Edmure Tully
Hoster's son and heir, brave and warm-hearted and forever a little out of his depth, beloved by the smallfolk of the Riverlands he means to protect.
A soul of House Tully, born at Riverrun.
The fuller tale
Season One
Heir to Riverrun and eager to prove it, first by ambushing Jaime Lannister's forces at the Golden Tooth and winning a skirmish that flatters his instincts more than it tests his judgment. Riverrun braces for the wider war while his father Hoster lies dying upstairs, and Edmure holds the seat in practice before he holds it in name, restless to be tested in the field and not yet sure what the test will actually cost him.
Season Three
Buries his father on the river the old Tully way, and cannot even manage the arrow — three shots into the water before the flaming bolt finally reaches the boat, and it is Brynden, not Edmure, who ends the embarrassment with one clean shot of his own. Then he is married off to Roslin Frey in payment for Robb's broken promise, a match he has no say in and no particular objection to, right up until the doors of the Twins are barred behind him and his own wedding turns into the massacre that ends his family's war.
Season Six
Held prisoner since the Red Wedding and finally worth something to his captors again: brought to the walls of Riverrun in a Bolton-Frey column, the price of the castle's surrender written on his face for his uncle to read. Jaime Lannister lets him choose the shape of his own ruin, and Edmure, worn down past defiance, walks in and orders the gates opened himself, handing Riverrun to the Freys without a siege and undoing everything Brynden spent the season holding.
Season Eight
Turns up at Winterfell in time for the war council before the dead arrive, still finding his footing among lords who have spent years fighting battles he only heard about as a prisoner, and volunteers Riverrun's strength before anyone has quite finished asking. It is a smaller part than the war deserves of him, and he plays it gamely.
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul — 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 Clash of Kings 1 chapter that name them
A Storm of Swords 2 chapters that name them
A Feast for Crows 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The books are somewhat kinder to his generalship and considerably harder on his ending. Book-Edmure’s battle of the fords is a genuine feat of arms — Tywin’s host thrown back at every crossing — undone only by the trap nobody told him about; several readers have noted that if Robb had shared his plans with his own castellan, the war might have gone otherwise. After yielding Riverrun in the books, Edmure is not freed but transferred: he is last seen being carted off toward Casterly Rock, a permanent guest of the Lannisters, with Jeyne Westerling traveling under the same guard. No Dragonpit speech awaits him in the published books — just the long road west, and a Frey wife and son still at the Twins.
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.