Vezenka

**Vezenka** is a former Astapori slave, and currently one of Aegon's concubines. She is one of the minor POV characters in The Dragon Has Three Heads. She is the seventh member of Aegon's Harem.

## Appearance and Character

*See also: Images of Vezenka*
Though Vezenka has Valyrian blood through her father, the coloring she has is fitting of a former Ghiscari slave, with dark skin, brown eyes, and brown hair. A young woman in her mid twenties, her body is lithe and strong from years at sea, her beauty marred only by her horse slave's tattoo on her right cheek.

## History

Formerly of Astapor, Vezenka is not Valyrian, and actually a Ghiscari halfbreed. But when she was four years old, she and her mother were sold to a Volantene nobleman. They were treated well, for slaves. Initially, she worked as a servant in the household, helping the other maids. When she was sixteen, she was given to one of the nobleman's ship's captain to warm his bed. She also had a prancing horse, the figurehead of the ship, tattooed on her right cheek to show her status as a slave. Once, on a voyage, they were set upon by pirates. There, she saved the captain's life by fighting off two of them. Impressed by her untrained skill, and in gratitude for saving his life, he taught her how to properly use a cutlass. When she was twenty, the nobleman's house was invaded by R'hllor zealots, claiming them to be heretics for worshiping the old gods of Valyria. After the fighting men, including the ship captain, were killed, the rest of them were captured. Later, her mother and the nobleman were sacrificed to R'hllor in a ritual. Fearing she and her friend Bantis (who she soon married) were next in line, she used her stealth skills and prowess with a blade to make their escape and stowed away on a boat. The boat brought them to Braavos, and the Braavosi merchant who the boat belonged to took pity on them being slaves and offered them both jobs as freedmen. Vezenka was made a member of the boat's crew after she proved her skill.

Vezenka and learned of, and follows, the gods of Valyria from her Volantene master who worshiped them. She enjoys being on a ship's crew and she gets a rush of excitement every battle she's in, usually against pirates. She gets bored with any non-physical work and she hates being idle. She has a severe hatred of R'hllor and his followers. After how hers turned out, she has a distaste for slavery. She loves her newfound freedom and life of not being a slave. She has expensive tastes in food and drink, and she wishes she to wear the dresses worn by the rich. She desperately wants to prove her worth and move up the ranks of the crew and the world. She knows it will be hard for her as a woman, but she believes that with her skills of political maneuvering as well as skill with a cutlass and physical intimidation she can pull it off.

She loved her husband more than anything else in the world, and it very nearly broke her when he went missing on the way to Volantis. She found solace in the arms of her liegelady, Daenerys Targaryen, though that eventually turned into nights with Daenerys *and* her husband Aegon. Now she works as a captain in the Targaryen fleet, running trade missions or ferrying diplomatic envoys for them.