Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. He is a prominent point of view character in the novels. Davos comes from humble means and was a successful smuggler , who slipped through Targaryen loyalists' blockade to bring a shipful of much-needed supplies to Stannis and his starving forces defending the castle Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion.
As appreciation for saving his men, Stannis raised him up as a knight and a vassal lord , but personally cut off the fingertips of Davos' left hand to punish for the criminal career of smuggling.
Davos considers the treatments fair and is stubbornly loyal to Stannis but fears the growing influence of the Red Priestess, Melisandre. He forms a close fatherly relationship with Stannis' disfigured daughter Shireen. Davos is of low birth, being born to the life of a poor commoner in King's Landing 's Flea Bottom.
In his youth, he became one of the most infamous smugglers of the Seven Kingdoms , often piloting his black-sailed ship into harbors in the dead of night, and navigated treacherous shallows.
At the time of Robert Baratheon 's rebellion, Davos evaded the blockade of Shipbreaker Bay and smuggled a shipment of onions and salted fish into Storm's End to Stannis Baratheon and his men, who were starving under siege by Mace Tyrell and the Redwynes.
