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Tom: "What do you think of these beauties?"
Brienne: "I hope you gave them quick deaths."
Tom: "Two of them we did, yeah."
— Tom and Brienne of Tarth[src]

Tom was a man-at-arms sworn to House Stark.

Biography[]

Game of Thrones: Season 2[]

Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister come inland to see three tavern wenches hanged from a tree. She plans to cut them down and bury them but is interrupted by three Stark soldiers. Tom is leading the trio and asks what they are doing there. Brienne tells them she is moving a prisoner, and they laugh at her because she is a woman. They question her further and Brienne says that she is taking him to Riverrun, and the Stark soldiers let them leave. Tom asks her what she thinks of the wenches they hanged. Brienne tells him she hopes they were given quick deaths and Tom says two of them did, implying that they made the last suffer. Tom's friend recognizes Jaime and says that he's the Kingslayer. Brienne denies it, and then Tom orders them to say his name simultaneously on the count of three. Brienne pushes Jaime away, and kills Tom's friends. She then gives Tom a slow death.[1]

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, there's no Stark soldier named Tom. Brienne, Jaime, and Cleos Frey do not run into any Stark soldiers after they escape from Riverrun. They do see the women hanging in the tree with the same sign, who were hanged for "laying with lions" close to the lands of House Bracken, which had previously been occupied by Lannister forces led by Ser Gregor Clegane. Brienne pulls the boat over, climbs the tree, and begins to cut the bodies down. However, when she gets high enough she sees the mast of the boat from Riverrun that is pursuing them, so they leave the women unburied.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 10: "Valar Morghulis" (2012).

Notes[]

  1. In "Winter Is Coming," which takes place in 298 AC, Sansa Stark tells Cersei Lannister that she is 13 years old and Bran Stark tells Jaime Lannister that he is 10 years old. Arya Stark was born between Sansa and Bran, making her either 11 or 12 in Season 1. The rest of the Stark children have been aged up by 2 years from their book ages, so it can be assumed that she is 11 in Season 1. Arya is 18 in Season 8 according to HBO, which means at least 7 years occur in the span of the series; therefore, each season of Game of Thrones must roughly correspond to a year in-universe, placing the events of Season 2 in 299 AC.
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