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| “ | As Your Graces know, my brother Borys left the stormlands some years ago. He grew sour and angry after Boremund was born, and things went from bad to worse between us. Borys was in Myr for a time, and later in Volantis, doing gods know what...but now he has turned up in Westeros again, in the Red Mountains. The talk is that he joined up with the Vulture King, and is raiding his own people. | „ |
| ~ Rogar Baratheon on Borys' exile and alliance with the Vulture King. |
| “ | Rather name me a kingslayer than him a kinslayer! | „ |
| ~ Boys Baratheon taunting Jaehaerys Targaryen, and also his last words. |
Ser Borys Baratheon is a minor character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. He is the eldest of the four younger brothers of Lord Rogar Baratheon and is also a grandson of Lord Orys Baratheon and Princess Argella Durrandon. Borys is the older brother of Garon, Ronnal, and Orryn Baratheon, the uncle of Boremund Baratheon, and the great-uncle of Borros Baratheon. Borys was presumably married, as he is confirmed to have had living trueborn issue for his house's line of succession.
Personality[]
Out of the five Baratheon brothers, Borys is the most belligerent and volatile in nature.
Biography[]
In the older, shorter versions of the book A Caution for Young Girls, entitled Sins of the Flesh and The High and the Low, Ser Borys Baratheon met Lady Coryanne Wylde in 50 BC at an inn on the south bank of the Blackwater Rush, beside the ferry landing, as she was traveling to King's Landing to begin her servitude to Queen Alysanne Targaryen on Dragonstone. There, Borys supposedly gave her, on behalf of his older brother, Lord Rogar, the order to seduce King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and ruin his marriage to Alysanne. According to Archmaester Crey, the meeting at the inn never happened, and the story had been an attempt to tarnish Lord Rogar's name, attributing that the lie originated from Borys. According to Maester Ryben, the story was nothing more than a bawdy tale among the smallfolk.
After Borys failed twice in attempting to set King Jaehaerys aside and crown another in his place, Lord Rogar Baratheon, due to not having children, names Borys as the heir to Storm's End. When Jaehaerys reached the age of majority and was now old enough to take rulership into his own hands, he summoned Lord Rogar to King's Landing. Convinced that the king would execute his brother for otherwise attempting to sabotage his marriage to Queen Alysanne, Ser Borys counseled Rogar to go to the Wall and take the black.
In 55 AC, Borys participated in the melee of the tourney that was held to celebrate the completion of the Dragonpit.
Exile[]
As Rogar Baratheon had married Lady Alyssa Velaryon during the Golden Wedding, the former has finally become a father, as he now has a son of his own, whom he named Boremund. Because of Boremund's birth, this caused Borys to lose his title as heir to Storm's End. Embittered and angry, Borys and Rogar get into a bitter quarrel with each other before Borys goes into self-exile in Myr and then Volantis.
Third Dornish War[]
He eventually returned to Westeros and formed an alliance with a Dornish rebel called the Vulture King in the Red Mountains of Dorne. Borys assisted him in his raids and pillaging by providing him with strong knowledge on the Stormlands. In 61 AC, when the now-aged Lord Rogar Baratheon travels to King's Landing, bringing three girls by his wife and late brother Ronnel to court, he also seeks King Jaehaerys' leave so he could end the Vulture King's attacks.
Borys Baratheon dies at the hands of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.
He tells Jaehaerys of Borys' exile and return along with his alliance with the Vulture King. When Rogar expresses his concern of what would befall on his son Boremund when he dies, King Jaehaerys was left in shock. Rogar reveals that according to his maester, Rogar is nearing the end of his life but doesn't want to die in bed nor sleep away through Milk of the Poppy, as he wants to find and deal with Borys and the Vulture King, and then die with an axe in hand while screaming a curse.
When Lord Rogar asks him for his leave, King Jaehaerys, moved by the words of his old friend, descends from the Iron Throne and tells him that he not only has his leave but also the king's own sword. Together, the two went to war against Borys and the Vulture King, thus beginning the Third Dornish War or Lord Rogar's war.
In the Red Mountains of Dorne, after his men had been defeated by his brother's own men, Borys was the first to be cornered, since he, unlike the Vulture King, has little knowledge on the Red Mountains' hidden passageways. When Rogar comes face-to-face with his brother, King Jaehaerys stops him, telling him that he wouldn't allow him to be named a kinslayer and that Borys is his to deal with. Hearing this, Borys burst out laughing and he mockingly shouts out a taunt at Jaehaerys, telling him to name Borys a kingslayer rather than name Rogar a kinslayer. He then rushed at the king only to be killed when Jaehaerys cuts his neck with Blackfyre, the Valyrian steel longsword of Aegon the Conqueror.
