Jaime Lannister

Jaime Lannister is the fifth child of Lord Vanderus Lannister and Lady Jayne Banefort. His oldest brother is Lord Tytus Lannister, the Lord of Casterly Rock. He rides a lion by the name of Tybolt.

## Appearance

Jaime wears his beard to hide his face from any who might have seen him in his life before this one. He shaved the side of his head nearly bald and ties his once shining golden locks. His armor is simple and faded through years of use.

## Timeline

* 338 AC: Jaime is born to Lady Jayne Banefort and Lord Vanderus Lannister as their third son and fifth child. He has the traditional features of a Lannister and is healthy. Being the baby of the family, he is the center of attention of his mother.
* 342 AC: With his brother's marriage and not long after, the birth of his first son, the adoration around Jaime begins to fade.
* 344 AC: At only six, Jaime loses his father to a case of the flu, his eldest brother becoming the Lord of Casterly Rock and Warden of the West. Jaime's upbringing is done largely out of mind and out of sight of his brother. He is loved by all his tutors and both septas who try to instill a deeply religious nature in the boy but to no avail. He is certain of one thing, no gods who take the father of such a young boy are good like the septas say. He follows tradition and attends services when he must, but his following of the Seven is tenuous at best.
* 345 AC: Hoping to earn some kind of credit in the mind of his brother, Jaime asks to start learning the bow in addition to the sword and he proves to have some talent with both. The young lad runs around the corridors of Casterly Rock with a bow on his back, a quiver of wooden but fletched arrows, and a wooden sword at his hip. He styles himself, Jaime of the Halls, screaming the name several times daily.
* 346 AC: Finding himself bored many a time, Jaime sneaks into the meeting chambers of his brother and begins to play his harp while hidden before getting kicked out for disturbing the meetings.
* 347 AC: Jaime asks for a harp for his birthday and receives a very well made high harp with golden strings. He learns to play it very quickly and soon Jaime of the Halls begins to project his music through the corridors of Casterly rock instead of just his name. He is told off by his brother for waking the newly born Tygett Lannister numerous times. With the birth of his brother's second son, nearly all of the love he experienced in his younger years goes over to Tygett as the baby of House Lannister.
* 351 AC: Still young, he continues to train with a bow, sword, and harp, earning some recognition for his skill with all three amongst many.
* 353 AC: With the Targaryen invasion in full swing, Jaime follows his brother's orders and joins the Lannister troops. They blockade Duskendale and while off his shifts at the front of the blockade, Jaime often plays and sings for the soldiers in the camp raising their morale and providing some entertainment for them. When reinforcements arrive, Jaime joins the King's charge into the city. As the Lannister troops go back home he finds himself consoling many of them as they fear for their souls for what they had done and seen. His performances continue to be important to many as they make their way back to Lannisport.
* 357 AC: As a coming of age present, Tytus allows Jaime to take a ship of the Lannisport navy and go on an Essosi tour. As the ship leaves the sight of Lannisport, Jaime tells the captain that he can drop Jaime off anywhere and the ship was his until the 1st of the 6th moon of 359 AC when he is supposed to return back to Casterly Rock. They are to meet then at Oldtown in the inn called the *Drunk Mut.*
* 357-359 AC: Jaime dons the name Osric and travels the Reach, the Stormlands, and the Crownlands often sleeping in the forest or in an inn. He often performs at inns and uses the coin he earns to pay for his meals and bed. He never leaves with any coin, always giving it all over to the inn keeper.
* 359 AC: As arranged before, he arrives at Oldtown and meets with the captain of the ship he had been given to go on his Essosi tour. He asks the captain for parchment and writes a letter to his brother saying that he will stay in Essos for the time being and not to be afraid. The captain delivers it and Jaime continues to travel around.
* 360 AC: While in the Stormlands, Jaime hears of the war between the Reach and the Westerlands and heads home. He arrives to see the Battle near Cornfield raging and in doing his duty he joins the Westerlander forces in their first victory. He is not overly impressive, but Westerlander troops know of his presence on the field. He thinks it a shame that he would be present near his brother and not greet him so he presents himself to his brother, Tytus Lannister. The man has fractured legs and broken ribs, but he is still pleased to see his younger brother, though surprised. Jaime is heartbroken to learn that Lucas, his nephew, and Reginald, his older brother, are dead. He says his goodbyes to the bodies of his kin, and while wiping tears from his eyes, disappears right after. He dons the name Osric and returns to the wild of Westeros.
* 364-367 AC: Realizing that he has spent so much time in other regions and almost none in that of his home, Jaime makes his way to the mountains of the Westerlands. He climbs mountain and hill alike, spending much time on their slopes and exploring caves. In one such mountain, he hears the faint roar of a lion and decides to see what is going on. He had heard of lions in the mountains in legends, but there were few spotted in the past century. He arrived to see three dead cubs and a dead mother covered in blood, with one cub crying out and moving. He decides to take the cub instead of killing it on the spot and feeds it some of the water he had with him first and then put the cub in his bag and ran down to the last settlement he saw. The goat herder was an old man, living with his son and daughter. He asked for milk, and sat down at their table and pulled out the lion cub out of his bag. The son started yelling at Jaime before being told to shut up by his own father who gave Jaime more milk to feed to the lion. In service to the man, he pulled out a piece of paper, quill, and ink from his bag and wrote a letter stating that Ser Jaime Lannister of Casterly Rock owes him one favor and that his brother could be responsible for the payment of the favor. Jaime keeps the lion with him and hunts for meat for the cub who grows to like Jaime quite a lot. He occasionally makes the lion cub a leash as he runs to an inn to buy himself a drink or some food that was not hunted for. He named the cub Tybolt after King Tybolt Lannister dubbed the Thunderbolt. On one occasion, he asked the inn keeper to allow him to enter with Tybolt, who he assured was well trained enough to enter. The inn keeper allowed Tybolt in and he sat next to Jaime who first began to perform and while people were not comfortable to approach right away, he still earned about half of what he normally would by people throwing the coins in the vicinity of the pair. Tybolt would pick up the coins and put them on Jaime's bag. This made people more comfortable and they began to approach him, one of the serving girls approached to pet him and Tybolt allowed her to be petted. As Tybolt grew it became harder to convince people to allow Tybolt in but soon enough there was very few inn keeps who would forbid the pair entrance.
* 370 AC: After years of living in the forests and inns of Westeros, Jaime decides to return home to Casterly Rock and is greeted by a raided Lannisport. It seems he picked an excellent time to return. With Tybold, a fully grown lion of impressive size at his side, Ser Jaime Lannister, the Wild Lion, returns to Casterly Rock.