Meera Reed

Meera Reed é a criança mais velha de Howland Reed. Seu irmão mais novo é Jojen Reed. Ela possui dezesseis anos.

Aparência e personalidade

Como uma típica cranogmana, Meera é magra e pequena. Ela possui cabelos longos e castanhos, e olhos verdes. Embora não possua grandes seios, e não ser lembrada como uma mulher bonita, Theon Greyjoy parece ter considerado-a atrativa, enquanto a pequena caída que Bran Stark tinha por ela cresce ao ponto de ele acreditar "amar" ela em A Dança dos Dragões.

Meera foi ensinada a lutar com uma rede e um tridente por seu pai. Ela é uma ótima caçadora, capaz de pegar um peixe facilmente com a sua lança. Ela conseguiu derrotar Verão em combate, usando sua rede para prender e imobilizar o lobo gigante.

Meera é descrita como tendo uma disposição animada, ao contrário do seu irmão mal-humorado. Ela é extremamente leal e protetora de seu "príncipe", assim como de seu irmão, e não foge de uma luta caso haja a possibilidade. Bran diz que a única coisa que a irrita ou chateia é seu irmão Jojen.

Eventos recentes

A Fúria dos Reis

No meio de uma festa da colheita, Meera e seu irmão Jojen Reed chegam para mostrar o apoio da Casa Reed a Winterfell e a Robb Stark, após a morte de Eddard Stark. Meistre Luwin diz a Bran que ele deveria saudá-los calorosamente pois Howland Reed fora um grande amigo de seu pai, e estes eram seus filhos. Meera está com Jojen quando ele pergunta sobre os lobos gigantes, querendo vê-los, e descobre que eles estão no Bosque sagrado.

Mais tarde, Meera consegue derrotar Verão usando uma rede e um tridente. Bran afirma que Verão vencera, mas então Jojen mostra que o lobo gigante está enroscado na rede, e não consegue escapar. Após Bran brincar com Verão, ele pergunta-lhe se ela foi ensinada a lutar pelo seu Mestre de Armas, e ela diz que a Atalaia da Água Cinzenta não possui cavaleiros, mestres de armas, meistres, ou corvos. Ela diz que nem os corvos ou os inimigos dos Reeds conseguem encontrar a Atalaia da Água Cinzenta pois ela se desloca, embora muitos tenham tentado.

Bran pergunta a ela se pode visitar Atalaia da Água Cinzenta após a guerra, e ela diz que ele poderia ir quando ele quisesse.

Jojen diz a Bran que todos no castelo o escutam gritando quando dorme, e pergunta o que o assusta tanto. Enquanto Jojen questiona Bran, e o força a admitir que tem os sonhos de lobo, Bran se irrita, fazendo com que Verão se irrite e comece a agir agressivamente para Jojen. Meera manda seu irmão subir no represeiro, mas ele se recusa, dizendo que ainda não era a sua hora de morrer. Cão Felpudo se junta a Verão, e os dois começam a atacar. Jojen finalmente sobe na árvore, com Meera o seguindo. Eles somente descem após Hodor chegar para afastar os lobos gigantes.

Mais tarde, Meera e Jojen entram no quarto de Bran após ele ser deixado lá por Osha, que havia dito para ele que havia visto muitas criaturas mitológicas no Norte, mas não um corvo de três olhos. Bran finalmente conta a Meera e Jojen sobre seus sonhos de lobo. Então, Jojen revela um dos seus próprios sonhos: ele viu o mar vindo para Winterfell.

Quando Bran diz a eles que Meister Luwin acha que é possível mudar os sonhos, Meera concorda. Ela se irrita com seu irmão, quando ele diz que as coisas que ele vê sempre se tornam verdades. Jojen revela que ele vira os corpos de Bran e Rickon aos pés do homem que eles chamam de Fedor (ainda não revelado como, na verdade, Ramsay Snow), e este estava esfolando seus rostos com uma lâmina vermelha. Meera diz que poderia ir às masmorras e matar Fedor, mas Jojen diz-lhe que ela não obteria sucesso; os carcereiros iriam impedi-la, ele diz, e não acreditariam nela caso ela tentasse explicar.

Quando Theon Greyjoy toma Winterfell, Bran é levado para fora de seu quarto, onde encontra Meera e Jojen, que também se tornaram cativos.

Momentos depois, Bran, Meera, Jojen, Rickon, Osha e Hodor fingem escapar de Winterfell, retornando para se esconderem nas criptas até após o castelo ser saqueado por Ramsay Snow. Os escombros os prenderam nas criptas, até que Hodor usou sua descomunal força para abrir a porta. No exterior, eles encontram o castelo destruído. Muitos dos corpos que eles encontram são das pessoas que Jojen vira mortas em seu sonho. Meera toma a espada de Rickard Stark das criptas para usar como arma.

No bosque sagrado, o grupo encontra Meistre Luwin, vivo mas inconsciente. Eles o acordam, e ele os alerta de todos os inimigos que Bran e Rickon possuem em cada direção. Luwin aconselha Osha a separar as crianças Starks para torná-los difíceis de serem encontrados. Osha decide levar Rickon consigo, e Jojen diz que ele e Meera irão com Bran. Após se separarem, Jojen diz aos outros que o caminho deles é para o norte.

A Tormenta de Espadas

Meera has been hunting for the group as they move north and is their main food provider, mainly catching fish and frogs.

They camp in a place they call Torre Arruinada, but Jojen tells them that they need to move on. Meera questions him on why they should leave since Torre Arruinada is a safe place and there is plenty of food, but Jojen tells her that though Bran could wait out the in anonymity there, it was not the place they needed to be. He says they must keep going to find Bran's tutor in the norte. Meera eventually agrees with Jojen, but gives the choice to Bran, saying he is their prince and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran finally decides to go norte.

As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels and hares Verão finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they travel on, food becomes harder to find, even for Summer. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because there will encounter travelers who will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf.

When the weather turns bad, Verão finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Liddle) who shares his food with them. When they ask if they should take the Estrada do Rei, the mountain man tells them that it's dangerous for travelers. Now there are flayed men and dead men. He tells them that o Urso disappeared north of the Muralha with most of his men and that his Patrulha da Noite had returned with no messages. He says things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.

When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Velha Ama distant progeny. He asks if they think the homens de ferro killed ela. Meera states that it was not Theon Greyjoy who did the killing because too many of the dead were nascidos do ferro. Meera tells him to remember Velha Ama’s stories so part dela would be alive in him.

As they move on, Bran tells the Reeds that both he and Hodor like stories about knights. Meera then proceeds to tell a story about the Cavaleiro da Árvore que Ri no Ano da Falsa Primavera. It starts out when a young cranogmano who knew many magics of his people (likely Howland Reed, Meera's father) traveled to visit the Ilha das Caras and stayed there for a winter. In the year of the false spring, he leaves and comes upon um grande castelo where um grande torneio is taking place. He runs into three squires who start a fight with him. A two-legged loba rescued the cranogmano, attacking the squires and running them off with a tourney sword. She then takes him back to her lair. She insists the lad attend the tourney feast as he has a rightful place at the table. At the feast, he sees the squires with their knights. He is offered the chance to take the squires on in the joust, but the little cranogmano declines, since eles are not trained for jousting and he would most likely lose. Late on the second day, however, a short mystery knight in ill-fitting armor appears and defeats the squires served - o cavaleiro forquilha, o cavaleiro porco-espinho, e o cavaleiro das duas torres. To ransom their horses and armor, the mystery knight, in a booming voice, only requires the knights to teach their squires honor. The knight then disappeared from the lists, leading the king to send his own son, príncipe-dragão, to search for the Cavaleiro da Árvore que Ri. The next day, all that was found of the mystery knight was the knight's shield painted with a heart tree with a laughing red face. Meera concludes the story by saying o príncipe-dragão went on to win the tourney.

Bran complains about the story, saying the Cavaleiro da Árvore que Ri should have won the whole tourney and the donzela-lobo should have been crowned as the Rainha do Amor e da Beleza. Meera says she was, but that that was a sadder story. Throughout the telling, Jojen repeatedly asks Bran if he's sure he hasn't heard this story before from his father.

They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. Bran tells the Reeds that this is part of Nova Dádiva given to the Patrulha da Noite courtesy of Rainha Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the selvagens. With the Patrulha not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the smallfolk moved south.

Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming. There is a holdfast, Coroadarrainha in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them that Velha Ama said there's a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds the beginning of it once she knows it's there.

Meera leads them across the zigging and zagging causeway. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which can not be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull out a rusted grate above them covering a murder hole. They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level.

Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles - the Patrulha da Noite may not let them pass. Bran says that his uncle said that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they could open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through.

It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village as a storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quiet him so they don't give away their position. Immediately after this, Jojen spies many more men in the village, one of whom turns out to be Jon Snow, traveling with selvagens. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control him. Bran reaches for Hodor as he had for Summer for just a second and Hodor sags to the floor, almost comatose. Bran posses Verão and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Verão kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder.

The group waited until the next day to leave after the selvagens were gone. Verão, who had slunk off to nurse his wounds, finally returns, and Meera removes the arrow and treats the wound.

They arrive at the Fortenoite, the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to Castelo Negro, but Jojen tells him they dare not.

Meera climbs to the top of the Muralha to get a look at the other side while the boys search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. Jojen states that maybe he would have a sonho verde to show them the way.

Bran, who cannot get to sleep, hears sounds coming from the well that are getting louder, like footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hodor. As Hodor, Bran grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear.

When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, Goiva, with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Patrulha trapped in the net. It is Samwell Tarly.

Goiva asks if Jojen is the one that Mãos-Frias was looking for. Mãos-Frias had told Goiva and Sam that there would be people in the castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through o Portão Negro, a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Patrulha da Noite can open the gate.

Sam tells them that Mãos-Frias was dressed in the black of the Patrulha, but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. Mãos-Frias did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees that Bran is crippled, he recognizes him as Jon’s brother. When Verão licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Portão Negro, which is a white represeiro with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked, “Quem é?” Sam answers with the Patrulha da Noite oath and the door allows them to pass beyond the Muralha.

A Dança dos Dragões

Enquanto viajam com Mãos-Frias ao norte da Muralha, Meera, Bran, Jojen e Hodor são forçados a se abrigarem em uma vila selvagem abandonada, enquanto Mãos-Frias lida com uma ameaça. O grupo discute sobre a natureza de Mãos-Frias, e decide que ele não é mais vivo. Meera não confia nele.

Eles chegam na caverna do corvo de três olhos, mas são emboscados por criaturas na entrada da caverna. Por Jojen estar muito fraco para continuar, Meera o carrega em suas costas até o interior. Lá dentro, o grupo encontra os remanescentes Filhos da Floresta, e o corvo de três olhos. Jojen cai em depressão, e Meera luta para manter seus astrais altos.

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