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Vala is a minor antagonist in the HBO television series Game of Thrones on seasons 5 and 6. She is only featured in the TV series and not in A Song of Ice and Fire novel series.
She was portrayed by Meena Rayann.
Biography[]
Background[]
Vala is a Ghiscari prostitute of Meereen who sees Daenerys Targaryen's conquest of the city and her action overthrow the ruling Great Masters and change their policies, which causes internal instability. Because of this, she starts spying for a new terrorist organization in the city, the Sons of the Harpy.
Season 5[]
She is seen in her brothel with an Unsullied warrior, White Rat, as he relaxes at her feet while she sings to him. While he is calm, one of the Harpy's Sons comes and slits his throat.
She is later shown helping prepare a trap for some of the Unsullied, including Grey Worm. This causes a fight that costs the lives of many combatants on both sides, including Ser Barristan Selmy.
Season 6[]
In season 6, after Daenerys escaped from Meereen on Drogon, after an attempt on her life at Daznak's Pit, and was captured by a Dothraki khalasar, Meereen is facing a civil war. This causes Varys to search through his little birds for the spies who are helping the Sons of the Harpy, and they identify Vala as one of them.
Vala is later brought to the Great Pyramid before Varys, who interrogates her about her acts. Varys realizes that she became a prostitute to get closer to the Unsullied and the Second Sons to help the Harpies murder them easily, due to a strong hatred for Daenerys and her men, who damaged the heritage of the city of Meereen.
At first, Vala suspects that Varys is going to torture her, but he assures her that since she did everything to protect her son Dom, he will give them both safe passage to the city of Pentos and a bag of money to start a new life there. Because of this, she agrees to cooperate and tells him that the Great Masters of Astapor, the Wise Masters of Yunkai, and the Triarchs of Volantis are funding the Harpies.
Varys passes the information to Tyrion Lannister and Grey Worm, and they decide to negotiate peace with the three envoys of Yunkai, Volantis, and Astapor—Wise Master Razdal mo Eraz, Volantene noble Belicho Paenymion, and Wise Master Yezzan zo Qaggaz—during a meeting in Meereen. However, despite the agreements, the allied slaving cities nevertheless start a war on Meereen, and later they send their respective armies and fleets to lay siege to the city. However, Daenerys' improved army returns in time during the siege and defeats the Slave Alliance, probably destroying for good the Sons of the Harpy's terror. Even after Daenerys's death, the Sons of the Harpy are not expected to resume their activities, since at that point there is no reason for them to exist as a group, and their only enemies are just sellswords left to rule Meereen instead of Daenerys's old full army and dragons.
Trivia[]
- Vala is a character unique to the TV series. In the books, the Sons of the Harpy are not known to be in contact with any prostitutes, although they take advantage of the arrival of the Unsullied Stalwart Shield (the books' equivalent of White Rat) to a brothel to murder him in his sleep. There has been no evidence of any prostitute having been part of this assassination, and it is unlikely, as the Sons of the Harpy are more disorganized and sneakier in the novels.
External Links[]
- Vala on the Wiki of Westeros.
