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asoiaf meme: (2/9) great houses of westeros.

They may be the most pompous, ponderous cunts the gods ever suffered to walk the world, but they do have outrageous amounts of money.

make me choose: house baratheon or house lannister | asked by

A Lannister always pays his debts.

What we don’t know is what gets us killed.

asoiaf meme: [6/6] houses || House Lannister The Lannisters claim descent from the Andal invaders and, through the female bloodline, to Lann the Clever. According to legend, Lann, using only his wits, swindled Casterly Rock from its previous owners, House Casterly, during the Age of Heroes. The Lannisters ruled as Kings of the Rock for thousands of years. Their time as Kings ended with the arrival of Aegon the Conqueror. The last King of the Rock, Loren Lannister, joined forces with Mern Gardener, King of the Reach, and, commanding sixty thousand men, met the Targaryen army in open battle. According to history, Aegon unleashed his three dragons, slaughtering four thousand men, in a battle that came to be known as the Field of Fire. King Mern perished and, with him, House Gardener became extinct. Seeing both opportunity and threat in the Targaryens, Loren surrendered and aided Aegon in his further conquest of Westeros. The Lannisters were thus appointed Lords Paramount of the Westerlands, and Wardens of the West. It is neither luck nor royal favor that makes House Lannister so prosperous. There have been times when they have been considered weak, lazy or opulent. Tywin’s own father, Tytos Lannister, nearly bankrupted the House with his poor investments and allowed himself to be openly mocked at court. However, when their vassals, the Reynes of Castamere, rose in rebellion, they learned the price of defiance. Tywin personally led the assault on Castamere to put down the upstart vassals, and made an example of them to anyone who would doubt the Lannister might. Even a “quaint song” about the fate of the Reynes was made, but there are no Reyne’s left to hear it. The golden Lion of Lannister is rightly admired and feared throughout the Seven Kingdoms. The Lannister words are “Hear me Roar”; other words that should be remembered when crossing a “Lion” of Casterly Rock are “A Lannister always pays his debts”.

What do you think of how Tywin treats each of his children?

Tywin needs to calm his ass and sit down, take some parenting classes.

Cersei - Should have been hit..A LOT when she was younger. Like, every day a million times an hour…and I don’t condone abuse BUTT she needs it.

Jaime - Shouldn’t have been treated like wielding a sword was all he was good for. He should have been made to read some books and hone some other skills besides killing/maiming 

Tyrion - My precious cinnamon roll should have been loved from day FUCKING one! He’s so smart and caring, deep down he cares anyway, and he deserves just as much attention and recognition as the rest of his family gets.

All of them are the result of how poorly they were raised. I’d like to think Tywin would have been better had Joanna lived, but we need to remember that Joanna was a Lannister as well and for Tywin to have loved her as much as he did she had to be at least a little similar to him. If Joanna had lived, I do believe at least Jaime and Tyrion would have ended up slightly different (not so focused on just being a Knight and not so much of a drunk)).

His uncle Gerion liked to set him on the table during feasts and make him recite them. I liked that well enough, didn’t I? Standing there amongst the trenchers with every eye upon me, proving what a clever little imp I was. For years afterward, he had cherished a dream that one day he would travel the world and see Longstrider’s wonders for himself. Lord Tywin had put an end to that hope ten days before his dwarf son’s sixteenth nameday, when Tyrion asked to tour the Nine Free Cities, as his uncles had done at that same age. “My brothers could be relied upon to bring no shame upon House Lannister,” his father had replied. “Neither ever wed a whore.” And when Tyrion had reminded him that in ten days he would be a man grown, free to travel where he wished, Lord Tywin had said,“ No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise. Go, by all means. Wear motley and stand upon your head to amuse the spice lords and the cheese kings. Just see that you pay your own way and put aside any thoughts of returning.”

I will not give my life for Joffrey’s murder, and I know I’ll get no justice here. So I will let the Gods decide my fate.

Where is your father? Is he alive?