Raised around 270 AC by a captain who gives his name to no one — he is known only as the Tattered Prince — together with five brothers-in-arms, the Windblown fly a fork-tailed blue-and-white banner and pitch a great grey sailcloth pavilion its captain calls his canvas castle. Recruited from every corner of the known world, its two thousand riders and footmen are permitted to choose and re-choose their own names as they please; the closest thing the company has to a shared tongue is High Valyrian, which a maester allows is at least a more dignified compromise than most free companies manage.
Hired by Yunkai for the second siege of Meereen, the Windblown treated secretly with Ser Barristan Selmy, then serving as Hand in the absent queen's name, and the Tattered Prince sealed the new alliance by having the Yunkish officer set to watch his company cut down before turning his banners over to Daenerys Targaryen's cause — a betrayal timed, as the record shows, to land at the moment it would do the most damage to the army he was leaving.