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** The second time was at his wedding when he was so busy getting to know his new bride that he completely fails to notice [[spoiler:his family, friends, and king being massacred down the hall]].
** The first time he was sleeping with prostitutes in one of the towns outside of Riverrun, which almost allowed Jaime Lannister to escape Riverrun.
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!!Edmyn Tully
The Lord of Riverrun during the reign of Harren the Black. When Aegon the Conqueror arrived in Westeros, Lord Edmyn quickly rallied the rest of the Riverlords to aid Aegon drive the ironborn from the Riverlands. Afterward he was made Lord Paramount of the Riverlands and Lord Paramount of the Trident
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* LaResistance: Against the ironborn
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!!Edmyn Tully
The Lord of Riverrun during the reign of Harren the Black. When Aegon the Conqueror arrived in Westeros, Lord Edmyn quickly rallied the rest of the Riverlords to aid Aegon drive the ironborn from the Riverlands. Afterward he was made Lord Paramount of the Riverlands and Lord Paramount of the Trident
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* LaResistance: Against the ironborn
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Lords of the Riverlands from their fortress of Riverrun. Unlike the rest many of the Seven Kingdoms, other Great Houses, they were never Kings of their own realm, but were granted lordship under Aegon the Conqueror. Their current head, Hoster Tully, has three children: the two daughters Catelyn and Lysa, who married Eddard Stark and Jon Arryn, and the son Edmure, who will succeed him when he dies. They ally with the North during the War of the Five Kings. Their members tend to have fiery red hair and their sigil is a leaping silver trout.
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!!This is a listing of the members of House Tully that appear in the {{Fantasy}} series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Visit [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFire here]] for the main character index.
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->"''[[ThickerThanWater Family]], [[ComesGreatResponsibility Duty]], [[HonorBeforeReason Honor]].''"
--> - '''Tully House Words'''
Lords of the Riverlands from their fortress of Riverrun. Unlike the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, they were never Kings of their own realm, but were granted lordship under Aegon the Conqueror. Their current head, Hoster Tully, has three children: the two daughters Catelyn and Lysa, who married Eddard Stark and Jon Arryn, and the son Edmure, who will succeed him when he dies. They ally with the North during the War of the Five Kings. Their members tend to have fiery red hair and their sigil is a leaping silver trout.
Not to be confused with House Tarly, a Tyrell vassal house.
!!Tropes related to most Tullys:
* AnimalMotifs: Leaping trouts, referencing the Riverlands' rich, well, rivers.
* ButtMonkey: Unfortunately, House Tully's kingdom (the Riverlands) is the main battleground of the civil war.
* TheClan
* ColorCodedCharacters: Tullys tend to have red hair and blue eyes.
* ComesGreatResponsibility
* ConflictingLoyalty: Check their motto. Duty is in the middle but to what: Family or Honor?
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish grew up at Riverrun as a ward of Hoster Tully, and as such has had (mis)adventures with all three Tully siblings and even Brandon Stark.
* FieryRedhead / HeroesWantRedheads / RedheadedHero: Red hair is a Tully trait, and most of its members are considered attractive.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Catelyn was the Responsible to Edmure/Lysa's Foolish.
* TheLancer: To House Stark in the War of the Five Kings.
* MeaningfulName: Tully means "flood" in Irish Gaelic.
* VikingFuneral: They bury their dead this way. It makes sense as the Riverlands used to be under Ironborn control.
!!Lord Hoster Tully
-->''"Did you see me, little Cat?"''
The patriarch of the Tully family, who starts the series on his deathbed.
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* DyingClue: [[spoiler: Hoster's last word is "Tansy," which turns out to mean that he forced his daughter Lysa to drink tansy tea (an abortive drug) after he found out that she was pregnant with Littlefinger's child. Lysa and Littlefinger have been lovers since the first book... which is why Lysa was the one who killed Jon Arryn and blamed the Lannisters at Littlefinger's insistence.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Catelyn notes that some of the life had gone out of Hoster after Minisa's death.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Hoster Tully goes to his grave regretting that he tricked Lysa in aborting Littlefinger's child.]]
* VikingFuneral: In the third book.
!!Minisa Tully (née Whent)
Hoster's deceased wife.
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* DeathByChildbirth: She died giving birth to her fourth child (who died as well), which prompted Catelyn's PromotionToParent.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: According to Catelyn, although she doesn't remember much.
!!Lord Edmure Tully
--> "He would try to hold every inch of his soil, to defend every man, woman and child who named him lord."
-->-- '''Eddard Stark'''
Hoster's only son and heir, and younger brother to Catelyn and Lysa. Becomes Lord of Riverrun after his father's death in the third book. Edmure is a kind-hearted man whose strengths unfortunately lie in peacetime politics rather than wartime strategy.
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* ButtMonkey: Edmure is the butt-monkey of the Tully family itself. The poor guy can't even take a bath without somebody threatening to put his baby in a catapult.
* FieryRedhead
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Catelyn's Responsible; she notes in ''AStormOfSwords'' that this had gone on since childhood.
* GeneralFailure: Unlike his uncle the Blackfish, he is a hot-headed incompetent who either loses battles or walks his men right into enemy traps. And the one time he wins, it's by haring off to fight a battle on his own initiative, and it ends up ''seriously'' screwing with his side's long-term plans, which he may not have even been in on in the first place.
* GoodIsDumb / IdiotHero
* HotBlooded
* TheMillstone
* NiceGuy: Other characters note that despite Edmure not being a great tactician, he would make an excellent lord in peacetime since he does truly care for his smallfolk.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Edmure Tully, who may have to fight a war out of his castle, nonetheless allows starving refugees to take shelter there. "Because they are my people, and they are afraid". Gemma Frey describes him as "soft of heart and soft of head."
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Despite how the wedding itself turned out, it seems that [[spoiler: Edmure and his wife, Roslin Frey]] do genuinely love each other. [[spoiler: Edmure expresses extreme relief when Jamie promises him in AFFC that after she gives birth, Roslin and their child will join him at Casterly Rock. It's said that Roslin prays every day for a daughter so Edmure won't be killed by her family - the birth of a Tully/Frey son and heir means they would have no use for him anymore.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: Edmure wins a battle that severely hampers his side's war effort.
* UpperClassTwit: Edmure has some shades of this. He's not a bad person, but his priorities are typically misplaced, leading him to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. (The filling-his-castle-with-refugees thing is dumb because winning a siege typically depends on whether you have more food and less mouths than the enemy. Note that the only two StormingTheCastle moments we have ''ever'' seen have resulted in the leaders of those two attempts--[[spoiler:Robb Stark and Loras Tyrell]]--taking significant injury.)
* WellDoneSonGuy: Downplayed. Edmure's family does love him a lot (and he ''is'' an only son) but Catelyn mentions that he does desire glory beyond being heir to Riverrun and would love for his father to be really proud of him.
!!Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully
Hoster's unmarried younger brother and uncle to Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure, the Blackfish serves as a capable warrior and much-needed voice of reason.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Blackfish will never marry a woman, per Cat's words. Some fans wonder...
* AppropriatedAppellation: Hoster Tully once cursed his younger brother for being the [[BlackSheep "Black Goat"]] of the family. Brynden just laughed and wondered whether, the Tully sigil being what it is, he should be considered a black ''fish'' instead? And that's how Brynden Tully got his nickname (not to mention his personal coat-of-arms).
* BadassGrandpa: The Blackfish is 60 years old at the start of the series and still a highly capable warrior. [[spoiler: Even after surrendering Riverrun to Jaime Lannister, he manages to escape by swimming under the portcullis - raised just below the water level - and then swimming for some miles. In the middle of the frikkin night]].
** His ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jaime is pretty BadAss in itself, if not a bit of a KickTheDog moment given [[spoiler: Jaime's character development over the past few books]].
* BigOlEyebrows
* BlackSheep: Brynden's refusal to marry a woman who would help his family's fortune is a contrast to their words promoting Family and Duty. Arguing with his brother over this led to the Brynden's long estrangement from Hoster and the rest of his family. His refusal to serve his family, combined with an insult Hoster aimed at him, [[AppropriatedAppellation led to Brynden adopting the name, the Blackfish]]. In the series proper, he's quite dutiful to his family and returns to help with the war efforts when his niece, Lysa, refuses to do so.
* ColonelBadass: As one of Robb's top commanders.
* CoolUncle
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Lysa refuses to assist the Riverlands when they come under attack by the Lannister's, Brynden quits his position as Knight of the Gate and joins Catelyn in rushing to join Robb.
!!Roslin Tully (née Frey)
When Robb Stark forewent his betrothal to a Frey daughter, choosing to save Jeyne Westerling's honor instead, the Freys are understandably unhappy but agree to continue the alliance if Edmure weds a Frey girl in Robb's place. Roslin herself, a surprisingly sweet, gentle girl then marries Edmure in Jeyne and Robb's stead.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: To Edmure, see his entry.
* NiceGirl: A rarity among her family.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To the Freys.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter
!!Catelyn Stark (née Tully)
--> See ''Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseStark''.
!!Lysa Arryn (nee Tully)
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->"''[[ThickerThanWater Family]], [[ComesGreatResponsibility Duty]], [[HonorBeforeReason Honor]].''"
--> - '''Tully House Words'''
Lords of the Riverlands from their fortress of Riverrun. Unlike the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, they were never Kings of their own realm, but were granted lordship under Aegon the Conqueror. Their current head, Hoster Tully, has three children: the two daughters Catelyn and Lysa, who married Eddard Stark and Jon Arryn, and the son Edmure, who will succeed him when he dies. They ally with the North during the War of the Five Kings. Their members tend to have fiery red hair and their sigil is a leaping silver trout.
Not to be confused with House Tarly, a Tyrell vassal house.
!!Tropes related to most Tullys:
* AnimalMotifs: Leaping trouts, referencing the Riverlands' rich, well, rivers.
* ButtMonkey: Unfortunately, House Tully's kingdom (the Riverlands) is the main battleground of the civil war.
* TheClan
* ColorCodedCharacters: Tullys tend to have red hair and blue eyes.
* ComesGreatResponsibility
* ConflictingLoyalty: Check their motto. Duty is in the middle but to what: Family or Honor?
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish grew up at Riverrun as a ward of Hoster Tully, and as such has had (mis)adventures with all three Tully siblings and even Brandon Stark.
* FieryRedhead / HeroesWantRedheads / RedheadedHero: Red hair is a Tully trait, and most of its members are considered attractive.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Catelyn was the Responsible to Edmure/Lysa's Foolish.
* TheLancer: To House Stark in the War of the Five Kings.
* MeaningfulName: Tully means "flood" in Irish Gaelic.
* VikingFuneral: They bury their dead this way. It makes sense as the Riverlands used to be under Ironborn control.
!!Lord Hoster Tully
-->''"Did you see me, little Cat?"''
The patriarch of the Tully family, who starts the series on his deathbed.
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* DyingClue: [[spoiler: Hoster's last word is "Tansy," which turns out to mean that he forced his daughter Lysa to drink tansy tea (an abortive drug) after he found out that she was pregnant with Littlefinger's child. Lysa and Littlefinger have been lovers since the first book... which is why Lysa was the one who killed Jon Arryn and blamed the Lannisters at Littlefinger's insistence.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Catelyn notes that some of the life had gone out of Hoster after Minisa's death.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Hoster Tully goes to his grave regretting that he tricked Lysa in aborting Littlefinger's child.]]
* VikingFuneral: In the third book.
!!Minisa Tully (née Whent)
Hoster's deceased wife.
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* DeathByChildbirth: She died giving birth to her fourth child (who died as well), which prompted Catelyn's PromotionToParent.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: According to Catelyn, although she doesn't remember much.
!!Lord Edmure Tully
--> "He would try to hold every inch of his soil, to defend every man, woman and child who named him lord."
-->-- '''Eddard Stark'''
Hoster's only son and heir, and younger brother to Catelyn and Lysa. Becomes Lord of Riverrun after his father's death in the third book. Edmure is a kind-hearted man whose strengths unfortunately lie in peacetime politics rather than wartime strategy.
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* ButtMonkey: Edmure is the butt-monkey of the Tully family itself. The poor guy can't even take a bath without somebody threatening to put his baby in a catapult.
* FieryRedhead
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Catelyn's Responsible; she notes in ''AStormOfSwords'' that this had gone on since childhood.
* GeneralFailure: Unlike his uncle the Blackfish, he is a hot-headed incompetent who either loses battles or walks his men right into enemy traps. And the one time he wins, it's by haring off to fight a battle on his own initiative, and it ends up ''seriously'' screwing with his side's long-term plans, which he may not have even been in on in the first place.
* GoodIsDumb / IdiotHero
* HotBlooded
* TheMillstone
* NiceGuy: Other characters note that despite Edmure not being a great tactician, he would make an excellent lord in peacetime since he does truly care for his smallfolk.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Edmure Tully, who may have to fight a war out of his castle, nonetheless allows starving refugees to take shelter there. "Because they are my people, and they are afraid". Gemma Frey describes him as "soft of heart and soft of head."
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Despite how the wedding itself turned out, it seems that [[spoiler: Edmure and his wife, Roslin Frey]] do genuinely love each other. [[spoiler: Edmure expresses extreme relief when Jamie promises him in AFFC that after she gives birth, Roslin and their child will join him at Casterly Rock. It's said that Roslin prays every day for a daughter so Edmure won't be killed by her family - the birth of a Tully/Frey son and heir means they would have no use for him anymore.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: Edmure wins a battle that severely hampers his side's war effort.
* UpperClassTwit: Edmure has some shades of this. He's not a bad person, but his priorities are typically misplaced, leading him to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. (The filling-his-castle-with-refugees thing is dumb because winning a siege typically depends on whether you have more food and less mouths than the enemy. Note that the only two StormingTheCastle moments we have ''ever'' seen have resulted in the leaders of those two attempts--[[spoiler:Robb Stark and Loras Tyrell]]--taking significant injury.)
* WellDoneSonGuy: Downplayed. Edmure's family does love him a lot (and he ''is'' an only son) but Catelyn mentions that he does desire glory beyond being heir to Riverrun and would love for his father to be really proud of him.
!!Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully
Hoster's unmarried younger brother and uncle to Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure, the Blackfish serves as a capable warrior and much-needed voice of reason.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Blackfish will never marry a woman, per Cat's words. Some fans wonder...
* AppropriatedAppellation: Hoster Tully once cursed his younger brother for being the [[BlackSheep "Black Goat"]] of the family. Brynden just laughed and wondered whether, the Tully sigil being what it is, he should be considered a black ''fish'' instead? And that's how Brynden Tully got his nickname (not to mention his personal coat-of-arms).
* BadassGrandpa: The Blackfish is 60 years old at the start of the series and still a highly capable warrior. [[spoiler: Even after surrendering Riverrun to Jaime Lannister, he manages to escape by swimming under the portcullis - raised just below the water level - and then swimming for some miles. In the middle of the frikkin night]].
** His ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jaime is pretty BadAss in itself, if not a bit of a KickTheDog moment given [[spoiler: Jaime's character development over the past few books]].
* BigOlEyebrows
* BlackSheep: Brynden's refusal to marry a woman who would help his family's fortune is a contrast to their words promoting Family and Duty. Arguing with his brother over this led to the Brynden's long estrangement from Hoster and the rest of his family. His refusal to serve his family, combined with an insult Hoster aimed at him, [[AppropriatedAppellation led to Brynden adopting the name, the Blackfish]]. In the series proper, he's quite dutiful to his family and returns to help with the war efforts when his niece, Lysa, refuses to do so.
* ColonelBadass: As one of Robb's top commanders.
* CoolUncle
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Lysa refuses to assist the Riverlands when they come under attack by the Lannister's, Brynden quits his position as Knight of the Gate and joins Catelyn in rushing to join Robb.
!!Roslin Tully (née Frey)
When Robb Stark forewent his betrothal to a Frey daughter, choosing to save Jeyne Westerling's honor instead, the Freys are understandably unhappy but agree to continue the alliance if Edmure weds a Frey girl in Robb's place. Roslin herself, a surprisingly sweet, gentle girl then marries Edmure in Jeyne and Robb's stead.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: To Edmure, see his entry.
* NiceGirl: A rarity among her family.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To the Freys.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter
!!Catelyn Stark (née Tully)
--> See ''Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireHouseStark''.
!!Lysa Arryn (nee Tully)
--> See ''House Arryn'' below.
