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==About==
 
==About==
Most smallfolk are poor, illiterate, and live very provincial, humble, simple lives.  They do not have surnames.  They dress in raw wool and dull brown roughspun.{{Ref|aFfC|26|p 476}} They use roads which are crooked muddy tracks that do not appear on parchment maps.{{Ref|aFfC|25|p 461}} They use [[w:Stick fighting|staffs]] as weapons.{{Ref|affc|28}} They often name their daughters after flowers and herbs.{{Ref|asos|2|p 29}} They are far removed from the major players of the game of thrones, but are affected by those decisions, good or bad.
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Most smallfolk are poor, illiterate, and live very provincial, humble, simple lives.  They do not have surnames.  They dress in raw wool and dull brown roughspun.{{Ref|aFfC|26}} They use roads which are crooked muddy tracks that do not appear on parchment maps.{{Ref|aFfC|25}} They use [[w:Stick fighting|staffs]] as weapons.{{Ref|affc|28}} They often name their daughters after flowers and herbs.{{Ref|asos|2}} They are far removed from the major players of the game of thrones, but are affected by those decisions, good or bad.
  
 
==Some characters popular with the smallfolk==
 
==Some characters popular with the smallfolk==
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*[[Good Queen Alysanne]]
 
*[[Good Queen Alysanne]]
 
*Queen [[Alicent Hightower]]
 
*Queen [[Alicent Hightower]]
*[[Serwyn|Serwyn of the Mirror shield]] {{ref|acok|3|p 60}}
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*[[Serwyn|Serwyn of the Mirror shield]] {{ref|acok|3}}
*[[Aemon Targaryen|Prince Aemon the Dragonknight]] {{ref|acok|3|p 60}}
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*[[Aemon Targaryen|Prince Aemon the Dragonknight]] {{ref|acok|3}}
 
*[[Baelor I Targaryen]]
 
*[[Baelor I Targaryen]]
 
*[[Aegon V Targaryen]]
 
*[[Aegon V Targaryen]]
 
*Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
 
*Prince [[Rhaegar Targaryen]]
*[[Renly Baratheon]] {{Ref|aCoK|42|p 612}}
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*[[Renly Baratheon]] {{Ref|aCoK|42}}
 
*[[Margaery Tyrell]]
 
*[[Margaery Tyrell]]
 
*[[Loras Tyrell]]
 
*[[Loras Tyrell]]
*[[Barristan the Bold]]{{ref|acok|3|p 60}}
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*[[Barristan the Bold]]{{ref|acok|3}}
 
*[[Beric Dondarrion]]
 
*[[Beric Dondarrion]]
 
}}
 
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==Some characters unpopular with the smallfolk==
 
==Some characters unpopular with the smallfolk==
 
*[[Tywin Lannister]]   
 
*[[Tywin Lannister]]   
*[[Tyrion Lannister]] {{Ref|aCoK|41|p 601}}
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*[[Tyrion Lannister]] {{Ref|aCoK|41}}
 
*[[Cersei Lannister]]  
 
*[[Cersei Lannister]]  
 
*The [[High Septon (Fat One)|fat High Septon]]
 
*The [[High Septon (Fat One)|fat High Septon]]
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{{Quote|Fools love a fool.{{Ref|ACOK|42|p 612}}}}
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{{Quote|Fools love a fool.{{Ref|ACOK|42}}}}
 
- [[Stannis Baratheon]] on hearing the smallfolk grieve for [[Renly Baratheon]]
 
- [[Stannis Baratheon]] on hearing the smallfolk grieve for [[Renly Baratheon]]
  

Revision as of 10:39, 28 May 2014

Smallfolk are the common people of Westeros, akin to peasants. They are at the bottom of the social ladder. Most have to obey their local lord, even though they may never catch a glimpse of him during their life. The nobility of Westeros have great power over the smallfolk.

About

Most smallfolk are poor, illiterate, and live very provincial, humble, simple lives. They do not have surnames. They dress in raw wool and dull brown roughspun.[1] They use roads which are crooked muddy tracks that do not appear on parchment maps.[2] They use staffs as weapons.[3] They often name their daughters after flowers and herbs.[4] They are far removed from the major players of the game of thrones, but are affected by those decisions, good or bad.

Some characters popular with the smallfolk

Some characters unpopular with the smallfolk

Quotes

Thousands of smallfolk streamed out the city gates, carrying their children and worldly possessions on their backs, to seek safety in the countryside. Others dug pits and tunnels under their hovels, dark dank holes where they hoped to hide whilst the city burned.[8]

- Gyldayn


The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are.[9]

- Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen


That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom.[10]

- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister


Fools love a fool.[6]

- Stannis Baratheon on hearing the smallfolk grieve for Renly Baratheon


They are born, they live, they love, they die.[2]

- Meribald to Brienne of Tarth


If we mingle with the commons, they will love us better.[3]

- Tommen Baratheon to Cersei Lannister


It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.[11]

- Meribald to Hyle Hunt

References and Notes