Tyrion Lannister | House Lannister | Master of Coin | FC: Peter Dinklage | Open
“My brother has his sword, and I have my mind…”
Tyrion is shrewd, educated, and calculating, but receives little respect for this from his father, because of his deformity, and the death of his mother during his birth. He is capable of cruelty to his enemies, but also has great sympathy for fellow outcasts and the mistreated. Tyrion gets on well with his brother Jaime but has a cooler relationship with sister Cersei. Tyrion’s deformity was the cause of many problems and persecution, although mitigated to some extent by his high social standing and his family’s wealth and power. Tyrion is a dwarf, he has stubby legs, a jutting forehead, mismatched eyes of green and black, and lank, white-blonde hair.Later, he grows a beard, it contains both blonde and black hair. Tyrion was born as the third child of Tywin and Joanna Lannister, his two older siblings Jaime and Cersei were already nine years old. His mother died giving birth to him, as a result his father blamed and hated him for it and his deformity. Tyrion found himself ostracised from regular family life, especially by his father and sister who abused him during his childhood. When Tyrion was thirteen, he and his brother Jaime rescued a common girl, Tysha, from some bandits. While Jaime went after the bandits Tyrion took care of Tysha. To his amazement Tysha liked him, and they eventually made love. Tyrion became so enamoured by her that he bribed a septon and married her in secret. Their happiness lasted only two weeks, however, before Tyrion’s father got news of the wedding. Lord Tywin commanded Jaime to say that Tysha was a prostitute whom Jaime had hired for Tyrion’s benefit. Because the “whore” had presumed to marry a Lannister, Tywin had his entire guard rape Tysha for a silver each and then made Tyrion go last for a gold coin, because a Lannister is worth more. When Tyrion became a man at sixteen, he was forbidden from taking a tour of the Nine Free Cities as his uncles Geron and Tygett had done. Instead Tywin gave him charge of all the cisterns and drains at Casterly rock.
