Crow
Crows are black birds found in the known world.
Contents
Culture
Like the larger ravens,[1] crows have a reputation for scavenging corpses.[2][3][4][5][6] Iron cages hanging from posts care called crow cages, as carrion crows can peck at prisoners held inside.[7][8][9]
Crows are fond of sweetcorn;[10][11] humans use scarecrows to ward off the birds.[12]
Members of the black-clad Night's Watch are sometimes called crows,[13][14][15][16] and their recruiters can be referred to as wandering crows.[17][18] Free folk often denigrate the Watch as black crows,[19][14][20][21] and the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch can be called Lord Crow by them.[20][22]
House Morrigen of Crow's Nest includes a crow in their sigil, and a Goodbrother branch resides at Crow Spike Keep. Groups named after the bird include the Stone Crows and the Stormcrows.
The crow's nest is a lookout atop a ship's mast,[23] and the lookout sailor can be called a crow's eye.[24] Storm Crow is a ship at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Euron Greyjoy is known as the Crow's Eye.[25] Mors Umber has been called Crowfood after a crow pecked out his eye and he responded by biting its head off.[14]
History
The defeat of the Sarnori by the Dothraki became known as the Field of Crows.[6]
Some tales of Brynden Rivers claimed that carrion crows were spies who whispered secrets in his ears.[7]
Crows nest atop the broken tower of Winterfell[10] and the common hall of Castle Black.[26] Bran Stark enjoys climbing the broken tower to feed corn to its crows.[10]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Comatose after falling from the First Keep, Bran dreams of a three-eyed crow.[27]
A Clash of Kings
Arya Stark sees carrion crows during her travels in the wartorn riverlands.[11][3][1]
Theon Greyjoy observes crows arriving at dusk after the battle at Winterfell,[28] and Bran sees numerous crows feasting on bodies after the sack of Winterfell.[29]
A Storm of Swords
The ghost of High Heart says she dreamed of a man without a face with a drowned crow on his shoulder.[30]
A Feast for Crows
Samwell Tarly sees crows on bodies floating in Whispering Sound.[31]
Quotes
Crows are all liars.[32]
—Old Nan to Bran Stark
Tyrion saw no bodies, but the air was full of ravens and carrion crows; there had been fighting here, and recently.[33]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Brienne: I'll leave no innocents to be food for crows.
Jaime: A heartless wench. Crows need to eat as well.[4]
Crows. When did a black bird ever bring good to a man's hall, I ask you? Never. Never.[35]
How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?[36]
—thoughts of Jaime Lannister
Crow's Eye, you call me. Well, who has a keener eye than the crow? After every battle the crows come in their hundreds and their thousands to feast upon the fallen. A crow can espy death from afar.[37]
—Euron Greyjoy to the kingsmoot
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 34, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 19, Arya V.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 1, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 8, Daenerys I.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Grasslands.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Sworn Sword.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 29, Arya V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 8, Bran II.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 9, Arya III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 14, Arya IV.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 37, Bran V.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 23, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 58, Jon XII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 6, Arya I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 1, The Prophet.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 17, Bran III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 69, Bran VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 45, Samwell V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 56, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 60, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man.
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