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Sandoq The Shadow

Here is another official illustration I’ve provided for "The Rise Of The Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One" by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson.

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Let this be said of Ser Amaury Peake: his dying did not disgrace the Kingsguard. Three of his men were dead upon the drawbridge and two more were twisting on the spikes below by the time Peake slid his own blade from its scabbard."He was clad in white scale armor under his white cloak," Mushroom tells us, "but his helm was openface and he had not brought a shield, and sorely did Sandoq make him answer for these lacks. "The Shadow made a dance of it, the fool says; betwixt each fresh wound he dealt Ser Amaury, he would kill one of his remaining minions before turning back to the white knight.

Yet Peake fought on with stubborn valor, and near the end, for half a heartbeat, the gods gave him his chance when the last of the guards somehow got his hand around Sandoq's sword,and ripped it from the Shadow's grasp before he went tumbling off the bridge. From his knees, Ser Amaury staggered back to his feet and charged his unarmed foe. Sandoq tore Viserys's battleaxe from the woodwhere the prince had buried it and split Ser Amaury's head and helm in half from crest to gorget.

©George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Penguin Random House / TenSpeed Press