Daenerys Targaryen with Viserion as a hatchling - by Marc Fishman ©
Viserion. © FFG
Viserion is one of the the dragons born in the Dothraki Sea, along with Drogon and Rhaegal. Commanded by Queen Daenerys Targaryen, he is named for her brother, Viserys Targaryen.
See also: Images of Viserion
The majority of Viserion's scales are cream, but his horns, wing bones and spinal crest are gold colored.
Viserion's egg is colored pale cream streaked with gold.
When Daenerys calls her people together and mounts her silver mare she is wearing her lion pelt and has Viserion on her shoulder. He sinks his sharp black claws into the lion's mane and coils his tail around her arm as she gives the order for her khalasar to follow the Red Comet.
When Daenerys arrives in Qarth Viserion and the other dragons are a marvel in the ancient city.
When Daenerys receives the news of the death of Robert I Baratheon, Viserion is on her shoulder. He flaps wings the color of cream, stirring the air.
Viserion is about the size of a small dog. At Slaver's Bay, Irri frees Viserion to attack the slavers when Daenerys Targaryen has the Unsullied attack there former masters.[*citation needed*]
Viserion is fond of the sellsword captain Ben Plumm and sometimes lands on Plumm's shoulder.[*citation needed*]
Tales start to reach Westeros of dragons.
While in Meereen, Viserion and the other dragons misbehave and start to grow wild. Viserion sets Reznak mo Reznak's *tokar* on fire.
As Daenerys walks out onto the terrace of the Great Pyramid, Viserion senses her disquiet, as she is concerned about the Sons of the Harpy. She finds him lying coiled around a pear tree, with his head resting on his tail.*]
When Drogon kills a young girl outside Meereen, Daenerys has Viserion and Rhaegal confined and chained in the Great Pyramid in a makeshift "dragon pit" beneath the city.*]
Daenerys is later escorted by Ser Barristan Selmy to the Great Pyramid’s pit to visit the dragons. She recalls that not long ago he had ridden on her shoulder, with his tail coiled around her shoulder, and she had fed him morsels of charred meat from her hand. When speaking with Daario Naharis later, she thinks to herself that he and Rhaegal are growing more savage every day.[*citation needed*]
After being accidentally loosed Viserion eventually makes his lair in the pyramid of Uhlez - by Marc Fishman ©
When Daenerys takes Prince Quentyn Martell to see her dragons she notices that Viserion has shattered one chain and melted the others. He clings to the roof of the pit like some huge white bat, his claws dug deep into the burnt and crumbling bricks.[*citation needed*]
After Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, Prince Quentyn attempts to steal a dragon after enlisting the help of the Windblown. Quentyn realizes that Viserion is in the process of making a cave in the brick big enough to sleep in. Viserion appears and is first attracted to Pretty Meris, as he is looking for Daenerys. Quentyn tries to tame him, but a crossbowman of the Brazen Beasts fires a quarrel at Viserion and is then killed by the dragon. Quentyn attempts to dominate Viserion with a whip. Unbeknownst to Quentyn, however, Rhaegal is behind him. The green dragon looses his fire and fatally burns Quentyn.
In the aftermath the iron doors are left open and the two dragons escape. Viserion makes his lair in the pyramid of Uhlez. Sometime thereafter, while on the terrace of the Great Pyramid, Ser Barristan espies pale wings moving above a distant line of eastern hills beyond the city walls.[*citation needed*]
As the Second Siege of Meereen commences Viserion and his brother are drawn to it. Viserion flies above the battle being fought beneath the city.
After donning his armour Tyrion Lannister steps out of his tent and sees some of the Second Sons gawking at the white dragon above. The Wicked Sister is sending corpses through the sky and some are bursting into flame as Viserion seeks to devour them[*citation needed]. Some of the aflame corpses fall to the ground causing Yunkish horsemen to catch fire, spreading terror and panic. By the time Ben Plumm comes back from his meeting with Malazza, the Girl General, Viserion has flown back to its lair atop the pyramid of Uhlez.[citation needed*]
The cream and gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.
Princess Viserra Targaryen was the tenthborn child of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen.
Viserra was betrothed to Lord Manderly of White Harbor. However, she raced drunkenly through the streets of King's Landing and died after falling from her horse.
Viserys is a Valyrian given name.
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Viserys II Targaryen was the tenth Targaryen king to sit the Iron Throne as Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. He was the son of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Daemon Targaryen, the brother and Hand of King Aegon III Targaryen, and the father of King Aegon IV Targaryen, Queen Naerys Targaryen, and Prince Aemon "the Dragonknight".
According to a semi-canon source, Viserys II was clean-shaven with long hair. He had a prominent nose, bushy eyebrows and a shrewd, calculating look to him. He wore the simple crown of Aegon III.
Viserys was frailer than his brother Aegon, but was more mature than him and his other Velaryon half brothers.
Born in 122 AC, Viserys was the second born son of his father, Prince Daemon Targaryen, and the fifth born son of his mother, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. As per Targaryen tradition, a dragon egg was placed in his cradle..
Viserys had four older brothers; three half-brothers from his mother's first marriage, Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey Velaryon, and one full-blood brother, Aegon. He also had two older half-sisers, Baela and Rhaena Targaryen, from his father's second marriage.
Viserys lived with his mother, father, brothers, and sisters on Dragonstone, his mother's seat as the Princess of Dragonstone. When his grandfather died in early 129 AC, Viserys and his family were thus away from the capital, since Rhaenyra was pregnant for the sixth time. This pregnancy led to the birth of Viserys's stillborn younger sister, Visenya.
The death of his grandfather sparked a war of succession between Viserys's mother, Rhaenyra, and his half-uncle, Prince Aegon, who was crowned King Aegon II Targaryen, despite Rhaenyra having been the heir to the throne.
In late 129 AC, at the behest of their half-brother Jacaerys Velaryon, Viserys and his older brother Aegon were sent to Essos aboard the *Gay Abandon* to be fostered by a prince of Pentos until their mother Rhaenyra secured the Iron Throne. However, the fleet of the Kingdom of the Three Daughters, who were allied with the greens and Aegon II Targaryen, captured the Gay Abandon during the voyage. Aegon flew away atop his dragon, Stormcloud, but Viserys had only a dragon egg. Remaining behind, the clever Viserys hid his egg and disguised himself as a common ship's boy, but his identity was revealed by one of the crew. A Tyroshi captain brought Viserys to Sharako Lohar, the Triarchy's admiral. Viserys's fate through the remainder of the Dance of the Dragons was unknown to his family, who believed he had died in the battle.
A young Prince Viserys and his wife Larra Rogare hold their child, Aegon, as depicted by Magali Villeneuve in *The World of Ice and Fire*.
Viserys ended up in Lys under the stewardship of the wealthy Rogare family, whose bank at the time was as powerful as the Iron Bank of Braavos. Viserys was wed at age 12 to the family's eldest daughter, Larra, in 134 AC, despite her being seven years his senior.
During the early reign of Viserys's older brother, Aegon III, it became known in Westeros that Viserys had survived. He was recovered by Oakenfist in 134 AC or 135 AC, and after a huge ransom was paid to the merchant princes of Lys, Viserys returned to King's Landing. Aegon had never forgiven himself for abandoning his brother during the Battle in the Gullet, and so Viserys's return was the only true joy he had in his reign. For the rest of Aegon's life, Viserys was the only person Aegon ever fully trusted.
Viserys came to King's Landing with his new wife Larra Rogare and several of her kin. The ambitious Rogare family soon became embroiled in the conflicts of the regency of Aegon III. Although the Rogares at the Red Keep were apparently guilty of some crimes, their rivals in King's Landing blamed them for many more. In 135 AC, Lord Thaddeus Rowan was tortured in an attempt to find evidence against the Rogares, and Ser Marston Waters, the Hand of the King, sent men to capture Larra after arresting her brothers. Aegon and Viserys refused to surrender Larra, however, and the case against the Rogares collapsed.
Viserys and Larra had three children: Aegon (born 135 AC), Aemon, and Naerys (born 138 AC). Unfortunately, Larra never felt happy at court, and in 139 AC, she left Viserys and their three children and returned to Lys, an experience that made Viserys stern. Viserys had Aegon and Naerys wed to one another in 153 AC, with Aegon III's blessing, while Aemon became a knight of the Kingsguard.
After Aegon III came of age in 136 AC, he dismissed the regents and his Hand of the King, and named Prince Viserys as his Hand. Viserys served as Hand during the remaining years of Aegon's reign, and during the reigns of both of Aegon's sons, Daeron I and Baelor I. He was instrumental in keeping the realm intact while Aegon brooded, Daeron warred, and Baelor prayed. It was rumored that to spare the realm embarrassment, Viserys used his position as Hand to order the poisoning of a stonemason whom Baelor had appointed as High Septon.
Viserys II ascended to throne at age 49, after the death of his nephew, Baelor I Targaryen, in 171 AC. There were some amongst the smallfolk — and even some lords — who felt that the Iron Throne should have rightfully passed to Baelor's sister Daena, as she was Aegon III's eldest daughter. However, a decade of isolation in the Maidenvault had left Daena and her sisters without powerful allies, and memories of Rhaenyra Targaryen and the Dance of the Dragons had left many leery of the idea of a woman on the Iron Throne. Also, Daena the Defiant was seen by many as being wild, unmanageable, and wanton (as a year earlier she had given birth to her bastard son Daemon). The precedents of the Great Council of 101 AC and the Dance of the Dragons were therefore cited, the claims of Baelor's sisters were set aside, and the crown passed to Viserys.
Although his reign lasted only a little longer then a year, Viserys issued reforms of the royal household and its functions, established a new royal mint, made efforts to increase trade across the narrow sea, and made positive revisions to the already progressive code of laws established by the Old King, Jaehaerys I. It is believed that Viserys had it in him to be another Jaehaerys the Wise, as he was just as wise and shrewd. Unfortunately, a sudden illness led to his death in 172 AC.
Viserys was succeeded by his eldest son, Aegon IV Targaryen. Some historians suspect that Viserys's death was not natural and that Aegon IV had poisoned him.
Viserys is not remembered fondly in Westeros, as some accuse him of poisoning Baelor to gain the throne and doing nothing once he gained it. Still, Viserys may have reigned for only a year, but in his previous role as Hand of the King he had ruled and preserved the land for much longer. The reigns and follies of Aegon, Daeron, and Baelor would have been much worse if not for his tenure as Hand of the King.
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Viserys I Targaryen was the fifth Targaryen king to sit the Iron Throne, that would much later engulf the realm were inadvertently sown in his reign.
Viserys was a dragonrider who rode Balerion until the dragon died of old age during the reign of Jaehaerys I. Viserys never bonded with another dragon after Balerion's death.
Viserys was plump and pleasant. He was described as amiable, open-handed and eager to please. His generosity was legendary and the Red Keep became a place of song and splendor during his reign. King Viserys hosted countless balls, feast and tournaments and lavished gold and offices and honors among those he favored, he was well loved by lords and smallfolk alike.
In his midlife Viserys's stoutness caused him numerous health problems, including from gout, aching joints, back pain, and respiratory issues. Towards the end of his life his girth nearly kept him from ascending the steps to the Iron Throne.
Viserys sported a bushy, silver-gold mustache and wore the crown of his grandfather, Jaehaerys I.
Prince Baelon Targaryen, chosen by King Jaehaerys I as his heir in 92 AC,
King Viserys inherited a secure throne, a full treasury and a legacy of goodwill from his grandfather, Jaehaerys I. House Targaryen was at its most powerful during Viserys's time, having the most members and dragons since the Doom of Valyria. Viserys was known as the Young King when he ascended the Throne, and due to his amiable nature the smallfolk were optimistic about his reign..
Holding a splendid court with Queen Aemma Arryn, the Young King was determined to maintain the peace and goodwill of his grandfather Jaehaerys the Wise. They had a son who died in infancy and a daughter, Princess Rhaenyra who was six when her father became king. The princess became his royal cupbearer at the age of eight and was always by her father's side at feasts, balls, and tourneys. Rhaenyra was dubbed "the realm's delight".
Viserys's younger brother, Prince Daemon Targaryen, considered himself his brother's heir and coveted the title Prince of Dragonstone. While Viserys loved his younger brother, despite his flaws, he had no wish for Daemon to succeed him. Viserys was hopeful that his wife would give him a son soon and settle the succession issue.
Viserys appointed his brother on the small council but the rivalry between Daemon and the Hand of the King, Ser Otto Hightower, became so great that Viserys in early 104 AC appointed Daemon to be Commander of the City Watch to remove Daemon from the small council. Fearful of Daemon becoming king, Otto tried to convince Viserys to make Rhaenyra his heir. Viserys refused, as he was confident he and his wife would one day have a son. Aemma later became pregnant, to the king's delight.
In 105 AC Aemma died in labor birthing the king's son and heir, whom Viserys named Baelon after his late father, Prince Baelon, but the infant died a day after Aemma. While the king was bereaved, his brother Daemon was observed in a brothel in the Street of Silk making drunken japes with his cronies about the "heir for a day". When word of this reached the grieving Viserys, his grief turned to rage. After the mourning period was over Viserys held a lavish ceremony in 105 AC and had Rhaenyra declared the heir and Princess of Dragonstone in response to his ungrateful brother's ambitions. Hundreds of lords and landed knights did obeisance to the princess and swore solemn oaths to defend her rights of succession. Daemon left the capital in a fury.
Viserys began to groom Princess Rhaenyra to be the ruling queen, teaching her how to rule and made her part of his small council.
Since Viserys was not yet thirty, Grand Maester Runciter was the first to urge him to remarry, suggesting Laena Velaryon, daughter of Lord Corlys Velaryon. Such a marriage would have healed the rift between the Iron Throne and Driftmark, since Viserys had been chosen as heir to the Iron Throne over Laenor Velaryon in the Great Council of 101 AC. Viserys instead chose Alicent Hightower, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Ser Otto Hightower, his Hand of the King.
Viserys and Alicent married in 106 AC. Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen poured for her new stepmother at the wedding feast, and Queen Alicent kissed her and named her "daughter". Rhaenyra and Alicent at first got on well, but that soon changed. Prince Daemon Targaryen, when he was told about his brother's marriage, reportedly whipped the messenger who brought the news nearly to death. When Daemon and House Velaryon fought a war for control of the Stepstones against the Triarchy, the peaceful Viserys was unperturbed.
The fertile Alicent bore a healthy son, Aegon, in 107 AC. A daughter, Helaena followed in 109 AC and another son named Aemond was born in 110 AC. The amity between Queen Alicent and Princess Rhaenyra soon ended as both desired to be the first lady of the realm. Though Alicent had given Viserys male heirs, the king did nothing to change the order of succession as he considered the matter already settled by naming Rhaenyra in his will. Otto Hightower hectored the king so much that Viserys sent him back to Oldtown, bestowing the position of Hand on Lyonel Strong, Lord of Harrenhal.
Two parties began to form at court. The queen's party consisted of powerful lords friendly to Alicent and supportive of the rights of her sons. Against that was the party of the princess, those who supported Rhaenyra as heir. Envoys from the Free Cities made note of the coolness between the two in letters sent back to Braavos, Pentos and Volantis. " when talking of the two parties.
Daemon offers his crown to his brother at the tourney celebrating King Viserys and Queen Alicent's five year anniversary, by Chase Stone, as depicted in *The World of Ice and Fire*.
The tourney also saw the return to court of Prince Daemon, who reconciled with Viserys offering him the crown he claimed while fighting for the Stepstones,
Viserys hated conflict and made repeated attempts to cease the hostilities between the greens and the blacks, with many fights and false apologies issued on both sides. He loved his wife and daughter equally, but they only loved each other when he commanded. So long as Viserys ruled, peace prevailed in the Seven Kingdoms.
In 113 AC Viserys decided it was time for his daughter Rhaenyra to wed. Queen Alicent wanted the princess to wed her eldest son, Aegon, so he could one day be king. Viserys would not hear of it as Aegon was ten years Rhaenyra's junior and the two had never gotten on well. The king and council chose Laenor Velaryon to wed a reluctant Rhaenyra to regain the friendship between the Iron Throne and Driftmark. In 114 AC Rhaenyra and Ser Laenor were wed, though it is questioned if the marriage was consummated. Laenor spent most of his time on Driftmark and infrequently visited Rhaenyra on Dragonstone. Later the same year Rhaenyra gave birth to her first son, Jacaerys Velaryon. However, due to the babe not having the traditional valyrian features of either of his parents, rumor spread that the child's real father was Lord Lyonel's son, Ser Harwin Strong, Rhaenyra's sworn shield who resided with her on Dragonstone.
Queen Alicent bore a third son, Daeron, the same year. Viserys had Jacaerys and Daeron share a wetnurse till weaned, hoping to prevent enmity by raising them as milk brothers. Rhaenyra gave her father two more grandsons years later, Lucerys Velaryon born in 115 AC and Joffrey Velaryon in 117 AC. All three of Rhaenyra's children had pug noses, brown hair, and brown eyes, further spreading the belief throughout the kingdom that the children's real sire was Ser Harwin Strong.
Prince Daemon and his wife, Laena Velaryon, had twin daughters named Baela and Rhaena. The brothers Daemon and Viserys reconciled a second time and with the blessing of the king, Princess Rhaenyra betrothed Jacaerys and Lucerys to Baela and Rhaena. This did not change Daemon's ways as the king had hoped, however.
The year 120 AC became known as the Year of the Red Spring because of its many deaths and accidents.
Laena Velaryon, the wife of Prince Daemon Targaryen, died after a failed birth. At her funeral, a quarrel broke out between Aemond Targaryen and the sons of Rhaenyra, who were accused of being bastards from House Strong. Aemond lost an eye when Lucerys defended Jacaerys with a knife. The false apologies from the families of Rhaenyra and Alicent fooled no one but Viserys. The king issued an edict that anyone spreading the Strong rumor would lose their tongue, and ordered Ser Harwin Strong to depart from Dragonstone to Harrenhal.
The year saw the death of Rhaenyra's husband, Laenor Velaryon, killed in a fight between his companion and rumored lover, Ser Qarl Correy. Rhaenyra and Daemon shocked the realm by wedding without Viserys's knowledge, a huge scandal as neither Laena nor Laenor had been dead for six months. The year ended with Rhaenyra and Daemon welcoming the birth of their first son, Prince Aegon the Younger. Another son, born in 122 AC, was given the name Viserys after Rhaenyra's father.
The forced closeness of Rhaenyra's and Alicent's children increased animosity between the blacks and greens. The royal children and grandchildren became dragonriders and court visitors observed the dragons of one faction snapping and spitting flames at the dragons of the other party.
In 127 AC Rhaenyra argued her second oldest, Lucerys, should inherit Driftmark. Several Velaryons unsuccessfully protested to the Iron Throne that her sons were bastards fathered by Harwin Strong and had no claim to Driftmark. King Viserys heard them in stony silence and after issuing the order to remove their tongues, slipped and cut his hand to the bone on the Iron Throne. He suffered a fever from an infection and only recovered after two of his fingers were removed by Maester Gerardys. He never sat on the throne again.
Viserys died on the third day of third moon of 129 AC during a nap in the Red Keep of King's Landing.
During the reign of King Viserys his small council had the following known members:
Viserys I Targaryen had a generous amiable nature and was well loved by his lords and smallfolk alike. The reign of the Young King, as the commons called him upon his ascent, would be peaceful and prosperous.
– writings of Gyldayn
Viserys I Targaryen was not the strongest-willed of kings, it must be said; always amiable and anxious to please, he relied greatly on the counsel of the men around him and did as they bid more oft than not.
– writings of Gyldayn
He had ruled for six-and-twenty years, reigning over the most prosperous era in the history of the Seven Kingdoms but seeding within it the disastrous decline of his house and the death of the last dragons.
– writings of Yandel
Lord Viserys Plumm was the head of House Plumm during the reign of King Aerys I Targaryen.
Viserys's father, Lord Ossifer Plumm, was married to Princess Elaena Targaryen in 176 AC. Ossifer is said to have died during the bedding, however, yet Princess Elaena did conceive, and Viserys was eventually born.
Later, though, rumours were spread suggesting tha Lord Ossifer had died because he had seen his bride "in all her nakedness". Further rumours stated that it hadn't been Ossifer, but Prince Aegon Targaryen, later known as King Aegon IV, who had conceived Viserys on Elaena.
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Prince Viserys Targaryen
He styles himself as "Viserys of the House Targaryen, the Third of his Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm",.
See also: Images of Viserys Targaryen
Viserys possesses the classical Valyrian features: he has pale skin, silver-blond hair, and pale lilac eyes.
Viserys is considered to be a cruel, weak, frightened,
Viserys loves to talk about dragons,
Prince Viserys was born in King's Landing in 276 AC to King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife Queen Rhaella, their first child to survive in the seventeen years since their son Rhaegar's birth, after multiple stillbirths, miscarriages, and infant deaths. The celebrated Viserys was small but robust and beautiful.
Aerys's paranoia made him fear for the infant's life beyond reason, however. The Kingsguard watched him day and night, and Rhaella was forbidden to be alone with her son. Aerys insisted that his food taster drink from the breasts of the prince's wet nurse, to make sure she had not smeared poison on her nipples. The king burned gifts sent by Westerosi lords, thinking they might be cursed. Lord Tywin Lannister hosted a tournament in honor of Viserys's birth in Lannisport, but only Aerys and Rhaegar attended from the royal family. When Rhaegar married Elia Martell in the Great Sept of Baelor in 280 AC, Aerys refused to allow Viserys to attend.
Viserys was only a young boy at the time of Robert's Rebellion, and Queen Rhaella sheltered him from King Aerys's madness as much as she could.
In 284 AC, nine months after they fled King's Landing, Rhaella died while giving birth to Viserys's younger sister, Daenerys, during a storm which destroyed most of the Targaryen fleet, which had been anchored at Dragonstone.
Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen wandering in Essos, by Jacqui Davis ©
Viserys and Daenerys lived under Ser Willem Darry's protection in a house with a red door in Braavos.
After Willem's death, the servants stole what little money the children had, leaving Viserys and his sister impoverished. They were put out of the house in Braavos soon after.
While his relationship with his sister was initially warm, Viserys grew to resent Daenerys for the death of their mother during her birth, and began treating her abusively, both with cruel words and with physical assaults. He would frequently warn her not to "wake the dragon" and incite his anger.
Viserys and Daenerys have been guests for half a year at the manse of Magister Illyrio Mopatis in Pentos.
You don't want to wake the dragon, do you? - by aprilis420 ©
In Pentos, Magister Illyrio Mopatis takes an interest in returning Viserys to the Iron Throne in return for rewards upon his ascension. Illyrio and Viserys arrange a marriage between Daenerys and Khal Drogo, a powerful Dothraki horselord who promises Viserys an army which he can use to conquer the Seven Kingdoms.
Viserys, while willing to wed Daenerys to Drogo, is resentful of having to give her up, and the night before the wedding tries to enter her room and claim her maidenhead. Illyrio, however, has the foresight to post guards on her room and ensure the impetuous Viserys does not undo "years of planning".
After the wedding, Khal Drogo's *khalasar* leaves for Vaes Dothrak to present the new *khaleesi* Daenerys to the *dosh khaleen. Viserys insists on traveling along to ensure the *khal honors the agreement of support. Viserys believes that Drogo is delaying fulfillment of his promise, and grows increasingly insistent on making a start to the invasion. He believes he sold Daenerys to Drogo, and that the khal has not paid him for her, although Illyrio and Jorah try to explain that the Dothraki do not buy or sell, but rather receive gifts and give gifts back eventually in return.
Viserys tries to browbeat Daenerys into persuading Drogo, but with her new position of authority as khaleesi she begins standing up for herself. When Daenerys wishes to experience the Dothraki sea in solitude, she requests that Jorah tell Viserys and the rest of her *khas* to stay behind. Viserys becomes infuriated at Daenerys giving him a command, and verbally and physically assaults her. She defends herself, and one of the young warriors of her *khas, Jhogo defends his *khaleesi, snapping a whip around Viserys's neck. Daenerys commands that he not be harmed, only that his horse be taken away, forcing Viserys to walk. Viserys demands that Jorah hurt Daenerys and kill the Dothraki for this insult, but the knight ignores Viserys and enforces Daenerys's orders. Jorah regrets swearing himself to Viserys's service, and intimates to Daenerys that Viserys would be a terrible king. Daenerys realizes that Viserys will never win the Iron Throne and take her back to Westeros, as he is not respected and could not lead an army even if Khal Drogo gives him one.
Viserys Targaryen, the "Cart King" - by Kim Sokol © FFG
When Viserys walks back to the khalasar, he is greatly shamed in the eyes of the Dothraki, as they feel a man who does not ride is no man at all, and this earns him the mocking nickname Khal Rhae Mhar, the Sorefoot King. Khal Drogo later offers him a place in a cart and Viserys accepts, in his ignorance believing it the khal's way of apologizing to him for the wrong Daenerys did to him. Unknown to Viserys, this is a greater insult than walking on foot — as carts are for cripples, eunuchs, the very old or very young — which earns Viserys the new nickname Khal Rhaggat, the Cart King.
At Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys wishes to reconcile with Viserys, and prepares gifts for him, including new Dothraki-style clothing "fit for a khal" to replace his filthy garments. However, when Daenerys sends Doreah to request that Viserys join her at dinner, he takes offense that she would send a whore to give him commands and strikes the woman, before angrily approaching Daenerys. He mocks the clothes and the idea that he should dress like a "savage", and begins to assault Daenerys until she defends herself, hitting him with the belt of bronze medallions she had hoped to give him. Viserys storms off angrily, saying she will rue this day when he regains his kingdom.
Khal Drogo crowns Viserys with molten gold (*Game of Thrones*)
The day of the ritual ceremony for Daenerys's unborn child, Rhaego, Jorah stops Viserys from stealing Daenerys's dragon eggs, intending to sell to the traders of Vaes Dothrak for gold to buy himself a sellsword army. The feasting Dothraki are then greatly offended by a drunken Viserys wielding a sword in Drogo's hall, as blades are banned in the sacred city of Vaes Dothrak and it is forbidden to shed a free man's blood there. Khal Drogo does not let Viserys sit at the high bench but rather tells him to sit with the cripples and boys, and all the Dothraki laugh and mock Viserys. Viserys draws his sword, angering the Dothraki, and threatens Daenerys's unborn child while again insisting that Drogo give him his crown. In response, Drogo has Viserys seized by his bloodriders, melts down his belt of golden medallions, and upends the pot over Viserys's head, fatally but bloodlessly "crowning" him with molten gold.
After Daenerys is nearly assassinated in the Vaes Dothrak marketplace, she learns that King Robert has offered lands and lordships for her death or Viserys's;
Word of Viserys's death reaches Westeros not long after King Joffrey I Baratheon's execution of Lord Eddard Stark.
In the red waste, Daenerys remembers that Viserys told her when they were children that only dragons and men eat cooked meat, which enables her to finally find a way to feed her newborn dragons. Daenerys names her white dragon Viserion in his memory.
While wondering how she can succeed in taking back her father's throne, Daenerys recalls that Viserys had believed that the realm would rise for its rightful king. Although she considers the notion to have been a foolish one,
In Qarth, after being refused help by the Pureborn, Daenerys remembers how Viserys was forced to survive in order to take care of them, and the negative effect it had on him, and that she has now found herself in the same position.
While traveling to Astapor by ship, Daenerys recalls a young Viserys telling her tales of the Seven Kingdoms and of how much better their lives would be once he claimed his crown.
In Meereen Ser Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys that Viserys was his father's son, in ways Rhaegar never was.
At Sunspear, Arianne Martell learns from her father, Doran, of a secret marriage pact between Houses Targaryen and Martell. While her younger brother Quentyn was to rule Dorne, Arianne was intended to marry the exiled Viserys. Doran, the Prince of Dorne, had suggested older consorts for her to marry, knowing she would reject them. Doran planned to send Arianne to Tyrosh to serve as the Archon's cupbearer and meet Viserys in secret, but Doran's wife, Mellario, had been so upset by Quentyn's fostering at Yronwood that Doran could not bear to take another of her children from her, and Arianne was never told of her betrothal to Viserys. With Viserys now dead, Doran intends for Arianne to rule Dorne and sends Quentyn to court Daenerys in Meereen.
In Meereen, Ser Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys that after he was dismissed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey I Baratheon, he realised that he had to redeem himself by finding the true king, meaning Viserys, and serve him loyally with all the strength that still remained to him.
Ser Tristan Rivers reveals that one of Magister Illyrio Mopatis's plans was for Viserys to join the Golden Company with fifty thousand Dothraki screamers at his back, but then the Beggar King died, putting an end to that plan.
Upon Quentyn Martell's arrival at Daenerys's court in Meereen, he informs her of the secret marriage pact concluded by Ser Willem Darry and Oberyn Martell with the Sealord of Braavos as witness, while Viserys and Daenerys were living in Braavos. It promised that if Viserys wed Arianne Martell he would receive Dorne's aid in placing him upon the Iron Throne. Daenerys realizes that if her brother had known that he had a Dornish princess waiting for him, he would have crossed to Sunspear as soon as he was old enough to wed. Quentyn agrees that this would have brought Robert I Baratheon's wrath down on Dorne and that Doran was content to wait until Viserys found an army. Quentyn had been sent to Meereen by his father to fulfill the pact; instead of Viserys marrying Arianne, Quentyn would marry Daenerys and give her the support of Dorne.
Near "Dragonstone" in the Dothraki sea after fleeing Daznak's Pit atop Drogon,
Stannis Baratheon tells Ser Justin Massey that he will not leave Westeros to raise an army, as exiles rarely return, using the beggar king Viserys as an example.
While sailing the Sea of Dorne to Cape Wrath, Arianne discusses Viserys and his death with Ser Daemon Sand.
Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen (*Game of Thrones*)
We go home with an army, sweet sister. With Khal Drogo's army, that is how we go home. And if you must wed him and bed him for that, you will. I'd let his whole khalasar fuck you if need be, sweet sister, all forty thousand men, and their horses too if that was what it took to get my army.
– Viserys to Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys: He says you shall have a splendid golden crown that men shall tremble to behold.
Viserys: That was all I wanted. What was promised.
– Daenerys Targaryen and Viserys
No, you cannot touch me, I am the dragon, the dragon, and I will be crowned!
– Viserys to Drogo's bloodriders
Viserys: You were supposed to be my wife, to bear me children with silver hair and purple eyes, to keep the blood of the dragon pure. I took care of you. I taught you who you were. I fed you. I sold our mother's crown to keep you fed.
Daenerys: You hurt me. You frightened me.
Viserys: Only when you woke the dragon. I loved you.
Daenerys: You sold me. You betrayed me.
Viserys: No. You were the betrayer. You turned against me, against your own blood. They cheated me. Your horsey husband and his stinking savages. They were cheats and liars. They promised me a golden crown and gave me this.Daenerys: You could have had your crown. My sun-and-stars would have won it for you if only you had waited.
– Viserys in a dream of Daenerys Targaryen
Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake.
– Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen
My mother died giving me birth, and my father and my brother Rhaegar even before that. I would never have known so much as their names if Viserys had not been there to tell me. He was the only one left. The only one. He is all I have.
– Daenerys Targaryen to Jorah Mormont
He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon.
– thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
The Beggar King is dead. Viserys. The last son of Mad King Aerys. He's been going about the Free Cities since before I was born, calling himself a king. Well, Mother says the Dothraki finally crowned him. With molten gold.
– Joffrey I Baratheon to Sansa Stark
The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.
– Daenerys Targaryen to her Queensguard
Even as a child, your brother Viserys oft seemed to be his father's son, in ways Rhaegar never did.
– Barristan Selmy to Daenerys Targaryen
Arianne: Who is it? Who have I been betrothed to, all these years?
Doran: It makes no matter. He is dead.
Arianne: The old ones are so frail. Was it a broken hip, a chill, the gout?Doran: It was a pot of molten gold. We princes make our careful plans and the gods smash them all awry.
– Arianne Martell and Doran Martell
Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back. That boy Viserys Targaryen spoke of return as well. He slipped through my fingers at Dragonstone, only to spend his life wheedling after sellswords. "The Beggar King," they called him in the Free Cities.
– Stannis Baratheon to Justin Massey
For other articles sharing the same title, please see this disambiguation page.
Prince Viserys Targaryen was the second son of King Aenys I Targaryen and Queen Alyssa Velaryon.
Viserys, born in 29 AC,
After the death of Viserys's father, King Aenys I Targaryen, it was not Viserys's older brother, Aegon, who ascended the Iron Throne, but Viserys's uncle, Maegor. Viserys was kept at the Red Keep as Maegor's squire and hostage. After Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen died in 44 AC, Viserys's mother, Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, fled with Viserys's younger siblings, Jaehaerys and Alysanne.
Because of this, Maegor the Cruel had Viserys tortured for nine days until the prince died. His body was left in the courtyard for a fortnight, in the hopes that his mother would feel forced to return to claim the body of her son, but Alyssa did not return. At the time of his death, Viserys was fifteen years old.
The Vixen is a Braavosi merchant ship. Moredo Prestayn is its Trader-Captain.
Vogarro was a triarch of Volantis. He was of the Old Blood.
Vogarro was an elephant, the party of merchants, and was elected triarch seven times. Vogarro owned piers, storehouses, brokered cargoes, changed money and insured shipowners against the hazards of the sea. He also dealt in slaves. He fell in love with a pleasure slave who was taught in Yunkai the ways of the seven sighs. He freed and married her, causing a scandal. When he died he left his businesses to his wife, the former slave. She managed them and became known as the widow of the waterfront.
Voice of Oldtown is one of the hereditary titles held by the head of House Hightower.
Lord Leyton Hightower is the current possessor of the title.
Vojjor Samui
Essos west of the Bone Mountains and the location of Vojjor Samui
Vojjor Samvi
During the Century of Blood, the kings of Kasath and Gornath fought over the plunder of Sarnath. The *khalasar* of Khal Moro eventually razed Kasath.
Daenerys Targaryen passes north of Vojjor Samvi during the journey of Khal Drogo's *khalasar* from Pentos to Vaes Dothrak.
Volaena
Western Essos and the location of the Volaena
The Volaena is a river in western Essos. It is the final tributary of the Rhoyne before it reaches the Summer Sea. It lies to the northeast of Volantis and reaches the Rhoyne between Volantis and Volon Therys.
Volantis, often called Old Volantis
Volantis is the southeastern-most of the Free Cities, located east of the Disputed Lands. Volantis sprawls across one of the four mouths of the Rhoyne, where the river flows into the Summer Sea.
Volantis is the closest Free City to Slaver's Bay, lying approximately five hundred and fifty leagues from Meereen.
The climate of Volantis is hot and humid,
See also: Images of Volantis
Many of the statues in Volantis lack heads - by Marc Fishman ©
Volantis is a port city. Its large, deep harbor is ideally placed. Volantenes claim that the hundred isles of Braavos could be dropped into the harbor and disappear. Volantis spreads across the mouth of the Rhoyne and across the hills and marshes on both sides of the river.
The Black Walls of eastern Volantis protect a large labyrinth of palaces, courtyards, towers, temples, cloisters, bridges, and cellars. The Black Walls are a great oval of fused black dragonstone, harder than steel or diamond, built two hundred feet high by the Valyrian Freeheld. It protects the oldest part of the city on the eastern shore, often called Old Volantis. It is wide enough for six four-horse chariots to race around its top abreast, as is done each year to celebrate the founding of the city.
The Long Bridge joins the two halves of Volantis across the mouth of the Rhoyne. It is a great span with a road supported by massive piers that the Valyrians built at the height of their glory. Its gateway is an arch of black stone carved with sphinxes, manticores, dragons, and other beasts. The road is wide enough for two carts to pass abreast. Buildings rise on either side of the roadway. One can buy almost anything in the shops on the Long Bridge. In the center of the bridge are displayed the hands of thieves and the heads of executed criminals.
Fishermonger's Square is a bustling square in western Volantis congested with traffic where fishmongers sell their catches.
Elephant transport in Volantis - by Marc Fishman ©
Volantis was once the most populous of the Free Cities.
The Volantenes feel that people of quality should not travel afoot, but instead by palanquin or in a *hathay*. Travelling afoot can taint a person in the eyes of both the native-born Volantenes and the foreign captains in the city.
The Old Blood refers to some of the population in Volantis, noble families who can prove unbroken descent from old Valyria itself. Only those of the Old Blood are allowed to live within the Black Walls of eastern Volantis, and only they can invite slaves, freedmen, or foreigners to enter.
There are five slaves for each freedman in Volantis.
Known slave tattoos of Volantis include:
Main article: Triarch of Volantis
A triarch being transported by elephant - by Marc Fishman ©
Volantis is ruled by three triarchs, chosen anually through festive and tumultuous elections. While foreigners might see the elections as chaotic, they are usually peaceful. All freeborn who own land, regardless of gender, are allowed to vote.
The triarchs belong to one of two political parties, the elephants and the tigers. The elephants are the party of the merchants and moneylenders advocating trade, while the tigers are old aristocracy and warriors interested in conquest.
The current triarchs are the tiger Malaquo Maegyr and the elephants Doniphos Paenymion and Nyessos Vhassar.
A coin, or honor, of Volantis (front and back), as depicted by Nutchapol Thitinunthakorn in *The World of Ice and Fire*
While Volantis was, at the time of the Doom of Valyria, the mightiest of the Free Cities,
Volantis is key to the slave market, trading heavily with the cities of Slaver's Bay to the east. It is said there are five slaves to every free man in the city.
Volantis use coins, called "honors", with a crown on one face and death's head on the other as part of their currency.
Volantenes are fond of sweet beets, which they grow in profusion and serve in most major culinary dishes in the city. They make a cold soup of the beets which is as thick and rich as purple honey.
Few ships from Westeros come as far as Volantis, and those who do fill their holds with silk and spice from the Jade Sea, then bend their oars for home.
The board game *cyvasse* originates from Volantis,
Volantis in supplemental Blu-ray content from *Game of Thrones*.
Volantis is the oldest of the Free Cities, founded at some point after the destruction of the Old Empire of Ghis.
Volantis grew powerful trading with Valyria and the Rhoynar, although the nearby Rhoynish city Sarhoy declined. This led to the lengthy Rhoynish Wars.
In the Second Spice War, the last of these wars, Volantis and three Valyrian dragonlords destroyed Sarhoy and sowed the ruins with salt to prevent the Rhoynish city from rising again.
Main article: Century of Blood
After the Doom of Valyria, the Volantenes considered themselves the heirs to the Freehold and rightful rulers of the world. They sent a fleet to claim the Valyrian peninsula, but it vanished in the Smoking Sea.
Tommen II Lannister, King of the Rock, stayed at Volantis on his way to Old Valyria during the Century of Blood. According to *The Glory of Volantis*, Tommen promised half of what he would find to the triarchs of Volantis in return for their generosity and potential aid from their fleet. Triarch Marqelo Tagaros sent ships after Tommen the following year, but no sign of the king was found.
Those in Volantis were divided on how to achieve conquest against the other Free Cities. Those of the Old Blood favored war, whilst the moneylenders and merchants favored trade. These two factions became known as the tigers and the elephants, respectively. The tigers held sway for almost a century, and Volantis called for war upon the other cities, with the tigers leading the city into a great conflict with the other daughters. They were successful at first, taking control of Lys and Myr. When they tried to take Tyrosh, however, Pentos joined the Tyroshi, and Lys and Myr rebelled. The Sealord of Braavos provided ships to aid Lys, and Argilac Durrandon, the Westerosi Storm King, joined the conflict and led a host into the Disputed Lands. It was Argilac's host who defeated a Volantene host which had been attempting to retake Myr.
Aegon Targaryen, Lord of Dragonstone, accepted an alliance with Pentos and Tyrosh against Volantis, flew to Lys, and set ablaze a Volantene fleet preparing to invade the city. Volantis was further defeated at Dagger Lake, where galleys from Qohor and Norvos destroyed much of the Volantene fleet which had been on the Rhoyne. Even Dothraki entered the conflict, falling upon the weakened Volantis.
In the end, the Volantene faction favoring peace, the elephants, took power from the tigers, and the fighting was at an end.
The execution of Triarch Horonno, by Jordi Gonzalez Escamilla, as depicted in *The World of Ice and Fire*
For the last three centuries, at least two of the three triarchs in power have been elephants.
Volantis fought against the combined power of Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh, in the Battle of the Borderland. The victory of the three smaller cities over Volantis led to the start of the Triarchy, in 96 AC.
Princess Saera Targaryen, a younger daughter of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne, ended her days in Volantis as the proprietor of a famous pleasure house.
Harwyn Hoare, visited Volantis before becoming King of the Isles and the Rivers.
When Daenerys Targaryen was a girl she and her brother, Viserys, spent some time in Volantis when they were wandering from place to place.
Mystique of the East - Illustrated by Martina Pilcerova. © Fantasy Flight Games.
Volantis has launched its fleet against Daenerys Targaryen - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games
After Melisandre and Selyse Florent burn Lord Guncer Sunglass at Dragonstone, his brother and heir, the new Lord Sunglass, flees for Volantis.
The Wise Masters of Yunkai send envoys to the great slaving city of Volantis seeking aid against Daenerys Targaryen, the new Queen of Meereen who has been liberating slaves in Slaver's Bay.
The Golden Company cancels its contract with Myr and makes its way towards Volantis. Prince Quentyn Martell and his two companions, Ser Gerris Drinkwater and Ser Archibald Yronwood, search for a ship in Volantis to take them to Meereen, but have no luck. They sign on with the Windblown, who are recruiting in the city, in order to get to Slaver's Bay.
In Selhorys, Qavo Nogarys tells Tyrion Lannister that the red priest Benerro preaches that Volantis will surely burn if the triarchs take up arms against Daenerys of Meereen. He states the city thirsts for war.
Ser Jorah Mormont captures Tyrion in Selhorys and takes him to Volantis. On the way to the Merchant's House, they pass the Temple of the Lord of Light. They stop to watch Benerro, who preaches that Daenerys is an ancient hero reborn of the R'hllor faith and encourages many to support her. The next day Jorah takes Tyrion to meet the widow of the waterfront in the inn's common room to arrange passage to Meereen. While there, Penny attacks Tyrion.
While stopping in Volantis, Victarion Greyjoy, Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet, observes galleys heading to Slaver's Bay taking on provisions. The whole city seems drunk. Sailors and soldiers and tinkers are observed dancing in the streets with nobles and fat merchants, and in every inn and winesink cups are raised to the new triarchs. All the talk is of the gold and gems and slaves that will flood into Volantis once the dragon queen Daenerys is dead.
In Meereen Skahaz mo Kandaq informs Ser Barristan Selmy that Volantis has launched its fleet against Daenerys Targaryen, and that Hizdahr zo Loraq means to open Meereen's gates for them.
While at the Isle of Cedars, Victarion thinks that the storms encountered by his Iron Fleet would have scattered the Volantenes as they had his own ships. Many Volantene ships might have sunk or run aground, but there still could be as many as five hundred ships sailing for Slaver's Bay.
A strange and subtle folk, the Volantenes.
- Doran Martell to Arianne Martell
I hate this city.
– Gerris Drinkwater to Quentyn Martell
The Volantene apple had rolled a fair distance from the Valyrian tree.
– Quentyn Martell's thoughts
The city thirsts for war.
– Qavo Nogarys to Tyrion Lannister
Oh, these are dire days in Old Volantis, even for wrinkled old widows. But not half so dire as in Meereen.
– the widow of the waterfront to Jeor Mormont
Volmark is the seat of House Volmark on Harlaw in the Iron Islands.
Volon Therys
Western Essos and the location of Volon Therys
Volon Therys is a walled Volantene town in Essos on the west bank of the Rhoyne. Almost directly across the river to the east lies the ruined Rhoynar city Sar Mell. To the north is Valysar, the Orange Shore is to the west, and Volantis is to the south along the Rhoyne.
Although it is larger than the cities of King's Landing and Oldtown in Westeros,
Once considered a city,
Volon Therys was involved with the Rhoynish Wars, and half the city was washed away when the Rhoynar used water magic during the First Turtle War.
The town has been under the authority of Volantis since the Century of Blood, the years of expansion under the tigers.
The Golden Company encamps three miles south of Volon Therys due to Triarch Malaquo coming north with five thousand foot and a thousand horse to cut the the sellswords off from the delta road to Volantis.
The *Shy Maid* ties up in one of the meaner sections of the riverfront. Haldon purchases three horses, which are not the best horseflesh. Griff, Haldon, and Young Griff ride the horses south to the Golden Company's camp.
Vorian Dayne, Sword of the Evening, was the last King of the Torrentine from House Dayne in Dorne.
Vorian was renowned as the greatest knight in all of Dorne.
Vorian was defeated in Nymeria's War and was one of the six kings sent to the Wall in golden fetters by Nymeria.
Vorian Vypren was a member of House Vypren and a warlord of the Andals. During the Andal Invasion, he was one of the many warlords that conquered the Riverlands. At the Widow's Ford, Vypren and his knights were held back by three sons of Lord Darry for a day and a half before resulting victorious.
Ser Vortimer Crane is a knight of House Crane and the master-at-arms at Highgarden.
Vulture's Roost
Dorne and the location of Vulture's Roost
Vulture's Roost is a ruined castle in northern Dorne. It lies near the source of the Wyl river
The Vulture Hunt was the chase after the first Vulture King and his followers during the reign of King Aenys I Targaryen in 37 AC.
The Vulture King was a Dornish outlaw who gathered thousands of followers to rise against King Aenys I Targaryen wishing to avenge Dorne for the destruction wrought upon her by House Targaryen. Although Deria Martell, the Princess of Dorne, denounced the Vulture King, she did not take to the field. The Vulture King managed to become the largest of the four rebellions King Aenys I faced during the first year of his reign.
The Vulture King scored a number of early victories against the Marcher lords, and his support swelled to more than thirty thousand men, most of them smallfolk. With such a large host, the Vulture King decided to divide his forces in two, sending one half to besiege Stonehelm under the command of Lord Walter Wyl while marching ahead the other half against Nightsong and Horn Hill. Unable to capture Nightsong, the Vulture King halted his siege and began to march west.
The Vulture King's decision to split his army allowed the opposing forces to easily defeat him. Lord Orys Baratheon of Storm's End defeated the Dornish host led by Lord Walter Wyl during a battle at House Swann's castle of Stonehelm. Walter Wyl was captured alive, and Lord Orys, to avenge the loss of his own swordhand at the hand of Walter's father, the Wyl of Wyl, had Walter's hands and feet hacked off as "usery".
Lady Ellyn Caron and Lord Harmon Dondarrion, the Lord of Blackhaven who had been mutilated by the Vulture King earlier on in his campaign, cut off his retreat, while Lord Samwell Tarly appeared in his line of march. The Vulture King's lines shattered and his host fled. The hunt for these fleeing rebels became known as "the Vulture Hunt".
To show his gratitude for their services, King Aenys I Targaryen rewarded Davos Baratheon, Lord Samwell Tarly, Lady Ellyn Caron, and Lord Harmon Dondarrion with gold, offices and honors.
The Vulture King was the name taken by a number of outlaws who rose against the Iron Throne, using the Red Mountains as their base. The first rose in 37 AC at the start of the reign of King Aenys I Targaryen. In subsequent generations several other leaders of rebels and outlaws in the Red Mountains called themselves "Vulture Kings" after the original, but whether any were related by blood to the first is unknown.
According to a semi-canon source, one Vulture King may have been a Blackmont. Which one he was is unknown.
The first Vulture King was a Dornishman who rose against Aenys I Targaryen. He was defeated through the Vulture Hunt.
A later Vulture King rose against Daeron II Targaryen, but was eventually defeated by Lords Caron and Dondarrion.
Gerris Drinkwater once led six Dornishmen, including Prince Quentyn Martell, to find the lair of a Vulture King.
The Vulture King was a Dornish outlaw who gathered thousands of followers to rise against King Aenys I Targaryen. His given name is unknown.
The Vulture King scored a number of early victories against the marcher lords, as Deria Martell, Princess of Dorne, largely ignored the insurrection, leading to his support swelling up to nearly thirty thousand strong. After the Vulture King divided his host, Lord Orys Baratheon, along with marcher lords like Samwell Tarly, pursued the rebels during the "Vulture Hunt".
The Vulture King was captured alive at the end of the campaign, and Savage Sam executed him by tying him naked between two posts and leaving him to die from exposure. The singers like to say the Vulture King was torn apart and consumed by the same vultures from which he took his name, though in truth, he died from thirst after a few days with no water, and the vultures feasted on his corpse long after he was dead.
In later generations, several other leaders of rebels and outlaw bands that arose in the Red Mountains called themselves "Vulture Kings", after the first. None of these later Vulture Kings were as powerful as the first, however, nor could anyone say if they were actually related to him by blood.
The Vulture King was a self-proclaimed king who rose up against the Iron Throne, during the reign of King Daeron II, in 206 AC, in the Red Mountains.
House Dondarrion and House Caron joined forces and defeated the Vulture King, burning him out of the Red Mountains.
Vylarr is captain of the House Lannister guards in King's Landing.
Vylarr is the captain of the Lannister household guard in King's Landing, which now numbers one hundred men.
Queen Cersei Lannister is escorted by Vylarr and twenty red cloaks when she tours the gates of the city.
When Tyrion informs Ser Cleos Frey of his terms for peace, he commands Vylarr to escort Cleos back to Riverrun, taking all of the Lannister guardsmen with him and thereby depriving Cersei of her own red cloaks.
Unbeknownst to Vylarr, Tyrion has included a thief, a poisoner, a mummer, and a murderer in the party in a plot to free Jaime Lannister from captivity at Riverrun.
Vylarr is described as the captain-of-guards and a member of the household of Lord Tywin Lannister.
Vylarr serves as the captain of guards at Casterly Rock..
Vylarr: How many men should I take?
Tyrion: Why, all of them.
Pycelle: My lord Hand, that cannot ... your father, Lord Tywin himself, he sent these good men to our city to protect Queen Cersei and her children ...
Tyrion: The Kingsguard and the City Watch protect them well enough. The gods speed you on your way, Vylarr.—Vylarr, Tyrion Lannister, and Pycelle
Vylarr's loyalty is to Casterly Rock.
Vyman is the maester at Riverrun,
Vyman is old, with lined and wrinkled hands.
Maester Vyman prepares dreamwine and milk of the poppy for the ailing Hoster Tully, Lord of Riverrun.
Vyman prepares the map depicting the borders of the riverlands claimed by Robb Stark, King in the North and King of the Trident.
When Vyman receives word by letter that Bran and Rickon Stark are dead at Winterfell, he brings the letter to their mother, Catelyn.
Vyman informs Catelyn, who has been detained for having released Jaime, that Lord Tywin Lannister left the riverlands after the Battle of the Fords, and that her son Robb was wounded during the storming of the Crag.
Jaime resolves the siege of Riverrun. After the castle passes from House Tully to House Frey of Riverrun, Vyman remains in service to its new lord, Emmon Frey. When a message comes to Riverrun from King's Landing, Vyman accidentally reads its contents, which happened to be Queen Cersei Lannister declaring her love for her brother, Jaime. He brings the message to Jaime and tells him that the Citadel has declared that winter has come.
Archmaester Vyron is an Archmaester of the Citadel and the author of *Triumphs and Defeats*, where he speculates that the claim of the tale of Storm's End that the final form of the castle was the seventh shows a clear Andal influence, and suggests the possibility that it was achieved in Andal times..
The waif is the name given by Arya Stark to a priest of the Many-Faced God in the House of Black and White. Her real name is unknown. She appears to be a young girl, but is truly a grown woman, thirty-six years old.
The waif appears to be a pale little girl with a gaunt bony face, hollow cheeks, and very large dark eyes.
The waif was once the only child of an ancient noble house, her father's heir. Her mother died when she was very young, too young to remember her. When she was six years old, her father remarried. Her stepmother treated her well, until she gave birth to a daughter of her own. Her stepmother then wanted the girl to die, so that her own daughter would inherit her husband's wealth. The stepmother could not bear the sacrifice that the Faceless Men would ask of her, so she tried to poison her stepdaughter herself. She did not succeed, although the poison left the girl with a permanent child-like appearance. When the healer in the House of the Red Hands told the girl's father what the stepmother had done, he offered a sacrifice to the Many-Faced God, offering two-thirds of his wealth and his daughter, so that the Faceless Men would deliver the gift of death to his wife. His prayer was accepted, the stepmother was killed, and the girl came to the House of Black and White to serve.
She is now a woman grown, who has spent her life serving the Many-Faced God, and will never have any children. Some days she leads the dawn prayer of the priests and acolytes within the House of Black and White. She frequently deals with poison, including emptying a flagon of poison into the euthanasia pool in the House of Black and White every evening.
Arya Stark enters the House of Black and White in Braavos, and encounters a priest who looks like a little girl, who does not speak the Common Tongue of Westeros.
Later, Arya has been living as "Cat", selling fish on the streets of Braavos, but returns to the temple each new moon to serve there for three days. One time that she returns, she helps with waif with her preparation of potions, while the waif explains the properties of different poisons to her. The waif also relates her history to Arya. Later that evening, Arya tells the kindly man that she has killed Dareon, and the kindly man requests that the waif bring Arya some warm milk. The milk smells burnt and has a bitter aftertaste, and the next morning Arya wakes up blind.
Every night, the waif brings Arya a cup of poisoned milk that keeps her blind. Arya knows that if she asks for her sight, the Faceless Men will send her away, so she drinks without complaint. The waif trains Arya how to deal with her blindness, including how to use a staff, as well as an adaptation of the "lying game" that works by tone of voice and feeling facial muscles. The waif also teaches her how to tell coins apart by touch alone. When Arya dresses as "Beth", a blind beggar, the waif shaves her head and applies mummer's makeup on her face. After Arya has passed the last test of her blindness, the waif gives her a cup that tastes of fire, and in the morning Arya's eyesight is restored.
For her test to become an acolyte of the Faceless Men, Arya is assigned to kill an insurance agent who has cheated the heirs of his client. Arya decides to use poison, and the waif helps her with that.
The waif: Who are you?
Arya Stark: No one.
The waif: You lie. You must lie gooder.
Arya Stark: Gooder? You mean better, stupid.
The waif: Better stupid. I will show you.
The one you call waif is a woman grown who has spent her life serving Him of Many Faces. She gave Him all she was, all she ever might have been, all the lives that were within her.
—The kindly man
Arya Stark: How long must I be blind?
The waif: Until darkness is as sweet to you as light, or until you ask us for your eyes. Ask and you shall see.
The Wailing Tower is one of the towers of Harrenhal. It receives its name from the wailing noise that emanates from it when the wind blows from the north. These cracks formed when the stones fissured due to the intense heat of dragonbreath in the burning of Harrenhal during Aegon's Conquest. The common held belief among the inhabitants of the castle is that it is the cries of the long dead Harren the Black and his sons, though they died in Kingspyre Tower.
Beneath the Wailing Tower are cavernous vaults. The ground floor of the tower is storerooms and granaries. The upper stories has not been occupied for eighty years.
After the departure of Lord Tywin Lannister from Harrenhal, the new castellan, Ser Amory Lorch, has the Wailing Tower closed off.
After the northmen under Lord Roose Bolton retake the castle, the Freys take up residence in the Wailing Tower.
The Wailing Willows was a battle fought on the southern shore of the Gods Eye during Aegon's Conquest. Aegon the Conqueror was victorious in the Battle of the Reeds. Two sons of King Harren Hoare retaliated but crossing the Gods Eye with muffled oars in their longships, and they inflicted heavy casualties on the Targaryens. Harren's sons were killed by Aegon's dragon, Balerion, as they were returning across the lake, however.
Walano is the northernmost of the major islands in the Summer Islands. On its southern coast are the city of Lotus Port and the town of Tall Trees Town, while on its northern coast is the town of Last Lament. It is located in the Summer Sea. To the south of Walano are the smaller islands of Koj and the Isle of Birds in the Smiling Sea. To the north are the smaller islands of Stone Head and the Isle of Women.
Walano was also the site of the first recorded contact between the Summer Isles and the wider world. A merchant ship of the Ghiscari Empire was blown of course by a storm and made landfall on Walano. The ship fled when its crew reacted with terror at the first sight of the local inhabitants, whom the Ghiscari mistook for demons burned black by the fires of hell. Thereafter Ghiscari sailors took care to stay away from the "Demon Isle".
A number of members of House Frey are called Walda Frey. As with the name Walder, the name may be an attempt of the parents to please Lord Walder Frey.
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Walda Frey is the only child of Edwyn Frey and Janyce Hunter..
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Walda Frey is the second daughter of Lothar Frey and Leonella Lefford.
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Walda Frey, known as Fat Walda, is the second daughter of Merrett Frey and a granddaughter of Lord Walder Frey, the head of House Frey..
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Walda is a short, large girl with watery eyes, three chins, a huge bosom, and blonde hair.
Walda wears a sable hood.
Walda and her new husband, Roose Bolton.
Art by Juliana Pinho
Walda weds Roose Bolton,
Roose reveals to Ser Jaime Lannister that Walder Frey, Lord of the Crossing, had offered Roose his prospective bride's weight in silver for her dowry. Lord Bolton chose the fattest available female member of House Frey.
During the feast at the Twins after the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, Walda tells Ser Wendel Manderly she is glad to have been chosen by Roose. She leaves the hall during the bedding custom and is not present for the Red Wedding massacre.
In the aftermath of the Red Wedding, Walda's father Merrett is hanged by the brotherhood without banners at Oldstones.
Walda travels north with her husband along with his army and her kin, Ser Aenys and Ser Hosteen Frey. She meets her stepson, Ramsay Bolton, and Theon Greyjoy after the siege of Moat Cailin is resolved.
Walda is present at the wedding of Ramsay and "Arya Stark", actually Jeyne Poole, at Winterfell's godswood. During the wedding feast she has three slices of pork pie.
As Winterfell becomes snowbound by a blizzard, Theon notices that Walda is pregnant. Her younger brother, Little Walder Frey, is found murdered at Winterfell.
I pray for you morn, noon, and night, my sweet lord, and count the days until you share my bed again. Return to me soon, and I will give you many trueborn sons to take the place of your dear Domeric and rule the Dreadfort after you.
—Walda writing to Roose Bolton
My lord grandfather offered Roose his bride's weight in silver as a dowry, though, so my lord of Bolton picked me. I weigh six stone more than Fair Walda, but that was the first time I was glad of it. I'm Lady Bolton now and my cousin's still a maid, and she'll be nineteen soon, poor thing.
—Walda to Catelyn Stark
Fat Walda was a round pink butterball of a girl with watery blue eyes, limp yellow hair, and a huge bosom, yet her voice was a fluttering squeak. It was hard to picture her in the Dreadfort in her pink lace and cape of vair.
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
He picked her because she's fat. You think Bolton gave a mummer's fart that she was your whelp? Think he sat about thinking, 'Heh, Merrett Muttonhead, that's the very man I need for a good-father'? Your Walda's a sow in silk, that's why he picked her, and I'm not like to thank you for it. We'd have had the same alliance at half the price if your little porkling put down her spoon from time to time.
Lady Walda is a Frey, and she has a fertile feel to her. I have become oddly fond of my fat little wife. The two before her never made a sound in bed, but this one squeals and shudders. I find that quite endearing. If she pops out sons the way she pops in tarts, the Dreadfort will soon be overrun with Boltons. Ramsay will kill them all, of course. That's for the best. I will not live long enough to see new sons to manhood, and boy lords are the bane of any House. Walda will grieve to see them die, though.
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Walda Frey, better known as White Walda, is the daughter of Rhaegar Frey and Jeyne Beesbury.
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Walda Frey, better known as Fair Walda, is the daughter of Walton Frey and Deana Hardyng.
Catelyn Stark considers Walda to be one of the more nubile Frey maidens.
It is common knowledge around the Twins that Walda has occasionally slept with Black Walder.
When Lord Roose Bolton has to choose a bride from the maidens of House Frey, everyone is convinced he will choose Fair Walda.
At the wedding feast of Lord Edmure Tully's and Lady Roslin Frey's wedding, Walda is seated between Robb Stark and Smalljon Umber.
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Walda Rivers is the daughter of a lady of House Charlton and Ser Walder Rivers, the eldest natural son of Lord Walder Frey.
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Walda Rivers is the daughter of Ser Aemon Rivers. She is no more than four.
Walda was one of the Frey women presented to Robb Stark when he came to the Twins for Lord Edmure Tully's wedding. She had sneaked in among the trueborn children of Lord Walder Frey.
Walder is a given name common among the members and descendants of House Frey. According to Lord Walder Frey, his descendants name children after him hoping that the head of their house will favor them.
Of no known relation to House Frey:
Walder Brax is the second son of Ser Flement Brax and Morya Frey.
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Walder Frey is the Lord of the Crossing and head of House Frey. Though almost ninety years old and infirm, he still maintains an active hand in the running of his house at the Twins.
Walder has become famous for siring many children and surviving many wives. He is to marry his eighth wife and has over a hundred descendants, base and trueborn. Walder has had twenty-two trueborn sons and seven trueborn daughters from his marriages, with an unknown number of bastard sons and daughters. He places a great emphasis on family loyalty, though his descendants jockey ruthlessly for his favor. Many Freys name their sons Walder and daughters Walda hoping that the lord will favor them.
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As a young child, Walder was chinless and snot-nosed, with a high shrill hiccup of a laugh.
By the age of ninety, Walder has turned bald, and his head has spotted with age.
Walder has always been irascible, sharp of tongue, and blunt of manner, and this has only increased with age.
As a toddler Walder was present at the marriage of his elder sister to Lord Ambrose Butterwell at Whitewalls.[N 1] It is said he caused the marriage when he discovered his sister having intimate relations with a servant. Ser Duncan the Tall thought that Walder was an extremely annoying child, and was sorely tempted to throw him down a well.
When Lord Tytos Lannister acquiesced to Walder's proposal to marry his second son, Emmon, to Tytos's daughter Genna, the ten-year old Tywin Lannister spoke out against the match.
During Robert's Rebellion, Walder and his levies arrived at the Battle of the Trident after the rebels had already won. Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident, has since called his bannerman "the Late Lord Frey",
Walder Frey at the Twins - by Amok ©
At the crossroads inn, a Frey captain tells Catelyn Stark that Lord Walder is to remarry on his ninetieth name day.
Walder is slow in answering House Tully's summons when Ser Edmure calls the banners. Aside from skirmishing with Ser Addam Marbrand's Lannister outriders, the Freys mass their strength within the Twins.
Because the use of the Twins becomes a strategic necessity for the host of Catelyn's son, Robb Stark, Walder negotiates marriage contracts with Catelyn. Robb is to marry one of Walder's daughters once there is peace and his sister, Arya, is betrothed to Walder's youngest son, Elmar. In addition, two of Lord Frey's grandsons, Little Walder and Big Walder, are sent to Winterfell as wards and one of his sons, Olyvar, is made squire to Robb.
During the War of the Five Kings, Walder's son and heir, Ser Stevron Frey, dies after the Battle of Oxcross, having fought bravely for Robb Stark, the new King in the North and King of the Trident. Lord Roose Bolton marries one of Walder's granddaughters, Walda Frey.
David Bradley as Lord Walder Frey in *Game of Thrones*
Word eventually reaches the Twins of Robb Stark's marriage to Jeyne Westerling instead of a Frey as promised. Ser Ryman Frey, Lord Walder's new heir, withdraws House Frey's support from the king in outrage.
Walder sends his son Lame Lothar to Riverrun to negotiate a rapprochement. Robb and many of his key bannermen return to the Twins under guest right to make amends and marry Lord Edmure Tully to Walder's daughter, Roslin. During the wedding feast, however, Frey and Bolton men ambush Robb and his entire host, slaughtering King Robb, Catelyn Stark, many of their bannermen, and a significant portion of the northern army.
Walder had secretly colluded with Lords Tywin Lannister and Roose Bolton to betray the Starks and Tullys in what becomes known as the Red Wedding.
According to one of his sons, Merrett, Lord Walder is not long for the world and when he dies it will be every other Frey for himself. Walder, though a tyrant, believes in taking care of his own, even the ones who disappoint him. When Stevron was heir it was different, as he was raised by Walder to believe that blood was blood, but his sons and grandsons, now the new heirs, do not feel the same way. Merrett and Petyr Frey are hanged by outlaws, the brotherhood without banners, at Oldstones.
Walder's new wife, Joyeuse, is pregnant.
Ser Daven Lannister is promised to a Frey according to an agreement negotiated by Lord Tywin before his death.
Walder sends a raven to King's Landing putting forth several claims to land. Because the Red Wedding is reviled by sparrows, the small council of Queen Regent Cersei Lannister suggests that Walder's eventual successor could name the culprits and thereby rid himself of rivals.
The Elder Brother at the Quiet Isle says that Lord Frey is hunting outlaws from the Twins.
While returning to the Twins from the siege of Riverrun, Walder's new heir, Ryman, is hanged, presumably by the brotherhood without banners. Ser Jaime Lannister tasks Walder Rivers with informing Lord Walder that King Tommen I Baratheon requires all captives taken by the Freys during the Red Wedding.
Walder agrees to a marriage pact with Lord Wyman Manderly, betrothing two of Walder's grandsons, Rhaegar and Little Walder, to Wyman's granddaughters, Wynafryd and Wylla.
Walder sends at least 1,400 Frey soldiers under the command of two sons, Ser Aenys and Ser Hosteen, with Lord Bolton when the new Warden of the North returns to the north.
Walder Frey by The Mico ©
Now my bastards presume to teach me courtesy. I'll speak any way I like, damn you. I've had three kings to guest in my life, and queens as well, do you think I require lessons from the likes of you, Ryger? Your mother was milking goats the first time I gave her my seed.
- Walder to Ryger Rivers
Catelyn: Where I might have expected to find you, my lord. You are still my father's bannerman, are you not?
Walder: Heh, I called my swords, yes I did, here they are, you saw them on the walls. It was my intent to march as soon as all my strength was assembled. Well, to send my sons. I am well past marching myself, Lady Catelyn. Tell her, Jared. Tell her that was my intent.
Jared: It was, my lady, on my honor.Walder: Is it my fault that your fool brother lost his battle before we could march? I am told the Kingslayer went through him like an axe through ripe cheese. Why should my boys hurry south to die? All those who did go south are running north again.
- Catelyn Stark, Walder, and Jared Frey
Catelyn: If you were strong enough to climb your own battlements, Lord Frey, you would see that my son has twenty thousand men outside your walls.
Walder: They'll be twenty thousand fresh corpses when Lord Tywin gets here, don't you try and frighten me, my lady. Your husband's in some traitor's cell under the Red Keep, your father's sick, might be dying, and Jaime Lannister's got your brother in chains. What do you have that I should fear? That son of yours? I'll match you son for son, and I'll still have eighteen when yours are all dead.
- Catelyn Stark and Walder
Do you think I can't tell Lord Stannis from Lord Tywin? They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit, but never mind about that, I know the difference.
- Walder to Catelyn Stark
Walder: You will forgive me if I do not kneel, I know. My legs no longer work as they did, though that which hangs between 'em serves well enough, heh. Some would say it's a poor king who crowns himself with bronze, Your Grace.
Robb Stark: Bronze and iron are stronger than gold and silver. The old Kings of Winter wore such a sword-crown.
Walder: Small good it did them when the dragons came. Heh.
- Walder and Robb Stark
Heh, the King in the North arises. Seems we killed some of your men, Your Grace. Oh, but I'll make you an apology, that will mend them all again, heh.
- Walder to Robb Stark
Lord Walder Frey might be sworn to Riverrun, but he was a cautious man who had lived a long time by making certain he was always on the winning side.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
That bore Walder Frey's seal beyond a doubt, Catelyn thought bitterly; hold back, wait, watch, take no risk unless forced to it.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Robett: Do you think he means to betray us to the Lannisters, my lady?
Catelyn: He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
- Robett Glover and Catelyn Stark
Her father had once said of Walder Frey that he was the only lord in the Seven Kingdoms who could field an army out of his breeches.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
There was something of the vulture about Lord Walder, and rather more of the weasel.
- thoughts of Catelyn Stark
A few barbed words and some unseemly gloating. From him that's courtesy. I expected the old weasel to piss in our wine and make us praise the vintage.
- Edmure Tully to Catelyn Stark
Tyrion: So much for guest right.
Tywin: The blood is on Walder Frey's hands, not mine.
Tyrion: Walder Frey is a peevish old man who lives to fondle his young wife and brood over all the slights he's suffered. I have no doubt he hatched this ugly chicken, but he would never have dared such a thing without a promise of protection.
- Tyrion Lannister and Tywin Lannister
Lord Walder must soon face the Father's judgment. He is very old. Let the sparrows spit upon his memory. It has nought to do with us.
- Cersei Lannister to the small council
Walder has outlived seven wives, and is currently married to his eighth wife. He has over a hundred descendants, both trueborn and baseborn. He has had twenty-two trueborn sons and seven trueborn daughters from his marriages, with an unknown number of bastard sons and daughters.
Descendants of his first son Stevron Frey:
Descendants of his second son Emmon Frey:
Descendants of her third son Aenys Frey and her daughter Perriane Frey:
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Walder Frey better known as Red Walder is the youngest son of Lord Emmon Frey (second son of Lord Walder Frey) and Genna Lannister (only daughter of Lord Tytos Lannister), he has three brothers; Ser Cleos, Ser Lyonel and Tion Frey. He is a page at Casterly Rock.
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Walder Frey, nicknamed Big Walder, is the son of Ser Jammos Frey and Sallei Paege.
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Walder is a small and skinny fox-faced lad.
Big Walder's lambswool doublet is silver-grey with dark blue trim.
The astute.
Walder is present at the Twins when Catelyn Stark comes to treat with Lord Walder Frey. As part of the terms allowing Robb Stark to cross at the Twins, Big Walder is sent to Winterfell to be fostered.
Big Walder and his cousin, Little Walder, are sent to Winterfell to become wards of Catelyn Stark. They are tutored by Maester Luwin.
Big Walder trains with squires from White Harbor during the harvest feast; Bran Stark thinks that Big Walder rides his horse better than Little Walder.
The Frey cousins are taken captive by Theon Greyjoy when he leads his ironborn in capturing Winterfell. One of the cousins volunteers for Theon's party that searches the wolfswood for Bran and Rickon when they disappear from the castle. Although Theon does not identify which one, the boy's diction is similar to Little Walder's.
A letter written by Big Walder and signed by both Frey cousins is sent to the Twins claiming Theon Greyjoy burned Winterfell. Lame Lothar Frey conveys this false report to Robb Stark, now King in the North.
Big Walder has become a squire to Ramsay.
Big Walder and Little Walder bring Theon Greyjoy, who has been mutilated by Ramsay Bolton, from the Dreadfort's dungeon to Ramsay's feast with Arnolf Karstark and Hother Umber.
Lady Barbrey Dustin gives grey colts to Big Walder and Little Walder when they join Ramsay in searching for missing Freys near Barrowtown.
Big Walder is present at Winterfell during the wedding of Ramsay and "Arya Stark".
After Little Walder is found murdered and frozen in a snowbank near the First Keep, a blood-spattered Big Walder accompanies Ser Hosteen Frey and his soldiers when they enter the Great Hall of Winterfell. Big Walder claims that before his death Little Walder was searching for a White Harbor man who owed him silver from a dice game Little Walder won.
Big Walder: We're cousins, not brothers. I'm Walder son of Jammos. My father was Lord Walder's son by his fourth wife. He's Walder son of Merret. His grandmother was Lord Walder's third wife, the Crakehall. He's ahead of me in the line of succession even though I'm older.
Little Walder: Only by fifty-two days. And neither of us will ever hold the Twins, stupid.
Big Walder: I will.
- Big Walder and Little Walder
Luwin: Ser Stafford Lannister commanded the enemy host. He was slain in the battle.
Walder: Lord Tywin is the only one who matters.
- Luwin and Walder
Both were squires, both were eight, and both were Walder Frey. Big Walder and Little Walder, yes. Only the big one was Little and the little one was Big, which amused the boys and confused the rest of the world.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Little Walder had become Lord Ramsay's best boy and grew more like him every day, but the smaller Frey was made of different stuff and seldom took part in his cousin's games and cruelties.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
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Walder Frey, nicknamed Little Walder, is the son of Merrett Frey and Mariya Darry. His personal coat of arms is the twin towers of House Frey quartered with the brindled boar of House Crakehall and the plowman of House Darry.
Walder is tall and stout, with a red face and big round belly. He is known as "Little Walder" because he is fifty-two days younger than his cousin, "Big Walder" Frey, although Little Walder has since grown half a foot taller.
Little Walder's lambswool doublet is silver-grey with dark blue trim.
Walder is boastful and mean.
Little Walder is present at the Twins when Catelyn Stark comes to treat with Lord Walder Frey. As part of the terms allowing Robb Stark to cross at the Twins, Little Walder is sent to Winterfell to be fostered.
Little Walder and his cousin, Big Walder, are sent to Winterfell to become wards of Catelyn Stark. They are tutored by Maester Luwin.
During the harvest feast, Little Walder trains with knights from White Harbor; Bran thinks Little Walder strikes the quintain harder than Big Walder.
The Frey cousins are taken captive by Theon Greyjoy when he leads his ironborn in capturing Winterfell.
A letter written by Big Walder and signed by both Frey cousins is sent to the Twins claiming Theon Greyjoy burned Winterfell. Lame Lothar Frey conveys this false report to Robb Stark, now King in the North.
Little Walder has become a squire to Ramsay.
Little Walder is offered as a husband to Wylla Manderly by Rhaegar Frey when Frey envoys go to White Harbor to return the bones of Ser Wendel Manderly to his father, Lord Wyman Manderly.
Little Walder and Big Walder bring Theon Greyjoy, who has been mutilated by Ramsay Bolton, from the Dreadfort's dungeon to Ramsay's feast with Arnolf Karstark and Hother Umber.
Lady Barbrey Dustin gives grey colts to Walder and his cousin when they join Ramsay in searching for missing Freys near Barrowton.
Little Walder is present at Winterfell during the wedding of Ramsay and "Arya Stark".
Later, Little Walder's frozen, bloody body is discovered in a snowbank below the ruined First Keep of Winterfell. A blood-spattered Big Walder accompanies Little Walder's uncle, Ser Hosteen Frey, and his soldiers when they enter the Great Hall of Winterfell. According to Big Walder, Little Walder was looking for a White Harbor knight who owed silver from a game of dice. Wyman denies Hosteen's accusation of having ordered Walder's death, and an enraged Hosteen attacks Lord Manderly after he insults House Frey. The confrontation leaves six White Harbor men and two Freys dead. It takes the intervention of Lord Roose Bolton's men to prevent a battle within Winterfell.
Big Walder: He'll set his wolf on you, cousin.
Little Walder: Let him. I always wanted a wolfskin cloak.
Bran: Summer would tear your fat head off.
Little Walder: Does your wolf have steel teeth, to bite through plate and mail?
Luwin: Enough! These threats are unseemly, and I'll hear no more of them. Is this how you behave at the Twins, Walder Frey?Little Walder: If I want to.
- Big Walder Frey, Little Walder, Bran Stark, and Luwin
The big one they call little, it comes to me he's well named. Big outside, little inside, and mean down to the bones.
- Osha to Bran Stark
Both were squires, both were eight, and both were Walder Frey. Big Walder and Little Walder, yes. Only the big one was Little and the little one was Big, which amused the boys and confused the rest of the world.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Little Walder had become Lord Ramsay's best boy and grew more like him every day, but the smaller Frey was made of different stuff and seldom took part in his cousin's games and cruelties.
- thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Hosteen: We know the man who did this. Killed this boy and all the rest. Not by his own hand, no. He is too fat and craven to do his own killing. But by his word. Do you deny it?
Wyman: I confess ... I confess that I know little of this poor boy. Lord Ramsay's squire, was he not? How old was the lad?
Hosteen: Nine, on his last nameday.Wyman: So young. Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would have grown up to be a Frey.
- Hosteen Frey and Wyman Manderly
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Walder Frey, called Black Walder to differentiate him from others with the same name, is a member of House Frey. He is the second son of Ser Ryman Frey, grandson to Ser Stevron Frey, and great-grandson of Lord Walder Frey. Tim Plester portrays "Black Walder Rivers", a combination of Black Walder Frey and Walder Rivers, in the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*.
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Black Walder is a wiry man with a black beard. He earned his nickname due to his irascible temper and stern attitude, inspiring terror in those around him.
Black Walder is known to be resolute and easy to anger, being feared by many among his own family. Enmity runs deep between Walder and his elder brother, Edwyn Frey.
Black Walder refuses to marry, according to Merrett Frey., or Lord Walder's six children with Annara.
When explaining the abundance of Walders in the Frey family to Bran Stark, Big Walder mentions Black Walder, referring to him as the fourth in the line of succession. After receiving the news of Ser Stevron Frey's death at Oxcross, Big Walder updates the line of succession, placing Black Walder third.
Black Walder and Smalljon Umber scale the walls in the storming of the Crag. He is among the leaders of the outcry at Robb's wedding to Jeyne Westerling.
Black Walder is one of the Freys that receive the guests at the Twins for the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, where Grey Wind greets them with anger. Robb comments to his mother, Catelyn Stark, that he is surprised that Black Walder behaved like a lamb during the wedding. This changes when the Red Wedding begins; during the slaughter, Catelyn sees Black Walder hamstring a Vance who had been fighting Ser Harys Haigh.
Afterwards, news arrives at King's Landing that Seagard surrendered to Black Walder.
After resolving the siege of Seagard by threatening to kill the captive Patrek Mallister,
After Ser Ryman Frey's death while returning to the Twins, Ser Edwyn Frey confesses to Ser Jaime Lannister that he suspects Black Walder had a hand in their father's death, and he is afraid that he will be the next.
With Ser Stevron, I might have been able to make amends, but Ser Ryman is dull-witted as a stone, and Black Walder ... that one was not named for the color of his beard, I promise you. He went so far as to say that his sisters would not be loath to wed a widower. I would have killed him for that if Jeyne had not begged me to be merciful.
– Robb Stark to Catelyn Stark
Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?
- thoughts of Merrett Frey
From what Edwyn tells me, though, I'd best pick one who hasn't flowered yet, or I'm like to find that Black Walder has been there first.
– Daven Lannister, on choosing his Frey bride
My brother had a hand in this, I'll wager. He allowed the outlaws to escape after they murdered Merrett and Petyr, and this is why. With our father dead, there’s only me left between Black Walder and the Twins.
Walder Goodbrook is a member of House Goodbrook. He is the only son of Ser Garse Goodbrook and Kyra Frey.
Walder Haigh is a member of House Haigh, a son of Ser Harys Haigh.
Ser Walder Rivers, also known as Bastard Walder, is a knight and the eldest of Lord Walder Frey's bastards.*.
Walder is gruff, dour, and has grey hair. Though not a trueborn Frey, he is often put in positions of responsibility due to his strong reputation as a warrior.
Walder's mother died after falling from a horse.
When Chett was caught for murder near Sevenstreams, Walder was sent from the Twins to judge him. Chett ended up being sent to the Wall.
Walder commands the escort of Lothar Frey on his trip south to Riverrun where Lothar is to treat with Robb Stark.
Walder is present at the siege of Riverrun, where he has a modest tent. He participates in the heated stalemate that plagues the besieging army's command.
Jaime: You were speaking of the Freys you wanted dead. Ryman, Edwyn, Emmon ...
Daven: And Walder Rivers, that whoreson. Hates that he is a bastard, and hates everyone who's not.
– Jaime Lannister and Daven Lannister
That one is more dangerous than any of his trueborn brothers.
– Jaime Lannister's thoughts
Ser Walder Stackspeat was a knight of House Stackspear during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Walder participated in the tourney at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC.
Walder Vance is the eldest son of Ser Dafyn Vance and Maegelle Frey. He is a squire.
Ser Walder of Woodmere was a knight from Woodmere during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Walder was listed as a participant of the tourney at Ashford Meadow of 209 AC.
One version of the Ashford tourney's roll of arms in the graphic novel shows his sigil as a blue plate on white,.
Walderan Tarbeck was the last confirmed Lord of Tarbeck Hall and head of House Tarbeck.
Maester Yandel describes Walderan as having been florid.
By 239 AC when he was fifty-five, Walderan was twice widowed with several sons from his first two marriages.
When the weak-willed Tytos became Lord of Casterly Rock, Walderan and Ellyn's brother Roger Reyne, Lord of Castamere, were his most troublesome bannermen. Although Walderan was impoverished when he married Ellyn, his wife used her connections with House Lannister to borrow considerable loans from Tytos and rebuild Tarbeck Hall.
Ca. 255 AC, House Tarbeck angered King Aegon V Targaryen through their territorial demands, according to a semi-canon source.
With Lord Tytos disinterested in ruling, Walderan was ostensibly the most powerful lord in the westerlands during the War of the Ninepenny Kings, since Tytos's sons and brother Jason were on campaign in the Stepstones alongside Roger the Red Lion. However, Walderan was himself ruled by Ellyn.
In the aftermath of the war, Tytos's heir, Ser Tywin, tried to quell rebellious lords by demanding the repayment of loans. Walderan rode to the Rock to address Tytos, but Tywin had him imprisoned. In response, Ellyn took three Lannisters hostage, two Lannisters of Lannisport and Stafford Lannister.
War broke out in 261 AC with the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion. Only able to gather his household knights on short notice, Walderan was quickly defeated by Tywin's host, with his last surviving son from his first marriage killed in battle. Walderan expected to be ransomed by Tywin, but the young knight instead ordered the beheadings of the Tarbeck men. The heads of Walderan, two sons from his second marriage, his other kin in the host, and his soldiers were then put on display when Tywin continued to Tarbeck Hall.
Walderan's widow, Lady Ellyn, and last son, Tion the Red, were killed during Tywin's attack on Tarbeck Hall.
Lord Waldon Wynch is the Lord of Iron Holt and the head of House Wynch.
Lord Waldon was the first to bend his knee and support Euron Greyjoy as king upon his return to the Iron Islands. For his support House Wynch was awarded half the lands of House Botley.
Archmaester Walgram is an Archmaester of the Citadel and the author of *The Reckoning of Time*, where delves deeply into the problem of the studies of ancient records tue to how differently the varied cultures reckon days, seasons, and years..
Walgrave is an elderly archmaester of the Citadel who has lost his wits.
Walgrave is considered by many to have the foremost knowledge in ravencraft,
Walgrave once taught Maester Yandel how to read.
There is a strongbox underneath Walgrave's bed, containing a bag of silver stags, a lock of yellow hair tied up in a ribbon, a painted miniature of a woman who resembles Walgrave (even to her mustache), and a lobstered steel knight's gauntlet that supposedly once belonged to a prince. The box also contains Walgrave's archmaester's key, which can open any door in the Citadel. The strongbox's lock was broken by Walgrave after he lost the key that opened it.
Pate steals Walgrave's archmaester's key and the bag of silver stags. He gives the key to the Alchemist in exchange for a golden coin, but Pate is poisoned and dies.
Walgrave's name is chosen for the position of Seneschal of the Citadel, but due to his infirmity, Archmaester Theobald offers to perform the duties for him.
Because Walgrave often calls Pate by the name Cressen,, in the past.
Maester Walys was the bastard son of a Hightower girl and an archmaester of the Citadel. and the similarity of Walgrave's and Walys's names, some suspect he was the archmaester who fathered Walys.
"Walk of Punishment" is the third episode of the third season of the HBO medieval fantasy television series *Game of Thrones*, and the 23rd episode of the series. Written by executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and directed by David Benioff, it aired on April 14, 2013 .
The title of the episode alludes to a road in Astapor known as the "Walk of Punishment," where slaves are crucified and displayed to discourage other slaves from disobeying their masters.
Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) calls the first meeting of the small council since his arrival in the city. As a test for the councilors, Tywin sits at one end of the long table, with chairs on only one side. Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen) ambitiously rushes to the seat nearest to Tywin. Varys (Conleth Hill) is content to take the second seat. Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover) calmly takes the third. Cersei Lannister creates a place at her father's right hand by moving her chair. Last of all, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) makes a point of noisily dragging his chair to the far end of the table and taking up a position to mirror his father's.
Tywin is displeased that, despite their vast networks of spies, none of the councilors can locate his son Jaime. Turning to the war, Varys informs the council that Robb Stark has left Roose Bolton as lord of Harrenhal while he is at Riverrun. Tywin declares Bolton can have the ruin; Littlefinger's titular position as lord of Harrenhal is enough to make him a suitor to Lady Lysa Arryn. As Lysa's husband, Littlefinger will become the acting lord of the Vale and ensure the Vale does not support Robb. Tywin appoints Tyrion to replace Littlefinger as Master of Coin, causing Tyrion to points out his obvious lack of qualifications.
Later, Tyrion visits Littlefinger's brothel to retrieve the royal ledgers. Littlefinger wishes Tyrion luck and thanks him for freeing Ros (Esmé Bianco) after Cersei mistook her for Tyrion's mistress. He also advises Tyrion that finances are easy to manipulate once you realize they are just numbers on paper. Tyrion then rewards his squire Podrick (Daniel Portman) with the services of three prostitutes, including a contortionist.
Upon reviewing the ledgers, Tyrion discovers that Littlefinger has borrowed millions in gold from House Lannister, as well as tens of millions from the Iron Bank of Braavos, who will fund their enemies if not paid back in the proper time. Then Podrick returns with Tyrion's money, which he explains the prostitutes refused to take. Impressed and confused, Tyrion and Bronn (Jerome Flynn) insists Pod provide them with "copious details."
Jon Snow (Kit Harington) arrives back at the Fist of the First Men with Mance Rayder's (Ciarán Hinds) wildling army. They find the severed heads of the horses arranged in a spiral pattern, but none of the dead brothers Orell (Mackenzie Crook) saw. Jon admits there were three hundred men, and everyone realizes they have become wights. When Jon asks if Lord Commander Mormont could have survived, Mance agrees it is possible but even so Mormont will be far from Castle Black. He orders Tormund (Kristofer Hivju) to scale the Wall with twenty men and attack Castle Black from its exposed southern side when he lights a massive signal fire. He orders Jon taken along and authorizes Tormund to throw him off the Wall if he does not prove useful.
Farther south, Mormont (James Cosmo) and his remaining survivors seek refuge at Craster's Keep. Threatened by the brothers' obvious desperation, Craster (Robert Pugh) reluctantly allows them in. As the brothers eat and warm themselves, Craster admits he is feeding his pigs better but insists they should be grateful for his generosity, calling himself a godly man for helping them. Mormont disagrees, but Craster insists that only those who pay homage to the "real gods" will survive what is coming. He suggests, half-seriously, that the brothers should eat fat Samwell Tarly (John Bradley-West), which drives Sam out of the keep. Sam follows the sound of a woman's birthing pains to a small outbuilding where he witnesses Gilly (Hannah Murray) give birth to a baby boy.
Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) accuses Melisandre (Carice van Houten) of trying to abandon him as she prepares to board a ship bound for a destination she claims will be revealed by the Lord of Light. Stannis declares the Seven Kingdoms are laughing at him like Renly did and begs her to make him another "son." She replies that he does not have the strength, but their is a better way. Stannis recalls that her magic requires a king's blood and he is the only true king, but Melisandre points out that others share Stannis' blood.
Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) is woken in the night by the cleaning boy (Iwan Rheon), who releases him, gives him a horse, and tells him to ride east. Theon thanks the boy and promises to make him a lord of the Iron Islands, but the boy insists they are not in the Iron Islands now. After riding all night, Theon learns he is being pursued. After a desperate chase, he is caught and unhorsed with a flail. Moments before being raped by their leader, Theon is saved by the cleaning boy, who kills the soldiers with a bow. Helping Theon to his feet, the boy reminds Theon he is a long way from home, and winter is coming.
As she travels the "Walk of Punishment," where slaves are executed for disobedience, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) offers water to a condemned man, but he refuses since it will only prolong his suffering. Shocked, she returns to her advisers--Ser Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) and Ser Barristan Selmy (Ian McElhinney)--who disagree over whether she should purchase the Unsullied.
Barristan urges her to forget the Unsullied and hire sellswords in the Free Cities. Jorah points out retaking the Iron Throne will mean blood on her hands, but Daenerys insists it will not be innocent blood. Jorah notes that innocents are never spared in war, which Barristan cannot deny. Jorah continues that the Unsullied will not commit atrocities unless ordered. Barristan argues that men died for Daenerys' brother Rhaegar at the Battle of the Trident because they believed in him, not because the were bought at an auction; he himself was proud to fight beside the last dragon that day. Jorah replies that, despite his nobility, Rhaegar died. Daenerys laments that she never met her brother, but declares he was not the last dragon.
Soon after, Daenerys asks to buy all 8,000 fully-trained Unsullied and those still in training. Kraznys mo Nakloz (Dan Hildebrand) maintains his habit of mocking her while his slave translator Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel) struggles to filter out his disrespect. He points out that Daenerys can only afford 123 Unsullied, even if she sells her ship and her Dothraki followers. Daenerys offers one of her dragons, prompting protests from both Jorah and Barristan. Kraznys demands the biggest one, to which Daenerys agrees. However, before leaving, Daenerys requests Missandei as a gift and Kraznys agrees.
Outside, Daenerys chastises her advisers for questioning her in public. Daenerys asks Missandei if she has any family, but she does not. She also asks if what Kraznys has told her of the Unsullied's obedience is true, which it is. When Daenerys explains the dangers Missandei may face in her service, Missandei replies, "Valar morghulis." Daenerys agrees that "all men must die," but quips they are not men.
At Riverrun, Lord Hoster Tully's funeral is attended by his family and bannermen as well as King Robb Stark (Richard Madden) and his army. Hoster's heir, Lord Edmure (Tobias Menzies), fails three times to set the funeral boat ablaze with an arrow, so Hoster's brother, Ser Brynden the Blackfish (Clive Russell), takes over and skillfully makes the shot, shaming Edmure.
Shortly after, King Robb chastises Edmure for disobeying orders not to engage Ser Gregor Clegane at Stone Mill, since he was hoping to lure Clegane. Edmure insists they took valuable captives like Willem and Martyn Lannister in the battle, but Robb angrily points out they are only boys and Tywin will not care about his distant relatives. Edmure points out that the Lannister losses where much higher, but Robb rages that they need their men more than Tywin does.
Later, Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) mourns privately with her uncle Brynden. She asks if he made peace with her father, with whom Brynden has feuded for thirty years. Brynden explains that Hoster asked him to stop calling himself "Blackfish," since it was a bad joke that symbolized their feud. Brynden laments that he has been the Blackfish for so long most people do not remember his true name. Catelyn wishes she could have been there for her father, and reminisces about all the times she waited for his return. She breaks down when she wonders if her sons Bran and Rickon watched in vain for her return, but Brynden urges her to not give up hope and to remain strong for Robb.
In the dungeons of Riverrun, Queen Talisa (Oona Chaplin) treats the wounds of Edmure's prisoners Willem and Martyn Lannister. One of them asks if Robb really turns into a wolf and eats the flesh of his enemies. Talisa says he does, but he only eats children on full moons, and asks a guard if tonight is a full moon.
Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) asks Gendry (Joe Dempsie) why he is helping their captor Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye) don his armor. Thoros argues that they are not captives, but insists she cannot leave because the roads are not safe for Eddard Stark's daughter. Arya notices Sandor "the Hound" Clegane being loaded into a wagon and confronts him about the day he murdered her friend Mycah near this very spot, but he is taken away before she can get an answer. She and Gendry then say goodbye to Hot Pie (Ben Hawkey), who has decided to remain at the inn as a cook.
Elsewhere in the Riverlands, Locke (Noah Taylor) and his men are transporting their captives (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) back to Harrenhal. Brienne derides Jaime's poor swordplay, but Jaime counters by pointing out the men intend to rape her. He suggests she submit to avoid being killed, but Brienne insists she will fight. Jaime admits that he would fight to the death, too.
That night, Locke orders Brienne taken away for him to rape first. Jaime informs Locke that Brienne's father is Lord Selwyn of Tarth, the "Sapphire Isle," who will pay his daughter's weight in sapphires for her safe return. Locke agrees and orders Brienne brought back. Jaime then tries to secure his own release by promising that his father will reward Locke with gold, land, and titles. Jaime also notes that fighting for the poorer and outnumbered Starks is a noble, but hopeless effort. At Jaime's suggestion, Locke orders Jaime unchained and offers him a meal. However, the bribe has offended Locke, and he slams Jaime down and presses his carving knife against Jaime's eye, sneering that Jaime is powerless with out his father. Then he hacks of Jaime's right hand, and Jaime screams.
"Walk of Punishment" introduces the Tully family at Riverrun, marking the first appearances of Catelyn Stark's uncle Brynden Tully, played by Clive Russell, and her younger brother Edmure, played by Tobias Menzies.
Main cast members Liam Cunningham (Davos), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey), Natalie Dormer (Margaery), Sophie Turner, Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran), and Sibel Kekilli (Shae) do not appear in this episode and are not credited.
The episode captures roughly A Storm of Swords chapters 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 31, 33 and 35.
The following scenes do no appear in the books:
Cersei Lannister disrobing before the walk of shame. ©FFG
Cersei's penance walk from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep - by Marc Simonetti ©
A walk of atonement is usually performed as both a punishment and a way to degrade a woman and rob her of her pride and power.
When Tywin Lannister's father Tytos died, Tywin found his father's mistress trying on one of the gowns of his late mother, Jeyne Marbrand. A common-born woman and the daughter of a chandler, the mistress had dominated Tytos utterly, ordering the household knights about, dismissing servants, and helping herself to Jeyne's jewelry.
Cersei Lannister is forced to perform a walk of atonement by the High Septon of the Faith of the Seven from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep. Cersei is shaved of hair from her entire body, then stripped naked. An escort of Warrior's Sons, Poor Fellows, and several septas protect her from the leering and jeering crowds that have flocked to see her shame.
Vain and proud she was, before so haughty you’d think she’s forgot she came from dirt. Once we got her clothes off her, though, she was just another whore.
– House Lannister guard regarding Tytos Lannister's second mistress
They think that this will break my pride, that it will make an end to me, but they are wrong.
-Cersei Lannister's thoughts during her walk
Cersei was soiled goods now, Her power at an end.
- Kevan Lannister after his niece's walk
All the self-seekers who had named themselves her friends and cultivated her favor had abandoned her quickly enough when Tywin had her stripped naked and paraded through Lannisport to the docks, like a common whore. Though no man laid a hand on her, that walk spelled the end of her power. Surely Tywin would never have dreamed that same fate awaited his own golden daughter.
- Kevan Lannister thinking of Tytos Lannister's second mistress
George R. R. Martin may have been inspired by penitential walks, such as the three barefoot walks of Eleanor Cobham and the kirtle-clad walk of Jane Shore.
"Walking lizards" or "tattooed lizards" are a species of lizards which can be found in the unexplored southern jungles of Sothoryos, known as the Green Hell.
These lizards appear to be tattooed, and run down their prey on their powerful hind legs. They also have long curved claws on their hind legs, which they use to rip their prey apart.
Syrio Forel tells Arya Stark about the rare live specimens of walking lizards kept in the exotic animal menagerie of the Sealord of Braavos.
Victarion Greyjoy wonders if the rumors about Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons are true, or if they are only tattooed lizards from the swamps of Sothoryos.
Hear me. The ships of Braavos sail as far as the winds blow, to lands strange and wonderful, and when they return, their captains fetch queer animals to the Sealord's menagerie. Such animals as you have never seen, striped horses, great spotted things with necks as long as stilts, hairy mouse-pigs as big as cows, stinging manticores, tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch, terrible walking lizards with scythes for claws. Syrio Forel has seen these things.
It is likely that the "terrible" walking lizards are a kind of dromaeosaurid dinosaur, such as *Velociraptor* or *Deinonychus. "Dinosaur" means "terrible lizard", "dromeosaurid" means "running lizard", and they have a large scythe-like claw on their hind legs. Furthermore, George R.R. Martin greatly enjoyed the novel *Jurassic Park,
The Wall by Feliche©
Man of the Night's Watch guarding the Wall by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games
The Wall is a massive barrier of mostly ice stretching across the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms, separating it from the wild lands beyond. The Wall is one hundred leagues long
Appearing as one of the nine wonders made by man in the book written by Lomas Longstrider,
See also: Images of the Wall
The Wall by Sabin Boykinov © Fantasy Flight Games
The Wall stretches for three hundred miles
The Wall is straight like a sword from Castle Black to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, but runs like a snake between Castle Black and the Shadow Tower.
Windblown dirt covers the Wall like film, and it often appears pale grey
Tunnels have been cut through the Wall at each castle of the Night's Watch. They are sealed with ice and stone wherever castles have been abandoned or in times of danger.
While Benjen Stark, the First Ranger, believes the Wall is the largest structure built by man,
The Night's Watch raised nineteen castles to guard the hundred leagues of the Wall, although they never manned more than seventeen at one time.
Only three castles currently remain in use,, the port of the Night's Watch with the smallest garrison, located at the eastern end of the Wall.
Castle Black and the Wall by Ted Nasmith ©
The nineteen castles on the Wall, listed from west to east, are:
Warming shed on top of the Wall
The builders of the Night's Watch permit the forest to come no closer than half a mile to the Wall.
The top of the wall is studded with catapults, cranes,
The twisting tunnel through the Wall at Castle Black is secured by a thick oaken door and three grates with heavy iron bars, massive chains that must be unlocked, and murder holes,
The galleys of Eastwatch patrol the Bay of Seals in part to catch smugglers who bypass the Wall through the sea and trade weapons to wildlings.
Tunnel through the Wall, barred by heavy iron bars
The Wall provides a tremendous tactical advantage to its defenders, enabling a small group to hold off a much larger force. Defenders are generally beyond the range of bow shot or catapult and in turn rely on archery, catapult, and dropped objects to deter an assault. In particular, barrels containing rocks frozen in ice are effective in dispersing a mass charge.
Attackers must rely on one of two tactics: a direct assault on one of the few well-defended gates, or scaling the Wall in small groups and attacking a gate from the rear. The gates have been designed with features such as murder holes and limited access that make them difficult to force.
Scaling the Wall involves similar difficulties. Wildlings climb the northern side of the Wall with hempen rope, stone hammers, ice axes, and spiked boots.
The building of the Wall (by Chase Stone©)
The Wall was made to defend the realms of the First Men,
According to legend, the Wall was built by Brandon the Builder
Maesters dispute if the base of the Wall was made of stone, but they generally believe builders of the Watch used sledges to transport ice cut from frozen lakes in the haunted forest. However, the severely-reduced Night's Watch at the present time is limited to maintenance duty.
Some Kings-Beyond-the-Wall have led hosts of free folk south, but all have been broken at the Wall by the Night's Watch or, if they managed to evade the Watch and pass south, by House Stark of Winterfell.
When King Jaehaerys I Targaryen visited Winterfell, Queen Alysanne Targaryen flew on Silverwing to visit the Wall.
The Wall and the tunnel at Castle Black in *Game of Thrones*
When Jon Snow joins the Night's Watch, Tyrion Lannister accompanies him north to see the Wall.
Heading beyond the Wall, Jon and Sam participate in the great ranging led by Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, has free folk search the Frostfangs
Feigning allegiance to the wildling cause, Jon climbs the Wall with a group of wildlings. Sheets of ice break off, leading to the death of Jarl.
After the mutiny at Craster's Keep, Samwell and Gilly flee south
Mance sends his chiefs and captains to attack various places along the Wall, spreading the Night's Watch thin.
Following the battle, Jon and Melisandre ascend the Wall to meet Stannis, who offers to name Jon as Lord of Winterfell.
Free folk who submit to Stannis are allowed to pass through the Wall.
Lord Commander Snow puts plans in motion to man most of the castles. These include:
Builders begin construction on a new switchback stair to replace the ruined one at Castle Black.
Melisandre thinks she is stronger than she has ever been while at the Wall.
Hadrian's Wall was George R. R. Martin's inspiration for the Wall
See also: Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire
According to George R. R. Martin the inspiration for the Wall came from Hadrian's Wall.
You could see it from miles off, a pale blue line across the northern horizon, stretching away to the east and west and vanishing in the far distance, immense and unbroken. This is the end of the world, it seemed to say.
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Almost seven hundred feet high it stood, three times the height of the tallest tower in the stronghold it sheltered. His uncle said the top was wide enough for a dozen armored knights to ride abreast. The gaunt outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there, like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small as ants.
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Jon: I hate it here. It's too ... it's cold.
Donal: Yes. Cold and hard and mean, that's the Wall, and the men who walk it. Not like the stories your wet nurse told you. Well, piss on the stories and piss on your wet nurse. This is the way it is, and you're here for life, same as the rest of us.—Jon Snow and Donal Noye
He looked off to the east and west, at the Wall stretching before him, a vast white road with no beginning and no end and a dark abyss on either side.
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Sometimes it seemed to Jon almost a living thing, with moods of its own. The color of the ice was wont to change with every shift of the light. Now it was the deep blue of frozen rivers, now the dirty white of old snow, and when a cloud passed before the sun it darkened to the pale grey of pitted stone. The Wall stretched east and west as far as the eye could see, so huge that it shrunk the timbered keeps and stone towers of the castle to insignificance. It was the end of the world.
—thoughts of Jon Snow
If the Wall should ever fall, all the fires will go out.
The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone.
—Mance Rayder to Jon Snow
And they've built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills.
—excerpt from "The Last of the Giants"
Ygritte: I hate this Wall. Can you feel how cold it is?
Jon: It's made of ice.
Yritte: You know nothing, Jon Snow. This wall is made o' blood.
The Night's Watch has forgotten its true purpose, Tarly. You don't build a wall seven hundred feet high to keep savages in skins from stealing women. The Wall was made to guard the realms of men ... and not against other men, which is all the wildlings are when you come right down to it. Too many years, Tarly, too many hundreds and thousands of years. We lost sight of the true enemy.
Mance: Raymun Redbeard, Bael the Bard, Gendel and Gorne, the Horned Lord, they all came south to conquer, but I've come with my tail between my legs to hide behind your Wall. If I sound the Horn of Winter, the Wall will fall. Or so the songs would have me believe. There are those among my people who want nothing more ...
Dalla: But once the Wall is fallen, what will stop the Others?—Mance Rayder and Dalla to Jon Snow
I have dreamed of your Wall, Jon Snow. Great was the lore that raised it, and great the spells locked beneath its ice. We walk beneath one of the hinges of the world.
—Melisandre to Jon Snow
Jon Snow glanced up at the Wall, towering over them like a cliff of ice. A hundred leagues from end to end, and seven hundred feet high. The strength of the Wall was its height; the length of the Wall was its weakness. Jon remembered something his father had said once. A wall is only as strong as the men who stand behind it. The men of the Night's Watch were brave enough, but they were far too few for the task that confronted them.
—thoughts of Jon Snow
Winter is coming, and with it the white walkers. The Wall is where we stop them. The Wall was made to stop them ... but the Wall must be manned.
—Jon Snow to Bowen Marsh