Editing Tywin Lannister (section)

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Pojypojy Tywin triumphant.jpg|thumb|350px|Tywin paraded as Savior of the City, by Pojypojy ©]]
[[Robb Stark]] and Ser [[Brynden Tully]] return to [[Riverrun]]. They claim they had planned to lead Tywin's army on a long chase across the [[westerlands]], bleeding his forces and living off his lands, but that Ser [[Edmure Tully]] had disrupted their plan by stopping Tywin with the [[Battle of the Fords]].{{Ref|ASOS|14}}

Fearing Tywin's retribution for the [[fall of Harrenhal]], [[Vargo Hoat]] has [[Zollo]] chop off the sword hand of Ser [[Jaime Lannister]],{{Ref|ASOS|21}} hoping that this act will prevent his commander, Lord [[Roose Bolton]], from allying with Tywin in the aftermath of the [[Battle of the Blackwater]].{{Ref|ASOS|37}}

Tywin's timely arrival at the Blackwater allows him to take the majority of the credit for the Lannister victory. He appoints Ser [[Addam Marbrand]] to lead the [[gold cloaks]] and tasks him with finding the missing [[Tyrek Lannister]].{{Ref|ASOS|4}} Tyrion asks to be named heir since Jaime is ineligible as a [[Kingsguard]], but Tywin refuses to allow his dwarf son to inherit [[Casterly Rock]].{{Ref|ASOS|4}} He instead gives Tyrion, after his recovery, the position of [[master of coin]], which Tyrion sees as a demotion and an insult.{{Ref|ASOS|19}}

Tywin arranges for [[Wedding of Tyrion Lannister and Sansa Stark|Tyrion to be wed]] to [[Sansa Stark]]{{Ref|ASOS|19}} before she can be betrothed to [[Willas Tyrell]], giving him claim over [[Winterfell]] and directly denying Tyrion's ambition to inherit the Rock.{{Ref|ASOS|4}} He also makes plans to find a suitor to marry his widowed daughter, Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]], though they are never realized. Tywin offers her to Willas but Lord [[Mace Tyrell]], after being hectored by his mother, [[Olenna Tyrell]], refuses the match. Tywin demands that Tyrion act as if the offer were never made.{{Ref|ASOS|32}}

After learning that Robb Stark has unexpectedly wed [[Jeyne Westerling]] and that [[House Westerling]] has gone over to the [[House Stark|Starks]], Tywin remains in communication, via [[raven]], with Jeyne's mother, [[Sybell Spicer]]. He also communicates with Lord Bolton, who releases the mutilated Jaime from captivity,{{Ref|ASOS|44}} and Lord [[Walder Frey]], who sees Robb's marriage to Jeyne as an insult to [[House Frey]], as it breaks a marriage pact Robb had previously made to wed a Frey girl. The [[Red Wedding]] is the direct result of their correspondence, which sees Robb betrayed and murdered along with the vast majority of his host, effectively ending the war with House Lannister the victor.{{ref|ASOS|51}}{{Ref|ASOS|53}}

Tywin names Roose as [[Warden of the North]].{{Ref|ASOS|72}} While Tywin offers generous terms to defeated rebel lords, he orders [[Gregor Clegane]] to extinguish Vargo and the [[Brave Companions]] at [[capture of Harrenhal|Harrenhal]].{{Ref|ASOS|53}} Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] seeks justice for the death of his sister, [[Elia Martell]], and her children during the [[Sack of King's Landing]], so Tywin claims that the late Ser [[Amory Lorch]] was solely to blame.{{Ref|ASOS|53}}

Tywin Lannister has [[Tobho Mott]] reforge [[Ice]], the [[Valyrian steel]] greatsword of the late Lord [[Eddard Stark]], into two longswords as gifts, [[Widow's Wail|one]] for Joffrey on his wedding day and [[Oathkeeper|the other]] to Jaime.{{Ref|aSoS|32}} Not long after, King Joffrey is poisoned and dies at [[Purple Wedding|the feast following his wedding]] to [[Margaery Tyrell]]. Cersei accuses Tyrion of murder,{{Ref|ASOS|60}} although the crime was actually arranged by Olenna and [[Petyr Baelish]].{{Ref|ASOS|68}} When Jaime returns to King's Landing in the company of [[Brienne of Tarth]], Tywin plans for his son to be released from the Kingsguard. Jaime insists upon remaining [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard|Lord Commander]], however, angering his father.{{Ref|ASOS|62}}

Tywin agrees to be one of Tyrion's three judges, alongside Oberyn Martell and Mace Tyrell, at the trial for Joffrey's murder.{{Ref|ASOS|66}} When it becomes clear that he is going to be found guilty, Tyrion demands [[trial by combat]], and Oberyn volunteers to champion him, as he does not accept that only Amory was to blame in the Sack. Cersei, being Tyrion's accuser, selects Gregor to represent the crown. During the duel, Gregor roars his guilt in slaying Elia and her son, Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]]. Despite being [[poison]]ed by Oberyn's spear, the Mountain slays the Red Viper, and Tyrion is thus found guilty.{{Ref|ASOS|70}}

Because of Gregor's confession, Tywin fears [[Dorne]] might join [[Stannis Baratheon]], which could prolong the [[War of the Five Kings]] for years. He plans on having Gregor executed to appease [[House Martell]], but needs it to be seen to be the [[Ilyn Payne|King's Justice]] who carries out the deed, not poison. Tywin commands Pycelle to heal Gregor, but Pycelle's efforts prove fruitless.{{Ref|ASOS|72}}

Awaiting his sentencing, Tyrion is freed from the Red Keep's dungeon by Jaime and a reluctant [[Varys]]. Jaime admits that Tywin had forced him to claim that Tyrion's first wife, [[Tysha]], was a [[whore]]. Tyrion is enraged by this and has Varys show him to a ladder that leads directly into the [[Tower of the Hand]], Tywin's residence. When Tyrion finds his former lover [[Shae]] in Tywin's bed, wearing nothing but his father's golden chain of office, Tyrion strangles her to death with it. He then takes a crossbow from the wall and finds Tywin in the privy and confronts him about Tysha. Tywin remains belligerent, repeatedly calling her a whore, which Tyrion sees as the final insult. Tyrion shoots Tywin through his bowels with the crossbow, and Tywin dies on the privy, his bowels loosening in the moment of death.{{Ref|ASOS|77}}