game of thrones character list season 2 episode guide

A sword named Oathkeeper could only belong in her hand, after all. She offered to return the sword Jaime gave her when he first sent her to find and protect Sansa. Sent there to bring back Brynden Tully and his forces for the Battle of Winterfell, she informed Jaime that if her secret negotiations inside the besieged keep failed, she would be bound to fight him. HBOĪt Riverrun in season 6, we understood her absolutism in meeting her commitments. Pledged to Lady Catelyn Stark, she undertook both the mission to smuggle Jaime back to King’s Landing and then to find and secure the safety of Catelyn’s daughters, Arya and Sansa. She was named to Renly Baratheon’s Kingsguard she avenged him by finishing off Stannis Baratheon after his defeat at Winterfell. Nonetheless, she worked in all the departments of knighthood over the years. She, after all, redeemed Jaime in the eyes of the viewer - even made him likable, a thought that would seem flat-out impossible to anyone just now seeing their first meeting in season 2.īrienne could not ordinarily be made a knight because, of course, of “tradition.” Tradition being her gender, from which her size and battle prowess had also estranged her. The device the writers called on, to make Jaime the one who knights her, is perfectly apropos. Save for Jon Snow, Brienne is the one rampart of honor among a cast of heroes and antiheroes with more compromised moral structures. The moment is pure fan service, as well it should be. Who’s holding Game of Thrones’ most powerful weapons before the big battle

Game of thrones character list season 2 episode guide