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House Lannister was established many thousands of years by a trickster-hero called Lann the Clever, who tricked the powerful Casterly family into abandoning their stronghold of Casterly Rock, which the Lannisters took for their own.

“[…] The great houses of Westeros are the primary players in the political, economic, and military affairs of Westeros.”

asoiaf meme: (2/9) great houses of westeros.

They may be the most pompous, ponderous cunts the gods ever suffered to walk the world, but they do have outrageous amounts of money.

none of the lannister siblings are Good People-tm, you’re just supposed to pick the one you’d most wanna do shots with and support them ride-or-die style

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A Lannister always pays his debts.

The Known World (insp.) “It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born, and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.”

Great Houses of Westeros

asoiaf meme: [6/6] houses || House Lannister The Lannisters claim descent from the Andal invaders and, through the female bloodline, to Lann the Clever. According to legend, Lann, using only his wits, swindled Casterly Rock from its previous owners, House Casterly, during the Age of Heroes. The Lannisters ruled as Kings of the Rock for thousands of years. Their time as Kings ended with the arrival of Aegon the Conqueror. The last King of the Rock, Loren Lannister, joined forces with Mern Gardener, King of the Reach, and, commanding sixty thousand men, met the Targaryen army in open battle. According to history, Aegon unleashed his three dragons, slaughtering four thousand men, in a battle that came to be known as the Field of Fire. King Mern perished and, with him, House Gardener became extinct. Seeing both opportunity and threat in the Targaryens, Loren surrendered and aided Aegon in his further conquest of Westeros. The Lannisters were thus appointed Lords Paramount of the Westerlands, and Wardens of the West. It is neither luck nor royal favor that makes House Lannister so prosperous. There have been times when they have been considered weak, lazy or opulent. Tywin’s own father, Tytos Lannister, nearly bankrupted the House with his poor investments and allowed himself to be openly mocked at court. However, when their vassals, the Reynes of Castamere, rose in rebellion, they learned the price of defiance. Tywin personally led the assault on Castamere to put down the upstart vassals, and made an example of them to anyone who would doubt the Lannister might. Even a “quaint song” about the fate of the Reynes was made, but there are no Reyne’s left to hear it. The golden Lion of Lannister is rightly admired and feared throughout the Seven Kingdoms. The Lannister words are “Hear me Roar”; other words that should be remembered when crossing a “Lion” of Casterly Rock are “A Lannister always pays his debts”.

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real talk tho, if the lannisters’ official words are “here me roar” and their unofficial thing is “a lannister always pays his debts” the equivalent to house targaryen’s “fire and blood” is probably “can’t stop won’t stop.”

make me choose: house baratheon or house lannister | asked by

A Lannister always pays his debts.