Rose
Roses are flowers found in the known world. They are known for their beauty and fragrance.[1]
Contents
Varieties
Golden roses are found at Highgarden by the Mander,[2] with climbing roses snaking up statuary, walls, and towers.[3] Climbing roses also grow near the Red Fork[4] and at Oldstones by the Blue Fork.[5] White and red roses are also cultivated in the Reach,[1] as are autumn roses.[6] Aegon's Garden has wild roses at Dragonstone,[7] and wild white roses grow in the haunted forest.[8] The winter rose is a blue rose grown in the Glass Gardens of Winterfell.[9]
Dusky roses can be found along Slaver's Bay.[10]
Culture
A golden rose is included in the arms of House Tyrell. Ser Loras Tyrell clasps his cloak with a golden rose[11] or a jade rose,[12] his belt is a linked chain of golden roses,[13] and a crest of golden roses runs down the center of his helm.[14] The sword of the Knight of Flowers has a rose in alabaster as its pommel.[15] Loras's shield is emblazoned with three golden roses,[14] while that of his elder brother, Ser Garlan Tyrell, has a pair of golden roses instead.[15]
Besides the Tyrells, other families with roses in their arms include the Costayne with black roses[16] and the Serrys with a white rose.[17] Roses can also be included the arms of House Meadows, who blazon their shield with a border of flowers of many colors and varieties on green.[18]
Lady Olenna Tyrell,[15] Lord Varys,[19] and the Blue Bard[20] scent themselves with rosewater, and Racallio Ryndoon was known to bathe in lavender or rosewater.[21]
The roseroad runs through the Reach to King's Landing.[22] The Rosewood is also found in the Seven Kingdoms.[23]
A firemage in Qarth can make burning roses bloom in the air.[24]
History
Wild roses have grown over the sepulcher of King Tristifer IV Mudd at Oldstones.[5]
The Company of the Rose was founded by northmen who refused to submit to King Aegon I Targaryen during the Conquest and instead traveled across the narrow sea to Essos to become sellswords.[25]
The Tourney of the Field of Roses was a magnificent tourney at held by House Tyrell during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.[3]
Lyanna Stark loved the scent of winter roses.[26] During the tourney at Harrenhal, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen named Lyanna the queen of love and beauty instead of his wife, Elia Martell, giving Lyanna a garland of the blue roses.[26][27]
Chett picked wild roses, Tansy, and goldencups in his failed attempt to woo Bessa.[28]
Ronnet Connington was betrothed to Brienne Tarth, but he had no real interest in marrying her. When Red Ronnet was introduced to the girl, he handed her a single rose, saying it was all Brienne would ever have from him.[29][29]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
During the Hand's tourney, the stallion of Ser Loras Tyrell is draped in a blanket of red and white roses. After each victory, the Knight of Flowers gives a white rose to a maiden in the audience. After defeating Ser Robar Royce, however, Loras gives a red rose to Sansa Stark.[1]
A Clash of Kings
The crown of Renly Baratheon is a ring of roses made of soft gold.[14] While hosting Renly and Loras at Bitterbridge, House Caswell serves lemon cakes in the shape of roses.[14]
After the Battle of the Blackwater, King Joffrey I Baratheon rewards Lord Mace Tyrell and his sons Garlan and Loras with chains of roses wrought in soft yellow gold, from which hang golden discs with the lion of House Lannister picked out in rubies.[30]
A Storm of Swords
Near the lands of House Bracken, Ser Jaime Lannister sees an abandoned watchtower overlooking the Red Fork overgrown with climbing roses.[4]
Rose petals are strewn between the sheets of their bed when Sansa Stark is forced to marry Tyrion Lannister.[31]
The wedding chalice given by Mace to Joffrey includes an emerald rose to represent House Tyrell.[32] When Margaery Tyrell marries Joffrey, her maiden's cloak is made of a hundred cloth-of-gold roses sewn to green velvet. Prince Tommen Baratheon scatters rose petals from a basket during the procession. Hamish the Harper sings "A Rose of Gold" at the wedding feast, during which Joffrey chokes to death.[33]
Daario Naharis picks dusky roses, waspwillow, wild mint, lady's lace, daggerleaf, broom, prickly ben, and harpy's gold for Daenerys Targaryen on the road from Yunkai to Meereen.[10]
A Feast for Crows
Queen Margaery places a great bouquet of golden roses at the bier of Lord Tywin Lannister during his funeral.[34]
King Tommen gives the name Golden Rose to one of the Cersei's dromonds.[35]
Quotes
In Highgarden there are fields of golden roses that stretch away as far as the eye can see.[2]
There are men who call themselves mages and warlocks. I had a friend at the Citadel who could pull a rose out of your ear, but he was no more magical than I was.[36]
—Luwin to Bran Stark
Sansa: At the Hand's tourney, don't you remember? You rode a white courser, and your armor was a hundred different kinds of flowers. You gave me a rose. A red rose. You threw white roses to the other girls that day. You said no victory was half as beautiful as me.
Loras: I spoke only a simple truth, that any man with eyes could see.[15]—Sansa Stark and Loras Tyrell
Tyrion: Half a million people stink more than three hundred, you'll find. Do you smell the gold cloaks? There are near five thousand of them. My father's own sworn swords must account for another twenty thousand. And then there are the roses. Roses smell so sweet, don't they? Especially when there are so many of them. Fifty, sixty, seventy thousand roses, in the city or camped outside it, I can't really say how many are left, but there's more than I care to count, anyway.
Oberyn: In Dorne of old before we married Daeron, it was said that all flowers bow before the sun. Should the roses seek to hinder me I'll gladly trample them underfoot.[37]
Do you require guarding? I am composing a new song, you should know. A song so sweet and sad it will melt even your frozen heart. 'The Roadside Rose,' I mean to call it. About a baseborn girl so beautiful she bewitched every man who laid eyes upon her.[38]
—Marillion to Alayne Stone (Sansa Stark)
Loras Tyrell had been the last to face her wroth that day. He'd never courted her, had hardly looked at her at all, but he bore three golden roses on his shield that day, and Brienne hated roses.[39]
—thoughts of Brienne Tarth
Rodrik: We have won some stones and trees and trinkets, and the enmity of House Tyrell.
Nute: The roses? What rose can harm the krakens of the deep? We have taken their shields from them, and smashed them all to pieces. Who will protect them now?
Rodrik: Highgarden. Soon enough all the power of the Reach will be marshaled against us, Barber, and then you may learn that some roses have steel thorns.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 29, Sansa II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: Highgarden.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 1, Jaime I.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 45, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 10, Davos II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 23, Jon III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 51, Jon VI.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard XI.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver.
- ↑ The Citadel. Heraldry: Houses in the Reach
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 66, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 39, Cersei IX.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Voyage of Alyn Oakenfist.
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, Westeros.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 40, Daenerys III.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Free Cities.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Prologue.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 38, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 20, Brienne IV.
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