Alys Rivers

Alys Rivers is a healer who resides at Harrenhal during the Dance of the Dragons.
==Behind the scenes==
Alys was codenamed "AR" in casting calls.https://redanianintelligence.com/2023/02/14/watch-1899-star-audition-for-a-major-role-in-house-of-the-dragon-season-2/ On April 24, 2023, HBO announced that Gayle Rankin had been cast in the role for House of the Dragon: Season 2. Her character description reads as follows:
:"A healer and resident of Harrenhal."
==In the books==
In Fire & Blood, Alys Rivers was a wet nurse at Harrenhal during the Dance of the Dragons. She was allegedly a bastard of House Strong, the rulers of Harrenhal at this time, though her exact relationship to them is disputed between rival historians. The ribald and fantastical account of the court jester Mushroom maintains that she was a witch wielding magical powers; Septon Eustace claims she was a simple-minded woods witch; the more professional accounts by Grand Maester Munkun dismiss these, contending that she was simply a healer at Harrenhal with a decent knowledge of medicinal potions. 
Munkun and Eustace both believed that Alys was probably a bastard daughter of Lyonel Strong, but Mushroom claims that she was in fact a wet nurse to Lyonel himself when he was an infant, making her old enough to be the grandmother of Lyonel's adult sons at the time of the war. Mushroom believed that Alys practiced dark magic to maintain the appearance of youth, such as bathing in the blood of virgins. Munkun and Eustace similarly dismiss these claims, only to then grudgingly admit that while Alys had to be at least forty years old by the time of the war, all eye-witness accounts agree that she looked unnaturally young for her age.
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Category:Bastards
Category:Individuals appearing in House of the Dragon
Category:Rivermen
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