Tormund

Tormund answers to a string of self-bestowed titles as long as a boast can run — Tall-Talker for his famous exaggerations, Horn-blower for a laugh Mance Rayder swore could clear snow off a mountaintop, Husband to Bears for a claim about his own conquests that no one has ever quite dared to verify — and delivers every one of them with the booming good humor of a man who has never once doubted his own legend. He is second only to Mance Rayder among the free folk's leaders, respected as much for his fighting as for the sheer volume of stories he tells about it, and treats his Night's Watch counterparts with a wary, mocking respect that occasionally tips over into something like genuine friendship. Beneath the theatrics is a shrewd raider's understanding of the Wall's defenses and the men who hold them, knowledge he puts to considerable use once the free folk's survival depends on getting past both. A maester notes that a man this loud rarely survives decades of raiding beyond the Wall by accident — the boasting, evidently, is not incompatible with genuine cunning.