Borros Baratheon

Lord of Storm's End, Ours-Is-the-Fury made flesh: four daughters, no letters — he has maesters for reading — and a hall where two crowns' envoys arrive on the same stormy night.

The fuller tale

Lord of Storm's End and, by his own understanding of the Baratheon words, the Fury made flesh — a blunt, forceful man with four daughters, no particular gift for letters, and a maester kept specifically for the reading he declines to trouble himself with personally.

His hall becomes, briefly, one of the war's more consequential diplomatic stages when envoys from both crowns arrive at Storm's End on the very same stormy night, each seeking his allegiance — a coincidence of timing that puts Lucerys Velaryon and Aemond Targaryen in the same room and helps spark the war's first true escalation.

The page and the screen

The show's current seasons have already dramatized Borros's role in the Storm's End confrontation between Lucerys and Aemond; his later military role and death, however, belong to chapters of the book the series has not yet adapted.

Where they stand, season by season

Their fate — if death has found them, it is written here. Open at your peril.

The books: Fell in the Battle of the Kingsroad (F&B, ch. 7)

The Lord of Storm's End finally picked his battle and lost it: the Battle of the Kingsroad broke his stormlanders against the rivermen and the Winter Wolves, and Borros died as he'd lived — furious, forward, and badly advised.

The series has not yet reached the battle in which Borros dies; his fate remains ahead of the current seasons.

Fire & Blood has him finally commit his stormlands forces to open battle at what the histories call the Battle of the Kingsroad, where his host breaks against the combined rivermen and northern forces marching south. Borros dies as he lived, by the book's own assessment — furious, forward, and badly advised by counselors who never quite managed to slow him down.