Ser Lyonel Baratheon
The Laughing Storm: heir to Storm's End and one of the great fighters of the age, who bellows with mirth as he unhorses men. Fury and laughter, in House Baratheon, turn out to be the same thing.
A soul of House Baratheon, born at Storm's End.
The fuller tale
Season One
In The Lists ÔÇö The Laughing Storm, unhorsing men with a roar of mirth. In A Trial of Seven ÔÇö "Ours is the fury" ÔÇö laughing, he takes his place in Dunk's seven. In The Judgment of the Gods ÔÇö Fights through the seven with a storm's own laughter.
Where they stand. Storm's End and Ashford Meadow.
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
Where the page and the screen part
Daniel Ings plays Ser Lyonel Baratheon in the showÔÇÖs first season, and reviewers responded warmly to a performance that leans into the characterÔÇÖs central joke ÔÇö a warrior whose good humor never once reads as softness ÔÇö without losing the genuine physical menace the role requires. The Laughing StormÔÇÖs tourney bouts were among the seasonÔÇÖs more purely enjoyable set pieces, a bit of levity amid a story that turns steadily darker as the trial of seven approaches.
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.