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The Inn at the Crossroads (also called the Crossroads Inn) is a popular stop for travelers on the Kingsroad. It is so-named because it lies at the meeting point of major roads which run north-south and east-west. The Kingsroad runs north to Winterfell and south to King's Landing. The River Road runs west into the Riverlands. At the crossroads, however, the name of the highway running west-east changes, becoming known as the Eastern Road which runs to the Vale of Arryn.

The inn (and the crossroads) is also located close to the banks of the Trident River, as well as the main crossing point of the Trident at Ruby Ford where the Kingsroad passes over it. The inn is run by Masha Heddle.^[1]

History

Season 1

King Robert Baratheon's party rests at the Crossroads Inn on its way from Winterfell to King's Landing. Prince Joffrey Baratheon is wounded in an altercation with Arya Stark's direwolf on the riverbank. The Hound kills Arya's friend Mycah, the butcher's boy.^[2]

Catelyn Stark and Ser Rodrik Cassel stop at the inn on their way back to Winterfell, where they are accosted by the singer Marillion. Tyrion Lannister then arrives and Catelyn calls on several knights present loyal to her father to help her take him into custody. She loudly tells everyone in the inn that she is taking Tyrion to Winterfell, but instead travels east to the Eyrie.^[3]

Season 3

The Brotherhood Without Banners stop here, along with Arya Stark and The Hound. Arya confronts The Hound about what happened last time they were here. Hot Pie decides to stay and work at the Crossroads Inn and bids farewell to "Arry" and Gendry. ^[4]

Season 4

When Brienne of Tarth and Podrick Payne set out from King's Landing in search of Sansa Stark, they stop at the inn for the night. They order a pleasant meal consisting of Kidney pie, and are served by the cook - Hot Pie, who has continued to work at the inn since Arya departed. Hot Pie is excited that they enjoy his kidney pie, and goes on at length about how important it is to get the gravy right. Annoyed, Brienne explains that they are looking for Sansa Stark and asks if he has heard anything about her. Hot Pie's initial reaction is to get nervous, say the Starks are traitors, and leave. The next day, as Brienne and Podrick are saddling up their horses to leave, Podrick warns Brienne that she really shouldn't specifically ask about Sansa Stark by name, because the Lannisters are offering a large amount of money to anyone who helps recapture her - enough money for people to kill over (which will endanger Brienne and Podrick, as well as anyone who might want to help them).

Just then, Hot Pie shyly comes out of the inn and admits that he actually does have some information that may help them. He doesn't know anything about Sansa Stark, but he had been travelling with a girl named Arya Stark. Brienne is surprised, and says that Sansa's younger sister Arya hasn't been seen since her father was executed at the beginning of the war, and she was presumed dead. Brienne asks for the short and quick explanation, so Hot Pie summarizes that Arya managed to escape King's Landing disguised as a boy in a group of Night's Watch recruits, but they were attacked by Lannister soldiers and taken as prisoners to Harrenhal, which they eventually escaped from only to be captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners, who intended to return Arya to her relatives at Riverrun in return for ransom money. The Brotherhood dropped Hot Pie off to work at the Inn in exchange for the meals the innkeeper provided them, and that was the last he saw of Arya. He also recalls that the Brotherhood had taken another prisoner, a great big man with half of his face severely burned, whom Podrick realizes must have been Sandor Clegane.

Before they leave, Hot Pie gives them a gift to give to Arya if they find her: he has spent the past few months refining and perfecting his direwolf-shaped bread, and his latest one came out a lot better than the one he previously gave her (Arya couldn't tell the head from the tail on the last one, but the new one is a perfect replication of the Stark direwolf sigil). As they continue down the road, they realize that the Brotherhood couldn't have returned Arya to Riverrun after the defeat of the Stark-Tully forces at the Red Wedding. Pod recalls from his studies of the current major noble families in Westeros that Arya's only remaining relative who is both free from the Lannisters and wealthy is her maternal aunt, Lysa Arryn, the current regent of the Vale of Arryn. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that anyone trying to ransom Arya would now head for the Eyrie - and by the same logic it is also one of the more likely places that Sansa Stark might try to flee to. They take the fork in the road away from the crossroads onto the Eastern Road, and head for the Vale.^[5]

In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Crossroads Inn was built during the reign of King Jaehaerys I approximately two hundred years prior to the beginning of the novels. The inn survived the troubles of Robert's Rebellion intact. Masha Heddle's grandfather ran the inn before handing it down to her.

In the novels, Lord Tywin Lannister's army assembles at the Inn for battle with the Stark host bearing down on them from the north. Tywin hangs Masha Heddle for letting Tyrion be taken prisoner on the premises. Tyrion joins his father's host at the inn and debates strategy with him there. In the TV series, however, the Lannister army assembles much further to the west, the inn is not involved in the battle, and Masha Heddle presumably survives.

Hot Pie ends up making bread for a different inn named the Inn of the Kneeling Man.

The bloody brawl between the Hound, Arya, Polliver, the Tickler and a Sarsfield squire takes place at the Crossroads Inn.

Brienne and Podrick encounter Rorge's gang at the Crossroads Inn. In the ensuing fight, Brienne kills Rorge and Gendry kills Biter.

References

↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Inn at the Crossroads entry
↑ "The Kingsroad"
↑ "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things"
↑ "Walk of Punishment"
↑ "Mockingbird"

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[1] HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Inn at the Crossroads entry

[2] "The Kingsroad"

[3] "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things"

[4] "Walk of Punishment"

[5] "Mockingbird"

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-[[Image:Crossroads Inn.png|thumb|right|200px|Map showing the location of the '''Crossroads Inn''' on the continent of [[Westeros]].]]
+[[Image:Crossroads Inn.png|thumb|right|200px|Map showing the location of the '''Inn at the Crossroads''' on the continent of [[Westeros]].]]
-The '''Crossroads Inn''' (also called the '''Inn at the Crossroads''') is a popular stop for travelers on the [[Kingsroad]]. It is so-named for it lies at the meeting point of roads leading to four of the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. The Kingsroad runs north to [[Winterfell]] and south to [[King's Landing]], whilst another road leads east to the [[Vale of Arryn]] and west into the [[Riverlands]]. It is also located close to the banks of the [[River Trident]]. It is run by [[Masha Heddle]].<ref>[http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/locations/inn-at-the-crossroads/ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Inn at the Crossroads entry]</ref>
+The '''Inn at the Crossroads''' (also called the '''Crossroads Inn''') is a popular stop for travelers on the [[Kingsroad]]. It is so-named because it lies at the meeting point of major roads which run north-south and east-west. The Kingsroad runs north to [[Winterfell]] and south to [[King's Landing]]. The [[River Road]] runs west into [[the Riverlands]]. At the crossroads, however, the name of the highway running west-east changes, becoming known as the [[Eastern Road]] which runs to [[the Vale of Arryn]].
+The inn (and the crossroads) is also located close to the banks of the [[The Trident|Trident]] River, as well as the main crossing point of the Trident at [[Ruby Ford]] where the Kingsroad passes over it. The inn is run by [[Masha Heddle]].<ref>[http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/locations/inn-at-the-crossroads/ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Inn at the Crossroads entry]</ref>
 ==History==
 ===[[Season 1]]===
-King [[Robert Baratheon]]'s party rests at the Crossroads Inn on its way from Winterfell to King's Landing. Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] is wounded in an altercation with [[Arya Stark]]'s [[direwolf]] on the riverbank.<ref>"[[The Kingsroad]]"</ref>
+King [[Robert Baratheon]]'s party rests at the Crossroads Inn on its way from Winterfell to King's Landing. Prince [[Joffrey Baratheon]] is wounded in an altercation with [[Arya Stark]]'s [[Direwolves|direwolf]] on the riverbank.[[Sandor Clegane| The Hound]] kills Arya's friend Mycah, the butcher's boy.<ref>"[[The Kingsroad]]"</ref>
 [[Catelyn Stark]] and Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] stop at the inn on their way back to Winterfell, where they are accosted by the singer [[Marillion]]. [[Tyrion Lannister]] then arrives and Catelyn calls on several [[knights]] present loyal to [[Hoster Tully|her father]] to help her take him into custody. She loudly tells everyone in the inn that she is taking Tyrion to Winterfell, but instead travels east to the [[Eyrie]].<ref>"[[Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things]]"</ref>
+===[[Season 3|Season&nbsp;3]]===
-==In the books==
+The [[Brotherhood Without Banners]] stop here, along with Arya Stark and The Hound. Arya confronts The Hound about what happened last time they were here. [[Hot Pie]] decides to stay and work at the Crossroads Inn and bids farewell to "[[Arya Stark|Arry]]" and [[Gendry]]. <ref>"[[Walk of Punishment]]"</ref>
-In the ''[[Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels the Crossroads Inn was located at the intersection of the kingsroad, the river road, and the high road.
+===[[Season 4]]===
-It was a large, three-story inn with turrets, walls, and chimneys made of a white stone that glimmered pale and ghostly. It was built during the reign of King Jaehaerys I approximately two hundred years prior to the beginning of the novels. The history of the inn is described by an itinerant septon, Septon Meribald, in A Feast For Crows to Podrick Payne and Brienne.
+When [[Brienne of Tarth]] and [[Podrick Payne]] set out from King's Landing in search of [[Sansa Stark]], they stop at the inn for the night. They order a pleasant meal consisting of [[Kidney pie]], and are served by the cook - Hot Pie, who has continued to work at the inn since Arya departed. Hot Pie is excited that they enjoy his kidney pie, and goes on at length about how important it is to get the gravy right. Annoyed, Brienne explains that they are looking for Sansa Stark and asks if he has heard anything about her. Hot Pie's initial reaction is to get nervous, say the Starks are traitors, and leave. The next day, as Brienne and Podrick are saddling up their horses to leave, Podrick warns Brienne that she really shouldn't specifically ask about Sansa Stark by name, because the Lannisters are offering a large amount of money to anyone who helps recapture her - enough money for people to kill over (which will endanger Brienne and Podrick, as well as anyone who might want to help them).
-There had been at least one inn at the crossroads for centuries before the Crossroads Inn was built.
+Just then, Hot Pie shyly comes out of the inn and admits that he actually does have some information that may help them. He doesn't know anything about Sansa Stark, but he had been travelling with a girl named [[Arya Stark]]. Brienne is surprised, and says that Sansa's younger sister Arya hasn't been seen since her father was executed at the beginning of the war, and she was presumed dead. Brienne asks for the short and quick explanation, so Hot Pie summarizes that Arya managed to escape King's Landing disguised as a boy in a group of Night's Watch recruits, but they were attacked by Lannister soldiers and taken as prisoners to [[Harrenhal]], which they eventually escaped from only to be captured by the [[Brotherhood Without Banners]], who intended to return Arya to her relatives at [[Riverrun]] in return for ransom money. The Brotherhood dropped Hot Pie off to work at the Inn in exchange for the meals the innkeeper provided them, and that was the last he saw of Arya. He also recalls that the Brotherhood had taken another prisoner, a great big man with half of his face severely burned, whom Podrick realizes must have been Sandor Clegane.
-Jaehaerys, the king who built the Kingsroad, and his queen slept there during their journeys. Therefore, it was known as "Two Crowns" for a while. Later, an innkeeper built a bell tower, and changed its to the Bellringer Inn. Later, it passed to a crippled knight named Long Jon Heddle. This knight took up ironworking when he was too old to fight. He forged a new sign for the yard, a three-headed dragon of black iron that he hung from a wooden post. This sign was so big it had to be made in a dozen pieces, held together by rope and wire. When the wind blew the pieces would clank, and the inn become known as the "Clanking Dragon."
+Before they leave, Hot Pie gives them a gift to give to Arya if they find her: he has spent the past few months refining and perfecting his direwolf-shaped bread, and his latest one came out a lot better than the one he previously gave her (Arya couldn't tell the head from the tail on the last one, but the new one is a perfect replication of the Stark direwolf sigil). As they continue down the road, they realize that the Brotherhood couldn't have returned Arya to Riverrun after the defeat of the Stark-Tully forces at the [[Red Wedding]]. Pod recalls from his studies of the current major noble families in Westeros that Arya's only remaining relative who is both free from the Lannisters and wealthy is her maternal aunt, [[Lysa Arryn]], the current regent of [[the Vale of Arryn]]. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that anyone trying to ransom Arya would now head for [[the Eyrie]] - and by the same logic it is also one of the more likely places that Sansa Stark might try to flee to. They take the fork in the road away from the crossroads onto the [[Eastern Road]], and head for the Vale.<ref>"[[Mockingbird]]"</ref>
-About a generation later, the fourth Aegon started a rebellion and used a black dragon as his sigil. Because Lord Darry held this land at the time and he was loyal to the king, he destroyed the sign and cut it into pieces. He threw the pieces into the river. One of the dragon’s heads washed up on the Quiet Isle many years later, red with rust.
+==In the books==
-The next innkeeper never hung another sign, so the place was called "the River Inn." Before the Trident moved its course (about seventy or eighty years before the books), it flowed beneath the back door of the inn. Half of the rooms were built out over the water and guests could throw a line out their window and catch trout. There was a ferry landing nearby as well, so travelers could cross to Lord Harroway’s Town and Whitewalls.
+In the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels, the Crossroads Inn was built during the reign of King [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys I]] approximately two hundred years prior to the beginning of the novels. The inn survived the troubles of [[Robert's Rebellion]] intact. Masha Heddle's grandfather ran the inn before handing it down to her.
+In the novels, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]'s army assembles at the Inn for battle with the [[House Stark|Stark]] host bearing down on them from the north. Tywin hangs Masha Heddle for letting Tyrion be taken prisoner on the premises. Tyrion joins his father's host at the inn and debates strategy with him there. In the TV series, however, the Lannister army assembles much further to the west, the inn is not involved in the battle, and Masha Heddle presumably survives.
-The inn survived the troubles of [[Robert's Rebellion]] intact. Masha Heddle's grandfather ran the inn before handing it down to her.
+[[Hot Pie]] ends up making bread for a different inn named the Inn of the Kneeling Man.
-In the novels, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]]'s army assembles at the Inn for battle with the [[House Stark|Stark]] host bearing down on them from the north. Tywin hangs Masha Heddle for letting Tyrion be taken prisoner on the premises. Tyrion joins his father's host at the inn and debates strategy with him there.
+The bloody brawl between [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]], [[Arya]], [[Polliver]], the [[Tickler]] and a [[House Sarsfield|Sarsfield]] squire takes place at the Crossroads Inn.
-After Masha was hanged, one of her nephews tried opening the inn again. He brought in whores. But, business was bad and eventually some lord killed him. In a Storm of Swords, Sandor Clegane visits the inn with Arya. They encounter Polliver, the Tickler, and a young squire. Sandor kills Polliver and the Tickler. Arya kills the squire. Sandor is, however, severely wounded and, presumably, dies of a septic wound.
+Brienne and Podrick encounter [[Rorge]]'s gang at the Crossroads Inn. In the ensuing fight, Brienne kills Rorge and [[Gendry]] kills [[Biter]].
-In A Feast For Crows, it was maintained by an orphan named Willow with a gaggle of other children. Gendry remained at this inn after fleeing Harrenhall with Arya and Hot Pie.
+==See also==
-Seven outlaws come to the inn while Brienne is there.  Rogar is wearing Sandor's hound helmet.  Brienne fights with Rogar.  She kills him.  Biter attacks Brienne and breaks her arm and bites her, tearing flesh out of her face. He is then killed.
+* {{AWOIAF}} (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
-In the TV series, however, the Lannister army assembles much further to the west, the inn is not involved in the battle and Masha Heddle presumably survives.
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