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Not to be confused with the Brave Companions, a sellsword company often called the Bloody Mummers.

A mummer is an actor and entertainer in Westeros and the Free Cities. A mummer is usually part of a troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place or perform at a playhouse. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays

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Traditions

A master mummer is in charge of each troupe,

Mummers can be accomplished at manipulating their face,

During peacetime, gaily painted mummer's boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colors make their way up the forks of the Trident, visiting villages and castles.

Mummers in Braavos perform written stories instead of making up farces.

History

Ser Humfrey the Mummer, a hedge knight, was among the first Kingsguard of Aegon I Targaryen.

Mummers and singers heralded the birth of King Viserys I Targaryen's children.

Prince Aegon Targaryen "wed" Megette with the aid of a mummer who portrayed a septon.

Varys claims to have been born a slave in Lys that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the Free Cities, Oldtown, and occasionally King's Landing, by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.

The tourney at Harrenhal included a mummer show.

Lady Ellyn Reyne sponsored mummers when she held court at Casterly Rock.

Before coming to the Wall, Pypar traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe. He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.

Hop-Bean was a famous dwarf mummer who bought his freedom.

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A Game of Thrones

Lord Eddard Stark sees a mummer on stilts along the Street of Steel in King's Landing.

A Clash of Kings

A mummer is among four agents, disguised as House Lannister guards, sent by Tyrion Lannister to free Ser Jaime Lannister at Riverrun.

Within the House of the Undying, Daenerys Targaryen has a vision of a mummer's dragon on poles among a cheering crowd.

A Storm of Swords

Mummers are hired to perform at the royal wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.

A Feast for Crows

Mummers perform at Margaery's court.

Arya, calling herself Cat of the Canals, befriends mummers in Braavos.

A Dance with Dragons

Quaithe warns Daenerys against a mummer's dragon.

While at Volon Therys, Jon Connington notices a gaily painted mummers' barge next to the *Shy Maid*.

When Arya Stark's eyes are taken at the House of Black and White, the waif also shaves her head in a mummer's cut.

Tyrion, Penny, and Ser Jorah Mormont are forced to become mummers when enslaved and added to Yezzan zo Qaggaz's grotesquerie.

Quotes

Pyp had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe, and bragged that he could tell what you were and where you'd been born just from the sound of your voice.

—thoughts of Jon Snow

When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery.

Varys to Eddard Stark

Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.
Tyrion: So power is a mummer's trick?
Varys: A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.

Varys and Tyrion Lannister

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Somewhat less than a mummer's fart.

Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark

Tywin: What is it you would have of me? Lands, castle, some office?
Tyrion: A little bloody gratitude would make a nice start.
Tywin: Mummers and monkeys require applause.

Tywin Lannister and Tyrion Lannister

The mummers were a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft than not.

—thoughts of Jon Connington

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.

Wyman Manderly to Davos Seaworth

Mummers change their faces with artifice, and sorcerers use glamors, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.

—the kindly man to Arya Stark

Plays




Annotations from item #46268632:

Crossing the Mummer's Ford, by Juan Carlos Barquet © Fantasy Flight Games

The Mummer's Ford is a crossing of the river Trident, along the Red Fork, in the western riverlands. Upriver of Sherrer,

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

The town is destroyed at the beginning of the War of the Five Kings by Ser Gregor Clegane's raiders from the westerlands, who have already attacked Sherrer. All of the inhabitants are killed.

Eddard sends Lord Beric Dondarrion to arrest Gregor, but Beric's detachment is ambushed by the Mountain's men in a battle at the Mummer's Ford.

Quotes

We ask justice for the smallfolk of Sherrer and Wendish Town and the Mummer's Ford.

- Raymun Darry to Eddard Stark

Mad Huntsman: Lions, you call yourselves. At Sherrer and the Mummer's Ford, girls of six and seven years were raped, and babes still on the breast were cut in two while their mothers watched. No lion ever killed so cruel.
Sandor: I was not at Sherrer, nor the Mummer's Ford. Lay your dead children at some other door.

- the Mad Huntsman and Sandor Clegane




Annotations from item #46268633:

Wisdom Munciter is a member of the Alchemists' Guild in King's Landing. He is in charge of keeping an inventory of the amount of wildfire produced by the Guild.




Annotations from item #46268634:

Munda is the daughter of Tormund Giantsbane.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

She is part of her father's war party that Jon Snow is attached to. She sings along during the song The Last of the Giants

A Dance with Dragons

Tormund mentions to Jon that Munda and Ryk are now married, and she is well treated.

Quotes about Munda

She broke his lip for him and bit one ear half off, and I hear he’s got so many scratches on his back he can’t wear a cloak. She likes him well enough, though. And why not? He don’t fight with no spear, you know. Never has. So where do you think he got that name? Har!

– Tormund referring to Ryk stealing Munda

Took that Longspear Ryk to husband, if you believe it. Boy’s got more cock than sense, you ask me, but he treats her well enough. I told him if he ever hurt her, I’d yank his member off and beat him bloody with it.

- Tormund on Munda's marriage




Annotations from item #46268635:

Munkun was a Grand Maester of the Seven Kingdoms. He wrote the book *The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling* about the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. The book contains some inaccuracies.

History

Following the Dance of the Dragons, and the Hour of the Wolf, Grand Maester Munkun became a member of the council of seven regents that would rule in the name of the newly crowned child king Aegon III Targaryen. He was the only member of the council that held office from 131 AC to 136 AC, when the council was dissolved. He would also hold the office of Hand of the King.




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Annotation #1 for item #46268636: Wiki: Murch

For the huntsman see Murch (Winterfell).

Murch is part of Yoren's band when it is marching north to the Wall to join the Night’s Watch.

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A Clash of Kings

When the band is moving west- and northwards on side roads in the direction of the Gods Eye, they come to a village that has been burned down the night before. Yoren, Murch and Cutjack investigate the holdfast where some people have died. When they come back, Murch and Cutjack carry a woman whose arm has been cut off at the elbow while Yoren has a little girl less than two years old in his arms. Rorge and Biter start making fun of the dying woman crying "please" over and over again, but Murch, cursing them, tells the criminals to shut up. However, the woman dies that night.

His further fate is not known, but he is not mentioned as one of those those escaping through a tunnel when most of the band, including Yoren, die at the holdfast of an abandoned town on the southern shore of the Gods Eye in an attack by men under the command of Ser Amory Lorch.

Annotation #2 for item #46268636: Wiki: (Winterfell) Murch

Murch is a man sworn to House Stark. He is one of the best huntsmen in service to the Starks.

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A Clash of Kings

Murch is ordered by Theon Greyjoy to accompany him on his search for Bran and Rickon Stark on account of his hunting skills.




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Murenmure is a maester of the Citadel. He is in service at Hammerhorn to House Goodbrother.

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Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Maester Murenmure debates the rules of succession with Aeron Greyjoy after the death of King Balon Greyjoy.




Annotations from item #46268638:

Murmison was a septon who became a renowned member of the Faith and Hand of the King from 39 AC - 41 AC for King Aenys I Targaryen.

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History

Murmison was appointed Hand of the King by Aenys I Targaryen as a way to try and appease the Faith of the Seven and the High Septon. The Faith was furious when Aenys's brother, Prince Maegor, took a second wife, Alys Harroway, arguing that Ceryse Hightower, his first wife, was barren.

Aenys had Murmison lay hands on Lady Ceryse's belly every night in the hope that Prince Maegor might repent if his lawful wife became fertile. However, Murmison only succeeded in making Ceryse grow weary of the nightly ritual and she departed King's Landing for Oldtown.

Aenys, however, enraged the Faith even further in 41 AC when he wed his daughter, Princess Rhaena, to his son and heir, Prince Aegon, and was denounced as *"King Abomination"*. Pious lords and even the smallfolk who once loved Aenys turned against him.

Murmison was expelled from the Faith for performing the incestuous marriage of between Aegon and Rhaena, and was later torn apart by a group of Poor Fellows in a litter two weeks after he performed the ceremony.

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A Storm of Swords

On Dragonstone Davos Seaworth, who is now King Stannis Baratheon's Hand, thinks that he has risen too high, due to his humble origins. Davos tells Maester Pylos that a King's Hand should be a highborn lord, someone wise and learned, a battle commander or a great knight. Maester Pylos reminds Davos Seaworth that, as Hand, Septon Murmison quickly had the whole realm praying for his demise.

Quotes about Murmison

Septon Murmison's prayers worked miracles, but as Hand he soon had the whole realm praying for his death.

Pylos to Davos Seaworth




Annotations from item #46268639:
Annotation #1 for item #46268639: Wiki: Mushroom

Mushroom was a dwarf fool at the courts of Viserys I Targaryen, Aegon II Targaryen, Rhaenyra Targaryen, and Aegon III Targaryen. He was believed to be a lackwit, which caused nobles to speak freely around him. His tales of plots, murders, trysts, and debaucheries were recorded in *The Testimony of Mushroom* by an unknown scribe.

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Appearance

Mushroom was three feet tall, with a very large head. He also claimed to have a large penis to match the size of his head.

History

Mushroom made various claims, and is cited in several history books, where his record of events is included along with the views of somewhat more accurate historians. Septon Eustace's account often disputes many of his wild claims.

An example of a claim made by Mushroom: he claimed Prince Daemon Targaryen took the maidenhead of Lady Alicent Hightower.

Copies of *The Testimony of Mushroom* were burned on orders of King Baelor the Blessed,

Quotes

Joffrey: Mother, what if they kill Tyraxes?

Rhaenyra: They are vermin. Drunks and fools and gutter rats. One taste of dragonflame and they will run.

Mushroom: Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear. I saw it happen once, down there in Flea Bottom.

Joffrey Velaryon, Rhaenyra Targaryen, and Mushroom on the storming of the Dragonpit

I mean to give the smallfolk peace and food and justice. If that will not suffice to win their love, let Mushroom make a progress.

Aegon III Targaryen

Annotation #2 for item #46268639: Wiki: (fungi) Mushroom

In Pentos Illyrio served Tyrion Lannister a dish of mushrooms kissed with garlic and bathed in butter - art by Tiziano Baracchi. © Fantasy Flight Games

Mushrooms are similar to our world’s mushrooms. As in our world some varieties are edible while others are extremely poisonous. Mushrooms are used in various food dishes in Westeros and Essos.

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Death by mushroom

Magister Ordello was poisoned by a mushroom. It is said that pain is not so much. Only some cramping in the gut and a sudden ache behind the eyes, and then it is done.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

While in Illyrio's manse Tyrion Lannister picks seven poisonous mushrooms from the garden and stores them in one of his boots.

Later on Illyrio serves Tyrion a dish of mushrooms kissed with garlic and bathed in butter. He tells Tyrion the taste is exquisite. Tyrion grows suspicious, thinking they are poisonous although in reality they are not. Illyrio uses Tyrion's suspicions to his advantage to convince him to travel to Daenerys Targaryen. Tyrion tells him he has no wish to die, but can't think of anything he has left to live for. Illyrio tells him he has "nothing", but they can change that. He then plucks a mushroom and eats it, declaring it delicious.

Grey mushrooms spot from the Three-eyed crow's brow and cheeks.

Quotes

Better a mushroom than a sword through your neck, is it not so? Why die with the taste of blood in your mouth when it could be butter and garlic?

- Illyrio Mopatis, to Tyrion Lannister

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

- Tyrion Lannister to Bronn, while he is lying incapacitated after the Battle of the Blackwater




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The mutiny at Castle Black is a mutiny involving the Night's Watch at Castle Black.

Background

Weeks after Stannis Baratheon departed for Winterfell, Lord Commander Jon Snow receives a taunting letter purportedly from Ramsay Bolton, addressed to 'Bastard,' which claims that Stannis has been defeated and Mance Rayder captured. It demands fealty from Jon to House Bolton if the Night's Watch is to survive and gives a detailed account of Ramsay's actions. Jon views it in disgust, as it repeatedly sullies the honor of what was once the ancient seat of House Stark. and black brothers alike to join him of their own volition.

The Mutiny

Jon's decision, which is in violation of his oaths, though his goal is also to protect the Watch from Ramsay Bolton, causes great discontent within the Watch's upper leadership. In the confusion resulting from Wun Wun's killing of Ser Patrek of King's Mountain, Jon is stabbed repeatedly by Bowen Marsh and other black brothers, including Wick Whittlestick, who attack in tears while muttering "for the Watch". Whether or not Jon survives this attack is currently unknown.




Annotations from item #46268641:

The mutiny at Craster's Keep is a rebellious engagement involving the Night's Watch. After the crushing defeat in the fight at the Fist, the Night's Watch are forced to retreat and seek shelter at Craster's Keep in the haunted forest.

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Background

The Night's Watch has been losing strength for years with fewer volunteers every season, so it increasingly relies on the dungeons of the Seven Kingdoms to fill the ranks. Many disreputable individuals are selected for the great ranging, and the forced march further beyond the Wall makes them even more disgruntled.

Chett and a few other brothers plan to betray Jeor Mormont, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and his senior commanders so they can escape the Watch, but the combination of the heavy weather and the assault from wights at the Fist of the First Men make this plan redundant.

Forty-four men reach Craster's Keep, but their morale is low and certain brothers start being more vocal with their criticism. After several days, Bannen and three others have died, leaving thirty-two men capable of fighting and eight incapacitated by wounds or illness.

Mutiny

Trouble begins when Ulmer asks for more bread, as Craster's wives have brought only two loaves for the starving men to eat. Clubfoot Karl and Dirk demand more food, but are rejected by Craster, and Karl defies Jeor Mormont order to be silent. Samwell Tarly thinks that Karl is about to sit, but Craster, interrupting the standoff with the axe gifted to him by Jeor,

Losing his temper when called a bastard, Craster vaults his table but has his throat slit by Dirk. Craster crashes face first across the wounded Ser Byam Flint and drowns in his own blood. Dirk shoves a knife under the chin of one of Craster's wives, demanding that she show them where the food is or he will kill her. Lord Commander Mormont tells Dirk to unhand her, but Garth of Greenaway blocks his path and Ollo Lophand stabs Jeor's belly. Garth of Greenaway kills Garth of Oldtown, while Rolley of Sisterton breaks his neck after falling from the loft while chasing after Craster's wives.

Aftermath

Fearing they will be killed by mutineers, Grenn, Dolorous Edd, Bedwyck, Dywen and other loyalists admit defeat and retreat back to Castle Black to report on the disastrous expedition. Grenn urges Samwell Tarly to come with them but he does not move. Of note, Sweet Donnel Hill was complicit in Chett's plan to betray their brothers on the Fist of the First Men, but it appears after the fight at the Fist he decided to remain loyal to the Watch. Approximately a dozen men return to the Wall before the attack on Castle Black.

While mutineers gorge in Craster's cellar or rape his younger wives, the shocked Sam sits with the dying Jeor Mormont's head in his lap. Jeor tells Sam to make for the Wall, instructing him to inform Castle Black of what happened. The Lord Commander's dying wish is for his exiled son, Ser Jorah Mormont, to take the black. Encouraged to escape by Craster's wives, Sam flees Craster's Keep with Gilly with her baby.

Nine mutineers remain at Craster's Keep with his food and wives.

Participants

Loyalist casualties

Loyalist casualties include but are not limited to:

Confirmed loyalist survivors

Loyalists confirmed to survive and return to the Wall:

Craster's family

Mutineers

Quotes

Craster: Who calls me bastard?
Karl: It's no more than all men know.

- Craster and Clubfoot Karl

Jeor: The gods will curse us. There is no crime so foul as for a guest to bring murder into a man's hall. By all the laws of the hearth, we—
Dirk: There are no laws beyond the Wall, old man. Remember?

- Jeor Mormont and Dirk

Ollo had only one hand, but that was quick. He twisted free of the old man's grasp, shoved the knife into Mormont's belly, and yanked it out again, all red. And then the world went mad.

- thoughts of Samwell Tarly




Annotations from item #46268642:

Muttering Bill is a steward of the Night's Watch.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Muttering Bill is a part of the great ranging beyond the Wall.

A Feast for Crows

Muttering Bill remains at Craster's Keep after the betrayal of its owner, along with a few other former members of the Night's Watch.

A Dance With Dragon

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 Bill is among them.




Annotations from item #46268643:

"My Featherbed" is a song. It is uncertain if that is the actual title of the song -- it may also be titled "The Maiden of the Tree", or "No Featherbed for Me", or something else.

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Lyrics

My featherbed is deep and soft,

and there I'll lay you down,

I'll dress you all in yellow silk,

and on your head a crown.

For you shall be my lady love,

and I shall be your lord.

I'll always keep you warm and safe,

and guard you with my sword.

And how she smiled and how she laughed,

the maiden of the tree.

She spun away and said to him,

no featherbed for me.

I'll wear a gown of golden leaves,

and bind my hair with grass,

But you can be my forest love,

and me your forest lass.

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A Storm of Swords

It is sung by Tom of Sevenstreams at Acorn Hall.




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"My Lady Wife" is a romantic song.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

It is sung by Hamish the Harper at the wedding of King Joffrey I and Margaery Tyrell.




Annotations from item #46268645:

Mya Rivers was the eldest of the three bastard children of King Aegon IV Targaryen and his sixth mistress, Lady Melissa Blackwood.

History

Melissa Blackwood "reigned" for five years as the mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen, during which she gave birth to three children: Mya, Gwenys, and Brynden. Aegon's bastards born of noblewomen were legitimized as Great Bastards on the king's deathbed.

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Mya Stone is a young woman serving House Royce of the Gates of the Moon. She is one of King Robert I Baratheon's bastards. Mya serves as a guide on the treacherous rocky climb from the Vale to the Eyrie, leading trains of mules, such as Whitey.

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Mya Stone

Mya is a tall, strapping young woman, with coal-black hair cut short and deep blue eyes.

History

Young Robert Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End, fathered Mya, his first child, on a commoner.

At some point after the birth of Prince Joffrey Baratheon, Robert expressed interest in taking one of his baseborn daughters (apparently Mya) to court in King's Landing. Queen Cersei Lannister did not protest, but spitefully stated that "the city is not a healthy place for a growing girl", inferring that Cersei would harm her. Robert grew enraged enough to strike his wife, but did not press the point.

Mya is somewhat openly known to be the bastard daughter of the king, although she was not acknowledged by her father. She has vague memories of him, as a big strong man tossing her in the air and catching her.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Having learned that Gendry is one of King Robert I Baratheon's bastards, Lord Eddard Stark recalls Mya from when he was fostered with Robert at the court of Lord Jon Arryn.

After Catelyn Stark's arrival at the Gates of the Moon, she is ordered to ascend to the Eyrie by Lady Lysa Arryn. Mya assists Catelyn to Sky using mules, after which Lady Stark ascends to the Eyrie in a basket. Mya tells Cat that she is in love with a squire, Mychel Redfort, and hopes to marry him when he is made a knight. Cat believes this unlikely to happen, as Mya is baseborn and House Redfort descends from First Men nobility.

A Storm of Swords

Mya is now nineteen years old, King Robert's eldest child.

A Feast for Crows

Myranda Royce reveals to "Alayne Stone" that Mya lost her virginity to Mychel. Mya still hoped for marriage, till the newly-knighted Mychel was ordered by his father, Lord Horton Redfort, to marry Ysilla Royce, daughter of Lord Yohn Royce.

Mya catches the eye of the older Ser Lothor Brune.

The Winds of Winter

Mya informs young Robert that Lady Anya Waynwood's party has arrived at the Gates of the Moon for the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. Alayne notices that Mya is unhappy with Mychel's presence at the castle, and also that the baseborn girl seems nervous around nobility.

Quotes by Mya

I promise you, my lady, no harm will come to you. It would be my honor to take you up. I've made the dark climb a hundred times. Mychel says my father must have been a goat.

- Mya to Catelyn Stark

Mychel says I have the eyes of the owl.

- Mya to Catelyn Stark

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust my father, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.

– Mya to "Alayne Stone"

Quotes about Mya

Mya's a clever girl, and if she vows she will bring you safely to the Lady Lysa, I believe her. She has not failed me yet.

- Nestor Royce to Catelyn Stark

She could be pretty, if she would dress up like a girl.

- thoughts of "Alayne Stone"

Alayne: Do you think Ser Lothor likes her as she is, in mail and leather? Or does he dream of her draped in silks and velvets?
Myranda: He's a man. He dreams of her naked.

- "Alayne Stone" and Myranda Royce

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Annotations from item #46268647:

Mycah is the son of a butcher who befriends Arya Stark.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Mycah

Rhodri Hosking as Mycah in the HBO adaptation

He is an ugly boy, with a rough face, freckles and red hair.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Mycah is a butcher's boy who Arya Stark befriends on the ride south from Winterfell to King's Landing. He sleeps in the meat wagon and smells accordingly. Just seeing him makes Sansa sick. Arya and Mycah start exploring together the lands through which the treck passes. Mycah shows Arya a lizard lion when they come through the Neck and, when they reach the Ruby Ford, they intend to search the Trident for rubies from the armor of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

He and Arya are practicing sword-fighting on the banks of the Trident. Mycah lands a hit on Arya's hand with his stick, just as Prince Joffrey and Sansa come upon them. Joffrey, slightly drunk on wine, is amused about the scene and only Sansa shouting at Arya makes him aware that this is her sister. Joffrey asks the boy who he is, but Mycah is too afraid to answer the prince. Sansa says that he's the butcher's boy, but Arya corrects her, introducing Mycah as her friend. Joffrey mocks that a butcher boy wants to be a knight, then suggests to fight Mycah himself, but with his sword Lion's Tooth rather than with a stick, asking Mycah whether he only dares to fight girls. Mycah insists that Arya asked him to fight her and Sansa realizes that he's telling the truth. However, Joffrey intimidates Mycah by asking him whether he knew he hurt his betrothed's sister. He lays the point of his sword on Mycah's cheek, drawing some blood. While Mycah is frozen in fear, Arya shouts that Joffrey should stop it, grabs her stick and, too late for Sansa to interfere, hits Joffrey on the head, causing a laceration. While Mycah flees the scene, Joffrey whirls around at Arya in anger and manages to defend himself against a second attack, splintering Arya's stick. Arya hurls a rock at Joffrey, but misses him. Joffrey goes after her, cursing. Before he can reach Arya, he is attacked by her direwolf Nymeria who mangles his sword arm, causing him to drop his sword and to whimper in pain. Arya picks up Lion's Tooth and throws it into the Trident, then runs away.

Arya is found after four days and brought before King Robert and Queen Cersei, who have taken the castle of Raymun Darry as their temporary residence while both banks of the Trident were searched for Arya and Mycah. Cersei accuses the two of having attacked Joffrey together, a version of events that is confirmed by Joffrey. Arya calls Joffrey a liar. They both present their very different stories. Then Sansa is called as witness. Afraid that contradicting Joffrey would put an end to their betrothal, Sansa claims she can't remember as everything went down so fast, arousing Arya's anger. King Robert decides that both Arya and Joffrey should be disciplined, but Queen Cersei insists that Sansa's direwolf Lady should be killed, in place for Nymeria who has vanished. As Lord Eddard Stark returns after he has put down the direwolf, he comes across Sandor Clegane, who has returned with a search party, carrying the body of Mycah in a cloak. The blow of the Hound's sword has almost cut the boy in half from shoulder to waist, as Eddard notices in horror.

The events cause a deep resentment in Arya against Cersei, Joffrey and the Hound. She believes in Jeyne Poole's elaborated version of the story, where Mycah's body was cut in so many pieces that, when the sack containing the remains was given to Mycah's father, the butcher believed he was handed a slaughtered pig. Arya is also angry with Sansa for not telling the truth about what happened and with her father and his men for allowing Mycah to be killed. She also feels guilt over his death, assuming that nothing would have happened to the butcher's boy if she hadn't talked him into practicing sword fighting. When she tells her father about this, Lord Eddard consoles her, explaining that this is solely the guilt of the Hound and of the cruel woman he serves.

Following the attack on Lord Eddard by Lannister men led by Ser Jaime Lannister, in which several Stark guards are killed, Arya says to Sansa that Jaime should be beheaded for this, as should the Hound for killing Mycah. When Sansa insists that the Hound is Joffrey's sworn shield and that Arya and Mycah attacked Joffrey, Arya calls her a liar.

A Storm of Swords

When Sandor Clegane is captured by Beric Dondarrion and the Brotherhood Without Banners, he is put on trial for the offences of the Lannister army in the Riverlands. After he denies the charges, Arya Stark informs them that Sandor is guilty of killing Mycah. While he does not deny killing Mycah, Sandor defends himself, saying that he was told the boy attacked Prince Joffrey and as his sworn shield he had a right to kill anyone who would harm the Prince. Since no one knows the truth of the charge, the Hound is forced to participate in a trial by combat. The Hound wins and is set free.




Annotations from item #46268648:

Mychel Redfort is a member of House Redfort, the youngest son of Lord Horton Redfort and squire to Ser Lyn Corbray.

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Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Mya Stone tells Lady Catelyn Tully that she will wed Mychel, the squire of Ser Lyn Corbray, when he is given his knighthood. However, Catelyn doubts a member of House Redfort would ever marry a bastard.

A Feast for Crows

While still a squire, Mychel took Mya's virginity.

Family




Annotations from item #46268649:

Mylenda Caron is a member of House Caron and married to Petyr Frey. They have one child, Perra Frey. It is unclear how she is related to the other members of House Caron. It seems likely that she is a sister of Lord Bryen Caron as Lord Caron's daughters all perished of an illness in 289 AC.

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History

She married Petyr when he was ten and she was three times his age.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Her husband Petyr had gone whoring when he was caught by the Brotherhood Without Banners. Merrett Frey believed he had gone whoring because Mylenda was sleeping with his brother, Black Walder.

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Annotation #1 for item #46268650: Wiki: Myles

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

Maester Myles is the maester at Sunspear. He is young and has a silky, perfumed beard.

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A Dance with Dragons

He is present at the feast when Balon Swann arrives in Sunspear to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane. He is the one who opens the box to reveal the Mountain's skull; his hands, normally deft, turned clumsy when trying to open the box.

Annotation #2 for item #46268650: Wiki: (squire) Myles

Myles is the squire for Ser Desmond Grell, the master-at-arms of Riverrun.

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A Clash of Kings

Four men sent as part of Ser Cleos Frey's honor guard of red cloaks from King's Landing attempt to free Ser Jaime Lannister from his cell at Riverrun. They are partially successful, managing to get him out of his cell. Once out, Jaime slays Poul Pemford and Myles before being subdued.




Annotations from item #46268651:

Ser Myles Greenfield was a knight of House Greenfield during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.

History

Myles participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.




Annotations from item #46268652:

Ser Myles Manwoody is a knight of House Manwoody. He is the brother of Dagos Manwoody, Lord of Kingsgrave.

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Ser Myles accompanied his brother, Lord Dagos, and his two nephews Mors and Dickon as part of the entourage of Prince Oberyn Martell when he came to King's Landing to claim the seat on the small council that Tyrion Lannister had offered the Prince of Dorne, Doran Martell.

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Annotations from item #46268653:

Ser Myles Mooton was a famous knight from House Mooton.

Character

Myles was a former squire and friend of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, alongside Ser Richard Lonmouth. He was the brother of Lord William Mooton of Maidenpool.

Ser Myles is remembered as being bold as brass, unlike his brother, Lord William, who is considered a coward.

History

Myles was knighted by Prince Rhaegar himself when he had won his spurs.

He was slain at the battle of the Bells by Robert Baratheon during Robert's Rebellion.




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Myles Smallwood was a member of House Smallwood renowned for his courage. He was a Hand of the King.

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History

Myles was made Hand of the King due to his famous courage. He was a disaster as the Hand and is now a warning for those who become Hands.

A Storm of Swords

On Dragonstone Davos Seaworth, who is now King Stannis Baratheon's Hand, thinks that he has risen to high due to his humble origins. Davos tells Maester Pylos that a King's Hand should be a highborn lord, someone wise and learned, a battle commander or a great knight. Maester Pylos reminds Davos Seaworth that Myles Smallwood was renowned for his courage but failed as Hand.




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Myles Toyne, also known as Blackheart, was a captain-general of the Golden Company and an exiled descendent of House Toyne.

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Appearance

Myles was not dark and handsome like his infamous forebear, Terrence Toyne. Instead, Myles was jug-eared, with a big nose and a crooked jaw.

History

Myles was a descendant of Ser Terrence Toyne, a knight of the Kingsguard caught abed with one of King Aegon IV's mistresses. Myles was known as *"Blackheart"* because of the sigil on his shield. He enjoyed the nickname and what it implied, as a captain should be feared by friends and foes alike; if people thought him cruel so much the better. However, Myles was not cruel. A soldier to the bone, he was firm but fair. His good friend Jon Connington considered Myles full of life.

After his death Myles' skull was dipped in gold and placed upon a company standard. He was succeeded as captain-general by Harry Strickland.

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A Dance with Dragons

When Jon Connington arrives at the Golden Company's encampment near Volon Therys, he contemplates the company's golden skulls ringing captain-general's tent. One of them is Myles Toyne's skull, Jon's old friend. He goes to look at the Myles's skull and sees that death has robbed Myles of his ears, his nose and all his warmth, and that only his smile remains, transformed into a glittering grin.




Annotations from item #46268656:

The Myraham is a trading cog

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Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

The Myraham is hired by Theon Greyjoy to take him from Seagard to Lordsport to treat with his father, Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands. Theon takes the captain's daughter to his bed.

A Storm of Swords

The Myraham is held for half a year at Lordsport by Balon, who now styles himself King of the Isles and the North. In the chaos resulting from the death of Balon at Pyke and the return of Euron Greyjoy, the captain slips anchor and returns to Seagard. The captain is brought by Lord Jason Mallister to tell his story to Robb Stark, King in the North, at Hag's Mire.




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Myranda is a servant of House Bolton of the Dreadfort and one of Ramsay Snow's bedwarmers. Her character was created specifically for the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* in which she is played by Charlotte Hope.

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Game of Thrones

Season Three

Myranda and another servant, Violet, enter the torture cellar in which Theon Greyjoy is kept hostage, release him and put him on a bed. Then they attempt to seduce him, claiming they have heard the heir to Pyke is "well endowed". Violet claims Myranda was in training to become a septa but her sexual urges kept her from taking the vows. Theon is initially distrustful but cannot help but grow aroused when Myranda, stripped of her clothes by Violet, straddles him. Suddenly, the girls are interrupted by a horn sounded by Ramsay Snow, who approaches his two servants and taunts Theon, telling him he too has heard about Theon's manhood, he then shows him a gelding knife. Myranda and Violet then watch as Theon is knocked down by Ramsay and held by two men while Ramsay proceeds to castrate him.

Season Four

Some time later, Myranda joins Ramsay in hunting another bedwarmer, Tansy, whom she is jealous of, through a forest near the Dreadfort. She enjoys seeing the terrified girl being chased by her master's hounds for a while, but eventually shoots her through the leg with an arrow, and moments later watches her being mauled to death by the dogs.

Myranda engages in sex with Ramsay as Yara Greyjoy and a group of ironborn climb over the walls of the Dreadfort to assault the castle.

Season Five

Myranda accompanies the rest of House Bolton to their new home, Winterfell. She is present when the Boltons and their household gather at the castle's main yard to greet the newly-arrived Petyr Baelish and Ramsay's new betrothed, Sansa Stark, whom she watches with obvious jealousy and anger.

While in Ramsay's bedroom, Myranda discusses Ramsay’s upcoming marriage to Sansa, admitting her jealousy of her, especially since Ramsay had promised to marry Myranda back when he was a bastard. Ramsay disregards Myranda's insecurities, causing Myranda to proclaim that perhaps she will marry too and leave him. This angers Ramsay, who violently tells her that she is his and she is not going anywhere, unless she continues to bore him with her petty jealousy. He threateningly reminds her what he does to people who bore him, and hearing this Myranda swears never to bore him again. He forces himself on her and she bites his lip before they have sex.

Later, as Sansa wanders around the castle, Myranda approaches her beside the tower where Bran Stark once fell from. Myranda puts on a friendly façade, talking to Sansa about her mother’s demise and offering her condolences. To help Sansa "remember" how things used to be before her family's untimely death, Myranda leads Sansa down to the kennels to reunite her with Theon.

The night of the wedding, Myranda is sent by Ramsay to draw Sansa's bath, an order neither woman is enthusiastic about. As she wrings the black dye out of Sansa's hair, Myranda advises her not to let Ramsay get bored of her, and tells her the fates of Violet, Tansy, and many other women. Sansa boldly asks if Myranda ever really believed that Ramsay would marry her, which stops the girl dead in her tracks. Sansa coolly declares that she is a Stark and Winterfell is her home: she refuses to be scared and nothing Myranda says will intimidate her. Silently fuming but unable to retaliate, Myranda asks if she is still needed. Sansa dismisses her. She is later present at Ramsay and Sansa's wedding, again looking on with jealousy as they are married.

During the battle between the Bolton soldiers and the forces of Stannis Baratheon, Myranda takes Theon and corners Sansa with a bow and arrow before she can escape under the orders of Ramsay to bring her to her bed chamber. After Sansa makes it clear that she is unafraid of death, Myranda admits that Ramsay needs Sansa alive in order to birth an heir to the North, though she still threatens to maim her with her arrow. Before she can release it, Theon grabs her, making her fire and miss. In the ensuing struggle, Theon ignores Myranda's pleas and throws her off the rampart to her death.

Season Six

Myranda's body is found and Ramsay pays his respects to her corpse. He remembers how they met when she was only eleven and that from the very start she never showed fear towards him. He ends his eulogy with a promise of revenge and then casually tells Maester Wolkan to feed her body to the dogs, so as not to waste her flesh.

Behind the Scenes

Myranda shares some similarities with the Bastard's Boys from the books, who assist Ramsay Snow with his atrocities, even though there is no mention of any women in the group. The oldest of the boys in the books is the castle's kennelmaster and as a reference to him, Myranda is revealed to be the kennelmaster's daughter on the show.

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Annotations from item #46268658:

Lady Myranda Lefford is a member of House Lefford and the wife of Ser Stafford Lannister.

History

Myranda is married to Ser Stafford Lannister, and has three children by him; Ser Daven, Cerenna and Myrielle Lannister.

Family




Annotations from item #46268659:

Myranda Royce, called Randa, is the daughter of Lord Nestor Royce.

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Appearance

She is short and fleshy and buxom. She has a small mouth, brown eyes, and brown curly hair.

History

Myranda was once married. Her husband died while having sex with her.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Sansa Stark thinks about being banished to the Gates of the Moon, hearing that Myranda keeps a lively household.

A Feast for Crows

Myranda ascended to the Eyrie with Mya Stone to help Lord Robert Arryn begin his descent to the Gates of the Moon. She enters a lively discussion with Sansa, attempting to weasel information out of her about herself and Petyr Baelish. Lord Nestor Royce tried to marry her to Harrold Hardyng but he was rebuffed by Lady Anya Waynwood.

Family




Annotations from item #46268660:

Princess Myrcella Baratheon is known to the Seven Kingdoms as the middle child of King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister. A member of House Baratheon of King's Landing, her siblings are Princes Joffrey and Tommen. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, she is played by Aimee Richardson (Seasons 1 and 2) and Nell Tiger Free (Season 5).

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Appearance and Character

See also: Images of Myrcella Baratheon

Myrcella has golden curls,

History

Following the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day, Myrcella and her siblings traveled with Cersei to Casterly Rock with their grandfather, Lord Tywin Lannister.

Myrcella has a garden at the Red Keep.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Myrcella Baratheon by Martina Pilcerova © Fantasy Flight Games

Princess Myrcella accompanies her father, King Robert Baratheon, north to visit Winterfell and the Starks. She is smitten with Robb Stark during the feast.

Myrcella and Tommen do not recognize a dirty Arya Stark when she chases cats in King's Landing.

Lord Eddard Stark, the new Hand of the King, discovers that Myrcella and her siblings are not the biological children of Robert, but actually of Cersei's twin brother, Ser Jaime Lannister.

After Robert's death, Myrcella is in the throne room when Eddard confronts Cersei and is betrayed by Lord Petyr Baelish.

A Clash of Kings

Myrcella attends the tourney on King Joffrey's name day.

In an effort to win Dorne to the side of House Lannister in the War of the Five Kings, Myrcella's uncle, Tyrion Lannister, offers to marry her to Trystane Martell, the youngest son of Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne.

A Storm of Swords

Myrcella arrives at Sunspear and befriends Princess Arianne and Prince Trystane, the children of Prince Doran.

After the death of King Joffrey at his wedding, Prince Oberyn Martell reminds Tyrion that according to Dornish law, Myrcella should succeed to the Iron Throne rather than her younger brother, King Tommen I.

A Feast for Crows

Myrcella with Ser Arys Oakheart - by Sacha Angel Diener ©

Myrcella adapts quickly to spicy Dornish cuisine, unlike her bodyguard, Ser Arys. She also enjoys playing *cyvasse* with Prince Trystane. Doran intends to bring the princess to the Water Gardens when he departs Sunspear.

Following the death of her father, Oberyn, Tyene Sand suggests to her uncle, Prince Doran, that Myrcella be crowned queen in accordance with Dornish law.

To get revenge against the Lannisters for the deaths of Oberyn and Elia Martell, Arianne schemes to crown Myrcella queen after Joffrey's death, since Myrcella is older than Tommen. Arianne hopes that the Dornishmen will rise to defend her claim for a chance to war against the Lannisters, who would be expected to support Tommen.

Arianne and a small group of friends travel with Myrcella through the desert, leaving the princess's cousin and handmaiden, Rosamund Lannister, as a decoy in Sunspear. Myrcella is claimed to be suffering from redspots to prevent Trystane from interfering. When they come to their destination on the Greenblood, Doran's guardsmen are waiting for them, for their conspiracy has been betrayed. Myrcella's bodyguard, Ser Arys Oakheart, attacks the guardsmen, but is killed by their captain, Areo Hotah. During the chaos, Ser Gerold Dayne, called Darkstar, strikes at Myrcella to force Doran into a war against the Lannisters.

One of the new dromonds for the royal fleet is named *Princess Myrcella* by Tommen in honor of his sister.

A Dance with Dragons

Having fled in exile to Pentos, Tyrion considers crowning Myrcella but is convinced by Illyrio Mopatis to support Daenerys Targaryen.

Ser Balon Swann arrives at Sunspear, where he tells Prince Doran that King Tommen wishes his sister to return to King's Landing for a visit, inviting along Myrcella's betrothed, Prince Trystane. Doran assures the knight they will see Myrcella at the Water Gardens.

During a private conversation with Doran and the Sand Snakes, Arianne tells Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand that Myrcella will tell Balon that her Kingsguard, Arys, had been slain by Gerold Dayne, and that Gerold had tried to kill Myrcella as well. Prince Doran is convinced Myrcella will ask Balon to hunt down Gerold, and that Balon will not be able to refuse. Meanwhile, he decides that Myrcella will, indeed, return to King's Landing, in the company of Nym.

Reflecting in the riverlands, Jaime Lannister thinks he will need to tell Myrcella the truth about her paternity, though the Dornishmen will not like it.

During her imprisonment by the Faith, Cersei Lannister learns of Gerold's attack on her daughter from her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister. Kevan tells her that Myrcella blames Darkstar for both the attack on her, as well as the death of Arys.

Quotes by Myrcella

Joffrey: Don't be childish.
Myrcella: We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Joffrey Baratheon and Myrcella

Quotes about Myrcella

She had all of her mother's beauty, and none of her nature.

—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister

Sansa: A royal wheelhouse is no place for a wolf. And Princess Myrcella is afraid of them, you know that.
Arya: Myrcella is a little baby.

Sansa Stark and Arya Stark

She is so pretty, don't you think? I wish that I had curls like hers. She was made to be a queen, just like her mother.

Tyene Sand to Doran Martell

I love Myrcella as a daughter.

Arys Oakheart to Arianne Martell

The truth was, the princess was braver than her brother, and brighter and more confident as well. Her wits were quicker, her courtesies more polished. Nothing daunted her, not even Joffrey.

—thoughts of Arys Oakheart

Protect Myrcella with your life. Defend her... and her rights. Set a crown upon her head.

Arianne Martell to Arys Oakheart

Ser Arys was still dead, and Myrcella ... I never wanted that, never. I meant the girl no harm. All I wanted was for her to be a queen. If we had not been betrayed ...

—thoughts of Arianne Martell

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House Baratheon

House Lannister




Annotations from item #46268661:

Myres was a maester of the Citadel who served as Grand Maester during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen.

History

After returning to King's Landing following his victory at the battle at the Great Fork, King Maegor declared his intent to take Tyanna as his new wife. Grand Maester Myres dared to speak against the marriage openly, stating that Maegor's true wife awaited at the Hightower. King Maegor heard him out in silence before drawing Blackfyre and killing Myres where he stood.

Myres was one of three Grand Maesters that were executed during Maegor's reign.




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Myria Jordayne is a member of House Jordayne, the daughter and heir of Lord Trebor Jordayne of the Tor.

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Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Myria is part of the escort that accompanies Prince Oberyn Martell to King's Landing when he comes to the city to claim his brother's seat on the small council.

A Feast of Crows

She returns to Dorne along with most of the other Dornish nobles to bring Prince Oberyns bones to Sunspear.

A Dance with Dragons

She is present at the feast when Balon Swann arrives in Sunspear to deliver the head of Ser Gregor Clegane. She drinks when Ricasso raises a toast to King Tommen Baratheon.




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Myriame Manderly was a member of House Manderly and Lady of Winterfell. She married Lord Rodwell Stark, son of Lord Brandon Stark, but they had no issue.




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Myrielle Lannister is a member of House Lannister. She is the daughter of Ser Stafford Lannister and Myranda Lefford.

Family




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Myrio Myrakis is a Pentoshi sellsword and member of the Windblown.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Myrio Myrakis was part of the Siege of Astapor.




Annotations from item #46268666:

Myrish fire is a medical ointment from the Free City of Myr. It is often used to clean a wound and burns on contact.




Annotations from item #46268667:

Myrmello is a mummer of the Ship.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Myrmello plays the priest at the weddings of the Sailor's Wife at the Happy Port when Septon Eustace and the red priest Ezzelyno are not available. Merry claims that the mummers are much better priests than the priests, especially Myrmello.




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Myrtle is a wildling spearwife. She is gaunt with grey-hair.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

She accompanies Mance Rayder along with five other spearwives to Winterfell on a mission to free "Arya Stark" (the girl is actually Jeyne Poole) who is to wed Ramsay Snow. Mance disguised himself as "Abel", a singer and the six spearwives are his mother, wife, two daughters and two sisters who perform the instruments with him. She is Abel's mother.

They play at the wedding feast




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Lady Mysaria was a dancer from Lys. Lyseni prostitutes and her rivals dubbed her Misery, the White Worm, because of her pale appearance and her reputation.

History

Mysaria was taken as a lover by Prince Daemon Targaryen in King's Landing, and she quickly became his favorite. Around 105 AC, Mysaria became pregnant with Daemon's child while living at Dragonstone. Daemon gave her a dragon egg for the child, which angered King Viserys I Targaryen. The king ordered Daemon to return the egg and send Mysaria back to Lys. On her return to Lys, she lost the child during a storm on the narrow sea.

During the Dance of the Dragons, Mysaria was involved in the assassination of Prince Jaehaerys, a son of King Aegon II Targaryen, when Daemon desired revenge for the death of his stepson, Prince Lucerys Velaryon. She was Daemon's go-between, a "pale stranger" whom he trusted, who hired the assassins, Blood and Cheese.

At some point Mysaria became Daemon's mistress of whisperers.

Legacy

Brynden Rivers was a Hand of the King also said to have "rivaled Lady Misery" as a master of whispers.




Annotations from item #46268670:

This is about a type of tournament contestant. For the novella, see The Mystery Knight.

Duncan the Tall as a mystery knight - by Marc Simonetti ©

A mystery knight is a contestant at a tournament that competes without revealing his identity. The contestant may or may not reveal his identity later. Mystery knights choose to conceal their names for a variety of reasons.

Description

When Meera Reed tells Bran Stark of the Knight of the Laughing Tree, who competed in the Tourney at Harrenhal, Bran recalls from his education: "Mystery knights would oft appear at tourneys, with helms concealing their faces, and shields that were either blank or bore some strange device."

Examples

Besides the Knight of the Laughing Tree, other mystery knights include:




Annotations from item #46268671:

The mêlée at Last Hearth was a great tourney held by House Umber at Last Hearth in 170 AC. At least eighteen participants were killed and at least twenty seven men were maimed during the contest.




Annotations from item #46268672:

N'ghai is a small kingdom in the Further East of Essos.

Location

N'ghai is located between the Plains of the Jogos Nhai to the south west and the forests of Mossovy to the east. The kingdom's only remaining city, Nefer, is located at the mouth of a river which ends in the Shivering Sea. North of N'ghai are the Thousand Islands, while to the southeast are the Bleeding Sea and the Cannibal Sands.

History

Corlys Velaryon was the first Westerosi to reach the shores of N'ghai,

The constant raids and attacks from the Jogos Nhai against N'ghai have greatly reduced the kingdom, to the point that its sole remaining city is Nefer.




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Naath

Northern Sothoryos and the location of Naath

Naath, known to the ancients as the Isle of Butterflies,

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Geography

Naath is west of the Basilisk Isles and northern Sothoryos. It is located east of the southernmost and largest of the Summer Isles, Jhala, and due south of the Valyrian peninsula. Naath is separated from Jhala and Valyria by large stretches of the Summer Sea.

People

Naathi have a unique look to them with flat faces, dark skin and golden eyes.

Culture

The Naath believe in one god, the Lord of Harmony, who has existed and will exist for all time. He is the source of creation.

Naathi revere butterflies as messengers of the Lord of Harmony, charged with protection of the island and its people. These legends come from the butterfly fever that has laid waste to conquerors throughout history.

Economy

Before the slaver raids intensified significantly after the Doom of Valyria, the Naathi were involved in long-distance trade networks stretching from Essos to Westeros. Given that the island's environment is well-suited for insect life, Naath used to be a major exporter of silk from silkworm caterpillars. The Naathi also exported fine handicrafts and delicate spiced wine. The Naathi's shimmering silks could be found in markets throughout the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities. The slaver raids became so frequent after the Doom, however, that the Naathi abandoned their coasts to take refuge in the hills and forests of the interior. As a result the export trade has largely collapsed in the past four hundred years, and Naathi silks are less and less frequently seen in the world's major cities.

History

During the height of the Old Empire of Ghis, one of their ships briefly landed in the Summer Isles, alerting their inhabitants that lands and peoples existed beyond their own waters. Explorers from the isles then landed on Naath to the east. seized Naath three times.

The Valyrian Freehold eventually erected on Naath a fort whose ruined walls of fused dragonstone can still be seen. A company of Volantene adventurers built a trade town with timber palisades and slave pens. Corsairs from the Basilisk Isles have landed on the island countless times. None of these invaders survived, however, all falling victim to the butterfly fever, a horrific plague which makes its victims violently spasm and die. The Naathi are immune to this local disease, which is theorized to be carried by the butterflies of the island. The Naathi claim that none of these invaders maintained a permanent presence on the island for more than a single year.

A thousand years ago, the ten thousand ships of Rhoynar refugees led by Princess Nymeria stopped at Naath after fleeing from their failed attempt to settle in Sothoryos. The Peaceful People welcomed Nymeria and her followers, but the butterfly fever began to kill Rhoynar by the score, driving them back to their ships. After their brief stop at Naath the Rhoynar passed farther west to the Summer Isles.

Slavers and corsairs learned to limit their time on the island, instead capturing the Peaceful People in nighttime raids. The captives were then sold in Valyria and Slaver's Bay.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Daenerys Targaryen meets Missandei, who is from Naath.

A Dance with Dragons

Daenerys, Queen of Meereen, offers to send Missandei back to Naath after the death of her brother, Mossador, but the scribe declines.

Quotes

Daenerys: Come. Sit. Talk with me.

Missandei: If it please you. What shall we talk of?

Daenerys': Home. Naath. Butterflies and brothers. Tell me of the things that make you happy, the things that make you giggle, all your sweetest memories. Remind me that there is still good in the world.

- Daenerys Targaryen and Missandei




Annotations from item #46268674:

Queen Naerys Targaryen was a member of House Targaryen and the sister-wife to King Aegon IV, who was known as the Unworthy. Naerys was the sister of Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, and the mother of King Daeron II Targaryen and Princess Daenerys Targaryen.

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Appearance

Naerys had the Targaryen looks, a fine and delicate beauty, almost unworldy. She was slender and small, with big purple eyes and fine, pale, porcelain skin, near translucent.

Naerys dressed well, but simply, and seldom wore her crown or any other jewelry. Though she had the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, she often bound it up beneath a hair net or concealed it beneath a cowl.

History

Youth

Naerys was the only daughter and youngest child of King Viserys II Targaryen and Larra Rogare.

Naerys loved music and poetry, played the harp well, and enjoyed sewing and embroidering. She was also devout in her faith, and often found solace in the pages of *The Seven-Pointed Star*.

Naerys loved Prince Aemon the most out of her two brothers, as he knew how to make her laugh. Aemon was also more like Naerys in character, while Prince Aegon was not. Yet, in 153 AC, Naerys was married to Aegon at their father's orders. The singers like to claim that both Aemon and Naerys wept during the ceremony, but the truth is different: Aemon is known to have quarreled with Aegon during the feast, and Naerys wept during the bedding, not the actual wedding.

Married life

On the last day of 153 AC, Naerys gave birth for the first time, to a son named Daeron. His birth was difficult for Naerys, however, and Grand Maester Alford warned her that another pregnancy could kill her.

The marriage of Aegon and Naerys was an unhappy one. Aegon is known to have stated that he had loved nine women in his entire lifetime, yet Naerys was not counted as being among those.

Throughout the years, Naerys went through several more difficult pregnancies, despite Alford's warning that another pregnancy could kill her. In 161 AC, Naerys nearly died giving birth to twins,

In 172 AC, Naerys gave birth to a second set of twins. The boy was stillborn, but the girl, Princess Daenerys, survived. Yet again, this delivery caused Naerys to linger near death, and Aegon's Hand of the King, Lord Bracken, went as far as to speak openly about marrying his own daughter Barba (who had given birth to the king's bastard Aegor Rivers a fortnight before Naerys had gone into labor) to Aegon, after Naerys's expected eventual death. However, Naerys eventually recovered, and the scandal caused Lord Bracken to be removed from his office.

Naerys died in childbirth a year after Prince Aemon's death. The child, never mentioned again, most likely died as well.

Rumors of Daeron's parentage

After Naerys's husband became King Aegon IV Targaryen, rumors that their son Daeron had not been fathered by Aegon, but by their brother, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, started being spread. The truth of this claim has never been proven or disproven, though the singers claim Naerys loved Aemon, and Aemon loved her.

The writings of Maester Kaeth in the *Lives of Four Kings* state that it was King Aegon IV who secretly started the rumors of Naerys's adultery, using Morgil to spread this tale, though the king denied this at the time. These accusations only started when Aegon and Daeron quarreled in 174 AC, when Daeron opposed his father's plan for an unprovoked war against Dorne.

Prince Aemon once won a tourney as a mystery knight so he could name Naerys the queen of love and beauty, instead of said title going to one of Aegon's mistresses.

Aemon eventually died defending Aegon from two men from House Toyne who attempted to murder him to avenge their brother, Ser Terrence Toyne of the Kingsguard. Naerys did not long survive Aemon's death, as she died in childbirth a year later. King Aegon, who had already slighted both Naerys and Aemon at every previous chance in the past, did little to honor either of his siblings' memories. Daring to go further now that the Dragonknight was dead, Aegon also began to make more references to Daeron's alleged parentage.

As far as is known, there are only rumors about Daeron's parentage, with no one having questioned the paternity of Daenerys, the only other child of Naerys who lived past infancy.

Family




Annotations from item #46268675:

Nage is an man sworn to House Bolton. He is small and round.

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Nage is a part of Ser Jaime Lannister's escort from Harrenhal to King's Landing, under command of Steelshanks Walton. He bears the peace banner for the guards, a seven-tailed rainbow banner with the staff topped by a seven-pointed star.




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Nagga fighting the Grey King

Nagga was a legendary sea dragon said to live during the Age of Heroes, and was slain by the Grey King.

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Legend

According to the ironborn legend, Nagga was the first sea dragon, able to feed on krakens and leviathans and drown islands when angry. The Grey King, helped by the Drowned God, managed to slay her on the shores of the island Old Wyk and built there his hall out of her bones. Her jaws became his throne and her teeth made his crown. He warmed his hall with her living fire. However, when the Grey King died, the Storm God drowned out her fire and the sea took the throne. Only her bones that made the pillars and beams remain.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Euron Greyjoy is chosen King of the Iron Islands in a kingsmoot held amongst the sea dragon's bones at Nagga's Hill.




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Nagga's Cradle separates Old Wyk from Great Wyk

Nagga's Cradle is a bay between the coasts of Old Wyk and Great Wyk..

Recent Events

Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy leads the Iron Fleet into Nagga's Cradle and sets anchor in the bay. Feasting tents are raised between the tideline and Nagga's Hill in preparation of the kingsmoot on Old Wyk.

Chapters that take place at Nagga's Cradle




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Nagga's hill

The Iron Islands and the location of Nagga's hill

Nagga's hill is located on the island of Old Wyk in the Iron Islands. It is the site of the Grey King's Hall, where in past times, the ironborn chose their kings in a kingsmoot.

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Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

At Pebbleton, Aeron Greyjoy preaches that a kingsmoot should be held at Nagga's hill to choose the new king.

The kingsmoot is held at Nagga's hill, choosing Euron Greyjoy king.

© Fantasy Flight Games

Chapters that take place at Nagga's hill




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Naggle is the innkeep of the the Old Stone Bridge, an inn that lies along the road to Duskendale.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Naggle refuses to let Ser Creighton Longbough stay in his inn because Creighton still owes him seven silver stags. Brienne of Tarth offers to pay Naggle for lodgings of both Ser Creighton and Ser Illifer, which Naggle accepts.




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Nahsa is a fermented goat's milk consumed in Norvos. The fermented milk is laced with honey and served in an iron cup.




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Nail is an apprentice to the Second Sons blacksmith and armorer known as Hammer.

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Appearance

He is a wiry red-haired youth.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Nail admits Tyrion Lannister and Penny to the wagons at the forge when they arrive to pick out some company steel after signing with the Second Sons




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A name day is the Westerosi equivalent to a birthday. The day a child is born he/she is also given a name that day so a person's age is recorded with his/her name day as the beginning. The only exception is for free folk births, as they do not name their children until their child reaches the age of two.




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Westerosi Common Tongue has the habit of applying traditional names for specific parts of the nighttime.

Known names

Known to exist are:




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Translations of house names




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Narbert is a brother and proctor of the order on the Quiet Isle.

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

As the proctor whose day it is to speak, Brother Narbert is one of the three brothers who greet Septon Meribald, Brienne of Tarth, Ser Hyle Hunt, and Podrick when they first arrive at the Quiet Isle. He directs them to their quarters and then introduces them to the Elder Brother.




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Ser Narbert Grandison is a knight of House Grandison in the service of King Stannis Baratheon. He is one of the queen's men.

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A Dance with Dragons

As one of the queen's sworn swords,




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Narbo, better known as Little Narbo, is a dockside cutpurse and thief in Braavos.

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Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

He was Tagganaro's partner until he lost the use of three fingers after being stabbed in the hand by the Drunken Daughter. As he can no longer be a cutpurse he plans to become an oarsman.

Quotes about Narbo

Narbo was good at picking pockets, not so good at picking whores.

Tagganaro




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Narha Otherys was the second of the three bastard children of King Aegon IV Targaryen and his fourth mistress, Bellegere Otherys.

History

After Princess Naerys Targaryen had almost died, giving birth in 161 AC, her husband, Prince Aegon was send to Braavos as an envoy, so Naerys would have sufficient time to recover. In Braavos, Aegon met Bellegere Otherys, with whom he started an affair. Aegon and Bellegere had an affair for ten years, during which Bellegere gave birth to three children: Bellanora, Narha and Balerion. Their paternity remains doubtful, as Bellegere is said to have had a husband in every port she visited.

Family




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The Narraqqa is an old galley.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

The Narraqqa is one of the thirteen galleys Xaro Xhoan Daxos sails with from Qarth to Meereen. He tries to persuade Daenerys Targaryen to leave Slaver's Bay and go to Westeros by offering the ships to her; Daenerys thinks the galleys were provided by the Thirteen. Groleo determines the ship needs a new rudder and lines. Daenerys declines Xaro's offer.




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Autumn storms are common - by Marc Fishman ©

The narrow sea is the sea between the continent of Westeros to its west and the continent of Essos to its east. The sea is relatively narrow and easy to cross, but large enough to make large-scale invasions and military incursions between the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities difficult. There is regular trade across the narrow sea between the two continents.

The narrow sea can be rough in autumn, when storms are common. In winter, the storms are worse but less frequent..

Westerosi nobles—such as Bradamar Frey, Oberyn Martell, Aerion Targaryen, and Laena Velaryon—are sometimes fostered or seek refuge in the cities across the water.

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Geography

The narrow sea separates Westeros from Essos.

The narrow sea connects the Shivering Sea in the north, the Sea of Dorne in the west, the Sea of Myrth in the east, and the Summer Sea in the south, which it is separated from by the island chain known as the Stepstones.

Westeros

The narrow sea begins along the eastern coast of northern Westeros. The nearby Shivering Sea is generally held to begin north of the Wall,.

Located in or near the Bite are the Three Sisters, White Harbor, and Oldcastle. Settlements of the Vale of Arryn along the sea include Old Anchor, Runestone, and Gulltown. Across the Bay of Crabs to the south is Crackclaw Point with the Whispers in the crownlands.

The Gullet separates the narrow sea from Blackwater Bay, upon which are located King's Landing and Duskendale. Lords of the narrow sea sworn to Dragonstone include House Celtigar of Claw Isle, House Velaryon of Driftmark, House Sunglass of Sweetport Sound, and House Bar Emmon of Sharp Point..

The isle of Tarth and the Straits of Tarth separate the narrow sea from Shipbreaker Bay. Located on Tarth is Evenfall Hall. South of Tarth on Cape Wrath in the stormlands are Rain House near the rainwood and the Weeping Town, and nearby is Greenstone on the isle of Estermont.

South across the Sea of Dorne is Ghost Hill in Dorne. East of the Sea of Dorne are the Stepstones.

Essos

The Free City of Braavos is located in a lagoon in northwestern Essos, where the narrow sea meets the Shivering Sea. South of Braavos is the Braavosian Coastland, which stetches to Andalos.

East from Massey's Hook across the narrow sea is the Bay of Pentos, with the Free City of Pentos. Further south is the Sea of Myrth with the Free City of Myr.

The Free City of Tyrosh is located on an island near the Stepstones and the Disputed Lands of southwestern Essos.

Stepstones

The Stepstones, including Bloodstone, and Grey Gallows, divide the narrow sea from the Summer Sea to the south. Tyrosh is on the northeasternmost of the Stepstones.

History

Cliffs along the narrow sea. Illustrated by Trevor Cook. © Fantasy Flight Games

The First Men of antiquity crossed the Arm of Dorne from Essos to Westeros. According to legend, however, the hammer of the waters shattered the land bridge and created the Stepstones between the narrow sea and the Summer Sea.

After conquering the Old Empire of Ghis, the Valyrian Freehold expanded west and established several colonies, which are now called the Free Cities.

Princess Nymeria led ten thousand ships of the Rhoynar across the narrow sea to Dorne after the Valyrians defeated them in the Rhoynish Wars.

Overcoming the resistance of the local lords of the narrow sea, Dragonstone was raised as the westernmost outpost of the Valyrian Freehold.

King's Landing, which was built after Aegon's Conquest, surpassed Duskendale as the largest Westerosi port of the narrow sea.

Prince Daemon Targaryen claimed to be King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea, but he was opposed by the Kingdom of the Three Daughters..

In the aftermath of Robert's Rebellion, the fleet of House Targaryen at Dragonstone was destroyed by a fierce storm. Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen were smuggled across the narrow sea by Ser Willem Darry before the assault on Dragonstone.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Rodrik Cassel is seasick while traveling on the rough narrow sea from White Harbor to King's Landing.

Lord Tywin Lannister brings the Brave Companions across the narrow sea.

A Clash of Kings

Stannis Baratheon hires sellswords from the Free Cities across the narrow sea.

Stannis's royal fleet sails from Storm's End to King's Landing before the Battle of the Blackwater, but the ships are scattered and delayed by a storm in the narrow sea.

Tyrion Lannister sends his niece, Princess Myrcella Baratheon, to Dorne via Braavos.

A Storm of Swords

Stannis grants the title of Admiral of the Narrow Sea to Davos.

A Feast for Crows

Arya Stark sails on the *Titan's Daughter* from Saltpans to Braavos.

Word spreads across the narrow sea that Queen Regent Cersei Lannister seeks her brother, Tyrion Lannister, and will reward his captor with a lordship.

The raid on Saltpans occurs when some of the Brave Companions are unable to find transport across the sea.

A Dance with Dragons

Varys smuggles Tyrion from King's Landing to Pentos.

Eastwatch at the Wall

Quotes

Robert: This Khal Drogo is said to have a hundred thousand men in his horde. What would Jon say to that?
Eddard: He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea. The barbarians have no ships. They hate and fear the open sea.

- Robert I Baratheon and Eddard Stark

Autumn in the narrow sea could often be wet and rainy, he remembered from years past.

- thoughts of Davos Seaworth

Tyrion: In Westeros, the word of a Lannister is considered good as gold.
Inkpots: This is not Westeros. On this side of the narrow sea, we put our promises on paper. Debts written on the wind tend to be ... forgotten, shall we say?

- Tyrion Lannister and Inkpots

Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.

- Stannis Baratheon to Justin Massey




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Nate is a serving man and maester's assistant.

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Recent Events

The Winds of Winter

Nate is one of Princess Arianne Martell's six companions on her journey to meet Jon Connington in the Stormlands. He tends the seven ravens from the Water Gardens,

Quotes

Arianne Martell: He is twice your age. A serving man. He cleans up birdshit for the maester. Elia, what were you thinking?
Elia Sand: We were only kissing. I’m not going to marry him.




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Naylin was the maester who wrote *Rubies and Iron*.




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The Neck

The north and the location of the Neck

Swamps of the Neck. © FFG

The Neck is one of the southernmost regions of the north. Covered in swamp and bog, it divides the north from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.

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Landscape

The Neck is inhabited by crannogmen, who are led by House Reed of Greywater Watch. It contains huge flowers, lizard-lions, and many snakes. The trees are half-drowned and covered in fungus, and beneath the water, quicksand will drown anyone who attempts to walk the waters.

The kingsroad passes through the Neck. Due to the difficult terrain it becomes the narrow causeway, which is the only safe route to travel through the swamps of the Neck during times of peace. At the northern end of the causeway stand the formidable ruins of Moat Cailin.

History

According to legend, the Neck turned into a swamp when greenseers used the hammer of the waters. Some maesters instead believe the landscape was caused by a natural event.

The Neck was originally an independent realm ruled by the Marsh Kings, until King Rickard Stark of Winterfell defeated the last Marsh King and married his daughter, annexing the Neck to the domain of the Kings of Winter.

King Benedict the Just, founder of House Justman, extended his domains to border the Neck during his long reign.

During Aegon's Conquest, King Torrhen Stark marched an army south through the Neck to the Trident, but he ultimately choose to kneel in submission to Aegon I Targaryen.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

The retinue of King Robert I Baratheon traverses the Neck by taking the causeway; the southern leg takes twelve days of travel.

Robb Stark sends word to Lord Howland Reed to have the crannogmen defend the Neck against the Lannisters.

A Clash of Kings

Avoiding the Neck, the Iron Fleet under Victarion Greyjoy sail the Fever River and seize Moat Cailin from the north, claiming it for Balon Greyjoy, King of the Isles and the North.

A Storm of Swords

As part of his plan to retake Moat Cailin after the death of Balon, Robb orders Galbart Glover and Maege Mormont to Seagard. They are then to sail up the Neck on Malliser longships to find Greywater Watch so that the crannogmen can direct Robb's army around the rear of the ancient fortress., however.

A Feast for Crows

Black Walder Frey tracks a hooded woman's outlaws north of Hag's Mire until they disappear into the Neck.

A Dance with Dragons

The ironborn garrison at Moat Cailin is weakened by guerrilla warfare conducted by the crannogmen. The host of Lord Roose Bolton travels through the Neck and past Moat Cailin after it is surrendered to his son, Ramsay.

Quotes

When we were crossing the Neck, I counted thirty-six flowers I never saw before, and Mycah showed me a lizard-lion.

- Arya Stark to Sansa Stark

Two hundred determined archers can hold the Neck against an army.

- Eddard Stark to Catelyn Stark

The Neck is the key to the kingdom.

- Balon Greyjoy to Victarion Greyjoy

A dozen streams drain the wetwood, all shallow, silty, and uncharted. I would not even call them rivers. The channels are ever drifting and changing. There are endless sandbars, deadfalls, and tangles of rotting trees. And Greywater Watch moves.

- Jason Mallister to Robb Stark




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Necromancy is a type of magic seemingly involving the manipulation of life and death.

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History

The legendary Bloodstone Emperor, the last God-Emperor of the equally mythic Great Empire of the Dawn, is said to have practiced necromancy, among other forbidden actions that ushered in the Long Night.

According to semi-canon sources, Morgon Banefort, the last Hooded King,

Dagon Drumm, a legendary ironborn raider of House Drumm during the Age of Heroes, was known as "Dagon Drumm the necromancer".

Necromancy is rumored to be practiced in Qohor, along with divination and blood magic.

Some members of House Hightower are rumored to have dabbled in necromancy.

Recent events

A Clash of Kings

Qyburn, a former maester and member of the Brave Companions, is rumored by the servants at Harrenhal to practice black magic and necromancy.

A Feast for Crows

Qyburn confirms he was expelled from the Citadel, stripped of his chain and his position as a maester, for his experiments in necromancy and subjecting living people to vivisection.




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Ned was the ferryman on the lake next to Whitewalls. He did not like crossing the lake at night.




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Ned Woods, known as Noseless Ned, is a member of House Woods. A man of the wolfswood sworn to House Glover of Deepwood Motte.

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Appearance

He lost the tip of his nose to frostbite two winters ago.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Ned is one of the men of the wolfswood that Lady Sybelle Glover sends with Stannis Baratheon as scouts to lead his army to Winterfell.




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Arya Stark practicing her needlework - by Oozn ©

Needle is a small, slender sword owned by Arya Stark.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Needle

The thin sword is suitable to Arya's slight build and the style of fencing used by bravos of the Free Cities.

Recent Events

Depiction of Needle

A Game of Thrones

Before leaving for the Night's Watch, Jon Snow commissions Mikken to make the sword for his sister, Arya Stark. The girl names it Needle as an ironic reference to her hatred of needlework.

In King's Landing, Lord Eddard Stark hires Syrio Forel, a water dancer from Braavos, to train Arya.

A Clash of Kings

While travelling north, Arya continually practices at swordplay. She loses the sword to Polliver when she is captured by Ser Gregor Clegane and the Mountain's men in the riverlands.

A Storm of Swords

Arya arrives at the inn at the crossroads in the custody of Sandor Clegane. There she spots Polliver carrying Needle, accompanied by the Tickler. Arya and the Hound cross these two names off her list, and Arya retrieves her sword.

A Feast for Crows

When Arya has to give up all her possessions to train to become a servant of the Many-Faced God, she cannot bring herself to give up Needle. She hides the sword in a crack in the stairs leading to the House of Black and White.

Quotes

Arya: It's so skinny.
Jon: So are you. I had Mikken make this special. The bravos use swords like this in Pentos and Myr and the other Free Cities. It won't hack a man's head off, but it can poke him full of holes if you're fast enough.

Arya Stark and Jon Snow

Stick 'em with the pointy end.

Jon Snow to Arya Stark

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile.

- thoughts of Arya Stark

The Many-Faced God can have the rest, but he can't have this.

- thoughts of Arya Stark




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Nefer, referred to by travelers as the Secret City, is the capital of N'ghai,

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City

Location

Nefer is a port city located in the Further East of Essos, at the mouth of a river which ends into the Shivering Sea. North of Nefer are the Thousand Islands, while south of the city lie the Plains of the Jogos Nhai, the Bleeding Sea, and the Cannibal Sands. To the east stretch the remnants of the kingdom of N'ghai and the forests of Mossovy.

Layout

Shrouded by fog, Nefer is surrounded by tall chalk cliffs. When seen from the harbor, it appears to be no more than a small town. Nine-tenths of Nefer is said to be beneath underground, however, giving the city its nickname of the Secret City.

History

Wars with the Jogos Nhai strongly reduced N'ghai to Nefer and its hinterlands.

Corlys Velaryon was the first Westerosi to visit Nefer.




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Nella is a wildling wife of Craster.

History

Nella has born six sons for Craster, all of them left to die.




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The Nessaria was a merchant cog during the Dance of the Dragons.

History

While returning from Pentos to Volantis, the Nessaria was battered by a storm and driven off course to Dragonstone. Its sailors witnessed Sunfyre fighting Grey Ghost near the Dragonmont, and the tale soon spread throughout the island. Remembering the golden scales of Sunfyre, Tom Tangletongue led a group in search of Aegon II Targaryen's dragon.




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Lord Nestor Royce is the senior member of a cadet branch of House Royce and Keeper of the Gates of the Moon. He has been High Steward of the Vale for the fourteen years prior to Lord Jon Arryn's death.

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Appearance

See also: Images of Nestor Royce

Nestor is a massive, barrel-chested man.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Lord Nestor is rejected as a possible groom for Lady Lysa Arryn. He greets Lady Catelyn Stark and her companions when they visit the Gates of the Moon en route to the Eyrie.

A Storm of Swords

Nestor's frolicsome daughter, Myranda Royce, keeps the Gates of the Moon for her father.

A Feast for Crows

In his position as High Steward of the Vale Nestor is also caretaker of the Gates of the Moon. Because he virtually ruled the Vale for so long, Nestor feels he is owed for his long years of service. In order to secure his loyalty, Lord Protector Petyr Baelish grants him hereditary lordship over the keep after the War of the Five Kings, forming House Royce of the Gates of the Moon. The parchment contains the Arryn seal, but was signed by Petyr as Lysa was murdered before she could sign it.

Family




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Nettles, also known as Netty, was a dragonseed and the first and possibly last dragonrider of the dragon Sheepstealer.

Appearance and Character

Netty was a small brown-skinned girl with black hair and brown eyes. She was skinny, foul-mouthed, filthy and fearless. She was sixteen years old at the start of the Dance of the Dragons.

History

During the civil war, when it was decided by Prince Jacaerys Velaryon that the blacks needed more dragonriders, several "dragonseeds" on Dragonstone came forward to answer the prince's call. Nettles was able to tame the wild dragon Sheepstealer by bringing it a freshly slaughtered sheep each morning, allowing Sheepstealer to become accustomed to the girl. She fought valiantly in the Battle in the Gullet.

While searching the riverlands for Prince Aemond Targaryen, Prince Daemon Targaryen took Nettles for a bedmate and made their base in Maidenpool. When Maester Norren informed them that Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, Daemon's wife, had declared her a traitor, Daemon allowed her to escape. Nettles was last seen flying Sheepstealer into the morning mists of the Bay of Crabs.

Some maesters believe that the Burned Men originated from members of the Painted Dogs who worshipped a fire-witch and her dragon in the Mountains of the Moon following the Dance.




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Nevio Narratys was a Prince of Pentos.

History

Nevio was chosen as Prince during the latest war between Pentos and Braavos over slavery. He was the fifth prince chosen in the span of a single year, for the war had been a disaster for Pentos, where Magisters sacrifice the Prince should a crop be lost or a war be lost. Nevio convinced the magisters to sue for peace after a rare victory - one that is rumored to have been purchased by Nevio himself through bribery. In these peace accords Pentos was forced to abolish slavery and withdraw from the slave trade.




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New Barrel is the seat of House Fossoway of New Barrel..




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New Castle

The north and the location of the New Castle

The New Castle is the seat of House Manderly within the city of White Harbor in the north. The commander of its garrison is Ser Marlon Manderly, while its maester is Theomore.

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History

The Manderlys were awarded the Wolf's Den by House Stark and tasked with defending the White Knife a thousand years before the War of Conquest. As the city of White Harbor developed under the Manderlys' leadership, they built the New Castle. The Wolf's Den is now used as a prison.

Layout

The proud and pale New Castle is built atop a hill rising above the city's thick white walls. The merman sigil of House Manderly flies from its towers. The broad, stepped Castle Stair is a white stone street that leads from the Wolf's Den up the hill to the New Castle. There is a clear view of both of the city's harbors from the hilltop.

The Merman's Court is the great hall of the New Castle where the Manderlys hold court. Chambers within the castle are handsomely furnished.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Lord Davos Seaworth visits the New Castle to gain the support of House Manderly for King Stannis Baratheon. Lord Wyman Manderly publicly rejects Davos in the Merman's Court, however, and has Davos imprisoned.




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New Ghis

Slaver's Bay and the location of New Ghis

New Ghis is an island city in the Gulf of Grief, which borders on the Summer Sea. Its island lies south of Ghaen. Ghiscar and the ruins of Old Ghis are located to the north, past the Ghiscari Strait.

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History

New Ghis is the newest and smallest of the Ghiscari cities, but the most dynamic. Its iron legions are inspired by the lockstep legions of the Old Empire of Ghis.

Hizdahr zo Loraq is said to wield some influence in New Ghis.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas sail from Pentos to New Ghis and then on to Qarth.

A Storm of Swords

After Daenerys Targaryen leaves Yunkai, the Wise Masters sends envoys to New Ghis seeking allies against the liberator of the Slaver Cities.

A Dance with Dragons

The Yunkai'i stir up enmity in New Ghis against Daenerys and her rule in Meereen.

Four legions are part of the Yunkish host which marches for the second siege of Meereen, while another two legions sail from Astapor

The *Goddess* and the *Fawn* sail from Volantis for New Ghis, the latter ship continuing on to Qarth.




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New Ibbish

Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of New Ibbish

New Ibbish is an Ibbenese town




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Newkeep is the seat of House Hersy in the Vale of Arryn.*.




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Maester Nicol was a maester of the Citadel. He wrote the book *The Measure of the Days*. He argues that seasons of the world might once have been of regular length.




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For the television character, see Night King.

Night's King,.

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History

The Night's King gives his seed and his soul to his queen. Art by by Curtana ©

The Queen of North, by wolverrain ©

According to legend, Night's King lived during the Age of Heroes, not long after the Wall was complete. He was a fearless warrior named the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Later, he fell in love with a woman "with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars". He chased her and loved her though "her skin was cold as ice", and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well. Night's King brought her back to the Nightfort and after the unholy union, he declared himself king and her his queen, and ruled the Nightfort as his own castle for thirteen years.

During the dark years of his reign, horrific atrocities were committed, of which tales are still told in the north. It was not until Brandon the Breaker, the King of Winter, and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, joined forces that Night's King was brought down and the Night's Watch freed. It is likely this led the lords of the north to forbid the Night's Watch to construct walls at their keeps, ensuring the keeps would always be accessible from the south.

Maesters are skeptical of the legend, thinking the Night's King's corpse queen was possibly a daughter of a Barrow King from the barrowlands. because of her description.

Recent History

A Storm of Swords

While on his way north, Bran Stark recalls stories told to the Stark children of Night's King and the Nightfort by Old Nan, servant in Winterfell. She said some people believe Night's King was a Bolton, a Magnar of Skagos, an Umber, a Flint, a Norrey, or a Woodfoot. However, she identifies Night's King as a Stark of Winterfell and brother to the King of Winter and suggests his name was Brandon.

A Feast for Crows

While talking with Jon Snow, Samwell Tarly uses Night's King as an example of legendary figures questioned by archmaesters of the Citadel.

Quotes

He had been the thirteenth man to lead the Night's Watch, she said; a warrior who knew no fear. 'And that was the fault in him,' she would add, 'for all men must know fear.'

- Bran Stark recalling Old Nan's stories

Night's King was only a man by light of day, Old Nan would always say, but the night was his to rule.

- thoughts of Bran Stark

... in the books he is a legendary figure, akin to Lann the Clever and Brandon the Builder, and no more likely to have survived to the present day than they have.

- George R. R. Martin




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The Night's King's corpse queen,.

History

The Queen of North, by wolverrain

According to legend, the Night's King lived during the Age of Heroes, not long after the Wall was complete. He was a fearless warrior named the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Later, he fell in love with a woman "with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars". He chased her and loved her though "her skin was cold as ice", and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well. Night's King brought her back to the Nightfort and after the unholy union, he declared himself king and her his queen, and ruled the Nightfort as his own castle for thirteen years.

During the dark years of his reign, horrific atrocities were committed, of which tales are still told in the north. It was not until Brandon the Breaker, the King of Winter, and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, joined forces that Night's King was brought down and the Night's Watch freed.

Maesters are skeptical of the legend, thinking she was possibly a daughter of a Barrow King from the barrowlands, who were often associated with graves and burials. because of her description.

Quotes

A woman was his downfall; a woman glimpsed from atop the Wall, with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars. Fearing nothing, he chased her and caught her and loved her, though her skin was cold as ice, and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well. He brought her back to the Nightfort and proclaimed her a queen and himself her king, and with strange sorceries he bound his Sworn Brothers to his will.

- Bran Stark recalling Old Nan's stories




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The Wall by Marc Simonetti ©

The Night's Watch is a military order dedicated to holding the Wall, the immense fortification on the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms, defending the realms of men from what lies beyond the Wall. The order's foundation dates back to the Age of Heroes, at the time when the Others were pushed back. The men of Night's Watch wear only black, and they are known as black brothers.

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Organization

Stewards are responsible for an assortment of critical functions

Builders maintaining the Wall

Rangers defend against wildlings and Others

Structure

Main articles: Stewards, Builders, and Rangers

The Night's Watch consists of three orders: rangers, builders, and stewards. All are subject to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and each of the three orders is led by its own officer, the First Ranger, the First Builder, and the Lord Steward, respectively. These officers are appointed by the lord commander.

Recruiters for the Night's Watch are called wandering crows.

One blast of a sentry's horn represents returning rangers,

Leadership

The Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is the final authority and oversees the entire order. Any man of the Night's Watch can be nominated to be the lord commander. A lord commander serves in office until the day he dies, when a replacement is elected by the men of the Watch.

At Castle Black, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont is advised by First Ranger Benjen Stark, First Builder Othell Yarwyck, and Lord Steward Bowen Marsh. He also entrusts leadership to Ser Jarman Buckwell, Ser Mallador Locke, Ser Jaremy Rykker, Thoren Smallwood, and Ser Ottyn Wythers.

The majority of the officers and leadership of the Watch are pulled from the upper crust of Westerosi society. A noble or knighted man is almost guaranteed a position as an officer in the Watch, but there are several powerful and influential brothers that are of common blood as well, such as the senior rangers Qhorin Halfhand, Blane, and Cotter Pyke, a bastard-born pirate. The Watch, as a meritocracy, is one of the few places in feudal Westeros where a common man can rise high and even gain command over knights and lords, rising as far as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

Recruitment

New recruits being marched to the Wall - by Tim Truman. © FFG

Once, serving on the Wall was honor and a sign of selfless devotion to duty, with many knights, honorable men, and nobles taking the black voluntarily. The Night's Watch is now often seen only as a way to avoid punishment, suitable less for knights than for the dregs of Westeros. These men are salvaged from dungeons by traveling recruiters known as wandering crows. Disgraced nobles, bastards, and even the unwanted legitimate offspring of nobles are “encouraged” to take the black, making many of today’s Watch a surly and dissatisfied lot.

Those who come voluntarily are free to leave during any time of their training, but no man may leave after he has said vows. Any deserters are sentenced to death. After taking the vows, the men of the Watch cannot own any land, marry, or father children. Men are also encouraged to sever any ties left with their families, if they are lucky enough to have one.

Men of the Night's Watch are garbed all in black, a tradition that earned them the nickname "crows",

Vows

I am the sword in the darkness. © FFG

When recruits are considered ready to take the black, they say their vows either in a sept or before a heart tree. The vows are as follows:

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

Brothers of the Night's Watch serve for life.

Military Strength

The numbers of the Night's Watch have long been dwindling.

In late 233 AC, when Ser Brynden Rivers was sent to the Wall, two hundred men went with him. Many of them were archers from Rivers's personal guard, the Raven's Teeth.

Possessions

Castles of the Night's Watch

Abandoned Stronghold of the Night's Watch by Marc Simonetti ©

The Night's Watch raised nineteen castles to guard the hundred leagues of the Wall, although they have never manned more than seventeen at one time.

Due to manpower shortages, the Watch only mans the Shadow Tower, Castle Black, and Eastwatch.

Castles along the Wall and the surrounding area

The castles are listed from west to east:

The Gift and the New Gift

The Gift is a tract of land measuring twenty-five leagues southward from the Wall that the Night's Watch received from King Brandon Stark of the north. For years the Watch farmed the Gift, but as their numbers dwindled there were fewer hands to plow the fields, tend the bees and plant the orchards, so the wild reclaimed much of the area. Wishing to restore the Night's Watch and reward its loyal service in defense of the realm, Queen Alysanne Targaryen, wife of King Jaehaerys the Conciliator, doubled the extent of the Gift. Towns and villages that were located within the "New Gift" supported the Night's Watch with their taxes, rendered by goods and labor. In time, the New Gift lost population as people moved south, into the mountains or into the Umber lands east of the kingsroad to avoid wildling raids, further reducing the support structure for the Night's Watch and the Wall.

The nearest point of civilization to Castle Black is Mole's Town, a subterranean settlement whose brothel is frequently patronized by brothers of the Night's Watch.

Ships

The Night's Watch employs a small fleet at Eastwatch. Known ships include *Blackbird, *Storm Crow, and *Talon*.

History

The Long Night

The Night's Watch is one of the oldest orders in the Seven Kingdoms, as it survived the fall of the kingdoms of the First Men, the Andal invasion, and Aegon's Conquest. It was founded over eight thousand years ago, at the end of the Long Night. Under cover of an endless night that lasted for a generation, the Others invaded from the Lands of Always Winter, laying waste to much of Westeros. The Others were finally defeated by the Night's Watch at the Battle for the Dawn, which is recalled in "The Night That Ended".

Other than the corrupting of the thirteenth Lord Commander, the so-called Night's King, further attacks by the Others never came, however. Instead, the most frequent attacks came from the wildlings, sometimes led by their Kings-Beyond-the-Wall, and their constant attempts at raiding in the north.

Hundred Kingdoms

The Night's Watch built nineteen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall. At the zenith of its power, the Watch had seventeen of the castles manned,

Six kings were sent to the Wall after Nymeria's War and the unification of Dorne by House Martell.

House Targaryen

The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros were invaded by the Targaryens during Aegon's Conquest. Although Lord Commander Hoare was the brother of King Harren the Black, the lord commander maintained the neutrality of the ten thousand black brothers under his command, even when Harren died during the burning of Harrenhal.

In the aftermath of the Dance of the Dragons, twenty-two men were arrested by Lord Cregan Stark for the death for King Aegon II Targaryen. During this Hour of the Wolf, nineteen of them, led by Ser Perkin the Flea, were sent to the Wall by Cregan, with only Lord Corlys Velaryon being spared and Ser Gyles Belgrave and Lord Larys Strong instead choosing death.

Guilty of treason after the Third Blackfyre Rebellion, Ser Aegor Rivers was commanded by King Aerys I Targaryen to take the black. Bittersteel was freed en route to the Wall, however, and he fled to the Free Cities.

The manpower of the Night's Watch has decreased more and more, a process begun before the Conquest.

House Targaryen fell during Robert's Rebellion. Following the Sack of King's Landing, Lord Tywin Lannister gave loyalists such as Ser Alliser Thorne and Ser Jaremy Rykker the options of execution or taking the black.

House Baratheon

By the reign of King Robert I Baratheon, only three castles remain in use—Castle Black, Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, and the Shadow Tower—and the Night's Watch's numbers have dwindled to fewer than a thousand men.

The Warden of the North, Lord Eddard Stark, and the First Ranger, Eddard's brother Benjen, have discussed settling new lords in abandoned holdfasts of the Gift if the lord commander, Jeor Mormont, approves.

According to Grand Maester Pycelle the Wall is a world apart, and news oft reaches them late.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

While ranging in the haunted forest, Ser Waymar Royce is slain by Others. After rising as a wight, Waymar's body slays Will.

Jon Snow

Jon's father, Eddard, is imprisoned in the dungeons of the Red Keep after the death of King Robert I Baratheon.

Jon attempts to desert so he can aid his brother Robb in the south, but his friends in the Watch convince him to return to Castle Black.

A Clash of Kings

Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, personally leads the great ranging of two hundred men from Castle Black, which is joined by a hundred men from the Shadow Tower.

The wandering crow Yoren leads a party of recruits, including a disguised Arya Stark, from King's Landing. Most are slain near the Gods Eye, however.

Ser Alliser Thorne is sent to King's Landing with the hand of a wight,

A Storm of Swords

Jon Snow is spared by Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall,

Chett conspires against Lord Commander Mormont at the Fist.

Jon escapes the wildling raiding party and informs the small number of brothers at Castle Black of Mance's plan to attack the Wall.

When the Watch chooses a new lord commander to replace the late Jeor Mormont, a total of 588 votes are cast, indicating that after the losses during the great ranging and the defense of the Wall, the Watch numbers less than six hundred men.

A Feast for Crows

Jon sends Maester Aemon to Oldtown to protect him from Melisandre, and the lord commander instructs Sam to learn at the Citadel.

A Dance with Dragons

There are plans to re-garrison the Nightfort and many of the other castles. The question of who will be responsible for the remanned castles is a point of tension between Jon and King Stannis Baratheon.

Many of the brothers are disconcerted by Jon allowing wildlings to pass through the Wall and garrison the empty castles.

Notable Members

Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander - by Marc Fishman ©

Recent Lords Commander

Past Lords Commander

Brothers

See also: Members of the Night's Watch, for a complete list

Quotes

The Night's Watch is a shadow of what it once was.

Eddard Stark to Robert I Baratheon

On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns.

Benjen Stark to Jon Snow

Any man of the Night’s Watch is welcome here at Winterfell for as long as he wishes to stay.

Robb Stark to Yoren and his Sworn Brothers

The men who formed the Night’s Watch knew that only their courage shielded the realm from the darkness to the north ... We all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose ... It hurts, boy.Oh, yes. Choosing ... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Aemon to Jon Snow

I could rise high in the Watch—chief of rangers, likely even Lord Commander ... If I served at Eastwatch, I could command my own ship, and there's fine hunting beyond the Wall. As for women, what wildling woman wouldn't want a prince in her bed? A black cloak can't be turned. I'd be as good as any man ...

—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy

The Night's Watch is a pack of thieves, killers, and baseborn churls.

Tywin Lannister to Pycelle

This castle's been my home for forty years. You say I'm free to go, but where? I'm too old and too stout to make a hedge knight. But men are always welcome at the Wall.

Desmond Grell to Jaime Lannister

The Night's Watch needed leaders with the wisdom of Maester Aemon, the learning of Samwell Tarly, the courage of Qhorin Halfhand, the stubborn strength of the Old Bear, the compassion of Donal Noye.

—thoughts of Jon Snow




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The Night King (or alternatively Night's King) is the leader of the White Walkers in the television series *Game of Thrones,.

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Game of Thrones

Background

Before he became a White Walker, the Night King was a First Man that was captured by Children of the Forest, Leaf among them. Leaf pressed a dragonglass dagger into his chest, causing his eyes to turn blue and turning him into the first of the White Walkers. The Children of the Forest created the White Walkers to defend themselves when Westeros was invaded by the First Men, who were cutting their sacred trees and slaughtering them.

Season Four

The Night King first appears in a vision of Bran Stark when he communes with a weirwood heart tree. Bran experiences a flood of images but he does not comprehend what they are. In retrospect, one of them is an image of the Night King picking up the last of Craster's sons on an ice altar.

The last infant son of Craster is taken by a White Walker from the haunted forest to the Lands of Always Winter, where they are awaited by the Night King and a group of thirteen black-garbed White Walkers. The baby is placed in an icy altar ringed by large icy spikes, which the Night King starts approaching. When the Night King takes the boy into his arms the baby immediately calms and then he touches the child's face with his index finger, turning his eyes icy blue and his skin to grow pale.

Season Five

The Night King commands White Walkers and wights during their attack on Hardhome. He watches from one of the cliffs above the town as Jon Snow slays one of his lieutenants with Longclaw. As Jon, Tormund and the remaining defenders leave on the boat, the Night King appears on the dock and locks eyes with Jon. With a mere raise of his arms, the Night King raises the entirety of Hardhome's slain free folk as wights, and he keeps his gaze upon Jon as the boat slips away.

Season Six

The Night King appears in another of Bran's visions, where the boy witnesses him as a human being transformed into a White Walker by the Children of the Forest.

Later, when Bran decides to experience a vision on his own, he finds himself looking at an army of wights and the Night King and the other White Walkers at the back. Bran walks closer and is shocked to see that the Night King notices his presence. Bran wakes up screaming after the Night King suddenly appeared right next to him. The Three-Eyed Raven says that the Night King touched him, which Bran confirms when a blue hand-mark is imprinted on his forearm. The Three-Eyed Raven says because of that mark, the Night King now knows exactly where they are, and the cave cannot protect them any more.

The Night King and his army quickly travel to the cave, preceded by their aura of cold which notifies the Children of the Forest and Meera Reed. The Children of the Forest prepare their scarce defenses outside of the cave, but are quickly overrun and they are forced to retreat back to the tunnels. The Night King sends his army of wights to attack the tunnels, and they kill most of the Children and Summer, though Bran, Meera and Hodor manage to leave the cavern. The Night King enters the cavern, and glares at the Three-Eyed Raven before he kills him. The Night King then sends the rest of his wights to go after Bran.

Season Seven

The Night King on the Undead Viserion

Bran using his gift to to see through the eyes of ravens spots the Night Kings army marching towards the wall, the night king looks up at the ravens and bran immediately loses his connection.

While Jon Snow and his band go North of the Wall to capture a Wight as proof to the rest of theSeven Kingdoms of the threat approaching. They are later trapped and encircled by the Night King's army, Jon theorises that if they slay the Night King, it will collapse the rest of his undead horde.

Daenerys and her three Dragons arrive to rescue Jon and the survivors. The Dragons lay waste to the Night King's army. One of the Night Kings lieutenants hands his master a spear made of ice. The Night King targets the Dragon Viserion who is in flight and laying waste to his forces with his flaming breath.

The Night King throws the spear like a javelin. The enchanted weapon sails through the air and impales the White Dragon causing him to crash into the ice of the lake, where he dies before sinking. The Night King is handed a second spear and attempts to take down Drogon as he takes off and flees but the Dragon dodges the projectile.

The Night Kings forces later use chains taken from Hardhome to pull Viserions corpse from the lake. The Night King then places his hand on the Dead dragons head and his eyes open, now bright blue.

Taking the undead Viserion as his personal mount, the Night King assaults the Wall at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. Viserion now breathing magical blue flames melts the section of the wall causing it to collapse. The army of wights led by White Walkers marches through the ruins of the fallen Wall while the Night King flies overhead.

Behind the Scenes

When asked if there is a connection between the Night King of the White Walkers and the Night's King of legend, George R. R. Martin replied,

As for the Night's King (the form I prefer), in the books he is a legendary figure, akin to Lann the Clever and Brandon the Builder, and no more likely to have survived to the present day than they have.




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The Night Lamp is a black tower, one of the beacons that burns along the shore of the Three Sisters. It is located at Sisterton on Sweetsister. Along with the other beacons it is supposed to warn of shoals and reefs and rocks and lead the way to safety, but on stormy nights and foggy ones some Sistermen use false lights to draw unwary captains to their doom. The head of House Borrell holds the title Keeper of the Night Lamp.




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Night soil is a euphemism for human or animal excrement. It is sometimes applied to weapons such as arrows to turn the wounds they inflict septic.

At the Second Siege of Riverrun, Edwyn Frey suggests that Riverrun will fall, if Ser Brynden Tully dies. Thus he proposes to stage an attack on the castle, then target the Blackfish with archers whose arrows will be smeared with night soil when he comes to lead the defense. The proposal is dismissed by Lord Karyl Vance and Ser Lyle Crakehall, who consider such an approach ignoble.




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© Fantasy Flight Games

Nightfall is a Valyrian steel longsword belonging to House Harlaw. It is currently wielded by Ser Harras Harlaw.

Description

The sword has a moonstone pommel.

History

Dalton Greyjoy took Nightfall from a dead corsair. It is as yet unknown how the sword passed to House Harlaw.




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Longship Nightflyer. © FFG

The Nightflyer is an ironborn longship owned by House Blacktyde. Her captain is Lord Baelor Blacktyde.

Contents

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Lord Captain Victarion Greyjoy spots the Nightflyer at anchor next to the *Thunderer* in Nagga's Cradle.

Behind the Scenes

*Nightflyers* is also a novella written by George R. R. Martin.




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Nightfort

The north and the location of the Nightfort

The Nightfort is one of the abandoned castles of the Night's Watch along the Wall, the only one whose steps up the side of the Wall were carved into the ice. It sits between Icemark to the west and Deep Lake to the east.

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Layout

Ruins

According to maesters who served at the Nightfort, the castle was rebuilt many times over thousands of years, with only deep stone vaults remaining from its first form.

The abandoned Nightfort has broken towers and a maze of tunnels connecting its vaults and tunnels. Buildings include a bell tower, a rookery, a brewhouse, a library, a dungeon capable of holding five hundred prisoners, a bathhouse, an armory, and a forge. The rat-filled great hall only has one remaining wall. The kitchen is a stone octagon with a domed roof and contains a stepped well.

Its yards have become small forests, a twisted weirwood grows through a hole in the kitchen, and there are also trees growing in the stables. The gate through the Wall is sealed with frozen stone and rubble.

The Black Gate

The magical Black Gate is a hidden subterranean gate that allows passage to the other side of the Wall and is as old as the Wall itself. It is set deep in a wall of the well at the center of the kitchens and is made of white weirwood with a face on it. The face is old, pale, shrunken, and wrinkled with white eyes. The door glows.

When someone approaches the Black Gate, the eyes open. They are white and blind, and then the door asks, "Who are you?" A man of the Night's Watch must repeat a part of his vow, "I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers. I am the shield that guards the realms of men." The door will open then, saying, "Then pass." The door's lips open wider and wider still until nothing remains but a great gaping mouth in a ring of wrinkles.

History

The Nightfort by Yoann Boissonnet © Fantasy Flight Games

The Nightfort was the largest castle on the Wall, and the oldest, being twice as old as Castle Black.

The Nightfort is remembered in scary stories of the north dating back thousands of years. It was there that the Night's King reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the Rat Cook served an Andal king (Tywell II Lannister or Oswell I Arryn)*

Three hundred years before Aegon's Conquest, the commanders of the Nightfort and Snowgate went to war with each other. Eventually, both lost their heads to the Stark in Winterfell.

With the dwindling of the Night's Watch's power two centuries ago, the Nightfort became three-quarters empty and too costly to maintain. When Good Queen Alysanne Targaryen suggested she pay for a new smaller castle, the Watch agreed to abandon it. The new castle, Deep Lake, was paid for by the queen's jewels and built by men that King Jaehaerys I Targaryen sent north. Once this new castle was completed seven miles east, the Nightfort was abandoned—the first of the Watch's castles to be closed—and its last brothers were reassigned to Deep Lake.

Recent Events

Samwell Tarly before the Black Gate. Art by Kerry Barnett © Fantasy Flight Games

A Storm of Swords

Bran Stark, Hodor, and Meera and Jojen Reed arrive at the Nightfort to go beyond the Wall. Bran, remembering Old Nan's stories, is frightened of the ruins, but Jojen reassures him it is not dangerous. Meera climbs the ice steps to look from atop the Wall.

Meanwhile, Coldhands leads Samwell Tarly and Gilly to the Black Gate, which Sam opens by saying the vow. Sam and Gilly pass through the Black Gate to cross the Wall, but Coldhands cannot enter the gate. Climbing the stepped well, Sam surprises Bran and his friends in the kitchen. Sam recognizes Bran as being Jon Snow's brother, but agrees to keep the boy's secrets. Sam opens the Black Gate so Bran and his companions can cross the wall to meet Coldhands.

Following the battle beneath the Wall, Stannis Baratheon tells Sam he intends to make the Nightfort his wartime seat.

A Feast for Crows

Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, gives the Nightfort to Stannis after he demands it as payment for assisting with the wildling attack on the Wall.

A Dance with Dragons

After Jon cedes the Nightfort to Stannis, it is discovered that it will take half a year to make it fit for habitation.

Quotes

There are ghosts here.

- Bran Stark to Jojen Reed

The Wall offered few of the comforts that southron ladies and little highborn girls were used to, and the Nightfort offered none. That was a grim place, even at the best of times.

- thoughts of Jon Snow

Davos: His Grace has taken the Nightfort for his seat. In the south, he holds Storm's End and Dragonstone.
Theomore: Only for the nonce. Storm's End and Dragonstone are lightly held and must soon fall. And the Nightfort is a haunted ruin, a drear and dreadful place.

- Davos Seaworth and Theomore

We speak of a fortress, not a palace. A grim place, and cold.

- Jon Snow to Selyse Florent

Chapters that take place at the Nightfort