Who's who in the song
Game of Thrones Characters
The people of A Song of Ice and Fire — Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens and the houses sworn to them — the figures the chronicle knows best, more than a hundred in all, filtered by house. Public status only; the spoilers wait behind their veils on each page.
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- House StarkJon SnowLord SnowLast confirmed at the Wall, embroiled in the war against the wildlings and the dead beyond it — the histories will not say more than that for the show-only reader.
- House TargaryenDaenerys TargaryenDaenerys StormbornRuling — precariously — over Meereen and the Bay of Dragons as of the most recent chronicles, with three dragons growing beneath the city, not all of them easy to control.
- House LannisterTyrion Lannisterthe ImpAlive and at large in Essos, having fled Westeros in disgrace.
- House StarkArya StarkArya UnderfootAlive, last known training among the faceless assassins of Braavos.
- House StarkSansa Starkthe Little BirdAlive, sheltering under a false identity in the Vale of Arryn.
- House StarkBran StarkPrince of WinterfellAlive, last seen travelling beyond the Wall in search of answers no maester can give him.
- House LannisterCersei LannisterQueen Regent of the Seven KingdomsAlive, ruling as Queen Regent in King's Landing, though her grip on power has grown shaky.
- House LannisterJaime Lannisterthe KingslayerAlive, commanding at the head of a Lannister host in the riverlands.
- House StarkEddard StarkNedThe chronicle need only say that his tenure as Hand of the King did not end in his favor.
- House StarkRobb Starkthe Young WolfThe King in the North's war ended before the crown he was given could be secured.
- House StarkCatelyn StarkCatHer fate at the Twins is a matter the chronicle treats with particular care.
- House BaratheonStannis BaratheonLord of DragonstoneLast reported marching a host toward Winterfell in the depths of a hard winter; the outcome is not yet chronicled.
- House BaratheonRobert BaratheonKing RobertThe chronicle need only say that his reign proved shorter than his rebellion.
- House BaratheonJoffrey BaratheonKing JoffreyHis reign, like his wedding feast, ended abruptly.
- House TarthBrienne of TarthBrienne the BeautyLast seen in the riverlands, sworn to an errand of protection whose end is not yet chronicled.
- House SeaworthDavos Seaworththe Onion KnightAlive, sailing the north's coasts on his king's business.
- UnalignedMelisandrethe Red WomanAlive, keeping her red god's fires lit at Castle Black.
- House TargaryenRhaegar TargaryenPrince of DragonstoneA prince who read prophecy the way other men read maps, and who plotted a course by it that cost him a throne, a wife, a mistress, and the peace of the Seven Kingdoms.
- House StarkLyanna StarkThe girl everyone who survived her keeps describing in different words — wild, fierce, wolf-blooded — and whose last request to her brother the chronicle has never once let the reader overhear.
- House TargaryenAerys II TargaryenKing of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First MenA king who began his reign promising and ended it stockpiling wildfire beneath his own city, a promise of a very different kind that his own sworn sword had to break to keep the realm from burning with him.
- House LannisterTywin LannisterLord of Casterly RockThe lord who took a house grown soft under his father and made it feared again by the simple, terrible expedient of ensuring every debt against it was paid in full — a policy that held for every debt but the last one, owed to his own son.
- House MartellOberyn MartellA prince who studied poison the way other men study swordplay, and who came to King's Landing after seventeen years of waiting with a single grievance and a spear tipped in exactly the substance his enemies should have asked more questions about.
- UnalignedPetyr BaelishLord of HarrenhalA minor lord's son who arrived at Riverrun with a bundle of belongings and a boyhood love for Catelyn Tully he never outgrew, and who has since discovered that chaos, correctly applied, climbs faster than any ladder of birth.
- UnalignedVarysMaster of WhisperersA eunuch who has outlasted three kings and every lord who ever underestimated him by the simple method of trading in the one currency no one thinks to search a man for: what other people don't know he knows.
- House MormontJorah MormontLord of Bear Island (stripped)A lord who sold men into slavery to keep a wife who left him anyway, and who has spent every year since trying to buy back, through service to a queen who does not fully trust him, a home that no longer exists.
- House TarlySamwell TarlyThe heir his father openly wished had never been born, sent to the Wall at swordpoint to die quietly — who instead brought down a White Walker with a dragonglass dagger and is now trying to out-read the end of the world at the Citadel.
- House GreyjoyTheon GreyjoyA hostage raised almost as a son who spent his whole life trying to prove himself a Greyjoy, then his father's approval on a betrayal that cost him everything, including for a long while his own name.
- House BoltonRamsay BoltonLord of the DreadfortA bastard born of an act of lordly cruelty who grew up to specialize in exactly the same, and who flayed, hunted, and married his way to a legitimacy no honest deed ever earned him.
- House FreyWalder FreyLord of the CrossingA lord who turned up too late to one war to matter and turned up exactly on time to one wedding to become infamous forever, having spent decades between the two nursing a grudge no apology could have paid down in time.
- House TyrellMargaery TyrellQueenA Tyrell rose married three times toward the same throne, twice widowed before the marriage could properly begin, and last seen behind the Faith's bars awaiting a trial the published chronicle has not yet held.
- House TyrellOlenna TyrellThe dowager who has spent decades letting her son Mace believe himself the one actually running Highgarden, and who came to King's Landing determined that no granddaughter of hers would suffer a Baratheon boy-king twice.
- House CleganeSandor CleganeA sworn sword who has hated fire, knighthood, and his own brother in roughly that order since childhood, and whose final page in the published chronicle leaves him gravely wounded and very possibly, though nobody will quite say it outright, alive.
- House CleganeGregor CleganeSerA knight of monstrous size and monstrous temperament whose own household reportedly feared him more than any enemy did, and whose death did not, in the strictest sense the maesters can confirm from the page, end his career of violence.
- House StarkHodorA stableboy of enormous size and a single word, whose given name only one old woman at Winterfell still remembered, and who spent his last strength holding a door shut so that four other people could live.
- House TargaryenBrynden RiversBloodravenThe maesters kept his crimes in three different books, and none of the three agree
- House BlackfyreAegor RiversBittersteelThe bastard who built an army out of grievance and kept it sharp for forty years
- House TargaryenDaemon Targaryenthe Rogue PrinceA prince the realm loved to watch and never once trusted
- House TargaryenRhaenyra Targaryenthe Realm's Delight (in youth); the Half-Year Queen (in judgment)Named heir by her father, unmade by half the kingdom, and remembered mostly for how she died
- House HightowerAlicent HightowerQueen consort to Viserys I TargaryenA Hand's daughter who became a queen, then the mother of a war
- House TargaryenAegon TargaryenAegon the Conqueror; Aegon the DragonThe man three dragons and sixteen hundred men made king of a continent
- House TargaryenVisenya Targaryensister and wife to Aegon I TargaryenThe elder sister-wife the smallfolk feared more than they feared the dragon king
- House TargaryenRhaenys Targaryenthe Queen Who Never WasShe helped conquer a continent and was never crowned to rule an inch of it
- House TargaryenAemon TargaryenMaester AemonA man offered a crown at the Great Council and spent the next sixty-odd years content he'd refused it
- UnalignedDuncanSer Duncan the Tall; DunkA Flea Bottom orphan who ended his life guarding the king he'd once served as squire
- UnalignedQuaithethe shadowbinder of AsshaiA woman in a red lacquer mask whose warnings are truer than her identity is known
- House GreyjoyEuron Greyjoythe Crow's EyeThe brother the Iron Islands exiled and then, in desperation, crowned
- House GreyjoyAsha Greyjoycaptain of the Black WindThe captain who lost the crown at the kingsmoot and kept fighting for the islands anyway
- House MartellDoran MartellPrince of DorneA prince who let the realm think him weak for seventeen years to keep a promise of vengeance quiet
- House MartellArianne MartellPrincess of Dorne, heir apparent to Doran MartellDorne's heir by right of birth alone, which is precisely the custom the rest of Westeros still finds strange
- House Targaryen"Young Griff"claimed as Aegon Targaryen, sixth of his nameA prince the Citadel cannot yet confirm was ever supposed to be alive
- House StarkRickon StarkThe youngest Stark's whereabouts since the sack of Winterfell are a matter the chronicle keeps carefully veiled.
- House StarkBenjen Starkthe First RangerMissing beyond the Wall since before the story's events began — the chronicle has nothing more to confirm.
- House BoltonRoose Boltonthe Leech LordRuling in the North as Warden, in the aftermath of a war that cost House Stark nearly everything.
- House BoltonRamsay Snowthe Bastard of BoltonServing House Bolton's interests in the North, and not gently, by every account that reaches the chronicle.
- House MormontJeor Mormontthe Old BearHis command of the Night's Watch did not survive the ranging he led north.
- House MormontMaege Mormontthe She-BearThe chronicle keeps her whereabouts, and her fate, carefully unconfirmed.
- House MormontLyanna MormontLady of Bear IslandThe youngest Mormont currently minds Bear Island's affairs, and does so with a bluntness well beyond her years.
- House ManderlyWyman ManderlyLord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-HorseRuling White Harbor, and by every outward sign, keeping the peace the North's new masters expect of him.
- House UmberJon Umberthe GreatjonLast confirmed a captive at the Twins, taken alive when Edmure Tully's wedding turned to bloodshed.
- House KarstarkRickard KarstarkLord of KarholdHis service to the King in the North ended at the King in the North's own hand, and not on any battlefield.
- House ReedMeera ReedLast seen accompanying Bran Stark on a journey no maester of the Citadel would have sanctioned.
- House ReedJojen ReedLast seen accompanying his sister and Bran Stark on a journey no maester of the Citadel would have sanctioned.
- UnalignedOshaLast seen guiding the youngest Stark boy to safety after Winterfell fell.
- UnalignedGillyAlive, having escaped a grim household beyond the Wall for a new, uncertain life south of it.
- UnalignedCrasterHis homestead north of the Wall did not survive the Night's Watch expedition that stopped there.
- UnalignedMance Rayderthe King-Beyond-the-WallReported dead, burned for desertion at Castle Black — though the chronicle notes that reports of that sort have not always held up under closer scrutiny in these histories.
- UnalignedTormundTormund GiantsbaneLeading a great mass of the free folk south to the Wall, seeking shelter rather than conquest.
- UnalignedYgrittekissed by fireHer fate, like much of the fighting at Castle Black, is a matter the chronicle keeps veiled.
- UnalignedValthe wildling princessHeld at the Wall under Night's Watch protection, in circumstances the chronicle keeps largely veiled.
- UnalignedColdhandsA mysterious figure of the haunted forest whose true nature the chronicle will not speculate on beyond what the books themselves confirm.
- House BaratheonRenly BaratheonLord of Storm's EndA younger brother who discovered, rather too late, that charm and popularity are not the same thing as a claim to a throne, and who built the largest army of the war on that discovery — an army that did not survive the parley it was marching toward.
- House BaratheonGendrySmith's apprentice, King's LandingA blacksmith's apprentice who spent the war being hunted for a face he never chose — his father's face — without ever learning the lordly ambitions that face was supposed to earn him.
- House BaratheonEdric StormA boy conceived on another man's wedding night, whose blood proved more valuable to his uncle's court than anything else about him — and very nearly cost him everything.
- House BaratheonShireen BaratheonPrincess of DragonstoneA princess marked from infancy by a disease that nearly killed her and did mark her for life, raised by a father who shows her the only open tenderness in his character and a mother who can barely look at her.
- House FlorentSelyse FlorentLady of DragonstoneA wife who gave her husband one living child, a devotion to a foreign god no one else at court shared, and very little of the warmth a marriage is supposed to produce.
- House BaratheonTommen BaratheonKing of the Andals and the First MenA gentle, plump boy-king who inherited a throne built on rather more than the realm has been told, and a mother determined to rule through him for as long as anyone lets her.
- House BaratheonMyrcella BaratheonA princess sent to Dorne as a marriage prize and a hostage in the same gesture, who found in exile more kindness than King's Landing had ever offered her.
- House LannisterKevan LannisterLord RegentThe competent brother who spent his life making his more famous sibling's decisions work, and lasted exactly as long as the family let him actually be in charge.
- House LannisterLancel LannisterRobert's squire and Cersei's lover, who served his cousin's ambitions more usefully than he understood at the time, and traded his family's gold for a hair shirt once the guilt caught up with him.
- UnalignedPodrick PayneTyrion Lannister's clumsy, tongue-tied squire, who turned out to be steadier in a crisis than nearly anyone gave him credit for.
- UnalignedBronnSer Bronn of the BlackwaterA sellsword who fought his way from hired blade to landed lord without ever once pretending the climb was about honor.
- UnalignedIlyn PayneKing's JusticeA headsman who cannot speak, and whose silence the whole of King's Landing seems to find more frightening than anything he might have said.
- UnalignedMeryn TrantKingsguardA Kingsguard knight whose white cloak has covered a great deal of cowardice and cruelty, most of it aimed at people who couldn't fight back.
- UnalignedBarristan SelmyLord Commander of the KingsguardThe greatest knight of his generation, cast off in his sixty-first year for the crime of aging in front of a queen who wanted the position for her own men.
- House TyrellMace TyrellLord of HighgardenA lord who commands the Reach's wealth and numbers, and who has spent his life letting other men's competence be mistaken for his own.
- House TyrellGarlan TyrellLord of Brightwater KeepThe Tyrell son who does the family's actual thinking, under a nickname meant to spare him mockery that turned, in time, into genuine renown.
- House TyrellLoras TyrellKnight of the KingsguardThe most celebrated jouster of his generation, and the one Tyrell child whose devotion to a Baratheon prince outlasted the prince's own life.
- House TarlyRandyll TarlyLord of Horn HillThe one general in the war who has never lost a battle, and a father who nearly killed his own son for the crime of being gentle.
- House RowanMathis RowanLord of GoldengroveMace Tyrell's steadiest advisor, whose reputation for prudence has kept him useful to every faction that has needed the Reach's cooperation.
- UnalignedPaxter RedwyneLord of the ArborThe lord of the Seven Kingdoms' second-greatest fleet, more often heard complaining of his gout than commanding his ships, and no less dangerous for it.
- House MartellEllaria SandPrince Oberyn's paramourLast confirmed at Sunspear in mourning, her position in Dorne's court unsettled while the realm waits to see whether Prince Doran answers his brother's death with steel or with silence.
- House MartellObara Sandthe eldest of the Sand SnakesLast confirmed at Sunspear, chief among the voices demanding Dorne answer her father's death with war — a demand her own prince has so far refused to grant openly.
- House MartellNymeria SandLady NymLast confirmed departing Sunspear for King's Landing as Dorne's new voice on the small council and escort to Princess Myrcella — an appointment that keeps her, and the household she travels with, uncomfortably close to the Lannister court she has every reason to distrust.
- House MartellTyene SandLast confirmed departing Sunspear for King's Landing among Princess Myrcella's escort, her sweet manner and her father's gift for poison both intact and both, the histories suggest, best not mistaken for each other.
- House MartellAreo HotahCaptain of the Guard at SunspearLast confirmed still standing guard over Prince Doran at Sunspear, as steady and as tight-lipped as the histories have ever found him.
- House MartellQuentyn MartellSent east on his father's business to treat with Daenerys Targaryen, Quentyn's fate at the time of the last confirmed report remains unresolved for readers keeping to the public record.
- House MartellTrystane MartellLast confirmed remaining at Sunspear as Princess Myrcella journeys back toward King's Landing without him, his betrothal to her still intact despite the violence that has surrounded her Dornish stay.
- UnalignedIllyrio MopatisMagister of PentosLast confirmed at his manse in Pentos, hosting travelers of considerably more consequence than his cheese-and-spice fortune would suggest he has any business entertaining.
- UnalignedKhal DrogoA Dothraki khal of considerable renown, last reported gravely wounded and in failing health after a duel fought in defense of his khaleesi's honor.
- House TargaryenMissandeiLast confirmed at Meereen, serving as Daenerys Targaryen's interpreter and closest attendant — a post that has quietly become one of the more trusted in the queen's court.
- House TargaryenGrey WormLast confirmed commanding the Unsullied garrison at Meereen on Daenerys Targaryen's behalf, a post he has held with unbroken discipline since the city's fall.
- UnalignedDaario NaharisLast confirmed serving Daenerys Targaryen as captain of the Second Sons at Meereen, though the exact terms of his most recent posting into the enemy camp remain unclear from the public record.
- House MormontJorah Mormontthe Andal (as the Dothraki call him)Last confirmed somewhere within Meereen's chaos, his standing with Daenerys Targaryen unresolved and his health, by report, not what it was.
- UnalignedXaro Xhoan Daxosa merchant prince of QarthLast confirmed acting as Qarth's official envoy to Meereen, where his dealings with Daenerys Targaryen have grown considerably less friendly than their history in Qarth might suggest.
- UnalignedKinvaraHigh Priestess of the Red Temple of Volantis (television only)This entry exists to note a divergence rather than to report a fate: readers of the novels will not meet Kinvara there.
- UnalignedThoros of MyrLast confirmed traveling with the Brotherhood without Banners in the riverlands, his once-famous good humor considerably diminished by everything the outlaws' war has cost him.
- UnalignedBeric Dondarrionthe Lightning LordLast confirmed leading the Brotherhood without Banners in the riverlands, his memory badly frayed by his repeated brushes with death, but his sense of purpose — dispensing what justice a lordless war allows — intact.
- UnalignedThe High SparrowHigh Septon of the Faith of the Seven (by that title only)Last confirmed presiding over the Faith's restored authority in King's Landing, with both Cersei Lannister and, until recently, Ser Loras Tyrell under his charge on charges of grave sin.
- UnalignedSepta UnellaLast confirmed serving among the septas overseeing Cersei Lannister's imprisonment in the Great Sept of Baelor, her role limited but her persistence notable.
- UnalignedJaqen H'ghara man of BraavosLast confirmed vanishing from Harrenhal after granting Arya Stark three deaths in payment for her own — his current whereabouts, and his true face, are, appropriately for a Faceless Man, not a matter the chronicle can settle.
How are these characters chosen?
These are the figures the chronicle covers in depth — more than a hundred in all: the main cast of the novels, the backstory generation whose choices set the present war in motion, and the deep-lore names the histories turn on. Use the house filter to narrow the roster.
Are there spoilers on this index?
No. The index shows only each figure’s public standing. A character’s road through the published novels sits behind a spoiler veil on their own page, revealed only if you choose to lift it.