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* BrokenPedestal: To Samwell Tarly, since he always had been a Maester (something that got him disowned by his father) and when he finally visits the Citadel, he is overcome with joy and wonder at first. However, he grows disillusioned with the order because of their [[CassandraTruth skepticism towards his warnings]] and he is [[DudeWheresMyRespect repeatedly tasked with doing menial tasks despite his own achievements]]. [[spoiler:The final straw came when they dismissed a message from Brandon Stark from Winterfell telling them about the Night's King army marching on the North, making Sam leave the order]].
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* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
** Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curingJorah]].Jorah]].
** Despite dismissing Sam's warnings about the White Walkers as nonsense, its shown that he cares about him a great deal [[spoiler:since he can't bring himself to tell him about his father and brother's deaths and tells the other Maesters that he is a good boy]].
** Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing
** Despite dismissing Sam's warnings about the White Walkers as nonsense, its shown that he cares about him a great deal [[spoiler:since he can't bring himself to tell him about his father and brother's deaths and tells the other Maesters that he is a good boy]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Midway through season 7, he gets so sick of the maesters refusing to take the threat of the Army of the Dead seriously that he steals as many tomes and scrolls from the forbidden archives as he can, sets the library ''on fire'' to cover his tracks, and flees northward with what he's stolen, hoping that he can make it to Winterfell and recruit people to help him study the texts for possible anti-undead measures there.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Midway through season 7, he gets so sick of the maesters refusing to take the threat of the Army of the Dead seriously that he steals as many tomes and scrolls from the forbidden archives as he can, sets the library ''on fire'' to cover his tracks, can and flees northward with what he's stolen, hoping that he can make it to Winterfell and recruit people to help him study the texts for possible anti-undead measures there.]]
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* TrueCompanions: With Jon, Pyp, and Grenn.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: As Season 7 reveals, the Maesters basically do absolutely nothing to ''learn'' anymore, instead passing on all of their existing knowledge internally and assuming that everything will continue just fine without them needing to step out of their metaphorical ivory tower. To emphasize this, Archmaester Ebrose admits that he, and implicitly many other maesters, are aware that the Night King and his army of the dead ''is'' real, because there's too much corroborating evidence, but they feel no need to try and stir the population to defend against the White Walkers because there is no reason to suspect the Wall of the North might have finally failed after thousands of years of keeping them at bay.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Midway through season 7, he gets so sick of the maesters refusing to take the threat of the Army of the Dead seriously that he steals as many tomes and scrolls from the forbidden archives as he can, sets the library ''on fire'' to cover his tracks, and flees northward with what he's stolen, hoping that he can make it to Winterfell and recruit people to help him study the texts for possible anti-undead measures there.]]
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* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:With the deaths of his father and brother in "Eastwatch", he's the sole remaining male Tarly.]]
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* ButtMonkey: He is one to the other trainees and to Alliser Thorne, until Jon puts a stop to it.
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** He is one to the other trainees and to Alliser Thorne, until Jon puts a stop toit.it.
** Even his life in the Citadel is very unpleasant where he had to do a lot of chores particularly getting the bedpans, tossing its contents into the drainage and scrubbing it.
** He is one to the other trainees and to Alliser Thorne, until Jon puts a stop to
** Even his life in the Citadel is very unpleasant where he had to do a lot of chores particularly getting the bedpans, tossing its contents into the drainage and scrubbing it.
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* GadgeteerGenius: He designs a wheelchair [[spoiler:for Bran after he returns to Winterfell]].
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The Maester serving as a member of the Night's Watch, in residence at Castle Black. Extremely old, blind, and awesome. When most of the Night's Watch's commanding officers get killed off in the expedition beyond the Wall, he steps up to help lead the remaining garrison, while supporting Alliser Thorne's position as Acting Lord Commander until a new election can be held (a maester can't be a Lord Commander). Before completing his maester's chain, he was Prince Aemon Targaryen, the son of King Maekar. When the succession passed to him, he stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V and completed his very long life in the Citadel and then the Wall. Aegon V's son (in the TV continuity) was Aerys II, the Mad King -- making Maester Aemon the great-uncle of Daenerys Targaryen.
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The Maester serving as a member of the Night's Watch, in residence at Castle Black. Extremely old, blind, and awesome. When most of the Night's Watch's commanding officers get killed off in the expedition beyond the Wall, he steps up to help lead the remaining garrison, while supporting Alliser Thorne's position as Acting Lord Commander until a new election can be held (a maester can't be a Lord Commander). Before completing his maester's chain, he was Prince Aemon Targaryen, the son of King Maekar. When the succession passed to him, he stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V and completed his very long life in the Citadel and then the Wall. Aegon V's son (in the TV continuity) was Aerys II, the Mad King -- making Maester Aemon the great-uncle of Daenerys Targaryen.Targaryen [[spoiler: and the great-great-uncle of Jon Snow]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Wile it's mostly jealousy he is right that Qyburn's experiments are an abomination. While Qyburn is better at medicine than him he is more attracted by dealing pain.
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Grand Maester who served on the Small Council of King's Landing for the Reigns of King Aerys II, King Robert Baratheon, King Joffrey Baratheon and King Tommen Baratheon.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JimBroadbent
-> ''Everyone in the Citadel doubts everything. It's their job''
Archmaester Ebrose serves as the expert on healing who takes Samwell Tarly as novice and apprentice in Season 7.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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[[folder: Archmaester Ebrose]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Without us, men would be little better than dogs"]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JimBroadbent
-> ''Everyone in the Citadel doubts everything. It's their job''
Archmaester Ebrose serves as the expert on healing who takes Samwell Tarly as novice and apprentice in Season 7.
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->''"I urged [the Mad King] to surrender peacefully. But the king didn't listen to me; didn't listen to Varys, who tried to warn him. But he '''did''' listen to Grand Maester who served on Pycelle, that grey, sunken cunt."''
-->-- '''Jaime Lannister'''
The head of the Maester's order, resident Maester in the Red Keep, and a member of the SmallCouncil Council. A sycophantic toady, he puts on a good show of King's Landing for serving the Reigns of King Aerys II, Iron Throne, but his only true loyalty is to Lord Tywin Lannister and actively undermined King Robert Baratheon, King Joffrey Baratheon and King Tommen Baratheon.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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[[folder: Archmaester Ebrose]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Without us, men would be little better than dogs"]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JimBroadbent
-> ''Everyone in the Citadel doubts everything. It's their job''
Archmaester Ebrose serves as the expert on healing who takes Samwell Tarly as novice and apprentice in Season 7.Baratheon.
-->-- '''Jaime Lannister'''
The head of the Maester's order, resident Maester in the Red Keep, and a member of the Small
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[[folder: Archmaester Ebrose]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Without us, men would be little better than dogs"]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JimBroadbent
-> ''Everyone in the Citadel doubts everything. It's their job''
Archmaester Ebrose serves as the expert on healing who takes Samwell Tarly as novice and apprentice in Season 7.
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* AntiAdvice: So far whatever Ebrose has suggested Sam to do, Tarly has done the exact opposite and it has provided results.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Ebrose voices eloquent reasons for why the White Walkers are not as big a threat they are and why the apocalypse won't be as bad as it could be, the problem is that he's wrong.
%%* DrJerk: Ebrose doesn't give a damn about helping patients and more or less sees his job as a gig to get him through the day.
* ForTheGreaterGood: For all his faults, he genuinely believes he is doing what is best for the Citadel and the realm, even if Sam and the viewer knows he is going about it the wrong way.
** When dealing with Greyscale, due to the repeated failures of the procedure, he ships the afflicted off to Valyria (if you can't cure it, get it away so that it doesn't infect others).
** He has brought up the fact that the common folk always seem to believe the sky is falling with every tiny change to the status quo, and that the army of the dead from the Long Night is no different. However, with it being a very real threat now, he doesn't see it as any different as long as the Wall still stands, and thus believes it is in everyone's best interest that the Maesters keep going about their normal business.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of both. The former, while clearly an apocalyptic scenario, did ''not'' come to pass, and therefore he doesn't believe this time will be any different. The latter because the one who created the procedure died of the very Greyscale he tried to cure, and several maesters have attempted the procedure and all failed. He fails to understand that for the former, the world didn't end because people actually did something about it, and for the latter, perhaps using someone younger with steadier hands could have achieved the desired results.
* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believe he is imparting philosophy and life's wisdom on Samwell Tarly, except Sam and the viewer knows that he is completely and utterly wrong on every single thing he says.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yes, Sam cured Jorah Mormont of advanced Greyscale, something even many maesters have failed to do. However, yes, Sam endangered himself and the entire Citadel in doing so. That being said, Sam gets no reward, but no overt punishment.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Ebrose voices eloquent reasons for why the White Walkers are not as big a threat they are and why the apocalypse won't be as bad as it could be, the problem is that he's wrong.
%%* DrJerk: Ebrose doesn't give a damn about helping patients and more or less sees his job as a gig to get him through the day.
* ForTheGreaterGood: For all his faults, he genuinely believes he is doing what is best for the Citadel and the realm, even if Sam and the viewer knows he is going about it the wrong way.
** When dealing with Greyscale, due to the repeated failures of the procedure, he ships the afflicted off to Valyria (if you can't cure it, get it away so that it doesn't infect others).
** He has brought up the fact that the common folk always seem to believe the sky is falling with every tiny change to the status quo, and that the army of the dead from the Long Night is no different. However, with it being a very real threat now, he doesn't see it as any different as long as the Wall still stands, and thus believes it is in everyone's best interest that the Maesters keep going about their normal business.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of both. The former, while clearly an apocalyptic scenario, did ''not'' come to pass, and therefore he doesn't believe this time will be any different. The latter because the one who created the procedure died of the very Greyscale he tried to cure, and several maesters have attempted the procedure and all failed. He fails to understand that for the former, the world didn't end because people actually did something about it, and for the latter, perhaps using someone younger with steadier hands could have achieved the desired results.
* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believe he is imparting philosophy and life's wisdom on Samwell Tarly, except Sam and the viewer knows that he is completely and utterly wrong on every single thing he says.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yes, Sam cured Jorah Mormont of advanced Greyscale, something even many maesters have failed to do. However, yes, Sam endangered himself and the entire Citadel in doing so. That being said, Sam gets no reward, but no overt punishment.
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* AntiAdvice: So far whatever Ebrose has suggested Sam to do, Tarly has done AdaptationalBadass: While Pycelle hasn't been upgraded into a BadassGrandpa, he's considerably cleverer in the exact opposite and it has provided results.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Ebrose voices eloquent reasons for whyseries, with the White Walkers are not as big a threat they are and why the apocalypse won't be as bad as it could be, the problem is implication that he's wrong.
%%* DrJerk: Ebrose doesn't givebeen playing many people to stay alive for years; this is a damn about helping patients far cry from the doddering old man in the books.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The character in the books is hardly a saint, but Pycelle in the series is shown to be cruel, manipulative andmore or less sees a backstabber, whereas in the books he showed UndyingLoyalty towards House Lannister.
* {{Angrish}}: Prone to descending into stammered gibberish when panicked, as hisjob as a gig to get him through the day.
* ForTheGreaterGood: For all his faults, he genuinely believes he is doing what is best for the Citadelarrest and the realm, even if Sam deleted scene with Tywin demonstrates -- though the latter case is a blatantly faked example.
* ArchEnemy:
** Pycelle does a good job at not making enemies at all, but Tyrion becomes a prominent one because Pycelle is outed as Cersei's mole and punished during Tyrion's stint as Hand. When Pycelle testifies in Tyrion's trial, it's abundantly clear that ItsPersonal for him.
--->'''Pycelle''': [Tyrion used theviewer knows he poison] to strike down the most noble child the gods ever put on this good earth. [Joffrey!]
** He does have an ongoing resentment of Varys, and isgoing seen trying to turn Ned Stark against him.
* BadassBoast: In the ''Histories and Lore'' video for Season 4, he's talking aboutit dragons when the wrong way.
** When dealing with Greyscale, duesubject of Daenerys and her dragons come up. Pycelle's conclusion goes thus:
-->'''Pycelle''': If she were so foolish as to march on Westeros, she would not not find, as her ancestor Aegon did, seven disparate kingdoms frightened by her strange beasts. She would find a continent united by Lord Tywin Lannister, who exintinguished her own father's flame. And we have known dragons now. ''We have seen them die''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: First appears as a respectable man. It didn't take long for him to show his true colors.
* BlatantLies: Pycelle has therepeated failures distinction of spewing out the procedure, he ships biggest piece of bullshit ever uttered on the afflicted off to Valyria (if you show, and maybe even beyond, calling [[TheCaligula Joffrey]] "the most noble child the gods ever put on this good earth." Everybody is uneasy about the line upon hearing this description during Tyrion's trial, and even people who harbor high animosity against Tyrion can't cure it, get it away so help but raise an eyebrow at that it doesn't infect others).
** Heone.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sprays blood out of his mouth after being stabbed repeatedly by Qyburn's little birds.
* BoringButPractical: They'll never write a song about Pycelle, but his method for staying alive ''works''. Kings come and go, and he hasbrought up weaselled his way through it for decades, keeping a privileged life in the process.
* ButtMonkey: Season 4 sees Pycelle slowly beginning to slide into this role; roughly half of his scenes in the season involve him getting interrupted or embarrassed in public, and an entire scene in the second episode alone features him getting cockblocked, threatened, and repurposed as an errand boy by Cersei. For good measure, the season finale features him getting booted out of ''his own laboratory'' in favour of Qyburn, who seems to have pretty much supplanted him in Cersei's eyes.
* CovertPervert: Despite being sworn to celibacy, Pycelle has no qualms about hiring prostitutes. At celebrations, he seems even bolder: at Tyrion's wedding, he can be seen having a rather intimate chat with two young women; and at Joffrey's wedding, he's interrupted while attempting to seduce a young handmaiden under the guise of offering a physical.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He drops the feeble old man act and goes out swinging, even landing a pretty solid blow to one of the children before being overwhelmed by the numbers.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Pycelle is incredibly good at surviving despite the fact that nobody likes him, but he never thought that Qyburn would ultimately be thecommon folk always seem one to believe assassinate him.
* DirtyCoward: All Pycelle wants is to survive, and he will do anything he has to in order to do it, which amounts to kissing up to whoever is in power and ducking his head when they turn his way. In a deleted scene, he explains to Tywin that most people are like flowers, seeking to grow ever higher. But, when a flower grows too tall, it risks getting clipped; Pycelle wants to remain low and in thesky is falling with every tiny change shadows so no one ever tries to the "clip" him.
* DirtyOldMan: He likes to abuse his statusquo, as a physician to grope and that the army harass young women.
* TheDogBitesBack: Manages to accomplish this to ''two'' of thedead from the Long Night is no different. However, with it being Lannister children, in a very real threat now, cowardly vindictive way. He bids his time and waits until his targets are powerless.
** Tyrion tosses him into a cell in order to ensure he doesn'tsee meddle with his rule as Hand of the King. After the Battle of Blackwater, Pycelle is released and is sure to rub Tyrion's injuries, not to mention his loss of power, in his face.
** For the better part of a season, Cersei routinely kicks him, even dismissing him from his own laboratory while Qyburn works to save Ser Gregor Clegane. After Cersei is arrested by the Faith Militant, Pycelle summons her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, to serve as Hand of the King in order to provide some semblance of a working government, and to get back at Cersei for his mistreatment.
* DyingAlone: Qyburn admits even Pycelle shouldn't die the way he is about to.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He appears genuinely shocked when he sees how Gregor Clegane tries to murder Loras Tyrell and then his own brother over pure pettines.
** He was also aghast when Joffrey orders Ser Ilyn to behead Ned Stark, right on the steps of the holy Sept of Baelor..
** He's disgusted by Qyburn's human experimentation as he feels that human experimentation is a perversion of the healing arts.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: While [[TheSpymaster Varys]], [[UpperClassTwit Mace]], [[TheChessmaster Olenna]], [[TokenGoodTeammate Tyrion]] are all ''clearly'' unamused by Joffrey's twisted jokes at the wedding (and even [[DragonInChief Tywin]] is blatantly forcing himself to smile), Pycelle seems genuinely entertained by them. Then again, it might be part of his professional Yes Man act -- this is a guy who managed to survive Aerys II Targaryen's royal court, so he's learned to laugh at an insane king's bad jokes to stay on his good side.
* EvilIsPetty: Especially towards Tyrion, who he hates for arresting him (however briefly). Apart from the IronicEcho at the end of the second season, he joins Cersei in mockingly applauding his appointment to Master of Coin, and later goes out of his way to "accidentally" drop a letter Tyrion was reaching for, forcing him to stoop out of his chair to pick it up.
* EvilOldFolks: During his long life, he's betrayed many Hands of the King and even one king, and it's implied he'll do it again if it means staying alive just a little longer.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He pretends to be polite and grandfatherly, but he's really a corrupt old lecher with no regard for anyone or anything except his own political (and literal) survival.
* {{Foil}}:
** A deleted scene with Tywin reveals him to be much like Varys and Littlefinger, lying and scheming to survive the DeadlyDecadentCourt he's in by any means necessary. However, while Varys and Littlefinger have higher ambitions they aim for, Pycelle is a coward who flies under the radar because he has no ambition but to live a bit longer and enjoy the perks his office affords him. Though this particular scene also would have been a particulat deviation from the books. Pycelle felt nothing but admiration and respect for Tywin, and while it's unclear inhowfar these feelings were mutual, it would have been out of character for Tywin to behave towards a useful tool like Pycelle for no good reason, like he did in said scene.
** Also, there is a certain amount of comparison and contrast to be made between him and Qyburn; both are Maesters that have ended up in the service of the Crown, both end up taking orders from Cersei, and both are well-known for behaviour inappropriate to their order, and both provide medical attention. However, Pycelle not only proves himself less ambitious and ''much'' less inquisitive than Qyburn, but also nowhere near as dedicated to healing. As amoral as Qyburn is, he genuinely wants to save lives - in sharp contrast to Pycelle, who not only withheld treatment for Jon Arryn but also loaned out his supply of poison for a murder-suicide. This is perhaps best exemplified by their scene together in "The Children": Pycelle is prodding Gregor Clegane's unconscious body with a stick, claiming that nothing can be done to save him; Qyburn is examining the wounds at close range and actually providing a treatment. However, your mileage may vary. On the other hand, Manticore venom is ''universally'' held to be incurable, and Pycelle oddly keeps a sense of medical ethics while Qyburn is a Mad Scientist. Yes Qyburn wants to heal people, but he treats it asany a problem to be solved. Pycelle argues that the humane thing would be to stop prolonging Gregor's suffering - while Qyburn wants to perform horrific medical experimentation on him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Pycelle might not have many enemies (due to his status as YesMan and his lack of ambition) but he doesn't have much in the way of friends either. He claims loyalty to the Lannisters, but none of them like him. Tyrion is a strong enemy, Jaime refers to him as a 'grey sunken cunt', Cersei is repulsed by him and Tywin sees him solely as a tool.
* GoodCopBadCop: Indulges in this in "The Pointy End" as the bad cop when Cersei manipulates Sansa into writing to Winterfell. This is only an act in part; he's later shown being abusive to Sansa for real.
* GreenEyedMonster: One interpretation of his hatred for Qyburn, who Cersei trusts much more than she ever did Pycelle.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: {{Subverted}}. Pycelle is an excellent judge of character and [[ObfuscatingStupidity fakes being a poor one]].
** Of all of the Kings he's served, he identifies Joffrey as the one he respects the most and thinks of most positively. However, the circumstances in which he says this suggest that he is lying, knowing that whatever he says could reach Joffrey's ears.
** During Robert's rebellion, he told Aerys II that the Lannisters could be trusted as friends. Once inside King's Landing, Tywin proceeded to [[CavalryBetrayal sack the city]], as Varys and Jaime had foreseen. But then again, when Tyrion comes to arrest him, Pycelle claims in his defense that he was already a [[TreacherousAdvisor servant of Tywin]] back then.
* HumiliationConga: Tyrion, Bronn and Timett, son of Timett, come to arrest him while he is with a whore, cut off his beard and threaten to [[CallBack cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats]]. [[labelnote:From the books...]]In the books it was Tyrion and Shagga, son of Dolf, and Shagga ''did'' cut off his manhood... Which, in a brilliant little piece of UnEntendre, it turns out meant the beard.[[/labelnote]] In Season 4, Pycelle goes a more subtle but well-deserved conga. He's increasingly delegated to menial tasks as Cersei's patience with him wears thin, and Pycelle finds himself essentially replaced by Qyburn. He no longer commands the respect he once had or his coveted position with the Lannisters.
* InterruptedIntimacy: His session with the prostitute Daisy was interrupted by Tyrion, Bronn, and Timett.
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: He provides the intellectual justifications for Tywin Lannister and his regime, and serves as his propagandist and agent in all matters.
* IronicEcho: Once Tyrion loses his status and power and is bedridden, he delivers this line:
-->'''Pycelle''': ''[tossing a coin to Tyrion, with a smirk on his face]'' For your trouble.
* {{Jerkass}}: His treatment of Sansa after Ned's arrest and his pettiness towards Tyrion whenever he has the chance.
* KarmaHoudini: He has betrayed several Hands of the King (and at least one King) over the years in order to stay safe. Defied when Tyrion, being far more savvy, sets him up to reveal himself as TheMole and promptly has him arrested and tortured to some degree. However, Pycelle has managed to worm his way out of that due to his status as a YesMan to Cersei.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Expires in the Season 6 finale, as he is brutally [[KarmicDeath assassinated]] as part of Cersei's plan against the High Sparrow. This time Pycelle chose the wrong side.
* MasterPoisoner: He's an expert on poisons, but to his credit, he apparently hasn't killed anybody with them, as he lacks a murderous nature.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be an AbsentMindedProfessor in order to fly under the radar. It obviously has served him well, as he's managed to survive in the DeadlyDecadentCourt of King's Landing for sixty-seven years. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMXJlUIQP94 A deleted scene from Season 3 makes this extremely explicit]]. His physical, intellectual and oratory abilities would make him more than a match for the mighty Tywin Lannister if he so chose to be.
** This was something Julian Glover contributed to the role. He's remarkably spry for his age and suggested that this be included. The producers agreed and so included the scene in "Fire and Blood" where he exercises.
* OutGambitted: Tyrion pulls this by telling him, Littlefinger and Varys three different stories about who he'll marry Myrcella off to, and when Cersei confronts him about Pycelle's version Tyrion knows he's TheMole and has him arrested. Pycelle never lets this go, it probably being one of the few times someone has actually caught him in spite of his attempts to stay under the radar, though Tyrion embarrassing him for good measure certainly helps.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Is stabbed to death multiple times by a gang of murderous child assassins during the Season 6 Finale.
* OhCrap: Has this reaction when Qyburn's little birds surround him.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He might look like [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]], but he's pretty much just a Lannister yes-man. He was also a YesMan to Robert and Aerys before him. It's how he's managed to survive [[DeadlyDecadentCourt King's Landing]] for so long. This is shown in the "Histories and Lore: Dragons" where according to him, as long asthe Wall still stands, King's Landing has Tywin, Daenerys and thus believes it her dragons are no threat.
* RunningGag: By Season 4, other characters regularly interrupt Pycelle mid-speech.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The venerable Grand Maester is ineveryone's best interest the habit of incorporating rather magniloquent figures of speech in his meandering sentences.
* SmugSnake: See the aforementioned scene between Pycelle and the injured Tyrion.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: In the first season finale, he does a series of exercises that a frail old man shouldn't be able to do before changing back into his robes, adopting his usual stooped posture, and shuffling out the door. He completely drops the act in the beginning of "Valar Morghulis" to intimidate Tyrion. In a deleted scene with Tywin Lannister, he does this after Tywin points out that he can see right through it, only to resume it when their conversation is over. He ditches it for the final time in the Season 6 finale when he punches out the first little bird to attack him, demonstrating surprising speed. It does nothing to save him from the rest of them.
* UndignifiedDeath: Getting stabbed to death by a group of children isn't the most flattering way to go out; a fitting end for a cowardly weasel like Pycelle.
* UnknownRival: He has some unexplained animosity towards Varys. Varys doesn't seem to know or care.
* WizardBeard: Despite the fact that Maesterskeep going about their normal business.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of both. The former, while clearly an apocalyptic scenario, didare ''not'' come to pass, and therefore he doesn't believe this time will be any different. The latter magic users, Pycelle most certainly has one. Tyrion has Bronn cut most of it off when arresting him, mostly [[KickTheSonOfABitch because the one who created the procedure died of the very Greyscale he tried can.]]
* YesMan: To House Lannister, specially tocure, Tywin Lannister. Unlike Varys and several maesters have attempted the procedure Littlefinger (who know exactly when and all failed. He fails how to understand that for the former, the world didn't end because people actually did something about it, and for the latter, perhaps using someone younger disagree or manipulate), Pycelle essentially agrees with steadier hands could have achieved whatever the desired results.
* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believemost powerful person is saying. In a single scene, he is imparting philosophy and life's wisdom on Samwell Tarly, except Sam and the viewer knows that he is goes from supporting Joffrey completely and utterly wrong on every single thing he says.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yes, Sam cured Jorah Mormont of advanced Greyscale, something even many maesters have failedto do. However, yes, Sam endangered himself and wordlessly obeying Tywin's order to send the entire Citadel boy king to bed (essentially by drugging him).
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He is killed by Qyburn's little birds indoing so. That being said, Sam gets no reward, but no overt punishment.the Season 6 finale on Cersei's orders.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Ebrose voices eloquent reasons for why
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The character in the books is hardly a saint, but Pycelle in the series is shown to be cruel, manipulative and
* {{Angrish}}: Prone to descending into stammered gibberish when panicked, as his
* ForTheGreaterGood: For all his faults, he genuinely believes he is doing what is best for the Citadel
* ArchEnemy:
** Pycelle does a good job at not making enemies at all, but Tyrion becomes a prominent one because Pycelle is outed as Cersei's mole and punished during Tyrion's stint as Hand. When Pycelle testifies in Tyrion's trial, it's abundantly clear that ItsPersonal for him.
--->'''Pycelle''': [Tyrion used the
** He does have an ongoing resentment of Varys, and is
* BadassBoast: In the ''Histories and Lore'' video for Season 4, he's talking about
** When dealing with Greyscale, due
-->'''Pycelle''': If she were so foolish as to march on Westeros, she would not not find, as her ancestor Aegon did, seven disparate kingdoms frightened by her strange beasts. She would find a continent united by Lord Tywin Lannister, who exintinguished her own father's flame. And we have known dragons now. ''We have seen them die''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: First appears as a respectable man. It didn't take long for him to show his true colors.
* BlatantLies: Pycelle has the
** He
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sprays blood out of his mouth after being stabbed repeatedly by Qyburn's little birds.
* BoringButPractical: They'll never write a song about Pycelle, but his method for staying alive ''works''. Kings come and go, and he has
* ButtMonkey: Season 4 sees Pycelle slowly beginning to slide into this role; roughly half of his scenes in the season involve him getting interrupted or embarrassed in public, and an entire scene in the second episode alone features him getting cockblocked, threatened, and repurposed as an errand boy by Cersei. For good measure, the season finale features him getting booted out of ''his own laboratory'' in favour of Qyburn, who seems to have pretty much supplanted him in Cersei's eyes.
* CovertPervert: Despite being sworn to celibacy, Pycelle has no qualms about hiring prostitutes. At celebrations, he seems even bolder: at Tyrion's wedding, he can be seen having a rather intimate chat with two young women; and at Joffrey's wedding, he's interrupted while attempting to seduce a young handmaiden under the guise of offering a physical.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He drops the feeble old man act and goes out swinging, even landing a pretty solid blow to one of the children before being overwhelmed by the numbers.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Pycelle is incredibly good at surviving despite the fact that nobody likes him, but he never thought that Qyburn would ultimately be the
* DirtyCoward: All Pycelle wants is to survive, and he will do anything he has to in order to do it, which amounts to kissing up to whoever is in power and ducking his head when they turn his way. In a deleted scene, he explains to Tywin that most people are like flowers, seeking to grow ever higher. But, when a flower grows too tall, it risks getting clipped; Pycelle wants to remain low and in the
* DirtyOldMan: He likes to abuse his status
* TheDogBitesBack: Manages to accomplish this to ''two'' of the
** Tyrion tosses him into a cell in order to ensure he doesn't
** For the better part of a season, Cersei routinely kicks him, even dismissing him from his own laboratory while Qyburn works to save Ser Gregor Clegane. After Cersei is arrested by the Faith Militant, Pycelle summons her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, to serve as Hand of the King in order to provide some semblance of a working government, and to get back at Cersei for his mistreatment.
* DyingAlone: Qyburn admits even Pycelle shouldn't die the way he is about to.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He appears genuinely shocked when he sees how Gregor Clegane tries to murder Loras Tyrell and then his own brother over pure pettines.
** He was also aghast when Joffrey orders Ser Ilyn to behead Ned Stark, right on the steps of the holy Sept of Baelor..
** He's disgusted by Qyburn's human experimentation as he feels that human experimentation is a perversion of the healing arts.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: While [[TheSpymaster Varys]], [[UpperClassTwit Mace]], [[TheChessmaster Olenna]], [[TokenGoodTeammate Tyrion]] are all ''clearly'' unamused by Joffrey's twisted jokes at the wedding (and even [[DragonInChief Tywin]] is blatantly forcing himself to smile), Pycelle seems genuinely entertained by them. Then again, it might be part of his professional Yes Man act -- this is a guy who managed to survive Aerys II Targaryen's royal court, so he's learned to laugh at an insane king's bad jokes to stay on his good side.
* EvilIsPetty: Especially towards Tyrion, who he hates for arresting him (however briefly). Apart from the IronicEcho at the end of the second season, he joins Cersei in mockingly applauding his appointment to Master of Coin, and later goes out of his way to "accidentally" drop a letter Tyrion was reaching for, forcing him to stoop out of his chair to pick it up.
* EvilOldFolks: During his long life, he's betrayed many Hands of the King and even one king, and it's implied he'll do it again if it means staying alive just a little longer.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He pretends to be polite and grandfatherly, but he's really a corrupt old lecher with no regard for anyone or anything except his own political (and literal) survival.
* {{Foil}}:
** A deleted scene with Tywin reveals him to be much like Varys and Littlefinger, lying and scheming to survive the DeadlyDecadentCourt he's in by any means necessary. However, while Varys and Littlefinger have higher ambitions they aim for, Pycelle is a coward who flies under the radar because he has no ambition but to live a bit longer and enjoy the perks his office affords him. Though this particular scene also would have been a particulat deviation from the books. Pycelle felt nothing but admiration and respect for Tywin, and while it's unclear inhowfar these feelings were mutual, it would have been out of character for Tywin to behave towards a useful tool like Pycelle for no good reason, like he did in said scene.
** Also, there is a certain amount of comparison and contrast to be made between him and Qyburn; both are Maesters that have ended up in the service of the Crown, both end up taking orders from Cersei, and both are well-known for behaviour inappropriate to their order, and both provide medical attention. However, Pycelle not only proves himself less ambitious and ''much'' less inquisitive than Qyburn, but also nowhere near as dedicated to healing. As amoral as Qyburn is, he genuinely wants to save lives - in sharp contrast to Pycelle, who not only withheld treatment for Jon Arryn but also loaned out his supply of poison for a murder-suicide. This is perhaps best exemplified by their scene together in "The Children": Pycelle is prodding Gregor Clegane's unconscious body with a stick, claiming that nothing can be done to save him; Qyburn is examining the wounds at close range and actually providing a treatment. However, your mileage may vary. On the other hand, Manticore venom is ''universally'' held to be incurable, and Pycelle oddly keeps a sense of medical ethics while Qyburn is a Mad Scientist. Yes Qyburn wants to heal people, but he treats it as
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Pycelle might not have many enemies (due to his status as YesMan and his lack of ambition) but he doesn't have much in the way of friends either. He claims loyalty to the Lannisters, but none of them like him. Tyrion is a strong enemy, Jaime refers to him as a 'grey sunken cunt', Cersei is repulsed by him and Tywin sees him solely as a tool.
* GoodCopBadCop: Indulges in this in "The Pointy End" as the bad cop when Cersei manipulates Sansa into writing to Winterfell. This is only an act in part; he's later shown being abusive to Sansa for real.
* GreenEyedMonster: One interpretation of his hatred for Qyburn, who Cersei trusts much more than she ever did Pycelle.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: {{Subverted}}. Pycelle is an excellent judge of character and [[ObfuscatingStupidity fakes being a poor one]].
** Of all of the Kings he's served, he identifies Joffrey as the one he respects the most and thinks of most positively. However, the circumstances in which he says this suggest that he is lying, knowing that whatever he says could reach Joffrey's ears.
** During Robert's rebellion, he told Aerys II that the Lannisters could be trusted as friends. Once inside King's Landing, Tywin proceeded to [[CavalryBetrayal sack the city]], as Varys and Jaime had foreseen. But then again, when Tyrion comes to arrest him, Pycelle claims in his defense that he was already a [[TreacherousAdvisor servant of Tywin]] back then.
* HumiliationConga: Tyrion, Bronn and Timett, son of Timett, come to arrest him while he is with a whore, cut off his beard and threaten to [[CallBack cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats]]. [[labelnote:From the books...]]In the books it was Tyrion and Shagga, son of Dolf, and Shagga ''did'' cut off his manhood... Which, in a brilliant little piece of UnEntendre, it turns out meant the beard.[[/labelnote]] In Season 4, Pycelle goes a more subtle but well-deserved conga. He's increasingly delegated to menial tasks as Cersei's patience with him wears thin, and Pycelle finds himself essentially replaced by Qyburn. He no longer commands the respect he once had or his coveted position with the Lannisters.
* InterruptedIntimacy: His session with the prostitute Daisy was interrupted by Tyrion, Bronn, and Timett.
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: He provides the intellectual justifications for Tywin Lannister and his regime, and serves as his propagandist and agent in all matters.
* IronicEcho: Once Tyrion loses his status and power and is bedridden, he delivers this line:
-->'''Pycelle''': ''[tossing a coin to Tyrion, with a smirk on his face]'' For your trouble.
* {{Jerkass}}: His treatment of Sansa after Ned's arrest and his pettiness towards Tyrion whenever he has the chance.
* KarmaHoudini: He has betrayed several Hands of the King (and at least one King) over the years in order to stay safe. Defied when Tyrion, being far more savvy, sets him up to reveal himself as TheMole and promptly has him arrested and tortured to some degree. However, Pycelle has managed to worm his way out of that due to his status as a YesMan to Cersei.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Expires in the Season 6 finale, as he is brutally [[KarmicDeath assassinated]] as part of Cersei's plan against the High Sparrow. This time Pycelle chose the wrong side.
* MasterPoisoner: He's an expert on poisons, but to his credit, he apparently hasn't killed anybody with them, as he lacks a murderous nature.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be an AbsentMindedProfessor in order to fly under the radar. It obviously has served him well, as he's managed to survive in the DeadlyDecadentCourt of King's Landing for sixty-seven years. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMXJlUIQP94 A deleted scene from Season 3 makes this extremely explicit]]. His physical, intellectual and oratory abilities would make him more than a match for the mighty Tywin Lannister if he so chose to be.
** This was something Julian Glover contributed to the role. He's remarkably spry for his age and suggested that this be included. The producers agreed and so included the scene in "Fire and Blood" where he exercises.
* OutGambitted: Tyrion pulls this by telling him, Littlefinger and Varys three different stories about who he'll marry Myrcella off to, and when Cersei confronts him about Pycelle's version Tyrion knows he's TheMole and has him arrested. Pycelle never lets this go, it probably being one of the few times someone has actually caught him in spite of his attempts to stay under the radar, though Tyrion embarrassing him for good measure certainly helps.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Is stabbed to death multiple times by a gang of murderous child assassins during the Season 6 Finale.
* OhCrap: Has this reaction when Qyburn's little birds surround him.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: He might look like [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]], but he's pretty much just a Lannister yes-man. He was also a YesMan to Robert and Aerys before him. It's how he's managed to survive [[DeadlyDecadentCourt King's Landing]] for so long. This is shown in the "Histories and Lore: Dragons" where according to him, as long as
* RunningGag: By Season 4, other characters regularly interrupt Pycelle mid-speech.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The venerable Grand Maester is in
* SmugSnake: See the aforementioned scene between Pycelle and the injured Tyrion.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: In the first season finale, he does a series of exercises that a frail old man shouldn't be able to do before changing back into his robes, adopting his usual stooped posture, and shuffling out the door. He completely drops the act in the beginning of "Valar Morghulis" to intimidate Tyrion. In a deleted scene with Tywin Lannister, he does this after Tywin points out that he can see right through it, only to resume it when their conversation is over. He ditches it for the final time in the Season 6 finale when he punches out the first little bird to attack him, demonstrating surprising speed. It does nothing to save him from the rest of them.
* UndignifiedDeath: Getting stabbed to death by a group of children isn't the most flattering way to go out; a fitting end for a cowardly weasel like Pycelle.
* UnknownRival: He has some unexplained animosity towards Varys. Varys doesn't seem to know or care.
* WizardBeard: Despite the fact that Maesters
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of both. The former, while clearly an apocalyptic scenario, did
* YesMan: To House Lannister, specially to
* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believe
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yes, Sam cured Jorah Mormont of advanced Greyscale, something even many maesters have failed
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* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah]].
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believe he is imparting philosophy and life's wisdom on Samwell Tarly, except Sam and the viewer knows thatwomen he is completely and children are not allowed at utterly wrong on every single thing he says.
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entire Citadel in doing so. That being said, Sam gets no reward, but no overt punishment.
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* ForTheGreaterGood: For all his faults, he genuinely believes he is doing what is best for the Citadel and the realm, even if Sam and the viewer knows he is going about it the wrong way.
** When dealing with Greyscale, due to the repeated failures of the procedure, he ships the afflicted off to Valyria (if you can't cure it, get it away so that it doesn't infect others).
** He has brought up the fact that the common folk always seem to believe the sky is falling with every tiny change to the status quo, and that the army of the dead from the Long Night is no different. However, with it being a very real threat now, he doesn't see it as any different as long as the Wall still stands, and thus believes it is in everyone's best interest that the Maesters keep going about their normal business.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive ofboth since one has already happened in the past so it can't be both. The former, while clearly an end of the world event apocalyptic scenario, did ''not'' come to pass, and the other is too dangerous for the maester to perform (working on making it safer for the maester therefore he doesn't cross his mind believe this time will be any different. The latter because it's easier to just send the sick one who created the procedure died of the very Greyscale he tried to Valyria). cure, and several maesters have attempted the procedure and all failed. He knows but doesn't study.fails to understand that for the former, the world didn't end because people actually did something about it, and for the latter, perhaps using someone younger with steadier hands could have achieved the desired results.
** When dealing with Greyscale, due to the repeated failures of the procedure, he ships the afflicted off to Valyria (if you can't cure it, get it away so that it doesn't infect others).
** He has brought up the fact that the common folk always seem to believe the sky is falling with every tiny change to the status quo, and that the army of the dead from the Long Night is no different. However, with it being a very real threat now, he doesn't see it as any different as long as the Wall still stands, and thus believes it is in everyone's best interest that the Maesters keep going about their normal business.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of
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* PetTheDog: Allows Jorah one last day to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled commit suicide before the greyscale takes his mind]], and later congratulates Sam for [[spoiler: curing Jorah.]]
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* LockedOutOftheLoop: He is really behind on his information, not even being aware of Ser Jorah Mormont's death which Tyrion Lannister knew since he sat on the Small Council, or the fact that a new Lord Commander, Jon Snow, now served on the Night's Watch. This is stuff that he should have known, which suggests that he, or someone else, hasn't opened letters from the Wall.
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* LockedOutOftheLoop: LockedOutOfTheLoop: He is really behind on his information, not even being aware of Ser Jorah Jeor Mormont's death which Tyrion Lannister knew since he sat on the Small Council, or the fact that a new Lord Commander, Jon Snow, now served on the Night's Watch.had succeeded him. This is stuff that he should have known, which suggests that he, or someone else, hasn't opened letters from the Wall.
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* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no Maester was assigned to Winterfell by the Citadel. [[labelnote: From the books]]Roose Bolton ''did'' bring three Maesters to serve in Winterfell: Maester Henly from Blackpool, Maester Medrick from Hornwood and Maester Rhodry from Castle Cerwyn[[/note]]
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* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no Maester was assigned to Winterfell by the Citadel. [[labelnote: From the books]]Roose Bolton ''did'' bring three Maesters to serve in Winterfell: Maester Henly from Blackpool, Maester Medrick from Hornwood and Maester Rhodry from Castle Cerwyn[[/note]]Cerwyn[[/labelnote]]
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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As with Luwin, he's bound to serve Winterfell, regardless of the actions of House Bolton.
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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As with Luwin, he's bound to serve Winterfell, regardless of the actions of House Bolton. Fortunately, he soon gets to serve the much more honorable Starks.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: They didn't know Mormon was dead and Jon Snow was the new Lord Commander despite everyone else knowing it already, even worse is that by the time they hear the news it's already outdated but they are the one in charge of the raven delivery service.
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--> '''Played By:''' Frank Hvam
-> ''This is most irregular''
The maester Sam reports at on his arrival to the Citadel
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* LockedOutOftheLoop: He is really behind on his information, not even being aware of Ser Jorah Mormont's death which Tyrion Lannister knew since he sat on the Small Council, or the fact that a new Lord Commander, Jon Snow, now served on the Night's Watch. This is stuff that he should have known, which suggests that he, or someone else, hasn't opened letters from the Wall.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: What he does on seeing Sam's arrival at the Citadel.
* NoWomansLand: Informs Samwell that women and children are not allowed at the premises of the Citadel.
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--> '''Played By:''' Frank Hvam
-> ''This is most irregular''
The maester Sam reports at on his arrival to the Citadel
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* LockedOutOftheLoop: He is really behind on his information, not even being aware of Ser Jorah Mormont's death which Tyrion Lannister knew since he sat on the Small Council, or the fact that a new Lord Commander, Jon Snow, now served on the Night's Watch. This is stuff that he should have known, which suggests that he, or someone else, hasn't opened letters from the Wall.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: What he does on seeing Sam's arrival at the Citadel.
* NoWomansLand: Informs Samwell that women and children are not allowed at the premises of the Citadel.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Great Library of the Citadel[[note]]The Astrolabe in the middle is the same as the Titles of the Opening Credits, which as per the meta concept, is an in-universe map designed by the Maesters[[/note]]]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Citadel doesn't encourage research into the higher mysteries, or magic.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He knows the army of the dead exists based on the similarity of too many different witnesses to be fabricated and that there is a way to treat adult with advanced Greyscale. He is just dismissive of both since one has already happened in the past so it can't be an end of the world event and the other is too dangerous for the maester to perform (working on making it safer for the maester doesn't cross his mind because it's easier to just send the sick to Valyria). He knows but doesn't study.
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* ParentalSubstitute: [[labelnote:From the books...]]He sees himself as this to Stannis because he pretty much raised Stannis and Renly after their parents drowned and while Robert and Renly were charming, Stannis was not and, in Cressen's eyes, he needed him the most.[[/labelnote]]
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* ParentalSubstitute: [[labelnote:From the books...]]He sees himself as this to Stannis because he pretty much raised Stannis and Renly after their parents drowned and while Robert and Renly were charming, Stannis was not and, in Cressen's eyes, he needed him the most.[[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]] In the show he is this to Shireen, being the one who taught her how to read and cured her Grayscale. Stannis having difficulty opening himself and Selyse being downright cold to her, Cressen and Davos were the ones giving her the most affection.
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* TheMentor: He was one for Sam Tarly and Jon Snow, giving advice to both and encouraging the curiosity of the former and the rectitude of the latter. He also dies, but of old age rather than MentorOccupationalHazard.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Both Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow got this lesson from Maester Aemon, who stuck by their more rebellious actions and fully backed them, when nobody in Castle Black believed them.
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* AscendedExtra: A minor background character in Season 5, he gets more screentime in Season 6.
* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no maester assigned to Winterfell are identified in the books.
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* AscendedExtra: A minor background character in Season 5, he gets more screentime in Season 6.
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* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no
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* TimePassageBeard: He's shaven to a stubble originally, not unlike Roose and Ramsay. Once the Starks retake Winterfell and he begins serving them, he grows a beard much like the adult Stark males.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: They are one to the Library of Alexandria, located in a very old port city with a large signal lighthouse overlooking the school.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: They are FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** The Citadel is one to the Library of Alexandria, located in a very old port city with a large signal lighthouse overlooking theschool.
* MedievalStasis:school.
** TheCitadel Maesters themselves are ironically meant to represent the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain medieval monasteries and the other is monks and priests who were in charge of education. Though Westeros explicitly divides those duties into a hero.religious and secular arm, with the Faith of the Seven largely representing TheChurch.
** The Citadel is one to the Library of Alexandria, located in a very old port city with a large signal lighthouse overlooking the
* MedievalStasis:
** The
* LoyalToThePosition: Maesters are appointed to serve the Castle and the institution to which they are assigned, and are expected to remain in place no matter who is in charge. Maester Luwin for instance served the castle of Winterfell, and ''not'' House Stark, and when Winterfell was occupied by Theon Greyjoy, he was bound by duty to serve the new occupants. Maester Wolkan, the Maester of Dreadfort and later Winterfell, likewise served first the Boltons and then the Starks.
* MagicVersusScience: They see themselves as representing science against superstition and magic. Which would be admirable if they weren't hostile to actual science (such as medical procedures that might treat deadly diseases) or if their world with its BizarreSeasons, Magic Wall and large dragons wasn't inherently magical.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
* MagicVersusScience: They see themselves as representing science against superstition and magic. Which would be admirable if they weren't hostile to actual science (such as medical procedures that might treat deadly diseases) or if their world with its BizarreSeasons, Magic Wall and large dragons wasn't inherently magical.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
* ShedTheFamilyName: The OnlyOneName of the Maesters is meant to indicate that they have cast aside all family and social bonds and are devoted solely to serve the institutions. This doesn't always work, since some Maesters end up becoming clients of their feudal patrons as in the case of Pycelle and the Lannisters. The truly devoted such as Maester Aemon are far away at the Wall.
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The Order was originally created and it has been long supported by the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
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The Order was originally created by, and it has been long supported by continues to depend on, the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
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[[folder: Grand Maester Pycelle]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulianGlover
Grand Maester who served on the Small Council of King's Landing for the Reigns of King Aerys II, King Robert Baratheon, King Joffrey Baratheon and King Tommen Baratheon.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulianGlover
Grand Maester who served on the Small Council of King's Landing for the Reigns of King Aerys II, King Robert Baratheon, King Joffrey Baratheon and King Tommen Baratheon.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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[[folder:Samwell "Sam" Tarly]]
!! Novice Samwell Tarly, maester-in-training for Castle Black
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[{{Catchphrase}} I read it in a book]]."'']]
->'''Played By:''' John Bradley
->''"If someone had asked me my name, right there, I wouldn't have known. I wasn't Samwell Tarly anymore. I wasn't the steward of the Night's Watch, or son of Randyll Tarly, or any of that. I was nothing at all. When you're nothing at all there's no more reason to be afraid."''
A new trainee at the Wall, and the rejected scion of the noble Tarly family. He is assigned to the Stewards after completing training.
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* AbusiveParents: Hoo boy. His own father was willing to personally murder him.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the books, him killing a White Walker was purely an accident where as here he went actively attacked it, despite being thrown aside like a sack of potatoes. Further shows his badassery in ''Watchers on the Wall'' where as his book incarnation is still largely a coward who freezes up at imminent danger.
* {{Adorkable}}: Particularly towards Gilly.
* BadassBoast: "How many brothers can say that they've killed a White Walker and a Thenn? I might be the first in history." Repeats it and modifies it later against two sworn brothers who're trying to rape Gilly and had just beaten the living hell out of him; "I killed a White Walker, and a Thenn. I'll take my chances with you."
* BadassBookworm: He spends most of his spare time in the library, doing research. This pays off when he establishes precedent for someone as young as Jon to become Lord Commander, and he hopes to find further information on how to combat the White Walkers -- something that King Stannis approves of.
* BandOfBrothers: With Jon, Pyp, Grenn, and Edd.
* BigFun: Albeit in a lower key kind of way.
* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: Season 2's finale ends with Sam surrounded by an army of wights led by the White Walkers.
* {{Bookworm}}: Wanted to be a wizard, and freely admits he much prefers being a steward to being a ranger. "I read it in a book" is [[{{catchphrase}} his fitting answer]] to many questions about his knowledge.
* ButtMonkey: He is one to the other trainees and to Alliser Thorne, until Jon puts a stop to it.
* TheChampion: To Gilly.
* [[CoolSword Cool]] AncestralWeapon: When he leaves Horn Hill, he also takes House Tarly's Valyrian steel sword, Heartsbane.
* CowardlyLion: When he has to defend Gilly, he gets fierce. During the Battle for Castle Black, he's clearly scared shitless the entire time, but he stands his ground.
* CrazyPrepared: "Mhysa" reveals that he collected all the dragonglass daggers and arrowheads from the Fist of the First Men, because of their historical significance and because he thought they might prove useful. And boy, [[WeaksauceWeakness was he right!]]
* CurbStompBattle: Sam gets the crap beaten out of him by two Brothers in ''The Gift'' when he tries to protect Gilly from them. Thank god for [[NobleWolf Ghost]].
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Owns a dragonglass dagger which he uses to slay a White Walker.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Accidentally oneshotting a White Walker counts as this.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: No one at Castle Black believes he killed a White Walker, thanks to the only witness being a Wildling.
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Sam's reason for wanting to help Gilly, one of Craster's daughters. He points out to Jon that the Night's Watch is ''supposed'' to be protecting people and aiding those in need of help, which Gilly clearly is. [[labelnote:From the books...]]Jon confesses the situation to the Lord Commander, and Mormont praises their kindness but tells them to cut it out. The Night's Watch is ''not'' there to "set the world to rights", but rather to protect the realm from outside threats. Which Gilly can hardly be claimed to qualify as.[[/labelnote]]
* {{Expy}}: For [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Samwise Gamgee]]. GRR Martin admits there was some influence, plus John Bradley's portrayal is clearly based on the film version of Samwise.
* FatBestFriend: To Jon.
* FluffyTamer: In "The Night Lands", Sam appears to be the only person besides Jon that Ghost will listen to.
* FriendlessBackground: Until he met Jon.
* TheFunnyGuy: He gets a lot of humorous moments.
* GoThroughMe: Takes this stance when a couple men try to rape Gilly.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jon.
* HuntingAccident: What would have happened to him if he hadn't taken the black.
* InSeriesNickname: "Sam the slayer." Used derogatively, it still works as a reminder of his unlikely but remarkable deeds.
* {{Irony}}: The wayward son of a famously martial family, derided for being a weak, cowardly {{Bookworm}}, ends up being the first person in thousands of years to kill a White Walker.
* KirkSummation: Gives Maester Aemon a reminder of their cause when he's accused of forgetting his oath by choosing to help Gilly.
-->'''Sam:''' "Night gathers and my watch begins. I am the shield that protects the realms of men". The ''realms of men''; that means ''her'', as well as ''us!'' We didn't build five hundred miles of ice wall, seven hundred feet high to keep out ''men!'' The Night is gathering, Maester Aemon, I've seen it. It's coming for ''all'' of us!
* LoopholeAbuse: Upon falling in love with Gilly, he takes a second look at the Night's Watch oath and notices it never actually specifically forbids them to have sex, as long as they don't get married or have children.
* LovableCoward: Scared of absolutely everything. Subverted completely in "The Watchers on the Wall" where he voluntarily joins in the defense and keeps a cool head before and during the battle.
* LyricalDissonance: In a manner of speaking. While the nursery rhyme he sings about the Seven Gods to Gilly's baby is incredibly sweet, the dissonance comes when one considers the first verse describes the goodness of the Father to his children, compared to Gilly and Sam's relationship with their ''own'' respective fathers.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His pep-talk to a terrified Olly inspires him to take up a bow and help fight...then he kills Jon's LoveInterest. Ouch.
* NiceGuy: Sam is very friendly and easy-going.
* NonActionGuy: He's a self-admitted coward. Subverted in "The Watchers on the Wall," where he keeps his cool in the battle and manages to get a headshot on a Thenn.
* NumberTwo: Unofficially becomes this to Jon after the latter's election as Lord Commander. He becomes Jon's main confidant and, with Maester Aemon passing away and Thorne being [[{{Jerkass}} Thorne]], his only source of trusted advice. Jon outright states that he's reluctant to send Sam to become a Maester primarily because of this reason.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 6, where he only appears in three episodes and only has a major role in one of them.
* PapaWolf: When defending Gilly and her baby from a White Walker.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's this to Gilly's baby to the point that in Season 6, Gilly flat out calls him the father of her son.
* PersonaNonGrata: Of his own house after [[spoiler: his father finds out Gilly is a Wildling.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: Probably the best fit for this among any of the characters.
* PrecisionFStrike: Sam is a pretty polite speaker, which makes his telling Pip to "open the fucking gate" all the more shocking/hilarious.
* {{Protectorate}}: Jon Snow seems to have adopted him as this within seconds of meeting. He defends Sam to anyone who tries to lay a finger on the new recruit, convinces all the other boys to leave him alone, and when one refuses to go along with it, sneaks into his room in the middle of the night and threatens him with his pet direwolf. Basically, hurting him is one of the quickest ways to piss Jon off.
** And Gilly and her baby are his. He killed a ''White Walker'' to protect them!
* RealityEnsues:
** Sam killed a White Walker and a Thenn; impressive accomplishments, but ultimately the product of luck. His actual fighting ability is demonstrated in ''The Gift'', where he gets the living shit beaten out of him by a couple of sworn brothers attempting to rape Gilly. He still retains his badass status, though, because even beaten to a pulp, he ''gets back up''.
** Also, when faced with his abusive father he quickly reverts back to a crying mess. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he is ultimately able to defy his father by escaping with Gilly and stealing his precious sword.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He later reasserts this stance to Maester Aemon, [[KirkSummation correcting him]] in case he's having similar sentiments to Lord Mormont's ones about it not being their place to help others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Lord Commander Mormont is attacked by Rast, and all hell breaks loose, he runs to take Gilly away, forgetting about Edd and Grenn. In all fairness, they did the same thing to him when that horn sounded a third time...
* ShrinkingViolet: Which is why his father made him join the Night's Watch.
* ShutUpHannibal: Shames Janos Slynt when he makes a crude remark about Gilly by mentioning how he cowered in the pantry when everyone else fought bravely to defend Castle Black in Season 4.
* TheSmartGuy: Makes some astute observations in "The Pointy End" when bodies are brought back from the other side of the Wall.
-->'''Commander Mormont:''' You may be a coward, Tarly, but you're not stupid.
* TookALevelInBadass: First, Sam is introduced as a completely hopeless fighter and a coward. By Season 3, he's able to lead Gilly and her baby all the way back to the Wall on his own, killing a White Walker along the way. Graduated to full on Badass as of "The Watchers on the Wall". While he recognizes his true talents are book intelligence and he is a terrible fighter, Sam still chooses to fight in the battle instead of hiding with Gilly, making himself useful by reloading crossbows for the other men who are also defending the Wall and encourages those who are afraid. He is also able to keep calm and collected during the fight, even when his friend Pypar dies, running through arrow-fire for reinforcements after Ser Alliser falls. Samwell even manages to kill a charging Thenn with a crossbow headshot. By Season 5, Sam commands enough respect from his fellow brothers to make a case to elect Jon as Lord-Commander of the Night's Watch.
-->'''Sam:''' I'm not nothing anymore.
* TrueCompanions: With Jon, Pyp, and Grenn.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jon. It's notable that despite being a self-admitted coward, he ''still'' chooses to go with Jon beyond the Wall in order to take his vows, despite the fact that he wasn't even raised to believe in the Old Gods. In Season 5, after Jon tells Sam of his intent to turn down Stannis's offer of legitimacy out of loyalty to his vows, Sam in turn nominates and successfully makes a case for Jon as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, knowing that Jon is truly the best person for the job out of the three candidates.
* UnexplainedAccent: Season 6 finally reveals Sam's ancestral home and immediate family, who all (particularly Dickon) speak with the moderate RP accent common to most of the aristocratic characters in the series (bar a few of the Northern houses). Sam's broad northern English accent therefore stands out as being slightly incongruent with his background.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He survives season 2's finale, luckily, but we are cheated out of a scene showing ''how'' in the process.
* TheUnfavorite: He's at the Wall because his father threatened to ''murder'' him if he didn't "voluntarily" remove himself from the line of inheritance. Ouch. [[labelnote:From the books...]]This was ''after'' a long series of failed attempts to make him a man, including taking him to whorehouses, making him sleep in chainmail, forcing him to walk around in a dress to shame him into manliness, and bathing him in blood. Eventually, Lord Randyll's wife gave him another son, allowing why he could dispense with his girly-man firstborn. Incidentally, Randyll Tarly has achieved MemeticBadass status amongst the book fandom... but do you know, I don't think they meant it entirely as a compliment.[[/labelnote]]
* YouShallNotPass: Invokes this towards the White Walker who tried to take Gilly's baby.
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[[folder: Qyburn]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AntonLesser
Former novice who was expelled from the Citadel before he completed his chain, later became a client of House Lannister, and currently Hand to Queen Cersei Lannister.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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!! Maesters in Service
[[folder:Maester Aemon Targaryen]]
!! Maester Aemon, in service to Castle Black
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Love is the death of duty."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterVaughan
->''"I am the Maester of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Nights' Watch. I will not tell you to stay or go. You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days -- As I have."''
The Maester serving as a member of the Night's Watch, in residence at Castle Black. Extremely old, blind, and awesome. When most of the Night's Watch's commanding officers get killed off in the expedition beyond the Wall, he steps up to help lead the remaining garrison, while supporting Alliser Thorne's position as Acting Lord Commander until a new election can be held (a maester can't be a Lord Commander). Before completing his maester's chain, he was Prince Aemon Targaryen, the son of King Maekar. When the succession passed to him, he stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V and completed his very long life in the Citadel and then the Wall. Aegon V's son (in the TV continuity) was Aerys II, the Mad King -- making Maester Aemon the great-uncle of Daenerys Targaryen.
He was TheMentor to Samwell Tarly, who is sent to the Citadel to eventually learn to take his place.
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* AdultFear: Nearly all his family members were killed during Robert's Rebellion. The only survivors were his brother's grandchildren, Viserys and Daenerys, who were sent into exile across the Narrow Sea. Viserys was later murdered by a Dothraki khal and Daenerys was left alone halfway around the world. And all the while, Aemon was completely powerless to do ''anything'' about it.
* AffectionateNickname: 'The Gift' reveals he used to call Aegon 'Egg', and calls Gilly 'Gillyflower' after the carnation.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's roundly a NiceGuy, when he talks to Jon about the murder of Elia Martell's children, it's clear if he had been a younger man at the time with his eyesight remaining nobody would have stopped him from seeking revenge.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Egg/Aegon V. He remembered him when he was a baby and he willingly took the black so that he could be King instead of him. About the only thing Aemon likes about dying is that he can meet his brother again, who he had long outlived, and tell him that he dreamt that he had grown old.
* ConflictingLoyalty: He understands the problems of conflicting loyalties that Jon is facing between his love for his family vs. Watch oaths, knowing what Jon is going through, as Maester Aemon reveals he is actually Aemon Targaryen, whose family was almost entirely killed off during Robert's Rebellion. He also shares his experiences with Conflicting Loyalty with Sam, noting that while he knows full well that "love is the death of duty," he had known love himself as a young man and was seriously tempted to accept his birthright.
* CoolOldGuy: The oldest man in Westeros, in fact. Definitely a good man, he vouches for Jon when he comes back from the Wildlings. He also bonds with Samwell Tarly regarding his transparent fondness for Gilly. He also casts the tie-breaking vote that makes Jon the new Lord Commander.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can't resist a tiny bit of snark at the end of Season 3 when Sam brings [[NotWhatItLooksLike a woman and a baby]] to Castle Black.
* DecidedByOneVote: He casts the tie-breaking vote to make Jon the next Night's Watch Commander over Alliser.
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: He's been talking to a Targaryen the entire series, and neither of them are aware of it.]]
* FamousLastWords: "Egg? I dreamed... that I was old."
* {{Foil}}: To the extremely corrupt Maester Pycelle, Aemon represents the true dedication and commitment to his vows, offers genuine and useful advice and is beloved and respected by his charges.
* ForWantOfANail: He mentions that he refused his birthright to become King, so the crown passed to his younger brother instead. Who then passed it to his son, who became the Mad King and inspired Robert's Rebellion. It boggles the mind how differently everything might have turned out if Aemon had taken the job.
* GoOutWithASmile: He grows delirious in his final hours and relives the days of his youth, his final words being a statement that he now thinks his real life at the Wall was a dream.
* HiddenDepths: This blind old Maester is the last Targaryen living in Westeros. People tend to forget this as he reminds Sam:
-->'''Aemon:''' You can imagine all sorts of horrors that may have befallen that girl and her baby, but you can't imagine that an old man was once, more or less, like you?
* HonorBeforeReason: Informs Jon that an oath is simple to keep in easy times but the true test comes when a person has every good reason to break it. Overlaps with a bit of WhatYouAreInTheDark.
-->'''Aemon:''' We all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. But sooner or later, in every man's life, there comes a day when it is not easy. A day when he must ''choose''.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He used to be a real ladykiller. Sam finds this hard to believe, and he scolds him for assuming that he always looked the way he does now. Sam then apologizes.
* LivingLieDetector: Why he believes Jon's story after he returns from his mission with the Wildlings. After all, he grew up in King's Landing.
* LongLived: He seems to be the oldest man in Westeros.
* LongLostRelative: To Daenerys [[spoiler: and Jon.]]
* KarmicDeath: A positive example. The kindest and gentlest soul in Westeros, and he peacefully dies an old man in his bed.
* NiceGuy: Acts with kindness and patience towards pretty much everyone he meets and interacts with including Tyrion, gives an especially Angsty Jon Snow some important life lessons in Season 1, and in Season 3, he happily welcomes Gilly and her baby to stay at Castle Black. During his eulogy, Sam calls him with quite some justification ''the'' nicest person in Westeros.
* NotSoDifferent: He sympathizes with Jon's love for his family and tells Jon that he knows what it's like to have ConflictingLoyalty to the Night's Watch and the desire to save his family. Maester Aemon's family, the Targaryens, were entirely slaughtered, ''even the children'', while he was powerless to stop them, being too old and blind by then to desert his post and fight at their side.
* OfferedTheCrown: He's the Mad King's uncle and turned down the crown in favor of his younger brother. One has to wonder what Westeros would be like had he taken the Iron Throne rather than Aegon V, who sired the Mad King.
* ParentalSubstitute: Slightly to Jon Snow, greatly to Samwell Tarly.
* PragmaticAdaptation: In the series, Aemon identifies Mad King Aerys II as his nephew, while in the books, he is his great-nephew, thereby cutting one generation from the Targaryen family tree and making him Daenerys' great-uncle. While the timeline does make sense in the books (Aemon is 100 years old at that point -- exceptional, but not unrealistic), this was probably changed to avoid viewers being puzzled on how it is possible that Daenerys' (who also got an AgeLift) great-great-uncle is still alive.
* ProphetEyes: Of the 'just blind, not psychic' variety. As far as we know.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Takes heed to Sam and quickly sends word of the White Walker situation to every corner of the kingdoms. He also extends an invitation to Gilly and Little Sam to stay at Castle Black, as they certainly can't send them back beyond the Wall.
** During a period of interregnum, he's the fair, balanced voice that tries to moderate the rash or punitive tendencies of Thorne and Slynt.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: He ''willingly'' chose this, feeling he was not cut out for the game of thrones and stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V "Egg".
* TheReveal: He has been serving at the Wall so long, his lineage has been largely forgotten by most of Westeros.
--> '''Jon''': Who are you?\\
'''Aemon''': My father was Maekar, first of his name. My brother Aegon, reigned after him, when I had refused the throne. And he was followed by his son, Aerys... who they called "the Mad King"\\
'''Jon''': You're Aemon ''Targaryen''?!
* YourDaysAreNumbered: He falls ill early in Season 5 and becomes convinced that he's dying. He finally passes away in "The Gift".
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[[folder:Maester Luwin]]
!! Maester Luwin, in service to Winterfell
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Maybe magic once was a mighty force in the world, but not anymore. The dragons are gone. The giants are dead. And the Children of the Forest, forgotten."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldSumpter
->''"When you were born I was the one who pulled you from your mother. I pulled you into the world, both of you."''
A Maester in the employ of the Starks. He is an advisor and confidant to Ned and Catelyn Stark. Maester Luwin tutors the Stark boys -- Robb, Jon Snow, Bran, and Rickon -- while they are growing up at Winterfell, as well the Starks' ward Theon Greyjoy. Maester Luwin is shown to be one of Bran's primary [[TheMentor mentors]].
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* AgentScully: He dismisses Bran's wolf dreams and Osha's accounts that [[TheMagicComesBack magic is returning to the world]] (which the audience knows to be true). Luwin actually studied magic when younger and attempted to practice it unsuccessfully, and his attitude now is that either it was made up or at best, the world is one where [[TheMagicGoesAway magic once existed but went away]] (true until recently).
* BaldOfAwesome: Very bald, and very awesome.
* BigNo: In "A Man without Honor", upon seeing the bodies of (fake) Rickon and Bran.
* TheConscience: To Theon. Theon wants to listen to Maester Luwin, but believes he's gone too far to turn back.
* TheConsigliere: One of his job descriptions, he's sworn to serve the Lord of Winterfell even if it is a usurper.
* CoolOldGuy: Luwin is a mildly snarky PapaWolf with a vast knowledge of the world around him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially where Theon Greyjoy is concerned.
-->'''Bran:''' The Iron Islands. Lords... the Greyjoys.\\
'''Theon:''' Known for their skills in archery, navigation and lovemaking.\\
'''Maester Luwin:''' And failed rebellions.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He was very calm in his final hours.
* FireForgedFriends: Bonds with Osha -- who was introduced threatening the life of Bran Stark -- during the Sack of Winterfell while both are trying to keep Bran and Rickon alive.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Asks Osha for a MercyKill and she obliges.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dagmer jabs him in the side with a spear out of pure malice.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Developed one with Osha.
* KilledOffscreen: The scene cuts before Osha grants him his requested MercyKill.
* TheMentor: To the sons of Lord Stark in general (Robb, Jon, Bran and Rickon), but is especially seen as this to Bran.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Mortally speared by Cleftjaw.
* MercyKill: Asked Osha to give him a quick death after he received a fatal injury from Theon's [[TheStarscream traitor-of-a]] MookLieutenant.
* ObiWanMoment: In his final moments, he calmly instructs Bran and Rickon to head for the Wall to their half-brother Jon, who will [[BigBrotherInstinct protect them]] and let their mother know they are safe.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The hat of the Maesters' order.
* PapaWolf: For Bran and Rickon.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Bran and Rickon.
* SoProudOfYou: He's filled with pride when Robb gives him the order to call the banners to rescue Ned Stark. Later, he demonstrates pride in Bran's administrative instincts as well as his and Rickon's composure during Theon's sack of Winterfell.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even though maesters are supposed to serve the realm and a particular family, it's clear Luwin is more loyal to the Starks. Even when advising Theon, he's attempting to protect Bran and Rickon.
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[[folder:Maester Cressen]]
!! Maester Cressen, in service to Dragonstone
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Loyal service means telling hard truths."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Oliver Ford Davies
An old Maester serving Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: After drinking the poisoned wine.
* CompositeCharacter: Cressen's ineffectual defense of the Seven idols that are burned is reminiscent of the Lords Sunglass and Rambton from the books.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cressen attempts to take out Melisandre by toasting to the Lord of Light as the only true god, then drinking from a poisoned chalice and offering it to Melisandre so the two will die and everyone else in the room will take this as a sign to abandon the Lord of Light and return to the Faith of the Seven. However, Melisandre sees past Cressen's plans and drinks from the chalice knowing that her powers make her immune to the poison. The "heretic" Cressen dies, she "miraculously" survives, and everyone else will end seeing this as evidence of her god's power.
* OldRetainer: To the Baratheon family, and Stannis in particular.
* OnlySaneMan: Either this or CommanderContrarian.
* ParentalSubstitute: [[labelnote:From the books...]]He sees himself as this to Stannis because he pretty much raised Stannis and Renly after their parents drowned and while Robert and Renly were charming, Stannis was not and, in Cressen's eyes, he needed him the most.[[/labelnote]]
* PerfectPoison: Cressen uses a rather painful poison against Melisandre; being a Maester, it's likely he knew exactly what would do the job. Unfortunately due to her magical abilities, it's a case of NoSell.
* SacrificialLamb: He's killed in his first episode to show the ruthlessness of Melisandre, the genuine nature of her power, and how Stannis has shifted his beliefs.
* SelfPoisoningGambit: He attempted this, drinking the poisoned wine first to "prove" that it was safe, then offering some to Melisandre. Unfortunately for him, she is protected by her magic and only he dies as a result.
* TakingYouWithMe: His plan to poison Melisandre is to drink first from a cup of poisoned wine and then offer some to her. It doesn't work. Melisandre is immune to poisons thanks to her magical powers.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in his introductory episode.
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[[folder:Maester Wolkan]]
!! Maester Wolkan, in service to the Dreadfort.
->'''Played By:''' Richard Rycroft
The Maester of House Bolton at the Dreadfort. He later enters service at Winterfell when the Boltons take control of the Castle. After the defeat of the Boltons, he becomes the Maester of House Stark.
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* AscendedExtra: A minor background character in Season 5, he gets more screentime in Season 6.
* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no maester assigned to Winterfell are identified in the books.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's visibly horrified when [[spoiler: Ramsay drives a dagger into his father's heart, and then when he asks to send for Lady Walda and her son. Wolkan knows full well what's about to happen.]]
* ExpositoryHairChange: He's shaven to a stubble originally, not unlike Roose and Ramsay. Once the Starks retake Winterfell and he begins serving them, he grows a beard much like the adult Stark males.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As with Luwin, he's bound to serve Winterfell, regardless of the actions of House Bolton.
* TrappedInVillainy: He's sworn to dutifully serve the master of Winterfell, the Boltons, even if he is appalled by their actions. After the destruction of House Bolton, he is no longer trapped and serves the more honorable Starks.
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[[folder:Samwell "Sam" Tarly]]
!! Novice Samwell Tarly, maester-in-training for Castle Black
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[{{Catchphrase}} I read it in a book]]."'']]
->'''Played By:''' John Bradley
->''"If someone had asked me my name, right there, I wouldn't have known. I wasn't Samwell Tarly anymore. I wasn't the steward of the Night's Watch, or son of Randyll Tarly, or any of that. I was nothing at all. When you're nothing at all there's no more reason to be afraid."''
A new trainee at the Wall, and the rejected scion of the noble Tarly family. He is assigned to the Stewards after completing training.
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* AbusiveParents: Hoo boy. His own father was willing to personally murder him.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the books, him killing a White Walker was purely an accident where as here he went actively attacked it, despite being thrown aside like a sack of potatoes. Further shows his badassery in ''Watchers on the Wall'' where as his book incarnation is still largely a coward who freezes up at imminent danger.
* {{Adorkable}}: Particularly towards Gilly.
* BadassBoast: "How many brothers can say that they've killed a White Walker and a Thenn? I might be the first in history." Repeats it and modifies it later against two sworn brothers who're trying to rape Gilly and had just beaten the living hell out of him; "I killed a White Walker, and a Thenn. I'll take my chances with you."
* BadassBookworm: He spends most of his spare time in the library, doing research. This pays off when he establishes precedent for someone as young as Jon to become Lord Commander, and he hopes to find further information on how to combat the White Walkers -- something that King Stannis approves of.
* BandOfBrothers: With Jon, Pyp, Grenn, and Edd.
* BigFun: Albeit in a lower key kind of way.
* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: Season 2's finale ends with Sam surrounded by an army of wights led by the White Walkers.
* {{Bookworm}}: Wanted to be a wizard, and freely admits he much prefers being a steward to being a ranger. "I read it in a book" is [[{{catchphrase}} his fitting answer]] to many questions about his knowledge.
* ButtMonkey: He is one to the other trainees and to Alliser Thorne, until Jon puts a stop to it.
* TheChampion: To Gilly.
* [[CoolSword Cool]] AncestralWeapon: When he leaves Horn Hill, he also takes House Tarly's Valyrian steel sword, Heartsbane.
* CowardlyLion: When he has to defend Gilly, he gets fierce. During the Battle for Castle Black, he's clearly scared shitless the entire time, but he stands his ground.
* CrazyPrepared: "Mhysa" reveals that he collected all the dragonglass daggers and arrowheads from the Fist of the First Men, because of their historical significance and because he thought they might prove useful. And boy, [[WeaksauceWeakness was he right!]]
* CurbStompBattle: Sam gets the crap beaten out of him by two Brothers in ''The Gift'' when he tries to protect Gilly from them. Thank god for [[NobleWolf Ghost]].
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Owns a dragonglass dagger which he uses to slay a White Walker.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Accidentally oneshotting a White Walker counts as this.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: No one at Castle Black believes he killed a White Walker, thanks to the only witness being a Wildling.
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Sam's reason for wanting to help Gilly, one of Craster's daughters. He points out to Jon that the Night's Watch is ''supposed'' to be protecting people and aiding those in need of help, which Gilly clearly is. [[labelnote:From the books...]]Jon confesses the situation to the Lord Commander, and Mormont praises their kindness but tells them to cut it out. The Night's Watch is ''not'' there to "set the world to rights", but rather to protect the realm from outside threats. Which Gilly can hardly be claimed to qualify as.[[/labelnote]]
* {{Expy}}: For [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Samwise Gamgee]]. GRR Martin admits there was some influence, plus John Bradley's portrayal is clearly based on the film version of Samwise.
* FatBestFriend: To Jon.
* FluffyTamer: In "The Night Lands", Sam appears to be the only person besides Jon that Ghost will listen to.
* FriendlessBackground: Until he met Jon.
* TheFunnyGuy: He gets a lot of humorous moments.
* GoThroughMe: Takes this stance when a couple men try to rape Gilly.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jon.
* HuntingAccident: What would have happened to him if he hadn't taken the black.
* InSeriesNickname: "Sam the slayer." Used derogatively, it still works as a reminder of his unlikely but remarkable deeds.
* {{Irony}}: The wayward son of a famously martial family, derided for being a weak, cowardly {{Bookworm}}, ends up being the first person in thousands of years to kill a White Walker.
* KirkSummation: Gives Maester Aemon a reminder of their cause when he's accused of forgetting his oath by choosing to help Gilly.
-->'''Sam:''' "Night gathers and my watch begins. I am the shield that protects the realms of men". The ''realms of men''; that means ''her'', as well as ''us!'' We didn't build five hundred miles of ice wall, seven hundred feet high to keep out ''men!'' The Night is gathering, Maester Aemon, I've seen it. It's coming for ''all'' of us!
* LoopholeAbuse: Upon falling in love with Gilly, he takes a second look at the Night's Watch oath and notices it never actually specifically forbids them to have sex, as long as they don't get married or have children.
* LovableCoward: Scared of absolutely everything. Subverted completely in "The Watchers on the Wall" where he voluntarily joins in the defense and keeps a cool head before and during the battle.
* LyricalDissonance: In a manner of speaking. While the nursery rhyme he sings about the Seven Gods to Gilly's baby is incredibly sweet, the dissonance comes when one considers the first verse describes the goodness of the Father to his children, compared to Gilly and Sam's relationship with their ''own'' respective fathers.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His pep-talk to a terrified Olly inspires him to take up a bow and help fight...then he kills Jon's LoveInterest. Ouch.
* NiceGuy: Sam is very friendly and easy-going.
* NonActionGuy: He's a self-admitted coward. Subverted in "The Watchers on the Wall," where he keeps his cool in the battle and manages to get a headshot on a Thenn.
* NumberTwo: Unofficially becomes this to Jon after the latter's election as Lord Commander. He becomes Jon's main confidant and, with Maester Aemon passing away and Thorne being [[{{Jerkass}} Thorne]], his only source of trusted advice. Jon outright states that he's reluctant to send Sam to become a Maester primarily because of this reason.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 6, where he only appears in three episodes and only has a major role in one of them.
* PapaWolf: When defending Gilly and her baby from a White Walker.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's this to Gilly's baby to the point that in Season 6, Gilly flat out calls him the father of her son.
* PersonaNonGrata: Of his own house after [[spoiler: his father finds out Gilly is a Wildling.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: Probably the best fit for this among any of the characters.
* PrecisionFStrike: Sam is a pretty polite speaker, which makes his telling Pip to "open the fucking gate" all the more shocking/hilarious.
* {{Protectorate}}: Jon Snow seems to have adopted him as this within seconds of meeting. He defends Sam to anyone who tries to lay a finger on the new recruit, convinces all the other boys to leave him alone, and when one refuses to go along with it, sneaks into his room in the middle of the night and threatens him with his pet direwolf. Basically, hurting him is one of the quickest ways to piss Jon off.
** And Gilly and her baby are his. He killed a ''White Walker'' to protect them!
* RealityEnsues:
** Sam killed a White Walker and a Thenn; impressive accomplishments, but ultimately the product of luck. His actual fighting ability is demonstrated in ''The Gift'', where he gets the living shit beaten out of him by a couple of sworn brothers attempting to rape Gilly. He still retains his badass status, though, because even beaten to a pulp, he ''gets back up''.
** Also, when faced with his abusive father he quickly reverts back to a crying mess. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he is ultimately able to defy his father by escaping with Gilly and stealing his precious sword.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He later reasserts this stance to Maester Aemon, [[KirkSummation correcting him]] in case he's having similar sentiments to Lord Mormont's ones about it not being their place to help others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Lord Commander Mormont is attacked by Rast, and all hell breaks loose, he runs to take Gilly away, forgetting about Edd and Grenn. In all fairness, they did the same thing to him when that horn sounded a third time...
* ShrinkingViolet: Which is why his father made him join the Night's Watch.
* ShutUpHannibal: Shames Janos Slynt when he makes a crude remark about Gilly by mentioning how he cowered in the pantry when everyone else fought bravely to defend Castle Black in Season 4.
* TheSmartGuy: Makes some astute observations in "The Pointy End" when bodies are brought back from the other side of the Wall.
-->'''Commander Mormont:''' You may be a coward, Tarly, but you're not stupid.
* TookALevelInBadass: First, Sam is introduced as a completely hopeless fighter and a coward. By Season 3, he's able to lead Gilly and her baby all the way back to the Wall on his own, killing a White Walker along the way. Graduated to full on Badass as of "The Watchers on the Wall". While he recognizes his true talents are book intelligence and he is a terrible fighter, Sam still chooses to fight in the battle instead of hiding with Gilly, making himself useful by reloading crossbows for the other men who are also defending the Wall and encourages those who are afraid. He is also able to keep calm and collected during the fight, even when his friend Pypar dies, running through arrow-fire for reinforcements after Ser Alliser falls. Samwell even manages to kill a charging Thenn with a crossbow headshot. By Season 5, Sam commands enough respect from his fellow brothers to make a case to elect Jon as Lord-Commander of the Night's Watch.
-->'''Sam:''' I'm not nothing anymore.
* TrueCompanions: With Jon, Pyp, and Grenn.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jon. It's notable that despite being a self-admitted coward, he ''still'' chooses to go with Jon beyond the Wall in order to take his vows, despite the fact that he wasn't even raised to believe in the Old Gods. In Season 5, after Jon tells Sam of his intent to turn down Stannis's offer of legitimacy out of loyalty to his vows, Sam in turn nominates and successfully makes a case for Jon as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, knowing that Jon is truly the best person for the job out of the three candidates.
* UnexplainedAccent: Season 6 finally reveals Sam's ancestral home and immediate family, who all (particularly Dickon) speak with the moderate RP accent common to most of the aristocratic characters in the series (bar a few of the Northern houses). Sam's broad northern English accent therefore stands out as being slightly incongruent with his background.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He survives season 2's finale, luckily, but we are cheated out of a scene showing ''how'' in the process.
* TheUnfavorite: He's at the Wall because his father threatened to ''murder'' him if he didn't "voluntarily" remove himself from the line of inheritance. Ouch. [[labelnote:From the books...]]This was ''after'' a long series of failed attempts to make him a man, including taking him to whorehouses, making him sleep in chainmail, forcing him to walk around in a dress to shame him into manliness, and bathing him in blood. Eventually, Lord Randyll's wife gave him another son, allowing why he could dispense with his girly-man firstborn. Incidentally, Randyll Tarly has achieved MemeticBadass status amongst the book fandom... but do you know, I don't think they meant it entirely as a compliment.[[/labelnote]]
* YouShallNotPass: Invokes this towards the White Walker who tried to take Gilly's baby.
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[[folder: Qyburn]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AntonLesser
Former novice who was expelled from the Citadel before he completed his chain, later became a client of House Lannister, and currently Hand to Queen Cersei Lannister.
See [[Characters/GameOfThronesRoyalCourt Royal Court]]
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!! Maesters in Service
[[folder:Maester Aemon Targaryen]]
!! Maester Aemon, in service to Castle Black
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Love is the death of duty."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterVaughan
->''"I am the Maester of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Nights' Watch. I will not tell you to stay or go. You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days -- As I have."''
The Maester serving as a member of the Night's Watch, in residence at Castle Black. Extremely old, blind, and awesome. When most of the Night's Watch's commanding officers get killed off in the expedition beyond the Wall, he steps up to help lead the remaining garrison, while supporting Alliser Thorne's position as Acting Lord Commander until a new election can be held (a maester can't be a Lord Commander). Before completing his maester's chain, he was Prince Aemon Targaryen, the son of King Maekar. When the succession passed to him, he stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V and completed his very long life in the Citadel and then the Wall. Aegon V's son (in the TV continuity) was Aerys II, the Mad King -- making Maester Aemon the great-uncle of Daenerys Targaryen.
He was TheMentor to Samwell Tarly, who is sent to the Citadel to eventually learn to take his place.
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* AdultFear: Nearly all his family members were killed during Robert's Rebellion. The only survivors were his brother's grandchildren, Viserys and Daenerys, who were sent into exile across the Narrow Sea. Viserys was later murdered by a Dothraki khal and Daenerys was left alone halfway around the world. And all the while, Aemon was completely powerless to do ''anything'' about it.
* AffectionateNickname: 'The Gift' reveals he used to call Aegon 'Egg', and calls Gilly 'Gillyflower' after the carnation.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's roundly a NiceGuy, when he talks to Jon about the murder of Elia Martell's children, it's clear if he had been a younger man at the time with his eyesight remaining nobody would have stopped him from seeking revenge.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Egg/Aegon V. He remembered him when he was a baby and he willingly took the black so that he could be King instead of him. About the only thing Aemon likes about dying is that he can meet his brother again, who he had long outlived, and tell him that he dreamt that he had grown old.
* ConflictingLoyalty: He understands the problems of conflicting loyalties that Jon is facing between his love for his family vs. Watch oaths, knowing what Jon is going through, as Maester Aemon reveals he is actually Aemon Targaryen, whose family was almost entirely killed off during Robert's Rebellion. He also shares his experiences with Conflicting Loyalty with Sam, noting that while he knows full well that "love is the death of duty," he had known love himself as a young man and was seriously tempted to accept his birthright.
* CoolOldGuy: The oldest man in Westeros, in fact. Definitely a good man, he vouches for Jon when he comes back from the Wildlings. He also bonds with Samwell Tarly regarding his transparent fondness for Gilly. He also casts the tie-breaking vote that makes Jon the new Lord Commander.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can't resist a tiny bit of snark at the end of Season 3 when Sam brings [[NotWhatItLooksLike a woman and a baby]] to Castle Black.
* DecidedByOneVote: He casts the tie-breaking vote to make Jon the next Night's Watch Commander over Alliser.
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: He's been talking to a Targaryen the entire series, and neither of them are aware of it.]]
* FamousLastWords: "Egg? I dreamed... that I was old."
* {{Foil}}: To the extremely corrupt Maester Pycelle, Aemon represents the true dedication and commitment to his vows, offers genuine and useful advice and is beloved and respected by his charges.
* ForWantOfANail: He mentions that he refused his birthright to become King, so the crown passed to his younger brother instead. Who then passed it to his son, who became the Mad King and inspired Robert's Rebellion. It boggles the mind how differently everything might have turned out if Aemon had taken the job.
* GoOutWithASmile: He grows delirious in his final hours and relives the days of his youth, his final words being a statement that he now thinks his real life at the Wall was a dream.
* HiddenDepths: This blind old Maester is the last Targaryen living in Westeros. People tend to forget this as he reminds Sam:
-->'''Aemon:''' You can imagine all sorts of horrors that may have befallen that girl and her baby, but you can't imagine that an old man was once, more or less, like you?
* HonorBeforeReason: Informs Jon that an oath is simple to keep in easy times but the true test comes when a person has every good reason to break it. Overlaps with a bit of WhatYouAreInTheDark.
-->'''Aemon:''' We all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. But sooner or later, in every man's life, there comes a day when it is not easy. A day when he must ''choose''.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He used to be a real ladykiller. Sam finds this hard to believe, and he scolds him for assuming that he always looked the way he does now. Sam then apologizes.
* LivingLieDetector: Why he believes Jon's story after he returns from his mission with the Wildlings. After all, he grew up in King's Landing.
* LongLived: He seems to be the oldest man in Westeros.
* LongLostRelative: To Daenerys [[spoiler: and Jon.]]
* KarmicDeath: A positive example. The kindest and gentlest soul in Westeros, and he peacefully dies an old man in his bed.
* NiceGuy: Acts with kindness and patience towards pretty much everyone he meets and interacts with including Tyrion, gives an especially Angsty Jon Snow some important life lessons in Season 1, and in Season 3, he happily welcomes Gilly and her baby to stay at Castle Black. During his eulogy, Sam calls him with quite some justification ''the'' nicest person in Westeros.
* NotSoDifferent: He sympathizes with Jon's love for his family and tells Jon that he knows what it's like to have ConflictingLoyalty to the Night's Watch and the desire to save his family. Maester Aemon's family, the Targaryens, were entirely slaughtered, ''even the children'', while he was powerless to stop them, being too old and blind by then to desert his post and fight at their side.
* OfferedTheCrown: He's the Mad King's uncle and turned down the crown in favor of his younger brother. One has to wonder what Westeros would be like had he taken the Iron Throne rather than Aegon V, who sired the Mad King.
* ParentalSubstitute: Slightly to Jon Snow, greatly to Samwell Tarly.
* PragmaticAdaptation: In the series, Aemon identifies Mad King Aerys II as his nephew, while in the books, he is his great-nephew, thereby cutting one generation from the Targaryen family tree and making him Daenerys' great-uncle. While the timeline does make sense in the books (Aemon is 100 years old at that point -- exceptional, but not unrealistic), this was probably changed to avoid viewers being puzzled on how it is possible that Daenerys' (who also got an AgeLift) great-great-uncle is still alive.
* ProphetEyes: Of the 'just blind, not psychic' variety. As far as we know.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Takes heed to Sam and quickly sends word of the White Walker situation to every corner of the kingdoms. He also extends an invitation to Gilly and Little Sam to stay at Castle Black, as they certainly can't send them back beyond the Wall.
** During a period of interregnum, he's the fair, balanced voice that tries to moderate the rash or punitive tendencies of Thorne and Slynt.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: He ''willingly'' chose this, feeling he was not cut out for the game of thrones and stepped aside for his younger brother Aegon V "Egg".
* TheReveal: He has been serving at the Wall so long, his lineage has been largely forgotten by most of Westeros.
--> '''Jon''': Who are you?\\
'''Aemon''': My father was Maekar, first of his name. My brother Aegon, reigned after him, when I had refused the throne. And he was followed by his son, Aerys... who they called "the Mad King"\\
'''Jon''': You're Aemon ''Targaryen''?!
* YourDaysAreNumbered: He falls ill early in Season 5 and becomes convinced that he's dying. He finally passes away in "The Gift".
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!! Maester Luwin, in service to Winterfell
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldSumpter
->''"When you were born I was the one who pulled you from your mother. I pulled you into the world, both of you."''
A Maester in the employ of the Starks. He is an advisor and confidant to Ned and Catelyn Stark. Maester Luwin tutors the Stark boys -- Robb, Jon Snow, Bran, and Rickon -- while they are growing up at Winterfell, as well the Starks' ward Theon Greyjoy. Maester Luwin is shown to be one of Bran's primary [[TheMentor mentors]].
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* AgentScully: He dismisses Bran's wolf dreams and Osha's accounts that [[TheMagicComesBack magic is returning to the world]] (which the audience knows to be true). Luwin actually studied magic when younger and attempted to practice it unsuccessfully, and his attitude now is that either it was made up or at best, the world is one where [[TheMagicGoesAway magic once existed but went away]] (true until recently).
* BaldOfAwesome: Very bald, and very awesome.
* BigNo: In "A Man without Honor", upon seeing the bodies of (fake) Rickon and Bran.
* TheConscience: To Theon. Theon wants to listen to Maester Luwin, but believes he's gone too far to turn back.
* TheConsigliere: One of his job descriptions, he's sworn to serve the Lord of Winterfell even if it is a usurper.
* CoolOldGuy: Luwin is a mildly snarky PapaWolf with a vast knowledge of the world around him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially where Theon Greyjoy is concerned.
-->'''Bran:''' The Iron Islands. Lords... the Greyjoys.\\
'''Theon:''' Known for their skills in archery, navigation and lovemaking.\\
'''Maester Luwin:''' And failed rebellions.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He was very calm in his final hours.
* FireForgedFriends: Bonds with Osha -- who was introduced threatening the life of Bran Stark -- during the Sack of Winterfell while both are trying to keep Bran and Rickon alive.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Asks Osha for a MercyKill and she obliges.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dagmer jabs him in the side with a spear out of pure malice.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Developed one with Osha.
* KilledOffscreen: The scene cuts before Osha grants him his requested MercyKill.
* TheMentor: To the sons of Lord Stark in general (Robb, Jon, Bran and Rickon), but is especially seen as this to Bran.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Mortally speared by Cleftjaw.
* MercyKill: Asked Osha to give him a quick death after he received a fatal injury from Theon's [[TheStarscream traitor-of-a]] MookLieutenant.
* ObiWanMoment: In his final moments, he calmly instructs Bran and Rickon to head for the Wall to their half-brother Jon, who will [[BigBrotherInstinct protect them]] and let their mother know they are safe.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The hat of the Maesters' order.
* PapaWolf: For Bran and Rickon.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Bran and Rickon.
* SoProudOfYou: He's filled with pride when Robb gives him the order to call the banners to rescue Ned Stark. Later, he demonstrates pride in Bran's administrative instincts as well as his and Rickon's composure during Theon's sack of Winterfell.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even though maesters are supposed to serve the realm and a particular family, it's clear Luwin is more loyal to the Starks. Even when advising Theon, he's attempting to protect Bran and Rickon.
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!! Maester Cressen, in service to Dragonstone
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->'''Played By:''' Oliver Ford Davies
An old Maester serving Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: After drinking the poisoned wine.
* CompositeCharacter: Cressen's ineffectual defense of the Seven idols that are burned is reminiscent of the Lords Sunglass and Rambton from the books.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cressen attempts to take out Melisandre by toasting to the Lord of Light as the only true god, then drinking from a poisoned chalice and offering it to Melisandre so the two will die and everyone else in the room will take this as a sign to abandon the Lord of Light and return to the Faith of the Seven. However, Melisandre sees past Cressen's plans and drinks from the chalice knowing that her powers make her immune to the poison. The "heretic" Cressen dies, she "miraculously" survives, and everyone else will end seeing this as evidence of her god's power.
* OldRetainer: To the Baratheon family, and Stannis in particular.
* OnlySaneMan: Either this or CommanderContrarian.
* ParentalSubstitute: [[labelnote:From the books...]]He sees himself as this to Stannis because he pretty much raised Stannis and Renly after their parents drowned and while Robert and Renly were charming, Stannis was not and, in Cressen's eyes, he needed him the most.[[/labelnote]]
* PerfectPoison: Cressen uses a rather painful poison against Melisandre; being a Maester, it's likely he knew exactly what would do the job. Unfortunately due to her magical abilities, it's a case of NoSell.
* SacrificialLamb: He's killed in his first episode to show the ruthlessness of Melisandre, the genuine nature of her power, and how Stannis has shifted his beliefs.
* SelfPoisoningGambit: He attempted this, drinking the poisoned wine first to "prove" that it was safe, then offering some to Melisandre. Unfortunately for him, she is protected by her magic and only he dies as a result.
* TakingYouWithMe: His plan to poison Melisandre is to drink first from a cup of poisoned wine and then offer some to her. It doesn't work. Melisandre is immune to poisons thanks to her magical powers.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in his introductory episode.
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[[folder:Maester Wolkan]]
!! Maester Wolkan, in service to the Dreadfort.
->'''Played By:''' Richard Rycroft
The Maester of House Bolton at the Dreadfort. He later enters service at Winterfell when the Boltons take control of the Castle. After the defeat of the Boltons, he becomes the Maester of House Stark.
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* AscendedExtra: A minor background character in Season 5, he gets more screentime in Season 6.
* CanonForeigner: After Luwin, no maester assigned to Winterfell are identified in the books.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's visibly horrified when [[spoiler: Ramsay drives a dagger into his father's heart, and then when he asks to send for Lady Walda and her son. Wolkan knows full well what's about to happen.]]
* ExpositoryHairChange: He's shaven to a stubble originally, not unlike Roose and Ramsay. Once the Starks retake Winterfell and he begins serving them, he grows a beard much like the adult Stark males.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As with Luwin, he's bound to serve Winterfell, regardless of the actions of House Bolton.
* TrappedInVillainy: He's sworn to dutifully serve the master of Winterfell, the Boltons, even if he is appalled by their actions. After the destruction of House Bolton, he is no longer trapped and serves the more honorable Starks.
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The sole educational institute of Westeros. The Order of the Maesters is a scholastic instituted dedicated to teaching, exclusively, the nobility on subjects of history, philosophy, science, and also serve as healers and political advisers. The Maesters are headquartered at the Citadel in Oldtown, located in the Reach on the southwestern coast of Westeros at the mouth of the Honeywine River.
The Order was originally created and it has been long supported by the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
The Order was originally created and it has been long supported by the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JimBroadbent
-> ''Everyone in the Citadel doubts everything. It's their job''
Archmaester Ebrose serves as the expert on healing who takes Samwell Tarly as novice and apprentice in Season 7.
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* AntiAdvice: So far whatever Ebrose has suggested Sam to do, Tarly has done the exact opposite and it has provided results.
* DrJerk: Ebrose doesn't give a damn about helping patients and more or less sees his job as a gig to get him through the day.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Ebrose voices eloquent reasons for why the White Walkers are not as big a threat they are and why the apocalypse won't be as bad as it could be, the problem is that he's wrong.
* TheObiWannabe: Ebrose often composes and eloquently voices long monologues and bon mots and seems to believe he is imparting philosophy and life's wisdom on Samwell Tarly, except Sam and the viewer knows that he is completely and utterly wrong on every single thing he says.
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!!!See also the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheOrderOfTheMaesters book character sheet]] for these characters.
!The Order of the Maesters
-> ''Service as a maester is a noble calling, one of vital importance to a prosperous realm. It is little wonder there are some who refer to the order as the "Knights of the Mind".''
-->-- '''Maester Luwin''', ''Histories and Lore''
The sole educational institute of Westeros. The Order of the Maesters is a scholastic instituted dedicated to teaching, exclusively, the nobility on subjects of history, philosophy, science, and also serve as healers and political advisers. The Maesters are headquartered at the Citadel in Oldtown, located in the Reach on the southwestern coast of Westeros at the mouth of the Honeywine River. The Order was originally created and it has been long supported by the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: The Citadel of Oldtown has the appearance of one to Sam Tarly with its large libraries and forbidden books but the organization and institution as a whole is very much against encouraging curiosity.
* AntiIntellectualism:
** Becoming a maester is more or less a dumping ground for rejects and the Aristocracy looks down on the Citadel and the Maesters, with Randyll Tarly preferring to send Sam Tarly to the Night's Watch rather than the Citadel which suited him better, since he liked the idea of Sam killing and/or dying fighting savages more than sullying the Tarly family name by reading books.
** Ironically, the Citadel itself is profoundly anti-intellectual internal, discouraging research into medical science, denying the existence of magic, and more or less pretending that so long as nobody disturbs their livelihood and status, society can function no matter how the rest suffer.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Citadel doesn't encourage research into the higher mysteries, or magic.
* ADegreeInUseless: As Maester Luwin tells Bran in Season 2, the link to study Valyrian steel is this for those who are too eager to learn about magic.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: They are one to the Library of Alexandria, located in a very old port city with a large signal lighthouse overlooking the school.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: The Maesters fully support the feudal order that keeps the aristocrats on top and everyone else below them. The former Grand Maester Pycelle was a fully bought and paid for propagandist in service of Tywin Lannister.
* PropagandaMachine: The "histories" written by the maesters become this as noted in the History and Lore videos and by Sam Tarly and others.
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!!!See also the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheOrderOfTheMaesters book character sheet]] for these characters.
!The Order of the Maesters
-> ''Service as a maester is a noble calling, one of vital importance to a prosperous realm. It is little wonder there are some who refer to the order as the "Knights of the Mind".''
-->-- '''Maester Luwin''', ''Histories and Lore''
The sole educational institute of Westeros. The Order of the Maesters is a scholastic instituted dedicated to teaching, exclusively, the nobility on subjects of history, philosophy, science, and also serve as healers and political advisers. The Maesters are headquartered at the Citadel in Oldtown, located in the Reach on the southwestern coast of Westeros at the mouth of the Honeywine River. The Order was originally created and it has been long supported by the patronage of House Hightower. The Citadel has rankings that begin with novice and apprentice, move up to accredited Maester appointed to serve particular great Houses by the Citadel, overseen by the Archmaesters, and led finally by the Grand Maester, who in addition to serving as the nominal head of the Citadel also sits on the King's Small Council. Students craft new links for their Maester's chain, which they never take off. Both common and noble novices are accepted to the Citadel, and noble Maesters are expected to leave their House name behind and serve wherever they are sent.
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[[folder: General]
* AcademyOfAdventure: The Citadel of Oldtown has the appearance of one to Sam Tarly with its large libraries and forbidden books but the organization and institution as a whole is very much against encouraging curiosity.
* AntiIntellectualism:
** Becoming a maester is more or less a dumping ground for rejects and the Aristocracy looks down on the Citadel and the Maesters, with Randyll Tarly preferring to send Sam Tarly to the Night's Watch rather than the Citadel which suited him better, since he liked the idea of Sam killing and/or dying fighting savages more than sullying the Tarly family name by reading books.
** Ironically, the Citadel itself is profoundly anti-intellectual internal, discouraging research into medical science, denying the existence of magic, and more or less pretending that so long as nobody disturbs their livelihood and status, society can function no matter how the rest suffer.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Citadel doesn't encourage research into the higher mysteries, or magic.
* ADegreeInUseless: As Maester Luwin tells Bran in Season 2, the link to study Valyrian steel is this for those who are too eager to learn about magic.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: They are one to the Library of Alexandria, located in a very old port city with a large signal lighthouse overlooking the school.
* MedievalStasis: The Citadel are ironically the main reason for enforcing this trope even if they believe they are doing the opposite, i.e. correcting superstition and disabusing magic. They actively discourage inquiry, curiosity and research, look down on those who seek to unlock the higher mysteries and basically discourage any changes to the status-quo, be it intellectual or societal. Qyburn and Samwell Tarly both rebel against this albeit one is a villain and the other is a hero.
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: The Maesters fully support the feudal order that keeps the aristocrats on top and everyone else below them. The former Grand Maester Pycelle was a fully bought and paid for propagandist in service of Tywin Lannister.
* PropagandaMachine: The "histories" written by the maesters become this as noted in the History and Lore videos and by Sam Tarly and others.
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[[folder: Archmaester Ebrose]]
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