Bronn
A sellsword of quick wit and quicker blade, loyal for exactly as long as the coin holds out ÔÇö and surprisingly good company besides.
A soul born at The Riverlands, sworn to Sellswords & Free Companies.
The fuller tale
Season One
Tyrion demands trial by combat; the sellsword Bronn fights for him and Ser Vardis falls through the Moon Door.
Where they stand. The Eyrie and King's Landing.
Season Two
Tyrion removes Janos Slynt from the gold cloaks and gives them to Bronn. Stannis's fleet sails; Tyrion and Bronn count wildfire jars and chain links.
Season Four
Jaime can't fight, Bronn won't die for free ÔÇö and Oberyn Martell volunteers, for reasons carved in Elia's name.
Season Five
Jaime and Bronn wade ashore in Dorne; the Sand Snakes vote for war with a burial.
Where they stand. Sunspear and King's Landing.
Season Seven
In The Spoils of War ÔÇö Fires the scorpion, hits the dragon, saves the Kingslayer, keeps nothing.
Where they stand. King's Landing.
Season Eight
In The Last of the Starks ÔÇö Negotiates Highgarden at crossbow-point, mid-war, on account.
Where they stand. Winterfell and King's Landing.
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
A Game of Thrones 3 chapters that name them
Tyrion V
In a sky cell open to the wind, Tyrion confesses to everything except the crime ÔÇö 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 ÔÇö 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.A Clash of Kings 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The books send Bronn up a different ladder. After declining Tyrion's second trial he marries Lollys Stokeworth ÔÇö the dim, ruined daughter of a minor crownlands house ÔÇö and sets about acquiring the seat itself with unnerving efficiency: the sister ahead of his wife in the succession is soon widowed, castellans die conveniently, and by the fifth book he is Lord Stokeworth in all but patience, having named his newborn stepson Tyrion in a gesture Cersei reads, correctly, as a taunt aimed at the crown. Her attempt to have him quietly removed fails when the knight sent to do it dies of Bronn instead. The show's Dorne trip, loot train heroics, crossbow contract and Highgarden are all its own inventions ÔÇö book Bronn has never met Jaime ÔÇö but both tellings agree on trajectory: the sellsword is climbing, and no one has yet found the price of stopping him. In the published books he is alive and thriving.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.