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“ | Young boys and old men die the same. | „ |
~ Amory Lorch |
Ser Amory Lorch is a supporting antagonist in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and a minor antagonist in its television adaptation, Game of Thrones. He is a landed knight of House Lorch of the Westerlands and a bannerman in service of House Lannister.
Being a landed knight, he has his own land to keep and is related to the current head of House Lorch, Lord Lorent Lorch. Ser Amory is regarded as a cruel, simple, and stout man. He is infamous for his role in the murder of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, the three-year-old daughter of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.
In the TV adaptation, he was portrayed by Fintan McKeown.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
According to a semi-canon source, Amory Lorch threw the last Lord Tarbeck, a 3-year-old boy, down a well for Lord Tywin Lannister during the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion.
During the Sack of King's Landing, Amory and Ser Gregor Clegane were ordered by Lord Tywin Lannister to kill Rhaegar's children in order to secure Robert Baratheon's claim to the Iron Throne. Scaling the walls of Maegor's Holdfast, Amory and Gregor entered the royal apartments. There, the former finds Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, who is hiding underneath her father's bed. In front of several Lannister men, Ser Amory dragged Rhaenys from under the bed as she screamed before stabbing her to death dozens of times.
This angered Lord Tywin, as he considered it overly brutal, and he asked Amory why he would murder a three-year-old girl with so many thrusts, and the latter's excuse was that Rhaenys had kicked him and wouldn’t stop screaming. In Tywin's opinion, Amory could simply have given the toddler a few sweet words to calm her and then suffocated her with a pillow.
A Game of Thrones[]
Ser Kevan Lannister orders Ser Amory Lorch 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. Although the town was already destroyed and the keep abandoned, Amory ordered Yoren and his group to open the gates in the name of King Joffrey I. Yoren didn't trust the knight and refused, causing Amory to storm the keep. Many die in the ensuing fight, including the animals. Amory kills Yoren and captures most of the surviving 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, and the toddler Weasel, bringing also the injured boy Lommy Greenhands, whom Arya refused to abandon. Amory's attack was unprovoked and unnecessary, as the Night's Watch takes no part in the wars of the realm. Amory eventually gets tired of waiting for the other group of criminals to leave the tower and decides to let them and bring his prisoners to Harrenhal. Gendry's group is later captured by the Mountain's men.
Lord Tywin orders Ser Amory, Ser Gregor, and Vargo Hoat to hunt down the outlaws of the Brotherhood without Banners, who are seen as the true heroes by the smallfolk. Every time Amory and the other men go out in the riverlands to fight battles against the outlaws, the rivermen, and the northmen, they return without succeeding in disbanding Lord Beric Dondarrion's outlaws. 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. Despite all the times Beric has been reported to be dead, the Lannister forces keep meeting him again.
King Robb Stark's army is invading the Westerlands, and Tywin decides to leave Harrenhal with his army. Amory is made castellan of Harrenhal by Tywin when Tywin takes the majority of his army, including Ser Gregor, west to deal with Robb and later east to engage King Stannis Baratheon, after Ser Edmure Tully manages to chase them away, causing the Mountain to flee from Stone Mill. Amory and Vargo hate each other, and this causes the Brave Companions to turn cloak to Robb's cause. While castellan, Amory drinks a great deal of the best wine in the castle's cellars. He is eventually captured by Lord Roose Bolton when Roose persuades Vargo Hoat to betray House Lannister and seize control of the castle. After the fall of Harrenhal, Amory is paraded naked before Roose and Vargo Hoat. Pleading and sobbing, he is kicked into the bear pit to be killed by Hoat's bear. Arya Stark is present at this time.
A Storm of Swords[]
When the war winds down, Tywin tells his son Tyrion Lannister of his plan to blame the deaths of Princess Elia Martell and her children entirely on the deceased Amory (despite the fact that he only killed one of the 2 children), to circumvent giving Gregor Clegane over to Prince Oberyn Martell, who comes to King's Landing to seek justice for their deaths. This plan, fails however, when Gregor confesses his crime in front of the entire court during Tyrion's trial by combat.
A Feast for Crows[]
In the riverlands, Ser Roger Hogg tells Ser Jaime Lannister how Amory attacked his towerhouse at Sow's Horn even though he was sworn to House Hayford, who are sworn to King's Landing and never helped the Starks, the Tullys, or Beric's outlaws.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Amory Lorch on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Amory Lorch on the Wiki of Westeros.