#GAME OF THRONES FLAYED MAN SERIES#

His personal motto is 'A peaceful land, a quiet people', a lesson he has thus far failed to instill into his bastard son. While his voice is small and soft, he does not need to raise it in order to inspire silence and attention вЂ“ Jaime Lannister and Robb Stark both remark that even just his silence is threatening. Theon Greyjoy believes that he is even more cruel and menacing than his bastard son, despite Ramsay's more evident depravity. Roose appears to be unassuming and mild-mannered, although in truth he is remorseless and unforgiving, possessed of the same cruelty and ruthlessness his house is notorious for. His most prominent feature are his strangely pale and cold eyes, so light as to almost blend with the sclera. He is often described as ageless, with an apathetic demeanor that betrays nothing. Roose is most often described as an oddly average and unassuming-looking man, clean-shaven with pallid skin. He considers his bastard son foolhardy and tactless, with 'tainted blood would poison even the leeches'. Roose, left without a trueborn heir, brings Ramsay to the Dreadfort, where he later serves as the fortress's castellan and has thus far refused to legitimize or otherwise acknowledge him as his true heir. Domeric dies soon after, and Roose suspects that Ramsay poisoned Domeric to become his heir. Дespite Roose's orders, Roose's only trueborn son, Domeric, seeks out Ramsay. Roose later participates in Robert's Rebellion and (according to a semi-canonical source) the Greyjoy Rebellion. He sent his odious and depraved servant Reek to the young Ramsay and his mother after the latter demands a servant to help raise the boy, an act he considers to be highly amusing. He gave the woman money and annual supplies as payment to raise Ramsay, and had the tongue of the miller's brother cut out to prevent Lord Rickard Stark from being informed of his illegal activities. Roose considered having the woman whipped and the baby killed before realizing that the baby is indeed his, owing to its pale, cold eyes. Desiring the woman, and angered for not being informed of the marriage, Roose had the miller hanged and violently raped the woman beneath the tree where her husband still hung.ДЄ year later, the woman came to the Dreadfort with a newborn boy whom she claimed was Roose's bastard, named Ramsay. One day, prior to Robert's Rebellion, Roose was fox hunting along the Weeping Water when he came across a young woman washing clothes in the stream, who was married to the old miller without Roose's knowledge. Roose illicitly practiced an ancient and banned tradition called the first night, in which a lord had the right to bed a commoner's wife. Roose Bolton is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as Catelyn Stark, Arya Stark and Theon Greyjoy/Reek. He is nicknamed the Leech Lord for regular leechings meant to improve his health. His seat is the Dreadfort and his sigil is a flayed man, an homage to the ancient Bolton tradition of flaying enemies. Lord Roose Bolton is a significant vassal of Lord Eddard Stark.

2.4 A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons.

Roose is portrayed by Irish actor Michael McElhatton in the HBO television adaptation. His rule as Warden in the North is punctuated by unrest, and several forces conspire to unseat him and House Frey and restore the Starks to power. In truth he is a chief orchestrator of the Red Wedding alongside Tywin Lannister and Walder Frey, receiving the title of Warden of the North from the former after personally slaying Robb.

With the help of the Brave Companions, he takes and holds Harrenhal until rejoining Robb Stark to help retake the Neck occupied by the Greyjoys. Roose joins Robb Stark's rebellion as one of his chief lieutenants.

He later appears in A Clash of Kings (1998), A Storm of Swords (2000), and A Dance with Dragons (2011). His family is notorious for their cruelty and custom of flaying their enemies he frequently has himself leeched, leading him to be known as the Leech Lord across Westeros. Introduced in 1996's A Game of Thrones, Roose, a Northern lord with his seat at the Dreadfort, is a retainer of Lord Eddard Stark. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.

#GAME OF THRONES FLAYED MAN SERIES#

Lord Roose Bolton is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R.

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