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Thoros of Myr

House: no house; a red priest of R'hllor

Last 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.

A red priest more often found at the bottom of a wine cup than at prayer, Thoros of Myr spent his years at King Robert's court as a jousting curiosity — a flaming sword was his favored trick, more theater than faith — and a genuine friend to a king who liked men who could drink him under the table. Sent north with Eddard Stark's authority to help bring Gregor Clegane to the Iron Throne's justice, his party was ambushed and scattered at the Mummer's Ford, and it was only in the desperate aftermath — reciting half-remembered prayers over a dying Beric Dondarrion because he could think of nothing else to do — that Thoros discovered his god was listening after all.

The arc of Thoros of Myr

This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.

Thoros's improvised gift for the kiss of life brings Beric back from death some six times over the course of the outlaws' war, each resurrection costing Beric a little more of his memory and Thoros a little more of his composure. When Catelyn Stark's mutilated body is brought to the Brotherhood's camp, Thoros cannot bring himself to spend the last of his own power on her — it is Beric who does, giving everything he has left and dying, this time for good, to raise her as Lady Stoneheart.

Where the books leave Thoros of Myr: Thoros has burned through most of what faith and drink once gave him equally freely. His last, and greatest, act of the Lord of Light's power — refusing to give Catelyn Stark's corpse the kiss of life himself and instead standing witness while Beric Dondarrion gave her his own remaining spark — leaves him alive but hollowed, priest to a Brotherhood now led by something considerably grimmer than a Lightning Lord.

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.

SourcesAGOT · EddardASOS · AryaAFFC · BrienneTWOIAF · Beyond the Free Cities

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How many times does Thoros of Myr resurrect Beric Dondarrion?

Six times, by the Brotherhood's own reckoning — each return leaving Beric a little less of the man he was before the first death.

Did Thoros bring Catelyn Stark back to life as Lady Stoneheart?

No — Thoros refuses that final working himself. It is Beric Dondarrion who passes his own remaining life into her, dying permanently in the act.