A Storm of Swords ÔÇö Jaime VIII
In the white tower Jaime reads his own thin page in the White Book ÔÇö then arms Brienne with Oathkeeper and a quest: find Sansa Stark, keep her safe.
The chapter retold
In the White Sword Tower, Jaime Lannister reads his own entry in the Kingsguard's official history ÔÇö the White Book, where every knight's deeds are recorded for posterity ÔÇö and finds his own page thin, undistinguished, dominated by a single damning line about regicide with none of the context he gave Brienne in the bathhouse at Harrenhal. Seeing his life reduced to that record stings in a way physical maiming never quite managed to.
Rather than dwell on it, Jaime acts: he arms Brienne with Oathkeeper, one of two Valyrian steel swords reforged from Ned Stark's Ice, and sends her out from King's Landing on a quest with real moral weight behind it ÔÇö find Sansa Stark, wherever Littlefinger has taken her, and keep her safe, whatever that costs. It is Jaime's first fully self-directed act of the kind of honor his white cloak was always supposed to represent, undertaken not for reputation but because he has decided, privately, that it matters.
This movement: The Purple Wedding and the Trial
- Joffrey chokes at his own wedding feast, purple as his namesake; Sansa vanishes with a fool and a hairnet lighter by one stone.
- Tyrion stands trial for kingslaying; Shae's testimony cuts deepest; he demands trial by combat.
- Oberyn Martell fights the Mountain for a confession ÔÇö and wins everything but the ending.
- Petyr Baelish sails Sansa to the Vale as his "daughter Alayne"; Lysa marries him inside a week.