Brynden Rivers

Brynden Rivers

300px Lorde Brynden, por Тхе Мичо
Pseudônimo(s)	Corvo de Sangue Corvo de Três Olhos
Título(s)	Mestre dos Sussurros Mão do Rei Senhor Comandante da Patrulha da Noite
Lealdade	Casa Targaryen Patrulha da Noite
Cultura	Valíria
Nascimento	175 AL, em Terras dos Rios
Livro(s)	The Sworn Sword (Mencionado) The Mystery Knight (Aparece) O Festim dos Corvos (Mencionado) A Dança dos Dragões (Aparece)

Lorde Brynden Rivers, chamado de Corvo de Sangue, foi um Grande Bastardo legitimizado do Rei Aegon IV e Mylessa Blackwood, sua sexta amante. Seu brasão pessoal é um dragão branco com olhos vermelhos, liberando uma chama vermelha pelas ventas, num campo negro. Apesar de bastardo, foi leal à Casa Targaryen durante a Rebelião Blackfyre, Mão do Rei Aerys I e Lorde Comandante da Patrulha da Noite. Shiera Seastar, outra bastarda de Aegon IV, foi sua amante. Seu meio-irmão Açoamargo também desejava Shiera, o que fez aumentar a inimizade entre os dois. Acreditava-se que era um feiticeiro.

Evidências em A Dança dos Dragões fortemente sugerem que ele seja o Corvo de Três Olhos.

Aparência e personalidade

Como albino, Brynden tinha pele branca como leite, longos cabelos brancos e olhos vermelhos. Possuía uma marca de nascença que se estendia de seu pescoço até sua bochecha direita; alguns diziam que era parecida com um pássaro. Brynden não foi tão alto ou musculoso como seus meio-irmãos. Geralmente vestia cores de sangue e fumaça, com fumaça sendo cinza escuro com mechas negras. Por ter uma pele sensível a luz, frequentemente vestia capa e capuz. Perdeu um olho durante a Rebelião Blackfyre, e muito raramente cobria sua órbita vazia. Seu cabelo longo chegava aos seus ombros, e Brynden penteava uma mecha para cobrir o olho que perdera.

História

A strong warrior, Brynden carried the Valyrian sword Dark Sister, but he preferred his weirwood longbow and was an expert archer. Brynden served on the small council of his half-brother Daeron II (on which he presumably served as Master of Whisperers). During the Blackfyre Rebellion, Brynden remained loyal to King Daeron, and commanded a group of longbowmen called the Raven's Teeth. On the council he advocated a hard line against the rebels, winning out over Prince Baelor's call for leniency. At the Battle of the Redgrass Field, he lost an eye fighting his half-brother, Aegor Rivers. His Raven's Teeth ultimately gained the Weeping Ridge, and rained arrows down on Daemon Blackfyre from 300 yards away. Daemon and his twin sons were killed. For this, people would name him a kinslayer.

In 209 AL, Rivers became Hand of the King, serving throughout the reign of his nephew Aerys I. His first major trial was The Great Spring Sickness, which had killed Daeron II, the previous Hand, two princes, and tens of thousands of others. Seeing the corpses pile up in the streets of King's Landing, Brynden ordered the pyromancers of the Alchemists' Guild to burn them in the Dragonpit. The light of their wildfire pyres could be seen as a glow throughout the city during the night. There was also a drought that lasted at least two years, causing many smallfolk to leave their lands in search of somewhere the rain still fell. Bloodraven ordered them to return to their own lands, but few obeyed. Indeed they blamed Bloodraven, cursing him as a kinslayer. Many of them became robbers. It was widely held that travel was less safe under Aerys’ reign than it had been under his father’s. Prices increase as trade dwindles.

Around 211 AL, Lord Dagon Greyjoy raided the western coast, including Fair Isle, the shipping of the Arbor, and the village of Little Dosk in the Reach. Lord Beron Stark called his banners to repulse the Ironmen from Stony Shore, while the Lannisters built ships to strike at the Iron Isles. During all this, Bloodraven kept his eye on Tyrosh, where Bittersteel and the Golden Company lay. Victarion Greyjoy recalls that "even Dagon could not defeat the dragons," suggesting that the Targaryens did eventually intervene.

In another conflict within the realm that year, Ser Otho, the Brute of Bracken succeeded to the lordship of Stone Hedge. Not wanting to see such a man in power, the traditional Bracken rivals of House Blackwood started a war to root him out. Bloodraven, being born of Aegon IV's mistress Mylessa Blackwood, is not inclined to stop it.

As "Lord Bloodraven," Brynden was rumored to be a sinister sorcerer, effectively ruling the kingdom “with spies and spells." The events of The Sworn Sword take place during his reign as Hand, though he does not personally take part in the story. At that time he had the mistrust of he King's brother Maekar I Targaryen, supposedly due to counsel from the High Septon.

The Mystery Knight

Lord Bloodraven's wariness paid off in 212 AL. Thanks to the information of a Vyrwel man-at-arms and a troupe of comic dwarfs, Lord Bloodraven was aware of the plot to put Daemon II Blackfyre forward as the legitimate king of the Seven Kingdoms. Bloodraven marched on Whitewalls with 300 Raven's Teeth, three brothers of the Kingsguard, 500 other knights, and 5,000 infantry. These were drawn from the Crownlands and Riverlands, namely Darklyn, Hayford, Massey, Rosby, Stokeworth, Mooton, Blackwood, and Lothston men. In the face of such a force, Daemon II tried to rally the tourney-goers to battle, but found little support. Daemon then challenged the Hand to single combat; Bloodraven refused and arrested the pretender, containing the Second Blackfyre Rebellion. Daemon was kept in captivity rather than executed with the other rebel leaders, ensuring that Bittersteel couldn't name his brother Haegon as a serious pretender.

Later years

During the reign of Maekar I, who still disliked him, Bloodraven was kept imprisoned in the Red Keep's black cells until around Predefinição:Date, the year King Aegon V ascended to the throne. He was then sent to the Wall as part of the "honor guard" of prisoners that accompanied Aegon's brother Maester Aemon. Eventually he rose to Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. The song A Thousand Eyes, and One was written about him.

Família

Daena Targaryen

Aegon IV Targaryen

Barba Bracken

Daemon I Blackfyre

Rohanne de Tyrosh

Aegon

Daemon II

Aenys

Dois filhos

Calla

Aegor Rivers

Aemon

Haegon

Esposa desconhecida

Filha(s)

Daemon III

Filho(s)

Daemon

Maelys

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