‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Reveals Ser Raymun Marries Rowan Robinson’s “Red”: “The Green Apple Fossoways Were Founded With an Up-Jumped Squire and a Prostitute”

The A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 finale throws a enjoyable little shock at followers who’ve been watching the collection and questioning if there’s a deeper significance to “Red” (Rowan Robinson), the intelligent intercourse employee who follows Ser Duncan the Tall’s (Peter Claffey) rise at the Tourney at Ashford. Is she related to somebody in George R.R. Martin‘s books? Is there a purpose why she’s in Ser Manfred Dondarrion’s (Daniel Monk) camp? Could she even secretly be Lady Rohanne Webber, a pivotal character in the second Dunk and Egg novella, The Sworn Sword?

**Spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 6 “The Morrow,” now streaming on HBO Max**

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 6 “The Morrow” reveals that “Red” truly winds up marrying Ser Duncan’s greatest pal and staunchest ally, Ser Raymun Fossaway (Shaun Thomas). This makes her Lady Rowan Fossaway, the mom of the Green Apple Fossoway line.

Apparently, whereas Dunk was handed out, she tended to Ser Raymun’s wounds. “One thing led to another,” that they had intercourse, and then obtained married.

“Look, there’s a lot of stuff that happens off-screen because obviously we’re just solely in Dunk’s POV, but what I really love doing is making up whole backstories of what the characters would have done,” A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker instructed DECIDER, earlier than spinning the story.

“So like, Raymun Fossaway, after he is on the winning side of a Trial of Seven, the first in one hundred years — you know, he was knighted on that day! — he’s got to be feeling pretty darn fucking good with himself. But he doesn’t have anybody. He doesn’t have a squire, you know?” Parker stated.

“Red’s watching this tournament and she’s maybe fallen out a little bit with Sir Manford and she sees this cute young guy who’s just done a pretty good job out there,” Parker continued. “You know, the idea that she would go to him feels so natural and he is like Dunk. He’s so guileless and he’s so innocent.”

Parker even went as far as to recommend that Ser Raymun might not even know what intercourse is. “He’s so honest that I imagine that as quickly as they’ve intercourse as soon as and she says, ‘You know, I’m with little one now.’ He says, ‘Well, of course you’re as a result of that is simply how intercourse works. And so now we have to get married.’”

“Again, it’s all coming out of character. You know, this great long back story of what happened that night for him, it has happened in the wings. We only get a little snippet of it through Dunk, which I think is a lot of fun.”

Okay, however will Rowan go on to change into Rohanne Webber? Is that fan idea right? And what significance does the title Rowan have in the world of sport of Thrones? Here’s what you could learn about Red’s new title…

Why Does Red Change Her Name to Rowan In A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

Besides spelling out what went down off-screen between Rowan and Raymun, Ira Parker additionally defined a little bit about her title change.

“Rowan is the more formal ladylike version of Red,” he stated, implying that she modified it and her persona directly.

The title Rowan has a enjoyable, triple significance right here. Rowan actually means pink or the “little red one” in Irish Gaelic. It might merely be a nod to Red selecting a fancier model of its personal title.

Rowan is coincidentally the first title of the actress who performs Lady Rowan Fossaway. So Parker may need “borrowed” the title from actress Rowan Robinson.

Of course, there’s one other large Easter egg in the title Rowan. The Fossoways are one of many aged households in Westeros who declare to be direct descendants of Garth the Green, a type of fertility god/folks hero who was allegedly the king who led the First Men to Westeros in the first place. He additionally taught the early settlers of Westeros the secrets and techniques of agriculture. Oh, and as a result of he is a fertility god, he had tons and tons of kids, all of whom are additionally mythic characters.

House Fossoway claims to be direct descendants of Foss the Archer, who would shoot apples off the heads of women and maids he was interested in.

Another one of Garth’s kids? Rowan Gold-Tree. She was jilted by a lover who left her for a richer girl so she wrapped her gold hair round an apple, buried it in the floor, and sprung up a golden tree whose bark and fruit have been yellow.

So “Lady Rowan Fossoway” sounds very becoming for the matriarch of a new Fossoway line planning to make their fortunes with apple orchards.

“It’s also just hopeful to me,” Parker stated. “You know, that the Green Apple Fossaways were founded with an up-jumped squire and a prostitute. Nobody’s ever going to know after this.”

“Anyway, it seemed like fun and when I pitched it to George, he laughed. So it was a positive sign.”

Is Red, or Lady Rowan Fossaway, Secretly Lady Rohanne Webber?

Uh, in all probability not. First, Parker instructed DECIDER that he created the character of Red as a result of “Dunk’s journey has to be a reflection of the people he would have access to” at the starting of the present.

“Even the prostitutes are a much higher social rung above Dunk, who is barely passing for a knight, if at all, at this moment,” Parker stated. “Then…I just started liking them.”

Okay, however ought to Ser Raymun followers be involved that Rowan will kill him and use the Fossoway title to land a richer husband? Could she rebrand herself down the street as the “Red Widow,” Lady Rohanne Webber?

Well, in addition to confirming that Red/Rowan is an unique character he simply saved rooting for, Parker actually referenced the Red Widow as a new character we’ll meet in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 whereas answering a query about magic in his present.

“Look, at the moment, magic is at an all-time low. It’s not that it’s totally gone from this world. It’s just at its least powerful in these realms,” Parker stated. “Obviously you get into Season 2 and it plays a little bit more of a role because we talk about the Red Widow and whether or not she actually has blood magic.”

Parker clearly sees Rowan and Rohanne as completely different characters, even when they’re each seductive, brief, redheaded ladies in Westeros.