A Song of Ice and Fire

by George R.R. Martin

In the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, noble families wage war for the Iron Throne while an ancient threat awakens beyond the Wall. A Song of Ice and Fire follows the Starks, Lannisters, Targaryens, and dozens of other houses through political intrigue, betrayal, and battles where no character is safe — because in this world, the hero can die in chapter one.

126 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Eddard Stark — Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, a man whose rigid, uncompromising honor makes him the most respected and most vulnerable lord in Westeros
• Catelyn Stark — Lady of Winterfell and a Tully by birth, a fiercely protective mother whose political cunning is undermined by the desperate, reckless decisions her l
• Robb Stark — The Young Wolf, King in the North — a brilliant battlefield commander who won every battle and lost the war because he chose love over a political mar
• Sansa Stark — A girl who believed in songs and fairy tales, systematically broken by the monsters those stories forgot to mention — she survived King's Landing, the
• Arya Stark — A highborn girl who refused every role the world assigned her — lady, wife, hostage — and instead became a weapon, training with assassins and killers
• Bran Stark — A boy who dreamed of being a knight, crippled by a Lannister's push, who fell into visions instead — he became the Three-Eyed Raven, trading his human
• Rickon Stark — The youngest Stark child, wild and half-feral from growing up in a collapsing household — too young to understand why his family kept disappearing, ol
• Jon Snow — Raised as Ned Stark's bastard, actually the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark — a man caught between duty and desire, between ice and
• Benjen Stark — First Ranger of the Night's Watch and Ned's younger brother — a Stark who chose the Wall over Winterfell and disappeared beyond it into legend and rum
• Lyanna Stark — Ned's fierce, wild sister whose beauty and willfulness triggered Robert's Rebellion — she chose Rhaegar Targaryen over a political marriage, and died
• Tywin Lannister — Lord of Casterly Rock and the most powerful man in Westeros — a cold strategic genius who rebuilt House Lannister through fear and gold, yet whose obs
• Cersei Lannister — Queen Regent and twin sister-lover of Jaime, a woman born with her father's ambition and none of his patience — she sees enemies everywhere and create
• Jaime Lannister — The Kingslayer — the most gifted swordsman of his generation, reviled for his greatest act of heroism because no one knows the truth, a man slowly dis
• Tyrion Lannister — The dwarf son of the most powerful house in Westeros — brilliant, witty, and deeply wounded, he drinks and knows things because the alternative is ack
• Joffrey Baratheon — The boy-king born of incest who sits the Iron Throne — a cruel, cowardly child with absolute power and no restraint, proof that the worst thing you ca
• Tommen Baratheon — The gentle boy-king who replaced his monstrous brother — kind, eager to please, and utterly unprepared for the throne, he became a puppet pulled betwe
• Myrcella Baratheon — The Lannister princess sent to Dorne as a political pawn — sweet-natured and shrewd enough to thrive in a foreign court, she became a symbol of the in
• Daenerys Targaryen — The last Targaryen heir raised in exile, who hatched three dragons from stone and liberated slave cities with fire and fury — a liberator who became a
• Viserys Targaryen — The exiled Targaryen prince who believed the Iron Throne was his birthright — a petty, abusive tyrant-in-waiting who sold his sister to a warlord and
• Rhaegar Targaryen — The melancholy crown prince who was beloved by nearly everyone — a warrior-poet obsessed with prophecy who ran away with Lyanna Stark, igniting a rebe
• Maester Aemon — A blind, ancient maester of the Night's Watch who is secretly a Targaryen prince — he chose duty over the crown and has spent a century watching his f
• Aegon Targaryen (Young Griff) — A young man raised in hiding who claims to be Rhaegar's son, smuggled away during the Sack of King's Landing — whether he is truly a Targaryen or a Bl
• Robert Baratheon — The warrior who killed the dragon prince and won the Iron Throne for love — then spent two decades drowning in wine, women, and the growing realizatio
• Stannis Baratheon — The rightful king by every law of succession who cannot understand why the realm won't simply acknowledge this — an iron man of unbending justice, hum
• Renly Baratheon — Robert's youngest brother who claimed the throne on charm alone — handsome, popular, and politically savvy enough to build a coalition that his legal
• Gendry — Robert Baratheon's unacknowledged bastard son — a blacksmith with a king's blood who spent years not knowing why people kept trying to kill him, carry
• Petyr Baelish — A minor lord who climbed from nothing to nearly everything through manipulation, murder, and the weaponization of information — the most dangerous man
• Varys — The Spider — a eunuch spymaster who claims to serve the realm while manipulating every faction from the shadows, whose network of 'little birds' makes
• Theon Greyjoy — Ironborn heir raised as a Stark hostage, torn between two families. Betrayed Winterfell seeking his father's approval, then broken into 'Reek' by Rams
• Euron Greyjoy — Mad pirate king of the Iron Islands with a wild blue eye, an eyepatch, and lips stained black from shade of the evening. Dangerous, unpredictable, and
• Yara Greyjoy — Fierce ironborn captain and Theon's older sister, commanding her own ship and crew. Short dark hair, lean build, and a sharp tongue — everything Balon
• Oberyn Martell — The Red Viper of Dorne — dark, handsome, viper-quick with a spear and a thin mustache. Came to King's Landing seeking justice for his murdered sister
• Doran Martell — Ruling Prince of Dorne, crippled by gout and confined to a wheelchair. Patient and calculating, he hides decades of revenge plotting behind a mask of
• Ellaria Sand — Oberyn Martell's passionate paramour, a bastard-born Dornish woman with olive skin, dark hair, and fierce loyalty to her lover's memory and his cause
• Margaery Tyrell — Beautiful, brown-haired Tyrell rose who married three kings in succession — Renly, Joffrey, Tommen. An expert political manipulator who wears kindness
• Olenna Tyrell — The Queen of Thorns — a tiny, wrinkled old woman with the sharpest tongue in Westeros. Matriarch of House Tyrell who poisoned King Joffrey and never l
• Loras Tyrell — The Knight of Flowers — handsome, curly brown hair, and the finest young knight in Westeros. Margaery's brother and Renly Baratheon's secret lover, sk
• Lysa Arryn — Lady of the Eyrie, née Tully — pale, nervous, and obsessively clingy. Poisoned her husband Jon Arryn on Littlefinger's orders, unwittingly igniting th
• Robin Arryn — Sickly, spoiled Lord of the Eyrie and the Vale, still breastfeeding well past age six. Prone to seizures and tantrums, obsessed with making people 'fl
• Edmure Tully — Lord of Riverrun, auburn-haired and earnest but consistently bumbling. Catelyn and Lysa's brother who means well but keeps making critical tactical mi
• Brynden Tully — The Blackfish — grey-haired, stern, and still one of the deadliest veteran warriors in Westeros. Catelyn's uncle, a legendary soldier who never marrie
• Roose Bolton — Lord of the Dreadfort with pale, eerie eyes and a whispery voice. Betrayed Robb Stark at the Red Wedding, personally driving the knife in. Uses leeche
• Ramsay Bolton — Roose Bolton's sadistic bastard son — fleshy-lipped, pale-eyed, and cruel beyond measure. Tortures victims for sport, flays people alive, and broke Th
• Walder Frey — Ancient Lord of the Crossing, over ninety years old and surrounded by scores of offspring. Weaselly, petty, and vindictive — orchestrated the Red Wedd
• Samwell Tarly — Fat, bookish, and self-proclaimed coward who became one of the bravest men in the Night's Watch. Jon Snow's best friend who discovered dragonglass kil
• Jeor Mormont — The Old Bear — bald, gruff Lord Commander of the Night's Watch who saw the threat beyond the Wall when no one else would listen. Gave Jon Snow the Val
• Alliser Thorne — Gaunt, mean-spirited Master-at-Arms of the Night's Watch with a perpetual sneer. Hates Jon Snow with consuming passion and ultimately led the mutiny t
• Mance Rayder — Former brother of the Night's Watch who deserted and became King-Beyond-the-Wall. Charismatic leader who achieved the impossible — uniting the fractio
• Ygritte — Red-haired wildling spearwife — fierce, funny, and unimpressed by anything south of the Wall. Jon Snow's lover who taught him that the world is bigger
• Tormund Giantsbane — Massive, red-bearded wildling war chief — loud, loyal, and terrifyingly effective in combat. Jon Snow's closest wildling ally who tells improbable sto
• Craster — Ugly, brutal wildling who lives beyond the Wall, keeping his daughters as wives and sacrificing his infant sons to the White Walkers in exchange for b
• Sandor Clegane — The Hound — huge, half his face a mass of burn scars, perpetually growling. Joffrey's bodyguard who hates everything, especially fire, his monstrous b
• Gregor Clegane — The Mountain That Rides — eight feet tall, freakishly strong, and cruel beyond measure. Tywin Lannister's attack dog who murdered Elia Martell and her
• Brienne of Tarth — The tallest, strongest, homeliest woman in Westeros — and the best fighter. Six-foot-three with straw-colored hair, broad shoulders, and blue eyes ful
• Davos Seaworth — The Onion Knight — grey-bearded, weathered, honest face, fingertips shortened by Stannis as payment for smuggling. A former smuggler who became the mo
• Melisandre of Asshai — The Red Woman — crimson hair, crimson robes, ruby choker that hides her true ancient age. Priestess of R'hllor who births shadow assassins, burns peop
• Bronn — Dark, lean, cynical sellsword who fought Tyrion's trial by combat and became his hired sword. Entirely motivated by gold and titles — refreshingly hon
• Hodor — Huge, simple, gentle giant whose real name is Wylis. Can only say the word 'Hodor.' Carried Bran Stark on his back and held the door against the army
• Missandei — Former slave from Naath, dark-skinned with tightly curled hair, beautiful and composed. Daenerys's most trusted advisor and translator who speaks nine
• Grey Worm — Commander of the Unsullied — bald, lean, utterly disciplined. Born a slave, castrated and trained as an elite soldier, then freed by Daenerys. Chose h
• Podrick Payne — Young, dark-haired, endearingly earnest squire who served Tyrion Lannister before becoming Brienne of Tarth's faithful companion. Surprisingly killed
• The Night King — Ancient leader of the White Walkers — blue-white skin, a crown of horns made of ice, and piercing blue eyes. Created by the Children of the Forest as
• Khal Drogo — The greatest Dothraki khal — massive, copper-skinned, with a long warrior's braid that has never been cut because he has never been defeated. Daenerys
• Jorah Mormont — Exiled Northern knight — balding, middle-aged, bearish — who devoted himself to Daenerys Targaryen. Started as a spy selling her secrets for a pardon,
• Daario Naharis — Flamboyant sellsword captain of the Second Sons — blue-dyed trident beard in the books, handsome rogue in the show. Daenerys's lover in Meereen, left
• Drogon — The largest of Daenerys's three dragons — black scales with red markings, named for Khal Drogo. Daenerys rides him into battle. The most aggressive an
• Rhaegal — Green dragon with bronze markings, named for Daenerys's brother Rhaegar Targaryen. Jon Snow rode him into battle, confirming his Targaryen blood. Shot
• Viserion — Cream-and-gold dragon named for Daenerys's brother Viserys. Killed by the Night King's ice spear beyond the Wall, then reanimated as an undead ice dra
• Barristan Selmy — The greatest living knight in Westeros — white-haired, old, and still deadly with a sword. Served in the Kingsguard for decades under multiple kings b
• Maester Luwin — Grey-haired, chain-wearing maester of Winterfell — gentle, wise, and utterly devoted to the Stark children. Served as advisor, healer, and teacher unt
• Osha — Tall, rangy wildling woman captured near Winterfell who became protector of the youngest Stark boys. Practical, tough, and fiercely maternal toward Ri
• Meera Reed — Small, lean, fierce crannogwoman who protected Bran Stark on the brutal journey beyond the Wall and back. Jojen's older sister — a hunter, a fighter,
• Jojen Reed — Small, solemn boy with unnervingly green eyes and the gift of greensight — prophetic green dreams. Guided Bran Stark to the Three-Eyed Raven beyond th
• The Three-Eyed Raven — Ancient greenseer merged with the roots of a weirwood tree — once Brynden Rivers, a Targaryen bastard called Bloodraven. Waited centuries for Bran Sta
• Grand Maester Pycelle — White-bearded Grand Maester who feigns frailty and senility to survive at court. A Lannister loyalist who has served on the Small Council for decades,
• Qyburn — Former maester stripped of his chain for conducting necromantic experiments on living subjects. Cersei's spymaster and mad scientist who reanimated th
• Jaqen H'ghar — A Faceless Man from Braavos who changes faces like other men change clothes. 'A man has no name.' Trained Arya Stark in the arts of assassination at t
• Lady Stoneheart — Book-only character — Catelyn Stark resurrected by Beric Dondarrion three days after the Red Wedding. Grey-skinned, throat slashed ear to ear, unable
• Balon Greyjoy — Gaunt, hard, grey Lord of the Iron Islands who launched two failed rebellions against the Iron Throne. Father of Theon and Yara, brother of Euron. Mur

Locations

• Winterfell — The ancient seat of House Stark — a sprawling stone fortress warmed by natural hot springs running through its double walls, crowned by a brooding god
• King's Landing — The teeming capital of the Seven Kingdoms — half a million souls crammed between the Red Keep's towers and the stinking alleys of Flea Bottom, where p
• Casterly Rock — The colossal Lannister stronghold carved into a seaside mountain, honeycombed with gold mines and halls of polished stone that proclaim wealth as a fo
• The Eyrie — A slender white castle perched impossibly high in the Mountains of the Moon, reachable only by a treacherous mule path and guarded by the infamous Moo
• Dragonstone — A volcanic island fortress off the coast of Westeros, shaped by Valyrian dragonlords into a castle of carved stone dragons — ancestral seat of House T
• Storm's End — A titanic drum tower on the cliffs of Shipbreaker Bay, built with spells woven into its walls that no storm — natural or magical — has ever breached.
• Highgarden — The seat of House Tyrell — a castle of white stone and climbing roses set amid the most fertile farmland in Westeros, where beauty masks a ruthless ta
• Sunspear — The sun-baked desert palace of House Martell — a sprawl of sandstone towers and shaded water gardens where Dornish independence burns as hot as the cl
• Pyke — The crumbling Greyjoy stronghold — towers perched on sea stacks connected by swaying rope bridges over churning ocean, salt-scoured and defiant as the
• Riverrun — The Tully stronghold at the confluence of the Tumblestone and Red Fork — a castle that can flood its own moat to become an island fortress, sitting at
• The Twins — Two identical grey castles bridging the Green Fork — the only crossing for hundreds of miles, controlled by the grasping Lord Walder Frey, and forever
• Harrenhal — The largest castle in Westeros — a colossal ruin half-melted by Aegon's dragons, cursed so that every lord who holds it meets a terrible end.
• The North — The largest of the Seven Kingdoms — a vast, cold, sparsely populated territory stretching from the Neck to the Wall, where ancient traditions and the
• The Riverlands — The war-torn heartland of Westeros — a fertile but borderless territory crisscrossed by rivers, perpetually invaded because it sits at the center of e
• The Westerlands — The gold-rich hills ruled by House Lannister — a territory whose mineral wealth has made its lords the richest and most dangerous players in Westerosi
• The Reach — The fertile breadbasket of Westeros — rolling farmland, vineyards, and orchards ruled by the ambitious Tyrells from their seat at Highgarden.
• Dorne — The southernmost kingdom — a land of red deserts, fierce independence, and customs that set it apart from the rest of Westeros, where women rule and p
• The Stormlands — A windswept coastal kingdom battered by endless storms from Shipbreaker Bay — the domain of House Baratheon, where the weather and the people are equa
• The Iron Islands — A cluster of barren, wind-scoured islands in Ironman's Bay — home to the ironborn reavers who worship the Drowned God and take what they want by force
• The Vale of Arryn — A fertile valley ringed by impassable mountains — the most naturally defended kingdom in Westeros, where the Arryns rule from their sky-castle and iso
• The Wall — A colossal barrier of ice and ancient magic stretching three hundred miles across the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms — seven hundred feet tall,
• Castle Black — The primary fortress of the Night's Watch — a cluster of stone and timber buildings huddled against the Wall's southern face, undermanned and underfun
• Beyond the Wall — The vast frozen wilderness north of the Wall — a haunted expanse of frozen forests, ice lakes, and tundra where Wildling tribes survive alongside anci
• The Red Keep — The royal castle atop Aegon's Hill — a labyrinth of throne rooms, council chambers, and secret passages where the Iron Throne sits and the game of thr
• The Iron Throne — A monstrous seat forged from a thousand surrendered swords melted by Balerion's dragonfire — the ultimate symbol of royal power in Westeros, deliberat
• Flea Bottom — The sprawling slum district at the base of Aegon's Hill — a stinking maze of pot-shops, tanneries, and desperate poverty where the smallfolk survive o
• Braavos — The greatest of the Free Cities — a labyrinth of fog-shrouded canals and bridges built on a hundred islands, guarded by the Titan, home to the Iron Ba
• Meereen — The greatest city of Slaver's Bay — a pyramid-crowned metropolis that Daenerys Targaryen conquered, freed, and tried to rule, discovering that breakin
• Pentos — A wealthy Free City on the western coast of Essos — a place of merchant princes and perfumed gardens where Daenerys and Viserys lived in exile, shelte
• Vaes Dothrak — The sacred city of the Dothraki — a vast open settlement beneath the Mother of Mountains where no blood may be shed and every khalasar eventually retu
• Astapor — A red-brick slaver city on Slaver's Bay — where the Unsullied are trained through systematic brutality and where Daenerys Targaryen first revealed her
• Old Valyria — The shattered ruins of the greatest civilization the world has ever known — the Valyrian Freehold, where dragonlords ruled with fire and sorcery until
• House of Black and White — The temple of the Faceless Men in Braavos — a place of quiet death where assassins who can wear any face worship the Many-Faced God and grant the 'gif
• The Kingsroad — The main artery of Westeros — a thousand miles of rutted road running from King's Landing to the Wall, where every traveler is a potential encounter a
• Gods Eye — A vast lake in the heart of the Riverlands with the mysterious Isle of Faces at its center — the ancient site where the First Men and the Children of

Items

• Ice — The ancestral greatsword of House Stark — a blade of dark, smoky Valyrian steel as wide as a man's hand, used for centuries to execute the king's just
• Longclaw — A Valyrian steel bastard sword — ancestral blade of House Mormont, given to Jon Snow by Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, its bear-head pommel replaced wit
• Oathkeeper — A Valyrian steel longsword forged from the remelted Ice — given by Jaime Lannister to Brienne of Tarth as both a weapon and a promise to protect the S
• Widow's Wail — The second Valyrian steel sword forged from Stark steel — named by Joffrey Baratheon with characteristic cruelty, later carried by Jaime Lannister int
• Heartsbane — The Valyrian steel greatsword of House Tarly — stolen by Samwell Tarly from his cruel father, an act of quiet defiance that put one of the rarest weap
• Dawn — The ancestral sword of House Dayne — forged from a fallen star, pale as milkglass, wielded only by a knight deemed worthy of the title Sword of the Mo
• Dragonglass — Volcanic obsidian — the only substance besides Valyrian steel that can kill White Walkers and their wight armies, found in vast deposits beneath Drago
• Wildfire — A volatile green liquid fire created by the pyromancers of the Alchemists' Guild — it burns on water, cannot be extinguished, and has been used to des
• Dragon Eggs — Three petrified dragon eggs — black, green, and cream-gold — given to Daenerys Targaryen as a wedding gift, believed to be fossils until she walked in
• Valyrian Steel Dagger — A small, unassuming dagger of Valyrian steel with a dragonbone hilt — the weapon that started the War of the Five Kings and ended the Long Night, pass
• The Iron Throne — A thousand swords surrendered by Aegon's enemies, melted by Balerion the Black Dread's dragonfire into a towering, asymmetric seat of twisted blades —
• Horn of Winter — A legendary horn said to possess the power to bring down the Wall itself — attributed to the ancient wildling king Joramun, claimed by Mance Rayder, a

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