Worth More Than Honor

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: Whatever Lysa Arryn's motive is for setting an exonerated Tyrion unescorted onto the High Road, a death sentence.

43 AGOT Tyrion VI: Gold

59 AGOT Eddard XV: Not seeing your daughter's head on a platter.

61 AGOT Jon VIII: "Love is the death of duty." It's why Night's Watch men take no wives, father no children and remain neutral as regards the battles of the realm.

A Clash of Kings

74 ACOK 1 Prologue: Your birthright.

82 ACOK 9 Tyrion II: Bold self-elevation, according to Janos Slynt. Honor is what you sell to rise by merit.

92 ACOK 19 Sansa II: Your life and freedom, according to Sansa.

103 ACOK 30 Tyrion VII: Rule. according to Tyrion, the game can't be played by men like Stark and Arryn who are "too honest to live, too noble to shit." 450

111ACOK 38 Theon III: Legitimacy. Home. Belonging,

116 ACOK 43 Davos II: Right. A crown. The iron throne.

A Storm of Swords

(Take Notes)

A Feast for Crows

235 AFFC 10 Brienne II: "I will give up my life if need be, give up my honor, give up all my dreams, but I will find her." 200

(Take Notes)

A Dance With Dragons

311 ADWD 40 Jon VIII: When Jon sends Val for Tormund, disobeying Stannis, he feels ashamed. "His father would never have approved. I am the sword that guards the relms of men, Jon reminded himself, and in the end that must be worth more than one man's honor." 566

311 ADWD 40 Jon VIII: Love. Jorah Mormont felt love was worth more than honor when he sold poachers into slavery to afford his expensive wife.

320 ADWD 49 Jaime I: Family. Jaime says. "It was his child he (Edmure) feared for." 700 Tytos Blackwood says Edmure's life will be "long and bitter. A life without honor. Until his dying day, men will say he was afraid to fight." 700 The Blackfish who fled rather than take the black will not be thought lacking in honor, though.

323 ADWD 52 Theon: Revenge is worth more than honor, Lord Manderly has decided. Or...

326 ADWD 55 Cersei I: What is honor even for? It's a fool's hinderance.

327 ADWD 56 The Queensguard: "In the Viper's pit that was Meereen, honor seemed as silly as a fool' motley." 799 Wits are worth more.