Ser Barristan & Ser Jorah in the sewers of Meereen; 'Daenerys VI' A Storm of Swords

Ser Barristan and Ser Jorah in the sewers of Meereen during the attack on the city
Ser Barristan Selmy and Ser Jorah Mormont in the sewers of Meereen

Ser Barristan Selmy and Ser Jorah Mormont are, together with Strong Belwas, part of the group Queen Daenerys sends to infiltrate Meereen, gaining access trough the sewers system, at the time of the attack on the city.

Here we see Ser Jorah Mormont butchering the giant pale lizard which has just attacked and killed one of the men of the elite warriors attack force.

Ser Barristan Selmy stands behind him holding a torch, he’s still armed only with Arstan Whitebeard wooden staff.
The decision of having him not holding any weapon (especially a sword) was based on the fact that, a few paragraphs later in the chapter, the old night tells Dany he’s never hold a sword since he’s been dismissed from Joffrey’s King’s Guard, and that he’ll accept a sword only from his Queen’s hands!

Reference excerpt from the book: Daenerys VI; A Storm of Swords

While Joso's Cock and the other rams were battering the city gates and her archers were firing flights of flaming arrows over the walls, Dany had sent two hundred men along the river under cover of darkness to fire the hulks in the harbor.

But that was only to hide their true purpose.
As the flaming ships drew the eyes of the defenders on the walls, a few half-mad swimmers found the sewer mouths and pried loose a rusted iron grating.

Ser Jorah, Ser Barristan, Strong Belwas, and twenty brave fools slipped beneath the brown water and up the brick tunnel, a mixed force of sellswords, Unsullied, and freedmen.
Dany had told them to choose only men who had no families… and preferably no sense of smell.

They had been lucky as well as brave.

It had been a moon's turn since the last good rain, and the sewers were only thigh-high.
The oilcloth they'd wrapped around their torches kept them dry, so they had light.
A few of the freedmen were frightened of the huge rats until Strong Belwas caught one and bit it in two.

One man was killed by a great pale lizard that reared up out of the dark water to drag him off by the leg, but when next ripples were spied Ser Jorah butchered the beast with his blade.

They took some wrong turnings, but once they found the surface Strong Belwas led them to the nearest fighting pit, where they surprised a few guards and struck the chains off the slaves.

Within an hour, half the fighting slaves in Meereen had risen.


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