House Tully

Um, but coming off Jaime 5 with the substantial river run imagery and memory, this chapter too feels to be trading on that.

The way Arya describes the morning as pink and blue, squint and you see the red and blue of House Tully, and the smell of water in the morning, you can imagine that a young Catelyn Tully experienced something similar in her ancestral home.

But the flip in social context for the sisters is notable too.

Back at Winterfell and even in King's Landing, Sansa was immersed in other girls and women, from Jeyne Poole to Myrcella to the whole Tyrell flock.

Snow fell gently outside the Lord's solar as Eddard Stark sat across from his eldest son, Robb.

The young man, barely past his seventeenth name day, looked so much like his mother with those tully features, but he had the Stark determination in his eyes.

Robert wants me to go south, to be his hand.

That's a great honor, Father.

one man to murder the guards a second to pick the locks of his cell and a third to mimic the voice of lord edmure jamie nearly laughs it is just the sort of mad plan his brother would cook up he is tempted to kiss tyrian the next time he sees him but his amusement is cut short by the twang of crossbows Bolts flash from the trees, and the men at the back of the column scream before going down.

Glancing back, he sees a group of mounted men rushing after him, bearing the sigil of House Tully.

Rather than retreat, Jamie laughs.

It's about time he repays Lord Edmure for his hospitality.

Jaime could see archers moving behind the merlins on the castle ramparts.

Above them streamed the banners of House Tully, the silver trout defiant on its striped field of red and blue.

But the highest tower flew a different flag.

a long white standard, emblazoned with the direwolf of Stark.

That's very revealing.

It's a great joke on honor and on oaths.

And as Jamie is wrestling now specifically with the oath he swore to Catelyn not to take up arms against House Tully again.

Is that important for sticking to the letter of it? Is it okay if he gets away with it technically? Or is there a deeper connection to his enemies that is keeping that oath resonating with him? And it also ties into Jamie's story in terms of Tywin.

When the war started going badly for the North, when his son and heir Sir Steveron died on campaign and Rob broke his promise to marry a Frey, everything changed.

Rob offered the Freys a marriage to House Tully instead.

While prestigious, he had aimed for a royal status, not a marriage to his feudal overlords.

This is seemingly when Lord Walder pivoted plans, and the result was the Red Wedding.