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Walder Frey | |
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Alias | Little Walder |
Allegiances |
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Culture | Rivermen |
Born | In 291 AC[1], the Twins[2] |
Died | In 300 AC, Winterfell |
Father | Merrett Frey |
Mother | Mariya Darry |
Personal arms |
The twin towers of Frey, quartered with the brindled boar of House Crakehall and the plowman of House Darry (Quarterly, first and fourth, cendrée, a bridge azure, at either end a tower of the same (for Frey), second, tenné, a boar brindled argent and sable (for Crakehall), third, tenné a plowman sable (for Darry) |
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Walder Frey, nicknamed Little Walder, is the son of Merrett Frey and Mariya Darry. His personal coat of arms is the twin towers of House Frey quartered with the brindled boar of House Crakehall and the plowman of House Darry.[3]
Contents
Appearance and Character
Walder is tall and stout, with a red face and big round belly. He is known as "Little Walder" because he is fifty-two days younger than his cousin, "Big Walder" Frey, although Little Walder has since grown half a foot taller.[4]
Little Walder's lambswool doublet is silver-grey with dark blue trim.[5] His armor is fine silver plate with enameled blue chasings. His crest has streamers of blue and grey silk and he rides a dappled grey courser.[3]
Walder is boastful and mean.[3]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Little Walder is present at the Twins when Catelyn Stark comes to treat with Lord Walder Frey. As part of the terms allowing Robb Stark to cross at the Twins, Little Walder is sent to Winterfell to be fostered.[6]
A Clash of Kings
Little Walder and his cousin, Big Walder, are sent to Winterfell to become wards of Catelyn Stark. They are tutored by Maester Luwin.[7] Little Walder quickly makes friends with Rickon Stark, but is not friendly with Bran Stark.[4] The children play monsters and maidens, rats and cats, come-into-my-castle, and lord of the crossing, which Little Walder wins more often than not.[4] Rickon angers Bran by showing the Freys the crypts of Winterfell.[4]
During the harvest feast, Little Walder trains with knights from White Harbor; Bran thinks Little Walder strikes the quintain harder than Big Walder.[3] Little Walder dislikes the Reed siblings, Meera and Jojen, considering the crannogmen to be frogeaters and mudmen.[8] He also boasts of being able to slay Bran's direwolf, Summer.[3] When word of Ser Stevron Frey's death at Oxcross arrives at Winterfell, Little Walder and Big Walder argue over who is next in line to inherit the Twins, showing no sadness at their relative's passing.[9]
The Frey cousins are taken captive by Theon Greyjoy when he leads his ironborn in capturing Winterfell.[10] One of the cousins volunteers for Theon's party that searches the wolfswood for Bran and Rickon when they disappear from the castle. Although Theon does not identify which one, the boy states his desire for a wolfskin cloak and denigrates crannogmen.[11] The Freys are spared by Ramsay Snow during the sack of Winterfell.[12]
A Storm of Swords
A letter written by Big Walder and signed by both Frey cousins is sent to the Twins claiming Theon Greyjoy burned Winterfell. Lame Lothar Frey conveys this false report to Robb Stark, now King in the North.[13]
A Feast for Crows
Little Walder has become a squire to Ramsay.[14]
A Dance with Dragons
Little Walder is offered as a husband to Wylla Manderly by Rhaegar Frey when Frey envoys go to White Harbor to return the bones of Ser Wendel Manderly to his father, Lord Wyman Manderly.[15]
Little Walder and Big Walder bring Theon Greyjoy, who has been mutilated by Ramsay Bolton, from the Dreadfort's dungeon to Ramsay's feast with Arnolf Karstark and Hother Umber.[5]
Lady Barbrey Dustin gives grey colts to Walder and his cousin when they join Ramsay in searching for missing Freys near Barrowton.[16] Theon notes Little Walder is becoming more and more like Ramsay, which disturbs Theon and Big Walder.[16]
Little Walder is present at Winterfell during the wedding of Ramsay and "Arya Stark".[17] With a snowstorm striking Winterfell, the cousins join other squires in building snowmen in the yard.[18] One of Abel's girls teaches Little Walder how to dance.[19]
Later, Little Walder's frozen, bloody body is discovered in a snowbank below the ruined First Keep of Winterfell. A blood-spattered Big Walder accompanies Little Walder's uncle, Ser Hosteen Frey, and his soldiers when they enter the Great Hall of Winterfell. According to Big Walder, Little Walder was looking for a White Harbor knight who owed silver from a game of dice. Wyman denies Hosteen's accusation of having ordered Walder's death, and an enraged Hosteen attacks Lord Manderly after he insults House Frey. The confrontation leaves six White Harbor men and two Freys dead. It takes the intervention of Lord Roose Bolton's men to prevent a battle within Winterfell.[20] Theon suspects Abel and his girls of Little Walder's murder, but Rowan claims it is no work of theirs.[20]
Quotes
Quotes by Walder
Big Walder: He'll set his wolf on you, cousin.
Little Walder: Let him. I always wanted a wolfskin cloak.
Little Walder: If I want to.[3]
Bran: Summer would tear your fat head off.
Little Walder: Does your wolf have steel teeth, to bite through plate and mail?
Luwin: Enough! These threats are unseemly, and I'll hear no more of them. Is this how you behave at the Twins, Walder Frey?
Quotes about Walder
The big one they call little, it comes to me he's well named. Big outside, little inside, and mean down to the bones.[3]
—Osha to Bran Stark
Both were squires, both were eight, and both were Walder Frey. Big Walder and Little Walder, yes. Only the big one was Little and the little one was Big, which amused the boys and confused the rest of the world.[5]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Little Walder had become Lord Ramsay's best boy and grew more like him every day, but the smaller Frey was made of different stuff and seldom took part in his cousin's games and cruelties.[16]
—thoughts of Theon Greyjoy
Hosteen: We know the man who did this. Killed this boy and all the rest. Not by his own hand, no. He is too fat and craven to do his own killing. But by his word. Do you deny it?
Wyman: I confess ... I confess that I know little of this poor boy. Lord Ramsay's squire, was he not? How old was the lad?
Wyman: So young. Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would have grown up to be a Frey.[20]
Hosteen: Nine, on his last nameday.
Family
Danwell | Wynafrei Whent | Merrett | Mariya Darry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pate of the Blue Fork | Amerei | Lancel Lannister | "Fat" Walda | Roose Bolton | Marissa | Stillborn daughter | Daughter | "Little" Walder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geremy | Carolei Waynwood | Raymund | Beony Beesbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sandor | Cynthea | Robert | Malwyn | Sarra | Serra | Cersei | Tywin | Jaime | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ See the Walder Frey (Little Walder calculation.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Walder Frey (Little).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 4, Bran I.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 12, Reek I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 59, Catelyn IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 35, Bran V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 19, Davos III.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 41, The Turncloak.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.