Bowen

Bowen
Actor	Matt Mercer
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Age	Late Teens
Occupation	Squire
First Appearance	Iron From Ice
Last Appearance	The Ice Dragon (Determinant m)
Cause of Death	Stabbed in the throat (Determinant) Impaled in the spine (Determinant)
Status	Determinant

“	I've been a squire longer than you, which means I outrank you.	”
	— Bowen reminding Gared of his rank when he tells him to fetch wine for Norren himself. (Determinant)

Bowen is a resident of Ironrath which is ruled by House Forrester. He is a friend of Gared Tuttle and serves as Norren's squire until the sudden Red Wedding.

Personality

Bowen is smug, cynical, sarcastic, cocky, and bossy. He enjoys bossing around Gared Tuttle and seems slightly antagonistic towards him. However, that could only be just minor rivalries between the two. Nevertheless, Bowen can look out for others if need be, as shown when he willingly helps Gared and Norren escape when the Red Wedding initiates, and when he attempts to save Asher Forrester, but only at the cost of his life. His sarcasm and cynicism are his way with coping with the insecurities and his inferiority complex about being a squire to Norren, viewing his job as humiliating and worthless and miserably complaining about it very often. However, his cockiness and smug ego could end up being his downfall, as he failed to see Gared's panic when he notices the Red Wedding being a trap set by Walder Frey and Roose Bolton and if left behind, Bowen will still obliviously not notice the trap and will simply keep being smug and sarcastic until his sudden death by a Frey soldier.

History

Bowen had been the squire of Norren, who served as a bannerman for House Forrester, for many years. He however resented Norren due to him always bossing him around and making him do menial tasks. He was also friends with Gared Tuttle, the squire of Lord Gregor Forrester.

Game Of Thrones

"Iron From Ice"

Bowen is first seen talking to Gared at the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roselyn Frey at the Twins, mocking Norren for being boisterous about the capture of the Kingslayer, Jaime Lannister. He soon tells Gared to clean Lord Gregor Forrester's sword. After Gared does so, Bowen mocks his desire to become a knight and Norren's claims that he helped capture Jaime. Lord Forrester arrives while the others ridicule Norren's boasting and Bowen reminds Gared to fetch some wine for their lord since he is his personal squire.

As Gared returns from his walk with Lord Forrester, Norren tells Bowen to fetch more wine. Bowen asks Gared for help and the latter agrees. As the two walk, Bowen expresses resentment about Norren always bossing him around and states that he fears that they will never be anything more than squires. After arriving at the area containing the wine barrels, Gared notices that the Frey soldiers are armed with weapons. Gared can choose to leave Bowen in order to warn Lord Forrester or grab him and leave with him.

If you abandon Bowen, he will be killed immediately after he sarcastically wishes Gared good luck. If he is pulled over and saved, Bowen will soon find out that the Frey soldiers are armed and will tell Gared that they need to get back to the Stark camp. Upon spotting Rodrik fighting Frey soldiers, Bowen urges Gared to run. Gared will suddenly get attacked and after he manages to overpower his attacker, Bowen will run away.

As Gared reaches Lord Forrester and Norren, he finds Bowen fighting the Frey soldiers alongside them. Bowen saves Lord Forrester after he gets speared in the side and accompanies Norren in holding off the Frey soldiers so he and Gared can escape.

Norren isn't seen again after the Red Wedding, but Bowen somehow makes it back to Ironrath safely, presumably residing there for a while after the massacre.

If Bowen was killed however, Norren will ask where he is and will be disappointed if he learns that Gared left him behind to die.

"The Ice Dragon"

Provided he was saved, Rodrik sacrificed himself to allow Asher to escape, and Elissa poisoned herself to ensure Ludd died, then Bowen will appear and will stab Harys during the latter's fight with Asher. Harys then stabs Bowen through the chest, killing him. In any other circumstance (either Bowen previously died, or Elissa didn't drink from the poisoned chalice), Elissa will take Bowen's place in saving Asher from Harys, and will also die. Provided he is saved, but those other choices are subverted, then Bowen will not appear to protect the final character from Harys. If that is the case, then it is unknown if Bowen escaped, survived the battle, or is captured or killed by Whitehill soldiers.

Death (Determinant)

Killed by:

• Frey Bannerman (Determinant)
• Harys (Determinant)
• Gared Tuttle (Caused, Determinant)

If Gared Tuttle chooses to run off and warn Gregor Forrester after he notices that the Red Wedding was a trap made by Walder Frey, then Bowen, still not convinced that he is in any danger, will sarcastically wish Gared good luck before he is suddenly impaled through his neck with a spear by a Frey's Bannerman, causing him to collapse and die choking as he loses a massive amount of blood.

If Gared Tuttle saves him, then Bowen will escape to Ironrath, presumably living there. If Elissa Forrester sacrifices herself by drinking poisoned wine alongside Ludd Whitehill, and if Asher Forrester survives the fifth episode, then Bowen, for unknown reasons, will attempt to save Asher from getting burned by Harys by stabbing him in the back. Harys, enraged, will impale Bowen through the heart with his great sword, killing him.

Appearances

Season One appearances
Iron From Ice	The Lost Lords	The Sword in the Darkness	Sons of Winter	A Nest of Vipers	The Ice Dragon

Bowen's appearance is determined if he was saved in "Iron From Ice" (see Trivia below).

Trivia

• Bowen is the first determinant character in the game.
• If Bowen was saved in "Iron from Ice", he will appear in "The Ice Dragon" if Asher chooses to poison Ludd and allows Elissa to drink from Ludd's chalice so that he will too.
• It is unknown why he decided to go to Ironrath in the first place. It's possible he was seeking refuge ever since the Red Wedding, and is trying to survive. If that is true, then it is unknown how he mustered the courage to attack Harys and lead to his own death.
• Bowen's two potential deaths have him being impaled somewhere in his body, either through his neck by a Frey Soldier or in the chest by Harys.