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Grand Maester Pycelle is the maester (which is a kind of scholar, healer, and scientist) of King’s Landing, a role in which he has served for over 40 years. He has also been on the king’s small council for most of that time, spanning the rule of several different kings. Pycelle tells Ned that though Jon Arryn’s death came surprisingly quickly, there was nothing particularly suspicious about it.
Grand Maester Pycelle Quotes in A Game of Thrones
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Chapter 58: Eddard
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He damned them all: Littlefinger, Janos Slynt and his gold cloaks, the queen, the Kingslayer, Pycelle and Varys and Ser Barristan, even Lord Renly, Robert’s own blood, who had run when he was needed most. Yet in the end he blamed himself. “Fool,” he cried to the darkness, “thrice-damned blind fool.”
Cersei Lannister’s face seemed to float before him in the darkness. Her hair was full of sunlight, but there was mockery in her smile. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die,” she whispered. Ned had played and lost, and his men had paid the price of his folly with their life’s blood.
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Grand Maester Pycelle Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Grand Maester Pycelle or refer to Grand Maester Pycelle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 58: Eddard
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He damned them all: Littlefinger, Janos Slynt and his gold cloaks, the queen, the Kingslayer, Pycelle and Varys and Ser Barristan, even Lord Renly, Robert’s own blood, who had run when he was needed most. Yet in the end he blamed himself. “Fool,” he cried to the darkness, “thrice-damned blind fool.”
Cersei Lannister’s face seemed to float before him in the darkness. Her hair was full of sunlight, but there was mockery in her smile. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die,” she whispered. Ned had played and lost, and his men had paid the price of his folly with their life’s blood.
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