After his wife died, Duke Titus married the daughter of a humble grocer as his mistress, and soon fell in love with her and often asked her for advice when dealing with affairs. She also pretends to be the hostess, bossing around Titus' knights, sending his servants at will, and even wearing his dead wife's jewelry. Duke Titus even married his daughter Gina to Armon Frey (the second son of the Marquis of Walder Frey, not the heir) despite Tywin's resolute opposition.
Father's fatuity and weakness almost brought the whole family into the abyss. Because of this, Wen Tai has seen too many people laugh at his father and Lannister family since he was a child, so he never likes or trusts smiles. No one has seen Duke Tywin's smile since his wife died.
As a child, Wen Tai served as a sommelier in the royal family of Egon V in King's Landing. He made two inseparable friends, Prince Iriz and Stephen Baratheon. In the battle of the nine-coin king, three friends fought side by side. Tywin became a knight before them, and then when Prince Iriz was sixteen, it was Tywin who knighted Iriz. When Wen Tai returned from the battle of Nine Copper Kings, Wen Tai, who had been baptized by the war, decided to bypass his father and rectify the western territory. 26 1AC, he sent ravens to the halls of Castermei and Tabeck to plead guilty. After the unexpected rejection, Reyes and the Tabeck family were regarded as rebels, so Wen Tai summoned the vassals and personally signed the names in Castermei and Tabeck Hall.
This war fully demonstrated Tywin's talent as a strategist. Wen Tai revived the authority of the Lannister family, and also showed the end of contempt for Lannister forces. Two rebel families were completely wiped out, and their city was destroyed, leaving ruins to warn other families. The singer later wrote a song to commemorate this event, called "The Rainy Season in Castermei". According to legend, many years later, the Farman family in Wonderland was out of control. Duke Tywin didn't say much, but sent a harpist. When the "rainy season in Castermei" sounded in the castle hall, Farman immediately fell to his knees.
Perhaps because of the prestige accumulated in this war, Tywin was made king's hand a year later.
In 267AC, after his father died, Wen Tai, who was 25 years old, returned to Casterly Rock from King's Landing, ordered his mistress to be stripped naked, and then paraded in Lannister Harbor, confessed to everyone that she was a thief and an adulteress, ordered people to throw water on her, and finally expelled her from the western territory. Wen Tai put the honor and prestige of his family first in his life, and saved the family on the verge of collapse with iron blood and tough style, and reappeared its former glory. After Iriz II succeeded to the throne, the old Council left by his father was successively dismissed. Sir Wen Tai, who was only 20 years old, was appointed as the hand of the king, making Wen Tai the youngest king in history. He has been in this position for 20 years. Wen Tai's talent in internal affairs was fully demonstrated in the position of king. From the Great Wall to the old city, people say that he really ruled the kingdom. Buddhist Pycelle said that the gods shaped Tywin to rule the country.
During Wen Tai's tenure, he solved the financial dispute between the Iron Throne and Bravos, abolished many laws of Egon V that bound nobles, reduced taxes in big cities, built roads, advocated tournament meetings, strengthened trade, severely punished speculators, and put down the chaos in Twilight Valley. These achievements have won him fame and support, but he has no love. Because Wen Tai is too powerful, too responsible, too heartless, too proud and even too cruel.
He was so successful and powerful that Wang Yue became more and more suspicious of him, which eventually led them to part ways. Iriz often vetoed Tywin's proposal in the later period of his administration, and even made completely opposite decisions. Before the Twilight Valley Rebellion, it was because Tywin opposed his going to Twilight Valley that Iriz decided to go to Twilight Valley, which led to the king himself becoming the hostage of Twilight Valley. After Wen Tai led the army to clear the Twilight Valley, the rescued Iriz thought that Wen Tai ignored his comfort and had other plans. On the other hand, according to Sir barristan selmy's memory, when Mrs Joanna was alive, Iriz (whose own marriage was arranged by his elders) coveted her, which made Tai Wen very angry.
Finally, when Iriz rejected the marriage between Wen Tai's daughter Cersei and his heir Prince Rega, and appointed his eldest son Zhan Mu as the Kingsguard without Wen Tai's knowledge, Wen Tai resigned angrily and returned to Casterly Rock with his family.
Game of Thrones: The Past of Westeros XII (Narrator: Tywin)
Despite his cold nature, tywin lannister was a powerful and successful ruler. During his reign as king, the country was stable and prosperous, and the people supported him extremely. He has a special talent for making money, which makes people laugh at "his shit is gold" behind his back. But the person who dares to say this to his face is still in the deepest dungeon in Casterly Rock. In the memory of his daughter Cersei, it was mentioned that once the king came to Lannister Harbor, people cheered Wen Tai twice as much as the mad king Iriz. Although in the western regions where he ruled, everyone respected Wen Tai, but in King's Landing, he was despised for leading the troops to kill the city. After being king for a year, Wen Tai married his cousin Joanna. In all respects, their marriage is very happy. Gina once said that Tywin showed a rare smile on the day she married Joanna, and the bachelor Pycelle also said that he had seen Joanna at least three times, which made Tywin laugh. There is also a saying in Westeros: "Lord Tywin rules seven countries, and Mrs Joanna rules Lord Tywin".
Information from many different sources shows that King Iriz drooled over Joanna and made many inappropriate remarks. It is reported that King Iriz was somewhat "free" on his wedding night in Tywin. After that, Joanna left King's Landing and returned to Casterly Rock.
In 266 AD, Joanna gave birth to twins Cersei and Zhan Mu for Wen Tai. The following year, Wen Tai's father titus Lannister died. Tywin, who became the Duke of Casterly Rock, vigorously reorganized the western territory, and Iriz followed.
274AC, Joanna died young due to dystocia. Wen Tai was devastated and never married. Joanna represents the bright side of Tywin. Gillian Lannister once told Tyrion that the best part of Tywin's relationship died with Joanna.
Wen Tai always wanted his son to be a great knight and his daughter to be a perfect queen. He proposed that Cersei marry regal, but Iriz flatly refused. Joanna's good friend Queen Donne proposed to Tywin's twin brothers Elia Martell and Oberlin Martell, but Tywin refused and proposed to Tyrion instead, which many benefactors thought was humiliating. He arranged for Zhan Mu to marry Lysa, a Tully family, but failed because Zhan Mu suddenly put on a white robe. Finally, when robert baratheon became king, Wen Tai finally got his wish and married Cersei to Robert.
After discovering that Tyrion, the son of the dwarf, fell in love with Tessa, the farmer's daughter, and secretly married him, Tywin decided to give him a "severe lesson". He ordered his eldest son, Zhan Mu, who witnessed the whole process, to tell Tyrion that Tessa was just a prostitute hired by himself, so that his brother could experience the first woman in his life. Zhan Mu dared not disobey his father and told this lie to his younger brother. But he didn't expect Wen Tai to take Tessa to the barracks in Casterly Rock and let all the soldiers gang rape her. He even ordered Tyrion to watch the whole thing. Every soldier who raped Tessa gave her a silver coin. Finally, Tywin forced Tyrion to rape Tessa and pay her a golden dragon. This incident affected and hurt Tyrion's life, and Zhan Mu felt deeply guilty about it.
Tywin also rejected Tyrion's request to travel around the world (all Tywin's brothers did when they were young), thinking that he would bring more shame to the Lannister family. As a "gift" for Tyrion 16 birthday, Tywin put his son in charge of all the water storage and drainage systems in Casterly Rock.
Most of his children have great respect (or awe) for him, but they all reject the road that Wen Tai arranged for them. This incident also led to many tragedies later. During the usurper's war, Wen Tai stayed in Casterly Rock and did not support either side of the war. It was not until robert baratheon won a decisive victory in the Battle of Trident River that Wen Tai got up and headed for King's Landing. Persuaded by Fo Yin, Iriz ordered people to open the door. Tywin's army immediately looted King's Landing, and Zhan Mu killed the mad king, while Tywin's knights Greg Kerrigan and Amauri Lodge brutally slaughtered regal's wife and children. When Robert entered the city, Tywin wrapped their bodies in a golden red Lannister cloak (which is also convenient for hiding blood) and presented them to him to show his loyalty. Years later, when Tyrion Lannister asked why Robert Baratheon was not allowed to go out in person, Wen Tai replied …
"... we finally joined Robert's side and had to show sincerity. And when I put the body in front of the throne, everyone knew that our family had abandoned the Targaryen dynasty forever. Robert himself is the most gratified, even a fool like him knows that he can't sit still as long as regal's children stay in the world for one day. Since he is proud of being a hero, others have to do this dirty work for him. "
Game of Thrones: The Past of Westeros XVI (Narrator: Tywin)
Wen Tai's sincerity ensured that the new king promised to marry Cersei. Wen Tai always wanted his son to be a great knight and his daughter to be a perfect queen. When the marriage between Cersei and Prince regal was rejected by mad king Iriz, Tai Wen was extremely disappointed. Now he can make up for his regret by marrying a young and promising new king.
After all the dust settled, Wen Tai returned to Casterly Rock to continue to be his grand lord and protector of the western regions (his daughter became queen, and Robert dared not let his father become prime minister again). King Robert indulged in material comforts, and his fatuity and extravagance caused a huge financial deficit to the royal family. Due to the newly established marriage relationship between Lannister and the royal family, Duke Tywin frequently provided loans to the royal family and gradually became a big creditor of the royal family and the country (the debt exceeded 3 million Jinlong). Tyrion, Tywin's son, was suspected to be the mastermind of hiring a killer to assassinate bran stark in a coma, so he was kidnapped by catelyn tully at a crossroads hotel. Caitlin took him to his sister's eyrie for trial. Although Tywin doesn't care about Tyrion's life or death, he regards the arbitrary arrest and kidnapping of the Lannister family as contempt for the family honor, and tywin lannister will never allow anyone to despise the honor of the Lannister family. So, Wen Tai sent Sir gregor clegane and his men to take revenge by pretending to be robbers in a small village in the river of Caitlin's family territory. This kind of banditry became one of the important fuses that later triggered the War of the Five Kings.
Charles Dance plays tywin lannister.
Wen Tai had intended to lure eddard stark out of King's Landing and then exchange him for his son. As a result, Ned was badly wounded by Tyrion's brother, furious Zhan Mu. When Ned woke up, he sent Count Beric Dondarrion to help him fight the robbers. When Earl Berry led his troops to the player beach, Tywin and Gregor's troops ambushed on both sides, defeating Tang De Lynn's troops from all directions. Beric Dondarrion himself was seriously injured and died. Later, he was resurrected by Soros of Mill, formed the Brotherhood without flags, and led the Brotherhood to attack Lannister's army continuously during the war.
At the outbreak of the war, Wen Tai's army occupied most of the areas between rivers and surrounded Riverrun, and soon ushered in the first real battle of Green Fork River. Shortly before the battle, Tyrion led many mountain tribes to see his father after he was freed in eyrie through a competition. Wen Tai ordered Tyrion to lead his mountain tribe to defend the left wing. He believed that undisciplined troops and centaur leaders would be easily defeated, which induced robb stark, the young and inexperienced commander-in-chief of the Union Army, to have the impulse to advance lightly, and then introduced encirclement to catch him all. But this tribe was not easily defeated. The commander-in-chief of the Union Army was not Stark, but cautious roose bolton. Lannister won the battle, at the same time, he sent the divided northern army led by robb stark to Riverrun secretly, defeated jaime lannister's army and captured him.
After the death of King Robert, Wen Tai was appointed as the new king's command prime minister by his grandson and grandson joffrey baratheon. After the battle, Tai Wen appreciated Tyrion's performance very much and decided to send Tyrion to King's Landing to exercise the power of prime minister for him. At the same time, he is prepared to resist the attack from Robert's brothers Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon (at the same time, or one of them). Both claimed that they had the legal right to inherit the iron throne. The defeat of Riverrun made it impossible for Tywin to pursue the rest of roose bolton's army. He had to go back to Heronburg in the south and stay there for a long time, thinking carefully about his next move. At the same time, Wen Tai ordered Sir Steve Lannister to regroup a new army in the western region to supplement his troops. When robb stark learned the news, he led the army from Riverrun to the Western Regions, defeated the new army in Oxford and killed Sir Steve. Robb stark attacked the Lannister rear area and forced Wen Tai to send troops from Helongbao to rescue the western region. Robb intends to wait and wait. When Duke Tywin's troops trudged back to the west, they were defeated in one fell swoop and the land they seized was completely pocketed. As a result, brave and resourceful edmure tully thought he had stopped Tywin's army at the Red Fork River, although Robb gave him an order to hold Riverrun firmly.
Edmond defeated Tywin, who was eager to save lives, by the Red Cross. This unnecessary and willful action delayed Tywin and prevented Tywin from falling into Robb's trap. Just then, Tywin received news from King's Landing that stannis baratheon had murdered his brother Renly Baratheon and incorporated most of Renly's troops. Stannis, whose strength has soared, is marching hand in hand to King's Landing. Tywin was forced to defend the more important King's Landing to the south, just in time for the Blackwater War. Tywin ordered his troops to attack the flank of Stannis's army suddenly. When Stannis was about to win, he was completely defeated. The army that Stannis had just subdued was scattered after the defeat. Tyrion, Tywin's son, made a great contribution in this battle. It can be said that he commanded the defense of King's Landing. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and his nose was cut off by more than half. Wen Tai's timely arrival in the Battle of Heishui River turned the tide and gave him enough reason to take great credit for this victory. Tywin personally served as Prime Minister of King Joffrey, and Tyrion was appointed as Finance Minister after his recovery. Tyrion, who originally exercised the power of Prime Minister, thought that such a demotion was an insult of distrust. What's more, Tywin flatly rejected Tyrion's claim for inheritance from Casterly Rock and arranged for him to remarry in sansa stark, hoping to get the inheritance right of Winterfell. Wen Tai also plans to arrange a new husband for his widowed daughter Queen Cersei. He wanted Cersei to marry Willas Tyrell, but Cersei, who was greedy for queen power, refused. At the same time, Villar's father, Mace Tyrell, disagreed with this arrangement (of course, the inflatable fish was always directed by his mother).
When the Duke of Tywin learned that robb stark had married Jenny westling and gave up his promise to marry the Freys, Tywin kept in touch with Sybil spicer, Jenny's mother, through crows, even though the westling family had been inclined to Stark because of this marriage. At the same time, Wen Tai kept in touch with roose bolton and Walder Frey, and persuaded roose bolton stationed in Heronburg to betray Stark and form an alliance with Lannister, while Walder Frey regarded robb stark's vow to betray his marriage with Frey as an insult to the family. Duke Tywin directly planned and directed the red wedding in King's Landing through just a few letters. At the wedding, robb stark himself and most of his troops were slaughtered by Burton and Frey, so the invincible young wolf master was defeated by Tywin's strategy. In this regard, Wen Tai said ...
Some victories were won by swords and guns, while others were won by pen and paper and crows.
Later, Wen Tai ordered eddard stark's Varelia steel sword to be melted and recast into two swords, one for Joffrey as a wedding gift and the other for Zhan Mu. Soon after, Joffrey was poisoned at his wedding with margaery tyrell. Queen Cersei accused Tyrion of being the behind-the-scenes murderer (in fact, it was not), and Tai Wen tried Tyrion with Oberlin Martell and Mace Tyrell as judges. When it was finally determined that Tyrion would be convicted, Tyrion proposed to challenge the trial. Oberlin Martell unexpectedly volunteered to be Tyrion's agent knight. As the plaintiff of Tyrion, Cersei chose Sir gregor clegane as the agent knight of the royal family. Oberon knocks down Gregor, but Tyrion is found guilty because his revenge is killed by Gregor.
During Tyrion's imprisonment, his brother Zhan Mu forced Varis to help him rescue Tyrion from the black prison. Before Tyrion escaped from prison, Zhan Mu confessed to Tyrion about Tessa (Tyrion's first wife) and told Tyrion that she was not a prostitute, but an ordinary peasant girl he met. His father Tywin ordered him to talk to Tyrion, but he didn't dare to disobey. Tyrion was completely angered by this incident. He learned from Varis the secret passage to the Prime Minister's room and climbed the Prime Minister's Tower with difficulty (he has been deformed). In his father's room, Tyrion found his (former) prostitute Shay lying naked on his father's bed, wearing only the Prime Minister's gold necklace. Tyrion strangled Shay with a necklace, then took down the crossbow from the wall (he could only touch it) and found his father in the toilet. Tywin disdained him and dared not kill his father. He always called Tessa a prostitute. Tyrion couldn't stand such an insult and shot Tywin with a crossbow. Tywin died sitting on the toilet. After his death, his stomach was completely relaxed, and Tyrion kept recalling this scene. ...
"... the stench proves that the famous saying is a complete lie. Duke tywin lannister didn't take out gold until he died. "
After Duke Tywin's body was found, Cersei prepared a grand state funeral for him. Cersei ordered the Kate Black brothers to carry Shay's body away, and threatened that anyone who mentioned Shay's death here would have his tongue pulled out. Duke Tywin's body stayed in Baylor templo mayor for seven days. Most of the time, Zhan Mu was at the wake and was escorted home by many lords and knights in the Western Regions. After many days of silence, Wen Tai's body gave off a huge smell, and many people who came to mourn were afraid to go near it. Due to muscle atrophy after death, Duke Tywin's mouth was pulled up as if he were laughing when he died. This made Zhan Mu and Cersei very unhappy, because everyone knew that Duke Tywin never laughed. Although tywin lannister's family was so powerful when he was alive, people were in awe or awe. However, after his death, the foolish behavior of his children (especially Cersei) almost put the whole family in an embarrassing situation, even in danger of sudden destruction. In Five Crazy Dances in magic dragon, Cersei is forced by Vatican troops to March naked in the streets of King's Landing, just like Wen Tai did to his father's mistress.
Tywin lannister's death was humiliating, and his disguise was stripped off. Tywin has been attacking Tyrion on the grounds that prostitution is an insult to his family. It turned out that there was a prostitute in his bed before he died. As long as anything involves his children, Tywin is not as wise as usual. He doesn't want to know the real relationship between Cersei and Zhan Mu (if he wants to know, they can't hide it from Tywin) and refuses to admit Tyrion's ability. Even when his sister Gina Lannister told him that Tyrion had inherited Tywin's thoughts, Tywin replied by ignoring her sister for half a year (perhaps because her sister hinted that Tyrion was his only flesh and blood).