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The disappearance of Tyrek Lannister during the King's Landing riots is a significant unsolved mystery in "A Song of Ice and Fire," with theories ranging from him being a simple victim to a calculated abduction by Varys.
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What happened to Tyrek Lannister? He
went missing in the King's Landing
riots. But where is he? Is he even still
alive? Hi everyone, this is Robert.
Welcome to Indeedgeek. If you like
theories, background, history, and lore
about A Song of Ice and Fire, The Lord
of the Rings, and The Witcher, this is
the place for you. Welcome. The
disappearance of Tyreek Lannister is one
of the most long-standing mysteries in A
Song of Ice and Fire, though he himself
remains a bit of a blank slate. Not
exactly the most well-rounded of George
R. Martin's many characters in A Song of
Ice and Fire. Intentionally, I suspect.
He is the son of Tyigette and Darlesa
Lannister. So, cousin to Cersei, Jaime,
and Tyrion. But we don't get much of a
description of him other than that of a
typical Lannister physically, so
good-looking with curly blonde hair.
Born in 286, he is therefore about 13
years old at the time of the Clash of
Kings. He had seemingly been in King's
Landing for a few years by that point as
a squire to Robert Baratheon. King
Robert had two squires, Lancel Lannister
and Tyrek, surrounded by Lannisters. We
obviously know Lancel's significant role
in supplying copious amounts of wine to
the king on a hunt. But Tyre was also
there close to the king at that time.
We'll come back to that. To be honest,
he's actually rather anonymous in book
one, only mentioned by name in the
appendices. But when we get to a clash
of kings, he starts to come more to the
four. The Lannisters are working to
cement their place as the preeminent
noble family in the realm. Even though
technically they are still clinging to
the idea that Joffrey was king because
his father was Robert Baratheon. Part of
this political effort is to marry off
minor members of the Lannister clan to
noble houses in the Riverlands and
Crownlands, particularly those who had
lost ruling lords and the like in the
war. Hence Tyrek being engaged to then
married to Ladyand Hayford, the heir and
last in line to House Hayford, a small
but notable house in the Crownlands not
too far from King's Landing. It's all
rather straightforward power politics.
It puts a Lannister as ruling lord and
helps them control that small part of
the seven kingdoms. Jenna Lannister was
already married to Emmanry who was later
given Riverrun. Lancel was named Lord
Dar and so on. The twist is that Lady
Irmisand Hayford is still a baby, maybe
just one year old, which leads to much
teasing of Tyrek and hilarity among the
Lannister courtiers and squires, calling
Tyrek her wet nurse and inquiring what
kind of swaddling clothes she wore on
their wedding night. You get the idea.
This was a political marriage of the
most cynical kind. Tyrek and the
Lannisters were now de facto lords of
House Hayford. A promotion for Tyrek,
but not one he seemed particularly
pleased about. Still, this is Wester
Ross, and there was a wedding, so a
feast to celebrate. Now, Tyrex's wedding
and the associated partying in the Red
Keep did not go unnoticed by the small
folk in King's Landing, some of whom
decided that they should party, too,
coming up to the Red Keep to ask for a
share in the food and frivolity. Joffrey
led a sorty on horseback to disperse
them. He seemed to see it as a sort of
sport to ride out and beat back the
small folk. Joffrey really was. Well,
anyway, Tyrek had not been married long
before his cousin Tyrion as acting hand
of the king decided to send Princess
Marcella to Dawn in a marriage patched
to Tristane Martell. There's obviously a
whole history there with the Lannisters
and Martell's. But this was part of
Tyrion's attempt to ensure the Martell
didn't make the most of the civil war to
turn on the Lannisters. and it kind of
worked in the short term in as much as
the Martell's pursued their objectives
more by stealth and through Oberin than
by outright war. The important point
here though is that leaving to go to
dawn is a big event in King's Landing.
For the first time in ages, and
certainly the first since the war
started, the whole court in King's
Landing ventured out on mass from the
Red Keep into the city proper. Most of
the 1% of King's Landing here heads down
to the dock to bid her farewell.
Innocuous you might think, but the
timing couldn't have been worse. The war
is in full swing. The riverlands are
ablaze and refugees are flooding into
the city. At the same time, Stannis has
established a sea blockade in the
Gullet. Food from the Reach, the bread
basket of the Seven Kingdoms is also
pretty non-existent in King's Landing.
The Reach obviously support Renley. an
increased population along with a
reduction in food available while the 1%
were having their parties and feasts in
the Red Keep to celebrate the wedding of
a baby to a random Lannister squire. I
think you can guess what the mood was
among the small folk when the Dennisens
of the Red Keep, still wellfed and
richly dressed, headed on mass down to
the docks and back to bid Myrcela
farewell. As the court is heading back
to the Red Keep, a woman steps out of
the crowd with a dead baby in her arms.
Heartbreaking, surely. Sansa shows some
sympathy, but Joffrey does not. Someone
throws mud at Cersei. Joffrey sends the
hound out into the crowd to find the
offender rather heavy-handedly, causing
outcries. Mandon Moore cuts off the hand
of someone who touches Joffrey's leg. It
all kicks off. The royal party hurry
back to the Red Keep and order the
Goldcolaks to quell the riers. Some
people are pulled from their horses.
Most escape, but swords are drawn,
punches are thrown, buildings set a
fire. Basically, things escalate. It
takes a while, but the riot is put down
and the cost is counted. The high
septton was pulled from his horse, his
crystal crown stolen, and he was killed,
as was Sir Preston Greenfield, a member
of the King's Guard, and Sir Aaron
Santagar, the master at arms in the Red
Keep. Lis Stokeworth survived, but was
assaulted multiple times. Hers is a sad
story. Sansa Stark narrowly avoided the
same fate, rescued by the Hound. Nine
gold cloaks are lost. Unreported, but
probably huge are the numbers of small
folk lost and homes burned down. And
amid all that chaos, Tyrek Lannister
also goes missing. In truth, this was
probably the thing that bothered the
Lannisters the most. High Septans and
members of the king's guard can be
replaced. Minor nobles matter little.
But a Lannister, that's different.
Tyrion and Tywin both in turn try to
find him or evidence of what happened to
him to no avail. He just disappeared. We
never hear from him again. So what
happened to Tyrek Lannister? Well, let's
start with the boring but very possible
answer first. He was pulled from his
horse, attacked by the small folk, and
killed. That's what happened to several
other members of the party on their
return to the Red Keep. His undoubtedly
rich clothes and personal effects were
ripped from him, and his body left lying
somewhere in the city, and got lost amid
the confusion and fire and many other
dead bodies. He was still a Lannister,
though, and very obviously one with his
golden hair, and the gold cloaks were
very clearly searching for him
afterwards. So perhaps whoever did it,
or whoever owned the property outside of
which his body ended up, disposed of it
somewhere. Everyone knew that the
Lannisters paid their debts, and no one
would want to be held accountable for
what happened to Tyrek.
get rid of the body and move on. It all
makes sense. So, that's the boring
answer. He was just another victim of
the riots. But what if he wasn't? What
if there was something deeper going on?
Unlike many a Song of Ice and Fire
mysteries, there really is only one
broad fan theory out there with any
significant support to challenge this
boring likelihood that Tyrek was just
another victim of the riots, and that's
that Varys kidnapped him. The primary
accuser in this is actually Jaime. He
visits Hayford and is presented with the
young lady Hayford. He finds himself
wondering what happened to Tyrek. Adam
Marbrand, later commander of the
Goldcloaks, tells him, "I led a search
myself at Lord Tywin's command, but I
found no more than Bwater had before me.
The boy was last seen a horse when the
press of the mob broke the line of gold
cloaks. Afterward, well, his pfrey was
found, but not the rider. Most likely
they pulled him down and slew him. But
if that's so, where is his body?" The
mob let the other corpses lie. Why not his?
his?
Jaime<unk>s initial conclusion here is
actually the same as our initial
conclusion. He thinks if they realized
whom they killed, no doubt they threw
him in the river for fear of my father's
wroth. They know the taste of that in
King's Landing. Lord Tywin always paid
his debts.
But then he thinks again.
Yet afterward, alone in the tower room
he had been offered for the night, Jaime
found himself wondering. Tyrek had
served King Robert as a squire, side by
side with Lancel. Knowledge could be
more valuable than gold, more deadly
than a dagger. It was Ferris he thought
of, then smiling and smelling of
lavender. The unuk had agents and
informers all over the city. It would
have been a simple matter for him to
arrange to have Tyrex snatched during
the confusion, provided he knew
beforehand that the mob was like to
riot, and Varys knew all, or so he would
have us believe. Yet he gave Cersei no
warning of that riot, nor did he ride
down to the ships to see Myrcella off.
All of which makes a lot of sense. Varys
definitely would have known that a riot
was possible. And he said nothing. Given
that we now know that Varys has other
loyalties to young Griff, who at the
time is still gathering support in
Essos, this is actually not a surprise.
He was wanting to weaken the Lannister
regime as much as possible in advance of
Young Griff's invasion. Of course, that
doesn't mean he also used it as cover
for an abduction of Tyrek. So why might
he? Varys has a history of using his
dark arts to remove competent people
from the defense of King's Landing.
Think of Kevin Lannister and how he
found a way for Tyrion to escape and
also to recruit those people to his own
side. He sent Tyrion to his friend Yio
and I would argue subtly pushed Sir
Barristan that way, too. But Tyrek was
barely a teenager. He can hardly be
described as a competent defender of
King's Landing. So maybe there's another
motivation. We often talk about the Iron
Thron's debt to the Iron Bank, which is
significant. So significant that they,
the Iron Bank, are now actively
supporting a rival to the throne so they
can get their money back. But the Iron
Throne's bigger debt is to Castasterly
Rock. Witness this exchange between
Littlefinger and Ned Stark when Ned was
hand of the king. You know as well as I
that the treasury has been empty for
years. I shall have to borrow the money.
No doubt the Lannisters will be
accommodating. We owe Lord Tywin some 3
million dragons at present. What matter
another 100,000?
Ned was stunned. Are you claiming that
the crown is 3 million gold pieces in
debt? The crown is more than 6 million
gold pieces in debt, Lord Stark. The
Lannisters are the biggest part of it.
So the Iron Throne is in debt to the
Iron Bank, but probably several times
more in debt to the Lannisters. Any
reasonable accession plan for young
Griff would have to include an
understanding with Castly Rock over that
debt. Varys is a very clever person who
has had many years to come up with a
plan for how to deal with that debt. And
the obvious answer is to have someone on
his side installed in Castelli Rock and
ready to either forgive that debt or be
content to let it drag on in favorable
terms. At which point we should probably
briefly dip into the Lannister family
tree. Because although I've rather blly
been calling Tyrek a rather minor member
of the Lannister clan, War has a habit
of pushing some people up the line of
succession quite quickly. Get your
genological nerd hats ready because
Tyrek is the firstborn son of Tiget, the
fourthborn child of Tittos Lannister.
Tittos's eldest, Tywin, inherited, so
obviously his children and their
children are next in line. Leaving Tyrek
behind depending on how you count it and
your views on female inheritance.
Joffrey, Tommen, Myella, any children
they might have, then maybe Cersei,
Jaime, though he's excluded as he is
King's Guard. Tyrion, any children he
might have. Kevin, the secondborn son of
Titus, then his children, Lancel,
Willam, Martin, and Janai. Then you get
to Jenna, then Tigette, and his
children. So, Tyrek, first of those. As
I said, these things are open to
interpretation, but by my count based on
a very strict male-only inheritance
line, that puts Tyrek at the start of
this story as behind at least Joffrey,
Tommen, Tyrion, Kevin, Lancel, Willm,
and Martin in the line of succession, at
best eighth in line. And if any of those
have male children, they will also
leaprog Tyrek. And there may well be
some women who might want to challenge
that rather male-heavy presumption of
inheritance. Cersei, perhaps. So, Tyrex
starts out a long way from having the
keys to Castasterly Rock, but let's see
what happens during the story. And
please note that I don't ascribe all or
even most of these deaths and
abdications to Varys, but war is war.
Joffrey obviously dies at the Red
Wedding without having any children.
Tommen is also too young to have
children, and many people suspect won't
survive long. Mella is with the Martell
who hate the Lannisters and many Wester
Rosie won't accept her or anyone as
queen anyway. Cersei will obviously need
to be defeated in order for young Griff
to take the throne. Jaime is a member of
the King's Guard, so has disavowed his
claim. Tyrion, well, Tyrion is Tyrion,
but Tywin certainly never wanted him to
inherit. Kevin was killed by Varys. His
son, Lancel, has joined the faith big
time, disavowing his claim. Will was
killed by the castarks which makes
Martin Lannister Kevin's thirdborn son
the most likely current heir to Castly
Rock and after him Tyrek. Tyrek
Lannister is portrayed as a minor
Lannister which he is at the start of
the story. But we and probably Varys can
now see that there is a very clear path
for him to become Lord of Castly Rock
and therefore adjudicator of what
happens to that crown debt. Varys
definitely has an interest in taking
someone so young and impressionable and
someone who is probably also angry with
the Lannisters for making him a
laughingstock by marrying him to a baby.
So, it took a deep dive into the
Lannister family tree and the crown
finances to get there. But yes, Varys
has a clear motive for capturing Tyrek
as well as means and opportunity. Does
that mean that he did it? No. But at the
risk of overinterpreting a throwaway
remark by George R. Martin. He has said
that we will find out later in the story
what happened to Tyrek, which I can't
see how we would if he were just a
random victim of the riots. George
Martin is also writing Jaime as an
increasingly astute judge of character
and circumstance. And he thinks that
Varys's role here is very suspicious, so
I think we should, too. Perhaps Tyrek is
just another victim of the riots.
Perhaps he is now just a horse. I see
you, Glidus, and appreciate you. But
most likely, I now think he was captured
by Varys amid the confusion of the
riots, which he personally avoided by
not being there, and certainly knew
about and may well have instigated. Not
just as Jaime suspects, because he might
know the truth about Robert Baratheon's
death. That now seems quite a long time
ago in the plot, but because Varys needs
someone sympathetic installed as chief
holder of the crown's biggest debt for
whenever young Griff comes to power and
leader of one of the seven kingdoms. If
young Griff can conquer the Crownlands
and John Conington can deliver the
Stormlands and the Dornish come on side
and the friends in the Reach turn out to
be important and with Tyrek the
Westerlands pledge their support, that
means a large portion of the continent
might be supportive from day one. Varys
has a plan and is two steps ahead of
most of the seven kingdoms.
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