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| “ | You're traitors and rebels, so thank your gods that Lord Tywin's giving you this chance. It's more than you'd get from the outlaws. Obey, serve, and live. | „ |
| ~ Gregor Clegane to his prisoners. |
| “ | Man: We're owed. Ser promised us. Rich rewards, he said. Shitmouth: His very words. 'Rich rewards, for them as rides with me.' [a dozen Mountain's men add their agreement] Bonifer Hasty: [silences them] Any man who remains with me shall have a hide of land to work, a second hide when he takes a wife, a third at the birth of his first child. Shitmouth: Land, ser? Piss on that. If we wanted to grub in the bloody dirt, we could have bloody well stayed home, begging your pardon, ser. Rich rewards, Ser said. Meaning gold. |
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| ~ The Mountain's Men demanding payment from House Lannister and the Iron Throne. |
The Mountain's Men are supporting antagonists in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and minor antagonists in its television adaptation Game of Thrones. They are men-at-arms of the Westerlands in service to Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides.
They are a group of dangerous, sadistic, and unsavory men, who are all hard-eyed and foul-mouthed. The only good thing that can be said about the Mountain's Men is that they are not quite as vile as the Brave Companions. Sandor Clegane is familiar with his brother's men and refers to them to as Gregor's "pet rats". With the exception of his squire Joss, Gregor never brings them to court.
Current Status[]
As of now in the current timeline, the Mountain's Men have been left leaderless, following the death of Ser Gregor Clegane, and are no longer in service of House Clegane, whose current governor, left in charge by the late Gregor to rule the Cleganes' lands and castle, has not been identified. Before Gregor had departed from Harrenhal for King's Landing, having been summoned to court by Queen Cersei Lannister to fight in her brother's trial by combat, he had named Polliver the Castellan of Harrenhal, making him the Iron Throne's military governor in charge of the castle and lands around the Gods Eye to rule in his stead, and the leader of the Mountain's Men. However, Polliver was killed by Gregor's brother, Sandor Clegane, a traitor and deserter of the Kingsguard, in the Inn at the Crossroads, and the Mountain's Men did not bother naming a successor for Gregor and Polliver afterward.
Currently, the Mountain's Men are in direct service of the Iron Throne and House Lannister. After leaving Harrenhal, they served under the command of Ser Jaime Lannister, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, and later under the command of the Stormlander and landed knight Ser Jon Connington. The Mountain's men are currently located in King's Landing, but following the sudden murder of the realm's Lord Regent, Ser Kevan Lannister and Dowager Queen Cersei's removal from regency, their future is uncertain, as Lords Mace Tyrell and Randyll Tarly, the two public officials currently left in administrative, executive, and legislative power of the city, expressed a mutual wish to send them to the Wall. The High Septon, the only other man currently holding power in the capital, is not expected to pardon them for their crimes any time.
Biography[]
A Game of Thrones[]
Gregor Clegane arrives at King's Landing with some of his men for the Hand's Tourney. After losing the tourney to Ser Loras Tyrell, he leaves the capital with them. During their travel back to home, an overflowing river detours the group to a nearby alehouse, where Gregor, Eggon, Chiswyck, Rafford, Tobbot, and Joss Stilwood savagely gang rape the brewer’s thirteen year old daughter, Layna. Eggon starts the rape by attacking the girl first, while Raff the Sweetling kills Layna's brother so that he will not intervene. After the rape, Gregor pays the brewer with a silver coin.
Later, after Tyrion Lannister was captured by Catelyn Stark, who suspected that he tried to assassinate her son Bran, Lord Tywin Lannister sends Gregor Clegane and his men to the riverlands, Catelyn's home place, to strike the first blows in what grows into the War of the Five Kings. They are sent across the Red Fork, disguised as brigands to ravage the holdfasts of Sherrer, Wendish Town, and the Mummer's Ford in the hopes of drawing the forces of House Tully away from Riverrun and the Golden Tooth. Tywin had hoped to draw Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, out of King's Landing with these raids, so that Gregor could capture him and bring him to Tywin. Ned could have been exchanged with Tyrion, but Tywin's son, Jaime, interfered, and a fight between Ned and Jaime caused Ned to remain in the capital with a leg injury, thus foiling Tywin's plan.
Thanks to the Mountain's men, most of the river lords are unable to leave their castles and cities to ride with their armies to Riverrun. With the aged Lord Hoster Tully dying of his illness, the command of the Tully forces passes to his son Ser Edmure Tully, who sends Ser Raymun Darry, Ser Karyl Vance, and Ser Marq Piper to King's Landing with survivors from Sherrer. An army led by Lord Vance and Lord Clement Piper is sent to guard the pass under the Golden Tooth, preparing for the arrival of the Lannister army.
Ned Stark, hearing of the crimes The Mountain and his men had committed, he dispatches a force led by Lord Beric Dondarrion to execute them for their crimes, while summoning Tywin Lannister to court as well. He does not allow Ser Loras Tyrell and Ser Ilyn Payne to go with Beric. During the march to the Mountain's men, Karyl Vance and Marq Piper leave Beric's party to attack the Lannister parties in the riverlands.
After King Robert I Baratheon died from wounds he sustained during a hunt, Beric and his men are ambushed by Tywin Lannister at the Mummer's Ford. When Beric and his men attempt to retreat across the Red Fork, Ser Gregor Clegane and his men took them in the rear. The Mountain's Men then kill most of the Iron Throne detachment including Beric Dondarrion, Ser Raymun Darry, Ser Lothar Mallery, and Ser Gladden Wylde. Survivors of the host include the 12-year-old Lord Edric Dayne, Harwin and Alyn of Winterfell, Thoros of Myr, and Anguy. Beric is later resurrected by Thoros. The survivors would eventually form the Brotherhood without Banners, in which their new duty is to protect the smallfolk.
Thereafter, the Mountain's men later joined Lord Tywin's host as it marches through the riverlands to capture several castles and towns, including Harrenhal from House Whent. The Mountain's men burn Pinkmaiden Castle, the seat of House Piper, as well as capturing and burning Stone Hedge, the seat of House Bracken, taking its food supplies and burning the harvest of Lord Jonos Bracken. They eventually fight in the Lannister vanguard on the left flank during their fight against the Northern host during the battle on the Green Fork. After the battle, Lord Tywin withdraws to Harrenhal but leaves the Mountain's men and others, along with the parties of Ser Amory Lorch and Vargo Hoat, to continue raiding the Riverlands.
A Clash of Kings[]
After Robb Stark was declared King in the North, and has received all the power of Winterfell and Riverrun, the river lords are allowed to return to their lands to defend them and their people from the army of the westerlands. Lord Tytos Blackwood retakes Raventree Hall, Lord Jonos Bracken retakes Stone Hedge, and the 8-year-old Lord Lyman Darry retakes Castle Darry. However, shortly after, the Mountain's men led by Gregor, sacked Darry and killed Lord Darry, bringing House Darry to extinction, though female Darrys, who had married, remained alive.
Gregor's band keeps on ravaging and pillaging the Riverlands, and they captured and questioned various smallfolk, as the Mountain's Men had gotten into conflict with the Brotherhood without Banners and parties led by Lord Karyl Vance and Ser Marq Piper.
Ser Amory Lorch's party of Lannister men-at-arms finds the Night's Watch group of prisoners, led by Yoren, in the burned Gods Eye Town, near the Gods Eye. Yoren and his group were burrowed in the abandoned keep of the town, and when Yoren refused to yield, he was killed among many other prisoners. Arya Stark, Gendry, Hot Pie, Lommy Greenhands, and a 2-year-old girl nicknamed Weasel manage to flee.
However, while searching for food and medicine for Lommy, the clumsy Gendry is found by the Mountain's men in an abandoned village near the Gods Eye. The band beats Gendry and take him as prisoner while Arya and Hot Pie tried to save him, despite Lommy's desperate pleas to flee. Arya and Hot Pie are soon found by Gregor's band. Dunsen takes Gendry's bull helm, while Polliver takes Arya's sword, Needle. Ser Gregor orders Hot Pie to lead his men to Lommy and Weasel. Weasel panics when she sees the Mountain's men and manages to flee before they arrive. Lommy, due to being unable to walk, is then killed by Raff the Sweetling with a spear to the neck. Though Arya was angered by this, she couldn't do anything about it.
The Mountain's men keep their prisoners in the storehouse near the Gods Eye, while Tywin occupies Harrenhal with his army. During her time as a captive, Arya learned the meaning of "fear". Every day, after breakfast, the Mountain comes into the storehouse to pick one of the prisoners for questioning. The villagers don't dare to look at him, hoping that he won't notice them. Despite this, he sees them anyway and picks whom he likes. One girl shared a soldier’s bed three nights running until the Mountain picked her on the fourth day, and the soldier didn't say a word. A babbling old man keeps insisting that he and his son are loyal to King Joffrey, apparently in the assumption this will keep him safe. He shares that his son is off to King’s Landing where he serves in the City Watch, stressing that he and his son are good king's men and do all for Joffrey. He says this so often that the other prisoners start calling him All-for-Joffrey when the guards aren't listening. But All-for-Joffrey is eventually killed on the fifth day by the Mountain's men and they hanged him outside the storehouse, as food for the wolves. A young mother offers to freely tell the Mountain's men all she knows if they promise not to hurt her daughter. The Mountain hears her out as thethe next morning he picks her daughter, to make sure she holds nothing back.
The man who asks the questions to the prisoners is called "The Tickler", who is one of the Mountain's Men. The Tickler was sometimes helped by Chiswyck and some other men during the torture. The Tickler's questions are the same every day: "Was there gold hidden in the village? Silver, gems? Was there more food? Where was Lord Beric Dondarrion? Which of the village folk had aided him? When he rode off, where did he go? How many men were with them? How many knights, how many bowmen, how many men-at-arms? How were they armed? How many were horsed? How many were wounded? What other enemy had they seen? How many? When? What banners did they fly? Where did they go? Was there gold hidden in the village? Silver, gems? Where was Lord Beric Dondarrion? How many men were with him?". Ser Gregor himself would stand to watch and listen until the prisoner dies. Because of the Tickler's ways in torture, no one ever survives.
Eight days later, Gregor and his men start their march to Harrenhal with the surviving prisoners, in which they are forbidden to speak. When Arya opens her mouth she was struck in the face, which left her with a broken lip. A 3-year-old boy would not stop calling for his father, so the Mountain's men smashed his face in with a spiked mace, which horrifies the boy’s mother, who started screaming, and Raff the Sweetling killed her as well. During the travel on the road, Arya, while is still pretending to be a boy with the name Arry, she failed to hold her pee any longer and is forced to urinate in front of the prisoners and the Mountain's men, revealing her true gender. Hot Pie is shocked, but Gregor, his men, and the prisoners don't care. The murders of prisoners keep going, and the suffering smallfolk of the riverlands curse both House Lannister, House Tully, and House Stark for causing the war.
The Mountain's men take the their surviving prisoners to serve Lord Tywin Lannister at Harrenhal, where Arya becomes a servant of an ugly former Whent man-at-arms named Weese, Gendry helps the smith Ben, and Hot Pie works in the kitchens. Tywin then sends Gregor and his men to destroy Lord Roose Bolton's northern host. During this time, they skirmish several times with the brotherhood without banners, and lose four men to Beric Dondarrion’s night raids before returning to Harrenhal, taking up residence in the Wailing Tower.
While in the guise of a common servant, Arya overhears Chiswyck speak of Gregor's actions after the Hand's tourney and before the outbreak of the war. Gregor was furious about the trick that the "Knight o' Pansies" played on him by riding an in-season mare that distracted his stallion. While returning from the tourney with seven of his men, Gregor brooded on his loss. An overflowing river detoured the group to a nearby alehouse, where he and his men gang raped the brewer’s daughter, Layna. Arya orders the Faceless Man Jaqen H'ghar to kill Chiswyck.
During Lord Tywin's attempt to break through back to the westerlands at the Battle of the Fords, the Mountain's men join up with Tywin's host and attack the crossing at the Stone Mill, which is defended by Ser Edmure Tully's forces. Along with the rest of the Lannister force, the Mountain's men are pushed back and forced to retreat. Harrenhal is soon taken by Roose Bolton in their absence.
A Storm of Swords[]
After being chased away by Edmure and the Battle of the Blackwater, the Mountain's men keep following Gregor in the riverlands, fighting the men of the North and the riverlands and the brotherhood without banners. Gregor and Randyll Tarly defeat the northmen at Duskendale, destroying a good portion of the northern army. The survivors of the battle at Duskendale are harried in their retreat by Ser Gregor's men. During this time, Tywin mananages to strike a deal with Roose Bolton and Walder Frey. While Roose is marching with his host to the Twins for the wedding of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, Gregor and his men attack Roose's force at the ruby ford of the Trident. 2,000 men are dead, taken prisoners, or fled. Ser Wylis Manderly is taken captive again. Roose manage to flee, however Roose had already betrayed the Starks for the Lannisters, so the ruby ford may therefore have been a calculated move by Lord Bolton to bleed Stark supporters to prevent them from retaliating once he turned cloak.
After the Red Wedding, which saw the deaths of both Robb and Catelyn Stark, Gregor and his band retake Harrenhal, killing Vargo Hoat, who was named lord of Harrenhal and salughtering the inhabitants and defenders at Harrenhal, with the exception of the cook who opens the gate for the Mountain's men, the smith Ben Blackthumb, and a girl named Pia, whom the Mountain and his men rape repeatedly. For speaking when he wanted silence, Gregor smashed Pia's face with a mailed fist, breaking her nose and knocking out half of her teeth.
After kidnapping Arya Stark, Gregor's brother Sandor explains to her that it could be someone worse than him that kidnapped her and that she does not know his brother. Arya protests that she does know Gregor and then names some of Gregor’s men. This surprises Sandor, who is amazed that a highborn girl like Arya should know them.
Later, when Tyrion Lannister demands a trial by combat, after he was wrongly accused for murdering King Joffrey I Baratheon, the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister chooses Ser Gregor as her champion. The Mountain leaves Polliver as castellan of Harrenhal and rides to King's Landing with his squire, Joss Stilwood, and some other men.
After Tyrion's trial by combat ended in defeat for Tyrion, Gregor is unable to return to Harrenhal, due to being gravely wounded by Oberyn Martell, Tyrion's champion. Tywin Lannister wants to execute Gregor to avoid the wrath of House Martell, since The Mountain confessed in front of everyone that he murdered Princess Elia Martell and her baby son, Prince Aegon. Joss Stilwood remains at King's Landing while the Mountain's men remain in control of Harrenhal and the lands around the castle.
Sandor Clegane and Arya Stark confronts some of the Mountain's men at the inn at the crossroads, where they have gone to drink, whore, and bother the innkeeper. A squire of House Sarsfield tries to bait the Hound with insults about fleeing King's Landing and things became very tense. The Hound demands wine, which the innkeeper brings and Sandor gulps down. Sandor warns the innkeeper that Polliver and the Tickler will kill him instead of paying for their drinks, and the innkeeper and the other people in the room leave. The Tickler tells Sandor what has happened in the realm, including Tyrion's marriage, Joffrey's death and Tyrion's imprisonment. He claims that Sansa's sister has been found and is to marry Ramsay Bolton, Harrenhal has been taken by Gregor Clegane, Riverrun is under siege by the Lannisters and Randyll Tarly has taken Maidenpool. He says only the Blackwoods are still holding out, and the Brackens are fighting them around Raventree Hall. The Tickler and Polliver want to take Sandor to Harrenhal, but the Hound refuses. This caused the Tickler to throw a knife at him and a brawl breaks out. The Sarsfield squire tries to join but Arya throws a cup at him and knocks him down. Sandor didn't do well in the fight and Arya realizes he drank his wine too fast and that he is drunk. During the fight Arya stabs the squire in the belly and then sneaks up behind the Tickler and stabbing him in the back over and over again until a wounded Sandor stops her. The squire, still alive but mortally wounded, asks for mercy. Sandor tells Arya to give him mercy, and she kills the squire with her sword Needle.
A Feast for Crows[]
The remaining Mountain's men, including Raff the Sweetling, Dunsen, and Shitmouth, remain stationed at Harrenhal. Ser Jaime Lannister arrives with his highborn party from King's Landing, on his way to the Siege of Riverrun. Jaime searches for the castellan Polliver, but Shitmouth informs him that Polliver has been killed by Sandor Clegane and that there's no one in charge at Harrenhal. Jaime sees Vargo Hoat's rotting head and learns about his death and body mutilation by Ser Gregor. He doesn't savor the revenge for his hand as he hoped. Jaime develops empathy for the victim in the riverlands, a country which has been destroyed during the War of the Five Kings, and now in a state of chaos as fightings between the Lannisters, the river lords, House Frey, and the Brotherhood Without Banners.
At Harrenhal, one of the Mountain's men tries to rape Pia again, and Jaime command Ser Ilyn Payne to behead him. As they force him to his knees, the perplexed man says they had her hundreds of times. When Ilyn presents Pia with his head she smiles through her ruined teeth. When Jaime informs the Mountain's men that they can either ride with him to the siege of Riverrun or join Ser Bonifer Hasty's men. The men state that Ser Gregor Clegane promised rich rewards for those that rode with him and Jaime tells them to take any grievances up with Queen Regent Cersei Lannister. Ser Bonifer, now the castellan of Harrenhal, refuses to have the Mountain's men or Pia with him. Jaime takes the men with him and later gives Pia to his squire, Josmyn Peckledon.
After the fall of Riverrun and the escape of Ser Brendan Tully, Jaime allows the captain of the guards of Riverrun Ser Robin Ryger and Ser Desmond Grell the master-at-arms of Riverrun to take the black and journey to the Wall. A dozen Mountain's men led by Rafford are ordered to escort Robin and Desmond to Maidenpool.
A Dance with Dragons[]
Jaime sends Red Ronnet Connington to Maidenpool with 20 men, most of them the Mountain's former men. Lord Randyll Tarly mentions how Gregor's men arrived in Maidenpool while he was in charge of the town. They were not there a day when one was accused of murder and another of rape; Randyll executed the murderer and gelded the raper.
When they arrive at King's Landing with Red Ronnet, Randyll suggests they be sent to the Wall where such scum belong. Lord Mace Tyrell agrees and states he would not suffer such men in the City Watch. Lord Regent Kevan Lannister decided to not to exile them, however, as they are fighters and the Iron Throne needs swords against the new threat of the Golden Company, who is loyal to the presumed dead Aegon Targaryen, who is revealed to be alive. Kevan later tells Grand Maester Pycelle and Ser Harys Swyft to hire the Mountain's men if they feel they need guards against House Tyrell.
The Winds of Winter[]
Raff the Sweetling is among Ser Harys Swyft's guard at Braavos. The master of coin is there to placate the Iron Bank, who recently switched its support to King Stannis Baratheon, since the crown refused to pay its debts, thanks to Cersei. During Izembaro's performance of The Bloody Hand at the gate, Raff is seduced by a 11-year-old-girl named Mercy (Arya Stark). Mercy wounds Raff with Needle and kills him in the same way he killed her friend Lommy.
Known members[]
Joss Stilwood[]
Ser Gregor's squire. He took part on the gang rape of Layna. After Gregor is mortally wounded by Prince Oberyn, Qyburn questions him, and Joss tells him that Gregor constantly suffers from extreme headaches and consumes vast quantities of milk of the poppy to try and dull the pain. He's currently living in King's Landing.
In the TV show he's played by an unidentified extra and appears in season 1 and season 4.
Rafford[]
- Main article: Rafford
Also known as Raff the Sweetling. Added in Arya's death prayer list for killing Lommy Greenhands and many other cruel deed to the people of the riverlands. Arya struggles to remember is face. Raff is killed by Arya, disguised as Mercy, at Braavos. She seduces him and brings him to her room. Raff is killed in the same way he killed Lommy, with Needle in his throat.
Raff is cut from the TV series, and his role in Braavos is given to Ser Meryn Trant, who gets a more brutal death at the hands of Arya. In the books Meryn is still alive in King's Landing.
Dunsen[]
He took Gendry's beloved bull helm. For this Arya adds him on her death prayer list. Later she struggles to remember his face. After the fall of Riverrun, Jaime sends him with Ronnet Connington to escort Robin Ryger and Desmond Grell to Maidenpool.
The Tickler[]
- Main article: The Tickler
A torturer with a face so ordinary that it's difficult to estabilish his age. Arya almost thought he was a commoner of the riverlands before seeing in action. When he does not question and tortures he mostly remains silent. Everyone is afraid of the Tickler as they are of Gregor. At Harrenhal a tower guard named Weese torments the prisoners as well, along with the Tickler, beating Arya everytime until he's killed by Jaqen H'ghar. After witnessing the Tickler's horrible deeds to the smallfolk of the riverlands, Arya adds him on her death prayer list. She struggles to remember his face. After taking Harrenhal, the Tickler and Polliver try to capture Sandor Clegane, but they are both killed in a fight, with the Tickler being slain by Arya with multiple stabs to his back when he was distracted by Sandor. As she stabs him repeatedly, Arya screams the questions he asked the smallfolk when interrogating them.
In the TV show adaptation the Tickler is played by Anthony Morris. He dies in season 2, in Harrenhal, replacing Chiswyck as the first person to be killed by Jaqen H'ghar.
Polliver[]
- Main article: Polliver
A grim and methodical fighter. Arya Stark considers him one the least violent of the Mountain's men. He fights with Ser Gregor during the War of the Five Kings. He takes the sword Needle from Arya, and because of this, Arya adds him to her prayer kill list. After retaking Harrenhal and killing Vargo Hoat, Ser Gregor names Polliver Castellan of Harrenhal, while he's in King's Landing for Tyrion's trial by combat. Polliver is killed by Sandor Clegane during a fight at the inn at the crossroads. Arya takes back Needle from his body.
In the TV series Polliver is played by Andy Kellegher. In this version he's a Lannister soldier, serving under Ser Amory Lorch. He replaces Raff as the man who kills Lommy Greenhands. He dies during the first episode of season 4, before Joffrey's death, while in the books he dies in one the last chapters of A Storm of Swords. In the show version Sandor is wounded by Biter, and later by Brienne of Tarth during the same time of the fight at the inn in the book version. In the show the fight happens earlier, in an unnamed inn, and Sandor is not wounded at all.
Chiswyck[]
An old and stoop-shouldered man, with a sadistic temperament masked by a jolly personality. He sometimes aided the Tickler in torturing the smallfolk. For this, Arya adds him to her prayer kill list. Chiswyck tells a story about the gang rape of Layna, an innkeeper's daughter that Gregor and the men had instigated, laughing as he recalls the details. Arya overhears this, and whispers his name into the ear of Jaqen H'ghar as the first of her three promised deaths. H'ghar, obliging, pushes him off a wall three days later.
In the TV series, Chiswyck's death is taken by the Tickler, who dies in the same way.
Shitmouth[]
His real name is not known: everybody refers to him as Shitmouth due to his foul language. He's the most foul-mouthed man Arya has ever met. He's the least cruel of the Mountain's men, as he also gives bread to the prisoners when they ask him. Arya does not add him to her prayer kill list as he displays a lack of cruelty in comparison to his comrades. He reports the situation in Harrenhal to Jaime Lannister. When Jaime is informed by Rafford that Sandor Clegane, accompanied by a boy, some time ago killed Polliver, the Tickler and a squire at the Crossroads Inn, Jaime asks whether the men went after Ser Sandor. Shitmouth betrays that the thought never crossed their mind. Jaime advises them that a dog needs his throat cut when he goes wild, to which Shitmouth replies that he never liked Polliver anyway and suggests that they didn't want to kill the brother of the man who commands them. He joins with Jaime's host during the Siege of Riverrun, and later goes to Maidenpool.
Eggon[]
In Chiswyck's telling of his story of the gang rape of a girl named Layna at an alehouse, it was Eggon who started it all by attacking the girl first.
Tobbot[]
Tobbot was one of the participants in Chiswyck's story about the gang rape of a girl named Layna.
Pimply squire[]
An unnamed squire of House Sarsfield. Ser Gregor's other squire. The boy was killed by Arya Stark during the fight at the inn at the crossroads. After being mortally wounded by Arya, the pimply boy cries and begs for the gift of mercy. Sandor says the squire will be a long time dying, tells Arya to give him mercy, and asks if she remembers where the heart is. She takes Needle, which she had recovered from Polliver's body, and kills the squire. later, after Arya receives a new face from the Faceless Men, she dreams of the people she has killed, including "the pimply squire from the crossroads inn".
Quotes[]
| “ | Gregor Clegane had wrested the immense, gloomy castle away from the Bloody Mummers before Cersei recalled him to King's Landing. No doubt the Mountain's men were still rattling around inside like so many dried peas in a suit of plate, but they were not ideally suited to restore the king's peace to the Trident. The only peace Ser Gregor's lot had ever given anyone was the peace of the grave. | „ |
| ~ Thoughts of Jaime Lannister |
| “ | Lord Tarly: Your nephew Jaime gave them to Connington. To rid himself of them, I'd wager. They had not been in Maidenpool a day before one killed a man and another was accused of rape. I had to hang the one and geld the other. If it were up to me, I would send them all to the Night's Watch, and Connington with them. The Wall is where such scum belong. Lord Tyrell: A dog takes after its master. Black cloaks would suit them, I agree. I will not suffer such men in the city watch. |
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| ~ Randyll Tarly and Mace Tyrell to Kevan Lannister. |
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Trivia[]
- Despite House Clegane's status being uncertain, the Mountain's men and their former leader Ser Gregor Clegane are presumably currently still in the same place in Westeros (King's Landing), both still serving King Tommen I Baratheon, as most courtiers in the Red Keep have already deduced the true identity of the newest member of the Kingsguard, the faceless Ser Robert Strong, whose body and size are too identical to the late Ser Gregor's to avoid suspicions.
- Strong was brought to court out of nowhere by the royal spymaster Qyburn, who is a rumored necromancer and sorcerer, a disgraced former maester, and a former member of the Brave Companions, who previously fought on the same side as the Mountain and his men's, but ultimately betrayed them to side with the Starks in the rebel side. The Mountain's men and Qyburn ended up on the same side again after the former joined Jaime's party and ended up ingratiating himself to House Lannister through Cersei.
- It's unknown if any of the Mountain's men have guessed Ser Robert Strong's true identity. As they are familiar with Gregor's appearance, due to having been around him all the time, it's possible they might've realized.
- After Gregor's fight with Oberyn Martell in Tyrion Lannister's trial by combat, Joss Stilwood, one of Gregor's squires, remained in King's Landing afterwards, and he might still be at court by the end of the fifth book, when the other Mountain's men came to the capital.
- Raff the Sweetling is the only Mountain's Man known to have died across the Narrow Sea, as he was killed by Arya Stark in Braavos, one of the Free Cities, while serving as a bodyguard to the envoy Ser Harys Swyft as part of the Iron Throne's delegation for the Iron Bank.
