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| “ | A dragonseed must watch his own neck, when he has no white-cloaked guardsmen to do it for him. | „ |
| ~ Ulf to his friends. |
| “ | Hugh: We are knights now, truly.
Ulf: Fie on that, we should be lords. |
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| ~ Ulf speaking with Hugh Hammer. |
Lord Ulf White, also known as Ulf the White and Ulf the Sot, is a supporting character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and the television adaptation House of the Dragon. He is a lowborn dragonseed of Valyrian descent who became a dragonrider during the Dance of the Dragons.
Initially a member of the Blacks who supported Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen's claim, Ulf eventually defected to the Greens, the party that supported King Aegon II Targaryen. During the civil war, he was named Lord of Bitterbridge in place of House Caswell, but Ulf sought to become Lord of Highgarden, under the pretext that House Tyrell provided no contribution to the entire conflict and remained neutral.
In the television adaptation House of the Dragon, he is portrayed by Tom Bennett.
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Biography[]
During the Dance of the Dragons, Rhaenyra Targaryen tried to recruit dragonriders for her cause. Many on Dragonstone claimed Targaryen descent through the affairs of Targaryens; their Valyrian blood could enable them to ride dragons. Among them was a man-at-arms on Dragonstone, the drunken Ulf the White, also known as Ulf White or Ulf the Sot, due to his pale hair (a sign of the blood of Old Valyria) and drunkenness. Silverwing, the dragon of Good Queen Alysanne, Rhaenyra's great-grandmother, allowed Ulf to ride her.
Ulf fought at the Battle of the Gullet for the Blacks and was knighted for it. However, at the First Battle of Tumbleton, he and another dragonrider, Hugh Hammer, defected to the Greens, helping to defeat the Black army. For this, they became known as the Two Betrayers.
Rhaenyra's half-brother Aegon II was missing; his children were infants; his next brother, Aemond, had died in battle with Daemon Targaryen; and the youngest brother, Prince Daeron the Daring, was still a young man. Hugh therefore decided to become King himself, due to his dragon. Ulf, meanwhile, wanted Highgarden, the Capitol of the Reach, and all its lands. A conspiracy among the Green Commanders, known as the Caltrops, decided to kill the Two Betrayers, with Daeron agreeing to the plot. Meanwhile, Ulf enjoyed the pleasures of wine and flesh, and those who did not please him were fed to his dragon.
When Addam Velaryon launched the Second Battle of Tumbleton at night, taking the Greens by surprise, Hugh was killed by the Caltrops. Ulf slept beneath a Tavern table through the battle. On hearing Hugh was dead, Ulf made a claim for the throne.
The Caltrop Ser Hobert Hightower pretended to agree to Ulf's claim and brought two casks of wine. Ulf was suspicious of Hobert and asked him to taste the wine that Hobert offered him. Hobert took a glass of wine, swallowed it all, praised the taste, and called for another. Satisfied, Ulf drank three glasses and fell asleep. It was a gentle poison, and he died peacefully an hour later. When Ulf lost consciousness, Hobert tried to vomit up the poison, but it was too late, and he also perished.
External Links[]
- Ulf White on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Ulf on the Wiki of Westeros.
