Ser Gregor Goode was a knight from House Goode, and brother to Ser Griffith Goode. They were chosen by Queen Visenya Targaryen to be one of the first knights of the Kingsguard when the order was founded in 10 AC by King Aegon I Targaryen.
Grenn is a recruit of the Night's Watch and friend of Jon Snow. He is given the nickname Aurochs by Ser Alliser Thorne..
See also: Images of Grenn
Grenn is thick of neck.
Jon's original impression of Grenn is that he is slow and clumsy.
Grenn is one of the recruits when Jon Snow comes to join the Night's Watch. They are trained together by Ser Alliser Thorne, with Alliser deriding Grenn as "Aurochs". While training with blunted swords, Jon defeats Grenn and causes an injury to his hand. Grenn, Todder, and two other recruits confront the younger Jon, but Donal Noye prevents further violence and reminds Jon of his advantageous upbringing. After he has received news that his brother Bran has woken from his coma, Jon is conciliatory towards Grenn, offering to teach him how to defend against the move that has caused his injury.
Grenn trains with Jon Snow and his sword fighting soon improves, now able to hold his own against a more adept recruit such as Halder. As a result, Pypar also asks Jon for help.
Alliser picks on Samwell Tarly when he arrives at the Wall, commanding Halder, Rast, and Albett to fight the inept youth. Grenn, Jon, and Pyp defend Sam, however. Because Rast is still willing to hurt Sam for Alliser, he is visited by Grenn, Jon, and Pyp and threatened by Jon's direwolf, Ghost. Sam joins Grenn, Jon, Pyp, and Halder during meals and eventually shares in their jests.
When a new group of recruits heads toward Castle Black, Alliser names eight of his novices ready to join the Night's Watch. Grenn celebrates with wine.
Following the arrest of Lord Eddard Stark, Jon's father, as a traitor, Grenn is among those who lend support to Jon, telling him that the accusation is a lie. He and others stop Jon from attacking Alliser with a knife when Alliser calls Jon "not only a bastard, but a traitor's bastard".
Jon saves the life of Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, when he is attacked by a wight. Out of gratitude, the Old Bear gives Jon his family sword, Longclaw, as a gift. Afterwards, Grenn joins others who ask Jon to show them the Valyrian steel sword, explaining that they knew about the present before Jon did.
Grenn is among the group of friends that stop Jon from abandoning the Wall and forswearing himself following the execution of his father in King's Landing. When Jon declares he needs to be with his brother Robb, Grenn says that those of the Night's Watch are his brothers now. He goes on explaining that, while everyone is sorry about Lord Eddard's fate, Jon cannot go back once he has made the vow.
Grenn while beyond the Wall - by Amok ©
Grenn participates in the great ranging led by Lord Commander Mormont. Before it starts, Grenn joins other brothers who go to Mole's Town for drinking and whoring.
During the ranging, Grenn serves as an outrider and is usually paired with Dywen. The gnarled, veteran ranger takes on a mentor role; clouting Grenn on the ear and advising the young ranger. When the group approaches Craster's Keep, Dywen tells Grenn that Craster was born of a wildling woman and a ranger. Dywen warns Jon and others to not look after Craster's wives. Grenn later challenges Dywen's boast that he slept with three of Craster's daughters during the night, explaining that he would have noticed that.
Dywen declares there is a strange smell around the Fist of the First Men, explaining to Grenn that it smells cold.
When Jon kills Qhorin Halfhand on his command to prove that he has forsaken the Night's Watch so that he can infiltrate the camp of Mance Rayder, Jon wonders whether he has lost his friends.
Grenn survives the fight at the Fist, where the Night's Watch is attacked by wights. Grenn and Small Paul encourage the dispirited Samwell Tarly during during the retreat south, with Grenn beginning to sing "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".
Grenn is among those who make it back to Craster's Keep. When some men of the Watch mutiny, Grenn flees with others after the death of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
Having grown a half a foot taller since having met Jon, Grenn has not cut his shaggy hair or beard since the Fist.
Grenn complains that Jon has not been the same since being chosen the new Lord Commander.
Grenn is seen sitting with Pyp and the rest in the common room. They invite Jon to sit with them, but he refuses..
Grenn: Nobody likes cravens. I wish we hadn't helped him. What if they think we're craven too?
Pypar: You're too stupid to be craven.
Grenn: I am not.
Pypar: Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you'd be too stupid to run away.Grenn: I would not. I'd run away faster than you.
- Grenn and Pypar
Pypar: We're not all as dumb as Grenn.
Grenn: You are so. You're dumber.
- Grenn and Pypar
Samwell: You never liked Ser Alliser to call you Aurochs.
Grenn: He was saying I was big and stupid. If Pyp wanted to call me Aurochs, though, he could. Or you, or Jon. An aurochs is a fierce strong beast, so that's not so bad, and I am big, and getting bigger.
- Samwell Tarly and Grenn
Jon: Grenn, you have the Wall.
Grenn: Me?
Pypar: Him?
Grenn: But, b-but what do I do if the wildlings attack again?Jon: Stop them.
Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are.
Gretchel is a serving woman in service to House Arryn at the Eyrie.
Gretchel is among the servants charged with taking care of Robert Arryn. She helps with altering and fitting the clothes of Lysa Arryn for Lysa's young niece, Sansa Stark.
The Grey Cliffs
The North and the location of the Grey Cliffs
The Grey Cliffs are a series of cliffs in the North. They lie along the shore of the narrow sea, east of Karhold.
The great cog *Saathos Saan* founders off of the Grey Cliffs.
Grey Garden is the seat of House Harlaw of Grey Garden on the island of Harlaw. is known as the Knight of Grey Garden.
For the ironborn longship with the same name, see Grey Ghost (ship).
Grey Ghost was a wild dragon that dwelt in a smoking vent high on the desolate eastern side of the volcano called Dragonmont. He was named by Dragonstone's smallfolk who could rarely find him. He was never claimed nor ridden by any man, living or dead. He is one of three wild dragons with Sheepstealer and the Cannibal.
He was a pale grey-white, the color of morning mist.
He was a notably shy dragon who avoided men and their works for years at a time. He preferred to feed on fish and was often glimpsed flying low over the narrow sea, snatching prey from the waters.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Jacaerys Velaryon sought new dragonriders to fight The Greens. Some of the dragonseeds looked for the Grey Ghost but could not find him as he was ever an elusive creature.
Grey Ghost was killed and partially devoured by Sunfyre upon his return to Dragonstone.
For the dragon with the same name, see Grey Ghost.
The Grey Ghost. © Fantasy Flight Games
Grey Ghost is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
The Grey Ghost was among the ships that made the voyage to the kingsmoot.
Grey Jeyne. © Thrumugnyr
Grey Jeyne is one of the Bastard's girls.
Grey Jeyne and Maude kill one of Lord Harwood Stout's hounds over a meaty bone that Will Short tosses to them while at Ramsay Bolton's feast at Goldgrass.
The Grey King is a legendary monarch of the Iron Islands who is said to have ruled for 1,007 years.
See also Images of the Grey King.
The Grey King is so named because his hair, beard, and eyes were grey as the winter sea, and at the end of his life even his skin had turned grey.
The Grey King fights Nagga.
Legends say the Grey King slew the sea dragon Nagga, after which the Drowned God turned the sea dragon's bones to stone. From the bones was made the Grey King's Hall, which he heated with Nagga's living fire.
The Grey King brought fire to the earth by taunting the Storm God into setting a tree on fire with a thunderbolt. He taught men to weave nets and sails. The Grey King allegedly carved the first longship from the pale wood of Ygg, a demon tree which fed on human flesh.
The Grey King's skin turned as grey as his hair and beard as he ruled over centuries. He eventually he cast aside his driftwood crown and walked into the sea to descend to the watery halls of the Drowned God to take his place at the right hand of the god.
The Grey King is said to have had a hundred sons who fought after his death. The sixteen who survived divided the Iron Islands amongst themselves.
Urras Greyiron was chosen in a kingsmoot as the first High King of the Iron Islands since the Grey King.
Vickon Greyjoy, a descendent of the Grey King, was chosen as the new Lord of the Iron Islands after Aegon's Conquest.
The Grey King's Hall is the site on Nagga's Hill where the Grey King raised his hall out of the bones of Nagga. It is the site of kingsmoots in the Iron Islands.
Nagga's ribs became the beams and pillars and her jaws the throne. According to legend, the Hall had been warmed by Nagga's living fire and on the walls hung tapestries made of silver seaweed. The men sworn to the Grey King ate at a table shaped like a large starfish while seated on thrones made from mother-of-pearl. Upon the Grey King's death, the Storm God snuffed out Nagga's fire and the sea stole the throne.
The Grey Waste is a desert region in far eastern Essos.
The Grey Waste appears to be an expansive, cold desert in far eastern Essos.
Raiders out of the Grey Waste frequently attack the Five Forts, which separates the wastes from Yi Ti.
The Grey Waste 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*.
Grey Wind is a direwolf bonded to Robb Stark. He is the litter-mate of Lady, Nymeria, Summer, Shaggydog, and Ghost.
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Grey Wind has smoke grey fur and yellow eyes.
Robb Stark followed into battle by Grey Wind - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
Grey Wind is discovered along with his litter mates by Robb Stark and Jon Snow after the direwolves' mother has been killed by a stag.
During Bran Stark's first ride on a horse since his fall, Robb, Grey Wind, and Summer go off in search of deer, leaving Bran alone. A small party of wildlings come upon Bran and promptly try to rob him. Robb, Grey Wind, and Summer return and a fight ensues. Grey Wind kills Wallen and then runs down another of the wildlings. All of the wildlings are killed except for Osha, who surrenders and is taken captive for further questioning.
Grey Wind follows Robb around Winterfell and sits at his feet when he holds court. When Greatjon Umber menaces Robb during an audience, Grey Wind bites two of the lord's fingers off, helping Robb gain the respect of Umber and other Stark bannermen. During the War of the Five Kings, Grey Wind follows Robb into battle and adds significantly to Robb's fearsome reputation. At the battle in the Whispering Wood, Grey Wind kills several men.
King Robb Stark, Grey Wind, and the northern army attack Lannister forces - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
Grey Wind is present at Riverrun when Robb gives peace terms for Cleos Frey, who is visibly scared.
Robb's cavalry slip past the Golden Tooth into the westerlands using a secret goat track that Grey Wind discovers.
Grey Wind goes into battle several more times beside Robb, killing a man at both Ashemark and the Crag.
Catelyn hears Grey Wind howling after Riverrun learns of the deaths of Willem Lannister and Tion Frey.
Arriving at the Twins, Grey Wind growls at Ser Ryman, Ser Edwyn, Black Walder, and Petyr Frey, and Petyr Pimple falls from his scared horse. Grey Wind balks at the gatehouse, so Robb has Ser Raynald Westerling keep the the direwolf outside of the hall.
While defending the Wall, Jon Snow has a dream and sees a ghastly grey direwolf spotted with blood, staring back at him with sad golden eyes. He mistakenly thinks of Summer, unaware of Robb's and Grey Wind's deaths.
Grey Wind's defender, Raynald, is presumed dead after falling into the Green Fork.
Jon Snow's direwolf, Ghost, is aware that his litter mate Grey Wind is dead,
I saw Lord Umber's giant-in chains and the Mallister eagle, but it was the boy who led them, with a monstrous wolf running at his side. I wasn't there to see, but it's said the beast killed four men and ripped apart a dozen horses.
– A messenger to Lord Tywin Lannister's council after the battle in the Whispering Wood
A hall is no place for a wolf. He gets restless, you've seen. Growling and snapping. I should never have taken him into battle with me. He's killed too many men to fear them now. Jeyne's anxious around him, and he terrifies her mother.
– Robb Stark to Catelyn Stark
Any man Grey Wind mislikes is a man I do not want close to you. These wolves are more than wolves, Robb. You must know that. I think perhaps the gods sent them to us. Your father's gods, the old gods of the north.
– Catelyn Stark to Robb Stark, upon learning that Grey Wind does not like Rolph Spicer
A silence fell across the torchlit hall, and in the quiet Catelyn could hear Grey Wind howling half a castle away. He smells the blood, she thought, through stone walls and wooden doors, through night and rain, he still knows the scent of death and ruin.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
He's a direwolf, not a dog, and dangerous to men he does not trust.
– Robb Stark to Lothar Frey
Walder: Your wild beast has a taste for human flesh, I hear, heh. Rips out throats, yes. I'll have no such creature at my Roslin's feast, amongst women and little ones, all my sweet innocents.
Robb: Grey Wind is no danger to them, my lord. Not so long as I am there.
- Walder Frey and Robb Stark
Grey Worm is an Unsullied purchased by and sworn to Daenerys Targaryen. He is the commander of Daenerys's Unsullied and one of her trusted advisors. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Jacob Anderson.
See also: Images of Grey Worm
According to a semi-canon source, Grey Worm has absolutely no facial hair, though the hair atop his head is short and brown. He is stocky, of medium height and square. He has a serious looking face, on the edge of solemn. The Unsullied do not display much emotion. He is young, in his late twenties or so.
Grey Worm is chosen by his fellow Unsullied as the most able among them to become an officer. He is placed under the tutelage of Ser Jorah Mormont to learn how to command. When Daenerys Targaryen abolishes the Unsullied tradition of being given new names every day, Grey Worm chooses to keep the Unsullied name he had when he was freed.
Grey Worm is among those present during planning for the siege of Meereen, Daario Naharis states that the Unsullied could take down the gates with axes since they consider boiling oil to be no more than a warm bath. Grey Worm responds that this is false; although Unsullied would not feel burns like men do, but the oil, would blind and kill, but give the Unsullied a ram they would batter down the gate or die. Daenerys tells Grey Worm she will not throw away Unsullied lives. Later there is a plan presented to invade the city through the sewers; Daenerys includes the Unsullied as those she does not believe are appropriate for invading through the sewers.
Daenerys has Grey Worm order her Unsullied to travel in pairs when the Sons of the Harpy begin killing her soldiers. When Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, Hizdahr zo Loraq attempts to order the Unsullied but Grey Worm and his men refuse to obey him. However when Ser Barristan Selmy goes to Grey Worm for his help in seizing control of Meereen, Grey Worm agrees to aid Selmy. Grey Worm becomes a member of the ruling council of Meereen.
It is a lucky name. The name this one was born to was accursed. That was the name he had when he was taken for a slave. But Grey Worm is the name this one drew the day Daenerys Stormborn set him free.
- Grey Worm to Daenerys Targaryen
I have no plans for Grey Worm's race or personal history to become important at this time, though I do reserve the right to change my mind. Sometimes the muse plays strange tricks on me.
The grey 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 Har.
The grey plague, also known as the grey death, is a virulent disease that fatally turns its victims' flesh to stone.
Grey plague hit the city of Oldtown when Grand Maester Pycelle was young. It wiped out half the city and three-quarters of the Citadel during its run. To prevent its spread, Lord Quenton Hightower ordered the gates barred, all the ships in harbor burned, and anyone trying to leave killed. These orders made him extremely unpopular, but the measures were successful. The day he rescinded the orders, after the plague had burnt itself out, Quenton and his young son were pulled from their horses and had their throats slit by the survivors.
Some years prior to *A Game of Thrones, grey plague came to the city of Pentos when the *Treasure, a Braavosi trading galley, landed there on her way back from the Jade Sea. The Pentoshi slew the ship's oarsmen as they came ashore and burned the ship at anchor, but the rats crept down the oars and paddled to the quay on cold stone feet. The plague killed over two thousand people in the city before it ran its course, including Serra, the wife of Magister Illyrio Mopatis.
Yi Ti is reportedly suffering from a breakout of grey plague.
Greycap is a poison. It is made from toadstool.
Tyrion Lannister sees powdered greycap in Grand Maester Pycelle's collection of medicines and poisons.
During Tyrion Lannister's trial for the death of King Joffrey Baratheon, Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole a sample of greycap as well as other drugs from Pycelle's collection.
Greydon Gardener was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. He attempted an invasion of Dorne, but was thrown back by Nymeria.
Greydon Goodbrother is the eldest son of Lord Gorold Goodbrother heir to Hammerhorn.
Greydon is tall. Because they are identical triplets, it is very hard to tell him apart from his brothers, Gran and Gormond.
Greydon is sent by his father, Lord Gorold Goodbrother, to their cousins at Downdelving, Crow Spike Keep, and Corpse Lake, to inform them of King Balon's death.
Greyguard
The North and the location of Greyguard
Greyguard is a castle along the Wall abandoned by the Night's Watch. It has largely collapsed..
Lord Commander Jeor Mormont plans to re-garrison the castle with men from the Shadow Tower, but on the advice of Qhorin Halfhand, they choose Stonedoor over it, due to Greyguard's dire straits.
The party of wildlings that Jon Snow attaches himself to descends from the Wall at Greyguard.
Prior to their assaults on Castle Black and the Wall, wildlings hack at the gates of Greyguard.
Lord Commander Jon Snow decides to re-garrison Greyguard with thirty men - ten from Castle Black, ten from the Shadow Tower and ten from King Stannis Baratheon - under the command of Janos Slynt. Slynt refuses to follow Jon's orders, the second time publicly, which leads Jon to execute him.
Jon later considers Ser Alliser Thorne as Janos Slynt's replacement, but he instead orders Greyguard to be re-garrisoned with a grizzled steward from the Shadow Tower in command.
Greyhound is a trading ship whose twin is *Quicksilver*. Their captains are brothers.
At the port of Qarth the brother captains invite Daenerys Targaryen aboard *Quicksilver* to share Arbor red. Their price to book passage on Quicksilver or Greyhound is too high for her, however.
Greyjoy's Rebellion on the Iron Throne.
Quellon Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, desired to strengthen the ties of the Iron Islands with the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, but he died in battle at the Mander near the end of Robert's Rebellion. His successor and eldest son, Lord Balon Greyjoy, rejected Quellon's reforms and desired independence for the ironborn. Over five years Balon constructed a new fleet of one hundred war galleys, the Iron Fleet.
In 289 AC, six years after Robert I Baratheon overthrew House Targaryen, Balon proclaimed himself King of the Iron Islands and led a rebellion against the Iron Throne. He was crowned beneath Nagga's ribs, by the priest Tarle the Thrice-Drowned with a driftwood crown.,
He (Balon) believed that Robert, as a usurper, might not have the strong support of the other lords the way that a Targaryen king would have. He also thought he could defeat Robert at sea.
Hoping to control the Sunset Sea, Balon began his rebellion with the burning of the Lannister fleet at anchor, a surprise attack on Lannisport in the westerlands planned by his brother Euron and led by another brother, Victarion, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet.
The victory at Lannisport gave King Balon freedom to launch an attack against Seagard in the riverlands by Rodrik, his eldest son. Rodrik was slain by Lord Jason Mallister during the storming of Seagard, however, and his reavers were thrown back into Ironman's Bay in defeat.
Germund Botley claimed a gilded breastplate from a Lannister captain,
Balon Greyjoy kneels before King Robert I Baratheon and Ned Stark.
Robert used superior numbers and resources to crush the rebellion. His brother Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and the master of ships, joined the royal fleet with the Redwyne fleet from the Arbor and ships from Oldtown. They caught and smashed Victarion's Iron Fleet in the Straits of Fair Isle. The husband of Gwynesse Harlaw was killed in this sea battle off Fair Isle,
Robert was supported by Eddard Stark, his Warden of the North, and Tywin Lannister, his Warden of the West.
See also Siege of Pyke
The final battle was on the island of Pyke, led by Robert and his childhood friend, Eddard. The nearby Botley castle was destroyed, as was the town of Lordsport beneath it, before the main attack on the castle of Pyke was launched. Robert's forces assaulted the southern wall with siege engines, shattering the main watchtower and bringing parts of the surrounding wall down.
Balon, brought before Robert in chains, bent the knee and was forced to swear fealty once more to the Iron Throne. His surviving son, the nine-year-old Theon, was given into the care of Lord Stark as a hostage to ensure Balon's good behavior.
King Robert I Baratheon and Lord Eddard Stark congratulate Ser Jorah Mormont (as Thoros of Myr looks on) following Greyjoy's Rebellion. © DubuGomdori
Balon Greyjoy surrendered, his two eldest sons Rodrik and Maron were killed, and his last surviving son, Theon, was made a ward of House Stark as hostage. Robert I Baratheon's victory cemented his hold on the Iron Throne, having overthrown the Targaryens six years before. He threw a great tourney at Lannisport to celebrate his victory.
The rebellion resulted in the castle of Pyke being severely damaged and partially rebuilt. The Faith of the Seven suffered abuse in the Iron Islands at the hands of fanatics who worship the Drowned God. Baelor Blacktyde, Lord of Blacktyde, was a child when his father died in the war. As a result he was taken away to Oldtown as a hostage following the end of the rebellion. He returned eight years later as a follower of the Seven.
Balon: You may take my head, but you cannot name me traitor. No Greyjoy ever swore fealty to a Baratheon.
Robert: Swear one now or lose that stubborn head of yours.
- Balon Greyjoy and Robert I Baratheon
Robert should have scoured the isles after Balon Greyjoy rose against him ... He smashed their fleet, burned their towns and broke their castles, but when he had them on their knees, he let them up again. He should have made another island of their skulls.
- thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Jon Connington, contemplating his greyscale.
© Fantasy Flight Games
The legacy of Shireen Baratheon's bout with greyscale.
© Fantasy Flight Games
Greyscale is a disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stone-like to the touch.
Greyscale generally affects children, especially in cold damp climates. The afflicted flesh stiffens, calcifies, and cracks. The victims are disfigured, but also rendered immune to the rarer fatal form known as grey plague.
The mortal form of greyscale begins by affecting the extremities, noticeable only by a blackened fingertip or loss of sensation. As numbness creeps up a person's arms or legs, the flesh stiffens and grows cold, and the victim's skin will turn grey, resembling stone.
If a person has been exposed to greyscale, they can prick each of their toes and fingers every day with a knife to check for infection. So long as the pricks hurt, they are safe. It is only when they cannot feel the blade that they will have cause to fear that they have contracted greyscale.
Maesters say greyscale's progress can be stayed by limes, mustard poultices, and scalding-hot baths. Septons insist that prayer, sacrifice, and fasting are the cure. It is also colloquially believed that severing any affected appendages may stop the disease from spreading, but this treatment is not always effective.
Some say that washing a person with vinegar helps prevent greyscale from spreading. Haldon is inclined to doubt the vinegar wash, but he sees no harm in trying it.
The Rhoynar Prince Garin the Great went to war against Volantis and Valyria in the Second Spice War. He was captured in battle, and hung in a cage at Chroyane to see the enslavement of his people. The prince called down a curse upon the conquerors, entreating Mother Rhoyne to avenge her children, and that night the Rhoyne flooded out of season and a thick fog fell upon the river, and the Valyrian conquerors began to die of greyscale. To this day, the Sorrows is known for its foul fogs and waters, and the ruins of Chroyane are haunted by stone men, people suffering from the later stages of greyscale.
Under the Bridge of Dream in the Sorrows, the crew of the *Shy Maid* are attacked by stone men. Tyrion Lannister falls into the Rhoyne, but Jon Connington manages to pull him out, saving his life.
At the Wall, Val becomes wary of Shireen Baratheon because of her greyscale scars. Val tells Jon Snow that the child is not clean and should be killed, and that she would have given Shireen the gift of mercy long ago. She says that the free folk believe the disease never truly goes away in survivors, and insists that Gilly's son and his wet nurses not live in the same tower as Shireen.
Death had lost its terror for Tyrion Lannister, but greyscale was another matter.
He had heard it said that there were three good cures for greyscale: axe and sword and cleaver. Hacking off afflicted parts did sometimes stop the spread of the disease, Tyrion knew, but not always. Many a man had sacrificed one arm or foot, only to find the other going grey. Once that happened, hope was gone.
He dare not let the greyscale become known. Queer as it seemed, men who would cheerfully face battle and risk death to rescue a companion would abandon that same companion in a heartbeat if he were known to have greyscale.
The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!
Greyshield
The Reach and the location of Greyshield
Greyshield is one of the Shield Islands in the Reach. The westernmost of the isles, it lies near the mouth of the river Mander. It is the site of Grimston, the seat of House Grimm.
Torgon Greyiron used Greyshield as a stronghold when he raided along the Mander.
The island of Greyshield is taken by Ser Harras Harlaw during the Battle of the Shield Islands. King Euron Greyjoy names Harras the new Lord of Greyshield.
Greyskin was the wolf that was bonded first to Haggon and then to Varamyr.
Bonded by Haggon, he and Greyskin had been partners for a long time. When Haggon was near death he intended for Greyskin to be his 'second life'. However, the resentful Varamyr, who Haggon had trained, took Greyskin and prevented Haggon from ever having his second life. As Greyskin was old too, he did not long outlive his old master after Varamyr took him.
Greywater Watch, also known as Greywater, is the seat of House Reed in the North. It is roughly located in an eastern headwater of the Green Fork
Ironborn and Andal warriors, including Freys, have attempted to conquer Greywater, but none have been able to find it. Many of the invaders rode into bogs and sank because of their armor.
Robb Stark sends word to Lord Howland Reed at Greywater to have the crannogmen defend the Neck if Lord Tywin Lannister marches up the causeway.
Meera and Jojen Reed travel from Greywater to Winterfell to meet Bran Stark.
Their houses move, even the castles like Greywater Watch.
Greywater fever is a disease..
Jojen Reed tells Bran Stark he nearly died of greywater fever duirng his childhood. While he was near death, he was visited in dreams by a three-eyed crow that gave himthe gift of greendreams.
The sigil of House Connington depicts countercharged griffins.
Griffins are terrifying are majestic creatures with lion and eagle features.
According to legends from the Vale of Arryn, the Winged Knight defeated the Griffin King atop the Giant's Lance.
Stone sentries outside of the shop of Tobho Mott in King's Landing are decorated as griffin and unicorn knights.
House Connington of Griffin's Roost has dancing griffins on their sigil,
During the tourney on King Joffrey's name day, Ser Horas Redwyne defeats an older knight whose steed is decorated with with silver griffins against a striped blue-and-white field.
Griffin's Roost. © FFG
Griffin's Roost is the seat of House Connington in the Stormlands. It is a castle located between Storm's End and Crow's Nest in northwestern Cape Wrath., the Knight of Griffin's Roost.
During Robert's Rebellion, Lord Jon Connington was raised to the position of Hand of the King to Aerys II Targaryen. After his failure at the Battle of the Bells, Jon was stripped of his titles and sent into exile. Griffin's Roost and the lordship that went with it passed to Jon's cousin and castellan, Ser Ronald Connington. When Robert Baratheon unseated Aerys II and claimed the throne, Ronald was demoted from lordship to be merely the Knight of Griffin's Roost. Nine-tenths of his lands were then distributed to neighboring lords who had supported Robert in his rebellion.
Small but strong, Griffin's Roost is located on a lofty crag jutting out from the shores of Cape Wrath. The castle lies surrounded by red stone cliffs on three sides, which descend into the stormy waters of Shipbreaker Bay. The land-facing approach is a long natural ridge called the griffin's throat. The entrance to the griffin's throat is guarded on one end by a gatehouse, and by the castle's main gate and two round towers on the other end.
Besides faded tapestries, Griffin's Roost is also decorated with arched windows displaying myriad diamond-shaped panes of red and white glass. The bed in the lord's chambers sits below a canopy of red and white velvet. The great hall contains the carved and gilded Griffin Seat where fifty generations of Conningtons have ruled. The east tower, the tallest of the castle's, offers a view of the surrounding countryside. The castle also contains stables, armory, barracks, and a maester's tower with a rookery. A secret stair beneath the sept's altar of the Mother leads to a bolt-hole, while another stair under the northwest tower goes to a hidden cove beneath the crag which appears when the tide is out. A well-provisioned garrison can hold the castle against 20 times as many men.
The current Knight of Griffin's Roost is Red Ronnet, the son of Ronald Connington. While Ronnet is in the Riverlands under the command of Jaime Lannister, Jon Connington leads the taking of Griffin's Roost by the Golden Company. Only four members of Ronnet's garrison survive the attack. Jon confines Ronnet's bastard son, Ronald Storm, and his siblings, Raymund and Alynne, to the west tower.
Jon holds a war council in the castle's solar with Harry Strickland, Black Balaq, Franklyn Flowers, Haldon Halfmaester, Malo Jayn, Brendel Byrne, Dick Cole, and Lymond Pease. They decide to advance on Storm's End.
Your father’s lands are beautiful.
- Rhaegar Targaryen surveying the view from the tallest tower of Griffin's Roost, to a young Jon Connington
The Griffin King is a legendary figure who lived thousands of years ago. He was the leader of the First Men of the Vale and the last of the Mountain Kings. His connection to griffins is unknown.
According to legend, Ser Artys Arryn, the Winged Knight, flew to the top of Giant's Lance on the back of a giant falcon to slay the Griffin King.
Ser Griffith Goode was a knight from House Goode, and brother to Ser Gregor Goode. They were chosen by Queen Visenya Targaryen to be one of the first knights of the Kingsguard when the order was founded in 10 AC by King Aegon I Targaryen.
Grigg the Goat is a free folk raider.
Grigg has a long blond braid.
Grigg is a part of Jarl's party that scales the Wall as part of the rear assault on Castle Black. He leads a team of four climbers to the top of the Wall. He tells Jon Snow that he hopes to visit the Isle of Faces someday.
Grimston is a castle on the island of Greyshield in the Reach and is the seat of House Grimm.
During the Battle of the Shield Islands, Grimston is reported taken by Ser Harras Harlaw, who planted his standard beneath its walls and challenged the defenders to face him in single combat. After defeating seven men, two of whom yielded, the septon declared the gods had spoken and surrendered the castle to Ser Harras.
Grimtongue is one of the crew on Asha Greyjoy's ship *Black Wind*.
Along with the rest of Asha's supporters, Grimtongue sails to Deepwood Motte as she contemplates her next move. He is captured along with Asha, Tris Botley, and several other ironborn when the castle is taken by the army of Stannis Baratheon.
Grimtongue is later freed and ransomed along with the other ironborn by Tycho Nestoris, who needs an escort to get him to Stannis whose army is marching on Winterfell.
Grindcorn Mill is a mill in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Grindcorn Mill is disputed between House Bracken and House Blackwood. Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for Grindcorn Mill for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood.
Grisel is a thin old woman and a member of House Baelish's household staff.
Grisel was Lord Petyr Baelish's wet nurse but now keeps his tower.
Grisel meets Lord Petyr on the Fingers when he comes ashore with Sansa Stark.
Grisella was a female wildling skinchanger who could inhabit the body of a goat.
She was one of the skinchangers that Varamyr met at a meeting of wargs.
Groleo is the captain of the cog *Saduleon, renamed the *Balerion.
See also: Images of Groleo
Groleo is an aging Pentoshi man.
Captain Groleo is sent by Illyrio Mopatis with three ships, including the great cog *Saduleon*, to bring Daenerys Targaryen back to Pentos. Daenerys instead renames the ships after Targaryen dragons
During the siege of Meereen Daenerys realizes she cannot take the city without siege engines, but there is no available wood because the Meereenese have burned all nearby trees. Daenerys commands Groleo to drive his ships ashore, and her Unsullied and sellswords use the wood of the ships to create siege engines, turtles and battering rams to take the city.
Groleo is made an admiral by Daenerys Targaryen, but without a fleet it is an empty title. He inspects the thirteen ships brought by Xaro Xhoan Daxos and pronounces them seaworthy.
Groleo, Daario Naharis, Jhogo, Hero and three of the kin of Hizdahr zo Loraq are given as hostages as a guarantee for the safe conduct of the Yunkish commanders who visit Meereen when a peace treaty is made between Meereen and Yunkai. Bloodbeard subsequently kills Groleo and presents the head of the captain to Hizdahr in retaliation for the death of the Yunkish commander, Yurkhaz zo Yunzak, who was killed when Drogon appeared in the fighting pits.
Ser Barristan Selmy is enraged and wishes to kill Bloodbeard. The Brazen Beasts who are in the room when the head is presented are eager to cut down the Yunkish nobles in retaliation, but are puzzled when the order is not given by Hizdahr. Barristan has Hizdahr request Groleo's body be returned so he can be decently buried. Barristan remembers Groleo had a wife, children and grandchildren and all the man wanted to do was return home to Pentos.
When Barristan, Skahaz mo Kandaq, the Unsullied and the Brazen Beasts seize control of Meereen they use the password Groleo in honor of the admiral.
Grover Tully was a Lord of Riverrun and head of House Tully during the Dance of the Dragons.
Lord Grover supported Prince Viserys Targaryen instead of Laenor Velaryon at the Great Council in 101 AC. He wanted to support King Aegon II Targaryen and the greens during the Dance of the Dragons, but he was too aged and his grandson, Ser Elmo Tully, kept the Tully banners at Riverrun. Elmo instead later supported Aegon's rival, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. Grover passed away soon after the Second Battle of Tumbleton and he was succeeded by Elmo.
Grover, his grandson Elmo, and his great-grandson Kermit are references by George R. R. Martin to The Muppets.
The Growler was a dog that was owned by the family of Varamyr Sixskins.
Varamyr, known as Lump at the time, used one of Loptail, Sniff, and the Growler to kill his younger brother, Bump. When Varamyr's father came upon Bump's body, the dogs were sniffing around it. Not knowing which one had done the act, he put all three to death. However, before Loptail died, Varamyr slipped inside his skin and felt Loptail's death. His reaction, a scream, informed Varamyr's parents that he was a warg.
Grubbs is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Grubbs is part of the great ranging which leaves Castle Black in search of the wildlings. Grubbs draws the watch the night the conspirators intend to kill Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
Grubbs remains at Craster's Keep after a mutiny, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.
Five former members of the Night's Watch wander in the haunted forest, planning to head south over the Wall. Coldhands kills them and buries their bodies, which are found by Summer, Bran Stark's direwolf. It is unknown if Grubbs is among them.
Grumkins are mythical creatures that appear in Westerosi folktales. They are associated with granting wishes, either by crafting magical objects which make wishes come true,
Adults no longer believe in grumkins and consider them imaginary beings, which the speaker implies are similarly non-existent.
Grunt is a man-at-arms sworn to House Bolton. He is one of the Bastard's Boys.
Grunt lost his tongue for speaking carelessly within earshot of Roose Bolton.
Grunt is present in the great hall of the Dreadfort when Little Walder and Big Walder Frey bring "Reek" before Ramsay Bolton, who is joined by Arnolf Karstark and Hother Umber.
Gueren is a member of the Night's Watch. He is a wandering crow, a recruiter who scours the Seven Kingdoms in search of new recruits for the Watch.
Gueren's imminent returns make Ser Alliser Thorne choose those recruits he believes are trained enough to become members of the Night's Watch to make way for the new ones that Gueren is bringing to Castle Black.
Guest right is an ancient and sacred custom in Westeros, going back thousands of years to the First Men.
The guest right is a sacred law of hospitality, especially in the north., eats the food and drinks the drink off a host's table beneath the host's roof, guest right is invoked. Bread and salt are traditional provisions.
When invoked, neither the guest nor the host can harm the other for the length of the guest's stay.
A lord with a bared sword across his knees is making a traditional sign that he is denying guest right.
It is sometimes customary for a host to give guest gifts to the departing guests when they leave the host's dwellings; this usually represents the end of the sacred guest right.
The legend of the Rat Cook of the Nightfort concerns guest right.
Maester Egbert wrote about northern violations of guest right in *Justice and Injustice in the North: Judgments of Three Stark Lords*, with only kinslaying being an equivalent crime.
Lord Lyman Lannister provided guest right to Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena Targaryen, protecting them from King Maegor I Targaryen.
During his dispute with House Webber, Ser Eustace Osgrey refused hospitality to Lady Rohanne Webber when she neared the lands of House Osgrey.
When Tyrion Lannister returns to Winterfell after the injury of Bran Stark, Robb Stark greets Tyrion with an unsheathed sword upon his knees.
Mance Rayder agrees to protect Jon as a guest when they meet beyond the Wall.
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, gifts Craster with an axe and a crossbow when the great ranging stays at Craster's Keep. The pregnant Gilly wants Jon Snow to take her away. When Jon protests that he is a guest, Gilly argues that Jon did not eat Craster's food or sleep in Craster's hall.
Craster and Jeor are murdered by members of the Night's Watch during the mutiny at Craster's Keep.
Robb and his mother Catelyn receive bread and salt when they arrive at the Twins for the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully.
Trust in guest right has declined in the riverlands in the aftermath of the Red Wedding. The brotherhood without banners hangs some outlaws and soldiers who expect safety at the crossroads inn.
Wine, cheese, bread, and salt are offered to the Lords Declarant when they come to the Eyrie, since their acceptance of the good is a recognition of guest right.
Lord Davos Seaworth is grateful to eat bread and sister's stew while at Breakwater, since it is a recognition of guest right by Lord Godric Borrell.
Lord Wyman Manderly grants palfreys as guest gifts to Jared, Rhaegar Frey, and Symond Frey when they depart White Harbor.
Despite Obara Sand's calls for vengeance, Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, refuses to harm his guest, Ser Balon Swann.
Jon Snow, now Lord Commander, accepts Alys Karstark as a guest at Castle Black and has Cregan Stark apprehended before he can request guest right.
Once I had eaten at his board I was protected by guest right. The laws of hospitality are as old as the First Men, and sacred as a heart tree … Here you are the guest, and safe from harm at my hands … this night, at least.
- Mance Rayder to Jon Snow
Jeor: The gods will curse us. There is no crime so foul as for a guest to bring murder into a man's hall. By all the laws of the hearth, we-
Dirk: There are no laws beyond the Wall, old man.
- Jeor Mormont and Dirk during the mutiny at Craster's Keep
In the north, we hold the laws of hospitality sacred still.
- Roose Bolton to Jaime Lannister
Catelyn: If we are offered refreshment when we arrive, on no account refuse. Take what is offered, and eat and drink where all can see. If nothing is offered, ask for bread and cheese and a cup of wine.
Robb: I'm more wet than hungry …
Catelyn: Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.Robb: I have an army to protect me, Mother, I don't need to trust in bread and salt. But if it pleases Lord Walder to serve me stewed crow smothered in maggots, I'll eat it and ask for a second bowl.
- Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark
Walder: Bread and salt. Heh. Of course, of course. My guests. My honored guests. Be welcome beneath my roof, and at my table.
Robb: We thank you for your hospitality, my lord.
- Walder Frey and Robb Stark
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.
- Jeyne Heddle to Brienne of Tarth
Tyrion: In the Seven Kingdoms it is considered a grave breach of hospitality to poison your guests at supper.
Illyrio: Here as well. Yet when a guest plainly wishes to end his own life, why, his host must oblige him, no?
- Tyrion Lannister and Illyrio Mopatis
I will see the dawn, at least … I have eaten of his bread and salt.
- Davos Seaworth’s thoughts after eating sister's stew with Godric Borrell
Ser Balon is a guest beneath my roof. He has eaten of my bread and salt. I will not do him harm.
- Doran Martell to the Sand Snakes
Walder Frey's fourth wife was a Blackwood, but kinship counts for no more than guest right at the Twins.
The Alchemists' Guild Hall - by Jonny Klein. © Fantasy Flight Games.
The Guildhall of the Alchemists is the center of the Alchemists' Guild. It is located at the foot of Visenya's Hill, along the Street of the Sisters in King's Landing.
The Guildhall is made of black marble, a warren of twists and turns.
Wildfire, the material that makes the Alchemists' Guild infamous, is prepared in stone cells beneath the guildhall. Above each cell is a room filled with sand. The floor below has protective enchantments placed upon it. Any fire within the cell will cause both floors to fall and the sand to drop, smothering the fire instantly.
The Gallery of the Iron Torches is the receiving area for guests. It is a long chamber, empty save for the the columns of wildfire surround black metal columns. The iron torches are rarely lit, usually save for important guests.
Tyrion Lannister tours the Guildhall as part of his inspection to make sure the preparations for the defense of King's Landing during the War of the Five Kings is coming along at the proper pace.
Gulf of Grief
Slaver's Bay and the location of the Gulf of Grief
The Gulf of Grief is a large gulf that is fed by Slaver's Bay off the southern coast of Essos and in turn empties into the Summer Sea to the south. The Isle of Cedars is located between the gulf and the bay.
Along the Gulf of Grief's western shore are the Lands of the Long Summer, the Smoking Sea, and the remnants of the Valyrian peninsula. Along its eastern shore is Ghiscar with the ruined city of Old Ghis. The Ghiscari Strait separates Ghiscar from Ghaen and the island city of New Ghis.
The *Selaesori Qhoran* is becalmed in the Gulf of Grief.
Maester Gulian is a maester of the Citadel.
Maester Gulian accompanies the force sent from King's Landing to end the siege of Riverrun. He brings four cages full of ravens with him. He remains at Harrenhal after Ser Jaime Lannister leaves for Riverrun.
Ser Gulian Qorgyle is a knight of House Qorgyle. He is the eldest child and heir of Lord Quentyn Qorgyle, Lord of Sandstone. He has a younger brother, Ser Arron.
Gulian Swann is Lord of Stonehelm and head of House Swann. He is well past forty.
Lord Gulian agrees to meet Ser Davos Seaworth but refuses to join the cause of Stannis Baratheon.
Gulian's eldest son, Ser Donnel, supports first Renly Baratheon and then Stannis. He is captured during the Battle of the Blackwater and kneels to Joffrey Baratheon.[*citation needed] Gulian's second son, Ser Balon, joins Joffrey's Kingsguard after the death of Ser Preston Greenfield.[citation needed*]
Clifford Swann is listed as Lord of Stonehelm..
Gullet
The crownlands and the location of the Gullet
The Gullet is the stretch of water in the crownlands between Dragonstone and Driftmark to the north and Massey's Hook to the south. Blackwater Bay opens into the Gullet, which connects with the narrow sea.
During the Dance of the Dragons, the Gullet was blockaded by the fleet of the Sea Snake, Lord Corlys Velaryon. The greens broke the blacks' naval superiority with the Battle in the Gullet, however.
Stannis Baratheon's fleet is scattered by a storm in the Gullet on its way from Storm's End to King's Landing.
Gulltown is the major port city of the Vale of Arryn. It is located in a fine natural harbor.
Gulltown is ruled by House Grafton and also contains a cadet branch of the Vale's rulers, House Arryn of Gulltown.
Gulltown is an important port and portal to the Vale, its sheltered harbor offering anchorage to ships traveling from King's Landing to Braavos or the north. Its strategic location means it never lacks for trade in many of the exotic goods making their way from across the narrow sea, keeping the Vale supplied even when the passes of the Mountains of the Moon are closed in winter. Gulltown has fine seamstresses.
Prior to the Andal invasion, Gulltown was a wealthy harbor town of the First Men ruled by House Shett. Because he was threatened by by King Yorwyck VI Royce of Runestone, King Osgood III Shett allied with the Andal knight Gerold Grafton. Osgood was killed in battle, however, and House Grafton replaced House Shett as the kings of Gulltown. Although a First Men rebellion had to be bloodily suppressed, Gulltown grew into the Vale's only city.
The sister of King Robar II Royce later convinced the Shetts to rebel against the Graftons, allowing Robar's men to storm the city. Like most of the Vale, however, Gulltown submitted to Artys I Arryn, King of Mountain and Vale, after the Battle of Seven Stars. The Arryns and Graftons developed Gulltown into one of the greatest cities of Westeros.
During the War Across the Water, the Starks burned hundreds of Vale ships when the Gulltown's stone walls resisted their attempt at conquest.
Gulltown's harbor was the site of a naval battle between the Targaryen and Arryn fleets during Aegon's Conquest, a draw which delayed the submission of the Vale to King Aegon I Targaryen, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Jacaerys Velaryon gained the Vale for Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks. The Maiden of the Vale, Jeyne Arryn, assembled forces at Gulltown and the Gates of the Moon. Jacaerys sent Joffrey Velaryon and Rhaena Targaryen to Gulltown for their safekeeping, although Joffrey was told he was to defend the Vale from King Aegon II Targaryen. After the fall of King's Landing, Joffrey sailed with a fleet from Gulltown to the capital.
During Robert's Rebellion, Marq Grafton gathered the royalist men of the Vale to prevent Robert Baratheon from sailing to Storm's End. Eventually, the rebels led by Lord Jon Arryn
For a few years between 283 AC and 298 AC, Petyr Baelish was in charge of customs at the port of Gulltown.
After the trial by battle of Tyrion Lannister at the Eyrie, Lady Catelyn Stark and Ser Rodrik Cassel sail from Gulltown
Conwy brings men from a lord's dungeon near Gulltown to Castle Black as recruits for the Night's Watch.
Ser Davos Seaworth is sent by Stannis Baratheon with a chest of letters to spread word of King Joffrey I Baratheon's illegitimacy. His route is to sail to Gulltown and other harbors along the narrow sea.
After speaking with Tyrion Lannister, Lord Petyr Baelish sails from King's Landing to Gulltown on his mission to sway Lady Lysa Arryn to Joffrey's cause.
Lord Lyonel Corbray marries the daughter of a rich Gulltown merchant.
The Gulltown Girl is a trade ship named after Gulltown.
Brienne of Tarth and Podrick Payne attempt to book passage on the Gulltown Girl at Maidenpool. They are refused because the master of the ship believes Brienne to be a whore and he claims his ship is no bawdy house.
Guncer Sunglass is Lord of Sweetport Sound and head of House Sunglass.
Guncer wears moonstones at his throat, wrists, and fingers.
Lord Guncer supports Stannis Baratheon's claim to the Iron Throne as his vassal. Stannis complains about Guncer's constant muttering about the will of the Seven.
After queen's men destroy the sept at Dragonstone, Guncer approaches Stannis and tells him he can no longer support his claim. Stannis has him promptly thrown in the cells beneath Dragonstone.
Lord Guncer is burned alive on the orders of Queen Selyse while Stannis Baratheon is fighting the Battle of the Blackwater.
Davos: I want no part of you, my lady. Or your god. May the Seven protect me.
Melisandre: They did not protect Guncer Sunglass. He prayed thrice each day, and bore seven seven-pointed stars upon his shield, but when R'hllor reached out his hand his prayers turned to screams, and he burned.
- Davos Seaworth and Melisandre
Gunthor is a given name in Westeros. Characters with this name include:
Gunthor, known as Gunthor son of Gurn because of his father, is a member of the Stone Crows, one of the Vale mountain clans from the Mountains of the Moon.
Gunthor is a thin man with a horned helmet.
Gunthor is one of the mountain clansmen that Tyrion Lannister and Bronn encounter in the Mountains of the Moon.
When Sandor Clegane attempts to enter the Mountains of the Moon, he is warned off by the locals, who explain that some mountain clans have become bolder after returning from King's Landing. Gunthor is mentioning as having raided a village half a year ago, killing half the men, kidnapping every woman, and stealing all the grain.
Ser Gunthor Estermont was a knight of House Estermont. The son and heir of Lord Estermont of Greenstone, Gunthor competed in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Ser Gunthor Hightower is a knight of House Hightower. He is the third son of Lord Leyton Hightower. He is married to Jeyne Fossoway.
Ser Gunthor studied at the Citadel for several years, during which time he learned to speak the Summer Tongue.
After the ironborn attack on the Reach, Ser Gunthor is given command of the harbor at Oldtown and told to prepare its defenses. The *Cinnamon Wind* is inspected a second time in the harbor of Oldtown. The second inspection is done by Gunthor himself.
Gurn is the father of Gunthor son of Gurn, a member of the Stone Crows in the Mountains of the Moon. It is unknown if Gurn is still alive.
Lord Guthor Grimm is the Lord of Greyshield in the Shield Islands.
Following the taking of the Shields, Queen Margaery Tyrell reports to the small council that Lord Gunthor Grimm is being held captive by the ironborn in his own castle.
Ser Guy Lothston, known as Guy the Glutton, was a knight of House Lothston during the final days of Aenys I Targaryen and the coronation of Maegor I Targaryen. He was hugely fat.
Ser Guy was present at Visenya's Hill when Maegor was challenged by Ser Damon Morrigen, Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons, to a trial of seven. He kept quiet when Maegor called upon those who would stand beside him but was shamed by the example of Dick Bean, a simple man-at-arms, and the appeal of Ser Bernarr Brune and became one of the king's champions.
According to one chronicler, when he was cut open during the fight, the remains of forty half-digested pies spilled out of his belly.
Ser Guyard Morrigen, also known as Guyard the Green, is a knight of House Morrigen of the Stormlands. He was named to King Renly's Rainbow Guard.
Guyard is part of Renly Baratheon's army encamped beneath Bitterbridge, and a member of the Rainbow Guard, Renly's equivalent of the Kingsguard.
After Renly's death, Guyard goes over to Stannis. He is present beneath the walls of Storm's End for the parley with Cortnay Penrose.
Gwayne is a Westerosi given name. It can refer to:
Ser Gwayne Corbray was a knight of House Corbray and member of the Kingsguard during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen. He wielded the Valyrian steel sword Lady Forlorn.
Ser Gwayne fought during the First Blackfyre Rebellion, at the battle of the Redgrass Field in Lord Arryn's van. He dueled with Daemon I Blackfyre for nearly an hour before being defeated. The duel was considered a sight to behold, partly because of the clashing of two Valyrian steel swords against each other. Severely injured from the duel, Daemon ordered Redtusk to bring Ser Gwayne to the rear to see to his wounds.
Jaime Lannister notes Gwayne's entry in the White Book.
Ser Gwayne Gaunt was a knight of House Gaunt and member of King Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard.
In 277 AC, when King Aerys II Targaryen accepted the invitation of Lord Denys Darklyn and traveled to Duskendale, Ser Gwayne accompanied him as part of the king's small escort. Upon arrival, however, the king was taken captive, and Ser Gwayne was slain by Ser Symon Hollard, the master-at-arms to Lord Denys, in an attempt to defend his king. His death was later avenged by his sworn brother, Ser Barristan Selmy.
Ser Gwayne Hightower was a knight from House Hightower. He was the youngest son of Ser Otto Hightower and the younger brother of Alicent Hightower, who became the second wife of King Viserys I Targaryen.
Gwayne was unhorsed by Ser Criston Cole during a tourney in 111 AC.
Gwayne served as second in command of the City Watch of King's Landing. When King's Landing was conquered in 130 AC during the Dance of the Dragons, he was slain by his own commander, Ser Luthor Largent.
Gwayne III Gardener, called the Fat, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. He persuaded Lord Peake and Lord Manderly to accept his judgement on their quarrel and do fealty for their lands without any bloodshed.
Gwayne IV Gardener, called the Gods-fearing, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. Generations before the Andals arrived in the Reach, he sent out his warriors in search for the Children of the Forest in the hope that their greenseers and magic could halt the invaders.
Gwayne I Gardener, called the Gallant, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener.
Ser Gwayne Oakheart was a knight of House Oakheart during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Gwayne participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Gwayne V Gardener was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. Along with his grandfather and father, he is remembered as one of the Three Sage Kings who dealt with the Andal invasion of the Reach with a policy of accord and assimilation rather then armed resistance.
Whereas his father converted to the Faith of the Seven, Gwayne V was the first Gardener born into the new Faith, as well as the first to be made a knight.
Gwayne V bequeathed lands and wives and lordships for the more powerful of the Andal kings and other Andal adventurers descending on the Reach in exchange for pledges of fealty.
Of the Andals Gwayne V famously said: *"They gave us seven gods, we gave them dirt and daughters, and our sons and grandsons shall be as brothers."*
Gwenys Rivers was the second of the three bastard children of King Aegon IV Targaryen and his sixth mistress, Lady Melissa Blackwood.
Melissa Blackwood "reigned" for five years as the mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen, during which she gave birth to three children: Mya, Gwenys, and Brynden. Aegon's bastards born of noblewomen were legitimized as Great Bastards on the king's deathbed.
Gwin Goodbrother is one of the twelve daughters of Lord Gorold Goodbrother.
Gwin is present when Aeron Greyjoy arrived at Hammerhorn. Her father sends her away when he wants to talk to the Damphair.
Lady Gwynesse Harlaw is the sister of Lord Rodrik Harlaw. She is seven years older.
Gwynesse's husband died during the Battle of Fair Isle during the Greyjoy Rebellion in 289 AC.
Gwynesse continues to mourn her husband as deeply as she did when he died, although she has grown forgetful and cannot always recall his name.
Gwyneth Yronwood is the youngest daughter of Lord Anders Yronwood.
At twelve years old, she is a small, scrawny girl whose dark eyes and brown hair set her apart in a house of blue-eyed blondes. She is clever and as quick with words as with her hands. While he was at Yronwood Gwyneth was fond of telling Prince Quentyn Martell that he had to wait for her to flower, so she could marry him.
I want to go back to Yronwood and kiss both of your sisters, marry Gwyneth Yronwood, watch her flower into beauty, have a child by her.
- Quentyn Martell's thoughts in Meereen
Gylbert Farman was a member of House Farman that led the smallfolk of Fair Isle in an uprising to expel the ironborn from their island.
Lord Gylbert Farwynd is Lord of the Lonely Light and head of House Farwynd of the Lonely Light.
He is tall and spare with a clean-shaven lantern jaw and eyes of changing colors.
During the kingsmoot, Gylbert puts his name forth for King of the Iron Islands, supported by three champions who are his sons. He promises to lead the ironborn to a land without winter beyond the Sunset Sea where death holds no sway and every man will be a king and his wife a queen. His gifts of whalebone and bronze-banded warhorns are considered poor and left for lesser men. His claim is dismissed quickly, with not even all of the Farwynds supporting him.
Gyldayn was an archmaester of the Citadel. He was the last maester to serve at Summerhall before it burned down.
Gyldayn also wrote a long but incomplete history of House Targaryen. He sent his papers to Archmaester Gerold at the Citadel, likely for for his commentary and approval, where they remained until they were recently discovered by Maester Yandel. Yandel has used Gyldayn's work as a major source for his book *The World of Ice and Fire*, including a complete history of Aegon's Conquest.
Yandel has discovered other manuscripts by Gyldayn, but many pages have been misplaced or destroyed, and still others have been damaged by neglect and by fire. Still, Yandel believes that more pages will be found one day, and Gyldayn's lost masterwork will be published, as the maesters of the Citadel are greatly excited by what has been discovered so far.
Who can know the heart of a dragon?
– Archmaester Gyldayn
In real-world book *The World of Ice & Fire*, anything attributed to Gyldayn was directly written by George R.R. Martin, in the same way that Yandel's words were written by Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson.
Gyleno Dothare is a patron of the Happy Port. He has a brother, Gyloro Dothare.
Gyleno teaches Arya Stark the best places to catch eels in Braavos.
Ser Gyles, better known as Gyles Greycloak, was a former member of the Kingsguard.
Ser Gyles is famously considered a turncloak.
Ser Gyles Belgrave was a knight of House Belgrave and a member of Aegon II Targaryen's Kingsguard.
During the Hour of the Wolf, he was accused of treason after the poisoning of King Aegon II and chose death instead of taking the black, saying he did not want to outlive his king. He was executed by Lord Cregan Stark.
Gyles Farwynd is the son of Lord Gylbert Farwynd. He resembles his father.
Gyles was one of his father's champions at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk.
Gyles Grafton is a member of House Grafton and is the youngest son of Lord Gerold Grafton.
Petyr Baelish asks Lord Grafton to send him one of his sons to ward. Gerold sends Gyles, who becomes Lord Robert Arryn's squire. On the day of the descent to the Gates of the Moon, Gyles is ordered to clean up the contents of the chamberpot that Robert had thrown at Maester Colemon.
Gyles III Gardener was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. During his rule Highgarden reached the apex of its power.
Leading a glittering host of armored knights, Gyles went to war against the aged Storm King in the east, smashed the armies of the stormlanders, and conquered all the lands north of the Rainwood save for Storm's End, which he besieged for two years without result.
House Osgrey were the Marshalls of the Northmarch at the time and Ser Wilbert Osgrey called up the reserve levies and marched to stop King Lancel. During the battle between the two forces, Ser Wilbert met the King of the Rock and was able to slay him at the cost of his own life, stopping the attack in its tracks. The westerland army collapsed and the Reach was saved.
A new broader war followed, involving three Dornish kings and two from the Riverlands, and ended with Gyles III dead of a bloody flux and the borders between realms restored to more or less what they had been before hostilities began.
Gyles II Gardener was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. He was taken captive in a naval battle near the Misty Islands and tortured to death by Joron I Blacktyde, an ironborn High King of the Iron Islands. Gyles corpse was then cut into small pieces to bait his captor's fishhooks with "a chunk of king".
Gyles I Gardener, called the Woe, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener.
Gyles Rosby is the Lord of Rosby and head of House Rosby. He is sickly and coughs constantly.
He has been married at least twice but remains childless.
Lord Gyles remains at court in King's Landing when fighting in the riverlands breaks out.
Lord Gyles attends the tourney on King Joffrey's name day.
Lord Gyles survives the attack by the mob on the procession returning to the castle after seeing Princess Myrcella Baratheon off to Dorne.
During the battle of the Blackwater, Gyles stays in Maegor's Holdfast with Cersei and the other noble ladies.
Gyles is an attendant at the wedding of Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister. Lord Gyles accompanies Tyrion when he is sent to meet the delegation from Dorne. Gyles is called as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Tyrion for the death of King Joffrey I Baratheon. He tells of how he saw Tyrion fill the wedding chalice.
After the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister, Gyles tells Queen Regent Cersei he has commissioned a statue of Lord Tywin to be placed by the Lion Gate in King's Landing. Rosby's coughing has gotten much worse and he is beginning to cough up blood. Cersei learns that Tywin had named Garth Tyrell to become the new master of coin and, in order to prevent another Tyrell from joining the council, she lies to Lord Mace Tyrell, telling him she has already named Lord Gyles as the new master of coin to the small council instead.
Upon assuming the duties of the master of coin, Gyles has to deal with many of the crown's debt problems and an angry envoy from the Iron Bank of Braavos, who is irate when he learns that the king would suspend all payments on the loans from the Iron Bank until the War of the Five Kings is over. The envoy hounds Gyles so much that he takes to his bed coughing up blood.
Gylo Rhegan is the commander of the Long Lances.
Gylo looks "more shoemaker than soldier" to Daenerys Targaryen. She notes that the man speaks in murmurs, and makes little noise.
Rhegan accepted Yunkai's contract and was present at the sieges of Astapor and later Meereen. Daenerys secretly sends Ser Barristan Selmy to try and persuade Rhegan to turn his cloak and bring the Long Lances over to her.
Gyloro Dothare is a patron of the Happy Port. He has a brother, Gyleno Dothare.
Gyloro teaches Arya Stark filthy songs.
Gynir, also known as Gynir Rednose and simply Rednose, is an ironborn raider.
Gynir Rednose is among the ironborn that raid the Stony Shore. He is part of Theon Greyjoy's force that captures Winterfell. When Bran and Rickon Stark disappear, he is part of Theon's search party.
As more men turn up mysteriously dead in Winterfell Theon Greyjoy thinks to himself that it all seems so familiar, like a mummer show that he had seen before. Except this time the mummers have changed, Roose Bolton is playing the part that Theon once played and the dead mean are playing the parts of Aggar, Gynir Rednose, and Gelmarr the Grim.
Gysella Goodbrother is one of the twelve daughters of Lord Gorold Goodbrother.
Gysella is present when Aeron Greyjoy arrives at Hammerhorn. Her father sends her away when he wants to talk to the Damphair.
Haegon I Blackfyre was the fourth son of Daemon I Blackfyre. He was the heir to his older brother, Daemon II Blackfyre.
After the battle of the Redgrass Field and the failure of the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Haegon was taken to Tyrosh by his uncle, Bittersteel.
Haereg was an archmaester who wrote the exhaustive *History of the Ironborn*.
Haereg suggested that the ancestors of the ironborn were not First Men, but instead a race of unknown origin from beyond the Sunset Sea who created the Seastone Chair. He ultimately rejected the idea for lack of evidence, however.
Lord Rodrik Harlaw reads Haereg's book before departing for the kingsmoot to get background information on the subject. Haereg believes it has been four thousand years since the last kingsmoot, whereas Maester Denestan believes it is two thousand.
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
Hag's Mire is a village in the Riverlands. It is the seat of House Nayland, a knightly house sworn to House Frey. Chett hails from the village.
With the fords of the Blue Fork overflowing and the bridges at Fairmarket and Oldstones washed away, King Robb Stark's 3,500 men are forced to ride through Hag's Mire and Sevenstreams on their way from Riverrun to the Twins. Robb explains his plan to retake Moat Cailin from the ironborn to Catelyn and Edmure Tully, Jason Mallister, Greatjon Umber, Galbart Glover, and Maege Mormont. The attendees are also witnesses to Robb's will.
Black Walder Frey leads a group of men and dogs into the mire chasing after a band of outlaws who may have had some involvement in the lynchings of Merrett and Petyr Frey.
The Hag’s Teeth is a pirate ship of Lady Korra, a female pirate on Dagger Lake. It is crewed by beautiful young maids who geld every man they capture.
Archmaester Hagedorn is an Archmaester of the Citadel. He has put forth the theory that the centaurs that, according to ancient tales, inhabited the eastern grasslands of Central Essos were no more than mounted warriors as perceived by tribes who had not yet learned to tame and ride horses. His views are widely accepted at the Citadel despite purported "centaur skeletons" that occasionally appear in grotesqueries.
Hagen, known as Hagen the Horn, is one of the ironborn. He, along with his daughter, is one of the crew on Asha Greyjoy's ship, *Black Wind*.
Hagen, along with the rest of Asha's supporters, sails to Deepwood Motte with Asha as she contemplates her next move. He is killed during the retaking of Deepwood Motte by the army of Stannis Baratheon.
Hagen's daughter is the ironborn daughter of Hagen the Horn. She, along with her father, is one of the crew on Asha Greyjoy's ship *Black Wind*. Hagen's daughter steers a ship as well as any man. Her given name is unknown.
She has long red hair, and is beautiful.
Hagen's daughter, along with the rest of Asha Greyjoy's supporters, sails to Deepwood Motte with Asha as she contemplates her next move. When talking with Tristifer Botley, Asha tells Tris that Hagen's daughter looks at him, but he tells Asha that he does not want Hagen's daughter.
Fleeing from Deepwood Motte through the wolfswood back to the ships in the Bay of Ice, Asha and her men rest and wait for sunrise. During the respite Hagen's daughter seizes Tristifer by the hand and attempts to draw him off into the trees for an amorous encounter. When Tris refuses her, she goes off with Six-Toed Harl instead.
The northmen soon catch up to the ironmen, and a bloody, confusing battle ensues. In the thick of the fighting, Asha sees Hagen's daughter burst naked from beneath the trees with two northmen at her heels. Asha takes one of the men down with her axe, while the daughter slays the second man with the sword of the first.
Hagen's daughter stumbled to her knees, snatched up his sword, stabbed the second man, and then rose again, smeared with blood and mud, her long red hair unbound, and plunged into the fight.
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Haggo is a bloodrider to Khal Drogo. He is a large man.
As a wedding gift to the newly-wed Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo, Haggo gives them a large leather whip with a silver handle.
When Daenerys intends to have Mirri Maz Duur heal Drogo using magic, his bloodriders, including Haggo, intend to stop her. Rakharo and Jhogo both fight Haggo, killing him.
Haggon was a free folk skinchanger. He was known as a friend of the Night's Watch, trading with them and bringing news of life beyond the Wall. He was a mentor of Varamyr Sixskins. He was tall, grim, had hard hands and a rough voice.
Haggon instructed Varamyr Sixskins in the ways of the forest and skinchanging, after Varamyr's ability manifested itself and his father abandoned him to his own kind. Haggon raised Varamyr, teaching him the differences between the animals and which were better and how to survive. He insisted that using the warg ability to manipulate another person was an "abomination". Varamyr never had much respect for such traditions and resented Haggon's rules. When Haggon lay dying, Varamyr repaid him by killing him and then forcing him out of his wolf, Greyskin, denying him his second life.
Hagon Hoare, known as Hagon the Heartless, was a King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare.
Hagon took the throne when his elder brother, King Harmund III Hoare, was overthrown and mutilated by the Shrike and other priest. Hagon quickly expelled the Faith of the Seven from the Iron Islands. He allowed his mother, Queen Lelia Lannister, to also be mutilated by the Shrike and then sent back to her family home, Casterly Rock. Her outraged nephew, the King of the Rock, responded by invading the Iron Islands.[*citation needed*]
Ser Aubrey Crakehall, the commander of the westermen, defeated Hagon's army on Great Wyk and captured Hoare Castle in the seventh year of fighting. Before being hanged, Hagon was mutilated as Lelia had been.
Wylla Manderly dyes her hair a garish green. © Eluas
Daario Naharis dyes his hair blue. © / Steamey
Hair dye is used by characters in *A Song of Ice and Fire* to colour their hair and beards, sometimes the colours used can be quite outrageous , such as blue
Hair dye is more fashionable in the Free Cities especially amongst the Tyroshi.
In Pentos Some of their men dye, oil, and fork their beards.
Some characters dye their hair not for the sake of fashion but in order to disguise themselves. .
Septa Eglantine puts brown dye in Myrcella Baratheon’s hair when they are aboard the *Seaswift*, on the way to Braavos. She told Mycella that it was a game but Myrcella realised that it was meant to keep her safe in case the ship was taken by her uncle Stannis.
Lysa Tully tells Sansa Stark she looks too much like her mother and that in order to disguise her, her hair will have to be darkened before she is brought to the Eyrie.
Sansa Stark has to dye her hair before arriving in the Eyrie. © FFG
In the Eyrie Alayne Stone dyes her hair with a wash given to her by her aunt Lysa. The wash comes from Tyrosh, across the narrow sea. It changes her own rich auburn into a burnt brown, but it is seldom long before the red begins creeping back at the root. Alayne worries what she will do when the dye runs out.
The captain of the *Huntress* tells Samwell Tarly that ironmen captured a Tyroshi merchantman on the straits a fortnight ago. They killed her crew donned their clothes and used the dyes they found to colour their whiskers half a hundred colours meaning to sneak into Oldtown - but the oarsmaster of Lady of the Tower was able to detect this trap.
Cerise observes the Blue Bard noticing that he even dyes his hair blue.
Tyrion Lannister meets Griff and young Griff, father and son who have dyed blue hair.
In Volon Therys Prince Aegon dyes his hair a deep, dark blue which makes his purple eyes look blue as well Jon Connington notes.
Daenerys Targaryen’s paramour Daario dyes his hair back to blue to please her.
My mother was a lady of Tyrosh. I dye my hair in memory of her.
– Young Griff’s lie to Tyrion
Hairy Hal is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Hairy Hal is one of the men that Bowen Marsh leaves behind at Castle Black.
Hairy Hal stands guard duty outside of Lord Commander Jon Snow's chambers.
Hal accompanies Lord Commander Jon Snow to Mole's Town where the Night's Watch distributes food among the free folk who have surrendered to Stannis Baratheon.
The "hairy men" were one of the cultures of men established on Essos. Their actual name is lost to history, though they are still remembered in some Pentoshi histories. The Ibbenese are akin to the hairy men, though it is unknown if the hairy men settled Ib or if the hairy men originated there and then spread out to the mainland of Essos.
Hairy men were settled on western Essos, in what would become Andalos, until they were driven out by the Andals.
Hairy men akin to the Ibbenese, small and dark, also settled on Lorath but shunned the mazes of mazemakers. They, in turn, were displaced by the Andals, who invaded the Lorathi islands and slaughtered them in the name of the Seven and taking their women and children as slaves.
There are also tales of Hairy Men, describing them as a race of savage and shaggy warriors, who rode to battle on unicorns, established on the central grasslands stretching between the Forest of Qohor to the Bones and were larger in size to the Ibbenese, who may descend from them. Huzhor Amai, the mythic hero king and ancestor of the Sarnori, wore about his shoulders a great cloak made from the pelt of a king of the Hairy Men.
For the archmaester, see Hake (archmaester).
Hake is a steward of the Night's Watch. He is a cook
Hake is one of the escorts for Lord Commander Jeor Mormont when he inspects the corpses of Othor and Jafer Flowers in the haunted forest north of the Wall.
Hake taken part in the great ranging beyond the Wall.
During the ranging, Hake is in camp when wights attack. He is slain during the fight at the Fist and is turned into a wight. He is among the wights that attack Samwell Tarly and Gilly at an abandoned wildling village, who only manage to escape with the help of Coldhands.
Hake was an archmaester from Harlaw
The man who owns a boat need never be a thrall, for every captain is a king upon the deck of his own ship.
- writings of Hake
Hal the Hog is a guard on Dragonstone. He has a large belly that always shows beneath his doublet.
When Ser Davos Seaworth returns to Dragonstone after the Battle of the Blackwater, he tells the crossbowman at the gate that Hal can identify him. However, the crossbowman tells Davos that Hal has died.
Halder is a recruit of the Night's Watch. He is nicknamed Stone Head by Ser Alliser Thorne.
Halder is tall and muscular.
Sixteen years old in 298 AC, Halder is the son of a quarryman and apprenticed as a stonemason.
Halder is in the same class of recruits as Jon Snow, where his ability to fight with a sword is dismissed with disdain by Jon.
Halder is named to the builders after Alliser believes him ready to man the Wall.
Before Grenn leaves with the great ranging, Halder and Pypar bring him to Mole's Town.
When Jon becomes distracted while training with Iron Emmett, Halder and Horse protect Emmett from Jon. Halder congratulates Jon after he is chosen as the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Halder is still stationed at Castle Black.
Halder is one of the friends present in the new common hall who try to invite Lord Commander Snow to sit with them, to no avail. Jon later decides to separate his friends and transfers Halder west to the Shadow Tower.
It's the builders for me. What use would rangers be if the Wall fell down?
- Halder to Matthar
Haldon, called Haldon Halfmaester, is a healer and the tutor for Young Griff.
See also: Images of Haldon
Haldon is clean-shaven with a lined, ascetic face, and wears his hair pulled back and tied in a knot behind his head. He has cool grey eyes. He studied at the Citadel but did not earn enough links to become a maester.
Haldon has the largest cabin on the *Shy Maid. Its walls are lined with bookshelves and has bins for old parchments and scrolls and racks of ointments, herbs and potions. It is furnished with a bunk, writing desk, chair, stool, and *cyvasse table.
Haldon meets Illyrio Mopatis's litter and escorts Tyrion Lannister to meet up with the rest of the party as they set sail to Volantis. Soon after meeting Haldon Tyrion realizes that he would do well to be careful around him.
During the journey on the river Rhoyne, Haldon plays *cyvasse* with Tyrion, who suggests that they play for secrets; Haldon is confident he will win. They play for three hours
After an attack by the stone men, Haldon checks Tyrion for greyscale by sticking a knife into Tyrion's toes and fingers. Griff sends him to Selhorys to investigate rumors that Yandry and Ysilla heard there, taking Tyrion with him. He lets Tyrion go to the whorehouse where Ser Jorah Mormont surprises Tyrion and takes him prisoner.
Haldon goes to Griffin's Roost with Griff, who is actually Jon Connington, and assumes the duties of the castle maester, as the previous maester was killed in the taking of the castle. He relays what he learns of the castle's letters to Jon.
A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands.
- Haldon to Tyrion Lannister
The dead do not rise.
- Haldon to the crew of the *Shy Maid'*
The Lannisters make enemies easily but have a harder time keeping friends.
- Haldon to Jon Connington
The half-blind garron is a shaggy grey horse stabled by the Night's Watch at Castle Black. Apart from one blind, white eye he is sound.
Castle Black provides the horse to Val when she leaves on her mission to find Tormund Giantsbane. When Jon Snow goes to see Val off he sees the shaggy garron and is incredulous that Val has been given a horse that is blind, but Mully remarks that he is only half-blind and sound enough.
Val herself is unconcerned that the horse is half blind, telling Jon that she knows where she must go. After Val and her escort pass underneath the Wall Jon Snow bids goodbye to her. She then mounts the garron and wheels him towards the north.
At Alys Karstark and Sigorn's wedding feast a horn is sounded twice, announcing wildlings. Jon knows that Val has succeeded in her mission, and that Tormund Giantsbane has come at last. There is no mention of the fate of the half-blind garron.
You have my thanks, Lord Snow. For the half-blind horse, the salt cod, the free air. For hope.
Hali is short, with a broad, flat face, and yellow hair.
Hali is traveling with Osha, Stiv and Wallen, two deserters of the Night's Watch, and two other, unnamed men. When they encounter Bran Stark in the Wolfswood, Hali insists Bran give them his horse, and later suggests killing Bran, which is protested by Osha. Hali mocks Robb Stark when he arrives on the scene, and is attacked by Summer in the fighting that ensues. She is bit in her calf. She manages to free herself from the direwolf for a second, but when she stumbles and falls, the direwolf slams her backwards and tears at her belly, killing her.
You’re as stupid as you are ugly, Hali.
– Osha
The Hall of a Thousand Thrones is the seat of government in Qarth. The Pureborn rule from this place.
The Pureborn are enthroned on great wooden chairs of their ancestors, which rise in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanquished glory. The unique chairs are immense, fantastically carved, bright with gold work, and studded with amber, onyx, lapis, and jade. Each Pureborn wants his chair to be the most fabulous.
While residing in Xaro Xhoan Daxos's palace in Qarth, Daenerys Targaryen seeks an audience with the Pureborn to plead with them for usage of their galleys and soldiers. To open the doors of the Pureborn, she tenders bribes in gold to Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, and Egon Emeros the Exquisite. Daenerys makes the traditional sacrifice in the Temple of Memory, offers the traditional bribe to the Keeper of the Long List, sends the traditional persimmon to the Opener of the Door, and finally receives the traditional blue silk slippers summoning her to the Hall of a Thousand Thrones.
Daenerys garbs herself in Qartheen fashion, as Xaro warns her that the Enthroned will never listen to a Dothraki. She wears flowing green samite with one breast bared, a belt of black-and-white pearls about her waist, and silvered sandals on her feet. The crowned Daenerys also wears a tight silver collar set with an enchanted amethyst. She takes Rhaegal on her shoulder. However, the men who sit in the ornate wooden seats seem so listless and world-weary that she thinks they might be asleep. Despite her attire, pleas, and flattery, the Pureborn courteously refuse Daenerys. Xaro disagrees with her refusal to weep.
Halleck is a free folk raider. He is the brother of Harma Dogshead.
Halleck joins the defense of the Wall under Lord Commander Jon Snow against the Others along with other free folk.
I don't like you, crow, but I never liked the Mance neither, no more'n my sister did. Still, we fought for him. Why not fight for you?
- Halleck to Jon Snow
Halleck Hoare was the second King of the Isles and the Rivers from House Hoare.
Halleck succeeded his father, King Harwyn Hardhand, who had conquered the riverlands from Arrec Durrandon. As king, Halleck visited the Iron Islands only three times for a total of two years. The remainder of his time was spent on mainland Westeros warring against the neighbors of the riverlands. Halleck was not as successful as his father, as he was defeated in wars against the Kingdom of the Rock and the Kingdom of the Storm. Halleck also failed three times in attacks on the Bloody Gate, the bulwark of the Kings of Mountain and Vale.
When not at war Halleck ruled from a modest tower house in Fairmarket. His son and successor, King Harren the Black, built Harrenhal as a grander seat. Another son of Halleck was Lord Commander Hoare of the Night's Watch.
Hallis Mollen, usually called Hal, is a guard at Winterfell.
Hallis is muscular and has a square brown beard.
While Lady Catelyn Stark is unconscious following the attempt on Bran Stark's life, Robb Stark names Hallis the new captain of the guards at Winterfell. He succeeds Jory Cassel, who accompanied Lord Eddard Stark to King's Landing when Ned was appointed Hand of the King by Robert I Baratheon.
Hallis accompanies Robb on visits to distant holdfasts in Catelyn's absence, making Bran in his sickbed believe that Robb spends more time now with Hallis and Theon Greyjoy than with his own brothers. He also guards Robb while he is receiving Tyrion Lannister upon Tyrion's return from the Wall.
Following the injury of Lord Eddard at the hands of House Lannister guards led by Ser Jaime Lannister, Hallis, Theon and Maester Luwin counsel Robb before he calls his bannermen.
When Bran goes on his first ride outside Winterfell since his fall, Hallis assigns several guards to accompany him and Robb, to Bran's dismay.
Robb decides to lead the army going south to hold the Neck and assist the Tullys in their fight against the Lannisters. Bran muses that Robb could have given command of the forces to Hallis, Theon or one of his bannerman, as urged by Luwin, but Robb has decided to lead the men himself, leaving Bran as acting Lord of Winterfell. When Greatjon Umber threatens Robb over a disagreement, Hallis moves to intercept him before he reaches Robb with a drawn greatsword, but Hallis is knocked down by the much larger man. Hallis carries the banner of House Stark when the forces are leaving Winterfell.
During the battle in the Whispering Wood, Hallis personally commands the guards protecting Catelyn, after asking for the honor. Catelyn notes that he has a tendency of stating the obvious when he identifies sounds used as signals as indication that the forces led by Ser Jaime Lannister are approaching. When Jaime is brought before her, he introduces him as the Kingslayer.
Hallis guards Catelyn when she goes south to meet Renly Baratheon and negotiate a possible alliance. When they approach Renly's host at Bitterbridge, Hallis notices noise that turns out to come from a melee held among Renly's men. He points this out to Catelyn, making her again aware that he has a penchant for loudly stating the obvious.
Hallis accompanies Catelyn to a parley between Renly and his brother Stannis Baratheon at Storm's End. After the parley fails, he plays dice with some Stark men, informing them about the outcome and that there is going to be a battle between Renly's and Stannis's forces at dawn. When Catelyn is asked about this by Lucas Blackwood, she confirms Hallis's words but notes by herself that her guard has a loose tongue.
After Renly has been murdered and his camp is in uproar, Hallis asks Catelyn about the upcoming battle, receiving the answer that there is not going to be one. Catelyn commands her escort to lead her and Brienne of Tarth out of the camp fast, before Renly's men start to look for the two women who were with their king when he died.
Upon their return to Riverrun, Hallis points out the Lannister men that have been hanged in their absence with their bodies dangling from the walls of the castle now. They turn out to be men who escorted Ser Cleos Frey when he returned from King's Landing with peace terms set by Tyrion Lannister; they were hanged for trying to help Ser Jaime Lannister escape. Cleos has also brought the remains of Lord Eddard Stark with him. Catelyn gives orders to transport them to Winterfell, guarded by Hallis, and to bury them in the crypt of Winterfell.
Unbeknownst to Catelyn, ironmen led by Victarion Greyjoy have already moved to take Moat Cailin and Theon Greyjoy is on his way to take Winterfell as well.
While on the way to the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully with Roslin Frey at the Twins, the force led by Robb Stark comes through Whispering Wood. Spotting some skeletons of soldiers who died in the earlier battle, Catelyn wonders what happened to her husband's remains after she sent Hallis with an honor guard north with them. She does not know whether Hallis and his men were able to reach home before the ironmen took Moat Cailin and Winterfell.
Lady Barbrey Dustin tells Theon Greyjoy that should Ned Stark's bones emerge from the Neck, the escorts will be prevented from going north of Barrowton.
Roy Dotrice as Wisdom Hallyne in *Game of Thrones*
Hallyne, also known as Hallyne the Pyromancer, is the head of the Alchemists' Guild. He is a third generation alchemist.* he is portrayed by Roy Dotrice.
See also: Images of Hallyne
Hallyne is a pallid man with soft damp hands.
Hallyne was an acolyte during the reign of King Aerys II Targaryen.[*citation needed*] He was likely unaware of the wildfire plot being planned by Rossart and the other Wisdoms, as according to Jaime Lannister the alchemists did all the work in secret and did not trust their own apprentices with the knowledge.
Hallyne is part of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister's retinue when the queen does a circuit of the walls of King's Landing.
For services rendered during the Battle of the Blackwater, Hallyne is raised to a lordship, although no lands or incomes are given along with the title.
After the funeral for Lord Tywin Lannister, Lord Hallyne promises Cersei Lannister to put a flaming hand in the sky above King's Landing.
Cersei considers Lord Hallyne as a candidate for the office of Hand of the King. Jaime Lannister tells her that Hallyne would be a terrible choice.
After Dragonstone has been captured by the Iron Throne, Hallyne presents himself to Cersei to ask her if the pyromancers might be allowed to hatch any dragon's eggs that might be found upon Dragonstone.
Wildfire is but one of the dread secrets of our ancient order.
– Hallyne, to Tyrion Lannister
The substance flows through my veins, and lives in the heart of every pyromancer. We respect its power.
– Hallyne, to Tyrion Lannister
Ser Halmon Paege is a knight and current head of House Paege.
Ser Halmon is listed as either being in the field or at his castle.
Halys Hornwood[N 1] is Lord of the Hornwood and head of House Hornwood. He is the husband of Lady Donella Manderly and the father of a trueborn heir, Daryn, and a natural son, Larence Snow.
Halys is jovial and ever-obliging.
Lord Halys goes to Winterfell when Robb Stark calls the banners. He gives gifts to Robb in hopes that he will give him leave to dam the White Knife, hunting privileges north of a ridge, and a holdfast taken from his grandfather.
Hamish the Harper is a singer.
Hamish is chosen as one of the seven singers to sing at the wedding of King Joffrey Baratheon and Lady Margaery Tyrell. He writes a new song for the wedding, called "Lord Renly's Ride", and sings "A Rose of Gold" to appease the Tyrells.
Hamish plays for Queen Margaery and her entourage once a fortnight.
Kevan Lannister reported to Cersei while she is in captivity that Hamish has died. Whether Hamish died from his trouble breathing or Qyburn's methods remains unknown.
Hammer is a drunken blacksmith and armorer in the service of the sellsword company the Second Sons. His apprentice is called Nail.
He is a freakish-looking hulk with a left arm that appears twice as thick as his right.
Hammer, along with the rest of the Second Sons, went over to the Yunkai'i when Brown Ben Plumm thought Daenerys Targaryen's cause was lost.
According to Kem, Hammer is drunk more often than not. He tells Tyrion that Brown Ben lets it go, but that one day they'd get a real armorer. He is sleeping off a drunk when Tyrion and Penny arrive at the forge to pick out some company steel after signing with the company, just as Kem had predicted. Nail is there to admit them to the wagons to choose weapons and armor. Jorah Mormont was already choosing his armor from the wagons when they arrived.
The Hammer of the Hills was an Andal king who controlled part of the eastern Vale during the Andal invasion. His given name is unknown. He died near Ironoaks fighting the army of Robar II Royce, a First Men high king.
A child of the forest calls forth the hammer of the waters
A child of the forest looks down upon men drowned by the hammer of the waters
The hammer of the waters
According to legend, the greenseers of the children of the forest used dark magic to stop the migration of the First Men to Westeros.
The hammer of the waters resulted in the shattering of the Arm of Dorne into the Stepstones and the Broken Arm, separating Westeros from Essos.
At some point, the greenseers attempted to use the hammer of the waters, working from the Children's Tower of Moat Cailin, to break the lands of Westeros in two.
Some maesters, such as Yandel, suggest that the fates of the Arm of Dorne and the Neck were not magical in nature, but were natural occurrences relating to the sinking of land and the rising of ocean waters.
Hammerhorn
The Iron Islands and the location of Hammerhorn
Hammerhorn - by Yoann Boissonnet. © FFG
Hammerhorn raiders - by Jake Murray. © FFG
Hammerhorn is the seat of the main line of House Goodbrother in the Iron Islands. The castle lies in the Hardstone Hills on Great Wyk. Its maester is Murenmure.
A large square castle, Hammerhorn has spiky iron battlements. The stones used for its construction were quarried from the cliff behind it. Below its main entrance lie the openings to the mines and caves within which toil the smallfolk in service to House Goodbrother. Hammerhorn's hall is dank and drafty.
Aeron Greyjoy stops at Hammerhorn and meets with Lord Gorold Goodbrother.
The Hand's tourney as depicted in *Game of Thrones*
The Hand's tourney.
The tournament contests of a joust, melee and archery contest. The prizes are forty thousand gold dragons for the winner of the joust, twenty thousand dragons for the runner-up of the joust, twenty thousand dragons to the winner of the melee, and ten thousand dragons to the winner of the archery contest. Lord Eddard Stark, the new Hand of the King, disapproves of the high winnings commanded by King Robert I Baratheon.
Gregor Clegane vs. Sandor Clegane
Art by Cristi Balanescu © Fantasy Flight Games
*"I am no ser," the Hound replied, but he took the victory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons.*
Art by Cristi Balanescu © Fantasy Flight Games
Thoros of Myr is victorious in the melee.
Art by Jason Engle © Fantasy Flight Games
Jory: The talk in the yard is we shall have a tourney, my lord. They say that knights will come from all over the realm to joust and feast in honor of your appointment as Hand of the King.
Eddard: Do they also say this is the last thing in the world I would have wished?
– Jory Cassel and Eddard Stark
As if the expense and trouble were not irksome enough, all and sundry insisted on salting Ned's wound by calling it "the Hand's tourney," as if he were the cause of it. And Robert honestly seemed to think he should feel honored!
– thoughts of Eddard Stark
The Hand's tourney means rich lords with fat purses.
– Marillion to Catelyn Stark
The splendor of it all took Sansa's breath away; the shining armor, the great chargers caparisoned in silver and gold, the shouts of the crowd, the banners snapping in the wind ... and the knights themselves, the knights most of all.
– thoughts of Sansa Stark
King Robert had staged it in her father's honor. High lords and fabled champions had come from all over the realm to compete, and the whole city had turned out to watch. She remembered the splendor of it: the field of pavilions along the river with a knight's shield hung before each door, the long rows of silken pennants waving in the wind, the gleam of sunlight on bright steel and gilded spurs. The days had rung to the sounds of trumpets and pounding hooves, and the nights had been full of feasts and song. Those had been the most magical days of her life, but they seemed a memory from another age now.
– thoughts of Sansa Stark