Amory Lorch



Ser Amory Lorch is a minor antagonist in A Song of Ice and Fire book series,as well as it's TV adaptation Game of Thrones. He is a knight of House Lorch of the westerlands and a bannerman in service of House Lannister.

History
During the Sack of King's Landing Amory Lorch is the who killed the three-year old Princess Rhaenys Targaryen. He dragged her from her father Rhaegar's bed in front of of several Lannister men and stabbed her dozens of times. This made Lord Tywin Lannister angry, as he didn't want it to be public. He thinks Ser Amory is an idiot, and wanted him to kill the child with a pillow after calming her with sweet words.

A Game of Thrones
Ser Kevan Lannister orders Ser Amory to forage and burn the riverlands, along with Ser Gregor Clegane and Vargo Hoat.

A Clash of Kings
Amory's raiding party encounters and attacks Yoren's group of recruits for the Night's Watch at the town by the Gods Eye. He personaly kills Yoren and captures most of the prisoners, including Rorge, Biter, and Jaqen H' ghar. However a group of criminals manage to hide from Amory's men, and Arya flees with Gendry, Hot Pie, Weasel, bringing also the injured boy Lommy Greenhands, whom Arya refused to abandon.

Later, during the war, Amory captures two innocent smallfolk, a beekeeper and his wife and threatens far and wide to hang them if Lord Beric Dondarrion does not surrender to him; when Beric surrenders, Amory hangs the beekeeper and his wife anyway with Beric strung up in the middle. Beric is later resurrected by Thoros of Myr.

Amory is made castellan of Harrenhal by Tywin Lannister when Tywin takes the majority of his army, including Ser Gregor, west to deal with Robb Stark, and later east to engage Stannis Baratheon, after Edmure Tully manage to chase them away, causing the Mountain to flee from Stone Mill. While castellan, Amory drinks a great deal of the best wine in the castle's cellars.undefinedHe is eventually captured by Lord Roose Bolton when Roose persuades Vargo Hoat to betray House Lannister and to seize control of the castle. After the fall of Harrenhal, Amory is paraded naked before Roose and Vargo. Pleading and sobbing, he is kicked into the bear pit to be killed by the bear inside it. Arya Stark is present during his death.

TV series
Lorch is raiding in the Riverlands when he is approached by a Gold Cloak with a warrant for the royal bastard Gendry. They have been run off by Yoren and his Night's Watch recruits who are harboring the boy. Lorch confronts Yoren's group and attacks them when they refuse to give up Gendry. He kills Yoren personally after his men have subdued him and then imprisons the survivors, ordering them to be taken to Harrenhal. He does not realize that Arya Stark and Gendry are among them. He questions them about Gendry and is tricked into believing that the slain Lommy Greenhands was his target because he was carrying Gendry's bull's head helm.

Lorch and his men deliver the prisoners to Ser Gregor Clegane at Harrenhal. Ser Gregor oversees the torture of the captives, killing several of them. When Lord Tywin Lannister returns to Harrenhal he ends the interrogations and orders the prisoners put to work, criticizing his men for wasting valuable manpower.

Lorch attends a war council held by Lord Tywin. Tywin criticizes his men for underestimating Robb Stark and demands that they devise a new strategy. Lorch reports rumors from spies that there is discontent in Robb's camp. Tywin is dismissive, saying that discontent is a part of war and that the very same spies would report the same from the Lannister side.

Ser Amory is chastised by Lord Tywin during a war council after the knight's illiteracy means that a letter meant for Lord Damon of House Marbrand is instead accidentally sent to Lord Marlin of House Dormund, a vassal of House Stark. Exasperated, Tywin remarks that "my cupbearer reads better than you!" Later, Amory catches Arya Stark with a stolen letter and tries to seize her, and then heads to inform Tywin. Frantically, Arya seeks out the assassin Jaqen H'ghar and names Amory as her next kill. Ser Amory is killed with a poisoned dart dipped in wolfsbane just as he enters Lord Tywin's chambers. Tywin mistakes it for an assassination attempt on himself.