What Makeup Does Euron Greyjoy Wear

"I don't mock the Drowned God - I am the Drowned God. From Oldtown to Qarth, when men see my sails...they pray."

―Euron Greyjoy to his blood brother, Balon ^[src]

Euron Greyjoy was the brother of Balon Greyjoy, the Lord Reaper of Pyke and later Male monarch of the Atomic number 26 Islands, and Aeron Greyjoy, a Drowned Man. He was also uncle to Balon's children, Rodrik, Maron, Yara, and Theon Greyjoy. After murdering Balon, Euron takes control of the Salt Throne with the support of many ironborn, seeking to hunt downward Yara and Theon, who oppose Euron and ally with Daenerys Targaryen.

Euron is named commander of the Lannister fleet - although he primarily uses the Atomic number 26 Armada equally his main ships - later he defeats the ironborn and Dornish allies of Daenerys in Blackwater Bay, delivering Ellaria and Tyene Sand equally a gift to Cersei Lannister, whom he intended to marry post-obit the end of the war. Euron continues to remain an marry of Cersei, ferrying the Golden Company to Westeros, killing Rhaegal, and fighting at the Battle of Rex's Landing, where his fleet is burnt by Drogon. Euron himself was subsequently killed in a duel by Cersei'due south brother and lover, Ser Jaime Lannister.

Euron was captain of the longship Silence, the flagship of the Iron Fleet, and wielded a ii-handed battleaxe in combat.^[1] His personal sigil was the standard Firm Greyjoy heraldry of a kraken on black, but the kraken has a third reddish eye inscribed onto its head and is sometimes silver instead of gold.

Biography

Background

"I notwithstanding call up seeing my father's armada burn at Lannisport. I believe your uncles were responsible?"

―Tyrion Lannister to Theon Greyjoy ^[src]

Euron Greyjoy is the younger brother of Balon Greyjoy, head of Firm Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke and Lord of the Iron Islands.^[two]

At the start of the Greyjoy Rebellion when Balon first declared himself King of the Iron Islands, Euron orchestrated the daring Raid on Lannisport which burned Tywin Lannister'south entire armada at ballast. This gave the ironborn command of the western seas and coasts of Westeros for a time.^[3]

Following the failure of the Greyjoy Rebellion, Euron went into exile, and has spent the last years as a pirate, reaving from Oldtown to Qarth and beyond, fighting Summer Islanders and the Ibbenese. He once lost his senses during a tempest while sailing on the Jade Sea, and his coiffure was forced to tie him to the mast to prevent him from jumping overboard. When he was permit downward after the tempest, he had all their tongues ripped out. Euron later glibly remarked of the incident that "I needed silence."^[four]

Season 1

Tyrion tells Theon about his memories of witnessing the Raid on Lannisport, which Tyrion says was caused past Theon's uncles.^[5]

Season vi

Euron returns to Pyke.

Euron returns to the Iron Islands following the War of the Five Kings, arriving during a violent storm. He confronts Balon on a rope span between two of Pyke's towers, equally it is buffeted past the current of air and rain. Balon says he assumed Euron would be dead by at present, rotting under some foreign body of water. Euron sarcastically replies with the traditional ironborn words, "what is dead may never die", and chides Balon when he doesn't repeat the phrase.

Euron confronts Balon during a tempest.

Balon accuses him of mocking the Drowned God, which Euron retorts by boasting that he is the Drowned God: for from Oldtown to Qarth, whenever men encounter his sails they pray. The stiff wind batters the bridge, making Balon have to agree onto the support ropes, but with eerie calmness Euron stands perfectly still with his hands together in forepart of him, unafraid. Smirking, Euron notes that his brother is erstwhile, and says it is time for him to motion aside and allow another rule.

A deluded Euron prepares to kill Balon.

Balon draws closer, and says he heard that Euron lost his mind during a tempest on the Jade Sea, and the crew had to tie him to the mast to stop him from jumping overboard. Euron smiles and matter-of-factually acknowledges, "They did." Balon goes on to mention that Euron "rewarded" his coiffure for saving him by cutting out their tongues, to which Euron replies, "I needed silence." Balon and then accuses him by request what kind of an ironborn loses his senses during a storm, to which Euron firmly says "I am the storm - the kickoff storm, and the last" - and Balon is in his way. Realizing that Euron has come to kill him, Balon attacks him with a knife, slashing his left cheek, only Euron easily overpowers his elder brother, and throws him off the span to his death.^[four]

Euron announces his claim to the Salt Throne.

Post-obit his nephew Theon'south endorsement of his niece Yara, Euron arrives at the kingsmoot, announcing his name and his conclusion to claim the Salt Throne. He begins to mock Theon for his failures and castration, which draws some laughs from the other ironborn. Euron reveals that he returned only a few days ago, leading Yara to realize that he murdered Balon. She accuses him of the murder, and he freely admits it in front of the other ironborn captains, claiming that Balon only ever led the ironborn into two wars they could not hope to win, and apologizes to the captains for not returning to kill him sooner, a sentiment which they nod and murmur at.

Euron mocks Balon's children.

Theon says that Yara should be queen considering while Euron was "gallivanting" around the known globe, she was leading the ironborn and planning to return the Iron Islands to their quondam glory, by building the largest fleet the world has ever seen. Mocking Theon's vocabulary, Euron counters that in his travels, he has seen more of the world than the residue of the captains combined, and that he knows that Daenerys Targaryen, who owns iii big dragons, hates the lords of Westeros as much as the ironborn, and has neither a hubby nor ships. He intends to sail to Slaver's Bay, bring her dorsum to Westeros as his wife, and conquer the 7 Kingdoms with their combined forces. The captains all declare for him when he announces that he paid the iron price for his crown.

Euron Greyjoy is crowned Rex of the Iron Islands.

Every bit part of crowning Euron the new Male monarch of the Atomic number 26 Islands, Aeron Greyjoy drowns Euron in the sea, reciting a prayer to the Drowned God as he does so. When Euron stops breathing, he is dragged back ashore where, after a few tense seconds, he awakens, coughing and spitting water. Aeron places a driftwood crown on his head, making him King of the Atomic number 26 Islands. He, Aeron, and the captains seek out Theon and Yara with the intention of murdering them, simply find they have fled aboard all of the Islands' best ships. Undeterred, Euron declares this volition not relieve them, and orders everyone to chop downwardly every tree they notice, to build a m ships and conquer Westeros.^[6]

Despite Euron's quip that his niece and nephew would not get far, Yara and Theon succeed in sailing across the Narrow Sea to Slaver's Bay. They land in Meereen and beat Euron to Daenerys Targaryen, warning her not to trust him, and Yara forges an alliance with Daenerys. In return for offering a hundred ships and supporting her merits to the Seven Kingdoms, Daenerys agrees to assist Yara and Theon to defeat their uncle Euron and back up Yara'southward claim to the Table salt Throne. In addition, Daenerys extracts an agreement from Yara that the ironborn will cease raiding the mainland.^[7]

Season 7

Euron proposes to Cersei Lannister.

Having failed to meet Daenerys, Euron sails the Atomic number 26 Fleet to King's Landing, answering the invitation of Cersei Lannister, the new Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei proposes an allegiance betwixt the crown and the ironborn, which Euron counters with an offer of matrimony. Cersei declines Euron's endeavour at courtship, and he departs, promising to return with a souvenir that will win her heart.^[8]

Euron kills Obara Sand.

Seeking out his promised gift for Cersei, Euron intercepts and attacks Yara'due south fleet, which had departed from Dragonstone and was sailing to Dorne, to consolidate the Dornish armies and fleet. The Silence locks onto Black Wind with a corvus, and Euron's men board and attack Yara's and Theon's.

During the ensuing battle, despite taking several wounds Euron kills Obara Sand by first disarming her, snapping her spear in half and and then impaling her with the broken pieces and her sister Nymeria Sand by strangling her with her own whip. Shortly afterward, he engages in a melee with his niece and beats her, holding her at her throat with his axe.

Euron taunts Theon equally he holds Yara captive.

He calls for his nephew, mocking him equally "little Theon" and as a "cockless coward," and implores that he come rescue her. Notwithstanding, Theon instead jumps overboard, leaping into the sea, which Euron sadistically laughs at. Euron so nails the body of Obara to the front end of the ship and hangs Nymeria's body from the bowsprit. Theon holds onto a plank in Blackwater Bay, watching on equally the Silence and the residual of Euron's fleet sail away while his sister's fleet burns and sinks to the lesser of the Blackwater.^[ix]

Euron parades his prisoners through King'southward Landing.

The Atomic number 26 Fleet returns to King'southward Landing where Euron parades his captives through the streets - to the amusement of the citizens. Euron delivers Ellaria and Tyene to Cersei, fulfilling his promise of a souvenir past handing her the people responsible for her daughter's death. Cersei is pleased and, in turn, promises to grant his request of marriage subsequently the war is won. Euron and then steps away from the Iron Throne towards Jaime, deliberately provoking him about the fact that Cersei is going to marry him. Euron is somewhen ordered to set sheet again and leads the Iron Armada west to Casterly Rock where he attacks and destroys the remainders of Daenerys' armada who are besieging the Rock.^[10]

Euron arrives at the Dragonpit summit.

Euron is present in the Dragonpit at the Parley in Rex's Landing sitting by Cersei. When Tyrion begins the discussion, Euron interrupts him and taunts both him and Theon. He warns that if Theon doesn't submit to him, he volition impale Yara, who remains his hostage. A silence falls betwixt the rest of the attendants due to Euron's outburst, and Jaime and Cersei order Euron to sit down or get out. Later on Sandor Clegane releases the wight, Euron watches Jon Snow'southward sit-in on how to destroy information technology.

Euron examines the wight at the Dragonpit.

He walks up to the wight and examines it, asking Jon if they can swim. When Jon assures him they tin can't, Euron says (truthfully or non) how information technology is the only thing that terrifies him, and that he plans to sheet home to the Iron Islands with the Fe Fleet. Before exiting the Dragonpit, he jokingly advises Daenerys Targaryen to practise the same on Dragonstone so that they are the only ones left after winter ends. Cersei later on privately reveals to Jaime that Euron is actually on his way to Essos to ferry the Gilded Company back to fight for her.^[11]

Flavor 8

Having ferried the Aureate Company to King's Landing, their commander, Harry Strickland views the city from the stern of the Silence, with Euron smiling at his calm nature and his success in fulfilling Cersei'due south wishes. Contented with himself, he visits his hostage, Yara, in his quarters. She asks Euron why he has not killed her, to which Euron sarcastically remarks upon their familial status as the concluding living Greyjoys, casually excluding Theon due to his castration. He and so states that he will bore himself if he kills Yara, who he expresses glee at venting his chatter to. She correctly assumes they accept returned to Male monarch's Landing, having ferried the Golden Company from Essos to fight for Cersei. She rebuffs an offer of drink from her uncle, before stating that he has picked the losing side. Notwithstanding, Euron arrogantly states that he will simply leave the Queen of the Andals should it come to that (but he volition lay with her starting time).

Euron pleas with Cersei to give him promise of their union.

He later introduces Strickland to Cersei, where it comes to light that Euron has killed some members of the Company en route, due to someone adulterous at dice (he at first states the Golden Visitor soldiers cheated, only then heavily implies he was the guilty party). Cersei is disappointed to hear that the Company's elephants could not be brought due to the length of the voyage. Post-obit Strickland'due south deviation, Euron asks to speak privately with Cersei, which she rebuffs and maintains their understanding to wait until she claims Westeros. Although Euron is clearly frustrated, she states that he must earn her and that she would take executed him if not for his significance, to which Euron replies that since he delivered Myrcella'southward murderers to her, and provided her with an army and a armada, he deserves some form of concession for his loyalty.

Somewhat wary and tempted by his arrogance, she permits him to lay with her. Afterward their liaison, they remark on Robert Baratheon's sexual inability, despite his fondness for whores, after which Euron asks near Jaime'south libido, much to the Queen's irritation. He and so asks if he was satisfactory, to which Cersei replies that she is fond of his arrogance and promptly dismisses him. Before Euron leaves, yet, he promises to put a prince in her womb (unaware she is already pregnant with Jaime'southward child). The liaison prevents Euron from his being aboard the Silence, where Theon rescues Yara,^[12] who reclaims the Atomic number 26 Islands while her uncle is preoccupied with maintaining the Iron Fleet in preparation for Daenerys's assault.^[thirteen]

Euron returns to Cersei with another "souvenir."

Euron launches a surprise set on on the Targaryen fleet returning from the Due north afterwards the Boxing of Winterfell. His Iron Fleet is able to kill Rhaegal and as well destroys much of the Targaryen fleet using improved scorpions. Euron likewise captures Missandei and brings her dorsum to King's Landing with Cersei, who lies to him that she is significant with his kid (whose true male parent is Jaime). He later witnesses Missandei's execution atop the walls of King'due south Landing.^[13]

Euron lays dying later his altercation with Jaime.

When King's Landing is besieged, the Iron Armada is defenseless off-guard from the set on by Daenerys, who is riding Drogon, and is decimated. Euron himself is barely able to escape alive, jumping off the Silence as it catches on fire, and reaches ashore where he finds Jaime Lannister trying to sneak into the Red Continue. He challenges Jaime to a duel and gravely wounds him, but is stabbed in the abdomen during the fight. Earlier dying of claret loss, he congratulates Jaime on killing another king and gloats that it was him who took out the Kingslayer. However, Euron's pleasure in killing Jaime is unfounded, since Jaime is subsequently crushed by debris inside the Red Keep before he tin can succumb to his wounds.^[fourteen]

Personality

Euron is a wildly unpredictable and barbarous man even among the ironborn, and is widely regarded as the virtually feared pirate alive, who has go the terror of the world's oceans from Oldtown to the Jade Sea. Even many of the other ironborn profoundly fear Euron, and consider him to be one-half-insane - not in the sense of beingness impulsive, only in that he seems about delusional, with an utterly fearless, warped personality. Different many other villains in the series, Euron is not decumbent to outbursts of anger or impulsive violence; everything he does seems to exist for some sort of calculated purpose, though others might non be able to perceive information technology - such equally calmly ripping out the tongues of his entire crew for no other reason than "I needed silence." Euron possesses an unnerving coyness to him, tranquil and detached in the face of danger and mildly playful (only never indulgent in idle whims). When walking along the rope-bridges of Pyke during a massive storm, while Balon struggled not to fall over, Euron calmly stood his ground without bothering to hold on to anything. Euron also isn't particularly arrogant, in the sense that he doesn't have a sense of entitlement - he but does what he feels like, and is self-assured in his own power and abilities.

In contrast, Joffrey Baratheon was an big-headed, niggling fool prone to random outbursts of anger, obsessed with the title of king he believed he inherited, even though he was picayune more than than a puppet backed up by his grandad Tywin. Joffrey never actually wielded a weapon, however, usually making a cowardly retreat when confronted with existent danger. Ramsay Bolton was sadistic and personally dangerous, capable of great violence and torment against people he had already captured, just he didn't have any true authority to back information technology up, and an impulsive, childish need to brutalize people for transient amusement (i.e. hunting women for sport and flaying men alive who disobeyed him, and then leaving them on public display) with no thought to the long-term repercussions. Ramsay only knew random forcefulness and was in no way skilled at diplomacy, alienating potential allies. Euron Greyjoy, meanwhile, isn't impulsive simply capable of cunning long-term strategies, and unlike both of them, is actually capable of being extremely charming when the state of affairs arises. Euron needed to win over the ironborn to elect him king willingly, playing to their admiration for strength and audacity, while making grandiose promises. In many means, Euron is the feared ruler that Joffrey and Ramsay wished they could exist: genuinely dangerous and cunning, with a well-earned reputation, the authority to back it upwards, and a souvenir for long-term manipulation.

Euron's truthful personality, notwithstanding, is in some ways difficult to pin down - he is such a master manipulator that he tailors each operation, as information technology were, to fit his current audience. When he wins over the ironborn at the Kingsmoot, he shifts to a more than low-brow register, playing to their dearest of battle and crass sex jokes. When he appears before Queen Cersei, withal, he shifts to a different act of a swaggering and dangerous just very witty and charming persona. His individual confrontation with his brother Balon may have been ane of the few times he dropped the mask and the human being underneath appeared: night and threatening, making a few biting quips, but with an unnerving sense of tranquility while making blasphemous claims well-nigh his ain ability, likening himself to a god, and to the tempest itself.

Euron is a terrifying and relentless warrior in personal gainsay if the need arises, laughing while shrugging off minor stab wounds. He is a main combatant, individually killing two of the Sand Snakes and capturing his niece; all of whom were mortiferous warriors in their own right. Euron'due south fighting style was just every bit savage and unpredictable as he was, and he used anything (fifty-fifty his opponents' weapons, every bit he did to impale the Sand Snakes) at his disposal. Euron also roared madly when he struck downwards Obara, lifting her high off the ground with the broken halves of her own spear, showing that he revelled completely in the thick of battle. He was capable of being intensely sadistic, laughing triumphantly when Theon Greyjoy fled from him afterwards Euron defeated Yara. Euron also confessed that he was hugely impressed, if non awed, by Jaime Lannister'south swordsmanship during the Greyjoy Rebellion, even though Jaime had been cut down Euron'due south ain kin and was Euron'south own enemy at the time. Despite beingness such a slap-up warrior, he was willing to admit that he was afraid when he encountered a wight for the starting time time.

Additionally, Euron is a master sailor, admiral, and a genius in naval combat. His talent in naval warfare led to much of Cersei's early advantages in her war: destroying the rival Greyjoy armada, crushing the Dornish forces and blockading the Unsullied in Casterly Stone. With his powerful navy and brilliance, Euron may well exist the greatest naval power in the world.

Euron also has no qualms with other social taboos such as kinslaying, openly killing his own brother to seize the throne and bragging about that in public, and flippantly announcing he will murder his niece and nephew. In that aspect, Euron proves to be scarier than Ramsay: Ramsay has besides killed his kin, but even he wouldn't acknowledge that in public.

Euron, like Ramsay, is pure evil, one of the vilest people in Westeros. He is utterly psychopathic, and incredibly sadistic. He has no problem slaying his ain kin, or torturing his ain men. Even so, unlike Ramsay, Euron is highly intelligent, feared by even his own men, and capable of playing the long game to get what he wants.

Appearances

Game of Thrones: Season vi appearances
The Cherry Woman	Home	Oathbreaker	Volume of the Stranger	The Door
Claret of My Blood	The Broken Man	No Ane	Battle of the Bastards	The Winds of Winter

Game of Thrones: Season 7 appearances
Dragonstone	Stormborn	The Queen'south Justice	The Spoils of War
Eastwatch	Across the Wall	The Dragon and the Wolf

Family tree

Balon Greyjoy Deceased

Alannys Greyjoy née Harlaw Deceased

Euron Greyjoy Deceased

Aeron Greyjoy

Rodrik Greyjoy Deceased

Maron Greyjoy Deceased

Yara Greyjoy

Theon Greyjoy Deceased

Gallery

Euron'southward personal sigil: the standard Greyjoy heraldry, but with a tertiary reddish eye inscribed onto the kraken'south head.

2d version of Euron'south sigil: a monstrous silver kraken on a black field, with only a single red middle inscribed onto its head.

Euron remains unperturbed, fifty-fifty in the face of extreme danger.

Euron claims the Table salt Throne at the Kingsmoot.

King Euron leads the ironborn.

Euron making his example at kingsmoot.

Euron winning the debate.

Ironborn at kingsmoot.

Euron attacking the Targaryen fleet.

Euron captures Yara

Euron taunts Jaime

Euron looking at the wight in Flavor 7

Quotes

"I killed him. Threw him right over a rope bridge. I watched him fall. He was leading us nowhere, and nosotros would still be heading there if it weren't for me. No one loved him, no one wanted to follow him. He led us into two wars we couldn't win. I apologize to you all for not killing him years ago."

―Euron admits he murdered Balon. ^[src]

Euron Greyjoy: "I've been all over the world. I've seen more of it than all of y'all combined, and across the body of water is a person who hates the corking lords of Westeros just as much as we do. Someone with a large army, and 3 large dragons, and no hubby. I'm going to build that armada, and I'm going to "gallivant" right over and requite it to Daenerys Targaryen, along with my big erect."

Yara Greyjoy: "You're going to seduce the Dragon Queen?"

Euron Greyjoy: "I'1000 not going to seduce her, the Fe Fleet will seduce her, and together, we're going to accept the Seven Kingdoms. I wasn't born to be King. I paid the Atomic number 26 Price, and here I stand."

— Euron's oral communication at the Kingsmoot.^[src]

"Where are my niece and nephew? Permit'southward go murder them."

―Euron Greyjoy. ^[src]

Aeron Greyjoy: "They stole our best ships."

Euron Greyjoy: "That won't be enough to save them. (To his men) Go back to your homes, chop down every tree you can observe, quarter-saw the timber and start building. I want every man bending planks, I want every woman spinning flax for sails. Build me a thousand ships, and I will give you this world."

— King Euron to his men.^[src]

Euron Greyjoy: "The moment I was called Lord of the Atomic number 26 Islands, they turned on me. Their own uncle! They stole my best ships and ran, sailed them right across the world and gave them to the Dragon Queen, and so she could bring her armies here to attack you. It's zippo compared to the treason you've suffered at the hands of a family fellow member, from what I hear, just still, information technology bothers me. Murdering them would brand me experience a lot better...and since it appears that all our treasonous family members are fighting for the same side, I thought we rightful monarchs could murder them together!"

Jaime Lannister: "You're not a rightful monarch though, are you? The Greyjoys rebelled against the throne for the right to be monarchs, just as I retrieve, you lot were soundly defeated. Come to call up of it, weren't yous the one who started that rebellion by sailing to Casterly Rock and burning the Lannister fleet? You certainly caught usa in that location. Very smart move on your role. Of course, we all fabricated information technology to the Iron Islands anyway. I was there."

Euron Greyjoy: "I retrieve very well. I saw you. I heard so much talk. 'The best in the earth, no one can stop him'. I didn't believe it to be honest, but I must say, when y'all rushed through the alienation and started cut people downward, it was glorious! Like a dance."

Jaime Lannister: "The people I was cutting downward were your own kin!"

Euron Greyjoy: "Identify was getting crowded. I enjoyed watching information technology, I truly did."

— Euron humors Jaime Lannister.^[src]

Euron Greyjoy: "Ever since I was a trivial boy, I wanted to grow up and marry the nigh beautiful woman in the world. So here I am, with a 1000 ships...and two skillful hands!"

Cersei Lannister: "I reject your proposal."

Euron Greyjoy: "Why?"

Cersei Lannister: "You're not trustworthy. You've broken promises to allies before and murdered them at the nearest opportunity. Y'all murdered your own blood brother."

Euron Greyjoy: "You should try information technology, it feels wonderful! I don't expect you to trust me outright. You need proof of my honest intentions. In my experience, the surest way to a adult female's heart is with a gift, a priceless gift. I won't return to Male monarch'due south Landing until I accept that for y'all."

— Euron promises Cersei Lannister a souvenir to eternalize his marriage proposal whilst mocking her brother Jaime.^[src]

Euron Greyjoy: "Mind. If y'all take any communication at all, I would love to hear it. When we take an hour or two to speak as brothers."

Jaime Lannister: "Communication?"

Euron Greyjoy: "Does she like it gentle...or rough? A finger in the bum? Sh-sh-sh-sh, non now. We'll talk later."

— Euron mockingly asks Jaime about how to pleasure Cersei.^[src]

Euron Greyjoy: "If you impale another male monarch earlier you lot die, they'll sing about y'all forever."

Jaime Lannister: "You're no rex."

Euron Greyjoy: "Oh, but I am. And I fucked the queen. If I win, I'll bring your head to Cersei so you can kiss her. One last time."

— Euron mocking Jaime Lannister earlier their fight.^[src]

"Another rex for you."

―Euron to Jaime, upon being stabbed past him ^[src]

"I'yard the man who killed Jaime Lannister."

―Euron's (slightly inaccurate) final words ^[src]

Behind the scenes

• Although in the novels Euron is the eldest of Balon Greyjoy'due south younger brothers, Pilou Asbæk is actually 36 years younger than Michael Feast, who plays Aeron Greyjoy, the youngest of Balon's brothers in the books. Asbæk is also but four years older than Alfie Allen, who plays Euron'south nephew Theon, and almost a twelvemonth younger than Gemma Whelan, who plays Euron's niece Yara (though in the story there are numerous examples of younger uncles who are but many years younger than their siblings). This is because in the novels, when Euron returns to the Iron Islands, it is said that he looks unchanged despite the years he was away, almost unnaturally - hinting that he has been using night magic to slow his aging (see below).
• In the books, Euron wears a patch over his left eye, for which he is nicknamed "Crow's Eye", though it is unclear what he hides beneath the patch. According to Theon it is a black eye "shining with malice", whereas his right eye is blue. The TV version simply omitted the eyepatch and he has both eyes. Actor Pilou Asbæk (Euron) responded to reactions most this change the calendar week after he first appeared in "Home" via his Twitter account, explaining:

"I am sorry, simply with all the killing Euron has to exercise, he needs both eyes." ^[15]

• On the Season 6 Blu-ray, Euron narrates the Histories & Lore videos "The Old Way", "The Kingsmoot" and "The Summer Body of water."
• Euron'southward speech at the Kingsmoot in Flavor 6's "The Door" is considerably more crass and filled with low-brow sense of humour than in the book version - which in the episode is shown to profoundly help win over the crowd of ironborn, existence mostly pirates with crude senses of humor. Several critics reacted negatively to this change, while others theorized that this was Euron pandering to his target audience - and the defoliation stemmed from the fact that information technology'south only his second appearance in the TV series. Actor Pilou Asbæk later directly confirmed this in pre-Flavour seven interviews, stating that "The guy yous met at the Kingsmoot is non the guy you will meet on his ship — he's different with dissimilar people to get what he wants." ^[16] Euron was merely being manipulative and matching the level of his target audience - comparatively, the speeches Tyrion used to win over people on the small council in King'due south Landing were different from the more simplistic ones he used to win over the barbaric Loma tribes of the Vale.
  • Loosely, Euron actually does take a somewhat similar deed in the novels - tailoring his manipulations to the mental level of his audience. When he is feasting his men after their victory in the Shield Islands he heaps them with praise and panders to their basic attitudes to rape-pillage-and-burn (AFFC, Chapter 29, "The Reaver"), only in individual he shows a much higher level of intellect and expresses disdain for the ironborn who he has duped into following him with false gifts and empty praise (TWOW, "The Forsaken"). Cutting out all of these setup scenes so that Euron'south jovial deed at the Kingsmoot is only the 2d fourth dimension he appears in the Idiot box serial obscured the point that this isn't really how he normally talks.

In the books

In the A Song of Water ice and Fire novels, Euron (widely known every bit "Crow's Eye") is a wildly unpredictable and cruel human being, known for his delight in playing cruel heed games and waging psychological war on those around him. He is hated by all his brothers, specially Victarion Greyjoy.

Euron is non a POV character in the novels. His deportment are witnessed and interpreted through the POV of other Greyjoys - Asha, Aeron and Victarion.

Euron is captain of the ship Silence, crewed entirely by mutes - to keep the crew from revealing any of his secrets, Euron personally ripped the tongues out of each of their mouths.

Unlike many ironborn (including Balon), Euron is a cunning strategist, skilled at both politics and military tactics. Information technology was Euron who came up with the battle plan for the surprise raid on Lannisport during the Greyjoy Rebellion, which burned Tywin Lannister's entire fleet at anchor before information technology could respond to the ironborn's declaration of independence. Victarion commanded the actual assault itself, just followed Euron's programme.

In the books, Euron is by no ways the fearsome warrior as he is portrayed in the show; his conduct in the episode "Stormborn" is greatly based on Victarion'south book graphic symbol during a naval battle which occurs in A Banquet for Crows. In fact, in the books there are no on-screen or off-screen scenes in which Euron actually fights; it seems he prefers to make plans, stay safely in the rear, allow others (similar Victarion) perform the fighting - and afterwards he takes the whole credit to himself. Euron does evidence his "bravery" against helpless people who are unable or likewise weak to resist him, amongst them his brothers Harlon, Robin, Aeron and Urrigon; against those who may put upwardly a fight (Balon) - he'd send others to do the dirty work. In this aspect, Euron resembles Joffrey and Viserys; both Joffrey and Viserys, however, were just spineless megalomaniac fools who did not have even a scrap of Euron's intelligence and cunning.

Euron has never been married. He has several bastard children merely does not have any regard for any of them, none were officially acknowledged, and none have been introduced as named characters in the narrative. It is mentioned in passing that he brought three bounder sons to present to the Kingsmoot: but one is briefly described, a x year old male child with woolly hair and mud-chocolate-brown skin, apparently fathered on a woman from Sothoryos or the Summer Islands. Euron bluntly says that he gives as much thought to the bastards he has produced as to the contents he produces in his chamber pot.

Euron's kraken-shaped battleaxe.

In the past, whenever Euron drank too much, he would enter the bed chamber which his brothers Aeron and Urrigon shared, and sexually molest one of them, at his pick. As a consequence, Aeron suffers from occasional nightmares, even after many years passed, about a door with screeching rusty hinges, which he associates with Euron.

About three years before the Ruddy Wedding ceremony (almost i year earlier the first novel), Euron raped and impregnated Victarion's third wife, which drove Victarion to crush her to death in an honor killing, and then he would non be put to shame every bit a cuckold. Euron flippantly claimed that it was not rape and he in fact seduced Victarion's wife willingly, but due to Euron'due south pervasive lying and mind games he may have but said this to mock his brother. Victarion would accept killed Euron likewise, only Balon forbade it, though only because he would not have the taboo of kinslaying in his ain halls. Balon still sympathized with Victarion and renounced Euron as his brother. As punishment, Balon exiled Euron from the Iron Islands, never to return, so he is not present when Theon returns to Pyke in the 2nd novel. Victarion even so deeply hates Euron and wishes him dead.

Euron's deportment also made him very unpopular with the Drowned Men priests, who deride him as an "ungodly" man. In that location aren't many things that the Drowned God religion won't stand for - given that information technology considers raiding and pillaging to exist holy acts - just raping your ain brother'due south wife is one of them (even if merely a common salt married woman). Euron is also very flippant about the Drowned God and ironborn traditions in general, further earning him the ire of the priests.

"From Oldtown to Qarth, when men see my sails, they pray."

After being banished from the Fe Islands, Euron sailed his ship far to the east, raiding and plundering every bit an infamous pirate, and became the terror of the globe's oceans. He claims to have sailed to the far corners of the known world where other men fear to venture:

• Since he had already destroyed Tywin Lannister's fleet in the northwest of the Sunset Sea, Euron sailed to distant Asshai on the Jade Ocean and plundered that strange city's shadowbinders, and he paid the iron price to seize a fortune'southward worth of spices from the harbors of Yi Ti.
• He too raided around Qarth, and while many men dread the Warlocks of that city, Euron attacked and captured several of them, and tortured them into educational activity him the means of black magic. He captured four warlocks at outset, but when one dared to threaten Euron, he killed him and fed his flesh to the other iii, starving them until they were desperate enough to consume it (after that they were more pliable to his commands). From this encounter, Euron picked up the habit of drinking shade of the evening, and as with the warlocks the potion has stained his lips blue.
• Euron braved the dangers of the Smoking Sea, which even other pirates fear, and he even dared walk the allegedly demon-haunted ruins of Old Valyria, searching for lost treasures.
• He reaved around the Summer Islands, taking their comeliest women as his concubines, and in the Narrow Bounding main, he raided ships of all the Complimentary Cities (Braavos, Pentos, and Volantis alike).
• In the Shivering Sea, he sailed to the frozen isle of Ib, north of Essos, where he wrestled the hairy whaling-folk to steal their booty.

Euron is the eldest of Balon's three younger brothers - withal it is noted inside the narrative that when he returns to the Iron Islands he appears almost unnaturally young. Victarion is Euron's younger brother, just while Victarion is one-time enough that his hair is flecked with grey, Euron'south is nevertheless every bit black as dark. Victarion's first thoughts upon seeing Euron again are: "He looks unchanged. He looks the same as he did the day he laughed at me and left." Victarion has been cut from the TV series, but the HBO Viewer's Guide family tree still lists Euron as older than Aeron Greyjoy - despite the fact that TV-Aeron is presented as an older priest with greying hair. Thus it might be a plot point even in the TV show that Euron's appearance hasn't changed - possibly due to the dark arts he learned in his voyages.

In A Banquet for Crows, Euron makes a surprise render to the Iron Islands - the very next solar day after his older brother Balon's mysterious decease. Information technology'due south non articulate whether Euron actually killed Balon in the books - the timing is certainly suspicious, but subsequently at the kingsmoot Euron never confesses like he does in the show, leaving open the possibility of another assassinator.

Every bit his inflow appears to coincide with Balon's fall from the bridge, Asha (named Yara in the TV serial) points out it is rather suspicious, implicitly accuses him of murdering her father, but it cannot be proven. Euron is so brazen that he doesn't really intendance how suspicious it appeared to render immediately after his brother's decease and so claim his throne, and dismisses Asha'southward accusations nonchalantly. It is unclear whether other ironborn doubtable Euron too: nearly everyone at the Fe Islands and Westeros in general, including Aeron and Victarion, simply accept Balon'southward death equally a fact, and the cause of death does not matter to them.

In the novels it is heavily implied, and eventually confirmed in "The Forsaken" sample chapter, that Euron hired one of the Faceless Men to throw Balon off a rope bridge at Pyke - the TV series has Euron do it personally, allowing for a face up to face confrontation between them.

Asha, who suspects Euron killed her father but cannot prove that, claims that Euron is non afraid to be seen every bit a kinslayer; if someone says that he is, he'd murder 1 of his ain sons just to show he is non. Little does Asha know how much she is right, for Euron is a serial kinslayer (as revealed in "The Forsaken" sample affiliate of the 6th novel): he is responsible not only for Balon'south decease, but likewise to the deaths of two of his other brothers - Robin the lackwit and Harlon who suffered of Greyscale - both of them he killed past his ain hands. As for Balon, he admits "I could not do the deed myself, just information technology was my hand that pushed him off the bridge." Dissimilar in the show, he does not acknowledge that in public.

While the Kingsmoot in A Feast for Crows too ends in Euron's victory, it occurs under considerably different circumstances. In A Storm of Swords, Euron sails into Pyke and claims the Seastone Chair one solar day after Balon's death. Lord Sawane Botley objects, claiming that Theon is the legal heir, and Euron drowns him. Aeron contests Euron'due south claim to the throne past calling a Kingsmoot. Instead of a two-equus caballus race between him and Yara, Euron has to contend with several other candidates including his estranged younger brother Victarion; who is older than Aeron. Like the Boob tube series, Euron is the last to present his candidacy and manages to woo the Ironborn past having one of his men, Cragorn, accident the Dragonbinder. In the novel, his Kingsmoot speech does not mention Daenerys but instead refers to her dragons.

Like the TV series, Aeron does not crown Euron with the driftwood crown, but in the books he later goes into hiding, planning to plough the smallfolk confronting Euron. His other brother Victarion pledges his allegiance to Euron and becomes his second-in-control.

Following the kingsmoot, Euron does non seek to kill Asha and Theon: Theon is yet a prisoner at the Dreadfort, while Asha manages to apace sideslip away. Euron nonetheless neutralizes her past marrying her in absentia to the ironborn Erik Ironmaker - a politically wise action, as Asha is forced to acknowledge. But one ironborn lord outright refuses to accept Euron equally king - Baelor Blacktyde, whose statement "Balon was mad, Aeron is madder, and Euron is maddest of them all" becomes a common proverb among the ironborn. In response, Euron kills Lord Blacktyde, by cutting him into seven pieces, as a mockery of his conversion to the Faith of the Seven.

Upon his crowning, Euron is formally styled as "Male monarch Euron III Greyjoy", every bit there were two rex in prior generations also named Euron - much every bit his blood brother Balon was formally styled as "Balon 9 Greyjoy" (in the show, nonetheless, Euron is never referred to as "the Third of His Name"). He also styles himself "King of the Isles and the Due north" - the same pretentious championship Balon styled himself, although at that point the ironborn hold but one stronghold in the entire N (Torrhen's Square), and Euron has no interest in conquering the North.

Later on being crowned, Euron's first military campaign is to raid the Achieve. Led past Victarion, the ironborn conquer the Shield Islands. Much to Victarion's anger, Euron not only takes all the credit to himself, only also takes advantage of the victory to weaken potential rivals (amid them Victarion) by giving lands and titles to central followers of theirs. Euron knows that eventually the Tyrells will retake the Shield Islands back, but does not care, nor is he worried that he will blamed for that: he is certain that the ironborn will merely remember his victory taking the islands and his generosity of giving them to the new-appointed ironborn lords, but will blame their loss on the Houses that try to concur them. Equally he explains later, he no longer needs those islands, considering their capture has fulfilled its purpose in his plan.

Just 1 ironborn sees through Euron's cunning - Rodrik "the Reader" Harlaw. He warns Victarion and other ironborn that they accept gained very trivial except the Tyrells' enmity, and soon they will retake the Shield Islands, simply Victarion (and almost everyone else) do not heed to him.

Soon later on the above raiding, Euron gathers the ironborn captains and lords, and announces that the next day they will sail eastward, to bring the dragons; they volition obtain enough money to buy provisions by selling slaves in Lys and Volantis. Rodrik "the Reader" Harlaw objects: he states that autumn is near; the mode is strewn with dangers and enemies; they will find it difficult to restock provisions; at all-time, tertiary of the ships will achieve the far side of the narrow sea; and that ironborn are not slavers. Euron tries to dismiss those objections lightly, but the Reader's defiance encourages the other present ironborn, and they enhance a series of objections against Euron's plan - mainly that the Achieve is closer and richer. Rather than answer the captains, Euron leaves the room. Victarion muses gloatingly that Euron is a coward, and his new position is not equally secure equally he thinks.

In a private conversation with Victarion, Euron complains that the ironborn have such low ambitions: he would bring them dragons, and they shout out for grapes. Notwithstanding he admits that the Reader's objections are correct. Therefore, he changes his plans: he dispatches the Iron fleet, led by Victarion, to travel to Essos and bring back his bride Daenerys, and in the meantime he volition continue his military machine campaign against the Attain. Victarion, who still resents Euron, pretends to obey him, but secretly resolves to take Daenerys for himself, to spite Euron. Euron gives Victarion the horn Dragonbinder, claiming information technology would bind dragons to his will. Victarion regards the horn suspiciously, reminding himself "Euron's gifts are poisoned."

Information technology seems strange that Euron - who is surely aware how much Victarion hates him - would give him then much liberty of action. At that place are, nevertheless, subtle hints that Victarion is somehow being manipulated past Euron, in a manner he cannot imagine: the Red Priest Moqorro warns Victarion that "you come up striding through the flames stern and fierce, your dandy axe dripping blood, bullheaded to the tentacles that grasp you at wrist and cervix and ankle, the blackness strings that make you dance." In that location is a fan speculation that Euron has some control over Victarion via either of the two people he has given him every bit servants - a maester named Kerwin and a mute dusky woman.

Some time afterward Victarion sails eastward to the Slaver's Bay, Euron also leaves the Iron Islands, sailing south. He assigns Erik Ironmaker, Asha'south married man, to rule in his absence, as the Lord Steward of the Fe Islands and castellan of the Pyke.

By the point the books reached, Euron's campaign against the Reach is performed successfully, by taking advantage of two of import facts: first, most of the Redwyne Fleet is abroad, besieging Dragonstone, thus the Attain is poorly dedicated; 2d, the conquer of Shield Islands has opened the Mander to the raiding ships. Euron sends his ships to raid upwardly the Arbor, the Whispering Sound and the Redwyne Straits; they even threaten Oldtown. Cersei assists Euron inadvertently, by refusing to ship the Redwyne armada dorsum as long as Dragonstone has non been conquered (information technology is just an excuse - she secretly gloats over the Tyrells' distress, failing as usual to consider the applications of her decision); every bit a result, the ironborn have enough fourth dimension to plow the Arbor and its neighboring islands into bases for raiding.

Presently subsequently Dragonstone falls, the Redwyne fleet sails back to the Arbor. In addition, Lord Leyton Hightower sends Oldtown's fleet south of out of Whispering Sound under the command of his sons to assault the ironborn armada in the rear, hoping this will force them to divide their forces between ii fronts. Euron and his subordinates are aware of the approach of both fleets, but they seem unconcerned. It is implied Euron intends to apply sorcery in the imminent battle, which presumably will take place in the upcoming sixth novel.

Euron claims that he had a dragon'due south egg. He tells Victarion that a Myrish wizard swore he could hatch information technology if Euron gave him a twelvemonth and all the golden that he required; when Euron grew bored with his excuses, he slew the wizard, and threw the egg in the ocean during one of his dark moods. It is unknown if the story is true, just the last part is unlikely, since dragon's eggs are priceless - hatched or non. There is a theory he used the egg (if he indeed had ane) as a payment to the Faceless Men for Balon's murder.

The Volantene Red Priest Benerro claims that "Daenerys stands in peril. The nighttime eye has fallen upon her, and the minions of night are plotting her destruction". The Red Priest Moqorro tells virtually a vision of "a tall and twisted thing with one black eye and ten long arms, sailing on a sea of blood" who seeks Daenerys more than anyone else. This mysterious figure is widely speculated to be Euron, since in the books he has one eye and krakens (depicted in the Greyjoy sigil) have ten arms - although he has not personally embarked on a quest to seek Daenerys, but instead sent his brother Victarion to the Slaver's Bay for that purpose.

"Euron" is pronounced "Your-on."^[17]

In a preview chapter from the Winds of Winter novel entitled "The Forsaken", information technology is revealed that Euron had his mutes seize his brother Aeron. Euron has Aeron imprisoned in the depths of the Silence and forces him to consume Shade of the evening, causing the latter to have multiple visions. Euron takes Aeron down with him during his invasion of the Shield Islands. Following the capture of Oakenshield, Euron has his new salt married woman Falia Flowers feed Aeron. Due to Euron's role in humiliating her estranged family and showering her with silk and jewels, Falia is enamored with Euron. She is also pregnant with Euron's child and believes that he will favor her and her children over his other salt wives and natural-born children. Knowing Euron, Aeron advises her to flee but she is not convinced.

Euron also captures several holy men of other religions, like the Organized religion of the Seven and Red Priests, and has them tortured with their tongues or other trunk parts ripped out (one of them is perhaps Pyat Pree). When Euron visits his younger blood brother, he mocks the Drowned Priest's religion in the Drowned God and proudly admits to killing his brothers Harlon, Robin, and Balon Greyjoy, although he notes he could not kill Balon personally. Euron mocks the Drowned God because he has not been punished for his crimes. Aeron dares Euron to kill him, merely Euron refuses, proverb enigmatically that he needs Aeron live at present.^[18] Later on, Euron prepares for battle with the Redwyne fleet in the Arbor and shows his new iron crown and a arrange of armor made from Valyrian steel to Aeron; this convinces Aeron that he has indeed been to Valyria. Euron then orders his coiffure to tie Aeron and his salt wife Falia to the prow of the Silence prior to the battle with the Redwyne fleet. Falia is shown to be naked and Aeron realizes that Euron has ripped out her natural language.

Euron'southward all-seeing eye.

One of the visions Aeron sees later he is forced to drink shade of the evening, is of Euron sitting on the Fe Throne, looking more squid than a human; beside him stands a shadow in adult female'due south form, long and tall and terrible, her hands alive with stake white fire (mayhap a reference to Cersei using wildfire, every bit seen on the show). Perhaps it is a foreshadowing that Euron volition ally with Cersei in gild to win the Iron Throne.

After existence crowned king, Euron reveals his new personal sigil: a red eye (with a blackness pupil), which is surmounted by a blackness crown existence held aloft by two black crows - wordplay on his nickname, "Crow's Eye." Season 7 of the TV series indeed introduces a personal sigil for Euron, but because he isn't missing an eye in the Telly version and is never called Crow's Eye, the crow element was removed, and just combined with the regular Greyjoy heraldry: equally a result, Euron's personal sigil in the Tv version is a kraken on a black field, with a third red middle inscribed onto the head of the kraken.

Euron's battleaxe, which is wrought in the shape of a gilded kraken, is a reference to his blood brother Victarion from the novels, who wields a similar weapon.

Euron is an atheist, openly stating that "all gods are lies" and mocking the Drowned God in "The Forsaken" sample chapter of The Winds of Winter. Perhaps he came to this belief when reflecting upon the fact that no divine justice had come up to him after killing 3 of his brothers, an act considered the worst crime of all in the optics of god. Nevertheless, he believes in magic and the occult, and seems to have the goal of making himself a god through bloodmagic.

See also

References

1. ↑ "The Summer Body of water"
2. ↑ http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/#!/guide/houses/greyjoy/
3. ↑ "The Kingsroad"
4. ↑ ^{4.0 four.i} "Abode"
5. ↑ "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"
6. ↑ "The Door"
7. ↑ "Battle of the Bastards"
8. ↑ "Dragonstone"
9. ↑ "Stormborn"
10. ↑ "The Queen's Justice"
11. ↑ "The Dragon and the Wolf"
12. ↑ "Winterfell"
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.i} "The Last of the Starks"
14. ↑ "The Bells"
15. ↑ Pilou Asbæk'southward Twitter
16. ↑ [1]
17. ↑ [2]
18. ↑ There are several similarities between that book scene and the evidence scene in which Theon is tortured by Ramsay: the tortured person is an ironborn; he is held prisoner in a hugger-mugger place, his fate is unknown to the other ironborn; he is tortured both physically and emotionally by a psychopath sadist; the tormentor refuses to kill his victim, proverb he has some utilize for him. The main departure is that Theon before long breaks downwardly and begs Ramsay to kill him, while Aeron holds on, tells Euron to kill him defiantly, adamant in his religion.

v• d •e House Greyjoy
Lord:	Lady Yara Greyjoy	Heir:	None
Seat:	Pyke, Pyke island	Lands:	The Iron Islands
Titles:	Queen of the Iron Islands · Lady Reaper of Pyke · Queen of Salt and Rock · Daughter of the Sea Air current · Lord of the Iron Islands
Ancestors:	The Gray King · Vickon Greyjoy · Dalton Greyjoy
Electric current members:	Aeron Greyjoy
Deceased members:	Quellon Greyjoy · Balon Greyjoy · Rodrik Greyjoy · Maron Greyjoy · Alannys Greyjoy · Theon Greyjoy · Euron Greyjoy
Household:	{Dagmer} · {Black Lorren} · {Drennan} · {Gelmarr} · {Stygg} · {Aggar} · {Wex} · {Urzen} · Harrag
Overlord:	King Bran I the Cleaved

v• d •e Kings of the independent 7 Kingdoms
Kings in the N:	Bran the Architect · Brandon the Breaker · Jon · Rickard, the Laughing Wolf · Dorren · Rodrik · Theon, the Hungry Wolf · Torrhen, the King Who Knelt · Robb, the Young Wolf · Jon, the White Wolf
Kings of the Rock:	Gerold the Great · Tommen II · Loren I, the Last
Kings of the Atomic number 26 Islands:	Grayness Male monarch · Qhored I, the Cruel · Qhorwyn the Cunning · Harwyn Hardhand · Harren the Black · Balon, Invader of the North · Euron
Kings of the Reach:	Garth Greenhand · Mern IX
Kings of the Mount and the Vale:	Artys I, the Falcon Knight · Ronnel
Storm Kings:	Durran Godsgrief · Argilac the Arrogant · Argella
Princes of Dorne:	Mors · Nymeria · Daughter of Mors · Meria, the Yellow Toad · Nymor · Maron
River Kings:	Bernarr II Justman

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