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I suppose I should be grateful that your vanity
got in the way of your recklessness.
I'm giving you half of our forces
30,000 men.
You will bring them to Catelyn Stark's girlhood home
and remind her that Lannisters
pay their debts.
I didn't realize you placed such a high value on my brother's life.
He's a Lannister.
He might be the lowest of the Lannisters, but he's one of us.
And every day that he remains a prisoner,
the less our name commands respect.
So the lion does concern himself with the opinions of
No, it's not an opinion. It's a fact.
If another House can seize one of our own
and hold him captive with impunity,
we are no longer a House to be feared.
Your mother's dead.
Before long I'll be dead.
And you
and your brother and your sister
and all of her children. All of us dead;
all of us rotting in the ground.
It's the family name that lives on.
It's all that lives on.
Not your personal glory, not your honor,
but family.
Do you understand?
Hmm.
You're blessed with abilities that few men possess.
You are blessed to belong to the most powerful family in the kingdoms.
And you are still blessed with youth.
And what have you done with these blessings, huh?
You've served as a glorified bodyguard for two kings
one a madman, the other a drunk.
The future of our family will be determined in these next few months.
We could establish a dynasty that will last a thousand years.
Or we could collapse into nothing, as the Targaryens did.
I need you to become the man you were always meant to be.
Not next year. Not tomorrow.
Now.