fishing grounds in the known world.
Corlys Velaryon was the first Westerosi to explore the Shivering Sea as far as the Thousand Islands.
Shortear is a guard in service to House Lannister.
Shortear is sent by Queen Cersei Lannister to fetch Maesters Frenken and Ballabar with Puckens. They return with Qyburn. He is within earshot when Ser Jaime Lannister refuses the position of Hand of the King when the queen offers it to him.
The shortsword is one of the smaller types of sword, alongside the falchion. It is significantly shorter than the longsword.
The shortsword is one of the primary weapons of the Unsullied. An officer of the Gold Cloaks wields a shortsword when he threatens Yoren.
For the cog renamed Shrike, see Dove.
The Shrike was a priest of the Drowned God who lived during the reign of Harmund III Hoare, King of the Iron Islands. His given name is unknown.
When Harmund the Handsome announced that reavers would be hanged as pirates rather than celebrated, outlawed the taking of salt wives, declaring the children of such unions no more than bastards with no right to inheritance, and was considering to put an end to the practice of thralldom, the Shrike began to preach against him.[*citation needed*]
Soon other priests took up the cry, and the lords of the Iron Islands listened. Septons and their followers stood by King Harmund, but the Shrike managed to overthrow Harmund bloodlessly. Afterward, the Shrike himself took the deposed king's tongue so he may never again speak "lies and blasphemies". Harmund was also blinded and his nose cut off so "all men might see him for the monster he is".[*citation needed*]
Harmund's brother, Hagon Hoare, was declared king. Hagon allowed the mutilation of his own mother, Dowager Queen Lelia Lannister, whom the Shrike blamed for turning her husband, Harmund II Hoare, and their sons away from the Drowned God to the Faith of the Seven.[*citation needed*]
Hagon the Heartless was brought down by the westermen led by Ser Aubrey Crakehall, who wanted vengeance for the mutilation of Lelia. Surprisingly, Aubrey then claimed the kingship of the Iron Isles for himself. The reign of "King Aubrey" lasted less than half a year before he was captured by the ironborn and sacrificed to the sea by the Shrike himself.
Shrinking Sea
The known world and the location of the Shrinking Sea
The Shrinking Sea is situated in eastern Essos. It lies east of the Great Sand Sea, north of Yi Ti, and south of the plains of the Jogos Nhai.
The Shrouded Lord, also known as His Grey Grace and the Prince of Sorrows, is a mysterious figure. Many say he is just a legend.
The Shrouded Lord is said to rule the mists around the Sorrows since the time of Garin and to spread greyscale through the grey kiss, although he does not bestow his kiss lightly according to Haldon.
According to some rumors, he is thought to be Prince Garin himself, risen from his watery grave. Others believe that there have been numerous Shrouded Lords, and when one dies another one takes his place; the one currently holding the title is a corsair from the Basilisk Isles. Rolly Duckfield likes yet another version of the tale, in which the Shrouded Lord was a statue at first, and a grey woman from the fog kissed life to it with lips as cold as ice. the stone men were proud, and the Shrouded Lord was the proudest of all.
As the *Shy Maid* and her crew travel on the Rhoyne discussion turns to the Shrouded Lord and the various tales about him. Tyrion Lannister comes to associate the Shrouded Lord with Tywin Lannister, the father he slew, and has bad dreams of both.
He dreamt of his lord father and the Shrouded Lord. He dreamt that they were one and the same, and when his father wrapped stone arms around him and bent to give him his grey kiss, he woke with his mouth dry and rusty with the taste of blood and his heart hammering in his chest.
- Tyrion Lannister awakening from his near drowning
Beyond the veil of dream, the Sorrows were waiting for him. Stone steps ascending endlessly, steep and slick and treacherous, and somewhere at the top, the Shrouded Lord. I do not want to meet the Shrouded Lord.
- Tyrion Lannister, drunk in a Selhorys brothel
The Shrykes are a race of half-human creatures said to inhabit the land beyond the Five Forts, east of the southern half of the Bleeding Sea and south of K'Dath. They are said to have green-scaled skin and venomous men. Maester Yandel wonders if they are truly lizard-men or men clad in the skins of lizards, or they are no more than fables, comparing them to the grumkins and snarks of Westerosi tales. Whatever the truth, even they supposedly live in terror of the city of K'Dath.
The Shrykes has not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, and is only mentioned in *The Lands of Ice and Fire, *A World of Ice and Fire and *The World of Ice and Fire*.
Shrykos was a young she-dragon bound to Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons. Shrykos died in the Dragonpit when it was invaded by a half-crazed angry mob after a one-handed prophet called the Shepherd began to rant against all dragons everywhere. There is little doubt that Shrykos killed scores of people in the Dragonpit before being slain. Shrykos was never ridden.
Hobb The Hewer by Ashley Hunter Rice
Shackled by her heavy chains, Shrykos was slain by a woodsman known as Hobb the Hewer who leapt onto her neck driving his axe into her skull as she roared and twisted, trying to throw him off. With his legs locked around the dragon's neck, Hobb delivered seven blows and each time his axe came down he roared out the name of each of the the Seven. It was the Stranger's blow that slew the dragon, his axe crashed through scale and bones into Shrykos's brain.
The Shy Maid - by Dimitri Bielak. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Shy Maid is an ugly old ramshackle single-masted poleboat with a large lateen sail. Its crew includes the captain and master, Yandry, and his wife, Ysilla.
See also: Images of the Shy Maid
Although the poleboats that ply the rivers of Dorne are often brightly painted and exquisitely carved, the Shy Maid is not. Her paintwork is a muddy greyish brown, mottled and flaking; her big curved tiller, plain and unadorned.
She has a broad beam and her draft is so shallow she can work her way up even the smallest of the river’s vassal streams, negotiating sandbars that would strand larger vessels, yet with her sail raised and a current under her, she can make good speed - which can mean life and death on the upper reaches of the Rhoyne according to Yandry.
Haldon's is the largest of the ship's four cabins. One wall is lined with bookshelves and bins stacked with old scrolls and parchments; another holds racks of ointments, herbs, and potions. The cabin's round window has yellow glass. The furnishings include a bunk, a writing desk, a chair, a stool, and his *cyvasse* table, strewn with carved wooden pieces.
Hugor Hill aboard the Shy Maid © Fantasy Flight Games
The boat is used by Griff to transport his party down the Rhoyne to Volantis. Much to Griff’s consternation Yandry and Ysilla refuse to risk their pole boat in the dark and will not continue downstream at night. The Upper Rhoyne is full of snags and sawyers, anyone of which could rip out the Shy Maid's hull.
Yandry and Ysilla share one cabin, Griff and Young Griff another. Septa Lemore has a cabin to herself, as does Haldon, who has the largest. Tyrion Lannister, going by the names Hugor Hill and Yollo, makes a bed atop the roof of one of the Shy Maid's cabins, with a coil of hempen rope for a pillow. He likes it better there than the boat's cramped hold. Ser Rolly Duckfield possibly sleeps in the hold.
She looks like dirt … but no doubt that’s the point.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Shyra is the twin sister of Bandy and daughter of Joseth.
Shyra plays lord of the crossing with the Frey wards.
After the sack of Winterfell, Shyra is among the captives being held at the Dreadfort.
Shyra Errol is the head of House Errol and is the Lady of Haystack Hall in the Stormlands.
Lady Shyra supports Renly Baratheon during the War of the Five Kings. implying Shyra has died before this event.
Sebastion Errol has become Lord of Haystack Hall
Si Qo, known as Si Qo the Glorious, was a city of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti, located in the heart of Yi Ti's jungle. Though now long fallen and overgrown, Si Qo was the capital of the Empire during the rule of the scarlet emperors. who raised it to be there capital.
The siege of Astapor takes place prior to the Yunkish march to Yunkai for provisions and fresh horses and thence to lay siege to Meereen, the city ruled by Queen Daenerys Targaryen.
The Yunkai, in their fight against Daenerys Targaryen, contract the Windblown mercenary company from Volantis; their first task is to travel east to Slaver's Bay and take over Astapor from the freed former slaves.
By the time the Windblown scramble from the ships that have brought them from Old Volantis they hear the news that King Cleon the Butcher King is dead, King Cleon the Second is also dead, and the Astapori are now ruled by King Cutthroat and Queen Whore.
Meanwhile, the forces of Yunkai and its allies and other sellsword companies have besieged Astapor. They devour the Astapori crops and slaughter their herds. Inside, the Astapori starve; and resort to eating cats and rats and leather, with a horsehide considered a feast. King Cutthroat and Queen Whore accuse each other of feasting on the flesh of the slain. Men and women gather in secret to draw lots and gorge upon the flesh of those who draw the black stone.
The pyramid of Nakloz is despoiled and set aflame by those who claim that Kraznys mo Nakloz is to blame for all their woes. Others blame Daenerys but many still love her. There are rumors that King Cleon sent for Daenerys and she is coming. Every day the citizens tell each other that Daenerys is on her way, at the head of a great host, with food for all. There are other rumors that she has been seen mounted on a dragon flying high above the camps of the Yunkai'i. Every day the citizens look for her.
Inside the desperate city the Green Grace has a vision that dead King Cleon will deliver Astapor from the Yunkai. The despairing Astapori heed this vision and attempt to break the siege, making the disastrous decision to have Cleon's corpse disinterred and strapped onto the back of a starving horse to lead Astapor's new and vastly inferior Unsullied on a sortie outside the city's gates.
The battle begins at dawn when the new Unsullied march out the city's gates on the sortie against the forces of Yunkai and its allies and sellswords.
Some of the Windblown are asleep when the battle commences so they must quickly don their armour. Three hundred yards away Astapor's Unsullied pour through the gates and form up in ranks beneath Astapor's crumbling red brick walls. Quentyn Martell, Ser Archibald Yronwood, and Ser Gerris Drinkwater join the Windblown horse line as drums beat in the distance. Gerris points out to Quentyn the Butcher King, sitting tall upon an armored horse in a suit of copper scale that flashes brilliantly in the sun.
As the Astapori advance the Yunkishmen are still running about in fluttering tokars trying to get their half-trained slave soldiers into some semblance of order as Unsullied spears oame crashing through the Windblown siege lines. The Windblown and the Company of the Cat are ahorse in minutes, however, and come thundering down on the Astapori flanks even as a legion from New Ghis pushes through the Yunkish camp from the other side and meets the Unsullied spear to spear and shield to shield. The rest of the battle is butchery.
It is Caggo who finally cuts the Butcher King down, fighting through the king's protectors on his monstrous warhorse and opening Cleon the Great from shoulder to hip with one blow of his curved Valyrian steel *arakh. It is claimed that Cleon's copper armour rent like silk, and from within came an awful stench and a hundred wriggling grave worms. Cleon had been dead after all - the desperate Astapori had pulled him from his tomb, clapped him into armour, and tied him onto a horse in the hopes of giving heart to their Unsullied. The act of cutting the Butcher King down earns Caggo the name *Corpsekiller.
Dead Cleon's fall breaks the Astapori Unsullied; they throw down their spears and shields and run, only to find the gates of Astapor shut behind them. Slaughter follows; the Windblown ride down the frightened eunuchs, slashing right and left through the Unsullied.
When the Windblown burst out the other side, the Tattered Prince wheels them round and leads them through again. It is only on coming back that Quentyn has a good look at the faces beneath the spiked bronze caps and realises that most are not older than he – green boys screaming for their mothers, but he kills them all the same. By the time he leaves the field his sword runs red with blood and his arm is so tired he can hardly lift it.
Quentyn later thinks to himself that the fight beneath the walls of Astapor seemed real enough to him but according to Denzo D'han, the veteran of a hundred battles, it was butchery, not battle.
After the defeat of the Unsullied the Green Grace is impaled upon a stake in the Plaza of Punishment and left until she dies. In the pyramid of Ullhor, the survivors have a great feast that lasts half the night, and they wash the last of their food down with poison wine so none need wake in the morning.
Soon after comes the sickness, the bloody flux that kills three men in every four, until healthy men slay the guards at the main gate. The guards are torn apart and the gates thrown open. The legions of New Ghis come pouring into Astapor, followed by the Yunkai'i and the sellswords on their horses. When the city fall the butchery begins.
The Temple of the Graces is full of the sick who have come to ask the gods to heal them. The legions seal the doors and set the temple ablaze with torches. Within the hour fires begin in every corner of the city, joining one another as they spread. The streets are full of mobs, running this way and that to escape the flames, but there is no way out, for the Yunkai'i sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city.
Riding through the city Quentyn Martell sees a river choked with corpses and the Green Grace in her torn robes, impaled upon a stake and attended by a cloud of glistening flies. Dying men stagger through the streets, bloody and befouled, children fighting over half-cooked puppies. There are flames and fires everywhere., whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle Quentyn has ever seen, plums of greasy smoke, coiling upward like great black snakes.
Soon there is nothing left in Astapor but corpses. What Astapori that still survive creep out of their hidey-holes and pour out into the countryside, hundreds of them, maybe thousands, all starved and sick – many have the bloody flux. The Yunkai'i command the sellswords to hunt them down and turn them, driving them back to Astapor or north to Meereen to prevent the Astapori from going near the Yellow City.
Daenerys Targaryen receives the news of the fall from three escaped Astapori: a brickmaker, a weaver and a cobbler. Afterwards she goes out to her terrace and it seems to her that the sky is darker to the southwest, smudged and hazy with the smoke of the Red City's passing.
The Tattered Prince takes the lion's share of the Windblown's Astapori plunder.
Quentyn reflects to himself that the sights he saw riding down the red brick streets of Astapor will haunt him forever and that the Red City was the closest thing to hell he ever hopes to know.
We were dancing with cripples at Astapor.
- Beans, on the siege of Astapor
The siege of Darry is a short siege during the War of the Five Kings.
Castle Darry is recaptured from the Lannister occupation by the forces of House Darry. However, a fortnight later, Ser Gregor Clegane falls upon the castle and puts it to the sword, killing the eight-year-old Lord Lyman Darry and extinguishing House Darry in the male line.
Ser Helman Tallhart leads Tallhart men in a brief siege of Castle Darry that results in the surrender of the Lannister garrison.
Darry is once again free of Lannister occupation. At Harrenhal, Lord Roose Bolton sends word to Ser Helman to put the castle to the torch and the Lannister captives to the sword in the name of King Robb Stark. Helman is to then join forces with Robett Glover and attack Duskendale.
Following the Battle of the Blackwater, the Iron Throne grants Darry to Ser Lancel Lannister..
The Siege of Dragonstone refers to the action taken by forces loyal to King Tommen Baratheon to take Dragonstone, the island stronghold belonging to the rival King Stannis Baratheon. The end result is an allegedly costly victory for House Baratheon of King's Landing.
Lord Paxter Redwyne leads the Redwyne fleet in transporting two thousand westerlands men He intends to take the castle bloodlessly by either starving the defenders out or creating a breach in the walls through mining and forcing the defenders to surrender.
With the development of ironmen raiding the Reach after the taking of the Shields, there is more pressure on the besiegers to end the conflict quickly to free up the Redwyne fleet. Ser Loras Tyrell of the Kingsguard successfully asks Cersei Lannister for the command, as he believes Lord Paxter is taking too long. Cersei agrees, hoping that Loras will die in the battle.
Lord Aurane Waters reports to Cersei in King's Landing that when Loras arrived at Dragonstone he offered single combat to the defending commander, Ser Rolland Storm, who declined. Loras stormed the castle, leading the attack himself. Once the gate was breached Stannis's defenders retreated back to the keep, which was then assaulted by the besiegers straight away. In this attack, Loras was grievously injured by a mace blow, an arrow, a crossbow bolt, and boiling oil, but eventually the keep fell.
Ser Loras is reportedly gravely wounded. With Dragonstone taken, Lord Redwyne (now grand admiral) is free to defend the Reach with the Arbor fleet from King Euron Greyjoy's ironborn. It also removes the last direct threat to King's Landing and causes severe damage to Stannis Baratheon's already failing cause.
Not to be confused with the second siege of Meereen, taking place in 300 AC.
The siege of Meereen occurs in 299 AC when Daenerys Targaryen marches on Meereen, the last and the largest of the greatest slaver cities of Slaver's Bay.
The Meereenese, warned by the fall of Astapor and the battle near Yunkai, do not allow contact to be made with Daenerys Targaryen, retreating behind the formidable defense of Meereen. They strip their land, leaving Daenerys with scorched fields and poisoned wells, and they nail a disemboweled slave child up on every milepost along the coastal road from Yunkai, with an outstretched arm point toward Meereen as a message to Daenerys..
A Meereenese champion, Oznak zo Pahl, emerges to challenge Daenerys's champion in single battle, but he is slain by Daenerys's eunuch bodyguard Strong Belwas, a former gladiator of Meereen.
Daenerys commands her fleet to be dismantled, to construct battering rams, mantlets, turtles, catapults, and ladders.
The fighting is bitter and bloody for most of a day and well into the night. Daenerys sends rams, protected by great wooden turtles covered with horsehides, to batter the city gates, whilst her archers fire flights of flaming arrows over the walls and her forces storm the walls.
At nightfall Daenerys sends a diversion force of 200 men to set fire to the hulks in the harbor, while allowing Ser Jorah Mormont, Ser Barristan Selmy, Strong Belwas, and 20 others to infiltrate the city sewers under the cover of darkness. Once they find their way into the city, they go to the nearest fighting pit and release the slaves. Within an hour, half the fighting slaves in Meereen have been released, and soon after a ram breaks through the eastern gate and the defenders break. Daenerys wants to lead the charge through the gate herself, but her captains unanimously counsel against this. Soon the Unsullied crush the last resistance.
The Meereenese surrender to Daenerys Targaryen
Meereen is sacked savagely after its fall. The stepped pyramids of the mighty are spared the worst of the ravages, but the humbler parts of the city are given over to an orgy of looting and killing as the city’s slaves rise up and the starving hordes who followed Daenerys from Yunkai and Astapor pour through the broken gates.
In contrast to her previous Ghiscari conquests, Daenerys chooses to remain in Meereen, installing herself as queen with the Great Pyramid as her seat. This is because at this time, she receives word that her ruling council in Astapor has been overthrown by Cleon, a tyrannical butcher, resulting in much suffering. Not wanting to let this happen to Meereen, she decides to stay.
The siege of Moat Cailin occurs during the War of the Five Kings. Northern forces under the command of Ramsay Bolton besiege the skeleton garrison left by the ironborn at Moat Cailin after the departure of Victarion Greyjoy and the Iron Fleet.
After the fall of Moat Cailin, the ironborn garrison holding the ruins prevents the northmen of Robb Stark, King in the North, from returning north of the Neck. The northmen march north to the Twins to attend the wedding of Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey, and Robb learns at Hag's Mire that Balon Greyjoy, the self-styled King of the Isles and the North, has died at Pyke. Robb's plan to recover Moat Cailin involves sending Galbart Glover and Maege Mormont into the Neck to find Howland Reed and alert his crannogmen. Greatjon Umber and Roose Bolton are to command the vanguard and rearguard, respectively, as they march from the Twins along the causeway to Moat Cailin. Meanwhile, the crannogmen are to guide the rest of Robb's forces through the swamps of the Neck, so that the ironborn at Moat Cailin can be surprised by Robb from the north while the Greatjon and Roose attack from the south.
Robb's plan to recover Moat Cailin never develops, however, as the king and most of his men are killed at the Twins during the Red Wedding.
When Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy departs with nine-tenths of the Iron Fleet for the kingsmoot on Old Wyk, he leaves command of Moat Cailin to Ralf Kenning.
To allow the passage of his army without taking significant casualties, Lord Roose Bolton assigns his legitimized bastard son, Ramsay, with the task of capturing Moat Cailin from the north, where it is more vulnerable. The Ryswells and Dustins surprise and burn the remaining longships of the Iron Fleet in the Fever River.
Ramsay Bolton gathers a large force of northerners, including Boltons, Hornwoods, and Cerwyns, as well three hundred Umber spearmen and a hundred archers led by Hother Whoresbane. Ramsay's force is to rendezvous with the Ryswells and Dustins and then take the fortress.
Ramsay sends his servant "Reek", actually the traumatized Theon Greyjoy, to the castle "disguised" as Theon, the son of Lord Balon Greyjoy and the garrison's prince. Theon is to offer the garrison terms of surrender: if the ironborn lay down their weapons and come to the Bolton camp unarmed, Ramsay will feed them and send them home to the Iron Islands. Theon is nearly struck by a crannogman's arrow while traveling to the ruins; blood-blooms flourish among nearby corpses.
Once inside Moat Cailin, Theon discovers the garrison has been weakened by poisoned arrows and contaminated water. The cellar's vaults have flooded, so corpses are now left where they fall. All of the ironborn within the Children's Tower have died, save two cannibals eating the corpses, who were then executed by Dagon Codd. The nominal commander of the garrison, Ralf Kenning, is now incapacitated and near death on part of a poisoned arrow. Theon puts him out of his misery by slitting his throat before offering his terms to the leaderless remaining ironborn, many of whom are from the ill-regarded House Codd.
Ramsay has the surrendering ironborn flayed and displayed on pikes.
Dagon Codd is opposed to the plan and distrusts the Boltons. However, he is killed with an axe to the head by Adrack Humble, who is then convinced by Theon to accept the terms on behalf of the other soldiers. Theon learns there are a mere 65 ironborn left—18 at the Drunkard's Tower and 47 at the Gatehouse Tower—and only 58 of them are combat capable. The fortress is defensible enough that the defenders could have inflicted three to one casualties on the attackers if Ramsay tried to take the position by storm, however. The 58 able-bodied men carry out five who cannot walk, while leaving two who are near death to die, as there is no hope for them. They follow the directions and lay down their weapons before the Bolton forces.
Before allowing them to travel to the Stony Shore to seek transport, however, Ramsay reneges on the deal and has all 63 of the remaining ironborn flayed alive. He then puts their still-bleeding bodies upon pikes along the causeway.
With Moat Cailin retaken, Roose's host, consisting of 4,000 northerners (almost entirely his own Bolton men) and 2,000 Freys, is able to march past the Neck and on to Barrowton.
Moat Cailin has fallen, Reek realized then, only no one has seen fit to tell them.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
The Lord of the Dreadfort will bring his knights up the causeway, whilst his son leads his own men down on you from the north. No quarter will be granted. The ones that die fighting will be the lucky ones. Those who live will be given to the bog devils.
- Theon Greyjoy to Dagon Codd
The siege of Pyke was the last significant battle during Greyjoy's Rebellion.
The main battle was fought on the island of island of Pyke. The invasion was led by King Robert I Baratheon himself and his friend Lord Eddard Stark, having mustered thousands of men for the battle. The nearby Botley castle was destroyed, as was the town of Lordsport beneath it, before the main attack on the castle of Pyke was launched.
Robert's forces assaulted the southern wall with siege engines, finally shattering the main watchtower there and bringing parts of the surrounding wall down. The fighting in the castle was very fierce, but eventually the castle was taken.
Lord Balon Greyjoy was forced to swear fealty once more to the Iron Throne, and his surviving son Theon, only nine at the time, was given into the care of Lord Stark as a hostage to ensure Balon's good behavior. Robert celebrated his victory by holding a tourney at Lannisport.
Besides Jorah Mormont, Ser Jacelyn Bywater also received his knighthood at Pyke after losing his hand in the battle.
The siege of Raventree occurs in the riverlands as the War of the Five Kings winds down. House Bracken besieges Raventree Hall, the seat of House Blackwood.
After the Red Wedding, most of the river lords, such as Lord Jonos Bracken, choose to submit to the Iron Throne. However, Lord Tytos Blackwood resists for honor's sake. Jonos is persuaded by Lord Tywin Lannister to attack Tytos's seat, Raventree Hall, in return for lands historically claimed by Stone Hedge.
The rivalry between the Blackwoods and Brackens goes back thousands of years so neither side asks or offers quarter. While there are skirmishes at the start of the siege, it develops into a stalemate. Jonos lacks siege towers, battering rams, and catapults, preferring instead to starve out Tytos.
After resolving the siege of Riverrun, Ser Jaime Lannister is asked by Lord Karyl Vance to assist in the resolution of the siege of Raventree, as Tytos will never yield to Jonos. Ser Daven Lannister advises Jaime to bring the siege equipment at Riverrun to Raventree, but Jaime is confident he can resolve the conflict personally and has the equipment put to the torch.
When Jaime arrives in Blackwood Vale, he notices ruined fields and buildings, the result of his father Tywin's campaign., stating the Blackwoods have only rats and roots left to eat.
Jaime meets with Lord Tytos in his solar to discuss terms. Jaime's arrival allows the Blackwoods to surrender to King Tommen I Baratheon, rather than the Brackens. Lord Blackwood forfeits Buckle, Woodhedge, Honeytree, Crossbow Ridge, and Lord's Mill, which is less than what Lord Bracken desired. Jaime also takes one of Tytos's sons, Hoster Blackwood, as a hostage, and he orders Jonos to send one of his daughters to King's Landing to attend Queen regent Cersei Lannister.
The surrender of Raventree represents the last remnant of Robb Stark's brief river kingdom, as the entire nobility of the riverlands have now submitted to the Iron Throne. After resolving the siege, Jaime travels to Pennytree.
I mean to deal with Lord Tytos myself. It won't require a siege tower.
– Jaime Lannister to Daven Lannister
Lord Jaime, you must go to Raventree. So long as it is Jonos at his gates Tytos will never yield, but I know he will bend his knee for you.
– Karyl Vance to Jaime Lannister
No doubt there had been sorties and skirmishes at the start of the siege, and arrows flying back and forth; half a year into it, everyone was too tired for such nonsense. Boredom and routine had taken over, the enemies of discipline.
– thoughts of Jaime Lannister
For the earlier siege, see Battle of the Camps.
The siege of Riverrun takes place near the end of War of the Five Kings. Ser Brynden Tully is besieged at Riverrun by the combined forces of House Lannister and House Frey in an effort to remove House Tully and install the newly-raised House Frey of Riverrun.
Thoros of Myr tells Arya Stark he has seen a vision in his flames of Riverrun besieged by House Lannister.
After the Red Wedding and the death of Robb Stark, King of the Trident, the river lords offer terms to the Iron Throne and support for the Stark-Tully kingdom slips away. House Lannister, supported by their new allies, House Frey, besiege Riverrun in an effort to remove the final vestiges of resistance in the riverlands and install Ser Emmon Frey as the new Lord of Riverrun, as the terms of the alliance between the Freys and Lannisters dictate. Ser Daven Lannister, the new Warden of the West, is sent to command the siege.
Ser Brynden Tully, Robb's Warden of the Southern Marches, anticipates the siege. He gathers all the foodstuffs and goods he can within the castle, expels all the unnecessary mouths, and prepares for a long siege.
Ryman commands a large and disorderly Frey encampment north of the Tumblestone. South of the Red Fork are Lord Emmon, Ser Forley Prester with other westermen, and rivermen who knelt to the Iron Throne after the Red Wedding. Daven commands House Lannister's camp between the Tumblestone and the Red Fork. To prevent Riverrun's defenders from escaping, Ser Manfryd Yew and Ser Raynard Ruttiger command a boom across the Red Fork east of the castle.
Ryman brings out Lord Edmure Tully, who had been captured at the Red Wedding, and daily threatens to hang him unless the castle surrenders. Ryman never goes through with his threat, however, and the siege continues.
Ser Kevan Lannister visits the siege during his journey to Casterly Rock, but he refuses to aid Daven.
Jaime treats with Brynden Tully in an attempt to get him to surrender, but Brynden the Blackfish stubbornly refuses. Jaime points out he outnumbers Brynden twenty to one, but the Blackfish points out that twenty times the men requires twenty times the food—a difficult situation, given the supply shortages and lack of Frey cooperation in regards to food shipments. After the fruitless negotiation, Jaime has Ryman dismissed due to incompetence, and has Edmure brought to him. He explains what would happen should the Lannister forces have to storm the castle.
You've seen our numbers, Edmure. You've seen the ladders, the towers, the trebuchets, the rams. If I speak the command, my coz will bridge your moat and break your gate. Hundreds will die, most of them your own. Your former bannermen will make up the first wave of attackers, so you'll start your day by killing the fathers and brothers of men who died for you at the Twins. The second wave will be Freys, I have no lack of those. My westermen will follow when your archers are short of arrows and your knights so weary they can hardly lift their blades. When the castle falls, all those inside will be put to the sword. Your herds will be butchered, your godswood will be felled, your keeps and towers will burn. I'll pull your walls down, and divert the Tumblestone over the ruins. By the time I'm done no man will ever know that a castle once stood here. Your wife may whelp before that. You'll want your child, I expect. I'll send him to you when he's born. With a trebuchet.
Lord Edmure agrees to talk to his uncle, Brynden. Edmure surrenders the castle the next day but not before letting Brynden escape, which displeases Jaime.
Edmure is sent to Casterly Rock, accompanied by Jeyne Westerling, the wife and queen of the late Robb Stark, who had been within Riverrun when it was surrendered. Brynden escapes, presumably swimming down the Red Fork. The Tully garrison is disarmed and released, although Ser Desmond Grell and Ser Robin Ryger choose to take the black. Ryman is found hanged near Fairmarket, his attackers unknown, though his son Edwyn has several ideas as to who was behind his father's murder. House Frey of Riverrun is established and Jaime sets out to end the siege of Raventree, seat of House Blackwood, by House Bracken.
Sweetling, the flames do not lie. Sometimes I read them wrongly, blind fool that I am. But not this time, I think. The Lannisters will soon have Riverrun under siege.
—Thoros to Arya Stark
A great grey gallows loomed above the tents, as tall as any trebuchet. On it stood a solitary figure with a rope about his neck. Edmure Tully. Jaime felt a stab of pity. To keep him standing there day after day, with that noose around his neck ... better to have his head off and be done with it.
—thoughts of Jaime Lannister
Jaime: Does it matter how the boy perished? He's no less dead, and his kingdom died when he did.
Brynden: You must be blind as well as maimed, Ser. Lift your eyes, and you will see the direwolf still flies above our walls.
Your uncle is an old man. Valiant, yes, but the best part of his life is done. He has no bride to grieve for him, no children to defend. A good death is all the Blackfish can hope for ... but you have years remaining, Edmure. And you are the rightful lord of House Tully, not him. Your uncle serves at your pleasure. The fate of Riverrun is in your hands.
The siege of Seagard occurs late in the War of the Five Kings.
Prior to Lord Edmure Tully's marriage to Roslin Frey, Robb Stark, the King of the Trident, sends Lord Jason Mallister back to his seat of Seagard. Jason is tasked with using Mallister longships to take Galbart Glover and Maege Mormont into the Neck.
House Frey betrays Robb in the Red Wedding, however, and Jason's son, Patrek, is taken captive at the Twins.
While the Freys are now supporters of King Joffrey I Baratheon, the Mallisters remain loyal to House Stark. "Black" Walder Frey commands a Frey siege of Seagard.
House Mallister submits to the Iron Throne,
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The siege of Storm's End took place near the end of Robert's Rebellion. Lord Mace Tyrell and most of his forces from the Reach besieged Storm's End, which was held by Stannis Baratheon, for the better part of a year. The siege was lifted only when Lord Eddard Stark arrived after the Sack of King's Landing and the Battle of the Trident.
Robert Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End, took the majority of the stormlands' forces with him after the battles at Summerhall. He left his younger brother, Stannis, and a small garrison to hold Storm's End.
Lord Mace Tyrell descended on Storm's End with the Reach's host, while Lord Paxter Redwyne took the Redwyne fleet of the Arbor and closed Shipbreaker Bay to all trade, essentially cutting Storm's End off. The siege continued for the better part of a year, with the garrison having to eat their horses, dogs and cats, and were nearly forced to eat their own dead.
There was at least one breach in discipline, when the master-at-arms at Storm's End, Ser Gawen Wylde, and three knights were caught trying to sneak out a postern gate to surrender. Stannis prepared to have them hurled at the Tyrell host via catapult. Maester Cressen convinced Stannis to imprison the men, however, since the garrison might need to eat the dead if their food ran out. Gawen eventually died in his cell during the siege.
Davos, a notorious smuggler, slipped through the Redwyne fleet's lines and entered Storm's End with a ship loaded with onions and salt fish for the starving garrison. This food allowed the garrison to survive long enough for Lord Eddard Stark to lift the siege after the Battle of the Trident and the Sack of King's Landing.
Stannis successfully holding the castle aided the rebellion as it meant the Tyrell host could not join Rhaegar Targaryen's army, which would have swelled the ranks of House Targaryen at the earlier Battle of the Trident.
After Lord Mace Tyrell dipped his banners, Stannis Baratheon was ordered by the new king, his brother Robert I, to build a new fleet and assault Dragonstone.
Stannis granted Davos Seaworth a knighthood for assisting the garrison, as well as a keep, lands, a war galley to be commanded by himself, and later two more to be commanded by his two eldest sons.
Having lost an arm, the blacksmith Donal Noye left Storm's End to join the Night's Watch.
Maester Cressen told Stannis that we might be forced to eat our dead, and there was no gain in flinging away good meat. Thanks to the Onion Knight we were never reduced to dining on corpses, but it was a close thing.
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The siege of Storm's End is a short engagement during the War of the Five Kings. After both Stannis and Renly Baratheon proclaim themselves king, Stannis lays siege to Renly's seat, Storm's End, forcing Renly to ride for Storm's End to confront him. The conflict ends in victory for Stannis, and he gains a large part of Renly's cavalry following Renly's death. Having significantly increased his strength, this victory enables Stannis to march on King's Landing for the largest battle of the conflict, the Battle of the Blackwater.
Following the death of King Robert I Baratheon, his heir, Prince Joffrey, is crowned.
Renly's elder brother, Stannis, who had fled to his seat on Dragonstone, later proclaims his own claim for the throne, on account of his belief that Joffrey and his siblings had not been fathered by Robert, but instead by Queen Cersei's twin brother, Ser Jaime Lannister.
With his huge host, Renly begins his march from Highgarden on the Roseroad towards King's Landing, accompanied by his young bride,
Stannis receives counsel from a red priestess, Melisandre, who tells him of two futures she has seen in her flames; One in which Stannis is defeated in King's Landing by his brother Renly, and one in which he sails to Storm's End, where his brother shall die, and his men will flock to Stannis.
Stannis arrives in the stormlands with five thousand men
Melisandre of Asshai births a shadow baby.
With Renly dead, the majority of the host that had accompanied him to Storm's End swears their allegiance to Stannis.
The siege continues as Storm's End's castellan, Ser Cortnay Penrose, refuses to yield the castle to Stannis
In order to coerce Ser Cortnay, several ideas are proposed, among them storming the castle, leaving a force to mount a protracted siege, or threatening to kill Cortnay's father, Lord Penrose. Stannis refuses all of these suggestions. Instead, he turns to Davos Seaworth. To end the siege quickly, Davos smuggles Melisandre under the castle by boat, where he witnesses her giving birth to another shadow, who assassinates Cortnay.
Lord Elwood Meadows, who becomes castellan after Cortnay, surrenders the castle to Stannis.
Sixty thousand men from Renly's army remain encamped at Bitterbridge, but when news of Renly's death reaches them,
Stannis names Ser Gilbert Farring as his own castellan of Storm's End,, one of the largest battles of the war.
Your Grace, I see no need for battle here. The castle is strongly garrisoned and well provisioned, Ser Cortnay Penrose is a seasoned commander, and the trebuchet has not been built that could breach the walls of Storm's End. Let Lord Stannis have his siege. He will find no joy in it, and whilst he sits cold and hungry and profitless, we will take King's Landing.
- Mathis Rowan to Renly Baratheon
Bring on your storm, my lord, and recall, if you do, the name of this castle.
– Cortnay Penrose to Stannis Baratheon
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The siege of Storm's End refers to the action taken by forces loyal to King Tommen I Baratheon to take Storm's End, one of the lost strongholds belonging to the rival King Stannis Baratheon.
Most of Stannis's bannermen kneel to King Joffrey I Baratheon after Stannis's defeat in the Battle of the Blackwater. Aside from garrisons at Storm's End and Dragonstone, the remaining lords loyal to Stannis travel with him to defend the Wall and Castle Black from wildlings. Joffrey dies at his wedding, and he is succeeded by his younger brother, Tommen Baratheon.
To remove Lord Mace Tyrell from King's Landing, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister commands him to lay siege to the castle of Storm's End, which remains loyal to Stannis Baratheon and is held by Ser Gilbert Farring. When Mace arrives, he sets up two dozen mangonels, achieving little against the stout castle walls. and join him at the capital.
While Mathis Rowan continues his siege, the Golden Company is also said to be on its way for their own attack.
Sigfry Stonetree is an ironborn raider and a member of House Stonetree. He is considered cheerful.
Aeron Greyjoy spots Sigfry during the kingsmoot.
Sigfryd Harlaw, known as Sigfryd Silverhair, is a member of House Harlaw and master of Harlaw Hall. His personal sigil is per bend black and silver, two scythes counterchanged.
Asha Greyjoy spots the banner of Sigfryd among those that have assembled for her at the Ten Towers.
Signs and Portents is a book of visions written down by Daenys Targaryen, the maiden daughter of Aenar Targaryen, before the Doom of Valyria. For some time the whole book has been thought to be lost.
Lord Rodrik Harlaw is reading about Signs and Portents when Asha Greyjoy meets him in the Book Tower of Ten Towers. Hotho Harlaw brought him a copy of Archmaester Marwyn's *Book of Lost Books* from Oldtown. Rodrik tells Asha that Marwyn claims to have found three pages of Signs and Portents.
Sigorn is the son of Styr, the Magnar of Thenn.
Sigorn is said to look like his father Styr, albeit younger and shorter: lean, with grey eyes and a receding hairline that makes him look older than his years. He wears bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales.
Sigorn and his people take pride in the fact that they are Thenns, who have lords and laws, unlike the other free folk.
After the death of his father, Styr, during the attack on Castle Black, Sigorn inherits the title Magnar of Thenn.
Sigorn kneels before Stannis Baratheon after passing through the Wall.
Jon eventually devises a plan to wed Sigorn to Alys Karstark, the current heir of Harrion Karstark, the rightful Lord of Karhold.
During the wedding, which is performed at Castle Black by Melisandre, Sigorn leaps across a flaming ditch with his new bride.
Fight for you? Not fight for you. Kill you better. Kill all you.
- Sigorn to Jon Snow
Melisandre: Sigorn, will you share your fire with Alys, and warm her when the night is dark and full of terrors?
Sigorn: I swear me. By the red god's flames, I warm her all her days.
- Melisandre and Sigorn
Jon: You're not scared?
Alys: Let him be scared of me.
Jon: Winter's lady.
– Jon Snow and Alys Karstark
A northern maid and a wildling warrior, bound together by the Lord of Light.
- Axell Florent to Jon Snow
Sigrin, also known as Sigrin the Shipwright, is a shipwright in Lordsport sworn to Balon Greyjoy. The first ship he built was called the *Esgred, named after his mother. He also built the *Sea Bitch.
Sigrin is a thick-bodied man with flaxen hair. He has a receding hairline with a pimpled brow.
Calling herself Esgred, Asha Greyjoy claims to be Sigrin's wife when she first encounters Theon Greyjoy at Lordsport.
Silence - by Sept13. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Silence is the ominous galley captained by Euron Greyjoy.
The Silence is red, lean and fearsome.
Euron Greyjoy aboard the Silence - by Allan Douglas. © Fantasy Flight Games
Euron Greyjoy was exiled from the Iron Islands by Lord Balon Greyjoy after impregnating Victarion Greyjoy's third wife. Euron sailed east on a lengthy voyage.
Returning to Pyke, Theon Greyjoy does not see the Silence in port, so his uncle Euron must not be there to greet him.
The captain of the Myraham reports that Euron sailed the Silence into Lordsport soon after King Balon Greyjoy died.
Lord Rodrik Harlaw tells Euron's niece, Asha, he heard the Silence returned the day after Balon's death. Euron uses treasures from its hold to gain ironborn support for the kingsmoot.
Victarion Greyjoy spots the Silence at anchor in Nagga's Cradle.
Aeron Greyjoy was captured after the kingsmoot by Euron's mutes and chained up in the hold of the Silence. Several weeks later, Euron has Aeron and Falia Flowers bound to the prow of the Silence before the ironborn engage the ships of House Hightower and House Redwyne in battle.
Even at anchor Silence looked both cruel and fast.
- thoughts of Victarion Greyjoy
The Silence was amoungst the ships they passed. Victarion's gaze was drawn to the iron figurehead at her prow, the mouthless maiden with the windblown hair and outstetched arm. Her mother-of-pearl eyes seemed to follow him. She had a mouth like any other woman, till the Crow's Eye sewed it shut.
- Victarion Greyjoy, contemplating the Silence's female figurehead
The Silent God is a deity worshipped in Essos. The Stones of the Silent God are located in Braavos.
Silent sisters attend to the dead. © Fantasy Flight Games
The silent sisters escorting the dead. © Fantasy Flight Games
The silent sisters is an order of women belonging to the Faith of the Seven. They are sworn to the service of the Stranger and have taken vows of chastity and silence. The silent sisters attend to the dead..
Silent sisters are sometimes referred to as the Stranger's wives
Girls and women are sometimes sent to become silent sisters as a punishment.
One of the silent sisters' main functions is the collection and handling of the bodies of the dead, preparing them for funerals. More frequently flesh is stripped from a deceased's bones with beetles or boiling. Sometimes the sisters remove the bowels and organs and drain a body of blood, stuffing it with salts and fragrant herbs.
Marla Sunderland rebelled against House Arryn during Aegon's Conquest but became a sister after the war.
During the reign of Aegon IV Targaryen, the king promised Ser Quentyn Ball a place in the Kingsguard, so Quentyn made his wife join the silent sisters in order to facilitate this.
Alysanne Osgrey was sent to the order because her father, Ser Eustace, rebelled during the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
According to a semi-canon source,.
A daughter of Ser Elys Waynwood was seduced by a sellsword, lost her bastard child by him, and joined the silent sisters.
A silent sister attends to the body of Ser Hugh of the Vale.
Arya Stark sees silent sisters remove the body of Lord Medger Cerwyn from Harrenhal.
Silent sisters present Eddard Stark's bones to Catelyn Stark at Riverrun, as arranged by Tyrion Lannister. Catelyn requests the silent sisters to take Eddard's bones to Winterfell so that he may be buried in the crypt beneath the castle in accordance with the tradition of House Stark. They are to be escorted by Hal Mollen.
After the Red Wedding Sandor Clegane threatens to give Arya to the silent sisters.
Travelling to Duskendale, Brienne of Tarth comes across a band of silent sisters. She asks them if they have seen her sister but they shake their heads.
During Ser Jaime Lannister's vigil over his father's Tywin's body the silent sisters come single file down the Stranger's Steps of the Great Sept of Baelor. They and the other devout make a circuit of the sept, worshipping at each of the seven altars to honor the seven aspects of the deity. To each god they make a sacrifice and sing a hymn.
Cersei Lannister suggests to Falyse Stokeworth that she join the silent sisters after Bronn ordered her gone from Stokeworth. Cersei then thinks of a better way to get rid of her and gives Falyse to Qyburn.
Ser Wylis Manderly threatens to send his daughter, Wylla, to the silent sisters if she does not speak her wedding vows to Walder Frey on the appointed day.
Tyrion Lannister recalls that there is supposed to be a female dwarf amongst the silent sisters.
Before Cersei's walk of atonement from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep, two silent sisters shave her head and body.
In Meereen Ser Barristan Selmy considers what is to be done with Quentyn Martell's body. He thinks that the silent sisters would have seen to it at home, but this is Slaver's Bay and the nearest silent sister is 10,000 leagues away.
Wylla, every time you open your mouth you make me want to send you to the silent sisters.
– Wylis Manderly to Wylla Manderly
If I had any sense I'd give you to the silent sisters. They cut the tongues out of girls who talk too much.
– Sandor Clegane to Arya Stark
A man would need to be a fool to rape a silent sister. Even to lay hands upon one … it's said they are the Stranger's wives, and their female parts are cold and wet as ice.
– Creighton Longbough to Illifer and Brienne of Tarth
Podrick: The silent sisters never speak. I heard they don't have tongues.
Meribald: Mothers have been cowing their daughters with that tale since I was your age. There was no truth to it then and there is none now. A vow of silence is an act of contrition, a sacrifice by which we prove our devotion to the Seven Above.
- Podrick Payne and Meribald
The Silk Road is a trade route in Essos. The eastern end merges with the Stone Road from Vaes Dothrak at the ruins of Yinishar, and from that point on the Stone Road begins its ascent through the Bone Mountains to Samyriana.
*The World of Ice and Fire* mentions that the Silk Road merges with the Stone Road at its eastern end in the ruins of Yinishar. However, the maps of "The Known World" and "The Dothraki Sea" in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* show two major roads leading out of Yinishar, one running west on the northern side of the Skahazadan and one running west on the southern side of the river, but do not identify which one is the Silk Road. The southern road passes through Adakhakileki and Kosrak and Hesh in Lhazar, while the northern road passes through the ruined Ghiscari cities of Vaes Mejhah and Krazaaj Has..
Silken Cloud is the personal galleas of Xaro Xhoan Daxos.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos sails from Qarth to Meereen on the Silken Cloud, along with thirteen galleys. He tries to persuade Daenerys Targaryen to leave Slaver's Bay. When she refuses he returns to Qarth.
The Silken Spirit is a Myrish galley.
The cargomaster refuses Daenerys Targaryen and her *khalasar* passage from Qarth. He opines that dragons are too dangerous at sea, where any stray breath of their dragonflame might set the ship's rigging afire.
Silty Town is an area in the Free City of Braavos.
Silty Town is located in the south-eastern part of Braavos.
The Silver Bridge is a bridge in Westeros, although its location is unknown.
Ser Barristan Selmy defended the passage against all challengers in the tourney of the Silver Bridge.
Silver Denys was a man living on Dragonstone at the outset of the Dance of the Dragons, who claimed to be the bastard son of King Maegor I Targaryen. His hair and eye color lent credence to his claim.
While none denied that Silver Denys had Targaryen blood, it is not clear if he was actually a bastard son of Maegor, given that Maegor died eighty-one years before the Dance (though Denys's age at the time has not been specified, he did already have sons of his own; no grandsons were mentioned). It is possible that Silver Denys was fathered by a different Valyrian.
When Prince Jacaerys Velaryon called for dragonriders, Denys had his arm ripped off in his attempt to mount Sheepstealer. While his sons were trying to staunch the wound, the Cannibal descended on them and devoured Denys along with his sons.
Sarnor and the remains of the Silver Sea, from the TV map based on Martin's original sketch, before the river was accidentally erased (city names added).
The Silver Sea was a great inland sea in northern Essos. Because of decreasing rainfall over time, it has been reduced to three large lakes in the grasslands of the northern Dothraki sea.
The Silver Sea of antiquity was ruled by the legendary Fisher Queens, and some theories claim the Andals originated in the fertile land south of the sea. The Kingdom of Sarnor later included the three great lakes of the former Silver Sea. Nearby cities of the Tall Men included Gornath by the Lake and Sallosh by the Silver Shore, but they were sacked by the Dothraki during the Century of Blood.
According to co-writer Elio Garcia, the map given in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* for Sarnor is in error. In George R. R. Martin's original handwritten notes, the Sarne flows out of the Silver Sea, proceeding west past Sarnath before curving north to its delta near Saath and Sarys. Thus all cities of the Sarnori were built around one river system. Unfortunately, as Garcia gleaned from the handwritten maps, it appears that when Martin wrote "Kingdom of Sarnor" over the core of their territory he partially erased the line of the river between the Silver Sea and Sarnath. Jonathan Roberts, the illustrator for The Lands of Ice and Fire, may have assumed that the Silver Sea empties into the sea through a separate river system proceeding in the shortest path, to the north. This does not match the textual descriptions of the Sarnori cities, such as that Sathar is located at a branch of the Sarne. Garcia hopes that a subsequent edition of the official world map will be updated to correct this.
Martin has said that the world map is not objective but written as it is known to the maesters of the Citadel in Westeros, and it gets increasingly less accurate the farther east it goes. working off of an incorrect map with the original river line accidentally erased.
Moreover, the earlier map of the World Map that Martin provided for the HBO television series *Game of Thrones* during Season 2 matches his textual description of Sarnor's geography: the Sarne flows west, and the remnants of the Silver Sea are three lakes (not two as in the Lands map, which drain to the north). The earlier map Martin submitted must have predated the erasure.