Lyn Corbray
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 Lyn with Lady Forlorn, by JB Casacop © Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
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| Title | Ser[1] | |||
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| Culture | Valemen | |||
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~261–268 AC[2] Heart's Home[3] | |||
| Father | Lord Corbray | |||
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Lyn Corbray is a knight from House Corbray who wields Lady Forlorn, a famed sword of Valyrian steel.[4] He is the heir of his elder brother, Lord Lyonel Corbray of Heart's Home.[1]
Contents
Appearance and Character
Lyn is a slender,[5] handsome[6][7] man with shoulder-length brown hair,[7] a hard mouth,[7] and restless eyes.[7] Vain, reckless and hot-tempered,[6] he has a wicked smile.[7] Lyn is often venomous and mocking.[7][8] The landless[8] knight does not care for his elder brother, Lord Lyonel Corbray.[7]
Ser Lyn wields Lady Forlorn and also carries a dagger.[6] Coming from impoverished House Corbray,[6] he is always short of money.[8]
Kevan Lannister, Nestor Royce, and House Arryn guards all consider Lyn to be dangerous,[9][10][7] with Kevan also considering him proud.[9] Lord Robert Arryn dislikes Lyn.[7] It is said that Lyn is "notoriously" uninterested in women.[6][8] According to Petyr Baelish, Lyn likes "boys".[7]
History
Ser Lyn won his knighthood during Robert's Rebellion.[7] At the start of the war, he fought for House Targaryen alongside Lord Marq Grafton against Lord Jon Arryn at the gates of Gulltown.[7] After being pardoned, Lyn joined Jon against the Targaryens.[7]
Lyn's father was badly wounded during the Battle of the Trident. As Lyonel Corbray led their father back to the rear, Lyn took up the family's Valyrian steel longsword, Lady Forlorn, led a charge on the Dornish lines, and cut down the previously-wounded Prince Lewyn Martell of the Kingsguard.[7]
Honoring Lyn's achievements on the battlefield, his father bequeathed him Lady Forlorn upon his death. Lyn's elder brother, Lyonel inherited Heart's Home and the rest of the family estate and titles, but still resented the loss of the family blade.[7]
Lyn has slain many men in duels.[7]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Ser Lyn is one of Lady Lysa Arryn's suitors after the death of Lord Jon Arryn.[6] His squire is Mychel Redfort.[11]
Lyn attends the trial of Tyrion Lannister at the Eyrie. He offers himself as champion of the Vale when Tyrion demands trial by combat, but is rebuffed by Lysa.[5] Lyn suggests beheading Tyrion and sending his head to his brother, Ser Jaime Lannister, but is again refused.[6]
Following Bronn's victory over Ser Vardis Egen in the trial,[6] Lyn escorts Tyrion and Bronn to the Bloody Gate, where he commands them never to return to the Vale.[12]
A Clash of Kings
Lyn remains a suitor of Lysa.[13]
A Storm of Swords
Ser Kevan Lannister prefers having Lord Petyr Baelish ruling the Eyrie than any of Lysa's suitors, including Lyn.[9]
Having married Lysa and been named Lord Protector of the Vale, Petyr travels to meet with the Corbrays.[14]
A Feast for Crows
Ser Lyn accompanies the Lords Declarant to their parley with Petyr and young Lord Robert Arryn at the Eyrie. Lord Nestor Royce claims that Lyn rarely left the side of Lysa for nearly half a year. During the parley, Ser Lyn grows tired of the conversation and threatens Petyr with his sword, Lady Forlorn, violating the laws of hospitality. Ser Lothor Brune moves to intercept, but it is the intervention of the other Lords Declarant that causes Lyn to put up his sword. Lyn leaves the parley shortly thereafter.[7]
Later, Petyr admits to Sansa Stark that Lyn is in his employ, and it is his task to feign hatred for Petyr and to join every conspiracy against him and inform on them. Petyr states that Lyn's price is gold and boys.[7]
With Mychel Redfort now a knight, Lyn's new squire is a lad considered a lout by Myranda Royce.[15]
The Winds of Winter
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Prior to the tourney for the Brotherhood of Winged Knights at the Gates of the Moon, Ser Lyn knocks down Ser Owen during a practice match. The buxom Myranda japes that Lyn would not be interested in her because of her gender.[8]
Quotes by Lyn
The gods favor the man with the just cause, yet often that turns out to be the man with the surest sword. We all know who that is.[5]
—Lyn to Lysa Arryn
Anya: Mind your tongue, ser.
Lyn: My tongue is my concern. Your ladyship should take care to mind her own. I have never taken kindly to chastisement, as any number of dead men could tell you.[7]—Anya Waynwood and Lyn
—Lyn to the Lords Declarant
Alayne: Well struck, Ser Lyn. Though I fear you've knocked poor Ser Owen insensible.
Lyn: He had no sense to start with, or he should not have tried me.[8]—Alayne Stone and Lyn
Alayne: My father is always pleased to be of service to one of Lord Robert's leal bannermen. I'm sure he would be most delighted to help broker a marriage for you as well, Ser Lyn.
Lyn: How kind of him. But what need have I for heirs when I am landless and like to remain so, thanks to our Lord Protector? No. Tell your lord father I need none of his brood mares.[8]—Alayne Stone and Lyn
Quotes about Lyn
Ser Lyn was a different sort of folly; lean and handsome, heir to an ancient but impoverished house, but vain, reckless, hot-tempered ... and, it was whispered, notoriously uninterested in the intimate charms of women.[6]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Petyr: Ser Lyn mislikes me, for some reason.
Nestor: Lyn Corbray is a dangerous man.[10]
If even half of what she had heard from Lord Robert's guards was true, Lyn Corbray was more dangerous than all six of the Lords Declarant put together.[7]
—thoughts of Alayne Stone
Ser Lyn is very handsome, for an older man, she thought, but I do not like the way he smiles.[7]
—thoughts of Alayne Stone
Petyr: Ser Lyn will remain my implacable enemy. He will speak of me with scorn and loathing to every man he meets, and lend his sword to every secret plot to bring me down.
Alayne: And how shall you reward him for this service?
Petyr: With gold and boys and promises, of course. Ser Lyn is a man of simple tastes, my sweetling. All he likes is gold and boys and killing.[7]
The venom in his voice was so thick that for a moment she almost forgot that Lyn Corbray was actually her father's catspaw, bought and paid for. Or was he? Perhaps, instead of being Petyr's man pretending to be Petyr's foe, he was actually his foe pretending to be his man pretending to be his foe.[8]
—thoughts of Alayne Stone
Behind the Scenes
While it is mentioned that Lyn likes "boys",[7] the age of these boys is unclear. As such, it is unclear if this is meant to imply that he is a pedophile. When asked about this, Elio Garcia agreed that the currently available information is too little to tell one way or the other, and agreed that "[Lyn being a pedophile is] an assumption without proof, so at least should be qualified".[16]
Family
| Lord Corbray | Unknown wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First wife | Lyonel | Merchant's daughter | Lyn | Lucas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sickly babe | Unborn child | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
- ↑ See the Lyn Corbray calculation.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Lyn Corbray.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 38, Tyrion V.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 40, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 The Winds of Winter, Alayne I
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 36, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 42, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ Twitter: @westerosorg (November 26, 2015)