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Admiral Sharako Lohar is a major character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. He was a Lysene noble and admiral who served the oligarchy known as the Triarchy during the Dance of the Dragons.
He is known for leading the Triarchy's fleet against the fleet of House Velaryon, who supported Rhaenyra Targaryen and her political faction, the Blacks, however, Sharako's sea battle proved to be a disaster and this forced him and the Triarchy to permanently withdraw from the Dance of the Dragons.
Later, prior to the Daughters' War, Sharako Lothar was politically disgraced due to the immense losses the Triachy suffered during the Battle of the Gullet and was later assassinated which is what instigated the civil war that tore the Triarchy apart.
In the TV series House of the Dragon, rather than being a male character, his sex was changed to female, but is gendered as a man by her society because of her status as leader, and she also has several wives. This version of Lohar is seemingly inspired by Racallio Ryndoon, another fellow military officer of the Triarchy, who has a dozen wives and sometimes likes to crossdress as a woman.
Sharako Lohar is portrayed by Abigail Thorn.
Biography[]
Dance of the Dragons[]
Battle of the Gullet[]
Ser Otto Hightower, who served as Hand of the King to Aegon II Targaryen, reached out to the Triarchy to negotiate an alliance, since he knew full-well that they are old enemies of Prince Daemon Targaryen, the husband/uncle of Rhaenyra Targaryen and a member of the Blacks. The reason Otto reached out to the Triarchy is so that they could break the hold of the fleet of House Velaryon, who support the Blacks, since they have blockaded the entirety of the Gullet to the Blackwater Rush, which had a negative effect on trade in King's Landing. When the Triarchy's high council met in Tyrosh, they accepted Otto's offer of alliance and thus allied themselves with the Greens, the political party/supporters of Aegon II.
The oligarchy sent a fleet of 90 warships to the Gullet, under Sharako Lohar's leadership. That night, prior to the battle against House Velaryon, Sharako splits the fleet into two squadrons, so they could attack the Velaryon fleet from both the north and south of the Gullet. When the sun rose the next day, The Triarchy fleet took House Velaryon by surprise but were then attacked by Rhaenyra's eldest son Prince Jacaerys Velaryon and four dragonseeds on their respective dragons. During the ensuing sea battle, the oligarchy's fleet, have gained experience from the War of the Stepstones, immediately directed their attacks on Jacaerys and his dragon Vermax but lost many ships to dragon fire in the process.
As the battle of the Gullet continued into the night, the southern squadron of the Triarchy fleet decided to invade and attack Driftmark, an isle ruled by House Velaryon. During their attack, they sacked the port town of Spicetown and ruthlessly slaughtered its inhabitants before burning the castle of High Tide, the ancestral seat of the Velaryons. As the castle burned, all the treasures that Lord Corlys Velaryon had collected during his past voyages were destroyed in the process while High Tide's servants were cut down.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Gullet, Sharako Lohar's fleet suffered tremendous losses, having been inflicted with thousands of casualties by the Velaryon fleet, who also suffered heavy losses. The Triarchy had lost too many men and 62 warships. The ships lost in the battle were mostly Myrish and Tyroshi. Out of the 90 ships in the fleet, only 28 remained, with most being from Lys. Ultimately, Sharako had failed to break House Velaryon's blockade.
Fall from grace[]
Back in Essos, the Triarchy deemed the Battle of the Gullet a disaster, since thousands of lives in the Triarchy fleet have been lost. Because of the losses inflicted on his fleet and the fact that most of the surviving ships were his own, Sharako Lohar was publicly disgraced when many widows, who have lost their husbands in the Gullet, accused him of holding back his own ships while sending the fleets of Myr and Tyrosh to their destruction. This fact caused some Myrish and Tyroshi to turn against Sharako and a conspiracy theory soon emerged, with the belief that the Lysene admiral had conspired against the Triarchy's interests and unity.
Consequently, this served as the catalyst for the beginning of infighting, internal instability and mistrust in the Triarchy, which would then lead to the civil war known as the Daughters' War, which would permanently end the Triarchy. Prince Viserys Targaryen, who was taken captive by a Tyroshi captain, after his cog was attacked while on the voyage to Pentos, was originally in the latter's care, but Sharako Lohar, who had lost the favor of the public and the Triarchy, gains custody of the boy. As he is in need of gold and allies, he sold Viserys to Lysene magister Bambaro Bazanne in exchange for a weight of gold and a promise of support.
Death[]
In 131 AC, the same year King Aegon II Targaryen was mysteriously poisoned, Sharako Lohar was murdered by one of his rivals for the hand of an influential Lysene courtesan known as the Black Swan (actually Lady Johanna Swann). Since Sharako had been blamed by Myrmen and Tyroshi for the disastrous Battle of the Gullet, Lys believed that the rivalry over the Black Swan's hand was just a pretext to kill Lohar without large scale consequences. Instead the Lyseni suspected that Sharako's death was a political assassination orchestrated by Myr. Sharako's death would escalate tensions between the Free Cities of the Triarchy, leading to retaliatory murders and eventually an all-out civil war, thus beginning the Daughters' War.