Septon Sefton
Coldmoat's fat septon: shrewd, kindly, and generous with wine and news alike. Half the tale's history of the age arrives with his dinner conversation.
A soul born at The Reach.
The fuller tale
Their story
Coldmoat’s resident septon is, by his own evident preference, considerably more interested in a good dinner and better conversation than in the stricter duties his office might in theory demand — round, comfortable, and generous with both his wine cellar and his gossip in roughly equal measure.
That generosity turns out to be more useful to the tale than any sermon he might have given instead. Half of Sworn Sword’s context for the wider political situation — the age’s grudges, its marriages, its old rebellions — arrives at the reader’s table the same way it arrives at Dunk’s, over one of Sefton’s unhurried dinners, delivered with a gossip’s relish rather than a scholar’s dryness. He is Coldmoat’s warmest presence amid a feud otherwise defined by suspicion and old grievance.
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul — 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
The Sworn Sword 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
Septon Sefton has not been announced as part of the confirmed cast for the show’s forthcoming second season, though a character serving essentially as the novella’s exposition-through-hospitality device seems a likely inclusion once the full Sworn Sword casting is revealed.