Editing Varys (section)

===''A Feast for Crows''===
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[[Cersei Lannister]] sends Ser [[Meryn Trant]] of the [[Kingsguard]] to find Varys after her father's body is found,{{ref|AFFC|3}} but the spymaster has vanished from the [[Red Keep]] without a trace.{{ref|AFFC|7}} A dungeon turnkey named [[Rugen]] disappears as well.{{ref|AFFC|3}} In Rugen's living space a [[currency|coin]] from [[House Gardener]] is discovered and shown to Cersei, increasing her mistrust of [[House Tyrell]], who had replaced the Gardeners in the [[Reach]] during [[Aegon's Conquest]].{{ref|AFFC|7}} Rugen is one of Varys's disguises.{{Ref|HboGoT|s01e08|DVD Commentary}}

Cersei, now ruling in King's Landing as Queen Regent to her son, King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]], appoints [[Qyburn]] to fill the position of [[master of whisperers]]. Qyburn notes that many of Varys's spies came to him with secrets to sell, reinforcing Cersei's belief that Varys had always oversold his value.{{ref|AFFC|17}} 

Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] thinks that Varys fled to the [[narrow sea]] with Tyrion, and he also considers the possibility that his brother had murdered Varys and left his body beneath the Red Keep.{{ref|ASOS|8}} Jaime begins to suspect that Varys might have had a hand in the disappearance of [[Tyrek Lannister]], once one of King Robert's squires, during the [[riot of King’s Landing]].{{Ref|AFFC|27}}

Ser [[Shadrich]] searches for [[Sansa Stark]] in hopes of winning the [[gold]] offered as a reward by Varys.{{ref|AFFC|4}}