Edmure Tully (Lord Tywin's Gift)

## Edmure Tully

Ser **Edmure Tully** is a knight from House Tully of Riverrun. He is the heir of Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident, and Lady Minisa Whent, the younger brother of Catelyn Stark and Lysa Arryn, and the older brother of Ser Patrek Tully. At the beginning of War of the Four Kings Edmure was betrothed to Lady Sharra Arryn.

## Character and Appearance

Edmure has auburn hair and deep blue eyes, like most Tullys, and grows a fiery red beard. Of stocky build, Edmure is a head taller than his sister, Catelyn, but not as tall as Lord Tytos Blackwood.

Edmure is fond of smiling and pretty girls, but is sulky and sullen when angered. According to Catelyn, Edmure dislikes singers because one once slept with a girl fancied by Edmure. According to Tom of Sevenstreams, Edmure once drank too much and was unable to "perform", so Tom made a mocking song about a floppy fish. Edmure is friends with Lymond Goodbrook, Patrek Mallister, Tyrion Lannister, Marq Piper, and the young Vances.

Edmure wears bright mail for battle and owns flowing blue-and-red and mud-and-water cloaks. A silver trout is painted on his shield and adorns the crest of his greathelm, and he wields a sword. Edmure owns tunics embroidered with silver fish or striped in red and blue, as well as a quilted doublet of red wool with an embroidered leaping trout.

## History

Edmure Tully was born in early 273 AC as the third child and firstborn son of Lord Hoster Tully and Lady Minisa Whent. Late the following year Edmure's mother died giving birth to another son who survived, called Patrek.

As a youth, Edmure was known as hot headed but good hearted. He had a number of friends who had similar characteristics, most notably Marq Piper. Edmure once broke his arm after falling from an elm in Riverrun's godswood. When Lords Tytos Blackwood and Jonos Bracken visited Hoster to discuss their feud, young Edmure, his sisters, and Petyr Baelish drank wine when the adults were preoccupied. Edmure dubbed Petyr as "Littlefinger", on account of House Baelish's holdings on the Fingers and Petyr's short stature.

Hoster refused an offer by Lord Walder Frey to wed Edmure to one of his daughters. Princess Arianne Martell wanted to accept Hoster's offer for her to meet Edmure at Riverrun, but Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, declined because of a secret marriage pact.

During the War of the Usurpers Edmure was betrothed by his uncle Ser Brynden Tully to Morya Frey, the third daughter of Lord Walter Frey. This betrothal was part of an agreement to secure both passage through the Twins and the support of House Frey against House Targaryen. At the wars end the enraged Lord Hoster Tully refused to uphold his end of the bargain, claiming he hadn't given permission for his brother to make such a deal. The move fractured what little trust there was between the two houses.

After the rebel's failure in the War of the Usurpers, a group his father was part of, the second son of Lord Tywin Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, came to Riverrun as squire to Edmure's uncle, Ser Brynden Tully. Despite the initial icy relationship of the pair, Edmure and Tyrion would become close friends.