Larys Strong
The Clubfoot: master of whisperers in all but title, collector of other people's secrets and debts. Things Larys wants tend to burn their way to him.
A soul born at Harrenhal, sworn to The Greens ÔÇö the King's Party, House Strong.
The fuller tale
Season One
In The Princess and the Queen ÔÇö Burns his own house to buy a queen's debt. Larys Strong arranges a fire at Harrenhal: his father the Hand and his brother Harwin burn, and no one owes him anything he can't collect.
Where they stand. King's Landing.
Season Two
In Smallfolk ÔÇö Begins quietly packing the king he may need later. Larys Strong smuggles the broken Aegon out of King's Landing before Rhaenyra's dragons can find him.
How it ends for them
On the page. Beheaded in the Hour of the Wolf (F&B, ch. 8)
The Clubfoot outlived every master he served and every fire he set, until the Hour of the Wolf. Cregan Stark offered the Wall; Larys chose the block with a shrug, and House Strong's strange line ended where its castle's curse said it would.
The series has not yet reached the postwar reckoning where Larys's story ends; his fate remains ahead of the current seasons.
Fire & Blood has him outlive nearly every master he ever served and every fire he is suspected of setting, only to be caught out at last in the purge later chroniclers call the Hour of the Wolf ÔÇö a reckoning conducted by Cregan Stark as the new regency asserts control. Offered the comparatively merciful sentence of exile to the Night's Watch, Larys instead accepts the block with what the book describes as an indifferent shrug, and House Strong's strange, quietly murderous line ends at Harrenhal roughly where its old curse always promised it eventually would.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The show, in its aired seasons, has made Larys's manipulations considerably more explicit and visible to the audience than Fire & Blood's chronicle allows ÔÇö viewers witness his scheming directly, while the book's sources can only infer his hand in events after the fact, from the pattern of who benefits. This is one of the more significant divergences in how much certainty either version grants the audience about a deliberately opaque character.
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.