Fingers (guards)
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The Fingers were the personal guard of Lord Unwin Peake during his time as Hand of the King to the young King Aegon III Targaryen. [1]
History
Lord Unwin Peake was suspicious and untrusting, so when he became Hand of the King, he hired ten foreign mercanaries with no competing loyalties in Westeros and paid them very lavishly in gold so they would be completely loyal to him, there commander was Tessario the Tiger.[1]
Peakes personal guard soon became referred by others as the "Fingers" since there were ten of them and Lord Unwin was the Hand of the King. The fool Mushroom called Tessario, Tessario the Thumb in mocking reference to this.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.