![]() Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. Unfortunately, she’s not quite as clever as she thinks, and will be tested in the days ahead as she matches her political mettle against some of the cleverest and deadliest schemers in the Seven Kingdoms. Despite Cersei’s long list of faults, she loves her children deeply and everything she does is for them. She sometimes seems oblivious to Joffrey’s intolerable cruelty, and wants him to have power more than she wants him to wield it responsibly. cold and manipulative, yet with a blind spot regarding her children. Cersei must fight, plot, and murder to keep her secrets and prevent the other power-hungry houses of Westeros from ascending to the Iron Throne. ![]() If her relationship with her brother were discovered, her children would lose their place as heirs to the Iron Throne. She and her brother have been lovers since they were very young, and don’t seem to have any intention of stopping any time soon.Ĭhallenge. ![]() Her husband never loved her, and in time she grew to despise him. in a loveless, political marriage to the King and a forbidden, incestuous relationship with her brother Jaime. As Cersei tells Eddard Stark, “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.” She’s watched that game from the sidelines long enough to learn how to win. There’s no shortage of potential challengers to the throne who plan to get there by killing everyone in their path. Interests… plotting Joffrey’s rise to the top even as he grows more and more despised by everyone who meets him. This resentment fuels her, causing her to absolutely commit herself to raising her son to the absolute height of power. Cersei fancies herself a canny political operator and often curses the fact that she was born a woman, a fact that consigns her to an ancillary political role. But her real job these days is grooming her eldest son Joffrey to one day be King. Her husband’s insatiable appetite for booze and women is a constant source of humiliation and Cersei seeks comfort in a forbidden place – the arms of her twin brother Jaime. She lives a comfy life, and her every need is attended to, but she remains a deeply unhappy woman. The oldest, Joffrey, is heir to the Iron Throne. as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, wife to King Robert Baratheon and mother of three children. Furthermore, Varys did not go to the docks with the rest of the court on the day Myrcella was sent to Dorne, suggesting Varys might have instigated the riot and had agents snatch Tyrek during the confusion.Living. Ser Jaime Lannister suspects that Lord Varys may have had a hand in Tyrek's disappearance, reasoning that Tyrek, as the late King Robert's squire, would have knowledge about the king, including the circumstances surrounding his death. Ser Addam Marbrand, the new commander of the gold cloaks, has no luck either. A Storm of SwordsĪlthough Tyrion Lannister and his father, Lord Tywin, try to find Tyrek or his body, no trace of the boy can be found. Driven by hunger, a mob attacks a royal party that had gone to the harbor to bid safe journey to Princess Myrcella Baratheon as she departed for Dorne. Once the rival kings Stannis and Renly Baratheon cut off King's Landing from supplies, suffering among the population gets worse. After Tyrek marries Ermesande, he wears a bridegroom mantle of miniver and velvet. It is quelled by a party led by King Joffrey I Baratheon. One minor uproar is created at the gate of the Red Keep when news about preparations for Tyrek's upcoming wedding feast gets out. With people who fled the fighting in the riverlands flooding into King's Landing and with provisions for commoners getting shorter, unrest is growing in the city. Because Ermesande is still a baby, the other squires call Tyrek " Wet Nurse". Tyrek is married to Lady Ermesande Hayford, the ruling Lady of House Hayford, so that House Lannister can claim her lands. Tyrek is a squire for King Robert I Baratheon alongside Lancel Lannister, his cousin. Tyrek is said to be around Sansa Stark's age.
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