History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseLannister

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kevan just wants peace for the realm and for House Lannister to remain stable. After [[spoiler:Tywin dies]], Kevan is shown to take less extreme actions, though he allows Cersei's walk of shame to happen.

* ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler: Before getting finished off, Kevan lies half-sat, slowly agonizing, and violently shivering due to the sheer cold air entering through the windows in Pycelle's chamber. Varys explains he opened them due Pycelle soiling himself in dying.]]

* BattleButler: He's prepared to draw his sword and fight a room full of people Catelyn has ordered to arrest Tyrion before Tyrion tells him not too.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Awkward situations have risen in the past for him not telling prostitues he hired for Tyrion that Tyrion is a dwarf.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Kevan has no problem ordering large scale pillage of the Riverlands. But he is horrified when Joffrey announces his intention to make Sansa kiss Robb’s severed head in public. He's also not amused when Cersei slaps Jaime right next to their father's body, after Jaime snarked about how terrible of a regent she would be to Tommen and the Seven Kingdoms,telling the twins to take their quarrel elsewhere.

** He represents everything that Cersei doesn't respect and doesn't have. Common sense, loyalty, reliability, prudence, the actual ability to rule, kindness, humility and understanding how power actually works.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The Lannisters are the way they are in great part because ''Joanna died'', majorly because the few good parts that Tywin had died with her, and that it caused him to hate and abuse Tyrion who he blamed for her death, while also depriving her children of anyone to really discipline or a positive parental influence.

* DeathByChildbirth: She died giving birth to Tyrion, something Tywin and Cersei absolutely loath him for.

* GenerationXerox: Looked at with Tywin's children. Cersei considers herself a female version of Tywin, but Jaime finds her too [[MoodSwinger mercurial]] to match [[TheStoic their father]] and so considers himself to be the most like Tywin. When he tells his aunt Genna this, however, she claims he shares a lot of traits with his uncles, but [[TheUnfavorite Tyrion]] is closest to Tywin in terms of personality and political savvy (not like Tywin would ''ever'' admit it, just ask Genna when she said that exact thing. Tywin didn't speak to her for six months).
* GenerationalTrauma: Despite being the nominal villain house, House Lannister is steeped in 5 generations of trauma. It started with Lord Gerold Lannister: a decent lord who was shadowed by accusations of kinslaying due to being a second son who ended up taking over the lordship due to mishaps from the rest of his family. He also played favorites with his sons but lost the first 2 before they could properly become the lord. Leaving him with just his 3rd son Tytos as the only remaining option. Tytos in turn, having so much unexpected responsibility thrust upon him, was considered "weak" with a good sense of humor but no command as a lord Paramount. With a wife who died before all the family could reach maturity, his apathy and seemed cowardice made his eldest son Tywin overcorrect. Tywin became obsessed with showing strength and authority and became seen as a strong, powerful man but one without the kindness of his father to make him beloved as well. When HIS wife died giving birth to their youngest, it made Tywin hateful and cold to all his kids, messing all of them up in various ways too. Which in turn would screw up a final generation of the kids as Tywin's daughter Cersei's own insecurities and faults were never properly addressed, leading to all kinds of problems for her kids as well.

* BattleOfWits: ''Almost'' the whole family is all over this trope like a rash, both when it comes to playing the game of thrones... and just being a bunch of snarky, trolling wise-crackers. It is even said to go as far back as their purported founder, the legendary [[TheTrickster trickster-figure]], [[ManipulativeBastard Lann]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Clever]]. They ''do'' manage to provide [[WorldOfSnark a lot of the snark for the whole series]], each in their own, unique ways and to varying degrees. [[SnarkToSnarkCombat It's practically a family curse]], as [[DysfunctionJunction it means]] [[SubvertedTrope they aren't as effective as they could be when using those wits against others as a team]]. However, many funny, manipulative and analytic crowning moments are the trade-off to constantly sharpening your claws on each other.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By being such a spineless and mocked lord, he instilled an obsession with respect in his son Tywin, who would grow up to be a ruthless man willing to do anything to preserve the family's prestige. Said ruthlessness would lead to all kinds of problems for the Realm down the line, like Tywin's brutal massacre of the Targaryens, his campaign of destruction across the Riverlands and his orchestration of the Red Wedding. His strict and humorless nature, no doubt influenced by Tytos' easy-going and jovial nature, would also play a huge role in shaping his own children into pretty messed up individuals, [[spoiler:one of whom would end up kill him in response to all the abuses [[TheDogBitesBack he had to put up with]].]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By being such an ineffectual and mocked lord, he instilled an obsession with respect in his son Tywin, who would grow up to be a ruthless man willing to do anything to preserve the family's prestige. In turn, this would end up causing Tywin's own children to grow up pretty screwed up due to his high expectations, leading to all kinds of problems for the realm down the line, the least of which being Tyrion [[{{Patricide}} killing him]] in response to all the abuses he had to put up with.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Tywin and Casterly Rock. This is actually brought up as a plot point, since he's loyal to the Lannisters and the Lannisters only, not Cersei since she's a Baratheon by marriage, allowing Tyrion to actually have some loyal men watching his back.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Tywin and Casterly Rock.

* {{Realpolitik}}: Many of them play hard ball when it comes to political maneuvering. Pragmatism usually trumps over such things as ethical concerns or immediate personal feelings -- unless they can rationalize it to themselves as something pragmatic, of course. Heck, Tywin can even contemplate burying the hatchet with the Martells and cozying up to the Tyrells in a bid to have fewer headaches to deal with. However, they tend to weight towards the [[MachiavelliWasWrong Machiavelli]] [[InvertedTrope Was]] [[DeconstructedTrope Right]] school of thought -- minus the "and be loved" bit. Fear, terror, and respect are where it's all at for practically all of them. Even the nicer ones.

!!!Household
[[folder:Vylarr]]
!! Captain Vylarr
Vylarr is the captain of the Lannister guards stationed at King's Landing early on in the War of the Five Kings.

* AerithAndBob: Has a Valyrian name despite being from the Westerlands.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He isn't executed by Edmure, implying he didn't assist Tyrion's sleeper agents in breaking SacredHospitality.
* JustFollowingOrders: His justification to Tyrion for leaving the heads of the Stark household on display- Joffrey told him to do it.
* PetTheDog: Despite being Tywin's man through and through, he does show some concern for Tyrion's safety when he dismisses him and his guard.
* PunchClockVillain: Never seen doing anything particularly cruel or malicious outside of his orders.
* SpearCarrier: Mostly exists to give exposition to Tyrion about how Cersei's running the city.
* TheStoic: He remains unperturbed by Tyrion's order to take all of his men to Riverrun. Even Tyrion's ImpliedDeathThreat doesn't provoke much of a reaction from him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His subplot about rescuing Jaime ultimately goes nowhere and ends in his capture; we never hear from him again. The appendix lists him as alive, however, and it mentions he's back in Casterly Rock by the start of ''A Feast For Crows'', although the details of his release are never given.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Tywin and Casterly Rock.

[[folder:Lester]]
!! Red Lester
Lester is a guard sworn to House Lannister.

* MeaningfulName: He's highly likely to be a ginger, and not just named simply for being stuffed in Lannister red near-constantly. [[PunnyName Either that, or he really likes him a colorful cheese board]] ([[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Leicester Red Leicester]] -- yes, it's said "Lester"). Now we just need a Sage Derby and Young Cheddar to show up (a ploughman's lunch).
* NiceGuy: Offers his condolences to Cersei over her father's death, and believes that Tyrion will FaceDeathWithDignity.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Noble male to Lum's rogue.
* RecurringExtra: Has only two small scenes to his name. (Oddly enough, despite his insignificance, Cersei Lannister knows him by name)
* VillainRespect: Says Tyrion will go out bravely.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lum.

[[folder:Lum]]
!! Lum
Lum is a guard sworn to House Lannister.

* TheGhost: Unlike Lester, who makes a fleeting appearance in ''A Feast For Crows'', Lum is only ever heard by Tyrion.
* JerkAss: Constantly slags off Tyrion.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The rogue to Lester's noble.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Claims Tyrion will "weep like a woman" when dragged to the executioner's block.
* PunchClockVillain: His most heinous act is shittalking Tyrion, who is- as far as he knows- a kinslayer and a murderer.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lester.

[[folder:Jyck]]
!!Jyck
Tyrion's personal guard and procurer.

* BattleButler: He's prepared to draw his sword and fight a room full of people Catelyn has ordered to arrest Tyrion before Tyrion tells him not too.
* FearlessFool: Fights bravely but recklessly against the Mountain Clans.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:A long time servant and companion of Tyrion who is killed by the Mountain clansmen about midway through the first book and has yet to be mentioned in a single one of the sequels. Shows you the regard the Lannisters have for their servants]].
* NiceGuy: He seems like a loyal, dependable guy content with his job. Although he is fairly sullen as a captive.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Awkward situations have risen in the past for him not telling prostitues he hired for Tyrion that Tyrion is a dwarf.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Shares most of his scenes with Morrec.

[[folder:Morrec]]
!!Morrec
Tyrion's second servant, a cook and groom.

* DoomedHurtGuy: [[spoiler:He dies of a festering wound after a clash with the Mountain Clansmen]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:A long time servant and companion of Tyrion who is killed by the Mountain clansmen about midway through the first book and has yet to be mentioned in a single one of the sequels]].
* InformedAttribute: Tyrion says that he's a good archer but he never gets a chance to show it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Shares most of his scenes with Jyck.

[[folder:Senelle]]
!!Senelle
One of Cersei's maids.

* BearerOfBadNews: Wakes up Cersei with news of [[spoiler:her father's murder]].
* ShrinkingViolet: She shows fear when waking up Cersei in the middle of the night with an urgent message.
* UncertainDoom: She's given to Qyburn to experiment on and he later states that she is [[DeadlyEuphemism exhausted]].

[[folder:Tytos Lannister's second mistress]]
!!Tytos Lannister's second mistress

->''"Vain and proud she was, before...so haughty you'd think she'd forgot she came from dirt. Once we got her clothes off her, though, she was just another whore."''
-->--a Lannister guardsman

The lowborn daughter of a candlemaker, who became Tytos' mistress in his old age.

* AintTooProudToBeg: She begged for mercy when her humiliating punishment was announced, but Tywin was not moved.
-->''Though she had been too young to witness the spectacle herself, Cersei had heard the stories growing up from the mouths of washerwomen and guardsmen who had been there. They spoke of how the woman had wept and begged, of the desperate way she clung to her garments when she was commanded to disrobe, of her futile efforts to cover her breasts and her sex with her hands as she hobbled barefoot and naked through the streets to exile.''
* TheExile: Tywin banished her from Lannisport forever after Tytos' death.
* GoldDigger: It doesn't take a maester to see that she was only with Tytos for his wealth, no.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Some of her traits are reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry Madame du Barry]], the last mistress of King Louis XV of France, whose presence at the royal court was scandalous because she had been a commoner, and who was eventually banished by his grandson. In particular, Kevan's comment about Tytos' second mistress wearing his late wife's jewelry may be a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Diamond_Necklace Affair of the Diamond Necklace]].
* NoNameGiven: Her name is never mentioned.
* RagsToRiches: She enjoyed her new position as mistress to the richest lord in the Westerlands, and would even go as far as to wear his late wife's gowns and jewelry. It didn't last, however.
* RobbingTheDead: How Tywin and Kevan felt about her wearing their dead mother's jewels and gowns.
-->'''Kevan''': Our own father was gentle and amiable, but so weak his bannermen mocked him in their cups. Some saw fit to defy him openly. Other lords borrowed our gold and never troubled to repay it. At court they japed of toothless lions. Even his mistress stole from him. A woman scarcely one step above a whore, and she helped herself to my mother's jewels!
* ShamefulStrip: After Tytos' death, the first thing Tywin did was to strip the silks and jewels from her and parade her naked through the streets of Lannisport for a fortnight while forcing her to confess to every man she met that she was a thief and a whore.

!!!Cadet Houses
!!House Lannister of Lannisport
[[folder:Rosamund Lannister]]
!!Rosamund Lannister

A LadyInWaiting to Princess Myrcella Baratheon when the princess went to Dorne. A distant cousin to the main Lannister line, Rosamund is about two years older than the Princess.

* BitCharacter: Aside from her name and presence, she's just there to function as a decoy. She has no spoken lines in the books.
* DistinguishingMark: She has straight hair, unlike Myrcella.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Chosen by Tyrion to accompany Myrcella to Dorne because they look very much alike in order to protect the princess.
* IdentityImpersonator: Arianne Martell does try to pass off Rosamund as Myrcella in order to storm the princess away.
* PlayingSick: Arianne dresses her up like Myrcella and convinces everyone that she has redspots so that they keep away from her.
* PrinceAndPauper: She has overtones of this, although she is not quite a pauper because belongs to the nobility; still, she is several berths below Myrcella.
* PrincessClassic: Invoked and subverted. Myrcella argues that she and Rosamund have switched places numerous times in the past as a game; this implies that she knows how to dress and act like Myrcella in princess regalia, in spite of not being a princess herself.
* PrincessForADay: She has passed off as Myrcella numerous times.
* RegalRinglets: Subverted. Her hair is straight, unlike Myrcella.
* SwappedRoles: This is the entire purpose of her presence at Dorne in order to protect the princess.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She can easily pass herself off as Myrcella. Given they are cousins on both sides of Myrcella's turned-on-itself family tree ''and'' that they are just about the same age, this is hardly surprising.

* BlackSheep: Of the offspring of Lord Tytos. He was witty, yet he was neither politically savvy nor warlike.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: She had discovered Cersei and Jaime's "experiments" as children, and separated them in rooms on different ends of Casterly Rock. She told both of them never to do that again. She also never told Tywin about this.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The Lannisters are the way they are in great part because ''Joanna died''.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Kevan has no problem ordering large scale pillage of the Riverlands. But he is horrified when Joffrey announces his intention to make Sansa kiss Robb’s severed head in public.

* GenerationalTauma: Despite being the nominal villain house, House Lannister is steeped in 5 generations of trauma. It started with Lord Gerold Lannister: a decent lord who was shadowed by accusations of kinslaying due to being a second son who ended up taking over the lordship due to mishaps from the rest of his family. He also played favorites with his sons but lost the first 2 before they could properly become the lord. Leaving him with just his 3rd son Tytos as the only remaining option. Tytos in turn, having so much unexpected responsibility thrust upon him, was considered "weak" with a good sense of humor but no command as a lord Paramount. With a wife who died before all the family could reach maturity, his apathy and seemed cowardice made his eldest son Tywin overcorrect. Tywin became obsessed with showing strength and authority and became seen as a strong, powerful man but one without the kindness of his father to make him beloved as well. When HIS wife died giving birth to their youngest, it made Tywin hateful and cold to all his kids, messing all of them up in various ways too. Which in turn would screw up a final generation of the kids as Tywin's daughter Cersei's own insecurities and faults were never properly addressed, leading to all kinds of problems for her kids as well.

* IgnoredExpert: Despite Cersei refusing to move away from power and to return to Casterly Rock, and his own refusal to become her puppet Hand of the King, Kevan does give her precious advices such as pointing out how bad of a mistake it would be to alienate Mace Tyrell, and advising her to name Matthis Rowan or Randyll Tarly as Hand of the King as both men are very capable, and that it would make strengthen toward their liege lord and make them switch their loyalty to her instead. [[TheParanoiac Cersei]] evidently fails to see the logic in this and refuses, [[InsaneTrollLogic seeing this only as a proof of him having been bought by Mace Tyrell.]]
* {{Irony}}: Upon Tywin's [[spoiler:assassination]], Kevan is summoned by Grand Maester Pycelle to become Lord Regent and Protector of the Realm for the child king Tommen I. This is a higher position than Tywin had ever accomplished for all his years of trouble and ambition. [[spoiler:However, this power lasts Kevan about five minutes before Varys fills him with crossbow bolts]].