High Septon (Boy)


 * This article is about the eight-year-old boy. For the title see High Septon (title).

"Baelor himself appointed a simple-minded stonemason, believing him the Smith reborn, and when he died Baelor replaced him with an eight-year-old boy whom Baelor had seen speaking with doves that answered with the voices of the Seven."

- High Sparrow

The High Septon is an unseen character in Game of Thrones. He is not expected to appear in the series, being long dead when it begins.

Biography
The boy was appointed the High Septon of the Faith of the Seven by King Baelor Targaryen following the death of the stonemason, as Baelor had seen him talking to doves that he believed answered with the voices of the Seven.

In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the boy was the youngest High Septon in the history of Westeros. He was said to be a street urchin or the son of a draper, and Baelor appointed him as he believed he had seen the boy perform miracles such as communicating with the gods through doves. The Most Devout had misgivings about the king's decision, but agreed to it as Baelor had done so much for the Faith of the Seven. Despite Baelor's claims that the boy was a miracle worker, he was unable to save the king's life when he fasted himself to death.