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Waymar Royce is a knight who joins the Night’s Watch when he is 18. He goes with Gared and Will to investigate the bodies of a group of wildlings that Will saw. Waymar is portrayed as somewhat arrogant, and he dismisses Will and Gared’s concerns, even though they have both been on the Night’s Watch for much longer than he has. The Others ultimately find Waymar and kill him, which turns him into one of the Others.
Waymar Royce Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Waymar Royce or refer to Waymar Royce. 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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“It was the cold,” Gared said with iron certainty. “I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”
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Waymar Royce Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Waymar Royce or refer to Waymar Royce. 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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“It was the cold,” Gared said with iron certainty. “I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”
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