| 1 | !!!This is a listing of houses in the Westerlands that appear in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' that do not have enough members or tropes to justify their own page (yet). |
| 2 | !!!For the main character index, see [[AC:[[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFire here]]]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | !The Westerlands |
| 5 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/westerlands.png]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Ruled by [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseLannister House Lannister]] from the stronghold of Casterly Rock overlooking the city of Lannisport, the Westerlands is the richest region of Westeros, being home to numerous gold and silver mines. Bordered by the Riverlands to the northeast and the Reach to the southeast, numerous mountains and hills along the border give the Westerlands natural defensive barriers. However, the coastline is flat and very vulnerable to assault, particularly by Ironborn raiders. The region used to be ruled by the extinct House Casterly, which was deposed by Lann the Clever, who founded House Lannister. Bastards in the Westerlands are given the surname "Hill". |
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| 9 | The Westerlands are the only region in Westeros that is not featured in any [[PointOfView POV]] character chapter in ASOIAF, the ''Tales of Dunk & Egg'', nor is featured in the ''Literature/ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories''. Most of the information related to the Westerlands come from members of House Lannister and their bannermen due to their involvement in the War of the Five Kings, as well as accounts of Robb Stark's exploits in the region from secondhand sources; additional information regarding the region is further discussed in ''The World of Ice and Fire''. |
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| 11 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | [[folder:Tropes related to the Westerlands]] |
| 14 | * DemotedToDragon: The Lannisters reduced the Baneforts and Farmans to vassals. The Lannisters then lost to the Targaryens and were made Wardens. |
| 15 | * TheEmpire: Under Tywin's control, the Westerlands are very tight-laced and powerful. |
| 16 | * FictionFiveHundred: Despite not being the largest, most fertile or most populous, it's very wealthy due to the gold and silver mines. |
| 17 | * GreatOffscreenWar: The Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion which is the basis for "The Rains of Castamere". |
| 18 | * LordCountry: The Baneforts, Crakehalls and Greenfields. |
| 19 | * OutOfFocus: Despite the Lannisters having such a huge role in the series, the Westerlands are the only region of the Seven Kingdoms in the books to remain off-screen as of the fifth book. |
| 20 | * TheRival: For most of its history it was the Iron Islands and the Reach, since those two are its immediate neighbours with whom the Kings of the Rock fought many battles to defend its land and sea borders. It was only very recently, that it became embroiled in a bitter ideological conflict with the Riverlands and the North when for most of their history they were neutral (and ''even allied'' with the Starks to fight Dagon Greyjoy). |
| 21 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Lord Regenard Estren [[spoiler: probably negotiated between the Lannisters and Freys, which led to the Red Wedding]]. |
| 22 | [[/folder]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | !!Great House |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:House Lannister]] |
| 27 | !!House Lannister of Casterly Rock |
| 28 | |
| 29 | -->''"Hear Me Roar!"'' |
| 30 | --->--'''House Lannister words''' |
| 31 | House Lannister of Casterly Rock is one of the Great Houses of Seven Kingdoms, and the principal house of the westerlands. Their seat is Casterly Rock, though another branch exists that is based in nearby Lannisport. Their sigil is a golden lion on a field of crimson. The Warden of the West is a Lannister by tradition. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Fair-haired, tall, and handsome, the Lannisters are the blood of Andal adventurers who carved out a mighty kingdom in the western hills and valleys. Through the female line they boast of descent from Lann the Clever, the legendary trickster of the Age of Heroes who tricked the members of House Casterly into giving him Casterly Rock during the era of the First Men. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | The Lannisters reigned as Kings of the Rock until they fell to the Targaryen conquest, but were allowed to remain the liege lords of the westerlands. The House had fallen on hard times during the rule of Lord Tytos, but was restored to its former glory by Lord Tywin. His daughter Cersei is the queen of King Robert I Baratheon, while her twin Ser Jaime is a knight of Robert's Kingsguard. Members of the family tend to have golden hair and emerald green eyes. |
| 36 | --> See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseLannister House Lannister]] page. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | !!Noble Houses |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:House Banefort]] |
| 43 | !!House Banefort of Banefort |
| 44 | |
| 45 | House Banefort of Banefort is a noble house from Banefort in the westerlands, one of the main families sworn to Casterly Rock. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | According to semi-canon sources they blazon their shields with a hooded man, black on grey with within a fiery tressure. |
| 48 | ---- |
| 49 | * InTheHood: Their sigil is a hooded man. |
| 50 | * LordCountry: Lords Banefort of Banefort. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | !!Lord Quenten Banefort, Lord of Banefort |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Quenten Banefort is the Lord of Banefort and head of House Banefort. |
| 55 | ---- |
| 56 | * BadassInDistress: Lord Quenten Banefort is captured during the Battle of the Whispering Wood and held by House Bracken at Stone Hedge. After he is freed, Jaime Lannister notes Quenten looks well and ready to return to battle. |
| 57 | * BitCharacter: Lord Quenten has so far only appeared in one scene, being one of the Westerlands lords who [[spoiler:escort Lord Tywin Lannister's corpse back to Casterly Rock]]. |
| 58 | * MyNaymeIs: Quenten instead of Quentin. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | !!!Historical Baneforts |
| 61 | !!King Morgon Banefort, Hooded King |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Morgon Banefort was the last Hooded King of House Banefort during the Age of Heroes. |
| 64 | ---- |
| 65 | * DyingCurse: Morgon was said to have been a powerful necromancer who cursed his vanquishers as he died, claiming he would return from the grave. In response, Loreon had Morgon's body cut into pieces and fed to his lions. Two years later the lions broke free within Casterly Rock, slaying three of Loreon's sons. |
| 66 | * LastOfHisKind: The last Hooded King. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:House Bettley]] |
| 70 | House Bettley is a noble house from the Westerlands. They blazon their arms with three blue beetles on gold. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | !!Ser Jon Bettley |
| 73 | !!!Beardless Jon |
| 74 | |
| 75 | A knight of House Bettley in service to House Lannister. He accompanies Ser Jaime Lannister on his campaign to end the remaining resistance in the Riverlands after the Red Wedding. |
| 76 | ---- |
| 77 | * AwfulWeddedLife: He goes with Strongboar to hunt outlaws near Darry after Riverrun is subdued so he doesn't have to go back to his wife, who is famously ugly and apparently has the beard he lacks. |
| 78 | * InSeriesNickname: Beardless Jon, due to his inability to grow a beard. |
| 79 | * SatelliteCharacter: To Jaime. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:House Brax]] |
| 83 | !!House Brax of Hornvale |
| 84 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1420fbcc1b2402cecd526cf43af63383.jpg]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | House Brax of Hornvale is a noble house from the westerlands, among the chief bannermen of House Lannister of Casterly Rock. Their seat is Hornvale. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Their shield depicts a purple unicorn on silver. Their motto has not been revealed yet. |
| 89 | !!!Tropes related to House Brax: |
| 90 | * FamousAncestor: Lady Cerissa Brax was the wife of Lord Damon Lannister, the Grey Lion, and the mother of his two sons Tybolt and Gerold, making her direct ancestor of the current Lannisters. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | !!Lord Andros Brax, Lord of Hornvale |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Head of House Brax and Lord of Hornvale at the start of the series. Father of Ser Tytos, Ser Robert, and Ser Flement Brax and brother to Ser Rupert. Killed at the Battle of the Camps when the Northern army breaks the siege of Riverrun in ''A Game of Thrones''. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | * GeneralFailure: He got a good portion of his soldiers killed with him in his foolish attempt to cross the Tumblestone. |
| 97 | * TheGhost: Mentioned only a few times, mostly after his death. |
| 98 | * TooDumbToLive: Crossing a river on rickety rafts in full plate armor while under fire from catapults is a very good way to drown, as Andros discovered. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | !!Lord Tytos Brax, Lord of Hornvale |
| 101 | |
| 102 | The son and heir of Lord Andros. He becomes the new Lord of Hornvale after his father dies. |
| 103 | ---- |
| 104 | * BadassInDistress: Captured at the Whispering Wood, although he somehow left captivity in time to be in King's Landing after the Battle of the Blackwater. |
| 105 | * BitCharacter: He has only appeared very briefly twice in the series with no lines. |
| 106 | * YouAreInCommandNow: After his father's death at the Battle of the Camps. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | !!Ser Flement Brax |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Third son of Andros and the new heir to House Brax. He is married to Morya Frey, third daughter of Walder Frey, and has three children, Robert, Walder and Jon Brax. |
| 111 | ---- |
| 112 | * BlingOfWar: He wears silver armor inlaid with amethysts. |
| 113 | * CavalryOfficer: Commands outriders for the Lannister forces in the Riverlands during Lord Tywin's campaign. He later commands two hundred heavy horse under Ser Jaime during the mop-up operations in the region. |
| 114 | * CoolHelmet: His helm his in the shape of a horse's head and has a two foot long spiral horn, a reference to the unicorn sigil of House Brax. |
| 115 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: While travelling with Jaime, Flement admires the golden hand that was forged to go on Jaime's stub, not realizing that Jaime was extremely frustrated by the fact that he was no longer a MasterSwordsman. Jaime got so annoyed by this he told Flement he could have the hand if he cut his own sword hand off, which stopped Flement and the rest of the nobles from making anymore comments about the hand. |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:House Crakehall]] |
| 119 | !!House Crakehall of Crakehall |
| 120 | |
| 121 | -->''"None So Fierce"'' |
| 122 | --->--'''Crakehall House Words''' |
| 123 | |
| 124 | House Crakehall of Crakehall is one of the primary noble houses from the Westerlands. Their seat, Crakehall, is located along the Ocean Road, at the south of the Westerlands, between the Sunset Sea and a large forest. The Crakehalls are known for their uncommon robustness. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | Their arms depict a black and white brindled boar on brown. |
| 127 | |
| 128 | -->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseCrakehall House Crakehall]] page. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:House Falwell]] |
| 132 | !!House Falwell |
| 133 | |
| 134 | A noble house of the Westerlands. Their seat is unknown. Their arms depict a fool in red and gold motley juggling five suns on black. |
| 135 | ---- |
| 136 | !!!Tropes related to House Falwell: |
| 137 | * CourtJester: Their House sigil features one in red and yellow. |
| 138 | * TheGhost: While the House still exists, no member has appeared in the books so far. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | !!!Historical Falwells |
| 141 | !!Lord Rupert Falwell |
| 142 | !!!The Fighting Fool |
| 143 | |
| 144 | The head of House Falwell during the Faith Militant uprising. He's killed by Lord Mooton in the battle at the Great Fork of the Blackwater |
| 145 | ---- |
| 146 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Killed two knights of Maegor's [[PraetorianGuard Kingsguard]] before being cut down by Lord Mooton. |
| 147 | * [[RealMenLoveJesus Real Men Love the Seven]]: He was a devout man and his nickname indicates he was a notable fighter. |
| 148 | * RebelLeader: One of the pious lords that answer the High Septon's call on rebellion against Maegor. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:House Farman]] |
| 152 | !!House Farman of Faircastle |
| 153 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/acb134e780737ecd2bb3b01061d3d804.jpg]] |
| 154 | -->''"The Wind Our Steed"'' |
| 155 | --->--'''House Farman words''' |
| 156 | |
| 157 | House Farman of Faircastle is the noble house ruling from Faircastle on Fair Isle, off the coast of the westerlands. They are known for their hatred of the ironborn from the Iron Islands. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | They blazon their arms with three silver ships on blue, a border of crimson and gold. |
| 160 | |
| 161 | !!!Tropes related to House Farman: |
| 162 | * ArchEnemy: They despise the Ironborn, who have long raided their holdings and briefly captured the island a few times. |
| 163 | * TheGhost: Their current lord, Sebaston Farman and his sister Jeyne. |
| 164 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: Years after the Reyne and Tarbeck rebellion Lord Farman (either the current one or previous one) grew defiant against his Lannister overlords. In response Tywin sent as an envoy a musician playing "The Rains of Castamere". Lord Farman got the message and caused no further trouble. |
| 165 | * MyNaymeIs: Every member of this house has a weirdly spelled name. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | !!Jeyne Farman |
| 168 | |
| 169 | Jeyne Farman is a member of House Farman. She's a friend of Cersei Lannister. |
| 170 | ---- |
| 171 | * ChildhoodFriends: With Cersei and Melara. |
| 172 | * IHaveYourWife: She was a ward at Casterly Rock to keep her father in line. |
| 173 | * IgnoranceIsBliss: Cersei thinks Jeyne did the cleverest thing in her life by not hearing the prophecy. Now she is HappilyMarried with [[BabiesEverAfter a dozen kids]]. |
| 174 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Jeyne was with Cersei and Melara when they went to the woods witch to get their fortunes read, but ran away when the witch opened her eyes. |
| 175 | * ShrinkingViolet: Cersei remembers her as timid and scared of every shadow. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | !!!Historical Farmans |
| 178 | |
| 179 | !!Gylbert Farman |
| 180 | |
| 181 | Gylbert Farman was a member of House Farman. |
| 182 | ---- |
| 183 | * AllThereInTheManual: Only found on ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire''. |
| 184 | * RebelLeader: Led the smallfolk of Fair Isle in an uprising to expel the ironborn from their island. |
| 185 | |
| 186 | !!Lord Marq Farman |
| 187 | |
| 188 | Lord of Fair Isle during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen and father to Franklyn, Androw, and Elissa. |
| 189 | ---- |
| 190 | * LikeFatherUnlikeSon: A reasonable and honorable guy, as opposed to his kids. |
| 191 | * MyNaymeIs: Marq instead of Mark. |
| 192 | * NiceGuy: Just generally a pretty good person all around, not minding Rhaena's presence because she made Elissa and Androw happy. |
| 193 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Bravely resists Maegor's cruelty by hiding Rhaena. [[spoiler:He's also the only member of his family who doesn't cause any harm to Rhaena in some way, shape or form.]] |
| 194 | * UndignifiedDeath: He chokes on a fishbone during dinner. |
| 195 | * YouAreInCommandNow: Became Lord after the deaths of his father and older brother at the Battle Beneath the God's Eye. |
| 196 | |
| 197 | !!Lord Franklyn Farman |
| 198 | |
| 199 | Firstborn child and heir of Lord Marq Farman during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen and Lord of Fair Isle during the early years of the reign of Jaehaerys I. |
| 200 | ---- |
| 201 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: When he tried to stop Elissa from leaving Fair Isle with Rhaena, his own smallfolk manhandled him and threw him into a ship's hold full of freshly caught fish. |
| 202 | * AlliterativeName: "F"s |
| 203 | * BigBrotherBully: As with many others, he was dismissive and insulting towards his younger brother, Androw, and he wasn't any better towards Elissa. |
| 204 | * BullyingADragon: An almost literal case, as he decided that insulting and kicking out Rhaena Targaryen (who had a full grown ''dragon'' with her) out of Fair Isle as soon as he assumed the lordship of it was a good idea. |
| 205 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: One of the reasons he didn't like Rhaena (besides just being a berk) was that he'd fought for Aegon the Uncrowned against Maegor, and felt he wasn't getting enough recognition for this. It's offset by, again, his being an unlikable arse. |
| 206 | * {{Jerkass}}: By all accounts, he wasn't pleasant to anyone, even if they were far more important than himself. Guy didn't even wait after his dad died to demand Rhaena pack her bags and GTFO. |
| 207 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 208 | ** For all his ''many'' flaws, he was not wrong in pointing out Rhaena had been a terrible mother to Aerea. |
| 209 | -->'''Franklyn Farman''': I cannot claim to know the princess, but I would say she is well rid of you. |
| 210 | ** Gyldayn notes that while he's a tremendous asshole about it, he's got a point about Rhaena's presence on Fair Island during the days of Jaehaerys's regency. |
| 211 | * SnubByOmission: Jaehaerys made it pretty clear how he felt about Franklyn and his treatment of his sister Rhaena by refusing to set foot on Fair Isle until Franklyn was long dead and buried. |
| 212 | * StayInTheKitchen: A sexist asshole towards Elissa, and was willing to try and force her to stay at home to wed and make babies. One of the other reasons he resented Rhaena was that she did not encourage Elissa to marry a husband. |
| 213 | * TooDumbToLive: In the opinion of his maester, who wrote to the Citadel that Franklyn never seemed to realize just how close he got to being burned alive along with his entire castle. |
| 214 | ** Years later, when Rhaena was searching for her missing daughter Aerea, when she turned up at Fair Isle, Franklyn curtly replied she wasn't there and that he'd drive her off as he did the girl's mother. Given Aerea was stubborn, short tempered and riding Balerion, the oldest and most powerful dragon in the known world, Rhaena dismissively summed up his chances of evicting Aerea if she turned up on Fair Isle. |
| 215 | -->'''Franklyn Farman''': I cannot claim to know the princess, but I would say she is well rid of you, as was Fair Isle. If she turns up here, we shall see her off, just as we did her mother.\ |
| 216 | '''Rhaena Targaryen''': You do not know Aerea, that much is true. If she does indeed find her way to these shores, my lord, you may find she is not as forbearing as her mother. Oh, and I wish you luck if you should try to "[[MuggingTheMonster see off]]" the Black Dread. [[FedToTheBeast Balerion quite enjoyed your brother]], by now, he may desire another course. |
| 217 | * VillainousValour: Not so much villainous as a certain kind of jerkass valor. To his credit he was quite unafraid of the no less jerkass [[JerkassWoobie Rhaena]] or the Targaryen dragons. And was quite unimpressed with her petty, entitled threats of burning him and his island or having him eaten alive by a dragon for not getting her way. Were he Dornish, no doubt his House words would be 'Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken'. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | !!Elissa Farman |
| 220 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elissa_farman_by_doug_wheatley.jpg]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | Second child of Lord Marq Farman during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen. She was a very close companion of Rhaena Targaryen. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Nobody ever knew exactly how much gold she got for [[spoiler:the three dragon eggs she sold to the Sealord of Braavos]], but even after financing the construction of a massive ocean-going carrack, she still had more than enough left over in the Iron Bank to solve every problem she encountered by simply throwing money at it. |
| 225 | * BoldExplorer: She led an expedition to the Sunset Sea, seeking to circumnavigate the world and discover new lands. Her only confirmed discovery was a trio of small islands; her crew then set off to continue sailing further west and were never heard from again. |
| 226 | * CaperRationalization: [[spoiler:She stole the dragon eggs because she was convinced she would be able to discover another continent across the Sunset Sea.]] |
| 227 | * CoolAunt: To Princess Aerea Targaryen, her brother's stepdaughter. She was Aerea's only friend on Dragonstone, and told her stories of her adventures and promised to teach her how to sail. |
| 228 | * CoolBoat: The ''Sun Chaser'', a braavosi-built, four-masted, ocean-going carrack with as much sail as a swan ship from the Summer Isles, but with a broader beam and deeper hull that allowed for enough supplies for an extended expedition. |
| 229 | * EveryManHasHisPrice: When she had trouble hiring a crew for her expedition she just payed exorbitant wages. |
| 230 | * HideYourLesbians: Her relationship with Rhaena Targaryen was an open secret, but they always tried to at least keep up appearances. |
| 231 | * LoveInterestTraitor: Was almost certainly in a relationship with Rhaena but left her to go on her adventures [[spoiler:and stole three Targaryen dragon eggs to fund her journey.]] |
| 232 | * PaperThinDisguise: After her theft, she took the name Alys Westhill to cover her tracks. When she briefly returned to Westeros to seek a crew willing to go with her across the Sunset Sea, Jaehaerys heard about her and wasn't fooled for a moment about her true identity and she barely escaped arrest. |
| 233 | * RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:Stealing three dragon eggs from Dragonstone to finance her expedition required a set of balls as large as the eggs themselves.]] |
| 234 | * UncertainDoom: After parting ways with Eustace Hightower, she sailed the ''Sun Chaser'' deeper into the Sunset Sea and was never heard from again. Years later, Corlys Velaryon claimed to have spotted ''Sun Chaser'' in Asshai's harbor on his second great voyage, but what actually happened to Elissa and her crew, no one knows. |
| 235 | |
| 236 | !!Androw Farman |
| 237 | |
| 238 | Second son and third child of Lord Marq Farman during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen. He sheltered princess Rhaena Targaryen and both grew fond of each other during her stay and they eventually married. |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | * TheAlcoholic: Became one while on Dragonstone, often spending his days drinking wine and moving painted wooden figures on the Painted Table. [[DramaticIrony Rhaena's companions joked that he was planning his conquest.]] |
| 241 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: While Rhaena was mourning Lianna Velaryon, [[spoiler:whom he had poisoned]], he asked her if she would mourn him as much. Rhaena angrily slapped him in response but he didn't care. [[spoiler:He had already completed his revenge.]] |
| 242 | * TheBeard: By all indications his marriage to Rhaena was a cover for the fact that she was in a relationship with Androw's sister Elissa. After Elissa left Dragonstone, their relationship deteriorated into a "[[OpenSecret mummer's farce]]." [[spoiler:It turned out he hated the position and that he wanted to be loved by Rhaena and give her children.]] |
| 243 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Rhaena gave for marrying him. Well, that, and for appearances. |
| 244 | * BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:He bitterly noted that the reason it was so easy to poison his victims was because they all saw him as little more than a servant and didn't question the fact he was giving them wine.]] |
| 245 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:He jumped out of a window to his death rather than be executed by his wife's guards.]] Considering [[spoiler:she intended to geld him and keep him alive long enough to force-feed him his own penis]], it was an entirely logical decision. |
| 246 | * ButtMonkey: A deconstruction. He's a relatively nice guy, who nonetheless has no marketable skills whatsoever, not an ounce of boldness in him, and is treated like a nobody by his wife and her friends. So what happens? [[spoiler:He snaps, and starts killing them for making fun of him.]] |
| 247 | * CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Seemingly chose not to poison Rhaena so she would have to live without any friends or loved ones.]] |
| 248 | * DespairEventHorizon: When his sister, Elissa, escaped Dragonstone, he lost the one friend who treated him decently. This led him to snap and [[spoiler: kill everyone Rhaena loved out of spite.]] |
| 249 | * TheDogBitesBack: Eventually violently snapped from all the humiliation he suffered at the hands of his wife and the other occupants of Dragonstone. |
| 250 | * FamousAncestor: Not many second sons can fancy having married a Targaryen princess. [[spoiler:Or going down in history as one of Westeros' most notorious poisoners and spree killers.]] |
| 251 | * FedToTheBeast: [[spoiler: A posthumous example; after Androw committed suicide to escape Rhaena's fury, she had his corpse hacked up and fed to the dragons that made their lairs on Dragonstone]]. |
| 252 | * HumiliationConga: Everyone in Dragonstone, from his lady wife to the meanest servant, treated him like ''absolute shit''. Princess Aerea once emptied a chamber-pot on his head just because she was pissed off at her own mother. |
| 253 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Part of his resentment towards Rhaena is that she never treated him as a proper husband or had children with him, as she only married him to be close to his sister. |
| 254 | * IWasQuiteALooker: He was handsome as a young man, but became round-shouldered and fleshy in his later years due to drinking heavily. |
| 255 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:He used a foreign poison almost unknown in Westeros during his murders to make it look like a plague had infected the island. He had to [[ShootTheMedic poison Dragonstone's maester early on]] to keep him from eventually discovering the truth.]] |
| 256 | * MarryForLove: What his marriage to Rhaena was on paper, but in fact he was merely a cover for Rhaena's relationship with Elissa. |
| 257 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: His [[spoiler:mass poisonings]] on Dragonstone was due to how poorly everyone treated him. |
| 258 | * MyNaymeIs: Androw, not Andrew. |
| 259 | * NearVillainVictory: He might have gotten away with his crimes if it wasn't for Rego Draz, Jaehaerys' Master of Coin. [[spoiler:Being from the Free Cities, he was easily able to identify the Tear of Lys as the cause of the Dragonstone deaths and Androw was immediately deduced as the culprit once a raven was sent to Rhaena.]] |
| 260 | * NeverLearnedToRead: He was illiterate, meaning that he could never join the Citadel, like many second sons often do, and he couldn't enjoy Dragonstone's large library. This is odd, since he should have received a proper education as a son of a noble family. |
| 261 | * NonActionGuy: He had no aptitude for fighting and was never trained in arms or knighted. |
| 262 | * RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler: His method of getting back at Rhaena is to [[DisproportionateRetribution slowly murder her friends one by one.]] ]] |
| 263 | * RiddleForTheAges: How did Androw [[spoiler:obtain the Tears of Lys he used to poison his victims? Did he know how to make the poison himself, did he have some secret supplier, or did someone give it to him?]] |
| 264 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: It's possible he was genuinely fond of Rhaena at one point before, well, everyone started treating him like dirt and he snapped. It's also theorized that Rhaena offered to take him flying but the timid man refused. |
| 265 | * WhosLaughingNow: [[spoiler:After one humiliation too many he snapped and murdered five of his wife's favorite ladies and two maesters with the Tears of Lys. When confronted about it he goes on a rant about who they all looked down on him.]] |
| 266 | -->'''Androw Farman''': [[spoiler: I brought them cups of wine and they drank. They ''thanked'' me, and they drank. Why not? A cup bearer, a serving man, that's how they saw me. [[BeneathSuspicion Androw the sweet. Androw the jape]]. [[IronicEcho What could I do but fall off the dragon]]?]] |
| 267 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:One of his victims was 14 year old Lianna Velaryon.]] |
| 268 | * WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: All but one of the victims of his killing spree were women]]. |
| 269 | |
| 270 | !!Lysa Farman |
| 271 | |
| 272 | One of the five daughters of Lord Farman during the Dance of the Dragons, who was taken as salt-wife by Dalton Greyjoy when he took over Fair Isle. After the Red Kraken's death, Gunthor Goodbrother slew Alester Wynch in order to get possession of her. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | * DamselInDistress: Lady Lysa Farman was one of the many women taken as salt-wives by the Red Kraken. |
| 275 | * MyNaymeIs: Lysa not Lisa. |
| 276 | * SexSlave: Her fate as a salt-wife. |
| 277 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Barely anything is known about her, but that Wynch and Goodbrother fought to possess her is what allowed the people of Fair Isle to retake Faircastle and finally expel the Ironborn. |
| 278 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lysa's fate after Johanna Lannister's liberation of Fair Isle and invasion of the Iron Islands is unknown. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:House Foote]] |
| 282 | !!House Foote of [[spoiler:Nightsong]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | House Foote is a noble house from the Westerlands. They blazon their arms with a copper dagger across a black chevron on white. |
| 285 | |
| 286 | Footes are an ancient line, dating back to the days of the First Men. |
| 287 | |
| 288 | !!Ser Philip Foote, Lord of Nightsong and Lord of the Marches |
| 289 | |
| 290 | Ser Philip Foote is a one-eyed knight of little note from House Foote in the Westerlands. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * BitCharacter: Plays a minor role in books, having three short appearances as a knight honored for his role in the Battle of the Blackwater, a member of the court sent to greet the Dornish delegation, and as one of the witnesses at [[spoiler:Tyrion's trial]]. |
| 293 | * EyepatchOfPower: Wears an eye patch over his missing eye. |
| 294 | * HandicappedBadass: Despite only having one eye, he is a skilled warrior who survived one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Five Kings. |
| 295 | * TheRival: To Ser Rolland Storm who [[spoiler:claims Nightsong as the sole living descendant of Bryen Caron]]. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:House Jast]] |
| 299 | !!House Jast |
| 300 | |
| 301 | House Jast is a noble house of the Westerlands. The name and location of their keep has not been revealed yet. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | According to semi-canon sources their banner is an inverted pall between three lion's heads, yellow on black. Their motto has not been mentioned. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | !!Lord Antario Jast |
| 306 | |
| 307 | Head of House Jast. He is married to Lanna Lannister, a cousin of the main Lannister line, who is sister to Ser Lucion Lannister and daughter of Shiera Crakehall and Ser Damion Lannister, castellan of Casterly Rock, himself son of Joanna Lannister's half- brother Damon and his cousin Ella. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * BadassInDistress: He is badly wounded at the Battle of Oxcross and taken captive by members of House Piper. |
| 310 | * BlingOfWar: Wears armor made of black steel with three gold lion's heads on his breastplate. |
| 311 | * EmptyShell: His captivity broke him. Following Antario's release from Pinkmaiden Castle, Ser Jaime Lannister notes that he looks like a "shadow" of the man he once was due to his injuries and imprisonment. |
| 312 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Thought dead at the battle of Oxcross, but was actually held captive by House Piper. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:House Kenning of Kayce]] |
| 316 | !!House Kenning of Kayce |
| 317 | |
| 318 | House Kenning of Kayce is a noble house from the westerlands. They blazon their arms with four sunbursts counterchanged on quartered orange and black. |
| 319 | |
| 320 | To see its parent branch, see the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHarlawHouses Harlaw Houses]] page. |
| 321 | ---- |
| 322 | * TheGhost: The Lord of Kayce, Terrence Kenning hasn't appeared in-person yet. |
| 323 | * NoNameGiven: The Knight of Kayce killed during the Dance of Dragons and whose widow was taken as salt-wife by Dalton Greyjoy. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!Ser Kennos of Kayce |
| 326 | |
| 327 | A knight in service to House Kenning of Kayce. He joins Ser Jaime Lannister's campaign to subdue the Riverlands. He is entrusted with the Horn of Herrock by Lord Terrence. |
| 328 | ---- |
| 329 | * AscendedExtra: He is seen once by Sansa Stark practicing with other knights in a courtyard of the Red Keep in ''A Storm of Swords'' before becoming a supporting character in Jaime's POV in ''A Feast For Crows''. |
| 330 | * SatelliteCharacter: To Jaime. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | !!!Historical Kennings |
| 333 | !!Herrock Kenning |
| 334 | !!!Herrock the Whoreson |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Herrock Kenning, known as Herrock the Whoreson, was an ironborn warrior of House Kenning of Harlaw who founded House Kenning of Kayce in the Westerlands. His war horn, the Horn of Herrock, has been passed down by his descendants. |
| 337 | ---- |
| 338 | * FamousAncestor: Of the Kennings, being the founder of the mainland branch who abandoned their Ironborn heritage. During the wars between the driftwood kings and the Kings of the Rock, Herrock the Whoreson used his horn as a signal for the whores of Kayce to open a postern gate. His men then captured the town in the name of House Lannister. |
| 339 | * GoingNative: Fully embraced mainland ways, discarding his Ironborn roots and proclaiming loyalty to House Lannister. |
| 340 | * LongDeadBadass: He was a highly skilled warrior who liberated Kayce with his men and personally slew three Ironborn king who attempted to retake the town over the years. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:House Lefford]] |
| 344 | !!House Lefford of the Golden Tooth |
| 345 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fe1cbccf13ca363cf27ab4d6cc9c1651.jpg]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | House Lefford of the Golden Tooth is one of the chief noble houses from the westerlands. The seat of the House is at the Golden Tooth. The castle controls the main entrance to the westerlands from the east. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | House Lefford blazons its arms with a golden inverted pile on sky blue, a sun left in the sky. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | !!!Tropes related to House Lefford: |
| 352 | * GateGuardian: They are in charge of defending the largest mountain pass between the Westerlands and the Riverlands. They don't do a very good job during the War of the Five Kings, when Robb Stark's direwolf managed to find and lead the Northern army through a unsecured goat path near the Golden Tooth. |
| 353 | * TheGhost: Lady Alyssane Lefford has yet to make an appearance besides being mentioned in the Appendix for ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''. Lady Leonella Lefford, the wife of Lothar Frey, and Myranda Lefford, the wife of Stafford Lannister, have also only been included in the Appendix. |
| 354 | * NoNameGiven: The name of Lord Lefford during the First Blackfyre Rebellion is currently unknown. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | !!Lord Leo Lefford, Lord of the Golden Tooth |
| 357 | |
| 358 | Head of House Lefford and Lord of the Golden Tooth. Drowns at the Battle of the Fords. |
| 359 | ---- |
| 360 | * AlliterativeName: '''Le'''o '''Le'''fford. |
| 361 | * FantasticRacism: He is extremely displeased when Tyrion brings the mountain clans from the Vale to join the Lannister army and is very reluctant to hand over well-crafted weapons to savages like them. Tyrion notes his reaction would have been more appropriate if it had been his virgin daughters he was asked to hand over to the clans. |
| 362 | * HollywoodDrowning: He drowns during the Battle of the Fords. |
| 363 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Literature/AClashOfKings'', he dismissed the rumors of Harrenhal being haunted but kept a candle burning on his bedside while staying there. |
| 364 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Appears in two scenes in the first book before perishing in a off-page battle during the second. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | !!!Historical Leffords |
| 367 | !!Lord Humfrey Lefford |
| 368 | |
| 369 | Head of House Lefford during the Dance of the Dragons. Forced to lead the Westerlands' army after the deaths of all other more capable commanders, he perished along most of his army in the Fishfeed. |
| 370 | ---- |
| 371 | * GeneralFailure: Not only his age and injuries slowed down the march of the army, his overtly cautious reaction gave the Blacks plenty of time to surround his forces. |
| 372 | * ShaggyDogStory: After barely managing to lead the army all the way into the Riverlands, the entire host was broken at the God's Eye, knocking the Westerlands out of the war. |
| 373 | * YouAreInCommandNow: The elderly and infirm Lord Lefford was forced to lead the Westerlands forces after the death of Lord Jason Lannister and Adrian Tarbeck, only to perish at the Battle by the Lakeshore. |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:House Lydden]] |
| 377 | !!House Lydden of Deep Den |
| 378 | |
| 379 | House Lydden of Deep Den is is a noble house from the Westerlands. Their blazon is a a white badger on per pale green and brown. Their motto has not been mentioned. |
| 380 | ---- |
| 381 | * AlliterativeName: '''L'''ewys '''L'''ydden. |
| 382 | * BitCharacter: Lord Lewys Lydden is one of the many Westerlands' lords who fight for Tywin Lannister during the War of the Five Kings. One of his archers gets hanged for starting a fight with the Brave Companions. |
| 383 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Joffrey Lydden, who married into House Lannister and became the first Andal King of the Rock, ruling as King Joffrey Lannister. |
| 384 | * PosthumousCharacter: Lady Jeyne Lydden, the second wife of Ser Stevron Frey, mother of Aegon "Jinglebell" Frey and Maegelle Frey, who died from falling off a horse. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:House Marbrand]] |
| 388 | !!House Marbrand of Ashemark |
| 389 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b808cc418528cd70c9454fa0de1ba090.jpg]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | -->''"Burning Bright"'' |
| 392 | --->--'''Marbrand House Words''' |
| 393 | |
| 394 | House Marbrand of Ashemark is one of the main noble houses from the Westerlands. Their seat of Ashemark is located in the hilly area near where the Tumblestone begins. |
| 395 | |
| 396 | Their blazon is a burning tree, orange on smoke. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | !!!Tropes related to House Marbrand: |
| 399 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Their castle is briefly seized by Robb Stark during his invasion of the Westerlands in the War of the Five Kings. |
| 400 | * TheGhost: Lord Damon, despite being one of the most powerful Westerlands lords, has yet to appear in the series. Lady Darlessa Marbrand, the wife of the late Ser Tygett Lannister and mother of Tyrek Lannister, has only been included in the appendixes so far. |
| 401 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Denys Marbrand was a participant at Ashford's Tourney. |
| 402 | * ThemeNaming: Members of the house tend to have names that start with 'A' and 'D'; Addam, Alyn, Damon, Darlessa and Denys. |
| 403 | * UndyingLoyalty: To House Lannister. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | !!Ser Addam Marbrand, commander of the City Watch |
| 406 | -->''"Two battles do not make a war. We are far from lost. I should welcome the chance to try my own steel against this Stark boy."'' |
| 407 | |
| 408 | Son of Damon and heir to House Marbrand. He is a childhood friend of Jaime Lannister and is one of the top military commanders from the Westerlands. |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | * TheAce: He's a superb swordsman and horseman, a capable commander, noted InUniverse to be good looking; and head and shoulders above most of the officers in service to the Lannisters in terms of competence and reliability, practically serving as a HypercompetentSidekick. And he does it all without being a {{Jerkass}} to boot. |
| 411 | * BadassCape: Wears a smoke-grey cloak. While he commanded the City Watch of King's Landing, he wore a gold cloak. |
| 412 | * BlingOfWar: Wears burnished bronzed steel armor with the burning tree of his house etched black on the breastplate. |
| 413 | * TheCaptain: Appointed as commander of the Goldcloaks after the Battle of the Blackwater, a job which he hates. After Jaime asks him to join him on his campaign to subdue the Riverlands, Addam eagerly quits his job to do so. |
| 414 | * CavalryOfficer: Commands Tywin Lannister's cavalry forces. Later does the same for Jaime. |
| 415 | * ChildhoodFriend: To Jaime, whom he met while serving as a page at Casterly Rock as a youth. |
| 416 | * ColonelBadass: During the Battle of the Red Fork, he commands the right flank of the Lannister lines, with over 4,000 soldiers and knights under his command. He crushes the Northmen he fights, and his forces take numerous highborn captives. |
| 417 | * AFatherToHisMen: Or at least, as Tyrion notes, one that men will willingly follow into danger. |
| 418 | * FrontlineGeneral: He rides alongside his men from the front of their cavalry charges and leads scouting missions personally. |
| 419 | * ImpossibleTask: He is tasked with finding the whereabouts of the disappeared boy lord Tyrek Lannister, who vanished during the riot at King's Landing after the departure of Myrcella Baratheon to Dorne. In spite of having the resources of House Lannister and the City Watch, he is utterly incapable to find the boy nor the most minimal clue as to his status. When Jaime leaves King's Landing to sort the Riverlands, Ser Addam travels with him to Hayford to offer his sincere apologies for not finding the boy, who is the lord of the keep by marriage. As Jaime later speculates, Tyrek might have been slain at the riot, but the peasants realized who they had slain and stormed the body away to avoid the ire of House Lannister. |
| 420 | * KnightInShiningArmor: One of the finest knights and leaders in the Westerlands, and a thoroughly honorable one to boot. |
| 421 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He is noted to be very attractive and wears his copper hair a little past his shoulders. Arya notes how upset most of the women at Harrenhal seem the day Ser Addam leaves. |
| 422 | * MasterSwordsman: He is regarded as one of the best swordsmen serving the Lannister army. |
| 423 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: [[JustifiedTrope He's one of the most competent and charismatic commanders the Lannisters have]], so Tywin had a habit of putting Ser Addam in charge of whatever area was being troublesome, keeping him there just long enough to resolve the issues plaguing the Lannisters, and then moving him to the next problem spot. Ser Addam himself isn't exactly a fan of this, as he reveals in his eagerness to get out of commanding the Goldcloaks and back to his preferred position as CavalryOfficer. |
| 424 | * PunchClockVillain: As a Lannister bannerman, he engages in brutal acts like conducting chevauchées in the Riverlands, and even urges that they continue. In everyday life, he's affable and gracious to everyone. This includes Tyrion, even after he falls out of favor. |
| 425 | * TheReliableOne: By far one of the most talented and competent Lannister bannerman, doing numerous thankless tasks and handling them all very competently, while other Lannister commanders continually fail. |
| 426 | * SecretKeeper: One of the few individuals to know that Jaime is [[spoiler:incapable of fighting with his left hand, having tried to initially help train Jaime to fight again before being replaced with Ser Ilyn Payne]]. |
| 427 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Is courteous to everyone he interacts with, including Tyrion, and comes off as competent, capable, and trustworthy in comparison to the other top Lannister commanders. |
| 428 | |
| 429 | !!!Historical Marbrands |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !!Ser Lorent Marbrand |
| 432 | See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireCourtOfRhaenyraI Rhaenyra's]] page. |
| 433 | |
| 434 | !!Lord Alyn Marbrand, Lord of Ashemark |
| 435 | -->''"Sweet words, and long have I yearned to hear your lordship speak them."'' |
| 436 | |
| 437 | Father of Jeyne Marbrand, the wife of Lord Tytos Lannister, and grandfather of Lord Tywin, Ser Kevan, Lady Genna, Ser Tygett, and Ser Gerion. |
| 438 | ---- |
| 439 | * AllThereInTheManual: He is only mentioned in ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire''. |
| 440 | * HopeSpot: Given one by Tytos after finally being ordered to bring the rebellious Tarbecks to heel, causing him to respond with the above quote, only to be killed by the Reynes on his way there. |
| 441 | * NumberTwo: He was Tytos' main adviser and did his best to try to keep some respect for his son-in-law intact in the Westerlands, but Tytos routinely ignored his advice and became a further laughingstock. |
| 442 | * OnlySaneMan: He was the only major Westerlands noble who actually tried to mold Tytos into an effective ruler instead of taking advantage of his weakness to enrich his own house or plot to overthrow him, which left the Westerlands in chaos. |
| 443 | * PosthumousCharacter: Died around 45 years before the main series began while en route to arrest the Tarbecks for their crimes. Lord Roger Reyne slaughtered Alyn's camp during a nighttime ambush and [[BlatantLies later claimed he believed they were a large band of outlaws]]. |
| 444 | |
| 445 | !!Lady Jeyne Lannister (nee Marbrand) |
| 446 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeyne_marbrand_woiaf_8082.jpg]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | Daughter of Lord Alyn Marbrand, Lady Jeyne married Tytos Lannister in 235 AC. She is the mother of Tywin, Kevan, Genna, Tygett and Gerion. |
| 449 | ---- |
| 450 | * DeathByChildbirth: Giving birth to Gerion took a toll on her, and she died within a month of the birth. |
| 451 | * GoodParents: While not outright stated, it can be inferred she was a good mother to her children. It's quite telling that Tywin publicly humiliated and banished his father's mistress after he died because she dared to wear his late mother's jewelry and silk. |
| 452 | * HappilyMarried: To Tytos. |
| 453 | * TheLostLenore: Her death took much of the joy from Tytos' life, and he was never called the Laughing Lion afterwards. |
| 454 | * TheRival: Of Ellyn Reyne/Tarbeck. They warred both at the court of Casterly Rock, which Jeyne got Ellyn expelled from after exposing her efforts to seduce Tytos, and in the marriage bed, with each trying to have more children with their husband than the other woman. The rivalry became known as the War of the Wombs. |
| 455 | * ShesAllGrownUp: Described as shy and plain faced as a child, who grew up to be a great beauty. |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[folder:House Payne]] |
| 459 | !!House Payne |
| 460 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d0fc177f093c4b720aedbe05817c7734.jpg]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | House Payne is a noble house from the Westerlands. It is one of the principal houses sworn to House Lannister. Their arms are purple and white chequy with gold coins in the checks. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | !!!Tropes related to House Payne: |
| 465 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The House of Payne. |
| 466 | * NoodleIncident: There is a story behind why their banner has gold coins on it, but it is currently unknown what that story is. |
| 467 | |
| 468 | !!Ser Ilyn Payne, the King's Justice |
| 469 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ser_ilyn_payne_ffg_7097.png]] |
| 470 | -->''"He does so ''love'' his work."'' |
| 471 | -->--'''Varys''' to '''Eddard Stark''' |
| 472 | |
| 473 | A knight who served in Tywin Lannister’s guard when he was Hand to King Aerys, he had his tongue cut out for remarking that Tywin was the one who ruled the kingdom. He was appointed as the [[TheExecutioner King's Justice]] under Robert Baratheon. |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | * BaldOfEvil: Described as almost completely bald and is a nasty piece of work who lives almost solely for killing and mocking others. |
| 476 | * {{BFS}}: After Tywin takes [[spoiler:Ice]] from him, Ser Ilyn is given a new six-foot long silver greatsword, decorated with runes, ruby eyes on the pommel, and a chunk of dragonglass carved in the shape of a skull. |
| 477 | * ColorCodedEyes: He has pale, almost colorless, gray eyes that add heavily to his air of menace. |
| 478 | * TheConfidant: Oddly enough, he becomes this for Jaime during the Riverlands campaign. Since Payne can't read, write, or talk, he has no way of spilling any of the secrets Jaime tells him and provides a useful sounding board for Jaime to bounce his thoughts off out loud. Payne is highly amused by this situation. |
| 479 | * CoveredWithScars: His face is marked with many pox scars. |
| 480 | * TheDreaded: Comes with being the King's Justice, but many characters note that Ser Ilyn would still be really scary even without that job. Sansa Stark in particular is especially frightened of him, even before he [[spoiler:cuts off her father's head]]. |
| 481 | * EmptyShell: Payne's a ruin of a human being with little to live for. Jaime notes that Payne seems surprisingly happy to be on the road with him in ''A Feast For Crows'', because it's giving him something to do for the first time in years other than chop people's heads off. |
| 482 | * TheExecutioner: Serves as the King's Justice and as such executed prisoners such as [[spoiler:Ned Stark]]. |
| 483 | * HeroKiller: Not a regular thing for him, but he pretty much becomes this when he kills [[spoiler: [[BigGood Ned]] [[DecoyProtagonist Stark]]]] at Joffrey's behest. |
| 484 | * LeanAndMean: Noted to be quite thin, with his gaunt appearance only adding to his unnerving presence. |
| 485 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Jaime stops by his living quarters at one point and finds it filthy and full of vermin. Payne doesn't care. It also establishes unequivocally the fact that he's kind of an EmptyShell of a man. |
| 486 | * {{Misblamed}}: Cersei blames him for Tyrion's escape and [[spoiler: the death of Tywin]] as he's officially in charge of the Red Keep jails, even though his muteness causes him to actually delegate the surveillance of prisoners to others, and that it was Jaime who freed Tyrion. |
| 487 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: He kills people whenever ordered to because that's his job. |
| 488 | * NeverLearnedToRead: Or write, which makes him a perfect SecretKeeper when combined with his lack of a tongue. |
| 489 | * OffWithHisHead: His method of execution, and is very good at it. He rarely ever needs more than one stroke. |
| 490 | * ThePeterPrinciple: While he's noted to be a ''superb'' headsman due to being a skilled swordsman who can behead a man with a single stroke and an intimidating figure besides, the King's Justice is also responsible for the running of the dungeons in the Red Keep, and Jaime notes him to be "singularly ill suited" for that aspect of the job due to being illiterate and mute, causing him to fob the job off onto his underlings. |
| 491 | * PunchclockVillain: Unlike the vast majority of names on Arya's list, Ilyn has done terrible things but isn't ''evil''. He's just an executioner who does his job and killing Ned Stark was nothing personal. He might enjoy his work a bit more than is usually healthy in a headsman, but he's pretty harmless to people off the job. |
| 492 | * PunnyName: Ser "Ill In Pain". |
| 493 | * RetiredBadass: Payne was the captain of Tywin's personal guard and a noted swordsman. After spending fifteen years as King's Justice his skills have gone to rust, before Jaime pulls him out of retirement and makes him his fencing partner and confidante. |
| 494 | * SecretKeeper: Jaime confides in Ilyn that he and Cersei were lovers and tells him an astounding number of personal details about his personal history, simply so he can tell another human being. Ilyn is completely nonjudgmental save to mock him silently and can't tell anyone anyways, since he has no tongue and cannot write. |
| 495 | * SilentSnarker: Comes across this way to Jaime (and once openly laughs at him), to the point that [[{{Irony}} Jaime complains]] YouTalkTooMuch. This makes sense since the reason Ilyn got his tongue cut out was for [[BullyingADragon snarking about King Aerys]]. |
| 496 | * TheSpeechless: Cannot talk due to losing his tongue under orders of the Mad King. |
| 497 | * TongueTrauma: King Aerys has Ilyn's tongue removed with hot pincers as punishment for mocking him. |
| 498 | |
| 499 | !!Podrick Payne |
| 500 | !!!Pod |
| 501 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/podrick_payne_ffg_3766.jpg]] |
| 502 | -->''"[[LetsGetDangerous I told you I could fight]]!"'' |
| 503 | |
| 504 | A member of a lesser branch of House Payne, he was assigned to be Tyrion's squire following Tyrion's appointment as temporary Hand of the King. |
| 505 | ---- |
| 506 | * AlliterativeName: P's. |
| 507 | * ApologizesALot: Due to his insecurities and fear of screwing up, Pod tends to mumble out a lot of apologies even if they are not necessary. |
| 508 | * BadassAndChildDuo: With Brienne. |
| 509 | * {{Bookworm}}: He is fond of reading and is a quick study. He even manages to memorize the sigils of the Houses of Dorne and points them out for Tyrion when the Dornish procession approaches King's Landing, which impresses Tyrion. |
| 510 | * BigDamnHeroes: Comes out of nowhere to save Tyrion's life during the Battle of the Blackwater by [[spoiler:pushing Ser Mandon Moore into the water to drown before he can stab Tyrion]]. Later he again pulls this off by throwing a rock into Shagwell's head, disorienting and distracting him long enough for Brienne to kill Timeon and then capture Shagwell. |
| 511 | * CaptainObvious: A habit of his, because he's so afraid of not speaking clearly enough. |
| 512 | * CharacterTics: Because of his shyness, he tends not to look at people when speaking to them. |
| 513 | * ChildSoldier: Despite only being twelve, he fought at the Battle of the Blackwater. Tyrion tried to send him to safety before leading a sortie beyond the city walls, but Pod refused to leave him. |
| 514 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: You wouldn't expect the constantly nervous, twelve-year-old boy to be able to [[spoiler:kill a member of the Kingsguard]] or take on members of the Brave Companions. |
| 515 | * DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Due to his constant nervousness, he's slow to pick up on Tyrion's snark. |
| 516 | * HiddenDepths: Originally introduced as Tyrion's meek and unassuming squire whom everyone automatically dismisses, Pod turns out to be quite smart, extremely loyal, and actually somewhat skilled at fighting. |
| 517 | * ItHasBeenAnHonor: As he's lead out to an uncertain fate, Tyrion thanks Pod for being the only man loyal enough to stand by him. "You're a better squire than I deserve." [[spoiler:This casual but heartfelt remark causes Pod to go on TheQuest to find Sansa Stark and thus Tyrion, because that's what a loyal squire would do.]] |
| 518 | * IWillFindYou: A non-romantic example to [[spoiler:Tyrion]]. In the fourth book he follows Brienne because he believes [[spoiler:if she finds Sansa, he can find Tyrion]]. |
| 519 | * LetsGetDangerous: Tyrion and Brienne are both rather astounded when Pod turns out to be incredibly helpful in combat. |
| 520 | * LoserHasYourBack: For both Tyrion and Brienne, both of whom quickly forget about him when entering battle and are stunned when he suddenly saves them. |
| 521 | * ParentalAbandonment: His father died during the Greyjoy rebellion while his mother literally abandoned him when he was four. He had two {{Parental Substitute}}s who also died, the first while fighting in the Riverlands for Tywin, the second was executed for stealing a ham. After the second one died, Pod was handed over to Tyrion as a squire. Losing so many people is probably why he's so dedicated to [[spoiler:finding Tyrion]]. |
| 522 | * TheQuietOne: Does not speak much, although he gets a bit more vocal after the Battle of the Blackwater and even more so when he starts serving Brienne. |
| 523 | * TheSquire: First served as a squire to Ser Cedric Payne, but he died early in the War of the Five Kings. A hedge knight named Ser Lorimer then took him on, but was executed for stealing a ham. Pod ate some of the ham as well, but was spared due to his noble status, and was taken into custody by Ser Kevan Lannister, who assigned him to Tyrion. It's noted that since neither Tyrion nor Brienne are knights, so technically Pod can't be their squire. This does not stop Pod from taking on the role regardless. |
| 524 | * TagAlongKid: To Brienne in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''. |
| 525 | * UndyingLoyalty: He's Tyrion's squire and he takes his duty very seriously. [[spoiler:He's even trying to find Tyrion to serve him after Tyrion was falsely accused of killing Joffrey and rightly accused of killing the Hand of the King, Tywin Lannister]]. |
| 526 | |
| 527 | !!Ser Cedric Payne |
| 528 | |
| 529 | A knight of House Payne. |
| 530 | ---- |
| 531 | * ParentalSubstitute: Adopted Pod after he was abandoned by his mother (though extrapolating from Pod's stories, Brienne gets the impression that the boy was treated more like a servant than a son). |
| 532 | * PosthumousCharacter: Died in the War of the Five Kings without ever being seen. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:House Peckledon]] |
| 536 | !!House Peckledon |
| 537 | -->''"Unflinching"'' |
| 538 | --->--'''Peckledon House Words''' |
| 539 | |
| 540 | House Peckledon is a noble house from the Westerlands. They blazon their arms with ten purple stars, on a yellow field. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | !!Josmyn Peckledon |
| 543 | !!!Peck |
| 544 | |
| 545 | A squire in King's Landing, he becomes Ser Jaime Lannister's squire during the Riverlands campaign. |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * AscendedExtra: He has two small scenes in ''A Clash of Kings'' and ''A Storm of Swords'', but in ''A Feast for Crows'' he becomes a supporting character in Jaime's chapters. |
| 548 | %%* ChildSoldier |
| 549 | * CoitusUninterruptus: After starting a relationship with Pia, they often have sex in Peck's corner of Jaime's tent, within view of Jaime and the other squires. Jaime even becomes used to falling asleep to the sounds of Peck and Pia's lovemaking. |
| 550 | * CrushBlush: Jaime is amused when Peck's face turns "beet red" after he asks the squire if he likes Pia. |
| 551 | * InSeriesNickname: He is called Peck. |
| 552 | * LikesOlderWomen: He begins a relationship with Pia, who is ten years older than him. |
| 553 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: He is skinny and not yet fully grown, but is strong and skilled, being able to defeat much larger and older knights. |
| 554 | * TheSquire: Is assigned to Jaime as a squire during the mop-up campaign in the Riverlands. |
| 555 | * UnequalPairing: With Pia, who is a peasant and at least ten years older than him. He is encouraged by [[ShipperOnDeck Jaime]] to be with her while he can, even though their relationship will be constrained by Peck's social status. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:House Plumm]] |
| 559 | !!House Plumm |
| 560 | -->''"Come Try Me"'' |
| 561 | --->--'''Plumm House Words''' |
| 562 | |
| 563 | House Plumm is a noble house of the westerlands. Neither their arms or their motto appear in the books. According to semi-canon sources, they blazon their arms as three purple rondels on gold. |
| 564 | |
| 565 | !!!Tropes related to House Plumm: |
| 566 | * AerithAndBob: Ossifer, Viserys, and Harwyn are all related to Peter, Dennis, Philip, and Ben. What makes this an especially noticeable case is that none of the latter even have a case of MyNaymeIs; there are no other Peters in the entire series with identical spelling, only two other Dennises, and only one other Phillip. |
| 567 | * AlliterativeName: Lord '''P'''hillip '''P'''lumm, and his son '''P'''eter '''P'''lumm. |
| 568 | * BadassFamily: All of Lord Phillip's sons are accomplished knights, to say nothing of their distant relative Brown Ben. |
| 569 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Petyr Plumm was one of the many participants at Ashford Tourney. |
| 570 | * TheGhost: Lord Phillip Plumm, the head of House Plumm, has yet to appear in the series. |
| 571 | |
| 572 | !!Ser Harwyn Plumm |
| 573 | !!!Hardstone |
| 574 | |
| 575 | Lord Phillip's third son. |
| 576 | ---- |
| 577 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: Hard-eyed and taciturn, unforgiving and deadly. |
| 578 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Downplayed, as he is a stoic badass, but not quite a brute. His weapon of choice is a warhammer. |
| 579 | * TheDragon: As commander of the [[spoiler:Darry garrison, he's one to Lord Lancel Lannister]]. |
| 580 | * DragonInChief: He does most of the actual work for Lancel, hunting down outlaws in the area. |
| 581 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: He was possibly named after Harwyn ''"Hardhand"'' Hoare. |
| 582 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Hardstone. |
| 583 | * NoSenseOfHumor: Unlike his brothers. |
| 584 | * SiblingYinYang: Both his elder brothers are friendly and jovial knights. Ser Harwyn is the exact opposite. |
| 585 | * TheStoic: Notably shows very little emotion. |
| 586 | |
| 587 | !!"Brown" Ben Plumm |
| 588 | -->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireSecondSons Second Sons]] page |
| 589 | |
| 590 | !!!Historical Plumms |
| 591 | !!Lord Ossifer Plumm |
| 592 | |
| 593 | -->''"And Ossifer Plumm was much too dead, but that did not stop him fathering a child, did it?"'' |
| 594 | -->--'''Queen Cersei''' |
| 595 | |
| 596 | Lord Ossifer was a wealthy head of House Plumm. He married Princess Elaena Targaryen during the reign of King Aegon IV Targaryen. |
| 597 | ---- |
| 598 | * GoOutWithABang: Died while consummating his marriage. To be fair, he was old. |
| 599 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Ossifer was said to have died before he could perform. It gave rise to rumors that he must have had a GagPenis if he could impregnate a girl from beyond the grave. It's more likely his son was Aegon IV's bastard. |
| 600 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His (possible) son Viserys was likely named after Aegon IV's father. |
| 601 | * OldManMarryingAChild: He was noticeably older than his wife Elaena, although by how much is not specified. |
| 602 | * RunningGag: His exploit is still talked about over a century after the fact. |
| 603 | |
| 604 | !!Ser Maynard Plumm |
| 605 | -->''"You would be surprised how many Lords want their King to be brave and stupid."'' |
| 606 | |
| 607 | Ser Maynard Plumm is a knight of House Plumm. He attends the Whitewalls tourney but doesn't compete. |
| 608 | ---- |
| 609 | * TheMole: Revealed to be one of Bloodraven's agents out to uncover the Blackfyre conspiracy. |
| 610 | * NiceGuy: He helps Dunk without any ulterior motives. |
| 611 | * SecretIdentity: [[spoiler: It's possible he is Bloodraven.]] |
| 612 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He vanishes when Bloodraven arrives. |
| 613 | [[/folder]] |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[folder:House Prester]] |
| 616 | !!House Prester of Feastfires |
| 617 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/561820ff30b74c304903e0aff4d05969.jpg]] |
| 618 | -->''"Tireless"'' |
| 619 | --->--'''Prester House Words''' |
| 620 | |
| 621 | House Prester of Feastfires is one of the principal noble houses sworn to Casterly Rock. Their seat at Feastfires is located at the westernmost point of the westerlands. |
| 622 | |
| 623 | Their blazon is a red ox on ermine. |
| 624 | |
| 625 | !!!Tropes related to House Prester: |
| 626 | * FamousAncestor: Marla Prester, the wife of Ser Jason Lannister and mother of Stafford, Joanna and other three Lannisters. |
| 627 | * TheGhost: Lord Garrison Prester, the head of House Prester and Lord of Feastfires, has yet to make an appearance. |
| 628 | |
| 629 | !!Ser Forley Prester |
| 630 | |
| 631 | Garrison's cousin. He is part of Jaime Lannister's army in the Riverlands. |
| 632 | ---- |
| 633 | * AnimalMotifs: Subverted in that he doesn't look at all like the Prester sigil. |
| 634 | * BaldOfAuthority: He is completely bald and is one of the Lannister's most competent commanders, with Jaime considering him a shrewd man who is no one's fool. |
| 635 | * ColonelBadass: The only Lannister commander to act competently when the camps besieging Riverrun were assaulted by Robb Stark's forces, managing to withdrew with his forces intact and retreat back to the Golden Tooth. |
| 636 | * CoolHelmet: His helmet has bull horns. |
| 637 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While he has no problems with ordering archers to stand by and be ready to pepper Edmure with arrows in the case of an attempted rescue, Forley is clearly troubled by Jaime's instruction to have some men be ready to shoot Jeyne Westerling as well in case of such an attempt. This maybe because she is so young and a daughter of a man he seems to know personally (judging by his addressing Lord Westerling by first name, without any honorifics to boot). |
| 638 | * TheSmartGuy: Jaime notes he would make an excellent Hand of the King. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:House Spicer]] |
| 642 | !!House Spicer of Castamere |
| 643 | |
| 644 | House Spicer is a young noble house seated at Castamere in the Westerlands. They blazon their arms with three black pepperpots on a saffron bend, across a field of green and silver stripes. The grandfather of the current Spicers was literally a spice merchant, and the grandmother was a ''maegi'' (witch) from the east known as "Maggy the Frog". |
| 645 | |
| 646 | !!!Tropes related to House Spicer: |
| 647 | * AlliterativeName: Ser Samwell Spicer, Ralph and Sybell's cousin. |
| 648 | * TheMole: All Spicers turn out to be [[spoiler:moles for Tywin Lannister.]] |
| 649 | * NouveauRiche: The other houses see them as this as their founder was a spice merchant. |
| 650 | |
| 651 | !!Ser (now Lord) Rolph Spicer, Lord of Castamere |
| 652 | |
| 653 | Head of House Spicer and new Lord of Castamere. |
| 654 | ---- |
| 655 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Helps plot [[spoiler:a massacre to gain a lordship]]. |
| 656 | * BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler:Revealed to be one after he is shown to be a spy for the Lannisters.]] |
| 657 | * FakeDefector: [[spoiler:He was always loyal to the Lannisters, or at least his own ambition.]] |
| 658 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:Along with his sister Sybell]]. |
| 659 | * SnipeHunt: Catelyn Stark sends Ser Rolph on a mission to exchange Martyn Lannister for Robett Glover, motivated by [[EvilDetectingDog Grey Wind's distrust]] for him. While obviously not a pointless task, Catelyn considers its importance secondary to keeping him far away from King Robb Stark. [[spoiler:However, sending Rolph away places him in the perfect position to play his part in the downfall of Robb because it averts KeepingTheEnemyClose.]] |
| 660 | * TurnCoat: Switches from fighting for the Lannisters to fighting for the Starks after his niece marries Robb. [[spoiler:Except he never truly switched sides, and was working with his sister to betray and kill Robb]]. |
| 661 | |
| 662 | !!Lady Sybell Spicer |
| 663 | -->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseWesterling House Westerling]] page |
| 664 | [[/folder]] |
| 665 | |
| 666 | [[folder:House Stackspear]] |
| 667 | !!House Stackspear |
| 668 | House Stackspear is a noble house from the Westerlands, sworn to House Lannister. Their sigil is two spears crossed over a silver and gold checkered shield. |
| 669 | ---- |
| 670 | * AlliterativeFamily: So far, the members of this family include ''S''teffon and ''S''elmond, ''A''lys and ''A''lyn, and ''W''alder and ''W''illam. |
| 671 | * AlliterativeName: Lord Selmond Stackspear and his heir Steffon. |
| 672 | * FamousAncestor: Willam Stackspear was a member of Aegon III's regency council for its final year. |
| 673 | ** Ser Walder Stackspear was present at the Ashford Tourney of 209 AC. |
| 674 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: Lord Stackspear ignored Tytos's orders, but helped Tywin subdue the Tarbecks and Reynes. |
| 675 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: An unnamed Lord Stackspear ignored Lord Tytos's request he lower his taxes, possibly due to his daughter's death being indirectly Jason Lannister's fault. |
| 676 | * ReallyGetsAround: Ser Alyn is rumoured to be the father of the Gaoler's child by men stationed at Harrenhal. |
| 677 | * TheyCallHimSword: Stackspear, obviously. |
| 678 | |
| 679 | !!Alys Stackspear |
| 680 | |
| 681 | The young daughter of Lord Stackspear during the reign of King Aegon V. |
| 682 | ---- |
| 683 | * AdaptedOut: She was cut out of the published version of ''The World of Ice And Fire''. |
| 684 | * ArrangedMarriage: To Jason Lannister after he impregnated her. |
| 685 | * DeathByChildbirth: She dies giving birth to Damon. |
| 686 | * DefiledForever: Specifically averted by Lord Tytos, in a rare display of backbone, making Jason marry her... only for [[ShaggyDogStory her to die in childbirth anyway.]] |
| 687 | * ShotgunWedding: Quickly married to Jason after he impregnated her. |
| 688 | [[/folder]] |
| 689 | |
| 690 | [[folder:House Turnberry]] |
| 691 | |
| 692 | House Turnberry is a noble house from the Westerlands. They blazon their arms with nine strawberries on a white saltire, on green and red vairy in point. |
| 693 | |
| 694 | !!Ser Lambert Turnberry |
| 695 | |
| 696 | A knight from House Turnberry. He wears a patch over his good right eye and swears he will not remove it till Tyrion is dead. |
| 697 | ---- |
| 698 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Called Lyman Turnberry in the original draft. |
| 699 | * EyepatchOfPower: Invoked. He doesn't actually need one. |
| 700 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Of the "Deeply ironic but undeserved" variety; he promises to kill the falsely accused Tyrion, and ends up falsely accused of a crime himself. Then again, it's hard to blame him considering he would have no way of knowing Tyrion was really innocent, and the Imp ''did'' actually kill [[spoiler: Tywin and Shae.]] |
| 701 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Promised Cersei to [[DecapitationPresentation bring back Tyrion's head]] but is instead falsely accused of being one of Margaery Tyrrell's lovers. |
| 702 | |
| 703 | !!!Historical Turnberrys |
| 704 | !!Lady Alys Pryor née Turnberry |
| 705 | !!!Sweetberry |
| 706 | One of the closest friends of Princess Saera Targaryen alongside Perrianne Moore, Jonah Mooton, Roy Connington and Braxton Beesbury. When she found herself pregnant and didn't knew who the father was it was arranged by Queen Alysanne for her to marry Lord Dunstan Pryor. The baby was a girl with the red hair of Connington. |
| 707 | ---- |
| 708 | * AffectionateNickname: Saera called her "Sweetberry." |
| 709 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Apparently she practiced kissing with her friends with her clothes off. |
| 710 | * ArrangedMarriage: To Lord Dunstan Pryor. |
| 711 | * BrainlessBeauty: She was pretty and vapid but also mentioned as an empty-headed little fool. |
| 712 | * GirlPosse: Alongside Perianne Moore, she was this for Saera. |
| 713 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Roy Connington refuses to marry her for precisely this reason, suspecting that she was pregnant with Jonah Mooton's child and not his. It was AllForNothing, however, because the child ''was'' his (whoops). |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[/folder]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | [[folder:House Westerling]] |
| 718 | !!House Westerling of The Crag |
| 719 | -->''Honor, not Honors'' |
| 720 | -->--House Westerling words |
| 721 | House Westerling of the Crag is a noble house from the Crag in the northwestern westerlands. They are sworn to House Lannister, and are considered among their principal bannermen. Their sigil is six white shells on a sand-colored field. |
| 722 | |
| 723 | -->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseWesterling House Westerling]] page. |
| 724 | [[/folder]] |
| 725 | |
| 726 | !!Landed Knights |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:House Clegane]] |
| 729 | !!House Clegane of Clegane's Keep |
| 730 | House Clegane is a house of landed knights that holds fealty to House Lannister of Casterly Rock, and are among their primary bannermen. Their lands are southeast of Casterly Rock and include a towerhouse, which, according to a semi-canon source, is named Clegane's Keep. Their sigil is three dogs on a yellow field. |
| 731 | |
| 732 | -->See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseClegane House Clegane]] page |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | [[folder:House Clifton]] |
| 736 | House Clifton is a knightly house from the Westerlands. It is a vassal house of House Farman of Fair Isle. Neither its arms or its words are known. |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | * AHouseDivided: One of their own, Ser Humfrey, fights for Stannis. Meanwhile, Ser Hugh Clifton is a guard of Queen Margaery, from the Reach. |
| 739 | * TheGhost: The head of the House, Ser Gareth, and his wife, Jeyne Farman. |
| 740 | * WrongfullyAccused: Hugh Clifton is among those Cersei framed up as one of Margaery's lovers. |
| 741 | [[/folder]] |
| 742 | |
| 743 | [[folder:House Greenfield]] |
| 744 | !!House Greenfield of Greenfield |
| 745 | House Greenfield of Greenfield is a house of landed knights sworn to the Lannisters of Casterly Rock. The exact location of Greenfield in the westerlands has not been disclosed yet. |
| 746 | |
| 747 | Neither their arms or their words appear in the books, but according to semi-canon sources they blazon their shield as a double tressure white on green. |
| 748 | |
| 749 | The Greenfields are an ancient line, dating back to the days of the First Men. |
| 750 | ---- |
| 751 | * BadassFamily: Being a knightly family requires them to be this. |
| 752 | * BigFancyCastle: During the Age of Heroes they built the Bower, a weirwood castle now called Greenfield. |
| 753 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Myles Greenfield was present at the tournament of Ashford Meadow. |
| 754 | |
| 755 | !!Ser Garth Greenfield, Knight of Greenfield |
| 756 | Ser Garth Greenfield is the Knight of Greenfield and head of House Greenfield. |
| 757 | ---- |
| 758 | * AlliterativeName: G's. |
| 759 | * BadassInDistress: He is taken captive during the battle in the Whispering Wood. |
| 760 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ser Garth is held captive at Raventree Hall. When the war ends, we don't if he's still even alive. |
| 761 | |
| 762 | !!Ser Preston Greenfield |
| 763 | See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireTheKingsguard Kingsguard]] page. |
| 764 | [[/folder]] |
| 765 | |
| 766 | [[folder:House Hetherspoon]] |
| 767 | House Hetherspoon is a house of landed knights sworn to Casterly Rock. The name and location of their keep is unknown. |
| 768 | |
| 769 | Neither their arms or their words appear in the books, but according to semi-canon sources they blazon their shield as an oak spoon within a white cartouche on orange and black lozengy. |
| 770 | |
| 771 | !!!Tropes related to House Hetherspoon: |
| 772 | * TheGhost: Ser Tybolt Hetherspoon, the head of the house, has yet to appear in the series. |
| 773 | |
| 774 | !!Melara Hetherspoon |
| 775 | |
| 776 | Ser Tybolt's daughter and a childhood friend of Cersei's who visited Maggy the Frog with her. |
| 777 | ---- |
| 778 | * ChildhoodFriend: Of Cersei's. |
| 779 | * DeathOfTheHypotenuse: She drowned in a well within Cersei's hearing. It is implied that Cersei pushed her into the well because of Melara's attraction to Jaime and the wording of Maggy's prophecy regarding her death. |
| 780 | -->'''Melara:''' Will I marry Jaime?\ |
| 781 | '''Maggy:''' Not Jaime, nor any other man. Worms will have your maidenhead. Your death is here tonight, little one. Can you smell her breath? She is very close. |
| 782 | * PosthumousCharacter: She died two decades before the series began. Cersei has trouble remembering what she looked like. |
| 783 | [[/folder]] |
| 784 | |
| 785 | [[folder:House Lorch]] |
| 786 | House Lorch is a house of landed knights from the Westerlands. They blazon their shields with a black manticore (a poisonous insect) on white, beneath a crimson chief with three gold coins. |
| 787 | ---- |
| 788 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Lyonel Lorch was one of the many noblemen that rebelled against Maegor I Targaryen during the Faith Militant Uprising. |
| 789 | |
| 790 | !!Ser Lorent Lorch |
| 791 | |
| 792 | A knight and the head of the family. |
| 793 | ---- |
| 794 | * AlliterativeName: '''Lor'''ent '''Lor'''ch. |
| 795 | * TheGhost: He has yet to appear in any of the books. |
| 796 | |
| 797 | !!Ser Amory Lorch |
| 798 | !!!The Manticore |
| 799 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amory_lorch_ffg_8711.jpg]] |
| 800 | -->''"Young boys and old men die the same."'' |
| 801 | |
| 802 | A brutal knight sworn to House Lannister. His personal coat of arms is a manticore on a red field. |
| 803 | ---- |
| 804 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Nobody in the series is sad to see him go, even on his own side]]. |
| 805 | * AristocratsAreEvil: He is only a minor noble, but he is a vile brute who even other less than moral Westeros nobles despise. |
| 806 | * BlackKnight: For the Lannisters. |
| 807 | * BloodKnight: He really does not care who he is killing so long as he is killing someone. |
| 808 | * TheBrute: To Ser Gregor Clegane and Ser Jaime Lannister's CoDragons and Tywin's BigBad. |
| 809 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Forced to face [[spoiler:a bear while naked for Roose Bolton and the Bloody Mummers' entertainment, which results in him getting torn apart and eaten]]. |
| 810 | * DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:After Amory is killed, Tywin tries to pin all the blame for the death of Elia Martell and her children on him. While he did kill Rhaenys, he had nothing to do with Elia and Aegon's death at the hands of The Mountain. Nobody buys this story, since it is common knowledge that Ser Gregor was responsible.]] |
| 811 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Sobs and screams all the way to his death]]. |
| 812 | * DumbMuscle: Tywin considers his only use to be terrorizing and burning the Riverlands, not trusting him with anything tactical. He even screws this up by attacking the holdings of Houses in the Crownlands loyal to King Joffrey. |
| 813 | * EvilOldFolks: As a veteran of the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellions, Lorch has been doing the dirty work for House Lannister for almost 40 years. |
| 814 | * ExitPursuedByABear: And how! |
| 815 | * FatBastard: He is described as "chunky" and is a disgusting brute. |
| 816 | * FedToTheBeast: [[spoiler:Roose Bolton and the Bloody Mummers feed him to a bear for entertainment.]] |
| 817 | * ILied: He threatened to hang a beekeeper and his wife unless Beric Dondarrion surrendered to him. To no one's surprise, he killed all of them, hanging Dondarrion between the other two. |
| 818 | * {{Jerkass}}: He even raids the lands of lords and knights that have remained loyal to the Iron Throne. |
| 819 | * KarmicDeath: Arya finds his [[spoiler:death by bear highly appropriate]]. |
| 820 | -->'''Arya's thoughts:''' The bear is all in black. Like Yoren. |
| 821 | * MeaningfulName: Say his name real fast and "Amory Lorch" sounds kinds of like "Amoral". |
| 822 | * MookLieutenant: He is a minor raiding commander under Tywin's command, although he is later given greater responsibility to hold Harrenhal. |
| 823 | * PsychoForHire: Though not as much a psycho as the Mountain. |
| 824 | * RapePillageAndBurn: Like Gregor, Lorch is in charge of [[DeadlyEuphemism "foraging"]], i.e. steal everything you can and burn the rest. |
| 825 | * SmugSnake: Although he loses all his smugness in his ExitPursuedByABear. |
| 826 | * StupidEvil: His [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill pointlessly, ludicrously excessive]] methods of [[WouldHurtAChild killing toddlers]] is just the start: his contribution to the War of the Five Kings consists largely of murdering civilians for his own amusement and ordering unprovoked attacks on totally neutral parties and occasionally Lannister allies for no apparent reason. |
| 827 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: He does not get along with Vargo Hoat at all. Odd, given how similar they are. |
| 828 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Why, yes, stabbing a toddler fifty times would be considered overkill by most people! |
| 829 | * UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He's thrown naked into a bear pit while clinging to his captors' legs and begging for mercy.]] |
| 830 | * VillainousBreakdown: Breaks down crying and begging for mercy when [[spoiler:he is captured by Roose Bolton and Vargo Hoat]]. |
| 831 | * VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:He begs for mercy when he's about to be fed to a bear. His captors give him about as much mercy as he showed Rhaenys.]] |
| 832 | * WouldHurtAChild: He was the one who killed the four-year-old Princess Rhaenys Targaryen. He stabbed her ''fifty times'' because she [[DisproportionateRetribution kicked him and would not stop screaming or struggling]]. [[{{Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire}} Supplementary materials]] also describe him as murdering the last Lord Tarbeck, a three-year-old boy, by throwing him down a well. |
| 833 | [[/folder]] |
| 834 | |
| 835 | [[folder:House Swyft]] |
| 836 | !!House Swyft of Cornfield |
| 837 | -->''"Awake! Awake!"'' |
| 838 | --->--'''Swyft House Words''' |
| 839 | |
| 840 | House Swyft of Cornfield is a knightly house from Cornfield in the westerlands. They are among the principal houses sworn to House Lannister of Casterly Rock. |
| 841 | |
| 842 | Their arms depict a blue bantam rooster on yellow. |
| 843 | |
| 844 | !!!Tropes related to House Swyft: |
| 845 | * AlliterativeName: Sir Steffon Swyft and Shierle Swyft. |
| 846 | * FamousAncestor: Ser Addison Hill, the Bastard of Cornfield, was one of the first seven members of Aegon the Conqueror's Kingsguard. |
| 847 | * MyNaymeIs: Swyft instead of Swift. |
| 848 | * NoNameGiven: The Lord Swyft that fell at the Battle by the Lakeshore during the Dance of Dragons. |
| 849 | |
| 850 | !!Ser Harys Swyft, Knight of Cornfield, Hand of the King, Master of Coin and Lord Treasurer |
| 851 | |
| 852 | Head of House Swyft and the Knight of Cornfield. His daughter Dorna is married to Ser Kevan Lannister. He also has a son Stefan, who is father to Joanna, and another daughter Shierle, married to Ser Melwyn Sarsfield. He is the current Master of Coin[=/=]Lord Treasurer on the Small Council. |
| 853 | ---- |
| 854 | * AscendedExtra: He was a minor recurring character in the first three books, but becomes much more important and has significant pagetime starting in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''. |
| 855 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Implied in ''The Winds of Winter.'' While he's in Braavos, some of his guards gossip about how he doesn't want to go back home to his wife, who's so fat there's steps in Casterly Rock she can't go down for fear she'd get stuck. |
| 856 | * BlingOfWar: His yellow doublet is decorated with the rooster of his House in lapis beads. |
| 857 | * ButtMonkey: His greatest battle accomplishment is getting pinned under his horse, the cooks at Harrenhal spit in his food, his squire is killed in a fight with the Brave Companions, he has to kiss Vargo Hoat, Cersei makes him her Hand specifically because he is an idiot, Kevan sends him to Braavos to get rid of him, and now, thanks to Arya, [[spoiler:he's down one guardsman.]] |
| 858 | * CaptainObvious: He points out obvious facts several times, usually followed by someone sarcastically thanking him for reminding them. |
| 859 | * DirtyCoward: Numerous characters think about how appropriate it is that his house's sigil is a chicken. |
| 860 | * DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: When the small council receives word that Davos has been beheaded, Aurane Waters japes that Stannis will need another Hand ("The turnip knight, perhaps?"). Harys is confused and says he's never heard of a turnip knight, which makes Waters roll his eyes. |
| 861 | * GeneralFailure: He doesn't understand basic siege tactics, which the rest of Tywin Lannister's war council have to explain to him. |
| 862 | * IHaveYourWife: The "wife" in this scenario: the only reason Harys is appointed as Hand by Cersei is so he is within her power, and he effectively becomes a hostage to ensure Ser Kevan's loyalty to Cersei. Harys, of course, has no idea of the deeper political struggle going on between his son-in-law and Cersei and thinks he got appointed on merit. |
| 863 | * InsultToRocks: Cersei thinks his sigil should be a worm, since even a chicken is too bold for him. |
| 864 | * {{Irony}}: In ''ADWD'' he's made Master of Coin, despite being once so indebted with House Lannisters that Lord Tywin had to literally kidnap his daughter to be paid back. |
| 865 | * NumberTwoForBrains: Fits this trope during his brief tenure as Cersei's Hand. |
| 866 | * NoodleIncident: While staying with Lord Tywin's host at Harrenhal, he somehow managed to piss off all the cooks, who made a point of spitting in every meal he ate. |
| 867 | * PetTheDog: One of his men-at-arms, Willit, is handsomely rewarded for saving his life. |
| 868 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: Jaime calls him "a shameless lickspittle". |
| 869 | * SarcasmBlind: Has a tendency to take sarcastic remarks absolutely seriously and try to respond to them. Particularly unfortunate for him, since he works closely with many [[DeadpanSnarker Lannisters]]. |
| 870 | * SmarterThanYouLook: People think of Harys as a pompous, self-important old fool, and they're largely right, and he's nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. Nevertheless, he was one of the few debtors who, when Tywin started calling in debts after coming back from the War of the Ninepenny Kings, realized that the days of House Lannister being pushovers were done and immediately made arrangements to pay. |
| 871 | * SocialClimber: Of the butt-kisser type: many characters note that the only reason he has any power and influence was because he somehow managed to get his daughter married to Kevan. Luckily for him, Dorna and Kevan love each other, and Kevan is fond of Harys, even if he gets annoyed by him sometimes, which has enabled Harys to rise to a position on the Small Council. |
| 872 | * StrokeTheBeard: Has a habit of doing this, although his "beard" is just a tiny little puff of white hair. |
| 873 | * UnwantedSpouse: In ''The Winds of Winter'' his guards gossip that one of the reasons he's in no haste [[spoiler:to leave Braavos]] is because of his wife. |
| 874 | * UpperClassTwit: He didn't become Master of Coin because of his smarts. |
| 875 | * YesMan: To Cersei, and then Kevan. |
| 876 | |
| 877 | !!Jocelyn Swyft |
| 878 | |
| 879 | A member of House Swyft with an unidentified relation to Ser Harys. She serves as one of Queen Cersei Lannister's ladies-in-waiting. |
| 880 | ---- |
| 881 | * LadyInWaiting: Serves as one to Cersei. |
| 882 | * SatelliteCharacter: To Cersei. |
| 883 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: When three thugs bring in the rotting head of [[spoiler:a dwarf they claim is Tyrion]], Jocelyn vomits immediately at the sight and smell of it. [[KickTheDog Cersei makes her clean it up]]. |
| 884 | |
| 885 | !!Dorna Swyft |
| 886 | Ser Kevan Lannister's wife. |
| 887 | |
| 888 | See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseLannister House Lannister]] page to read about her. |
| 889 | [[/folder]] |
| 890 | |
| 891 | !!Extinct Houses |
| 892 | |
| 893 | [[folder:House Casterly]] |
| 894 | !!House Casterly of Casterly Rock |
| 895 | ->'''Jaime Lannister''': Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance. |
| 896 | ->'''Hoster Blackwood''': Their sons do. |
| 897 | ->'''Jaime Lannister''': Not if you kill the sons as well. Ask the Casterlys about that if you doubt me. |
| 898 | |
| 899 | House Casterly of Casterly Rock was the most prominent noble family in the Westerlands, until they were supplanted by House Lannister |
| 900 | |
| 901 | !!!Tropes related to House Casterley |
| 902 | * JustSoStory: It was claimed that the first Casterly found a seam of gold in what became Casterly Rock after sparing the life of a couple of lion cubs. |
| 903 | * PosthumousCharacter: They are long gone for hundreds of years. |
| 904 | * ShroudedInMyth: Their demise is as mysterious as their origins. It is largely agreed that Lann the Clever was the reason for their disappearance. He either swindled or just murdered them. |
| 905 | [[/folder]] |
| 906 | |
| 907 | [[folder:House Reyne]] |
| 908 | !!House Reyne of Castamere |
| 909 | |
| 910 | House Reyne of Castamere was a noble house from Castamere in the westerlands. They blazoned their arms with a red lion rampant regardant with a forked tail, armed and langued gold, on silver. |
| 911 | |
| 912 | They were quite influential until they rebelled with House Tarbeck against their Lannister overlords. The rebellion was broken by Tywin Lannister. In the course of putting down the rebellion both houses were exterminated. |
| 913 | |
| 914 | The fate of Houses Reyne and Tarbeck have been immortalized in the song "The Rains of Castamere". |
| 915 | |
| 916 | --> See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseReyne House Reyne]] page. |
| 917 | [[/folder]] |
| 918 | |
| 919 | [[folder:House Tarbeck]] |
| 920 | !!House Tarbeck of Tarbeck Hall |
| 921 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/54bb4a7885b0bd1bb9f6a79093796b39.jpg]] |
| 922 | |
| 923 | House Tarbeck of Tarbeck Hall was a noble house from Tarbeck Hall near the Crag in the westerlands. According to semi-canon sources they blazoned their arms with a seven-pointed star, parts silver parts blue, on silver and blue field. They joined House Reyne in the rebellion against House Lannister, and was the first of the two to feel the wrath of Tywin Lannister. |
| 924 | |
| 925 | !!!Tropes related to House Tarbeck: |
| 926 | * FamousAncestor: Lord Alyn Tarbeck supported Prince Aegon Targaryen against Maegor the Cruel. After he died, Maegor took Alyn's wife Jeyne Westerling for his own. |
| 927 | ** Lady Jocasta Tarbeck, the wife of Lord Lyman Lannister, who informed Rhaena Targaryen she was pregnant when she and her brother looked for shelter at Casterly Rock. |
| 928 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: Until Ellyn Reyne, through her brother the Red Lion, got Tytos Lannister to lend them money. |
| 929 | * LeaveNoSurvivors: First victims of the Tywin doctrine, after killing a son of Walderan Tarbeck from his first marriage, Tywin captured Walderan and his living children who asked for mercy. Tywin had him, his sons, his nephews, male cousins and husbands of daughters beheaded, their heads put on pikes and carried as battle standards instead, ''and'' then destroyed Tarbeck Hall root and stem. |
| 930 | ** Nobody knows if anybody was keeping track of, say, bastards. Or far-flung, distant cousins of disappointment. If any such loose ends were left dangling, they've been very careful to ''stay'' forgotten. |
| 931 | * MakeAnExampleOfThem: Much like House Reyne after them, Tywin wiped out the Tarbecks to demonstrate that unlike his father, he would not idly sit by and tolerate unruliness and insubordination among his vassals. |
| 932 | * PosthumousCharacter: Destroyed when they rebelled against the Lannisters. |
| 933 | %%* {{Pride}} |
| 934 | * TakeThat: According to material that was cut from the published version of ''The World of Ice and Fire'', the names of Walderan Tarbeck's children by Ellyn Reyne, Rohanne, Cerelle and Tion, were meant as daggers against Gerold Lannister (the father of Ellyn's first husband). Rohanne was the name of Gerold's second wife, who vanished mysteriously. Cerelle was Gerold's niece, whom he was rumored to have murdered to become the Lord of Casterly Rock. Tion was Gerold's late second son and Ellyn's first husband. |
| 935 | * TakingTheVeil: Tywin forced Rohanne and Cerelle to become Silent Sisters. It is unknown if he took their tongues before that or not. |
| 936 | * ThemeNaming: Most of the members we know about had names that ended with "n"; Adrian, Alyn, Walderan. |
| 937 | * TheStarscream: Along with House Reyne. |
| 938 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Rohanne Tarbeck's son, the last surviving Tarbeck. It was rumored he found his way across the Narrow Sea and became a bard. Most likely, he was thrown down a well by Ser Amory Lorch. |
| 939 | |
| 940 | !!Lord Walderan Tarbeck, Lord of Tarbeck Hall |
| 941 | |
| 942 | Lord of Tarbeck Hall and husband of Lady Ellyn Reyne (with whom he had three children, Rohanne, Cerelle and Tion). He rose in rebellion against House Lannister alongside House Reyne. |
| 943 | ---- |
| 944 | * ArrangedMarriage: Lord Gerold Lannister made Walderan's marriage pact to Ellyn as a way to rid Casterly Rock of Ellyn's presence. |
| 945 | * DistressedDude: He was held hostage for a time at Casterly Rock by Tywin Lannister in an attempt to get House Tarbeck to repay its debts, but was eventually freed when Tytos forgave Tarbeck's debts. |
| 946 | * GeneralFailure: When Tywin marched on Tarbeck Hall, Walderan did not have time to gather his allies to meet the Lannister army. Instead, he tried to charge them with only his male relatives and household knights. [[CurbStompBattle They were all swiftly captured and executed]]. |
| 947 | * OffWithHisHead: After being defeated by Tywin's army, Walderan was beheaded alongside all his male relatives, and their heads were placed on pikes at the front of the army that marched on Tarbeck Hall. |
| 948 | * TooDumbToLive: Twice: the first time was when he decided to respond to Tywin's declaration that lords must repay the debts they owed to House Lannister by going to Casterly Rock to convince Lord Tytos to reign in his son. Instead, he ended up a hostage and could have been killed had his wife not taken three Lannisters hostage herself, which forced Tytos to resolve the situation peacefully. The second time was fatal, when he decided to charge Tywin's army with no more than his household knights to back him up. |
| 949 | * UngratefulBastard: Repaid his Lord's generosity with treason. |
| 950 | |
| 951 | !!Lady Ellyn Tarbeck |
| 952 | --> See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseReyne House Reyne]] page. |
| 953 | |
| 954 | !!Cyrelle and Rohanne Tarbeck |
| 955 | The daughters of Lord Walderan and Lady Ellyn. |
| 956 | ---- |
| 957 | * TakingTheVeil: They were both made to join the Silent Sisters. |
| 958 | * TongueTrauma: If they really joined the Sisters, then their tongues were cut out as is the alleged custom dictates. |
| 959 | |
| 960 | !!Tion Tarbeck |
| 961 | !!!Tion the Red |
| 962 | The son of Walderan and Ellyn |
| 963 | ---- |
| 964 | * AlliterativeName: Tion Tarbeck, named after the late Tion Lannister, Ellyn's first husband. |
| 965 | * InSeriesNickname: Tion the Red, after his red hair. |
| 966 | |
| 967 | !!! Other Tarbecks |
| 968 | !!Ser Adrian Tarbeck |
| 969 | |
| 970 | A knight of House Tarbeck who fought for King Aegon II during the Dance of the Dragons. |
| 971 | ---- |
| 972 | * AllThereInTheManual: He is only mentioned in ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire''. |
| 973 | * FamousAncestor: Is a famous and well-remembered knight of House Tarbeck. |
| 974 | * LongDeadBadass: How he died is unknown, but he is nearly two-hundred years dead by the point of the main series. |
| 975 | * MutualKill: He and the hedge knight Ser Harry Penny fatally struck each other. |
| 976 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lord Lefford was the commander of the Lannister host at the Fishfeed, with no mention of why Ser Adrian was no longer in command. ''Fire and Blood'' reveals he was killed in a previous battle near Acorn Hall. |
| 977 | * YouAreInCommandNow: Took over command of the Lannister host after Lord Jason Lannister was killed at the Battle of the Red Fork by Pate of Longleaf. |
| 978 | [[/folder]] |
| 979 |
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