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'''Tysha''' is an unseen character in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. She has been mentioned by [[Tyrion Lannister]] as his former wife.
 
'''Tysha''' is an unseen character in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. She has been mentioned by [[Tyrion Lannister]] as his former wife.
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Her name is pronounced "Tie-shuh", not "Tish-uh".
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
===Background===
 
===Background===
When [[Tyrion Lannister]] was sixteen years old, he met an orphaned wheelwright's daughter on the road, apparently the victim of an attempted rape. While his brother [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] rode off after the attackers, Tyrion helped Tysha recover from the ordeal, and they became lovers. They found a drunk [[septon]] willing to marry them and briefly, they lived as husband and wife for two weeks, until Tyrions father Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] learned what had happened from the septon. Jaime confessed that he organized the incident to make his brother happy, and Tysha was actually a prostitute. In a fury, Tywin had his guards rape Tysha whilst he made Tyrion watch. She was then sent on her way.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref>
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When [[Tyrion Lannister]] was sixteen years old, he met an orphaned wheelwright's daughter on the road, apparently the victim of an attempted rape. While his brother, [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], rode off after the attackers, Tyrion helped Tysha recover from the ordeal, and they became lovers. They found a drunk [[septon]] willing to marry them in exchange for a bribe and briefly, they lived as husband and wife for two weeks, until Tyrion's father Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] learned what had happened when the septon told him after he had sobered up. Jaime confessed that he organized the incident to do something nice for his little brother, and Tysha was actually a prostitute. Jaime thought it was time that Tyrion had sex with a girl, and paid Tysha and the would-be rapers to pretend it was real so Tyrion would think a girl genuinely wanted to have sex with him without having to pay for it. However, Jaime did not anticipate that Tyrion would marry the girl, nor what their father's reaction would be to that. In a fury that his son would dare to marry a [[smallfolk|commoner]], Tywin had his guards gang-rape Tysha whilst Tyrion was forced to watch. Tywin sarcastically had the guards pay Tysha by dropping a silver coin in her hand for each man who took her. By the end, there were so many silver coins that the pile was slipping out of her hand and coins were rolling along the floor. She was then sent on her way, and Tyrion never heard of her again.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref>
   
Since this incident, Tyrion has disdained love and romance in favor of liaisons with prostitutes for money.
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Since this incident, Tyrion has disdained love and romance in favor of liaisons with [[Prostitution|prostitutes]] for money.
   
 
===[[Season 1]]===
 
===[[Season 1]]===
At the Lannister battle camp, [[Tyrion Lannister]] recounts to [[Bronn]] and [[Shae]] the story of his marriage to Tysha.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref>
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At the Lannister battle camp, prior to the [[Battle of the Green Fork]], [[Tyrion Lannister]] is playing a drinking game with [[Bronn]] and [[Shae]], when Bronn mentions that he overheard while playing dice with some Lannister guardsmen that Tyrion was married once. Tyrion then explains the story of his marriage to Tysha.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref>
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===[[Season 2]]===
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Prior to the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], Tyrion's sister [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] intends to take petty revenge on Tyrion, by capturing the new whore that he has fallen in love with and taken to [[King's Landing]] with him. For a moment Tyrion thinks that she has captured his lover [[Shae]], though it is quickly revealed that she captured the wrong whore, mistaking that [[Ros]] was his lover. She Cersei gloats to Tyrion, she references the past incident with Tysha by quipping, "I have your little whore...tell me, have you married this one yet? No? Good. Father will be so pleased."<ref>"[[The Prince of Winterfell]]"</ref>
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===[[Season 3]]===
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Tywin forced Tyrion into an arranged marriage with the young [[Sansa Stark]], remarking that it is past time that Tyrion was married. Tyrion angrily snaps back that he ''was'' married once, unless Tywin has forgotten. Tywin coldly says that he has not.<ref>"[[Kissed by Fire]]"</ref>
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Later, when Tyrion is commiserating about his situation with [[Bronn]], the sellsword advises him that it is not the worst situation. Tyrion says that [[Shae]] - a whore who became his lover and secretly brought to the capital - will not be happy about his marriage to Sansa. Bronn prods Tyrion with questions, sarcastically asking if he ever intended to actually marry a whore such as Shae. Bronn quips, "how did marrying a whore work out for you the first time?" Annoyed, Tyrion laments, "I should never have told you about that".<ref>"[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair (episode)|The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]"</ref>
   
 
==In the books==
 
==In the books==
In the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels, Tyrion recounts the story in a very similar manner to the series. He does not tell the story to [[Bronn]] and [[Shae]] together, but to each of them separately on two different occasions. However, in the series he omits the detail that he was forced to join in the rape on pain of his father's wrath to complete his own humiliation.
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In the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels, Tysha is the orphaned daughter of crofter, not a wheelwright's daughter. Tyrion recounts the story in a very similar manner to the series. He does not tell the story to [[Bronn]] and [[Shae]] together, but to each of them separately on two different occasions. However, in the series he omits the detail that he was forced to join in the gang rape on pain of his father's wrath to complete his own humiliation. It is also implied he couldn't avoid becoming a aroused. Tyrion does not mention Tysha's name when telling the story, only when he muses about her.
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On the night of Tyrion and [[Sansa]]'s wedding, he tells her briefly about his first marriage to Tysha, omitting what led to that marriage and what happened afterwards, only that was a very short marriage. He bitterly refers to Tysha as "Lady Tysha of House Silverfist. Their arms have one gold coin and a hundred silver, upon a bloody sheet".
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A slight difference is that, due to some characters being aged-up in the TV series, Tyrion was 13 years old when he encountered Tysha in the books, but in the TV series he states that he was 16 years old.
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Tyrion's backstory with Tysha was prominently explained in Season 1, and referred to several times in Seasons 2 and 3 (though not by name again). For unknown reasons, no mention of Tysha was made in Season 4, particularly in the climactic events which led to Tyrion killing his own father.
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In the books, as Jaime is helping Tyrion escape from the dungeons of the Red Keep, fearing he will never see Tyrion again and overcome by guilt, he finally reveals to him the truth: Tysha was not really a whore, and the entire incident with the rapers was entirely true. After Tywin found out that Tyrion had married a commoner he was furious - in part because Tywin's own father [[Tytos Lannister]], after Tywin's mother died, took a live-in mistress who was a commoner. Tytos treated the woman as Lady of Casterly Rock in all but name, gave her Tywin's mother's jewelry, and Tywin came to think of her as only a step above a common whore. When Tywin learned that Tyrion married a commoner, his reasoning was that no one could ever love Tyrion, and Tysha must only be after his wealth - just as Tytos's mistress was after his wealth - and because she was presumably only having sex with him for money, that essentially made her a "whore". In truth, she truly was just an innocent crofter's daughter who was attacked by rapers, but saved by Tyrion and Jaime on the road.
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Tywin threatened and forced Jaime to tell Tyrion that it was all an act he set up, just to show Tyrion a good time with his first woman. Apparently Tywin did this so Tyrion would never go looking after the girl, but possibly also the basic cruelty of robbing Tyrion of even the memory of her love by convincing him that it wasn't real. Jaime, however, thought his father simply wanted to annul the marriage, and had no idea what his father was planning to do. Simply annulling the marriage may have been cruel but it would have been within Tywin's rights as Tyrion's father, given that as the son of a noble family he could use Tyrion to create a marriage-alliance with another noble family at some point in the future (Tyrion would not have been the first young lord who drunkenly eloped then had the union annulled).
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Tywin, however, fueled by anger at the memory of his own father, decided that he needed to teach Tyrion a lesson, also about daring to go behind his back like this. Thus when Tywin gave Tysha to his guards she ''truly loved'' Tyrion, and because their marriage was mutually consensual, in the sight of the gods she was in fact his wife (even if his father had it annulled).
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When Tyrion learns what really happened after so many years, bearing in mind how Tysha was gang-raped by the guards and by himself at Tywin's command, he is filled with deep rage. Jaime assures him he had no idea their father intended to have Tysha gang-raped, but Tyrion is not appeased. He furiously beats Jaime and vows to exact revenge against him, Cersei and their father: "Oh, you've earned more than that, Jaime. You and my sweet sister and our loving father, yes, I can't begin to tell you what you've earned. But you'll have it, that I swear to you. A Lannister always pays his debts". Then he sets out to find Tywin. Arguably he might not have wanted to actually kill his father, but he wanted to interrogate him about where Tysha was.
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After killing Shae, Tyrion takes a crossbow and catches Tywin on his privy. At first, Tywin cannot even remember who Tysha is - or claims he doesn't, as an insult. After more threats from Tyrion he thinks on it, and says she was his first whore - to which Tyrion says that the next time Tywin says the word "whore" he will kill him. Tywin calmly insists that he never killed Tysha: after Tyrion's "lesson" was done there was nothing more to do with the girl, so he simply sent her on her way.
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Tyrion asks again, if he let her go, where is Tysha? Tywin, thinking Tyrion doesn't have the nerve to resist him, mocks his earlier threat by responding, "''Wherever whores go.''" -- at which Tyrion promptly shoots him. Tyrion only shoots Tywin with one crossbow bolt: it impales him through the pelvis, rupturing his intestines, and shit begins pouring out of the wound. With his dying breath Tywin says that Tyrion is no son of his, to which Tyrion counters that he is; he is Tywin "writ small". Tywin dies in agony, then voids his bowels (through the regular end) as he dies. Tyrion walks away noting that Tywin Lannister, in the end, did not shit gold.
   
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So far in the novels, it is unknown what has become of Tysha, and whether she is still alive.
In the books, Tysha is orphaned daughter of crofter, not wheelwright's daughter, and Tyrion was thirteen when he met her. A "crofter" is a kind of poor tenant farmer: the TV series may have changed his profession to wheelwright because a general audience might not know what a crofter is.
 
   
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
* [http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tysha Tysha at A Wiki of Ice and Fire] (spoilers from the books).
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*{{AWOIAF}} (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
   
 
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"By the end, she had so much silver that the coins were slipping from her fingers and rolling onto the floor."
Tyrion Lannister.[src]

Tysha is an unseen character in Game of Thrones. She has been mentioned by Tyrion Lannister as his former wife.

Her name is pronounced "Tie-shuh", not "Tish-uh".

Biography

Background

When Tyrion Lannister was sixteen years old, he met an orphaned wheelwright's daughter on the road, apparently the victim of an attempted rape. While his brother, Jaime, rode off after the attackers, Tyrion helped Tysha recover from the ordeal, and they became lovers. They found a drunk septon willing to marry them in exchange for a bribe and briefly, they lived as husband and wife for two weeks, until Tyrion's father Lord Tywin learned what had happened when the septon told him after he had sobered up. Jaime confessed that he organized the incident to do something nice for his little brother, and Tysha was actually a prostitute. Jaime thought it was time that Tyrion had sex with a girl, and paid Tysha and the would-be rapers to pretend it was real so Tyrion would think a girl genuinely wanted to have sex with him without having to pay for it. However, Jaime did not anticipate that Tyrion would marry the girl, nor what their father's reaction would be to that. In a fury that his son would dare to marry a commoner, Tywin had his guards gang-rape Tysha whilst Tyrion was forced to watch. Tywin sarcastically had the guards pay Tysha by dropping a silver coin in her hand for each man who took her. By the end, there were so many silver coins that the pile was slipping out of her hand and coins were rolling along the floor. She was then sent on her way, and Tyrion never heard of her again.[1]

Since this incident, Tyrion has disdained love and romance in favor of liaisons with prostitutes for money.

Season 1

At the Lannister battle camp, prior to the Battle of the Green Fork, Tyrion Lannister is playing a drinking game with Bronn and Shae, when Bronn mentions that he overheard while playing dice with some Lannister guardsmen that Tyrion was married once. Tyrion then explains the story of his marriage to Tysha.[2]

Season 2

Prior to the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion's sister Cersei intends to take petty revenge on Tyrion, by capturing the new whore that he has fallen in love with and taken to King's Landing with him. For a moment Tyrion thinks that she has captured his lover Shae, though it is quickly revealed that she captured the wrong whore, mistaking that Ros was his lover. She Cersei gloats to Tyrion, she references the past incident with Tysha by quipping, "I have your little whore...tell me, have you married this one yet? No? Good. Father will be so pleased."[3]

Season 3

Tywin forced Tyrion into an arranged marriage with the young Sansa Stark, remarking that it is past time that Tyrion was married. Tyrion angrily snaps back that he was married once, unless Tywin has forgotten. Tywin coldly says that he has not.[4]

Later, when Tyrion is commiserating about his situation with Bronn, the sellsword advises him that it is not the worst situation. Tyrion says that Shae - a whore who became his lover and secretly brought to the capital - will not be happy about his marriage to Sansa. Bronn prods Tyrion with questions, sarcastically asking if he ever intended to actually marry a whore such as Shae. Bronn quips, "how did marrying a whore work out for you the first time?" Annoyed, Tyrion laments, "I should never have told you about that".[5]

In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Tysha is the orphaned daughter of crofter, not a wheelwright's daughter. Tyrion recounts the story in a very similar manner to the series. He does not tell the story to Bronn and Shae together, but to each of them separately on two different occasions. However, in the series he omits the detail that he was forced to join in the gang rape on pain of his father's wrath to complete his own humiliation. It is also implied he couldn't avoid becoming a aroused. Tyrion does not mention Tysha's name when telling the story, only when he muses about her.

On the night of Tyrion and Sansa's wedding, he tells her briefly about his first marriage to Tysha, omitting what led to that marriage and what happened afterwards, only that was a very short marriage. He bitterly refers to Tysha as "Lady Tysha of House Silverfist. Their arms have one gold coin and a hundred silver, upon a bloody sheet".

A slight difference is that, due to some characters being aged-up in the TV series, Tyrion was 13 years old when he encountered Tysha in the books, but in the TV series he states that he was 16 years old.

Tyrion's backstory with Tysha was prominently explained in Season 1, and referred to several times in Seasons 2 and 3 (though not by name again). For unknown reasons, no mention of Tysha was made in Season 4, particularly in the climactic events which led to Tyrion killing his own father.

In the books, as Jaime is helping Tyrion escape from the dungeons of the Red Keep, fearing he will never see Tyrion again and overcome by guilt, he finally reveals to him the truth: Tysha was not really a whore, and the entire incident with the rapers was entirely true. After Tywin found out that Tyrion had married a commoner he was furious - in part because Tywin's own father Tytos Lannister, after Tywin's mother died, took a live-in mistress who was a commoner. Tytos treated the woman as Lady of Casterly Rock in all but name, gave her Tywin's mother's jewelry, and Tywin came to think of her as only a step above a common whore. When Tywin learned that Tyrion married a commoner, his reasoning was that no one could ever love Tyrion, and Tysha must only be after his wealth - just as Tytos's mistress was after his wealth - and because she was presumably only having sex with him for money, that essentially made her a "whore". In truth, she truly was just an innocent crofter's daughter who was attacked by rapers, but saved by Tyrion and Jaime on the road.

Tywin threatened and forced Jaime to tell Tyrion that it was all an act he set up, just to show Tyrion a good time with his first woman. Apparently Tywin did this so Tyrion would never go looking after the girl, but possibly also the basic cruelty of robbing Tyrion of even the memory of her love by convincing him that it wasn't real. Jaime, however, thought his father simply wanted to annul the marriage, and had no idea what his father was planning to do. Simply annulling the marriage may have been cruel but it would have been within Tywin's rights as Tyrion's father, given that as the son of a noble family he could use Tyrion to create a marriage-alliance with another noble family at some point in the future (Tyrion would not have been the first young lord who drunkenly eloped then had the union annulled).

Tywin, however, fueled by anger at the memory of his own father, decided that he needed to teach Tyrion a lesson, also about daring to go behind his back like this. Thus when Tywin gave Tysha to his guards she truly loved Tyrion, and because their marriage was mutually consensual, in the sight of the gods she was in fact his wife (even if his father had it annulled).

When Tyrion learns what really happened after so many years, bearing in mind how Tysha was gang-raped by the guards and by himself at Tywin's command, he is filled with deep rage. Jaime assures him he had no idea their father intended to have Tysha gang-raped, but Tyrion is not appeased. He furiously beats Jaime and vows to exact revenge against him, Cersei and their father: "Oh, you've earned more than that, Jaime. You and my sweet sister and our loving father, yes, I can't begin to tell you what you've earned. But you'll have it, that I swear to you. A Lannister always pays his debts". Then he sets out to find Tywin. Arguably he might not have wanted to actually kill his father, but he wanted to interrogate him about where Tysha was.

After killing Shae, Tyrion takes a crossbow and catches Tywin on his privy. At first, Tywin cannot even remember who Tysha is - or claims he doesn't, as an insult. After more threats from Tyrion he thinks on it, and says she was his first whore - to which Tyrion says that the next time Tywin says the word "whore" he will kill him. Tywin calmly insists that he never killed Tysha: after Tyrion's "lesson" was done there was nothing more to do with the girl, so he simply sent her on her way.

Tyrion asks again, if he let her go, where is Tysha? Tywin, thinking Tyrion doesn't have the nerve to resist him, mocks his earlier threat by responding, "Wherever whores go." -- at which Tyrion promptly shoots him. Tyrion only shoots Tywin with one crossbow bolt: it impales him through the pelvis, rupturing his intestines, and shit begins pouring out of the wound. With his dying breath Tywin says that Tyrion is no son of his, to which Tyrion counters that he is; he is Tywin "writ small". Tywin dies in agony, then voids his bowels (through the regular end) as he dies. Tyrion walks away noting that Tywin Lannister, in the end, did not shit gold.

So far in the novels, it is unknown what has become of Tysha, and whether she is still alive.

See also

References