As of 235 AFFC 10 Brienne II Brienne travels with Podrick Payne and trains him. As of 253 AFFC 28 Jaime III Jaime travels with Ser Liyn Payne and trains with him. Brienne retraces their steps from Maidenpool to the place where the Bloody Mummers took them, stoppig to kill Shagwell and Pyg, who Jaime had hoped would be in the dungeon at Harrenhal. She reverses the path she'd planned from the inn at the crossroads when they docked: Rosby road to Duskendale to Maidenpoool to t

Tyrion's Rejection of a Demon Helm Belies a Lack of Consistency Regarding His Advice to Jon. I have yet to draw conclusions about what this might mean in the story. Current guess: Tyrion's Scapegoat Complex is less in hand than he thinks. 6 AGOT Jon I : "Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it , and it will never be used to

(Spoilers Main) What has Jaime ever done to be seen as a goat-tier fighter? : r/asoiaf by u/ Suspicious-Jello7172 Recall Jaime's page in the white book was short on deeds. Jaime sizes up the men he expects to ever fight, just as Bronn does, but then does not have to. It seems Jaime was early recognized as his generation's natural talent without having to ever really prove himself. Maybe it's part of what explains why Jaime's sword style expects to capitalize on his opponents'

Responding to What would Tywin’s “sharp lesson” to Joffrey have been? : r/freefolk by u/ Jack-mclaughlin89 Great question! I think this is something we're meant to come to a conclusion about, but I am stumped. I notice that, a little later in ASOS Tyrion XI, Jaime mentions the sharp lesson, too: he said that you required a sharp lesson. That you would learn from it, and thank me later Tywin pretended he was saving Tyrion from a gold digger who would shame him (like Shae) by

6 AGOT Jon I : "Take me with you when you go back to the Wall," Jon said in a sudden rush. "Father will give me leave to go if you ask him, I know he will." 53 Benjen says no, and not just because Jon is drunk. He can tell Jon's deeper motive is to compensate for feeling shamed by his exclusion from the Great Hall during the feast. Jon later tells Mance Rayder it's why he wants to join the wildling army. Jon thinks he wants to join the Night's Watch when what he really wants

This is just a list of Barristan's on screen moments. I hope its complete. I find it exceedingly consistent that Barristan is always depicted in the context of his willfullness, often criticizing those he serves, sometimes while seeming to struggle with constraint. In fact, I would say it's Barristan's struggle with self-constraint that is most on display, likely as foreshadowing for his seeming to offer Pentos to the Tattered Prince on Dany's behalf after she expressely reje

Opening early in Brienne's storyline in A Feast For Crows , Worth More Than Honor may be a major Brienne theme. It figures broadly, as well, and involves the idea of compromising or being compromised, even morally. On inspection, honor is an obstacle and worthless, especially when Treachery Pays. A Game of Thrones 31 AGOT Eddard VII : Feeling alive. Robert would set aside his crown and become a sellsword in Essos. 36 AGOT Eddard IX : Your men's lives. 41 AGOT Catelyn VII :

( a copied comment from my reddit) Originally, I read it that Aeron-is-the-longest-pisser shows his deeper motive is to cope with his...

He remembered a time when he had thought that Lord Eddard Stark might marry him to Sansa and claim him for a son, but that had only been...

This arc could be said to begin in Dany's earliest chapters with Viserys's sexual abuse, her sense of being sold as a sort of sex slave,...

14 AGOT Tyrion II: The Royce boy was green as summer grass, yet he insisted on the honor of his own command, saying it was his due as a...

I think we're meant to see Tyrion transform into a villain, but more importantly, to see the cacade of his villain's motive so that we...

43 AGOT Tyrion 6 : Telling Bronn? After Jaime confessed to having hired Tysha for Tyrion and arranged the whole thing, Tywin gave her to his guards, paying her a silver for each. Tywin made Tyrion watch and go last. "And he gave me a gold coin to pay her because I was a Lannister and worth more." 458 63 AGOT Tyrion 8 : pgs 678-682 introduce Shae. Tyrion means to take her into his service, as he did Bronn, but Shae strips and gets started working on Tyrion without need for neg

45 AGOT Sansa III: Arya thinks somebody should have beheaded Jaime for Jory, Heward & Wyl and the Hound for Mycah when she hears Ser...

Even Rulers Who Would Be Impartial Are Biased An individual's gut feelings vs. advise of many councillors. 2 AGOT Bran I: Ned judges,...

While it is obvious and repeatedly stated that Catelyn freed Jaime "for her girls" and as a reaction to the news of Bran & Rickon's deaths, a subtle construction reveals that Catelyn was willing to risk her girls' lives to be comforted by their return to her. It was not motherly of Catelyn to try to rescue her girls by trading Jaime for them, it was childlike. She wanted them to be comforted by them, not to protect them. The pretext for her release of Jaime is that Catelyn

3 AGOT Catelyn I: “Arya is already in love (with her wolf pup)” 24 6 AGOT Jon I: Jon notes Arya was paired with plump Tommen, whose white...

34 AGOT Eddard VIII: When Selmy was brought before Robert at the Trident victory, “grievously wounded and near death, Roose Bolton urged...

16 AGOT Sansa I: Selmy is introduced when he and Renly arrive as honor guard for Robert. When she got closer, she saw two knights...

2 AGOT Bran I: The book's first image of Lord Eddard Stark is of him wearing his “lord's face” Bran's father sat solemnly on his horse,...