Raymund Mallery

Raymund Mallery’s career turned on two broken loyalties: he first deserted the Kingsguard to support Jaehaerys Targaryen, then abandoned the Night’s Watch in an attempt to claim power for himself. The clemency that spared his life after the king’s accession brought him to the Wall, where a new rebellion ended with his death beyond it.

Kingsguard and Clemency

Raymund was one of five surviving Kingsguard knights under the former king. He and Olyver Bracken had turned against their sworn king and gone over to Jaehaerys. The new king nevertheless judged that their change of allegiance did not erase their broken vows to defend the king with their own lives. He declared that he would have no oathbreakers at court, and all five survivors were sentenced to death.

At Princess Alysanne’s urging, the sentence was made conditional: the knights could live if they exchanged their white cloaks for black and joined the Night’s Watch. Raymund accepted, along with Olyver, Jon Tollett, and Symond Crayne. Their departure for the Wall was part of the clemency extended to former opponents, but it also placed men whose earlier loyalty had already failed within another sworn brotherhood.

Rebellion at the Wall

In 50 AC, Raymund and Olyver led a rebellion among former members of the Poor Fellows and the Warrior’s Sons who had likewise received clemency from the young king. The Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch had assigned the two knights to crumbling forts, ordering them to restore the buildings. Instead, they decided to make the castles their own seats and establish themselves as lords.

The uprising was quickly overcome: for every Watchman who joined the rebels, ten remained true to their vows. After Lord Walton Stark and his bannermen joined the loyal brothers, they retook Rimegate. Olyver was captured and executed by Lord Stark; the surviving rebels at Sable Hall fled beyond the Wall, hoping to join the wildlings. The account identifies Raymund among the deserters who met the free folk there, though it does not specify his actions during the fighting at either fort.

Flight and Death

The free folk gave Raymund and the other deserters no welcome. Half a year later, Raymund’s head was delivered to Eastwatch. Asked what had happened to the rest of the men, a wildling chieftain replied that they had been eaten; the account does not give individual details of their fates.

Raymund’s brief return to rebellion reversed the terms of his earlier clemency. He had been spared execution on condition that he serve in the Night’s Watch, but the command he received at the Wall became an opportunity to pursue lordship instead. His story ends beyond the Wall, where the oathbreakers found neither a new seat of power nor refuge among the free folk.