How Tywin Would Have Handled the High Sparrow

Tywin would have immediately replaced the High Sparrow with a High Septon. It’s what Cersei should have done. The sparrows bypassed the election process. They stormed into the election chamber with axes, holding their leader aloft, and installed him by force. On her way to meet the newly elected High Septon for the first time, Cersei thought:

Next time I will choose their master for them. And the next time might not be long in coming, if the new High Septon continued to annoy her.

While Cersei was willing to consider dealing with the High Sparrow, Tywin would never have acknowledged him as such. Why allow a man to take what he may not have, especially when his aim is to thwart you? It only gives him more nerve. Tywin would have immediately sent a proportionate force to assure that a true High Septon was properly elected from among the Most Devout. The arduous process of attaining the title of Most Devout already vetted for populist rabble rousers, so any High Septon elected from their ranks would be sure to behave himself. Such action would be right, according to law and custom. Tywin understood the function of this custom and how it maintained the throne’s power. Cersei did not.