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We are first introduced to Ser Davos of House Seaworth as a member of Stannis’s council. He actively participates in Stannis’s campaign for the leadership of Westeros. Though he is a greenhorn to the rules of power and whatnot, plus there’s the fact that he is unlearned, which he doesn’t try to hide or feel ashamed about; he always puts in his best effort in whatever he is charged to do.

In this video, we will be delving into his actions within his occupation as Hand to Stannis, the rightful king of Westeros.

There are two basic decisions a Hand of the king must take in the process of carrying out his/her function. He has to conclude if his conscience or sentiment will be an influence in his job execution and he has to establish what trumps over the other, service to the realm or service to the king.

Naturally, as gratitude for Stannis’s generosity, Ser Davos dedicates himself to serving him. He was elevated to the position of Hand, on the TV show as they sail for Kings Landing, in hopes of taking the city. But that plan completely foiled when Tywin and his Tyrell allies joined the battle against them.

After he is rescued by Salladhor Saan by happenstance, he blames their misfortune at the battle on Melissandre. He plans to ‘CARVE HER HEART OUT’ as he puts it. PLAYS CLIPS

When he is before Stannis, and Mel mentions his dead son, he pulled out his dagger in a fit of rage and tried to stab Melisandre. He is easily restrained. From there, he sent to the dungeons.

During his imprisonment, he is visited frequently by Princess Shireen, who teaches him how to read. He goes through a book the princess gave him, a book titled, “A History of Aegon the Conqueror and His Conquest of Westeros.”

Let’s pause for a moment and think about that. The first book he reads is about Aegon.

Do you think that’s noteworthy?

It could be, especially now that he is currently serving Jon, whose name happens to be Aegon as well. Jon is without a doubt a reincarnation of the renowned conqueror from the days of yore.

I think a bit of information he read may come into play in the final season. It’ll be a nice callback, don’t you think?

Moving on, when Melisandre returned to Dragonstone with Gendry, Stannis visits Davos and decides to free him, but not without rationalizing his choice with him to let Mel kill Gendry.

Stannis in that moment knew that Davos will try to defend his morality and remind him that he is a good man. But, his destiny that Mel says he must fulfil makes taking decisions rather easy.

A man with his sense of duty wants to do what is best for the kingdoms, regardless of the costs. Parts of Stannis’s ideology seems to be in alignment with the ethical theory, consequentialism.

Just as Davos is released, he resumed his duty as Hand. While going through Stannis’s raven messages, the one from Castle Black piques his interest.

And, as if on cue, the the news of Robb Stark’s death reaches them. Stannis seems to believe Mel’s magic, with Gendry’s blood made this happen. So, he presses his wish to end the boy’s life.

Knowing he won’t be able to convinced him, Davos frees Gendry and prepares himself for the consequences of doing so.

After his actions was noticed and after a little back and forth, Stannis eventually chooses not to sentence him to death; and that’s because Mel confirmed that the true war lies to the north.

Something stuck out as interesting to me. Why was Davos stressing the contents of Maester Aemon’s letter as sacrosanct?

I have a few theories:

• Maybe he was trying to steer Stannis’s attention away from Gendry

OR

• Perhaps he was to try to get him to leave the castle so that he would actually do something noticeable like, helping the Nights Watch guard the realms of men. It could potentially earn him more followers and allies.

I DON’T KNOW! It’s just me trying to get inside Davos’s head.

If I may, I feel like Davos was putting Stannis in a risky situation without his realizing it. I say this because, Stannis is a southern battle commander, and his army is southern. He probably didn’t have much experience with battling, in that weather condition, which we eventually come to see that contributed to his defeat.

Moving on, as Stannis grew more aggressive with his religious practices of burning men alive, Davos finds rallying people to his side a tidbit herculean. Davos continued to antagonize The Lady Melissandre for her cruelty towards the people she perceived to be infidels, which added to alienating Stannis from the people who could actually aid him with their resources in the war.

When they learn of Joffrey’s death, Stannis further pressures Davos to find him an army so he could press forward his claim. He suggests they hire sell swords, but they have no gold to pay them

Then Davos gets an idea to write to the Iron Bank of Bravoos. Their request for gold is approved, then they boost their armies, ships and whatever resources that was PLAYS A CLIPS WHERE STANNIS SAYS FEWER

They easily subdue the wildings. Stannis demands that Mance kneels or he burns. Mance chooses the latter, and Jon Snow’s arrow of mercy ends his pain.

Stannis admired Jon’s bravery and saw his potential for leadership, so he then offers him the Stark name and the titles that goes with it.

Jon respectfully declines his offer after he becomes Lord Commander. Davos gives him a food for thought using the night’s watch vow as a premise, so that he would reconsider his decision, and so that the north might be united to fight against the death that matches on the wall.

Jon still doesn’t bulge.

Stannis, out of the kindness of his heart gives Jon all his ships so he may bring all the wildings south of the wall. Stannis of course, had it at the back of his mind that they may never fight for him and that they may at some point be a nuisance. Regardless, he allows it, trusting that Jon knows what he is doing.

En route to Winterfell, the weather traps them and their food supplies are burnt by twenty good men PLAYS A CLIP, Mel once again proclaims a sacrifice must be made to the Lord of Light, a steep sacrifice, one involving someone with king’s blood, the princess Shireen Baratheon.

It was a difficult choice for Stannis, but he made it so that his men and his cause to liberate the north from the Boltons may come to fruition.

Davos isn’t aware of this because he is sent to Castle Black to bring food supplies. He tried to persuade Stannis to let the Queen Selyse and Princess Shireen accompany him, but he refused.

Davos knew Mel was responsible for Stannis adamancy, but still he did nothing. Even after hundreds of men were deserting their camp and their possibility of defeat was increasing.

For a man with experience in smuggling, you would think he would have used that once again like he did with Gendry. But, no.

Perhaps, he couldn’t because Stannis had guards escort him back to Castle Black. So, explaining to those guards why the princess is in their company might have been a problem.

In the season after that, season six, we find out that there were in fact no guards. Because, if there guards, shouldn’t they have been in the room with Jon’s dead body, Davos and the few night’s watchmen?

Anyways, when Davos returned to Castle Black, he tried to persuade Jon to convince the wildlings to join Stannis’s army, but Jon bluntly puts it to him that PLAYS A CLIPS WHERE JON SAYS, ‘ITS NOT THEIR FIGHT.’

His job as Hand ends shortly after Mel returns to Castle Black looking forlorn, indicating that Stannis was dead.

To conclude, Davos without question is a very straight-forward man, possessing little ambition for self-aggrandizement. He serves faithfully to the end. The political sphere of Westeros has few likes of him. His experiences and willingness to do what’s right bodes well for any leader who chooses him as their hand.

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