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| rdfs:comment | - Greyscale, also known as "Prince Garin's curse", is a dreaded and usually fatal disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, and stone-like to the touch. Those that manage to survive a bout with the illness will be immune from ever contracting it again, but the flesh damaged by the ravages of the disease will never heal, and they will be scarred for life. Princess Shireen Baratheon caught greyscale as an infant and survived, but the ordeal left half of her face disfigured by the disease.
- Greyscale is a typically nonfatal disease in the Song of Ice and Fire series. It is first introduced in Stannis Baratheon's daughter Shireen. When it infects children, greyscale generally leaves children malformed and disabled but alive. However, in A Dance with Dragons, it is revealed to be generally fatal to adults. The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the flesh (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to stone. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane.
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| abstract | - Greyscale, also known as "Prince Garin's curse", is a dreaded and usually fatal disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, and stone-like to the touch. Those that manage to survive a bout with the illness will be immune from ever contracting it again, but the flesh damaged by the ravages of the disease will never heal, and they will be scarred for life. Princess Shireen Baratheon caught greyscale as an infant and survived, but the ordeal left half of her face disfigured by the disease. People afflicted by the disease are often called "Stone Men", due to how it makes their skin hard and dead. Stone Men are often exiled from society to live in ruined cities in Essos, such as Old Valyria.
- Greyscale is a typically nonfatal disease in the Song of Ice and Fire series. It is first introduced in Stannis Baratheon's daughter Shireen. When it infects children, greyscale generally leaves children malformed and disabled but alive. However, in A Dance with Dragons, it is revealed to be generally fatal to adults. The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the flesh (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to stone. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. In A Dance With Dragons, greyscale is encountered by Tyrion Lannister as he sails through The Sorrows, a stretch of river. The boat the Shy Maid is attacked by several men afflicted with greyscale as they sail through the Sorrows.
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