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Ser '''Clayton Suggs''' is a [[queen's men]], previously a [[hedge knight]],{{Ref|aDwD|17}} though he hails from [[House Suggs]].<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/10/ Houses from an unknown region]</ref> His coat of arms is a winged pig.{{ref|twow||[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon]]}}
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Ser '''Clayton Suggs''' is a [[knight]] from [[House Suggs]] and a supporter of [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}<ref>The Citadel. Heraldry: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Houses/10/ Houses from an unknown region]</ref> His coat of arms is a winged pig.<ref name=TWOW>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>
  
 
==Appearance and Character==
 
==Appearance and Character==
Clayton is a short burly man with a balding head and a mouthful of broken brown teeth. He has a deep voice. Clayton is considered a crony{{ref|ADWD|17}} and the strong right hand of Ser [[Godry Farring]].{{ref|ADWD|62}} He is cruel and enjoys torturing, especially women, and it is rumored his love for the [[R'hllor|Lord of Light]] is only love of human sacrifice.
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Clayton is a short burly man with a balding head<ref name=TWOW/> and a mouthful of broken brown teeth.{{ref|ADWD|17}} He has pig eyes and blackheads on his nose.{{ref|ADWD|62}} Clayton has a deep voice{{ref|ADWD|10}} and is older than Lord [[Harwood Fell]].{{ref|ADWD|17}}
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Clayton is considered a crony{{ref|ADWD|17}} and the strong right hand of Ser [[Godry Farring]].{{ref|ADWD|62}} He is strong and courageous but also crude and brutish.{{ref|ADWD|17}}{{ref|ADWD|62}}  Clayton is cruel and enjoys torturing, and his love for the [[R'hllor|Lord of Light]] may only be love of human sacrifice.{{ref|ADWD|62}}
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
Clayton hails from [[Flea Bottom]]. According to Ser [[Justin Massey]], on [[Dragonstone]] Clayton would gamble with the torturers and lend them a hand in the questioning of prisoners, especially if the prisoner were a young woman.{{ref|ADWD|62}}
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Clayton was a [[hedge knight]]{{ref|ADWD|17}} of [[lowborn]] origin{{ref|AWOIAF| Clayton Suggs}} hailing from [[Flea Bottom]] in [[King's Landing]]. According to Ser [[Justin Massey]], Clayton gambled with [[Dragonstone]]'s torturers and aided them in the questioning of prisoners, especially young women.{{ref|ADWD|62}}
  
 
==Recent Events==  
 
==Recent Events==  
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===  
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===  
Ser Clayton is sworn to King [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He is among the knights who went north to the [[Wall]] with him.{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
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Ser Clayton is sworn to King [[Stannis Baratheon]]. He is among the [[queen's men]] who went north to the [[Wall]] with him.{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}}
  
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
 
===''A Dance with Dragons''===
At [[Castle Black]], Clayton states that Houses [[House Hornwood|Hornwood]], [[House Cerwyn|Cerwyn]], [[House Tallhart|Tallhart]], [[House Ryswell|Ryswell]] and [[House Dustin|Dustin]] are all traitors and lapdogs of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. When Stannis dismisses his men during a meeting with [[Jon Snow]], Clayton drains his cup dry and mutters something to [[Harwood Fell]] that makes him laugh. [[Jon Snow]] considers Clayton an upjumped [[hedge knight]] "as crude as he was strong".{{Ref|aDwD|17}}
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[[File:Marc Fishman Riders.jpg‎|250px|thumb|Suggs rips his longsword from its scabbard - by Marc Fishman ©]]
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Clayton is part of Stannis's honor guard when [[free folk]] pass through the [[Wall]] to [[Castle Black]] after the [[battle beneath the Wall]].{{ref|ADWD|10}} During Stannis's war council, Clayton states that Houses [[House Hornwood|Hornwood]], [[House Cerwyn|Cerwyn]], [[House Tallhart|Tallhart]], [[House Ryswell|Ryswell]] and [[House Dustin|Dustin]] are all traitors and lapdogs of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. When Stannis dismisses his men during a meeting with [[Jon Snow]], the [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], Clayton mutters something to [[Harwood Fell]] that makes him laugh.{{Ref|aDwD|17}}
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When Stannis's army is slowed during the [[march on Winterfell]], Clayton agrees with Ser [[Godry Farring]] they should burn someone to appease [[R'hllor]] and end the blizzard, but the king refuses.{{ref|ADWD|42}} [[Asha Greyjoy]] fears Clayton will burn her because of her king's blood, as her father [[Balon Greyjoy|Balon]] was [[King of the Isles and the North]].{{ref|ADWD|62}}
  
Clayton is among those who march with Stannis on [[Deepwood Motte]] and then [[Winterfell]]. Suggs agrees with Ser [[Godry Farring]] they should burn someone to appease [[R'hllor]] and end the blizzard. [[Asha Greyjoy]] believes it is her whom Suggs wants to burn. Asha does not like Clayton; to her he seems simply cruel. Clayton insults and goads Asha constantly.  She has seen him at the nightfires, watching, his lips parted and his eyes avid.  She concludes to herself that it is not the god Suggs loves, it is the flames.
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When four [[House Peasebury|Peasebury]] men are caught committing cannibalism at a [[crofters' village]], they are to be burned alive as a sacrifice to R'hllor. Desiring a quick death, their serjeant insults the queen's men. Clayton is goaded into quickly killing the condemned man with a knife after being called a bleeding [[bastard]].{{ref|ADWD|62}} Clayton insults Asha after the sacrifices are burned, but he is interrupted by [[Alysane Mormont]] and Ser [[Justin Massey]].{{ref|ADWD|62}}
  
When four [[House Peasebury|Peasebury]] men are caught committing cannibalism they are burned alive as a sacrifice to R’hllor, except the serjeant, who throws insults to goad Clayton into killing him with a knife. Clayton never says a word, one quick slash opened the serjeant’s throat, sending a wash of blood down his chest.  
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When Asha later reminds Clayton that Stannis gelds men for rape, he laughs and says he would sooner see her burn.{{ref|ADWD|62}} When they hear riders approaching the village, Clayton tells Asha to run and warn the king, as he assumes it is Lord [[Roose Bolton]]'s host upon them. However, the riders turn out to be [[Tycho Nestoris]] of the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] and his escort, some of whom are Asha's [[ironborn]] men from [[Deepwood Motte]].
  
Later when Clayton finds Asha alone looking at the burned corpses of the sacrificed men he insults her. She thinks to herself that Suggs is worse than [[Middle Liddle]]. She reminds Clayton that Stannis gelds men for rape and he laughs saying he would sooner see her burn.  
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===''The Winds of Winter''===
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Clayton is present along with Ser [[Godry Farring]] and Ser [[Richard Horpe]] when Stannis interrogates Maester [[Tybald]] about his loyalties. Stannis has Clayton threaten violence on the maester to make Tybald tell him everything. Clayton wants Stannis to burn [[Theon Greyjoy]].<ref name=TWOW/>
  
Suddenly they hear riders.  Clayton rips his longsword from its scabbard and tells her to run and warn the king, as he assumes it is [[Roose Bolton]]’s host upon them. Asha notes that a brute he might be but Suggs does not lack courage.  However, the riders turn out to be [[Tycho Nestoris]] of the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] and his escort, some of which are Asha’s [[ironborn]] men.
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==Quotes by Clayton==
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{{quote|'''Godry''': I had forgotten that you [[northmen]] worship [[heart tree|trees]].<br>
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'''Clayton''': [[old gods|What sort of god]] lets himself be pissed upon by dogs?{{ref|ADWD|17}}|[[Godry Farring]] and Clayton to [[Jon Snow]]}}
  
===''The Winds of Winter''===
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{{quote|A sacrifice will prove [[R'hllor|our faith]] still burns true, Sire.{{ref|ADWD|42}}|Clayton to [[Stannis Baratheon]]}}
Clayton is present along with Ser [[Godry Farring]] and [[Richard Horpe]] when Stannis interrogates Maester [[Tybald]] about his loyalties. Stannis has Clayton threaten violence on the maester to make Tybald tell him everything.{{ref|twow||[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon]]}}
 
  
 
==Quotes about Clayton==
 
==Quotes about Clayton==
{{Quote|He learned all he knows in the wynds of [[Flea Bottom]]. Were I to put you in his charge, he might strangle you with your own chain or scoop your eye out with a spoon.{{ref|twow||[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon]]}}}} - [[Stannis Baratheon]] to [[Tybald]]
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{{quote|Suggs was an upjumped [[hedge knight]], as crude as he was strong.{{ref|ADWD|17}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}
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{{quote|She had seen him at the nightfires, watching, his lips parted and his eyes avid. It is not [[R'hllor|the god]] he loves, it is the flames, she concluded.{{ref|ADWD|62}}|thoughts of [[Asha Greyjoy]]}}
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{{quote|Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.{{ref|ADWD|62}}|thoughts of [[Asha Greyjoy]]}}
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{{Quote|He learned all he knows in the wynds of [[Flea Bottom]]. Were I to put you in his charge, he might strangle you with your own chain or scoop your eye out with a spoon.<ref name=TWOW/>|[[Stannis Baratheon]] to [[Tybald]]}}
  
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Clayton Suggs
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Ser Clayton Suggs - by Kevin McCoy ©

Title Ser
Allegiances
Culture Crownlands
Born Flea Bottom, King's Landing
Books

Ser Clayton Suggs is a knight from House Suggs and a supporter of Stannis Baratheon.[1][2] His coat of arms is a winged pig.[3]

Appearance and Character

Clayton is a short burly man with a balding head[3] and a mouthful of broken brown teeth.[4] He has pig eyes and blackheads on his nose.[5] Clayton has a deep voice[6] and is older than Lord Harwood Fell.[4]

Clayton is considered a crony[4] and the strong right hand of Ser Godry Farring.[5] He is strong and courageous but also crude and brutish.[4][5] Clayton is cruel and enjoys torturing, and his love for the Lord of Light may only be love of human sacrifice.[5]

History

Clayton was a hedge knight[4] of lowborn origin[7] hailing from Flea Bottom in King's Landing. According to Ser Justin Massey, Clayton gambled with Dragonstone's torturers and aided them in the questioning of prisoners, especially young women.[5]

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Ser Clayton is sworn to King Stannis Baratheon. He is among the queen's men who went north to the Wall with him.[1]

A Dance with Dragons

Suggs rips his longsword from its scabbard - by Marc Fishman ©

Clayton is part of Stannis's honor guard when free folk pass through the Wall to Castle Black after the battle beneath the Wall.[6] During Stannis's war council, Clayton states that Houses Hornwood, Cerwyn, Tallhart, Ryswell and Dustin are all traitors and lapdogs of the Lannisters. When Stannis dismisses his men during a meeting with Jon Snow, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Clayton mutters something to Harwood Fell that makes him laugh.[4]

When Stannis's army is slowed during the march on Winterfell, Clayton agrees with Ser Godry Farring they should burn someone to appease R'hllor and end the blizzard, but the king refuses.[8] Asha Greyjoy fears Clayton will burn her because of her king's blood, as her father Balon was King of the Isles and the North.[5]

When four Peasebury men are caught committing cannibalism at a crofters' village, they are to be burned alive as a sacrifice to R'hllor. Desiring a quick death, their serjeant insults the queen's men. Clayton is goaded into quickly killing the condemned man with a knife after being called a bleeding bastard.[5] Clayton insults Asha after the sacrifices are burned, but he is interrupted by Alysane Mormont and Ser Justin Massey.[5]

When Asha later reminds Clayton that Stannis gelds men for rape, he laughs and says he would sooner see her burn.[5] When they hear riders approaching the village, Clayton tells Asha to run and warn the king, as he assumes it is Lord Roose Bolton's host upon them. However, the riders turn out to be Tycho Nestoris of the Iron Bank of Braavos and his escort, some of whom are Asha's ironborn men from Deepwood Motte.

The Winds of Winter

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Clayton is present along with Ser Godry Farring and Ser Richard Horpe when Stannis interrogates Maester Tybald about his loyalties. Stannis has Clayton threaten violence on the maester to make Tybald tell him everything. Clayton wants Stannis to burn Theon Greyjoy.[3]

Quotes by Clayton

Godry: I had forgotten that you northmen worship trees.
Clayton: What sort of god lets himself be pissed upon by dogs?[4]

Godry Farring and Clayton to Jon Snow

A sacrifice will prove our faith still burns true, Sire.[8]

—Clayton to Stannis Baratheon

Quotes about Clayton

Suggs was an upjumped hedge knight, as crude as he was strong.[4]

—thoughts of Jon Snow

She had seen him at the nightfires, watching, his lips parted and his eyes avid. It is not the god he loves, it is the flames, she concluded.[5]

—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy

Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.[5]

—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy

He learned all he knows in the wynds of Flea Bottom. Were I to put you in his charge, he might strangle you with your own chain or scoop your eye out with a spoon.[3]

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