Davos Seaworth was born in the gutters of Flea Bottom and made his fortune the way men without fortunes usually must: smuggling, quietly and skillfully, under noses that paid him well not to notice. A single act of loyalty — running onions and fish through a siege line to a starving garrison — earned him both a knighthood and a lord's lasting trust, and cost him, at that same lord's insistence, the top joints of four fingers, since the law does not forgive a smuggler merely for being useful. That blunt exchange, service rewarded and punished in the same breath, defines Davos's whole relationship with the king he serves: fierce loyalty paired with the plainest advice at court, however unwelcome that advice proves. A maester allows that a Hand who counts his missing fingers as a badge of honor rather than a grievance is a rarer creature at any court than his low birth would suggest.
House Seaworth
Davos Seaworth
the Onion Knight
- Life
- no fixed AC year given; a man past his middle years, with grown sons of his own, when the story opens
- House
- Seaworth, self-made, of Flea Bottom
Alive, sailing the north's coasts on his king's business.
The arc of Davos Seaworth
This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
In the timeline
SourcesACOK · DavosASOS · DavosADWD · DavosTWOIAF · House Baratheon of Dragonstone
Is Davos Seaworth alive?
As of A Dance with Dragons, yes — sailing on his king's business, the destination of which the chronicle keeps veiled.
Who is Davos Seaworth?
A smuggler-turned-knight who rose to become Stannis Baratheon's most trusted, and most plain-spoken, counselor.