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Renly Baratheon

Charisma and succession

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

The character in context

Renly, younger brother to Robert and Stannis, holds Storm’s End and pursues the crown through personal appeal and a Tyrell alliance. He marries Margaery, while Loras remains his intimate companion. During Catelyn’s mediation he trusts military strength over succession order, but a shadow kills him before battle. Garlan later wears his armor at the Blackwater, allowing the living to turn his remembered image into a weapon.

A reading path

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

  1. 1. The following Catelyn encounters

    A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II

  2. 2. A shadow before battle

    A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV

  3. 3. Another man inside the armor

    A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII

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 Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  2. 2. A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
  3. 3. A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII — A Wiki of Ice and Fire reference index
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