Jaime confessed that he thought-about her a good fighter, even before they became associates. Brienne is current when Jon and the others discuss their plan of protection, refusing one other of Tormund’s advances within the process. Later, she joins the Lannister brothers for wine, but orders a half cup for Podrick, since the battle may begin at any second; Tyrion serves Podrick a full cup anyway.
When Cersei refuses to assist in preventing the lifeless, she entreats Jaime to change her mind. Catelyn has Jaime despatched to King’s Landing to change him for her captive daughters Sansa and Arya, escorted by Brienne and Jaime’s cousin Ser Cleos Frey. They are attacked by outlaws who kill Cleos, and Jaime tries to flee within the commotion. Brienne restrains Jaime, but wighth they are captured by the mercenary company the Brave Companions, allied to House Bolton. When their chief, Vargo Hoat, cuts off Jaime’s hand, Brienne convinces Jaime to live to have revenge on Hoat. The two prisoners are taken to Harrenhal, the place Jaime reveals that he killed the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen to cease him from burning King’s Landing.
The woman who relays this message is tortured and dies before revealing who despatched it. Sansa eventually manages to escape the room where Ramsay has saved her captive, while the Boltons are getting ready to battle Stannis’ approaching forces. However, Brienne has left to seek out and kill Stannis (having sworn to avenge his brother Renly’s death) before she will see Sansa’s signal. Brienne finds Stannis gravely wounded within the aftermath of the battle and, after he confesses to his function in Renly’s dying, she executes him, telling him she is doing so in the name of the rightful king Renly.
Brienne was captivated by all the attention she was getting, however her happiness turned to embarrassment when Brienne realized they were all simply toying along with her. Before she might run away, Renly took Brienne into his arms and informed her that those “nasty little shits aren’t worth crying over” and danced with her. Brienne can’t return Sansa to Catelyn Stark, as Catelyn has been murdered by the Freys, and Jaime argues that Sansa is safer staying in King’s Landing. Brienne speaks with Margaery Tyrell and explains that she didn’t kill Renly, then attends King Joffrey Baratheon’s wedding ceremony to Margaery Tyrell. At the wedding, Cersei confronts Brienne and implies that Brienne loves Jaime, and Brienne witnesses Joffrey’s dying by poisoning.
Renly Baratheon, Catelyn Stark, and Jaime Lannister are among those who have won Brienne’s friendship and repair on this manner. Brienne, much like Eddard Stark, is motivated by her personal sense of honor and responsibility, thus seeing most dishonorable acts as unacceptable. Brienne, Jaime, Jorah Mormont and Grey Worm lead the Northern and Targaryen forces to struggle the useless in the open during the Battle of Winterfell however are quickly overwhelmed, Brienne herself being saved by Jaime in the course of the preliminary onslaught.
Jaime arrives at Winterfell soon after, revealing that Cersei has no intention of sending her forces to Winterfell. Daenerys, the daughter of the Mad King, needs to execute Jaime, however Brienne vouches for him and Sansa overrules Daenerys. Jaime tells Brienne that he has come to fight beneath her command, and knights her with Podrick, Tormund, Davos, and Tyrion bearing witness. With this, she becomes the first woman in Westeros historical past to be knighted. At Duskendale, Brienne encounters Tyrion Lannister’s squire Podrick Payne and permits him to join her.
Roose Bolton has Jaime launched however retains Brienne prisoner for abetting treason. Locke tries to ransom Brienne but is offended by what he perceives to be Selwyn Tarth’s paltry ransom and as an alternative throws Brienne into a pit with a bear and solely a picket sword with which to defend herself. When Jaime learns that Brienne has been left at Locke’s mercy, he returns to Harrenhal, finds Brienne in bother, and jumps in to save lots of her by coming in between her and the bear.
Brienne and Podrick lastly attain Winterfell and take a room at a nearby inn within the winter city. Podrick muses that Sansa is residence now, however Brienne counters that a Winterfell filled with Boltons is hardly protected in any respect. Although reluctant to trust southerners, the man listens to Brienne when she says she is sworn to Lady Catelyn and is impressed when she says that her dying does not release her from her vows. Brienne then reveals that Sansa is in Winterfell and she needs the old man to get a message to her.
Surprised that such a young lady is so skilled, Brienne stops holding again, leading to a grueling sparring session. Brienne manages to knock Needle out of Arya’s hand however she merely switches to the Valyrian metal dagger she had in her belt. Ultimately, they reach a stalemate, with every of them holding a blade at the others’ throat. Brienne and Podrick travel to Riverrun to deliver Sansa’s letter to Brynden Tully, who has regrouped his forces whilst underneath siege from the Freys. Upon arriving, they discover that the combined forces of House Lannister and House Frey are besieging the fort. Brienne tells them that she has come to see Ser Jaime Lannister and to “inform him I have his sword.” Jaime and Brienne meet discreetly in a tent.
Soon afterward, the Blackfish’s nephew Lord Edmure Tully is coerced into ordering the Tully troops to stand down. As the Lannisters start pouring into the castle, the Blackfish helps Brienne and Podrick escape. Jaime sees them sailing away, and he and Brienne trade a mournful farewell. Brienne and Jaime arrive in King’s Landing to seek out that King Joffrey Baratheon has been poisoned, Catelyn Stark has been murdered by the Freys, and each Arya and Sansa have fled town. Renly’s lover Ser Loras Tyrell accuses Brienne of Renly’s murder, and Jaime has Brienne imprisoned for her own safety. Jaime permits Loras to talk to Brienne, and she or he convinces him of her innocence.
