Hugh Hammer
A blacksmith's bastard of Driftmark with dragonseed silver under the soot ÔÇö big as the Breakbones, strong as his hammer, and owed back pay by the crown, as he mentions.
A soul born at Driftmark, sworn to The Dragonseeds.
The fuller tale
Season Two
In The Red Sowing ÔÇö A smith who asked the crown for back pay now rides the Bronze Fury. Hugh Hammer, a blacksmith's bastard, masters Vermithor, the Bronze Fury ÔÇö second only to Vhagar; Ulf the White stumbles drunk onto Silverwing.
Where they stand. King's Landing and Dragonstone.
How it ends for them
On the page. Knifed at Tumbleton before his crown arrived (F&B, ch. 7)
The blacksmith's bastard rode Vermithor, turned his cloak at Tumbleton, and began dreaming of a crown ÔÇö smiths had worn them before, he noted. Hard Hugh died with a knife in him at Second Tumbleton, his crown still at the forge.
The series has not yet reached this stage of the war; Hugh Hammer's fate remains ahead of the current seasons.
Fire & Blood has him ride Vermithor to real prominence before turning his cloak at Tumbleton, growing openly ambitious about the crown he believes his new dragon and his Targaryen blood entitle him to ÔÇö smiths have worn crowns before, he is recorded as observing. He is knifed at Second Tumbleton before that crown ever reaches him, one betrayal among several that collapse the greens' southern campaign into chaos.
Their chapters, book by book
Fire & Blood ÔÇö The Dance of the Dragons 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The show has not yet reached the dragonseed campaigns where Hugh's story unfolds; Fire & Blood covers his rise and betrayal in considerably more military and political detail than the series has had occasion to dramatize.
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.