The river flows for several hundred miles south and west, being fed by several other rivers, until it flows into the Sunset Sea just south of the Shield Islands. The Roseroad crosses the river at Bitterbridge. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Mander is said to be one of the most impressive natural features in Westeros. However, even the Mander is utterly dwarfed by the massive Rhoyne river in western Essos.
The Mander is navigable from the sea for quite some distance along its tributaries at least as far as Bitterbridge , which speeds travel in the Reach.
However, this also allowed the Reach to be raided by the ironborn until the King of the Reach fortified the Shield Islands two thousand years before the events of the series. Some say that the Mander River is actually named for House Manderly , while others say that House Manderly took its name from the river in ancient times.
House Manderly was formerly a powerful House until it disgraced itself in the eyes of the King of the Reach perhaps not coincidentally, around the time the Rhoynar invaded Dorne to the east, a thousand years ago.
The Manderlys were exiled from the Reach approximately one thousand years ago. Eventually they settled in the North and proved worthy servants of the King in the North , who made them the lords of White Harbor in return for their loyal service. Each knight who has been made a member of the Kingsguard since the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen has a page within the book detailing his deeds. On the top left-hand corner of the page his personal or family arms are drawn while at the bottom right-hand corner are the arms of the Kingsguard.
When he comes to his uncle Jaime Lannister 's rather brief entry, Joffrey sarcastically remarks that someone has forgotten to record all of Jaime's great deeds. Joffrey is surprised that Ser Duncan has four entire pages devoted to his exploits, much more than is usual, and says he must have been quite a man. Jaime agrees that everyone says he was. Brienne of Tarth reads aloud Jaime's entry during their goodbye conversation.
Jaime is alone again in the White Sword Tower quietly reading over his short entry, when Cersei arrives. Having just told off her father Tywin by threatening to publicly admit that the rumors are true that she has been having an incestuous relationship with Jaime, she is filled with self-confidence and begins to seduce Jaime. They have sex on the chamber's main table. Brienne tearfully completes the entry of her deceased former lover Jaime, recording all of his deeds since the beginning of the War of Five Kings up to his death "defending his queen.
Called the Dragonknight after his noble heritage. Raised to the Kingsguard in his seventeenth year and after rose to Lord Commander. Rescued from a snakepit by his cousin Baelor I the Blessed , whom the vipers refused to bite.
Fought Cregan Stark , barely defeating him. Won the tourney of Riverrun in his 21st year, unseating Ser Terrence Toyne in the final joust. Blackfyre Rebellion. Defeated all challengers at the tourney of Pennytree , which Aegon V held in his honor and named a commoner as the Queen of Love and Beauty. Rescued the daughter of Lord Damon Lannister from Pyke , after her ship was taken by Greyjoy raiders.
Note: When the entry refers to Aemon "and the King's uncle" the King being Aemon's father Maekar joining the Night's Watch at the Wall, the punctuation makes the meaning confusing: Aemon was Aegon V's brother, not his uncle. A more explicit punctuation would be " Another point of confusion is that the entry begins by referring to Aegon V as the current king, then without signalling shifts tense to refer to Aegon V's father Maekar as "the King".
The text shown in the episode " The Iron Throne " is:. Born in Flea Bottom. Family name unknown. Squire to Ser Arthur of Pennytree who knighted him in his sixteenth year. Defended a Dornish woman from Prince Aerion Targaryen at the tourney at Ashford and was judged in a trial by seven. But he remained a hedge knight. Defeated Ser Lucas Longinch in single combat … suffering grievous wounds. Note: " Arlan of Pennytree " is misspelled as "Arthur of Pennytree". The circumstances surrounding the death of Baelor Breakspear are wrong, with the book claiming Duncan bested him.
In " Justice of the Seven Kingdoms ", it is mentioned that Baelor died fighting for Duncan at his trial by seven. Handed command to Ser Arthur Dayne due to sustained injuries the same year. All were defeated by a small force led by Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell. Named 'Sword of the Morning' and wielder of the great white blade ' Dawn ' forged from a fallen star.
Beloved by the people, he acted as their voice in the reign of Aerys II, gathering their concerns and bringing them before the king. Brought in laws for the royal forces to repay the smallfolk for their goods and turned the tide of support against the criminal scourge of the Kingswood Brotherhood. Although news of his father's death causes Jon to doubt his calling, but eventually he decides his place is with the Watch after an attempt to flee them.
Drogo commands a clan of forty thousand mounted warriors whom Viserys plans to use to reclaim his homeland and the iron throne from the usurper Robert Baratheon. Among the wedding gifts are three stone dragon eggs from Ilyrio. Unexpectedly, Daenerys and Drogo find love as they journey east into the vast grasslands of the Dothraki sea , and Daenerys becomes pregnant with a son, to be named Rhaego after her dead brother.
Ser Jorah Mormont , son of the Lord Commander of the night Watch and a knight exiled from Westeros for dealing in slaves, joins Viserys' entourage as an advisor on the current state of the Seven Kingdoms. Viserys becomes angry about how long he must wait before Drogo decides to invade Westeros and, in a drunken rage, insults Drogo grievously. Drogo decides to crown him with molten gold.
And then Daenerys picks up her brother's quest to reclaim the Iron Throne, but Drogo remains reluctant to embark on an invasion across the seas. He relents when a Westerosi assassin, in the pay of King Robert, nearly kills Daenerys and their unborn child and swears vengeance.
However, during a warm-up raid on the peaceful Lhazareen , Drogo takes a wound which festers. Daenerys loses both Drogo and her unborn son to the machinations of a Lhazareen witch, Mirri Maz Duur , and has her burned in a pyre along with her husband and dragon eggs. Playing a hunch, The eggs hatch, and Daenerys Targaryen, the Stormborn, becomes mother to the first three dragons seen in the world for one hundred and sixty years. All of the novels in the series use a system for the books where by each chapter concentrates on one character in a third person, limited point of view.
Thus, the chapter list for each book would read something like: "Bran", "Eddard", "Catelyn", "Eddard", "Tyrion", "Catelyn" etc, with the story flipping back and forth between the main characters. One of Martin's earliest attempts at writing a fantasy story was 'Dark Gods of Kor-Yuban', which was never published. The two heroes of the short story are the exiled 'Prince R'hllor of Raugg' and his boisterous, swaggering companion 'Argilac the Arrogant'.
In an abandoned sequel Argilac teams up with Barron, the Bloody Blade of the Dothrak Empire, to slay the winged demons who killed Barron's grandfather Barristan the Bold.
Most of these names reoccur in A Game of Thrones : R'hllor is the red god worshipped in the east although not specifically named until A Clash of Kings ; Argilac the Arrogant was the last Storm King thrown down by the Targaryens; the Dothrak Empire became the Dothraki horse-riders of the eastern plains; and Barristan the Bold was recast as Ser Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard.
The title "Game of Thrones is repeated six times in the novel. In all these passages the speaker is either cynical or derisive of royalty. As such the Game of Thrones is not an honourable activity. It leads to much distress and loss for the common folk.
The first edition, published in August , had an embossed silver cover designed by Tom Hallman. A mass-market paperback followed with a new cover by Stephen Youll. A slightly revised edition of this cover was used for the hardcover reprinting. In the covers for all the books were revamped and the cover was replaced by a stylised heraldic image of a direwolf to represent House Stark. The first edition had a cover designed by Jim Burns which was also used for a booklet containing the first several chapters of the book and sold separately for 99p as a preview several months before the hardcover was released.
A mass-market paperback followed in with the same cover. In the covers for all the books were revamped and the cover was replaced by an image of a dragon's skull, drawn by Larry Rostant. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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