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Maester Luwin is the maester (which is a kind of scholar, healer, and scientist) at Winterfell. Luwin provides guidance to Ned and Catelyn after Catelyn receives a message from her sister Lysa saying that the Lannisters killed her husband, Jon Arryn. After Bran is paralyzed, Luwin often accompanies him around Winterfell. He cautions Bran against believing what he considers tall tales about the Others beyond the Wall.
Maester Luwin Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Maester Luwin or refer to Maester Luwin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: Catelyn Quotes
“Ben writes that the strength of the Night’s Watch is down below a thousand. It’s not only desertions. They are losing men on rangings as well.”
“Is it the wildlings?” [Catelyn] asked.
“Who else?” Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. “And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all.”
“Beyond the Wall?” The thought made Catelyn shudder.
Ned saw the dread on her face. “Mance Rayder is nothing for us to fear.”
“There are darker things beyond the Wall.” She glanced behind her at the heart tree, the pale bark and red eyes, watching, listening, thinking its long slow thoughts.
His smile was gentle. “You listen to too many of Old Nan’s stories. The Others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one.”
“Until this morning, no living man had ever seen a direwolf either,” Catelyn reminded him.
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Chapter 53: Bran Quotes
“To be a knight, you must stand your vigil in a sept, and be anointed with the seven oils to consecrate your vows. In the north, only a few of the great houses worship the Seven. The rest honor the old gods, and name no knights … but those lords and their sons and sworn swords are no less fierce or loyal or honorable. A man’s worth is not marked by a ser before his name. As I have told you a hundred times before.”
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Maester Luwin Character Timeline in A Game of Thrones
The timeline below shows where the character Maester Luwin appears in A Game of Thrones. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6: Catelyn
...he has no choice. A king cannot bear an affront to his pride, she says. Maester Luwin then comes to the door, even though Ned has given explicit instructions that he should...
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...her. She hates thinking about Jon Snow and the rumors she’s heard about his mother. Maester Luwin says that Jon has expressed interest to Ben in joining the Night’s Watch. Catelyn thinks...
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Chapter 14: Catelyn
Catelyn hasn’t slept for weeks and has kept an almost constant vigil at Bran’s bedside. Maester Luwin comes to her and says that they need to replenish the castle’s stores after the...
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Chapter 24: Bran
...killed Jon Arryn and tried to kill Bran). Tyrion senses Robb’s attitude but still gives Maester Luwin the sketches for a specially designed saddle that will allow Bran to ride. Tyrion says...
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Chapter 37: Bran
Bran rides with Robb, Theon, Maester Luwin , and several guards. It’s the first time Bran has been outside of Winterfell since...
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...and shoots an arrow, killing the man who holds a knife to Bran’s throat. When Maester Luwin surveys the group, he sees that two of the men wear black, meaning that they’re...
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Chapter 53: Bran
Bran stands with Maester Luwin and watches the Karstarks stream into King’s Landing. They’re the last of the Stark bannermen...
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That night, Robb prepares to depart. Bran talks to Maester Luwin and says he wants to be a knight. Luwin says that Bran is clever. He...
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Chapter 55: Catelyn
...that. Catelyn also says that she has sent Ser Rodrik back to Winterfell to assist Maester Luwin .
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Chapter 66: Bran
...a dream that his father Ned is in the crypt. The next morning, he tells Maester Luwin about that dream. Luwin says it was nothing but a dream. Ned is a prisoner...
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The group then goes to the Maester’s tower. Bran asks Maester Luwin to tell him about the children of the forest, and Luwin explains the ancient history....
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