Loras Tyrell
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| Alias | The Knight of Flowers |
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| Title | Ser Lord Commander of the Rainbow Guard |
| Allegiance | House Tyrell Rainbow Guard |
| Culture | The Reach |
| Born | In 282AL, |
| Book(s) | A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords A Feast for CrowsA Dance with Dragons |
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| Played by | Finn Jones |
| TV series | Season 1 | Season 2 |
Ser Loras Tyrell is Lord Mace Tyrell's third son. Known as the Knight of Flowers, he is a highly skilled knight and jouster. His tournament successes, dazzling good looks, and ostentatious showmanship have made him a celebrated figure in the courts of the Seven Kingdoms.
His personal coat of arms is three golden roses on a field of green, indicating his position as a third son. [1]
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Appearance and Personality
Ser Loras is exceptionally handsome with long, flowing brown hair and golden eyes. Despite his youth and slender frame, he is a capable warrior, using swords, axes, and morning-stars to deadly effect. He is beloved by the smallfolk, especially the women. While courteous he is still thirsty for glory and can be short-tempered and impetuous.
History
As a youth, he was fostered at Storm's End and served as a page and squire to Lord Renly Baratheon. This was likely the start of their clandestine love affair. Although not widely known, their forbidden relationship is known to various others at court.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Loras Tyrell attends the Tourney of the Hand wearing armor wrought with jeweled flowers and a cape of woven roses. Amongst his victories are Ser Robar Royce and three members of the Kingsguard. With each victory, he hands a white rose to a pretty girl in the crowd. He then hands a red rose to Sansa Stark, the Hand's daughter, who is overwhelmed by his gallantry and is thereafter infatuated with him.
Although reputed to be very gallant, he rides a mare in heat against Ser Gregor Clegane, noted as an underhanded tactic by some. This inflames the huge knight's stallion, which bucks him, prompting Gregor to attack Loras. After Sandor Clegane comes to his rescue, Loras forfeits the final round to him.[3]
When Eddard Stark, sitting the Iron Throne in King Robert's stead, sends a party led by Beric Dondarrion to kill Gregor Clegane, Loras is disappointed for not having been chosen instead of Beric.[4]
Renly and Loras secretly plotted to have King Robert spurn Queen Cersei in favor of Loras' sister Margaery. Renly approached Lord Stark with a painting of the girl in hopes that she resembled Eddard's late sister Lyanna, but this was not the case.
A Clash of Kings
When Renly makes his claim for the Iron Throne, Loras and the rest of House Tyrell back his claim and cement their support by marrying Loras's sister Margaery to Renly and making Lord Mace his Hand. Renly makes Loras the head of his Rainbow Guard, a fancifully ostentatious version of the traditional Kingsguard, and the two remain inseparable even after Renly's wedding. After Renly's assassination, Loras goes berserk, killing the two Rainbow Guards in charge of protecting him that night. He believes Brienne of Tarth, another Rainbow Guard, and Catelyn Stark perpetrated the assassination, but is unable to apprehend them. When the Tyrells join the Lannister cause against Stannis, Loras fights beside his brother Ser Garlan the Gallant, who wears Renly's armor and impersonates the fallen king at the Battle of the Blackwater. Afterwards, Loras is granted a place in Joffrey I's Kingsguard.
A Storm of Swords
Loras joins the Kingsguard at his father's behest (though Littlefinger orchestrates this[5]), to protect his sister Margaery when she becomes the Queen. The appointment also allows Loras to avoid marriage, a prospect complicated by his questionable sexuality and continued mourning for Renly. He quickly becomes very popular with the citizens of King's Landing.
When Ser Jaime Lannister, absentee Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, returns to King's Landing, Loras recognizes Brienne among his companions and confronts her immediately about Renly's death. At his request, Jaime has Brienne arrested.[6] He is soon after convinced by Jaime to question Brienne directly about the circumstances of Renly's death.[7]
Loras maintains a close relationship with his sister, who suggests that he train the young King Tommen in the ways of an armed knight. Queen Cersei flatly refuses, using veiled innuendo regarding his manhood as a reason.
He finally confronts Brienne and is convinced of her innocence in the death of Renly.[8]
A Feast for Crows
Ser Loras stands vigil with Ser Jaime Lannister over the corpse of Lord Tywin Lannister. After the invasion of the Reach via the Shield Islands by the ironmen, Cersei uses Loras's reckless state to manipulate him into quickly ending the Siege of Dragonstone, hoping that he will endanger himself in the process to free up Paxter Redwyne's fleet to defend the Reach. Loras departs the city amid throngs of admiring onlookers, mostly women. He is reported to have won the island stronghold in an unnecessary bloodbath. True to Cersei's hopes, it is reported that he was horribly injured by boiling oil in the battle. His status is so far unconfirmed.
A Dance with Dragons
Loras is on Dragonstone, reportedly gravely injured. He searched Dragonstone and did not find any gold, gems or hoard of dragon eggs.
Quotes
| “ | Ser Loras is so Tyrell he pisses rosewater | ” |
Family
References and Notes
- ↑ The Citadel: Heraldry - Personal Arms
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 29, Sansa.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 68, Sansa.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 62, Jaime.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 72, Jaime.
