Gendry

Gendry apprenticed to the armorer Tobho Mott in King's Landing, strong-built, black-haired, and blue-eyed — the image of a young Robert Baratheon, though no one troubled to explain to him why strangers stared. He never knew his mother beyond a tavern woman who died when he was small, and he had no idea he was the king's son until Yoren of the Night's Watch quietly pulled him out of the city, just ahead of a purge of Robert's bastards that Gendry never learned he'd been marked for.

He travelled north with Arya Stark under Yoren's charge, she disguised as the boy 'Arry,' and the two built an unlikely friendship across a gulf of birth neither of them fully acknowledged. Captured with the rest of Yoren's company at Harrenhal, then swept up by the Brotherhood without Banners after their escape, Gendry was knighted on the road by Beric Dondarrion for the same plain, stubborn decency that had made Arya trust him.

Chronically short of gold and unwilling simply to hand a wanted boy back to the crown, the Brotherhood sold Gendry instead to Melisandre of Asshai, who recognized in his face the same king's blood she had already drawn from Edric Storm — a transaction Arya never forgave. Melisandre carried him off to Dragonstone, where his blood made him valuable for reasons he understood only dimly and liked not at all.

Ser Davos Seaworth, restored to Stannis's favor after the wreck of the Blackwater, freed Gendry from Dragonstone's dungeons rather than let Melisandre use him, put him alone in a boat, and told him to row and never give his true name to anyone. What became of him afterward the published chronicle does not record — Gendry has not appeared on the page since, though more than one character has wondered aloud, half in jest, whether he's still out there rowing.