Tyrion I
Tyrion Lannister walked the streets of King's Landing thoroughly annoyed. He was heading towards the street of silk so that he could take his mind off his stupid, vile nephew and his sweet, sweet sister who was his mother. He had also grown tired of Lord Baelish.
Littlefinger was a very crafty individual who wished to rise very high, for he was the son of the smallest of small lords in the Vale. Due to this most of the great lords of Westeros underestimated Littlefinger and that tended to be their downfall, Tyrion swore he would never make that mistake, Littlefinger was too crafty by half, but he was very good at getting money for the Iron Throne. Of course the downside was that wherever Littlefinger was it seemed like he poised the very air of the place with court intrigue of the worst order. Tyrion decided then and there it was time to get out of the stinking city for some time, he would not really be welcome at Casterly Rock, his father despised him for being both a dwarf and killing his mother when Tyrion was coming out of Lady Joanna's womb. But where to go?
Tyrion couldn't go to Dorne, the Martell's loathed the Lannisters after the sack of King's Landing had ended in Elia of Dorne's death along with those of her two children, the children of the late Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. It was a horrendous thing that was done and not even Tyrion could quite understand why his father Tywin had ordered it done, he should have let Robert order the deed done himself instead of sending in the Mountain, Ser Gregor Clegane, who it was said killed Aegon and then raped and murdered Elia. It was because of Elia's brother, Prince Oberon Nymeros-Martell the Red Viper of Dorne, brother of Prince Doran Nymeros-Martell, who was Lord of Sunspear, and knelt to the Iron Throne despite the title of Prince; that no one who had the displeasure of House Martell could survive the deserts if they annoyed the Dornishmen too much.
He had already been to much of the Westerlands in his youth, due to being the son of Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, Lord Paramount of the Westerlands, Warden of the West and Hand to a different King, who he had later turned against.
That left the Stormlands, the Reach, the Vale, the Iron Islands, and the North. He didn't want to go to the Iron Islands mostly because he feared being made what the Ironmen called a thrall, basically a slave, he had no want to ever become a slave. The Vale was always dangerous without a strong escort, which he did not really command due to the hill tribes that raided in the Vale, but hid when the knights of the Vale rode through. He could have gone to study in the Citadel to become a Maester in Oldtown, but Tyrion wanted to be Lord of Casterly Rock after his father died. He should be by rights, his elder brother Jaime was a member of King Robert Baratheon's Seven Kingsguard and by his own oath could not claim the rights to Lord of any land and served for life. His sister, Cercei was Robert's Queen, and had never had any affection for Tyrion, he still never understood why that was.
It was then that Tyrion remembered something that Grand Maester Pycelle had mentioned, there was a Lordly holdfast in the North that had a great store of books and a library of old secrets and knowledge guarded by that house. What house was it again, it started with an H. Was it Hornwood? No, that wasn't it. It had to be Harkinian, three golden triangles on the back of a strange looking bird symbol. Their words, were "Wisdom, Courage, Power."
He had decided, he would ask Grand Maester Pycelle to send a raven to Hyrule Castle requesting that Tyrion spend a visit there. Tyrion had heard that the only child of Lord Gustaf was a very beautiful and intelligent young woman. This would be a trip to look forward to, even if she had no interest in him sexually, few women really did, she would at least find his conversations and debates engaging from what he had heard of her.
Tyrion would also speak with Jaime in the morning to arrange for a guard force to escort him just in case there was trouble on the King's Road, one could never be too careful, you never knew when bandits would spring up in an area. Well he would leave within the week if everything went well. At least he would be far away from his sister and stupid nephew Joffrey.
Joffrey may be young yet but he would soon show an interest in women, if the Lady Zelda is truly what they say she is, he would make a point of dissuading her away from Joffrey and to stay away from him at any cost, for Joffrey may one day be likely to try to rape beautiful women instead of just having sex with them. Tyrion would not put it past his vile nephew. It always seemed that he was the only one who knew that Prince Joffrey and his little brother Tommen and sister Myrcella were all in fact bastards of incest between Jaime and Cercei. He would not reveal the secret to outsiders, he did care for Jaime, one of the few who ever showed him kindness. It was then that Tyrion's mind went to that of Tysha, the whore his brother bought for him, that he had married, who actually seemed to like Tyrion for himself, but it has all been a lie, he had learned his sharp lesson and he would be stronger for it he vowed.