The acolyte must spend a night in darkness unless he can light the candle, which is made of dragonglass and cannot be lit. The test is meant to teach humility and the limits of knowledge, yet now one of them is casting a light brighter than any wax candle that never flickers.
Armen and the others still have doubts save Alleras. It is getting late, so everyone departs save Leo and Pate, who still hopes the alchemist will appear. Leo cruelly mocks him some more, but Pate ignores the japes because attacking him would mean his death since Leo is trained in arms and his father is Ser Moryn Tyrell , the commander of the City Watch of Oldtown.
When dawn breaks, Pate leaves to return to the Citadel. As he walks, the alchemist hails him. He did not come earlier because he did not want to approach Pate while he was with his friends. Pate has stolen a key from Archmaester Walgrave for him, one that opens every door in the Citadel.
The alchemist leads him into an alley, where he hands over the gold dragon in exchange for the key. Pate asks who he is and what he wants, but the alchemist just says he is no one. Pate turns to leave, but suddenly finds himself on the ground.
He does not understand what is going on, and the alchemist says he never will. Pate dies thinking of Rosey. Next Chapter The Prophet. AFFC Prologue. Book 4, Chapter 1. Pate steals a key that opens all the doors in the Citadel for a mysterious man who then kills him. Discuss this chapter. Contact Us! An acolyte of the Citadel. He has forged four links, pewter, tin, lead, and copper. He has a long pointed nose. Gormon Tyrell - Gormon has assumed Archmaester Walgrave 's duties due to the man's mental infirmnities.
Mollander - A novice of the Citadel. He has thick arms, broad shoulders, and a clubfoot. He is the son of a knight who died on the Blackwater. Pate - A novice of the Citadel.
He helps Archmaester Walgrave tend the ravens. He has been a novice for five years, failing in his only two attempts to forge a link. Rosey - She has hazel eyes. The Alchemist - He is young with full cheeks, a shadow of a beard, a hooked nose, and a mat of dense black curls. He has a faint scar on his right cheek. Maesters - A would be maester begins his training as a novice. When he earns his first link, he becomes an acolyte.
An acolyte wears the links he has earned on a leather thong around his neck. A novice or acolyte earns a link by demonstrating his skill in front of the archmaester responsible for whichever discipline he is trying to earn his link for.
The final test the acolyte must pass before being raised to maester involves spending a night in darkness unless he can light one of the Citadel 's four glass candles , an impossible task. This serves as a lesson that even with knowledge some things are not possible. Glass Candle - A candle from Valyria made of dragonglass. One cannot be lit by any known method. The Citadel has four of them in their possession, one green and three black. The final test of an acolyte before becoming a maester involves spending a night in the dark unless the acolyte can light one of the candles.
It serves as a reminder that even with knowledge some things are not possible. Oldtown - Oldtown is built entirely of stone and every street down to the meanest alley is cobbled. The guildhalls of the city line the west bank of the Honeywine , while further upriver the Citadel straddles both sides of the river, with stone bridges containing halls and houses connecting the two halves.
It houses several septs, including the Sailor's Sept, the Lord's Sept, the Seven Shrines, and the Starry Sept, which had been the home of the High Septons for one thousand years before the coming of the Targaryens. There is a small temple to the Lord of Light at the wharf. House Hightower rules from this fortress.
Warning: Footnotes may contain spoilers from later chapters or books. In addition to "Alleras" being "Sarella" spelled backwards, Alleras shares Oberyn's widow's peak just as several of his bastards do, was fathered on a woman of the Summer Isles , and according to Prince Doran is currently outside Dorne playing some "game. A Feast for Crows. Prologue Jaime II Cersei VII 2. The Prophet Cersei IV Jaime V 3. The Captain Of Guards The Iron Captain Cat Of The Canals 4. Cersei I The Drowned Man Samwell IV 5.
Pate originally comes from The Westerlands , where he was a member of the smallfolk. He shares a name with Spotted Pate the pig boy, a folk hero of Westeros , although he dislikes this connection.
Pate arrived at the Citadel when he was 13, and has spent five years without gaining a link in his chain. He had failed to demonstrate his knowledge of the heavens to Archmaester Vaellyn , and his knowledge of healing to Archmaester Ebrose. Pate is currently in service to Archmaester Walgrave , a senile man in charge of the Ravenry of the Citadel. Pate's duties include dressing him and fetching him meals. He is approached by a man called the Alchemist , who offers him a gold dragon in exchange for Walgrave's keys.
Pate steals the key and goes to the Quill and Tankard inn to meet the alchemist and perform the exchange, but instead he meets Alleras , who is celebrating the forging of his copper link with Armen , Roone and Mollander.
Pate thinks to himself of his infatuation with Rosey , a 15 year old serving wench at the Quill and Tankard , who's maidenhead has been offered for one gold dragon. He clashes with Leo Tyrell over her, and even contemplates killing him, but decides against it, as his father is the Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown, and his cousin is Mace Tyrell.
He is lured away shortly afterwards by the Alchemist, who gives him the gold dragon he desires.
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