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Dragon egg

2013-08-21T08:54:21Z

Bread & Salt: /* Known Dragon Eggs */ Added Elaena from the SSM

[[Image:Elaena.jpg|Princess [[Elaena Targaryen]], holding a dragon’s egg - by Amoka ©|thumb|right|250px]]
A '''dragon egg''' is an egg laid by a [[dragon]] as a means of reproduction of the species . Dragons have been known to lay eggs in a [[w:Clutch (eggs)|clutch]] of up to at least five. {{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}} If an egg has to be fertilized by a male dragon in order to be fertile is not known. Dragons may have [[w:egg incubation|brooded]] their eggs.
==About==
Dragon eggs come in various colours. Judging from the colour of [[Dany]]’s dragons the colour of the eggshell appears to indicate the colour of the dragon within.

Fossilized dragon eggs are worth a fortune. Before the lighting of [[Drogo]]’s funeral pyre Ser [[Jorah]] tells Dany that one of her dragon's eggs could buy a ship to take her back to the Free Cities. Sell all three and she could be a wealthy woman all her days. {{Ref|aGoT|72}} If any of Daenerys dragons were to lay an egg presumably it would be beyond price.

The [[last dragon|last Targaryen dragon]] laid a clutch of five eggs. What happened to them is not known. If there are any dragon eggs left over amongst the smoking ruins that were [[Valyria]] is not known. On [[Dragonstone]] there is supposed to be a fabled hoard of dragon eggs. {{Ref|aDwD|72}}
==Attempts to hatch dragon's eggs==
After the extinction of dragons the [[Targaryen]]s made numerous attempts to hatch the dragon eggs left behind. [[Baelor the Blessed]] had prayed over his eggs, the other [[Targaryen]]s had sought to hatch theirs with [[magic|sorcery]]. All they got for it was farce and [[Tragedy of Summerhall|tragedy]],{{Ref|aFfC|5}} death, disaster, or disgrace. {{Ref|aFfC|36}}. Only [[Daenerys Targaryen]] has succeeded in hatching dragon eggs after the death of the [[last dragon]].

==Daenerys's dragon's eggs==
[[‎File:Katherine Dinger dany egg.jpg|Dany holding a dragon egg - by Katherine Dinger . © Fantasy Flight Games|thumb|350px|right]]
A detailed description of the three fossilized eggs [[Daenerys Targaryen]] receives from [[Illyrio Mopatis]] as a wedding gift is given in [[A Game of Thrones]]. According to Maegister [[Illyrio]] the three dragon eggs are from the [[Shadow Lands]] beyond [[Asshai]] and the eons have turned them to stone. {{Ref|aGoT|11}} Where or how he acquired the three eggs is not known, or if he has more, or is able to acquire more, is not known. Of anyone had attempted to hatch them prior to [[Dany]] is not known. If they are from the same clutch is not known.

To Daenerys the eggs are huge and are the most beautiful things she has ever seen. They are pattered in such rich colours that at first she thinks they are crusted in jewels, and so large that it takes both of her hands to hold one.

When Dany lifts one she expects it to be made of some fine porcelain or delicate enamel, or even blown glass but it is much heavier than that, as if it were all of solid stone. The surface of the shell is covered with tiny scales, and as she turned the egg between her fingers they shimmer like polished metal in the light of the setting sun.

The eggs are beautiful colours. One egg is a [[Rhaegal|deep green]], with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it. Another is [[Viserion|pale cream]] streaked with gold. The last [[Drogon|is black]], as black as midnight sea, yet alive with scarlet ripples and swirls.
==Known Dragon Eggs==
[[File:Mother of dragons by Algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Daenerys]], with her three dragon eggs - by Algesiras]]
[[File:Felicia Cano DrogosPyre.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[Daenerys Targaryen]] placing her dragon eggs on [[Drogo]]'s funeral pyre - by Felicia Cano. © Fantasy Flight Games]]
* '''[[Aegon V]]'s egg''' - white and green swirls {{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}} – whereabouts unknown
* '''[[Maester Aemon|Aemon Targaryen]]'s egg''' - known to exist,{{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}} but so far undescribed – whereabouts unknown
* '''[[Aerion Targaryen]]'s egg''' - gold and silver, with veins of fiery colors {{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}} – whereabouts unknown
* '''[[Ambrose Butterwell]]'s egg''' - red, with golden flecks and black whorls – whereabouts unknown {{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, pages 303-304 of 251-394}}
* '''[[Daeron Targaryen]]'s egg''' - known to exist,{{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}} but so far undescribed – whereabouts unknown
* '''[[Elaena Targaryen]]'s egg''' - silver and gold in unknown arrangement<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1605 So Spake Martin] mentions that her dragon egg showed the same colors as her hair.</ref> – whereabouts unknown
* '''[[Euron Greyjoy]]'s egg''' - Euron claimed he threw it into the sea. {{Ref|AFFC|29}}
* {hatched} '''[[Drogon]]’s egg''' - black as the midnight sea, alive with scarlet ripples and swirls
* {hatched} '''[[Rhaegal]]’s egg''' - deep green, with burnished bronze flecks
* {hatched} '''[[Viserion]]'s egg''' - colored pale cream, streaked with gold

Depending on how one reads a statement in [[The Mystery Knight]], it may be understood that [[Rhae Targaryen]] and [[Daella Targaryen]] had been gifted with Dragon Eggs as well.

==References in the books==
===The Mystery Knight===
A joust is held to celebrate the wedding of Lord [[Ambrose Butterwell ]] to a Frey of the Crossing. The victor's prize is to be a dragon egg. Later the dragon egg goes missing. Sometime after that [[Bloodraven]] informs [[Dunk]] the egg was in fact taken by an agent of his who crawled up the privy shaft of the castle to take the egg from its guarded chamber, and is now safe.
===The Sworn Sword===
It is revealed that the thief [[Quickfinger]] was caught with stolen dragon eggs during the [[Blackfyre Rebellion]].{{Ref|TSS|''Legends II''}}
===A Game of Thrones===
[[Daenerys Targaryen]] is gifted three dragon’s eggs during her wedding. Later she hatches the eggs on her husband’s funeral pyre in the [[Dothraki Sea]].
===A Storm of Swords===
On [[Dragonstone]] [[Melisandre]] tells Stannis only a king’s blood can wake the stone dragon. Stannis grinds his teeth and replies,
{{Quote|“The dragons are done. The Targaryens tried to bring them back half a dozen times. And made fools of themselves, or corpses. {{Ref|aSoS|36|p 415}}}}
Later on Queen Selyse tries to persuade [[Stannis]] that he needs dragons to take the kingdom. Stannis has heard enough talk of stone dragons and reminds her,
{{Quote|Nine mages crossed the sea hatch [[Aegon III Targaryen|Aegon the Third's]] catche of eggs. [[Baelor the Blessed]] prayed over his for half a year. [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon the Fourth]] built dragons of wood and iron. [[Aerion Brightflame]] drank [[wildfire]] to transform himself. The mages failed, King Baelor's prayers went unanswered, the wooden dragons burned, and Prince Aerion died screaming {{ref|aSoS|54}}}}

===A Feast for Crows===
While riding in the chain winch at the [[Wall]] [[Samwell Tarly]] ponders that there were dragons at the Wall two hundred years ago. Sam thinks about Queen [[Alysanne Targaryen|Alysanne]] who had visited [[Castle Black]] on her dragon, and [[Jaehaerys I Targaryen|Jaehaerys]], her king, had come after her on his own. Sam wonders to himself, could [[Silverwing]] have left an egg behind? Or had Stannis found one egg on [[Dragonstone]]? Even if he has an egg, how can he hope to quicken it? He recalls that [[Baelor the Blessed]] had prayed over his eggs, the other [[Targaryen]]s had sought to hatch theirs with sorcery. All they got for it was farce and tragedy. {{Ref|aFfC|5}}

Lord [[Hallyne]] of the Guild of Alchemists asks [[Cersei]] that his pyromancers be allowed to hatch any dragon’s eggs that might turn up upon [[Dragonstone]], now that the isle is safely back in royal hands. Cersei remarks that if any such eggs remain, [[Stannis]] would have sold them to pay for his rebellion. She refrains from saying that the plan is mad. Ever since the last Targaryen dragon had died, all such attempts to hatch dragon eggs had ended in death, disaster, or disgrace. {{Ref|aFfC|36}}

[[Euron Greyjoy]] claims to have held a dragon’s egg in his hand. A [[Myr]]ish wizard swore he could hatch it if Euron gave him a year and all the gold that he required. When Euron grew bored with his excuses he slew him. As he watched his entrails sliding through his fingers the wizard said ''“But it has not been a year”''. When Victarion asks Euron to show him the egg he tells him that he threw it in the sea during one of his dark moods. {{Ref|aFfC|29}}
===A Dance with Dragons===
According to [[Mace Tyrell]] his son Ser [[Loras Tyrell]] and his men searched every inch of [[Dragonstone]] but did not find any gold, gems, or any sign of the fabled hoard of dragon eggs. {{Ref|aDwD|72}} [[Kevan Lannister]] privately doubts Mace’s protestations.

==Quotes==
{{Quote|"Bring my eggs." {{Ref|AGOT|72}}}} - [[Daenerys Targaryen]]’s command to her handmaidens

{{Quote|If he’d known they were like to hatch, he’d would have sat on them himself. {{Ref|aCoK|40}}}} - Ser [[Jorah]] to [[Dany]], on [[Illyrio]]’s gift of dragon eggs

{{Quote|"Maybe it will be my egg that hatches. That would be splendid." {{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 282 of 251-394}}}} - [[Egg]], to [[Dunk]]

==References and Notes==
{{References}}

Tyrion Lannister

2013-08-12T14:36:35Z

Bread & Salt: now.

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| image = [[File:Tirion_middle.jpg|250px]]
| image_caption = Artwork by Amoka ©
| Alias = The Imp Halfman Giant of Lannister Yollo Hugor Hill No-Nose Freak Dwarf
| Title = Acting [[Hand of the King]] (former) [[Master of Coin]] (former) Lord of Casterly Rock (by birth) Shield of [[Lannisport]] (by birth) [[Warden of the West]] (by birth)
| Allegiance = [[Second Sons]] [[House Lannister]]
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| Spouse = [[Tysha]], 1st (annulled) [[Sansa Stark]], 2nd (unconsummated)
| Place_of_Birth = [[Casterly Rock]]
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|274}}
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| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (POV) [[A Clash of Kings]] (POV) [[A Storm of Swords]] (POV) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (POV) [[The Winds of Winter]] (POV)
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| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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[[File:Tyrion arrested by Catelyn.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion arrested by [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] in the [[Crossroads Inn]].]]
[[File:Tyrion and Mord.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion being held in the [[Sky Cells]] at the [[Eyrie]].]]
[[File:Tyrion Battle of the Green Fork Hbo.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion at the [[Battle of the Green Fork]].]]

'''Tyrion Lannister''', is the third and youngest child of [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Joanna Lannister|Joanna]]. Tyrion is a dwarf, because of this he is sometimes mockingly called '''The Imp''' and '''The Halfman'''. He is one of the major [[POV Character]]s in the books. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], Tyrion is played by [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]].<ref>HBO: Game of Thrones:[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#/game-of-thrones/cast-and-crew/index.html Cast and Crew].</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
Tyrion is shrewd, educated, and calculating, but receives little respect for this from his father, because of his deformity, and the death of his mother during his birth. {{ref|asos|70}} He is capable of cruelty to his enemies, but also has great sympathy for fellow outcasts and the mistreated. {{ref|agot|24}} Tyrion gets on well with his brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] but has a cooler relationship with sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. Tyrion’s deformity was the cause of many problems and persecution, although mitigated to some extent by his high social standing and his family’s wealth and power.

Tyrion is a dwarf, he has stubby legs, a jutting forehead, mismatched eyes of green and black,{{ref|agot|5}} and a mixture of pale blond and black hair. {{ref|adwd|47}} Later, he grows a beard, which also contains both blonde and black hair. {{ref|acok|2}} After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion has a grisly facial scar that has removed most of his nose. {{ref|asos|4}}
See also [[:Category:Images of Tyrion Lannister|this collection of images]].
==History==
Tyrion is the third child of Tywin and Joanna Lannister when his two older siblings, Cersei and Jaime, were already nine years old. His mother died giving birth to him, and as a result his father blamed him for her death and hates him for that and for his deformity. Tyrion finds himself excluded from regular family life, especially by his father and by his sister, who abused him during his childhood.

When Tyrion was thirteen, he and his brother Jaime rescued a common girl, [[Tysha]], from some bandits. While Jaime went after the bandits Tyrion took care of Tysha. To his amazement Tysha liked him, and they eventually made love. Tyrion became so enamoured by her that he bribed a [[septon]] and married her in secret. Their happiness lasted only two weeks, however, before Tyrion’s father got news of the wedding. Lord Tywin commanded Jaime to say that Tysha was a prostitute whom Jaime had hired for Tyrion’s benefit. Because the “whore” had presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more. {{ref|agot|42}}

After his brother’s proposed marriage to [[Lysa Tully]] fell through when [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] named Jaime to the [[Kingsguard]], Tywin offered Tyrion as a replacement, only to be told by [[Hoster Tully]] that his daughter required a “whole man”. {{ref|asos|19}}

When Tyrion became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden from taking a tour of the Nine Free Cities as his uncles [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]] and [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] had done. Instead Tywin gave him charge of all the cisterns and drains at [[Casterly Rock]]. {{ref|adwd|8}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Tyrion goes north to [[Winterfell]] as part of King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] royal procession. {{ref|agot|4}} After [[Bran Stark|Bran Stark’s]] fall, Tyrion makes [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] offer his sympathies to Bran’s parents, though his nephew only obeys after Tyrion hits him. {{ref|agot|9}} Suspicious of the accident, Tyrion took notice of his siblings’ reactions to the news that Bran is expected to survive. {{ref|agot|9}}

When the royal family leaves Winterfell, Tyrion rides north to see the [[Wall]] before returning south. He joins the [[Night’s Watch|ranger]] [[Benjen Stark]] and new recruit [[Jon Snow]] for the journey and is accompanied by two guards, [[Jyck]] and [[Morrec]]. While at the Wall, Tyrion sees firsthand the poor state of the Night’s Watch; {{ref|agot|13}} it is dwindling in numbers, ranging parties are going missing more often than usual, and [[wildlings]] are fleeing south like never before. He is implored by [[Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont]] to make King Robert and his father, Lord Tywin, aware of the Watch’s needs.

During his time at the Wall, Tyrion befriends and advises Jon Snow. Tyrion sees himself as an outcast on similar ground as the bastard-born Snow and helps Jon cope with his identity and lot in life. Before Tyrion leaves the Wall, Jon asks him to help his brother Bran in the same way that he helped Jon; Tyrion promises to do so. {{ref|agot|21}} On his way back south, he stops at Winterfell. Despite initially receiving a hostile welcome from [[Robb Stark]] and an attack from the Stark [[direwolf|direwolves]] at his arrival, Tyrion gives Maester [[Luwin]] plans for a special saddle that will allow Bran to ride a horse despite his disability and is offered rooms at Winterfell. He declines, choosing to stay at an inn nearby. {{ref|agot|24}}

On his way back to [[King’s Landing]] Tyrion encounters [[Catelyn Stark]] at a roadside inn called the [[Crossroads Inn|Crossroads]]. Unknown to Tyrion, Catelyn was told by [[Petyr Baelish]] that the dagger used in Bran’s failed assassination attempt belonged to Tyrion. As a result, Catelyn, with the help of some of her father’s bannermen present at the inn, arrests Tyrion and takes him to the [[Eyrie]] to be tried. {{ref|agot|28}}{{ref|agot|31}} There, Lysa Arryn puts him on trial for the crime of sending an assassin to end Bran’s life, as well as the murder of her husband [[Jon Arryn]], though he is innocent of both. To break him, Lysa locks him up in the [[Sky Cells|sky cells]], which are prison cells with a floor slanted toward an exposed cliff side. While confined in the sky cell, Tyrion wonders about who the true perpetrators of his accused crimes could be. He thinks it possible that his siblings were responsible for both, but that Bran’s assassination attempt seems too clumsily done to be Jaime or Cersei’s work. Tyrion eventually manages to bribe his gaoler [[Mord]] into telling Lysa that he is ready to confess. When Lysa summons the complete court of the [[Vale]] to hear his confession, he demands a [[trial by combat]]. {{ref|agot|38}}

Tyrion’s champion, the sellsword [[Bronn]], kills Lysa’s champion Ser [[Vardis Egen]], securing Tyrion’s freedom. {{ref|agot|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[High Road]], and along the way they are surrounded by men of the [[mountain clans of the Vale|mountain clans]], led by [[Shagga]]. Tyrion uses his quick wits and words to win over the clansmen by promising them weapons, armor, and glory. {{ref|agot|42}} The group rides out of the mountains, eventually reaching the Lannister host led by his father, Lord Tywin, who has invaded the Riverlands following Tyrion’s capture.

Lord Tywin decides to place Tyrion and his clansmen in the front for the upcoming battle with the Stark forces and Tyrion is given a number of new servants including a new squire, [[Podrick Payne]]. That night, he seds Bronn looking for a female companion for him, and Bronn brings back a young prostitute named [[Shae]], whom Tyrion takes an immediate liking to and takes into his service. The next day, he fights in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]] against Stark forces commanded by [[Roose Bolton]]. {{ref|agot|62}} The battle is won, though afterward the Lannisters learn it was only a diversion and that meanwhile Jaime Lannister’s host was defeated at Riverrun and he himself was captured. Lord Tywin retreats to Harrenhal and sends Tyrion to King’s Landing to act as [[Hand of the King]] in his stead, to rein in his newly crowned nephew and prevent further mistakes from Joffrey like [[Eddard Stark]]’s execution, but forbids him from taking Shae along. Tyrion disobeys and Shae accompanies him in secret. {{ref|agot|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Tyrion, along with his mountain clansmen, Shae, and Bronn, arrives at King’s Landing and presents his father Tywin’s letter which names him the Hand of the King in his father’s absence, much to Cersei’s dismay. She threatens to name it a forgery and throw him in the dungeon, but Tyrion tells her that he can get Jaime back and Cersei concedes. She also admits she needs help and agrees to ally herself with Tyrion, though they both have no intention of keeping it. This leads to a power struggle between the two. Tyrion takes up residence in the [[Tower of the Hand]] and as his first act of business removes the heads of the executed [[House Stark|Stark]] household from the walls of the [[Red Keep]]. {{ref|acok|3}}

Tyrion forges an alliance with Varys who helps him to replace [[Janos Slynt]] with Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] as Commander of the [[City Watch of King’s Landing|City Watch]] and sends Slynt and a few of his cronies to the Wall. {{ref|acok|8}} Next he concocts a plan to weed out Cersei’s informants on the [[small council]]. He tells Petyr Baelish, [[Varys]], and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] each different plans that he has for [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]; {{ref|acok|17}} when Cersei confronts him about the plan that he divulged to Pycelle, Tyrion knows that Pycelle is the informant. {{ref|acok|20}} Tyrion’s true plan is to send Myrcella to [[Dorne]] to be betrothed to Prince [[Trystane Martell]]. To further garner Dornish support, he offers Prince [[Doran Martell]] a seat on the small council and promises to turn over the men that murdered Doran’s sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]]. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|20}} For his part in giving Cersei private information, Pycelle is confined to the black cells beneath the keep. {{ref|acok|25}}

With his place at court secure and successfully outsmarting Cersei at every turn, Tyrion begins a series of initiatives to prepare the city for the siege, commanding the construction of fishing boats. He also opens the Kingswood for hunting and sends gold cloaks out to forage, but this is still not enough to feed the overcrowded city. He commands the blacksmiths around the city to begin construction on a giant chain which will allow him to close the [[Blackwater Rush]]. He also has [[Hallyne]] of the [[Alchemists’ Guild]] synthesize a large quantity of [[wildfire]]. Eventually, he sends his clansmen to the Kingswood to snuff out outriders and scouts loyal to Stannis.

Tyrion sets Shae up in a manse outside the Red Keep to keep her existence in King’s Landing a secret. {{ref|acok|8}} Varys, however, knows her location, and helps Tyrion use [[Chataya’s brothel]] as a front. Once inside the brothel, Tyrion passes through a tunnel that takes him to a location where he can safely travel to Shae’s manse without being followed. {{ref|acok|15}} She is restless there, however, and wishes to see more of court. Following the [[riot of King’s Landing]], Tyrion moves Shae to the Red Keep for her safety in the guise of [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys’s]] maid. {{ref|acok|44}}

Tyrion’s cousin, Ser [[Cleos Frey]], brings peace terms from Robb Stark, asking that [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark]] be released (although Arya is not, in fact, held at King’s Landing) in exchange for all captives save Jaime, and that Joffrey renounce all claims to the [[North]] and Riverlands. {{ref|acok|7}} Tyrion deems the terms unacceptable {{ref|acok|20}} and sends Cleos back with the counter-offer that he will release Sansa and Arya along with a number of captive Stark bannermen in return for Robb’s fealty and Jaime’s release, setting up an escape plan for Jamie to be orchestrated by men in Cleos’s party. {{ref|acok|25}} Tyrion is also visited by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] of the Night’s Watch, who has brought with him the severed hand of a [[wight]] from the Wall, but it rots away before he can present it. Ser Alliser is mocked by Tyrion and the court, but is promised his pick of the city’s dungeons as recruits. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}}

When [[Renly Baratheon]] is murdered, Tyrion seizes the opportunity to bring the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] to the Lannister cause. He sends Petyr Baelish to treat with the Tyrells and offers Joffrey in marriage to [[Margaery Tyrell]]. {{ref|acok|36}} Tyrion continues to thwart Cersei’s plans, including one to send a disguised Tommen to [[Rosby]] to remove him from the reach of the mobs and Tyrion. {{ref|acok|44}} On one occasion Tyrion drugs her so that she will not be able to attend the small council. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}} In retaliation Cersei has [[Alayaya]], who she believes is Tyrion’s whore, seized and beaten, offering her freedom in return for custody over Tommen. Tyrion is furious and swears to take from Cersei everything she cares about. {{ref|acok|54}}

When Stannis’s forces attack King’s Landing, later called the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion sets in place a giant chain in [[Blackwater Bay]] which traps many ships, Lannister and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] alike. The wildfire commissioned from the Alchemists is then launched at the ships and they are trapped in the bay to burn. {{ref|acok|58}} During the battle, Tyrion is forced to lead a sortie out past the city walls because [[Sandor Clegane]], terrified of fire, refuses to do so. {{ref|acok|59}} Tyrion heads his men in a wedge formation dispersing the men assaulting the [[King’s Gate]]. He then continues with his men to hold the men crossing over a makeshift bridge made of of sinking galleys of Stannis’s fleet in the river. During the battle Ser [[Mandon Moore]] of the Kingsguard turns on Tyrion and tries to kill him, slicing off his nose, but Tyrion is saved by his squire Podrick Payne before Moore could finish him. {{ref|acok|61}} Tyrion passes out and wakes up in bed some time after the battle, suffering from serious facial wounds and the loss of most of his nose. {{ref|acok|67}} Tyrion suspects that Cersei was behind the assassination attempt.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Flawed by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion loveless marriage to [[Sansa Stark]]. Art by algesiras ©]]


Tyrion makes a complete recovery some weeks later, only to learn that Lord Tywin had taken all the glory and taken over as Hand. Tyrion finds himself demoted to [[Master of Coin]], replacing [[Petyr Baelish]] and forced into a political marriage with Sansa Stark to forestall a Tyrell move to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]]. {{ref|asos|19}}

The wedding to Sansa goes forward, though Tyrion chooses to defy custom and does not consummate their marriage, saying he will not touch her unless and until she wants him to. His father pushes him to consummate the marriage with [[Sansa]] for the good of the house, but Tyrion never does - a decision that earns him scorn and jest in court. {{ref|asos|28}} Tyrion’s marriage brings him no joy, as Sansa is repulsed by him and [[Shae]] remains indifferent.{{ref|asos|32}}

At King Joffrey’s wedding feast, Tyrion gets into an altercation with Joffrey, and soon afterwards the king is murdered, an act for which Tyrion is unjustly accused and arrested by command of Cersei. {{ref|asos|60}} Tyrion again stands trial for a crime he did not commit. During the trial, [[Cersei]] brings Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack]], who lies that Joffrey believed Tyrion meant to muder him; Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole poison from him and Shae is brought to humiliate him before the court. After the first day the situation seems hopeless, but Tyrion again seeks trial by combat after Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] visits his cell and offers to serve as his champion in the trial. In the trial, Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] stands against [[Gregor Clegane]], but fails to win, although not without mortally wounding him first. {{ref|asos|70}}

Oberyn’s death condemns Tyrion, but the night before he is to be executed, he is freed from his prison cell by his brother [[Jaime]] and a reluctant [[Varys]]. During their escape, Jaime reveals that their father made him lie about [[Tysha]] being a prostitute, and that she was just a peasant girl who had genuinely loved Tyrion.

Tyrion sees this admission as an unforgivable betrayal and abandons Jaime, promising retribution on Jaime, Tywin and Cersei. He also torments Jaime by telling his brother of Cersei's repeated infidelities, and falsely claims responsibility for Joffrey's death.

Before leaving the [[Red Keep]], Tyrion visits his father’s room and, finding [[Shae]] in his bed, strangles her. He then confronts his father, demanding he tell him what became of Tysha. Tywin tells Tyrion that she went ''“wherever whores go.”'' Tyrion then slays his father and escapes. {{ref|asos|77}} He flees [[Across the Narrow Sea|across the Narrow Sea]] to an unknown destination chosen by [[Varys]]. After his escape, Cersei offers a lordship for any that brings her Tyrion.

===''A Feast of Crows''===
Tyrion remains in his flight across the Narrow Sea. He is regarded by most as accursed as a [[Kinslaying|kinslayer]] and Kingslayer, although he is guilty of only the former. Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, Cersei’s bounty on Tyrion results in the killing of a number of innocent dwarfs and children; Cersei refuses to publicly punish anyone who does so, for fear it will discourage other such bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Tyrion flees across the [[Narrow Sea]], pondering his options. Tyrion arrives drunk and despondent at the manse of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in [[Pentos]]. {{ref|adwd|1}} There Illyrio tells Tyrion of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and her three dragons.

He then sends Tyrion, along with retainers Griff, Young Griff, Ser [[Rolly Duckfield]], Septa [[Lemore]], and [[Haldon]], called Halfmaester, aboard the ship ''[[Shy Maid]]'' to [[Volantis]]. During the trip, he assumes the aliases Yollo and Hugor Hill. {{ref|adwd|5}} In Volantis, they plan to meet up with Daenerys to strengthen her cause. En route, Tyrion realizes that Griff is in fact the exiled lord [[Jon Connington]], and Young Griff is [[Aegon Targaryen]], saved from the [[Sack of King’s Landing]]. During the journey, the boat is ambushed by [[stone men]] and Tyrion is knocked overboard; he would have drowned had Jon Connington not dived in to save him. {{ref|adwd|18}}

While in [[Selhorys]], Tyrion (under Haldon’s direction) plays a game of [[Cyvasse]] with [[Qavo Nogarys]], a customs offical, in order to gain information. Tyrion later visits a brothel, a modest one compared to those he he had been wont to frequent in [[Lannisport]] and King’s Landing, where he is recognized and captured by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]]. {{ref|adwd|22}} Jorah plans to bring Tyrion to Daenerys to regain her favor. Jorah takes him to the [[Widow of the Waterfront]] to try and arrange passage out of Volantis. There Tyrion meets a female dwarf performer named [[Penny]] who, upon learning that Tyrion was indirectly responsible for her brother [[Oppo]]’s death, tries to kill him. {{ref|adwd|27}} Penny joins the pair as they travel to [[Meereen]] by sea aboard the ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'', where the crew take to calling him No-Nose, to reach Daenerys. On the ship Penny eventually befriends Tyrion. {{ref|adwd|33}}

While aboard the ''Selaesori Qhoran'', Tyrion makes the acquaintance of [[Moqorro]]. One night Tyrion asks him what he sees in the flames. Moqorro replies dragons, adding:

{{Quote|Dragons [[Maester Aemon|old]] and young, true and false, [[House Targaryen|bright]] and [[House Blackfyre|dark]]. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.}}

Tyrion wonders if he may be seeing Penny in the flames as they are almost of size, Moqorro tells him no.

Soon, however, Tyrion, Penny, and Mormont are captured by a [[Yunkai|Yunkai’i]] slaver and bought by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]. They are instructed by his overseer [[Nurse]] on how to treat their new master. {{ref|adwd|47}} Tyrion and Penny are forced to perform a mock joust in the [[fighting pits]], not knowing that they were to be eaten by lions at the end of the show. Daenerys Targaryen, for whom the show was staged, learns of their impending fate and stops the lions from being released. {{ref|adwd|52}}

After their new master dies of the [[bloody flux]] the trio escapes. Tyrion arranges for the three to join the sellsword company the [[Second Sons]], under the command of [[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]], by promising the company the wealth of Casterly Rock. {{ref|adwd|57}}{{ref|adwd|66}} While the Sons’ current contract is to fight Daenerys, Tyrion hopes to win them to her side.

==Relationships==
===Tywin Lannister===
[[File:Tywin and Tyrion.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion and his father. ([[Game of Thrones|TV series]])]]
[[File:Tyrion and shae by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion and [[Shae]], his favourite. Art by algesiras ©]]

Tyrion has a difficult relation with his father. His mother died giving birth to Tyrion, something his father never forgave him. {{ref|asos|4}} When his father found out Tyrion had married Tysha, he had her raped by his guardsmen and finally by Tyrion himself to teach them a lesson. {{ref|agot|42}} Her memory haunted him for a very long time {{ref|acok|29}} and he began to seek his pleasure with prostitutes. {{ref|acok|8}} To his father this brought further shame on their house. {{ref|asos|4}} Tyrion himself has thought about killing his father. {{ref|agot|42}}

When Tyrion was kidnapped by Catelyn Tully, his father invaded [[the Riverlands]] not out of concern for Tyrion but to defend the honour of their house. Later he had Tyrion fight in the vanguard at the Battle of the Green Fork which made Tyrion suspect that his father would not have been unhappy to see him killed.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

Though their relation is bad, his father recognized his capacities enough to send him to King’s Landing to act as Hand of the King in his stead. {{ref|agot|69}} Tyrion did well, keeping the Dornish neutral and building a chain across the Blackwater river to trap [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]’ fleet, something his father acknowledged. As a reward Tyrion asked to be named Tywin’s heir, which he was under the laws as Jaime had joined the Kingsguard and thus was unable to inherit. His father flatly refused, saying that he would never allow Tyrion to make Casterly Rock his whorehouse. {{ref|asos|4}}

After Joffrey’s death, Cersei accused Tyrion of murdering him. Tywin formed a court to sit in judgement of his son. Tyrion demanded a trial by battle and when his champion lost his father sentenced him to death though it is not clear if Tywin really thought Tyrion was guilty. Jaime freed Tyrion the night before his execution. He told him this was to make up for lying to Tyrion that Tysha had been a whore who was after riches while she had been what she claimed to be: a common girl and in love with Tyrion. Armed with this knowledge Tyrion visited his father and found him with Shae, Tyrion’s former mistress. Tyrion killed them both. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Cersei Lannister===
Cersei Lannister is Tyrion’s older sister and has always despised him. When Oberyn Martell and his sister Elia Martell visited Casterly Rock in their teens, they were shown the newborn baby Tyrion by both Jaime and Cersei. Cersei twisted Tyrion’s penis until he cried, only stopping when Jaime intervened. When she read how Baelor the Blessed imprisoned his sisters for being beautiful, Cersei went to Tyrion’s nursery and pinched him till he cried. Cersei’s cruelty to Tyrion only increased when she heard the prophecy of Maggy the Frog and the meaning of the word “Valonquar” (high valyrian for Little Brother).

She never kept her hatred for Tyrion a secret and made him aware of it throughout his life, and Tyrion returned her hatred in kind, developing a deep contempt for Cersei. Tyrion even dreamed of hiring a [[Faceless Men|Faceless Man]] to kill his sister. {{ref|acok|44}} The only thing that kept the two from harming each other was Jaime. Cersei once stated that she would have killed Tyrion but Jaime would never have forgiven her if she did {{ref|acok|54}} and Tyrion would not have harmed Cersei because he loves his brother Jaime and knows how much Cersei means to him.

The ironic thing is if Cersei had only ever treated Tyrion with even a little love and respect (a thing Tyrion craves for, especially from his family), Tyrion would return this with utter devotion and love to Cersei, the same he feels for his brother Jaime. Unknown to Tyrion is that every time Cersei see’s Tyrion or thinks of him all she remember is the prophecy of Maggy the Frog. When Joffrey was murdered, Cersei falsely believed Tyrion was responsible and did everything in her power to see him die, even getting his former whore Shae to lie and humiliate her “Valonquar” further before his death.

When Tyrion escaped and killed Tywin, Cersei now sees him in every shadow. She offered a lordship to any man who killed Tyrion resulting in the mass murder of innocent dwarfs and small children. In addition, Cersei will not punish any man who kills an innocent dwarf as she believes it might make the next man hesitate.

Cersei upon hearing about Mrycella’s injury at the hands of [[Gerold Dayne]] believed Dayne was Tyrion’s catspaw and Tyrion had him cut off Myrcella’s ear the way an agent of Cersei (Mandon Moore) once cut off Tyrion’s nose. With her Uncle Kevan now dead by the crossbow bolt (unknown to Cersei is the fact Kevan was killed by Varys), Cersei will most likely believe Tyrion killed Kevan the same way he killed their father and will see even more of him in the shadows and in her nightmares. Tyrion also remarks on his journey that the only reward he will ask from Daenerys Targaryen for his service is the right to rape and kill Cersei.

===Jaime Lannister===
Jaime Lannister is Tyrion’s older brother. Growing up Jaime was the only one who ever treated Tyrion with love and affection and for this Tyrion believed he would forgive his brother for anything. {{ref|agot|9}} Jaime was full of guilt over the lie their father had him tell Tyrion about Tysha, as Jaime was unaware of what his father planned and upon hearing about it lives with further guilt. The guilt had Jaime free his brother even when he was not sure of Tyrion’s innocence in the murder of his son Joffrey.

Upon freeing his brother, Jaime finally confessed the truth about Tysha causing an enraged Tyrion to reveal to Jaime the truth about Cersei’s infidelity towards Jaime and Tyrion also falsely told Jaime he did indeed kill his son Joffrey just to further hurt Jaime.

Tyrion mentioned to Illyrio Mopatis that Jaime and Cersei are his to kill. Despite this statement Tyrion while having no doubt about his desire to kill and hurt Cersei still harbours mixed feelings towards Jaime.

===His Uncles===
From all reports, Tyrion got on well with all of his Uncles, Gerion, Tygett and [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]].

Gerion and Tygett once asked Tyrion what gift he would like for his next nameday, Tyrion asked for a baby dragon and Tygett kindly told Tyrion that all the dragons were extinct and was careful not to hurt his nephew’s feelings. When [[Tyrek Lannister]] disappeared in the riots of King’s Landing, Tyrion instructed the watch that the lad was to be found alive or dead as his father, Tygett, was always kind to Tyrion.

Gerion gifted Tyrion with the Books [[Wonders]] and [[Wonders Made by Man]] by [[Lomas Longstrider]] and often had Tyrion recite the sixteen wonders of the World. Tyrion wished to accompany his uncle Gerion on his quest to find and retrieve [[Brightroar]] but his father would not allow him.

Until Tyrion was accused of killing Joffrey, Kevan Lannister was respectful to Tyrion and was one of the few after his injuries during the battle of the Blackwater to praise him and his abilities.

===Tysha===
Tysha was Tyrion’s first wife. For years Tyrion believed she was a whore who his brother hired so Tyrion could experience his first woman. Because of this he thought women would only want him for his money. {{ref|acok|3}} When Jaime rescued Tyrion from his cell he told him the truth: Tysha was a girl chance met on the road. As she had seemed to genuinely love Tyrion, he became furious with his brother. In retaliation Tyrion told Jaime that Cersei had bedded others and that he had killed Jaime’s son. The latter part was not true but was said to hurt Jaime. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Shae===
Shae was Tyrion’s whore who he began, despite his better judgement, to develop feelings towards. In order to protect Shae, Tyrion enlisted Varys help in creating an alias of Shae as a bedmaid. Tyrion reminded himself on several occasions that the only thing Shae loved about him was his gold. It turns out his assessment was correct, as Shae testified against him in his trial falsely (under Cersei’s direction) claiming Tyrion planned to kill the King, his father and his sister and seize the throne for himself. {{ref|asos|77}}

When Tyrion escaped his dungeon he went to his fathers chamber. There he found Shae in his father’s bed. He killed her and later his father. {{ref|asos|77}}{{Clear}}

==Quotes by Tyrion==

{{Quote|'''Tyrion:''' Let me give you some advice bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
'''Jon''': What the hell do you know about being a bastard?

'''Tyrion''': All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes.
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– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|''My mind is my weapon. My [[Jaime Lannister|brother]] has his sword, [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] has his warhammer and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much Jon Snow.''{{ref|aGOT|5}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|'''Tyrion''': When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own. 
'''Jon Snow''': You did? 
'''Tyrion''': Oh, yes. Even a stunted, twisted, ugly little boy can look down over the world when he's seated on a dragon's back. I used to start fires in the bowels of Casterly Rock and stare at the flames for hours, pretending they were dragonfire. Sometimes I'd imagine my father burning. At other times, my sister. Don't look at me that way, bastard. I know your secret. You've dreamt the same kind of dreams.{{Ref|aGoT|13}}}} - Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

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{{Quote|''Trust no one'', my prince. Not your [[Haldon|chainless maester]], not your [[Jon Connington|false father]], not the gallant [[Rolly Duckfield|Duck]] or the lovely [[Lemore]] nor these other fine friends who grew you up from a bean. Above all, trust not the [[Illyrio Mopatis|cheese monger]], nor [[Varys|the Spider]], nor this little [[Daenerys Targaryen|dragon queen]] you mean to marry. All this mistrust will sour your stomach and keep you awake at night, ’tis true, but better that than the long sleep that does not end''. {{ref|adwd|22}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Aegon Targaryen|Young Griff]]

{{Quote|''You poor stupid blind crippled fool. Must I spell out every little thing for you? Very well. Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking Lancel and [[Osmund Kettleblack]] and probably [[Moon Boy]] for all I know. And I am the monster they all say I am. Yes, I killed [[Joffrey Baratheon|your vile son]].''{{Ref|aSoS|77}}}}
- Tyrion to [[Jaime]]

{{Quote|''Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical, the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys.It's the [[High Sparrow|ones who believe in gods]] who make the trouble''.{{ref|aDwD|27}}}}

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| Alias = The Imp Halfman Giant of Lannister Yollo Hugor Hill No-Nose Freak Dwarf
| Title = Acting [[Hand of the King]] (former) [[Master of Coin]] (former) Lord of Casterly Rock (by birth) Shield of [[Lannisport]] (by birth) [[Warden of the West]] (by birth)
| Allegiance = [[Second Sons]] [[House Lannister]]
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| Spouse = [[Tysha]], 1st (annulled) [[Sansa Stark]], 2nd (unconsummated)
| Place_of_Birth = [[Casterly Rock]]
| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|274}}
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| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (POV) [[A Clash of Kings]] (POV) [[A Storm of Swords]] (POV) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (POV) [[The Winds of Winter]] (POV)
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| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]]
| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 1|Season 1]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 2|Season 2]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]]
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[[File:Tyrion arrested by Catelyn.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion arrested by [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] in the [[Crossroads Inn]].]]
[[File:Tyrion and Mord.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion being held in the [[Sky Cells]] at the [[Eyrie]].]]
[[File:Tyrion Battle of the Green Fork Hbo.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion at the [[Battle of the Green Fork]].]]

'''Tyrion Lannister''', is the third and youngest child of [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Joanna Lannister|Joanna]]. Tyrion is a dwarf, because of this he is sometimes mockingly called '''The Imp''' and '''The Halfman'''. He is one of the major [[POV Character]]s in the books. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], Tyrion is played by [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]].<ref>HBO: Game of Thrones:[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#/game-of-thrones/cast-and-crew/index.html Cast and Crew].</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
Tyrion is shrewd, educated, and calculating, but receives little respect for this from his father, because of his deformity, and the death of his mother during his birth. {{ref|asos|70}} He is capable of cruelty to his enemies, but also has great sympathy for fellow outcasts and the mistreated. {{ref|agot|24}} Tyrion gets on well with his brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] but has a cooler relationship with sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. Tyrion’s deformity was the cause of many problems and persecution, although mitigated to some extent by his high social standing and his family’s wealth and power.

Tyrion is a dwarf, he has stubby legs, a jutting forehead, mismatched eyes of green and black,{{ref|agot|5} and a mixture of pale blond and black hair. {{ref|adwd|47}} Later, he grows a beard, which also contains both blonde and black hair. {{ref|acok|2}} After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion has a grisly facial scar that has removed most of his nose. {{ref|asos|4}}
See also [[:Category:Images of Tyrion Lannister|this collection of images]].
==History==
Tyrion is the third child of Tywin and Joanna Lannister when his two older siblings, Cersei and Jaime, were already nine years old. His mother died giving birth to him, and as a result his father blamed him for her death and hates him for that and for his deformity. Tyrion finds himself excluded from regular family life, especially by his father and by his sister, who abused him during his childhood.

When Tyrion was thirteen, he and his brother Jaime rescued a common girl, [[Tysha]], from some bandits. While Jaime went after the bandits Tyrion took care of Tysha. To his amazement Tysha liked him, and they eventually made love. Tyrion became so enamoured by her that he bribed a [[septon]] and married her in secret. Their happiness lasted only two weeks, however, before Tyrion’s father got news of the wedding. Lord Tywin commanded Jaime to say that Tysha was a prostitute whom Jaime had hired for Tyrion’s benefit. Because the “whore” had presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more. {{ref|agot|42}}

After his brother’s proposed marriage to [[Lysa Tully]] fell through when [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] named Jaime to the [[Kingsguard]], Tywin offered Tyrion as a replacement, only to be told by [[Hoster Tully]] that his daughter required a “whole man”. {{ref|asos|19}}

When Tyrion became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden from taking a tour of the Nine Free Cities as his uncles [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]] and [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] had done. Instead Tywin gave him charge of all the cisterns and drains at [[Casterly Rock]]. {{ref|adwd|8}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Tyrion goes north to [[Winterfell]] as part of King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] royal procession. {{ref|agot|4}} After [[Bran Stark|Bran Stark’s]] fall, Tyrion makes [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] offer his sympathies to Bran’s parents, though his nephew only obeys after Tyrion hits him. {{ref|agot|9}} Suspicious of the accident, Tyrion took notice of his siblings’ reactions to the news that Bran is expected to survive. {{ref|agot|9}}

When the royal family leaves Winterfell, Tyrion rides north to see the [[Wall]] before returning south. He joins the [[Night’s Watch|ranger]] [[Benjen Stark]] and new recruit [[Jon Snow]] for the journey and is accompanied by two guards, [[Jyck]] and [[Morrec]]. While at the Wall, Tyrion sees firsthand the poor state of the Night’s Watch; {{ref|agot|13}} it is dwindling in numbers, ranging parties are going missing more often than usual, and [[wildlings]] are fleeing south like never before. He is implored by [[Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont]] to make King Robert and his father, Lord Tywin, aware of the Watch’s needs.

During his time at the Wall, Tyrion befriends and advises Jon Snow. Tyrion sees himself as an outcast on similar ground as the bastard-born Snow and helps Jon cope with his identity and lot in life. Before Tyrion leaves the Wall, Jon asks him to help his brother Bran in the same way that he helped Jon; Tyrion promises to do so. {{ref|agot|21}} On his way back south, he stops at Winterfell. Despite initially receiving a hostile welcome from [[Robb Stark]] and an attack from the Stark [[direwolf|direwolves]] at his arrival, Tyrion gives Maester [[Luwin]] plans for a special saddle that will allow Bran to ride a horse despite his disability and is offered rooms at Winterfell. He declines, choosing to stay at an inn nearby. {{ref|agot|24}}

On his way back to [[King’s Landing]] Tyrion encounters [[Catelyn Stark]] at a roadside inn called the [[Crossroads Inn|Crossroads]]. Unknown to Tyrion, Catelyn was told by [[Petyr Baelish]] that the dagger used in Bran’s failed assassination attempt belonged to Tyrion. As a result, Catelyn, with the help of some of her father’s bannermen present at the inn, arrests Tyrion and takes him to the [[Eyrie]] to be tried. {{ref|agot|28}}{{ref|agot|31}} There, Lysa Arryn puts him on trial for the crime of sending an assassin to end Bran’s life, as well as the murder of her husband [[Jon Arryn]], though he is innocent of both. To break him, Lysa locks him up in the [[Sky Cells|sky cells]], which are prison cells with a floor slanted toward an exposed cliff side. While confined in the sky cell, Tyrion wonders about who the true perpetrators of his accused crimes could be. He thinks it possible that his siblings were responsible for both, but that Bran’s assassination attempt seems too clumsily done to be Jaime or Cersei’s work. Tyrion eventually manages to bribe his gaoler [[Mord]] into telling Lysa that he is ready to confess. When Lysa summons the complete court of the [[Vale]] to hear his confession, he demands a [[trial by combat]]. {{ref|agot|38}}

Tyrion’s champion, the sellsword [[Bronn]], kills Lysa’s champion Ser [[Vardis Egen]], securing Tyrion’s freedom. {{ref|agot|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[High Road]], and along the way they are surrounded by men of the [[mountain clans of the Vale|mountain clans]], led by [[Shagga]]. Tyrion uses his quick wits and words to win over the clansmen by promising them weapons, armor, and glory. {{ref|agot|42}} The group rides out of the mountains, eventually reaching the Lannister host led by his father, Lord Tywin, who has invaded the Riverlands following Tyrion’s capture.

Lord Tywin decides to place Tyrion and his clansmen in the front for the upcoming battle with the Stark forces and Tyrion is given a number of new servants including a new squire, [[Podrick Payne]]. That night, he seds Bronn looking for a female companion for him, and Bronn brings back a young prostitute named [[Shae]], whom Tyrion takes an immediate liking to and takes into his service. The next day, he fights in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]] against Stark forces commanded by [[Roose Bolton]]. {{ref|agot|62}} The battle is won, though afterward the Lannisters learn it was only a diversion and that meanwhile Jaime Lannister’s host was defeated at Riverrun and he himself was captured. Lord Tywin retreats to Harrenhal and sends Tyrion to King’s Landing to act as [[Hand of the King]] in his stead, to rein in his newly crowned nephew and prevent further mistakes from Joffrey like [[Eddard Stark]]’s execution, but forbids him from taking Shae along. Tyrion disobeys and Shae accompanies him in secret. {{ref|agot|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Tyrion, along with his mountain clansmen, Shae, and Bronn, arrives at King’s Landing and presents his father Tywin’s letter which names him the Hand of the King in his father’s absence, much to Cersei’s dismay. She threatens to name it a forgery and throw him in the dungeon, but Tyrion tells her that he can get Jaime back and Cersei concedes. She also admits she needs help and agrees to ally herself with Tyrion, though they both have no intention of keeping it. This leads to a power struggle between the two. Tyrion takes up residence in the [[Tower of the Hand]] and as his first act of business removes the heads of the executed [[House Stark|Stark]] household from the walls of the [[Red Keep]]. {{ref|acok|3}}

Tyrion forges an alliance with Varys who helps him to replace [[Janos Slynt]] with Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] as Commander of the [[City Watch of King’s Landing|City Watch]] and sends Slynt and a few of his cronies to the Wall. {{ref|acok|8}} Next he concocts a plan to weed out Cersei’s informants on the [[small council]]. He tells Petyr Baelish, [[Varys]], and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] each different plans that he has for [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]; {{ref|acok|17}} when Cersei confronts him about the plan that he divulged to Pycelle, Tyrion knows that Pycelle is the informant. {{ref|acok|20}} Tyrion’s true plan is to send Myrcella to [[Dorne]] to be betrothed to Prince [[Trystane Martell]]. To further garner Dornish support, he offers Prince [[Doran Martell]] a seat on the small council and promises to turn over the men that murdered Doran’s sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]]. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|20}} For his part in giving Cersei private information, Pycelle is confined to the black cells beneath the keep. {{ref|acok|25}}

With his place at court secure and successfully outsmarting Cersei at every turn, Tyrion begins a series of initiatives to prepare the city for the siege, commanding the construction of fishing boats. He also opens the Kingswood for hunting and sends gold cloaks out to forage, but this is still not enough to feed the overcrowded city. He commands the blacksmiths around the city to begin construction on a giant chain which will allow him to close the [[Blackwater Rush]]. He also has [[Hallyne]] of the [[Alchemists’ Guild]] synthesize a large quantity of [[wildfire]]. Eventually, he sends his clansmen to the Kingswood to snuff out outriders and scouts loyal to Stannis.

Tyrion sets Shae up in a manse outside the Red Keep to keep her existence in King’s Landing a secret. {{ref|acok|8}} Varys, however, knows her location, and helps Tyrion use [[Chataya’s brothel]] as a front. Once inside the brothel, Tyrion passes through a tunnel that takes him to a location where he can safely travel to Shae’s manse without being followed. {{ref|acok|15}} She is restless there, however, and wishes to see more of court. Following the [[riot of King’s Landing]], Tyrion moves Shae to the Red Keep for her safety in the guise of [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys’s]] maid. {{ref|acok|44}}

Tyrion’s cousin, Ser [[Cleos Frey]], brings peace terms from Robb Stark, asking that [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark]] be released (although Arya is not, in fact, held at King’s Landing) in exchange for all captives save Jaime, and that Joffrey renounce all claims to the [[North]] and Riverlands. {{ref|acok|7}} Tyrion deems the terms unacceptable {{ref|acok|20}} and sends Cleos back with the counter-offer that he will release Sansa and Arya along with a number of captive Stark bannermen in return for Robb’s fealty and Jaime’s release, setting up an escape plan for Jamie to be orchestrated by men in Cleos’s party. {{ref|acok|25}} Tyrion is also visited by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] of the Night’s Watch, who has brought with him the severed hand of a [[wight]] from the Wall, but it rots away before he can present it. Ser Alliser is mocked by Tyrion and the court, but is promised his pick of the city’s dungeons as recruits. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}}

When [[Renly Baratheon]] is murdered, Tyrion seizes the opportunity to bring the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] to the Lannister cause. He sends Petyr Baelish to treat with the Tyrells and offers Joffrey in marriage to [[Margaery Tyrell]]. {{ref|acok|36}} Tyrion continues to thwart Cersei’s plans, including one to send a disguised Tommen to [[Rosby]] to remove him from the reach of the mobs and Tyrion. {{ref|acok|44}} On one occasion Tyrion drugs her so that she will not be able to attend the small council. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}} In retaliation Cersei has [[Alayaya]], who she believes is Tyrion’s whore, seized and beaten, offering her freedom in return for custody over Tommen. Tyrion is furious and swears to take from Cersei everything she cares about. {{ref|acok|54}}

When Stannis’s forces attack King’s Landing, later called the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion sets in place a giant chain in [[Blackwater Bay]] which traps many ships, Lannister and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] alike. The wildfire commissioned from the Alchemists is then launched at the ships and they are trapped in the bay to burn. {{ref|acok|58}} During the battle, Tyrion is forced to lead a sortie out past the city walls because [[Sandor Clegane]], terrified of fire, refuses to do so. {{ref|acok|59}} Tyrion heads his men in a wedge formation dispersing the men assaulting the [[King’s Gate]]. He then continues with his men to hold the men crossing over a makeshift bridge made of of sinking galleys of Stannis’s fleet in the river. During the battle Ser [[Mandon Moore]] of the Kingsguard turns on Tyrion and tries to kill him, slicing off his nose, but Tyrion is saved by his squire Podrick Payne before Moore could finish him. {{ref|acok|61}} Tyrion passes out and wakes up in bed some time after the battle, suffering from serious facial wounds and the loss of most of his nose. {{ref|acok|67}} Tyrion suspects that Cersei was behind the assassination attempt.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Flawed by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion loveless marriage to [[Sansa Stark]]. Art by algesiras ©]]


Tyrion makes a complete recovery some weeks later, only to learn that Lord Tywin had taken all the glory and taken over as Hand. Tyrion finds himself demoted to [[Master of Coin]], replacing [[Petyr Baelish]] and forced into a political marriage with Sansa Stark to forestall a Tyrell move to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]]. {{ref|asos|19}}

The wedding to Sansa goes forward, though Tyrion chooses to defy custom and does not consummate their marriage, saying he will not touch her unless and until she wants him to. His father pushes him to consummate the marriage with [[Sansa]] for the good of the house, but Tyrion never does - a decision that earns him scorn and jest in court. {{ref|asos|28}} Tyrion’s marriage brings him no joy, as Sansa is repulsed by him and [[Shae]] remains indifferent.{{ref|asos|32}}

At King Joffrey’s wedding feast, Tyrion gets into an altercation with Joffrey, and soon afterwards the king is murdered, an act for which Tyrion is unjustly accused and arrested by command of Cersei. {{ref|asos|60}} Tyrion again stands trial for a crime he did not commit. During the trial, [[Cersei]] brings Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack]], who lies that Joffrey believed Tyrion meant to muder him; Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole poison from him and Shae is brought to humiliate him before the court. After the first day the situation seems hopeless, but Tyrion again seeks trial by combat after Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] visits his cell and offers to serve as his champion in the trial. In the trial, Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] stands against [[Gregor Clegane]], but fails to win, although not without mortally wounding him first. {{ref|asos|70}}

Oberyn’s death condemns Tyrion, but the night before he is to be executed, he is freed from his prison cell by his brother [[Jaime]] and a reluctant [[Varys]]. During their escape, Jaime reveals that their father made him lie about [[Tysha]] being a prostitute, and that she was just a peasant girl who had genuinely loved Tyrion.

Tyrion sees this admission as an unforgivable betrayal and abandons Jaime, promising retribution on Jaime, Tywin and Cersei. He also torments Jaime by telling his brother of Cersei's repeated infidelities, and falsely claims responsibility for Joffrey's death.

Before leaving the [[Red Keep]], Tyrion visits his father’s room and, finding [[Shae]] in his bed, strangles her. He then confronts his father, demanding he tell him what became of Tysha. Tywin tells Tyrion that she went ''“wherever whores go.”'' Tyrion then slays his father and escapes. {{ref|asos|77}} He flees [[Across the Narrow Sea|across the Narrow Sea]] to an unknown destination chosen by [[Varys]]. After his escape, Cersei offers a lordship for any that brings her Tyrion.

===''A Feast of Crows''===
Tyrion remains in his flight across the Narrow Sea. He is regarded by most as accursed as a [[Kinslaying|kinslayer]] and Kingslayer, although he is guilty of only the former. Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, Cersei’s bounty on Tyrion results in the killing of a number of innocent dwarfs and children; Cersei refuses to publicly punish anyone who does so, for fear it will discourage other such bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Tyrion flees across the [[Narrow Sea]], pondering his options. Tyrion arrives drunk and despondent at the manse of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in [[Pentos]]. {{ref|adwd|1}} There Illyrio tells Tyrion of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and her three dragons.

He then sends Tyrion, along with retainers Griff, Young Griff, Ser [[Rolly Duckfield]], Septa [[Lemore]], and [[Haldon]], called Halfmaester, aboard the ship ''[[Shy Maid]]'' to [[Volantis]]. During the trip, he assumes the aliases Yollo and Hugor Hill. {{ref|adwd|5}} In Volantis, they plan to meet up with Daenerys to strengthen her cause. En route, Tyrion realizes that Griff is in fact the exiled lord [[Jon Connington]], and Young Griff is [[Aegon Targaryen]], saved from the [[Sack of King’s Landing]]. During the journey, the boat is ambushed by [[stone men]] and Tyrion is knocked overboard; he would have drowned had Jon Connington not dived in to save him. {{ref|adwd|18}}

While in [[Selhorys]], Tyrion (under Haldon’s direction) plays a game of [[Cyvasse]] with [[Qavo Nogarys]], a customs offical, in order to gain information. Tyrion later visits a brothel, a modest one compared to those he he had been wont to frequent in [[Lannisport]] and King’s Landing, where he is recognized and captured by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]]. {{ref|adwd|22}} Jorah plans to bring Tyrion to Daenerys to regain her favor. Jorah takes him to the [[Widow of the Waterfront]] to try and arrange passage out of Volantis. There Tyrion meets a female dwarf performer named [[Penny]] who, upon learning that Tyrion was indirectly responsible for her brother [[Oppo]]’s death, tries to kill him. {{ref|adwd|27}} Penny joins the pair as they travel to [[Meereen]] by sea aboard the ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'', where the crew take to calling him No-Nose, to reach Daenerys. On the ship Penny eventually befriends Tyrion. {{ref|adwd|33}}

While aboard the ''Selaesori Qhoran'', Tyrion makes the acquaintance of [[Moqorro]]. One night Tyrion asks him what he sees in the flames. Moqorro replies dragons, adding:

{{Quote|Dragons [[Maester Aemon|old]] and young, true and false, [[House Targaryen|bright]] and [[House Blackfyre|dark]]. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.}}

Tyrion wonders if he may be seeing Penny in the flames as they are almost of size, Moqorro tells him no.

Soon, however, Tyrion, Penny, and Mormont are captured by a [[Yunkai|Yunkai’i]] slaver and bought by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]. They are instructed by his overseer [[Nurse]] on how to treat their new master. {{ref|adwd|47}} Tyrion and Penny are forced to perform a mock joust in the [[fighting pits]], not knowing that they were to be eaten by lions at the end of the show. Daenerys Targaryen, for whom the show was staged, learns of their impending fate and stops the lions from being released. {{ref|adwd|52}}

After their new master dies of the [[bloody flux]] the trio escapes. Tyrion arranges for the three to join the sellsword company the [[Second Sons]], under the command of [[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]], by promising the company the wealth of Casterly Rock. {{ref|adwd|57}}{{ref|adwd|66}} While the Sons’ current contract is to fight Daenerys, Tyrion hopes to win them to her side.

==Relationships==
===Tywin Lannister===
[[File:Tywin and Tyrion.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion and his father. ([[Game of Thrones|TV series]])]]
[[File:Tyrion and shae by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion and [[Shae]], his favourite. Art by algesiras ©]]

Tyrion has a difficult relation with his father. His mother died giving birth to Tyrion, something his father never forgave him. {{ref|asos|4}} When his father found out Tyrion had married Tysha, he had her raped by his guardsmen and finally by Tyrion himself to teach them a lesson. {{ref|agot|42}} Her memory haunted him for a very long time {{ref|acok|29}} and he began to seek his pleasure with prostitutes. {{ref|acok|8}} To his father this brought further shame on their house. {{ref|asos|4}} Tyrion himself has thought about killing his father. {{ref|agot|42}}

When Tyrion was kidnapped by Catelyn Tully, his father invaded [[the Riverlands]] not out of concern for Tyrion but to defend the honour of their house. Later he had Tyrion fight in the vanguard at the Battle of the Green Fork which made Tyrion suspect that his father would not have been unhappy to see him killed.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

Though their relation is bad, his father recognized his capacities enough to send him to King’s Landing to act as Hand of the King in his stead. {{ref|agot|69}} Tyrion did well, keeping the Dornish neutral and building a chain across the Blackwater river to trap [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]’ fleet, something his father acknowledged. As a reward Tyrion asked to be named Tywin’s heir, which he was under the laws as Jaime had joined the Kingsguard and thus was unable to inherit. His father flatly refused, saying that he would never allow Tyrion to make Casterly Rock his whorehouse. {{ref|asos|4}}

After Joffrey’s death, Cersei accused Tyrion of murdering him. Tywin formed a court to sit in judgement of his son. Tyrion demanded a trial by battle and when his champion lost his father sentenced him to death though it is not clear if Tywin really thought Tyrion was guilty. Jaime freed Tyrion the night before his execution. He told him this was to make up for lying to Tyrion that Tysha had been a whore who was after riches while she had been what she claimed to be: a common girl and in love with Tyrion. Armed with this knowledge Tyrion visited his father and found him with Shae, Tyrion’s former mistress. Tyrion killed them both. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Cersei Lannister===
Cersei Lannister is Tyrion’s older sister and has always despised him. When Oberyn Martell and his sister Elia Martell visited Casterly Rock in their teens, they were shown the newborn baby Tyrion by both Jaime and Cersei. Cersei twisted Tyrion’s penis until he cried, only stopping when Jaime intervened. When she read how Baelor the Blessed imprisoned his sisters for being beautiful, Cersei went to Tyrion’s nursery and pinched him till he cried. Cersei’s cruelty to Tyrion only increased when she heard the prophecy of Maggy the Frog and the meaning of the word “Valonquar” (high valyrian for Little Brother).

She never kept her hatred for Tyrion a secret and made him aware of it throughout his life, and Tyrion returned her hatred in kind, developing a deep contempt for Cersei. Tyrion even dreamed of hiring a [[Faceless Men|Faceless Man]] to kill his sister. {{ref|acok|44}} The only thing that kept the two from harming each other was Jaime. Cersei once stated that she would have killed Tyrion but Jaime would never have forgiven her if she did {{ref|acok|54}} and Tyrion would not have harmed Cersei because he loves his brother Jaime and knows how much Cersei means to him.

The ironic thing is if Cersei had only ever treated Tyrion with even a little love and respect (a thing Tyrion craves for, especially from his family), Tyrion would return this with utter devotion and love to Cersei, the same he feels for his brother Jaime. Unknown to Tyrion is that every time Cersei see’s Tyrion or thinks of him all she remember is the prophecy of Maggy the Frog. When Joffrey was murdered, Cersei falsely believed Tyrion was responsible and did everything in her power to see him die, even getting his former whore Shae to lie and humiliate her “Valonquar” further before his death.

When Tyrion escaped and killed Tywin, Cersei now sees him in every shadow. She offered a lordship to any man who killed Tyrion resulting in the mass murder of innocent dwarfs and small children. In addition, Cersei will not punish any man who kills an innocent dwarf as she believes it might make the next man hesitate.

Cersei upon hearing about Mrycella’s injury at the hands of [[Gerold Dayne]] believed Dayne was Tyrion’s catspaw and Tyrion had him cut off Myrcella’s ear the way an agent of Cersei (Mandon Moore) once cut off Tyrion’s nose. With her Uncle Kevan now dead by the crossbow bolt (unknown to Cersei is the fact Kevan was killed by Varys), Cersei will most likely believe Tyrion killed Kevan the same way he killed their father and will see even more of him in the shadows and in her nightmares. Tyrion also remarks on his journey that the only reward he will ask from Daenerys Targaryen for his service is the right to rape and kill Cersei.

===Jaime Lannister===
Jaime Lannister is Tyrion’s older brother. Growing up Jaime was the only one who ever treated Tyrion with love and affection and for this Tyrion believed he would forgive his brother for anything. {{ref|agot|9}} Jaime was full of guilt over the lie their father had him tell Tyrion about Tysha, as Jaime was unaware of what his father planned and upon hearing about it lives with further guilt. The guilt had Jaime free his brother even when he was not sure of Tyrion’s innocence in the murder of his son Joffrey.

Upon freeing his brother, Jaime finally confessed the truth about Tysha causing an enraged Tyrion to reveal to Jaime the truth about Cersei’s infidelity towards Jaime and Tyrion also falsely told Jaime he did indeed kill his son Joffrey just to further hurt Jaime.

Tyrion mentioned to Illyrio Mopatis that Jaime and Cersei are his to kill. Despite this statement Tyrion while having no doubt about his desire to kill and hurt Cersei still harbours mixed feelings towards Jaime.

===His Uncles===
From all reports, Tyrion got on well with all of his Uncles, Gerion, Tygett and [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]].

Gerion and Tygett once asked Tyrion what gift he would like for his next nameday, Tyrion asked for a baby dragon and Tygett kindly told Tyrion that all the dragons were extinct and was careful not to hurt his nephew’s feelings. When [[Tyrek Lannister]] disappeared in the riots of King’s Landing, Tyrion instructed the watch that the lad was to be found alive or dead as his father, Tygett, was always kind to Tyrion.

Gerion gifted Tyrion with the Books [[Wonders]] and [[Wonders Made by Man]] by [[Lomas Longstrider]] and often had Tyrion recite the sixteen wonders of the World. Tyrion wished to accompany his uncle Gerion on his quest to find and retrieve [[Brightroar]] but his father would not allow him.

Until Tyrion was accused of killing Joffrey, Kevan Lannister was respectful to Tyrion and was one of the few after his injuries during the battle of the Blackwater to praise him and his abilities.

===Tysha===
Tysha was Tyrion’s first wife. For years Tyrion believed she was a whore who his brother hired so Tyrion could experience his first woman. Because of this he thought women would only want him for his money. {{ref|acok|3}} When Jaime rescued Tyrion from his cell he told him the truth: Tysha was a girl chance met on the road. As she had seemed to genuinely love Tyrion, he became furious with his brother. In retaliation Tyrion told Jaime that Cersei had bedded others and that he had killed Jaime’s son. The latter part was not true but was said to hurt Jaime. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Shae===
Shae was Tyrion’s whore who he began, despite his better judgement, to develop feelings towards. In order to protect Shae, Tyrion enlisted Varys help in creating an alias of Shae as a bedmaid. Tyrion reminded himself on several occasions that the only thing Shae loved about him was his gold. It turns out his assessment was correct, as Shae testified against him in his trial falsely (under Cersei’s direction) claiming Tyrion planned to kill the King, his father and his sister and seize the throne for himself. {{ref|asos|77}}

When Tyrion escaped his dungeon he went to his fathers chamber. There he found Shae in his father’s bed. He killed her and later his father. {{ref|asos|77}}{{Clear}}

==Quotes by Tyrion==

{{Quote|'''Tyrion:''' Let me give you some advice bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
'''Jon''': What the hell do you know about being a bastard?

'''Tyrion''': All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes.
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– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|''My mind is my weapon. My [[Jaime Lannister|brother]] has his sword, [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] has his warhammer and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much Jon Snow.''{{ref|aGOT|5}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|'''Tyrion''': When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own. 
'''Jon Snow''': You did? 
'''Tyrion''': Oh, yes. Even a stunted, twisted, ugly little boy can look down over the world when he's seated on a dragon's back. I used to start fires in the bowels of Casterly Rock and stare at the flames for hours, pretending they were dragonfire. Sometimes I'd imagine my father burning. At other times, my sister. Don't look at me that way, bastard. I know your secret. You've dreamt the same kind of dreams.{{Ref|aGoT|13}}}} - Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

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{{Quote|''Trust no one'', my prince. Not your [[Haldon|chainless maester]], not your [[Jon Connington|false father]], not the gallant [[Rolly Duckfield|Duck]] or the lovely [[Lemore]] nor these other fine friends who grew you up from a bean. Above all, trust not the [[Illyrio Mopatis|cheese monger]], nor [[Varys|the Spider]], nor this little [[Daenerys Targaryen|dragon queen]] you mean to marry. All this mistrust will sour your stomach and keep you awake at night, ’tis true, but better that than the long sleep that does not end''. {{ref|adwd|22}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Aegon Targaryen|Young Griff]]

{{Quote|''You poor stupid blind crippled fool. Must I spell out every little thing for you? Very well. Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking Lancel and [[Osmund Kettleblack]] and probably [[Moon Boy]] for all I know. And I am the monster they all say I am. Yes, I killed [[Joffrey Baratheon|your vile son]].''{{Ref|aSoS|77}}}}
- Tyrion to [[Jaime]]

{{Quote|''Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical, the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys.It's the [[High Sparrow|ones who believe in gods]] who make the trouble''.{{ref|aDwD|27}}}}

==Family tree==
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| Alias = The Imp Halfman Giant of Lannister Yollo Hugor Hill No-Nose Freak Dwarf
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| Spouse = [[Tysha]], 1st (annulled) [[Sansa Stark]], 2nd (unconsummated)
| Place_of_Birth = [[Casterly Rock]]
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| Books = [[A Game of Thrones]] (POV) [[A Clash of Kings]] (POV) [[A Storm of Swords]] (POV) [[A Feast for Crows]] (Mentioned) [[A Dance with Dragons]] (POV) [[The Winds of Winter]] (POV)
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| Played_by = [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]]
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[[File:Tyrion arrested by Catelyn.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion arrested by [[Catelyn Tully|Catelyn]] in the [[Crossroads Inn]].]]
[[File:Tyrion and Mord.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion being held in the [[Sky Cells]] at the [[Eyrie]].]]
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'''Tyrion Lannister''', is the third and youngest child of [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] and [[Joanna Lannister|Joanna]]. Tyrion is a dwarf, because of this he is sometimes mockingly called '''The Imp''' and '''The Halfman'''. He is one of the major [[POV Character]]s in the books. In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], Tyrion is played by [[List of actors of the televised series#Peter Dinklage, Tyrion Lannister|Peter Dinklage]].<ref>HBO: Game of Thrones:[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#/game-of-thrones/cast-and-crew/index.html Cast and Crew].</ref>

==Character and Appearance==
Tyrion is shrewd, educated, and calculating, but receives little respect for this from his father, because of his deformity, and the death of his mother during his birth. {{ref|asos|70}} He is capable of cruelty to his enemies, but also has great sympathy for fellow outcasts and the mistreated. {{ref|agot|24}} Tyrion gets on well with his brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] but has a cooler relationship with sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]]. Tyrion’s deformity was the cause of many problems and persecution, although mitigated to some extent by his high social standing and his family’s wealth and power.

Tyrion is a dwarf, he has stubby legs, a jutting forehead, mismatched eyes of green and black, and a mixture of pale blond and black hair. {{ref|adwd|47}} Later, he grows a beard, which also contains both blonde and black hair. {{ref|acok|2}} After the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion has a grisly facial scar that has removed most of his nose. {{ref|asos|4}}
See also [[:Category:Images of Tyrion Lannister|this collection of images]].
==History==
Tyrion is the third child of Tywin and Joanna Lannister when his two older siblings, Cersei and Jaime, were already nine years old. His mother died giving birth to him, and as a result his father blamed him for her death and hates him for that and for his deformity. Tyrion finds himself excluded from regular family life, especially by his father and by his sister, who abused him during his childhood.

When Tyrion was thirteen, he and his brother Jaime rescued a common girl, [[Tysha]], from some bandits. While Jaime went after the bandits Tyrion took care of Tysha. To his amazement Tysha liked him, and they eventually made love. Tyrion became so enamoured by her that he bribed a [[septon]] and married her in secret. Their happiness lasted only two weeks, however, before Tyrion’s father got news of the wedding. Lord Tywin commanded Jaime to say that Tysha was a prostitute whom Jaime had hired for Tyrion’s benefit. Because the “whore” had presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more. {{ref|agot|42}}

After his brother’s proposed marriage to [[Lysa Tully]] fell through when [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]] named Jaime to the [[Kingsguard]], Tywin offered Tyrion as a replacement, only to be told by [[Hoster Tully]] that his daughter required a “whole man”. {{ref|asos|19}}

When Tyrion became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden from taking a tour of the Nine Free Cities as his uncles [[Gerion Lannister|Gerion]] and [[Tygett Lannister|Tygett]] had done. Instead Tywin gave him charge of all the cisterns and drains at [[Casterly Rock]]. {{ref|adwd|8}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
Tyrion goes north to [[Winterfell]] as part of King [[Robert Baratheon|Robert’s]] royal procession. {{ref|agot|4}} After [[Bran Stark|Bran Stark’s]] fall, Tyrion makes [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] offer his sympathies to Bran’s parents, though his nephew only obeys after Tyrion hits him. {{ref|agot|9}} Suspicious of the accident, Tyrion took notice of his siblings’ reactions to the news that Bran is expected to survive. {{ref|agot|9}}

When the royal family leaves Winterfell, Tyrion rides north to see the [[Wall]] before returning south. He joins the [[Night’s Watch|ranger]] [[Benjen Stark]] and new recruit [[Jon Snow]] for the journey and is accompanied by two guards, [[Jyck]] and [[Morrec]]. While at the Wall, Tyrion sees firsthand the poor state of the Night’s Watch; {{ref|agot|13}} it is dwindling in numbers, ranging parties are going missing more often than usual, and [[wildlings]] are fleeing south like never before. He is implored by [[Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch|Lord Commander]] [[Jeor Mormont]] to make King Robert and his father, Lord Tywin, aware of the Watch’s needs.

During his time at the Wall, Tyrion befriends and advises Jon Snow. Tyrion sees himself as an outcast on similar ground as the bastard-born Snow and helps Jon cope with his identity and lot in life. Before Tyrion leaves the Wall, Jon asks him to help his brother Bran in the same way that he helped Jon; Tyrion promises to do so. {{ref|agot|21}} On his way back south, he stops at Winterfell. Despite initially receiving a hostile welcome from [[Robb Stark]] and an attack from the Stark [[direwolf|direwolves]] at his arrival, Tyrion gives Maester [[Luwin]] plans for a special saddle that will allow Bran to ride a horse despite his disability and is offered rooms at Winterfell. He declines, choosing to stay at an inn nearby. {{ref|agot|24}}

On his way back to [[King’s Landing]] Tyrion encounters [[Catelyn Stark]] at a roadside inn called the [[Crossroads Inn|Crossroads]]. Unknown to Tyrion, Catelyn was told by [[Petyr Baelish]] that the dagger used in Bran’s failed assassination attempt belonged to Tyrion. As a result, Catelyn, with the help of some of her father’s bannermen present at the inn, arrests Tyrion and takes him to the [[Eyrie]] to be tried. {{ref|agot|28}}{{ref|agot|31}} There, Lysa Arryn puts him on trial for the crime of sending an assassin to end Bran’s life, as well as the murder of her husband [[Jon Arryn]], though he is innocent of both. To break him, Lysa locks him up in the [[Sky Cells|sky cells]], which are prison cells with a floor slanted toward an exposed cliff side. While confined in the sky cell, Tyrion wonders about who the true perpetrators of his accused crimes could be. He thinks it possible that his siblings were responsible for both, but that Bran’s assassination attempt seems too clumsily done to be Jaime or Cersei’s work. Tyrion eventually manages to bribe his gaoler [[Mord]] into telling Lysa that he is ready to confess. When Lysa summons the complete court of the [[Vale]] to hear his confession, he demands a [[trial by combat]]. {{ref|agot|38}}

Tyrion’s champion, the sellsword [[Bronn]], kills Lysa’s champion Ser [[Vardis Egen]], securing Tyrion’s freedom. {{ref|agot|40}} Both men leave the Eyrie on the dangerous [[High Road]], and along the way they are surrounded by men of the [[mountain clans of the Vale|mountain clans]], led by [[Shagga]]. Tyrion uses his quick wits and words to win over the clansmen by promising them weapons, armor, and glory. {{ref|agot|42}} The group rides out of the mountains, eventually reaching the Lannister host led by his father, Lord Tywin, who has invaded the Riverlands following Tyrion’s capture.

Lord Tywin decides to place Tyrion and his clansmen in the front for the upcoming battle with the Stark forces and Tyrion is given a number of new servants including a new squire, [[Podrick Payne]]. That night, he seds Bronn looking for a female companion for him, and Bronn brings back a young prostitute named [[Shae]], whom Tyrion takes an immediate liking to and takes into his service. The next day, he fights in the [[Battle of the Green Fork]] against Stark forces commanded by [[Roose Bolton]]. {{ref|agot|62}} The battle is won, though afterward the Lannisters learn it was only a diversion and that meanwhile Jaime Lannister’s host was defeated at Riverrun and he himself was captured. Lord Tywin retreats to Harrenhal and sends Tyrion to King’s Landing to act as [[Hand of the King]] in his stead, to rein in his newly crowned nephew and prevent further mistakes from Joffrey like [[Eddard Stark]]’s execution, but forbids him from taking Shae along. Tyrion disobeys and Shae accompanies him in secret. {{ref|agot|69}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Tyrion, along with his mountain clansmen, Shae, and Bronn, arrives at King’s Landing and presents his father Tywin’s letter which names him the Hand of the King in his father’s absence, much to Cersei’s dismay. She threatens to name it a forgery and throw him in the dungeon, but Tyrion tells her that he can get Jaime back and Cersei concedes. She also admits she needs help and agrees to ally herself with Tyrion, though they both have no intention of keeping it. This leads to a power struggle between the two. Tyrion takes up residence in the [[Tower of the Hand]] and as his first act of business removes the heads of the executed [[House Stark|Stark]] household from the walls of the [[Red Keep]]. {{ref|acok|3}}

Tyrion forges an alliance with Varys who helps him to replace [[Janos Slynt]] with Ser [[Jacelyn Bywater]] as Commander of the [[City Watch of King’s Landing|City Watch]] and sends Slynt and a few of his cronies to the Wall. {{ref|acok|8}} Next he concocts a plan to weed out Cersei’s informants on the [[small council]]. He tells Petyr Baelish, [[Varys]], and Grand Maester [[Pycelle]] each different plans that he has for [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]]; {{ref|acok|17}} when Cersei confronts him about the plan that he divulged to Pycelle, Tyrion knows that Pycelle is the informant. {{ref|acok|20}} Tyrion’s true plan is to send Myrcella to [[Dorne]] to be betrothed to Prince [[Trystane Martell]]. To further garner Dornish support, he offers Prince [[Doran Martell]] a seat on the small council and promises to turn over the men that murdered Doran’s sister [[Elia Martell|Elia]]. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|20}} For his part in giving Cersei private information, Pycelle is confined to the black cells beneath the keep. {{ref|acok|25}}

With his place at court secure and successfully outsmarting Cersei at every turn, Tyrion begins a series of initiatives to prepare the city for the siege, commanding the construction of fishing boats. He also opens the Kingswood for hunting and sends gold cloaks out to forage, but this is still not enough to feed the overcrowded city. He commands the blacksmiths around the city to begin construction on a giant chain which will allow him to close the [[Blackwater Rush]]. He also has [[Hallyne]] of the [[Alchemists’ Guild]] synthesize a large quantity of [[wildfire]]. Eventually, he sends his clansmen to the Kingswood to snuff out outriders and scouts loyal to Stannis.

Tyrion sets Shae up in a manse outside the Red Keep to keep her existence in King’s Landing a secret. {{ref|acok|8}} Varys, however, knows her location, and helps Tyrion use [[Chataya’s brothel]] as a front. Once inside the brothel, Tyrion passes through a tunnel that takes him to a location where he can safely travel to Shae’s manse without being followed. {{ref|acok|15}} She is restless there, however, and wishes to see more of court. Following the [[riot of King’s Landing]], Tyrion moves Shae to the Red Keep for her safety in the guise of [[Lollys Stokeworth|Lollys’s]] maid. {{ref|acok|44}}

Tyrion’s cousin, Ser [[Cleos Frey]], brings peace terms from Robb Stark, asking that [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and [[Arya Stark]] be released (although Arya is not, in fact, held at King’s Landing) in exchange for all captives save Jaime, and that Joffrey renounce all claims to the [[North]] and Riverlands. {{ref|acok|7}} Tyrion deems the terms unacceptable {{ref|acok|20}} and sends Cleos back with the counter-offer that he will release Sansa and Arya along with a number of captive Stark bannermen in return for Robb’s fealty and Jaime’s release, setting up an escape plan for Jamie to be orchestrated by men in Cleos’s party. {{ref|acok|25}} Tyrion is also visited by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]] of the Night’s Watch, who has brought with him the severed hand of a [[wight]] from the Wall, but it rots away before he can present it. Ser Alliser is mocked by Tyrion and the court, but is promised his pick of the city’s dungeons as recruits. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}}

When [[Renly Baratheon]] is murdered, Tyrion seizes the opportunity to bring the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] to the Lannister cause. He sends Petyr Baelish to treat with the Tyrells and offers Joffrey in marriage to [[Margaery Tyrell]]. {{ref|acok|36}} Tyrion continues to thwart Cersei’s plans, including one to send a disguised Tommen to [[Rosby]] to remove him from the reach of the mobs and Tyrion. {{ref|acok|44}} On one occasion Tyrion drugs her so that she will not be able to attend the small council. {{ref|acok|17}}{{ref|acok|25}} In retaliation Cersei has [[Alayaya]], who she believes is Tyrion’s whore, seized and beaten, offering her freedom in return for custody over Tommen. Tyrion is furious and swears to take from Cersei everything she cares about. {{ref|acok|54}}

When Stannis’s forces attack King’s Landing, later called the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion sets in place a giant chain in [[Blackwater Bay]] which traps many ships, Lannister and [[House Baratheon|Baratheon]] alike. The wildfire commissioned from the Alchemists is then launched at the ships and they are trapped in the bay to burn. {{ref|acok|58}} During the battle, Tyrion is forced to lead a sortie out past the city walls because [[Sandor Clegane]], terrified of fire, refuses to do so. {{ref|acok|59}} Tyrion heads his men in a wedge formation dispersing the men assaulting the [[King’s Gate]]. He then continues with his men to hold the men crossing over a makeshift bridge made of of sinking galleys of Stannis’s fleet in the river. During the battle Ser [[Mandon Moore]] of the Kingsguard turns on Tyrion and tries to kill him, slicing off his nose, but Tyrion is saved by his squire Podrick Payne before Moore could finish him. {{ref|acok|61}} Tyrion passes out and wakes up in bed some time after the battle, suffering from serious facial wounds and the loss of most of his nose. {{ref|acok|67}} Tyrion suspects that Cersei was behind the assassination attempt.

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Flawed by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion loveless marriage to [[Sansa Stark]]. Art by algesiras ©]]


Tyrion makes a complete recovery some weeks later, only to learn that Lord Tywin had taken all the glory and taken over as Hand. Tyrion finds himself demoted to [[Master of Coin]], replacing [[Petyr Baelish]] and forced into a political marriage with Sansa Stark to forestall a Tyrell move to marry her to [[Willas Tyrell]]. {{ref|asos|19}}

The wedding to Sansa goes forward, though Tyrion chooses to defy custom and does not consummate their marriage, saying he will not touch her unless and until she wants him to. His father pushes him to consummate the marriage with [[Sansa]] for the good of the house, but Tyrion never does - a decision that earns him scorn and jest in court. {{ref|asos|28}} Tyrion’s marriage brings him no joy, as Sansa is repulsed by him and [[Shae]] remains indifferent.{{ref|asos|32}}

At King Joffrey’s wedding feast, Tyrion gets into an altercation with Joffrey, and soon afterwards the king is murdered, an act for which Tyrion is unjustly accused and arrested by command of Cersei. {{ref|asos|60}} Tyrion again stands trial for a crime he did not commit. During the trial, [[Cersei]] brings Ser [[Osmund Kettleblack]], who lies that Joffrey believed Tyrion meant to muder him; Grand Maester Pycelle claims that Tyrion stole poison from him and Shae is brought to humiliate him before the court. After the first day the situation seems hopeless, but Tyrion again seeks trial by combat after Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] visits his cell and offers to serve as his champion in the trial. In the trial, Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] stands against [[Gregor Clegane]], but fails to win, although not without mortally wounding him first. {{ref|asos|70}}

Oberyn’s death condemns Tyrion, but the night before he is to be executed, he is freed from his prison cell by his brother [[Jaime]] and a reluctant [[Varys]]. During their escape, Jaime reveals that their father made him lie about [[Tysha]] being a prostitute, and that she was just a peasant girl who had genuinely loved Tyrion.

Tyrion sees this admission as an unforgivable betrayal and abandons Jaime, promising retribution on Jaime, Tywin and Cersei. He also torments Jaime by telling his brother of Cersei's repeated infidelities, and falsely claims responsibility for Joffrey's death.

Before leaving the [[Red Keep]], Tyrion visits his father’s room and, finding [[Shae]] in his bed, strangles her. He then confronts his father, demanding he tell him what became of Tysha. Tywin tells Tyrion that she went ''“wherever whores go.”'' Tyrion then slays his father and escapes. {{ref|asos|77}} He flees [[Across the Narrow Sea|across the Narrow Sea]] to an unknown destination chosen by [[Varys]]. After his escape, Cersei offers a lordship for any that brings her Tyrion.

===''A Feast of Crows''===
Tyrion remains in his flight across the Narrow Sea. He is regarded by most as accursed as a [[Kinslaying|kinslayer]] and Kingslayer, although he is guilty of only the former. Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, Cersei’s bounty on Tyrion results in the killing of a number of innocent dwarfs and children; Cersei refuses to publicly punish anyone who does so, for fear it will discourage other such bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape.

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Tyrion flees across the [[Narrow Sea]], pondering his options. Tyrion arrives drunk and despondent at the manse of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] in [[Pentos]]. {{ref|adwd|1}} There Illyrio tells Tyrion of [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and her three dragons.

He then sends Tyrion, along with retainers Griff, Young Griff, Ser [[Rolly Duckfield]], Septa [[Lemore]], and [[Haldon]], called Halfmaester, aboard the ship ''[[Shy Maid]]'' to [[Volantis]]. During the trip, he assumes the aliases Yollo and Hugor Hill. {{ref|adwd|5}} In Volantis, they plan to meet up with Daenerys to strengthen her cause. En route, Tyrion realizes that Griff is in fact the exiled lord [[Jon Connington]], and Young Griff is [[Aegon Targaryen]], saved from the [[Sack of King’s Landing]]. During the journey, the boat is ambushed by [[stone men]] and Tyrion is knocked overboard; he would have drowned had Jon Connington not dived in to save him. {{ref|adwd|18}}

While in [[Selhorys]], Tyrion (under Haldon’s direction) plays a game of [[Cyvasse]] with [[Qavo Nogarys]], a customs offical, in order to gain information. Tyrion later visits a brothel, a modest one compared to those he he had been wont to frequent in [[Lannisport]] and King’s Landing, where he is recognized and captured by Ser [[Jorah Mormont]]. {{ref|adwd|22}} Jorah plans to bring Tyrion to Daenerys to regain her favor. Jorah takes him to the [[Widow of the Waterfront]] to try and arrange passage out of Volantis. There Tyrion meets a female dwarf performer named [[Penny]] who, upon learning that Tyrion was indirectly responsible for her brother [[Oppo]]’s death, tries to kill him. {{ref|adwd|27}} Penny joins the pair as they travel to [[Meereen]] by sea aboard the ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'', where the crew take to calling him No-Nose, to reach Daenerys. On the ship Penny eventually befriends Tyrion. {{ref|adwd|33}}

While aboard the ''Selaesori Qhoran'', Tyrion makes the acquaintance of [[Moqorro]]. One night Tyrion asks him what he sees in the flames. Moqorro replies dragons, adding:

{{Quote|Dragons [[Maester Aemon|old]] and young, true and false, [[House Targaryen|bright]] and [[House Blackfyre|dark]]. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.}}

Tyrion wonders if he may be seeing Penny in the flames as they are almost of size, Moqorro tells him no.

Soon, however, Tyrion, Penny, and Mormont are captured by a [[Yunkai|Yunkai’i]] slaver and bought by [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]. They are instructed by his overseer [[Nurse]] on how to treat their new master. {{ref|adwd|47}} Tyrion and Penny are forced to perform a mock joust in the [[fighting pits]], not knowing that they were to be eaten by lions at the end of the show. Daenerys Targaryen, for whom the show was staged, learns of their impending fate and stops the lions from being released. {{ref|adwd|52}}

After their new master dies of the [[bloody flux]] the trio escapes. Tyrion arranges for the three to join the sellsword company the [[Second Sons]], under the command of [[Ben Plumm|Brown Ben Plumm]], by promising the company the wealth of Casterly Rock. {{ref|adwd|57}}{{ref|adwd|66}} While the Sons’ current contract is to fight Daenerys, Tyrion hopes to win them to her side.

==Relationships==
===Tywin Lannister===
[[File:Tywin and Tyrion.png|thumb|350px|Tyrion and his father. ([[Game of Thrones|TV series]])]]
[[File:Tyrion and shae by algesiras.jpg|thumb|350px|Tyrion and [[Shae]], his favourite. Art by algesiras ©]]

Tyrion has a difficult relation with his father. His mother died giving birth to Tyrion, something his father never forgave him. {{ref|asos|4}} When his father found out Tyrion had married Tysha, he had her raped by his guardsmen and finally by Tyrion himself to teach them a lesson. {{ref|agot|42}} Her memory haunted him for a very long time {{ref|acok|29}} and he began to seek his pleasure with prostitutes. {{ref|acok|8}} To his father this brought further shame on their house. {{ref|asos|4}} Tyrion himself has thought about killing his father. {{ref|agot|42}}

When Tyrion was kidnapped by Catelyn Tully, his father invaded [[the Riverlands]] not out of concern for Tyrion but to defend the honour of their house. Later he had Tyrion fight in the vanguard at the Battle of the Green Fork which made Tyrion suspect that his father would not have been unhappy to see him killed.{{Ref|aGoT|62}}

Though their relation is bad, his father recognized his capacities enough to send him to King’s Landing to act as Hand of the King in his stead. {{ref|agot|69}} Tyrion did well, keeping the Dornish neutral and building a chain across the Blackwater river to trap [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]]’ fleet, something his father acknowledged. As a reward Tyrion asked to be named Tywin’s heir, which he was under the laws as Jaime had joined the Kingsguard and thus was unable to inherit. His father flatly refused, saying that he would never allow Tyrion to make Casterly Rock his whorehouse. {{ref|asos|4}}

After Joffrey’s death, Cersei accused Tyrion of murdering him. Tywin formed a court to sit in judgement of his son. Tyrion demanded a trial by battle and when his champion lost his father sentenced him to death though it is not clear if Tywin really thought Tyrion was guilty. Jaime freed Tyrion the night before his execution. He told him this was to make up for lying to Tyrion that Tysha had been a whore who was after riches while she had been what she claimed to be: a common girl and in love with Tyrion. Armed with this knowledge Tyrion visited his father and found him with Shae, Tyrion’s former mistress. Tyrion killed them both. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Cersei Lannister===
Cersei Lannister is Tyrion’s older sister and has always despised him. When Oberyn Martell and his sister Elia Martell visited Casterly Rock in their teens, they were shown the newborn baby Tyrion by both Jaime and Cersei. Cersei twisted Tyrion’s penis until he cried, only stopping when Jaime intervened. When she read how Baelor the Blessed imprisoned his sisters for being beautiful, Cersei went to Tyrion’s nursery and pinched him till he cried. Cersei’s cruelty to Tyrion only increased when she heard the prophecy of Maggy the Frog and the meaning of the word “Valonquar” (high valyrian for Little Brother).

She never kept her hatred for Tyrion a secret and made him aware of it throughout his life, and Tyrion returned her hatred in kind, developing a deep contempt for Cersei. Tyrion even dreamed of hiring a [[Faceless Men|Faceless Man]] to kill his sister. {{ref|acok|44}} The only thing that kept the two from harming each other was Jaime. Cersei once stated that she would have killed Tyrion but Jaime would never have forgiven her if she did {{ref|acok|54}} and Tyrion would not have harmed Cersei because he loves his brother Jaime and knows how much Cersei means to him.

The ironic thing is if Cersei had only ever treated Tyrion with even a little love and respect (a thing Tyrion craves for, especially from his family), Tyrion would return this with utter devotion and love to Cersei, the same he feels for his brother Jaime. Unknown to Tyrion is that every time Cersei see’s Tyrion or thinks of him all she remember is the prophecy of Maggy the Frog. When Joffrey was murdered, Cersei falsely believed Tyrion was responsible and did everything in her power to see him die, even getting his former whore Shae to lie and humiliate her “Valonquar” further before his death.

When Tyrion escaped and killed Tywin, Cersei now sees him in every shadow. She offered a lordship to any man who killed Tyrion resulting in the mass murder of innocent dwarfs and small children. In addition, Cersei will not punish any man who kills an innocent dwarf as she believes it might make the next man hesitate.

Cersei upon hearing about Mrycella’s injury at the hands of [[Gerold Dayne]] believed Dayne was Tyrion’s catspaw and Tyrion had him cut off Myrcella’s ear the way an agent of Cersei (Mandon Moore) once cut off Tyrion’s nose. With her Uncle Kevan now dead by the crossbow bolt (unknown to Cersei is the fact Kevan was killed by Varys), Cersei will most likely believe Tyrion killed Kevan the same way he killed their father and will see even more of him in the shadows and in her nightmares. Tyrion also remarks on his journey that the only reward he will ask from Daenerys Targaryen for his service is the right to rape and kill Cersei.

===Jaime Lannister===
Jaime Lannister is Tyrion’s older brother. Growing up Jaime was the only one who ever treated Tyrion with love and affection and for this Tyrion believed he would forgive his brother for anything. {{ref|agot|9}} Jaime was full of guilt over the lie their father had him tell Tyrion about Tysha, as Jaime was unaware of what his father planned and upon hearing about it lives with further guilt. The guilt had Jaime free his brother even when he was not sure of Tyrion’s innocence in the murder of his son Joffrey.

Upon freeing his brother, Jaime finally confessed the truth about Tysha causing an enraged Tyrion to reveal to Jaime the truth about Cersei’s infidelity towards Jaime and Tyrion also falsely told Jaime he did indeed kill his son Joffrey just to further hurt Jaime.

Tyrion mentioned to Illyrio Mopatis that Jaime and Cersei are his to kill. Despite this statement Tyrion while having no doubt about his desire to kill and hurt Cersei still harbours mixed feelings towards Jaime.

===His Uncles===
From all reports, Tyrion got on well with all of his Uncles, Gerion, Tygett and [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]].

Gerion and Tygett once asked Tyrion what gift he would like for his next nameday, Tyrion asked for a baby dragon and Tygett kindly told Tyrion that all the dragons were extinct and was careful not to hurt his nephew’s feelings. When [[Tyrek Lannister]] disappeared in the riots of King’s Landing, Tyrion instructed the watch that the lad was to be found alive or dead as his father, Tygett, was always kind to Tyrion.

Gerion gifted Tyrion with the Books [[Wonders]] and [[Wonders Made by Man]] by [[Lomas Longstrider]] and often had Tyrion recite the sixteen wonders of the World. Tyrion wished to accompany his uncle Gerion on his quest to find and retrieve [[Brightroar]] but his father would not allow him.

Until Tyrion was accused of killing Joffrey, Kevan Lannister was respectful to Tyrion and was one of the few after his injuries during the battle of the Blackwater to praise him and his abilities.

===Tysha===
Tysha was Tyrion’s first wife. For years Tyrion believed she was a whore who his brother hired so Tyrion could experience his first woman. Because of this he thought women would only want him for his money. {{ref|acok|3}} When Jaime rescued Tyrion from his cell he told him the truth: Tysha was a girl chance met on the road. As she had seemed to genuinely love Tyrion, he became furious with his brother. In retaliation Tyrion told Jaime that Cersei had bedded others and that he had killed Jaime’s son. The latter part was not true but was said to hurt Jaime. {{ref|asos|77}}

===Shae===
Shae was Tyrion’s whore who he began, despite his better judgement, to develop feelings towards. In order to protect Shae, Tyrion enlisted Varys help in creating an alias of Shae as a bedmaid. Tyrion reminded himself on several occasions that the only thing Shae loved about him was his gold. It turns out his assessment was correct, as Shae testified against him in his trial falsely (under Cersei’s direction) claiming Tyrion planned to kill the King, his father and his sister and seize the throne for himself. {{ref|asos|77}}

When Tyrion escaped his dungeon he went to his fathers chamber. There he found Shae in his father’s bed. He killed her and later his father. {{ref|asos|77}}{{Clear}}

==Quotes by Tyrion==

{{Quote|'''Tyrion:''' Let me give you some advice bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
'''Jon''': What the hell do you know about being a bastard?

'''Tyrion''': All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes.
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– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|''My mind is my weapon. My [[Jaime Lannister|brother]] has his sword, [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert]] has his warhammer and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much Jon Snow.''{{ref|aGOT|5}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

{{Quote|'''Tyrion''': When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own. 
'''Jon Snow''': You did? 
'''Tyrion''': Oh, yes. Even a stunted, twisted, ugly little boy can look down over the world when he's seated on a dragon's back. I used to start fires in the bowels of Casterly Rock and stare at the flames for hours, pretending they were dragonfire. Sometimes I'd imagine my father burning. At other times, my sister. Don't look at me that way, bastard. I know your secret. You've dreamt the same kind of dreams.{{Ref|aGoT|13}}}} - Tyrion to [[Jon Snow]]

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{{Quote|''Trust no one'', my prince. Not your [[Haldon|chainless maester]], not your [[Jon Connington|false father]], not the gallant [[Rolly Duckfield|Duck]] or the lovely [[Lemore]] nor these other fine friends who grew you up from a bean. Above all, trust not the [[Illyrio Mopatis|cheese monger]], nor [[Varys|the Spider]], nor this little [[Daenerys Targaryen|dragon queen]] you mean to marry. All this mistrust will sour your stomach and keep you awake at night, ’tis true, but better that than the long sleep that does not end''. {{ref|adwd|22}}}}
– Tyrion to [[Aegon Targaryen|Young Griff]]

{{Quote|''You poor stupid blind crippled fool. Must I spell out every little thing for you? Very well. Cersei is a lying whore, she's been fucking Lancel and [[Osmund Kettleblack]] and probably [[Moon Boy]] for all I know. And I am the monster they all say I am. Yes, I killed [[Joffrey Baratheon|your vile son]].''{{Ref|aSoS|77}}}}
- Tyrion to [[Jaime]]

{{Quote|''Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical, the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys.It's the [[High Sparrow|ones who believe in gods]] who make the trouble''.{{ref|aDwD|27}}}}

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2013-08-09T22:55:41Z

Bread & Salt:

A '''bastard''' is a person whose parents, at the time of their birth, were not married to each other. As a polite way of referring to someone who is bastard-born, someone may be referred to as a 'natural son' or 'natural daughter.' A less polite term, indicative of the social stigma against bastards, is "baseborn." A euphemism for being bastard-born is "being born on the wrong side of the sheets." If both parents of a bastard are nobles then the child is not considered "baseborn."

==Family Life and Status==
In the series, it is not unexpected for noblemen to have bastard children, however, it is not typical for a noble to bring his bastards home and raise them with his own children. It's more usually expected that he will see to the child's well-being to some degree.{{Ref|aGoT|6}} A nobly born wife has the right to take insult at her husband's bastards being introduced into her household and being commensurate in rank with her legally born children.

Bastards whose parents are both of the nobility may be considered non-baseborn, although even a royal decree has considerable difficulty in removing the stigma of a bastard{{Ref|TSS||''Legends II'', ISBN 978-0345456441, page 97 of 73-152}} and trueborn children of a bastard might change their surnames to show their legitimate nature. For example, a legitimate son of a Waters might change his surname to Longwaters. {{Ref|aFfC|8}} <ref>[[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999/ So Speak Martin]], June 26, 2001</ref>

At any point, the biological father of a bastard may acknowledge him and bring him formally into his house; for example, [[Ramsay Bolton|Ramsay Snow]] was acknowledged by his father [[Roose Bolton]], and [[Edric Storm]] was acknowledged (but not fostered) by [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert Baratheon]]. A more drastic measure is legitimization, a power traditionally reserved to kings alone; [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] legitimized many of his bastards of noble birth on his deathbed, and, almost a century later, Ramsay Bolton's official bastard status was removed by a royal decree (as a reward for the Boltons betraying the Starks and bowing to the Lannisters) and he became the heir of [[House Bolton]]. The social stigma of his bastardy was not lifted, however. [[Robb Stark]], as [[King in the North]], planned to legitimize his bastard half-brother [[Jon Snow]] and proclaim him as his heir; however, this would only be considered valid by those who supported Robb's claim to be King in the North. Following Robb's death, [[Stannis Baratheon]], having proclaimed himself king of the Seven Kingdoms, also proposed to legitimize Snow and make him lord of [[Winterfell]], but Jon declined Stannis's offer, electing to become [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]] instead.

[[Joffrey Baratheon]] was believed by [[Robert Baratheon]] to be his trueborn son, and therefore heir to [[House Baratheon]] and the [[Iron Throne]]. The revelation of Joffrey's bastardy, as the product of adultery on the part of [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei]], caused his claim to the Iron Throne to be disputed after Robert's death by Robert's brother Stannis.

Far more often a bastard is acknowledged but not legitimized. For example, [[Eddard Stark]] acknowledged Jon Snow as his son and a member of [[House Stark]], but did not legitimize him. Snow retained the bastard name of the North and the social status it conferred, and did not enter the line of succession of House Stark. Many bastards are never acknowledged and don't even know who their fathers are. One example is [[Gendry]].

==Rights of Inheritance==
The baseborn have few rights under the [[Laws & Justice|law]] and [[customs|custom]] when it comes to rights of inheritance. A bastard may inherit if the father has no other trueborn children nor any other likely kin to follow him. Additionally, a bastard can inherit if he is legitimized by a royal decree. It is unclear whether a legitimized bastard would be placed in the succession according to birth order, or would be placed at the end, after the trueborn children.<Ref name="SSM The Hornwood Inheritance and the Whents">[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Hornwood_Inheritance_and_the_Whents SSM]</Ref>

Heraldic custom regarding bastards is fairly loose; bastards who take arms (noble born, knighted, etc.) often, but not always, take the [[Heraldry|coat of arms]] of their fathers with the colors reversed.{{Ref|TSS||''Legends II'', ISBN 978-0345456441, page 104 of 73-152}} A bend sinister is sometimes added, as exemplified by Ser [[Walder Rivers]]'s sigil.{{Ref|aFfC|38}} A bastard that wants to emphasize his filiation and minimize his own bastardy may decide to use the same sigil as his father, as did [[Glendon Flowers]],{{Ref|TMK|''Warriors 1'', ISBN 978-0-7653-6026-7, page 279 of 251-394}} perhaps illegally.{{Ref|THK}}{{Ref|AGOT|7}}

However, any man can be [[knight]]ed, even a bastard. A bastard may even be appointed to the [[Kingsguard]]. In the [[Night's Watch]], any man may rise to command, no matter the circumstances of their birth, such was the case of [[Cotter Pyke]], commander of [[Eastwatch-by-the-sea]], and [[Jon Snow]] and [[Robin Hill]], who became its [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]]s.

==Social Status==
It is considered rude to pry into the origins of a man's natural children. Men say that bastards are born from lust and lies, grow up more swiftly than other children, and their nature is wanton and treacherous.<ref>I: 45, III: 830</ref>

A bastard may study at the [[Citadel]] and become a [[maester]].

===Coat of Arms===

The bastards do not have the right to use the arms of their families. The custom is thus a bastard using arms (when knighted for example) adds a distinction, called ''"breaking"''. This can be in the form of a color inversion on their own coats of arms, with the addition of a possible ''bend sinsister''.

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Targaryen.PNG|75px|''House Targaryen'']]
| [[File:House Blackfyre.png|75px|''House Blackfyre'']]
|Arms of [[House Blackfyre]], founded by a bastard of the [[House Targaryen]], has the colors reversed<ref>[[The Sworn Sword]].</ref>.
|}

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Frey.png|75px|''House Frey'']]
| [[File:MiniWalder Rivers.png|75px|'' personnel arms of Walder Rivers'']]
|The personal arms of [[Walder Rivers]], bastard son of Lord [[Walder Frey]], has the Frey colors reversed and a red bend sinister added{{ref|affc|39}}
|}

==Surnames==
Each of the nine constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms have bastard surnames decreed by custom. Bastards with a high-born parent are given these surnames to hold them apart from their fathers' houses. The parents may give a bastard a different surname if they wish, e.g. [[Tyrion Tanner]]. Bastards with no known relation to a noble house have no surname, like other [[smallfolk]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region !! Surname !! Example Character
|-
| [[The Reach|Reach]] || Flowers || [[Robert Flowers | Ser Robert Flowers]]
|-
| [[The Westerlands|Westerlands]] || Hill || [[Joy Hill]]
|-
| [[The Iron Islands|Iron Islands]] || Pyke || [[Wex Pyke]]
|-
| [[The Riverlands|Riverlands]] || Rivers || [[Walder Rivers]]
|-
| [[Dorne]] || Sand || [[Nymeria Sand]]
|-
| [[The North|North]] || Snow || [[Jon Snow]]
|-
| [[The Vale|Vale]] || Stone || [[Mya Stone]]
|-
| [[The Stormlands|Stormlands]] || Storm || [[Rolland Storm | Ser Rolland Storm]]
|-
| [[Crownlands]] || Waters || [[Aurane Waters]]
|}

As the surname is applied depending on the region where the bastard is raised, bastards who are half-siblings may have different surnames. For example, [[Robert Baratheon]]'s eldest bastard, born in the Vale, is called Mya '''Stone''' while his bastard from the Stormlands is called Edric '''Storm'''.

==Notable Bastards==
'''The North'''
* [[Jon Snow]], the widely-believed bastard son of Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and 998th [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]].
* [[Ramsay Bolton]], formerly known as Ramsay Snow, the recognised and legitimised son of Lord [[Roose Bolton]]. Commonly known as the Bastard of Bolton or the Bastard of the [[Dreadfort]].
* [[Larence Snow]], the son of Lord [[Halys Hornwood]].
'''The Iron Islands'''
* [[Cotter Pyke]], a member of the Night's Watch and the current Commander of [[Eastwatch-by-the-sea]].
* [[Wex Pyke]], the baseborn son of [[Sargon Botley]] and the squire of [[Theon Greyjoy]].
'''The Riverlands'''
* Ser [[Aegor Rivers]], better known as Bittersteel, is the recognised and legitimised son of King [[Aegon IV]] and [[Barba Bracken]]. Founder of the [[Golden Company]].
* [[Brynden Rivers]] better known as Bloodraven, recognised and legitimised son of King [[Aegon IV]] and [[Mylessa Blackwood]]. Former [[Hand of the King]] and Lord Commander of the [[Night's Watch]].
* [[Walder Rivers]], recognised eldest bastard son of Lord [[Walder Frey]].
'''The Vale'''
* [[Mya Stone]], the eldest bastard of King [[Robert Baratheon]].
* [[Alayne Stone]], the bastard daughter of [[Petyr Baelish]], actually a false identity assumed by [[Sansa Stark]].
'''The Westerlands'''
* [[Joy Hill]], recognised daughter of [[Gerion Lannister]].
* "Sweet" [[Donnel Hill]], who claims to be a bastard of the Lannisters.
* Hugor Hill, a bastard named in analogy of the mythical [[Hugor of the Hill]], actually a false identity assumed by [[Tyrion Lannister]]
'''The Crownlands'''
* [[Aurane Waters]], better known as the Bastard of [[Driftmark]]. He was part of Queen [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei's]] small council as the Grand Admiral and [[Master of Ships]].
* [[Humfrey Waters]] is the current Commander of the [[City Watch of King's Landing]].
* [[Gendry]], an unrecognised bastard of King [[Robert Baratheon]]. Unaware of his heritage but is the spitting image of Robert when he was young.
* [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]], [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]] and [[Tommen Baratheon]] are bastards conceived by [[Cersei Lannister|Queen Cersei Lannister]] with her own twin brother [[Jaime Lannister|Ser Jaime]], although they are commonly believed to be her legitimate children by [[Robert Baratheon|King Robert Baratheon]].
'''The Reach'''
*Ser [[Robert Flowers]], a former member of the Kingsguard.
'''The Stormlands'''
*[[Edric Storm]], the acknowledged bastard son of King [[Robert Baratheon]] and [[Delena Florent]].
*Ser [[Rolland Storm]], better known as the Bastard of Nightsong, is the baseborn son of Lord [[Bryen Caron]].
'''Dorne'''
*[[Ellaria Sand]], the bastard daughter of Lord [[Harmen Uller]]. She is also the paramour of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]].
*The [[Sand Snakes]] is the collective name for the bastard daughters of Prince [[Oberyn Martell]], the Red Viper. They are [[Obara Sand]], [[Nymeria Sand]], [[Tyene Sand]], [[Sarella Sand]], [[Elia Sand]], [[Obella Sand]], [[Dorea Sand]] and [[Loreza Sand]].
*[[Daemon Sand]], better known as the Bastard of Godsgrace, is the bastard son of [[Ryon Allyrion]].

==Quotes==
{{Quote|“Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by [[Father (the Seven)|the Father]] and [[Mother (the Seven)|Mother]], but bastards are born of lust and weakness." {{Ref|TSS|''Legends II'', ISNB 0-00-715436-4, page 160 of 88-190}}}} - the old [[High Septon]], to King [[Maekar I Targaryen|Maekar]]

{{Quote|“All bastards are born to betrayal.” {{Ref|TSS|''Legends II'', ISNB 0-00-715436-4, page 160 of 88-190}}}}

{{Quote|Your mother was milking goats the first time I gave her my seed. {{Ref|aGoT|59}}}}
- [[Walder Frey]], to [[Ryger Rivers]]

{{Quote|“Go away, I wanted only Freys up here, the [[Robb|King in the North]] has no interest in base stock.” {{Ref|asos|49|p 560}}}}
- [[Walder Frey]], to little [[Walda Rivers (daughter of Aemon)|Walda Rivers]]

==References and Notes==
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[[ru:Бастарды в Вестеросе]]

Coldhands

2013-05-22T00:31:10Z

Bread & Salt: Linking Ned's brother for "Brandon Stark" here seems an extremely desperate attempt to push crackpot as fact. Neutralized.

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[[‎File:Marc Fishman Coldhands.jpg| Coldhands astride his great elk - by Marc Fishman © |thumb|300px|right]]
'''Coldhands''' is a mysterious figure from beyond the [[Wall]]. He looks like a [[wight]] dressed in the black of the [[Night's Watch]] with a scarf concealing his face, a corpse with hands black from pooled and congealed blood, but is intelligent and seemingly benign.

==Appearance==
His hands are black and as cold as ice, and he rides a great elk. A flock of ravens flies under his command.<ref>[[A Storm of Swords]], [[A Storm of Swords-Chapter 46|Chapter 46]], Samwell</ref> He does not breathe. {{Ref|aDwD|4}}

[[Summer (direwolf)|Summer]] does not like the way Coldhands smells - ''dead meat, dry blood, a faint whiff of rot. And cold. Cold all over''. Though Coldhands is often described as dead, but still alive, his eyes are described as black, in contrast of the light blue of [[wights]] and [[Others]].

==Recent Events==
===A Storm of Swords===
Coldhands saved [[Samwell Tarly]], [[Gilly]] and her son when they were beset by [[wights]] and were lost north of the [[Wall]], while fleeing [[Craster's Keep]]. He took the two under his protection and brought them back and through the wall, by the [[Nightfort#Black Gate|Black Gate]] located underneath it. He could not pass through himself, due to the wall's magic, but he charged them to bring him [[Bran Stark]] and his companions who Coldhands was expecting. He looks and talks as if he was a ranger of the [[Night's Watch]].
{{Ref|aSoS|46}}{{Ref|aSoS|56}}
===A Dance with Dragons===
Coldhands guides [[Bran Stark]], [[Hodor]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]] and [[Jojen Reed]] to the last [[Greenseer]] beyond the [[Wall]]. Along the way he kills men of the [[Night's Watch]]. Bran, having [[warg]]ed into [[Summer]], discovers this and confronts him in the abandoned village. There they discover that Coldhands is indeed dead, but continues to refuse to show his face. However unknown to Bran was that the men Coldhands killed were the surviving traitors responsible for the [[Mutiny at Craster's Keep]].{{Ref|aDwD|4}}

He leads Bran and his companions to the cave of the last [[greenseer]] but he cannot enter. He fights off wights as they climb to the cave entrance. [[Leaf]] the [[children of the Forest|child of the forest]] states about him:

{{Quote|''"They killed him long ago"''.{{Ref|aDwD|13}}}}

==Quotes==
[[File:UrukkiSaki bransmonsterII.jpg|Coldhands guided [[Bran Stark]], [[Hodor]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]] and [[Jojen Reed]] to the last [[Greenseer]] beyond the [[Wall]] – by Urukki Saki ©|thumb|300px|right]]
{{Quote|Your monster, Brandon Stark.}} - Coldhands, to [[Bran]]

==See also==
* [[Coldhands/Theories]]

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Characters from the North]]
[[fr:Mains-froides]]
[[ru:Холодные Руки]][[zh:冷手]]

Bravo

2013-05-20T15:31:14Z

Bread & Salt: Bravos have nothing to do with Braavos, they are found in different free cities as well as the real world

'''Bravos''' are a type of young swordsmen commonly found in the [[Free Cities]] who wish to prove their skills.

It is said amongst the Braavosi that the night belongs to bravos and courtesans. When night falls, good citizens of Braavos retreat indoors, closing shutters and barring doors. Bravos swagger through Braavos in party-colored finery, looking to pick fights and prove their skills. Most will fight with little cause, and some with no cause at all. Anyone carrying a sword after dark in Braavos can be challenged to a duel. Simply placing a finger on your sword while facing a bravo is akin to challenging them. {{Ref|aFfC|26}}

The bravos fight from a sideways stance with [[Armament|weapon]] extended. They use slender swords that are edged and balanced for the thrust.


==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Terms]]
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[[es:Jaque]]
[[fr:Spadassin]]
[[zh:刺客]]

High Sparrow

2013-05-12T10:42:34Z

Bread & Salt: Cersei calls him as small, not tall. 2 letters, big difference.

{{Character
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| image_caption = - The High Sparrow - by Marc Fishman ©
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The '''High Sparrow''' is the current [[High Septon]] of the [[Faith of the Seven]]. His real name is unknown.

==Character and Appearance==
He is a small, thin, hard-eyed, grey-haired man with a heavily lined face. Unlike previous [[High Septon]]s, he does not wear rich robes or elaborate crowns of crystal and spun gold. Instead, he wears a simple white wool tunic that goes to his ankles. The man is truly devout to his faith and has an iron will.

==History==
Little is known of the history of the current High Septon. He claims to have been a Septon who walked all over the realm. His heavily callused feet support this claim; they are black, gnarled and hard as tree roots.{{Ref|aFfC|4}} He often came upon villages that were too small to have their own septs and performed the traditional duties of a Septon, such as naming newborn children, absolving sins and performing marriages.

==Recent Events==
===A Feast of Crows===
[[Brienne of Tarth]] encounters the High Sparrow while he is leading a group of fellow [[sparrows]] on the road. He is in a wagon that is carrying the bones of Holy Septons and Septas who were slain during the [[War of the Five Kings]].{{Ref|aFfC|4}}

After the [[High Septon (Tyrion's)|previous High Septon]] is slain,{{Ref|aFfC|17}} the Most Devout begin the selection process to see who will become the new High Septon. According to [[Qyburn]], the [[sparrows]] forcibly took over the selection process. They burst into the chambers with axes in hand and their leader on their shoulders. The Most Devout relented in fear and named him the new High Septon.

He begins his term by selling all of the golden crowns, including his own, and robes of cloth and gold. The money earned from this is used to buy food for the sparrows and the poor. He clad himself in a humble wool robe and other Septons are forced to follow suit. [[Cersei Lannister]], in order to secure the Faith's blessing for [[Tommen Baratheon|her son]] and cancel the near one million dragons the crown owed the Faith, allows the High Septon to restore the [[Faith Militant]]. This military arm of the Faith has not existed in the realm since it was disbanded by [[Jaehaerys I]]. His army of sparrows become [[Poor Fellows]] of old and soon over a hundred knights join the [[Warrior's Sons]]. The new High Septon becomes commonly known as the High Sparrow.

The Faith, emboldened by their new power, arrests [[Margaery Tyrell]] and her cousins when [[Osney Kettleblack]] falsely confesses to bedding the girls. The High Septon is suspicious of Osney's confession, as he had never heard a confession from a man so pleased to be guilty, and has Osney scourged. Osney confesses the actual truth that Cersei had him lie and he killed the previous High Septon under her orders.

When Cersei Lannister visits the [[Great Sept of Baelor]], the High Septon has her arrested and imprisoned on similar, but accurate, charges.

===A Dance with Dragons===
Since the evidence against Margaery and her cousins is quite weak, the High Septon releases them into the custody of [[Randyll Tarly]]. The High Septon requires Tarly to swear a holy oath to return them for trial.

The High Septon then sees Cersei when she says she wishes to confess. To try and gain access to visitors, Cersei decides to confess many of her crimes to the High Septon. She confesses she did have relations with her cousin [[Lancel Lannister|Lancel]] and the Kettleblack brothers. She knows such sins would not earn her an execution, but denies the sins that would her earn an execution - ordering Osney to kill the previous High Septon and her involvement in [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]]'s death. The High Septon agrees to allow her one visitor a day.

The High Septon agrees to free Cersei on the condition that she performs a penance walk through [[King's Landing]]. Cersei reluctantly agrees. Cersei and Margaery are still to be put on trial. Cersei chose trial by combat with Ser [[Robert Strong]] as her champion. Margaery chose trial by the Faith.

Lord Regent [[Kevan Lannister]], [[Master of Laws]] Randyll Tarly and [[Hand of the King]] [[Mace Tyrell]] are frustrated by having to give in to the demands of the "High Sparrow". But with so many rebellious subjects in the Seven Kingdoms they dare not be seen to go against the Faith, lest it drive the pious into the armies of another claimant to the [[Iron Throne]]. Though this is unlikely to be [[Stannis Baratheon]] as according to the High Septon, Lord [[Stannis]] has turned from the truth of the Seven to worship a [[R'hllor|red demon]], and his false faith has no place in the [[Seven Kingdoms]].

==Quotes about the High Sparrow==
{{Quote|''"This man is implacable".'' {{Ref|aDwD|54}}}} - [[Cersei Lannister]]

{{Quote|''"The [[Warrior's Sons|Swords]] and [[Poor Fellows|Stars]] have been re-formed, and this new High Septon is not the puppet that the others were".'' {{Ref|aDwD|38}}}} - [[Doran Martell]]

==References and Notes==
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Talk:Moqorro

2012-12-28T12:09:34Z

Bread & Salt: /* The Dragon Prophecy */ forgot my signature

== The Dragon Prophecy ==

The quote of Moqorro's dragon prophecy contained links to speculative candidates for old, young, bright and dark dragons. While I do find these candidates plausible, there are several other alternatives and this seems nothing more than a theory - which should not be written into stone in the wiki. If anyone disagrees and knows of some reference why this interpretation is the only valid one, feel free to revert.

{{Quote|Dragons [[Maester Aemon|old]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen|young]], true and false, [[House Targaryen|bright]] and [[House Blackfyre|dark]]. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.{{Ref|aDwD|33}}}} Moqorro to [[Tyrion Lannister]].

--[[User:Bread & Salt|Bread & Salt]] 12:09, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Moqorro

2012-12-28T10:53:54Z

Bread & Salt: The Dragon Prophecy

Moqorro

2012-12-28T10:50:54Z

Bread & Salt: /* Quotes */ Removed speculative theories stated as fact (see discussion)

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| image_caption = Moqorro Image by Robert O'Leary [http://dragonman14x.deviantart.com/gallery/]
| Alias = Black Flame
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'''Moqorro''' is a red priest in service to the [[R'hllor]] faith.

==Appearance==
Moqorro skin is black as pitch, he is over six foot tall with a belly like a boulder, a tangle of pure white hair grows from his face like a mane of a lion and Red Fire tattoos are inked across his cheeks and forehead.

==Recent Events==
===A Dance with Dragons===
Moqorro is a red priest of the [[R'hllor]] faith who was sent by High Priest [[Benerro]] to offer guidance and help to [[Daenerys Targaryen]].

Like [[Melisandre]] he can see the future in the flames, though his predictions are much more accurate. He joined the crew of the ship ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'' heading to [[Qarth]] although according to him he knew the ship would not reach Qarth but would lead him to [[Slaver's Bay]]. He wished to see [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and when [[Jorah Mormont]] learned of this, he booked passage on the ship so he could take his prisoner [[Tyrion Lannister]] to Daenarys also. However the ship was spotted and boarded by slaver ships (this was predicted by Moqorro but unknown to the crew). In the ensuing battle, Moqorro was lost overboard and the crew and other passengers were enslaved.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Tyrion IX (A Dance with Dragons)|Chapter 40 - Tyrion IX]], page 533</ref>

Moqorro was discovered clinging to wreckage out to sea ten days later by the [[Iron Fleet]] commanded by [[Victarion Greyjoy]]. The crew wanted him put to death and shouted such but Moqorro was unafraid and calm the whole time, which further unnerved the crew. Moqorro spoke to Victarion directly and told him he knew of his quest to seek the Dragon queen and that Victarion would die (from his wounded hand) without Moqorro's help. Using magic, Moqorro managed to cure Victarion's wound and also used magic to aid Victarion in his quest. He had Victarion kill the ship's [[maester]], [[Kerwin]], to bring good winds (just as Melisandre once did when she had Stannis burn [[Alester Florent]] to grant his fleet favorable winds to [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea|Eastwatch]]).<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[The Iron Suitor (A Dance with Dragons)|Chapter 56 - The Iron Suitor]], pages 750-753</ref>

Since his red garb was ruined in the sea Victarion had one of his crew make Moqorro a robe from the black and gold of the [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoy]] sails.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Victarion I (A Dance with Dragons)|Chapter 63 - Victarion I]], page 828</ref> Victarion's crew live in great fear of Moqorro and among them he is known as ''"Black Flame"''. This name given to him by [[Steffar Stammerer]], who could not pronounce Moqorro's name properly.

Moqorro studied the glyphs on the [[Dragon Horn]] and next plans to make Victarion the master of the [[Dragon Horn]] so he can bind the dragons to his will.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Victarion I (A Dance with Dragons)|Chapter 63 - Victarion I]]</ref>

==Quotes==
{{Quote|Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of it all.{{Ref|aDwD|33}}}} Moqorro to [[Tyrion Lannister]].

==References and Notes==
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[[Category:Red Priests]]
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[[fr:Moqorro]][[ru:Мокорро]]

Greyscale

2011-08-19T22:17:40Z

Bread & Salt:

'''Greyscale''' is a disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead and the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stone-like to the touch. The tongue and lips turn to stone.<ref>[[A Clash of Kings]], [[A Clash of Kings-Prologue|Prologue]]</ref> It generally affects children especially in cold damp climes. The victims are disfigured but could not be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction or the grey plague. The [[wildlings]] consider people who survive Greyscale unclean.

==Treatment==
The [[maesters]] say it progress could be stayed by limes, mustard poultices, and scalding-hot baths. Septons insist that prayer, sacrifice and fasting stay it.

==Persons with Greyscale==
* [[Harlon Greyjoy]], died of greyscale.
* [[Shireen Baratheon]], survived a bout as an infant.
* [[Jon Connington]]

==References and Notes==
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[[fr:Léprose]]