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• Jon Snow: Jon Snow is the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell and is currently serving in the Night's Watch. The identity of his mother is the source of much speculation. Eddard once told King Robert Baratheon that Jon's mother is a serving girl named Wylla, but refused to elaborate any further. Jon himself has no knowledge of his mother. Jon's presence at Winterfell was the source of dissent between Eddard and his wife, Catelyn. However, Jon got on well with his half-siblings, particularly Robb and Arya. Now serving on the Wall, Jon has found a place of acceptance where the circumstances of his birth are of little importance. Like all his other half-siblings, Jon has a pet direwolf named Ghost.
• Jon Arryn: Lord Jon Arryn was the ruling lord of House Arryn, one of the Great Houses of Westeros. Many years ago he fostered both Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark, and came to love both as replacement sons after his own children died at a young age.
• King Robert I Baratheon: Robert Baratheon is the head of House Baratheon and is the King of the Seven Kingdoms. He is married to Cersei Lannister, with whom he had three children: Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen. He had two younger brothers, Stannis and Renly.
• Daenerys Targaryen: Daenerys Targaryen Also known as Daenerys Stormborn, Dany Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Daenerys is the only daughter and youngest child of King Aerys II Targaryen, the Mad King. She is now his only surviving child. Sold by her own brother when she was 13 years old, to marry Khal Drogo, a khal or warlord of the Dothraki, the famed nomadic horse-lords of the eastern continent beyond the Narrow Sea. Became his khaleesi or queen. She discovered that dragon blood runs in her vains and that she is the last of the dragons.
• Lord Petyr Baelish: Lord Petyr Baelish is an extremely minor lord, ruling over just a small area of the shores of the Vale of Arryn as the head of the tiny House Baelish. Despite this, his extreme financial acumen has seen him rise to the small council and the rank of Master of Coin, the treasurer of the Seven Kingdoms, under King Robert Baratheon. He is a friend of Lady Catelyn Stark, one of the few contacts she has at court. He owns a number of brothels in King's Landing. Though the symbol of his family is the head of the Titan of Braavos, Petyr prefers to use a personal sigil, that of an unthreatening mockingbird.
• Arya of Winterfell: Arya Stark is the youngest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn, and the sister of Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon and half-sister of Jon Snow. Arya rejects the notion that she must become a lady and marry for influence and power, feeling she can forge her own destiny.
• Sansa Stark: Eddard is the head of House Stark, one of the Great Houses of Westeros. He rules over the vast province known as the North from the castle of Winterfell. He is married to the Lady Catelyn of House Tully and has five legitimate children: Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon. He also has an illegitimate bastard son, Jon Snow, reportedly by a common serving girl named Wylla. Jon's presence at Winterfell is a source of friction between Eddard and his wife. Eddard's best friend is the King Robert Baratheon.
• Catelyn: Catelyn was born into House Tully as the eldest daughter and child of Lord Hoster Tully. She has a younger brother, Edmure, and a younger sister, Lysa. She was betrothed to marry Brandon Stark of Winterfell, but he was brutally murdered by the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen after Prince Rhaegar had kidnapped Brandon's sister Lyanna. Catelyn instead married Brandon's brother, Eddard.Catelyn has five children: Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon. She is unhappy with Eddard's bastard son Jon Snow living in Winterfell, the only source of friction between her and her husband
• Lord Tywin Lannister: Head of the House of Lannister. Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, Shield of Lannisport. The House of Lannister is one of the richest and influential families in Westeros. He is a widower with three children, Jaime, Cersei and Tyrion, and a younger brother, Kevan, father of Lancel.
• Maester Luwin: Luwin is a maester, a learned man of science and medicine, and serves House Stark. He is very loyal to the Starks and they value his wise counsel and experience. He has delivered all five of Catelyn's children.
• Khal Drogo: Drogo was a khal or warlord of the Dothraki, the famed nomadic horse-lords of the eastern continent beyond the Narrow Sea. The Dothraki are fierce warriors, skilled in battle, unrelenting in combat and known for savagery towards non-Dothraki, although amongst themselves and with certain respected outsiders they have their own code of honor, albeit still a harsh and unforgiving one. Drogo was very young to have his own khalasar, particularly such a large one. Drogo's pride was such that he desired the most beautiful and exotic woman in the world to become his khaleesi or wife, and to this end he enlisted the help of Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos to find such a woman.
• Samwell Tarly: Samwell Tarly is the oldest son and former heir of Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill. He is popularly called 'Sam', and disparagingly as 'Ser Piggy.' He is a large boy who, though having grown up in a comfortable setting, was consistently abused by his father, his instructors and his peers. His father, ashamed of him, forced Samwell to take the black under threat of death.
• Tyrion Lannister: Known as the Imp, Tyrion is a dwarf and the youngest son of Tywin Lannister. He is also the younger brother of Jaime and Cersei Lannister. He has a strained relationship with his father. Tyrion enjoys prostitutes, food and drink and is also highly intelligent and cunning.
• Jaime Lannister: Known as the Kingslayer, because of his slaying of Aerys II Targaryen, Jaime is a knight of the Kingsguard, the eldest son of Tywin Lannister, older brother of Tyrion Lannister and twin of Cersei Lannister.
• Winterfell: Winterfell is the seat of House Stark. It is a large castle located at the center of the North, from where Lord Eddard Stark rules over his people.
• Theon Greyjoy: Theon is the son and heir of Lord Balon Greyjoy, the ruler of the Iron Islands. Some years ago, the Iron Islands rose in rebellion against the Iron Throne and were crushed in a war led by King Robert Baratheon and Lord Eddard Stark. The ironborn surrendered and Balon was allowed to remain overlord of the isles in return for his only surviving son Theon being given as a hostage and ward to Eddard Stark. Despite his status as a hostage at Winterfell, Theon has nevertheless been treated well by the Starks. He and Robb Stark are best friends. Theon is a skilled archer.
• Starks: House Stark is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, ruling over the vast region known as the North. It is by far the oldest, claiming a line of descent stretching back over eight thousand years. Before the Targaryen conquest, the leaders of House Stark ruled over the region as the Kings in the North.House Stark's sigil is a direwolf on a white field, sometimes white and green. Their family motto is "Winter is Coming".
• Viserys Targaryen: Viserys is the son and heir of King Aerys II Targaryen, who was killed during the Sack of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion. Viserys was safe with his pregnant mother in hiding on the island of Dragonstone. After his mother died in childbirth, Viserys and his baby sister Daenerys were smuggled to safety in the Free Cities across the Narrow Sea. Prince Viserys in exile in Pentos.Viserys claims the title King of the Seven Kingdoms and refers to Robert Baratheon only as 'the Usurper'. After some years spent fruitlessly wandering the Free Cities seeking military support to retake his throne, Viserys and Daenerys became guests of the powerful Magister Illyrio Mopatis in Pentos.
• Stannis Baratheon: Stannis Baratheon is the younger brother of the late King Robert Baratheon and older brother of Renly Baratheon. He served on his brother's small council as Master of Ships, and holds the title of Lord of Dragonstone. During the first season, he is away at home for an extended stay. Because of rumors that Robert's heir Joffrey is a bastard born out of an incestuous affair, he has claimed the Iron Throne and proclaimed himself the rightful king.
• Rodrik Greyjoy: Rodrik Cassel is Master-of-Arms at Winterfell and has trained many of its soldiers in the art of combat, as well as Robb Stark, Theon Greyjoy and Jon Snow. Rodrik is a knight, which is somewhat unusual in the North where most of the population holds to the Old Gods of the Forest.
• Queen Cersei Lannister: Cersei is the Queen Dowager of the Seven Kingdoms. She is the only daughter of Lord Tywin Lannister, the twin sister of Ser Jaime Lannister and the elder sister of Tyrion Lannister. She is the wife of King Robert Baratheon, a political marriage agreed to by Robert in thanks for her father's late switching of sides in the civil war which brought Robert to power. With Robert she has three children: Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen, although it is later revealed that they are illegitimate and a result of her incestuous relationship with her brother Jaime, something not in common knowledge. She is noted for her great beauty.
• Dothraki: The Dothraki are a race of nomadic warriors in Essos, the vast continent to the east of Westeros. They ride horses and are said to be born, fight and die in the saddle. They are formidable warriors known for their curved swords, the arakhs, their use of whips in battle and their use of huge, recurved bows with impressive range and striking power that can be fired from horseback.
• Ser Gregor Clegane: Ser Gregor Clegane is the head of House Clegane and the elder brother of Sandor Clegane, whom he despises, and is a landed knight rather than a full lord. Gregor is huge, said to be the largest man in Westeros, almost eight foot in height and heavily muscled. For this reason he is called 'The Mountain That Rides' or, simply, 'The Mountain'.He is the most feared man in Westeros with a reputation for ferocity and anger. He is a loyal retainer and servant of House Lannister, and is particularly loyal to Lord Tywin.
• Sandor Clegane: Sandor Clegane better known as the Hound, is a skilled warrior in the service of House Lannister, although he refuses to take holy vows and is not a knight. He has a hideously burned face and is known for his fierce demeanor and lack of chivalry. He is the younger brother of Ser Gregor Clegane (nicknamed The Mountain), a monstrously huge knight and arguably the most feared man in Westeros. Sandor is currently serving as bodyguard to King Joffrey Baratheon.
• Jeor Mormont: Jeor Mormont, nicknamed The Old Bear, is the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, which he commands from his headquarters at the fortress of Castle Black. Jeor Mormont was once the head of House Mormont and Lord of Bear Island until he abdicated his seat in favor of his son, Ser Jorah Mormont, and joined the Night's Watch. He rapidly rose through the ranks to become Lord Commander. His son Jorah disgraced himself and fled to the Free Cities, leaving Jeor's sister Maege in charge of the house.
• Walder Frey: Walder Frey is the Lord of the Twins and the head of House Frey, a minor vassal house of the Riverlands sworn to House Tully, and noted for its overwhelming fertility.
• Prince Rhaegar Targaryen: Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was the son and heir to the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen. He sparked off the war known as Robert's Rebellion when he kidnapped Lyanna Stark of Winterfell for reasons unknown. Lyanna's brother, Eddard Stark, and her betrothed, Robert Baratheon, joined forces with several other houses to destroy the Targaryen dynasty. Rhaegar himself met Robert in combat at a ford during the Battle of the Trident, and was slain by him there.
• Bran Stark (Brandon): Bran is the son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. He has an older brother, Robb, and a younger, Rickon, and well as two older sisters, Sansa and Arya. He also has a bastard half-brother, Jon Snow. He is 7 years old at the start of the series. He was named for Eddard's elder brother, Brandon, who was slain by the Mad King. However, no-one calls him 'Brandon' apart from his mother when he's done something wrong. He has named his direwolf, Summer. He dreams of being a knight of the Kingsguard and one day becoming a bannnerman for his brother, Robb.
• Jory Cassel: Jory Cassel is the captain of Lord Eddard Stark's household guards at Winterfell. He is a loyal and trusted servant of House Stark and a good swordsman in his own right. He is the nephew of Ser Rodrik Cassel. He has a noticeable scar, gained at the Siege of Pyke during the Greyjoy Rebellion.
• Kevan Lannister: Kevan is the younger brother of Lord Tywin Lannister and the father of the twins Martyn and Willem, and of Lancel Lannister, the squire to King Robert Baratheon. He is a noted knight who serves his elder brother loyally as an adviser.
• Doreah: Doreah is a slave gifted to Daenerys Targaryen by her brother, Viserys (though paid for by Illyrio Mopatis), to serve as a handmaid and companion.
• Rickon Stark: Rickon Stark is the youngest son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark and the younger brother of Robb, Sansa, Arya and Bran, as well as the younger half-brother of Jon Snow. He is named for his grandfather, Rickard, who died eleven years before Rickon was born. He named his direwolf Shaggydog.
• Renly Baratheon: Renly is the youngest brother King Robert Baratheon and was a member of the King's small council in King's Landing, on which he served as Master of Laws. He is fourth in line to the throne, behind his nephews Joffrey and Tommen and his older brother Stannis.
• Khaleesi: Khaleesi is a Dothraki title referring to the wife of the khal. A khaleesi's status varies greatly from khalasar to khalasar. She could be very influential, riding next to the khal, or she could be worth practically less than the khal's horse, since the khal's bloodriders would sometimes sleep with the khaleesi, but they would never share the khal's horse.
• Irri: Irri is a young Dothraki woman who is given to Daenerys Targaryen as a handmaiden, along with Jhiqui and Doreah. Irri's role is to help Daenerys learn the Dothraki language and customs.
• Riverrun: In the Song of Ice and Fire novels Riverrun is a triangular castle made of sandstone. It is located at the confluence of the Tumblestone River and the Red Fork of the River Trident. In times of danger, sluice gates can be opened to flood a channel cut to the west of the castle, turning Riverrun into an island. Its walls rise sheer from the waters and its towers command the opposite shores, making assaulting it almost impossible without huge casualties.Riverrun has been in the possession of House Tully for a thousand years. It became the seat of rule over the region when House Tully rebelled against the ironborn occupiers and allied with Aegon the Conqueror three centuries ago.
• Marillion: Marillion is a troubadour and singer wandering the Seven Kingdoms and selling his skills in return for bed, board and coin
• Lord Varys: Varys, a eunuch, is a member of the King's small council, where he serves as Master of Whisperers, the King's foremost spymaster and intelligence agent. Since he was born across the Narrow Sea, he holds no inherited land or title in Westeros, but is called 'Lord' as a courtesy due to his position on the council, which traditionally is made up of great lords. He is disparagingly known as 'The Spider' due to his vast web of intelligence sources. He calls his intelligence sources his 'little birds' and claims they are everywhere, even in the North.
• Lord Commander Mormont: Jorah Mormont, known by the Dothraki as Jorah the Andal, is a knight from Westeros who has fled from his homeland and is living in exile in the Free Cities. He is the son of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont of the Night's Watch. He is the former Lord of House Mormont (a vassal of House Stark), losing his status as a lord for disgracing his house by trying to sell some poachers into slavery to pay some debts.
• Tyrion Lannister (aka The Imp): funny. sad. half man.
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• Lyanna Stark: The She-Wolf. She was the sister of Eddard, Brandon, and Benjen Stark and aunt to Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon. She is of some historical importance, though she died young.
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• “Can a man still be brave if he is afraid?" he heard his own voice saying, small and far away. And his father's voice replied to him. "That is the only time a man can be brave.'”

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• “The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”

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• The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

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