Androw Farman

Not long after the battle fought beneath the Gods Eye, in which her first husband had died, Rhaena Targaryen sought refuge with her daughters Aerea and Rhaella, fleeing the reach of her uncle, King Maegor I. She arrived at Fair Isle, where Lord Marq Farman swore that no harm would come to her under his roof.

During that stay, Rhaena grew fond both of the island's lord and of his younger son, Androw, still a boy at the time.

In early 49 AC, a year after the death of King Maegor I, Androw and Rhaena married in a hurried, intimate ceremony held outdoors on Fair Isle. He was seventeen; she was twenty-six and had already been widowed twice.

Lord Marq Farman's own septon performed the rite, with Marq presiding over it himself. Among the few guests were Lord Lyman Lannister and his wife, Lady Jocasta Tarbeck — the only great lords present — along with Samantha Stokeworth and Elissa Farman, the groom's sister.

The following year, Lord Marq Farman choked to death on a fishbone, and his eldest son, Franklyn, inherited the lordship. Four days later, the new lord ordered Rhaena to leave the island with her court, but demanded that Elissa remain behind at the castle.

Androw, furious, offered to challenge his brother to single combat; Rhaena talked him out of it, warning that he would lose and leave her widowed once more. That same night the queen flew off on Dreamfyre. The next morning, defying her order, Androw and Elissa tried to sail away as well; Franklyn came to the docks with half a dozen men to stop his sister, but the common folk helped the Farman siblings and their supporters escape toward Casterly Rock, where Lord Lyman Lannister took them in.

There, Lord Lannister's bastard son, Ser Tyler Hill, mocked Androw, and some even doubted whether his marriage had been consummated at all. After leaving Casterly Rock, the queen's party made stops at Ashemark, Castamere, Golden Tooth, Wayfarer's Rest, and Pinkmaiden Castle.

In 51 AC, Androw and Rhaena arrived at King's Landing for the wedding of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen to his sister, Princess Alysanne. After several deliberations at court, Dragonstone was granted to Rhaena, and the couple settled there.

Though born on one island and living on another, Androw could not sail, swim, or fish. He had none of the military leanings of his father and brother: he was never knighted and handled sword, axe, and spear poorly. When Dragonstone's garrison drilled in the yard each morning, he preferred to stay in bed.

Maester Culiper thought he might take an interest in the castle library, only to discover that Androw could barely read. He rode passably and now and then had a palfrey saddled to trot around the courtyard, though he never once passed through the fortress gates. The maester wrote to the Citadel that he drank heavily and spent whole days in the Chamber of the Painted Table, moving painted wooden soldiers across the map.

The garrison's men did not mock him to his face, but did so behind his back, paying him little mind; the servants obeyed him only when it suited them, unafraid of his displeasure. His stepdaughter, Princess Aerea, once even emptied a chamber pot over his head — not for anything he had done, but because she was angry at her mother.

In early 54 AC, Elissa Farman, unable to stay away from the sea any longer, fled toward Essos carrying three dragon eggs with her. Rhaena summoned Androw and demanded to know whether he had helped his sister, but he answered only with tearful denials.

When the queen dismissed Ser Merrell Bullock for failing to find those responsible, Androw asked her to give him command of the castle garrison; Rhaena laughed at him. Days later, when she flew to King's Landing to inform King Jaehaerys I of the theft, Androw offered to go with her, but she told him he would be good for nothing but falling off the dragon.

That same year Lady Alyssa Velaryon, Rhaena's mother, died. Androw announced he would travel with his wife to Storm's End to comfort her, and Rhaena rebuffed him unkindly. They quarreled bitterly before her departure, and it became plain that the marriage, never a passionate one, had become a sham. When Rhaena returned to Dragonstone, Androw no longer had any wish to console her: he grew cold and withdrawn, avoiding her company.

In late 54 AC, Androw used tears of Lys to make it look as though a sickness was killing people on Dragonstone. Maester Culiper, Cassella Staunton, Septa Maryam, Alayne Royce, and Samantha Stokeworth all died this way, along with Lianna Velaryon, who died in Rhaena's own arms.

Seeing his wife weep, Androw asked her whether she would cry like that for him if he died; Rhaena, enraged, struck him and ordered him to leave, saying she wanted to be alone. He answered: "You will be. She was the last one you had left."

On the Small Council, Master of Coin Rego Draz suspected poison once he learned of the deaths, and Rhaena sent for Androw. Soon afterward Maester Anselm, the last victim, was found dead, and Androw was discovered in the Chamber of the Painted Table holding a sword and boasting of what he had done: he said he had carried the wine himself, and had even been thanked for serving it; he asked aloud what else anyone expected of Androw the Affable, of Androw the Laughingstock, and claimed he could have been a lord, could have counseled her, could have killed her enemies, or given her children.

When Rhaena ordered his manhood cut off and fed to him, Androw refused: he tried to strike the nearest man with his sword, shouted "My wife can fly, and so can I," and threw himself from the window. Rhaena had his body torn apart and fed to her dragons.