Edric Storm
King Robert's one acknowledged bastard, a well-born boy raised at Storm's End, black of hair like all his father's blood (book).
A soul of House Baratheon, born at Storm's End.
The fuller tale
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 Storm of Swords 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The show cut Edric and handed his entire plot to Gendry ÔÇö the king's blood, Melisandre's leeches, the pyre narrowly avoided, Davos's midnight rescue by rowboat. The transplant is clean but changes the flavor: book Gendry never faces the fire, and book Edric is no anonymous Flea Bottom smith but a pampered, likable little lordling whose peril plays out in castle councils rather than dungeon cells. What the show loses is the Florent knot ÔÇö Edric's existence as a standing insult to Stannis's marriage ÔÇö and the pointed spectacle of a king weighing a nephew he knows personally against a kingdom he feels owed.