Alliser Thorne

Ser Alliser Thorne is a character from A Song of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones.

He is the master-at-arms of the Night's Watch at Castle Black. The tone of his voice and his contempt makes him hated by all the Night's Watch's recruits. In the TV series he is played by Owen Teale.

Prior to joining the Night's Watch, Alliser was a knight of House Thorne of the Crownlands and fought on the side of House Targaryen during Robert's Rebellion. A defender of King's Landing, after its sack he was given the choice by Lord Tywin Lannister between death or taking the black.