- "My mother wasn't a great beauty or any other kind of beauty. She was a great warrior though."
- ―Lyanna Mormont on her mother.
Lady Maege Mormont was the head of House Mormont, the Lords of Bear Island and a vassal of House Stark. She fought for Robb Stark, the King in the North, during the War of the Five Kings.
Biography
Background
Maege Mormont was the Lady of Bear Island and the head of House Mormont, a vassal to House Stark of Winterfell. She had one daughter, Lyanna, namesake of Lyanna Stark, Lord Eddard Stark's sister. Lord Commander Jeor Mormont of the Night's Watch is her older brother. The disgraced and exiled Ser Jorah Mormont is her nephew.[citation needed]
Game of Thrones: Season 1
Maege is present at the feast for the Northern lords held in the Great Hall of Winterfell, in which Greatjon Umber defies Robb Stark, only to submit after two of his fingers were mutilated by Grey Wind. She is also present at the a war council discussing strategy with Robb and his other bannermen at Moat Cailin.[1] She leads a military force as the Starks arrive at the Twins.[2]
Maege is also present when Robb is proclaimed the King in the North.[3]
Game of Thrones: Season 5
Stannis mentions that Lyanna Mormont is Lady of Bear Island, implying Maege might have perished during the War of the Five Kings.[4]
Game of Thrones: Season 6
It is confirmed that Maege died fighting for Robb during the War of the Five Kings.[5]
Family
Jeor Mormont Deceased |
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Jorah Mormont Deceased |
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In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Lady Maege, also known as "the She-Bear", is a stout, grey-haired woman and a fierce warrior. She dresses in mail and her favored weapon is a spiked mace. Catelyn Stark observes that Maege seems more comfortable in armor than Brienne ever did. According to her brother Jeor, she is stubborn, short-tempered, and willful. She worked hard to regain the family's noble name and recover from the state of near-poverty her nephew Jorah had left behind.
When Robb calls his bannerman to march south after his father's arrest and they start to test him due his youth, Maege tells Robb bluntly that he was young enough to be her grandson, and had no business giving her commands, but she had a granddaughter she would be willing to have him marry. Maege is more understanding of Catelyn releasing Jaime, and Catelyn has grown fond of her. Maege does not attend the Red Wedding, as along the way from Riverrun to the Twins, Robb commands her and Galbart Glover to seek out Howland Reed. He gives them letters for the Northern lords, explaining the letters contain false orders, in case they are captured by the ironborn. It remains unknown if Maege or Galbart Glover reached their destination, and whether they are alive.
Maege has five children, all daughters: Dacey, Alysane, Lyra, Jorelle, and Lyanna. Lyanna is only ten years old during the fourth and fifth novels. Alysane had a son and daughter by an unknown father. Dacey was a warrior-woman like her mother and sisters and a member of Robb's personal guard; she was killed during the Red Wedding. Dacey was one of the few of Robb's bannermen who managed to get to her feet, fighting off Benfrey Frey by smashing his face in with a wine flagon. She then made a death run for the feast hall's doors and managed to avoid being shot by the crossbowmen in the balcony, but just before she reached the door, Ryman Frey and a dozen more fully armed Frey men-at-arms came bursting through it and ran right into her. Dacey died when Ryman drove his longaxe into her stomach.
While Stannis's host marches to Winterfell, Alysane tells the captive Asha Greyjoy that her sisters "Lyra and Jory are with our mother"[6] - implying that Maege's whereabouts and activities following the Red Wedding are known only to her daughters, perhaps to be revealed in later novels.
Appearances
- – "The Pointy End"
- – "Baelor"
- – "Fire and Blood"
- – "The Broken Man" (mentioned)
References
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 8: "The Pointy End" (2011).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 9: "Baelor" (2011).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 10: "Fire and Blood" (2011).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 2: "The House of Black and White" (2015).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 7: "The Broken Man" (2016).
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King's Prize (2011).
Notes
- ↑ In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 2 in 299 AC.
- ↑ In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 5 in 302 AC.
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