Bloodbeard
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| Title | Commander of the Company of the Cat |
| Allegiance | Company of the Cat |
| Culture | Essos |
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Bloodbeard is the commander of the Company of the Cat.[1] His given name is unknown.
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Appearance and Character
Bloodbeard is a huge man with a great bush of a beard with fiery red whiskers,[2] and long braids.[3] He is described as a savage commander, with a ferocious appetite for slaughter, and no taste for peace. At table he is raucous, farts loudly, and enjoys both wine and women abundantly.[1][2]
History
Bloodbeard and the Tattered Prince, commander of the Windblown, despise each other, as the Windblown and the Company of the Cat have fought on opposing sides in the Disputed Lands in the recent past.[1][4]
Recent Events
A Dance with Dragons
Bloodbeard accepts Yunkai's contract and is present at the siege of Astapor and later the siege of Meereen.[1]
Bloodbeard is disappointed when peace is declared after Queen Daenerys Targaryen marries Hizdahr zo Loraq, as he was looking forward to sacking Meereen. Daenerys observes Bloodbeard during the festivity in the Great Pyramid hall celebrating peace with the Yunkai.[2] Bloodbeard is present at the re-opening ceremonies of the fighting pits of Meereen, where Daenerys flies away on Drogon after the dragon lands in Daznak's Pit.[3]
The deaths of those in the pit who panicked when the dragon arrived, as well as Daenerys's disappearance, restarts hostilities between Meereen and the Yunkai. Tyrion Lannister, while a slave of Yezzan zo Qaggaz, overhears Bloodbeard recommend they send the hostages Daenerys sent to the Yunkai back to Meereen via trebuchet, but Yezzan disagrees.[5] However, after Yezzan dies of the pale mare, Bloodbeard and the new commanders of the Yunkai army present the head of Admiral Groleo, one of the hostages, to Hizdahr, in retaliation for the death of the Yunkai commander Yurkhaz zo Yunzak, who was trampled by the mob when Drogon landed in the pit. Barristan Selmy thinks other kings he had served would order Bloodbeard's arrest or execution, but Hizdahr does nothing in reaction to Bloodbeard's provocations but say he will consult with his council.[6]
The Tattered Prince later tells Quentyn Martell that Bloodbeard is urging the Yunkai to send Hizdahr another of the hostages' heads.[7] However, Skahaz mo Kandaq tells Barristan that the hostages who were Hizdahr's Loraq kin were returned unharmed, and that Groleo's execution for Yurkhaz's death was a sham, to give Hizdahr a pretext to kill Daenerys's other two dragons.[8]
Quotes about Bloodbeard
If it please Your Grace, we want no part of him. Your Grace is too young to remember the Ninepenny Kings, but this Bloodbeard is cut from the same savage cloth. There is no honor in him, only hunger... for gold, for glory, for blood.[2]
Bloodbeard... that one has no taste for peace.[4]
Give me half a reason to dance with you, and we will see who is laughing at the end.[6]
—thoughts of Barristan Selmy
He came to sack a city, and Hizdahr's peace has cheated him of his plunder. He will do whatever he must to start the bloodshed.[6]
—thoughts of Barristan Selmy
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 25, The Windblown.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 50, Daenerys VIII.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 52, Daenerys IX.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 55, The Queensguard.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 57, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 59, The Discarded Knight.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 60, The Spurned Suitor.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.