Varamyr

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Varamyr
Alias Varamyr Sixskins
Culture Wildlings
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Varamyr, better known as Varamyr Sixskins, is a diminutive wildling and a skinchanger who participated in Mance Rayder's assault on the Wall. He controls three wolves, a snow bear, and a shadowcat.[1] He was known as Lump until he took his new name.[2]

Appearance

He is grey-faced and bald with round shoulders. He is small.[3]

History

Varamyr, known as Lump at the time, used one of Loptail, Sniff or Growler to kill his younger brother Bump. When Varamyr's father came upon Bump's body, the dogs were sniffing around it. Not knowing which one had done the act, he put all three to death. However, before Loptail's death, Varamyr slipped inside his skin and felt Loptail's death. His reaction, a scream, informed Varamyr's parents that he was a warg.

His father dragged him through the bush until he came to Haggon informing Varamyr that he belonged with his own kind. Haggon taught him how to warg properly and the rules of the ability, instructing him on the strengths and weaknesses of the different animals, teaching him rudimentary survival skills. Haggon often traded with the Night's Watch and it was on one of those trips where Varamyr began to dream of living south of the Wall. He named himself Varamyr when he was ten years old.

When Haggon lay dying, Varamyr, resentful, stole his wolf Greyskin, who Haggon intended to be his second life. At that point Varamyr was calling himself Varamyr Threeskins and then Fourskins after taking Greyskin. Over the years, Varamyr died eight more times while wearing the skins of other creatures. However his power grew and was known to ride into battle on the back of thirteen foot tall bear. He had a hall of moss, mud and hew logs, which had been Haggon's before he died. A dozen villages did him homage and when he wanted a woman from the villages, he would send his shadowcat to get them. They came, some crying, some not, but all resentful. Eventually Mance Rayder came and sought an alliance, to which Varamyr agreed and was a part of Mance's hose beneath the Wall.[4]

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

After the death of Orell, he took control of Orell's eagle, which still had a remnant of Orell's consciousness inside of it. After Stannis's arrival at the Wall, Varamyr used the eagle to scout Castle Black. Melisandre killed the eagle, causing Varamyr to go insane.

A Dance with Dragons

After the defeat of the wildlings at the Wall he fled together with a small group, hiding his real identity from them. One by one they leave until only Thistle, a spearwife, remains. When he tries to take over her body because he is dying she kills him, and he lives on in his wolf One Eye.[5]

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