Elephant

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Elephants come from Essos. They are not native to Westeros. They are like real life elephants. The Elephants is the name for the party of the merchants and moneylenders in Volantis.

Daenerys Targaryen acquired three elephants with her pyramid, they remind her of hairless grey mammoths - though their tusks have been bobbed and guilded, and (to her mind) their eyes are sad. They are stabled in the eastern walls. One trumpets at Dany’s small company as they make their way down the pyramid to her dragons Viserion and Rhaegal, one of the dragons gives an answering roar.

The Golden Company comprises a number of elephants. When Jon Connington reaches the Golden Company’s camp he sees two dozen grey elephants grazing beside the water, pulling up reeds with their trunks.

The streets of Old Volantis are overrun with white dwarf elephants. A single dwarf elephant pulls an ornate cart called a hathays,[1]

Great cogs carry the Golden Company’s elephants Westerosi shores, some were had last been seen at Lys before the storm that had scattered half the fleet. As Prince Aegon Targaryen arrives to join Jon Connington at the Griffin’s Roost he rides at the head of column of three hundred horse with three elephants lumbering in the rear.[2]


Four legions out of New Ghis have a hundred elephants, armored and towered.

During the Volantene elections elephants have the names of would-be triarchs painted on their sides.

Elephants are a game piece in cyvasse. During a game of cyvasse Tyrion has to explain to Penny that the dragon flies, not the elephants.

Quotes

“There is not a warhorse in all of Westeros that will stand against them”

Jon Connington - on elephant cavalry.[2]


Notes and References

  1. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 6, The Merchant's Man.
  2. 2.0 2.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.