Who Tried to Kill Bran Again
 | Although this article is based on canonical information, the actual proper name of this subject is pure conjecture. |
- "You're not s'pposed to be here; no one'due south due south'pposed to be here. Information technology's a mercy; he'south dead already."
- ―The Catspaw to Catelyn Stark before attempting to kill Bran.
This assassinator is a catspaw being someone unwittingly used to further another person's agenda.
Contents
- ane Biography
- 1.1 Flavour 1
- one.two Flavor 7
- ii Appearance
- 3 In the books
- 4 Encounter also
- 5 References
Biography
Season i
The catspaw assassinator was paid to kill Bran while he was in a blackout at Winterfell, following his autumn. The assassin arranges for a fire to start in the castle, reasoning it volition draw people abroad from Bran's room. This diversion succeeds in persuading Robb to leave, but Catelyn remains backside. Upon reaching Bran'south room, the assassin finds Catelyn at Bran's bedside. The pair tussle which results in Catelyn receiving paw wounds; Bran is saved by his direwolf, Summertime, who tears the assassin'due south throat out.[1]
The assassin is killed by Summer.
The assassin carried an ornate dagger, made of Valyrian steel and with a dragonbone hilt. Catelyn takes the bract to her married man, Ned, in King'due south Landing in order to investigate further.[1] Littlefinger claims that the dagger belongs to Tyrion,[ii] which leads to Catelyn taking Tyrion prisoner when she chances across him at the Inn at the Crossroads.[iii] Her actions spark a conflict between House Stark and House Lannister.[iv] Tyrion acquits himself of the crime via trial past combat at the Eyrie.[5]
Season seven
Years later on, Littlefinger presents the dagger to Bran at Winterfell. Bran asks Littlefinger if he knows who the dagger belongs to, to which Littlefinger replies he does not. Subsequently, Bran, Sansa, and Arya hash out the dagger and the cutthroat who wielded it—they are all perplexed equally to why Littlefinger would give the dagger to Bran. Bran states "someone very wealthy wanted me expressionless" and hands the dagger over to Arya equally information technology would be "wasted on a cripple".[half-dozen] Soon after, at Littlefinger's surprise trial, it is deduced that the dagger did in fact belong to Littlefinger, leaving the interpretation to the viewer as to whether information technology was Littlefinger who sent the assassin.[7]
Appearance
| Game of Thrones: Season 1 appearances | ||||
| Winter Is Coming | The Kingsroad | Lord Snow | Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things | The Wolf and the King of beasts |
| A Gold Crown | You Win or You Die | The Pointy End | Baelor | Fire and Blood |
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the assassin's proper name is never revealed. He is described as a small, dirty man in filthy chocolate-brown clothing, stinking of horses, gaunt, with a limp blond hair and pale eyes deep-sunk in a bony face.
In A Disharmonism of Kings, Catelyn finds out - too late - that Littlefinger lied to her most the dagger, merely when she interrogates Jaime. Jaime bluntly admits that he pushed Bran from the window in an attempt to kill him, just claims that neither he nor Cersei nor Tyrion had anything to do with the assassin; both Tyrion and Jaime point out the key flaw in Littlefinger'due south story - Tyrion couldn't have won the dagger in a gambling bet because he never bet against Jaime in such circumstances. When asked nigh the dagger, Jaime remembers that Littlefinger bet and lost it during the tourney held to celebrate Joffrey's twelfth nameday - to Robert, not to Tyrion. Catelyn realizes Jaime is telling her the truth, for he has nothing to proceeds past lying nigh the assassin and the dagger, later on admitting that he pushed Bran. Jaime admits that he and Cersei considered having Bran killed, but given the fact Catelyn was in his bed bedroom at all times and the room was guarded, information technology would have meant murdering their style through half of Winterfell's population to accomplish Bran, and they concluded there was no need when it seemed more than likely that Bran would die of his injuries from the fall.
While Jaime and his escorts are on their fashion to King'southward Landing, he wonders whether Cersei hired the assassin, to make sure Bran never woke up. Jaime correctly dismisses that thought, reasoning that had Cersei wanted Bran dead - she would have sent him; moreover, it was not like her to choose a catspaw who would make such a "regal botch" of the killing.
During a casual chat at King'due south Landing, Tyrion makes a comment about Littlefinger's elegant suit and handsome knife. Littlefinger draws his pocketknife, glances at information technology casually, equally if he has never seen it earlier and says "Valyrian steel, and a dragonbone hilt. A trifle obviously, though. Information technology'south yours, if you would similar it." Noticing the mischief in his eyes, Tyrion realizes that Littlefinger is teasing him insolently about the assassin's dagger, without saying anything explicit.
Tyrion has suffered a lot as a result of Littlefinger's prevarication: he was humiliated, kidnapped, browbeaten, locked in a sky cell and nearly got killed three times (on the way to the Eyrie, at the Eyrie, and on the way back) - and yet he never attempts to settle the score with Littlefinger, either openly or secretly (as he did with a singer who tried to bribery him), even later on being taunted well-nigh it. It is unclear why Tyrion lets Littlefinger get away with that, in contrast to the unofficial motto of his house (though Tyrion does notation that at the time, Littlefinger is still as well useful to House Lannister to kill him out of mitt simply for revenge, though Tyrion's ain railroad train of thought implies that he will gladly have Littlefinger killed for the grief he caused Tyrion, once his usefulness is at an stop).
In A Storm of Swords, Tyrion and Jaime independently deduce that it was Joffrey who sent the assassin:
- After Joffrey uses his new sword to cut the volume Tyrion gave him at his wedding, he says "I am no stranger to Valyrian steel." That strange comment makes Tyrion realize it was him (discounting the simply ii other possible culprits, because Jaime was likewise proud to accept another do his killing for him, while Cersei was as well cunning to utilize a knife that could be traced back to her). Tyrion remembers overhearing Joffrey jesting with the Hound in Winterfell about killing wolves: "Transport a canis familiaris to kill a wolf." Even Joffrey was non so foolish as to command the Hound to slay a son of Eddard Stark, equally Clegane would have informed Cersei. Instead he found his catspaw among the unsavory lot of freeriders, merchants, and camp followers who had attached themselves to the King's political party as they fabricated their way north. Since even Joffrey was not stupid plenty to use his own dagger, he went poking among his begetter'southward weapons. No dubiety some diligent servant had made sure that the Male monarch's weapons went with him, in case he should want any of them. The only thing Tyrion cannot figure out is Joffrey's motive. Recalling a nasty quarrel between Joffrey and Robb, Tyrion asks Sansa if at that place was any ill feeling between Bran and Joffrey, just her answer is negative. He guesses then it was mere cruelty of Joffrey. Another possibility is that Joffrey grew incensed when Tyrion slapped him and ordered him to offer his sympathies to Eddard and Catelyn near Bran'south injury (just for the sake of decorum); in his warped heed, Joffrey felt then insulted at being allowable to limited sympathy to Bran's parents that he may take wanted to soothe his wounded pride by having an unconscious 7 year old boy assassinated.
- Jaime tells Cersei that Catelyn suspected him of sending the assassin to kill Bran. Cersei recalls Robert proverb of Bran: "We kill our horses when they break a leg, and our dogs when they go blind, just we are too weak to give the same mercy to crippled children" in the presence of their children, including Joffrey. Jaime deduces that it was Joffrey, since he was a child hungry for a pat on the head from the homo whom he believed to be his father - that somehow in Joffrey's warped railroad train of thought, he concluded that Robert would capeesh his decisiveness for euthanizing Bran without permission. It also may accept been a combination of all these motives.
Although in that location is no direct testify that definitively proves that Joffrey was the one who sent the assassin, it is very likely Tyrion and Jaime are correct about pinning the assassination endeavor on him. When Jaime finally engineers Tyrion'south escape from the dungeons, during their conversation through the underground tunnels of the Red Keep, Tyrion becomes bellyaching and asks Jaime if he knew that his son tried to kill Bran Stark. Jaime grudgingly admits that he had idea he might have.
This proved to exist some other example of how Baelish thrives on chaos, thinking apace to turn events to his do good. He had already set in motility his plan to play tricks the Starks and Lannisters into fighting each other, by disarming Lysa Arryn to poison her own husband and besides write a secret letter to Catelyn, claiming that the Lannisters did information technology. When Catelyn inquired near the knife, Littlefinger knew that he'd lost it to Robert, and must accept realized someone in the royal entourage had taken it, merely apace decided to blame Tyrion as the culprit. He possibly chose Tyrion to blame because Cersei and Jaime were already back in the capital city, surrounded past their own guards, while Tyrion was nevertheless traveling in the Northward and would be more vulnerable to Stark reprisal.
Littlefinger's lie nigh the dagger was inappreciably one of his more subtle schemes: had Catelyn and Ned non accepted his words every bit true and made some inquiries, by asking Jaime (as Catelyn somewhen did, though also late) or anyone else who attended the tourney most the dagger, they would have realized Littlefinger lied to them, though might non have figured who sent the assassin. Revealing the truth in time might accept not prevented the war, but it could have spared many innocent lives which were subsequently lost due to Catelyn's naivety and rashness, and Ned'due south stubborn refusal to settle the matter peacefully, among them: Masha Heddle, Jory Cassel, Wyl, Heward, six of the people who escorted Catelyn to the Eyrie, and the people of the Riverlands who were raided at Tywin's command.
It is unknown why the TV series never reveals that it was Joffrey who sent the assassinator; Joffrey receives the Valyrian steel sword Widow's Wail as a nuptials gift in Season 4, every bit he did in the books, but no mention is fabricated of the bump-off attempt on Bran back in Season ane. Information technology is possible that the reason is the same for not revealing the truth about Tysha in the Season 4 finale: the producers grew afraid that casual viewers wouldn't recall that this happened in early on Flavor 1 - even though this was 1 of the escalating events which sparked the entire Stark-Lannister disharmonize. Alternatively, the producers may have deviated from the books and changed the catspaw in the show, particularly with the revelation in the season 7 finale which suspected that Littlefinger was behind the try.
Come across also
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Catspaw on A Wiki of Ice and Fire
References
- ↑ 1.0 i.1 "The Kingsroad"
- ↑ "Lord Snow"
- ↑ "Cripples, Bastards, and Cleaved Things"
- ↑ "The Wolf and the King of beasts"
- ↑ "A Golden Crown"
- ↑ "The Spoils of War"
- ↑ "The Dragon and the Wolf"
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