House Lannister

Tyrion Lannister

the Imp

Life: no fixed year is given in the text; a grown man, well into his adult years, when the story opens
House: Lannister

Alive and at large in Essos, having fled Westeros in disgrace.

A dwarf born to the wealthiest house in the Seven Kingdoms, Tyrion Lannister spent his life proving that a sharp tongue and a sharper mind can carry a man his own family would rather have drowned at birth. His father never forgave him for his mother's death in childbed nor his stunted body, and Tyrion answered a lifetime of contempt with wine, wit, and a scholar's appetite for the one thing his family valued less than him: books. Named Hand of the King in his brother's stead, he ran the defense of King's Landing from behind the scenes and discovered that competence earns a Lannister gratitude only until it becomes inconvenient. A maester who has read his own family's ledgers finds Tyrion the rare Lannister who did the realm more good than his surname's reputation would ever credit him.

The arc of Tyrion Lannister

This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.

Accused of a murder he did not commit and abandoned by the family he had bled for, Tyrion demands trial by combat and loses everything a trial can take from a man; what follows is an act of patricide that ends his life in Westeros as thoroughly as any headsman could. He flees across the narrow sea in disgrace, passes through slavery and a mummer's disguise, and falls in with sellswords marching on the one queen who might have use for a Lannister with nothing left to lose.

Where the books leave Tyrion Lannister: alive as of A Dance with Dragons, having killed his father and fled across the narrow sea, then passed through slavery and disguise before falling in with sellswords marching on Meereen

These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.

In the timeline

Theories about Tyrion Lannister

SourcesAGOT · TyrionASOS · TyrionADWD · TyrionTWOIAF · House Lannister

Is Tyrion Lannister alive?

Yes, alive as of A Dance with Dragons, though far from Casterly Rock and travelling under conditions the chronicle treats as spoiler territory.

Who is Tyrion Lannister?

The dwarf son of Tywin Lannister, prized by no one in his family but himself, whose wit and appetite for books made him one of the shrewdest hands the Iron Throne has had.