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| “ | If you would follow me, my father awaits. | „ |
| ~ Ryman to Robb Stark before the Red Wedding. |
Ser Ryman Frey is a supporting antagonist in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. He is a grandson of Walder Frey, the only child of the first marriage of Ser Stevron Frey, Walder Frey's eldest child and heir to the Twins, to Corenna Swann. He has three sons: Edwyn Frey, Black Walder Frey, and Petyr "Pimple" Frey. Ryman has presumably been married due to having legitimate children, but his wife is not mentioned in the Appendixes. Ryman is a fat, greedy drunk with a bad belly who enjoys whoring.
Biography[]
Ryman is one of the Freys sent by Walder Frey to join Robb Stark's cause. When his father dies from a wound received at the battle at Oxcross, Ryman becomes the new heir to the Crossing. After Robb Stark marries Jeyne Westerling and thus breaks the deal he had with the Freys, Ryman leaves Robb's camp with the Frey men and returns to the Twins. Robb later claims that he might have been able to make amends with the Freys had Stevron still been alive, but that Ryman was far too stubborn to talk to, with Black Walder going as far as threatening Robb's wife life. Ryman participates in the Red Wedding, and before the massacre, Catelyn notices he is sweating excessively. He kills Dacey Mormont with an axe. Merrett Frey claims Ryman was one of the main architects of the Red Wedding.
He then leads 2000 Frey men to assist in the siege of Riverrun, which the Iron Throne has granted to Walder Frey's second son, Emmon Frey, who is married to Tywin Lannister's sister. It is currently being held by Edmure Tully's uncle, Ser Brynden Tully, "the Blackfish." During the siege, he has gallows built right before Riverrun and parades the captive Edmure, claiming that he would hang Edmure should Riverrun not surrender. The Blackfish, however, doesn't surrender, and Ryman has Edmure brought back to camp, only to put up the same facade the next day. When he rides to the gates to parley, an arrow is shot at his horse, causing him to fall off. When Jaime Lannister arrives to lift the siege, he takes a disliking to Ryman's method as they make him seem weak and sends him back to the Twins, giving command of Ryman's force to Edwyn Frey. Ryman gives Robb Stark's crown to a whore, but Jaime tells him to leave the crown. On the way, Ryman and his retinue of three knights and a dozen men-at-arms are attacked by outlaws, presumably the gang of Lady Stoneheart, and are all hanged. Robb's crown ends up in Lady Stoneheart's possession, implying Ryman took it with him and that it was Stoneheart who killed him. When news of it reaches the siege camp, Jaime is bothered by the audacity of the outlaws who kill the heir to the Crossing, not far from the Twins. Ryman's son Edwyn suspects that Black Walder is somehow involved in his father's death to become heir of the Twins, even though Ryman's bastard uncle Walder Rivers says he has no proof.
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Trivia[]
- Despite his reputation as a drunken idiot, Ryman is stated to have been one of the main architects of the Red Wedding, alongside Walder Frey, Lothar Frey, Roose Bolton, and Tywin Lannister. This implies that, while he may have been stupid, he was not as stupid as others believed and was dangerous and cunning in his own right.
- It is possible that his attributed stupidity was the result of his constant abuse of alcohol, which numbed his mind and made him unreliable and incompetent in matters such as the siege of Riverrun. But when sober, he was likely capable of conjuring up proper and decent strategies.
- In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ser Ryman is blamed for poor management of the siege of Riverrun because of how he poorly handled his empty threats to hang Edmure Tully and force the Blackfish to surrender. Ryman let Edmure suffer on a gallow every day, lazily threatening to hang him while spending the whole siege drinking and whoring, failing to attend any war meetings, and refusing to hand Edmure over to his fellow commander, Ser Daven Lannister. This upset Ryman's fellow leaders of the siege, as Ryman made them lose all credibility in the eyes of the Blackfish, and the frustrated new rulers of Riverrun, Lord Emmon Frey and his wife Lady Genna Lannister, were constantly urged to hang Edmure for real. The other Frey commanders of the siege, Edwyn Frey and Ser Walder Rivers, are by no means blamed for the siege's neglectful management, and Jaime judges the latter to be the most dangerous of Lord Walder's sons.
- In the television series Game of Thrones, the characters Black Walder Rivers (an amalgamation between Ser Walder Rivers and Black Walder Frey) and Lothar Frey take Ser Ryman's place as the commanders of House Frey's army in the siege of Riverrun. However, unlike the novels, the poor management of the siege is portrayed as the entire fault and incompetence of House Frey itself, rather than Ryman's own failure. And even Lothar, who is smart, cunning, charismatic, and extremely dangerous in the books (and was portrayed similarly in the show in season 3), is portrayed with Ryman's incompetence and shown to be a bumbling coward in season 6, utterly unlike his novel counterpart. In the TV version, the Freys are all portrayed as extremely incompetent at their jobs, to the point that Black Walder and Lothar lost Riverrun against a rebel army while they were holding it. This isn't the case in the novels, in which Riverrun was under siege simply because the Tully garrison left by Robb Stark never surrendered after the Red Wedding.
- In the novels, Jaime' tells Ryman, "Only a fool makes threats he’s not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I'd do?" Then, as soon as Ryman starts speaking, Jaime slaps him with his golden hand, before dismissing him from the siege and commanding him to leave before dawn, due to Jaime being upset about Ryman's unprofessional behavior and how he was even too drunk to attend the war meeting upon the former's arrival. In the TV series, it is the show-character Black Walder Rivers who is chided and slapped the same way, but not dismissed from the siege, while the entire House Frey is blamed for incompetence as a whole, as the show version portrayed the entire family as unambiguously bad, foolish, and universally despised. Thus, Ryman's character was sort of given to Black Walder.
- Unlike the show, the books make no mention of House Frey failing to guard their backs from their siege camp. Ironically, while the show has Jaime criticizing and mocking the Freys for the way they made their camp, this is actually Jaime's own folly, poor strategy, and mistake in the novels, during the first siege of Riverrun in the early War of the Five Kings, where Jaime's camps around Riverrun were taken from the rear by Robb Stark's forces.
- While in the TV show, Jaime is accompanied by Ser Bronn as he criticizes Black Walder and Lothar, in the novels, he is accompanied by Ser Ilyn Payne and other chief knights as he criticizes Ryman, as he is drunk and accompanied by his whore camp follower wearing Robb's crown. In the novels, Jaime and Bronn are not affiliated with each other in any way.
External Link[]
- Ryman Frey on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
