Marq Mandrake

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Marq Mandrake
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Allegiance Golden Company
Book A Dance with Dragons

Marq Mandrake is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company.

Appearance

He has a pox scarred face that has a hole in one cheek where a slaver’s mark had been burned away. He wears a chain of golden skulls. [1]

History

He is a Westerosi exile escaped from slavery. How he came to be enslaved, where he was a slave and for how long is not known. His surname Mandrake was a house that once loomed large in the histories of the Seven Kingdoms

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

During his rendezvous with the Golden Company three miles south of Volon Therys Jon Connington reveals that Young Griff is in fact Prince Aegon Targaryen. Silence greets his announcement. He notices Marq Mandrake and Jon Lothston exchange a glance. They know, Griff realizes then. They have known all along.

When Prince Aegon takes the opportunity to introduce his own plan of going to Westeros and claiming the throne in his own name a Peake remarks that, "he’d sooner die in Westeros than on the demon road". Mandrake chuckles and responds “Me, I’d sooner live, win lands and some great castle.” [2]

Mandrake, like the rest of the company, swears his allegiance to Aegon Targaryen before they invade Westeros.

On Westeros, during Jon Connington and the Golden Company’s war council at the Griffin's Roost, it is disclosed that Marq Mandrake was put ashore by the Volantenes on what turns out to be Estermont with close to 500 men, although the island was never one of their objectives. He lead his troops and took Greenstone. [1]

Connington figures there should be ships on Estermont as it is an island. He instructs Haldon to send word to Mandrake to leave a garrison behind and bring the rest of his men to Cape Wrath, along with any noble captives. [1]

References and Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.
  2. A Dance with Dragons, Bad parameter 2: "" is not a recognized chapter.