Podrick Payne é um primo distante de Ser Ilyn Payne, conforme detalhado em A Game of Thrones, Livro Um, capítulo 62:
Podrick Payne, swallowed whatever he had been about to say. The lad was a distant cousin to Ser Ilyn Payne, the king's headsman ... and almost as quiet, although not for want of a tongue