Do you know the origin of the song "Casterme's Rainy Season" that sounded before the "Blood Wedding"?
This article will detail the origin of the ballad, as the protagonist of the story, here will not elaborate on the story of Tywin Lannister in the main play. I will divide into two parts to introduce Tywin's wonderful life before the series appears, and finally analyze the character's motivation for behavior with personality colors!
There will be a lot of names, so as not to look at the chaos, first sort out the character relationship diagram, the story is very long, if you don't have time, don't rush to see, have time to be patient and then savor, this is a very wonderful story:
In 210AC, duke Damon, the guardian of the western realm, died of illness and was succeeded by his eldest son, Tabot, but In his prime, Tabot died mysteriously, leaving a young daughter who died a year later! Therefore, the Duke of Kaiyan City fell into the hands of his younger brother Gero, who quickly grew into a shrewd and capable lord after succeeding to the throne, sweeping away the decline of the lion family for many years, making the western realm rich and rich, known as the "Golden Lion".
The mysterious deaths of his brother and niece also led to rumors that he had murdered his niece, and even though he had achieved great political success in his lifetime, he had not been loved by all the people of the Western Regions.
Castmeier's Reyes family had always been the strongest vassal in the West, and during the Blackfire Rebellion, Robb Reyes, Earl of Castmey, out of admiration for Damon Blackfire, ignored the Western Guardian's allegiance to the Targaryen kingship and resolutely joined the Blackfire side.
When the Black Fire side swung its troops to the West, it defeated the main army of the West at Lannis Harbor, beating Duke Damon Lannister to the head, until the end of the Battle of the Red Prairie, the Lord of the West never walked out of Kaiyan City for half a step, and was named "Grey Lion" by the world. The rupture between the Reyes and Lannister families was already foreshadowed by then.
The greatest joy of Geralt's life was the marriage of the long-admired Rohanie Weber, who was the red widow who had died multiple husbands in "Knights of the Seven Kingdoms" and had a crush on Duncan Knight. After marriage, the Red Widow gave birth to four sons for the Lion family, 230AC, the Red Widow mysteriously disappeared after giving birth to the youngest son Jason, Gero was depressed for several years, and did not continue the string in his life.
233AC, the city of Star Shuttle continued to rebel, King Meka Targaryen personally led the army to suppress, the rebels closed the door, throwing crossbow arrows and stones under the city, one of the flying stones hit Mecca's head, the king was killed on the spot. An hour later, the city gates were broken, and Jello's eldest son, Tyrod, took the lead in the charge, was stabbed by a spear, and died in the arms of his twin brother Tien, before dying as a knight. Robert Reyes, earl of Castrme at the time, also died in this rebellion, and Roger Reyes, the "Red Lion", succeeded Cameer.
Before his death, Tylord was married to Miss Ellen Reyes, the daughter of Robert Reyes. Elle is bent on being the mistress of Kaiyan City, and she is not willing to let her fate be changed by an accident, so she chooses to seduce Theon, the new heir of Kaiyan City and the brother of her fiancé. Tien originally had a marriage contract with the daughter of the Lord of Golden Tree City, but he was attracted to Elaine's charm and insisted on marrying Elaine under the pretext that his brother was entrusted with the care of his fiancée on the pretext that his brother was dying.
The elderly Gero has no energy to control his son due to the loss of his son, and at 235AC, Tien marries Elaine, while the humble Tyrants marries Jenny Malbran, the daughter of the Lord of Mark City. Since Gero never remarried, the position of the hostess of Kaiyan City was controlled by Elaine. Gero retired to the second line after his son got married.
Ellen used the wealth accumulated by the lion family to hold grand balls, hired a large number of singers and poets and artists, let the two brothers hold important positions in Kaiyan City, and other relatives also received rich wealth and territory, and flogged Gero's old riggers despite the convention that the rigoletists could joke with the superiors.
236AC, the descendants of Blackfire make a comeback from Essos and land on the Blackwater River to seize the throne, Iago and Duncan lead the rebellion, the vanguard Duncan breaks the Golden Regiment and kills Damon III, and the Iron Throne is few dead and wounded, but among them is Tim Lannister.
In just three years, the twin sons were killed one after another, gero should have been on the verge of collapse, but he did not expect to lose the positive burden, and the golden lion revived, rectified the situation in the western realm, and swept away all obstacles, which meant paving the way for the weak and incompetent third son, Taituos.
The biggest blow was Elaine, who lost her possession of her by Tyne's death, and she was very unwilling to be tricked by fate, lying that she was pregnant, but after three months, her stomach was flat. After the lie was exposed, the reyes family was expelled from Kaiyan City, and Elaine was allowed to stay as a widow. Elaine intends to repeat the trick to seduce Tyrants, and almost succeeded, Eileen and Jenny's fight is also very exciting, here is not much to say, in the end Tyrants still expressed love and loyalty to Jenny.
From left, Ellen and Jenny
Jenny forgave her husband, but was not so tolerant of Elaine, and she filed a complaint against the Duke of Gero. The Golden Lion married Eileen to Valderen, Earl of Tabeck, who was fifty-five years old, old, fat and bald. Without saying a word, Ellen chose to leave, and later gave birth to two daughters in succession in Tabbeck Hall, named Rohanie (the name of Gero's wife) and Celella (the name of Geralt's niece), and then gave birth to a son, named Tien (the name of her ex-husband. ）
Not to be outdone, 242AC gave birth to Tywin, and 244AC gave birth to Kevin, one after the other. However, the Golden Lion Geralt had only seen one grandson of Tywin, and in the first half of 244AC, Gero died of poor excretion, and Tatus succeeded to the title of Guardian of the Western Realm and Duke of Kaiyan City.
It turned out that Tatus did not deserve any title, and under his rule the West was in the most chaotic situation in thousands of years. Taytus is a man of hearts, fat, kind to people, indecisive, weak-willed, mocking as a joke, betrayal as a misunderstanding, claiming that "words are like the wind", hence the name: "laughing lion".
His weakness was seen by many as an opportunity to ingest power, wealth, and territory, and some deliberately borrowed money from Kaiyan City and did not pay it back, and Tatus was willing to extend the period, or even write it off. So many merchant lords came to borrow money. Over time, the majesty of the Duke of Kaiyan City vanished, and the instructions of Taituos were ignored by the people, and as long as there was a conflict of interest, the vassals refused to carry them out. The local lords cut corners on the taxes and works of Kaiyan City, the breeding of corruption, the sale of knights, and so on, and Taituos never cared about these.
At banquets and balls, the guests wantonly teased Tatus, and in the face of ridicule, no one laughed more than Tatus himself, and Madame Jeanne took the case many times, but was lightly resolved by the Duke of Tatus. The Western Realm tended to collapse under the rule of Tatus, and at the junction with the Riverbend Lands, the three propertied knights and minor lords fell allegiance to the Tyrell family. The people of the West settled the conflict by fighting instead of asking the Duke to arbitrate the dispute.
The weakness of Kaiyan City caused the pirates of the Stone Steps Islands to come thousands of miles to loot the merchant ships of Lannis Harbor, the Iron People of the Iron Islands also burned and plundered on the western coast, and the Earl of Farman of fairy island privately built a fleet to resist the Iron People, but Taytus did not want to offend the Iron Islands, and only wrote to Pike City to seek a solution. The unrest in the western part of the country several times caused King Iago to intervene, but once the troops were withdrawn, the western region returned to chaos.
At 254AC, Tyrants chose a husband for his seven-year-old daughter Gina, and finally chose Wade Frey's second son, when Mrs. Jenny tearfully asked him why he had given the pearl in his hand to a second-rate upstart with no family background, and was a second son without inheritance rights, Taytus explained that the other party's attitude was very sincere! Jenny almost fainted. At this time, a teenager took the case and scolded Tytus as a stupid and incompetent. This is Tywin Lannister's first appearance in the Ice and Fire story.
Over the next few days, there was a constant argument between the two men in the study room of Kaiyan City, and some people even claimed that Tywin had moved his hand on Tyrone. Not long after, Tywin was sent to King's Landing as a waiter, and Kevin was sent to Castelme Roger Reyes as a waiter. During this time, Tywin became acquainted with Iris Targaryen and Stephen Baratheon, and the three formed a deep friendship.
Roger Reyes was recognized as the First General and Swordsman of the West at the time. Through her brother Roger, Elaine borrowed a large amount of gold from Kaiyan City, and used it to renovate the ancient city of Tabek and fortify the tower to no less than any castle in the West. From the original only twenty knights to five hundred, the number of small lords and proper knights in the surrounding area was forcibly captured. Those who had lost their territory ran to Kaiyan City to complain, and Taitus also resigned himself to it.
The news reached the king's ears, Iago ordered Tatus to solve it quickly, Tatus took the strength of the Reyes family, sent his father-in-law Sir Elan to ask for the guilt, before Elan arrived at Tabek, Eileen, who had learned the news in advance, sent troops to support the Raven brother, Roger raided Elan's camp, killed more than two hundred people, and wrapped up Elam himself. Kaiyan City was furious and demanded war, but Roger's brother suddenly appeared in Kaiyan City, claiming that it was a misunderstanding, and cleverly persuaded Taituosi, who forgave them because they were soft and everyone was dumbfounded...
The rule of the West is completely out of control, the lords are fighting for gold, the bandits are running rampant, the pirates are stirring up trouble, and the Reyes family is further expanded... After the birth of her youngest son, Gianley, Mrs. Jenny failed to recover from childbirth and died a month later, leaving the Laughing Lion without a smile for a long time.
At this point, Tyrones is about to go offline, and then the protagonist Tywin officially debuts. If you are indignant about the weakness of Tatuos, then you may not understand the character, I spend a lot of time to talk about Tatuos, because the green personality in this play and even in society is relatively small and has no sense of existence, they are too comfortable to be obscure, and the achievement of this kind of thing is not related to their eight poles. The core needs of green personality are: big things become small, small things become small things. How sensitive the red personality is to emotions, the green personality is sensitive to conflict, and they want harmonious interpersonal relationships. Then look back at what Tatus did, all of which correspond to the inner needs of the green personality.
260AC, the "Battle of the Nine Copper Plate King" broke out, which was supposed to be a duel between the royal families, because of the occurrence of the "Tragedy of the Midsummer Hall", which evolved into the cooperation of the lords of the Seven Kingdoms. Ballistan extinguished the descendants of the Black Fire, became the Iron Guard of the Royal Forest, the "Blackfish" Brynden Tully made a name for himself here, the alliance of the "War of the Usurpers" hatched here, and so on. Tywin, Iris, and Steven also participated in the war.
After the war, Tywin was personally knighted as Prince Iris, and Kevin was knighted by the Golden Lion. He was killed in the battle led by Mond Baratheon, and his son Stephen Baratheon returned to windstop to inherit the title of Duke. Jason Lannisterye, the younger brother of the commander of the Western Frontier Army, Also died in the battle, and after Jason's death, Roger led the Western Frontier Army to fight, and the prestige of the "Red Lion" reached its peak.
The sons fight on the front lines, Lao Tzu has fun in the backyard, And Taitus hooks up with the wet nurse of his youngest son, Gillian, and then marries Ming. This wet nurse looks like a hostess of Kaiyan City, and even wears Mrs. Jenny's jewelry to show off the market.
After the war ended, the then 19-year-old Tywin returned to Kaiyan City to revive the family business and rehabilitate the situation in the western region. First, he demanded that all the lord merchants repay the loans in full, and if they failed to repay, they needed to send a hostage as collateral. The lords and knights involved in the infighting were all summoned to Kaiyan City to let the lords decide right and wrong, and restore order in the western realm. He also asked his younger brother Kevin to form a team of five hundred people to suppress the robbers and robbers, and to assist in collecting the arrears.
Lords loyal to the Lannisters for thousands of years were relieved to see the lions revived and responded. At first, Tatus was still quite critical, and then he was immersed in the joy of fish. Walden , the Earl of Tabek ( Elllen 's husband ) who was accustomed to the soft persimmon pinch of Tyrence , was dismissive of Tywin 's behavior and ran to Kaiyan City to demand that Tyrone be relieved of all debts. However, even Tyrant was thrown into the dungeon by Tywin without seeing it.
So Elaine grabbed three Lannister hostages and demanded that they be released back to her husband (one of whom was Jason's son, Steven Lannister), Tywin prepared to cut Valdrum into three pieces and send him back, but Tyrants intervened rarely, releasing Vadford, and also waiving debts and apologizing to clear the misunderstanding.
Less than a year later, after Tywin had overpowered his father, he ordered the Tabek and Reyes families to bear the blame for their crimes in Keyam, and as expected, both families rebelled, confirming their allegiance to the feudal lord.
Tywin had long been prepared, with lightning speed all the way to the city of Tabek, the loyal lords of the western realm also responded to the confluence of Tywin, Tywin marched quickly, tabbeck city lord Vaderford did not have time to react, but also thought that Tywin was just a hairy child, led the few defenders in the castle out to meet the battle, the result was a defeat, Wadev and his two sons were captured alive.
Vadford, of course, thought he would be able to go back with a little ransom, but Tywin beheaded him and his two sons and put his head on a spear for the townspeople to see. In the city, Ellen is confident of relying on the renovated castle, and while giving orders to hold on, the raven brother "Golden Lion" supports.
Tywin set up the catapult in just one day, and while the raven was still flying in the air, Eileen and her son Tien were killed by the flying stone in the castle, and then the city gate was broken, and her two daughters were sent by Tywin to be silent sisters. Tabeck was then ordered to be burned and the fire burned for a day and a night.
Roger, the "Red Lion", received the news and hurriedly gathered two thousand soldiers and horses to rush over, and his sister and Tabeck City were dead and buried when the starry night was galloping. Faced with three times more troops than his own Roger's own military ability and self-confidence, he thought that he could deal with this little fart who was less than twenty years old, and as long as he defeated the Kaiyan City army, he could pull Tywin to the negotiating table, and Castmeier was spared from poison.
Roger led the army to attack the Lannister army that had not yet been deployed in advance, disrupted the formation of the Lion family army, the scene was chaotic for a while, the lion family's numerical superiority finally prevailed, when the time was ripe, Tywin personally led the reserve team to counterattack, Roger's army was more than half dead and wounded, the "Red Lion" led the knights to evacuate in a hurry, and the blood flowed continuously, and the knights barely managed to save Roger's life.
After defeating the invincible "Red Lion", Tywin did not slacken off and quickly marched into Castelme. Roger, the "Red Lion," bitterly ordered ravens to be sent to allies and vassals for help, but few responded.
Casteme is a castle that has stood for thousands of years, and the city of Kaiyan originated from the mine, rich in minerals and gold to make Reyes as rich as the Lannisters, in order to protect the wealth, the façade and bunker were built at the mouth of the mine, with oak and steel as gates, and the two sides were reinforced by towers, and the outside looked like an ordinary castle, but in fact the buildings were underground.
When everyone retreats into the tunnel, Roger writes to Tywin asking for reconciliation, telling Tywin that his food and water can last for three years, causing him to retire and sending his brother as a hostage in exchange for Reyes' re-allegiance. The lion's wide opening made Tywin dismissive, and then Tywin ordered that all the passage exits in Castmey be blocked, and the nearby stream was diverted into the mine, and for a day, the water flowed and drowned the mine, and none of the people inside came out. Castmeier has not been opened since then, and Tywin ordered the castle on the ground to be burned to the ground, reducing it to ruins and wordless tombstones, and castmei disappeared from the map...
The singer composed a ballad for Tywin's deeds, "Casterme's Rainy Season.". Tywin revived the family's position with an iron fist and embarked on the road of authoritarian rule. We all know that there is the Bolton family in the north, the Frey family in the river, the Tully family in the river bay, and the west under the rule of Tywin. But for any vassal who disagreed with Tywin's order, Tywin only needed to send a harpist to play a song, and no one dared to have a second opinion.
The story of Casteme's Rainy Season has been told.
How did Iris II come to be known as the Mad King? How did Tywin fall in love with Iris?
The next article continues to tell the story of Tywin, the ruler of the world, twenty years of former prime ministership.