As a result, he is mauled by a boar and dies days later. Instead, Cercei takes matters into her own hand and gives King Robert an extra potent batch of wine before he goes hunting. Ned confronts Cercei and offers her the opportunity to flee King’s Landing safely with her children before he tells King Robert of the truth he has learned. While in King’s Landing, Ned Stark continues investigating and learns that Robert has no true heirs Cercei’s children are fathered by Jaime and not Robert. Nonetheless, the arrest of Tyrion infuriated Lord Tywin Lannister and mounted tensions between House Lannister and House Stark.īronn’s opponent falling through the moon door after being defeated during trial by combat.

Tyrion is eventually freed as B ronn Stokeworth represents Tyrion in trial by combat and wins. She takes Tyrion to the Eyrie, where he is held prisoner in the sky cells. Believing this lie, Catelyn Tully has Tyrion arrested when she happens to cross paths with him on her return to the North. Catelyn marches south to King’s Landing to inform Ned of the attack on Bran, and upon her arrival, she is told by Lord Petyr Baelish that it was in fact Tyrion Lannister’s knife that the assassin was found with. After Ned leaves for King’s Landing, an assassin is sent to kill Bran, though the assassin himself is killed by Bran’s direwolf. Bran remains in a coma and it is suspected that it was merely an accident. During the king’s visit to Winterfell, Bran catches Cercei and Jaime having sex Jaime throws Bran from the castle walls to prevent the secret from getting out. So, when King Robert approached Ned Stark and offered him to be new king of the hand, Catelyn encouraged her husband to take up King Robert’s offer and use his new power to investigate the murder of Jon Arryn. It was at this time that Catelyn Tully received a letter from her sister, Lysa, who communicated that she suspected her husband, Jon Arryn, had been murdered by the Lannisters.

Stannis shared his suspicions with King Robert’s hand, Jon Arryn, who was murdered by poison soon thereafter. It was Robert’s brother, Stannis Baratheon, who first became suspicious of the legitimacy of his brother’s heirs, whom he correctly suspected were actually born of incest between Cercei and Jaime Lannister. The entire war is centered around the illegitimacy of King Robert’s heirs, namely Joffrey, and his right to the throne upon King Robert’s death.

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