Only daughter of Lord Balon Greyjoy and Alannys Harlaw, and after the deaths of Rodrik and Maron the closest thing her father had to a son he trusted. Where the green lands raised their ladies to weave and to sing, Balon raised his daughter to read a deck and reave a coast: by the time she came of age she was captain of her own longship, the Black Wind, and had taken her first prize in the Stepstones.
She claimed the Seastone Chair at the kingsmoot called after her father's death in 299 AC and was outbid by her uncle Euron, who sent her into the wilderness and married her in absentia to the elderly Erik Ironmaker as a final humiliation. Asha will have nothing to do with that match. She rides now with Stannis Baratheon's host through the snows of the North, a captive who has become something between a hostage and a counsellor.