Ser Manfred Dondarrion

A marcher knight of the purple lightning, proud as his mountains ÔÇö he takes the field at Ashford, and looks straight through a hedge knight who begs him to vouch for his name.

A soul born at Blackhaven, sworn to House Dondarrion.

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

Where the page and the screen part

Ser Manfred DondarrionÔÇÖs role in the showÔÇÖs first season, where cast, reflects the same brief but pointed function the novella gives him ÔÇö a small, cutting demonstration of highborn indifference rather than a figure with an extended arc of his own.

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.