He’s painted as a bit of weak-willed sort whose a blunderer at war games, and is ultimately bullied (in Season 3) by his sister, uncle, and nephew into taking Robb’s place and marrying a Frey girl to help assuage that affront. The heir to Riverrun, he’s been in a world of pain for a long time now thanks to his choices and those of his kin.

Essentially, these guys need to be put in their place, which leads us to …Īh, poor Edmure Tully.

The Boltons were rewarded for getting rid of Robb Stark by being given Winterfell, which was allied with the Freys instead of having to contend with the Tullys. When he reneged and married Talisa (and tried to substitute his uncle Edmure to the Freys in his stead), the Freys broke every rule of guest protocol (it's understood you don't kill people once you break bread with them), and exacted their revenge for 'slighting' their family.Īfter Robb Stark was killed - something engineered in part by Roose Bolton - the Freys gained favor with the crown and were elevated to the Lords of Riverrun and became the major house of the Riverlands (rather than the Tullys, who had held the position previously). The reason why the Red Wedding took place is because Robb Stark had promised to marry a Frey daughter in exchange for the Frey’s supporting his campaign against Joffrey and the Iron Throne (as part of the War of the Five Kings). Their patriarch, Walder Frey, is 90, and has essentially created his own army from his many, many children, using their marriages as ways to secure certain power alliances. Tolls exacted from it are what made them rich after spending so long in obscurity. Like trolls, the Freys control the bridge crossing of the Trident river, as they have for centuries.

You probably remember them best from the Red Wedding, where they brutally slaughtered Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, and his wife Talisa (as well as their unborn child).

In “Blood of My Blood,” we returned to the Twins, the ancestral home of House Frey, also known as the white trash of Westeros.

House tully of riverrun