After the arrival of Stannis Baratheon , Sam is present when the Night's Watch burn the bodies of those who were slain during the battle. At Castle Black , Sam attempts to comfort Gilly since she is worried of being sent away by Ser Alliser Thorne , which would most likely happen if Alliser is elected as the new Lord Commander.
Sam reaffirms his promise that where ever Gilly and her baby go, he will go too in order to protect her. Later, Sam is present when Mance Rayder is executed by Stannis Baratheon for refusing to bend the knee, and comforts Gilly, who cries in his shoulder. Sam is reading a book on previous Lord Commanders while Princess Shireen Baratheon , his second cousin, teaches Gilly how to read.
He also learns how the young princess survived Greyscale and that Gilly also had sisters who perished from the disease. Jon states that it was always his dream to be Lord of Winterfell , but he reveals that he will decline the king's offer, much to Sam's surprise. Janos Slynt mocks Sam by calling him "Slayer" and pointing out his love for Gilly being similar to Jon's love for Ygritte, and Sam retaliates by publicly mocking Slynt for hiding in the pantry with Gilly and her baby during the wildling attack.
Sam reminds all of the black brothers present that Jon was Jeor Mormont 's personal steward, that he led the force to deal with the mutineers at Craster's Keep, and took command of Castle Black's garrison during the wildling attack when Thorne was wounded.
He reports that Aemon apologizes for his absence because he is not feeling well. Jon tells Sam to take good care of the old maester. Sam later witnesses Jon personally behead Janos Slynt for refusing to obey orders. Sam drafts numerous letters for Jon to sign in order to request the Northern houses to send more men to man the Wall.
Jon signs all of them until Sam gives him a letter meant for Roose Bolton , the new Warden of the North. Jon is against asking for help from the man who murdered his half-brother, but Sam convinces him that they need all the help that they can get.
Sam departs when Melisandre enters the room to speak with Jon. Sam praises the courage of Daenerys but Maester Aemon worries about her safety because she is all alone, under siege, and with hardly anyone to guide her, while he, as her only living relative, is useless and dying thousands of miles away.
Then, Jon enters and asks to speak with Aemon in private, so Sam leaves them. Stannis wants to know how Sam killed the White Walker and Sam tells him how he did it with a dagger made of dragonglass.
Stannis muses that it is abundantly available on Dragonstone. Sam has been researching dragonglass and how it can kill White Walkers, but has yet to come up with anything. Stannis tells him to continue his research and leaves him to investigate the further weaknesses of the Army of the Dead. Aemon imagines Little Sam as Egg, his long-dead brother. Aemon's condition steadily deteriorates as the day goes on, and he dies in the night.
Sam eulogizes him before lighting his funeral pyre, declaring for all to hear that he was the blood of the dragon. Ser Alliser whispers that Sam's friends are abandoning him one by one. Afterward, Gilly is attacked in the dining hall by two brothers, but Sam and Jon's direwolf, Ghost, come to her rescue.
Sam is badly beaten, and Gilly takes care of him before the two have sex for the first time. Gilly continues to tend Sam's wounds. Olly enters with some food, having heard what happened. Once Gilly leaves, Olly expresses concern at joining forces with the wildlings, particularly Tormund, who led the raid in which his parents were killed. Sam reassures Olly that Jon knows what he is doing, and that unless he is successful, neither the Night's Watch nor Westeros stands a chance against the White Walkers.
Sam explains this is a hard choice Jon had to make, however unpopular, and then tells him not to worry, as Jon always comes back. Olly appears unconvinced. Samwell reunites with Jon, who is despondent, saying that the mission was a disaster and they only managed to save a small fraction of the wildlings at Hardhome, where the Night King , the leader of the White Walkers has revealed himself to the participants of the battle, and tens of thousands of wildlings have been raided as wights.
Sam points to different wildlings passing by and notes that each of them would have died if he had done nothing at all, so it wasn't a complete failure. A few nights later, Jon tells of what he saw at Hardhome to Sam. He feels there is no other way he can help them as he cannot fight, he is also afraid for Gilly and her child's safety, and wishes to take them along.
Jon reminds him that the Citadel will also not allow Sam to be with women, but is humored to hear that it is already too late for that. Sam promises he will return, they toast to that and Jon sees his only friend off. On the voyage to Oldtown, Gilly tells a seasick Sam that she'll be happy to see the city, having learned much about it from the ship's captain. Instead, Sam doesn't want Gilly and Little Sam to be alone in the city while he trains as a maester and plans to take them to his family at Horn Hill , as the Citadel also doesn't allow women and there won't be anyone there to make an exception.
Gilly protests against this, but Sam assures her that it is for her protection. Knowing his father's hatred for Wildlings, Sam tells Gilly that he had told his father's retainers that Gilly is a Northern woman he had bedded in Mole's Town and that Little Sam is their son.
Upon arriving at Horn Hill, Sam is greeted by his mother Melessa and sister Talla Tarly , who are delighted to see Sam and his "family. Talla dresses Gilly in an ornate dress in traditional Reachmen fashion, astounding Sam with her beauty. Later that evening, Sam and Gilly joined the other Tarlys for dinner. Sam reveals his plans to train as a maester at the Citadel and promises that he will return to the Wall as soon as he has finished his studies.
When Dickon asks him about hunting Beyond the Wall, Sam responds that he hunts rabbits. An openly scornful Randyll then interjects that Jon did all the hunting for him. He also criticizes his son's size even though Sam is markedly slimmer than he was when he first arrived at Castle Black , and hunting and fighting abilities. Randyll also adds that he will not let his son inherit the family's Valyrian steel sword Heartsbane and House Tarly.
Gilly then springs to her lover's defense by pointing out that Sam had killed a Thenn and a White Walker. While Dickon dismisses the White Walkers as a fairy tale, Randyll quickly realizes that Gilly is a wildling. He disparages Sam for allowing himself to be seduced by a "wildling whore.
He will find work for Gilly as a servant and promises to raise the " bastard " Little Sam as his grandson. However, he warns Sam that he is no longer welcome at Horn Hill and must leave at first light.
Later, Sam apologizes for his father's actions but Gilly tells him that he does not need to. Unwilling to be separated from his family, Sam tells Gilly to pack up and leave together with Little Sam. Before leaving with his "family", Samwell steals Heartsbane.
After arriving in Oldtown, Sam and Gilly meet a Citadel maester. Sam gives him a letter from Jon about Sam becoming a maester for the Night's Watch, but the maester is skeptical about Jon's state, saying that no word was given about Lord Commander Mormont's death from Maester Aemon.
The maester states that Sam's situation is "irregular" to which Sam responds, "Life is irregular. The maester then allows Sam to use the library, but blocks Gilly and Little Sam from entering. In the library, Sam looks on in wonder and awe at the vast size of the library and the knowledge stored in its texts. Sam is assigned to menial labor in the Citadel, from sorting books in the library to serving meals to the other maesters and even latrine duty, with Sam himself growing increasingly impatient with the daily repetition.
After seeing another maester entering a gated section of the library, Sam asks Archmaester Ebrose about the Long Night while helping with a dissection, since very few people in the South believe the White Walkers exist. While Ebrose doesn't doubt Sam's awareness of the Walkers, he does assure him that the beginning of this winter is not the end of the world and reminds him of the importance of healthy skepticism.
Nevertheless, after stealing some books from the forbidden section of the library, Sam does research with Gilly at her new home, discovering that an abundance of dragonglass exists on Dragonstone, and writes to Jon to inform him. The next day, while collecting bowls from the sick cells, he is stopped by a patient with an arm covered in greyscale , who asks him if Daenerys Targaryen, the Dragon Queen, has arrived, but Sam claims not to know. He is present when the same patient is deemed unable to treat by Ebrose, and that he has six months before the greyscale takes over his mind.
Sam then reminds Ebrose of Shireen Baratheon's treatment of the condition, but Ebrose counters that her maester, Cressen , only managed to stop the spread early, and while she was still at a young age. Once Ebrose leaves, Sam asks if there is any family he should write to, to which the patient introduces himself as Jorah Mormont, and that his family forgot about him a long time ago.
Sympathetic to his Lord Commander's son, Sam later asks if he can try to heal Jorah using a procedure developed by Archmaester Pylos , but Ebrose advises against it; due to the dangerous nature of the operation to both sides, it was declared forbidden, emphasizing that Pylos himself died as a result of contracting Greyscale. Undaunted, Sam decides to treat Jorah and secretly visits his quarters after dark. He tells Jorah, "You're not dying today," reveals himself to be a sworn brother of the Night's Watch, that he served under Jorah's father, the late Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and was present when he died.
Sam gives Jorah rum to drink after taking a fortifying swig himself, telling him that the process will be painful. Sam also provides Jorah with a mouthguard so he can focus on biting down on it to help muffle his screams, as he explains that he's performing the procedure without permission. Sam's plan involves using a scalpel to separate and cut away Jorah's infected skin and then applying ointment to the exposed layer, though Jorah gives him a look that tells Sam he shouldn't bother trying to explain it to him.
Despite experiencing the pain of having a patch of greyscale skin debrided, Jorah nods his consent for Sam to continue the debridement. When Ebrose arrives in the morning to see to Jorah, he finds him completely healed. Despite being told by Jorah that no one tended to him, Ebrose realizes immediately what Sam has done and arranges an evening meeting in his office.
There, he chastises Sam on the potential danger of infecting the rest of the Citadel through himself, but then congratulates him on saving Jorah's life with a procedure few maesters have ever mastered. He then immediately orders Sam, who had expected a reward, to copy some old scrolls and tells him that his reward is not being banished from the Citadel for ignoring orders.
Samwell walks in on a meeting of the Conclave , the collective Archmaesters , and overhears them discussing a raven sent by Bran Stark about the army of the dead.
They are in disbelief over the matter, but Samwell attempts to warn them that the wight army is real. He tells the gathered Archmaesters that he let Bran beyond the Wall and says he is credible for he has survived the perils beyond the Wall whereas many Night's Watch rangers and wildlings have not. Even so, the Archmaesters continue to question the credibility of Bran Stark and the validity of the contents of the letter.
Archmaester Ebrose promises to find the truth of this and will send a raven back to Winterfell asking Maester Wolkan for confirmation. As Samwell leaves, he hears the Archmaesters laughing over the matter, comparing it to past times where they received similar ravens. Samwell later reads with Gilly , who, while reading the journal of High Septon Maynard , discovers that " Prince Ragger " a mispronunciation of "Rhaegar" had his first marriage annulled and secretly remarried while in Dorne.
Samwell, however, pays no attention to this and vents his frustration over the Citadel likely not doing anything about the undead threat. He resolves to leave Oldtown with Gilly and Little Sam.
He gathers dozens of books from the forbidden library in the Citadel before departing from Oldtown, quoting his father on how he is sick of reading about the achievements of better men. Brandon reveals his discovery that Jon is actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, saying that as he was born in Dorne his bastard surname should actually be "Sand".
Shocked, Sam counters that the transcription Gilly read to him before said that Rhaegar had annulled his marriage to Elia so that he could marry Lyanna. They both realize that Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie and that Jon whose birth name was Aegon Targaryen far from being illegitimate, is the true heir to the Iron Throne.
Daenerys thanks the man that saved Jorah's life from greyscale and asks if she can offer him anything in return. Sam requests a pardon for stealing books from the Citadel , as well as "borrowing" his family's sword, Heartsbane. Hearing this, Daenerys realizes that Sam is the son of Randyll Tarly and informs him that his father refused to bend the knee and was executed. Sam is shaken by the news of his father's death, but jokes that at least his brother will allow him to return to Horn Hill.
When Daenerys reveals that Dickon was also executed, however, Sam is visibly upset and chokes back some tears. He then asks to leave the library to gather his composure. Outside, Sam sees Bran Stark and asks why he's in the courtyard. Bran states he's "waiting for an old friend " and reminds him it is time to tell Jon the truth about his parents. He then says that Sam must be the one to tell Jon, because Jon trusts him more than anyone. Sam finds Jon by himself in the crypts of Winterfell.
He confronts Jon about the death of his father and brother, asking if he would have done the same thing in Daenerys's position. He then tells Jon about the diary entry he found from High Septon Maynard stating that he annulled the marriage between Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell , that Rhaegar then married Lyanna Stark and that Jon was their true born son, all of which Bran confirmed using his greensight.
Jon, visibly shocked at the revelation, says that Ned Stark is the most honorable man he has ever known and cannot believe that Ned would have lied to him his whole life. Sam reminds Jon that Ned lied to protect him from Robert Baratheon , who would have killed him if he ever found out the truth of Jon's parentage. Sam goes on to state that Jon is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, and asks rhetorically whether Daenerys would give up her crown to save her people as he did.
The next day, Sam and Jon welcome the arrival of Edd, Beric Dondarrion and Tormund to Winterfell, who inform the two that Last Hearth has fallen to the White Walkers, and that they'll be at Winterfell before the next sunrise, forcing Winterfell to immediately prepare for battle.
That evening, against Jon's advice, Sam volunteers to help defend Winterfell, due to his combat experience. Later, after overhearing an argument between Jorah and Lyanna Mormont , Sam provides the former with his family's sword, Heartsbane, since it is made of Valyrian steel and will be much more useful in the hands of Jeor Mormont's son.
Sam then joins Gilly and Little Sam in Winterfell's crypt. However, Sam later decides to participate in the Battle of Winterfell , armed only with two dragonglass daggers. He is nearly killed by a wight in the heat of battle, but is saved by Edd, only to watch in horror as Edd is quickly killed by another wight.
Sam manages to retreat inside Winterfell, but breaks down and cries as the living are slowly overwhelmed by the Army of the Dead. After the battle with the dead, Sam takes part in the mass funeral, lighting the funeral pyre with Edd's body on top, and the celebrations at Winterfell. Before departing to fight the Lannister forces at King's Landing , Jon bids farewell to Sam, who informs him that Gilly is pregnant with his child. Tyrion states that they need a new king to pass judgment and asks the lords and ladies present there to choose one.
Sam suggests that everyone in the Seven Kingdoms be allowed to choose a new king, but was mocked for this idea by all the lords and ladies, who found it ridiculous.
After Tyrion suggested that Bran Stark be chosen as the new king, Sam was the first one to assent to the proposal.
Samwell was chosen as the new Grand Maester by Bran after his election. After his appointment, he assisted Archmaester Ebrose with the title of his history book recounting the wars in Westeros after the assassination of Robert Baratheon , which he showed to Tyrion, the new Hand of the King , at the first small council meeting.
When Tyrion asks what the book states about him, he reluctantly replies that he isn't mentioned. When King Bran arrives and asks if they have heard anything about Drogon , he tries to state that he was last seen flying east of Volantis , but is interrupted by Bronn before he can complete his sentence.
After Bran goes looking for the dragon himself with his greensight , Tyrion discusses with him about clean water improving the health of people, based on his experience with the Casterly Rock sewers. Sam tries to inform him about the research done by Ebrose on this subject, but is interrupted again by Bronn who sums it up as "the strong live and the weak don't.
When Bronn suggests rebuilding the brothels, Sam is dismissive of the idea. On the outside, Samwell Tarly may appear completely antithetical to the standards of his house - he is extremely timid, awkward, cowardly, nervous, and easily frightened. When he was first tested in combat by Alliser Thorne, he didn't even pick up a weapon and allowed himself to be beaten, terrified, leading to the impression that Sam was worthless an impression that Randyll Tarly had never allowed him to forget.
However, in reality, Sam is actually a good man - he is extremely loyal to those who show him kindness, as evidenced by his almost brotherly relationship with Jon, who remained his best friend throughout his time as a member of the Night's Watch.
His loyalty to Jon would resonate from the moment that he volunteered to take Jon's vows with him. His extreme personal loyalty is potentially one of his best qualities, and ironically evidence that Sam aligns with the expectations of his house - after all, House Tarly breeds soldiers, and soldiers are supposed to be loyal. When he comes to Castle Black, it is quickly realized that he is not a great warrior, but Sam makes up for it considerably by being highly intelligent and observant.
He shows himself to be so insightful that he assures Jon that Lord Commander Mormont is seeking to groom him for command based on the duties that being a squire would entail. Sam has an encyclopedic knowledge of Westerosi history, including the history of the Night's Watch, and is deeply fascinated by that history, to such an extent that his fellow sworn brothers often find him annoying for it.
Even Jeor Mormont recognized Sam's intelligence and commended him for it. Those who could see through Sam's gluttony and cowardice would realize how clever and valuable a person he was. Sam loves to read books at any given opportunity, so much that the blind Maester Aemon easily deduced that Sam had come to see him, based on the fact that he had decided to enter the library at night to read. Throughout the series, Sam has shown himself to be capable of incredible bravery when he is pushed.
While he cowered during the Battle of the Fist of the First Men, especially when he encountered a White Walker for the first time. One of his shining moments came when he faced off against another White Walker when it tried to attack Gilly and her son - Sam's extreme capacity for love towards Gilly compelled him to continue to attack the creature, even after it easily overpowered him already, and in spite of Sam being aware of the historical reputation of the White Walkers and how they had decimated the Rangers at the Fist of the First Men.
Sam later proved himself to be gradually immune to the bullies that he had suffered most of his life, as evidenced by how he shamed Janos Slynt for his cowardice when the latter tried to shame him for loving Gilly.
Sam's bravery wavered temporarily when he returned to Horn Hill and was chastised by his father Randyll again, so much that he was unable to speak throughout most of the conversation, but later on, he openly defied his fearsome father by stealing the family heirloom Heartsbane and verbally daring Randyll to try and take it back albeit, not to his face.
Sam was very good friends with Maester Aemon, so much that Sam gave the man's eulogy at his funeral and didn't condemn him for being a Targaryen. Before Aemon passed away, Sam showed reluctance to believe that he was dying, showing that he deeply cared about the old man. In A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Lord Randyll is a stern, fierce taskmaster and disciplinarian who holds martial valor and military skill above all other attributes. His eldest son Sam is soft, kindhearted, bookish and fat, enjoying music and reading over fighting and war, although his younger son Dickon shows much more military promise.
Furious with Sam's lack of military potential, Lord Randyll sends him packing to join the Night's Watch, making Dickon heir in Sam's place. When she revealed herself, all the squires and pages and stableboys howled with laughter. Randyll had no choice but to take Sam back home. Needless to say the experience has not improved Randyll's opinion on his elder son.
When Sam suggested his father to send him to the Citadel in Oldtown, Randyll answered furiously " They make you wear a chain about your neck. If it is chains you want, come with me ". He had Sam manacled hand and foot to a wall for three days and three nights.
The chain around his throat was so tight it broke the skin, and whenever he rolled the wrong way in his sleep it would cut off his breath. That experience has traumatized poor Sam so much, that long time afterwards he objected fruitlessly to Jon's command to travel to the Citadel, although he has always wanted that. Horn Hill is located in the warm lands of the southern Reach, where it rarely snows. Sam says that he never saw snow in his life before he was sent to the Wall, making it an even more desolate and alien environment for him.
Some may have seen Samwell as better suited to joining the Order of Maesters , as like the Night's Watch they swear vows that abandon all claim to inheritance, but their intellectual pursuits would fit Sam's talents much better. However, Randyll felt that a Tarly joining the non-martial Maesters would still be a massive embarrassment to the military reputation of their House.
Because Randyll was horrified at the prospect of a member of House Tarly ever wearing a Maester's chain, he instead sent Sam off to join the Night's Watch, where at least in theory he would be defending the realm from the dangers beyond the Wall. Ironically, the officers at Castle Black decide that the best use for Sam at the Wall is to serve as an aide to the blind old Maester Aemon , given that many of their recruits are starving peasant boys or criminals who can't even read, and Sam is not only literate but quite well-read.
Sam gains some small respite from his suffering at the Wall when he discovers that Maester Aemon's library at Castle Black contains thousands of books collected by the Watch over the millennia, many of them extremely rare even a well-stocked library such as at Winterfell normally only contains several hundred books. Or perhaps Marty Stu. Where is all this going? Some might think the logical conclusion is that Sam would end up Monarch of the Seven Kingdoms, but that misses the point.
Everything that has come to Sam throughout Game of Thrones — love, family, education, respect, friendship — has been something that he wanted. The ordinary things of life which have been denied to him. Photo By HBO. Coming to you daily during COP He has had this opinion beaten into him to such an extent that he outright admits it to his fellow recruits when he arrives at Castle Black, which shocks everyone present as no man among them would have it in them to admit being a coward.
Sam is afraid of height, of the dark, and of so many other things that Jon Snow is alarmed that he came to join the Watch in the first place. He has grown to be terrified of his father, of combat, and of the prospect of being made to fight in general. However, after protracted time at the Wall, he has become immensely brave, killing an Other and even participating in combat on several occasions.
His assertiveness has also grown drastically, to the point that he doesn't suffer tormentors gladly anymore. Sam is also extremely loyal and highly intelligent; he forms close friendships when allowed to, as is the case with Jon Snow. He is utterly mindful of his vows to the Night's Watch, even though he develops a romantic relationship with Gilly.
He is also disgusted by acts of dishonour or cruelty when he sees it with his own eyes, and cares about those who show him kindness. For this reason, he becomes much more respected among his sworn brothers as time progresses.
Sam is a keen and studious reader and an exceptionally clever individual, which even Jon Snow recognises soon after meeting him; this is one of the reasons he becomes so invaluable to Maester Aemon, and one of the reasons they grow so close.
Lord Randyll was regarded as one of the finest military commanders in the Seven Kingdoms and he did everything in his power to raise Samwell into what he deemed a proper heir. Unfortunately, Samwell resisted every effort and failed to meet his father's expectations.
He was sent to the Arbor as a page, but the Redwyne twins Hobber and Horas bullied him, and Lord Paxter sent him back to Horn Hill where a dozen masters-at-arms proceeded to fail at toughening Samwell. There were many attempts to strengthen Samwell's disposition such as dressing him in his mother's clothes, forcing him to sleep in chainmail, and being bathed in aurochs blood by Qartheen warlocks , but each failed to raise his valor.
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