Davos Seaworth
The Onion Knight: a former smuggler raised to knighthood for feeding a starving Storm's End, now the most honest man in Stannis Baratheon's service ÔÇö and the least comfortable at court. He shortened his own fingers to pay for his crimes.
A soul born at Flea Bottom, King's Landing, sworn to House Seaworth.
The fuller tale
Season Two
Davos recruits the pirate Salladhor Saan to Stannis's cause. In Garden of Bones ÔÇö Rows a shadow ashore and loses a piece of his soul doing it. Renly and Stannis parley and part as enemies; Davos rows Melisandre into a cave beneath Storm's End. The shadow she births there has a face Davos knows.
In Blackwater ÔÇö The bay took his ship and his boy in one green breath. The bay burns green; Davos's ship shatters; his son is in the fire.
Where they stand. Dragonstone and King's Landing.
Season Three
In Valar Dohaeris ÔÇö Survives the bay to find his king in a red woman's shadow.
Where they stand. Dragonstone.
Season Four
In The Laws of Gods and Men ÔÇö Four missing fingertips make his best argument. Stannis and Davos ask the Iron Bank for gold; the ledger votes Stannis.
Where they stand. Braavos, Dragonstone and Castle Black.
Season Six
In The Red Woman ÔÇö Holds a dead man's room against living traitors. Davos and the loyal few bar a door with Jon's body behind it; Ghost keeps watch. Jon, Sansa and Davos recruit the North: Mormont's ten-year-old Lady Lyanna pledges her sixty-two.
Where they stand. Bear Island and Winterfell.
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
A Clash of Kings 3 chapters of their own
A Storm of Swords 6 chapters of their own
A Dance with Dragons 4 chapters of their own
Where the page and the screen part
Book Davos is a point-of-view character and the books' quiet moral instrument ÔÇö his chapters carry Dragonstone's politics, the burning of the godly, and the case against Melisandre from inside. His family is bigger (seven sons; the show keeps one), his letters come from Maester Pylos rather than Shireen (the show's swap is one of its best inventions), and his later road diverges entirely: White Harbor's fake execution ÔÇö his 'head' on a spike belongs to a criminal ÔÇö and the secret mission to Skagos for Rickon Stark are still in motion in the books, while the show quietly handed the Rickon thread to other characters and kept Davos at the Wall. His survival past Stannis's fall is show-only so far; in the books his king still lives and Davos still serves him, at a distance of half a kingdom.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.