Milk Men is the name for the Qartheen in the Dothraki language. They are called this due to their pale complexion.
The Milk Snakes are one of the Vale mountain clans of the Mountains of the Moon.
Lharys claims it was either members of the Milk Snakes or the Moon Brothers that were the first to descend upon Catelyn Stark's party in the Mountains of the Moon.
Milk brother or milk brothers usually refers to two infants of different parents who were nursed simultaneously by the same woman.
A maester preparing milk of the poppy.
© Fantasy Flight Games
A poppy seedhead, scored so that the milk drips from it.
Milk of the poppy is a medical drink, an opiate thus its name "milk of the poppy".
Milk of the poppy is used as a pain killer or anesthetic in the Known World. It is normally given to those mortally wounded or in great pain. It has a quick effect of causing sleep, even for people in great pain.
In Meereen, some pit fighters dull their nerves with milk of the poppy before going out to die in the fighting pits.
Dothraki herbwomen make a derivative of milk of the poppy called "poppy wine".
Poppy fields grow in Essos, near Volon Therys.
Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen was treated with milk of the poppy after the stillbirth of her daughter Visenya.
During the [[Dance of the Dragons], at the Battle of Rook's Rest, King Aegon II Targaryen suffered broken ribs, a broken hip, and dragonfire burns that covered half his body. He was treated with milk of the poppy, and was "lost in poppy dreams", bedridden for the rest of the year. When the greens took Dragonstone, Aegon was further injured with two shattered legs, but refused milk of the poppy, living the rest of his life in great pain.
In his old age, Lord Quellon Greyjoy suffered from excruciating stomach pains, and had to take a draught of milk of the poppy every night to sleep.
Grand Maester Pycelle treats Jon Arryn's fatal illness with milk of the poppy.
During the confrontation with Ser Jaime Lannister and his men, Lord Eddard Stark is caught beneath his fallen horse and his leg is shattered. He is returned to the Tower of the Hand, where Pycelle attends to his injury, giving him milk of the poppy for the pain.
When King Robert I Baratheon is deathly injured from being gored by a boar, Pycelle gives him milk of the poppy, first to relieve some of his pain and then more so that he sleeps.
Jon Snow's hand is badly burned in a fight with a wight, and Maester Aemon gives him milk of the poppy, which causes strange dreams.
When Khal Drogo is injured in battle, Daenerys Targaryen has the *maegi* Mirri Maz Duur treat him, and she warns the khal not to use milk of the poppy so that his body can better resist infection.
Lord Hoster Tully is bedridden with severe stomach pains, and is treated with milk of the poppy by Maester Vyman.
Tyrion Lannister sees milk of the poppy in Grand Maester Pycelle's collection of medicines and poisons.
Tyrion is greatly injured in the Battle of the Blackwater, and is treated with milk of the poppy, sleeping for days and dreaming, until he refuses to take any more, despite the pain.
Lord Hoster Tully grows even more deathly ill, until Maester Vyman is afraid to make the milk of the poppy any stronger.
When Qyburn treats Jaime Lannister for the infection and rotted flesh from his amputated hand, Jaime refuses milk of the poppy as he is afraid Qyburn may amputate his entire arm while he sleeps.
Prince Doran Martell is treated by Maester Caleotte with milk of the poppy for the pain of his gout.
Joss Stilwood, Ser Gregor Clegane's squire, tells Qyburn that Gregor drinks milk of the poppy often, like normal men drink ale, to self-treat his blinding headaches. Gregor's tolerance of and dependency on milk of the poppy has the effect that both Grand Maester Pycelle and Qyburn are unable to moderate his pain from his spear wounds and manticore venom poisoning.
Maester Colemon treats young Lord Robert Arryn's shaking sickness with milk of the poppy, to help him sleep.
At a feast in Dorne, Doran Martell drinks wine with poppy juice, made by Maester Myles, to ease the pain in his joints. Later, however, when he meets with the Sand Snakes, he rejects Maester Caleotte's offer of milk of the poppy because he wants to keep his head clear, despite the fact that he thinks he would need a bucketful for his pain.
After Prince Quentyn Martell is mortally wounded by dragonfire all over his body, Missandei gives him milk of the poppy during the three days he lays dying.
The maester poured a slow trickle down his throat. Tyrion swallowed, scarcely tasting. Too late, he realized the liquid was milk of the poppy. By the time the maester removed the funnel from his mouth, he was already spiralling back to sleep.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Maester, could I trouble you for some milk of the poppy? A thimble cup will suffice.
- Doran Martell to Caleotte
I shall not walk that road again.
- Aegon II Targaryen, rejecting milk of the poppy after his second injury
The books' descriptions strongly suggest that the poppy may well be the same flower found in the real world. Milk of the poppy is probably similar to opium, and its effects are likely the result of a strong content of morphine and codeine.
The Milkwater river by Cris Urdiales ©
The Milkwater is a river beyond the Wall. Its headwaters begin in a lake at the foot of a glacier in the Frostfangs.
Kings and heroes of the free folk are buried along the valley of the Milkwater.
Thoren Smallwood is sent with a group of rangers to scout the Milkwater for Mance Rayder's host of free folk.
Kedge Whiteye reports that he and Bannen observed Mance's great host slowly marching along the Milkwater toward the Wall.
Having been captured by the Lord of Bones, Jon is brought to Mance's camp in the valley of the Milkwater.
Jon gazed off toward the setting sun. He could see the light shimmering like hammered gold off the surface of the Milkwater as it curved away to the south.
- thoughts of Jon Snow
Not to be confused with the miller's wife from Acorn water.
An unidentified miller's wife is the mother of Ramsay Snow.
She was tall and willowy, with long legs and small firm breasts. According to Roose Bolton, she was pretty, "in a common sort of way", and very healthy-looking.
She was a young woman who married the old miller of the mill by the Weeping Water stream, who was twice her age. Soon after the marriage, Lord Roose Bolton was hunting a fox along the Weeping Water, when he came upon the mill and saw the miller's wife washing clothes in the stream. The moment Roose saw her, he desired her. According to the outlawed first night custom, it was Roose's right to bed his vassals' new brides. As the miller had married without his lord's permission or knowledge, Roose felt he had been cheated, and had him hanged. Roose then raped the miller's wife under the tree where her husband was hanging.
A year later, the miller's wife came to the Dreadfort with her infant son, Ramsay, who she claimed was Roose's bastard. Roose considered having her whipped for her impudence, and killing her son, until he saw that the child had the same pale blue eyes as him. The woman claimed that when her dead husband's brother had seen the baby's eyes, he had beaten her and sent her away from the mill. Roose was annoyed by this, so he gave the woman the possession of the mill, and cut out the tongue of the old miller's brother, so that he could not relate Lord Bolton's unlawful activities to his liege lord, Rickard Stark.
Every year, Roose Bolton would send the woman some piglets and chickens, and a bag of stars, on the understanding that she was never to tell Ramsay who his father was. However, she disobeyed him, and often told Ramsay about his rights. One day, she returned to the Dreadfort to demand that Roose provide a servant for Ramsay, who was growing up wild and unruly. Roose gave her his foul-smelling servant Reek, as a joke, but the man and Ramsay became inseparable. Ramsay stayed with his mother until Domeric Bolton returned to the Dreadfort after his fostering with House Redfort, and came to the mill by the Weeping Water to seek out his bastard brother for companionship; after Domeric died, Roose brought Ramsay to the Dreadfort as he lacked any other heirs.
Lord Roose Bolton asks Theon Greyjoy if his bastard, Ramsay, has told him the story of his birth. Theon replies that Ramsay has said that Roose met his mother while out riding, and was "smitten by her beauty". Roose finds this description amusing, and tells Theon the true account.
This miller's marriage had been performed without my leave or knowledge. The man had cheated me. So I had him hanged, and claimed my rights beneath the tree where he was swaying. If truth be told, the wench was hardly worth the rope. The fox escaped as well, and on our way back to the Dreadfort my favorite courser came up lame, so all in all it was a dismal day.
Get the keys and remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother.
—Roose Bolton, to Ramsay
The miller's wife from Acorn water is the wife of the miller of Acorn Water near Winterfell. She had soft pillowy breasts, stretchmarks on her body
When Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell, Bran and Rickon hide in the crypts.
Theon later has a nightmare that he is in bed with the miller's wife again, but she has teeth both above and below and she tears out his throat even as she is gnawing off his manhood.
Theon Greyjoy thinks of the ghosts of Winterfell, the old ghosts from the crypts and the younger ones that he had made himself, including the miller's wife from Acorn Water and her two young sons.
Theon argues with Rowan that he is no kinslayer. He thinks to himself that the two children he killed were just some miller's sons, and that he had known the miller's wife for years. He remembers that she had big heavy breasts with wide dark nipples, a sweet mouth, a merry laugh - joys that he will never taste again.
Lady Mina Tyrell is a member of House Tyrell and sister to the current head Lord Mace Tyrell. She is the wife of Lord Paxter Redwyne and they have three children, Ser Horas, Ser Hobber and Desmera Redwyne. She is younger than her husband.
Lady Minisa Tully
The always calm Minisa had soft hands and a warm smile.
Minisa was born into House Whent, the Lords of Harrenhal, and she wed their liege, Hoster Tully, the Lord of Riverrun and Lord Paramount of the Trident. Minisa's first two children were sons who died in infancy,
The sept of Riverrun is located in Minisa's gardens.
Lord Hoster Tully still misses his late wife. Ailing and feverish, Hoster mistakenly calls his daughter Catelyn by Minisa's name.
Brynden: He misses her still. You have her face. I can see it in your cheekbones, and your jaw ...
Catelyn: You remember more of her than I do. It has been a long time.
- Brynden Tully and Catelyn Stark
Lady Minisa Tully had died in childbed, trying to give Lord Hoster a second son. The baby had perished with her, and afterward some of the life had gone out of Father. She was always so calm, Catelyn thought, remembering her mother's soft hands, her warm smile. If she had lived, how different our lives might have been.
– thoughts of Catelyn Stark
*A Song of Ice and Fire* has not mentioned Minisa's relation to other members of House Whent.
Mirri Maz Duur is a Lhazareen godswife and *maegi*.
See also: Images of Mirri Maz Duur
She is a heavyset, flat-nosed woman with black hair. She is about 40-years-old when Daenerys first meets her.
Mirri was a godswife in the temple to the Great Shepherd, a Lhazareen deity. Her mother had been a godswife before her and taught her all the spells and songs. As a young girl she traveled to Asshai to learn the arts of the shadowbinders. She also studied the birthing songs of the moonsingers of the Jogos Nhai, the herb lore of the Dothraki, and the medicines of Maester Marwyn.
Mirri is made a slave when Khal Drogo's *khalasar* fights and defeats Khal Ogo outside her hometown in Lhazar. The Dothraki then attack and conquers Mirri's home, enslaving the local people. When Daenerys Targaryen rides through the burned town, she sees Mirri being raped by one of Drogo's warriors and puts an end to it.
While Daenerys gives Mirri and the other rape victims protection from further attacks, Daenerys's husband Drogo is suffering from his battle wounds. Though Drogo is unconcerned, Daenerys convinces him to let Mirri Maz Duur make him a poultice of firepods and sting-me-not.
Daenerys has Mirri Maz Duur burned to death upon Drogo's funeral pyre. Mirri initially sings but as the flames engulf her she screams.
When Daenerys enters the House of the Undying in Qarth she is told she would be betrayed *"once for blood, once for gold and once for love"*.
Missandei is a Naathi scribe in service to Kraznys mo Nakloz, one of the Good Masters of Astapor. In the television adaptation, *Game of Thrones*, she is portrayed by Nathalie Emmanuel.
See also: Images of Missandei
Missandei has a round flat face, dusky skin, and eyes like molten gold.
Missandei and her brothers were born on the island of Naath. They were eventually captured by raiders from the Basilisk Isles, and sold into slavery in Astapor. Three of her brothers became Unsullied, but one was killed in training, and only Marselen and Mossador remain.
Missandei has been trained to speak the Common Tongue of Westeros, High Valyrian, and bastard Valyrian.
Daenerys and Missandei - by Enife ©
Missandei is a slave interpreter and scribe for Kraznys mo Nakloz, when Daenerys Targaryen comes to inspect the Unsullied in Astapor. She leaves untranslated several of his insults, and edits some of his words to sound more polite and pleasant, leaving out entirely his sexual proposals.
After Daenerys strikes a bargain with the Good Masters of Astapor concerning payment for the Unsullied, Kraznys gives Missandei to Daenerys as an interpreter to give them commands until the Unsullied have learned Daenerys's language. Missandei reveals no feelings concerning the decision.
At the exchange, Kraznys still gives orders to Missandei, despite no longer owning her. Missandei leaves some of his phrases untranslated, such as "whore of Westeros". As the deal concludes, Missandei witnesses the fall of Astapor.
During the initial conflict with Yunkai, Missandei explains to Daenerys that the Yunkai'i speak a Valyrian dialect mutually intelligible to that of Astapor.
During the siege of Meereen, Strong Belwas wins a duel against Oznak zo Pahl, but suffers a wound. Missandei a healer, a Yunkish freedman "renowned for his skill in the healing arts".
While contemplating gods, Daenerys recalled Missandei's narrative concerning the Lord of Harmony, and later recalled other details concerning Naath told by Missandei. She notes growing very fond of the girl.
When Daenerys decides to bury the corpses of Meereen, Missandei offers advice, saying the Ghiscari have their honored dead interred in crypts beneath their manses. She suggested boiling the bones clean, and returning them to their kin for burial as an act of kindness.
One night Missandei finds Daenerys in the terrace garden. Dany has the girl promise to never lie to her, to never betray her. The two watched the sunrise together, holding hands.
Missandei, by Elia Fernandez ©
Missandei takes on the role of herald for Daenerys Targaryen.
All kneel for Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of [the] Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles, and Mother of Dragons.
Missandei is distraught when Mossador, one of her brothers, is killed by the Sons of the Harpy.
When Galazza Galare, the Green Grace, arrives at the Great Pyramid escorted by a dozen White Graces, Daenerys tasks Missandei with having the girls fed and entertained.
Following a visit to the camps of refugees outside Meereen, Daenerys invites Missandei to join her in the water. While swimming, the girl claims to have heard strange sounds in the night: someone scratching at the wall's old, crumbling bricks. She believes the Astapori are trying to enter. Irri and Jhiqui claim to have heard nothing that night. Daenerys dismisses the sounds as mere dreams.
Two nights prior to her wedding, Daenerys has a sexual encounter with Daario Naharis. In the morning, Missandei asks about her health, having overheard the sounds of the lovemaking, but having misunderstood their meaning:
In the black of night this one heard you scream.
At dawn on Daenerys's wedding day, Missandei insists that the queen should have a simple, full breakfast of goat cheese, olives, and raisins. She points out that Daenerys needs her strength, and mere wine is not enough. She also points out that Dany is "such a tiny thing". She understands that Dany has second thoughts about the wedding, suggesting that it is not too late to cancel the wedding. Missandei insists that Dany does not love Hizdahr and could choose another husband, but Dany responds that a queen marries for duty, not love..
Following the wedding, Daenerys has a disappointing consummation with Hizdahr. Missandei does her best to comfort Daenerys, sharing her memories with Dany. She is still talking when the queen falls asleep.
Ser Barristan comes to understand why Daenerys is so fond of Missandei - by Sir-Heartsalot ©
Missandei washes Daenerys's hair prior to visiting the fighting pits, their long awaited re-opening. When Daenerys claims that half of Meereen would be there to see her, Missandei insists that the spectators only want to see men bleeding and dying. Missandei later reports that Quentyn Martell and his Dornishmen are expecting an audience.
When Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, her consort Hizdahr takes full control of Meereen. He has Missandei replaced as herald, citing that it is undignified for a king to use a child or a former slave as a herald.
Barristan continues sharing the apex of the Great Pyramid with Missandei, having his own cell by the royal apartments.
Before his coup d'etat against Hizhahr, Barristan warns Missandei to not leave the queen's chambers for any reason that night.
Missandei aids Ser Barristan in taking control of the court of Meereen. He uses one of her ideas in negotiations with the enemy, offering each man's weight in gold ransom for the release of the hostages (Daario Naharis, Hero, Jhogo). While the Wise Masters neither want nor need the gold, their mercenaries are likely to support the deal, creating division in the enemy ranks. Barristan finds Missandei's strategy reminiscent of both Petyr Baelish (whose plans included bribes) and Varys (whose plans included fostering division in the enemy ranks).
The little scribe with the big golden eyes was wise beyond her years. She is brave as well. She had to be, to survive the life she's lived.
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
She relied so much on the little scribe that she oft forgot that Missandei had only turned eleven.
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Eleven years of age, yet Missandei is as clever as half the men at this table and wiser than all of them.
—thoughts of Barristan Selmy, comparing Missandei to the ruling council of Meereen
Mistwood
The stormlands and the location of Mistwood
Mistwood
Mistwood is protected by walls, a gatehouse, and a keep. The lord's solar is found high in the Tower of Owls.
Arianne Martell visits Mistwood while traveling to find Aegon Targaryen. They find it held by John Mudd and Chains of the Golden Company, who keep the dowager Lady Mary Mertyns under house arrest. John has the castle's maester send a raven to Haldon at Storm's End.
Not to be confused with Misty Islands.
The Misty Isle was the seat of House Fisher, an ancient line of river kings. The location of the Misty Isle within the riverlands has not been published.
Misty Moor is a place in the Seven Kingdoms; its location has not been revealed. The hedge knight Ser Kyle was known as the Cat of Misty Moor.
The Misty Wood is a forest in the stormlands.
During the Andal invasion, the Weirwood Alliance between First Men and children of the forest defeated Andals at the Misty Wood.
Moat Cailin
The north and the location of Moat Cailin
Moat Cailin, sometimes called the Moat,
Moat Cailin is an effective natural choke point which has protected the north from southron invasion for thousands of years. The crannogmen of the Neck know unmapped routes through the swamps, such as narrow trails between the bogs and wet roads through the reeds that only boats can follow.
See also: Images of Moat Cailin
Moat Cailin was once a great stronghold, with twenty towers, a wooden keep, and a great basalt curtain wall as high as that of Winterfell's. Today only great blocks of black basalt lay scattered about, half sunk in the ground where the wall once stood, and the keep rotted away.
The remaining three towers, which are covered with green moss
The Children's Tower is tall and slender. It has only half of the crenelations of its crown. Legend has it that the children of the forest called upon their gods here to send the hammer of the waters to smash the Neck.
The Gatehouse Tower, the largest of the remaining towers, is squat and wide.
The Drunkard's Tower is so named due to its great lean. It stands where the south and west walls once met.
Moat Cailin by Cris Urdiales ©
Raised by the ancient First Men,
According to myth, the greenseers of the children of the forest worked dark magic at Moat Cailin.
The Marsh Kings and their crannogmen held Moat Cailin—sometimes with the assistance of the Barrow Kings, Red Kings, and Kings of Winter—against all attacks from the south.
The wooden keep rotted away "a thousand years past".[N 1] The three remaining towers are more than capable of defending the passage to the south, however, provided that they are fully manned.
During Aegon's Conquest, some northern lords urged King Torrhen Stark to resist House Targaryen at Moat Cailin. Rather than fight the Targaryen dragons, Torrhen instead submitted to Aegon I Targaryen at the Trident, becoming the King Who Knelt.
Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King to Robert I Baratheon, instructs his wife Catelyn to have Ser Helman Tallhart and Galbart Glover fortify Moat Cailin with a hundred bowmen each.
On the march south from Winterfell after Eddard's arrest in King's Landing, Robb Stark takes the Gatehouse Tower as his seat, Greatjon Umber takes the Children's Tower for his, and Rickard Karstark uses the Drunkard's Tower. Robb's mother, Catelyn Stark, and great-uncle, Ser Brynden Tully, join him at Moat Cailin with the levies of House Manderly, but the northmen run low on supplies.
Victarion Greyjoy, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet, is sent by his brother Balon, Lord of the Iron Islands, to take Moat Cailin. Instead of marching from the south, the ironborn sail up the Saltspear and the Fever River
After Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell and declares himself the Prince of Winterfell, Maester Luwin councils Theon that holding Jojen and Meera Reed as hostages will stay the hand of their father, Lord Howland Reed, the liege of the local crannogmen.
At Hag's Mire, upon receiving the news of Balon's death at Pyke from the captain of the *Myraham*, Robb plans to march on Moat Cailin. Robb intends for Howland's crannogmen to lead northmen through the swamps of the Neck, so the ironborn-held Moat Cailin can be attacked from the south and the north.
Theon Greyjoy rides to Moat Cailin - by Marc Simonetti ©
Upon hearing of Balon's death and the return of his hated brother, Euron, Victarion leaves a token force to defend Moat Cailin under the command of Ralf Kenning and returns to the Iron Islands with his fleet to decide on the succession.
Euron is crowned King of the Isles and the North during the kingsmoot,
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister expects that Ramsay Bolton, the son of the new Warden of the North, Lord Roose Bolton, will wed Arya Stark after the ironborn lose control of Moat Cailin.
Men from Houses Ryswell and Dustin surprise the remaining ironmen on the Fever River and burn their longships, cutting off the garrison of Moat Cailin from naval support.
During the siege of Moat Cailin, Ramsay sends his captive, Theon Greyjoy, to offer the weakened ironborn garrison food and safe passage if they surrender unarmed. Theon negotiates their surrender, but Ramsay has all of the ironborn flayed and displayed along the causeway. Ramsay and Theon later meet the returning northern host of Lord Bolton and his Frey allies at Moat Cailin.
With the fall of Moat Cailin, Tristifer Botley advises Asha Greyjoy to abandon Deepwood Motte. They are soon after captured by Stannis Baratheon.
Brynden: This is Moat Cailin? It's no more than a—
Catelyn: —death trap.
- Brynden Tully and Catelyn Stark
It's said that the old Kings in the North could stand at Moat Cailin and throw back hosts ten times the size of their own.
- Catelyn Stark to Robb Stark
The battle for the north will be fought amidst the ruins of Moat Cailin.
- Luwin to Theon Greyjoy
Robb will never look on Winterfell again. He will break himself on Moat Cailin, as every southron army has done for ten thousand years.
- Theon Greyjoy to Rodrik Cassel
The ironmen control the sunset sea. The Greyjoys hold Moat Cailin as well. No army has ever taken Moat Cailin from the south. Even to march against it is madness. We could be trapped on the causeway, with the ironborn before us and angry Freys at our backs.
- Edmure Tully to Robb Stark
Moelle is a septa of the Faith of the Seven in King's Landing. She is one of the Most Devout.
Moelle has stiff white hair, a wrinkled face as sharp as an axe with lips pursed in perpetual disapproval, and small eyes that look constantly crinkled in suspicion. She has a stern expression.
Septa Moelle is escorted by six of the High Sparrow's knights when she comes before the Iron Throne to discuss the causes of Queen Margaery Tyrell's arrest. She explains that Margaery and her ladies cannot be released until their innocence has been proven, and reveals that she examined Margaery herself, and found the girl's maidenhead to no longer be intact.
When Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is arrested, it is Moelle who brings her watery grey gruel on the first morning, and fish and bread that evening.
Moelle is one of the septas who visit Cersei Lannister regularly. Cersei is awakened often with a demand of a confession. Moelle tells her it is her sins which are keeping her sleepless. She is present when Cersei declares she is ready to confess, and escorts her to the High Sparrow. Moelle is later amongst the septas who escort Ser Kevan Lannister to Cersei's cell.
Moelle, together with Septas Unella and Scolera, are part of the escort for Cersei as she completes her walk of atonement through the streets of King's Landing. Moelle explains Cersei must walk it barefoot.
A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.
- Moelle to Cersei Lannister
Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess your sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.
- Moelle to Cersei Lannister
This one still has her maidenhead, I'll wager, though by now it's hard and stiff as boiled leather.
- thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Mohor is a man-at-arms sworn to House Bracken. He is a spearman and wears a rounded iron cap that makes him look like he has a bowl on his head.
Along with Lharys and Kurleket, Mohor is one of three Bracken men-at-arms at the inn at the crossroads who assist Lady Catelyn Stark in taking captive Tyrion Lannister and bringing him to the Vale of Arryn. He is slain during their first fight with members of the Vale mountain clans.
Mohor is a reference to Moe of the Three Stooges.
Mole's Town
The North and the location of Mole's Town
Mole's Town by Paolo Puggioni © Fantasy Flight Games
Mole's Town is a village close to Castle Black. It lies along the kingsroad in Brandon's Gift, half a league south of the Wall.
Mole's Town is bigger than it seems. Three-quarters of the village lie beneath ground in deep damp warm cellars and vaults connected by a warren of tunnels. Buildings above ground include a smithy, a stable and a small number of hovels with shuttered windows and wooden slats.
There is a brothel located in the cellars, with nothing more than a shack no bigger than a privy on the surface. It has a red lantern that is hung over the door. It is said that brothers of the Night's Watch go to Mole's Town to dig or mine for "buried treasure" (i.e. engage the services of prostitutes).
Donal Noye restores the burned sword Longclaw, which Jeor Mormont then gives to Jon Snow. The sword's pommel is decorated with garnets purchased by Samwell Tarly in Mole's Town.
Desiring to aid his half brother, Robb Stark, Jon deserts the Night's Watch and rides south past Mole's Town on the kingsroad. However, his friends convince him to return to Castle Black.
Before embarking on the great ranging, many rangers go drinking and whoring in Mole's Town. To celebrate Grenn's first ranging, Halder, Pypar, and Todder pay for his first woman. Sam and Jon are invited as well, but they remain at Castle Black.
Having escaped from Styr at Queenscrown,
After the attack from the south is repulsed, most villagers return to Mole's Town, although Hareth, Zei, and three orphaned boys remain at Castle Black. When Mance Rayder threatens from north of the Wall, Jon sends Zei with a request for aid from the village, but she never returns. Jon then sends Mully, who finds the village deserted.
After the battle beneath the Wall, Stannis Baratheon investigates Mole's Town.
Free folk take refuge in the tunnels of Mole's Town.
Ty and Dannel find Alys Karstark two leagues south of Mole's Town.
If we beheaded every boy who rode to Mole's Town in the night, only ghosts would guard the Wall.
—Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow
Mole's Town had always been larger than it seemed; most of it was underground, sheltered from the cold and snow.
—thoughts of Jon Snow
© Fantasy Flight Games
Three-quarters of the Mole's Town lies beneath ground in deep damp warm cellars connected by a warren of tunnels. Mole's Town brothel is located in the cellars, with nothing on the surface but a wooden shack no bigger than a privy, with a red lantern hung over the door.
The Mole's Town brothel is regularly frequented by the Brothers of the Night's Watch. It is said that brothers go to Mole's Town to dig for "buried treasure", euphemism for going to Mole's Town to drink, unwind and engage the services of whores. They are breaking their vows but this particular kind of oathbreaking is ignored as Lord Commanders know some men find it impossible to be celibate and after they are done with the whores the men will return to the Wall and their duties.
On the Wall Jon Snow hears men refer to the whores in Mole's Town as buried treasures.
While trying to desert the Night's Watch and join his brother Robb Stark in secret, Jon sees the light of the Mole's Town brothel and wonders whether any of his brothers in black are down there tonight, mining. He thinks to himself that that is oathbreaking, yet no one seems to care.
Prior to the great ranging the grounds of Castle Black seem deserted with so many rangers off at the Mole's Town brothel, digging for buried treasure and drinking themselves blind.
Grenn has also gone to the brothel with the rest of the men. Pyp, Halder and Toad offered to buy him his first woman to celebrate his first ranging. They want Jon and Samwell Tarly to come as well, but Sam is almost as frightened of whores as he is of the haunted forest, and Jon wants no part of it, telling Toad "Do what you want, I took a vow".
Zei, a whore from the brothel, helps in the defense of Castle Black.[*citation needed*]
Mollander is a novice at the Citadel. His father was a knight.
Mollander has thick arms and broad shoulders. He has a club foot, which prevents him from becoming a knight.
After Mollander heard his father was killed in the Battle of the Blackwater, he began drinking heavily. Because of his drinking he is not a very good student.
Mollander is one of the group that discusses the discovery of dragons. He gets very drunk and Roone has to help him walk back to the Citadel.
Mollono Yos Dob is a former slave. He was freed by Daenerys Targaryen.
Mollono is plump and looks more like a scribe then a warrior, but is very clever.
Mollono is named commander of the newly formed company, Stalwart Shields. He is present at several war council meetings and gives good advice. He eventually dies from the pale mare infection that sweeps Meereen.
Moluu is one of the Summer Isles. It is west of Jhala in the Summer Sea. To the north is the Isle of Love. To the west is a group of islands called The Three Exiles.
Monford Velaryon is the Lord of the Tides, Master of Driftmark, and head of House Velaryon. Aurane Waters, the Bastard of Driftmark, is his bastard half-brother.
Monford is handsome with long, fair hair. He sometimes wears sea-green silk with a white gold seahorse brooch.
As a vassal of Dragonstone, Monford supports Stannis Baratheon's claim to the Iron Throne. However, he threatens to take his forces home if they do not strike soon.
Monford wants Stannis to sail from Dragonstone to King's Landing to challenge King Joffrey I Baratheon, but Stannis instead sails to Shipbreaker Bay against his brother, Renly Baratheon. During the siege of Storm's End, Stannis thinks that Lord Velaryon wants to assault the castle instead of starving it.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Lord Velaryon's *Pride of Driftmark* is set afire by wildfire.
It is reported by Lord Alester Florent that Lord Monford burned with Pride of Driftmark on the Blackwater Rush.
Davos would have given much to know what he was thinking, but one such as Velaryon would never confide in him. The Lord of the Tides was of the blood of ancient Valyria, and his House had thrice provided brides for Targaryen princes; Davos Seaworth stank of fish and onions.
- thoughts of Davos Seaworth
The others bobbed their heads up and down like a flock of geese, all but Velaryon, who said that steel would decide the matter, not words on parchment. As if I had never suspected.
King Monfryd I Durrandon, also known as Monfryd the Mighty, was a Storm King of House Durrandon. He crossed the Blackwater Rush and defeated the petty kings of House Darklyn and House Mooton in a series of wars and seized the port towns of Duskendale and Maidenpool. He was succeeded by Durran XI Durrandon.
King Monfryd V Durrandon was a Storm King of House Durrandon during the Andal invasion and the heir and successor of King Qarlton III Durrandon. Like his father and grandfather, Monfryd V reigned in times of war against the Andals. He defeated the Holy Brotherhood of the Andals, an alliance of seven petty kings and warlords, at the Battle of Bronzegate, though he lost his life in the process.
The wildling infant son of Gilly and her father-husband Craster has not received a given name yet. Some members of the Night's Watch have called him the abomination,
The free folk consider that naming a child too early brings bad luck, since infant mortality is widespread. The children receive proper names when they reach the age of two. Gilly follows the same rule.
When the Night's Watch stops at Craster's Keep during the great ranging, Gilly encounters and befriends Samwell Tarly. She is pregnant with Craster's child, and fears that if she gives birth to a son, Craster will sacrifice him to the wood as is done to Craster's sons. She beseeches Samwell to help her, and Samwell agrees, sending her to Jon Snow, to the annoyance of the latter. Gilly appeals to Jon, but he refuses to help her.
After the fight at the Fist, as the Night's Watch pauses to regroup at Craster's Keep, Gilly gives birth to a son. Craster is killed before he can sacrifice the child, however, and in the confusion Gilly and two of Craster's other wives approach Sam to convince him to take Gilly and the babe. Shortly thereafter Sam, Gilly, and her newborn son flee south.
Gilly is sent south aboard a ship to Oldtown (via Braavos) with Samwell, Dareon, and Maester Aemon, ostensibly with her child. However, Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, has swapped Gilly's son with Dalla's. This is done to spare the innocent child from Melisandre's flames on account of his king's blood, leaving Gilly’s son at the Wall.
For much of the journey Gilly is overcome with grief at being separated from her child, but after Aemon's death aboard the *Cinnamon Wind* and becoming a lover to Samwell, she recovers.
Stannis is glad that Gilly has left the Wall, considering her child to be an abomination born of incest.
Val sings to Gilly's baby and refers to him as a little monster. Val thinks Melisandre is aware of Jon having switched the boys, and she advises Jon to keep Monster away from the red priestess.
My son. My blood. You think I'd give him to you crows?
- Craster to Samwell Tarly
Even if Craster gave us the child, he'd be dead before we reached the Wall. We need a newborn babe to care for near as much as we need more snow. Do you have milk to feed him in those big teats of yours? Or did you mean to take the mother too?
- Jeor Mormont to Samwell Tarly
Jon: Craster married all his daughters. Gilly's boy was the fruit of their union.
Stannis: Her own father got this child on her? We are well rid of her, then. I will not suffer such abominations here. This is not King's Landing.
- Jon Snow and Stannis Baratheon
Val: How fares the little monster?
Jon: Twice as big as when you left us, and thrice as loud. When he wants the teat, you can hear him wail in Eastwatch.
Monsters-and-maidens is a game played by multiple individuals, usually children. Participants chase each other while pretending to be monsters or maidens.
As a child, Arya Stark played monsters-and-maidens, hide-the-treasure, and come-into-my-castle with the children of the people of Winterfell.
Rickon Stark plays monsters-and-maidens, lord of the crossing, rats and cats, and come-into-my-castle with Big Walder and Little Walder Frey.
Edric Storm plays monsters-and-maidens with Shireen Baratheon and Patchface at Aegon's Garden in Dragonstone, with Edric pretending to be a monster.
Shae and Tyrion Lannister pretend to play the game during a tryst amongst the dragon skulls within the Red Keep.
Shae: You have to catch me. M'lord must have played monsters and maidens when he was little.
Tyrion: Are you calling me a monster?
Shae: No more than I'm a maiden. You need to catch me all the same.
- Shae and Tyrion Lannister
Monterys Velaryon is a member of House Velaryon.
After the death of his father at the Battle of the Blackwater,
House Yronwood soldiers make their way during a full moon - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
Soldiers rush to battle by the light of a full moon. © Fantasy Flight Games
The moon is a natural satellite to the planet of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire world.
Qartheen believe that dragons were hatched from a second moon that came too close to the sun and cracked, while Dothraki believe that the moon is a goddess, wife to the sun.
According to the myth of Azor Ahai, the face of the moon cracked due to Nissa Nissa's cry of anguish and ecstasy when Azor Ahai drove Lightbringer into her chest to temper the blade.
Moon was a septon and a member of the Poor Fellows during the Faith Militant uprising against the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen.
Physically, Septon Moon was described as "a bearded brute" of a man.
Following the Faith Militant's defeats in 42 AC in the battles at Stonebridge and the Great Fork of the Blackwater, new leaders arose across the Seven Kingdoms in 43 AC. Among these were Ser Joffrey Doggett in the westerlands, Poxy Jeyne Poore in the Kingswood of the stormlands, and Septon Moon in the riverlands. Others included Dennis the Lame and Ragged Silas who, like Moon, were hardly distinguishable from outlaws.
No longer would the Faith Militant openly march to pitched battle against Maegor's armies, and risk destruction by the Targaryen dragons. Instead, these new leaders waged a guerrilla war against Maegor's forces across southern Westeros, roaming the woods and hedges and wild places and striking back where they could. Maegor put a bounty out on them, a gold dragon for the scalp of a Warrior's Son and a silver stag for the scalp of a Poor Fellow, to encourage men to hunt down the rebel bands. Many did, but more of the smallfolk rallied to their cause, hearing sermons from these persecuted holy men of the Faith, hiding them and giving them what supplies they could. Here and there pious lords would render them aid as well.
Septon Moon's outlaw band even "elected" him as their own High Septon, in defiance of the "High Lickspittle" that Maegor had forced the Most Devout in Oldtown to prop up as his puppet. In time, it appears that many of the Poor Fellows across Westeros came to regard him as the real High Septon. Moon came to roam at will around the southern riverlands and northern Reach, evading royal forces: whenever he emerged from the woods to preach, he drew huge crowds to hear his condemnations of Maegor.
Maegor marshalled his main army and launched a new major campaign against the Faith Militant in 45 AC, targeted at Poxy Jeyne Poore and her followers in the stormlands. This grueling campaign ended a year later with their destruction and her burning at the stake, but Maegor targeting his main focus against her relieved pressure off the other groups of the Faith Militant in the rest of Westeros, giving Doggett and Moon's followers a chance to recover.
In 47 AC, seeking to finally produce an heir, Maegor announced that he would simultaneously marry three new brides in a triple-wedding ceremony - who came to be known as his "black brides" because they were all widows of proven fertility: Jeyne Westerling, Elinor Costayne, and his own half-niece Rhaena Targaryen. None of the great lords of the realm dared raise objection, but Septon Moon appeared at the town of Stoney Sept to denounce Maegor's wedding plans, to the cheers of crowds numbering in the hundreds.
By 48 AC, Maegor's increasing brutality had finally alienated most of the great lords, following his execution of his wife Tyanna of the Tower for poisoning his other brides. Septon Moon appeared again, leading an army of thousands of Poor Fellows south through the Reach to Oldtown, with the openly announced intent of "bearding the Lickspittle in the Starry Sept", to demand that he lift the ban on the military orders and denounce Maegor, "the Abomination on the Iron Throne". When Lord Oakheart and Lord Rowan appeared before him with their own armies, they did not attack Septon Moon but joined their forces to his. Meanwhile, Joffrey Doggett was seen entering Riverrun - not as a captive or a besieger but as a guest of Lord Tully. Maegor's few remaining followers then abandoned him in rapid succession, and he was soon found dead on the Iron Throne itself.
The Moon-Pale Maiden is a goddess. There is a statue of it in the House of Black and White. The statue is most commonly visited by sailors.
Slanderous Lies. © FFG
Moon Boy is a royal jester and fool, at court in the Red Keep.
See also: Images of Moon Boy
Moon Boy is pie-faced, and wears the motley clothing common to fools.
He performs during the royal feast during the Tourney of the Hand, making witticisms about the various nobles in attendance and walking on stilts. Sansa wonders if he truly is the simpleton he claims to be, his song about the High Septon (the fat one) even makes Septa Mordane laugh.
When Dontos Hollard is made a fool he claims to Sansa Stark that Moon Boy is in the employment of Varys. Dontos claims to hear all sorts of things as a fool he never heard when he was a knight and claims Moon Boy is not as simple as he appears.
He performs at King Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell.
After Jaime Lannister confesses to his younger brother Tyrion that Tysha was never in fact a whore, Tyrion becomes furious and reveals to Jaime some of the men he knows Cersei Lannister has been having sex with. To the confirmed list he sarcastically adds "... and Moon Boy for all I know." This obvious exaggeration has a strong effect on Jaime going forward. The words continue to haunt him during his subsequent missions through the Riverlands.
At Darry, Jaime Lannister confronts his counsin Lancel about Cersei. Lancel admits that he had sex with her, and Jaime wonders how many more men his sister has slept with. He then wonders if Tyrion's comment about Moon Boy was just a gibe. Jaime later has a dream where he found his sister having sex with Moon Boy, after which he kills the fool and smashes Cersei’s teeth to splinters.
When King Tommen Baratheon is permitted to name the last five of Cersei's dromonds, he chooses Moon Boy for one - but is dissuaded by the master of ships, Lord Aurane Waters. Moon Boy is present when Cersei Lannister hears that the Faith of the Seven have arrested Margaery Tyrell. He appears dumbstruck.
The Spider pays in gold for any little trifle. I think Moon Boy had been his for years.
– Dontos Hollard, to Sansa Stark
Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and probably Moon Boy for all I know.
– Tyrion to Jaime
A fool he may be, but he wears his folly honestly.
– Cersei Lannister's thoughts
Was the part about Moon Boy just a gibe?
- Jaime Lannister's thoughts while confronting Lancel Lannister
Moon Brother harriers © FFG
The Moon Brothers are one of the Vale mountain clans of the Mountains of the Moon. They have close ties with the Black Ears.
Lharys claims it was either members of the Milk Snakes or the Moon Brothers that were the first to descend upon Catelyn Stark's party in the Mountains of the Moon.
The Moon Brothers are among the clans that join Tyrion Lannister on the promise of weapons and armor. The party with Tyrion is led by Ulf, the son of Umar.
In preparation for Stannis Baratheon's arrival before the gates of King's Landing, Tyrion sends the Black Ears and the Moon Brothers into the kingswood to harass and harry Stannis's army on its march to King's Landing before the Battle of the Blackwater.
A condemned man, going out via the Moon Door, by Thomas Denmark. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Moon Door is a narrow weirwood door that stands between two slender pillars in the High Hall of the Eyrie. A crescent moon is carved into the door. Across the door are heavy bronze bars that bar the door, which opens inward. The door opens into the sky and a six hundred foot drop to the stones of the valley below. Most executions at the Eyrie use this door.
Robert Arryn wants Tyrion Lannister to fly out the Moon Door.
After chastising Sansa Stark for kissing Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Lysa Tully grabs Sansa and drags her before the Moon Door. Lysa pushes Sansa closer and closer to the edge, until Littlefinger arrives and tells his new wife to release her. Petyr promises never to leave her side again, and as his wife falls into his arms, he tells her he has only ever loved one woman, Cat- and then shoves Lysa out the Moon Door.
We keep no headsman in the Eyrie, my lord of Lannister. Open the Moon Door.
– Lysa Tully, to Tyrion Lannister
How many men had the snot-nosed little wretch sent through that door already?
The Moon Pool is a fountain located in Braavos.
The Moon Pool is located south of the Sealord's Palace and before the headquarters of the Iron Bank, on the northeastern section of Braavos.
Brusco's daughter Talea sometimes sells shellfish at the Moon Pool, as does Cat of the Canals.
The Moon of the Three Kings was a month near the end of the Dance of the Dragons when there were multiple "monarchs". These included two pretender kings, Trystane Truefyre, a hedge knight's squire, and Gaemon Palehair, the son of a whore.
King Aegon II Targaryen escaped King's Landing during its fall to Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, his half-sister and rival monarch. Rhaenyra ruled the city for only half a year, before she abandoned King's Landing in the aftermath of riots during the fifth moon of 130 AC.
The hedge knight Ser Perkin the Flea, a leader of the rioters, claimed that his squire, Trystane Truefyre, was a bastard son of the late Viserys I Targaryen, the father of Rhaenyra and Aegon. Perkin had previously been gathering support for the boy, and at some point after Rhaenyra's flight, he installed Trystane in the Red Keep.
The second pretender king was Gaemon Palehair, the four-year-old son of Essie, a whore who claimed the boy had been fathered by Aegon II. Given Aegon's philandering ways, this was not seen as improbable. Gaemon ruled from the House of Kisses atop Visenya's Hill and gathered thousands of followers. He issued a series of edicts,
Meanwhile, Aegon II, hiding on Dragonstone, recuperated from injuries suffered at Rook's Rest. With Rhaenyra on the mainland, Aegon's greens took her castle through the fall of Dragonstone. In the tenth moon of 130 AC, Rhaenyra was killed by Aegon's dragon, Sunfyre, when she returned to Dragonstone. Sunfyre succumbed to his own wounds in the twelfth moon of the year.
After mourning Sunfyre, Aegon II readied plans to recover the Iron Throne in chaotic King's Landing.
Hoster Tully gives his daughter Lysa moon tea.
Art by Juliana Pinho
Moon tea or tansy tea is a medicinal herbal tea used in the Seven Kingdoms, as well as beyond the Wall, to prevent or abort pregnancies.
Moon tea is made generally by maesters and woods witches out of tansy, mint, wormwood, a spoon of honey, and a drop of pennyroyal.
A woods witch showed Asha Greyjoy how to brew moon tea after she lost her virginity to a Lysene sailor.
Lady Ravella Smallwood refers to it as tansy tea, and indicates that milkmaids across the riverlands have been drinking it thanks to Tom of Sevenstreams.
Lady Lysa Arryn reveals to her new husband, Lord Petyr Baelish, that her late father Hoster Tully, Lord Paramount of the Trident, had her unknowingly consume moon tea to abort Petyr's child when they were younger.
Princess Arianne Martell consumes moon tea during her romance with Ser Arys Oakheart.
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister believes that Queen Margaery Tyrell's requesting of moon tea from Grand Maester Pycelle is evidence that Margaery has a secret lover.
If Ygritte does not want a child, she will go to some woods witch and drink a cup o' moon tea. You do not come into it, once the seed is planted.
- Tormund Giantsbane to Jon Snow
I would have given you a son too, but they murdered him with moon tea, with tansy and mint and wormwood, a spoon of honey and a drop of pennyroyal. It wasn't me, I never knew, I only drank what Father gave me...
- Lysa Arryn to Petyr Baelish
Women only drank moon tea for one reason; maidens had no need for it at all.
- thoughts of Cersei Lannister
Moon tea is based on natural abortifactants. According to George R. R. Martin, he added some fantasy touches, as the actual recipe can be very dangerous, and should not be tried in real life.
Moonbloom is a type of flower found in Westeros. It grows in the gardens of Oldtown.
Moondancer was a young she-dragon, ridden by Lady Baela Targaryen.
Moondancer was a slender pale green.
Moondancer remained at Dragonstone with her rider, Lady Baela Targaryen, for most of the first two years of the Dance of the Dragons. When Dragonstone fell to Aegon II Targaryen, Baela was able to evade capture by escaping from her bedchambers as the door was being smashed down. She managed to reach Moondancer in the stable, loosed the dragon's chains and strapped a saddle onto her. As Aegon II flew Sunfyre over Dragonmont's smoking peak, planning to land triumphantly in the courtyard of the castle, Baela and Moondancer rose up to meet.
The two dragons fought fiercely in the air. The younger, smaller Moondancer was far more nimble than the half-crippled Sunfyre, and she managed to evade his flames, jaws, and claws for a time, while at the same time wounding Sunfyre heavily on his back and malformed wing. Moondancer was blinded when a blast of Sunfyre's flames hit her directly in the eyes. Despite the fire, Moondancer advanced on Sunfyre, slamming into him and falling to the ground with him. Although both dragons survived the fall, upon the ground Moondancer's speed could not defeat Sunfyre's size and weight. The younger dragon was eventually killed by Sunfyre.
Moondancer's carcass was devoured by Sunfyre.
The Moonrunner is a Pentoshi trading galley.
The Moonrunner is contracted by Ser Horas and Ser Hobber Redwyne to help them escape King's Landing. The plot is discovered by Varys and stopped, however.
The Moonshadow is a courtesan in Braavos. She has her own barge and servants to pole her to trysts.
She is beautiful. She wears only white and silver.
The Moonshadow came across Dareon singing by the Moon Pool in Braavos and thought he played so wonderfully that she gave him a kiss.
The Moonsingers
Each band of Jogos Nhai is led by a *jhat, a war chief, and a moonsinger, who takes the role of priestess, healer, and judge. Whereas *jhats command in matters of war, raid, and battle, the moonsinger commands over any other aspect in the band's life. Males can be moonsingers, too. However, this requires boys to dress and live as women.
When a shipment of slaves of the Valyrian Freehold bound for Sothoryos revolted, seized the slave ships transporting them, and fled north, a group of enslaved women from the lands of the Jogos Nhai prophesied where they would find shelter: a lagoon behind a wall of pine-clad hills and sea stones, where frequent fogs would help hide the refugees from the eyes of dragonlords passing overhead. These women were moonsingers and, according to Braavosi history, their prophecy proved true. For that reason, the Temple of the Moonsingers is the largest in Braavos.
Mirri Maz Duur tells Daenerys Targaryen that she studied the birthing songs of a moonsinger of the Jogos Nhai while she was in Asshai.
Denyo Terys tells Arya Stark of the Moonsingers.
They were very important in the founding and early history of Braavos, but they still exist to this day. Beyond that, I don't expect they'll have much importance to the present story....
Moontown is a town in Westeros, although its location is unknown. Merrit, a member of the brotherhood without banners, comes from the settlement.
Moqorro is a red priest in service to the faith of R'hllor.
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Moqorro's skin is black as pitch. He is over six feet tall, with a belly like a boulder. A tangle of pure white hair grows from his face like a mane of a lion. According to Tyrion Lannister he has yellow and orange flame tattoos inked across his cheeks and forehead.
Moqorro is a red priest of the R'hllor faith who is sent by High Priest Benerro to offer guidance and help to Daenerys Targaryen.
Like Melisandre, Moqorro can see the future in the flames, though his predictions are more accurate. He joins the crew of the ship *Selaesori Qhoran* heading to Qarth, although according to him he knew the ship would not reach Qarth but would lead him to Slaver's Bay. Moqorro wishes to see Daenerys Targaryen, and when Jorah Mormont learns of this, he books passage on the ship so he can take his prisoner, Tyrion Lannister, to Daenerys. However, the ship is hit by a great storm and later captured by slavers, which Moqorro had foreseen as the reason the ship would never reach Qarth. Moqorro is lost overboard during the storm.
Moqorro is discovered clinging to wreckage out to sea ten days later by the Iron Fleet commanded by Victarion Greyjoy. The crew wants him put to death, but Moqorro is unafraid and calm, which further unnerves the crew. Moqorro tells to Victarion he knows of the ironborn quest to seek the dragon queen, and that Victarion will die from his wounded hand without Moqorro's help.
Using magic, Moqorro manages to cure Victarion's wound and to aid Victarion in his quest. He has Victarion kill the ship's maester, Kerwin, to bring good winds, just as Melisandre once did when she had Stannis Baratheon burn Alester Florent to grant his fleet favourable winds to Eastwatch.
Since Moqorro's red garb was ruined in the sea, Victarion has Tom Tidewood make Moqorro new robes from the black and gold of the Greyjoy sails., who cannot pronounce Moqorro's name properly.
Moqorro studies the glyphs on the dragon horn, and tells Victarion he must claim it with blood if he wishes to bind dragons to his will.
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.
– Moqorro, to Tyrion Lannister.
Mord is a gaoler of House Arryn, in charge of the upkeep and maintenance of the sky cells of the Eyrie. In the TV series he is played by Ciaran Bermingham.
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Mord is a large man, slow-witted brute, who's fond of tormenting the prisoners, telling them how they are going to fall out of the cells to their deaths. He has small, dark eyes, rotting brown teeth and the left side of his face has a scar from where an axe cut off his ear and part of his cheek. He has a large belly and thick, stubby-fingered hands.
After Tyrion pays Mord he uses at least some of the gold to cap his teeth.
When Tyrion Lannister was brought up to the Eyrie, he was thrown in one of the Sky Cells, where Mord was his guard. Mord takes Tyrion's magnificent shadowskin cloak. Mord routinely brutalized him, until one day Tyrion bribed him with the promise of gold if only Mord would tell Lady Arryn that Tyrion would confess his crimes.
When we see Mord again, he has filled his teeth with the gold Tyrion paid him. Lord Petyr Baelish uses Mord to convince Marillion, through painful means and exposure in the sky cells, to tell Lord Nestor Royce what Lord Petyr Baelish wanted Marillion to tell him.
Mord was one of the last to leave the Eyrie and descend to the Gates of the Moon, having the job of killing the oxen before he left.
[H]e had the look of a man who had often been tricked." *- Tyrion Lannister *
Mordane is the septa at Winterfell. She serves as tutor to the Stark girls, Sansa and Arya.
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Mordane has a bony face and sharp eyes. She has a thin, lipless mouth. She starches her skirts. While strict she is a good woman who cares about both Sansa and Arya.
Mordane is a septa in the Faith of the Seven. She serves as tutor to the Stark girls, Sansa and Arya at Winterfell. Her primary duties involve teaching the two girls the gentle arts and turning them into noblewomen. She finds Sansa to be a delightful student, but is often exasperated with Arya's antics and rebellious nature.
Mordane presides over the needlework with Princess Myrcella Baratheon, Beth Cassel, Jeyne Poole, Sansa Stark, and Arya Stark. When Mordane admonishes her for her poor needlework, Arya becomes angry and embarrasses herself in front of the princess.
When Eddard Stark is appointed Hand of the King, Mordane goes south to King's Landing in his entourage, to watch over his daughters. She accompanies Sansa and Jeyne to the Hand's tourney, where she approves of Sansa's composure during the tilts. Mordane escorts Jeyne away after they watch Ser Hugh die.
Mordane is killed along with most of the other members of Eddard's household after he is arrested for treason. Her head is mounted on a spike atop the Red Keep.
A lady's armor is courtesy.
Eddard: What would Septa Mordane say if she knew you were playing with swords?
Arya: I wasn’t playing. I hate Septa Mordane.
Eddard: That’s enough. The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman. Your mother and I have charged her with the impossible task of making you a lady.
– Eddard Stark and Arya Stark
King Morden II Durrandon was a Storm King of House Durrandon. During his reign the decline of House Durrandon turned back, thanks in part to Morden's baseborn half brother Ronard, whom he named as his castellan. A fearsome warrior, Ronard became ruler of the Stormlands in all but name and took Morden's sister to wife. Within five years, he had usurped kingship as well. Morden's own queen placed the crown on Ronard's head and, if songs are true, she shared his bed as well. In the meantime, Morden, deemed harmless, was confined to a cell in the tower.
Moredo Prestayn is a member of House Prestayn and a merchant of Braavos. He is the Tradesman-Captain of the *Vixen*.
Arya Stark discovers that when Moredo is away on voyages the bookseller Lotho Lornel sleeps in his house. Lotho moves out whenever the *Vixen* returns to Braavos.
Moredo Rogare was a scion of House Rogare, a Lysene noble banking family. He was the youngest son of Lysandro, nephew of Drazenko, and the younger brother to Lysaro and Larra Rogare. He was a soldier who carried the Valyrian steel sword Truth.
After the death of Lysandro the Magnificent, the ambitious and spendthrift Lysaro was opposed by other Lysene magisters. At the same time, Moredo and Larra were involved in politics at the Red Keep. Although Lysaro was scourged to death, Moredo and Larra received lesser punishments, and Moredo later led a host against Lys.
Moreo Tumitis is captain of the ship *Storm Dancer. He has a forked green beard. Hailing from Tyrosh he can speak the Common Tongue fluently. He has sailed the narrow sea for roughly thirty years, as everything from an oarsman to finally, captain. The *Storm Dancer is his fourth ship and the fastest of them.
Moreo is at White Harbor with his ship when Catelyn Tully and Ser Rodrik Cassel arrive to take passage south to King's Landing. They book passage on his ship which is the swiftest available in the harbor.
Morgan is a guard of House Baratheon of Dragonstone and a queen's man. He is a hopeless drunkard.
When Stannis Baratheon marches to Deepwood Motte Morgan is left at Castle Black to serve Melisandre.
Ser Morgan Dunstable was a knight from Tumbler's Falls during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen.
He knighted Ser Glendon Flowers in front of two dozen witnesses, but only because Glendon's sister gave him her maidenhead.
Ser Morgan Hightower was a knight of House Hightower and Commander of the Warrior's Sons chapter at Oldtown during the Faith Militant uprising.
Ser Morgan already served with the Warrior's Sons at the time of Aegon's Conquest.
Morgan and his sworn brothers were all arrested under orders of Lord Martyn Hightower and put on trial by Maegor. Morgan was the only one pardoned,
He was later cut down and butchered on the road to Honeyholt by the Warrior's Sons who remained loyal to Ser Joffrey Doggett.
Morgan Liddle is the second son of Lord Torren Liddle, known as The Liddle, or clan chief of House Liddle, a mountain clan in the North. call him Middle Liddle, though not often in his hearing.
Morgan is a big, bearded, bald man. He wears a byrnie of patched and rusted mail.
Morgan takes part in the retaking of Deepwood Motte in which he almost slays Asha Greyjoy.
Robin: This march was madness. More dying every day, and for what? Some girl?
Morgan: Ned's girl.
- Robin Peasebury and Morgan
Morgan Martell was an Andal adventurer and the founder of House Martell. He and his kin descended on lands loosely held by House Wade and House Shell, defeated them in battle, seized their villages, burned their castles and established his dominion over a strip of coastland fifty leagues long and ten leagues wide.
Ser Morgarth, known as Morgarth the Merry, is a hedge knight.
He is burly with a thick salt-and-pepper beard. He has a red, bulbous nose with broken veins and large, gnarled hands.
Ser Morgarth enters the service of Lord Petyr Baelish at the Gates of the Moon. He remarks that Petyr did not mention that his daughter, Alayne Stone, is beautiful.
Morghaz zo Zherzyn, nobleman called the Drunken Conqueror.
The Windblown, a sellsword company hired by Yunkai, mock him as the "Drunken Conqueror", as he is always drunk.
Morghaz becomes supreme commander of the Yunkai'i on the eve of battle during the Second Siege of Meereen due to the death of Gorzhak zo Eraz, who was slain by the Tattered Prince. Morghaz swears that the turncloak who names himself the Prince of Tatters shall die screaming for this infamy.
Due to Daenerys Targaryen's Unsullied advancing toward the Harpy's Daughter, Morghaz gives orders that while Bloodbeard and two Ghiscari legions stand against them and hold the line, the Second Sons are to sweep around behind the eunuchs and take them in the rear, sparing none. A Yunkish nobleman passes this command on to the Second Sons while they are meeting in Brown Ben Plumm's tent. They ignore Morghaz's command, and slay his messenger.
It's a wonder he was able to crawl out of the flagon long enough to give a halfway-sensible command.
Morghul was a young dragon bound to Princess Jaehaera Targaryen before the Dance of the Dragons. Morghul died in the Storming of the Dragonpit when it was invaded by a half-crazed angry mob after a one-handed prophet called the Shepherd began to rant against all dragons everywhere. There is little doubt that Morghul killed scores of people before being slain. Morghul was never ridden.
Shackled by heavy chains Morghul, it is written, was slain by the Burning Knight who rushed headlong into the dragon's flame with spear in hand, thrusting its point repeatedly even as dragonflame melted the steel plate that encased him and devoured his flesh within.
"Morghul" may be a reference to Morgul, the word for dark sorcery in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth Legendarium.
Ser Morgil Hastwyck was a knight from House Hastwyck who lived during the reign of King Aegon IV Targaryen..
Well, the singers embroider everything, but there was a Ser Morgil and he did accuse Naerys of various things... probably adultery and treason with Aemon, but I haven't nailed all that down yet....
Why, every child in Westeros knows how Prince Aemon the Dragonknight championed his sister Queen Naerys against Ser Morghil's accusations.
Morgo is a slave soldier owned by Yezzan zo Qaggaz. He is commanded by the serjeant Scar.
Scar commands him to help Tyrion Lannister to unchain Jorah Mormont in order to fetch water.
Morgon Banefort was the last Hooded King of House Banefort during the Age of Heroes.
King Morgon and his thralls were defeated in a twenty-years-long war with King Loreon I of House Lannister.
Lord Moribald Chester is Lord of Greenshield and head of House Chester.
After the Battle of the Shield Islands, news reaches King's Landing that Lord Moribald was among the slain.
Mormont's raven is a pet raven of Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He can speak, usually repeating a one syllable word twice. Typically it is a word just said by one of the people around, however it is often uncannily appropriate.
Mormont's raven has beady black eyes and
This raven is particularly fond of fruit and "corn" (grain). Maester Aemon considers this a rather rare trait, since most ravens prefer meat.
Mormont's raven served as the companion of Jeor Mormont for "long years".
At Castle Black, Alliser Thorne orders recent recruit Jon Snow to report to Lord Commander Jeor Mormont. Jon first notices Mormont's raven, perched on the arm of Jeor. Mormont gives Jon a letter that has arrived from Winterfell for him. The message was written by Robb Stark, informing Jon that Bran Stark has recovered from a coma. Though the boy is crippled, Jon is happy that his brother is going to live. The raven flies to the shoulder of Jeor, while repeating the last word of Jon: Live!
During a meal, Alliser Thorne and visitor Tyrion Lannister insult each other. Bystanders laugh, while the raven caws loudly from above a window, repeating the last word of Tyrion: Duel!
Later, Jon is forced to fight a wight. Jon improvises and uses Jeor's oil lamp to start a fire. The raven starts cawing Burn, seemingly on its own initiative.
After Jon attempts to desert to avenge his late father, Jeor asks whether Jon finds the war of Robb Stark to be more important that their own war. The ongoing wars mentioned are the War of the Five Kings and the Conflict Beyond the Wall. The raven flaps its wings and starts repeating: War. Jon finds the words to be song-like. Jeor suggests that Eddard Stark himself sent Jon to the Wall, though nobody truly knows why. The raven repeats the question: Why?
Jeor Mormont with his raven by Wouter Bruneel.
Lord Commander Mormont brings his raven with him while commanding the Great Ranging. It continues to repeat various words of those having conversations with Mormont.
Jeor Mormont feeding his raven - by Amok ©
Mormont's raven survives the Battle of the Fist of the First Men, and manages to accompany his master to Craster's Keep. After Mormont is murdered during the mutiny he seems to disappear.
Later, the elections for the position of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch are ongoing. No candidate has enough votes to secure election, and a new vote is about to take place. A large kettle is used as ballot box. Samwell Tarly and Clydas transport the kettle. When Clydas takes off the lidd of the kettle, a raven bursts out from inside. It then flies three times around the room finally it landing on the table, next to the place where Jon Snow is seated. It starts repeating the name: Snow. It then spreads its wings and flies to Jon, perching on his shoulder.
Samwell claims to recognize this bird, proclaiming it to be Mormont's raven. Alliser Thorne laughs, claiming that Samwell is trying to fool them. He is certain that this is one of several ravens which Tarly has trained to say Snow, while Mormont's raven had a richer vocabulary.
The raven dwells with new Lord Commander Jon Snow in his quarters, and continues to repeat certain words from ongoing conversations.
Jon Snow - by Michael Komarck ©
Jon has a dream where he defends the Wall, facing the Others and their wights. He faces various people from his past.
Mormont Keep is the semi-canonical name
My home was a great disappointment to Lynesse. It was too cold, too damp, too far away, my castle no more than a wooden longhall. We had no masques, no mummer shows, no balls or fairs. Seasons might pass without a singer ever coming to play for us, and there's not a goldsmith on the island. Even meals became a trial. My cook knew little beyond his roasts and stews, and Lynesse soon lost her taste for fish and venison.
Morna White Mask is a wildling leader, warrior witch, and raider.
Morna is among the wildling leaders who accompany Tormund Giantsbane to the Wall in declaring a truce with the Night's Watch.
The warrior witch Morna removed her weirwood mask just long enough to kiss [Jon's] gloved hand and swear to be his man or his woman, whichever he preferred.
Morne was the seat of petty kings who ruled from the eastern shore of Tarth in what is now the stormlands. Having examined the castle's ruins, Maester Hubert writes in *Kin of the Stag* that Morne was of Andal origin, not First Men. Ser Galladon of Morne is a legendary knight of the island.
Morning was a dragon which hatched late in the Dance of the Dragons. It belonged to Lady Rhaena Targaryen, the daughter of Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lady Laena Velaryon.
Morning was born during the Dance of the Dragons, and thus was too young to participate in the war.
Morning was one of four dragons to survive the Dance of the Dragons.
For the historical khal, see Moro (Century of Blood).
Moro is a Dothraki *khal*. He is a sometime ally of Khal Drogo. He has a son, Rhogoro.
Moro attends the presentation of Daenerys Targaryen to Khal Drogo in Pentos with his son.
Moro is an uncertain ally of Daenerys Targaryen.
Moro was a *khal* who lived during the Century of Blood. He was the son of Khal Mengo, who had united all Dothraki in a single *khalasar*.
Moro led the Dothraki to the gates of Sathar, the "Waterfall City" of the Sarnori. All men were put to the sword and their women and children carried off as slaves to the marts of the hill city of Hazdahn Mo, a colony of the Ghiscari Empire. Sathar was burned to the ground, and it is written that Moro gave the ruins a new name: Yalli Qamayi, the place of Wailing Children.
Six years later, Moro razed Kasath to the ground, with the aid of the King of Gornath, who had taken one of Moro's daughters as wife and made common cause with him and sent aid to Moro's riders. Twelve years later, however, Moro was slain by Khal Horro.
Moroggo's is an inn or tavern in Braavos. It has singers performing most nights.
Samwell Tarly unsuccessfully searches for Dareon at Moroggo's.
Morosh can refer to the following pages:
Morosh the Myrman is a sellsail admiral from Myr.
Morosh is one of the mercenaries hired by Stannis Baratheon in his attempt to take the Iron Throne..
Morosh
Essos and the location of Morosh
Morosh is a city in northern Essos along the shore of the Shivering Sea. A fishing and mining colony of Lorath,
Morra is a servant of House Martell at Sunspear. She is the sister of Mellei.
Morra is among the servants who are allowed access to Princess Arianne Martell during her imprisonment at Sunspear.
Morrec is a servant of Tyrion Lannister on his travels. Tyrion Lannister states that he serves as his groom, cook, body servant, but not a true bodyguard. He is a better archer than a swordsman.
Morrec accompanies Tyrion Lannister north to Winterfell and then to the Wall.
Morros Slynt is the heir of Lord Janos Slynt of Harrenhal. He is a new-made squire. He is frog-faced.
Morros rode in the Tourney for King Joffrey's 13th Name Day, where he was unhorsed by Ser Balon Swann in the second tilt of the day.
Sansa Stark spied him getting beaten in the yard by Osfryd Kettleblack.
Mors II Martell was the head of House Martell and Lord of the Sunspear. He was the grandson of Nymeria and successor to her eldest daughter.
Mors Manwoody is the eldest son and heir of Dagos Manwoody, Lord of Kingsgrave.
Mors, accompanied by his brother, Dickon, his father Lord Dagos and his uncle Ser Myles, were 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.
Not to be confused with Mors Martell, the brother of Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne.
Mors Martell was the head of House Martell and Lord of the Sandship who married the warrior queen Nymeria..
When Nymeria led the Rhoynar refugees to Dorne in southern Westeros, the lands of the Martells paled in comparison to those of House Yronwood.
Not to be confused with Mors Martell, the husband of the Rhoynish warrior queen Nymeria.
Prince Mors Nymeros Martell was the younger brother of Prince Doran Martell. He died as an infant.
Mors Umber, known as Mors Crowfood, is a member of House Umber, the uncle of Lord Greatjon Umber, and the joint castellan of Last Hearth with his younger brother, .
See also: Images of Mors Umber
Mors is an old man, huge and powerful, with a ruddy face and a shaggy white beard.
Mors Crowfood is usually drunk.
Whilst sleeping by the side of a road, a crow had taken Mors for dead and so it pecked out his eye. According to Old Nan, he grabbed the raven at its feet and bit its head off, earning him the nickname Crowfood.
Mors Crowfood, with his brother, Hother Whoresbane, attends the harvest feast at Winterfell, where Mors puts himself forward as a possible match for the recently-widowed Lady Donella Hornwood. Luwin promises to pass the request on to Robb Stark, the new King in the North, and Donella, who dislikes Mors.
When Luwin answers Hother's request for longships and men to sail them as protection against the influx of wildlings in the north with the suggestion to strike an alliance with Lord Wyman Manderly, Mors is dismissive, calling Wyman a "waddling sack of suet". However, Ser Rodrik Cassel commands the Umbers in the name of Robb to ally with the Manderlys and they give in, but not without grumbling.
During the harvest feast, Mors and his brother Hother play a drinking game, slamming their horns together hard. When a spinning skirl is started, Mors tosses an embarrassed serving girl in the air.
At Riverrun, the Greatjon tells Robb that his uncles wish to remarry. Robb considers the possibility of Mors marrying a daughter of Lord Walder Frey.
Mors is one of the few representatives of the north to declare fealty to Stannis Baratheon. He agrees to serve Stannis if he is sent the skull of Mance Rayder. Mors also states to Stannis that he will not fight his brother, Hother Whoresbane, who is supporting the new Warden of the North, Lord Roose Bolton. Stannis is advised by some to attack Last Hearth for this, but Jon tells him not to.. Stannis agrees and promises to place Mors and his host on the opposite side of battle to his brother.
Mors camps outside Winterfell during a blizzard, his men repeatedly blowing warhorns to cause confusion and to draw out the Bolton host. There he is able to capture Theon Greyjoy and Jeyne Poole, when both are fleeing Winterfell and their captor, Ramsay Bolton, the heir of Roose. Also during this time, the Braavosi banker Tycho Nestoris comes looking for Stannis but meets Mors instead. Mors sends Theon and Jeyne with Tycho and his escort to Stannis at a crofters' village.
Theon reveals Mors asked Jeyne, who is still claiming she is Arya Stark, questions about Winterfell, such as names of servants of the keep, to confirm her identity. Since Jeyne lived at Winterfell for most of her life, she was able to answer them correctly. Also, Mors was only able to muster a few crippled men and green boys as part of his force, as most of the Umber strength had gone south with the Greatjon and the remaining guard had left with Hother.
Mors had his green boys dig a pit trap outside the Winterfell gates. Due to the blizzard, the sentries' visibility was impaired and they were able to do it without detection. When the Freys rode out of Winterfell's gate, several of them fell into this trap. Hosteen Frey lost his horse and Aenys Frey broke his neck and died.
Mors: The Greatjon's the Young Wolf's strong right hand, all know that to be true. Who better to protect the widow's lands than an Umber, and what Umber better than me?
Luwin: Lady Donella is still grieving.
Mors: I have a cure for grief under my furs.
- Mors and Luwin
I shall wed again if His Grace commands it, but Mors Crowfood is a drunken brute, and older than my father.
- Donella Hornwood to Luwin
Stannis: Can this man Mors be trusted?
Jon: Your Grace should have him swear an oath before his heart tree.
- Stannis Baratheon and Jon Snow
Ser Mors Westford, known as the Butcher, is a ranger of the Night's Watch originally from House Westford. He has only appeared in the video game *Game of Thrones*, in which he and Alester Sarwyck are playable characters.
Fifteen years ago, during Robert's Rebellion, Mors was a knight of the westerlands who refused to carry out one of Lord Tywin Lannister's commands to his bannermen, and was given the choice of a traitor's death or the Wall. He took the black and became a member of the Night's Watch. He is now an officer and a ranger. Called "the Butcher", his chief task is finding and executing deserters from the Night's Watch. To help him, he has a large dog which helps him track runaways. Because Mors is a skinchanger, and because of his particular duties, it is said on the Wall that the dog is his only friend. He left his wife, Cerenna, and daughter Tya, in a cottage owned by his family in the riverlands, believing they would be safe there from Tywin. He hoped they would be able to return to the westerlands after a time.
Ser Mortimer Boggs was a knight of House Boggs during the reign of Aerys I. He was a knight of some repute.
Ser Mortimer attended the Whitewalls tourney. He was defeated in the lists by Ser Glendon Flowers. He refused to send over his horse and the armor he sent over had holes punched through it.
Ser Morton Waynwood is a knight of House Waynwood. He is the eldest son and heir of Lady Anya Waynwood, Lady of Ironoaks.
He is one of Lady Lysa Tully's suitors after the death of Lord Jon Arryn. He attempts to convince Catelyn Tully that Ser Vardis Egen will make short work of Bronn during Tyrion Lannister's trial by battle at the Eyrie.
Morya Frey is the third daughter of Lord Walder Frey, first daughter born of his marriage to Alyssa Blackwood. She is married to Ser Flement Brax. They have three children, Robert, Walder and Jon Brax.
Ser Moryn Tyrell is a knight from House Tyrell. The uncle of Mace Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden, Moryn is the Lord Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown.
Pate considers attacking Moryn's son, Leo the Lazy, but stops because of Leo's family connections.
Mossador is a brother of Missandei. He, like his other two brothers, were trained as Unsullied, of which one of the brothers did not survive the training. He was purchased and then freed by Daenerys Targaryen. He is Naathi like his sister.
Mossador is purchased with his brother Marselen along with the rest of the Unsullied by Daenerys Targaryen and then freed. When Daenerys tells the Unsullied to abolish the practice of choosing a new name every day, Mossador goes back to his birth name.
Mossador while on patrol with another Unsullied Duran was ambushed and both were crushed by falling stones beneath the river wall dropped on them by the Sons of the Harpy. Missandei cries and grieves for him when she is told.
Mossovy, also known as Far Mossovy, is a broad, forested region of northeastern Essos along the shore of the Shivering Sea. It is at the edge of the Known World, east of N'Ghai and north of the Cannibal Sands and the Grey Waste. The Thousand Islands are found north of the grim, grey forest.
Sarnori ships sailed as east as Far Mossovy in the height of their power.
Little else is known about Mossovy, only that it is a cold dark land of shapechangers and demon hunters. It is unknown what lies beyond.
Mossovy has not yet been mentioned in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, only appearing in *The Lands of Ice and Fire* and *A World of Ice and Fire*.
The Most Devout are a council of the highest ranking clergy of the Faith of the Seven. They can be identified by their cloth-of-silver vestments and crystal coronals.
Before the arrival of the Targaryens, the seat of the Faith was the ornate Starry Sept in Oldtown. The High Septon and the Most Devout now convene in the Great Sept of Baelor in King's Landing.
Disregarding the Most Devout, a simple stonemason and a young boy were High Septons during the reign of King Baelor I Targaryen
A third of the Most Devout died during the Great Spring Sickness.
Seven of the Most Devout attend the High Septon before the funeral for Lord Tywin Lannister.
After being imprisoned by the Faith, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is asked to confess her sins by Moelle and Unella, septas of the Most Devout.
The Mother's Men is a company of fighting men formed in Meereen. Its members are all former slaves known as freedmen who are loyal to Daenerys Targaryen. Their commander is Marselen, an Unsullied brother to Missandei.
Mother's Mercy is the tenth and final episode of the fifth season of the HBO medieval fantasy television series *Game of Thrones*, and the 50th episode of the series. Written by Davis Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by David Nutter, it aired on June 14th, 2015.
Stannis marches. Dany is surrounded by strangers. Cersei seeks forgiveness. Jon is challenged.
Mother's Mercy was written by Davis Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on the original series by George R. R. Martin.
The episode is adapted or uses elements from the following chapters of *A Song of Ice and Fire: Samwell I and Cat of the Canals from *A Feast for Crows, Jon II, The Watcher, The Blind Girl, Theon I, Cersei I, The Queensguard, Cersei II, Jon XIII and Daenerys X from *A Dance with Dragons, and Mercy from *The Winds of Winter.
The following regular cast members appeared in this episode:
Twenty-two out of twenty-seven cast members appeared in this episode. Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Aiden Gillen (Petyr Baelish), Kristofer Hiviu (Tormund), Dean-Charles Chapman (Tommen Baratheon) and Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) are not credited and do not appear.
The following guest apppearances were made in this episode:
The Mother - by mustamirri ©
The Mother or the Mother Above, is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.
See also: Images of the Mother
The Mother represents motherhood and nurturing. She is prayed to for fertility or compassion, and is depicted as smiling with love, embodying the concept of mercy.
It is also said that the Mother could be fiercer than the Warrior when her children were in danger.
A passage in The Seven-Pointed Star says that the Maiden brought Hugor of the Hill a bride, so the Mother made her fertile.
Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the Father and the Mother.
The Teats, a pair of grassy hills in the Riverlands, were once named the Mother's Teats.
There is a hymn sung to the Mother.
Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray,
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
let them know a better day.
*Gentle Mother, strength of women,
help our daughters through this fray,
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
teach us all a kinder way.*
Melisandre burns the wooden statues of the Seven from the sept at Dragonstone as a sacrifice to R'hllor. A longsword is thrust through the heart of the Mother's statue, and during the ceremony Stannis Baratheon pulls it free to reveal Lightbringer.
Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village's sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. A crack runs down through the Mother's left eye. It makes her look as if she were crying. Catelyn sees her own mother's face in the face of the Mother, as well as her sister Lysa and Cersei Lannister.
Upon entering the sept of Maegor's Holdfast, on the eve of the Battle of the Blackwater, Sansa Stark sees that the Mother's altar is swimming in candlelight. Sansa visits each of the Seven in turn, lighting a candle at each altar, then sings the Mother's Hymn with the people in the sept.:
'He is no true knight but he saved me all the same. Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.
Sansa Stark sings the Mother's Hymn again that night to Sandor Clegane when he comes to her room.
After being taken captive by the Brave Companions, Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth are taken to Vargo Hoat who is sacking a small sept with some of his men. The sellswords have dragged the sept's carved wooden gods outside. Jaime sees Zollo sitting on the Mother's chest prying out her chalcedony eyes with the point of his knife.
Samwell Tarly sings The Song of the Seven, which includes a verse for the Mother, as a lullabye to Gilly's son.
Lancel Lannister tells Cersei Lannister that the High Septon told him that the Mother spared him for some holy purpose, so he might atone for his sins. Cersei wonders how he intends to atone for her.
My lady, look down on this battle with a mother's eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over Robb and Bran and Rickon. Would that I were with them.
The Mother gives the gift of life,
and watches over every wife.
Her gentle smile ends all strife,
and she loves her little children.
Mother Mole is a wildling leader and woods witch who is given to prophecy.
After the defeat of Mance Rayder at the battle beneath the Wall, Mother Mole claims to have had a vision of a fleet of ships coming to carry the wildlings away to safety across the narrow sea. Mother Mole is heard to preach that the free folk will find salvation where once they found damnation.
Mother Mole leads thousands of wildlings to Hardhome, to pray and await salvation from across the sea.
Mother Rhoyne is the chief goddess of the Rhoynar. She is associated with the river Rhoyne, which the Rhoynar revere. Her waters nourished the Rhoynar since the dawn of days.
The giant turtles known as the Old Men of the River, named after a Rhoynish lesser deity, are held as her consorts.
The Orphans of the Greenblood still worship Mother Rhoyne.
Womb of the World
Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of the Mother of Mountains
The Mother of Mountains in *Game of Thrones*
The Mother of Mountains is a mountain that lies within sight of Vaes Dothrak in the Dothraki sea. It is a holy place for the Dothraki people and only men can set foot on it.
A motherhouse is a monastic community for septas of the Faith of the Seven similar to a convent..
Humfrey I Teague, King of the Rivers and the Hills, founded septs and motherhouses in the riverlands in his efforts to stamp out worship of the old gods.
Maegelle Targaryen was a pious princess who became a septa. Her sister Saera, however, ran away from a motherhouse while still a novice.
During the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Aemond Targaryen used Vhagar to destroy the motherhouse at Bechester.
The journey of King Baelor I Targaryen to Dorne is remembered in songs popularized by septries and motherhouses.
The great-aunt of Lady Ravella Smallwood is a septa at a motherhouse in Oldtown. Ravella sends her daughter, Carellen Smallwood, to the city for safety during the War of the Five Kings.
Motho is a *khal* who leads a Dothraki *khalasar*. It is said that he is an old man and most of his riders are as old as him.
According to reports the khalasars of Khals Zekko and Motho fear the khalasar of Khal Pono.
Ser Gregor Clegane with the Mountain's men - by Nordheimer ©
The Mountain's men, the Mountain That Rides.
See also: Images of the Mountain's men
The Mountain's men are a dangerous, unsavory bunch,
The best that can be said for Gregor's men is that they are not quite as vile a bunch as the Brave Companions.
Clegane's band foraging - by Marc Simonetti. © FFG
After Tyrion Lannister is abducted by Catelyn Stark,
When Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, dispatches a party of men led by Beric Dondarrion to execute Ser Gregor Clegane for his crimes, them at the Mummer's Ford. When Beric and his men attempt to retreat across the Red Fork Gregor's men take them in the rear.
Thereafter, the Mountain's men join Lord Tywin's host as it marches through the riverlands, eventually fighting in the Lannister vanguard on the left flank of the battle on the Green Fork.
Ser Gregor's men, by serclegane
Left to right: Chiswyck, Polliver, The Tickler, Raff The Sweetling, the Sarsfield squire, and Shitmouth
Gregor's band sacks Castle Darry, killing the eight-year-old Lord Lyman Darry. They also take and burn Stone Hedge, taking its food supplies and burning the harvest of Lord Jonos Bracken.
As the band is foraging and raiding they capture and question various smallfolk. Amongst the people they capture are Hot Pie, Gendry, and Arya Stark of Winterfell, although they are oblivious to her true identity. Raff slays Lommy..
Tywin sends Gregor and his men to destroy Lord Roose Bolton's northern host. During this time, they skirmish several times with the brotherhood without banners, and lose four men to Beric Dondarrion's night raids before returning to Harrenhal, taking up residence in the Wailing Tower.
During Lord Tywin's attempt to break through back to the westerlands at the Battle of the Fords, the Mountain's men join with Tywin's host and attack the crossing at the Stone Mill, which is defended by Ser Edmure Tully's forces. Along with the rest of the Lannister force, the Mountain's men are pushed back and forced to retreat. by Lord Bolton in their absence.
Following their failure to cross the Red Fork, Ser Gregor and his men retake Harrenhal, which Roose Bolton has abandoned to Vargo Hoat. Inside, Gregor's men slaughter the inhabitants and defenders except for the cook who opens the gate, the castle smith Ben Blackthumb, and a girl named Pia whom the Mountain and his men rape repeatedly.
Leaving Polliver as castellan and some men including the Tickler to hold Harrenhal, Gregor and the rest of his men follow a force sent by Lord Bolton toward Duskendale. The survivors of the battle at Duskendale are harried in their retreat by Gregor's men.
At some point after Polliver is left as castellan, Arya and Sandor confront some of Gregor's men who have gone to drink, whore, and "tickle the innkeep" at the crossroads inn. A fight breaks out when they attempt to capture Sandor, however, and the pair kill Polliver, the Tickler and a Sarsfield squire.
Ser Gregor's Dog. © FFG
The remnants of Ser Gregor's men-at-arms, including Raff the Sweetling, Dunsen, and Shitmouth, remain stationed at Harrenhal.
When Jaime informs Gregor's men that they can either ride with him to the siege of Riverrun or join Ser Bonifer Hasty's men, the men state Gregor promised rich rewards for those that rode with him. Jaime tells them to take any grievances up with Queen Regent Cersei Lannister.
After the fall of Riverrun, Jaime allows Ser Robin Ryger and Ser Desmond Grell to take the black and journey to the Wall. A dozen Mountain's men led by Rafford are ordered to escort Robin and Desmond to Maidenpool.
Twenty men accompany Red Ronnet Connington from Maidenpool to King's Landing, most of them the Mountain's former men. Within a day one is accused of murder and another of rape; Lord Randyll Tarly executes the murderer and gelds the raper.
When the men-at-arms arrive at King's Landing with Red Ronnet, Randyll suggests they be sent to the Wall, and Lord Mace Tyrell states he would not suffer such men in the City Watch. Lord Regent Kevan Lannister decides not to exile them, however, as the Iron Throne needs loyal swords against the new threat of the Golden Company. Kevan tells Grand Maester Pycelle and Ser Harys Swyft to hire the Mountain's men if they feel they need guards against House Tyrell.
Raff the Sweetling is among Harys's guard in Braavos, where he is killed by Mercy.
At Wendish Town, the people sought shelter in their holdfast, but the walls were timbered. The raiders piled straw against the wood and burnt them all alive. When the Wendish folk opened their gates to flee the fire, they shot them down with arrows as they came running out, even women with suckling babes.
– Raymun Darry to Eddard Stark
Varys: You are quite certain these were more than brigands?
Raymun: Brigands, Lord Varys? Oh, they were brigands, beyond a doubt. Lannister brigands.
– Varys and Raymun Darry
They rode down my 'prentice boy. Chased him back and forth across the fields on their horses, poking at him with their lances like it was a game, them laughing and the boy stumbling and screaming till the big one pierced him clean through.
– unnamed smith from Sherrer to Eddard Stark
Cersei: And someone needs to set Harrenhal to rights. We have urgent need of Wylis Manderly, assuming he is still alive and captive, but the garrison has not replied to any of our ravens.
Jaime: Those are Gregor's men at Harrenhal. The Mountain liked them cruel and stupid. Most like they ate your ravens, messages and all.
- Cersei Lannister and Jaime Lannister
A handful of Ser Gregor's men emerged from the towers to watch him dismount; hard-eyed, hard-mouthed men, the lot of them. They would have to be, to ride beside the Mountain.
- thoughts of Jaime Lannister
The only peace Ser Gregor's lot had ever given anyone was the peace of the grave.
- thoughts of Jaime Lannister
Maester Caleotte fetches the skull from its box - Illustrated by Joshua Cairós. © Fantasy Flight Games
The Mountain's skull is an enormous human skull reputed to be the skull of the deceased Ser Gregor Clegane.
Ser Gregor Clegane slowly dies after having been poisoned with manticore venom by Oberyn Martell during their trial by combat.
The alleged skull of Gregor is brought to Sunspear by Ser Balon Swann of the Kingsguard, contained in an ebony chest with silver clasps and hinges. The skull rests on a bed of black felt.
It is presented, prior to a seven course feast, to Prince Doran Martell, Princess Arianne Martell, and the eldest of the Oberyn's eight bastard daughters: Obara, Nymeria Sand, Tyene, and Nymeria Sand. Doran commands that the skull be placed on a column of black marble. Areo Hotah observes the skull and thinks he has never seen a larger one.
The feast commences and continues late into the night, presided over by the grinning skull on its pillar of black marble. Spun-sugar skulls are served, which displeases Balon. After the feast is done Maester Caleotte hurries behind Doran's wheelchair cradling the Mountain's skull as it were a child.
In Doran's solar Obara wonders why the skull was stripped to the bone. Doran notes that the skull is large and Tyene confirms that if the poison used by her father, Oberyn, broke the Mountain's skin, then Gregor is dead. Obara gives the skull a mocking kiss.
Qyburn: I am sorry that it took so long. Such a large head. It took the beetles many hours to clean the flesh. By way of pardon, I have lined a box of ebony and silver with felt, to make a fitting presentation for the skull.
Cersei: A cloth sack would serve as well. Prince Doran wants his head. He won't give a fig what sort of box it comes in.
- Qyburn and Cersei Lannister
No one saw the Mountain die, and no one saw his head removed. That troubles me, I confess, but what could the bitch queen hope to accomplish by deceiving us? If Gregor Clegane is alive, soon or late the truth will out. The man was eight feet tall, there is not another like him in Westeros. If any such appears again Cersei Lannister will be exposed as a liar before all the Seven Kingdoms. She would be an utter fool to risk that. What could she hope to gain?
- Nymeria Sand to Obara Sand
Cersei sent us a head. We should send her back a bag of them.
- Obara Sand to Doran Martell
According to tales and legends, Mountain King is the ancient title held by the rulers of the Vale during the domain of the First Men over Westeros until the Andal invasion, during which Ser Artys Arryn slew the last Mountain King, the Griffin King. Afterwards, the Arryns became the rulers of the Vale as Kings of Mountain and Vale.
Mountain and Vale is an account by Archmaester Arnel. It mentions the names of the most notable Vale mountain clans.
There are two cultures of mountain clans in Westeros:
Mountains of the Moon
The Vale and the location of the Mountains of the Moon
The Mountains of the Moon are a series of mountains ruled by House Arryn of the Vale. The mountains border the riverlands to the west, the Bite to the north, and the Bay of Crabs to the south, and they surround the Vale proper.
The mountains have snow-capped guards the high road from the Mountains of the Moon to the Vale of Arryn.
A hidden pass in the Vale - by Tysen Johnson © Fantasy Flight Games
House Targaryen loyalists traveling through the mountains of the Vale - by Tomasz Jedruszek © Fantasy Flight Games
During the Andal invasion of the Vale, some of the defeated First Men who refused to submit to House Arryn fled into the Mountains of the Moon, becoming the mountain clans.
After abducting Tyrion Lannister at the crossroads inn, Catelyn Stark brings him to the Eyrie by taking the high road through the Mountains of the Moon.
Travel through the mountains is near impossible because of snowfall and raiding by the Vale mountain clans.
Shadowcats prowled those passes, rock slides were common, and the mountain clans were lawless brigands, descending from the heights to rob and kill and melting away like snow whenever the knights rode out from the Vale in search of them. Even Jon Arryn, as great a lord as any the Eyrie had ever known, had always traveled in strength when he crossed the mountains.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Mountains of the Morn
The known world and the location of the Mountains of the Morn
The Mountains of the Morn are a mountain range in far eastern Essos.
The Mountains of the Morn run roughly in a north-to-southeast curve. Northwest of the mountains are the Five Forts and the Bleeding Sea, while to the northeast are the Dry Deep and the Cities of the Bloodless Men. The Hidden Sea and its two cities, the City of the Winged Men and Carcosa, are located in the southeastern stretch of the mountains. West of the Mountains of the Morn is Yi Ti, while to the south are the Shadow Lands.
Mousedown Mill is a village in the Riverlands.
All the inhabitants are slain by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Muddy Hall is a ruin in the Riverlands. It is disputed land between House Bracken and House Blackwood. It is currently held by House Blackwood.
Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for Muddy Hall, among other lands and settlements, for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood.
Mudfoot was a name given to the garrison of gold cloaks stationed at the River Gate of the city of King's Landing, also known as the "Mud Gate".
During the riots in King's Landing in the Dance of the Dragons, the Mudfoot garrison joined the hedge knight Perkin the Flea and declared their allegiance to Trystane Truefyre, Perkin's squire and who had been declared a bastard son of the late Viserys I Targaryen. The Mudfoot garrison flew King Trystane's banner above the River Gate.
Mudge is a male name in Westeros. It may refer to:
Mudge is a member of the brotherhood without banners.
Mudge and Beardless Dick guard Arya Stark and Gendry during the battle at the burning septry.
Mudge is listed as a member of Lady Stoneheart's band of outlaws.
Mudge, who was the miller's son, was an inhabitant of Donnelwood. He was slain by the forces of House Lannister during the War of the Five Kings.
Mudge was a swineherd in service to House Osgrey. He once traveled to Oldtown. He led the devotions every seventh day for those sworn to House Osgrey. However, twice a year, a real septon came through to forgive people's sins.
Mudgrave is a market town held by House Blackwood in the riverlands.
Mudgrave is disputed between House Bracken and House Blackwood. Lord Jonos Bracken unsuccessfully asks Ser Jaime Lannister for Mudgrave for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood.
Mully is a steward of the Night's Watch.
Mully has greasy orange hair and a beard.
Mully is one of the brothers left behind by Bowen Marsh to defend Castle Black. He manages to hit the wildling Big Boil with an arrow during the attack on Castle Black.
Mully stands guard outside of the armory of Castle Black.
Mully is one of the men brought along as muscle to assist Jon in escorting Janos Slynt out of Castle Black to carry out his duties as garrison commander of Greyguard.
Mully is among the black brothers who gather at the gate of Castle Black after word spreads that the heads of three rangers were found impaled on spears outside the gate on the north side of the Wall. When Jon and his party return through the gate, Mully is informed that Jack Bulwer, Hairy Hal, and Garth Greyfeather have been slain by the Weeper.
Mully and Eddison Tollett escort Val to the gate through the Wall and provide her with a horse on the orders of Jon, who wants Val to find Tormund Giantsbane and offer him and his people sanctuary behind the Wall in exchange for fighting the Others when they attack. As Val rides off, Mully raises his concerns about what the other men of the Night's Watch will say, but Jon brushes off his concerns, noting that many of those who would doubt his motives already think him to be half-wildling anyway.
When Ty and Dannel return to Castle Black with Alys Karstark, whom they found on the road riding to Castle Black seeking Jon, Mully wakes the Lord Commander and informs him of the situation before escorting him to the girl.
Mully attends the wedding of Alys to Sigorn, the Magnar of Thenn, and complains of the cold. He eagerly attends the wedding feast prepared by Three-Finger Hobb. When two horn blasts are heard coming from the Wall, Mully listens nervously with the other wedding guests, and is relieved when no third blast is heard.
When Tormund leads his band of wildlings to the Wall after negotiating a peace with the Night's Watch, Mully is a member of the honor guard which protects Jon as he oversees their passage through the Wall.
Mully is named after Mulligan, an orange cat once owned by George R. R. Martin and his now wife, Parris.