way played ser dontos in game of thrones.
way played ser dontos in game of thrones.
who plays ser dontos in game of thrones?
way
not long after sansa's marriage, joffrey and margaery are wed and afterward a grand feast. at joffrey's wedding, joffrey is poisoned, and cersei orders both tyrion and sansa arrested. as joffrey begins to choke to death, sansa manages to flee during the chaos. once in her room, she gathers her belongings and notices that one of the amethysts from her hairnet, a gift from ser dontos, is missing. sansa immediately realizes that the prince had been poisoned and starts to doubt ser dontos' rescue plan. understanding that she will be implicated in the murder of joffrey, she chooses to flee king's landing with the knight anyway. ser dontos is later killed by petyr baelish, who reveals that he is the mastermind behind nearly all of the capital intrigue. he reveals that he was the one who sent dontos to her and that olenna took the amethyst from sansa's hairnet.
sansa stark
as the war of the five kings progresses, sansa's position in king's landing becomes increasingly perilous. on joffrey's name day celebration, sansa saves an inebriated ser dontos hollard from execution, by convincing joffrey to instead make dontos his fool. while at the celebration, tyrion offers his condolences for ned's death, in response to which sansa insists her family are all traitors, and she is loyal to joffrey. later on, when her eldest brother robb wins a battle against the lannisters, sansa is publicly beaten and humiliated in front of the court by joffrey and ser meryn (on joffrey's orders), as payment for her brother's crimes.
sansa stark