The Golden Company was a sellsword company active in Essos. They were one of the largest and most skilled sellsword companies in the Free Cities, consisting of 20,000 men, horses, and war elephants. They had the reputation of never breaking a contract, which is quite uncommon among mercenary organizations. Their banner displays a cluster of gold skulls hanging from a red spear on a burgundy
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Prince Oberyn is the hot-headed younger brother of Prince Doran Martell. He has eight bastard daughters, called the Sand Snakes, the four youngest of them by his current paramour, Ellaria Sand. Oberyn has a lined face with thin eyebrows, black "viper" eyes and a sharp nose.

A Game of Thrones-Chapter 2. Lady Catelyn Tully seeks out her husband, Lord Eddard Stark, in the godswood of Winterfell to inform him of the news that his foster father, Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, is dead, and that King Robert I Baratheon, his family, and half his court are on their way to Winterfell .

The Book of Brothers, informally called the White Book, is the tome that records the deeds of every knight who has ever served in the three hundred year history of the Kingsguard . Ser Brienne Tarth completes Jaime Lannister's entry in the Book of Brothers. The book is kept in the Red Keep in the White Sword Tower, where the knights of the

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A young Sansa being tutored by Septa Mordane. Sansa Stark is the eldest daughter and second child of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark, the Warden of the North. Sansa was born and raised at Winterfell. She has an older brother, Robb, two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, a younger sister, Arya, and a " bastard half-brother" Jon Snow, with Ser Arthur Dayne was a knight of House Dayne who bore the title of "Sword of the Morning" as he possessed the ancestral sword of House Dayne, Dawn. He was the only Dornish member along with Lewyn Martell of the Kingsguard under King Aerys II Targaryen. He is regarded by many, among them his killer, as the greatest knight who ever lived. Ser Arthur was the second son of Beric Dayne, Lord of . 208 69 272 339 264 379 168 391 135

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