A Feast for Crows characters

Also known as Queen Cersei, the Queen Regent

Appears from the start

The widowed queen, now ruling the realm as Queen Regent for her young son, King Tommen, following the deaths of her son Joffrey and her father Tywin. Proud, suspicious, and increasingly untethered, she is determined to hold absolute power and to crush every rival she imagines around her, including her own kin.

Also known as the Kingslayer, Ser Jaime

Appears from the start

Cersei's twin and Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, still adjusting to the loss of his sword hand and the humbling it brought. Grown weary of his family's cruelties and drifting from his sister, he sets out to bring the war in the river lands to a quiet end and to reconsider the kind of man he wishes to be.

Also known as the Maid of Tarth

Appears from the start

The tall, plain, and powerfully built warrior woman, earnest and stubbornly honorable, who travels the ravaged countryside on a quest to find and protect the lost Stark daughter Sansa, keeping a promise she means to honor whatever the cost.

Also known as Alayne Stone

Appears from the start

The elder Stark daughter, hidden in the mountain fastness of the Vale under a false name and passed off as the natural daughter of the schemer Petyr Baelish. Watchful and wary, she is slowly being taught the subtle, dangerous arts of court intrigue by her protector.

Also known as Cat of the Canals

Appears from the start

The younger Stark daughter, arrived in the free city of Braavos, where she seeks out a mysterious order of assassins who serve a god of death. Fierce and self-contained, she begins to learn their secretive ways while clinging to the memory of who she is.

Also known as Sam, Sam the Slayer

Appears from the start

The timid, bookish brother of the Night's Watch and friend of Jon Snow, sent away from the Wall on a long sea voyage south to train as a maester. Frightened of the wider world but loyal and quietly resourceful, he travels with companions entrusted to his care.

Also known as Littlefinger, Lord Protector of the Vale

Appears from the start

A smooth, ambitious lord of modest origins who has climbed high through cunning, coin, and manipulation. Having taken control of the Vale, he keeps the hidden Sansa Stark close as his supposed daughter and plays a patient, layered game whose true aims he reveals to no one.

Also known as Queen Margaery

Appears from the start

The young, gracious, and popular queen of the powerful House Tyrell, now wed to the boy king Tommen after the deaths of her previous royal betrotheds. Charming and politically deft, she and her family are viewed by the queen mother Cersei as dangerous rivals for influence over the crown.

Also known as Crow's Eye

Appears from the start

A dreaded ironborn captain and brother to the late lord of the Iron Islands, long exiled for his crimes and returned by sea to press a claim to rule his people. Cruel, cunning, and rumored to dabble in dark and foreign sorceries, he is a man other hard men fear.