content: '''Davos Seaworth''' is a fictional character from the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of epic fantasy novels by American writer George R. R. Martin and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''.  He is a prominent point of view character in the novels.
  Davos first appears in 1998's ''A Clash of Kings'', serving as Stannis Baratheon's most trusted counselor. He additionally appears in ''A Storm of Swords'' (2000) and ''A Dance with Dragons'' (2011). Davos is a former smuggler who broke through enemy lines to bring food and supplies to Stannis and his forces while the latter held the castle Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion, earning him the nickname '''the Onion Knight'''. For the crime of smuggling, Stannis cut off the fingers of his left hand, but for saving him and his men, raised him up as a knight and lord. Davos is fiercely loyal to his king, but fears the growing influence of the red priestess Melisandre. He forms a close fatherly relationship with Stannis' daughter Shireen.
  Davos is portrayed by Irish actor Liam Cunningham in the HBO television adaptation.