Tyrion Lannister

Season One

Rides north with the king's party to see the Wall and piss off the edge of the world, and builds a crippled boy a saddle before anyone has given him a reason to be kind. Taken on the road by Catelyn Stark for a murder attempt he had nothing to do with, he talks his way out of a sky cell, wins a trial by combat by hiring somebody better than him, and is sent to King's Landing by his father to be acting Hand ÔÇö a post given to him as a punishment.

Season Two

His masterpiece, and nobody notices. He runs the city, removes Cersei's people from the small council one by one without ever raising his voice, ships Myrcella to Dorne to keep her alive, and saves King's Landing at the Blackwater with a chain across the river and a bay full of wildfire. He takes a sword across the face doing it, and wakes up in a small room, demoted, disfigured and written out of the song.

Season Three

Married to Sansa Stark on his father's order, which neither of them wants, and refuses to touch her ÔÇö which is the most decent thing anybody does to her all year and earns him nothing from anyone. He watches Tywin distribute titles like a man settling accounts and is handed the office of Master of Coin as a joke about his height.

Season Four

Joffrey dies at his own wedding with a cup in Tyrion's hand, and the trial his family has wanted for thirty-nine years finally has a courtroom. Every witness is true and every word is a lie. He demands trial by combat, watches Oberyn Martell win and then lose in the same second, and escapes through his brother's mercy and the tunnels ÔÇö by way of Shae in his father's bed and a crossbow on his father's privy.

Season Five

Crated to Pentos, drinking, and then dragged east by Jorah Mormont as a gift for a queen. Stone men in the Sorrows, a slaver's pen, a fighting pit ÔÇö and then Daenerys, who has every reason to kill a Lannister and instead listens to him for an hour and makes him her adviser.

Season Six

Left to rule Meereen while she is gone, and does it the way he does everything: by making a deal nobody likes. He buys seven years of peace from the masters, which half works and looks like betrayal to the freedmen, and then walks into a pyramid basement and unchains two dragons because somebody has to.

Season Seven

Hand of the Queen, and increasingly a man whose advice is either overruled or overtaken. He argues for a careful war and watches it lose; he arranges the meeting at the Dragonpit and gets a truce out of it that lasts about a minute; he goes under the Red Keep to reason with his sister and is lied to.

Season Eight

Sees everything clearly and always slightly too late. He frees Jaime and is arrested for it, finds his brother and sister in the rubble, and throws his badge of office down a flight of steps. Then from a cell he talks the lords of Westeros into choosing a king by asking them what unites people ÔÇö and is sentenced, with perfect irony, to spend the rest of his life doing the job he is best at and never wanted.

A Game of Thrones 9 chapters of their own, and 5 more that name them

Jon I At the feast Jon sits below the salt with a wine cup and meets Tyrion Lannister, who teaches him what bastards must make of themselves. Tyrion I Tyrion breakfasts heartily, slaps his royal nephew for mocking the Starks' grief, and decides he will see the Wall before returning south. Tyrion II Riding north to the Wall, Tyrion trades truths with Jon Snow and watches the boy's illusions about the Night's Watch die one by one. Catelyn IV Catelyn reaches King's Landing in secret and is fetched to Littlefinger, who names the dagger's owner: Tyrion Lannister ÔÇö a lie with a long tail. Tyrion III Tyrion says his farewells at the Wall, pisses off the edge of the world, and promises Maester Aemon he will send help that never comes. Bran IV Tyrion stops at Winterfell on his way south and gives Bran the gift of riding again ÔÇö a saddle design ÔÇö and gets frost from Robb for his kindness. Catelyn V At the crossroads inn Tyrion Lannister walks in on Catelyn Stark; she calls on her father's bannermen and takes him ÔÇö but not toward Winterfell. Tyrion IV On the high road to the Vale the mountain clans attack; Tyrion fights with a shield and his wits, and starts buying clansmen with promises. Catelyn VI Up the mountain road to the Eyrie, through the Bloody Gate ÔÇö where Lysa's welcome is madness, and Tyrion is given to the sky cells. 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. 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. Tyrion VII Tyrion reaches Tywin's camp with his clansmen at his back, argues strategy over supper, and finds a girl named Shae in the baggage train. Tyrion VIII Battle on the Green Fork: Tyrion's clansmen hold the van, he survives his own side's charge ÔÇö and learns the captive Stark boy was a feint. Tyrion IX Word of Ned Stark's death reaches Tywin's camp and ruins every plan; Tywin sends Tyrion to rule King's Landing as Hand ÔÇö without his whore.

A Clash of Kings 15 chapters of their own

A Storm of Swords 11 chapters of their own, and 1 more that name them

A Feast for Crows 1 chapter that name them

A Dance with Dragons 12 chapters of their own