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 during the regency of Aegon III, he hired ten foreign mercenaries with no competing loyalties in Westeros and paid them very lavishly in gold so they would be completely loyal to him, their commander was Tessario the Tiger.[1]

Peake's personal guard soon became referred by others as the "Fingers" since there were ten of them and Lord Unwin was the King's Hand. The fool Mushroom called Tessario, Tessario the Thumb, in mocking reference to this.[1]

When Lord Peake resigned as the Hand he bequeathed his guard to his successor, Lord Thaddeus Rowan.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.