Editing Brynden Tully (section)

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===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Nicholas Gregory The Blackfish.png|thumb|Brynden Tully by Nicholas Gregory © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Brynden serves as [[Knight of the Gate]] when his niece, [[Catelyn Stark]], arrives at the [[Bloody Gate]] with her captive, [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{ref|AGOT|34}} After news arrives of [[House Lannister|Lannister]] attacks upon the [[riverlands]], Brynden quarrels with Lady [[Lysa Arryn]] over her decision to not send aid to [[Riverrun]]. Recognizing his [[House Tully]] roots, Brynden resigns his position as Knight of the Gate.{{ref|AGOT|40}} He accompanies Catelyn to [[White Harbor]] and then [[Moat Cailin]].{{ref|AGOT|55}}

Once Brynden meets Catelyn's son, [[Robb Stark]], at Moat Cailin,{{Ref|agot|55}} he quickly becomes a part of Robb's war council and commands one hundred scouts.{{ref|AGOT|59}} Brynden's outriders kill a dozen Lannister scouts under command of Ser [[Addam Marbrand]], and Brynden's bowmen shoot [[raven]]s which depart the [[Twins]].{{ref|AGOT|59}} Brynden learns from a captured outrider that his nephew, Ser [[Edmure Tully]], was defeated by Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] in a [[battle under the walls of Riverrun]].{{ref|AGOT|59}} After Catelyn negotiates an alliance with Lord [[Walder Frey]], Robb leads most of the [[north]]ern horsemen west across the [[Green Fork]], while Lord [[Roose Bolton]] commands the remaining soldiers east of the river.{{ref|AGOT|59}} Brynden leads three hundred men to screen Robb's march,{{ref|AGOT|63}} and [[Theon Greyjoy]] is one of his picked scouts.{{ref|ACOK|37}}

Robb tasks Brynden and three hundred Tully men with drawing Jaime out of his encampment at Riverrun, and the Kingslayer ends up captured in the [[battle in the Whispering Wood]].{{ref|AGOT|63}} The Blackfish then leads Robb's van at the [[Battle of the Camps]], which lifts the siege of Riverrun.{{Ref|aGoT|69}} While still angry about Brynden's refusal to marry [[Bethany Redwyne]] so many years ago, a dying Lord [[Hoster Tully]] agrees to see Brynden, claiming he is too sick to fight. Catelyn expresses certainty that Brynden will never marry.{{Ref|AGOT|71}} Brynden is present when Robb is proclaimed [[King in the North]].{{ref|AGOT|71}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Brynden and Hoster reconcile after many years, leaving the past behind them.{{ref|ACOK|7}} Brynden realizes that Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] is the true danger for Houses [[House Stark|Stark]] and [[House Tully]] in the [[War of the Five Kings]], and knows that Tywin wishes them to march on [[Harrenhal]].{{Ref|ACOK|7}} Brynden accompanies Robb to campaign in the [[westerlands]], with [[Martyn Rivers]] taking command of the outriders at Riverrun.{{ref|ACOK|39}}

When Maester [[Vyman]] informs Catelyn that Hoster will soon die, he suggests sending a rider to Brynden, as Brynden would want to be with his brother when he died.{{ref|ACOK|39}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Christine Griffin bLACKFISH.jpg|thumb|Ser Brynden by Christine Griffin © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Brynden returns to [[Riverrun]] together with King Robb.{{Ref|ASOS|14}} He and Robb angrily claim to Edmure that the [[Battle of the Fords]] ruined their plan to defeat Tywin in the west, explaining that Brynden's scouts had found a good spot for an ambush along the [[gold road]].{{ref|ASOS|14}}

After Lord [[Rickard Karstark]] murders [[Tion Frey]] and [[Willem Lannister]], Brynden reports that the [[House Karstark|Karstark]] fighting men have left Riverrun. The Blackfish is sent out with a hundred men in search of the Karstarks, although expectations are low. Robb executes Rickard at Riverrun.{{ref|ASOS|20}}

When Hoster finally dies, he receives a funeral as per the Tully customs. When Lord Edmure fails to hit Hoster's boat with a fire arrow, Brynden offers to make the shot, though is refused. After Edmure fails twice more, he gives the bow to Brynden, who hits the funerary boat with a fire arrow in one attempt.{{ref|ASOS|35}} With the [[House Frey|Freys]] having left Robb's service after he wed [[Jeyne Westerling]], Brynden advises Edmure to wed one of Lord Frey's daughters.{{ref|ASOS|35}}

Brynden remains at Riverrun when Robb travels north to the [[Twins]] to attend the wedding of Edmure to [[Roslin Frey]], in preparation for the plan to [[siege of Moat Cailin|retake Moat Cailin]] from the [[ironborn]]. Robb names him [[Warden of the Southern Marches]] and tasks him with protecting his queen, Jeyne.{{ref|ASOS|45}} [[Galbart Glover]] takes command of the outriders in Brynden's place.{{ref|ASOS|45}} After the [[brotherhood without banners]] express skepticism that Brynden would pay ransom for [[Arya Stark]], a relative he might not know, if they bring her to Riverrun, Arya flees from the [[outlaw]] group. She is captured by [[Sandor Clegane]], however.{{Ref|ASOS|43}}

The Freys and [[House Bolton|Boltons]] betray the Starks and Tullys in the [[Red Wedding]], with Robb and Catelyn murdered{{ref|ASOS|51}} and Edmure taken captive.{{ref|ASOS|53}} Brynden and Edmure are attainted by the [[Iron Throne]], with Riverrun promised to Ser [[Emmon Frey]] once the Blackfish surrenders the castle.{{ref|ASOS|53}}{{ref|ASOS|72}} Sandor considers bringing Arya to Riverrun, but the girl thinks her great uncle would consider her a fraud and instead hang the [[Hound]].{{ref|ASOS|65}} Lysa states the [[Vale mountain clans]], who have been armed by Tyrion,{{ref|AGOT|56}} have become bolder since Brynden resigned as Knight of the Gate.{{ref|ASOS|68}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Blackfish Riverlands.jpg|thumb|Blackfish in the Riverlands by Amok © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Brynden, the castellan of Riverrun,{{ref|AFFC|Appendix}} continues to hold the castle in Robb's name, even as other river lords surrender and bend the knee to the [[Iron Throne]]. He expels refugees from Riverrun and picks the land clean.{{ref|AFFC|33}} Ser [[Daven Lannister]], the new [[Warden of the West]], and Ser [[Ryman Frey]] lead the [[siege of Riverrun]],{{ref|AFFC|16}}{{ref|AFFC|38}} but they have difficulty feeding their hosts.{{ref|AFFC|27}} When a drunken Ryman demands to speak with Brynden, the Blackfish puts an arrow in Ryman's horse, spilling him into the mud. Brynden is unmoved by Ryman's daily threats to hang his nephew, Edmure. Brynden refuses to give up Riverrun or Robb's widow, Jeyne.{{Ref|AFFC|33}}{{Ref|AFFC|38}} The queen's father, Lord [[Gawen Westerling]], worries that the Blackfish will kill [[House Westerling|his family]] inside the castle if the Freys hang Edmure.{{ref|AFFC|33}}

Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] sends her brother Jaime, [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]], to pacify the riverlands and end the siege.{{ref|AFFC|27}} Brynden parleys with Jaime, but only as an excuse to hear Jaime's reasons for not returning Catelyn's daughters, [[Sansa Stark|Sansa]] and Arya, and to see Jaime's stump. Jaime tells Brynden that he will be allowed to [[Night's Watch|take the black]] if he surrenders and mentions that [[Jon Snow]] is now [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]]. Brynden recalls Catelyn's distrust of Jon and assumes that the boy's new position was given to him by the Lannisters.{{ref|AFFC|38}}

During Jaime's war council, Addam Marbrand offers to climb Riverrun's walls with a small group and open its gates, [[Edwyn Frey]] suggests having archers smear their arrows with [[night soil]] and target Brynden, and Ser [[Lyle Crakehall]] desires single combat with the Blackfish. Lord [[Norbert Vance]] offers to negotiate with Brynden, but Lord [[Clement Piper]] thinks the Blackfish would refuse to surrender to the Freys.{{ref|AFFC|38}} Jaime convinces Edmure, the head of House Tully, to surrender the castle, with the promise that Brynden and the garrison can take the black.{{ref|AFFC|38}} However, before Edmure gives the castle up to Jaime, he allows Brynden to escape by swimming under the portcullis that had been slightly raised at the [[Water Gate]].{{Ref|AFFC|44}} Addam and Ser [[Dermot of the Rainwood]] unsuccessfully search south and north of the [[Red Fork]], respectively.{{ref|AFFC|44}} Jaime doubles the men with Ser [[Forley Prester]], who is tasked with bringing Edmure and the Westerlings to the westerlands, as he fears the convoy may come under attack by Brynden.{{ref|AFFC|44}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Brynden has been declared an outlaw.{{ref|ADWD|48}} When Jaime resolves the [[siege of Raventree]], he is told by Lords [[Jonos Bracken]] and [[Tytos Blackwood]] that Brynden has not come to [[Raventree Hall]].{{ref|ADWD|48}}