Val is the sister of Mance Rayder's late wife Dalla, and the Seven Kingdoms' men have taken to calling her a wildling princess despite the fact that the free folk recognize no such title and would find the whole idea faintly absurd. She carries herself with a self-possession that unsettles the southron lords who try to court or command her, refusing every overture — including a royal offer of marriage meant to bind the wildlings and the North together — on terms other than her own. Skilled enough in the woods to be trusted with an errand as dangerous as treating directly with Tormund's raiders, Val is no ornamental hostage, whatever the men holding her may prefer to believe. A maester notes, with some evident amusement, that a captive audience calling a woman a princess against her own people's customs says considerably more about the captors than about her.
Unaligned
Val
the wildling princess
- Life
- no fixed AC year given; a young woman, sister to Mance Rayder's wife Dalla, when introduced
- House
- none — sister to Dalla, Mance Rayder's late wife
Held at the Wall under Night's Watch protection, in circumstances the chronicle keeps largely veiled.
The arc of Val
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
SourcesASOS · JonADWD · JonTWOIAF · The Wildlings
Is Val alive?
Yes, alive as of A Dance with Dragons, held at Castle Black — the chronicle keeps the fuller particulars of her circumstances veiled.
Who is Val?
A wildling woman, sister to Mance Rayder's late wife Dalla, held at the Wall and courted for a political marriage she has so far refused on her own terms.