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  The Tyrells rose to power as stewards to the Kings of the Reach, whose domain included the fertile plains of the southwest from the Dornish marches and Blackwater Rush to the shores of the Sunset Sea. Through the female line, they claim descent from Garth Greenhand, gardener king of the First Men, who wore a crown of vines and flowers and made the land bloom. When Mern IX, last king of House Gardener, was slain on the Field of Fire, his steward Harlen Tyrell surrendered Highgarden to Aegon the Conqueror. Aegon granted him the castle and dominion over the Reach. The Tyrell sigil is a golden rose on a grass-green field. Their words are Growing Strong.

  Lord Mace Tyrell declared his support for Renly Baratheon at the onset of the War of the Five Kings, and gave him the hand of his daughter Margaery. Upon Renly’s death, Highgarden made alliance with House Lannister, and Margaery was betrothed to King Joffrey.

  MACE TYRELL, Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, Defender of the Marches, and High Marshall of the Reach,

  — his wife, LADY ALERIE, of House Hightower of Oldtown,

  — their children:

  — WILLAS, their eldest son, heir to Highgarden,

  — SER GARLAN, called THE GALLANT, their second son,

  — his wife, LADY LEONETTE of House Fossoway,

  — SER LORAS, the Knight of Flowers, their youngest son, a Sworn Brother of the Kingsguard,

  — MARGAERY, their daughter, a widow of fifteen years, betrothed to King Joffrey I Baratheon,

  — Margaery’s companions and ladies-in-waiting:

  — her cousins, MEGGA, ALLA, and ELINOR TYRELL,

  — Elinor’s betrothed, ALYN AMBROSE, squire,

  — LADY ALYSANNE BULWER, a girl of eight,

  — MEREDYTH CRANE, called MERRY,

  — TAENA OF MYR, wife to LORD ORTON MERRY-WEATHER,

  — LADY ALYCE GRACEFORD,

  — SEPTA NYSTERICA, a sister of the Faith,

  — his widowed mother, LADY OLENNA of House Redwyne, called the QUEEN OF THORNS,

  — Lady Olenna’s guardsmen, ARRYK and ERRYK, called LEFT and RIGHT,

  — his sisters:

  — LADY MINA, wed to Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor,

  — their children:

  — SER HORAS REDWYNE, twin to Hobber, mocked as HORROR,

  — SER HOBBER REDWYNE, twin to Horas, mocked as SLOBBER,

  — DESMERA REDWYNE, a maid of sixteen,

  — LADY JANNA, wed to Ser Jon Fossoway,

  — his uncles and cousins:

  — his father’s brother, GARTH, called THE GROSS, Lord Seneschal of Highgarden,

  — Garth’s bastard sons, GARSE and GARRETT FLOWERS,

  — his father’s brother, SER MORYN, Lord Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown,

  — Moryn’s son, {SER LUTHOR}, m. Lady Elyn Norridge,

  — Luthor’s son, SER THEODORE, m. Lady Lia Serry,

  — Theodore’s daughter, ELINOR,

  — Theodore’s son, LUTHOR, a squire,

  — Luthor’s son, MAESTER MEDWICK,

  — Luthor’s daughter, OLENE, m. Ser Leo Blackbar,

  — Moryn’s son, LEO, called LEO THE LAZY,

  — his father’s brother, MAESTER GORMON, a scholar of the Citadel,

  — his cousin, {SER QUENTIN}, died at Ashford,

  — Quentin’s son, SER OLYMER, m. Lady Lysa Meadows,

  — Olymer’s sons, RAYMUND and RICKARD,

  — Olymer’s daughter, MEGGA,

  — his cousin, MAESTER NORMUND, in service at Blackcrown,

  — his cousin, {SER VICTOR}, slain by the Smiling Knight of the Kingswood Brotherhood,

  — Victor’s daughter, VICTARIA, m. {Lord Jon Bulwer}, died of a summer fever,

  — their daughter, LADY ALYSANNE BULWER, eight,

  — Victor’s son, SER LEO, m. Lady Alys Beesbury,

  — Leo’s daughters, ALLA and LEONA,

  — Leo’s sons, LYONEL, LUCAS, and LORENT,

  — his household at Highgarden:

  — MAESTER LOMYS, counselor, healer, and tutor,

  — IGON VYRWEL, captain of the guard,

  — SER VORTIMER CRANE, master-at-arms,

  — BUTTERBUMPS, fool and jester, hugely fat,

  — his lords bannermen:

  — RANDYLL TARLY, Lord of Horn Hill,

  — PAXTER REDWYNE, Lord of the Arbor,

  — ARWYN OAKHEART, Lady of Old Oak,

  — MATHIS ROWAN, Lord of Goldengrove,

  — ALESTER FLORENT, Lord of Brightwater Keep, a rebel in support of Stannis Baratheon,

  — LEYTON HIGHTOWER, Voice of Oldtown, Lord of the Port,

  — ORTON MERRYWEATHER, Lord of Longtable,

  — LORD ARTHUR AMBROSE,

  — his knights and sworn swords:

  — SER MARK MULLENDORE, crippled during the Battle of the Blackwater,

  — SER JON FOSSOWAY, of the green-apple Fossoways,

  — SER TANTON FOSSOWAY, of the red-apple Fossoways.

  REBELS, ROGUES, AND SWORN BROTHERS

  THE SWORN BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT’S WATCH

  (ranging Beyond the Wall)

  JEOR MORMONT, called THE OLD BEAR, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch,

  — JON SNOW, the Bastard of Winterfell, his steward and squire, lost while scouting the Skirling Pass,

  — GHOST, his direwolf, white and silent,

  — EDDISON TOLLETT, called DOLOROUS EDD, his squire,

  — THOREN SMALLWOOD, commanding the rangers,

  — DYWEN, DIRK, SOFTFOOT, GRENN, BEDWYCK called GIANT, OLLO LOPHAND, GRUBBS, BERNARR called BROWN BERNARR, another BERNARR called BLACK BERNARR, TIM STONE, ULMER OF KINGSWOOD, GARTH called GREYFEATHER, GARTH OF GREENAWAY, GARTH OF OLDTOWN, ALAN OF ROSBY, RONNEL HARCLAY, AETHAN, RYLES, MAWNEY, rangers,

  — JARMEN BUCKWELL, commanding the scouts,

  — BANNEN, KEDGE WHITEYE, TUMBERJON, FORNIO, GOADY, rangers and scouts,

  — SER OTTYN WYTHERS, commanding the rearguard,

  — SER MALADOR LOCKE, commanding the baggage,

  — DONNEL HILL, called SWEET DONNEL, his squire and steward,

  — HAKE, a steward and cook,

  — CHETT, an ugly steward, keeper of hounds,

  — SAMWELL TARLY, a fat steward, keeper of ravens, mocked as SER PIGGY,

  — LARK called THE SISTERMAN, his cousin ROLLEY OF SISTERTON, CLUBFOOT KARL, MASLYN, SMALL PAUL, SAWWOOD, LEFT HAND LEW, ORPHAN OSS, MUTTERING BILL, stewards,

  —{QHORIN HALFHAND}, commanding the rangers from the Shadow Tower, slain in the Skirling Pass,

  —{SQUIRE DALBRIDGE, EGGEN}, rangers, slain in the Skirling Pass,

  — STONESNAKE, a ranger and mountaineer, lost afoot in Skirling Pass,

  — BLANE, Qhorin Halfhand’s second, commanding the Shadow Tower men on the Fist of the First Men,

  — SER BYAM FLINT,

  (at Castle Black)

  BOWEN MARSH, Lord Steward and castellan,

  — MAESTER AEMON (TARGARYEN), healer and counselor, a blind man, one hundred years old,

  — his steward, CLYDAS,

  — BENJEN STARK, First Ranger, missing, feared dead;

  — SER WYNTON STOUT, eighty years a ranger,

  — SER ALADALE WYNCH, PYPAR, DEAF DICK FOLLARD, HAIRY HAL, BLACK JACK BULWER, ELRON, MATTHAR, rangers,

  — OTHELL YARWYCK, First Builder,

  — SPARE BOOT, YOUNG HENLY, HALDER, ALBETT, KEGS, SPOTTED PATE OF MAIDENPOOL, builders,

  — DONAL NOYE, armorer, smith, and steward, one-armed,

  — THREE-FINGER HOBB, steward and chief cook,

  — TIM TANGLETONGUE, EASY, MULLY, OLD HENLY, CUGEN, RED ALYN OF THE ROSEWOOD, JEREN, stewards,

  — SEPTON CELLADOR, a drunken devout,

  — SER ENDREW TARTH, master-at-arms,

  — RAST, ARRON, EMRICK, SATIN, HOP-ROBIN, recruits in training,

  — CONWY, GUEREN, recruiters and collectors,

  (at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea)

  — COTTER PYKE, Commander Eastwatch,

  — MAESTER HAR
MUNE, healer and counselor,

  — SER ALLISER THORNE, master-at-arms,

  — JANOS SLYNT, former commander of the City Watch of King’s Landing, briefly Lord of Harrenhal,

  — SER GLENDON HEWETT,

  — DAREON, steward and singer,

  — IRON EMMETT, a ranger famed for his strength,

  (at Shadow Tower)

  SER DENYS MALLISTER, Commander, Shadow Tower

  — his steward and squire, WALLACE MASSEY,

  — MAESTER MULLIN, healer and counselor.

  THE BROTHERHOOD WITHOUT BANNERS AN OUTLAW FELLOWSHIP

  BERIC DONDARRION, Lord of Blackhaven, called THE LIGHTNING LORD, oft reported dead,

  — his right hand, THOROS OF MYR, a red priest,

  — his squire, EDRIC DAYNE, Lord of Starfall, twelve,

  — his followers:

  — LEM, called LEM LEMONCLOAK, a one-time soldier,

  — HARWIN, son of Hullen, formerly in service to Lord Eddard Stark at Winterfell,

  — GREENBEARD, a Tyroshi sellsword,

  — TOM OF SEVENSTREAMS, a singer of dubious report, called TOM SEVENSTRINGS and TOM O’ SEVENS,

  — ANGUY THE ARCHER, a bowman from the Dornish Marches,

  — JACK-BE-LUCKY, a wanted man, short an eye,

  — THE MAD HUNTSMAN, of Stoney Sept,

  — KYLE, NOTCH, DENNETT, longbowmen,

  — MERRIT O’ MOONTOWN, WATTY THE MILLER, LIKELY LUKE, MUDGE, BEARDLESS DICK, outlaws in his band,

  — at the Inn of the Kneeling Man:

  — SHARNA, the innkeep, a cook and midwife,

  — her husband, called HUSBAND,

  — BOY, an orphan of the war,

  — at the Peach, a brothel in Stoney Sept:

  — TANSY, the red-haired proprietor,

  — ALYCE, CASS, LANNA, JYZENE, HELLY, BELLA, some of her peaches,

  — at Acorn Hall, the seat of House Smallwood:

  — LADY RAVELLA, formerly of House Swann, wife to Lord Theomar Smallwood,

  — here and there and elsewhere:

  — LORD LYMOND LYCHESTER, an old man of wandering wit, who once held Ser Maynard at the bridge,

  — his young caretaker, MAESTER ROONE,

  — the ghost of High Heart,

  — the Lady of the Leaves,

  — the septon at Sallydance.

  THE WILDLINGS OR THE FREE FOLK

  MANCE RAYDER, King-beyond-the-Wall,

  — DALLA, his pregnant wife,

  — VAL, her younger sister,

  — his chiefs and captains:

  — HARMA, called DOGSHEAD, commanding his van,

  — THE LORD OF BONES, mocked as RATTLESHIRT, leader of a war band,

  — YGRITTE, a young spearwife, a member of his band,

  — RYK, called LONGSPEAR, a member of his band,

  — RAGWYLE, LENYL, members of his band,

  — his captive, JON SNOW, the crow-come-over,

  — GHOST, Jon’s direwolf, white and silent,

  — STYR, Magnar of Thenn,

  — JARL, a young raider, Val’s lover,

  — GRIGG THE GOAT, ERROK, QUORT, BODGER, DEL, BIG BOIL, HEMPEN DAN, HENK THE HELM, LENN, TOEFINGER, STONE THUMBS, raiders,

  — TORMUND, Mead-King of Ruddy Hall, called GIANTSBANE, TALL-TALKER, HORN-BLOWER, and BREAKER OF ICE, also THUNDERFIST, HUSBAND TO BEARS, SPEAKER TO GODS, and FATHER OF HOSTS, leader of a war band,

  — his sons, TOREGG THE TALL, TORWYRD THE TAME, DORMUND, and DRYN, his daughter MUNDA,

  —{ORELL, called ORELL THE EAGLE}, a skinchanger slain by Jon Snow in the Skirling Pass,

  — MAG MAR TUN DOH WEG, called MAG THE MIGHTY, of the giants,

  — VARMYR called SIXSKINS, a skinchanger, master of three wolves, a shadowcat, and a snow bear,

  — THE WEEPER, a raider and leader of a war band,

  —{ALFYN CROWKILLER}, a raider, slain by Qhorin Halfhand of the Night’s Watch,

  CRASTER, of Craster’s Keep, who kneels to none,

  — GILLY, his daughter and wife, great with child,

  — DYAH, FERNY, NELLA, three of his nineteen wives.