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[[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] finally reaches the [[Eyrie]] and is met by Ser [[Brynden Tully]], the Blackfish. Cat’s group is excorted to the [[Gates of the Moon]]. She is hoping to rest for the night before making the hard trip up to the [[Eyrie]], but her [[Lysa Tully|sister]] has requested that she make the dangerous night trip up the mountain. Just after dawn she makes it to the Eyrie and is taken to meet Lysa and her sickly son, [[Robert Arryn|Robert]].
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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
Only [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]], [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], Ser [[Rodrik Cassel|Rodrik]], [[Bronn]], [[Marillion]] and Ser [[Willis Wode]] made it through the [[Mountains of the Moon]] and are being escorted by Ser [[Donnel Waynwood]] to the [[Bloody Gate]]. Catelyn notices how [[Bronn]] and [[Tyrion]] have become friends.  
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Ser [[Donnel Waynwood]] tells [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] that she should have sent word before coming because the high road was not safe, the roads becoming more dangerous since [[Jon Arryn]] had died; [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]] had forbidden sending men to clean out the [[Mountain Clans]]. Six men had dies, 3 in the first, 2 in the second, and Tyrion’s servant had died of a fever because of his wounds festered. Cat was sure that they were doomed when Ser Waynwood’s men approached. [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], Ser [[Rodrik Cassel|Rodrik]], [[Bronn]], [[Marillion]] and Ser [[Willis Wode]] remained. Looking at Tyrion, she wonders again if she was wrong. He now carries the two headed axe and wears the sharkskin cape he won off of Marillion.
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Ser Rodrik was badly injured and Cat was extremely concerned about his survival and asked Ser Donnel about help from a [[maester]], and was told that Lysa had forbidden the maester from leaving the Eyrie because of her concern about her son’s health. All that Ser Donnel could promise was attention from the Septa that tended the men.
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They meet Ser [[Brynden Tully]], the Blackfish, in front of the [[Bloody Gate]]. Brynden asks if Lysa knew they were coming, and she says there was no time. They pass the Bloody Gate, where a dozen armies had dashed themselves to pieces during the [[Age of Heroes]]. Beyond the gate Cat can see the richness of the land 2 miles below and the gian. She can see the peak known as the Giants Lance that is 3.5 miles above the valley. Brynden points out where she can see the seven towers of the Eyrie, and they can be to the Giants Lance by evening, but climbing to the castle will take another day. Ser Rodrick tells Cat that he cannot go on, so she decides leave the rest behind, and go on ahead. Marillion asks to come with her to the castle. She not asked him on the journey nor does she understand how he survived when so many others had died. She agrees. Then Bron, a man whose ferocious fighting was a significant factor in their surviving the trip, but he is not a kind man and of questionable loyalties, asks also. Cat would like to forbid him, but now that she has agreed to let the singer come along, cannot politely refuse; among other issues, Bron has become much too friendly with Tyrion. As they travel, the Blackfish rides next to Cat, and she tells him about what has happened. The Blackfish had been close to all the Tully children, including Ser [[Edmure Tully|Edmure]], and even [[Petyr Baelish]], until he left Riverrun after Lysa and Catelyn’s weddings. There had been a long feud with his brother, Lord [[Hoster Tully|Hoster]]; it was Hoster that had made the comment about Brynden being the black goat of the Tully flock and since the sigil of the Tully’s was a trout, Brynden had taken it as a personal emblem. The feud had ended after the wedding of Lysa and Cat, when on the Ser Brynden had told his brother that he was leaving Riverrun to serve Lysa and her husband. The Blackfish had been close to all the Tully children, including Ser [[Edmure Tully|Edmure]], and even [[Petyr Baelish]], until he left [[Riverrun]] after Lysa and Catelyn’s weddings.
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After Cat completes her story, Brynden considers for a long time before replying. He then tells Cat that her father must be warned since Riverrun is right in the path of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]; Crows will have to be sent to [[Riverrun]] and she has birds she also needs to send to [[Winterfell]]. When she asks what the mood of the vale is, he tells her that it is angry at the death of the much loved Jon (many wonder about the manner of his death), and there is also anger at giving of the title of [[Warden of the West]] to [[Jaime Lannister]]; Lysa has instructed everyone to call [[Robert Arryn|young Robert]] the True Warden of the West. He gives her the dire news about Robert, who is unhealthy and cries when his dolls are taken away. Some whisper he is too weak for the seat, and some say saw that [[Nestor Royce]], who ruled as High Steward of the Vale as Jon became Robert's [[Hand of the King]], should rule until Robert comes of age. Others think Lysa should remarry, but she has turned down many suitors, and Brynden thinks she is just playing at courtship, and she intends to rule herself. Cat states that a woman can rule as well as a man, and Brynden tells her the right woman and she is not like Cat. With everything that has happened to her, the Lysa that returned from [[King's Landing]] is not the same she knew. Lysa’s husband is dead and she has had many miscarriages, and only one son, who she lives for—Lysa is afraid, in particularly of the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], and is unstable. Now Cat is bringing a Lannister to her house. Cat tells Brynden that Tyrion is her prisoner. To this Brynden notes that Tyrion is not only not in chains, but carrying an axe and a dirk, and has a [[Mercenary|sellsword]] that trails after him like shadow. She tells him that Tyrion is here not by his own choice, and it was Lysa’s husband that they killed, and her letter that warned them.  
  
They meet Ser [[Brynden Tully]] at the Bloody Gate, and he and Cat hug each other. The Blackfish had been close to all the Tully children, including Ser [[Edmure Tully|Edmure]], and even [[Petyr Baelish]], until he left Riverrun after Lysa and Catelyn’s weddings due to a long feud with his brother, Lord [[Hoster Tully|Hoster]]. Ser Brynden warns her that [[Lysa Arryn|her sister]] is unstable, and very afraid.  
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After passing through a valley surrounded by the high mountains, they reach the [[Gates of the Moon]]. Brynden tells Cat to look up and well above the gatehouse Cat can see the looming mass of the mountain, and then lights. Finally she makes out a tower keep (Stone) high above, and then another higher (Snow), and a third will above that (Sky), and then the Eryie. Tyrion beaks in thier conversation to say that if they want to climb that night, they should kill him now. He is told that they will rest until morning. When he asks how one gets up, he is told there are steps leading up the mountain. Horses cannot manage the steps, but mules can climb up to the way castle Sky .Beyond that the ascent is ascend on foot, or there are winches that bring up supplies in a basket—the Eryie is directly above Sky. Tryion declines offer of being sent up in a basket since his father would not approve of him going up like a load of turnips if the others ascend on foot; Lannisters have a certain pride. Cat responds that Lannisters have arrogance, avarice, and lust for power.  Tyrion replies that his [[Tywin Lannister|father]] is the soul of avarice, [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] has pride, and [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] lusts for power, but he is innocent as a lamb, and will bleat for her.  
  
They pass the Bloody Gate, where a dozen armies had dashed themselves to pieces during the [[Age of Heroes]]. Ser Brynden is troubled by [[Robert Arryn]] being Lord of the Eyrie, for he is too weak to sit [[Jon Arryn|his father]]’s seat. Lysa is courting suitors for her hand in marriage, but he believes she intends to rule until Robert comes of age.  
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It is then that the portcullis is raised and they are met by Lord [[Nestor Royce]]. Brynden asks for hospitality for the night, and is told that it has been instructed that Cat will go up tonight but the rest can have the hospitality of the castle. Brynden is furious since he considers night ascent to be too dangerous without a full moon. [[Mya Stone]] then introduces herself, and promises Cat that no harm will come of her; that she has made the night ascent a hundred times. Stone is the sir name of bustards in the Vale and that reminds Cat of [[Jon Snow|Jon]]. She is speechless, but, in the silence, Lord Nestor states that Mya has never failed him, and so Cat agrees to the night ascent.  
  
After passing through a valley surrounded by the mountains, they reach the Gates of the Moon and meet Lord [[Nestor Royce]]. Catelyn intends to rest there until morning, but word came down from the Eyrie that her sister demands her to make the trip immediately. Both Catelyn and Ser Brynden are angered by her sister's demands.  
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[[Mya Stone]] takes Catelyn up the long trip to the Eyrie. Cat asks about lighting a torch since she could not even see the steps, but Mya states that the torch just blinds you on a clear night. Mya then tells Cat that [[Mychel Redfort]] says she has the eyes of an owl. She continues to tell Cat that Mychel is a squire she loves—Cat knows his family is highborn and will never consent to their son marrying a [[bastard]]. At each way tower they switch to fresh mules. Cat had thought that being a Tully, and a Stark, there would be little that she would find to scare her. The trip to the first way tower did not seem too bad, but the next part was much steeper. At the next way town Mya tells Cat that her mother had said that hundreds of years there was always snow above this level. Cat found that it was now best to look up and not down. Where they had to walk the mules, she found that she was too scared to move. Mya comes back and escorts her, blind and trembling, step by step across. At Sky Mya tells her that they will have to walk the last hour of the trip since the trail is more like a stone ladder. Cat states that she has traveled all day and a the best part of a night, and she will ride with the turnips.  
  
[[Mya Stone]] takes Catelyn up the long trip to the Eyrie, passing the three waykeeps: Stone, Snow, and Sky. Mya tells Catelyn about a squire she loves, [[Mychel Redfort]], but Cat knows his family is highborn and will never consent to their son marrying a [[bastard]]. After taking mules to reach Sky, Catelyn will continue no further by foot, and is taken up in a basket by winch. Catelyn is brought to her sister’s quarters, and Lysa is polite until Ser [[Vardis Egen]] and Maester [[Colemon]] depart. Then she yells at Catelyn for bringing Tyrion to the Eyrie, thus dragging her into Catelyn’s quarrel with the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. Cat replies that it was Lysa who sent her the letter naming the Lannisters as murdering her husband.  
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Catelyn finds the Eryie, which Eddard stated could house 500 men, was strangely empty. She is brought to her sister’s quarters, and Lysa, who Cat had not seen in five years, is polite until Ser [[Vardis Egen]] and Maester [[Colemon]] depart. Then she yells at Catelyn for bringing Tyrion to the Eyrie, thus dragging her into Catelyn’s quarrel with the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]]. Cat replies that it was Lysa who sent her the letter naming the Lannisters as murdering her husband. Lysa responds that it was a warning to avoid them, not fight them.
  
Lysa is scared, wants nothing to do with war, and is near insane. When [[Robert Arryn]] comes out of his room, holding a doll, Catelyn thinks to herself ‘Jon Arryn’s son?’, incredulously. The child is scared by what Cat is saying, and Lysa placates him by allowing him to suckle at her breast, even though he is six years old. Lysa feels the child is strong, thinking her husband’s statement on his deathbed ''‘the seed is strong’'' was referring to his son. Robert Arryn wants to see Tyrion, "the bad man", fly.
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It is then that Robert appears in the door grasping a doll. Lysa introduces Cat to Robert, and then Lysa states that he is beautiful and a strong child, not to believe the stories, and even Jon stated “The seed is strong” before he died. Cat attempts to bring back up the subject of preparing for war, and Lysa insists that Cat be quiet; did not want to scare Robert. Lysa then exposes her breast and Robert grabs for it then starts to suck; [[Richon Stark|Richon]] is half this boy’s age and five times as fierce. Cat tries to continue to convince Lysa that they must be prepared for war. Lysa replies that the if they could even bring an army up, Eyrie is impregnable, everyone says so. Cat realizes that Brynden was trying to warn her about Lysa. Lysa then asks what she is suppose to do with the Imp and then Robert pipes up with the question “Is he a bad man.” When says yes, Robert replies “Then make him fly.” Lysa likes this idea.
  
 
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Revision as of 16:48, 18 December 2012

Catelyn VI
A Game of Thrones chapter
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POV Catelyn
Page 301 (US bantam HC) US HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Catelyn V
Eddard VIII  ← Catelyn VI →  Eddard IX

Catelyn VII
The Eyrie - by Pojypojy ©

Catelyn finally reaches the Eyrie and is met by Ser Brynden Tully, the Blackfish. Cat’s group is excorted to the Gates of the Moon. She is hoping to rest for the night before making the hard trip up to the Eyrie, but her sister has requested that she make the dangerous night trip up the mountain. Just after dawn she makes it to the Eyrie and is taken to meet Lysa and her sickly son, Robert.

Synopsis

Ser Donnel Waynwood tells Catelyn that she should have sent word before coming because the high road was not safe, the roads becoming more dangerous since Jon Arryn had died; Lysa had forbidden sending men to clean out the Mountain Clans. Six men had dies, 3 in the first, 2 in the second, and Tyrion’s servant had died of a fever because of his wounds festered. Cat was sure that they were doomed when Ser Waynwood’s men approached. Tyrion, Ser Rodrik, Bronn, Marillion and Ser Willis Wode remained. Looking at Tyrion, she wonders again if she was wrong. He now carries the two headed axe and wears the sharkskin cape he won off of Marillion.

Ser Rodrik was badly injured and Cat was extremely concerned about his survival and asked Ser Donnel about help from a maester, and was told that Lysa had forbidden the maester from leaving the Eyrie because of her concern about her son’s health. All that Ser Donnel could promise was attention from the Septa that tended the men.

They meet Ser Brynden Tully, the Blackfish, in front of the Bloody Gate. Brynden asks if Lysa knew they were coming, and she says there was no time. They pass the Bloody Gate, where a dozen armies had dashed themselves to pieces during the Age of Heroes. Beyond the gate Cat can see the richness of the land 2 miles below and the gian. She can see the peak known as the Giants Lance that is 3.5 miles above the valley. Brynden points out where she can see the seven towers of the Eyrie, and they can be to the Giants Lance by evening, but climbing to the castle will take another day. Ser Rodrick tells Cat that he cannot go on, so she decides leave the rest behind, and go on ahead. Marillion asks to come with her to the castle. She not asked him on the journey nor does she understand how he survived when so many others had died. She agrees. Then Bron, a man whose ferocious fighting was a significant factor in their surviving the trip, but he is not a kind man and of questionable loyalties, asks also. Cat would like to forbid him, but now that she has agreed to let the singer come along, cannot politely refuse; among other issues, Bron has become much too friendly with Tyrion. As they travel, the Blackfish rides next to Cat, and she tells him about what has happened. The Blackfish had been close to all the Tully children, including Ser Edmure, and even Petyr Baelish, until he left Riverrun after Lysa and Catelyn’s weddings. There had been a long feud with his brother, Lord Hoster; it was Hoster that had made the comment about Brynden being the black goat of the Tully flock and since the sigil of the Tully’s was a trout, Brynden had taken it as a personal emblem. The feud had ended after the wedding of Lysa and Cat, when on the Ser Brynden had told his brother that he was leaving Riverrun to serve Lysa and her husband. The Blackfish had been close to all the Tully children, including Ser Edmure, and even Petyr Baelish, until he left Riverrun after Lysa and Catelyn’s weddings.

After Cat completes her story, Brynden considers for a long time before replying. He then tells Cat that her father must be warned since Riverrun is right in the path of the Lannisters; Crows will have to be sent to Riverrun and she has birds she also needs to send to Winterfell. When she asks what the mood of the vale is, he tells her that it is angry at the death of the much loved Jon (many wonder about the manner of his death), and there is also anger at giving of the title of Warden of the West to Jaime Lannister; Lysa has instructed everyone to call young Robert the True Warden of the West. He gives her the dire news about Robert, who is unhealthy and cries when his dolls are taken away. Some whisper he is too weak for the seat, and some say saw that Nestor Royce, who ruled as High Steward of the Vale as Jon became Robert's Hand of the King, should rule until Robert comes of age. Others think Lysa should remarry, but she has turned down many suitors, and Brynden thinks she is just playing at courtship, and she intends to rule herself. Cat states that a woman can rule as well as a man, and Brynden tells her the right woman and she is not like Cat. With everything that has happened to her, the Lysa that returned from King's Landing is not the same she knew. Lysa’s husband is dead and she has had many miscarriages, and only one son, who she lives for—Lysa is afraid, in particularly of the Lannisters, and is unstable. Now Cat is bringing a Lannister to her house. Cat tells Brynden that Tyrion is her prisoner. To this Brynden notes that Tyrion is not only not in chains, but carrying an axe and a dirk, and has a sellsword that trails after him like shadow. She tells him that Tyrion is here not by his own choice, and it was Lysa’s husband that they killed, and her letter that warned them.

After passing through a valley surrounded by the high mountains, they reach the Gates of the Moon. Brynden tells Cat to look up and well above the gatehouse Cat can see the looming mass of the mountain, and then lights. Finally she makes out a tower keep (Stone) high above, and then another higher (Snow), and a third will above that (Sky), and then the Eryie. Tyrion beaks in thier conversation to say that if they want to climb that night, they should kill him now. He is told that they will rest until morning. When he asks how one gets up, he is told there are steps leading up the mountain. Horses cannot manage the steps, but mules can climb up to the way castle Sky .Beyond that the ascent is ascend on foot, or there are winches that bring up supplies in a basket—the Eryie is directly above Sky. Tryion declines offer of being sent up in a basket since his father would not approve of him going up like a load of turnips if the others ascend on foot; Lannisters have a certain pride. Cat responds that Lannisters have arrogance, avarice, and lust for power. Tyrion replies that his father is the soul of avarice, Jaime has pride, and Cersei lusts for power, but he is innocent as a lamb, and will bleat for her.

It is then that the portcullis is raised and they are met by Lord Nestor Royce. Brynden asks for hospitality for the night, and is told that it has been instructed that Cat will go up tonight but the rest can have the hospitality of the castle. Brynden is furious since he considers night ascent to be too dangerous without a full moon. Mya Stone then introduces herself, and promises Cat that no harm will come of her; that she has made the night ascent a hundred times. Stone is the sir name of bustards in the Vale and that reminds Cat of Jon. She is speechless, but, in the silence, Lord Nestor states that Mya has never failed him, and so Cat agrees to the night ascent.

Mya Stone takes Catelyn up the long trip to the Eyrie. Cat asks about lighting a torch since she could not even see the steps, but Mya states that the torch just blinds you on a clear night. Mya then tells Cat that Mychel Redfort says she has the eyes of an owl. She continues to tell Cat that Mychel is a squire she loves—Cat knows his family is highborn and will never consent to their son marrying a bastard. At each way tower they switch to fresh mules. Cat had thought that being a Tully, and a Stark, there would be little that she would find to scare her. The trip to the first way tower did not seem too bad, but the next part was much steeper. At the next way town Mya tells Cat that her mother had said that hundreds of years there was always snow above this level. Cat found that it was now best to look up and not down. Where they had to walk the mules, she found that she was too scared to move. Mya comes back and escorts her, blind and trembling, step by step across. At Sky Mya tells her that they will have to walk the last hour of the trip since the trail is more like a stone ladder. Cat states that she has traveled all day and a the best part of a night, and she will ride with the turnips.

Catelyn finds the Eryie, which Eddard stated could house 500 men, was strangely empty. She is brought to her sister’s quarters, and Lysa, who Cat had not seen in five years, is polite until Ser Vardis Egen and Maester Colemon depart. Then she yells at Catelyn for bringing Tyrion to the Eyrie, thus dragging her into Catelyn’s quarrel with the Lannisters. Cat replies that it was Lysa who sent her the letter naming the Lannisters as murdering her husband. Lysa responds that it was a warning to avoid them, not fight them.

It is then that Robert appears in the door grasping a doll. Lysa introduces Cat to Robert, and then Lysa states that he is beautiful and a strong child, not to believe the stories, and even Jon stated “The seed is strong” before he died. Cat attempts to bring back up the subject of preparing for war, and Lysa insists that Cat be quiet; did not want to scare Robert. Lysa then exposes her breast and Robert grabs for it then starts to suck; Richon is half this boy’s age and five times as fierce. Cat tries to continue to convince Lysa that they must be prepared for war. Lysa replies that the if they could even bring an army up, Eyrie is impregnable, everyone says so. Cat realizes that Brynden was trying to warn her about Lysa. Lysa then asks what she is suppose to do with the Imp and then Robert pipes up with the question “Is he a bad man.” When says yes, Robert replies “Then make him fly.” Lysa likes this idea.

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References and Notes

  • The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [1].