The Ifequevron, or woods walkers, are a vanished race who once inhabited the dense forests of northern Essos. "Ifequevron" is their name in the Dothraki language, and means "those who walk in the woods" according to the account of the merchant-adventurer Bryan of Oldtown.
The woods walkers were a small, shy, and gentle folk.
Bryan of Oldtown encountered Ibbenese who said they had never seen any woods walkers, but claimed that they blessed households that left overnight offerings of leaf, stone, and water.
Some believe the Ifequevron were extinguished by the Ibbenese, when they conquered a large swath of the territory directly south of the island of Ib. Others believe the Ifequevron went into hiding or fled to other lands.
While the Ifequevron still lived in the northern forests, the Dothraki shunned those lands, either out of reverence for the woods walkers or for fear of their powers. However, after they vanished, the Dothraki began to attack the Ibbenese territories.
The Dothraki still refer to the great forest along the northern coast of central Essos as the Kingdom of the Ifequevron.
Iggo is a Dothraki member of the Brave Companions. He is scarred.
Iggo is part of a four-man squad of Brave Companions searching for the escaped Nan (actually Arya Stark), Gendry, and Hot Pie. Iggo's group is set upon by a pack of wolves. The others die and Iggo kills two of the wolves, but has his arm ripped off and is slain by their direwolf leader, Nymeria who may be protecting Arya. Arya herself experiences the scene through a wolf dream.
[Iggo's party] thought they were hunting her, she knew with all the strange sharp certainty of dreams, but they were wrong. She was hunting them.
– Arya's thoughts when warged into Nymeria
Igon Vyrwel is a member of House Vyrwel who serves as the captain of the guards for House Tyrell at Highgarden.
Ser Illifer, better known as Illifer the Penniless, is a hedge knight. His coat-of-arms is gold and ermine gyronny..
Ser Illifer is sixty with a pointed, narrow face.
The great-great grandfather of Ser Illifer took part in the destruction of House Lothston.
While resting with his traveling partner, Ser Creighton Longbough, they are come upon by Brienne of Tarth. After chastising her for bearing the arms of House Lothston, they ask her to share their fire and offer to travel with her the next morning. The next day they come upon Hibald and escort him to Duskendale, where Brienne parts ways with them.
Illister is a maester from the Citadel of Oldtown who wrote *Horse Tribes, Being a Study of the Nomads of the Eastern Plains of Essos*.
Illyrio's chests are six oaken chests with iron hasps belonging to Illyrio Mopatis. Illyrio brings them with him from Pentos when he travels by litter with Tyrion Lannister to rendezvous with Haldon Halfmaester and Ser Rolly Duckfield. Haldon is already expecting the chests, Illyrio hands them over to him.
There is some candied ginger in one of the chests.
It is not known what else they contain. They are not too heavy as Duck is able to shift them easily on one shoulder.
Illyrio and Tyrion meet Haldon Halfmaester and Ser Rolly Duckfield, who take on supplies from Illyrio and the six oaken chests.
When they halt for supper Tyrion questions Duck and Haldon as to the contents of the chests. He tells them that he thought they contained gold for the Golden Company but after seeing Duck hoist a chest onto one shoulder he realises that if it were full of coin it would he could never have lifted it so easily.
The three reach the Little Rhoyne at Ghoyan Drohe, where a poleboat, the *Shy Maid*, is waiting for them . The chests are stored on the poleboat.
At Selhorys Griff sends Haldon and Tyrion ashore at to find out about the rumours concerning Daenerys Targaryen. Giff allows them each a purse of silver from Illyrio's chests to loosen tongues.
After the meeting with the Golden Company in Volon Therys Griff tells Halfmaester to ride back to the Shy Maid and return with Illyrio’s chests.
Not long afterwards the Golden Company land in Westeros, Illyrio's chests may be with them or Jon Connington.
You have some chests for us?
– Haldon Halfmaester, to Illyrio
Gold for the Golden Company, I thought at first, until I saw Ser Rolly hoist a chest onto one shoulder. if it were full of coin, he could never have lifted it so easily.
Court clothes, for all our party. Fine woollens, velvets, silken cloaks. One does not come before a queen looking shabby…or empty handed. The magister has been kind enough to provide us with suitable gifts..
- Haldon Halfmaester, to Tyrion Lannister
Ride back to the Shy Maid and return with Lady Lemore and Ser Rolly. We’ll need Illyrio’s chests as well. All the coin, and the armor.
- Griff’s orders to Haldon
Illyrio's manse © FFG
Illyrio's manse is a stronghold belonging to Magister Illyrio Mopatis within the city of Pentos. It has a view of the Bay of Pentos.
The manse has brick walls twelve feet high with iron spikes atop. There are three gates, the main gatehouse being the chief way in and out of the manse. There is one in the garden that is hidden by ivy. It is chained and guarded by some of Illyrio's eunuchs. The third gate is a postern by the kennels. The manse has pillared galleries, pointed arches, and a tiled courtyard.
There is a marble pool with a statue of a naked boy in its center. The statue is lithe and handsome, made of painted marble so that the hair is blond and shoulder-length. It is poised to duel with a bravo's blade in hand. The pool is surrounded by six cherry trees. The gardens behind the manse are extensive.
The manse is guarded by plump Unsullied, eunuch soldiers from Astapor. Other slaves include two fat female cooks, young and old; a potboy; a freckled washerwoman; a blond girl trained in Lys; and a mousy older woman.
Interior of Daenerys Targaryen's chambers. © FFG
Daenerys and Viserys Targaryen stay at Illyrio's manse in Pentos for half a year while they await Dany's marriage to Khal Drogo.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos offers Daenerys the hospitality of his home while she is in Qarth. Dany expected a grand residence but not a palace larger than a market town. She thinks Xaro's palace makes Illyrio's manse look like a swineherd's hovel.
After crossing the narrow sea, Illyrio hosts Tyrion Lannister until he agrees to accompany Illyrio to meet some friends to the east. Tyrion takes some poisonous mushrooms from the garden.
The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire.
- Illyrio Mopatis to Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion Lannister had lived all his life in a world that was too big for him, but in the manse of Illyrio Mopatis the sense of disproportion assumed grotesque dimensions. I am a mouse in a mammoth's lair, he mused, though at least the mammoth keeps a good cellar.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Illyrio Mopatis is a wealthy magister from the Free City of Pentos. He is friends with Varys, the master of whisperers to the king on the Iron Throne. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is played by Roger Allam.
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In Pentos, young Varys befriended a poor sellsword named Illyrio Mopatis - by Pojypojy ©
In his youth, Illyrio was a slender, tall young man. as a youth.
Gemstone rings owned by Illyrio include amethyst, black diamond, emerald, green pearl, jade, jet, onyx, opal, ruby, sapphire, slitted yellow tiger's eye, and tourmaline.
In his youth, however, Illyrio was a muscular and exceptionally handsome sellsword. A statue of his youthful self carved by Pytho Malanon graces the court in his manse. It depicts a naked boy, no older than sixteen, standing in the water of a marble pool, poised to duel with a bravo's blade shimmering like steel. The statue is lithe and handsome with straight blond hair brushing its shoulders.
Although slavery is outlawed in Pentos according to its treaty with Braavos, Illyrio's servants are slaves in all but name. His favorite is a fair-haired, blue-eyed sixteen-year-old woman.
As a young man, Illyrio was a poor bravo, living by his blade. After the young Varys arrived in Pentos they formed an unlikely friendship and worked together and became very rich. Illyrio grew very respectable and married the maiden daughter of a cousin of the Prince of Pentos
Even decades after Varys left to serve in Westeros the two still keep in close contact.
Illyrio has kept an eye on the remaining Targaryens, Viserys and Daenerys, for years whilst they lived in exile in the Free Cities.
Illyrio with dragon eggs - by Amok ©
Apparently, Illyrio's interest in the remaining Targaryens is purely financial, expecting to receive great riches in gratitude once a Targaryen regains power. He also inflames Viserys's ambitions by telling him of Westerosi people awaiting the return of their rightful king, of men drinking toasts to his health and women sewing dragon banners in secret.
Illyrio brokers the arranged marriage in Pentos between Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo to use Drogo's powerful *khalasar* as an invasion force. He gifts Daenerys at her wedding with three petrified dragon eggs.
While exploring the lower levels of the Red Keep, Arya Stark overhears Illyrio and Lord Varys scheming on behalf of Daenerys against King Robert I Baratheon, although she does not recognize them.
Daenerys eventually hatches the dragon eggs after Drogo's death. Ironically, the dragons are worth more than anything Illyrio could hope to receive from Daenerys.
Illyrio continues to look after Daenerys, sending her Strong Belwas and his squire, Arstan Whitebeard, along with three ships commanded by Groleo
Aboard the *Balerion* Ser Jorah Mormont and Daenerys discuss Illyrio. He counsels that she return to Pentos and Illyrio in her own time, and not alone. He advises her to use the valuable cargo of the Balerion, *Vhagar* and *Meraxes* to help purchase slaves. Dany tells him that the cargo belongs to Illyrio. He argues that if Illyrio would deny her then he is only Xaro Xhoan Daxos with four chins. Dany heeds his counsel and sails to Slaver's Bay where she can buy Unsullied.
One of Illyrio's ships, the *Bountiful Harvest*, is seized by Salladhor Saan, who has been named Lord of Blackwater Bay.
Illyrio Mopatis, by Jake Murray. © Fantasy Flight Games
After Tyrion Lannister is convicted of treason in the poisoning of King Joffrey I Baratheon, Varys arranges to smuggle him out of King's Landing and puts him in Illyrio's care in Pentos. The magister takes Tyrion into his home and offers him a way to become Lord of Casterly Rock. He reveals the truth about Daenerys to Tyrion, who reluctantly agrees to travel to her. Illyrio also reveals that his interest in supporting the Targaryens is to become the master of coin of the Seven Kingdoms.
Illyrio and Tyrion travel in a litter and eventually meet with some of Illyrio's other cohorts.
It is revealed that Illyrio, Jon Connington, and Myles Toyne of the Golden Company had agreed to support the claim of Aegon Targaryen to the Iron Throne,, however.
Illyrio: A drunken dwarf.
Tyrion: A rotting sea cow.
- Illyrio and Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: Slaver's Bay is a long way from Pentos.
Illyrio: This is so, but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
- Tyrion Lannister and Illyrio
You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles.
- Illyrio to Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: Are you quite certain that Daenerys will make good her brother's promises?
Illyrio: She will, or she will not. I told you, my little friend, not all that a man does is done for gain. Believe as you wish, but even fat old fools like me have friends, and debts of affection to repay.
- Illyrio to Tyrion Lannister
- Illyrio to Tyrion Lannister
Some pox-ridden Pentoshi cheesemonger had her brother and her walled up on his estate with pointy-hatted eunuchs all around them, and now he's handed them both over to the Dothraki. I should have had them both killed years ago, when it was easy to get to them.
- Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
Daenerys: Illyrio protected us from the Usurper's knives, and he believed in my brother's cause."
Jorah: Illyrio believes in no cause but Illyrio. Gluttons are greedy men as a rule, and magisters are devious. Illyrio Mopatis is both.
- Daenerys Targaryen and Jorah Mormont
Daenerys: Magister Illyrio has protected me in the past. Strong Belwas says that he wept when he heard my brother was dead.
Jorah: Yes, but did he weep for Viserys, or for the plans he had made with him?
- Daenerys Targaryen and Jorah Mormont
Illyrio Mopatis. A whale with whiskers, I am telling you truly. These chairs were built to his measure, though he is seldom bestirring himself from Pentos to sit in them. A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.
- Salladhor Saan to Davos Seaworth
And any friend of Varys the Spider is someone I will trust just as far as I can throw him.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Lemore: Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver's Bay.
Jon: No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass. I have danced to the fat man's pipes for years, Lemore.
- Lemore and Jon Connington
The first wife of Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos was a cousin of the Prince of Pentos.
With the aid of Varys, Illyrio Mopatis reached a position where the daughter of a Magister was willing to marry him.
Illyrio upset the cousin of his first wife, the Prince of Pentos, after he married Serra, a former bedslave he had bought and come to love. The Prince of Pentos closed the palace to Illyrio forever.
As they travel through Andalos, Illyrio tells Tyrion of his first and second wives.
Ser Ilyn Payne is a knight from House Payne. He serves as the King's Justice, the royal executioner, for King Robert I Baratheon. Ilyn is a cousin to Podrick Payne..
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Ilyn is a grim man, thin, with a beardless, pockmarked face. He has a deep set of pale, colorless eyes and hollow cheeks. He is almost completely bald. He wears iron-grey chainmail over boiled leather with a large greatsword worn over his right shoulder.
It has been mentioned more than once in the story that Ilyn lives for nothing but killing. Due to his appearance as well as his silence, many characters find him terrifying, a suitable trait for the King's Justice.
While Ilyn keeps his weaponry immaculate, his chambers within the Red Keep's dungeon are poorly kept. Since he cannot read or write, he delegates to underlings, such as Rennifer Longwaters.
Ser Ilyn Payne - by Brittmartin ©.
Ser Ilyn was the captain of Lord Tywin Lannister's guard when he was Hand of the King for King Aerys II Targaryen. He was heard saying that it was Tywin who truly ruled the Seven Kingdoms, rather than Aerys. The king had Ilyn's tongue torn out with hot pincers for the comment.
Ilyn was named as the King's Justice by King Robert I Baratheon as a wedding present for Tywin. It was a sinecure to compensate Ilyn for the tongue he lost in the service of House Lannister. Ilyn is an extremely skilled executioner. He has never botched an execution and seldom requires more than a single stroke to finish off his charges.
Ser Ilyn Payne - by Mark Evans ©.
Ser Ilyn is one of the councilors who come north to escort King Robert I Baratheon back to King's Landing after his trip to Winterfell. Sansa Stark sees Ilyn and is terrified by him.
When Eddard Stark is arrested by the Lannisters after Robert's death, Ilyn takes Lord Stark’s ancestral Valyrian steel greatsword, Ice, for his own. He later executes Lord Stark at the Great Sept of Baelor with Eddard's own sword.
Ilyn's execution of Ned Stark awards him a place on Arya Stark's list.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Queen Cersei Lannister has Ilyn remain with her in the Queen's Ballroom of Maegor's Holdfast, in the Red Keep.
When the turncloaks and hostages of the Battle of the Blackwater are presented in the throne room, Joffrey beckons Ser Ilyn to execute a bastard of House Florent who remains defiant and hails Stannis as the true king and denounces Joffrey as a monster and abomination born of incest.
Lord Tywin Lannister takes Ice from Ilyn and presents him with a new sword. Ilyn is present at King Joffrey Baratheon's wedding feast. Joffrey asks him for his sword so he and his new wife, Margaery Tyrell, can cut the huge dove pie. Ilyn now wields a greatsword that is six feet long and is silver bright with runes. The blade is decorated with ruby eyes on its pommel and has a chunk of dragonglass carved in the shape of a grinning skull.
Ser Jaime Lannister demanded the services of Ser Ilyn on his ride north to Riverrun - by Pojypojy ©.
Ser Jaime Lannister demands the services of Ser Ilyn on his ride north to Riverrun as a condition for leading the expedition. Ilyn begins practicing the sword with Jaime when they stop at Hayford. Jaime chooses Ilyn as his sparring partner because Ilyn can neither talk, read nor write. As a result of this, Jaime reveals many of his darker secrets to Ilyn, knowing the mute and illiterate knight can never reveal it to anyone.
During the siege of Riverrun, a camp follower shrinks away from Ilyn in fear. Jaime has Ilyn cut down Edmure Tully from the gallows upon which he has oft been threatened by Ser Ryman Frey.
Oft-times Ser Ilyn frightens me as well, sweet lady. He has a fearsome aspect.
– Barristan Selmy to Sansa Stark
Ser Ilyn has not been feeling talkative these past fourteen years.
– Renly Baratheon to Sansa Stark
He does so love his work…
– Varys to Eddard Stark
Ser Ilyn made the perfect drinking companion. He never interrupted, never disagreed, never complained or asked for favors or told long pointless stories. All he did was drink and listen.
– thoughts of Jaime Lannister
Ser Imry Florent is a knight of House Florent. He is the son of Ser Ryam Florent and brother to Selyse and Erren. Imry is brother-in-law to Stannis Baratheon. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Gordon Mahon.
The aristocratic Imry distrusts lowborn and mercenaries.
After the death of Renly Baratheon beneath Storm's End, Ser Imry joins Stannis Baratheon alongside all members of House Florent.
Aboard *Fury*, Imry is made admiral of Stannis's royal fleet in anticipation of the Battle of the Blackwater, with the title of Lord High Captain. His ships capture six fishing skiffs near Merling Rock.
Because Stannis's fleet is four times larger than that of Joffrey I Baratheon, Imry does not bother to send scouts ahead as Ser Davos Seaworth advises.
Imry leads the main force up the Blackwater Rush. To avoid scorpions and spitfires defending the walls of King's Landing, Imry's ships lower their sails and only use oars. The Lord High Captain disregards two new towers at the mouth of the river. After wildfire is utilized against Imry's fleet, a chain is raised between the towers and his ships become trapped in the river. While Fury battles *Godsgrace*, both ships are engulfed by green flame.
The imprisoned Lord Alester Florent tells Davos that his nephew Imry died at the Blackwater.
A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle. It makes the men hungry for a larger helping.
- Imry to his captains
It had been Ser Imry Florent who led them blindly up the Blackwater Rush with all oars pulling, paying no heed to the small stone towers at the mouth of the river. Davos was not like to forget him.
- thoughts of Davos Seaworth
Curse the Imp, curse the pyromancers, curse that fool of Florent who sailed my fleet into the jaws of a trap. Or curse me for my stubborn pride, for sending her away when I needed her most. But not Melisandre. She remains my faithful servant.
- Stannis Baratheon to Davos Seaworth
King Aegon I Targaryen had taken both of his sisters to wife. Artwork by Amok©
Incest is defined as a relationship between two persons commonly regarded as too closely related to marry.
The two main religions practised in the Seven Kingdoms, the Faith of the Seven and the old gods, consider incest to be a vile sin. to which the degree of common ancestry was not an objection.
The Westerosi accepted the rule of Aegon I Targaryen following his Conquest, despite the fact that he was in an incestuous, polygamous marriage with both his sisters, Visenya and Rhaenys. The High Septon personally annointed the new king,
The views regarding marriages between an uncle and a niece (or an aunt to a nephew) might differ between the Faith and the old gods. Although the High Septon protested against a possible marriage between Prince Maegor and his niece Rhaena,
In 41 AC, when Aenys wed his daughter Rhaena and son Aegon to one another, the Faith rose in rebellion. The High Septon sent Aenys a denunciation, addressing him as "King Abomination"; pious lords and smallfolk, who had once loved Aenys, turned against him.
House Targaryen has, over the years, continued their incestuous marriages. Jaehaerys I himself was wed to his younger sister Alysanne, while his children Baelon and Alyssa were married to one another. King Aegon II Targaryen was wed to his sister Helaena Targaryen, King Baelor I Targaryen had been wed to his sister Daena (although the marriage was never consummated and Baelor had the marriage annulled upon ascending the throne), King Aegon IV was wed to his sister Naerys, Prince Aelor his twin-sister Aelora, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen to his sister Shaera, and their son Aerys II Targaryen to his sister Rhaella.
King Aegon V Targaryen, once betrothed to his own sister Daella,
North of the Wall, the wildling Craster has nineteen wives, many of whom are his own daughters.
In the Valyrian Freehold, it was custom among the dragonlords to marry brother to sister, or, if that was not possible, an uncle to a niece, or an aunt to a nephew.
Lord Stannis Baratheon, brother of King Robert I Baratheon, becomes suspicious about the paternity of Queen Cersei Lannister’s three children, Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen, believing they had not been fathered by her husband, King Robert I, but instead by her brother, Ser Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard. He investigates the matter with Lord Jon Arryn, who discovers proof for Cersei’s infidelity. Before he can reveal the secret to the king, he dies.
When the king visits Winterfell with half his court, Bran Stark accidentally witnesses Queen Cersei and Ser Jaime having sex. In an attempt to keep their secret, Jaime throws Bran from the window of the tower they are in.
In King's Landing, Lord Eddard Stark discovers Queen Cersei's secret. He informs Lord Petyr Baelish of the fact, but Baelish's reaction suggests he had been aware for some time already.
During his captivity, Eddard is visited by Varys, who reveals he was aware of the relationship between Cersei and Jaime.
Before being presented to the Dothraki *khal* Drogo, Daenerys Targaryen recalls how she had always assumed that she would marry her brother Viserys once she came of age.
Stannis Baratheon proclaims himself to be King on Dragonstone, and thereby lays claim to the Iron Throne.
While in captivity at Riverrun, Jaime Lannister confirms to Catelyn Stark that Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen are his biological children.
At Craster's Keep, Gilly gives birth to her father's son.
Ser Kevan Lannister makes it clear to both Cersei
When he discovers Gilly was not only Craster's daughter, but also his wife who gave birth to his son, he agrees to Jon Snow's plan to send Gilly south, stating he will not suffer "such abominations" at the Wall.
Having been taken captive by the Faith, Dowager Queen Cersei Lannister is charged with multiple crimes, including incest. She denies to the High Septon that her children were fathered by her brother instead of her husband.
Bastards were common enough, but incest was a monstrous sin to both old gods and the new, and the children of such wickedness were named abominations in sept and godswood alike. The dragonkings had wed brother to sister, but they were the blood of old Valyria where such practices had been common, and like their dragons the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men.
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
The Indigo Star is a trading galley out of Qarth. Its captain is Qartheen.
The Indigo Star sails to Meereen from Astapor carrying a messenger from Cleon to Daenerys Targaryen.
The Indigo Straits is a body of water in the Summer Islands. It separates the islands of of Omboru, to the north, from Jhala, to the south.
The indigo emperors were an ancient ruling dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. They ruled from the city of Yin and their family name was Choq. They fell when the fifteenth ruler of the dynasty, Choq Choq died without being able to produce a son.
Inn at the Crossroads
The riverlands and the location of the inn at the crossroads
The inn at the crossroads
The inn sits to the north of the Trident,.
Crossroads Inn. © Fantasy Flight Games
An inn has existed at this spot for hundreds of years. The current inn was raised during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, who built the kingsroad. He and Queen Alysanne stayed there, and the inn was named the Two Crowns in their honor. But after one of the innkeeps built the bell tower, the name was changed to the Bellringer Inn.
The inn eventually passed into the hands of a knight who had been crippled, Long Jon Heddle. Jon Heddle had taken up ironworking in his old age, and forged a new sign to hang in the yard, a three-headed black iron dragon. The inn became known as the Clanking Dragon for the noise the sign would make in the wind.
During the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Daemon Blackfyre took a black dragon as his emblem. Lord Darry, then overlord of the inn's lands, was a famous Targaryen supporter. He saw the inn's black dragon sign and became angry; he cut it down, hacked it to pieces, and threw it into the river. Eventually one of the iron dragon's heads washed up on the Quiet Isle, red with rust.
The sign was never replaced and people eventually forgot about the dragons. The inn became known as the River Inn, since at that time the Trident flowed beneath its back door and half its rooms were built out over the water. It was said that the inn's guests could throw a line out their window and catch fish. There was also a ferry landing at the inn, where travelers could cross to Lord Harroway's Town and Whitewalls. However, c.220 AC-230 AC, when Masha Heddle's grandfather was the innkeeper, the river moved. These days the smallfolk call the inn the crossroads inn.
While traveling to King's Landing, the royal retinue of King Robert I Baratheon stops at the crossroads inn.
Catelyn Stark and Ser Rodrik Cassel stay at the inn at the crossroads while returning to the north from King's Landing. There they encounter Tyrion Lannister, whom they arrest and take with them when they leave. Masha Heddle begs the nobles to take their fight elsewhere, but is refused.
Later, Lord Tywin Lannister takes revenge on Masha Heddle, hanging her on a gibbet in the yard of the inn. He takes the inn as his quarters while he is encamped at the crossroads. Tyrion sees Masha's body when he meets his father at the inn, after leaving the Eyrie with his clansmen.
After Tywin goes to Harrenhal, Lord Roose Bolton recaptures the crossroads from the Lannisters, and presumably takes the inn with it.
Sandor pulls Arya off of the Tickler - by Mathia Arkoniel ©
Masha Heddle's nephew reopens the inn, bringing in whores to attract customers.
Masha Heddle's nephew is eventually killed at the hands of an unidentified noble and the inn is left vacant. Later, two of Masha's nieces, Jeyne and Willow, reopen the inn for business and it serves as a refuge for orphan children. The Heddles and the inn are now connected with the brotherhood without banners; in addition, Gendry now works for them as a smith.
In 300 AC, Brienne of Tarth, Podrick Payne, Septon Meribald, and Ser Hyle Hunt travel to the crossroads inn. Septon Meribald tells his companions the history of the inn and the Heddle family. The group passes hanged men in the vicinity, alleged perpetrators of the raid on Saltpans, which leads Hyle to say the inn should now be called the "Gallows Inn".
Brienne and her companions are greeted at the inn by Willow Heddle, Gendry, and the orphans. Several of the children are armed with crossbows, leading Hyle to suggest the inn should be called "Crossbow Inn", and Brienne to think that "Orphan Inn" would be more accurate. Jeyne Heddle is not there (away with the Brotherhood), but Septon Meribald trades his food for rooms at the inn. A fight ensues when outlaws from the Brave Companions arrive and threaten Willow and the children. Brienne defends them and Gendry joins in the fight; Rorge and Biter are slain, but Brienne is badly wounded.
Podrick: Is the dragon sign still there?
Meribald: No. When the smith's son was an old man, a bastard son of the fourth Aegon rose up in rebellion against his trueborn brother and took for his sigil a black dragon. These lands belonged to Lord Darry then, and his lordship was fiercely loyal to the king. The sight of the black iron dragon made him wroth, so he cut down the post, hacked the sign into pieces, and cast them into the river. One of the dragon's heads washed up on the Quiet Isle many years later, though by that time it was red with rust.
- Podrick Payne and Septon Meribald
Hyle Hunt: I never dreamed that keeping an inn could be so deadly dangerous.
Meribald: It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.
The Inn of the Green Eel is an inn in Braavos.
Samwell Tarly unsuccessfully searches for Dareon at the Inn of the Green Eel.
Arya Stark gathers information at the inn as Blind Beth when she is a servant at the House of Black and White.
Inn of the Kneeling Man
The riverlands and the location of the Inn of the Kneeling Man
The Inn of the Kneeling Man is an inn in the riverlands located near the spot where Torrhen Stark, King in the North, is said to have bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror.
The main building sits along the shore where the Red Fork of the Trident bends. It has long, low wings that stretch out. The lower story is made of grey stone, the upper one of whitewashed wood. Its roof is slate and has a stables and an arbor. It reportedly brews a good ale.
King Torrhen Stark came south with his forces after the Field of Fire but upon seeing Aegon's dragon, Balerion, and the massive host at his back, he knelt and surrendered his crown. The inn is said to be built where Torrhen submitted.
Brienne of Tarth, Ser Cleos Frey and Ser Jaime Lannister stop at the inn on their way south. They meet a man, Husband, who has taken over duties as innkeeper, as well as a crossbow-wielding boy he had adopted. The innkeeper's wife, Sharna, is not there at that time. After taking a meal, Brienne overpays the man for three horses but refuses to stay the night. She also disregards his advice on choice of roads, suspecting him to be in league with bandits and leading them to ambush.
After Arya Stark is captured by the brotherhood without banners, she is brought to the inn. Her true identity is revealed when Harwin returns.
Inside HBO's Game of Thrones, is a companion book for the HBO, Game of Thrones TV series. The book was published on 19 September 2012 by Chronicle Books in the USA and available in the UK via the British HBO merchandise site.
Inside HBO's Game of Thrones is a volume that mixes fictional background details with behind-the-scenes information, maps, family trees and interviews with castmembers. The book is 192 pages long and featured over 300 color photographs and illustrations, along with eight gatefold images. The book is written by Bryan Cogman, the show's 'keeper of the mythos' and writer of two episodes of the TV series. George R.R. Martin supplies a preface and showrunners w:David Benioff and D.B. Weiss an introduction.
The invasion of the Arbor takes place in 300 AC during the second phase of the War of the Five Kings, and is part of the ironborn campaign in the Reach. Following the taking of the Shields, Euron Greyjoy, the new King of the Iron Islands, sends his ships to raid up the Arbor as well as other parts of the Reach. With much of the Reach's armies and navies on campaign in the stormlands, crownlands, and riverlands, the Reach is poorly defended.
Reports of the ironborn taking the Shield Islands reach King's Landing. The ironborn are said to have a thousand ships, although this is most likely an exaggeration. Queen Margaery Tyrell demands that the Redwyne fleet, which is besieging Storm’s End and Dragonstone, be allowed to leave the stormlands and the narrow sea in order to defend the Reach, but Queen Regent Cersei Lannister refuses, stating that the two castles remain a danger to King's Landing and King Tommen I Baratheon's rule as they remain loyal to a rival king, Stannis Baratheon. Margaery's brother, Ser Loras Tyrell, offers to lead a charge on the walls of Dragonstone in order to quickly end the siege, which Cersei accepts.
In the meantime Euron Greyjoy has ordered his fleet to carry out attacks on settlements of the Mander, the Arbor, and the Whispering Sound. King's Landing is informed of the presence of ironborn longships in the Redwyne Straits.
With most of the Redwyne fleet away, the ironborn capture or sink the dozen ships remaining at the Arbor.
Samwell Tarly learns about the Arbor's fate from the captain of the *Huntress*.
If King's Landing loses Oldtown and the Arbor, the whole realm will fall to pieces, he thought as he watched the Huntress and her sisters moving off.
- thoughts of Samwell Tarly
Inventories is a book written by Archmaester Thurgood which stated the existence of 227 Valyrian steel blades in all of Westeros, although some have since disappeared.
The Iron Bank - by Logan Feliciano. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Iron Bank is the main bank of Braavos. It is one of the wealthiest banks of the Known World and often lends money to outsiders, such as archons, triarchs, and the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.
Maesters have learned of some the Iron Bank's history and dealings—for the bank is famous for its discretion and secrecy—thanks to Archmaester Matthar's *The Origins of the Iron Bank and Braavos*.
According to Matthar, the Iron Bank was founded by sixteen men and seven women who hid valuables in an abandoned iron mine shortly after the foundation of Braavos.
Prior to the Uncloaking, Uthero Zalyne, Sealord of Braavos, sent envoys from the Iron Bank to negotiate with the Valyrian Freehold. The bank paid settlements to the grandchildren of the shipowners whose vessels had been seized by the fugitive founders of Braavos, but not for the slaves.
Though all the Free Cities have their own banks, the Iron Bank is richer and more powerful than the others combined and has a fearsome reputation when collecting debts.
During the Dance of the Dragons in Westeros, Ser Tyland Lannister of the greens entrusted one quarter of the crown's gold from the royal treasury to the Iron Bank for safekeeping.
Ser Michael Manwoody was an envoy of the Iron Throne to the Iron Bank during the reign of King Baelor I Targaryen.
Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, learns the Iron Throne of Westeros owes a large sum of money that Petyr Baelish, the master of coin, borrowed from the Iron Bank to cover King Robert I Baratheon spending.
Bronn informs Tyrion Lannister, the acting Hand to King Joffrey I Baratheon, that a moneylender from Braavos has come to the city and requests to see the king for payment on some loans. Tyrion tells Bronn to send the moneylender to Petyr to keep him busy.
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister and the small council decides to defer payments on the loans they have from the Iron Bank. Grand Maester Pycelle is the only one who objects and tries to warn her of the problems it will cause, but Cersei rejects his advice.
In response to the Iron Throne's decision, the Iron Bank begins calling in outstanding debts from all over the Seven Kingdoms and refusing all new loans, causing economic chaos throughout Westeros.
Noho Dimittis is sent by the Bank to the Iron Throne to collect the debt, but is told by Cersei that the Iron Bank will only get its money when the rebellion is over.
Tycho Nestoris, an envoy from the Iron Bank, arrives at the Wall via Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. The Iron Bank plans to help Stannis Baratheon's claim on the condition that he honors the debts the Iron Throne owes the bank. While present at Castle Black, Lord Commander Jon Snow makes arrangements with the envoy to borrow from the Iron Bank so the Night's Watch can buy food and supplies to see them through the approaching winter.
Tycho travels to Deepwood Motte, where he pays a ransom for the ironborn which Lady Sybelle Glover accepts for the king. He travels through the snow to Winterfell looking for Stannis. Stannis is not there, but he finds Mors Umber outside the gates with some young boys. Nestoris also takes Theon Greyjoy and Jeyne Poole, who were found by Umber after their escape from Winterfell. After three days they arrive at Stannis's camp in a crofters' village.
Ser Harys Swyft, the master of coin under Lord Regent Kevan Lannister, has written to the banks of both Pentos and Myr in order to gain the crown a new loan so they can placate the Iron Bank of Braavos, but so far he has been unsuccessful. Before his death, Kevan suggests Harys travel to Braavos and treat with the bank in person.
Tycho and Stannis meet and sign a contract. Ser Justin Massey is ordered to escort Tycho safely back to the Wall and from there sail to Braavos with him and use the newfound wealth of the Iron Bank to hire sellsword companies for Stannis's cause.
Ser Harys Swyft travels to Braavos to parlay with the Iron Bank.
Cersei: A Lannister pays his debts.
Pycelle: The Braavosi have a saying too. The Iron Bank will have its due, they say.
- Cersei Lannister and Pycelle
We who serve the Iron Bank face death full as often as you who serve the Iron Throne.
- Tycho Nestoris to Jon Snow
The Iron Bank is always glad to be of service.
The Iron Fleet by Rene Aigner ©
The Iron Fleet is the largest grouping of longships from the Iron Islands. They number one hundred, and unlike other ironborn ships they belong to the Seastone Chair. It is one of the three most powerful fleets of Westeros, along with the royal fleet of the crownlands and the Redwyne fleet of the Arbor.
Each ship of the Iron Fleet is captained and crewed by people of various islands. The ships, while smaller than the war dromonds of the mainland, are three times the size of a standard longship of the Isles.
Quellon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, desired stronger ties with the Seven Kingdoms, but he died in Robert's Rebellion. His son, Lord Balon Greyjoy, reversed Quellon's reforms and instead desired independence for the Iron Islands. Over five years Balon constructed the Iron Fleet, which consisted of ships closer in size to galleys than the ironborn's smaller longships. Their decks were armed with scorpions and spitfires.
At the start of Greyjoy's Rebellion, the Iron Fleet burned the Lannister fleet at anchor at Lannisport.
When Lord Balon Greyjoy declares himself King of the Iron Islands and attacks the north, he sends Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy with the Iron Fleet to sail up the Saltspear and the Fever River. From there the ironborn can march on Moat Cailin.
After hearing that King Balon has died and that Aeron Greyjoy has called a kingsmoot, Victarion returns from Moat Cailin to the Iron Fleet, which has been in the reeds and willows of the Fever River. Nine-tenths of the Iron Fleet sails to Nagga's Cradle in a column reaching back many leagues, losing a ship along the way to rough seas and fickle winds.
The fleet leads the other ships of the Iron Islands in the taking of the Shields. Six ships are lost in the ensuing naval clash, including *Hardhand* of the Iron Fleet. The new king, Euron Greyjoy, commands Victarion to take the Iron Fleet to Slaver's Bay and return with Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons.
The small number of ironborn ships left behind in the Fever River are torched by the Ryswells and Dustins.
Meanwhile, the 93 remaining ships of the Iron Fleet sets sail for Essos from the Shield Islands. During the voyage they capture a merchant ship, the *Noble Lady*, taking its cargo and adding the ship to the fleet. In the Redwyne Straits and along the Dornish coast they capture five other ships—three cogs, a galleas and a galley—making the Iron Fleet number ninety-nine. After taking on supplies at the Stepstones, Victarion splits the fleet into three squadrons and sails for Slaver's Bay, with the squadrons to reunite at the Isle of Cedars. At Volantis Victarion learns that the Volantene fleet will soon sail against Daenerys. The Lord Captain orders his squadron to set sail immediately after they purchase food and water.
By the time the three squadrons meet at the tip of the Isle of Cedars, however, only forty-five ships have arrived. These include twenty-two of Victarion's squadron, fourteen of Ralf the Limper's bigger and slower squadron, which had sailed by Lys, and only nine from Red Ralf Stonehouse's swift squadron, which had sailed to the Basilisk Isles. Several straggle back, but some are lost to storms. The Iron Fleet captures nine additional ships, but these are merchant vessels and fishing boats not built for war.
The fleet continues its voyage, capturing more cogs and galleys along the way. With Moqorro, a priest of R'hllor, now aiding the fleet, the ships make faster progress and should reach Meereen before the fleet of Volantis. The Iron Fleet currently number sixty-one.
Known ships of the Iron Fleet.
Victarion Greyjoy and the Iron Fleet - by Dejan Delic ©
*Grief*
*Hardhand*, lost in the taking of the Shields
*Woe*
*Dagon's Feast*, lost during the voyage east
*Red Tide*, lost during the voyage east
*Shark*
*Fear*
*Kite*
*Dagger*
Known captured ships added to the fleet.
Euron: It is a fearsome thing to sail beyond Valyria.
Victarion: I could sail the Iron Fleet to hell if need be.
– Euron Greyjoy and Victarion Greyjoy
Lord Balon's Great Kraken and the warships of the Iron Fleet were made for battle, not for raids. They are the equal of our lesser war galleys in speed and strength, and most are better crewed and captained. The ironmen live their whole lives at sea.
– Aurane Waters to the small council
The Iron Gate is one of the seven huge gates that surround the huge walls of King's Landing. It is on the northeast wall and connects to the Rosby road heading northeast to Rosby along Blackwater Bay.
In the reign of Maegor I Targaryen, Maegor had his own wife and queen; Alys Harroway tortured to death and executed. Following her death, Alys body was cut into seven parts and mounted on spikes above each of the seven gates of the city, one of which was above the Iron Gate.
During the Dance of the Dragons, a massive riot broke out in the city. Ser Medrick Manderly sallied out and restored some order to the area northeast of Aegon's Hill, to the Iron Gate.
Janos Slynt, the commander of the Iron Gate, was promoted to commander of the City Watch of King's Landing at some point after Robert's Rebellion.
Jaime Lannister is sent by his sister Cersei to inspect the city gates. According to him the Iron Gate's hinges are rusted.
Iron Holt
The Iron Islands and the location of Iron Holt
Iron Holt is the seat of House Wynch. The town
The main grouping of the Iron Islands in Ironman's Bay
The Iron Islands is one of the constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms. Until Aegon's Conquest it was ruled by the Kings of the Iron Islands and then briefly the Kings of the Isles and the Rivers.
The Iron Islands are home to a fierce seafaring people who call themselves the ironborn. While some say the archipelago is named after the abundant iron ore on the islands, the ironmen claim it is instead named after their own unyielding nature.
The isles are ruled by House Greyjoy from their castle of Pyke. Notable houses have included Blacktyde, Botley, Drumm, Goodbrother, Greyiron, Harlaw, Hoare, Merlyn, Stonehouse, Sunderly, Tawney, and Wynch. of noble origin from the Iron Islands receive the surname Pyke.
Fleet from Pyke by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games.
The Iron Islands is an archipelago in Ironman's Bay, located in the Sunset Sea off the western coast of Westeros. They are roughly west of the riverlands, northwest of the westerlands, and south of the north.
The main grouping of islands numbers thirty-one, with the seven major isles being Pyke, Great Wyk, Old Wyk, Harlaw, Saltcliffe, Blacktyde, and Orkmont. Eight days sail northwest of Great Wyk is a smaller grouping of thirteen clustered around the Lonely Light. Some of the Iron Islands are used for sheep grazing or are uninhabited., the seat of House Greyjoy on the island of the same name.
The Iron Islands is the smallest of the regions of the Seven Kingdoms. Dorne is the least populous of the Seven Kingdoms according to Doran Martell, but it is unclear if he is also including the Iron Islands in this estimate.
The Iron Islands are small, barely-fertile rocks with few safe harbors. The seas around the isles are stormy, frequently wreaking havoc with their considerable force.
Main article: Ironborn
The inhabitants of these harsh isles are known as ironmen,
The Faith of the Seven of the Andals and the old gods find small favor with the ironborn, as their allegiance is given to their native Drowned God. Because of the scarcity of the Faith, there are few knights in the islands; known knights include Ser Harras Harlaw and Ser Aladale Wynch. Some ironmen believe in returning to the Old Way of reaving and paying the iron price.
The islands are sparse and rocky with a thin, stony soil that makes it hard for the smallfolk to farm, often having to do without the animals that might make their job easier, such as oxen or horses.
According to a semi-canon source from 2005, the Iron Isles can raise approximately twenty thousand men and five hundred longships.
Every Ironborn Captain is a King - by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games.
Maesters believe the Iron Islands were settled by the First Men many thousands of years ago. Legends claim that the First Men discovered what would be called the Seastone Chair upon the shores of Old Wyk.
According to legend, the islands were ruled by the Grey King during the Age of Heroes.
The kingsmoot ended the petty wars between each of the isles, and with their new unified strength, the high kings began to conquer other lands instead of just raiding them. Under the rule of King Qhored the Cruel, the ironborn brought much of the western coast of Westeros under the rule of the Iron Island, including lands as far as Bear Island, the Arbor, and Oldtown.
Upon the death of High King Urragon III Greyiron, his younger sons convened a kingsmoot which chose Urrathon IV Goodbrother, although Urragon's elder son, Torgon Greyiron, was away raiding the Reach. Supported by priests unhappy with Urrathon's tyranny, Torgon declared the kingsmoot invalid when he returned to the Iron Islands, and the so-called Badbrother was overthrown. Although Torgon the Latecomer was wise, the ironborn were still in decline and the Cape of Eagles was lost to the Mallisters of Seagard. Torgon had his son rule alongside him for several years, and Urragon IV Greyiron thus also became high king without being chosen in a kingsmoot.
The dying wish of Urragon IV was that the high kingship pass to his great-nephew Urron Greyiron, salt king of Orkmont. When the priests insisted that a kingsmoot be held at Old Wyk, Urron had his men slaughter those who attended, including thirteen other kings and half a hundred priests.
While the driftwood kings were elected by consent of the lords and captains, the iron kings led to infighting among the ironborn, which the priests were unable to stop. The Greyirons faced half a dozen major rebellions, numerous smaller insurrections and insubordinations, and at least two major thrall uprisings.
The stronger and larger kingdoms of the green lands took advantage of the ironborn's disunity to take back conquests on mainland Westeros. For instance, Garth VII Gardener, King of the Reach, drove the ironmen from the Shield Islands and fortified them to prevent ironborn raids up the Mander.
Unlike the First Men, the Andals built strong ships capable of fighting ironborn longships. During the Andal invasion, wooden stockades of the First Men with replaced with stone castles throughout the the Reach, the riverlands, and the westerlands, new defenses against the lightning raids of the ironborn. All of their possessions lost, the Greyirons barely held on to power, and the isles increasingly divided into civil wars. After a thousand years of hereditary rule, the Greyirons fell to a coalition of ironborn lords and Andal adventurers, who often intermarried with the natives of the Iron Islands.
The Greyirons were replaced as hereditary Kings of the Iron Islands by House Hoare, who intermarried with the Andals when they came to the isles. The priests of the Drowned God considered the Hoares ungodly and false kings, which Archmaester Hake agreed with. Archmaester Haereg, however, believed the Hoares were disliked for tolerating the Faith of the Seven, discouraging reaving, and promoting trade. The priests eventually rebelled against King Harmund the Handsome, led by a priest remembered as the Shrike. They overthrew Harmund within a fortnight and mutilated his mother, Dowager Queen Lelia Lannister, which led to a long war with the westerlands which left the Iron Islands impoverished and ill-prepared for the Famine Winter.
It took centuries for the islands to recover, during which ironmen began to trade with coastal Westeros and the Free Cities. Only a shadow of what they once were, the ironborn no longer held territories on the fortified mainland and instead reaved in distant places, such as the Basilisk Isles, Stepstones, and Disputed Lands.
A few generations before the Wars of Conquest, the peaceful King Qhorwyn the Cunning built a strong fleet to deter attack.
The Hoare line, now Kings of the Isles and the Rivers, ended with the deaths of Harren and his sons during Aegon's Conquest. Inspired by Aegon Targaryen, Lord Edmyn Tully led the river lords in rebellion against the Hoares at Harrenhal.
Vickon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, was a cautious ruler who did not provoke House Targaryen and its dragons. Vickon allowed the Faith of the Seven to return to the Iron Islands. His son, Lord Goren Greyjoy, suppressed a conspiracy to crown Qhorin Volmark and a revolt by a priest calling himself Lodos, and in return King Aenys I Targaryen allowed Goren to expel the Faith from the archipelago for another century. After Goren, the weakened Iron Islands remained aloof from mainland politics for the next hundred years.
Lord Dalton Greyjoy, the Red Kraken, raided the the western shores during the Dance of the Dragons, capturing land from the westerlands. In 134 AC Lady Johanna Lannister allied with Ser Leo Costayne to invade the islands in reprisal.
The Iron Islands supported the Iron Throne during the War of the Ninepenny Kings, sending their longships to the Narrow Sea to ferry the royal armies to the Stepstones.
Lord Quellon Greyjoy, a peaceful ruler who outlawed thralldom and wanted to integrate the Iron Islands into the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, pursued neutrality during Robert's Rebellion. Encouraged by his sons, Quellon joined the rebels after Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's death at the Battle of the Trident. Quellon made a token display of support for House Baratheon against the Targaryens, but the Lord of the Iron Islands was killed in battle at the Mander.
Quellon was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Lord Balon Greyjoy, who rejected his father's works and wanted to return to the Old Way of paying the iron price. Balon spent five years building the Iron Fleet, believing that the usurper Robert I Baratheon's reign was weak. In 289 AC, Balon declared himself King of the Iron Islands in a bid for independence from the Iron Throne.
Lord Eddard Stark, now Hand of the King, advises Catelyn Stark to watch his ward, Theon Greyjoy. With tensions increasing in King's Landing, House Stark may need the Iron Fleet of Theon's father, Balon Greyjoy.
Warfare erupts in Westeros after the death of King Robert I Baratheon, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. Balon, Lord of the Iron Islands, takes advantage of the instability and declares independence for the Iron Islands. Rather than ally with Robb Stark, King in the North, against House Lannister and King Joffrey I Baratheon, Balon sends the ironborn to occupy key positions in the north and declares himself King of the Isles and the North.
Euron Greyjoy claims the Seastone Chair of the Iron Islands the day after Balon falls to his death.
Aeron Greyjoy declares a kingsmoot as the proper way to raise the next King of the Iron Islands after Balon's death.
Euron promises to conquer all of Westeros for the ironborn and expands their war by attacking the Shield Islands,
The castellan of Pyke, Erik Ironmaker, rules the Iron Islands in Euron's absence while he is on campaign.
Victarion leads the Iron Fleet to Slaver's Bay on a mission to gain Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons for Euron's cause.
House Blacktyde of Blacktyde.
House Botley of Lordsport.
House Codd.
House Drumm of Old Wyk.
House Farwynd of the Lonely Light.
House Farwynd of Sealskin Point.
House Goodbrother of Corpse Lake.
House Goodbrother of Crow Spike Keep.
House Goodbrother of Downdelving.
House Goodbrother of the Hammerhorn.
House Goodbrother of Orkmont.
House Goodbrother of Shatterstone.
House Greyiron of Orkmont.
House Greyjoy of Pyke.
House Harlaw of Grey Garden.
House Harlaw of Harlaw Hall.
House Harlaw of Harridan Hill.
House Harlaw of the Ten Towers.
House Harlaw of the Tower of Glimmering.
House Hoare of Orkmont.
House Humble.
House Ironmaker.
House Kenning of Harlaw.
House Merlyn of Pebbleton.
House Netley.
House Myre of Harlaw.
House Orkwood of Orkmont.
House Saltcliffe of Saltcliffe.
House Sharp.
House Shepherd.
House Sparr of Great Wyk.
House Stonehouse of Old Wyk.
House Stonetree of Harlaw.
House Sunderly of Saltcliffe.
House Tawney of Orkmont.
House Volmark of Volmark.
House Weaver.
House Wynch of Iron Holt.
Ironborn captains were proud and willful, and did not go in awe of a man's blood. The islands were too small for awe, and a longship smaller still. If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
The islands are stern and stony places, scant of comfort and bleak of prospect. Death is never far here, and life is mean and meagre. Men spend their nights drinking ale and arguing over whose lot is worse, the fisherfolk who fight the sea or the farmers who and scratch a crop from the poor thin soil. If truth be told, the miners have it worse than either, breaking their backs down in the dark, and for what? Iron, lead, tin, those are our treasures. Small wonder the ironmen of old turned to raiding.
- Theon Greyjoy to the captain's daughter
The Iron Islands lived in the past; the present was too hard and bitter to be borne.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
The Old Way served the isles well when we were one small kingdom amongst many, but Aegon's Conquest put an end to that.
Iron Kiss is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
Iron Kiss accompanies the rest of the Iron Fleet when they sail for Slaver's Bay. It arrives at the rendezvous at the Isle of Cedars along with *Noble Lady* and *Ravenfeeder* four days before the fleet sails further east.
Iron Lady is a ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
Iron Lady accompanies the rest of the Iron Fleet when they sail for Slaver's Bay.
"Iron Lances" is a rousing song.
It is sung at the harvest feast at Winterfell.
It is sung at the Red Wedding.
It is sung by Dareon on the voyage to Braavos.
It is sung by Abel in Winterfell.
The Iron Shields are a mercenary company that the Tattered Prince was once a member of.
According to George R. R. Martin this painting is the closest to how he envisions the Iron Throne - by Marc Simonetti ©
Balerion helps forge the Iron Throne - art by Lindsey Burcar ©
Workers help Balerion forge the Iron Throne
The Iron Throne from *Game of Thrones*
The Iron Throne is the seat of the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and is often used as a metonymic device to refer to the king's authority or to the polity born after Aegon's Conquest. The king often holds audiences and dispenses justice from atop it in the Red Keep's throne room. The chair itself is cold and hard, with many jagged edges.
Only the Hand of the King may sit on the throne in the king's absence. Such privilege does not extend to regents.
See also: Images of the Iron Throne
The Iron Throne was constructed by Aegon I Targaryen, the first king of the Seven Kingdoms. Aegon the Conqueror had the throne made from the swords surrendered by his enemies. It is supposed to have taken a thousand blades to make, heated in the breath of Balerion the Black Dread. The hammering took fifty-nine days.
The Iron Throne is an asymmetric monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and twisted metal. It is uncomfortable, and the back is fanged with steel which makes leaning back impossible. Aegon I had it made this way deliberately, saying that a king should never sit easy. King Aerys II Targaryen, the "Mad King," was always cutting himself upon it, and it is said that the throne itself has caused the deaths of several people.
Since the construction of the Red Keep in King's Landing, the Iron Throne has been located on a high platform in the throne room within the castle. Usually, the members of the Kingsguard stand guard below. When the king is presiding, only he, his family, and his council may sit; all others must stand or kneel.
Main article: House Targaryen
Once Aegon I had conquered six of the seven kingdoms, he proclaimed himself the only king in Westeros, and the rule of the Iron Throne extended over the continent. He was acknowledged by the previous kings in the North and the Rock, and had the support of the rulers he had appointed to the Stormlands, the Riverlands and the Reach.
The first years of Targaryen reign were a period of uneasiness and turmoil. Upon King Aegon's death, his son Aenys I, born of incest and considered a weakling, took the throne. Upon his ascension, several rebellions broke out over Westeros. During Aenys's rule, the Faith of the Seven suffered numerous (though unintentional) slights; the final straw was when Aenys had his son and heir wed to his daughter. This incestuous marriage enraged the Faith and led to the Faith Militant uprising against the Iron Throne. Aenys died later that year, some say by illness, others murder.
Due to the scheming of Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen, her son Maegor took the Throne rather then the late King Aenys's eldest son. Maegor the Cruel was a harsh ruler - his response to the Faith's rebellion was bloody and ferocious, resulting in the deaths of thousands in battle, slaughter and dragonfire. The carnage lasted through all of Maegor's reign. During Maegor's reign, construction of the Red Keep was completed, and to preserve its secrets, Maegor had all its builders put to death. Maegor was killed atop the Iron Throne; some say the throne itself killed him.
Due to Maegor dying with no issue, his successor was King Aenys's last surviving son Jaehaerys. Jaehaerys ended the Faith's uprising peacefully, and brought peace and prosperity to the realm for over fifty years. He was succeeded by his grandson.
King Viserys I Targaryen reigned over a time of peace and plenty for the Seven Kingdoms continuing the legacy of his grandfather, Jaehaerys the Wise.
However, upon Viserys's death there was a succession dispute between his eldest daughter and designated heiress Rhaenyra and his younger son Aegon. This dispute led to the first major civil war in the history of the unified Seven Kingdoms, known as the Dance of the Dragons. According to Septon Eustace, Rhaenyra bled after sitting the Iron Throne following the fall of King's Landing, even though she wore armor. eventually had Rhaenyra executed, but his rule was short and he was killed by poison half a year later.
After his death, Rhaenyra's son Aegon III took the throne, and Jaehaera Targaryen, the daughter of Aegon II, as his wife and queen. Although the conflict had been resolved and the continuity of the Targaryen line was again assured, the war caused great damage to their power: many dragons had died during the fratricidal fighting, thus depriving them of their most valuable resource. Aegon III was considered a broken King who brooded throughout his reign. He became known as Aegon Dragonbane when the last of the Targaryen Dragons died during his rule.
Dorne had long been a source of frustration to the Targaryens. Upon taking the throne at the age of fourteen in 157 AC, Aegon's son King Daeron I almost immediately launched an invasion of Dorne. This was an attempt to finish Aegon the Conqueror's work and unify all the seven original kingdoms and the rule of the Iron Throne. His campaign was a success, but the rebellious Dornishmen made holding Dorne a costly adventure. It is said the conquest of Dorne lasted but a summer, and that the Young Dragon spent ten thousand men taking Dorne and lost fifty thousand trying to hold it. Daeron himself died at age eighteen while trying to solidify control of the area, after the Dornishmen rose in rebellion.
Daeron I was succeeded by his brother. King Baelor the Blessed proved a peaceful king and a pious man. He constructed the Great Sept of Baelor in King’s Landing.
He died in 171 AC, and was succeeded by his uncle, King Viserys II, the tenth Targaryen to sit the Iron Throne. Viserys reigned for only a year, but it said he truly ruled and preserved the land for much longer, as he had been the Hand during the time of his brother Aegon III's reign, as well as the reigns of his nephews Daeron and Baelor.
Viserys's son, King Aegon IV, would be remembered as Aegon the Unworthy, held to be the worst king in the history of the Seven Kingdoms. This was in part because he legitimized all of his bastards on his deathbed, planting the seeds for the Blackfyre Pretenders.
Aegon's trueborn son King Daeron II Targaryen brought Dorne peacefully into the Seven Kingdoms through a dual marriage pact. Daeron the Good won the first of the Blackfyre rebellions, which ended with the death of his half-brother Daemon Blackfyre.
Daeron died in the Great Spring Sickness and was succeeded by his second son, Aerys I, a bookish man who left most of the running of the realm to his Hand, Brynden Rivers. The Second and Third Blackfyre Rebellion happened during his rule.
Aerys's death without issue let to the crowning of his younger brother, Maekar I Targaryen, who ruled a dozen mostly peaceful years.
Maekar was followed by his son Aegon V, who became known as "the Unlikely" because he was the fourth son of a fourth son. The Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion was put down during Aegon's reign. Aegon perished in the tragedy of Summerhall.
Next came the sickly Jaehaerys II, Aegon's second son. Though frail, he was wise and ruled well in his short reign of three years. House Blackfyre was finally exterminated in the male line during his reign, in the final Blackfyre rebellion known as the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
Jaehaerys was followed by his son, Aerys II, who would become known as the Mad King and King Scab because of how frequently he was cut by the Iron Throne. Aerys executed Rickard and Brandon Stark in the throne room and demanded that Jon Arryn surrender Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon to the throne. Robert's Rebellion, which erupted after Aerys's unjust executions and other atrocities, put an end to the Targaryen Dynasty on the Iron Throne after nearly 300 years. Aerys was cut down by one of his own Kingsguard, Ser Jaime Lannister, who became known as the Kingslayer. Robert was crowned king and the surviving Targaryens fled into exile in Essos.
Main article: House Baratheon of King's Landing
Lord Robert Baratheon of Storm's End ascended to the Iron Throne in 283 AC, after successfully leading the rebellion against the Targaryens. The fact that Aerys Targaryen was slain by a Lannister spared Robert from being labeled a kingslayer. The dragon skulls in the throne room were replaced with hunting tapestries.
Six years after Robert's ascension, Lord Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands, believing that King Robert's rule was still insecure, proclaimed independence for the Iron Islands and led a rebellion against the Iron Throne. He was proven wrong, and the same coalition which won Robert's Rebellion put down Greyjoy's Rebellion and repatriated the Iron Islands.
King Joffrey I Baratheon upon the Iron Throne - by Magali Villeneuve. © Fantasy Flight Games
King Robert Baratheon's reign comes to end after his wife, Queen Cersei Lannister, arranges his death. The eldest son of Cersei, Joffrey I Baratheon, takes the throne. Robert had acknowledged him as a trueborn son, but the father of Cersei's children is actually her twin, Jaime Lannister. The hunting tapestries which had replaced the dragon skulls are taken down from the throne room.
After Joffrey capriciously orders the beheading of Lord Eddard Stark, the North claims independence and secedes from the Iron Throne. Joffrey's bastardy leads Robert's younger brothers, Stannis and Renly Baratheon, to put forward their own claims to the Iron Throne.
The Seven Kingdoms are thrown into turmoil during the War of the Five Kings. Renly is assassinated and Stannis is defeated at the Blackwater. The Greyjoys enter the war out of opportunism to re-establish independence for the Iron Islands.
After two years of bitter fighting and the death of King of the North Robb Stark in the Red Wedding, the war is believed to have largely ended. Despite Joffrey's victory, he is poisoned at his own wedding feast in the throne room and his younger brother Tommen Baratheon is crowned in his place. Tommen is controlled by his advisors: his mother, Queen Regent Cersei, and his grandfather, Tywin Lannister, who serves as Tommen's Hand of the King.
King Tommen Baratheon and his kittens by the Iron Throne - by Magali Villeneuve ©
Following the death of Tywin, Cersei holds the Iron Throne as regent on behalf of her son, the young Tommen. However, after she re-establishes the Faith Militant, she is arrested by the Faith of the Seven for various crimes. King of the Iron Islands Euron Greyjoy tells the ironborn they can conquer all of Westeros.
Tommen continues to hold the Iron Throne, but Stannis still maintains his claim even while in the North. The Golden Company begins their campaign to place Aegon VI Targaryen on the throne.
The following kings have ruled the Seven Kingdoms with the Iron Throne as their seat:
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He spoke truly, it is a monstrous uncomfortable chair. In more ways than one.
– Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
– Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
Seat Stannis on the Iron Throne and I promise you, the realm will bleed.
– Petyr Baelish to Eddard Stark
This is war, this is what it looks like, this is the price of the Iron Throne.
– Daenerys Targaryen's thoughts
They can keep their red castle and their iron chair as well.
Have you ever seen the Iron Throne? The barbs along the back, the ribbons of twisted steel, the jagged ends of swords and knives all tangled up and melted? It is not a comfortable seat, ser. Aerys cut himself so often men took to calling him King Scab, and Maegor the Cruel was murdered in that chair. By that chair, to hear some tell it. It is not a seat where a man can rest at ease. Ofttimes I wonder why my brothers wanted it so desperately.
– Stannis Baratheon to Davos Seaworth
By the end the Mad King had become so fearful that he would allow no blade in his presence, save for the swords his Kingsguard wore. His beard was matted and unwashed, his hair a silver-gold tangle that reached his waist, his fingernails cracked yellow claws nine inches long. Yet still the blades tormented him, the ones he could never escape, the blades of the Iron Throne. His arms and legs were always covered with scabs and half-healed cuts.
– Jaime Lannister's thoughts
If Daenerys is no more than a sweet young girl, the Iron Throne will cut her into sweet young pieces.
– Tyrion Lannister to Illyrio Mopatis
I will claim the Iron Throne by myself, with your swords and your allegiance.
– Aegon Targaryen to the Golden Company
When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne?
– Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow
George R. R. Martin intends the Iron Throne to be intimidating. In an interview, he referenced Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias": 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Iron Vengeance is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
The Iron Vengeance was among the ships that made the voyage to the kingsmoot. During the kingsmoot, Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy ordered the Iron Vengeance and the *Grief* to stand between the *Silence* and the sea.
The ship accompanies the rest of the Iron Fleet when they sail for Slaver's Bay.
Longship Iron Victory by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games
The Iron Victory is the flagship of the Iron Fleet. The longship is captained by Victarion Greyjoy, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet, and is larger than *Sea Bitch*.
During the War of the Five Kings, Victarion Greyjoy leads the Iron Fleet to the Fever River before the fall of Moat Cailin.
Iron Victory by Daerick Gross, Sr. © Fantasy Flight Games
Victarion sails back to the Iron Islands after learning of the death of his oldest brother, Balon Greyjoy, King of the Isles and the North.
After Victarion loses to his elder brother Euron at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk,
Iron Victory leads part of the Iron Fleet to Slaver's Bay to retrieve Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons. The Iron Victory is boarded by monkeys from the Isle of Cedars, while the dusky woman stays in Victarion's cabin.
Victarion spares the life of the shipwrecked Moqorro, and the red priest promises to heal the captain's wounded hand. The crew report wild laughter and Maester Kerwin describes High Valyrian singing while Moqorro performs a ritual in Victarion's cabin. Afterward, Victarion orders his crew to kill the ineffectual Kerwin and toss his body from Iron Victory.
Longship Iron Wind. © FFG
Iron Wind is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
The Iron Wind was among the ships that made the voyage to the kingsmoot.
Iron Wing is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
The Iron Wing is part of the Iron Fleet contingent dispatched to Slaver's Bay. Iron Wing, *Kraken's Kiss,* and *Sparrowhawk* are the three fastest ships in Victarion Greyjoy's fleet and are tasked with running down and capturing two unladen Ghiscari galleys. The captured ships are subsequently renamed *Ghost* and *Shade*.
The iron price. © FFG
Euron's Favor. © FFG
The iron price in ironborn culture refers to warriors acquiring possessions by taking them from defeated adversaries, rather than purchasing items with currency, which is referred to as the gold price.
Lord Balon Greyjoy accuses his son, Theon, of having paid the gold price for a necklace instead of the iron price. When Theon admits to having purchased it, Balon drops it into a fire. Balon declines King Robb Stark's offer of being named King of the Iron Islands, instead having decided to claim a crown himself by paying the iron price and attacking the North.
After the Battle of the Stony Shore, Theon's crew take valuables from the slain Wild Hares. Dagmer Cleftjaw owns numerous rings and gemstones that he has taken from his opponents.
Baelor Blacktyde is opposed to the Old Way and the iron price, as the Greyjoy Rebellion during the reign of King Robert Baratheon was unsuccessful.
During the Iron Fleet's voyage to Slaver's Bay, Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy pays the gold price for food and water in Volantis, but he considers himself shamed by doing so.
In the Old Way, only women decorated themselves with ornaments bought with coin. A warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.
- A Clash of Kings, Chapter 11, Theon.
That bauble around your neck—was it bought with gold or iron?
- Balon Greyjoy, to Theon Greyjoy
I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind, and no man gives me a crown. I pay the iron price. I will take my crown, as Urron Redhand did five thousand years ago.
- Balon Greyjoy
Ironbelly is a master smith in King's Landing.
He is squat and broad with very thick arms.
Ironbelly is one of the smiths directed by Tyrion Lannister to build his monstrous chain.
The ironborn are the natives of the Iron Islands in the Sunset Sea off the western coast of Westeros. They are also known as ironmen,.
The ironborn are a fierce, hard, unbending people.
Literacy remains rare in the Iron Islands to this day; Those who are literate are often mocked as weaklings or feared as sorcerers.
Similar to the northern mountain clans, some heads of noble houses in the Iron Islands do not use the title "lord", but are referred to only by their house name, such as "the Sparr"
Main article: Old Way
The Old Way is the term used by the ironborn to refer to their ancient tradition of reaving and plundering. It is still highly regarded on the Iron Islands, and many ironborn still yearn for its return., all have failed.
Main article: Drowned God
The ironborn worship a deity called the Drowned God. The religion dates back to before the Andal invasion, and although the Andal invaders made multiple attempts to supplant it with the Seven, all have failed.[*citation needed*]
The ironborn believe they come from the watery halls of the Drowned God.
The Drowned God has no temples, holy books, or idols.
See also: Drowned God#Death
When an ironman dies, his body is committed to the sea. The ironborn believe that “no true son of the sea would want to rot beneath the ground” as it would make him unable to find the Drowned God's watery halls.
Captives taken during raids are called thralls. These men and women are bound to their captors in service. They are set to work on the fields or in the mines.
Most of the male thralls are set to work in the fields or the mines, tasks the ironborn consider to be done by “lesser men”, for their entire lives – although the situation in the mines usually results in a shorter life-span. The thralls who are able to read, write, and do sums are instead set to work as stewards, tutors, and scribes. Skilled craftsmen, like stonemasons, are considered to be of even more value.
The fairest of the young girls taken as thralls are made into salt wives by their captors.
Main article: Iron Fleet
Ironborn raiders – by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
The ironborn pride themselves on their fierceness in battle and their sacred freedoms.
The main strength of the Iron Islands is at sea. Each of the ironborn lords can float about a hundred ships. However, these ships are smaller and simpler than the other ships of the Seven Kingdoms. George R. R. Martin has compared their size to Viking longboats.
Ironborn and the Iron Fleet, art by Rene Aigner ©
Besides the ships each noble lord can field, the ironborn have their own fleet, called the Iron Fleet, commanded by the Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet.
There are few knights from the isles because most ironborn do not follow the Faith of the Seven. Known ironborn knights include Ser Harras Harlaw
The Reaver's Song - by artist Tommy Arnold © Fantasy Flight Games.
According to the priests of the Drowned God, the ironborn came from beneath the oceans and are more kin to fish and merlings than the rest of mankind. Archmaester Haereg once theorized that the ancestors of the ironborn came from a land west of the Sunset Sea.
According to legend, the ironborn old were ruled by the Grey King during the Age of Heroes. After his death, his hundred sons killed each other in order to determine who should succeed him. The sixteen who eventually remained divided up the islands between them.
However, according to the oldest surviving records at the Citadel of Oldtown, each of the Iron Islands was ruled by two kings: a rock king, who ruled the island, and a salt king, who held the command at sea. These kings were chosen in a kingsmoot, called for by a priest of the Drowned God whenever a king died.
House Hoare ruled until Aegon's Conquest. Notable were King Harwyn Hoare, who captured the Trident from the Storm King Arrec Durrandon several generations before Aegon's Conquest, greatly expanding the ironborn's territory. Harwyn's grandson, Harren Hoare, better known as Harren the Black, was the Kings of the Isles and the Rivers when King Aegon I Targaryen arrived in Westeros for his Conquest. The ironborn were thrown back to their islands when Harren and his line were extinguished in the burning of Harrenhal.
Following Aegon's conquest of the Iron Islands, Lord Vickon Greyjoy was chosen by the surviving ironborn lords to have primacy over them. The ironborn have been guided by House Greyjoy since then and have been mostly-peaceful subjects of the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and the Iron Throne for almost three hundred years,
Archmaester Haereg recorded the history of the ironmen in his exhaustive *History of the Ironborn*, while Archmaester Hake also wrote of their history.
You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith, but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel.
- writings of Haereg
... my lord father once told me that hard places breed hard men, and hard men rule the world.
- Theon Greyjoy to the captain's daughter
War was an ironman's proper trade. The Drowned God had made them to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and write their names in fire and blood and song.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
It was said that the ironmen of old had oft been blood-drunk in battle, so berserk that they felt no pain and feared no foe.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
The ironborn are a race of pirates and thieves.
- Denys Mallister to Samwell Tarly
The ironborn shall be waves. Not the great and lordly, but the simple folk, tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea.
- Aeron Greyjoy to Victarion Greyjoy
I had forgotten what a small and noisy folk they are, my ironborn.
- Euron Greyjoy to Victarion Greyjoy
The ironmen live their whole lives at sea.
- Aurane Waters to Harys Swyft
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Ironman's Bay is a large bay of the Sunset Sea on the western coast of Westeros.
The southern shore of Ironman's Bay lies along the northern westerlands, which includes the castle of Banefort. It extends to the east along the western riverlands; Seagard is built along the eastern shore.
The bay is populated by cod, black cod, monkfish, skate, icefish, sardines, and mackarel.
For the castle, see Yronwood.
Ironwood is a type of tree found in northern Westeros, including in the wolfswood in the north
Lord Eddard Stark beheads Gared for desertion on an ironwood stump.
Tyrion Lannister's shield during the battle on the Green Fork is a massive slab of heavy ironwood banded with steel.
In *Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series*, House Forrester controls most of the wolfswood's ironwoods. Their seat, Ironrath, is located at the edge of the largest ironwood forest in Westeros.
Irri is a Dothraki handmaiden to Daenerys Targaryen. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* she is played by Amrita Acharia.
See also: Images of Irri
Irri has skin the color of copper, with black hair and "almond-shaped eyes".
Irri was originally a member of a rival *khalasar* which was defeated by Khal Drogo. She was enslaved.
Amrita Acharia as Irri, in the HBO adaptation
Irri, Doreah, and Jhiqui are given to Daenerys Targaryen by Viserys Targaryen as wedding gifts to serve as her handmaids. She is given to Daenerys to teach her how to ride.
After struggling through the red waste, Irri and Jhiqui attempt to convince Daenerys not to stay in Vaes Tolorro, believing it haunted by ghosts.
Irri becomes a paramour to the lonely Daenerys. Daenerys feels guilt for this. Irri is present when Daenerys purchases the Unsullied. Irri and Jhiqui free Rhaegal and Viserion to attack the Astapori slavers when Dany has the Unsullied attack their former masters.
Irri and Jhiqui both develop a crush on Rakharo who has grown more tall and muscular. Both argue whom he would prefer.
Irri accompanies Daenerys to Daznak's Pit as part of the royal procession.
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The Isle of Birds is an island in the Summer Islands. It is located in the center of The Smiling Sea west of Koj. Tall Trees Town on Walano is north of it. Omboru is to the south and east of the Isle of Birds.
Isle of Cedars
Slaver's Bay and the location of the Isle of Cedars
The Isle of Cedars is a large island that sits astride both Slaver's Bay and the Gulf of Grief.
The Isle of Cedars appears to no longer be inhabited by humans because its animals have no fear of man. At least in its south, the isle's cedars were drowned by the Doom. The forests are green and still, full of twisted trees and queer bright flowers. The isle contains pigs, including large, black boars and squealing piglets in the brush. There are also monkeys on the isle.
Two cities on the Isle of Cedars, Ghozai in the north and Velos in the south, were destroyed by a tsunami triggered by the Doom of Valyria four centuries ago.
Victarion Greyjoy arrives at the isle to join up with the rest of his scattered Iron Fleet, which has orders to reunite at the southern tip of the isle. Endless cloudless skies and blazing sun beat down on the heads of the ironborn sailors and bakes the decks until the boards are hot enough to scorch bare feet. There are storms that seem to come up out of nowhere. The ironborn hunt the isle's pigs and fill their larders with smoked hams, salted pork, and bacon.
Victarion thinks that the "Isle of Monkeys" would be a more apt name. Monkeys become a plague to the Iron Fleet; they infest half the flotilla, including the *Iron Victory*, and swing from spar to spar and ship to ship. The ironborn do not recognize some of the flowers. There are horrors lurking amongst the broken palaces and shattered statues of drowned Velos, half a league north of the point where the fleet lays at anchor.
Victarion goes ashore a dozen times. During the last night his dreams are dark and disturbing and when he wakes his mouth is full of blood, possibly having bitten his tongue. Victarion takes it as a sign from the Drowned God, a warning that if he lingers here too long, he will choke on his own blood.
The Isle of Elephants is an island in the Jade Sea south of Great Moraq and Port Moraq and southeast of the Cinnamon Straits. The city of Zabhad is located on its northern shore and is the only known settlement on the island. Northeast of the Isle of Elephants is Marahai. The island is presumably named after the elephant.
According to records set down by Corlys Velaryon in his letters, the Isle of Elephants is ruled by a *shan*, who rules from a palace made of ivory.
The Isle of Elephants has not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in the map collection *The Lands of Ice and Fire*.
Isle of Faces
The riverlands and the location of the Isle of Faces
Isle of Faces, art by Kaija Rudkiewicz. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Isle of Faces is a sacred island in the middle of the lake called the Gods Eye, located in the southeastern riverlands. It is one of the few known locations of weirwoods in the south of Westeros, with most others having been cut down and burned.
See also: Images of the Isle of Faces
During their ancient war with the First Men, the children of the forest may have used the hammer of the waters from this island to break the Arm of Dorne.
With the signing of the Pact, the order of the green men was formed to tend the last remaining weirwoods in the south.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Addam Velaryon was said to have landed on the Isle of Faces and taken counsel with the Green Men.
Meera Reed tells Bran Stark a story about a crannogman who went to the Isle of Faces in the year of the false spring. He remained there for a while before travelling to a tourney at Harrenhal in which the Knight of the Laughing Tree participated.
The Isle of Flies is one of the Basilisk Isles, located on the western end of the archipelago.
A century after the Red Death scoured the Basilisks, the Brotherhood of Bones settled on the Isle of Flies soon after Xandarro Xhore established on Ax Isle.
The Isle of Love is an island in the Summer Islands. It is located in the Summer Sea west of Jhala. To its south lies the Moluu, and to its west a group of islands called the Three Exiles.
The Isle of Pigs is a small isle off the coast of the Arbor.
The island is attacked and conquered by the ironborn, along with Stonecrab Cay and Mermaid's Palace. It is now used as one of their bases.
The Isle of Ravens on the Honeywine. © FFG
The Isle of Ravens is an isle located inside the Citadel in Oldtown. A weathered wooden drawbridge links the isle to the bank of the Honeywine river.
The Ravenry, the oldest building in the Citadel, is a castle on the isle. in the north tower, as the two colors of ravens quarrel.
In the Age of Heroes the Ravenry was supposedly the stronghold of a pirate lord who sat there robbing ships as they came down the Honeywine.
Samwell Tarly visits the Ravenry on the Isle of Ravens. It is cool and dim inside the Ravenry’s walls, which are covered in purple moss and creeping vines. An ancient, moss-covered weirwood fills the castle’s yard. Ravens fill not only the tree, but also the yard, windows, and battlements.
With Alleras as a guide, Sam learns that Archmaester Walgrave’s chambers are located in the west tower of the Ravenry, below the white raven rookery, while Archmaester Marwyn’s chambers are in the north tower behind a door of oak and iron. They are accessible through the north tower’s ground level door and up a flight of steps. Before entering Marwyn's chambers, Sam meets the rude Leo Tyrell. Marwyn’s room is large and round and has a hearth. There are books and scrolls everywhere, strewn across the tables and stacked up on the floor in piles four feet high. Faded tapestries and ragged maps cover the stone walls. The only light comes from a three feet tall black candle in the centre of the room.
The white ravens and the black ones quarrel like Dornishmen and Marchers, so they keep them apart.
- Alleras's explanation to Samwell Tarly
Isle of Tears
Northern Sothoryos and the location of the Isle of Tears
The Isle of Tears is the largest of the Basilisk Isles, which are located off the northwestern coast of Sothoryos. To the west of the isle is Basilisk Point, to the north is the island of Talon, and to the northeast is the Isle of Toads. Steep-sided valleys and black bogs hide amongst the rugged flint hills and twisted, windswept rocks of this southern island.
The Old Empire of Ghis founded Gorgai on the southern coast of the Isle of Tears. The dragonlords of the Valyrian Freehold captured the city during the Third Ghiscari War and, renaming it Gogossos, used it as a penal colony. Gogossos grew powerful during the Century of Blood, but the Red Death eventually spread from the city's slave pens across the Isle of Tears and other Basilisks.
Isle of Toads
Northern Sothoryos and the location of the Isle of Toads
The Isle of Toads is one of the Basilisk Isles, located in the bay off the northwestern coast of Sothoryos, northeast of the Isle of Tears and west of the Zamoyos delta. It is home to the Toad Stone.
There are ruins of an ancient civilization on the Isle of Toads, and the modern inhabitants are believed to descend from those who carved the Toad Stone. They may be the only remnants of a forgotten race, since they are described as having an unpleasant, fishlike aspect to their faces, and many have webbed hands and feet.
The Isle of Whips is a small, isolated island in the Jade Sea, largely barren and named for its role as a way station for slavers.
The Isle of Whips has not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in the map collection *The Lands of Ice and Fire*.
The Isle of Women, also known by the more ancient name Abulu, is a small island in the Summer Isles. It is located north of central Walano in the Summer Sea.
The isle was home for a time to Nymeria and her Rhoynar refugees before they moved to Dorne in southern Westeros. A few thousand of her followers chose to remain behind; and their descendants still dwell on the Isle of Woman today.
The Isle of the Gods is one of the islands in the center of Braavos, located near the junction of the Canal of Heroes and the Long Canal.
Places on the Isle of the Gods include the shrine of the Weeping Lady of Lys, the Gardens of Gelenei, the wooden hall of the Lord of Harmony, and the Warren.
Talea sells Brusco's shellfish at the Isle of the Gods. The Sailor's Wife is said to visit the island to pray when her flower is in bloom.
Arya Stark passes the temples of the Isles of the Gods when she ventures from the House of Black and White.
Fearless Ithoke is a celebrated Meereenese pit-fighter.
Fearless Ithoke along with his fellow pit fighters Barsena Blackhair, Camarron of the Count, Goghor the Giant, Khrazz, Spotted Cat and Belaquo Bonebreaker accompanied Hizdahr zo Loraq when he petetioned Daenerys Targaryen for the seventh time for the Fighting pits to be reopened.
Izembaro, also called the King of the Mummers and Izembaro the Great, is a mummer from Braavos. He is the founder and leader of the group of mummers at The Gate.
A fat mummer, Izembaro only wants to portray kings in his plays lately. Izembaro gives his troupe advice as to how to please the Gate's crowd during their performances. These “wisdoms” include "You have to please the pit" and "Always give them something they haven't seen before".
The kindly man, one of the Faceless Men, announces to Arya Stark she is to be sent for her first apprenticeship to Izembaro to continue her training.
Izembaro and his group of mummers portray a new play written by Phario Forel, named *The Bloody Hand*. Izembaro will play the role of King Robert Baratheon in this play. He loses his crown an hour before the show starts, and after Arya has retrieved it for him from the privy where he had left it, he loses his boar spear.
*"Jace" redirects here. For the recruit of the Night's Watch, see Jace (Night's Watch).*
Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, also known as Jace, was the firstborn son of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her first husband, Ser Laenor Velaryon. When Rhaenyra was crowned queen, she named Jacaerys as Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne. Jacaerys was a dragonrider whose dragon was Vermax.
Jace was a strapping lad. Like his brothers Lucerys and Joffrey, he had brown hair and eyes, and a pug nose. This made many at court suspect that Ser Harwin Strong, Rhaenyra's sworn shield, was their true father.
Prince Jacaerys Velaryon was born at the end of 114 AC to Rhaenyra Targaryen, daughter of King Viserys I Targaryen and Princess of Dragonstone, and her husband Ser Laenor Velaryon. Laenor wished to name the boy Joffrey, in memory of his late lover Ser Joffrey Lonmouth, but he was overruled by his father, Lord Corlys Velaryon. Instead, the child was given a traditional Velaryon name, Jacaerys, and nicknamed "Jace" by his friends and family.
His uncle Prince Daeron Targaryen was born soon afterwards, to King Viserys's queen Alicent Hightower. Trying to prevent any enmity (as existed between Rhaenyra and Alicent), Viserys ordered that Jacaerys and Daemon share a wet nurse until they were weaned, hoping that them being milk brothers would make a difference. Unfortunately, the king's hopes for peace between his sons and grandsons was futile. Alicent's three sons (Aegon, Aemond, and Daeron) became bitter rivals to Rhaenyra's three sons, resenting them for stealing their birthright, the Iron Throne. The enforced closeness between the six boys (attending feasts, sometimes training together at arms, or studying under the same maesters) only increased this dislike.
Jace's brother Lucerys was born in 115 AC, followed by Joffrey in 117 AC. By royal decree, each of Rhaenyra's sons was presented with a dragon's egg while in the cradle. Those who doubted the paternity of the children whispered that the eggs would never hatch, but the birth of three dragons proved otherwise. Jacaerys's hatchling was named Vermax. According to Septon Eustace, King Viserys sat Jacaerys on his knee while sitting on the Iron Throne as he was holding court, and was heard to say, "One day this will be your seat, lad."
In 118 AC, with the blessing of the king, Rhaenyra announced the betrothal of her two eldest sons to their cousins, the daughters of Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lady Laena Velaryon. Jacaerys, four years old, was betrothed to Baela, two.
In 120 AC, when Jacaerys was six years old, his father Laenor Velaryon died. King Viserys, Queen Alicent, and their children visited High Tide on Driftmark for the the funeral. Prince Aemond, ten years old, had been told they would go to Dragonstone afterward, so that he could claim a hatchling dragon or dragon egg; but instead he was determined to claim Vhagar, the eldest and largest of the dragons, who had recently become riderless after the death of Laena Velaryon ealier that year. Vhagar was present on Driftmark, and Aemond, who knew that his parents would not allow him near the dragon, went to make his attempt in secret. However, he was caught by Jacaerys's three-year-old brother, Joffrey. In an attempt to keep the boy quiet, he slapped and threatened him, before shoving him into a pile of dragon droppings. Aemond then climbed on top of Vhagar's back, and flew two circles before landing. When he landed, he found all three of Rhaenyra's sons waiting for him, as Joffrey had called in his two older brothers, Jacaerys and five-year-old Lucerys. The four boys fought with fists and wooden training swords, until Aemond mocked his nephews as "Strongs". Jacaerys, old enough to understand the insult, attacked Aemond again. When Aemond gained the upper hand and began to beat Jacaerys savagely, Lucerys drew his dagger and slashed at Aemond's face, taking out his right eye.
After the incident, Queen Alicent called for Lucerys to lose an eye as penance, while Princess Rhaenyra demanded that Aemond should be "sharply" questioned until he revealed where he heard her sons described as "Strongs" — as naming them that suggested they were the bastards of Harwin Strong, and therefore that Rhaenyra was guilty of high treason. Aemond eventually admitted hearing the name from his brother, Aegon, who said only "Everyone knows. Just look at them." King Viserys finally put an end to the questioning, declaring he would hear no more. No eyes would be put out, he decreed, but if anyone, "man or woman or child, noble or common or royal", mocked his grandsons as "Strongs" again, their tongues would be pulled out with hot pincers. Further, Rhaenyra and her sons were to stay at Dragonstone, while Alicent and her sons returned to King's Landing.
Later in 120 AC, Jacaerys's mother Rhaenyra remarried, to her uncle Prince Daemon Targaryen. Jace's half-brother Aegon was born at the end of the year, followed by Viserys in 122 AC. Unlike their half-brothers, Rhaenyra's younger sons looked entirely Targaryen.
In 126 AC, Jacaerys's grandfather Corlys Velaryon became ill. The question of who would succeed him as Lord of the Tides and Master of Driftmark became a debate, as his children Laenor and Laena were dead, and Laenor's eldest son Jacaerys would eventually succeed his other grandfather and mother to the Iron Throne. Rhaenyra urged Corlys to name her second son, Lucerys, as his heir; but Corlys's eldest nephew, Ser Vaemond Velaryon, protested on the grounds that Rhaenyra's Velaryon sons were not Laenor's, but the bastards of Harwin Strong. Rhaenyra had her husband seize Vaemond and strike off his head, and fed the body to her dragon. Vaemond's younger brothers fled to King's Landing with Vaemond's wife and sons, to cry for justice before the king. King Viserys heard them out, but then ordered each of their tongues removed, telling them that they had been warned. As he was descending the Iron Throne, he caught his hand on one of its blades, cutting it to the bone.
Viserys's hand became infected, and it was feared that he might die. But he was healed, and on the first day of 127 AC, the king held a feast to celebrate the return of his health. Princess Rhaenyra and Queen Alicent were both commanded to attend, with all their children, and made a show of amity and love. However, after the king had left the feast, Prince Aemond toasted his three Velaryon cousins, speaking of in mock admiration of their brown hair, brown eyes, and strength, calling them "three strong boys". Later in the evening, Prince Aegon took offense when Jacaerys asked his wife Helaena for a dance. Angry words were exchanged, and the two princes might have come to blows if not for the intervention of the Kingsguard.
In 129 AC, King Viserys I Targaryen died in his sleep, and a succession war broke out between the black faction of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, claiming the throne on the basis of Viserys's choice, and the green faction of her half-brother King Aegon II Targaryen, claiming the throne as he was Viserys's eldest son. At Aegon's first green council in King's Landing after Viserys's death, Ser Criston Cole spoke of several objections to Rhaenyra, including the claim that her eldest son Jacaerys was a bastard, and that they could not allow a bastard to sit the Iron Throne.
Prince Jacaerys was fifteen years old at the start of the civil war that became known as the Dance of the Dragons. His dragon, Vermax, was thriving, and growing every year. At Queen Rhaenyra's first black council on Dragonstone, Jacaerys and Lucerys volunteered to serve as her envoys to the lords of Westeros to raise support for her claim. Rhaenyra allowed this, despite their youth; though before she consented, she made them swear a solemn oath on a copy of *The Seven-Pointed Star* that they would not take part in any fighting. The next day, at Rhaenyra's coronation as Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, she named Jacaerys Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne. When King Aegon heard of Rhaenyra's coronation, he sent terms saying if she would acknowledge his rule and make obeisance to him, he would grant her the possession of Dragonstone to eventually be inherited by Jacaerys, as well as other benefits. However, she rejected the offer.
Jacaerys, as Rhaenyra's older son, was given the more difficult mission as an envoy. He rode his dragon, Vermax, to Lady Jeyne Arryn at the Eyrie, Lord Borrell and Lord Sunderland at Sisterton, Lord Manderly at White Harbor, and Lord Cregan Stark at Winterfell. The prince was so charming and his dragon was so fearsome, that each of the lords he visited pledged support for his mother Rhaenyra Targaryen's claim.
Jacaerys's brother Lucerys was killed on his mission to Storm's End, by his uncle Prince Aemond Targaryen, and Rhaenyra was consumed by grief thereafter. Soon afterwards, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen was killed at the battle at Rook's Rest, leaving her grieving husband Lord Corlys Velaryon estranged from Rhaenyra, angered that his wife had been at the battle and not the queen. At this time, it was Prince Jacaerys who rose up to take the leadership of the blacks and reconsolidate their position. He reconciled Corlys with Rhaenyra by naming him Hand of the Queen, and directed their other armies marshalling across Westeros.
Moreover, it was Jacaerys who came up with the idea of recruiting unacknowledged Targaryen bastards from Dragonstone — the "dragonseeds" — to attempt to claim the six riderless dragons nesting on the island, to make up for the two dragons they had lost at Storm's End and Rook's Rest. He vowed that any man or woman who could master a dragon would be ennobled.
Jacaerys also arranged for the safety of his youngest brothers, Aegon, nine, and Viserys, seven, by reaching out to the Prince of Pentos, who agreed to foster the boys. Near the end of 129 AC, Aegon and Viserys boarded the *Gay Abandon* to set sail for Pentos. But in the Gullet, the ship and its escorts ran into a fleet of warships sent by the Triarchy, allies of the greens. The escort ships were sunk or taken, and the Gay Abandon captured. However, Aegon escaped, flying on his dragon Stormcloud to Dragonstone to tell them of the attack. In the Battle of the Gullet, Jacaerys, on Vermax, flew to fire upon the fleet, along with the dragonseeds on their dragons. Victory for the blacks seemed at hand, until Vermax flew too low, possibly wounded from a crossbow bolt to the eye or pulled down by a grapnel, and crashed into a burning galley. Jacaerys leapt free and clung to the smoking wreckage of the ship, but was struck by Myrish crossbow quarrels until he sank into the sea.
The Battle of the Gullet was a terrible loss for the blacks, in which Driftmark was greatly assaulted, the Velaryon fleet seriously damaged, and thousands died. Yet none of the losses were felt as badly as that of Prince Jacaerys Velaryon. Neverthless, Queen Rhaenyra found new strength after the death of her son Jacaerys. Hardened, filled with anger and hatred, she told the black council that she would rain fire and death upon King Aegon and all his supporters, and tear him from the Iron Throne or die in the attempt.
We should bear those messages. Dragons will win the lords over quicker than ravens.
—Jacaerys, to the black council
One day this will be your seat, lad.
—King Viserys I Targaryen
Seven save this realm if we seat a bastard on the Iron Throne.
—Ser Criston Cole
Broken after the loss of one son, Rhaenyra Targaryen seemed to find new strength after the loss of a second. Jace's death hardened her, burning away her fears, leaving only her anger and hatred.
—writings of Archmaester Gyldayn
Ser Jacelyn Bywater, called Ironhand, is a knight of House Bywater. He is a serving officer of the City Watch of King's Landing, and captain of the Mud Gate.
See also: Images of Jacelyn Bywater
Ser Jacelyn is tall, lantern jawed, with deep-set eyes, a prominent brow and salt-and-pepper hair. He has an iron hand strapped to his right wrist where he lost his hand, hence his nickname. He is considered brave and honorable, but is seen as rigid by the corrupt Janos Slynt.
Jacelyn is of a lesser branch of House Bywater and was too poor to afford a knighthood. He came by it only as a reward from King Robert I Baratheon, for his part in Greyjoy's Rebellion when he fought with distinction at Pyke, where he lost his hand. He has been captain of the Mud Gate in King's Landing for three years when Tyrion Lannister arrives to take up the position of Hand of the King in 299 AC.
Ser Jacelyn is named Commander of the City Watch by Tyrion Lannister after Tyrion dismisses Janos Slynt.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Lord Jacelyn is one of the commanders of the forces sworn to King Joffrey I. Although the plan created by Tyrion succeeds in destroying part of Stannis Baratheon's forces, the better part of Stannis's army is able to cross the Blackwater Rush to assault the gates. When the City Watch sees Joffrey retreating to the Red Keep they break. Jacelyn tries to rally them and seems to succeed, but he is killed when an arrow from an unknown quarter finds his throat.
Jack and its variants are a common male name. It may refer to:
Jack, called Jack-Be-Lucky, is a member of the brotherhood without banners.
See also: Images of Jack-Be-Lucky
Jack only has one eye, and he wears a rusty pothelm.
Jack was once imprisoned in Riverrun's dungeons.
Jack-Be-Lucky is part of the group of the brotherhood who escort Arya Stark to see Lord Beric Dondarrion.
During the battle at the burning septry, Jack finds Utt hiding under cellar steps, and the murderous septon is then hanged.
When Merrett Frey is taken by the brotherhood after the Red Wedding, one-eyed Jack and Lem both claim to be Beric before Tom of Sevenstreams states that Beric is elsewhere. Jack helps in the hanging of Merrett for his involvement in the death of Robb Stark.
Jack is part of Lady Stoneheart's band of outlaws
The crows await us all. M'lord, the boy seems brave enough, and we do have need of what he brings us. Take him, says Jack.
- Jack to Beric Dondarrion
Jeyne: Guest right don't mean so much as it used to. Not since m'lady come back from the wedding. Some o' them swinging down by the river figured they was guests too.
Lem: We figured different. They wanted beds. We gave 'em trees.
Jack: We got more trees, though. We always got more trees.
- Jeyne Heddle, Lem, and Jack to Brienne of Tarth
Jack: The Kingslayer's whore.
Brienne: Why would you call me that?
Jack: If I had a silver stag for every time you said his name, I'd be as rich as your friends the Lannisters.
- Jack and Brienne of Tarth
The other outlaws called him Jack-Be-Lucky, though losing an eye didn't seem very lucky to Arya.
- thoughts of Arya Stark
Jack Bulwer, known as Black Jack Bulwer, is a ranger of the Night's Watch. He is originally from House Bulwer in the Reach.
Black Jack defends the Wall during the battle beneath the Wall.
Black Jack leads the rangers sent to escort Samwell Tarly, Maester Aemon, and Gilly to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
At some point, Black Jack is appointed First Ranger.
Lord Commander Jon Snow appoints Black Jack as the leader of one of three groups of three rangers sent ranging. His group includes Garth Greyfeather and Hairy Hal. Melisandre warns Jon soon after their departure that in her visions she has seen three of the nine rangers return eyeless, weeping blood.
Black Jack's group is later caught and killed by the wildling known as the Weeper. Their heads are cut off with their eyes plucked out, and are impaled on spears north of Castle Black in the middle of the night. Jon orders the spears to be removed and their heads to be burned to the bone.