House Bolton guards
House Bolton guards are guardsmen in the service of House Bolton. Steelshanks Walton is the captain of Roose Bolton, Lord of the Dreadfort.[1]
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Appearance
Bolton guardsmen usually wear fur cloaks over chainmail,[2] while their sergeants wear pale pink cloaks decorated with red teardrops.[3]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
After learning that Lord Roose Bolton plans to leave her with Vargo Hoat when he departs Harrenhal, Arya Stark kills a tall, thin Bolton guard at one of the castle's postern gates when she escapes with Gendry and Hot Pie.[2]
According to Lady Donella Hornwood, Roose's bastard, Ramsay Snow, is massing men at the Dreadfort.[4] Ramsay later brings six hundred men, whom he calls his father's garrison, to Winterfell, where they betray the host of northmen assembled by Ser Rodrik Cassel.[5]
A Storm of Swords
When Lord Bolton hosts Ser Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth at Harrenhal, the castle's Hall of a Hundred Hearths is guarded by a dozen spearmen. Roose tasks Steelshanks Walton with escorting Jaime to King's Landing.[6] "Arya Stark" is later escorted by Walton and his men from King's Landing to Lord Bolton at the Twins.[7]
Sandor Clegane brings Arya Stark to the Twins during the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey. Outside the castles, they are stopped by a Bolton sergeant who is more wary than Ser Donnel Haigh.[8]
A Dance with Dragons
The Bastard's Boys are men-at-arms[9] who follow Ramsay Bolton[10] and guard his new wife, "Arya", actually Jeyne Poole.[11]
Walton commands Roose's guards while in Barrowton[1] and Winterfell.[11] Bolton spearmen are forced to intervene when Freys clash with Manderlys.[11]
Known Bolton guards
Quotes
She might have been able to trick a Frey or one of the Brave Companions, but the Dreadfort men had served Roose Bolton their whole life, and they knew him better than she did. If I tell him I am Arya Stark and command him to stand aside ... No, she dare not. He was a northman, but not a Winterfell man. He belonged to Roose Bolton.[2]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 50, Arya X.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 37, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 72, Jaime IX.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 50, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 12, Reek I.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
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