Jaime was a promising young knight, dubbed by Ser Arthur Dayne. Tywin offered Tyrion to Houses Martell, Hightower, Royce, Florent and Tully, but he was rejected by all. Tyrion, when thirteen years old, was out with Jaime when he met and married a girl named Tysha, a match which was quickly and savagely ended by their father. Cersei possibly murdered her friend Melara Hetherspoon, who had witnessed the prophecy.
His second brother, Tygett, died of a pox.Ĭersei, while a young maid, visited a woods witch called Maggy the Frog, who shared portents of Cersei's future that planted seeds of her paranoia. His brother, Kevan, became his right hand and their sister, Genna, took a maternal role over the children. Tywin was never a jovial man, but when Joanna died birthing their third child, Tyrion, he was much saddened. His twin children, Cersei and Jaime, began an incestuous relationship at an early age. This instigated Aerys's paranoia and drove a wedge between the two, along with the king's lusting after Joanna Lannister, Tywin's wife, cousin, and trusted confidante.ĭespite Tywin's attempts to ensure a strong legacy, life at Casterly Rock was dysfunctional at best. When Aerys was held hostage by Denys Darklyn, Tywin's conservative approach took six months to resolve the conflict. Soon thereafter, Tywin was made Hand of the King by Aerys II Targaryen, holding that position for many years. Eventually his son Tywin crushed the Reyne-Tarbeck revolt and restored the house to its former glory. Tytos's weakness allowed him to be bullied by his vassals, House Reyne and Tarbeck. In more recent times, during the lordship of Tytos Lannister, the house fell on hard times. Her nephew, the King of the Rock, began a war which left the Iron Islands impoverished.
Hagon Hoare, King of the Iron Islands, allowed his mother, the dowager queen Lelia Lannister, to be mutilated by the Shrike. The Lannisters have been looking for a replacement ever since, though they have not stopped looking for their own lost ancestral sword. House Lannister possessed an ancestral Valyrian steel greatsword called Brightroar, but it was lost when King Tommen II Lannister went on a quest to Valyria and never returned. From that lofty yet uncomfortable position, House Lannister rules over The Westerlands and influences all of Westeros, by virtue of the kingdom's purse strings. The keep at Casterly Rock sits on top of a gold mine, built into the very rock. The gold of Casterly Rock, Castamere, the Pendric Hills and The Golden Tooth has made them the wealthiest of the Great Houses. The first known King of the Rock was Loreon I Lannister, although Lann the Clever has posthumously been called by the same title. Meanwhile, the Lannisters of Casterly Rock grew to become Kings of the Rock. Members of lesser branches of the family left Casterly Rock and developed a nearby village into the city of Lannisport. They claim descent from Lann the Clever, the legendary figure who tricked the Casterlys from their seat, Casterly Rock. The Lannisters suddenly appear as First Men in historical records of The Age of Heroes, ruling large portions of The Westerlands from Casterly Rock just as the Casterlys vanished from the chronicles.