Wisdom Malliard is a member of the Alchemists' Guild in King's Landing. He is in charge of keeping track and projecting production of the wildfire at the Guild Hall.
For the sellsword, see Mallor the Dornishman.
Ser Mallor was a knight during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen.
Ser Mallor attended the wedding tourney at Whitewalls. His squire was attacked by Egg after he made a remark about Egg's father killing his brother.
Mallor the Dornishman is a sellsword in service to House Lannister.
Mallor is part of Ser Jaime Lannister's force besieging Riverrun. He is captured in the battle in the Whispering Wood.
Septon Mallow was a member of the Faith of the Seven that lived in the Vale during the Andal invasion. He wrote an account of the Battle of Seven Stars.
Malo Jayn is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. His rank is serjeant.
Malo, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen in Volon Therys before they invade Westeros.
In Westeros, he is one of the nine men present during Jon Connington and the Golden Company’s war council at Griffin's Roost.
Malora Hightower, called the Mad Maid, is a lady of House Hightower and the eldest daughter of Lord Leyton Hightower of Oldtown.
After the ironborn attacked the Reach, Lord Leyton was reported to be locked in the Hightower consulting books of spells with the Mad Maid.
Malthar Xaq was a prince from the Summer Isles and the ruler of Koj. After the first contact with people from beyond the seas, the princes of the Summer Isles began the construction of large, strong ships that could cross long stretches of ocean and resist the fiercest storms. Prince Malthar was the greatest of these shipbuilders and is remembered as Malthar the Windrider and Malthar the Mapmaker.
Malwyn Frey is a member of House Frey, the second son of Ser Raymund Frey and Beony Beesbury. He is apprenticed to an alchemist in Lys.
Mammoths are a species related to elephants.
See also: Images of Mammoths
Giants use mammoths as mounts - by Marc Fishman ©
Mammoths are large, elephant-like animals, with great tusks. They are large enough to be ridden by giants, or to carry tall wooden towers with people inside upon their backs.
Mammoths are shaggy,
The wood dancers of the children of the forest are said to have called upon mammoths to fight on their behalf, but the First Men proved too powerful.
In 129 AC, shortly before his death, King Viserys I Targaryen told his grandchildren, Jaehaerys and Jaehaera, a tale about their great-great-grandfather, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, and great-great-grandmother, Queen Alysanne Targaryen, battling giants, mammoths, and wildlings beyond the Wall.
Hairy mammoths are said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben
While there used to be many mammoths in Westeros, now there only are a few hundred left.
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, tells Tyrion Lannister that mammoths still live in the woods north of the Wall.
A wildling taken captive by Qhorin Halfhand swears that the free folk have wargs and mammoths.
After having joined the host of the King-beyond-the-Wall, Mance Rayder, Jon sees giants and their mammoths. The stink coming off of them is choking, but Jon is unable to tell if the smell comes from the giants, or their mammoths.
When the host of Mance arrives at the Wall, Jon identifies the sound of a mammoth and thinks there are a hundred. At dawn, the burned carcass is seen covered by crows.
The wildlings continue the fight by having the giants bring up a ram. Mammoths are used to center the wildling line, a hundred or more, with giants upon their backs. The black brothers shoot arrows at the giants, and several mammoths are injured in the process. One of the injured beasts crashes into another, spilling giants over the ground, while another wounded mammoth goes berserk, smashing wildlings with his trunk and crushing archers underfoot.
When the southron knights of Stannis Baratheon attack the wildling camp, the mammoths begin to wander west. They manage to shatter the center column of knights, The others flee.
At Castle Black, Three-Finger Hobb promises the brothers roast haunch of mammoth, hoping to gain a few more votes that way.
Samwell Tarly tells Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander, about Others riding dead mammoths.
Stannis and Melisandre urge the wildling captives to join them by embracing the Lord of Light. Out of the forty captives that refuse, four are giants. One of them refuses to leave his mammoth behind, and the other giants refuse to leave their fellow giant.
Tormund's host contains more than eighty mammoths. As they are too big to pass the gate of Castle Black, they go the long way around, passing the Wall at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Tyrion takes to using the term "mammoth" to refer to huge, fat men, including Illyrio Mopatis
The giants swayed slowly atop the mammoths as they rode past two by two. Jon's garron shied, frightened by such strangeness, but whether it was the mammoths or their riders that scared him it was hard to say. Even Ghost backed off a step, baring his teeth in a silent snarl. The direwolf was big, but the mammoths were a deal bigger, and there were many and more of them.
- Jon Snow's thoughts
And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter, and woke giants from the earth. Is that where they had come from, them and their mammoths? Had Mance Rayder found the Horn of Joramun, and given it to Tormund Thunderfist to blow?
- Jon Snow's thoughts
Mance Rayder was once a man of the Night's Watch before breaking his vows and abandoning his post. He has since become extremely influential among the free folk, and is called the "King-Beyond-the-Wall". In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Ciarán Hinds.
See also: Images of Mance Rayder
Mance is a slender man and of middling height,
Mance has a fondness for music, especially wildling songs.
Mance wears wool and leather,
Mance Rayder by graikfaik ©
According to Selyse Florent, Mance's parents were a common woman of the free folk and a man of the Night's Watch.
A ranger of the Shadow Tower, Mance often sang of Bael the Bard after returning from rangings beyond the Wall.
Mance was attacked by a shadowcat while ranging, and was healed by a wildling woman. While he recuperated, she mended his torn cloak with swatches of red fabric. Upon returning to the Wall, Ser Denys Mallister required Mance to replace his mended cloak with one of uniform black. This infringement of freedom caused Mance to abandon the Shadow Tower
Mance spent years gaining gathering various tribes into one host, seeking support from clan mothers and magnars. He made peace between Harma Dogshead and the Lord of Bones, the Hornfoots and the Nightrunners, and the men of the Frozen Shore and the ice-river clans.
Mance wears a raven-winged helm. Art by Patrick McEvoy. © Fantasy Flight Games
Hearing of King Robert I Baratheon's planned visit to Winterfell to see Lord Eddard Stark via sources in the Night's Watch, Mance, inspired by the legend of Bael the Bard, decided to partake in the event. He scales the Wall near Long Barrow, purchases a horse south of the New Gift, and journeys to Winterfell.
Mance's presence is unbeknownst to both Eddard, who does not remember Mance from his previous visit with Lord Commander Qorgyle, and Benjen Stark, who had never met Mance despite being in the Watch for a few years. Under the disguise of a musician, Mance plays the lute during the feast for Robert. He meets Dalla during his return to the lands beyond the Wall.
Osha suggests capturing Bran Stark in the wolfswood and delivering him as a hostage to Mance, but Osha is instead captured by House Stark.
A captured wildling tells Qhorin Halfhand that Mance is gathering wildlings to a secret stronghold.
Following the rumors about Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, and the wildlings deserting their villages, the Night's Watch assembles in force in a great ranging beyond the Wall.
Mance sends Alfyn Crowkiller to scout along the Wall, but he is slain by Qhorin's men.
Mance Rayder - Art by Joshua Cairós. © Fantasy Flight Games
Mance has his followers dig in graves along the Milkwater
When Jon Snow meets with Mance in the Frostfangs under pretext of joining his campaign, the bard sings "The Dornishman's Wife". Jon mistakes the more distinctive Tormund and Styr as Mance.
After Styr's attack fails,
Fearing that Stannis Baratheon will allow his red priestess, Melisandre, to sacrifice Mance's son in the believe that Mance's title of "King-Beyond-the-Wall" could be construed as his child having royal blood, Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, sends Gilly away from Castle Black and forces her to leave her own son behind and secretly take Mance's son instead.
Mance playing the lute, with Val in the background - by Amok ©
Melisandre glamors Mance to appear as Rattleshirt. Art by Lukasz Jaskolski. © Fantasy Flight Games
Mance is supposedly burned alive by Stannis with surrendered free folk, members of the Night's Watch, king's men, and queen's men there to bear witness. Jon Snow orders him killed by archers of the Watch during the burning to give him a quick death.
Later when word reaches the Wall that Arya Stark is to wed Ramsay Bolton, Melisandre offers to send "Rattleshirt" to retrieve her, but Jon refuses, not trusting the Lord of Bones. Melisandre reveals Mance's disguise to make Jon reconsider the offer. Jon holds Mance's son so Mance would do everything in his power to rescue Jon's sister for the sake of his son. However, Mance does not know that Jon has switched Mance's son with Gilly's son.
No longer appearing as Rattleshirt, the brown-bearded
With Winterfell snowbound from a blizzard, Mance's spearwives kill several northern men. Suspicion is cast on Theon Greyjoy at first, then Manderly knights, causing tension in the castle between Boltons, other northern houses, and Freys. They also receive the help of a reluctant and fearful Theon to help them free "Arya", though he knows she is really Jeyne Poole. Tensions explode in the castle when Little Walder Frey is murdered, though the spearwives claim it was not their doing. Theon assists Mance's spearwives in rescuing Jeyne, but when Jeyne gives their position away by screaming, Theon and Jeyne are forced to jump from Winterfell's battlements to the snow below.
It is reported in a letter to Jon purportedly from Ramsay Bolton that Mance has been captured. Ramsay claims Mance has been thrown in a cage which is exposed to the elements and that the six spearwives that came with him have been killed and skinned. Mance is allegedly being forced to use their sewn-together skins in the cage, as it is his only source of warmth.
Mance Rayder - by artist Diego Gisbert Llorens © Fantasy Flight Games.
The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone.
- Mance to Jon Snow
I know every bawdy song that's ever been made, north or south of the Wall.
- Mance to Jon Snow
The Halfhand was carved of old oak, but I am made of flesh, and I have a great fondness for the charms of women ... which makes me no different from three-quarters of the Watch.
- Mance to Jon Snow
Jon: Are you a true king?
Mance: I've never had a crown on my head or sat my arse on a bloody throne, if that's what you're asking. My birth is as low as a man's can get, no septon's ever smeared my head with oils, I don't own any castles, and my queen wears furs and amber, not silk and sapphires. I am my own champion, my own fool, and my own harpist.
- Jon Snow and Mance
Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic. They won't dance for coins, they don't care how you style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.
- Mance to Jon Snow
Mance thinks he'll fight, the brave sweet stubborn man, like the white walkers were no more than rangers, but what does he know? He can call himself King-beyond-the-Wall all he likes, but he's still just another old black crow who flew down from the Shadow Tower. He's never tasted winter.
- Osha to Bran Stark
I knew Mance Rayder, Jon. He is an oathbreaker, yes ... but he has eyes to see, and no man has ever dared to name him faintheart.
- Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow
He was the best of us, and the worst as well.
- Qhorin Halfhand, to Jon Snow
Mance has cunning. He was raised a crow, you know, and the crow's a tricksy bird.
The king was plainly a man who liked the sound of his own voice.
- thoughts of Jon Snow
No pain Theon had ever known came close to the agony that Skinner could evoke with a little flensing blade. Abel would learn that lesson soon enough. And for what? Jeyne, her name is Jeyne, and her eyes are the wrong color. A mummer playing a part. Lord Bolton knows, and Ramsay, but the rest are blind, even this bloody bard with his sly smiles. The jape is on you, Abel, you and your murdering whores. You'll die for the wrong girl.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Abel had doomed them. All singers were half-mad. In songs, the hero always saved the maiden from the monster's castle, but life was not a song, no more than Jeyne was Arya Stark.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Mander
The Reach and the location of the Mander
Men of the Mander by artist Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games.
A skiff sails the Mander on a sunny day. © FFG
The shores of the Mander. © FFG
The Mander is the largest river in the Reach. Whilst large and powerful, it is a slow-moving river, wide with snags and sandbars to trap the unwary ship.
See also: Images of the Mander
The Mander has its source in hills near Tumbleton in the northeastern Reach near King's Landing. Flowing southwest past Bitterbridge,
The upper reaches of the Mander are muddy and rough, and only shallow-draughted boats can go as far as Bitterbridge. As they near Highgarden, they settle down and become clear and calm, and are navigable by seagoing vessels.
According to legend, Garth the Gardener built Highgarden atop a hill along the Mander.
Historically, the ironborn raided up the river Mander all the way to Stonebridge. Garth VII Gardener, a King of the Reach, fortified the Shield Islands, which sit near the mouth of the river, and armed its smallfolk to guard the approaches and warn those further inland of coming attacks.
The headwaters of the Mander were conquered by the Storm King Arlan I Durrandon, but they were eventually lost by the descendents of his grandson, Arlan III.
House Manderly once lived at Dunstonbury on the banks of the mighty river Mander, but they were driven away
After the downfall of House Gardener in the Field of Fire, Aegon I Targaryen granted Highgarden to Harlan Tyrell and named him Lord Paramount of the Mander.
At a crossing of the Mander during the First Blackfyre Rebellion, Ser Quentyn Ball slew all of Lady Penrose's sons except for the youngest, whom he spared as a favor to the lady.
During Robert's Rebellion, the Greyjoys and Shield Islanders fought a battle at the Mander's mouth. Lord Quellon Greyjoy was killed in the fighting.
The Iron Fleet is victorious in the Battle of the Shield Islands, allowing the ironborn to sail up the Mander and threaten the Reach.
Ironborn raiders sail up the Mander deep into the heart of the Reach.
Ser Mandon Moore is a knight of House Moore. He is a member of King Robert I Baratheon's Kingsguard. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, he is played by James Doran.
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Mandon has pale grey eyes, oddly flat and lifeless,
Mandon is a skilled warrior,
Mandon wields sword, lance, white shield, and enameled white steel plate.
Mandon came from the Vale of Arryn
After the arrest of Lord Eddard Stark, Ser Mandon guards the doors of the council chamber when his daughter, Sansa Stark, is brought before by the small council by Ser Boros Blount. Mandon later escorts Sansa back to the high tower of Maegor's Holdfast.
Mandon is present in the throne room when Ser Barristan Selmy, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, is dismissed. Mandon and the other members of the Kingsguard laughs at their former sworn brother's shame.
Mandon is one of the Kingsguard that Joffrey commands to beat Sansa, and obeys without question.
Mandon is on guard outside the council chambers when Tyrion Lannister arrives with Bronn and Timett, carrying a message from his lord father, Lord Tywin Lannister. Because Queen Cersei Lannister had ordered for the meeting to not be disturbed, Mandon refuses to admit the newcomers. The Kingsguard eventually allows only Tyrion to pass.
Ser Mandon is among the escort for the party that sees Princess Myrcella Baratheon off to Dorne, serving as Sansa's sworn shield. When the riot of King's Landing breaks out, Mandon guards King Joffrey I Baratheon after Sandor Clegane is mobbed, abandoning Sansa in the chaos. Someone grabs the king's leg, but Mandon severs the rioter's hand from the wrist. After the royal party reaches the safety of the Red Keep, Cersei defends Mandon from Tyrion for having protected Joffrey instead of Sansa. Sandor instead returns Sansa safely to the castle.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Mandon is assigned to guard King Joffrey and Tyrion, the acting Hand of the King. When the king leaves for the Three Whores, Mandon stays with Tyrion, however. After information has been received that Stannis Baratheon's men intend to batter down the King's Gate with a ram, Mandon, Tyrion, and the Hand's squire, Podrick Payne, ride from the Mud Gate to the King's Gate. Tyrion tries to talk Sandor, who is in charge at the King's Gate, into leading his men in a sortie against the enemies, but Sandor refuses, having been frightened by wildfire.
Tyrion decides to lead the charge to the riverfront, with Mandon carrying Joffrey's banner. The knight's lance breaks off in an opponent, and his shield is destroyed. Mandon and Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard skillfully fend off Velaryon spearmen. While fighting on a ship, Tyrion is in danger of falling into the Blackwater Rush. Mandon first offers his hand to save Tyrion, but the knight then slashes at the Hand,
While recuperating from his wounds, a fevered Tyrion has a nightmare of the wildfire and Mandon's assassination attempt. After waking, Tyrion thinks that Mandon was bribed by Cersei to kill him during the battle. Podrick is ashamed to have caused Mandon's death, but Tyrion praises Pod and instructs his squire to keep silent about Mandon.
With Mandon dead and Sandor Clegane having fled, Ser Loras Tyrell is named to the Kingsguard
Hoping that proof will be found that Mandon was working for his sister, Queen Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister asks his friend and sellsword, Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, to investigate Mandon.
When Ser Jaime Lannister assumes his duties as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, he notices that in his absence the White Book has not been updated, as that is the Lord Commander's duty, and that the death of Ser Mandon has yet to be recorded.
Jaime had once told him that Moore was the most dangerous of the Kingsguard—excepting himself, always—because his face gave no hint as what he might do next.
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion rode down an archer, opened a spearman from shoulder to armpit, glanced a blow off a swordfish-crested helm. At the ram his big red reared but the black stallion leapt the obstacle smoothly and Ser Mandon flashed past him, death in snow-white silk. His sword sheared off limbs, cracked heads, broke shields asunder—though few enough of the enemy had made it across the river with shields intact.
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion: What do you know of Ser Mandon Moore?
Bronn: I know he's bloody well drowned.—Tyrion Lannister and Bronn
Ser Barristan was once heard to say that the man had no friend but his sword and no life but duty ... but you know, I do not think Selmy meant it altogether as praise. Which is queer when you consider it, is it not?
Ser Manfred Dondarrion was a knight of House Dondarrion during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen. He was the son of the ruling Lord Dondarrion.
He was a thin man with an unruly mane of red-gold hair.
Ser Duncan the Tall proposed Ser Manfred as a person who could vouch for his knighthood to the master of games at the Ashford Tourney. Manfred would not, however.
Manfred Hightower[N 1] was Lord of the Hightower and head of House Hightower during Aegon's Conquest. His children included his eldest son and heir, Martyn Hightower, and Ser Morgan Hightower, Commander of the Warrior's Sons.
He was cautious and godly man.
When news arrived in Oldtown of the landing of Aegon the Dragon and his sisters, the High Septon fasted and prayed for seven days and nights under the dome of the Starry Sept. When he emerged he announced that the Faith would not oppose the Targaryens, because the Crone had shown him that to do so would mean the destruction of Oldtown in dragonflame.
Lord Manfred, who was a godly man, heeded the High Septon's prophecy when he heard it. He kept his forces at Oldtown and when Aegon marched south towards the city, he freely opened his gates submitting to Aegon's authority.
The new High Septon mentions Manfred Hightower to Cersei Lannister during their meeting in the Great Sept of Baelor. He tells her that Lord Manfred heeded the High Septon's prophecy.
Manfred Lothston was a member of House Lothston. He once sided with Daemon Blackfyre during the First Blackfyre Rebellion, only to betray him in the end.
Ser Manfred Swann was a knight of House Swann.
Ser Barristan Selmy squired for Ser Manfred.
Ser Manfrey Martell is a knight of House Martell and a cousin to Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne. Manfrey is the castellan of Sunspear.
When Prince Doran Martell withdraws to the Water Gardens, he leaves Manfrey as castellan of Sunspear. Although Prince Oberyn Martell has command in Doran's absence, Manfrey helps to govern with Maester Myles, Ricasso the seneschal, and the treasurer Alyse Ladybright.
After her coup is prevented, Princess Arianne Martell is taken into the custody of Ser Manfrey at Sunspear. He informs her that her companions will be taken to Ghaston Grey and then walks Arianne to her pleasantly-appointed cell in the Spear Tower.
Manfryd Lothston, better known as Manfryd o' the Black Hood, was the son of Lucas Lothston. He is not remembered fondly.
Manfryd Merlyn is the captain of the ship *Kite* in the Iron Fleet and is under the command of Victarion Greyjoy.
Manfryd Merlyn's ship and crew accompany the Iron Fleet when they sail to Slaver's Bay.
Manfryd Mooton was a Lord of Maidenpool and a head of House Mooton.
Manfryd supported the blacks and Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons. He became Lord of Maidenpool when his brother, Lord Walys Mooton, was charred while trying to slay the injured dragon Sunfyre after the battle at Rook's Rest.
Queen Rhaenyra was betrayed by the baseborn dragonriders Ulf White and Hugh Hammer and was convinced by the black council to condemn the also baseborn Ser Addam Velaryon and Nettles. Jealous of Nettles's relationship with Daemon, the queen sent a letter to Maester Norren commanding Lord Manfryd to kill Nettles, but to do no harm to Daemon. The disturbed Manfryd did not want to break guest right, however, since Nettles and Daemon were guests under his roof. After discussing the letter in secret with his maester, his captain of the guard, a remaining brother, and his champion, Ser Florian Greysteel, Manfryd decided to ignore Rhaenyra's instructions.
Norren informed Daemon and Nettles of the letter, claiming he had not shown it to anyone else inside the castle, and the two dragonriders departed the following morning. Daemon thanked Manfyrd for his hospitality and told him to pass on the message to Aemond if he arrived that Daemon would be waiting for Aemond at Harrenhal. Manfryd refused Norren's offer to resign. The night after Daemon and Nettles departed, Manfryd had Queen Rhaenyra's quartered standard taken down from the gates of Maidenpool and replaced them with the golden dragons of King Aegon II Targaryen. Rhaenyra ordered that a decree of attainder be drawn up against the Mootons, but she soon lost power after the Storming of the Dragonpit.
After the end of the war and the coronation of Aegon III Targaryen, Lord Manfryd became a member of the council of seven regents that would rule until the child king came of age. Manfryd, however, died of age and illness in 134 AC.
Manfryd: These are foul times and it is a foul choice this queen has given me. The girl is a guest beneath my roof. If I obey, Maidenpool shall be forever cursed. If I refuse, we shall be attainted and destroyed
Brother: It may be we shall be destroyed whatever choice we make. The prince is more than fond of this brown child, and his dragon is close at hand. A wise lord would kill them both, lest the prince burn Maidenpool in his wroth.
Manfryd: The queen has forbidden any harm to come to him, and murdering two guests in their beds is twice as foul as murdering one. I should be doubly cursed. Would that I had never read this letter.
Norren: Mayhaps you never did.—Manfryd, his brother, and Norren
Ser Manfryd Yew is a landed knight and the head of House Yew.
Ser Manfryd is part of Ser Daven Lannister's force at the siege of Riverrun. Manfryd and Ser Raynard Ruttiger command the guard on the boom and nets across the Red Fork to prevent any escape from Riverrun during the siege.
Manly Stokeworth was a member of House Stokeworth.
He was the Commander of the City Watch in King's Landing. After his death, Lord Jon Arryn had Janos Slynt - then captain of the Iron Gate - made the new commander., or later on, is unknown.
Mantarys is a city that lies to the north of the Lands of the Long Summer on the northern tip of the Sea of Sighs, where a river flows south from the Painted Mountains. It is connected by Valyrian roads to the ruined cities of Bhorash and Oros.
Mantarys was founded by the Valyrian Freehold. Although rich and glorious, it did not have self-rule and was instead governed by men and women sent from Valyria to rule in the name of the Freehold - thus it is not counted among the Free Cities.
Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of Meereen, sends a mission to Mantarys hoping to find new friends to the west to balance the enmity of Yunkai to the south.
Tyrion Lannister sees a two-headed slave girl out of Mantarys in Yezzan zo Qaggaz's grotesquerie.
Manticore as the sigil of House Lorch
The manticore is an insect that lives in the islands of the Jade Sea,
See also: Images of Manticores
The manticore has a jewel-like carapace,
Living specimens of manticores are traded throughout Essos, and can be found in market stalls at Vaes Dothrak,
Among the Dothraki-pillaged statues of deities at Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys Targaryen sees statues of manticores, with their barbed tails poised to strike.
Syrio Forel tells Arya Stark that the menagerie of the Sealord of Braavos includes manticores.
In the Eastern Market of Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys sees manticores in silver cages.
Manticore in the TV series
Daenerys sees that Qarth has many elaborate fountains, including those wrought in the shapes of manticores.
A Sorrowful Man attempts to kill Daenerys at the Port of Qarth using a manticore, initially presented to her as a jeweled scarab. He is thwarted by Arstan Whitebeard.
Davos Seaworth sees manticores among the gargoyles that adorn the fortress of Dragonstone.
Qyburn claims that the poison Oberyn Martell coated his spear with and used against Gregor Clegane was manticore venom, but thickened somehow, possibly with sorcery. Instead of killing instantly when it reaches the heart, the modified venom leaves Clegane to die slowly and in extreme agony.
Euron Greyjoy's plunder from his reavings throughout Essos includes jade manticores.
Tyrion Lannister sees that the gateway to the Long Bridge of Volantis is carved with all kinds of strange creatures, including manticores.
In the Great Pyramid of Meereen, a Brazen Beast guarding the gates wears a manticore mask.
The Manticore Isles are a group of seven small islands in the eastern Jade Sea, off the southern coast of Essos. The islands of Leng and Marahai are to the north and west, respectively. East of the Manticore Isles are Asshai and the Shadow Lands.
The Manticore Isles have not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in the map collection *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire* App.
Manticore venom is the poison of the manticore. It is deadly, and kills the instant it reaches the heart. According to Qyburn, it can be thickened with sorcery to delay the effect.
Daenerys Targaryen is nearly killed by a stinging manticore, used as an assassin's weapon by a Sorrowful Man.
Prince Oberyn Martell stabs Ser Gregor Clegane multiple times with a spear coated in poison during Tyrion Lannister's trial by combat.
Gregor is dying, with his flesh rotting and the wounds oozing pus. He screams constantly, has violent convulsions, and the veins in his arm are turning black. Grand Maester Pycelle is unable to determine the substance that could cause this, and cannot heal him despite his efforts. When he leeches Gregor, all the leeches die.
In Dorne, Tyene Sand tells Prince Doran Martell that she knows the poison that her father Oberyn used, and there is none slower or more agonizing.
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister has the former maester Qyburn examine Gregor. Qyburn reports that Gregor is slowly dying in exquisite agony; all of Gregor's veins have turned black, and the poison has eaten a hole in his side as large as a fist. He believes the poison was in fact manticore venom, but thickened somehow, most likely with a spell, to prolong the Mountain's death. Qyburn convinces Cersei to allow him to move Gregor to the black cells, where his screaming cannot be heard by the rest of the Red Keep, and study him there to gain useful knowledge of the sorcerous poison.
The Many-Faced God, also known as Him of Many Faces, is a deity worshipped by the Faceless Men, a guild of assassins established in the Free City of Braavos.
The founder of the Faceless Men came to believe that all the diverse slave population of Valyria prayed for deliverance to the same god of death, just in different incarnations. Thus, in Qohor, the Many-Faced God is called the Black Goat; in Yi Ti, the Lion of Night and in the Faith of the Seven, the Stranger.
This belief of a single god with many incarnations or 'faces' came to be reflected in the Guild's House of Black and White, which contains a public shrine with idols of many death gods, including the Stranger of the Faith of the Seven.
The worshipers of the Many-Faced God believe that death is a merciful end to suffering. For a price, the Guild will grant the 'gift' of death to anyone in the world, considering the assassination a sacrament to their god. In the Guild's temple, those who seek an end to suffering may drink from a black cup which grants a painless death.
As the Faceless Men forsake their identities for the service of the Many-Faced God, they only assassinate targets they have been hired to kill and may not choose who is worthy of the 'gift' by themselves.
Marahai is a crescent-shaped island in the central Jade Sea, off the southern coast of Essos. There are two small volcanic islands within the curvature of Marahai.
West of Marahai are Great Moraq, the Isle of Whips, and the Isle of Elephants. Additionally, Leng and the Manticore Isles are east of Marahai. The city of Yin in Yi Ti is to the north across the Jade Sea.
Marahai has not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire*.
Riders at the gates of Winterfell - Illustrated by Trevor Cook © Fantasy Flight Games
The march on Winterfell is the march of Stannis Baratheon's troops in the north from Deepwood Motte through the wolfswood during the War of the Five Kings in 300 AC. Their goal is to take Winterfell from Lord Roose Bolton, the newly-appointed Warden of the North.
Following the advice of Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Stannis Baratheon visits the northern mountain clans to win their loyalty. This proves successful, as three and a half thousand men from the mountain clans join Stannis's army,[N 1] bringing his total strength to five thousand.
Meanwhile, Lord Roose Bolton arrives in the north with a girl he claims is Arya Stark, the youngest daughter of the late Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell. In reality, however, the girl is Jeyne Poole, the daughter of the late steward of Winterfell, Vayon Poole..
House Mormont, led by Alysane Mormont, joins Stannis. to Winterfell.
Watcher of the Nightfire. Some of King Stannis Baratheon's followers of R'hllor stand by the night fire. Illustrated by Aurelien Hubert. © Fantasy Flight Games
Stannis's army is led by guides provided by Lady Sybelle Glover. They march with five thousand men, and estimate that the hundred league march will take fifteen days.
Both Mors Umber and Arnolf Karstark, the castellan of Karhold, march towards Winterfell, planning to join their strength to Stannis at the castle.
Roose Bolton sends out forces from House Frey and House Manderly,
We all know what my brother would do. Robert would gallop up to the gates of Winterfell alone, break them with his warhammer, and ride through the rubble to slay Roose Bolton with his left hand and the Bastard with his right. I am not Robert. But we will march, and we will free Winterfell … or die in the attempt.
Marcher ballads are ballads that originate from the Dornish Marches. Anguy knows some marcher ballads, every one of which is a hundred verses long. Tom of Sevenstreams finds them too long for his preferences.
We sing real songs in the marches.
– Anguy the Archer
Marcher lords is the name given to the lords of the stormlands and the Reach within the Dornish Marches. Historically they have defended against Dorne. House Caron uses the title Lord of the Marches, although they do not hold dominion over the other marcher houses of the stormlands, including House Dondarrion, House Selmy, and House Swann. are marcher lords from the Reach.
Marei is a whore at Chataya's brothel in King's Landing.
She has green eyes, porcelain skin, long straight white-gold hair
Tyrion notices her once or twice during his visits to the brothel. Marei bets that Dancy, another whore at Chataya's, cannot convince Tyrion Lannister to come upstairs with her. If she had won, she would have received Dancy's black pearls.
After receiving his knighthood, Bronn visits Chataya's brothel and sleeps with Marei and Alayaya simultaneously. when he comes to King's Landing.
A cool, pale, delicate girl.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Very lovely, but too solemn by half.
- Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
Margaery Tyrell is the only daughter of Lord Mace Tyrell and his wife, Lady Alerie Hightower. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* she is played by Natalie Dormer.
See also: Images of Margaery Tyrell
Margaery has thick, softly curling brown hair and large brown eyes.
Margaery is intelligent
Margaery's attire includes a sheer gown of ivory silk, Myrish lace, and seed pearls.
Margaery was born at Highgarden
Margaery Tyrell by Lauren Cannon © Fantasy Flight Games
Lord Renly Baratheon shows Lord Eddard Stark an exquisite rose gold locket with a picture of Margaery inside, painted in the vivid Myrish style. Renly is anxious to know if Margaery reminds Eddard of anyone, and is disappointed when Eddard has no answer but a shrug. When Renly tells Eddard that there are people who say that Margaery looks like Lyanna Stark, Eddard's late sister, Eddard is bemused, believing that it is ironic that Renly, who looks like a young Robert I Baratheon, might be in love with a girl he fancies to be a Lyanna. Unfortunately for Renly, Eddard disagrees that Margaery looks like his late sister.
Following Robert's death, Renly flees to Highgarden, where he marries Margaery and is crowned king.
Margaery accompanies Renly and his army on their slow march to King's Landing. When they are at Bitterbridge, word arrives that Stannis Baratheon has besieged Storm's End, Renly's seat. Renly departs with his cavalry, leaving Margaery at Bitterbridge with his infantry.
After hearing Renly has been killed during the siege of Storm's End, the small council sends Petyr Baelish as an envoy to Bitterbridge. The Tyrells ally with the Lannisters by planning to wed Margaery to King Joffrey I.
Margaery Tyrell by Amok ©
Now betrothed to King Joffrey I Baratheon, Margaery travels to King's Landing. She is accompanied by a train of ladies, most of whom are either relatives of her or the daughters of her father's bannermen, while others are to be her ladies-in-waiting. They include Alla, Elinor, and Megga Tyrell; Lady Alysanne Bulwer; Lady Alyce Graceford; Lady Taena Merryweather; Meredyth Crane; and Septa Nysterica.
Prior to her arrival, wagons of food have been send to the city for the starting population. As this is done in Margaery's name, she is greeted in King's Landing by cheering crowds.[N 1] Margaery invites Sansa Stark to supper. There, she and her grandmother Olenna make inquiries about Joffrey's nature, until Sansa reveals how Joffrey and Cersei have been treating her. Although Sansa fears the revelation will cause Margaery to refuse the marriage, Margaery and Olenna confide in Sansa that Mace is determined to see Margaery become a queen, while simply calling Joffrey's nature "a pity".
When the Lannisters discover the Tyrell plot to marry Sansa to Willas, Sansa is quickly married off to Tyrion Lannister. Although Margaery and the Tyrells are not present for the wedding ceremony, they are present at the feast, where Margaery gives Sansa a sad look. When Tyrion refuses to participate in the first dance with Sansa, Margaery and Joffrey lead in their stead.
Margaery marries Joffrey on the first day of 300 AC at the Great Sept of Baelor, with the High Septon officiating the ceremony.
Sansa is smuggled out of the city by Dontos Hollard, who brings her to Petyr Baelish in Blackwater Bay. Littlefinger reveals that Olenna had poisoned Joffrey to prevent Joffrey from hurting Margaery and Loras from becoming a kingslayer in order to protect his sister. He reasons that, although Mace is insistent on making Margaery queen, Olenna realized that Joffrey was not needed for this. He predicts that Margaery will soon marry Joffrey's younger brother Tommen.
Littlefinger's prediction proves to be correct. The Tyrells soon begin insisting that Tommen should be married to Margaery.
Margaery Tyrell by Anders Finer © Fantasy Flight Games
Margaery attends several of the services held in the Great Sept of Baelor for the wake of Lord Tywin Lannister.
Margaery marries King Tommen I Baratheon in a small ceremony in the Red Keep's royal sept, followed by a much smaller feast than her previous wedding had.
When Cersei asks Margaery's leave to take Taena on as her own companion, Margaery reacts thrilled. Both Cersei and Jaime believe Taena to be a spy informing Margaery of Cersei's doings. Cersei gives Taena only the information she wants Margaery to know, with most of it being untrue. Additionally, Taena informs Cersei of everything Margaery does.
Margaery begins to instruct Tommen on his kingship, telling him he should sit on the Iron Throne and attend the small council meetings, which annoys Cersei, who plans to rule until Tommen comes of age.
Margaery's frequent invitations to Tommen to accompany her on trips near the city, and Cersei's frequent refusal to allow him to go, make Tommen sullen with Cersei. Cersei believes that Margaery is attempting to steal Tommen from her.
After the taking of the Shields by the ironborn, Margaery has her messengers wake up the small council to discuss how to answer the attack. She recognizes the military threat and insists that her father and his forces be allowed to return to the Reach, abandoning the siege of Storm's End. She is shocked when Cersei refers to the Shield Islands as "rocks" and seems to lack understanding for the threat posed by the ironborn. She is shocked even more when Loras asks permission to take Dragonstone, so the Redwyne fleet is no longer needed at the island and return to the Reach to face the ironborn.
Margaery remains distraught about Loras and brings Tommen to the sept every day to pray for her brother. Cersei questions Pycelle about his frequent visits to Margaery, and has him confess to providing Margaery with moon tea. She next invites the Blue Bard over, and questions him about his sexual history with Margaery. Although the Blue Bard denies the claims, Cersei has him arrested and brought to Qyburn. The master of whisperers tortures the bard until the man claims to have had sex with Margaery's cousins and played music for Margaery while she entertained lovers herself. He names several men, including Horas and Hobber Redwyne, and Loras Tyrell, but Cersei insists they are not to be charged.
When Cersei Lannister visits Margaery after her arrest, Margaery accuses Cersei of involvement in her troubles. Art by Cabepfir©
On Maiden's Day, Margaery fasts and purifies herself, as is required of all maidens. This inspires Cersei, who orders Ser Osney Kettleblack to confess sleeping with Margaery, and her cousins Elinor and Megga Tyrell to the new High Septon, the so-called High Sparrow.
When news of his daughter's arrest reaches him, Lord Mace Tyrell abandons his siege of Storm's End to march most of his army back to King's Landing. His bannerman, Lord Randyll Tarly, leaves Maidenpool with his own army to give Margaery his aid.
Randyll Tarly is the first to reach King's Landing. As all the men who stand accused—with the exception of the Blue Bard, who appears to be half-mad—have denied the charges or recanted, the evidence against Margaery and her cousins is weak. As such, the High Sparrow agrees to hand them over to Lord Tarly's custody, who swears that he will return them for the trial.
Natalie Dormer as Margaery as depicted in *Game of Thrones*.
I know what a burden you bear. You should let me share the load. There must be some things I could do to help you. It would put to rest all this talk that you and I are rivals for the the king.
– Margaery, to Cersei Lannister
Your Grace, this must be answered fiercely!
– Margaery, to Cersei Lannister
Ned was not sure what to make of Renly, with all his friendly ways and easy smiles. A few days past, he had taken Ned aside to show him an exquisite rose gold locklet. Inside was a miniature painted in the vivid Myrish style, of a lovely young girl with doe's eyes and a cascade of soft brown hair.
– thoughts of Eddard Stark
The girl is a maid of fourteen, sweet and beautiful and tractable, and Lord Renly and Ser Loras intend that Robert should bed her, wed her, and make a new queen.
– Varys
Stannis: We both know your wedding was a mummer's farce. A year ago you were scheming to make the girl one of Robert's whores.
Renly: A year ago I was scheming to make the girl Robert’s queen.
– Renly Baratheon and Stannis Baratheon
If you had to fall into a woman's arms, my son, why couldn't they have been Margaery Tyrell's? The wealth and power of Highgarden could have made all the difference in the fighting yet to come. And perhaps Grey Wind would have liked the smell of her as well.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Margaery was different, though. Sweet and gentle, yet there was a little of her grandmother in her, too.
– thoughts of Sansa Stark
Her smile was shy and sweet. A lovely girl, thought Tyrion, and a kinder fate than my nephew deserves.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
So the girl is as clever as she is pretty. Tommen could do a deal worse for a queen.
– thoughts of Jaime Lannister
Wherever she went, the smallfolk fawned on her, and Lady Margaery did all she could to fan their ardor. She was forever giving alms to beggars, buying hot pies off bakers' carts, and reining up to speak to common tradesmen.
– thoughts of Cersei Lannister
According to George R. R. Martin, Margaery has similarities with Anne Boleyn.
Margaret Karstark was a member of House Karstark. She married Bennard Stark, second son of Lord Benjen Stark and Lady Lysa Locke, with whom she had three sons; Benjen, Brandon and Elric Stark.
Maester Margate is a maester of the Citadel. He has suggested that the tales of freezing mists, ice ships and Cannibal Bay told by sailors who have visited the Shivering Sea are distorted reports of ice dragon activity.
Marghaz zo Loraq is a Meereen noble, and is a cousin to Hizdahr zo Loraq.
Marghaz is overweight, with heavy legs, and tries to hide his physique behind a muscled breastplate. He also wears a lion's mask.
He is made the new commander of the Brazen Beasts by Hizdahr zo Loraq after he marries queen Daenerys Targaryen, replacing Skahaz mo Kandaq.
Barristan Selmy describes Marghaz as fawning to superiors, harsh to inferiors and as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half, comparisons are made between Marghaz and Janos Slynt.
Lady Margot Lannister is a member of House Lannister, a distant cousin of the main branch. She is married to Lord Titus Peake.
Princess Mariah Nymeros Martell was the wife of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Mariah was the eldest daughter of the Prince of Dorne during the reign of King Daeron I Targaryen.
After King Daeron I had been killed in Dorne in 161 AC, King Baelor I Targaryen freed the Dornish hostages in King's Landing and returned them to Dorne personally, walking barefoot. Once he reached Sunspear, he spoke with the Prince of Dorne, and agreed upon a peace, which included the betrothal of Mariah to Baelor's cousin, Prince Daeron Targaryen. The two would marry once they were both of age.
Mariah married Daeron years later, and would have four children by him: Baelor, Aerys, Rhaegel and Maekar.
Mariah Stark was a member of House Stark. She was the fourth daughter of Lord Cregan Stark and Lady Alysanne Blackwood.
Marianne Vance is the daughter of Ser Dafyn Vance and Maegelle Frey. She is a maid.
Marianne was among the Frey women presented to Robb Stark when he came for Lord Edmure Tully's wedding.
Maric Seaworth is the fourth son of Ser Davos Seaworth. He is the oarmaster on the war galley *Fury*.
The Fury was destroyed during the Battle of the Blackwater by wildfire. It is assumed she was lost with the majority of her crew, including Maric.
Marilda of Hull was a lowborn woman from Hull, daughter of a local shipwright, and the mother of Addam and Alyn, two unacknowledged dragonseed that she claimed were sons of Laenor Velaryon.
Marillion is a singer. He is handsome, plays the harp, He is vain about his skills and his good looks.
Emun Elliott as Marillion in the HBO adaptation
See also: Images of Marillion
Marillion is handsome. He has a boyish look and is slender. He has smooth skin, sandy hair, and a charming smile.
Marillion was in King's Landing for the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day. He made a lot of silver with his singing during the tourney, but lost it when he bet on Jaime Lannister winning his joust against Loras Tyrell.
Marillion meets Catelyn Stark and Rodrik Cassel at the crossroads inn.
Marillion stays at the Eyrie and becomes the favorite of Lysa Tully.
He is present at the wedding of Lysa Arryn and Petyr Baelish at the Baelish tower. After the bedding he becomes drunk and tries to rape Sansa Stark. Lothor Brune, who had been given orders from Petyr to watch Sansa, prevents this and wounds Marillion.
After Lysa sees Petyr kissing Sansa at the Eyrie, she has Marillion bring Sansa to her. She blames Sansa and threatens to throw her through the Moon Door. To prevent them from being heard, Marillion plays the harp and sings. Just as Sansa almost falls, Petyr arrives. He saves Sansa and reassures Lysa. Then he throws Lysa through the Moon Door and calls the guards telling that Marillion killed Lysa.
After he has been arrested Marillion is tortured into confessing that he did kill Lysa and confined to the sky cells. In return for his confession he is allowed to keep his life but loses his eyes and a few fingers.:
Petyr has Marillion repeat his confession in front of Nestor Royce and then confines him again to the sky cells.
Sansa later assures Robert Arryn that Marillion has died, based on information from Petyr, but Robert insists that he can still hear Marillion singing at night.
In *Game of Thrones* Marillion is present when Catelyn captures Tyrion
Marillion on the Game of Thrones, TV series wiki.
If I had eyes I should weep.
- Marillion, during his confession
Maris the Maid, called the Most Fair, is a legendary daughter of Garth Greenhand and ancestor of House Hightower. Her beauty was so renowned that fifty lords vied for her hand in the first tourney held in Westeros. The victor was Argoth Stone-Skin, but Maris wed King Uthor of the High Tower before he could claim her, and Argoth spent the rest of days raging outside the walls of Oldtown, roaring for his bride.
Marissa Frey is a member of House Frey and the third daughter of Merrett Frey and Mariya Darry.
Maester Brenett shaves Marissa's head but swears the girl's hair will grow back.
Marissa is one of the Frey women presented to Robb Stark when he comes to the Twins for Lord Edmure Tully's wedding.
After the marriage of her sister, Amerei, to Lord Lancel Lannister, Marissa moves to Castle Darry with her mother, Mariya Darry.
Mariya Darry is the wife of Merrett Frey, who considers her a shrew. They have four children.
Mariya is a handsome woman with grey streaks in her hair.
During her marriage to Merrett Frey, whom she found disappointing, Mariya had three girls, a stillbirth, a girl that died in infancy and then a son.
After her daughter Amerei Frey's marriage to Ser Lancel Lannister, Mariya stays at Castle Darry. She is present when Ser Jaime Lannister visits the castle.
Ser Mark Mullendore is a knight from House Mullendore in the Reach. He owns a little black-and-white monkey
Ser Mark is amongst the lords who join Renly Baratheon beneath the walls of Bitterbridge. He feeds his monkey morsels at the feast.
Mark is among those who go over to Stannis Baratheon after the death of Renly at Storm's End. Mark fights at the Battle of the Blackwater, losing part of his left arm and his monkey before getting captured by forces loyal to King Joffrey Baratheon. He bends the knee when presented to Iron Throne.
Ser Mark is rumored to be Megga Tyrell's choice for a husband by Taena of Myr, as Megga has asked her cousin Margaery Tyrell for help in finding Mark a new monkey.
Mark is held with the rest of Margaery's falsely-accused lovers in a dungeon under the charge of Qyburn.
Ser Mark Ryswell was a knight of House Ryswell. It is currently unknown how he is related to the current Ryswells.
He was soft of speech and gentle-hearted.
Mark fought alongside Lord Eddard Stark during Robert's Rebellion. He was slain during the raid on the Tower of Joy in a fight with three of King Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard.
Marla Prester was a member of House Prester, and the second wife of Ser Jason Lannister.
According to semi-canon sources, after the death of Alys Stackspear in childbirth, Jason Lannister was quickly married to Marla Prester, who was twice his age, to prevent him from fathering more bastards.
Marla Sunderland was a member of House Sunderland that briefly ruled the Three Sisters as Queen.
During the War of Conquest, the Sistermen took advantage of the chaos and rebelled against the rule of House Arryn, installing Marla as their Queen. However, she was deposed when a Braavosi fleet, hired by House Stark at the behest of Aegon the Conqueror, approached the Three Sisters. Marla's brother bent the knee while Queen Marla ended her days as a silent sister.
Ser Marlon Manderly is a knight of House Manderly and cousin to the head of the house, Lord Wyman Manderly.
Marlon is well over six feet tall (nearly a head taller than Davos) and quite stout. His beard and his eyes are grey..
Marlon is curt when he questions Davos Seaworth in the New Castle. entrusts with his true plans for Davos, as Wyman orders Marlon,
Cousin, take this creature to the Wolf's Den and cut off his head and hands. I want them brought to me before I sup. I shall not be able to eat a bite until I see this smuggler's head upon a spike, with an onion shoved between his lying teeth.
Lady Marna Locke was a member of House Locke. She married Lord Edwyle Stark, with whom she had one son, Rickard Stark.
Maron Botley, also known as Old Botley or Fishwhiskers, is a member of House Botley. He has three sons who accompany him on raids.
Maron becomes ppart of the crew of the *Sea Bitch*.
Maron Greyjoy was the second son of Lord Balon Greyjoy. He died during the Greyjoy Rebellion.
When thinking back on his brother, Theon only remembers his cruel japes and compulsive lies.
Lord Balon Greyjoy rose in rebellion against his new king, Robert I, thinking that Robert did not have great support amongst the nobility and that Balon would be allowed to go his own way. When Robert marshaled his forces and attacked Pyke, Maron was along the walls where the breach was made along the old South Tower.
Prince Maron Nymeros Martell was a former Prince of Dorne and head of House Nymeros Martell.
Maron's father, the Prince of Dorne, signed the marriage treaty which brought peace to Dorne after four years of war. In the treaty, which he made with King Baelor I Targaryen, he agreed to marry his daughter and eldest child, Princess Mariah to Prince Daeron Targaryen, the grandson of the Hand of the King. This marriage opened the door for Prince Maron to, more than two decades later, accept a marriage proposal between himself and Prince Daeron's (by then, King Daeron II) sister, Princess Daenerys Targaryen. This marriage formally made Dorne part of the Seven Kingdoms.
The marriage took place in King's Landing, and afterwards, when he had kneeled before the Iron Throne, Prince Maron and King Daeron II went to pay their respects to the statue of the late King Baelor the Blessed at the Great Sept. To celebrate the wedding, which took place in 187 AC, a tourney was held.
To mark the occassion of his marriage, Maron had the Water Gardens built.
Together with Daenerys, Maron had multiple children. His eldest child, a son, presumably succeeded him as ruling Prince of Dorne.
Lord Maron Volmark is Lord of Volmark and head of House Volmark. He is beardless.
Tarle the Thrice-Drowned claims that Lord Maron, as heir to the "black line", has the best claim to the Seastone Chair during the gathering for the kingsmoot.
The maroon emperors were an ancient ruling dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. They ruled from the city of Jinqi, where they kept a martial court, to better guard the frontiers of the empire against reavers out of the Shadow Lands.
Marq Ambrose was a member of House Ambrose during the reign of King Aegon II Targaryen.
During the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, Marq was loyal to the greens. He was a member of the Caltrops and was slain during the Second Battle of Tumbleton.
Marq Grafton was a member of House Grafton at the time of Robert's Rebellion.
Marq stayed loyal to King Aerys II Targaryen instead of following his liege, Lord Jon Arryn, into rebellion. He called the other loyalists to aid him in barring Jon and Lord Robert Baratheon from entering the port of Gulltown, but was slain by Robert at the Gulltown walls when the rebels took the city.
Ser Marq Mandrake is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company.
Marq has a pox-scarred face that has a hole in one cheek where a slaver’s mark had been burned away. He wears his worldly wealth upon his person, including a lord’s ransom in golden arm rings and a chain of golden skulls. Each arm ring signifies one year's service with the Golden Company.
Marq is a Westerosi exile that escaped from slavery at some point.
During his rendezvous with the Golden Company three miles south of Volon Therys, Jon Connington reveals that Young Griff is in fact Prince Aegon Targaryen. Silence greets his announcement. He notices Marq Mandrake and Jon Lothston exchange a glance, and Jon Connington realizes they have already known. Marq, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon before they invade Westeros.
In Westeros, during Jon Connington and the Golden Company’s war council at Griffin's Roost, it is disclosed that Marq was put ashore by the Volantenes on what turns out to be Estermont with close to five hundred men, although the island was never one of their objectives. He leads his troops and takes Greenstone.
Connington figures there should be ships on Estermont as it is an island. He instructs Haldon to send word to Marq to leave a garrison behind and bring the rest of his men to Cape Wrath, along with any noble captives.
Laswell: I would sooner die in Westeros than on the demon road.
Marq: Me, I’d sooner live, win lands and some great castle.
- Laswell Peake and Marq
Marq Merryweather was a member of House Merryweather. In 136 AC he was chosen by lot in a Great Council to become of the seven regents for King Aegon III Targaryen. He held office until the council was dissolved that same year.
Marq Mudd, known as the Mad Bard, was an alleged member of House Mudd who claimed to be a river king in the generations after the riverlands were conquered by the Storm King Arlan III Durrandon. Marq had a brief, inglorious reign before being put down. His connection with the extinct Mudd dynasty is unconfirmed.
Ser Marq Piper is a knight of House Piper and heir of Lord Clement Piper. He is good friends with Ser Edmure Tully.
Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn Tully consider the young Marq to be hot-headed.
Ser Daven Lannister once beat the elder brother of Lewys Piper, presumably Marq, in a mêlée.
Ser Marq is one of the nobles that Lord Hoster Tully sends to King's Landing with the survivors of Sherrer to ask the permission of the crown to destroy the raiders who are savaging the riverlands.
After their fathers are defeated in the battle in the hills below the Golden Tooth, Marq and Ser Karyl Vance begin launching raids across the Red Fork of the Trident to disrupt the Lannister supply lines, hampering Jaime Lannister's siege of Riverrun.
They continue raids until Robb Stark arrives and breaks the siege with the battle in the Whispering Wood and the Battle of the Camps. The loss of the Lannister outriders was thought to be due to Marq, and so it was not realized that the host lead by Robb was approaching Riverrun.
Afterward, Marq sits at Robb's war council at Riverrun, where he calls for a march against Casterly Rock and also for allying with Renly Baratheon.
Given leave by his liege lord, Ser Edmure Tully, Marq leaves Riverrun with his men to defend his burned lands.
Marq is one of the seven nobles who launch Lord Hoster Tully's funeral boat at Riverrun.
Marq is among the rivermen who accompany Edmure to his wedding at the Twins.
Traveling through the riverlands, Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane encounter a Piper bowman sworn to Marq. Wounded by a Bolton during the Red Wedding, the bowman is given the gift of mercy by the Hound.
Marq is held by the Freys as a hostage at the Twins after the Red Wedding, to the consternation of his father, Lord Clement Piper, who believes that his bending his knee to the Iron Throne will lead to his son being returned. That does not happen, which enrages Clement, leading him to threaten Edwyn Frey at the war council during the siege of Riverrun.
Marq Rankenfell, better known as Mad Marq Rankenfell, is a former Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He is considered one of the worst commanders the Night's Watch ever had.
Marqelo Tagaros was one of the ruling triarchs of the Free City of Volantis during the reign of Tommen II Lannister, King of the Rock.
According to a chronicle titled *The Glory of Volantis*, Tagaros dispatched a squadron toward Valyria to find any sign of the golden fleet of Tommen II a year after he sailed away to the Valyrian peninsula, but the squadron returned empty handed.
A marriage is the legally or formally recognized union of (usually) two people.. The wedding is followed by a feast, where the bride and groom eat and drink with everyone. Afterwards, the bedding takes place, where the marriage is consummated.
Prince Maegor Targaryen takes Alys Harroway as his second wife in a Valyrian ceremony officiated by Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen.
In the Valyrian Freehold it had been custom among the dragonlords to marry brother to sister, or, if that was not possible, an uncle to a niece, or an aunt to a nephew. Also accepted were polygamous marriages, though this practice was less common. The Valyrians had their own religious ceremonies, though a priest does not seem to be a necessity here, as Queen Visenya Targaryen was capable of officiating a wedding performed per this Valyrian ceremony.
The head of house is expected to arrange matches for his or her children and any unwed younger siblings..
Betrothals can be broken., resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people.
If a nobleman who has been betrothed dies before the marriage can occur, custom decrees that a sibling or heir should take his place (e.g., in the case of Brandon Stark, who died before he could be wed to Catelyn Tully, after which his younger brother and the new Lord of Winterfell, Eddard Stark, married her in Brandon's place).
Though dowries in the Seven Kingdoms are payed by the family of the bride to the groom’s family,
Just as men and women can be betrothed at a large variety of ages, they can also be wed at a large variety of ages, which might depend on the necessity of an heir, or the political environment. While marriages to girls who have not yet reached their majority or even their first flowering have happened, they are rare. Moreover, bedding these girls before they are at the least flowered is seen as perverse. Generally, weddings are postponed until the girl has passed into maidenhood with her flowering (i.e., has had her first menstruation)..
In Westeros, the wedding ceremony is a religious ceremony. The bride's father, or the person standing in his place (usually kin or whoever else is closest to living kin), will escort the bride to her future husband and those presiding over the marriage..
In case of the Faith of the Seven, a septon presides over the ceremony, which involves prayers, vows, and singing,
Jeyne Poole wearing her brides cloak while being escorted to her groom by Theon Greyjoy.
For those who follow the old gods, ceremonies are significantly shorter, and contain no priests. The bride is escorted to her groom, who awaits her in front of the weirwood tree in the godswood, and a ceremonial conversation follows, where the identity of the bride, of the groom, and of the person giving the bride away are established. The bride is asked to accept her husband, and upon her agreement (“I take this man”) bride and groom join hands, kneel before the heart tree, and bow their heads in token of submission. When they rise following a moment of silent prayer, the groom removes the maiden’s cloak, and places the bride’s cloak around her shoulders, after which he will carry her to the feast in his arms.
Wedding customs in Essos differ somewhat from Westerosi ceremonies. Weddings done under the Lord of Light do involve priests. A priest (or priestess) recites ceremonial prayers, which are answered by the wedding guests. The priest and groom await the bride by a ditchfire. The bride is escorted to the priest, who first asks the bride to identify herself, and next asks who comes to claim the bride. Both bride and groom are asked whether they will share their fire with their spouse-to-be, to warm him/her "when the night is dark and full of terrors". Bride and groom are to leap over the ditchfire together, to emerge as one. Following this, the groom removes the maiden’s cloak and places the bride’s cloak around the bride’s shoulders.
As is traditional in Ghiscari wedding customs as practised in Meereen, the female relatives of the groom examine the bride's womb and female parts, to ensure her fertility. Three Graces witness this ancient ritual, and recite prayers. The bride is to be stripped completely naked for this purpose. After the examinations are done, the women eat a cake baked specially for betrothals, which men are forbidden to taste.
Both the different Westerosi wedding ceremonies as well as the Ghiscari ceremony is followed by a feast, which in turn is followed by the bedding.
It is considered to be ill luck to refuse a knight hospitality on your wedding day.
Among the Dothraki, weddings occur beneath the open sky. The ceremony might last the entire day, during which the guests feast, drink, dance, and fight. A wedding without at least three deaths is seen as a dull afair.
Main articles: Bedding, and First night
Following the feast, the bedding takes place. The bride is escorted to her bedroom, usually by the male guests from the feast, who will undress the bride along the way while making rude jokes. though it is unknown how far this witness duty goes.
Women, more so for noble women, are generally expected to be virgins on their first wedding night. After some weddings, the bedsheets are displayed to show the blood, thereby proving the breaking of the bride’s maidenhead and thus her virginity at her wedding night. However, since it is known that horse riding can break a girl’s maidenhead, few families are insistent on physical proof.
Even though it is rare for a marriage to occur before the bride has had her first flowering, they do sometimes occur. However, it is considered to be perverse to bed a bride who is so young.
Lords in Westeros once had the right to the first night, the custom of bedding newly-wed women before their husbands. Queen Alysanne convinced King Jaehaerys I to abolish it,
Vows said at swordpoint are not held to be valid,
In the cult of the Drowned God, it is possible for someone to be married by proxy without their consent and without saying the vows for oneself.
Divorce in Westeros is not common.
However, marriages in the Seven Kingdoms can be ended in several ways. In the Faith of the Seven, a marriage that has not been consummated can be set aside by the High Septon or a Council of Faith.
Main article: Polygamy
While most marriages are between only one man and one woman, polygamous marriages do occur in the Known World.
In the times before the Andals came to Westeros, King Garland II "The Bridegroom" Greenhand, King of the Reach, had multiple wives. In order to marry the daughter of Lord Lymond Hightower, he put aside his other wives aside.
Though not a common practice, the dragonlords and sorcerer princes in Valyria sometimes took multiple wives.
While followers of the Drowned God may take only one "rock wife", with whom they have trueborn children, they are allowed to take multiple “salt wives”. Children fathered on salt wives are not considered to be bastards, and may even inherit if there are no heirs by a man’s rock wife.
Among the Dothraki, at least the Khal is known to be allowed to practise polygamy. For example, Khal Jommo is known to have four wives.
Marrigo is a Meereenese pit-fighter.
He's spotted by Barristan Selmy along with a hundred pit fighters about the Spire of Skulls when preparations are made to attack the Yunkish and their allies.
Marro is a mummer in Braavos.*]
Marro performs in the *The Bloody Hand*. He plays the part of the Stranger. As the troupe is readying themselves prior to the start of the play he tells Mercy to bring paste as his horn is coming loose. Mercy fetches the sticky paste and fastens the Stranger’s left horn back onto his forehead. Marro is in the opening lichyard scene with Bobono.
By then Marro had appeared behind him, gaunt and terrible in the Stranger’s long black robes. His face was black as well, his teeth red and shiny with blood, while ivory horns jutted upwards from his brow. Bobono could not see him, but the balconies could, and now the pit as well. The Gate grew deathly quiet. Marro moved forward silently.
Marselen is the brother of Missandei. They had two other brothers. Both of them entered training as Unsullied, but one did not survive. He was purchased and then freed by Daenerys Targaryen. He is Naathi like his sister.
Marselen is purchased with the rest of the Unsullied by Daenerys Targaryen and then freed. When Daenerys tells the Unsullied to abolish the practice of choosing a new name every day, Marselen goes back to his birth name.
His and Missandei's other brother, Mossador, is killed in Meereen by the Sons of the Harpy.
Marsella Waynwood was a member of House Waynwood and the third wife of Ser Stevron Frey. She is the mother of Walton Frey. She died in childbed.
Marsh King was the title of the ruler of the crannogmen in the Neck thousands of years before the War of Conquest.
According to Archmaester Eyron, the Marsh King was a "first among equals", often thought to be touched by the old gods. Songs claim the Marsh Kings rode lizard-lions and wielded frog spears.
Thousands of years ago, it is unknown if they have a connection with the ancient Marsh Kings.
The Marshall of the Northmarch is a title once held by the head of House Osgrey, for a thousand years before the War of Conquest.
House Osgrey held the title of Marshalls of the Northmarch for a thousand years.
Ser Marston Waters was a knight of Aegon II Targaryen’s Kingsguard.
Ser Marston had kin in Dragonstone. He was the bastard son of Tom Tanglebeard’s sister by the knight who took her maidenhead. He was also Tom Tangletongue’s cousin. Marston had other "cousins" on Dragonstone but none of them were actual blood relations.
Main article: Dance of the Dragons
When Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragons first appeared in the skies above King's Landing, Lord Larys Strong spirited King Aegon II Targaryen and his children out of the city. He concealed the fugitive king on a fishing skiff and put him in the care of Ser Marston. The skiff sailed for Dragonstone.
After his arrival Aegon stayed hidden on Dragonstone. The wounded Sunfyre eventually returned from Rook's Rest to Dragonstone and fought and killed the Grey Ghost. After his return Ser Marston and his cousins set sail to look for the Grey Ghost’s killer, whom they suspected was Sunfyre. Aegon and Sunfyre were reunited. While they both healed the Two Toms and Ser Marston returned to the other side of the island to seek out men willing to help them take Dragonstone castle.
Marston, Tom Tangletongue, and their men managed to take the castle but Lady Baela Targaryen managed to elude them, locate her dragon Moondancer and rise up on her to challenge Aegon and Sunfyre as they made their descent. After hitting the ground she dragged herself away from her dying dragon, Ser Alfred Broome drew his sword to slay her but Marston wrenched the blade from his hand, saving her life.
For his valor King Aegon named Marston to his Kingsguard. Marston, along with the other knights and lords present, did not speak a word of protest when King Aegon delivered his half sister to his dragon.
Main article: Regency of Aegon III
Ser Marston managed to keep his position as a knight of the Kingsguard under the new boy king, Aegon III, after the death of Aegon II.
At some point during the regency of Aegon III Marston became Hand of the King, after Lord Thaddeus Rowan was arrested for alleged treason. Marston ordered the arrest of Lady Larra Rogare, already having arrested her brothers, but her husband Prince Viserys Targaryen and her brother-in-law King Aegon III Targaryen refused to give her up. Marston besieged them in Maegor's Holdfast for eighteen days, before he recalled his duty and fulfilled his king's command to arrest those who had implicated Lord Rowan and the Rogares falsely. Ser Marston was eventually slain by his own sworn brother, Ser Mervyn Flowers, when Marston attempted to arrest him.
Martyn Cassel was a member of House Cassel and the brother of Ser Rodrik Cassel. Martyn fathered four sons, but only Jory Cassel lived to be a man.
A proud man, Martyn fought alongside Lord Eddard Stark during Robert's Rebellion.
Martyn Hightower was Lord of the Hightower and head of House Hightower during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen. He was the father of Ceryse Hightower.
Martyn's daughter, Ceryse, was married to Prince Maegor Targaryen in 25 AC, after Ceryse's uncle, the High Septon,[N 1] protested the proposed marriage between Maegor and his cousin, Princess Rhaena Targaryen.
In 43 AC[N 2] when King Maegor, Queen Dowager Visenya, their dragons, and the royal army made their way to Oldtown during the Faith Militant uprising, Lord Martyn called his banners with a fire atop the Hightower. By the morning of their arrival, however, the city gates were open, and the banners of House Targaryen, House Tyrell and House Hightower flew atop the city walls. After word of the sudden death of the High Septon reached him, Lord Martyn at once dispatched his own knights to arrest and disarm all of the Warrior's Sons, including his brother Morgan. Then, Lord Martyn sent his men to rouse the Most Devout from their beds and march them at spearpoint to the Starry Sept to choose a new High Septon.
In 47 AC, Princess Rhaella was made a ward of Lord Martyn when she was sent to Oldtown by King Maegor to be raised as a septa. In the following year when her mother, Queen Rhaena fled from Maegor in the night, Maegor sent a rider to Oldtown commanding Lord Martyn to behead Rhaella as punishment for her mother's betrayal. Lord Martyn refused and imprisoned the messenger instead, he then declared support for Jaehaerys I Targaryen.
Martyn Lannister is a member of House Lannister. He is the third son of Ser Kevan Lannister and Lady Dorna Swyft and twin to Willem.* he is portrayed by Dean-Charles Chapman.
Martyn is a part of the army gathered by Ser Stafford Lannister at Oxcross. He is among those captured when King Robb Stark and his army take the Lannister force by surprise.
After the murder of his twin brother Willem Lannister and his cousin Tion Frey at the hands of Rickard Karstark and his men, King Robb fears for his survival. Guilt-ridden over Lord Karstark's actions, he triples the guard around Martyn and arranges for him to be exchanged for Robett Glover.
Lord Martyn Mullendore is Lord of Uplands and head of House Mullendore in the Reach.
Martyn Rivers is a bastard son of Lord Walder Frey.
Martyn is ruddy, unlike his relatives from House Frey.
Martyn attends the Hand's tourney with five other members of House Frey.
While Ser Brynden Tully is raiding in the westerlands with the new king, Robb, Martyn commands the outriders in the riverlands. Martyn escorts Catelyn Stark when her party nears Riverrun, telling her of Robb's victory in the Battle of Oxcross.
Catelyn spots Martyn among the Freys who leave Riverrun after news reaches the castle of Robb's marriage with Jeyne Westerling instead of a Frey.
Martyn has been of great service scouting.
Marwyn, also known as Marwyn the Mage, is an archmaester of the Citadel.
See also: Images of Marwyn
Marwyn has a thick neck and a strong jaw. He is short and squat with enormous hands, a thick chest and a hard ale-belly. He has white hair coming out of his nose and ears. His nose has been broken more than once and his teeth are stained red.
People say that Marwyn keeps the company of whores and hedge wizards, talks with hairy Ibbenese and pitch-black Summer Islanders in their own tongues, and sacrifices to queer gods at the little sailor's temples down by Oldtown’s wharves. Men speak of seeing him down by the undercity, in rat pits and black brothels, consorting with mummers, singers, sellswords and even beggars. Some even have whispered that he has killed a man with his fists once. He believes in many curious things.
Marwyn has traveled the lands beyond the narrow sea. He encountered Mirri Maz Duur in his travels and taught her the secrets of the human body and the Common Tongue.
Marwyn spent eight years in the east mapping distant lands, searching for lost books, and studying with warlocks and shadowbinders. He was nicknamed 'Marwyn the Mage' by Archmaester Vaellyn after his return.
The accounts of his travels confirmed reports that there are no living animals in Asshai.
In Essos Mirri Maz Duur mentions to Daenerys Targaryen that she was taught about human anatomy by a maester named Marwyn.
In conversation with Jaime Lannister, Qyburn explains how he came to believe in the possibility of ghosts and mentions that of all the archmaesters only Marwyn gives the matter any thought.
Leo Tyrell tells the group of novices and acolytes assembled at the Quill and Tankard that Marwyn believes the tales of dragons are true and that he has managed to light an obsidian candle. Leo refers to Marwyn as the mastiff.
Asha Greyjoy finds Lord Rodrik Harlaw reading Marwyn's book, *The Book of Lost Books*, in the Book Tower.
At Marwyn's request, Alleras brings Samwell Tarly to meet with Marwyn after talking to him at the Seneschal's Court. Marwyn listens to Samwell's story and then declares that he is off to meet Daenerys Targaryen. He orders Samwell to keep quiet about Daenerys and the dragons, finish his studies, and then get back to the Wall as fast as possible. Marwyn then leaves to catch the *Cinnamon Wind* in order to get as quickly as possible to Daenerys in Meereen.
Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.
– Marwyn, to Samwell Tarly, Alleras, and the "Pate" imposter
Who do you think killed all the dragons the last time around? Gallant dragonslayers armed with swords? The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons. Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryen was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall, when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted. No more than I can.
– Marwyn, to Samwell Tarly
Armen: Marwyn is unsound. Archmaester Perestan would be the first to tell you that.
Roone: Archmaester Ryam says so too.
Leo: The sea is wet, the sun is warm, and the menagerie hates the mastiff.
– Armen, Roone, and Leo Tyrell
Ser Marwyn Belmore is a knight from House Belmore.
Marwyn is lanky and has red hair.
Ser Marwyn becomes the new captain of the guards at the Eyrie after the death of Ser Vardis Egen in a trial by combat.
Marwyn is removed from his position upon the arrival of Lord Petyr Baelish, and he is replaced by Ser Lothor Brune. He returns to the Eyrie to hear Marillion confess to the murder of Lady Lysa Tully. He despises Marillon as Marillion mocked him in song as "Ser Ding Dong".
Mary Mertyns is the head of House Mertyns and is the Lady of Mistwood in the stormlands.
The dowager Lady Mary is elderly, with sons and grandsons that left to fight in the War of the Five Kings. She is spry and cheerful even in wartime.
Lady Mary is held under gentle imprisonment after Mistwood falls during the landing of the Golden Company. She joins their captains, Young John Mudd and Chains, at dinner when Arianne Martell passes through Mistwood on her way north to meet Lord Jon Connington. Mary is annoyed at the situation but unafraid, scolding the captains at the table while wagging a leg of duck at them. She explains her sons and grandsons rode off to join Renly Baratheon when the war started. A grandson was wounded at the Battle of the Blackwater, but he has since recovered. Mary expects her kin to return and hang the sellswords. She says she knew Jon's mother, and that she would be disappointed in him.
Mary is named after Mary Mertyns, a friend of George R. R. Martin. At Archon in 1977, Mary wore a shirt inspired by The Storms of Windhaven, a novella by Martin and Lisa Tuttle.
If you two are knights, I’m still a maiden. And I’ll speak as I please. What will you do, kill me? I have lived too long already.
Lady Mary, to Chains and Young John Mudd
Marya Seaworth is the wife of Ser Davos Seaworth.
She is a plump woman with sagging breasts and a kindly smile.
Marya is the daughter of a carpenter. She married Davos Seaworth, who was a smuggler at the time. They had seven children together: Dale, Allard, Matthos, Maric, Devan, Stannis and Steffon..
Masha Heddle is the innkeeper of the crossroads inn in the riverlands. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* she is portrayed by Susie Kelly.
Masha is a fat middle-aged woman.
Upon her arrival at the crossroads inn, Catelyn Stark remembers that when she was a child Masha always had a smile and a sweet cake for the children. Catelyn loved the cake but dreaded Masha's smile because it showed her blood-red teeth caused by her continuous eating of sourleaf.
Masha does not want to get involved when Catelyn arrests Tyrion Lannister, so she lets Catelyn take him. When the Lannisters invades the riverlands, Tyrion's father, Lord Tywin Lannister, hangs Masha on a gibbet in the inn's yard as punishment. Tyrion sees her body when he arrives at the inn to meet with his father.
Masha's nephew takes over the inn.
Masha's nephew is killed by an unspecified nobleman. Afterwards, Masha's nieces Willow and Jeyne manage the inn and become associates of the brotherhood without banners.
Masha: Don’t kill him here!
Tyrion: Don't kill him anywhere.
– Masha and Tyrion Lannister
Masha Heddle on the Game of Thrones wiki.
Maslyn is a steward of the Night's Watch.
Maslyn is part of the great ranging, the force that leaves Castle Black in search of wildlings. He is part of the conspiracy to kill Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
Massey's Hook
The crownlands and the location of Massey's Hook
Massey's Hook, illustrated by Zach Graves. © Fantasy Flight Games
Massey's Hook is a peninsula in the crownlands that defines the eastern extent of Blackwater Bay.
Sharp Point, the seat of House Bar Emmon, sits at the northern end of the Hook.
Stonedance, the seat of House Massey, was built on Massey's Hook by Lord Maldon Massey, a vassal of the Storm King Durran the Ravenfriend. The Masseys broke away during the reign of Durwald the Fat, however.
At the time of the Andal invasion, the Storm King Erich the Unready battled the pirate king Justin Milk-Eye for control of Massey's Hook; this was eventually resolved when Qarlton II Durrandon defeated Josua Massey. Soon after the Andal warlord Togarion Bar Emmon traveled south of the Blackwater Rush and established a new kingdom on Massey's Hook with Sharp Point as his seat. The peninsula was eventually reclaimed by the Storm Kings, however.
Some Storm Kings kept war fleets at Massey's Hook.
Prior to the War of Conquest, Massey's Hook was part of the stormlands owing allegiance to the Durrandon Storm Kings of Storm's End. The Bar Emmons and Masseys had developed closer ties with the Targaryens of Dragonstone, however, and allied with Aegon Targaryen against the Storm King Argilac the Arrogant..
The Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion began when Daemon III Blackfyre and Aegor Rivers landed on Massey's Hook, but they were defeated in the Battle of Wendwater Bridge.
While sailing to King's Landing, Stannis Baratheon's fleet regroups along Massey's Hook after being scattered across the narrow sea by a storm.
Master-at-arms is a position in a noble household, usually filled by a knight, charged with training the garrison, as well as noble children, in fighting skills.
Ser Quentyn Ball, a master-at-arms at the Red Keep, supported Daemon I Blackfyre during the First Blackfyre Rebellion.
Ser Willem Darry helped train Prince Rhaegar Targaryen,
Jon Snow has a contentious relationship with the master-at-arms of Castle Black, Ser Alliser Thorne.
Master of Breakwater Castle is one of the hereditary titles held by the head of House Borrell. It refers to the seat of House Borrell, the castle Breakwater, located in Sisterton, a town in the island of Sweetsister.
The current Master of Breakwater Castle is Lord Godric Borrell.
Master of Deepwood Motte is the title given to the head of House Glover of Deepwood Motte.
Master of Driftmark is a title traditionally held by the head of House Velaryon. "Driftmark" is the name of both an island of Blackwater Bay and the ancestral castle ruled by the Velaryons.
Littlefinger acts as the Master of Coin.
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King Robert's Debt. © Fantasy Flight Games
The master of coin is the chief financial adviser of the king and is a member of the small council in King's Landing.
Duties of the master of coin include keeping account of the receipts and expenditures from the royal treasury, receiving reports from royal officials, supervising the collection of taxes and custom duties, borrowing money, managing the royal treasury and supervising the three royal mints. The master of coin oversees a large number of offices and positions in the royal bureaucracy including the four Keepers of the Keys, the King's Counter, the King's Scales, the officers in charge of mints, harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers and wine factors.
During the War of Conquest Crispian Celtigar served Aegon I Targaryen as the first master of coin. Nearly two centuries later, even though Elaena Targaryen's husband sat on the king's small council as master of coin, it was widely known that she was the one performing the duties.
Lord Petyr Baelish continues to serve as master of coin, as he has done for several years. He must pay for the extravagance of Robert Baratheon's court, often by borrowing from Lord Tywin Lannister.
Baelish is sent to recruit House Tyrell to support King Joffrey I Baratheon.
When Baelish goes to the Eyrie to court Lysa Arryn, Tyrion Lannister is named as his replacement, charged with funding the royal wedding. Tyrion is blamed for the so-called dwarf's pennies. to fill the post.
After the death of Tywin Lannister, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister renames the office lord treasurer, a style used in the Free Cities, is his replacement.
Ser Harys's main concern is the massive debt owed by the crown to the Iron Bank of Braavos.
Harys Swyft has traveled to Braavos to treat with the Iron Bank in person.
The master of coin finds the money. The king and the Hand spend it.
- Petyr Baelish, to Eddard Stark
The master of coin must be frugal.
- Varys, to Eddard Stark
Within three years of his coming to court, he was master of coin and a member of the small council, and today the crown’s revenues were ten times what they had been under his beleaguered predecessor… though the crown’s debts had grown vast as well.
We owe Lord Tywin some three million dragons at present, what matter another hundred thousand?
The master of laws, later called the justiciar, is the king's advisor relating to the administration of justice and is a member of the small council in King's Landing. Duties of the master of laws include managing the dungeons at the Red Keep and supervising the chief gaoler, chief undergaoler, undergaolers, and the King's Justice. The City Watch of King's Landing presumably falls under the bailiwick of the master of laws.
Lord Tristan Massey was the master of laws for the first king to sit the Iron Throne, Aegon I Targaryen.
Lord Jasper Wylde, known as Ironrod, was a master of laws executed during the Dance of the Dragons.
Lord Renly Baratheon is the master of laws for his brother King Robert Baratheon.
With Renly claiming the throne for himself after Robert's death, the position lies vacant. Renly's brother Stannis, who has also crowned himself, offers to keep him on as master of laws, but has him assassinated when Renly refuses. After Stannis's failed attempt to take the capital, Ser Kevan Lannister serves as master of laws for King Joffrey Baratheon.
Kevan Lannister fills the office in name, but is distraught over his remaining sons' peril and accomplishes little.
After the death of Tywin Lannister, Queen Regent Cersei renames the office justiciar in the style of the Free Cities.
Lord Randyll Tarly becomes the new justiciar for King Tommen Baratheon.
The master of ships is the king on the Iron Throne's advisor charged with commanding the royal fleet and is a member of the small council in King's Landing. Duties of the master of ships include arranging for the building and maintenance of warships, obtaining crews for the warships, and commanding naval operations.
During Aegon's Conquest, Lord Daemon Velaryon served as the first master of ships. He died when the Targaryen fleet was put to the torch in the battle in the waters off Gulltown.
Lord Aethan Velaryon was a master of ships and lord admiral to Kings Aegon I and Aenys I Targaryen. His daughter Alyssa married Aenys before he became king.
Ser Tyland Lannister served King Viserys I Targaryen as master of ships, but he became master of coin after the king's death.
Lord Alyn Velaryon was master of ships for his cousin, the Young Dragon Daeron I Targaryen, during the conquest of Dorne.
Lucerys Velaryon served the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen.
Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, dies in King's Landing. Stannis Baratheon, the master of ships for his brother, King Robert I Baratheon, leaves King's Landing for Dragonstone when Robert decides to name Lord Eddard Stark the new Hand.
The royal fleet, divided between the rival kings Joffrey I Baratheon and Stannis, is largely ruined in the Battle of the Blackwater.
After Stannis's attempt to take the capital is defeated by the Lannisters and Tyrells in the Battle of the Blackwater, Lord Mace Tyrell is made master of ships as part of the new alliance.
After the death of Tywin Lannister, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister renames the office grand admiral. She also removes Lord Mace and his bannermen from the council, naming Aurane Waters to the seat.
The new regent, Ser Kevan Lannister, names Lord Paxter Redwyne as the lord admiral and master of ships.
Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of Meereen, names Captain Groleo her lord admiral, but he has no ships as the Meereenese fleet sailed for Yunkai.
Master of the Green Hills is a defunct title once held by the head of House Yronwood, dating back to the time they held sway over the north of Dorne and ruled in their own right as High Kings of Dorne, Lords of the Stone Way Lords of Yronwood.
The master of whisperers has spies everywhere. © FFG
Shadows and Spiders. © FFG
The master of whisperers or mistress of whisperers is the king's spymaster and is a member of the small council. He or she is charged with gathering intelligence from the Red Keep, King's Landing, around the Seven Kingdoms, across the narrow sea, and other places.
Tyanna of Pentos, the most feared of Maegor I Targaryen's wives, served her husband as his mistress of whisperers.
Larys Strong, a Lord of Harrenhal nicknamed "Larys Clubfoot", served as master of whisperers during the reign of Viserys I Targaryen.
Lady Mysaria, nicknamed Lady Misery, served as mistress of whisperers for the blacks during the Dance of the Dragons.
Brynden Rivers, known as Lord Bloodraven, was a spymaster
Varys, nicknamed the Spider, was the master of whisperers for King Aerys II Targaryen, and after Aerys II's death, for King Robert I Baratheon.
Varys serves as the master of whisperers for King Robert I Baratheon and his successor, Joffrey I Baratheon.
Since Varys disappeared from King's Landing the night of Lord Tywin Lannister's murder, Queen Cersei Lannister appoints Qyburn as the new master of whisperers for King Tommen I Baratheon.
The master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious and without scruple. A courageous informer would be as useless as a cowardly knight.
- Varys to Eddard Stark
Matarys Targaryen, called the Even Younger Prince by a fool, was the second son of Prince Baelor Targaryen and Lady Jena Dondarrion.
As the second son to King Daeron II Targaryen's heir, Matarys was in line for the Iron Throne. However, after his father Baelor had died in 209 AC during the Ashford Tourney, the Great Spring Sickness struck Westeros. Matarys died from the illness, as did his older brother Valarr and grandfather, King Daeron II, in King's Landing..
Mathis Frey is the twin of Dickon Frey, and the son of Ser Jammos Frey and Sallei Paege.
Mathis Rowan is the Lord of Goldengrove and head of House Rowan. He is married to Lady Bethany Redwyne and has three children by her.
Mathis is stout, florid, and clean-shaven.
According to Ser Kevan Lannister, Mathis is sensible, prudent, well liked, able, and loyal.
During Robert's Rebellion, Mathis stayed loyal to King Aerys II Targaryen. He assisted his liege lord, Mace Tyrell, during the siege of Storm's End, which was defended by Stannis Baratheon. Lord Eddard Stark lifted the siege following the Sack of King's Landing, and Rowan bent the knee to the new king, Robert I Baratheon.
Lord Mathis found Dareon in bed with his daughter, who was two years older than the singer. Under the eyes of her father, she claimed rape and Dareon was sent to the Wall to join the Night's Watch. Dareon insists the relationship was consensual.
At the outset of the War of the Five Kings, Mathis joins his liege lord, Mace Tyrell, in declaring for King Renly Baratheon. After the melee at Bitterbridge where Brienne of Tarth wins a spot in the Rainbow Guard, Mathis and several other nobles are with Renly when he meets with Catelyn Stark, who has come as an envoy for her son, Robb Stark, the King in the North. Mathis is dismayed to learn Ser Jaime Lannister was not executed after being captured by Robb's army in the Whispering Wood. He later sits next to Catelyn during a feast at Bitterbridge.
After the parley with King Stannis Baratheon beneath the walls of Storm's End, Mathis advises Renly to leave Stannis to besiege the formidable Storm's End and instead go on to take King's Landing. His opinion is overruled, however, as Renly decides to deal with Stannis before the Lannisters. Mathis is placed in command of the center in the coming battle with Stannis's forces.
Mathis is among the lords who, like Lord Tyrell, do not side with Stannis.
Mathis attends a small council meeting after the Battle of the Blackwater. Queen Cersei Lannister, Joffrey's mother, attempts to influence Rowan by jests and smiles. Tywin Lannister, Joffrey's grandfather and the Hand of the King, grants lesser tracts of land to the Rowans. Mathis appears upset when Tywin mentions the unresolved deaths of Elia Martell and her children in the Sack of King's Landing.
During the wedding feast of Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister, Mathis dances with Cersei and Sansa.
As a guest at Joffrey's royal wedding, Mathis gives the king a red silk tourney pavilion as a wedding gift.
After the death of the Hand of the King, Lord Tywin, Ser Kevan Lannister mentions Lord Mathis as a possibility to fill the vacant position. as Hand and removes Mathis from the council.
Mathis rides with Lord Tyrell to Storm's End, still held by Stannis's man, Ser Gilbert Farring.
The Golden Company lands in the stormlands and quickly seizes several castles, gaining a beachhead for Aegon VI Targaryen. Their next target is Storm's End,
Mathis: They are all so young.
Catelyn: War will make them old, as it did us. I pity them.
Mathis: Why? Look at them. They're young and strong, full of life and laughter. And lust, aye, more lust than they know what to do with. There will be many a bastard bred this night, I promise you. Why pity?Catelyn: Because it will not last. Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.
- Mathis and Catelyn Stark
Mathos II Arryn was a King of Mountain and Vale from House Arryn.
During the Rape of the Three Sisters, the name by which the Northern conquest of the isles is best known, the atrocities done by the Kings of Winter were horrible enough, that the remaining lords of the Three Sisters asked King Mathos II for his help, help he gladly gave. The help came, provided upon the condition that the Three Sisters agreed to do fealty to him and House Arryn and acknowledge the right of the Eyrie to rule them.
His wife questioned the wisdom of fighting this War Across the Water, but he replied: "that he would sooner have a pirate than a wolf for his neighbour".
He set sail for Sisterton with a hundred warships but he never returned. His sons carried on the war after him.
Mathos Mallarawan is a member of the Pureborn of Qarth.
Daenerys Targaryen bribed Mathos in an attempt to help him sway the Pureborn to her cause. He said nothing during or after her plea before the Pureborn.
Matrice is a servant in service to House Baratheon on Dragonstone.
She hears rumors from Dalla about Melisandre's interpretations of the red comet.
Matt, called Little Matt, was an inhabitant of the Riverlands. He was killed along with his sister, Randa, by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Matthar, sometimes called Matt,.
Matthar is in the same class of recruits as Jon Snow. When he learns he is to join the Night's Watch, he celebrates with Jon and the others, drinking wine and throwing snowballs. He is named to the rangers when he is considered ready to man the Wall.
Matthar is present when Jon Snow reveals his new sword Longclaw to his friends.
Matthar is stationed at Castle Black.
Archmaester Matthar was an archmaester at the Citadel. He wrote *The Origins of the Iron Bank and Braavos*.
Ser Matthew Mullendore was a knight of House Mullendore during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Matthew participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Matthos Seaworth is a member of House Seaworth and is the third son of Ser Davos Seaworth. He serves on his father's ship, *Black Betha*..
Matthos serves on his father's ship, Black Betha, during the Battle of the Blackwater. During the fight, the Black Betha is set afire using wildfire, destroying it and killing Matthos.
Matthos Tyrell was Lord of Highgarden during the time of the Great Council of 101 AC.
Lord Matthos attended the Great Council of 101 AC with a huge retinue of five hundred bannermen, men-at-arms and servants, outshining Lord Tymond Lannister, who only numbered three hundred retainers.
Maude. © Thrumugnyr
Maude is one of the Bastard's girls.
Grey Jeyne and Maude kill one of Lord Harwood Stout's hounds over a meaty bone that Will Short tosses to them while at Ramsay Bolton's feast at Goldgrass.
Mawney is a ranger of the Night's Watch.
Mawney is a part of the great ranging beyond the Wall. An Other riding Mawney's dead horse comes upon Grenn, Samwell Tarly, and Small Paul.
Mawney remains at Craster's Keep after the betrayal of its owner, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.
Five betrayers wander in the haunted forest, planning to head south over the Wall. However, the traitors are killed by Coldhands and his ravens. Summer, Bran Stark's direwolf, finds the bodies and eats parts of the meat. It is unknown if Mawney is among them.
Not to be confused with Maynard Holt or Maynard Plumm.
Ser Maynard was a knight. He had red hair and a black temper.
He was held at a bridge by Lord Lymond Lychester. Lord Lymond took six wounds before he killed Ser Maynard.
Ser Maynard Holt is a knight originally from House Holt. He is captain of *Talon*, a ship of the Night's Watch at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Cotter Pyke leads the fleet of Night's Watch vessels, including Maynard's *Talon*, to rescue free folk at Hardhome.
Ser Maynard Plumm was a hedge knight from House Plumm during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen. He claimed to be distantly related to Lord Viserys Plumm.
Maynard was a tall, thin man with stooped shoulders. His blond hair was long and straight.
Maynard was knowledgeable about current events in the Seven Kingdoms, and he knew how to treat wounds.
Ser Maynard was among the hedge knights encamped by the Gods Eye near Whitewalls. He defended the actions of Lord Brynden Rivers, the Hand of the King known as Bloodraven, to Ser Kyle the Cat and Ser Duncan the Tall.
Maynard attended the wedding of Lord Ambrose Butterwell and his new wife, but he refused to take part in the tourney. After Ser Duncan the Tall lost to Ser Uthor Underleaf in the lists, Dunk refused Maynard's advice to leave. When Dunk was cornered by Lord Alyn Cockshaw, Maynard watched until Alyn had fallen into the well, then proceeded to help the injured Duncan and inform him his missing squire was safe in the castle's sept. Maynard claimed that Bloodraven knew of the conspiracy to crown Daemon II Blackfyre, and the Second Blackfyre Rebellion was indeed squashed by Lord Brynden's army the next morning. Duncan, Kyle, and Ser Glendon Ball looked for Maynard, but he had disappeared during the night. Duncan praised Maynard's assistance when he spoke with Bloodraven.
Duncan: We'd all be bastard sons of old King Aegon if half these tales were true.
Maynard: And who's to say we're not?
- Duncan the Tall and Maynard
A marriage is a melee, as any married man could tell you.
- Maynard to Kyle the Cat
An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?
- Maynard to Duncan the Tall
Duncan: Who are you?
Maynard: A friend. One who has been watching you, and wondering at your presence in this nest of adders.
- Duncan the Tall and Maynard
Stay well away from that one. He could be a robber knight, for all we know.
- Duncan the Tall to Aegon Targaryen
This close, there was something queer about the cast of Ser Maynard's features. The longer Dunk looked, the less he seemed to see.
- thoughts of Duncan the Tall
Many readers believe that Maynard was actually Brynden Rivers disguised with a glamour.
Mazdhan zo Loraq, known as The Magnificent, is a famous Ghiscari citizen of the city of Meereen. He is a ancestor of Hizdahr zo Loraq.
The priests of the Blind God among the mazes of Lorath, as depicted by Jordi Gonzales Escamilla in *The World of Ice and Fire*
The mazemakers were a race of people who lived in antiquity. The mazemakers constructed vast mazes consisting of blocks of carved stone which have been found among the islands of Lorath as well as one in mainland Essos south of Lorath. Most of Lorassyon consists of an underground maze. The purpose of the mazes is unknown as the mazemakers left no written records. Large bones which have been found indicate they were massively built and larger than men, which has led some to suggest the mazemakers were born of the unions of human men and female giants.
Archmaester Quillion suggests that the labrynthine foundation of the Hightower is connected with the Lorathi mazemakers.
The legends of the Lorathi state the mazemakers were destroyed by creatures of the sea, such as merlings, selkies, or walrus-men..
Mazor Alexi was the last High King of the Kingdom of Sarnor.
Prior to the fall of Mardosh to the Dothraki, the kings of the Sarnori had remained divided, but the destruction of the "City of Soliders" and all its population led them to put aside their petty rivalries and ambitions and unite under their High King. Mazor Alexi assembled a great army from up and down the Sarne and struck out east. In the tall grass between Sarnath and the ruins of Kasath, the Tall Men faced four *khalasars, with a combined might of eighty thousand horselords, in a battle that would be known as the Field of Crows. The Sarnori chariots smashed through the center of the Dothraki horse, killing *Khal Haro and causing his khalasar to retreat. Alexi and his mounted cavalry plunged in after them followed by the Sarnori foot but it was a trap, the fleeing Dothraki turned and unleashed a storm of arrows while the khalasars of Khals Qano and Zhako swept in from north and south, while Khal Loso and his screamers struck the Sarnori rear. Completely surrounded, Alexi's host was cut to pieces. A hundred thousand men died, Mazor Alexi among them.
Potent wildling mead by Nathan Furman © Fantasy Flight Games
Mead is an alcoholic beverage made with fermented honey. It has a sweet taste.
The sharing of "meat and mead" is a common custom in the known world, including in Westeros,
The mead and cider of the Quiet Isle are famous.
Tormund's titles include Mead-King of Ruddy Hall.
Theon Greyjoy often drank mead with Farlen while discussing hounds and hunting.
Tormund claims to have slept with a bear after consuming a cask of mead at Ruddy Hall.
Gilly drank sweet mead on the day she wed her father, Craster.
Val and Jarl share a horn of mead when Jon Snow is introduced to Mance Rayder. Jon accepts the offer of mead from the King-Beyond-the-Wall.
Samwell Tarly tells Gilly that Dareon's singing is as sweet as mead.
Casks and wagons of ale, mead, and wine are provided by House Frey during the Red Wedding.
Brother Clement sells mead from the Quiet Isle at Saltpans, but he is killed when the town is raided by outlaws.
At Standfast, "meat and mead" meant chicken and ale, but Ser Eustace ate the same plain fare himself.
- thoughts of Duncan the Tall
I welcome you to our fires, and offer you meat and mead in honor of our friendship.
- Bran Stark to northern lords
I never get drunk. Mead only makes me merry.
- Marillion to Sansa Stark