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Edmure Tully

Lord and hostage

Contains spoilers through A Dance with Dragons. Television events and unfinished preview chapters are outside this collection.

The character in context

The only surviving son of Lord Hoster Tully and heir to Riverrun, Edmure defended the Riverlands during the War of the Five Kings, where he was captured by Jaime Lannister before being rescued in the Battle of the Camps. He repelled Tywin Lannister at the Red Fork in the Battle of the Stone Mill, unwittingly spoiling Robb Stark's strategy to trap the Lannister army in the west. To mend the broken alliance with House Frey, he wed Roslin Frey at the Twins and was taken hostage during the Red Wedding. Subjected to daily gallows threats during the subsequent siege of Riverrun, Edmure surrendered the castle to Jaime while facilitating the escape of Brynden the Blackfish, before being sent captive toward Casterly Rock.

A reading path

These are editorial starting points, not a complete appearance list or a claim that the character narrates every chapter.

  1. 1. A disagreement over strategy

    A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II

  2. 2. Wedding and captivity

    A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII

  3. 3. Yielding Riverrun

    A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII

Sources and chapter references

Our original summaries use named novel chapters and the A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index. The links lead to that secondary index, not the full novel text. Coverage is selective, not exhaustive line-by-line verification.

  1. 1. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  2. 2. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 56, Tyrion VII — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  3. 3. A Game of Thrones, Chapter 69, Tyrion IX — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  4. 4. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 45, Catelyn VI — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  5. 5. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  6. 6. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  7. 7. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 51, Catelyn VII — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  8. 8. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 53, Tyrion VI — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  9. 9. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  10. 10. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  11. 11. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 44, Jaime VII — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  12. 12. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 48, Jaime I — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
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