The jury is out on whether it is genuine Valyrian steel. Lady Forlorn is the ancestral sword of House Corbray. Needle was specially forged at Winterfell by Mikkel, by order of Jon, who gifted it to Arya.Ĭurrent whereabouts: Hidden from the House of Black and White by Arya, to be retrieved as and when required. Stark stalwart Maege Mormont returned the sword to her brother, Commander Mormont, who passed it to Jon Snow following the wight attack.Ĭurrent whereabouts: With Jon Snow, appropriately. Originally passed to Jorah until his unfortunate choice regarding slavers, he honourably left it behind when he fled east.
Longclaw belonged to House Mormont, who owned this Valyrian blade for 500 years. He forged his own version, supposedly made of living fire but … “The sword is wrong, she has to know that … light without heat … an empty glamour … the sword is wrong, and the false light can only lead us deeper into darkness” - Maester Aemon to Samwell Tarly.Ĭurrent whereabouts: Unknown / with Brienne / with Melisandre, or with Stannis in the book. Lightbringer aka The Red Sword of Heroes, was the sword forged by Azor Ahai, the legendary hero Melisandre kept insisting was reborn as Stannis. Ice: Lord Eddard Stark’s ancestral Valyrian spell forged sword, in the family for approximately 400 years.Ĭurrent whereabouts: Passed to Ser Ilyn Payne to behead Ned, then taken by Tywin and used to forge two new swords … The Lannisters have been searching for it ever since.
Although sharing all the properties of Valyrian steel, legend has it that Dawn was forged from the heart of a fallen star.Ĭurrent whereabouts: At Starfall, awaiting a worthy knight.īrightroar was the ancient Valyrian sword belonging to House Lannister, lost when their ancestor Tommen II sailed to Valyria and never came back. Ned Stark returned Dawn to Arthur’s sister, Ashara at their home, Starfall (thus fuelling rumours that she may have been Jon’s mother). The last to wield it was Ser Arthur Dayne, killed, reluctantly, at the Tower of Joy. The family do not pass it from lord to lord - it has to be earned. Massively famous, its origins are a mystery but this ancestral sword appears to have been with the Daynes for thousands of years. If it did, and Brynden kept it with him when he left Castle Black, then Benjen, Bran and Meera may well be bringing it home.ĭawn (top picture) belongs to House Dayne, with the knight who wields it known as Sword of the Morning. Last known to have been wielded by a certain Brynden Rivers, aka Bloodraven, aka the Three Eyed Raven, it’s unknown whether the sword travelled north with him when he joined the Night’s Watch. Then the return of Benjen Stark, aka Coldhands (George, who assured us that Coldhands was definitely not Benjen in the books, looks now to have been overruled by producers Benioff and Weiss), seemingly a cohort of The Three Eyed Raven, brings with it the notion that Dark Sister, one of the two famous ancestral Valyrian steel longswords of House Targaryen (the other being Blackfyre) could be brought into play. There will surely come a time though, when Sam will wield it with honour. Safe to say, should he return to Horn Hill, Sam is likely to be grounded, at the very least. Sam was clearly thinking ahead when he made the decision this week to waltz off with Heartsbane, the ancestral Greatsword of House Tarly, held by the family for five hundred years. There are many mentioned throughout the books, but understandably, not all have made it into the series.