Editing Pycelle (section)

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Brittmartin Grand Maester Pycelle.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Grand Maester]] Pycelle, by Brittmartin ©]]
[[Tyrion Lannister]], serving as Hand, is not sure whom he can trust, so he tells different secrets to [[Varys]], [[Petyr Baelish]], and Pycelle, tasking the Grand Maester with sending two copies of a single letter to [[Doran Martell]], [[Prince of Dorne]]. Pycelle does send one copy, but shares the other one with Cersei, who proceeds to confront Tyrion, unwittingly falling in Tyrion's trap. In the time it takes Pycelle to send one of the letter's copies, Tyrion has time to help himself to a mild poison from the shelves in [[Pycelle's chambers]], which he uses later on Cersei. Pycelle is present when Tyrion gives his terms for peace with the [[north]].{{Ref|ACOK|17}}{{Ref|ACOK|20}}

At midnight, Tyrion takes [[Shagga]] and [[Timett]] and confronts Pycelle in his chambers, where the Grand Maester is found naked in bed with [[Pycelle's serving girl|his serving girl]]. With help from Shagga, Tyrion intimidates Pycelle, who wets the bed in fear of the [[Vale mountain clans|clansmen]]. While Shagga shaves off Pycelle's signature white beard with his axe, Tyrion learns Pycelle has betrayed the realm over and over in service to House Lannister. He allowed [[Jon Arryn]] to die when he could have easily saved him, convinced [[Aerys II Targaryen]] to open the gates to Tywin's forces during [[Robert's Rebellion]], and would have finished Robert off himself if the wounds from the boar had not been so fatal.{{Ref|ACOK|25}}

Pycelle justifies Jon's death, since he was close to the truth about Cersei's incest with her brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], and King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]'s parentage. He admits Maester [[Colemon]] was treating Lord Arryn properly but the queen needed him dead. Pycelle justifies Robert's death, since his brother [[Renly Baratheon|Renly]] had been plotting with the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]] to kill Cersei and wed [[Margaery Tyrell]] to Robert. Tyrion has Pycelle thrown in one of the [[black cells]] and stripped of his title and seat in the council.{{Ref|ACOK|25}}