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| Character_name          = [[File:Second Sons small.png|50px|left]] Ben Plumm [[File:Second Sons small.png|50px|right]]
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| firstname = Ben
| image         = [[File:Brown Ben Plumm1.jpg|250px]]
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| lastname = Plumm
| image_caption =  Part of [[A Game of Thrones collectible card game]], illustrated by Patrick McEvoy. Copyrighted work by Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). Posted in the "Card Guide Wiki".
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| arms = Second Sons.svg
| Alias = Brown Ben Plumm
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| image = Brown Ben Plumm TheMico.jpg
| Title = Commander of the Second Sons
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| image_caption =  Ben Plumm, by The Mico ©
| Allegiance = [[Second Sons]]
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| Alias = Brown Ben Plumm<br>Lord Plumm
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| Title = Captain of the [[Second Sons]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>Commander of the [[Second Sons]]
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| Allegiance = [[House of Pahl]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>[[Second Sons]]
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| Books = [[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears)<br>[[A Dance with Dragons]] (Appears)
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| Mother = Unknown [[Dothraki]]
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| Books = ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' <small>(appears)</small><br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' <small>(appendix)</small><br>''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' <small>(appears)</small><br>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'' <small>(appears)</small>
 
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'''Ben Plumm''', better known as '''Brown Ben Plumm''', is the captain and commander of the [[sellsword]] company called the [[Second Sons]].{{ref|adwd|appendix}}
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'''Ben Plumm''', better known as '''Brown Ben Plumm''', is a descendant of [[House Plumm]] and the captain and commander of the [[Second Sons]].
  
 
==Appearance==
 
==Appearance==
Ben is described as "an older man", tall and still fit.{{ref|adwd|47}} He has a broad face, brown skin, a broken nose and nappy grey/white hair.{{Ref|aDwD|36}} He has a salt and pepper beard{{ref|adwd|47}} He has large, dark, almond-shaped [[Dothraki]] eyes that he inherited from his mother.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} There are wrinkles at the corner of his eyes.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}  
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{{See also|:Category:Images of Ben Plumm|l1=Images of Ben Plumm}}
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Ben is an aging man, but still fit.{{Ref|ADWD|47}} He has a broad, weathered face, brown skin, a broken nose, and grey-white hair.{{Ref|aDwD|36}} He has a salt and pepper beard.{{Ref|ADWD|47}} He has large, dark, almond-shaped [[Dothraki]] eyes that he inherited from his mother.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} There are wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}  
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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Ben's mother is a Dothraki, and his grandmother was half-[[Ibbenese]] and half-[[Qohor]]ik. His grandfather was killed by a Dothraki prior to Ben's birth.{{Ref|aSoS|57}}
  
Brown Ben's mother is a Dothraki. He says he is part [[Braavos]]i, [[Summer Islands|Summer Islander]], [[Ibben]]ese, [[Qohor]]ik, Dothraki, [[Dorne|Dornish]] and part [[Westeros]]i. He claims to have a drop of [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] blood, which must be why [[Dragon|dragons]], particularly [[Viserion]], have an affinity for him.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} He states an old member of [[House Plumm]] married a "dragon princess". He vaguely says that the wedding took place in the reign of [[Aegon Targaryen (disambiguation)|Aegon Targaryen]]. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] points out that there were five Aegons who reigned in Westeros and asks which one, but Ben fails to remember the regnal number requested. {{Ref|aSoS|57}}
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Ben says he is part [[Braavos]]i, [[Summer Islands|Summer Islander]], [[Ibben]]ese, [[Qohor]]ik, [[Dorne|Dornish]], [[Dothraki]], and [[Westeros]]i. He claims to have a drop of [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] blood, which must be why [[Dragon|dragons]], particularly [[Viserion]], have an affinity for him. He states an [[Ossifer Plumm|old member]] of [[House Plumm]] married a "[[Elaena Targaryen|dragon princess]]". He vaguely says that the wedding took place in the reign of [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]]. [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] points out that there were five Aegons who reigned in Westeros and asks which one, but Ben fails to remember the regnal number requested.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} [[Tyrion Lannister]] suspects him to be a distant descendant of a younger son of [[Viserys Plumm]] and a possible distant relation to the famous [[Ossifer Plumm]], and that Ben thus has "two drops" of dragon blood, not just one,{{Ref|aDwD|57}} as Viserys Plumm was rumored to have been fathered by King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] on Princess [[Elaena Targaryen]], Ossifer's wife.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}}
 
 
Ben's grandmother was half-Ibbenese and half-Qohoriq. He claims that his knowledge of Westeros came from her second-hand narratives to him as a child. She never stepped foot on Westeros herself. His Westerosi grandfather was killed by a Dothraki, prior to the birth of Ben.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} His ancestor was reportedly famous for having a cock six-foot-long.{{Ref|aSoS|57}} [[Tyrion Lannister]] suspects him to be a distant descendant of a younger son of [[Viserys Plumm]] and a possible distant relation to the famous [[Ossifer Plumm]].{{Ref|aDwD|57}} Ossifer reportedly fathered a child when already dead and buried.{{Ref|aFfC|12}} Tyrion also claims that Brown Ben has "two drops" of dragon blood, not just one.{{Ref|aDwD|57}}
 
  
Ben once served as a bodyguard to the uncle of [[Oznak zo Pahl]] in [[Meereen]] before joining the [[Second Sons]]. He escaped from Meereen by traveling through the sewer system, an experience that he does not wish to ever repeat.  
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Ben once served as a bodyguard to the uncle of [[Oznak zo Pahl]] in [[Meereen]], before joining the [[Second Sons]]. When someone Ben knew was killed by Oznak for looking at a woman the wrong way, Ben fled, escaping the city through its sewer system, an experience that haunts him.{{Ref|aDwD|57}}
  
While plundering after his first battle with the Second Sons, Plumm took some leather armor from a dead sellsword, and discovered a fortune of coins the man had sewn into the lining of the armor. Plumm, being naive at the time, told a fellow sellsword whom he believed a friend. The fellow sellsword told the commander and they took the fortune away from Plumm. Ben loves gold, but this incident made him realize that it is useless if one is not alive to enjoy it. Plumm now chooses his battles very carefully. He once served near [[Volantis]] where he learned the game of [[cyvasse]].
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While plundering after his first battle with the Second Sons, Plumm took some leather armor from a dead sellsword, and discovered a fortune of coins the man had sewn into the lining of the armor. In his naivety, Ben told a fellow sellsword whom he believed a friend. The fellow sellsword told their sergeant and his colleagues relieved him of his fortune. Ben loves gold, but this incident made him realize that it is useless if one is not alive to enjoy it.{{Ref|aDwD|50}}
  
Brown Ben claims to have fought in a hundred battles but he does not claim to have fought bravely in all of them.  
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Ben claims to have fought in a hundred battles but he does not claim to have fought bravely in all of them.{{Ref|aSoS|57}}
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
Brown Ben is voted in as the new commander of the Second Sons after [[Mero]] disappears during the fight at [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aSoS|57}} He sits on [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s war council. It is his idea to use the sewer system of [[Meereen]] as a route to besiege the city.
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Ben is elected as the new commander of the Second Sons after [[Mero]] disappears during the fight at [[Yunkai]]. He sits on [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s war council. It is his idea to use the sewer system of [[Meereen]] as a route to besiege the city.{{Ref|aSoS|57}}
  
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Daenerys sends Brown Ben and the Second Sons to guard the south against any incursions by Yunkai.{{Ref|aDwD|2}} When Plumm returns to the city and discovers Daenerys could no longer control her dragons, he decides her cause is lost and goes over to the Yunkai, enraging Daenerys. During the Yunkai slave market held outside [[Meereen]], Plumm sees Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]] being sold, and plans to buy both: Mormont to kill and give as a wedding gift to Daenerys and Tyrion for the lordship claim offered by [[Cersei Lannister]]. Plumm is outbid on both by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]].  
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Daenerys sends Brown Ben and the Second Sons to guard the south against any incursions by Yunkai.{{Ref|aDwD|2}} When Plumm returns to the city and discovers Daenerys could no longer control her dragons, he decides her cause is lost and goes over to the Yunkai'i.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}{{Ref|aDwD|50}}
  
Plumm later plays a games of [[cyvasse]] with Tyrion, who describes Plumm thus:
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During the slave market held outside [[Meereen]], Plumm sees [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Penny]] being sold and attempts to buy them,{{Ref|aDwD|47}} with a mind to delivering Tyrion's head to Daenerys as a wedding gift,{{Ref|aDwD|50}}, or to [[Cersei Lannister]] to claim the reward of a lordship.{{Ref|aDwD|57}} However, he is outbid by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]].
  
{{Quote|''"Plumm had an amiable look to him, especially when he smiled. The faithful retainer, every man's favorite nuncle, full of chuckles and old sayings and roughspun wisdom. It was all a sham. Those smiles never reached Plumm's eyes, where greed hid behind a veil of caution. Hungry but wary this one".''{{Ref|aDwD|47}}}}
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Ben is present when [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]] feasts the Yunkish commanders. He plays [[cyvasse]] with Tyrion, losing the games to Tyrion, and a small fortune to Yezzan.{{Ref|aDwD|47}}
  
Ben, along with the other three sellsword commanders, is allowed to enter Meereen when peace is declared. He explains to Dany the reasons he turned his cloak. Plumm allows Tyrion along with Jorah to join the Second Sons after they escape their dying master. Tyrion writes sixty documents promising large sums of gold to several high ranking members in the company. To Plumm he promises the largest reward of "One hundred thousand gold dragons, fifty [[w:Hide_(unit)|hides]] of fertile land, a castle and a lordship". All this Tyrion promises to honor when he becomes Lord of [[Casterly Rock]]; how Tyrion persuades the Second Sons he will achieve this remains a mystery.{{Ref|aDwD|66}}
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Ben, along with the other three sellsword commanders, is allowed to enter Meereen when peace is declared. He explains to Dany the reasons he turned his cloak.{{Ref|aDwD|50}} Plumm allows Tyrion along with Jorah to join the Second Sons after they escape their dying master. Tyrion writes sixty documents promising large sums of gold to several high ranking members in the company. To Plumm he promises the largest reward of "One hundred thousand gold dragons, fifty [[w:Hide (unit)|hides]] of fertile land, a castle and a lordship". All this Tyrion promises to honor when he becomes Lord of [[Casterly Rock]].{{Ref|aDwD|66}}
  
==Quotes==
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==Family==
{{Quote|''"Never trust a sellsword."'' {{Ref|aDwD|50}}}}
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{{House Plumm}}
  
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==Quotes by Ben==
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{{Quote|There are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords.{{Ref|aSoS|57}}}}
  
{{Quote|''"There are old sellswords and bold sellswords but there are no old, bold sellswords."'' {{Ref|aSoS|57}}}}
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==Quotes about Ben==
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{{Quote|The [[Second Sons]] have gone over to the [[Yunkai]]'i ... When next I see his ugly face I will open him from throat to groin and rip out his black heart.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}|[[Daario Naharis]]}}
  
==Quotes about Ben==
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{{Quote|A warm smile, that. Friendly. But my, those eyes are cold.{{Ref|aDwD|47}}|[[Tyrion Lannister]]'s thoughts}}
{{Quote|''"A warm smile, that. Friendly. But my, those eyes are cold."'' {{Ref|aDwD|47}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]
 
  
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{{Quote|Brown Ben is shrewd, tenacious, not unintelligent … but wary.{{Ref|aDwD|57}}|[[Tyrion Lannister]]}}
  
{{Quote|''"He studied [[Tyrion]] as a man might study a talking snake."'' {{Ref|aDwD|57}}}} - [[Tyrion Lannister]]
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{{Quote|I hear you're twice a turncloak, Plumm. A man after mine own heart.{{Ref|aDwD|57}}|[[Tyrion Lannister]]}}
  
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==See also==
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* [[Ben Plumm/Theories]]
  
==Family==
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==References==
{{House Plumm}}
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{{References|2}}
  
[[Category:Second Sons]]
 
 
[[Category:House Plumm]]
 
[[Category:House Plumm]]
[[Category:Mercenaries]]
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[[Category:Characters from Essos|Plumm, Ben]]
 
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[[Category:Courtiers and followers of Daenerys Targaryen|Plumm, Ben]]
==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Mercenaries|Plumm, Ben]]
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[[Category:Second Sons|Plumm, Ben]]
 
 
[[Category:Mercenaries]]
 
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[[fr:Brun Ben Prünh]]
 
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[[nl:Ben Pruym]]
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[[zh:本·普棱]]

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Brown Ben Plumm TheMico.jpg
Ben Plumm, by The Mico ©

Aliases
  • Brown Ben Plumm
  • Lord Plumm
Titles
Allegiances
Mother Unknown Dothraki
Books

Ben Plumm, better known as Brown Ben Plumm, is a descendant of House Plumm and the captain and commander of the Second Sons.

Appearance

Ben is an aging man, but still fit.[1] He has a broad, weathered face, brown skin, a broken nose, and grey-white hair.[2] He has a salt and pepper beard.[1] He has large, dark, almond-shaped Dothraki eyes that he inherited from his mother.[3] There are wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.[2]

History

Ben's mother is a Dothraki, and his grandmother was half-Ibbenese and half-Qohorik. His grandfather was killed by a Dothraki prior to Ben's birth.[3]

Ben says he is part Braavosi, Summer Islander, Ibbenese, Qohorik, Dornish, Dothraki, and Westerosi. He claims to have a drop of Targaryen blood, which must be why dragons, particularly Viserion, have an affinity for him. He states an old member of House Plumm married a "dragon princess". He vaguely says that the wedding took place in the reign of Aegon Targaryen. Daenerys points out that there were five Aegons who reigned in Westeros and asks which one, but Ben fails to remember the regnal number requested.[3] Tyrion Lannister suspects him to be a distant descendant of a younger son of Viserys Plumm and a possible distant relation to the famous Ossifer Plumm, and that Ben thus has "two drops" of dragon blood, not just one,[4] as Viserys Plumm was rumored to have been fathered by King Aegon IV Targaryen on Princess Elaena Targaryen, Ossifer's wife.[5]

Ben once served as a bodyguard to the uncle of Oznak zo Pahl in Meereen, before joining the Second Sons. When someone Ben knew was killed by Oznak for looking at a woman the wrong way, Ben fled, escaping the city through its sewer system, an experience that haunts him.[4]

While plundering after his first battle with the Second Sons, Plumm took some leather armor from a dead sellsword, and discovered a fortune of coins the man had sewn into the lining of the armor. In his naivety, Ben told a fellow sellsword whom he believed a friend. The fellow sellsword told their sergeant and his colleagues relieved him of his fortune. Ben loves gold, but this incident made him realize that it is useless if one is not alive to enjoy it.[6]

Ben claims to have fought in a hundred battles but he does not claim to have fought bravely in all of them.[3]

Recent Events

A Storm of Swords

Ben is elected as the new commander of the Second Sons after Mero disappears during the fight at Yunkai. He sits on Daenerys Targaryen's war council. It is his idea to use the sewer system of Meereen as a route to besiege the city.[3]

A Dance with Dragons

Daenerys sends Brown Ben and the Second Sons to guard the south against any incursions by Yunkai.[7] When Plumm returns to the city and discovers Daenerys could no longer control her dragons, he decides her cause is lost and goes over to the Yunkai'i.[2][6]

During the slave market held outside Meereen, Plumm sees Tyrion Lannister and Penny being sold and attempts to buy them,[1] with a mind to delivering Tyrion's head to Daenerys as a wedding gift,[6], or to Cersei Lannister to claim the reward of a lordship.[4] However, he is outbid by Yezzan zo Qaggaz.

Ben is present when Yezzan zo Qaggaz feasts the Yunkish commanders. He plays cyvasse with Tyrion, losing the games to Tyrion, and a small fortune to Yezzan.[1]

Ben, along with the other three sellsword commanders, is allowed to enter Meereen when peace is declared. He explains to Dany the reasons he turned his cloak.[6] Plumm allows Tyrion along with Jorah to join the Second Sons after they escape their dying master. Tyrion writes sixty documents promising large sums of gold to several high ranking members in the company. To Plumm he promises the largest reward of "One hundred thousand gold dragons, fifty hides of fertile land, a castle and a lordship". All this Tyrion promises to honor when he becomes Lord of Casterly Rock.[8]

Family

Ossifer
 
Elaena
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Viserys
 
Unknown
wife
 
Petyr
 
Maynard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Son(s)
 
Younger
son
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown
Plumm
 
Unknown
Dothraki
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Philip
 
Unknown
wife
 
 
 
Ben
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dennis
 
Peter
 
Harwyn
 

Quotes by Ben

There are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords.[3]

Quotes about Ben

The Second Sons have gone over to the Yunkai'i ... When next I see his ugly face I will open him from throat to groin and rip out his black heart.[2]

A warm smile, that. Friendly. But my, those eyes are cold.[1]

Tyrion Lannister's thoughts

Brown Ben is shrewd, tenacious, not unintelligent … but wary.[4]

I hear you're twice a turncloak, Plumm. A man after mine own heart.[4]

See also

References