Weeping Water

el Agua de las Lágrimas

The Weeping Water is a river in the North that flows into the Shivering Sea, with the Dreadfort standing on its bank.

Its name is tied to a very old alliance between the Starks and the Boltons, sealed in a battle against Andal invaders, though the river also carries much darker chapters in the history of the house that lives beside it.

Chapter 1

The battle that named the water

Books only

Long before the Boltons were known for cruelty, they already stood as allies to the Kings of Winter. Theon Stark joined his house with the Dreadfort's to block Argos Sevenstars and the Andals advancing through the North, and the fight was settled in the waters of this river, which has carried his name in both houses' memory ever since.

Chapter 2

The crime on the riverbank

Books only

Much later, while hunting along that same water, Lord Roose Bolton forced himself on a miller's wife. Out of that violence would come, in time, the boy who became known as Ramsay Snow.

Chapter 3

Ramsay's hunt

Books only

In this chapterTheon Greyjoy

During the War of the Five Kings, Theon Greyjoy flees the Dreadfort with Kyra and reaches the Weeping Water, slipping over half-frozen stones. The escape, though, was no escape at all: Ramsay Bolton had staged it as a hunting game, with Theon and Kyra as the prey.

Gallery

  • Weeping Water — image 1
    Weeping Water, image 1505 Bolton map 2.jpg · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA
  • Weeping Water — image 2
    Weeping Water, image 2Weeping-Water.jpg · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA

What we are not sure about

  1. PositionWe worked it out

    The position was inferred from the label on the base map rather than from a symbol of its own: it marks the area, not the point.

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Río de las Lágrimas · 2026-07-30

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Where each datum comes from
Position
point on the watercourse nearest the label
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
77
What was read
Weeping Water
Features averaged into the centroid
4
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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