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Poison Sea

Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of the Poison Sea

The Poison Sea is a large inland saltwater sea at the northeastern edges of the red waste.




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Poison kisses are purple flowers found south of the Neck in Westeros. They can cause rashes if they come into contact with skin.

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A Game of Thrones

Arya Stark receives a rash from poison kisses after gathering flowers for her father, Eddard Stark. Mycah tells her that mud will stop the itching.




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The Dothraki refer to the ocean as the poison water; they dislike, mistrust and fear it. Water that a horse cannot drink is something foul and the heaving great grey-green plains of the ocean fill them with superstitious loathing. Nor do they like the fact that a horse cannot cross the poison water on its own legs.[*citation needed*]

The Dothraki believe that the earth ends at the great salt sea. Prior to his vow to take the Iron Throne for his unborn son the notion of crossing the black salt sea gives even Khal Drogo pause.[*citation needed*]

Ships are referred to by the Dothraki as wooden horses.[*citation needed*]

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

On the day Daenerys Targaryen’s three ships lifted anchor at Qarth, she thinks to herself that you'd have thought they were all sailing to hell instead of Pentos. Irri and Jhiqui clutched the rail desperately and retched over the side at every little swell. Even her brave young bloodriders stared off at the dwindling coastline with huge white eyes, each of the three determined to show no fear before the other two.

Dany’s tiny khalasar chose to remain below decks throughout the passage, preferring the company of their nervous horses to the terrifying world about the ships. When a sudden squall enveloped them six days into the voyage, she heard them through the hatches, the horses kicking and screaming, the riders praying in thin quavery voices each time the Balerion heaved or swayed.

A Dance with Dragons

When Daenerys Targaryen surmises that Xaro Xhoan Daxos's thirteen ships may be enough to carry them to Westeros, Irri and Jhiqui exchange a look. Irri tells Daenerys the poison water is accursed, horses cannot drink it. Daenerys promises them that she does not intend to drink it.[*citation needed*]

Quotes

No horse can cross the poison water

- Khal Drogo




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The Blue Graces say that only Belwas’s size and freakish strength saved him from the poisoning - by Sir-Heartsalot ©

Poisoned locusts were used in an attempt to assassinate Daenerys Targaryen by means of a bowl of edible honeyed locusts laced with poison. Honeyed locusts are sweet and tasty and it must have been hoped that they would tempt Daenerys to take a bite. Whether Daenerys would have had to consume just one locust or a number of them in order to successfully kill her is unknown.

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A Dance with Dragons

While in their box in Daznak's Pit, Daenerys Targaryen notes that her husband, Hizdahr zo Loraq, has well stocked it with flagons of chilled wine and sweetwater, figs, dates, melons, pomegranates, pecans, peppers - and a big bowl of honeyed locusts.

Upon entering the box alongside Daenerys, Strong Belwas immediately spots the bowl of honeyed locusts and begins to crunch them by the handful, while Hizdahr tries to encourage Daenerys to eat them as well. Daenerys declines.

During the matches they view, Belwas finishes the entire bowl of honeyed locusts on his own. After Barsena Blackhair is killed by a boar, Belwas rubs his swollen stomach and remarks that he is sick in his belly. A little later he says that he has eaten too many locusts, and he has a queasy look on his face. When Daenerys's black dragon Drogon suddenly appears above the pit amidst the uproar Belwas gives a moan, stumbles to his feet and falls to his knees. As Drogon consumes the boar and Barsena Blackhair Strong Belwas is retching nosily – the poison is taking effect.

After Daenerys disappearance on Drogon strong Belwas lingers at the door of death in the temple, under the care of the Blue Graces.[*citation needed] He manages to survive.[citation needed*]

The confectioner

Sometime thereafter Skahaz mo Kandaq informs Ser Barristan that he has the poisoner – Hizdahr zo Loraq's confectioner. However the confectioner was just a catspaw, as the Sons of the Harpy took the confectioner's daughter and swore that she would be returned unharmed once the queen was dead. Belwas and the dragon saved Daenerys, according to Skahaz, though no one saved the girl. He informs Barristan that she was returned to her father in the black of night in nine pieces.

Skahaz names Hizdahr as the poisoner. Ser Barristan Selmy thinks about Hizdahr, and recalls how he had urged Daenerys to try the honeyed locusts, though he never touched one himself.*]

Later, while wandering the Dothraki Sea, Daenerys Targaryen realises that the bowl of honeyed locusts had been poisoned and that Strong Belwas had been poisoned inadvertently.

Suspected poisoners

Quotes

Those are very tasty. You ought to try a few yourself, my love. They are rolled in spice before the honey, so they are sweet and hot at once.

- Hizdahr zo Loraq urging his wife, Queen Daenerys Targaryen, to eat some of the locusts

And he could still hear Hizdahr, urging his queen to try the honeyed locusts. Those are very tasty … sweet and hot … yet he never touched so much as one himself****

- Barristan Selmy's thoughts about the poisoned locusts




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Pol Qo, called Hammer of the Jogos Nhai, is a YiTish general that has claimed the title of God-Emperor as the first of the orange emperors in defiance of the seventeenth azure emperor, Bu Gai. His seat is located at the city of Trader Town.




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Wisdom Pollitor was a member of the Alchemists' Guild in King's Landing. He trained Widsom Hallyne and claimed that the decline in the potency of wildfire was linked to the extinction of dragons.




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Polliver is a man-at-arms in service to Ser Gregor Clegane. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Andy Kellegher.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Polliver

Andy Kellegher as Polliver in *Game of Thrones*

Polliver is near as tall as Sandor Clegane, but not as heavily muscled.

Polliver is a grim and methodical fighter,

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A Clash of Kings

Polliver serves with Ser Gregor Clegane in the riverlands and is among the Mountain's men who capture Arya Stark, Gendry and Hot Pie near the Gods Eye. He takes Needle from Arya.

Polliver later departs Harrenhal alongside Lord Tywin Lannister as part of Gregor's vanguard, unknowingly putting himself out of Arya's reach to choose him as her next target for Jaqen H'ghar.

Polliver participates in the Battle of the Fords under Gregor's command, managing to cross the Red Fork as one of his best men. He survives the battle at Stone Mill and successfully retreats when Ser Edmure Tully counter-attacks with his reserve.

A Storm of Swords

Polliver's atrocities are recalled by Arya, who informs Harwin and the brotherhood without banners.

After the capture of Harrenhal, Polliver, the Tickler and a Sarsfield squire go whoring at the inn at the crossroads, where they encounter Sandor Clegane and Arya.

A Feast for Crows

Ser Jaime Lannister discovers that Gregor had named Polliver as Harrenhal's castellan after his departure, but Polliver was killed by Sandor, leaving no one in charge at the castle.




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King Aegon I Targaryen had taken both of his sisters to wife. Artwork by Amok©

Polygamy can be defined as a marriage which includes more than two partners.

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Polygamy in Westeros

In Westeros, for both the highborn and lowborn, marriage is chiefly between two people, a man and a woman. The Faith of the Seven does not permit polygamy, and considers it a sin.

The First Men

During the Age of Heroes, the legendary Florys the Fox, cleverest of the children of Garth Greenhand, kept three husbands, each ignorant of the existence of the others.

King Garland II "The Bridegroom" Greenhand, King of the Reach in the time before the Andals came to Westeros, had multiple wives. In order to marry the daughter of Lord Lymond Hightower, Lord of Oldtown, he put aside his other wives. This union, combined with the marriage of Lord Lymond and King Garland's daughter, brought Oldtown into the kingdom of House Gardener.

According to the songs, Storm King Ronard "the Bastard" of Storm's End had twenty-three wives.

House Targaryen

Lord Aenar Targaryen took multiple wives with him when he left Valyria for Dragonstone.

During the Conquest, Aegon received a proposal from the Storm King, Argilac Durrandon, who offered his daughter Argella as a wife to Aegon. Stating he did not need a third wife, Aegon refused the suggestion. Queen Regent Sharra Arryn of the Kingdom of Mountain and Vale offered herself in marriage to Aegon, but Aegon refused her offer as well.

Aegon I's younger son, Maegor, is the last Targaryen currently known to have had multiple wives. He had been married to Lady Ceryse Hightower in 25 AC, but in 39 AC, he took Alys Harroway to wife in a Valyrian ceremony led by his mother, Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen,

When Aenys died in 42 AC, Maegor returned from Pentos, and a courtesan named Tyanna arrived not much later, together with Queen Alys. Maegor took Tyanna to wife that same year. In 45 AC, Maegor's first wife, Ceryse, died due to sudden illness. Two years later, Maegor married his three Black Brides, widowed women of proven fertility, in a single ceremony.

With the death of their dragons during and after the Dance of the Dragons, House Targaryen saw a decrease in their power and threat that they needed to be able to get away with committing the sin of polygamy in Westeros. According to George R. R. Martin,

Maegor the Cruel has multiple wives, from lines outside his own, so there was and is precedent. However, the extent to which the Targaryen kings could defy convention, the Faith, and the opinions of the other lords decreased markedly after they no longer had dragons. If you have a dragon, you can have as many wives as you want, and people are less likely to object.

Despite the lack of dragons, it is possible that King Aegon IV Targaryen promised his bastard son Daemon Blackfyre that he could marry both Rohanne of Tyrosh and Aegon's daughter Princess Daenerys. King Aegon's successor, King Daeron II Targaryen, however, did not permit the second marriage.

There has been no mention of a Targaryen or Valyrian woman ever having more than one husband at a time. Nonetheless, in 299 AC Ser Jorah Mormont proposes the idea to Queen Daenerys Targaryen as a possible meaning for "the dragon has three heads",

The Iron Islands

On the Iron Islands, a man can have one true- and freeborn "rock wife". However, he can also have "salt wives", usually women captured on raids. Salt wives are considered more than mere concubines, and any sons born of such unions are not considered bastards, but can inherit should their father have no surviving sons by his rock wife. The number of salt wives a man can support is considered to be an indication of his power, wealth, and virility.

Dorne

In Dorne, it is not uncommon for a nobleman or a noblewoman to have a spouse for political reasons and a paramour for love. While the Dornish are not very concerned if a child is born out of marriage, children by paramours are nevertheless considered to be bastards, and thus have to use the surname "Sand", while the children by the spouse use the family name and inherit.

Beyond the Wall

North of the Wall, the wildling Craster has multiple wives. By 299 AC, he is married to nineteen women, many of whom are also his daughters.

Other incidents

In the era of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, there was a Kingsguard knight named Ser Lucamore Strong, called "Lucamore the Lusty", who had three wives and sixteen children. Knights of the Kingsguard are not allowed to have wives or children, so when Lucamore's deceit was discovered, his own brothers of the Kingsguard gelded him, and the king sent him to the Wall.

Polygamy in Essos

In Valyria, the dragonlords and sorcerer princes took more than one wife when it pleased them, though this was less common than incestuous marriages.

The Lyseni pirate Salladhor Saan claims to have multiple wives

Amongst the Dothraki, *khals* can have more than one wife. Known examples include Khal Jommo, who has four wives,

In Astapor, Cleon the Great had multiple wives, though he said he would put them aside if Daenerys Targaryen would marry him.

At the docks of Qarth, a brass merchant refers to his wives.

The emperors of Yi Ti may have multiple wives, including the last indigo emperor Choq Choq, who had a hundred wives and a thousand concubines.

In Leng, the first god-empress of the current dynasty, Khiara the Great, took two husbands, one Lengii and one YiTish - a customary pattern followed by her daughters and their daughters in turn.




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Pono is a *ko* in Khal Drogo's *khalasar*.

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

When Drogo falls ill, Pono is the first to declare himself *khal* and takes part of Drogo's khalasar with him.

A Clash of Kings

When Daenerys Targaryen sets out with her khalasar, she is advised from going downriver by Rakharo. He says that is the direction that Pono went with ten thousand of Drogo's khalasar. Pono intends to sell thousands of captives at Slaver's Bay.

A Dance with Dragons

The khalasar of Khal Pono is reported to be near the headwaters of the Selhoru. His khalasar is said to be thirty thousand strong and other khals such as Zekko and Motho fear Pono's khalasar., stating:

The horselords come, we give them gifts, the horselords go.




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*"Stars" redirects here. For the coin, see currency.*

The poor fellows are suppressed - by Marc Simonetti ©

The Poor Fellows was an order of Westerosi, mostly smallfolk, sworn to the Faith of the Seven. They were part of the Faith Militant, and were otherwise known as the Stars, as they used a red seven-pointed star as their badge., as they believed the High Septon spoke for the Seven.

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History

The red star of the Poor Fellows had its origins in the days of the Andal invasion of Westeros, when zealous warriors carved the seven-pointed star into their chests.

Acting as a militant counterpart to begging brothers, Poor Fellows became defenders of wayfarers on the road, escorting pilgrims between septs. They greatly outnumbered their knightly counterparts in the Faith Militant, the Warrior's Sons.

The Poor Fellows accepted members from all ranks of society, regardless of birth, sex or station, though they were led in battle by the Warrior's Sons.[*citation needed*] Women could rise to be leaders of the Poor Fellows: one of the most famous examples was Poxy Jeyne Poore, who led the Poor Fellows in the stormlands during the Faith Militant uprising, and was considered one of their most savage captains.

Despite not being as trained, disciplined, or well-armed as the Warrior's Sons, the Poor Fellows formed the bulk of the Faith's army. They were lightly-armed footmen who carried whatever weapons they could make or find, often axes or cudgels, and they wore star badges, red on surcoats bleached white. Some even scourged or branded the seven-pointed star in their flesh.

At the start of the Faith Militant uprising in 41 AC, Poor Fellows slew Septon Murmison for performing the incestual marriage of Prince Aegon Targaryen to Princess Rhaena Targaryen, both children of King Aenys I Targaryen. Poor Fellows also tried to assassinate the Targaryens at their manse in Visenya's Hill,

Members of the order were brutally suppressed by King Maegor the Cruel because of their involvement in the rebellions. Maegor achieved a great victory over the Poor Fellows in the battle of Stonebridge, and defeated thirteen hundred of them at the Great Fork of the Blackwater.

Maegor outlawed the militant orders, offering a silver stag coin for an unrepentant Poor Fellow.

Although outlawed, the Poor Fellows existed until the reign of the Old King, Jaehaerys I. Jaehaerys the Conciliator and Septon Barth negotiated a peace with the High Septon, however, and the Swords and Stars peacefully disbanded.

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A Feast for Crows

In the aftermath of the War of the Five Kings, the sparrows make their way to King's Landing to demand the Iron Throne protection for the Faith. A man, with a seven-pointed star carved on his chest, identifies the group as "poor fellows".

The new High Septon, known as the High Sparrow after the movement he leads, is allowed to restore the Poor Fellows after negotiating with Queen Regent Cersei Lannister. She overturns the law forbidding holy men from being armed, and the order is reborn..

Poor Fellows protect Lancel Lannister, Lord of Darry, when Ser Jaime Lannister visits his cousin's castle.

A Dance with Dragons

The Great Sept of Baelor is surrounded by a ragged horde of Poor Fellows.

Poor Fellows and Warrior's Sons escort Cersei during her walk of atonement.

Historical members

Quotes

This debt shall be forgiven, and King Tommen will have his blessing. The Warrior's Sons shall escort me to him, shining in the glory of their Faith, whilst my sparrows go forth to defend the meek and humble of the land, reborn as Poor Fellows as of old.

- High Sparrow to Cersei Lannister




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Porridge is a gaoler at Dragonstone. He is broad, squat, with thick shoulders and large, strong hands. He is very strong.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

While Ser Davos Seaworth is imprisoned, Porridge is one of his gaolers. He brings Ser Davos porridge, which is how Ser Davos gives him his nickname.




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Port Moraq is a port city on the southern coast of Great Moraq, near the Cinnamon Straits. The land north of the city is a dense rain forest. South of Port Moraq is the Isle of Elephants.

Behind the Scenes

Port Moraq has 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*.




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Port Plunder is a famous pirate lair in the Basilisk Isles, celebrated in songs and stories. It can't be found on any map, however, for the reason that there has been at least a dozen Port Plunders on as many of the Basilisks. Whenever one is destroyed or abandoned, another is founded, only to be destroyed or abandoned in turn.




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Port Yhos

Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of Port Yhos

Port Yhos is a town in Essos located east of Slaver's Bay on the shores of the Summer Sea. The westernmost settlement controlled by Qarth,




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The Port of Ibben is the main city on Ib and is the largest city of Ibben. It is located on the southern coast of Ib.

The city is grey and gloomy and has ruled over Ib and the lesser isles since the Dawn Age. It is a city of cobbled alleys, steep hills, and teeming docks and shipyards, lit by whale-oil lamps suspended on iron chains. The main structure in the city are the ruins of the God-King's castle. Beyond the Port of Ibben foreigners are only allowed with an Ibbenese host.

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History

The ironborn raiders of the Iron Islands have sailed as far as the Port of Ibben.

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A Game of Thrones

At the manse of Illyrio Mopatis in Pentos, Daenerys Targaryen sees hairy men from the Port of Ibben.

When Lord Eddard Stark confronts Queen Cersei Lannister about the parentage of King Robert Baratheon's children, Ned suggests that the queen exile herself to the Summer Isles or the Port of Ibben.

A Feast for Crows

Arya Stark sells oysters on the decks of ships from the Port of Ibben at the Ragman's Harbor in Braavos.




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The port of Qarth.

A ship docked at the port of Qarth.

The port of Qarth is one of the world’s great ports. Its great sheltered harbor is a riot of colour and clangor and strange smells. It is horseshoe-shaped and several miles long.

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About

Winesinks, warehouses, and gaming dens line the streets, cheek by jowl with cheap brothels and the temples of peculiar gods.

Cutpurses, cutthroats, spellsellers, and moneychangers mingle with every crowd.

The waterfront is one great marketplace where buying and selling goes on all day and all night, and goods might be had for a fraction of what they cost at the bazaar - if a man does not ask where they came from.

Wizened old women bent like hunchbacks sell flavored waters and goat’s milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders. Seamen from half a hundred nations wander amongst the stalls, drinking spiced liquors and trading jokes in queer-sounding tongues. The air smells of salt and frying fish, of hot tar and honey, of incense and oil and sperm.

Elsewhere beautiful bronze daggers are for sale, dried squids and carved onyx, a potent magical elixir made of virgin’s milk and shade of the evening and even dragon's eggs - which look suspiciously like painted rocks.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

When Daenerys Targaryen decides to flee Qarth she goes down to the docks to attempt to book ship passage to Westeros.

As she and her companions pass the long stone quays reserved for the ships of the Thirteen, she sees chests of saffron, frankincense, and pepper being off-loaded from Xaro's ornate *Vermillion Kiss.[citation needed*]

Beside the *Vermillion Kiss, casks of wine, bales of sourleaf, and pallets of striped hides are being trundled up the gangplank onto the *Bride in Azure, to sail on the evening tide.[*citation needed*]

Farther along, a crowd has gathered around the Spicer galley *Sunblaze* to bid on slaves. It is well known that the cheapest place to buy a slave was right off the ship, and the banners floating from her masts proclaime that the Sunblaze had just arrived from Astapor on Slaver's Bay.[*citation needed*]

Knowing that she will get no help from the Thirteen, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, or the Ancient Guild of Spicers Daenerys rides her silver past several miles of their quays, docks, and storehouses, all the way out to the far end of the horseshoe-shaped harbor where the ships from the Summer Islands, Westeros, and the Nine Free Cities are permitted to dock.[*citation needed*]

She dismounts beside a gaming pit where a basilisk is tearing a big red dog to pieces amidst a shouting ring of sailors. [*citation needed*]

As she and Ser Jorah Mormont approach the first ship Daenerys thinks to herself that it is good to hear men speaking Valyrian once more, and even the Common Tongue.[*citation needed*]

Sailors, dockworkers, and merchants alike give way before her, not knowing what to make of the slim young girl with silver-gold hair who is dressed in the Dothraki fashion and walks with a knight at her side.[*citation needed*]

Daenerys visits various ships,

In the end she is unsuccessful in her bid to gain passage out of Qarth, until Strong Belwas and Arstan Whitebeard find her.[*citation needed*]

Daenerys and her followers soon depart the port aboard *Balerion, *Meraxes and *Vhagar* intending to sail to Pentos.[*citation needed*]




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Books · Characters · History · Culture · Chapter summaries · Geography · Houses · TV Series




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Books · Characters · History · Culture · Chapter summaries · Geography · Houses · TV Series

List of Characters: *A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z*




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Dawn Age

Age of Heroes

Age of Dragons

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The Long Night

The Pact

Doom of Valyria

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Welcome to the Images portal, here you will find links and information relating to all the images used on the WIKI of Song of Ice and Fire. it's Intended to organize the Images and give tribute and thank their respective artist.

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The TV Show Portal is dedicated to *Game of Thrones, the HBO television adaptation of the *A Song of Ice and Fire novels.

See Episodes guide for episode listing and summaries of individual episodes below:




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Porther is a guard sworn to House Stark.

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Porther accompanies Lord Eddard to King's Landing when Ned is named Hand of the King.

A Clash of Kings

Porther is listed as dead by Bran Stark.




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Ser Portifer Woodwright is the brother of Ser Lucantine Woodwright and is a household knight in King's Landing.

Recent Events

Taena of Myr reported that Ser Portifer is sometimes among the group of household knights which seek Queen Margaery Tyrell's attention.




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Pouch tigers[N 1] are an exotic species of marsupial animals[N 2] from an unknown land, far from Westeros or the Free Cities.

According to Syrio Forel, the Sealord of Braavos keeps live specimens kept in his menagerie.

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Hear me. The ships of Braavos sail as far as the winds blow, to lands strange and wonderful, and when they return, their captains fetch queer animals to the Sealord's menagerie. Such animals as you have never seen, striped horses, great spotted things with necks as long as stilts, hairy mouse-pigs as big as cows, stinging manticores, tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch, terrible walking lizards with scythes for claws. Syrio Forel has seen these things.

Syrio Forel to Arya Stark

Notes

  1. No formal name has yet been given for these creatures.
  2. The description given of these animals appears similar to a thylacine, also known as the "Tasmanian tiger" or "Tasmanian wolf" due to their superficial resemblance to these respective animals. In real life, marsupials are found primarily in Australia, although George R. R. Martin has stated that he is not sure if a counterpart of Australia exists in the world of *A Song of Ice and Fire*.



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Poul Pemford is a guard at Riverrun from House Pemford.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Four men sent with the red cloaks of Ser Cleos Frey attempt to free Ser Jaime Lannister from his cell at Riverrun. They are partially successful, getting Jaime out of his cell. However, the Tully guards catch on and attempt to stop him. Jaime slays Poul and Myles, the squire of Ser Desmond Grell, before being recaptured.




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Poxy Tym is a guard sworn to House Stark. He is considered a fine bowman.

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A Clash of Kings

Poxy Tym is hired as a guard at Winterfell after both Lord Eddard and Robb Stark go south.

Tym weeps after the capture of Winterfell by ironborn.




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Praed is a sellsword recruited by Yoren for the Night's Watch and is part of the group marching north to the Wall.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Praed is the frist to notice a row of freshly dug graves along the kingsroad when Yoren's band makes its way north not far from King’s Landing.

He is constantly coughing. When Arry wakes up one night, she thinks it is oddly calm, but she doesn't realize what she is missing is Pread's cough. They find the sellsword dead in the morning. He is the first of the group to die and only the fourth recruit Yoren has lost in thirty years as a wandering crow. Yoren strips the dead of his gear, distributing it among the group, handing Praed's longsword to Gendry. They bury Praed where he slept, with Tarber dropping a handful of acorns on his body first, so that an oak might grow to mark the place of the grave.




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Pranelis is from Braavos. He shares an uncomfortable alliance with Torone.[*citation needed*]

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The Winds of Winter

Prior to the performance of *The Bloody Hand* at the Gate Mercy takes a quick peek out into the house and sees Pranelis and Torone sharing a box in the second balcony.




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Prayer is a war galley in service to pious Lord Guncer Sunglass.

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A Clash of Kings

Prayer is seized by Stannis Baratheon when Lord Guncer Sunglass refuses to acknowledge Stannis as his liege, since Stannis destroyed the sept at Dragonstone.

Prayer is part of the fleet commanded by Ser Imry Florent during the Battle of the Blackwater.




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Prendahl na Ghezn is a Ghiscari captain of the mercenary company Stormcrows.

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Appearance

Prendahl has a broad face with dark hair with some grey in it.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Prendahl takes a contract with Yunkai to defend them against the army of Daenerys Targaryen. Daenerys attempts to win them over, but Prendahl personally refuses. However, the Stormcrows are a company of free men and he returns to the camp to give them the offer. Upon his return he is killed along with Sallor the Bald by Daario Naharis, who brings the Stormcrows over to Daenerys.




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Prendos was a pirate known for his black humor. *Mad Prendos*, one of Salladhor Saan's galleys, is named after him.




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Ser Preston Greenfield is a knight of House Greenfield. He is a member of King Robert I Baratheon's Kingsguard.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Preston Greenfield

Preston is short.

History

Preston broke his vows by meeting a draper's wife in King's Landing while her husband was away.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Preston is one of the Kingsguard who accompanies King Robert I Baratheon on his kingswood boar-hunting trip, during which Robert is gored.

A Clash of Kings

Ser Preston beats Sansa Stark when ordered to by King Joffrey I. According to Sansa, he treats her as a lackwit child during the beatings.

When Joffrey practices shooting at hares in the Red Keep, one of his bolts almost hits Ser Preston in the groin.

Ser Preston guards the Iron Throne when Tyrion Lannister sends Ser Cleos Frey back to Robb Stark, the King in the North, with his terms for peace. When Ser Alliser Thorne, angry about how he has been treated by him, tries to grab Tyrion's sleeve after the reception, he is rebuffed by Preston: "No closer, ser." Alliser relents, knowing that it is unwise to challenge a knight of the Kingsguard.

Ser Preston is part of the procession to see Princess Myrcella off to Dorne. When the mob goes mad in the streets of King's Landing, Preston tries to cut his way back to aid the High Septon against the mob and is killed by the maddened people. It takes the gold cloaks a few days to find his body, as they search for a knight in white armour. However, the rioters have so severely stabbed and hacked at Preston's corpse that he is "red-brown from head to heel" and barely identifiable.

A Storm of Swords

Tyrion Lannister receives some hostile reactions among the smallfolk of King's Landing when he is inspecting the devastation left beyond the King's Gate after the Battle of the Blackwater. He assumes that, if he was not protected by Ser Bronn, the people would pull him off his horse and smash his face in with a cobblestone, as they did for Ser Preston.

When Ser Jaime Lannister assumes his duties as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, he notices that in his absence the White Book has not been updated, as that is the Lord Commander's duty, and that the death of Ser Preston has yet to be recorded.

Lord Petyr Baelish tells Sansa Stark that when he was arranging the contract for a marriage between King Joffrey I and Margaery Tyrell in Highgarden he let his men spread information about the gruesome details of Ser Preston's death. Littlefinger suggests that by doing so, he successfully planted the idea in Lord Mace Tyrell's mind that his son Ser Loras should join the Kingsguard in order to be able to protect his sister.

A Feast for Crows

Princess Arianne Martell asks the guilt-ridden Ser Arys Oakheart during one of their dates whether he believes that he is the only member of the Kingsguard who ever loved a woman. Arys shares that he knew, among other things, that Ser Preston used to visit a draper's wife when the husband was away.




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Penny tends to Pretty Pig. Art by Sasha Gladysh, aka "Autumn-Sacura"

Pretty Pig is a trained pig that is owned by the dwarf girl Penny.




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Prickly ben is a plant found on the road between Yunkai and Meereen in Slaver's Bay on the continent of Essos.




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The Pride of Driftmark is a warship belonging to Monford Velaryon, the Master of Driftmark, Lord of the Tides, and head of House Velaryon. It has a silver hull.

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The Pride of Driftmark is spotted by Davos Seaworth in the harbor of Dragonstone when Stannis Baratheon gathers his sworn swords in preparation for the War of the Five Kings.

A Storm of Swords

Lord Monford Velaryon is reported to have died with his ship during the battle.




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Prince or Princess is a title used in Westeros, Essos and the Summer Islands.

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Essos

Since in Essos, particularly in the Free Cities, the city-state form of government has prevailed, the title "Prince" has been widely used. Before the Rhoynar moved to Dorne, they also lived in city-states so their rulers were styled Prince or Princess. The title Prince of Pentos is still used.

Westeros

In Westeros, the title is usually conferred to the children of the king. Prior to the War of the Usurper, the heir to the king on the Iron Throne held the title "Prince of Dragonstone", during Robert's Rebellion, the title "Prince of Dragonstone" has not been used; the children of the monarch are referred to only as Prince or Princess.

In Dorne, the ruler of that "kingdom" is styled Prince, following the Rhoynar tradition. His sons and daughters are also styled "Prince" or "Princess of Dorne," as we can see with Oberyn Martell and the children of Prince Doran Martell.

Summer Islands

Some of the rulers of the Summer Islands, like Jalabhar Xho style themselves "Princes."




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Prince's Pass

Dorne and the location of the Prince's Pass

The Prince's Pass, historically called the Wide Way, is one of the principal overland routes from the Reach and the stormlands to Dorne. It is a gateway through the Red Mountains of Dorne.

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Geography

Its Dornish side is guarded from the castle Skyreach, the seat of House Fowler, which holds the title Warden of the Prince's Pass.

History

The Prince's Pass was originally the Wide Way, the shortest and easiest route between the Reach and Dorne. It was guarded by the Lords of the Wide Way, the Kings of Stone and Sky from House Fowler, who carved Skyreach into its stony slopes. custom.

Alester Oakheart died in the Prince's Pass while blowing his warhorn, having been mortally wounded by Dornishmen.

Dornish spearmen guarded the Prince's Pass during Aegon's Conquest, but Queen Rhaenys Targaryen instead flew above them atop Meraxes.

Lord Lyonel Tyrell marched an army along the Prince's Pass during the conquest of Dorne by King Daeron I Targaryen.

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Two Dornish hosts have massed in the Boneway and the Prince's Pass. © FFG

A Clash of Kings

Tyrion Lannister requests that Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, send his armies to the Prince's Pass to keep the marcher lords in their castles as part of the political betrothal of Princess Myrcella Baratheon and Prince Trystane Martell.

The Winds of Winter

Two Dornish hosts have massed in the Boneway and the Prince's Pass. The hosts sit encamped, waiting for Doran to loose them on the enemies of House Martell.




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Prince Aemon is a war galley of the royal fleet in service at King's Landing. It is a slow ship and long in service.

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Prince Aemon is a part of King Joffrey I Baratheon's fleet at the Battle of the Blackwater.




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Prince of Dorne or Princess of Dorne is the title held by the head of the ruling house of of Dorne, House Nymeros Martell of Sunspear.

History

For thousands of years Dorne was a patchwork of petty First Men and Andal kingdoms which included the Kings of the Torrentine, the Kings of Stone and Sky, and the different houses laying claim to the title of High Kings of Dorne. Sailing on ten thousand ships, Princess Nymeria led the Rhoynar to southeastern Dorne. Nymeria married Lord Mors Martell of the Sandship, forming House Nymeros Martell, and the Rhoynar intermarried with the bannermen of Mors. Nymeria named her husband "Prince of Dorne", using the Rhoynish term instead of the Westerosi title of "king". The addition of Rhoynish power allowed the Martells to conquer Dorne in Nymeria's War, reducing the rival kings to vassals.

Dorne successfully resisted House Targaryen during the War of Conquest and First Dornish War.

Known Princes and Princesses of Dorne

Prince Doran Martell's heir is currently his daughter and eldest child, Princess Arianne Martell., is currently next in line.




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Dragonstone castle, seat of the Princes of Dragonstone

Prince of Dragonstone or, in some cases, Princess of Dragonstone, was the title of the heir apparent to the Iron Throne during the Targaryen dynasty. The heir apparent's seat was the castle of Dragonstone located on the island of the same name.

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History

Targaryen Dynasty

After Aegon I Targaryen conquered the Seven Kingdoms, he decided to construct a new capital city, King's Landing, in the new town growing around his newly constructed seat, the Aegonfort, which was torn down in 35 AC in preparation for the construction of the Red Keep. The seat of Dragonstone remained in possession of House Targaryen. Aegon I had two children: Aenys, born in 7 AC, and Maegor, born in 12 AC. Despite being Aegon I's eldest son and heir for many years, Aenys never held the title "Prince of Dragonstone".[N 1] Aenys was raised by Aegon I at King's Landing, and accompanied his father on royal progressions. Meanwhile Maegor was raised by his mother, Queen Visenya Targaryen, at Dragonstone and in time became known as the "Prince of Dragonstone".

Upon Aenys's own death, Maegor returned from exile and claimed the Iron Throne. He had three wives already, but in 47 AC, still lacking an heir, married three widowed women known to be fertile. One of these was his niece, Princess Rhaena, who had born twin girls to her late brother, Prince Aegon. Maegor named one of the girls, Aerea, as his heir until he had children of his own. However, she has not been confirmed to have been appointed the title "Princess of Dragonstone".

Not every Targaryen monarch held the title "Prince of Dragonstone" before coming to the throne, such as in times when there were several deaths in rapid succession so a younger son instantly succeeded to the throne (such as Aerys I and Aegon V).

Baratheon Dynasty

After Robert's Rebellion, the Targaryen dynasty was at an end. The title "Prince of Dragonstone" has not been used by the new royal house, House Baratheon of King's Landing. Instead, Dragonstone was granted to Lord Stannis Baratheon as his personal seat. He now rules Dragonstone as the Lord of Dragonstone, a title which had also been used by the Targaryens prior to Aegon's Conquest.

However, two children of King Aerys II still remain. Viserys Targaryen, who had been crowned on Dragonstone prior to its fall, After Viserys' death, Daenerys declared herself Queen. She has not yet named a new heir.

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From her birth until the death of her brother, Daenerys Targaryen uses the title Princess of Dragonstone, as heir of Viserys Targaryen, who is the claimant to the Iron Throne.

Known Princes and Princesses of Dragonstone

Whilst Aegon II Targaryen is recorded in history as the official monarch of the Seven Kingdoms from King Viserys I's death in 129 AC until his own death in 131 AC, he is not mentioned to have declared a Prince or Princess of Dragonstone, despite having had three children and three brothers. Since during most of that time period Dragonstone was in possession of Rhaenyra Targaryen, who, as the declared heir of King Viserys I, had crowned herself Queen, it might be that Aegon II did not feel he could declare a Prince of Princess of Dragonstone until the castle was conquered. Rhaenyra, however, acknowledged several Princes of Dragonstone during this time. Dragonstone came in the possession of Aegon II in late 130 AC. Whether either Jaehaera or Aegon the Younger were given the title Princess of Prince of Dragonstone after this is currently unknown.

Notes

  1. A first-run print of The World of Ice and Fire includes a mention of Aenys I as "the Prince of Dragonstone" during Aegon I's reign in The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I, but this was confirmed to be a print error and corrected in subsequent versions.



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The Prince of Pentos with the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas

The Prince of Pentos is the titular ruler of the eponymous city. He is chosen from the forty families and has a mostly ceremonial function. Chiefly, the Prince presides over balls and feasts.

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The prince rides about the city in a palanquin of ivory and gold. Three heralds go before him carrying the golden scales of trade, the iron sword of war and the silver scourge of justice. On the first day of every New Year, the Prince must deflower the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas. However when the Pentoshi believe the gods are angry at them - such as after loss in a war or a crop failure - they sacrifice the prince by cutting his throat to appease the gods and then choose a new prince from amongst the forty families.

It appears that the chosen prince has no say in whether he wants to be Prince of Pentos or not.

Over the course of the last two centuries, Braavos and Pentos fought no less than six wars. Four of them ended in Pentoshi submission. The last one, that ended a century ago, went so poorly that Pentos had no fewer than four princes chosen and sacrificed within a single year. The fifth one, Prince Nevio Narratys, convinced the magisters to sue for peace after a rare victory - one rumored to have been purchased by Nevio himself through bribery.

The Tattered Prince is a Pentoshi noble who fled before becoming the new Prince of Pentos

Years ago, an elected prince fled Pentos after being selected. When the Windblown’s Tattered Prince was twenty-three, the magisters of Pentos chose him to be their new prince almost right after they have beheaded the previous one. Instead of accepting their offer he fled to the Disputed Lands and never returned to Pentos.

Illyrio Mopatis grew so respectable that a cousin of the Prince of Pentos let him wed his maiden daughter. After Illyrio married his second wife, the palace gates were closed to him thereafter, but he did not care, the price was small enough, for Serra.

Past Princes of Pentos

Current Prince of Pentos

The identity of the current prince is not known.

Quotes

Remind me never to become the Prince of Pentos.

Tyrion Lannister, to Illyrio Mopatis




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Prince of Summerhall was a title used by some younger sons of House Targaryen. While the heir apparent to the Iron Throne was known as the Prince of Dragonstone, younger siblings could receive the castle of Summerhall.

History

The pleasure castle of Summerhall was built by King Daeron II Targaryen. His son, Maekar, received the castle and became known as the Prince of Summerhall..




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For the television episode, see The Prince of Winterfell (TV).

The Prince of Winterfell, Ramsay Bolton, Reek. © NotanerArt

Prince of Winterfell is a title held by certain nobles in Winterfell.

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A Clash of Kings

Prince Bran Stark, the heir of his elder brother Robb, is the Stark in Winterfell while Robb, the King in the North, campaigns in the south.

During his capture of Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy takes prisoner Bran and Rickon Stark and sits the throne within the castle's Great Hall.

Prior to the battle at Winterfell, the outnumbered Theon tells Ser Rodrik Cassel's northern army that all who swear fealty to Balon Greyjoy as their king and to Theon as Prince of Winterfell will be confirmed in their rights. However, Theon is captured by Ramsay Snow during the sack of Winterfell.

A Storm of Swords

After noticing other people at Queenscrown, Bran tells himself not to be afraid, as he was the Prince of Winterfell.

A Dance with Dragons

Having been tortured by House Bolton, Theon emerges from the Dreadfort as "Reek", a ruined man. The Prince of Winterfell is who Theon’s psyche comes to recall when he thinks of the whole man he once was, before the dungeons of the Dreadfort, before Ramsay made him his new Reek. The Prince of Winterfell, was arrogant, handsome and cocksure – very different from who Theon is now. The Prince of Winterfell has become almost a third person to Theon, as he compares himself to him.

Theon travels to the siege of Moat Cailin under a peace banner to present the now-legitimized Ramsay Bolton's terms of rendition to the ironborn garrison guarding its three towers. Before he leaves Ramsay tells him,

You will pretend to be a prince, but we know the truth. You’re Reek. You’ll always be Reek, no matter how sweet you smell... You will be tempted to betray me. To run or fight or join our foes. No, quiet, I’ll not hear you deny it. A man would turn against me in your place, but we know what you are, don’t we? Betray me if you want, it makes no matter ... but count your fingers first and know the cost...

Later at Winterfell, Theon is chosen to ceremoniously present "Arya Stark", actually Jeyne Poole, in marriage to Ramsay, since he was the longtime ward of Lord Eddard Stark and it is widely believed that Arya's trueborn brothers are dead. When Theon gives away the feigned Arya to Ramsay he is made to play the part of the Prince of Winterfell once again.

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Cley: Good morrow, Bran. Or must I call you Prince Bran now?

Bran: Only if you want.

Cley: Why not? Everyone else is a king or prince these days.

- Cley Cerwyn and Bran Stark

I will be as good a lord to you as Eddard Stark ever was. Betray me, though, and you'll wish you hadn't.

- Theon to the people of Winterfell

I am the Prince of Winterfell! This is my seat, no man will drive me from it. No, nor woman either!

- Theon, to his sister Asha Greyjoy

'I made myself the Prince of Winterfell', he thought, 'and from that came all of this.' He had thought that men would sing of him for a hundred years and tell tales of his daring. But if anyone spoke of him now it was as Theon Turncloak, and tale were told of his treachery.

- thoughts of Theon

'There will be no flaying here whilst I am Prince of Winterfell', Theon had responded, little dreaming how short his rule would prove.

- thoughts of Theon




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A council of three princes nominally rule the Free City of Lorath. The princes are elected by the people and serve for life. Each holds a different title and is elected by a specific segment of the population. The princes are:

The titles, today, are purely ceremonial. Authority now resides in a council of magisters formed by nobles, merchants, and priests.




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Princess Daena is a ship named after the wife of King Baelor I Targaryen, Daena Targaryen.

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A Dance with Dragons

While Davos Seaworth is reconnoitering at the Lazy Eel in White Harbor, an oarsman from the *Storm Dancer* says he used to row on Princess Daena.




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The Princess Myrcella is one of Cersei's dromonds in service to House Baratheon of King's Landing. It is named after Princess Myrcella Baratheon by King Tommen Baratheon. He originally intended to name it the Moon Boy after the fool of the Red Keep, but Aurane Waters convinced Tommen to name the ship after his sister.

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A Feast for Crows

The Princess Myrcella is among the ships being built as part of Queen Cersei Lannister's plan to increase the size of the royal fleet instead of relying on the traditional sea powers to protect the crown's interests.




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For other articles sharing the same title, please see this disambiguation page.

Princess Rhaenys is a war galley of the royal fleet in service to Stannis Baratheon. It has one hundred oars.

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A Clash of Kings

Princess Rhaenys is part of Stannis Baratheon's fleet commanded by Ser Imry Florent during the Battle of the Blackwater.




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Proctor is the title born by contemplative brothers of the Faith of the Seven that assist the Elder Brother of a septry.




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The pronunciation of names in the known world is variable. Unlike the academic J.R.R. Tolkien, who claimed to have written *The Lord of the Rings* series primarily for the joy of fleshing out the invented languages of Middle Earth,

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George R. R. Martin is an American who was born to a family of mixed Italian and Irish ancestry and grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey. He attended college and university at Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois, and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but his accent has been described as remaining a "gravelly New Jersey" one.

Game of Thrones

Within the television show *Game of Thrones*, accents generally reflect the region and class of the characters. (A specific class-based difference noted within the show is that the lords themselves carefully enunciate "my lord" as two words whereas commoners slur them into a monosyllabic "m'lud".

The show hired the linguist David J. Peterson to flesh out Essos's Dothraki language.

Audio Books

All of the audiobooks of the series have now been read by Roy Dotrice, OBE, the British actor who played Hallyne the Pyromancer in season 2 of the television show. Owing to scheduling issues, *A Feast for Crows* was also initially read by John Lee, who speaks an Irish-tinged British English.

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For help understanding the pronunciations, see IPA for English.

The following abbreviations are employed:

Given Names

For surnames, see Houses below.

Houses and Surnames

Places and Peoples

Titles




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Tyrion Lannister with a whore - by Nordheimer ©

Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment, most frequently coin. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute but is also known in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels by the term whore. Prostitutes who follow an army are known as camp followers,

A brothel madame in Lannisport © Fantasy Flight Games

An ironborn sailor with a whore. © FFG

Some prostitutes cater to highly exclusive clientele, make a good enough living, and may to a certain extent pick and choose their clientele. Others take who they can get and do whatever they have to in order to survive, often living miserable lives. Many prostitutes in Essos are enslaved.

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Prostitutes in Westeros

Prostitutes are normally on the bottom rung of the societal ladder, even the wealthier ones, and are looked down upon by most people because of their trade. Tywin Lannister is well known for his disdain of whores and those who take advantage of their services. teems with brothels and whores.

Many of the Night's Watch visit the whores in the Mole's Town brothel. Despite their vows to remain celibate, a blind eye is turned to it out of pragmatism.

Attitudes about sexuality are more relaxed in Dorne toward prostitutes may be more liberal.

Some brothels in Westeros cater to more exclusive clientele, such as Chataya's. In contrast, the Lazy Eel is renowned for offering some of the oldest whores in White Harbor.

On Maiden's Day maidens of noble houses are required to go to the sept to light tall white candles at the Maiden's feet and hang parchment garlands about her neck. Mothers, whores, and widows are barred from the sept along with men.

Female whores feature most in Westeros, but it is mentioned that Satin was a boy-whore in Oldtown before joining the Night's Watch,

Known whores in Westeros

Known brothels in Westeros

Whores in Essos

In the Free Cities and other places in Essos, the attitude towards prostitution is different, and there appears to be less ignominy in engaging the services of a whore. This may be because many of the Free Cities practice slavery and where there is slavery there will be sexual abuse and exploitation. Slaves who are whores have tears tattooed beneath their right eye.

The practice of slavery has created a thriving business in trained male and female bed-slaves, particularly from Lys,

The Ghiscari Red Graces are religious prostitutes housed in the Temple of the Graces in Meereen. There is no shame in their prostituting themselves, but the same cannot be said of the Westerosi counterpart, the septa.

In Braavos there are no slaves, so all the prostitutes are free people. However, there are three classes of prostitutes on Braavos: the highly esteemed professional courtesans; whores kept in a brothel; and the lowest street-walking dockside whores. Braavosi courtesans enjoy high status and are renowned worldwide.

Known whores in Braavos

Known whores in Selhorys

Summer Isles

Summer Islanders esteem the art of lovemaking; there is no stigma to prostitution there.

Known frequenters of prostitutes

City of sin. © FFG

History

The ironborn reavers of old took captured women to be their whores and thralls.

King Baelor I Targaryen attempted to outlaw prostitution in King's Landing, resulting in at least a thousand women and children sent from the capital.

After the death of Lord Tytos Lannister, his heir, Tywin, forced his father's mistress to walk through Lannisport on a walk of atonement to show the city she was a whore.

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A Game of Thrones

Petyr Baelish, the master of coin for King Robert I Baratheon, owns many brothels. After Lord Eddard Stark is imprisoned by the Iron Throne, Petyr hides Jeyne Poole in one of his establishments.

The camp follower Shae becomes the lover of Tyrion Lannister.

A Clash of Kings

Lord Stannis Baratheon outlaws prostitution on Dragonstone.

Tyrion brings Shae to King's Landing against the wishes of his father, Lord Tywin Lannister.

A Storm of Swords

The dwarf's penny is a tax imposed on prostitution in King's Landing.

A Feast for Crows

Masha Heddle's nephew briefly has prostitutes working at the crossroads inn.

A Dance with Dragons

Tyrion visits a sad, scarred prostitute in Selhorys.

Quotes

Brothels are a much sounder investment than ships, I've found. Whores seldom sink, and when they are boarded by pirates, why, the pirates pay good coin like everyone else.

- Petyr Baelish to Eddard Stark

Shagga: Shagga wants this woman.
Timett: Shaggs wants every whore in this city of whores.

- Timett to Shagga

A whore learns to see the man, not his garb, or she turns up dead in an alley.

- Shae to Tyrion Lannister

Whores did have charms, especially if you had a face like Petyr's.

- thought of Merrett Frey

This girl is as good as dead. I have just fucked a corpse. Even her eyes are dead. She does not even have the strength to loath me.

- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister

Washerwoman. That was the polite way of saying camp follower, which was the polite way of saying whore. Where they came from Theon could not say. They just seemed to appear, like maggots on a corpse or ravens after a battle. Every army drew them. Some were hardened whores who could fuck twenty men in a night and drink them all blind. Others looked as innocent as maids, but that was just a trick of their trade. Some were camp brides, bound to soldiers they followed with words whispered to one god or another but doomed to be forgotten once the war was done. They would warm a man's bed by night, patch holes in his boots at morning, cook his supper come dusk, and loot his corpse after the battle. Some even did a bit of washing. With them, oft as not, came bastard children, wretched, filthy creatures born in one camp or the other.

- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

Some men keep their whoring secret.

- Daemon Sand to Arianne Martell




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Protector of the Realm is one of the three titles held by the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, along with King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men and Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.

The title seems to be of a military nature, referring to the overall command of the King over the armies of the Seven Kingdoms, as it has been held by Regents in case of infancy or incapacitation of the ruling king.

Known Protectors of the Realm who did not rule as Kings




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Proudwing is the name of an injured goshawk found by Stannis Baratheon.

History

Stannis nursed Proudwing back to health, but it never flew higher than the treetops thereafter. His older brother Robert Baratheon nicknamed it Weakwing. Stannis's great-uncle, Ser Harbert, convinced him to abandon Proudwing, which he did.




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Puckens is a guard in service to House Lannister.

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A Feast for Crows

Puckens is sent by Queen Cersei Lannister to fetch Maesters Frenken and Ballabar with Shortear. They return with Qyburn. He is within earshot when Ser Jaime Lannister refuses the position of Hand of the King when the queen offers it to him.




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Pudding was a child from King's Landing. When Ser Duncan the Tall was a child, he and Pudding were friends and they once stole a head off a spike from the walls.




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Puddingfoot is a member of the brotherhood without banners.

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A Storm of Swords

Puddingfoot is posted as a sentry, but falls asleep, allowing Sandor Clegane to get close and surprise the brotherhood.




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One of the Pureborn - by Felicia Chris Dien. © Fantasy Flight Games

The Pureborn, also known as the Enthroned, are descendants of the Qarth's ancient kings and queens, who rule the city of Qarth from the Hall of a Thousand Thrones. The Pureborn also command the city's defenses: the Civic Guard, which includes camelry, and a great military fleet.

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There are three principal merchant groups that battle amongst themselves and against the Pureborn for dominance of the city: the Thirteen, the Ancient Guild of Spicers, and the Tourmaline Brotherhood.

The calculating Pureborn are notorious for offering poisoned wine to those they consider dangerous and their avarice is equally well-known. There is a saying among the merchants of Qarth:

"It is easier to milk the Stone Cow of Faros than to wring gold from the Pureborn."

To receive an audience with the Pureborn, a petitioner should make a traditional sacrifice in the Temple of Memory, offer a traditional bribe to the Keeper of the Long List, and send a traditional persimmon to the Opener of the Door. If all goes well, the petitioner will be sent a pair of blue slippers, signifying the granting of an audience in the Hall of a Thousand Thrones.

While visiting Daenerys in Meereen, Xaro Xhoan Daxos tells her that the Pureborn have water in their veins.

Known Members

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A Clash of Kings

While residing in Xaro Xhoan Daxos’s palace in Qarth Daenerys Targaryen seeks an audience with the Pureborn to plead with them for their fleet of galleys, or part of it and some of their soldiers too.

After the destruction of the House of the Undying by Daenerys, the Pureborn's Mathos Mallarawan's wife went mad and refused to wear clothes. She felt her silks as insects, crawling on her skin. The woman had once mocked the moth-eaten robe of a warlock. With the various magic users getting their powers amplified, it was thought that the warlock took his revenge.

A Dance with Dragons

In Meereen Xaro Xhoan Daxos tells Daenerys Targaryen that he went to the Hall of a Thousand Thrones to beg the Pureborn for her life, telling them that she was no more than a child. Egon Emeros replied that Daenerys was a foolish child, mad and heedless and too dangerous to live.

Quotes

They listened, but they did not hear, or care … They are Milk Men indeed. They never meant to help me. They came because they were curious. They came because they were bored, and the dragon on my shoulder interested them more than I did.

- Daenerys Targaryen, after her visit to the Hall of a Thousand Thrones.

The Pureborn see no farther than the walls of Qarth.

Ser Jorah Mormont, to Daenerys Targaryen




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The Pureborn Princess is an old galley.

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The Pureborn Princess is one of the thirteen galleys Xaro Xhoan Daxos sails with from Qarth to Meereen. He tries to persuade Daenerys Targaryen to leave Slaver's Bay and go to Westeros by offering the ships to her; Daenerys thinks the galleys were provided by the Thirteen. Groleo determines the ship is worm-eaten and he would not take it out of sight of land. Daenerys declines Xaro's offer.




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The Purple Harbor is a harbor in Braavos, located west of the Sealord's Palace in the north of the Free City's lagoon.

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About

The Purple Harbor serves only Braavosi ships, such as local merchants and the Iron Bank.

The best alehouses, inns, and brothels lie near the Purple Harbor or the Moon Pool near the Sealord's Palace.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Every morning Brea wheels her wheelbarrow to the Purple Harbor to sell to Braavosi sailors whose ships anchor there.

A Dance with Dragons

Arya Stark gets her first look at the man she has to kill as she wheels her barrow through the cobbled streets that front on the Purple Harbor.

The Winds of Winter

Mercy recalls that on a clear day from the top of the span the Bridge of Eyes she can look through the arches and see all the city, including the masts rising like a forest from the Purple Harbor.




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The Purple Lotus is a seedy winesink by Meereen’s spice market.

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Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

The clandestine meeting between the Tattered Prince and Quentyn Martell takes place in the undercellar of the Purple Lotus.

Appearance

From the outside the Purple Lotus is a low brick hovel squatting amidst a row of similar hovels in the shadow of the great yellow-and-green pyramid of Rhazdar. There is no Westerosi style sign outside the establishment. Instead there is a mark—a purple lotus—painted on the weathered wooden door.

About

A shriveled old woman named Zahrina, who wears a dark red tokar fringed with tiny golden skulls, is the owner (or proprietor). Her skin is as white as mare’s milk and her hair so thin that her scalp can be seen beneath it. Zahrina offers patrons food, but according to the Tattered Prince the bread is stale and her stew is unspeakable, grease and salt with a morsel or two of meat, supposedly dog but it is more likely rat, it will not kill you though.

To enter a patron has to knock twice on the wooden door and provide the password, in Quentyn Martell’s case it is freedom.

Within the Purple Lotus the air is hazy with bluish smoke - whose sweet smell cannot quite cover up the deeper stinks of piss and sour wine and rotting meat.

The space is much larger than it seems from without, stretching off to right and left into adjoining hovels. What appears to be a dozen structures from the street turns into one long hall inside. There is a pit at the far end of the room where pairs of naked men slash at each other with knives while watchers cheer them on.

The undercellar

After Quentyn Martell and his two companions enter the Purple Lotus a door he had not seen before swings open and Zahrina appears. She gestures them beyond the door to a flight of steps, steep and twisting. It is a long way down and so dark that Quentyn has to feel his way.

Once at the bottom Quentyn and his two companions emerge in a brick vault, thrice the size of the winesink above. Huge wooden vats line the walls as far as the eye can see. A red lantern hangs on a hook just inside the door, and a greasy black candle flickers on an overturned barrel serving as a table. That is the only light.

Caggo Corpsekiller is pacing by the wine vats, Pretty Meris stands cradling a crossbow and Denzo D'han bars the door once the Dornishmen are inside and takes up a position in front of it. The Tattered Prince is seated at the table nursing a cup of wine, with a bench across from him.




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The Purple Wedding is the fan-given nickname for the wedding between King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell on the first day of the new century, 300 AC. The wedding is a lavish affair, but ends in disarray when Joffrey dies after drinking poisoned wine. Unlike the Red Wedding, this wedding is not called so in the books.

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Background

House Tyrell aligns itself with Renly Baratheon at the start of the War of the Five Kings, with Renly marrying Margaery Tyrell.

Breakfast

Breakfast for House Lannister, the men of House Tyrell, and other nobility is held in the Queen's Ballroom within the Red Keep; the Tyrell women break their fast separately with Margaery. Queen Cersei Lannister gives Joffrey a wedding cloak which has been passed down from her mother, Joanna. The king receives a bow of golden wood from Jalabhar Xho, riding boots from Lady Tanda Stokeworth, a jousting saddle from Ser Kevan Lannister, a scorpion brooch from Oberyn Martell, silver spurs from Ser Addam Marbrand, a tourney pavilion from Lord Mathis Rowan, and a model of *King Joffrey's Valor* from Lord Paxter Redwyne.

Tyrion gives Joffrey a copy of the illuminated *Lives of Four Kings*, while Lord Mace Tyrell gives the king a seven-sided wedding chalice decorated with great houses: ruby lion, emerald rose, onyx stag, silver trout, blue jade falcon, opal sun, and pearl direwolf. Lord Tywin Lannister gives his grandson a Valyrian steel sword; Joffrey names it Widow's Wail and then uses the blade to destroy the book he received from Tyrion.

Marriage Ceremony

The marriage of Joffrey and Margaery occurs at midday in the Great Sept of Baelor, before statues of the Father and the Mother. The High Septon performs the ceremony.

Wedding Feast

King Joffrey Baratheon dies of the poison © Josu Hernaiz

The wedding feast takes place in the throne room in the Red Keep. Seventy-seven dishes are planned for the dinner. Hamish the Harper is the first performer, premiering "Lord Renly's Ride" and also singing "A Rose of Gold", "The Rains of Castamere", "Maiden, Mother, and Crone", and "My Lady Wife". Hamish is followed by a trained bear and Pentoshi tumblers. Collio Quaynis sings "The Dance of the Dragons", a song of the Doom of Valyria, "Bessa the Barmaid", and another version of "The Rains of Castamere". The fools Moon Boy, Butterbumps, and Dontos Hollard also perform for the guests. Further entertainment comes from pyromancers, pipers, trained dogs, sword swallowers, and a juggler. Galyeon sings a song of the Battle of the Blackwater with seventy-seven verses. Dancers from the Summer Isles also perform during the wedding feast.

Tyrion is seated several seats away from the other Lannister attendees along with Sansa. Joffrey, while drunk, continually attempts to provoke his uncle, who is a dwarf. A pair of dwarf jousters enter the throne room atop a dog and a sow and proceed to mock the Starks and Joffrey's Baratheon uncles, Renly and Stannis; Joffrey encourages Tyrion to join them. After Tyrion refuses and embarrasses the boy king, Joffrey empties the large royal chalice of wine over his uncle and orders him to be his cupbearer. Alaric of Eysen is scheduled to perform, but the great ceremonial pie arrives, served by six cooks. Ser Ilyn Payne cuts the pie, allowing doves to fly free from it.

At some point during the feast, Joffrey's wine is poisoned. After deeply drinking wine from the wedding chalice, and eating several handfuls of the pie, Joffrey begins to cough, each one more violent than the last. Chaos descends upon the feast, as guests struggle to get out. The knights Garlan Tyrell, Meryn Trant, and Osmund Kettleblack run to the aid of Joffrey while the court scatters, some fleeing and others looking on. Joffrey points at Tyrion in his dying moments; Tyrion empties the remainder of the chalice on the floor. After Joffrey is confirmed dead, his mother, Queen Cersei Lannister, orders the arrest of Tyrion and Sansa.

Aftermath

The murder of Joffrey is revealed as a murky plot organized by the Tyrells and Petyr Baelish. According to George R. R. Martin, the conspirators want Joffrey to appear to die accidentally by choking, rather than a public assassination like the Red Wedding.

Tyrion Lannister, Sansa's husband, is also falsely implicated. Taken into custody, he is put on trial for Joffrey's death

Smallfolk tell various stories about Joffrey's death, including that Tyrion slit the boy's throat with a dagger and drank his blood from a chalice,

With the exception of his mother, Cersei Lannister, Joffrey is not particularly mourned by anyone; even his biological father, Jaime, feels that Joffrey deserved his fate.

Influences

George R.R. Martin revealed that the inspiration for the Purple Wedding came from the death of Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne. King Stephen of England, Eustace's father, had usurped the crown from his cousin, Empress Matilda, leading to the Anarchy. War would have been passed down to the second generation, as both Stephen and Matilda had sons. However, Eustace choked to death at a feast, helping to bring an end to the English civil war. Historians have debated whether Eustace actually choked or was poisoned.

Terminology

The wedding of Joffrey and Margaery has been dubbed the Purple Wedding by fans. Purple is also a color often associated with royalty.

Quotes

Joffrey and Margaery shall marry on the first day of the new year, which as it happens is also the first day of the new century. The ceremony will herald the dawn of a new era.

- Tywin Lannister to Tyrion Lannister

My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.

Tyrion Lannister's thoughts of the Red Wedding and the Purple Wedding

My sister outdid herself, I'm told. Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it.

Jaime Lannister to Tywin Lannister

Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.

Stannis Baratheon to Melisandre

The northern girl. Winterfell’s daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. But she left the dwarf behind and Cersei means to have his head.

Polliver to Sandor Clegane




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The purple emperors were an ancient ruling dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. They ruled from the city of Tiqui.




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Aerion Targaryen, the Lord of Dragonstone © Scherma

Daenerys Targaryen's purple eyes - by Joshua Cairos ©FFG

Aegor Rivers was only half Targaryen, so he had purple eyes, but his hair was black. © Marc Simonetti

Ashara Dayne, by Elena María Vacas

Purple eyes of different shades are exhibited by some characters in the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.

The most well-known shade of purple eyes is violet. Two other shades are lilac and indigo. It is a rare and beautiful eye color, but is relatively common in the Targaryen family, who are descended from the high lords of the ancient Valyrian Freehold. In Westeros, few but the "blood of the dragon" have purple eyes.

The blood of old Valyria is often manifested by eyes in shades of purple, and hair of silver-gold or platinum white. This coloring was typical among Valyrians, and is often held up as proof that Valyrians are not entirely of the same blood as other men.

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Westeros

House Targaryen

Striking lilac or indigo or violet eyes are typical Targaryen features, and a famous proclamation of their Valyrian heritage. Their practice of incest was kept in part to preserve their rare coloring.

The famed Targaryen eye color can be revealing when a member of the family is trying to be incognito. Aegon V Targaryen, while serving as a squire to Duncan the Tall under the name "Egg", shaved his head so that his silver-gold hair would not be recognized. But his deep purple eyes could not be disguised, though in dim light they looked black.

Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's eyes were dark indigo,

Note that not all Targaryens have purple eyes: Queen Alysanne Targaryen's eyes were clear blue,

But despite their mixed parentage, many Targaryen bastards may still have purple eyes, including Aegor Rivers (though his hair was black)

House Blackfyre

House Blackfyre was founded by Daemon Blackfyre, the legitimized bastard son of King Aegon IV Targaryen. Among the traits passed on to the Blackfyres by the Targaryens were the platinum blond hair and purple eyes.

House Velaryon

House Velaryon of Driftmark is an ancient and proud house, with the blood of old Valyria in its veins.

House Dayne

The trait for violet eyes runs in House Dayne, even though it is an unusual eye colour for non-Valyrians in Westeros. Ashara Dayne in particular was famous for her haunting violet eyes.

The Free Cities

Where the blood of the old Valyrian Freehold runs strong, purple eyes and silver hair can still be found. In Lys, even the smallfolk and prostitutes often have the pale skin, silver-gold hair, and the purple, lilac, and pale blue eyes of the dragonlords..

Animals

The Forest of Qohor contains a species of lemur with silver fur and purple eyes.

Characters stated to have purple eyes

Quotes

Look at her. That silver-gold hair, those purple eyes... she is the blood of old Valyria, no doubt, no doubt...

Illyrio Mopatis, discussing Daenerys Targaryen's Valyrian beauty with Viserys Targaryen

He had only to close his eyes to see her, with her long dark hair tumbling about her shoulders and those haunting purple eyes.

— Ser Barristan Selmy, remembering Ashara Dayne

Egg had big eyes, and somehow his shaven head made them look even larger. In the dimness of the lamplit cellar they looked black, but in better light their true colour could be seen: deep and dark and purple. Valyrian eyes.

—the thoughts of Duncan the Tall




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Pus-eye is a disease common in Sothoryos.




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The Pussywillows was a brothel during the reigns of Daeron II Targaryen and Aerys I Targaryen. Its location is unknown.

History

The Pussywillows was the place where Penny Jenny came to live and work after the Battle of the Redgrass Field. There she raised her two children, her son being Glendon Flowers. It was within the establishment that Glendon was knighted by Ser Morgan Dunstable.

Glendon described Pussywillows as an inn to Ser Duncan the Tall, when mentioning where he had grown up, in order to prevent having to admit he had grown up in a brothel.




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Pyat Pree is a warlock from the city of Qarth. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Ian Hanmore.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Pyat Pree

Pyat is a pale man with blue lips.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Pyat Pree holding a chalice with shade of the evening

Pyat, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, and Quaithe are representatives of Qarth who accompany Jhogo back to Vaes Tolorro after he was sent by Daenerys Targaryen to discover what lies near the abandoned city.

When Dany arrives at the House of the Undying, accompanied by Ser Jorah Mormont, her bloodriders, and Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Pyat Pree counsels her on the rules of entering the palace of the warlocks. Upon exiting the House of the Undying after Drogon burns the Undying Ones, Dany finds Pyat gibbering in some unknown tongue and hopping from one foot to the other. Pyat draws a knife and advances on Dany, at which point Jhogo and Rakharo intercept and disarm him.

Xaro informs Daenerys that Pyat is gathering the remaining warlocks against her.

A Storm of Swords

Aboard the *Balerion* Daenerys remembers that Pyat had sent a Sorrowful Man after her to avenge the Undying she had burned in their House of Dust.

A Feast for Crows

Euron Greyjoy, King of the Isles and the North, tells his brother Victarion he had captured four warlocks on a galleas from Qarth. Euron killed one for threatening him and then fed him to the remaining warlocks. The surviving warlocks are reportedly coaching Euron in black magic.

According to a semi-canon source, Pree is among the hostage warlocks,

A Dance with Dragons

Xaro informs Daenerys, now Queen of Mereen, that she had not been gone a fortnight when Pyat set out from Qarth with three of his fellow warlocks to seek her in Pentos, in order to seek revenge on her for the burning of the House of the Undying.

The Winds of Winter

Aeron Greyjoy, held captive by his brother Euron in the hold of the *Silence*, is joined by mutilated warlocks. One of the captives repeats the word, "Pree".

Quote by Pyat

Come with me to the House of the Undying, and you shall drink of truth and wisdom.

- Pyat to Daenerys Targaryen

Quotes about Pyat

Not all your enemies are in the Yellow City. Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.

- Xaro Xhoan Daxos to Daenerys Targaryen




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Pycelle is a Grand Maester of the Citadel.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Pycelle

Pycelle has only sparse hair that runs around his bald, spotted head.

Pycelle's maester's chain consists of two dozen heavy chains wound together to stretch from neck to breast.

Pycelle bends the vows of his order to suit his needs, indulging the needs of the flesh

History

Pycelle forged his maester's chain in Oldtown as a young man during the hot summer of King Maekar I Targaryen.

After Grand Maester Merion died on his way to serve Aegon V Targaryen, Pycelle was granted his position. He has been the Grand Maester of the Seven Kingdoms for forty years, serving Aegon V and Jaehaerys II Targaryen before Aerys II Targaryen.

When Lord Tywin Lannister resigned his position as Aerys's Hand of the King and left court, the new focus of Aerys's mistrust became his own son and heir, Prince Rhaegar, who had become wary of his father's behavior.

Despite his oath to serve the realm, Pycelle has more loyalty to House Lannister.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Pycelle - by Tiziano Baracchi ©

Lysa Arryn reports to her sister, Catelyn Stark, that Pycelle was helpless in saving the life of Lord Jon Arryn.

After Eddard is injured in a street fight with Ser Jaime Lannister, Pycelle tasks himself with maintaining Eddard's healing.

Pycelle tends to King Robert I Baratheon's wounds after he is injured by a boar in the kingswood, and he reports to Eddard upon Robert's death.

A Clash of Kings

Grand Maester Pycelle – by Brittmartin ©

Tyrion Lannister, serving as Hand, is not sure whom he can trust, so he tells different secrets to Varys, Petyr Baelish, and Pycelle, tasking the Grand Maester with sending letters to Prince Doran Martell..

At midnight, Tyrion takes Shagga and Timett and confronts Pycelle in his chambers, where he is found naked in bed with a servant girl. With help from Shagga, Tyrion intimidates Pycelle, who wets the bed in fear of the clansmen. While Shagga shaves off Pycelle's signature white beard with his axe, Tyrion learns Pycelle has betrayed the realm over and over in service to House Lannister. He allowed Jon Arryn to die when he could have easily saved him, convinced Aerys II Targaryen to open the gates to Tywin's forces during Robert's Rebellion, and would have finished Robert off himself if the wounds from the boar had not been so fatal.

Pycelle justifies Jon's death, since he was close to the truth about Cersei's incest with her brother, Ser Jaime, and King Joffrey I Baratheon's parentage. He admits Maester Colemon was treating Lord Arryn properly but the queen needed him dead. Pycelle justifies Robert's death, since his brother Renly had been plotting with the Tyrells to kill Cersei and wed Margaery Tyrell to Robert. Tyrion has Pycelle thrown in one of the black cells and stripped of his title and seat in the council.

A Storm of Swords

Pycelle is restored to his position by Tywin Lannister after he learns the Citadel is planning on naming Gormon Tyrell as Pycelle's replacement.

Pycelle, with his beard shaved off and weakened from his time in the black cells, appears to be a broken man. He falls asleep during the wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell and is unable to take any action to prevent Joffrey's death at the banquet from poison, something that sours Queen Cersei's opinion of him. During the trial of Tyrion Lannister for Joffrey's murder, Pycelle is called as a witness for the prosecution to discuss poisons and how Tyrion might have killed the King.

Pycelle continues his service to the newly-crowned King Tommen I Baratheon. He is ordered by Tywin to heal Ser Gregor Clegane, who was poisoned by Oberyn Martell in the trial by combat and is slowly dying in agony. Tywin plans on having Gregor executed to appease House Martell but needs it to be seen to be the King's Justice who does the deed, not poison. Pycelle is unsuccessful and Tywin refuses his suggestion of confining the other Dornishmen till they reveal what poison Oberyn used as Tywin cannot risk further offending Dorne. Tywin fears they might join Stannis Baratheon which would prolong the war for years.

A Feast for Crows

Following Tywin's death, the relationship between Pycelle and Queen Regent Cersei Lannister becomes more strained. He opposes the naming of Qyburn, a disgraced maester, to the small council. Cersei blames him for the deplorable state of Lord Tywin Lannister's corpse.

Cersei considers having him replaced, and Pycelle's future at court looks uncertain. However, when Cersei is arrested by the Faith, Pycelle successfully seizes control of the council, as Aurane Waters and Orton Merryweather have abandoned the capital. He removes Osfryd Kettleblack as commander of the gold cloaks so Osfyrd will not be able to use the Watch to try and free Cersei and his brother Osney, both of whom are prisoners of the Faith. He also raises Humfrey Waters of the Dragon Gate to command the Watch. Qyburn states to Cersei that the realm is effectively being ruled by Pycelle and Harys Swyft. Pycelle dispatches a message to Ser Kevan Lannister offering him the regency.

A Dance with Dragons

Pycelle continues his duty as Grand Maester but is wary of Lord Mace Tyrell, who is wroth with Pycelle for revealing Maergary's requests for moon tea. He requests guards from Ser Kevan Lannister out of fear for his personal safety. Pycelle's fears prove justified, as he is killed in his chambers, not by Tyrell men but by Lord Varys, who removes both him and Kevan to ensure they cannot repair the damage Cersei had done to the kingdom and the Lannister-Tyrell alliance.

Pycelle served six kings during his time as Grand Maester: Aegon V, Jaehaerys II, Aerys II, Robert I, Joffrey I and Tommen I.

Quotes by Pycelle

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

- Pycelle to Eddard Stark

Once I counseled King Aerys as loyally as I council King Robert now...

- Pycelle to the small council

Treason is a noxious weed. It must be torn up, root and stem and seed, lest new traitors sprout from every roadside.

- Pycelle to the court of Joffrey I Baratheon

Tyrion: How long have you been spying for my sister?

Pycelle: All I did, I did for House Lannister. Always ... for years ... your lord father, ask him, I was ever his true servant ... twas I who bid Aerys to open his gates....

Tyrion: So the Sack of King's Landing was your work as well?

- Tyrion Lannister and Pycelle

Pycelle: I was your lord father's man, and a friend to you in the matter of Lord Arryn. I could not survive the dungeons, not again ...

Cersei: Why does Margaery send for you?
Pycelle': Moon tea. Moon tea, for ....

Cersei: I know what moon tea is for. Very well. Get off those saggy knees and try to remember what it was to be a man.

- Pycelle and Cersei Lannister

Quotes about Pycelle

How many of you betrayed , I wonder? Aerys, Eddard Stark, me... King Robert as well? Lord Arryn, Prince Rhaegar? Where does it begin, Pycelle?

- Tyrion Lannister to Pycelle

Pycelle is a toad. But better a Lannister toad then a Tyrell toad, no?

- Tyrion Lannister to Varys




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Pycelle's serving girl is Grand Maester Pycelle’s servant girl in the Red Keep. Her name is not mentioned. She is young. She is also Pycelle's bed warmer, although the Citadel would not approve, as maesters are supposed to be celibate.

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

During breakfast with Grand Maester Pycelle, Tyrion Lannister asks him to send his serving girl away. Pycelle complies, and Tyrion hands him two sealed copies of a secret letter for Prince Doran Martell.

When Tyrion Lannister breaks into Pycelle's chambers with the help of Shagga and Timett, after discovering Pycelle betrayed Tyrion to his sister Cersei, he finds Pycelle in bed with his serving girl. She is frightened, and begs the clansmen not to hurt her, cringing away from Shagga, attempting to cover herself. While Shagga announces that he wants her and would give her a strong child, Tyrion has Timett march her into the hall.

Quotes

Shagga: "Shagga would give her a strong child."
Tyrion: "If she wants a strong child, she'll know whom to seek."

Shagga and Tyrion Lannister




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Annotation #1 for item #46269086: Wiki: Pyke

Pyke

The Iron Islands and the location of Pyke

This article is about the castle in the Iron Islands. For the island, see Pyke (island). "Pyke" is also a traditional bastard surname.

Pyke is a castle located on the island of the same name, which is one of the eight major Iron Islands. It is the seat of House Greyjoy, whose lord is known as the Lord Reaper of Pyke. The Greyjoys have been Lords of the Iron Islands since Aegon's Conquest. The Greyjoys claim the island is named after the castle.

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Household

The household for Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, includes Helya, who keeps the castle,

Layout

See also: Images of Pyke

Pyke by Rene Aigner©

Ancient Pyke was originally built on a cliff jutting out into the sea, but over time the cliff has eroded, leaving the castle's keeps and towers standing on three barren islands and a dozen small stacks of rock, surrounded by water. The towers are connected by swaying rope bridges. The keep, its towers, and walls are made of the same grey-black stone of which the rest of the island is composed. In the thousands of years the castle has stood, it has become covered with green lichen. Since there is no safe anchorage at Pyke, ships sail to nearby Lordsport.

A curtain wall encloses the headland of fifty acres and the cliffs around the foot of the wide stone bridge which extend out to the largest islet. The stables, kennels and livestock are located on the headland. The Great Keep, the Kitchen Keep, and the Guest Keep each sit on their own islands. Towers and outbuildings are located on stacks beyond them, linked to each other by covered archways where the pillars stood close and by long, swaying walks of wood and rope when they did not.

The Bloody Keep, by Martina Pilcerova © Fantasy Flight Games

History

Antiquity

Pyke by Abe Papakhian©

Pyke is so old that its original builders and lords are unknown.

Qhored I Hoare, King of the Iron Islands, murdered the sons of Bernarr II Justman, King of the Trident, at Pyke while they were his hostages.

Iron Throne

In the aftermath of Aegon's Conquest, Vickon Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, became the new Lord of the Iron Islands, ruling from the Seastone Chair at Pyke.

Lord Balon Greyjoy killed Pyke's maester after the man failed to heal his brother Urrigon,

Pyke by Feliche©

During Greyjoy's Rebellion, the siege of Pyke was the final battle. King Robert I Baratheon, along with Lord Eddard Stark, mustered thousands of men and invaded the island of Pyke thorough Lordsport. They captured the castle after bringing down the southern part of the outer wall of Pyke using siege engines. as a hostage by Lord Stark.

Having had two sons, Maron and Rodrik, killed in the rebellion and Theon taken away, Balon's wife, Alannys Harlaw, brought five boys to Pyke as wards. One of them, Tristifer Botley, was sent to Blacktyde after Maester Qalen found him kissing Lord Balon's daughter, Asha Greyjoy.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Pyke by zippo514

Ravens are sent from Riverrun and Seagard to Pyke informing Lord Balon Greyjoy that his son, Theon, is being sent as an envoy of Robb Stark, King in the North, but there is no reply.

Theon returns to Pyke for the first time since being taken away as a child after Greyjoy's Rebellion. Instead of an honor guard led by Dagmer, Theon is escorted from Lordsport to Pyke by his uncle, Aeron Damphair.

From the Seastone Chair, Greyjoy hosts a feast in the Great Keep for his assembled captains. He then discusses his plans for independence and invading the north with his family in the solar of the Sea Tower.

A Storm of Swords

It is reported that Balon, King of the Isles and the North, fell to his death when a bridge of Pyke was torn to pieces by the wind. His exiled brother, Euron Greyjoy, returned to Pyke the day after and claimed the Seastone Chair.

A Feast for Crows

Euron Crow's Eye has Maester Wendamyr summon the ironborn captains to Pyke to pay homage to their new king, but his brother Aeron instead calls for a kingsmoot on Old Wyk.

Quotes

Pyke in *Game of Thrones*

All that remained were three bare and barren islands and a dozen towering stacks of rock that rose from the water like the pillars of some sea god's temple, while the angry waves foamed and crashed among them.

- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

It is as if I were a stranger here, Theon thought. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed.

- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

Chapters that take place at Pyke

Annotation #2 for item #46269086: Wiki: (island) Pyke

Pyke

The Iron Islands and the location of Pyke

Pyke is one of the larger islands among the Iron Islands, an archipelago located on Ironman's Bay, on the western side of Westeros. Pyke is located east of Saltcliffe, southeast of Great Wyk, and southwest of Harlaw.

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Geography

Pyke is not as large nor as rich as Great Wyk, Harlaw, and Orkmont.

History

Antiquity

The castle of Pyke viewed from the mainland, art by Marc Simonetti ©

The ancient castle of Pyke was once part of mainland Pyke, but is now located on small islands and stone stacks after segments of land fell into the sea.

King Theon Stark defended the north against raiders from Pyke.

The island was once ruled by rock kings and salt kings, but they became lords when Urron Greyiron established a hereditary dynasty of Kings of the Iron Islands.

Iron, lead, and tin from Pyke was traded by ironborn merchants during the dynasty of House Hoare, the successors of House Greyiron.

Iron Throne

Pretenders arose on Great Wyk, Old Wyk, Orkmont, and Pyke after the death of Harren the Black during Aegon's Conquest. House Greyjoy ultimately became the new Lords of the Iron Islands after submitting to King Aegon I Targaryen.

After the death of the Red Kraken, Lord Dalton Greyjoy, battles were bought on Pyke by rival ironborn claimants and then by vengeful westermen.

Lord Quellon Greyjoy led fifty longships from Pyke after the Battle of the Trident, but he died in the battle at the Mander.

During Greyjoy's Rebellion, Pyke was invaded by the forces of King Robert I Baratheon and the castle of Pyke was besieged.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Shores of Pyke, as depicted in *Game of Thrones*

In preparation for his plan to attack the north, Balon Greyjoy, the Lord of the Iron Islands, gathers confiscated merchant ships, dozens of longships, and countless fishing ships to the harbor of Lordsport.

Theon Greyjoy sails from Seagard to Pyke. His uncle, Aeron Damphair, escorts him from Lordsport to the castle of Pyke.

After viewing *Sea Bitch*, Theon rides from Lordsport to the castle of Pyke with "Esgred", not knowing she is actually his sister, Asha.

A Storm of Swords

Balon, King of the Isles and the North, falls to his death from the castle of Pyke. The Seastone Chair is claimed by Balon's brother, Euron Crow's Eye, who drowns Sawane Botley after the Lord of Lordsport Sawane objects.

A Feast for Crows

Euron has Maester Wendamyr send ravens demanding the ironborn pay homage to him at Pyke.

Aeron Damphair calls for a kingsmoot on Old Wyk.

After the taking of the Shields, Grand Maester Pycelle expects Euron will retreat back to Pyke to protect his spoils of war.

Quotes

Tell me, O Lord beneath the waves, who has the strength to fight the storm on Pyke?

- prayer of Aeron Greyjoy

Where is it written that our king must be a kraken? What right has Pyke to rule us? Great Wyk is the largest isle, Harlaw the richest, Old Wyk the most holy. When the black line was consumed by dragonfire, the ironborn gave the primacy to Vickon Greyjoy, aye ... but as lord, not king.

- Dunstan Drumm at the kingsmoot




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Pykewood Peake is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. He is one of the brothers of the exiled Lord Laswell Peake.

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Appearance

He wears his worldly wealth upon his person and a lord’s ransom in golden arm rings. Each ring signifies one year's service with the Golden Company.

History

He and his brothers are related to the Peakes of Starpike.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

He, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen in Volon Therys before they invade Westeros.




Annotations from item #46269088:

Pylos is a maester of the Citadel newly sent to serve Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone. He is to be the eventual replacement for Maester Cressen.

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Character

No more than twenty-five years old, Pylos is very solemn and polite.

History

When Maester Cressen became ill in 298 AC, Pylos was sent by the Citadel to Dragonstone. It was said that he was to be Cressen's assistant, but Cressen was aware that truly Pylos was to be his replacement when he died.

Recent Events

Davos Seaworth and Maester Pylos
art by theslytod

A Clash of Kings

Pylos serves on Dragonstone as an assistant maester, helping Maester Cressen, who is too old and frail to perform all his duties. He brings the white raven (sent from the Citadel to announce the end of summer) to show to Princess Shireen Baratheon. Cressen is distraught when he arrives late to Stannis's feast to find that Pylos is in his place at the table.

After Cressen's death, Pylos is now Dragonstone's offical maester. He helps prepare Stannis Baratheon's letter to all the lords of Westeros that proclaims him the true king and asserts that Ser Jaime Lannister, not Robert Baratheon, is the father of Cersei Lannister's children (and thus that Joffrey Baratheon is a bastard born of incest and illegitimately sitting the throne).

A Storm of Swords

When Ser Davos Seaworth is imprisoned in Dragonstone's dungeons, he takes ill and Maester Pylos treats him.

Maester Pylos educates the children on Dragonstone, Princess Shireen Baratheon, Edric Storm, and Devan Seaworth. After Davos Seaworth is raised to the position of Stannis's Hand of the King, he seeks out Maester Pylos for guidance, and to be taught how to read and write. During this process, Pylos shows Davos a letter from Maester Aemon of the Night's Watch, begging for assistance from the five kings against the wildling forces of Mance Rayder and the oncoming threat of the Others. Pylos tells Davos that Stannis had not yet seen the letter, as his previous Hand Alester Florent had deemed it not worth his attention or resources.

Pylos is made aware of Davos's plan to remove Edric Storm from Dragonstone to keep him safe from Melisandre's scheme to sacrifice him, and chooses to cooperate with it. Pylos becomes an essential part of the plan, as Edric is taken to a ship to the Free Cities during his lessons with the maester, and he also encourages the boy to follow Davos's orders. Davos thinks how he had been unsure of Pylos, perhaps because of resentment over Cressen's death; but now he can only admire the maester's courage, since if Stannis judges the plan as treason Pylos could also be executed.

A Feast for Crows

Though Stannis and his army have left for the Wall, Pylos remains at Dragonstone as part of its garrison.

A Dance with Dragons

Davos recalls that Maester Pylos had taught him to read.

Quotes

Davos Seaworth: The King's Hand should be a highborn lord, someone wise and learned, a battle commander or a great knight...
Maester Pylos: Ser Ryam Redwyne was the greatest knight of his day, and one of the worst Hands ever to serve a king. Septon Murmison's prayers worked miracles, but as Hand he soon had the whole realm praying for his death. Lord Butterwell was renowned for wit, Myles Smallwood for courage, Ser Otto Hightower for learning, yet they failed as Hands, every one. As for birth, the dragonkings oft chose Hands from amongst their own blood, with results as various as Baelor Breakspear and Maegor the Cruel. Against this, you have Septon Barth, the blacksmith's son the Old King plucked from the Red Keep's library, who gave the realm forty years of peace and plenty. Read your history, Lord Davos, and you will see that your doubts are groundless.

Any man can read, my lord. There is no magic needed, nor high birth.

Davos had been uncertain of Pylos. Perhaps he resented him for taking old Cressen's place. But now he could only admire the man's courage. This could mean his life as well.

- Davos's thoughts when he comes for Edric Storm




Annotations from item #46269089:

Pynto is the innkeep of a tavern in Braavos.

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Appearance and Character

Pynto never changes his clothes or washes his hair. He is loud and smelly but he also has a soft heart under all his unwashed clothes and bluster. To hear him tell it in his younger days Pynto had been the most notorious pirate on the Stepstones, he loves nothing better than to speak at great length about his exploits.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

When Arya Stark, in the guise of the blind girl ‘Blind Beth', enters Pynto's tavern it is a good night for her. Pynto gives her a cup of watered wine, a chunk of stinky cheese, and half an eel pie. He then settles down to tell her of the time he seized the spice ship, a tale she has heard a dozen times before. After an hour passes he is soon too busy to pay her any mind and she eavesdrops on the talk of the tavern's patrons. Later she goes to tell the Kindly Man what she has overheard.




Annotations from item #46269090:

Pynto's is a tavern located in Braavos. It is owned and run by Pynto, an old pirate.

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About

Pynto's tavern is full of cats – the old pirate believes that they bring good luck and keep his tavern free of vermin.

It lies at the northern end of Ragman's Harbor, a few blocks east from the edge of the Drowned Town.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

The blind girl has begged at Pynto's. She recalls that it stinks of sour wine, stinky cheese and Pynto himself.

After begging at the Inn of the Green Eel the night before the blind girl opts to go to Pynto's. She finds herself in luck as the tavern is almost empty and Pynto lets her come inside. She is able to sit in a quiet corner not far from the fire. It turns out to be a good night for the blind girl as Pynto is in a jolly mood and he gives her a cup of watered wine, a chunk of stinky cheese and half of an eel pie.

As the hours pass the tavern fills up and the blind girl is able to eavesdrop on the the talk of the various patrons. Later she goes to tell the kindly man what she has overheard.




Annotations from item #46269091:

Pypar, commonly known as Pyp, is a member of the Night's Watch. He is in the same recruit class as Jon Snow. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is played by Jozef Altin.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Pypar

Pypar is small and has large ears

History

Before coming to the Wall, Pypar had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Pypar joins the Night's Watch at the same time as Jon Snow. During sword practice, Jon thinks Pyp uses his sword like a dagger.

Pyp is derisively nicknamed "Monkey" and "the Mummer's Monkey" by Ser Alliser Thorne.

A Clash of Kings

Pyp remains at Castle Black during the great ranging. Before Grenn leaves with the ranging, Halder and Pypar bring him to Mole's Town.

A Storm of Swords

Pyp is one of the many fighters atop the Wall when Mance Rayder's army assaults the Watch in the battle beneath the Wall. He retches when he sees the bodies of Donal Noye and Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg.

A Feast for Crows

Pypar becomes resentful towards Jon, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, because Jon turns distant, avoiding the friends who aided his rise to power.

A Dance with Dragons

When Pypar makes jests about the rituals of R'hllor, Jon orders him to stop and is grateful none of the queen's men heard the japes. Jon sends Pyp to serve at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

Quotes by Pypar

Samwell: I ... if you want, you can call me Sam. My mother calls me Sam.

Pypar: You can call him Lord Snow. You don't want to know what his mother calls him.
Jon: These two are Grenn and Pypar.
Pypar: Grenn's the ugly one.

Grenn: You're uglier than me. At least I don't have ears like a bat.

Samwell Tarly, Pypar, Jon Snow, and Grenn

The turtle was stuffed full of rabbits! Look at them hop away!

—Pypar during the battle beneath the Wall

Quotes about Pypar

The mummer's boy with the big ears was a born liar with a hundred different voices, and he did not tell his tales so much as live them, playing all the parts as needed, a king one moment and a swineherd the next.

—thoughts of Jon Snow

They will call you men of Night's Watch now, but you are bigger fools than the Mummer's Monkey here if you believe that. You are boys still, green and stinking of summer, and when the winter comes you will die like flies.

Alliser Thorne to Pyp's fellow recruits

Making mock of another man's prayer is fool's work, Pyp. And dangerous.

Jon Snow to Pypar




Annotations from item #46269092:

The pyramid of Hazkar is a great black pyramid in Meereen and the home to members of the House of Hazkar. The pyramid can been seen from the Great Pyramid's terrace.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

The pyramid is attacked by Rhaegal and Viserion after they are unleashed upon the city. Rhaegal attempts to make his lair atop the pyramid of Hazkar, killing the slavers who are foolish enough to object. It becomes a smoking ruin that eventually collapses in on itself, with many of the ancient line of Hazkar lying dead, buried under its now blackened stones.

Shortly after Prince Quentyn Martell dies in Daenerys Targaryen's bed, Ser Barristan Selmy stands on the highest step of the Great Pyramid where he notices that whips of smoke still rise from the smouldering ruin of the pyramid.




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Viserion claims the pyramid of Uhlez as his own - by Marc Fishman ©

The pyramid of Uhlez is a great black pyramid in Meereen and the home to members of the House of Uhlez. The pyramid can been seen from the Great Pyramid's terrace.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

After Rhaegal and Viserion are unleashed upon the city the pyramid is attacked by them. The Great Masters of House of Uhlez are forced to abandon it to the dragons. Viserion makes his lair atop the pyramid.




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Rhaegal roosts on top of the Pyramid of Yherizan.
Art by Robert O'Leary

The pyramid of Yherizan is a great black pyramid in Meereen and the home to members of the House of Yherizan. The pyramid can been seen from the Great Pyramid's terrace.

Recent Events

Rhaegal makes his lair on the pyramid of Yherizan - by Ashley Hunter Rice

A Dance with Dragons

After being unleashed with his brother Viserion on the city, Rhaegal makes his lair here and as a result it has been abandoned by the Great Masters of Yherizan. The pyramid is now a smouldering ruin and its former occupants are either dead or in flight.

Shortly after Prince Quentyn Martell dies in Daenerys Targaryen's bed, Ser Barristan Selmy stands on the highest step of the Great Pyramid. He notices that whips of smoke still rise from the smouldering ruin of the pyramid where Rhaegal hulks in the gloom like a fat woman bedecked with glowing orange jewels.




Annotations from item #46269095:

Pytho Malanon is a sculptor of Essos.

History

He sculpted a statue of Illyrio Mopatis when Illyrio was sixteen years old. The statue is magnificently carved and still graces the court in Illyrio's manse.




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The Qaathi are an ancient people native to the southeastern region of the grasslands of central Essos, on what is now the Dothraki Sea. They are nearly extinct, save for a remnant in Qarth.

History

The Qaathi arose in and established towns in the grasslands, often coming into conflict with the Sarnori. They would often lose these wars, and so began to drift farther south, founding new city-states, among them Qarth on the coast of the Summer Sea. However, these lands began to turn into desert just as they established their foothold there. The Qaathi were already on their way to collapse when the Doom of Valyria struck. Any hope of using the ensuing chaos to their advantage vanished when the Dothraki ventured into the desert, the Red Waste, destroying all remaining Qaathi cities save for Qarth itself, protected by its triple walls.




Annotations from item #46269097:

Qalen was a maester who served at Pyke for House Greyjoy.

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History

After Greyjoy's Rebellion, Tristifer Botley and four other boys were brought to Pyke to be fostered by Lady Alannys Harlaw. After Maester Qalen found Tristifer inappropriately touching Asha Greyjoy, the daughter of Lord Balon Greyjoy, the boy was promptly shipped off to Blacktyde.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Qalen died before the return of Theon Greyjoy to Pyke, and his duties were taken by Maester Wendamyr. Helya tells Theon that Qalen now sleeps in the sea.




Annotations from item #46269098:

Qano was a Dothraki *khal* who lived during the Century of Blood. He was one of the four khals that fought in the Field of Crows.

History

Khal Qano joined forces with Khals Haro, Loso, and Zhako to fight against High King Mazor Alexi, who had united all of the Sarnori lesser kings to defend their homeland against the Dothraki hordes. The battle took place halfway between Sarnath and the ruins of Kasath. The Sarnori chariots smashed the center of the Dothraki horde. Haro was trampled and died, while his riders fled, chased by Alexi and his cavalry. However, the escape was feigned and Haro's riders turned back, raining arrows on the Sarnori, while the other khals surrounded the Tall Men on all sides, with Qano's *khalasar* attacking from the north.




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Qarkash

Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of Qarkash

Qarkash is a Qartheen town in Essos, located east of Slaver's Bay on the shores of the Summer Sea. It is south of the red waste and west of Qarth and the ruins of Qolahn. Port Yhos is to the west of Qarkash.




Annotations from item #46269100:

Characters named Qarl include:




Annotations from item #46269101:

Ser Qarl Correy was a household knight in service to House Velaryon at High Tide. Of relatively low birth, Qarl was rumored to have been a lover of Laenor Velaryon.

History

Laenor had favored knights of his house, which he likely took as lovers. The first prominent knight was Ser Joffrey Lonmouth, whom Laenor's third son, Prince Joffrey Velaryon, was later named after. After Ser Joffrey's death, Qarl Correy became Laenor's new favorite.

Qarl slew Laenor over a quarrel at Spicetown. The reasons for the quarrel are not known. Correy was never seen again after escaping.

Behind the Scenes

Qarl's name may be a reference by George R. R. Martin to *Nine Princes in Amber* by Roger Zelazny, which features a character called Carl Corey. Other homages by Martin to Zelazny include House Rogers and the Pattern.




Annotations from item #46269102:

Qarl Kenning, known as Queer Qarl Kenning, is a member of House Kenning of Harlaw.




Annotations from item #46269103:

Qarl Quickaxe is a resident of the Iron Islands. His house and allegiance are unknown. He is mentioned by Asha Greyjoy as one of many Qarls who live on the Iron Islands.




Annotations from item #46269104:

Qarl Shepherd is a member of House Shepherd in the Iron Islands.




Annotations from item #46269105:

Qarl by cloudninja9©

Qarl, widely known as Qarl the Maid, is an ironborn warrior sworn to Balon Greyjoy.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Qarl

Qarl the Maid is beardless and pink-cheeked.

Qarl is renowned as one of the fiercest warriors of the Iron Islands.

History

When Asha Greyjoy first met Qarl in 293 AC or 294 AC, she called his attempt at growing a beard "peach fuzz". Since he had never seen a peach, she encouraged him to join her crew. They traded at Fair Isle, Lannisport, and the Arbor,

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Qarl and two companions, Skyte and Uller, encounter Theon and Asha Greyjoy in Lordsport. There they recount the story of the death of Skyte's brother, Eldiss. Asha tells Theon that he should make them part of his crew.

A Feast for Crows

Qarl serves aboard Asha's ship, the *Black Wind*.

A Dance with Dragons

Qarl sails to Deepwood Motte with Asha as she contemplates her next move. Qarl sleeps with Asha in Galbart Glover's bedchamber.

Qarl is later freed and ransomed along with the other ironborn by Tycho Nestoris, as the Braavosi banker needs an escort to get him to Stannis whose army is marching on Winterfell.




Annotations from item #46269106:

Qarl, better known as Qarl the Thrall, is an ironborn raider.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Qarl allies himself with Euron Greyjoy at the kingsmoot.




Annotations from item #46269107:

Qarlon, known as Qarlon the Great, was an Andal warrior who united the Lorathi isles and dreamed of making himself "King of All Andals". His seat was a large wooden keep at Lorassyon.

History

After twenty years of warfare against petty kings of Andalos, Qarlon's domain extended along the Shivering Sea from the future site of the Braavosi lagoon in the west and the Axe in the east. To the south Qarlon controlled the headwaters of the Upper Rhoyne and the Noyne, but this led to conflict with other Andal kings and the Free City of Norvos. When the Norvoshi closed the Noyne, Qarlon defeated them twice in the Hills of Norvos. Unwisely, however, he then marched against the city of Norvos.

The Norvoshi sent to distant Valyria for help, and the Freehold rose in defense of its colony. According to *The Fires of the Freehold*, a hundred dragonlords burned Qarlon the Great and his Andal host outside Norvos. The dragonlords then attacked the Lorathi isles, burning Qarlon's keep. It is said nobody survived the Scouring of Lorath.