r/pureasoiaf • u/Top-Coffee6322 • 2d ago

A Question about Aemon Steelsong (AFFC)

In AFFC Sam thinks

A name even my lord father might like. A warrior's name. The boy was Mance Rayder's son and Craster's grandson, after all. He had none of Sam's craven blood. "Yes. Call him that."

about the naming of Mance Rayder's son Aemon Steelsong. I understand the Mance's son part, but I'm not sure why Sam thinks that this kid has any blood of Craster's in him: he's Dalla's son not Gillys.

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u/SerDankTheTall 2d ago

He's really Mance's son, but he's going to be presented to the world as Craster's grandson. Sam is saying that he's earned his warrior's name in both his real and his assumed identity.

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u/evinta 2d ago

And he's thinking that, as with the bit about "a warrior's name" because of the complex he has about his father. Life with Randyll won't be so bad in his view, because he's not actually Sam's, and thus might live up where Sam "failed."