Lemore

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Lemore
Marc Fishman SeptaLemore.jpg
- Septa Lemore by Marc Fishman

Alias Lady Lemore
Title Septa
Allegiance House Targaryen
Born In +/- 260 AL
Book A Dance with Dragons (Appears)

Septa Lemore, also known as Lady Lemore, is a septa of the Faith of the Seven and the spiritual tutor for Young Griff.

Appearance

The septa despite being over forty years old is described as a handsome woman and has an outgoing friendly personality. She has brown hair and stretch marks on her belly from bearing a child.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

She is one of the crew aboard the Shy Maid, where she frequently bathed naked in the clean water of the river at the beginning of the voyage which pleased Tyrion Lannister. As she bathed Tyrion notices stretch marks on her belly implying she once birthed a child/children so she was not always a Septa and if she was she was not a chaste one.[1]

When the crew reach Volantis she changed out of her Septa's robes and disguises herself as a merchant's daughter as her Septa's robes would have drawn notice in Volantis whose main faith is R'hllor. Tyrion often suspected that there is more to Lemore than meets the eye.

Theories

Some believe Lemore is the mother of Tyene Sand. Lemore is a Septa who has given birth before, as evidenced by the stretchmarks on her belly seen by Tyrion Lannister. She is also roughly in her mid 40's, and Tyene is in her early 20's, which would lend further support to the theory.

Evidence against

Tyene Sand has golden hair. Oberyn Martell and Lemore both have dark hair, making it unlikely that their daughter would have light hair. It is possible that Lemore dyes her hair to further conceal her identity, but that seems unnecessarily cautious. Further, if Lemore were Tyene's mother, it would be strange for her not to have communicated with her daughter or anyone else back in Dorne to give support to Aegon's legitimacy.

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