Commanding the Redwyne fleet, the second-greatest naval power in Westeros
The lord of the Seven Kingdoms' second-greatest fleet, more often heard complaining of his gout than commanding his ships, and no less dangerous for it.
Lord of the Arbor
Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor and master of one of the three great fleets of Westeros — some two hundred warships, backed by five times as many merchant vessels — married his cousin Mina Tyrell, sister to his liege lord Mace, binding the Arbor's wealth and sails to Highgarden's ambitions. Their children, the twins Ser Horas and Ser Hobber and a daughter, Desmera, round out a house whose wine and warships matter rather more to the war than its personalities do.
He was kept out of the early fighting for Renly Baratheon's cause largely because his own sons were held hostage in King's Landing by Cersei Lannister, a leverage that worked exactly as intended and kept the Redwyne fleet neutral through the war's opening moves.
A Fleet Caught Away
He deployed his fleet against the ironborn later in the war, helping relieve the western coast around Lannisport from Balon Greyjoy's raiders — one of the few unambiguous naval successes the crown's side can claim. That success left the Arbor itself thinly defended when Euron Greyjoy's Iron Fleet later struck the Shield Islands and the Redwynes' own home waters, sinking or seizing what few warships had been left behind to guard them.
Appearances
In the novels
A Clash of Kings
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
Key events
circa 270s ACMarries his cousin Mina Tyrell, binding the Arbor's wealth and sails to Highgarden's ambitions.
circa 280s ACFathers the twins Ser Horas and Ser Hobber Redwyne and a daughter, Desmera.
299 ACWithholds the Redwyne fleet from Renly Baratheon's cause while his sons are held hostage in King's Landing.
300 ACDeploys the Redwyne fleet against ironborn raiders to relieve the western coast near Lannisport.
300 ACThe Arbor is left thinly defended when Euron Greyjoy's Iron Fleet raids the Shield Islands.
Reading the character
Paxter's gout-ridden, complaint-prone personal presence is a deliberate misdirection from the sheer scale of what he actually commands — one of only three great fleets in Westeros, held neutral for most of the war's opening moves by nothing more than a hostage arrangement in King's Landing. The gap between the man and his navy is very much the point.
His late-war naval success against the ironborn, followed almost immediately by Euron's raid on his own undefended home waters, is a tidy illustration of how a single fleet, however large, cannot be everywhere it is needed at once — a lesson several of the war's naval powers learn the same costly way.
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Who is Paxter Redwyne?
The lord of the Seven Kingdoms' second-greatest fleet, more often heard complaining of his gout than commanding his ships, and no less dangerous for it.
Is Paxter Redwyne from the books or the show?
Book canon. This profile follows George R. R. Martin’s novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.