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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 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 do something nice for his little brother, and Tysha was actually a prostitute. |
+ | 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 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 rape Tysha whilst Tyrion was forced to watch. She was then sent on her way.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref> |
Since this incident, Tyrion has disdained love and romance in favor of liaisons with prostitutes for money. |
Since this incident, Tyrion has disdained love and romance in favor of liaisons with prostitutes for money. |
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Revision as of 18:18, 21 March 2013
- Tyrion Lannister: "By the end, she had so much silver that the coins were slipping from her fingers and rolling onto the floor."
- Bronn: "I would have killed the man that did that to me."
- — Tyrion explains what his father Tywin did to his first wife.[src]
Tysha is an unseen character in Game of Thrones. She has been mentioned by Tyrion Lannister as his former wife.
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 and briefly, they lived as husband and wife for two weeks, until Tyrions father Lord Tywin learned what had happened from the septon. 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 rape Tysha whilst Tyrion was forced to watch. She was then sent on her way.[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, Tyrion Lannister recounts to Bronn and Shae the story of his marriage to Tysha.[2]
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.
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
- Tysha at A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books).