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{{Sellsword Company
| name = The Windblown
| image = [[File:Windswept.png|100px|center]]
| image_caption =
| banner = A fork-taled blue-and-white flag
| motto =
| current_commander = The [[Tattered Prince]]
| size = 2,000 horse and foot
| founded = +/- 270 AL
| founder = The [[Tattered Prince]]
| disbanded =
}}
The '''Windblown''' are a mercenary company of two thousand mounted [[horse]] and foot soldiers found in the [[Free Cities]]. They are led by a captain known as the [[Tattered Prince]]. Fork-tailed blue-and-white banners are the standards of the Windblown, streamers of pale blue silk flutter from the Windblown lances.
The Windblown command tent is a great grey sailcloth pavilion which the [[Tattered Prince]] likes to call his canvas castle. Some of their tents sleep ten men. It can take the Windblown less than an hour to strike camp.
==History==
The [[Tattered Prince]] established the mercenary company some thirty years before the events in the books. When the [[Tattered Prince]] was twenty-three the magisters of [[Pentos]] selected him to be their new prince after they had beheaded the preceding one. Instead of accepting their offer he fled to the [[Disputed Lands]] and never returned to [[Pentos]]. He has ridden with the [[Second Sons]], the [[Iron Shields]], and the [[Maiden's Men]], but later with five other men he established the Windblown. Out of the six founders of the company, he is the only one alive.
The [[Tattered Prince]] says to [[Quentyn Martell]] that every turncloak has his tale and others have sworn service to him, taken his coin and run. One member who fled said that the food made him sick, so the [[Tattered Prince]] had his foot cut off, roasted up, and fed to him. He then made him camp cook and the meals improved markedly, and when his contract was fulfilled he signed another. [[Hugh Hungerford]] was the company paymaster for a time, but the [[Tattered Prince]] caught him stealing from the coffers and removed three of his fingers and demoted him to serjeant.
There is enmity between the Windblown and the [[Company of the Cat]]. A year ago in the [[Disputed Lands]] they had been on opposite sides of the battle lines and bad blood still lingers. [[Bloodbeard]] makes no secret of his disdain for the [[Tattered Prince]] whom he refers to as ''old grey-beards in rags''.
==Culture==
The men of the Windblown use what names they would, and change them at a whim.
The [[Tattered Prince]] takes a dim view of deserters and deals with them harshly. He sends hunters after them and if caught and they are lucky he’ll just chop off a foot to make sure they never run again. If they are unlucky they are given to Pretty [[Meris]].
[[Dick Straw]] claims there are three score [[Westeros]]i in the company. The closest thing they have to a company tongue is classic [[High Valyrian]] {{Ref|aDwD|25}}
==Notable Members{{Ref|aDwD|25}}{{Ref|aDwD|Appendix}}==
===Captain-generals===
*The [[Tattered Prince]], captain and founder
*[[Caggo]] the Corpsekiller, the [[Tattered Prince]]'s right hand
*[[Denzo D'han]] the warrior bard, the [[Tattered Prince]]'s left hand
===Members===
{{Columns|2|
*"Pretty" [[Meris]], the company torturer
*[[Quentyn Martell|Frog]]
*[[Archibald Yronwood|Greenguts]]
*[[Gerris Drinkwater|Dornish Gerrold]], a.k.a. "Drink"
*[[Dick Straw]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Will (of the Woods)|Wil of the Woods]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Webber]]
*[[Beans]], [[Myr]]ish crossbowman, technically known as "Baqq" but more often by this translation of his name
*[[Books]], Volantene swordsman and avid reader
*[[Bill Bone|Old Bill Bone]], from the [[Summer Islands]]
*[[Hugh Hungerford]], serjeant, former company paymaster
*Ser [[Orson Stone]], Westerosi sellsword
*Ser [[Lucifer Long]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Jack|Ginger Jack]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Myrio Myrakis]], [[Pentos]]hi sellsword
*[[Lewis Lanster]] Westerosi archer
*[[Gerrold Redback]]
*[[Gerrold|Black Gerrold]]
}}
==Recent Events==
===A Dance with Dragons===
The [[Yunkai]] contract and bring the Windblown from Old [[Volantis]] to fight for the Yellow City. Yunkish Supreme Commander [[Yurkhaz zo Yunzak]] signed the Windblow’s contract on behalf of the city of [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aDwD|60}}
Before leaving for [[Yunkai]] four Windblown serjeants set up a trestle table outside of the [[Merchant's House]] calling to every passing man and boy looking for fresh meat to fill their ranks. They sing a marching song:
{{Quote|We are the Windblown. Blow us east to [[Slaver's Bay]], we’ll kill the butcher king and fuck the [[Dany|dragon queen]]''.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}}}
Prior to the Windblown leaving Old [[Volantis]] [[Quentyn Martell]] and his companions join the Windblown, pledging the [[Tattered Prince]], by making a mark on a scarp of parchment, their sword and service for a year, as a way to reach the [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. {{Ref|aDwD|6}}{{Ref|aDwD|25}}
To get to [[Yunkai]] the Windblown sail on an overcrowded ship tossed by wind and sea, eat hard-bread crawling with weevils and drink [[black tar rum]] to sweet oblivion and sleep on piles of mouldy straw. Thereafter the Windblown were present at the [[Siege of Astapor]] and later [[Meereen]]. Upon commencing the march to [[Meereen]] the [[Tattered Prince]] declares to his sellswords that [[Astapor]] was but a taste, [[Meereen]] will be the feast.
The [[Tattered Prince]], after witnessing the incompetence of the [[Yunkai]] commanders had two dozen of his Westerosi sellswords (among them the disguised [[Quentyn Martell]] and his two Dornish knights) go over to [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in case he wanted to turn his cloak later on.{{Ref|aDwD|25}}
The Westerosi contingent succesfully contact [[Daario Naharis]] and offer themselves as recruits for his [[Stormcrows]].{{Ref|aDwD|36}} After Quentyn and his companions introduce themselves to Daenerys and explain his intentions{{Ref|aDwD|43}}, the other Westerosi Windblown are kept captive. Daenerys eventually decides to release [[Meris]]{{Ref|aDwD|50}} who, apparently speaking for the [[Tattered Prince]], then offers the Windblown's support for Daenerys if they are given [[Pentos]] as payment.{{Ref|aDwD|50}}{{Ref|aDwD|52}} [[Meris]] and the [[Tattered Prince]] also offer to help Quentyn in capturing a dragon, again in exchange for [[Pentos]].{{Ref|aDwD|60}}{{Ref|aDwD|68}}
Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], acting as the Hand for absent Daenerys, eventually recruits the remaining captured Windblown contingent, releasing them back to the [[Tattered Prince]] with an offer of alliance during the coming attack to [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aDwD|70}}
==References and Notes==
{{references}}
[[Category:Mercenaries]]
[[Category:Sellsword companies]]
| name = The Windblown
| image = [[File:Windswept.png|100px|center]]
| image_caption =
| banner = A fork-taled blue-and-white flag
| motto =
| current_commander = The [[Tattered Prince]]
| size = 2,000 horse and foot
| founded = +/- 270 AL
| founder = The [[Tattered Prince]]
| disbanded =
}}
The '''Windblown''' are a mercenary company of two thousand mounted [[horse]] and foot soldiers found in the [[Free Cities]]. They are led by a captain known as the [[Tattered Prince]]. Fork-tailed blue-and-white banners are the standards of the Windblown, streamers of pale blue silk flutter from the Windblown lances.
The Windblown command tent is a great grey sailcloth pavilion which the [[Tattered Prince]] likes to call his canvas castle. Some of their tents sleep ten men. It can take the Windblown less than an hour to strike camp.
==History==
The [[Tattered Prince]] established the mercenary company some thirty years before the events in the books. When the [[Tattered Prince]] was twenty-three the magisters of [[Pentos]] selected him to be their new prince after they had beheaded the preceding one. Instead of accepting their offer he fled to the [[Disputed Lands]] and never returned to [[Pentos]]. He has ridden with the [[Second Sons]], the [[Iron Shields]], and the [[Maiden's Men]], but later with five other men he established the Windblown. Out of the six founders of the company, he is the only one alive.
The [[Tattered Prince]] says to [[Quentyn Martell]] that every turncloak has his tale and others have sworn service to him, taken his coin and run. One member who fled said that the food made him sick, so the [[Tattered Prince]] had his foot cut off, roasted up, and fed to him. He then made him camp cook and the meals improved markedly, and when his contract was fulfilled he signed another. [[Hugh Hungerford]] was the company paymaster for a time, but the [[Tattered Prince]] caught him stealing from the coffers and removed three of his fingers and demoted him to serjeant.
There is enmity between the Windblown and the [[Company of the Cat]]. A year ago in the [[Disputed Lands]] they had been on opposite sides of the battle lines and bad blood still lingers. [[Bloodbeard]] makes no secret of his disdain for the [[Tattered Prince]] whom he refers to as ''old grey-beards in rags''.
==Culture==
The men of the Windblown use what names they would, and change them at a whim.
The [[Tattered Prince]] takes a dim view of deserters and deals with them harshly. He sends hunters after them and if caught and they are lucky he’ll just chop off a foot to make sure they never run again. If they are unlucky they are given to Pretty [[Meris]].
[[Dick Straw]] claims there are three score [[Westeros]]i in the company. The closest thing they have to a company tongue is classic [[High Valyrian]] {{Ref|aDwD|25}}
==Notable Members{{Ref|aDwD|25}}{{Ref|aDwD|Appendix}}==
===Captain-generals===
*The [[Tattered Prince]], captain and founder
*[[Caggo]] the Corpsekiller, the [[Tattered Prince]]'s right hand
*[[Denzo D'han]] the warrior bard, the [[Tattered Prince]]'s left hand
===Members===
{{Columns|2|
*"Pretty" [[Meris]], the company torturer
*[[Quentyn Martell|Frog]]
*[[Archibald Yronwood|Greenguts]]
*[[Gerris Drinkwater|Dornish Gerrold]], a.k.a. "Drink"
*[[Dick Straw]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Will (of the Woods)|Wil of the Woods]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Webber]]
*[[Beans]], [[Myr]]ish crossbowman, technically known as "Baqq" but more often by this translation of his name
*[[Books]], Volantene swordsman and avid reader
*[[Bill Bone|Old Bill Bone]], from the [[Summer Islands]]
*[[Hugh Hungerford]], serjeant, former company paymaster
*Ser [[Orson Stone]], Westerosi sellsword
*Ser [[Lucifer Long]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Jack|Ginger Jack]], Westerosi sellsword
*[[Myrio Myrakis]], [[Pentos]]hi sellsword
*[[Lewis Lanster]] Westerosi archer
*[[Gerrold Redback]]
*[[Gerrold|Black Gerrold]]
}}
==Recent Events==
===A Dance with Dragons===
The [[Yunkai]] contract and bring the Windblown from Old [[Volantis]] to fight for the Yellow City. Yunkish Supreme Commander [[Yurkhaz zo Yunzak]] signed the Windblow’s contract on behalf of the city of [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aDwD|60}}
Before leaving for [[Yunkai]] four Windblown serjeants set up a trestle table outside of the [[Merchant's House]] calling to every passing man and boy looking for fresh meat to fill their ranks. They sing a marching song:
{{Quote|We are the Windblown. Blow us east to [[Slaver's Bay]], we’ll kill the butcher king and fuck the [[Dany|dragon queen]]''.{{Ref|aDwD|36}}}}
Prior to the Windblown leaving Old [[Volantis]] [[Quentyn Martell]] and his companions join the Windblown, pledging the [[Tattered Prince]], by making a mark on a scarp of parchment, their sword and service for a year, as a way to reach the [[Daenerys Targaryen]]. {{Ref|aDwD|6}}{{Ref|aDwD|25}}
To get to [[Yunkai]] the Windblown sail on an overcrowded ship tossed by wind and sea, eat hard-bread crawling with weevils and drink [[black tar rum]] to sweet oblivion and sleep on piles of mouldy straw. Thereafter the Windblown were present at the [[Siege of Astapor]] and later [[Meereen]]. Upon commencing the march to [[Meereen]] the [[Tattered Prince]] declares to his sellswords that [[Astapor]] was but a taste, [[Meereen]] will be the feast.
The [[Tattered Prince]], after witnessing the incompetence of the [[Yunkai]] commanders had two dozen of his Westerosi sellswords (among them the disguised [[Quentyn Martell]] and his two Dornish knights) go over to [[Daenerys Targaryen]] in case he wanted to turn his cloak later on.{{Ref|aDwD|25}}
The Westerosi contingent succesfully contact [[Daario Naharis]] and offer themselves as recruits for his [[Stormcrows]].{{Ref|aDwD|36}} After Quentyn and his companions introduce themselves to Daenerys and explain his intentions{{Ref|aDwD|43}}, the other Westerosi Windblown are kept captive. Daenerys eventually decides to release [[Meris]]{{Ref|aDwD|50}} who, apparently speaking for the [[Tattered Prince]], then offers the Windblown's support for Daenerys if they are given [[Pentos]] as payment.{{Ref|aDwD|50}}{{Ref|aDwD|52}} [[Meris]] and the [[Tattered Prince]] also offer to help Quentyn in capturing a dragon, again in exchange for [[Pentos]].{{Ref|aDwD|60}}{{Ref|aDwD|68}}
Ser [[Barristan Selmy]], acting as the Hand for absent Daenerys, eventually recruits the remaining captured Windblown contingent, releasing them back to the [[Tattered Prince]] with an offer of alliance during the coming attack to [[Yunkai]].{{Ref|aDwD|70}}
==References and Notes==
{{references}}
[[Category:Mercenaries]]
[[Category:Sellsword companies]]
