Editing Edmure Tully (section)

===''A Feast of Crows''===
[[File:Edmure Tully by mylestoyne.jpg|thumb|350px|Edmure at the [[siege of Riverrun]], by mylestoyne ©]]
Ser [[Ryman Frey]] brings Edmure to the [[siege of Riverrun]], whose castellan is Edmure's uncle, Ser [[Brynden Tully]]. Ryman threatens to hang Edmure if Riverrun does not surrender. Every day Edmure is made to stand at the gallows in sight of the castle, but Brynden refuses to surrender, and Ryman does not make good on his threats. The siege continues in this stalemate, until Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], [[Lord Commander of the Kingsguard]], is sent by [[Cersei Lannister|the crown]] to take over command from Ser Ryman. Ser [[Perwyn Frey]] has told Ser [[Daven Lannister]], [[Warden of the West]], that [[Roslin Frey]] is fond of Edmure and is now pregnant. Daven tells Jaime that Ser [[Emmon Frey]], the new titular [[Lord of Riverrun]], wants Edmure hanged, as he considers him a threat. Lady [[Genna Lannister]], Emmon's wife and Jaime's aunt, thinks Emmon may be correct, as she too considers Edmure a danger. She also sees a potential danger in Edmure's unborn child, as well as Brynden, as she feels their hold over Riverrun will not be safe as long as a male Tully heir remains alive. However, she believes if Edmure's unborn child is a girl, the child could marry her grandson, [[Tywin Frey]], which would unite the [[House Frey|Frey]], Lannister, and Tully lines, and would help pacify the Riverrun smallfolk.{{Ref|AFFC|33}}

Jaime parleys with Brynden, who refuses to end the siege or to exchange Edmure for [[House Westerling|the Westerlings]] within Riverrun. Brynden says that as Edmure is marked for death no matter what he does, the besiegers may as well kill him and be done with it. Taking command of the siege, Jaime sends Ryman back to the Twins and takes Edmure as his own prisoner, ordering Ser [[Ilyn Payne]] to cut the rope with his sword, though Edmure intially thinks the [[King's Justice]] is there to execute him. Edmure is thin and filthy, wearing a soiled silken tunic in Tully colors, but Jaime's squire [[Lewys Piper]] draws a tub of bathwater for him, and his servant [[Pia]] gives him fresh clothes. Jaime reminds Edmure that he is lord of [[House Tully]], and explains that if he sends Edmure into Riverrun to yield the castle, the garrison and smallfolk will be spared, and Brynden will be allowed to join the [[Night's Watch]]. Edmure may also join the Watch, or if he prefers, he will live in comfort as a hostage at [[Casterly Rock]], with Roslin and their child. Jaime promises that Edmure's child, if a boy, will serve House Lannister as a page and squire, and will be granted lands when he is knighted; or if a girl, she will be granted a fine [[dowry]]. However, if Edmure does not yield Riverrun, Jaime threatens that he will use river lords in the first wave of the assault on the castle, where both the attackers and defenders would suffer great losses. He also threatens that when Roslin's child is born, Jaime will send the baby to Edmure in a [[trebuchet]]. Afterward, Jaime leaves Edmure to his bath, with the sole company of [[Tom of Sevenstreams]], playing "[[The Rains of Castamere]]".{{ref|AFFC|38}}

Having entered Riverrun, Edmure waits most of the day before surrendering the castle. In the confusion of the castle changing hands, it is not until the next morning that Jaime learns that Brynden Tully is not among the prisoners. Under further threats from Jaime that his and Roslin's captivity at Casterly Rock may be in an oubliette instead of comfort, Edmure confesses that he raised the Water Gate to allow Brynden to escape into the [[Red Fork]]. After Riverrun is handed over to Emmon Frey, Edmure is sent west with an armed escort to begin life as a hostage of [[House Lannister]]. Their group is joined by the Westerlings, and Ser [[Forley Prester]]'s best archers are to shoot Edmure and [[Jeyne Westerling]] if they attempt to escape.{{ref|AFFC|44}}