According to these theories the Brotherhood without Banners may be planning a large assault on the Freys and Lannisters.
The Brothers Brune were champions of House Brune remembered for bringing peace to Crackclaw Point, though it did not survive them long.
Brown Bernarr is a ranger of the Night's Watch. He knows some herblore
Brown Bernarr is part of the great ranging beyond the Wall, that sets out from Castle Black. He is one of the chosen few who sleep within Craster's Keep.
Brown Bernarr is charged with carrying the medicinal supplies from Maester Aemon during the ranging. He is killed during the fight at the Fist, however.
Brownhollow is the seat of House Brune of Brownhollow in the Crackclaw Point area of the Crownlands.
Brownleg is a disease common in Sothoryos.
During the Siege of Meereen, there are reports of brownleg among the freedmen followers of Daenerys Targaryen.
Brude was an archmaester of the Citadel.
Brude was born in the shadow city of Sunspear. He famously observed that Dorne has more in common with the north than the rest of the Seven Kingdoms lying between them. Both regions are thinly peopled and cling stubbornly to their laws and traditions, and neither was actually conquered by House Targaryen. In addition, Brude observed that Dorne and the north are derided as 'savages' by the other five 'civilized' kingdoms..
Ser Brus Buckler is a member of House Buckler in the service of King Stannis Baratheon. He is one of the queen's men. He is the cousin of Lord Ralph Buckler, Lord of Bronzegate.
Brus stays with Queen Selyse at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, when Stannis goes to retake Deepwood Motte. When Selyse leaves Eastwatch to go to the Nightfort, he accompanies her to Castle Black.
Brusco is a fishmonger from Braavos.
Arya Stark is sent to work for Brusco the fishmonger who sells his stock below the wharves of the Drowned Town. She is sent to him to learn the Braavosi tongue.
Arya Stark returns to work for Brusco, after having been training at the House of Black and White, as if she had never been away in order to carry out an assassination.
The brute is how Victarion Greyjoy refers to a thrall and oarsman in the Iron Fleet. He has been rowing for twenty years
He's big and bald.[*citation needed*]
The brute is one of the oarsmen in the *Sparrowhawk*. He's one of the three thralls that Victarion recruits to blow Dragonbinder. He's promised to be made free and get a wife, land, a ship and thralls of his own if he survives.
Ser Bryan Fossoway is a knight from House Fossoway of Cider Hall.
Ser Bryan supports Renly Baratheon at the start of the War of the Five Kings but goes over to Stannis Baratheon after Renly's death at Storm's End. Ser Cortnay Penrose acknowledges Bryan during the parley beneath the walls of Storm's End when Stannis demands the surrender of the castle.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Lothor Brune cuts his way through Fossoway men-at-arms to kill Bryan and Ser Edwyd Fossoway.
Bryan Frey is the youngest son of Walton Frey and Deana Hardyng. He is a squire.
Bryan of Oldtown was a merchant-adventurer who once journeyed through the Shivering Sea. Hailing from Oldtown in the Reach, he was captain of the cog *Spearshaker*. He reported that the Dothraki language name for the lost race that inhabited the Kingdom of the Ifequevron means "those who walk in the woods". He also reported that the Ibbenese he met claimed these woods walkers bless households that leave offerings of leaf, stone, and water.
Bryce Caron is the Lord of Nightsong and head of House Caron.
The son of Lord Bryen Caron. Bryce is a respected warrior. He became the head of the House after his father, mother, brother, and all his sisters succumbed to a terrible chill in 289 AC. Bryce's only known living relative is his half-brother, Ser Rolland Storm, a bastard son of Bryen.
Lord Bryce participates in the Hand's tourney in King's Landing given in the honor of Lord Eddard Stark, but he is defeated by Ser Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard.
When Lord Renly Baratheon declares himself king, Lord Bryce chooses to support him and is named to Renly's new Rainbow Guard, in which he wears the color orange, which gives him the nickname Bryce the Orange.
When Renly learns that Stannis Baratheon has laid siege to Sorm's End, Bryce travels with him to the castle. He is present at the failed parley beneath the walls of Storm's End between Renly and Stannis. Renly gives him command of the left flank in the coming battle between the brothers..
After Renly's death, Bryce rallies to Stannis, offering to fight Ser Cortnay Penrose in single combat, if it would win Stannis Storm's End, but he is rebuffed.
In the battle of the Blackwater, Bryce is killed in single combat by Ser Philip Foote. His lands, titles and incomes are granted to Philip by the Iron Throne.
Bryce's bastard half-brother, Ser Rolland Storm, is a pretender to Nightsong, laying claim under Stannis's banner.
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Bryen is the captain of the guards for House Baelish at their tower.
Bryen is past eighty years old and white-haired.
Bryen was named captain of the guards the last time Lord Petyr Baelish visited his home on the Fingers. He meets Lord Petyr when he comes ashore with Sansa Stark.
Bryen Caron was Lord of Nightsong and head of House Caron.
Lord Bryen was the father of Bryce Caron, a second, younger legitimate son, as well as a bastard son, Rolland Storm. He also had several daughters. He, along with his wife, second son, and all his daughters died of a chill in 289 AC.
It is unclear how Bryen is related to Mylenda Caron, the wife of Petyr Frey.
Bryen Farring is a member of House Farring and is a squire of Stannis Baratheon.
After the burning of the sept on Dragonstone, Bryen and Devan Seaworth are charged with collecting the sword claimed to be Lightbringer.
When Stannis goes north to the Wall, Bryen, as his squire follows him and is now part of his retinue at Castle Black.
While Devan stays at Castle Black with Melisandre, Bryen travels with King Stannis to Deepwood Motte. On the long march through the wolfswood to Winterfell, Bryen dies when he succumbs to the cold and hunger. His body is burned on a funeral pyre.
Brynden Blackwood is the eldest son and heir of Lord Tytos Blackwood of Raventree Hall.
Ser Brynden Rivers, called "Lord Bloodraven", was the bastard son of King Aegon IV Targaryen by his sixth mistress, Melissa Blackwood. He had two older sisters, Mya and Gwenys, and numerous half-siblings. with red eyes breathing red flame on a black field.
Brynden was a Targaryen loyalist during the Blackfyre Rebellions.
See also: Images of Brynden Rivers
Brynden was an albino and thus had milk-white skin, long white hair, and red eyes.
Brynden was not as tall or muscular as his half brothers, Daemon and Aegor,
Brynden lost an eye during the First Blackfyre Rebellion and rarely covered the empty socket with a patch, preferring to display his scar and empty socket to the world.
Brynden was rumored to be a sinister sorcerer and spymaster
Brynden was born in King's Landing
Brynden was resented by Barba's bastard son, Aegor Rivers, nicknamed "Bittersteel". At some point, Brynden became a lover to his half-sister, Shiera Seastar. As Aegor desired her as well, Shiera became another point of rivalry between the two half-siblings.
Like his other bastard siblings, Brynden was legitimized by his father in 184 AC when the king was on his deathbed.
Main article: First Blackfyre Rebellion
During the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Brynden remained loyal to King Daeron instead of joining his half brother, Daemon I Blackfyre.
At the Battle of the Redgrass Field in 196 AC, the Raven's Teeth gained the Weeping Ridge and rained arrows down onto the Blackfyres from three hundred yards away, killing first Daemon's eldest son Aegon, then Daemon himself, and finally Aegon's twin, Aemon.
With Daemon and his eldest sons dead, Aegor fled into exile in the Free Cities with Daemon's wife, daughters, and remaining sons.
Bloodraven, by Bella Bergolts ©
In 209 AC Brynden became Hand of the King and master of whisperers, serving throughout the reign of his nephew, King Aerys I Targaryen.
Around the same time, a drought began that lasted a little more than a year,[N 1] causing many smallfolk to leave their lands in search of somewhere the rain still fell. Bloodraven ordered them to return to their own lands but few obeyed. Indeed they blamed Bloodraven, cursing him as a kinslayer. Many of them became robbers. Prices increased as trade dwindled, and it was widely held that travel was less safe under Aerys's reign then it had been under that of his father.
In 211 AC Lord Dagon Greyjoy raided the western coast, including Fair Isle, the shipping of the Arbor, and the village of Little Dosk in the Reach. suggesting that the Targaryens eventually intervened.
Another issue within the realm in 211 AC was that Ser Otho Bracken, known as the Brute of Bracken, was expected to succeed to the lordship of Stone Hedge. Not wanting to see such a man in power, the traditional Bracken rivals of House Blackwood were expected to start a war to root him out. It was suggested that Bloodraven, being half-Blackwood by blood, would not be inclined to hear any complaints of a member of House Bracken. Septon Sefton is known to have believed that Bloodraven would most likely do nothing, and that if he did decide to act, it would only be to help his Blackwood cousins to bring Otho to bay.
Main article: Second Blackfyre Rebellion
During the wedding tourney at Whitewalls in 211 AC, Ser Maynard Plumm defended Brynden's actions as Hand to Ser Kyle the Cat.
Main article: Third Blackfyre Rebellion
In the aftermath of the Third Blackfyre Rebellion, Bloodraven argued that the captive Bittersteel should be put to death but King Aerys I Targaryen decided to send Aegor Rivers to the Night's Watch instead. Bittersteel escaped back to Essos when his ship was intercepted en route to Eastwatch, however.
Brynden continued as Hand for Aerys's successor, his brother Maekar I, in 221 AC. After Maekar's death in 233 AC, Brynden, as the Hand of the King, called a Great Council in King's Landing to discuss the disputed matter of succession.
Aenys Blackfyre wanted to peacefully participate in the Great Council, and Bloodraven offered him safe conduct to King's Landing from Tyrosh. Once Aenys arrived in the capital, however, he was arrested by the gold cloaks and then beheaded in the Red Keep.
The Great Council chose Maekar's son to succeed as King Aegon V Targaryen, whose first act was to arrest Bloodraven for the murder of Aenys.
Brynden Rivers as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, by Mike Hallstein ©
When Maester Aemon sailed for the Wall in 233 AC, he was escorted by King Aegon V's friend, Ser Duncan the Tall of the Kingsguard, and accompanied by an honor guard of recruits for the Night's Watch. These were two hundred men and prisoners, among them Brynden Rivers. Many of the men were archers from Brynden's Raven's Teeth .
Brynden was elected as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch in 239 AC.
Maester Aemon tells Samwell Tarly that Brynden accompanied him to the Wall when he joined the Night's Watch, with Ser Duncan the Tall as an escort.
Bran Stark discovers that Brynden is still alive as the three-eyed crow, the last greenseer living with children of the forest in a cave beyond the Wall.
The three-eyed crow, by Marc Simonetti ©
Treason is no less vile because the traitor proves a craven.
—Brynden to Ambrose Butterwell
There have always been Targaryens who dreamed of things to come, since long before the Conquest.
—Brynden to Duncan the Tall and Aegon Targaryen
I wore many names when I was quick, but even I had a mother, and the name she gave me at her breast was Brynden.
—the three-eyed crow to Meera Reed
I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother that I loved, a brother that I hated, a woman I desired. Through the trees, I see them still, but no word of mine has ever reached them. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
—Brynden to Bran Stark
The Mother marked Lord Rivers on the day that he was born, and Bittersteel marked him once again upon the Redgrass Field.
How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? the riddle ran. A thousand eyes, and one. Some claimed the King's Hand was a student of the dark arts who could change his face, put on the likeness of a one-eyed dog, even turn into a mist. Packs of gaunt gray wolves hunted down his foes, men said, and carrion crows spied for him and whispered secrets in his ear. Most of the tales were only tales, Dunk did not doubt, but no one could doubt that Bloodraven had informers everywhere.
—thoughts of Duncan the Tall
– Glendon Flowers to Maynard Plumm
Ser Brynden Tully, also known as Brynden Blackfish,.
See also: Images of Brynden Tully
Brynden is tall and lean,
A kind man with the patience to listen,
As the Knight of the Gate, Brynden wears grey heavy plate armor and helm, but when commanding outriders he trades this for mail and leather.
Brynden is the brother of Hoster Tully, younger than him by five years.
After their father died, Brynden's older brother Hoster inherited the rule of Riverrun. Hoster sought to betroth Brynden to Bethany Redwyne, but Brynden refused, straining their relationship. While other lords like Jonos Bracken and Walder Frey made offers as well, Brynden remained unwed.
When Catelyn Tully was eight, Hoster called Brynden the "black goat of the Tully flock" during an argument. Brynden pointed out that their sigil was a fish, which made him a black fish instead of a black goat. Brynden took for his personal sigil the Tully emblem, but with a black trout jumping, instead of a silver trout, and he became known as the "Blackfish".
While Brynden's relationship with Hoster was strained, he had a good relationship with Hoster's children, Catelyn, Lysa and Edmure, as well as Hoster's young ward, Petyr Baelish. When Hoster was too busy and Lady Minisa Whent too ill, the children ran to Brynden with their problems and stories.
Hoster and Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, considered betrothing Hoster's younger daughter, Lysa, to Tywin's heir, Jaime.
Robert's Rebellion began in 282 AC. Catelyn Tully's betrothed, Brandon Stark, and his father, Lord Rickard Stark, had been killed by King Aerys II Targaryen, so Catelyn was instead betrothed to Brandon's younger brother, Lord Eddard Stark. In order to bind House Tully to the rebel cause, Lord Hoster agreed to wed Lysa to Lord Jon Arryn,
Brynden continued to fight in Robert's Rebellion, further increasing his fame.
Brynden Tully by Nicholas Gregory © Fantasy Flight Games
Brynden serves as Knight of the Gate when his niece, Catelyn Stark, arrives at the Bloody Gate with her captive, Tyrion Lannister.
Once Brynden meets Catelyn's son, Robb Stark, at Moat Cailin,
Robb tasks Brynden and three hundred Tully men with drawing Jaime out of his encampment at Riverrun, and the Kingslayer ends up captured in the battle in the Whispering Wood.
Brynden and Hoster reconcile after many years, leaving the past behind them.
When Maester Vyman informs Catelyn that Hoster will soon die, he suggests sending a rider to Brynden, as Brynden would want to be with his brother when he died.
Ser Brynden by Christine Griffin © Fantasy Flight Games
Brynden returns to Riverrun together with King Robb.
After Lord Rickard Karstark murders Tion Frey and Willem Lannister, Brynden reports that the Karstark fighting men have left Riverrun. The Blackfish is sent out with a hundred men in search of the Karstarks, although expectations are low. Robb executes Rickard at Riverrun.
When Hoster finally dies, he receives a funeral as per the Tully customs. When Lord Edmure fails to hit Hoster's boat with a fire arrow, Brynden offers to make the shot, though is refused. After Edmure fails twice more, he gives the bow to Brynden, who hits the funerary boat with a fire arrow in one attempt.
Brynden remains at Riverrun when Robb travels north to the Twins to attend the wedding of Edmure to Roslin Frey, in preparation for the plan to retake Moat Cailin from the ironborn. Robb names him Warden of the Southern Marches and tasks him with protecting his queen, Jeyne.
The Freys and Boltons betray the Starks and Tullys in the Red Wedding, with Robb and Catelyn murdered
Blackfish in the Riverlands by Amok © Fantasy Flight Games
Brynden, the castellan of Riverrun,
Queen Cersei Lannister sends her brother Jaime, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, to pacify the riverlands and end the siege.
During Jaime's war council, Addam Marbrand offers to climb Riverrun's walls with a small group and open its gates, Edwyn Frey suggests having archers smear their arrows with night soil and target Brynden, and Ser Lyle Crakehall desires single combat with the Blackfish. Lord Norbert Vance offers to negotiate with Brynden, but Lord Clement Piper thinks the Blackfish would refuse to surrender to the Freys.
Brynden has been declared an outlaw.
Brynden Tully the Blackfish by Miguel Regodón Harkness ©
I asked your sister for leave to take a thousand seasoned men and ride for Riverrun with all haste. Do you know what she told me? 'The Vale cannot spare a thousand swords, nor even one, Uncle,' she said. 'You are the Knight of the Gate. Your place is here.' Well, I told her she could bloody well find herself a new Knight of the Gate. Black fish or no, I am still a Tully. I shall leave for Riverrun by evenfall.
—Brynden to Catelyn Stark
Catelyn: He says he is too sick to fight.
Brynden: I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.—Catelyn Stark and Brynden
Peace. Peace is sweet, my lady ... but on what terms? It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.
—Brynden to Catelyn Stark
Brynden: That thing's not crimson. Nor Tully red, the mud red of the river. That's blood up there, child, smeared across the sky.
Catelyn: Our blood or theirs?
Brynden: Was there ever a war where only one side bled?—Brynden and Catelyn Stark
My first rule of war, Cat—never give the enemy his wish.
—Brynden to Catelyn Stark
Brynden: I am the last man in the Seven Kingdoms to tell anyone who they must wed, Nephew. Nonetheless, you did say something of making amends for your Battle of the Fords.
Edmure: I had in mind a different sort of amends. Single combat with the Kingslayer. Seven years of penace as a begging brother. Swimming the sunset sea with my legs tied. The Others take you all! Very well, I'll wed the wench. As amends.—Brynden and Edmure Tully
Jaime: Some might say a cripple and an old man are well matched. Free me from my vow to Lady Catelyn and I will meet you sword to sword. If I win, Riverrun is ours. If you slay me, we'll lift the siege.
Brynden: Much as I would welcome the chance to take that golden sword away from you and cut out your black heart, your promises are worthless. I would gain nothing from your death but the pleasure of killing you, and I will not risk my own life for that ... as small a risk as that may be.—Jaime Lannister and Brynden
The Blackfish. Thank you for joining us, ser. We need men of your courage.
—Robb Stark to Brynden
Ser Brynden Tully was Robb's eyes and ears, the commander of his scouts and outriders.
—Catelyn Stark's thoughts
Small chance the Blackfish will pay good coin for a girl he doesn't know. Those Tullys are a sour, suspicious lot, he's like to think we're selling him false goods.
Resolve is one thing Brynden Blackfish never lacked for. Hoster Tully could have told you that.
Tully had a craggy face, deeply lined and windburnt beneath a shock of stiff grey hair, but Jaime could still see the great knight who once enthralled a squire with tales of the Ninepenny Kings.
—Jaime Lannister's thoughts
Ser Bryndon Hightower was a member of House Hightower and was the foremost knight of Oldtown.
During the first Battle of Tumbleton in the Dance of the Dragons, Ser Bryndon put himself between his liege lord, his cousin Ormund Hightower, and the advancing Winter Wolves, lead by Roderick Dustin, the Lord of Barrowton. Bryndon took off Roddy the Ruin's shield arm with his longaxe, but the northman still killed both Hightowers.
Bu Gai, seventeenth of the azure emperors, is the God-Emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. His seat is located at the city of Yin, in a palace said to be larger than all of King's Landing. His rule is challenged by imperial general Pol Qo at Trader Town and by a sorcerer lord at the city of Carcosa.
Buckle is a small village in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Buckle was burned by the dragon Vhagar during the Dance of the Dragons.
Jonos Bracken wants Buckle for subduing Tytos Blackwood. Tytos surrenders Buckle as part of the price to submit to the Iron Throne.
Ser Buford Bulwer (or Ser Theomore Bulwer[N 1]), better known as the Old Ox, was a knight of some renown during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen.
Early in the reign of Aerys I Targaryen, Buford is past sixty, and he has become fat and soft. He is blind in his right eye. During the Whitewalls tourney, he wore blood red armor and a helm decorated with black bull's horns on either side.
Buford is said to have slain forty men in the Battle of the Redgrass Field. However, according to Ser Maynard Plumm, the number of Buford had slain on the Redgrass Field grew higher every single passing year.
Ser Buford attended the Whitewalls tourney in 211 AC. He faced Ser Uthor Underleaf in the tourney, but was defeated in the fifth tilt. He was injured upon being unhorsed and taken to the maester.
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The order of builders is one of the three orders that comprise the Night's Watch, alongside the rangers and the stewards. The builders' main duty is to tend to and maintain the Wall and the castles of the Night's Watch.
The order of builders carries out duties that are centered around tending to and maintaining the Wall and the castles built against the Wall.
Once, the builders of the Night's Watch, obtained large blocks of ice from lakes in the haunted forest, north of the Wall, which they dragged south in order to make the Wall even higher.
The builders provide masons, carpenters, miners, and woodsmen to their fellow brothers. They repair the keeps and towers of the Night's Watch, dig tunnels and crush stone for the roads and footpaths on top of the Wall, and clear away the parts of the forest that presses too close to the Wall on its northern side.
Although making war upon the wildlings is not among the tasks of the builders, they are trained in arms, as the first duty of all the brothers of the Night's Watch is to defend the Wall.
During the great ranging, several builders accompany the rangers led by Lord Commander Jeor Mormont. A score of builders is set to clearing brush, digging latrines, and untying the bundles of fire-hardened stakes upon the arrival at the Fist of the First Men.
With Lord Commander Mormont leading two hundred brothers north of the Wall, most of the four hundred men who remain at Castle Black are builders and stewards.
Most of the four hundred men who remained at Castle Black when Lord Commander Jeor Mormont led two hundred brothers out for the great ranging are builders and stewards.
When the free folk army of Mance Rayder attack the Wall, several of the builders argue that the ice and broken beams, the result of the attack carried out by a hundred Thenns and some raiders, should be left to block the inner gate, as they believe it can serve as an obstacle for Mance.
the new lord commander, Jon Snow, has the builders working hard to repair the staircase leading up to the top of the Wall.
Most of the builders at Castle Black agree with Bowen Marsh to close the gates and seal them up with stone and ice.
Lord Commander Snow offers to lend builders to Stannis Baratheon to restore the Nightfort, once the stair to the top of the Wall is done.
Bump was the younger brother of Varamyr Sixskins and Meha. He was attacked and killed by dogs.
Bump was born a healthy child to the parents of Varamyr Sixskins. He was nicknamed Bump by his elder sister Meha. Varamyr, resentful of his little brother and that their mother was going to name him after their father, skinchanged into one of the family's dogs (Loptail, Sniff or Growler) and attacked and killed Bump. When Varamyr's father found the dogs sniffing around the child's body, he did not know which one had killed his son, so he put down all three. Varamyr slipped inside Loptail as his father killed him, and screamed when the dog died, which is how Varamyr's parents discovered that he was a warg.
Bump was two years old when he died, three days shy of his third name day.
The Burned Men
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The Burned Men are one of the mountain clans of the Vale of Arryn. They are feared by the rest of the clans.
Burned Men derive their name for their coming-of-age ceremony, in which they mutilate themselves by burning off a body part of their choosing, usually a finger or nipple. The more important the body part burned, the more prestige the warrior gains.
The Burned Men are seemingly an offshoot of the Painted Dogs that branched off in the years after the Dance of the Dragons. They were said to have worshiped a fire-witch, sending their boys to bring her gifts and risk the flames of her dragon to prove their manhood.
The Burned Men carried off the last daughter of Alys Arryn and Ser Elys Waynwood on her way to marry a Bracken.
The Burned Men are among the clans that join Tyrion Lannister on the promise of weapons and armor. They are led by Timett son of Timett.
In preparation for Stannis Baratheon's arrival at King's Landing, Tyrion sends the Burned Men into the kingswood to harass and harry his march..
After the Battle of the Blackwater, Timett and his clansmen take their plunder and return to the Mountains of the Moon.
The man known as the Burning Knight was a huge brute of a man who gained fame during the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. His real name is not known, he was also most likely not an actual knight.
During the Storming of the Dragonpit it is written that the Burning Knight slew the dragon Morghul. The Burning Knight, encased in heavy armor, rushed headlong into the dragon's flame with spear in hand, thrusting the point into the dragon's eye repeatedly, even as the flame melted the steel he was encased in and burning his flesh.
Since his real name was not known, the man became known as the Burning Knight when the tale spread.
The Burning Mill is a place in the riverlands near Stone Hedge.
Early in the Dance of the Dragons, the Battle of the Burning Mill was a quick victory for the blacks, with Prince Daemon Targaryen using Harrenhal as a base of operations and House Blackwood taking Stone Hedge from House Bracken.
The burning of Harrenhal occurred during Aegon's Conquest.
House Hoare had ruled the Iron Islands and the riverlands as the Kings of the Isles and the Rivers for three generations. King Harren Hoare, also known as Harren the Black, had devoted most of his reign, nearly forty years, to the construction of Harrenhal, which would be the largest castle in Westeros, on the northern shore of the Gods Eye. Thousands had died while building the caslte, and the riverlands had been depleted in terms of materials. On the day the new castle was finally completed, however, Aegon Targaryen landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, to start his Conquest.
Supported by many great ironborn lords and warriors,
Balerion and Aegon I Targaryen overlooking Harrenhal before their nighttime attack.
Harrenhal's walls were too high and too thick, and well-stocked enough to withstand a siege. During a parley outside the castle, Aegon offered to confirm Harren as Lord of the Iron Islands, provided he would yield. Harren refused, trusting in the strength of his castle, confident that the stone would not burn. Aegon warned him that the line of House Hoare would come to an end that night, at which Harren returned to his castle. To his men, he promised riches and the daughters of the riverlords to anyone who could slay Aegon's dragon, Balerion, in the upcoming battle.
When the sun had gone down, Aegon flew Balerion high above Harrenhal, before plunging down upon Harrenhal, burning the castle beneath him. All that was flammable, both suplies and ironmen, caught fire within the castle, while Harrenhal's stone towers cracked and melted. The rivermen outside observed that the towers glowed and melted like candles. With their deaths, House Hoare was extinguished.
Once Harrenhal cooled, the ruined swords of the ironmen were taken to the Aegonfort, where they eventually became part of the Iron Throne.
The day following the burning of Harrenhal, Lord Edmyn Tully swore fealthy to Aegon, who accepted and named him Lord Paramount of the Trident,
It is said by some that Harrenhal's Wailing Tower is occupied by the ghosts of Harren and his sons.
Harren: What is outside my walls is of no concern to me. Those walls are strong and thick.
Aegon: But not so high as to keep out dragons. Dragons fly.
Harren: I built in stone. Stone does not burn.Aegon: When the sun sets, your line shall end.
- Harren Hoare and Aegon Targaryen
The burning of Pinkmaiden Castle is part of the Lannister invasion of the riverlands during the War of the Five Kings.
With the rivermen defeated in the battle under the walls of Riverrun, Ser Gregor Clegane and his men burn Pinkmaiden Castle and the Piper lands under orders from Lord Tywin Lannister.
Following the Battle of the Camps, Ser Marq Piper leaves Riverrun to defend his family's lands.
The burning of Sow’s Horn is an attempted burning of Sow's Horn that takes place in 299 AC during the War of the Five Kings.
Following Lannister defeats at the Whispering Wood and the Camps, Lord Tywin Lannister orders Ser Amory Lorch to burn territory in the riverlands from the Green Fork down to the God's Eye.
Westermen led by Amory attempt to burn Sow's Horn in the crownlands, despite House Hogg being sworn to House Hayford and not the rebel House Tully. The burning fails as a result of Sow's Horn's thick stone walls, however, and Amory retreats northwards back into the riverlands after slaughtering half of Ser Roger Hogg's sheep and several goats.
There is further fighting at Sow's Horn between Hoggs and Karstarks. Ser Jaime Lannister passes through Sow's Horn on his way to resolve the sieges of Riverrun and Raventree Hall in the riverlands. Roger is angry that Amory attempted to burn Sow's Horn despite Houses Hogg and Lannister both being sworn to King Joffrey I Baratheon.
The burning of Stone hedge is part of the Lannister invasion of the riverlands during the War of the Five Kings.
Ser Gregor Clegane and his men burn Stone Hedge and the Bracken lands under orders from Lord Tywin Lannister. One of the daughters of Lord Jonos Bracken is raped by the Mountain. Harry Rivers, the Bastard of Bracken, is also killed by Lannisters at some point during the war.
Following the Battle of the Camps, Jonos travels from ruined Stone Hedge to Riverrun.
During the siege of Raventree after the Red Wedding, Jonos requests land and castles from House Blackwood as recompense for the damage inflicted by the Mountain's men.
Gregor Clegane laid waste to my fields, slaughtered my smallfolk, and left Stone Hedge a smoking ruin. Am I now to bend the knee to the ones who sent him?
- Jonos Bracken to Catelyn Stark
Your Mountain stole my harvest and burned everything he could not carry off. He put my castle to the torch and raped one of my daughters. I will have recompense.
The burning of the Lannister fleet began Greyjoy's Rebellion in 289 AC.
Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, desired to restore the Old Way after he succeeded his father, Lord Quellon Greyjoy, during Robert's Rebellion. Over five years he constructed the Iron Fleet,
Balon declared himself King of the Iron Islands, rejecting the authority of King Robert I Baratheon. Another younger brother, Euron Greyjoy, devised the plan to attack the twenty or thirty
Balon hoped that the destruction of Tywin Lannister's ships would give the ironborn naval supremacy over the Sunset Sea. Stannis Baratheon, the master of ships, eventually defeated Victarion's Iron Fleet in a sea battle off Fair Isle, however,
The sea shall be my moat, and woe to any man who dares to cross it.
- declaration of Balon Greyjoy
Asha: Walk amongst the cookfires if you dare, and listen. They are not telling tales of your strength, nor of my famous beauty. They talk only of the Crow's Eye; the far places he has seen, the women he has raped and the men he's killed, the cities he has sacked, the way he burnt Lord Tywin's fleet at Lannisport ...
Victarion: I burnt the lion's fleet. With mine own hands I flung the first torch onto his flagship.
Asha: The Crow's Eye hatched the scheme.
The burning of the Sept of Remembrance was an event during the Faith Militant uprising.
During the Faith Militant uprising, King Maegor I Targaryen was the only survivor of the trial of seven between him and Ser Damon Morrigen. The Warrior's Sons at the Sept of Remembrance debated as Maegor lay unconscious for weeks; some wanted to end the rebellion as the gods had supported Maegor, while others wanted to continue.
Maegor awoke after being treated by Tyanna of the Tower.
Afterwards, Maegor had the ruins of the sept cleared, and ordered the construction of a large domed stable, the Dragonpit, where Targaryens could house their dragons.
A burning septry is the setting for a battle between the brotherhood without banners and the Brave Companions.
Forty-four brothers live at the prosperous septry beneath a wooded ridge. They tend to a dozen milk cows and a bull, a hundred beehives, a vineyard, an apple arbor, a mill, a brewhouse, and stables. The septry has wooden walls and a heavy slate roof.
The septry is sacked during the War of the Five Kings by Lannisters, who take wine and honey, slaughter the cows, and torch the vineyard. The septry is then visited by other armed bands. Thinking that the Elder Brother has hidden gold, a monstrous warrior has his men kill the brothers one by one. By the time the brotherhood without banners defeat the latest invaders, the Brave Companions, in the battle at the burning septry, only eight brothers remain alive. Because the septry is set afire and collapses beneath the weight of its roof, the brotherhood shelters in the brewhouse, where the contemplative brothers had hidden food.
Ser Burton Crakehall is a knight of House Crakehall. He is the younger brother of Lord Roland Crakehall.
As part of Tywin Lannister's army in the riverlands, Burton pursues the men of Lord Beric Dondarrion and finally kills the elusive Lightning Lord.
Burton Humble is an ironborn raider in Victarion Greyjoy's crew aboard the *Iron Victory*.
Burton Humble accompanied Victarion when the Iron Fleet sailed to Slaver's Bay. When the fleet sailed past the Stepstones, Burton knocked out four of Maester Kerwin's teeth for smiling at him. When the Red Priest Moqorro was brought aboard the Iron Victory, Burton suggested sacrificing him to the Drowned God before he could call a curse down on them.
The Butcher's Ball was a battle fought south of the Gods Eye during the Dance of the Dragons.
Following the blacks' victory in the battle by the Lakeshore, Ser Criston the Kingmaker, the Hand of the King to Aegon II Targaryen, took his army of 3,600 remaining greens south from Harrenhal in the riverlands. Criston's intention was to join his force with that of Lord Ormund Hightower and Prince Daeron Targaryen, which was marching from the Reach. Rather than accompany Criston, Prince Aemond Targaryen took his dragon, Vhagar, to burn the riverlands.
Criston's greens traveled south along the western shore of the Gods Eye lake, but the river lords practiced scorched earth tactics, burning their forests and villages. They used guerrilla warfare against the greens, many of whom deserted or joined the blacks. At the village of Crossed Elms, Criston's forces were attacked by men disguised as corpses, losing twelve men before realizing the ruse.
While heading toward the Blackwater Rush, Ser Criston led his greens into an ambush at a stony ridge south of the Gods Eye. The greens were outnumbered two to one by the forces of the riverlands and the north. Lord Roderick Dustin sounded the charge of the blacks' vanguard, which consisted of his Winter Wolves and the river knights. Ser Garibald Grey, Lord Dustin, and Ser Pate of Longleaf all declined Cole's offer of single combat, and the Kingmaker was instead slain by arrows. The greens quickly collapsed, with hundreds of them killed while trying to flee the ridge.
Ser Criston's death in the Butcher's Ball marked the high point of Rhaenyra Targaryen's fortunes. However, Prince Aemond and King Aegon II still remained to carry on the greens' cause.
Butterbumps is the fool and jester of House Tyrell. He is immensely fat. He can fart at will.
Butterbumps travels to King's Landing with the retinue of House Tyrell. When Olenna Redwyne and Margaery Tyrell invite Sansa Stark to lunch to question the girl about the character of Margaery's betrothed, King Joffrey I Baratheon, they mask their conversation from unwanted ears by having Butterbumps sing *The Bear and the Maiden Fair* at exceptional volume.
Butterbumps is present at the wedding of Margaery and Joffrey, where he performs together with Moon Boy.
Butterbumps entertains the guests at the wedding of Margaery Tyrell and King Tommen I Baratheon together with Moon Boy between dishes.
The so-called butterfly fever is a disease native to the isle of Naath. It is believed to be transmitted by the local butterflies, particularly a large black-and-white variety with wings as big as a man's hand, according to Archmaester Ebrose. Even though the Naathi themselves are immune to this sickness, all outsiders who remain too long on Naath fall prey to it.
Fever is the first sign of the disease, followed by painful spasms that make the victims seem to be dancing wildly and uncontrollably. In the last stage, those afflicted sweat blood, and their flesh sloughs from their bones.
Ghiscari seize the islands in the times of the Old Empire thrice. The Valyrians erected a fort of fused dragonstone whose walls survive to the present, a company of Volantene adventurers once built a trade town with timber palisades and slave pens, corsairs of the Basilisk Isles have landed on Naath countless times. All of these invaders fell to the plague.
However, corsairs long ago learned that the chances of dying of butterfly fever are low as long as they do not remain on the islands for more than a few hours, and lower still if they land at night, as the butterflies that carry it are day creatures. Thus, slavers often attack Naath during the dark of night, forcing the Naathi inland.
Butts is one of the wildlings who Jon Snow allows to cross the Wall and settle in Mole's Town.
He has a chunky red face.[*citation needed*]
When Jon Snow ask the free folk in Mole's Town to defend the Wall Butts replies that he'd "sooner go naked than wear one o' then black rags on my back." A spearwife responds that 'Even your wife don't want to see you naked, Butts."
Ser Byam Flint is a knight of House Flint and a brother of the Night's Watch. It is unknown from which branch of House Flint he comes from. He is stationed at the Shadow Tower.
Ser Byam participates in the great ranging under the command of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont which goes in search of Benjen Stark and Mance Rayder.
The men of the Night's Watch make their stand at the Fist of the First Men, but they are attacked by wights. They retreat to Craster's Keep, but many are wounded. Among them is Byam, who has a wound at the shoulder.
The men are hungry and accuse Craster of keeping food from them. Craster reaches for his dagger but is killed by Dirk. Dying, Craster falls on Byam. It is not known what happens to Byam during the ensuing mutiny at Craster's Keep, but afterwards Samwell Tarly notices that Byam does not moan anymore.
Byan Votyris is a captain of a trading caravan from Norvos. He is a small man with weather-beaten skin, and he wears a splendid blue-dyed mustache extending from one ear to the other.
Byan is the captain of a caravan encamped in the Western Market of Vaes Dothrak. He is the bearer of a letter from Magister Illyrio Mopatis addressed to Ser Jorah Mormont. Princess Daenerys Targaryen is trading in the market when she is nearly poisoned by a wine trader of the caravan. Aghast, Byan gives the poisoner into the custody of the princess's guards.
Byren Flowers, better known as Black Byren Flowers, was a supporter of Daemon Blackfyre during the First Blackfyre Rebellion. He was considered one of the finest knights of his time.
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Ser Byron, known as Byron the Beautiful, is a hedge knight.
He is young and elegant with thick, blond hair.
Ser Byron enters the service of Lord Petyr Baelish at the Gates of the Moon. He compliments Alayne Stone on her beauty when introduced.
Ser Byron Swann was a knight of House Swann during the reign of Aegon II Targaryen.
He was killed by Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragon Syrax during the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. He tried to kill the dragon by sneaking up behind his shield so the dragon would see only its reflection, as Serwyn of the Mirror Shield famously did to the dragon Urrax.
Grand Maester Munkun stated in his book *The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling* that it was the dragon Vhagar who Ser Byron tried to kill. However this is unlikely since Vhagar was ridden by Prince Aemond Targaryen, the brother of King Aegon II and House Swann supported Aegon II. Ser Byron's squire, who saw him die, wrote his daughter that Syrax killed Ser Byron.
Cadwyl warrior.
Cadwyl participates in the skirmishes along the Stony Shore led by Theon Greyjoy. He is later one of the warriors chosen by Theon to capture Winterfell. After Theon displayed the heads of the boys above the gate and Farlen attacks him, Cadwyl and Urzen beat him senseless with the butts of their spears.
Ser Cadwyn is a knight from the westerlands.
Ser Cadwyn is part of the force Lord Tywin Lannister commands at Harrenhal. When Tywin departs, Cadwyn stays in Harrenhal under the command of Ser Amory Lorch. Upon the arrival of the Brave Companions, he is charged with taking over the prisoners that they brought.
Caggo, also known as Caggo Corpsekiller, is a sellsword of Dothraki origin
Caggo is a huge man with a seamed, scarred face.
Although Caggo is quick to anger, he is well regarded by the Tattered Prince, the leader of the Windblown.
Caggo rides a monstrous warhorse and wields a rare *arakh* of Valyrian steel.
Ser Lucifer Long resents that Caggo once took a slave girl from the knight, and the Dothraki then killed the girl because he considered her ugly.
Caggo participates in the siege of Astapor, during which he hacks down Cleon, the Butcher King of that city. Caggo becomes known as the Corpsekiller, however, when it is revealed that Cleon was just a corpse in armor tied to a horse.
Caggo, Denzo D'han, and Meris are present when the Tattered Prince meets Prince Quentyn Martell and his companions, Ser Archibald Yronwood and Ser Gerris Drinkwater, in the undercellar of the Purple Lotus in Meereen. They agree to Quentyn's proposal to steal one of the dragons of Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of Meereen.
Caggo Corpsekiller the men were calling him now, though not to his face; he was quick to anger, and that curved black sword of his was as nasty as its owner.
- thoughts of Quentyn Martell
Cairns is a village in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for Cairns for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood. Tytos refuses to surrender it as part of the price to submit to the Iron Throne because his ancestors are buried there.
Caleotte is a maester in service to House Martell in Dorne. He has been serving at Sunspear since Doran Martell's mother ruled as Princess of Dorne.
Maester Caleotte is five feet tall, bald and has a smooth face. He is fat.
Maester Caleotte brings the letter explaining Oberyn Martell's death in King's Landing to Prince Doran Martell at the Water Gardens.
Maester Caleotte is present when Balon Swann presents the Mountain's skull to Doran Martell and the Sand Snakes. He escorts Doran, Arianne Martell, and the Sand Snakes beck to Doran's solar, taking Ser Gregor Clegane's skull with him. He leaves the solar before Doran discusses his plans with the Sand Snakes.
Calla Blackfyre was a daughter of Daemon I Blackfyre and Rohanne of Tyrosh.
Prior to the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Calla's father Daemon agreed to wed her to her half-uncle, Ser Aegor Rivers.
Calon is the son of Cayn, one of the House Stark guards at Winterfell.
Calon's father, Cayn, is killed by Sandor Clegane in King's Landing.
Calon plays lord of the crossing with the Frey wards, Big Walder and Little Walder..
The women and children of Winterfell are said to have been taken by Ramsay Snow to the Dreadfort..
The Caltrops were thirteen nobles from the Reach who plotted to kill the Two Betrayers during the Dance of the Dragons. They were called the Caltrops after the inn in Tumbleton, the Bloody Caltrops, where they met to conspire.
In the Treasons of Tumbleton, Ulf White and Hugh Hammer switched from the blacks to the greens and had the dragons Silverwing and Vermithor burn the town of Tumbleton. While the greens' commanders regrouped in Tumbleton and planned how to attack the black-held King's Landing, the two baseborn dragonriders proved difficult to deal with. Ulf desired Highgarden, while Hugh had designs on claiming the Iron Throne. Hugh wore a black iron crown, enraging Prince Daeron Targaryen. Ser Roger Corne knocked the crown off, which led to Hugh nailing three horseshoes to Roger's skull. Corne's supporters tried to intervene, resulting in three dead and twelve wounded.
The enthusiastic Lord Unwin Peake and the somewhat reluctant Hobert Hightower gathered eleven other lords and landed knights to the cellar of a Tumbleton inn called the Bloody Caltrops. They debated over how and when to kill the Two Betrayers. The drunkard Ulf would be an easier target, but Hugh was protected by lackeys. After much deliberation, they determined to kill the dragonriders and claim their dragons while in Tumbleton. Prince Daeron was brought to the cellar by Lord Owen Fossoway and given warrants for the execution of the Two Betrayers by Lord Peake. Daeron eagerly affixed his seal.
The Caltrops planned their coup against Ulf and Hugh to occur two days later. However, the greens' army was awoken on that designated day by an attack by Ser Addam Velaryon, beginning the Second Battle of Tumbleton. Ulf slept through the battle, but Hugh rushed to the stables so he could ride to Vermithor. However, Hugh was cut down there by Ser Jon Roxton. Despite wielding the blade Orphan-Maker, Jon was then slain by Hugh's men. Eight of the Caltrops were dead by the end of Second Tumbleton, including Owen Fossoway, Marq Ambrose, and Jon Roxton. Richard Rodden died from his wounds the following day, leaving only four plotters. However, these included the ringleaders, Unwin Peake and Hobert Hightower.
The next morning after the Second Battle of Tumbleton, Hobert Hightower met with Ulf to plan the attack on King's Landing and provided two casks of wine, Dornish red and poisoned Arbor gold. Hobert expected to sip the red while Ulf drank the gold, but the dragonrider was suspicious of Hobert's behavior and asked for the red to be saved for later. Rather than give up the surviving Caltrops, Hobert decided to drink the poisoned gold with Ulf, which killed both of them. Following Ulf's death, Lord Peake failed to find a dragonrider for Silverwing and decided to lead the diminishing green army away from Tumbleton and back to the heart of the Reach.
Camarron,.
The seventh time Hizdahr zo Loraq petitions Queen Daenerys Targaryen to have the fighting pits of Meereen reopened, he brings seven pit fighters with him, including Camarron.
Following the disappearance of Daenerys upon Drogon and the arrest of Hizdahr, Barristan insists on including Camarron in the ruling council of Meereen along with Belaquo Bonebreaker, Goghor the Giant, and the Spotted Cat, despite the objections of Skahaz mo Kandaq.
Shorly before the start of the Battle of Slaver's Bay, Camarron is among the several hundred pit fighters who have gathered for the battle near the Spire of Skulls. Camarron, together with Goghor and the Spotted Cat, is to lead the pit fighters in the battle. Camarron and his pit fighters are to follow the Stormcrows into battle and follow the horsemen into the breach of the Yunkish lines in order to slaughter as much as they can.
A nomad with his camel. © FFG
© FFG
A camel is an even-toed ungulate with distinctive fatty deposits, or humps, on its back. It is very similar to the real world camel. Camels are used as transport in Essos. There has been no mention of camels in Westeros. Camels are popular transport in Qarth. A camel cavalry, or camelry, is also used in combat by the Qartheen.
When Jhogo returns to Daenerys Targaryen and her khalasar in Vaes Tolorro, he brings Pyat Pree, Xaro Xhoan Daxos and Quaithe. The three strangers are all riding camels, creatures Daenerys does not recognise.
A column of camelry emerge from Qarth as Daenerys Targaryen's honour guards upon her arrival outside of the city. The Qartheen camelry riders wear scaled copper armour and snouted helms with copper tusks and long black silk plumes. They sit high on saddles inlaid with rubies and garnets. Their camels are dressed in blankets of a hundred different hues.
In Qarth Daenerys soon discoveres that horses cannot abide the close presence of camels. As she rides her silver down a great arcade her mare shies when Xaro Xhoan Daxos and his camel approach her.
Envoys from Yunkai come to parlay with Daenerys Targaryen when she comes to conquer their city. Fifty men arrive on magnificent black horses and one on a great white camel - Grazdan mo Eraz.
During the wedding feast of Daenerys Targaryen and Hizdahr zo Loraq in the Great Pyramid of Meereen, a dozen sorts of meat and fish is served, amongst them camel.[*citation needed*]
A corps of Qartheen camelry join the Yunkai'i marching up the coast road to lay siege to Meereen.[*citation needed*]
The Canal of Heroes is one of the larger canals in Braavos.
The Canal of Heroes is located closest to the Chequy Port and the Arsenal in the northwest of the city. Heading east, it reaches the center of the city, where the Temple of the Moonsingers and te Isle of the Gods are located.
Multiple bridges cross the Canal of Heroes, including a carved stone bridge decorated with half a hundred kinds of fish and crabs and squids, a bridge carved with lacy leafy vines, and a painted bridge with a thousand painted eyes.
Cannibal Bay is a legendary place said by sailors to lie somewhere in the Shivering Sea. It is said that ships enter Cannibal Bay only to find themselves trapped forever as the sea freezes behind them. Legend also claims some of the thousand ships entombed there are inhabited by the descendants of the original crews, who survive by feasting on the flesh of the newly trapped sailors.
Maester Margate has suggested that the tales of Cannibal Bay may be explained as distorted reports of ice dragon activity.
The Cannibal Sands are a pair of small deserts bordering the Grey Waste in far eastern Essos.
One desert of the Cannibal Sands is located northwest of the Grey Waste and northeast of the Bleeding Sea. N'Ghai is to the north and Mossovy is found to the northeast. The second desert is situated southeast of the Grey Waste and northeast of the Dry Deep and Bonetown. The city of K'Dath is west of this second desert.
The inhabitants of the Cannibal Sands allegedly consume human flesh.
The Cannibal Sands have not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire*.
*"Cannibal" redirects here. For the dragon known as "The Cannibal", see Cannibal (dragon).*
The Four Cannibals - by Marc Fishman
Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.
According to *The Edge of the World* by Maester Balder, in ancient days men of Skagos sailed to the nearby island Skane, seizing all the women, killing all the men, and feasting on their flesh for a fortnight, in what was known as the Feast of Skane.
According to legend the Rat Cook served an Andal king—identified either as Tywell II, King of the Rock, or Oswell I, King of Mountain and Vale
Danelle Lothston, Lady of Harrenhal, was rumored to preside over feasts of human flesh.
Some dragons are cannibals. Cannibal was a wild dragon that lived on Dragonstone and feasted on dead or newborn dragons and their eggs.
Cannibal Bay is a legendary place where it is claimed some of the thousand ships entombed there are inhabited by the descendants of the original crews, who survive by feasting on the flesh of the newly-trapped sailors.
The Others are said to feed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.
The last thing Varamyr Sixskins learned from Haggon was the taste of human flesh, as Varamyr, a warg, fed on Haggon as a wolf. Varamyr never ate the meat of men with human teeth.
The Amethyst Empress’s younger brother, who cast her down and slew her, was said to have practiced cannibalism.
Adakhakileki in the Dothraki language means "The Cannibals".
The inhabitants of the Cannibal Sands allegedly consume human flesh.
The Sothoryi from regions further south are more savage, and are known for cannibalism.
Upon returning to Lady Danelle Lothston's former home of Harrenhal, Ser Jaime Lannister recalls hearing stories about her bathing in blood and presiding over feasts of human flesh.
Once in Harrenhal Shitmouth and Raff the Sweetling inform Jaime that Ser Gregor Clegane, in a mockery of Vargo Hoat's preferred way of torturing his prisoners, cut off Vargo's limbs piece by piece over an extended period of time while he had the wounds bandaged so that Vargo stayed alive. Vargo first lost his hands and feet, then his arms and legs. The extremities as well as other parts of Vargo's body were then fed as "roast goat" to northern prisoners that Gregor brought to Harrenhal, including Ser Wylis Manderly, as well as to Vargo himself.
Euron Greyjoy tells his brother Victarion that he captured four warlocks in a galleas out of Qarth. One threatened the corsair so Euron killed the warlock and fed him to the other three.
The thousands of survivors from the siege of Astapor resort to cannibalism of the diseased refugees.
During King Stannis Baratheon's harsh winter march on Winterfell, four House Peasebury soldiers are staked and burned by queen's men at a crofters' village for cannibalism. It is rumored that Robin Peasebury may also have eaten human flesh.
Rhaegar Frey, Jared Frey, and Symond Frey go missing after departing White Harbor. During the wedding of "Arya Stark" to Ramsay Bolton at Winterfell, Lord Wyman Manderly presents three huge pies at the wedding feast while requesting a song from the singer Abel about the Rat Cook, implying the three Freys were actually present at the wedding after all.
Men may eat the flesh of beasts and beasts the flesh of men, but the man who eats the flesh of a man is an abomination.
Better a craven than a cannibal.
Cape Kraken
The North and the location of Cape Kraken
Cape Kraken is a cape in the North that lies south and west of Blazewater Bay and west of the Neck.
Cape Kraken has long been disputed by the North and the Iron Islands.
Cape Wrath
The stormlands and the location of Cape Wrath
A ship caught in a storm at Cape Wrath. © FFG
Cape Wrath is a large peninsula of the stormlands that juts out into the narrow sea, bordered to the north by Shipbreaker Bay, to the east by Estermont in the narrow sea, and to the south by the Sea of Dorne.
Cape Wrath is dominated by the rainwood, which includes Mistwood in the south of the forest and Rain House at its eastern edge. South of the forest is a broad plain. The prosperous Weeping Town sits along the southern shore of Cape Wrath, as do numerous villages.
The woods of Cape Wrath were inhabited in antiquity by the children of the forest,.
A woods witch called the Green Queen rebelled against the Storm King Durwald I Durrandon, controlling the rainwood for a generation.
With King Argilac Durrandon preoccupied with the Targaryens, pirates from the Stepstones raided the cape during the War of Conquest.
Following the siege of Storm's End, Stannis Baratheon granted Davos Seaworth a small keep and choice lands on Cape Wrath,
Stannis Baratheon sends Dale Seaworth to sail *Wraith* along Cape Wrath, the Broken Arm, the coast of Dorne, and the Arbor, informing the populace of Stannis's claim to the Iron Throne.
While a quarter of the Golden Company's available strength is taking Griffin's Roost, Ser Tristan Rivers sets off simultaneously for the seat of House Morrigen at Crow's Nest, and Laswell Peake for Rain House, the stronghold of House Wylde. Harry Strickland argues that if Rivers and Peake are successful the Golden Company will control a better part of Cape Wrath.
Cape of Eagles
The riverlands and the location of the Cape of Eagles
The Cape of Eagles is a cape in the riverlands that juts out into Ironman's Bay, pointing the way to the Iron Islands. It is located west of Seagard
The ironborn lost most of the Cape of Eagles to House Mallister during the reign of Torgon Greyiron, High King of the Iron Islands,
Robb Stark, King in the North, tasks Maege Mormont and Galbart Glover with sailing from Seagard on Mallister longships around the Cape of Eagles to find Greywater Watch in the Neck.
The captain's sister is a resident of Duskendale. She is the sister of the captain of the guardsmen at the town gatehouse. Her name is not mentioned.
She has dark hair and a cheerful manner, and is a talented painter. She lives at a house with gorgeously painted double doors, across from the Seven Swords inn. The only castle she has ever seen is the Dun Fort.
Ser Duncan the Tall's arms
At Duskendale's gates, as the guardsmen are waving travelers through, the captain's eyes linger on Brienne of Tarth's oaken shield. He comments that it bears the black bat of House Lothston, and that they are arms of ill repute. Brienne explains that the arms are not hers, and that she means to have the shield repainted. The captain recommends his sister to Brienne, as she is a painter.
Upon entering the town, Brienne soon locates the captain's sister's house. The double doors on the house are beautifully painted. They show a castle in an autumn wood, with trees in shades of gold and russet. Ivy crawls up the trunks of ancient oaks, and even the acorns have been painted with loving care. Brienne peers more closely, and sees that there are also creatures in the foliage; a sly red fox, two sparrows on a branch, and behind those leaves the shadow of a boar.
When Brienne meets the captain's sister, she asks her which castle is in the painting. The woman replies that the castle is all castles, as she made it up in her head, having never seen any castle but the Dun Fort.
Upon seeing the Lothston bat, the captain's sister's cheerfulness falters, and she tells Brienne of Mad Danelle. When she asks Brienne what should take its place on the shield, Brienne does not want to use the arms of House Tarth, as many believe her to have murdered Renly Baratheon. Instead, Brienne tells her that her doors reminded her of an old shield she once saw in her father's armory. Brienne describes those arms to the captain's sister, unaware that it is the sigil of Ser Duncan the Tall.
The next day, the captain's sister brings the repainted shield over to Brienne in the Seven Swords common room. Brienne is very pleased with the beautiful repainting, and pays her fifty percent more than the sum they agreed upon.
Brienne: Your door is very pretty. What castle is that meant to be?
The captain's sister: All castles. The only one I know is the Dun Fort by the harbour. I made t'other in my head, what a castle ought to look like. I never seen a dragon neither, nor a griffin, nor a unicorn.
The captain of the Adventure is a smuggler and pirate.
He has a narrow face that appears feral when he smiles. He speaks the Common Tongue of Westeros.
While the Adventure is anchored in Volantis, the captain is approached by Quentyn Martell and Gerris Drinkwater to hire the ship to take them to Meereen. The captain refuses citing the end of the slave trade in the city as well as the war in Slaver's Bay. Nevertheless, he is quick to accept when Gerris offers to pay thrice the usual fee and both agree to set sail an hour before first light - sealing the deal with a toast of ale. After parting from the captain, Quentyn and Gerris realize that the man will likely kill them or enslave them once they are aboard and out of sight
I am no stranger to Meereen. I could find the city again, aye ... but why? There are no slaves to be had in Meereen, no profit to be found there. the silver queen has put an end to that. She has even closed the fighting pits, so a poor sailor cannot even amuse himself as he waits to fill his holds.
– The captain to Gerris Drinkwater and Quentyn Martell
The capture of Darry is part of the Lannister invasion of the riverlands during the War of the Five Kings.
Many of the riverlords return to their lands after the battle under the walls of Riverrun. The Lannister army led by Lord Tywin Lannister and Ser Kevan Lannister marches on each stronghold in turn.
Following the Battle of the Camps at Riverrun, Darry troops recapture their castle.
The capture of Harrenhal
Lord Roose Bolton, having decided to switch his allegiance from House Stark to House Lannister, sends a third of the northern foot to defeat at Duskendale. Roose leaves Harrenhal to its new lord, Vargo Hoat of the Brave Companions, as he goes north to the Twins for the Red Wedding with the remaining northmen. There is fighting at the Trident while Roose is on his way to the wedding, as he allows Ser Gregor Clegane to overwhelm his rearguard at the ruby ford.
Under orders from Lord Tywin Lannister, Gregor and the Mountain's men retake Harrenhal. Almost all
Gregor's band butchers most inhabitants of the castle, although survivors include the cook, whom the Lannisters rape repeatedly.
Gregor butchers Vargo, known as the goat, removing his limbs one at a time and sealing the wounds with fire to stop Vargo from bleeding to death. Gregor then has the limbs cooked and forces Vargo to eat his own flesh. Gregor also has his northern captives from the Trident, such as Ser Wylis Manderly, have a taste of "roast goat".
Harrenhal is again in the hands of House Lannister. Members of the Brave Companions are on the run throughout the riverlands. When Ser Jaime Lannister returns to Harrenhal after the death of Ser Gregor Clegane, the only survivors of those who had once served Lady Shella Whent are the maimed cook, Ben Blackthumb, and Pia.
Tywin: I mean to offer generous terms. Any castle that yields to us will be spared, save one.
Tyrion: Harrenhal?
Tywin: The realm is best rid of these Brave Companions. I have commanded Ser Gregor to put the castle to the sword.
The capture of Torrhen's Square.
Ser Rodrik Cassel and Lord Cley Cerwyn lead levies from Winterfell and Castle Cerwyn to defend Torrhen's Square, the seat of House Tallhart in the north. The besieging ironborn led by Dagmer Cleftjaw are forced to retreat to the Stony Shore following the fight at Torrhen's Square.
Rodrik, Cley, and Leobald Tallhart, the castellan of Torrhen's Square, depart to retake Winterfell from Theon Greyjoy. However, they are betrayed by Ramsay Snow and killed by Boltons in the battle at Winterfell.
Dagmer returns to Torrhen's Square and his ironmen capture the sparsely-defended keep for House Greyjoy.
The capture of Winterfell,.
As Theon Greyjoy planned, after Dagmer Cleftjaw laid siege to Torrhen's Square as a diversion, Ser Rodrik Cassel raises Winterfell's levies and marches with six hundred men, leaving Winterfell minimally defended. to Winterfell, planning to take it by surprise.
The ironborn attack in the night eight days after Rodrik leaves. Theon sends four ironborn to go over Winterfell's double walls with grappling hooks and swim its moat. From there they sneak up on Alebelly, whom they slay in a postern gate's turret, and they open the gate to let in the rest of the ironborn. With speed and surprise they take the remaining garrison unawares. Hayhead is also wounded. The crippled Bran Stark is able to sense intruders while in the mind of his direwolf, Summer, but Summer and Shaggydog are unable to escape the godswood. A wounded Maester Luwin tells Bran that he was able to send a raven to White Harbor, but a second raven was shot down by the ironborn.
Theon has the people of Winterfell brought to the Great Hall so they can hear Bran yield the castle. Declaring himself the Prince of Winterfell, Theon takes Bran and Rickon Stark, Big Walder and Little Walder Frey, Meera and Jojen Reed, and Beth Cassel as wards and hostages. "Reek", who has been released from a tower cell, and Osha agree to serve Theon. Stygg slays the blacksmith Mikken when he refuses to yield
Theon does not post guards on Bran and Rickon, and the Starks and Reeds eventually disappear overnight with the aid of Osha and Hodor.
The grief over the alleged deaths of Bran and Rickon causes Robb Stark, the King in the North, to seek solace in Jeyne Westerling's arms and then marry her at the Crag, breaking his marriage alliance with House Frey of the Twins.
I am no Stark. I am a Greyjoy, and I mean to be my father's heir. How can I do that unless I prove myself with some great deed?
- Theon Greyjoy to Dagmer
All's well, Greyjoy. Hear the quiet? You ought to be drunk with joy. You took Winterfell with fewer than thirty men, a feat to sing of.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Theon: With thirty men, I captured Winterfell in a night. You needed a thousand and a moon's turn to take Deepwood Motte.
Asha: Well, I'm no great warrior like you, brother, I saw the heads above your gates. Tell me true, which one gave you the fiercest fight, the cripple or the babe?
- Theon Greyjoy and Asha Greyjoy
Asha: Oh, it was cleverly done, I'll grant you. If only you'd had the good sense to raze the castle and carry the two little princelings back to Pyke as hostages, you might have won the war in a stroke.
– Asha Greyjoy to Theon Greyjoy
Asha: How could you be such a bloody fool? Children ...
Theon: They defied me! And it was blood for blood besides, two sons of Eddard Stark to pay for Rodrik and Maron.
- Asha Greyjoy and Theon Greyjoy
Caraxes, called the Blood Wyrm, was a dragon ridden by Prince Daemon Targaryen.
Caraxes was red, huge, and lean. In battle he was formidable, fearsome, and experienced. During the Dance of the Dragons, Caraxes was about half the size of the huge Vhagar. Meanwhile, Vhagar was three times the size of younger dragons such as Tessarion or Seasmoke.
Daemon used Caraxes during the War for the Stepstones.
At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Daemon landed Caraxes atop Kingspyre Tower during the assault on Harrenhal.
Atop Caraxes later in the civil war, Daemon challenged Aemond Targaryen and Vhagar at Harrenhal. All four were killed in the ensuing Battle Above the Gods Eye. At the end of the fight, Vhagar locked with Caraxes and they fell into the Gods Eye. While in freefall, even as Vhagar's claws opened up Caraxes's belly and used her teeth to tear off one of his wing-arms, Caraxes locked his teeth onto the larger dragon's throat and tore it out. Vhagar did not survive the force of the fall. Somehow, Caraxes managed to live long enough to pull himself out of the water and onto the shore, even though his entrails were falling out and one of his arms had been torn clean off. The dragon soon died in front of the walls of Harrenhal.
Carcosa is a legendary city in far eastern Essos. It is located on the southeastern shore of the Hidden Sea within the Mountains of the Morn; the City of the Winged Men is situated on the northwestern shore.
Carcosa and its yellow emperor are references by George R. R. Martin to Carcosa, a city in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce, *The King in Yellow* by Robert W. Chambers, and the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.
Carellen Smallwood is a member of House Smallwood and is the daughter of Lord Theomar Smallwood and Lady Ravella Swann. According to her mother, she is a good dancer and a beautiful singer.
Carellen's mother, Ravella Swann, tells Arya Stark that Carellen had been sent to Oldtown at the start of the War of the Five Kings, to stay with Ravella's great-aunt, a septa at one of the city's motherhouses.
Carolei Waynwood is a member of House Waynwood and married to Ser Geremy Frey. They have two children: Sandor Frey, a squire to Ser Donnel Waynwood, and Cynthea Frey, a ward of Lady Anya Waynwood.
Carrot is one of the mule-handlers in service to House Royce of the Gates of the Moon.
During the descent from the Eyrie, Carrot is charged by Mya Stone with bringing the baggage down the Giant's Lance to the Gates of the Moon.
Caspor Hill is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. As a serjeant, he is a high-ranking officer. He's a bastard of the Westerlands.
He, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen in Volon Therys before they invade Westeros.
Lady Cassana Estermont was a member of House Estermont and the wife of Lord Steffon Baratheon of Storm's End. With Steffon she had three sons, Robert, Stannis and Renly.
King Aerys II Targaryen sent his cousin, Lord Steffon, and Cassana to the Free Cities to search for a bride for his son, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Their quest was unsuccessful but they did find a remarkable fool called Patchface.
During the return journey their ship, the *Windproud*, was caught in a severe storm. Within sight of Robert and Stannis, who were standing on the towers of Storm's End, the ship was smashed on the rocks and sank in Shipbreaker Bay. Cassana, Steffon and hundreds of men drowned.
A Clash of Kings-Chapter 42 and A Storm of Swords-Chapter 36 state Cassana's father is the still-living Lord Estermont. *A World of Ice and Fire* indicates that Eldon Estermont is the Lord Estermont who kneels to Joffrey Baratheon after the Blackwater. However, Eldon has been mentioned as the Baratheon brothers' uncle.
Archmaester Cassander is an Archmaester of the Citadel and the author of *Song of the Sea: How the Lands Were Severed*, where he argues that the Arm of Dorne was not shattered by the children of the forest's greenseers with the Hammer of the Waters, but rather covered by the Song of the Sea, a slow rising of the waters caused by a series of long, hot summers and short, warm winters that melted the ice in the frozen lands north of the Shivering Sea..
Cassella Vaith was a member of House Vaith and a Lady of Vaith. She was the third mistress of Aegon IV Targaryen, although prior to his ascent the Iron Throne.
Cassella was a willowy maid with green eyes and pale whiteblond hair.
After the Submission of Sunspear during the Conquest of Dorne, Cassella was one of the hostages sent to King's Landing, as she was the daughter of Lord Vaith. She was escorted by Prince Aegon, who kept Cassella a "hostage" in his own chambers.
After the Dornishmen revolted and killed King Daeron I Targaryen, all the hostages were to be killed. Aegon, by then bored of her, returned Cassella to her place with the other prisoners. The new king, Baelor I Targaryen, pardoned all the hostages and personally took them back to Dorne.
Cassella never wed or had children, and in her old age she was consumed by the delusion that she had been Aegon’s one true love and that he would soon send for her.
For the captain, see Casso Mogat.
Casso, the King of Seals is the trained pet seal of Tagganaro, a Braavosi dockside entertainer, thief, and cutpurse.
Arya Stark, disguised as the street urchin and fish peddler Cat of the Canals, sells some mussels to Tagganaro, and Casso barks and lets her shake his flipper.
Arya, disguised as an ugly, disfigured girl, passes by Tagganaro playing with Casso while his cutpurse works the crowd. Tagganaro does not recognize her, though Casso may, as he barks and claps his flippers when he sees her.
Casso Mogat is the captain of the *Merry Midwife*. His mother was a Sisterton whore, and his father an Ibbenese whaler.
Casso is only five feet tall. He is very hairy, and dyes his hair and whiskers a mossy green.
Casso takes Davos Seaworth from Sisterton to White Harbor. When Davos disembarks at White Harbor, Casso tells him that the Midwife could stay for three days. Davos replies that if things go well he could be back in one day. When Casso asks if things do not go well, Davos replies that then he need not wait.
Castamere
The westerlands and the location of Castamere.
Castamere is a ruined castle
Named after a nearby pool of blue water,
Kevan Lannister, the second son of Lord Tytos Lannister of the Rock, served as first page and then squire to Robert Reyne, Lord of Castamere. Following the War of the Ninepenny Kings, tensions rose between the Reynes and Lannisters during the rule of Tytos. Castamere was where the opposing sides met to exchange hostages. Peace was short lived, however.
During the ensuing Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion, the Reynes retreated to Castamere after the destruction of Tarbeck Hall. With Roger wounded and many of their men killed in battle, the Red Lion's brother, Ser Reynard, abandoned the surface castle for the safety of the mine's oak-and-iron gate. Tytos's heir, Ser Tywin Lannister, ignored Reynard's offers and had his miners bury Castamere's entrances beneath stone. The Lannisters then dammed the pool's stream and diverted it into a mine entrance, flooding the underground chambers of Castamere and drowning those trapped inside. Tywin also had the surface buildings put to the torch. The fate of the Reynes and Castamere is remembered in the song "The Rains of Castamere".
During the War of the Five Kings, Lord Greatjon Umber captures the gold mines of Castamere after the Battle of Oxcross.
For their part in the downfall of House Stark during the War of the Five Kings, House Spicer receives Castamere and Ser Rolph Spicer is named Lord of Castamere.
A castellan is the governor or captain of a castellany and its castle. A castellan is appointed, usually by a ruling lord or lady, to oversee the defense of the castle when the lord himself is away or unable to attend to the tasks himself.
Castellans are usually male, although women can be appointed to the position as well.
Should the lord who appointed the castellan die, the castellan will remain in office until the new lord or lady dismisses him.
Castellans can be appointed when the lord goes to war. Lords who appoint a castellan when they march to fight at the start of the War of the Five Kings include Lord Gawen Westerling,
A castellan has no right to make marriage pacts.
Some of the Tyrells who served House Gardener as High Steward of Highgarden were appointed castellan in times of war.
When King Morden II Durrandon named his baseborn half brother Ronard Storm as his castellan, Ronard came to rule the stormlands in all but name. He wed Morden's sister, and claimed the kingship within five years of his appointment. His rule lasted nigh unto thirty years.
Following their initial conquest during the First Dornish War, the Targaryens left Lord Rosby as the Castellan of Sunspear. He was killed by Meria Martell, the ancient Princess of Dorne, who threw him out of a window atop the Spear Tower.
When Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen left Dragonstone for King's Landing during the Dance of the Dragons, Ser Alfred Broome, the most senior of Rhaenyra's knights at Dragonstone, expected to be named as castellan. After Rhaenyra passed him over in favor of Ser Robert Quince, Ser Alfred participated in the coup against Robert when King Aegon II Targaryen's supporters sought support on the island.
King Robert I Baratheon's bastard son Edric Storm is raised at Storm's End, the seat of Robert's younger brother Renly, who subsequently has the boy fostered by his castellans.
Ser Rodrik Cassel is appointed castellan of Winterfell by Lady Catelyn Stark after she decides to join her son, Robb Stark, at Moat Cailin.
When Lord Petyr Baelish suggests spreading the rumor that Lady Selyse Florent had an affair from which the daughter of Stannis Baratheon, Shireen, Tyrion Lannister offers Dragonstone's castellan, Ser Axell Florent, as the rumored father.
When Cersei Lannister attempts to smuggle her son Tommen Baratheon from King's Landing to keep him from harm during the upcomming Battle of the Blackwater, she sends him disguised to Rosby. Tyrion Lannister orders his men to intercept Tommen's escort and take the boy, continuing as planned to Rosby, where he judges Lord Gyles Rosby will order his castellan to open the gates.
When Bowen Marsh, castellan of Castle Black,
After Cersei Lannister refuses to name her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, as King Tommen I Baratheon's regent and Hand, he requests to be named castellan of Casterly Rock.
Jon Snow is surprised that the letter of Stannis Baratheon to Bear Island is answered by the young Lyanna Mormont, as he believes Lady Maege Mormont would have left at least one of her older daughters behind as castellan when she left home to answer Robb Stark's call to arms.
For the current castellan at Sunspear, see Manfrey Martell.
Castellan of Sunspear was a title granted by Aegon I Targaryen to Lord Rosby during brief occupation of Dorne in the First Dornish War.
Caster is a figure from the Age of Heroes and the father of Corlos, the first lord of House Casterly, who took their name from Corlos' father.
Casterly Rock
The westerlands and the location of Casterly Rock
Casterly Rock, nicknamed the Rock, is a castle and the seat of House Lannister. The capital of the westerlands, it overlooks the harbor of Lannisport and the Sunset Sea. Nearby strongholds include Kayce and Feastfires to the west, Sarsfield to the north, and Cornfield and Clegane's Keep to the south.
The household of Casterly Rock includes Maester Creylen, Vylarr, Ser Benedict Broom, and Whitesmile Wat.
Casterly Rock overlooking Lannisport by Feliche ©
See also: Images of Casterly Rock
Casterly Rock is carved out of a great stone hill colossal rock beside the Sunset Sea. It is popularly believed to resemble a lion in repose at sunset.
The Casterlys of antiquity built a ringfort on the peak, and as millenia have passed its natural defenses have been expanded with walls, gates, and watchtowers.
The Rock has been measured at three times the height of the Wall or the Hightower of Oldtown. It is almost two leagues long from west to east, and contains tunnels, dungeons, storerooms, barracks, halls, stables, stairways, courtyards, balconies, and gardens.
The Lion's Mouth, the main entry to Casterly Rock, is an enormous natural cavern reaching two hundred feet high. Its steps are now wide enough for twenty riders. Its port has docks, wharves, and shipyards and is accessible by longships and cogs.
The Golden Gallery contains treasures of the Lannisters, including gilded ornaments and walls.
The Hall of Heroes. - Illustrated by Thomas Denmark. © Fantasy Flight Games.
The region was probably inhabited by children of the forest and giants before the arrival of the First Men, and numerous animals have made it their home as well.
Legend says that Casterly Rock is named for the family that ruled it in the Age of Heroes, the Casterlys, who no longer exist. The Lannisters trace their rule over it back to Lann the Clever, who tricked the Casterlys out of their castle and claimed it for his own.
The Kings of the Rock from House Lannister took their title from their seat, and members of the family founded nearby Lannisport. During the Andal invasion, the Lannisters eventually invited Andals into their realm and brought Andal youths to serve at Casterly Rock as wards and potential hostages.
Impressed by earlier visits to Casterly Rock and the Hightower, Roland I Arryn ordered the construction of the Eyrie as a replacement for the Gates of the Moon as the seat of House Arryn.
King Gerold Lannister raided the Iron Islands and held one hundred captives in the Rock. Gerold the Great then hanged a captive whenever the ironborn threatened his lands.
During Aegon's Conquest, King Loren I formed an alliance at Casterly Rock with Mern IX Gardener, King of the Reach, against Aegon the Conqueror. House Targaryen defeated the Lannisters and Gardeners at the Field of Fire, however. After the battle, Loren the Last surrendered his crown to Aegon and was confirmed as Lord of Casterly Rock and Warden of the West.
The young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen was once courted during a feast at Casterly Rock by the twins Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister.
Lady Ellyn Reyne, the wife of Ser Tion Lannister, held a splendid court at the Rock as Lord Gerold Lannister declined in health.
For much of 267 AC, King Aerys II Targaryen resided at Casterly Rock with Lord Tywin, his Hand of the King. Tywin repaid the late Jaehaerys II Targaryen's debts to Braavos with gold from the Rock.
Shortly after the birth of Tyrion Lannister, the young Elia and Oberyn Martell accompanied their mother, the Princess of Dorne, to Casterly Rock when she met with Lord Tywin.
Aeron Greyjoy was captured after the sea battle off Fair Isle, taken to Lannisport in chains, and spent the rest of Greyjoy's Rebellion imprisoned in Casterly Rock.
When Tyrion Lannister became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden by Tywin from taking a tour of the Free Cities as his uncles Gerion and Tygett had done. Instead Tywin gave his son charge of the cisterns and drains at Casterly Rock.
Following the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day in King's Landing, Queen Cersei Lannister and her children accompanied her father, Tywin, during his return to Casterly Rock.
The wealth of Casterly Rock - Illustrated by Daniele Bigliardo. © Fantasy Flight Games.
King Robert I Baratheon tells Lord Eddard Stark that he wanted young Robert Arryn to foster at Casterly Rock with Lord Tywin Lannister, but the boy's mother took him to the Eyrie after the death of Lord Jon Arryn.
After the capture of Tyrion Lannister by Eddard's wife, Lady Catelyn Stark, Tyrion's brother Jaime wounds Ned in the streets of King's Landing and then rides for the westerlands.
Ser Stafford Lannister begins raising a new host at Casterly Rock,
Expecting the ironborn to ally with the northmen, Theon Greyjoy desires to conquer Casterly Rock and claim it for himself. His father, Lord Balon Greyjoy, states the Rock is too strong, however, and instead attacks the north.
Tyrion demands his birthright of the lordship of Casterly Rock from his father, Tywin, and is harshly rejected.
Tyrion suggests to his new wife, Sansa Stark, that they visit the Rock, wanting to show her where he and Jaime grew up, but also desiring to keep her away from the abuses of his nephew, King Joffrey I Baratheon. She remains impassive, however, so Tyrion withdraws his offer.
Resting on a weirwood stump en route to King's Landing, Jaime dreams of watery caverns beneath the Rock.
Lord Tywin intends to remove his son Jaime from the Kingsguard so he can again be heir to Casterly Rock, and also send his daughter, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, back to the Rock so she cannot interfere with the education of the new king, Tommen I Baratheon.
Tywin's brother, Ser Kevan Lannister, advises Cersei to return to the westerlands to take her place as Lady of Casterly Rock. Cersei insists on remaining in King's Landing and refuses to name Kevan as Tommen's regent,
After Cersei's arrest by the Faith of the Seven, Ser Harys Swyft and Grand Maester Pycelle invite Kevan to return from the Rock and assume the regency.
As a condition of Jaime's ending of the siege of Riverrun, Lord Edmure Tully is to become an honored captive at the Rock. His pregnant wife Roslin is to join him from the Twins once she gives birth.
An exile in Essos, Tyrion considers hiring the Golden Company to help him gain Casterly Rock, but the sellswords follow Prince Aegon Targaryen.
Lord Tywin looms as large as Casterly Rock, and no king has ever had so diligent or capable a Hand.
- writings of Pycelle
The Lannisters were an old family, tracing their descent back to Lann the Clever, a trickster from the Age of Heroes who was no doubt as legendary as Bran the Builder, though far more beloved of singers and taletellers. In the songs, Lann was the fellow who winkled the Casterlys out of Casterly Rock with no weapon but his wits, and stole gold from the sun to brighten his curly hair.
- thoughts of Eddard Stark
They say there is naught but stone at the heart of Casterly Rock.
– Catelyn Stark to Robb Stark
Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: What do I want, you ask? I'll tell you what I want. I want what is mine by rights. I want Casterly Rock ... I want you to stand up before the realm and proclaim that I am your son and your lawful heir.
Tywin: Casterly Rock. Never ... neither gods nor men shall ever compel me to let you turn Casterly Rock into your whorehouse.
- Tyrion Lannister and Tywin Lannister
Extravagance has its uses. We must demonstrate the power and wealth of Casterly Rock for all the realm to see.
- Tywin Lannister to Tyrion Lannister
My father's seat is mine by rights. Swear me your sword, and once I win it back I'll drown you in gold.
- Tyrion Lannister to Jorah Mormont
According to George R. R. Martin, Gibraltar is an inspiration for Casterly Rock.
Castle Black and the Wall by Ted Nasmith ©
Castle Black
The north and the location of Castle Black
Bird's eye view of Castle Black - by Matt Olson ©
Castle Black and the Wall (*Game of Thrones*)
Winch elevator used to get on top of the Wall
Castle Black - Training yard (*Game of Thrones*)
Castle Black is the main stronghold of the Night's Watch and the seat of their Lord Commander.
Despite there being nineteen strongholds along the Wall, Castle Black is one of only three still manned by the Night's Watch, the others being the Shadow Tower and Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
See also: Images of Castle Black
Castle Black is not a true castle, as it has no walls to defend it to the west, east, or south. Only the Wall stands to the north. It consists of several stone towers and timber keeps.
Castle Black has a small sept run by Septon Cellador but no godswood.
The Lord Commander's Tower, also called "Lord Commander's Keep", is where the Lord Commander's quarters are located.
The King's Tower is a 100 foot tall round tower with merlons atop it, overlooking the gate and the foot of the wooden stair leading up the Wall. The entry door is made of oak studded with iron. Although it is reserved for honored guests and named for kings, no king has visited the tower in over a hundred years.
Hardin's Tower has a broken battlement, from which stone has spilled into the yard below. It has a severe lean.
The Lance is the tallest tower at the castle, though only a third of the height of the Wall. It is slim and crumbling.
The Tower of Guards is the strongest of the towers. It lies next to the kingsroad and the Wall, and guards the wooden stair.
The Silent Tower is a tower at Castle Black.
There are a series of tunnels underneath Castle Black called wormwalks or wormways, which connect the various keeps and towers. These tunnels are mostly used during the winter, when the cold and snow, sometimes forty or fifty feet deep, make it impossible to travel above ground.
Beside the eastern road from Castle Black is a lichyard with the graves of some members of the Night's Watch.
The gate guards the tunnel through the Wall, which is long, twisting and narrow. Three iron gates block the inner passage. Each of these gates is locked and has a murder hole above it. The outer door to the tunnel is solid oak, about nine inches thick.
The great switchback stair climbs its way up from Castle Black to the top of the Wall. It is made of wooden stairs, anchored by huge beams frozen into the Wall itself.
An iron cage attached to a winch is used to ascend and descend the face of the Wall. The cage can hold ten men
Facilities on top of the Wall include a small warming shed for the men on watch located next to the crane.
Castle Black is an ancient stronghold, thus putting the number of servants it ones held at approximately one thousand.
Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly are trained by Ser Alliser Thorne as recruits of the Night's Watch at Castle Black. Tyrion Lannister sleeps in the King's Tower during his visit to the Wall, while Jon sleeps in Hardin's Tower.
Two hundred men from Castle Black accompany Lord Commander Mormont during the great ranging north of the Wall. Maester Aemon remains at the castle because of his age. Samwell Tarly reads a report in the library about Redwyn, a brother who led a ranging to the Frozen Shore during the reign of Dorren Stark, King in the North.
Jon returns to Castle Black after being wounded by wildlings at Queenscrown south of the Wall.
Mance Rayder attacks the Wall with multiple waves of wildings during the battle beneath the Wall. Jon leads the defenders atop the Wall while Donal protects the tunnel through the Wall. After the death of Donal, Aemon tells Jon that he must lead Castle Black until its garrison returns.
In the aftermath of the battle, Sam finds the common hall burned to the ground and the wooden stair a mound of broken ice and scorched timbers.
Samwell searches in Castle Black's library for information about the Others. Sam learns from Lord Commander Snow that he must escort Maester Aemon to Oldtown and then train at the Citadel to become Castle Black's new maester.
Castle Black hosts the army of King Stannis. Jon Snow executes Janos Slynt for disobedience, while Melisandre burns "Mance Rayder". Jon allows thousands of captive wildlings to cross through the Wall to Castle Black, much to the consternation of some members of the Night's Watch.
Queen Selyse and her queen's men stop at Castle Black on their way to the Nightfort.
Lord Commander Snow agrees to disperse the wildings amongst the previously abandoned castles along the Wall.
Castle Cerwyn
The North and the location of Castle Cerwyn
Castle Cerwyn is the seat of House Cerwyn in the North. It is located on a western branch of the White Knife, southeast of Winterfell.
Lord Medger Cerwyn succumbs to wounds at Harrenhal.
Ser Rodrik Cassel sends a raven from Castle Cerwyn to Riverrun informing Catelyn Tully that her sons, Bran and Rickon Stark, have been killed by Theon Greyjoy.
Jonelle Cerwyn becomes the head of House Cerwyn when her brother, Cley, is killed in battle at Winterfell.
Maester Aemon sends a raven to Castle Cerwyn in a plea for help to defend Castle Black from wildlings.
Soldiers from Cerwyn serve in the army of Lord Roose Bolton, but he does not trust their loyalty.
Castlewood is the seat of House Harlton in the riverlands in the video game *Game of Thrones*.
Catelyn Bracken is a member of House Bracken, a daughter of Lord Jonos Bracken of Stone Hedge.
Lady Catelyn Stark,
Catelyn was born into House Tully of Riverrun, the liege lords of the riverlands. She is the eldest daughter of Lord Hoster Tully and Lady Minisa Whent, and has two younger siblings: Lysa and Edmure. She is a major POV character in the books and is portrayed by Michelle Fairley in the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*.
Catelyn Stark by Amok ©
See also: Images of Catelyn Stark
Catelyn is beautiful,
Catelyn tries to follow the words of House Tully, "Family, Duty, Honor."
Catelyn holds to the Faith of the Seven.
Catelyn by Paolo Puggioni ©
Catelyn is the eldest daughter of Lord Hoster Tully, the Lord of Riverrun, head of House Tully and Lord Paramount of the Trident, and his wife, Lady Minisa Whent. She was annointed with the seven oils and named in the sept of Riverrun.
Catelyn was raised at Riverrun. She was close with her sister Lysa,
Catelyn and Lysa played together as girls, and even had a secret language.
When Catelyn, at the age of twelve, was betrothed to Brandon Stark, the heir to Winterfell, she thanked her father for making such a splendid match for her.
When the date of Catelyn's wedding was announced
Later, on his way return to Riverrun, Brandon learned about the disappearance of his sister, Lyanna Stark, and the involvement of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Furious, he rode to King's Landing, where he was arrested by King Aerys II Targaryen. When Brandon's father, Lord Rickard Stark, went to King's Landing to champion Brandon in his trial by battle, both men were executed.
Catelyn and her daughters, Arya (left) and Sansa (right), by Mathia Arkoniel ©
Catelyn married Eddard Stark after the rebels won the Battle of the Bells, without ever having seen him before their wedding day. She married Eddard in the same ceremony as her sister Lysa married the elder Lord Jon Arryn. Eddard and Jon played key roles in the rebellion, and a fortnight after the wedding both men rode off to war again. Catelyn remained at Riverrun, spending the first year of her marriage separated from her husband.
After the war had ended, Catelyn and young Robb travelled to Winterfell, where she was displeased to discover that Eddard's bastard son, Jon Snow, had already been set up in the castle.
On Eddard's part, the knowledge that Catelyn had actually been his brother Brandon's bride created a rift in their marriage. Despite these issues, however, Catelyn and Eddard grew to deeply love each other over the years.
As the Lady of Winterfell, Catelyn became familiar with the lords of the north, and she once comforted a fellow southron, Lady Lynesse Hightower, by telling her how she had once felt out of place in the north, but had come to love it all the same.
Catelyn and Eddard at the Godswood - by Denmark ©
After the arrival of the royal party at Winterfell, Catelyn receives a letter from her sister Lysa, stating that the Lannisters had killed her husband, Lord Jon Arryn, the late Hand of the King. This puts the Starks on guard, as Eddard has just been offered the position of Hand by his friend, King Robert I Baratheon. Catelyn pushes Ned to accept the offer along with a betrothal that would make Sansa queen one day. Despite misgivings about going to King's Landing, Ned accepts.
When Bran is left in a coma having apparently fallen while climbing the First Keep, Catelyn stays by his side for eight days, ignoring her own affairs and those of Winterfell. On the eighth night, she is attacked by an assassin who had come for Bran. During the ensuing struggle she grabs the blade of his knife, causing deep lacerations to her palms, before Bran's direwolf attacks and kills him.
On their way back to Winterfell, still travelling in secret, they encounter Tyrion at the inn at the crossroads. He recognizes her, exposing her identity to those present, which includes men-at-arms in service to bannermen of House Tully. Catelyn successfully appeals to them to detain Tyrion for conspiring to murder her son, and assist her in returning him to Winterfell to await justice.
Her son Robb having marched south with his father's bannermen in response to Eddard's arrest in King's Landing, Catelyn joins House Manderly's levies at White Harbor and meets the northern host in the field at Moat Cailin.
When the army finds it necessary to cross the Green Fork, the delicate task of negotiating with Lord Walder Frey falls to Catelyn. She negotiates passage and an alliance with House Frey by promising, among other things, Robb's hand in marriage to one of Walder's daughter and Arya's hand to Walder's son Elmar.
After the news of Eddard's execution by order of King Joffrey I Baratheon, Catelyn is filled with grief but maintains composure for the sake of her son. During the war council at Riverrun after the Battle of the Camps, Catelyn argues for peace with the south so that Sansa and Arya might be more easily brought to safety. Robb and the assembled lords make clear their desire to continue the war, with the Greatjon declaring Robb the first King in the North in three centuries.
Catelyn advises against Robb's plan to send Eddard's ward, Theon Greyjoy, on a diplomatic mission to offer terms of an alliance with his father, Lord Balon Greyjoy, as she does not trust either.
It is Catelyn's idea to attempt to ally with Renly Baratheon, who has a massive host, but she wishes to remain with Robb.
Catelyn is present for the inconclusive parley between the two brothers outside Storm's End,
Catelyn disapproves of the admittance of smallfolk into Riverrun by her brother, Ser Edmure Tully.
Upon hearing of her two youngest sons' supposed murders at the hand of Theon following his capture of Winterfell, Catelyn meets with the imprisoned Ser Jaime Lannister. The Kingslayer admits to having thrown Bran from the First Keep but insists he did not send the catspaw to attack the comatose boy.
Catelyn claws her face and screams after the death of Robb Stark at the Red Wedding - by nejna ©
Catelyn frees Jaime in a covert attempt to exchange him for her daughters Sansa and Arya, believed to be captives at King's Landing.
Catelyn is placed under house arrest at Riverrun by Ser Desmond Grell and by Edmure once her brother returns from battle.
Catelyn's father, Lord Hoster, finally dies at Riverrun, making Edmure the new lord.
While traveling to the Twins for Edmure's marriage with Roslin Frey, Catelyn objects to Robb's intention to name Jon Snow his heir.
Catelyn attends Edmure's wedding at the Twins, sitting between Ser Ryman Frey and Lord Roose Bolton during the feast.
Three days after her death,
Lady Stoneheart, with Robb's crown - by zippo514 ©
A cloaked and hooded woman is spoken of in the vicinity of Fairmarket
While leading the brotherhood, Stoneheart's outlaws come upon a small party led by Brienne of Tarth, who insists she is searching for Sansa at the behest of Jaime Lannister. Thoros reveals to Brienne that Beric's brotherhood has been broken. Using a young northman as her interpreter, Stoneheart says that Brienne has turned traitor, as she carries Oathkeeper, a Lannister sword forged from the Stark Valyrian steel blade, Ice. Brienne swears she is still faithful but Stoneheart insists she must prove it by killing Jaime. Brienne refuses, stating that Jaime has changed. Stoneheart says she must choose, either kill Jaime or be hanged. Brienne refuses to choose. Just before she, Hyle Hunt and Podrick Payne are to be executed, however, Brienne shouts out a word.
After Theon Greyjoy returns to Winterfell for the wedding of Ramsay Bolton and "Arya Stark",
See also: Images of Lady Stoneheart
Death has changed Catelyn. Stoneheart is less gracious and forgiving than in life and is consumed with a desire for vengeance on anyone she thinks betrayed her and her son, Robb. She hangs any men associated with the Freys, Boltons, or Lannisters, even if they had nothing to do with the "Red Wedding" or if they are boys, as is the case of Podrick Payne. Her appearance has been altered as well, with her flesh becoming soft and the color of curdled milk due to her corpse being submerged in river water for days. Half of her hair is gone and the rest is white and brittle. In addition, her wounds have not healed with her face covered in scratch marks and her throat still slit open. To speak she must cover the wound on her throat; even then she is difficult to understand.
Catelyn as portrayed by Michelle Fairley in *Game of Thrones*
My son lies here broken and dying, Luwin, and you wish to discuss a new master of horse? Do you think I care what happens in the stables? Do you think it matters to me one whit? I would gladly butcher every horse in Winterfell with my own hands if it would open Bran's eyes, do you understand that? Do you?
Catelyn: A woman can rule as wisely as a man.
Brynden: The right woman can. Make no mistake, Cat. Lysa is not you.—Catelyn and Brynden Tully
Robb, if that sword could bring him back, I should never let you sheathe it until Ned stood at my side once more... but he is gone, and a hundred Whispering Woods will not change that.
—Catelyn, to Robb Stark
If I must trade our four Lannisters for their two Starks, I will call that a bargain and thank the gods. I want you safe, Robb, ruling at Winterfell from your father's seat. I want you to live your life, to kiss a girl and wed a woman and father a son. I want to write an end to this. I want to go home, my lords, and weep for my husband.
—Catelyn, to Robb Stark and his council
I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.
—Catelyn's thoughts
It is a monstrous cruel thing to lose a child.
—Catelyn to herself
Wars need not be fought until the last drop of blood.
—Catelyn to Robb Stark
Catelyn: On my honor as a Tully, on my honor as a Stark, I will trade your boy's life for Robb's. A son for a son.
Walder: A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson ... and he never was much use.—Catelyn and Walder Frey
All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Catelyn Stark might take a man prisoner, but she'd never stoop to rob him. That wouldn't be honorable.
—Tyrion Lannister to Mord
You have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but ... I don't know ... a kind of woman's courage.
—Brienne of Tarth to Catelyn
She don't speak. You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers.
—Lem, to Merrett Frey
Her cloak and collar hid the gash his brother’s blade had made, but her face was even worse than he remembered. The flesh had gone pudding soft in the water and turned the color of curdled milk. Half her hair was gone and the rest had turned as white and brittle as a crone’s. Beneath her ravaged scalp, her face was shredded skin and black blood where she had raked herself with her nails. But her eyes were the most terrible thing. Her eyes saw him, and they hated.
—Merrett Frey's thoughts
And there's this other band, led by this woman Stoneheart... Lord Beric's lover, according to one tale. Supposedly she was hanged by the Freys, but Dondarrion kissed her and brought her back to life, and now she cannot die, no more than he.
The Freys slashed her throat from ear to ear. When we found her by the river she was three days dead. Harwin begged me to give her the kiss of life, but it had been too long. I would not do it, so Lord Beric put his lips to hers instead, and the flame of life passed from him to her. And... she rose. May the Lord of Light protect us. She rose.
An unnamed catspaw* he is portrayed by Lalor Roddy.
The catspaw is described as being a small, dirty man in filthy brown clothing that smells of horses. He has a gaunt face, limp blond hair and pale deep-sunk eyes. He wields an Valyrian steel dagger that has a dragonbone hilt. Catelyn notes that he moves unexpectedly fast.
Bran's wolf rescues Catelyn.
The assassin arranges for a fire to start in the library tower of Winterfell as a diversion. This succeeds in drawing Robb Stark from the comatose Bran's room in order to attend to the fire, leaving Catelyn behind. Upon entering the room, he finds Catelyn and claims that she was not supposed to be there. As he moves to Bran, he states that killing him would be a mercy. As she attempts to scream for help, Catelyn is attacked by the assassin, who moves to try and attempt to slit her throat. They struggle and he injures her hand, as well as pulling out some of her hair. He is about to attack again, when Summer, Bran's direwolf, attacks him and tears out his throat.
Following this, Hallis Mollen informs Catelyn that the assassin was not a servant or stableboy and had been seen wandering around the castle following the weeks after Bran's fall. Mollen also reports that the assassin had been sleeping in the stables, explaining why he had smelled of horses. Amongst the possessions found in the stables, Robb mentions that the assassin had been paid ninety silver stags to kill Bran.
Tyrion recalls a memory whilst he was at Winterfell, in which he overheard Prince Joffrey Baratheon jesting with the Hound, Sandor Clegane, to send a dog to kill a wolf. He guesses that Joffrey hired the catspaw among those that joined the king's party as they made their way north and that he had found the dagger amongst his father's weapons and had simply taken it. However, Tyrion is unable to figure out why Joffrey wanted Bran dead, and attributes it to his innate cruelty.
Jaime later realises that Joffrey sent the assassin in an attempt to impress his father, after overhearing a drunken Robert I Baratheon say it would be kinder to put the crippled Bran out of his misery.
You weren't s'posed to be here.
– catspaw to Catelyn Stark
Some poxy lackwit willing to risk his life for a prince's favor and a little coin.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister