History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireTheGoldenCompany

* PosthumousCharacter: He's mentioned to have drunk himself to death a long time ago[[spoiler:Not really. The entire story of Connington stealing from the Golden Company and drinking himself to death was a fabrication made by Varys]].

* ShadowArchetype: He's the opposite of Littlefinger in Skill and Morality

* BadassCreed: The Golden Company has "Beneath the gold, the bitter steel."

* WingedHorse: Bittersteel combined the Blackfyre and Bracken sigils so his coat of arms is the red stallion of Bracken with the black wings of a Blackfyre dragon.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Aegor loved his half-sister Shiera, but she chose Bloodraven over him

* TheDragon: To his half-brother Daemon Blackfyre
** DragonInChief: To Daemon's surviving sons

* TheLancer: To Young Griff [[spoiler: aka Aegon Targaryen]]

[[folder: Ser Franklyn Flowers]]
!!Ser Franklyn Flowers, the Bastard of Cider Hall

A twelve-year veteran of the Golden Company, Franklyn claims his mother was a servant raped by a member of House Fossoway, giving him a hatred of his house.

* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
* CoveredInScars

[[folder: Gorys Edoryen]]
!!Gorys Edoryen

A Volantene sellsword and paymaster of the Golden Company.

One of Aegon IV's "Great bastards". In the Blackfyre Rebellion, he sided with his other half-brother Daemon Blackfyre. Bittersteel fled Westeros at the end of the rebellion to the free city of Tyrosh, with Daemon's remaining sons and the Targaryen sword Blackfyre. He created the Golden Company. On his deathbed, Bittersteel commanded that his flesh be boiled from his skull, dip it in gold and carry it before them when they cross the sea to retake Westeros.

* WingedHorse: Bittersteel combined the Targaryen and Bracken sigils so his coat of arms is the red stallion of Bracken with the black wings of a Targaryen dragon.

[[folder: Haldon]]
!!Haldon

A former novice at the Citadel who did not earn enough links to become a Maester. Instead, he became attatched to the Golden Company as a tutor for Young Griff, aka [[spoiler:Aegon Targaryen]].

* InSeriesNickname: Halfmaester, due to never forging a maesters chain but having a lot of their knowledge.
* TheSmartGuy
* [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Smart People Play Cyvasse]]

[[folder: Septa Lemore]]
!!Septa Lemore

A Septa who is Young Griff's spiritual tutor.

* DeadpanSnarker
* MysteriousPast: Tyrion notes she does not act like a Septa, and that she has stretch marks on her stomach that indicate she had a child at some point.
* [[NaughtyNuns Naughty Septas]]
* RavenHairIvorySkin
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: For a Septa, she is oddly open to letting people see her naked:
-->''"The Mother and the Father made us in their image, Hugor. We should glory in our bodies, for they are the work of gods."''

[[folder: Ser Rolly Duckfield]]
!!Ser Rolly Duckfield
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rolly_duckfield_ffg_540.png]]

The son of a blacksmith in Bitterbridge, Rolly dreamed of knighthood. He had to flee Westeros after breaking the arms and ribs of Lorent Caswell, who had attempted to steal the sword Rolly's father forged for him. He joined the Golden Company where he became a loyal friend of Young Griff and was knighted by Griff.

* {{Badass}}
* TheBlacksmith: Picked up on some of his father's trade and smithed for the Golden Company for a few years before Griff took him as a squire.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Griff has faint praise for him, and fears that Young Griff will soon have six such men as his [[spoiler:kingsguard]], "each more blindingly adequate than the last."

* InSeriesNickname: Duck. He got the surname "Duckfield" due to being knighted in a field with some ducks in it.
* TheLancer: To Young Griff [[spoiler: aka Aegon Targaryen]]
* LineOfSightName: "Duckfield".

[[folder: Marq Mandrake]]
!!Marq Mandrake

A Westerosi exile that escaped from slavery at some point.

* AlliterativeName
* ColonelBadass: Commands around 500 men of the Golden Company, and leads the capture of [[spoiler:Estermont when the Golden Company arrives in Westeros]].
* CoveredWithScars: Has many pox scars on his face, along with a burn mark when his [[SlaveBrand slave tattoo]] used to be.

[[folder: Tristan Rivers]]
!!Tristan Rivers

An exiled bastard from the Riverlands.

* ColonelBadass: One of the section commanders of the Golden Company, he has roughly fifteen hundred men under his command. When the Golden Company lands in [[spoiler:Westeros, he is sent to capture the castle of Crow's Nest]].

!!!Tropes related to the Golden Company

[[folder: Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers]]

[[folder:Ser Franklyn Flowers, the Bastard of Cider Hall]]

* NaughtyNuns

[[folder: Captain-General Harry Strickland]]

A fourth generation exile raised by his father to be part of the Golden Company, Harry was the Company Paymaster before being elected Captain-General after the death of Myles Toyne.
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* DirtyCoward: Griff is astounded that he was elected to be Captain-General of the company, being weary to take any risks and engage in battle.
* FourStarBadass: Subverted: his subordinates win the battles, not him.
* InSeriesNickname: "Homeless" Harry Stickland.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Captain-General Myles Toyne]]

Nicknamed Blackheart, Myles is descended from Ser Terrence Toyne, who had been exiled for sleeping with a mistress of Aegon IV. [[spoiler:He conspired with his friend Jon Connington to hid the survival of Aegon Targaryen and pledge the loyalty of the Golden Company to him when the time came to reclaim the Iron Throne]].

* FourStarBadass: When he was in command of the Golden Company.
* IronicNickname: He was jokingly nicknamed "Blackheart" by his troops, in reference to the image on his coat-of-arms. Toyne liked the nickname because it led people to be wary of him, but he's described by the rather stern Griff/[[spoiler:Jon Connington]] as being warm and generous and AFatherToHisMen, and at the very least seems to have been a SergeantRock type.
* PosthumousCharacter

[[folder: Haldon]]

A former novice at the Citadel who did not earn enough links to become a Maester. Instead, he became attatched to the Golden Company as a tutor for Young Griff, aka [[spoiler:Aegon Targaryen]].

* InSeriesNickname: Halfmaester, due to never forging a maesters chain but having a lot of their knowledge.
* TheSmartGuy
* [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Smart People Play Cyvasse]]

[[folder: Septa Lemore]]

A Septa who is Young Griff's spiritual tutor.

[[folder: Captain-General Myles Toyne]]

Nicknamed Blackheart, Myles is descended from Ser Terrence Toyne, who had been exiled for sleeping with a mistress of Aegon IV. [[spoiler:He conspired with his friend Jon Connington to hid the survival of Aegon Targaryen and pledge the loyalty of the Golden Company to him when the time came to reclaim the Iron Throne]].

* FourStarBadass: When he was in command of the Golden Company.
* IronicNickname: He was jokingly nicknamed "Blackheart" by his troops, in reference to the image on his coat-of-arms. Toyne liked the nickname because it led people to be wary of him, but he's described by the rather stern Griff/[[spoiler:Jon Connington]] as being warm and generous and AFatherToHisMen, and at the very least seems to have been a SergeantRock type.
* PosthumousCharacter

[[folder: Haldon]]

A former novice at the Citadel who did not earn enough links to become a Maester. Instead, he became attatched to the Golden Company as a tutor for Young Griff, aka [[spoiler:Aegon Targaryen]].

* InSeriesNickname: Halfmaester, due to never forging a maesters chain but having a lot of their knowledge.
* TheSmartGuy
* [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Smart People Play Cyvasse]]

[[folder: Septa Lemore]]

A Septa who is Young Griff's spiritual tutor.

!!Lord Jon Connington [[spoiler:AKA Griff*]]

A close friend of Rhaegar's, Connington was picked to be Hand of the King after Tywin Lannister resigned the position. He failed to end Robert's Rebellion and was exiled for that mistake. He later joined the Golden Company but was kicked out when caught stealing from the company war chests. He drank himself to death a year later.[[spoiler:Except that his death was actually a false report spread by Varys.]]

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: When he closes his eyes he remembers [[MyGreatestFailure the Battle of the Bells]], and tries desperately to make up for it.]]
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:When he launches his attack against Griffin's Roost, the first thing he does is make sure his archers take out any source of information leaking out to the Iron Throne (namely ravens). When the ravens keep on coming, he kills the source of the source (the Maester). The Golden Company takes Griffin's Roost losing less than five men.]]
* [[spoiler: DeadManWalking: Contracted the greyscale while saving Tyrion from the stone men, near the Sorrows. He has kept this a secret so far.]]
* [[spoiler:FailureKnight]]
* WordOfGay: It was speculated by some readers that his admiration of his friend Rhaegar went beyond simply friendship and Connington. This was later confirmed by GRRM to be the case. Leading to yet another instance of AllLoveIsUnrequited in the books.
* [[spoiler:LikeASonToMe: Little Aegon]].
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Goes by "Griff" when Tyrion meets him in ''A Dance with Dragons'', referring to the heraldry of House Connington--a griffin.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Not really. The entire story of Connington stealing from the Golden Company and dying was a fabrication made by Varys]].
* SergeantRock: Not the cuddliest guy [[spoiler: except toward "Young Griff"]], but a very capable commander who leads from the front.
* [[spoiler: SecretlyDying]]
* StraightGay
* [[spoiler: YourDaysAreNumbered]]

[[folder: Haldon]]

A former novice at the Citadel who did not earn enough links to become a Maester. Instead, he became attatched to the Golden Company as a tutor for Young Griff, aka [[spoiler:Aegon Targaryen]].
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[[folder: Haldon]]

A former novice at the Citadel who did not earn enough links to become a Maester. Instead, he became attatched to the Golden Company as a tutor for Young Griff, aka [[spoiler:Aegon Targaryen]].

[[folder: Gorys Edoryen]]

A Volantene sellsword and paymaster of the Golden Company.

* CoveredWithScars: Has many pox scars on his face, along with a burn mark when his slave tattoo used to be.