Jaime Lannister

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Biography Before The Events of A Game of Thrones

Jaime Lannister is the second child of Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock and his wife Lady Joanna Lannister.

He and his older twin sister Cersei were unseperable in their early childhood, going as far as to experiment together in a sexual manner at a young age. During one of these encounters, they were caught by Lady Joanna, their mother. Cersei was immediately exiled to the other side of the castle, and both twins were told never to do anything like that ever again.

At age nine, he lost his mother, who died birthing his younger brother Tyrion. Even though Tyrion is a malformed dwarf, Jaime seems to show genuine love towards Tyrion as a brother.

At the age of eleven, Jaime was sent to Crakehall to become a squire for Ser Sumner Crakehall.

At the age of thirteen while he was still a squire, Jaime won his first tourney melee.

At the age of fifteen he was knighted on the battlefield by Ser Arthur Dayne during the campaign against the Kingswood Brotherhood. He later stopped by Casterly Rock to visit his sister, who he had been separated from for those years. It was there that Cersei told him that Lord Tywin intended to marry him to Lysa Tully, second daughter of Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun. It was Cersei who suggested that Jaime become a Kingsguard, replacing the recently deceased Ser Harlan Grandison, to be close to her, and free himself of this unwanted marriage to Lysa. After a night of passionate sex he gave his consent to Cersei's plan.

A moon's turn later, he was raised to the Kingsguard at fifteen at a ceremony at Harrenhal by Ser Gerold Hightower. It was only later that night when King Aerys II Targaryen decided to sent him back to King's Landing to guard the Queen Rhaella and Prince Viserys, depriving him of a chance of participating in Lord Whent's tourney that he realised that Aerys had only chosen him for the Kingsguard as a slight against Lord Tywin of whom Aerys was insanely jealous. Furthermore, Cersei's ploy failed, as Lord Tywin resigned the Handship soon after, seeing Jaime's appointment as a slight by King Aerys intended to deprive him of his heir. Thus, instead of being together as they intended, Cersei and Jaime just swapped places. Jaime was left at Court, finding himself guarding a mad king while four lesser men became Hand of the King.

During his time in the Kingsguard, Jaime was troubled morally by the decisions of King Aerys who was insane. Two notable examples, of Jaime's moral problems with King Aerys behaviour was when King Aerys was raping and ravaging Queen Rhaella, and secondly, when King Aerys had Brandon Stark and Lord Rickard Stark 'executed'. Jaime's trick to block out Aerys spectacularly cruel acts was to 'go away inside', something that he would later pass on to his son, Tommen as a way to deal with the harsh reality.

As King Aerys became increasingly insane, he began to see traitors everywhere and Varys was always there to point out those that he had missed. Aerys refused to let Jaime leave Kings Landing and join the royal army, instead keeping him in Kings Landing to be used as a hostage against Lord Tywin who was still sitting on the sidelines in Robert's Rebellion. Lord Tywin Lannister was replaced as Hand of the King firstly by Lord Owen Merryweather who was exiled when he failed to deal with Robert's rebellion, who Jaime nicknamed 'the Chuckler' because he laughed at the King's witticisms. The second was Lord Jon Connington, who was exiled after the Battle of the Bells in which Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon won a notable victory over the Royalist forces.

The new Hand of the King after Lord Connington was exiled was Lord Chelsted. King Aerys began a plan with the help of his chief Pyromancers (including Lord Rossart, who he later made Hand of the King) that would entail placing wildfire caches all over Kings Landing, intending to take the whole city with him if the royalists lost. When Lord Chelsted confronted Aerys about his genocidal plan he was burned alive. King Aerys then raised Lord Rossart, the King's favourite Pyromancer to the Handship. Meanwhile, Jaime observed the whole of Aerys' genocidal plan and knew where all of the wildfire was to be placed.

It was the Battle of the Trident that roused Lord Tywin to act. He marched his armies to the gates of Kings Landing. Even though Varys called Lord Tywin a traitor, King Aerys heeded the advice of Grand Maester Pycelle, and opened his gates to Lord Tywin and his army. Once inside, Lord Tywin betrayed King Aerys and began the Sack of Kings Landing. It was at this moment, that Aerys gave Rossart the order to began his murderous plot to burn Kings Landing whilst telling Jaime to kill his father. Luckily, Jaime who had been privy to this plan, chose this moment to kill Rossart, and then Aerys to prevent this plan from eventuating. At the time he killed King Aerys, Lord Tywin's men lead by Ser Elys Westerling and Lord Crakehall came into the hall, so there was no way Jaime could vanish. When asked who would be proclaimed as King, he thought about Prince Viserys or Prince Aegon but remembered that they carried Aerys tainted blood in them. It was after this that Jaime sat on the throne for a little while, before Ned Stark rode into the hall with his men to claim the throne for Robert Baratheon.

After the death of the last Targaryen king, Jaime secretly hunted down the Pyromancers, Belis and Garigus who were the other two pyromancers invovled in the plan to burn Kings Landing. Pardoned by King Robert I Baratheon and continued to serve as Kingsguard to King Robert. It was King Robert who gave him the 'Kingslayer' name.

He continued his illicit relationship with his sister, even though she was now married and Queen, committing numerous acts of treason against King Robert. He fathered three children with Cersei: Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen.


Biography: During the Time of A Game of Thrones and thereafter

Ser Jaime joined Queen Cersei, and King Robert in the journey to the North to name Lord Eddard(Ned) Stark of Winterfell Hand of the King, after the death of Lord Jon Arryn, the previous Hand.

It was at Winterfell, when King Robert was out hunting, that Jaime and Cersei's illicit affair was observed by Bran Stark, who was climbing. As Bran began to slip, Jaime pulled him up, only to throw him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret.

Ned Stark did indeed accept King Robert's invitation to be Hand, and began to get closer and closer to discovering Jaime and Cersei's secret, by piecing together the fact that everytime in history a Lannister had wed a Baratheon, raven haired children were produced instead of golden-haried children that Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen were.

Meanwhile, Catelyn Stark, Lady of Winterfell had 'arrested' (wrongly) Jaime's brother Tyrion, on suspicion of his involvement in a botched assassination attempt on Bran Stark. (It was later proven that Joffrey was the one behind it, not Tyrion). Wroth, Jaime and Lannister men, attacked Ned and his Northmen in the streets of Kings Landing, leading to numerous deaths on both sides. Jaime then fled Kings Landing and joined Lord Tywin.

Jaime then lead an army of Westermen against the River Lords, smashing Edmure Tully's host at the Golden Tooth, and eventually besieging Riverrun. However, Lord Robb Stark, who had succeeded his father Ned Stark, after his execution as Lord of Winterfell, managed to defeat Jaime's army at the Battle of the Camps, capturing Jaime. Afterwards, Jaime was imprisoned in Riverrun. Whilst he was at Riverrun, with the dismissal of Ser Barristan the Bold, Jaime became Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.

When Tyrion was appointed Hand of the King by Lord Tywin and Queen Regent Cersei, one of the conditions that Queen Cersei imposed on accepting Tyrion, the brother that she despised, as Hand of the King was that he was to formulate a plan to free Jaime from Riverrun. Unbeknowst to him, Cersei was 'cheating' on him with his cousin Lancel. Tyrion's plan to free Jaime, however was unsuccessful and thereafter he was transferred to a dungeon in Riverrun where he was kept chained and malnourished.

While the War of the Five Kings raged around him, Jaime continued to be trapped in Riverrun as a prisoner, until in a fit of irrationality, Catelyn Stark with the help of Brienne of Tarth conspired to free him, hopefully in exchange for Sansa and Arya Stark, her daughters who were believed to be held by the Queen in Kings Landing, after Tyrion, as Hand of the King had sworn in open Court to return the two girls for the return of Ser Jaime.

Jaime, Brienne and his cousin, Cleos Frey began the journey towards Kings Landing, evading recapture by Ser Robin Ryger and his party from Riverrun, through Brienne's ingenious tactic of dropping boulders and rocks onto the chasing ship. However, they could not evade capture by the Bloody Mummers/Brave Companions led by Vargo Hoat, who had betrayed Lord Tywin and now served the newly crowned King Robb Stark.

It was then, that Lord Vargo ordered Zollo the Fat, one of his men to chop Jaime's sword hand off, symoblically destroying everything that Jaime was. After this, Jaime lost the will to live for a while, until ironically, it was Brienne that reminded him that he had something to live for, namely, his family and for revenge. Lord Vargo then journeyed with Jaime and Brienne to Harrenhal, held by Lord Roose Bolton for the King Robb.

While at Harrenhal, Jaime divulged to Brienne the events surrounding the Sack of Kings Landing, including Aerys' wildfire plot whilst they shared a bath in the bathhouse. Later, at dinner, Lord Bolton hinted that he would betray King Robb as long as Jaime would absolve him of the blame for the loss of his sword hand. Jaime agreed, and Lord Bolton announced that he would be escorted to Kings Landing by Steelshanks Walton. However, Brienne was to remain behind as Lord Vargo's prize.

It was after Lord Bolton had left, and Walton had begun the journey to Kings Landing with Jaime, and a de-chained Maester, Qyburn who was charged with keeping Jaime healthy, that he fell asleep on a weirwood stump. Whilst asleep against the stump, Jaime had a dream about Brienne, and subsequently turned around and collected her from Harrenhal.

When the party arrived at Kings Landing, King Joffrey had just died. As soon as he rode into the yard, Ser Loras Tyrell, who was now his brother Kingsguard, accused Brienne of murdering Renly Baratheon. However, Jaime quickly defused this situation, by having Brienne arrested rather than allowing Loras to kill her. He then proceeded to the sept where Cersei was, where he met another new brother Kingsguard, Ser Osmund Kettleblack who was another of Cersei's lovers. Once inside the Sept, Cersei and Jaime had sex in front of their son, Joffrey's dead body.

However, this was to mark the last time that he and Cersei shared intimate relations as afterwards their relationship began to fall apart. His brother Tyrion, who had known that Joffrey was in fact his son and not Robert's was accused of poisoning Joffrey. Jaime's relationship with his father Lord Tywin also fell apart as he refused to resign from the Kingsguard. It was at this time that he was given a Valyrian Steel Sword (later named Oathkeeper), made from Ned Stark's sword, Ice, that he would later pass onto Brienne, to aid her in her quest to find and keep Sansa Stark safe from his sister, Cersei and all those that would turn her in for the reward posted by Cersei.

When both trial by words and by battle failed, Tyrion, Jaime still not believing that Tyrion was the murderer forced Lord Varys to arrange his escape. It was then that Jaime admitted that to Tyrion that Tyrion's first wife, Tysha was not a whore but in fact a crofter's daughter as she claimed to be. Incensed at this revelation, Tyrion hit Jaime, and falsely claimed responsibility for the murder of Joffrey, and also revealed the truth about Cersei's sexual escapades with Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack.

He later found out, that Tyrion had, after he had freed him gone and killed their father, Lord Tywin.

(still to fill in info from Feast)


Immediate Family

Lord Tywin Lannister (father) Lady Joanna Lannister (mother) - deceased Queen Cersei Lannister (older twin sister) Tyrion Lannister (younger brother)

Joffrey Baratheon (natural son) Myrcella Baratheon (natural daughter) Tommen Baratheon (natural son)


Appearance

In A Game of Thrones: "Tall and golden, with flashing freen eyes and a smile that cut like a knife" AGOT US paperback edition, page 51

In A Clash of Kings: "Jaime Lannister had been allowed no razor since the night he was taken at Whispering Wood, and a shaggy beard covered his face, once so like the Queen's. Glinting Gold in hte lamplight, the whiskers made him look like some great yellow beast, magnificent even in chains. His unwashed hair fell to his shoulders in rpoes and tangles, the clothes were rotting on his body, his face was pale and wasted...and even so, the pwoer and the beauty of the man was still apparent" ACOK UK paperback edition page, 577

In A Storm of Swords: Jaime became a "bald man with a filthy yellow beard" (ASOS Volume 1 UK paperback edition page 25) in an effort to disguise himself whilst journeying from Riverrun to Kings Landing. His face was also thinner, and there were hollows under his eyes and lines he did not remember.

After arriving at Kings Landing, Jaime began to regain his strength, though the effects of age began to show. Cersei, comments that he has begun to have white hairs instead of gold ones.