A Storm of Swords

— MAESTER PYLOS, healer, tutor, counselor,

— SER DAVOS SEAWORTH, called THE ONION KNIGHT and sometimes SHORTHAND, once a smuggler,

— Davos’s wife, LADY MARYA, a carpenter’s daughter,

— their seven sons:

—{DALE}, lost on the Blackwater,

—{ALLARD}, lost on the Blackwater,

—{MATTHOS}, lost on the Blackwater,

—{MARIC}, lost on the Blackwater,

— DEVAN, squire to King Stannis,

— STANNIS, a boy of nine years,

— STEFFON, a boy of six years,

— SALLADHOR SAAN, of the Free City of Lys, styling himself Prince of the Narrow Sea and Lord of Blackwater Bay, master of the Valyrian and a fleet of sister galleys,

— MEIZO MAHR, a eunuch in his hire,

— KHORANE SATHMANTES, captain of his galley Shayala’s Dance,

—“PORRIDGE” and “LAMPREY, ” two gaolers,

— his lords bannermen,

— MONTERYS VELARYON, Lord of the Tides and Master of Driftmark, a boy of six,

— DURAM BAR EMMON, Lord of Sharp Point, a boy of fifteen years,

— SER GILBERT FARRING, castellan of Storm’s End,

— LORD ELWOOD MEADOWS, Ser Gilbert’s second,

— MAESTER JURNE, Ser Gilbert’s counselor and healer,

— LORD LUCOS CHYTTERING, called LITTLE LUCOS, a youth of sixteen,

— LESTER MORRIGEN, Lord of Crows Nest,

— his knights and sworn swords,

— SER LOMAS ESTERMONT, the king’s maternal uncle,

— his son, SER ANDREW ESTERMONT,

— SER ROLLAND STORM, called THE BASTARD OF NIGHT-SONG, a baseborn son of the late Lord Bryen Caron,

— SER PARMEN CRANE, called PARMEN THE PURPLE, held captive at Highgarden,

— SER ERREN FLORENT, younger brother to Queen Selyse, held captive at Highgarden,

— SER GERALD GOWER,

— SER TRISTON OF TALLY HILL, formerly in service to Lord Guncer Sunglass,

— LEWYS, called THE FISHWIFE,

— OMER BLACKBERRY.

King Stannis has taken for his banner the fiery heart of the Lord of Light: a red heart surrounded by orange flames upon a yellow field. Within the heart is the crowned stag of House Baratheon, in black.

THE QUEEN ACROSS THE WATER

DAENERYS TARGARYEN, the First of Her Name, Khaleesi of the Dothraki, called DAENERYS STORMBORN, the UNBURNT, MOTHER OF DRAGONS, sole surviving heir of Aerys II Targaryen widow of Khal Drogo of the Dothraki,

— her growing dragons, DROGON, VISERION, RHAEGAL,

— her Queensguard:

— SER JORAH MORMONT, formerly Lord of Bear Island, exiled for slaving,

— JHOGO, ko and bloodrider, the whip,

— AGGO, ko and bloodrider, the bow,

— RAKHARO, ko and bloodrider, the arakh,

— STRONG BELWAS, a former eunuch slave from the fighting pits of Meereen,

— his aged squire, ARSTAN called WHITEBEARD; a man of Westeros,

— her handmaids:

— IRRI, a Dothraki girl, fifteen,

— JHIQUI, a Dothraki girl, fourteen,

— GROLEO, captain of the great cog Balerion, a Pentoshi seafarer in the hire of Illyrio Mopatis,

— her late kin:

—{RHAEGAR}, her brother, Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne, slain by Robert Baratheon on the Trident,

—{RHAENYS}, Rhaegar’s daughter by Elia of Dorne, murdered during the Sack of King’s Landing,

—{AEGON}, Rhaegar’s son by Elia of Dorne, murdered during the Sack of King’s Landing,

—{VISERYS}, her brother, styling himself King Viserys,

the Third of His Name, called THE BEGGAR KING, slain in Vaes Dothrak by Khal Drogo,

—{DROGO}, her husband, a great khal of the Dothraki, never defeated in battle, died of a wound,

—{RHAEGO}, her stillborn son by Khal Drogo, slain in the womb by Mirri Maz Duur,

— her known enemies:

— KHAL PONO, once ko to Drogo,

— KHAL JHAQO, once ko to Drogo,

— MAGGO, his bloodrider,

— THE UNDYING OF QARTH, a band of warlocks,

— PYAT PREE, a Qartheen warlock,

— THE SORROWFUL MEN, a guild of Qartheen assassins,

— her uncertain allies, past and present:

— XARO XHOAN DAXOS, a merchant prince of Qarth,

— QUAITHE, a masked shadowbinder from Asshai,

— ILLYRIO MOPATIS, a magister of the Free City of Pentos, who brokered her marriage to Khal Drogo,

— in Astapor:

— KRAZNYS MO NAKLOZ, a wealthy slave trader,

— his slave, MISSANDEI, a girl of ten, of the Peaceful People of Naath,

— GRAZDAN MO ULLHOR, an old slave trader, very rich,

— his slave, CLEON, a butcher and cook,

— GREY WORM, an eunuch of the Unsullied,

— in Yunkai:

— GRAZDAN MO ERAZ, envoy and nobleman,

— MERO OF BRAAVOS, called THE TITAN’S BASTARD, captain of the Second Sons, a free company,

— BROWN BEN PLUMM, a sergeant in the Second Sons, a sellsword of dubious descent,

— PRENDAHL NA GHEZN, a Ghiscari sellsword, captain of the Stormcrows, a free company,

— SALLOR THE BALD, a Qartheen sellsword, captain of the Stormcrows,

— DAARIO NAHARIS, a flamboyant Tyroshi sellsword, captain of the Stormcrows,

— in Meereen:

— OZNAK ZO PAHL, a hero of the city.