Bronn

Season One

A sellsword with no house and no scruples worth mentioning, hired by Tyrion Lannister as a bodyguard on the road and immediately worth every coin of it. When Catelyn Stark hauls Tyrion before Lysa Arryn's court at the Eyrie and demands trial by combat, Bronn steps up as his champion against one of Lysa's household knights and wins by the simple expedient of not fighting fair, buying Tyrion's freedom and Bronn himself a permanent place in his service.

Season Two

Commands the wildfire ambush that breaks Stannis's fleet in the bay during the siege of King's Landing, a piece of tactical nastiness that turns the battle before it's properly begun. For services rendered he's knighted afterward, Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, a title he wears with visible amusement at how far a good sellsword can rise.

Season Three

Still Tyrion's man in a court that trusts neither of them, drinking, sparring with Podrick, and generally getting more use out of King's Landing's underworld than the Lannisters get out of their name. When Tyrion, on trial for a murder he didn't commit, asks him to fight as his champion again, Bronn — offered a match to a wealthy heiress by Cersei instead — chooses the marriage and the money over the sword, with no pretense of guilt about it.

Season Four

The marriage to Lollys keeps him comfortably out of the one fight Tyrion actually needs him for. He visits the cell before the trial to explain himself man to man, no pretense of guilt in it — a sellsword takes the safer money, that's the whole trade, and Tyrion is furious in a way that doesn't quite manage to be surprise. There is no version of that conversation that ends with Bronn on the sand risking his neck for a friendship, however real, that never once came with a salary attached.

Season Five

Reassigned to Jaime Lannister for a quiet mission to Dorne to retrieve Myrcella, which turns considerably less quiet once the Sand Snakes of House Martell get involved — Bronn fights one of them to a standstill and comes away with a poisoned scratch that spends several uncomfortable days deciding whether to kill him.

Season Six

Rides with Jaime to the siege of Riverrun, trading insults with the Blackfish's men from outside the walls while Jaime tries diplomacy first and threats second, comfortable as ever playing the practical half of whatever partnership he's currently in. When word arrives that the Freys have taken the castle by treachery instead, Bronn's just as happy to collect his soldier's pay for a siege nobody in Lannister colors actually had to fight.

Season Seven

Fights for the Lannister column at the Loot Train Battle, nearly burned alive when Daenerys's dragon comes in low over the wagons, and manages — barely — to wrestle one of Qyburn's giant crossbows into position and put a bolt into Drogon before the beast wheels off. It is the closest anyone has come all war to hurting a dragon.

Season Eight

Sent by Cersei with orders to kill Tyrion and Jaime both, a job he never quite gets around to finishing, and after the war is won and the throne changes hands for good, he trades his sword for a seat at the table — walking into the new king's court to claim the lordship and the council post he decided, sensibly, he was always owed.

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Tyrion V In a sky cell open to the wind, Tyrion confesses to everything except the crime — and buys himself a trial by combat; Bronn steps forward. Catelyn VII The Eyrie's champion Ser Vardis Egen fights Bronn for the gods' verdict — and follows his shield through the Moon Door. Tyrion VI Tyrion and Bronn walk out of the Vale alive; around a clan fire, Tyrion buys the mountain tribes with the promise of the Vale itself.

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