Lymond Pease is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. As a serjeant, he is a high-ranking officer.
Lymond, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen in Volon Therys before they invade Westeros.
After landing in Westeros and taking of Griffin's Roost, Jon Connington calls for a war council. Lymond is one of the nine men present at this meeting.
Ser Lymond Vikary is a landed knight and the head of House Vikary.
Tyrion Lannister erroneously informs Sansa Stark that Ser Lymond, as a member of the Lannister force being formed at Oxcross by Ser Stafford Lannister, was killed in the Battle of Oxcross by the northern force.
Ser Lymond is being held captive at Wayfarer's Rest.
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Ser Lyn Corbray is a knight from House Corbray. He is the heir of his elder brother, Lord Lyonel Corbray of Heart's Home.
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Lyn is a thin man.
Ser Lyn won his knighthood fighting for House Targaryen with Marq Grafton against Lord Jon Arryn at the gates of Gulltown during the opening sequences of Robert's Rebellion. He was pardoned and joined Lord Jon against the Targaryens.
At the battle of the Trident, Ser Lyn's father Lord Corbray was badly wounded. In the confusion Lyn took up the family's Valyrian steel longsword, Lady Forlorn, and distinguished himself by leading an assault on the Dornish lines. He personally finished off a wounded Prince Lewyn Martell of the Kingsguard.
Honoring Lyn's achievements on the battlefield, his father bequeathed him Lady Forlorn upon his death. His elder brother Lyonel Corbray inherited the rest of the family estate and titles, but still resented the loss of the family blade.
Ser Lyn is one of Lady Lysa Arryn's suitors, after the death of Lord Jon Arryn. His squire is Mychel Redfort. He attends the trial of Tyrion Lannister at the Eyrie. He offers himself as champion of the Vale when Tyrion demands a trial by combat, but is rebuffed by Lysa.
Following Bronn's victory in the trial,
Ser Lyn accompanies the Lords Declarant to the parley with Lords Petyr Baelish and Robert Arryn at the Eyrie. Lord Nestor Royce claims that Lyn rarely left the side of Lysa for nearly half a year. During the parley, Ser Lyn grows tired of the conversation and threatens Petyr with his sword, Lady Forlorn, violating the laws of hospitality. Ser Lothor Brune moves to intercept, but it is the intervention of the other Lords Declarant that causes Lyn to put up his sword. Lyn leaves the parley shortly thereafter.
Later, Petyr admits to Sansa Stark that Lyn is in his employ, and it is his task to feign hatred for Petyr and to join every conspiracy against him and inform on them. Petyr states that Lyn's price is gold and boys.
Prior to the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights at the Gates of the Moon, Ser Lyn knocks down Ser Owen during a practice match. The buxom Myranda Royce japes that Lyn would not be interested in her because of her gender.
My lady has a thirst. Whenever she comes out to dance, she likes a drop of red.
– Lyn, during the Lords Declarant meeting at the Eyrie
Lyn Corbray is a dangerous man.
While it is mentioned that Lyn likes "boys",
Lady Lynara Stark was a member of House Stark. Last wife of Lord Cregan Stark. They had five children together; Jonnel, Edric, Lyanna, Barthogan and Brandon Stark.
Lync was a member of the Night's Watch.
Lync was sent to the Wall by Ser Malcolm for stealing pepper. His brother is an innkeeper who owns an inn north of King's Landing.
Lynesse Hightower is the youngest daughter of Lord Leyton Hightower..
The beautiful Lynesse has golden hair, skin the color of cream, and soft hands.
During the tourney at Lannisport, Lynesse allowed her favor to be worn by Ser Jorah Mormont, Lord of Bear Island, who was twice her age and widowed. He crowned her the queen of love and beauty after winning the tourney and asked for her hand in marriage, to which Lord Leyton Hightower consented. Lynesse and Jorah married shortly thereafter in Lannisport.
Although they had married for love, the marriage did not remain happy for long. Having grown up in House Hightower in prosperous Oldtown, Lynesse was unprepared for life at poor Bear Island in the north, and she quickly became miserable. Jorah attempted to reproduce the luxurious lifestyle his wife was accustomed to by lavishing her with expensive gifts and voyages to Lannisport, Oldtown, and Braavos, but Jorah quickly drove himself into financial ruin. Lynesse was unimpressed with Jorah's defeats in other tourneys, and she refused to sell her jewelry.
In desperation, Jorah began looking to less savory ways of paying off his debts, attempting to raise money by selling some convicted poachers to a Tyroshi slaver.
Jorah would have preferred to live in Braavos, but he instead chose the warmer Lys to make Lynesse happy. Jorah became a sellsword, but Lynesse outspent his earnings tenfold. While he was fighting Braavosi on the Rhoyne, Lynesse moved into the manse of Tregar Ormollen, a Lysene merchant prince.
While in Vaes Tolorro Ser Jorah Mormont tells Daenerys Targaryen of his second wife, Lynesse, and his ill-fated marriage to her.
While traveling in the rain to the Twins, Lady Maege Mormont and her heir, Dacey, speak of Lynesse to Catelyn Stark.
When Ser Humfrey Hightower sails to Lys to hire sellsails to help fight off the ironborn attack on the Reach, it is a commonly-held hope that Lynesse will help him get the best possible fleet.
While in Volantis, Jorah tells his prisoner, Tyrion Lannister, of Lynesse abandoning him for Tregar Ormollen.
Daenerys: Tell me the name of your ghost, Jorah. You know all of mine.
Jorah: Her name was Lynesse.
– Daenerys Targaryen and Jorah Mormont
The first time I beheld her, I thought she was a goddess come to earth, the Maid herself made flesh.
– Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen
Arstan had seen Ser Jorah fight at Lannisport, Dany knew, in the tourney Mormont had won with a lady's favor knotted round his arm. He had won the lady too; Lynesse of House Hightower, his second wife, highborn and beautiful ... but she had ruined him, and abandoned him, and the memory of her was bitter to him now.
- thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Dacey: She had hair like spun gold, that Lynesse. Skin like cream. But her soft hands were never made for axes.
Maege: Nor her teats for giving suck.
- Dacey Mormont and Maege Mormont
Lynora Hill is the bastard daughter of Ser Jason Lannister and a serving girl,
Lyonel is a popular male name in Westeros. It may refer to:
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Ser Lyonel is a knight in Lord Tywin Lannister's army at Harrenhal.
Lyonel is a knight in the westerlands army encamped at Harrenhal. When Tywin Lannister makes ready for his departure from Harrenhal, Lyonel chips his sword in the yard of Harrenhal. He sends Arya Stark with the sword to Lucan, demanding a new one. Lucan believes Lyonel does not deserve one, but gives him one all the same.
Ser Lyonel's surname is not stated. However, it is possible "Ser Lyonel" refers to Ser Lyonel Frey, the second son of Ser Emmon Frey and Lord Tywin Lannister's sister, Genna.
Ser Lyonel Baratheon, known as the Laughing Storm, was a knight of House Baratheon during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen.
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Ser Lyonel participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow. In the first tilt he challenged Ser Robert Ashford. After breaking nine lances they both lost their saddles on their tenth course, only to rise together to fight on, sword against mace. Finally a battered Robert admitted defeat, and Lyonel become a champion in his place.
Lyonel fought multiple matches against lesser foes, often breaking into booming laughter the moment they touched his shield. If his challengers wore any sort of crest on their helm, Lyonel would strike it off and fling it into the crowd.
Lyonel was a leal supporter of King Aegon V Targaryen when he was Lord of Storm's End, so the king was pleased to arrange a betrothal of his eldest son and heir, Prince Duncan Targaryen, to Lord Lyonel's daughter.
Prince Duncan later broke that betrothal when he fell in love and married the commonborn Jenny of Oldstones. This enraged Lord Lyonel, who felt the honor of House Baratheon was insulted. He renounced his fealty to the Iron Throne and declared himself Storm King. A short rebellion followed, which ended when Lyonel yielded to Ser Duncan the Tall of the Kingsguard during a trial by battle. Prince Duncan renounced his claim to the throne, and King Aegon agreed to betroth his youngest daughter, Princess Rhaelle Targaryen, to Lyonel's heir, Ormund Baratheon. Aegon V sent Rhaelle to Storm's End as Lord Lyonel's cupbearer and companion to his lady wife.
Ser Lyonel Bentley was a knight and member of Rhaenyra Targaryen's Queensguard.
The young Lyonel accompanied Rhaenyra as her party escaped King's Landing after the storming of the Dragonpit. On the road between Stokeworth and Duskendale, they were attacked by broken men and Lyonel suffered a blow that cracked his helmet. He died raving the following day.
Lord Lyonel Corbray is Lord of Heart's Home and head of House Corbray. He has two brothers of Ser Lyn and Ser Lucas.
During the Battle of the Trident, Lord Corbray was wounded. Lyonel carried his father back to the maesters in the rear, while his younger brother, Ser Lyn Corbray, grabbed their father's sword Lady Forlorn and led a charge against the Dornishmen. When Lord Corbray died, Lyonel inherited the titles and lands while Ser Lyn received the sword Lady Forlorn. Lyonel felt he was cheated of his birthright.
Lyonel's first wife bore a single sickly child who died in infancy. As result, for all the years of their marriage his heir remained his younger brother Lyn.
Lord Lyonel does not join with the Lords Declarant who try to depose Littlefinger, Petyr Baelish, the Lord Protector of the Vale..
Lord Lyonel does not attend the Tourney of the Gates of the Moon, remaining at Heart's Home with his new wife, who is now pregnant with his long-desired heir.
Ser Lyonel Frey is a knight of House Frey. The son of Lord Emmon Frey (second son of Lord Walder Frey) and Genna Lannister (only daughter of Lord Tytos Lannister), he has three brothers; Ser Cleos, Tion and Walder Frey.
Ser Lyonel Lorch was a knight of House Lorch during the Faith Militant uprising.
During the Faith Militant uprising, Ser Lyonel took up arms on behalf of the High Septon and the Starry Sept against the Iron Throne. He fought in the battle at the Great Fork alongside Lord Rupert Falwell and other knights from the westerlands and riverlands, as well as hundreds of Poor Fellows, against the royal army led by King Maegor I Targaryen himself. It is unknown if he survived.
Ser Lyonel Selmy was a knight and head of House Selmy. He was the father of Ser Barristan Selmy.
Lyonel Strong was a Lord of Harrenhal and head of House Strong who served as both master of laws and Hand of the King for Viserys I Targaryen. He had two sons, Ser Harwin and Lord Larys, and two daughters.
Lyonel was a large, balding man who had a reputation as a battler. He was slow of speech and quiet and was often mistaken for a brute. He was in reality extremely intelligent and well learned, however.
Lyonel studied at the Citadel, where he earned six links, and he had an exhaustive knowledge of law.
Lyonel was awarded Harrenhal during the reign of the Old King, Jaehaerys I Targaryen.
When the allegation that Prince Daemon Targaryen took Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen's virginity came before the small council, Lord Lyonel's counsel to Viserys was that Daemon should be executed for treason. Septon Eustace, however, reminded the council about the taint of kinslaying, and Daemon was exiled instead.
Lyonel died in a fire at Harrenhal with his eldest son and heir, Ser Harwin. The fire was considered an accident and blamed on the curse of Harrenhal. Other non-mystical suspects included Daemon, Lord Corlys Velaryon, Lyonel's younger son Larys, who inherited Harrenhal, and King Viserys.
Lyonel Tyrell is the name of multiple members of House Tyrell.
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Lyonel Tyrell was the Lord of Highgarden and head of House Tyrell during the Dance of the Dragons and the conquest of Dorne.
Lord Lyonel was an infant during the Dance of the Dragons (129-131 AC), thus his mother ruled the Reach as his regent. She was judged likely to align the Reach with the House's "overmighty" bannermen, House Hightower, and the greens, but chose instead to remain neutral during the war. As the war progressed, the Tyrell bannermen were split, with men of the Reach fighting on both sides.
Ulf the White said Lyonel should be attained a traitor, since he had not taken part in the war. Ulf desired Highgarden, Lyonel's seat, for his own, however.
Lord Lyonel fought beneath the Targaryen banner when the Young Dragon, King Daeron I Targaryen, sought to conquer Dorne. Upon his ascension in 157 AC, Daeron marched south with his armies and defeated the Dornishmen, becoming the first Targaryen king to conquer Dorne and unite all Seven Kingdoms for the first time.
Lyonel faithfully, if perhaps too boldly, commanded the army that invaded Dorne via the Prince's Pass. After the Young Dragon's initial victory, Daeron appointed Lyonel as governor of Dorne. The Dornishmen, however, proved cunning and impossible to rule. Lyonel moved with his train from one keep to the next, chasing rebels out and keeping the knees of the Dornishmen bent. It was his custom to turn the lords of the keeps he stayed in out of their chambers and sleep in their place. One night at Sandstone, finding himself in a bed with a heavy velvet canopy, he pulled a sash near the pillows to summon a wench. When he did so, the canopy opened and a hundred red scorpions fell upon him. His death sparked new revolts, and in a fortnight all the work of the Young Dragon was undone, eventually bringing the about the death of King Daeron himself.
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Lyonel Tyrell is the son of Ser Leo Tyrell and Alys Beesbury.
Lyra Mormont is one of the many daughters of Lady Maege Mormont.
Alysane Mormont tells Asha Greyjoy her sister Lyra is currently with her mother, Maege Mormont.
Lady Lysa Arryn,.
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While she was a pretty, slender, high-breasted girl, dimpled and delicate,
According to a semi-canon source, Lysa wanted nothing more than to marry the man of her dreams as a young girl at Riverrun. She idolized her older sister Catelyn for her betrothal to the heir of Winterfell, Brandon Stark, and hoped to one day marry a man as noble and handsome as him.
While Lysa had been a soft, shy,
Hoster Tully gives his daughter Lysa moon tea.
Art by Juliana Pinho
Lysa was born as the second daughter of Lord Hoster Tully, head of House Tully and Lord of Riverrun, and his wife, Lady Minisa Whent. She has one older sister, Catelyn, and one younger brother, Edmure. Her mother, who had given birth to two boys previously (who had both died in infancy),
Lysa was raised at Riverrun, alongside her two siblings and her father's young ward, Petyr Baelish.
Being raised alongside Petyr, Lysa fell in love with him, but her feelings were not reciprocated. Instead, Petyr fell in love with Lysa's older sister Catelyn.
Lord Hoster Tully and Lord Tywin Lannister had been discussing a betrothal between Lysa and Jaime Lannister, the heir to Casterly Rock. This potential betrothal was off the table when King Aerys II Targaryen named Jaime to his Kingsguard in 281 AC.
After the war ended, King Robert I Baratheon named Jon Arryn as his Hand on his coronation,
Jon was already a fairly old man when Lysa married him, and he was proud. Due to Jon's position as Hand of the King, the pair lived in King's Landing. Because of Lysa's soiled state and the age difference between them, theirs was a loveless marriage.
Lysa and her sister Catelyn last saw each other in 293 AC. though it is unknown whether these two events occured at the same time.
Despite her marriage, Lysa did not forget Petyr Baelish. She convinced her new husband to give Petyr the customs for Gulltown around 289 AC, where Petyr performed so well that Arryn eventually brought him to court, eventually rising to the position of master of coin.
Near the start of *A Game of Thrones* Lysa's husband, Jon, had grown concerned about how weak his son was and arranged for the boy to be fostered with Lord Stannis Baratheon on Dragonstone.
Lysa and her son Robert Arryn as portrayed on HBO's *Game of Thrones*.
After her husband dies, Lysa flees King's Landing and returns to the Eyrie with her young son and her household.
Catelyn takes Tyrion Lannister prisoner when she accidentally meets him during her journey back from King's Landing to Winterfell.
Lysa has Tyrion thrown in the sky cells and tries to make him confess to the murder of her husband. Tyrion outsmarts her by demanding a trial by combat.
Despite her kin fighting the Lannisters, Lysa keeps the Vale of Arryn neutral in the War of the Five Kings.
During his attempt to discover who on the small council is informing on him to Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister tells Petyr Baelish that he wishes for Baelish to convince Lysa to agree to the betrothal between Princess Myrcella Baratheon and Lysa's son Robert.
By the time of the defeat of the Starks at the Red Wedding, Petyr Baelish has risen high in the counsel of the Lannisters and has been rewarded with the title Lord Paramount of the Trident and the seat of Harrenhal. With this rank, he is now able to marry Lysa and get the position of regent for his stepson Robert.
Sansa strongly resembles the deceased Catelyn.
Petyr calms Lysa down, but confesses to her that he has only ever loved Lysa's sister, Catelyn. He then throws Lysa from the mountain through the Moon Door, framing her personal singer Marillion for the deed.
Following Lysa's death, Petyr remains Lord Protector of the Vale. He has Marillion confess to murdering Lysa in front of the Lords Declarant, and convinces Sansa to place the blame on Marillion as well.
A man will tell you poison is dishonorable, but a woman’s honor is different. The Mother shaped us to protect our children, and our only dishonor is in failure.
– Lysa to Sansa Stark
You can't want her. You can't. She's a stupid empty-headed little girl. She doesn't love you the way I have. I've always loved you. I've proved it, haven't I? I gave you my maiden's gift. I would have given you a son too, but they murdered him with moon tea, with tansy and mint and wormwood, a spoon of honey and a drop of pennyroyal. It wasn't me, I never knew, I only drank what Father gave me...
– Lysa to Petyr Baelish
Tears, tears, tears. No need for tears... but that's not what you said in King's Landing. You told me to put the tears in Jon's wine, and I did. For Robert, and for us! And I wrote Catelyn and told her the Lannisters had killed my lord husband, just as you said. That was so clever... you were always clever, I told Father that, I said Petyr's so clever, he'll rise high, he will, he will, and he's sweet and gentle and I have his little baby in my belly... Why did you kiss her? Why? We're together now, we're together after so long, so very long, why would you want to kiss herrrrrr?
– Lysa to Petyr Baelish
I'd tell you to slap some sense into your sister, if I thought it would do any good, but you'd only bruise your hand.
– Brynden Tully, to Catelyn Stark
Mead and marriage had taken years off Lady Lysa. She laughed at everything so long as she held her husband's hand, and her eyes seemed to glow whenever she looked at him.
– Sansa Stark's thoughts
Lady Lysa Locke was a member of House Locke. She was married to Lord Benjen Stark, with whom she had two sons; Rickon and Bennard Stark.
Lysa Meadows is a member of House Meadows. She is married to Ser Olymer Tyrell and together they have three children; Raymund, Rickard and Megga Tyrell.
Lysandro Rogare, known as Lysandro the Magnificent, was a wealthy Lysene banker and head of House Rogare. His brother, Drazenko, was the consort of Aliandra Martell, Princess of Dorne. Lysandro's children were Larra, Lysaro, and Moredo.
Lysandro was the head of the Rogare Bank that was even more powerful than the Iron Bank of Braavos for a time. After Larra's marriage to Prince Viserys Targaryen, Lysandro styled himself First Magister for Life and people called him the Magnificent. However, he and his brother died within a day of each other and thus the fall of the Rogares began both in Lys and the Seven Kingdoms.
Lady Lysara Karstark was a member of House Karstark. She was married to Artos Stark, the third son of Lord Beron Stark, and had twin sons by him; Brandon and Benjen Stark.
Lysaro Rogare was a member of House Rogare, a Lysene noble banking family. He was the heir to Lysandro, the nephew of Drazenko, and the elder brother of Larra (who married Prince Viserys Targaryen before his ascent to the Iron Throne) and Moredo Rogare.
After the death of his father, Lysandro "the Magnificent" who claimed to be First Magister for Life, the ambitious Lysaro was a spendthrift who angered other magisters in Lys. Although Lysaro was eventually killed by scourging at the Temple of Trade, his siblings escaped execution.
Lysono Maar is a sellsword from Lys in service to the Golden Company. He is the company's spymaster.
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Lysono is a Lyseni, with pale lilac eyes and long white-gold hair.
When the Golden Company arrives in Volantis, a disguised Lysono tries to arrange arrange passage from the harbor to Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen. No trade ships are en route to the city, however, because of the Yunkish blockade during the second siege of Meereen.
Lysono swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen and is supportive of the plan to invade Westeros without the assistance of Daenerys and her dragons.
During the landing of the Golden Company, the cautious Harry Strickland suggests using Lysono's spies to gather information.
Near Griffin's Roost, Princess Arianne Martell and her party encounter Lysono with a column of sellswords from the Golden Company. His appearance reminds her of House Targaryen; while Lysono thinks that a compliment, Arianne is unnerved.
Arianne: You look...
Lysono: ...like a woman? That I am not.
Arianne: ...like a Targaryen.
Lysono: I am flattered. The women of House Targaryen are said to be without peer in all the world.
Arianne: And the men of House Targaryen?Lysono: Oh, even prettier. Though if truth be told, I have only seen the one.
- Arianne Martell and Lysono
The spymaster was new to Griff, a Lyseni named Lysono Maar, with lilac eyes and white-gold hair and lips that would have been the envy of a whore. At first glance, Griff had almost taken him for a woman.
- thoughts of Jon Connington
Arianne's company was met by a column of sellswords down from Griffin's Roost, led by the most exotic creature that the princess had ever laid her eyes on, with painted fingernails and gemstones sparkling in his ears.
- thoughts of Arianne Martell
Was this what Viserys looked like? If so perhaps it is a good thing he is dead.
- thoughts of Arianne Martell
Lythene Frey is the second daughter of Lord Walder Frey. She was the first daughter born between the marriage of Walder Frey and Amarei Crakehall. She is the wife of Lord Lucias Vypren. They have two children.
Mace Tyrell is head of House Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach, and Warden of the South. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Roger Ashton-Griffiths.
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Mace is a handsome and once-powerful-looking man who has since turned to fat.
Mace has a generally jovial personality.
Mace dresses in green velvet trimmed with sable,
Mace became Lord of Highgarden once his father, Lord Luthor Tyrell, rode off a cliff while hawking.
During Robert's Rebellion, Mace was in command of troops from the Reach who marched against Lord Robert Baratheon of Storm's End. Mace is credited with defeating Robert in the Battle of Ashford, although the van under Lord Randyll Tarly achieved most of the victory before Mace's arrival at Ashford.
According to Oberyn Martell, Mace encouraged his heir, Willas Tyrell, to participate in tourneys before he was ready, leading to the accidental crippling of Willas by Oberyn.
Mace Tyrell by The Mico ©
After the death of King Robert I Baratheon, Mace and his brothers, uncles, and sons are ordered to come to King's Landing to swear fealty to the new king, Joffrey I Baratheon.
Mace serves Renly as Hand of the King.
Renly is slain at Storm's End by a shadow assassin sent by Melisandre;
Mace Tyrell by Lukasz Jaskolski © Fantasy Flight Games
After the Battle of the Blackwater, the victorious great lords meet to divide the spoils, of which Mace is granted the lands of House Florent for his second son, Garlan Tyrell.
As a wedding gift, Mace gives King Joffrey a seven-sided chalice decorated with great houses: ruby lion, emerald rose, onyx stag, silver trout, blue jade falcon, opal sun, and pearl direwolf.
Mace is meeting with Tywin and Prince Oberyn Martell when Ser Jaime Lannister returns to the capital.
Cersei, the regent for her second son, the boy king Tommen I Baratheon, does not trust Mace and his friends from the Reach.
Cersei follows Jaime's suggestion
With Lord Tyrell gone from the capital, Cersei plots against his daughter, Queen Margaery.
At Volon Therys, Laswell Peake hints to Harry Strickland that the Golden Company still has friends in the Reach, and that Mace overestimates his strength.
Mace arrives at King's Landing to find that Margaery and her cousins have already been released by the High Sparrow, given the weak evidence against them. They are turned over to the custody of Mace's bannerman, Lord Randyll Tarly, whose army reached the city first from Maidenpool. The girls' release is conditional on Randyll's holy oath to return them for trial. Cersei is stripped of the regency. Her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, arrives in the city and is made regent to King Tommen. To placate House Tyrell following Cersei's accusations, Kevan names Mace as Hand of the King, Randyll Tarly as justiciar, and Paxter Redwyne as lord admiral.
Despite numerous threats facing the Iron Throne, including Aegon Targaryen and the Golden Company, Mace refuses to march his army from the city before Margaery's trial. Kevan grows increasingly resentful of Mace's apparent insatiability. Mace adds a hundred of his own men to the City Watch of King's Landing and plans a new Tower of the Hand double the size of its predecessor,
There is no greater pleasure than to serve the King's Grace. If I was deemed worthy to join your royal council, you would find none more loyal or true.
- Mace to Joffrey I Baratheon
Is there anything as pointless as a king without a kingdom? No, it's plain, the boy must abandon the riverlands, join his forces to Roose Bolton's once more, and throw all his strength against Moat Cailin. That is what I would do.
- Mace to Joffrey I Baratheon's small council
Mace: Once Paxter Redwyne sweeps the ironmen from the seas, my sons will retake the Shields. The snows will do for Stannis, or Bolton will. As for Connington ...
Randyll: If it is him.
Mace ... as for Connington, what victories has he ever won that we should fear him? He could have ended Robert's Rebellion at Stoney Sept. He failed. Just as the Golden Company has always failed. Some may rush to join them, aye. The realm is well rid of such fools.
- Mace and Randyll Tarly
"The thought that one day he might see his grandson with his arse on the Iron Throne makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it?" - art by Eeba-ism ©
Olenna: The thought that one day he may see his grandson with his arse on the Iron Throne makes Mace puff up like ... now, what do you call it? Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it.
Margaery: They call them puff fish, Grandmother.
- Olenna Tyrell and Margaery Tyrell
He has a prodigious appetite, this one.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Robb Stark had won more battles in a year than the Lord of Highgarden had in twenty.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
The mob loved Margaery so much they were even willing to love Joffrey again. She had belonged to Renly, the handsome young prince who had loved them so well he had come back from beyond the grave to save them. And the bounty of Highgarden had come with her, flowing up the roseroad from the south. The fools didn't seem to remember that it had been Mace Tyrell who closed the roseroad to begin with, and made the bloody famine.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
You would be a fool to make Mace Tyrell your Hand, but a bigger fool to make him your foe.
- Kevan Lannister to Cersei Lannister
His sigil ought to be a fat man sitting on his arse.
- Cersei Lannister's thoughts
The more I give him, the more he wants.
- Kevan Lannister's thoughts
Mad Axe was a member of the Night's Watch. He is famous for murdering his fellow brothers at the Nightfort. He had a red beard.
According to the story, he took his boots off and prowled the halls of the Nightfort silently at night and murdered his brothers. The only noise he made came from the blood dripping from his axe, his elbows and his wet beard.
The Mad Huntsman is the owner of a pack of dogs from Stoney Sept. His given name is unknown.
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The Mad Huntsman is stocky, balding, and weak-chinned. He wears patched tan leathers and is considered quarrelsome.
The Huntsman's pack includes black mastiffs, lean wolfhands, black-and-white sheepdogs, and shaggy brindled dogs.
During the War of the Five Kings, Stoney Sept is attacked by Lannisters. The attackers rape the Mad Huntsman's wife and his sister, torch his crops, eat half his sheep and kill the rest for spite, and slay six of his dogs. The dog carcasses are thrown into his well.
The Mad Huntsman becomes a leader of Stoney Sept after the death of Ser Wilbert at the hands of the Lannisters. A member of the brotherhood without banners,
After Ser Jaime Lannister escapes from Riverrun, a group of northmen rape and murder after failing to find him at Tumbler's Falls. The Mad Huntsman captures these northmen and imprisons them in crow cages at Stoney Sept.
One of the sons of Tom of Sevenstreams joins the Mad Huntsman in search of Jaime.
After the unhappy Huntsman brings Sandor before Beric in the hollow hill, Sandor denies the Huntsman's claims of having participated in Lannister crimes at Sherrer and Mummer's Ford.
Sandor: How about you? Or did you leave all your courage in your kennels?
Huntsman: No, but I should have left you in a crow cage. I might still.
- Sandor Clegane and the Mad Huntsman
One of our lads keeps the meanest dogs you'd ever want to see.
- Harwin to Arya Stark
Captain: He took his dogs out for a sniff round. If Ser Jaime's hereabouts, they'll find him. I've seen them dogs rip bears apart. Think they'll like the taste of lion blood?
Lem: A chewed-up corpse's no good to no one. The Huntsman bloody well knows that, too.
- Captain of Stoney Sept and Lem
Mad Prendos is a Lyseni galley owned by Salladhor Saan. It is named after the pirate Prendos.
Mad Prendos is chosen to take Edric Storm to the Free Cities when he is smuggled out of Dragonstone.
Maddy is a servant of House Arryn in service at the Eyrie.
She has a wart beneath her eye.
Maddy is one of the servants assigned to tend to Lord Robert Arryn's needs. She stays behind to help prepare Lord Robert for his descent to the Gates of the Moon after all the other servants have departed.
Maege Mormont, known as the She-Bear, is the head of House Mormont and the Lady of Bear Island. She inherited her title from her nephew, Ser Jorah Mormont, after he fled into exile. She is the younger sister of the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont.
See also: Images of Maege Mormont
Maege is a short, stout, grey-haired woman, and a fierce warrior. She dresses in patched ringmail, and her favored weapon is a spiked mace.
Maege inherited the title of head of House Mormont and ruler of Bear Island after her brother's only heir, Jorah Mormont, fled to the Free Cities to escape justice for unlawfully selling poachers into slavery to pay for his debts. She worked hard to regain the family's noble name, and to help the estate recover from the state of near-poverty Jorah left behind.
Maege has five daughters: her eldest and heir, Dacey; and Alysane, Lyra, Jorelle, and Lyanna. She has no sons.
No one knows who the father of Maege's children is, or even if she ever married.
Maege Mormont by TheMico
Lady Maege and her heir, Dacey, lead their forces to Winterfell when Robb Stark calls his banners to ride south against the Lannisters.
After the Battle of Oxcross, Lady Mormont captures thousands of cattle in the Westerlands and drives them towards the Riverlands. It is not stated whether or not she manages to succeed in this task, as the passage back to the Riverlands is still held by the Lannisters.
Lady Maege is among the northern lords who accompanies King Robb Stark north from Riverrun to attend the wedding of Edmure Tully at the Twins. At Hag's Mire, however, she and Galbart Glover are ordered by Robb to travel to Seagard. There they are to take separate ships from Lord Jason Mallister to sail up the Neck and to search for Greywater Watch as envoys to the crannogmen, in preparation for Robb's planned attack on ironborn-occupied Moat Cailin. The letters they carry will contain false commands for northern lords, however, in case they are captured by enemies.
Alysane Mormont mentions her mother, Maege, when Asha Greyjoy asks about her siblings. Maege is with two of her other daughters, Lyra and Jory, though it is not said where, while her youngest, Lyanna is back on Bear Island.
You are not the only one touched by this war. Like as not, my sister is marching in your brother’s host, her and those daughters of hers, dressed in men’s mail. Maege is a hoary old snark, stubborn, short-tempered, and willful. Truth be told, I can hardly stand to be around the wretched woman, but that does not mean my love for her is any less than the love you bear your half sisters.
- Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow
Maegelle Frey was the daughter of Ser Stevron Frey and Jeyne Lydden. Married Ser Dafyn Vance, with whom she had three children; Marianne, Walder and Patrek Vance. She died in childbed.
Princess Maegelle Targaryen was the eighthborn child of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen.
Maegelle was given to the Faith of the Seven at an unknown age, and eventually became a septa. She was known for her compassion, and her gift for healing. Maegelle played a role in the Second Quarrel, which had begun in 92 AC, when her father, King Jaehaerys I, chose Maegelle's brother, Prince Baelon, as his heir over Maegelle's niece, Princess Rhaenys. This decision angered Queen Alysanne, as she felt there was no reason to favor a man over a woman. Maegelle brought the two back together, solving the Quarrel in 94 AC.
Maegelle nursed children afflicted with greyscale, but became afflicted with greyscale herself and died in 96 AC.
A maegi is a woman of Essos who practices bloodmagic.
The bloodmagic of maegi is hated, mistrusted, and forbidden by the Dothraki, who claim that the maegi lie with demons and come to men in the dark of night to suck life and strength from their bodies. They may sometimes go so far as to kill anyone even assumed to be maegi, as to prevent her from cursing them with evil magic. Maegi often show a remarkable capability of telling one's future, usually from a drop of blood.
Lord Maegon Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen and Lord of Dragonstone. He was the son of Aegon Targaryen and Elaena Targaryen.
Maegor's Holdfast is a massive square fortress inside the heart of the Red Keep in King's Landing. Named after King Maegor I Targaryen, it is a castle-within-a-castle and is the strongest place in the Red Keep.
The holdfast lies behind walls twelve feet thick. A dry moat lined with a bed of formidable iron spikes surrounds it, with a drawbridge spaning the moat. The only way in or out of Maegor's is across the drawbridge. A knight of the Kingsguard is always posted at its far end.
The royal apartments are located in Maegor's Holdfast.
The death of King Viserys I Targaryen in his apartments in Maegor's Holdfast led to the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. By the time Prince Aemond Targaryen took his leave on Vhagar for Storm's End the stink from the dead king's bedchamber had wafted all through the holdfast. Aegon II Targaryen moved into Maegor's Holdfast with his queen and sister-wife, Helaena Targaryen.
Cheese knew of no way in and out of Maegor's save over the drawbridge. When Rhaenyra Targaryen took King's Landing, Queen Alicent Hightower emerged from Maegor’s and attempted to treat with her stepdaughter but Rhaenyra rejected her proposal. Rhaenyra's men found her rival's wife, the mad Queen Helaena, locked in her bedchamber. When they broke down the doors of Aegon II's apartments they discovered only his empty bed and a full chamberpot.
As Rhaenyra was losing her grip on the Iron Throne, Helaena threw herself from her window in Maegor's Holdfast. She died impaled upon the iron spikes that lined the dry moat below. During the Storming of the Dragonpit Queen Rhaenyra watched the attack unfold from the roof of Maegor's Holdfast with her sons and members of her court.
During the Sack of King's Landing, Ser Gregor Clegane and Ser Amory Lorch scaled the walls of Maegor's Holdfast. and her children.
King Robert Baratheon dies in Maegor's Holdfast after being gored by a boar while hunting in the kingswood. Trapped in King's Landing after the downfall of Eddard Stark, her father and the Hand of the King, Sansa Stark resides at the top of the highest tower of Maegor's Holdfast.
During the Battle of the Blackwater almost every highborn woman in the city takes refuge in the Queen's Ballroom in Maegor's Holdfast, along with a handful of old men and boys.
Tyrion Lannister recovers from the Battle of the Blackwater in a chamber above the Queen's Ballroom, as his father Tywin Lannister has taken Tyrion's former chamber in the Tower of the Hand.
On the morning of his royal wedding, King Joffrey Baratheon receives gifts in the Queen's Ballroom after breakfast is cleared.
Ser Kevan Lannister notes that the dry moat surrounding Maegor's Holdfast is three feet deep in snow and that the iron spikes that line it are glistening with frost. Kevan sups with his niece, Queen Cersei Lannister, and her son, King Tommen Baratheon, in the royal chambers. Tommen tells Kevan that the bad cat was outside his window the previous night.
Sansa pulled the hood of her cloak up over her ears, and hurried toward Maegor's Holdfast, the castle-within-a-castle where the queen had promised they would all be safe.
- thoughts of Sansa Stark
Here in Maegor's Holdfast, every servant was in the queen's pay.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Not to be confused with King Maegor I Targaryen, the third Targaryen king to rule the Seven Kingdoms, or Prince Maegor Targaryen, the son of Prince Aerion and Princess Daenora Targaryen.
For other characters with the same or a similar name, see Maegor Targaryen.
King Maegor III Targaryen is a character mentioned in the ninth episode of the fifth season of HBO's *Game of Thrones.. It is currently unknown whether the inclusion of Maegor III in the episode was a deliberate choice, or whether it was a mistake.
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Maegor I Targaryen, also known as Maegor the Cruel, was the third Targaryen king to sit the Iron Throne. He was the son of King Aegon I Targaryen and his elder sister-wife, Queen Visenya Targaryen. He had an older half-brother, Aenys I Targaryen.
The polygamous Maegor had six wives: Ceryse Hightower, Alys Harroway, Tyanna of the Tower, Elinor Costayne, Jeyne Westerling, and his niece Rhaena Targaryen, the last three of whom are known as the Black Brides.
Maegor a tall, broad, and fearsomely strong man,
Maegor was a born warrior
Maegor was quarrelsome, quick to take offense, slow to forgive, and fearsome in his wroth. He was a rigid man, unyielding, and unbending. He preferred fire and steel over settling issues through discussion, and showed cruel tendencies early in his childhood. Although he had many companions throughout his youth, he had no true friends, and even as an adult Maegor trusted no one.
Maegor wore his father's Valyrian steel-and-ruby crown.
In 11 AC, Queen Visenya Targaryen announced that she was pregnant with a son. That son, Maegor, was born the next year,
Maegor's brother Aenys had married Lady Alyssa Velaryon in 22 AC,
Maegor had more success in his military accomplishments. In 28 AC, he won renown a tourney by defeating three knights of the Kingsguard in the joust, and next winning the mêlée. He was knighted by his father, King Aegon I, at the age of sixteen, making his the youngest knight in the realm at the time.
In 37 AC, Maegor's father, King Aegon I, died, and his half-brother Aenys ascended the throne as King Aenys I Targaryen. Admitting to all assembled at Aegon I's funeral pyre that he was not nearly the warrior his half-brother was, Aenys presented Maegor with Aegon's Valyrian steel blade, Blackfyre, proclaiming they would rule together.
After Aegon I's death, Maegor finally claimed a dragon, his father's mount, Balerion who Maegor had long coveted as his own . Shortly after Aenys's ascension to the throne, several rebellions broke out. In the Vale of Arryn, Jonos Arryn rose against his brother, Lord Ronnel, imprisoning him and his family. Although he arrived too late to rescue Lord Ronnel, Maegor personally crushed this rebellion, flying on Balerion to the Eyrie. Hoping Maegor would show them mercy, Jonos's followers threw Jonos through the Moon Door. Nonetheless, Maegor had all of them hanged.
Even though they had been married since 25 AC, Maegor and Ceryse still had no children by 39 AC. In 39 AC, Maegor suddenly announced that Ceryse was barren and that he had taken another wife, Lady Alys Harroway. Unable to convince the septon at Dragonstone to perform the wedding, Maegor and Alys had been wed in a Valyrian wedding ceremony led by Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen. This marriage angered many. Maegor quarreled bitterly with his brother, King Aenys, while Ceryse's father, Lord Martyn Hightower, demanded that Maegor set Alys aside. The High Septon denounced the marriage as sin and fornication and called Alys *"this whore of Harroway."* Many of the pious lords in the realm began to follow his example, openly referring to Alys as *"Maegor's Whore"*. Maegor remained defiant, however, citing that his father had taken two wives as well, claiming that the strictures of the Faith did not rule the blood of the dragon.
Feeling he had no other option,
King Maegor on the back of Balerion, destroys the Sept of Remembrance, as depicted by Jordi Gonzalez Escamilla in *The World of Ice and Fire*.
The Faith rose in rebellion against King Aenys I in 41 AC. Early next year, Aenys died on Dragonstone while his eldest daughter and son, Rhaena and Aegon, were besieged at Crakehall.
Although Aenys's son Aegon was the heir to the Iron Throne, Maegor claimed the throne immediately upon his return. He was crowned at Dragonstone with the Valyrian steel crown of his father, King Aegon I, instead of Aenys's ornate one. Grand Maester Gawen protested Maegor's coronation, stating that by all the laws of inheritance, the crown should pass to Aegon. Maegor beheaded Gawen with Blackfyre,
Maegor next left for King's Landing, where the Faith had seized the Sept of Remembrance on Rhaenys's Hill. Maegor flew to the city on Balerion and planted his banner on Visenya's Hill to rally men to his side. His mother, Dowager Queen Visenya, challenged those who questioned her son's right to rule to prove themselves. Ser Damon Morrigen, the Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons, came forth. Maegor quickly decided to settle the matter with swords, and Damon demanded a trial of seven, to which Maegor agreed.
Maegor had no knights of the Kingsguard with him, as Aenys had taken them to Dragonstone when he fled the capital, so Maegor turned to the crowd and asked who would stand with him. At first, most turned away or pretended they did not hear until a common man-at-arms named Dick Bean stepped forward. Ser Bernarr Brune was the next offering to stand beside the king. Shamed by Dick Bean's display of courage and Brune's words, several knights came forward, from whom Maegor chose his last four champions: Ser Bramm of Blackhull, Ser Rayford Rosby, Ser Guy Lothston, and Lord Lucifer Massey. Together they faced seven of the Warrior's Sons, led by Ser Damon Morrigen, their Grand Captain. Maegor was the only survivor of the trial, but took a blow to the head and collapsed just as the last Warrior's Son died. On the twenty-eighth day of Maegor's coma, Queen Alys Harroway returned from Pentos, bringing with her Tyanna of the Tower. Tyanna took over Maegor's care. On the thirtieth day since the trial, the king woke.
When he woke from his coma, Maegor mounted his dragon Balerion and flew to the Sept of Remembrance on Rhaenys's Hill, burning the sept to the ground while his archers killed all those who attempted to flee the inferno.
Construction of the Red Keep, which had begun in 35 AC, continued under Maegor's reign. In early 43 AC, named Lord Lucas Harroway, the father of his wife Alys, as his new Hand of the King, leaving the administration of the kingdom in his hands while Maegor personally took charge of the construction of the Red Keep. He focused on constructing secret passages and tunnels built through the depths of Aegon's High Hill and commanded the construction of a fortified castle within the castle, which would become known as Maegor's Holdfast.
As the Faith continued to resist his rule,
Next Maegor and Visenya turned towards Oldtown, threatening to incinerate the Starry Sept in response to the High Septon's condemnation of his polygamous marriages. When the High Septon suddenly died, Lord Martyn Hightower opened the city's gates, saving Oldtown from the fire.
(From top to bottom) Lady Ceryse Hightower, Tyanna of the Tower and Lady Alys Harroway, by Magali Villeneuve.
While at Oldtown, Maegor reconciled with Queen Ceryse Hightower. They celebrated their reunion with a great feast and had a second consummation. Afterwards, Ceryse returned to King's Landing.
Maegor and Balerion make short work of Aegon Targaryen and Quicksilver during the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye, as depicted by Michael Komarck in *The World of Ice and Fire*
Late that same year, Prince Aegon, Aenys I's Prince of Dragonstone, announced his claim to the Iron Throne. Supported by several lords of the westerlands and riverlands, Aegon marched at the head of an army of fifteen thousand men. Still at Oldtown, Maegor was warned by Queen Tyanna, his mistress of whisperers, that House Baratheon, House Arryn, House Stark, and House Lannister were considering to join Aegon's cause if he could prove he could prevail. Maegor set forth from Oldtown, ordering his loyal lords to swarm Aegon's host from all sides. In the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye the forces clashed, and Aegon's rebellion came to an end when Maegor slew him and his dragon, Quicksilver. Afterwards Maegor was known as "Maegor the Cruel" and a kinslayer throughout the realm.
By 44 AC, Maegor had made Aenys's widow, Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, and her youngest two children, Jaehaerys and Alysanne, his mother's wards on Dragonstone, while summoning her son Viserys to court, making him his personal squire. Still without an heir of his own body, Maegor visited one of his three wives every night. When Queen Alys announced that she was pregnant that year,[N 1] she was confined to her bed. However, she went into labor only three months later, and gave birth to a monstrosity, eyeless and twisted. Convinced the child could not be his, Maegor had everyone involved in the birth executed, sparing only Alys's two sisters Jeyne and Hanna. It is said Maegor was seated on the Iron Throne with the head of Grand Maester Desmond in his hand when Queen Tyanna approached him, claiming that the child had been fathered by a secret affair of Alys, who had been desperate to give the king a son and so had slept with men of confirmed fertility. Tyanna provided a list of names as proof. Under torture, all but two of the twenty men confessed to their crime. Maegor had Alys dragged from her bed and given to Tyanna for torture. All Harroways at King's Landing, including Maegor's Hand, Lord Lucas Harroway, were killed, with Alys's death the worst one of all.
When he returned to King's Landing, Maegor learned that his mother, Dowager Queen Visenya, had died. The news devastated Maegor, as she had been his strongest supporter. Aenys I Targaryen's wife, Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, had escaped from Dragonstone during the resulting chaos, taking her two youngest children, Jaehaerys and Alysanne, and the Valyrian sword Dark Sister with her. In response, Maegor had her eldest surviving son, Prince Viserys, arrested and tortured. Viserys died after nine days of questioning by Queen Tyanna. His mutilated body was left in the courtyard for a fortnight in an unsuccessful attempt to force Alyssa to return.
In 45 AC, Maegor saw the Red Keep completed.
Maegor's first wife, Queen Ceryse Hightower, suddenly fell ill and died shortly after the Red Keep had been completed. A rumor was spread that she had said a shrewish remark that affronted Maegor, after which he had ordered Ser Owen Bush of the Kingsguard to remove her tongue. People claimed that Cersye had struggled so fiercely that Ser Owens knife slipped and he accidentally slashed her throat. Though the story was never proven and most historians insist it was slander concocted by the king's enemies, it was widely believed at the time.
In late 45 AC, Maegor took the field again. In the great wood south of the Blackwater, Maegor hunted down the Poor Fellows who had taken refuge, and ordered the rebel Poxy Jeyne to be burned alive. Although Poor Fellows and peasants attempted to prevent the execution, Maegor had all the would-be rescuers slaughtered.
(From top to bottom) Elinor Costayne, Jeyne Westerling and Princess Rhaena Targaryen, the three Black Brides.
By early 47 AC, Maegor still had no heirs, and had stopped sleeping with Queen Tyanna. Maegor's counsellors agreed that he needed to wed again, and multiple suggestions were made. Grand Maester Benifer suggested Clarisse Dayne, the Lady of Starfall. Maegor's master of coin, Alton Butterwell suggested his widowed sister, a woman of proven fertility. Maegor's Hand, Lord Edwell Celtigar, suggested his two young daughters. Lord Velaryon of Driftmark suggested Maegor's niece, Princess Rhaena, to unite their claims and strengthen the royal bloodline. Maegor eventually decided to marry a woman of proven fertility, and to take three wives, in order to triple his chances of getting a son. He agreed that one of those wives should be his niece, in order to weaken any claim her younger siblings might put forth. And so, in 47 AC, Maegor wed Lady Elinor Costayne, Lady Jeyne Westerling, and Princess Rhaena in a single ceremony. All three women had been widowed through Maegor's actions or wars, and became known as the Black Brides. He named Aerea, the eldest of Rhaena's two daughters by her deceased brother, Aegon, as his heir, disinheriting Rhaena's brother, Prince Jaehaerys, while sending Rhaena's other daughter, Rhaella, to Oldtown to be raised as a septa. Half a year after the wedding, Lady Jeyne was announced to be pregnant. Not long after, Lady Elinor became pregnant as well. Three months before her due-date, however, Queen Jeyne went into labor, and gave birth to a stillborn child who was legless and armless and had both male and female genitals. Jeyne died not long after. People began to whisper that Maegor was cursed, and that the gods would never grant him a living son. Maegor himself, however, had Queen Tyanna seized and deliver to the dungeons, where she confessed to having poisoned both Alys's child as Jeyne's, even before the torturers began. She promised that Elinor would birth a similar stillborn monster. After her confession, Maegor executed Tyanna himself, but her promise came true two months later, when Elinor went into labor in early 48 AC and birthed an eyeless child with small wings.
King Maegor was found dead on the Iron Throne.
By 48 AC Maegor's tyranny could no longer be borne by the realm. At Storm's End Aenys I's last surviving son, Prince Jaehaerys, put forth his claim to the throne, supported by Lord Rogar Baratheon, who was named Protector of the Realm and Hand of the King by the prince. Jaehaerys had two dragons on his side, his own mount Vermithor and his sister's mount Silverwing, against Maegor's Balerion.
Maegor called his banners in response, but few answered, giving Maegor an army of barely four thousand soldiers. Despite this, Maegor refused to surrender. When Lord Hayford suggested that Maegor abdicate and take the black instead, Maegor ordered him beheaded and continued his war council with Lord Hayford's head mounted on a lance behind the Iron Throne.
Maegor ruled for six years and sixty-six days and died without issue, he was succeeded by his nephew, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, the youngest son of the late King Aenys I. The Faith Militant uprising only ended during Jaehaerys' reign.
Although the small council was officially formed only during the reign of Maegor's successor, Maegor had counsellors filling numerous positions of the later small council. Additionally, Maegor is the first Targaryen monarch known to have had a spy mistress in his employment.
Maegor, the First of His Name, came to the throne after the sudden death of his brother, King Aenys, in the year 42 AC. He is better remembered as Maegor the Cruel, and it was a well-earned sobriquet, for no crueler king ever sat the Iron Throne. His reign began with blood and ended in blood as well.
What demon possessed him none could say. Even today, some give thanks that his tyranny was a short one, for who knows how many noble houses might have vanished forever simply to state his desire.
—writings of Maester Yandel
Aegon the Conqueror had commanded it built. His son Maegor the Cruel had seen it completed. Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it. Only the blood of the dragon would ever know the secrets of the fortress the Dragonlords had built, he vowed.
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
King Maegor wanted no rats in his own walls, if you take my meaning. He did require a means of secret egress, should he ever be trapped by his enemies, but that door does not connect with any other passages.
What did she care what Maegor the Cruel had decreed three hundred years ago? Instead of taking the swords out of the hands of the faithful, he should have used them for his own ends.
—thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Maegor Targaryen has been the name of several members of House Targaryen:
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Prince Maegor Targaryen was the son of Prince Aerion and Princess Daenora Targaryen.
Born in 232 AC, Maegor was given his name by his sire who died the same year he was born. According to a semi-canon source, this name was a provocation, since King Maegor I Targaryen had a poor reputation.
After the death of his grandfather, King Maekar I Targaryen, Maegor was one of the claimants in the Great Council of 233 AC. Only a few spoke for him, and his claim was turned down because he was an infant and there were fears Maegor would inherit his father's madness. His uncle Aegon V Targaryen was instead chosen king.
Maekar I Targaryen was Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and the fourteenth Targaryen king to sit the Iron Throne..
See also: Images of Maekar I Targaryen
Maekar was powerfully built and wore a beard. His eyes were violet, and his hair was such a pale blond that it was almost white. He had straight hair and a square-cut beard, both being the color of silver with a hint of gold. He was thickly-built and powerful-looking. Pox scars marred his cheeks.
Maekar had his own personal coat of arms, the three-headed Targaryen dragon, quartered.
Maekar was a harsh man, quick to judge and to condemn. Unlike his brother Baelor, he was not charismatic and could not make friends and allies easily. After Baelor's accidental death by his hands, Maekar became even more stern and unforgiving.
Maekar was the fourth son of King Daeron II Targaryen and Queen Mariah Martell.
As a fourth son, Maekar was not expected to rule. He married young, to Lady Dyanna Dayne, and had four sons and two daughters, Daeron, Aerion, Aemon, Daella, Aegon, and Rhae.
During the First Blackfyre Rebellion in 196 AC, Maekar served as one of the Targaryen commanders. It was his shield wall that held against the "mad" attack of his uncle Bittersteel in the Battle of the Redgrass Field.
Nevertheless, Maekar felt unappreciated. The victory was more attributed to his brother and the errors of Daemon Blackfyre, than to his efforts. In other things he also stood in the shadow of his brothers, wounding his pride. Raymun Fossoway said of him: *"Not as bold as Prince Baelor, nor as clever as Prince Aerys nor as gentle as Prince Rhaegel, and now he must suffer seeing his own sons overshadowed by his brother's.*"
Some time around 207 AC or 208 AC,
In 209 AC, a tourney was held in Ashford. Maekar attended to see his sons Daeron and Aerion compete, and his fourth son Aegon was to squire for Daeron. Unfortunately, the tourney at Ashford Meadow proved disastrous for Maekar and his sons. Daeron drank himself into a stupor before reaching the tournament, Aegon joined the service of the hedge knight Duncan the Tall in disguise as "Egg", and Aerion shamed himself during the joust by deliberately killing his opponent's horse. When Dunk attacked Aerion to defend an innocent puppeteer and Aerion demanded a trial by combat, Maekar supported Aerion's call for vengeance as well as Daeron's accusation that Dunk had kidnapped Aegon.
During the trial of seven, Maekar came to blows with his brother Baelor, who fought for Dunk, and delivered a lethal mace blow to Baelor's head. Baelor survived the trial, but died soon after taking off his helmet. Maekar suspected that he would thereafter be held in suspicion as a kinslayer. Dealing with the problems of his sons, Maekar banished Aerion to the Free Cities and offered Dunk a position in his personal guard to serve as a role model for Aegon. After Dunk refused, Maekar allowed Aegon to accompany Dunk as his squire.
In the Great Spring Sickness of 209 AC, King Daeron and the sons of Maekar's brother Baelor died.
After the accidental deaths of Daeron's third son Rhaegel in 215 AC and Rhaegel's son Aelor in 217 AC, the childless king Aerys recognized his sole surviving brother Maekar as his heir, and Maekar became Prince of Dragonstone.
During the Third Blackfyre Rebellion in 219 AC, Maekar was recognized for his leadership. Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers was captured in battle, and Maekar's son Aerion and uncle Bloodraven urged that he be executed. But King Aerys was merciful, and allowed Bittersteel to join the Night's Watch, a fate he managed to escape. Maekar's opinion on Bittersteel's punishment is unknown.
King Maekar, by Oznerol-1516 ©.
After Aerys's death in 221 AC, Maekar took the Iron Throne. Such was Maekar's desire to split from the past, that upon his coronation he had a new crown forged, more warlike than previous crowns, since the crown of Aegon the Conqueror had been lost in Dorne upon Daeron the Young Dragon's death. Nevertheless, Maekar's reign, coming between two Blackfyre Rebellions, is generally regarded as peaceful.
Maekar summoned his third son Aemon, who had earned the chain of a maester in 217 AC,
For seven years of Maekar's reign, a hot summer persisted. Some thought it was the Great Summer come at last. When it broke, it was followed by a short autumn and a long, cold winter.
During Maekar's reign, Mad Danelle Lothston, Lady of Harrenhal, reportedly turned to the black arts, causing the downfall of House Lothston. The crown gave the lordship of Harrenhal to House Whent as a reward for their service in bringing the Lothstons down.
In 233 AC, Maekar fell in battle fighting a rebellious lord on the Dornish Marches
I did not come here to take counsel from a hedge knight.
– Maekar to his eldest brother, Baelor, at Ashford, about Duncan the Tall
Prince Maekar was a hard man, proud and full of scorn.
– Duncan the Tall's thoughts about Maekar
And my father...he never thought the throne would pass to him, and yet it did. He used to say that was his punishment for the blow that slew his brother. I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
– Aemon, to Samwell Tarly
Prince Maelor Targaryen was the second son and third child of King Aegon II Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Helaena Targaryen. He possessed a dragon egg.
Maelor was born in 127 AC, the third child of his parents, Prince Aegon and Princess Helaena Targaryen. In 129 AC, on the third day of the third moon, Maelor, his two elder siblings, and his mother, went to visit their grandfather, King Viserys I Targaryen. While Viserys told Maelor's siblings a story, Maelor himself was given a pearl ring from Viserys's finger to play with.
After King Viserys I died, in King's Landing, Maelor's father, Prince Aegon was crowned as King Aegon II Targaryen, despite Aegon's older sister Princess Rhaenyra having been the King's proclaimed heir. This caused a war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
With his father now king, the two-year-old prince became second in line to the Iron Throne. Later that year, Maelor's elder brother Prince Jaehaerys was murdered. The assassins Blood and Cheese had snuck into the Tower of the Hand, where Queen Helaena would visit her mothers chambers every night with Maelor, Jaehaerys and Jaehaera. Once Helaena and the children had arrived, they locked the doors and killed the guards, and forced Helaena to choose which of her sons would die. Helaena, after having offered herself, eventually picked Maelor. The two killers chose Prince Jaehaerys anyway, and cut off his head. This left young Maelor with the knowledge that his mother had been willing to sacrifice him. With Prince Jaehaerys dead, Maelor became King Aegon II's heir and the de facto Prince of Dragonstone.
During the fall of King's Landing, the master of whisperers Lord Larys the Clubfoot smuggled Maelor and his sister Jaehaera to safety, charging Ser Rickard Thorne of the Kingsguard to bring Maelor to Oldtown.
Maelys I Blackfyre,
See also: Images of Maelys Blackfyre
Maelys had a grotesquely huge torso and arms. He had a second head sprouting from his neck, no bigger than a child's fist.
Maelys is the last known descendant of Daemon I Blackfyre, the first of the five Blackfyre Pretenders. He was named "Maelys the Monstrous" for supposedly having eaten his twin in the womb, making him a kinslayer, albeit not by choice.
Maelys I Blackfyre killing his cousin, Daemon - by Mike Hallstein
Maelys grew up in exile in Essos, and eventually became a kinslayer deliberately, when he fought his own cousin, Daemon, for command of the Golden Company. Maelys killed Daemon's destrier, and then twisted Daemon's head until he tore it from his shoulders. Following Daemon's death, Maelys assumed command of the Golden Company.
In 258 AC, Maelys gathered with eight other outlaws, exiles and sellsword captains beneath the Tree of Crowns in the Disputed Lands in Essos. There, they formed an alliance called the Band of Nine, promising to aid each other in carving out a kingdom for each member. The Band of Nine pledged to help Maelys in conquering the Seven Kingdoms.
In 260 AC, King Jaehaerys II Targaryen sent an army to the Stepstones to meet the Band of Nine in battle. The war, dubbed the War of the Ninepenny Kings, was fought entirely on the Stepstones. Maelys personally killed Lord Ormund Baratheon, Jaehaerys's Hand of the King, early in the war. Towards the war's end, Maelys himself was killed by Ser Barristan Selmy, a young knight from the stormlands who thereby ended the Blackfyre threat on the Iron Throne.
Jaime Lannister reads Barristan Selmy's page in the White Book of the Kingsguard, where it is written that he slew Maelys the Monstrous, last of the Blackfyre Pretenders, in single combat during the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
Jaime recalls visiting Riverrun as a boy, ignoring Lysa Tully while begging her uncle Brynden for tales of Maelys the Monstrous and the Ebon Prince.
In Essos, Illyrio Mopatis tells Tyrion Lannister that when Maelys died, the male line of House Blackfyre came to an end. That night, Tyrion has a nightmare where he has two heads, and fights in battle alongside Barristan Selmy and Bittersteel, slaying his father and brother while his second head weeps.
At the camp of the Golden Company, Jon Connington sees that the captain-general's tent is surrounded by a ring of pikes topped with the gilded skulls of previous captain-generals. Maelys's skull is larger than the rest, grotesquely malformed, and below it is a second, fist-sized skull, that of Maelys's nameless twin brother.
Barristan Selmy recalls that King Jaehaerys II Targaryen had granted him the white cloak of the Kingsguard after he slew Maelys Blackfyre during the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
When Maelys the Monstrous died upon the Stepstones, it was the end of the male line of House Blackfyre.
Maerie is a female name in Westeros. It may refer to:
Goodwife Maerie was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. She was slain by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Maerie, known as Maerie the Whore, was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. She was slain by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
*"Maester" redirects here. For the mule, see Maester (mule).*
The maesters are an order of scholars, healers, messengers, and scientists. They educate new students at their "seat", the Citadel, which is located in Oldtown, a city in the Reach. House Hightower was integral in the Citadel's foundation, and continues to patronize the order. As advisers to the Westerosi nobility, the maesters have largely supplanted the Alchemists' Guild.
The governance of the Citadel is held by the Seneschal, chosen from among the archmaesters. A new Seneschal is appointed annually. Because the archmaesters tend to see the office as a thankless task, as it takes them away from their true work, the Seneschal is selected by lot, with the one who draws the black stone taking on the office.
Further leading the Citadel are the archmaesters. These maesters have demonstrated that they have mastered a particular subject. They receive a mask, ring, and rod in the metal corresponding to the link of the maester's chain which signifies their expertise on the topic.
Archmaesters have the right to sit on the Conclave, a council which elects the Grand Maester
Each archmaester is said to carry a heavy, black iron key that will open most of the doors in the Citadel. They keep them close on their person, or hide them well.
The Grand Maester is a maester who serves as the Citadel's representative at the royal court of the king on the Iron Throne, the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.
Grand Maesters are generally older men. Kaeth was chosen as Grand Maester at the age of eighty, Ellendor at almost ninety, and Merion at the age of sixty-six. After all three died within a short time span, King Aegon V Targaryen suggested to the Conclave that a younger man might be better. As such, Pycelle, aged forty-two, was raised to the office.
A maester at his service
The maesters are scholars and healers who have completed their training at the Citadel. They can be send to serve at the holding of a lord by the Citadel. Maesters are only found in castles, and as a result only those lordlings with sufficient funds can afford a maester.
Maesters wear a collar, which is supposed to remind him of the realm he serves.
It is generally believed that not many maesters are willing to "dirty their hands" by helping smallfolk.
Students who start their education at the Citadel are known as novices. Once they have earned a link, they become acolytes.
Students who violate the rules of the Citadel can be ordered confined to their rooms by the maesters.
A maester at his studies
Boys and young men from all over Westeros come to study, learn, and forge their chains at the Citadel. can study together at the Citadel.
Novices and acolytes are educated together. Archmaesters give open lectures, which the students can attend at will. Once a student believes he has sufficient knowledge on a particular subject, he can go before an archmaester to demonstrate his knowledge. If the archmaester judges the student’s knowledge to be proficient, he awards him with a link of a metal reflecting the topic.
Not all who start their studies will complete their chain. Oldtown is full of aging novices and acolytes who have never started their chains, or never finished forging them.
It is not known how long a student generally takes to forge a chain. Maester Yandel earned his first link in 285 AC and completed his chain in 292 AC, at the age of twenty,
Students are educated at the Citadel, a complex of buildings found in Oldtown. The Citadel is financed by the lords who pay for having a maester in their service, and from certain taxes that the Citadel collects at Oldtown.
A maester taking the oath
When an acolyte has completed his chain, he can swear a maester's vows. The night before, the acolytes must stand a vigil in a vault with a black glass candle. The acolytes are not allowed any other source of light, and has to spend the night in total darkness unless he can light the candle.
When an acolyte of noble birth takes his vows and dons his chain, he puts aside his House name.
Maester's serving in the Night's Watch on the Wall are doubly sworn, and uphold both the maester's vows and the oaths of the Night's Watch
The order of maesters are sometimes called the knights of the mind.
A maester advises his lord. © FFG
Maesters advise their lords on the operation of their households and lands.
Even among the maesters who have earned a Valyrian link, representing the higher mysteries,
Some subjects are forbidden in the Citadel, including cutting open living people,
Forging the chain - by Mike Capprotti. © Fantasy Flight Games
A maester can be recognized by the chain he wears around his neck. The collar is supposed to remind a maester of the realm he serves.
According to George R. R. Martin, it is possible to earn multiple links of the same metal; Multiple links of the same metal on a maester's chain signifies the expertise of the maester on the subject. The metals of which a student can earn links for their chain include:
Iron link for studies in the field of warcraft. Art by Tim Durning ©
While there are only fifteen known links, and thus fifteen known subjects of expertise taught at the Citadel, there are twenty-one known current archmaesters of the Citadel, for only eight of whom a specialism is known. It is currently unknown if each of these archmaesters are specialized in a separate subject or whether multiple archmaesters can be specialized in the same subject.
Only one maester in one hundred holds a link of Valyrian steel.
Although the origin of the Citadel is disputed, the Hightowers are considered to have been instrumental in its founding,
Before the Doom of Valyria, maesters and archmaesters often traveled to the Freehold of Valyria, searching for answers to the many questions they had.
In recent centuries, the maester’s of the Citadel have supplanted the once powerful Alchemists’ Guild through most of the Seven Kingdoms.
Even before the official formation of the small council, Grand Maesters held an important position at the royal court. However, over the course of history, several have found their deaths at the hands of their monarch: King Maegor I Targaryen had three Grand Maesters executed,
Archmaester Marwyn believes that the Citadel is behind the deaths of the last Targaryen dragons, because of a conspiracy against magic and prophecy.
When the red comet appears, the maesters are among the first to notice.
The Conclave gathers to consider the reports and measurements made by maesters all over the realm. Based on that information, they declare the summer is over, and send out white ravens to herald the changing of the seasons.
Acting as Hand of the King, Tyrion Lannister has Grand Maester Pycelle thrown into the dungeons of the Red Keep as punishment for betraying his confidential information to Queen Regent Cersei Lannister.
Accepting Pycelle’s dismissal, the Conclave gathers to discuss who his successor should be. After pretending to consider two lowborn maesters, the Conclave comes close to electing Maester Gormon, who had been born a Tyrell of Highgarden. Thanks to the presence of his little birds at the Citadel, Lord Varys learns of this, and warns Lord Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King. To prevent the Tyrells from gaining more influence at court, Tywin immediately restores Pycelle to his office.
At the Citadel, the novice Pate steals a black key which supposedly opens every door in the Citadel. He trades the key with the Alchemist for a golden dragon. However, the Alchemist kills him,
Jon Snow, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, sends his sworn brother Samwell Tarly to Oldtown to train at the Citadel and become a maester. Maester Aemon, the maester of Castle Black, is send with Samwell, but following a long period of illness dies, shortly before they reach Oldtown.
Lady Barbrey Dustin expresses her distrust of maesters to Theon Greyjoy, and refers to them as "grey rats".
Following the fall of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, Grand Maester Pycelle successfully seizes control of King Tommen I Baratheon and the small council. He offers Ser Kevan Lannister the regency. Together, they attempt to restore the damage done by Cersei and to mend the Lannister-Tyrell alliance that supports Tommen's hold on the Iron Throne. When he sees they are going to succeed, Lord Varys, the former master of whisperers, assassinates both Pycelle and Kevan.
There are some who call my order the knights of the mind ... Have you ever thought that you might wear a maester's chain? There is no limit to what you might learn ... I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of ravens, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars. I can teach you to measure the days and marks the seasons, and at the Citadel in Oldtown they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you magic.
- Luwin to Bran Stark
If you do not have a maester, it is taken to mean that you are of little consequence.
- Barbrey Dustin to Theon Greyjoy
Isn't it clever how the maesters go only by one name, even those who had two when they first arrived at the Citadel? That way we cannot know who they truly are or where they come from.
- Barbrey Dustin to Theon Greyjoy
Maezon zo Rhaezn is a Yunkai Nobleman.
Maezon zo Rhaezn, along with his brothers Chezdahr zo Rhaezn and Grazdhan zo Rhaezn, are mocked by the sellsword companies as the Clanker Lords, since they came up with the idea of chaining all the slave soldiers together so they couldn't flee when facing the Unsullied of Daenerys Targaryen (as their previous soldiers did). The soldiers march at a snail's pace due to the weight of the chains.
The Tattered Prince points out that these slave soldiers due to all the chains attached to them will be slowed and not be able to fight effectively.
Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg, better known as Mag the Mighty, is something of a chieftain among the giants.
See also: Images of Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg
He has a grey pelt streaked with white. His mammoth had the same coloring and was larger than the other mammoths, denoting its older age.
Mag led the giants that were allied with Mance Rayders's Wildling army.
The potential queens? Myrcella, Margaery, Cersei, Daenerys, and Sansa – by Achen089 ©
Maggy the Frog was a fortune teller from Lannisport who dealt in cures and love potions. Her true name has been forgotten, while "Maggy" was likely a bastardization of the word "maegi".* she is portrayed by Jodhi May.
See also: Images of Maggy
Maggy was squat and warty, with crusty yellow eyes, no teeth, and pale green jowls.
Westerosi could not pronounce her real name,
Maggy conducted business in a dark green tent with a tall peaked roof.
Maggy came to Lannisport as a younger woman,
When she was ten,
Maggy allowed Cersei three questions and made the prophecy of the *valonqar* (High Valyrian for "little brother"), which haunted Cersei thereafter. When Melara took her turn, Maggy predicted that she would die young, and hinted that it would be by Cersei's hand. Dissatisfied, Cersei threw a jar of potion into Maggy's eyes and fled, leaving Maggy to curse them both. Melara, who begged Cersei never to speak of the prophecies, soon drowned in a well.
Ser Kevan Lannister assumes that Maggy is long dead.
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is reminded of Maggy whenever she sees Olenna Tyrell in the Red Keep.
Cersei again dreams of her visit to Maggy's tent, although she recognizes that some details may have changed.
Cersei: When will I wed the prince?
Maggy: Never. You will wed the king.
Cersei: I will be queen, though?Maggy: Aye. Queen you shall be... until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.
- Maggy in the dream of Cersei Lannister
Cersei: Will the king and I have children?
Maggy: Oh, aye. Six-and-ten for him, and three for you. Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds, she said. And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.
- Maggy in the dream of Cersei Lannister
Melara: Will I marry Jaime?
Maggy: Not Jaime, nor any other man, Worms will have your maidenhead. Your death is here tonight, little one. Can you smell her breath? She is very close.
- Maggy and Melara Hetherspoon in the dream of Cersei Lannister
I would never have gone into that tent if not for them. I would never have allowed Maggy the Frog to taste my morrows in a drop of blood.
– Cersei Lannister's thoughts
In Lannisport it was said that she had been young and beautiful when her husband had brought her back from the east with a load of spices, but age and evil had left their marks on her.
– Cersei Lannister's thoughts
Piss on your prophecy, old woman.
– Cersei Lannister's thoughts
Magic is a supernatural force in the known world. It is rare enough for many to doubt its effective or even existence, particularly in Westeros and especially the Citadel, where it its known as the higher mysteries.
Elemental control © FFG
Magic is a little-understood force in the world. It has been so long since magic was truly potent that most understanding of it only lives on in superstition and rituals of questionable validity. Blood, life, and death seem to be keys that can help unlock the secrets of magic.
In Westeros and most of the lands west of Valyria, magic is held to be a mythical force only. The maesters of the Citadel may apply for a Valyrian steel link for the study of magic, but they believe it to have faded away following the Doom of Valyria, since there has been no record of its use in Westeros since that time.
Magic has remained a potent force in Qarth, where the enigmatic warlocks of the House of the Undying are said to possess great powers. All manner of sorcerers, necromancers, spellsingers, aeromancers, bloodmages, and more are said to gather and practice their arts in the lands by the Jade Sea and Asshai by the Shadow.
Some of the abilities exhibited by those who practice magic are:
Elemental control: Firemages and the red priests of R'hllor seem able to control the element of fire, being able to evoke fire with their bare hands in order to engulf their weapons in flames, to use the fire alone as a means to attack enemies, or just to amaze crowds. It is possible that other wizards and sorcerers know ways of using other elements.
Divination: Some people exhibit the ability to see the future either through dreams or looking in the fire in the case of the followers and priests of the Lord of Light. This is called greensight if following the way of the old gods or dragon dreams if it is done by a Targaryen.
Skinchanging: The ability to enter the mind of an animal and control its actions. It is a rare ability with only one man in a thousand being born a skinchanger. Having the blood of the First Men may make it more likely for someone to be a skinchanger.
Raising the dead: Some followers of R'hllor have been capable of performing the extraordinary feat of raising a man from the dead after performing the last kiss. However the reborn person may have difficulty remembering parts of their past life or exhibit a change in personality. The revived additionally still have any wounds incurred before their passing.
Necromancy: Some are rumored to dabble in necromancy, the ability to raise the dead as mindless automatons bound to serve a specific purpose. Necromancy is said to have been practiced by the Bloodstone Emperor,
Glamoring: Some wizards and sorcerers can change their appearance or the appearance of others by using light and shadow. Some glamors are associated with specific objects. Years of practice can be needed for effective glamor use.
Bloodmagic is said to be darkest and possibly the most powerful of magics.
Alchemy: a diverse range of practices involving the creation of substances or materials with magical powers. The Alchemists' Guild in Westeros specializes in this, claiming that in the past they were able to transmute base metals into gold, along with other powers. In recent centuries their power has waned, and they focus on creating the incendiary substance known as Wildfire, which burns much hotter than pitch and cannot be extinguished by water. They claim that wildfire's power is magical in nature, though the exact ingredients are a closely guarded secret. Most surviving books about alchemy have been distorted by amateur practitioners, and study of them rarely yields practical results. It has been something of a fad for absent-minded, bookish lords to "dabble" in alchemy research (such as King Aenys I Targaryen), usually archiving no more than parlor tricks.
See also: Skinchanging, and Greensight
Other than the children of the forest, who are said to have been strong in magic, native magic in Westeros is rare. In days past, the greenseers of the children possessed incredible powers over nature, including skinchanging, slipping into the minds of beasts, and greensight, the power to foretell the future. Though the children of the forest and their greenseers have long passed from[Westeros, there are still descendants of the First Men who possess those powers. The knowledge of the the existence of skinchangers is exceedingly rare in Westeros, except perhaps among the free folk that live beyond the Wall.
Members of the Alchemists' Guild know some sort of magical ritual involving the making of wildfire, and possibly smiths who re-work Valyrian steel know something of the arcane as well.
See also: Valyrian Freehold
All Valyrian magic was rooted in blood and fire. It is said that they could set dragonglass candles to burning with strange, unpleasantly-bright light. With the obsidian candles, they could see across vast distances, look into a man's mind, and speak with one another though they were half the world apart., and sorcery.
In the flesh pits of Gogossos Valyrian bloodmages mated animals to slave women to bring forth half-human creatures.
Wizards of the Rhoynar used water magic against the Valyrian Freehold during the Rhoynish Wars.
It is believed that magic died out in the west and the Lands of the Long Summer after the Doom of Valyria, despite attempts to restore it through spell-forged steel, stormsingers, or dragons.
See also: Maegi, Warlocks, and Shadowbinder
In Qarth, the enigmatic warlocks of the House of the Undying practice curious rituals. Qartheen warlocks once bathed Samwell Tarly in aurochs blood to make him brave.
There are firemages who can conjure ladders from the air that are made of fire and can stand forty feet high. The mage can climb up the ladder, each rung disappearing behind him, leaving nothing but silvery smoke. When he reaches the top, the ladder and he are both gone.
Mirri Maz Duur sacrifices Drogo's stallion and, unbeknownst to Daenerys Targaryen, the unborn Rhaego in her attempt to restore Khal Drogo. Daenerys then burns the *maegi* on Drogo's funeral pyre and wakes dragons.
The Alchemists' Guild claim that spells required in the creation of wildfire have begun to work better and more efficiently than they have in many years.
During the siege of Storm's End, Melisandre births shadow assassins to kill Renly Baratheon and Cortnay Penrose.
In Qarth Daenerys sees a firemage creating a ladder of flames that stands up to forty feet high and then dissappear along with the ladder. Quaith explains that, half a year before, the man could bare wake fire from dragonglass and perform tricks with powders and wildfire until Daenerys, by hatching the first dragons in centuries, has caused the firemage's powers to grow.
Qyburn is rumored to have lost his maester's chain for being involved in necromancy.
Thoros of Myr explains that he unexpectedly raised Beric Dondarrion from the dead after performing the last kiss.
Dragon sightings are becoming more and more common in Essos.
Thoros tells Brienne that Beric raised Catelyn Stark from the dead, passing the flame of life from him to her.
A magical Valyrian glass candle in Marwyn's chamberas at the Citadel has ignited anew and it seems that the potency of magic in Westeros has increased. Miracles and abilities that were long thought lost now appear to be returning, although this is commonly neither known nor accepted.
Melisandre uses a glamor to disguise Mance Rayder at Rattleshirt.
Take a lesson, Bran. The man who trusts in spells is dueling with a glass sword. As the children did.
– Luwin to Bran Stark
Perhaps magic was once a mighty force in the world, but no longer. What little remains is no more than the wisp of smoke that lingers in the air after a great fire has burned out, and even that is fading. Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone.
– Luwin to Bran Stark
The Horned Lord once said that sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
The dragonlords of the old Freehold were strong in sorcery, and lesser men defied them at their peril.
- The kindly man to Arya Stark
Magister is a title held by wealthy and powerful individuals in some Free Cities. It is similar to the *qhoran* or Westerosi steward.
Powerful magisters in Pentos elect the Prince of Pentos
Gluttons are greedy men as a rule, and magisters are devious.
The Magister Manolo is a trading ship.
When Daenerys Targaryen searches for passage from the port of Qarth, she passes over the Magister Manolo, believing it to be scarcely seaworthy.
Magnar of Thenn is the title held by the leader of the Thenns, a tribe of free folk from the Thenn valley beyond the Wall.
Mago is a rider in the khas of Ko Jhaqo.*, he is played by Ivailo Dimitrov.
Ivailo Dimitrov as Mago on the HBO adaptation
When Khal Drogo's *khalasar* destroys a Lhazareen settlement, Mago begins raping a woman, Eroeh, until she is rescued by Daenerys Targaryen.
After Drogo falls ill, Jhaqo declares himself khal and names Mago a bloodrider. Mago then steals Eroeh back and rapes her. He gives her to Jhaqo and she is raped again by him and his other bloodriders. When they are done, they cut her throat. Upon hearing of Eroeh's fate, Daenerys states:
It was a cruel fate, yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.
Jhaqo's khalasar discovers Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon Drogon in the Dothraki Sea.
In the TV series Mago is killed by Khal Drogo after insulting him.
Maia Stokeworth was member of House Stokeworth during the reign of Baelor I Targaryen.
After Baelor's death and Viserys II Targaryen ascension to the Iron Throne, she claimed that Viserys had poisoned Baelor.
The Prince of Pentos with the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas
The maid of the fields is a title that is given to a young maid of the Free City of Pentos. Every year a new maid of the fields is chosen.
Every year the Prince of Pentos deflowers the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas on the first day of the year.
The Prince of Pentos with the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas
The maid of the seas. Every year a new maid of the seas is chosen.
Every year the Prince of Pentos deflowers the maid of the fields and the maid of the seas on the first day of the year.
Despite being married to Tyrion Lannister, Sansa Stark has remained a maid.
© Isabel Westling
A maid or a maiden usually refers to a virgin woman. Maidens may be wedded and bedded; However, many husbands will wait until the bride is fifteen or sixteen before sleeping with them. Very young mothers tend to have significantly higher rates of death in childbirth, as noted by the maesters.
A guarantee of a woman's virginity is normally the presence of a maidenhead. Women are generally expected to be virgins on their wedding night, more so for noblewomen. However, noblewomen are more likely to lose their maidenheads during horseback riding, it is said, and proof of their maidenhead during the wedding night - a bloody sheet - is therefore not often insisted upon.
The loss of a noblewoman's virginity can diminish her possibilities for marriage. After Ser Jason Lannister took the virginity of Lady Alys Stackspear, during which she became pregnant, his brother, Lord Tytos Lannister, insisted upon their marriage.
Virginity can also be held in high esteem by the Dothraki. According to Magister Illyrio Mopatis, when Viserys Targaryen attempted to claim his sister's maidenhead prior to her wedding to Khal Drogo, he would have undone years of planning, implying that Khal Drogo would not have accepted Daenerys as his bride if she had not come to him a virgin.
A price can be placed upon a girl's maidenhead. For example, Emma, a serving wench at the Quill and Tankard in Oldtown, determined that her daughter's maidenhead would cost a golden dragon.
A virgin man can also be referred to as a maiden on occasion.
I am still a maid.
– Sansa Stark, to Lysa Tully
He told me once I was sure to die a maiden.
– Samwell Tarly, to Jon Snow
A Frey girl, and not of my choosing, she is not even a maiden.
– Lancel Lannister, on his chosen bride
Do you want to die a man-maid?
– Gerris Drinkwater, to Quentyn Martell
Myrcella never shed a tear, though it was she who was leaving hearth and home to seal an alliance with her maidenhood.
The Maiden is one of the feeder streams that flow into the Trident. It lies between Harrenhal and Riverrun.
The Maiden - by mustamirri ©
The Maiden, or the Maid, is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.
See also: Images of the Maiden
The Maiden represents innocence and chastity. She is usually prayed to to protect a maiden's virtue.
A passage in *The Seven-Pointed Star* says that the Maiden brought Hugor of the Hill, the King of the Andals, a bride as supple as a willow with eyes like deep blue pools.
Legend says that Galladon of Morne's valor was so great the Maiden fell in love with him. She gave him an enchanted sword, the Just Maid, to demonstrate her love for him.
Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village's sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. She goes to the Maid and beseeches her to lend her courage to Arya and Sansa, to guard them in their innocence.
The pious dwarf makes Brienne of Tarth's acquaintance at the Seven Swords inn. After chatting with her he notices Brienne looks sad and asks her if she is thinking of her missing sister. He pats her hand and tries to reassure her, telling her:-
The Crone will light your way to her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe.
The Maiden dances through the sky,
she lives in every lover's sigh.
Her smiles teach the birds to fly,
and gives dreams to little children.
Longship Maiden's Bane. © FFG
The Maiden's Bane is an ironborn longship and part of the Iron Fleet.
After the Battle of the Shield Islands, Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy kept it, the *Lord Dagon, the *Iron Wind and the *Grief* as part of his rearguard, commanding from his own ship the *Iron Victory*.
Maiden's Bane appears three days prior to Victarion's departure from the Isle of Cedars.
Maiden's Day is a holy day in the calendar of the Faith of the Seven. On that 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. Those maidens who enter the sept sing songs of innocence.
Maiden's Day falls at some point in the first five months of the calendar year in Westeros.[N 1]
Tommen mentions that Margaery Tyrell will be at the Great Sept for Maiden's Day.
The Maiden's Men are a sellsword company in the Free Cities.
After the defeat at the Battle of the Redgrass Field, those lords and knights who went into exile with Ser Aegor Rivers began to sign on to sellsword companies, such as the Maiden's Men. This would cause Ser Aegor to make his own company, the Golden Company was once a member.
The Maiden's Tower is the easternmost of the seven slender towers of the Eyrie. From a balcony on the tower, one can see the Vale of Arryn and the Giant's Lance.
Alayne Stone has apartments in the Maiden's Tower; they are large and more lavish than the little bedchamber where she had lived when Lady Lysa Arryn was alive. She has her own dressing room and a privy of her own, and a balcony of carved white stone that looks off across the Vale.
As Gretchel is tending to the fire Alayne pads barefoot across the room and slips outside. The stone is cold against her feet, and the wind is blowing fiercely, as it always does up there, but the view makes her forget all that for half a heartbeat.
Alyane has the Vale before her, its forests and rivers and fields all hazy in the morning light. She thinks that the way the sun is hitting the mountains makes them look like solid gold.
The snow-clad summit of the Giant's Lance looms above her, an immensity of stone and ice that dwarfs the castle perched upon its shoulder. Icicles twenty feet long drape the lip of the precipice where Alyssa's Tears fall in the summer. A falcon soars above the frozen waterfall, blue wings spread wide against the morning sun.
She rests her hands on the carved stone balustrade and makes herself peer over the edge. She can see Sky 600 feet below, and the stone steps carved into the mountain, the winding way that leads past Snow and Stone all the way down the valley floor. She can see the towers and keeps of the Gates of the Moon, as small as a child’s toys. Around the walls the hosts of the Lords Declarant are stirring, emerging from their tents like ants from an anthill.
So lovely.
- Alayne Stone, contemplating the view from the balcony
"Maiden, Mother, and Crone" is a song about the Faith of the Seven.
It is sung by Hamish the Harper at the wedding of King Joffrey I and Margaery Tyrell.
The Maiden-Made-of-Light is a goddess in Yi Ti.
According to tales told by the priestly scribes of Yin, the Maiden-Made-of-Light was impregnated by the Lion of Night. This son was the God-on-Earth, who ruled the Great Empire of the Dawn for ten thousand year before ascending to the heavens. The descendants of the God-Earth ruled the empire after him, each ruling a shorter time than the previous one, until the brother of the Amethyst Empress usurped her in the Blood Betrayal and crowned himself as the Bloodstone Emperor, ushering in the Long Night. The Maiden-Made-of-Light turned her back upon the world and the Lion of Night came forth in all his wroth to punish the wickedness of man.
Maidenpool
The riverlands and the location of Maidenpool
Maidenpool is a town in the eastern riverlands situated along the southern shore of the Bay of Crabs.
There are two roads leading to King's Landing from Maidenpool, one a faster road which goes through Duskendale and the other which travels along the coast.
Maidenpool has a busy harbor and pink stone walls.
The town takes its name from the pool where the legendary Florian the Fool first spied Jonquil bathing with her sisters. Maidenpool failed to conquer Crackclaw Point.
One of the Storm Kings, Monfryd the Mighty, defeated petty kings from House Mooton to add Maidenpool to his realm.
The Fall of Maidenpool and the death of Florian the Brave during the Andal invasion are still recalled through song.
The Storm King Arlan III Durrandon conquered the riverlands, including Maidenpool, from House Teague. Three centuries later, Harwyn Hardhand conquered the region for House Hoare.
During Aegon's Conquest, Aegon I Targaryen and his half-brother, Orys Baratheon, defeated the Darklyns of Duskendale and the Mootons of Maidenpool in Aegon's first test. Lord Jon Mooton then supported Aegon against House Hoare.
During the Dance of the Dragons, one hundred knights from Maidenpool under the command of Lord Walys Mooton participated in the blacks' retaking of Rook's Rest from the greens. Walys was killed by Sunfyre afterward. Maidenpool was used as a base by the dragonriders Prince Daemon Targaryen and Nettles. Lord Manfryd Mooton, Walys's brother, did not want to obey Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen's order to kill Nettles. Maester Norren, who was keeper of the *Chronicles of Maidenpool*, informed the dragonriders of the command. After Daemon and Nettles left Maidenpool, Manfryd changed his allegiance from Rhaenyra to King Aegon II Targaryen.
The town hosted the tourney for King Viserys I's accession ca. 104 AC and the tourney at Maidenpool in 207 AC. Ser Barristan Selmy was the victor in the mêlée at Maidenpool during the reign of King Aerys II Targaryen.
Maidenpool is sacked three times during the War of the Five Kings, once by "lions", once by "wolves", and finally by outlaws.
After the battle at Duskendale, Lord Randyll Tarly marches on Maidenpool, takes its castle, and locks Lord William Mooton in a tower cell.
Brienne of Tarth visits Maidenpool during her search for Sansa Stark. She learns that Lord Tarly began rebuilding Maidenpool while hunting down the outlaws that haunted the areas around the town.
Harrion Karstark is kept prisoner at Maidenpool.
The Maidenvault is a long slate roofed Keep behind the Royal Sept in the Red Keep. It is called this because King Baelor I Targaryen confined his sisters, Rhaena, Elaena, and Daena Targaryen, to whom he was married, therein, to avoid them tempting him with carnal thoughts. Mace Tyrell and his entourage were housed here after the Battle of the Blackwater. Queen Margaery stayed in the Maidenvault even after her wedding to King Tommen.
Maisie is a serving girl at Winterfell.
Abel's spearwives begin serving at Winterfell after the wedding of Ramsay Bolton to "Arya Stark", whom they are intending to rescue. When a Bolton guard asks Theon Greyjoy what happened to the usual servants like Jez and Maisie, Theon says they are not attending Lady Arya because they did not keep her water warm.
Ser Maladon Moore was a knight from House Moore. He was a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen.
Ser Maladon, along with his sworn brother Ser Owen Bush, seized Queen Tyanna of the Tower when King Maegor suspected her of betrayal.
Malaquo Maegyr is one of the current ruling triarchs of the Free City of Volantis. He has been re-elected as triarch many times and is old and toothless, but he is a tiger still.
Malaquo unsuccessfully attempts to hire the Golden Company to silence the High Red Priest of R'hllor, Benerro, and his followers, as they preach for Volantis to support Daenerys Targaryen. Malaquo dares not use the city guard, the tiger cloaks, as most are followers of R'hllor.
The Golden Company ends up three miles south of Volon Therys due to Malaquo coming north with five thousand foot and one thousand horse to cut them off from the Rhoyne delta road.
It is said Malaquo plans on supporting Yunkai and the fleet of Volantis will sail soon to Meereen to wage war and re-enslave all of the former slaves freed by Daenerys. He is up again for election as triarch and many believe he will be re-elected. In western Volantis Tyrion Lannister sees a large elephant lumber past; on its back are a dozen half-naked slave girls campaigning for Malaquo.
Malazza,
Malazza is short, with a thick waist and heavy bosom. She wears a sculpted black steel breastplate inlaid with gold, showing a harpy rising with chains dangling from her claws.
The Windblown sellswords think that the Girl General fancies herself Yunkai's own Daenerys Targaryen. They mock her when drunk.
Malazza is present at a slave auction held outside Meereen. Tyrion Lannister spots her in the crowd; a pair of slave soldiers have lifted her to shoulder height on a shield. She bids twenty-five hundred on Tyrion and Penny, but gives up the chase when Brown Ben Plumm bids three thousand on them.
Malazza sends for Brown Ben Plumm just as the Second Siege of Meereen is commencing. She commands the Second Sons to defend the Wicked Sister, as she figures that Ser Barristan Selmy means to bring down all the trebuchets. However, Malazza's turn to be the Yunkai supreme commander ended at dawn. During Ben's absence, a Yunkai officer gives Inkpots the order from Gorzhak zo Eraz to bring the Second Sons to the shore of the bay. Inkpots refuses the order as Brown Ben is absent.
When Ben returns, he and his captains immediately have a meeting. Ben gives them the Girl General's order to defend the Wicked Sister, which does not go down well. Inkpots is baffled as to why the Girl General is still giving orders, as dawn has come and gone and she is behaving as if she were still the supreme commander. Ser Jorah Mormont reasons that the Girl General is still giving commands because she knows Pudding Face is about to assume command. Before the sellswords can decide what to do about Malazza's order, another Yunkai rider arrives with new orders from yet another supreme commander, Morghar zo Zherzyn.
Ser Malcolm was a landed knight who lived near King's Landing.
Considered a hard man, Malcolm sent Lync to the Wall for stealing pepper.
Maldon IV Durrandon was a Storm King of House Durrandon. During the Andal invasion of the stormlands, as neither side defeated the other, Maldon took an Andal maiden as his wife. Durran XXIV was born of this union.
Lord Maldon Massey was a member of House Massey who built Stonedance and established his lordship over Massey's Hook. He was a vassal of the Storm King Durran the Ravenfriend.
Ser Malegorn of Redpool is a knight from Redpool in the service of King Stannis Baratheon. He is one of the queen's men.
Malegorn stays with Queen Selyse Florent at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, when Stannis goes to retake Deepwood Motte. When Selyse leaves Eastwatch to go to the Nightfort, he accompanies her to Castle Black.
Malegorn refuses to allow the former whore Satin to escort Selyse to the feast after the wedding of Alys Karstark and Sigorn. He is a lecherous man, cupping the arse of the women next to him during the feast.
Malko is the captain of a slaving ship operating in Slaver's Bay and the Summer Sea. The character was created specifically for the TV series and is played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. He replaces the unidentified Yunkai’i slavers in *A Dance with Dragons, who capture Jorah Mormont and Tyrion Lannister while aboard the *Selaesori Qhoran.
Malko speaks the Common Tongue of Westeros and appears to be knowledgeable of Westerosi history, such as Robert's Rebellion and the Siege of Pyke.
Malko's ship anchors on the shoreline while on a voyage to Volantis so that the slaver's can replenish their water supply. The slavers discover Jorah and Tyrion and capture them. Malko plans on using Jorah as a galley slave and orders Tyrion to be killed and his penis cut off, as dwarfs' penises are believed to be magic. Tyrion warns Malko that no merchant will believe him unless he sees the source of the penis. Then he attempts to convince Malko to take them to Meereen to the fighting pits where Jorah can prove his worth. After hearing Jorah killed Qotho, a Dothraki bloodrider, Malko seems to change his mind.
Once he has arrived in Slaver's Bay, Malko proceeds to auction off Jorah while changing details to make his story sound more impressive, including Jorah killing Khal Drogo instead of Qotho and taking part in the attack on "Spike" while wielding a flaming sword instead of Thoros of Myr. He manages to sell Jorah to Yezzan zo Qaggaz, a Meereenese Great Master for 20 of an unspecified coin. As Yezzan leads Jorah away, Tyrion desperately attempts to also be sold to Yezzan. Malko scoffs at this, saying that at least Tyrion is funny. Tyrion proceeds to get gain control of his chain and beat the slaver who was holding him. Yezzan, intrigued with Tyrion ends up buying him for an unspecified amount because he's funny.
Ser Mallador Locke
Ser Mallador is part of the great ranging that leaves Castle Black in search of the wildlings. He commands the baggage train in the column.
Mallador agrees with Ser Ottyn Wythers and counsels a retreat to the Wall after the discovery of the massive wildling force descending on the Fist of the First Men. However, Thoren Smallwood convinces him to change his mind and he then sides with Thoren for a swift attack.
Fewer wildlings means fewer worries. I won't mourn, whatever's become of them. Raiders and murderers, the lot of them.
- Mallador to Jarman Buckwell
*The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children*, © Fantasy Flight Games
Malleon was a Grand Maester of the Citadel. He wrote a book on the lineages of the Seven Kingdoms, *The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children*.
Jon Arryn and then Eddard Stark use Malleon's book to discover the identity of the true father of Robert Baratheon's children.