Five hundred horse under a banner of crows and crossed lightning, and a captain who chose a queen over a contract.
History
This carries the band's part in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
The Stormcrows served Yunkai's masters under three joint captains — Prendahl na Ghezn, Sallor the Bald, and Daario Naharis — when Daenerys Targaryen's campaign brought her to the gates of Yunkai. At the parley meant to settle the company's continued service, Daario killed both his fellow captains and carried their heads to the queen's tent as proof that the Stormcrows had changed sides, a stroke the chronicle can only describe as decisive, whatever its finer motives.
Under Daario's sole command the Stormcrows rode in the queen's van through the fall of Meereen, and in the uneasy peace that followed took on a duty considerably less glorious than the conquest itself: collecting the crown's tenth from every freedman who, finding liberty harder to eat than slavery, chose to sell himself back into bondage. A grim footnote to a liberation, and one this chronicle records rather than dwells on.
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.
Notable members
Names a reader of the novels meets in the ranks of The Stormcrows.
Daario Naharis
Prendahl na Ghezn
Sallor the Bald
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SourcesA Storm of SwordsA Dance with Dragons
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What is The Stormcrows?
Five hundred horse under a banner of crows and crossed lightning, and a captain who chose a queen over a contract.
Is The Stormcrows from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.