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• HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS
• IS LORAS TYRELL GAY?
• OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
• WHO IS FN JON OM “GAME OF THRON” AS CHARACTER LORAS TYRELL? IS HE GAY? HIS WIKI: NET WORTH, PARENTS, AFFAIR, SGLE, GIRLIEND
• HOE TYRELL"GROWG STRONG.""WHAT IS ? 12 000 FANTRYMEN THE TYRELL FAY HAS SUPPLIED? 1 800 MOUNTED LANCERS, 2 000 SUPPORT? PROVISNS, SO THIS CY MIGHT SURVIVE THE WTER? A LN BHELS OF WHEAT; HALF A LN BHELS EACH OF BARLEY, OATS, AND RYE; 20 000 HEAD OF TTLE; 50 000 SHEEP. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LECTURE ME ABOUT WARTIME EXPENS. I'M QUE FAIAR WH THEM."— LADY OLENNA TYRELLTHE GREAT HOE OF THE REACH, WHICH IS THE MOST POPULO AND MOST FERTILE OF THE SEVEN KGDOMS; NOT SURPRISGLY, THEY ARE THE RICHT FAY WTEROS AFTER THE LANNISTERS (EVENTUALLY THE -FACTO RICHT, THOUGH THIS DO NOT BEE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE). ITS LORD HOLDS THE TLE OF WARN OF THE SOUTH OM THEIR SEAT AT HIGHGARN. THE REACH IS ALSO HOME TO: OLDTOWN, THE OLST CY WTEROS, HOME TO THE MATERS OF THE CAL AND THE STARRY SEPT WHICH WAS ONCE THE CENTRAL THEDRAL OF THE FAH OF THE SEVEN; AND THE ARBOR, AN ISLAND OFF THE "HEEL" OF THE NTENT, WHICH IS LED BY HOE REDWYNE AND HOSTS THE BT VEYARDS THE KGDOM, AS WELL AS A POWERFUL NAVY WH WHICH TO FEND OFF THE IRONBORN.    OPEN/CLOSE ALL FOLRS      IN GENERAL  ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: THE TYRELLS ON THE SERI ARE PORTRAYED A MUCH MORE POSIVE MANNER THAN THE NOVELS. SEE MACE, OLENNA, MARGAERY, AND LORAS'S ENTRI FOR SPECIFIC CHANG TO THEIR CHARACTERS. IN A CLASH OF KGS, THE FAY WAS DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THE FOOD SHORTAGE KG'S LANDG BY CLOSG OFF TRA WHILE THEY SUPPORT RENLY BARATHEON, BUT THE SHOW, TYRN SQUARELY PUTS THE BLAME ON JOFEY'S EPT LE DURG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS FOR THE FAME. THEIR STAED, BTER ARCH-RIVALRY WH THE MARTELLS IS ALSO REMOVED THE SHOW, RECEIVG ONLY SMALL, HISTORIL MENTNS THE EXTRAS. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: THE BED FIELD ARMI OF HOE LANNISTER AND HOE TARLY LAY SIEGE AND TAKE OVER HOE TYRELL A MATTER OF HOURS, WH OLENNA LAMENTG AND THE SHOWNNERS NFIRMG THAT HOE TYRELL DON'T HAVE A HISTORY OF MARTIAL PROWS AND AMBN. NOT ONLY IS THIS NOT TE OF THE TYRELLS THE PRENT DAY THE BOOKS (SUCH AS LORAS TYRELL, GARLAN TYRELL AND THE UNSEEN WILLAS TYRELL) BUT ISN'T TE OF THE TYRELLS HISTORILLY, NEHER THEIR STEWARD BRANCH NOR THEIR GARNER FORBEARS, WHO WERE FIERCE WARRRS, KNIGHTS AND HORSEMEN WHO FOUGHT HARD AGAST THE KGS OF THE ROCK, THE STORMLANDS AND PECIALLY THE DORNISH. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: LORAS AND MARGAERY OM THE NOVELS HAVE BROWN IRIS, BUT THEIR TV UNTERPARTS ARE BLUE-EYED. MOREOVER, THE FORT GREEN OF THE TYRELLS' CLOTHG HAS BEEN REPLACED WH TEAL ON THE SHOW. THE TEAL LOUR GIV THE CHARACTERS A SOFTER, GENTLER LOOK ONSCREEN, EMPHASIZG THE "SILK" PART OF THE FAY'S SILK HIDG STEEL PHILOSOPHY. MICHELE CLAPTON ELABORAT ON THIS CHROMATIC CHANGE THE MARCH 28, 2014 ISSUE OF ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY."USUALLY I WOULD E THE SIGIL LOURS AS A BASE PALETTE," SHE SAYS (WHICH FOR A TYRELL WOULD MEAN GOLD AND GREEN). BUT CLAPTON WAS REFUL NOT TO GIVE AWAY THE FAY'S MOTIV. "TO BE TOO OVERT WOULD HAVE SHOWN THEIR HAND." THE ONE MAJOR EXCEPTN THE FIRST THREE SEASONS IS LORAS'S GREEN-AND-GOLD SPARRG OUTF◊ "KISSED BY FIRE." AS HE IS SIMPLY PRACTICG HIS SWORDPLAY, THERE ISN'T A NEED FOR HIM TO DISGUISE THE FACT THAT HE IS A FORMIDABLE TYRELL WARRR. THIS LIBERATE CHANGE BY THE TYRELLS ENDUR UNTIL "OATHKEEPER", WHERE THE TORSO SECTN OF MARGAERY'S DRS IS LREL GREEN, WHILE THE SKIRT PART IS DARK GREEN (AND SHE VERS HER SHOULRS AND ARMS WH A BLACK SHAWL TO PAY HER RPECTS TO THE CEASED JOFEY). LORAS IS LATER SEEN MOURNG ATTIRE WH DARK GREEN SLEEV (ALTHOUGH HIS TUNIC IS DARK GREY) "FIRST OF HIS NAME." MACE HAS A PALE GREEN TUNIC WH PALE GOLD SLEEV "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". ADAPTATN RELATNSHIP OVERHL: TOMMEN IS AGED-UP AND HAS A ROMANTIC/SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH MARGAERY, WHILE HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD AND SE HER MORE AS A COOL BIG SIS. ADDNALLY, LORAS'S ROLE AS TOMMEN'S BIG BROTHER MENTOR IS NOT RRIED OVER OM THE BOOKS. AS PART OF THEIR ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY TREATMENT, THE TYRELLS HAVE A MUCH CLOSER AND WARMER RELATNSHIP WH SANSA DURG HER STAY KG'S LANDG. MARGAERY REMAS SANSA'S IEND AFTER HER FORCED MARRIAGE TO TYRN, WHILE BOOK!MARGAERY GAVE HER THE LD SHOULR. IN THE BOOKS LORAS IS PRETTY ALOOF TOWARD SANSA, WHILE THE SHOW HE GENUELY WANTS TO BE A GOOD HBAND TO HER SPE BEG GAY. ALSO, BOOK!OLENNA IS MUCH MORE TIC TOWARD HER AND MAK CLEAR THAT SHE THKS SANSA IS AN IDT, BUT SHOW!OLENNA SHOWS SYMPATHY FOR THE AWFUL THGS SANSA HAS HAD TO ENDURE. AS A SI EFFECT OF MACE TYRELL BEG AN ADAPTATNAL WIMP, HIS MOTHER OLENNA HAS MUCH MORE NTROL OVER HIM THE SHOW THAN THE BOOKS, WHERE SHE PLAS THAT HE NEVER LISTENS TO HER. ADAPTED OUT: THERE WERE THREE TYRELL SONS THE BOOKS; WILLAS AND GARLAN'S ROL HAVE BEEN LEGATED TO EHER LORAS OR MARGAERY. AMBN IS EVIL: DOWNPLAYED. THE TYRELLS ARE VERY MUCH AIMG TO CREASE THEIR POWER OVER WTEROS, AND ENGAGE SOME SHADY AND DUB SCHEM TO GET . BUT -UNIVERSE, THE POPULACE ADOR THEM BEE THEY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO APPEAR AS NOBLE AND HONORABLE FIGUR, AND SCE THEIR MA OPPONENTS THE GAME OF THRON ARE THE LANNISTERS, BY PARISON ALONE THEY ARE MORE HEROIC. ANIMAL MOTIFS: AVERTED, NTRAST TO EVERY OTHER GREAT HOE EXCEPT THE MARTELLS. THE TYRELL SIGIL IS A GOLN ROSE. BADASS BOAST: SUBVERTED. WHILE MOST OTHER NOBLE HO HAVE THE AS THEIR HOE MOTTO, THE TYRELLS HAVE "GROWG STRONG" AS THEIR WORDS, REFERRG TO THEIR BOUNTIFUL LANDS AND LARGE POPULACE. PLAYED STRAIGHTER WHEN ONE APPLI TO THEIR ACTNS OVER THE URSE OF THE SHOW, RISG TO EQUAL THE LANNISTERS AS THE TWO MOST POWERFUL FAI WTEROS, AND WH THE REVELATN THAT THE LANNISTERS ARE ALMOST BANKPT, THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO SURPASSG THEM. AT LEAST UNTIL THE SEASON 6 FALE. THE BETIFUL ELE: THE TYRELLS, THE HIGH LORDS OF THE REACH AND SOME OF THE RICHT PEOPLE WTEROS, ARE ALL VERY BETIFUL. THE YOUNGT GENERATN, MOST PECIALLY LORAS AND MARGAERY, ARE NSIRED EXCEPTNALLY ATTRACTIVE. HELL, EVEN THEIR SERVANTS ARE QUE PRETTY, WHICH IMPLI THE TYRELLS ARE EXPLICLY PHG FOR THIS IMAGE. BETY EQUALS GOODNS: THE TYRELLS CULTIVATE THIS IMAGE AS PART OF THEIR PR MPAIGN KG'S LANDG THROUGHOUT SEASON 3. IT'S NOTABLE THAT THEIR YOUNGT AND MOST ATTRACTIVE FAY MEMBERS ARE ALSO SHOWN TO BE THE MOST MORAL. BIG, SCREWED-UP FAY: LIKE THE STARKS, AN AVERSN. OLENNA, LORAS AND MARGAERY NEVER EXPRS ANYTHG BUT RE FOR EACH OTHER SPE THE FAY'S AMBN. OLENNA AND MARGAERY ARE ALSO THE MOST ACCEPTG CHARACTERS OF LORAS'S SEXUALY BIS RENLY. MACE IS ALSO LOVED BY HIS FAY, EVEN IF HE'S NOT SHOWN MUCH RPECT. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: WHAT'S HOE LANNISTER WH CLEAN PR. LOOK NO FURTHER THAN HOE TYRELL, ALL PRETENS OF RG ABOUT THE POOR ARE A SHAM, BEE THE MOMENT A TYRELL MEMBER GETS PTURED BY THE FAH MILANT THEY TRY AND GET THEM EED AS IF TYRELLS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SMALLFOLK. NOT TO MENTN THEIR WILLGNS TO BACK A PSYCHOPATHIC KG IF MEANS MARGAREY N BEE QUEEN. BREAD AND CIRC: HOE TYRELL'S POLIL PHILOSOPHY A NUTSHELL. THE REACH, THE DOMA OF THE TYRELLS, IS THE CHIEF FOOD-PROVIDG REGN OF WTEROS, AND IS ALSO THE CENTER OF CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE (THE CIRC, AS WERE). MARGAERY WS OVER THE SMALLFOLK OF KG'S LANDG BY PERSONALLY MEETG WAR ORPHANS, AND AS JAIME LANNISTER ATTTS, THE PEOPLE KNOW FULLY WELL THAT IS SHE (AND NOT JOFEY) WHO FEEDS THEM. WHEN TYRN RAIS DOUBTS ABOUT THE EXPENS OF THE ROYAL WEDDG DURG WARTIME, OLENNA POTS OUT THAT PEOPLE NEED BOTH FOOD AND "DISTRACTNS," OTHERWISE THEY WILL GET RTLS AND ANGRY. BREAK THE HGHTY: HOE TYRELL IS PUT DIRE STRAS WHEN CERSEI RAIS THE FAH MILANT AS A WEAPON AGAST THEM. LORAS IS ARRTED FOR HIS HOMOSEXUALY, AND DURG THE HOLY QUIRY MARGAERY LI TO PROTECT HIM. UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN A SURPRISE WNS S THEIR FENSE, MARGAERY IS CHARGED WH PERJURY AND BOTH SIBLGS ARE LEFT TO ROT THE DUNGEONS BENEATH BAELOR'S SEPT UNTIL THEIR TRIALS. OLENNA RAC BACK TO KG'S LANDG SPERATE TO EE HER GRANDCHILDREN, BUT THE FAH N'T BE MOVED BY HER THREATS AND SHE'S FORCED TO TEAM UP WH LTLEFGER. THEN SEASON 6 ALONG AND THE GREEN TRIAL TAK PLACE AND THEY ARE ALL BUT ED. THE ONLY REMAG TYRELL IS LADY OLENNA (THE QUEEN OF THORNS) AND THE MOST SHE N HOPE FOR NOW IS VENGEANCE AGAST CERSEI DUE TO THE LOSS OF ALL HER HEIRS. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: DUE TO BEG SOMEWHAT PERIPHERAL THE BOOKS, THE SHOW'S WRERS NSTCTED A GREAT AL OF HOE TYRELL'S LLECTIVE CHARACTER WHOLE-CLOTH. THAT WHICH ISN'T VENTED IS UALLY EXAGGERATED OM THE SOURCE MATERIAL. SEE MACE AND MARGERY'S ENTRI FOR TAIL ON THEM. THE FAY'S WOMEN ARE WISER ASPECTS ARE PLAYED UP ON ACUNT OF THE TWO MOST PETENT TYRELL SONS (WILLAS AND GARLAN) BEG ADAPTED OUT, LORAS'S CHARACTER ARC STALLG SEASONS 3 AND 4, AND MACE'S FECKLSNS BEG EXAGGERATED OM A BLTERG BUT TENAC MAN TO AN EFFECTUAL AND SYPHANTIC MOMMA'S BOY. THEY ARE SCRIBED BY WORD OF GOD AS A "SECRET MATRIARCHY". VOKED THEIR GOOD SAMARAN QUALI ARE PLAYED MUCH STRAIGHTER OR EXAGGERATED. IN THE BOOKS, THEY ARE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR STARVG THE POPULATN OF KG'S LANDG, AND WHILE MACE, MARGAERY, AND OLENNA HAVE MOMENTS OF BEG PERSONABLE, ON THE WHOLE, THEY E OFF AS SLIMIER. THEIR QUT TO OBTA UNIVERSAL POPULARY ALSO MEANS THEY ABANDON ANYONE WHO ULD EVER POSSIBLY BE A LIABILY TO THEM. CHIVALRIC ROMANCE: THE TYRELLS AND OTHER HO OF THE REACH PUT A LOT OF EFFORT TO MAKG THE REACH AT LEAST SEEM LIKE THE STEREOTYPIL CHIVALRIC ROMANCE SETTG. CHIVALRY IS VERY SER BS THE REACH, AND CATELYN EVEN LLS S SOLDIERS "THE KNIGHTS OF SUMMER." HIGHGARN IS REPUTED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL CI ON THE NTENT, PROVIDG LEISURELY ENTERTAMENT SUCH AS A GRAND MASQUERA BALL ON THE NIGHT OF THE HARVT MOON AND PLEASURE BARG ON THE RIVER MANR. LORAS AND MARGAERY WORK VERY HARD ON THEIR RPECTIVE KNIGHT SHG ARMOR AND PRCS CLASSIC/THE HIGH QUEEN PERSONA, AND THEY WERE ONCE A THREE-WAY MARRIAGE TO RENLY BARATHEON, WHO SAW HIMSELF AS THE GOOD KG. ENEMY ME: THE TYRELLS AND MARTELLS BOTH FOUGHT ON THE TARGARYEN SI ROBERT'S REBELLN, THOUGH AS THE MARTELLS WOULD POT OUT, POLICS IS KNOWN TO MAKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. AFTER CERSEI LANNISTER KILLS THE MAJORY OF HOE TYRELL, OLENNA SPERATELY ALLI WH THE MARTELLS (OBERYN'S PARAMOUR ELLARIA AND BASTARD DGHTERS, THAT IS) AND BOTH HO REJO THE TARGARYENS AGA UNR DAENERYS. EVERYBODY'S DEAD, DAVE: IN THE SEASON 6 FALE, MARGAERY, LORAS, AND MACE DIE WHEN CERSEI BLOWS UP THE SEPT WH THEM . ONLY OLENNA WAS LEFT ALIVE, BUT SCE OLENNA IS A REDWYNE BY BIRTH, THE TYRELL BLOODLE IS EXTCT. WH HER ATH, THE HOE IS EFFECTIVELY EXTCT. IN THE BOOKS, THERE ARE NUMERO MOR TYRELL S (THROUGH MACE'S TWO SISTERS, AND OLD LORD LUTHOR'S YOUNGER BROTHERS). SOME OF THE FEMALE S SERVE AS MARGAERY'S HANDMAINS. EVEN THE TV SERI BRIEFLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT OTHER TYRELL S EXIST SEASON 3 — ONE OF THEM EVEN HAD A SPEAKG LE AND OUTRIGHT LLED OLENNA "NANA" (GRANDMOTHER). THE MA BRANCH OF THE FAY, HOWEVER, IS VERY CLEARLY AD BEYOND REVERY. AND 'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT ALL THE TYRELL S WERE KILLED THE SEPT OF BAELOR AND THE FALL OF HIGHGARN. IT'S NFIRMED BY JAIME THAT THEY WERE ALL MASSACRED AT HIGHGARN TWO EPISOS LATER. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: ACRDG TO OLENNA, THE TYRELLS AND THE REACH GENERAL DON'T SEE ANYTHG WRONG WH HOMOSEXUALY, BUT VIEW BROTHER–SISTER INCT AS ABOMABLE. RERCED BY THEIR LLECTIVE DISGT AT RENLY BEG PICTED AT THE PURPLE WEDDG AS A "VIANT" WHO RIS A GIRLY-LOOKG, CURLY-HAIRED MAN — PLALY MEANT TO REPRENT LORAS — STEAD OF A HORSE. NOT EVEN MARGAERY, WHO ALMOST NEVER LETS HER GENTEEL MASK SLIP, N HI HER DISPLEASURE. FANTASY COUNTERPART CULTURE: OF THE HOE OF TUDOR — THEIR SIGIL IS AN ALMOST EXACT REPLITN OF THE TUDOR ROSE. THE REACH AS A WHOLE IS MANY WAYS AN ANALOGUE OF SOUTHEAST ENGLAND AND FRANCE/AQUAE, TO THE POT OF BEG THE BIRTHPLACE OF WTEROSI CHIVALRIC CULTURE THE BOOKS. THEY ALSO SERVED AS STEWARDS TO THE PREV ROYAL FAY LIKE THE HOE OF STUART. FATAL FLAW: THEIR AMBN BED WH AN UNCLEAR LEARSHIP DOOMS THEM. LORD MACE TYRELL WANTS MARGAERY TO BE THE QUEEN AND SHE WILLGLY GO ALONG WH . AFTER RENLY BARATHEON IS KILLED, THEY FORM A NEW ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS. LADY OLENNA IS MOST CRIL OF THIS MOVE AND CHANG THE PLAN WHEN SHE DISVERS TOO LATE THAT JOFEY IS A MONSTER, SO SHE HAS HIM KILLED DURG HIS WEDDG WH MARGAERY. THIS SETS MOTN AN UNNTROLLABLE SPIRAL OF EVENTS (CLUDG THE MISE OF TYW, OLENNA'S ONLY REASONABLE UNTERPART) THAT ENDS UP EXTGUISHG THEIR HOE. FDG FAI: THE TYRELLS AND THE MARTELLS ARE THE TWO SOUTHERN-MOST PARAMOUNT HO OF THEIR RPECTIVE KGDOMS. THEY HAVE NUMERO BON OF NTENTN BETWEEN THEM, AS THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTG BORR SKIRMISH FOR CENTURI. A LONG AND BTER FD HAS EXISTED SCE THE TARGARYEN CONQUT BETWEEN HOE TYRELL AND THEIR VASSALS HOE FLORENT OF BRIGHTWATER KEEP, ARGUABLY EPER THAN THEIR DISLIKE OF THE MARTELLS. THIS IS EXPLAED MORE THE BOOKS, THOUGH MARGAERY SUMMARIZ THE SEASON 3 BLU-RAY ANIMATED FEATURETT. FROM THE EXTRAS...  THE REACH ED TO BE LED FOR CENTURI BY HOE GARNER, BUT THE LAST GARNER KG AND ALL OF HIS SONS WERE BURNED TO ATH BY THE TARGARYENS' DRAGONS THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE OF THE CONQUT. THE GARNERS DID LEAVE BEHD SEVERAL T BRANCH, SCEND OM YOUNGER GARNER SONS, AND THE FLORENTS WERE THE ONE WH THE CLOST BLOOD TI TO THE GARNERS. THE TYRELLS ONLY CLAIMED SCENT OM THE GARNERS THROUGH THE FEMALE LE, AND DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN LANDS: THEY WERE THE HEREDARY STEWARDS OF HIGHGARN FOR THEIR GARNER S. AFTER THE ATH OF THE LAST GARNER KG, HOWEVER, THE TYRELLS REALIZED ALL HOPE OF RISTANCE WAS LOST, AND VOLUNTARILY SURRENRED HIGHGARN TO AEGON TARGARYEN. AS A REWARD, THE TARGARYENS ELEVATED THE TYRELLS TO LERS OF HIGHGARN AND OVERLORDS OF THE REACH — SKIPPG OVER THE FLORENTS, WHO ACTUALLY HAD A STRONGER CLAIM. THE FLORENTS HAVE RID THE TYRELLS AS "UPJUMPED STEWARDS" EVER SCE. STANNIS BARATHEON'S WIFE WAS BORN SELYSE FLORENT: THE SHOW ONLY ALLUS TO THIS, BUT WHEN THE TYRELLS AND MOST OF THEIR VASSALS SID WH RENLY, THE FLORENTS SID WH STANNIS — AND NTUE TO MAKE UP THE BULK OF HIS FEW REMAG MEN AFTER THE TYRELLS SWCHED THE REACH OVER TO THE LANNISTER SI. SAMWELL TARLY'S MOTHER IS ALSO A FLORENT. FICTN500: THEY'RE THE SEND RICHT FAY WTEROS, NEXT TO THE LANNISTERS. ANALYSIS. BY SEASON 4, THE TYRELLS ARE THE FACTO RICHT HOE BEE THE LANNISTER WEALTH HAS WANED DURG THE WAR AND THEIR GOLD M ARE EXHSTED. FLOWER MOTIFS: THE ROSE IS THE FAY'S EMBLEM, BUT THEY ARE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WH FLOWERS GENERAL. FOIL: TO THE LANNISTERS. THE TYRELLS ARE JT AS AMB, WANTG TO LE WTEROS, BUT THEY PURSUE THEIR AMBNS A MOSTLY BLOODLS MANNER THAT EVEN BENEFS OTHER PEOPLE (WELL, UALLY), NTRAST TO THE LANNISTERS, WHO DON'T RE WHO THEY HAVE TO TRAMPLE OVER TO GET POWER FOR THEIR FAY. THE LANNISTERS ARE ALSO EXTREMELY DYSFUNCTNAL AND HATEFUL TOWARDS EACH OTHER, WHILE THE TYRELLS ARE A WELL-ADJTED AND CLOSE-KN BUNCH (AGA, UALLY). GUILE HERO: BOTH OLENNA AND MARGAERY ARE ONE OF THE MOST CUNNG THE SHOW AND GENERALLY ON THE SI OF THE MOST KD-HEARTED CHARACTERS, EVEN IF THEIR METHODS ARE SOMETIM DISTURBG. HAZY-FEEL TURN: THE TYRELLS JO WH THE LANNISTERS TO FEAT STANNIS BARATHEON AND KEEP KG JOFEY ON THE THRONE, BUT ALSO WORK ON WAYS TO UNRME THE LANNISTERS AND KILL JOFEY. I FIGHT FOR THE STRONGT SI!: ONE OF THEIR MAJOR HATS IS THAT THEY'LL SI WH WHOEVER THEY THK IS MOST LIKELY TO W, AND TURN FURTHER THEIR OWN TERTS, RATHER THAN MAKE AN IOLOGIL STAND. THE ENTIRE REASON THEY WERE MA LORDS OF HIGHGARN AND LERS OF THE REACH THE FIRST PLACE WAS BEE DURG THE TARGARYEN CONQUT, AFTER THE LAST KG OF HOE GARNER AND MOST OF THE REACH'S ARMY WERE BURNED TO ATH BY DRAGONS AT THE FIELD OF FIRE, THEY VOLUNTARILY SURRENRED HIGHGARN TO AEGON THE CONQUEROR (THE TYRELLS BEG HEREDARY STEWARDS OF THE STLE AT THE TIME). IN THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, THEY SID WH RENLY BEE VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE STORMLANDS HO CHOSE TO FIGHT FOR HIM STEAD OF HIS OLR BROTHER STANNIS (WHO ONLY END UP NTROLLG A FEW ISLANDS BLACKWATER BAY). AT THE SAME TIME THEY DIDN'T SI WH THE LANNISTERS, BEE ROBB STARK HAD JT SLGHTERED HALF OF THEIR ARMY, AND THE LANNISTERS SEEMED TO BE FACG A WAR ON TWO ONTS. AFTER RENLY DIED, HOWEVER, THEY SWCHED SIS TO THE LANNISTERS — SPE PERSONALLY LOATHG THEM — BEE THEY STILL HAD MORE ROURC THAN STANNIS'S UNED STORM LORDS, AND BEE STANNIS WOULD NEVER FIVE THEM FOR SIDG WH RENLY. THIS DON'T MEAN THEY'RE Y-MEN, THOUGH, AS THEY STILL WANT TO SUBSUME THE LANNISTERS OM WH. SOME WOULD LL THIS CHARACTER TRA CYNICISM, BUT OTHERS WOULD LL REALPOLIK. INFORMED FLAW: OLENNA TYRELL CLAIMS SEASON 7 AFTER JAIME SACKS HIGHGARN THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS A PAPER TIGER AND PHOVER A REGN WHERE TYW ULD HAVE EASILY ANNEXED THEM. LEAVG ASI THE LEGALY OF THAT, WHICH HASN'T BEEN TABLISHED THE "WEAK" FDALISM SYSTEM OF WTEROS, BUT THE HISTORI AND LORE NFIRM THAT THE TYRELLS WERE HEAVILY VOLVED DAERON I YOUNG DRAGON'S MPAIGNS DORNE, WHICH OLENNA REFERS TO ELLARIA AT THE END OF SEASON 6, AND THE SHOW SELF, THEY WERE THE CISIVE PLAYERS THE KGMAKER SCENAR OF SEASON 2, BACKG FIRST RENLY AND THEN TURNG THE TI AT BLACKWATER AND CEMENTG THE LANNISTER ALLIANCE WHICH LED ROBB STARK TO AVOID DIRECTLY CHARGG THE CROWNLANDS AGAST TYW. TYW HIMSELF RPECTED THE TYRELLS GREATLY SEASONS 3 AND 4, NOTG THEIR GREAT NUMBERS AND POWER AND CHID CERSEI FOR NOT TREATG THEM FAIRLY. IN ALL THREE S ABOVE, STANNIS, TYW AND ROBB, WHO HAVE BEEN TABLISHED AS THE FT ARY AND POLIL MDS OF THEIR ERA, SAW THE TYRELLS AS A MAJOR THREAT AND FACTN, NONE OF WHICH IS NSISTENT WH OLENNA CLAIMG S7 THAT THEY WERE PHOVERS AND NO GREAT SHAK WAR. IRONY: ONE SPANNG CENTURI. HOE TYRELL (AS NOTED THE NOT AT FDG FAI ABOVE) ME TO POWER AFTER THE FORMER KG OF HIGHGARN BURNED TO ATH AGAST AEGON'S DRAGONS AT THE FIELD OF FIRE. THEIR MA LE FAY MEMBERS (AND TH THEIR STABLE, CLEAN SUCCSN) ALSO BURNED TO ATH BY WILDFIRE AT THE GREEN TRIAL, THE NEXT-BT THG TO DRAGON-BREATH AT THIS POT. KICK THE SON OF A BCH: THEIR QUTNABLE LOYALTY, OBV SCHEMG, AND NOW THLSLY ADLY PLANS FOR GAG POWER ARE OFTEN EXCED BY THE FANDOM, SPECIFILLY BEE THE TARGETS OF THEIR VAR SCHEM ARE ALL LANNISTERS. KGMAKER SCENAR: HOE TYRELL FOUND THEMSELV ON THIS ROLE DURG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, AS THE BIGGT OF THE WTEROS HO, WHOEVER THEY CHOSE TO SUPPORT WOULD GA A GREAT ADVANTAGE. THEY FIRST TRIED TO THROW THEIR LOT WH RENLY, BUT AFTER HIS MURR, THEIR ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS ENSURED JOFEY'S VICTORY AND KGSHIP. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: MASTERY OF THIS IS WHY THE TYRELLS ARE STILL AROUND. IN THE HISTORY AND LORE SEGMENTS, HOE TYRELL IS SAID TO HAVE RISEN TO POWER THE WAKE OF AEGON'S CONQUT BY AGREEG TO SURRENR, AND THEY WERE REWARD WH OWNERSHIP OF THE REACH. THEY ALSO AGREED TO SURRENR WHOUT A FIGHT AFTER THE SACK OF KG'S LANDG AT THE END OF ROBERT'S REBELLN, AS JON ARRYN OFFERED THEM AMNTY EXCHANGE FOR SUPPLYG FOOD TO THE STARVED REALM AND PAYG A GOOD PORTN OF THE WAR BT. MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG: SEEMS TO BE THE GENERAL ETHOS OF THIS HOE — LORAS THKS RENLY WOULD BE A GOOD KG BEE PEOPLE LIKE HIM, AND SEASON 3, MARGAERY TRI TO W OVER THE SMALLFOLK OF KG'S LANDG WH KDNS AND EVEN TRI TO SWAY JOFEY TO HER THKG, AS BT SHE N. MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE: THE WOMEN THE FAY GET THE BRAS, AND THEY ARE THE ON TO WATCH OUT FOR WHEN TO POLICS. DAN WEISS SCRIB THE TYRELLS THIS FEATURETTE AS: "...BASILLY A SECRET MATRIARCHY [...] WHERE THE MEN TEND TO BE HANDSOME DOP AND THE WOMEN ARE REALLY THE BRAS BEHD THE OPERATN." ACRDG TO THIS ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE REACH, WAS HARLAN TYRELL'S WIFE WHO NVCED HIM TO SURRENR TO AEGON THE CONQUEROR, WHICH MAY SUGGT THAT THE FEMALE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN NTROLLG THE FAY'S TERTS SCE AT LEAST THE TIME OF AEGON'S CONQUT. NOUVE RICHE: BY PARISON WH THE OTHER GREAT HO OF WTEROS, THE TYRELLS ONLY ROSE TO PROMENCE AFTER AEGON'S CONQUT. THEY WERE TRADNAL STELLANS OF THE GARNERS, THE PREV LERS OF THE REACH. SCE THEY WERE THE ONLY HOE OF THE REACH THAT DID NOT OPPOSE AEGON THE CONQUEROR, THEY WERE REWARD ACRDGLY BY BEG MA LORDS PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH WHEN THE GARNERS WERE WIPED OUT. PALETTE SWAP: BY "OATHKEEPER", THE TYRELLS SWCH OM THEIR MORE DISARMG TEAL-AND-GOLD (LORS THAT, TOGETHER, AREN'T VERY REGAL OR MAJTIC, AS TEND) TO THEIR LERAL TE LORS, GREEN AND GOLD, TO REFLECT THE FACT THAT THE SOFT SELL IS NO LONGER REQUIRED NOW THAT THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN TYRELL AND LANNISTER HAS BEEN FORMALIZED, AND THE TWO HO ARE SENTIALLY EQUAL PARTNERS ON THE IRON THRONE. PAPER TIGER: THEY ARE SURPRISGLY REVEALED TO BE ONE. DPE THEIR RENOWNED AND EVENTUALLY UNMATCHED WEALTH, WHICH TURNS ALLOWS THEM TO SUPPORT A LARGE ARMY, OLENNA NCES THAT THEY ARE ARILY WORTHLS AFTER THEIR FORMER VASSAL HOE TARLY AND A BED LANNISTER HOST MANAGE TO TAKE HIGHGARN WH EASE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: WHETHER 'S ARMOUR, CLOTHG OR FASHN ACCSORI, THE TYRELLS CK THEMSELV WH FLORAL PATTERNS. THE VERY LTLE BADASSERY OF THEIR SIGIL AND MOTTO PARED TO THE OTHER GREAT HO IS LAMPSHAD BY LADY OLENNA. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER HOE, THE TYRELLS ARE EQUENTLY SEEN A LH, GARN ENVIRONMENT. IT'S A VISUAL REMR TO THE DIENCE OF THE REACH'S FERTILE LANDS AND S CULTURE OF ROMANTICISM, THE FAY'S FLORAL THEME, THEIR UT NATURE (GARNS REQUIRE REFUL MATENANCE), THEIR PREOCCUPATN WH BETY, AND THEIR PREFERENCE FOR PEACE. ROS LOOK PRETTY, BUT PEOPLE FET THAT THEY HAVE THORNS. THE TYRELLS GIVE THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF BETY AND HARMLSNS, BUT 'S JT A ONT. AS MENTNED ABOVE, OLENNA SFFS THAT THEY HAVE A BLAND SIGIL AND A NON-THREATENG MOTTO ("GROWG STRONG").. ALL PROBABILY, THE TYRELLS SEEM TO HAVE TENTNALLY CHOSEN NON-THREATENG SYMBOLS, SO NO ONE WILL SPECT THEIR TE AMBNS. MARGAERY, OLENNA AND LORAS'S MOURNG ATTIRE IS DARK GREY AND DARK GREEN STEAD OF BLACK (WH THE EXCEPTN OF MARGAERY'S SHAWL), WHICH SIGNIFI THAT THEIR "GRIEF" OVER JOFEY'S PASSG IS SCERE. MACE DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO PUT ON DARK CLOTHG. MARGAERY◊ AND OLENNA'S◊ MOURNG CLOTH FOR JOFEY ALSO STILL HAVE THE VERY BRIGHT GOLD PRT THAT ALL THEIR CLOTH HAVE. ESPECIALLY OBV WHEN NTRASTED WH WHAT OLENNA WEARS AFTER MARGAERY, LORAS, AND MACE DIE AT THE END OF SEASON 6◊. SIGIL SPAM: THE TYRELLS DON'T HAVE A SGLE ARTICLE OF CLOTHG WHOUT A FLORAL PATTERN, AS LADY OLEANNA POTS OUT TO ONE OF HER RELATIV:OLENNA: ANOTHER GOLN ROSE. HOW ORIGAL. I EAT OM PLAT STAMPED WH ROS. I SLEEP SHEETS EMBROIRED WH ROS. I HAVE A GOLN ROSE PATED ON MY CHAMBER POT, AS IF THAT MAK SMELL ANY BETTER. ROS ARE BORG, AR. SILK HIDG STEEL: NOT VERY WARLIKE THE STARKS OR GREYJOYS SENSE OF THE WORD, BUT THEY'RE STILL A VERY DANGERO HOE. THE TYRELL WOMEN AND LORAS (WHO IS AN ANDROGYNO-LOOKG GAY MAN) PLAY AROUND WH PEOPLE'S STEREOTYP OF FEMY TO APPEAR MUCH WEAKER THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. AND 'S WORTH REMEMBERG THAT LORAS IS STILL UNTED AS BEG ONE OF THE MOST DANGERO KNIGHTS ON THE NTENT. HECK, 'S THEIR LOGO: A ROSE'S BETY HIS S DANGERO THORNS. SOCIAL CLIMBER: THE LANNISTERS AND PECIALLY CERSEI REGARD THEM AS THIS, WH THE LATTER EVEN PARG THEM TO THE REYN OF CASTAMERE FOR TRYG TO RISE ABOVE SEND BT. FROM THE BOOKS...  THIS HAS EVERYTHG TO DO WH HOW THE TYRELLS BEME LORDS PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH. BEFORE AEGON'S NQUT, HOE GARDNER WERE KGS OF THE REACH, BUT THEY DIED OUT DURG THE NQUT. WHEN AEGON REACHED HIGHGARN, THE GARNERS' STEWARD, HARLAN TYRELL, SURRENRED THE STLE AND THE KGDOM, AND AEGON MA HIS FAY LORDS PARAMOUNT EXCHANGE. TH, MANY WTEROSI HO SEE THE TYRELLS AS NOTHG MORE THAN UPJUMPED STEWARDS, CLUDG MANY REACH HO WHICH CLAIM SCENT OM GARTH GREENHAND, THE LEGENDARY FOUNR OF HOE GARNER, AND TH BELIEVE THEY HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO THE REACH THAN THE TYRELLS. NOT LEAST AMONG THE IS HOE FLORENT, THE MOST PROMENT REACH HOE TO GO OVER TO STANNIS WHEN RENLY DIED, AND WHO HOPE THAT STANNIS' VICTORY WILL GET THEM THE TL THEY FEEL THEY SERVE. IN THE HISTORY AND LORE VIOS, MARGAERY EVEN ADMS THIS AS BEG THE REAL MEANG OF THEIR HOE WORDS ("GROWG STRONG"):MARGAERY: OTHER HO TAKE WOLV AND LNS FOR THEIR SIGILS, AND DRAW THEIR POWER OM THE GOLD THEIR MOUNTAS OR THE LD OF THEIR WTERS. BUT MOUNTAS N DRY, WTER YIELDS TO SPRG, AND THE ROSE BLOOMS ONCE MORE. SOMETHG ABOUT A ROSE: LIKE A ROSE, THE FAY MAY LOOK GEO AND LITE ON THE SURFACE, BUT THE OUTWARD PETALS NCEAL VERY SHARP THORNS. THE STARSCREAM: POSSIBLY. UNLIKE THE STARKS, THE LANNISTERS AND THE ARRYNS, THE TYRELLS DID NOT LE AS KGS BEFORE AEGON'S NQUT OF WTEROS, AND THEY MAY HAVE MANIPULATED THEIR FORMER OVERLORD TO GETTG HIMSELF KILLED DURG AEGON'S NQUT, ALLOWG THEM TO URP THE REACH. FROM THE BOOKS...  INSTEAD, THEY SERVED AS STEWARDS TO THE REACH KGS OF HOE GARNER. WHEN AEGON THE CONQUEROR ARRIVED WH HIS DRAGONS, HIGHGARN STEWARD HARLAN TYRELL MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ENURAGED KG MERN IX, THE LAST LIVG MEMBER OF HOE GARNER, TO PERSONALLY LEAD REACH FORC AN OBVLY FUTILE BATTLE. WHEN THE GARNER KG WAS EVABLY FEATED AND SLA, AEGON GRANTED HARLAN AND HIS FAY NTROL OF THE REACH. THIS AMBN RRI TO THE PRENT SERI, WHERE THE TYRELLS ARE NSISTENTLY UNRMG HOE LANNISTER AN ATTEMPT TO WRTLE THE IRON THRONE AWAY. AS OF SEASON 4, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO BEE EQUAL PARTNERS WH THE LANNISTERS. THE KGDOM IS EPLY BT TO THE IRON BANK OF BRAAVOS, AND THE FORMERLY FILTHY RICH LANNISTERS ARE CREASGLY STRAPPED FOR SH DUE TO AN EXPENSIVE WAR, NEEDG THE TYRELLS TO FOOT HALF THE BILL FOR THE ROYAL WEDDG. THE TYRELLS ARE VAL ALLI TO TYW AS HE KEEPS HOLD OF THE VERY AGILE PEACE THE REALM AFTER THE MA PART OF THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS IS OVER. OLENNA LAMPSHAS THE SAME TO MARGAERY, SCRIBG THE POWER SHIFT:OLENNA: OUR ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS REMAS EVERY B AS NECSARY TO THEM AS IS UNPLEASANT FOR . SUCCSN CRISIS: AFTER THE ATHS OF MACE TYRELL AND HIS TWO CHILDREN AT THE GREEN TRIAL, HIS MOTHER HOLDS THE TLE AS THE LADY OF HIGHGARN, LADY PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. BUT SHE'S A REDWYNE AND THERE WAS NO MENTN OF OTHER TYRELL RELATIV SCE MACE'S OLR SONS (WILLAS AND GARLAN) DO NOT EXIST THE SHOW. LIKEWISE, SHE'S ALREADY OLD AND MIGHT NOT LAST LONG, AND ED DON'T, WH HIGHGARN BEG VAD BY JAIME AND THE LANNISTERS AND SHE HERSELF BEG FORCED TO DRK A PALS POISON THAT KILLS HER. TANGLED FAY TREE: WH TWO TYRELLS MARRYG LANNISTERS OLENNA POTS OUT HOW THEY WILL BEE THIS, WH LORAS, WHO IS ARRANGED TO MARRY CERSEI, TECHNILLY BEG HIS OWN SISTER'S STEPFATHER--LAW. THICKER THAN WATER: THE FAY ALWAYS STICKS TOGETHER.MARGAERY: LUCKILY FOR TYRELLS OUR BLOOD NS QUE WARM, DON'T , LORAS? VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: THEIR IENDLY AND PLEASANT MEANOR N MAKE YOU FET THEY ONCE SUPPORTED A MONSTROLY CEL URPER SO MARGAERY ULD BE QUEEN.    LORD MACE TYRELL LORD MACE TYRELL"MAY YOU AND MY DGHTER MARGAERY DRK EP, AND LIVE LONG."PLAYED BY: ROGER ASHTON-GRIFFHS"NO GREAT PLEASURE, BELIEVE ME. A PONRO OAF. HIS FATHER WAS AN OAF AS WELL. MY HBAND, THE LATE LORD LUTHOR. HE MANAGED TO RI OFF A CLIFF WHILST HAWKG. THEY SAY HE WAS LOOKG UP AT THE SKY AND PAYG NO MD TO WHERE HIS HORSE WAS TAKG HIM. AND NOW MY SON IS DOG THE SAME, ONLY THIS TIME HE'S RIDG A LN STEAD OF A HORSE."— LADY OLENNA TYRELLTHE FATHER OF LORAS AND MARGAERY, SON OF LADY OLENNA. LORD OF HIGHGARN, LORD PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. ADAPTATNAL COMIC RELIEF: MACE TYRELL IS A B OF AN OAF THE BOOKS AS WELL, BUT THE FORM OF A HGHTY AND TACTLS LORD. IN THE SHOW, HE HAS AN EXTREME SE OF ADAPTATNAL DUMBASS IS EQUENTLY MED FOR EDY, AS HE'S TREATED LIKE A PLETE BUFFOON AND CHEW TOY BY VIRTUALLY EVERY LORD KG'S LANDG. ADAPTATNAL DYE-JOB: IN THE NOVELS, MACE HAS THE SAME BROWN HAIR OF HIS CHILDREN, WHEREAS ON THE SHOW HIS HAIR HAS ALREADY GONE GREY. ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: HE'S JT AS MUCH AS AN OAF AS HE IS THE BOOKS, BUT THE SHOW HE LOS A LOT OF HIS MORE ABRASIVE MOMENTS, SUCH AS PRSURG HIS SON TO JOTG AND HIS UNJTIFIED HATE FOR OBERYN MARTELL IN THE BOOKS  OBERYN ACCINTALLY CRIPPLED HIS HEIR WILLAS TYRELL A TOURNEY, BUT WILLAS HOLD NO ILL WILL) AND ACROSS AS DIM-WTED BUT OVERALL KD-HEARTED. ADAPTATNAL UGLS: THE ACTOR PLAYG MACE IS FAR LS ATHETILLY PLEASG THAN HIS BOOK UNTERPART, WHO IS SCRIBED AS BEG FAT, BUT STILL GOOD-LOOKG ENOUGH THAT ONE N EASILY SEE THAT HE ED TO BE A HUNK HIS YOUTH. WHEN THE STG NEWS WAS ANNOUNCED, SOME FANS HAD A HARD TIME BELIEVG THAT THIS UNATTRACTIVE MACE ULD BE THE FATHER OF THE TV VERSNS OF MARGAERY AND LORAS. HBO'S MACE IS ALSO BALDG, WHILE BOOK MACE HAS A HEAD FULL OF HAIR. THIS ULD ALLU TO TV MACE'S NATURE AS A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HARYS SWYFT, WHO WAS BALD THE BOOKS. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: TV MACE IS MUCH MORE FAWNG AND EAGER-TO-PLEASE THAN HIS OAFISH, YET AMB AND MANDG BOOK MACE. IN THE BOOKS HE PERSONALLY MANDS THE LEFT-WG ON THE BLACKWATER AND NSTANTLY PRS FOR IMPORTANT OFFIC FOR HIS FACTN RATHER THAN HAPPILY FETCHG QUILL AND PARCHMENT. HE'S ALSO SOMETHG OF A PAPA WOLF THE BOOKS, HOLDG A SER GDGE AGAST OBERYN MARTELL FOR CRIPPLG HIS ELST SON, LLG FOR THE ATH OF THE MAN HE BELIEV NEARLY POISONED HIS DGHTER, AND SHG HIS ARMY BACK TO KG'S LANDG TO NONT THE SPARROWS AFTER THEY SEIZE MARGAERY (THOUGH RANDYLL TARLY ARRIV FIRST). ADAPTATNAL LATE APPEARANCE: HE'S ONLY MENTNED THE FIRST 3 SEASONS, WHILE THE BOOKS, HE ARRIV AT THE PAL ALONG WH TYW AND REMAS THERE, TAKG STANNIS'S FORMER PLACE ON THE SMALL UNCIL AS MASTER OF SHIPS. HE FALLY SHOWS UP SEASON 4 FOR JOFEY'S WEDDG. AUTHORY NAME ONLY: A REMARKABLE AVERSN, SOME MATTERS AT LEAST. DPE HIS APPARENT BLANDNS AND BEG REGULARLY UNRMED BY HIS VERY IMPOSG MOTHER, HE'S ABLE TO RRY OUT SOME OF HIS OWN POLICY THE REACH, AS LADY OLENNA PLAS THAT THE ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS IS SOMETHG IMPLEMENTED BY MACE. DPE THIS, HE STILL ASKS HIS MOM WHAT TO DO, EVEN PUBLIC. BADASS ON PAPER: DES AS THE HEAD OF AN ACPLISHED FAY AND HIS WARNSHIP OF A VERY PROSPERO REGN THAT WAS NOT VERY AFFECTED THE CIVIL WAR SPE BEG THE LOSG SI WOULD DITE THAT LORD TYRELL IS SOME SHREWD POLICIAN WH SOME TALENTS AND VICTORI UNR HIS SLEEVE. HE PROV THE ASSUMPTNS WRONG ONCE PEOPLE GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER.CERSEI LANNISTER: I SEEM TO RELL HE LAID SIEGE TO STORM'S END FOR THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR. OLENNA TYRELL: ALL HE LAID SIEGE TO WAS THE BANQUET TABLE THE MAND TENT. BENEATH SPICN: BY NOT OVERPLAYG HIS HAND (OR PERHAPS BY NOT BEG PETENT ENOUGH TO DO SO) HE HAS MANAGED TO REMA AS THE ONLY LORD OF ONE OF THE "GREAT HO" OF WTEROS STILL LIVG OM HIS TRODUCTN. NED STARK, JON ARRYN, THE BARATHEON BROTHERS, DORAN MARTELL, BALON GREYJOY, TYW LANNISTER, HOSTER TULLY — ALL AD (THOUGH HOSTER GETS A PASS BY DYG OF NATURAL RATHER THAN VLENCE AND DORAN WAS KILLED BEE HE PLAYED NO HAND). OF URSE, WH THE EXPLOSN AT BAELOR'S SEPT, HE'S GONE AS WELL. BLG OF WAR: HIS PERSONAL ARMOR IS HEAVILY RATED WH GOLN ROS. BUMBLG DAD: MACE TYRELL IS ENTIRELY PLAYED FOR LGHS AS A BUMBLG, SYPHANTIC MOMMA'S BOY GETS LTLE RPECT OM HIS FAY. BUTT-MONKEY: DPE BEG A LORD PARAMOUNT, A WARN AND THE DUAL MASTER OF SHIPS AND CO, HE IS OFTEN IGNORED, BELTLED AT EVERY TURN BY HIS OWN MOTHER AND HIS MORE TANGIBLE NTRIBUTNS TO THE SMALL COUNCIL NSIST DOG MENIAL TASKS SUCH AS FETCHG QUILL AND PAPER OR OPENG AND CLOSG THE DOOR OF THE ROOM. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: THE SERI EXAGGERAT MACE'S POMPOSY, WHEREAS THE NOVELS MAKE HIM MORE PROUD AND SELF-IMPORTANT. THE CHEW TOY: THE MAN IS A WALKG EMBARRASSMENT, BUT MOST OF HIS MISFORTUN ARE D AND HENCE ENJOYABLE AND HILAR. COMPOSE CHARACTER: WH HARYS SWYFT, THE LANNISTERS RINT BUTT-KISSG TOAD, ACRDG TO WORD OF GOD. COOL HELMET: WEARS AN OPEN-FACED AND CROWNED HELMET WH HIS PERSONAL ARMOR, RATED WH GOLN ROS AND THREE FEATHERS FOR A PLUME. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DUMBASS HAS A POT: HE LLS TYCHO AN URER, WHICH IS PLETELY TE AS THE IRON BANK IS WILLG TO FANCE A UP D'éTAT TO GET THEIR MONEY BACK AND ASKED TO RECEIVE ONE-TENTH OF THEIR MONEY BACK RIGHT AFTER TYW DI (AND JT AFTER TWO ROYAL WEDDGS). MACE ARRIVED TO A RENEGOTIATN THANKS TO HAVG THE WEALTHIT LAND AS LLATERAL. EASILY FIVEN: HE FOUGHT FOR THE TARGARYENS DURG ROBERT'S REBELLN, AND NOT ONLY ALT ROBERT BARATHEON HIS ONLY FEAT AT THE BATTLE OF ASHFORD FROM THE BOOKS... RANDYLL TARLY WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE TACTIL VICTORY, YET MACE ALWAYS TOOK CRED FOR . MARGAERY RELAT A MIXED ACUNT THE SHOW'S HISTORI & LORE, ADDRSG THAT MACE ARRIVED WHEN MOST OF THE FIGHTG WAS ALREADY DONE BY HIS VANGUARD, BUT NEARLY STARVED STANNIS AND RENLY TO ATH DURG THE SIEGE OF STORM'S END BEFORE THE REBELS WON. YET ON THE ADVICE OF JON ARRYN, ROBERT ONLY MA HIM PAY REPARATNS GOLD AND LET HIM REMA THE LORD OF THE REACH. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AFTER JOFEY MAK A CEL MENT TO SANSA ABOUT HER AD FATHER AT THE WEDDG BREAKFAST, MACE LOWERS HIS HEAD SADNS; HE PLALY FEELS BAD FOR THE GIRL. HE'S ALSO VISIBLY DISGTED BY JOFEY'S "WAR OF FIVE KGS" MOCKERY AND OVERALL CELTY (ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT MALY BE BEE THE PERFORMANCE TARGETED LORAS BY PICTG HIM AS RENLY'S "MOUNT"). FAT IDT: ACRDG TO LADY OLENNA. SHE SHUTS HIM UP THE STANT HE TRI TO JO ON TALKG SHOP WH HER AND TYW. MACE NSISTENTLY SHOWS THAT HE'S NOT THE SHARPT KNIFE THE DRAWER. THE FOOL: WHILE NOT A PROTAGONIST HE BASILLY FS THE BILL. HE HAS NO CLUE HOW OUT OF HIS PTH HE IS BUT 'S THAT VERY STUPIDY THAT KEEPS HIM ALIVE BEE NOBODY NSIRS HIM A THREAT SO THEY DON'T BOTHER TO PLOT AGAST HIM. HE BASILLY BLENDS TO THE BACKGROUND AS A KD OF Y-MAN WHICH GETS HIM PROMOTED A FEW TIM AS WELL, AND HIS IENDLS MEANS NO ONE EVEN WANTS HIM AD. IT'S A PRETTY OPEN SECRET THAT HIS MOTHER, OLENNA TYRELL IS HIS HANDLER. FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: AFTER JOFEY GETS UP OM HIS SEAT TO SPECT HIS NEW VALYRIAN SWORD, MACE RAIS HIS EYEBROW AT TYW, AND HIS WORDLS QUERY IS, "ARE YOU SURE 'S WISE TO GIVE THAT MANIAC A ADLY WEAPON?" THE GHOST: UP UNTIL SEASON 4, WHERE HE WAS FALLY ST. HIDN DEPTHS: IN "A DANCE WH DRAGONS" HE SUCCSFULLY RENEGOTIAT LOAN TERMS WH THE IRON BANK, SURPRISGLY SHOWSG SOME CENT DIPLOMATIC SKILLS. HE THEN DOUBL DOWN AND PROCEEDS TO SHOW OFF HIS GREAT VOICE, LNCHG TO A SUDN BUT WELL EXECUTED FOLK SONG, MUCH TO THE DISMAY OF TYCHO NTORIS. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: AN FERRED AMBN. OLENNA PLAS THAT MACE IS THE ONE TERMED TO CROWN MARGAERY, HENCE THE ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS AFTER THE ONE WH RENLY BARATHEON FALLS APART. HIS ONSCREEN PERSONA DON'T DISPLAY THIS KD OF DRIVE BEYOND AN EAGER WILLGNS TO SERVE THE SMALL COUNCIL. IN-SERI NICKNAME: LADY OLENNA, HIS OWN MOTHER, REFERS TO HIM AS LORD OAF. IN THE BOOKS...  HE'S ALSO LLED "THE FAT FLOWER OF HIGHGARN" AND "LORD PUFF FISH." LARGE HAM: THE FEW TIM HE'S NOT TERPTED SHOW THAT HE'S TOO PLEASED BY THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE AND HE REELS . HIS BODY LANGUAGE ALSO TENDS TO BE RATHER EXAGGERATED AND OAFISH. LUDICRO GIBS: HIS BODY IS LERALLY BLASTED TO A THOAND PIEC (POSSIBLY EVEN TO NOTHGNS) BY CERSEI'S BOMBG OF THE SEPT. MANCHILD: MACE CERTALY HAS SHAS OF THIS, DUE TO BEG SUCH AN EASILY LED MOMMA'S BOY. AT THE SMALL COUNCIL MEETG, HE VERG ON THROWG A CHILDISH TANTM WHEN OBERYN SARSTILLY SUGGTS HE BE MA MASTER OF SHIPS. MACE GETS VERY FENSIVE, ACTG LIKE A CHILD PROTTG TO HIS SIBLG THAT FATHER GAVE HIM THAT TOY TO PLAY WH, AND NO, OBERYN N'T PLAY WH TOO, 'S HIS. MOMMA'S BOY: DPE BEG A LORD PARAMOUNT, HIS MOTHER TREATS HIM LIKE A CHILD AND HE GO ALONG WH . NICE GUY: MACE ISN'T VERY BRIGHT, BUT HE'S A GENUELY NICE PERSON. HE MIGHT BE KD OF NAIVE FOR NOT SPECTG OTHERS — I.E. SHOCKED WHEN POLICS VOLV MURR, AND APPALLED WHEN THE HIGH SEPTON IS SECRETLY HAVG SEX WH WHOR — BUT PARED TO SOME OF THE NASTIER CHARACTERS AT THE DENT COURT, 'S REHG TO SEE SOMEONE WHO HAS RELATIVELY "NORMAL" STANDARDS OF MORALY. NOT NOW, KIDDO: HE IS ON THE RECEIVG END OF THIS WHEN OLENNA TELLS HIM, "NOT NOW, MACE, LORD TYW AND I ARE SPEAKG." PAPA WOLF: IN "BLOOD OF MY BLOOD", HE LEADS HIS ARMY OM THE ONT AN ATTEMPT TO RCUE HIS CHILDREN OM THE FAH. WHEN THE SPARROWS START RVG A STAR TO LORAS'S FOREHEAD THE CROWD AROUND MACE HAS TO PHYSILLY RTRA HIM OM SHG FORWARDS SPERATN. ROG SPEECH: HE ATTEMPTS ONE "BLOOD OF MY BLOOD" TO RALLY HIS ARMY TO RCUE HIS CHILDREN, BUT NOBODY IS IMPRSED AND JAIME LANNISTER LOOKS ABOUT TO FACEPALM. RUNNG GAG: HE GETS TERPTED OR CUT OFF BY OTHER CHARACTERS (AND IF NOT BY THEM, THEN BY THE MERA) AT LEAST ONCE EVERY NVERSATN HE HOLDS. THE ONLY NOTABLE EXCEPTN WAS HIS SO-LLED ROG SPEECH BEFORE STORMG THE GREAT SEPT, AND EVEN THEN WAS ONLY BARELY SUFFERED THROUGH BY HIS TROOPS AND JAIME LANNISTER. SARSM-BLD: WHEN OBERYN M OVER WHETHER TYW WILL ASSIGN HIM A TLE, PERHAPS THE "MASTER OF SHIPS", MACE PROTTS THAT TYW GAVE HIM THAT TLE AND HE N'T HAVE . OBERYN GETS SURPRISED AND N'T BELIEVE MACE TOOK HIM SERLY. Y-MAN: MACE IS A FAWNER. TYRN IMMEDIATELY INTIFI HIM AS THIS.TYRN: HE [MACE] WILL VOTE EXACTLY AS MY FATHER TELLS HIM TO VOTE.    LADY OLENNA TYRELL, NéE REDWYNE LADY OLENNA TYRELL "WE MOTHERS DO WHAT WE N TO KEEP OUR SONS OM THE GRAVE, BUT THEY DO SEEM TO YEARN FOR ."PLAYED BY: DIANA RIGG"IT WAS TREASON. I WARNED THEM. ROBERT HAS TWO SONS AND RENLY HAS AN OLR BROTHER. HOW N HE POSSIBLY HAVE ANY CLAIM TO THAT UGLY IRON CHAIR? WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED WELL OUT OF ALL THIS, IF YOU ASK ME. BUT ONCE THE W'S BEEN KED, THERE'S NO SQUIRTG THE CREAM BACK UP HER UDR, SO HERE WE ARE TO SEE THGS THROUGH"THE PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF LORAS AND MARGAERY AND MOTHER OF MACE TYRELL, THE LORD PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. ADAPTATNAL BADASS: OLENNA THE SHOW IS MA TO THE FACTO HEAD OF THE FAY, PARABLE TO TYW LANNISTER (AND SHE ACTUALLY BTS THE SELFSAME ONE OF THE MOST BADASS VERBAL DUELS THE SHOW). IN THE BOOKS HER POWER IS MORE LIMED TO A WOMAN OF HER STATN AND SHE PLAS BTERLY THAT HER SON DON'T LISTEN TO HER ON CISNS OF THE HOEHOLD. ADAPTATN EXPANSN: SHE HAS A NUMBER OF SCEN THE SERI THAT HAVE NO DIRECT UNTERPART THE BOOKS. ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: OLENNA IS THE VERY PICTURE OF A COOL OLD LADY THE SHOW, OPPOSG THE CREASGLY TYRANNIL LANNISTERS, STEAD OF THE SPEFUL HARRIDAN OF THE BOOKS WHO LLS ELLARIA SAND "THE SERPENT'S WHORE". SHE ALSO DISPLAYS SYMPATHY FOR SANSA THE SHOW RATHER THAN JT SEEG HER AS A PAWN. EVEN HER ASSASSATN OF JOFEY IS AMED MORE AS A SYMPATHETIC MURRER, WHO DIDN'T WANT HER GRANDDGHTER MARRIED TO A MONSTER. ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY: SHE'S MUCH MORE GOOD-HUMOURED THAN HER BOOK UNTERPART, WHO ME ACROSS AT TIM AS CROTCHETY AND VDICTIVE, TO THE POT WHERE TYRN WONRS IF HER LATE HENPECKED HBAND RO OFF A CLIFF TENTNALLY. IN THE NOVELS, SHE'S OFTEN SNI AND RISIVE TOWARDS SANSA, OFTEN MOCKG THE GIRL'S PERCEIVED LACK OF TELLIGENCE. THOUGH A PRIVATE MOMENT TO VARYS, SHE ADMS THAT SANSA IS NOT PARTICULARLY TERTG BUT THAT "SHE HAS AN TERTG CHILDHOOD." ON THE SHOW, SHE HAS MORE VISIBLE SYMPATHY TOWARDS SANSA'S UNFORTUNATE SUATN AND ATTEMPTS TO ARRANGE A MARRIAGE TO LORAS AT VARYS' BEHT AS THEY BOTH NSIR LTLEFGER TO BE TOO DANGERO. IN THE BOOKS, IS HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT OLENNA SEEKS SANSA'S CLAIM TO WTERFELL, ALTHOUGH ON THE SERI TYW LANNISTER REGARDS THAT AS THE REAL MOTIVE BEHD THEIR PLOT TO MARRY SANSA TO THE TYRELLS. SHE HAS NO PATIENCE FOR THE SAND SNAK, BUT HER ANIMOSY TOWARDS THE MARTELLS IS REMOVED FOR THE MOST PART, AS ARE EPISOS LIKE LLG ELLARIA SAND "THE SERPENT'S WHORE." ADAPTED OUT: THE BODYGUARDS SHE LLS LEFT AND RIGHT AREN'T PRENT THE TV SHOW. ANTI-VILLA: ONE OF THE GREATT SCHEMERS THE SHOW (BTG TYRN, VARYS, AND LTLEFGER, AND CHALLENGG TYW), MURRS A CHILD, AND TNTS THE CHILD'S FATHER OVER ... AND EVERY SUATN, SHE STILL SEEMS TO HAVE THE MORAL HIGHGROUND OVER HER ENEMI (AND UALLY DIENCE SYMPATHY). AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: "BREAKER OF CHAS" REVEALS THAT SPE HER PLATS ABOUT HER LATE HBAND'S STUPIDY, SHE WAS NEVERTHELS SOMEWHAT FOND OF HIM, AS SHE IS VISIBLY UPSET (HER EY ARE EVEN A B WET) WHILE REMISCG ABOUT THE DAY HE DIED. IN "OATHKEEPER", OLENNA REUNTS TO MARGAERY THAT LUTHOR TYRELL WAS SUPPOSED TO MARRY OLENNA'S SISTER WHILE OLENNA WAS TEND FOR A TARGARYEN. HOWEVER, OLENNA CID SHE PREFERRED LUTHOR TO THE TARGARYEN AND SCED HIM AWAY OM HER SISTER ON THE EVE OF THEIR BETROTHAL. WHILE THIS WAS LIKELY A POLIL MOVE, AT LEAST SHOWS THAT OLENNA HAD SOME REGARD FOR HER HBAND, ONCE UPON A TIME. SHE MAY LOOK DOWN ON HER SON FOR BEG AN OAF, BUT SHE IS CLEARLY UPSET WHEN HE ALONG WH HER GRANDCHILDREN WERE KILLED BY CERSEI'S WILDFIRE PLOT. BADASS BOAST: GIV A NICE ONE TO LTLEFGER "THE GIFT" — "IF I SHOULD MEET WH SOME UNFORTUNATE ACCINT HERE AT YOUR BROKEN LTLE FLH MARKET... THEY'LL NEVER EVEN FD WHAT'S LEFT OF YOU." BADASS BURECRAT: THE TYRRELLS ARE THE PRIMARY FOOD PROVIR FOR THE SEVEN KGDOMS BEE OF THE FERTILE LANDS THEY SUCCSFULLY ADMISTRATE, PECIALLY SCE OLENNA'S TIME. HER FAY ARE RICHT NOBL AFTER THE LANNISTERS (EVENTUALLY THE -FACTO RICHT, THOUGH DON'T BEE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE). SEE THE MA QUOTE ABOUT THE HOE TYRELL'S WAR EXPENS OLENNA'S OWN WORDS. BENEVOLENT BOSS: IN "TWO SWORDS", SHE MOTIVAT HER HANDMAINS BY REWARDG THE ONE WHO FDS THE BT NECKLACE FOR MARGAERY WH THE SEND-BT NECKLACE. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: WHILST DISCSG THE VAR FAY HOE MOTTOS, SHE BRIEFLY ADOPTS A NORTHERN ACCENT WHEN POTG OUT HOW THE STARK'S "WTER IS COMG" SOUNDS HERENTLY MORE BADASS THAN THE TYRELLS' "GROWG STRONG." BTAL HONTY: PRACTIC THIS BEE SHE N GET AWAY WH ON ACUNT ON HER AGE AND POWER — AND ENURAG SANSA TO SPEAK HER MD ABOUT JOFEY. CASSANDRA TTH: SHE WARNED HER FAY NOT TO BACK RENLY, WHOM SHE NSIRED A TERRIBLE NDIDATE WH AN UNJT CLAIM ON THE THRONE, AND LAMENTG THAT GOT THEM TO A JAM THAT THEY HAD TO GET OUT OF BY ENGAGG MARGAERY WH JOFEY, WHICH END UP ENTANGLG HOE TYRELL'S FORTUN WH THOSE OF HOE LANNISTER, WHOM SHE SPIS. IN THE END SHE LAMENTS BEG THE LAST OF HER FAY. CHARACTER DEATH: IN "THE QUEEN'S JTICE". VIA POISON THAT SHE WILLGLY GTS. THE CHSMASTER: MOST FELY. WHEN SANSA SPEAKS HER MD TO MARGAERY AND OLENNA ABOUT JOFEY (THE GIRL TELLS THEM THAT HE'S "A MONSTER"), THE WHEELS OLENNA'S MD VISIBLY BEG TO TURN, FIGURG OUT HOW TO KEEP HER GRANDDGHTER SAFE. THIS, TURN, LEADS TO HER POISONG JOFEY, WH TYRN AND SANSA AMED FOR . THE DUO WORKED TO SPIR SANSA OUT OF KG'S LANDG, BUT TYRN PED BY OTHER OWN MEANS. COMPLEXY ADDICTN: THE HIGH SPARROW LLS OUT HOW A LIFETIME OF DOUBLE-ALG AND SSG OUT HIDN MOTIV HAS LEFT HER PLETELY STYMIED WHEN ALG WH SOMEONE LIKE HIM WHOSE MOTIVATNS REALLY ARE AS SIMPLE AS THEY APPEAR. COMPOSE CHARACTER: SHE TAK OVER BOOK MACE'S ROLE OF G BACK TO THE PAL AND ATTEMPTG TO EE MARGAERY. THE CONSIGLIERE: TO HER SON MACE, AND TO HER GRANDDGHTER MARGAERY. THE CONSPIRACY: LEADS ONE, WHICH CLUS PETYR BAELISH, SER DONTOS HOLLARD, AND (UNKNOWGLY) SANSA, AND WHICH RULTED JOFEY'S ATH BY POISONG AND TYRN AND SANSA'S AMG FOR THE ED. COOL OLD LADY: TO HER GRANDCHILDREN, MARGAERY AND LORAS. AND TO SANSA, AND EVEN TO SOME GREE TO VARYS. AND OF URSE TO THE DIENCE. GIVEN HER LARGELY EGALARIAN ATTUS TOWARDS GENR, SEXUALY AND E OF POLIL POWER, SHE MAY WELL BE THE MOST SOCIALLY PROGRSIVE PERSON ON THE SERI BIS RENLY (WH TYRN LANNISTER NNG A SOMEWHAT DISTANT THIRD). COUNTRY MATTERS: HER SUCCCT OPN OF JOFEY. DEADPAN SNARKER: THE QUEEN OF THORNS IS FAMOLY SHARP-TONGUED. SHE GETS AWAY WH THE NSTANT JIB AT POWERFUL PEOPLE PARTLY BEE SHE'S TYRELL MATRIARCH AND PARTLY BEE OF HER AGE. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HER BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DEATH GLARE: GIV A PARTICULARLY VIC ONE TO CERSEI "UNBOWED, UNBENT, UNBROKEN" AFTER LORAS AND MARGAERY ARE ARRTED BY THE FAH MILANT. DEATH SEEKER: IT'S IMPLIED THE SEASON 6 FALE THAT OLENNA HAS CROSSED TO THIS AFTER CERSEI WIP OUT HER ENTIRE FAY:OLENNA: CERSEI STOLE THE FUTURE OM ME. SHE KILLED MY SON. SHE KILLED MY GRANDSON. SHE KILLED MY GRANDDGHTER. IT IS NOT SURVIVAL I AM AFTER. DEFIANT TO THE END: IN IMABLE FORM, OLENNA SPS JAIME'S MERCY RIGHT BACK HIS FACE BY ADMTG TO JOFEY'S MURR HER FAL MOMENTS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF THE ATHS OF HER FAY MEMBERS DIDN'T MAKE HER CROSS , THEN THE FALL OF HIGHGARN TO THE LANNISTERS DID. DEMOTED TO EXTRA: WHILE STILL MEMORABLE, HER ROLE SEASON 5 IS SIGNIFINTLY LS SUBSTANTIAL THEN THE PREV TWO SEASONS — SHE ONLY APPEARS TWO EPISOS MIDWAY THROUGH THE SEASON, AND DON'T EVEN APPEAR THE FALE. THIS IS RECTIFIED THE FOLLOWG SEASON. DIDN'T SEE THAT COMG: EVER SCE SHE STARTED PLAYG THE GAME, SHE'S MA ONE NSTANT BUT FATAL MISTAKE — UNRTIMATG CERSEI LANNISTER, OR RATHER OVERTIMATG THIS SE. IN ALL THEIR ALGS, OLENNA ASSUM CERSEI, SPE HER PETTS, KNOWS WHEN TO QU. IT NEVER SEEMS TO DAWN ON HER, EVEN WHEN THE PROOF IS STARG HER THE FACE, THAT THERE IS NO LENGTH CERSEI WON'T GO TO KEEP HERSELF POWER, NO MATTER HOW SHORTSIGHTED. AFTER CERSEI MURRS HER ENTIRE FAY, OLENNA IS NO LONGER DISMISSIVE OF HER.OLENNA: YOUR SISTER HAS DONE THGS... I WAS PABLE OF IMAGG. THAT WAS MY PRIZE MISTAKE... A FAILURE OF IMAGATN. DIRTY OLD WOMAN: BT EXEMPLIFIED BY THIS NVERSATN WH VARYS.OLENNA: ARE YOU HERE TO SCE ME? VARYS: A LTLE OBV PERHAPS... OLENNA: OH NO PLEASE, SCE AWAY! IT'S BEEN SO LONG. BUT I RATHER THK 'S ALL FOR NGHT; WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NON-EXISTENT BUMPS AGAST THE CREP (VARYS LOOKS DOWN AT HIS GRO AND UP AGA SHOCK)... A QUTN FOR THE PHILOSOPHERS. SHE ALSO SEEMS RATHER FOND OF REMISCG ABOUT HOW SHE SCED MARGAERY'S GRANDFATHER AND END UP FUCKG HIM SO HARD THAT HE ULDN'T WALK FOR A DAY, BEFORE REMARKG HOW SHE WAS "VERY, VERY GOOD" AT . ALL OF WHICH SHE HAPPILY TELLS HER GRANDDGHTER. DISPENSE WH THE PLEASANTRI: OLENNA OFTEN HAS NO PATIENCE FOR POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, AND DISMISS ANY PLEASANTRI OR ATTEMPTS AT FLATTERY. ESPECIALLY OM THE PEOPLE SHE DON'T LIKE. A NOTABLE EXAMPLE IS WHEN SHE TELLS OFF LTLEFGER'S ATTEMPT AT BEG URTEO "THE GIFT" WHEN THEY MEET AT HIS BROTHEL.LTLEFGER: [REFERRG TO HIS TRASHED BROTHEL] I'M SORRY ABOUT THE LOLE. OLENNA: NO YOU'RE NOT. LTLEFGER: IT SEEMED LIKE THE SAFT PLACE. OLENNA: [OBSERVG THE VASTATN THE FAH MILANT LEFT THEIR WAKE] NOT FOR YOUR CLIENTELE, CLEARLY. [...]YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN RATHER IMPRSED WH YOURSELF, HAVEN'T YOU? LTLEFGER: THE PAST IS THE PAST. THE FUTURE IS ALL THAT'S WORTH DISCSG, THE FUTURE OF HOE TYRELL- OLENNA: DON'T PRETEND TO HAVE ANY NCERN FOR MY HOE, MY GRANDCHILDREN OR ME! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D RETURN TO THE PAL AS SOON AS THGS STARTED TO GO WRONG! DRIVEN TO SUICI: WHEN HIGHGARN FALLS TO THE LANNISTERS, JAIME HANDS HER A PALS POISON, WHICH SHE WILLGLY DRKS WHOUT A BEAT. DYG ALONE: SHE ENDS UP DYG ALONE HER CHAMBERS OF A POISON WHEN JAIME STORMS OUT OF HER ROOM AFTER HER DYG MOMENT OF AWOME. SHE DON'T REALLY MD. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: AN UNUALLY UNRSTATED SE, AS SHE LETS JAIME MAKE A BIG AL ABOUT HOW HE TALKED CERSEI OUT OF PUTTG HER THROUGH A TORTUO PUBLIC ATH FAVOR OF A QUICK AND PALS POISON, AND ONLY AFTER TAKG REVEALS THAT SHE WAS THE ONE RPONSIBLE FOR JOFEY'S GOME MURR, LEAVG JAIME ROBBED OF ANY SATISFACTN OM HIS ACT OF MERCY. ENTERTAGLY WRONG: THE CLOST THG SHE HAS TO A FLAW IS HER OCSNAL TENNCY TO OVERTIMATE HER OPPONENTS, WHICH IS RARE FOR A SETTG WH SO MANY SMUG SNAK. SHE IALLY ASSUM MARGAERY WOULD BE SAFE WH JOFEY BEE JOFEY WOULD HAVE NOTHG TO GA BY HURTG HER, BUT WHEN TURNS OUT HE'S JT A PSYCHOPATH SHE'S FORCED TO MOVE AGAST HIM QUICKLY. SHE ASSUM CERSEI WOULDN'T MOVE AGAST THE TYRELL FAY BEE SHE IS NOT A POSN TO DO SO, BUT SHE DO NOT ACUNT FOR CERSEI BEG DUMB ENOUGH TO DO , ANYWAYS. SHE ASSUM CERSEI IS DOG BEE SHE HAS AN ACTUAL PLAN TO EXTORT HOE TYRELL, BUT 'S ACTUALLY MOSTLY JT BEE CERSEI IS HAVG A PETTY FD WH MARGAERY AND CERSEI N'T REALLY BE REASONED WH. SHE ASSUM THE HIGH SPARROW WANTS WEALTH, BUT HE REALLY IS JT A FANATIC WHO WANTS TO TABLISH A THEOCRACY. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HER STERN FACE SHOWS THAT SHE DO NOT HI HER DISTASTE FOR JOFEY'S DREADFUL "REENACTMENT" OF THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS. THEN AGA, VOLV JOFEY SULTG HER GRANDSON, LORAS, BEG PORTRAYED AS RENLY'S MOUNT TO MOCK THEIR RELATNSHIP. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: OLENNA TYRELL GO OUT WH ALL THE POSURE AND GRACE WE'VE E TO EXPECT OM HER — SHE DOWNS THE POISON OFFERED TO HER, AND SPENDS HER LAST MUT SULTG JAMIE AND CERSEI BY EXTENSN, CLUDG REVEALG THAT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED JOFEY. ALL WHILE MATAG PERFECT REGAL POSTURE HER CHAIR. HER FAL MOMENTS ARE ALSO NOT SHOWN TO THE VIEWER TO HAMMER THE POT. FATAL FLAW: HER AGE - FOR ALL HER TELLIGENCE, OLENNA WAS VERY STUBBORN AND NEVER LISTENED TO ANYONE AND ONLY DID THGS HER WAY WHILE RARELY SHARG HER THOUGHTS, EVEN HIDG HER ROLE JOFEY'S POISONG OM MARGAERY, THIS ENDS UP STG HER HOE'S EXTCTN AND ATH. AS SHE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER SHARG ON CASTERLY ROCK BEG DRIED, ME BACK TO HIGHGARN HERSELF TO MOBILIZE HER TROOPS. FIRST-NAME BASIS: TOWARDS THE END OF HER NVERSATN WH TYW "THE LN AND THE ROSE", SHE LLS HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME WHOUT HIS TLE, AND TYW DON'T EVEN BLK AN EYE. WHO ELSE GETS AWAY WH THAT WHOUT RECEIVG TYW'S SIGNATURE DEATH GLARE? FOIL: SHE IS, POLILLY, THE DIAMETRIC OPPOSE OF TYW LANNISTER, BEG A POWERFUL PROGRSIVE FORCE WTEROS AS OPPOSED TO TYW'S BRAND OF STERN PATRIARCHIL NSERVATISM. MARGAERY HAS BLOSSOMED UNR HER GRANDMOTHER'S GUIDANCE, WHEREAS CERSEI HAS SUFFOTED UNR HER FATHER'S PSYCHOLOGIL ABE. WHILE OLENNA TEAS HER SON AND GRANDSON, HER VERBAL JABS ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS CEL AS TYW'S HORRID TREATMENT OF TYRN. WHEN OLENNA ARRANG A MARRIAGE FOR LORAS, SHE BETROTH HIM TO SANSA NOT ONLY FOR THE GIRL'S CLAIM TO WTERFELL, BUT ALSO BEE SHE KNOWS THAT LORAS'S PERSONALY — IF NOT HIS ORIENTATN — IS PATIBLE WH SANSA'S. WHEN TYW ARRANG MARRIAG FOR TYRN AND CERSEI, HE'S ONLY NCERNED ABOUT POLIL GA, AND DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT HIS CHILDREN'S OBJECTNS OR FEELGS. WHEREAS TYW NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY A MENTAL ILLNS, OLENNA BELIEV 'S PERFECTLY NATURAL. HERE'S WHAT THEY SHARE MON: WHILE THEIR OFFSPRG TECHNILLY HAVE A HIGHER RANK (QUEEN REGENT CERSEI, KG JOFEY, LORD PARAMOUNT MACE TYRELL), 'S TYW AND OLENNA WHO HOLD ALL THE POWER THE LANNISTER-TYRELL ALLIANCE. AND BOTH WERE VOLVED THE ASSASSATN OF A KG AT A WEDDG. SHE IS WHAT CERSEI TRIED TO BE, BUT PLETELY FAILED AT; A MATRIARCH WHO L A FAY BY GUIDG AND MANIPULATG HER CHILDREN. UNLIKE CERSEI, OLENNA IS TELLIGENT ENOUGH TO PULL OFF. ALSO, SHE HAS THE ADVANTAGE THAT HER (GRAND)CHILDREN ARE SANE, AND, AT LEAST THE SE OF MARGAERY, SMART ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HER. FRAME-UP: HER NSPIRACY WH PETYR BAELISH LEADS TO TYRN AND SANSA'S AMG FOR JOFEY'S MURR. FRIENDLY ENEMY: SHE AND TYW HAVE THIS DYNAMIC SPE HIS TWISTG OF HER ARM OVER THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE BETWEEN LORAS AND CERSEI. OLENNA TRI TO CHEER UP THE CRANKY OLD MAN AFTER JOFEY AND MARGAERY'S WEDDG CEREMONY. GUILE HERO: OLENNA SCRIB HERSELF AS CREP, BUT SHE IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST CUNNG AND DANGERO CHARACTERS THE SHOW. SHE IS ALSO GENERALLY ON THE SI OF THE MOST KD-HEARTED CHARACTERS, EVEN IF HER METHODS ARE SOMETIM HORRIFYG. GRAN DAME: LADY OLENNA IS AN ELEGANT DAME OF AMPLE PHYSIQUE, A WIDOW OF A HENPECKED HBAND AND FAMO FOR HER ARROGANCE, THOUGH SHE IS NOT HUMOURLS, BEG FAMO FOR HER DRY W. GMPY OLD MAN: IF SHE'S SNARKG MORE RELENTLSLY THAN UAL, EHER MEANS SHE'S PISSED OR LOSG PATIENCE. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: A VERY DARK EXAMPLE AT JOFEY'S WEDDG. "WHAT KD OF MONSTER WOULD MURR A MAN AT HIS OWN WEDDG DAY?" A FIERCELY PROTECTIVE GRANDMOTHER, APPARENTLY. THOUGH HER MOTIVATNS TO SAVE HER GRANDCHILDREN OM A KNOWN PSYCHOPATH ARE FAR MORE SYMPATHETIC THAN TYW'S RATNALE FOR THE RED WEDDG. IN-SERI NICKNAME: SHE IS KNOWN AS THE "QUEEN OF THORNS" FOR HER SARSM AND W, BED WH THE ROSE THORNS BEG THE SIGIL OF HOE TYRELL. INSULT BACKFIRE: AFTER A GAMB TO OVERTHROW THE HIGH SPARROW FAILS, SHE MOCKGLY ASKS CERSEI IF SHE PLANS TO KILL ALL OF HER ENEMI. WHILE CERSEI DON'T KILL ALL OF ENEMI, SHE PRETTY DANG CLOSE. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: IT'S STRONGLY IMPLIED THAT SHE WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE HER YOUTH. CONSIRG THAT HER ACTRS IS DIANA RIGG (WHO WAS A SEX SYMBOL THE 1960'S), AND OLENNA IS NATURALLY CHARISMATIC, 'S NO SURPRISE AT ALL. THIS IS LATER NFIRMED WHEN SHE RELLS SCG HER FUTURE HBAND THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PROPOSE TO HER ELR SISTER. JERKASS HAS A POT: WHILE TELLG DAENERYS TO IGNORE TYRN'S ADVICE WAS A B OF A DICK MOVE, OLENNA DID HAVE A POT PECIALLY HDSIGHT. A LOT OF TYRN'S ADVICE FOR DANY ONLY SERVED TO SCREW HER OVER THE LONG N. HIS ADVICE TO BIEGE CASTERLY ROCK STEAD OF KG'S LANDG ST DANY HER ALLI (CLUDG OLENNA HERSELF). HIS SUGGTN TO TABLISH A TCE WH CERSEI BY PTURG A WIGHT ST DANY HER DRAGON VISERN, WHOM THE NIGHT KG TO STROY THE WALL THAT KEPT THE ARMI OF THE AD AT BAY, ENSURG THAT THE VASN AHEAD OF SCHLE. NOT TO MENTN THAT THE ENTIRE PLAN WAS ALL FOR NOTHG AS CERSEI SECRETLY PROCEEDS TO VLATE THE TCE ANYWAY. KICK THE DOG: KILLG JOFEY? FAIR ENOUGH. MAKG TYRN AND SANSA THE SPEGOAT? PROBABLY NECSARY, BUT STILL NOT OL, OLENNA. LASER-GUID KARMA: AT THE END OF SEASON 6, SHE LAMENTS ABOUT HOW CERSEI MURRED HER SON AND HER GRANDCHILDREN AND END THE HOE TYRELL. TWO SEASONS EARLIER, OLENNA MURRED CERSEI'S SON JOFEY AND HAD THE NOCENT TYRN LANNISTER AS THE SPEGOAT, WHICH QUICKLY LED TO THE EFFECTIVE END OF HOE LANNISTER KG'S LANDG, WH TYW AND TYRN ELIMATED AND CERSEI PHED FURTHER TO MADNS. SO WHILE CERSEI AND THE LANNISTERS, GENERAL, ARE MORE VILLAO THAN OLENNA AND THE TYRELLS GENERAL, CERSEI A WAY SERV OLENNA AN APPROPRIATE RPONSE FOR HER ACTNS - WH BON IRONY POTS FOR NOT EVEN KNOWG . HER ATH ALSO HAS AN IRONIC FLAVOR: SHE DI WH POISON (ALBE A PALS ONE, UNLIKE THE STRANGLER WHICH WAS ED TO KILL JOFEY) HAND BY HIS OWN FATHER JAIME. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT HE HAD NO IA SHE WAS THE ONE TO HAVE KILLED HIM, WHICH SHE TELLS HIM JT BEFORE DYG. LAST OF THEIR KD: AFTER THE STCTN OF THE GREAT SEPT OF BAELOR, OLENNA BEME THE LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF HOE TYRELL, AND EVEN THEN ONLY NAME AS SHE IS A REDWYNE BY BIRTH. AFTER HER ATH BY POISON SEASON 7, HOE TYRELL IS OFFICIALLY AD, WH WARNSHIP OF THE SOUTH AND LORD PARAMOUNTSHIP OF THE REACH SET TO FALL TO RANDYLL TARLY. LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE: BRIEFLY HAS THIS DYNAMIC WH TYW LANNISTER, OF ALL PEOPLE, DURG "THE LN AND THE ROSE". MAMA BEAR: SHE KILLED JOFEY BEE HE WOULD HAVE TREATED MARGAERY BADLY. TO A LSER EXTENT, SHE WAS ALSO SHIELDG LORAS OM FUTURE HARM, AS WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE JOFEY WOULD ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD MAKE HOMOSEXUALY A PAL CRIME FROM THE BOOKS... ANOTHER OF OLENNA'S MOTIV WAS TO PREVENT LORAS OM POTENTIALLY BEG A KGSLAYER, SCE LORAS WOULD HAVE KILLED JOFEY IF HE EVER MISTREATED MARGAERY. IN SEASON 5, SPE HER ADVANCED AGE, SHE'S SCEND TO THE PAL, GETTG TO FIGHTS TO PROTECT HER GRANDCHILDREN. IT'S ACTUALLY QUE TOUCHG. SHE REF TO LEAVE MARGAERY AND LORAS BEHD, EVEN AS THE HIGH SPARROW SEEKS TO "NVERT" HER LIKE HE DID WH MARGAERY. IT'S ONLY WHEN MARGAERY REVEALS TO HER THAT SHE'S STILL PLAYG THE GAME THAT OLENNA CIS TO RETURN TO THE REACH. AFTER CERSEI KILLS MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS THE WILDFIRE EXPLOSN, OLENNA CIS TO ALLY HERSELF WH HOE MARTELL AND, PRUMABLY, QUEEN DAENERYS AS WELL ORR TO GET REVENGE ON CERSEI. THE MENTOR: TO HER GRANDDGHTER MARGAERY. MERCY KILL: HER ATH, PARED TO WHAT CERSEI ORIGALLY HAD STORE FOR HER (SUCH AS PUBLIC WHIPPG AND TORTURE), IS PROVID BY JAIME LANNISTER, WHO GIV HER A MERE PALS POISON SHE TAK WHOUT HATN. SHE PROCEEDS TO SP ON HIS MERCY BY REVEALG SHE WAS THE ONE TO HAVE KILLED HIS SON'S JOFEY, MAKG HIM REGRET HAVG GIVEN HER MERCY THE FIRST PLACE. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: SE NOTHG WRONG WH NNG HER SON'S LIFE; SUBVERTED THAT SHE ACTUALLY IS MORE PETENT THAN HIM. MY GREATT FAILURE: UNRTIMATG CERSEI AND BEG UNABLE TO IMAGE, LET ALONE ANTICIPATE, THE HORRIBLE THGS CERSEI WOULD BE PABLE OF. NEVER BAREHEAD: SHE’S ALWAYS SEEN WEARG SOME SORT OF HEAD VERG. NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE: LORD MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS DIED WHEN SHE WAS HOME AT THE REACH. NEVER MS WH GRANNY: THROUGHOUT SEASONS 3 AND 4, SHE PROV HERSELF TO BE A TOUGH AND UNPROMISG OLD LADY... BUT HER MOST JAW-DROPPGLY AWOME MOMENT ME "OATHKEEPER" WHERE SHE REVEALS SHE HAD POISONED JOFEY ORR TO PROTECT HER GRANDDGHTER OM HIS SADISTIC EXCS. SHE IS ALSO READY TO HAVE AN ALL OUT WAR AGAST THE SPARROWS TO PREVENT MARGAERY TO MAKE A WALK OF PENANCE. AFTER CERSEI BLOWS UP THE GREAT SEPT OF BAELOR, KILLG MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS, SHE DON'T NEED MUCH NVCG TO JO THE TARGARYEN-MARTELL-GREYJOY ALLIANCE AGAST CERSEI, SENDG THE ENTIRETY OF THE TYRELL FLEET TO MEEREEN TO JO DANY'S VASN ARMADA.OLENNA: [TO MARGAERY] YOU DIDN'T THK I'D LET YOU MARRY THAT BEAST, DID YOU? NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: IN HER UNRSTANDABLE NCERN FOR MARGAERY'S WELL-BEG, SHE HAS JOFEY KILLED, WHICH TRIGGERS THE MISE OF THE RATNAL LANNISTER LEARSHIP (TYW AND TYRN) AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF CERSEI. THIS BRGS MAJOR DISASTER. ONE ULD ARGUE THAT SHE HAD A HAND TYRN'S POOR CHOICE TO HAVE THE UNSULLIED VA CASTERLY ROCK AS AN OPENG GAMB TO DANERYS' WAR WH CERSEI. SEE TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK BELOW. NICE TO THE WAER: PLAYED WH. SHE IS OFTEN SHOWN TO BE VERY CHEEKY TO HER HOEHOLD (AND ANKLY, TO ANYBODY), BUT ALWAYS A BENEVOLENT WAY. NO HISTORIL FIGUR WERE HARMED: IT'S PROBABLY NOT A CINCE THAT OLENNA'S FASHN SENSE, BEHAVR, AND MASTERY OF REALPOLIK HARKENS A LOT TO PORTRAYALS OF ELEANOR OF AQUAE, THE MATRIARCH OF THE HOE OF PLANTAGE (ALL DURG HER HBAND KG HENRY II'S LE, AND EVEN AS REGENT TO HER KGLY SONS, RICHARD I AND JOHN). OLENNA'S OUTF EVEN ECHO ELEANOR'S TOMB EFFIGY◊ QUE A B. OBFTG STUPIDY: SURROUNDS HERSELF WH SIMPERG GIRLS (OR "HENS" AS SHE LLS THEM) TO SEEM HARMLS, WHEN SHE'S REALLY A DANGERO CHSMASTER ON THE LEVEL OF TYRN, TYW, VARYS, OR PETYR BAELISH, A FACT WHICH ALL OF THEM ARE FULLY AWARE OF AND RPECT ACRDGLY. INED, SHE AND LTLEFGER, TEAM UP TO TAKE OUT JOFEY WH TYRN TAKG THE BLAME; NOT ONLY DO NOBODY SPECT THEM, NO ONE EVEN KNOWS OF THEIR SECRET ALLIANCE. OUT-GAMBTED: AFTER THE PLOT TO MARRY LORAS TO SANSA IS DISVERED, SHE'S ABLE TO PUT UP SOME RISTANCE AGAST A NEW ARRANGEMENT WH THE LANNISTERS. LORD TYW TMPS HER WH ROYAL PREROGATIV, ANYWAY; IF SHE DON'T VE , LORAS WILL BE MA A MEMBER OF THE CELIBATE KGSGUARD, MEANG THE TYRELL NAME WILL WHER AND FA, AS JOFEY'S SONS WOULD HER HIGHGARN STEAD. BEG THE ROURCEFUL LADY THAT SHE IS, THE SETBACK NEVER PLAY BEE HER PLOT TO MURR JOFEY DISPTS THE LANNISTERS AND EVENTUALLY TAK TYW DOWN. OUTLIVG ONE'S OFFSPRG: LOS HER SON AND GRANDCHILDREN TO CERSEI'S WILDFIRE SCHEME THE SEASON 6 FALE. PET THE DOG: SHE IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW DIVIDUALS WTEROS WHO PLIMENTS BRIENNE STEAD OF SULTG HER WHEN MEETG THE FEMALE WARRR FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE ONLY OTHER TWO CHARACTERS WHO HAVE PREVLY DONE THIS ARE RENLY AND CATELYN. SHE LERALLY DO THIS "THE LN AND THE ROSE" WHEN SHE RS SANSA'S FACE AS SHE OFFERS HER NDOLENC FOR ROBB'S ATH. OLENNA THEN TELLS THE GIRL THAT SHE HAS AN OPEN VATN TO HIGHGARN, WHICH MAK SANSA SE. THE FACT THAT SHE CHOOS THIS PRECISE MOMENT TO UNLOAD THE CRYSTAL WH POISON OM SANSA'S NECKLACE SPOILS SOMEWHAT. POLILLY INRRECT HERO: UNLIKE THE OTHER HEROIC CHARACTERS HER VIEWS OF MONERS ARE FTG OF THE NOBILY OF THE TIME. TREATG THEM MORE LIKE MOUTHS TO FEED AND ENTERTA TO STOP RTS. THE HIGH SPARROW LLS HER OUT ON WHEN SHE THREATENS TO CUT KG'S LANDG FOOD SUPPLY, POTG OUT SHE'LL JT RISE THEM AGAST THE NOBLE WHO BULLI THEM FOR HER WHIM THAN THE MAN WHO PREACH EQUALY. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A GREAT ONE TO CERSEI "THE BROKEN MAN", LLG OUT THE LANNISTER QUEEN'S STUPIDY THAT ENDANGERED TWO GREAT HO... RULTG CERSEI ADMTG HER MISTAK, POSSIBLY THE FIRST TIME THE SERI.CERSEI: YOUR GRANDSON IS STILL A PRISONER. YOU'LL LEAVE HIM ROTTG A CELL? OLENNA: (SWLG AT CERSEI) LORAS ROTS A CELL BEE OF YOU. THE HIGH SPARROW L THIS CY BEE OF YOU. OUR TWO ANCIENT HO FACE LLAPSE BEE OF YOU AND YOUR STUPIDY! RED BARON: "THE QUEEN OF THORNS". REFUGE AUDACY: DEFENDS LORAS'S HOMOSEXUALY TO TYW, QUTNG IF HE HIMSELF HAS NEVER BEEN GUILTY OF THE OCSNAL SPOT OF BUGGERY, PERHAPS WH SOME OF HIS MALE S! SHE ALSO BRGS UP THE ISSUE OF JOFEY'S TE PARENTAGE, AND STEAD OF A DEATH GLARE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RPONSE FOR ANYONE ELSE, SHE RECEIV OM TYW A HASTY B OF PLSIBLE DENIABILY. WHEN TYW THREATENS HER WH NAMG LORAS TO THE KGSGUARD, TH LEAVG HOE TYRELL WHOUT AN HEIR AND JOFEY'S POTENTIAL CHILDREN WH A SUPERR CLAIM TO HIGHGARN VIA MARGAERY, LADY OLENNA TAK TYW'S QUILL AND BREAKS . A RETROACTIVE EXAMPLE IS HER LOUDLY CLARG, "WHAT KD OF MONSTER WOULD MURR A MAN AT HIS OWN WEDDG DAY?" EARSHOT OF THE LANNISTERS WHEN REFERENCG THE EVENTS OF THE RED WEDDG. THIS HAPPENS NOT LONG BEFORE SHE POISONS JOFEY'S WE, G HIM TO DIE HORRIBLY AT HIS OWN WEDDG. AN EVEN BIGGER ONE IS HER NVERSATN WH CERSEI AT THE SEPT OF BAELOR "AND NOW HIS WATCH IS END":OLENNA: WE MOTHERS DO WHAT WE N TO KEEP OUR SONS OM THE GRAVE, BUT THEY DO SEEM TO YEARN FOR . REVENGE: HER ONLY REMAG MOTIVATN IS TO GET REVENGE ON CERSEI FOR TAKG HER SON, GRANDSON, AND GRANDDGHTER AWAY OM HER. RIGHT HAND VERS LEFT HAND: SHE IS THE FACTO LER OF THE TYRELL FAY, BUT STRATEGIC ALLIANC ARE THE ONE THG OUT OF HER NTROL. SHE IS MOST CRIL OF MACE MARRIAGE POLICY FOR MARGAERY, SO SHE MOV TO KG'S LANDG TO DO DAMAGE NTROL, KEEPG THE NOT VERY BRIGHT MACE THE DARK. SCREW POLENS, I'M A SENR!: HOW SHE GOT HER IN SERINICKNAME, THE QUEEN OF THORNS. SHE ALWAYS SAYS EXACTLY WHAT SHE THKS. OR AT LEAST PROJECTS THIS IMAGE. A REPUTATN FOR BTAL HONTY MAK ALL THE MORE EASY TO GET AWAY WH LYG. SELF-DEPRETN: SHE THKS THE GOLN ROSE AND WORDS OF HOE TYRELL ("GROWG STRONG") ARE ABSOLUTELY STUPID AND HAT THE FAY'S PENCHANT FOR SIGIL SPAMMG THE ROSE EVERYWHERE THEY GO. SENSG YOU ARE OUTMATCHED: SHE STARTS OUT WH THE ASSUMPTN THAT THE HIGH SPARROW IS AS SCEPTIBLE TO BRIBERY AS ANYONE ELSE. HOWEVER, BEG A BETTER JUDGE OF CHARACTER THAN CERSEI, SHE QUICKLY REALIS THAT HER UAL TACTICS WON'T WORK THIS TIME. SEX GODSS: OLENNA IS STATED TO BE (POSSIBLY VLENT) ONE DURG HER YOUTH TO THE POT OF MAKG HER HBAND UNABLE TO WALK FOR DAYS. SIBLG TRIANGLE: HER LATE HBAND WAS ORIGALLY ENGAGED TO HER SISTER UNTIL LADY OLENNA SCED HIM. SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD: SHE LIK TO POT OUT HOW DUMB HER LATE HBAND WAS. SURROUND BY IDTS: LADY OLENNA'S NOT TOO SHY ABOUT EXPRSG HOW STUPID SHE FELT HER SON (MACE) AND GRANDSON (LORAS) WERE WHEN THEY THREW THEIR LOT WH RENLY. SHE DON'T SPEAK MUCH BETTER OF HER LATE HBAND EHER, WHO SEEMS DIED A RATHER UNCEREMON FASHN WHILST OUT HAWKG. OLENNA: MY HBAND, THE LATE LORD LUTHOR, MANAGED TO RI OFF A CLIFF WHILE HAWKG. THEY SAY HE WAS LOOKG AT THE SKY AND PAYG NO MD TO WHERE HIS HORSE WAS TAKG HIM. NOW MY SON IS DOG THE SAME, ONLY THIS TIME HE'S RIDG A LN STEAD OF A HORSE. MIRTH TO POWER: HER ACIDIC QUIPS AND ONE-LERS TEND TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISY AND FALLAC THKG TO WHOEVER SHE'S SPEAKG TO. SHE GETS AWAY WH SAYG THGS THAT OTHERS WOULD BE BEHEAD FOR. SYMPATHETIC MURRER: SHE POISONS KG JOFEY SO HER GRANDDGHTER WON'T BE MARRIED TO A SADISTIC MONSTER. HE REALLY IS THAT, SO THE MURR ISN'T HARD TO SYMPATHIZE WH. TAKG YOU WH ME: OLENNA NOT THAT SHE HAS A STRONG FENSE AGAST LTLEFGER (STRONGER THAN ANY OTHER CHARACTER'S) OPENLY OR SECRETLY MOVG AGAST HER: IF SHE FDS HOE TYRELL FALLG, SHE N SIMPLY REVEAL HOW THEY PLOTTED WH LTLEFGER TO KILL JOFEY. LTLEFGER LOOKS FUR WHEN SHE MAK THIS CLAIM.OLENNA: I PROMISE YOU, LORD BAELISH, THAT OUR FAT ARE JOED. TOGETHER, WE MURRED A KG. IF MY HOE SHOULD FALL, I WILL HAVE NOTHG TO HI. AND IF I SHOULD MEET WH SOME "ACCINT" HERE AT YOUR BROKEN LTLE FLH-MARKET, THEY'LL NEVER EVEN FD WHAT'S LEFT OF YOU. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: IN SEASON 7, SPE BEG ON THE SAME SI AS TYRN AS THEY ARE BOTH ALLIED WH DAENERYS, SHE SHOWS HIM NO RPECT AT ALL. SHE TELLS DAENERYS TO IGNORE HIS ADVICE, AND OUTRIGHT NEGLECTS TO RM HIM OF WHAT'S BEEN GOG ON WTEROS DURG HIS ABSENCE, CLUDG HOW HOE LANNISTER IS NOW BANKPT, WHICH LEADS TO TYRN'S STRATEGY FOR DAENERYS' ARMY TO NQUER WTEROS FALLG APART BEE WAS BASED OFF OF OUTDATED TEL - WHICH ULD'VE BEEN EASILY RRECTED IF OLENNA HAD BEEN MORE OPEN WH HER ALLI. TOO MUCH INFORMATN: PROUDLY TELLS HER GRANDDGHTER THE STORY OF HOW SHE SCED HER LATE HBAND, CLUDG HOW THEY HAD SEX. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: BEFORE LEAVG KG'S LANDG, OLENNA THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT CERSEI WAS FISHED, POTG OUT THAT SHE WAS SURROUND BY THOANDS OF ENEMI AND MOCKGLY ASKED IF SHE WAS GOG TO KILL THEM ALL. WHILE WEREN'T ALL OF HER ENEMI, CERSEI DID ED KILL A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM THE SEASON FALE, CLUDG OLENNA'S SON AND HER TWO GRANDCHILDREN. IN HER FAL MOMENTS, SHE ADMS TO JAIME THAT CERSEI DID THGS THAT NOT EVEN OLENNA WOULD IMAGE DOG HERSELF. UNUAL EUPHEMISM: REFERS TO LORAS AS A "SWORD SWALLOWER" WHEN TYW ASKS ABOUT HER GRANDSON'S PROCLIVI. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: ALTHOUGH DONE TO PROTECT MARGAERY AND TO WEAKEN HOE LANNISTER EVEN MORE, ASSASSATG JOFEY HDSIGHT WAS A VERY BAD IA SCE SETS OFF A CHA OF DOMOS THAT LEAD TO THE ATH OF TYW LANNISTER, THE MA STABILIZG FORCE WTEROS AND A POWER VACUUM WHICH THE HIGH SPARROW STEPS TO, WEAKENG THE POWER AND FLUENC OF THE GREAT HO. AND THEN CERI KILLS THE HIGH SPARROW ALONG WH MOST OF THE TYRELLS, CLAIMG THE IRON THRONE. THE WOMAN BEHD THE MAN: SHE'S THE TE HEAD OF HOE TYRELL. SHE SUALLY DISMISS MACE WHEN SHE'S TALKG TO TYW. WOMEN ARE WISER: IF SOMEONE ASKS OLENNA, THE MEN OF TYRELL FAY TEND TO BE POPULAR BUT RATHER NSE — PERFECT FOR EFFECTIVE FIGUREHEADS IF THE WOMEN ARE SMART AND ASSERTIVE ENOUGH. SHE MIGHT HAVE A POT. OLENNA SE DIRECTLY THROUGH TYW'S BOLD BOASTS, CLUDG HIS 'APPARENT' LACK OF WORRY ABOUT THE IRON BANK, TO WHICH SHE REMDS HIM THAT HE ISN'T THAT STUPID. IRONILLY, HOWEVER, HER CISNS TO DO DAMAGE NTROL, HELP ACCELERATE THE CLE OF HER HOE MORE THAN HER SON'S AND GRANDSON'S. IN WHAT WOULD BE HER LAST WORDS OF ADVICE TO DANERYS, OLENNA TOLD THE QUEEN THAT THE WAY SHE HAD GOTTEN TO BE AROUND AS LONG AS SHE HAD WAS BY IGNORG ALL THE 'CLEVER MEN' THAT ADVISED HER WHAT TO DO. GIVEN THE NTEXT, WAS PRIMARILY A WARNG AGAST PUTTG TOO MUCH STOCK TYRN'S ADVICE, BUT THE BROAR MSAGE WAS THAT DANY SHOULD TST HERSELF MORE THAN ANY MAN. WORTHY OPPONENT: PRAIS TYW LANNISTER ON LIVG UP TO HIS REPUTATN. WHILE SHE ADMS TO CERSEI AFTER TYW'S ATH THAT SHE DON'T LIKE TYW ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, SHE AT THE VERY LEAST RPECTS HIM. TYW HIMSELF SEEMED TO NSIR HER THIS, TREATG OLENNA AS HIS TELLECTUAL EQUAL, AND REGNIZG HER AS THE TE HEAD OF HOE TYRELL, ALG WH HER DIRECTLY WHEN ARRANGG A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THEIR TWO FAI, AND NOT WH HER SON MACE, WHO IS TECHNILLY THE LORD OF HIGHGARN. SUBVERTED WHEN SHE MEETS TYRN TO PLAN THE FUNDG OF THE ROYAL WEDDG. SHE WAS EXPECTG MORE OM HIM TERMS OF HIS TELLIGENCE AND LICENTNS. SHE LAMPSHAS THE FACT THAT HE NOW BEHAV LIKE A PROPER GENTLEMAN (WHICH DISAPPOTS HER) AND IS AN EASILY BULLIED ACUNTANT, RATHER THAN THE LTFUL AND CLEVER SCHEMER THAT HE ED TO BE.NOTE IN TYRN'S FENSE, HE WAS THE MIDDLE OF REVERG OM SER BATTLE WOUNDS, PARANOIA OVER BEG KILLED ON JOFEY'S WHIMS, BEG DOWNGRAD TO MASTER OF CO, AND REALIZG THE MS OF BT LEFT BY LTLEFGER. TYRN IS VISIBLY SHAKEN BY THE ASSSMENT, AS HE KNOWS ALL TOO WELL THAT HE REALLY HAS BEE A "BROW-BEATEN BOOKKEEPER." WOULD HURT A CHILD: THE REVELATN THAT SHE IS JOFEY'S MURRER SHOWS SHE IS JT AS THLS WHEN TO SENTIMENT AS TYW, LTLEFGER, AND OTHERS. OF URSE, JOFEY IS AN ASSHOLE VICTIM AND SHE WAS PROTECTG MARGAERY OM A HORRIBLE FATE AND OLENNA ADMS SHE DID NOT EXPECT THE POISON TO KILL HIM SUCH A GOME MANNER, BUT SHE STILL KILLED A CHILD WHO DIED HIS MOTHER'S ARMS.    QUEEN MARGAERY TYRELL QUEEN MARGAERY TYRELLPLAYED BY: NATALIE DORMERVOICED BY: CARLA CASTA&NTIL;EDA (LAT AMERIN SPANISH), KANAKO TOJO (JAPANE)SEE MARGAERY TYRELL.    SER LORAS TYRELL SER LORAS TYRELL"IT'S NOT A GIFT; NOBODY GAVE TO ME. I'M GOOD BEE I WORK AT , EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE SCE I ULD HOLD A STICK."PLAYED BY: FN JON"I'VE NEVER FOUGHT A WAR BEFORE, BUT I'D FIGHT FOR YOU."A HIGHLY-SKILLED KNIGHT OF GREAT RENOWN WHO IS KNOWN AS THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS. HE IS MACE TYRELL'S ONLY SON AND THE HEIR TO HIGHGARN. 100% HEROISM RATG: HE IS A VERY POPULAR KNIGHT AT TOURNEYS, AND THE SMALLFOLK ALWAYS CHEER AND ROOT FOR HIM. EVEN WHEN HE IS FEATED BY BRIENNE THE MELEE, THE CROWD IS STILL ON LORAS'S SI BEE THEY LET OUT A DISAPPOTED "OH!" WHEN HE YIELDS. THE ONLOOKERS THEN REMA SILENT, AND THE SOLE PERSON WHO APPLDS AND S AT BRIENNE'S VICTORY IS RENLY. NOTE IN A STORM OF SWORDS, TYRN M THAT LORAS IS "SEVENTEEN, AND BETIFUL, AND ALREADY A LEGEND. HALF THE GIRLS THE SEVEN KGDOMS WANT TO BED HIM, AND ALL THE BOYS WANT TO BE HIM." ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: THE SHOW OMS LORAS'S MA KICK THE DOG MOMENT OF UNJTLY MURRG TWO FELLOW KGSGUARD A F OF RAGE AFTER RENLY'S ATH. SCE HE IS ALSO A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HIS ADAPTED OUT BROTHERS GARLAN AND WILLAS WHO ARE BOTH STRAIGHT-UP NICE GUYS, LORAS IS ACTUALLY SYMPATHETIC TO SANSA'S PLIGHT AND MOTIVATED BY THE CHIVALRO IAL OF RCUG HER OM KG'S LANDG VIA THEIR PLANNED ARRANGED MARRIAGE SPE THEIR INPATIBLE ORIENTATN. ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY: AS HE IS A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HIS D-MANNERED BROTHERS, LORAS ON THE SERI IS SOMEWHAT LMER AND LS RASH THAN HE IS THE BOOKS. THE TV VERSN DON'T MAND TO NED THAT HE BE CHARGE OF THE GROUP THAT IS TASKED TO ARRT THE MOUNTA, AS THE YOUNG MAN'S PRI DON'T APPEAR TO BE ALL THAT WOUND AFTER GREGOR ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIM. NOTE IN A CLASH OF KGS, LORAS PLETELY LOS HIS MD AFTER HE SE RENLY'S RPSE. HE SLAYS TWO OF HIS FELLOW RABOW GUARDS LD BLOOD, BELIEVG THAT THEY WERE SOMEHOW RPONSIBLE FOR HIS BELOVED'S ATH. LORAS IS DISTURBED WHEN HE DISVERS LATER ON THAT THE MEN WERE ACTUALLY NOCENT OF THE CRIME. HIS LOVE MAK YOU CRAZY MOMENT HAS BEEN OMTED OM THE SHOW, MAKG THE CHARACTER A LIGHTER SHA OF GREY. LORAS SEASON 3 IS NOTICEABLY KR TOWARDS SANSA THAN HE IS A STORM OF SWORDS. NOTE HIS BOOK UNTERPART SEEMS TO BE AWARE THAT SHE WAS MERELY A MEANS TO AN END FOR HIS FAY, AND ONLY OFFERED THE GIRL EMPTY CHIVALRY DURG THEIR NVERSATN, WHICH THEN DRIED UP THE MOMENT SHE MENTNED SER ROBAR ROYCE (WHOM THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS HAD KILLED A F OF MADNS). MOREOVER, HIS BROTHER GARLAN TELLS SANSA THAT TYRN WOULD MAKE A BETTER HBAND THAN LORAS. ON THE SHOW, LORAS IS NEVER OR LD WHEN HE'S WH HER, AND HE HAS EVERY TENTN OF BEG A GOOD HBAND ONCE THEY ARE MARRIED (AT LEAST AS MUCH AS HE N NSIRG HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN). IN CERTA RPECTS, HBO'S KNIGHT OF FLOWERS MAY BE A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHOICE FOR A SPOE THAN TYRN — OR AT THE VERY LEAST, HE'S NO WORSE. THE YOUNG MAN ALSO REGNIZ THAT SANSA HAS SUFFERED GREATLY AS A PRISONER OF THE LANNISTERS, AND IS SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS HER SUATN WHEN HE MENTNS THAT KG'S LANDG IS A TERRIBLE PLACE. IN OTHER WORDS, TV LORAS IS LS SELF-ABSORBED WH HIS OWN MISERY AND IS MORE NSIRATE OF SANSA'S FEELGS. HE EVEN SAYS TO CERSEI AFTER BEG BETROTHED TO HER STEAD OF SANSA THAT IF THEY'RE GOG TO BE MARRIED THEY SHOULD AT LEAST BE IENDS, WHICH WH BEG CERSEI DON'T REALLY WORK. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: WHEREAS THE NOVELS HE'S NAMED TO THE KGSGUARD AND BE A SORT OF UNOFFICIAL MASTER-AT-ARMS SCE NO ONE BOTHERS TO NAME ONE AFTER THE ATH OF SER ARON SANTAGAR THE RTS OF KG'S LANDG, THE SHOW'S WRERS SEEM TO HAVE FOTTEN HE'S A GLORY-SEEKG WARRR. ADAPTATNAL ANGST UPGRA: INVERTED, THE NOVELS LORAS REMAS FAHFUL TO THE LATE RENLY'S MEMORY AND THERE'S NO MENTN OR EVEN HT HE TAK ON ANOTHER LOVER. HE GLADLY JOS THE KGSGUARD BEE HE DON'T BELIEVE HE'LL EVER FALL LOVE AGA, WHEREAS THE SHOW HAS HIM TAKE ON OLYVAR AS A SUAL LOVER AND MAKE NO MENTN OF RENLY. ADAPTATN DISTILLATN: UNLIKE HIS BOOK UNTERPART, LORAS NEVER BELIEV FOR A MOMENT THAT BRIENNE IS RPONSIBLE FOR RENLY'S ATH. DPE HIS TENSE GRIEF AND HIS RENTMENT OF LOSG TO HER THE MELEE, HE RRECTLY BLAM STANNIS. ADAPTATNAL DUMBASS: JTIFIED; HE'S MOURNG HIS LOVER AND SEEKG SEX OM RANDOM BODI FOR PAY. BOOK LORAS WAS ALSO VERY REFUL TO HI HIS SEXUALY, WHICH IS WHY CERSEI HAS TO AME MARGAERY FOR ADULTERY. HERE, HE'S EASILY SCED AND SOLD OUT BY THE PROSTUT THAT HE SE. ADAPTATN EXPANSN: MOST OF WHAT WE SEE OF HIM THE BOOKS IS THROUGH THE EY OF OTHER CHARACTERS. THE SERI ACTUALLY SHOWS QUE A FEW SCEN THAT FOC ON LORAS, CLUDG EXPLICLY SHOWG HIS SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH RENLY. AGE LIFT: LORAS IS 16 YEARS OLD THE FIRST NOVEL, BUT HIS TV UNTERPART IS ALREADY AN ADULT SEASON 1. HE LOOKS TO BE AROUND 20 "THE LN AND THE ROSE". ANNOYG YOUNGER SIBLG: DOWNPLAYED, SCE HE AND MARGAERY ARE VOTED TO EACH OTHER. BUT 'S CLEAR THAT HIS SISTER WOULD PREFER IF LORAS WERE MORE UT AND NOT LET HIS LT BLD HIM ABOUT THE DANGERS OF THE LIFE THE PAL. ARCH-ENEMY: THERE'S NO ONE THE WORLD THAT HE HAT MORE THAN STANNIS, WHO ORRED THE ASSASSATN OF HIS LOVER RENLY. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: IN SEASON 3, HE IS IALLY BETROTHED TO SANSA, BUT TYW ARRANG A MARRIAGE WH CERSEI. ARROGANT KUNG-FU GUY: HE'S A VERY GOOD SWORDSMAN — AND KNOWS . HE EVEN LAMENTS "KISSED BY FIRE" THAT THERE ARE NO WORTHY OPPONENTS KG'S LANDG FOR HIM TO SPAR WH. BAD "BAD ACTG": VERY LERALLY "VALAR MHULIS". HE ONLY HAS A SMALL ROLE THE REHEARSED SCENE THAT WAS ENACTED FOR THE BENEF OF THE URT, BUT HE N'T BE BOTHERED DO HIS PART PROPERLY, AS HIS BODY LANGUAGE PRACTILLY OOZ WH NTEMPT FOR JOFEY, AND LORAS EVEN MS UP ONE OF HIS L BEE HE ADVERTENTLY LETS OUT A FRDIAN SLIP REGARDG HIS FEELGS FOR RENLY. AFTER LTLEFGER HEARS THE ERROR, HE TURNS HIS HEAD SHARPLY LORAS'S DIRECTN AND HE PURS HIS LIPS, ANNOYED THAT THE YOUNG KNIGHT ULDN'T GET THE WORDS RIGHT. BEARD OF SORROW: GROWS ONE AFTER BEG IMPRISONED BY THE FAH MILANT. BETY IS NEVER TARNISHED: A RARE EXAMPLE WH A MALE CHARACTER. WHEN LORAS REMOV HIS HELM "BLACKWATER", HIS CURLY HAIR LOOKS PERFECT SPE HAVG FOUGHT A BATTLE. THERE DON'T APPEAR TO BE A SGLE SCRATCH OR BISE ON HIM. BENEATH THE MASK: MOST OF THE TIME, HE'S THE EPOME OF CHIVALRY PUBLIC, BUT AS OF THE MIDWAY POT OF SEASON 2, LORAS BE BTER AND PRSED AFTER HIS BOYIEND IS SLA. HE MT HI HIS GRIEF OM THE OUTSI WORLD WH FAKE S, AS NOT ONLY WAS HE LOVE WH A MAN, BUT RENLY IS VIEWED AS A TRAOR BY THE CROWN. HAVG TO SWEAR FEALTY TO THE SPIBLE AND HOMOPHOBIC JOFEY ALSO DON'T HELP MATTERS, AND THE ADD STRA LORAS'S FIGURATIVE MASK TO CRACK ON A FEW OCSNS. BT FRIENDS--LAW: IN ADDN TO BEG MOTIVATED BY POLICS, THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE BETWEEN RENLY AND MARGAERY IS ALSO AN EXCE FOR LORAS TO BEE CLOSER TO HIS BOYIEND, AS THEY BEE -LAWS. MARGAERY IS EVEN WILLG TO SHARE HER HBAND WH LORAS BED IF STIMULAT RENLY AND HELPS TO GET HER PREGNANT WH RENLY'S MUCH-NEED HEIR. BIG DAMN HERO: COM RIDG TO THE RCUE OF KG'S LANDG WH TYW LANNISTER — WEARG RENLY'S ARMOUR. BIG LTLE BROTHER: LORAS IS SEVERAL CH TALLER THAN MARGAERY, AND BOOK REARS (AND PROBABLY MOST VIEWERS) NATURALLY ASSUMED THAT HE IS STILL THE OLR SIBLG. HOWEVER, WORD OF GOD HAS TABLISHED THAT MARGAERY IS THE ELST TYRELL CHILD ON THE SHOW. VOKED BLATANT LI: WHEN JAIME ASKS HIM IF HE IS LOOKG FORWARD TO HIS WEDDG TO CERSEI, LORAS HAT FOR A MOMENT BEFORE REPLYG, "Y, VERY MUCH." BLG OF WAR: HIS GLEAMG AND ORNATE ARMOUR. IT'S SLIGHTLY MODIFIED SEASON 2 SO THAT 'S MORE PRACTIL FOR AN ACTUAL BATTLE. BODYGUARD CSH: WHILE HE WAS PART OF RENLY'S KGSGUARD. IT'S AN UNUAL RECIPROL VERSN OF THE TROPE BEE VOLV TWO MEN. BREAK THE CUTIE: COME SEASON 6, HE IS ONLY A SHELL OF WHAT HE ED TO BE, BOTH PHYSILLY AND MENTALLY. BROKEN BIRD: IN SEASON 6, 'S QUE CLEAR BEG IMPRISONED HAS DONE THIS TO HIM. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: WH MARGAERY. SEE HER ENTRY FOR EXAMPL OF THEIR TEAMWORK. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HIS FLASHY STYLE IS SEEN AS RATHER GDY TO MOST AND IS PART OF THE REASON ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS HE'S GAY, SOMETHG PROBLEMATIC A HOMOPHOBIC CULTURE LIKE WTEROS. HOWEVER HE'S A GIFTED FIGHTER AND ONE OF THE FEW KNIGHTS WHO LIV BY HIS VOWS, SO HE'S HIGHLY RPECTED. EVEN TYW SCRIB HIM AS "A SKILLED WARRR WHO TAK HIS VOWS SERLY." BUT NOT TOO GAY: HIS TIMATE SCEN WH RENLY ARE NOT NEARLY AS SEXUALLY EXPLIC AS THE HETEROSEXUAL PAIRGS ON THE SHOW. BY SEASON 5, HE'S SHOWN ENGAGED EXPLIC SEX WH OLYVAR, PLETE WH NUDY. CAMP GAY: BORRS ON THIS SEASONS 1 AND 2, PECIALLY WHEN PARED TO RENLY'S STRAIGHT GAY. "CAMPED UP" SEASON 3. CAMPY COMBAT: DOWNPLAYED. HE'S A GAY, FAMED KNIGHT WHO HAS LONG HAIR AND IS WELL-DRSED AND GROOMED. HE WEARS ARMOR VERED ROS, HIS HOE'S SYMBOL, AND JOTS AGAST GREGOR CLEGANE WHILE RIDG A WHE HORSE. THE CAVALRY: HE LEADS THE CHARGE "BLACKWATER", WHICH TURNS THE BATTLE FAVOR OF THE LANNISTERS. THE CHAMPN: HE IS THIS TO RENLY. NOTE  AS FN JON STAT THIS ARTICLE: "ALL OF HIS LIFE HE'S VOTED... EVERYTHG TO RENLY. HE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE MANY IENDS. RENLY WAS HIS MA IEND, HIS MA LOVER, AND HE DID EVERYTHG FOR THIS GUY AND THEN THE GUY DI AND HIS LIFE JT FALLS TO UTTER CHAOS..." COMBAT PRAGMATIST: HE RO A MARE THAT WAS HEAT, KNOWG SER GREGOR WOULD BE RIDG A STALLN. CHARACTERS GMBLE OVER WHETHER MAK HIM THIS TROPE OR A DIRTY CHEAT. ONE ULD EVEN ARGUE THAT WASN’T VERY PRAGMATIC, SCE GREGOR ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIM. COMMONALY CONNECTN: HE BEGS TO FORM THIS WH SANSA "THE CLIMB", AS THEY ARE BOTH EXTREMELY PRSED AFTER LOSG A LOVED ONE (RENLY FOR LORAS AND NED FOR SANSA), PL THEY FD LIFE KG'S LANDG TOLERABLE. COMPOSE CHARACTER: HIS WORDS TO CATELYN WHEN SHE APPROACH RENLY "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE" WERE TAKEN OM RANDYLL TARLY THE NOVELS, WHO DON'T APPEAR ONSCREEN UNTIL THE SIXTH SEASON. WH THE OTHER TWO TYRELL BROTHERS, GARLAN AND WILLAS, BEG ADAPTED OUT, LORAS TAK OVER THEIR PARTS THE PLOT: IN THE BOOKS, 'S HIS OLR BROTHER SER GARLAN WHO WEARS RENLY'S ARMOUR AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER. LORAS WANTED THE HONOUR, BUT HE WAS TOO SHORT AND TOO SLENR. THIS CHANGE IS ALSO A PRAGMATIC ADAPTATN ON THE SHOW BEE SHOW!RENLY HAS LS OF A HEROIC BUILD THAN BOOK!RENLY AND THE ACTORS WHO PLAY LORAS AND RENLY ARE PRACTILLY THE SAME SIZE. LORAS HAS ALSO TAKEN GARLAN'S POSN AS MANR OF THE TYRELLS' ARMY. IN THE THIRD SEASON, HIS FAY PLOTS TO BETROTH HIM TO SANSA. IN THE NOVELS, THE TYRELLS TEND HER TO WED HIS SCHOLARLY AND CRIPPLED OLR BROTHER WILLAS. IN "KISSED BY FIRE", HE ONCE AGA SUBSTUT FOR WILLAS WHEN TYW ORRS CERSEI TO MARRY LORAS AFTER THE LANNISTERS DISVER AND PRE-EMPT THE AFOREMENTNED SCHEME BY MARRYG SANSA TO TYRN; THE BOOKS, TYW PROPOS TO THE TYRELLS THAT CERSEI WILL MARRY WILLAS (BUT THEY REJECT THE OFFER, WHEREAS THE SHOW THEY DON'T). LORAS ALSO TAK WILLAS'S PLACE AS THE HEIR TO HIGHGARN. HE REPLAC SANSA AS THE PERSON WHO UNWTGLY SPILLS THE BEANS ABOUT THE SECRET ENGAGEMENT TO LTLEFGER'S AGENT. COOL HELMET: YOU N LOOK AT TAILED IMAG OF THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS'S HELM HERE. LORAS WEARS RENLY'S ANTLERED HELM AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER AS PART OF HIS ELABORATE DISGUISE. CRAZY JEALO GUY: HAS NOT HAD THE BT RPONSE TO RENLY MAKG BRIENNE A MEMBER OF HIS KGSGUARD. HE "PUNISH" HIS LOVER BY WHHOLDG SEX. CRY TO CHT: BREAKS DOWN MARGERY'S ARMS WHEN SHE VISS HIM HIS CELL. THE DANDY: SHY ARMOR, IMMACULATELY GROOMED, LOV HIS FLOWERS. THE LAST IS JTIFIED, SCE HIS HOE'S SIGIL IS A ROSE. LORAS WEARS BETIFUL CLOTHG SEASONS 3 AND 4 THAT ENHANC HIS GOOD LOOKS. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE N BE QUE SASSY ON OCSN. ALSO SEE HIS STEALTH INSULT ENTRY FOR MORE EXAMPL.LORAS: STANNIS HAS THE PERSONALY OF A LOBSTER! WHEN JAIME THREATENS HIM ABOUT MARRYG CERSEI, LORAS HAS THIS TO SAY.LORAS: AND NEHER WILL [1]. DEAD PERSON IMPERSONATN: IN "BLACKWATER", AS A RULT OF WEARG RENLY'S ARMOR BATTLE. STANNIS' MEN BELIEVE IS RENLY'S GHOST. DEATH BY DISFIGUREMENT: HE'S RVED WH THE OFFICIAL STAR THE FOREHEAD BY THE SPARROWS, ADDN TO A TRMATIC HAIRCUT, MUT BEFORE HE DI. DEATH SEEKER: WHEN MARGAERY VISS HIM HIS CELL, HE NTUOLY REPEATS THAT HE WANTS TO END, AND QUTNS WHEN WILL END. DEMOTED TO EXTRA: IN SEASON 4. HE ONLY HAS A FEW L OF DIALOGUE "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND IS RCED TO A BACKGROUND CHARACTER "FIRST OF HIS NAME" AND "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". AND SEASON 6, HE ONLY APPEARS TWO EPISOS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: TRMATIZED BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY DUE TO HIS IMPRISONMENT. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DIRT FORCEFIELD: HE SHOULD BE VERED BLOOD, SWEAT AND GRIME "BLACKWATER", YET HE'S PLETELY CLEAN. LORAS'S FLAWLS APPEARANCE IS FURTHER HIGHLIGHTED AFTER TYW ARRIV TO THE THRONE ROOM BEE THE OLD MAN'S FACE IS ATED WH BLOOD SPLATTER AND DIRT. DISTRACTED BY THE SEXY: HE ACCINTALLY BUMPS TO JAIME WHILE EXCHANGG SMOULRG LOOKS WH OBERYN MARTELL. DU LOOKS LIKE A LADY: JAIME SCRIB LORAS AS A CURLY-HAIRED LTLE GIRL "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS". JOFEY CLEARLY SE THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS A SIAR FASHN BEE HE ARRANG A REPUGNANT DWARF PLAY AT HIS WEDDG WHERE LORAS IS PICTED AS A GIRLY-LOOKG, CURLY-HAIRED MAN. DUE TO THE DEAD: HE STANDS VIGIL OVER RENLY'S BODY, AND REMAS NEAR HIS BELOVED EVEN AS TYRELL BANNERMEN ARE PANICKG TO FLEE THE AREA BEFORE STANNIS' FLEET ARRIV. IT'S REVEALED A LETED SCENE THAT LORAS ALSO BURIED RENLY ON HIS OWN, WHICH IS A TAIL TAKEN OM THE NOVELS. NOTE HE TELLS JAIME A STORM OF SWORDS: "I BURIED HIM WH ME OWN HANDS, A PLACE HE SHOWED ME ONCE WHEN I WAS A SQUIRE AT STORM'S END. NO ONE SHALL EVER FD HIM THERE TO DISTURB HIS RT." EATG THE EYE CANDY: HIS FACE SHOWS GREAT ANTICIPATN AND EXCEMENT AS RENLY REMOV HIS SHIRT "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE". AT THE PURPLE WEDDG, BOTH HE AND OBERYN SILENTLY MUNITE THAT THEY FD THE OTHER TO BE VERY "LECTABLE"; 'S VERY OBV WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO "EAT" FOR SSERT LATER THAT NIGHT... THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: HE IALLY VIEWED THE LANNISTERS AS HIS ENEMY, BUT HE CHOSE TO SI WH THEM AFTER STANNIS MURRED RENLY. LORAS STILL HAT JOFEY PASSNATELY, THOUGH, AS SEEN BY HIS SUPPRSED RAGE "VALAR MHULIS". EROTIC EATG: IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE AND OBERYN SENSUALLY CHEW ON FOOD TO SIGNAL THEIR SEXUAL TERT TOWARDS EACH OTHER. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: TWO LOWBORN LANNISTER SOLDIERS THK HE'S PRETTIER THAN QUEEN CERSEI — AND SHE'S NSIRED TO BE THE MOST BETIFUL WOMAN THE SEVEN KGDOMS. THE BISEXUAL PRCE OBERYN MENTALLY UNDRS LORAS WH HIS EY AT THE PURPLE WEDDG.FLANRIZATN: SO FAR SEASON 5.--> FLOWERS OF ROMANCE: SUBVERTED WHEN HE GIV SANSA A RED ROSE. SHE BELIEV 'S A TOKEN OF HIS AFFECTN AND FAILS TO NOTICE THAT LORAS IS ACTUALLY GOOGLY-EYED OVER RENLY. FOIL: POMPO, OVERNFINT, ATTRACTIVE KNIGHT, LORD COMMANR OF A FAY MEMBER'S KGSGUARD, BROTHER OF THE QUEEN, HIDG (BARELY) A SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP? HE'S JAIME 20 YEARS YOUNGER. LORAS IS A KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR WHO IS WILY ADMIRED BY THE SMALLFOLK, WHILE JAIME IS A BLOOD KNIGHT WHOM EVERYONE (ACCURATELY) REVIL AS AN OATHBREAKER AND (ACCURATELY) A SELF-SERVG OPPORTUNIST. LORAS IS REGNIZED AS ONE OF THE SAVURS OF KG'S LANDG AFTER HE HELPED TO END STANNIS'S SIEGE, BUT JAIME'S GREATT HEROIC ED (I.E. SAVG THE CY'S POPULATN OM BEG NSUMED BY THE MAD KG'S WILDFIRE) IS KNOWN BY NO ONE ELSE BIS BRIENNE. BY SEASON 4, THE YOUTHFUL LORAS IS A RISG STAR THE WORLD OF KNIGHTS, WHEREAS THE MIDDLE-AGED JAIME IS REGARD AS A HAS-BEEN NOW THAT HE HAS LOST HIS SWORD HAND. BOTH CHARACTERS SUFFER LENGTHY IMPRISONMENT, BUT WHEREAS THE IALISTIC LORAS IS BROKEN BY THE EXPERIENCE, JAMIE MANAG TO SURVIVE UNBROKEN. OLENNA SAV LORAS OM BEG ANOTHER KGSLAYER BY HAVG JOFEY POISONED, SCE JOFEY'S EVABLE MISTREATMENT OF MARGARERY ULD HAVE HAD ONLY ONE OUTE. ALSO SEE LORAS'S GOOD COUNTERPART ENTRY FOR MORE PARISONS BETWEEN THE TWO CHARACTERS. HE IS ALSO A FOIL TO BRIENNE OF TARTH. BOTH ARE KNIGHTS SHG ARMOR WHO ARE TRODUCED AS WNERS OF A TOURNEY EVENT, EARNG THEIR VICTORY WH THE AID OF COMBAT PRAGMATISM. THEY ARE HEIRS TO THEIR RPECTIVE HO, BUT THEY LOVE RENLY SO MUCH THAT THEY WOULD RATHER DITE THEIR WHOLE LIV TO SERVG HIM AS A MEMBER OF HIS KGSGUARD. THEY ARE PLETELY VASTATED AFTER RENLY IS SLA, BEG KNIGHTS SOUR ARMOR, AND BOTH SWEAR VENGEANCE AGAST STANNIS. ALTHOUGH THEY END UP WH DIFFERENT MASTERS, LORAS AND BRIENNE REMA VOTED TO RENLY THEIR OWN WAY, AND HAVE PERFORMED AT LEAST ONE ACT OF UNDYG LOYALTY. LORAS IS A PRETTY BOY (OR SOME CHARACTERS' OPN, A DU LOOKS LIKE A LADY), WHICH MIRRORS BRIENNE BEG PERCEIVED -UNIVERSE AS A LADY LOOKS LIKE A DU. IN TERMS OF THEIR DIFFERENC, HOWEVER, LORAS'S FIGHTG SKILLS ARE RPECTED BY VIRTUALLY EVERYONE, BUT BRIENNE'S MARTIAL PROWS REMAS LARGELY UNREGNIZED EVEN AFTER SHE BEATS THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS AT KG RENLY'S TOURNEY. LORAS BE A POWERLS POLIL PAWN AS OF SEASON 3, WHILE BRIENNE IS SENTIALLY A EE AGENT, PECIALLY AFTER CATELYN'S ATH. NUMERO CHARACTERS HAVE RID LORAS FOR HIS HOMOSEXUALY, BUT 'S UALLY NOT EXPRSED ONT OF HIS FACE. BRIENNE, ON THE OTHER HAND, ENDUR A LOT VERBAL ABE (OR WORSE) FOR HER MASCULY. LORAS DRS OSTENTATLY AND IS PERFECTLY IFFED ( MT TAKE SOME TIME TO STYLE THE UNLY CURLS EVERY MORNG), WHEREAS BRIENNE'S CLOTHG IS PLA AND SHE KEEPS HER STRAIGHT HAIR SHORT AND SIMPLE. TO SANSA STARK. LORAS (AN ASPIRG KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR) AND SANSA (AN ASPIRG PRCS CLASSIC) HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT LIFE ISN'T A FAIRY TALE. BOTH OF THEM RRIED ROMANTIC IALS, BELIEVG THAT THEY WOULD LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER WH THEIR BELOVED BARATHEON ("PRCE CHARMG" JOFEY FOR SANSA, "THE GOOD KG" RENLY FOR LORAS). BOTH HAVE BEEN CSHED EMOTNALLY WHEN THEIR DREAMS TRANSFORMED TO NIGHTMAR (JOFEY TURNED OUT TO BE A SADISTIC PSYCHOPATH AND EXECUTED SANSA'S FATHER, WHILE RENLY WAS MURRED NOT LONG AFTER LORAS PHED HIM TO BEE KG). IN SEASON 3, THEY ARE BOTH ED AS POLIL PAWNS BY OLENNA, TYW AND LTLEFGER, AND THEY END UP BEG BETROTHED TO SOMEONE THEY DON'T WANT TO MARRY. LORAS AND SANSA ARE MISERABLE LIVG KG'S LANDG, BUT THEY MATA A STEPFORD SER PERSONA. BOTH HAVE LLED JOFEY A MONSTER, AND THEY WERE AMONG THE THREE PEOPLE (THE OTHER BEG TYRN) WHO WERE TORMENTED THE MOST BY THE KG "THE LN AND THE ROSE". A MAJOR DISTCTN BETWEEN THE TWO CHARACTERS IS THAT LORAS HAS THE SUPPORT OF HIS POWERFUL FAY, WHICH MANAGED TO SECURE A PARDON OM THE CROWN EVEN THOUGH THEY ONCE SUPPORTED RENLY AND REBELLED AGAST JOFEY. IN NTRAST, ALL OF THE ADULTS SANSA'S HOE HAVE BEEN BUTCHERED BY THE LANNISTERS AS PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR TREASON, WHICH MAK HER A LOT MORE VULNERABLE. FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: MARGAERY IS UT, LCULATG AND ACTUALLY REMEMBERS SHE'S A DENT COURT WHEN SHE ARRIV THERE. LORAS TENDS TO FOLLOW HIS STCTS AND FALLS TO THE FIRST HONEY TRAP THAT OPENS BEFORE HIM KG'S LANDG. FOUR-STAR BADASS: LEADS THE TYRELL NTGENT AT BLACKWATER BAY. FROM THE ONT. NOT BAD FOR A YOUNG MAN HIS EARLY TWENTI WHO HAS NEVER FOUGHT A REAL BATTLE BEFORE. FRDIAN SLIP: IN "VALAR MHULIS", LORAS SUBNSCLY LET SLIP THAT RENLY WAS FAR MORE THAN A BROTHER--LAW TO HIM WHEN HE TELLS THE URT, "MY SISTER MARGAERY, HER HBAND WAS TAKEN OM BEFORE..." HE SHOULD'VE SAID "HER HBAND WAS TAKEN OM HER," OR SIMPLY "HER HBAND WAS TAKEN" STEAD. FRDIAN TR: HE IS THE ID HIS THREE-WAY MARRIAGE TO RENLY (EGO) AND MARGAERY (SUPEREGO). FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: IN "GARN OF BON", HE LGHS MERRILY AFTER RENLY MAK HIS HAM JOKE, BUT AS SOON AS CATELYN STARTS TALKG, LORAS BE ANNOYED AND SIGHS HEAVILY. HE APPEARS TO BE FLIRTG WH A YOUNG NOBLEMAN "SEND SONS" WHILE CERSEI REUNTS THE STORY OF THE RAS OF CASTEMERE. IN "FIRST OF HIS NAME", WHEN WE GLIMPSE THE THRONE ROOM OM MARGAERY'S PERSPECTIVE, LORAS IS CHATTG WH OBERYN. NOTE PRUMABLY, AS THE MAN WE SEE OM BEHD IS ABOUT THE SAME HEIGHT AS LORAS — JT AS FN JON AND PEDRO PASL ARE REAL LIFE — DARK-HAIRED AND DRSED GOLD, AND PREV SHOTS OF OBERYN SHOW THAT HE IS WEARG A GOLD OUTF THIS SCENE. HMM, DID THOSE TWO MEN ALREADY HOOK UP OFF-SCREEN, OR ARE AT LEAST PLANNG TO DO SO SOON? GOOD COUNTERPART: TO SER JAIME LANNISTER. LORAS HAS YET TO DO ANYTHG AS HEO AS PHG A KID OUT OF A WDOW OR MURRG HIS OWN LD BLOOD. HE AND MARGAERY ARE A BROTHER–SISTER TEAM, WHEREAS JAIME AND CERSEI ARE ENGAGED BROTHER–SISTER INCT. ALTHOUGH LORAS IS JEALO OF BRIENNE, HE DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO HARM HER, AND EVEN TO HER FENSE WHEN MARGAERY ACC HER OF MURRG RENLY. JAIME ATTEMPTS TO KILL BRIENNE (WHO WAS MERELY TRYG TO RT HIM SAFELY TO KG'S LANDG, ALBE CHAS) "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS". LORAS TRI TO ENGAGE POLE SMALL TALK WH JAIME "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND THE OLR KNIGHT SUDNLY LAT TO A NONTATN BY THREATENG HIS LIFE. HEARTBROKEN BADASS: HE BE THIS AFTER RENLY IS SLA. HELMETS ARE HARDLY HEROIC: WHEN THEY MEET STANNIS "GARN OF BON", LORAS IS THE ONLY MEMBER OF RENLY'S KGSGUARD WHO DON'T WEAR A HELM. INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: HE IS SOMEWHAT AWKWARD WHILE NVERSG WH SANSA "THE CLIMB", BUT HE DO SEEM TO GENUELY WANT TO HELP HER PE KG'S LANDG THROUGH THEIR MARRIAGE AND GIVE HER A BETTER LIFE HIGHGARN. INFORMED ATTRACTIVENS: WHILE FELY ONE OF THE BT-LOOKG MEN THE ST, THE MENTS ON LORAS'S GOOD LOOKS NEVER STOP AND GO A B OVERBOARD. IN-SERI NICKNAME: THE KNIGHT OF (THE) FLOWERS. THE EXTRA "THE" WAS ED SEASON 1, BUT HAS BEEN OMTED SCE SEASON 2. NOTE IN THE NOVELS, HE'S ALSO REFERRED TO AS "RENLY'S LTLE ROSE," TH MANAGG TO BE HIS FAY'S HERALDIC SYMBOL WH MENTARY ON HIS POLICS, HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND HIS PRUMED-TO-BE-FAVORE SEXUAL POSN. INSTANT SCTN: IT DON'T TAKE LONG FOR HIM TO BE SCED BY OLYVAR. JTIFIED, SCE THE SPY IS ONE OF LTLEFGER'S PROSTUT, AND THEREFORE QUE EXPERIENCED AT THIS, PL LORAS HASN'T BEEN PHYSILLY TIMATE WH ANYONE SCE RENLY'S ATH. IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI: IN TERMS OF THIS TROPE'S FIVE BROAD TEGORI, LORAS IS STRONGLY FED BY HIS EFFEMATE OR NON-MASCULE APPEARANCE AND TYPILLY FEME INTERTS (E.G. HIS ENTHIASM FOR FASHN). INTERPTED INTIMACY: MARGAERY OF ALL PEOPLE WALKS ON LORAS AND OLYVAR HAVG SEX, ONLY TO REMD LORAS HE IS STILL ENGAGED TO CERSEI. I OWE YOU MY LIFE: HE SAYS THIS WORD-FOR-WORD TO THE HOUND AFTER SANDOR SAV HIM OM THE MOUNTA, AND LORAS CIS TO REPAY THE BT BY FORFEG THE FAL ROUND OF THE JOT AND GIVG THE CHAMPNSHIP TLE (PL THE SUBSTANTIAL AWARD MONEY) TO THE HOUND. JOTG LANCE: IS AN EXPERT AT G THIS WEAPON. LORAS HAS BEATEN NOTABLE KNIGHTS SUCH AS JAIME LANNISTER AND GREGOR CLEGANE JOTG PETNS, AND IS WILY REGARD TO BE THE FT JOTER THE SEVEN KGDOMS. KNIGHT SHG ARMOR: PLAYED WH, AS HE IS BOTH WILLG TO E UNRHAND TACTICS A JOT WH GREGOR CLEGANE, AND WAS SECRETLY URGG RENLY TO OVERTHROW THE SUPPOSED RIGHTFUL HEIR AND LE AS KG. HOWEVER BOTH S THE TARGET OF THE SHADY MOV WERE THOROUGHLY SERVG OF SUCH TREATMENT (AND THE LATTER EXAMPLE, HE CLEARLY BELIEV RENLY WOULD BE A FAR KR AND MORE NOBLE KG AND TH BETTER FOR THE KGDOM), AND HE REMAS ONE OF THE SHOW'S CLOST NDIDAT TO BEG THIS TROPE AS HE IS CHIVALRO, NOBLE, A TALENTED FIGHTER, AND IF HIS ARMOR WERE ANY SHIER, HE WOULD BE A WALKG MIRROR. EVEN TYW, WHO KNOWS OF LORAS'S "UNNATURAL BEHAVUR," NOT THAT LORAS IS A HIGHLY-SKILLED WARRR WHO TAK HIS VOWS SERLY. ALTHOUGH HE'S NOT ROMANTILLY TERTED SANSA, HIS ADHERENCE TO KNIGHTLY IALS PLAYS A PART WANTG TO RCUE HER OM THE HELL SHE'S , AND HE WILLGLY ENTERS TO AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE WH THE GIRL SO THAT HE N WHISK HER AWAY TO HIGHGARN. SAY WHAT YOU WILL OF HIS GRANDMOTHER'S AND SISTER'S ULTERR MOTIV, BUT LORAS IS MORE HONOURABLE THAN THAT. HE UNRSTANDS THAT KG'S LANDG IS A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR SANSA, AND HE SE HER AS A DAMSEL DISTRS WHO IS HELD PRISONER BY THE "MONSTER" JOFEY. KNIGHT SOUR ARMOUR: HE BE THIS SEASON 2, PECIALLY AFTER RENLY DI. IT'S EVEN SHOWN SYMBOLILLY, AS HIS ONCE SPOTLS SU OF ARMOUR HAS BEE DIRTY AND TARNISHED. LADY MACBETH: WHOUT HIS LIPS WHISPERG ENURAGEMENT RENLY'S EAR (AND DOG... OTHER THGS OTHER PLAC), RENLY PROBABLY STILL WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE'D MAKE A GOOD KG, BUT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE ACTED ON THOSE THOUGHTS. POSSIBLY A SUBVERSN, AS OTHER CHARACTERS HAVE IMPLIED RENLY'S LEGIMATELY IS THE BT CHOICE OF ALL THE PEOPLE RELATED TO ROBERT, AND ONLY OUT OF THE NNG DUE TO AN ACCINT OF BIRTH ORR. THE LADY'S FAVOUR: IT IALLY APPEARS TO BE A GENR VERSN OF THIS TROPE WHEN HE GIV SANSA A ROSE BEFORE HIS JOT, BUT 'S QUICKLY SUBVERTED WHEN TURNS OUT TO BE AN EMPTY GTURE. RENLY IS HIS TE SWEETHEART, BUT LORAS OBVLY NNOT OFFER HIS FAVOUR TO ANOTHER MAN A HOMOPHOBIC SOCIETY, SO HE SIMPLY HANDS THE ROSE TO THE YOUNG LADY WHO HAPPENS TO BE SEATED THE CLOST TO RENLY THE STANDS. LADY AND KNIGHT: A SAME-SEX VARIATN WHERE HE IS THE SKILLED, BRAVE WARRR WHO IS SWORN TO PROTECT THE HANDSOME AND GENTLE KG RENLY. LADY MACBETH: DPE BEG A MALE CHARACTER, LORAS SENTIALLY FULFILLS THIS TROPE BY PLANTG THE IA TO RENLY'S HEAD THAT HE SHOULD BE KG. LOVE HURTS: LOSG THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE IS ALREADY CREDIBLY PAFUL ENOUGH AS IS, BUT WHAT MAK LORAS'S SUFFERG EVEN WORSE IS THAT HE NNOT OPENLY EXPRS HIS GRIEF AS RENLY WAS A MAN AND A TRAOR TO THE CROWN. JOFEY HAS RMED MARGAERY THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO EXECUTE ALL HOMOSEXUALS, SO LORAS N'T AFFORD TO LET OUT ANY OF HIS TE FEELGS. HE IS STILL MOURNG LOVE TRIANGLE: BRIENNE IS LOVE WH RENLY, BUT HE AND LORAS HAVE ALREADY BEEN A ROMANTIC UPLE FOR YEARS, AND SHE DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THE GOSSIP SURROUNDG THEM. WHILE RENLY IS AWARE THAT BRIENNE IS VERY LOYAL TO HIM, 'S UNCLEAR ON THE SHOW IF HE EVER SPECTED THAT SHE FANCIED HIM. FOR RENLY SEASON 4. LUCKILY, MY SHIELD WILL PROTECT ME: HIS SHIELD SAV HIS LIFE WHEN THE MOUNTA ATTACKS HIM AFTER THEIR JOT. LUDICRO GIBS: HIS BODY IS LERALLY BLASTED TO A THOAND PIEC (POSSIBLY EVEN TO NOTHGNS) BY CERSEI'S BOMBG OF THE SEPT. LYSISTRATA GAMB: A RATHER ATYPIL EXAMPLE VOLVG A SAME-SEX UPLE. FEELG SLIGHTED BY BRIENNE'S RANK UP, LORAS NOT ONLY WHHOLDS SEX OM RENLY, BUT HE PUNISH HIS BOYIEND EVEN FURTHER BY BRGG MARGAERY TO RENLY'S BED, KNOWG FULL WELL THAT RENLY UTTERLY DREADS THE PROSPECT OF HAVG TO NSUMMATE THE MARRIAGE. MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG: HE THKS RENLY SHOULD BE KG BEE UNLIKE THOSE WHO ME BEFORE HIM, HE WOULD BE LOVED STEAD OF HATED OR FEARED. MANGST: EXPERIENC A LOT OF THIS AFTER RENLY IS ASSASSATED. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: LORAS PLAYS THE FEME BOY TO BRIENNE'S MASCULE GIRL. MASTER SWORDSMAN: HIS SWORD FIGHTG SKILLS HAVE BEEN PRAISED BY VAR CHARACTERS. MEANGFUL LOOK: HE AND RENLY SHARE A LGERG ONE AT THE TOURNEY OF THE HAND, AND 'S OUR FIRST CLUE THAT THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE MORE THAN IENDS. THEY EXCHANGE ANOTHER LOOK WHEN BRIENNE ASKS TO BEE ONE OF RENLY'S KGSGUARDS. AS RENLY NSIRS HER REQUT, LORAS'S EXPRSN BASILLY READS, "TELL HER NO." RENLY CIS TO DISREGARD THIS QUIET PLEA, MUCH TO LORAS'S IRRATN. SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPL "VALAR MHULIS" AND "VALAR DOHAERIS". IN "SEND SONS", TYRN RAIS HIS GLASS PY TO HIM, AND HIS EY SAY, "YOU'RE NEXT TO GET MARRIED." LORAS, WHO IS ALREADY QUE TRATED OM THE DAY'S EVENTS, SIGHS AND TURNS HIS HEAD AWAY. MEMETIC BADASS: IN-UNIVERSE. ALONGSI THE KGSLAYER, SER BARRISTAN THE BOLD, AND THE BLACKFISH. THE MISTRS: DPE BEG THERE FIRST, LORAS IS RENLY'S, WH HIS SISTER MARGAERY BEG THE OFFICIAL SPOE. SHE'S OL WH . MOMENT KILLER: IN "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE", THE FOREPLAY BETWEEN LORAS AND RENLY IS UNEXPECTEDLY TERPTED AFTER RENLY STARTS KISSG THE BIS ON LORAS'S CHT. THIS REMDS LORAS OF THE HUIATN HE SUFFERED EARLIER THE DAY, AND KILLS THE MOOD. MOODY MOUNT: HE EXPLOS THIS TROPE WHEN HE JOTS AGAST THE MOUNTA. HE KNOWS THAT HIS OPPONENT HAS AN ILL-TEMPERED STALLN, SO LORAS BRGS A MARE HEAT TO GIVE HIMSELF AN ADVANTAGE. MCL ARE MEANGLS: ALTHOUGH LORAS DO POSSS A SLENR BUILD THE BOOKS, FN JON' SKNY PHYSIQUE AND HIS LACK OF MCL ON THE SHOW MAKE DIFFICULT FOR SOME VIEWERS TO BELIEVE THAT HIS CHARACTER IS ONE OF THE BT KNIGHTS WTEROS. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: IF WEREN'T FOR HIS EP-SEATED SIRE TO EXACT SOME FORM OF REVENGE ON STANNIS, LORAS WOULD NEVER HAVE AGREED TO SI WH THE LANNISTERS BEE HE LOATH THEM (JOFEY PECIALLY). HOWEVER, SPE HIS PERSONAL FEELGS, LORAS IS DUTIFUL TO HIS OWN FAY'S TERTS, AND HE ADOPTS A GR-AND-BEAR- ATTU. DPE TRYG TO PLOT AGAST CERSEI WH RENLY SEASON 1, HE ATTEMPTS TO BE NICE TO HER "SEND SONS" AFTER THEY ARE FORCIBLY ENGAGED (ALTHOUGH HIS EFFORT IS QUICKLY SHOT DOWN BY THE QUEEN REGENT'S NS). MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THIS IS WRTEN ALL OVER HIS FACE AS HE SS NEAR RENLY'S RPSE. HE FEELS EXTREMELY GUILTY FOR NVCG HIS LOVER TO MAKE A BID FOR THE IRON THRONE, AS THIS PATH LED TO RENLY BEG A TARGET FOR ASSASSATN. MY SISTER IS OFF-LIMS: A NON-VERBAL VERSN IS FEATURED "VALAR MHULIS" . AFTER LORAS UNHAPPILY OFFERS HIS SISTER AS A BRI TO JOFEY, HE THEN STANDS PROTECTIVELY BEHD MARGAERY AND STAR FIANTLY JOFEY'S DIRECTN. THE BOY-KG IS ONLY PAYG ATTENTN TO MARGAERY AT THIS POT, SO HE DON'T GET THE MSAGE, BUT LORAS IS WARNG JOFEY THAT HE HAD BETTER NOT HARM HIS SISTERNOTE THIS LEADS TO THEIR GRANDMOTHER PREEMPTG LORAS, BOTH TO PROTECT MARGAERY OM JOFEY AND TO PREVENT LORAS OM BEG A REPUTED KGSLAYER — BY BEATG HIM TO THE PUNCH!. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: HE PERSUAS RENLY TO BEE KG, AND HIS BELOVED IS LATER KILLED BY A MONSTRO LIVG SHADOW. HE REVEALS TO OLYVAR THAT HE'S SECRETLY ENGAGED TO SANSA. THE RMATN IS THEN PASSED ON TO LTLEFGER, WHO THEN SHAR WH THE QUEEN REGENT, AND THE TYRELLS' PLAN IS ED. OPEN SECRET: HE AND RENLY AREN'T FOOLG ANYONE, EXCEPT ROBERT (WHO IS SO NEGLECTFUL OF HIS YOUNGT BROTHER THAT HE HAS NO IA THAT RENLY IS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH LORAS), AND SANSA (WHO IS GENERALLY CLUELS). THIS BACK TO BE HIM WHEN THE FAH MILANT GAS POWER SCE LORAS'S HOMOSEXUALY IS SO MON KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARRT HIM FOR WH NO EVINCE. PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE KOMBAT: HE AND MARGAERY ENGAGE THIS WHEN THEY DE WH CERSEI AND JOFEY "VALAR DOHAERIS". JAIME IAT A VERBAL NONTATN WH HIM "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND LORAS FIGURATIVELY BURNS THE OLR KNIGHT WH ONLY A FEW SHARP WORDS. PRAGMATIC ADAPTATN: LORAS IS OLR THAN MARGAERY THE BOOKS, BUT WAS REVEALED BY BRYAN COGMAN THIS TERVIEW THAT MARGAERY IS MACE TYRELL'S ELST CHILD ON THE SHOW. THE SWCH BIRTH ORR WAS NO DOUBT DUE TO THE FACT THAT FN JON IS SIX YEARS YOUNGER THAN NATALIE DORMER, THE ACTRS WHO PLAYS HIS CHARACTER'S SISTER. PRETTY BOY: GEE R. R. MART EVEN SCRIBED HIM AS ".. TEEN IDOL OF WTEROS" THIS HBO FEATURETTE. SANSA HAS A CSH ON HIM BEE OF HIS GOOD LOOKS. IN "THE CLIMB", OLENNA LLS LORAS ".. PRI OF HIGHGARN, THE MOST SIRABLE BACHELOR ALL OF THE SEVEN KGDOMS." HE WAS A LONG HAIRED PRETTYBOY SEASON 1. NOTE FN JON DIDN'T LIKE THE LIMP, WAVY WIG, SO HIS NATURAL HAIR WAS ED OM SEASON 2 ONWARDS. SOME FANS WERE PUZZLED AS TO WHY THE WIG WAS ED THE FIRST PLACE, AS LORAS THE BOOKS HAS CURLY HAIR. QUIRKY CURLS: HIS HAIR IS RATHER CURLY. RED BARON: "THE KNIGHT OF THE FLOWERS". RELATNSHIP REVEAL: THE SCENE WHERE HE IS SHAVG RENLY'S CHT. REVENGE: HIS REASON TO TEAM UP WH THE LANNISTERS AFTER RENLY IS KILLED; LORAS ACHIEV PARTIAL VENGEANCE AGAST STANNIS BY HELPG TO FEAT THE LATTER'S FORC AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER. REVENGE BEFORE REASON: IN "THE GHOST OF HARRENHAL", LORAS IS READY TO STORM OUT OF RENLY'S TENT TO PUT A SWORD THROUGH STANNIS' RIGHTEO FACE, BUT MARGAERY AND LTLEFGER MANAGE TO NVCE HIM THAT WOULD BE HOPELS, AS HE WOULD BE KILLED BY STANNIS' MEN LONG BEFORE HE EVER REACHED HIS TARGET. AVERTED WH BRIENNE ON THE SHOW. FROM THE BOOKS... HE HOLDS HER RPONSIBLE FOR RENLY'S ATH AND FLI TO A MURRO RAGE WHEN HE SE BRIENNE ENTER THE RED KEEP WH JAIME A STORM OF SWORDS. ALTHOUGH JAIME EVENTUALLY LLS HIM OUT ON THIS, POTG OUT BRIENNE WORSHIPPED RENLY, OCCURS MUCH LATER THE STORYLE. THAT BEG SAID, THE BOOKS STRONGLY IMPLY THAT LORAS HAD ALWAYS BLAMED HIMSELF FOR NOT BEG THERE, AND WAS LARGELY A SE OF DISPLACED ANGER. HE PUTS 2-AND-2 TOGETHER AND REALIS THAT SHE WAS SUCH A RENLY FANGIRL THAT SHE WOULD HAVE DIED BEFORE SHE'D EVER HARM RENLY, TH DISMISSG THE MON MOR THE SHE KILLED HIM OUT OF HAND.MARGAERY: BRIENNE OF TARTH MURRED RENLY. LORAS: I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT. WHO WOULD GA THE MOST OM OUR KG'S ATH? LTLEFGER: STANNIS. REVERSE ARM-FOLD: HE ADOPTS THIS POSE SEASON 3 WHENEVER HE WISH TO APPEAR RELAXED; EXAMPL CLU HIS GREETG OF CERSEI AND JOFEY "VALAR DOHAERIS", WHILE HE WALKS AWAY OM SANSA "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS", AND TYRN AND SANSA'S WEDDG CEREMONY. RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS: HE ODDLY KEEP HIS PANTS ON WHEN HE HAS SEX WH OLYVAR. RULE OF SEXY: THERE IS NO VALID REASON FOR HIM TO BE HELMET-LS WHEN HE IS PRENT FOR RENLY'S PARLEY WH STANNIS, OTHER THAN WAS THE DIRECTOR'S WHIM TO HIGHLIGHT THE CHARACTER'S PHYSIL BETY. FOR A SERI WHICH PRIS SELF ON S GRTS, 'S PLETELY UNREALISTIC FOR LORAS TO LOOK LIKE HE HAD JT STEPPED OUT OF A WTEROSI HAIR SHAMPOO MERCIAL AT THE END OF "BLACKWATER". RULE OF SYMBOLISM: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPLE "VALAR DOHAERIS". HE IS THE ONLY TYRELL THE FIRST THREE SEASONS WHO SPORTS GREEN-AND-GOLD ATTIRE. IN "KISSED BY FIRE", HE IS SPARRG WH VAR TYRELL SQUIR, SO BEG ADORNED HIS HOE'S TE LOURS REPRENTS HIS HONTY AS A KNIGHT (AS OPPOSED TO BEG A PAWN — ALBE ONE WH A CEPTIVE MASK — HIS FAY'S POLIL MACHATNS) THIS SCENE. THE PK ROSE PATTERNS ON LORAS'S SLEEV AND OBERYN'S WRAP AROUND BELT◊ AT THE PURPLE WEDDG ARE INTIL. ONLY THE FABRIC'S BACKGROUND LOUR IS DIFFERENT, AND OBERYN'S SE, 'S ACTUALLY GREEN, ONE OF THE HOE TYRELL LOURS THAT IS MISSG OM LORAS'S OUTF. THIS SUBTLY HTS AT THE TWO CHARACTERS' ATTRACTN TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND THEIR SIARI. (OBERYN SERV AS A FOIL TO LORAS — SEE OBERYN'S FOIL ENTRY FOR MORE TAILS.) IT'S PROBABLY NOT A CINCE THAT THE FIVE-PETAL FLORAL SIGN ON OBERYN'S NECKLACE◊ IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSN OF THE EMBOSSED/ENAMELED FIVE-PETAL FLOWERS ON LORAS'S ARMOUR◊. RULG COUPLE: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THE FULL TAILS. SATELLE CHARACTER: HIS CHARACTERIZATN TENDS TO CHANGE TO ACMODATE THE PLOT. SAYG TOO MUCH: HE IS GUILTY OF THIS WHEN HE RMS OLYVAR OF HIS BETROTHAL TO SANSA. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: FLE KG'S LANDG WH RENLY WHEN BE EVINT THAT JOFEY WILL ASCEND TO THE THRONE. HE ALSO PROCEEDS TO DO THIS WH MARGAERY AND THE TYRELL ARMI AFTER RENLY'S SUDN ATH. IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE FURLY PARTS OM THE PARTY DURG THE PART OF THE DWARF PERFORMANCE THAT VOLVED RENLY RIDG ON A RITURE OF HIMSELF WHILE GETTG ANALLY VLATED BY A FAKE MACE. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: WHILE HIS FACIAL FEATUR AND PHYSIL BUILD ARE NOTICEABLY MORE ANDROGYNO THAN RENLY'S, LORAS IS A ADLY WARRR; HIS LOVER ON THE OTHER HAND HAS NEVER FOUGHT A DAY HIS LIFE. SHIELD BASH: HE IS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS WHEN BRIENNE HS HIS HELM-VERED HEAD WH HER SHIELD DURG THEIR MELEE, BUT HE REVERS OM THE BLOW. SHIRTLS SCENE: HAS A UPLE OF THE WH RENLY. HE ALSO HAS ONE WH OLYVAR "KISSED BY FIRE". SIBLG Y-YANG: LORAS PUBLICLY PRETENDS THAT HIS FAY'S ALLIANCE WH RENLY IS MOTIVATED BY POLICS AND AMBN TO NCEAL THE FACT THAT HE IS ACTUALLY ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH THE ASPIRG KG. SEE MARGAERY TO NTRAST. SOMETHG ABOUT A ROSE: THE ROSE HE RRI "THE WOLF AND THE LN" HTS THAT HE IS AN AGENT PEACK — BETIFUL, BUT DANGERO. CONSIRG THAT THE MOUNTA HAD KILLED AN OPPONENT THE PREV EPISO, VIEWERS WHO HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS MIGHT ASSUME THAT THE RATHER LITE-LOOKG KNIGHT OF FLOWERS IS STED TO BEE GREGOR'S NEXT VICTIM. WH A LTLE COMBAT PRAGMATISM, HOWEVER, LORAS TAK DOWN THE FEARSOME BTE ON HIS FIRST JOTG ATTEMPT. LORAS HAS A ROSE BROOCH AND ROS ON HIS SLEEV "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND JAIME MAK THE MISTAKE OF BELIEVG THAT THE YOUNG FOP IS HARMLS WHEN HE ISN'T JOTG OR WIELDG A SWORD. AFTER THE KGSLAYER FIGURATIVELY TRI TO CLAW AT THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS, LORAS THEN SHOV A METAPHORIL THORN TO JAIME'S PAW, AND STGS. SORE LOSER: ALTHOUGH HE DON'T DO OR SAY ANYTHG NEGATIVE TO BRIENNE AFTER SHE WS THEIR MELEE PETN, HE'S SHOWN TO BE BTER ABOUT HIS FEAT WHEN HE SPEAKS TO RENLY PRIVATE. SPOILED BRAT: IN "THE WOLF AND THE LN", RENLY VIEWS LORAS AS THIS. RENLY: AND HOW MUCH DID YOUR FATHER PAY FOR THAT ARMOUR OF YOURS? THE SQUIRE: ALTHOUGH THIS HASN'T BEEN EXPLICLY MENTNED ON THE SERI YET, THE HBO VIEWER'S GUI DO STATE THAT LORAS HAD SERVED AS RENLY'S SQUIRE, WHICH IS FAHFUL TO THE NOVELS. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: HIS ILLIC ROMANCE WH RENLY TO A TRAGIC END "THE GHOST OF HARRENHAL" WHEN RENLY IS ASSASSATED. STEALTH INSULT: HE HAS THIS MON WH HIS SISTER AND GRANDMOTHER. ALTHOUGH HE SPEAKS ONLY A FEW L "VALAR DOHAERIS", LORAS (POLELY) BS TO CERSEI'S FACE THAT HE THKS VERY POORLY OF HER AS QUEEN DUE TO HER NEGLECT/MISTREATMENT OF THE SMALLFOLK.LORAS: (SG DIRECTLY AT CERSEI) MARGAERY DO A GREAT AL OF WORK WH THE POOR BACK HIGHGARN. IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE PROV THAT HE N FIGHT WH WORDS JT AS WELL AS HE FIGHTS WH SWORDS AFTER JAIME THREATENS HIM. THE OLR KNIGHT IS EVEN A LTLE STUNNED BY HOW EASILY LORAS IS ABLE TO HURT HIS FEELGS WH A SGLE, BG LE.JAIME: LUCKILY FOR YOU, NONE OF THIS WILL HAPPEN, BEE YOU WILL NEVER MARRY HER [CERSEI]. LORAS: (S SMUGLY) AND NEHER WILL YOU. (PATS JAIME ON THE ARM) STEPFORD SER: HE'S A TYPE A AS OF SEASON 3. HE PUTS ON A CHARMG SE AND A PLEASANT DISPOSN MOST OF THE TIME, BUT HIS MASK SLIPS AT A VERY PUBLIC EVENT "SEND SONS", AND HIS MISERY BETRAYS SELF MORE SUBTLY "VALAR DOHAERIS" (LORAS — WHO IS NO LONGER PAYG ATTENTN TO THE DNER NVERSATN — HAS A MELANCHOLIC EXPRSN WHEN JOFEY SAYS, "I'M SURE SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE'S DOG"). IN "THE CLIMB", HE SADLY TELLS SANSA, "IT'S [KG'S LANDG] TERRIBLE, ISN'T ? THE MOST TERRIBLE PLACE THERE IS," WHICH CLEARLY DIT THAT LORAS IS SUFFERG SILENCE. HIS GENTEEL FA CMBL AGA AT YET ANOTHER WEDDG FEAST "THE LN AND THE ROSE" WHERE JOFEY MAK FUN OF HIS RELATNSHIP WH RENLY THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE ONT OF SEVERAL HUNDRED GUTS. SUBORDATE EXCE: HE IS THE SOLE MALE HEIR OF THE SEND-RICHT FAY WTEROS, AND PRUMABLY HE HAS DUTI HIGHGARN AND THE REACH, YET SEASON 2 HE CHOOS TO VOTE HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO PROTECTG RENLY. BEG THE LORD COMMANR OF HIS BROTHER--LAW'S KGSGUARD IS A VERY NVENIENT WAY FOR LORAS TO BE ABLE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WH HIS BELOVED, AS HIS EQUENT VISS N BE EXPLAED AWAY AS BEG JOB-RELATED. (IT DON'T STOP THE MOURS ABOUT THEM OM SPREADG AMONG RENLY'S FOLLOWERS, HOWEVER.) SUPPRSED RAGE: HIS BODY LANGUAGE NNOT DISGUISE THE UTTER DISGT AND TRATN THAT HE FEELS AT HAVG TO BEND THE KNEE TO JOFEY "VALAR MHULIS". THE ABPT AND MANNER WHICH LORAS STORMS AWAY OM THE WEDDG FEAST "SEND SONS" IS MERELY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG TERMS OF THE TE PTHS OF HIS ANGER OVER HIS CURRENT SUATN (I.E. HIS FORCED BETROTHAL TO CERSEI, HIS ABILY TO MOURN FOR RENLY PUBLIC, ETC.). DURG JOFEY'S WEDDG, THE OUTRAGEOLY OFFENSIVE AND STRAIGHT-UP SULTG DISPLAY THAT JOFEY ARRANG (WHICH VOLV A DWARF DRSED AS RENLY RIDG A THLY-DISGUISED PUPPET OF LORAS AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEG SODOMIZED BY AN ENEMY'S MACE) FORC LORAS TO STORM AWAY BEFORE HIS ANGER GETS THE BT OF HIM. TEMPTG FATE: WHEN MARGAERY TCH LORAS BED WH OLYVAR, SHE WARNS HIM HE SHOULD BE MORE DISCREET. LORAS POTS OUT EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HE'S GAY 'SONS OF THE HARPY', THE FAH MILANT GETS THEIR HANDS ON HIM. TO BE LAWFUL OR GOOD: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPLE "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". TOO DUMB TO LIVE: AFTER HE STARTS A RELATNSHIP WH OLYAR, HE LETS SLIP HIS GRANDMOTHER'S PLAN FOR HIM TO MARRY SANSA — WHICH OLYVAR PROMPTLY PASS ON TO LTLEFGER, AND WHICH ENDS UP G THE TYRRELS' PLAN. DPE THE FACT THAT SHOULD BE BLATANTLY OBV WHERE THE LEAK ME OM, LORAS NTU HIS RELATNSHIP WH OLYVAR, WHICH ALLOWS HIS LOVER TO SELL HIM OUT TO THE HIGH SEPTON AND THE FAH MILANT. TRAGIC KEEPSAKE: RENLY'S ARMOUR. THIS HEARTBREAKG LETED SCENE OM SEASON 2 MAK MORE OBV. IT'S THE ONLY PHYSIL OBJECT THAT LORAS HAS KEPT AS A REMR OF HIS LOVER AFTER HE BURI RENLY'S BODY. THE TWK: HE FS THE PHYSIL SCRIPTN TO A TEE, BUT THE TROPE IS SOMEWHAT SUBVERTED WH REGARDS TO HIS ROMANCE WH RENLY (WHO IS AN "OTTER" GAY SLANG) BEE LORAS IS THE EMOTNALLY DOMANT PARTNER THEIR RELATNSHIP SPE BEG A FEW YEARS YOUNGER. THE UGLY GUY'S HOT DGHTER : HE MT HAVE HERED HIS ELY APPEARANCE OM HIS MOTHER (OR POSSIBLY HIS GRANDMOTHER, SCE HE DO CLOSELY REMBLE HIS SISTER), AS HE LOOKS NOTHG LIKE HIS HOMELY FATHER. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: UNLIKE MOST FAMED FIGHTERS WHO ARE VERY MACHO, LORAS PUTS A LOT OF RE TO HIS ANDROGYNO APPEARANCE, WHICH RULTS HIM BEG UNRTIMATED BY HIS FO. IN KEEPG WH HIS FAY'S MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG POLICY, HE PRENTS HIMSELF AS AN APPROACHABLE GENTLEMAN TO THE MASS (AS OPPOSED TO THE DREAD LIKE THE CLEGANE BROTHERS), BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, LORAS IS ONE OF BT SWORDSMEN THE REALM, AND HAS PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE AN EFFECTIVE BATTLE MANR. UNDYG LOYALTY: WHILE HIS FAY JOED THE LANNISTERS OUT OF A SIRE TO GA MORE POLIL POWER, LORAS HIMSELF ONLY WANTED TO AVENGE RENLY'S MURR. COMMANDG A VALRY CHARGE WHILE WEARG HIS CEASED LOVER'S ARMOUR IS QUE A GRAND ROMANTIC GTURE, AS WAS LORAS'S WAY OF HONOURG THE VOW HE HAD MA TO RENLY SEASON 1. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: LORAS ENURAGED RENLY TO URP THE LE OF SUCCSN AGAST STANNIS, AND GOT HIS FAY HOE TYRELL, VOLVED AS PATRONS AND BACKERS FOR RENLY'S CLAIM TO THE THRONE. OLENNA TYRELL WARNED THE RT OF THE HOE TO AVOID GETTG VOLVED SEEG AS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE AND RENLY AS A WEAK NDIDATE, BUT THEY WENT ANYWAY, THIS STARTED A SERI OF DISASTER DOMO THAT LED TO RENLY'S ATH, THE LANNISTERS WNG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, OLENNA KILLG JOFEY TO PROTECT MARGAERY, WHICH LED TIME TO CERSEI UNRGOG SANY SLIPPAGE, ARMG THE FAH MILANT, LEADG FALLY TO LORAS' TORTURE BY THE SPARROWS, AND THE ATH AND OF THEIR FAY AND HOE. WHE STALLN: AS BEFTG A KNIGHT SHG ARMOR, HE RO A WHE MARE AT THE TOURNEY OF THE HAND. IN "BLACKWATER", HE CHARGED TO BATTLE ON RENLY'S WHE HORSE (WHICH WAS SEEN "GARN OF BON") TO BETTER ENHANCE THE ILLN THAT HE IS KG RENLY'S GHOST. YOU MONSTER!: HE TELLS RENLY SEASON 1 THAT HE THKS JOFEY IS A MONSTER, AND 'S ONE OF THE MA REASONS WHY LORAS WANTS TO CROWN HIS BOYIEND AS KG.    LORD LUTHOR TYRELL LORD LUTHOR TYRELLPLAYED BY: N/ATHE LATE LORD OF HIGHGARN, THE FATHER OF MACE AND THE HBAND OF OLENNA. HENPECKED HBAND: IT'S HTED THAT HE WAS THIS TO OLENNA, WHO IS A VERY DOMEERG FIGURE. IN THE BOOKS, OLENNA MENTNS THAT WHILE HE WAS AN OAF, HE WAS NOT WHOUT QUALI ENARG TO HER: SHE SAYS HE WAS VERY GOOD BED. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: HE HAD ALREADY PASSED AWAY LONG BEFORE THE START OF THE SERI. MACE WAS ALREADY THE LORD OF HIGHGARN DURG ROBERT'S REBELLN. SEX EQUALS LOVE: HE WAS ORIGALLY ENGAGED TO LADY OLENNA'S SISTER UNTIL A NIGHT WH LADY OLENNA BEFORE HIS PROPOSAL CHANGED HIS KD. THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: DPE NSTANTLY REFERRG TO HIM AS AN OAF, OLENNA DIT THAT SHE DID LOVE HIM TO AN EXTENT AND WAS CERTALY UPSET BY HIS ATH. TOO DUMB TO LIVE: HE RO OFF A CLIFF WHILE HAWKG BEE HE DIDN'T PAY ATTENTN TO HIS SURROUNDGS. UPPER-CLASS TW: OLENNA EQUENTLY CRICIZ HIM FOR HIS STUPIDY LONG AFTER HIS ATH. HOWEVER, 'S CLEAR THAT SHE RRIED SOME AFFECTN FOR HIM, AS SEEN WHEN SHE REMISC TO MARGAERY ABOUT HOW SHE MANAGED TO AVOID A BETROTHAL TO AN UNSIRABLE TARGARYEN BY SCG LUTHOR.    OTHER TYRELLS AND RELATIV THERE ARE OTHER TYRELLS THE FAY, THAT NEVER APPEAR BUT WE HEAR ABOUT THEM. IN "EASTWATCH", JAIME REVEALS THAT THEY HAVE ALL BEEN MASSACRED THE SACKG OF HIGHGARN.OTHER TYRELL BANNERMEN, RETAERS AND HOEHOLD

HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS

Mart wrote Loras as roundly as any other Wterosi man, but on HBO, he's jt Maergery's gay brother. In the fourth episo of this "Game of Thron" season, Loras Tyrell was arrted by the Fah Milant for the crime of beg gay, and the reactn of the fandom was not very happy.

On Redd’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" page, er ZMoser said that, as a gay man, “I'm offend, I'm disappoted, and I'm pissed” that the wrers of "Game of Thron" went for this plotle, and no ls than 1900 people chimed wh their agreement. R Mart’s edor Jane Johnson got to the bate, tweetg that “I've never been happy that they ma him a gay rtoon the tv seri.

In the first seasons, fans of "Game of Thron" and of the books were treated to a rather plex and three-dimensnal gay character — Season 1, Loras was a skilled knight and teen heartthrob, sure, but also an amb polician who prompted his lover Renly to try to seize the throne when Robert Baratheon died; Season 2, we saw Loras al wh the plited relatnship that ensued when his sister married his lover, we watched him wrtle wh grief when Renly was murred, and we saw Loras avenge Renly's ath by donng his armor to fight Stannis and his army at the Battle of Blackwater. If the Loras Season 3 and 4 had remaed a plex and growg character who also happened to be gay, then his arrt by the Fah Milant would have a lot more promise, and wouldn’t e off as a one-note plotle about a character’s sexualy. To the extent that they have a social agenda, ’s kd of tertiary, and actually aimed at women rather than gay men — hence their arrt of Margaery and her Tyrell handmains for the liberte ways of the Reach, and the High Sparrow’s pronouncement that “all women are wantons at heart, given to g their wil and their bety to work their wills on men.

IS LORAS TYRELL GAY?

Likewise, that same dience would probably not have much ntext for nflicts between state and church that al wh ntrol over ary and judicial power rather than culture war battl over abortn, evolutn and gay marriage. But most of HBO’s dience would be faiar wh fundamentalist movements that are volly homophobic — so to spice up the montage where the Fah Milant take over Kg’s Landg, to really unrle the scen of the holy warrrs breakg open we barrels and smashg the idols of foreign gods, show them gay-bashg male prostut and arrtg Loras Tyrell and they’ll get the picture.

Part of me thks that perhaps they thought open displays of misogyny by the Fah Milant wouldn’t actually bother their dience as much as open displays of homophobia.

―Rennick jok about Loras's homosexualy. [31] Loras and Renly were a relatnship for many years, but were publicly hidg their homosexualy due to the social repercsns this would have wh the domant relign of Wteros, the Fah of the Seven.

OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

Mart has poted out the behd-the-scen featurett for the TV seri that as a youthful, attractive, and skilled tournament knight, Loras is sentially the "teen heartthrob" of Wteros that all the young noble ladi the Seven Kgdoms swoon over, as is not publicly known that he is a homosexual. Is Fn Jon Gay? As Fn mentned many of his terviews, was challengg for him to take the role of a gay character, Loras Tyrell, Game of Thron.

WHO IS FN JON OM “GAME OF THRON” AS CHARACTER LORAS TYRELL? IS HE GAY? HIS WIKI: NET WORTH, PARENTS, AFFAIR, SGLE, GIRLIEND

He is often wnsed supportg the LGBTQ+ muny, and Fn also appeared Gay Time Magaze Febary 2013. Hence, fans were cur about all the followg activi, and many media sourc even claimed that Fn Jon is homosexual real. While Mart probably didn't worry much about stupid thgs like "g ntroversy", the fact still remas that the (if I remember rrectly) only two major gay characters the seri only had their relatnship revealed via hts and mours, while for example Dany's and Cersei's lbian enunters were a lot more proment (even moro that they had ls importance to the plot).

HOE TYRELL"GROWG STRONG.""WHAT IS ? 12 000 FANTRYMEN THE TYRELL FAY HAS SUPPLIED? 1 800 MOUNTED LANCERS, 2 000 SUPPORT? PROVISNS, SO THIS CY MIGHT SURVIVE THE WTER? A LN BHELS OF WHEAT; HALF A LN BHELS EACH OF BARLEY, OATS, AND RYE; 20 000 HEAD OF TTLE; 50 000 SHEEP. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LECTURE ME ABOUT WARTIME EXPENS. I'M QUE FAIAR WH THEM."— LADY OLENNA TYRELLTHE GREAT HOE OF THE REACH, WHICH IS THE MOST POPULO AND MOST FERTILE OF THE SEVEN KGDOMS; NOT SURPRISGLY, THEY ARE THE RICHT FAY WTEROS AFTER THE LANNISTERS (EVENTUALLY THE -FACTO RICHT, THOUGH THIS DO NOT BEE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE). ITS LORD HOLDS THE TLE OF WARN OF THE SOUTH OM THEIR SEAT AT HIGHGARN. THE REACH IS ALSO HOME TO: OLDTOWN, THE OLST CY WTEROS, HOME TO THE MATERS OF THE CAL AND THE STARRY SEPT WHICH WAS ONCE THE CENTRAL THEDRAL OF THE FAH OF THE SEVEN; AND THE ARBOR, AN ISLAND OFF THE "HEEL" OF THE NTENT, WHICH IS LED BY HOE REDWYNE AND HOSTS THE BT VEYARDS THE KGDOM, AS WELL AS A POWERFUL NAVY WH WHICH TO FEND OFF THE IRONBORN.    OPEN/CLOSE ALL FOLRS      IN GENERAL  ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: THE TYRELLS ON THE SERI ARE PORTRAYED A MUCH MORE POSIVE MANNER THAN THE NOVELS. SEE MACE, OLENNA, MARGAERY, AND LORAS'S ENTRI FOR SPECIFIC CHANG TO THEIR CHARACTERS. IN A CLASH OF KGS, THE FAY WAS DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THE FOOD SHORTAGE KG'S LANDG BY CLOSG OFF TRA WHILE THEY SUPPORT RENLY BARATHEON, BUT THE SHOW, TYRN SQUARELY PUTS THE BLAME ON JOFEY'S EPT LE DURG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS FOR THE FAME. THEIR STAED, BTER ARCH-RIVALRY WH THE MARTELLS IS ALSO REMOVED THE SHOW, RECEIVG ONLY SMALL, HISTORIL MENTNS THE EXTRAS. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: THE BED FIELD ARMI OF HOE LANNISTER AND HOE TARLY LAY SIEGE AND TAKE OVER HOE TYRELL A MATTER OF HOURS, WH OLENNA LAMENTG AND THE SHOWNNERS NFIRMG THAT HOE TYRELL DON'T HAVE A HISTORY OF MARTIAL PROWS AND AMBN. NOT ONLY IS THIS NOT TE OF THE TYRELLS THE PRENT DAY THE BOOKS (SUCH AS LORAS TYRELL, GARLAN TYRELL AND THE UNSEEN WILLAS TYRELL) BUT ISN'T TE OF THE TYRELLS HISTORILLY, NEHER THEIR STEWARD BRANCH NOR THEIR GARNER FORBEARS, WHO WERE FIERCE WARRRS, KNIGHTS AND HORSEMEN WHO FOUGHT HARD AGAST THE KGS OF THE ROCK, THE STORMLANDS AND PECIALLY THE DORNISH. ADAPTATN DYE-JOB: LORAS AND MARGAERY OM THE NOVELS HAVE BROWN IRIS, BUT THEIR TV UNTERPARTS ARE BLUE-EYED. MOREOVER, THE FORT GREEN OF THE TYRELLS' CLOTHG HAS BEEN REPLACED WH TEAL ON THE SHOW. THE TEAL LOUR GIV THE CHARACTERS A SOFTER, GENTLER LOOK ONSCREEN, EMPHASIZG THE "SILK" PART OF THE FAY'S SILK HIDG STEEL PHILOSOPHY. MICHELE CLAPTON ELABORAT ON THIS CHROMATIC CHANGE THE MARCH 28, 2014 ISSUE OF ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY."USUALLY I WOULD E THE SIGIL LOURS AS A BASE PALETTE," SHE SAYS (WHICH FOR A TYRELL WOULD MEAN GOLD AND GREEN). BUT CLAPTON WAS REFUL NOT TO GIVE AWAY THE FAY'S MOTIV. "TO BE TOO OVERT WOULD HAVE SHOWN THEIR HAND." THE ONE MAJOR EXCEPTN THE FIRST THREE SEASONS IS LORAS'S GREEN-AND-GOLD SPARRG OUTF◊ "KISSED BY FIRE." AS HE IS SIMPLY PRACTICG HIS SWORDPLAY, THERE ISN'T A NEED FOR HIM TO DISGUISE THE FACT THAT HE IS A FORMIDABLE TYRELL WARRR. THIS LIBERATE CHANGE BY THE TYRELLS ENDUR UNTIL "OATHKEEPER", WHERE THE TORSO SECTN OF MARGAERY'S DRS IS LREL GREEN, WHILE THE SKIRT PART IS DARK GREEN (AND SHE VERS HER SHOULRS AND ARMS WH A BLACK SHAWL TO PAY HER RPECTS TO THE CEASED JOFEY). LORAS IS LATER SEEN MOURNG ATTIRE WH DARK GREEN SLEEV (ALTHOUGH HIS TUNIC IS DARK GREY) "FIRST OF HIS NAME." MACE HAS A PALE GREEN TUNIC WH PALE GOLD SLEEV "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". ADAPTATN RELATNSHIP OVERHL: TOMMEN IS AGED-UP AND HAS A ROMANTIC/SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH MARGAERY, WHILE HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD AND SE HER MORE AS A COOL BIG SIS. ADDNALLY, LORAS'S ROLE AS TOMMEN'S BIG BROTHER MENTOR IS NOT RRIED OVER OM THE BOOKS. AS PART OF THEIR ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY TREATMENT, THE TYRELLS HAVE A MUCH CLOSER AND WARMER RELATNSHIP WH SANSA DURG HER STAY KG'S LANDG. MARGAERY REMAS SANSA'S IEND AFTER HER FORCED MARRIAGE TO TYRN, WHILE BOOK!MARGAERY GAVE HER THE LD SHOULR. IN THE BOOKS LORAS IS PRETTY ALOOF TOWARD SANSA, WHILE THE SHOW HE GENUELY WANTS TO BE A GOOD HBAND TO HER SPE BEG GAY. ALSO, BOOK!OLENNA IS MUCH MORE TIC TOWARD HER AND MAK CLEAR THAT SHE THKS SANSA IS AN IDT, BUT SHOW!OLENNA SHOWS SYMPATHY FOR THE AWFUL THGS SANSA HAS HAD TO ENDURE. AS A SI EFFECT OF MACE TYRELL BEG AN ADAPTATNAL WIMP, HIS MOTHER OLENNA HAS MUCH MORE NTROL OVER HIM THE SHOW THAN THE BOOKS, WHERE SHE PLAS THAT HE NEVER LISTENS TO HER. ADAPTED OUT: THERE WERE THREE TYRELL SONS THE BOOKS; WILLAS AND GARLAN'S ROL HAVE BEEN LEGATED TO EHER LORAS OR MARGAERY. AMBN IS EVIL: DOWNPLAYED. THE TYRELLS ARE VERY MUCH AIMG TO CREASE THEIR POWER OVER WTEROS, AND ENGAGE SOME SHADY AND DUB SCHEM TO GET . BUT -UNIVERSE, THE POPULACE ADOR THEM BEE THEY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO APPEAR AS NOBLE AND HONORABLE FIGUR, AND SCE THEIR MA OPPONENTS THE GAME OF THRON ARE THE LANNISTERS, BY PARISON ALONE THEY ARE MORE HEROIC. ANIMAL MOTIFS: AVERTED, NTRAST TO EVERY OTHER GREAT HOE EXCEPT THE MARTELLS. THE TYRELL SIGIL IS A GOLN ROSE. BADASS BOAST: SUBVERTED. WHILE MOST OTHER NOBLE HO HAVE THE AS THEIR HOE MOTTO, THE TYRELLS HAVE "GROWG STRONG" AS THEIR WORDS, REFERRG TO THEIR BOUNTIFUL LANDS AND LARGE POPULACE. PLAYED STRAIGHTER WHEN ONE APPLI TO THEIR ACTNS OVER THE URSE OF THE SHOW, RISG TO EQUAL THE LANNISTERS AS THE TWO MOST POWERFUL FAI WTEROS, AND WH THE REVELATN THAT THE LANNISTERS ARE ALMOST BANKPT, THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO SURPASSG THEM. AT LEAST UNTIL THE SEASON 6 FALE. THE BETIFUL ELE: THE TYRELLS, THE HIGH LORDS OF THE REACH AND SOME OF THE RICHT PEOPLE WTEROS, ARE ALL VERY BETIFUL. THE YOUNGT GENERATN, MOST PECIALLY LORAS AND MARGAERY, ARE NSIRED EXCEPTNALLY ATTRACTIVE. HELL, EVEN THEIR SERVANTS ARE QUE PRETTY, WHICH IMPLI THE TYRELLS ARE EXPLICLY PHG FOR THIS IMAGE. BETY EQUALS GOODNS: THE TYRELLS CULTIVATE THIS IMAGE AS PART OF THEIR PR MPAIGN KG'S LANDG THROUGHOUT SEASON 3. IT'S NOTABLE THAT THEIR YOUNGT AND MOST ATTRACTIVE FAY MEMBERS ARE ALSO SHOWN TO BE THE MOST MORAL. BIG, SCREWED-UP FAY: LIKE THE STARKS, AN AVERSN. OLENNA, LORAS AND MARGAERY NEVER EXPRS ANYTHG BUT RE FOR EACH OTHER SPE THE FAY'S AMBN. OLENNA AND MARGAERY ARE ALSO THE MOST ACCEPTG CHARACTERS OF LORAS'S SEXUALY BIS RENLY. MACE IS ALSO LOVED BY HIS FAY, EVEN IF HE'S NOT SHOWN MUCH RPECT. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: WHAT'S HOE LANNISTER WH CLEAN PR. LOOK NO FURTHER THAN HOE TYRELL, ALL PRETENS OF RG ABOUT THE POOR ARE A SHAM, BEE THE MOMENT A TYRELL MEMBER GETS PTURED BY THE FAH MILANT THEY TRY AND GET THEM EED AS IF TYRELLS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SMALLFOLK. NOT TO MENTN THEIR WILLGNS TO BACK A PSYCHOPATHIC KG IF MEANS MARGAREY N BEE QUEEN. BREAD AND CIRC: HOE TYRELL'S POLIL PHILOSOPHY A NUTSHELL. THE REACH, THE DOMA OF THE TYRELLS, IS THE CHIEF FOOD-PROVIDG REGN OF WTEROS, AND IS ALSO THE CENTER OF CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE (THE CIRC, AS WERE). MARGAERY WS OVER THE SMALLFOLK OF KG'S LANDG BY PERSONALLY MEETG WAR ORPHANS, AND AS JAIME LANNISTER ATTTS, THE PEOPLE KNOW FULLY WELL THAT IS SHE (AND NOT JOFEY) WHO FEEDS THEM. WHEN TYRN RAIS DOUBTS ABOUT THE EXPENS OF THE ROYAL WEDDG DURG WARTIME, OLENNA POTS OUT THAT PEOPLE NEED BOTH FOOD AND "DISTRACTNS," OTHERWISE THEY WILL GET RTLS AND ANGRY. BREAK THE HGHTY: HOE TYRELL IS PUT DIRE STRAS WHEN CERSEI RAIS THE FAH MILANT AS A WEAPON AGAST THEM. LORAS IS ARRTED FOR HIS HOMOSEXUALY, AND DURG THE HOLY QUIRY MARGAERY LI TO PROTECT HIM. UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN A SURPRISE WNS S THEIR FENSE, MARGAERY IS CHARGED WH PERJURY AND BOTH SIBLGS ARE LEFT TO ROT THE DUNGEONS BENEATH BAELOR'S SEPT UNTIL THEIR TRIALS. OLENNA RAC BACK TO KG'S LANDG SPERATE TO EE HER GRANDCHILDREN, BUT THE FAH N'T BE MOVED BY HER THREATS AND SHE'S FORCED TO TEAM UP WH LTLEFGER. THEN SEASON 6 ALONG AND THE GREEN TRIAL TAK PLACE AND THEY ARE ALL BUT ED. THE ONLY REMAG TYRELL IS LADY OLENNA (THE QUEEN OF THORNS) AND THE MOST SHE N HOPE FOR NOW IS VENGEANCE AGAST CERSEI DUE TO THE LOSS OF ALL HER HEIRS. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: DUE TO BEG SOMEWHAT PERIPHERAL THE BOOKS, THE SHOW'S WRERS NSTCTED A GREAT AL OF HOE TYRELL'S LLECTIVE CHARACTER WHOLE-CLOTH. THAT WHICH ISN'T VENTED IS UALLY EXAGGERATED OM THE SOURCE MATERIAL. SEE MACE AND MARGERY'S ENTRI FOR TAIL ON THEM. THE FAY'S WOMEN ARE WISER ASPECTS ARE PLAYED UP ON ACUNT OF THE TWO MOST PETENT TYRELL SONS (WILLAS AND GARLAN) BEG ADAPTED OUT, LORAS'S CHARACTER ARC STALLG SEASONS 3 AND 4, AND MACE'S FECKLSNS BEG EXAGGERATED OM A BLTERG BUT TENAC MAN TO AN EFFECTUAL AND SYPHANTIC MOMMA'S BOY. THEY ARE SCRIBED BY WORD OF GOD AS A "SECRET MATRIARCHY". VOKED THEIR GOOD SAMARAN QUALI ARE PLAYED MUCH STRAIGHTER OR EXAGGERATED. IN THE BOOKS, THEY ARE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR STARVG THE POPULATN OF KG'S LANDG, AND WHILE MACE, MARGAERY, AND OLENNA HAVE MOMENTS OF BEG PERSONABLE, ON THE WHOLE, THEY E OFF AS SLIMIER. THEIR QUT TO OBTA UNIVERSAL POPULARY ALSO MEANS THEY ABANDON ANYONE WHO ULD EVER POSSIBLY BE A LIABILY TO THEM. CHIVALRIC ROMANCE: THE TYRELLS AND OTHER HO OF THE REACH PUT A LOT OF EFFORT TO MAKG THE REACH AT LEAST SEEM LIKE THE STEREOTYPIL CHIVALRIC ROMANCE SETTG. CHIVALRY IS VERY SER BS THE REACH, AND CATELYN EVEN LLS S SOLDIERS "THE KNIGHTS OF SUMMER." HIGHGARN IS REPUTED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL CI ON THE NTENT, PROVIDG LEISURELY ENTERTAMENT SUCH AS A GRAND MASQUERA BALL ON THE NIGHT OF THE HARVT MOON AND PLEASURE BARG ON THE RIVER MANR. LORAS AND MARGAERY WORK VERY HARD ON THEIR RPECTIVE KNIGHT SHG ARMOR AND PRCS CLASSIC/THE HIGH QUEEN PERSONA, AND THEY WERE ONCE A THREE-WAY MARRIAGE TO RENLY BARATHEON, WHO SAW HIMSELF AS THE GOOD KG. ENEMY ME: THE TYRELLS AND MARTELLS BOTH FOUGHT ON THE TARGARYEN SI ROBERT'S REBELLN, THOUGH AS THE MARTELLS WOULD POT OUT, POLICS IS KNOWN TO MAKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. AFTER CERSEI LANNISTER KILLS THE MAJORY OF HOE TYRELL, OLENNA SPERATELY ALLI WH THE MARTELLS (OBERYN'S PARAMOUR ELLARIA AND BASTARD DGHTERS, THAT IS) AND BOTH HO REJO THE TARGARYENS AGA UNR DAENERYS. EVERYBODY'S DEAD, DAVE: IN THE SEASON 6 FALE, MARGAERY, LORAS, AND MACE DIE WHEN CERSEI BLOWS UP THE SEPT WH THEM . ONLY OLENNA WAS LEFT ALIVE, BUT SCE OLENNA IS A REDWYNE BY BIRTH, THE TYRELL BLOODLE IS EXTCT. WH HER ATH, THE HOE IS EFFECTIVELY EXTCT. IN THE BOOKS, THERE ARE NUMERO MOR TYRELL S (THROUGH MACE'S TWO SISTERS, AND OLD LORD LUTHOR'S YOUNGER BROTHERS). SOME OF THE FEMALE S SERVE AS MARGAERY'S HANDMAINS. EVEN THE TV SERI BRIEFLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT OTHER TYRELL S EXIST SEASON 3 — ONE OF THEM EVEN HAD A SPEAKG LE AND OUTRIGHT LLED OLENNA "NANA" (GRANDMOTHER). THE MA BRANCH OF THE FAY, HOWEVER, IS VERY CLEARLY AD BEYOND REVERY. AND 'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT ALL THE TYRELL S WERE KILLED THE SEPT OF BAELOR AND THE FALL OF HIGHGARN. IT'S NFIRMED BY JAIME THAT THEY WERE ALL MASSACRED AT HIGHGARN TWO EPISOS LATER. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: ACRDG TO OLENNA, THE TYRELLS AND THE REACH GENERAL DON'T SEE ANYTHG WRONG WH HOMOSEXUALY, BUT VIEW BROTHER–SISTER INCT AS ABOMABLE. RERCED BY THEIR LLECTIVE DISGT AT RENLY BEG PICTED AT THE PURPLE WEDDG AS A "VIANT" WHO RIS A GIRLY-LOOKG, CURLY-HAIRED MAN — PLALY MEANT TO REPRENT LORAS — STEAD OF A HORSE. NOT EVEN MARGAERY, WHO ALMOST NEVER LETS HER GENTEEL MASK SLIP, N HI HER DISPLEASURE. FANTASY COUNTERPART CULTURE: OF THE HOE OF TUDOR — THEIR SIGIL IS AN ALMOST EXACT REPLITN OF THE TUDOR ROSE. THE REACH AS A WHOLE IS MANY WAYS AN ANALOGUE OF SOUTHEAST ENGLAND AND FRANCE/AQUAE, TO THE POT OF BEG THE BIRTHPLACE OF WTEROSI CHIVALRIC CULTURE THE BOOKS. THEY ALSO SERVED AS STEWARDS TO THE PREV ROYAL FAY LIKE THE HOE OF STUART. FATAL FLAW: THEIR AMBN BED WH AN UNCLEAR LEARSHIP DOOMS THEM. LORD MACE TYRELL WANTS MARGAERY TO BE THE QUEEN AND SHE WILLGLY GO ALONG WH . AFTER RENLY BARATHEON IS KILLED, THEY FORM A NEW ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS. LADY OLENNA IS MOST CRIL OF THIS MOVE AND CHANG THE PLAN WHEN SHE DISVERS TOO LATE THAT JOFEY IS A MONSTER, SO SHE HAS HIM KILLED DURG HIS WEDDG WH MARGAERY. THIS SETS MOTN AN UNNTROLLABLE SPIRAL OF EVENTS (CLUDG THE MISE OF TYW, OLENNA'S ONLY REASONABLE UNTERPART) THAT ENDS UP EXTGUISHG THEIR HOE. FDG FAI: THE TYRELLS AND THE MARTELLS ARE THE TWO SOUTHERN-MOST PARAMOUNT HO OF THEIR RPECTIVE KGDOMS. THEY HAVE NUMERO BON OF NTENTN BETWEEN THEM, AS THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTG BORR SKIRMISH FOR CENTURI. A LONG AND BTER FD HAS EXISTED SCE THE TARGARYEN CONQUT BETWEEN HOE TYRELL AND THEIR VASSALS HOE FLORENT OF BRIGHTWATER KEEP, ARGUABLY EPER THAN THEIR DISLIKE OF THE MARTELLS. THIS IS EXPLAED MORE THE BOOKS, THOUGH MARGAERY SUMMARIZ THE SEASON 3 BLU-RAY ANIMATED FEATURETT. FROM THE EXTRAS...  THE REACH ED TO BE LED FOR CENTURI BY HOE GARNER, BUT THE LAST GARNER KG AND ALL OF HIS SONS WERE BURNED TO ATH BY THE TARGARYENS' DRAGONS THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE OF THE CONQUT. THE GARNERS DID LEAVE BEHD SEVERAL T BRANCH, SCEND OM YOUNGER GARNER SONS, AND THE FLORENTS WERE THE ONE WH THE CLOST BLOOD TI TO THE GARNERS. THE TYRELLS ONLY CLAIMED SCENT OM THE GARNERS THROUGH THE FEMALE LE, AND DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN LANDS: THEY WERE THE HEREDARY STEWARDS OF HIGHGARN FOR THEIR GARNER S. AFTER THE ATH OF THE LAST GARNER KG, HOWEVER, THE TYRELLS REALIZED ALL HOPE OF RISTANCE WAS LOST, AND VOLUNTARILY SURRENRED HIGHGARN TO AEGON TARGARYEN. AS A REWARD, THE TARGARYENS ELEVATED THE TYRELLS TO LERS OF HIGHGARN AND OVERLORDS OF THE REACH — SKIPPG OVER THE FLORENTS, WHO ACTUALLY HAD A STRONGER CLAIM. THE FLORENTS HAVE RID THE TYRELLS AS "UPJUMPED STEWARDS" EVER SCE. STANNIS BARATHEON'S WIFE WAS BORN SELYSE FLORENT: THE SHOW ONLY ALLUS TO THIS, BUT WHEN THE TYRELLS AND MOST OF THEIR VASSALS SID WH RENLY, THE FLORENTS SID WH STANNIS — AND NTUE TO MAKE UP THE BULK OF HIS FEW REMAG MEN AFTER THE TYRELLS SWCHED THE REACH OVER TO THE LANNISTER SI. SAMWELL TARLY'S MOTHER IS ALSO A FLORENT. FICTN500: THEY'RE THE SEND RICHT FAY WTEROS, NEXT TO THE LANNISTERS. ANALYSIS. BY SEASON 4, THE TYRELLS ARE THE FACTO RICHT HOE BEE THE LANNISTER WEALTH HAS WANED DURG THE WAR AND THEIR GOLD M ARE EXHSTED. FLOWER MOTIFS: THE ROSE IS THE FAY'S EMBLEM, BUT THEY ARE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WH FLOWERS GENERAL. FOIL: TO THE LANNISTERS. THE TYRELLS ARE JT AS AMB, WANTG TO LE WTEROS, BUT THEY PURSUE THEIR AMBNS A MOSTLY BLOODLS MANNER THAT EVEN BENEFS OTHER PEOPLE (WELL, UALLY), NTRAST TO THE LANNISTERS, WHO DON'T RE WHO THEY HAVE TO TRAMPLE OVER TO GET POWER FOR THEIR FAY. THE LANNISTERS ARE ALSO EXTREMELY DYSFUNCTNAL AND HATEFUL TOWARDS EACH OTHER, WHILE THE TYRELLS ARE A WELL-ADJTED AND CLOSE-KN BUNCH (AGA, UALLY). GUILE HERO: BOTH OLENNA AND MARGAERY ARE ONE OF THE MOST CUNNG THE SHOW AND GENERALLY ON THE SI OF THE MOST KD-HEARTED CHARACTERS, EVEN IF THEIR METHODS ARE SOMETIM DISTURBG. HAZY-FEEL TURN: THE TYRELLS JO WH THE LANNISTERS TO FEAT STANNIS BARATHEON AND KEEP KG JOFEY ON THE THRONE, BUT ALSO WORK ON WAYS TO UNRME THE LANNISTERS AND KILL JOFEY. I FIGHT FOR THE STRONGT SI!: ONE OF THEIR MAJOR HATS IS THAT THEY'LL SI WH WHOEVER THEY THK IS MOST LIKELY TO W, AND TURN FURTHER THEIR OWN TERTS, RATHER THAN MAKE AN IOLOGIL STAND. THE ENTIRE REASON THEY WERE MA LORDS OF HIGHGARN AND LERS OF THE REACH THE FIRST PLACE WAS BEE DURG THE TARGARYEN CONQUT, AFTER THE LAST KG OF HOE GARNER AND MOST OF THE REACH'S ARMY WERE BURNED TO ATH BY DRAGONS AT THE FIELD OF FIRE, THEY VOLUNTARILY SURRENRED HIGHGARN TO AEGON THE CONQUEROR (THE TYRELLS BEG HEREDARY STEWARDS OF THE STLE AT THE TIME). IN THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, THEY SID WH RENLY BEE VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE STORMLANDS HO CHOSE TO FIGHT FOR HIM STEAD OF HIS OLR BROTHER STANNIS (WHO ONLY END UP NTROLLG A FEW ISLANDS BLACKWATER BAY). AT THE SAME TIME THEY DIDN'T SI WH THE LANNISTERS, BEE ROBB STARK HAD JT SLGHTERED HALF OF THEIR ARMY, AND THE LANNISTERS SEEMED TO BE FACG A WAR ON TWO ONTS. AFTER RENLY DIED, HOWEVER, THEY SWCHED SIS TO THE LANNISTERS — SPE PERSONALLY LOATHG THEM — BEE THEY STILL HAD MORE ROURC THAN STANNIS'S UNED STORM LORDS, AND BEE STANNIS WOULD NEVER FIVE THEM FOR SIDG WH RENLY. THIS DON'T MEAN THEY'RE Y-MEN, THOUGH, AS THEY STILL WANT TO SUBSUME THE LANNISTERS OM WH. SOME WOULD LL THIS CHARACTER TRA CYNICISM, BUT OTHERS WOULD LL REALPOLIK. INFORMED FLAW: OLENNA TYRELL CLAIMS SEASON 7 AFTER JAIME SACKS HIGHGARN THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS A PAPER TIGER AND PHOVER A REGN WHERE TYW ULD HAVE EASILY ANNEXED THEM. LEAVG ASI THE LEGALY OF THAT, WHICH HASN'T BEEN TABLISHED THE "WEAK" FDALISM SYSTEM OF WTEROS, BUT THE HISTORI AND LORE NFIRM THAT THE TYRELLS WERE HEAVILY VOLVED DAERON I YOUNG DRAGON'S MPAIGNS DORNE, WHICH OLENNA REFERS TO ELLARIA AT THE END OF SEASON 6, AND THE SHOW SELF, THEY WERE THE CISIVE PLAYERS THE KGMAKER SCENAR OF SEASON 2, BACKG FIRST RENLY AND THEN TURNG THE TI AT BLACKWATER AND CEMENTG THE LANNISTER ALLIANCE WHICH LED ROBB STARK TO AVOID DIRECTLY CHARGG THE CROWNLANDS AGAST TYW. TYW HIMSELF RPECTED THE TYRELLS GREATLY SEASONS 3 AND 4, NOTG THEIR GREAT NUMBERS AND POWER AND CHID CERSEI FOR NOT TREATG THEM FAIRLY. IN ALL THREE S ABOVE, STANNIS, TYW AND ROBB, WHO HAVE BEEN TABLISHED AS THE FT ARY AND POLIL MDS OF THEIR ERA, SAW THE TYRELLS AS A MAJOR THREAT AND FACTN, NONE OF WHICH IS NSISTENT WH OLENNA CLAIMG S7 THAT THEY WERE PHOVERS AND NO GREAT SHAK WAR. IRONY: ONE SPANNG CENTURI. HOE TYRELL (AS NOTED THE NOT AT FDG FAI ABOVE) ME TO POWER AFTER THE FORMER KG OF HIGHGARN BURNED TO ATH AGAST AEGON'S DRAGONS AT THE FIELD OF FIRE. THEIR MA LE FAY MEMBERS (AND TH THEIR STABLE, CLEAN SUCCSN) ALSO BURNED TO ATH BY WILDFIRE AT THE GREEN TRIAL, THE NEXT-BT THG TO DRAGON-BREATH AT THIS POT. KICK THE SON OF A BCH: THEIR QUTNABLE LOYALTY, OBV SCHEMG, AND NOW THLSLY ADLY PLANS FOR GAG POWER ARE OFTEN EXCED BY THE FANDOM, SPECIFILLY BEE THE TARGETS OF THEIR VAR SCHEM ARE ALL LANNISTERS. KGMAKER SCENAR: HOE TYRELL FOUND THEMSELV ON THIS ROLE DURG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, AS THE BIGGT OF THE WTEROS HO, WHOEVER THEY CHOSE TO SUPPORT WOULD GA A GREAT ADVANTAGE. THEY FIRST TRIED TO THROW THEIR LOT WH RENLY, BUT AFTER HIS MURR, THEIR ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS ENSURED JOFEY'S VICTORY AND KGSHIP. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: MASTERY OF THIS IS WHY THE TYRELLS ARE STILL AROUND. IN THE HISTORY AND LORE SEGMENTS, HOE TYRELL IS SAID TO HAVE RISEN TO POWER THE WAKE OF AEGON'S CONQUT BY AGREEG TO SURRENR, AND THEY WERE REWARD WH OWNERSHIP OF THE REACH. THEY ALSO AGREED TO SURRENR WHOUT A FIGHT AFTER THE SACK OF KG'S LANDG AT THE END OF ROBERT'S REBELLN, AS JON ARRYN OFFERED THEM AMNTY EXCHANGE FOR SUPPLYG FOOD TO THE STARVED REALM AND PAYG A GOOD PORTN OF THE WAR BT. MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG: SEEMS TO BE THE GENERAL ETHOS OF THIS HOE — LORAS THKS RENLY WOULD BE A GOOD KG BEE PEOPLE LIKE HIM, AND SEASON 3, MARGAERY TRI TO W OVER THE SMALLFOLK OF KG'S LANDG WH KDNS AND EVEN TRI TO SWAY JOFEY TO HER THKG, AS BT SHE N. MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE: THE WOMEN THE FAY GET THE BRAS, AND THEY ARE THE ON TO WATCH OUT FOR WHEN TO POLICS. DAN WEISS SCRIB THE TYRELLS THIS FEATURETTE AS: "...BASILLY A SECRET MATRIARCHY [...] WHERE THE MEN TEND TO BE HANDSOME DOP AND THE WOMEN ARE REALLY THE BRAS BEHD THE OPERATN." ACRDG TO THIS ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE REACH, WAS HARLAN TYRELL'S WIFE WHO NVCED HIM TO SURRENR TO AEGON THE CONQUEROR, WHICH MAY SUGGT THAT THE FEMALE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN NTROLLG THE FAY'S TERTS SCE AT LEAST THE TIME OF AEGON'S CONQUT. NOUVE RICHE: BY PARISON WH THE OTHER GREAT HO OF WTEROS, THE TYRELLS ONLY ROSE TO PROMENCE AFTER AEGON'S CONQUT. THEY WERE TRADNAL STELLANS OF THE GARNERS, THE PREV LERS OF THE REACH. SCE THEY WERE THE ONLY HOE OF THE REACH THAT DID NOT OPPOSE AEGON THE CONQUEROR, THEY WERE REWARD ACRDGLY BY BEG MA LORDS PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH WHEN THE GARNERS WERE WIPED OUT. PALETTE SWAP: BY "OATHKEEPER", THE TYRELLS SWCH OM THEIR MORE DISARMG TEAL-AND-GOLD (LORS THAT, TOGETHER, AREN'T VERY REGAL OR MAJTIC, AS TEND) TO THEIR LERAL TE LORS, GREEN AND GOLD, TO REFLECT THE FACT THAT THE SOFT SELL IS NO LONGER REQUIRED NOW THAT THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN TYRELL AND LANNISTER HAS BEEN FORMALIZED, AND THE TWO HO ARE SENTIALLY EQUAL PARTNERS ON THE IRON THRONE. PAPER TIGER: THEY ARE SURPRISGLY REVEALED TO BE ONE. DPE THEIR RENOWNED AND EVENTUALLY UNMATCHED WEALTH, WHICH TURNS ALLOWS THEM TO SUPPORT A LARGE ARMY, OLENNA NCES THAT THEY ARE ARILY WORTHLS AFTER THEIR FORMER VASSAL HOE TARLY AND A BED LANNISTER HOST MANAGE TO TAKE HIGHGARN WH EASE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: WHETHER 'S ARMOUR, CLOTHG OR FASHN ACCSORI, THE TYRELLS CK THEMSELV WH FLORAL PATTERNS. THE VERY LTLE BADASSERY OF THEIR SIGIL AND MOTTO PARED TO THE OTHER GREAT HO IS LAMPSHAD BY LADY OLENNA. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER HOE, THE TYRELLS ARE EQUENTLY SEEN A LH, GARN ENVIRONMENT. IT'S A VISUAL REMR TO THE DIENCE OF THE REACH'S FERTILE LANDS AND S CULTURE OF ROMANTICISM, THE FAY'S FLORAL THEME, THEIR UT NATURE (GARNS REQUIRE REFUL MATENANCE), THEIR PREOCCUPATN WH BETY, AND THEIR PREFERENCE FOR PEACE. ROS LOOK PRETTY, BUT PEOPLE FET THAT THEY HAVE THORNS. THE TYRELLS GIVE THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF BETY AND HARMLSNS, BUT 'S JT A ONT. AS MENTNED ABOVE, OLENNA SFFS THAT THEY HAVE A BLAND SIGIL AND A NON-THREATENG MOTTO ("GROWG STRONG").. ALL PROBABILY, THE TYRELLS SEEM TO HAVE TENTNALLY CHOSEN NON-THREATENG SYMBOLS, SO NO ONE WILL SPECT THEIR TE AMBNS. MARGAERY, OLENNA AND LORAS'S MOURNG ATTIRE IS DARK GREY AND DARK GREEN STEAD OF BLACK (WH THE EXCEPTN OF MARGAERY'S SHAWL), WHICH SIGNIFI THAT THEIR "GRIEF" OVER JOFEY'S PASSG IS SCERE. MACE DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO PUT ON DARK CLOTHG. MARGAERY◊ AND OLENNA'S◊ MOURNG CLOTH FOR JOFEY ALSO STILL HAVE THE VERY BRIGHT GOLD PRT THAT ALL THEIR CLOTH HAVE. ESPECIALLY OBV WHEN NTRASTED WH WHAT OLENNA WEARS AFTER MARGAERY, LORAS, AND MACE DIE AT THE END OF SEASON 6◊. SIGIL SPAM: THE TYRELLS DON'T HAVE A SGLE ARTICLE OF CLOTHG WHOUT A FLORAL PATTERN, AS LADY OLEANNA POTS OUT TO ONE OF HER RELATIV:OLENNA: ANOTHER GOLN ROSE. HOW ORIGAL. I EAT OM PLAT STAMPED WH ROS. I SLEEP SHEETS EMBROIRED WH ROS. I HAVE A GOLN ROSE PATED ON MY CHAMBER POT, AS IF THAT MAK SMELL ANY BETTER. ROS ARE BORG, AR. SILK HIDG STEEL: NOT VERY WARLIKE THE STARKS OR GREYJOYS SENSE OF THE WORD, BUT THEY'RE STILL A VERY DANGERO HOE. THE TYRELL WOMEN AND LORAS (WHO IS AN ANDROGYNO-LOOKG GAY MAN) PLAY AROUND WH PEOPLE'S STEREOTYP OF FEMY TO APPEAR MUCH WEAKER THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. AND 'S WORTH REMEMBERG THAT LORAS IS STILL UNTED AS BEG ONE OF THE MOST DANGERO KNIGHTS ON THE NTENT. HECK, 'S THEIR LOGO: A ROSE'S BETY HIS S DANGERO THORNS. SOCIAL CLIMBER: THE LANNISTERS AND PECIALLY CERSEI REGARD THEM AS THIS, WH THE LATTER EVEN PARG THEM TO THE REYN OF CASTAMERE FOR TRYG TO RISE ABOVE SEND BT. FROM THE BOOKS...  THIS HAS EVERYTHG TO DO WH HOW THE TYRELLS BEME LORDS PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH. BEFORE AEGON'S NQUT, HOE GARDNER WERE KGS OF THE REACH, BUT THEY DIED OUT DURG THE NQUT. WHEN AEGON REACHED HIGHGARN, THE GARNERS' STEWARD, HARLAN TYRELL, SURRENRED THE STLE AND THE KGDOM, AND AEGON MA HIS FAY LORDS PARAMOUNT EXCHANGE. TH, MANY WTEROSI HO SEE THE TYRELLS AS NOTHG MORE THAN UPJUMPED STEWARDS, CLUDG MANY REACH HO WHICH CLAIM SCENT OM GARTH GREENHAND, THE LEGENDARY FOUNR OF HOE GARNER, AND TH BELIEVE THEY HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO THE REACH THAN THE TYRELLS. NOT LEAST AMONG THE IS HOE FLORENT, THE MOST PROMENT REACH HOE TO GO OVER TO STANNIS WHEN RENLY DIED, AND WHO HOPE THAT STANNIS' VICTORY WILL GET THEM THE TL THEY FEEL THEY SERVE. IN THE HISTORY AND LORE VIOS, MARGAERY EVEN ADMS THIS AS BEG THE REAL MEANG OF THEIR HOE WORDS ("GROWG STRONG"):MARGAERY: OTHER HO TAKE WOLV AND LNS FOR THEIR SIGILS, AND DRAW THEIR POWER OM THE GOLD THEIR MOUNTAS OR THE LD OF THEIR WTERS. BUT MOUNTAS N DRY, WTER YIELDS TO SPRG, AND THE ROSE BLOOMS ONCE MORE. SOMETHG ABOUT A ROSE: LIKE A ROSE, THE FAY MAY LOOK GEO AND LITE ON THE SURFACE, BUT THE OUTWARD PETALS NCEAL VERY SHARP THORNS. THE STARSCREAM: POSSIBLY. UNLIKE THE STARKS, THE LANNISTERS AND THE ARRYNS, THE TYRELLS DID NOT LE AS KGS BEFORE AEGON'S NQUT OF WTEROS, AND THEY MAY HAVE MANIPULATED THEIR FORMER OVERLORD TO GETTG HIMSELF KILLED DURG AEGON'S NQUT, ALLOWG THEM TO URP THE REACH. FROM THE BOOKS...  INSTEAD, THEY SERVED AS STEWARDS TO THE REACH KGS OF HOE GARNER. WHEN AEGON THE CONQUEROR ARRIVED WH HIS DRAGONS, HIGHGARN STEWARD HARLAN TYRELL MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ENURAGED KG MERN IX, THE LAST LIVG MEMBER OF HOE GARNER, TO PERSONALLY LEAD REACH FORC AN OBVLY FUTILE BATTLE. WHEN THE GARNER KG WAS EVABLY FEATED AND SLA, AEGON GRANTED HARLAN AND HIS FAY NTROL OF THE REACH. THIS AMBN RRI TO THE PRENT SERI, WHERE THE TYRELLS ARE NSISTENTLY UNRMG HOE LANNISTER AN ATTEMPT TO WRTLE THE IRON THRONE AWAY. AS OF SEASON 4, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO BEE EQUAL PARTNERS WH THE LANNISTERS. THE KGDOM IS EPLY BT TO THE IRON BANK OF BRAAVOS, AND THE FORMERLY FILTHY RICH LANNISTERS ARE CREASGLY STRAPPED FOR SH DUE TO AN EXPENSIVE WAR, NEEDG THE TYRELLS TO FOOT HALF THE BILL FOR THE ROYAL WEDDG. THE TYRELLS ARE VAL ALLI TO TYW AS HE KEEPS HOLD OF THE VERY AGILE PEACE THE REALM AFTER THE MA PART OF THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS IS OVER. OLENNA LAMPSHAS THE SAME TO MARGAERY, SCRIBG THE POWER SHIFT:OLENNA: OUR ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS REMAS EVERY B AS NECSARY TO THEM AS IS UNPLEASANT FOR . SUCCSN CRISIS: AFTER THE ATHS OF MACE TYRELL AND HIS TWO CHILDREN AT THE GREEN TRIAL, HIS MOTHER HOLDS THE TLE AS THE LADY OF HIGHGARN, LADY PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. BUT SHE'S A REDWYNE AND THERE WAS NO MENTN OF OTHER TYRELL RELATIV SCE MACE'S OLR SONS (WILLAS AND GARLAN) DO NOT EXIST THE SHOW. LIKEWISE, SHE'S ALREADY OLD AND MIGHT NOT LAST LONG, AND ED DON'T, WH HIGHGARN BEG VAD BY JAIME AND THE LANNISTERS AND SHE HERSELF BEG FORCED TO DRK A PALS POISON THAT KILLS HER. TANGLED FAY TREE: WH TWO TYRELLS MARRYG LANNISTERS OLENNA POTS OUT HOW THEY WILL BEE THIS, WH LORAS, WHO IS ARRANGED TO MARRY CERSEI, TECHNILLY BEG HIS OWN SISTER'S STEPFATHER--LAW. THICKER THAN WATER: THE FAY ALWAYS STICKS TOGETHER.MARGAERY: LUCKILY FOR TYRELLS OUR BLOOD NS QUE WARM, DON'T , LORAS? VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: THEIR IENDLY AND PLEASANT MEANOR N MAKE YOU FET THEY ONCE SUPPORTED A MONSTROLY CEL URPER SO MARGAERY ULD BE QUEEN.    LORD MACE TYRELL LORD MACE TYRELL"MAY YOU AND MY DGHTER MARGAERY DRK EP, AND LIVE LONG."PLAYED BY: ROGER ASHTON-GRIFFHS"NO GREAT PLEASURE, BELIEVE ME. A PONRO OAF. HIS FATHER WAS AN OAF AS WELL. MY HBAND, THE LATE LORD LUTHOR. HE MANAGED TO RI OFF A CLIFF WHILST HAWKG. THEY SAY HE WAS LOOKG UP AT THE SKY AND PAYG NO MD TO WHERE HIS HORSE WAS TAKG HIM. AND NOW MY SON IS DOG THE SAME, ONLY THIS TIME HE'S RIDG A LN STEAD OF A HORSE."— LADY OLENNA TYRELLTHE FATHER OF LORAS AND MARGAERY, SON OF LADY OLENNA. LORD OF HIGHGARN, LORD PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. ADAPTATNAL COMIC RELIEF: MACE TYRELL IS A B OF AN OAF THE BOOKS AS WELL, BUT THE FORM OF A HGHTY AND TACTLS LORD. IN THE SHOW, HE HAS AN EXTREME SE OF ADAPTATNAL DUMBASS IS EQUENTLY MED FOR EDY, AS HE'S TREATED LIKE A PLETE BUFFOON AND CHEW TOY BY VIRTUALLY EVERY LORD KG'S LANDG. ADAPTATNAL DYE-JOB: IN THE NOVELS, MACE HAS THE SAME BROWN HAIR OF HIS CHILDREN, WHEREAS ON THE SHOW HIS HAIR HAS ALREADY GONE GREY. ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: HE'S JT AS MUCH AS AN OAF AS HE IS THE BOOKS, BUT THE SHOW HE LOS A LOT OF HIS MORE ABRASIVE MOMENTS, SUCH AS PRSURG HIS SON TO JOTG AND HIS UNJTIFIED HATE FOR OBERYN MARTELL IN THE BOOKS  OBERYN ACCINTALLY CRIPPLED HIS HEIR WILLAS TYRELL A TOURNEY, BUT WILLAS HOLD NO ILL WILL) AND ACROSS AS DIM-WTED BUT OVERALL KD-HEARTED. ADAPTATNAL UGLS: THE ACTOR PLAYG MACE IS FAR LS ATHETILLY PLEASG THAN HIS BOOK UNTERPART, WHO IS SCRIBED AS BEG FAT, BUT STILL GOOD-LOOKG ENOUGH THAT ONE N EASILY SEE THAT HE ED TO BE A HUNK HIS YOUTH. WHEN THE STG NEWS WAS ANNOUNCED, SOME FANS HAD A HARD TIME BELIEVG THAT THIS UNATTRACTIVE MACE ULD BE THE FATHER OF THE TV VERSNS OF MARGAERY AND LORAS. HBO'S MACE IS ALSO BALDG, WHILE BOOK MACE HAS A HEAD FULL OF HAIR. THIS ULD ALLU TO TV MACE'S NATURE AS A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HARYS SWYFT, WHO WAS BALD THE BOOKS. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: TV MACE IS MUCH MORE FAWNG AND EAGER-TO-PLEASE THAN HIS OAFISH, YET AMB AND MANDG BOOK MACE. IN THE BOOKS HE PERSONALLY MANDS THE LEFT-WG ON THE BLACKWATER AND NSTANTLY PRS FOR IMPORTANT OFFIC FOR HIS FACTN RATHER THAN HAPPILY FETCHG QUILL AND PARCHMENT. HE'S ALSO SOMETHG OF A PAPA WOLF THE BOOKS, HOLDG A SER GDGE AGAST OBERYN MARTELL FOR CRIPPLG HIS ELST SON, LLG FOR THE ATH OF THE MAN HE BELIEV NEARLY POISONED HIS DGHTER, AND SHG HIS ARMY BACK TO KG'S LANDG TO NONT THE SPARROWS AFTER THEY SEIZE MARGAERY (THOUGH RANDYLL TARLY ARRIV FIRST). ADAPTATNAL LATE APPEARANCE: HE'S ONLY MENTNED THE FIRST 3 SEASONS, WHILE THE BOOKS, HE ARRIV AT THE PAL ALONG WH TYW AND REMAS THERE, TAKG STANNIS'S FORMER PLACE ON THE SMALL UNCIL AS MASTER OF SHIPS. HE FALLY SHOWS UP SEASON 4 FOR JOFEY'S WEDDG. AUTHORY NAME ONLY: A REMARKABLE AVERSN, SOME MATTERS AT LEAST. DPE HIS APPARENT BLANDNS AND BEG REGULARLY UNRMED BY HIS VERY IMPOSG MOTHER, HE'S ABLE TO RRY OUT SOME OF HIS OWN POLICY THE REACH, AS LADY OLENNA PLAS THAT THE ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS IS SOMETHG IMPLEMENTED BY MACE. DPE THIS, HE STILL ASKS HIS MOM WHAT TO DO, EVEN PUBLIC. BADASS ON PAPER: DES AS THE HEAD OF AN ACPLISHED FAY AND HIS WARNSHIP OF A VERY PROSPERO REGN THAT WAS NOT VERY AFFECTED THE CIVIL WAR SPE BEG THE LOSG SI WOULD DITE THAT LORD TYRELL IS SOME SHREWD POLICIAN WH SOME TALENTS AND VICTORI UNR HIS SLEEVE. HE PROV THE ASSUMPTNS WRONG ONCE PEOPLE GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER.CERSEI LANNISTER: I SEEM TO RELL HE LAID SIEGE TO STORM'S END FOR THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR. OLENNA TYRELL: ALL HE LAID SIEGE TO WAS THE BANQUET TABLE THE MAND TENT. BENEATH SPICN: BY NOT OVERPLAYG HIS HAND (OR PERHAPS BY NOT BEG PETENT ENOUGH TO DO SO) HE HAS MANAGED TO REMA AS THE ONLY LORD OF ONE OF THE "GREAT HO" OF WTEROS STILL LIVG OM HIS TRODUCTN. NED STARK, JON ARRYN, THE BARATHEON BROTHERS, DORAN MARTELL, BALON GREYJOY, TYW LANNISTER, HOSTER TULLY — ALL AD (THOUGH HOSTER GETS A PASS BY DYG OF NATURAL RATHER THAN VLENCE AND DORAN WAS KILLED BEE HE PLAYED NO HAND). OF URSE, WH THE EXPLOSN AT BAELOR'S SEPT, HE'S GONE AS WELL. BLG OF WAR: HIS PERSONAL ARMOR IS HEAVILY RATED WH GOLN ROS. BUMBLG DAD: MACE TYRELL IS ENTIRELY PLAYED FOR LGHS AS A BUMBLG, SYPHANTIC MOMMA'S BOY GETS LTLE RPECT OM HIS FAY. BUTT-MONKEY: DPE BEG A LORD PARAMOUNT, A WARN AND THE DUAL MASTER OF SHIPS AND CO, HE IS OFTEN IGNORED, BELTLED AT EVERY TURN BY HIS OWN MOTHER AND HIS MORE TANGIBLE NTRIBUTNS TO THE SMALL COUNCIL NSIST DOG MENIAL TASKS SUCH AS FETCHG QUILL AND PAPER OR OPENG AND CLOSG THE DOOR OF THE ROOM. CHARACTER EXAGGERATN: THE SERI EXAGGERAT MACE'S POMPOSY, WHEREAS THE NOVELS MAKE HIM MORE PROUD AND SELF-IMPORTANT. THE CHEW TOY: THE MAN IS A WALKG EMBARRASSMENT, BUT MOST OF HIS MISFORTUN ARE D AND HENCE ENJOYABLE AND HILAR. COMPOSE CHARACTER: WH HARYS SWYFT, THE LANNISTERS RINT BUTT-KISSG TOAD, ACRDG TO WORD OF GOD. COOL HELMET: WEARS AN OPEN-FACED AND CROWNED HELMET WH HIS PERSONAL ARMOR, RATED WH GOLN ROS AND THREE FEATHERS FOR A PLUME. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DUMBASS HAS A POT: HE LLS TYCHO AN URER, WHICH IS PLETELY TE AS THE IRON BANK IS WILLG TO FANCE A UP D'éTAT TO GET THEIR MONEY BACK AND ASKED TO RECEIVE ONE-TENTH OF THEIR MONEY BACK RIGHT AFTER TYW DI (AND JT AFTER TWO ROYAL WEDDGS). MACE ARRIVED TO A RENEGOTIATN THANKS TO HAVG THE WEALTHIT LAND AS LLATERAL. EASILY FIVEN: HE FOUGHT FOR THE TARGARYENS DURG ROBERT'S REBELLN, AND NOT ONLY ALT ROBERT BARATHEON HIS ONLY FEAT AT THE BATTLE OF ASHFORD FROM THE BOOKS... RANDYLL TARLY WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE TACTIL VICTORY, YET MACE ALWAYS TOOK CRED FOR . MARGAERY RELAT A MIXED ACUNT THE SHOW'S HISTORI & LORE, ADDRSG THAT MACE ARRIVED WHEN MOST OF THE FIGHTG WAS ALREADY DONE BY HIS VANGUARD, BUT NEARLY STARVED STANNIS AND RENLY TO ATH DURG THE SIEGE OF STORM'S END BEFORE THE REBELS WON. YET ON THE ADVICE OF JON ARRYN, ROBERT ONLY MA HIM PAY REPARATNS GOLD AND LET HIM REMA THE LORD OF THE REACH. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AFTER JOFEY MAK A CEL MENT TO SANSA ABOUT HER AD FATHER AT THE WEDDG BREAKFAST, MACE LOWERS HIS HEAD SADNS; HE PLALY FEELS BAD FOR THE GIRL. HE'S ALSO VISIBLY DISGTED BY JOFEY'S "WAR OF FIVE KGS" MOCKERY AND OVERALL CELTY (ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT MALY BE BEE THE PERFORMANCE TARGETED LORAS BY PICTG HIM AS RENLY'S "MOUNT"). FAT IDT: ACRDG TO LADY OLENNA. SHE SHUTS HIM UP THE STANT HE TRI TO JO ON TALKG SHOP WH HER AND TYW. MACE NSISTENTLY SHOWS THAT HE'S NOT THE SHARPT KNIFE THE DRAWER. THE FOOL: WHILE NOT A PROTAGONIST HE BASILLY FS THE BILL. HE HAS NO CLUE HOW OUT OF HIS PTH HE IS BUT 'S THAT VERY STUPIDY THAT KEEPS HIM ALIVE BEE NOBODY NSIRS HIM A THREAT SO THEY DON'T BOTHER TO PLOT AGAST HIM. HE BASILLY BLENDS TO THE BACKGROUND AS A KD OF Y-MAN WHICH GETS HIM PROMOTED A FEW TIM AS WELL, AND HIS IENDLS MEANS NO ONE EVEN WANTS HIM AD. IT'S A PRETTY OPEN SECRET THAT HIS MOTHER, OLENNA TYRELL IS HIS HANDLER. FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: AFTER JOFEY GETS UP OM HIS SEAT TO SPECT HIS NEW VALYRIAN SWORD, MACE RAIS HIS EYEBROW AT TYW, AND HIS WORDLS QUERY IS, "ARE YOU SURE 'S WISE TO GIVE THAT MANIAC A ADLY WEAPON?" THE GHOST: UP UNTIL SEASON 4, WHERE HE WAS FALLY ST. HIDN DEPTHS: IN "A DANCE WH DRAGONS" HE SUCCSFULLY RENEGOTIAT LOAN TERMS WH THE IRON BANK, SURPRISGLY SHOWSG SOME CENT DIPLOMATIC SKILLS. HE THEN DOUBL DOWN AND PROCEEDS TO SHOW OFF HIS GREAT VOICE, LNCHG TO A SUDN BUT WELL EXECUTED FOLK SONG, MUCH TO THE DISMAY OF TYCHO NTORIS. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: AN FERRED AMBN. OLENNA PLAS THAT MACE IS THE ONE TERMED TO CROWN MARGAERY, HENCE THE ALLIANCE WH THE LANNISTERS AFTER THE ONE WH RENLY BARATHEON FALLS APART. HIS ONSCREEN PERSONA DON'T DISPLAY THIS KD OF DRIVE BEYOND AN EAGER WILLGNS TO SERVE THE SMALL COUNCIL. IN-SERI NICKNAME: LADY OLENNA, HIS OWN MOTHER, REFERS TO HIM AS LORD OAF. IN THE BOOKS...  HE'S ALSO LLED "THE FAT FLOWER OF HIGHGARN" AND "LORD PUFF FISH." LARGE HAM: THE FEW TIM HE'S NOT TERPTED SHOW THAT HE'S TOO PLEASED BY THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE AND HE REELS . HIS BODY LANGUAGE ALSO TENDS TO BE RATHER EXAGGERATED AND OAFISH. LUDICRO GIBS: HIS BODY IS LERALLY BLASTED TO A THOAND PIEC (POSSIBLY EVEN TO NOTHGNS) BY CERSEI'S BOMBG OF THE SEPT. MANCHILD: MACE CERTALY HAS SHAS OF THIS, DUE TO BEG SUCH AN EASILY LED MOMMA'S BOY. AT THE SMALL COUNCIL MEETG, HE VERG ON THROWG A CHILDISH TANTM WHEN OBERYN SARSTILLY SUGGTS HE BE MA MASTER OF SHIPS. MACE GETS VERY FENSIVE, ACTG LIKE A CHILD PROTTG TO HIS SIBLG THAT FATHER GAVE HIM THAT TOY TO PLAY WH, AND NO, OBERYN N'T PLAY WH TOO, 'S HIS. MOMMA'S BOY: DPE BEG A LORD PARAMOUNT, HIS MOTHER TREATS HIM LIKE A CHILD AND HE GO ALONG WH . NICE GUY: MACE ISN'T VERY BRIGHT, BUT HE'S A GENUELY NICE PERSON. HE MIGHT BE KD OF NAIVE FOR NOT SPECTG OTHERS — I.E. SHOCKED WHEN POLICS VOLV MURR, AND APPALLED WHEN THE HIGH SEPTON IS SECRETLY HAVG SEX WH WHOR — BUT PARED TO SOME OF THE NASTIER CHARACTERS AT THE DENT COURT, 'S REHG TO SEE SOMEONE WHO HAS RELATIVELY "NORMAL" STANDARDS OF MORALY. NOT NOW, KIDDO: HE IS ON THE RECEIVG END OF THIS WHEN OLENNA TELLS HIM, "NOT NOW, MACE, LORD TYW AND I ARE SPEAKG." PAPA WOLF: IN "BLOOD OF MY BLOOD", HE LEADS HIS ARMY OM THE ONT AN ATTEMPT TO RCUE HIS CHILDREN OM THE FAH. WHEN THE SPARROWS START RVG A STAR TO LORAS'S FOREHEAD THE CROWD AROUND MACE HAS TO PHYSILLY RTRA HIM OM SHG FORWARDS SPERATN. ROG SPEECH: HE ATTEMPTS ONE "BLOOD OF MY BLOOD" TO RALLY HIS ARMY TO RCUE HIS CHILDREN, BUT NOBODY IS IMPRSED AND JAIME LANNISTER LOOKS ABOUT TO FACEPALM. RUNNG GAG: HE GETS TERPTED OR CUT OFF BY OTHER CHARACTERS (AND IF NOT BY THEM, THEN BY THE MERA) AT LEAST ONCE EVERY NVERSATN HE HOLDS. THE ONLY NOTABLE EXCEPTN WAS HIS SO-LLED ROG SPEECH BEFORE STORMG THE GREAT SEPT, AND EVEN THEN WAS ONLY BARELY SUFFERED THROUGH BY HIS TROOPS AND JAIME LANNISTER. SARSM-BLD: WHEN OBERYN M OVER WHETHER TYW WILL ASSIGN HIM A TLE, PERHAPS THE "MASTER OF SHIPS", MACE PROTTS THAT TYW GAVE HIM THAT TLE AND HE N'T HAVE . OBERYN GETS SURPRISED AND N'T BELIEVE MACE TOOK HIM SERLY. Y-MAN: MACE IS A FAWNER. TYRN IMMEDIATELY INTIFI HIM AS THIS.TYRN: HE [MACE] WILL VOTE EXACTLY AS MY FATHER TELLS HIM TO VOTE.    LADY OLENNA TYRELL, NéE REDWYNE LADY OLENNA TYRELL "WE MOTHERS DO WHAT WE N TO KEEP OUR SONS OM THE GRAVE, BUT THEY DO SEEM TO YEARN FOR ."PLAYED BY: DIANA RIGG"IT WAS TREASON. I WARNED THEM. ROBERT HAS TWO SONS AND RENLY HAS AN OLR BROTHER. HOW N HE POSSIBLY HAVE ANY CLAIM TO THAT UGLY IRON CHAIR? WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED WELL OUT OF ALL THIS, IF YOU ASK ME. BUT ONCE THE W'S BEEN KED, THERE'S NO SQUIRTG THE CREAM BACK UP HER UDR, SO HERE WE ARE TO SEE THGS THROUGH"THE PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF LORAS AND MARGAERY AND MOTHER OF MACE TYRELL, THE LORD PARAMOUNT OF THE REACH AND WARN OF THE SOUTH. ADAPTATNAL BADASS: OLENNA THE SHOW IS MA TO THE FACTO HEAD OF THE FAY, PARABLE TO TYW LANNISTER (AND SHE ACTUALLY BTS THE SELFSAME ONE OF THE MOST BADASS VERBAL DUELS THE SHOW). IN THE BOOKS HER POWER IS MORE LIMED TO A WOMAN OF HER STATN AND SHE PLAS BTERLY THAT HER SON DON'T LISTEN TO HER ON CISNS OF THE HOEHOLD. ADAPTATN EXPANSN: SHE HAS A NUMBER OF SCEN THE SERI THAT HAVE NO DIRECT UNTERPART THE BOOKS. ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: OLENNA IS THE VERY PICTURE OF A COOL OLD LADY THE SHOW, OPPOSG THE CREASGLY TYRANNIL LANNISTERS, STEAD OF THE SPEFUL HARRIDAN OF THE BOOKS WHO LLS ELLARIA SAND "THE SERPENT'S WHORE". SHE ALSO DISPLAYS SYMPATHY FOR SANSA THE SHOW RATHER THAN JT SEEG HER AS A PAWN. EVEN HER ASSASSATN OF JOFEY IS AMED MORE AS A SYMPATHETIC MURRER, WHO DIDN'T WANT HER GRANDDGHTER MARRIED TO A MONSTER. ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY: SHE'S MUCH MORE GOOD-HUMOURED THAN HER BOOK UNTERPART, WHO ME ACROSS AT TIM AS CROTCHETY AND VDICTIVE, TO THE POT WHERE TYRN WONRS IF HER LATE HENPECKED HBAND RO OFF A CLIFF TENTNALLY. IN THE NOVELS, SHE'S OFTEN SNI AND RISIVE TOWARDS SANSA, OFTEN MOCKG THE GIRL'S PERCEIVED LACK OF TELLIGENCE. THOUGH A PRIVATE MOMENT TO VARYS, SHE ADMS THAT SANSA IS NOT PARTICULARLY TERTG BUT THAT "SHE HAS AN TERTG CHILDHOOD." ON THE SHOW, SHE HAS MORE VISIBLE SYMPATHY TOWARDS SANSA'S UNFORTUNATE SUATN AND ATTEMPTS TO ARRANGE A MARRIAGE TO LORAS AT VARYS' BEHT AS THEY BOTH NSIR LTLEFGER TO BE TOO DANGERO. IN THE BOOKS, IS HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT OLENNA SEEKS SANSA'S CLAIM TO WTERFELL, ALTHOUGH ON THE SERI TYW LANNISTER REGARDS THAT AS THE REAL MOTIVE BEHD THEIR PLOT TO MARRY SANSA TO THE TYRELLS. SHE HAS NO PATIENCE FOR THE SAND SNAK, BUT HER ANIMOSY TOWARDS THE MARTELLS IS REMOVED FOR THE MOST PART, AS ARE EPISOS LIKE LLG ELLARIA SAND "THE SERPENT'S WHORE." ADAPTED OUT: THE BODYGUARDS SHE LLS LEFT AND RIGHT AREN'T PRENT THE TV SHOW. ANTI-VILLA: ONE OF THE GREATT SCHEMERS THE SHOW (BTG TYRN, VARYS, AND LTLEFGER, AND CHALLENGG TYW), MURRS A CHILD, AND TNTS THE CHILD'S FATHER OVER ... AND EVERY SUATN, SHE STILL SEEMS TO HAVE THE MORAL HIGHGROUND OVER HER ENEMI (AND UALLY DIENCE SYMPATHY). AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: "BREAKER OF CHAS" REVEALS THAT SPE HER PLATS ABOUT HER LATE HBAND'S STUPIDY, SHE WAS NEVERTHELS SOMEWHAT FOND OF HIM, AS SHE IS VISIBLY UPSET (HER EY ARE EVEN A B WET) WHILE REMISCG ABOUT THE DAY HE DIED. IN "OATHKEEPER", OLENNA REUNTS TO MARGAERY THAT LUTHOR TYRELL WAS SUPPOSED TO MARRY OLENNA'S SISTER WHILE OLENNA WAS TEND FOR A TARGARYEN. HOWEVER, OLENNA CID SHE PREFERRED LUTHOR TO THE TARGARYEN AND SCED HIM AWAY OM HER SISTER ON THE EVE OF THEIR BETROTHAL. WHILE THIS WAS LIKELY A POLIL MOVE, AT LEAST SHOWS THAT OLENNA HAD SOME REGARD FOR HER HBAND, ONCE UPON A TIME. SHE MAY LOOK DOWN ON HER SON FOR BEG AN OAF, BUT SHE IS CLEARLY UPSET WHEN HE ALONG WH HER GRANDCHILDREN WERE KILLED BY CERSEI'S WILDFIRE PLOT. BADASS BOAST: GIV A NICE ONE TO LTLEFGER "THE GIFT" — "IF I SHOULD MEET WH SOME UNFORTUNATE ACCINT HERE AT YOUR BROKEN LTLE FLH MARKET... THEY'LL NEVER EVEN FD WHAT'S LEFT OF YOU." BADASS BURECRAT: THE TYRRELLS ARE THE PRIMARY FOOD PROVIR FOR THE SEVEN KGDOMS BEE OF THE FERTILE LANDS THEY SUCCSFULLY ADMISTRATE, PECIALLY SCE OLENNA'S TIME. HER FAY ARE RICHT NOBL AFTER THE LANNISTERS (EVENTUALLY THE -FACTO RICHT, THOUGH DON'T BEE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE). SEE THE MA QUOTE ABOUT THE HOE TYRELL'S WAR EXPENS OLENNA'S OWN WORDS. BENEVOLENT BOSS: IN "TWO SWORDS", SHE MOTIVAT HER HANDMAINS BY REWARDG THE ONE WHO FDS THE BT NECKLACE FOR MARGAERY WH THE SEND-BT NECKLACE. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: WHILST DISCSG THE VAR FAY HOE MOTTOS, SHE BRIEFLY ADOPTS A NORTHERN ACCENT WHEN POTG OUT HOW THE STARK'S "WTER IS COMG" SOUNDS HERENTLY MORE BADASS THAN THE TYRELLS' "GROWG STRONG." BTAL HONTY: PRACTIC THIS BEE SHE N GET AWAY WH ON ACUNT ON HER AGE AND POWER — AND ENURAG SANSA TO SPEAK HER MD ABOUT JOFEY. CASSANDRA TTH: SHE WARNED HER FAY NOT TO BACK RENLY, WHOM SHE NSIRED A TERRIBLE NDIDATE WH AN UNJT CLAIM ON THE THRONE, AND LAMENTG THAT GOT THEM TO A JAM THAT THEY HAD TO GET OUT OF BY ENGAGG MARGAERY WH JOFEY, WHICH END UP ENTANGLG HOE TYRELL'S FORTUN WH THOSE OF HOE LANNISTER, WHOM SHE SPIS. IN THE END SHE LAMENTS BEG THE LAST OF HER FAY. CHARACTER DEATH: IN "THE QUEEN'S JTICE". VIA POISON THAT SHE WILLGLY GTS. THE CHSMASTER: MOST FELY. WHEN SANSA SPEAKS HER MD TO MARGAERY AND OLENNA ABOUT JOFEY (THE GIRL TELLS THEM THAT HE'S "A MONSTER"), THE WHEELS OLENNA'S MD VISIBLY BEG TO TURN, FIGURG OUT HOW TO KEEP HER GRANDDGHTER SAFE. THIS, TURN, LEADS TO HER POISONG JOFEY, WH TYRN AND SANSA AMED FOR . THE DUO WORKED TO SPIR SANSA OUT OF KG'S LANDG, BUT TYRN PED BY OTHER OWN MEANS. COMPLEXY ADDICTN: THE HIGH SPARROW LLS OUT HOW A LIFETIME OF DOUBLE-ALG AND SSG OUT HIDN MOTIV HAS LEFT HER PLETELY STYMIED WHEN ALG WH SOMEONE LIKE HIM WHOSE MOTIVATNS REALLY ARE AS SIMPLE AS THEY APPEAR. COMPOSE CHARACTER: SHE TAK OVER BOOK MACE'S ROLE OF G BACK TO THE PAL AND ATTEMPTG TO EE MARGAERY. THE CONSIGLIERE: TO HER SON MACE, AND TO HER GRANDDGHTER MARGAERY. THE CONSPIRACY: LEADS ONE, WHICH CLUS PETYR BAELISH, SER DONTOS HOLLARD, AND (UNKNOWGLY) SANSA, AND WHICH RULTED JOFEY'S ATH BY POISONG AND TYRN AND SANSA'S AMG FOR THE ED. COOL OLD LADY: TO HER GRANDCHILDREN, MARGAERY AND LORAS. AND TO SANSA, AND EVEN TO SOME GREE TO VARYS. AND OF URSE TO THE DIENCE. GIVEN HER LARGELY EGALARIAN ATTUS TOWARDS GENR, SEXUALY AND E OF POLIL POWER, SHE MAY WELL BE THE MOST SOCIALLY PROGRSIVE PERSON ON THE SERI BIS RENLY (WH TYRN LANNISTER NNG A SOMEWHAT DISTANT THIRD). COUNTRY MATTERS: HER SUCCCT OPN OF JOFEY. DEADPAN SNARKER: THE QUEEN OF THORNS IS FAMOLY SHARP-TONGUED. SHE GETS AWAY WH THE NSTANT JIB AT POWERFUL PEOPLE PARTLY BEE SHE'S TYRELL MATRIARCH AND PARTLY BEE OF HER AGE. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HER BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DEATH GLARE: GIV A PARTICULARLY VIC ONE TO CERSEI "UNBOWED, UNBENT, UNBROKEN" AFTER LORAS AND MARGAERY ARE ARRTED BY THE FAH MILANT. DEATH SEEKER: IT'S IMPLIED THE SEASON 6 FALE THAT OLENNA HAS CROSSED TO THIS AFTER CERSEI WIP OUT HER ENTIRE FAY:OLENNA: CERSEI STOLE THE FUTURE OM ME. SHE KILLED MY SON. SHE KILLED MY GRANDSON. SHE KILLED MY GRANDDGHTER. IT IS NOT SURVIVAL I AM AFTER. DEFIANT TO THE END: IN IMABLE FORM, OLENNA SPS JAIME'S MERCY RIGHT BACK HIS FACE BY ADMTG TO JOFEY'S MURR HER FAL MOMENTS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF THE ATHS OF HER FAY MEMBERS DIDN'T MAKE HER CROSS , THEN THE FALL OF HIGHGARN TO THE LANNISTERS DID. DEMOTED TO EXTRA: WHILE STILL MEMORABLE, HER ROLE SEASON 5 IS SIGNIFINTLY LS SUBSTANTIAL THEN THE PREV TWO SEASONS — SHE ONLY APPEARS TWO EPISOS MIDWAY THROUGH THE SEASON, AND DON'T EVEN APPEAR THE FALE. THIS IS RECTIFIED THE FOLLOWG SEASON. DIDN'T SEE THAT COMG: EVER SCE SHE STARTED PLAYG THE GAME, SHE'S MA ONE NSTANT BUT FATAL MISTAKE — UNRTIMATG CERSEI LANNISTER, OR RATHER OVERTIMATG THIS SE. IN ALL THEIR ALGS, OLENNA ASSUM CERSEI, SPE HER PETTS, KNOWS WHEN TO QU. IT NEVER SEEMS TO DAWN ON HER, EVEN WHEN THE PROOF IS STARG HER THE FACE, THAT THERE IS NO LENGTH CERSEI WON'T GO TO KEEP HERSELF POWER, NO MATTER HOW SHORTSIGHTED. AFTER CERSEI MURRS HER ENTIRE FAY, OLENNA IS NO LONGER DISMISSIVE OF HER.OLENNA: YOUR SISTER HAS DONE THGS... I WAS PABLE OF IMAGG. THAT WAS MY PRIZE MISTAKE... A FAILURE OF IMAGATN. DIRTY OLD WOMAN: BT EXEMPLIFIED BY THIS NVERSATN WH VARYS.OLENNA: ARE YOU HERE TO SCE ME? VARYS: A LTLE OBV PERHAPS... OLENNA: OH NO PLEASE, SCE AWAY! IT'S BEEN SO LONG. BUT I RATHER THK 'S ALL FOR NGHT; WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NON-EXISTENT BUMPS AGAST THE CREP (VARYS LOOKS DOWN AT HIS GRO AND UP AGA SHOCK)... A QUTN FOR THE PHILOSOPHERS. SHE ALSO SEEMS RATHER FOND OF REMISCG ABOUT HOW SHE SCED MARGAERY'S GRANDFATHER AND END UP FUCKG HIM SO HARD THAT HE ULDN'T WALK FOR A DAY, BEFORE REMARKG HOW SHE WAS "VERY, VERY GOOD" AT . ALL OF WHICH SHE HAPPILY TELLS HER GRANDDGHTER. DISPENSE WH THE PLEASANTRI: OLENNA OFTEN HAS NO PATIENCE FOR POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, AND DISMISS ANY PLEASANTRI OR ATTEMPTS AT FLATTERY. ESPECIALLY OM THE PEOPLE SHE DON'T LIKE. A NOTABLE EXAMPLE IS WHEN SHE TELLS OFF LTLEFGER'S ATTEMPT AT BEG URTEO "THE GIFT" WHEN THEY MEET AT HIS BROTHEL.LTLEFGER: [REFERRG TO HIS TRASHED BROTHEL] I'M SORRY ABOUT THE LOLE. OLENNA: NO YOU'RE NOT. LTLEFGER: IT SEEMED LIKE THE SAFT PLACE. OLENNA: [OBSERVG THE VASTATN THE FAH MILANT LEFT THEIR WAKE] NOT FOR YOUR CLIENTELE, CLEARLY. [...]YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN RATHER IMPRSED WH YOURSELF, HAVEN'T YOU? LTLEFGER: THE PAST IS THE PAST. THE FUTURE IS ALL THAT'S WORTH DISCSG, THE FUTURE OF HOE TYRELL- OLENNA: DON'T PRETEND TO HAVE ANY NCERN FOR MY HOE, MY GRANDCHILDREN OR ME! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D RETURN TO THE PAL AS SOON AS THGS STARTED TO GO WRONG! DRIVEN TO SUICI: WHEN HIGHGARN FALLS TO THE LANNISTERS, JAIME HANDS HER A PALS POISON, WHICH SHE WILLGLY DRKS WHOUT A BEAT. DYG ALONE: SHE ENDS UP DYG ALONE HER CHAMBERS OF A POISON WHEN JAIME STORMS OUT OF HER ROOM AFTER HER DYG MOMENT OF AWOME. SHE DON'T REALLY MD. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: AN UNUALLY UNRSTATED SE, AS SHE LETS JAIME MAKE A BIG AL ABOUT HOW HE TALKED CERSEI OUT OF PUTTG HER THROUGH A TORTUO PUBLIC ATH FAVOR OF A QUICK AND PALS POISON, AND ONLY AFTER TAKG REVEALS THAT SHE WAS THE ONE RPONSIBLE FOR JOFEY'S GOME MURR, LEAVG JAIME ROBBED OF ANY SATISFACTN OM HIS ACT OF MERCY. ENTERTAGLY WRONG: THE CLOST THG SHE HAS TO A FLAW IS HER OCSNAL TENNCY TO OVERTIMATE HER OPPONENTS, WHICH IS RARE FOR A SETTG WH SO MANY SMUG SNAK. SHE IALLY ASSUM MARGAERY WOULD BE SAFE WH JOFEY BEE JOFEY WOULD HAVE NOTHG TO GA BY HURTG HER, BUT WHEN TURNS OUT HE'S JT A PSYCHOPATH SHE'S FORCED TO MOVE AGAST HIM QUICKLY. SHE ASSUM CERSEI WOULDN'T MOVE AGAST THE TYRELL FAY BEE SHE IS NOT A POSN TO DO SO, BUT SHE DO NOT ACUNT FOR CERSEI BEG DUMB ENOUGH TO DO , ANYWAYS. SHE ASSUM CERSEI IS DOG BEE SHE HAS AN ACTUAL PLAN TO EXTORT HOE TYRELL, BUT 'S ACTUALLY MOSTLY JT BEE CERSEI IS HAVG A PETTY FD WH MARGAERY AND CERSEI N'T REALLY BE REASONED WH. SHE ASSUM THE HIGH SPARROW WANTS WEALTH, BUT HE REALLY IS JT A FANATIC WHO WANTS TO TABLISH A THEOCRACY. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HER STERN FACE SHOWS THAT SHE DO NOT HI HER DISTASTE FOR JOFEY'S DREADFUL "REENACTMENT" OF THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS. THEN AGA, VOLV JOFEY SULTG HER GRANDSON, LORAS, BEG PORTRAYED AS RENLY'S MOUNT TO MOCK THEIR RELATNSHIP. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: OLENNA TYRELL GO OUT WH ALL THE POSURE AND GRACE WE'VE E TO EXPECT OM HER — SHE DOWNS THE POISON OFFERED TO HER, AND SPENDS HER LAST MUT SULTG JAMIE AND CERSEI BY EXTENSN, CLUDG REVEALG THAT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED JOFEY. ALL WHILE MATAG PERFECT REGAL POSTURE HER CHAIR. HER FAL MOMENTS ARE ALSO NOT SHOWN TO THE VIEWER TO HAMMER THE POT. FATAL FLAW: HER AGE - FOR ALL HER TELLIGENCE, OLENNA WAS VERY STUBBORN AND NEVER LISTENED TO ANYONE AND ONLY DID THGS HER WAY WHILE RARELY SHARG HER THOUGHTS, EVEN HIDG HER ROLE JOFEY'S POISONG OM MARGAERY, THIS ENDS UP STG HER HOE'S EXTCTN AND ATH. AS SHE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER SHARG ON CASTERLY ROCK BEG DRIED, ME BACK TO HIGHGARN HERSELF TO MOBILIZE HER TROOPS. FIRST-NAME BASIS: TOWARDS THE END OF HER NVERSATN WH TYW "THE LN AND THE ROSE", SHE LLS HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME WHOUT HIS TLE, AND TYW DON'T EVEN BLK AN EYE. WHO ELSE GETS AWAY WH THAT WHOUT RECEIVG TYW'S SIGNATURE DEATH GLARE? FOIL: SHE IS, POLILLY, THE DIAMETRIC OPPOSE OF TYW LANNISTER, BEG A POWERFUL PROGRSIVE FORCE WTEROS AS OPPOSED TO TYW'S BRAND OF STERN PATRIARCHIL NSERVATISM. MARGAERY HAS BLOSSOMED UNR HER GRANDMOTHER'S GUIDANCE, WHEREAS CERSEI HAS SUFFOTED UNR HER FATHER'S PSYCHOLOGIL ABE. WHILE OLENNA TEAS HER SON AND GRANDSON, HER VERBAL JABS ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS CEL AS TYW'S HORRID TREATMENT OF TYRN. WHEN OLENNA ARRANG A MARRIAGE FOR LORAS, SHE BETROTH HIM TO SANSA NOT ONLY FOR THE GIRL'S CLAIM TO WTERFELL, BUT ALSO BEE SHE KNOWS THAT LORAS'S PERSONALY — IF NOT HIS ORIENTATN — IS PATIBLE WH SANSA'S. WHEN TYW ARRANG MARRIAG FOR TYRN AND CERSEI, HE'S ONLY NCERNED ABOUT POLIL GA, AND DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT HIS CHILDREN'S OBJECTNS OR FEELGS. WHEREAS TYW NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY A MENTAL ILLNS, OLENNA BELIEV 'S PERFECTLY NATURAL. HERE'S WHAT THEY SHARE MON: WHILE THEIR OFFSPRG TECHNILLY HAVE A HIGHER RANK (QUEEN REGENT CERSEI, KG JOFEY, LORD PARAMOUNT MACE TYRELL), 'S TYW AND OLENNA WHO HOLD ALL THE POWER THE LANNISTER-TYRELL ALLIANCE. AND BOTH WERE VOLVED THE ASSASSATN OF A KG AT A WEDDG. SHE IS WHAT CERSEI TRIED TO BE, BUT PLETELY FAILED AT; A MATRIARCH WHO L A FAY BY GUIDG AND MANIPULATG HER CHILDREN. UNLIKE CERSEI, OLENNA IS TELLIGENT ENOUGH TO PULL OFF. ALSO, SHE HAS THE ADVANTAGE THAT HER (GRAND)CHILDREN ARE SANE, AND, AT LEAST THE SE OF MARGAERY, SMART ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HER. FRAME-UP: HER NSPIRACY WH PETYR BAELISH LEADS TO TYRN AND SANSA'S AMG FOR JOFEY'S MURR. FRIENDLY ENEMY: SHE AND TYW HAVE THIS DYNAMIC SPE HIS TWISTG OF HER ARM OVER THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE BETWEEN LORAS AND CERSEI. OLENNA TRI TO CHEER UP THE CRANKY OLD MAN AFTER JOFEY AND MARGAERY'S WEDDG CEREMONY. GUILE HERO: OLENNA SCRIB HERSELF AS CREP, BUT SHE IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST CUNNG AND DANGERO CHARACTERS THE SHOW. SHE IS ALSO GENERALLY ON THE SI OF THE MOST KD-HEARTED CHARACTERS, EVEN IF HER METHODS ARE SOMETIM HORRIFYG. GRAN DAME: LADY OLENNA IS AN ELEGANT DAME OF AMPLE PHYSIQUE, A WIDOW OF A HENPECKED HBAND AND FAMO FOR HER ARROGANCE, THOUGH SHE IS NOT HUMOURLS, BEG FAMO FOR HER DRY W. GMPY OLD MAN: IF SHE'S SNARKG MORE RELENTLSLY THAN UAL, EHER MEANS SHE'S PISSED OR LOSG PATIENCE. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: A VERY DARK EXAMPLE AT JOFEY'S WEDDG. "WHAT KD OF MONSTER WOULD MURR A MAN AT HIS OWN WEDDG DAY?" A FIERCELY PROTECTIVE GRANDMOTHER, APPARENTLY. THOUGH HER MOTIVATNS TO SAVE HER GRANDCHILDREN OM A KNOWN PSYCHOPATH ARE FAR MORE SYMPATHETIC THAN TYW'S RATNALE FOR THE RED WEDDG. IN-SERI NICKNAME: SHE IS KNOWN AS THE "QUEEN OF THORNS" FOR HER SARSM AND W, BED WH THE ROSE THORNS BEG THE SIGIL OF HOE TYRELL. INSULT BACKFIRE: AFTER A GAMB TO OVERTHROW THE HIGH SPARROW FAILS, SHE MOCKGLY ASKS CERSEI IF SHE PLANS TO KILL ALL OF HER ENEMI. WHILE CERSEI DON'T KILL ALL OF ENEMI, SHE PRETTY DANG CLOSE. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: IT'S STRONGLY IMPLIED THAT SHE WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE HER YOUTH. CONSIRG THAT HER ACTRS IS DIANA RIGG (WHO WAS A SEX SYMBOL THE 1960'S), AND OLENNA IS NATURALLY CHARISMATIC, 'S NO SURPRISE AT ALL. THIS IS LATER NFIRMED WHEN SHE RELLS SCG HER FUTURE HBAND THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PROPOSE TO HER ELR SISTER. JERKASS HAS A POT: WHILE TELLG DAENERYS TO IGNORE TYRN'S ADVICE WAS A B OF A DICK MOVE, OLENNA DID HAVE A POT PECIALLY HDSIGHT. A LOT OF TYRN'S ADVICE FOR DANY ONLY SERVED TO SCREW HER OVER THE LONG N. HIS ADVICE TO BIEGE CASTERLY ROCK STEAD OF KG'S LANDG ST DANY HER ALLI (CLUDG OLENNA HERSELF). HIS SUGGTN TO TABLISH A TCE WH CERSEI BY PTURG A WIGHT ST DANY HER DRAGON VISERN, WHOM THE NIGHT KG TO STROY THE WALL THAT KEPT THE ARMI OF THE AD AT BAY, ENSURG THAT THE VASN AHEAD OF SCHLE. NOT TO MENTN THAT THE ENTIRE PLAN WAS ALL FOR NOTHG AS CERSEI SECRETLY PROCEEDS TO VLATE THE TCE ANYWAY. KICK THE DOG: KILLG JOFEY? FAIR ENOUGH. MAKG TYRN AND SANSA THE SPEGOAT? PROBABLY NECSARY, BUT STILL NOT OL, OLENNA. LASER-GUID KARMA: AT THE END OF SEASON 6, SHE LAMENTS ABOUT HOW CERSEI MURRED HER SON AND HER GRANDCHILDREN AND END THE HOE TYRELL. TWO SEASONS EARLIER, OLENNA MURRED CERSEI'S SON JOFEY AND HAD THE NOCENT TYRN LANNISTER AS THE SPEGOAT, WHICH QUICKLY LED TO THE EFFECTIVE END OF HOE LANNISTER KG'S LANDG, WH TYW AND TYRN ELIMATED AND CERSEI PHED FURTHER TO MADNS. SO WHILE CERSEI AND THE LANNISTERS, GENERAL, ARE MORE VILLAO THAN OLENNA AND THE TYRELLS GENERAL, CERSEI A WAY SERV OLENNA AN APPROPRIATE RPONSE FOR HER ACTNS - WH BON IRONY POTS FOR NOT EVEN KNOWG . HER ATH ALSO HAS AN IRONIC FLAVOR: SHE DI WH POISON (ALBE A PALS ONE, UNLIKE THE STRANGLER WHICH WAS ED TO KILL JOFEY) HAND BY HIS OWN FATHER JAIME. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT HE HAD NO IA SHE WAS THE ONE TO HAVE KILLED HIM, WHICH SHE TELLS HIM JT BEFORE DYG. LAST OF THEIR KD: AFTER THE STCTN OF THE GREAT SEPT OF BAELOR, OLENNA BEME THE LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF HOE TYRELL, AND EVEN THEN ONLY NAME AS SHE IS A REDWYNE BY BIRTH. AFTER HER ATH BY POISON SEASON 7, HOE TYRELL IS OFFICIALLY AD, WH WARNSHIP OF THE SOUTH AND LORD PARAMOUNTSHIP OF THE REACH SET TO FALL TO RANDYLL TARLY. LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE: BRIEFLY HAS THIS DYNAMIC WH TYW LANNISTER, OF ALL PEOPLE, DURG "THE LN AND THE ROSE". MAMA BEAR: SHE KILLED JOFEY BEE HE WOULD HAVE TREATED MARGAERY BADLY. TO A LSER EXTENT, SHE WAS ALSO SHIELDG LORAS OM FUTURE HARM, AS WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE JOFEY WOULD ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD MAKE HOMOSEXUALY A PAL CRIME FROM THE BOOKS... ANOTHER OF OLENNA'S MOTIV WAS TO PREVENT LORAS OM POTENTIALLY BEG A KGSLAYER, SCE LORAS WOULD HAVE KILLED JOFEY IF HE EVER MISTREATED MARGAERY. IN SEASON 5, SPE HER ADVANCED AGE, SHE'S SCEND TO THE PAL, GETTG TO FIGHTS TO PROTECT HER GRANDCHILDREN. IT'S ACTUALLY QUE TOUCHG. SHE REF TO LEAVE MARGAERY AND LORAS BEHD, EVEN AS THE HIGH SPARROW SEEKS TO "NVERT" HER LIKE HE DID WH MARGAERY. IT'S ONLY WHEN MARGAERY REVEALS TO HER THAT SHE'S STILL PLAYG THE GAME THAT OLENNA CIS TO RETURN TO THE REACH. AFTER CERSEI KILLS MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS THE WILDFIRE EXPLOSN, OLENNA CIS TO ALLY HERSELF WH HOE MARTELL AND, PRUMABLY, QUEEN DAENERYS AS WELL ORR TO GET REVENGE ON CERSEI. THE MENTOR: TO HER GRANDDGHTER MARGAERY. MERCY KILL: HER ATH, PARED TO WHAT CERSEI ORIGALLY HAD STORE FOR HER (SUCH AS PUBLIC WHIPPG AND TORTURE), IS PROVID BY JAIME LANNISTER, WHO GIV HER A MERE PALS POISON SHE TAK WHOUT HATN. SHE PROCEEDS TO SP ON HIS MERCY BY REVEALG SHE WAS THE ONE TO HAVE KILLED HIS SON'S JOFEY, MAKG HIM REGRET HAVG GIVEN HER MERCY THE FIRST PLACE. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: SE NOTHG WRONG WH NNG HER SON'S LIFE; SUBVERTED THAT SHE ACTUALLY IS MORE PETENT THAN HIM. MY GREATT FAILURE: UNRTIMATG CERSEI AND BEG UNABLE TO IMAGE, LET ALONE ANTICIPATE, THE HORRIBLE THGS CERSEI WOULD BE PABLE OF. NEVER BAREHEAD: SHE’S ALWAYS SEEN WEARG SOME SORT OF HEAD VERG. NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE: LORD MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS DIED WHEN SHE WAS HOME AT THE REACH. NEVER MS WH GRANNY: THROUGHOUT SEASONS 3 AND 4, SHE PROV HERSELF TO BE A TOUGH AND UNPROMISG OLD LADY... BUT HER MOST JAW-DROPPGLY AWOME MOMENT ME "OATHKEEPER" WHERE SHE REVEALS SHE HAD POISONED JOFEY ORR TO PROTECT HER GRANDDGHTER OM HIS SADISTIC EXCS. SHE IS ALSO READY TO HAVE AN ALL OUT WAR AGAST THE SPARROWS TO PREVENT MARGAERY TO MAKE A WALK OF PENANCE. AFTER CERSEI BLOWS UP THE GREAT SEPT OF BAELOR, KILLG MACE, MARGAERY, AND LORAS, SHE DON'T NEED MUCH NVCG TO JO THE TARGARYEN-MARTELL-GREYJOY ALLIANCE AGAST CERSEI, SENDG THE ENTIRETY OF THE TYRELL FLEET TO MEEREEN TO JO DANY'S VASN ARMADA.OLENNA: [TO MARGAERY] YOU DIDN'T THK I'D LET YOU MARRY THAT BEAST, DID YOU? NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: IN HER UNRSTANDABLE NCERN FOR MARGAERY'S WELL-BEG, SHE HAS JOFEY KILLED, WHICH TRIGGERS THE MISE OF THE RATNAL LANNISTER LEARSHIP (TYW AND TYRN) AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF CERSEI. THIS BRGS MAJOR DISASTER. ONE ULD ARGUE THAT SHE HAD A HAND TYRN'S POOR CHOICE TO HAVE THE UNSULLIED VA CASTERLY ROCK AS AN OPENG GAMB TO DANERYS' WAR WH CERSEI. SEE TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK BELOW. NICE TO THE WAER: PLAYED WH. SHE IS OFTEN SHOWN TO BE VERY CHEEKY TO HER HOEHOLD (AND ANKLY, TO ANYBODY), BUT ALWAYS A BENEVOLENT WAY. NO HISTORIL FIGUR WERE HARMED: IT'S PROBABLY NOT A CINCE THAT OLENNA'S FASHN SENSE, BEHAVR, AND MASTERY OF REALPOLIK HARKENS A LOT TO PORTRAYALS OF ELEANOR OF AQUAE, THE MATRIARCH OF THE HOE OF PLANTAGE (ALL DURG HER HBAND KG HENRY II'S LE, AND EVEN AS REGENT TO HER KGLY SONS, RICHARD I AND JOHN). OLENNA'S OUTF EVEN ECHO ELEANOR'S TOMB EFFIGY◊ QUE A B. OBFTG STUPIDY: SURROUNDS HERSELF WH SIMPERG GIRLS (OR "HENS" AS SHE LLS THEM) TO SEEM HARMLS, WHEN SHE'S REALLY A DANGERO CHSMASTER ON THE LEVEL OF TYRN, TYW, VARYS, OR PETYR BAELISH, A FACT WHICH ALL OF THEM ARE FULLY AWARE OF AND RPECT ACRDGLY. INED, SHE AND LTLEFGER, TEAM UP TO TAKE OUT JOFEY WH TYRN TAKG THE BLAME; NOT ONLY DO NOBODY SPECT THEM, NO ONE EVEN KNOWS OF THEIR SECRET ALLIANCE. OUT-GAMBTED: AFTER THE PLOT TO MARRY LORAS TO SANSA IS DISVERED, SHE'S ABLE TO PUT UP SOME RISTANCE AGAST A NEW ARRANGEMENT WH THE LANNISTERS. LORD TYW TMPS HER WH ROYAL PREROGATIV, ANYWAY; IF SHE DON'T VE , LORAS WILL BE MA A MEMBER OF THE CELIBATE KGSGUARD, MEANG THE TYRELL NAME WILL WHER AND FA, AS JOFEY'S SONS WOULD HER HIGHGARN STEAD. BEG THE ROURCEFUL LADY THAT SHE IS, THE SETBACK NEVER PLAY BEE HER PLOT TO MURR JOFEY DISPTS THE LANNISTERS AND EVENTUALLY TAK TYW DOWN. OUTLIVG ONE'S OFFSPRG: LOS HER SON AND GRANDCHILDREN TO CERSEI'S WILDFIRE SCHEME THE SEASON 6 FALE. PET THE DOG: SHE IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW DIVIDUALS WTEROS WHO PLIMENTS BRIENNE STEAD OF SULTG HER WHEN MEETG THE FEMALE WARRR FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE ONLY OTHER TWO CHARACTERS WHO HAVE PREVLY DONE THIS ARE RENLY AND CATELYN. SHE LERALLY DO THIS "THE LN AND THE ROSE" WHEN SHE RS SANSA'S FACE AS SHE OFFERS HER NDOLENC FOR ROBB'S ATH. OLENNA THEN TELLS THE GIRL THAT SHE HAS AN OPEN VATN TO HIGHGARN, WHICH MAK SANSA SE. THE FACT THAT SHE CHOOS THIS PRECISE MOMENT TO UNLOAD THE CRYSTAL WH POISON OM SANSA'S NECKLACE SPOILS SOMEWHAT. POLILLY INRRECT HERO: UNLIKE THE OTHER HEROIC CHARACTERS HER VIEWS OF MONERS ARE FTG OF THE NOBILY OF THE TIME. TREATG THEM MORE LIKE MOUTHS TO FEED AND ENTERTA TO STOP RTS. THE HIGH SPARROW LLS HER OUT ON WHEN SHE THREATENS TO CUT KG'S LANDG FOOD SUPPLY, POTG OUT SHE'LL JT RISE THEM AGAST THE NOBLE WHO BULLI THEM FOR HER WHIM THAN THE MAN WHO PREACH EQUALY. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A GREAT ONE TO CERSEI "THE BROKEN MAN", LLG OUT THE LANNISTER QUEEN'S STUPIDY THAT ENDANGERED TWO GREAT HO... RULTG CERSEI ADMTG HER MISTAK, POSSIBLY THE FIRST TIME THE SERI.CERSEI: YOUR GRANDSON IS STILL A PRISONER. YOU'LL LEAVE HIM ROTTG A CELL? OLENNA: (SWLG AT CERSEI) LORAS ROTS A CELL BEE OF YOU. THE HIGH SPARROW L THIS CY BEE OF YOU. OUR TWO ANCIENT HO FACE LLAPSE BEE OF YOU AND YOUR STUPIDY! RED BARON: "THE QUEEN OF THORNS". REFUGE AUDACY: DEFENDS LORAS'S HOMOSEXUALY TO TYW, QUTNG IF HE HIMSELF HAS NEVER BEEN GUILTY OF THE OCSNAL SPOT OF BUGGERY, PERHAPS WH SOME OF HIS MALE S! SHE ALSO BRGS UP THE ISSUE OF JOFEY'S TE PARENTAGE, AND STEAD OF A DEATH GLARE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RPONSE FOR ANYONE ELSE, SHE RECEIV OM TYW A HASTY B OF PLSIBLE DENIABILY. WHEN TYW THREATENS HER WH NAMG LORAS TO THE KGSGUARD, TH LEAVG HOE TYRELL WHOUT AN HEIR AND JOFEY'S POTENTIAL CHILDREN WH A SUPERR CLAIM TO HIGHGARN VIA MARGAERY, LADY OLENNA TAK TYW'S QUILL AND BREAKS . A RETROACTIVE EXAMPLE IS HER LOUDLY CLARG, "WHAT KD OF MONSTER WOULD MURR A MAN AT HIS OWN WEDDG DAY?" EARSHOT OF THE LANNISTERS WHEN REFERENCG THE EVENTS OF THE RED WEDDG. THIS HAPPENS NOT LONG BEFORE SHE POISONS JOFEY'S WE, G HIM TO DIE HORRIBLY AT HIS OWN WEDDG. AN EVEN BIGGER ONE IS HER NVERSATN WH CERSEI AT THE SEPT OF BAELOR "AND NOW HIS WATCH IS END":OLENNA: WE MOTHERS DO WHAT WE N TO KEEP OUR SONS OM THE GRAVE, BUT THEY DO SEEM TO YEARN FOR . REVENGE: HER ONLY REMAG MOTIVATN IS TO GET REVENGE ON CERSEI FOR TAKG HER SON, GRANDSON, AND GRANDDGHTER AWAY OM HER. RIGHT HAND VERS LEFT HAND: SHE IS THE FACTO LER OF THE TYRELL FAY, BUT STRATEGIC ALLIANC ARE THE ONE THG OUT OF HER NTROL. SHE IS MOST CRIL OF MACE MARRIAGE POLICY FOR MARGAERY, SO SHE MOV TO KG'S LANDG TO DO DAMAGE NTROL, KEEPG THE NOT VERY BRIGHT MACE THE DARK. SCREW POLENS, I'M A SENR!: HOW SHE GOT HER IN SERINICKNAME, THE QUEEN OF THORNS. SHE ALWAYS SAYS EXACTLY WHAT SHE THKS. OR AT LEAST PROJECTS THIS IMAGE. A REPUTATN FOR BTAL HONTY MAK ALL THE MORE EASY TO GET AWAY WH LYG. SELF-DEPRETN: SHE THKS THE GOLN ROSE AND WORDS OF HOE TYRELL ("GROWG STRONG") ARE ABSOLUTELY STUPID AND HAT THE FAY'S PENCHANT FOR SIGIL SPAMMG THE ROSE EVERYWHERE THEY GO. SENSG YOU ARE OUTMATCHED: SHE STARTS OUT WH THE ASSUMPTN THAT THE HIGH SPARROW IS AS SCEPTIBLE TO BRIBERY AS ANYONE ELSE. HOWEVER, BEG A BETTER JUDGE OF CHARACTER THAN CERSEI, SHE QUICKLY REALIS THAT HER UAL TACTICS WON'T WORK THIS TIME. SEX GODSS: OLENNA IS STATED TO BE (POSSIBLY VLENT) ONE DURG HER YOUTH TO THE POT OF MAKG HER HBAND UNABLE TO WALK FOR DAYS. SIBLG TRIANGLE: HER LATE HBAND WAS ORIGALLY ENGAGED TO HER SISTER UNTIL LADY OLENNA SCED HIM. SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD: SHE LIK TO POT OUT HOW DUMB HER LATE HBAND WAS. SURROUND BY IDTS: LADY OLENNA'S NOT TOO SHY ABOUT EXPRSG HOW STUPID SHE FELT HER SON (MACE) AND GRANDSON (LORAS) WERE WHEN THEY THREW THEIR LOT WH RENLY. SHE DON'T SPEAK MUCH BETTER OF HER LATE HBAND EHER, WHO SEEMS DIED A RATHER UNCEREMON FASHN WHILST OUT HAWKG. OLENNA: MY HBAND, THE LATE LORD LUTHOR, MANAGED TO RI OFF A CLIFF WHILE HAWKG. THEY SAY HE WAS LOOKG AT THE SKY AND PAYG NO MD TO WHERE HIS HORSE WAS TAKG HIM. NOW MY SON IS DOG THE SAME, ONLY THIS TIME HE'S RIDG A LN STEAD OF A HORSE. MIRTH TO POWER: HER ACIDIC QUIPS AND ONE-LERS TEND TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISY AND FALLAC THKG TO WHOEVER SHE'S SPEAKG TO. SHE GETS AWAY WH SAYG THGS THAT OTHERS WOULD BE BEHEAD FOR. SYMPATHETIC MURRER: SHE POISONS KG JOFEY SO HER GRANDDGHTER WON'T BE MARRIED TO A SADISTIC MONSTER. HE REALLY IS THAT, SO THE MURR ISN'T HARD TO SYMPATHIZE WH. TAKG YOU WH ME: OLENNA NOT THAT SHE HAS A STRONG FENSE AGAST LTLEFGER (STRONGER THAN ANY OTHER CHARACTER'S) OPENLY OR SECRETLY MOVG AGAST HER: IF SHE FDS HOE TYRELL FALLG, SHE N SIMPLY REVEAL HOW THEY PLOTTED WH LTLEFGER TO KILL JOFEY. LTLEFGER LOOKS FUR WHEN SHE MAK THIS CLAIM.OLENNA: I PROMISE YOU, LORD BAELISH, THAT OUR FAT ARE JOED. TOGETHER, WE MURRED A KG. IF MY HOE SHOULD FALL, I WILL HAVE NOTHG TO HI. AND IF I SHOULD MEET WH SOME "ACCINT" HERE AT YOUR BROKEN LTLE FLH-MARKET, THEY'LL NEVER EVEN FD WHAT'S LEFT OF YOU. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: IN SEASON 7, SPE BEG ON THE SAME SI AS TYRN AS THEY ARE BOTH ALLIED WH DAENERYS, SHE SHOWS HIM NO RPECT AT ALL. SHE TELLS DAENERYS TO IGNORE HIS ADVICE, AND OUTRIGHT NEGLECTS TO RM HIM OF WHAT'S BEEN GOG ON WTEROS DURG HIS ABSENCE, CLUDG HOW HOE LANNISTER IS NOW BANKPT, WHICH LEADS TO TYRN'S STRATEGY FOR DAENERYS' ARMY TO NQUER WTEROS FALLG APART BEE WAS BASED OFF OF OUTDATED TEL - WHICH ULD'VE BEEN EASILY RRECTED IF OLENNA HAD BEEN MORE OPEN WH HER ALLI. TOO MUCH INFORMATN: PROUDLY TELLS HER GRANDDGHTER THE STORY OF HOW SHE SCED HER LATE HBAND, CLUDG HOW THEY HAD SEX. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: BEFORE LEAVG KG'S LANDG, OLENNA THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT CERSEI WAS FISHED, POTG OUT THAT SHE WAS SURROUND BY THOANDS OF ENEMI AND MOCKGLY ASKED IF SHE WAS GOG TO KILL THEM ALL. WHILE WEREN'T ALL OF HER ENEMI, CERSEI DID ED KILL A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM THE SEASON FALE, CLUDG OLENNA'S SON AND HER TWO GRANDCHILDREN. IN HER FAL MOMENTS, SHE ADMS TO JAIME THAT CERSEI DID THGS THAT NOT EVEN OLENNA WOULD IMAGE DOG HERSELF. UNUAL EUPHEMISM: REFERS TO LORAS AS A "SWORD SWALLOWER" WHEN TYW ASKS ABOUT HER GRANDSON'S PROCLIVI. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: ALTHOUGH DONE TO PROTECT MARGAERY AND TO WEAKEN HOE LANNISTER EVEN MORE, ASSASSATG JOFEY HDSIGHT WAS A VERY BAD IA SCE SETS OFF A CHA OF DOMOS THAT LEAD TO THE ATH OF TYW LANNISTER, THE MA STABILIZG FORCE WTEROS AND A POWER VACUUM WHICH THE HIGH SPARROW STEPS TO, WEAKENG THE POWER AND FLUENC OF THE GREAT HO. AND THEN CERI KILLS THE HIGH SPARROW ALONG WH MOST OF THE TYRELLS, CLAIMG THE IRON THRONE. THE WOMAN BEHD THE MAN: SHE'S THE TE HEAD OF HOE TYRELL. SHE SUALLY DISMISS MACE WHEN SHE'S TALKG TO TYW. WOMEN ARE WISER: IF SOMEONE ASKS OLENNA, THE MEN OF TYRELL FAY TEND TO BE POPULAR BUT RATHER NSE — PERFECT FOR EFFECTIVE FIGUREHEADS IF THE WOMEN ARE SMART AND ASSERTIVE ENOUGH. SHE MIGHT HAVE A POT. OLENNA SE DIRECTLY THROUGH TYW'S BOLD BOASTS, CLUDG HIS 'APPARENT' LACK OF WORRY ABOUT THE IRON BANK, TO WHICH SHE REMDS HIM THAT HE ISN'T THAT STUPID. IRONILLY, HOWEVER, HER CISNS TO DO DAMAGE NTROL, HELP ACCELERATE THE CLE OF HER HOE MORE THAN HER SON'S AND GRANDSON'S. IN WHAT WOULD BE HER LAST WORDS OF ADVICE TO DANERYS, OLENNA TOLD THE QUEEN THAT THE WAY SHE HAD GOTTEN TO BE AROUND AS LONG AS SHE HAD WAS BY IGNORG ALL THE 'CLEVER MEN' THAT ADVISED HER WHAT TO DO. GIVEN THE NTEXT, WAS PRIMARILY A WARNG AGAST PUTTG TOO MUCH STOCK TYRN'S ADVICE, BUT THE BROAR MSAGE WAS THAT DANY SHOULD TST HERSELF MORE THAN ANY MAN. WORTHY OPPONENT: PRAIS TYW LANNISTER ON LIVG UP TO HIS REPUTATN. WHILE SHE ADMS TO CERSEI AFTER TYW'S ATH THAT SHE DON'T LIKE TYW ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, SHE AT THE VERY LEAST RPECTS HIM. TYW HIMSELF SEEMED TO NSIR HER THIS, TREATG OLENNA AS HIS TELLECTUAL EQUAL, AND REGNIZG HER AS THE TE HEAD OF HOE TYRELL, ALG WH HER DIRECTLY WHEN ARRANGG A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THEIR TWO FAI, AND NOT WH HER SON MACE, WHO IS TECHNILLY THE LORD OF HIGHGARN. SUBVERTED WHEN SHE MEETS TYRN TO PLAN THE FUNDG OF THE ROYAL WEDDG. SHE WAS EXPECTG MORE OM HIM TERMS OF HIS TELLIGENCE AND LICENTNS. SHE LAMPSHAS THE FACT THAT HE NOW BEHAV LIKE A PROPER GENTLEMAN (WHICH DISAPPOTS HER) AND IS AN EASILY BULLIED ACUNTANT, RATHER THAN THE LTFUL AND CLEVER SCHEMER THAT HE ED TO BE.NOTE IN TYRN'S FENSE, HE WAS THE MIDDLE OF REVERG OM SER BATTLE WOUNDS, PARANOIA OVER BEG KILLED ON JOFEY'S WHIMS, BEG DOWNGRAD TO MASTER OF CO, AND REALIZG THE MS OF BT LEFT BY LTLEFGER. TYRN IS VISIBLY SHAKEN BY THE ASSSMENT, AS HE KNOWS ALL TOO WELL THAT HE REALLY HAS BEE A "BROW-BEATEN BOOKKEEPER." WOULD HURT A CHILD: THE REVELATN THAT SHE IS JOFEY'S MURRER SHOWS SHE IS JT AS THLS WHEN TO SENTIMENT AS TYW, LTLEFGER, AND OTHERS. OF URSE, JOFEY IS AN ASSHOLE VICTIM AND SHE WAS PROTECTG MARGAERY OM A HORRIBLE FATE AND OLENNA ADMS SHE DID NOT EXPECT THE POISON TO KILL HIM SUCH A GOME MANNER, BUT SHE STILL KILLED A CHILD WHO DIED HIS MOTHER'S ARMS.    QUEEN MARGAERY TYRELL QUEEN MARGAERY TYRELLPLAYED BY: NATALIE DORMERVOICED BY: CARLA CASTA&NTIL;EDA (LAT AMERIN SPANISH), KANAKO TOJO (JAPANE)SEE MARGAERY TYRELL.    SER LORAS TYRELL SER LORAS TYRELL"IT'S NOT A GIFT; NOBODY GAVE TO ME. I'M GOOD BEE I WORK AT , EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE SCE I ULD HOLD A STICK."PLAYED BY: FN JON"I'VE NEVER FOUGHT A WAR BEFORE, BUT I'D FIGHT FOR YOU."A HIGHLY-SKILLED KNIGHT OF GREAT RENOWN WHO IS KNOWN AS THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS. HE IS MACE TYRELL'S ONLY SON AND THE HEIR TO HIGHGARN. 100% HEROISM RATG: HE IS A VERY POPULAR KNIGHT AT TOURNEYS, AND THE SMALLFOLK ALWAYS CHEER AND ROOT FOR HIM. EVEN WHEN HE IS FEATED BY BRIENNE THE MELEE, THE CROWD IS STILL ON LORAS'S SI BEE THEY LET OUT A DISAPPOTED "OH!" WHEN HE YIELDS. THE ONLOOKERS THEN REMA SILENT, AND THE SOLE PERSON WHO APPLDS AND S AT BRIENNE'S VICTORY IS RENLY. NOTE IN A STORM OF SWORDS, TYRN M THAT LORAS IS "SEVENTEEN, AND BETIFUL, AND ALREADY A LEGEND. HALF THE GIRLS THE SEVEN KGDOMS WANT TO BED HIM, AND ALL THE BOYS WANT TO BE HIM." ADAPTATNAL HEROISM: THE SHOW OMS LORAS'S MA KICK THE DOG MOMENT OF UNJTLY MURRG TWO FELLOW KGSGUARD A F OF RAGE AFTER RENLY'S ATH. SCE HE IS ALSO A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HIS ADAPTED OUT BROTHERS GARLAN AND WILLAS WHO ARE BOTH STRAIGHT-UP NICE GUYS, LORAS IS ACTUALLY SYMPATHETIC TO SANSA'S PLIGHT AND MOTIVATED BY THE CHIVALRO IAL OF RCUG HER OM KG'S LANDG VIA THEIR PLANNED ARRANGED MARRIAGE SPE THEIR INPATIBLE ORIENTATN. ADAPTATNAL NICE GUY: AS HE IS A COMPOSE CHARACTER WH HIS D-MANNERED BROTHERS, LORAS ON THE SERI IS SOMEWHAT LMER AND LS RASH THAN HE IS THE BOOKS. THE TV VERSN DON'T MAND TO NED THAT HE BE CHARGE OF THE GROUP THAT IS TASKED TO ARRT THE MOUNTA, AS THE YOUNG MAN'S PRI DON'T APPEAR TO BE ALL THAT WOUND AFTER GREGOR ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIM. NOTE IN A CLASH OF KGS, LORAS PLETELY LOS HIS MD AFTER HE SE RENLY'S RPSE. HE SLAYS TWO OF HIS FELLOW RABOW GUARDS LD BLOOD, BELIEVG THAT THEY WERE SOMEHOW RPONSIBLE FOR HIS BELOVED'S ATH. LORAS IS DISTURBED WHEN HE DISVERS LATER ON THAT THE MEN WERE ACTUALLY NOCENT OF THE CRIME. HIS LOVE MAK YOU CRAZY MOMENT HAS BEEN OMTED OM THE SHOW, MAKG THE CHARACTER A LIGHTER SHA OF GREY. LORAS SEASON 3 IS NOTICEABLY KR TOWARDS SANSA THAN HE IS A STORM OF SWORDS. NOTE HIS BOOK UNTERPART SEEMS TO BE AWARE THAT SHE WAS MERELY A MEANS TO AN END FOR HIS FAY, AND ONLY OFFERED THE GIRL EMPTY CHIVALRY DURG THEIR NVERSATN, WHICH THEN DRIED UP THE MOMENT SHE MENTNED SER ROBAR ROYCE (WHOM THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS HAD KILLED A F OF MADNS). MOREOVER, HIS BROTHER GARLAN TELLS SANSA THAT TYRN WOULD MAKE A BETTER HBAND THAN LORAS. ON THE SHOW, LORAS IS NEVER OR LD WHEN HE'S WH HER, AND HE HAS EVERY TENTN OF BEG A GOOD HBAND ONCE THEY ARE MARRIED (AT LEAST AS MUCH AS HE N NSIRG HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN). IN CERTA RPECTS, HBO'S KNIGHT OF FLOWERS MAY BE A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHOICE FOR A SPOE THAN TYRN — OR AT THE VERY LEAST, HE'S NO WORSE. THE YOUNG MAN ALSO REGNIZ THAT SANSA HAS SUFFERED GREATLY AS A PRISONER OF THE LANNISTERS, AND IS SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS HER SUATN WHEN HE MENTNS THAT KG'S LANDG IS A TERRIBLE PLACE. IN OTHER WORDS, TV LORAS IS LS SELF-ABSORBED WH HIS OWN MISERY AND IS MORE NSIRATE OF SANSA'S FEELGS. HE EVEN SAYS TO CERSEI AFTER BEG BETROTHED TO HER STEAD OF SANSA THAT IF THEY'RE GOG TO BE MARRIED THEY SHOULD AT LEAST BE IENDS, WHICH WH BEG CERSEI DON'T REALLY WORK. ADAPTATNAL WIMP: WHEREAS THE NOVELS HE'S NAMED TO THE KGSGUARD AND BE A SORT OF UNOFFICIAL MASTER-AT-ARMS SCE NO ONE BOTHERS TO NAME ONE AFTER THE ATH OF SER ARON SANTAGAR THE RTS OF KG'S LANDG, THE SHOW'S WRERS SEEM TO HAVE FOTTEN HE'S A GLORY-SEEKG WARRR. ADAPTATNAL ANGST UPGRA: INVERTED, THE NOVELS LORAS REMAS FAHFUL TO THE LATE RENLY'S MEMORY AND THERE'S NO MENTN OR EVEN HT HE TAK ON ANOTHER LOVER. HE GLADLY JOS THE KGSGUARD BEE HE DON'T BELIEVE HE'LL EVER FALL LOVE AGA, WHEREAS THE SHOW HAS HIM TAKE ON OLYVAR AS A SUAL LOVER AND MAKE NO MENTN OF RENLY. ADAPTATN DISTILLATN: UNLIKE HIS BOOK UNTERPART, LORAS NEVER BELIEV FOR A MOMENT THAT BRIENNE IS RPONSIBLE FOR RENLY'S ATH. DPE HIS TENSE GRIEF AND HIS RENTMENT OF LOSG TO HER THE MELEE, HE RRECTLY BLAM STANNIS. ADAPTATNAL DUMBASS: JTIFIED; HE'S MOURNG HIS LOVER AND SEEKG SEX OM RANDOM BODI FOR PAY. BOOK LORAS WAS ALSO VERY REFUL TO HI HIS SEXUALY, WHICH IS WHY CERSEI HAS TO AME MARGAERY FOR ADULTERY. HERE, HE'S EASILY SCED AND SOLD OUT BY THE PROSTUT THAT HE SE. ADAPTATN EXPANSN: MOST OF WHAT WE SEE OF HIM THE BOOKS IS THROUGH THE EY OF OTHER CHARACTERS. THE SERI ACTUALLY SHOWS QUE A FEW SCEN THAT FOC ON LORAS, CLUDG EXPLICLY SHOWG HIS SEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH RENLY. AGE LIFT: LORAS IS 16 YEARS OLD THE FIRST NOVEL, BUT HIS TV UNTERPART IS ALREADY AN ADULT SEASON 1. HE LOOKS TO BE AROUND 20 "THE LN AND THE ROSE". ANNOYG YOUNGER SIBLG: DOWNPLAYED, SCE HE AND MARGAERY ARE VOTED TO EACH OTHER. BUT 'S CLEAR THAT HIS SISTER WOULD PREFER IF LORAS WERE MORE UT AND NOT LET HIS LT BLD HIM ABOUT THE DANGERS OF THE LIFE THE PAL. ARCH-ENEMY: THERE'S NO ONE THE WORLD THAT HE HAT MORE THAN STANNIS, WHO ORRED THE ASSASSATN OF HIS LOVER RENLY. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: IN SEASON 3, HE IS IALLY BETROTHED TO SANSA, BUT TYW ARRANG A MARRIAGE WH CERSEI. ARROGANT KUNG-FU GUY: HE'S A VERY GOOD SWORDSMAN — AND KNOWS . HE EVEN LAMENTS "KISSED BY FIRE" THAT THERE ARE NO WORTHY OPPONENTS KG'S LANDG FOR HIM TO SPAR WH. BAD "BAD ACTG": VERY LERALLY "VALAR MHULIS". HE ONLY HAS A SMALL ROLE THE REHEARSED SCENE THAT WAS ENACTED FOR THE BENEF OF THE URT, BUT HE N'T BE BOTHERED DO HIS PART PROPERLY, AS HIS BODY LANGUAGE PRACTILLY OOZ WH NTEMPT FOR JOFEY, AND LORAS EVEN MS UP ONE OF HIS L BEE HE ADVERTENTLY LETS OUT A FRDIAN SLIP REGARDG HIS FEELGS FOR RENLY. AFTER LTLEFGER HEARS THE ERROR, HE TURNS HIS HEAD SHARPLY LORAS'S DIRECTN AND HE PURS HIS LIPS, ANNOYED THAT THE YOUNG KNIGHT ULDN'T GET THE WORDS RIGHT. BEARD OF SORROW: GROWS ONE AFTER BEG IMPRISONED BY THE FAH MILANT. BETY IS NEVER TARNISHED: A RARE EXAMPLE WH A MALE CHARACTER. WHEN LORAS REMOV HIS HELM "BLACKWATER", HIS CURLY HAIR LOOKS PERFECT SPE HAVG FOUGHT A BATTLE. THERE DON'T APPEAR TO BE A SGLE SCRATCH OR BISE ON HIM. BENEATH THE MASK: MOST OF THE TIME, HE'S THE EPOME OF CHIVALRY PUBLIC, BUT AS OF THE MIDWAY POT OF SEASON 2, LORAS BE BTER AND PRSED AFTER HIS BOYIEND IS SLA. HE MT HI HIS GRIEF OM THE OUTSI WORLD WH FAKE S, AS NOT ONLY WAS HE LOVE WH A MAN, BUT RENLY IS VIEWED AS A TRAOR BY THE CROWN. HAVG TO SWEAR FEALTY TO THE SPIBLE AND HOMOPHOBIC JOFEY ALSO DON'T HELP MATTERS, AND THE ADD STRA LORAS'S FIGURATIVE MASK TO CRACK ON A FEW OCSNS. BT FRIENDS--LAW: IN ADDN TO BEG MOTIVATED BY POLICS, THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE BETWEEN RENLY AND MARGAERY IS ALSO AN EXCE FOR LORAS TO BEE CLOSER TO HIS BOYIEND, AS THEY BEE -LAWS. MARGAERY IS EVEN WILLG TO SHARE HER HBAND WH LORAS BED IF STIMULAT RENLY AND HELPS TO GET HER PREGNANT WH RENLY'S MUCH-NEED HEIR. BIG DAMN HERO: COM RIDG TO THE RCUE OF KG'S LANDG WH TYW LANNISTER — WEARG RENLY'S ARMOUR. BIG LTLE BROTHER: LORAS IS SEVERAL CH TALLER THAN MARGAERY, AND BOOK REARS (AND PROBABLY MOST VIEWERS) NATURALLY ASSUMED THAT HE IS STILL THE OLR SIBLG. HOWEVER, WORD OF GOD HAS TABLISHED THAT MARGAERY IS THE ELST TYRELL CHILD ON THE SHOW. VOKED BLATANT LI: WHEN JAIME ASKS HIM IF HE IS LOOKG FORWARD TO HIS WEDDG TO CERSEI, LORAS HAT FOR A MOMENT BEFORE REPLYG, "Y, VERY MUCH." BLG OF WAR: HIS GLEAMG AND ORNATE ARMOUR. IT'S SLIGHTLY MODIFIED SEASON 2 SO THAT 'S MORE PRACTIL FOR AN ACTUAL BATTLE. BODYGUARD CSH: WHILE HE WAS PART OF RENLY'S KGSGUARD. IT'S AN UNUAL RECIPROL VERSN OF THE TROPE BEE VOLV TWO MEN. BREAK THE CUTIE: COME SEASON 6, HE IS ONLY A SHELL OF WHAT HE ED TO BE, BOTH PHYSILLY AND MENTALLY. BROKEN BIRD: IN SEASON 6, 'S QUE CLEAR BEG IMPRISONED HAS DONE THIS TO HIM. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: WH MARGAERY. SEE HER ENTRY FOR EXAMPL OF THEIR TEAMWORK. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HIS FLASHY STYLE IS SEEN AS RATHER GDY TO MOST AND IS PART OF THE REASON ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS HE'S GAY, SOMETHG PROBLEMATIC A HOMOPHOBIC CULTURE LIKE WTEROS. HOWEVER HE'S A GIFTED FIGHTER AND ONE OF THE FEW KNIGHTS WHO LIV BY HIS VOWS, SO HE'S HIGHLY RPECTED. EVEN TYW SCRIB HIM AS "A SKILLED WARRR WHO TAK HIS VOWS SERLY." BUT NOT TOO GAY: HIS TIMATE SCEN WH RENLY ARE NOT NEARLY AS SEXUALLY EXPLIC AS THE HETEROSEXUAL PAIRGS ON THE SHOW. BY SEASON 5, HE'S SHOWN ENGAGED EXPLIC SEX WH OLYVAR, PLETE WH NUDY. CAMP GAY: BORRS ON THIS SEASONS 1 AND 2, PECIALLY WHEN PARED TO RENLY'S STRAIGHT GAY. "CAMPED UP" SEASON 3. CAMPY COMBAT: DOWNPLAYED. HE'S A GAY, FAMED KNIGHT WHO HAS LONG HAIR AND IS WELL-DRSED AND GROOMED. HE WEARS ARMOR VERED ROS, HIS HOE'S SYMBOL, AND JOTS AGAST GREGOR CLEGANE WHILE RIDG A WHE HORSE. THE CAVALRY: HE LEADS THE CHARGE "BLACKWATER", WHICH TURNS THE BATTLE FAVOR OF THE LANNISTERS. THE CHAMPN: HE IS THIS TO RENLY. NOTE  AS FN JON STAT THIS ARTICLE: "ALL OF HIS LIFE HE'S VOTED... EVERYTHG TO RENLY. HE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE MANY IENDS. RENLY WAS HIS MA IEND, HIS MA LOVER, AND HE DID EVERYTHG FOR THIS GUY AND THEN THE GUY DI AND HIS LIFE JT FALLS TO UTTER CHAOS..." COMBAT PRAGMATIST: HE RO A MARE THAT WAS HEAT, KNOWG SER GREGOR WOULD BE RIDG A STALLN. CHARACTERS GMBLE OVER WHETHER MAK HIM THIS TROPE OR A DIRTY CHEAT. ONE ULD EVEN ARGUE THAT WASN’T VERY PRAGMATIC, SCE GREGOR ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIM. COMMONALY CONNECTN: HE BEGS TO FORM THIS WH SANSA "THE CLIMB", AS THEY ARE BOTH EXTREMELY PRSED AFTER LOSG A LOVED ONE (RENLY FOR LORAS AND NED FOR SANSA), PL THEY FD LIFE KG'S LANDG TOLERABLE. COMPOSE CHARACTER: HIS WORDS TO CATELYN WHEN SHE APPROACH RENLY "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE" WERE TAKEN OM RANDYLL TARLY THE NOVELS, WHO DON'T APPEAR ONSCREEN UNTIL THE SIXTH SEASON. WH THE OTHER TWO TYRELL BROTHERS, GARLAN AND WILLAS, BEG ADAPTED OUT, LORAS TAK OVER THEIR PARTS THE PLOT: IN THE BOOKS, 'S HIS OLR BROTHER SER GARLAN WHO WEARS RENLY'S ARMOUR AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER. LORAS WANTED THE HONOUR, BUT HE WAS TOO SHORT AND TOO SLENR. THIS CHANGE IS ALSO A PRAGMATIC ADAPTATN ON THE SHOW BEE SHOW!RENLY HAS LS OF A HEROIC BUILD THAN BOOK!RENLY AND THE ACTORS WHO PLAY LORAS AND RENLY ARE PRACTILLY THE SAME SIZE. LORAS HAS ALSO TAKEN GARLAN'S POSN AS MANR OF THE TYRELLS' ARMY. IN THE THIRD SEASON, HIS FAY PLOTS TO BETROTH HIM TO SANSA. IN THE NOVELS, THE TYRELLS TEND HER TO WED HIS SCHOLARLY AND CRIPPLED OLR BROTHER WILLAS. IN "KISSED BY FIRE", HE ONCE AGA SUBSTUT FOR WILLAS WHEN TYW ORRS CERSEI TO MARRY LORAS AFTER THE LANNISTERS DISVER AND PRE-EMPT THE AFOREMENTNED SCHEME BY MARRYG SANSA TO TYRN; THE BOOKS, TYW PROPOS TO THE TYRELLS THAT CERSEI WILL MARRY WILLAS (BUT THEY REJECT THE OFFER, WHEREAS THE SHOW THEY DON'T). LORAS ALSO TAK WILLAS'S PLACE AS THE HEIR TO HIGHGARN. HE REPLAC SANSA AS THE PERSON WHO UNWTGLY SPILLS THE BEANS ABOUT THE SECRET ENGAGEMENT TO LTLEFGER'S AGENT. COOL HELMET: YOU N LOOK AT TAILED IMAG OF THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS'S HELM HERE. LORAS WEARS RENLY'S ANTLERED HELM AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER AS PART OF HIS ELABORATE DISGUISE. CRAZY JEALO GUY: HAS NOT HAD THE BT RPONSE TO RENLY MAKG BRIENNE A MEMBER OF HIS KGSGUARD. HE "PUNISH" HIS LOVER BY WHHOLDG SEX. CRY TO CHT: BREAKS DOWN MARGERY'S ARMS WHEN SHE VISS HIM HIS CELL. THE DANDY: SHY ARMOR, IMMACULATELY GROOMED, LOV HIS FLOWERS. THE LAST IS JTIFIED, SCE HIS HOE'S SIGIL IS A ROSE. LORAS WEARS BETIFUL CLOTHG SEASONS 3 AND 4 THAT ENHANC HIS GOOD LOOKS. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE N BE QUE SASSY ON OCSN. ALSO SEE HIS STEALTH INSULT ENTRY FOR MORE EXAMPL.LORAS: STANNIS HAS THE PERSONALY OF A LOBSTER! WHEN JAIME THREATENS HIM ABOUT MARRYG CERSEI, LORAS HAS THIS TO SAY.LORAS: AND NEHER WILL [1]. DEAD PERSON IMPERSONATN: IN "BLACKWATER", AS A RULT OF WEARG RENLY'S ARMOR BATTLE. STANNIS' MEN BELIEVE IS RENLY'S GHOST. DEATH BY DISFIGUREMENT: HE'S RVED WH THE OFFICIAL STAR THE FOREHEAD BY THE SPARROWS, ADDN TO A TRMATIC HAIRCUT, MUT BEFORE HE DI. DEATH SEEKER: WHEN MARGAERY VISS HIM HIS CELL, HE NTUOLY REPEATS THAT HE WANTS TO END, AND QUTNS WHEN WILL END. DEMOTED TO EXTRA: IN SEASON 4. HE ONLY HAS A FEW L OF DIALOGUE "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND IS RCED TO A BACKGROUND CHARACTER "FIRST OF HIS NAME" AND "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". AND SEASON 6, HE ONLY APPEARS TWO EPISOS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: TRMATIZED BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY DUE TO HIS IMPRISONMENT. DEATH BY ADAPTATN: HIS BOOK UNTERPART IS STILL ALIVE AS OF A DANCE WH DRAGONS. DIRT FORCEFIELD: HE SHOULD BE VERED BLOOD, SWEAT AND GRIME "BLACKWATER", YET HE'S PLETELY CLEAN. LORAS'S FLAWLS APPEARANCE IS FURTHER HIGHLIGHTED AFTER TYW ARRIV TO THE THRONE ROOM BEE THE OLD MAN'S FACE IS ATED WH BLOOD SPLATTER AND DIRT. DISTRACTED BY THE SEXY: HE ACCINTALLY BUMPS TO JAIME WHILE EXCHANGG SMOULRG LOOKS WH OBERYN MARTELL. DU LOOKS LIKE A LADY: JAIME SCRIB LORAS AS A CURLY-HAIRED LTLE GIRL "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS". JOFEY CLEARLY SE THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS A SIAR FASHN BEE HE ARRANG A REPUGNANT DWARF PLAY AT HIS WEDDG WHERE LORAS IS PICTED AS A GIRLY-LOOKG, CURLY-HAIRED MAN. DUE TO THE DEAD: HE STANDS VIGIL OVER RENLY'S BODY, AND REMAS NEAR HIS BELOVED EVEN AS TYRELL BANNERMEN ARE PANICKG TO FLEE THE AREA BEFORE STANNIS' FLEET ARRIV. IT'S REVEALED A LETED SCENE THAT LORAS ALSO BURIED RENLY ON HIS OWN, WHICH IS A TAIL TAKEN OM THE NOVELS. NOTE HE TELLS JAIME A STORM OF SWORDS: "I BURIED HIM WH ME OWN HANDS, A PLACE HE SHOWED ME ONCE WHEN I WAS A SQUIRE AT STORM'S END. NO ONE SHALL EVER FD HIM THERE TO DISTURB HIS RT." EATG THE EYE CANDY: HIS FACE SHOWS GREAT ANTICIPATN AND EXCEMENT AS RENLY REMOV HIS SHIRT "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE". AT THE PURPLE WEDDG, BOTH HE AND OBERYN SILENTLY MUNITE THAT THEY FD THE OTHER TO BE VERY "LECTABLE"; 'S VERY OBV WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO "EAT" FOR SSERT LATER THAT NIGHT... THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: HE IALLY VIEWED THE LANNISTERS AS HIS ENEMY, BUT HE CHOSE TO SI WH THEM AFTER STANNIS MURRED RENLY. LORAS STILL HAT JOFEY PASSNATELY, THOUGH, AS SEEN BY HIS SUPPRSED RAGE "VALAR MHULIS". EROTIC EATG: IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE AND OBERYN SENSUALLY CHEW ON FOOD TO SIGNAL THEIR SEXUAL TERT TOWARDS EACH OTHER. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: TWO LOWBORN LANNISTER SOLDIERS THK HE'S PRETTIER THAN QUEEN CERSEI — AND SHE'S NSIRED TO BE THE MOST BETIFUL WOMAN THE SEVEN KGDOMS. THE BISEXUAL PRCE OBERYN MENTALLY UNDRS LORAS WH HIS EY AT THE PURPLE WEDDG.FLANRIZATN: SO FAR SEASON 5.--> FLOWERS OF ROMANCE: SUBVERTED WHEN HE GIV SANSA A RED ROSE. SHE BELIEV 'S A TOKEN OF HIS AFFECTN AND FAILS TO NOTICE THAT LORAS IS ACTUALLY GOOGLY-EYED OVER RENLY. FOIL: POMPO, OVERNFINT, ATTRACTIVE KNIGHT, LORD COMMANR OF A FAY MEMBER'S KGSGUARD, BROTHER OF THE QUEEN, HIDG (BARELY) A SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP? HE'S JAIME 20 YEARS YOUNGER. LORAS IS A KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR WHO IS WILY ADMIRED BY THE SMALLFOLK, WHILE JAIME IS A BLOOD KNIGHT WHOM EVERYONE (ACCURATELY) REVIL AS AN OATHBREAKER AND (ACCURATELY) A SELF-SERVG OPPORTUNIST. LORAS IS REGNIZED AS ONE OF THE SAVURS OF KG'S LANDG AFTER HE HELPED TO END STANNIS'S SIEGE, BUT JAIME'S GREATT HEROIC ED (I.E. SAVG THE CY'S POPULATN OM BEG NSUMED BY THE MAD KG'S WILDFIRE) IS KNOWN BY NO ONE ELSE BIS BRIENNE. BY SEASON 4, THE YOUTHFUL LORAS IS A RISG STAR THE WORLD OF KNIGHTS, WHEREAS THE MIDDLE-AGED JAIME IS REGARD AS A HAS-BEEN NOW THAT HE HAS LOST HIS SWORD HAND. BOTH CHARACTERS SUFFER LENGTHY IMPRISONMENT, BUT WHEREAS THE IALISTIC LORAS IS BROKEN BY THE EXPERIENCE, JAMIE MANAG TO SURVIVE UNBROKEN. OLENNA SAV LORAS OM BEG ANOTHER KGSLAYER BY HAVG JOFEY POISONED, SCE JOFEY'S EVABLE MISTREATMENT OF MARGARERY ULD HAVE HAD ONLY ONE OUTE. ALSO SEE LORAS'S GOOD COUNTERPART ENTRY FOR MORE PARISONS BETWEEN THE TWO CHARACTERS. HE IS ALSO A FOIL TO BRIENNE OF TARTH. BOTH ARE KNIGHTS SHG ARMOR WHO ARE TRODUCED AS WNERS OF A TOURNEY EVENT, EARNG THEIR VICTORY WH THE AID OF COMBAT PRAGMATISM. THEY ARE HEIRS TO THEIR RPECTIVE HO, BUT THEY LOVE RENLY SO MUCH THAT THEY WOULD RATHER DITE THEIR WHOLE LIV TO SERVG HIM AS A MEMBER OF HIS KGSGUARD. THEY ARE PLETELY VASTATED AFTER RENLY IS SLA, BEG KNIGHTS SOUR ARMOR, AND BOTH SWEAR VENGEANCE AGAST STANNIS. ALTHOUGH THEY END UP WH DIFFERENT MASTERS, LORAS AND BRIENNE REMA VOTED TO RENLY THEIR OWN WAY, AND HAVE PERFORMED AT LEAST ONE ACT OF UNDYG LOYALTY. LORAS IS A PRETTY BOY (OR SOME CHARACTERS' OPN, A DU LOOKS LIKE A LADY), WHICH MIRRORS BRIENNE BEG PERCEIVED -UNIVERSE AS A LADY LOOKS LIKE A DU. IN TERMS OF THEIR DIFFERENC, HOWEVER, LORAS'S FIGHTG SKILLS ARE RPECTED BY VIRTUALLY EVERYONE, BUT BRIENNE'S MARTIAL PROWS REMAS LARGELY UNREGNIZED EVEN AFTER SHE BEATS THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS AT KG RENLY'S TOURNEY. LORAS BE A POWERLS POLIL PAWN AS OF SEASON 3, WHILE BRIENNE IS SENTIALLY A EE AGENT, PECIALLY AFTER CATELYN'S ATH. NUMERO CHARACTERS HAVE RID LORAS FOR HIS HOMOSEXUALY, BUT 'S UALLY NOT EXPRSED ONT OF HIS FACE. BRIENNE, ON THE OTHER HAND, ENDUR A LOT VERBAL ABE (OR WORSE) FOR HER MASCULY. LORAS DRS OSTENTATLY AND IS PERFECTLY IFFED ( MT TAKE SOME TIME TO STYLE THE UNLY CURLS EVERY MORNG), WHEREAS BRIENNE'S CLOTHG IS PLA AND SHE KEEPS HER STRAIGHT HAIR SHORT AND SIMPLE. TO SANSA STARK. LORAS (AN ASPIRG KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR) AND SANSA (AN ASPIRG PRCS CLASSIC) HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT LIFE ISN'T A FAIRY TALE. BOTH OF THEM RRIED ROMANTIC IALS, BELIEVG THAT THEY WOULD LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER WH THEIR BELOVED BARATHEON ("PRCE CHARMG" JOFEY FOR SANSA, "THE GOOD KG" RENLY FOR LORAS). BOTH HAVE BEEN CSHED EMOTNALLY WHEN THEIR DREAMS TRANSFORMED TO NIGHTMAR (JOFEY TURNED OUT TO BE A SADISTIC PSYCHOPATH AND EXECUTED SANSA'S FATHER, WHILE RENLY WAS MURRED NOT LONG AFTER LORAS PHED HIM TO BEE KG). IN SEASON 3, THEY ARE BOTH ED AS POLIL PAWNS BY OLENNA, TYW AND LTLEFGER, AND THEY END UP BEG BETROTHED TO SOMEONE THEY DON'T WANT TO MARRY. LORAS AND SANSA ARE MISERABLE LIVG KG'S LANDG, BUT THEY MATA A STEPFORD SER PERSONA. BOTH HAVE LLED JOFEY A MONSTER, AND THEY WERE AMONG THE THREE PEOPLE (THE OTHER BEG TYRN) WHO WERE TORMENTED THE MOST BY THE KG "THE LN AND THE ROSE". A MAJOR DISTCTN BETWEEN THE TWO CHARACTERS IS THAT LORAS HAS THE SUPPORT OF HIS POWERFUL FAY, WHICH MANAGED TO SECURE A PARDON OM THE CROWN EVEN THOUGH THEY ONCE SUPPORTED RENLY AND REBELLED AGAST JOFEY. IN NTRAST, ALL OF THE ADULTS SANSA'S HOE HAVE BEEN BUTCHERED BY THE LANNISTERS AS PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR TREASON, WHICH MAK HER A LOT MORE VULNERABLE. FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: MARGAERY IS UT, LCULATG AND ACTUALLY REMEMBERS SHE'S A DENT COURT WHEN SHE ARRIV THERE. LORAS TENDS TO FOLLOW HIS STCTS AND FALLS TO THE FIRST HONEY TRAP THAT OPENS BEFORE HIM KG'S LANDG. FOUR-STAR BADASS: LEADS THE TYRELL NTGENT AT BLACKWATER BAY. FROM THE ONT. NOT BAD FOR A YOUNG MAN HIS EARLY TWENTI WHO HAS NEVER FOUGHT A REAL BATTLE BEFORE. FRDIAN SLIP: IN "VALAR MHULIS", LORAS SUBNSCLY LET SLIP THAT RENLY WAS FAR MORE THAN A BROTHER--LAW TO HIM WHEN HE TELLS THE URT, "MY SISTER MARGAERY, HER HBAND WAS TAKEN OM BEFORE..." HE SHOULD'VE SAID "HER HBAND WAS TAKEN OM HER," OR SIMPLY "HER HBAND WAS TAKEN" STEAD. FRDIAN TR: HE IS THE ID HIS THREE-WAY MARRIAGE TO RENLY (EGO) AND MARGAERY (SUPEREGO). FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: IN "GARN OF BON", HE LGHS MERRILY AFTER RENLY MAK HIS HAM JOKE, BUT AS SOON AS CATELYN STARTS TALKG, LORAS BE ANNOYED AND SIGHS HEAVILY. HE APPEARS TO BE FLIRTG WH A YOUNG NOBLEMAN "SEND SONS" WHILE CERSEI REUNTS THE STORY OF THE RAS OF CASTEMERE. IN "FIRST OF HIS NAME", WHEN WE GLIMPSE THE THRONE ROOM OM MARGAERY'S PERSPECTIVE, LORAS IS CHATTG WH OBERYN. NOTE PRUMABLY, AS THE MAN WE SEE OM BEHD IS ABOUT THE SAME HEIGHT AS LORAS — JT AS FN JON AND PEDRO PASL ARE REAL LIFE — DARK-HAIRED AND DRSED GOLD, AND PREV SHOTS OF OBERYN SHOW THAT HE IS WEARG A GOLD OUTF THIS SCENE. HMM, DID THOSE TWO MEN ALREADY HOOK UP OFF-SCREEN, OR ARE AT LEAST PLANNG TO DO SO SOON? GOOD COUNTERPART: TO SER JAIME LANNISTER. LORAS HAS YET TO DO ANYTHG AS HEO AS PHG A KID OUT OF A WDOW OR MURRG HIS OWN LD BLOOD. HE AND MARGAERY ARE A BROTHER–SISTER TEAM, WHEREAS JAIME AND CERSEI ARE ENGAGED BROTHER–SISTER INCT. ALTHOUGH LORAS IS JEALO OF BRIENNE, HE DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO HARM HER, AND EVEN TO HER FENSE WHEN MARGAERY ACC HER OF MURRG RENLY. JAIME ATTEMPTS TO KILL BRIENNE (WHO WAS MERELY TRYG TO RT HIM SAFELY TO KG'S LANDG, ALBE CHAS) "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS". LORAS TRI TO ENGAGE POLE SMALL TALK WH JAIME "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND THE OLR KNIGHT SUDNLY LAT TO A NONTATN BY THREATENG HIS LIFE. HEARTBROKEN BADASS: HE BE THIS AFTER RENLY IS SLA. HELMETS ARE HARDLY HEROIC: WHEN THEY MEET STANNIS "GARN OF BON", LORAS IS THE ONLY MEMBER OF RENLY'S KGSGUARD WHO DON'T WEAR A HELM. INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: HE IS SOMEWHAT AWKWARD WHILE NVERSG WH SANSA "THE CLIMB", BUT HE DO SEEM TO GENUELY WANT TO HELP HER PE KG'S LANDG THROUGH THEIR MARRIAGE AND GIVE HER A BETTER LIFE HIGHGARN. INFORMED ATTRACTIVENS: WHILE FELY ONE OF THE BT-LOOKG MEN THE ST, THE MENTS ON LORAS'S GOOD LOOKS NEVER STOP AND GO A B OVERBOARD. IN-SERI NICKNAME: THE KNIGHT OF (THE) FLOWERS. THE EXTRA "THE" WAS ED SEASON 1, BUT HAS BEEN OMTED SCE SEASON 2. NOTE IN THE NOVELS, HE'S ALSO REFERRED TO AS "RENLY'S LTLE ROSE," TH MANAGG TO BE HIS FAY'S HERALDIC SYMBOL WH MENTARY ON HIS POLICS, HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND HIS PRUMED-TO-BE-FAVORE SEXUAL POSN. INSTANT SCTN: IT DON'T TAKE LONG FOR HIM TO BE SCED BY OLYVAR. JTIFIED, SCE THE SPY IS ONE OF LTLEFGER'S PROSTUT, AND THEREFORE QUE EXPERIENCED AT THIS, PL LORAS HASN'T BEEN PHYSILLY TIMATE WH ANYONE SCE RENLY'S ATH. IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI: IN TERMS OF THIS TROPE'S FIVE BROAD TEGORI, LORAS IS STRONGLY FED BY HIS EFFEMATE OR NON-MASCULE APPEARANCE AND TYPILLY FEME INTERTS (E.G. HIS ENTHIASM FOR FASHN). INTERPTED INTIMACY: MARGAERY OF ALL PEOPLE WALKS ON LORAS AND OLYVAR HAVG SEX, ONLY TO REMD LORAS HE IS STILL ENGAGED TO CERSEI. I OWE YOU MY LIFE: HE SAYS THIS WORD-FOR-WORD TO THE HOUND AFTER SANDOR SAV HIM OM THE MOUNTA, AND LORAS CIS TO REPAY THE BT BY FORFEG THE FAL ROUND OF THE JOT AND GIVG THE CHAMPNSHIP TLE (PL THE SUBSTANTIAL AWARD MONEY) TO THE HOUND. JOTG LANCE: IS AN EXPERT AT G THIS WEAPON. LORAS HAS BEATEN NOTABLE KNIGHTS SUCH AS JAIME LANNISTER AND GREGOR CLEGANE JOTG PETNS, AND IS WILY REGARD TO BE THE FT JOTER THE SEVEN KGDOMS. KNIGHT SHG ARMOR: PLAYED WH, AS HE IS BOTH WILLG TO E UNRHAND TACTICS A JOT WH GREGOR CLEGANE, AND WAS SECRETLY URGG RENLY TO OVERTHROW THE SUPPOSED RIGHTFUL HEIR AND LE AS KG. HOWEVER BOTH S THE TARGET OF THE SHADY MOV WERE THOROUGHLY SERVG OF SUCH TREATMENT (AND THE LATTER EXAMPLE, HE CLEARLY BELIEV RENLY WOULD BE A FAR KR AND MORE NOBLE KG AND TH BETTER FOR THE KGDOM), AND HE REMAS ONE OF THE SHOW'S CLOST NDIDAT TO BEG THIS TROPE AS HE IS CHIVALRO, NOBLE, A TALENTED FIGHTER, AND IF HIS ARMOR WERE ANY SHIER, HE WOULD BE A WALKG MIRROR. EVEN TYW, WHO KNOWS OF LORAS'S "UNNATURAL BEHAVUR," NOT THAT LORAS IS A HIGHLY-SKILLED WARRR WHO TAK HIS VOWS SERLY. ALTHOUGH HE'S NOT ROMANTILLY TERTED SANSA, HIS ADHERENCE TO KNIGHTLY IALS PLAYS A PART WANTG TO RCUE HER OM THE HELL SHE'S , AND HE WILLGLY ENTERS TO AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE WH THE GIRL SO THAT HE N WHISK HER AWAY TO HIGHGARN. SAY WHAT YOU WILL OF HIS GRANDMOTHER'S AND SISTER'S ULTERR MOTIV, BUT LORAS IS MORE HONOURABLE THAN THAT. HE UNRSTANDS THAT KG'S LANDG IS A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR SANSA, AND HE SE HER AS A DAMSEL DISTRS WHO IS HELD PRISONER BY THE "MONSTER" JOFEY. KNIGHT SOUR ARMOUR: HE BE THIS SEASON 2, PECIALLY AFTER RENLY DI. IT'S EVEN SHOWN SYMBOLILLY, AS HIS ONCE SPOTLS SU OF ARMOUR HAS BEE DIRTY AND TARNISHED. LADY MACBETH: WHOUT HIS LIPS WHISPERG ENURAGEMENT RENLY'S EAR (AND DOG... OTHER THGS OTHER PLAC), RENLY PROBABLY STILL WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE'D MAKE A GOOD KG, BUT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE ACTED ON THOSE THOUGHTS. POSSIBLY A SUBVERSN, AS OTHER CHARACTERS HAVE IMPLIED RENLY'S LEGIMATELY IS THE BT CHOICE OF ALL THE PEOPLE RELATED TO ROBERT, AND ONLY OUT OF THE NNG DUE TO AN ACCINT OF BIRTH ORR. THE LADY'S FAVOUR: IT IALLY APPEARS TO BE A GENR VERSN OF THIS TROPE WHEN HE GIV SANSA A ROSE BEFORE HIS JOT, BUT 'S QUICKLY SUBVERTED WHEN TURNS OUT TO BE AN EMPTY GTURE. RENLY IS HIS TE SWEETHEART, BUT LORAS OBVLY NNOT OFFER HIS FAVOUR TO ANOTHER MAN A HOMOPHOBIC SOCIETY, SO HE SIMPLY HANDS THE ROSE TO THE YOUNG LADY WHO HAPPENS TO BE SEATED THE CLOST TO RENLY THE STANDS. LADY AND KNIGHT: A SAME-SEX VARIATN WHERE HE IS THE SKILLED, BRAVE WARRR WHO IS SWORN TO PROTECT THE HANDSOME AND GENTLE KG RENLY. LADY MACBETH: DPE BEG A MALE CHARACTER, LORAS SENTIALLY FULFILLS THIS TROPE BY PLANTG THE IA TO RENLY'S HEAD THAT HE SHOULD BE KG. LOVE HURTS: LOSG THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE IS ALREADY CREDIBLY PAFUL ENOUGH AS IS, BUT WHAT MAK LORAS'S SUFFERG EVEN WORSE IS THAT HE NNOT OPENLY EXPRS HIS GRIEF AS RENLY WAS A MAN AND A TRAOR TO THE CROWN. JOFEY HAS RMED MARGAERY THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO EXECUTE ALL HOMOSEXUALS, SO LORAS N'T AFFORD TO LET OUT ANY OF HIS TE FEELGS. HE IS STILL MOURNG LOVE TRIANGLE: BRIENNE IS LOVE WH RENLY, BUT HE AND LORAS HAVE ALREADY BEEN A ROMANTIC UPLE FOR YEARS, AND SHE DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THE GOSSIP SURROUNDG THEM. WHILE RENLY IS AWARE THAT BRIENNE IS VERY LOYAL TO HIM, 'S UNCLEAR ON THE SHOW IF HE EVER SPECTED THAT SHE FANCIED HIM. FOR RENLY SEASON 4. LUCKILY, MY SHIELD WILL PROTECT ME: HIS SHIELD SAV HIS LIFE WHEN THE MOUNTA ATTACKS HIM AFTER THEIR JOT. LUDICRO GIBS: HIS BODY IS LERALLY BLASTED TO A THOAND PIEC (POSSIBLY EVEN TO NOTHGNS) BY CERSEI'S BOMBG OF THE SEPT. LYSISTRATA GAMB: A RATHER ATYPIL EXAMPLE VOLVG A SAME-SEX UPLE. FEELG SLIGHTED BY BRIENNE'S RANK UP, LORAS NOT ONLY WHHOLDS SEX OM RENLY, BUT HE PUNISH HIS BOYIEND EVEN FURTHER BY BRGG MARGAERY TO RENLY'S BED, KNOWG FULL WELL THAT RENLY UTTERLY DREADS THE PROSPECT OF HAVG TO NSUMMATE THE MARRIAGE. MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG: HE THKS RENLY SHOULD BE KG BEE UNLIKE THOSE WHO ME BEFORE HIM, HE WOULD BE LOVED STEAD OF HATED OR FEARED. MANGST: EXPERIENC A LOT OF THIS AFTER RENLY IS ASSASSATED. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: LORAS PLAYS THE FEME BOY TO BRIENNE'S MASCULE GIRL. MASTER SWORDSMAN: HIS SWORD FIGHTG SKILLS HAVE BEEN PRAISED BY VAR CHARACTERS. MEANGFUL LOOK: HE AND RENLY SHARE A LGERG ONE AT THE TOURNEY OF THE HAND, AND 'S OUR FIRST CLUE THAT THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE MORE THAN IENDS. THEY EXCHANGE ANOTHER LOOK WHEN BRIENNE ASKS TO BEE ONE OF RENLY'S KGSGUARDS. AS RENLY NSIRS HER REQUT, LORAS'S EXPRSN BASILLY READS, "TELL HER NO." RENLY CIS TO DISREGARD THIS QUIET PLEA, MUCH TO LORAS'S IRRATN. SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPL "VALAR MHULIS" AND "VALAR DOHAERIS". IN "SEND SONS", TYRN RAIS HIS GLASS PY TO HIM, AND HIS EY SAY, "YOU'RE NEXT TO GET MARRIED." LORAS, WHO IS ALREADY QUE TRATED OM THE DAY'S EVENTS, SIGHS AND TURNS HIS HEAD AWAY. MEMETIC BADASS: IN-UNIVERSE. ALONGSI THE KGSLAYER, SER BARRISTAN THE BOLD, AND THE BLACKFISH. THE MISTRS: DPE BEG THERE FIRST, LORAS IS RENLY'S, WH HIS SISTER MARGAERY BEG THE OFFICIAL SPOE. SHE'S OL WH . MOMENT KILLER: IN "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE", THE FOREPLAY BETWEEN LORAS AND RENLY IS UNEXPECTEDLY TERPTED AFTER RENLY STARTS KISSG THE BIS ON LORAS'S CHT. THIS REMDS LORAS OF THE HUIATN HE SUFFERED EARLIER THE DAY, AND KILLS THE MOOD. MOODY MOUNT: HE EXPLOS THIS TROPE WHEN HE JOTS AGAST THE MOUNTA. HE KNOWS THAT HIS OPPONENT HAS AN ILL-TEMPERED STALLN, SO LORAS BRGS A MARE HEAT TO GIVE HIMSELF AN ADVANTAGE. MCL ARE MEANGLS: ALTHOUGH LORAS DO POSSS A SLENR BUILD THE BOOKS, FN JON' SKNY PHYSIQUE AND HIS LACK OF MCL ON THE SHOW MAKE DIFFICULT FOR SOME VIEWERS TO BELIEVE THAT HIS CHARACTER IS ONE OF THE BT KNIGHTS WTEROS. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: IF WEREN'T FOR HIS EP-SEATED SIRE TO EXACT SOME FORM OF REVENGE ON STANNIS, LORAS WOULD NEVER HAVE AGREED TO SI WH THE LANNISTERS BEE HE LOATH THEM (JOFEY PECIALLY). HOWEVER, SPE HIS PERSONAL FEELGS, LORAS IS DUTIFUL TO HIS OWN FAY'S TERTS, AND HE ADOPTS A GR-AND-BEAR- ATTU. DPE TRYG TO PLOT AGAST CERSEI WH RENLY SEASON 1, HE ATTEMPTS TO BE NICE TO HER "SEND SONS" AFTER THEY ARE FORCIBLY ENGAGED (ALTHOUGH HIS EFFORT IS QUICKLY SHOT DOWN BY THE QUEEN REGENT'S NS). MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THIS IS WRTEN ALL OVER HIS FACE AS HE SS NEAR RENLY'S RPSE. HE FEELS EXTREMELY GUILTY FOR NVCG HIS LOVER TO MAKE A BID FOR THE IRON THRONE, AS THIS PATH LED TO RENLY BEG A TARGET FOR ASSASSATN. MY SISTER IS OFF-LIMS: A NON-VERBAL VERSN IS FEATURED "VALAR MHULIS" . AFTER LORAS UNHAPPILY OFFERS HIS SISTER AS A BRI TO JOFEY, HE THEN STANDS PROTECTIVELY BEHD MARGAERY AND STAR FIANTLY JOFEY'S DIRECTN. THE BOY-KG IS ONLY PAYG ATTENTN TO MARGAERY AT THIS POT, SO HE DON'T GET THE MSAGE, BUT LORAS IS WARNG JOFEY THAT HE HAD BETTER NOT HARM HIS SISTERNOTE THIS LEADS TO THEIR GRANDMOTHER PREEMPTG LORAS, BOTH TO PROTECT MARGAERY OM JOFEY AND TO PREVENT LORAS OM BEG A REPUTED KGSLAYER — BY BEATG HIM TO THE PUNCH!. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: HE PERSUAS RENLY TO BEE KG, AND HIS BELOVED IS LATER KILLED BY A MONSTRO LIVG SHADOW. HE REVEALS TO OLYVAR THAT HE'S SECRETLY ENGAGED TO SANSA. THE RMATN IS THEN PASSED ON TO LTLEFGER, WHO THEN SHAR WH THE QUEEN REGENT, AND THE TYRELLS' PLAN IS ED. OPEN SECRET: HE AND RENLY AREN'T FOOLG ANYONE, EXCEPT ROBERT (WHO IS SO NEGLECTFUL OF HIS YOUNGT BROTHER THAT HE HAS NO IA THAT RENLY IS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH LORAS), AND SANSA (WHO IS GENERALLY CLUELS). THIS BACK TO BE HIM WHEN THE FAH MILANT GAS POWER SCE LORAS'S HOMOSEXUALY IS SO MON KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARRT HIM FOR WH NO EVINCE. PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE KOMBAT: HE AND MARGAERY ENGAGE THIS WHEN THEY DE WH CERSEI AND JOFEY "VALAR DOHAERIS". JAIME IAT A VERBAL NONTATN WH HIM "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND LORAS FIGURATIVELY BURNS THE OLR KNIGHT WH ONLY A FEW SHARP WORDS. PRAGMATIC ADAPTATN: LORAS IS OLR THAN MARGAERY THE BOOKS, BUT WAS REVEALED BY BRYAN COGMAN THIS TERVIEW THAT MARGAERY IS MACE TYRELL'S ELST CHILD ON THE SHOW. THE SWCH BIRTH ORR WAS NO DOUBT DUE TO THE FACT THAT FN JON IS SIX YEARS YOUNGER THAN NATALIE DORMER, THE ACTRS WHO PLAYS HIS CHARACTER'S SISTER. PRETTY BOY: GEE R. R. MART EVEN SCRIBED HIM AS ".. TEEN IDOL OF WTEROS" THIS HBO FEATURETTE. SANSA HAS A CSH ON HIM BEE OF HIS GOOD LOOKS. IN "THE CLIMB", OLENNA LLS LORAS ".. PRI OF HIGHGARN, THE MOST SIRABLE BACHELOR ALL OF THE SEVEN KGDOMS." HE WAS A LONG HAIRED PRETTYBOY SEASON 1. NOTE FN JON DIDN'T LIKE THE LIMP, WAVY WIG, SO HIS NATURAL HAIR WAS ED OM SEASON 2 ONWARDS. SOME FANS WERE PUZZLED AS TO WHY THE WIG WAS ED THE FIRST PLACE, AS LORAS THE BOOKS HAS CURLY HAIR. QUIRKY CURLS: HIS HAIR IS RATHER CURLY. RED BARON: "THE KNIGHT OF THE FLOWERS". RELATNSHIP REVEAL: THE SCENE WHERE HE IS SHAVG RENLY'S CHT. REVENGE: HIS REASON TO TEAM UP WH THE LANNISTERS AFTER RENLY IS KILLED; LORAS ACHIEV PARTIAL VENGEANCE AGAST STANNIS BY HELPG TO FEAT THE LATTER'S FORC AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER. REVENGE BEFORE REASON: IN "THE GHOST OF HARRENHAL", LORAS IS READY TO STORM OUT OF RENLY'S TENT TO PUT A SWORD THROUGH STANNIS' RIGHTEO FACE, BUT MARGAERY AND LTLEFGER MANAGE TO NVCE HIM THAT WOULD BE HOPELS, AS HE WOULD BE KILLED BY STANNIS' MEN LONG BEFORE HE EVER REACHED HIS TARGET. AVERTED WH BRIENNE ON THE SHOW. FROM THE BOOKS... HE HOLDS HER RPONSIBLE FOR RENLY'S ATH AND FLI TO A MURRO RAGE WHEN HE SE BRIENNE ENTER THE RED KEEP WH JAIME A STORM OF SWORDS. ALTHOUGH JAIME EVENTUALLY LLS HIM OUT ON THIS, POTG OUT BRIENNE WORSHIPPED RENLY, OCCURS MUCH LATER THE STORYLE. THAT BEG SAID, THE BOOKS STRONGLY IMPLY THAT LORAS HAD ALWAYS BLAMED HIMSELF FOR NOT BEG THERE, AND WAS LARGELY A SE OF DISPLACED ANGER. HE PUTS 2-AND-2 TOGETHER AND REALIS THAT SHE WAS SUCH A RENLY FANGIRL THAT SHE WOULD HAVE DIED BEFORE SHE'D EVER HARM RENLY, TH DISMISSG THE MON MOR THE SHE KILLED HIM OUT OF HAND.MARGAERY: BRIENNE OF TARTH MURRED RENLY. LORAS: I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT. WHO WOULD GA THE MOST OM OUR KG'S ATH? LTLEFGER: STANNIS. REVERSE ARM-FOLD: HE ADOPTS THIS POSE SEASON 3 WHENEVER HE WISH TO APPEAR RELAXED; EXAMPL CLU HIS GREETG OF CERSEI AND JOFEY "VALAR DOHAERIS", WHILE HE WALKS AWAY OM SANSA "DARK WGS, DARK WORDS", AND TYRN AND SANSA'S WEDDG CEREMONY. RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS: HE ODDLY KEEP HIS PANTS ON WHEN HE HAS SEX WH OLYVAR. RULE OF SEXY: THERE IS NO VALID REASON FOR HIM TO BE HELMET-LS WHEN HE IS PRENT FOR RENLY'S PARLEY WH STANNIS, OTHER THAN WAS THE DIRECTOR'S WHIM TO HIGHLIGHT THE CHARACTER'S PHYSIL BETY. FOR A SERI WHICH PRIS SELF ON S GRTS, 'S PLETELY UNREALISTIC FOR LORAS TO LOOK LIKE HE HAD JT STEPPED OUT OF A WTEROSI HAIR SHAMPOO MERCIAL AT THE END OF "BLACKWATER". RULE OF SYMBOLISM: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPLE "VALAR DOHAERIS". HE IS THE ONLY TYRELL THE FIRST THREE SEASONS WHO SPORTS GREEN-AND-GOLD ATTIRE. IN "KISSED BY FIRE", HE IS SPARRG WH VAR TYRELL SQUIR, SO BEG ADORNED HIS HOE'S TE LOURS REPRENTS HIS HONTY AS A KNIGHT (AS OPPOSED TO BEG A PAWN — ALBE ONE WH A CEPTIVE MASK — HIS FAY'S POLIL MACHATNS) THIS SCENE. THE PK ROSE PATTERNS ON LORAS'S SLEEV AND OBERYN'S WRAP AROUND BELT◊ AT THE PURPLE WEDDG ARE INTIL. ONLY THE FABRIC'S BACKGROUND LOUR IS DIFFERENT, AND OBERYN'S SE, 'S ACTUALLY GREEN, ONE OF THE HOE TYRELL LOURS THAT IS MISSG OM LORAS'S OUTF. THIS SUBTLY HTS AT THE TWO CHARACTERS' ATTRACTN TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND THEIR SIARI. (OBERYN SERV AS A FOIL TO LORAS — SEE OBERYN'S FOIL ENTRY FOR MORE TAILS.) IT'S PROBABLY NOT A CINCE THAT THE FIVE-PETAL FLORAL SIGN ON OBERYN'S NECKLACE◊ IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSN OF THE EMBOSSED/ENAMELED FIVE-PETAL FLOWERS ON LORAS'S ARMOUR◊. RULG COUPLE: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THE FULL TAILS. SATELLE CHARACTER: HIS CHARACTERIZATN TENDS TO CHANGE TO ACMODATE THE PLOT. SAYG TOO MUCH: HE IS GUILTY OF THIS WHEN HE RMS OLYVAR OF HIS BETROTHAL TO SANSA. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: FLE KG'S LANDG WH RENLY WHEN BE EVINT THAT JOFEY WILL ASCEND TO THE THRONE. HE ALSO PROCEEDS TO DO THIS WH MARGAERY AND THE TYRELL ARMI AFTER RENLY'S SUDN ATH. IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE FURLY PARTS OM THE PARTY DURG THE PART OF THE DWARF PERFORMANCE THAT VOLVED RENLY RIDG ON A RITURE OF HIMSELF WHILE GETTG ANALLY VLATED BY A FAKE MACE. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: WHILE HIS FACIAL FEATUR AND PHYSIL BUILD ARE NOTICEABLY MORE ANDROGYNO THAN RENLY'S, LORAS IS A ADLY WARRR; HIS LOVER ON THE OTHER HAND HAS NEVER FOUGHT A DAY HIS LIFE. SHIELD BASH: HE IS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS WHEN BRIENNE HS HIS HELM-VERED HEAD WH HER SHIELD DURG THEIR MELEE, BUT HE REVERS OM THE BLOW. SHIRTLS SCENE: HAS A UPLE OF THE WH RENLY. HE ALSO HAS ONE WH OLYVAR "KISSED BY FIRE". SIBLG Y-YANG: LORAS PUBLICLY PRETENDS THAT HIS FAY'S ALLIANCE WH RENLY IS MOTIVATED BY POLICS AND AMBN TO NCEAL THE FACT THAT HE IS ACTUALLY ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH THE ASPIRG KG. SEE MARGAERY TO NTRAST. SOMETHG ABOUT A ROSE: THE ROSE HE RRI "THE WOLF AND THE LN" HTS THAT HE IS AN AGENT PEACK — BETIFUL, BUT DANGERO. CONSIRG THAT THE MOUNTA HAD KILLED AN OPPONENT THE PREV EPISO, VIEWERS WHO HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS MIGHT ASSUME THAT THE RATHER LITE-LOOKG KNIGHT OF FLOWERS IS STED TO BEE GREGOR'S NEXT VICTIM. WH A LTLE COMBAT PRAGMATISM, HOWEVER, LORAS TAK DOWN THE FEARSOME BTE ON HIS FIRST JOTG ATTEMPT. LORAS HAS A ROSE BROOCH AND ROS ON HIS SLEEV "THE LN AND THE ROSE", AND JAIME MAK THE MISTAKE OF BELIEVG THAT THE YOUNG FOP IS HARMLS WHEN HE ISN'T JOTG OR WIELDG A SWORD. AFTER THE KGSLAYER FIGURATIVELY TRI TO CLAW AT THE KNIGHT OF FLOWERS, LORAS THEN SHOV A METAPHORIL THORN TO JAIME'S PAW, AND STGS. SORE LOSER: ALTHOUGH HE DON'T DO OR SAY ANYTHG NEGATIVE TO BRIENNE AFTER SHE WS THEIR MELEE PETN, HE'S SHOWN TO BE BTER ABOUT HIS FEAT WHEN HE SPEAKS TO RENLY PRIVATE. SPOILED BRAT: IN "THE WOLF AND THE LN", RENLY VIEWS LORAS AS THIS. RENLY: AND HOW MUCH DID YOUR FATHER PAY FOR THAT ARMOUR OF YOURS? THE SQUIRE: ALTHOUGH THIS HASN'T BEEN EXPLICLY MENTNED ON THE SERI YET, THE HBO VIEWER'S GUI DO STATE THAT LORAS HAD SERVED AS RENLY'S SQUIRE, WHICH IS FAHFUL TO THE NOVELS. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: HIS ILLIC ROMANCE WH RENLY TO A TRAGIC END "THE GHOST OF HARRENHAL" WHEN RENLY IS ASSASSATED. STEALTH INSULT: HE HAS THIS MON WH HIS SISTER AND GRANDMOTHER. ALTHOUGH HE SPEAKS ONLY A FEW L "VALAR DOHAERIS", LORAS (POLELY) BS TO CERSEI'S FACE THAT HE THKS VERY POORLY OF HER AS QUEEN DUE TO HER NEGLECT/MISTREATMENT OF THE SMALLFOLK.LORAS: (SG DIRECTLY AT CERSEI) MARGAERY DO A GREAT AL OF WORK WH THE POOR BACK HIGHGARN. IN "THE LN AND THE ROSE", HE PROV THAT HE N FIGHT WH WORDS JT AS WELL AS HE FIGHTS WH SWORDS AFTER JAIME THREATENS HIM. THE OLR KNIGHT IS EVEN A LTLE STUNNED BY HOW EASILY LORAS IS ABLE TO HURT HIS FEELGS WH A SGLE, BG LE.JAIME: LUCKILY FOR YOU, NONE OF THIS WILL HAPPEN, BEE YOU WILL NEVER MARRY HER [CERSEI]. LORAS: (S SMUGLY) AND NEHER WILL YOU. (PATS JAIME ON THE ARM) STEPFORD SER: HE'S A TYPE A AS OF SEASON 3. HE PUTS ON A CHARMG SE AND A PLEASANT DISPOSN MOST OF THE TIME, BUT HIS MASK SLIPS AT A VERY PUBLIC EVENT "SEND SONS", AND HIS MISERY BETRAYS SELF MORE SUBTLY "VALAR DOHAERIS" (LORAS — WHO IS NO LONGER PAYG ATTENTN TO THE DNER NVERSATN — HAS A MELANCHOLIC EXPRSN WHEN JOFEY SAYS, "I'M SURE SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE'S DOG"). IN "THE CLIMB", HE SADLY TELLS SANSA, "IT'S [KG'S LANDG] TERRIBLE, ISN'T ? THE MOST TERRIBLE PLACE THERE IS," WHICH CLEARLY DIT THAT LORAS IS SUFFERG SILENCE. HIS GENTEEL FA CMBL AGA AT YET ANOTHER WEDDG FEAST "THE LN AND THE ROSE" WHERE JOFEY MAK FUN OF HIS RELATNSHIP WH RENLY THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE ONT OF SEVERAL HUNDRED GUTS. SUBORDATE EXCE: HE IS THE SOLE MALE HEIR OF THE SEND-RICHT FAY WTEROS, AND PRUMABLY HE HAS DUTI HIGHGARN AND THE REACH, YET SEASON 2 HE CHOOS TO VOTE HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO PROTECTG RENLY. BEG THE LORD COMMANR OF HIS BROTHER--LAW'S KGSGUARD IS A VERY NVENIENT WAY FOR LORAS TO BE ABLE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WH HIS BELOVED, AS HIS EQUENT VISS N BE EXPLAED AWAY AS BEG JOB-RELATED. (IT DON'T STOP THE MOURS ABOUT THEM OM SPREADG AMONG RENLY'S FOLLOWERS, HOWEVER.) SUPPRSED RAGE: HIS BODY LANGUAGE NNOT DISGUISE THE UTTER DISGT AND TRATN THAT HE FEELS AT HAVG TO BEND THE KNEE TO JOFEY "VALAR MHULIS". THE ABPT AND MANNER WHICH LORAS STORMS AWAY OM THE WEDDG FEAST "SEND SONS" IS MERELY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG TERMS OF THE TE PTHS OF HIS ANGER OVER HIS CURRENT SUATN (I.E. HIS FORCED BETROTHAL TO CERSEI, HIS ABILY TO MOURN FOR RENLY PUBLIC, ETC.). DURG JOFEY'S WEDDG, THE OUTRAGEOLY OFFENSIVE AND STRAIGHT-UP SULTG DISPLAY THAT JOFEY ARRANG (WHICH VOLV A DWARF DRSED AS RENLY RIDG A THLY-DISGUISED PUPPET OF LORAS AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEG SODOMIZED BY AN ENEMY'S MACE) FORC LORAS TO STORM AWAY BEFORE HIS ANGER GETS THE BT OF HIM. TEMPTG FATE: WHEN MARGAERY TCH LORAS BED WH OLYVAR, SHE WARNS HIM HE SHOULD BE MORE DISCREET. LORAS POTS OUT EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HE'S GAY 'SONS OF THE HARPY', THE FAH MILANT GETS THEIR HANDS ON HIM. TO BE LAWFUL OR GOOD: SEE MARGAERY'S ENTRY FOR THEIR EXAMPLE "THE LAWS OF GODS AND MEN". TOO DUMB TO LIVE: AFTER HE STARTS A RELATNSHIP WH OLYAR, HE LETS SLIP HIS GRANDMOTHER'S PLAN FOR HIM TO MARRY SANSA — WHICH OLYVAR PROMPTLY PASS ON TO LTLEFGER, AND WHICH ENDS UP G THE TYRRELS' PLAN. DPE THE FACT THAT SHOULD BE BLATANTLY OBV WHERE THE LEAK ME OM, LORAS NTU HIS RELATNSHIP WH OLYVAR, WHICH ALLOWS HIS LOVER TO SELL HIM OUT TO THE HIGH SEPTON AND THE FAH MILANT. TRAGIC KEEPSAKE: RENLY'S ARMOUR. THIS HEARTBREAKG LETED SCENE OM SEASON 2 MAK MORE OBV. IT'S THE ONLY PHYSIL OBJECT THAT LORAS HAS KEPT AS A REMR OF HIS LOVER AFTER HE BURI RENLY'S BODY. THE TWK: HE FS THE PHYSIL SCRIPTN TO A TEE, BUT THE TROPE IS SOMEWHAT SUBVERTED WH REGARDS TO HIS ROMANCE WH RENLY (WHO IS AN "OTTER" GAY SLANG) BEE LORAS IS THE EMOTNALLY DOMANT PARTNER THEIR RELATNSHIP SPE BEG A FEW YEARS YOUNGER. THE UGLY GUY'S HOT DGHTER : HE MT HAVE HERED HIS ELY APPEARANCE OM HIS MOTHER (OR POSSIBLY HIS GRANDMOTHER, SCE HE DO CLOSELY REMBLE HIS SISTER), AS HE LOOKS NOTHG LIKE HIS HOMELY FATHER. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: UNLIKE MOST FAMED FIGHTERS WHO ARE VERY MACHO, LORAS PUTS A LOT OF RE TO HIS ANDROGYNO APPEARANCE, WHICH RULTS HIM BEG UNRTIMATED BY HIS FO. IN KEEPG WH HIS FAY'S MACHIAVELLI WAS WRONG POLICY, HE PRENTS HIMSELF AS AN APPROACHABLE GENTLEMAN TO THE MASS (AS OPPOSED TO THE DREAD LIKE THE CLEGANE BROTHERS), BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, LORAS IS ONE OF BT SWORDSMEN THE REALM, AND HAS PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE AN EFFECTIVE BATTLE MANR. UNDYG LOYALTY: WHILE HIS FAY JOED THE LANNISTERS OUT OF A SIRE TO GA MORE POLIL POWER, LORAS HIMSELF ONLY WANTED TO AVENGE RENLY'S MURR. COMMANDG A VALRY CHARGE WHILE WEARG HIS CEASED LOVER'S ARMOUR IS QUE A GRAND ROMANTIC GTURE, AS WAS LORAS'S WAY OF HONOURG THE VOW HE HAD MA TO RENLY SEASON 1. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: LORAS ENURAGED RENLY TO URP THE LE OF SUCCSN AGAST STANNIS, AND GOT HIS FAY HOE TYRELL, VOLVED AS PATRONS AND BACKERS FOR RENLY'S CLAIM TO THE THRONE. OLENNA TYRELL WARNED THE RT OF THE HOE TO AVOID GETTG VOLVED SEEG AS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE AND RENLY AS A WEAK NDIDATE, BUT THEY WENT ANYWAY, THIS STARTED A SERI OF DISASTER DOMO THAT LED TO RENLY'S ATH, THE LANNISTERS WNG THE WAR OF THE FIVE KGS, OLENNA KILLG JOFEY TO PROTECT MARGAERY, WHICH LED TIME TO CERSEI UNRGOG SANY SLIPPAGE, ARMG THE FAH MILANT, LEADG FALLY TO LORAS' TORTURE BY THE SPARROWS, AND THE ATH AND OF THEIR FAY AND HOE. WHE STALLN: AS BEFTG A KNIGHT SHG ARMOR, HE RO A WHE MARE AT THE TOURNEY OF THE HAND. IN "BLACKWATER", HE CHARGED TO BATTLE ON RENLY'S WHE HORSE (WHICH WAS SEEN "GARN OF BON") TO BETTER ENHANCE THE ILLN THAT HE IS KG RENLY'S GHOST. YOU MONSTER!: HE TELLS RENLY SEASON 1 THAT HE THKS JOFEY IS A MONSTER, AND 'S ONE OF THE MA REASONS WHY LORAS WANTS TO CROWN HIS BOYIEND AS KG.    LORD LUTHOR TYRELL LORD LUTHOR TYRELLPLAYED BY: N/ATHE LATE LORD OF HIGHGARN, THE FATHER OF MACE AND THE HBAND OF OLENNA. HENPECKED HBAND: IT'S HTED THAT HE WAS THIS TO OLENNA, WHO IS A VERY DOMEERG FIGURE. IN THE BOOKS, OLENNA MENTNS THAT WHILE HE WAS AN OAF, HE WAS NOT WHOUT QUALI ENARG TO HER: SHE SAYS HE WAS VERY GOOD BED. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: HE HAD ALREADY PASSED AWAY LONG BEFORE THE START OF THE SERI. MACE WAS ALREADY THE LORD OF HIGHGARN DURG ROBERT'S REBELLN. SEX EQUALS LOVE: HE WAS ORIGALLY ENGAGED TO LADY OLENNA'S SISTER UNTIL A NIGHT WH LADY OLENNA BEFORE HIS PROPOSAL CHANGED HIS KD. THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: DPE NSTANTLY REFERRG TO HIM AS AN OAF, OLENNA DIT THAT SHE DID LOVE HIM TO AN EXTENT AND WAS CERTALY UPSET BY HIS ATH. TOO DUMB TO LIVE: HE RO OFF A CLIFF WHILE HAWKG BEE HE DIDN'T PAY ATTENTN TO HIS SURROUNDGS. UPPER-CLASS TW: OLENNA EQUENTLY CRICIZ HIM FOR HIS STUPIDY LONG AFTER HIS ATH. HOWEVER, 'S CLEAR THAT SHE RRIED SOME AFFECTN FOR HIM, AS SEEN WHEN SHE REMISC TO MARGAERY ABOUT HOW SHE MANAGED TO AVOID A BETROTHAL TO AN UNSIRABLE TARGARYEN BY SCG LUTHOR.    OTHER TYRELLS AND RELATIV THERE ARE OTHER TYRELLS THE FAY, THAT NEVER APPEAR BUT WE HEAR ABOUT THEM. IN "EASTWATCH", JAIME REVEALS THAT THEY HAVE ALL BEEN MASSACRED THE SACKG OF HIGHGARN.OTHER TYRELL BANNERMEN, RETAERS AND HOEHOLD

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