![]() Stannis hosts a council and prepares a letter to be distributed throughout the Seven Kingdoms. ĭavos sits at the Painted Table with Stannis and Melisandre. She proclaims Stannis as a prophesied hero when he draws a flaming sword from one of the statues. Maester Cressen attempts to interrupt the ceremony but is casually dismissed by Melisandre. ![]() Davos is agnostic but watches with interest beside his son Matthos Seaworth, a devoted convert. King Stannis Baratheon converts to the religion of the Lord of Light and allows his priestess Melisandre to burn the statues of the Seven outside Dragonstone. Game of Thrones: Season 2ĭavos attends a burning of the Seven idols. Stannis's wife Selyse despises Ser Davos (although he saved her life through the food smuggled to Storm's End), but their daughter Shireen is fond of him and considers him a friend, while Davos loves her like his own daughter. He is proud of his son's education but remains illiterate. ![]() Davos has several sons, including Matthos, who serves with him on his ship and is a scribe for Stannis. Davos is one of the only men who can (even grudgingly) influence Stannis's decisions, because he values Davos's honest advice above that of noble-born flatterers. Stannis himself points out that it was the low-born Davos, and not the high-born lords, who saved the lives of Stannis and his castle garrison. ĭavos is one of Stannis's most loyal and reliable vassals and arguably his best friend, but is treated with disdain by some of the other lords of Westeros for his low birth. Highborn members of older noble Houses disparagingly called Davos "the Onion Knight" for his actions, but he has embraced this title and proudly took an onion on the sail of a black ship for a sigil and sewed the onion onto his ship's sails. He chose the name "Seaworth" for his family's new noble House, as a reference to his smuggling past. He wears his severed finger bones in a pouch around his neck and believes they bring him good luck. He also mentions in a featurette that he submitted to the punishment for the sake of sheer justice, saying he "avoided punishment for too long" and that this was the first instance he had ever seen of true justice being served. Davos submitted to this punishment willingly, judging it a fair exchange in return for improving his family's future prospects. Thieves in Westeros are often sentenced to having fingers or the whole hand removed, but Stannis only took the fingertips of his non-dominant hand. However, Stannis also cut off the four fingertips at the knuckles from Davos's right hand (as Davos is left-handed) as punishment for his past smuggling crimes. For this service, Stannis rewarded Davos by bestowing him with knighthood and lands. The supplies helped Stannis's forces survive until the end of the war. ĭuring Robert's Rebellion, Davos aided Stannis Baratheon while he was besieged in Storm's End, by delivering smuggled onions and other foodstuffs into the castle. His black-sailed ship became infamous for sneaking into harbors in the dead of night while avoiding detection. He became a sailor while very young to escape the slums and has spent most of his life sailing the Narrow Sea. ĭavos was born in Flea Bottom, the poorest slum in King's Landing. ![]() His ship used to ply the Narrow Sea, smuggling goods from the Free Cities into the Seven Kingdoms and back again. Ser Davos Seaworth is a landed knight and a reformed smuggler. He served Jon as his principal advisor and right-hand man until his exile, after which he sits on the Small Council of Brandon Stark as Master of Ships. He later sides with House Stark and proclaims Jon Snow the King in the North after Jon retakes Winterfell from House Bolton. Siding with Jon's followers, Davos becomes one of his lieutenants after persuading Melisandre to resurrect Jon. And then it doesn't matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne." ―Davos Seaworth on the Great War, to Daenerys Targaryen ĭavos Seaworth, also known as the Onion Knight and formerly Davos of Flea Bottom, is a landed knight, and a former smuggler who was in the service of Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and claimant to the Iron Throne, whom he served as Hand of the King.Īfter Stannis's defeat and death at Winterfell, Davos remains at Castle Black, where he is caught in the midst of a mutiny among the Night's Watch that initially led to the death of Lord Commander Jon Snow. " If we don't put aside our enmities and band together, we will die.
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