Bloodbeard
Bloodbeard, the captain of the Company of the Cat, is a figure of pure, undisguised savagery in the Yunkish siege camp outside Meereen. A roaring giant with a great bush of beard and a prodigious appetite for wine and women, he bellowed, belched, and farted like a thunderclap, and pinched every serving girl who came within his reach. From time to time he would pull one down into his lap to squeeze her breasts and fondle her between the legs. His presence at the peace feast in the Great Pyramid of Meereen was a constant provocation, a reminder that the fragile truce rested on the whim of men who had no taste for peace.
Role in the Siege and the Peace
Bloodbeard commanded the Company of the Cat, one of four free companies serving Yunkai. He was a vocal opponent of the peace brokered between King Hizdahr zo Loraq and the Yunkish lords. When the Yunkish envoy presented the severed head of Admiral Groleo in the Meereenese court, Bloodbeard was the one who flung it at the seneschal, Reznak mo Reznak, laughing as it rolled to the foot of the king's throne. He declared that the dragons must be destroyed and that no true peace was possible while they lived, dismissing the queen as "burned and devoured." His actions were calculated to shatter the truce and provoke open war, which he craved for the plunder it would bring.
Character and Reputation
Bloodbeard was renowned for his cruelty and lack of honor. Ser Barristan Selmy, recalling the War of the Ninepenny Kings, warned Daenerys that Bloodbeard was cut from the same savage cloth as the Band of Nine, a man with no honor, only hunger for gold, glory, and blood. The Tattered Prince, commander of the Windblown, also despised him, and the two captains were known to be at odds. Bloodbeard's own men, the Company of the Cat, were as brutal as their leader, and his presence in any camp was a guarantee of violence and disorder. He represented the worst of the sellsword ethos: a man who fought not for a cause, but for the sheer joy of slaughter and the spoils it brought.
