Eddard learns that Jon wanted to know about Gendry's mother. Mott scolds Gendry for insisting that it is not for sale as he made it for himself, and potentially denying the King's Hand, but Eddard reassures the smith. Eddard admires a helm that Gendry has made. Mott tells him that Jon Arryn came to ask about new armor, but he also wanted to talk to Mott's apprentice. Investigating the death of Jon Arryn, Lord Eddard Stark learns that he was seen visiting Tobho Mott's smithy in the city shortly before his death. Gendry worked under Tobho Mott for 10 years. Gendry became very skilled in his own right, and the heavy manual labor built him up into a strong young man - ironically, swinging a heavy blacksmith's hammer much as Robert once swung his war hammer. He then took up work as an apprentice blacksmith under Tobho Mott, a master weaponsmith from Qohor, forging high-end armor and weapons for the nobility. When he was old enough, an unknown lord paid his apprentice fee so he could learn to be a blacksmith. Gendry's mother died when he was very young.
Gendry grew up in the slums of Flea Bottom, surviving on bowls of brown stew that contained meat which was allegedly chicken (though like most of the other patrons, he knew full well it wasn't). His mother was a tavern wench that King Robert had sex with once, and apparently Robert never even knew of his existence. Gendry spent his whole life in King's Landing.
Gendry did not receive either the bastard surnames used in the Crownlands (Waters) or the Stormlands (Storm) because, like the rest of his half-siblings, he has never been openly acknowledged by Robert. Gendry is the last living bastard son of King Robert Baratheon, who, throughout his childhood, was unaware of his lineage.
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