In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Father represents judgment. He is depicted as a bearded man who carries scales. He is prayed to for justice. Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the Father and the Mother. While in a nameless village, Catelyn Stark prays in a sept that is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. She prays to the Father for justice, the strength to seek it and the wisdom to know it.